Even if it is less efficient, if it can actually put payloads into orbit, it may still be more cost-effective. Most of the articles I've seen on it have been lacking detailed capabilities and technical hurdles it needs to overcome, though.
“These things will not be functioning in anything heavier than a light rain”
I truly wish they would come sooner rather than later, and I support all of the testing and development they're doing, but it will still be quite a while.
My comment was a joke. Maybe I should've added a sarcasm tag. My point was basically that none of these options will be available in my lifetime, making all of them "science fiction", and thus betting on any one over the other is moot.
If you want to talk potential ethics, I don't see how it would be any more unethical to transport cell cultures up and a finished heart back down than it would be to remove cells from a body, grow a new heart outside the body, and then surgically swap it for the old one. A bunch of human cells are going to die either way, and a human life would be saved in the process.
I can't see any point in actually transporting a patient up/down. I mean, unless you just really wanted to see how much he/she might vomit in microgravity, and maybe then see if the video would go viral on YouTube. It's not a good idea to try that stunt on someone who needs a heart replacement though, as you may end up killing both the original and the copy.;-)
This is nowhere close to AI. I've worked on reporting software that linked in the MaxMind GeoIP database to locate users by IP address. All they need to catch cheaters is a very simple query/report looking for a few very simple things. Claiming they need AI for it is ridiculous.
It wouldn't surprise me if "Synamedia" claimed it was AI to get more money, or perhaps tried to convince Netflix that they needed to use AI tools to justify the sale. Companies lying to make a big sale is not new.
IMO what doesn't work is half-assed government coercion, like raising the gas mileage requirements for cars, but leaving a loop-hole in there (on purpose) for trucks and SUV's.
If we didn't have government coercion forcing companies to stop polluting our water whenever they felt like it, most of us probably wouldn't be here today. It sounds like the fresh water in the US, while still somewhat polluted, is a hell of a lot cleaner than it used to be back before the EPA. When it comes to really large corporations, I don't think anything really works except for government coercion. Government wouldn't be forcing them today if they had cleaned up their act willingly in the past.
I'm not disagreeing with or disparaging your opinion, but I don't think a change that alienates a statistically significant percentage of their user-base is the best way to go about it.
They could add something like Google's "safe search". Instead of forcibly removing content, they could simply flag it into different categories and allow users to configure their own profiles to specify "Don't show me X". If they're doing this because Apple is kicking the Tumblr app off the store, I imagine Apple would reconsider if the iPhone version of the app enforced certain "safe search" features.
I know content classification is not "easy", but if they can find porn well enough to remove it, it's not any harder to flag it instead of removing it. A feature like that might make (almost) everyone happy. It would work well for cases like yours, for Apple's app store, for the users that want to read/post porn (unless they're Apple fan-boys who ditched their computer after getting an iPad;-), etc. I imagine the true prudes simply wouldn't be happy because everyone else was happy, but you know, the needs of the many...
Which of course may mean it's flaky from non-phone devices, but they're supposed to be switching to RCS as quickly as they can. Maybe RCS will be less flaky from a desktop/laptop than SMS. Not sure.
I use it as the easiest option for messaging without having to give out my cell phone #. It also keeps me from having to install non-native Android apps for IM, which tend to drain the battery a lot more quickly.
I use Hangouts for pretty much all messaging. I rarely use my smartphone as a phone, and I don't really need data access, so only family members and a few close friends have my cell #. $15 of prepaid minutes usually lasts me a few months. So I won't use any messaging app/service that requires a cell carrier (or my cell #) for messaging.
Even if I did have unlimited texts, I still wouldn't want to give my cell # out to everyone. If all the good options for using my email address for messaging vanish, I may see if I can set up a Google Voice # for messaging only (no calls, and no SMS to my cell #). With Google looking like they want to ditch everything for RCS, that may be the way to go.
There are enough valid and compelling reasons to develop for console and not PC that I doubt that thought was even on the radar.
The first one that comes to mind would be that game development and testing is significantly faster, easier, and cheaper for consoles. The company only has to make it work well, make it look good, optimize it, and test it for one platform. They can bring the game to market faster at a lower cost, and if it's successful enough on consoles that porting it to PC's would be sufficiently profitable, they can hand the game off to a maintenance team to spend the next year tweaking and testing it on 100+ different video cards and PC/laptop configurations while the key designers and developers move on to the next big thing.
Ditto. I got mine for close to $250 about 2.5 years ago, and when I compare it to newer phones available today, they all feel like over-priced and over-hyped disappointments, so I plan to use my 5X until it dies. If it dies from something I can find a way to fix, I will fix it and keep on using it.
After reading this article, my first thoughts were to wonder whether Party City employees have to avoid iPhones to have a usable cell phone at work, and whether customers walking through stores like that ever have their iPhone die on them. The last time I was in a Party City, they had an employee filling balloons almost non-stop, and every now and then one would explode while being filled.
Probably, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth performing scientific/engineering experiments like this to learn from. There are plenty of similar experiments to turn seawater into fresh, sun/wind/rain/tides/geothermal into electricity, to split atoms, to fuse atoms, etc. Some are (still) failures and some (eventually) turn into successes, but overall there are enough successes to keep humanity moving forward.
The most expensive failure so far is probably sustainable nuclear fusion, but the lure of the enormous payoff for getting that one right will keep billions pouring in to fund research for it. Hopefully we will eventually get it right, but it's possible we may blow ourselves up before we get there.
I still like this one. Sure my reasons are a bit juvenile, but I'm hoping at least some of the successes look flashy and cool like this:
I don't usually do this, but I'm going to reply to my own post because Microsoft can simply reinstall that crap every 6 months when they put out a new OS update.
A slightly more complicated solution would be to add those commands to a PowerShell script file and add it either to the list of Startup commands or to the Windows Task Scheduler to re-run it periodically.
Slashdot Mirror
That was weird. Before my first post, there was no link. About a minute after, the link showed up.
Article or it didn't happen? No source article?
"When you're burning millions of dollars worth of fuel per second, anything less than ideal is really bad"
That makes me wonder if the Peregrine rocket will ever be viable for putting payloads into orbit: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-...
Even if it is less efficient, if it can actually put payloads into orbit, it may still be more cost-effective. Most of the articles I've seen on it have been lacking detailed capabilities and technical hurdles it needs to overcome, though.
I really don't like just posting "Well, duh..." but nothing else really seems to fit here.
LOL. Maybe they could create a tiny little robot arm next front of each "eye", and when you wake the car up, it could "rub its eyes".
"Don't hit things. Don't fall off a cliff." - unless they're birds that aren't afraid of your car, or rain/snow/fog is fooling your sensors
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
“These things will not be functioning in anything heavier than a light rain”
I truly wish they would come sooner rather than later, and I support all of the testing and development they're doing, but it will still be quite a while.
My comment was a joke. Maybe I should've added a sarcasm tag. My point was basically that none of these options will be available in my lifetime, making all of them "science fiction", and thus betting on any one over the other is moot.
If you want to talk potential ethics, I don't see how it would be any more unethical to transport cell cultures up and a finished heart back down than it would be to remove cells from a body, grow a new heart outside the body, and then surgically swap it for the old one. A bunch of human cells are going to die either way, and a human life would be saved in the process.
I can't see any point in actually transporting a patient up/down. I mean, unless you just really wanted to see how much he/she might vomit in microgravity, and maybe then see if the video would go viral on YouTube. It's not a good idea to try that stunt on someone who needs a heart replacement though, as you may end up killing both the original and the copy. ;-)
There's an easy solution to that. Star Trek transporters. By the time space flight becomes cheap enough, we'll probably have those.
"Why do they "need" AI..."
This is nowhere close to AI. I've worked on reporting software that linked in the MaxMind GeoIP database to locate users by IP address. All they need to catch cheaters is a very simple query/report looking for a few very simple things. Claiming they need AI for it is ridiculous.
It wouldn't surprise me if "Synamedia" claimed it was AI to get more money, or perhaps tried to convince Netflix that they needed to use AI tools to justify the sale. Companies lying to make a big sale is not new.
"I'm gonna write me a new mini-van this afternoon!" (https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13)
These days the AI may have problem figuring out the 'sex == "male"' part. Trying to use some of today's teens to train an AI would only confuse it.
IMO what doesn't work is half-assed government coercion, like raising the gas mileage requirements for cars, but leaving a loop-hole in there (on purpose) for trucks and SUV's.
If we didn't have government coercion forcing companies to stop polluting our water whenever they felt like it, most of us probably wouldn't be here today. It sounds like the fresh water in the US, while still somewhat polluted, is a hell of a lot cleaner than it used to be back before the EPA. When it comes to really large corporations, I don't think anything really works except for government coercion. Government wouldn't be forcing them today if they had cleaned up their act willingly in the past.
I'm not disagreeing with or disparaging your opinion, but I don't think a change that alienates a statistically significant percentage of their user-base is the best way to go about it.
They could add something like Google's "safe search". Instead of forcibly removing content, they could simply flag it into different categories and allow users to configure their own profiles to specify "Don't show me X". If they're doing this because Apple is kicking the Tumblr app off the store, I imagine Apple would reconsider if the iPhone version of the app enforced certain "safe search" features.
I know content classification is not "easy", but if they can find porn well enough to remove it, it's not any harder to flag it instead of removing it. A feature like that might make (almost) everyone happy. It would work well for cases like yours, for Apple's app store, for the users that want to read/post porn (unless they're Apple fan-boys who ditched their computer after getting an iPad ;-), etc. I imagine the true prudes simply wouldn't be happy because everyone else was happy, but you know, the needs of the many...
Woops. Sorry, the new RCS app will be called "Google Chat", not "Android Messages".
https://9to5google.com/2018/07...
Not sure when it will be available, though.
I've read that the replacement is supposed to be the new and improved Android messaging app:
https://gizmodo.com/how-the-ne...
Which of course may mean it's flaky from non-phone devices, but they're supposed to be switching to RCS as quickly as they can. Maybe RCS will be less flaky from a desktop/laptop than SMS. Not sure.
At least those Nokia Windows phones were tough:
https://satwcomic.com/you-got-...
https://www.digitaltrends.com/...
TBH, they may not have been that bad if Google hadn't blocked them from running any Google services from a native app.
I use it as the easiest option for messaging without having to give out my cell phone #. It also keeps me from having to install non-native Android apps for IM, which tend to drain the battery a lot more quickly.
I use Hangouts for pretty much all messaging. I rarely use my smartphone as a phone, and I don't really need data access, so only family members and a few close friends have my cell #. $15 of prepaid minutes usually lasts me a few months. So I won't use any messaging app/service that requires a cell carrier (or my cell #) for messaging.
Even if I did have unlimited texts, I still wouldn't want to give my cell # out to everyone. If all the good options for using my email address for messaging vanish, I may see if I can set up a Google Voice # for messaging only (no calls, and no SMS to my cell #). With Google looking like they want to ditch everything for RCS, that may be the way to go.
TBH, when 1 air force coffee cup costs $1200, they really don't have to do much of anything to sink us with the cost to wage war.
"To (artificially) prop up sales on consoles."
There are enough valid and compelling reasons to develop for console and not PC that I doubt that thought was even on the radar.
The first one that comes to mind would be that game development and testing is significantly faster, easier, and cheaper for consoles. The company only has to make it work well, make it look good, optimize it, and test it for one platform. They can bring the game to market faster at a lower cost, and if it's successful enough on consoles that porting it to PC's would be sufficiently profitable, they can hand the game off to a maintenance team to spend the next year tweaking and testing it on 100+ different video cards and PC/laptop configurations while the key designers and developers move on to the next big thing.
Ditto. I got mine for close to $250 about 2.5 years ago, and when I compare it to newer phones available today, they all feel like over-priced and over-hyped disappointments, so I plan to use my 5X until it dies. If it dies from something I can find a way to fix, I will fix it and keep on using it.
After reading this article, my first thoughts were to wonder whether Party City employees have to avoid iPhones to have a usable cell phone at work, and whether customers walking through stores like that ever have their iPhone die on them. The last time I was in a Party City, they had an employee filling balloons almost non-stop, and every now and then one would explode while being filled.
Probably, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth performing scientific/engineering experiments like this to learn from. There are plenty of similar experiments to turn seawater into fresh, sun/wind/rain/tides/geothermal into electricity, to split atoms, to fuse atoms, etc. Some are (still) failures and some (eventually) turn into successes, but overall there are enough successes to keep humanity moving forward.
The most expensive failure so far is probably sustainable nuclear fusion, but the lure of the enormous payoff for getting that one right will keep billions pouring in to fund research for it. Hopefully we will eventually get it right, but it's possible we may blow ourselves up before we get there.
I still like this one. Sure my reasons are a bit juvenile, but I'm hoping at least some of the successes look flashy and cool like this:
https://news.nationalgeographi...
I don't usually do this, but I'm going to reply to my own post because Microsoft can simply reinstall that crap every 6 months when they put out a new OS update.
A slightly more complicated solution would be to add those commands to a PowerShell script file and add it either to the list of Startup commands or to the Windows Task Scheduler to re-run it periodically.
Easy solution: Uninstall the Windows Store completely (along with anything else you want gone listed in this link):
https://www.laptopmag.com/arti...
Store: Get-AppxPackage *windowsstore* | Remove-AppxPackage