We now have robots that can decide to kill. Do we really want those? See what happened when you had drones shoot missiles at people? A lot of weddings got bombed.
ya, i want them. all things being equal, computers make fewer mistakes than humans. also, the algorithms of a computer can be tested, evaluated and approved (or denied).
if you are going to make the "well computers can be coded to bad things" argument, then i'd say well, humans can be (easily) persuaded to do bad things. it ultimately depends on the agent pulling the proverbial strings, not whether the puppet is made of meat or electronics.
When it hits the glass of the cockpit, which has various minuscule scratches and dirt and whatnot, it gets lit up like a Christmas tree
no it doesn't and i say that being someone that's shined lasers through glass many times. and i can guarantee a plane's cockpit window is much cleaner than the windows i'm talking about.
if the glass is clean you'd see basically nothing. if it was dirty, you might see a bit of color. that's it.
really dude, you have no freaking clue. pick up a history book. or just freaking google. this is all very well known and isn't the least bit controversial.
Chile, where we succeeded, is Latin America's top economy today.
chile's success is in spite of us, not because. after meddling in their elections failed to keep out the popular candidate, we covertly intervened to overthrew their *democratically elected* leader (because he was a marxist), then installed one of the most well-known brutal dictators, general augusto pinochet.
From its beginning, the new military government implemented harsh measures against its perceived opponents.[6] Various reports and investigations claim that between 1,200 and 3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 people were interned and as many as 30,000 were tortured during the time Pinochet was in government... By the time of his death on 10 December 2006, about 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for numerous human rights violations during his 17-year rule, and tax evasion and embezzlement during and after his rule;[12] he was accused of having corruptly amassed at least US$28 million.
yep, that's our guy. in a military dictatorship, having a "thriving economy" has very little to do with how well (or not) the people live (not that chile is special in that regard).
Where we failed (Cuba), the place is a craphole.
cuba is a craphole because what would otherwise be it's main (only) trading partner has isolated it for 50+ years.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
and,
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
By letting them amongst our ranks, and by letting them know it's OK to cyberstalk someone
i don't know about you, but i really have no idea what means my male co workers employee to get with woman. i don't know, and i don't care. it's none of my business. i just work with them. it's not my job to evaluate every aspect of heir personality.
i completely agree. i was responding to the "communism is evil" comment. murder is murder no matter which political ideology it's framed inside, and any nation that is or was once powerful has blood on its hands.
let me know if you'd like to compare track records of so-called capitalist regimes to so-called communist regimes. just to warn you though, you aren't going to like it.
um, what? the hammer & sickle is a labor / union symbol. of course it was used as the symbol of communist USSR, but they hardly have a monopoly on murderous ideology.
Basically they've said "if you don't consent to give us this data, we're taking away features". Probably because they can't (or won't) make the services work without it, and it's just easier to cut you off.
no they aren't. they are saying that there is software on this device, much of it delivered by 3rd parties BTW, that will capture usage data. if you don't like that, here's the option to opt-out, which is not using the software.
look at it this way. software is written, and it contains code that will capture users' usage data. you, as the end user, have a choice. use the software, or not. seems pretty reasonable.
LG is just formally giving you that choice. the software of their device, as written, will capture usage data. if you don't agree to that, fine, but guess what you can't use the software in that case.
How is this a selling point for an $800 tablet again?
do you need or use a laptop?
yes? then this is a more portable replacement for your laptop that can also replace your tablet in many situations. no? then this isn't for you, buy a cheaper tablet.
the goal of trying to reduce the total number of "computers" we own is a good one, and i'm not unhappy someone is trying to solve it.
The whole point of a Windows tablet (@ $800 price point) for most people is that you can use it to do actual work
yes, you can do actual work on this. why couldn't you? you'd probably have to purchase a USB / bluetooth keyboard + mouse though.
If you're needing to pull out your laptop or go to your desktop for that
okay, how does the send know i'm not receiving the messages then? neither side knows. sheesh. or is the sender just supposed to figure out for themselves that if someone hasn't responded in X days they should find the workaround online and apply? yep, sounds pretty darn reasonable to me.
Right, because iMessage can't be disabled at any time or place... I see your point so well.
there's is absolutely nothing that the user experiencing the problem (the non-iOS user) can do directly to fix the problem. let me know if you have any further questions.
If cell phone companies weren't charging so much for something that should be free Apple would have had less incentive to come up with a solution that worked around them.
so you think apple is some savior from on high that is working night and day to save you money?
apple's interest in routing through imessage is tying users to their services and not generic text messages that are portable across any device.
Here is how to fix it: tell your iPhone to send texts to your non iPhone friend via SMS. Bam, done. Delete the contact and re add it or ask Siri to do it for you or whatever, this isn't a big deal at all.
so you think this is a reasonable user experience? first off knowing which of your contacts use imessage, and then contacting all them and tell them to screw with their phone settings?
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wow. heavy man.
Nuclear weapons were supposed to end wars, at least that was the sales pitch.
the one time they were used, they did.
We now have robots that can decide to kill. Do we really want those? See what happened when you had drones shoot missiles at people? A lot of weddings got bombed.
ya, i want them. all things being equal, computers make fewer mistakes than humans. also, the algorithms of a computer can be tested, evaluated and approved (or denied).
if you are going to make the "well computers can be coded to bad things" argument, then i'd say well, humans can be (easily) persuaded to do bad things. it ultimately depends on the agent pulling the proverbial strings, not whether the puppet is made of meat or electronics.
The problem is not who controls the strings, it is what happens when the strings are no longer needed.
it sure the hell is a problem of who controls the strings. what are you saying? if it's some corrupt govt directing machines to kill us, no problem?
personally i'd rather be killed by a runaway machine than because i got in the way of some corporation trying to make a buck.
Plenty of first-hand observations in this thread tell you that you're flat out wrong.
zero actual incidents of plane crashes confirms that you are wrong.
When it hits the glass of the cockpit, which has various minuscule scratches and dirt and whatnot, it gets lit up like a Christmas tree
no it doesn't and i say that being someone that's shined lasers through glass many times. and i can guarantee a plane's cockpit window is much cleaner than the windows i'm talking about.
if the glass is clean you'd see basically nothing. if it was dirty, you might see a bit of color. that's it.
http://www.captaindebug.com/20...
telescoping constructors are an anti-pattern, and having named parameters, while more verbose, eliminates the confusion.
really dude, you have no freaking clue. pick up a history book. or just freaking google. this is all very well known and isn't the least bit controversial.
Chile, where we succeeded, is Latin America's top economy today.
chile's success is in spite of us, not because. after meddling in their elections failed to keep out the popular candidate, we covertly intervened to overthrew their *democratically elected* leader (because he was a marxist), then installed one of the most well-known brutal dictators, general augusto pinochet.
From its beginning, the new military government implemented harsh measures against its perceived opponents.[6] Various reports and investigations claim that between 1,200 and 3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 people were interned and as many as 30,000 were tortured during the time Pinochet was in government ... By the time of his death on 10 December 2006, about 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for numerous human rights violations during his 17-year rule, and tax evasion and embezzlement during and after his rule;[12] he was accused of having corruptly amassed at least US$28 million.
yep, that's our guy. in a military dictatorship, having a "thriving economy" has very little to do with how well (or not) the people live (not that chile is special in that regard).
Where we failed (Cuba), the place is a craphole.
cuba is a craphole because what would otherwise be it's main (only) trading partner has isolated it for 50+ years.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
the other two seem pretty relevant here as well:
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
and,
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
By letting them amongst our ranks, and by letting them know it's OK to cyberstalk someone
i don't know about you, but i really have no idea what means my male co workers employee to get with woman. i don't know, and i don't care. it's none of my business. i just work with them. it's not my job to evaluate every aspect of heir personality.
i completely agree. i was responding to the "communism is evil" comment. murder is murder no matter which political ideology it's framed inside, and any nation that is or was once powerful has blood on its hands.
US involvement in south america. cuba. guatemala. peru. chile. nicaragua. all in the name of "stopping the spread of communism".
bam.
let me know if you'd like to compare track records of so-called capitalist regimes to so-called communist regimes. just to warn you though, you aren't going to like it.
um, what? the hammer & sickle is a labor / union symbol. of course it was used as the symbol of communist USSR, but they hardly have a monopoly on murderous ideology.
hello? this is 1980. i want my cold-war rhetoric back. thank you.
Basically they've said "if you don't consent to give us this data, we're taking away features". Probably because they can't (or won't) make the services work without it, and it's just easier to cut you off.
no they aren't. they are saying that there is software on this device, much of it delivered by 3rd parties BTW, that will capture usage data. if you don't like that, here's the option to opt-out, which is not using the software.
look at it this way. software is written, and it contains code that will capture users' usage data. you, as the end user, have a choice. use the software, or not. seems pretty reasonable.
LG is just formally giving you that choice. the software of their device, as written, will capture usage data. if you don't agree to that, fine, but guess what you can't use the software in that case.
How is this a selling point for an $800 tablet again?
do you need or use a laptop?
yes? then this is a more portable replacement for your laptop that can also replace your tablet in many situations.
no? then this isn't for you, buy a cheaper tablet.
the goal of trying to reduce the total number of "computers" we own is a good one, and i'm not unhappy someone is trying to solve it.
The whole point of a Windows tablet (@ $800 price point) for most people is that you can use it to do actual work
yes, you can do actual work on this. why couldn't you? you'd probably have to purchase a USB / bluetooth keyboard + mouse though.
If you're needing to pull out your laptop or go to your desktop for that
you don't.
okay, how does the send know i'm not receiving the messages then? neither side knows. sheesh. or is the sender just supposed to figure out for themselves that if someone hasn't responded in X days they should find the workaround online and apply? yep, sounds pretty darn reasonable to me.
sheesh.
iMessages are in Blue
SMS are in Green
how the fuck do i know that from my android phone that i now use?
you:
Right, because iMessage can't be disabled at any time or place... I see your point so well.
there's is absolutely nothing that the user experiencing the problem (the non-iOS user) can do directly to fix the problem. let me know if you have any further questions.
yes, and being a manager at a gigantic out of touch service provider gives you special knowledge into the inner workings of apple?
Imessage was a half ass feature to make people feel good about being in the same club.
and bravo on that insightful observation.
Right, because iMessage can't be disabled at any time or place... I see your point so well.
do you have an clue at all about the topic of this discussion? my god.
If cell phone companies weren't charging so much for something that should be free Apple would have had less incentive to come up with a solution that worked around them.
so you think apple is some savior from on high that is working night and day to save you money?
apple's interest in routing through imessage is tying users to their services and not generic text messages that are portable across any device.
Here is how to fix it: tell your iPhone to send texts to your non iPhone friend via SMS. Bam, done. Delete the contact and re add it or ask Siri to do it for you or whatever, this isn't a big deal at all.
so you think this is a reasonable user experience? first off knowing which of your contacts use imessage, and then contacting all them and tell them to screw with their phone settings?
sheesh.