Hardly any improvements, hugely increased prices.
Remember all the big names who recently pulled out of a PC market of vanishing profits.
Apple is right now probing the brand loyalty of MacBook customers. Or perhaps, they've already made their decision, and this is just their signal to every Mac owner who still has some brains left:
Today, the end of Apple the PC manufacturer has turned from a crazy idea into a definite possibility.
Google search has basic flaws. It's not even able to strip the apostrophe-s off a term. That is, if in a web page a name occurs in the genitive only, Google search will not find it if you do a search for that name. And there's no way to report this to Google. E-mails will be ignored, and so will the "feedback" you give (which is processed by a subsidiary anyway).
I was just about to write the opposite: Men are cry babies. Women are prepared to take some pain. While the pacifier silences the boy, there will be no noticeable effect on the girl who had silently endured her misery in the first place.
Just speculating, but: With Linux desktops, copy&paste can be confusing, as there are usually several buffers.
What if he tweeted some important secret key by accident and is now in big trouble trying to save what can be saved?
In fact, browserprint.info looks exactly like the panopticlick.eff.org site I used to know, while the latter now shows much less info than it used to. Am I getting senile, or what's going on here?
Make Poverty History -- Make Burger History.
Apologies for posting the obvious. We Germans had a taste of this a few years ago when chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport asked its customers to invent new flavors of its square shaped product. Try "Ritter Sport Gorgonzola" as a search term to get a peek at some not-so-tasty submissions.
I've read about Heisenberg's interpretation of his uncertainty principle (or principle of indeterminacy, as he preferred to call it) as being due to the observer necessarily disturbing the experiment, but this has been refuted (http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1208.0034) and has nothing to do with Schrödinger at all.
Where is the OCR software that first identifies the font, then reconstructs the text until it's pixel perfect?
I recently evaluated a selection of current OCR software and was most disappointed to see how little progress has been made in the last decade.
There are several smartphone apps, Color Grab being one of them, that let you identify colors at any distance, no extra hardware required.
Btw. I suspect the video to be faked. It would require very advanced AI to recognize any font instantly. Usually you have to guide the software by identifying some of the characters before a match is trying to be found.
Now that surprises me. A lot, actually. I see people make mistakes of grammar all the time, and when once I inspected recordings of my own voice, I was shocked to find how many I make, especially if in a situation I wasn't prepared for. It is, for example, a very common mistake to make the numerus of a noun congruent to that of the immediately preceding noun, not the one it is really dependent of, as in "the main cause of errors that go unnoticed remain mysterious".
Another purpose of language is identification and differentiation. Language serves a purpose even to Robinson Crusoe.
On a cultural level, matters are quite similar: Same language, same culture. Different language, different culture. Moreover, there are words in my own mother tongue whose meaning I don't know. Probably even words that I don't know. What makes the French the French? First and foremost, their language, doesn't it?
It sometimes bothers me that in the movies, people hardly ever make any grammar mistakes. Not even children. And when they do, it usually sounds artificial. Apparently, speaking like an ordinary person does is even harder to imitate than drunkenness. Now our obsession with grammatical correctness is certainly a very recent development in the history of the human species. I doubt very much that ordinary Roman citizens, or ancient Greeks, let alone Egyptians or Babylonians, ever mocked or corrected each other's grammar. I'd rather think that when people understood what you meant, your grammar was considered correct, so to speak. (Actually it wasn't considered at all.) Do the artificial languages you create, when they are spoken in fictional communities more archaic than our own, allow for more realism with respect to how people actually speak in their daily lives?
Being the best and being the most popular have always proved to be incompatible goals in the long run.
Google had been used to being both for too long, and became erratic and increasingly evil when users started getting interested in non-Google stuff.
Back in the 1980s, Californian software company Epyx was said to own the trademark "Games" for anything video game / computer game related. They released titles like Summer Games, Winter Games, World Games, California Games -- all of these to great success. I do not know whether they actually ever sued anyone -- there were titles like "Eskimo Games" and "Alternative World Games" from other companies -- but they sure prevented anyone else from releasing Olympics-related sports games with any mention of "Games" in it.
Epyx' final titles making use of the trademark were "The Games: Winter Edition" and "The Games: Summer Edition", again receiving much attention, but with many key artists leaving for Electronic Arts, Epyx decline was inevitable. The company soon went bankrupt and never recovered.
At 32c3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , Daniel Lange and Felix Domke presented their analysis of Volkswagen's "Dieselgate" software. It seems that that one doesn't look like ordinary code at all, but rather like code patterns generated from tables that relate sensory data to engine control parameters. Think of one of the earliest motivations for building computing machines in the first place: To create parameter tables for artillery aiming!
I think that, in the case of tennis players, it will be much easier to identify highly discriminating features of players than in the case of computer programmers. This is so because imagining to actually have what it takes to be a great tennis player is much easier than imagining to have the skills of a great programmer: If you can imagine having the skills of a great programmer, you do in fact have them. So, why not examine the stock example: Identifying chess players by their moves?
Problem 1.)
Who wrote this
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
?
Problem 2.)
In the movie First Blood, Part II (a.k.a. Rambo II), when the camera pans through the interiors of Marshall Murdock's CIA base building, parts of the code listing of some computer program can be seen scrolling through some of the screens there. Who wrote that code?
Hint to Problem 2: The person in question is also a Slashdot member.
When I was a kid, I didn't believe my mother when she told me not to touch the hotplate. The pain of burning my palm was a memorable lesson, though.
Here, it's the difference between "I could have deleted your hard disk" and "So your hard disk has been formatted? Well, if you can explain to me how this could have come about, I might even provide you with a backup copy."
It may not feel quite right to think of hacker kids as educators of the general public -- wasn't that a transient phase of the 80's? -- but while the current state of general irresponsibility in matters of systems security persists, we do need the occasional burnt palm.
...in the not-too-distant future, the html document you requested will not load, and you'll be shown a short notification instead, saying "please use an OS and browser that comply with our DRM policy"? I am already seeing lots of messages of that flavor while I'm browsing the web using Linux/Firefox, tracking disabled. The claim is that I am trying to view valuable content without paying for it (pop-under windows and user tracking being the currency).
Remember, she's the one who called the Internet 'virgin soil' last year.
But she's not the only one who has no clue. Every other week some European politician speaks up, demanding billions of tax payer's money to create an independent European IT industry. These noobs really seem to think there'll be a day when they can say, "Look, Obama, we've got our own Intel, we've got our own Microsoft, you can kiss our asses." At the same time, these guys complain that they can't run their offices with Linux: "It's too complicated for our staff. Give us back our Windows XP, our MS Office, our Internet Explorer."
Slashdot Mirror
"WhatsApp has enough security for those who don't need any."
Hardly any improvements, hugely increased prices. Remember all the big names who recently pulled out of a PC market of vanishing profits. Apple is right now probing the brand loyalty of MacBook customers. Or perhaps, they've already made their decision, and this is just their signal to every Mac owner who still has some brains left: Today, the end of Apple the PC manufacturer has turned from a crazy idea into a definite possibility.
Anyone else suddenly wondering what type of music Woz listens to?
But everyone knows that: Polish Jokes!
Their search is good.
Google search has basic flaws. It's not even able to strip the apostrophe-s off a term. That is, if in a web page a name occurs in the genitive only, Google search will not find it if you do a search for that name. And there's no way to report this to Google. E-mails will be ignored, and so will the "feedback" you give (which is processed by a subsidiary anyway).
I was just about to write the opposite: Men are cry babies. Women are prepared to take some pain. While the pacifier silences the boy, there will be no noticeable effect on the girl who had silently endured her misery in the first place.
Just speculating, but: With Linux desktops, copy&paste can be confusing, as there are usually several buffers. What if he tweeted some important secret key by accident and is now in big trouble trying to save what can be saved?
In fact, browserprint.info looks exactly like the panopticlick.eff.org site I used to know, while the latter now shows much less info than it used to. Am I getting senile, or what's going on here?
Make Poverty History -- Make Burger History. Apologies for posting the obvious. We Germans had a taste of this a few years ago when chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport asked its customers to invent new flavors of its square shaped product. Try "Ritter Sport Gorgonzola" as a search term to get a peek at some not-so-tasty submissions.
I've read about Heisenberg's interpretation of his uncertainty principle (or principle of indeterminacy, as he preferred to call it) as being due to the observer necessarily disturbing the experiment, but this has been refuted (http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1208.0034) and has nothing to do with Schrödinger at all.
So color blind people can draw information from what's meaningless to others? Or does completely f**king meaningless mean potentially biased?
Where is the OCR software that first identifies the font, then reconstructs the text until it's pixel perfect? I recently evaluated a selection of current OCR software and was most disappointed to see how little progress has been made in the last decade.
Tell this to a color blind person.
There are several smartphone apps, Color Grab being one of them, that let you identify colors at any distance, no extra hardware required. Btw. I suspect the video to be faked. It would require very advanced AI to recognize any font instantly. Usually you have to guide the software by identifying some of the characters before a match is trying to be found.
Now that surprises me. A lot, actually. I see people make mistakes of grammar all the time, and when once I inspected recordings of my own voice, I was shocked to find how many I make, especially if in a situation I wasn't prepared for. It is, for example, a very common mistake to make the numerus of a noun congruent to that of the immediately preceding noun, not the one it is really dependent of, as in "the main cause of errors that go unnoticed remain mysterious".
Another purpose of language is identification and differentiation. Language serves a purpose even to Robinson Crusoe. On a cultural level, matters are quite similar: Same language, same culture. Different language, different culture. Moreover, there are words in my own mother tongue whose meaning I don't know. Probably even words that I don't know. What makes the French the French? First and foremost, their language, doesn't it?
It sometimes bothers me that in the movies, people hardly ever make any grammar mistakes. Not even children. And when they do, it usually sounds artificial. Apparently, speaking like an ordinary person does is even harder to imitate than drunkenness. Now our obsession with grammatical correctness is certainly a very recent development in the history of the human species. I doubt very much that ordinary Roman citizens, or ancient Greeks, let alone Egyptians or Babylonians, ever mocked or corrected each other's grammar. I'd rather think that when people understood what you meant, your grammar was considered correct, so to speak. (Actually it wasn't considered at all.) Do the artificial languages you create, when they are spoken in fictional communities more archaic than our own, allow for more realism with respect to how people actually speak in their daily lives?
Being the best and being the most popular have always proved to be incompatible goals in the long run. Google had been used to being both for too long, and became erratic and increasingly evil when users started getting interested in non-Google stuff.
Back in the 1980s, Californian software company Epyx was said to own the trademark "Games" for anything video game / computer game related. They released titles like Summer Games, Winter Games, World Games, California Games -- all of these to great success. I do not know whether they actually ever sued anyone -- there were titles like "Eskimo Games" and "Alternative World Games" from other companies -- but they sure prevented anyone else from releasing Olympics-related sports games with any mention of "Games" in it. Epyx' final titles making use of the trademark were "The Games: Winter Edition" and "The Games: Summer Edition", again receiving much attention, but with many key artists leaving for Electronic Arts, Epyx decline was inevitable. The company soon went bankrupt and never recovered.
At special request, texture class "American Pie" has recently been added to the standard.
At 32c3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , Daniel Lange and Felix Domke presented their analysis of Volkswagen's "Dieselgate" software. It seems that that one doesn't look like ordinary code at all, but rather like code patterns generated from tables that relate sensory data to engine control parameters. Think of one of the earliest motivations for building computing machines in the first place: To create parameter tables for artillery aiming!
I think that, in the case of tennis players, it will be much easier to identify highly discriminating features of players than in the case of computer programmers. This is so because imagining to actually have what it takes to be a great tennis player is much easier than imagining to have the skills of a great programmer: If you can imagine having the skills of a great programmer, you do in fact have them. So, why not examine the stock example: Identifying chess players by their moves?
Problem 1.) Who wrote this https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ? Problem 2.) In the movie First Blood, Part II (a.k.a. Rambo II), when the camera pans through the interiors of Marshall Murdock's CIA base building, parts of the code listing of some computer program can be seen scrolling through some of the screens there. Who wrote that code? Hint to Problem 2: The person in question is also a Slashdot member.
When I was a kid, I didn't believe my mother when she told me not to touch the hotplate. The pain of burning my palm was a memorable lesson, though. Here, it's the difference between "I could have deleted your hard disk" and "So your hard disk has been formatted? Well, if you can explain to me how this could have come about, I might even provide you with a backup copy." It may not feel quite right to think of hacker kids as educators of the general public -- wasn't that a transient phase of the 80's? -- but while the current state of general irresponsibility in matters of systems security persists, we do need the occasional burnt palm.
...in the not-too-distant future, the html document you requested will not load, and you'll be shown a short notification instead, saying "please use an OS and browser that comply with our DRM policy"? I am already seeing lots of messages of that flavor while I'm browsing the web using Linux/Firefox, tracking disabled. The claim is that I am trying to view valuable content without paying for it (pop-under windows and user tracking being the currency).
Remember, she's the one who called the Internet 'virgin soil' last year. But she's not the only one who has no clue. Every other week some European politician speaks up, demanding billions of tax payer's money to create an independent European IT industry. These noobs really seem to think there'll be a day when they can say, "Look, Obama, we've got our own Intel, we've got our own Microsoft, you can kiss our asses." At the same time, these guys complain that they can't run their offices with Linux: "It's too complicated for our staff. Give us back our Windows XP, our MS Office, our Internet Explorer."