In fact, the possibilities of AI and machine learning are limitless
Limitless... that's a pretty far-fetched claim.
I wasn't around during the turn of the last century, but judging from various literature of the period a lot of people back then had some pretty harebrained ideas too. Steam power and electricity and intricate brass gears were going to somehow give us miraculous stuff like time travel.
You do not have to buy all your games from from Oculus store. You can get games from Steam or other places. All you need to do is go into Oculus settings and check "Allow 3rd party apps"
Correction: in the past 20 years internet and computers in general lost their mojo, not just Slashdot.
20 years ago the internet was a new exciting thing. Computers also, to a degree; many people were new to it. Things were changing very very fast, it was an exciting time.
Now internet is like tap water, it's everywhere and you need it but you're hardly excited by it.
Without getting all religious, there is some evidence to suggest that you (the entity that is self-aware) are not the brain.
Generally speaking, doctors and medical scientists are firmly in the you=brain camp. One exception is cardiologists or ER physicians who've done a lot of defibrillation on heart attack victims. Do enough of them and you will get people who go through a near-death experience. Get enough people with NDE and sooner or later you will get a patient who describes seeing the operating room from above while the doctors are working on him.
Of course what he saw could just be hallucinations of a dying brain. But once in a while there will be a case where a patient describes seeing something in the operating room, maybe a group of young interns or something, which he couldn't have possibly seen while clinically dead, and couldn't have seen after being revived because the interns left the room long before he regained consciousness and opened his eyes. When something like this happens, it makes a deep and fundamental change in the world belief of the attending physician. They don't necessarily get all religious and become born-again christians or buddhists, but they definitely drop out of the you=brain camp.
I remember reading about a group of physicians at some well-known university who did have such an experience, and decided to set up a more convincing experiment. (more convincing to the scientific community, not to themselves... they were already convinced by the verbal evidence). They set up an array of overhead lights, pointing at the ceiling so that they weren't visible to anyone standing on the floor, only visible to dead people floating above. A computer controlled the lights to show a random pattern, and no one on the medical staff knew what the pattern would be. Then they went and revived near-dead people with stopped hearts in that room.
I'm not sure what became of the experiment. But probably not much came of it because if something did, we'd all have heard about it in the news.
By the way, when you choose "LATER" after it asks you to "Update now" or "Later", it doesn't mean the phone will prompt you again later. It means the phone will update itself automatically later, with no warning... most likely at midnight tonight after the phone's been sitting idle in the "off" state for over an hour.
So after clicking on "Later", you need to drill into Settings and delete the downloaded update... pronto. Wait too long and you're toast.
1. I go to Starbucks or a friend's house and my phone auto-downloads 2 GB worth of iOS updates on their wifi
2. iPhone displays a popup saying "iOS 11.0.5 has been downloaded." Two choices are given: UPDATE NOW, or LATER
3. I choose "LATER", then go into Settings - General - Storage & iCloud Usage - Manage Storage. There, it will display a list of everything that takes up space on my phone. The iOS 11 update will be at or near top of the list, being 2 GB in size.
4. I select the "iOS 11 update" and tap to delete it. Tap again to confirm delete.
5. Presto, my phone is still version 9.3.5 and the downloaded update is gone.
my iphone 6+ will stay on 9.3.5 forever, or until the hardware dies... whichever comes first.
How do I stop the auto updates? It's impossible to stop the phone from downloading updates automatically, unless you jailbreak it... OR you block the following URLs on your wifi router:
appldnld.apple.com mesu.apple.com
This will prevent your iDevice from auto downloading OS updates. Don't worry, you can still update your installed apps, it only blocks iOS updates.
Apple's explanation sounds like people simply moving the phone around caused the phone to try to authenticate via Face ID, and because the authentication attempts failed, the phone required Craig Federaghi to enter his passcode.
Seems like the phone could waste electricity trying to face authenticate when no such authentication is wanted.
Jerry was not a Trumpist, he simply preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton.
He was a small(er) government advocate with a libertarian bent, kind of like Heinlein. He would frequently go off about how monstrously large our federal government has become, citing "Federal Bunny Inspectors" (yes there is such a thing).
Why is nuclear deterrence sensible when America does it, but "crazy" when NK does it?
It's not. Simply having nuclear weapons is sensible, a lot of nations have them.
What makes Norks crazy is daily threatening to blow up the capital cities of various nations with nukes. And every year or so making small-scale attacks that kill 100 people, not enough to trigger war but enough to rattle and piss em off. Like the time they shelled a S. Korean island and killed 4 marines, or torpedoing a S. Korean ship and killing 54 people.
Oh and they have a long history of covertly abducting S. Korean and Japanese citizens for their various skills and putting them into use as literal slaves in N. Korea. And a bunch of other crazy shit.
I predict that this year the demand for shiny new electronic gadgets will be less, simply because the economy (real economy, not the Fed-reported propaganda) is bad. People have no money and they're up to their eyeballs in debt (at record levels now).
Don't believe me? Box office receipts and retail numbers are tanking this year, because ordinary people have less disposable money (even as easy Fed monetary policy is keeping equity/real estate prices at record highs)
Also not helping is Apple's (and Samsung's) insistence that useful, proven technology that works well (fingerprint scanner / Home button) must be discarded so they can make the screen fill up the entirety of the phone. What's gonna take the place of the fingerprint scanner? Face recognition. Except that for face recognition to work, you have to bring the phone up to the correct angle in front of your face, and your face can't be covered in shaving cream or green beauty mud or anything else. Oh and you can't be in bed with your face in the pillow while unlocking your phone now, you have to be make yourself presentable enough for the facial recognition to work.
it does not appear that any Social Security numbers or credit card information was exposed
Earlier this month I switched to paperless billing for my Time Warner cable account. Two weeks ago I paid my bill online with a credit card for the first time.
Lo and behold, a fraudulent charged appeared on my statement last week! Someone bought some stuff from Neiman Marcus and had it shipped to Florida. (I live on the other side of the continent)
I was wondering where the security breach of my credit card was coming from, this makes me think it was Time Warner.
Yellowstone supervolcano is a greater threat to life on Earth than any asteroid
Any asteroid? Regardless of size? How about Ceres, 500+ miles in diameter? I'll bet that wipes out all humans and every animal species larger than a rat.
Yellowstone on the other hand has erupted before, most recently 640,000 years ago, and at least some of the primitive hunter-gathering humans were able to survive it.
Except those words are false. It is NOT just like plane autopilot. Your Tesla on autopilot going down highway 101 is in a vastly different environment than an airplane flying on autopilot in the middle of the Pacific ocean at 30,000 feet altitude.
Plane autopilot is safe because it is well understood by all parties that it is not to be engaged in an environment containing tractor-trailers and pedestrians in your path. Telling people Tesla autopilot is just like plane autopilot is dangerous snake oilmanship.
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In fact, the possibilities of AI and machine learning are limitless
Limitless... that's a pretty far-fetched claim.
I wasn't around during the turn of the last century, but judging from various literature of the period a lot of people back then had some pretty harebrained ideas too. Steam power and electricity and intricate brass gears were going to somehow give us miraculous stuff like time travel.
You do not have to buy all your games from from Oculus store. You can get games from Steam or other places. All you need to do is go into Oculus settings and check "Allow 3rd party apps"
using IE 6 for everything...
because... why not?
because Mark Zuck will be the President in 2020 !!
Correction: in the past 20 years internet and computers in general lost their mojo, not just Slashdot.
20 years ago the internet was a new exciting thing. Computers also, to a degree; many people were new to it. Things were changing very very fast, it was an exciting time.
Now internet is like tap water, it's everywhere and you need it but you're hardly excited by it.
well Google can't be seen as cowards now, can they? They too must show courage!
oh and I have a new company motto for them: Don't be cowardly
Without getting all religious, there is some evidence to suggest that you (the entity that is self-aware) are not the brain.
Generally speaking, doctors and medical scientists are firmly in the you=brain camp. One exception is cardiologists or ER physicians who've done a lot of defibrillation on heart attack victims. Do enough of them and you will get people who go through a near-death experience. Get enough people with NDE and sooner or later you will get a patient who describes seeing the operating room from above while the doctors are working on him.
Of course what he saw could just be hallucinations of a dying brain. But once in a while there will be a case where a patient describes seeing something in the operating room, maybe a group of young interns or something, which he couldn't have possibly seen while clinically dead, and couldn't have seen after being revived because the interns left the room long before he regained consciousness and opened his eyes. When something like this happens, it makes a deep and fundamental change in the world belief of the attending physician. They don't necessarily get all religious and become born-again christians or buddhists, but they definitely drop out of the you=brain camp.
I remember reading about a group of physicians at some well-known university who did have such an experience, and decided to set up a more convincing experiment. (more convincing to the scientific community, not to themselves... they were already convinced by the verbal evidence). They set up an array of overhead lights, pointing at the ceiling so that they weren't visible to anyone standing on the floor, only visible to dead people floating above. A computer controlled the lights to show a random pattern, and no one on the medical staff knew what the pattern would be. Then they went and revived near-dead people with stopped hearts in that room.
I'm not sure what became of the experiment. But probably not much came of it because if something did, we'd all have heard about it in the news.
not even the Ringworld engineers could achieve that feat.
They could simulate Mars atmosphere by building the map of Mars hundreds of thousands of feet high, but not the gravity.
By the way, when you choose "LATER" after it asks you to "Update now" or "Later", it doesn't mean the phone will prompt you again later. It means the phone will update itself automatically later, with no warning... most likely at midnight tonight after the phone's been sitting idle in the "off" state for over an hour.
So after clicking on "Later", you need to drill into Settings and delete the downloaded update... pronto. Wait too long and you're toast.
Yes, it can happen. Here is how it goes:
1. I go to Starbucks or a friend's house and my phone auto-downloads 2 GB worth of iOS updates on their wifi
2. iPhone displays a popup saying "iOS 11.0.5 has been downloaded." Two choices are given: UPDATE NOW, or LATER
3. I choose "LATER", then go into Settings - General - Storage & iCloud Usage - Manage Storage. There, it will display a list of everything that takes up space on my phone. The iOS 11 update will be at or near top of the list, being 2 GB in size.
4. I select the "iOS 11 update" and tap to delete it. Tap again to confirm delete.
5. Presto, my phone is still version 9.3.5 and the downloaded update is gone.
6. !profit!
my iphone 6+ will stay on 9.3.5 forever, or until the hardware dies... whichever comes first.
How do I stop the auto updates? It's impossible to stop the phone from downloading updates automatically, unless you jailbreak it... OR you block the following URLs on your wifi router:
appldnld.apple.com
mesu.apple.com
This will prevent your iDevice from auto downloading OS updates. Don't worry, you can still update your installed apps, it only blocks iOS updates.
It's just for the periscope. They're not using the Xbone controller to steer the ship or shoot nuclear torpedoes.
Apple's explanation sounds like people simply moving the phone around caused the phone to try to authenticate via Face ID, and because the authentication attempts failed, the phone required Craig Federaghi to enter his passcode.
Seems like the phone could waste electricity trying to face authenticate when no such authentication is wanted.
Jerry was not a Trumpist, he simply preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton.
He was a small(er) government advocate with a libertarian bent, kind of like Heinlein. He would frequently go off about how monstrously large our federal government has become, citing "Federal Bunny Inspectors" (yes there is such a thing).
Slashdot seems to have stripped the (less than) symbol from my previous post.
Why is nuclear deterrence sensible when America does it, but "crazy" when NK does it?
It's not. Simply having nuclear weapons is sensible, a lot of nations have them.
What makes Norks crazy is daily threatening to blow up the capital cities of various nations with nukes. And every year or so making small-scale attacks that kill 100 people, not enough to trigger war but enough to rattle and piss em off. Like the time they shelled a S. Korean island and killed 4 marines, or torpedoing a S. Korean ship and killing 54 people.
Oh and they have a long history of covertly abducting S. Korean and Japanese citizens for their various skills and putting them into use as literal slaves in N. Korea. And a bunch of other crazy shit.
I predict that this year the demand for shiny new electronic gadgets will be less, simply because the economy (real economy, not the Fed-reported propaganda) is bad. People have no money and they're up to their eyeballs in debt (at record levels now).
Don't believe me? Box office receipts and retail numbers are tanking this year, because ordinary people have less disposable money (even as easy Fed monetary policy is keeping equity/real estate prices at record highs)
Also not helping is Apple's (and Samsung's) insistence that useful, proven technology that works well (fingerprint scanner / Home button) must be discarded so they can make the screen fill up the entirety of the phone. What's gonna take the place of the fingerprint scanner? Face recognition. Except that for face recognition to work, you have to bring the phone up to the correct angle in front of your face, and your face can't be covered in shaving cream or green beauty mud or anything else. Oh and you can't be in bed with your face in the pillow while unlocking your phone now, you have to be make yourself presentable enough for the facial recognition to work.
it does not appear that any Social Security numbers or credit card information was exposed
Earlier this month I switched to paperless billing for my Time Warner cable account. Two weeks ago I paid my bill online with a credit card for the first time.
Lo and behold, a fraudulent charged appeared on my statement last week! Someone bought some stuff from Neiman Marcus and had it shipped to Florida. (I live on the other side of the continent)
I was wondering where the security breach of my credit card was coming from, this makes me think it was Time Warner.
has arrived!
Yellowstone supervolcano is a greater threat to life on Earth than any asteroid
Any asteroid? Regardless of size? How about Ceres, 500+ miles in diameter? I'll bet that wipes out all humans and every animal species larger than a rat.
Yellowstone on the other hand has erupted before, most recently 640,000 years ago, and at least some of the primitive hunter-gathering humans were able to survive it.
You'll never have that kind of fun again playing computer games, because you're not 19 anymore.
I know because I went ahead and played the games I played when I was young, and it's just not as fun anymore. Games haven't changed, I have.
in the Dem primaries!
You heard it here first.
Except those words are false. It is NOT just like plane autopilot. Your Tesla on autopilot going down highway 101 is in a vastly different environment than an airplane flying on autopilot in the middle of the Pacific ocean at 30,000 feet altitude.
Plane autopilot is safe because it is well understood by all parties that it is not to be engaged in an environment containing tractor-trailers and pedestrians in your path. Telling people Tesla autopilot is just like plane autopilot is dangerous snake oilmanship.
I'm still trying to figure out why people download and install executables to do simple tasks that I do in a web browser.
I blame the stupid Apple ad telling us "There's an App for that"