You want to live in our borders, protected by our military, using our infrastructure, functioning in our economy? You want all of the benefits society has to offer? Then you have to pay by behaving the way society says you should. You have to accept limitations on your freedom in return for protections we can afford. You can still enjoy a great many freedoms along with plumbing, electricity and consumer goods - but you have to obey certain rules in return. Good societies maximize the return while minimizing the price tag (i.e. - your kids will be educated, but they have to be immunized against certain diseases so that they won't cause harm to their fellow students. In return, society asserts that their fellow students will not give your kids these diseases and you will end up with reasonably well educated children).
These are people who have already made up their minds, otherwise they would not be willing to suffer the indignity of being forced to attend public school as adults in order to have their way. Just as justice can not flow from the barrel of a weapon, intelligence can not be legislated into existence.
Remember that Bing is a decision engine, not a search engine. Microsoft apparently doesn't want Windows users deciding to use anybody but them to support their OS.
Of course, we could just deregulate alcohol and tobacco immediately. Even if these can't be sold on every streetcorner, once deregulated anybody who wants these items can readily learn how to obtain them, almost certainly at a price lower than that which the government would like.
What? You thought it really cost $10.00 to manufacture a pack of cigarettes? $20.00 to distill a bottle of vodka? Or did you think these things were hard to get before the government began regulating their manufacture, distribution and sale?
So that the authors can follow in the footsteps of File Manager HD and put ads in the paid version anyway? Just to say - I paid $1.99 for File Manager HD only to have them start ads about a year later. Turns out, they went from "Free with ads/Paid without" to "Free with ads/Needs to pay more to stay without".
Last time I'm paying for something that ought to be free to begin with. At most, such apps should only advertise for the developers' other applications - in this instance, they could put ads for "ES Application Manager" et. al. in the file manager. I haven't been spambarded like other victims here (but then again, I don't use the app scanner and I don't even waste my time on their new "Power Booster").
Does the phrase "jumped the shark" ring any bells for you?
The instant I do, I'm just going to live without a file manager on my phone and tablet. I'll just plug 'em into a USB port and use the file manager on a host computer to do file management (because while my T-Mobile branded Samsung devices had always included a file manager, my unbranded Google Nexus 5 did not).
An annoyance - but I seldom encounter a file management issue so urgent on my Android devices that I can't wait until I have a host computer to work with. I can't handle being subject to a developer's whim regarding features and advertising on such a truly critical and fundamental application. Games? Sure. Email and calendar clients? Less so, but okay. My file manager, SSH client, word processor/spreadsheet applications? NO.
At least Linux and MS-Windows systems don't seem too interested in monetizing file managers.
Feed it on children's books and language primers. When the AI demonstrates a linguistic awareness appropriate to a small child, feed it more complex/challenging material. Use a progression similar to that which we impose on our children to teach them.
It may take longer, but I suspect the results will be more in line with the desired goal - a system capable of communication by conversation.
Nobody here seems to have a problem with "Battle of Britain" style dogfights or things that go "whoosh" in deep space . . . and unless you want your movie to be 1) incomprehensible, as I doubt seriously there's anybody here on Earth who has actually worked with a functioning hyperdrive motivator, moisture vaporator or protocol droid, and 2) boring, dead, dull - you'd better make sure the technology is either visibly comprehensible to the viewer or have someone in the film explain it in a way that's entertaining.
Look up where Doctor McCoy's medical instruments came from. You'll get the idea.
Are they trying to make sure all of their petroleum is available for sale to others, or do they really feel that they need something cheaper than petroleum to improve the lives of their citizens?
Probably not the second one. Now - give me back my mod point . . . it was a bad moderation to begin with.
I don't know - they're putting SIM cards in watches and other wearables now, which implies to me that it should be possible to divorce the smartwatch from the smartphone.
Just have an LED watch implanted under the skin so that its display can be read when illuminated and see to the implantation of an RFID chip where it can't readily be removed - say, inside the occipital process or the sub-arachnoid cavity, perhaps?
I want the standard audio jack - the one that's compatible with all of the other consumer electronics on the planet.
Memo to Apple and Intel: I doubt very seriously that I'm alone out here - don't waste your breath on that whole "superior connectivity" thing, and absolutely don't try to tell me that there will be adapters for dinosaurs such as myself.
Besides - I've been using (and got my wife using) Bluetooth headsets - digital and wireless, although there is a 3.5mm jack and audio cable provided on our comfortable ear-cup headphones. Not on my ear buds, but I suppose that would be counter to their design.
Personally, I don't care. As long as their browser manages to provide standards compliance (for example, the ACID tests) without opening any security holes, I'm in. Plugins would be a nice plus (I'm looking at you, Microsoft. Edge is fine for plain vanilla browsing, but it's just a lab rat of a browser without extensions).
Ordinarily I don't waste my time on A/C's, but here goes (and what follows is a very abbreviated description) . . .
Observe a phenomenon. Think about a possible explanation for the phenomenon. Congratulations, you've postulated a hypothesis.
Gather data which will support your hypothesis. If the evidence does not support your hypothesis, reformulate and try again. If the evidence does support your hypothesis, you now have a theory.
Make a prediction based on your theory. Ensure that your theory is the only possible explanation for the prediction. Run an experiment and test your theory. You're on your way to elucidating a scientific fact.
The difference is that (even now) I'm more likely to trust the value of the Zimbabwe dollar (no, I don't understand the reference and I don't intend to look it up).
If I were the only one, I'd be a fool and the odd man out. I've looked around - I'm not the only one. There are a lot of us - even a lot among the geek crowd - who would prefer to have some rare substance and/or lots of guys with guns to assert that what I have is really money and not just a unique and interesting encrypted dataset.
You know, that was my knee-jerk reaction too - right up until I pondered . . .
Think about it - in one shot, Microsoft gains something to offer both commercial and (paying) consumer customers - the expectation that encrypted data will remain private -- while simultaneously leaving Apple twisting in the wind in this whole US Gubberment vs. Everyman BS that's playing itself out right now in our "Judicial" system.
Big bucks triumphs over Big Brother. The Ferengi are right - greed is eternal.
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You want to live in our borders, protected by our military, using our infrastructure, functioning in our economy? You want all of the benefits society has to offer? Then you have to pay by behaving the way society says you should. You have to accept limitations on your freedom in return for protections we can afford. You can still enjoy a great many freedoms along with plumbing, electricity and consumer goods - but you have to obey certain rules in return. Good societies maximize the return while minimizing the price tag (i.e. - your kids will be educated, but they have to be immunized against certain diseases so that they won't cause harm to their fellow students. In return, society asserts that their fellow students will not give your kids these diseases and you will end up with reasonably well educated children).
These are people who have already made up their minds, otherwise they would not be willing to suffer the indignity of being forced to attend public school as adults in order to have their way. Just as justice can not flow from the barrel of a weapon, intelligence can not be legislated into existence.
Remember that Bing is a decision engine, not a search engine. Microsoft apparently doesn't want Windows users deciding to use anybody but them to support their OS.
(A/C's. *sheesh*)
How will changing my reported checking balance from $5.15 to $05.15 solve world hunger?
What? You thought it really cost $10.00 to manufacture a pack of cigarettes? $20.00 to distill a bottle of vodka? Or did you think these things were hard to get before the government began regulating their manufacture, distribution and sale?
Last time I'm paying for something that ought to be free to begin with. At most, such apps should only advertise for the developers' other applications - in this instance, they could put ads for "ES Application Manager" et. al. in the file manager. I haven't been spambarded like other victims here (but then again, I don't use the app scanner and I don't even waste my time on their new "Power Booster").
Does the phrase "jumped the shark" ring any bells for you?
An annoyance - but I seldom encounter a file management issue so urgent on my Android devices that I can't wait until I have a host computer to work with. I can't handle being subject to a developer's whim regarding features and advertising on such a truly critical and fundamental application. Games? Sure. Email and calendar clients? Less so, but okay. My file manager, SSH client, word processor/spreadsheet applications? NO.
At least Linux and MS-Windows systems don't seem too interested in monetizing file managers.
Come to think of it, we're not a democracy - we're a Republic. Just sayin'.
It may take longer, but I suspect the results will be more in line with the desired goal - a system capable of communication by conversation.
everything looks like human skulls.
Look up where Doctor McCoy's medical instruments came from. You'll get the idea.
Probably not the second one. Now - give me back my mod point . . . it was a bad moderation to begin with.
Just have an LED watch implanted under the skin so that its display can be read when illuminated and see to the implantation of an RFID chip where it can't readily be removed - say, inside the occipital process or the sub-arachnoid cavity, perhaps?
Memo to Apple and Intel: I doubt very seriously that I'm alone out here - don't waste your breath on that whole "superior connectivity" thing, and absolutely don't try to tell me that there will be adapters for dinosaurs such as myself.
Besides - I've been using (and got my wife using) Bluetooth headsets - digital and wireless, although there is a 3.5mm jack and audio cable provided on our comfortable ear-cup headphones. Not on my ear buds, but I suppose that would be counter to their design.
Personally, I don't care. As long as their browser manages to provide standards compliance (for example, the ACID tests) without opening any security holes, I'm in. Plugins would be a nice plus (I'm looking at you, Microsoft. Edge is fine for plain vanilla browsing, but it's just a lab rat of a browser without extensions).
Observe a phenomenon. Think about a possible explanation for the phenomenon. Congratulations, you've postulated a hypothesis.
Gather data which will support your hypothesis. If the evidence does not support your hypothesis, reformulate and try again. If the evidence does support your hypothesis, you now have a theory.
Make a prediction based on your theory. Ensure that your theory is the only possible explanation for the prediction. Run an experiment and test your theory. You're on your way to elucidating a scientific fact.
Pluto.
With a low UID like yours, I suspect you and I may be of similar vintage. I therefore trust you'll understand when I say "you can't fight City Hall".
Can I see the Golden Girls in VR Porn? I always had a thing for Rue McClanahan.
Bam!
Yeah, I know. M$ hasn't exactly bent over backwards to honor that.
If I were the only one, I'd be a fool and the odd man out. I've looked around - I'm not the only one. There are a lot of us - even a lot among the geek crowd - who would prefer to have some rare substance and/or lots of guys with guns to assert that what I have is really money and not just a unique and interesting encrypted dataset.
Think about it - in one shot, Microsoft gains something to offer both commercial and (paying) consumer customers - the expectation that encrypted data will remain private -- while simultaneously leaving Apple twisting in the wind in this whole US Gubberment vs. Everyman BS that's playing itself out right now in our "Judicial" system.
Big bucks triumphs over Big Brother. The Ferengi are right - greed is eternal.
(Yes, I know - answering a question with a question is bad form - but there's nothing concrete about bitcoin anyhow, so it's okay)