So put that ai pilot in a predator drone, and let a real pilot in another drone fight it. I bet it loses a lot.
Better yet, if it's so good then put that AI in a long-range surface-to-air missile. Why bother with fighter jets with all their constraints (self-preservation?!?) and extra baggage (landing gear?!? runways?!?) when you can just fire-and-forget from the back of a pickup truck?
I find it ironic that it was a few years ago (2007 to be exact) he encouraged people to steal his music.
It's possible that he draws a distinction between individual fans "stealing" his music and businesses who's model is to offer his music "for free".
But even if that were the case he's off base because (a) radio==streaming for all practical purposes and (b) "free" isn't actually free; listeners are just paying with something other than money.
Was someone actually expecting Apple to bring iMessage to Android? It wasn't that Rob Enderle idiot again, was it? Didn't we all agree to just ignore him and hope that he'd go away?
Given the sheer quantity of stuff on Facebook which is just photos of text, I predict that in five years Facebook will be mostly videos of text being typed. Or, if anyone still remembers how, written by hand.
From the user end, radio is mostly an ad-supported free tier, with some radio stations having different funding models (public radio mostly takes donations, satellite radio being subscription supported, etc).
Nor is the core business model all that different.
The user experience and underlying technologies aren't identical, but I think it still passes the "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck" test.
What's even crazier is what he suggests will happen. He wants to give the FBI leverage over what is probably the next president, and he thinks that's a GOOD thing?
What makes you think he wants to do something good, at least where the US presidency is concerned? After a few years confined to a room in an embassy I can't say I wouldn't be doing stuff just to watch the world burn.
This statement is about a perp who called 911 and proclaimed himself an agent of ISIS
People who do these things say a lot of shit to explain what they do.
Personally, I'm starting to believe that maybe "I work for ISIS" is just the crazy Muslim shooter's version of "God spoke to me through my television".
Leave it to the pros to sort this one out. The FBI gets a lot of stuff very, very wrong, but I'll give that that they're rather thorough at criminal forensic investigations when they want to put in the effort.
If you read to the end of that wiki article you would find that Japan spends 1% of GDP on defense with most of it going to personnel costs. That is one of the lowest in the world.
... which still puts it in the top ten by total expenditures; I wouldn't say it's anything to scoff at. I'd argue that it's an absurdly high number for a country which doesn't do (much) peacekeeping or projecting power outside of it's borders.
I'm not really interested in registering or logging into your app just to see if I'd like it. Particularly if your app isn't really something which should *need* the cloud. A social networking app is pretty much all about the cloud. A 3D modelling app... isn't.
Google Drive/Docs will notify (if you want) about cloud uploads/downloads of documents in some cases. For example, if you set some large documents to be available offline they can take some time to be available.
I assume MS does something similar, but for all I know it's just there for Clippy.
That was Oracle losing a lottery. They paid a pittance at a chance for billions of dollars and getting rent from the biggest mobile platform and (so far) lost.
Unfortunately, in the process they (may have; IANAL) established the precedent that API's are copyrightable. It's going to be years before that shit pile gets cleaned up properly.
I'm thinking something like Microsoft selling Oracle their mobile phone business, especially if they can bring back Elop to run it.
I don't think this will do anything to help sell Linux; Microsoft's customer base is pretty conditioned to abuse.
However, as a Linux user, I'd really like to sincerely thank Microsoft for the wonderful entertainment I get from watching them publicly inflict misery and aggravation on their customer base. Traditionally they go after everyone else with cut-throat glee, so it's a nice to see them spread it around a bit.
I was kinda enjoying watching their mobile strategy meltdown, but that's always tinged with a bit of guilt over all those Nokia folks losing their jobs.
Honestly, this is great. The only way it could be better would be if Oracle somehow got screwed in the process.
I wish there was a black list phone app that would block (as in not even trigger the phone circuitry) any phone number I flag
A lot of Android dialers (alternative or built-in) have this. It's of limited use with scam telemarketers as they usually use fake caller ids seeming local to the target (only differing from the target number by the last four digits). My carrier seems to have started to defeat that by prefixing those caller ids with 011.
But yeah, we're at the point where the technology to report scam numbers to the carrier should be more than feasible. There's just zero incentive for the carriers to actually take action on any of that.
I thought this was a new Microsoft security initiative to teach users to read closely what's on a dialog, be careful what they click, and make sure they have a backup for when it all goes wrong no matter what they do.
Thinner computers for the sake of... what, exactly?
The theory is that if they can make them thin and light enough, they'll see a sales increase due to people rebuying stuff that they lost in the couch cushions or that got blown away in a brisk wind.
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Automated war would be far more palatable if we strapped the idiot politicians who get us into wars into the passenger seats of our killbots.
Better yet, if it's so good then put that AI in a long-range surface-to-air missile. Why bother with fighter jets with all their constraints (self-preservation?!?) and extra baggage (landing gear?!? runways?!?) when you can just fire-and-forget from the back of a pickup truck?
If your theory holds, then at the rate people seem to be getting stupider my phone should become sentient sometime during the next US election cycle.
It's possible that he draws a distinction between individual fans "stealing" his music and businesses who's model is to offer his music "for free".
But even if that were the case he's off base because (a) radio==streaming for all practical purposes and (b) "free" isn't actually free; listeners are just paying with something other than money.
Was someone actually expecting Apple to bring iMessage to Android? It wasn't that Rob Enderle idiot again, was it? Didn't we all agree to just ignore him and hope that he'd go away?
With the $26 billion Linkedin buyout, it's certainly obvious that Microsoft has a lot of expertise in the cannabis industry.
Given the sheer quantity of stuff on Facebook which is just photos of text, I predict that in five years Facebook will be mostly videos of text being typed. Or, if anyone still remembers how, written by hand.
From the user end, radio is mostly an ad-supported free tier, with some radio stations having different funding models (public radio mostly takes donations, satellite radio being subscription supported, etc).
Nor is the core business model all that different.
The user experience and underlying technologies aren't identical, but I think it still passes the "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck" test.
Radio isn't fair?
What makes you think he wants to do something good, at least where the US presidency is concerned? After a few years confined to a room in an embassy I can't say I wouldn't be doing stuff just to watch the world burn.
Well, you can't say they haven't learned anything from their experience. This time they're skipping a step and just buying the manure.
People who do these things say a lot of shit to explain what they do.
Personally, I'm starting to believe that maybe "I work for ISIS" is just the crazy Muslim shooter's version of "God spoke to me through my television".
Leave it to the pros to sort this one out. The FBI gets a lot of stuff very, very wrong, but I'll give that that they're rather thorough at criminal forensic investigations when they want to put in the effort.
It's only 2016; Microsoft could still pull off a 10% Windows Phone market share by 2018. Have some faith.
*giggle* *snort*
Damn. I almost managed to keep a straight face...
Lose access to yet another message service or let Facebook's shitty apps waste my battery, slow my phone down, and piss all over my permissions.
Man, I just don't know.
You might want to catch up on current (i.e. within the last 60 years) events...
This. Many times this.
I'm not really interested in registering or logging into your app just to see if I'd like it. Particularly if your app isn't really something which should *need* the cloud. A social networking app is pretty much all about the cloud. A 3D modelling app... isn't.
Cloud stuff, if you use it.
Google Drive/Docs will notify (if you want) about cloud uploads/downloads of documents in some cases. For example, if you set some large documents to be available offline they can take some time to be available.
I assume MS does something similar, but for all I know it's just there for Clippy.
We also have massive amounts of uranium, just in case the whole renewable energy thing doesn't work out so well.
No.
That was Oracle losing a lottery. They paid a pittance at a chance for billions of dollars and getting rent from the biggest mobile platform and (so far) lost.
Unfortunately, in the process they (may have; IANAL) established the precedent that API's are copyrightable. It's going to be years before that shit pile gets cleaned up properly.
I'm thinking something like Microsoft selling Oracle their mobile phone business, especially if they can bring back Elop to run it.
I don't think this will do anything to help sell Linux; Microsoft's customer base is pretty conditioned to abuse.
However, as a Linux user, I'd really like to sincerely thank Microsoft for the wonderful entertainment I get from watching them publicly inflict misery and aggravation on their customer base. Traditionally they go after everyone else with cut-throat glee, so it's a nice to see them spread it around a bit.
I was kinda enjoying watching their mobile strategy meltdown, but that's always tinged with a bit of guilt over all those Nokia folks losing their jobs.
Honestly, this is great. The only way it could be better would be if Oracle somehow got screwed in the process.
A lot of Android dialers (alternative or built-in) have this. It's of limited use with scam telemarketers as they usually use fake caller ids seeming local to the target (only differing from the target number by the last four digits). My carrier seems to have started to defeat that by prefixing those caller ids with 011.
But yeah, we're at the point where the technology to report scam numbers to the carrier should be more than feasible. There's just zero incentive for the carriers to actually take action on any of that.
Exactly. In a nutshell, they're fighting Blackberry for customers.
I thought this was a new Microsoft security initiative to teach users to read closely what's on a dialog, be careful what they click, and make sure they have a backup for when it all goes wrong no matter what they do.
The theory is that if they can make them thin and light enough, they'll see a sales increase due to people rebuying stuff that they lost in the couch cushions or that got blown away in a brisk wind.