I think it's about being in the habit of associating a label with a timer so when you have more than one going at a time you can differentiate between them.
The thing that Nokia should have done more than a decade ago. Build their great hardware and run Android on it.
A decade is pushing it; Android didn't really start gaining useful market share until 2010. If Nokia had gotten their shit together with Android by 2011, I think they'd have kicked ass.
This might be relevant. Not a contributor to the core code base, but somewhat in the loop.
Given the competence and professionalism shown by the FBI on this, I imagine their method for choosing a target was less about how important they are to the project and more about how accessible and vulnerable they are to law enforcement threats.
Ads on the start menu? Now see, I've heard of this, I'm told they are there. The thing I find myself left wondering is.... What fucking start menu?
I first encountered a Windows 10 system last week cleaning up a system my inlaws bought (it wasn't a huge mess, really, but it had McAfee installed, and default to Bing, and... etc).
I opened the start menu. It exploded into some massive pile of shit. I clicked down on the stuff that was text down in the bottom left corner and completely ignored the rest of it. In order to explain what the Windows 10 start menu looks like, I'd have to Google for screenshots; I just can't remember. My working theory is that after a couple decades of exposure to web-based advertising (what little escapes my filters), my brain just treated whatever fluff they crammed into their start menu like it's a collection of banner ads and just blanked the whole thing.
You gotta wonder where they found their usability testers...
Just send your design files, and they'll send the object back. That way you get much higher quality and lower prices.
That makes a certain amount of sense for "final" designs (i.e. Shapeways is going to smoke a home printer in terms of print quality, although certainly not price), but the turnaround time on a print shop is too long for fast iterations.
With my own printer, I can print a part and have a revision in the pipeline almost before the plastic has cooled. You're not going to get that with any pro shop. Well, in a major population center you might be able to find a fast turnaround service, but the price would be eye-watering.
The only thing I can say for sure is the next few months are going to be wildly entertaining. The only way it could be better is if Sanders had won; Clinton is a bit of a wet blanket.
Maybe we'll get lucky and Clinton will pick Sanders as her VP candidate...
It's really just that after years of observing and learning from the experts, individuals are outsourcing their entertainment provision to jurisdictions that can supply better services and and a wider variety of products for substantially lower prices. Sure, it's a little less convenient sometimes, but that's the cost of doing business.
So it is in the advertisers best interest to have you skip if you are actually not interested in the ad...
True. The idea is that Google's job would be to make it be in the advertisers best interest to not play the loudness wars game. For example, forcing the ad loudness to something approximating the video it precedes would be an easy enough fix.
If there was a subtle penalty to the ad when users hit the skip button, it could also lead to an overall improvement in the quality of ads.
it's more like they're accepting the fact that everyone hits the skip button at the first opportunity.
People might be a lot less inclined to hit 'skip' right away if they cracked down on the loudness of ads. I'm finding with a lot of them (video game ads primarily) that I'm ignoring the ad content entirely because I'm hunting for the volume control, then immediately going for the skip button. Youtube audio levels are already variable enough without allowing the television loudness tricks to take hold, too.
Give them a guaranteed basic income and they won't sit around doing nothing, they'll start doing what they want to do (instead of the day job they have to have because it pays the bills).
I don't think people will stop doing jobs, but I suspect there would be a massive economic rebalancing. The shit jobs that people take now because they effectively have a choice between a shit job and starving on the streets will have to pay more or become far less shitty to attract people who actually have a choice not to do them. I wonder if there'd be a devaluation of a lot of white collar jobs as a consequence of people realizing the value of those shitty jobs ("we're paying him how much to shuffle paper and spew bullshit?!? That's more than our sewage guy makes!")?
Automation and remote operating will eliminate a lot of the worst jobs, obviously, but nowhere near all of them.
A (simulated) universe might lack the **HYUIVBHJHG** that the higher order universe has, and thus be imperfect, but how would we know we lack it, not knowing about it, or even having the capacity to know about it?
I'm talking about "perfect" from our perspective. If the simulation were completely consistent right down to the deepest levels of physics that we'll even see and comprehend, then I guess we'll never know.
What do you do when programs you write act like that? You debug them. How much damage do you think a computer program in a closed, un-networked computer could do to the real world?
I'm going to pass on guessing as to the motivations and reactions of something which would have the capability and interest in simulating a universe. But I suspect that in a million years or so, we might want to talk to it. And if we know it's there, someone will try.
Hm. I probably should have said "biological imperative".
If mankind discovers it's in a cage and thinks there's a way out in one form or another, even if it's just opening communications, then someone is going to attempt it.
Because even if it is imperfect, the beings running it can work around that. They can change things, delete things, roll back things, etc. If they control the hardware and the software that comprises the simulation, then they are gods for our perspectives and can change anything they wish, including suspending or shutting down the whole thing.
Then we win.
Personally, I think a creator is unlikely. But if we find solid evidence that one exists and that they meddle in our reality, then I think we have a moral imperative to break the wall and force their hand.
Do I think we'll find that evidence? No. Hell, no. But our race is going to push the bounds of reality whether we believe in a creator or not, and we're going to look for anomalies, and if we find them we're going to push their buttons. That's just what we do.
From a science standpoint arguing that we are living in a computer simulation is no different than arguing god created the universe.
Living in a perfect computer simulation is no different.
If, on the other hand, it's impossible for any universe to have enough computational power to perfectly simulate another universe then it's a very, very different situation.
If the simulation is imperfect then we can start from that hypothesis and, in essence, look for the pixels and rounding errors in our reality, and eventually break out of this little honeypot into the rest of the network (or force the hand of whoever's running the experiment).
The lives of the other prisoners and the guards do need to be protected.
You're assuming they're doing this to protect other people from him. It's not uncommon to isolate "big name" criminals to protect them from other inmates. I wouldn't be at all surprised if, given the number of victims, there's someone in that same prison who lost a friend or relative in his rampage.
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There's enough history to suggest that DMCA complaints from these idiots should go directly into the "known abusers, extra scrutiny required" pile.
I think it's about being in the habit of associating a label with a timer so when you have more than one going at a time you can differentiate between them.
A decade is pushing it; Android didn't really start gaining useful market share until 2010. If Nokia had gotten their shit together with Android by 2011, I think they'd have kicked ass.
Conservatively, I'd say at least 50% more than what it was with Elop running it into the ground.
This might be relevant. Not a contributor to the core code base, but somewhat in the loop.
Given the competence and professionalism shown by the FBI on this, I imagine their method for choosing a target was less about how important they are to the project and more about how accessible and vulnerable they are to law enforcement threats.
... the downside is that the music industry would lose a few quadrillion dollars in sales due to piracy.
Points to Symantec for eating their own dog food, I guess.
I first encountered a Windows 10 system last week cleaning up a system my inlaws bought (it wasn't a huge mess, really, but it had McAfee installed, and default to Bing, and... etc).
I opened the start menu. It exploded into some massive pile of shit. I clicked down on the stuff that was text down in the bottom left corner and completely ignored the rest of it. In order to explain what the Windows 10 start menu looks like, I'd have to Google for screenshots; I just can't remember. My working theory is that after a couple decades of exposure to web-based advertising (what little escapes my filters), my brain just treated whatever fluff they crammed into their start menu like it's a collection of banner ads and just blanked the whole thing.
You gotta wonder where they found their usability testers...
Have you considered just turning off all the Google Now functionality? Because that's where all those "helpful" notifications are coming from.
That makes a certain amount of sense for "final" designs (i.e. Shapeways is going to smoke a home printer in terms of print quality, although certainly not price), but the turnaround time on a print shop is too long for fast iterations.
With my own printer, I can print a part and have a revision in the pipeline almost before the plastic has cooled. You're not going to get that with any pro shop. Well, in a major population center you might be able to find a fast turnaround service, but the price would be eye-watering.
Entertainment is the best we can hope for now, so might as well go for broke.
That would be good, too.
I'm also waiting for Trump to name David Duke as his VP candidate.
Maybe we'll get lucky and Clinton will pick Sanders as her VP candidate...
Oh... my...
Okay, I was aware that audiophiles were notoriously gullible, but I hadn't realized just how awful they are at interior decorating.
Don't call it "piracy".
It's really just that after years of observing and learning from the experts, individuals are outsourcing their entertainment provision to jurisdictions that can supply better services and and a wider variety of products for substantially lower prices. Sure, it's a little less convenient sometimes, but that's the cost of doing business.
True. The idea is that Google's job would be to make it be in the advertisers best interest to not play the loudness wars game. For example, forcing the ad loudness to something approximating the video it precedes would be an easy enough fix.
If there was a subtle penalty to the ad when users hit the skip button, it could also lead to an overall improvement in the quality of ads.
Just as the prophecies foretold. My faith in random tech pundits is renewed.
People might be a lot less inclined to hit 'skip' right away if they cracked down on the loudness of ads. I'm finding with a lot of them (video game ads primarily) that I'm ignoring the ad content entirely because I'm hunting for the volume control, then immediately going for the skip button. Youtube audio levels are already variable enough without allowing the television loudness tricks to take hold, too.
I don't think people will stop doing jobs, but I suspect there would be a massive economic rebalancing. The shit jobs that people take now because they effectively have a choice between a shit job and starving on the streets will have to pay more or become far less shitty to attract people who actually have a choice not to do them. I wonder if there'd be a devaluation of a lot of white collar jobs as a consequence of people realizing the value of those shitty jobs ("we're paying him how much to shuffle paper and spew bullshit?!? That's more than our sewage guy makes!")?
Automation and remote operating will eliminate a lot of the worst jobs, obviously, but nowhere near all of them.
I'm talking about "perfect" from our perspective. If the simulation were completely consistent right down to the deepest levels of physics that we'll even see and comprehend, then I guess we'll never know.
I'm going to pass on guessing as to the motivations and reactions of something which would have the capability and interest in simulating a universe. But I suspect that in a million years or so, we might want to talk to it. And if we know it's there, someone will try.
Hm. I probably should have said "biological imperative".
If mankind discovers it's in a cage and thinks there's a way out in one form or another, even if it's just opening communications, then someone is going to attempt it.
Then we win.
Personally, I think a creator is unlikely. But if we find solid evidence that one exists and that they meddle in our reality, then I think we have a moral imperative to break the wall and force their hand.
Do I think we'll find that evidence? No. Hell, no. But our race is going to push the bounds of reality whether we believe in a creator or not, and we're going to look for anomalies, and if we find them we're going to push their buttons. That's just what we do.
Living in a perfect computer simulation is no different.
If, on the other hand, it's impossible for any universe to have enough computational power to perfectly simulate another universe then it's a very, very different situation.
If the simulation is imperfect then we can start from that hypothesis and, in essence, look for the pixels and rounding errors in our reality, and eventually break out of this little honeypot into the rest of the network (or force the hand of whoever's running the experiment).
You're assuming they're doing this to protect other people from him. It's not uncommon to isolate "big name" criminals to protect them from other inmates. I wouldn't be at all surprised if, given the number of victims, there's someone in that same prison who lost a friend or relative in his rampage.