"Plenty of cat owners will happily tell you their felines are capable of responding to their own names, but the scientific jury remains ambivalent on the matter."
I bet the dog researchers are far more enthusiastic about their research results.
I know it's annoying, but it's quite likely that the person who linked to it did not know it was region locked. I know that in many cases I would have no way of knowing and no reliable way to test if it was.
True, but we don't know over what time interval the "stolen package" videos were made. After all, Rober stated that the build occurred over six months or so. Given that, leaving the package out for a month or two in some neighborhoods resulting in a handful of thefts seems plausible to me.
Of course you take three hours to look at an NDA... if you're billing by the hour.
No matter what, I bet the human attorneys were *much* better at double billing their time than the AI. Come on, AI researchers, gotta work on the hard stuff as well!
If you're in the US you can still subscribe to Netflix's DVD service. Yeah, it's a pain in that you're gate limited by the USPS, and you have to plan ahead, but it's the only non-pirated service that still gives you access to basically everything.
The Iliad is awesome. Which translation are you reading? My favorite is still Lattimore, but I'm sitting on the translation by Mitchell and just haven't gotten around to giving it a shot yet.
True story. A company was having problems with its development team. I was brought in to manage the team, to get things straightened out and act as a bridge between the developers and management. One of the folks on the management team asked me if I could recommend any books on the issues that address why they were having such problems with software development. I said there are a bunch, but start with the best, "Mythical Man Month". A few days later I asked him if he had bought it and started reading it. He said he looked at it, but it was really old so he didn't bother with it. He asked if there were more recent books I could recommend. I said, "Yes, but none of them are as good. Trust me, give this one a chance and we can talk about it's applicability to our situation." Again, a few days later we talked, and he decided he wasn't going to bother getting and reading it. I said, "Let me get this straight, you hired me for my insights into the software development process. You've seen me improve things around here. You asked me, presumably because you recognize I have some expertise in the field, what you should read, I told you, and you decided to go with your instincts on this matter over my judgment, is that correct?" To this day I have not received an answer to this question.
This is similar to the question I've been asking: Are there any happy Oracle customers? My (limited) research suggests that the vast majority of Oracle customers have one of three characteristics: (1) They don't know any better, (2) They have more money than time/expertise for converting, (3) They're locked in.
Are there other reasons? Is there anyone who would choose to do a new implementation using Oracle these days? For all I know there may be a lot of people who would, but I've never knowingly met any of them.
So, the folks, some of whom have managed to have stable societies for decades to hundreds of years are laughable, but the folks with zero track record who are rejecting what we've already learned are the ones who are going to have everything work better?
I suppose it's possible, but I don't understand why someone would think this is the way to bet.
"So we should go back to RTF? Or heaven forbid... back to plain text?"
Yes, or rather, there are some of us never left plain text email, including using fixed width fonts and 80 column lines. If you send me HTML-only email, there's a really good chance I'll never bother to read it. I haven't been informed of a situation where in retrospect I have come to regret this policy.
I'm no Luddite, but not every "advancement" is an improvement.
... and if I knew that the NSA was using some spyware brand to spy on me I wouldn't buy that either. I don't understand the point of your post. Even if you think the NSA is more likely to be damaging to you than the FSB, that doesn't mean I want the FSB to have access to my computer. One criminal organization may be more likely to cause me damage than another, but that doesn't mean I want the second one in my house.
My reading is that a mesh network is a physical layer networking technology/philosophy that is especially useful where resilience and ad hoc qualities are beneficial. Cool.
I have no doubt that the big application layer providers mentioned plan to expand their service offerings to control more and more of the market. I also have no doubt that they would like to provide more and more content behind their walled gardens.
What I can't imagine is how a physical layer technology solves the problem of the application layer elites trying to control more and more of the application layer world. If someone could explain this to me, I'd be grateful. Alternatively, I will continue to assume that either the article is as silly as the summary makes it sound, or the summary is garbage.
I'm hoping for a Edosian standoff. That's where each party has phasers pointed at at least three others parties and none of them are able to safely withdraw unilaterally.
Here are some lines of dialogue I want to hear from this movie:
Being 1: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese on Qonos?" Being 2: "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?" Being 1: "No man, they have a different system of measurement in the Klingon Empire, they use kellicams to measure distance and shit." Being 2: "Then what do they call it?" Being 1: "It's a loQ cheb with cheese, only they don't eat it with cheese. Klingons don't like cheese because it doesn't move." Being 2: "LoQ cheb with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?" Being 1: "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they serve it with a side of gagh."
If the expedition team encounters any antediluvian buildings that appear to be built based on a non-Euclidean geometry, resist the urge to open any doors. Just trust me on this.
I have a LONG list of things that I think Mr. Gates should be embarrassed about regarding Windows. The three finger salute is very, very low on my list.
THANK YOU!
The current crop of ads is taking us in a direction which is in danger of making the web unusable. I realize that ads are necessary to pay for content, and I'm not opposed to that, but autoplay and scripting in these ads is evil. The memory and processing power web browsers consume, largely in powering these ads, is truly insane. If I see an autoplay ad for a product I buy, I stop buying it. If a web site insists on showing me ads that consume a boat load of my system memory, I stop visiting that site. This war of escalation for our attention has gotten out of hand. The only way to put the brakes on this is to make the most egregious offenders realize that their participation in this war is unprofitable.
I'm no fan of Steve Bannon, by any means whatsoever, and I couldn't be happier for the country that he's no longer involved in public policy. But, Bannon was one of the few folks in Trump's inner political circle with no apparent ties to the Russians. Doesn't mean he didn't have any, of course, but I follow politics closely and I haven't heard them.
This is astounding to me. The first two insults of him I see on/. are that he's a Nazi and that he's got ties to Russia. There are so very many excellent reasons to dislike this guy that nobody needs to resort to saying things about him that aren't true.
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"Plenty of cat owners will happily tell you their felines are capable of responding to their own names, but the scientific jury remains ambivalent on the matter."
I bet the dog researchers are far more enthusiastic about their research results.
I know it's annoying, but it's quite likely that the person who linked to it did not know it was region locked. I know that in many cases I would have no way of knowing and no reliable way to test if it was.
True, but we don't know over what time interval the "stolen package" videos were made. After all, Rober stated that the build occurred over six months or so. Given that, leaving the package out for a month or two in some neighborhoods resulting in a handful of thefts seems plausible to me.
Statement from NASA spokesman Mark Watney, "Now you tell me. If I had known this earlier, I might not have lost my eyebrows."
Of course you take three hours to look at an NDA ... if you're billing by the hour.
No matter what, I bet the human attorneys were *much* better at double billing their time than the AI. Come on, AI researchers, gotta work on the hard stuff as well!
If you're in the US you can still subscribe to Netflix's DVD service. Yeah, it's a pain in that you're gate limited by the USPS, and you have to plan ahead, but it's the only non-pirated service that still gives you access to basically everything.
Agreed, but treating your employees no worse that Walmart is not exactly a ring endorsement of social consciousness.
The Iliad is awesome. Which translation are you reading? My favorite is still Lattimore, but I'm sitting on the translation by Mitchell and just haven't gotten around to giving it a shot yet.
True story. A company was having problems with its development team. I was brought in to manage the team, to get things straightened out and act as a bridge between the developers and management. One of the folks on the management team asked me if I could recommend any books on the issues that address why they were having such problems with software development. I said there are a bunch, but start with the best, "Mythical Man Month". A few days later I asked him if he had bought it and started reading it. He said he looked at it, but it was really old so he didn't bother with it. He asked if there were more recent books I could recommend. I said, "Yes, but none of them are as good. Trust me, give this one a chance and we can talk about it's applicability to our situation." Again, a few days later we talked, and he decided he wasn't going to bother getting and reading it. I said, "Let me get this straight, you hired me for my insights into the software development process. You've seen me improve things around here. You asked me, presumably because you recognize I have some expertise in the field, what you should read, I told you, and you decided to go with your instincts on this matter over my judgment, is that correct?" To this day I have not received an answer to this question.
This is similar to the question I've been asking: Are there any happy Oracle customers? My (limited) research suggests that the vast majority of Oracle customers have one of three characteristics: (1) They don't know any better, (2) They have more money than time/expertise for converting, (3) They're locked in.
Are there other reasons? Is there anyone who would choose to do a new implementation using Oracle these days? For all I know there may be a lot of people who would, but I've never knowingly met any of them.
So, the folks, some of whom have managed to have stable societies for decades to hundreds of years are laughable, but the folks with zero track record who are rejecting what we've already learned are the ones who are going to have everything work better?
I suppose it's possible, but I don't understand why someone would think this is the way to bet.
"So we should go back to RTF? Or heaven forbid... back to plain text?"
Yes, or rather, there are some of us never left plain text email, including using fixed width fonts and 80 column lines. If you send me HTML-only email, there's a really good chance I'll never bother to read it. I haven't been informed of a situation where in retrospect I have come to regret this policy.
I'm no Luddite, but not every "advancement" is an improvement.
Are the errors random, or are they consistent? That is, can we just run strands through enough times to get the error rates down to acceptable levels?
Your penis mightier, does it work?
Fine. I still don't want the FSB having access to my computer.
... and if I knew that the NSA was using some spyware brand to spy on me I wouldn't buy that either. I don't understand the point of your post. Even if you think the NSA is more likely to be damaging to you than the FSB, that doesn't mean I want the FSB to have access to my computer. One criminal organization may be more likely to cause me damage than another, but that doesn't mean I want the second one in my house.
I'm with fahrbot-bot here.
My reading is that a mesh network is a physical layer networking technology/philosophy that is especially useful where resilience and ad hoc qualities are beneficial. Cool.
I have no doubt that the big application layer providers mentioned plan to expand their service offerings to control more and more of the market. I also have no doubt that they would like to provide more and more content behind their walled gardens.
What I can't imagine is how a physical layer technology solves the problem of the application layer elites trying to control more and more of the application layer world. If someone could explain this to me, I'd be grateful. Alternatively, I will continue to assume that either the article is as silly as the summary makes it sound, or the summary is garbage.
My experience has been similar. Given how long the checkout lines are at Walmart, I assumed they had been experimenting with this already.
I'm hoping for a Edosian standoff. That's where each party has phasers pointed at at least three others parties and none of them are able to safely withdraw unilaterally.
I'll show myself out.
Here are some lines of dialogue I want to hear from this movie:
Being 1: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese on Qonos?"
Being 2: "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
Being 1: "No man, they have a different system of measurement in the Klingon Empire, they use kellicams to measure distance and shit."
Being 2: "Then what do they call it?"
Being 1: "It's a loQ cheb with cheese, only they don't eat it with cheese. Klingons don't like cheese because it doesn't move."
Being 2: "LoQ cheb with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?"
Being 1: "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they serve it with a side of gagh."
Stay classy.
If the expedition team encounters any antediluvian buildings that appear to be built based on a non-Euclidean geometry, resist the urge to open any doors. Just trust me on this.
I have a LONG list of things that I think Mr. Gates should be embarrassed about regarding Windows. The three finger salute is very, very low on my list.
THANK YOU! The current crop of ads is taking us in a direction which is in danger of making the web unusable. I realize that ads are necessary to pay for content, and I'm not opposed to that, but autoplay and scripting in these ads is evil. The memory and processing power web browsers consume, largely in powering these ads, is truly insane. If I see an autoplay ad for a product I buy, I stop buying it. If a web site insists on showing me ads that consume a boat load of my system memory, I stop visiting that site. This war of escalation for our attention has gotten out of hand. The only way to put the brakes on this is to make the most egregious offenders realize that their participation in this war is unprofitable.
I'm no fan of Steve Bannon, by any means whatsoever, and I couldn't be happier for the country that he's no longer involved in public policy. But, Bannon was one of the few folks in Trump's inner political circle with no apparent ties to the Russians. Doesn't mean he didn't have any, of course, but I follow politics closely and I haven't heard them. This is astounding to me. The first two insults of him I see on /. are that he's a Nazi and that he's got ties to Russia. There are so very many excellent reasons to dislike this guy that nobody needs to resort to saying things about him that aren't true.