Google has had my phone number for years. To my knowledge I've yet to receive a single call that originated from Google or someone to whom Google gave my phone number.
I'm all for identifying evil as evil, but it would be nice to have some actual evidence before making the accusation.
haha phone call from Google. You wont get one. You will receive one from 3 letter agency reminding you about that anonymous post you made 15 years ago on some obscure board.
Secondly, while it does contain significant innovations that where licensed or purchased, what significant technology product today does not? It's silly to still be flogging that dead horse.
Also, while it does contain licensed and purchased technology, it is certainly not some product that has been simply rebranded, clearly MS R&D has made significant contributions to Kinect.
Isn't it a bit silly to still be playing these kind of anti-MS fan boy games? They are in reality quite meaningless in the discussion of what is wrong with the Redmond Borg.
1 definitely NOT purchased 2 it IS rebranded Primesense reference design.
MS continue to be as admirably "open"(ish) with the hardware
Its NOT their hardware to begin with. After spending up to $1B buying up random companies and doing in house R&D they settled on licensing PrimeSense technology.
So how would the AFAA (Action Figure Association of America) implement some kind of DRM on action figures anyways? Would they try to force a blacklist of designs onto every 3d printer?
Well IBM is still going very strong in Ai though, Microsoft hasn't been cutting edge since NT (ok, winPhone7 was nice for a bit but that's it).
Microsoft hires SHITTON of very smart AI/ML people (often snatching them even before they finish uni). They just dont know how/have no intention of using them for something that would sell.
It just means we won't have to do jobs that can be done by robots, and those are tedious and repetitive jobs anyway so no biggie.
People will be freed up for creative jobs, jobs that involve human intelligence which can't be done by machines. It's not robots writing Diablo III, inventing costumes for the Hobbit movie, writing screenplays, and so on. It will enable so much more human productivity, if we don't have to use valuable human minds on robot-like labour any more.
I know that this is a very un-PC comment to make, but it happens to be true: some humans don't have the intelligence to do jobs that couldn't otherwise be done by robots...
Its a 21 century version of evolution. Man has no other natural predators, other than himself. Survival of the fittest (minds). Just maybe we can avoid Idiocracy.
as ruthless as possible within legal restrictions.
Why? I am pretty sure hiring an assassin to infiltrate that shell corp, find out who is in charge and murder them would be a LOT cheaper and more effective than lawyers.
Ouch. I resell stuff on ebay, and yes it's been used, but you will get a lot more money if you can advertise it as "new" in appearance. I've received a lot of + feedbacks and 5 stars, because people said "It looks like you never even used it." I did but was just very careful not to scratch the DVD, unit, et cetera.
Also saving the box means you don't have to pay UPS or the post office ~$20 to buy a new box to pack your computer, DVR, whatever.
Hey I know you. You are that guy with bubble wrapped couch and plastic bag over TV remote.
You have two children in tow... You are in one of the most expensive sections of town. Your children want to eat at McDonald's. You can A) take your children to the relatively inexpensive McDonald's, where they want to go. B) take them to a VERY expensive restaurant, where they'll sit and whine about not going to McDonald's.
What do you do?
Give them up for adoption because you failed at parenting (Your children want to eat at McDonald's)
Horseshit. The hazard is significant for a few hundred years at most. People are not going to dig the stuff up and eat it by the ton.
Yup. Within 500 years the waste is less radioactive than the ore from which it was mined.
Dont worry, ore itself is officially a DANGEROUS NUCLEAR WASTE and cant be just buried where you got it from. The second you shovel a barrel full of ore out of a mine you need to store it in approved nuclear waste facility.
Yes, lets build a bunker to store FUEL. Fuel that is not being used for political reasons. Fuel, that we will probably need in 100-200 years when oil disappears.
If you think that's all the Uncharted series is, then you haven't played it. It has its rails, but they're needed for what is an unmatched gaming experience.
I totally agree, I mean sometimes you have to press X really fast for something to happen, thats RADICAL!
In most vehicles, the ECU & several other parts are coded with the VIN. If the ECU, the ABS system, the Airbag controller, the transmission module, & the body control modules don't agree on the VIN, the engine won't start. Not impossible to swap all of them, or to re-code a new ECU with the correct IDs, just takes more time/money.
Dont know about most, but I read in a paper less than a year ago about few guys with a trunk full of modded car computers they used to do just that - get into a car, swap and drive off.
This sucks, but to my mind, it's not a whole lot of difference between that and breaking the window then hot-wiring the car.
The ECU/ECM controls all engine functions. If it doesn't give the go ahead, your car won't run, no matter how many wires are cut apart or spliced together.
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Google has had my phone number for years. To my knowledge I've yet to receive a single call that originated from Google or someone to whom Google gave my phone number.
I'm all for identifying evil as evil, but it would be nice to have some actual evidence before making the accusation.
haha phone call from Google. You wont get one. You will receive one from 3 letter agency reminding you about that anonymous post you made 15 years ago on some obscure board.
Its NOT their hardware to begin with.
First of all, "so what"?
Secondly, while it does contain significant innovations that where licensed or purchased, what significant technology product today does not? It's silly to still be flogging that dead horse.
Also, while it does contain licensed and purchased technology, it is certainly not some product that has been simply rebranded, clearly MS R&D has made significant contributions to Kinect.
Isn't it a bit silly to still be playing these kind of anti-MS fan boy games? They are in reality quite meaningless in the discussion of what is wrong with the Redmond Borg.
1 definitely NOT purchased
2 it IS rebranded Primesense reference design.
MS continue to be as admirably "open"(ish) with the hardware
Its NOT their hardware to begin with. After spending up to $1B buying up random companies and doing in house R&D they settled on licensing PrimeSense technology.
I'm not a gamer, but even I saw the potential in this.
I'm a gamer and I don't get how this is any diffrent from a Roku
roku uses exact same chip as Rasppi, anemic cpu + strong (but closed) gpu.
with 5cm (or worse) error rate from few meters.
*on fat people?
The argument is that most users don't really mind being tracked
I like how you equate being tracked to donating organs (same mechanism). Must be USian thing.
So how would the AFAA (Action Figure Association of America) implement some kind of DRM on action figures anyways? Would they try to force a blacklist of designs onto every 3d printer?
Fabrication Rights Management (FRM)
A 35 year old script kiddie, no less. Who lives with his mother.
That's actually true.
Its perfectly normal for guys to live with their parents that long in Europe. Its traditional in mediterranean (Greece, Spain, Italy. etc)
Well IBM is still going very strong in Ai though, Microsoft hasn't been cutting edge since NT (ok, winPhone7 was nice for a bit but that's it).
Microsoft hires SHITTON of very smart AI/ML people (often snatching them even before they finish uni). They just dont know how/have no intention of using them for something that would sell.
pics or it didnt happen
Grow up and show some respect, asshole.
Why? Just because his wife murdered some freedom fighters?
you can't *ignore* it. You can't just stay in a contaminated area.
Tell that to people living in Guarapari. In your mind they all died off thousands of years ago.
A major Chernobyl or Fukushima like accident however rare stands to displace tens of thousands of people at once
Yes, 64 and one heard attack = tens of thousands !!one.
It just means we won't have to do jobs that can be done by robots, and those are tedious and repetitive jobs anyway so no biggie.
People will be freed up for creative jobs, jobs that involve human intelligence which can't be done by machines. It's not robots writing Diablo III, inventing costumes for the Hobbit movie, writing screenplays, and so on. It will enable so much more human productivity, if we don't have to use valuable human minds on robot-like labour any more.
I know that this is a very un-PC comment to make, but it happens to be true: some humans don't have the intelligence to do jobs that couldn't otherwise be done by robots...
Its a 21 century version of evolution. Man has no other natural predators, other than himself. Survival of the fittest (minds). Just maybe we can avoid Idiocracy.
as ruthless as possible within legal restrictions.
Why?
I am pretty sure hiring an assassin to infiltrate that shell corp, find out who is in charge and murder them would be a LOT cheaper and more effective than lawyers.
As someone from Texas, I can tell you that the rednecks living in trailers hate the TSA as well.
Except they are the ones working for TSA.
Ouch.
I resell stuff on ebay, and yes it's been used, but you will get a lot more money if you can advertise it as "new" in appearance. I've received a lot of + feedbacks and 5 stars, because people said "It looks like you never even used it." I did but was just very careful not to scratch the DVD, unit, et cetera.
Also saving the box means you don't have to pay UPS or the post office ~$20 to buy a new box to pack your computer, DVR, whatever.
Hey I know you. You are that guy with bubble wrapped couch and plastic bag over TV remote.
You have two children in tow... You are in one of the most expensive sections of town. Your children want to eat at McDonald's. You can A) take your children to the relatively inexpensive McDonald's, where they want to go. B) take them to a VERY expensive restaurant, where they'll sit and whine about not going to McDonald's.
What do you do?
Give them up for adoption because you failed at parenting (Your children want to eat at McDonald's)
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/smartphone-1ghz-cpu.html
any of those manufacturers will tailor design for you.
The article summary says $35, but http://www.raspberrypi.org/ states $25. Which is accurate?
its more like $45 and 10 week waiting time in reality.
Horseshit. The hazard is significant for a few hundred years at most. People are not going to dig the stuff up and eat it by the ton.
Yup. Within 500 years the waste is less radioactive than the ore from which it was mined.
Dont worry, ore itself is officially a DANGEROUS NUCLEAR WASTE and cant be just buried where you got it from. The second you shovel a barrel full of ore out of a mine you need to store it in approved nuclear waste facility.
"Into Eternity" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/11/into-eternity-film-review), which documents the staggering engineering requirements of creating a nuclear bunker designed to last a million times longer than any man made object ever created.
Yes, lets build a bunker to store FUEL. Fuel that is not being used for political reasons. Fuel, that we will probably need in 100-200 years when oil disappears.
You also got your law degree in Walmart.
If you think that's all the Uncharted series is, then you haven't played it. It has its rails, but they're needed for what is an unmatched gaming experience.
I totally agree, I mean sometimes you have to press X really fast for something to happen, thats RADICAL!
In most vehicles, the ECU & several other parts are coded with the VIN. If the ECU, the ABS system, the Airbag controller, the transmission module, & the body control modules don't agree on the VIN, the engine won't start. Not impossible to swap all of them, or to re-code a new ECU with the correct IDs, just takes more time/money.
Dont know about most, but I read in a paper less than a year ago about few guys with a trunk full of modded car computers they used to do just that - get into a car, swap and drive off.
This sucks, but to my mind, it's not a whole lot of difference between that and breaking the window then hot-wiring the car.
The ECU/ECM controls all engine functions. If it doesn't give the go ahead, your car won't run, no matter how many wires are cut apart or spliced together.
You don't hotwire modern cars.
You swap car computer and drive off.