The iPhone XR, which is believed to have been the least popular of the three, will be updated with a model that comes with the same LCD display and similar design.
It doesn't appear as though Apple has learned anything.
Maybe another year of decreased sales will help them get the message.
That actually makes me respect Activision a lot more than previously. There's a quote from Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto that sums it up nicely: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."
You really don't regulate it. You just get a bunch of useless chuckle fucks together that don't provide any real value and invariably end up being corrupted by monied interests. So you ultimately end up with the least morally scrupulous companies doing what they want anyway, but now the tax payer has to foot the bill for some additional useless paper pushers.
Obviously. It would seem apparent that it was some human that deployed the bad AI to begin with, and if that's not the case they've become more clever than we may have originally thought.
MechWarrior 2 was pretty good back in the day. They're mainly a publisher though, so they haven't actually developed all that many games themselves, but if you include those they had a lot of great games like Pitfall, Quake II, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and Rome Total War where they acted as the publisher.
I think the real issue is that we didn't really pay for the old infrastructure that we built and instead kicked the bill down the road, and it's still not something that anyone wants to pay for, but we're more than willing to keep spending on credit.
Hopefully future countries will be able to look back on our mistakes and create a constitution that prohibits the government from spending money it doesn't have. It doesn't really matter how it's spent, because it will almost assuredly end poorly.
Yeah, but if you're actually in India or China you're better off smoking the cigarettes in some of those cities. Have you ever been to Delhi? The cigarettes at least have a filter on them.
The government effectively subsidizes all manner of things through direct subsidies, tax breaks, and a number of other little schemes. The farmers are just ensuring that they get theirs too. It's all utterly pointless as well as you wind up with these exact kinds of situations where there's too much surplus of one thing, but a shortage of another.
Some people like to act as though all of the farms would die without the subsidies, but that simply isn't true. It would be precisely those which are the least efficient which fail while most survive. Most of the subsidies aren't going to the poor, misbegotten family farmers anyways. As with most government handouts and redistribution schemes, a tiny minority receives the bulk of it.
This is rather disappointing really. It's just a Vega refresh that offers ~30% improved performance in most workloads or frame rates, but only at 40% additional cost compared to Vega 64. I suppose it's nice if you need more than 8GB of memory, but this isn't anything to get excited about as far as I'm concerned.
At least the sneak peek at the new Ryzen CPUs looked promising.
The US and EU have sucked in our dealing with Africa, mostly realizing that the area is too hospitable to colonize, they just left it alone. Not realizing there is a population of workers being under under utilized, and can be supported to be stronger economies, which in turn create more customers.
I don't think it's that. Trying to get involved in Africa as a western company just gets a mountain of whinging twats complaining about colonialism on Twitter or other social media.
I wonder if in 20 years, Chinese people will be bitching about talking with "Yang" or "Li" in the call center when they know it's really someone from Kenya.
Someone should go back in time and tell Sean Penn, Jeremy Corbyn, and everyone else who was praising Venezuela or its leaders.
None of the other countries you've listed are socialist. They're all countries with market economies that don't go around nationalizing industries and driving them into the ground, try to implement central economic planning policies that are doomed to failure, or devolve into the types of dictatorships you get when you centralize that much power into the government.
What was anyone expecting? There are still a limited number of doctors, hospital beds, and medication available. Just because it doesn't cost the end consumer any additional money beyond the taxes they already pay doesn't solve the problem of limited resources. Anyone who naively equates single payer with free and unlimited healthcare is deluding themselves.
You always have rationing of supplies when people are competing for limited resources. The only question that remains is how to determine who receives the resources.
I think this just shows how lazy and disconnected the tech press is more than it shows how Amazon, Apple, etc. are doing. Rather than doing research into the new technology or what the companies are offering, these media outlets just recycle the same junk that they always spit out to be gobbled up by a general audience that has as little interest in anything technical as the people covering it.
There's probably a YouTube channel with a few tens of thousands of subscribers that does a much better job covering these events than any of the people writing for the mainstream rags or some of these so-called technology websites. There's still good and interesting coverage out there, but you'll have to do a bit more digging.
Who's denying you or I this healthcare? I think what you meant to say is that there are a lot of people who can't afford it. Are the rich working to deny us a Lamborghini as well?
Like automobiles, cell phones, and other things once considered luxury items for the wealthy, new forms of treatment will become more affordable and more available over time.
Why are all these companies so obsessed with unemploying all their drivers? Self driving cars, drones, trucking, AI, etc. Governments are working hard to get people jobs and the corporations are trying harder to fire them all.
Because their customers always want the same goods and services for a lower price. It isn't that these companies want to do this, it's that if they don't, they'll go out of business. Companies which fail to adapt to the changing market are replaced by those that do.
I also speculate that in the short term that automated vehicles will actually increase the number of human drivers necessary. That may seem paradoxical at first, but if you think about it, it makes a certain amount of sense. The best use for automated driving is in the places where it can be implemented most easily, which are interstate highways, which is largely a matter of staying in its lane. This will make it cheaper to transport goods over long distances (don't have to pay the human) as well as ensuring that they arrive sooner since a self-driving vehicle doesn't have to stop to rest as human truckers are required to do. Ultimately this means more goods shipped. However, there will still need to be people responsible for the short-haul jobs within cities and they'll have an easier time of driving those routes.
They're also forgetting that some people that use food delivery services now could have some disability that prevents them from leaving their home in the first place. How are they supposed to get to this vehicle to get their stuff?
Send a family member, friend, or neighbor down to get it for them? Eventually I wouldn't be surprised if there are delivery drones to carry the loads up the balconies or other things like that. If it's that big of a problem, that just means there's more incentive to solve it.
That article was saying that the automation was internally bad for them (which I think is a bad argument to begin with as well as wrong, but that's another issue) whereas this is them selling an automated solution to others, which if you follow the logic suggests that it would hurt the company that buys the product and not GM. Presumably, the company that sold the automation to GM profited from doing so.
Seems to make more sense to place the liability on whatever business or person is ordering the vehicle around. Naturally they'll pay an insurance company to to handle that for them. I suspect that some government agency will also seek to exert some manner of control over self-driving vehicles and might occasionally require particular models to be "grounded" much like that FAA does with airplanes if they have cause to believe there's a flaw that makes additional accidents likely.
It's even more foolish since researchers have already been able to build a machine that behaves like very simple creatures. There isn't any reason so think that we can't make something more complex, it's just a matter of being able to map out the wiring and build hardware to mimic the sensory data that the artificial brain needs. However, there's a long way to go. I recall another researcher that was trying to make a robot to fold clothes, but that problem turned out to be much harder than he thought since just getting the robot to be able to recognize individual articles of clothing is challenging.
The issue is that the replacement cards that NVidia is offering in the 2000 series had the prices massively jacked up. Part of this is because they include some new technology to enable ray-tracing, but the real world performance of that technology hasn't been very good, so if you're just running games the same as always, the new cards don't offer much (if any) improvement. However, the performance level of where the 1080 Ti was at went up in cost, so the 1080 Ti has been dragged up with it.
Additionally, NVidia didn't overproduce the 1080 Ti, only the 1060 (which has seen considerable price drops) so there isn't an excessive amount of stock left over. Finally, AMD doesn't have anything that's really capable of competing with the 1080 Ti, so NVidia can get away with charging whatever the market will bear since they have no real competition to keep prices in check. Hopefully AMD will announce some new cards at CES and force NVidia to bring down their prices.
It's probably worse. If you just have vending machines, at least you have to walk to the damned thing. You probably need the short break from whatever you're working on anyway.
It's not a matter of showing more emotion, it's that if you measure the negative emotion personality trait (referred to as neuroticism in the psychology literature) then females score higher than men. The limbic cortex in the female brain is larger and better connected to the other regions of the brain, which may explain those observations. The presence of testosterone has also been identified in playing a role in how the human brain regulates emotions. Generally this means that women are better (faster) at processing emotions and have an easier time identifying emotions in others.
The parent is also incorrect. Women attempt suicide more often than men, and depending on the report you'll see figures indicating somewhere between twice and three times as much. However, men have a much higher suicide rate, in part because of the methods they use (gun, hanging) are more effective.
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The iPhone XR, which is believed to have been the least popular of the three, will be updated with a model that comes with the same LCD display and similar design.
It doesn't appear as though Apple has learned anything.
Maybe another year of decreased sales will help them get the message.
That actually makes me respect Activision a lot more than previously. There's a quote from Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto that sums it up nicely: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."
You really don't regulate it. You just get a bunch of useless chuckle fucks together that don't provide any real value and invariably end up being corrupted by monied interests. So you ultimately end up with the least morally scrupulous companies doing what they want anyway, but now the tax payer has to foot the bill for some additional useless paper pushers.
Obviously. It would seem apparent that it was some human that deployed the bad AI to begin with, and if that's not the case they've become more clever than we may have originally thought.
MechWarrior 2 was pretty good back in the day. They're mainly a publisher though, so they haven't actually developed all that many games themselves, but if you include those they had a lot of great games like Pitfall, Quake II, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and Rome Total War where they acted as the publisher.
why do we have "second world" internet with these robber-baron ISP monopoly situations that charge double the rate for a quarter the bandwidth?
I think you've answered your own question. In absence of competition, a sole supplier is free to charge whatever the market will bear.
I think the real issue is that we didn't really pay for the old infrastructure that we built and instead kicked the bill down the road, and it's still not something that anyone wants to pay for, but we're more than willing to keep spending on credit.
Hopefully future countries will be able to look back on our mistakes and create a constitution that prohibits the government from spending money it doesn't have. It doesn't really matter how it's spent, because it will almost assuredly end poorly.
Yeah, but if you're actually in India or China you're better off smoking the cigarettes in some of those cities. Have you ever been to Delhi? The cigarettes at least have a filter on them.
The government effectively subsidizes all manner of things through direct subsidies, tax breaks, and a number of other little schemes. The farmers are just ensuring that they get theirs too. It's all utterly pointless as well as you wind up with these exact kinds of situations where there's too much surplus of one thing, but a shortage of another.
Some people like to act as though all of the farms would die without the subsidies, but that simply isn't true. It would be precisely those which are the least efficient which fail while most survive. Most of the subsidies aren't going to the poor, misbegotten family farmers anyways. As with most government handouts and redistribution schemes, a tiny minority receives the bulk of it.
This is rather disappointing really. It's just a Vega refresh that offers ~30% improved performance in most workloads or frame rates, but only at 40% additional cost compared to Vega 64. I suppose it's nice if you need more than 8GB of memory, but this isn't anything to get excited about as far as I'm concerned.
At least the sneak peek at the new Ryzen CPUs looked promising.
The US and EU have sucked in our dealing with Africa, mostly realizing that the area is too hospitable to colonize, they just left it alone. Not realizing there is a population of workers being under under utilized, and can be supported to be stronger economies, which in turn create more customers.
I don't think it's that. Trying to get involved in Africa as a western company just gets a mountain of whinging twats complaining about colonialism on Twitter or other social media.
China doesn't give two fucks. They're rounding up religious minorities and sending them to reeducation camps. They won't care about international criticism from those former groups on Twitter either.
I wonder if in 20 years, Chinese people will be bitching about talking with "Yang" or "Li" in the call center when they know it's really someone from Kenya.
Someone should go back in time and tell Sean Penn, Jeremy Corbyn, and everyone else who was praising Venezuela or its leaders.
None of the other countries you've listed are socialist. They're all countries with market economies that don't go around nationalizing industries and driving them into the ground, try to implement central economic planning policies that are doomed to failure, or devolve into the types of dictatorships you get when you centralize that much power into the government.
What was anyone expecting? There are still a limited number of doctors, hospital beds, and medication available. Just because it doesn't cost the end consumer any additional money beyond the taxes they already pay doesn't solve the problem of limited resources. Anyone who naively equates single payer with free and unlimited healthcare is deluding themselves.
You always have rationing of supplies when people are competing for limited resources. The only question that remains is how to determine who receives the resources.
I think this just shows how lazy and disconnected the tech press is more than it shows how Amazon, Apple, etc. are doing. Rather than doing research into the new technology or what the companies are offering, these media outlets just recycle the same junk that they always spit out to be gobbled up by a general audience that has as little interest in anything technical as the people covering it.
There's probably a YouTube channel with a few tens of thousands of subscribers that does a much better job covering these events than any of the people writing for the mainstream rags or some of these so-called technology websites. There's still good and interesting coverage out there, but you'll have to do a bit more digging.
$19,000!
I'm sure that will show them.
Who's denying you or I this healthcare? I think what you meant to say is that there are a lot of people who can't afford it. Are the rich working to deny us a Lamborghini as well?
Like automobiles, cell phones, and other things once considered luxury items for the wealthy, new forms of treatment will become more affordable and more available over time.
Why are all these companies so obsessed with unemploying all their drivers? Self driving cars, drones, trucking, AI, etc. Governments are working hard to get people jobs and the corporations are trying harder to fire them all.
Because their customers always want the same goods and services for a lower price. It isn't that these companies want to do this, it's that if they don't, they'll go out of business. Companies which fail to adapt to the changing market are replaced by those that do.
I also speculate that in the short term that automated vehicles will actually increase the number of human drivers necessary. That may seem paradoxical at first, but if you think about it, it makes a certain amount of sense. The best use for automated driving is in the places where it can be implemented most easily, which are interstate highways, which is largely a matter of staying in its lane. This will make it cheaper to transport goods over long distances (don't have to pay the human) as well as ensuring that they arrive sooner since a self-driving vehicle doesn't have to stop to rest as human truckers are required to do. Ultimately this means more goods shipped. However, there will still need to be people responsible for the short-haul jobs within cities and they'll have an easier time of driving those routes.
They're also forgetting that some people that use food delivery services now could have some disability that prevents them from leaving their home in the first place. How are they supposed to get to this vehicle to get their stuff?
Send a family member, friend, or neighbor down to get it for them? Eventually I wouldn't be surprised if there are delivery drones to carry the loads up the balconies or other things like that. If it's that big of a problem, that just means there's more incentive to solve it.
That article was saying that the automation was internally bad for them (which I think is a bad argument to begin with as well as wrong, but that's another issue) whereas this is them selling an automated solution to others, which if you follow the logic suggests that it would hurt the company that buys the product and not GM. Presumably, the company that sold the automation to GM profited from doing so.
Seems to make more sense to place the liability on whatever business or person is ordering the vehicle around. Naturally they'll pay an insurance company to to handle that for them. I suspect that some government agency will also seek to exert some manner of control over self-driving vehicles and might occasionally require particular models to be "grounded" much like that FAA does with airplanes if they have cause to believe there's a flaw that makes additional accidents likely.
It's even more foolish since researchers have already been able to build a machine that behaves like very simple creatures. There isn't any reason so think that we can't make something more complex, it's just a matter of being able to map out the wiring and build hardware to mimic the sensory data that the artificial brain needs. However, there's a long way to go. I recall another researcher that was trying to make a robot to fold clothes, but that problem turned out to be much harder than he thought since just getting the robot to be able to recognize individual articles of clothing is challenging.
The issue is that the replacement cards that NVidia is offering in the 2000 series had the prices massively jacked up. Part of this is because they include some new technology to enable ray-tracing, but the real world performance of that technology hasn't been very good, so if you're just running games the same as always, the new cards don't offer much (if any) improvement. However, the performance level of where the 1080 Ti was at went up in cost, so the 1080 Ti has been dragged up with it.
Additionally, NVidia didn't overproduce the 1080 Ti, only the 1060 (which has seen considerable price drops) so there isn't an excessive amount of stock left over. Finally, AMD doesn't have anything that's really capable of competing with the 1080 Ti, so NVidia can get away with charging whatever the market will bear since they have no real competition to keep prices in check. Hopefully AMD will announce some new cards at CES and force NVidia to bring down their prices.
They'd probably have more interest and make more money if they got the thing to deliver weed instead.
It's probably worse. If you just have vending machines, at least you have to walk to the damned thing. You probably need the short break from whatever you're working on anyway.
It's not a matter of showing more emotion, it's that if you measure the negative emotion personality trait (referred to as neuroticism in the psychology literature) then females score higher than men. The limbic cortex in the female brain is larger and better connected to the other regions of the brain, which may explain those observations. The presence of testosterone has also been identified in playing a role in how the human brain regulates emotions. Generally this means that women are better (faster) at processing emotions and have an easier time identifying emotions in others.
The parent is also incorrect. Women attempt suicide more often than men, and depending on the report you'll see figures indicating somewhere between twice and three times as much. However, men have a much higher suicide rate, in part because of the methods they use (gun, hanging) are more effective.