Please. The entire OS is still smaller than a single Netflix HD movie. And disk space costs pennies per GIGABYTE. The entire feature will probably add a few dozen megabytes to the OS at *most*, which translates into a couple of extra seconds of downloading and about a tenth of a penny worth of disk space.
The question is sort of answered in the article if you read between the lines:
Despite being able to look back with pride, Dr Raines said this was still a sad day for Messenger scientists.
"Pretty much all the instruments are still doing great, so that makes it a little harder," he told BBC News. But the mission was always going to be limited by the fuel needed to maintain its difficult orbit.
"To be honest, I've seen this day coming for a long time and it's just one of these things that I've not been looking forward to. I'm really going to be sad to see it go."
So, the fuel was needed to keep the orbit stable, and without that, it degraded and impacted the planet. It's likely they didn't have enough fuel to even break away from orbit, and if they did, it would have shortened the mission duration. And to what end? It's not like it harms anything. It's just another crater on the planet.
Yes, because we certainly don't want our PCs to actually do new and interesting things, right? What's "bloat" to you is a "feature" to someone else. And when you have over a billion people using PCs, your OS has to support a lot of different features.
Do you know what a "lean" OS is? It's an OS that nobody actually uses because it doesn't have the features they want.
Interesting. So, if I understand correctly, it's partly motivated by the way your language works, not just for mathematical reasons. Also, it almost sounds like it may be a leftover curriculum from back when you guys still used English Imperial units, as such fractional addition is common with inch-based measurements - unless you use fractions like that commonly for other things in daily life.
It depends. If they roll out the damned thing without a viable test program, it will properly be a disaster. If they actually got some good, meaningful feedback and incorporated that into the program, then it could very well work. The LA school district failed for a lot of different reasons, but it wasn't necessarily a failing of the technology itself.
iPads are a much better fit for light consumer-level computing tasks than just about anything else out there. They're very easy to pick up and use, and a capacitive touchscreen which uses a finger to control it is a very intuitive system, unlike a mouse or keyboard. A larger form factor than a smartphone is better for older users with worse motor control and poorer eyesight. And iPads are pretty hard to accidentally mess up, unlike an overly-complicated PC.
Seriously... why IBM though? They're apparently building the apps, then training the Japan Post employees. Since when do they know anything about building consumer-friendly anything, ever? Maybe IBM just feels a natural kinship with the elderly?
From the description of how the sensor works you would think that scarring, skin discoloration, and tattoos could all be a problem but it was not spelled out. {maybe extremely hairy wrists too}
Good to know - thanks for checking that out. Wayback machine is awesome.
Yeah, reading the description does pretty lead you to believe that a layer of ink under the skin seems pretty likely to interfere with those sensors, which are relying on color information (crazy, I didn't realized that's how it worked).
One has to wonder about the ramifications for those with very dark skin. I suppose we'll hear about it if proves to be problematic. The tattoo issue... well, sucks for those who chose to get a tattoo. If the watch simply doesn't work as advertised on black wrists... that's a little more disturbing. Apple may have invented the world's first "racist" watch.
Have you heard of fractional multiplication tables?
Do you mean using the multiplication table to find equivalent fractions? That was all I could find on that subject. I had never heard of it before, actually. I saw information about it on US teacher's blog, so presumably it's taught here on occasion, but may not part of the official curriculum (or I'd think I would have found more references to it).
Anyhow, 20 x 20 tables are crazy (and even 16 x 16 seems excessive). Literally four times the work to memorize it all with no perceived benefits that I can think of, other than a bureaucratic checklist, I suppose.
Apple provides a link on the very front product page labeled "Learn about the Apple Watch heart rate sensor, its accuracy and limitations", which then points to a page that specifically mentions the tattoo issue. NatasRevol pointed this page out, but I noticed it was a support page, and wondered how prominently it was displayed. As it turns out, it's very easy to find that page and information.
Permanent or temporary changes to your skin, such as some tattoos, can also impact heart rate sensor performance. The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from the sensor, making it difficult to get reliable readings.
A legitimate question is, of course, how long that link and information has been there. If it just recently went up, then it's bad on Apple. If it's been like that since before preorders were taken, then maybe people should have actually read about what they were purchasing.
H1-Bs are an end-run around the local labor market. Corporations want the benefit of the comfort and infrastructure the US provides, but don't want to pay the natural market labor costs for highly-skilled developers native to the US.
Free market capitalism works pretty well in many cases, but there are always necessary constraints and conditions. For instance, the free market breaks down when corporations get too large and powerful. Thus, anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws. The free market is notoriously poor at protecting its employees, consumers, or the environment. Thus, safety and environmental regulations. Capitalism seeks to pay as little as it can for labor. As such, we need to protect against destructive practices such as flooding the market with cheap labor and pushing down wages.
What's critical to understand is that capitalism is essentially an amoral (neither good nor evil) economic system only. It needs to be paired with a regulatory system that ensures a minimum level of societal acceptable behavior. In the case of a tiny village who largely trades only amongst themselves, the only regulation needed may be societal mores, while in a large, modern society we need a framework of laws and regulations.
Meanwhile Korean and Chinese parents will dutifully coach their children to memorize multiplication tables all the way to 20 times 20. (My Korean friend was surprised to learn we Indians went only till 16 x 16).
I'm curious... what's the point of that? You need to know single digits for obvious reasons, but I've never figured out why people go beyond that, especially nowadays when calculators (or rather nowadays, calculator apps on smartphones or computers) are ubiquitous. It seems like the return on effort drops off fairly dramatically after 10x10, which is where my memorization stopped (although 11s and 12s are trivial, so you can almost throw those in).
Does he check the grammar score before he reads it himself? I would worry that it may bias him before he can make his own judgment. Another potential problem, of course, is that if students have access to the same software, they'll be able to "tune" their papers to ensure the AI gives them the highest possible score. While this may not be "cheating" per se, it does tend to devalue the AI somewhat. This is the same process that's been happening forever with "Search Engine Optimization", or put less nicely, trying to "game" the search engines.
Minor issues aside, it sounds like a reasonable integration of AI and human judgement. This probably sounds like the future direction educators will be taking more and more. Use AI to handle most of the tedious work - that's what computers are good for anyhow. The professor can then use his own judgement to make the final call, using the AI as a tool and not necessarily as a final arbiter. Moreover, it's going to be a long time before AI can evaluate the worth of the content of the paper, of course.
I considered FCC net neutrality the worse of two possible solutions:
1) Actual competition in the marketplace 2) Government regulation of a virtual monopoly
I'd totally be okay with this action if breaking up the internet cartels we current suffer from was part of the deal. The fact that these providers basically told users to bend over and take it when they were fighting with Netflix showed the darker side of the current system. The US internet is most certainly NOT flourishing at this point, as the corporations are tightening their grip. Look at how far behind the US related to most first-world nations regarding cheap, ubiquitous broadband access. It's shameful for the country that invented the internet. As it looked like we were never going to get solution #1, I reluctantly approved of solution #2.
If customers could actually choose between three or four ISPs providing high-speed service wherever they happened to live, you'd undoubtedly not only NEVER have to worry about nonsense like how Netflix was throttled, but you'd very likely have companies providing quality service and good customer support for a reasonable price. The ones that don't tend to go out of business. That's supposed to be how capitalism works - it's economic Darwinism.
Unfortunately, while Title II regulation will hopefully fix some of the more egregious practices of ISPs, it's not going to fix the underlying issue - the fact that many US citizens have no real alternatives if they want to get high speed internet. They're still going to be charged exorbitant prices for high speed internet with atrocious customer service.
Interesting... I wasn't aware of how that worked in California. That seems a little bit more fair for people who purchased property before value happened to skyrocket. My property tax is based on the assessed market value of my home, so I'm happiest when the local housing market is depressed.
She should have been happy. There's typically no reason to want your property to increase in value unless you plan to sell it. It just increases your property taxes.
Of course, what she was actually trying to tell you, in her lovely passive-aggressive way, was to fix your damn flowerbeds, but you went and had to bring logic into the argument!
My question would be: Agile development of what? It's fine to improve your development method, but maybe you need to focus on products and services that your customers are willing to pay you for.
True, but perception can be misleading. At one point in the late eighties the paper value of the real estate of the Tokyo Imperial Palace alone was perceived to be worth more than the entire land mass of California. Tokyo real estate prices peaked at about 350 times that of choice Manhattan real estate at the time. The bubble burst when, among other reasons, people realized although such was the value on paper, no one could actually sell at that price and receive anything near the current "market value".
Those flight bags, at 35 lbs, were also very uncomfortable for the pilots to lug around. I remember how heavy a backpack full of textbooks was as a student, and wouldn't wish to repeat that experience at my age, which is still younger than many pilots. I wouldn't be surprised if the pilots were pushing for this as well.
You want to tell the person trying to earn a living that they have to pay for a bunch of pointless shit, then you want to make them pay for the PRIVILEGE of paying for that pointless shit? Yup, you're a politician alright.
I was hoping you'd catch the irony in that statement. Obviously not. I was trying to point out that there was indeed a regulatory burden imposed here.
In general, *everything* changes when you start doing things commercially, and it's been that way since the beginnings of human civilization, as evidenced by ancient Babylonian building codes. For instance, you're free to cook meals for family and friends, but when you charge the public money for that same food, you're now a restaurant, and you're subject to a battery of regulations to ensure you don't cause food poisoning for your customers.
The simple reason for this is profit. As a private citizen, your natural incentives are to cook the best meal possible for your family or friends. When you're a business, your priority is to earn a profit. Cooking a meal for your customers is a means to that end. While there's nothing inherently wrong with that, the motivation of profit can also conflict with safety. Regulations are simply a way to ensure that minimum safety standards are in place for those less scrupulous who might be tempted to put profit above their customer's safety. The trick, of course, is to find the right balance so that regulations aren't overly burdensome to businesses and entrepreneurs while still maintaining some level of protection for the general public.
I saw no mention of rationed or limited licenses when skimming through the article and law. The provisions seemed rather common sense to me when reading through them: Maintaining a list of drivers, criminal background checks, sufficient insurance for commercial purposes, visible external marker on the car, yearly safety inspections, minimum age of 21, and a license fee for the privilege of this oversight, of course.
I don't think this is a bad thing at all. Every other business that deals with transporting the public is licensed and regulated in order to adhere to reasonable safety standards. Uber is apparently supporting this legislation as well. I think they feel that it's a good thing to be officially recognized by the state as a legitimate business. It's certainly better than existing in a grey area and getting fined or having lawsuits tossed at you.
When I go on WebMD or wikipedia, I always apparently have a rare jungle disease or cancer based on my symptoms
Well, yeah, a huge number of illnesses include symptoms like elevated temperature, sore throat, muscle aches, fatigue, etc, since that's how the body reacts to nearly anything that goes wrong internally. I'm hopeful that expert medical diagnostic systems will eventually be able to improve on patient diagnosis.
Dan: Plus when I called in... Dan: They told me if I go from 50 mbps to 75 mbps i will get better netflix streaming. is that true? Dan: Will it improve? Robert: Yes it you have more bandwidth you will have smoother video viewing. Dan: But isn't 50 mbps already enough? Robert: yes it is enough. 75 will just be smoother.
So, basically Dan baited the rep into talking up the improvements related to Netflix streaming. Note also the rep was actually honest that 50 mbps was enough to stream Netflix just fine. It sort of sounds like this guy was trolling for a story, and got the sales rep to overstate the benefits with a nice leading question. Ok, so Verizon should tell their sales reps to be a bit more honest, but... I'm having a hard time generating any outrage here. Are people equally outraged when salespeople sell 4K TVs to customers who will likely never see the difference between that and a good 1080p screen at their TV size and viewing distance?
Sales rep overstates benefits of top-tier package. News at 11.
I believed it involved surreptitiously painting a bulls-eye on their opponent's rear end. The bullets then became self-aware, and were absolutely determined to hit their target. It was a rather impressive technology. The US military could learn a thing or two from Warner Bros.
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Please. The entire OS is still smaller than a single Netflix HD movie. And disk space costs pennies per GIGABYTE. The entire feature will probably add a few dozen megabytes to the OS at *most*, which translates into a couple of extra seconds of downloading and about a tenth of a penny worth of disk space.
The question is sort of answered in the article if you read between the lines:
Despite being able to look back with pride, Dr Raines said this was still a sad day for Messenger scientists.
"Pretty much all the instruments are still doing great, so that makes it a little harder," he told BBC News. But the mission was always going to be limited by the fuel needed to maintain its difficult orbit.
"To be honest, I've seen this day coming for a long time and it's just one of these things that I've not been looking forward to. I'm really going to be sad to see it go."
So, the fuel was needed to keep the orbit stable, and without that, it degraded and impacted the planet. It's likely they didn't have enough fuel to even break away from orbit, and if they did, it would have shortened the mission duration. And to what end? It's not like it harms anything. It's just another crater on the planet.
Yes, because we certainly don't want our PCs to actually do new and interesting things, right? What's "bloat" to you is a "feature" to someone else. And when you have over a billion people using PCs, your OS has to support a lot of different features.
Do you know what a "lean" OS is? It's an OS that nobody actually uses because it doesn't have the features they want.
Interesting. So, if I understand correctly, it's partly motivated by the way your language works, not just for mathematical reasons. Also, it almost sounds like it may be a leftover curriculum from back when you guys still used English Imperial units, as such fractional addition is common with inch-based measurements - unless you use fractions like that commonly for other things in daily life.
It depends. If they roll out the damned thing without a viable test program, it will properly be a disaster. If they actually got some good, meaningful feedback and incorporated that into the program, then it could very well work. The LA school district failed for a lot of different reasons, but it wasn't necessarily a failing of the technology itself.
iPads are a much better fit for light consumer-level computing tasks than just about anything else out there. They're very easy to pick up and use, and a capacitive touchscreen which uses a finger to control it is a very intuitive system, unlike a mouse or keyboard. A larger form factor than a smartphone is better for older users with worse motor control and poorer eyesight. And iPads are pretty hard to accidentally mess up, unlike an overly-complicated PC.
Seriously... why IBM though? They're apparently building the apps, then training the Japan Post employees. Since when do they know anything about building consumer-friendly anything, ever? Maybe IBM just feels a natural kinship with the elderly?
From the description of how the sensor works you would think that scarring, skin discoloration, and tattoos could all be a problem but it was not spelled out. {maybe extremely hairy wrists too}
Good to know - thanks for checking that out. Wayback machine is awesome.
Yeah, reading the description does pretty lead you to believe that a layer of ink under the skin seems pretty likely to interfere with those sensors, which are relying on color information (crazy, I didn't realized that's how it worked).
One has to wonder about the ramifications for those with very dark skin. I suppose we'll hear about it if proves to be problematic. The tattoo issue... well, sucks for those who chose to get a tattoo. If the watch simply doesn't work as advertised on black wrists... that's a little more disturbing. Apple may have invented the world's first "racist" watch.
Have you heard of fractional multiplication tables?
Do you mean using the multiplication table to find equivalent fractions? That was all I could find on that subject. I had never heard of it before, actually. I saw information about it on US teacher's blog, so presumably it's taught here on occasion, but may not part of the official curriculum (or I'd think I would have found more references to it).
Anyhow, 20 x 20 tables are crazy (and even 16 x 16 seems excessive). Literally four times the work to memorize it all with no perceived benefits that I can think of, other than a bureaucratic checklist, I suppose.
Apple provides a link on the very front product page labeled "Learn about the Apple Watch heart rate sensor, its accuracy and limitations", which then points to a page that specifically mentions the tattoo issue. NatasRevol pointed this page out, but I noticed it was a support page, and wondered how prominently it was displayed. As it turns out, it's very easy to find that page and information.
Permanent or temporary changes to your skin, such as some tattoos, can also impact heart rate sensor performance. The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from the sensor, making it difficult to get reliable readings.
A legitimate question is, of course, how long that link and information has been there. If it just recently went up, then it's bad on Apple. If it's been like that since before preorders were taken, then maybe people should have actually read about what they were purchasing.
H1-Bs are an end-run around the local labor market. Corporations want the benefit of the comfort and infrastructure the US provides, but don't want to pay the natural market labor costs for highly-skilled developers native to the US.
Free market capitalism works pretty well in many cases, but there are always necessary constraints and conditions. For instance, the free market breaks down when corporations get too large and powerful. Thus, anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws. The free market is notoriously poor at protecting its employees, consumers, or the environment. Thus, safety and environmental regulations. Capitalism seeks to pay as little as it can for labor. As such, we need to protect against destructive practices such as flooding the market with cheap labor and pushing down wages.
What's critical to understand is that capitalism is essentially an amoral (neither good nor evil) economic system only. It needs to be paired with a regulatory system that ensures a minimum level of societal acceptable behavior. In the case of a tiny village who largely trades only amongst themselves, the only regulation needed may be societal mores, while in a large, modern society we need a framework of laws and regulations.
Meanwhile Korean and Chinese parents will dutifully coach their children to memorize multiplication tables all the way to 20 times 20. (My Korean friend was surprised to learn we Indians went only till 16 x 16).
I'm curious... what's the point of that? You need to know single digits for obvious reasons, but I've never figured out why people go beyond that, especially nowadays when calculators (or rather nowadays, calculator apps on smartphones or computers) are ubiquitous. It seems like the return on effort drops off fairly dramatically after 10x10, which is where my memorization stopped (although 11s and 12s are trivial, so you can almost throw those in).
Does he check the grammar score before he reads it himself? I would worry that it may bias him before he can make his own judgment. Another potential problem, of course, is that if students have access to the same software, they'll be able to "tune" their papers to ensure the AI gives them the highest possible score. While this may not be "cheating" per se, it does tend to devalue the AI somewhat. This is the same process that's been happening forever with "Search Engine Optimization", or put less nicely, trying to "game" the search engines.
Minor issues aside, it sounds like a reasonable integration of AI and human judgement. This probably sounds like the future direction educators will be taking more and more. Use AI to handle most of the tedious work - that's what computers are good for anyhow. The professor can then use his own judgement to make the final call, using the AI as a tool and not necessarily as a final arbiter. Moreover, it's going to be a long time before AI can evaluate the worth of the content of the paper, of course.
I considered FCC net neutrality the worse of two possible solutions:
1) Actual competition in the marketplace
2) Government regulation of a virtual monopoly
I'd totally be okay with this action if breaking up the internet cartels we current suffer from was part of the deal. The fact that these providers basically told users to bend over and take it when they were fighting with Netflix showed the darker side of the current system. The US internet is most certainly NOT flourishing at this point, as the corporations are tightening their grip. Look at how far behind the US related to most first-world nations regarding cheap, ubiquitous broadband access. It's shameful for the country that invented the internet. As it looked like we were never going to get solution #1, I reluctantly approved of solution #2.
If customers could actually choose between three or four ISPs providing high-speed service wherever they happened to live, you'd undoubtedly not only NEVER have to worry about nonsense like how Netflix was throttled, but you'd very likely have companies providing quality service and good customer support for a reasonable price. The ones that don't tend to go out of business. That's supposed to be how capitalism works - it's economic Darwinism.
Unfortunately, while Title II regulation will hopefully fix some of the more egregious practices of ISPs, it's not going to fix the underlying issue - the fact that many US citizens have no real alternatives if they want to get high speed internet. They're still going to be charged exorbitant prices for high speed internet with atrocious customer service.
Interesting... I wasn't aware of how that worked in California. That seems a little bit more fair for people who purchased property before value happened to skyrocket. My property tax is based on the assessed market value of my home, so I'm happiest when the local housing market is depressed.
She should have been happy. There's typically no reason to want your property to increase in value unless you plan to sell it. It just increases your property taxes.
Of course, what she was actually trying to tell you, in her lovely passive-aggressive way, was to fix your damn flowerbeds, but you went and had to bring logic into the argument!
My question would be: Agile development of what? It's fine to improve your development method, but maybe you need to focus on products and services that your customers are willing to pay you for.
True, but perception can be misleading. At one point in the late eighties the paper value of the real estate of the Tokyo Imperial Palace alone was perceived to be worth more than the entire land mass of California. Tokyo real estate prices peaked at about 350 times that of choice Manhattan real estate at the time. The bubble burst when, among other reasons, people realized although such was the value on paper, no one could actually sell at that price and receive anything near the current "market value".
In Section 11H, (1) (ii) of the bill in question:
The insurance may be held by the transportation network driver, the transportation network company, or some combination thereof.
Oddly enough, Massachusetts has just introduced a bill to ensure that Uber drivers are not "unregulated, unlicensed, or uninsured".
Those flight bags, at 35 lbs, were also very uncomfortable for the pilots to lug around. I remember how heavy a backpack full of textbooks was as a student, and wouldn't wish to repeat that experience at my age, which is still younger than many pilots. I wouldn't be surprised if the pilots were pushing for this as well.
You want to tell the person trying to earn a living that they have to pay for a bunch of pointless shit, then you want to make them pay for the PRIVILEGE of paying for that pointless shit? Yup, you're a politician alright.
I was hoping you'd catch the irony in that statement. Obviously not. I was trying to point out that there was indeed a regulatory burden imposed here.
In general, *everything* changes when you start doing things commercially, and it's been that way since the beginnings of human civilization, as evidenced by ancient Babylonian building codes. For instance, you're free to cook meals for family and friends, but when you charge the public money for that same food, you're now a restaurant, and you're subject to a battery of regulations to ensure you don't cause food poisoning for your customers.
The simple reason for this is profit. As a private citizen, your natural incentives are to cook the best meal possible for your family or friends. When you're a business, your priority is to earn a profit. Cooking a meal for your customers is a means to that end. While there's nothing inherently wrong with that, the motivation of profit can also conflict with safety. Regulations are simply a way to ensure that minimum safety standards are in place for those less scrupulous who might be tempted to put profit above their customer's safety. The trick, of course, is to find the right balance so that regulations aren't overly burdensome to businesses and entrepreneurs while still maintaining some level of protection for the general public.
I saw no mention of rationed or limited licenses when skimming through the article and law. The provisions seemed rather common sense to me when reading through them: Maintaining a list of drivers, criminal background checks, sufficient insurance for commercial purposes, visible external marker on the car, yearly safety inspections, minimum age of 21, and a license fee for the privilege of this oversight, of course.
I don't think this is a bad thing at all. Every other business that deals with transporting the public is licensed and regulated in order to adhere to reasonable safety standards. Uber is apparently supporting this legislation as well. I think they feel that it's a good thing to be officially recognized by the state as a legitimate business. It's certainly better than existing in a grey area and getting fined or having lawsuits tossed at you.
When I go on WebMD or wikipedia, I always apparently have a rare jungle disease or cancer based on my symptoms
Well, yeah, a huge number of illnesses include symptoms like elevated temperature, sore throat, muscle aches, fatigue, etc, since that's how the body reacts to nearly anything that goes wrong internally. I'm hopeful that expert medical diagnostic systems will eventually be able to improve on patient diagnosis.
Dan: Plus when I called in...
Dan: They told me if I go from 50 mbps to 75 mbps i will get better netflix streaming. is that true?
Dan: Will it improve?
Robert: Yes it you have more bandwidth you will have smoother video viewing.
Dan: But isn't 50 mbps already enough?
Robert: yes it is enough. 75 will just be smoother.
So, basically Dan baited the rep into talking up the improvements related to Netflix streaming. Note also the rep was actually honest that 50 mbps was enough to stream Netflix just fine. It sort of sounds like this guy was trolling for a story, and got the sales rep to overstate the benefits with a nice leading question. Ok, so Verizon should tell their sales reps to be a bit more honest, but... I'm having a hard time generating any outrage here. Are people equally outraged when salespeople sell 4K TVs to customers who will likely never see the difference between that and a good 1080p screen at their TV size and viewing distance?
Sales rep overstates benefits of top-tier package. News at 11.
I believed it involved surreptitiously painting a bulls-eye on their opponent's rear end. The bullets then became self-aware, and were absolutely determined to hit their target. It was a rather impressive technology. The US military could learn a thing or two from Warner Bros.
Hrmph... just like a man. We're talking about women's feelings regarding engineering, and you're talking about "data".