The company I work for does produce among other things, college textbooks, but the colleges don't get a dime. We charge everyone the same amount, whether you are an individual, or a huge bookstore chain like B&N.
The problem with college textbooks is that you have to find someone who is
A) Willing to write a book B) An expert in the subject who is able to take their knowledge and lay it out in such a way that it is useful to the student and the professor.
And what really makes them expensive is that there might be three or four thousand copies printed total, so that everything that went into writing that book has to be recouped off of just three or four thousand copies, instead of the millions of copies for pulp fiction titles.
True, instead every reviewer should start off with.
If you change any hardware in your computer 3 times this game will no longer work. This isn't a technical issue with the game itself, but is instead a limitation the publisher has included to this game so that..um...... actually the publisher does not have a single good reason to to do this. None, none at all.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNLESS YOU ARE READY FOR IT TO NEVER WORK AGAIN IF YOU UPGRADE YOUR COMPUTER MORE THAN THREE TIMES.
So yea, just giving it a flat 0 wouldn't really get the message out, but perhaps this will.
In this day and age it makes little sense to ask another person what something is if you have access to a computer.
If someone had mentioned this to me in meatspace and I wasn't near the internet I would ask what Zappos is, but you are on the net, it is easier to Google than it is to ask.
Now if it was something that didn't pull up within the first few links then you would have something to stand on, but Google gets it right with the first link.
They actually do it for (to them) legitimate reasons - software related and habit being the two largest.
One of the titles I help support was written back in 1999, in order for it to save changes it requires admin access, the program that is. With Windows 7 there are around 6 or 7 different ways to give a program admin access, without the user having to log in as an admin. The easiest is right on the compatibility tab.
The person may have a point, but I don't think they have thought though their point well enough to actually make an argument. Once the person does try to make an argument the person will find out they don't actually have a point.
to that end, imagine the havoc that could be wrought if, say, the Zeta's got a hold of one of ICE's Suburbans and managed to reverse engineer it's systems
All though it would be handy for the Zeta's to be able to disable the ignition at will of an ICE Suburban, I think the greater threat would just be the Zeta's using a system to see where radio transmission are coming from.
If ICE never sees the Zeta's then ICE will probably never know that the Zeta's have the capability, but if you knock out the ICE's vehicles they will react to that immediately and make sure that vector no longer works.
I'm posting from work, the only place boring enough for me to find slashdot entertaining.
Are you saying that there are members of slashdot who not only do not look at slashdot while working, but they instead spend their precious off time to look at slashdot?
It can be proven if the system did or did not do a scan, from the summary that seems to be the point of the case, that the program did not do a scan at all, it just presented fake results.
It is also verified since when people bought a new service after Symantec claimed to have found problems, but once the program is purchased and installed the program does not find the problems it claimed you had.
A) Now if Canada buys from a different country, I would say go with the Eurofighter. It's only 17 years old and will work well against the old Soviet designs that Canada is most likely to go up against.
B) It will cost a fortune, even when compared with buying from the US.
C) Although Canada doesn't have to worry about their neighbor to the south, Canada has to worry about its neighbor across the ice.
I am at a disadvantage here in that I have not actually used Siri so I cannot give you examples of Siri being imprecise. So rather than give specific examples of Siri being imprecise, here is an example of natural speech being imprecise.
My wife plays the navigator when we drive, say I am coming up on a curve in the road, and from the curve in the road is another road that if I went in a straight line I would end up on that road. Now my wife knows me pretty well, we have been together around 14 years now. If I ask her "Do I go straight?" it still confuses the living shit out of her. She doesn't know if I mean, do I continue along this road we currently are on, or do I continue straight and get on the other road that intersects at the curve. It should be completely obvious from the way I phrased it that I want to know "Do I continue going straight and get on the other road that intersects at the curve?". As it is she is trying to "get me" by trying to see if I am asking something that isn't exactly what I am asking,.
When you can make precise commands you get accurate results. If a computer is trying to guess what you mean then it will be a toss up as to if it gets it right. Same as if it was a human.
You are right it wouldn't. Platooning is a way to squeeze a lot of cars at once though green lights by grouping them together at red lights and then sending them on though.
So yes, platooning would not apply, a stoplight with no other lights within 4 miles would be either time based, or sensor based, or a combination of the two.
Many of the insider remarks on this project are talking about how it's intended to be like the Star Trek computer, even addressing it as "computer." Often times, I think Google is way too engineering-driven and quite simply doesn't get humans.
I don't need a hammer that gets me. I need one I can accurately use. Natural language is very imprecise, a set list of commands makes things more precise.
While we're at it let's remove what I call "Stupid stoplights", that do nothing but waste gas. How many times have you sat at a red light with NO cross traffic for 30 seconds or more.
It's called traffic platooning. Basically the system that allows you to hit five or six greens in a row is responsible for the "stupid stoplights".Unfortunately if you google that phrase you now come across driverless systems that take platooning to the next level.
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Best we can do is vote the current person out of office
Naw, we can also shoot them, if you do so you may end up dead or in prison, but yea, we can also shoot them.
The company I work for does produce among other things, college textbooks, but the colleges don't get a dime. We charge everyone the same amount, whether you are an individual, or a huge bookstore chain like B&N.
The problem with college textbooks is that you have to find someone who is
A) Willing to write a book
B) An expert in the subject who is able to take their knowledge and lay it out in such a way that it is useful to the student and the professor.
And what really makes them expensive is that there might be three or four thousand copies printed total, so that everything that went into writing that book has to be recouped off of just three or four thousand copies, instead of the millions of copies for pulp fiction titles.
True, instead every reviewer should start off with.
If you change any hardware in your computer 3 times this game will no longer work. This isn't a technical issue with the game itself, but is instead a limitation the publisher has included to this game so that..um...... actually the publisher does not have a single good reason to to do this. None, none at all.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNLESS YOU ARE READY FOR IT TO NEVER WORK AGAIN IF YOU UPGRADE YOUR COMPUTER MORE THAN THREE TIMES.
So yea, just giving it a flat 0 wouldn't really get the message out, but perhaps this will.
In this day and age it makes little sense to ask another person what something is if you have access to a computer.
If someone had mentioned this to me in meatspace and I wasn't near the internet I would ask what Zappos is, but you are on the net, it is easier to Google than it is to ask.
Now if it was something that didn't pull up within the first few links then you would have something to stand on, but Google gets it right with the first link.
They actually do it for (to them) legitimate reasons - software related and habit being the two largest.
One of the titles I help support was written back in 1999, in order for it to save changes it requires admin access, the program that is. With Windows 7 there are around 6 or 7 different ways to give a program admin access, without the user having to log in as an admin. The easiest is right on the compatibility tab.
Close, more like, we could avoid their tanks on a continuous basis and they would never be the wiser, or we could blow up a couple tanks once.
The person may have a point, but I don't think they have thought though their point well enough to actually make an argument. Once the person does try to make an argument the person will find out they don't actually have a point.
Out of all the places he could work, where do you think he should work?
Where do you think he should not work due to moral qualms?
Why should he give two shits what you think?
to that end, imagine the havoc that could be wrought if, say, the Zeta's got a hold of one of ICE's Suburbans and managed to reverse engineer it's systems
All though it would be handy for the Zeta's to be able to disable the ignition at will of an ICE Suburban, I think the greater threat would just be the Zeta's using a system to see where radio transmission are coming from.
If ICE never sees the Zeta's then ICE will probably never know that the Zeta's have the capability, but if you knock out the ICE's vehicles they will react to that immediately and make sure that vector no longer works.
Best defense, no be there.
Your comment confuses me.
I'm posting from work, the only place boring enough for me to find slashdot entertaining.
Are you saying that there are members of slashdot who not only do not look at slashdot while working, but they instead spend their precious off time to look at slashdot?
It can be proven if the system did or did not do a scan, from the summary that seems to be the point of the case, that the program did not do a scan at all, it just presented fake results.
It is also verified since when people bought a new service after Symantec claimed to have found problems, but once the program is purchased and installed the program does not find the problems it claimed you had.
Would Google notice if you Google bomb them?
Best when you can get a bunch of the wage back when the workers pay you for housing and food
Bonus points for paying them in a currency only redeemable at company stores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_system
Well, until we can re-legalize slavery in the U.S.
That would never go over, with slaves you have to pay for their food, for their clothing, for their medical care, and for their housing.
Paying someone minimum wage is way cheaper than slave labor.
Siri instead of erroring out will start spitting out just plain bad information, which is worse?
"Call me an ambulance!"
From now on, I will call you 'An Ambulance'. OK?
Well then here are your choices.
A) Buy from a different country.
B) Build your own.
C) Don't have any fighter jets.
A) Now if Canada buys from a different country, I would say go with the Eurofighter. It's only 17 years old and will work well against the old Soviet designs that Canada is most likely to go up against.
B) It will cost a fortune, even when compared with buying from the US.
C) Although Canada doesn't have to worry about their neighbor to the south, Canada has to worry about its neighbor across the ice.
There is a difference between dying in combat or for a cause and dying due to someone's incompetence or unfinished work.
Test pilot is synonymous with risk, even more so than being a fighter pilot.
If this was a car then lawyers, consumer prot organizations, and the gov will all be up in arms.
But it is not a car is it?
I am at a disadvantage here in that I have not actually used Siri so I cannot give you examples of Siri being imprecise. So rather than give specific examples of Siri being imprecise, here is an example of natural speech being imprecise.
My wife plays the navigator when we drive, say I am coming up on a curve in the road, and from the curve in the road is another road that if I went in a straight line I would end up on that road. Now my wife knows me pretty well, we have been together around 14 years now. If I ask her "Do I go straight?" it still confuses the living shit out of her. She doesn't know if I mean, do I continue along this road we currently are on, or do I continue straight and get on the other road that intersects at the curve. It should be completely obvious from the way I phrased it that I want to know "Do I continue going straight and get on the other road that intersects at the curve?". As it is she is trying to "get me" by trying to see if I am asking something that isn't exactly what I am asking,.
When you can make precise commands you get accurate results. If a computer is trying to guess what you mean then it will be a toss up as to if it gets it right. Same as if it was a human.
> that annoying talk/game-show host from The 5th Element.
Now _that_ would be Clippy of the new millenium.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
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Cool, does that mean I can now put out new Elvis songs using his voice since he is dead?
You are right it wouldn't. Platooning is a way to squeeze a lot of cars at once though green lights by grouping them together at red lights and then sending them on though.
So yes, platooning would not apply, a stoplight with no other lights within 4 miles would be either time based, or sensor based, or a combination of the two.
Many of the insider remarks on this project are talking about how it's intended to be like the Star Trek computer, even addressing it as "computer." Often times, I think Google is way too engineering-driven and quite simply doesn't get humans.
I don't need a hammer that gets me. I need one I can accurately use. Natural language is very imprecise, a set list of commands makes things more precise.
While we're at it let's remove what I call "Stupid stoplights", that do nothing but waste gas. How many times have you sat at a red light with NO cross traffic for 30 seconds or more.
It's called traffic platooning. Basically the system that allows you to hit five or six greens in a row is responsible for the "stupid stoplights" .Unfortunately if you google that phrase you now come across driverless systems that take platooning to the next level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_control_and_coordination#Coordinated_control