This is not really "the right thing", any more than a hacky bug fix is the right thing.
The right thing is to deal with the deficit/debt, as many Republicans want to - but the way they want to go about it is terrible (a combination of threats and spending cuts only).
The reality is that until both parties sit down and agree to deal with the deficit/debt with a mix of tax hikes *and* spending cuts, it's going to be hard to make any significant progress on this.
This is very well intentioned to be sure, but I don't see how it would work.
In the real world, most people are literally and metaphorically able to get away with murder on the battlefield; the only time they aren't is when they are captured by an opposing force.
Is the Red Cross suggesting that if the game AI senses that you have committed gross acts of violence that it should cause the enemy force to overwhelm you as "punishment"? Or that an international tribunal should materialize on the spot to try you?
Most of the comments here seem to be focusing on FIDO being all about identification via fingerprint, when in fact, the standards it is seeking to develop also include 2FA authentication. There's nothing saying that Mastercard might not in the end opt for 2FA.
You can't base advice on just one single incident.
What if I could point out to you many *other* incidents where someone was killed *because* they were riding against traffic, and didn't have the time to react?
Are there watchmakers out there with good accuracy/price ratios?
Borrow a pen and write 5pm on your wrist. Now you have a timepiece that is accurate once per day, and costs you nothing. Assuming your desired time granularity is a millisecond, this watch is accurate for 0.000001% of the day. That's actually better than most watches, and when you divide by price the ratio becomes very attractive.
People keep on talking about a stopped watch being correct once (or twice, if you go analog) a day, but that's no good if you don't know *when* it is accurate.
What a chat app needs to do is to build up a network effect - get enough people using it such that a typical person who *doesn't* use it realises that a significant percentage of people he knows *are* using the app.
Once that happens, he has a strong incentive to use the app, especially if it doesn't require him buying a new phone.
But the other limiting factor to the adoption of chat apps over SMS is that not all phones are internet enabled.
A robot follows a program and is NOT controlled by a person.
What you mean to say is that a robot is not controlled in real-time... surely, the fact a person who wrote the program means that he IS controlling the robot, no?
I see IM as a cross between synchronous and asynchronous communication. Sometimes, I IM someone who is offline, and when he logs in to his IM client, he gets my message (like an email). Even if he is online, I don't have same expectation of an immediate reply, since he might be away from his computer (not something that I would believe if I was talking to him face to face or over the phone).
When people talk about switching, they're not talking about switching to exclusively using a new OS/platform... they're talking about switching the OS/platform that they primarily use.
I could understand it if the energy was to be used to man space stations, but the cost of getting that energy back down to earth must surely outweigh any benefit from having the panels in space... assuming, of course that there is any such benefit.
"They lack money because they have make poor lifestyle decisions that RESULT in a lack of money. Things like failure to get an education (or worse reject the value of knowledge entirely), become a single parent, waste money on substance abuse or Xbox... but I repeat myself."
Why do they make those poor lifestyle decisions? Because they aren't informed enough to know better? Because that's the way they are wired? Because the information is hard to come by or dig up? Because of the environment they live in? Or perhaps it doesn't matter?
First, there's a difference between voluntarily deciding not to have children (where you are free to change your mind) and sterilization (where it's much more difficult).
Secondly, don't assume that Japan *will* continue along this path. When the factors driving Japanese couples to have fewer children disappear, then the fertility rate will go up.
I guess that the assumption here is that the sensor devices are probably devices that most people own, like mobile phones. Perhaps the hope is that they can be enabled with special software to do the sensing.
Saying 'sunlight-shaped' led me to think that the variation in sunlight caused the machine to vary the 3-dimensional form of the furniture. But the machine does nothing of the kind.
First up, I appreciate the responses giving by posters who have witnessed first hand the trauma of Alzheimer's sufferers.
I wonder if it would make any difference if very early on in life, a person became aware of what Alzheimer's was all about and resolved that if it should ever happen to them, they would calmly accept it. Then later on in life, if they began to experience the symptoms of memory loss, they would still have this memory of resolving to accept Alzheimer's if it should ever afflict them - and perhaps this memory would help them deal with the illness.
I think the article focuses mostly on technological innovation... I can't think of any argument as to why innovation is altogether a bad thing. Sure, it may bring about unforseen and unwanted changes - but even in this case, the impact of the changes can be mitigated by careful introduction of the innovation.
But that's the point. People who use DRM care less about how important their work will be in the future, and more about how much money they can make today. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with this - we all make decisions which are skewed towards our short and long term interests.
If you're right (and I think you probably are), then I guess that how much you earn is less correlated with how much you drink, it's more correlated with how much you engage in social activity - and the forms of social activity will vary from culture to culture. It would be interesting, for example, to see whether these results hold in places where alcohol consumption is supposedly frowned upon (like Utah or Saudi Arabia).
Interesting article... the main point seems to be that compilers have grown better at producing the most efficient machine code for particular processor. Perhaps there's a market out there for processors that are optimised for specific languages (like C, given that there still is a lot of C code out there)?
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This is not really "the right thing", any more than a hacky bug fix is the right thing. The right thing is to deal with the deficit/debt, as many Republicans want to - but the way they want to go about it is terrible (a combination of threats and spending cuts only). The reality is that until both parties sit down and agree to deal with the deficit/debt with a mix of tax hikes *and* spending cuts, it's going to be hard to make any significant progress on this.
This is very well intentioned to be sure, but I don't see how it would work. In the real world, most people are literally and metaphorically able to get away with murder on the battlefield; the only time they aren't is when they are captured by an opposing force. Is the Red Cross suggesting that if the game AI senses that you have committed gross acts of violence that it should cause the enemy force to overwhelm you as "punishment"? Or that an international tribunal should materialize on the spot to try you?
Most of the comments here seem to be focusing on FIDO being all about identification via fingerprint, when in fact, the standards it is seeking to develop also include 2FA authentication. There's nothing saying that Mastercard might not in the end opt for 2FA.
...so little battery power to process it all.
You can't base advice on just one single incident. What if I could point out to you many *other* incidents where someone was killed *because* they were riding against traffic, and didn't have the time to react?
I thought that keeping servers cool was a big concern in data centers. Might it not have made more sense to locate this in a colder place?
Are there watchmakers out there with good accuracy/price ratios?
Borrow a pen and write 5pm on your wrist. Now you have a timepiece that is accurate once per day, and costs you nothing. Assuming your desired time granularity is a millisecond, this watch is accurate for 0.000001% of the day. That's actually better than most watches, and when you divide by price the ratio becomes very attractive.
People keep on talking about a stopped watch being correct once (or twice, if you go analog) a day, but that's no good if you don't know *when* it is accurate.
What a chat app needs to do is to build up a network effect - get enough people using it such that a typical person who *doesn't* use it realises that a significant percentage of people he knows *are* using the app. Once that happens, he has a strong incentive to use the app, especially if it doesn't require him buying a new phone. But the other limiting factor to the adoption of chat apps over SMS is that not all phones are internet enabled.
What you mean to say is that a robot is not controlled in real-time... surely, the fact a person who wrote the program means that he IS controlling the robot, no?
I see IM as a cross between synchronous and asynchronous communication. Sometimes, I IM someone who is offline, and when he logs in to his IM client, he gets my message (like an email). Even if he is online, I don't have same expectation of an immediate reply, since he might be away from his computer (not something that I would believe if I was talking to him face to face or over the phone).
When people talk about switching, they're not talking about switching to exclusively using a new OS/platform... they're talking about switching the OS/platform that they primarily use.
Why would StackOverflow would succeed in a space that the likes of Yahoo Answers already occupies?
I could understand it if the energy was to be used to man space stations, but the cost of getting that energy back down to earth must surely outweigh any benefit from having the panels in space... assuming, of course that there is any such benefit.
Why do they make those poor lifestyle decisions? Because they aren't informed enough to know better? Because that's the way they are wired? Because the information is hard to come by or dig up? Because of the environment they live in? Or perhaps it doesn't matter?
First, there's a difference between voluntarily deciding not to have children (where you are free to change your mind) and sterilization (where it's much more difficult). Secondly, don't assume that Japan *will* continue along this path. When the factors driving Japanese couples to have fewer children disappear, then the fertility rate will go up.
I guess that the assumption here is that the sensor devices are probably devices that most people own, like mobile phones. Perhaps the hope is that they can be enabled with special software to do the sensing.
Saying 'sunlight-shaped' led me to think that the variation in sunlight caused the machine to vary the 3-dimensional form of the furniture. But the machine does nothing of the kind.
First up, I appreciate the responses giving by posters who have witnessed first hand the trauma of Alzheimer's sufferers.
I wonder if it would make any difference if very early on in life, a person became aware of what Alzheimer's was all about and resolved that if it should ever happen to them, they would calmly accept it. Then later on in life, if they began to experience the symptoms of memory loss, they would still have this memory of resolving to accept Alzheimer's if it should ever afflict them - and perhaps this memory would help them deal with the illness.
I don't think that the mouse *has* to be used in space... it's just an option in case you don't have a flat surface available.
I think the article focuses mostly on technological innovation... I can't think of any argument as to why innovation is altogether a bad thing. Sure, it may bring about unforseen and unwanted changes - but even in this case, the impact of the changes can be mitigated by careful introduction of the innovation.
But that's the point. People who use DRM care less about how important their work will be in the future, and more about how much money they can make today. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with this - we all make decisions which are skewed towards our short and long term interests.
If you're right (and I think you probably are), then I guess that how much you earn is less correlated with how much you drink, it's more correlated with how much you engage in social activity - and the forms of social activity will vary from culture to culture. It would be interesting, for example, to see whether these results hold in places where alcohol consumption is supposedly frowned upon (like Utah or Saudi Arabia).
Interesting article... the main point seems to be that compilers have grown better at producing the most efficient machine code for particular processor. Perhaps there's a market out there for processors that are optimised for specific languages (like C, given that there still is a lot of C code out there)?