I've lived in a house old enough to have windows that have 'sagged'. There's little difference between the two other than times scales (the glass was well over a century old. I don't know for sure how old, But part of the building was built in 1684. Looking at it, there's no question it is flowing under gravity. This was in the North of England, where temps do not get especially high.
Event diven functional language by default with json being a rather beautifully simple transport and object description, does actually make for an excellent stack for web apps. Also the speed of high concurrency request serving on node is superb. Yes you can do all these things with damn near any language, but nothing is as easy to do all of it so scalably, fast and well. IMO.
It's actually very difficult for the text to be read and filtered by a computer using this form of obfuscation, as long as there are enough variants of each letter, and they are well randomised throughout the content. However, you don't actually need a special font:
http://www.tienhuis.nl/utf8-generator
I'm also excited by this. Especially as to what this could mean for Text to Speech. Generating more organically modeled TTS could really push it out of the uncanny valley. Currently if you ask a tts engine to say a word or phoneme, it is identical to the last time it was made. What if it were generated in realtime with the same variances as a human voice.
they make so much money from ads, in part, because they are trusted by customers to be clever enough to magically put the right ads in front of the right people, and enough right people. Their other products may not make a lot directly, but boy are they strategically beneficial. Search is absolutely key, obviously, but youtube is the second biggest search engine. Gmail puts ads infront of people but also aids the AI behind context aware smarts.Everything they do can be said to help those ads become more effective, larger in volume, more trusted and seen by more people. Their may be some obscure contradictions, but name a few. I bet we can see how they help their ad revenue.
Why "on US citizens"? Seriously. If you are American, you are far more likely to be killed by an American. Even if you are in the army! So why feel so strongly now this is about shooting citizens on your soil. One of them might have killed you. That drone is killing them down the street so you don't have to kill them in your house. Right? Or how about we stop playing computer games where real people really die. Anywhere.
Would you call the war in a subsidy? I would. And trillions are spent there. So if 0.1% of energy is produced by subsidising to the tune of billions, but the rest by subsidies of trillions... The orders of magnitude kinda balance out.
me. I do. I could play all kinds of games to get out of the 40% rate I pay on half my salary. But I'd rather the NHS got it, than a private healthcare system I sponsored with my avoided spend on tax. Because thats better for me? No. Because that's better for the country I live in and the the one my daughter will grow up in? Yes.
Not the point for me. I have a 12 year old daughter. We both search the web. I don't want hardcore porn turning up in her or my results while browsing the web on the living room machines, as if for no reason other than it would be hugely embarrassing.
I'm both liberal and realist. She'll see it. But some of it really isn't for public viewing, right? So not censorship, just better user control. For all involved
resource sharing. Car drives you and maybe a neighbour and a couple of others on the way to work. Then makes a parcel drop from your work to elsewhere, from there taxis someone to a doctors apt...
With complex routing software, cities especially could become far more efficient, yet still very convenient (unlike much human driven public transport). It can help with congestion too. Much of todays gridlocks come from behaviours of humans that can be suppressed and overcome in machine. Forcing clean flow. Also mix them in amongst human traffic and the human traffic starts obeying these cleaner flows. I suspect if we ever get to ~10% automated, we se a massive reduction in traffic jams and accidents amongst human driven cars.
no. This is not analogous to publicly questioning religion. Although it may be similar to making highly offensive (to believers) remarks in a crowded mosque. This 'joke' was posted on a facebook page dedicated to the search for (now the body) of this little girl. The intention could not be to convey anything other than offense. You could not expect the vast majority of the audience reading it to appreciate any intended 'humour'.
Do I think it should be illegal to go into a mosque and loudly, grossly defame the Islamic belief and culture. Yes. It would be dangerous (why it is dangerous is a different matter). Do I think it should be illegal to publicly express your disbelief, another belief, your reasons for not liking the belief.... No. If the guy who wrote this wrote it on his own wall, who cares. If he publicly stated he didn't care about the girl's wellfare. Again, he'd just have a very small very strange bunch of friends at the end of the day. But by targeting those who would be most offended, he has performed a criminal act. Government don't decide on what can be said and what can not. The legal system (including a jury of peers) does decide on how it was said, and if it was intended as an expression, or intended simply to grossly offend. Again, I see this as 'right'.
If you were the father of this child, I'd say this could very easily insight terrible actions of violence.
The UK has excellent freedom of expression. We can mock our leaders and authority figures without much care at all. "inalienable" seems to be the problem in the the US. Freedom of speech being "inalienable" gives it an air of absoluteness. But its a subjective term. How different is telling this joke to her father, to yelling fire in a theatre. Its dangerous to do so. Even if you forget the very real hurt it would cause, even if the father/relative/whoever didn't react? "inalienable" means it can't be taken away. But "it" is subjective. Freedom to get one's point across is one thing. Freedom to hurt another while doing so (or while not even conveying anything meaningful) is another.
Then block it. Or stop using facebook. But it sure as hell won't be the only reminder. Or the 'worst'. I refer you to my earlier post on how precious a late loved one's FB account can be. FB could be smarter bout reminders, but I've found it by far the most considerate info holder of my wife's (in this respect). It allows you to register the profile as being of someone who has died, with very little fuss, many nice touches happened. E.g. She's still in my friends list, but if I start typing her first name in a post, it won't auto suggest it. This is a very nice touch indeed. Very considerate. Where as the local government might send me a form requiring her signiture to confirm she's no longer requiring service X. Srsly. Despite being told why we needed to cancel. And having multiple other similar notifications. She still gets more mail than me. Every day... So no, I don't agree with this.
I can't tell you how important my late wife's facebook account is to me. It is betond money. I realize I'm not 'entitled' to it. And that one day it will die too. Maybe at the hands of a troll (they already hacked her twitter acc to do pharma spam). Or a data center outage. Or a change in policy. Whatever. Nothing is for ever.
But for the time it is there, it is greater than any scrap book, photo album or other personal treasure. Neither of us care greatly about advertisers using the data. It is a detailed, personal record of the happiest time I'm ever likely to have. So deletion would not get my vote! If it were deleted I would certainly want to download a copy first. I know I'm not entitled to it, but again, it's what I'd want...
but it's not behind. It has grown. Ahead of the market. It's waiting there for the market. The market is what is slow (comparatively) here. I have a Google Nexus One, running Android 2.2. Some years old now. It is still a miraculous little tool. I have no need to upgrade. In fact I have an iPhone4 and never (literally, other than to check what it did) used it. The iPhone is heavier, shorter on battery life, and I can't swap out the battery and so carry multiple with me. I regularly use my 'old' Android for sat nav, playing mp3s when working, buying music, streaming music to my livingroom media player, controlling my TV and media player on my media box, finding places, finding new places, taking pics and video (many hours worth), checking Facbook, looking shit up, playing games, reading books, as a recipe book, as a cooking timer, as a third screen when coding, and as a dog training tool, a torch, texting and phoning. And skyping. And a tape measure. And translation device, spell checker, wireless keyboard and trackpad for my media playing pc, and internet radio player. In car media player and hands free device. And wifi hotspot provider for when I'm out and about with my laptop.
But I'm not a power user! I don't need the 8 cores on the latest devices, to do all that at once - and screen in screen video playback for multi tasking that await in Jelly Been. I'm not sure I know anyone who does. The only thing I ever wanted that it didn't have was host mode for USB, so I could control robots with it via micro usb. But I never have time for that anyway...
Slashdot Mirror
...mean grown in bullshit right?
I've lived in a house old enough to have windows that have 'sagged'. There's little difference between the two other than times scales (the glass was well over a century old. I don't know for sure how old, But part of the building was built in 1684. Looking at it, there's no question it is flowing under gravity. This was in the North of England, where temps do not get especially high.
Event diven functional language by default with json being a rather beautifully simple transport and object description, does actually make for an excellent stack for web apps. Also the speed of high concurrency request serving on node is superb. Yes you can do all these things with damn near any language, but nothing is as easy to do all of it so scalably, fast and well. IMO.
It's actually very difficult for the text to be read and filtered by a computer using this form of obfuscation, as long as there are enough variants of each letter, and they are well randomised throughout the content. However, you don't actually need a special font: http://www.tienhuis.nl/utf8-generator
I'm also excited by this. Especially as to what this could mean for Text to Speech. Generating more organically modeled TTS could really push it out of the uncanny valley. Currently if you ask a tts engine to say a word or phoneme, it is identical to the last time it was made. What if it were generated in realtime with the same variances as a human voice.
This is what you want: https://github.com/AppScale/appscale/wiki
they make so much money from ads, in part, because they are trusted by customers to be clever enough to magically put the right ads in front of the right people, and enough right people. Their other products may not make a lot directly, but boy are they strategically beneficial. Search is absolutely key, obviously, but youtube is the second biggest search engine. Gmail puts ads infront of people but also aids the AI behind context aware smarts.Everything they do can be said to help those ads become more effective, larger in volume, more trusted and seen by more people. Their may be some obscure contradictions, but name a few. I bet we can see how they help their ad revenue.
With micron resolution 3D printers, I wonder if its practical to take stolen fingerprint data and print yourself a finger.
Skype.
Why "on US citizens"? Seriously. If you are American, you are far more likely to be killed by an American. Even if you are in the army! So why feel so strongly now this is about shooting citizens on your soil. One of them might have killed you. That drone is killing them down the street so you don't have to kill them in your house. Right? Or how about we stop playing computer games where real people really die. Anywhere.
Would you call the war in a subsidy? I would. And trillions are spent there. So if 0.1% of energy is produced by subsidising to the tune of billions, but the rest by subsidies of trillions... The orders of magnitude kinda balance out.
https://github.com/lg/murder I hope so.
At what pressure do you think those safety tests are carried out?
provide hourly chunks of raw data as torrents.
Done!
me. I do. I could play all kinds of games to get out of the 40% rate I pay on half my salary. But I'd rather the NHS got it, than a private healthcare system I sponsored with my avoided spend on tax. Because thats better for me? No. Because that's better for the country I live in and the the one my daughter will grow up in? Yes.
Not the point for me. I have a 12 year old daughter. We both search the web. I don't want hardcore porn turning up in her or my results while browsing the web on the living room machines, as if for no reason other than it would be hugely embarrassing.
I'm both liberal and realist. She'll see it. But some of it really isn't for public viewing, right? So not censorship, just better user control. For all involved
You're shitting me?!
resource sharing. Car drives you and maybe a neighbour and a couple of others on the way to work. Then makes a parcel drop from your work to elsewhere, from there taxis someone to a doctors apt...
With complex routing software, cities especially could become far more efficient, yet still very convenient (unlike much human driven public transport). It can help with congestion too. Much of todays gridlocks come from behaviours of humans that can be suppressed and overcome in machine. Forcing clean flow. Also mix them in amongst human traffic and the human traffic starts obeying these cleaner flows. I suspect if we ever get to ~10% automated, we se a massive reduction in traffic jams and accidents amongst human driven cars.
I'm confused. Do you think I'm religious?
no. This is not analogous to publicly questioning religion. Although it may be similar to making highly offensive (to believers) remarks in a crowded mosque. This 'joke' was posted on a facebook page dedicated to the search for (now the body) of this little girl. The intention could not be to convey anything other than offense. You could not expect the vast majority of the audience reading it to appreciate any intended 'humour'.
Do I think it should be illegal to go into a mosque and loudly, grossly defame the Islamic belief and culture. Yes. It would be dangerous (why it is dangerous is a different matter). Do I think it should be illegal to publicly express your disbelief, another belief, your reasons for not liking the belief.... No. If the guy who wrote this wrote it on his own wall, who cares. If he publicly stated he didn't care about the girl's wellfare. Again, he'd just have a very small very strange bunch of friends at the end of the day. But by targeting those who would be most offended, he has performed a criminal act. Government don't decide on what can be said and what can not. The legal system (including a jury of peers) does decide on how it was said, and if it was intended as an expression, or intended simply to grossly offend. Again, I see this as 'right'.
If you were the father of this child, I'd say this could very easily insight terrible actions of violence.
The UK has excellent freedom of expression. We can mock our leaders and authority figures without much care at all. "inalienable" seems to be the problem in the the US. Freedom of speech being "inalienable" gives it an air of absoluteness. But its a subjective term. How different is telling this joke to her father, to yelling fire in a theatre. Its dangerous to do so. Even if you forget the very real hurt it would cause, even if the father/relative/whoever didn't react? "inalienable" means it can't be taken away. But "it" is subjective. Freedom to get one's point across is one thing. Freedom to hurt another while doing so (or while not even conveying anything meaningful) is another.
Then block it. Or stop using facebook. But it sure as hell won't be the only reminder. Or the 'worst'. I refer you to my earlier post on how precious a late loved one's FB account can be. FB could be smarter bout reminders, but I've found it by far the most considerate info holder of my wife's (in this respect). It allows you to register the profile as being of someone who has died, with very little fuss, many nice touches happened. E.g. She's still in my friends list, but if I start typing her first name in a post, it won't auto suggest it. This is a very nice touch indeed. Very considerate. Where as the local government might send me a form requiring her signiture to confirm she's no longer requiring service X. Srsly. Despite being told why we needed to cancel. And having multiple other similar notifications. She still gets more mail than me. Every day... So no, I don't agree with this.
I can't tell you how important my late wife's facebook account is to me. It is betond money. I realize I'm not 'entitled' to it. And that one day it will die too. Maybe at the hands of a troll (they already hacked her twitter acc to do pharma spam). Or a data center outage. Or a change in policy. Whatever. Nothing is for ever.
But for the time it is there, it is greater than any scrap book, photo album or other personal treasure. Neither of us care greatly about advertisers using the data. It is a detailed, personal record of the happiest time I'm ever likely to have. So deletion would not get my vote! If it were deleted I would certainly want to download a copy first. I know I'm not entitled to it, but again, it's what I'd want...
what should a brilliant jerk do with a start up might be the real question. If they're brilliant, it will probably be up to them in reallity.
but it's not behind. It has grown. Ahead of the market. It's waiting there for the market. The market is what is slow (comparatively) here. I have a Google Nexus One, running Android 2.2. Some years old now. It is still a miraculous little tool. I have no need to upgrade. In fact I have an iPhone4 and never (literally, other than to check what it did) used it. The iPhone is heavier, shorter on battery life, and I can't swap out the battery and so carry multiple with me. I regularly use my 'old' Android for sat nav, playing mp3s when working, buying music, streaming music to my livingroom media player, controlling my TV and media player on my media box, finding places, finding new places, taking pics and video (many hours worth), checking Facbook, looking shit up, playing games, reading books, as a recipe book, as a cooking timer, as a third screen when coding, and as a dog training tool, a torch, texting and phoning. And skyping. And a tape measure. And translation device, spell checker, wireless keyboard and trackpad for my media playing pc, and internet radio player. In car media player and hands free device. And wifi hotspot provider for when I'm out and about with my laptop.
But I'm not a power user! I don't need the 8 cores on the latest devices, to do all that at once - and screen in screen video playback for multi tasking that await in Jelly Been. I'm not sure I know anyone who does. The only thing I ever wanted that it didn't have was host mode for USB, so I could control robots with it via micro usb. But I never have time for that anyway...