Thanks. Still I can't figure out how they claim they can detect some set tuned to some channel and avoid using it for non licensed use. That was the original claim.
Or they require you to drive the Apple car only inside the walled apple gardens?
All cars will soon be shaped like rounded rectangles. Side swipe would not be considered an accident anymore, it is just part of the user interface. All seats will be nice simple squares and people have to configure themselves to fit inside. If the parking brake does not engage you will be told you are not holding it right. You can buy gasoline only from Apple compatible gas stations with pentalobulous dispensing nozzles.
The link talks about people arguing Brit govt has vans that could detect TV sets operating inside a home without a license, and others arguing it is impossible.
According to FCC regulations all electronic devices should contain any radiation they emit, lest it interferes with other legitimate users of that band. So if a TV set or any device emits radiation it would actually fail FCC interference test. So technically one should not be able to detect TV sets operating nearby, nor should they be able to tell which channels they are tuned to.
V signals are broadcast as normal and the WATCH system actively monitors whenever a nearby TV is tuned to a channel to avoid interfering with reception
The TV receiver is a passive device, right. How would they know there is a nearby TV that is tuned to that particular channel? Could they detect a simple VCR or DTR that simply records the over the air signal for the stingy time shifters who balk at paying the monthly fees to TiVO? Or messing up such penny pinching a feature and not a bug?
Great recession, almost a depression, crashing economy, loss of million jobs a month.. unemployment spiking over 10%... underemployment way past 16%... and they persisted this farce of 17 month additional OPT for STEM? It is corporatocracy, pure and simple.
Especially a nice thing for home users and light version users. They can't turn off "updates", including the one that would brick it once the next version is out, and the current version is "end-of-life"d.
No more the farce of forcing users to run on the upgrade treadmill. Just keep handing over the money.
No, the big deal here is that Microsoft is turning its OS into a service, and that means as you read these words, it's still being built. For the next few years, we'll be getting ^H^H^H^H^H^H paying for not just ^H^H^H^H Windows 10 updates and patches, but^H^H^H whether or not there are new improvments and features. This is possible because Microsoft built this version very differently from all its previous releases.
Of course it is a big deal. Once you see what is going to happen.
I remember a crash of a small twin engined turbo-prop, around 2006. The plane took off and crashed within seconds of take off, it just pitched up and up and up, stalled, rolled in and crashed into a hanger. The cause was the use of average weight for passengers to estimate the take off weight to set the elevator tabs. Compounded by unusual number of heavy bags. The plane was tail heavy, the center of gravity was beyond the allowable limits and the elevators could not generate enough aerodynamic force to pitch the plane down.
The captain of the plane, the leader of NTSB investigation team, the air traffic controller, the emergency crew leader that went into the wreckage looking for survivors, and the baggage handler who provided the clue that cracked the case were all women.
Qt is a great way of writing Mac applications if your goal is to piss off your users. If you want an app that looks sort-of vaguely like a Mac app and doesn't behave at all like one, then use Qt.
It is a good thing if bad things happen to Switzerland. It started out as easily defendable mountain fortresses. Once they figured out there is not much money to be made by robbing passers by. Then they realized acting as a neutral party to guarantee safe exchange of european noblemen prisoners for ransom they get a bigger cut. Some evolution took place, those fortresses of too greedy Swiss that took all the ransom and killed all the parties withered away. The ones that had the reputation, "they take 25% of the ransom money but they don't kill you and return your prisoner safely" thrived. Then they became the neutral bankers where people could protect the assets from seizure from local monarchs. They made money by allowing criminals of all sorts, Nazis, arms suppliers to Nazis, tinpot dictators of the third world looting their own countries to launder their money and get respectability.
Now that cancer has metastasized and many other tiny countries that do not have the natural defenses of Switzerland are offering similar money laundering facilities. If their watch and clock industries die, if their chocolates and cheeses go out of fashion it would be a good beginning. But death of their banks is what we are really rooting for.
Everytime people from two different languages meet, once they stopped killing each other in such encounters, the communication largely consists of mimicking nature in sound and gesture. "Me Jane! You Tarzan!" supposed to teach the concept of me and you by gestures and associate names with the entities. (It does not matter the account is fictional. It is how the author of that fiction imagines he would communicate with people of different language).
Curiously, it assumes they both would understand the gestures. Tarzan would know Jane is pointing to herself as an entity not pointing to her shirt and him as another entity not his chest as a body part. Further assumption is that objects have names and the association is arbitrary. Of course, Tarzan story quickly proceeds to a stage where Jane and Tarzan swap stories about the day the fiend in human shape challenged one to swing across the swimming baths of the club by the rings hanging from the ceilings and cunningly looped the last ring back against the wall, leaving one with no choice to drop into the pool in full evening attire. This is where it becomes very fictional. Well, in real life does not fit into 90 minute movies. But I digress.
The point is, it is very well known imitation of natural sounds and gestures would be a more basic universal form of communication. And it is not a stretch to argue that is how the languages must have born.
Noam Chomsky further extended the concept with the insight that all human beings are born with a language instinct. "Objects have names". "Actions have names". "Order of the words (subject verb object etc) matters", "the names of objects and actions can have qualifiers" etc etc. The child has these concepts already programmed. But the actual names and actual order of the words in a sentence etc get burnt in at an early age. When children of different languages mix constantly they form language-mixtures called creoles and there one can actually observe the birth and evolution of a language. Some of the well recorded recently created creoles suggest these concepts very well.
Simply wear your baseball cap front side back. It has fooled thousands of batters into thinking the fielder is looking oneway while the fielder was in fact looking the otherway. Computer vision recognition systems would be stumped by a face with no eyes, no mouth, no nose but lots of hair! I am a genius. Where do I collect my brownie points?
Lincoln used to write harsh letters to people who deserved it-- like his sluggish generals-- then place them in his desk for a day before sending them. He almost never sent them.
He probably should have to a few of them. The union's generalship was extremely bad at the start of the war. You think General Tso is chicken? General McClellan is chickener, might even be chickenest. He got the battle plans of the traitors mistakenly left behind in a camp site for the battle of Antietam. Still managed to rack up one of the highest casuality rates in the entire war.
Hooker and others were extremely bad. He was scrapping the bottom of the barrel when he picked Grant.
Small boys with a predilection for building protocol droids using home robot kits and pod racing will start developing a scanner to find the embedded chips in their mother's bodies to liberate them.
About 55.8% of the time the humans agree with the captions the AI selects, which is a pretty good percentage
My old prof (RIP Prof Swaminathan) in the freshman physics lab would insist on us doing an error estimate based on the instruments used. He would then chew our ears out if we report a result with more significant digits than what would be reasonable based on the error estimate. Three significant digit accuracy for this study? Or is that the joke?
It mainly happens in high energy physics. The high energy collider labs are run by a large team of scientists and every one in the control room who pushed the buttons wants to be credited as a contributor to the experiment.
Scientists have played pranks with co-author names. The famous Alpha-Beta-Gamma paper comes to mind. Low temp physicist Hetherington had included his dog as a co-author so that he could use "we" in the paper.
The spoof paper authored by S Candlestickmaker done by a student of S Chandrashekar was very famous. The student later lamented that spoof paper was his best known contribution to science than his PhD or his entire research career. It is telling I remember S Candlestickmaker but not the student's name.
If I am trying to sugar coat Islam, you think I would even bring up the concept of mahram? And give a link to an Islamic site to back it up? Think before you shoot buddy.
The shari-ah holds that women are not allowed to travel alone without a proper male relative acting as chaperone. It is known as maharam or honor law. Women caught in Saudi Arabia without a proper male relative in the company of an unrelated male can be prosecuted. Since all uber drivers are male, (women can't drive in Saudi Arabia) and likely to be unrelated, unless these women have a constant supply of "proper" male relatives, they would not have freedom of movement, uber or no uber. I am no islamic scholar, so not very sure of this: The relatives who can act as chaperones are husbands, brothers, fathers, sons. Not very sure who among the in-laws are allowed to be chaperones as per mahram.
It is difficult for American professors to tell which Indian schools are good and which are bad. Students from the bad schools cheat and earn a bad name for the ones from good schools. The ones from the good schools in 1980s and 90s and early 2000s worked well, and earned good reputation and goodwill. That is being squandered by the new comers from less than stellar institutions.
You go ahead and fail all cheating students. At least they will stop registering to classes offered by you. Good riddance. I was a TA too in grad school and I have students cheating in home work. Would give them zero and write snarky notes on the assignments. It once reached the Dean as a discrimination grievance.
Indian manufacturing sector is perpetually troubled by labor union activism. Two states in India (Kerala and West Bengal) have been electing communists to power for decades. In fact these governments are probably the only ones in the whole world where the Communists have taken power by democratic elections and held on to them by elections.
The labor is extremely powerful in factories. One simple personal anecdote, a worker was drilling holes in the wind tunnel model for me to mount the sensors. Did a 9.9 mm hole, and had mounted the 10mm reamer bit in the machine. He had one hole to finish when the siren sounded for tea time, he walked off! I was standing by him and asked him to just finish the last hole, (move the handle once down like in a slot machine, that was all that was pending) he was upset by that request, and refused to finish that job for three weeks. No other worker would touch the machine, other drilling jobs were piling up. I was a very fresh rookie at that time. I did not even had the perception to understand he was waiting for me to apologize for the affront. I would have readily done it if I had known it. No one clued me in on it too. They were all having fun watching me running from pillar to post to get the model to the four-foot tunnel. No one dared to order a worker to finish the job.
There are other stories of workers deliberately opening the autoclave some 24 hours into the cycle, corrupting the tempering process of all the pieces inside. They were aircraft parts, all of them had to be scrapped. Loss of almost a million rupees. A foreman was injured in a shop floor. Ambulance could not reach the location. They had a battery truck. But the workers would not let it be used to transport the guy. Why? foremen belong to the "management"! It is that bad there.
But almost all the unions are controlled by the communists, and China being nominally communist, they may be able to sway the leadership. Also communist party leaders in India have a reputation of being above bribery etc. But the reality was that USSR would give their children scholarships to study in Soviet universities and use their publication (Mir publications, New Century Bookhouse etc) arms to pay them for books that never sell. My cousins have audited the inventory of millions of unsold books being eaten by moths in warehouses.
So given the money China has and the nominal communist government it has, it could bribe the union leaders the way USSR did. It could have factories with much less labor trouble.
So it could work out for China the way it would never work out for USA or European companies.
The greatest enemy for democracy is not totalitarianism or communism or any thisism or thatism. It is apathy. The moment someone takes the trouble to look something up before voting it is good. Once they start some of them would eventually start using more reliable information. In that respect it is a good beginning. It is not perfect. It is barely better than random voting or inertia voting or not voting. But it is a good start, that is all I am saying.
In the modern era, almost all the productive lands have been taken up by the farmers, and the next quality lands were are taken by the grazers. All productive sea shores and rivers were also taken by sedentary fishing tribes. So yes it is incorrect to draw lessons from most of the stone age hunter gathers.
But the New Guinea high lands were isolated, and it is quite a productive land. They were stone age people, but had domesticated pigs and chicken, had agriculture and were quite large in population. They had fragmented into some 6000 tribes, each with its own language and perpetual warface with the neighbors. So it would be correct to draw lessons from Papua New Guinean highlanders. And they were unquestionably violent.
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Thanks. Still I can't figure out how they claim they can detect some set tuned to some channel and avoid using it for non licensed use. That was the original claim.
All cars will soon be shaped like rounded rectangles. Side swipe would not be considered an accident anymore, it is just part of the user interface. All seats will be nice simple squares and people have to configure themselves to fit inside. If the parking brake does not engage you will be told you are not holding it right. You can buy gasoline only from Apple compatible gas stations with pentalobulous dispensing nozzles.
According to FCC regulations all electronic devices should contain any radiation they emit, lest it interferes with other legitimate users of that band. So if a TV set or any device emits radiation it would actually fail FCC interference test. So technically one should not be able to detect TV sets operating nearby, nor should they be able to tell which channels they are tuned to.
They will just follow some simple trial-and-error hit-or-miss approach. No harm done.
V signals are broadcast as normal and the WATCH system actively monitors whenever a nearby TV is tuned to a channel to avoid interfering with reception
The TV receiver is a passive device, right. How would they know there is a nearby TV that is tuned to that particular channel? Could they detect a simple VCR or DTR that simply records the over the air signal for the stingy time shifters who balk at paying the monthly fees to TiVO? Or messing up such penny pinching a feature and not a bug?
Great recession, almost a depression, crashing economy, loss of million jobs a month.. unemployment spiking over 10%... underemployment way past 16%... and they persisted this farce of 17 month additional OPT for STEM? It is corporatocracy, pure and simple.
No more the farce of forcing users to run on the upgrade treadmill. Just keep handing over the money.
No, the big deal here is that Microsoft is turning its OS into a service, and that means as you read these words, it's still being built. For the next few years, we'll be getting ^H^H^H^H^H^H paying for not just ^H^H^H^H Windows 10 updates and patches, but^H^H^H whether or not there are new improvments and features. This is possible because Microsoft built this version very differently from all its previous releases.
Of course it is a big deal. Once you see what is going to happen.
I remember a crash of a small twin engined turbo-prop, around 2006. The plane took off and crashed within seconds of take off, it just pitched up and up and up, stalled, rolled in and crashed into a hanger. The cause was the use of average weight for passengers to estimate the take off weight to set the elevator tabs. Compounded by unusual number of heavy bags. The plane was tail heavy, the center of gravity was beyond the allowable limits and the elevators could not generate enough aerodynamic force to pitch the plane down.
The captain of the plane, the leader of NTSB investigation team, the air traffic controller, the emergency crew leader that went into the wreckage looking for survivors, and the baggage handler who provided the clue that cracked the case were all women.
Qt is a great way of writing Mac applications if your goal is to piss off your users. If you want an app that looks sort-of vaguely like a Mac app and doesn't behave at all like one, then use Qt.
Pissing off Mac users is a feature, not a bug.
But in a smart phone, all those calculations will be done by apps with a easily rememberable icons.
Now that cancer has metastasized and many other tiny countries that do not have the natural defenses of Switzerland are offering similar money laundering facilities. If their watch and clock industries die, if their chocolates and cheeses go out of fashion it would be a good beginning. But death of their banks is what we are really rooting for.
Curiously, it assumes they both would understand the gestures. Tarzan would know Jane is pointing to herself as an entity not pointing to her shirt and him as another entity not his chest as a body part. Further assumption is that objects have names and the association is arbitrary. Of course, Tarzan story quickly proceeds to a stage where Jane and Tarzan swap stories about the day the fiend in human shape challenged one to swing across the swimming baths of the club by the rings hanging from the ceilings and cunningly looped the last ring back against the wall, leaving one with no choice to drop into the pool in full evening attire. This is where it becomes very fictional. Well, in real life does not fit into 90 minute movies. But I digress.
The point is, it is very well known imitation of natural sounds and gestures would be a more basic universal form of communication. And it is not a stretch to argue that is how the languages must have born.
Noam Chomsky further extended the concept with the insight that all human beings are born with a language instinct. "Objects have names". "Actions have names". "Order of the words (subject verb object etc) matters", "the names of objects and actions can have qualifiers" etc etc. The child has these concepts already programmed. But the actual names and actual order of the words in a sentence etc get burnt in at an early age. When children of different languages mix constantly they form language-mixtures called creoles and there one can actually observe the birth and evolution of a language. Some of the well recorded recently created creoles suggest these concepts very well.
Simply wear your baseball cap front side back. It has fooled thousands of batters into thinking the fielder is looking oneway while the fielder was in fact looking the otherway. Computer vision recognition systems would be stumped by a face with no eyes, no mouth, no nose but lots of hair! I am a genius. Where do I collect my brownie points?
Lincoln used to write harsh letters to people who deserved it-- like his sluggish generals-- then place them in his desk for a day before sending them. He almost never sent them.
He probably should have to a few of them. The union's generalship was extremely bad at the start of the war. You think General Tso is chicken? General McClellan is chickener, might even be chickenest. He got the battle plans of the traitors mistakenly left behind in a camp site for the battle of Antietam. Still managed to rack up one of the highest casuality rates in the entire war.
Hooker and others were extremely bad. He was scrapping the bottom of the barrel when he picked Grant.
McVeigh complained that the Army had implanted a microchip into his buttocks so that the government could keep track of him. [Ref 1]
Small boys with a predilection for building protocol droids using home robot kits and pod racing will start developing a scanner to find the embedded chips in their mother's bodies to liberate them.
About 55.8% of the time the humans agree with the captions the AI selects, which is a pretty good percentage
My old prof (RIP Prof Swaminathan) in the freshman physics lab would insist on us doing an error estimate based on the instruments used. He would then chew our ears out if we report a result with more significant digits than what would be reasonable based on the error estimate. Three significant digit accuracy for this study? Or is that the joke?
Scientists have played pranks with co-author names. The famous Alpha-Beta-Gamma paper comes to mind. Low temp physicist Hetherington had included his dog as a co-author so that he could use "we" in the paper.
The spoof paper authored by S Candlestickmaker done by a student of S Chandrashekar was very famous. The student later lamented that spoof paper was his best known contribution to science than his PhD or his entire research career. It is telling I remember S Candlestickmaker but not the student's name.
If I am trying to sugar coat Islam, you think I would even bring up the concept of mahram? And give a link to an Islamic site to back it up? Think before you shoot buddy.
The shari-ah holds that women are not allowed to travel alone without a proper male relative acting as chaperone. It is known as maharam or honor law. Women caught in Saudi Arabia without a proper male relative in the company of an unrelated male can be prosecuted. Since all uber drivers are male, (women can't drive in Saudi Arabia) and likely to be unrelated, unless these women have a constant supply of "proper" male relatives, they would not have freedom of movement, uber or no uber. I am no islamic scholar, so not very sure of this: The relatives who can act as chaperones are husbands, brothers, fathers, sons. Not very sure who among the in-laws are allowed to be chaperones as per mahram.
You go ahead and fail all cheating students. At least they will stop registering to classes offered by you. Good riddance. I was a TA too in grad school and I have students cheating in home work. Would give them zero and write snarky notes on the assignments. It once reached the Dean as a discrimination grievance.
The labor is extremely powerful in factories. One simple personal anecdote, a worker was drilling holes in the wind tunnel model for me to mount the sensors. Did a 9.9 mm hole, and had mounted the 10mm reamer bit in the machine. He had one hole to finish when the siren sounded for tea time, he walked off! I was standing by him and asked him to just finish the last hole, (move the handle once down like in a slot machine, that was all that was pending) he was upset by that request, and refused to finish that job for three weeks. No other worker would touch the machine, other drilling jobs were piling up. I was a very fresh rookie at that time. I did not even had the perception to understand he was waiting for me to apologize for the affront. I would have readily done it if I had known it. No one clued me in on it too. They were all having fun watching me running from pillar to post to get the model to the four-foot tunnel. No one dared to order a worker to finish the job.
There are other stories of workers deliberately opening the autoclave some 24 hours into the cycle, corrupting the tempering process of all the pieces inside. They were aircraft parts, all of them had to be scrapped. Loss of almost a million rupees. A foreman was injured in a shop floor. Ambulance could not reach the location. They had a battery truck. But the workers would not let it be used to transport the guy. Why? foremen belong to the "management"! It is that bad there.
But almost all the unions are controlled by the communists, and China being nominally communist, they may be able to sway the leadership. Also communist party leaders in India have a reputation of being above bribery etc. But the reality was that USSR would give their children scholarships to study in Soviet universities and use their publication (Mir publications, New Century Bookhouse etc) arms to pay them for books that never sell. My cousins have audited the inventory of millions of unsold books being eaten by moths in warehouses.
So given the money China has and the nominal communist government it has, it could bribe the union leaders the way USSR did. It could have factories with much less labor trouble.
So it could work out for China the way it would never work out for USA or European companies.
The greatest enemy for democracy is not totalitarianism or communism or any thisism or thatism. It is apathy. The moment someone takes the trouble to look something up before voting it is good. Once they start some of them would eventually start using more reliable information. In that respect it is a good beginning. It is not perfect. It is barely better than random voting or inertia voting or not voting. But it is a good start, that is all I am saying.
But the New Guinea high lands were isolated, and it is quite a productive land. They were stone age people, but had domesticated pigs and chicken, had agriculture and were quite large in population. They had fragmented into some 6000 tribes, each with its own language and perpetual warface with the neighbors. So it would be correct to draw lessons from Papua New Guinean highlanders. And they were unquestionably violent.