I am really glad that Google's arrogance had backfired. Remember when they decided to expose the user's real names without the user's consent ? What a way to win over the users. Their CEO should get the idea that people are more than just hashes in a table.
The effort of the Flat Earth Society to flat-out flatten the structure of the OS/2 Warp Society has fallen flat. The OS/2 Warp Society maintains its warped structure and no one can imagine what kind of warped thiinking is required to belive that it can be flattened.
... won't it be the case that the vacuum will be even darker than before ? But then, they will make it even harder to detect dark matter against this very dark vacuous background of space.
I would pay more attention to such news if it wasn't so bloody obvious that it is trying to inflame things before Brexit. So, what now ? Blame the f***ing immigrants yet again for the job losses ? At the same time whining that there are fewer foreign construction workers around, and therefore those still around charge more for their services ? Or maybe, just maybe, murder Jo Cox a second time. That will fix everythiing.
when my dad brought me a compass. I could detect the Earth's magnetic field with my eyes, by follwoing the compass needle. Later on I even felt the Earth's magnetic field with my fingers. I used a foot-long magetic rod and I was able to feel the small force as the rod was trying to align itself with the Earth's magnetic fiield.
Now that is a powerful combination ! I wish more humans were like that, "loaded with both". Still I would not like to have to chase after that thing when the brain will figure out that the experiment will be finished and command the muscle to jump out of the dish.
Did they learn nothing at all from the Star Wars program of the 80's ? The obstacles that made that program fail had to do with Physics not computing power. And physics did not change that much in 40 years. Sure there was some progress since then (just look at the power output of semiconductor lasers now vs 40 years ago) but nothing on the scale that will make the program feasible.
Well, the Romans did record the history for a couple of hundred of yearrs. Then the Dark Ages followed until historical records re-started around 800 years ago. That is from before the Mini Ice Age. During the Mini Ice Age a lot of battles took place simply because armies could cross frozen rivers.
That particular sort of thing I was born in had many natural distasters recorded in it history. Said recorder hstory started before the establishment of the Emirate of Granada, and runs until today. The USA by contrast has as much history (1776 - today) since its declaration of independence as the Emirate of Granada had at its fall (1230 - 1492, the year America was discovered).
In my country of birth there were no tornadoes in the recorded history. Until a few years ago. Sure people have heard of them and seen them on TV, but never experienced them, so the first time one happened, they did not know what it was. Yes, and kids in that same country did hear the story about the Wizard of Oz. Do you think they believed that they were about to meet the Tin Man and his friends? Or that global warming may have something to do with what they experienced ?
The people who are most affected are those that are commuting to work in their cars. They are the ones hardest hit by the increases in the fuel price, road taxes, etc. Very similar to the ever increasing rail fares in the UK. And since these people don't have the luxury of not going to work, the first place they will complain is the union.
Such a large-scale action is not done without some central organization. Obviously the union leaders know how much money the bosses pocked from the revenue generated by this cameras. By cutting this revenue the bosses are much more likely to listen to their demands.
Also, it is a case of "You keep our pay low, we can lower your pay"
I think they use laptops on the International Space Station and there you are not protected from cosmic rays by the blanket of the Earth's atmosphere. Just read up on the phosphenes experienced by the astronauts as they try to go to sleep.
Not sure if "gamma rays" is the correct term here, as high-energy protons are most likely to create a local change in electric charge density. With modern processors being built ont the 14 nanometres process this becones a serious problem. All the processors that are used in spacecraft and control vital functions are radiation-hardened. That usually means older fabrication processes (wider paths reduce the probability of cross-talk) and amorphous silicon (a monocrystal can sustain permanent damage from a particle of high enough energy)
Overall, it does make sense if it is meant to be used in space.
Same here, I did not even know the correct rules until my son got interested in chess. Does everyone know what an en-passant capture is ?
I tried to learn alongside my son, but at my age the right structures do not form in the brain. However, it was fascinating to see how one goes about learning chess, and what mental exercises you have to do to help you visualize the board. For example is F6 a light or a dark square ?
What I did learn is how to code up a chess engine, starting out with Sunfish : https://github.com/thomasahle/... and then writing my own. I also learned quite a bit about chess history, and books like "Mortal Games" about Garry Kasparov, "The Inner Game" about Nigel Short, or Kasparov's own "How life immitates chess" hwere really great reads.
At work I keep a browser window of chess24.com open at some live game, and I glance over the computer analysis which indicates possible continuations from the given position.
Overall, a much better pastime than idly watching TV or reading tne (usually gloomy) news.
I remember upgrading to Firefox 60 and after I went through all the settings (disabling autoplay, push, geolocation, etc) I set up my search engines the way I like, excluding Google from the list.
Well, immediately after that I got a pop-up with Firefox informing me that it did me a great favor of restoring Google as the default search engine.
It used to be the case that any problem with the Apple products was the customer's fault. For example the phone did not get signal because the customer was holding it wrong. As we all know, Apple's management are incapable of sin.
Now Apple are recalling products? They've gone soft.
I did not see any example where someone says: "I did not buy that product because it lacked AI".
I did not hear from anyone that they need AI so they are going out of their way to buy it. In its current form AI is good for pattern recognition in some cases, for example, face identification in photos. The only customers are corporations with massive collections of personal data to analyze, but not individual consumers. I believe AI has been over-hyped and pushed in areas where it is not usable in its current form (like self-driving cars) and we start to see the backlash.
I've already seen stories saying that the medical diagnoses made by IBM's Watson are just plain wrong. More examples will follow.
Looks like the whole idiocy of closing the analog hole is alive and well, and here is matches with the only way Tim Cook can keep the earnings up to the shareholder expectations: charge for access to the Apple devices. Also, he is backed into a corner by the company's previous financial success.
Rest assured that the only headphones that will work with the iPad will be Apple's own and will cost accordingly. Same with all the proprietary connectors on the Mac. All the dongles and adapters cost a fortune.
It was an Apple executive who said "Next time there will be no Xerox". Well, that next time is now.
If I remember correctly, Goal Line Technology relies on a couple of RFID chips being placed on the ball. Then they communicate with sensors placed on the goal posts and crossbar.
However, I'm sure the sensors are used to spy on the goalkeepers.
I realized that I've been out of the gaming scene for about 20 years now, and when my kid started to play Clash Royale I decided to jump in as well. If for no other reason, just to bring myself up-to-date with the way gaming is done for his generation.
I also spoke about this with a psychologist, just to have a second opinion of what is happening as I had a feeling that the developers of the game may be playing certain tricks that the kids are likely to fall for.
The game is free-to-play, with "chests" available to buy with real money and with the possibility to win them slowly, in-game.
In addition to stretching the patience of the player (after winning a chest you have to wait 3, 8, 12 of 24 hours to open it) the psychologist confirmed that the game employs a well-known method of creating addiction:
Frustrate the player first and then reward him.
- Whenever you are about to get a valuable chest you are first forced into a losing streak. This happened consistently over a year and a half of observation. - The losses are meant to induce frustration and make the player try even harder for a win, only to get another loss. The frustration is induced via well-chosen glitches that disappear once the valuable chest is obtained.
Add to this the fact that progress is a logarithmic function of the effort (the require number of "cards" needed to upgrade grows exponentially with the level) and you got a very nice bottomless pit which the impatient will try to fill up with cash.
I am left speechless and powerless by their decisions to go portless, buttonless.
- They will surely go speakerless and mic-less (this will make the phones analog hole-less) - Battery-less (no more battery fires, hurrah !) - Use-less - Price-less (how much does it cost? How much have you got? Or as they prefer in England, how much can you afford to pay ?) - Screen-less was already mentioned. - Case-less (the most lightweight phone, lighter than air)
This reminds me of a story about trains: "When a train derails it is usually the last carriage that causes the derailment. Therefore, to address this problem we will remove the last carriage from all trains." Problem solved.
Ford has a big market share now, but what of the trend for the future? Let's add some more to the list:
- Electric car market share increasing, prices decreasing, range and charging time improving, Ford works in a saturated market.
- Pressure to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Ford cannot just discard their current production lines and go all electric due to many factors, not least of which being internal politics.
- Electric cars and large batteries work well with wind and solar electricity generation and renewable energy has a steep increasing trend.
I can add more, but anyone can get the idea that while Ford dominates now all trends chip away at that domination and Tesla is perfectly positioned to benefit from those trends.
Remember the stages: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you..." Tesla has passed now the first two stages, so the fight is shaping up.
I remember in the mid-90's when Windows NT was used everywhere in the corporate world, monitoring the employees was the order of the day. It was very common to hear from managers that were sales people and accountants things like:
"Between 2 and 2:30 PM you did not type at all. Your colleague was typing all this time"
Nowadays it is known that bosses take snapshots of the websites that the employees visit and put them on their individual files so they can use them during performance review.
This one kept a log of the results of the planarian worm experiments.
By the way, a very good read is the book titled "The Golem" by Harry Collins. It describes how murky some of the results of the scientific experiments were, despite the fact that today they are accepted as decisive evidence.
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And I feel fine.
I am really glad that Google's arrogance had backfired.
Remember when they decided to expose the user's real names without the user's consent ?
What a way to win over the users. Their CEO should get the idea that people are more than just hashes in a table.
The effort of the Flat Earth Society to flat-out flatten the structure of the OS/2 Warp Society has fallen flat.
The OS/2 Warp Society maintains its warped structure and no one can imagine what kind of warped thiinking is required to belive that it can be flattened.
... won't it be the case that the vacuum will be even darker than before ?
But then, they will make it even harder to detect dark matter against this very dark vacuous background of space.
I would pay more attention to such news if it wasn't so bloody obvious that it is trying to inflame things before Brexit.
So, what now ? Blame the f***ing immigrants yet again for the job losses ?
At the same time whining that there are fewer foreign construction workers around, and therefore those still around charge more for their services ?
Or maybe, just maybe, murder Jo Cox a second time. That will fix everythiing.
when my dad brought me a compass.
I could detect the Earth's magnetic field with my eyes, by follwoing the compass needle.
Later on I even felt the Earth's magnetic field with my fingers. I used a foot-long magetic rod and I was able to feel the small force as the rod was trying to align itself with the Earth's magnetic fiield.
Now that is a powerful combination ! I wish more humans were like that, "loaded with both".
Still I would not like to have to chase after that thing when the brain will figure out that the experiment will be finished and command the muscle to jump out of the dish.
Did they learn nothing at all from the Star Wars program of the 80's ? The obstacles that made that program fail had to do with Physics not computing power. And physics did not change that much in 40 years.
Sure there was some progress since then (just look at the power output of semiconductor lasers now vs 40 years ago) but nothing on the scale that will make the program feasible.
Well, the Romans did record the history for a couple of hundred of yearrs.
Then the Dark Ages followed until historical records re-started around 800 years ago.
That is from before the Mini Ice Age. During the Mini Ice Age a lot of battles took place simply because armies could cross frozen rivers.
That particular sort of thing I was born in had many natural distasters recorded in it history.
Said recorder hstory started before the establishment of the Emirate of Granada, and runs until today.
The USA by contrast has as much history (1776 - today) since its declaration of independence as the Emirate of Granada had at its fall (1230 - 1492, the year America was discovered).
In my country of birth there were no tornadoes in the recorded history. Until a few years ago.
Sure people have heard of them and seen them on TV, but never experienced them, so the first time one happened, they did not know what it was.
Yes, and kids in that same country did hear the story about the Wizard of Oz.
Do you think they believed that they were about to meet the Tin Man and his friends?
Or that global warming may have something to do with what they experienced ?
... get to be desirable, even when it comes to reviving mammoths. After all, what would be the point of reviving an old male ?
The people who are most affected are those that are commuting to work in their cars. They are the ones hardest hit by the increases in the fuel price, road taxes, etc.
Very similar to the ever increasing rail fares in the UK.
And since these people don't have the luxury of not going to work, the first place they will complain is the union.
Such a large-scale action is not done without some central organization.
Obviously the union leaders know how much money the bosses pocked from the revenue generated by this cameras.
By cutting this revenue the bosses are much more likely to listen to their demands.
Also, it is a case of "You keep our pay low, we can lower your pay"
I think they use laptops on the International Space Station and there you are not protected from cosmic rays by the blanket of the Earth's atmosphere. Just read up on the phosphenes experienced by the astronauts as they try to go to sleep.
Not sure if "gamma rays" is the correct term here, as high-energy protons are most likely to create a local change in electric charge density. With modern processors being built ont the 14 nanometres process this becones a serious problem. All the processors that are used in spacecraft and control vital functions are radiation-hardened. That usually means older fabrication processes (wider paths reduce the probability of cross-talk) and amorphous silicon (a monocrystal can sustain permanent damage from a particle of high enough energy)
Overall, it does make sense if it is meant to be used in space.
Same here, I did not even know the correct rules until my son got interested in chess. Does everyone know what an en-passant capture is ?
I tried to learn alongside my son, but at my age the right structures do not form in the brain. However, it was fascinating to see how one goes about learning chess, and what mental exercises you have to do to help you visualize the board. For example is F6 a light or a dark square ?
What I did learn is how to code up a chess engine, starting out with Sunfish : https://github.com/thomasahle/... and then writing my own. I also learned quite a bit about chess history, and books like "Mortal Games" about Garry Kasparov, "The Inner Game" about Nigel Short, or Kasparov's own "How life immitates chess" hwere really great reads.
At work I keep a browser window of chess24.com open at some live game, and I glance over the computer analysis which indicates possible continuations from the given position.
Overall, a much better pastime than idly watching TV or reading tne (usually gloomy) news.
I remember upgrading to Firefox 60 and after I went through all the settings (disabling autoplay, push, geolocation, etc) I set up my search engines the way I like, excluding Google from the list.
Well, immediately after that I got a pop-up with Firefox informing me that it did me a great favor of restoring Google as the default search engine.
How thoughtful of them.
It used to be the case that any problem with the Apple products was the customer's fault.
For example the phone did not get signal because the customer was holding it wrong.
As we all know, Apple's management are incapable of sin.
Now Apple are recalling products? They've gone soft.
I did not see any example where someone says: "I did not buy that product because it lacked AI".
I did not hear from anyone that they need AI so they are going out of their way to buy it. In its current form AI is good for pattern recognition in some cases, for example, face identification in photos.
The only customers are corporations with massive collections of personal data to analyze, but not individual consumers.
I believe AI has been over-hyped and pushed in areas where it is not usable in its current form (like self-driving cars) and we start to see the backlash.
I've already seen stories saying that the medical diagnoses made by IBM's Watson are just plain wrong. More examples will follow.
... to believe that they are 100% honest, and not the voyeuristic hypocrites that everyone knows they are.
Looks like the whole idiocy of closing the analog hole is alive and well, and here is matches with the only way Tim Cook can keep the earnings up to the shareholder expectations: charge for access to the Apple devices.
Also, he is backed into a corner by the company's previous financial success.
Rest assured that the only headphones that will work with the iPad will be Apple's own and will cost accordingly. Same with all the proprietary connectors on the Mac. All the dongles and adapters cost a fortune.
It was an Apple executive who said "Next time there will be no Xerox". Well, that next time is now.
If I remember correctly, Goal Line Technology relies on a couple of RFID chips being placed on the ball. Then they communicate with sensors placed on the goal posts and crossbar.
However, I'm sure the sensors are used to spy on the goalkeepers.
I realized that I've been out of the gaming scene for about 20 years now, and when my kid started to play Clash Royale I decided to jump in as well. If for no other reason, just to bring myself up-to-date with the way gaming is done for his generation.
I also spoke about this with a psychologist, just to have a second opinion of what is happening as I had a feeling that the developers of the game may be playing certain tricks that the kids are likely to fall for.
The game is free-to-play, with "chests" available to buy with real money and with the possibility to win them slowly, in-game.
In addition to stretching the patience of the player (after winning a chest you have to wait 3, 8, 12 of 24 hours to open it) the psychologist confirmed that the game employs a well-known method of creating addiction:
Frustrate the player first and then reward him.
- Whenever you are about to get a valuable chest you are first forced into a losing streak. This happened consistently over a year and a half of observation.
- The losses are meant to induce frustration and make the player try even harder for a win, only to get another loss. The frustration is induced via well-chosen glitches that disappear once the valuable chest is obtained.
Add to this the fact that progress is a logarithmic function of the effort (the require number of "cards" needed to upgrade grows exponentially with the level) and you got a very nice bottomless pit which the impatient will try to fill up with cash.
I am left speechless and powerless by their decisions to go portless, buttonless.
- They will surely go speakerless and mic-less (this will make the phones analog hole-less)
- Battery-less (no more battery fires, hurrah !)
- Use-less
- Price-less (how much does it cost? How much have you got? Or as they prefer in England, how much can you afford to pay ?)
- Screen-less was already mentioned.
- Case-less (the most lightweight phone, lighter than air)
This reminds me of a story about trains:
"When a train derails it is usually the last carriage that causes the derailment. Therefore, to address this problem we will remove the last carriage from all trains."
Problem solved.
Ford has a big market share now, but what of the trend for the future? Let's add some more to the list:
- Electric car market share increasing, prices decreasing, range and charging time improving, Ford works in a saturated market.
- Pressure to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Ford cannot just discard their current production lines and go all electric due to many factors, not least of which being internal politics.
- Electric cars and large batteries work well with wind and solar electricity generation and renewable energy has a steep increasing trend.
I can add more, but anyone can get the idea that while Ford dominates now all trends chip away at that domination and Tesla is perfectly positioned to benefit from those trends.
Remember the stages: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you ..." Tesla has passed now the first two stages, so the fight is shaping up.
I remember in the mid-90's when Windows NT was used everywhere in the corporate world, monitoring the employees was the order of the day. It was very common to hear from managers that were sales people and accountants things like:
"Between 2 and 2:30 PM you did not type at all. Your colleague was typing all this time"
Nowadays it is known that bosses take snapshots of the websites that the employees visit and put them on their individual files so they can use them during performance review.
An none of this has anything to do with China.
Time to bring back the publication:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This one kept a log of the results of the planarian worm experiments.
By the way, a very good read is the book titled "The Golem" by Harry Collins. It describes how murky some of the results of the scientific experiments were, despite the fact that today they are accepted as decisive evidence.