In the physical world this is done by giving visitors the possibility to pay to jump queues. It is nothing more than an attempt to monetize congestion, therefore removing any incentive to eliminate the congestion. The dark fiber will stay dark.
... does that mean that you are not the product ? It only means that you are a much more profitable product, one who is willing to pay to be taken advantage of. You get the freeloader treatment anyway, so no point in paying. The well is irreversibly poisoned.
Even better, implants that will deliver ads straight to the patient's brain coupled with a re-defintion of dementia will lead to 100% reliable results.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to start my zombie walk, mumbling: "I will buy the latest Taylor Swift album, I will buy..."
Every time they get closer to the design sensitivity the detector can spot signals coming from farther away, as the wave amplitude follows the inverse square law.
This increase in range will result in a great increase in the _volume_ they can observe, and remember that these detectors do not need to be pointed they way telescopes do.
The project can clearly follow the Type 1a supernova project (which brought the Nobel Prize to Saul Perlmutter) and go from detecting one signal every few months to detecting a few signals per day.
I'm so ugly that everybody will avert their eyes as quickly at they catch a glimpse of my pictures. So who will be able to recognize me from those photos ?
I remember back in the early and mid-90's the idea was to include micron-size vacuum tubes in integrated circuits in order to cut down the reverse-current to a level that semiconductor diodes could not do it.
Those tubes were functionally only diodes and the idea was to use the strong electric field at the tip of a very small cone to achieve cold electron emission. Imagine hollowing out a half-sphere and then add a cone with the tip at the center of the sphere. Now apply a voltage between the two. The electric field is very strong at the tip of the cone, but much weaker at the interior surface of the sphere. This results in cold electron emission from the tip of the cone and a current when the voltage is applied one way, but no current when the voltage is applied the other way.
I have never seen these used in practice. I believe one reason is that such a component had to be at least a couple of microns across, and the chips had little use for a 2000 nm diode.
Anyway, such vacuum tubes could have some use in parts where zero reverse current is important, but due to size limitation don't expect to see them replacing transistors that are counted in the billions in modern chips.
I'm glad to know that given all the cuts on the police force that Osborne is talking about, the humming a tune in the shower police unit remains well-staffed. Right along the lines of the "Big Society" trumpeted by Cameron.
After all, who cares about assault, burglary, etc ? Good luck having the police respond to a call reporting assault. Good citizens should band together and defend against those, the police is too busy with much more serious crimes. Like not paying for the right to hum a tune in the shower.
How will be possible to have car chases in this case ? The cops will simply shut down the car remotely. All the movie scripts will have to be modified to exclude car chases.
Then again, spying on people while driving is a source of additional income for the car makers, so the possibility of buying a car without this "feature" will be removed from customers.
Computers have beaten higher-ranked players (Catalin Taranu, 5-p) on the 9x9 board. Computer go is nowhere near computer chess where humans cannot stand a chance against the top engines like Komodo, which is rated over 3300 ELO.
I cannot help but notice that Google are advertising their AI system, after IBM pushed Watson for years, and Microsoft have recently open-sourced their system: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/
I am curious though about the result against a 9-dan pro, and what will such a player say about the way the engine plays.
An old XT-machine (yep, Intel 8086) connected to a particle detector. The detector was connected to a card that slotted only in an XT machine, and the software was written specifically for that machine. The machine was chained to the desk, it was that valuable.
What people want is different from what the industry wants. The industry wants to expand, hence the push for a lot of crap being put in the dashboard, as if anyone wants to use Windows when driving.
But now the automotive market has been identified as non-saturated with IT crap, so the industry will fill this niche.
A consumer which is ready to splash over 10K on a car is much more likely to accept to spend a few hundred extra for the in-car entertainment system, which is esentially a tablet, while one looking for a stand-alone tablet may not accept to pay more than about 100 (in USD/GBP/EUR).
That is the main reason NVidia has directed its Tegra at the automotive market instead of standalone tablets. It is only a matter of consumer perception, and a lot more money can be taken from the final purchaser if the tablet is bundled with a much more expensive purchase.
Now each app will be able to get full access to your Google account, vacuum up e-mail, etc. Not that they didn't have already, but not being covert access removes any grounds for class action lawsuits.
Hey, you agreed to it give the app full access to your account the moment you (insert action here).
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The overthrowing of the communism in Romania (the "revolution") was live-streamed on TV back in 1989. Made quite an impression at the time.
In the past this used to be a good thing indeed,
but by now everyone seems to have forgotten the Slashdot Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am getting old ...
... have been already awarded for this year.
But hey, let's add one more idea:
Plutonium toothpaste, anyone ?
This one:
http://www.treehugger.com/cult...
And then the idea will take off.
Most users agree that Windows10 should be treated like a virus, so if M$ could rid the world of that one it would be a great service to humanity.
In the physical world this is done by giving visitors the possibility to pay to jump queues.
It is nothing more than an attempt to monetize congestion, therefore removing any incentive to eliminate the congestion.
The dark fiber will stay dark.
... does that mean that you are not the product ?
It only means that you are a much more profitable product, one who is willing to pay to be taken advantage of.
You get the freeloader treatment anyway, so no point in paying.
The well is irreversibly poisoned.
Even better, implants that will deliver ads straight to the patient's brain coupled with a re-defintion of dementia will lead to 100% reliable results.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to start my zombie walk, mumbling: "I will buy the latest Taylor Swift album, I will buy ..."
Every time they get closer to the design sensitivity the detector can spot signals coming from farther away, as the wave amplitude follows the inverse square law.
This increase in range will result in a great increase in the _volume_ they can observe, and remember that these detectors do not need to be pointed they way telescopes do.
The project can clearly follow the Type 1a supernova project (which brought the Nobel Prize to Saul Perlmutter) and go from detecting one signal every few months to detecting a few signals per day.
I'm so ugly that everybody will avert their eyes as quickly at they catch a glimpse of my pictures. So who will be able to recognize me from those photos ?
No risk, easy money !
I remember back in the early and mid-90's the idea was to include micron-size vacuum tubes in integrated circuits in order to cut down the reverse-current to a level that semiconductor diodes could not do it.
Those tubes were functionally only diodes and the idea was to use the strong electric field at the tip of a very small cone to achieve cold electron emission. Imagine hollowing out a half-sphere and then add a cone with the tip at the center of the sphere. Now apply a voltage between the two. The electric field is very strong at the tip of the cone, but much weaker at the interior surface of the sphere. This results in cold electron emission from the tip of the cone and a current when the voltage is applied one way, but no current when the voltage is applied the other way.
I have never seen these used in practice. I believe one reason is that such a component had to be at least a couple of microns across, and the chips had little use for a 2000 nm diode.
Anyway, such vacuum tubes could have some use in parts where zero reverse current is important, but due to size limitation don't expect to see them replacing transistors that are counted in the billions in modern chips.
... regulation. Just because you can build a fully automated restaurant, it does not mean that you'll be allowed to operate it.
McDonalds is large enough to lobby for laws that will make such an idea non-marketable.
Just like the municipality-run ISPs, which have been feasible for more than a decade now, but are illegal due to lobbying of the big ISPs.
I think they should also patent the idea.
I'm glad to know that given all the cuts on the police force that Osborne is talking about, the humming a tune in the shower police unit remains well-staffed. Right along the lines of the "Big Society" trumpeted by Cameron.
After all, who cares about assault, burglary, etc ? Good luck having the police respond to a call reporting assault. Good citizens should band together and defend against those, the police is too busy with much more serious crimes. Like not paying for the right to hum a tune in the shower.
How will be possible to have car chases in this case ?
The cops will simply shut down the car remotely.
All the movie scripts will have to be modified to exclude car chases.
Then again, spying on people while driving is a source of additional income for the car makers, so the possibility of buying a car without this "feature" will be removed from customers.
I hear anything Go-es there when it comes to a dan number 9.
Anyway, as a professional player, he is a Go-ner !
Bazinga !
Is there a link to the actual game played ? The pgn file, for example ? Would be curious to see the actual moves.
The unit formerly known as the "pound" shall now be called the "kilogram". The prices will be adjusted accordingly.
Computers have beaten higher-ranked players (Catalin Taranu, 5-p) on the 9x9 board. Computer go is nowhere near computer chess where humans cannot stand a chance against the top engines like Komodo, which is rated over 3300 ELO.
I cannot help but notice that Google are advertising their AI system, after IBM pushed Watson for years, and Microsoft have recently open-sourced their system:
https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/
I am curious though about the result against a 9-dan pro, and what will such a player say about the way the engine plays.
Check out this story:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
Will wipe out ones savings as well, so it will be impossible to know how wealthy that person was before.
An old XT-machine (yep, Intel 8086) connected to a particle detector. The detector was connected to a card that slotted only in an XT machine, and the software was written specifically for that machine. The machine was chained to the desk, it was that valuable.
I remember the old Battlebots of 2001-2002. It was a really great show, and then the Robot Wars was made as a copycat about a year later. Now that Battlebots has been restarted, https://deadline.com/2015/02/battlebots-revival-reality-series-abc-summer-1201367663/ I see that Robot Wars is restarted as well, with the usual 1 year lag.
What people want is different from what the industry wants.
The industry wants to expand, hence the push for a lot of crap being put in the dashboard, as if anyone wants to use Windows when driving.
But now the automotive market has been identified as non-saturated with IT crap, so the industry will fill this niche.
A consumer which is ready to splash over 10K on a car is much more likely to accept to spend a few hundred extra for the in-car entertainment system, which is esentially a tablet, while one looking for a stand-alone tablet may not accept to pay more than about 100 (in USD/GBP/EUR).
That is the main reason NVidia has directed its Tegra at the automotive market instead of standalone tablets. It is only a matter of consumer perception, and a lot more money can be taken from the final purchaser if the tablet is bundled with a much more expensive purchase.
Now each app will be able to get full access to your Google account, vacuum up e-mail, etc.
Not that they didn't have already, but not being covert access removes any grounds for class action lawsuits.
Hey, you agreed to it give the app full access to your account the moment you (insert action here).