Re: Enough Whining.
"The problem is that Microsoft skipped Windows 9"
8.1 = 9.
According to the guys that brought you Excel.
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A system specifically designed for one specific task is really good at it - what a surprise! Okay, I'm not trying to ridicule the research. A lot of work goes into this, and a lot of good ideas emerge. But it's still a long way from putting the "I" in "AI". When the chess-bot and the go-bot and the poker-bot can play a game of Monopoly together without any instructions other than the rulebook that comes with the game, then we're getting close. When one of them comes up with a new game on it's own, we should be there. And right now we're not.
Exactly. Amazon makes money by selling you stuff, and don't you forget it.
Anyway, obligatory link re speech recognition:
"Instead of enriching the usual financial freeloaders, why doesn't the UK government do a deal with it's 'best friend' nation (allegedly the US of A) and buy some of the work the US government has already paid for?"
Well, they do. F-35, Trident missiles, etc.
There, I'll bet you're feeling better already!
Yahoo! still owns a sizable chunk of Alibaba which (on paper) is worth far more than Yahoo! itself.
Might be interesting for a company that wants into the Chinese market, or hedge against Chinese competition, or just cash in.
My guess is that Verizon know that they want Yahoo!, but also they want it cheap.
"Perhaps Cook is worried he'd be extradited to sweden on a trumped up charge and be flown to the US instead Oh wait, that's been tried before"
Tim Cook holed up at the, say, Indonesian embassy in Dublin for five years would make a great sitcom.
Back to the topic: isn't the usual routine to appear in front of the committee, read a brief, vague statement that repeats the positions you've already stated, and politely decline to go any further due to the ongoing legal procedures?
Well, someone had to post it:
"Given how "fast" this "jet" moves it'll be all in slow motion.."
Well, given that Bruce Willis is over 60 now...
Probably because of the foil bag; most of the materials used for stuff like that age faster (i.e. get brittle/porous) from the UV in the light. You can add other stuff to the foil to countermand this, but that's usually stuff you don't want near your food in larger quantities.
Dry, dark and not too warm is the way to go for storing almost anything.
Well worth watching. One of Douglas Trumbull's few movies as a director. Works a a movie, shows that you can do good FX on a budget.
Writeup on IMDB,
writeup on Jimbopedia,
Okay, who else thought "keyboard sanitizer"?
...which, as I have learned recently, is actually a thing. As are telephone sanitizers; at least in Switzerland.
"That manufacturers thought the idea was hair-raising enough to take to market is also revealing – some people seem to think shoppers will buy anything these days so long as it comes with an app."
The thing is - there are shoppers that will buy anything, even something like this.
Plus: free PR.
Win-win.
"Nine years ago, the biggest financial catastrophe since the 1930s hit the world, and precisely zero bankers went to jail for it. Many kept their perks and pensions."
Technically off topic, but since a) Andrew brought it up and b) I'm in a somewhat confrontational mood after christmas with the relatives:
Well, why should there?
After all, from their (limited) perspective, they did everything right; in other words, they did exactly what it said in their job descriptions.
Logical conclusion: we're not looking at a financial crisis or a banking crisis or anything like that - we're looking at a systemic crisis. And nobody has a viable plan to get us out of it.
BBC Interviewer: The sixth member of the Discovery crew was not concerned about the problems of hibernation, for he was the latest result in machine intelligence: The H.-A.-L. 9000 computer, which can reproduce, though some experts still prefer to use the word mimic, most of the activities of the human brain, and with incalculably greater speed and reliability.
Yup, let's party like it's 1999 1968.
90 out of 100 "helpful" suggestions by any software or SmartThingy are neither helpful nor close to what I actually want.
9 out of 100 "helpful" suggestions by any software or SmartThingy are totally neither helpful nor remotely close to what I actually want.
And whatever is promoted as AI these days won't make things better.