Comment Re: Can anyone say "monopoly"? (Score 1) 98
Local shops may be shrinking, but I can buy a computer mouse at any 7-11 I stop at to get gas now.
Local shops may be shrinking, but I can buy a computer mouse at any 7-11 I stop at to get gas now.
That's *great* that you knew it when you were 6 years old! How is the rate of mental performance correlated to the length of deprivation? At what stage of deprivation does decreased function become apparent? How long does it take to reverse the effects? Ohh, you don't know, because you didn't actually do a study?
Those number are important; as a child genius, you should know that.
It's a near monopoly in the USA. We can expect the same kinds of games and tricks Microsoft pulled, such as taking a loss in Market A to gain market share in Market B to force out competition, forced bundling, ghost product announcements, and other tricks pioneered by the likes of Standard Oil and IBM.
Not even close. If I want to by something, let's just say a computer mouse, there are literally 20 different physical stores within a 10 minute drive of my house, and I don't live in huge metro area. There are (a quick google search later) hundreds of different online retailers that, do NOT go through Amazon, that I can order from ( https://www.google.com/search?... ).
Claiming that Amazon is a monopoly is almost laughable.
Wow that's quite a sweeping generality you're making there. You don't think people in modest houses and with modest cars ever buy nice electronics? I know in the area I live in, we all have generally same sized houses and same cars but some people have put their money into nice TVs/game consoles/stereos and some haven't. Furthermore, some people have alarm systems and some don't, also something that will become evident to the Amazon delivery guy.
It may be a generalization, but the thieves are operating under those same types of generalizations also.
The rendered images look strikingly like actual human photographs, I'll bet they could fool nearly everyone -- you'd have to have a reason to think they were fake.
I'm wondering if their choice of celebrities as the training database somehow skews their results positive versus "ordinary" people. Celebrities almost seem too uniform in terms of facial features and general appearance. It makes me wonder if they tried with ordinary people if the algorithm woudln't produce freaks because it sees odd deviations among normal people.
If you look at the full paper, this is capable of so much more than faces. There are dozens of pages of every-day objects they generated, from bedrooms, to wine bottles, to boats, and bicycles. A few of them of some pretty obvious warping and distortions, but the ones that don't look like real objects. It's mind blowing.
Don't forget the fact that Uber seems to outright break the law, when they are not stretching it to the very limit, almost daily. Companies that have a prooven track record of being shady deserve to have more attention focused on them.
As software goes, console games are architecturally horrible. This is mainly because of the legacy of 8- and 16-bit consoles where it was actually significant whether a program took a syscall (generally implemented as data-dependent branches), so optimizations like inlining are looked upon favourably even as they fix program to platform down to the hardware register. Those optimizations have been worthless since the race to half a gigahertz ended and RAM latency began to really get out of control, because since then syscall stubs (etc.) have been cacheable just like any hot-path thing, so doing a massive amount of them in a loop turns from an obstacle to effective utilization of hardware.
The lesson here is that one can always trust Microsoft to code like an obsessive twentysomething.
You have been watching too many Turboencabulator videos.
Who really cares about how this is done. I'm much more interested in what the battery impact of such a useless feature is. Seriously, how often do most people use this feature, such that it would be useful having this run 24/7/365?
Just don't turn it on if you care that much. It isn't on by default.
Yet another lump of unremovable pre-installed stuff taking precious space on your phone.
The Google spokesperson wouldn’t give us an exact size for the database file (which is not surprising, since it changes every week and is based on your country) but did say the whole feature should take up less than 500MB. Again, if you never turn the feature on, don’t worry — you won’t lose this space.
If you don't turn it on, it doesn't ever download the fingerprint database.
Because no one is willing to invest in creating headphones that use the new tech when they can just fall back to to the old classic. The won't create new quality headphones without demand for USB, and there will be no demand for USB until there are good quality headphones It's a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" problem. There needs to be a critical mass, and that's what eliminating the old port generates.
To put the last nail in an old technology, expanding the marketplace for newer, better tech.
Hackaday had an article that it could be a directed microwave weapon, and the audio is a hallucination.
Seems more likely than the audio being the cause of memory loss, brain damage, etc...
The motive is hard to imagine.
If it was a hallucination, we wouldn't have an audio recording of it.
Google has been doing "offline" voice recognition directly on phones for a few years now.
http://stackandroid.com/tutori...
Adding a translation layer that also runs locally isn't that far fetched.
Exactly. Google is a search engine. All it does, and all it SHOULD do, is return indexed results based on the query the user gave it. I don't want a search engine to try and apply some kind of arbitrary "truthyness" filter, I want it to give me everything it can find that has the words I requested contained within it.
I'm sure there will be consequences for someone. Probably for the poor developer who wanted to update the buggy Struts module, but wasn't told not to by upper management because it would delay some new marketing roll out.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
