>the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014.
No mention that Microsoft sent executive Stephen Elop to dismantle Nokia as its CEO in 2010. Nor that in 2014 as part of the deal to acquire Nokia's phone business leaving the rest of the company to soldier on, Nokia insisted that Microsoft repossess him.
Of how much invested? Published numbers show plans for $80B ai splash. Anybody got to-date numbers? I see $14B on OpenAI and $20B for Nuance Communications. That's $34B sunk.
Also, is this crowing about as reliable as any other marketing babble? They mean to sell this service.
Don't Look Up
Watch it again.
The Slashdot discussion from crossing 400 ppm in 2013:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
This year's monthly average peak so far, and a new record, was 430.51 ppm in May.
AI ethics
Vibes and snake oil
Hmmmm
I use LibreOffice writer all the time, have for years (I'm old enough to say that I've used Star Office), and wish it all the success in the world
The thing that drives me crazy the most is when I select [highlight] some text in order to change the formatting (make it bold, italic, underline etc.) and it changes the formatting of surrounding text. Lists have similar issues when you're trying to add some preexisting text to a list but not other text.
The only reasons I have for reaching for a word processor over a text editor is a) rich text formatting b) print features c) embedded images, tables etc. and d) import/export of other document formats.
If a word processor can't make text styling/formatting painless then it is not ready for prime time IMO. That's one of it's most primary basic features that people just take for granted in any WYSIWYG editor.
Hey, don't dunk on Bitcoin as a currency. Its given the world so many benefits: The teenager in the article cost the equivalent of $500,000.
But thanks to Bitcoin, at todays market rates you can buy several teenagers for half a million dollars now, and get free shipping. That is progress, right?
Which would be a bad news for Quebec because it wouldn't be possible anymore to communicate with people from France and other French-speaking countries.
Right, just like it's impossible for an English speaking Canadian to communicate with people from Japan or Germany. I mean
To me the fundamental issue at hand is the role of the government and individual freedom and liberty. My operating definition of liberty is an environment in which all interpersonal relations are consensual.
In order for two parties to communicate with each other, there must first be an intent to communicate. When that intent exists, the mechanisms will be negotiated between those parties.
For a 3rd party to enter the picture and dictate the mechanisms under threat of force is morally wrong in my opinion. There is no justification for that.
The only narrow area that I can think of is when government adopts a policy that says "For the purposes of communicating with the government, specifically, these are the languages that we promise to support."
That is no different than private individuals saying "If you want to communicate with me, these are the languages and tools that you can use to reach me."
I don't know what makes business so "special" or different that you would hold them to a standard above that of the government. Food labels? You might as well say that a company is required by law to print food labels in every single language that exists on the planet... as their may be some customer that walks into the store that doesn't speak English or French (to keep this within Canada). That would be absurd.
Government's job is not to "protect" a language. Government's job is to protect the rights of each and every individual that exists within it's operating jurisdiction. Those rights include the right to express yourself freely and to associate freely. Compelling that communication between private individuals take a specific form is to infringe upon the rights of those individuals.
There is no "middle ground" here. Either two parties are able to communicate using whatever means THEY chose, or some other 3rd party is interfering forcibly under threat of punishment. That latter scenario is not "middle ground", it's the illegitimate initiation of force against individuals who are just living their lives and going about their business. The fact that they are choosing to do so using a language or tool set that you don't like or approve of is none of your business and doesn't hurt you in any way. Go read a book or something and stop worrying so much about the private lives of others, you authoritarian nutter.
True, but the writing on those tablets isn't measured in microns, or packed into densities measured in GB/cm2
The limiting factor in both durability and age stability are still any electronic controllers and physical hardware to read and process that data into a human readable form
How do you dump heat when you are in a vacuum?
A soup thermos is a vacuum bottle for a reason.
Cooling in space is HARD
Where does the heat go?
Only someone who knows exactly -zero- about space would think thermal management in space is easy. Or that much heat is even possible to get rid of.
But what if how the world really works differs from the intention of the policy?
Foxconn renames two factories in Zhengzhou to "Vietnam" and "India". Chinese government confirms by assigning territorial sovereignty of the loading docks to the respective countries.
"Spock, did you see the looks on their faces?" "Yes, Captain, a sort of vacant contentment."
