Comment Not to be outdone (Score 5, Funny) 26
Facebook has added a Dick Pick login option.
Comment Re:nobody can predict the winners (Score 1) 88
You do know that insults where the other side has strong proof they are not true do not work, right? Well, probably that is already beyond you. ;)
Comment Re:A bit more about Kakeya (Score 2) 17
"What is the use of a newborn baby?" -- Benjamin Franklin
Comment Re:What Do Car Manufacturers Get? (Score 1) 72
what is the advantage to the car manufacturers
It's likely mostly to the advantage of certain executives who were in the know and were able to play the stock market with the price of AAPL when the announcement was made. That's the true interest of executives now, not benefit for the company or the customer, only for themselves.
Comment Re:Disease (Score 1) 72
So people who live outside urban areas where connections are more or less reliable shouldn't buy one? Fine by me, I wouldn't buy a Ford anyway, much less one with Apple garbage preinstalled.
Comment Re:suck? (Score 1) 72
After the third time that Apple Maps directed us off the route to take an utterly unnecessary loop through some residential neighborhood we gave up on it. We just use Google Maps all the time, even on my wife's iToy.
Comment Re:Optical Limitations (Score 1) 43
They could, but that runs counter to what they want.
They want to kill resale and while they are at it, take control of whether you can play your game as purchased a few years ago, or make you have to buy a remaster, or just not be able to play them and play something new they can get revenue for instead.
They have sorted out that the vast vast majority of their user base will run games on whatever terms the console picks. Alienating the minority is worth it to assert that much control over the experiences of the majority.
Comment Re:And this is how they miss their $30k price poin (Score 1) 72
I would would be, too. My 2002 Tacoma hasn't had an issue in 24 years except that the door locks don't work most of the time now. (Since I always leave it unlocked that's not an issue. If they want to steal the change in the ash tray I prefer they not break the window to do it.) I beat the crap out of it, too.
Comment Re:What the F*** (Score 1) 55
I use Linux as my daily driver and this 'feature' is worthless to me. As Aighearach said below, every desktop publishing program, every graphics program, and every office program on Linux supports PDF export, and there are loads of apps that let you mix, edit, merge, and modify PDFs.
Firefox jumped the shark so long ago that the shark is now on display in the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.
Comment Unanswered questions... (Score 1) 72
So there's not any detail on whether this means iOS will be running or if this 'MapKit' supports another platform.
Apple did go out of their way to say *Carplay* would be supported, but no one has mentioned whether android auto will be supported.
This seems like a broadly fine concept, so long as they didn't toss Android Auto support to get this partnership with Apple going. The built in nav was, at it's best, never better than google maps and, I presume, Apple.
Comment Re:nobody can predict the winners (Score 1) 88
Yup. This is precisely the situation. The investment bubble is undeniable. It is, however, not a given that it will collapse. Not all bubbles do.
But beyond the investment bubble- AI itself is very real.
When the dotcom bubble burst, it's not like e-commerce went away.
All the datacenters that were built- they didn't go away.
2 of my organizations datacenters were dotcom datacenters that were abandoned by Verio and picked up by us on the cheap, where we utilized them profitably for going on 2 decades now.
But beyond the investment bubble- AI itself is very real.
When the dotcom bubble burst, it's not like e-commerce went away.
All the datacenters that were built- they didn't go away.
2 of my organizations datacenters were dotcom datacenters that were abandoned by Verio and picked up by us on the cheap, where we utilized them profitably for going on 2 decades now.
Comment Re: nobody can predict the winners (Score 1) 88
You're not an academic. You're a wannabe.
An academic doesn't deny reality in order to soothe their own cognitive dissonance.
An academic doesn't deny reality in order to soothe their own cognitive dissonance.
Comment Re:nobody can predict the winners (Score 1) 88
You do know that insults where the other side has strong proof they are not true do not work, right?
Look at you- lol.
You construct this fantasy bubble around yourself where you did not just insult me while offering zero refutation of actual factual points I made (bun Rust rewrite)
And you continue to act as if that is not how we got here.
You are so fucking deluded. Again- if you teach anyone, it's a fucking crime for that institution to still employ you. But I'm betting it's not actually true. I'm betting maybe it was true at some time, and you can't get past the fact that they let you go long ago.
Well, probably that is already beyond you. This is Kindergarten level though and not flattering for you. You may at least want to try to be a bit original, not completely dumb in your attempts to insult. This is just boring.
Your alzheimers seems to kick in just a few sentences after you start writing- it's incredible.
Can you breathe better with your head buried in the dirt?
Submission + - Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: A study published in PLOS One in 2021 by researchers from Durham University in the UK showed that with 10 weeks of training, both blind and sighted people could learn to echolocate using verbal clicks.
While the technique is already used by a number of people with impaired vision â" sometimes using the taps of a cane instead of clicks made by their mouth â" those findings suggest that many of us can learn the necessary techniques.
Some of the same researchers who made that discovery are part of the team behind a follow-up study published in Cerebral Cortex, looking at how the 10 weeks of training that the 26 participants went through actually changed the physical structure of their brains.
(If this is too nerdly even for Slashdot, I apologize for wasting your time.)
While the technique is already used by a number of people with impaired vision â" sometimes using the taps of a cane instead of clicks made by their mouth â" those findings suggest that many of us can learn the necessary techniques.
Some of the same researchers who made that discovery are part of the team behind a follow-up study published in Cerebral Cortex, looking at how the 10 weeks of training that the 26 participants went through actually changed the physical structure of their brains.
(If this is too nerdly even for Slashdot, I apologize for wasting your time.)
Submission + - Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICEâ(TM)s Fingertips (404media.co)
alternative_right writes: A leaked document shows the spread of surveillance and investigative capabilities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have access to agency wide, from location data harvested from smartphones, to facial recognition apps that can reveal someoneâ(TM)s identity, to tools that let the agency stay anonymous online and approach people undercover. The document covers everything from monitoring social media to tracking the movements of vehicles.
