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So what? He just happens to be talking about phones. It doesn't mean that other things aren't important. But smartphones have also added value too. I think you're just being a contrarian for the sake of it.
Kevin
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When I hear claims about Apple pioneering anything I think "Pioneering in what sense?", as if anyone followed in their footsteps Apple would in all likelihood sue them for everything they had.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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They created the current paradigm in the mobile industry. So pioneered in that sense.
As is almost always the case the tech innovation is not original to them but they put it all together in a sufficiently usable format that caused everyone else to follow suit.
Kevin
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I think you have a good point there - Apple probably help to show that a particular technology can make money and others then follow in the technology or are at least challenged to improve.
I think Android was around at the same time as the iPhone, except the early Android releases were no way as decent as UI iOs exposed. So Android had to catch up and it has done a really good job of now having a decent UI.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Typically HP sells printers for super cheap and then charges exorbitant prices for the required ink, leaving consumers paying hundreds a year if they want to keep this printer printing well. Because we're a paperless society now
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You should print some posters declaring a paperless society.
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Now this is an ethical matter!
So I'm with Joe. If you want someone to hand out flyers, I'm your man.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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To be “penny-wise and pound-foolish” is to obsess over small savings while making expensive mistakes – for example, spending huge amounts of money on a credit card just to redeem a few rewards points. Time to get your head into the clouds?
Money line: "K8s is so complex that we avoid even spelling out the word, like it’s the Hebrew name for God."
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Quote: The 2020s last for ten years, none of which turns out to be the year of Linux on the desktop. This!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled plans to use Cinelytic's AI project management system to assist in making decisions on movies during the "greenlight process." I expect a bunch of new Terminator movies soon
You know the AIs love them
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They have moved the "throw sh*t against the wall" machine to the basement.
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It can't be worse, can it? (I hope)
TTFN - Kent
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Was Gandhi's mother's name also Martha?
TTFN - Kent
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Now there's a film I'd go see!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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well, at least there will be some sort of "intelligence" to the decisions with AI.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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So either:
• It's the software equivalent of your typical HR bod who's involved in hiring. i.e. it will make recommendations based solely on the number of keywords it notices. Similar levels of intellectual ability will be plain to see.
• It has been fed data (which may as well be random data) about movies, and details of how much money they made, and will make decisions based on a typically AI black-box decision-making process that will get lucky once, so will be seen as the digital messiah by investors.
Either way, be prepared for the AI bullsh1t to be hugely expanded into hollywood-style AI bullsh1t.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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what happen to the people ? no intelligence ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: what happen to the people ? no intelligence ? Well, we are talking about US movie-makers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Reference design" has the potential to revolutionize virtual reality comfort. And I wear my VR goggles at night, so I can, so I can keep track of the visions in my eyes
And you'll look slightly less silly wearing them?
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Because "Panasonic Releases a Less Bulky VR Headset" just isn't bullsh1tty enough.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Facebook, Google, and Amazon have a lot to learn from Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” while she was working on the code for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Because she is (or was) a rocket scientist
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Just two days after releasing Firefox 72, Mozilla has issued an update to patch a critical zero-day flaw. I'm a little disappointed it didn't come with a new icon
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What is it with these f***ing "let's be minimalist in useful stuff and bloat everything with useless cr@p" "modern" web-page designers?
I have an instance of FF on this machine, so I check its version number, then search on "firefox", click the link to the download page, and am immediately told the version number of the latest release...
... NOT!
I have clicked every link on that page (except the download link, obviously), and not one of them reveals the latest version number!
Are they completely f***ing stupid, or what?
More to the point, do I trust people who are that stupid to look after my security when I'm interweb surfing?
I think not.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I have clicked every link on that page (except the download link, obviously), and not one of them reveals the latest version number!
It's on Browsers -> Firefox Browser for Desktop -> Release Notes[^]
As of today, it resolves to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.1/releasenotes/
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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