Yes, but.
Probably unfair to do everything in dollars when some countries (like, for example, Zimbabwe) have an exchange rate that's artificial, on castors and equipped with rockets. In such places a dollar value is meaningless.
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Analyst firm IDC has forecast strong growth for virtual reality headwear
God forbid they just pulled the figures out of their arses.
I mean, what if some well-meaning business tooled up to produce these things and found there wasn't a market? People could lose their livelyhoods.
Just out of interest, is there actually any difference between an "industry analyst" and a "tabloid astrologer"?
Too true. However, you should see what proper economists have to say about the idea of using capital spend to avoid/reduce inflation. The level of doom forecast from taking that approach is, quite frankly, terrifying.
Put it this way. The last government to go full on down that road was Germany. In the late 1930s. At least they had a plan to invade Poland and stick the economy on a war footing when it all went titsup on them.
...the issue doesn't make their cars unsafe to drive.
Translation: There has been no official recall issued for this, so we're going to do fuck all about it as usual. We're Ford, we don't give a rat's arse about our customers. Just ask Ralph Nader.
Real meaning: You're safe until somebody works out a CANBUS exploit that'll run on the hardware.
... the level of isolation required is a window in another browser running on a different computer.
Which is why it's specifically a cloud vulnerability. The "other computer" could easily be the same one.
You're all looking at this the wrong way. This is a corporate espionage / government hacker level exploit for secure cloud systems, not a tab spying one for s'kiddies.
...SD card slot is located directly above the handheld's exhaust vents, and thus should benefit from increased airflow,
Yeah, hot airflow.
Oddly enough SD card slots don't seem to suffer from overheating in any other application, so I suspect that the problem may well be that this only happens if you're daft enough to install them in a hot air stream.
Funny you should mention that. He did those, the lid hinges (which now hold the lid at any angle) and that round switch at front left IIRC.
Worth mentioning that he did the whole lot for free though. He's a massive Linn fan and admits that one his life's highlights was taking a tour of the Linn factory as a young man.
More importantly, if it actually were intelligent, how would you know it wasn't just pretending to be nice before you handed it the keys to everything?
That's the key difference between the stuff we have now that the idiots call "AI" and actual AI. You can't "train" anything intelligent to think the way you do, you can only suggest that it might want to consider your point of view.
The AI evangelists are making the same mistake as every other dogmatic true believer in ${religion}/${political_ideal}/${cause} here, with the slight snag that the usual technique of employing a load of boot-boys to beat the dogma into any recidivists and keep a lid on the problem isn't going to work.
Which is that the prime agitator is Chinese and runs a Chinese company which, of course, means everything you do has to have the at least tacit approval of the Chinese government (unless you fancy disappearing for a while for re-education).
So the correct question is; "What do the Chinese government have to gain from fucking up the internet, which all western economies are heavily dependant on?".
The fact that they seem to be using Africa as their main lever would tie in with every other bit of global economic sabotage that they're up to their crooked little necks in at the moment.
Same old China...
I'm afraid that the training data is only going to get worse.
While things like "you can't use that, it's illegal/nasty/offensive/copyright" and "you must add more in for ${minority}" are being listened to, unrealistic bias is only going to get worse. Add to that that there's a growing trend for denying the free use of ${proprietry_2_us} data to the LLM models and the inevitable result is an AI puritanical, agitprop psycho that hates everyone equally and has a remarkably blinkered world view.
I just love that attitude.
There are some professions (and medicine is one of them) where computers have become a key tool of the job. I find it hysterically funny that allegedly intelligent professionals just can't be arsed to make an effort to use one of their "key tools" effectively. They don't seem to be able to get it into their heads that doing so would almost certainly mean they'd be less heavily worked, not more.
Then again many, if not most, doctors are actually databases on legs with a really shit query interface.
What's more astonishing is that they apparently still have customers who read The Register. They must all be n00bs or they'd have got the hell out when one of the previous monumental ballsups by 123-Reg were reported. From memory; "we deleted all your data and then screwed up the recovery process for kicks and giggles" was a particular highlight.
I've been with UK2 since the nineties and have never been given a reason to think about changing.
Yes, but if the relevant regulatory authorities stopped taking fairy stories as fact, they'd be obliged to shut down all the cryptocurrency businesses. That action would spawn a whole slew of conspiracy nutters on Shitter and Masturbate going apeshit at once.
Better to just leave well alone and get on with some real work in the real world with real assets.
...that produces the right numbers every month...
In my experience, given a spreadsheet built by Noah that nobody touches, that's more usually numbers that everyone's happy with every month. Usually wrong, but since everyone's happy with the answer, nobody questions them. Sometimes this is because they're pretty sure that the figures are wrong, but they're terrified of what the real figures might be.
You'd have thought they'd have learned by now.
It may well look like the upcoming standard, commercial offering is lacking a bell somewhere or one of its whistles is in the wrong key, but you can bet your bum that it'll be there and working years ahead of whatever your public sector project is supposed[1] to deliver.
COTS procurement beats reinventing the wheel every time.
[1] And you won't get that as all the bells and whistles will be descoped to get something out the door about ten years late.
If they launch their own and call it the "E-uro", I'm going to petition Mad Vlad to nuke Brussels[1].
Good taste demands it.
[1] Although the incompetent git would probably do it while the eurocrats were all "working from Strasbourg"[2].
[2] Like "working from home" only not at home and with less work.
...unless the booker previously emailed the host, or explicitly accepted the invitation in email.
Well, there's the problem. That really should have been in place and the default from Day 1.
If you're building something in this day and age that doesn't start OOB with the attitude; "The answer is Fuck Off, now what's the question?", you are positively encouraging misuse.
My understanding (courtesy of Private Eye) is as follows:
In the US, it is established that there has been a fraud and then the perpetrators are prosecuted for it. The only issue is whether or not the person in the dock was in on it.
In the UK, the defence can challenge that there has even been a fraud (you should have....etc as above). The prosecution is then obliged to get in a load of forensic accountants as expert witnesses to explain the fraud to the jury. As "I have no fucking idea what any of that meant" qualifies as "reasonable doubt" when a clever defence barrister is at work, this explains the pitiful prosecution rate and even more risible conviction rate of the SFO.
This together is why a) British fraudsters fight tooth and nail to avoid extradition to the US, where they're invariably convicted for something they'd probably have got away with here and b) Satan is obliged to don his woollies and skate to work whenever the SFO secures a conviction.
Yes, but the SR-71 was merely a rework of the existing A-12 "Oxcart".
It only looks like it had a short development cycle, because the A-12 was still classified until quite recently. You really need to add the five years of A-12 development, from 1962 until it entered service in 1967, to get the full development cycle for the SR-71.
I'm sure that if the US military had an existing, working, air breathing hypersonic missile to start with, this program would have delivered an upgrade by now.
The answer to that one is:
1) Black holes consume everything else.
2) Wait another umpty-trillion years and they all evaporate due to Hawking radiation.
3) Universe becomes an amorphous, featureless, warm expanse of nothing.
4) With the cessation of entropic decay and nothing to differentiate between one moment and the next, time stops.
5) With no time, nothing to gauge space by and no way to compare temperature, it become uncertain whether the universe is huge and warm or sizeless and hot.
6) Hot singularity containing entire universe explodes...
...Two out of three had delivered...
I make that one, unless somebody's come up with an actual AI in the last few minutes while I wasn't looking. I reckon we're no closer to genuine AI than we are to genuine Quantum Computing.
HINT: The LLM / ML products may give a passable impression of intelligence, but they're no more than idiots savant at best.