But most colleges have a technology sharing agreement so that any discovery made at the college by a student or faculty becomes the property of XYZ™
Socialized costs, private gains.
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But most colleges have a technology sharing agreement so that any discovery made at the college by a student or faculty becomes the property of XYZ™
Socialized costs, private gains.
Your hangup on dehydrated juice is weird. Like, yea, they removed all the water from the juice so all you need to do is add water and it ships better and keeps longer....
You see, we live in a country where there are two legal systems. The one for us, and the one for them. In our legal system, we will be held to the full extent of the law for our damages committed, and will even have to pay restitution.
In their legal system, they commit wild fraud or security lapses that lead to massive harm to individuals, and have to pay a fine, and get to keep operating as usual.
When was the last time you read an entire EULA before installing software?
I'm going to guess the time frame is somewhere around "never."
These are nuisance contracts designed to jade people with legalese while stealing their rights to things like class action and enforcing binding arbitration.
Standard contracts sounds like the way to go.
Try finding a decent car on Craigslist today.
The next tier up is Starlink or 250mbps Fiber, which have the same cost. I do not wish to support Starlink. But I also can't afford to almost double my internet bill.
I live on a major national highway in a crossroads town.
Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix.
Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.
Linux users write highly detailed bug reports because it's the only way to get things fixed without coding the fix yourself.
Citation needed. I went from Win7 on a i5-2500k that booted in sub 15 seconds on a SATA SSD to Win10 on a 5600x that takes 45 seconds to a minute to boot an NVME drive.
Too bad it's been completely broken by Windows 10. It can't even find the names of software I have pinned to the start menu. One of the things I miss most from 7.
You can do the same thing by saying "jury nullification" during the jury duty selection process. You can watch BOTH lawyers scramble to kick you out of the room.
Tell that to the CEO's who have replaced all of their yes-men with yes-chatbots.
This was the argument about robots. It did not pan out. No taxes materialized. Robots and Automated Machines have not shared productivity. In fact, things like self-checkout has spread the labor load to the customer, instead of the company.
>We have the technology to produce energy in sustainable ways, but it is expensive
AI Datacenters should be completely sustainably self-powered. Full stop. We did not spend decades bringing down the cost of power only to have it all hoovered up by robber barons who "need" it to be the first immortal AI God. We did not install water treatment plants to bring down our water usage rates just to feed the machine spirit.
>How do we treat AI creative work? How much creative work do we feel comfortable handing over to AI?
Someone said it as a joke, but I want AI to be doing my dishes and sorting my laundry while I write books and compose music. I don't want AI writing books and composing music so I have more time to do my dishes and sort my laundry.
Everyone is betting the farm on that .01% chance that they become wild trillionaires. We're going to burn down the whole planet and use all of the resources so a few people can have a minuscule chance at being obscenely rich.
I had a S3 that the battery would only last 12 hours or so, but the EMMC failed before the battery did.
Samsung also makes the A-series Galaxies which are a pretty solid mid-tier phones that are supported for years, too.
Actually will push a lot of people away. I don't want any hardware that has special relationships with AI LLM's.
I'd been running CyanogenMod until they quit giving updates to the S3.
My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Some kind of thermal failure, I was able to recover my data by keeping the phone in the freezer while I copied. Known issue.
My Samsung Galaxy S21? I figure I've got another year or two in it before it, too, dies.
Having beautiful dead phones that have never had a broken screen or a hard drop is pretty depressing.
There's a medical word for things like that. Schmancer?
That's what telemetry was used for. Every advanced user turned that off when they gave us the option, and now we have every UI on the computer designed for Grandma.