It doesn't have to be hard.

Or painful.

The best PGP tutorial for Mac OS X, ever

Well put! At least the first half. But sorry. ML means machine learning, as commonly used. AI refers to the phrase Artificial Intelligence.

But your 50% accuracy is notable for this field, considering our iteration count. Oh, you were being serious.

So then what's next SAI (Strong AI)? Then RSAI (Real Strong AI)? IRMITTRSAI (I Really Mean It This Time - Real Strong AI)?

Thanks for making my point.

It doesn't mean what most think it means.

For starters, synonyms for ARTIFICIAL include: fake, imitation, mock, ersatz, faux.

Machine learning is a milestone. But intelligent, it is not.

We took your privacy and security.

It's gone.

Your veracity and reasoning are suspect.

I myself experienced Western Washington's education system after attending public schools in another part of the country, and I can tell you that Washington's education is sub-par. The value provided by Seattle's infrastructure is not at all what you suggest.

Maybe. But you're overlooking the critical fact that Washington State government is responsible for making the homeless problem significantly worse with the Deinstitutionalization policies it implemented during the 1990's. Deinstitutionalization is the name given to the policy of moving severely mentally ill people out of large state institutions and then closing part or all of those institutions.

In particular,

• • The most compelling, wildly naïve economic case went something like this: We have a state mental hospital with a $100 million annual budget that houses 1,000 patients. Many of these patients don't need to be there. If we moved them into community settings, we free up the $100,000 average per-patient costs of this facility, which we can redirect to community mental health centers, housing assistance, and other services to help them.

    As Christopher Jencks noted in his elegant little volume "The Homeless," this argument is misguided in almost every way. Of course, state mental hospitals and other institutions included many patients who required few inpatient services. Yet the patients who spent their days playing cards didn’t draw upon many services beyond room, board, and medication, which they would still require (often at higher unit costs) in any other setting. Deinstitutionalizing low-cost patients doesn’t appreciably reduce the hospital’s $100 million budget. It wouldn’t reduce fixed costs of operating the facility. It doesn’t allow managers to lay off staff who spend much of their time working with the smaller subgroup of most-needy or most-disruptive patients.

Source: What happened to U.S. mental health care after deinstitutionalization?

In my opinion, Amazon can be reasonably forgiven for seeking to protect its fiduciary responsibilities in the face of a government who created the very problem that this tax is intended to resolve.

Cheers.

The free LibreOffice Vanilla is the "Prerelease" version 4.4.4.2 while the $10 LibreOffice-from-Collabora is "Still" version 4.3.7.

Collabora isn't doing LibreOffice any favors by putting a prerelease version that is not ready for prime time out for public consumption. More likely, they are introducing the public to a buggy experience, and then offering to fix the experience using a non-prerelease version that costs $10.

Seems a bit underhanded.

The free LibreOffice Vanilla version on the App Store is "Prerelease" version 4.4.4.2 while the Collabora supported LibreOffice is the "Still" version 4.3.7.

Collabora is not doing LibreOffice any favors by putting a version that is not ready for the mainstream out for public consumption. More likely, they're using the Vanilla as a means to drive people to their $10 version.

Seems a bit underhanded.

...is bad for you.

And brownies may lead to weight gain --but then again, pot alone does a good enough job by itself.

Pumice seems most plausible.

We obtained worldwide elevation data from NOAA, for our BattleCell land conquest game. (a super-evolved version of Risk) Game coordinates for Sandy Island are: -1911,15956

Sure enough, the NOAA data shows an elevation of 1 meter, for the entire Sandy Point island.

Possibly, the island was a dynamically generated object, based on the original NOAA elevation data. What else, besides pumice could generate such readings?

In a move to present itself as being even less evil that Google, Microsoft has announced its intention to decrease its lobbying budget to $0 over the next 36 months.

"Basically, it teaches machines to learn without human intervention." ...no. It provides a clearing-house for downloading new routines for accomplishing a task that someone else has previously programmed on another system elsewhere.

Please do not sensationalize what the lowly PC has been doing for well over a decade... that is, downloading information via the Internet to "learn" how not to crash, or prevent a security compromise.

Substituting a solenoid or motor output for a memory write command to claim that a "robot learned something" does not make this a novel concept.

From Borker to Borkee...

We've all been there. It works on every browser, except for IE. The trick is to respond intelligently, and not fall victim to emotional despair when Internet Explorer refuses to act like the mature browser it should be by now.

Flinging mud at something, even when deserved, will get you dirty as well.

Why not solve 2 problems at the same time? Do this instead:

http://code.google.com/p/chromeframeiebar

That's nice, but are the interference issues between WiFi and Bluetooth fixed yet?

It would be nice to have the laptop connect to the stereo via Bluetooth while I'm lounging in the living room without cutting out while I'm watching YouTube.

(more info here: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Coexistence)

We developed a web based game BattleCell that uses Ajax/CSS instead of Flash for all the heavy lifting. We discover at least one new bug in the IE rendering engine every month. Our pile of IE bugs in the back room that we have to track every time we develop a new feature is testament to the dread with which we view this new hardware-based rendering engine. We know what we're doing.

Just last week, we learned that once you have a stack of enough semi-transparent layers (combination of PNGs with alpha channels coupled with DIVs with various opacity CSS settings), IE fails to render the top-most layers. This doesn't happen after 20-30 layers. This happens after 5-7 layers. At first we thought our code was faulty, until we realized that scrolling down such a page with multiple layers will cause text that was previously "invisible" to suddenly be rendered in its specified color... as we kept scrolling, the text would then disappear again. You get the idea.

Obviously, this all works flawlessly in Safari, Chrome, Opera. For IE, we get to re-architect all sorts of work-arounds --a house built on sand.