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This is a real picture, from Sofia, Bulgaria. I liked the idea of having Microsoft behind police line..
Thanks to sandelion for pointing out an interesting fact to me about Microsoft's new search engine bing. I blogged about bing earlier this week and have been using it as my default search engine instead of Google all week. Apparently Microsoft has decided that part of their job with the new search engine is to become the world's new censor.
At first I couldn't believe this. Why would Microsoft think limiting the information provided in a search engine to be a good thing? But then I tried it myself. You can try it too. Just change your location preference in bing from the U.S. to India and try searching for the term "sex." Yes, Microsoft has decided in their infinite wisdom that Indians should not be allowed to search for information about sex. In Microsoft's words, "The search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms." That's right, there's no, "okay, I'm a big boy, go ahead and show me my results" button next to this Microsoft error message, there is simply a message telling you to change your search term. It's like an instant trip back to the Victorian age.
Now in fairness, it seems that people in India could always just change their country preference from India to the U.S. to get these search results, but it's still super lame that Microsoft would deem it necessary for people to have to change their country preferences to look up something as universal as "sex." And many people of course won't think to do this.
Google, by the way, has no problem with people searching for the term "sex" in India. I guess that's all part of that whole "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful" thing that they seem to be after. Since bing supposedly stands for "bing is not google," maybe Microsoft should adopt their own mission statement for bing. It could be "censoring the world's information and making it inaccessible and useless."
This sort of censorship is a really stupid decision on Microsoft's part. It's the biggest reason yet I've heard for why I won't use bing anymore. Censorship sucks Microsoft, don't you know that yet?
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Microsoft anunció sus planes para aplicar la actualización automática de su navegador para Windows, Internet Explorer, para aumentar la seguridad en la navegación de los usuarios.
Microsoft Hotmail ad wrap on a Sound Transit bus at the end of Route 545, which connects Seattle to Microsoft's headquarters in Overlake, Redmond.
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I get the strangest things in my inbox. Among the current Internet jokes and "funny pictures" I find the occasional gem. I don't want to discourage anyone, so keep it coming, but I can tell you that something like this will find a place in Madang - Ples Bilong Mi. The latest bit of esoterica comes from reader Ray Putney of London. That's the London in the UK, in case you were wondering.
Here was Ray's message to me:
Hi Jan, Good to read you got to Fiji ok. The only flying I seem to do now is the virtual variety with Microsoft's FSX Flight Simulator. I'm looking forward to a trip to Brisbane Australia later this year to visit my son and grandkids. Attached are some shots of Madang, the one over the airport is pretty close to your shot.
Well, I was amazed at, first, Ray's patience in getting these screen shots and second, the amazing fidelity, if a little chunky, of Microsoft's imaging of Madang Airport. Here is a typical island scene:
This looks very much like Siar Island to me:
The perspective looks as if you are looking out toward Kranket, Leper and Pig Islands.
This is turning on the crosswind course toward the turn to the final approach course:
Pretty realistic, eh?
Compare it to this shot which I got from Sir Peter Barter's helicopter:
The resemblance is amazing.
Here is a quick look out of the window before a tight, tight turn onto a short, short final approach:
If I were the pilot in a fix-wing aircraft, I'd be thinking about a go-around. Some passengers might object at the maneuver I would have to make at this point to put it on the numbers.
Here is an amazing cockpit view of the Madang Airport Terminal:
Again, the fidelity is stunning.
Ray finished the show with a beautiful simulation of twilight on the runway:
Ray, thanks for sending this along to us. It is a nice break from the usual drone of fish and complaints.
I encourage other readers to send me whatever you think might interest the MPBM audience. If you've been around here for a while, you know that the interest is eclectic and leans toward the eccentric.
Let's keep it that way. I bore easily. You can take that either way you like.
Manfest Digital built a custom application for the conference that would read badges, link to the Crowdvine social network, bring up flickr photos and tweets. Nicely done
First, I read that Microsoft was going to spend $100 million advertising Bing, their new search^H^H^H^H^H decision engine.
Then I saw an ad for Bing in my Gmail clip bar, so I clicked on it.
This took me to a page saying Bing wasn't out yet, but would I like to take a tour?
That button took me to this page, where it asked me if I wanted to install/update Silverlight.
Microsoft, you *are* good at helping me make my decisions!
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Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
For Microsoft we made these laser engraved skateboards, based on the wonderfull world of friends you can acces by using their new phone.
Microsoft está empezando el nuevo año tal como comenzó 2011, lidiando con las débiles ventas de computadoras, que afectan a su negocio principal, Windows, e intentando hacerse paso en los mercados de rápido crecimiento de los teléfonos móviles y las tabletas.
Las acciones del mayor productor mundial de software están en el mismo nivel en el que estaban hace un año y pocos esperan que eso cambie después de que la firma anuncie sus resultados este próximo jueves.