Or slipping or tripping over things.... As the experience becomes ever-more "immersive", people will increasingly forget they're living in a real, potentially dangerous world.
But who am I kidding? Bankers are all about making more money for themselves, and screw the customer and the horse he rode in on. So this will make probably make the experience of dealing with banks even more teeth-grindingly frustrating.
Good point, but if you cannot make a product with more than that lowish margin...well, unless you sell a ton of licences, your business model is not sound. Of course, with s/w the delta cost of "production & shipping" is (support & ongoing dev. cost aside) pretty much zero, so if you do manage to produce a "Unicorn" then it's all gravy
No, if you create a useful output, (it meets the client criteria, and they pay for it), then by definition your job is "useful". Does not necessarily make it a "good" one. Anyway, sounds like you need a change...
Never heard of "Google Shopping"...use Amazon, eBay and Alibaba all the time; never had a problem. Aha, maybe that's the problem TFA refers to, then....
Pointless unless it's to (re)ignite the tired old debate about digital vs.analog & recycle some gold monster cable jokes. Anybody who worked with the old analog studios will tell you how "noisy" they were; harder to use too, and the damn tapes always seemed to break at a critical moment, or strangely erase themselves, or just get plain lost or stolen... Digital also allowed many more people (for better or worse) to record and mix cheap & fast.
Anyway, the main reason why a lot of "digital" music on CD sounded crap was the way it was mastered, not the way it was recorded or replayed. A lot of the music itself was pretty poor to start with too, which didn't help...
Worse, many people's introduction to CD was in a bundle with crap (cheap) amps and speakers; this sounded not good compared to (Grand) Dad's audiophile setups with massive class AB amps and speakers the size of iceboxes. Listen to a decent CD (remastered pop / rock, jazz or even easier to find, classical) on a decent rig and see what I mean; it sounds a LOT better than an LP.
Of course, that does not mean that people (and include me too, please), don't love a "noisy", growling rock recording with overdriven amps and speakers howling & distorting all over...
But I don't want "snap, crackle & pop" in the middle of a quiet section of an opera aria, thanks.
Now get off my lawn etc.
Also, people had gotten used to the artifacts that recording, mixing and vinyl playback
Well, I'm an older guy too, and totally agree with you (for once). After my divorce some 15 years back I put myself on the market the only way I knew worked for me - I hit the beaches, the bars and social events. Been happily re-married now with a kind, smart, funny and really beautiful lady. We did not meet on-line, but in a jazz-dancing class.
I don't believe in this online dating crap; get out from behind the screens, girls and boys, and hit the floor. Learn to dance, you'll love it. Top tip - people tend to make love the way they dance....
I once visited a potential software agent in France. They had a good accounting suite for IBM S/36 at the time, but I could not figure out how they had such an impressive office complex based on their small customer base.
So, I got the technical manager sauced-up one evening and its turns out the basement was full of "Minitel rose" (pink, i.e. pron) servers. This was the 1980s, and it seems that online "Johns" were spending hours - and hundreds of bucks - every month hammering away on a tiny keyboard and getting all steamed-up over scrolling black and white horny text on an equally small screen. Rather sad.
The joke was, the "best" online "sexters" were.....men! Easy money, working from home. Kinda like Chinese theatre I guess - women's roles are traditionally played by men, since "only a man knows how a woman is supposed to react". Equally sad.
Please. I've had to put up with WinCE - well named, since "wince" is what you did trying to program those things, plus the fact that MS regularly fucked you because the next release was never even close to being compatible with the previous... Software updates? Fuck you - change your hardware if you want that.
As for the Nokia-era "Windows" phones, the Nokia hardware was typically OK, (especially the cameras, and at least you could replace the battery) but the interface....awful. Just gouge-your-own-eyes-out frustrating.
Of course, all the above meant that the 3rd-party apps and hardware goodies market was nonexistent. Looking for your favorite app or a snazzy hifi docking charger thingy, well you're shit outta luck.
Now, we can look forward to all of this with added Windows 10 spyware goodness? No. Just say no. Fuck no.
Compared to the rest of the world, the poor US consumer is already well and truly ass-raped by the cable / ISP cartel. Having taken bazillions in subsidies and done precisely fuck-all in return, (with fiber a distant dream for most USians), they're effective mono/duopolies in most areas, with high prices, low speeds and terrible customer service.
Now that their bought-and-paid-for politicians/lobbyists have finally managed to kill NN, they'll be opening the dusty box marketed "cable TV 101"...soon you'll only get your Netflix access with a "premium" bundle for an extra 50 bucks a month...
You're right, but this is not the "tooling" they're talking about - there are two levels:
1 - The really big stuff; the production line and associated robots, presses, other machines and dies, jigs etc. that help with producing and moving the major components around and getting them built. This is the stuff that takes months or years to setup. (Of course, a lot of this stuff is now based at suppliers, rather than in the same factory, and Tesla needs less than typical, since there's less stuff in their cars than a traditional ICE one.) This stuff requires maintenance, but does not "wear out" that fast.
2 - The small "consumable" tools, such as dies, punches and drills that are indeed replaced on a daily or sometimes even hourly schedule, depending on job and production volumes. (Drilling or milling stainless steel, for example, kills your tooling pretty fast)
That the current leadership so desperately plays the "nationalist" card at every opportunity; China has invented many things in the past, (gunpowder...) but of course that was under different management.
"The intelligent things will have to constantly think about an intelligent adversary that strategizes to deceive and defeat them. Without this adversarial intelligence, the battle things will not survive long enough to be useful."
In other words; they're theorizing about "battle things" that will be lethal, highly-autonomous and adaptable...
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WTF? For counting fish? Where do I apply?
Apparently it's "Kim Fatty the Third" on Chinese social media...
Should get a "funny" mod, not "insightful"; six-week vacations are a thing of the past in Europe...nobody has the time, or the cash
Or slipping or tripping over things....
As the experience becomes ever-more "immersive", people will increasingly forget they're living in a real, potentially dangerous world.
For great justice!
But who am I kidding? Bankers are all about making more money for themselves, and screw the customer and the horse he rode in on.
So this will make probably make the experience of dealing with banks even more teeth-grindingly frustrating.
Good point, but if you cannot make a product with more than that lowish margin...well, unless you sell a ton of licences, your business model is not sound. Of course, with s/w the delta cost of "production & shipping" is (support & ongoing dev. cost aside) pretty much zero, so if you do manage to produce a "Unicorn" then it's all gravy
No, if you create a useful output, (it meets the client criteria, and they pay for it), then by definition your job is "useful". Does not necessarily make it a "good" one.
Anyway, sounds like you need a change...
Never heard of "Google Shopping"...use Amazon, eBay and Alibaba all the time; never had a problem.
Aha, maybe that's the problem TFA refers to, then....
Yup, and I have a nice bridge for sale here...
I think you meant, "in Soviet Russia, base belongs you!"
Pointless unless it's to (re)ignite the tired old debate about digital vs.analog & recycle some gold monster cable jokes.
Anybody who worked with the old analog studios will tell you how "noisy" they were; harder to use too, and the damn tapes always seemed to break at a critical moment, or strangely erase themselves, or just get plain lost or stolen...
Digital also allowed many more people (for better or worse) to record and mix cheap & fast.
Anyway, the main reason why a lot of "digital" music on CD sounded crap was the way it was mastered, not the way it was recorded or replayed.
A lot of the music itself was pretty poor to start with too, which didn't help...
Worse, many people's introduction to CD was in a bundle with crap (cheap) amps and speakers; this sounded not good compared to (Grand) Dad's audiophile setups with massive class AB amps and speakers the size of iceboxes.
Listen to a decent CD (remastered pop / rock, jazz or even easier to find, classical) on a decent rig and see what I mean; it sounds a LOT better than an LP.
Of course, that does not mean that people (and include me too, please), don't love a "noisy", growling rock recording with overdriven amps and speakers howling & distorting all over...
But I don't want "snap, crackle & pop" in the middle of a quiet section of an opera aria, thanks.
Now get off my lawn etc.
Also, people had gotten used to the artifacts that recording, mixing and vinyl playback
The US, and its NATO allies, do NOT use napalm.
They got something better...not be used on civilians, of course....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not sure about "most of the country" there Pope, and the water management sure ain't the best..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, I'm an older guy too, and totally agree with you (for once).
After my divorce some 15 years back I put myself on the market the only way I knew worked for me - I hit the beaches, the bars and social events.
Been happily re-married now with a kind, smart, funny and really beautiful lady.
We did not meet on-line, but in a jazz-dancing class.
I don't believe in this online dating crap; get out from behind the screens, girls and boys, and hit the floor. Learn to dance, you'll love it. Top tip - people tend to make love the way they dance....
I once visited a potential software agent in France. They had a good accounting suite for IBM S/36 at the time, but I could not figure out how they had such an impressive office complex based on their small customer base.
So, I got the technical manager sauced-up one evening and its turns out the basement was full of "Minitel rose" (pink, i.e. pron) servers. This was the 1980s, and it seems that online "Johns" were spending hours - and hundreds of bucks - every month hammering away on a tiny keyboard and getting all steamed-up over scrolling black and white horny text on an equally small screen. Rather sad.
The joke was, the "best" online "sexters" were.....men! Easy money, working from home. Kinda like Chinese theatre I guess - women's roles are traditionally played by men, since "only a man knows how a woman is supposed to react". Equally sad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/c...
Please. I've had to put up with WinCE - well named, since "wince" is what you did trying to program those things, plus the fact that MS regularly fucked you because the next release was never even close to being compatible with the previous...
Software updates? Fuck you - change your hardware if you want that.
As for the Nokia-era "Windows" phones, the Nokia hardware was typically OK, (especially the cameras, and at least you could replace the battery) but the interface....awful. Just gouge-your-own-eyes-out frustrating.
Of course, all the above meant that the 3rd-party apps and hardware goodies market was nonexistent.
Looking for your favorite app or a snazzy hifi docking charger thingy, well you're shit outta luck.
Now, we can look forward to all of this with added Windows 10 spyware goodness?
No. Just say no. Fuck no.
Compared to the rest of the world, the poor US consumer is already well and truly ass-raped by the cable / ISP cartel.
Having taken bazillions in subsidies and done precisely fuck-all in return, (with fiber a distant dream for most USians), they're effective mono/duopolies in most areas, with high prices, low speeds and terrible customer service.
Now that their bought-and-paid-for politicians/lobbyists have finally managed to kill NN, they'll be opening the dusty box marketed "cable TV 101"...soon you'll only get your Netflix access with a "premium" bundle for an extra 50 bucks a month...
True, but nobody is playing games or mining coins on those turds...
Indeed - but it’s only competition if you offer a competitive package, and OPs point was that Intel don’t have the capability to do this.
Strangely you can still fly in Europe without showing an ID, its easier to get on a plane incognito than a local bus...
It depends on where you are travelling to; even some Schengen-area countries have re-imposed ID checks - France, for example.
Since the linked-to AP article is mostly just a picture, with nothing on the tech., here you go:
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/deskt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Pretty cool, but maybe not space & cost effective on a spaceship.
You're right, but this is not the "tooling" they're talking about - there are two levels:
1 - The really big stuff; the production line and associated robots, presses, other machines and dies, jigs etc. that help with producing and moving the major components around and getting them built. This is the stuff that takes months or years to setup. (Of course, a lot of this stuff is now based at suppliers, rather than in the same factory, and Tesla needs less than typical, since there's less stuff in their cars than a traditional ICE one.)
This stuff requires maintenance, but does not "wear out" that fast.
2 - The small "consumable" tools, such as dies, punches and drills that are indeed replaced on a daily or sometimes even hourly schedule, depending on job and production volumes. (Drilling or milling stainless steel, for example, kills your tooling pretty fast)
That the current leadership so desperately plays the "nationalist" card at every opportunity; China has invented many things in the past, (gunpowder...) but of course that was under different management.
"The intelligent things will have to constantly think about an intelligent adversary that strategizes to deceive and defeat them. Without this adversarial intelligence, the battle things will not survive long enough to be useful."
In other words; they're theorizing about "battle things" that will be lethal, highly-autonomous and adaptable...
Nope, no Terminator-esque red flags there...