Definition of the phrase, please, as well as citations or research demonstrating your assertion, since car companies across the world are pouring huge amounts of money and time into autonomous driving technology.
Could be an opportunity for communities to stand together and buy their local stations keep them out of the influence of corporate control permanently....? Money where our mouths are, etc...
Don't you wish someone would tell the Koch brothers this as well?
Be a vaper with a few bucks for a coffee, you're a douche. Be a pair of ugly, amoral douchebags with no creativity and nothing better to do than a desire for control, you're free to do what you like in this country.
Jokes aside, some people are shown to get more trustworthy in certain situations as they age. I wonder if that means we'll (our generation) start getting hoodwinked by OUR version of good media at 70 years old?
I'm in personal finance, and I'll tell you something: These people spend like drunken sailors. It is its own economy. It won't be a healthy economy, but it's an economy.
It's not a big conspiracy. It's that capitalism pushes as many people as possible into positions where they have no choices. Their meager wages will be spent on services, like the factory towns which used to use chattle (?). People egot paid in this stuff, but it had to be used to just subsist. By pressing everyone into that position... I don't know what people like the Koch brothers are thinking. That's their goal. I've heard some theories, one being that the rich very much believe they are superior to all other people and should breed themselves into a new an shining race of humanity, leaving the masses behind. That's an idea that's been around pretty much forever. They have no empathy because they KNOW (for a fact, in their mind) that they're better. OR they believe they don't have enough. It's what got them into their position in the first place. I've met rich people who came from poor backgrounds, and they're terrified to death they'll never have enough. Like eating and eating and eating but never becoming full, they will lie, kill, cheat, and steal their way until they die, never satisfied. Still others do it due to culture, or religion, feeling that they are Jews/Armenians/Japanese/Chinese/Poles/Greeks/Indians/Americans/Christians/whatever and have a culture of abuse/consumption to fulfill; they have a birthright.
Tangent, yes. However, I suspect things will get A LOT worse before they get better. It will take bloodshed to begin fixing this, because the world still only seems to understand violence, instead of enlightened reason and sometimes not getting what we want.
Oh yeah, what a shame: Wouldn't dare change zoning laws or build some skyscrapers (that are earthquake-proof), have to keep expanding outward into a never-ending suburb. I've lived there. LA doesn't need ANY more land, they need to build UP. Same with San Francisco.
While I appreciate much of your post, IAAFP (Financial Professional, yes) and passively-managed/low cost does not outperform actively-managed in many instances. I will happily provide data. Some bond funds, maybe a large cap fund occasionally (but most of those are index funds unless specifically specialized anyway), but for any kind of market that isn't trending upward with no bumps in the road, like right now, passive/low cost gets slaughtered by the better funds. The key is research and knowing how to collate and compare all data. The financial industry makes this rather hard to do, I believe. Morningstar data below, it's a bit of a pain but bear with me on the NAV vs current market return values. Off the cuff running numbers to see what happens. Vanguard 500 is basically a mirror of the S&P500, so...
Mkt Tot Ret 12 Mo (Current) 22.85 Mkt Tot Ret 3 Yr (Current) 13.05 Mkt Tot Ret 5 Yr (Current) 14.26 NAV Tot Ret 10 Yr (month-end) 7.44 NAV Tot Ret 15 Yr (month-end) 10.04 Sortino Ratio 5 Yr 2.79 Sortino Ratio 10 Yr.75 Sortino is a good measure of risk vs return. It basically says that investors don't care about upside volatility but do care about downside volatility. it's not foolproof, but it's better than most of the pap out there. I immediately find 4 different fund companies (Pimco, JPMorgan [who I don't like personally], Hartford, and Invesco) in our system with Large Value funds which are neck and neck with the pure S&P/basic ETF, and that's Net of fees.
That's also just Large Cap, easy to replicate as a fund. Get into anything that requires research, such as small/micro cap, small international, emerging markets equity/bond, convertibles, preferreds, commodities, natural resources... at that point you're often better, in a well-researched active fund. When the market takes a shit again? I guarantee you the Amana Income Fund will put to shame nearly all these hot funds, ETFs, and the benchmark S&P. My point? Strategy matters, too, but that's tangential.
I could provide more data but I have to get back to giving advice...
Of all the places I've driven, Los Angeles was the most fun. Hills, twisty highway ramps, and long stretches of road to gun it and relax on. Once driverless takes hold it'll be sad to see that excitement fade away, but great helping the traffic problem.
This is sounding more and more like the GWB years: stall and stammering until a massive disaster occurs allowing the administration to look tough and take power, looking inept THE ENTIRE TIME while raiding the coffers and doing the really dirty work behind the scenes. After all, "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" Same playbook from GWB. They're very competent, they just don't want YOU to think so.
A few random thoughts: The first time K walked slowly toward something, I felt tension. The second time he did, slowly looking around like a stoned hippy, I felt a little less tension... The third time, I started to question these directorial choices. By the 10th time a character slowly walked (the part of K picking up his foot and putting it down in the hotel nearly had me laugh out loud) I'd written this movie off.
The script is hilarious at times. "We're all looking for meaning" was a complete blunder of script and direction; SHOW but never TELL. That's Film 101. The same for Jared Leto. He tells tells tells but doesn't really show very much. That could have been powerful, but is wasted amongst a lack of coherence in the film. The movie tries so hard to be dramatic... it's like Villaneuve learned his storytelling from video games (beat the user over the head with Important Things till they feel something).
Plot holes, plot holes plot holes plot holes! How could Deckard have lived in a place (Vegas) that was highly irradiated? Are replicants therefore totally immune to high radiation levels? Tritium has a half-life of 12 years... are they saying that a place (which everyone seems to know of) renowned for its radiation levels is at a safe level 30 years (2.5 half-lives) later? seems unlikely... moreover, if the place ISN'T deadly to live in, why aren't there tons of people living in Vegas, with all those provisions (or why haven't they been taken back to humanity by all the replicant slaves, if resources are so scarce? All that whiskey would fetch a very high price and there were clearly tons of scavengers in San Diego...) The art direction was neat enough, but still felt very disconnected... Robin Wright's character felt useless, badly-directed. There was very little chemistry between the actors (though de Armas seemed warm, ephemeral, and fun, the way she ought to have as a "fictional" AI companion in a world of deadpan people)
The scenes of violence went on too long and had no emotional heft to them; they were violence just for the sake of violence. Rachel getting shot in the head SHOULD have felt gut-wrenching, but I hardly blinked. I should have felt relief when the Big Bad Lady finally died, but I actually just felt kind of sick at watching a loooong drawn-out sequence of someone getting drowned. It puts the audience on the same level as the killer, that we should be forced to watch someone drown and apparently enjoy that? In the original that probably would have been an amazing moment, but with no character underneath Luv for the audience to care about, no driving force behind her cold and vicious actions, there was no reason to care about her dying; she dies for no reason at the movie level, not the in-story level; this could have been a powerful moment, that she'd had a choice to stop killing and decided not to, as counterpoint to what the Rebels and K espoused. Hilarious lines: "Everyone's looking for something real", "It's ok, you can trust us","I'm going to tell Wallace you tried to shoot me first"
I don't know how he VillaManeuvered into making this movie, but I'm never seeing another one of his, and I most certainly will NOT see the sequel (if there is one, which it was completely set up for).
I should have listened to this review... saw it last night and I can't get that ~3 hours of my life back. I feel ripped off and deceived. It felt like how a teenager would make a Bladerunner movie.
Everything I've read in a couple reviews (I know, citation needed) indicates that they basically just bolted on 2 more cores. It doesn't appear there's much new. The extra heat is, apparently, above what AMD shows (though Intel runs at a higher clock speed). I could argue that the world doesn't need more computing power on each desktop, but "640K is enough!" so...
Tangentially: What I'd like to see are benchmarks run on chipsets that keep the performance numbers pegged at a certain rate and then measure all the other performance metrics (such as heat and power usage) to see what comes out.
Been reading for a solid 12(??) years, but heard about it when it first kicked off back in the late 90s. The person that told me about it is actually dead now, strangely.
It used to be fun to go and check the polls Slashdot does, but I haven't participated in one for years now. I read science news elsewhere and wonder why cool stuff like that isn't getting posted here...
Have you ever interacted with a parent? Most of the ones I know are exhausted half the time. Happy, but exhausted. They're also incredibly concerned about what quality of education their kid is getting. I haven't used one, but Aristotle honestly seems like the kind of thing that parents could learn to adore. The outcry over this is stupid: We need better education for kids with parents who aren't ever around because both (or one) parent works. People ALREADY form bonds with inanimate objects, like stuffed animals as kids! Forming a bond with something that teaches and talks back doesn't seem like the unhealthiest thing ever. Sigh. When it's about something useful like education (Aristotle), we freak out. When it's about convenience and marketing (Echo) then oh yeah that's ok! Also, the government stepping in to regulate a product like this is alarming.
I've got a Z5 compact, and it isn't getting the new Android upgrade....and I have to say I'm pissed at Sony after enjoying the Z1 compact (only reasonably-sized phones i can find on the market anymore). Replacing the battery is nearly impossible. The Z1 phones were a breeze to replace the battery and make repairs. the Z5s have problems with overheating (earlier snapdragon chip) and the battery is buried under all the phone components. It's almost as if Sony wants you to just buy a new phone instead of get a legitimately useful life out of their old ones...
tld;dr they used to be good, but I'd be a little more cautious nowadays.
It's only in the last few years that companies have created totally vertical integration with content creation to delivery. That is a major difference, in my mind; hence the need for laws.
Given how fit one needs to be to survive the G-Forces (named from "Gee whiz, everything's going black!") inherent in a launch like this I'd suspect many people wouldn't get health clearance to make these kinds of trips.
"One team is even working with the producers of Sesame Street to teach vocabulary to kindergartners in Atlanta. " It's not saying much about India. It's not saying much about Atlanta either. It's *certainly* not saying much about IBM...
I can tell you, living in Atlanta now, this is an improvement.
I can see why Ford would try this move. A physics teacher friend of mine purchased a Hololens to work on a project that ultimately (finally!) landed him a tenure track position at a University. He showed me his demo, magnetic field lines given a point charge in space; simple stuff, but a neat idea to help students learn.
When he put the thing on me it felt pretty nice. Bit heavy, but comfy. Booted it up and the whooshing of scanning the room was impressive. Then he showed me the Solar System program. It completely blew my mind, could walk around the room, lean in to see things, zoom and manipulate with my bare hands in the air; I've tried VR, but after a few minutes with AR I was ready to hand over my bucks for the next version of Hololens, no questions asked. The current one would be GREAT for engineers and architects, maybe medical applications too, but not quite there for consumer.
One of the points of all this shouldn't be mixed: if online ads are worthless, doesn't that mean all this data collection is mostly worthless also? Thoughts on this?
Also FYI, I just clicked an ad 4 times on the site here with my finger because I was trying to close the ad... I'd much rather go to a world where I pay a dollar a month for Google and Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Definition of the phrase, please, as well as citations or research demonstrating your assertion, since car companies across the world are pouring huge amounts of money and time into autonomous driving technology.
It's from a few years back, but I cite an article (grain of salt, etc)
https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
Could be an opportunity for communities to stand together and buy their local stations keep them out of the influence of corporate control permanently....?
Money where our mouths are, etc...
Don't you wish someone would tell the Koch brothers this as well?
Be a vaper with a few bucks for a coffee, you're a douche.
Be a pair of ugly, amoral douchebags with no creativity and nothing better to do than a desire for control, you're free to do what you like in this country.
Jokes aside, some people are shown to get more trustworthy in certain situations as they age. I wonder if that means we'll (our generation) start getting hoodwinked by OUR version of good media at 70 years old?
Great idea. I would piggyback on that and ask whether it will be used as a bargaining chip instead of just an eventual move.
The mega-rich. This is a burgeoning segment.
I'm in personal finance, and I'll tell you something: These people spend like drunken sailors. It is its own economy. It won't be a healthy economy, but it's an economy.
It's not a big conspiracy. It's that capitalism pushes as many people as possible into positions where they have no choices. Their meager wages will be spent on services, like the factory towns which used to use chattle (?). People egot paid in this stuff, but it had to be used to just subsist. By pressing everyone into that position... I don't know what people like the Koch brothers are thinking. That's their goal. I've heard some theories, one being that the rich very much believe they are superior to all other people and should breed themselves into a new an shining race of humanity, leaving the masses behind. That's an idea that's been around pretty much forever. They have no empathy because they KNOW (for a fact, in their mind) that they're better.
OR they believe they don't have enough. It's what got them into their position in the first place. I've met rich people who came from poor backgrounds, and they're terrified to death they'll never have enough. Like eating and eating and eating but never becoming full, they will lie, kill, cheat, and steal their way until they die, never satisfied.
Still others do it due to culture, or religion, feeling that they are Jews/Armenians/Japanese/Chinese/Poles/Greeks/Indians/Americans/Christians/whatever and have a culture of abuse/consumption to fulfill; they have a birthright.
Tangent, yes. However, I suspect things will get A LOT worse before they get better. It will take bloodshed to begin fixing this, because the world still only seems to understand violence, instead of enlightened reason and sometimes not getting what we want.
Oh yeah, what a shame: Wouldn't dare change zoning laws or build some skyscrapers (that are earthquake-proof), have to keep expanding outward into a never-ending suburb.
I've lived there. LA doesn't need ANY more land, they need to build UP. Same with San Francisco.
While I appreciate much of your post, IAAFP (Financial Professional, yes) and passively-managed/low cost does not outperform actively-managed in many instances. I will happily provide data. Some bond funds, maybe a large cap fund occasionally (but most of those are index funds unless specifically specialized anyway), but for any kind of market that isn't trending upward with no bumps in the road, like right now, passive/low cost gets slaughtered by the better funds.
The key is research and knowing how to collate and compare all data. The financial industry makes this rather hard to do, I believe.
Morningstar data below, it's a bit of a pain but bear with me on the NAV vs current market return values. Off the cuff running numbers to see what happens.
Vanguard 500 is basically a mirror of the S&P500, so...
Mkt Tot Ret 12 Mo (Current) 22.85 .75
Mkt Tot Ret 3 Yr (Current) 13.05
Mkt Tot Ret 5 Yr (Current) 14.26
NAV Tot Ret 10 Yr (month-end) 7.44
NAV Tot Ret 15 Yr (month-end) 10.04
Sortino Ratio 5 Yr 2.79
Sortino Ratio 10 Yr
Sortino is a good measure of risk vs return. It basically says that investors don't care about upside volatility but do care about downside volatility. it's not foolproof, but it's better than most of the pap out there.
I immediately find 4 different fund companies (Pimco, JPMorgan [who I don't like personally], Hartford, and Invesco) in our system with Large Value funds which are neck and neck with the pure S&P/basic ETF, and that's Net of fees.
That's also just Large Cap, easy to replicate as a fund. Get into anything that requires research, such as small/micro cap, small international, emerging markets equity/bond, convertibles, preferreds, commodities, natural resources... at that point you're often better, in a well-researched active fund.
When the market takes a shit again? I guarantee you the Amana Income Fund will put to shame nearly all these hot funds, ETFs, and the benchmark S&P. My point? Strategy matters, too, but that's tangential.
I could provide more data but I have to get back to giving advice...
Of all the places I've driven, Los Angeles was the most fun. Hills, twisty highway ramps, and long stretches of road to gun it and relax on. Once driverless takes hold it'll be sad to see that excitement fade away, but great helping the traffic problem.
This is sounding more and more like the GWB years: stall and stammering until a massive disaster occurs allowing the administration to look tough and take power, looking inept THE ENTIRE TIME while raiding the coffers and doing the really dirty work behind the scenes.
After all, "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"
Same playbook from GWB. They're very competent, they just don't want YOU to think so.
A few random thoughts:
The first time K walked slowly toward something, I felt tension.
The second time he did, slowly looking around like a stoned hippy, I felt a little less tension...
The third time, I started to question these directorial choices.
By the 10th time a character slowly walked (the part of K picking up his foot and putting it down in the hotel nearly had me laugh out loud) I'd written this movie off.
The script is hilarious at times. "We're all looking for meaning" was a complete blunder of script and direction; SHOW but never TELL. That's Film 101.
The same for Jared Leto. He tells tells tells but doesn't really show very much. That could have been powerful, but is wasted amongst a lack of coherence in the film.
The movie tries so hard to be dramatic... it's like Villaneuve learned his storytelling from video games (beat the user over the head with Important Things till they feel something).
Plot holes, plot holes plot holes plot holes! How could Deckard have lived in a place (Vegas) that was highly irradiated? Are replicants therefore totally immune to high radiation levels? Tritium has a half-life of 12 years... are they saying that a place (which everyone seems to know of) renowned for its radiation levels is at a safe level 30 years (2.5 half-lives) later? seems unlikely... moreover, if the place ISN'T deadly to live in, why aren't there tons of people living in Vegas, with all those provisions (or why haven't they been taken back to humanity by all the replicant slaves, if resources are so scarce? All that whiskey would fetch a very high price and there were clearly tons of scavengers in San Diego...)
The art direction was neat enough, but still felt very disconnected...
Robin Wright's character felt useless, badly-directed.
There was very little chemistry between the actors (though de Armas seemed warm, ephemeral, and fun, the way she ought to have as a "fictional" AI companion in a world of deadpan people)
The scenes of violence went on too long and had no emotional heft to them; they were violence just for the sake of violence. Rachel getting shot in the head SHOULD have felt gut-wrenching, but I hardly blinked. I should have felt relief when the Big Bad Lady finally died, but I actually just felt kind of sick at watching a loooong drawn-out sequence of someone getting drowned. It puts the audience on the same level as the killer, that we should be forced to watch someone drown and apparently enjoy that? In the original that probably would have been an amazing moment, but with no character underneath Luv for the audience to care about, no driving force behind her cold and vicious actions, there was no reason to care about her dying; she dies for no reason at the movie level, not the in-story level; this could have been a powerful moment, that she'd had a choice to stop killing and decided not to, as counterpoint to what the Rebels and K espoused.
Hilarious lines: "Everyone's looking for something real", "It's ok, you can trust us","I'm going to tell Wallace you tried to shoot me first"
I don't know how he VillaManeuvered into making this movie, but I'm never seeing another one of his, and I most certainly will NOT see the sequel (if there is one, which it was completely set up for).
I should have listened to this review... saw it last night and I can't get that ~3 hours of my life back. I feel ripped off and deceived.
It felt like how a teenager would make a Bladerunner movie.
Ministry of Supply is still going.
Bluffworks is also still going, I believe.
Everything I've read in a couple reviews (I know, citation needed) indicates that they basically just bolted on 2 more cores. It doesn't appear there's much new. The extra heat is, apparently, above what AMD shows (though Intel runs at a higher clock speed).
I could argue that the world doesn't need more computing power on each desktop, but "640K is enough!" so...
Tangentially: What I'd like to see are benchmarks run on chipsets that keep the performance numbers pegged at a certain rate and then measure all the other performance metrics (such as heat and power usage) to see what comes out.
Been reading for a solid 12(??) years, but heard about it when it first kicked off back in the late 90s. The person that told me about it is actually dead now, strangely.
It used to be fun to go and check the polls Slashdot does, but I haven't participated in one for years now.
I read science news elsewhere and wonder why cool stuff like that isn't getting posted here...
Here's to another 20, in any case.
Have you ever interacted with a parent? Most of the ones I know are exhausted half the time. Happy, but exhausted.
They're also incredibly concerned about what quality of education their kid is getting.
I haven't used one, but Aristotle honestly seems like the kind of thing that parents could learn to adore. The outcry over this is stupid: We need better education for kids with parents who aren't ever around because both (or one) parent works.
People ALREADY form bonds with inanimate objects, like stuffed animals as kids! Forming a bond with something that teaches and talks back doesn't seem like the unhealthiest thing ever.
Sigh. When it's about something useful like education (Aristotle), we freak out. When it's about convenience and marketing (Echo) then oh yeah that's ok!
Also, the government stepping in to regulate a product like this is alarming.
I've got a Z5 compact, and it isn't getting the new Android upgrade....and I have to say I'm pissed at Sony after enjoying the Z1 compact (only reasonably-sized phones i can find on the market anymore). Replacing the battery is nearly impossible.
The Z1 phones were a breeze to replace the battery and make repairs. the Z5s have problems with overheating (earlier snapdragon chip) and the battery is buried under all the phone components. It's almost as if Sony wants you to just buy a new phone instead of get a legitimately useful life out of their old ones...
tld;dr they used to be good, but I'd be a little more cautious nowadays.
It's only in the last few years that companies have created totally vertical integration with content creation to delivery. That is a major difference, in my mind; hence the need for laws.
Given how fit one needs to be to survive the G-Forces (named from "Gee whiz, everything's going black!") inherent in a launch like this I'd suspect many people wouldn't get health clearance to make these kinds of trips.
"One team is even working with the producers of Sesame Street to teach vocabulary to kindergartners in Atlanta. "
It's not saying much about India.
It's not saying much about Atlanta either.
It's *certainly* not saying much about IBM...
I can tell you, living in Atlanta now, this is an improvement.
No mod points, so here here to those who've RTFA and eschew fear for knowledge.
I can see why Ford would try this move. A physics teacher friend of mine purchased a Hololens to work on a project that ultimately (finally!) landed him a tenure track position at a University. He showed me his demo, magnetic field lines given a point charge in space; simple stuff, but a neat idea to help students learn.
When he put the thing on me it felt pretty nice. Bit heavy, but comfy. Booted it up and the whooshing of scanning the room was impressive. Then he showed me the Solar System program. It completely blew my mind, could walk around the room, lean in to see things, zoom and manipulate with my bare hands in the air; I've tried VR, but after a few minutes with AR I was ready to hand over my bucks for the next version of Hololens, no questions asked. The current one would be GREAT for engineers and architects, maybe medical applications too, but not quite there for consumer.
I'm a convert, honestly. I'd love to get one.
Except not. Millenials outnumber baby boomers.
https://www.census.gov/newsroo...
One of the points of all this shouldn't be mixed: if online ads are worthless, doesn't that mean all this data collection is mostly worthless also? Thoughts on this?
Also FYI, I just clicked an ad 4 times on the site here with my finger because I was trying to close the ad...
I'd much rather go to a world where I pay a dollar a month for Google and Slashdot.