many people in my line of work have decided to use a DateTime value as a primary key in a database. i always see the jr programmers doing this. i'm guilty of it myself. you think, "it's impossible that two users will create records at the exact same nanosecond." You quickly learn how probable improbable things are.
just explaining it to the jr programmers never seems to be enough. they never really appreciate it until they actually screw something up.
Well, a blender doesn't carry out simulations, so i don't think that really applies. The tools we use to make crude simulations of the universe are called computers so it's just easier to use the word. As to the nature of the computer, that would be a different experiment. The first question is does our universe display the same failings of the simulations that we are able to make.
It could be a really crummy computer though. It could take ages to update one tick of the universe. it could get paused from time to time . Being part of the simulation, we wouldn't perceive that.
yeah. she writes as though she has the impression that the guy was so altruistic returning her glass. Really, he probably saw it belonged to some cute chick and probably thought he might get some action for helping her.
That business sounds like it's going to be really successful. Businesses up and down the country are going to take it very seriously. Techies speaking in budgeting meetings are not going to have any trouble selling that brand at all.
kleenex probably didn't sound like something you want to put on your face at first either. coke doesn't sound appetizing at all. google is a typo.
If a product is good enough, people will see the name as defining the industry rather than anything else. Unless your name is Gimp. That's never going to work.
Last year when i got FIOS i cut the cord. I was all smug about not having a paid tv service. This year, they offered me a package that includes tv and faster internet for less than my internet only package. I don't know why it works this way, but it's $10 a month cheaper to have a tv subscription. I still can't watch tv because i don't have a tv that supports this card thingy. I didn't get the set top box option. However, i was pleasantly surprised when i found i could use my login to get access to olympic streams.
Normally, when people use water, it goes out into the environment, evaporates, turns into rain, runs back into lakes and rivers, and is generally reclaimed. I'm no fracking expert, but my limited understanding is that water is pumped way underground. Well, if it's way down there, it seems to be pretty effectively taken out of circulation.
I certainly have a ton of respect for the woz, but this sounds like someone just saying whatever in a desperate attempt to sound relevant. Worse, it sounds like he's trying to channel Jobs. Woz's a brilliant man, but he knows damn well his innovations in computers were not inventing something nobody had seen before. And while they might have made computers more approachable, they were definitely not hiding the technology.
He should also know that innovation is rarely, if ever, inventing something totally new. Usually it involves putting together some stuff that has existed for 20 years in a way that causes people to say, "oh! i never thought that would have worked, but it surely does!" (though in my experience, google glass sucks and doesn't make me say that. still, you can't really innovate without failing a few times.)
Generally, when something totally new is invented, it languishes. Nobody knows what to do with it. It needs to sit for 20 years until someone realizes they could now put it in some eyeglasses.
I figure at some point in the future, all transportation will run on some kind of clean stored electricity. However, i don't imagine that's anytime soon. I'm pretty sure in my life, as electric car tech improves and becomes viable, their price will skyrocket with demand. Meanwhile, barring legislation that simply outlaws it, gas will become impossibly cheap.
100 years later, maybe even $0.05 a gallon gas won't compete with having an electric. That's not much of a concern to me.
I hate the obnoxious FBI warnings they show prior to movies now. The whole idea that crappy cell phone recordings are ruining an industry is ridiculous.
However, i just love some good glasshole schadenfreude!
The stand-alone device brings another problem. Social conventions say it is very rude and offensive to fail to recognise someone - if you have to look down at your face-database device, it's going to lead to people getting very upset. The glass approach has the advantage of complete transparency.
I don't know if you've interacted with a glass user, but i assure you, It's pretty apparent that they are looking into the screen and not at you.
I'd use my apple II computer to generate some kind of force field / inertial dampening bubble around my capsule. Then the capsule can be hastily cobbled together from household items.
This isn't a warning. This is an advertisement for people who fancy themselves awesome drivers. All the salesperson needs to say is, "You know, this is a very dangerous car. Paul Walker couldn't handle this car. You look like you could." Sale!
Apple forces you to pay a hefty premium for a limited amount of RAM up front, obsoleting the machine that much sooner.
just bought a MBP. I bought the maximum amount of ram. Apple clearly had me over a barrel here and i had no other option (aside from the obvious not buying a MBP). I get what you are saying about Apple forcing customers to pay a lot up front. I don't get your claim that it's going to obsolete the machine that much sooner. Generally when you buy a notebook, it can accept a maximum amount of ram. That maximum stays constant over the life of the product.
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many people in my line of work have decided to use a DateTime value as a primary key in a database. i always see the jr programmers doing this. i'm guilty of it myself. you think, "it's impossible that two users will create records at the exact same nanosecond." You quickly learn how probable improbable things are.
just explaining it to the jr programmers never seems to be enough. they never really appreciate it until they actually screw something up.
unless the point of the simulation is to see how long it takes simulated life to discover it's in a simulation. you want to win the game don't you?
or wait. do they shut it down then? yeah? We never discussed this.
Well, a blender doesn't carry out simulations, so i don't think that really applies. The tools we use to make crude simulations of the universe are called computers so it's just easier to use the word. As to the nature of the computer, that would be a different experiment. The first question is does our universe display the same failings of the simulations that we are able to make.
It could be a really crummy computer though. It could take ages to update one tick of the universe. it could get paused from time to time . Being part of the simulation, we wouldn't perceive that.
or try up up down down left right left right b a start.
yeah. she writes as though she has the impression that the guy was so altruistic returning her glass. Really, he probably saw it belonged to some cute chick and probably thought he might get some action for helping her.
That business sounds like it's going to be really successful. Businesses up and down the country are going to take it very seriously. Techies speaking in budgeting meetings are not going to have any trouble selling that brand at all.
kleenex probably didn't sound like something you want to put on your face at first either. coke doesn't sound appetizing at all. google is a typo.
If a product is good enough, people will see the name as defining the industry rather than anything else. Unless your name is Gimp. That's never going to work.
My hypothesis is it allows the provider to inflate the number of tv viewers they have and therefore charge more for advertising.
Last year when i got FIOS i cut the cord. I was all smug about not having a paid tv service. This year, they offered me a package that includes tv and faster internet for less than my internet only package. I don't know why it works this way, but it's $10 a month cheaper to have a tv subscription. I still can't watch tv because i don't have a tv that supports this card thingy. I didn't get the set top box option. However, i was pleasantly surprised when i found i could use my login to get access to olympic streams.
Well, then the water doesn't seem lost to me. Unless they take it out of the watershed to treat it or something.
Normally, when people use water, it goes out into the environment, evaporates, turns into rain, runs back into lakes and rivers, and is generally reclaimed. I'm no fracking expert, but my limited understanding is that water is pumped way underground. Well, if it's way down there, it seems to be pretty effectively taken out of circulation.
If you really are Steve Wozniak, I would absolutely be up for coffee anytime. I'll be in the bay area in july onward.
I certainly have a ton of respect for the woz, but this sounds like someone just saying whatever in a desperate attempt to sound relevant. Worse, it sounds like he's trying to channel Jobs. Woz's a brilliant man, but he knows damn well his innovations in computers were not inventing something nobody had seen before. And while they might have made computers more approachable, they were definitely not hiding the technology.
He should also know that innovation is rarely, if ever, inventing something totally new. Usually it involves putting together some stuff that has existed for 20 years in a way that causes people to say, "oh! i never thought that would have worked, but it surely does!" (though in my experience, google glass sucks and doesn't make me say that. still, you can't really innovate without failing a few times.)
Generally, when something totally new is invented, it languishes. Nobody knows what to do with it. It needs to sit for 20 years until someone realizes they could now put it in some eyeglasses.
good old gas and diesel cars always work when it's below freezing.
I figure at some point in the future, all transportation will run on some kind of clean stored electricity. However, i don't imagine that's anytime soon. I'm pretty sure in my life, as electric car tech improves and becomes viable, their price will skyrocket with demand. Meanwhile, barring legislation that simply outlaws it, gas will become impossibly cheap.
100 years later, maybe even $0.05 a gallon gas won't compete with having an electric. That's not much of a concern to me.
I hate the obnoxious FBI warnings they show prior to movies now. The whole idea that crappy cell phone recordings are ruining an industry is ridiculous.
However, i just love some good glasshole schadenfreude!
the NSA is recording everything we all do. now let me know when there's a news story about what we can do about it.
This Jeff sounds like a bright fellow. Maybe he's the kind of guy who realizes it's better to live below your means than above them.
Recent measurements estimate that 10 +/- 20 asteroids may be commercially viable to mine!
so there could be -10 asteroids worth mining? Somebody has to make the 10 asteroids first?
Well, i guess we finally have some hard proof of men being better suited for work in the tech field.
Winning means nothing unless you can enjoy it. Is the computer having any fun?
The stand-alone device brings another problem. Social conventions say it is very rude and offensive to fail to recognise someone - if you have to look down at your face-database device, it's going to lead to people getting very upset. The glass approach has the advantage of complete transparency.
I don't know if you've interacted with a glass user, but i assure you, It's pretty apparent that they are looking into the screen and not at you.
I'd use my apple II computer to generate some kind of force field / inertial dampening bubble around my capsule. Then the capsule can be hastily cobbled together from household items.
well, that's why you won't make it in sales. facts don't make sales.
This isn't a warning. This is an advertisement for people who fancy themselves awesome drivers. All the salesperson needs to say is, "You know, this is a very dangerous car. Paul Walker couldn't handle this car. You look like you could." Sale!
Apple forces you to pay a hefty premium for a limited amount of RAM up front, obsoleting the machine that much sooner.
just bought a MBP. I bought the maximum amount of ram. Apple clearly had me over a barrel here and i had no other option (aside from the obvious not buying a MBP). I get what you are saying about Apple forcing customers to pay a lot up front. I don't get your claim that it's going to obsolete the machine that much sooner. Generally when you buy a notebook, it can accept a maximum amount of ram. That maximum stays constant over the life of the product.