clearly facebook has to send all personal information they collect to the government for auditing. it's the only way to make sure they are being properly taxed.
I dislike EULAs as much as the next guy, but what kind of sensationalist metric is this? If it takes 1 person 10 minutes to read something, it takes a billion people 10 minutes to read it (assuming they all read the same language at the same pace). They can all read it at the same time. It's not like they are all in a line waiting for the previous reader to finish.
it would be far better to say that 1 person is presented with 20 EULAs on a daily basis. at 10 min a piece, what 1 person wants to read that much crap?
Further, I think in the case of snakes, it's not really mimicry. Many many species of snakes shake their tails when annoyed. Rattlesnakes are a genus that evolved an especially novel modification to an established behavior.
They made this tech that would let you pilot a small robot around and then hid everything behind some lame AR game? wtf? I dream of a day when i can pilot a mini drone down into an ant colony, or into a pond or something. That seems awesome. That dream doesn't include pretending the ants look like people though. I either want to just play a game where what's represented to me as ants are actually people (pretty much the way multiplayer games work now), or just have a real time feed from my little robot interacting with some animal on it's scale.
I'll take oblivion over living in my own filth, forgetting who I am every day, and being too frail to actually interact with the world.
Are you kidding? why I remenber a time when the days were just a blur and i had absolutely no bowel or bladder control. I was the center of everyone's world. All attention was paid to me. Everyone hung on my every move or utterance. I was the king of the universe. The day i stopped shitting in my pants was the day my life started going downhill. I welcome incontinence, my old friend's return.
blah blah blah. walled gardens and cloud storage. I've been playing with my raspberry pi. it's just as fun as my first Apple II and way more hackable (maybe just because i'm a little bit smarter now) Personal computing is better than i ever imagined it would be. There is something to hack EVERYWHERE. get an android device, jailbreak your iphone. find cameras in the garbage. quit lamenting the fact that people who don't care about using computers settle for the walled garden.
Are you taking jobs where you have to channel the previous developers and write code indistinguishable from them? do your jobs involve just transcribing someone else's crappy code char for char like some 14th century monk? Or, do you get to write code? I've supported plenty of legacy code. In all occasions that involves me, writing code. Optimizing, bug fixing, refactoring, adding new features (i don't know what else you could possibly do to legacy code) all involve writing code. So man up and write good code.
I have to stop working every few hours too. honestly, i don't think i can work more than an hour straight. At best, i can manage a couple of pomodoros. I don't smoke, but I also don't know if smokers are going on a smoke break because they need the cigarette or because nobody that i know can go for hours without getting up and walking around, Smokers just happen to fill the down time with smoking.
This is probably a stupid thing to be discussing, but think about a bicycle. It takes a certain amount of energy input from you to get the thing going. Yet, it takes obviously less energy from you to make it stop. Magic of friction.
The problem isn't this sort of rich person, it's the hoarders who are the issue. They literally have hundreds of millions, sometimes even billions doing absolutely nothing other than generating more money for themselves. It's not productive, it doesn't create jobs, it makes society poorer - it literally drains money out of society and turns it into an arbitrary number with which said hoarder makes up for his small penis or whatever traumatic issue that made him that way does - that's the problem that needs to be dealt with.
Money doesn't just beget more money. If someone is getting more rich off of their mega millions, they must have that invested somewhere. Invested money is not outside of the economy, people use it for business loans, mortgages, all kinds of stuff. no bank or other institution pays interest just for the honor of storing your money. they pay interest because they are spending your money.
now, a romney keeping millions in offshore accounts is a different story.
More importantly, what do these supercomputers do? i love computers as much as the next guy (or gal) on slashdot, but i'm unaware of anything that they do. they don't seem to be involved in landing robots on mars. they don't seem to be involved in making a self driving car. I guess they will do environmental simulations and then show you the results you want after you tweak the input data enough. Oh, and they can win at jeopardy and chess.
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clearly facebook has to send all personal information they collect to the government for auditing. it's the only way to make sure they are being properly taxed.
Isn't gasoline already made from plants?
And I, as a consumer, have one less thing pushing me out of the apple ecosystem. I'm still on course to buy an iphone 7.
I dislike EULAs as much as the next guy, but what kind of sensationalist metric is this? If it takes 1 person 10 minutes to read something, it takes a billion people 10 minutes to read it (assuming they all read the same language at the same pace). They can all read it at the same time. It's not like they are all in a line waiting for the previous reader to finish.
it would be far better to say that 1 person is presented with 20 EULAs on a daily basis. at 10 min a piece, what 1 person wants to read that much crap?
Further, I think in the case of snakes, it's not really mimicry. Many many species of snakes shake their tails when annoyed. Rattlesnakes are a genus that evolved an especially novel modification to an established behavior.
Forget the artificial womb, who's working on an artificial vagina?
depends on how much you want it to look like a hand.
Thankfully, he wasn't a congressman and instead had time to galavant around the pacific looking at birds.
buy a raspberry pi, if you really are a geek.
i'm pretty sure the poster was describing a scenario where each computer had it's own mouse. They are all the same model.
They made this tech that would let you pilot a small robot around and then hid everything behind some lame AR game? wtf? I dream of a day when i can pilot a mini drone down into an ant colony, or into a pond or something. That seems awesome. That dream doesn't include pretending the ants look like people though. I either want to just play a game where what's represented to me as ants are actually people (pretty much the way multiplayer games work now), or just have a real time feed from my little robot interacting with some animal on it's scale.
I'll take oblivion over living in my own filth, forgetting who I am every day, and being too frail to actually interact with the world.
Are you kidding? why I remenber a time when the days were just a blur and i had absolutely no bowel or bladder control. I was the center of everyone's world. All attention was paid to me. Everyone hung on my every move or utterance. I was the king of the universe. The day i stopped shitting in my pants was the day my life started going downhill. I welcome incontinence, my old friend's return.
blah blah blah. walled gardens and cloud storage. I've been playing with my raspberry pi. it's just as fun as my first Apple II and way more hackable (maybe just because i'm a little bit smarter now) Personal computing is better than i ever imagined it would be. There is something to hack EVERYWHERE. get an android device, jailbreak your iphone. find cameras in the garbage. quit lamenting the fact that people who don't care about using computers settle for the walled garden.
Are you taking jobs where you have to channel the previous developers and write code indistinguishable from them? do your jobs involve just transcribing someone else's crappy code char for char like some 14th century monk? Or, do you get to write code? I've supported plenty of legacy code. In all occasions that involves me, writing code. Optimizing, bug fixing, refactoring, adding new features (i don't know what else you could possibly do to legacy code) all involve writing code. So man up and write good code.
what good is being able to speak if you know nothing to speak of?
It seems to get you really far in corporate america.
And biology is just a chemical reaction.
I have to stop working every few hours too. honestly, i don't think i can work more than an hour straight. At best, i can manage a couple of pomodoros. I don't smoke, but I also don't know if smokers are going on a smoke break because they need the cigarette or because nobody that i know can go for hours without getting up and walking around, Smokers just happen to fill the down time with smoking.
Turns out that maybe it isn't the carbs either, but the fact that people won't get off their asses and burn the fuel they are taking in.
This is probably a stupid thing to be discussing, but think about a bicycle. It takes a certain amount of energy input from you to get the thing going. Yet, it takes obviously less energy from you to make it stop. Magic of friction.
That's pretty sad considering that close to 90% (citation needed) of foursquare users are the mayor of their own house.
The problem isn't this sort of rich person, it's the hoarders who are the issue. They literally have hundreds of millions, sometimes even billions doing absolutely nothing other than generating more money for themselves. It's not productive, it doesn't create jobs, it makes society poorer - it literally drains money out of society and turns it into an arbitrary number with which said hoarder makes up for his small penis or whatever traumatic issue that made him that way does - that's the problem that needs to be dealt with.
Money doesn't just beget more money. If someone is getting more rich off of their mega millions, they must have that invested somewhere. Invested money is not outside of the economy, people use it for business loans, mortgages, all kinds of stuff. no bank or other institution pays interest just for the honor of storing your money. they pay interest because they are spending your money.
now, a romney keeping millions in offshore accounts is a different story.
However, what we'd all really like is to see some pics of your chemistry teacher.
So they got the subjects to say duck season when they really meant wabbit season? I seem to have seen something like this before.
got it. stuff you don't hear about on the news.
More importantly, what do these supercomputers do? i love computers as much as the next guy (or gal) on slashdot, but i'm unaware of anything that they do. they don't seem to be involved in landing robots on mars. they don't seem to be involved in making a self driving car. I guess they will do environmental simulations and then show you the results you want after you tweak the input data enough. Oh, and they can win at jeopardy and chess.
wow! that's cool! i never knew that was there. i guess i have a couple days to play around with it now :/