He more or less suggested the United States needed such an entrepreneur free so as to work his magic for the economy. Bill Gates had the wisdom and foresight to conceal nothing, and not lie about anything, when Microsoft got caught trying to impede Netscape's presence on the Windows desktop, and was finally held to account (albeit imperfectly).
Let's see if Zuckerberg shows equal wisdom, or is placing his bet on being less accountable today than Bill Gates was back then. He's wealthier than Gates was, and already a huge philanthropist, so that could be the case given how things work these days.
https://www.washingtonian.com/...
"Two USC baseball sources confirm that Cohen and his son were in fact on campus visiting the baseball program on the 29th."
And totally coincidentally it's served as a great tool for the NSA to get the international underworld, and terrorist rings, to identify themselves?
Though it's inconceivable that anyone could have anticipated this so as to use it as a financial honey trap. It would take oodles of time, lots of resources, and a disregard for cost.;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
All kidding aside, this sounds like an important development. SF authors will have fun with it. Though all along it's been pretty easy for them to just talk about people being constructed from high tech goop/whatever, this will make "Hard SF" more plausible if they need to use constructs of humans as a plot point.
An AI with a starship could go into the planet populating business even easier now, and to whatever spec it can program in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He describes himself as a Democratic Socialist, same as Jeremy Corbyn. I canvassed and phone banked for him, and I talked to Trump supporters who loathed Clinton but had grudging respect for Sanders. It turned out to be like what we said, it came down to the swing states. Sanders was much more popular than Clinton in those states. Clinton being more popular in Democratic strongholds was irrelevant to defeating Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sanders would have probably won against Trump, but your Pravda like attacks his movement aided in propping up one of the worst candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded. I can only imagine the damage you would have inflicted on Anita Hill had social media been as big a deal back then.
A long time ago I worked with "an Italian American" who was born in Libya. The company we worked for had government contracts and IIRC on at least one job he was listed as being African.
Saying that the production floor was a "hotbed for racist behavior" is an extraordinary claim imo. I find it a lot easier believe that a few workers were subject to racism that flew under the radar of Tesla supervisors than I do that the production floor at Tesla was a "hotbed for racist behavior".
But that claim does make Tesla more desirous for this matter to get settled than a lesser charge would. Racism exists in the world, and so does the desire to profit off of claiming it.
Both things could be true here. The complainant may well have received treatment that deserves a lawsuit, and he may also be bullshitting about the production floor being a "hotbed for racist behavior". If the complaint is based on fact then Tesla deserves a shakeup. If the complaint is a gross exaggeration then there should be repercussions to that. It's too serious a crime to claim it's having happened as a ploy.
Well, hopefully truth will out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The subsequent economic depression, coupled with the rootlessness enabled by access to online data and strong social pressure to be flexible (the results of corporations wanting highly mobile workforces without strong local ties), results in a fragmentation of society along religious, ethnic and a variety of class markers, what Toffler calls "subcults", including what would in 2010 be described as "gangs." The equitable distribution of data access and data privacy is a prominent theme in the book; characters who have access to information which is nominally secret enjoy demonstrable economic advantages over others lacking access to such data. In the novel, data privacy is reserved for corporate entities and individuals who may then conceal wrongdoing; by contrast, normal citizens do not enjoy significant privacy.
Bombers work well as an intimidation tactic, So well, in fact, I'll go out on a limb and say that's what President Trump has in mind for them. And by using them for that he'll also scare the piss out of nations not North Korea.
IIRC part of how they're used is by r5unning them right up to the edge of a nation's air space. They're very strongly compelled to monitor that with all their radar, and to have jets in the area. Given that the USA is the 800 lb. gorilla of nuclear armed aircraft, and support craft, they can wear down a nation's defenses, while learning how their radar performs.
If you watch Fail Safe that tactic is a key part of the plot.
Will trump do this, or does he want China worrying a lot that he will?
Does Trump want to humiliate North Korea's leader by giving him some kind of deadline and then letting the world see the USA dance around their airspace?
By Dawn's Early Light is available on youtube. Sleep well. RIP Rip Torn.
"Colonel Fargo: Mr. President. There is another solution. Cut the head off the chicken."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Back when "super science" SF reigned, and Hubbard was taking notes, lol.
The wikipedia article doesn't go much into the mechanics of it, but in the book controlling the central nervous system was part of the protagonists method of prevailing.
It has a very nice forerunner to Star Trek vibe to it. The symbiote to the protagonist was like an intelligent Tribble that nestled on his arm, and the starship he served on could have been a medical relief oriented one in Star Fleet. Oh sure, it had its cheesy elements, but the story holds up. It reminds me that Star Trek also flat out adapted an older SF story for use with Kirk and the Enterprise. The one where Kirk has to battle the lizard like captain (a Gorn?) of another ship on the surface of a planet is immediately recognizable if you read the short story it credits.
Boy I enjoyed reading SF during the golden age!:) lol
P.S. The sex scene in Do Androids... is painfully, realistically, awkward. These weren't "humlons", these were robots with human skin, and not really made to have sex, with all its inherent fluids. PKD compares the androids to those suffering from a mental illness that diminishes empathy. They were literally cutting the legs off a spider because, wtf, let's see what happens. But they aspired to more, which made them sometimes better than the humans who willingly closed themselves off. Pris (in all three iterations) is an interesting case. In We Can Build You PKD names a major character Pris, and she's very bright, manipulative, and damaged. She's representative for some of the women he knew.
https://www.shmoop.com/do-andr...http://www.warpcoresf.co.uk/we...
"Federal Mental Health Clinics are busy, with screening for mental health disorders for everyone, and compulsory attendance for anyone found to be mentally ill. One in four people spend some time in one of these institutions.
Pris Frauenzimmer is one such person. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, she is on release and in remission when she helps to build one of the first simulacra, based on a historical person. The simulacra has all of the personality, appearance and memories of Edwin Stanton, a civil war era politician. Lifelike and able to hold a conversation, the artificial humans open up a lot of possibilities for the ailing company.
One of these possibilities is the opportunity to work with the millionaire Sam Barrows. But Barrows' plans for the simulacra are altogether less straightforward, and less ethical, than those of MASA Associates. Louis and his partner, Maury Rock, are thrown into disarray over which course they should take in order to stay in business. Barrows is a risk-taker, and in spite of his wealth he isn't the kind of man Louis or Maury had expected him to be.
To complicate matters further Louis develops a strange relationship with Pris, who also happens to be Maury's daughter. Pris is barely grown up, and she is an acid-tongued beauty with a complete disregard for anyone else's feelings. She is creative but detached from other people, and possibly as crazy as an ice fireplace."
It has a clear connection to Do Androids, though it has a different feel, and dissimilar plot.
Being damaged, but not giving up, is a hallmark of PKD, imo. Whether machine or human PKD sees within the connection to a higher power, and he was a very spiritual man.
Sorry for rambling in a disconnected fashion, but hey, we're all nerds, right?:) Just making with the SF chatter.
I really do appreciate it. I always enjoy her performances, so now I'm extra pumped to see this. She was a nerd girl before that was a common thing, and really studied up for her role as Chani in Dune, and for her role in Blade Runner. Imo she helped set the noirish tone for the film in a big way.
In my earlier post I incorrectly said I'd see it on the weekend. I'll probably try to to get to the theater during the week.
A bit off topic but I was a tad disappointed that Sean Young wasn't used (I think I would have heard if she was) to play the head of Tyrell Corporation. As the replicant in the original we know she was modeled on Tryrell's niece. His doing that is sketchy to start with, and it's not hard to imagine even more sketchiness like genetic material being used from the niece, and her having a non-conventional relationship with her uncle.
Anyway, it would have been neat to see today's Sean Young, as the head of Tyrell, pinning Harrison Ford to a wall and demanding to know if he'd treated Rachel well, and had never been mean to her. Sean Young claims that she accidentally did get roughed up more than necessary in the scene in Deckard's apartment with Harrison Ford, so that would have been a nice call back.
Seeing her with "more than human" strength due to Tyrell Corporation advance technology, and actually lifting him up, with one hand, off the floor, would have explored the concept of when humans become more like replicants, to go along with when replicants become more like humans. Lol, and it would have looked so very cool.
Still there on the i7, the i5 now has six physical cores, up from four physical cores. IIRC i saw today that at least one of the i3 processors will now have four physical cores, that's up from two cores plus two hyperthreaded ones, so I guess it's what the i5 used to be thought as being.
But yeah, where are the four core + four hyperthread CPUs? I'm guessing they get introduced later, and the same with two core/two hyperthread lower end i3s.
How will Intel brand the the four core + four hyperthread CPUs, as i5s or i7s? Depending on clock speed they could fit under either.
Slashdot Mirror
:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." (Dave takes out iPhone)
He more or less suggested the United States needed such an entrepreneur free so as to work his magic for the economy. Bill Gates had the wisdom and foresight to conceal nothing, and not lie about anything, when Microsoft got caught trying to impede Netscape's presence on the Windows desktop, and was finally held to account (albeit imperfectly). Let's see if Zuckerberg shows equal wisdom, or is placing his bet on being less accountable today than Bill Gates was back then. He's wealthier than Gates was, and already a huge philanthropist, so that could be the case given how things work these days.
I grew up on those "I am Joe's ..." articles as featured in Readers Digest. :)
https://www.washingtonian.com/... "Two USC baseball sources confirm that Cohen and his son were in fact on campus visiting the baseball program on the 29th."
And totally coincidentally it's served as a great tool for the NSA to get the international underworld, and terrorist rings, to identify themselves? Though it's inconceivable that anyone could have anticipated this so as to use it as a financial honey trap. It would take oodles of time, lots of resources, and a disregard for cost. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
All kidding aside, this sounds like an important development. SF authors will have fun with it. Though all along it's been pretty easy for them to just talk about people being constructed from high tech goop/whatever, this will make "Hard SF" more plausible if they need to use constructs of humans as a plot point. An AI with a starship could go into the planet populating business even easier now, and to whatever spec it can program in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He describes himself as a Democratic Socialist, same as Jeremy Corbyn. I canvassed and phone banked for him, and I talked to Trump supporters who loathed Clinton but had grudging respect for Sanders. It turned out to be like what we said, it came down to the swing states. Sanders was much more popular than Clinton in those states. Clinton being more popular in Democratic strongholds was irrelevant to defeating Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sanders would have probably won against Trump, but your Pravda like attacks his movement aided in propping up one of the worst candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded. I can only imagine the damage you would have inflicted on Anita Hill had social media been as big a deal back then.
Bah, humbug, I wasn't logged in and unknowingly posted as an AC. :)
Cue the ending to Real Genius ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or is it too dirty for even that resource barren place.
Woops, I posted as an AC, didn't realize I wasn't logged in.
Oh wait, those aren't thumbs!
A long time ago I worked with "an Italian American" who was born in Libya. The company we worked for had government contracts and IIRC on at least one job he was listed as being African.
Saying that the production floor was a "hotbed for racist behavior" is an extraordinary claim imo. I find it a lot easier believe that a few workers were subject to racism that flew under the radar of Tesla supervisors than I do that the production floor at Tesla was a "hotbed for racist behavior". But that claim does make Tesla more desirous for this matter to get settled than a lesser charge would. Racism exists in the world, and so does the desire to profit off of claiming it. Both things could be true here. The complainant may well have received treatment that deserves a lawsuit, and he may also be bullshitting about the production floor being a "hotbed for racist behavior". If the complaint is based on fact then Tesla deserves a shakeup. If the complaint is a gross exaggeration then there should be repercussions to that. It's too serious a crime to claim it's having happened as a ploy. Well, hopefully truth will out.
Which needs the additives ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The subsequent economic depression, coupled with the rootlessness enabled by access to online data and strong social pressure to be flexible (the results of corporations wanting highly mobile workforces without strong local ties), results in a fragmentation of society along religious, ethnic and a variety of class markers, what Toffler calls "subcults", including what would in 2010 be described as "gangs." The equitable distribution of data access and data privacy is a prominent theme in the book; characters who have access to information which is nominally secret enjoy demonstrable economic advantages over others lacking access to such data. In the novel, data privacy is reserved for corporate entities and individuals who may then conceal wrongdoing; by contrast, normal citizens do not enjoy significant privacy.
Brown lives matter. http://africasacountry.com/201... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bombers work well as an intimidation tactic, So well, in fact, I'll go out on a limb and say that's what President Trump has in mind for them. And by using them for that he'll also scare the piss out of nations not North Korea. IIRC part of how they're used is by r5unning them right up to the edge of a nation's air space. They're very strongly compelled to monitor that with all their radar, and to have jets in the area. Given that the USA is the 800 lb. gorilla of nuclear armed aircraft, and support craft, they can wear down a nation's defenses, while learning how their radar performs. If you watch Fail Safe that tactic is a key part of the plot. Will trump do this, or does he want China worrying a lot that he will? Does Trump want to humiliate North Korea's leader by giving him some kind of deadline and then letting the world see the USA dance around their airspace? By Dawn's Early Light is available on youtube. Sleep well. RIP Rip Torn. "Colonel Fargo: Mr. President. There is another solution. Cut the head off the chicken." https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Back when "super science" SF reigned, and Hubbard was taking notes, lol. The wikipedia article doesn't go much into the mechanics of it, but in the book controlling the central nervous system was part of the protagonists method of prevailing.
It has a very nice forerunner to Star Trek vibe to it. The symbiote to the protagonist was like an intelligent Tribble that nestled on his arm, and the starship he served on could have been a medical relief oriented one in Star Fleet. Oh sure, it had its cheesy elements, but the story holds up. It reminds me that Star Trek also flat out adapted an older SF story for use with Kirk and the Enterprise. The one where Kirk has to battle the lizard like captain (a Gorn?) of another ship on the surface of a planet is immediately recognizable if you read the short story it credits. Boy I enjoyed reading SF during the golden age! :) lol
P.S. The sex scene in Do Androids ... is painfully, realistically, awkward. These weren't "humlons", these were robots with human skin, and not really made to have sex, with all its inherent fluids. PKD compares the androids to those suffering from a mental illness that diminishes empathy. They were literally cutting the legs off a spider because, wtf, let's see what happens. But they aspired to more, which made them sometimes better than the humans who willingly closed themselves off. Pris (in all three iterations) is an interesting case. In We Can Build You PKD names a major character Pris, and she's very bright, manipulative, and damaged. She's representative for some of the women he knew.
https://www.shmoop.com/do-andr...
http://www.warpcoresf.co.uk/we...
"Federal Mental Health Clinics are busy, with screening for mental health disorders for everyone, and compulsory attendance for anyone found to be mentally ill. One in four people spend some time in one of these institutions.
Pris Frauenzimmer is one such person. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, she is on release and in remission when she helps to build one of the first simulacra, based on a historical person. The simulacra has all of the personality, appearance and memories of Edwin Stanton, a civil war era politician. Lifelike and able to hold a conversation, the artificial humans open up a lot of possibilities for the ailing company.
One of these possibilities is the opportunity to work with the millionaire Sam Barrows. But Barrows' plans for the simulacra are altogether less straightforward, and less ethical, than those of MASA Associates. Louis and his partner, Maury Rock, are thrown into disarray over which course they should take in order to stay in business. Barrows is a risk-taker, and in spite of his wealth he isn't the kind of man Louis or Maury had expected him to be.
To complicate matters further Louis develops a strange relationship with Pris, who also happens to be Maury's daughter. Pris is barely grown up, and she is an acid-tongued beauty with a complete disregard for anyone else's feelings. She is creative but detached from other people, and possibly as crazy as an ice fireplace."
It has a clear connection to Do Androids, though it has a different feel, and dissimilar plot.
Being damaged, but not giving up, is a hallmark of PKD, imo. Whether machine or human PKD sees within the connection to a higher power, and he was a very spiritual man.
Sorry for rambling in a disconnected fashion, but hey, we're all nerds, right? :) Just making with the SF chatter.
I really do appreciate it. I always enjoy her performances, so now I'm extra pumped to see this. She was a nerd girl before that was a common thing, and really studied up for her role as Chani in Dune, and for her role in Blade Runner. Imo she helped set the noirish tone for the film in a big way. In my earlier post I incorrectly said I'd see it on the weekend. I'll probably try to to get to the theater during the week.
A bit off topic but I was a tad disappointed that Sean Young wasn't used (I think I would have heard if she was) to play the head of Tyrell Corporation. As the replicant in the original we know she was modeled on Tryrell's niece. His doing that is sketchy to start with, and it's not hard to imagine even more sketchiness like genetic material being used from the niece, and her having a non-conventional relationship with her uncle. Anyway, it would have been neat to see today's Sean Young, as the head of Tyrell, pinning Harrison Ford to a wall and demanding to know if he'd treated Rachel well, and had never been mean to her. Sean Young claims that she accidentally did get roughed up more than necessary in the scene in Deckard's apartment with Harrison Ford, so that would have been a nice call back. Seeing her with "more than human" strength due to Tyrell Corporation advance technology, and actually lifting him up, with one hand, off the floor, would have explored the concept of when humans become more like replicants, to go along with when replicants become more like humans. Lol, and it would have looked so very cool.
Still there on the i7, the i5 now has six physical cores, up from four physical cores. IIRC i saw today that at least one of the i3 processors will now have four physical cores, that's up from two cores plus two hyperthreaded ones, so I guess it's what the i5 used to be thought as being. But yeah, where are the four core + four hyperthread CPUs? I'm guessing they get introduced later, and the same with two core/two hyperthread lower end i3s. How will Intel brand the the four core + four hyperthread CPUs, as i5s or i7s? Depending on clock speed they could fit under either.