Yep. Space technology is a resource. In fact, space tech is the ONLY technology that's capable of preventing the extinction of the Human Race. When it comes time to get some of our eggs out of this one basket, you're going to need some space savvy to ensure a few of them are Ecuadorian.
I agreed to a particular price, if they can not offer the service and make profit for the price they offered it to me at, its their own bad business decision...
Not only that, but the prices should never go up for the same service. It's not like the machines want better working conditions (yet). Growing revenue with a surcharge is not a valid way to grow revenue. You grow revenue by getting more customers, providing a better service, using more efficient hardware, PROGRESS. This is a pure example of profit for profit's sake. It's stealing, plain and simple. Taking from me without giving any benefit in return is stealing, even if the amount is too small for us to notice individually, in aggregate it's outright theft.
If I came home with a big pile of cash the question would be: "Wait, where did you get all this money?!" If I was AT&T my answer would be: "Uh, from customers?" "What did you do for them to get the money?!""Nothing!" THAT'S STEALING. It would be one thing if they actually had higher costs to operate, the answer could be "I provided them with a service that cost more to provide", but that's a lie. Costs they're citing have actually GONE DOWN.
So long as it remains more profitable for companies to simply oversell and raise the prices to make profit vs using some profit to do the work to provide better services then you can expect this to happen again and again. What happens if you spend a bunch of profit to provide a better service? Your stock price goes down. Blame the fucking stock market.
I wonder if it can cure a nasty case of "leg fell off"?
Just glue the pieces together. Duh. It's not like you have to take them apart, you can just buy mor-- wait, wrong story, thought this tab was the Lego Xwing story.
Does the video include footage of a female having an orgasm?
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Should have shacked up with that hot little MIDI number who was left out in the cold as the poor man's network.
Then again, any pair would probably end up twisted anyway. At least they could have made beautiful music together...
Meteorologists cannot predict the weather very well WITH the satellite in orbit. So now, all of a sudden, with no satellite, they are going to predict the weather even more poorly?
Perhaps they should invest in a weather rock instead.
Hmmm, well maybe in addition to the satellites for accuracy verification. I mean, they're relatively cheap, and Weather rocks ARE never wrong...
Cutbacks cause French Police to raise the 'ransom' bar. "Demanding large sums of money does not mean your babysitter is a kidnapper", says spokesman for the Assemblée Nationale, who is also campaigning to keep their monthly salary from falling below 7,043.69 euros (USD 10,389.49), "Anything less and there will be hell to pay!"
I'm sure cops everywhere will continue to "outsource" their roles in the wake of diminishing budgets. (Although this does sound like a headline from The Onion.)
In related news:
French police end burglary investigations, citing no difference between thieves and beggars besides politeness.
Cutbacks end inquiry into Suicides after being labeled "dying early", which is not technically a crime.
Current Homicide investigations will be completed, but no new murders are allowed under French Law.
Police Stations continue to operate with funds fully dedicated to ensuring the success of France's Pastry Industry.
When you've attended enough UFO Churches, you can pretty much tell how things are going to turn out by the first sermon.
It's not foolish to dismiss this outright. Dismissal is the only sane thing to do to save our resources. If it is a breakthrough, it doesn't matter if nearly everyone ignores it: It will quickly become widely known on the merit of the advancement. Not because pundits sing its praises, or expound on the possible endless benefits of infinite rectal probing.
That the Snooper's Charter will reduce the threat of Terrorism is an untested hypothesis. Prove it will achieve such goals, THEN we'll talk about having it be a law.
Whatever dude, Troi was just nearly computer illiterate. Geordi ran boolean searches and "cross references" all the time. Hell, it even created a sentient hologram once just to give Data a challenging case of who-dun-it, Moriarty figured out he was in a star-ship and wanted to stop playing the game and be told WTF was going on and have his own life... Yeah, a system with that degree of complexity can't run a boolean search. Look, we've already got enough compute power the world over that if you ran a distributed AI program on all the hardware and connected it to the Internet it would have more than the complexity of a human brain (when you factor in RAM and GHz vs that of a human). A system as big and complex as the Enterprise with all that processing power -- IMO, it's a wonder that every star ship wasn't sentient in that series -- A failure of Roddenberry's understanding of cybernetics, if you ask me.
From somebody who spent a few hours working a show with Gene Roddenberry before his ashes got the cosmic brush off... Having run film clips and sound for his famed "lecture" on Star Trek's past and how that changed our future, I thought he was nuts (1987).
Science Fiction has foreseen future events, but it is NOT an accurate representation of what is going to happen. So how on earth (or in space for that matter) can we tell what software will be used in the future for some yet to be designed hardware? Add to this that we are not even sure when or even if such a theoretical machine will ever exist and how can we figure any kind of useful debate will come from this?
Oh yea, this is star trek.. Home to the group that thinks some group of two bit "B" list actors are somehow for tellers of the future
Your argument from authority is unappealing. The components of a computing system similar to a fictitious one have been identified. The likelihood of their software licensing approach is being projected based upon current component licensing and development plans. We do not think the "B" list actors knew what the "techno-babble" they were spouting meant.
However, when we create devices that are similar to the fictitious devices, we can and will make comparisons. The Hypo-spay exists. Tablet Computers exist. Food replication systems are in development. 3D TV exists. We launched a rocket similar to Jules Verne's to the moon. Eventually the rockets we send to Mars and/or the Moon will land vertically Delta-V style, like Verne's rocket did (so they can take off again). Cars can apply brakes when proximity alarms go off -- Cars can even drive themselves now, like in Sleeper; They can parallel park too! Applications for Mars Colonization are being accepted...
Stop for a moment and think about current technologies. Now extrapolate a bit. Extrapolate a bit further. Write a story about it. Marvel as some of your ideas weren't actually bat-shit insane after all. Some are more accurate than others. I think you need to re-evaluate your life. The future they did not "predict", happened the way they said it would despite your claim to the contrary...
Do it yourself. It can be automated with a few scripts, would probably take me the lesser part of an hour. If you actually learned how to use computers, i.e., program, instead of just using pre-made functionality, then your life would be a lot easier. Blame your elementary school. Mine taught me BASIC on an Apple IIe when I was 8.
Hell, once I moved a whole forum once using JavaScript and a bit of Perl. Hit a page, then hit the "Quote" buttons on all posts to get at the BBCode, snag the textarea's text and strip off the quote tags, POST to a Perl script including the poster's username to insert the data in the SQL database. Trigger an "Administrative Edit" on the post and save via PHP to get the smilies re-encoded... Tens of Thousands of times over the course of a week. The client didn't think about exporting before using a hosted phpBB forum, and the host wouldn't give up a database dump, so I made one. Probably could stream line that one-off process a bit more, but it was a one-off. Just some piddling crap strung together that anyone who knows how to use a computer should be able to do.
If you never learn to code, you will never be able to fully use computers.
The world is made of 4 basic elements, earth, air, fire, water.... No, scratch that, there are a bunch of elemental stuffs, the most holy of which is quicksilver, the universal element... Wait, no, there are over a hundred chemicals with different properties. Ah, look, see, there are atoms, you know, and inside these atoms you have electrons, protons, and neutrons -- See, that's what gives the atoms their properites -- And, wait, the sub atomic particles are made of Quarks, and -- No, there's a zoo of particles, and fields and they all interact in these little quantized packets / waves, Quantum Physics -- No, wait the quanta.......
The rabbit hole is very deep indeed. Better tools show us finer structure. I agree. It would be exceedingly arrogant and foolish to think of light as "photons". We have only approximations, and they are always a bit wrong.
At some point, science just got too weird. We had this nice model of the universe with atoms, some laws of motion and thermodynamics. The universe was basically a giant billiards match. It made sense. It was easy to explain. Then we get into quantum mechanics and everything is crap shoot. Multiple universes. Particles that behave differently when being observed. Spooky action at a distance.
Let's all pretend the last 80+ years of science didn't happen and we live under Newton's ideas of how everything behaved. Who's in?
That's what you said last time. Look what it got us? We're back to quantum physics AND we have nuclear weapons. Are you really ready to risk Universe hopping again?
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For example. All the responses to this topic are equally as valid were the question to have been: "Should I make UI good or bad?"
Yep. Space technology is a resource. In fact, space tech is the ONLY technology that's capable of preventing the extinction of the Human Race. When it comes time to get some of our eggs out of this one basket, you're going to need some space savvy to ensure a few of them are Ecuadorian.
I agreed to a particular price, if they can not offer the service and make profit for the price they offered it to me at, its their own bad business decision...
Not only that, but the prices should never go up for the same service. It's not like the machines want better working conditions (yet). Growing revenue with a surcharge is not a valid way to grow revenue. You grow revenue by getting more customers, providing a better service, using more efficient hardware, PROGRESS. This is a pure example of profit for profit's sake. It's stealing, plain and simple. Taking from me without giving any benefit in return is stealing, even if the amount is too small for us to notice individually, in aggregate it's outright theft.
If I came home with a big pile of cash the question would be: "Wait, where did you get all this money?!" If I was AT&T my answer would be: "Uh, from customers?" "What did you do for them to get the money?!" "Nothing!" THAT'S STEALING. It would be one thing if they actually had higher costs to operate, the answer could be "I provided them with a service that cost more to provide", but that's a lie. Costs they're citing have actually GONE DOWN.
So long as it remains more profitable for companies to simply oversell and raise the prices to make profit vs using some profit to do the work to provide better services then you can expect this to happen again and again. What happens if you spend a bunch of profit to provide a better service? Your stock price goes down. Blame the fucking stock market.
ditch 'em. and sue 'em for screwing the etf.
I agree. I'm just they're not screwing the IETF. So long as they're our bedfellows instead, we have a fighting chance.
I wonder if it can cure a nasty case of "leg fell off"?
Just glue the pieces together. Duh. It's not like you have to take them apart, you can just buy mor-- wait, wrong story, thought this tab was the Lego Xwing story.
Based on the new YourName.com legislation, I will repeatedly file name changes and RULE the Internet as Father and Son!
Is selling out to the highest bidder. How dare they.
Duuuuuuuuude, this is some chronically dank stank you got. I need to buy ME some bitcoins, man!
Simmons, he's the one. That's the highest bidder. Sell Now!
Does the video include footage of a female having an orgasm?
Should have shacked up with that hot little MIDI number who was left out in the cold as the poor man's network.
Then again, any pair would probably end up twisted anyway. At least they could have made beautiful music together...
Meteorologists cannot predict the weather very well WITH the satellite in orbit. So now, all of a sudden, with no satellite, they are going to predict the weather even more poorly?
Perhaps they should invest in a weather rock instead.
Hmmm, well maybe in addition to the satellites for accuracy verification. I mean, they're relatively cheap, and Weather rocks ARE never wrong...
Nothing to do with Republicans, everything to do with government waste and greed.
That has as much to do with Republicans as Democrats. We spend as much on our military as the rest of the world combined. That's ridiculous.
Promote 'em to Astronauts. Then everything will be fine.
Cutbacks cause French Police to raise the 'ransom' bar. "Demanding large sums of money does not mean your babysitter is a kidnapper", says spokesman for the Assemblée Nationale, who is also campaigning to keep their monthly salary from falling below 7,043.69 euros (USD 10,389.49), "Anything less and there will be hell to pay!"
I'm sure cops everywhere will continue to "outsource" their roles in the wake of diminishing budgets. (Although this does sound like a headline from The Onion.)
In related news:
French police end burglary investigations, citing no difference between thieves and beggars besides politeness.
Cutbacks end inquiry into Suicides after being labeled "dying early", which is not technically a crime.
Current Homicide investigations will be completed, but no new murders are allowed under French Law.
Police Stations continue to operate with funds fully dedicated to ensuring the success of France's Pastry Industry.
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Ppbrbbrbppbpbrrt!
In Soviet Russia, Basoon Blows You!
I dunno. A bloke asked me, "Can I screw you for a fag?" once. I gave him the cigarette he requested, despite knowing I'd never be repaid. No homo.
I'll give you one guess what "Windows" means in geek...
When you've attended enough UFO Churches, you can pretty much tell how things are going to turn out by the first sermon.
It's not foolish to dismiss this outright. Dismissal is the only sane thing to do to save our resources. If it is a breakthrough, it doesn't matter if nearly everyone ignores it: It will quickly become widely known on the merit of the advancement. Not because pundits sing its praises, or expound on the possible endless benefits of infinite rectal probing.
That the Snooper's Charter will reduce the threat of Terrorism is an untested hypothesis. Prove it will achieve such goals, THEN we'll talk about having it be a law.
Film at 11.
Whelp. I'm out. See you on "To Catch a Predator."
Whatever dude, Troi was just nearly computer illiterate. Geordi ran boolean searches and "cross references" all the time. Hell, it even created a sentient hologram once just to give Data a challenging case of who-dun-it, Moriarty figured out he was in a star-ship and wanted to stop playing the game and be told WTF was going on and have his own life... Yeah, a system with that degree of complexity can't run a boolean search. Look, we've already got enough compute power the world over that if you ran a distributed AI program on all the hardware and connected it to the Internet it would have more than the complexity of a human brain (when you factor in RAM and GHz vs that of a human). A system as big and complex as the Enterprise with all that processing power -- IMO, it's a wonder that every star ship wasn't sentient in that series -- A failure of Roddenberry's understanding of cybernetics, if you ask me.
From somebody who spent a few hours working a show with Gene Roddenberry before his ashes got the cosmic brush off... Having run film clips and sound for his famed "lecture" on Star Trek's past and how that changed our future, I thought he was nuts (1987).
Science Fiction has foreseen future events, but it is NOT an accurate representation of what is going to happen. So how on earth (or in space for that matter) can we tell what software will be used in the future for some yet to be designed hardware? Add to this that we are not even sure when or even if such a theoretical machine will ever exist and how can we figure any kind of useful debate will come from this?
Oh yea, this is star trek.. Home to the group that thinks some group of two bit "B" list actors are somehow for tellers of the future
Your argument from authority is unappealing. The components of a computing system similar to a fictitious one have been identified. The likelihood of their software licensing approach is being projected based upon current component licensing and development plans. We do not think the "B" list actors knew what the "techno-babble" they were spouting meant.
However, when we create devices that are similar to the fictitious devices, we can and will make comparisons. The Hypo-spay exists. Tablet Computers exist. Food replication systems are in development. 3D TV exists. We launched a rocket similar to Jules Verne's to the moon. Eventually the rockets we send to Mars and/or the Moon will land vertically Delta-V style, like Verne's rocket did (so they can take off again). Cars can apply brakes when proximity alarms go off -- Cars can even drive themselves now, like in Sleeper; They can parallel park too! Applications for Mars Colonization are being accepted...
Stop for a moment and think about current technologies. Now extrapolate a bit. Extrapolate a bit further. Write a story about it. Marvel as some of your ideas weren't actually bat-shit insane after all. Some are more accurate than others. I think you need to re-evaluate your life. The future they did not "predict", happened the way they said it would despite your claim to the contrary...
Bead Shuffling Abacus user here. Also had a Math-Co-Processing slide rule.
Do it yourself. It can be automated with a few scripts, would probably take me the lesser part of an hour. If you actually learned how to use computers, i.e., program, instead of just using pre-made functionality, then your life would be a lot easier. Blame your elementary school. Mine taught me BASIC on an Apple IIe when I was 8.
Hell, once I moved a whole forum once using JavaScript and a bit of Perl. Hit a page, then hit the "Quote" buttons on all posts to get at the BBCode, snag the textarea's text and strip off the quote tags, POST to a Perl script including the poster's username to insert the data in the SQL database. Trigger an "Administrative Edit" on the post and save via PHP to get the smilies re-encoded... Tens of Thousands of times over the course of a week. The client didn't think about exporting before using a hosted phpBB forum, and the host wouldn't give up a database dump, so I made one. Probably could stream line that one-off process a bit more, but it was a one-off. Just some piddling crap strung together that anyone who knows how to use a computer should be able to do.
If you never learn to code, you will never be able to fully use computers.
The world is made of 4 basic elements, earth, air, fire, water.... No, scratch that, there are a bunch of elemental stuffs, the most holy of which is quicksilver, the universal element... Wait, no, there are over a hundred chemicals with different properties. Ah, look, see, there are atoms, you know, and inside these atoms you have electrons, protons, and neutrons -- See, that's what gives the atoms their properites -- And, wait, the sub atomic particles are made of Quarks, and -- No, there's a zoo of particles, and fields and they all interact in these little quantized packets / waves, Quantum Physics -- No, wait the quanta.......
The rabbit hole is very deep indeed. Better tools show us finer structure. I agree. It would be exceedingly arrogant and foolish to think of light as "photons". We have only approximations, and they are always a bit wrong.
At some point, science just got too weird. We had this nice model of the universe with atoms, some laws of motion and thermodynamics. The universe was basically a giant billiards match. It made sense. It was easy to explain. Then we get into quantum mechanics and everything is crap shoot. Multiple universes. Particles that behave differently when being observed. Spooky action at a distance.
Let's all pretend the last 80+ years of science didn't happen and we live under Newton's ideas of how everything behaved. Who's in?
That's what you said last time. Look what it got us? We're back to quantum physics AND we have nuclear weapons. Are you really ready to risk Universe hopping again?