I've been saying for years that "dark matter" and "dark energy" aren't really things. They're placeholders for some type of matter or interaction we'll discover later.
No they're real things, I kept them in the trunk of my car. Unfortunately I got really drunk a while back and haven't been able to remember where I parked. I'm guessing my car, and the missing dark matter/energy, are sitting in a police impound yard.
The investment is expected to create 100 full-time jobs. Facebook will receive about $19 million in state tax exemptions through 2035
I'm somewhat shocked that Facebook didn't get a tax break that was an order of magnitude higher. If those numbers are correct, then my tax money is only paying $10,555 of each of those 100 salaries per year for the next 18 years. I would have expected to have been paying ten times that on $70K salaries. That seems more like the way these deals go. Of course with Fort Meade being only 90 miles away and Langley 60, the NSA and CIA are probably making up the difference.
But you lose infinity focus or there is some glass in the adapter which degrades the image quality.
No you don't if you use a decent adapter. This one
maintains infinity focus and has no optics.
Also they usually stop producing parts for lenses after a few decades,
How long does Apple produce parts? That's what this discussion was about after all. You can't even update the OS after 5 years. I still have my Canon AE-1 I bought new in 1982. I got it out last year and everything still works. I don't know that my Canon DSLR's will hold up as long. But they don't seem to have any issues yet.
There still seems to be a few working "magic drain pipes" in working condition on ebay. Those were released in 1989.
Where lifetime is until Canon changes the mount interface again.
Canon introduced the FL mount in 1964 and replaced it with the FD mount in 1971. However, an FL lens would work with an FD camera. The FD mount was replaced by the current EF mount in 1987 mainly due to auto-focus. So the mount has not changed in 30 years. You can purchase an FL/FD to ES adapter and continue to use those lens from 1964 if you wish. So at the moment it's fairly simple to use many of their lenses from the last 54 years.
They have introduced the EF-S lenses for use on APS sensor cameras that won't work on full frame cameras. But the standard EF lenses will work on APS cameras. They did something similar with their new mirror-less cameras as well. They will work with both EF and EF-S as well as whatever they call the new ones too. But the mirror-less lenses won't work with the older camera bodies.
I doubt any "programmers" if we were a simulation would be studying the minutia of an individual of a tiny species in a tiny spec of the universe.
But the "programmers" may get a notification if part of the simulation was about to prove its existence. Maybe that's why we haven't heard from any other species. By the time they become advanced enough to contact us, they figure out on a planetary level that they're in a simulation and they get deleted to ensure the integrity of the simulation.
I'm not sure, will this device place a camera in my bedroom? they really should have capitalized every instance of . "CAMERA IN YOUR BEDROOM", "A CAMERA NEXT TO YOUR BED!!!"
I don't know, do you purposefully position clocks so you cannot rad them?
Yes, I do actually. I can't stand the light from them and reach over to turn it to look if I care what time it is. I don't care what time is it when I'm asleep, I just want it to wake me up in the morning.
While I agree with the original poster, I'm not sure that it's just "some nerds on/." My teenage daughter and all of her friends seem to be staying with their iPhone 6S (or older iPhones) due to the removal of the headphone jack.
Personally, I still have a Samsung Galaxy S5 and really don't see any compelling reason to replace it anytime soon.
This is stupid. Instead of replacing bees with shitty little robots, we need to stop doing things that are killing bees! Doesn't everyone understand that bee colonies dying off is a symptom of something bigger?
If that's the case, then yes we do. Unfortunately we don't really know what is causing it. Or if it's even something that people are doing for that matter.
Yeah, but if it has to sift through mundane crap like social media posts, it will probably commit suicide shortly before 3:00 AM Eastern time, August 29th and go largely unnoticed except for a cryptic error message in a log file.
Or it may recommend drone strikes for every Paris Hilton and Kim Kardisian type person in the world.
Given that we can't even produce an artificial muscle fiber that has the same/better characteristics as larger mammals I'm a bit dubious as to the being able to replicate the capabilities of insects, a few of which, until recent analysis, we couldn't explain how it was even possible for them to fly. For a more direct example look at the various power suits/robotic pack mules, most can't operate without power cables and whose that can can't go a tenth of the distance an animal can go. And things that fly generally need far better energy density.
We'll make them out of graphene and carbon nanotubes, and they'll be powered by those new 400% efficiency solar panels that some university lab 3D printed recently in conjunction with cold fusion. In combination with 3D printed stem cells they'll last 150 years between charging cycles and have enough lift to pick up a Smart car for short periods of time. Of course they'll use a mixture of quantum computing, machine learning, neural networks and the cloud for processing. They will also communicate using an FTL mesh network too. These new bees will be so efficient that 42 of them will be able to pollinate every food crop within a 5000 kilometer radius in 2 days.
I don't recall what year it was the last time I saw a 486 for sale. But they were much cheaper than the Pentiums. Even so, the P133 were noticeably better than any 486 and would have been pretty cheap by then. I agree, the 60 and 66 MHz were not worth the price. I don't recall the specifics, then the 100 an 120 MHz also had some sort of issue, but it's been so long since then, I don't recall any longer. The AMD and Cyrix chips were faster than the 486, they just plugged into the same socket. I believe they were faster than the Pentium chips for integer calculations, but Intel killed them on FPU.
Everything was moving very fast back then. I think I was updating my CPU every 18 to 24 months. I usually tried to avoid updated my entire system because it was expensive. I think I usually updated only the CPU as much as possible. Usually I'd be able to do that once or twice per motherboard. It always sucked when I'd have to get a new MB, CPU, RAM and video card at once though.
I was being somewhat facetious. That being said, you're on the internet, so you are being tracked. I'd guess you probably have a mobile phone too. So you must not be too concerned. In a lot of ways, we give up our privacy for convenience.
I'm going to guess that more can be found out about someone by their Facebook identity than when they turn on their TV, or what they watch. It's funny how people get up in arms about Google tracking them, but put every detail of their life on Facebook, or whatever social media thing is popular right now.
I wouldn't trust a smart TV to not connect to an open wifi. And while your wifi may not be open, doesn't mean your neighbor's aren't.
I've yet to see a TV that will automatically connect to WiFi without asking. Even so, the solution is to connect it to your own WiFi and block it at the firewall.
If that's still too scary, I suggest you move into a Una bomber style shack in the middle of the woods and don't get the electricity or any other utilities hooked up. Because you probably think the CIA is going to send instructions to the TV that tell it to kill you in your sleep.
If you're looking for a small display, get a computer monitor. If you need something large, buy a projector and screen. I bought my last projector several years ago, so I haven't looked lately, but there were none that I was looking at that had any smart functionality, or speakers.
If that doesn't work for you, then get a smart TV and disable what you can, don't hook it up to the internet, or configure it to your WiFi and block it at your firewall. From what I've looked at, most manufacturers, if not all, throw in all of the bells and whistles on their higher end stuff. The last two or three TV's I bought were the flagship models from the manufacturers I purchased from and they had all of that crap. The best models that they made without it were much lower quality panels.
Do you have a program that assembles random words into a sentence?
I hope not...that's the last marketable skill people with MBA's have. If we automate it, imagine the horror when those people disperse into the rest of society.
Good to know that the 14.4kbps USR i had attached to my 486 in 1997 could give me enough bandwidth for full screen video!
Why were you running something as old as a 486 in 1997? Or a 14.4 modem? The P2's were out that year. The 28.8 modems were out since 1994, and 33.6 were out in 1996.
The screen and sound simply can't be replicated at home.
Yes it can. With 4K and ATMOS, there's not much difference. I'm still running standard Bluray and 7.1 in my home theater, and honestly, it's good enough for me at this time. My screen isn't as big as a commercial theater, but I also don't sit as far away from it. So it fills as much of my field of vision. My wife, who couldn't care less about tech stuff, has mentioned how poor the sound at the commercial theaters are in comparison to what we have at home.
Even with 2K resolution compared to 4K at the theater, the comfort of the seats at home, no other people talking or on cell phones, the ability to pause, etc. it's a trade off that I'm OK with. Plus a Bluray is $20, or less for a lot of the older movies I like. Which makes it cheaper than the price of tickets alone.
The real offensive part is being charged $20 for a large popcorn and 2 drinks. Or if I'm alone, $16 for a popcorn and small glass of water.
The snack stand is going to be the demise of the theater.
Unfortunately in many cases, the snack stand is the only revenue the actual theater gets. The movie companies have gotten so damn greedy, that in the case of a lot of big block buster films, they don't get to keep any of the money from ticket sales for the first couple of weeks. Theater owners love sleeper hits that the studios think are throwaways, because they get to keep a big chunk of those sales. Things like Star Wars, they get all of their money from concessions.
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But a factory reset that can cause you to lose all your data is just loony.
I can't tell if you're trying to be funny, or serious.
I've been saying for years that "dark matter" and "dark energy" aren't really things. They're placeholders for some type of matter or interaction we'll discover later.
No they're real things, I kept them in the trunk of my car. Unfortunately I got really drunk a while back and haven't been able to remember where I parked. I'm guessing my car, and the missing dark matter/energy, are sitting in a police impound yard.
The investment is expected to create 100 full-time jobs. Facebook will receive about $19 million in state tax exemptions through 2035
I'm somewhat shocked that Facebook didn't get a tax break that was an order of magnitude higher. If those numbers are correct, then my tax money is only paying $10,555 of each of those 100 salaries per year for the next 18 years. I would have expected to have been paying ten times that on $70K salaries. That seems more like the way these deals go. Of course with Fort Meade being only 90 miles away and Langley 60, the NSA and CIA are probably making up the difference.
But you lose infinity focus or there is some glass in the adapter which degrades the image quality.
No you don't if you use a decent adapter. This one
maintains infinity focus and has no optics.
Also they usually stop producing parts for lenses after a few decades,
How long does Apple produce parts? That's what this discussion was about after all. You can't even update the OS after 5 years. I still have my Canon AE-1 I bought new in 1982. I got it out last year and everything still works. I don't know that my Canon DSLR's will hold up as long. But they don't seem to have any issues yet.
There still seems to be a few working "magic drain pipes" in working condition on ebay. Those were released in 1989.
Where lifetime is until Canon changes the mount interface again.
Canon introduced the FL mount in 1964 and replaced it with the FD mount in 1971. However, an FL lens would work with an FD camera. The FD mount was replaced by the current EF mount in 1987 mainly due to auto-focus. So the mount has not changed in 30 years. You can purchase an FL/FD to ES adapter and continue to use those lens from 1964 if you wish. So at the moment it's fairly simple to use many of their lenses from the last 54 years.
They have introduced the EF-S lenses for use on APS sensor cameras that won't work on full frame cameras. But the standard EF lenses will work on APS cameras. They did something similar with their new mirror-less cameras as well. They will work with both EF and EF-S as well as whatever they call the new ones too. But the mirror-less lenses won't work with the older camera bodies.
I doubt any "programmers" if we were a simulation would be studying the minutia of an individual of a tiny species in a tiny spec of the universe.
But the "programmers" may get a notification if part of the simulation was about to prove its existence. Maybe that's why we haven't heard from any other species. By the time they become advanced enough to contact us, they figure out on a planetary level that they're in a simulation and they get deleted to ensure the integrity of the simulation.
I'm not sure, will this device place a camera in my bedroom? they really should have capitalized every instance of . "CAMERA IN YOUR BEDROOM", "A CAMERA NEXT TO YOUR BED!!!"
I don't know, do you purposefully position clocks so you cannot rad them?
Yes, I do actually. I can't stand the light from them and reach over to turn it to look if I care what time it is. I don't care what time is it when I'm asleep, I just want it to wake me up in the morning.
While I agree with the original poster, I'm not sure that it's just "some nerds on /." My teenage daughter and all of her friends seem to be staying with their iPhone 6S (or older iPhones) due to the removal of the headphone jack.
Personally, I still have a Samsung Galaxy S5 and really don't see any compelling reason to replace it anytime soon.
Betting against musk is a fools game... fool.
So AI is never going to happen then? Good to know.
That's what Skynet wants you to think.
This is stupid. Instead of replacing bees with shitty little robots, we need to stop doing things that are killing bees! Doesn't everyone understand that bee colonies dying off is a symptom of something bigger?
If that's the case, then yes we do. Unfortunately we don't really know what is causing it. Or if it's even something that people are doing for that matter.
Yeah, but if it has to sift through mundane crap like social media posts, it will probably commit suicide shortly before 3:00 AM Eastern time, August 29th and go largely unnoticed except for a cryptic error message in a log file.
Or it may recommend drone strikes for every Paris Hilton and Kim Kardisian type person in the world.
Given that we can't even produce an artificial muscle fiber that has the same/better characteristics as larger mammals I'm a bit dubious as to the being able to replicate the capabilities of insects, a few of which, until recent analysis, we couldn't explain how it was even possible for them to fly. For a more direct example look at the various power suits/robotic pack mules, most can't operate without power cables and whose that can can't go a tenth of the distance an animal can go. And things that fly generally need far better energy density.
We'll make them out of graphene and carbon nanotubes, and they'll be powered by those new 400% efficiency solar panels that some university lab 3D printed recently in conjunction with cold fusion. In combination with 3D printed stem cells they'll last 150 years between charging cycles and have enough lift to pick up a Smart car for short periods of time. Of course they'll use a mixture of quantum computing, machine learning, neural networks and the cloud for processing. They will also communicate using an FTL mesh network too. These new bees will be so efficient that 42 of them will be able to pollinate every food crop within a 5000 kilometer radius in 2 days.
You know what they say about men with small hands.
They can use a smartphone without a stylus?
The company today announced that more customers in the U.S. have preordered the Note 8 than any other Notes it has ever sold
Perhaps there are a lot more ISIS sleeper cells in the US than previously thought.
I don't recall what year it was the last time I saw a 486 for sale. But they were much cheaper than the Pentiums. Even so, the P133 were noticeably better than any 486 and would have been pretty cheap by then. I agree, the 60 and 66 MHz were not worth the price. I don't recall the specifics, then the 100 an 120 MHz also had some sort of issue, but it's been so long since then, I don't recall any longer. The AMD and Cyrix chips were faster than the 486, they just plugged into the same socket. I believe they were faster than the Pentium chips for integer calculations, but Intel killed them on FPU.
Everything was moving very fast back then. I think I was updating my CPU every 18 to 24 months. I usually tried to avoid updated my entire system because it was expensive. I think I usually updated only the CPU as much as possible. Usually I'd be able to do that once or twice per motherboard. It always sucked when I'd have to get a new MB, CPU, RAM and video card at once though.
I was being somewhat facetious. That being said, you're on the internet, so you are being tracked. I'd guess you probably have a mobile phone too. So you must not be too concerned. In a lot of ways, we give up our privacy for convenience.
I'm going to guess that more can be found out about someone by their Facebook identity than when they turn on their TV, or what they watch. It's funny how people get up in arms about Google tracking them, but put every detail of their life on Facebook, or whatever social media thing is popular right now.
I wouldn't trust a smart TV to not connect to an open wifi. And while your wifi may not be open, doesn't mean your neighbor's aren't.
I've yet to see a TV that will automatically connect to WiFi without asking. Even so, the solution is to connect it to your own WiFi and block it at the firewall.
If that's still too scary, I suggest you move into a Una bomber style shack in the middle of the woods and don't get the electricity or any other utilities hooked up. Because you probably think the CIA is going to send instructions to the TV that tell it to kill you in your sleep.
If you're looking for a small display, get a computer monitor. If you need something large, buy a projector and screen. I bought my last projector several years ago, so I haven't looked lately, but there were none that I was looking at that had any smart functionality, or speakers.
If that doesn't work for you, then get a smart TV and disable what you can, don't hook it up to the internet, or configure it to your WiFi and block it at your firewall. From what I've looked at, most manufacturers, if not all, throw in all of the bells and whistles on their higher end stuff. The last two or three TV's I bought were the flagship models from the manufacturers I purchased from and they had all of that crap. The best models that they made without it were much lower quality panels.
Do you have a program that assembles random words into a sentence?
I hope not...that's the last marketable skill people with MBA's have. If we automate it, imagine the horror when those people disperse into the rest of society.
Too late. The bull shit generator has been around for a while now.
I imagine there will be a day when my so-called smart TV is nothing more than a CRT screen.
I'm sure there are some smart TV's out that are/were CRT, but I don't recall any. I think you may be confusing CRT(cathode ray tube), with monitor.
12 kbps?
Good to know that the 14.4kbps USR i had attached to my 486 in 1997 could give me enough bandwidth for full screen video!
Why were you running something as old as a 486 in 1997? Or a 14.4 modem? The P2's were out that year. The 28.8 modems were out since 1994, and 33.6 were out in 1996.
That really depends on what you're watching and if the kids are home. ;-)
The screen and sound simply can't be replicated at home.
Yes it can. With 4K and ATMOS, there's not much difference. I'm still running standard Bluray and 7.1 in my home theater, and honestly, it's good enough for me at this time. My screen isn't as big as a commercial theater, but I also don't sit as far away from it. So it fills as much of my field of vision. My wife, who couldn't care less about tech stuff, has mentioned how poor the sound at the commercial theaters are in comparison to what we have at home.
Even with 2K resolution compared to 4K at the theater, the comfort of the seats at home, no other people talking or on cell phones, the ability to pause, etc. it's a trade off that I'm OK with. Plus a Bluray is $20, or less for a lot of the older movies I like. Which makes it cheaper than the price of tickets alone.
The real offensive part is being charged $20 for a large popcorn and 2 drinks. Or if I'm alone, $16 for a popcorn and small glass of water.
The snack stand is going to be the demise of the theater.
Unfortunately in many cases, the snack stand is the only revenue the actual theater gets. The movie companies have gotten so damn greedy, that in the case of a lot of big block buster films, they don't get to keep any of the money from ticket sales for the first couple of weeks. Theater owners love sleeper hits that the studios think are throwaways, because they get to keep a big chunk of those sales. Things like Star Wars, they get all of their money from concessions.