Point. Though when you think taxi you think a vehicle that picks you up and drops you off, and you'd have to get another one to get home, while carshare implies a vehicle that you get to hang onto awhile until you're done with it. Fill it up with groceries, pick up the kids, and so on.
Imagine a carshare service like Zipcar, but instead of having to make reservations, go to the lot, etc, you open an app, say you need a car, and it just shows up a few minutes later. You run your errands, go home, and the car goes away. And you only pay a (mostly?) flat yearly subscription for the service.
City folk would jump on such an option, and probably even some suburbanites.
Have there been any discoveries in physics in the nearly fifty years since its publication that make any of the lectures, well, less than correct? Or can the intrepid autodidact dive right in and take it all at face value?
Not the best analogy, I'd say, since bicycles are still widely in use and penny-farthings are very simple bicycles.
Figuring out how something was done in the old days through reverse engineering isn't that straightforward or simple. Ask how Stonehenge or the Great Pyramid of Giza were built and you'll be knee-deep in theories and conjecture.
Take a penny-farthing completely apart, lay the pieces on the ground, show someone of modest mechanical ability a picture of one completed and say "OK, put it back together." That'd take what? a few hours? Now do the same thing with a manual typewriter. How long will that take?
Now repeat both exercises, but take away some of the parts. How long will it take for the mechanic to work out the issue?
And say the mechanic is able to reassemble the typewriter, will it work well? Will it jam? How many unwritten tricks and tweaks does an experienced typewriter repairman have up his sleeve that'll be lost if he doesn't write them down or pass them along to someone else?
I got my early programming chops on my school's Commodore PETs, C64's more straight-laced cousins. (Too poor to own my own C64.) Now if the iPad has a full C64 emulator....
A family is on the run and they need to buy a used car for cash, fast. They haggle with an AI salesman - a speakerbox on a booth with an appropriate robotic voice - then drop the money in a slot, more than they wanted to spend. As they're driving away they see a guy exiting the booth, counting the money. One of them cracks up - only a human being could get them to spend that much money on this piece of junk!
*Nature's End by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. Don't you judge me.
This will NOT be a free-floating image in the open air. It's gonna be some incremental improvement on one or more of the above that'll have us go "OK, that's kinda clever. Not what we want, but clever."
I'm sensing a lot of people use the word 'drone' where 'R/C Plane', a decades-old technology, is more appropriate, simply because it sounds cooler. Is the a technical dividing line between the two?
Higher salaries are the main motivation for going into hock to attend a HOW MUCH!? school, instead of an affordable alternative. As long as this might work, people will still take that gamble. If we stop rewarding students for throwing their money away, costs might adjust.
How often do interviewers say things like "So, you graduated from NYU? You're from Illinois. You spent 200 grand on a degree instead of going to an in-state public school? What're ya, stupid or something?"
Slashdot Mirror
Steve Ballmer: It is very strange. I have been in the CEO business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
Ross William Ulbricht: Have you ever considered black marketing? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.
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Dunno, but if it helps two pints is one-eight A Night on the Town with Ted Kennedy.
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Is murdering 100 thousand grasshoppers more ethical than one steer? The implications!
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Require reviewers to post a "selfie" with the product, at the place of business, and so on. They should have a profile picture too, naturally.
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I am shocked - shocked! - to find that gambling is going on in here!
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None of this wannabe Solaris soundtrack jazz. Here ya go:
http://youtubedoubler.com/a7Kj
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It really depends on what the bot brings to the table, however:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk
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It's clearly not as good as the original.
http://i.imgur.com/C4VDkmJ.jpg
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Point. Though when you think taxi you think a vehicle that picks you up and drops you off, and you'd have to get another one to get home, while carshare implies a vehicle that you get to hang onto awhile until you're done with it. Fill it up with groceries, pick up the kids, and so on.
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Imagine a carshare service like Zipcar, but instead of having to make reservations, go to the lot, etc, you open an app, say you need a car, and it just shows up a few minutes later. You run your errands, go home, and the car goes away. And you only pay a (mostly?) flat yearly subscription for the service.
City folk would jump on such an option, and probably even some suburbanites.
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Have there been any discoveries in physics in the nearly fifty years since its publication that make any of the lectures, well, less than correct? Or can the intrepid autodidact dive right in and take it all at face value?
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Not the best analogy, I'd say, since bicycles are still widely in use and penny-farthings are very simple bicycles.
Figuring out how something was done in the old days through reverse engineering isn't that straightforward or simple. Ask how Stonehenge or the Great Pyramid of Giza were built and you'll be knee-deep in theories and conjecture.
Take a penny-farthing completely apart, lay the pieces on the ground, show someone of modest mechanical ability a picture of one completed and say "OK, put it back together." That'd take what? a few hours? Now do the same thing with a manual typewriter. How long will that take?
Now repeat both exercises, but take away some of the parts. How long will it take for the mechanic to work out the issue?
And say the mechanic is able to reassemble the typewriter, will it work well? Will it jam? How many unwritten tricks and tweaks does an experienced typewriter repairman have up his sleeve that'll be lost if he doesn't write them down or pass them along to someone else?
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It would seem a shame for all his experience not be passed on to another generation, even if it is for an archaic technology.
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Well, it's an app for men to take pictures of themselves while looking at a woman's...balloons!
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I got my early programming chops on my school's Commodore PETs, C64's more straight-laced cousins. (Too poor to own my own C64.) Now if the iPad has a full C64 emulator....
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...they won't replace every job.
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They could wind up calling Lenny. http://itslenny.com/
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A family is on the run and they need to buy a used car for cash, fast. They haggle with an AI salesman - a speakerbox on a booth with an appropriate robotic voice - then drop the money in a slot, more than they wanted to spend. As they're driving away they see a guy exiting the booth, counting the money. One of them cracks up - only a human being could get them to spend that much money on this piece of junk!
*Nature's End by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. Don't you judge me.
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This will NOT be a free-floating image in the open air. It's gonna be some incremental improvement on one or more of the above that'll have us go "OK, that's kinda clever. Not what we want, but clever."
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If they're a contract manufacturer, how'd they get the patents in the first place? Do they actually do their own R&D?
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Folding chairs throughout the northwest can breathe a little easier easier.
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They used a walrus egg, man.
I'll get me coat.
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I'm sensing a lot of people use the word 'drone' where 'R/C Plane', a decades-old technology, is more appropriate, simply because it sounds cooler. Is the a technical dividing line between the two?
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Higher salaries are the main motivation for going into hock to attend a HOW MUCH!? school, instead of an affordable alternative. As long as this might work, people will still take that gamble. If we stop rewarding students for throwing their money away, costs might adjust.
How often do interviewers say things like "So, you graduated from NYU? You're from Illinois. You spent 200 grand on a degree instead of going to an in-state public school? What're ya, stupid or something?"
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GO TO A CHEAPER IN STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL!
Recently completed my degree from one. No loans, no grants. (And scholastically, it wasn't easy.)
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