I only bought one. Not sure where I gave you the impression I bought 2.
Let me tell you about my Boxee Box...
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I know this reflects more on DLink, but I got a Boxee Box when they first came out, and while the idea is really great, the implementation sucked. The Boxee Box frequently freezes or crashes and it's underpowered. The remote control is great that it has a keyboard on the back, but the cursor control for the mouse leaves a lot to be desired. A new version did help a bit, but it's still annoying. Add to that the fact that lots of apps just seem to stop working after a while (not updating their feeds, etc.). Some content just stops working (like CityTV?) apparently because Boxee won't update their version of flash player. Overall, neat idea but sucky experience. Next time I'd just build my own media PC, not buy an appliance.
The science seems to show that the brain doesn't fully develop until around 24, so most psychologists consider anyone up to 24 or so to still be an "adolescent". That's judging by a person's ability to make decisions where they have to weigh future benefits against immediate benefits. Mature people (over 24) make more logical decisions regarding, e.g., investments, risk, etc.
Under the current system, if you don't have a job, you can't buy any of the things that the robots produce. The system will have to change. I'm wondering what that change will be. Guaranteed minimum income? A separate economy of people who aren't qualified enough to maintain the robots, but who just form their own economy to do work for each other, similar to what we're doing now? Co-operatives that scrape enough cash together to buy automation to run themselves?
I had a TiVo in Canada before they went to CableCard technology. We don't have that here. It sucked to leave TiVo to go to the cable company's DVR. Then we just gave up cable and went with streaming stuff from online.
So they're watching everything, but they can't tell that a guy has 3 young women locked up in his house in Cleveland for 10 years? If they actually know so much, how come they didn't know that? The answer, of course, is they may be collecting and recording everything, but nobody's looking at it.
Ok, but if pretty much everything manual is automated, what is the person just getting out of high school with no college prospects supposed to do? Soak in the welfare?
That's a flawed analogy. The compiler does an excellent job of building the software many times a day given very detailed specs: the code. The code is the design. The "construction" phase is completely automated. The correct analogy is that the architect can't produce a design that will satisfy the customer if the customer doesn't provide all the requirements. Yep, that's true. In construction, the architect cost is a small fraction of the cost of the total project. If the customer changes their mind 100 times, as long as they do it before construction starts, it doesn't make much difference. You can take the design, cost it, and build it reasonably accurately and to spec and cost. If they change their mind after that, well that's like changing your mind after you press Build in your IDE. In software development, the design is the main cost. Don't tell me that architects and designers in the constructions industry don't have the same problems and cost overruns that software developers have - my sister is a designer, so I know. If we could automate construction of a building to the extent we've done with software, that industry would have the same problems.
This is precisely what I do (I use PC Mobile in Canada). That means I'm paying $8/mo for my $50 used & unlocked Samsung Android phone with CyanogenMod on it, and my wife pays, I dunno, like well over $50/mo on a 3 year contract for an iPhone 4S from Rogers, and she had to pay hundreds of dollars to buy it at a "discounted" price to begin with. But technically I leave the phone in airplane mode 90% of the time and only turn the radio on when I want to make a call, or I'm explicitly waiting for someone to call me.
So you can't just cut off the person's finger to activate some lock somewhere, like you can with fingerprint ID. But it seems to me that you can easily make a device that copies the ID just by touching it to their skin. Unless it has challenge/authentication, of course. If so, then you need to physically kidnap the person.
It's more like: parents are irresponsible because they think it won't happen to them. So if they think it won't happen to them, why would they buy this? Of course there are parents who are pessimists to realize it might, and are willing to spend the extra money, but chances are they already use a proper trigger lock or gun safe. So I doubt it will save many lives even if they do sell some, because the people willing to buy it are the least likely to be irresponsible, by definition.
Or... it was prone to false triggering when cutting certain types of materials, and when it triggers it's destructive to the saw, so it costs a lot of money to fix/replace. Probably fine for a production line where you're only cutting one type of material over and over, but not great for a home woodworker.
So you're paying these developers some kind of contract rate "by the hour" but you then want to impose a fixed scope and hold them to it later? I mean if you're providing them with a complete (perfect) functional spec, then ask them to bid on it as a fixed price, make sure they include a 1 year warranty for any software defects, and then by contract they have to fix the bugs. Sounds like you just want the benefits of paying by the hour without any of the negatives.
This story isn't about 3D printing weapons at home, it's about people doing things that make all people with hobbyist 3D printers at home (myself included) look like gun-nut-freaks to the general public (before that it was just pretty nerdy). The first time I mentioned my printer to my mother, she told me about some cop show (CSI, Criminal Minds?) episode she'd seen the previous night where the killer had 3D printed his handgun to get it through security. This has now become the primary thing that the general public associates with 3D printers. It's sad.
As someone who has a 3D printer, you glossed over the part on how to actually get it to work nicely for you, which is a pain in the butt and takes a long time, with lots and lots of frustrating trial and error. But since it's called "printing" it must just be as simple as clicking a mouse, right?
Anyone who thinks the PC is in any sense dying hasn't worked in an office that does business with other companies. There is a *huge* amount of work that consists of physically typing stuff into databases (purchase orders anyone?) and retrieving stuff from databases, and all of this work is done with a keyboard and mouse. Spreadsheets. Forms. Stuff still gets printed out and filed! Nobody wants a tablet to do this. I think there might be room for tablets out in the warehouse, but even those are likely to be Windows based. Mac? Sorry, businesses look at the price difference and can't stomach paying nearly twice as much for the hardware. I'm certain that home PC sales are diving, and that's probably a good thing, but in our office we're expanding the number of PCs because we want access to information everywhere, and more data entry everywhere, and they're cheap! PCs are the work-horse of enterprise data. So what if we're buying them with Windows 7 Pro on them instead of Windows 8? MS still makes money.
As a psychologist in a lot of jurisdictions you *need* a Ph.D. to get licensed and get a job. Lots of people take undergrad psychology and then say, "now what?" That's not a good plan either. I think it pays to research this stuff ahead of time. BTW, you have a degree in literature? Why not become an author? Or, I dunno, get a job at a factory and read books on your lunch break like the rest of us?
There was a recent prediction, in the news, that polar bears might become brown eventually if their habitat stops being as icy. Guess we'll have to wait (a long time) to find out.
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Hmm, a speaker? You think he really had vocal chords?
Or, you can take a copy of the ball and go home. Thankfully this doesn't prevent the other people from playing. :)
I only bought one. Not sure where I gave you the impression I bought 2.
I know this reflects more on DLink, but I got a Boxee Box when they first came out, and while the idea is really great, the implementation sucked. The Boxee Box frequently freezes or crashes and it's underpowered. The remote control is great that it has a keyboard on the back, but the cursor control for the mouse leaves a lot to be desired. A new version did help a bit, but it's still annoying. Add to that the fact that lots of apps just seem to stop working after a while (not updating their feeds, etc.). Some content just stops working (like CityTV?) apparently because Boxee won't update their version of flash player. Overall, neat idea but sucky experience. Next time I'd just build my own media PC, not buy an appliance.
The science seems to show that the brain doesn't fully develop until around 24, so most psychologists consider anyone up to 24 or so to still be an "adolescent". That's judging by a person's ability to make decisions where they have to weigh future benefits against immediate benefits. Mature people (over 24) make more logical decisions regarding, e.g., investments, risk, etc.
Under the current system, if you don't have a job, you can't buy any of the things that the robots produce. The system will have to change. I'm wondering what that change will be. Guaranteed minimum income? A separate economy of people who aren't qualified enough to maintain the robots, but who just form their own economy to do work for each other, similar to what we're doing now? Co-operatives that scrape enough cash together to buy automation to run themselves?
I had a TiVo in Canada before they went to CableCard technology. We don't have that here. It sucked to leave TiVo to go to the cable company's DVR. Then we just gave up cable and went with streaming stuff from online.
So Google's creating an incentive to create new CP?
So they're watching everything, but they can't tell that a guy has 3 young women locked up in his house in Cleveland for 10 years? If they actually know so much, how come they didn't know that? The answer, of course, is they may be collecting and recording everything, but nobody's looking at it.
Ok, but if pretty much everything manual is automated, what is the person just getting out of high school with no college prospects supposed to do? Soak in the welfare?
That's a flawed analogy. The compiler does an excellent job of building the software many times a day given very detailed specs: the code. The code is the design. The "construction" phase is completely automated. The correct analogy is that the architect can't produce a design that will satisfy the customer if the customer doesn't provide all the requirements. Yep, that's true. In construction, the architect cost is a small fraction of the cost of the total project. If the customer changes their mind 100 times, as long as they do it before construction starts, it doesn't make much difference. You can take the design, cost it, and build it reasonably accurately and to spec and cost. If they change their mind after that, well that's like changing your mind after you press Build in your IDE. In software development, the design is the main cost. Don't tell me that architects and designers in the constructions industry don't have the same problems and cost overruns that software developers have - my sister is a designer, so I know. If we could automate construction of a building to the extent we've done with software, that industry would have the same problems.
This is precisely what I do (I use PC Mobile in Canada). That means I'm paying $8/mo for my $50 used & unlocked Samsung Android phone with CyanogenMod on it, and my wife pays, I dunno, like well over $50/mo on a 3 year contract for an iPhone 4S from Rogers, and she had to pay hundreds of dollars to buy it at a "discounted" price to begin with. But technically I leave the phone in airplane mode 90% of the time and only turn the radio on when I want to make a call, or I'm explicitly waiting for someone to call me.
So you can't just cut off the person's finger to activate some lock somewhere, like you can with fingerprint ID. But it seems to me that you can easily make a device that copies the ID just by touching it to their skin. Unless it has challenge/authentication, of course. If so, then you need to physically kidnap the person.
It's more like: parents are irresponsible because they think it won't happen to them. So if they think it won't happen to them, why would they buy this? Of course there are parents who are pessimists to realize it might, and are willing to spend the extra money, but chances are they already use a proper trigger lock or gun safe. So I doubt it will save many lives even if they do sell some, because the people willing to buy it are the least likely to be irresponsible, by definition.
Or... it was prone to false triggering when cutting certain types of materials, and when it triggers it's destructive to the saw, so it costs a lot of money to fix/replace. Probably fine for a production line where you're only cutting one type of material over and over, but not great for a home woodworker.
"Nuke it in orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
FTFY
So you're paying these developers some kind of contract rate "by the hour" but you then want to impose a fixed scope and hold them to it later? I mean if you're providing them with a complete (perfect) functional spec, then ask them to bid on it as a fixed price, make sure they include a 1 year warranty for any software defects, and then by contract they have to fix the bugs. Sounds like you just want the benefits of paying by the hour without any of the negatives.
This story isn't about 3D printing weapons at home, it's about people doing things that make all people with hobbyist 3D printers at home (myself included) look like gun-nut-freaks to the general public (before that it was just pretty nerdy). The first time I mentioned my printer to my mother, she told me about some cop show (CSI, Criminal Minds?) episode she'd seen the previous night where the killer had 3D printed his handgun to get it through security. This has now become the primary thing that the general public associates with 3D printers. It's sad.
As someone who has a 3D printer, you glossed over the part on how to actually get it to work nicely for you, which is a pain in the butt and takes a long time, with lots and lots of frustrating trial and error. But since it's called "printing" it must just be as simple as clicking a mouse, right?
Any "detector" can detect drugs in a high school, if it tells you to open enough lockers.
Anyone who thinks the PC is in any sense dying hasn't worked in an office that does business with other companies. There is a *huge* amount of work that consists of physically typing stuff into databases (purchase orders anyone?) and retrieving stuff from databases, and all of this work is done with a keyboard and mouse. Spreadsheets. Forms. Stuff still gets printed out and filed! Nobody wants a tablet to do this. I think there might be room for tablets out in the warehouse, but even those are likely to be Windows based. Mac? Sorry, businesses look at the price difference and can't stomach paying nearly twice as much for the hardware. I'm certain that home PC sales are diving, and that's probably a good thing, but in our office we're expanding the number of PCs because we want access to information everywhere, and more data entry everywhere, and they're cheap! PCs are the work-horse of enterprise data. So what if we're buying them with Windows 7 Pro on them instead of Windows 8? MS still makes money.
This is older news now. We've known for a while that wind turbines could be found on Shodan.
As a psychologist in a lot of jurisdictions you *need* a Ph.D. to get licensed and get a job. Lots of people take undergrad psychology and then say, "now what?" That's not a good plan either. I think it pays to research this stuff ahead of time. BTW, you have a degree in literature? Why not become an author? Or, I dunno, get a job at a factory and read books on your lunch break like the rest of us?
At least normal billboards don't fall on my head when they malfunction. Cool swarm behavior though.
There was a recent prediction, in the news, that polar bears might become brown eventually if their habitat stops being as icy. Guess we'll have to wait (a long time) to find out.