Amazon (where Musk's OPen AI went) and Google already have a huge investment in focusing on video cards. Force them to use a new kind of logic and it will go really slow. Instead focus on the other technology driver. Get ten AAA games to advertise support for this card (with results visible in the game) and you'll kickstart development and sell fifty thousand units, while having the first new "must have" since Phys-X was folded in to graphics cards.
I used the wrong number here, and I apologize. $2000 per pound is a realistic number for initial launch costs, halving each following number in the projection.
That is an enormous amount of weight to send up. Space-x is aiming for (has not achieved) $1,000 per pound. Their current cost is more realistically $4,000.
4425*850*4000=$150,450,000,000. Then add the cost to send up another 4427/7=630 satellites per year (630*850*2000(because they'll get costs way down if they can send up that much material)=$1 billion dollars per year. They need to spend 150 billion dollars initially and an ongoing 1 billion dollars per year.
In 2014 SpaceX had a "market cap" of (optimistically) 12 billion dollars. Let's assumt that 12 billion dollars have already been justified. Now rumors of an IPO have been heard, so let's assume a massive over-the-top IPO: 13 billion dollars. Then add in a billion dollars. (assuming every penny they can scrape together goes to this plan) 12+13+1=26 billion. Using realistic numbers for launch costs and hyper-optimistic numbers for funding, they're about 125 billion dollars short. And I don't see Trump signing a 125 billion dollar Space-X pork bill. If we're very optimistic about launch costs that hypothetical bill could go as low as a still-highly-unlikely 75 billion dollars.
Trump is 70 years old, and is at that point in his life when he wants to leave a lasting legacy. I don't think he's out to get rich anymore. He has also consistently advocated for more competition, the good side of the free market purist.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Without any return there's no motivation for capital to pay for development into the products that are actually valuable. Don't get me wrong, I support open source as much as the next guy but paid innovation has an important roll to fill for all the people out there who are rich and want to stay that way while still contributing. We're not in the Star Trek universe yet.
Keeping 50 browser tabs open while I swap back and forth between my heavily modded TESV installation and my office work, with two small RAMdisks for my VPN and browser. With enough free space to start up a VM if I need it.
Over 100 channels of reruns, infomercials, and old Simpsons and South Park episodes! Over 100 channels of rehashed drivel and propaganda masquerading as news! A hundred channels of stupid people slapping each-other and cursing! A hundred channels of the same AP story described with the same talking points in the exact same phrasing by people hired by one of three media conglomerates! One. Hundred. Channels. If no one would buy it they would give it away for free. You are the product.
I want change. Which is why I'm voting for neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Real change means taking power from the corporate oligarchy represented by both major parties.
Meanwhile in the real world the few new shelters will be dangerous shitholes that are "three months and out" and/or come with mandatory religious indoctrination. If there really were viable alternatives the homeless would move in without the help of the police. You don't make a law to force people to do something if it's actually a better alternative for them.
I'm going to pretend they'll use this information to instate proactive reforms to placate the people before uprisings occur. Which still leads us down the path of totalitarianism, but more slowly.
Musk announced SpaceX will try to get something to Mars every other year for the next 20 years.I'm not saying Boeing doesn't have the engineering talent but I seriously doubt it has the will to beat Musk to Mars. Musk said, this is what we're doing, this is when, and this is how. Boeing said, over the next few decades we're going to put tourists in earth orbit. There isn't even a competition at this point.
I fail to see the down side to this kind of "profiteering". That's how markets worked. If they quadrupled their prices or more I can see a problem. But this is a case of price rising to create supply. If the price doesn't rise supply won't rise to meet it and then there won't be any available taxi's out of town. Higher prices are the lesser of the two evils.
If Logitech takes away that legacy, however, there will be another company to pick up the slack. It would be sad to see Saitek decline, like watching a friend turn to alcohol and slide into the gutter. but the miracle of capitalism is that demand will be met. Whatever happens within five years there will still be an excellent flight controller on the market. At $250 a pop Saitek controllers are selling for now it's just too lucrative. CH, Thrustmaster... someone will step in with a godly HOTAS* at that price.
*For the uninformed, HOTAS means Hands On Throttle-And-Stick
we have eliminated the jobs that require an IQ of less than about 70 or 75.
No we haven't. Here are some that can't be mechanized at or below minimum wage yet*, with current technology. Sweeping a heavily dusted floor with people moving around. Moving boxes from arbitrary points to other arbitrary points with no more instruction than a person saying "put all of those over there" Driving in various conditions. Walking a dog. Mowing a lawn. Making a cheeseburger with minimal instruction. Cleaning industrial equipment. Diving for pearls. Hunting. Weeding a garden. Planting saplings.
The human mind and body are highly efficient, robust, and intelligent. Even a retarded human can outperform machines on many tasks. I'm not saying that time wont' come but it's not here yet. A more important point is the rapid improvement of technology. Five years after machines can truly replace low IQ humans at EVERY task they'll be replacing humans with normal IQ's at most tasks.
*And before you say it, oh no they haven't. Many of these have been partially mechanized in narrow venues with lots of support but not one can be fully done for minimum wage by a machine. No, not even lawn mowing. Modern automatic mowers require laying wire to define lawn perimeters. This limits them to one yard whereas a low IQ human can be pointed at any lawn and just get to work.
Stop trying to make class problems into race problems. It's counterproductive, cheap, obvious, and self-serving.
As for the story mechanization is inevitable. The only thing we can do is take care of the displaced. Those who are against this should ask themselves what a large group of people do when they have nothing to lose.
If I may, and even if I mayn't, I'm going to rant about the same thing I always rant about in these stories: usability. Desktop Linux is a great operating system for those who have put in the many hours needed to understand its quirks. It's a great operating system for people who never so much as install a new sound driver. For the remaining 80% of users it's a usability nightmare. The wide range of distro's running the Gnome and KDE mean many common interactions differ between computers. And the Linux/Unix ideology of each program doing one thing (and doing it well) means which programs a user will have is unpredictable.
This, in turn, means it's all but impossible to provide a simple, straightforward instruction to a user for how to do something with her machine. Even something that should be dead simple. As soon as a user has to modify a config file or open a command prompt that's a huge roadblock. And no I'm not saying "be like Windows". That implication is a cop-out.It's not about doing things the way Windows does them, it's about making it "just work", and when it doesn't offering highly intuitive graphical interfaces for changing the way it works.
The Linux development community has made huge strides in this direction, but more is needed. Write drivers that interface with Gnome and KDE environments and provide GUI's for every setting. If a driver doesn't gave a Gnome and KDE GUI that covers 99.99% of use cases it's not finished. Make it so a user never, ever has to open a command prompt. Stick to the top three or fewer interfaces, and make them rock solid. No more installing interfaces to install interfaces to install decompressers to compile drivers. Do this and you shall see the year of Linux on the desktop.
Guns and surgery? That's all you see? We've already talked about superimposing, for example, instructions for repairing a car over the car itself. A gun for "shooting" wildlife for the sport without the harm. Ikea has a virtual kitchen, so not too much longer and we'll have VR recipes showing timers for various items, the size you need to cut things to, and outlining the spices you need for quick selection from your spice rack. Intel's showcased technology will make it safe to bring games into the real world. If the headset knows where the road is it can keep you off of it.
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Amazon (where Musk's OPen AI went) and Google already have a huge investment in focusing on video cards. Force them to use a new kind of logic and it will go really slow. Instead focus on the other technology driver. Get ten AAA games to advertise support for this card (with results visible in the game) and you'll kickstart development and sell fifty thousand units, while having the first new "must have" since Phys-X was folded in to graphics cards.
I used the wrong number here, and I apologize. $2000 per pound is a realistic number for initial launch costs, halving each following number in the projection.
That is an enormous amount of weight to send up. Space-x is aiming for (has not achieved) $1,000 per pound. Their current cost is more realistically $4,000.
4425*850*4000=$150,450,000,000. Then add the cost to send up another 4427/7=630 satellites per year (630*850*2000(because they'll get costs way down if they can send up that much material)=$1 billion dollars per year. They need to spend 150 billion dollars initially and an ongoing 1 billion dollars per year.
In 2014 SpaceX had a "market cap" of (optimistically) 12 billion dollars. Let's assumt that 12 billion dollars have already been justified. Now rumors of an IPO have been heard, so let's assume a massive over-the-top IPO: 13 billion dollars. Then add in a billion dollars. (assuming every penny they can scrape together goes to this plan) 12+13+1=26 billion. Using realistic numbers for launch costs and hyper-optimistic numbers for funding, they're about 125 billion dollars short. And I don't see Trump signing a 125 billion dollar Space-X pork bill. If we're very optimistic about launch costs that hypothetical bill could go as low as a still-highly-unlikely 75 billion dollars.
Trump is 70 years old, and is at that point in his life when he wants to leave a lasting legacy. I don't think he's out to get rich anymore. He has also consistently advocated for more competition, the good side of the free market purist.
Colder fuel means higher density, means more bang for your fuel tank.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Without any return there's no motivation for capital to pay for development into the products that are actually valuable. Don't get me wrong, I support open source as much as the next guy but paid innovation has an important roll to fill for all the people out there who are rich and want to stay that way while still contributing. We're not in the Star Trek universe yet.
Keeping 50 browser tabs open while I swap back and forth between my heavily modded TESV installation and my office work, with two small RAMdisks for my VPN and browser. With enough free space to start up a VM if I need it.
Over 100 channels of reruns, infomercials, and old Simpsons and South Park episodes! Over 100 channels of rehashed drivel and propaganda masquerading as news! A hundred channels of stupid people slapping each-other and cursing! A hundred channels of the same AP story described with the same talking points in the exact same phrasing by people hired by one of three media conglomerates! One. Hundred. Channels. If no one would buy it they would give it away for free. You are the product.
Hard on criminals is not necessarily hard on crime. More to the point it's not when cops shoot criminals, it's when cops shoot alleged criminals.
I want change. Which is why I'm voting for neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Real change means taking power from the corporate oligarchy represented by both major parties.
Meanwhile in the real world the few new shelters will be dangerous shitholes that are "three months and out" and/or come with mandatory religious indoctrination. If there really were viable alternatives the homeless would move in without the help of the police. You don't make a law to force people to do something if it's actually a better alternative for them.
I'm going to pretend they'll use this information to instate proactive reforms to placate the people before uprisings occur. Which still leads us down the path of totalitarianism, but more slowly.
Musk announced SpaceX will try to get something to Mars every other year for the next 20 years.I'm not saying Boeing doesn't have the engineering talent but I seriously doubt it has the will to beat Musk to Mars. Musk said, this is what we're doing, this is when, and this is how. Boeing said, over the next few decades we're going to put tourists in earth orbit. There isn't even a competition at this point.
Nice hit piece bro, but check this out. Internet outages across the US coincided with the time of the press release.
You clearly didn't read the article about Stein.Or worse you're just lying. It claims she panders to anti-vaxxers not that she is one.
I fail to see the down side to this kind of "profiteering". That's how markets worked. If they quadrupled their prices or more I can see a problem. But this is a case of price rising to create supply. If the price doesn't rise supply won't rise to meet it and then there won't be any available taxi's out of town. Higher prices are the lesser of the two evils.
A Saitek flight controller is the best.
If Logitech takes away that legacy, however, there will be another company to pick up the slack. It would be sad to see Saitek decline, like watching a friend turn to alcohol and slide into the gutter. but the miracle of capitalism is that demand will be met. Whatever happens within five years there will still be an excellent flight controller on the market. At $250 a pop Saitek controllers are selling for now it's just too lucrative. CH, Thrustmaster... someone will step in with a godly HOTAS* at that price.
*For the uninformed, HOTAS means Hands On Throttle-And-Stick
You didn't really think the US government would give up control of DNS to ICANN without having an off switch did you?
we have eliminated the jobs that require an IQ of less than about 70 or 75.
No we haven't. Here are some that can't be mechanized at or below minimum wage yet*, with current technology. Sweeping a heavily dusted floor with people moving around. Moving boxes from arbitrary points to other arbitrary points with no more instruction than a person saying "put all of those over there" Driving in various conditions. Walking a dog. Mowing a lawn. Making a cheeseburger with minimal instruction. Cleaning industrial equipment. Diving for pearls. Hunting. Weeding a garden. Planting saplings.
The human mind and body are highly efficient, robust, and intelligent. Even a retarded human can outperform machines on many tasks. I'm not saying that time wont' come but it's not here yet. A more important point is the rapid improvement of technology. Five years after machines can truly replace low IQ humans at EVERY task they'll be replacing humans with normal IQ's at most tasks.
*And before you say it, oh no they haven't. Many of these have been partially mechanized in narrow venues with lots of support but not one can be fully done for minimum wage by a machine. No, not even lawn mowing. Modern automatic mowers require laying wire to define lawn perimeters. This limits them to one yard whereas a low IQ human can be pointed at any lawn and just get to work.
Stop trying to make class problems into race problems. It's counterproductive, cheap, obvious, and self-serving.
As for the story mechanization is inevitable. The only thing we can do is take care of the displaced. Those who are against this should ask themselves what a large group of people do when they have nothing to lose.
I think if they don't like the news they are already informed.
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If there's a proper GUI you'll rarely have to tell them. And the command prompt will still be available.
If I may, and even if I mayn't, I'm going to rant about the same thing I always rant about in these stories: usability. Desktop Linux is a great operating system for those who have put in the many hours needed to understand its quirks. It's a great operating system for people who never so much as install a new sound driver. For the remaining 80% of users it's a usability nightmare. The wide range of distro's running the Gnome and KDE mean many common interactions differ between computers. And the Linux/Unix ideology of each program doing one thing (and doing it well) means which programs a user will have is unpredictable.
This, in turn, means it's all but impossible to provide a simple, straightforward instruction to a user for how to do something with her machine. Even something that should be dead simple. As soon as a user has to modify a config file or open a command prompt that's a huge roadblock. And no I'm not saying "be like Windows". That implication is a cop-out.It's not about doing things the way Windows does them, it's about making it "just work", and when it doesn't offering highly intuitive graphical interfaces for changing the way it works.
The Linux development community has made huge strides in this direction, but more is needed. Write drivers that interface with Gnome and KDE environments and provide GUI's for every setting. If a driver doesn't gave a Gnome and KDE GUI that covers 99.99% of use cases it's not finished. Make it so a user never, ever has to open a command prompt. Stick to the top three or fewer interfaces, and make them rock solid. No more installing interfaces to install interfaces to install decompressers to compile drivers. Do this and you shall see the year of Linux on the desktop.
Guns and surgery? That's all you see? We've already talked about superimposing, for example, instructions for repairing a car over the car itself. A gun for "shooting" wildlife for the sport without the harm. Ikea has a virtual kitchen, so not too much longer and we'll have VR recipes showing timers for various items, the size you need to cut things to, and outlining the spices you need for quick selection from your spice rack. Intel's showcased technology will make it safe to bring games into the real world. If the headset knows where the road is it can keep you off of it.
The possibilities are endless.