I could never fix TTL chips or discreet transistors either. If surfaces end up as $0.25/unit for less than a dozen and $0.20/unit for a dozen to 100, and $0.18/unit for quantities over 100 in the catalog, then I have no problem with this.
If trade is really free, does this mean I can order a Canadian phone from anywhere in North America, including the USA? I'm guessing not... because some animals are more free than others.
But travel exposes people to different cultures, and makes prejudice less likely. Prejudice leads to war, which leads to flights carrying bombs which are much worse for the environment. Send tourists, or send bombs. It really is that simple... with tongue somewhat in cheek.
Transfusions always have risks, even when the blood is carefully screened. Conversely, aren't there studies showing that periodic blood donors are healthier? It might be correlation vs. causation. However, we might find out in the long run that the "clients" have paid to have a worse health outcome than the "resources".
Yeah, it was about 4 or 5 years for me before university. If somebody is using techniques that weren't taught, they might be copy-pasting or they might be more experienced. I couldn't pass the AP test to get out of CS, so I still had to take it but I knew more than beginners.
I have mixed emotions about some of the down-grades I got. One time I got marked down for using the "wrong" kind of state machine by a TA. He showed me a cookie-cutter process (that we hadn't even been taught) and told me it was the expected procedure to use for generating the machine, and marked me down for not knowing that. Thinking about that still pisses me off. I deemed it unwise to waste the prof's time arguing about it. That's about as much politics as you get in engineering school.
OTOH, I turned in a program one time with self-modifying code because I thought it was elegant. I got slammed for that, and it was the right call. When I was that age, I thought it was "cool" that a program could modify itself. I guess it still is in a game or something; but not in secure, maintainable code.
You're in Lake County? Small world. You must be referring to that development over by the hospital in Lakeport. And yeah, Lake County needs housing to replace what was lost by the fires; but not that kind of housing.
Most politicians say they want affordable housing, but when we started to get it during the so-called "crisis" of 2008, all everybody did was bitch.
The housing collapse was the very definition of housing becoming affordable--prices dropped dramatically.
The cognitive dissonance on this issue never ceases to amaze me. You can blame the banks, and they bear some of the blame but not all of it. You can blame the NIMBY phenomenon, but that's not the whole picture either. IMHO, the core of the issue is that housing is a leveraged "investment", and that creates structural issues that encourage it to be expensive.
If a significant percentage of your net worth is in your house, you are strongly incentivized to do everything you can to make housing expensive in your area.
The banks are encouraged to make housing expensive, because cash purchases are for the wealthy only, and the rest of us pay interest.
Local governments are incentivized to make housing expensive because property taxes are based on assessed value.
There is, IMHO, no *technical* barrier to supplying a house for less than $100k almost everywhere in the USA. In a few special places you can argue that flooding the market with a supply of cheap housing is not possible due to resource constraints; but that's not true in most parts of the USA.
Every once in a while, somebody does actually supply cheap housing. It's like an elm sprout in the forest. As soon as it springs up, the structural fungus of our NIMBY, Leverage, debt-financed, assessed value taxed housing system attacks it and it dies.
I'm given to understand that there are even ports other than 80 and 443. Gasp! You could even write a client that does something crazy, like use port 110 for a dedicated email client. Heresy!
That's interesting. I suppose you could also breed a true tomacco via selective breeding; but there's no incentive. Since there's already some nicotine in green tomatoes it would just be a matter of selecting for higher and higher concentrations. It ought to work just as the cross-breeding of cannabis strains created super high THC content.
Yeah, but a lot of people would have those Lamborghinis. You wouldn't just buy a computer though. You'd make computer payments. You wouldn't just buy stuff online. You'd make a $0.50 copay for each $100.00 iTunes or Netflix purchase because nobody actually buys directly from online retailers. I'm just guessing at what things cost, because the price list is secret. You could apply for a new computer right around the same time every year, along with a bunch of other people, unless your computer broke down our you got married, or needed a computer for your child, or Congress had gas. Then it's hard to say. You wouldn't be on the internet unless it was in your network. Maybe your state would only support the Bing network, unless you wanted to pay a lot extra. You could Google if you really wanted to; but then your next computer payment would be higher. You get free antivirus though, so you use that to feed some kind of delusion that this is all working out for the best. Sometimes reality intrudes and you get depressed. Then you fork over a copay for a program from Big Gaming that may or may not cause your computer to self-destruct. If that happens, it's GAME OVER.
I could also see Amazon partnering with one of Musk's companies to build hyperloop for freight. It seems like building a 1-meter or even 30-cm freight pipe would be a heck of a lot easier than transporting people. 1-meter could fit almost everything they sell, and 30cm would still be useful for a lot of products. We'd get an operational test of the hyperloop concept. The train people would really sweat bullets over that one; but I'm not sure where they'd acquire the rights-of-way.
It was supposed to represent "moving forward". The irony of it pointing to the right wasn't lost on Bernie supporters. It also looked like a house that fell over between the Twin Towers.
I think that must be hyperbole on your part to say a TV cost a year's salary. Here are some TV prices from the tube days. You can plug these numbers into a CPI adjuster (too bad they didn't do that for us). For example, you get $2,078.04 for the 1960 17" BW Tabletop Philco. I chose that one because we were still using something comparable when I was a real little kid in the early 70s. A PC cost about that much for a long time. Not cheap, but not ridiculous either.
Some of the other sets on that list do indeed cost quite a bit more in real terms--but few people would have purchased expensive color sets in the 1950s because most broadcasts were BW. The expensive consoles also pulled double-duty as furniture. I remember seeing these sets in people's homes, and some of them had extra space on the side where you could put your turntable and records. You'd put stuff on top of the set. Man, that was a lifetime purchase so of course you'd shell out more. Nobody ever wanted to *move* those things, but I digress.
Look at the prices in the early 70s. By then, "solid state" sets were available, but repair shops were still going at it with solder guns.
I think the idea that TV sets were really expensive came from the frugality of the generation that was purchasing them--WW2 generation. They'd been through the Depression with radio. That colored their thinking, no pun intended. Also, sets were financed which makes it sound like they must have been really expensive; but buying appliances on "the installment plan" seemed like something that was being pushed a lot back then. I think it was part of the hard sell to get frugal customers to pry open their wallets.
The schematic for the TV set was inside the box. You pulled tubes and took them to the store to be tested. The companies made money hand over fist, and independent repair shops did OK too.
The companies that made those old TV sets *did* eventually go into decline, and in some cases Chapter 11. That had nothing to do with independent repair shops. It had everything to do with other countries making things more cheaply under an open trade policy, and other companies being more innovative.
So. Go ahead Apple. Try to lock yourself into the top spot. Go ahead. We dare you. Oh, and Cupertino? Rochester, NY and Detroit, MI might have some lessons to teach you. Enjoy your spaceship. These are the good ol' days.
Not totally out to lunch, but his timeline is too short and his prediction of the extent to which we'll shift to automation is too extreme. Most cars sold today are still ICE, and the time that people keep a vehicle on the road has gotten longer. People expect to drive these vehicles 10 years. He's discounting the political will of people 10 years from now who don't want their vehicles legislated off the road. These people will be disproportionately low-income, because they tend to drive older vehicles. Manual control won't totally disappear. Often neglected in these predictions are motorcycle riders. Even if a self-driving bike is built, there's no point in that. The "rolling thunder" crowd tends to be older, and there are a lot of vets in it. These people VOTE. They'll have something to say about it. His predictions are *technically* possible, but not politically possible.
Self-driving will have to coexist with manual driving, and the insurance companies will have something to say about it. There might even be an effect where poor drivers are encouraged or mandated to chose self-driving vehicles, such as drunk drivers. Manual control might become the domain of the more expert drivers with excellent records who garner lower insurance rates, or wealthy and/or enthusiasts who are willing to pay higher rates; but it's not likely to go away.
WU is ransomware. It's just a different kind of ransom.
WannaCry: "send us $300 in BTC or we'll kill your data if you don't have backups".
WU: "Send us personal data via telemetry, take un upgrade you don't want, let us chew your CPU and interfere with your games. If you don't, we'll force you to do a lot of busy work to separate the security wheat from the marketing chaff, and if you don't do it right you'll be vulnerable to things like WannaCry".
MS bears a lot of blame until they stop holding the familiar Windows experience hostage, and return it to us without forcing us to pay a ransom.
I've lived in Northern Virginia and DC. ALL of those freeways would have become gridlocked, just like everything else in the area. A lot of interesting neighborhoods simply wouldn't exist. Last time I checked, DC didn't need more expensive housing. Have you priced a rowhouse near Metro lately?
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I could never fix TTL chips or discreet transistors either. If surfaces end up as $0.25/unit for less than a dozen and $0.20/unit for a dozen to 100, and $0.18/unit for quantities over 100 in the catalog, then I have no problem with this.
Safeway: Your club card saved you 25%.
Me: Dammit. I need to save at least 40% to know I've played their stupid game well enough to get a fair price.
If trade is really free, does this mean I can order a Canadian phone from anywhere in North America, including the USA? I'm guessing not... because some animals are more free than others.
Bags fly free, so there's no excuse not to bring your mother-in-law.
But travel exposes people to different cultures, and makes prejudice less likely. Prejudice leads to war, which leads to flights carrying bombs which are much worse for the environment. Send tourists, or send bombs. It really is that simple... with tongue somewhat in cheek.
Transfusions always have risks, even when the blood is carefully screened. Conversely, aren't there studies showing that periodic blood donors are healthier? It might be correlation vs. causation. However, we might find out in the long run that the "clients" have paid to have a worse health outcome than the "resources".
Yeah, it was about 4 or 5 years for me before university. If somebody is using techniques that weren't taught, they might be copy-pasting or they might be more experienced. I couldn't pass the AP test to get out of CS, so I still had to take it but I knew more than beginners.
I have mixed emotions about some of the down-grades I got. One time I got marked down for using the "wrong" kind of state machine by a TA. He showed me a cookie-cutter process (that we hadn't even been taught) and told me it was the expected procedure to use for generating the machine, and marked me down for not knowing that. Thinking about that still pisses me off. I deemed it unwise to waste the prof's time arguing about it. That's about as much politics as you get in engineering school.
OTOH, I turned in a program one time with self-modifying code because I thought it was elegant. I got slammed for that, and it was the right call. When I was that age, I thought it was "cool" that a program could modify itself. I guess it still is in a game or something; but not in secure, maintainable code.
You're in Lake County? Small world. You must be referring to that development over by the hospital in Lakeport. And yeah, Lake County needs housing to replace what was lost by the fires; but not that kind of housing.
Most politicians say they want affordable housing, but when we started to get it during the so-called "crisis" of 2008, all everybody did was bitch.
The housing collapse was the very definition of housing becoming affordable--prices dropped dramatically.
The cognitive dissonance on this issue never ceases to amaze me. You can blame the banks, and they bear some of the blame but not all of it. You can blame the NIMBY phenomenon, but that's not the whole picture either. IMHO, the core of the issue is that housing is a leveraged "investment", and that creates structural issues that encourage it to be expensive.
If a significant percentage of your net worth is in your house, you are strongly incentivized to do everything you can to make housing expensive in your area.
The banks are encouraged to make housing expensive, because cash purchases are for the wealthy only, and the rest of us pay interest.
Local governments are incentivized to make housing expensive because property taxes are based on assessed value.
There is, IMHO, no *technical* barrier to supplying a house for less than $100k almost everywhere in the USA. In a few special places you can argue that flooding the market with a supply of cheap housing is not possible due to resource constraints; but that's not true in most parts of the USA.
Every once in a while, somebody does actually supply cheap housing. It's like an elm sprout in the forest. As soon as it springs up, the structural fungus of our NIMBY, Leverage, debt-financed, assessed value taxed housing system attacks it and it dies.
I'm given to understand that there are even ports other than 80 and 443. Gasp! You could even write a client that does something crazy, like use port 110 for a dedicated email client. Heresy!
That's interesting. I suppose you could also breed a true tomacco via selective breeding; but there's no incentive. Since there's already some nicotine in green tomatoes it would just be a matter of selecting for higher and higher concentrations. It ought to work just as the cross-breeding of cannabis strains created super high THC content.
APL, for those who don't know, is Apparently Prince's Language. Programs are a string of unpronounceable symbols.
The guy in the wheelchair is invalid, so we should ignore his input.
Yeah, but a lot of people would have those Lamborghinis. You wouldn't just buy a computer though. You'd make computer payments. You wouldn't just buy stuff online. You'd make a $0.50 copay for each $100.00 iTunes or Netflix purchase because nobody actually buys directly from online retailers. I'm just guessing at what things cost, because the price list is secret. You could apply for a new computer right around the same time every year, along with a bunch of other people, unless your computer broke down our you got married, or needed a computer for your child, or Congress had gas. Then it's hard to say. You wouldn't be on the internet unless it was in your network. Maybe your state would only support the Bing network, unless you wanted to pay a lot extra. You could Google if you really wanted to; but then your next computer payment would be higher. You get free antivirus though, so you use that to feed some kind of delusion that this is all working out for the best. Sometimes reality intrudes and you get depressed. Then you fork over a copay for a program from Big Gaming that may or may not cause your computer to self-destruct. If that happens, it's GAME OVER.
I could also see Amazon partnering with one of Musk's companies to build hyperloop for freight. It seems like building a 1-meter or even 30-cm freight pipe would be a heck of a lot easier than transporting people. 1-meter could fit almost everything they sell, and 30cm would still be useful for a lot of products. We'd get an operational test of the hyperloop concept. The train people would really sweat bullets over that one; but I'm not sure where they'd acquire the rights-of-way.
It was supposed to represent "moving forward". The irony of it pointing to the right wasn't lost on Bernie supporters. It also looked like a house that fell over between the Twin Towers.
I think that must be hyperbole on your part to say a TV cost a year's salary. Here are some TV prices from the tube days. You can plug these numbers into a CPI adjuster (too bad they didn't do that for us). For example, you get $2,078.04 for the 1960 17" BW Tabletop Philco. I chose that one because we were still using something comparable when I was a real little kid in the early 70s. A PC cost about that much for a long time. Not cheap, but not ridiculous either.
Some of the other sets on that list do indeed cost quite a bit more in real terms--but few people would have purchased expensive color sets in the 1950s because most broadcasts were BW. The expensive consoles also pulled double-duty as furniture. I remember seeing these sets in people's homes, and some of them had extra space on the side where you could put your turntable and records. You'd put stuff on top of the set. Man, that was a lifetime purchase so of course you'd shell out more. Nobody ever wanted to *move* those things, but I digress.
Look at the prices in the early 70s. By then, "solid state" sets were available, but repair shops were still going at it with solder guns.
The 21" 1960 RCA color table top is $4131.04 in today's dollars. Definitely a pretty penny; but also for early adopters only. Five years after that purchase, only half of all network broadcasts were in color
I think the idea that TV sets were really expensive came from the frugality of the generation that was purchasing them--WW2 generation. They'd been through the Depression with radio. That colored their thinking, no pun intended. Also, sets were financed which makes it sound like they must have been really expensive; but buying appliances on "the installment plan" seemed like something that was being pushed a lot back then. I think it was part of the hard sell to get frugal customers to pry open their wallets.
The schematic for the TV set was inside the box. You pulled tubes and took them to the store to be tested. The companies made money hand over fist, and independent repair shops did OK too.
The companies that made those old TV sets *did* eventually go into decline, and in some cases Chapter 11. That had nothing to do with independent repair shops. It had everything to do with other countries making things more cheaply under an open trade policy, and other companies being more innovative.
So. Go ahead Apple. Try to lock yourself into the top spot. Go ahead. We dare you. Oh, and Cupertino? Rochester, NY and Detroit, MI might have some lessons to teach you. Enjoy your spaceship. These are the good ol' days.
Not totally out to lunch, but his timeline is too short and his prediction of the extent to which we'll shift to automation is too extreme. Most cars sold today are still ICE, and the time that people keep a vehicle on the road has gotten longer. People expect to drive these vehicles 10 years. He's discounting the political will of people 10 years from now who don't want their vehicles legislated off the road. These people will be disproportionately low-income, because they tend to drive older vehicles. Manual control won't totally disappear. Often neglected in these predictions are motorcycle riders. Even if a self-driving bike is built, there's no point in that. The "rolling thunder" crowd tends to be older, and there are a lot of vets in it. These people VOTE. They'll have something to say about it. His predictions are *technically* possible, but not politically possible.
Self-driving will have to coexist with manual driving, and the insurance companies will have something to say about it. There might even be an effect where poor drivers are encouraged or mandated to chose self-driving vehicles, such as drunk drivers. Manual control might become the domain of the more expert drivers with excellent records who garner lower insurance rates, or wealthy and/or enthusiasts who are willing to pay higher rates; but it's not likely to go away.
WU is ransomware. It's just a different kind of ransom.
WannaCry: "send us $300 in BTC or we'll kill your data if you don't have backups".
WU: "Send us personal data via telemetry, take un upgrade you don't want, let us chew your CPU and interfere with your games. If you don't, we'll force you to do a lot of busy work to separate the security wheat from the marketing chaff, and if you don't do it right you'll be vulnerable to things like WannaCry".
MS bears a lot of blame until they stop holding the familiar Windows experience hostage, and return it to us without forcing us to pay a ransom.
I've lived in Northern Virginia and DC. ALL of those freeways would have become gridlocked, just like everything else in the area. A lot of interesting neighborhoods simply wouldn't exist. Last time I checked, DC didn't need more expensive housing. Have you priced a rowhouse near Metro lately?
This was supposed to happen in DC too. Here's a basic overview of the original plan.
I've been doing this all wrong. I always remove the engine, put skates on it, take it to the rink, and slam it into the boards.
Dilbert: This code is complete if zero is true.
PHB: Get to work on making zero true.
The saving grace of a Pence administration is that he'd have a weak mandate for saving grace.