The CEO of a company that sells nothing to consumers is calling for the regulation of a company that also sells nothing to consumers. I have no idea what SalesForce actually does. It must do something, because businesses are throwing all this money at it. Still though, the economy ran pretty well before all of this crap existed. We were on top of the world. We put a man on the Moon without SalesForce, and none of the guys that did it were FaceBooking while red lights flashed on panels at Mission Control during Apollo 13 so we got our boys back! I don't spend any time on FaceBook. They get none of my time. I've never given a dime to SalesForce directly. Presumably some companies that I *do* give my money to are giving them money, and because of that he gets to say these things; but I digress.
SalesForce. FaceBook. It could all just disappear and I wouldn't care. Others would, but we'd find our way. That's surreal.
They changed the San Francisco skyline. The Chrysler Building changed the New York City skyline; but you could *drive* a Chrysler. It made sense. None of this makes any real sense.
I don't think theyr'e talking about the little ol' batteries that start your ICE car. They're talking about the packs on electric or hybrid cars. That's newer technology and perhaps they don't want to burden those manufacturers quite yet. Either that, or they decided that pissing off Apple and a few other companies was a big enough bite. No need to piss off all the major car manufacturers also. Also, Microsoft is probably pretty happy about this if they didn't actually write the bill and push it through. MS's competition is Apple, not Tesla.
It doesn't annoy me. It's just Apple actually TELLLING us what we've long observed: that they don't want real computing being done with their hardware. They want you to be a media consumer in their walled garden. No arbitrary programming languages, no installing your own OS on the hardware, none of the things that we associate with computers.
They want to kill computers. That's Apple's vision of the future--children never seeing an actual computer. They want it to be like my early childhood, except with a fancier TV.
Apple has its spaceship castle. Time to raise the drawbridge.
This defense wouldn't work for a pilot, not even on a long flight where they could be on autopilot for 10 hours and sober up. There is, AFAIK, no mode of transportation where this defense works since you always have to be ready to take over if the automated system disengages. To think that it would work on cars is pretty ridiculous since such systems are far less advanced for that mode of transportation.
I wouldn't try to do it directly. Plenty of other people
have covered these areas, and on a level that makes it
accessible. For time dilation, Carl Sagan's original Cosmos
series had an excellent depiction of time dilation and travel
approaching the speed of light. IIRC, part of it was based on
a "what if" scenario in which c was something you could approach
by peddling a bicycle really hard. When you returned from the
ride, all your friends were grey-haired old people.
I'm sure there is some other good programming out there.
So. Is there any better algorithm? You'd think that if there were a consensus among people studying this, they'd code in the consensus. Maybe the interesting thing here is that age and priors are the only useful information for predicting recidivism. This doesn't seem like rocket science. We've got decades of data. We ought to be able to run some other algorithms over it--something that takes into account a 3rd variable, and see if it helps. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn't.
I think what he's getting at is a distinction that matters under the Geneva Convention. If the plane were shot down, the crew would be wearing regular uniforms. The plane is marked. Thus, they are not spies but soldiers under the GC. It's not even over-flying the target country. Legally it's not spying, although in the common vernacular it's definitely spying.
The sad truth is very few people control almost the entire market.
I've been saying this for years now as a rebuttal to those who claim crypto or gold are better than the Fed. Under the Fed, the money supply is controlled by a board with some political influence via our elected officials. There are a lot of complaints about the Fed, some more justified than others. Under gold or crypto, the money supply is controlled by powerful speculators who have NO transparency, and no political influence via our elected officials--regular people have even LESS control over the economy, less influence via their opinion, etc. That's the exact opposite of what people say when they propose gold or crypto as alternatives.
Perhaps an even more general lesson--evolution determines practical upper limits on the sizes of "creatures" of various "species". A380 is a mechanical equivalent of the biggest whale in the ocean, the tallest tree, etc.
[the prospectus stated] that the required capital was half a million, in five thousand shares of 100 pounds each, deposit 2 pounds per share. Each subscriber, paying his [or her] desposit, was entitled to 100 pounds per annum per share. How this immense profit was to be obtained, [the proposer] did not condescend to inform [the buyers] at that time, but promised that in a month full particulars should be duly announced, and a call made for the remaining 98 pounds of the subscription. Next morning, at nine o'clock, this great man opened an office in Cornhill. Crowds of people beset his door, and when he shut up at three o'cock, he found that no less than one thousand shares had been subscribed for, and the deposits paid. He was thus, in five hours, the winner of 2000 pounds. He was philosophical enough to be contented with his venture, and set off the same evening for the Continent. He was never heard of again. (Mackay 55-56)
California just told us not to keep our phones in our pockets., which is a bit like "wearing" a device. Of course I keep mine in my pocket all the time. So far, no burns or bone tumors on my hip. I mean, we kind of sort of thought this whole issue of RF was put to bed didn't we? Here it is rearing its ugly head again.
I need a phone to function in modern society though. I don't need whatever it is "wearables" are offering right now.
Maybe some day the "fitness band" will be sophisticated enough to diagnose the cancer that it caused.
Amen! Also, good system software on the phone should warn you that an app is consuming that much power. You might not feel the extra heat right away; but if you're not doing anything with your phone and you look at it and see a power consumption tile flashing like crazy then you'd be tipped off.
I realized this in my 20s. I decided that there was something called "the non-product" that society produces to make up for the fact that we can produce necessary goods with so few people.
Another way I've put it here on Slashdot is that in our search for a better substitute, so far all we've come up with is "war and Facebook".
So. As obnoxious and pointless as their blog, or app, or whatever other "productivity" is, at least it's not raining actual fire down on you... yet.
It seems like the big problem with Bitcoin is hoarding, which discourages trade. How about a decentralized ledger without a "coin"? If you just had a secure, decentralized record of trades, *and* you could transact in less than a second, *and* you were simply creating a secure record of transaction in pre-existing currency *then* you'd have something that might compete with what the credit card companies and check clearinghouses do. Then you might actually reduce fees for the rest of us, even if we don't use it directly.
There's a whole wiki article on it. It definitely wasn't aliens though, or even Japanese aircraft. In the early days of WW2, panic makes perfect sense. News reports back then were even harder to get than now. Many people at that time, even in the military, wouldn't know what the Japanese were going to attack next. Once a few shots were fired, tracers became targets that generated more tracers that generated more targets. That really does seem like the most reasonable explanation.
It seems like not that long ago when I was in support, call volume spiked, and we found out later that somebody backhoed a huge portion of the US network. MAE East used to go down all the time. This is just normal growing pains in a developing network. It can still happen to "mature" networks.
The Bitcoin economy, to the extent that it exists, might be mirroring gold-standard economies of the past. During the Depression, the incentive to hoard hard currency in the form of gold was regarded as a major dynamic of the economic contraction. Why invest or spend when the value of currency rises, and the corresponding prices of goods in that currency decline?
Economic managers during the Depression went off the gold standard, but WW2 intervened before we could really see if that would stimulate the global economy effectively.
Unlike the Central bankers, BTC has no option to "print", so we get to see an interesting experiment in economics here. It's exciting, and I'm on the record as being an observer with no regrets as opposed to a participant.
If BTC is truly resistant to any kind of "printing", we'll get to see what happens to an economy and a currency when the money supply is fixed. The decline in trade due to a preference for hoarding seems to have precedence. The total inability to increase money supply doesn't seem to have any precedent, or maybe I'm missing something.
I have no idea how to rationally value a fixed money supply, other than by the market which is currently telling us "it goes up now". It's the *demand* side of the supply and demand that's the wildcard, IMHO. What happens to demand when people say, "you know what? $1000/day isn't going to keep happening". Nobody knows. I'm not buying BTC. I'm buying popcorn. It's the only sane move, IMHO.
This is the problem with looking at everything through the prism of a balance sheet. You wanna save every dollar? Fine. Stay holed up in your shack and DIY everything. It's not about the coffee. It's about an affordable escape for a while. Get out of the house. See what struggling local artists are doing. Run into people with common interests, or just look cool behind your device while sneaking peeks at other people looking cool behind their devices. Simultaneously catch eachother. Start a relationship, find true love... or live like a hermit and literally die of loneliness; but hey, at least some distant cousin will get an unexpected windfall of freshly sterilized bank notes found next to your corpse.
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The CEO of a company that sells nothing to consumers is calling for the regulation of a company that also sells nothing to consumers. I have no idea what SalesForce actually does. It must do something, because businesses are throwing all this money at it. Still though, the economy ran pretty well before all of this crap existed. We were on top of the world. We put a man on the Moon without SalesForce, and none of the guys that did it were FaceBooking while red lights flashed on panels at Mission Control during Apollo 13 so we got our boys back! I don't spend any time on FaceBook. They get none of my time. I've never given a dime to SalesForce directly. Presumably some companies that I *do* give my money to are giving them money, and because of that he gets to say these things; but I digress.
SalesForce. FaceBook. It could all just disappear and I wouldn't care. Others would, but we'd find our way. That's surreal.
They changed the San Francisco skyline. The Chrysler Building changed the New York City skyline; but you could *drive* a Chrysler. It made sense. None of this makes any real sense.
Surreal.
I don't think theyr'e talking about the little ol' batteries that start your ICE car. They're talking about the packs on electric or hybrid cars. That's newer technology and perhaps they don't want to burden those manufacturers quite yet. Either that, or they decided that pissing off Apple and a few other companies was a big enough bite. No need to piss off all the major car manufacturers also. Also, Microsoft is probably pretty happy about this if they didn't actually write the bill and push it through. MS's competition is Apple, not Tesla.
No, but your health care provider does. They don't want to have to pay monopoly prices for a battery either.
It doesn't annoy me. It's just Apple actually TELLLING us what we've long observed: that they don't want real computing being done with their hardware. They want you to be a media consumer in their walled garden. No arbitrary programming languages, no installing your own OS on the hardware, none of the things that we associate with computers.
They want to kill computers. That's Apple's vision of the future--children never seeing an actual computer. They want it to be like my early childhood, except with a fancier TV.
Apple has its spaceship castle. Time to raise the drawbridge.
This defense wouldn't work for a pilot, not even on a long flight where they could be on autopilot for 10 hours and sober up. There is, AFAIK, no mode of transportation where this defense works since you always have to be ready to take over if the automated system disengages. To think that it would work on cars is pretty ridiculous since such systems are far less advanced for that mode of transportation.
It was actually a Vespa and it's on YouTube
I wouldn't try to do it directly. Plenty of other people have covered these areas, and on a level that makes it accessible. For time dilation, Carl Sagan's original Cosmos series had an excellent depiction of time dilation and travel approaching the speed of light. IIRC, part of it was based on a "what if" scenario in which c was something you could approach by peddling a bicycle really hard. When you returned from the ride, all your friends were grey-haired old people.
I'm sure there is some other good programming out there.
Scotty, shovel in more coal. We need to make Monroe, Virginia on time!
So. Is there any better algorithm? You'd think that if there were a consensus among people studying this, they'd code in the consensus. Maybe the interesting thing here is that age and priors are the only useful information for predicting recidivism. This doesn't seem like rocket science. We've got decades of data. We ought to be able to run some other algorithms over it--something that takes into account a 3rd variable, and see if it helps. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn't.
I think what he's getting at is a distinction that matters under the Geneva Convention. If the plane were shot down, the crew would be wearing regular uniforms. The plane is marked. Thus, they are not spies but soldiers under the GC. It's not even over-flying the target country. Legally it's not spying, although in the common vernacular it's definitely spying.
The sad truth is very few people control almost the entire market.
I've been saying this for years now as a rebuttal to those who claim crypto or gold are better than the Fed. Under the Fed, the money supply is controlled by a board with some political influence via our elected officials. There are a lot of complaints about the Fed, some more justified than others. Under gold or crypto, the money supply is controlled by powerful speculators who have NO transparency, and no political influence via our elected officials--regular people have even LESS control over the economy, less influence via their opinion, etc. That's the exact opposite of what people say when they propose gold or crypto as alternatives.
Perhaps an even more general lesson--evolution determines practical upper limits on the sizes of "creatures" of various "species". A380 is a mechanical equivalent of the biggest whale in the ocean, the tallest tree, etc.
"Can I help you?". NO. For the last time. Leave. Me. Alone.
A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. and the result of this announcement, described in this paragraph:
California just told us not to keep our phones in our pockets., which is a bit like "wearing" a device. Of course I keep mine in my pocket all the time. So far, no burns or bone tumors on my hip. I mean, we kind of sort of thought this whole issue of RF was put to bed didn't we? Here it is rearing its ugly head again.
I need a phone to function in modern society though. I don't need whatever it is "wearables" are offering right now.
Maybe some day the "fitness band" will be sophisticated enough to diagnose the cancer that it caused.
Amen! Also, good system software on the phone should warn you that an app is consuming that much power. You might not feel the extra heat right away; but if you're not doing anything with your phone and you look at it and see a power consumption tile flashing like crazy then you'd be tipped off.
I realized this in my 20s. I decided that there was something called "the non-product" that society produces to make up for the fact that we can produce necessary goods with so few people.
Another way I've put it here on Slashdot is that in our search for a better substitute, so far all we've come up with is "war and Facebook".
So. As obnoxious and pointless as their blog, or app, or whatever other "productivity" is, at least it's not raining actual fire down on you... yet.
It seems like the big problem with Bitcoin is hoarding, which discourages trade. How about a decentralized ledger without a "coin"? If you just had a secure, decentralized record of trades, *and* you could transact in less than a second, *and* you were simply creating a secure record of transaction in pre-existing currency *then* you'd have something that might compete with what the credit card companies and check clearinghouses do. Then you might actually reduce fees for the rest of us, even if we don't use it directly.
There's a whole wiki article on it. It definitely wasn't aliens though, or even Japanese aircraft. In the early days of WW2, panic makes perfect sense. News reports back then were even harder to get than now. Many people at that time, even in the military, wouldn't know what the Japanese were going to attack next. Once a few shots were fired, tracers became targets that generated more tracers that generated more targets. That really does seem like the most reasonable explanation.
It seems like not that long ago when I was in support, call volume spiked, and we found out later that somebody backhoed a huge portion of the US network. MAE East used to go down all the time. This is just normal growing pains in a developing network. It can still happen to "mature" networks.
Yeah, the chart is going to look like Burj Khalifa. Just like the tower, it's actual height will not be known until after completion.
It depends on the age of the child. The myth is for grade school. The demolition is for adolescence, and adulthood.
The Bitcoin economy, to the extent that it exists, might be mirroring gold-standard economies of the past. During the Depression, the incentive to hoard hard currency in the form of gold was regarded as a major dynamic of the economic contraction. Why invest or spend when the value of currency rises, and the corresponding prices of goods in that currency decline?
Economic managers during the Depression went off the gold standard, but WW2 intervened before we could really see if that would stimulate the global economy effectively.
Unlike the Central bankers, BTC has no option to "print", so we get to see an interesting experiment in economics here. It's exciting, and I'm on the record as being an observer with no regrets as opposed to a participant.
If BTC is truly resistant to any kind of "printing", we'll get to see what happens to an economy and a currency when the money supply is fixed. The decline in trade due to a preference for hoarding seems to have precedence. The total inability to increase money supply doesn't seem to have any precedent, or maybe I'm missing something.
I have no idea how to rationally value a fixed money supply, other than by the market which is currently telling us "it goes up now". It's the *demand* side of the supply and demand that's the wildcard, IMHO. What happens to demand when people say, "you know what? $1000/day isn't going to keep happening". Nobody knows. I'm not buying BTC. I'm buying popcorn. It's the only sane move, IMHO.
This is the problem with looking at everything through the prism of a balance sheet. You wanna save every dollar? Fine. Stay holed up in your shack and DIY everything. It's not about the coffee. It's about an affordable escape for a while. Get out of the house. See what struggling local artists are doing. Run into people with common interests, or just look cool behind your device while sneaking peeks at other people looking cool behind their devices. Simultaneously catch eachother. Start a relationship, find true love... or live like a hermit and literally die of loneliness; but hey, at least some distant cousin will get an unexpected windfall of freshly sterilized bank notes found next to your corpse.
Re-read. Sorry. Need more coffee.