It used to be that AMD and Intel fought over the hugely profitable desktop and server market (when everyone needed good traditional desktops and servers), and both made out like bandits. Now, the desktop market is seriously sliding, the server market is stagnant, and the only thing growing is mobile (which is where intel is heading). Good graphics cards are even going the way of the dinosaur as games like angry birds are far far more popular than the latest Far Cry. AMDs core markets are disappearing. Intel will continue to fight for desktops over tablets and smartphones (until intel chips are in both) and will fight for servers over the specialized super core stuff, so the competition has just shifted from Intel vs AMD to Intel vs alternatives. Had the mobile revolution happened 6 or 7 years ago maybe AMD would have been positioned to move but now, they are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Intel is still very much motivated to fight for their existence, as good chips wholly made in Asia are becoming more and more common.
Yeah, it's hobby gardening automation. You can do a whole lot now on virtually no budget, and that's cool.
But yeah, "organic" is just a free buzzword here. I don't think many hobby gardeners were going to be using large amounts of dangerous pesticide in a 4' garden regardless of whether or not there's a microcontroller in there.
Spoken like someone who has never had a 4' garden before... Bugs will ruin your day unless you are very careful; it's so much easier to just spray a little pesticide and let that be that. With a greenhouse that is relatively isolated, and good healthy plants inside, you can probably eliminate even that.
What you need to be asking is, "How long is an acceptable test cycle?". Considering something "in production" usually implies some sort of testing, otherwise all the changes would just show up immediately right? So, ask yourself (or your organization) how much testing is enough? Equally important, how much is too much? These are the questions every software company struggles with. Spend too much time testing and your releases will always be behind. Spend too little time on it, and your "production" will look too much like test. Your own appetite for risk will determine where that line is.
Desalinization is fine as long as you can keep the energy cheap: if we really have hundreds of years of natural gas or "Clean coal" under our feet we can afford to keep desalinating water. If the price of water doubled for users it would have very little impact, fresh water is basically thought of as "free" and wasted en mass; if that mindset were just changed to "cheap enough" water usage would drop a lot.
I'm slowly writing a scifi story where all the measurements are based on Planck units, combined in various ways with the numbers 20 or 60 to reach human-accessible sizes.
The premise is that humanity was wiped out, and the only survivors are a bunch of pedants.
Spoiler alert: the apocalypse was caused by alien intelligence that took over TV and turned everyone watching into brain dead zombies. The only ones that survived were those douches who go around telling everyone about how nice it is to not own a TV.
And shouldn't the car be flying? Remembering back a few decades, the main difference between then and now is that "modern" people play with their phones a lot. I see no reason to think the future will change any faster.
"Modern" people have a cheap, compact, completely connected computer in their pocket at all times. Did we see that coming 15 years ago? Before you say "sure, things constantly get smaller" the real thing that surprised the world wasnt that they exist, but the fact that just about everyone (that can afford it) has decided they "need" one.
It's widely criticized and demonized because all the women who started working didn't take "token" jobs that were created just to have an excuse to give them pay (as you imply) but instead they have an economic outcome and contribute to GDP. Care to take a run at that again with a "solution" that doesn't cripple the nation? Here's a hint, you got most of it right.
Unlimited storage for $5/mo? I have to get on this shit.
Run the numbers. 50 TB a day sounds like a lot, if they've only got one customer. But they're probably got "a zillion" which would imply your very thin slice of the upload bandwidth is going to be choked to like a gig per day. The upgrade in my basement from (full) 1 TB drives to 2 TB drives took around overnight, less than 24 hours anyway, but over the net at a gig per day would be about 3 years to fully convert. Even if they're not limited I would have serious problems shoving more than 100 gigs/day thru my cablemodem, so thats at least 10 days.
Another interesting thing to analyze is $5/month is $60/yr, so subtract $5/yr for electricity to spin a drive, assume a drive lives 2 years (probably much longer) that means if you can buy a drive big enough to hold everything you want for less than $110, just stick a drive in your basement. Better bandwidth and latency too, I have gigE at home but only ten or so megs of cablemodem. $110 at tiger direct will get me 2 TB. So 2 TB is approximately the tipping point, use less and you're better off "self hosting" in the basement, use more and you're better off using their service (and they're likely losing money if you use more than 2 TB).
Also I'm curious if its "unlimited" like cellphone or internet access is "unlimited" in other words they'll cut you off if they're losing money on you.
The number I am looking at is 50TB/day means 578MB/sec all day and all night (i am presuming there is some amount of day/night load curve). That's a lot of bandwidth for one organization.
But more practically, what are you doing to generate all that content? Even a serious photographer/videographer would be hard pressed to generate more than 10GB of backup-worthy content a day, especially not averaged over a whole week or month.
Many consider migrating to prepaid carriers at the end of their contracts. There is no lump sum to be paid to anyone, just one month in advance. With LTE I was hoping that this will become more and more popular. But I was wrong, phones support frequencies only on the carrier they are on. So at the end of the contract, people dont pay $600 to get a new phone to get prepaid, they just renew with one of their post paid providers.
I would say the lack of phone interoperability is much bigger deterrent than ETF.
Prepaid carriers exist for every single major network, so nothing is stopping you from taking your ATT, Sprint, Verizon, etc. phone and going to one... Prepaid carriers are making a decent living but the big providers are still raking in money faster than they know how to spend it. The biggest disadvantage of a prepaid is that anyone with three or more lines is almost always better sticking with a major carrier because prepaid ones dont give breaks for multiple contracts (there is no contract).
Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. Humans always used horses... until they invented a car. Humans were using only land transport.. until they invented an airplane. Humans were always planet-bound, until they flew into space.
In the midst of ALL of that (horses, cars, planes, spaceships) they have all been powered (as well as the humans in them) indirectly (by about 2 or 3 steps of conversion) by the sun... Sure things change, but given how different humanity of 2012 looks compared to that of only 1000 years ago, and still it's entirely thanks to the sun, is a pretty clear suggestion that humanity will rely on the sun from now until the end of our existence. There's just too much energy shooting out of it in every direction for it to be ignored, barring something that literally violates the laws of physics as they are currently understood.
You missed the other point. Take your phone, go to another carrier (even if it were compatible) there is still no financial upside... You don't get any discount in service for bringing a device vs buying one subsidized. Therefore, the ETF is the only thing they need to enforce to discourage you from moving. Otherwise, you can just get a similar phone for very little money after switching. If you think the $200 for a "nice" phone is a barrier, you are fooling yourself because the long term cost of the data plan is many times more than that.
I recognize that humanity has overpopulated the earth, that does not diminish my desire to have a child at some point.
It may not diminish your desire, but hopefully it alters your actions. At the very least I would hope you would choose have 1 or 2 and not 3 or more. If all couples had just 1 child the population would drop by 50% each generation (obviously with a time delay since people live much longer than one generation). 2 is steady state.
You'd be surprised how many people simply don't ever procreate. Your point is still valid, but if everyone who wanted/could have kids did have just 2 that lived to maturity (another factor) the population would still decline. Three kids (during your child bearing years) per willing/able couple is more practical for holding a steady population. A guilt trip for having 3 kids is completely unwarranted.
It also assumes that there aren't any energy advancements that are so far out of our understanding right now that they wouldn't seem like magic
Which is a reasonable assumption. Advanced civilizations will certainly have more advanced technology, but basic laws of reality will still apply. There is no reason to believe that the second law of thermodynamics can be violated, and overwhelming evidence that it cannot.
The speculation Dyson did basically extrapolated on the existing trend of Humanity... We evolved from organisms that basically used sunlight directly. We started eating organisms that used sunlight directly. Soon, we would be digging up old organisms that used sunlight directly, and releasing the energy for our own benefit. We are starting to understand how to use sunlight directly again, either by capturing the radiation directly or by harnessing the sun's ability to push air around. In case you didn't notice the trend, we have *always* relied on sunlight. It is so much more energetic than anything we can possibly imagine on our own planet (even E=MC^2) and unless the second law of thermodynamics is proven wrong, we will be best served by taking advantage of the sun for many centuries to come.
However, a step before the sphere is practical (probably by many thousands of years) a civilization will be building large collectors that orbit like planets. We ought to be looking for those.
Designed to last for 5 billion years? Won't it and the Earth be one with the sun in about 3 or 4 billion?
Anyway, I think we should baffle the aliens with a bit of bullshit and have a set of pictures that are screenshots of the Death Star destroying Alderaan. Hilarity ensues when word gets out about this and aliens from all over the galaxy scramble to tear up our long dead world in search of any useful information about this tech that allowed the great and ancient civilization that thrived here to build a space station with enough firepower to destroy an entire planet.
Don't forget to include the secret construction plans that the rebels can steal, revealing an exhaust vent as the key weakness allowing it to be destroyed... Starfighter pilots everywhere will spend a parsec or two patting themselves on the back for how important they all are...
We have reached a usage rate where speed in terms of doubling isn't really that big of a deal. over 10mbs is usually fast enough for netflix. So we can watch a movie over the internet without waiting for hours... That is good speed.
It isn't like the days of the 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 14.4k, 28.8k, 57.6k modems where just downloading a picture was a big deal. For the most part we go to a site, it gives us the content we need. If there is a video we click on it and it plays and streams fast. We are not waiting for hours, or minutes.
Going from 15mbs to 30mbs is not feeling from going to slow to fast. But from good to snappy.
HD video is basically the only thing that can push the limit of current high-tier services. A "true" 3 Mbps is about enough for a typical HD stream, so even a family of 4 each watching a different video will be well served by a 15Mbps connection.
We are seeing the bandwidth pendulum swing back in favor of over-subscribing. As last mile technologies have improved (DOCSIS and DSLAM) the content and the backbones have not. In the next few years, we will see the content improve (HD video at 7 Mbps per stream, or more) and over-subscribed providers will start to crack (like we saw with the first cable/dsl burst in the late 90s). Then, we get to watch as bandwidth caps stay about the same for a decade as backbones catch up, and then we will get to see the whole thing repeat. The circle of life.
Are the cables being protected, or are they just really really REALLY hard to build out? And frequencies are indeed scarce, so rent-seeking is inevitable unless someone invents a modulation technique that is many thousands of times better than current ones (to alleviate all contention on the resource).
A claim like "Fastest internet connection" is amazingly dubious based on the data they are presenting. What they mean more specifically is "fastest average customer". While some providers may offer fast services at higher prices, the only thing we know for sure from this is how many people are in the upper/lower tiers on a given provider. Sure, coming up with an actual "Fastest provider" number is going to be pretty darn hard to do (you basically need a way to reliably throw away data from anyone not in the fastest service tier) they could at least be a little more honest about what their "Study" is actually saying.
Start with a decent kitchenette with dishwasher, hot water dispenser, and two high-watt microwaves. 95% of your lunch issues will be solved. A canteen just isnt practical for a building with less than 250 people in it. For 40 people it's just laughable. They would each have to spend like $25/day at the thing for it to be sustainable.
The point is that occasionally being "bored" (in the sense of lacking external stimuli) is a good thing as it encourages introspection and, you know, thinking.
That's what load times are for.
reading shitty magazines, watching shitty TV or playing shitty vidogames are all just as bad as wasting time playing Angry Birds, or posting facebook photos of your dog, on your phone. if you do them all the time and never give yourself time to think.
Well, the average person probably has a lot of time in traffic, if they're not on public transportation. Here's the thing I don't get, if I give myself time to think, questions occur to me, and I want answers. Should I avoid looking them up in a timely fashion so that I can "give myself time to think", or should I look them up and get an answer and then have the next question occur to me? It seems like this may well be the next step in human evolution, where the quality of our thought improves because we are able to feed our minds with the information needed to answer our questions, and that trying to encourage more down time is just another example of luddism.
You're spending all your time finding answers that are already out there. You are probably more likely (although i am not a behavioral psychologist) to prefer asking easy questions since you know the answers will be on hand, and you will avoid asking hard questions since you don't get the same instant gratification from finding the answer after three clicks.
When was the last time some groundbreaking discovery was made by reading a wikipedia article, other than finding out how awesome Chuck Norris is, or how fast the african elephant population is growing? Einstein sure as hell didn't need the internet to come up with his ideas, and until there is a "great mind" that does something useful with all the shit we keep piling into cyberspace, you will be hard pressed to convince me that it's anything more than a pastime.
I'll do what I want. I don't care what you used to do in the olden days. If you want to be bored, go for it.
It's like people whining about magazines closing. Apparently one is closing now, in the UK. Some people are signing a petition. Who are they going to present it to? I bet hardly any of them actually bought it.
Agreed. I bet there was the same argument about 50 years ago about broadcast TV. "Kids these days, instead of staring out the window (a pastime that served us well for centuries!) all they do is flip on the TV and bang, they aren't bored any more! Windows will go un-stared-out! The humanity!"
Look, there are always things to do and adults can always make decisions on what they want to do and when. If it's so horrible that people aren't bored, the ones who figure out that boredom is some sort of innate marketable skill will rise to the top and become our new overlords. Until then, it's business as usual.
That sounds like a particularly nasty mess right there, as most of the attacks originate from foreign soil.
Given the complications of anonymity, subterfuge, and just outright corruption that could complicate an e-mercenary squad, the implications of this sort of thing proliferating will be HUGE. I don't like the idea of the government getting involved where they aren't needed, but at least they are typically either amenable to openness (via the FOIA or similar), or they are large enough to have a whistleblower ecosystem pre-installed (e.g. Bradley Manning). A private third party, whose allegiance might literally even be to a foreign state, is a very scary thought.
You sound like the typical youth of today, the only way to drink is in excess and the only reason to drink is to get drunk. Grow up and mature a bit, the world doesn't need more irresponsible alcoholics.
63 year old Hank Williams, Jr. thanks you for that overreaching generalization. He has never felt more youthful, or more immature.
This could help very interesting research regarding how often certain topics are discussed, or certain buzzwords are used. It's pretty exciting I think.
Given how many news programs are aired live and CC subs are done in realtime, i bet the research is going to be more limited than you think unless you want to start by analyzing frequently misspelled words.
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It used to be that AMD and Intel fought over the hugely profitable desktop and server market (when everyone needed good traditional desktops and servers), and both made out like bandits. Now, the desktop market is seriously sliding, the server market is stagnant, and the only thing growing is mobile (which is where intel is heading). Good graphics cards are even going the way of the dinosaur as games like angry birds are far far more popular than the latest Far Cry. AMDs core markets are disappearing. Intel will continue to fight for desktops over tablets and smartphones (until intel chips are in both) and will fight for servers over the specialized super core stuff, so the competition has just shifted from Intel vs AMD to Intel vs alternatives. Had the mobile revolution happened 6 or 7 years ago maybe AMD would have been positioned to move but now, they are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Intel is still very much motivated to fight for their existence, as good chips wholly made in Asia are becoming more and more common.
Yeah, it's hobby gardening automation. You can do a whole lot now on virtually no budget, and that's cool.
But yeah, "organic" is just a free buzzword here. I don't think many hobby gardeners were going to be using large amounts of dangerous pesticide in a 4' garden regardless of whether or not there's a microcontroller in there.
Spoken like someone who has never had a 4' garden before... Bugs will ruin your day unless you are very careful; it's so much easier to just spray a little pesticide and let that be that. With a greenhouse that is relatively isolated, and good healthy plants inside, you can probably eliminate even that.
What you need to be asking is, "How long is an acceptable test cycle?". Considering something "in production" usually implies some sort of testing, otherwise all the changes would just show up immediately right? So, ask yourself (or your organization) how much testing is enough? Equally important, how much is too much? These are the questions every software company struggles with. Spend too much time testing and your releases will always be behind. Spend too little time on it, and your "production" will look too much like test. Your own appetite for risk will determine where that line is.
Desalinization is fine as long as you can keep the energy cheap: if we really have hundreds of years of natural gas or "Clean coal" under our feet we can afford to keep desalinating water. If the price of water doubled for users it would have very little impact, fresh water is basically thought of as "free" and wasted en mass; if that mindset were just changed to "cheap enough" water usage would drop a lot.
I'm slowly writing a scifi story where all the measurements are based on Planck units, combined in various ways with the numbers 20 or 60 to reach human-accessible sizes.
The premise is that humanity was wiped out, and the only survivors are a bunch of pedants.
Spoiler alert: the apocalypse was caused by alien intelligence that took over TV and turned everyone watching into brain dead zombies. The only ones that survived were those douches who go around telling everyone about how nice it is to not own a TV.
And shouldn't the car be flying?
Remembering back a few decades, the main difference between then and now is that "modern" people play with their phones a lot. I see no reason to think the future will change any faster.
"Modern" people have a cheap, compact, completely connected computer in their pocket at all times. Did we see that coming 15 years ago? Before you say "sure, things constantly get smaller" the real thing that surprised the world wasnt that they exist, but the fact that just about everyone (that can afford it) has decided they "need" one.
It's widely criticized and demonized because all the women who started working didn't take "token" jobs that were created just to have an excuse to give them pay (as you imply) but instead they have an economic outcome and contribute to GDP. Care to take a run at that again with a "solution" that doesn't cripple the nation? Here's a hint, you got most of it right.
Unlimited storage for $5/mo? I have to get on this shit.
Run the numbers. 50 TB a day sounds like a lot, if they've only got one customer. But they're probably got "a zillion" which would imply your very thin slice of the upload bandwidth is going to be choked to like a gig per day. The upgrade in my basement from (full) 1 TB drives to 2 TB drives took around overnight, less than 24 hours anyway, but over the net at a gig per day would be about 3 years to fully convert. Even if they're not limited I would have serious problems shoving more than 100 gigs/day thru my cablemodem, so thats at least 10 days.
Another interesting thing to analyze is $5/month is $60/yr, so subtract $5/yr for electricity to spin a drive, assume a drive lives 2 years (probably much longer) that means if you can buy a drive big enough to hold everything you want for less than $110, just stick a drive in your basement. Better bandwidth and latency too, I have gigE at home but only ten or so megs of cablemodem. $110 at tiger direct will get me 2 TB. So 2 TB is approximately the tipping point, use less and you're better off "self hosting" in the basement, use more and you're better off using their service (and they're likely losing money if you use more than 2 TB).
Also I'm curious if its "unlimited" like cellphone or internet access is "unlimited" in other words they'll cut you off if they're losing money on you.
The number I am looking at is 50TB/day means 578MB/sec all day and all night (i am presuming there is some amount of day/night load curve). That's a lot of bandwidth for one organization.
But more practically, what are you doing to generate all that content? Even a serious photographer/videographer would be hard pressed to generate more than 10GB of backup-worthy content a day, especially not averaged over a whole week or month.
Well you don't technically need volume you just need a sphere that is somehow self-stable and you need to built it in-situ... What does google think?
mass of the earth / (1 astronomical unit ^ 2 * pi * 4) = 22 kg/m^2
Given the density of the material (without refining) that's about 4cm thick. Not too bad, right?
Many consider migrating to prepaid carriers at the end of their contracts. There is no lump sum to be paid to anyone, just one month in advance. With LTE I was hoping that this will become more and more popular. But I was wrong, phones support frequencies only on the carrier they are on. So at the end of the contract, people dont pay $600 to get a new phone to get prepaid, they just renew with one of their post paid providers.
I would say the lack of phone interoperability is much bigger deterrent than ETF.
Prepaid carriers exist for every single major network, so nothing is stopping you from taking your ATT, Sprint, Verizon, etc. phone and going to one... Prepaid carriers are making a decent living but the big providers are still raking in money faster than they know how to spend it. The biggest disadvantage of a prepaid is that anyone with three or more lines is almost always better sticking with a major carrier because prepaid ones dont give breaks for multiple contracts (there is no contract).
we have *always* relied on sunlight
Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. Humans always used horses... until they invented a car. Humans were using only land transport.. until they invented an airplane. Humans were always planet-bound, until they flew into space.
In the midst of ALL of that (horses, cars, planes, spaceships) they have all been powered (as well as the humans in them) indirectly (by about 2 or 3 steps of conversion) by the sun... Sure things change, but given how different humanity of 2012 looks compared to that of only 1000 years ago, and still it's entirely thanks to the sun, is a pretty clear suggestion that humanity will rely on the sun from now until the end of our existence. There's just too much energy shooting out of it in every direction for it to be ignored, barring something that literally violates the laws of physics as they are currently understood.
You missed the other point. Take your phone, go to another carrier (even if it were compatible) there is still no financial upside... You don't get any discount in service for bringing a device vs buying one subsidized. Therefore, the ETF is the only thing they need to enforce to discourage you from moving. Otherwise, you can just get a similar phone for very little money after switching. If you think the $200 for a "nice" phone is a barrier, you are fooling yourself because the long term cost of the data plan is many times more than that.
I recognize that humanity has overpopulated the earth, that does not diminish my desire to have a child at some point.
It may not diminish your desire, but hopefully it alters your actions. At the very least I would hope you would choose have 1 or 2 and not 3 or more. If all couples had just 1 child the population would drop by 50% each generation (obviously with a time delay since people live much longer than one generation). 2 is steady state.
You'd be surprised how many people simply don't ever procreate. Your point is still valid, but if everyone who wanted/could have kids did have just 2 that lived to maturity (another factor) the population would still decline. Three kids (during your child bearing years) per willing/able couple is more practical for holding a steady population. A guilt trip for having 3 kids is completely unwarranted.
It also assumes that there aren't any energy advancements that are so far out of our understanding right now that they wouldn't seem like magic
Which is a reasonable assumption. Advanced civilizations will certainly have more advanced technology, but basic laws of reality will still apply. There is no reason to believe that the second law of thermodynamics can be violated, and overwhelming evidence that it cannot.
The speculation Dyson did basically extrapolated on the existing trend of Humanity... We evolved from organisms that basically used sunlight directly. We started eating organisms that used sunlight directly. Soon, we would be digging up old organisms that used sunlight directly, and releasing the energy for our own benefit. We are starting to understand how to use sunlight directly again, either by capturing the radiation directly or by harnessing the sun's ability to push air around. In case you didn't notice the trend, we have *always* relied on sunlight. It is so much more energetic than anything we can possibly imagine on our own planet (even E=MC^2) and unless the second law of thermodynamics is proven wrong, we will be best served by taking advantage of the sun for many centuries to come.
However, a step before the sphere is practical (probably by many thousands of years) a civilization will be building large collectors that orbit like planets. We ought to be looking for those.
Designed to last for 5 billion years? Won't it and the Earth be one with the sun in about 3 or 4 billion?
Anyway, I think we should baffle the aliens with a bit of bullshit and have a set of pictures that are screenshots of the Death Star destroying Alderaan. Hilarity ensues when word gets out about this and aliens from all over the galaxy scramble to tear up our long dead world in search of any useful information about this tech that allowed the great and ancient civilization that thrived here to build a space station with enough firepower to destroy an entire planet.
Don't forget to include the secret construction plans that the rebels can steal, revealing an exhaust vent as the key weakness allowing it to be destroyed... Starfighter pilots everywhere will spend a parsec or two patting themselves on the back for how important they all are...
We have reached a usage rate where speed in terms of doubling isn't really that big of a deal.
over 10mbs is usually fast enough for netflix. So we can watch a movie over the internet without waiting for hours... That is good speed.
It isn't like the days of the 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 14.4k, 28.8k, 57.6k modems where just downloading a picture was a big deal. For the most part we go to a site, it gives us the content we need. If there is a video we click on it and it plays and streams fast. We are not waiting for hours, or minutes.
Going from 15mbs to 30mbs is not feeling from going to slow to fast. But from good to snappy.
HD video is basically the only thing that can push the limit of current high-tier services. A "true" 3 Mbps is about enough for a typical HD stream, so even a family of 4 each watching a different video will be well served by a 15Mbps connection.
We are seeing the bandwidth pendulum swing back in favor of over-subscribing. As last mile technologies have improved (DOCSIS and DSLAM) the content and the backbones have not. In the next few years, we will see the content improve (HD video at 7 Mbps per stream, or more) and over-subscribed providers will start to crack (like we saw with the first cable/dsl burst in the late 90s). Then, we get to watch as bandwidth caps stay about the same for a decade as backbones catch up, and then we will get to see the whole thing repeat. The circle of life.
Are the cables being protected, or are they just really really REALLY hard to build out? And frequencies are indeed scarce, so rent-seeking is inevitable unless someone invents a modulation technique that is many thousands of times better than current ones (to alleviate all contention on the resource).
A claim like "Fastest internet connection" is amazingly dubious based on the data they are presenting. What they mean more specifically is "fastest average customer". While some providers may offer fast services at higher prices, the only thing we know for sure from this is how many people are in the upper/lower tiers on a given provider. Sure, coming up with an actual "Fastest provider" number is going to be pretty darn hard to do (you basically need a way to reliably throw away data from anyone not in the fastest service tier) they could at least be a little more honest about what their "Study" is actually saying.
Oh yeah, and you'll probably have it because it's an industrial company, but non-emergency showers/lockerroom.
Glad *someone* recognizes the difference between emergency showers and non-emergency showers...
Start with a decent kitchenette with dishwasher, hot water dispenser, and two high-watt microwaves. 95% of your lunch issues will be solved. A canteen just isnt practical for a building with less than 250 people in it. For 40 people it's just laughable. They would each have to spend like $25/day at the thing for it to be sustainable.
The point is that occasionally being "bored" (in the sense of lacking external stimuli) is a good thing as it encourages introspection and, you know, thinking.
That's what load times are for.
reading shitty magazines, watching shitty TV or playing shitty vidogames are all just as bad as wasting time playing Angry Birds, or posting facebook photos of your dog, on your phone. if you do them all the time and never give yourself time to think.
Well, the average person probably has a lot of time in traffic, if they're not on public transportation. Here's the thing I don't get, if I give myself time to think, questions occur to me, and I want answers. Should I avoid looking them up in a timely fashion so that I can "give myself time to think", or should I look them up and get an answer and then have the next question occur to me? It seems like this may well be the next step in human evolution, where the quality of our thought improves because we are able to feed our minds with the information needed to answer our questions, and that trying to encourage more down time is just another example of luddism.
You're spending all your time finding answers that are already out there. You are probably more likely (although i am not a behavioral psychologist) to prefer asking easy questions since you know the answers will be on hand, and you will avoid asking hard questions since you don't get the same instant gratification from finding the answer after three clicks.
When was the last time some groundbreaking discovery was made by reading a wikipedia article, other than finding out how awesome Chuck Norris is, or how fast the african elephant population is growing? Einstein sure as hell didn't need the internet to come up with his ideas, and until there is a "great mind" that does something useful with all the shit we keep piling into cyberspace, you will be hard pressed to convince me that it's anything more than a pastime.
I'll do what I want. I don't care what you used to do in the olden days. If you want to be bored, go for it.
It's like people whining about magazines closing. Apparently one is closing now, in the UK. Some people are signing a petition. Who are they going to present it to? I bet hardly any of them actually bought it.
Agreed. I bet there was the same argument about 50 years ago about broadcast TV. "Kids these days, instead of staring out the window (a pastime that served us well for centuries!) all they do is flip on the TV and bang, they aren't bored any more! Windows will go un-stared-out! The humanity!"
Look, there are always things to do and adults can always make decisions on what they want to do and when. If it's so horrible that people aren't bored, the ones who figure out that boredom is some sort of innate marketable skill will rise to the top and become our new overlords. Until then, it's business as usual.
That sounds like a particularly nasty mess right there, as most of the attacks originate from foreign soil.
Given the complications of anonymity, subterfuge, and just outright corruption that could complicate an e-mercenary squad, the implications of this sort of thing proliferating will be HUGE. I don't like the idea of the government getting involved where they aren't needed, but at least they are typically either amenable to openness (via the FOIA or similar), or they are large enough to have a whistleblower ecosystem pre-installed (e.g. Bradley Manning). A private third party, whose allegiance might literally even be to a foreign state, is a very scary thought.
You sound like the typical youth of today, the only way to drink is in excess and the only reason to drink is to get drunk. Grow up and mature a bit, the world doesn't need more irresponsible alcoholics.
63 year old Hank Williams, Jr. thanks you for that overreaching generalization. He has never felt more youthful, or more immature.
This could help very interesting research regarding how often certain topics are discussed, or certain buzzwords are used. It's pretty exciting I think.
Given how many news programs are aired live and CC subs are done in realtime, i bet the research is going to be more limited than you think unless you want to start by analyzing frequently misspelled words.