Sure, but then Tesla isn't a revolutionary company at all. Electric cars were the hot shit back in 1900. And the EV1 was a viable electric car that GM killed.
I think you need to reread the definition of investment. Stocks are worth exactly what the buyer will pay for and what the seller will sell for. All other definitions are an illusion.
You know, I was really hoping you'd accuse me of hypocrisy so I could come back with "DAT'S DA JOKE". But c'est la vie.
Anyway:
Nobody says a slashdot name needs to be "something original"
Actually it's a requirement. But the guy didn't ask for original tattoo ideas, he asked for math and science geekery. If you think tattoos should be unique little butterflies, that's great, for you.
You have swear word in your slashdot name? Shit dude, that's been done three ways to sunday before you came about. Way to be a lame copy cat. Can't even come up with something original for once in your life?
Paintings hurt, the hands cramp up into shrivaled mauls. They endanger your health, all those fumes can't be good for you. Paintings are DAMN expensive, especially this Picasso crap.And most of all, they are entirely superficial. AKA, they are only there to look at.
It's not like they let me twitter my latest zing to all my followers letting them know exactly how bad I flamed that last idea I saw on the internet.
You want paint? How about you paint the town red.
ZING!
And I guess this is the important distinction between scientists and engineers. Whereas scientists will care about if an equation holds near the center of a black hole, the engineer is willing to define such scenarios as out of scope. The scope for scientists is unlimited, the scope for engineers depends on the product.
And anon specifically asked for math and science geekery, so you've got a good point. If you want a scientific tattoo, stay away from Ohms law. If you want an engineering tattoo, go for it, get it done, and close the ticket.
I'm waiting for the day that oil runs out and slow-boat solar is the preferred means of goods transportation. That will the age of sky truckers riding blimps across the land.
And that will give rise to sky-pirates, and my dreams will be complete!
While walking amongst my fellow techy geeks, this sort of talk is usually promptly squashed or a heated debate takes place and the smackdown cometh.
But out in the "real world" with people like the suits, the poor D&D guys, street people, and office drones, a lot of them still think the idea of publicly aggregated knowledge to be silly. Hell, a lot of street people barely know computers exist much less wikipedia.
I foresaw this as the prime reason that Google bought out youtube. Simply so it could bring the brunt force of it's moneybags to bear and defend not just youtube, but user-uploaded video on internet. With this ruling, they have kept the internet free to the people, and assholes like viacom will have to police their own shit, rather then control the pipes.
It's a win for google, and it's a win for the netizens. Horray!
came on to the field of battle and assisted the enemy during a firefight
"the field of battle" Also known as 7th street next to the ice-cream shop. It's in a city dude. They live there. And while there was sort of an empty lot next to the area, it's hardly a field. From the footage, there had to be some explosions from the gunship's fire, but several minutes passed before the arrival of the van. The "battle" was over in a couple of seconds.
"the enemy" IE, civilians, neighbors, countrymen. Now, maybe the locals have a better clue about who is who on the ground then our own troops, but people don't gain a red outline indicating them as "the enemy" simply because we chose to shoot them.
"during a firefight" Well I already mentioned this, but the fight was over. Time had passed. The van then approached the wounded and corpses.
So you're being ridiculously biased. You are spinning the details of this event into something they are not. Granted, calling the people in the van "good Samaritans" is also a bit of spin. That is indeed one possibility. They could also have been evil extremists who got called for an evac while taking their kids to daycare. I don't know, and neither do you. But I want you to realize that your perception of this event is simply wrong. The judgments and actions you take in reference to this event will be based on lies. Please try to fix that.
Also, grow up and get that anger in check.
Only in the mind of someone who is an evil, selfish, deluded coward shooting at people who are trying to help one's enemies be considered wrong.
We have rules to hold fire against the red cross and their like. Shooting them would be evil, no matter who they are treating.
I kind of measure things like this in half-lives. I am twice as old as when I hit puberty. I am a third of the way through my (non-drooling) life. There are seven years before I'm half-way to 40.
Because we all have plans and expectations about our lives. If I'm really going to go to tibet, spend 10 years learning how to kick ass, and return a bad-ass so Bobby Thompson from 6th grade will rue the day he tripped me in gym class, then I'm going to have to probably get on that in the next decade or so.
The game changes when you get over the hill and realize that the majority is behind you. Investing in (your) future makes less and less sense. Whereas you once had hope that there would be time eventually, you should now realize you HAVE experienced more time then you WILL experience.
Well, for me at least. I'm gearing up for one epic mid-life crisis. I'm coming for you Bobby! Eventually.
Because I'd love to code in chat. Also, I'd LOVE to log into a chat room and watch someone code.
Second let us say you have a massive array of data that needed sorting, put it in wave and if you have enough participants it starts to magically solve itself in pieces before your eyes because its self organizing
Dude, really? This is the sort of fanatical starry-eyed bullshit which makes me doubt Wave so much.
There is no magic there. The "participants" are flesh and blood humans that would be trying to perform a mechanical turk version of quicksort. Why employ a host of people to perform menial tasks? Why not use quicksort? That would be the case if it's something that doesn't lend itself to discreet sorting, if it's subjective. And so now you have a hundred "participants" bickering over which movie is the best.
Yeah, I've had Wave explained to me like this before. Like only a zen master can truely understand what it does.
I boiled down his explanation and it seems like it's a chat program, using chat protocols, where you can interject lines between previous lines. Which is neat, but not quite up to snuff with google's other tools.
Basically, anything you type can be a wave. Any content you create [by typing] can be a wave.
That's great. But what's a wave? And if you say some marketing bullshit like "it's a tool for collaboration" then I'm going to just tune you out.
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Also, no-true-scotsman fallacy. Welcome to America.
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Ok. I'm not seeing the problem here.
They're not everywhere? Of course not, they're expensive.
Now, if you could show that people sued about loud trains to get these things installed, then I might cry myself to sleep a little and I'd see your point. But otherwise, the trains are made to be safe because people get chopped up, not because people sue. Even if people have sued to get quieter trains, that's just getting them to be safe in a different, more costly way.
I'm sorry, but maybe you're just not getting it. There is a need in society. There is a danger with running trains through cities. A function is performed to make them safer. People perform that function (either horns or these expensive safety crossings) not because of the threat of litigation, but because of a long history of minced meat on the track. This has been established since before people started suing for every little thing.
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Sure, but then Tesla isn't a revolutionary company at all. Electric cars were the hot shit back in 1900. And the EV1 was a viable electric car that GM killed.
Well I'd marry Elon for a chunk of SpaceX.
I think you need to reread the definition of investment. Stocks are worth exactly what the buyer will pay for and what the seller will sell for. All other definitions are an illusion.
You know, I was really hoping you'd accuse me of hypocrisy so I could come back with "DAT'S DA JOKE". But c'est la vie.
Anyway:
Nobody says a slashdot name needs to be "something original"
Actually it's a requirement. But the guy didn't ask for original tattoo ideas, he asked for math and science geekery. If you think tattoos should be unique little butterflies, that's great, for you.
HA! Good catch.
Repeat after me: "Scope of product".
You have swear word in your slashdot name? Shit dude, that's been done three ways to sunday before you came about. Way to be a lame copy cat. Can't even come up with something original for once in your life?
Chicks won't dig it.
The chicks you'll want will dig it. Consider it a low-pass filter.
Paintings hurt, the hands cramp up into shrivaled mauls. They endanger your health, all those fumes can't be good for you. Paintings are DAMN expensive, especially this Picasso crap.And most of all, they are entirely superficial. AKA, they are only there to look at.
It's not like they let me twitter my latest zing to all my followers letting them know exactly how bad I flamed that last idea I saw on the internet.
You want paint? How about you paint the town red.
ZING!
Seconded for awesomeness, but the dude asked for math and science. Com Sci is slightly tangent.
And I guess this is the important distinction between scientists and engineers. Whereas scientists will care about if an equation holds near the center of a black hole, the engineer is willing to define such scenarios as out of scope. The scope for scientists is unlimited, the scope for engineers depends on the product.
And anon specifically asked for math and science geekery, so you've got a good point. If you want a scientific tattoo, stay away from Ohms law. If you want an engineering tattoo, go for it, get it done, and close the ticket.
I'm waiting for the day that oil runs out and slow-boat solar is the preferred means of goods transportation. That will the age of sky truckers riding blimps across the land.
And that will give rise to sky-pirates, and my dreams will be complete!
Disturbingly yes,
While walking amongst my fellow techy geeks, this sort of talk is usually promptly squashed or a heated debate takes place and the smackdown cometh.
But out in the "real world" with people like the suits, the poor D&D guys, street people, and office drones, a lot of them still think the idea of publicly aggregated knowledge to be silly. Hell, a lot of street people barely know computers exist much less wikipedia.
I foresaw this as the prime reason that Google bought out youtube. Simply so it could bring the brunt force of it's moneybags to bear and defend not just youtube, but user-uploaded video on internet. With this ruling, they have kept the internet free to the people, and assholes like viacom will have to police their own shit, rather then control the pipes.
It's a win for google, and it's a win for the netizens. Horray!
came on to the field of battle and assisted the enemy during a firefight
"the field of battle" Also known as 7th street next to the ice-cream shop. It's in a city dude. They live there. And while there was sort of an empty lot next to the area, it's hardly a field. From the footage, there had to be some explosions from the gunship's fire, but several minutes passed before the arrival of the van. The "battle" was over in a couple of seconds.
"the enemy" IE, civilians, neighbors, countrymen. Now, maybe the locals have a better clue about who is who on the ground then our own troops, but people don't gain a red outline indicating them as "the enemy" simply because we chose to shoot them.
"during a firefight" Well I already mentioned this, but the fight was over. Time had passed. The van then approached the wounded and corpses.
So you're being ridiculously biased. You are spinning the details of this event into something they are not. Granted, calling the people in the van "good Samaritans" is also a bit of spin. That is indeed one possibility. They could also have been evil extremists who got called for an evac while taking their kids to daycare. I don't know, and neither do you. But I want you to realize that your perception of this event is simply wrong. The judgments and actions you take in reference to this event will be based on lies. Please try to fix that.
Also, grow up and get that anger in check.
Only in the mind of someone who is an evil, selfish, deluded coward shooting at people who are trying to help one's enemies be considered wrong.
We have rules to hold fire against the red cross and their like. Shooting them would be evil, no matter who they are treating.
I kind of measure things like this in half-lives. I am twice as old as when I hit puberty. I am a third of the way through my (non-drooling) life. There are seven years before I'm half-way to 40.
Because we all have plans and expectations about our lives. If I'm really going to go to tibet, spend 10 years learning how to kick ass, and return a bad-ass so Bobby Thompson from 6th grade will rue the day he tripped me in gym class, then I'm going to have to probably get on that in the next decade or so.
The game changes when you get over the hill and realize that the majority is behind you. Investing in (your) future makes less and less sense. Whereas you once had hope that there would be time eventually, you should now realize you HAVE experienced more time then you WILL experience.
Well, for me at least. I'm gearing up for one epic mid-life crisis. I'm coming for you Bobby! Eventually.
I believe it was acceptable in the 80's. But then again, so were a lot of things.
*golf clap*
That's beautiful yo. It's like you learned a foreign language of start-up bullshitese
Second let us say you have a massive array of data that needed sorting, put it in wave and if you have enough participants it starts to magically solve itself in pieces before your eyes because its self organizing
Dude, really? This is the sort of fanatical starry-eyed bullshit which makes me doubt Wave so much.
There is no magic there. The "participants" are flesh and blood humans that would be trying to perform a mechanical turk version of quicksort. Why employ a host of people to perform menial tasks? Why not use quicksort? That would be the case if it's something that doesn't lend itself to discreet sorting, if it's subjective. And so now you have a hundred "participants" bickering over which movie is the best.
Well that's new.
How would the wave email stop spam?
And this may bee really basic, but please describe HOW wave is "more capable". What's it do?
Real-time collaboration.
yeah, like chat.
Did you know there are chat programs out there that send every keystroke? Turns out it's pretty annoying. It shows how bad of a speller I am.
I boiled down his explanation and it seems like it's a chat program, using chat protocols, where you can interject lines between previous lines. Which is neat, but not quite up to snuff with google's other tools.
Basically, anything you type can be a wave. Any content you create [by typing] can be a wave.
That's great. But what's a wave? And if you say some marketing bullshit like "it's a tool for collaboration" then I'm going to just tune you out.
Also, no-true-scotsman fallacy. Welcome to America.
Ok. I'm not seeing the problem here.
They're not everywhere? Of course not, they're expensive. Now, if you could show that people sued about loud trains to get these things installed, then I might cry myself to sleep a little and I'd see your point. But otherwise, the trains are made to be safe because people get chopped up, not because people sue. Even if people have sued to get quieter trains, that's just getting them to be safe in a different, more costly way.
I'm sorry, but maybe you're just not getting it. There is a need in society. There is a danger with running trains through cities. A function is performed to make them safer. People perform that function (either horns or these expensive safety crossings) not because of the threat of litigation, but because of a long history of minced meat on the track. This has been established since before people started suing for every little thing.
Well well well,
Looks like I'm on the wrong end of a common misconception of a perceived misconception...