An irrational citizen [...] isn't likely to suddenly become rational just because there's a camera present.
True, but if they are recorded on video, their misbehavior is more likely to put them in jail (or treatment) for a longer time, and thus they won't be out on the streets acting irrationally so often anymore. The end result is the same.
Did they build it in ID just b'cos they are ID based? Death Valley or AZ would have been better locations.
If you were putting up a beta/demonstration site for your product, would you build it close to your workplace, or 700 miles away? Keeping in mind that anytime you want to check/tweak/repair/upgrade something, you're going to have to make the trip from the office to the demonstration site, and back.
While it took a while to come up with a better base chipset to replace OCS/ECS, the engineers were still belting out some fantastic designs, most of which were squished by upper management.
The above was a really good case study in business ecosystem dynamics.
When the Amiga 1000 came out, it was alien technology -- probably 10 years ahead of its time. The Amiga OCS chipset's graphics and sound hardware of its contemporary competitors look like historical artifacts, and it's OS was an actual pre-emptive multitasking operating system, not just a glorified disk loader.
However, any company in the world could design, build, and sell a new PC sound card or a new PC graphics card, any many of them did. The PC sound and graphics cards continued to suck (relative to the Amiga) for quite a while, but simply due to the fact that so many different companies had hired so many engineers to work on developing them, they improved every year, and eventually surpassed the capabilities of the Amiga sometime in the mid-90's.
Amiga's engineers were undoubtedly some of the most talented on the planet, but their small team eventually couldn't compete with the sheer numbers of PC-based engineers. By the time AGA came out, the writing was on the wall: An open system that gains traction will eventually outgrow and out-innovate a small, closed system, no matter how awesome the skills of the closed systems' engineers.
Instead of the ambition to send people in giant ships to Mars, how about the ambition to fix the God damned space ships he's got now that regularly fail to get into LEO?
Good idea! You should call up Musk and suggest that to him, I bet he never thought of that.
I'm pretty sure that transport costs will be prohibitive for MarsEarth shipping of just about anything that can also be found on Earth. Mars might need an economy, but sending raw materials or manufactured good back to Earth won't be the basis of that economy.
Aw, c'mon, you're not being nearly cynical enough. This is actually an NSA/KGB/TLA/Illuminati honeypot -- they fund this, market it, see who buys one, then they know who to watch in the future. If they can sneak some actual backdoors into it, so much the better, but even if they don't, it's served its purpose.
It gets a little better, though -- any species with resources to cross interstellar distances probably has better things to do than gratuitously turn a small-but-biologically active planet into (yet another) molten hellworld.
If the aliens are stopping by to refuel, they'll probably head to Jupiter or some other larger planet with more raw materials.
If they're here as scientists, collectors, or tourists, they'll probably want to leave Earth more or less as it is (modulo some sample collecting), since it wouldn't make much sense to destroy the things they came to look at.
If they're here for the delicious human-steaks they heard about on the Intergalactic Home Shopping Channel, they're doing it wrong -- rather than traveling light years to round people up, it's much quicker and cheaper to just download the recipe and assemble the ideal human-steak locally in their in-home matter assemblers.
If they're here for other inscrutable alien reasons, they may not bother with Earth at all, or even notice that there is anything unusual or interesting about it.
Fortunately, AirBnB does not have the government's power and monopoly. Whatever they do is doomed to failure.
What AirBnB could do (in principle, at least; dunno if this would be practical) is partially anonymize their customers so that it was difficult or impossible to determine an applicant's race from his application. Then property owners would be unable to make decisions based on prejudice, since the data necessary to do so would not be available to them.
Through this leak we have learned that Apple is planning to announce an iPhone 7 and iPhone 7+ -- something nobody would ever have been able to guess otherwise!
Thanks Slashdot, for once again providing us with Stuff that Matters!
Continuously falling forward, only to stop yourself at the last possible moment from landing on your faceby placing a foot into exactly the right spot to counterbalance your ridiculously top-heavy and unstable vertical stance?
Thanks, but I'll stick to sitting in my chair and eating Cheetos.
3) a test in space is likely to be a short mission with release and capture over a few meters of flight, if that. This is not sufficient to rule out outgassing.
I have discovered a little-known practice called "reading the article" that can help clarify what is proposed:
Fetta intends the satellite to stay on station for at least six months, rather than the six weeks that would be typical for a satellite this size at a altitude of 150 miles. The longer it stays in orbit, the more the satellite will show that it must be producing thrust without propellant.
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An irrational citizen [...] isn't likely to suddenly become rational just because there's a camera present.
True, but if they are recorded on video, their misbehavior is more likely to put them in jail (or treatment) for a longer time, and thus they won't be out on the streets acting irrationally so often anymore. The end result is the same.
If the one-waystreet sign is obfuscated, how would the car be able to recognize it as a one-way street?
I think it's supposed to know by looking at its map of the city (which is hopefully accurate and up-to-date!)
Did they build it in ID just b'cos they are ID based? Death Valley or AZ would have been better locations.
If you were putting up a beta/demonstration site for your product, would you build it close to your workplace, or 700 miles away? Keeping in mind that anytime you want to check/tweak/repair/upgrade something, you're going to have to make the trip from the office to the demonstration site, and back.
Slashdotter: You want my passwords? You'll only get them over my dead body!
Researchers: Your terms are acceptable.
So everytime you copy something, it's uploaded to iCloud?
No, it's only shared locally with devices that are on the same LAN, and logged in to the same user account. Also, it's encrypted before transmission.
"I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible." -- Dirk Gently, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
You use it primarily in the winter months as a home heating source, I presume? ;)
It would be a bad idea to clean it now -- at this point the dirt is its primary structural element.
While it took a while to come up with a better base chipset to replace OCS/ECS, the engineers were still belting out some fantastic designs, most of which were squished by upper management.
The above was a really good case study in business ecosystem dynamics.
When the Amiga 1000 came out, it was alien technology -- probably 10 years ahead of its time. The Amiga OCS chipset's graphics and sound hardware of its contemporary competitors look like historical artifacts, and it's OS was an actual pre-emptive multitasking operating system, not just a glorified disk loader.
However, any company in the world could design, build, and sell a new PC sound card or a new PC graphics card, any many of them did. The PC sound and graphics cards continued to suck (relative to the Amiga) for quite a while, but simply due to the fact that so many different companies had hired so many engineers to work on developing them, they improved every year, and eventually surpassed the capabilities of the Amiga sometime in the mid-90's.
Amiga's engineers were undoubtedly some of the most talented on the planet, but their small team eventually couldn't compete with the sheer numbers of PC-based engineers. By the time AGA came out, the writing was on the wall: An open system that gains traction will eventually outgrow and out-innovate a small, closed system, no matter how awesome the skills of the closed systems' engineers.
By moving to a new nation whose founding father is Elon Musk?
Instead of the ambition to send people in giant ships to Mars, how about the ambition to fix the God damned space ships he's got now that regularly fail to get into LEO?
Good idea! You should call up Musk and suggest that to him, I bet he never thought of that.
Internet commenters save the day again!
I'm pretty sure that transport costs will be prohibitive for MarsEarth shipping of just about anything that can also be found on Earth. Mars might need an economy, but sending raw materials or manufactured good back to Earth won't be the basis of that economy.
How is your Apple stock doing? Oh, bad enough for you to shill for them I guess? Imagine that.
Right, because there's nothing that moves markets like comments on Slashdot. Wall Street is hanging on our every word!
Aw, c'mon, you're not being nearly cynical enough. This is actually an NSA/KGB/TLA/Illuminati honeypot -- they fund this, market it, see who buys one, then they know who to watch in the future. If they can sneak some actual backdoors into it, so much the better, but even if they don't, it's served its purpose.
It gets a little better, though -- any species with resources to cross interstellar distances probably has better things to do than gratuitously turn a small-but-biologically active planet into (yet another) molten hellworld.
If the aliens are stopping by to refuel, they'll probably head to Jupiter or some other larger planet with more raw materials.
If they're here as scientists, collectors, or tourists, they'll probably want to leave Earth more or less as it is (modulo some sample collecting), since it wouldn't make much sense to destroy the things they came to look at.
If they're here for the delicious human-steaks they heard about on the Intergalactic Home Shopping Channel, they're doing it wrong -- rather than traveling light years to round people up, it's much quicker and cheaper to just download the recipe and assemble the ideal human-steak locally in their in-home matter assemblers.
If they're here for other inscrutable alien reasons, they may not bother with Earth at all, or even notice that there is anything unusual or interesting about it.
Do they also have a solution to the problem of all those dead rats decomposing under Chicago that they're going to have in a couple of months?
I didn't do anything crazy like RTFA, but according to the summary they are just going to leave them there and ignore them.
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Fortunately, AirBnB does not have the government's power and monopoly. Whatever they do is doomed to failure.
What AirBnB could do (in principle, at least; dunno if this would be practical) is partially anonymize their customers so that it was difficult or impossible to determine an applicant's race from his application. Then property owners would be unable to make decisions based on prejudice, since the data necessary to do so would not be available to them.
And what will they do when every single drone is destroyed or stolen? Quietly pretend the service never existed.
The same thing Domino's does when their pizza deliverymen are destroyed or stolen -- call the police and have the perpetrators arrested.
Except this time they'll have video records and GPS tracking data to make it easier to find the perpetrators.
Smart watches will become as popular as Smart phones only when they become functional enough to completely replace Smart phones.
Until then, most people aren't going to bother carrying around (and recharge) two devices when carrying around one will do.
Through this leak we have learned that Apple is planning to announce an iPhone 7 and iPhone 7+ -- something nobody would ever have been able to guess otherwise!
Thanks Slashdot, for once again providing us with Stuff that Matters!
Continuously falling forward, only to stop yourself at the last possible moment from landing on your faceby placing a foot into exactly the right spot to counterbalance your ridiculously top-heavy and unstable vertical stance?
Thanks, but I'll stick to sitting in my chair and eating Cheetos.
The obvious error in the title is an example of on-line trolling (subcategory: nerd-bait).
The NSF will be here shortly to shut down the offending website. So long, everyone!
It seems to me this is indeed the infinite improbability drive. If it actually propels something do we care why?
You'll care why after it turns you into a teacup...
3) a test in space is likely to be a short mission with release and capture over a few meters of flight, if that. This is not sufficient to rule out outgassing.
I have discovered a little-known practice called "reading the article" that can help clarify what is proposed:
Fetta intends the satellite to stay on station for at least six months, rather than the six weeks that would be typical for a satellite this size at a altitude of 150 miles. The longer it stays in orbit, the more the satellite will show that it must be producing thrust without propellant.