Autonomous taxis already exist: you tell the driver to go the shortest or quickest way, and the driver almost always ignores you and chooses the least direct, more gridlocked route instead, all by himself
It might go something like this: Johnnycab: Please state the street and number. Quaid: Drive! drive! Johnnycab: I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination? Quaid: Anywhere just go! Go! Johnnycab: I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination? Quaid: Shit! shit! Johnnycab: Would you please repeat the destination? Quaid: Ahh-ahwhaa-whaaa! (He rips out the Johnnycab)
This was actually the plot of a Heinlein (if memory serves) short story. The main character became wealthy by devising a box that detected commercials by their louder volume, and muted the volume until the commercials were over.
Don't know about Heinlein, but that was how billionaire Hadden made his money in Carl Sagan's "Contact."
...adding to the problem is that with the job market oversaturated with people looking for work, HR can be as lazy/picky as they want and get away with it.
They'll have to work a little harder as the hire pool dries up a little.
...it happens in countries that don't have H1-Bs...
In those places it can be a mix of two things:
1. Lazy HR screeners. Rather than evaluate on merit, it's easier just to just write the ad based on the what the last guy/gal did. Merit would also require that the HR folk actually understand what the position does - which in the tech world can be hard.
2. They may be hiring someone they've already picked out from inside the company. They write it exactly to the specifications of their pre-picked person, like the H1-B case, so that they can't be charged with discriminating against a black/female/etc. person who applies from outside the company.
While replacing the air filter on her truck, my wife once tried to screw in the top of the airbox cover. Having little experience, she started the screws with a drill. Three of the four were cross-threaded immediately and she was angry at the drill, didn't know to start them by hand. I can totally see someone with a power tool installing plugs and cross threading them into the heads.
Can you give us a computer analogy to explain this post?
Batteries wouldn't overcome the need to have a connection to your video card...
Unless your video is coming out of a wearable.
A backpack with wearable computer, batteries, and a wireless link for net gaming. Wires out of the backpack to your mic, HMD, controller and headphones.
If you're using a desktop, but you're on a Virtuix Omni, the problem is not so much the length of your cables, as much as them getting twisted around.
I would only add that sometimes it is our context and environs that make us 'good' or 'bad.' e.g. Mike Tyson; who was a brutal mugger running the streets of Brownsville, New York, but once he moved those same skills to the boxing ring became a world boxing champion.
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... which I think leaves sodium acetate in the frame too.
That was my first thought when I heard the description. Especially when they mentioned the solid -> liquid transition.
It could also be sodium acetate.
Autonomous taxis already exist: you tell the driver to go the shortest or quickest way, and the driver almost always ignores you and chooses the least direct, more gridlocked route instead, all by himself
It might go something like this:
Johnnycab: Please state the street and number.
Quaid: Drive! drive!
Johnnycab: I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination?
Quaid: Anywhere just go! Go!
Johnnycab: I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination?
Quaid: Shit! shit!
Johnnycab: Would you please repeat the destination?
Quaid: Ahh-ahwhaa-whaaa! (He rips out the Johnnycab)
This was actually the plot of a Heinlein (if memory serves) short story. The main character became wealthy by devising a box that detected commercials by their louder volume, and muted the volume until the commercials were over.
Don't know about Heinlein, but that was how billionaire Hadden made his money in Carl Sagan's "Contact."
It's a joke about a corporation, are you really that attached? If so, then you're a fucking loser.
(Yeah, wow... those apple folk sure are sensitive! I'm glad now I didn't go with that: "fanboi/boob" joke I originally wrote!)
Yes, sadly it's not fiction...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/18/apple_sues_samsung/
The 16GB nexus 10 appears to be $449 with the 16GB iPad starting at $499.
There's also the new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX @ $229.
7" @ 323 ppi, Quad-Core 2.2 GHz, 17 hour batt reading, 303 grams.
"Mayday" button for help.
https://www.google.com/#q=+Amazon+Kindle+Fire+HDX+7%22
It's 3700 years old. What difference does two weeks make, fer cryin' out loud?
Its bouquet won't be fully developed for another year.
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I can imagine the headline now:
"Apple sues Microsoft over smart bra. Claims rounded bra corners and white color violate design patents."
No one claims they did other than a few ignorants. Hell the technique was being used back in the 19th century as well by Eadweard Muybridge.
Muybridge did not do anything like this. He used one camera and had the subjects repeat over and over, taking a shot at slightly differing times.
...you should jump in the air to make it obvious you are frozen while the camera circles you.
and handful of confetti works, too.
"The speed of light ...in a vacuum. "
Talk about lazy. Would that be Hoover, Oreck or Dyson?
None of those.
I only shine my light inside a Bose–Einstein condensate. That way I can outrun it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK6HxdUQm5s
no, the speed of light is always the speed of light. the speed up light in a medium is ... the speed... of the light.
You are correct sir.
It's those lazy-ass science folks that always forget to append:
"The speed of light ...in a vacuum. "
Now I have something to play between marathon sessions of "Desert Bus"!!
http://desertbus-game.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_&_Teller's_Smoke_and_Mirrors#Desert_Bus
Well stated...
They'll have to work a little harder as the hire pool dries up a little.
...it happens in countries that don't have H1-Bs...
In those places it can be a mix of two things:
1. Lazy HR screeners. Rather than evaluate on merit, it's easier just to just write the ad based on the what the last guy/gal did. Merit would also require that the HR folk actually understand what the position does - which in the tech world can be hard.
2. They may be hiring someone they've already picked out from inside the company. They write it exactly to the specifications of their pre-picked person, like the H1-B case, so that they can't be charged with discriminating against a black/female/etc. person who applies from outside the company.
While replacing the air filter on her truck, my wife once tried to screw in the top of the airbox cover. Having little experience, she started the screws with a drill. Three of the four were cross-threaded immediately and she was angry at the drill, didn't know to start them by hand. I can totally see someone with a power tool installing plugs and cross threading them into the heads.
Can you give us a computer analogy to explain this post?
Thanks.
Batteries wouldn't overcome the need to have a connection to your video card...
Unless your video is coming out of a wearable.
A backpack with wearable computer, batteries, and a wireless link for net gaming. Wires out of the backpack to your mic, HMD, controller and headphones.
If you're using a desktop, but you're on a Virtuix Omni, the problem is not so much the length of your cables, as much as them getting twisted around.
"...Doctors were low on psychopathy, but surgeons were actually in the top ten..."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Pros-to-Being-a-Psychopath-176019901.html
Excellent commentary...
I would only add that sometimes it is our context and environs that make us 'good' or 'bad.'
e.g. Mike Tyson; who was a brutal mugger running the streets of Brownsville, New York, but once he moved those same skills to the boxing ring became a world boxing champion.
THANK YOU.
As proven in flight 93 (the 4th plane). Once you know or assume you are going to die, the crowd overtakes (attempts to) the high jackers.
IIRC there was some idiot who tried it in Africa about 3 months after 9/11 and the whole plane took turns beating the shit out of him.
There is video of this event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GW0Vnr9Yc
New face for anonymous?
Naw... Every gawddamn used car dealer will be 'honest Abe' for his gawddamn awful, local, basic-cable commercial.
You just know next Halloween everybody with a 3D printer is going to be a very accurate Abraham Lincoln.
Good plan. Not sure if this would fit your needs but:
Burn a Blu-Ray-R of your data, again with AES encryption.
Mail it to a local neighbor.
What happens when the STOP code is transmitted by pranksters on the side of the road?
Good question, discussed here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4380905&cid=45250069