Thinking too small. My body generates heat, the watch is attached to my body. Heat can be turned into energy. I want this to suck the heat from my body (much like my soul) and charge itself.
The problem is temperature differential -- you only have about 15 degrees C different between body temperature and room temperature, plus there's not much surface area to collect heat, nor much opportunity to build an effective heatsink to dissipate it. And if you go outside on a warm day or wear a jacket over your arm, then most or all of the temperature differential is gone.
You might be able to power an old-school LCD display watch with that little power, but not a smart-phone-in-a-watch.
A good smart watch needs a bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone. You could use it for voice calls, so as not to look like "that dork talking into his Dick Tracy wrist phone". But I suppose people talking to their wrists would at least be slightly less annoying than the bluetooth earpiece people who are indistinguishable from the mentally ill when encountered on a city sidewalk.
If you have a Bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone, what's the point of having the phone built-in to the watch? Just use an ordinary cell phone to make your calls instead of using Bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone.
I hope there's good privacy controls on the data as I'm sure your insurance company would like to have that data too. "We're sorry sir, but we we're canceling your policy because you are pre-diabetic and you drink too much"
Actually, capturing an asteroid in the relatively short term should actually mean capturing to keep within the Earth's orbit. Then we can mine it or place people/equipment whenever we want. Changing it's orbit may be relatively easy than literally capturing it. Just change its trajectory slightly so that it becomes an additional moon to the Earth, albeit a much smaller one.
I'd rather that they test it out on another planet - maybe capture an asteroid to act as a fuel resupply source for Mars missions, since it wouldn't take much of a miscalculation (Ok, we slowed it down by 3000 miles/hour as directed. What!? We said 3000 km/h not mph!) or equipment malfunction to accidentally send it crashing into the planet instead of harmlessly orbiting the planet.
But I don't think you can just take any old asteroid that happens to be passing by and easily capture it with the Earth's gravity unless you're willing to spend huge amounts of energy slowing it down to an appropriate speed (or have a long-term plan to nudge it around to use the gravity of the sun and other planets to help bring it into an appropriate relative velocity. If I toss a baseball near your head, you can easily reach up and catch it - if I shoot that same baseball out of a cannon at a much higher velocity, you're not going to be able to stop it with your hand.
And it totally makes sense that to drive a hundred grand luxury car that you'd have to take only the direct routes, not the ones you may actually want to take. This is a gigantic failure of useability.
Every car has its constraints, you wouldn't try to drive a Ferrari across a muddy field, so when you buy an electric car with limited range, you drive within the limits (with a comfortable cushion). Just because a car is expensive, doesn't mean it's practical for all situations, even a $400,000 car can be stopped in its tracks by a simple speed bump.
The car displayed "Charging Complete", and its reported range estimate was sufficient to reach his destination
The detour in question was only two miles long
He may have gone above the speed limit for a mile or two, but that was probably before he stopped to charge at Newark. His problems came after that. And surely driving below the speed limit for 100 miles mitigates the excess energy usage caused by going above the speed limit for one mile.
This is an awful lot of hooplah about a software problem. If the car did say it was fully charged, obviously it was not.
All modern cars have software bugs, some worse than others. Even gasoline powered cars have them. A car like the Tesla is so new and has so few users that more bugs are likely to be discovered. That's what happens when you want a bleeding edge car. If you want something well tested and less likely to have significant bugs, buy last year's Prius.
1) can be certain of a full charge every time they leave the house; 2) never take detours, or get forced into detours by road construction; 3) never go above the speed limit;
Given that, I'm absolutely shocked that this isn't already a mass-market blockbuster - it's clearly suitable for all the common use cases!
The original Beetle had around 150 - 200 miles of range with its 9 gallon fuel tank, yet was still quite popular and most people (not including my sister) managed to use it for day to day life without constantly running out of fuel and didn't need to fill the tank before leaving the house, sometimes dealt with detours or going above the speed limit (but rarely while going uphill). They even managed to live without effective heating, much like someone in a model S that's trying to conserve batter power by turning down the heat.
Of course, people who pay $60K - $80K for a Model S probably have a second, conventionally powered car they can use for long trips. At least until more charging station are ready.
I have yet to park a gas-powered luxury car with half the tank full for the night and find the tank empty in the morning, dimwit.
I haven't had it happen in (nor ever owned) a luxury vehicle, but on my old Accord, the gas gauge would sometimes stick randomly between the 3/4 and 1/4 tank setting. And sometimes it would correct itself overnight (I think it was a bad sending unit since the gauge itself went down to zero after turning off the car then back up to the stuck setting after turning on the car. But other times, the gauge worked fine -- oddly it worked better in cold weather). I learned to rely on the odometer instead of the gauge.
So it is possible to park a gasoline powered car with 1/2 tank at night, and by morning the gauge read empty. But I never really saw that as a flaw of gasoline powered cars in general, just a problem with the sensing hardware.
Advertisers are morons. I work with them all day and they just don't have a clue how the real world works. What will happen is they'll have an awesome first month... then, slowly, the company will come to realize the majority of those purchases were either mistakes, scams or outright theft. By the time they realize their mistake the people that came up with the idea will have already collected their commissions/bonus and will have moved on to their next hair-brained idea or even a new company.
You must work with different marking people than I do. In my company, they can tell you with surprising accuracy how well an advertising campaign is doing (with numbers verified through several independent sources), including exactly how much it cost for each new sale and how many sales were cannibalized from other channels.
So basically, if I were to for some bizarre reason sign up for this, I would be about the ripest fruit to do damage to. Good thing I don't use Amex, nor would I sign up for this service if I did.
So you outlined a scenario where someone who doesn't use or understand Twitter could run into, then you admit that someone who doesn't use or understand Twitter would never use the service anyway?
I think your ex-wife could think of easier ways to destroy your credit rating than hacking into your little used twitter account (since she presumably has your SSN, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and all of your personal identifying information) Especially since all she'll end up doing is having Amex shutting down your purchase account after their fraud protection filter kicks in, and the fraudulent purchases will be linked to her IP address and/or phone number.
It doesn't matter how "open" the cloud is. If you don't hold it, you don't own it. You can only make educated guesses as to what the future will hold for that company and your data.
For example, just look at MegaUpload. If you stored stuff in "the cloud" using it, its now gone for good. Prior to January 2012, there was no indication that it would become unusable, no warning to back up files or anything.
I think the point of an "open" cloud is that you can pick up your code and data and move somewhere else without any problem. Amazon offers a lot of great functionality with their cloud environment and a rich API to control it, but any company that takes advantage of it is screwed if Amazon prices them out or decides they don't want to be in the cloud provider business anymore.
That's fine for something like #pear or #iphone4 but what about if you have something more complicated? Some of my purchases would be hard to put into a hashtag:
Yeah, and when I bought my house I had to read and sign a hundred pages of paperwork, so how will that work over twitter? It's a stupid idea if it won't work for every purchase.
Is see this as being ripe for abuse. The first time this goes live, someone is going to link a hashtag of something innocuous (like #wintercoat) to something expensive, and lots of people won't realize the mistake until they read their monthly bill and see a charge for $2000 on it. I can't imagine the system will last more than a day once people start complaining.
Then that person should have read the purchase confirmation tweet that Amex sends back when they receive an order. Presumably this will give instructions on cancelling an errant purchase.
... and the price of hacked Twitter accounts just went up by 1000. I'm glad I don't use it.
Unless Amex lets you update your shipping address by Tweet, this doesn't really make a hacked Twitter account any more valuable. It's more annoying for you it someone hacks your account and tweets a thousand #BuyPlaxtexTamponsNow tweets using your account, but a hacker in Nigeria probably isn't going to bother sending products to people they don't know. And since a merchant will need to register with Amex, the hacker won't be able to tweet #BuyMyFakeCrapNow to get you to automatically buy whatever fake crap he's trying to sell. Amex will be able to vet merchants.
I'm not sure I understand. How does one browse products via twitter, or if one isn't in twitter, why would one use it rather than the purchase channel of the site they are on?
I thought it was meant more for advertisements - you see an advertisement on the bus shelter for a fancy new umbrella and at the bottom it says "Tweet #BuyThisFancyNewUmbrella" to buy one today!"
I don't think it's something I'd ever use (I turned off one-click purchases on my Amazon account since I don't need the purchase process to be that streamlined), but I can see why advertisers would find it attractive.
Women who don't manipulate men might stop being so damned rare once men can get all the sex they want from a realistic holodeck.
If all you want from a woman is sex, you'd be better off paying a professional - then you get what you want without all of the "manipulation" you seem to be experiencing. If you feel you're being manipulated, you're with the wrong woman. There's nothing wrong with compromise or give-and-take in a relationship, but why put up with manipulation?
Yes that's mighty chivalrous and PC of you but don't kid yourself. Women terminate more than 80% of all marriages and serious relationships that end. Women hold most of the power in most of the relationships because most relationships sadly do have a power-struggle component instead of a partnership model.
I believe it's closer to 66%, but if your theory is true, I don't understand why woman who wield so much power over men are so happy to leave the marriage, yet men who are apparently the men who are suffering this emotional abuse from women are so willing to remain in the marriage.
A realistic holographic sex partner would change that for many men because many women weaponize sex, parceling it out like a reward. A realistic AI to go with that would even more drastically alter the outcome of such a power struggle. Women would have to offer something that cannot be replicated, like real caring and real love.
So even in your ideal world with realistic holographic sex, women will still have something to withhold from men? Won't these manipulative woman still wield their power over men by withholding real love and real caring from them?
There is such a woman in my life thankyouverymuch and she is not a manipulator at all. Not one bit. But I had a series of two-faced bitches prior and I find my experience there is not uncommon. That's all. Sorry if telling the truth bothers you or something and makes you feel the need to state obvious shit that isn't what I was talking about, like the need for give-and-take. That is a common strategy - something makes you uncomfortable so you find a way to trivialize it, implying that I was talking about something so easily avoided. Amazing the mental gymnastics people will do to avoid admitting when something gets under their skin.
You make the claim that women use sex as a weapon against men to manipulate them and all it would take would be an artificial replacement for the sex, then women would lose their power and everyone (well, at least the men) would be happier, yet you claim that *I* am the one trivializing the issue?
Women who don't manipulate men might stop being so damned rare once men can get all the sex they want from a realistic holodeck.
If all you want from a woman is sex, you'd be better off paying a professional - then you get what you want without all of the "manipulation" you seem to be experiencing. If you feel you're being manipulated, you're with the wrong woman. There's nothing wrong with compromise or give-and-take in a relationship, but why put up with manipulation?
Oh, I don't know, seems to me naming anything after the Holodeck is just asking for trouble. Second to warp drive, Holodeck failures seemed to suggest they were the most troublesome piece of equipment ever invented.
That's not surprising, Holodecks seem to be hugely complex and must have huge power demands. Immersive 3D holographic projection, high fidelity, overlapping force fields throughout the chamber to give the illusion of walls, surfaces and the ability to 'walk' endlessly, instant matter replicators (so when the holographic bartender pours you a beer, you can drink it), etc. There's probably transporter and gravity generators involved as well. Just about every bit of advanced Star Trek technology that we are unable to duplicate today is used in the holodeck.
It seems disingenuous for a politician to complain that corporate IT is too complex and too slow to adopt new technology when it's the politicians that put into place the policies that make IT so complex and slow to adopt to new techology. Sexual harassment laws and fear of lawsuits make us install firewalls and content filters, fear of violating privacy laws make us install IDS systems, restrict mobile devices, limit access to data, etc. Entire careers have been built around ensuring SarbOx compliance for IT systems.
These wouldn't all go away if there were no such laws, but the laws are part of what's put them into place.
Few outside of IT understand why Cloud Computing is not going to make any of these issues go away. It's nice that health records are stored at a HIPAA compliant SaaS privider, until we find out that Marketing has been downloading extracts that include PHI and using that data for a public marketing campaign. Or we find out that the CFO who insisted that he be allowed to access our financial data on his iPad lost the iPad on a train and he had turned off the PIN code because it was slowing him down so whoever picked up his laptop had unfettered access to the financial system over the weekend.
There's a reason why corporate IT is cumbersome and it's not because IT likes explaining for the hundredth time why you have to have a PIN code on your mobile device and why you can't use your 6 character dog's name followed by a digit as your password even if you did so at your previous company and never had a problem with it (as far as you know).
Sounds to me like community college is the route for you.
Computer science is truly the understanding (and development) of the underpinnings of computers - algorithms, data structures, etc. Web development is pretty much the USE of what CS has conceived - asynchronous requests, threading, programming languages, etc. If you truly don't care to understand the why and how of what you are using, and only want to know how to use the web language and library de jour, then I agree with you that a CS degree is not for you.
Agreed, if all you want to do is be a web developer, a CS degree is not going to get you there any faster than if you did self-study or got an associates degree in programming from a community college. If you see your CS classes as a waste of time and not getting you closer to your goals, then you're in the wrong major.
CS is not meant to prepare you to be a web developer or business application developer any more than mechanical or structural engineering prepares you to be a carpenter. If you want to be a carpenter, don't get an engineering degree. If you just want to be a programmer (and there's nothing wrong with that - it can be a lucrative career), don't get a CS degree.
Its an inherent part of the email protocol, add in spam filtering and its unreliable.
It may be theoretically unreliable since there's no delivery guarantee (and delivery can be delayed by hours or days), but in practice, email has proven to be as reliable as my internet connection. Gmail outages are rare enough that they are widely reported, our corporate exchange server has provided greater than 99.99% uptime over the past 12 months (including scheduled downtime for maintenance)
or the New Zealand Yahoo is not the only one compromised, just the only one to admit it.
Two of my friends on Facebook were talking about spam originating from their Yahoo! accounts yesterday and I received a spam from a third (or, I should say one made it through my spam filter). None of them have any ties to New Zealand, as far as I know.
My Yahoo account was hacked a month or so ago - I had a 12 character password including mixed case (in non-obvious places), digits and a special symbol, so i don't think the password was brute forced... I think they have a bigger problem than they have admitted.
I've only had my Pebble for a few days, but I'm finding it pretty convenient when I'm out and about. A lot quicker when I'm walking somewhere, or on the subway, to glance at my wrist to see if I need to respond to an email right away or if it can wait. And the (currently) rudimentary music controls are convenient, too.
It's still in a primitive state, but hopefully the developer community will come up with some killer apps for it. Time will tell if it becomes useful enough to survive past the toy stage and become a regular fixture on my arm.
'Need to respond to an email right away'? Email is an inherently laggy and unreliable messaging system...
Maybe you need a new email provider. With both Gmail and my company's Exchange system, emails show up on my mobile device within 10 seconds or so at least 99% of the time. I can't even remember the last time I lost an email I was expecting - sometimes emails get trapped in a spam filter, but almost never with someone I correpspond regularly (like my coworkers).
Availability of the mobile network on my commute is far less reliable than my email services, but even so there are still times when I'd like to return an email within minutes rather than waiting until I get to work. And if I'm on the train, it's not always convenient to pull out the phone to check my email. Though I still don't think I'd want this smartphone-on-a-wrist.
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Thinking too small. My body generates heat, the watch is attached to my body. Heat can be turned into energy. I want this to suck the heat from my body (much like my soul) and charge itself.
The problem is temperature differential -- you only have about 15 degrees C different between body temperature and room temperature, plus there's not much surface area to collect heat, nor much opportunity to build an effective heatsink to dissipate it. And if you go outside on a warm day or wear a jacket over your arm, then most or all of the temperature differential is gone.
You might be able to power an old-school LCD display watch with that little power, but not a smart-phone-in-a-watch.
Has something been done to reduce bluetooth device power consumption? Otherwise it's going to make for a large, geeky watch.
Any watch with a screen large enough and bright enough to be useful is going to be a large, geeky watch with short battery life.
A good smart watch needs a bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone. You could use it for voice calls, so as not to look like "that dork talking into his Dick Tracy wrist phone".
But I suppose people talking to their wrists would at least be slightly less annoying than the bluetooth earpiece people who are indistinguishable from the mentally ill when encountered on a city sidewalk.
If you have a Bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone, what's the point of having the phone built-in to the watch? Just use an ordinary cell phone to make your calls instead of using Bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone.
I hope there's good privacy controls on the data as I'm sure your insurance company would like to have that data too. "We're sorry sir, but we we're canceling your policy because you are pre-diabetic and you drink too much"
Actually, capturing an asteroid in the relatively short term should actually mean capturing to keep within the Earth's orbit. Then we can mine it or place people/equipment whenever we want. Changing it's orbit may be relatively easy than literally capturing it. Just change its trajectory slightly so that it becomes an additional moon to the Earth, albeit a much smaller one.
I'd rather that they test it out on another planet - maybe capture an asteroid to act as a fuel resupply source for Mars missions, since it wouldn't take much of a miscalculation (Ok, we slowed it down by 3000 miles/hour as directed. What!? We said 3000 km/h not mph!) or equipment malfunction to accidentally send it crashing into the planet instead of harmlessly orbiting the planet.
But I don't think you can just take any old asteroid that happens to be passing by and easily capture it with the Earth's gravity unless you're willing to spend huge amounts of energy slowing it down to an appropriate speed (or have a long-term plan to nudge it around to use the gravity of the sun and other planets to help bring it into an appropriate relative velocity. If I toss a baseball near your head, you can easily reach up and catch it - if I shoot that same baseball out of a cannon at a much higher velocity, you're not going to be able to stop it with your hand.
And it totally makes sense that to drive a hundred grand luxury car that you'd have to take only the direct routes, not the ones you may actually want to take. This is a gigantic failure of useability.
Every car has its constraints, you wouldn't try to drive a Ferrari across a muddy field, so when you buy an electric car with limited range, you drive within the limits (with a comfortable cushion). Just because a car is expensive, doesn't mean it's practical for all situations, even a $400,000 car can be stopped in its tracks by a simple speed bump.
And in the actual rebuttal, the reporter mentioned that:
This is an awful lot of hooplah about a software problem. If the car did say it was fully charged, obviously it was not.
All modern cars have software bugs, some worse than others. Even gasoline powered cars have them. A car like the Tesla is so new and has so few users that more bugs are likely to be discovered. That's what happens when you want a bleeding edge car. If you want something well tested and less likely to have significant bugs, buy last year's Prius.
So the Tesla is only suitable for people who:
1) can be certain of a full charge every time they leave the house;
2) never take detours, or get forced into detours by road construction;
3) never go above the speed limit;
Given that, I'm absolutely shocked that this isn't already a mass-market blockbuster - it's clearly suitable for all the common use cases!
The original Beetle had around 150 - 200 miles of range with its 9 gallon fuel tank, yet was still quite popular and most people (not including my sister) managed to use it for day to day life without constantly running out of fuel and didn't need to fill the tank before leaving the house, sometimes dealt with detours or going above the speed limit (but rarely while going uphill). They even managed to live without effective heating, much like someone in a model S that's trying to conserve batter power by turning down the heat.
Of course, people who pay $60K - $80K for a Model S probably have a second, conventionally powered car they can use for long trips. At least until more charging station are ready.
I have yet to park a gas-powered luxury car with half the tank full for the night and find the tank empty in the morning, dimwit.
I haven't had it happen in (nor ever owned) a luxury vehicle, but on my old Accord, the gas gauge would sometimes stick randomly between the 3/4 and 1/4 tank setting. And sometimes it would correct itself overnight (I think it was a bad sending unit since the gauge itself went down to zero after turning off the car then back up to the stuck setting after turning on the car. But other times, the gauge worked fine -- oddly it worked better in cold weather). I learned to rely on the odometer instead of the gauge.
So it is possible to park a gasoline powered car with 1/2 tank at night, and by morning the gauge read empty. But I never really saw that as a flaw of gasoline powered cars in general, just a problem with the sensing hardware.
Advertisers are morons. I work with them all day and they just don't have a clue how the real world works. What will happen is they'll have an awesome first month... then, slowly, the company will come to realize the majority of those purchases were either mistakes, scams or outright theft. By the time they realize their mistake the people that came up with the idea will have already collected their commissions/bonus and will have moved on to their next hair-brained idea or even a new company.
You must work with different marking people than I do. In my company, they can tell you with surprising accuracy how well an advertising campaign is doing (with numbers verified through several independent sources), including exactly how much it cost for each new sale and how many sales were cannibalized from other channels.
So basically, if I were to for some bizarre reason sign up for this, I would be about the ripest fruit to do damage to. Good thing I don't use Amex, nor would I sign up for this service if I did.
So you outlined a scenario where someone who doesn't use or understand Twitter could run into, then you admit that someone who doesn't use or understand Twitter would never use the service anyway?
I think your ex-wife could think of easier ways to destroy your credit rating than hacking into your little used twitter account (since she presumably has your SSN, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and all of your personal identifying information) Especially since all she'll end up doing is having Amex shutting down your purchase account after their fraud protection filter kicks in, and the fraudulent purchases will be linked to her IP address and/or phone number.
It doesn't matter how "open" the cloud is. If you don't hold it, you don't own it. You can only make educated guesses as to what the future will hold for that company and your data.
For example, just look at MegaUpload. If you stored stuff in "the cloud" using it, its now gone for good. Prior to January 2012, there was no indication that it would become unusable, no warning to back up files or anything.
I think the point of an "open" cloud is that you can pick up your code and data and move somewhere else without any problem. Amazon offers a lot of great functionality with their cloud environment and a rich API to control it, but any company that takes advantage of it is screwed if Amazon prices them out or decides they don't want to be in the cloud provider business anymore.
That's fine for something like #pear or #iphone4 but what about if you have something more complicated? Some of my purchases would be hard to put into a hashtag:
#IntelCorei53570KQuadCoreProcessorASUSP8Z77VLKZ77MotherboardG-SkillDDR316GBMemorySeagate2TBHDDApexATXMidTowerCaseApex500WPSUSuperCombo
Yeah, and when I bought my house I had to read and sign a hundred pages of paperwork, so how will that work over twitter? It's a stupid idea if it won't work for every purchase.
Is see this as being ripe for abuse. The first time this goes live, someone is going to link a hashtag of something innocuous (like #wintercoat) to something expensive, and lots of people won't realize the mistake until they read their monthly bill and see a charge for $2000 on it. I can't imagine the system will last more than a day once people start complaining.
Then that person should have read the purchase confirmation tweet that Amex sends back when they receive an order. Presumably this will give instructions on cancelling an errant purchase.
... and the price of hacked Twitter accounts just went up by 1000. I'm glad I don't use it.
Unless Amex lets you update your shipping address by Tweet, this doesn't really make a hacked Twitter account any more valuable. It's more annoying for you it someone hacks your account and tweets a thousand #BuyPlaxtexTamponsNow tweets using your account, but a hacker in Nigeria probably isn't going to bother sending products to people they don't know. And since a merchant will need to register with Amex, the hacker won't be able to tweet #BuyMyFakeCrapNow to get you to automatically buy whatever fake crap he's trying to sell. Amex will be able to vet merchants.
I'm not sure I understand. How does one browse products via twitter, or if one isn't in twitter, why would one use it rather than the purchase channel of the site they are on?
I thought it was meant more for advertisements - you see an advertisement on the bus shelter for a fancy new umbrella and at the bottom it says "Tweet #BuyThisFancyNewUmbrella" to buy one today!"
I don't think it's something I'd ever use (I turned off one-click purchases on my Amazon account since I don't need the purchase process to be that streamlined), but I can see why advertisers would find it attractive.
Hope you don't pay much for your electricity, fully populated and busy, that server is going to draw around 3000W of power.
With that power draw, if you're paying $0.12/KWh for electricity, it would cost around $250/month to keep it powered, not including cooling costs.
for porn!
Women who don't manipulate men might stop being so damned rare once men can get all the sex they want from a realistic holodeck.
If all you want from a woman is sex, you'd be better off paying a professional - then you get what you want without all of the "manipulation" you seem to be experiencing. If you feel you're being manipulated, you're with the wrong woman. There's nothing wrong with compromise or give-and-take in a relationship, but why put up with manipulation?
Yes that's mighty chivalrous and PC of you but don't kid yourself. Women terminate more than 80% of all marriages and serious relationships that end. Women hold most of the power in most of the relationships because most relationships sadly do have a power-struggle component instead of a partnership model.
I believe it's closer to 66%, but if your theory is true, I don't understand why woman who wield so much power over men are so happy to leave the marriage, yet men who are apparently the men who are suffering this emotional abuse from women are so willing to remain in the marriage.
A realistic holographic sex partner would change that for many men because many women weaponize sex, parceling it out like a reward. A realistic AI to go with that would even more drastically alter the outcome of such a power struggle. Women would have to offer something that cannot be replicated, like real caring and real love.
So even in your ideal world with realistic holographic sex, women will still have something to withhold from men? Won't these manipulative woman still wield their power over men by withholding real love and real caring from them?
There is such a woman in my life thankyouverymuch and she is not a manipulator at all. Not one bit. But I had a series of two-faced bitches prior and I find my experience there is not uncommon. That's all. Sorry if telling the truth bothers you or something and makes you feel the need to state obvious shit that isn't what I was talking about, like the need for give-and-take. That is a common strategy - something makes you uncomfortable so you find a way to trivialize it, implying that I was talking about something so easily avoided. Amazing the mental gymnastics people will do to avoid admitting when something gets under their skin.
You make the claim that women use sex as a weapon against men to manipulate them and all it would take would be an artificial replacement for the sex, then women would lose their power and everyone (well, at least the men) would be happier, yet you claim that *I* am the one trivializing the issue?
for porn!
Women who don't manipulate men might stop being so damned rare once men can get all the sex they want from a realistic holodeck.
If all you want from a woman is sex, you'd be better off paying a professional - then you get what you want without all of the "manipulation" you seem to be experiencing. If you feel you're being manipulated, you're with the wrong woman. There's nothing wrong with compromise or give-and-take in a relationship, but why put up with manipulation?
Oh, I don't know, seems to me naming anything after the Holodeck is just asking for trouble. Second to warp drive, Holodeck failures seemed to suggest they were the most troublesome piece of equipment ever invented.
That's not surprising, Holodecks seem to be hugely complex and must have huge power demands. Immersive 3D holographic projection, high fidelity, overlapping force fields throughout the chamber to give the illusion of walls, surfaces and the ability to 'walk' endlessly, instant matter replicators (so when the holographic bartender pours you a beer, you can drink it), etc. There's probably transporter and gravity generators involved as well. Just about every bit of advanced Star Trek technology that we are unable to duplicate today is used in the holodeck.
It seems disingenuous for a politician to complain that corporate IT is too complex and too slow to adopt new technology when it's the politicians that put into place the policies that make IT so complex and slow to adopt to new techology. Sexual harassment laws and fear of lawsuits make us install firewalls and content filters, fear of violating privacy laws make us install IDS systems, restrict mobile devices, limit access to data, etc. Entire careers have been built around ensuring SarbOx compliance for IT systems.
These wouldn't all go away if there were no such laws, but the laws are part of what's put them into place.
Few outside of IT understand why Cloud Computing is not going to make any of these issues go away. It's nice that health records are stored at a HIPAA compliant SaaS privider, until we find out that Marketing has been downloading extracts that include PHI and using that data for a public marketing campaign. Or we find out that the CFO who insisted that he be allowed to access our financial data on his iPad lost the iPad on a train and he had turned off the PIN code because it was slowing him down so whoever picked up his laptop had unfettered access to the financial system over the weekend.
There's a reason why corporate IT is cumbersome and it's not because IT likes explaining for the hundredth time why you have to have a PIN code on your mobile device and why you can't use your 6 character dog's name followed by a digit as your password even if you did so at your previous company and never had a problem with it (as far as you know).
Sounds to me like community college is the route for you.
Computer science is truly the understanding (and development) of the underpinnings of computers - algorithms, data structures, etc. Web development is pretty much the USE of what CS has conceived - asynchronous requests, threading, programming languages, etc. If you truly don't care to understand the why and how of what you are using, and only want to know how to use the web language and library de jour, then I agree with you that a CS degree is not for you.
Agreed, if all you want to do is be a web developer, a CS degree is not going to get you there any faster than if you did self-study or got an associates degree in programming from a community college. If you see your CS classes as a waste of time and not getting you closer to your goals, then you're in the wrong major.
CS is not meant to prepare you to be a web developer or business application developer any more than mechanical or structural engineering prepares you to be a carpenter. If you want to be a carpenter, don't get an engineering degree. If you just want to be a programmer (and there's nothing wrong with that - it can be a lucrative career), don't get a CS degree.
Its an inherent part of the email protocol, add in spam filtering and its unreliable.
It may be theoretically unreliable since there's no delivery guarantee (and delivery can be delayed by hours or days), but in practice, email has proven to be as reliable as my internet connection. Gmail outages are rare enough that they are widely reported, our corporate exchange server has provided greater than 99.99% uptime over the past 12 months (including scheduled downtime for maintenance)
or the New Zealand Yahoo is not the only one compromised, just the only one to admit it.
Two of my friends on Facebook were talking about spam originating from their Yahoo! accounts yesterday and I received a spam from a third (or, I should say one made it through my spam filter). None of them have any ties to New Zealand, as far as I know.
My Yahoo account was hacked a month or so ago - I had a 12 character password including mixed case (in non-obvious places), digits and a special symbol, so i don't think the password was brute forced... I think they have a bigger problem than they have admitted.
I've only had my Pebble for a few days, but I'm finding it pretty convenient when I'm out and about. A lot quicker when I'm walking somewhere, or on the subway, to glance at my wrist to see if I need to respond to an email right away or if it can wait. And the (currently) rudimentary music controls are convenient, too.
It's still in a primitive state, but hopefully the developer community will come up with some killer apps for it. Time will tell if it becomes useful enough to survive past the toy stage and become a regular fixture on my arm.
'Need to respond to an email right away'? Email is an inherently laggy and unreliable messaging system...
Maybe you need a new email provider. With both Gmail and my company's Exchange system, emails show up on my mobile device within 10 seconds or so at least 99% of the time. I can't even remember the last time I lost an email I was expecting - sometimes emails get trapped in a spam filter, but almost never with someone I correpspond regularly (like my coworkers).
Availability of the mobile network on my commute is far less reliable than my email services, but even so there are still times when I'd like to return an email within minutes rather than waiting until I get to work. And if I'm on the train, it's not always convenient to pull out the phone to check my email. Though I still don't think I'd want this smartphone-on-a-wrist.