Is this nobody going to look for ways to make 9/11 solely about her?
"I slipped and spilled some of my Venti-Three-Quarters-Plasma-NoWhip-MochaChokaBullshit when I heard about it and got a scald on a finger! #Patreon #BooHoo"
(Might be obscure. Look up The Onion's "Macbook Wheel" video)
While I'm thinking about it, how is the desktop RAM different from what they already use? Is it just a matter of LPDDR not being able to run as fast of a clock speed because of the lower consumption or are there bandwidth differences unrelated to clock speed and such?
There's a large portion of the USA that isn't very densely-packed. We can't exactly visit several countries on a single tank of gas. Or four times as many people in the same amount of land area.
You just don't have to drive as far to get where you need to be. And that's what electric cars are great for.
The battery lasts a month unless you're using the GPS then you'll have to charge it daily, but it charges very quickly in a magnetic USB cradle with pogo contacts. The normal kit comes with a heart rate chest strap and you can get cadence sensors, speed sensors, power meters, and such that link with it over radio. You can load different watch faces, widgets and even program your own. It has Bluetooth to link with your phone for notifications. One built-in widget is Find My Phone. If it's close enough to have a Bluetooth connection, your phone will start chiming, vibrating and blinking the camera flash LED. It's waterproof. The display is transflective and has a backlight, but as it's made for people who go outside, the display definitely looks better in sunlight.
Pay people to serve in a real life version of Starfleet?
Go away for a some number of years and when you come back, you're guaranteed whatever luxury income for life. Space is risky now and will be for quite some time so maybe have it like 5 years for full retirement.
Maybe the ability to have children will be shut off by default from birth by some genetic engineering thing and switched on via some other means after passing a kind of character credit check that's easier to pass if you served in this hypothectical "Starfleet" due to the nature of it.
Today, not everybody gets to be an Astronaut. Tomorrow, not everybody gets to be a parent.
Eventually, maybe Earth will only be home to those who don't have "the right stuff" for space travel and they can live as they please.
The Homo genus eventually gains a new species. Homo Stellaris?
Nuclear power is amazing. The execution... less so. I'm not _that_ kind of engineer, but it seems to me that common sense should have dictated that putting safety systems in the path of a tsunami was a bad call.
Count me among them. One of my jobs is to eliminate dangerous and tedious work from manufacturing processes. Nobody wants to spend their day grabbing searing hot parts from a welder at one station and stacking them in exact locations after another so they don't get out of order and miss their settling time. That's where robots come in.
People are needed to maintain those robots and the computers they coordinate with. People are also needed to supply the machines with materials. There will always be work to do. There will just be better options than "something to pay the bills for now".
A lot of those jobs are in trade fields and have to do with working with the real world where things aren't designed with millimeter precision in mind, such as a leaky pipe under your nearly-century-old house, machining a one-off part for mounting the base of one of those robots so it can be set up to do work, or making new cabinets for your kitchen that will account for the fact the walls aren't quite squared. Or replacing a part on what in those 20-30 years from now will be a classic car. Or running new wiring to allow one of those robots to have a food supply the building wasn't originally designed for.
People are the reason we will always need people.
Computers, Electronics, and wrenching on my own cars were three things that helped me immensely when I decided to study Robotics after getting sick from solder fumes for the better part of a decade.
This just in: Cable company becomes desperate in the face of wide abandonment. Film at 11.
I have a contract with the same company only because of my Internet service. It seemed worth the extra few bucks to get TV tacked on just because. No. The fees and rate increases since have vastly amplified the monthly bill.
In my neck of the woods, we don't have Google Fiber (yet), but we do have UTOPIAnet (Wasatch Front in Utah, for the record). Even with the cost of the FTTP gear, a 100/100mbit connection is still far less than what Comcast charges. For the same price Comcast charges, you get a symmetrical gigabit.
Uploading at 12mbps grows old fast even if your download speed is in the 180 range.
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Aww I hurt someone's feelings and got modded down as a troll. If only that were true...
Is this nobody going to look for ways to make 9/11 solely about her?
"I slipped and spilled some of my Venti-Three-Quarters-Plasma-NoWhip-MochaChokaBullshit when I heard about it and got a scald on a finger! #Patreon #BooHoo"
I'm actually surprised anything is being done with something the was pretty much dismissed as vaporware.
(Might be obscure. Look up The Onion's "Macbook Wheel" video)
While I'm thinking about it, how is the desktop RAM different from what they already use? Is it just a matter of LPDDR not being able to run as fast of a clock speed because of the lower consumption or are there bandwidth differences unrelated to clock speed and such?
And once again, the average American's commute time is 25.4 minutes.
We're talking about distance, not time, Han Solo.
There's a large portion of the USA that isn't very densely-packed. We can't exactly visit several countries on a single tank of gas. Or four times as many people in the same amount of land area.
You just don't have to drive as far to get where you need to be. And that's what electric cars are great for.
It's an Apple watch for people who go outside.
The battery lasts a month unless you're using the GPS then you'll have to charge it daily, but it charges very quickly in a magnetic USB cradle with pogo contacts.
The normal kit comes with a heart rate chest strap and you can get cadence sensors, speed sensors, power meters, and such that link with it over radio.
You can load different watch faces, widgets and even program your own.
It has Bluetooth to link with your phone for notifications.
One built-in widget is Find My Phone. If it's close enough to have a Bluetooth connection, your phone will start chiming, vibrating and blinking the camera flash LED.
It's waterproof.
The display is transflective and has a backlight, but as it's made for people who go outside, the display definitely looks better in sunlight.
VR/AR is different because it's interactive. You move and what you see changes like would be expected in real life.
Well, give me a robot woman as loyal as Chii and I'm in. Don't know how I'd feel about her not aging, though.
Her fate after I die is a whole other matter, entirely. And quite the thought experiment, actually.
Pay people to serve in a real life version of Starfleet?
Go away for a some number of years and when you come back, you're guaranteed whatever luxury income for life. Space is risky now and will be for quite some time so maybe have it like 5 years for full retirement.
Maybe the ability to have children will be shut off by default from birth by some genetic engineering thing and switched on via some other means after passing a kind of character credit check that's easier to pass if you served in this hypothectical "Starfleet" due to the nature of it.
Today, not everybody gets to be an Astronaut. Tomorrow, not everybody gets to be a parent.
Eventually, maybe Earth will only be home to those who don't have "the right stuff" for space travel and they can live as they please.
The Homo genus eventually gains a new species. Homo Stellaris?
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My /. Karma speaks for itself.
It's pretty much obvious at first glance.
Only Official support has been dropped. They can still be fixed for a price.
So when it comes back, are we going to pat our species on the collective back about it?
I sure hope not.
Sneakernetting would cut out the crap. Who wouldn't rather hear more about new Lithium Ion battery technology than Poodles Are From Mars?
Nuclear power is amazing. The execution... less so. I'm not _that_ kind of engineer, but it seems to me that common sense should have dictated that putting safety systems in the path of a tsunami was a bad call.
Here's hoping Fusion doesn't suck.
Count me among them. One of my jobs is to eliminate dangerous and tedious work from manufacturing processes. Nobody wants to spend their day grabbing searing hot parts from a welder at one station and stacking them in exact locations after another so they don't get out of order and miss their settling time. That's where robots come in.
People are needed to maintain those robots and the computers they coordinate with. People are also needed to supply the machines with materials. There will always be work to do. There will just be better options than "something to pay the bills for now".
Yeah? Let's see one survive a house fire.
The last thing sharp that came out of that country was spouted by that Hitler dude. And he didn't matter in the long run, either.
For making someone puke?
Explosive dye packs in robbed bank money.
Anti-Shoplifting devices with dye and broken glass.
Hedging your best with AC, I see. Smart move.
Airbag inflators.
airgun CO2 cartridges
A lot of those jobs are in trade fields and have to do with working with the real world where things aren't designed with millimeter precision in mind, such as a leaky pipe under your nearly-century-old house, machining a one-off part for mounting the base of one of those robots so it can be set up to do work, or making new cabinets for your kitchen that will account for the fact the walls aren't quite squared. Or replacing a part on what in those 20-30 years from now will be a classic car. Or running new wiring to allow one of those robots to have a food supply the building wasn't originally designed for.
People are the reason we will always need people.
Computers, Electronics, and wrenching on my own cars were three things that helped me immensely when I decided to study Robotics after getting sick from solder fumes for the better part of a decade.
Like any other time in life, average people care more about who's in front of the camera than who's behind.
Not that we can blame them. Out of sight, out of mind.
This just in: Cable company becomes desperate in the face of wide abandonment. Film at 11.
I have a contract with the same company only because of my Internet service. It seemed worth the extra few bucks to get TV tacked on just because. No. The fees and rate increases since have vastly amplified the monthly bill.
In my neck of the woods, we don't have Google Fiber (yet), but we do have UTOPIAnet (Wasatch Front in Utah, for the record). Even with the cost of the FTTP gear, a 100/100mbit connection is still far less than what Comcast charges. For the same price Comcast charges, you get a symmetrical gigabit.
Uploading at 12mbps grows old fast even if your download speed is in the 180 range.
Hollywood is a sequel farm. The hell with them.