It's not about how much people are willing to pay, it's about how cheap a useful sexbot can become - and there's a limit on that. There very well may be a market for sex bots, but so long as a useful sexbot is more expensive than a street whore, street whores will still have a job.
No, really, whores. As bad as it might be to stick your pink bits into a complete stranger's body rather than some sex-bot, that'll pretty much be the last profession as well as the oldest.
Now, one might imagine that automation eventually makes sex bots so cheap as to compete with the 20 dollar half and half, but simply on material costs alone I think you hit a constraint.
...and now more politically correct drivel from Tim Cook. I suppose if I just see it as insincere pandering to the elite left wing apple using demographic, it can be forgiven, but this kind of shit that implies that we should discriminate based on race and gender to fill quotas seems diametrically opposed to the good and decent work apple has done for marriage equality and *against* discrimination.
Here's the deal - it shouldn't matter if you're gay or straight, you should get treated the same way. And it shouldn't matter if you're a man, or a woman, or black, or green, or purple, you should be treated the same way.
That *doesn't* mean you're going to end up the same way, especially if you make different choices.
What's next for apple, are they going to insist on quotas for sexual preference? Or quotas for whether or not you like tits, or ass, or legs? Or quotas on lefties and righties?
...geographic determinism. The cultural and technological growth of different societies has more to do with the accidents of geography than genetics.
The fact of the matter is that genetic differences *within* so-called "races" are greater than differences *between* so-called "races". Humans don't "breed true", as it were - much like how you can't get more Fuji apples from planting a Fuji apple seed (in fact, all modern marketed varieties of apples are actually cloned through grafting).
Race is an illusion, and for those paying attention, *genotype* is significantly different than *phenotype*. Our phenotypic "races" are poor proxies for actual genetic differences.
So, okay, rifle, take a picture through a scope, assuming the target doesn't move, it's quite possible to get some fairly nice help on activating the trigger only when your "mark" is in your sights with some hard coded ballistic information to help with ranging.
Throw real world movement of the target, change of the landscape, and now you're talking something freakishly hard.
I might enjoy something like this target shooting, but other than some fairly narrow sniping applications against static targets, this isn't anywhere near ready for primetime.
...make sure you go back to the business guy who create the requirements being coded at the time, hook him up to an EEG, and see if he wrote a buggy spec:)...for bonus points, put the EEG on the manager who just said they're going to measure productivity in LOC.
If we could detect stupid with an EEG, programmers would probably be the least useful people to put it on.
Government has power over people to keep them from doing wrong.
Government watchers have power over government to keep them from doing wrong.
Government watcher watchers have power over government watchers to keep them from doing wrong.
So on, and so forth. It's not just a question of making abuses of the surveillance state/corporation illegal, it's having any sort of system in place that can possibly ensure that those abuses are prosecuted.
We've made some progress on this with FOIA and sunshine laws in general, but those systems are still gamed by those willing to destroy evidence and fight transparency.
Exactly this. Frankly, the only thing I expect out of java at this point are security and bug fixes - what more do I need out of the API that I can't just do myself?
...test the placebo effect. Put people in white coats with stethoscopes, have them nod knowingly, and give diagnoses based on whatever comes up in google first:)
The idea that obesity can be overcome by "fitness", and the fallacy of calories in/calories out, has driven a metric crapton of health apps, and devices, predicated on that fallacy.
What they need to invent is a scanner you can pass over your food, that measures it's carbohydrate content, or some non-invasive device that can register your insulin response to something you ate.
I mean, look, it's cool and all if you enjoy running, and want to track your personal performance and all that jazz, but these apps are actually targeted to the obese people who aren't helped by this kind of intervention.
Here's the problem - they sold scopes with functionality built in, but disabled. They *delivered* the intellectual property in question to each purchaser, but had a *business model* that depended on *disabling* that functionality, and up-charging consumers to activate the already delivered feature.
While I'm certainly sympathetic to the guy who has their source code stolen and published, this isn't quite the case with delivered, but disabled features.
Frankly, this one is equivalent to a auto dealer selling you a car with the fuses removed for the radio, power windows, and windshield wipers, and then demanding an up charge to put the fuses in the fuse box with the pentalobe screw.
We seem to have this quaint notion that government abuses only happen in soviet bloc, or communist countries...the fact of the matter is that our oversized, powerful, and power hungry federal government has the same tendencies towards corruption and abuse. Hell, we seem to take for granted that oversized, powerful, and power hungry *companies* are corrupt and abusive, but never seem to apply the same strict scrutiny to our unaccountable government bureaucrats.
I agree with half of that - investigative journalism is labor-intensive, but there isn't enough of a market to support all the people who want to be *paid* to be investigative journalists.
I'll admit, I'm probably a minority here, but not only do I knit, but I even taught my wife:)
It's actually surprisingly digital, with "knit" and "purl" being "1" and "0" respectively.
I don't actually do much of it anymore, and honestly probably wouldn't have the patience for something as big as the compusock, but it's a good skill to at least learn a bit of.
The real problem here is that when an international story can be written up and covered effectively by a dozen people, there's no room for a thousand more. Hell, even if you allow for another dozen opinion mongers amongst the real journalists, you're still looking at information that only needs to be gathered and reported on *once*.
With as close to zero cost to transmit information as you can get, there's no longer the regional scarcity that could make each little town require it's own newspaper.
Local news becomes a niche item that is either done as a hobby, or barely covering the need for a single person's employment.
No, it tends to be looking at a building that has collapsed because it was artful, but structurally unsound, when people go all, "wow, that was really pretty, but didn't have a lot of structural integrity."
That being said, for a job that has only around 100k jobs in the US, out of a total of 150 million, doesn't seem like it warrants being a core subject:
"There were 139,004,000 jobs in the US in July 2014 according to the CES survey of employers. The CPS survey of households showed 146,352,000 employed persons for the month. "
Around 7/100ths of 1% - sounds like a hobby market to me.
"It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated."
In the search of positive results, and p-hacking to get there, they're failing to demonstrate scientific integrity.
Architecture is math. Calling it "art" misses the point of structural integrity and geometry.
The human body is biology. The human body in "art", without the requirement to be accurate, but merely aesthetically pleasing, isn't useful. You may be referring to Davinci's detailed human body renderings - in the modern world, we've no need of those since we have more accurate ways of imaging and reproducing the human body in images.
Art is a great hobby, but not a core subject. Hell, as a color blind person, by your definition, it's even less important.
current core academic subjects are English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography
I get english, and reading/language arts (which is english), math, science, foreign languages I suppose is a wobbler for me, civics and government smells a bit like history, but sure, count it separate, economics is pretty important, as well as history and geography...but arts? Plain old arts?
I'm sorry, but if people want to make paper mache, or paint, or draw, or throw pots, you can do that on your own damn time. It's akin to having "computer gaming", or "stamp collecting" a core academic subject -> art is a *hobby*, not an academic subject.
Certainly a small, powerful, and vocal special interest minority cares, and I have to live with that, but I don't have to like it, nor do I have to condone it:)
Ah, you're under the impression that I'm arguing a *legal* point, rather than a *moral* one.
Yes, we have immoral laws that violate private property rights in order to "protect" some tit-mouse. Yes, they are legal. Yes, they are immoral.
We should eliminate laws that violate private property rights in order to impose some special interest group's point of view regarding selective pressures. They're a violation of basic human freedoms, and fly in the face of the very process of evolution that led to higher life forms in the first place.
You didn't answer any of my questions - and I don't understand where this new question is coming from.
Would you care to clarify how your question answered any of my three questions, or has this simply become a conversation you're having with something in your imagination?:)
If government wants to have peeps into our private lives, I say they should offer themselves up first. Have every government employee's financial records, emails, purchases, and other records completely public. Install GPS trackers on them so we can all track their movement. Put cameras in their homes, cars, and offices so that we can watch them 24/7.
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It's not about how much people are willing to pay, it's about how cheap a useful sexbot can become - and there's a limit on that. There very well may be a market for sex bots, but so long as a useful sexbot is more expensive than a street whore, street whores will still have a job.
No, really, whores. As bad as it might be to stick your pink bits into a complete stranger's body rather than some sex-bot, that'll pretty much be the last profession as well as the oldest.
Now, one might imagine that automation eventually makes sex bots so cheap as to compete with the 20 dollar half and half, but simply on material costs alone I think you hit a constraint.
...and now more politically correct drivel from Tim Cook. I suppose if I just see it as insincere pandering to the elite left wing apple using demographic, it can be forgiven, but this kind of shit that implies that we should discriminate based on race and gender to fill quotas seems diametrically opposed to the good and decent work apple has done for marriage equality and *against* discrimination.
Here's the deal - it shouldn't matter if you're gay or straight, you should get treated the same way. And it shouldn't matter if you're a man, or a woman, or black, or green, or purple, you should be treated the same way.
That *doesn't* mean you're going to end up the same way, especially if you make different choices.
What's next for apple, are they going to insist on quotas for sexual preference? Or quotas for whether or not you like tits, or ass, or legs? Or quotas on lefties and righties?
...in the National People's Congress (China's parliament).
I wonder how many potential criminals they'll find within the halls of government.
...geographic determinism. The cultural and technological growth of different societies has more to do with the accidents of geography than genetics.
The fact of the matter is that genetic differences *within* so-called "races" are greater than differences *between* so-called "races". Humans don't "breed true", as it were - much like how you can't get more Fuji apples from planting a Fuji apple seed (in fact, all modern marketed varieties of apples are actually cloned through grafting).
Race is an illusion, and for those paying attention, *genotype* is significantly different than *phenotype*. Our phenotypic "races" are poor proxies for actual genetic differences.
So, okay, rifle, take a picture through a scope, assuming the target doesn't move, it's quite possible to get some fairly nice help on activating the trigger only when your "mark" is in your sights with some hard coded ballistic information to help with ranging.
Throw real world movement of the target, change of the landscape, and now you're talking something freakishly hard.
I might enjoy something like this target shooting, but other than some fairly narrow sniping applications against static targets, this isn't anywhere near ready for primetime.
...make sure you go back to the business guy who create the requirements being coded at the time, hook him up to an EEG, and see if he wrote a buggy spec :) ...for bonus points, put the EEG on the manager who just said they're going to measure productivity in LOC.
If we could detect stupid with an EEG, programmers would probably be the least useful people to put it on.
I smell an infinite regress - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...
Government has power over people to keep them from doing wrong.
Government watchers have power over government to keep them from doing wrong.
Government watcher watchers have power over government watchers to keep them from doing wrong.
So on, and so forth. It's not just a question of making abuses of the surveillance state/corporation illegal, it's having any sort of system in place that can possibly ensure that those abuses are prosecuted.
We've made some progress on this with FOIA and sunshine laws in general, but those systems are still gamed by those willing to destroy evidence and fight transparency.
Exactly this. Frankly, the only thing I expect out of java at this point are security and bug fixes - what more do I need out of the API that I can't just do myself?
...test the placebo effect. Put people in white coats with stethoscopes, have them nod knowingly, and give diagnoses based on whatever comes up in google first :)
The idea that obesity can be overcome by "fitness", and the fallacy of calories in/calories out, has driven a metric crapton of health apps, and devices, predicated on that fallacy.
What they need to invent is a scanner you can pass over your food, that measures it's carbohydrate content, or some non-invasive device that can register your insulin response to something you ate.
I mean, look, it's cool and all if you enjoy running, and want to track your personal performance and all that jazz, but these apps are actually targeted to the obese people who aren't helped by this kind of intervention.
Stop eating carbohydrates. It's simple.
Here's the problem - they sold scopes with functionality built in, but disabled. They *delivered* the intellectual property in question to each purchaser, but had a *business model* that depended on *disabling* that functionality, and up-charging consumers to activate the already delivered feature.
While I'm certainly sympathetic to the guy who has their source code stolen and published, this isn't quite the case with delivered, but disabled features.
Frankly, this one is equivalent to a auto dealer selling you a car with the fuses removed for the radio, power windows, and windshield wipers, and then demanding an up charge to put the fuses in the fuse box with the pentalobe screw.
...who needs FSBs?
We seem to have this quaint notion that government abuses only happen in soviet bloc, or communist countries...the fact of the matter is that our oversized, powerful, and power hungry federal government has the same tendencies towards corruption and abuse. Hell, we seem to take for granted that oversized, powerful, and power hungry *companies* are corrupt and abusive, but never seem to apply the same strict scrutiny to our unaccountable government bureaucrats.
I agree with half of that - investigative journalism is labor-intensive, but there isn't enough of a market to support all the people who want to be *paid* to be investigative journalists.
I'll admit, I'm probably a minority here, but not only do I knit, but I even taught my wife :)
It's actually surprisingly digital, with "knit" and "purl" being "1" and "0" respectively.
I don't actually do much of it anymore, and honestly probably wouldn't have the patience for something as big as the compusock, but it's a good skill to at least learn a bit of.
The real problem here is that when an international story can be written up and covered effectively by a dozen people, there's no room for a thousand more. Hell, even if you allow for another dozen opinion mongers amongst the real journalists, you're still looking at information that only needs to be gathered and reported on *once*.
With as close to zero cost to transmit information as you can get, there's no longer the regional scarcity that could make each little town require it's own newspaper.
Local news becomes a niche item that is either done as a hobby, or barely covering the need for a single person's employment.
No, it tends to be looking at a building that has collapsed because it was artful, but structurally unsound, when people go all, "wow, that was really pretty, but didn't have a lot of structural integrity."
That being said, for a job that has only around 100k jobs in the US, out of a total of 150 million, doesn't seem like it warrants being a core subject:
http://www.aia.org/press/AIAS0...
"The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) estimates the number of architects licensed in the United States at 105,847."
http://www.deptofnumbers.com/e...
"There were 139,004,000 jobs in the US in July 2014 according to the CES survey of employers. The CPS survey of households showed 146,352,000 employed persons for the month. "
Around 7/100ths of 1% - sounds like a hobby market to me.
http://neurotheory.columbia.ed...
"It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated."
In the search of positive results, and p-hacking to get there, they're failing to demonstrate scientific integrity.
I'm not buying it.
Architecture is math. Calling it "art" misses the point of structural integrity and geometry.
The human body is biology. The human body in "art", without the requirement to be accurate, but merely aesthetically pleasing, isn't useful. You may be referring to Davinci's detailed human body renderings - in the modern world, we've no need of those since we have more accurate ways of imaging and reproducing the human body in images.
Art is a great hobby, but not a core subject. Hell, as a color blind person, by your definition, it's even less important.
I get english, and reading/language arts (which is english), math, science, foreign languages I suppose is a wobbler for me, civics and government smells a bit like history, but sure, count it separate, economics is pretty important, as well as history and geography...but arts? Plain old arts?
I'm sorry, but if people want to make paper mache, or paint, or draw, or throw pots, you can do that on your own damn time. It's akin to having "computer gaming", or "stamp collecting" a core academic subject -> art is a *hobby*, not an academic subject.
Certainly a small, powerful, and vocal special interest minority cares, and I have to live with that, but I don't have to like it, nor do I have to condone it :)
Ah, you're under the impression that I'm arguing a *legal* point, rather than a *moral* one.
Yes, we have immoral laws that violate private property rights in order to "protect" some tit-mouse. Yes, they are legal. Yes, they are immoral.
We should eliminate laws that violate private property rights in order to impose some special interest group's point of view regarding selective pressures. They're a violation of basic human freedoms, and fly in the face of the very process of evolution that led to higher life forms in the first place.
You didn't answer any of my questions - and I don't understand where this new question is coming from.
Would you care to clarify how your question answered any of my three questions, or has this simply become a conversation you're having with something in your imagination? :)
Thank you, amalek - you said it better than I could.
Destroying our freedom in the interest of security, against mere "bullies" no less, is a sick position to take.
If government wants to have peeps into our private lives, I say they should offer themselves up first. Have every government employee's financial records, emails, purchases, and other records completely public. Install GPS trackers on them so we can all track their movement. Put cameras in their homes, cars, and offices so that we can watch them 24/7.
If they want the panopticon, let them go first.