.. trying to explain security to them is like trying to explain an egg shell to a brick wall.
Devil's advocate here. Have you considered the possibility that you just plain out suck at being able to explain things in terms that other people will understand?
The flip side of the non-technical manager stereotype is the nerdy technical genius stereotype who is so embedded in his/her own domain that he can't comprehend why other people can't understand what he/she does, and as a result consider everyone else but him/her to be stupid.
While I don't have a Lenovo, this sort of thing is why I have set a firewall on my MacBook to block all outgoing requests unless they are whitelisted by me. It was a real eye opener when I first saw the number of applications that were phoning home without me knowing.
LOL, the intersection of those groups is so small as to be meaningless. Either way, we're talking about going halfway around the world in less than a day. If you're that impatient, nothing will satisfy you.
By your reasoning there is also no rationale for business or first class fares on flights as it doesn't matter how much you pay as you still get there at the same time.
and as for your timezone comment, lots of people transition their sleep by 12 hours all the time.. its called rotating shift work
You'd think that if you had an airline charging >5k euros per one way ticket, that they would have already paid off the right people in order to expedite security and customs. But even still as it is it doesn't take 3 hours to get through customs in Australia.. unless you are attempting to bring in some contraband. This isn't LAX after all.
Let's see. Right now the shortest commercial flight Brussels to Sydney is about 22 hours. I don't know if you noticed, but 3 is a lot less than 22, and some people have a lot more money than the $1600 needed for the current return ticket prices. And a fair share of these people travel all over the world.
As of April 2014, 17 states either have not yet formally repealed their laws against sexual activity among consenting adult, or have not revised them to accurately reflect their true scope in the aftermath of Lawrence v. Texas. Often, the sodomy law was drafted to also encompass other forms of sexual conduct such as bestiality, and no attempt has subsequently succeeded in separating them. Fourteen states' statutes purport to ban all forms of sodomy, some including oral intercourse, regardless of the participants' genders: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Utah. Four states specifically target their statutes at same-sex relations only: Oklahoma, Kansas[16][17] Kentucky, and Texas.
What's worse is that De Montfort University has a Senior Research Fellow In The Ethics Of Robotics.
So you don't care if people build unethical robots?
While the sexbot things is ridiculous for a number of reasons (mainly due to personal choice), what about scenarios where robots could lie, cheat, steal and kill? Ands that not even getting into the question of robots in the military.
Given the extremes of human nature, do you really think that people shouldn't be thinking about how we should craft our electronic progeny?
I would be much more inclined to question the validity of the tests if they are so complex that a machine designed to answer tests cannot perform above a C average.
The point of TFAI is not so much that the AI does badly but rather that the author of the AI (^w Slashvertisement) wants to use the tests as a benchmark. From TFA
Aristo is being developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, who want to give machines a measure of common sense about the world. The institute’s CEO, Oren Etzioni, says the best way to benchmark the development of their digital offspring is to use tests designed for schoolchildren. He’s trying to convince other AI researchers to adopt standardized school tests as a way to measure progress in the field.
Way 2: This time, take a writer with them. An actor playing a writer, I mean. Someone to think up the silly resolutions (like the stuff that TNG always had Wesley do). So every week the "writer" would have to think up a new ridiculous way to get everyone out of the latest pickle. After all, it was really the writers who thought up the BS resolutions that made Galaxy Quest (OK, Trek) so silly. There's probably enough silly kinds of SF plot devices to parody that you could get a good two or three seasons out of it.
This was basically the main plot element of John Scalzi's Redshirts
"The beam from a power satellite is under 0.3 kW/m^2. Sunlight is around a kW/m^2."
then why would we use this instead of just using solar power? They must be using Republican math to try to justify this corporate welfare.
Do you mean that math in the replies where Henson said:
Addressing the economics, electricity is a commodity, especially base load power. Market goes to the lowest cost producers. Power satellites are cheaper than ground solar in close to the ratio of their utilization (i.e., fraction of the year they are selling power). Ground solar plants sell power about 20% of the time, vs space-based upwards of 90%.
Now if you have an issue with his 20% and 90% numbers then feel free to present your own analysis that refutes those numbers.
Because there are fewer seats available at the last minute. When supply goes down, prices go up. Also, there is greater demand over holidays, so again prices go up.
The cost of operating a plane does not significantly change based on passenger demand. Hence any huge increase of ticket prices based on high demand is pure gouging on the airlines part. Likewise price increases based on a rapidly approaching departure time is also gouging as the time you buy your ticket also doesn't affect the costs of running the plane.
You have been able to buy robotic lawnmowers for a while now. There are competing brands on Amazon. I'm guessing that it is just iRobot getting approval that is the actual story. Not robotic mowers in general.
Flyover states have cheap energy, because it's the only way they can attract businesses. There's only one problem... nobody wants to live there.
Right now I am doing a short term contract in Salt Lake City for a high tech manufacturing firm. When I got here I bought "60 hikes within 60 miles of Salt Lake City" and have been hitting the trails every weekend - and the majority of the hikes are within 30 minutes of where I live.. The place abounds with hiking, mountain biking and horse trails covering terrain from desert to 10,000 foot peaks. When winter hits this will all turn to skiing and snowmobiling. If none of that fitness stuff is what you like, I have heard machine guns being fired at local gun ranges. Or if not that.. there is a variety of arts as well - the Book of Mormon was playing here a few weeks ago, but unfortunately I missed it. So there is plenty of things to do for all sorts of people.
The downside to UT is of course the confluence of politics and religion. As an example you can only buy wine at state run ABC shops, and the beer you can buy at the supermarkets is not very strong. And the state does have a strong conservative streak. On the other hand there is a bit of public art down town showing a flying saucer with a human dressed as a Mormon missionary standing behind the alien flying the ship - so some people have a decent sense of humor.
Cheap labor remains an important consideration when moving manufacturing facilities.
But. Africa. Regional political unrest can undermine labor costs, raw material availability, and friendly tax packages.
On the other hand China has been investing in Africa (First link from google China Is Besting the U.S. in Africa). So China is already playing a long game there and while India may be a good choice right now, they may be looking at Africa after that.
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Your country is a smelly shithole of poverty, sexism, corruption, and superstition
I see that you are familiar with the majority of the southern states in the US.
.. trying to explain security to them is like trying to explain an egg shell to a brick wall.
Devil's advocate here. Have you considered the possibility that you just plain out suck at being able to explain things in terms that other people will understand?
The flip side of the non-technical manager stereotype is the nerdy technical genius stereotype who is so embedded in his/her own domain that he can't comprehend why other people can't understand what he/she does, and as a result consider everyone else but him/her to be stupid.
...means that you can destroy said hardware. What kind of news is that ?!?
It's click bait news to help sell the site to whoever the new owners will be.
What does Dice care (if it ever did) about the quality of stories on here.
While I don't have a Lenovo, this sort of thing is why I have set a firewall on my MacBook to block all outgoing requests unless they are whitelisted by me. It was a real eye opener when I first saw the number of applications that were phoning home without me knowing.
LOL, the intersection of those groups is so small as to be meaningless. Either way, we're talking about going halfway around the world in less than a day. If you're that impatient, nothing will satisfy you.
By your reasoning there is also no rationale for business or first class fares on flights as it doesn't matter how much you pay as you still get there at the same time.
and as for your timezone comment, lots of people transition their sleep by 12 hours all the time .. its called rotating shift work
2nd reply because I forgot about this for a moment.
Come to Australia
Three hours: airport security checks
Three hours: flight time
Three hours: customs
Not bad. Not bad at all.
You'd think that if you had an airline charging >5k euros per one way ticket, that they would have already paid off the right people in order to expedite security and customs. But even still as it is it doesn't take 3 hours to get through customs in Australia .. unless you are attempting to bring in some contraband. This isn't LAX after all.
who would want to do that?
Let's see. Right now the shortest commercial flight Brussels to Sydney is about 22 hours. I don't know if you noticed, but 3 is a lot less than 22, and some people have a lot more money than the $1600 needed for the current return ticket prices. And a fair share of these people travel all over the world.
Why would I think it used the cloud? This is the exact same process that my Moto X used to migrate from another Android phone to my new one.
Because for almost everything you do Apple wants you put stuff on their servers*
And I say that say someone with a MacBook, iMac, iPad and 2 different iPods
* A few years ago I saw the great quote of "Whenever you see the term 'the cloud', replace it with 'someone else's computer' "
Almost all those laws have been wiped clean
From the the oracle of all information, Sodomy laws in the United States makes for a fun read:
As of April 2014, 17 states either have not yet formally repealed their laws against sexual activity among consenting adult, or have not revised them to accurately reflect their true scope in the aftermath of Lawrence v. Texas. Often, the sodomy law was drafted to also encompass other forms of sexual conduct such as bestiality, and no attempt has subsequently succeeded in separating them. Fourteen states' statutes purport to ban all forms of sodomy, some including oral intercourse, regardless of the participants' genders: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Utah. Four states specifically target their statutes at same-sex relations only: Oklahoma, Kansas[16][17] Kentucky, and Texas.
Its scary that you know how to spell "womyn", and even scarier that I recognize it for what it is.
What's worse is that De Montfort University has a Senior Research Fellow In The Ethics Of Robotics.
So you don't care if people build unethical robots?
While the sexbot things is ridiculous for a number of reasons (mainly due to personal choice), what about scenarios where robots could lie, cheat, steal and kill? Ands that not even getting into the question of robots in the military.
Given the extremes of human nature, do you really think that people shouldn't be thinking about how we should craft our electronic progeny?
I would be much more inclined to question the validity of the tests if they are so complex that a machine designed to answer tests cannot perform above a C average.
The point of TFAI is not so much that the AI does badly but rather that the author of the AI (^w Slashvertisement) wants to use the tests as a benchmark. From TFA
Aristo is being developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, who want to give machines a measure of common sense about the world. The institute’s CEO, Oren Etzioni, says the best way to benchmark the development of their digital offspring is to use tests designed for schoolchildren. He’s trying to convince other AI researchers to adopt standardized school tests as a way to measure progress in the field.
First it was Hindi, then Malay, then Chinese, now Vietnamese.
Don't worry ..there is still Bengali, Khmer, Dzongkha, Nepali and Burmese to look forward to. And that's without even leaving the region!
Have I just been lucky? Or do we define 'embedded' diferently?
Well there is this Windows CE embedded OS from a company called Microsoft. You may have heard of them.
Way 2: This time, take a writer with them. An actor playing a writer, I mean. Someone to think up the silly resolutions (like the stuff that TNG always had Wesley do). So every week the "writer" would have to think up a new ridiculous way to get everyone out of the latest pickle. After all, it was really the writers who thought up the BS resolutions that made Galaxy Quest (OK, Trek) so silly. There's probably enough silly kinds of SF plot devices to parody that you could get a good two or three seasons out of it.
This was basically the main plot element of John Scalzi's Redshirts
But will it be another Stargate or Logan's Run? Sometimes a good idea can be spread too thinly.
I'm betting that it will end up as another Quark which was a good series for what it was.
FB wants us to dial M for assistance?
I'm guessing that given most FB employees were born after 1990* that they haven't heard of Hitchcock.
*Solely based on the perceived mentality of some small selection of FB CEOs
"The beam from a power satellite is under 0.3 kW/m^2. Sunlight is around a kW/m^2."
then why would we use this instead of just using solar power? They must be using Republican math to try to justify this corporate welfare.
Do you mean that math in the replies where Henson said:
Addressing the economics, electricity is a commodity, especially base load power. Market goes to the lowest cost producers. Power satellites are cheaper than ground solar in close to the ratio of their utilization (i.e., fraction of the year they are selling power). Ground solar plants sell power about 20% of the time, vs space-based upwards of 90%.
Now if you have an issue with his 20% and 90% numbers then feel free to present your own analysis that refutes those numbers.
I suppose then that the USSR's Mars 3 explorer in 1971 must be a figment of my imagination.
With a summary that bad I can't even be bothered to red TFS.
And when you look at List of Solar System probes there is a good deal of red in a whole lotta space probes.
Because there are fewer seats available at the last minute. When supply goes down, prices go up. Also, there is greater demand over holidays, so again prices go up.
The cost of operating a plane does not significantly change based on passenger demand. Hence any huge increase of ticket prices based on high demand is pure gouging on the airlines part. Likewise price increases based on a rapidly approaching departure time is also gouging as the time you buy your ticket also doesn't affect the costs of running the plane.
You have been able to buy robotic lawnmowers for a while now. There are competing brands on Amazon. I'm guessing that it is just iRobot getting approval that is the actual story. Not robotic mowers in general.
Now get off my lawn (my robot wants to mow it)
Flyover states have cheap energy, because it's the only way they can attract businesses. There's only one problem... nobody wants to live there.
Right now I am doing a short term contract in Salt Lake City for a high tech manufacturing firm. When I got here I bought "60 hikes within 60 miles of Salt Lake City" and have been hitting the trails every weekend - and the majority of the hikes are within 30 minutes of where I live.. The place abounds with hiking, mountain biking and horse trails covering terrain from desert to 10,000 foot peaks. When winter hits this will all turn to skiing and snowmobiling. If none of that fitness stuff is what you like, I have heard machine guns being fired at local gun ranges. Or if not that .. there is a variety of arts as well - the Book of Mormon was playing here a few weeks ago, but unfortunately I missed it. So there is plenty of things to do for all sorts of people.
The downside to UT is of course the confluence of politics and religion. As an example you can only buy wine at state run ABC shops, and the beer you can buy at the supermarkets is not very strong. And the state does have a strong conservative streak. On the other hand there is a bit of public art down town showing a flying saucer with a human dressed as a Mormon missionary standing behind the alien flying the ship - so some people have a decent sense of humor.
Cheap labor remains an important consideration when moving manufacturing facilities.
But. Africa. Regional political unrest can undermine labor costs, raw material availability, and friendly tax packages.
On the other hand China has been investing in Africa (First link from google China Is Besting the U.S. in Africa). So China is already playing a long game there and while India may be a good choice right now, they may be looking at Africa after that.
Add to that:
- Quiet
- Not having bright lights facing into the window
- A window that actually opens
- A reliable mechanism for opening the door.