My city has a lovely central park and mild weather all year 'round. Our park is populated with museums, exotic plants, colorful buskers entertaining visitors from around the world, and free wifi.
We also have lots of homeless people. They swarm to the park with their cell phones and chargers to enjoy YooToob and other amusements. There is an uncomfortable discrepancy between the wealthy visitors and the local homeless. We don't quite know how to reconcile that.
India may also see a shift in the mobile population toward train stations and other sources of free internet. Their large population moving in synchrony could tilt the polar axis.
I'm a generation ahead of you, sonny. Not sure what you're going on about in that huge meandering paragraph, but you might be old enough to appreciate this story of pathos and depcronation:
Fairly often I meet a fashionable young man (rarely a woman) wearing an Apple or other fancy watch. I always make a point to compliment them and inquire about the wonders of their watch. In every case, the wearer lights up with beaming pride and eagerly tells me about some incident where the watch actually turned out to be useful. Such enthusiasm; you would think it had saved his life!
Well, for me this satisfies my question as to why they buy the darn things. It's all about ego, pride, and a hidden sense of worthlessness that makes them spend outrageous sums for watches, cars, fashion and the biggest screen television on the block.
According to this, um, 1950s Popular Science magazine we will have flying cars any day now. Problem solved, no need for those pesky roads all over the place.
I've been nagging about this for years. The new management at slashdot seems to have inherited the stupidity of the old.
Capitalizing headlines was big in the 1930s as a means to build hype and sell newspapers. Very few newspapers do it now (see news.google.com) in favor of a more user friendly document.
Perhaps caps help slashdot to sell something? You'd have to ask their marketing department.
Education in the US is primarily oriented toward job training. It is about 'how to please your employer'.
In other times and places there is a quite different attitude that might be called 'how to survive in spite of your employer'. One of the prime lessons in this thought pattern is that you must make yourself indispensable. There are many ways...
For one; you might want to discover company secrets that would destroy the company if the taxman or competition learned about them. You become so powerful with this information that you cannot be fired (but you might suffer a deadly 'accident').
In this Twitter case, the relevant ploy that makes you indispensable is that only you can understand the code that makes a valuable software system work. The company either keeps you on... or they have to give up the entire software system.
Nice try, you Indian fuckers, but the company decided to dump your messaging app. Or maybe I'm entirely wrong about this, but let this be a reminder to other employees who are more interested in survival than pleasing your employer. Make yourself indispensable.
"Adding seaweed to cattle feed could reduce methane production by 70% That's equivalent to taking India's CO2 emissions off the map.
If we add dried seaweed to 2 percent of sheep and cattle feed, we could cut methane emissions by more than 70 percent, scientists have found.
With livestock responsible for 44 percent of all human-caused methane - a gas that has 36 times the global warming potential of CO2 - this could cut a huge chunk of the 3.1 gigatonnes these animals release into the atmosphere each year in burps and farts..."
As a matter of policy I never use the automated checkout. I never push in a cart from the parking lot. These are tasks for employees who value/need their job. It's not my place to usurp that or contribute to bonuses for CEOs who will be rewarded for eliminating jobs. Perhaps this attitude will cost consumers a few extra pennies; I don't care.
We are a demanding lot, eh? Instant gratification. As a child I was as enthused as anyone to see the World Series (that would be baseball for you foreigners) live. It had to be live! Classes would grind to a halt during the Big Games so that teachers, staff and students could watch in glorious black and white.
Movies, comics and music much the same. Gotta have it NOW!
I imagine that many of the/. crowd are mature enough to be able to deal with such things on their own time. We take control and don't let the commercial pressures of mass media push us into a panic for quick (and expensive) access to the hot item of the moment... don't we?
"German publisher, who also provided other technical magazines"
There do seem to be some in the slashdot crowd for whom Playboy content would be considered technical information. Read and learn young code warrior! The world is a better place for men and for women when you grasp these principles.
Cashless society? I couldn't find that anywhere in TFS. Coins. I did notice something about getting rid of coins whose value is less than $0.50. What am I missing? Are you going to make me RTFA?
Is there anything more subtly annoying than to find five pennies in your pocket? I dislike having even one of those useless pieces of shit, but when I have five it pops to mind that I could have a nickel instead- less weight. Two fat ugly nickels could be replaced by a thin dime that wouldn't weigh me down when I fall off the boat. Yadda... But none of those coins are worth bothering with. There are still a few machines that accept quarters. Half dollar coins? Nobody in a civilized society wants them either. There are still dollar coins in circulation- is that a surprise? Waitresses like them as tips sometimes.
Many economists claim to have proven that pennies cost society more than they are worth. In the USA the primary value of a penny is in marketing where pricing a product at $999.99 makes ignorant people believe they are paying less than $1,000.
Canada leads the world in beginning a sensible approach to coins. Quote from somewhere authoritative: "Starting in early 2013, the Royal Canadian Mint, with the help of financial institutions and charities, began collecting billions of pennies in preparation to recycle them."
Are we now going to accuse Canada of pushing an evil 'cashless society'? Get a grip, folks!
Many years ago I learned about 'left handed sugar'. This, apparently was a regular sugar molecule, except that it was a mirror image. The beauty of it was that it tasted exactly like sugar but the body didn't know what to do with it so it passed through without harm. Perfect for diabetics, fat people and those who want to preserve their brain cells!
Yeah, I really didn't want to look it up and you probably don't either, so the answer to your question is: it's very expensive to synthesize. The actual question may take some time to calculate.
"Why can't everyone just agree on a standard and stick with it"
And for the same reason, everyone should use Windows and MP3, MP4 and 720P and 110vAC/12vDC and drive on the right side of the road. Where's the fun in that?
All you cynics have failed to note the generosity of Gates and Zuckerberg. How kind-hearted of them to reach out to underprivileged Ugandans and offer a techno-boost. They understand that poor people around the world need the best education so that they can some day come to America and fill the disastrous shortage of qualified (and ethnically diverse) programmers and engineers. As we used to say "What's good for General Motors (or M$ or FB) is good for America!" Let's give Gates and Zuck a big American salute!
In the US, the government can't control energy production. Neither the President nor any other government official can declare "You will build a nuclear plant here" or "I want wind generators in the Rockies." These things are done by private industry in cooperation with local governments and public participation.
Many other countries can build such facilities by authoritarian decree. They can move swiftly in response to a perceived need. A democracy can be slow and clumsy because it requires many voices to be heard. Many such facilities require private investment from a wide variety of sources, most of whom expect profits or tax incentives. The complications are endless as environmentalists and others voice their concerns.
In the US almost everything is done by private industry including most of the space program, military weapons, communication networks, health care, etc. Tax dollars are awarded to bidders on some of these projects, and to universities for research, etc. But few government employees are involved. A major role of government is to regulate private industry- food, drugs, standards of safety, etc. They can say 'no' to an unsafe product, but they can't demand that a product be built.
Now consider the recent deep divide in Congress, in the Press, and on Main Street. Nothing got done these past many years. With Republicans now controlling every branch of government, some things will get done in the next few years (but you might not like them).
The rule at Slashdot is that EVERY word in a headline must begin with a capital letter. It's a nostalgic rule dating back to the early days of Slashdot and newspapers like the New York Times. Back in the 1800s, there was an imperative to sell papers with drama: shouting newsboys and huge headlines about some lurid gossip.
Slashdot proudly carries on that tradition, though it has no newspapers to sell. If the headline cluttered with caps is hard to read, just consider it a harkening back to the early days of Slashdot.
The cameras are gone, the show is over. He's now surrounded by people with urgent messages of dire need. They are concerned about trade, about national security, about oil, and about a popular revolt due to economic disparity.
New research warns that at the rate we're going, the number of men in the nursing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to study nursing science.
This tragic result of institutional discrimination shows no sign of improvement in the immediate future. Beginning at childhood and continuing throughout the educational system, there is little incentive given boys to study nursing. Those who do are often discriminated against by employers and even patients. Legislators have failed to recognize the problem or offer incentives for equal rights for boys.
I'm having some trouble wrapping my brain around that. Maybe I'm just tired. Is '3 Times Less' the same as 'one third'?
I have a recipe book nearby and I can't seem to find any instance where an ingredient should be '3 Times Less'. What, for instance, would be '3 Times Less' than a teaspoon? It's probably just me struggling with the grammar of marketing. I notice that it is popular today to dramatize changes by saying that the (somethingorother) 'increased by 100%' rather then the paltry 'doubled' or 'two times' that just doesn't make a great headline. 1,000% sounds much more impressive than 'ten times', don't you think? It also helps that slashdot gives every word in a headline a capital letter. These are really important headlines!
And you wonder about the clown sightings across the US? Who wants to be identified by the authorities when they are simply walking to the coffee shop? Soon everyone will wear camouflage makeup. It will be a colorful world !
I think it's only fair that, though we may not be billionaires, we should give an equal percentage of our income. Putting my money where my mouth is, I am willing to give $1.26 to house the homeless.
Only a great intelligence could produce this simulation. And we know that the greatest intelligence will not be biological, but the result of Vinge's technological singularity. At most it will be a hybrid with some biological components. This intelligence, while beyond our comprehension, seems unlikely to be amused by simulation games.
It's possible that it wants a deeper understanding of human foibles, but really- that's our own ego speculating. How interesting are we? So what could motivate this elegant machine to devise such a simulation. Even in an advanced civilization there is a cost to be justified.
This suggests that only the super mega ego of a billionaire would think us worthy of a simulation.
Slashdot Mirror
My city has a lovely central park and mild weather all year 'round. Our park is populated with museums, exotic plants, colorful buskers entertaining visitors from around the world, and free wifi.
We also have lots of homeless people. They swarm to the park with their cell phones and chargers to enjoy YooToob and other amusements. There is an uncomfortable discrepancy between the wealthy visitors and the local homeless. We don't quite know how to reconcile that.
India may also see a shift in the mobile population toward train stations and other sources of free internet. Their large population moving in synchrony could tilt the polar axis.
"I'm "old" (if you consider 57 as being old)..."
I'm a generation ahead of you, sonny. Not sure what you're going on about in that huge meandering paragraph, but you might be old enough to appreciate this story of pathos and depcronation:
Fairly often I meet a fashionable young man (rarely a woman) wearing an Apple or other fancy watch. I always make a point to compliment them and inquire about the wonders of their watch. In every case, the wearer lights up with beaming pride and eagerly tells me about some incident where the watch actually turned out to be useful. Such enthusiasm; you would think it had saved his life!
Well, for me this satisfies my question as to why they buy the darn things. It's all about ego, pride, and a hidden sense of worthlessness that makes them spend outrageous sums for watches, cars, fashion and the biggest screen television on the block.
According to this, um, 1950s Popular Science magazine we will have flying cars any day now. Problem solved, no need for those pesky roads all over the place.
I've been nagging about this for years. The new management at slashdot seems to have inherited the stupidity of the old.
Capitalizing headlines was big in the 1930s as a means to build hype and sell newspapers. Very few newspapers do it now (see news.google.com) in favor of a more user friendly document.
Perhaps caps help slashdot to sell something? You'd have to ask their marketing department.
Education in the US is primarily oriented toward job training. It is about 'how to please your employer'.
In other times and places there is a quite different attitude that might be called 'how to survive in spite of your employer'. One of the prime lessons in this thought pattern is that you must make yourself indispensable. There are many ways...
For one; you might want to discover company secrets that would destroy the company if the taxman or competition learned about them. You become so powerful with this information that you cannot be fired (but you might suffer a deadly 'accident').
In this Twitter case, the relevant ploy that makes you indispensable is that only you can understand the code that makes a valuable software system work. The company either keeps you on ... or they have to give up the entire software system.
Nice try, you Indian fuckers, but the company decided to dump your messaging app. Or maybe I'm entirely wrong about this, but let this be a reminder to other employees who are more interested in survival than pleasing your employer. Make yourself indispensable.
I thought we discussed this recently. Here's an excerpt from:
http://www.sciencealert.com/ad...
"Adding seaweed to cattle feed could reduce methane production by 70%
That's equivalent to taking India's CO2 emissions off the map.
If we add dried seaweed to 2 percent of sheep and cattle feed, we could cut methane emissions by more than 70 percent, scientists have found.
With livestock responsible for 44 percent of all human-caused methane - a gas that has 36 times the global warming potential of CO2 - this could cut a huge chunk of the 3.1 gigatonnes these animals release into the atmosphere each year in burps and farts..."
As a matter of policy I never use the automated checkout. I never push in a cart from the parking lot. These are tasks for employees who value/need their job. It's not my place to usurp that or contribute to bonuses for CEOs who will be rewarded for eliminating jobs. Perhaps this attitude will cost consumers a few extra pennies; I don't care.
We are a demanding lot, eh? Instant gratification. As a child I was as enthused as anyone to see the World Series (that would be baseball for you foreigners) live. It had to be live! Classes would grind to a halt during the Big Games so that teachers, staff and students could watch in glorious black and white.
Movies, comics and music much the same. Gotta have it NOW!
I imagine that many of the /. crowd are mature enough to be able to deal with such things on their own time. We take control and don't let the commercial pressures of mass media push us into a panic for quick (and expensive) access to the hot item of the moment ... don't we?
Yes, dangerous! That's why my BMW has no doors or windows or tracking devices. Completely safe.
"German publisher, who also provided other technical magazines"
There do seem to be some in the slashdot crowd for whom Playboy content would be considered technical information. Read and learn young code warrior! The world is a better place for men and for women when you grasp these principles.
Cashless society? I couldn't find that anywhere in TFS. Coins. I did notice something about getting rid of coins whose value is less than $0.50. What am I missing? Are you going to make me RTFA?
Is there anything more subtly annoying than to find five pennies in your pocket? I dislike having even one of those useless pieces of shit, but when I have five it pops to mind that I could have a nickel instead- less weight. Two fat ugly nickels could be replaced by a thin dime that wouldn't weigh me down when I fall off the boat. Yadda... But none of those coins are worth bothering with. There are still a few machines that accept quarters. Half dollar coins? Nobody in a civilized society wants them either. There are still dollar coins in circulation- is that a surprise? Waitresses like them as tips sometimes.
Many economists claim to have proven that pennies cost society more than they are worth. In the USA the primary value of a penny is in marketing where pricing a product at $999.99 makes ignorant people believe they are paying less than $1,000.
Canada leads the world in beginning a sensible approach to coins. Quote from somewhere authoritative: "Starting in early 2013, the Royal Canadian Mint, with the help of financial institutions and charities, began collecting billions of pennies in preparation to recycle them."
Are we now going to accuse Canada of pushing an evil 'cashless society'? Get a grip, folks!
Many years ago I learned about 'left handed sugar'. This, apparently was a regular sugar molecule, except that it was a mirror image. The beauty of it was that it tasted exactly like sugar but the body didn't know what to do with it so it passed through without harm. Perfect for diabetics, fat people and those who want to preserve their brain cells!
Yeah, I really didn't want to look it up and you probably don't either, so the answer to your question is: it's very expensive to synthesize. The actual question may take some time to calculate.
"Why can't everyone just agree on a standard and stick with it"
And for the same reason, everyone should use Windows and MP3, MP4 and 720P and 110vAC/12vDC and drive on the right side of the road. Where's the fun in that?
All you cynics have failed to note the generosity of Gates and Zuckerberg. How kind-hearted of them to reach out to underprivileged Ugandans and offer a techno-boost. They understand that poor people around the world need the best education so that they can some day come to America and fill the disastrous shortage of qualified (and ethnically diverse) programmers and engineers. As we used to say "What's good for General Motors (or M$ or FB) is good for America!" Let's give Gates and Zuck a big American salute!
In the US, the government can't control energy production. Neither the President nor any other government official can declare "You will build a nuclear plant here" or "I want wind generators in the Rockies." These things are done by private industry in cooperation with local governments and public participation.
Many other countries can build such facilities by authoritarian decree. They can move swiftly in response to a perceived need. A democracy can be slow and clumsy because it requires many voices to be heard. Many such facilities require private investment from a wide variety of sources, most of whom expect profits or tax incentives. The complications are endless as environmentalists and others voice their concerns.
In the US almost everything is done by private industry including most of the space program, military weapons, communication networks, health care, etc. Tax dollars are awarded to bidders on some of these projects, and to universities for research, etc. But few government employees are involved. A major role of government is to regulate private industry- food, drugs, standards of safety, etc. They can say 'no' to an unsafe product, but they can't demand that a product be built.
Now consider the recent deep divide in Congress, in the Press, and on Main Street. Nothing got done these past many years. With Republicans now controlling every branch of government, some things will get done in the next few years (but you might not like them).
The rule at Slashdot is that EVERY word in a headline must begin with a capital letter. It's a nostalgic rule dating back to the early days of Slashdot and newspapers like the New York Times. Back in the 1800s, there was an imperative to sell papers with drama: shouting newsboys and huge headlines about some lurid gossip.
Slashdot proudly carries on that tradition, though it has no newspapers to sell. If the headline cluttered with caps is hard to read, just consider it a harkening back to the early days of Slashdot.
"does show a certain amount of self-interest, navel-gazing, and even arrogance from Apple"
Nothing wrong with that !
The Inspire
DJI line
Phantom line
the Inspire 2
prosumer model
- am I expected to know what this is about?
The cameras are gone, the show is over. He's now surrounded by people with urgent messages of dire need. They are concerned about trade, about national security, about oil, and about a popular revolt due to economic disparity.
He will do what he's told to do.
New research warns that at the rate we're going, the number of men in the nursing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to study nursing science.
This tragic result of institutional discrimination shows no sign of improvement in the immediate future. Beginning at childhood and continuing throughout the educational system, there is little incentive given boys to study nursing. Those who do are often discriminated against by employers and even patients. Legislators have failed to recognize the problem or offer incentives for equal rights for boys.
I'm having some trouble wrapping my brain around that. Maybe I'm just tired.
Is '3 Times Less' the same as 'one third'?
I have a recipe book nearby and I can't seem to find any instance where an ingredient should be '3 Times Less'. What, for instance, would be '3 Times Less' than a teaspoon? It's probably just me struggling with the grammar of marketing. I notice that it is popular today to dramatize changes by saying that the (somethingorother) 'increased by 100%' rather then the paltry 'doubled' or 'two times' that just doesn't make a great headline. 1,000% sounds much more impressive than 'ten times', don't you think? It also helps that slashdot gives every word in a headline a capital letter. These are really important headlines!
And you wonder about the clown sightings across the US? Who wants to be identified by the authorities when they are simply walking to the coffee shop? Soon everyone will wear camouflage makeup. It will be a colorful world !
I think it's only fair that, though we may not be billionaires, we should give an equal percentage of our income. Putting my money where my mouth is, I am willing to give $1.26 to house the homeless.
Only a great intelligence could produce this simulation. And we know that the greatest intelligence will not be biological, but the result of Vinge's technological singularity. At most it will be a hybrid with some biological components. This intelligence, while beyond our comprehension, seems unlikely to be amused by simulation games.
It's possible that it wants a deeper understanding of human foibles, but really- that's our own ego speculating. How interesting are we? So what could motivate this elegant machine to devise such a simulation. Even in an advanced civilization there is a cost to be justified.
This suggests that only the super mega ego of a billionaire would think us worthy of a simulation.
I guess it serves to remind us that a cell is far smarter than a 'smart' cell phone.