I suspect by the time mechanically recovered meat has been processed, decontaminated, reconstituted, shaped, and cooked, there may be little difference. But by then even chicken doesn't quite taste like chicken anymore.
If you don't trust an AI while seated in an energy absorbing cage with 3 point restraints and inflatable body protection, you sure as shit shouldn't trust that same AI when you're walking around with nothing to protect you from it at all.
Personally, I'll take an AI over someone driving a 6000lb vehicle while talking on the phone and/or texting and/or posting to Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat any day.
Better yet, if we can get your sorry ass off the road and replace you with a self-driving vehicle, we won't have to pay your salary and all the shit you peddle will be cheaper. You'll be fine because you've saved your money and have a comfy retirement, so we all win. Or you'll die penniless having spent your money and had your job eliminated due to automation, in which case we win. Either way, it's a win for most of us.
I'll bet a politician would tell me I could do either one of those if it would my vote. Why can't physicists respect my desires like the nice men in suits do?
If it has iris unlock, you won't have to worry. The Note 7 (RIP) had both, and many people liked the iris functionality when gloved. Personally, I found you had to be uncomfortably close, and prefer the Windows (Intel) Hello facial recognition login for a more seamless experience.
If you could be certain that passwords were unique, there would be no need for a username. Your password is just a unique identifier, as is your username.
That's why I work for myself now. I choose which jobs I'm going to take. Naturally, there is pressure to take all of the jobs, as turning down work can lead to negative consequences (too picky, too busy, not available), but may clients self-select if my lead time gets long. If I end up "forced" to work evenings or a weekend, I'm getting paid for it. And above and beyond my basic salary+overhead level, I'm making nearly all of my billing rate as straight income - which is about 3x the normal pay rate for employees doing my work.
Plus, because I'm working for myself, I can say "I don't do that kind of project" and it's done. I do the ones that are profitable and the ones I enjoy. It's not all glory, but it's turned out to be way better than working for someone else.
Even Mission Specialists are Civil Servants though and, as such, should be covered under both federal health benefits during employment and FEHB under retirement unless they quit and go to a non-governmental job following their service and never come back. If he was disabled during service, he should be able to get disability compensation (unless he didn't elect disability, which would be silly).
The US military can call in a strike on any position in the world, with 1 meter accuracy, and deliver a deadly payload in less than 6 hours. 2 hours to most populated areas. They can wipe out an entire city in a day, even without nukes. They have nearly invisible fortresses both above and below the water all over the globe. They have aircraft which carry nuclear weapons which are nearly invisible to radar and can circumnavigate the globe without ever having to land.
That's insane. And yet we don't react when we find out because, even for the stuff we didn't know for certain, we kind of figured they could probably do it. CIA is the same way, it's just not talked about as much. Most people hadn't hear of (or dind't know much of) the NSA back when Snowden dumped his data) so it was a surprise. The CIA is not a surprise. To anyone. They may be secret, but they're not shrouded in mystery.
The ability to land a rocket using vectored thrust on a moving platform is also a silly, nearly impossible task.
Given the right price, hiring a dedicated transport to do the work is probably not a big deal. That's what, 4kg/kWh, so 4000kg per MWh or 400,000kg for the system. Sea transport makes the most sense, but it's also only ~4 chartered 777s worth of cargo (based on Fedex custom charters). For a special case, you can get lots of regs waived.
Strangely enough, walking to work is one of the least environmentally friendly forms of transportation. Even if you got all of your calories from sustainably farmed, vegetable based foods, humans are just abysmal when it comes to efficiency. It's why I laugh when any of my friends brings up that 5 Hour Energy crackpot who thinks he can power the third world with bicycle based generators. The food required would cost more than buying a generator or a pack of solar cells and a battery.
You'd be surprised how well they can emulate this, though. I was pleasantly surprised at what Asteroids looks like on the MAME cabinet I built using a 2560x1600 LCD. I mean it's clearly NOT as good as the original and I think some of the line trace is a bit overdone (they even brighten the eds of lines, simulating the extra electrons accumulating as the beam is slowed and deflected to the next vector), but it's very, very playable.
CRT renderings of the games was not how the designers wanted them to look, just as musical artists and engineers don't want to sound like a vinyl record. They wanted them to look like modern 4k, photorealistic games but were held back by the technology. No, what will be gone is the experience of the fuzzy-edged, low resolution games people remember playing as children. What we're losing is nostalgia, not veracity or design intent.
Note that this isn't a requirement to block ANYTHING - just an allowance. The free market will take care of that, with the good providers blocking bad robocalls and thereby gaining more subscribers through their positive customer service efforts.
Of course, this would also allow providers to block numbers that have been issuied by non-phone companies, I suppose, like Google and VoIP providers, so we can get that riff raff out of the system and start making sure you pay a real telecom provider for your service. Capitalism doesn't run on freeloaders , you know, and if we can get those freeloaders into paying customers everyone will be happy and rich. Well, at least for the people who are already rich and own everything. Everyone else can go pound sand (but do it on your own damned time, because you need to go find a job you lazy sap - you've got bills to pay)
I mean, sure, it's a palindrome, but real, working Americans can't even spell palindrome, much less know what one is. In fact, palindrome is the kind of work you only hear from those faggy intellectuals.
They need a better acronym, like Cyber Undermining Threat-Tactics for Heaping Righteous Offensive Action on Terrorists. Now That's a bill with balls. Big. Fat. Hairy. Balls. That you can shove down the throat of those bastard attackers of your computer systems.
They have training classes for all of this. They just feel too important to bother. It's no incompetence - it's hubris. And there's an oversupply at the top levels of all organizations.
I thought I could clearly hear problems with mp3s up to 320kbps when I was getting ready to rip my CD collection (several hundred across most genres) back in the early 2000s. So I decided to take a weekend and do an ABX across the different formats I listen to. The answer: above about 224kbps (256 for well recorded classical) I couldn't reliably tell the difference. Now, that wasn't with a $10,000 listening chain, but it was decent enough cans (7506) and on a system which is better than 95% of my listening time.
As reference, I was a musician all through school, was a theory class shy of a minor in college, and perform in and direct vocal ensembles, and have a small home recording studio - I know my sound. I don't have golden ears, but I'd wager they're at least somewhere in the average range, and I know what to listen for. I decided that if I can barely tell the difference under optimal conditions I definitely shouldn't waste bandwidth or storage (back when it mattered) on high bitrate files that are going to go on marginal gear like iPods or be listened to in a car or at my desk. OTOH, after a horribly misguided idea of using mp3pro to encode a batch of disks, I realized that my full library rip would be to FLAC. Not for listening, but for archiving. While I may not be able to hear artifacts at 256kbps, I sure as hell can if I were to transcode to a new format. So My flacs (and a handful of alacs) sit in a folder on my server. I transcoded to mp3 for my main listening library, then again in a few years to aac when I got an iPod, then a second time to a higher bitrate aac when I got a really big ipod. I still think lossless is an archival format, not one for carrying around and listening. At least not until they have TB uSD cards to hold my whole collection.
If you think your can hear the difference between 320kbps and lossless on a 44.1/16 track, you deserve to pay the extra $10 a month.
If you can *actually* hear the difference between 320kbps and lossless on a 44.1/16 track, and complain about it, you shouldn't want to listen to 44.1/16 music in the first place.
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I suspect by the time mechanically recovered meat has been processed, decontaminated, reconstituted, shaped, and cooked, there may be little difference. But by then even chicken doesn't quite taste like chicken anymore.
Politicians suck at writing clear, concise sentences.
If you don't trust an AI while seated in an energy absorbing cage with 3 point restraints and inflatable body protection, you sure as shit shouldn't trust that same AI when you're walking around with nothing to protect you from it at all.
Personally, I'll take an AI over someone driving a 6000lb vehicle while talking on the phone and/or texting and/or posting to Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat any day.
Better yet, if we can get your sorry ass off the road and replace you with a self-driving vehicle, we won't have to pay your salary and all the shit you peddle will be cheaper. You'll be fine because you've saved your money and have a comfy retirement, so we all win. Or you'll die penniless having spent your money and had your job eliminated due to automation, in which case we win. Either way, it's a win for most of us.
Blah blah blah...you can't go faster than light.
Blah blah blah...you can't cool to absolute zero.
I'll bet a politician would tell me I could do either one of those if it would my vote. Why can't physicists respect my desires like the nice men in suits do?
If it has iris unlock, you won't have to worry. The Note 7 (RIP) had both, and many people liked the iris functionality when gloved. Personally, I found you had to be uncomfortably close, and prefer the Windows (Intel) Hello facial recognition login for a more seamless experience.
If you could be certain that passwords were unique, there would be no need for a username. Your password is just a unique identifier, as is your username.
That's why I work for myself now. I choose which jobs I'm going to take. Naturally, there is pressure to take all of the jobs, as turning down work can lead to negative consequences (too picky, too busy, not available), but may clients self-select if my lead time gets long. If I end up "forced" to work evenings or a weekend, I'm getting paid for it. And above and beyond my basic salary+overhead level, I'm making nearly all of my billing rate as straight income - which is about 3x the normal pay rate for employees doing my work.
Plus, because I'm working for myself, I can say "I don't do that kind of project" and it's done. I do the ones that are profitable and the ones I enjoy. It's not all glory, but it's turned out to be way better than working for someone else.
Even Mission Specialists are Civil Servants though and, as such, should be covered under both federal health benefits during employment and FEHB under retirement unless they quit and go to a non-governmental job following their service and never come back. If he was disabled during service, he should be able to get disability compensation (unless he didn't elect disability, which would be silly).
The US military can call in a strike on any position in the world, with 1 meter accuracy, and deliver a deadly payload in less than 6 hours. 2 hours to most populated areas. They can wipe out an entire city in a day, even without nukes. They have nearly invisible fortresses both above and below the water all over the globe. They have aircraft which carry nuclear weapons which are nearly invisible to radar and can circumnavigate the globe without ever having to land.
That's insane. And yet we don't react when we find out because, even for the stuff we didn't know for certain, we kind of figured they could probably do it. CIA is the same way, it's just not talked about as much. Most people hadn't hear of (or dind't know much of) the NSA back when Snowden dumped his data) so it was a surprise. The CIA is not a surprise. To anyone. They may be secret, but they're not shrouded in mystery.
Not to minimize the devastation on Hiroshima, but they're not putting this 1mi directly above a city, and the results won't be radioactive.
The ability to land a rocket using vectored thrust on a moving platform is also a silly, nearly impossible task.
Given the right price, hiring a dedicated transport to do the work is probably not a big deal. That's what, 4kg/kWh, so 4000kg per MWh or 400,000kg for the system.
Sea transport makes the most sense, but it's also only ~4 chartered 777s worth of cargo (based on Fedex custom charters). For a special case, you can get lots of regs waived.
Good point - that's one of Musk's companies, too - right?
You should never, ever drop a microphone, for any reason.
Unless you make a comment like this. And then it's absolutely warranted.
Only if the battery powers the drive train. So, no. But nice try.
Strangely enough, walking to work is one of the least environmentally friendly forms of transportation. Even if you got all of your calories from sustainably farmed, vegetable based foods, humans are just abysmal when it comes to efficiency. It's why I laugh when any of my friends brings up that 5 Hour Energy crackpot who thinks he can power the third world with bicycle based generators. The food required would cost more than buying a generator or a pack of solar cells and a battery.
I'll remember this the next time I'm playing space invaders on my machine.
You'd be surprised how well they can emulate this, though. I was pleasantly surprised at what Asteroids looks like on the MAME cabinet I built using a 2560x1600 LCD. I mean it's clearly NOT as good as the original and I think some of the line trace is a bit overdone (they even brighten the eds of lines, simulating the extra electrons accumulating as the beam is slowed and deflected to the next vector), but it's very, very playable.
CRT renderings of the games was not how the designers wanted them to look, just as musical artists and engineers don't want to sound like a vinyl record. They wanted them to look like modern 4k, photorealistic games but were held back by the technology. No, what will be gone is the experience of the fuzzy-edged, low resolution games people remember playing as children. What we're losing is nostalgia, not veracity or design intent.
Note that this isn't a requirement to block ANYTHING - just an allowance. The free market will take care of that, with the good providers blocking bad robocalls and thereby gaining more subscribers through their positive customer service efforts.
Of course, this would also allow providers to block numbers that have been issuied by non-phone companies, I suppose, like Google and VoIP providers, so we can get that riff raff out of the system and start making sure you pay a real telecom provider for your service. Capitalism doesn't run on freeloaders , you know, and if we can get those freeloaders into paying customers everyone will be happy and rich. Well, at least for the people who are already rich and own everything. Everyone else can go pound sand (but do it on your own damned time, because you need to go find a job you lazy sap - you've got bills to pay)
That's the first thing I thought of, too.
I mean, sure, it's a palindrome, but real, working Americans can't even spell palindrome, much less know what one is. In fact, palindrome is the kind of work you only hear from those faggy intellectuals.
They need a better acronym, like Cyber Undermining Threat-Tactics for Heaping Righteous Offensive Action on Terrorists. Now That's a bill with balls. Big. Fat. Hairy. Balls. That you can shove down the throat of those bastard attackers of your computer systems.
They have training classes for all of this. They just feel too important to bother. It's no incompetence - it's hubris. And there's an oversupply at the top levels of all organizations.
I thought I could clearly hear problems with mp3s up to 320kbps when I was getting ready to rip my CD collection (several hundred across most genres) back in the early 2000s. So I decided to take a weekend and do an ABX across the different formats I listen to. The answer: above about 224kbps (256 for well recorded classical) I couldn't reliably tell the difference. Now, that wasn't with a $10,000 listening chain, but it was decent enough cans (7506) and on a system which is better than 95% of my listening time.
As reference, I was a musician all through school, was a theory class shy of a minor in college, and perform in and direct vocal ensembles, and have a small home recording studio - I know my sound. I don't have golden ears, but I'd wager they're at least somewhere in the average range, and I know what to listen for. I decided that if I can barely tell the difference under optimal conditions I definitely shouldn't waste bandwidth or storage (back when it mattered) on high bitrate files that are going to go on marginal gear like iPods or be listened to in a car or at my desk. OTOH, after a horribly misguided idea of using mp3pro to encode a batch of disks, I realized that my full library rip would be to FLAC. Not for listening, but for archiving. While I may not be able to hear artifacts at 256kbps, I sure as hell can if I were to transcode to a new format. So My flacs (and a handful of alacs) sit in a folder on my server. I transcoded to mp3 for my main listening library, then again in a few years to aac when I got an iPod, then a second time to a higher bitrate aac when I got a really big ipod. I still think lossless is an archival format, not one for carrying around and listening. At least not until they have TB uSD cards to hold my whole collection.
If you think your can hear the difference between 320kbps and lossless on a 44.1/16 track, you deserve to pay the extra $10 a month.
If you can *actually* hear the difference between 320kbps and lossless on a 44.1/16 track, and complain about it, you shouldn't want to listen to 44.1/16 music in the first place.