When the US saw its steel industry die in Pittsburgh to China, if Congress was acting towards its people, it would have enacted steel tariff. When the US saw all its industry die to China, it should have at least given tariffs high enough to protect its best 10-15% of industry. But of course, the whole plan isn't to protect US workers, but to get profit margins at the top to record levels. People with too much money get a perverse sense of satisfaction for breaking up unions, and no better way to break up unions than to ship the jobs overseas.
Big is just what is needed to topple the corrupt telecommunications oligopoly. If Google can get 1 gb/s fiber here and there and spread it, we're either gonna get 1 gb/s fiber eventually, or the telecommunications oligopolies will be forced to compete and stop deliberately keeping us in the dark ages.
Right now the Internet is an excellent place to get an education... if you're an active learner.
Someday spoonfed education will be there with these new "universities" online compiling information and lessons
Right now if you wanted to, you could write a webpage that links to a zillion different small lessons that would build into one real lesson to get you day to day on subjects from K-12-College. The reason I never wrote this "index of lessons:virtual textbook of interactive material" was because of link rot.
I could spend several months compiling up a "virtual textbook of interactive material", but link rot would destroy it over time.
I just assumed it wouldn't be worth my time because I wasn't certain if I could out index the link rot. Now if link rot is fixed with the Internet Archive, someone could sit down and link all these links, adding in a time too. This way you'd have a URL with time/date data. So if the link ever changes into something that is not the lesson you wanted, like a new blog entry, or even a shock pic, the old time/data data would indicate to the Internet Archive to do that.
So I think what they're doing is a good idea if I know one application I'd personally use it on. I'm sure there'd be others.
This is probably a dumb idea, but it is a thought
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Phones/Tablets right now don't have a standardized controller. I know it is a stretch for Nintendo to make a classic controller like XBox or PS has, but if they did make controllers for tablets/phones, they could then make a series of games for Android/iOS. Then phones would have a standardized controller for other people to develop on too.
Most Nintendo game IP doesn't need expensive hardware to run, so cell phone/tablets is fine to go to. Phones/tablets can even be plugged into televisions to work like a console. The only thing missing is a standard controller. I haven't got a Nintendo since the SNES mostly because I find the controllers strange. Stop treating the game hardware like a toy in itself, go standard hardware minimum requirements and make your games good.
Now not everyone will be carrying a phone/controller around outside, but for the home, it is doable. If you work on manufacturing, you can get your controllers cheap. Then you're just selling people games.
If the communication (cable/phone) providers didn't sit down and say,"Hey lets try our best not to compete on prices so we can maximize rates", they wouldn't be able to keep jacking rates up." Normally the government is supposed to be there to regulate the telecommunications giants, but the way campaign contributions work, government is bought and paid for. The key is that they don't stop at your actual rate you agree to, they'll jack you up to a higher rate when they feel like it. My cable company also lied to me at my rate I agreed to. I pay 50% more than I agreed to on the phone. There's no alternative though since they don't compete. It really looks like the only hope is Google Fiber offering 1 gb/s for cheap. It is interesting to see how many dirty tricks the big players use to try and keep Google from competing. I mean they already sued away state funded fiber in places. I'm surprised UPS/FedEx haven't tried suing away the post office with the same logic.
Imagine a toddler picking up an object and spinning it around looking at it to learn what it is.
In the same way, AI needs to be able to digitize something by looking at it. You might thing you want a box to digitize things in, but then what if the box is too small?
I think there are going to be two types of scanners. One scanner will just detect a solid object, and consider it a "wall" until it learns further about that object. The other scanner will be one that determines the colors, dimensions, (maybe even hardness/softness) then tries to pattern match that with known objects in its database so the AI knows what it is looking at. Read more here
Flash is mobile friendly, Flashbuilder directly builds to Android and iPhone with the same code base.
Flash is easier to develop and prototype than any language I've ever used. If you know C/C++ or Java, you can prototype quicker in Flash than those two languages. You just get more done in Flash with less code.
Really the only reason not to use Flash is that Steve Jobs said not to use it. If Bill Gates told you not to use Netscape back in the day, would people have listened to him? Apple just doesn't like multiplatformed competition.
This is just random low grade physics fantasy pondering:
Once you can get a hold of an asteroid, you have a place from which you can exert a force. So 2 things can happen:
You can use force to chuck little pieces of asteroid back towards Earth to be collected "somehow"
You can jump from asteroid to asteroid.
All this would take precise calculations, but it doesn't suffer from "weak thrust ion drives", "weak solar sails", or "limited conventional thrusters." If you do your math calculations correct to jump from asteroid to asteroid, you could be using "electricity gained from nuclear or solar." to propel you through space.
So if the goal is to take select pieces of asteroid and shoot them back to Earth, you just need some really intelligent algorithms to leap from asteroid to asteroid. The fudge factor would be using some "limited conventional thrusters.", but the better your algorithms, the less you'd need to use them.
Now I don't know if this is viable at all, but it really opens your mind up to a robot leaping from asteroid to asteroid, gripping it, chucking pieces back to Earth(albeit possibly slowly) and going from asteroid to asteroid. OH SNAP! Dude you could totally use an asteroid as a surf board. Just throw pieces away from you in order to get you exactly to the other Asteroid you want to dock with. Man this is just fun to think about. The total costs of doing this would be really low because you wouldn't have to refuel often.
I don't know how many of you it bugged, but it bugged me that the different auto manufacturers were developing their own devices. All that non standardized nonsense would have actually not want to buy one of those vehicles with integrated tablets.
Back when Digg was big and Reddit was new, I wanted to make a factional voting site. Basically it works like this: Everyone votes and downvotes stuff like Reddit. But everyone also has sub categories for their affiliation. An example might be: Democrat/Republican. They'd have a long check list and radio buttons of different affiliations. This way something opposing groups disagree on would be voted up for their own personal faction.
We were going to have petitions where you could negative sign the petition to disagree. So politicians don't see a list of 10,000 signatures when 100,000 people hate it.
The problem we had was determining who is a registered voter. It is hard to verify people as having a real identifier especially if you have no start up capital to send out stamps for snail mail verification methods. And another problem is once you have registered voters, how do you watch out for hackers? We decided we couldn't solve these problems and gave up.
Someone really could make a hyper democracy site though. there's a market for it. Educate the voters on their desires for politics, and tell them which of their elected officials voted for or against certain topics they're interested in! It is real simple in concept. It'd start out as a voter education site, but if it seriously got powerful, politics could be different with an educated voter base.
My guess is that Bill Nye is gonna crush this guy. God is truth. Sure evolution has many different definitions, but I don't think any of them are untrue. I think it is some people's understanding of the Bible that is of question. Sure God made things in seven days, but how long is a day for God? If you read the Bible in two separate places it says a day for God is any length of time. Besides why should we assume they're 24 hour periods even before the sun exists.
I second the Bible. Even if you don't want to believe in a God who loves you so much he died for you, it helps you understand those who do.
My favorite books other than that are The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
I'll say the same thing as before,"If this goes over, they might throw in a Linux boot too." Say what you want about Windows, it still can get viruses easily, while Linux is a more secure browsing experience.
Right, who wants to use Windows 8, when there is Windows 8.1! I kid.
In all seriousness though, why is Windows forcing the windows to be a set size and calling this a feature? It is like they wanted to take a step backwards.
I'm all for aps, aps mean you can't get a virus, so I can finally download software off the Internet with a Windows computer. Of course they're 15 years late to the party. A lot of people bought Macs because they're harder to get viruses on. If Microsoft would have simply made software unable to escape their install directory like DOS games, Microsoft would be even more secure than a Mac.
The problem with Aps though is that they'll have a tremedous lag for adoption. People don't want to make Aps because WIndows 8 is such a poor market share, and no one wants Windows 8 because there aren't many Aps. I think if Microsoft was smart, they'd make reverse compatibility for Aps back to XP or Vista. You gotta make the the ap work on as many platforms as possible... It is even arguable that if they were smart you could make a Windows ap, and it'd work on Android and iPhone too.
Ah it shouldn't be hard to get drinking water from the ocean if we had to. The key is there is a water problem now. It is because many people live in poverty and no one helps them build the basic infrastructure for sanitation. The modern man should see what resources he needs to live on, living a frugal life even, then give the excess to help the poorest of the poor. For people with hearts, we don't need big time luxuries when there are poor people dying who can be helped at 33 cents a day. If you're celebrating Christmas, and all your friends and family have what they need to live on, consider giving to a reputable charity.
Look, a lot of people are trying to start a business, it should be treated the same as work experience.
The funny designation people say when talking with HR is,"Oh, you actually made money with this home business, then I guess it counts as work."
It doesn't matter you busted your tail for 10 years in projects that failed, suddenly the less ambitious one you did that made a couple bucks actually counts as work.
So lets drop the hobbyist title. If someone is working a home business that isn't yet profitable because there is an awful lot of overhead to code first, they've been working that time.
The point isn't to make truck drivers unemployed, it is to tell the next generation,"You won't find job security in truck driving in your generation." Truck drivers will likely still be needed for 15+ years from now even if everything rolls out perfect for the self driving car.
As much as I love my dad and his cool job of truck driving, the self driving car might impact that line of work. Self driving semis won't be quick to hit the road until after the civilian vehicles are out. I think the public will have a bit of fear for the big ol' trucks running under the control of T2000. And to more practical ends, the way you drive a semi is different than a regular car, so the software will need to be more advanced. In the short run(5-10 years after release of self driving cars) though delivery vans will be used quite effectively.
I think if the self driving car becomes popular, there will be a certain size van that will become popular. It will be big enough to hold cargo, but small enough to be able to handle with the self driving car software. While it would not be as cost efficient for larger cargo loads, it would be cheaper for loads in its size because not having to pay for a driver is big time. I think grocery stores, Walmart, and even local distributors could use these. The nice thing about this is that any time logistics sees a boon like this, the prices consumers pay goes down even more. Lower prices for food lets people save more money to invest in other things or donate and society's advancement accelerates. So we should look forward to the self driving car.
To a certain degree, it is sad for someone to lose their job to a robot. But it is just as sad to lose your job to out sourcing of cheaper labor. The key today is you need to be on your toes, always educating yourself. The Internet gives you the ability to keep progressing in education past what you received in secondary education. And if you're a kid who hasn't graduated high school, I envy you because I wanted to take college level courses when I was in high school. Back in the early 90s, you just didn't have a way to educate yourself past what your teachers fed you outside of teaching yourself coding or something at home with limited materials. I mean you could sit down and just read through the encyclopedias as I'm sure many Slashdotters have done. But today, with the Internet, you can get a solid education if you're an active learner. If you need to be spoon fed, the Internet isn't quite there, but it is getting there.
I'm just saying there is no excuse to not be learning as your chief pass time now. You might think learning about other disciplines won't help you in your workplace. But you never know what can click in your head as a business idea when you study cross discipline. Also if you deliberately make it one of your hobbies to learn new stuff on the Internet, you might eventually have enough knowledge to be a tradesman in other fields.
Anyway, I think the days of the truck driver might be numbered. There is no net loss for society though. It will be a net gain. If you want to compete in the new economy, you want to always be learning especially if you're not currently employed. And what you can do with your mind will have a bigger impact than what people with a great mind could do back in the day.
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Then you get the women.
When the US saw its steel industry die in Pittsburgh to China, if Congress was acting towards its people, it would have enacted steel tariff. When the US saw all its industry die to China, it should have at least given tariffs high enough to protect its best 10-15% of industry. But of course, the whole plan isn't to protect US workers, but to get profit margins at the top to record levels. People with too much money get a perverse sense of satisfaction for breaking up unions, and no better way to break up unions than to ship the jobs overseas.
Big is just what is needed to topple the corrupt telecommunications oligopoly. If Google can get 1 gb/s fiber here and there and spread it, we're either gonna get 1 gb/s fiber eventually, or the telecommunications oligopolies will be forced to compete and stop deliberately keeping us in the dark ages.
Right now the Internet is an excellent place to get an education... if you're an active learner.
Someday spoonfed education will be there with these new "universities" online compiling information and lessons
Right now if you wanted to, you could write a webpage that links to a zillion different small lessons that would build into one real lesson to get you day to day on subjects from K-12-College. The reason I never wrote this "index of lessons:virtual textbook of interactive material" was because of link rot.
I could spend several months compiling up a "virtual textbook of interactive material", but link rot would destroy it over time.
I just assumed it wouldn't be worth my time because I wasn't certain if I could out index the link rot. Now if link rot is fixed with the Internet Archive, someone could sit down and link all these links, adding in a time too. This way you'd have a URL with time/date data. So if the link ever changes into something that is not the lesson you wanted, like a new blog entry, or even a shock pic, the old time/data data would indicate to the Internet Archive to do that.
So I think what they're doing is a good idea if I know one application I'd personally use it on. I'm sure there'd be others.
$6.5 Bitcoin and a quarter? Do you have my books?
Phones/Tablets right now don't have a standardized controller. I know it is a stretch for Nintendo to make a classic controller like XBox or PS has, but if they did make controllers for tablets/phones, they could then make a series of games for Android/iOS. Then phones would have a standardized controller for other people to develop on too.
Most Nintendo game IP doesn't need expensive hardware to run, so cell phone/tablets is fine to go to. Phones/tablets can even be plugged into televisions to work like a console. The only thing missing is a standard controller. I haven't got a Nintendo since the SNES mostly because I find the controllers strange. Stop treating the game hardware like a toy in itself, go standard hardware minimum requirements and make your games good.
Now not everyone will be carrying a phone/controller around outside, but for the home, it is doable. If you work on manufacturing, you can get your controllers cheap. Then you're just selling people games.
I would hope they'd get a sensor that would be able to identify new objects. Maybe let a robot pick it up, spin it around, get a 3d digitization model of the object then label it something temporary until someone tells it what it is. A quick look at how AI is probably going to be done when all the techs come together
If the communication (cable/phone) providers didn't sit down and say,"Hey lets try our best not to compete on prices so we can maximize rates", they wouldn't be able to keep jacking rates up." Normally the government is supposed to be there to regulate the telecommunications giants, but the way campaign contributions work, government is bought and paid for. The key is that they don't stop at your actual rate you agree to, they'll jack you up to a higher rate when they feel like it. My cable company also lied to me at my rate I agreed to. I pay 50% more than I agreed to on the phone. There's no alternative though since they don't compete. It really looks like the only hope is Google Fiber offering 1 gb/s for cheap. It is interesting to see how many dirty tricks the big players use to try and keep Google from competing. I mean they already sued away state funded fiber in places. I'm surprised UPS/FedEx haven't tried suing away the post office with the same logic.
Imagine a toddler picking up an object and spinning it around looking at it to learn what it is.
In the same way, AI needs to be able to digitize something by looking at it. You might thing you want a box to digitize things in, but then what if the box is too small?
I think there are going to be two types of scanners. One scanner will just detect a solid object, and consider it a "wall" until it learns further about that object. The other scanner will be one that determines the colors, dimensions, (maybe even hardness/softness) then tries to pattern match that with known objects in its database so the AI knows what it is looking at. Read more here
Flash is mobile friendly, Flashbuilder directly builds to Android and iPhone with the same code base.
Flash is easier to develop and prototype than any language I've ever used. If you know C/C++ or Java, you can prototype quicker in Flash than those two languages. You just get more done in Flash with less code.
Really the only reason not to use Flash is that Steve Jobs said not to use it. If Bill Gates told you not to use Netscape back in the day, would people have listened to him? Apple just doesn't like multiplatformed competition.
Well if 4k is better, 8k will probably be a thing. How far will it go? I think 64k will be enough for anyone.
This is just random low grade physics fantasy pondering:
Once you can get a hold of an asteroid, you have a place from which you can exert a force. So 2 things can happen:
You can use force to chuck little pieces of asteroid back towards Earth to be collected "somehow"
You can jump from asteroid to asteroid.
All this would take precise calculations, but it doesn't suffer from "weak thrust ion drives", "weak solar sails", or "limited conventional thrusters." If you do your math calculations correct to jump from asteroid to asteroid, you could be using "electricity gained from nuclear or solar." to propel you through space.
So if the goal is to take select pieces of asteroid and shoot them back to Earth, you just need some really intelligent algorithms to leap from asteroid to asteroid. The fudge factor would be using some "limited conventional thrusters.", but the better your algorithms, the less you'd need to use them.
Now I don't know if this is viable at all, but it really opens your mind up to a robot leaping from asteroid to asteroid, gripping it, chucking pieces back to Earth(albeit possibly slowly) and going from asteroid to asteroid. OH SNAP! Dude you could totally use an asteroid as a surf board. Just throw pieces away from you in order to get you exactly to the other Asteroid you want to dock with. Man this is just fun to think about. The total costs of doing this would be really low because you wouldn't have to refuel often.
I don't know how many of you it bugged, but it bugged me that the different auto manufacturers were developing their own devices. All that non standardized nonsense would have actually not want to buy one of those vehicles with integrated tablets.
Back when Digg was big and Reddit was new, I wanted to make a factional voting site. Basically it works like this: Everyone votes and downvotes stuff like Reddit. But everyone also has sub categories for their affiliation. An example might be: Democrat/Republican. They'd have a long check list and radio buttons of different affiliations. This way something opposing groups disagree on would be voted up for their own personal faction.
We were going to have petitions where you could negative sign the petition to disagree. So politicians don't see a list of 10,000 signatures when 100,000 people hate it.
The problem we had was determining who is a registered voter. It is hard to verify people as having a real identifier especially if you have no start up capital to send out stamps for snail mail verification methods. And another problem is once you have registered voters, how do you watch out for hackers? We decided we couldn't solve these problems and gave up.
Someone really could make a hyper democracy site though. there's a market for it. Educate the voters on their desires for politics, and tell them which of their elected officials voted for or against certain topics they're interested in! It is real simple in concept. It'd start out as a voter education site, but if it seriously got powerful, politics could be different with an educated voter base.
and in the 2014 Futurama will show a model of an elaborate Martian colony
My guess is that Bill Nye is gonna crush this guy. God is truth. Sure evolution has many different definitions, but I don't think any of them are untrue. I think it is some people's understanding of the Bible that is of question. Sure God made things in seven days, but how long is a day for God? If you read the Bible in two separate places it says a day for God is any length of time. Besides why should we assume they're 24 hour periods even before the sun exists.
I second the Bible. Even if you don't want to believe in a God who loves you so much he died for you, it helps you understand those who do. My favorite books other than that are The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Dual Posting Dual Booting, so meta.
I'll say the same thing as before,"If this goes over, they might throw in a Linux boot too." Say what you want about Windows, it still can get viruses easily, while Linux is a more secure browsing experience.
Soon we'll be multibooting to several different OS if this takes off. Linux is sure to benefit.
Right, who wants to use Windows 8, when there is Windows 8.1! I kid.
In all seriousness though, why is Windows forcing the windows to be a set size and calling this a feature? It is like they wanted to take a step backwards.
I'm all for aps, aps mean you can't get a virus, so I can finally download software off the Internet with a Windows computer. Of course they're 15 years late to the party. A lot of people bought Macs because they're harder to get viruses on. If Microsoft would have simply made software unable to escape their install directory like DOS games, Microsoft would be even more secure than a Mac.
The problem with Aps though is that they'll have a tremedous lag for adoption. People don't want to make Aps because WIndows 8 is such a poor market share, and no one wants Windows 8 because there aren't many Aps. I think if Microsoft was smart, they'd make reverse compatibility for Aps back to XP or Vista. You gotta make the the ap work on as many platforms as possible... It is even arguable that if they were smart you could make a Windows ap, and it'd work on Android and iPhone too.
Ah it shouldn't be hard to get drinking water from the ocean if we had to. The key is there is a water problem now. It is because many people live in poverty and no one helps them build the basic infrastructure for sanitation. The modern man should see what resources he needs to live on, living a frugal life even, then give the excess to help the poorest of the poor. For people with hearts, we don't need big time luxuries when there are poor people dying who can be helped at 33 cents a day. If you're celebrating Christmas, and all your friends and family have what they need to live on, consider giving to a reputable charity.
Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot.
Look, a lot of people are trying to start a business, it should be treated the same as work experience.
The funny designation people say when talking with HR is,"Oh, you actually made money with this home business, then I guess it counts as work."
It doesn't matter you busted your tail for 10 years in projects that failed, suddenly the less ambitious one you did that made a couple bucks actually counts as work.
So lets drop the hobbyist title. If someone is working a home business that isn't yet profitable because there is an awful lot of overhead to code first, they've been working that time.
The point isn't to make truck drivers unemployed, it is to tell the next generation,"You won't find job security in truck driving in your generation." Truck drivers will likely still be needed for 15+ years from now even if everything rolls out perfect for the self driving car.
As much as I love my dad and his cool job of truck driving, the self driving car might impact that line of work. Self driving semis won't be quick to hit the road until after the civilian vehicles are out. I think the public will have a bit of fear for the big ol' trucks running under the control of T2000. And to more practical ends, the way you drive a semi is different than a regular car, so the software will need to be more advanced. In the short run(5-10 years after release of self driving cars) though delivery vans will be used quite effectively.
I think if the self driving car becomes popular, there will be a certain size van that will become popular. It will be big enough to hold cargo, but small enough to be able to handle with the self driving car software. While it would not be as cost efficient for larger cargo loads, it would be cheaper for loads in its size because not having to pay for a driver is big time. I think grocery stores, Walmart, and even local distributors could use these. The nice thing about this is that any time logistics sees a boon like this, the prices consumers pay goes down even more. Lower prices for food lets people save more money to invest in other things or donate and society's advancement accelerates. So we should look forward to the self driving car.
To a certain degree, it is sad for someone to lose their job to a robot. But it is just as sad to lose your job to out sourcing of cheaper labor. The key today is you need to be on your toes, always educating yourself. The Internet gives you the ability to keep progressing in education past what you received in secondary education. And if you're a kid who hasn't graduated high school, I envy you because I wanted to take college level courses when I was in high school. Back in the early 90s, you just didn't have a way to educate yourself past what your teachers fed you outside of teaching yourself coding or something at home with limited materials. I mean you could sit down and just read through the encyclopedias as I'm sure many Slashdotters have done. But today, with the Internet, you can get a solid education if you're an active learner. If you need to be spoon fed, the Internet isn't quite there, but it is getting there.
I'm just saying there is no excuse to not be learning as your chief pass time now. You might think learning about other disciplines won't help you in your workplace. But you never know what can click in your head as a business idea when you study cross discipline. Also if you deliberately make it one of your hobbies to learn new stuff on the Internet, you might eventually have enough knowledge to be a tradesman in other fields.
Anyway, I think the days of the truck driver might be numbered. There is no net loss for society though. It will be a net gain. If you want to compete in the new economy, you want to always be learning especially if you're not currently employed. And what you can do with your mind will have a bigger impact than what people with a great mind could do back in the day.