Not even close to "first electric truck of the century". Some companies have been at this for ages. Smith Electric Vehicles, for example, started with electric delivery trucks in the 1920s, switched to milk floats, then in the modern era back to full-sized electric delivery trucks.
Indeed... I remember in the 1980's we still had an electric milk float that would come around our village delivering milk to all the doorstops.
Of course the blue tits (type of bird you pervs) would peck through the foil lids on the milk bottles to go after the milk.
Ahhh... I missed the first 3 years of Slashdot's existence. By the time I first started logging on Slashdot was already a toddler and using a big-boy toilet.
It is likely using the same codebase that is used to recognize individual people and could likely be expanded to other interesting research like recognizing individual birds in the wild.
We had one white cat that it thought was a person in a few photos. It also recognizes my daughter's Barbie Dolls and think they're a person. There are several statue photos that Google Photos has listed as people too.
Yes, it is... It's not the monster of monster.com, or the monster of monster fish keepers https://www.monsterfishkeepers... , or the monster of monster energy drinks. Heck it's not even the monster of "there's a monster at the end of this book".
I don't have bad Mondays, in general. I love my job - not ever moment of it; people and situations will occasionally annoy, but in general I'm a happy camper at work. If you don't love your job, then you should either find something else or find a way to love it. There's no extra reward for going through life miserable.
I wouldn't say I love my job. I don't love being in IT, I accidentally fell into IT. However, I don't hate my job either and I think I couldn't ask for a better boss or employer. So, no, I don't hate Mondays... if anything midweek is what I hate most- I've had several days of work to deal with and still not time for a weekend in the immediate future.
To be fair, there are many people who can afford Telas but don't choose to because they don't buy into the hype as easily. There is a good deal of hype inflating the price.
I could perhaps afford to buy a Tesla, but I never spend that much on a car. I do think they appear to be fantastic cars and would consider one if I ever became not-a-cheapskate.
I may try Hulu, but so far I have 10 years of stuff I want to watch on Netflix before I run out...
Only things I feel like I'm missing are Doctor Who (yanked from all services for awhile), maybe Seinfeld that I never watched, and Rick and Morty (possibly on Hulu??).
Originally after cutting the cord I was going to get both Hulu for television series and Netflix for movies; but Netflix has plenty of TV series and I see more of those than movies. I'm also finding stuff on Netflix that are better than I expected.
Amazaon Prime has Doctor Who (but not the latest) for free. I'm pretty sure Seinfeld is on Hulu.
No idea about Rick and Morty; although, that's a current network show isn't it? So odds are, it's probably on Hulu.
This time last year I was pestering my wife that we should drop Hulu. She only wanted it for one show- she persuaded me to keep it. Now, after everything I watch getting dropped from Netflix (and then later finding that they're all on Hulu) I'm pushing the other way. Hulu has a much larger library of both new and old stuff than Netflix. I hate Hulu's UI- Netflix's is hard to beat, but Hulu seems to have a lot more content than Netflix and other than the Original Programming, Netflix doesn't seem to have much to offer anymore.
Amazon for me is just a bonus. The wife has a student account, so we have the prime video there. It's usually the last place I check though because I hate how they mix the paid stuff in with the stuff I can actually watch.
Since I don't pay extra for Amazon- and Hulu has a more complete library- Netflix is now the obvious one to drop.
"The US will give credit for foreign taxes paid, however, they will only give credit against income up to the amount of taxes you would pay for US tax purposes."
While I'm sure it's more complicated than that (especially if you have income from property and stuff), it looks like you pay UK tax if that's higher. If UK tax was lower the US would tax you the difference.
I suspect it's the same for most other countries.
I'm not an expert on international tax law; however how I recall it works is this (I could be wrong):
1) Yes, the US will let you just pay UK income tax if you're making a low wage- and the first umpteen thousand £ you don't have to pay double taxes on. 2) Anything above that first umpteen thousand £ the US government WILL come after you for.
If you're not earning much. Early in your career, or just never climbed the ladder much, you won't pay double taxes. If you're doing a little bit better than average on up- you get both countries milking you.... now I could be wrong and the UK have a better agreement with the US than other countries- but I believe that's how it works most places.
The US is one of the countries that will allow you to revoke your citizenship; however, it costs money, and it's considered illegal to revoke your citizenship just to avoid taxes.
I don't remember what user name I used the first few times I signed up for Slashdot so I won't be able to find mine. I've always deliberately use meaningless names so I can't be linked to other forums, etc.
Yup. Netflix is loss making, so the idea they might still need to raise prices while they offer a slightly worse service is not contradictory. The question is whether people are willing to pay more.
My guess is yes. But I suspect Netflix would be more successful if they added as much content as possible and doubled their prices, rather than doing what they're doing. It's better to get people the product they want to pay for, and charge them what it costs, than to offer something half assed.
Indeed. I'm considering dropping Netflix- not because their prices are going up... I was considering before I read that. I'm considering dropping because they don't have anything anymore. Hulu or Amazon Prime usually has what I want. Netflix rarely does... and when they do, you start watching a show only for them to yank it off the air when you're half way through a season. Might hang around to watch season 2 of stranger things and then can my Netflix subscription.
It's approaching it in price ($14 vs $15 now for the premium, or $11 vs $15 for the standard).
They're getting less and less of "things you've heard of" and doubling down on exclusive content.
Yeah. several times they've yanked away I've been half-way through watching. I get angry until I discover that it's on Hulu.
Hulu has just about all the shows that Netflix doesn't have anymore. Netflix is becoming as you said "just original programming". Hulu is becoming what Netflix was.
Sometimes the placements are relatively seamless, but all too often you're flung into a mystical world where it seems like everyone drinks the same brand of soda...
If it doesn't impact the story... I don't care. I hardly notice.
But then, they were so blatant about it and it's fans where extremely appreciative of Subway sponsoring the show for more seasons, we were cool with it:)
It was funny in Chuck because it was so blatant. It became part of the joke.
From what I've seen in stand-up comedy and TV shows, it could be useful for Americans wanting to take a vacation in the UK.
Why is it that Americans moan about hard to understand UK dialects/accents, whereas no one here has any problem watching US TV shows whether they're set in Alaska, New York or Texas? Is American English just more homogeneous?
Actually... yes.
America has it's own regional dialects but it's nothing like Britain; with some exceptions, you can travel two or three states and not notice a change in accent. It's not like Britain where if you drive 30 miles from Merseyside to Manchester and the accent is vastly different.
There's certainly a difference between a Boston accent and an Alabaman accent but it's not nearly as different as Geordie to west country.
Number of times I wanted to listen to music in the past week? 3. Number of times I wanted a translation in the past, Oh, I dunno, 50 years? 0.
I dunno, could be useful for listening to the coworkers who switch languages to talk about the juicy things. You know when they stop speaking English and start speaking their native language it must be something juicy.
Slashdot Mirror
Come April Fools, let's separately train the AI on the previous years' April Fools' headlines, and let's see what it generates...
All my posts have been generated by AI since last April Fools and no one has noticed yet.
...garbage out!
Is it really garbage out.
I want to know the answer to this ask Slashdot:
"Do We Want to Be the Computers?" -- well do we?
Electric trucks were in common use from about 1900 till about 1970:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just think. 80 years from now some company in Japan might produce the first mass produced Internal Combustion Engine truck.
Not even close to "first electric truck of the century". Some companies have been at this for ages. Smith Electric Vehicles, for example, started with electric delivery trucks in the 1920s, switched to milk floats, then in the modern era back to full-sized electric delivery trucks.
Indeed... I remember in the 1980's we still had an electric milk float that would come around our village delivering milk to all the doorstops.
Of course the blue tits (type of bird you pervs) would peck through the foil lids on the milk bottles to go after the milk.
Ahhh... I missed the first 3 years of Slashdot's existence. By the time I first started logging on Slashdot was already a toddler and using a big-boy toilet.
It is likely using the same codebase that is used to recognize individual people and could likely be expanded to other interesting research like recognizing individual birds in the wild.
We had one white cat that it thought was a person in a few photos. It also recognizes my daughter's Barbie Dolls and think they're a person. There are several statue photos that Google Photos has listed as people too.
Is this the Monster of Monster Cables infamy?
That'll go well.
Yes, it is... It's not the monster of monster.com, or the monster of monster fish keepers https://www.monsterfishkeepers... , or the monster of monster energy drinks. Heck it's not even the monster of "there's a monster at the end of this book".
Hopefully Purism, with their Librem phone and PureOS, will survive, if only as a niche product. Designed to be a super secure phone based on Debian.
https://puri.sm/
But if there aren't many apps for it not many people will adopt it. If not many people adopt it, no one will write apps for it.
Is a lonely number.
Two can be as bad as one It's the loneliest number since the number one.
I don't have bad Mondays, in general. I love my job - not ever moment of it; people and situations will occasionally annoy, but in general I'm a happy camper at work. If you don't love your job, then you should either find something else or find a way to love it. There's no extra reward for going through life miserable.
I wouldn't say I love my job. I don't love being in IT, I accidentally fell into IT. However, I don't hate my job either and I think I couldn't ask for a better boss or employer. So, no, I don't hate Mondays... if anything midweek is what I hate most- I've had several days of work to deal with and still not time for a weekend in the immediate future.
To be fair, there are many people who can afford Telas but don't choose to because they don't buy into the hype as easily. There is a good deal of hype inflating the price.
I could perhaps afford to buy a Tesla, but I never spend that much on a car. I do think they appear to be fantastic cars and would consider one if I ever became not-a-cheapskate.
I may try Hulu, but so far I have 10 years of stuff I want to watch on Netflix before I run out...
Only things I feel like I'm missing are Doctor Who (yanked from all services for awhile), maybe Seinfeld that I never watched, and Rick and Morty (possibly on Hulu??).
Originally after cutting the cord I was going to get both Hulu for television series and Netflix for movies; but Netflix has plenty of TV series and I see more of those than movies. I'm also finding stuff on Netflix that are better than I expected.
Amazaon Prime has Doctor Who (but not the latest) for free.
I'm pretty sure Seinfeld is on Hulu.
No idea about Rick and Morty; although, that's a current network show isn't it? So odds are, it's probably on Hulu.
It's funny.
This time last year I was pestering my wife that we should drop Hulu. She only wanted it for one show- she persuaded me to keep it. Now, after everything I watch getting dropped from Netflix (and then later finding that they're all on Hulu) I'm pushing the other way. Hulu has a much larger library of both new and old stuff than Netflix. I hate Hulu's UI- Netflix's is hard to beat, but Hulu seems to have a lot more content than Netflix and other than the Original Programming, Netflix doesn't seem to have much to offer anymore.
Amazon for me is just a bonus. The wife has a student account, so we have the prime video there. It's usually the last place I check though because I hate how they mix the paid stuff in with the stuff I can actually watch.
Since I don't pay extra for Amazon- and Hulu has a more complete library- Netflix is now the obvious one to drop.
You sure about that?
http://www.ustaxfs.com/individ...
"The US will give credit for foreign taxes paid, however, they will only give credit against income up to the amount of taxes you would pay for US tax purposes."
While I'm sure it's more complicated than that (especially if you have income from property and stuff), it looks like you pay UK tax if that's higher. If UK tax was lower the US would tax you the difference.
I suspect it's the same for most other countries.
I'm not an expert on international tax law; however how I recall it works is this (I could be wrong):
1) Yes, the US will let you just pay UK income tax if you're making a low wage- and the first umpteen thousand £ you don't have to pay double taxes on.
2) Anything above that first umpteen thousand £ the US government WILL come after you for.
If you're not earning much. Early in your career, or just never climbed the ladder much, you won't pay double taxes. If you're doing a little bit better than average on up- you get both countries milking you.... now I could be wrong and the UK have a better agreement with the US than other countries- but I believe that's how it works most places.
The US is one of the countries that will allow you to revoke your citizenship; however, it costs money, and it's considered illegal to revoke your citizenship just to avoid taxes.
Pretty easy with Google search... https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (1999, from the days before automatic +1 moderation)
I don't remember what user name I used the first few times I signed up for Slashdot so I won't be able to find mine. I've always deliberately use meaningless names so I can't be linked to other forums, etc.
Isn't Canada part of the US?
Shhhh... they're not supposed to know. They're supposed to go on thinking they're independent.
Yup. Netflix is loss making, so the idea they might still need to raise prices while they offer a slightly worse service is not contradictory. The question is whether people are willing to pay more.
My guess is yes. But I suspect Netflix would be more successful if they added as much content as possible and doubled their prices, rather than doing what they're doing. It's better to get people the product they want to pay for, and charge them what it costs, than to offer something half assed.
Indeed. I'm considering dropping Netflix- not because their prices are going up... I was considering before I read that. I'm considering dropping because they don't have anything anymore. Hulu or Amazon Prime usually has what I want. Netflix rarely does... and when they do, you start watching a show only for them to yank it off the air when you're half way through a season. Might hang around to watch season 2 of stranger things and then can my Netflix subscription.
Netflix is going the HBO model.
It's approaching it in price ($14 vs $15 now for the premium, or $11 vs $15 for the standard).
They're getting less and less of "things you've heard of" and doubling down on exclusive content.
Yeah. several times they've yanked away I've been half-way through watching. I get angry until I discover that it's on Hulu.
Hulu has just about all the shows that Netflix doesn't have anymore. Netflix is becoming as you said "just original programming". Hulu is becoming what Netflix was.
Sometimes the placements are relatively seamless, but all too often you're flung into a mystical world where it seems like everyone drinks the same brand of soda...
If it doesn't impact the story... I don't care. I hardly notice.
Much rather that than an actual ad break.
Chuck?
But then, they were so blatant about it and it's fans where extremely appreciative of Subway sponsoring the show for more seasons, we were cool with it :)
It was funny in Chuck because it was so blatant. It became part of the joke.
You're confusing inches with centimeters again.
Hey... all I know is that that works for NASA.
Don't be numpty and spread such porkies la.
From what I've seen in stand-up comedy and TV shows, it could be useful for Americans wanting to take a vacation in the UK.
Why is it that Americans moan about hard to understand UK dialects/accents, whereas no one here has any problem watching US TV shows whether they're set in Alaska, New York or Texas? Is American English just more homogeneous?
Actually... yes.
America has it's own regional dialects but it's nothing like Britain; with some exceptions, you can travel two or three states and not notice a change in accent. It's not like Britain where if you drive 30 miles from Merseyside to Manchester and the accent is vastly different.
There's certainly a difference between a Boston accent and an Alabaman accent but it's not nearly as different as Geordie to west country.
All that foreign porn and NOT ONCE have you wondered what they were saying?
All I know is... French women talk a lot about urinating when they get excited.
Wee... wee....
Number of times I wanted to listen to music in the past week? 3.
Number of times I wanted a translation in the past, Oh, I dunno, 50 years? 0.
I dunno, could be useful for listening to the coworkers who switch languages to talk about the juicy things. You know when they stop speaking English and start speaking their native language it must be something juicy.