children who spend more than two hours of daily screen time score lower on thinking and language tests
That doesn't say much to me. Were the tests on paper? What if tests on been done on devices instead?
I strongly distrust the results of a singular set of tests at one point in time to determine the overall abilities of a person.
Consider this, also from the summary:
"showed premature thinning of the brain cortex"
That means it is supposed to happen later, but is happening earlier.. but is that really bad? Perhaps that means they are more advanced in some ways.
The thing is our ability still to determine how kids learning what state the brain is in is still primitive enough that I question the degree to which they are able to truly determine what is truly bad or not for them long term...
I do not see how access to a transformative learning device can be bad in the end, except from the standpoint of removing kids from some physical activity. As long as they get some movement and physical exercise, I say let them have as much screen time as they want.
In 20 years, mark my words, scientists will be reversed on this just as they are on everything else they tell people and kids to stay away from.
People kept messing with it. Finally the dev checked in// DO NOT F****ING TOUCH THIS - and the regressions went away.
This is exactly why you should really try not to swear, in writing or in speech...
It's because it cheapens the words, and they loose effect.
These days if someone called you a motherfucker, it's kind of like calling you annoying. It has no power.
The reason that comment kept people away is because swearing in code is still relatively uncommon, so it has power. So keep the F-bombs out of code, so when the time comes where it is needed, it still works.
Something I did not see commented on here is - Apple has created a great deal of "luck"for itself here, because they CAN update all of those older phones they are selling.
Imagine if this were any other Android maker. They'd basically be out of luck for phones older than a year, because it would be covered by software patents they would have no update for.
So this provides a great reason for phone makers to provide longer support for devices than they currently do.
Neither T-Mobile nor Sprint can really keep up with Verizon or AT&T.
I myself am a T-Mobile customer currently. and I am LOOKING FORWARD to this merger. How many times can you say that about any merger of a company you like with any other? And yet I am, because I know my service coverage will improve, 5g rollout will improve, basically everything about T-Mobile should be getting better.
Sometimes things just make sense - and this is one of those times.
The thing about reports that try and forecast how much CO2 we are omitting, is all of them are based on current technology.
They don't take into account technological breakthroughs, especially on the order of magnitude of getting a working fusion reactor...
Overnight the entire world's energy makeup would change, as such reactors became widespread.
No we don't know this exact thing will pan out, but when people are talking about problems even 80 years from now - that is a LONG time for lots of amazing technology to come along. It's certainly been the case that even just over the last 20 years a lot of things are around now that were not dreamed of, nor thought possible back then.
Nope. If I can find a flight on a standard airlline for $1k, I sure won't pay 10 or $20k.
The original message I responded to was saying 10-20x the cost of first class tickets.
People today are ALREADY paying almost $10k for business class . They are ALREADY paying up to $30k for really luxurious first class cabins. And those are making money hand over fist and getting plenty of bookings - today.
So now think of all those people who are buying luxury cabins. Are they really doing that because they want to be in an airplane for 20 hours in a small room?
I think the answer will not surprise you: It is an enormous Hell, followed by No.
They want to take 30 minutes to get there, and then be resting in a five star hotel room with full amenities - not a fancy cot on a plane.
I think if SpaceX delivers a flight NYC to almost anywhere on earth in under 30 minutes, a $30k ticket would be sold out for the first year in advance.
People on Slashdot seem to just have no understanding of how truly valuable time is.... they place entirely too much emphasis on the value of money.
So in trying to reduce CO2 emissions, that will be the major reason supersonic commercial air travel doesn't "take off".
If that were true they would not still be holding climate change conferences where 500 people fly in on 500 private jets.
Those are the same people that would be using the supersonic transport if it were available....
The only question you have to ask when considering if CO2 emissions will be a factor in something not being done is; would it inconvenience the ruling class?
It depends on the price. If it's 1.5 or 2x the cost of a standard economy class ticket, yes it will do very well. If the price is 10 or 20X the cost of a first class seat on a standard airline, no,
Shortest flight from NYC to Sydney I could find was 20 hours. 20 hours vs 30 minutes... You care to revise that prediction at all?
That's a good idea. Put a noise sensor around airports.
Well it sounds like someone doesn't know there is a distinct difference in sound between airplane engines and drone rotors and you could easily distinguish between the two...
I was expecting that response actually, seeing as how there are a number of Slashdot users prone to post without thinking.
You win the DERP DERP DERPA award of the year! You just managed to sneak that in, your mom will be so proud. Go up and tell her.
The point is you still let them know (resigned off-site). Even a phone call or text message is still basic decency of saying "I won't be coming in any more".
I'm not even saying you have to give any advance notice if a company has been particularly crappy to you (or sometimes circumstances are such that you can't give advance notice - you do what you can).
You as a human being have an obligation to yourself to be as decent as you can be. You still let them know.
It will be remembered, whichever way you choose to do it. Karma is an abstract concept that people may or may not believe in, but Karma is very very real when it comes to how employees treat other employees, and their employer. People leave companies, go on to other companies, they remember.
One solution might be to put in noise sensors around airports, drone flight noise is fairly distinctive and loud (especially for anything heavy enough to cause any real damage). Once you know a drone is there, you can use a number fo drone counter-measures to remove it.
I also figure at this point any commercial drone has enough parts in it that can be traced back to the owner, that any drone hit will lead to them finding you and presumably a lot of jail time. We should publicize that part more.
Telling other people you plan to ${ fire | lay off | downsize } them is just basic human decency.
Yes, and most companies I have been at do that, or at least give a decent severance to anyone let go.
So your point was????
Gee, that makes me wonder what kind of relationship employees have who just stop showing up.
It doesn't make me wonder at all. Those employees are assholes, plain and simple. It doesn't matter what the company is like, you do what you do because of who YOU ARE, not because of who THEY ARE.
If the company are an asshole and you think you are just being an asshole back by leaving without saying anything - guess what, you are BOTH assholes.
Don't be an asshole. it will be remembered, forever, by all non-assholes that work there.
Travel of any kind follows the same rules of economics as everything else, in that the least expensive thing that meets the wants and needs of the buyer generally wins out. Travel has the added component of wanting to reduce duration as much as practical, but even then, cost wins.
Cost often wins when you consider only convenience - most people are going to be willing to spend nine hours in coach instead of paying $4-5k more for business class.
However note those business class sections are almost always full. Musk has already said suborbital flight costs would be comparable to first-class tickets - For all those flying, do you really not think most of them would spend at least 2x the cost of a first class ticket to get somewhere across the earth in an hour vs. 12 hours (there I am including total travel time including waiting for your craft to depart).
Factor in you would not have to go through the airports we have today, just a small spaceport.
If your company is going to lay you off, it's not like they give you a whole lot of notice in most cases.
Do you WANT more companies to do that?
If not why escalate like that?
Telling other people you plan to leave, is just basic human decency.
There is nothing good about either side giving the other one no warning about actions like this.
Besides, the equivalent to what YOU are talking about it not a company laying you off unexpectedly. It's more like if you kept coming to work and after two weeks you just got no paycheck, and the company said "we fired you but dd not tell you".
So you just need to scale up the F-22 to carry 100 people!
Big hook in the back of the F-22 and a 100-person capacity glider towed behind. Just get it above supersonic, then release as at that point it's going too fast to slow down before the glider reaches its destination.
Slashdot remains a target-rich environment filled with consumers who are easily persuaded by flimsy promises
What is flimsy about such a prediction? The BFR is flying just next year. It's not hard to see them putting up at least one commercial flight within the next five as a test of viability, after all it has a huge attraction for flights like NYC to Australia which otherwise take a very long time. Tickets would sell like hotcakes.
Why don't we go ahead an speculate on which flying cars we'll have in five years while we're at it?
That's actually about five to ten years out, made possible by self driving car tech. it was never going to happen when humans were the ones flying the car, which is why we've never really see that come about even tough every now and then you read about flying car designs. Just like self driving cars, the first applications will be taxis more than personal transport, though that too will come.
What never ceases to amaze me about Slashdot is that people used to technology, can be such negative luddites despite years and years of being shown technology can make amazing advances quickly when conditions are right.
The thing is, these were images that were not technically posted.
It's interesting because Flickr has a feature that makes me wonder, where you can keep your whole camera roll uploaded - it's not made public, just stored.
Given this Facebook breach, keeping private photos like that on Flickr seems like it may be a bad idea as well... if you have anything you would mind being leaked anyway.
I wonder at what point private photo leaks will significantly start impacting politics (maybe they are already).
30 minutes to any city on earth sounds pretty good, and I am pretty sure SpaceX will be getting at least one such commercial flight out in the next five years or so... they also can carry 100 people at a time, and passengers get a free sub-space visual to boot.
Disney tried the small model FEC and failed as well.
I'm not sure if maybe you mean what I am thinking of, but at Downtown Disney in Disneyworld they had a great FEC called DisneyQuest - I thought of it as pretty large, I thought they had a really good variety of very fun attractions, way more than any other FEC I've ever been to... yet even that shut down a few years ago. If even Disney can't make a large really well done FEC work right in the heart of DisneyWorld, who can I wonder?
The most fun there there by a wide margin was a pirate ride where a group of people stood on a shifting platform and fired cannons on all sides. It has visuals projected 360 degrees on the walls around you, so it too was a VR experience...
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For some reason I keep reading this headline as "Tesla 3 NEEDED to run Ubuntu". I'm like "That's not fully open source!".
children who spend more than two hours of daily screen time score lower on thinking and language tests
That doesn't say much to me. Were the tests on paper? What if tests on been done on devices instead?
I strongly distrust the results of a singular set of tests at one point in time to determine the overall abilities of a person.
Consider this, also from the summary:
"showed premature thinning of the brain cortex"
That means it is supposed to happen later, but is happening earlier.. but is that really bad? Perhaps that means they are more advanced in some ways.
The thing is our ability still to determine how kids learning what state the brain is in is still primitive enough that I question the degree to which they are able to truly determine what is truly bad or not for them long term...
I do not see how access to a transformative learning device can be bad in the end, except from the standpoint of removing kids from some physical activity. As long as they get some movement and physical exercise, I say let them have as much screen time as they want.
In 20 years, mark my words, scientists will be reversed on this just as they are on everything else they tell people and kids to stay away from.
Everything "changes the structure of our brains", or learning would not work.
How do they know the changes are detrimental? I think they are learning how better to handle a larger flow of information.
People kept messing with it. Finally the dev checked in // DO NOT F****ING TOUCH THIS - and the regressions went away.
This is exactly why you should really try not to swear, in writing or in speech...
It's because it cheapens the words, and they loose effect.
These days if someone called you a motherfucker, it's kind of like calling you annoying. It has no power.
The reason that comment kept people away is because swearing in code is still relatively uncommon, so it has power. So keep the F-bombs out of code, so when the time comes where it is needed, it still works.
What things 20 years ago were never dreamed of or thought possible?
Who thought we would be landing rockets vertically with reusable boosters?
Rovers going for years on end on Mars?
But really you could just google countless examples if you actually cared, like this one
And that's from 2011.... here's a (newer?) one...
I can't think of a single one.
If you really can't think of any examples, I feel very very sorry for you. :-(. The world is amazing! Wake up!
Something I did not see commented on here is - Apple has created a great deal of "luck"for itself here, because they CAN update all of those older phones they are selling.
Imagine if this were any other Android maker. They'd basically be out of luck for phones older than a year, because it would be covered by software patents they would have no update for.
So this provides a great reason for phone makers to provide longer support for devices than they currently do.
Samsung and LG uses those same camps
Not exactly - Apple at least tries to monitor the camps to help the workers some.
Samsung and LG, use the *unmonitored* camps. Let that sink in.
Neither T-Mobile nor Sprint can really keep up with Verizon or AT&T.
I myself am a T-Mobile customer currently. and I am LOOKING FORWARD to this merger. How many times can you say that about any merger of a company you like with any other? And yet I am, because I know my service coverage will improve, 5g rollout will improve, basically everything about T-Mobile should be getting better.
Sometimes things just make sense - and this is one of those times.
The thing about reports that try and forecast how much CO2 we are omitting, is all of them are based on current technology.
They don't take into account technological breakthroughs, especially on the order of magnitude of getting a working fusion reactor...
Overnight the entire world's energy makeup would change, as such reactors became widespread.
No we don't know this exact thing will pan out, but when people are talking about problems even 80 years from now - that is a LONG time for lots of amazing technology to come along. It's certainly been the case that even just over the last 20 years a lot of things are around now that were not dreamed of, nor thought possible back then.
Nope. If I can find a flight on a standard airlline for $1k, I sure won't pay 10 or $20k.
The original message I responded to was saying 10-20x the cost of first class tickets.
People today are ALREADY paying almost $10k for business class . They are ALREADY paying up to $30k for really luxurious first class cabins. And those are making money hand over fist and getting plenty of bookings - today.
So now think of all those people who are buying luxury cabins. Are they really doing that because they want to be in an airplane for 20 hours in a small room?
I think the answer will not surprise you: It is an enormous Hell, followed by No.
They want to take 30 minutes to get there, and then be resting in a five star hotel room with full amenities - not a fancy cot on a plane.
I think if SpaceX delivers a flight NYC to almost anywhere on earth in under 30 minutes, a $30k ticket would be sold out for the first year in advance.
People on Slashdot seem to just have no understanding of how truly valuable time is.... they place entirely too much emphasis on the value of money.
until one of us realized her voice mail meant, "I won't be in again. Ever."
Fortnite is a hell of a drug.
So in trying to reduce CO2 emissions, that will be the major reason supersonic commercial air travel doesn't "take off".
If that were true they would not still be holding climate change conferences where 500 people fly in on 500 private jets.
Those are the same people that would be using the supersonic transport if it were available....
The only question you have to ask when considering if CO2 emissions will be a factor in something not being done is; would it inconvenience the ruling class?
It depends on the price. If it's 1.5 or 2x the cost of a standard economy class ticket, yes it will do very well. If the price is 10 or 20X the cost of a first class seat on a standard airline, no,
Shortest flight from NYC to Sydney I could find was 20 hours. 20 hours vs 30 minutes... You care to revise that prediction at all?
That's a good idea. Put a noise sensor around airports.
Well it sounds like someone doesn't know there is a distinct difference in sound between airplane engines and drone rotors and you could easily distinguish between the two...
I was expecting that response actually, seeing as how there are a number of Slashdot users prone to post without thinking.
You win the DERP DERP DERPA award of the year! You just managed to sneak that in, your mom will be so proud. Go up and tell her.
The point is you still let them know (resigned off-site). Even a phone call or text message is still basic decency of saying "I won't be coming in any more".
I'm not even saying you have to give any advance notice if a company has been particularly crappy to you (or sometimes circumstances are such that you can't give advance notice - you do what you can).
You as a human being have an obligation to yourself to be as decent as you can be. You still let them know.
It will be remembered, whichever way you choose to do it. Karma is an abstract concept that people may or may not believe in, but Karma is very very real when it comes to how employees treat other employees, and their employer. People leave companies, go on to other companies, they remember.
One solution might be to put in noise sensors around airports, drone flight noise is fairly distinctive and loud (especially for anything heavy enough to cause any real damage). Once you know a drone is there, you can use a number fo drone counter-measures to remove it.
I also figure at this point any commercial drone has enough parts in it that can be traced back to the owner, that any drone hit will lead to them finding you and presumably a lot of jail time. We should publicize that part more.
Telling other people you plan to ${ fire | lay off | downsize } them is just basic human decency.
Yes, and most companies I have been at do that, or at least give a decent severance to anyone let go.
So your point was????
Gee, that makes me wonder what kind of relationship employees have who just stop showing up.
It doesn't make me wonder at all. Those employees are assholes, plain and simple. It doesn't matter what the company is like, you do what you do because of who YOU ARE, not because of who THEY ARE.
If the company are an asshole and you think you are just being an asshole back by leaving without saying anything - guess what, you are BOTH assholes.
Don't be an asshole. it will be remembered, forever, by all non-assholes that work there.
Travel of any kind follows the same rules of economics as everything else, in that the least expensive thing that meets the wants and needs of the buyer generally wins out. Travel has the added component of wanting to reduce duration as much as practical, but even then, cost wins.
Cost often wins when you consider only convenience - most people are going to be willing to spend nine hours in coach instead of paying $4-5k more for business class.
However note those business class sections are almost always full. Musk has already said suborbital flight costs would be comparable to first-class tickets - For all those flying, do you really not think most of them would spend at least 2x the cost of a first class ticket to get somewhere across the earth in an hour vs. 12 hours (there I am including total travel time including waiting for your craft to depart).
Factor in you would not have to go through the airports we have today, just a small spaceport.
How many people old enough to afford it can stand the 9Gs necessary
3Gs, not 9.
With good chairs that doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
If your company is going to lay you off, it's not like they give you a whole lot of notice in most cases.
Do you WANT more companies to do that?
If not why escalate like that?
Telling other people you plan to leave, is just basic human decency.
There is nothing good about either side giving the other one no warning about actions like this.
Besides, the equivalent to what YOU are talking about it not a company laying you off unexpectedly. It's more like if you kept coming to work and after two weeks you just got no paycheck, and the company said "we fired you but dd not tell you".
So you just need to scale up the F-22 to carry 100 people!
Big hook in the back of the F-22 and a 100-person capacity glider towed behind. Just get it above supersonic, then release as at that point it's going too fast to slow down before the glider reaches its destination.
Slashdot remains a target-rich environment filled with consumers who are easily persuaded by flimsy promises
What is flimsy about such a prediction? The BFR is flying just next year. It's not hard to see them putting up at least one commercial flight within the next five as a test of viability, after all it has a huge attraction for flights like NYC to Australia which otherwise take a very long time. Tickets would sell like hotcakes.
Why don't we go ahead an speculate on which flying cars we'll have in five years while we're at it?
That's actually about five to ten years out, made possible by self driving car tech. it was never going to happen when humans were the ones flying the car, which is why we've never really see that come about even tough every now and then you read about flying car designs. Just like self driving cars, the first applications will be taxis more than personal transport, though that too will come.
What never ceases to amaze me about Slashdot is that people used to technology, can be such negative luddites despite years and years of being shown technology can make amazing advances quickly when conditions are right.
The thing is, these were images that were not technically posted.
It's interesting because Flickr has a feature that makes me wonder, where you can keep your whole camera roll uploaded - it's not made public, just stored.
Given this Facebook breach, keeping private photos like that on Flickr seems like it may be a bad idea as well... if you have anything you would mind being leaked anyway.
I wonder at what point private photo leaks will significantly start impacting politics (maybe they are already).
30 minutes to any city on earth sounds pretty good, and I am pretty sure SpaceX will be getting at least one such commercial flight out in the next five years or so... they also can carry 100 people at a time, and passengers get a free sub-space visual to boot.
Even supersonic would look pokey next to that.
Disney tried the small model FEC and failed as well.
I'm not sure if maybe you mean what I am thinking of, but at Downtown Disney in Disneyworld they had a great FEC called DisneyQuest - I thought of it as pretty large, I thought they had a really good variety of very fun attractions, way more than any other FEC I've ever been to... yet even that shut down a few years ago. If even Disney can't make a large really well done FEC work right in the heart of DisneyWorld, who can I wonder?
The most fun there there by a wide margin was a pirate ride where a group of people stood on a shifting platform and fired cannons on all sides. It has visuals projected 360 degrees on the walls around you, so it too was a VR experience...