Usually when a slashdot story ends in a question it's an easy "No".
But this time it's different.
The answer is YES (and I'm a video conferencing engineer)
I'll reserve judgement until the big one hits.
It's actually very interesting. Everybody KNOWS that a big earthquake is due in SF, but people seem to be able to arrange their minds so that somehow when it happens, THEIR livelihood and real estate will not be affected.
Wow...Elon Musk is probably stoked (and jealous as hell) since he loves the Culture novels as well.
This series is going to take a TON of money to do that book right.
Phlebas is a difficult first novel for the series, mainly because it takes the perspective from outside the culture where the rest of the novels (mostly) take it from the culture's "special circumstances" black ops group. It will be interesting to see how they adapt it.
When you never see somebody, then the personalization goes down. I'm all for teleworking, but not 100% telework.
If your boss never sees you, its probably a LOT easer to lay you off.
This feels like Apple did this product simply to have something out there.
I hate to say it, but Jobs would of NEVER allowed this product to go out unless it was as good or better than the competition.
The other thing thats a problem is actually defining "Monopoly". People throw that term around left and right without context. There is legal "monopoly" as in anti-trust, there is market monopoly which is more of a statement about market power, etc.
Here is the thing. The Ad is awesome, but that's NOT how they would present it to customers.
They would do something like say "for an extra $20 cents you can be in our priority queue to get your burger faster". In fact, I'm surprised some fast food restaurant has not already tried it.
About the only thing I can think of that ISS does do is give us data on long duration space health in preparation for a Mars mission. Don't we have enough of that?
much of SF believes the rest of the world revolves around their epicenter. The idea that people would not know what "The mission" was probably would not even dawn on people like story author.
If you asked somebody in IOWA where "The Tenderloin" was, they would understandably think you were talking about meat.
What I want to know is how did the car react? What did it do? Obviously it's not going to drive over a pedestrian, but from a purely autonomous car programming perspective I'd like to know how the car reacted to it (or not)
Yea, solar on everybody's house too!
But solar also has it's own issues. Where does the excess power go? It has to go back to the power company (which is what happens in most cases).
You still need the grid to support it.
There are other good advantages to having cars plugged in at night though. Some ideas are that people could sign up to have their plugged in cars participate in a battery pool for the power company to smooth things out distribution wise, much like Tesla's battery project in Australia does now.
One thing that gets glossed over is how in the world the power grid is going to handle all these electric cars. Most transformers you see on poles are designed to cool down at night when usage goes down, exactly when people will be plugging their electric vehicles in.
This is going to require MAJOR power infrastructure investment, and other than industry insider news letters I've not seen many high profile stories on this.
Great, we have the cards. Now we need a grid infrastructure that can support it!
http://time.com/money/4621673/...
Think about that next time you go to McDonalds or some similar restaurant where the person handling cash is often handling food.
You would think that convenience stores in bad parts of cities would be the first to go this route. I know that if I had to open a quick mart or 7-11 in a major city I'd go no cash.
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Usually when a slashdot story ends in a question it's an easy "No". But this time it's different. The answer is YES (and I'm a video conferencing engineer)
I agree but... The whole reason WHY people use link shorteners is BECAUSE some URLs are so long that it IS practically obfuscated.
Just sayin. It's been well known and if somebody got in thinking that bitcoin was anonymous then they were fooling themselves.
To everybody on both sides looking to tear things down, just remember the French terror years. What happened to Robespierre can happen to YOU too
Wow....Social Credit that you would have to keep track of in order to live. That's simply horrific.
I'll reserve judgement until the big one hits. It's actually very interesting. Everybody KNOWS that a big earthquake is due in SF, but people seem to be able to arrange their minds so that somehow when it happens, THEIR livelihood and real estate will not be affected.
Wow...Elon Musk is probably stoked (and jealous as hell) since he loves the Culture novels as well. This series is going to take a TON of money to do that book right. Phlebas is a difficult first novel for the series, mainly because it takes the perspective from outside the culture where the rest of the novels (mostly) take it from the culture's "special circumstances" black ops group. It will be interesting to see how they adapt it.
You can file a claim with your bank if an incorrect ACH charge occurs. The law says you will get your money back if it was not legit.
Sorry, I'd love to comment on your story, but I'm not paying the WSJ for the privilege.
When you never see somebody, then the personalization goes down. I'm all for teleworking, but not 100% telework. If your boss never sees you, its probably a LOT easer to lay you off.
You could look at the emote at the end of the post and realize it was a joke...
you DID see the wink smile emote at the end right?
I hate Trump and the FCC chairman. How do I know which to oppose on this? ;)
This feels like Apple did this product simply to have something out there. I hate to say it, but Jobs would of NEVER allowed this product to go out unless it was as good or better than the competition.
The other thing thats a problem is actually defining "Monopoly". People throw that term around left and right without context. There is legal "monopoly" as in anti-trust, there is market monopoly which is more of a statement about market power, etc.
Here is the thing. The Ad is awesome, but that's NOT how they would present it to customers. They would do something like say "for an extra $20 cents you can be in our priority queue to get your burger faster". In fact, I'm surprised some fast food restaurant has not already tried it.
About the only thing I can think of that ISS does do is give us data on long duration space health in preparation for a Mars mission. Don't we have enough of that?
much of SF believes the rest of the world revolves around their epicenter. The idea that people would not know what "The mission" was probably would not even dawn on people like story author. If you asked somebody in IOWA where "The Tenderloin" was, they would understandably think you were talking about meat.
What I want to know is how did the car react? What did it do? Obviously it's not going to drive over a pedestrian, but from a purely autonomous car programming perspective I'd like to know how the car reacted to it (or not)
Yea, solar on everybody's house too! But solar also has it's own issues. Where does the excess power go? It has to go back to the power company (which is what happens in most cases). You still need the grid to support it. There are other good advantages to having cars plugged in at night though. Some ideas are that people could sign up to have their plugged in cars participate in a battery pool for the power company to smooth things out distribution wise, much like Tesla's battery project in Australia does now.
One thing that gets glossed over is how in the world the power grid is going to handle all these electric cars. Most transformers you see on poles are designed to cool down at night when usage goes down, exactly when people will be plugging their electric vehicles in. This is going to require MAJOR power infrastructure investment, and other than industry insider news letters I've not seen many high profile stories on this. Great, we have the cards. Now we need a grid infrastructure that can support it!
Assuming they are only archiving text, I wonder how much storage that requires. Of course it would compress VERY well.
if I had no choice, I'd rather lick my debit card than the 5 dollar bill in my wallet. Sure, both are nasty but cash is most certainly worse.
http://time.com/money/4621673/... Think about that next time you go to McDonalds or some similar restaurant where the person handling cash is often handling food.
You would think that convenience stores in bad parts of cities would be the first to go this route. I know that if I had to open a quick mart or 7-11 in a major city I'd go no cash.