No nukes, no fracking. What are German Greens going to say when Ruhrkohle, or whatever it's being called now, starts digging the giant lignite pits it has long planned to fill in for the now totally hollowed-out national baseload?
I think it will be part of making the next iPhone waterproof, which except for "Make it thicker again, but with more battery" is the leading new feature users want. Current iPhones have a special moisture indicator at the bottom of the jack which, if triggered, voids the warranty.
The whole point of bendability is not that people are going to start wearing solar cells on their clothing (though we could see "charging hats" for hikers), but that it becomes practical to stick cells directly onto objects that flex slightly in use, like shingles. Solar shingles could make rooftop PV a default standard for new construction.
If anyone could make a consistent profit by speculative buying of tickets for resale, obviously the event operator would be first to adjust ticket prices to match the established new market. This is really about a graft-ridden city making a perfectly normal market activity, reselling tickets people can't use, illegal by giving it an ugly name like 'scalping'.
Meanwhile here in Arizona, it's legal to resell any event or game ticket, right up to the Super Bowl. Reselling is done openly outside stadiums to accommodate fans who had a friend blow into town unexpectedly and want to see their team. Sharpies buying up all the tickets and cornering the market just doesn't happen.
In some towns, the issue is payment of local hotel taxes or the neighborhood impact of short-term renters coming and going. These considerations don't apply in a high-tax city with jammed traffic and all high-rise apartments where union rules already make building new apartments expensive. Just another example of protectionism for the already rich.
We're talking about a place where if you drive to the airport and drop off your wife at the curb, the taxicab police arrest you for cutting into their business: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-yo...
I guess its time for the US to steal high-tech from China.
We already tried this recently, installing a bullet train in California. But the most powerful force for evil in the universe, California NIMBY and Luddite lawyers, has prevented the line from going anywhere.
The problem is sheer logistics. So fans are streaming into a concert venue, and you're going to stop each person, search for cellphones wherever they might be carried, and put them into bags. Some irreducible number of people will claim a medical need to stay in touch with someone at home, such as a baby about to arrive, so notes from doctors will have to be parsed and judged in real time. With the best of intentions, a few phones are going to get dropped or stepped on during the bagging process. It will be like going through the airport, and fans are going to react accordingly. I predict a horrible mess, followed by the realization that unless there are body scanners in use, a lot of phones will slip through anyway.
So is the motive to enforce a device etiquette which is sorting itself out anyway, as it does after the introduction of any new tech, or is Keys defending her IP by preventing photography? If there is any suspicion that it's the latter, her live performances will now take place in empty halls. She will end up being worse off than all those other performers whose brand is kept current by fuzzy amateur videos on YouTube.
So technically, we'll still be paying for it. Just not directly. They'll just factor in the cost of insurance to the price of the car and pass it along to us.
Yes, but when individual driver liability becomes mass product liability, the total cost of insurance, and your share of it, will be far less.
If we end up with multiple competing self-drive fleets, I can see a luxury, high security market for the 'Netjet of cars' which will be used as an escape hatch by those who fear abduction.
Before we reach the point where all the road traffic is self-driving vehicles, there will be an extended era of mixed use. During this period, automated cars will drive extra-cautiously, like the ones now in beta. It will be like having a few million more old people on the road. Manual drivers who are not that good will tend to get into more accidents as they impatiently fume behind slow auto-drive vehicles. Their insurance rates will spike. We are also likely to see self-drive adoption go much faster in cities than in rural areas, with car-buff holdouts actually moving to the countryside to get in a few last years of being drivers. We might even see whole states like Georgia and Tennessee advertising as "you-drive country" to attract the sports car demographic during this period.
But after a generation, manual driving will become obsolete. DMV offices will close, and driver insurance will no longer be sold. Road speeds will steadily increase to 200 mph on desert interstates, with city traffic interpenetrating at 50 mph through intersections that once had signals. At that point, all vehicle insurance will be carried by fleet operators.
The nature of insurance just changes, from covering individual drivers to insuring manufacturers and fleet operators for product liability. The biggest impact will be on the legal profession: a whole army of bottom feeders will disappear, to be replaced with smaller additions to corporate lawyer ranks. A whole genre of late-night TV advertising will be replaced by ads for body mods, escort services and medical tourism services.
The whole idea of philanthropy is that donors get to give stuff away to whomever they feel is worthy. You're probably one of those people who believe that all charity must come from governments.
"the most difficult thing for Google (another services) seems to be resisting the urge to share all that data with advertisers. "
Sharing the data with advertisers is why Google search as a whole remains the incredible free resource we take for granted. I have seen estimates that if Google were run entirely by subscription. it would cost each of us about $150 per month.
Furthermore, a large percentage of my searches on Maps are for businesses. Why wouldn't you want the staff to know which businesses, and kinds of commerce, were the most searched for?
Though I'm totally not a Microsoft fan, this is pure bunk. There is general agreement that Gates runs the best of all the Silicon Valley philanthropy campaigns. I'm sure the antivax conspiratariat isn't pleased, though.
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"... I have eaten out of a dumpster, based on principal"
Meaning when you didn't have enough money, or was it those spelling errors on your resume?
Just as dumb and out of ideas all over the globe.
And more lithium wasted on a single-use application.
And imported French power.
No nukes, no fracking. What are German Greens going to say when Ruhrkohle, or whatever it's being called now, starts digging the giant lignite pits it has long planned to fill in for the now totally hollowed-out national baseload?
I think it will be part of making the next iPhone waterproof, which except for "Make it thicker again, but with more battery" is the leading new feature users want. Current iPhones have a special moisture indicator at the bottom of the jack which, if triggered, voids the warranty.
Does this mean that twitter is finally figuring out how to make a profit?
Or that Twitter has become self-aware?
That's just the tile variety. There are many other shingle materials that flex.
The whole point of bendability is not that people are going to start wearing solar cells on their clothing (though we could see "charging hats" for hikers), but that it becomes practical to stick cells directly onto objects that flex slightly in use, like shingles. Solar shingles could make rooftop PV a default standard for new construction.
If anyone could make a consistent profit by speculative buying of tickets for resale, obviously the event operator would be first to adjust ticket prices to match the established new market. This is really about a graft-ridden city making a perfectly normal market activity, reselling tickets people can't use, illegal by giving it an ugly name like 'scalping'.
Meanwhile here in Arizona, it's legal to resell any event or game ticket, right up to the Super Bowl. Reselling is done openly outside stadiums to accommodate fans who had a friend blow into town unexpectedly and want to see their team. Sharpies buying up all the tickets and cornering the market just doesn't happen.
In some towns, the issue is payment of local hotel taxes or the neighborhood impact of short-term renters coming and going. These considerations don't apply in a high-tax city with jammed traffic and all high-rise apartments where union rules already make building new apartments expensive. Just another example of protectionism for the already rich.
We're talking about a place where if you drive to the airport and drop off your wife at the curb, the taxicab police arrest you for cutting into their business:
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-yo...
If the Chinese design is just a copy, then why hasn't anyone built this supercomputer from DEC Alphas?
I guess its time for the US to steal high-tech from China.
We already tried this recently, installing a bullet train in California. But the most powerful force for evil in the universe, California NIMBY and Luddite lawyers, has prevented the line from going anywhere.
The problem is sheer logistics. So fans are streaming into a concert venue, and you're going to stop each person, search for cellphones wherever they might be carried, and put them into bags. Some irreducible number of people will claim a medical need to stay in touch with someone at home, such as a baby about to arrive, so notes from doctors will have to be parsed and judged in real time. With the best of intentions, a few phones are going to get dropped or stepped on during the bagging process. It will be like going through the airport, and fans are going to react accordingly. I predict a horrible mess, followed by the realization that unless there are body scanners in use, a lot of phones will slip through anyway.
So is the motive to enforce a device etiquette which is sorting itself out anyway, as it does after the introduction of any new tech, or is Keys defending her IP by preventing photography? If there is any suspicion that it's the latter, her live performances will now take place in empty halls. She will end up being worse off than all those other performers whose brand is kept current by fuzzy amateur videos on YouTube.
But...but...but..Aren't the Chinese supposed to be just imitators?
So technically, we'll still be paying for it. Just not directly. They'll just factor in the cost of insurance to the price of the car and pass it along to us.
Yes, but when individual driver liability becomes mass product liability, the total cost of insurance, and your share of it, will be far less.
If we end up with multiple competing self-drive fleets, I can see a luxury, high security market for the 'Netjet of cars' which will be used as an escape hatch by those who fear abduction.
Before we reach the point where all the road traffic is self-driving vehicles, there will be an extended era of mixed use. During this period, automated cars will drive extra-cautiously, like the ones now in beta. It will be like having a few million more old people on the road. Manual drivers who are not that good will tend to get into more accidents as they impatiently fume behind slow auto-drive vehicles. Their insurance rates will spike. We are also likely to see self-drive adoption go much faster in cities than in rural areas, with car-buff holdouts actually moving to the countryside to get in a few last years of being drivers. We might even see whole states like Georgia and Tennessee advertising as "you-drive country" to attract the sports car demographic during this period.
But after a generation, manual driving will become obsolete. DMV offices will close, and driver insurance will no longer be sold. Road speeds will steadily increase to 200 mph on desert interstates, with city traffic interpenetrating at 50 mph through intersections that once had signals. At that point, all vehicle insurance will be carried by fleet operators.
The nature of insurance just changes, from covering individual drivers to insuring manufacturers and fleet operators for product liability. The biggest impact will be on the legal profession: a whole army of bottom feeders will disappear, to be replaced with smaller additions to corporate lawyer ranks. A whole genre of late-night TV advertising will be replaced by ads for body mods, escort services and medical tourism services.
I wonder how 'HR Dragon Barbie' would go over?
The whole idea of philanthropy is that donors get to give stuff away to whomever they feel is worthy. You're probably one of those people who believe that all charity must come from governments.
"the most difficult thing for Google (another services) seems to be resisting the urge to share all that data with advertisers. "
Sharing the data with advertisers is why Google search as a whole remains the incredible free resource we take for granted. I have seen estimates that if Google were run entirely by subscription. it would cost each of us about $150 per month.
Furthermore, a large percentage of my searches on Maps are for businesses. Why wouldn't you want the staff to know which businesses, and kinds of commerce, were the most searched for?
Though I'm totally not a Microsoft fan, this is pure bunk. There is general agreement that Gates runs the best of all the Silicon Valley philanthropy campaigns. I'm sure the antivax conspiratariat isn't pleased, though.
...those were probably GMO chickens he was trying to donate. Third world people usually don't take kindly to them.
You mean those whose first exposure to Westerners has been hippie activists.
"Does a temporary ban on immigration from conflict areas still seem unreasonable?"
Because discriminating against people who have detailed on social media their intention to kill us for religious reasons would be racist.
"...cancer just might be the final 'checkpoint' that steps in and gets rid of the rogue cells before their DNA can be passed on..."
So why do the majority of cancers strike after one's childbearing years?