For the small businesses I see using Square, I'm sure they would prefer having a BT card reader that didn't have to be perched precariously on top of the iPad (it's never an iPhone, but I'm assuming that the iPad will be next to lose the headphone jack). The reader could have a weighted bottom to rest on the counter for dipping, rather than having the iPad be passed back and forth between cashier and customer.
Manufactured biofuel as a use for fluctuating power sources like solar would take a lot less infrastructure than trying to shoehorn the same power sources into the grid. There is general agreement in the utility industry that a total grid redesign would be needed to accommodate fluctuating renewables.
Rather than opining about the politics of a foreign country, why doesn't he promote a pro-science party in the UK? Though the Europeans have suddenly come to understand why we in the US are so concerned about the replacing of legal immigration by mass insurgency, American political issues are for the most part different from those in his own region. But he would understand the anti-science problem in Europe as being the same one the US faces. Hawking could be a powerful voice for unifying the science/tech community around a new party that represents their interests.
Anti-science sentiment saturating the political world is a totally valid concern, though. Even in the context of the socialist left, this reflex-action denigration of everything scientific would not have happened as recently as the Roosevelt administration. Today's Democrats, assuming they had a Congressional majority, would never have allowed Hoover Dam to be built today.
"How about air travel? No good alternatives there for liquid hydrocarbon fuels - at least not that I can think of. Ships and ocean-going vessels? I don't think there are any realistic alternatives there"
While we wait for electric propulsion for these modes of transportation, we could see fuel from engineered algae. This would be a carbon-neutral technology, because the energy would derive from photosynthesis and atmospheric carbon.
There is "currency style regulation" of Bitcoin in that the supply is limited, just by mathematics instead of by a central bank. Legally I would expect that BTC has the same status as gold coins. These are nor legal tender but have at any time a current tradable value.
They didn't want the campaign slogan to be "Uninstall McAfee" and they especially didn't want Hillary to call herself, "America's Security Essentials."
When a magazine asks a cohort of people a question like "Do you trust artificial intelligence?" they will get replies that are based on what ideas they have gleaned from the movies, rather than from any more prosaic, nichey system they may have actually used. Their reply is conditioned by thinking something like "I wouldn't want HAL to be in charge of my stock portfolio."
But meanwhile, AI is creeping into our culture from the edges. Once we have asked Siri to "Call Laura" rather than squint at a smartphone screen washed out by full sunlight, we have whether we know it or not started using AI.
Just like all the other times, the home will be the last place where IoT is applied. It will rule the commercial and industrial world for a generation or two before hoi polloi trusts it in the home. We will see bridge beams that continually report their own stresses, freight containers that log their location, aircraft that log flight data to satellites instead of to onboard black boxes, and building load compensation weights that continually adjust themselves.
"The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 was around thirty times that of the UK [bbc.co.uk]. Genuinely interested in what you think this difference is"
The real difference is 3.8 times, and it's historically because the problem of angry minorities and no-go areas that the US has had for years is brand new in Europe. But now that there have already been two beheadings in the streets of London, the problem is coming to you.
And yes, the UK is trying knife control: https://www.gov.uk/buying-carr... Note that self-defense is not one of the listed valid reasons for carrying a knife.
"A recent jump in real estate values might be a reason why the answer it "No"."
But if you want to be a tech entrepreneur you can still trade your modest home in Silicon Valley for a building in Denver without selling your soul on Sand Hills Road. This really helps when you're a startup.
"They're not the problem. It's the NRA members that are buying all the guns. "
I wish they were, because then we could get rid of the gang problem. But the guns are more likely to be going to the cartelistas. Watch them make the Bay Area into the world they left behind in the Old Country. San Franciscans will soon be wishing they had the nerds back again.
congress from doing their just. They hate Feinstein despite how much she has done for the people, so they irrationally stand against everything she does.
You said it. Hating Feinstein and all she stands for is something in which we of the dark party take great pride.
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For the small businesses I see using Square, I'm sure they would prefer having a BT card reader that didn't have to be perched precariously on top of the iPad (it's never an iPhone, but I'm assuming that the iPad will be next to lose the headphone jack). The reader could have a weighted bottom to rest on the counter for dipping, rather than having the iPad be passed back and forth between cashier and customer.
Manufactured biofuel as a use for fluctuating power sources like solar would take a lot less infrastructure than trying to shoehorn the same power sources into the grid. There is general agreement in the utility industry that a total grid redesign would be needed to accommodate fluctuating renewables.
Rather than opining about the politics of a foreign country, why doesn't he promote a pro-science party in the UK? Though the Europeans have suddenly come to understand why we in the US are so concerned about the replacing of legal immigration by mass insurgency, American political issues are for the most part different from those in his own region. But he would understand the anti-science problem in Europe as being the same one the US faces. Hawking could be a powerful voice for unifying the science/tech community around a new party that represents their interests.
Anti-science sentiment saturating the political world is a totally valid concern, though. Even in the context of the socialist left, this reflex-action denigration of everything scientific would not have happened as recently as the Roosevelt administration. Today's Democrats, assuming they had a Congressional majority, would never have allowed Hoover Dam to be built today.
"How about air travel? No good alternatives there for liquid hydrocarbon fuels - at least not that I can think of. Ships and ocean-going vessels? I don't think there are any realistic alternatives there"
While we wait for electric propulsion for these modes of transportation, we could see fuel from engineered algae. This would be a carbon-neutral technology, because the energy would derive from photosynthesis and atmospheric carbon.
There is "currency style regulation" of Bitcoin in that the supply is limited, just by mathematics instead of by a central bank. Legally I would expect that BTC has the same status as gold coins. These are nor legal tender but have at any time a current tradable value.
They didn't want the campaign slogan to be "Uninstall McAfee" and they especially didn't want Hillary to call herself, "America's Security Essentials."
Would you really feel better if people regularly made throwaway accounts for that nonsense instead?
Yes, because every account has a posting history and throwaways are easy to detect.
See why we need to get rid of AC posting? Exhibit A.
The problem with these match-the-image-type CAPTCHAs is the tiny, poor-quality images.
I'm hoping that the next state to legalize pot will be Hawaii, so we can get the Thirty Meter Telescope built.
"Or when Bender goes back in time to steal stuff and destroys space-time?"
Bite my shiny metal basilisk?
When a magazine asks a cohort of people a question like "Do you trust artificial intelligence?" they will get replies that are based on what ideas they have gleaned from the movies, rather than from any more prosaic, nichey system they may have actually used. Their reply is conditioned by thinking something like "I wouldn't want HAL to be in charge of my stock portfolio."
But meanwhile, AI is creeping into our culture from the edges. Once we have asked Siri to "Call Laura" rather than squint at a smartphone screen washed out by full sunlight, we have whether we know it or not started using AI.
Just like all the other times, the home will be the last place where IoT is applied. It will rule the commercial and industrial world for a generation or two before hoi polloi trusts it in the home. We will see bridge beams that continually report their own stresses, freight containers that log their location, aircraft that log flight data to satellites instead of to onboard black boxes, and building load compensation weights that continually adjust themselves.
"This is what happens when millenials and hipsters make decisions."
I've never seen 'hipster' used in the same context as 'Windows' before. What's next - hipster shuffleboard?
"The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 was around thirty times that of the UK [bbc.co.uk]. Genuinely interested in what you think this difference is"
The real difference is 3.8 times, and it's historically because the problem of angry minorities and no-go areas that the US has had for years is brand new in Europe. But now that there have already been two beheadings in the streets of London, the problem is coming to you.
Now that kids not exposed to so much lead as children are reaching adulthood, our crime rates are falling.
Except in Chicago, where on some nights the air is about 40% lead.
Lots of people don't actually consider UK a part of Europe, seeing as it's culturally closer to the US, as this incident also demonstrates.
Next month, the UK will have an opportunity to vote on that.
Criminals MAY acquire and use guns, but it makes prosecution MUCH easier because by possession they have committed an irrefutable crime already.
Most US jurisdictions also have penalty intensifiers for crimes committed with a gun, so that point is a wash.
Famuyide's record includes armed robbery.
And yes, the UK is trying knife control: https://www.gov.uk/buying-carr...
Note that self-defense is not one of the listed valid reasons for carrying a knife.
In the Bay Area, the anti-technology left hates geeks. They will smash up your company pool bus and prevent your people from finding housing.
In Denver, these people are legally stoned and will stay out of your way.
"A recent jump in real estate values might be a reason why the answer it "No"."
But if you want to be a tech entrepreneur you can still trade your modest home in Silicon Valley for a building in Denver without selling your soul on Sand Hills Road. This really helps when you're a startup.
The UK has strict gun control, which is just as effective as posting "Gun-Free Zone" signs.
"They're not the problem. It's the NRA members that are buying all the guns. "
I wish they were, because then we could get rid of the gang problem. But the guns are more likely to be going to the cartelistas. Watch them make the Bay Area into the world they left behind in the Old Country. San Franciscans will soon be wishing they had the nerds back again.
congress from doing their just. They hate Feinstein despite how much she has done for the people, so they irrationally stand against everything she does.
You said it. Hating Feinstein and all she stands for is something in which we of the dark party take great pride.