When I moved home from Japan after several years of working overseas, the heaviest and costliest category of moving boxes I had left after selling off the furniture (I was getting married, so all new stuff in the new place) was my books. Today, that whole library would fit on a tablet.
6. All of those nonrefundable tickets would be required to be transferable. In the event that you got sick before the flight, or your grandma died, or you pulled jury duty, you could sell or give your ticket away to someone who could use it. Allow the carrier to charge a fee of $25 or so to validate and register the transfer of ownership, which would also be the fee and procedure for fixing a misspelled name on a ticket.
Airlines would immediately claim the return of Stalin, but they they would benefit a lot from such a rule, even though it would reduce the number of seats they could sell twice. No more lines of people wheedling for refunds because every case is special, no more screwing around with doctor notes and death certificates. And because passengers would no longer look forward to flying as though were root canal surgery, it would motivate people to travel more. Being able to pick up cheap tickets to Vegas on eBay would even revive the idea of spontaneous getaways that don't just mean jumping into the car.
A Pokémon Go festival may seem trivial, but this is the kind of stress test that augmented reality needs if we're about to start using it in everyday life. What's going to happen in another summer or two when thousands of tourists pouring into Chicago fire up this fall's new AR extensions to iOS to find bathrooms and ATMs and restaurants?
"The courts have also ruled that you can't sign away rights, unless otherwise explicitly defined in law."
And those specified legal exceptions, like assignment of intellectual property, are the cause of endless problems. If IP had to remain with the creator or work, life would be a lot simpler for both creators and entrepreneurs.
"I don't see it making it hard to justify a large salary, what I see it being a complication for, is large yearly bonuses for management, while the rank and file get shafted."
But in Norway, doesn't the tax system give everyone about the same net income, no matter how much they may gross?
Kust yesterday in this forum the other bunch of pearl-clutchers was claiming that self-driving vehicles would never come into mass use. Now which fake disaster story are we going to coincide on?
The problem with solar in Hawaii is that the islands do not have large tracts of empty desert to pave over with collector arrays. I'm assuming that rooftop solar will eventually be used to its full potential, but only a continuously available source will put an end to those ugly diesel generators. Geothermal could be the renewable to fill that need without being an eyesore on the landscape.
If considering the feelings of the local people even meant using the small-d democratic process to poll the sentiments of the public, there wouldn't be so much of a problem. But this privileging of the crotchets of a tiny minority of activists who happen to have good connection with academia is no better than giving corporate lobbyists a free hand in determining what gets built.
No, this is exactly what I'm talking about. If you as a present-day Democrat had been in charge of things during the Depression, you would have given bartenders in Boulder City veto power over Hoover Dam. Except that before the dam, Boulder City didn't exist.
What impresses me about autonomous car tech is that it's already at the stage, in public traffic with a sea of the usual idiot human drivers, where accidents are so rare that each one can be micro-analyzed as though it were a plane crash. I never imagined it would get this far so fast.
Greatest Generation liberals from the time of Roosevelt to JFK supported science and its applications, but starting in the Seventies they switched sides and went Nu Nukes No GMO No Nothing.
Last month in Iceland I saw geothermal power being tapped from a volcano, with the spent water ( heat exchanger isolated from the highly mineralized volcano circulation) piped all the way to Reykjavík for district heating. There are not many places in the world where you can do that, but one of them is Hawaii, the kind of solidly blue state where the New Dealers would have installed a plant like this without a second thought.
But no - apparently geothermal power might anger the volcano gods. Hawaiians will have to get power from the rapid rotation of FDR in his grave, just as they will from now on get their astronomy from Chinese research papers.
"for every person who achieves something there's ten people who want to slap them down and find their faults and their weaknesses and belittle whatever they do. "
And inevitably, such critics are people who have no clue about how to improve in what the folks they flame have ALREADY accomplished, let alone what they will contribute in the future.
Don't be jealous because you missed out on the gold train....
The miners forty-niners were not the ones who made big money on gold. It was the entrepreneurs who serviced them, like A P Giannini, founder of Bank of America. One of the more successful was a dry goods merchant who arrived in San Francisco with a shipload of sturdy canvas sailcloth, intending to cash in on the need to re-rig all the ships that had to round the Horn and sail up the uncharted Pacific coast of the Americas to get to the goldfields. Though he badly misjudged the market for sailcloth, he dyed his fabric blue and made pants out of it. Miners needed lots and lots of pants, and the rest was history. His name was Levi Strauss.
Have there been any tests on blocking ballistic missiles with high energy lasers? A ballistic missile is basically a falling rock, so it's not easy to stop.
That's why you want to stop it when it's a delicate, rising rock.
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For United Airlines to not come up worst in this tiff, it would have to somehow involve Comcast as a combatant.
This may be a bizarre article, but it's about a bizarre thing that actually just happened, and which affects nerds.
When I moved home from Japan after several years of working overseas, the heaviest and costliest category of moving boxes I had left after selling off the furniture (I was getting married, so all new stuff in the new place) was my books. Today, that whole library would fit on a tablet.
6. All of those nonrefundable tickets would be required to be transferable. In the event that you got sick before the flight, or your grandma died, or you pulled jury duty, you could sell or give your ticket away to someone who could use it. Allow the carrier to charge a fee of $25 or so to validate and register the transfer of ownership, which would also be the fee and procedure for fixing a misspelled name on a ticket.
Airlines would immediately claim the return of Stalin, but they they would benefit a lot from such a rule, even though it would reduce the number of seats they could sell twice. No more lines of people wheedling for refunds because every case is special, no more screwing around with doctor notes and death certificates. And because passengers would no longer look forward to flying as though were root canal surgery, it would motivate people to travel more. Being able to pick up cheap tickets to Vegas on eBay would even revive the idea of spontaneous getaways that don't just mean jumping into the car.
Tibetans need the jobs more than Hawaiians do anyway.
A Pokémon Go festival may seem trivial, but this is the kind of stress test that augmented reality needs if we're about to start using it in everyday life. What's going to happen in another summer or two when thousands of tourists pouring into Chicago fire up this fall's new AR extensions to iOS to find bathrooms and ATMs and restaurants?
"The courts have also ruled that you can't sign away rights, unless otherwise explicitly defined in law."
And those specified legal exceptions, like assignment of intellectual property, are the cause of endless problems. If IP had to remain with the creator or work, life would be a lot simpler for both creators and entrepreneurs.
Jobs is a piece of sh|t when it comes to people.
But that's not what we hired Jobs to do.
"But an opera about Steve Jobs? Have the hipsters taken over even the southwest?"
To answer that one, you'll have to visit our spring film festival one of these times.
No, by then the people who believe these things will all be dead of some plague that the rest of us are vaccinated against.
"I don't see it making it hard to justify a large salary, what I see it being a complication for, is large yearly bonuses for management, while the rank and file get shafted."
But in Norway, doesn't the tax system give everyone about the same net income, no matter how much they may gross?
Thought you could make a living by driving?
Now you're fucked.
Kust yesterday in this forum the other bunch of pearl-clutchers was claiming that self-driving vehicles would never come into mass use. Now which fake disaster story are we going to coincide on?
The problem with solar in Hawaii is that the islands do not have large tracts of empty desert to pave over with collector arrays. I'm assuming that rooftop solar will eventually be used to its full potential, but only a continuously available source will put an end to those ugly diesel generators. Geothermal could be the renewable to fill that need without being an eyesore on the landscape.
If considering the feelings of the local people even meant using the small-d democratic process to poll the sentiments of the public, there wouldn't be so much of a problem. But this privileging of the crotchets of a tiny minority of activists who happen to have good connection with academia is no better than giving corporate lobbyists a free hand in determining what gets built.
No, this is exactly what I'm talking about. If you as a present-day Democrat had been in charge of things during the Depression, you would have given bartenders in Boulder City veto power over Hoover Dam. Except that before the dam, Boulder City didn't exist.
What impresses me about autonomous car tech is that it's already at the stage, in public traffic with a sea of the usual idiot human drivers, where accidents are so rare that each one can be micro-analyzed as though it were a plane crash. I never imagined it would get this far so fast.
Greatest Generation liberals from the time of Roosevelt to JFK supported science and its applications, but starting in the Seventies they switched sides and went Nu Nukes No GMO No Nothing.
Last month in Iceland I saw geothermal power being tapped from a volcano, with the spent water ( heat exchanger isolated from the highly mineralized volcano circulation) piped all the way to Reykjavík for district heating. There are not many places in the world where you can do that, but one of them is Hawaii, the kind of solidly blue state where the New Dealers would have installed a plant like this without a second thought.
But no - apparently geothermal power might anger the volcano gods. Hawaiians will have to get power from the rapid rotation of FDR in his grave, just as they will from now on get their astronomy from Chinese research papers.
"for every person who achieves something there's ten people who want to slap them down and find their faults and their weaknesses and belittle whatever they do. "
And inevitably, such critics are people who have no clue about how to improve in what the folks they flame have ALREADY accomplished, let alone what they will contribute in the future.
"He's a kid with a lot of money that's read too many sci-fi novels. "
Who has already accomplished far more in space than you ever will.
Don't be jealous because you missed out on the gold train....
The miners forty-niners were not the ones who made big money on gold. It was the entrepreneurs who serviced them, like A P Giannini, founder of Bank of America. One of the more successful was a dry goods merchant who arrived in San Francisco with a shipload of sturdy canvas sailcloth, intending to cash in on the need to re-rig all the ships that had to round the Horn and sail up the uncharted Pacific coast of the Americas to get to the goldfields. Though he badly misjudged the market for sailcloth, he dyed his fabric blue and made pants out of it. Miners needed lots and lots of pants, and the rest was history. His name was Levi Strauss.
EDIT: Black tulip...
I can practically hear the GPU prices dropping!
So Ethereum will never achieve its lack tulip?: http://www.amsterdamtulipmuseu...
So, you will not be put out of work by AI any time soon, and with that in mind UBI is not coming anytime soon.
So all those truck- and cabdriver jobs are safe for a long time to come, then?
How can the EU court rule on anything outside of Europe?
I predict that this particular revolutionary French idea will be forgotten by about Primidi de Nivôse.
Have there been any tests on blocking ballistic missiles with high energy lasers? A ballistic missile is basically a falling rock, so it's not easy to stop.
That's why you want to stop it when it's a delicate, rising rock.