>No one in the history of mankind has every wanted to scan barcodes.
What I think you mean is that no one wants to scan someone else's barcodes when English is so much more effective when conveying information to strangers.
I've used barcodes to track feeding of my Ball Pythons for many years. Click on a rodent, and scan the barcode, and a snake is logged as fed. Scan the barcode again if the snake doesn't eat the rodent, and problem eaters are logged. A once complex process totally automated by simple barcodes.
While you can't do anything to avoid bugs, in the case of cars, there are things you can do to reduce the chance of being killed by a software bug.
A car where you have to hold down a button for 2 seconds to turn it off makes it easier for software to kill you than a car where you can simply turn the key counter-clockwise if the throttle sticks open.
Not handing your gear-shift over to electronics gives you the option to drop it into neutral if the computer is causing undesired acceleration.
> I wonder what this means for the free will that humans supposedly possess.
Nothing, because free will isn't really a meaningful concept. It all falls apart when you try to define it. You either wind up with a meaningless definition, or no free will. It appears that we respond to stimulus in the only way we can based on our biology and past experiences. Free will became extremely unlikely when we realized that souls are imaginary.
>That's not true anymore since there are concentrated streaming video sources pushing large volumes of uncacheable content out.
No there aren't. This content is being requested by the ISPs customers, not pushed on them. Either the ISP can provide their customers with an acceptable service, or the local municipalities should step in and replace the failed ISPs.
Those studies are probably misleading. It takes longer to repair an underground line, but it takes an idiot to sever it, when above-ground lines are regularly severed by weather events.
Being a developer means that I have to sit in one place for 8 hours a day. What I do for the other 8 hours awake is up to me, and has nothing to do with my employer.
Like most people here I spend a lot of time on the computer at home as well, but It only takes an hour a day of exercise to stay very fit. I know it can be hard to get motivated to get up and get active, but it's really worth it. You only get one body. Make the most of it.
It's cool that he was still coding right up until his death, but that death was much too early.
Based on the Wikipedia photo It looks like he spent too much time improving his mind, and not enough taking care of his body.
If you look like Jim, it's time to change your diet and get active if you want a long healthy life. Tech like FitBit and Jawbone can help. Active gaming using Kinect instead of sitting with a controller, and spending 30 min a day weightlifting did wonders for me.
You'll feel better, think more clearly, and get positive attention from the opposite sex.
It won't be the same device in 3 years. It'll be lighter, more powerful, and less expensive.
I once spent $600 on a CD recorder, and spent $1000 on an eMagin HMD that Nvidia made obsolete with the next driver release. The lesson I learned is to never be an early adopter unless the expense is trivial to you so it falls into the toy budget.
> I can stream Amazon in HD fine most days, but even with an 18Meg pipe, Netflix looks like garbage.
I wonder if Netflix is currently over-utilized due to the recent House of Cards season 2 release. I know I'm using it more than usual, and the video quality while watching House of Cards is worse than even standard-def TV.
But of course it's false. Gods and the supernatural are fantasy concepts, and it shouldn't need to be pointed out here that they don't exist in the real world.
Why would you think that when Republicans have been openly opposed to equality since the civil-rights movement? I know there's a movement afoot to pretend that 21st century Republicans are the Republicans of Lincoln's day, rather than a mob of creationists, confederates, racists, homophobes, and generally terrible people, but it's just not remotely true.
Then how do you explain the constant lies to pander to religious lunatics and polluters? Republicans treat their voters like they have the minds of children, and after the mass-exodus of smart people from the Republican party in the past 20 years, I fear their belief was self-fulfilling.
Resorting to cutting down trees, causing environmental harm processing them, and taking up space with ink-covered bound-paper seems like a pretty extreme response to a problem better solved by storing text digitally without DRM.
If you have that technology, what's stopping you from shipping something? You're obviously way ahead of the people actually developing these displays, who are still struggling with the latency problem.
>I'm not sure exactly what the holdup is - but someone, be it Valve, or Occulus - release one of these already?
Latency. The slight delay between head-movement and game-response makes people vomit. Releasing the product before it's ready would set VR back years when most people hate it.
Rats are very cool animals as long as they're not in your food supply or carrying plague. They're naturally very timid, but can make good pets once they get used to being around people. I have rats around to feed my Ball Pythons, but I've had several that were extremely friendly and became pets. They can turn their feet backwards to help in climbing ropes, which is pretty weird to see.
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>No one in the history of mankind has every wanted to scan barcodes.
What I think you mean is that no one wants to scan someone else's barcodes when English is so much more effective when conveying information to strangers.
I've used barcodes to track feeding of my Ball Pythons for many years. Click on a rodent, and scan the barcode, and a snake is logged as fed. Scan the barcode again if the snake doesn't eat the rodent, and problem eaters are logged. A once complex process totally automated by simple barcodes.
While you can't do anything to avoid bugs, in the case of cars, there are things you can do to reduce the chance of being killed by a software bug.
A car where you have to hold down a button for 2 seconds to turn it off makes it easier for software to kill you than a car where you can simply turn the key counter-clockwise if the throttle sticks open.
Not handing your gear-shift over to electronics gives you the option to drop it into neutral if the computer is causing undesired acceleration.
> I wonder what this means for the free will that humans supposedly possess.
Nothing, because free will isn't really a meaningful concept. It all falls apart when you try to define it. You either wind up with a meaningless definition, or no free will. It appears that we respond to stimulus in the only way we can based on our biology and past experiences. Free will became extremely unlikely when we realized that souls are imaginary.
Dumb AC, but then if you didn't already realize that you were being dumb, you wouldn't have posted as an AC.
>That's not true anymore since there are concentrated streaming video sources pushing large volumes of uncacheable content out.
No there aren't. This content is being requested by the ISPs customers, not pushed on them. Either the ISP can provide their customers with an acceptable service, or the local municipalities should step in and replace the failed ISPs.
Those studies are probably misleading. It takes longer to repair an underground line, but it takes an idiot to sever it, when above-ground lines are regularly severed by weather events.
Nice job calling out a specific person while you're too cowardly to post under your name.
People who support our government aren't "treasonous traitors" no matter what the voices in your head tell you.
Being a developer means that I have to sit in one place for 8 hours a day. What I do for the other 8 hours awake is up to me, and has nothing to do with my employer.
Like most people here I spend a lot of time on the computer at home as well, but It only takes an hour a day of exercise to stay very fit. I know it can be hard to get motivated to get up and get active, but it's really worth it. You only get one body. Make the most of it.
You might want to consider not criticizing people who encourage others to be healthier.
It's cool that he was still coding right up until his death, but that death was much too early.
Based on the Wikipedia photo It looks like he spent too much time improving his mind, and not enough taking care of his body.
If you look like Jim, it's time to change your diet and get active if you want a long healthy life. Tech like FitBit and Jawbone can help. Active gaming using Kinect instead of sitting with a controller, and spending 30 min a day weightlifting did wonders for me.
You'll feel better, think more clearly, and get positive attention from the opposite sex.
It won't be the same device in 3 years. It'll be lighter, more powerful, and less expensive.
I once spent $600 on a CD recorder, and spent $1000 on an eMagin HMD that Nvidia made obsolete with the next driver release. The lesson I learned is to never be an early adopter unless the expense is trivial to you so it falls into the toy budget.
> I can stream Amazon in HD fine most days, but even with an 18Meg pipe, Netflix looks like garbage.
I wonder if Netflix is currently over-utilized due to the recent House of Cards season 2 release. I know I'm using it more than usual, and the video quality while watching House of Cards is worse than even standard-def TV.
But of course it's false. Gods and the supernatural are fantasy concepts, and it shouldn't need to be pointed out here that they don't exist in the real world.
Why would you think that when Republicans have been openly opposed to equality since the civil-rights movement? I know there's a movement afoot to pretend that 21st century Republicans are the Republicans of Lincoln's day, rather than a mob of creationists, confederates, racists, homophobes, and generally terrible people, but it's just not remotely true.
>The republicans just happen to be less corrupt
Then how do you explain the constant lies to pander to religious lunatics and polluters? Republicans treat their voters like they have the minds of children, and after the mass-exodus of smart people from the Republican party in the past 20 years, I fear their belief was self-fulfilling.
Resorting to cutting down trees, causing environmental harm processing them, and taking up space with ink-covered bound-paper seems like a pretty extreme response to a problem better solved by storing text digitally without DRM.
The tragic flaw being that the North Koreans won't wave to tell Kinect to recognize them.
If you have that technology, what's stopping you from shipping something? You're obviously way ahead of the people actually developing these displays, who are still struggling with the latency problem.
>I'm not sure exactly what the holdup is - but someone, be it Valve, or Occulus - release one of these already?
Latency. The slight delay between head-movement and game-response makes people vomit. Releasing the product before it's ready would set VR back years when most people hate it.
If you run with that, you might be able to become as wealthy as Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh by getting in on the same grift.
Good luck!
Apparently the word originated in the 1500's, so it's only silly from our perspective now.
http://www.etymonline.com/inde...
Obviously we'll have orbital solar collectors transmitting that power over laser to our cars to meet the demand.
/Not really, but it would look wicked cool until we went blind if this happened with visible lasers.
>Lets say i relocate cross country.
>I can fill up at any gasoline station.
>I am completely shit out of luck with a Tesla.
You can still fill the moving truck. Your Tesla will be being towed behind the truck, same as we tow our cars when moving cross-country now.
>They will put a "mile-o-meter" device in your car and charge/tax you for distance driven
As they should. People don't expect to have roads for free, do they?
Rats are very cool animals as long as they're not in your food supply or carrying plague. They're naturally very timid, but can make good pets once they get used to being around people. I have rats around to feed my Ball Pythons, but I've had several that were extremely friendly and became pets. They can turn their feet backwards to help in climbing ropes, which is pretty weird to see.