There is a shortage of workers willing to work for less than what my competitor is paying his workers. Without the lower wages, I can't underbid my competitor and still make the profit worth my time. But, with this robot, I can beat my competition....at least until he acquires a robot more capable than mine.
Where are they getting these used laptop batteries that still have life in them?
My experience has been that a typical laptop battery will last about 2 years. 3 if you're will to work in small spurts before hunting down a power outlet. Most are run till the batteries are useless, and then spend a while as a makeshift desktop by constantly being connected to the charger. In a couple cases, the laptop was still useful enough to spring for a replacement battery.
I just don't see where enough recycle-able batteries will come from for this "movement" to ever be anything other than an oddity. With the tedium of: - connecting hundreds of cells that you've already determined are not new, if not at the end of their usable life -purchasing or building your own controllers with failsafe features -replacing cells as they begin dying off
I would think it would make most people opt for buying one of Tesla's products.
NASA has been working on autonomous systems for years. It is hard to control a robot in real time, when there is a delay of minutes to hours inserted into the message loop. Some autonomy greatly improves the ability of probes to gather interesting data.
But, it is not a far leap to move from "Select and drill a rock" to "Select and drill a head".
It is not a far leap from designing a car that will detect and drive in a given lane, to designing a car that will select and drive in a given crowd.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to limit the light of knowledge to a given room.
Not only that, but cable makes it somewhere between difficult and impossible to keep the channels you would never watch out of your way. Specifically, the shopping channels. You'll spend hours in a hokey menu, using a clunky remote to individually select, delete, confirm delete channels. Then, the power will reset, and you'll have to do it again.
So where does this leave us: Hopefully a lesson that knee-jerk reactions, like pulling any opinions or sites from the Internet that we don't like are the wrong response.
Quite right, it is wrong. They should be left up so they can be mocked without mercy.
They are mostly calling for whites to self-segregate by building their own communities.
A move that I support, because I hate living around idiots. (Really, people. Why would we care if the slugs moved out into the country, where they could be safely ignored?)
It's worse than that. Victoria Secret can parade young women in underwear that definitely look underage in larger than life billboards at the mall. A 60 yr old man would be arrested for having the same photos on his home computer if they'd been taken privately.
You're talking to people who have come to agree with one another that a group of people they disagree with should be denied the right to walk down the street together. Of course they believe their phone service and power should be cut off.
politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America's manufacturing base. I resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing,"
Rephrase: Politics have sidelined the important mission, so I'm going to make a political statement as I quit the team working on the important mission.
The assemblers came prepared to be attacked. They can argue that the thread of violence was both obvious and eminent, yet the authorities chose to do nothing.
That was the mistake. Whether he's right or wrong (and I haven't read the science, so I don't know) that's what crosses the line between 'acceptable to discuss at work' and 'likely to get you fired'.
Did you actually just say that pointing out scientific facts was a fire-able offense? And you admitted it in public?
After Trump was elected, we had the office manager going around consoling the young workforce at the company I was working for. Everyone snickered in disbelief of her radical partisanship after she left. But, nobody snickered to her face, because she was a favorite of the company owner.
There is no way I would participate in Google all-hands minefield.
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Until one of the roots of those deciduous trees decides to go burrowing underneath your brittle house.
There is a shortage of workers willing to work for less than what my competitor is paying his workers. Without the lower wages, I can't underbid my competitor and still make the profit worth my time. But, with this robot, I can beat my competition....at least until he acquires a robot more capable than mine.
My dad put it this way when I asked him why he didn't make a job of building furniture (which he loved to do):
"If you make your hobby your job, you won't have a hobby."
Where are they getting these used laptop batteries that still have life in them?
My experience has been that a typical laptop battery will last about 2 years. 3 if you're will to work in small spurts before hunting down a power outlet. Most are run till the batteries are useless, and then spend a while as a makeshift desktop by constantly being connected to the charger. In a couple cases, the laptop was still useful enough to spring for a replacement battery.
I just don't see where enough recycle-able batteries will come from for this "movement" to ever be anything other than an oddity. With the tedium of:
- connecting hundreds of cells that you've already determined are not new, if not at the end of their usable life
-purchasing or building your own controllers with failsafe features
-replacing cells as they begin dying off
I would think it would make most people opt for buying one of Tesla's products.
Is there a reason you'd need two?
Unless some of the guys attacked in Charlottesville are the ones doing the programming. In that case, they'll be looking for you specifically.
I see a conundrum arising.
NASA has been working on autonomous systems for years. It is hard to control a robot in real time, when there is a delay of minutes to hours inserted into the message loop. Some autonomy greatly improves the ability of probes to gather interesting data.
But, it is not a far leap to move from "Select and drill a rock" to "Select and drill a head".
It is not a far leap from designing a car that will detect and drive in a given lane, to designing a car that will select and drive in a given crowd.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to limit the light of knowledge to a given room.
Not only that, but cable makes it somewhere between difficult and impossible to keep the channels you would never watch out of your way. Specifically, the shopping channels. You'll spend hours in a hokey menu, using a clunky remote to individually select, delete, confirm delete channels. Then, the power will reset, and you'll have to do it again.
So where does this leave us: Hopefully a lesson that knee-jerk reactions, like pulling any opinions or sites from the Internet that we don't like are the wrong response.
Quite right, it is wrong. They should be left up so they can be mocked without mercy.
Because, that is not what they are doing.
They are mostly calling for whites to self-segregate by building their own communities.
A move that I support, because I hate living around idiots. (Really, people. Why would we care if the slugs moved out into the country, where they could be safely ignored?)
It's worse than that. Victoria Secret can parade young women in underwear that definitely look underage in larger than life billboards at the mall. A 60 yr old man would be arrested for having the same photos on his home computer if they'd been taken privately.
And if you want cakes for a gay wedding, you can open your own bakery?
C'mon, bask in the cognitive dissonance.
And, hell, for that matter, they can find someone else to bake their damn cake!!
(It's a reference to another issue where this same argument was used.)
You're talking to people who have come to agree with one another that a group of people they disagree with should be denied the right to walk down the street together. Of course they believe their phone service and power should be cut off.
I truly want to believe this is sarcasm. I wish you had added some comments about how we could use them to make glue, or some such.
George? Is that you Mr. President?
politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America's manufacturing base. I resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing,"
Rephrase: Politics have sidelined the important mission, so I'm going to make a political statement as I quit the team working on the important mission.
face in palm.
The assemblers came prepared to be attacked. They can argue that the thread of violence was both obvious and eminent, yet the authorities chose to do nothing.
How is that nonsense, when there is recent historical proof to show it works exactly like that. Please run the terms "red scare" through google.
But, not for beating on passing cars with bats, or tossing bottles full of fireworks into crowds.
Gotcha.
Are you saying that coming out with firearms against the violent protesters in Berkely would have been excusable?
You really need to get outside of your echo chamber sometimes.
here are some biological and social reasons why.
That was the mistake. Whether he's right or wrong (and I haven't read the science, so I don't know) that's what crosses the line between 'acceptable to discuss at work' and 'likely to get you fired'.
Did you actually just say that pointing out scientific facts was a fire-able offense? And you admitted it in public?
You must be color blind. There is more to the world than the black and white you've been indoctrinated with.
Riiiightt!
After Trump was elected, we had the office manager going around consoling the young workforce at the company I was working for. Everyone snickered in disbelief of her radical partisanship after she left. But, nobody snickered to her face, because she was a favorite of the company owner.
There is no way I would participate in Google all-hands minefield.