It's said that, usually, when a company builds some "flagship headquarters", that marks the apex of said company, and it's all downhill from then on. We'll see.
Edens acknowledged the amount is "seemingly high" and the judgment "may seem extreme for the breach of contract for the purchase of a printer." But he wrote that he's constrained by how the Supreme Court had previously interpreted a state trial rule
He certainly didn't find himself constrained by common sense.
For me, it was an epiphany, one of the very few in my life.
I was always attracted to computers, but these were the old days, and the concept of PC was starting to develop. A kid like me had no access to any computing device, except a TI calculator that my older brother had. That piked the interest, but no revelation forthcoming.
Then a government agency decided to introduce computers to the local business, and allowed computer time in a street office, to business people. The interest wasn't too big, so they had the computers sitting idle most of the time, and finally they let interested youngsters in.
I was one of those youngsters, like 15 at the time. I fought my way through the BASIC manual, in English, a language I knew very rudimentarily, and did some coding. After copying some examples, I remember the moment when I decided to do something that wasn't in the manual, that is, draw a circle. I drew the circle point by point based on the distance to a center, by calculating the x and y coordinates, and the circle appeared in the screen. At that moment I knew that that was what I wanted to do.
The most important feelings that I remember were the sensation of the machine doing what "I" told it to do, and the feeling of wanting to do something (draw a circle), and finding by myself the solution to that problem using logic. That was it for me.
continuing the payments for between six months and a year
How is that an experiment on basic income? Nobody is going to really change anything in their lives for getting $1000 for six months. You would have to provide a lifetime commitment for it to be comparable to the basic income situation. Even then, you would need to make it a couple of generations, to see the effect in children that grow up with the knowledge that they won't really need to work, ever.
There was, if I remember correctly, a coffee company that offered a lifetime "salary" to the winners of a raffle. That was a long time ago. Surely there are more people in this situations, with some kind of unalienable lifetime stipends of one kind or another. Finding these people and asking them about the changes in their lives would be easier and more productive, in my opinion.
On one side, if this was a computer simulation, we would have magic.
On the other side, that could explain the McCulloch's fly by anomalies. They would simply be the result of reaching the precision limit of the simulator's variables.
So I don't know what to think, I suppose that's about par for an NPC.
"We said 'Thank you very much, how much was it again?' She said '£9.50', so we said 'Here's a £10 note - keep the change!'"
The ethics of doing that, as opposed to informing the owner that she has a possibly valuable artifact are murky for me. I'm not questioning legality, but morality. I think that, in some way, Mr. Wetter tricked that woman out of the difference between 10 pounds and whatever she could have gotten at an auction not in eBay but at Sotheby's.
One can argue that she didn't do her due diligence, but the piece was a very specialized one. One can argue that Mr. Wetter's efforts in getting his specialized knowledge grants him the possible boons of that knowledge, like in the joke of the engineer and the 10.000 dollar bill for turning a screw. One can argue that Mr. Wetter didn't want profit himself, but wanted to preserve the artifact for the community. All these are valid points.
But in the end, the basis of morality boils down to "Do unto others". I know I wouldn't like that happening to me, and so wouldn't Mr. Wetter, I'd guess.
I have observed a tendency in all business, after having a huge success with something, to try to change it, and change again, till they kill it. I suppose it's a consequence of the human inability for just doing nothing, and letting things be.
I don't use Twitter, never have, never seen the point. But I know about Twitter The reason being that tweets are cited in all kind of media. The reason being that tweets force people to be concise, and produce text-bites for the media to consume. Forcing people to be concise is something you don't get with 10000 characters. So I suppose I'll cut myself short, too...
As we'll work in our cars, the journey will be like:
-Four hours commute in the morning, answering emails, having teleconferences and writing docs. - Reach the office, take a coffee, socialize, eat. Eating optionally can be done in the car too. - Back in the car, that evening jam isn't going to form by itself. - Four hours commute back home, more work in the car. In the quiet environment, people is incredibly productive. - Work not finished, still a teleconference to do. The car has to circle the neighborhood a couple of times to allow for your overtime. You cannot really teleconference from home, that would be unprofessional. While waiting for the last person to connect from the London traffic jam, you chat a bit with your neighbor, that is also being driven around, just to chill a bit, have a smoke.
And that will be the working day of the near future. Going on vacation will be similar, but with the kids in the back seat with VR helmets enjoying the forest you are going to, with added gnomes and elves, (optional item, in-app purchase).
I'll bet that the same kid that had no problems eating the battery unprompted in the first place, will throw a tantrum when they try to make him swallow that robot-filled ice pill.
This goes on to show that autonomous features will unavoidably be abused by the users, trusting the machine far more than what the designer has intended. That's why semi-autonomous vehicles are a bad idea, and will only give a bad name to the concept.
As a next step, they will be forcing Starbucks to open the exact same number of stores in poor, depressed areas as in the center of the city.
Also, city servants will have to spread their living quarters evenly across the cities.
In related news, touristic tour operators will change their sightseeing routes so that an appropriate amount of time is devoted to the dreariest parts of the city. The legislature is divided on the issue of forcing the tourists to take an equal amount of photos in every area, because the egalitarian push will clash with the desire not to offend inhabitants of the slums with the feeling that they are into some kind of zoo. The delicate balancing of these opposing traits is what keep your tax dollars at work.
Well, think out of the box. Just locate an asteroid of the required girth, and drop in on place. You have time to get it to the right orbit. Use several hundred EmDrives powered by sun cells to do that. Then a bit of atmosphere braking, not too much, careful not to get it broken. For the final braking, I'd use a crude version of the project Orion system, explode a couple of nuclear bombs on the underside of the asteroid.
Hey! Bonus idea! If the asteroid is partly ice (see Asimov's "The Martian Way" for reference), you probably won't need the rain at all, for some years.
I'm sure anybody would sell some nuclear bombs to an Arab country for such an interesting project... and the technology to throw a big asteroid to Earth is so interesting in itself (see Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" for reference) that everybody will agree on that experiment just having to take place.
Some critics of Sci-Hub have complained that many users can access the same papers through their libraries but turn to Sci-Hub instead -- for convenience rather than necessity.
How is that a critic in any way, except to the alternatives?
Compared to gmail accessed via web, email clients offer slower startup, In which world? higher bug count I'd suppose it depends which ones are you comparing. inferior search tools That might well be, it's not a feature I use much. A crazily confusing configuration burden It's clear that you are about 10 years past using email clients. You'll be happy to know that nowadays, just giving your address usually autoconfigure server options. , create a deep disincentive to access email from any machine but your own, True, but that I consider an advantage, except sometimes. For these sometimes, there is the smartphone. Also, a thing colled Thunderbird portable, where you can have your email in an USB stick that you carry with you, may be useful.
The rest of the rambling I don't fully comprehend. But I'll now state my dislikes of web based clients.
- Lack of autonomy. They depend on you being online. They mostly need a fast connection. - Lack of control. They change the interface when they feel like it, and there is nothing you can do about it. - Lack of space. Granted, the space limits are ample, but they are never enough. Not for me, at least. - Lack of freedom. You are forced to use the mail address that they allow you, or pay for the privilege. If you want to change providers it's not easy to transfer all you messages to the new one. - Lack of privacy. All your data, your contacts, everything is stored in the same place, for every interested party to peruse at will. - Lack of flexibility. If you want to use several addresses from different providers, you are mostly toast.
Anyway, IMO, they have squandered an opportunity of using the whole table as a giant heatsink, and make the whole thing silent. I'm sure the fans will be relatively silent, but I'm also sure that the vibration will be noticeable.
You could take anybody out of that photo and put it in any (work related) group photo that I've ever been part of, and nobody would find anything amiss. It makes me shudder.
But of course we are living in a simulation. How else would you explain the apparently inborn feeling that there is a higher being or beings that controls the rules of the Universe, and observes us constantly even when we are alone or in the dark?
But I'm a bit scared. This possible discovery of quantized inertia may mean that we are starting to find out how many decimals have our variables, and the Scientist may decide to start over.
Now to find out ways of detecting if some planet is using a similar device to hide itself. And we'll have found life. Intelligent, paranoid, life. Perhaps that's why SETI comes still empty-handed, perhaps only the paranoid survive.
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It's said that, usually, when a company builds some "flagship headquarters", that marks the apex of said company, and it's all downhill from then on. We'll see.
Edens acknowledged the amount is "seemingly high" and the judgment "may seem extreme for the breach of contract for the purchase of a printer." But he wrote that he's constrained by how the Supreme Court had previously interpreted a state trial rule
He certainly didn't find himself constrained by common sense.
For me, it was an epiphany, one of the very few in my life.
I was always attracted to computers, but these were the old days, and the concept of PC was starting to develop. A kid like me had no access to any computing device, except a TI calculator that my older brother had. That piked the interest, but no revelation forthcoming.
Then a government agency decided to introduce computers to the local business, and allowed computer time in a street office, to business people. The interest wasn't too big, so they had the computers sitting idle most of the time, and finally they let interested youngsters in.
I was one of those youngsters, like 15 at the time. I fought my way through the BASIC manual, in English, a language I knew very rudimentarily, and did some coding. After copying some examples, I remember the moment when I decided to do something that wasn't in the manual, that is, draw a circle. I drew the circle point by point based on the distance to a center, by calculating the x and y coordinates, and the circle appeared in the screen. At that moment I knew that that was what I wanted to do.
The most important feelings that I remember were the sensation of the machine doing what "I" told it to do, and the feeling of wanting to do something (draw a circle), and finding by myself the solution to that problem using logic. That was it for me.
I don't know. Are the owners of derelict buildings where drug selling and other crimes are openly conducted ever liable for that?
continuing the payments for between six months and a year
How is that an experiment on basic income? Nobody is going to really change anything in their lives for getting $1000 for six months. You would have to provide a lifetime commitment for it to be comparable to the basic income situation. Even then, you would need to make it a couple of generations, to see the effect in children that grow up with the knowledge that they won't really need to work, ever.
There was, if I remember correctly, a coffee company that offered a lifetime "salary" to the winners of a raffle. That was a long time ago. Surely there are more people in this situations, with some kind of unalienable lifetime stipends of one kind or another. Finding these people and asking them about the changes in their lives would be easier and more productive, in my opinion.
On one side, if this was a computer simulation, we would have magic.
On the other side, that could explain the McCulloch's fly by anomalies. They would simply be the result of reaching the precision limit of the simulator's variables.
So I don't know what to think, I suppose that's about par for an NPC.
That Gothard really looks now like a Swiss cheese.
"We said 'Thank you very much, how much was it again?' She said '£9.50', so we said 'Here's a £10 note - keep the change!'"
The ethics of doing that, as opposed to informing the owner that she has a possibly valuable artifact are murky for me. I'm not questioning legality, but morality. I think that, in some way, Mr. Wetter tricked that woman out of the difference between 10 pounds and whatever she could have gotten at an auction not in eBay but at Sotheby's.
One can argue that she didn't do her due diligence, but the piece was a very specialized one. One can argue that Mr. Wetter's efforts in getting his specialized knowledge grants him the possible boons of that knowledge, like in the joke of the engineer and the 10.000 dollar bill for turning a screw. One can argue that Mr. Wetter didn't want profit himself, but wanted to preserve the artifact for the community. All these are valid points.
But in the end, the basis of morality boils down to "Do unto others". I know I wouldn't like that happening to me, and so wouldn't Mr. Wetter, I'd guess.
A spokesperson for the plant said itâ(TM)s too early to comment on the cause, but it appears that misaligned mirrors are to blame.
It's to early to comment on the cause, so let's do it anyway.
I have observed a tendency in all business, after having a huge success with something, to try to change it, and change again, till they kill it. I suppose it's a consequence of the human inability for just doing nothing, and letting things be.
I don't use Twitter, never have, never seen the point. But I know about Twitter The reason being that tweets are cited in all kind of media. The reason being that tweets force people to be concise, and produce text-bites for the media to consume. Forcing people to be concise is something you don't get with 10000 characters. So I suppose I'll cut myself short, too...
As we'll work in our cars, the journey will be like:
-Four hours commute in the morning, answering emails, having teleconferences and writing docs.
- Reach the office, take a coffee, socialize, eat. Eating optionally can be done in the car too.
- Back in the car, that evening jam isn't going to form by itself.
- Four hours commute back home, more work in the car. In the quiet environment, people is incredibly productive.
- Work not finished, still a teleconference to do. The car has to circle the neighborhood a couple of times to allow for your overtime. You cannot really teleconference from home, that would be unprofessional. While waiting for the last person to connect from the London traffic jam, you chat a bit with your neighbor, that is also being driven around, just to chill a bit, have a smoke.
And that will be the working day of the near future. Going on vacation will be similar, but with the kids in the back seat with VR helmets enjoying the forest you are going to, with added gnomes and elves, (optional item, in-app purchase).
I'll bet that the same kid that had no problems eating the battery unprompted in the first place, will throw a tantrum when they try to make him swallow that robot-filled ice pill.
This goes on to show that autonomous features will unavoidably be abused by the users, trusting the machine far more than what the designer has intended. That's why semi-autonomous vehicles are a bad idea, and will only give a bad name to the concept.
As a next step, they will be forcing Starbucks to open the exact same number of stores in poor, depressed areas as in the center of the city.
Also, city servants will have to spread their living quarters evenly across the cities.
In related news, touristic tour operators will change their sightseeing routes so that an appropriate amount of time is devoted to the dreariest parts of the city. The legislature is divided on the issue of forcing the tourists to take an equal amount of photos in every area, because the egalitarian push will clash with the desire not to offend inhabitants of the slums with the feeling that they are into some kind of zoo. The delicate balancing of these opposing traits is what keep your tax dollars at work.
At least, good old Sir Arthur thought he knew the next step, as related in his history "The food of the Gods" :-)
Well, think out of the box. Just locate an asteroid of the required girth, and drop in on place. You have time to get it to the right orbit. Use several hundred EmDrives powered by sun cells to do that. Then a bit of atmosphere braking, not too much, careful not to get it broken. For the final braking, I'd use a crude version of the project Orion system, explode a couple of nuclear bombs on the underside of the asteroid.
Hey! Bonus idea! If the asteroid is partly ice (see Asimov's "The Martian Way" for reference), you probably won't need the rain at all, for some years.
I'm sure anybody would sell some nuclear bombs to an Arab country for such an interesting project... and the technology to throw a big asteroid to Earth is so interesting in itself (see Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" for reference) that everybody will agree on that experiment just having to take place.
Some critics of Sci-Hub have complained that many users can access the same papers through their libraries but turn to Sci-Hub instead -- for convenience rather than necessity.
How is that a critic in any way, except to the alternatives?
Compared to gmail accessed via web, email clients offer slower startup,
In which world?
higher bug count
I'd suppose it depends which ones are you comparing.
inferior search tools
That might well be, it's not a feature I use much.
A crazily confusing configuration burden
It's clear that you are about 10 years past using email clients. You'll be happy to know that nowadays, just giving your address usually autoconfigure server options.
, create a deep disincentive to access email from any machine but your own,
True, but that I consider an advantage, except sometimes. For these sometimes, there is the smartphone. Also, a thing colled Thunderbird portable, where you can have your email in an USB stick that you carry with you, may be useful.
The rest of the rambling I don't fully comprehend. But I'll now state my dislikes of web based clients.
- Lack of autonomy. They depend on you being online. They mostly need a fast connection.
- Lack of control. They change the interface when they feel like it, and there is nothing you can do about it.
- Lack of space. Granted, the space limits are ample, but they are never enough. Not for me, at least.
- Lack of freedom. You are forced to use the mail address that they allow you, or pay for the privilege. If you want to change providers it's not easy to transfer all you messages to the new one.
- Lack of privacy. All your data, your contacts, everything is stored in the same place, for every interested party to peruse at will.
- Lack of flexibility. If you want to use several addresses from different providers, you are mostly toast.
From now on, I'll be busy trying to find the bugs in the simulation software. With an elevation of privilege I'd be satisfied.
Penner suggests that a more common metal, like nickel, could replace the gold if the technology catches on.
An adventurous suggestion, having into account that :
We don't understand the mechanism of that yet.
Anyway, IMO, they have squandered an opportunity of using the whole table as a giant heatsink, and make the whole thing silent. I'm sure the fans will be relatively silent, but I'm also sure that the vibration will be noticeable.
You could take anybody out of that photo and put it in any (work related) group photo that I've ever been part of, and nobody would find anything amiss. It makes me shudder.
But of course we are living in a simulation. How else would you explain the apparently inborn feeling that there is a higher being or beings that controls the rules of the Universe, and observes us constantly even when we are alone or in the dark?
But I'm a bit scared. This possible discovery of quantized inertia may mean that we are starting to find out how many decimals have our variables, and the Scientist may decide to start over.
If she had been a man, we wouldn't have heard of him a lot either.
Now to find out ways of detecting if some planet is using a similar device to hide itself. And we'll have found life. Intelligent, paranoid, life. Perhaps that's why SETI comes still empty-handed, perhaps only the paranoid survive.