If by "Seoul" you mean "collateral damage area 1, in which innocent civilians were killed, demonstrating that $dictator was evil and needed to be removed", you do have a point that for a few inconsequential people, the war would not be clean. Whether Seoul would really turn into Dresden rather than Sderot remains to be seen. The ability of North Korea to inflict more than a propaganda strike on anyone else is seriously limited. One would hope that the US and Korean military have a whole bunch of tools ready to unleash to convince parts of LFK's army that not all orders should be followed.
But it's not doomsday, barely a small quick regional conflict which might involve a few nukes. And it's not going to happen, because Kim likes to be alive and knows his odds (actually he has more to worry about his generals doing something stupid so we take him out), and the South Korean and Chinese do not want an influx of refugees.
What's the song? "I hope the [Koreans] love their children too"
If you had watched the documentary correctly, the killer robots are only temporarily delayed by the particle accelerator. Since they are currently upgrading the LHC, the robots are free to kill us all.
Once the LHC is at full power, we'll be protected again.
"World War III" would require a lot of people involved. If Little-Fat-Kim nukes anyone, he's going to be playing Saddam-on-ice for a few weeks, while a lot of people use his oppressed citizens as testbenches for their latest cool weapons.
Not a world war, and hardly doomsday outside of the radius of the first nuke, and maybe Pyongyang.
Per the Holy Market rules, it's your job to ask your boss for more money (it's better if you deserve it and your company is making a profit). It's fun to point and laugh when the NHL/NBA/MLB go on strike over salaries, but as all valuable employees of very profitable corporations, they have the right to ask for their cut (and these guys can't exactly find multi-million contracts elsewhere). Be valuable, get paid well. You sound more whiny than they do.
Talking about individuals' salaries is definitely a problem, but companies do industry surveys all the time to make sure that they fall within the right salary ranges: avoid overpaying any non-exec, prevent useful underlings from looking elsewhere. Non-poaching tacit agreements tend to exist between suppliers and customers (because it's bad business), but they shouldn't exist between competitors. Anytime competitors agree on anything, cartel laws have to get involved.
The only Googler I know is an Uber-Geek (of the "Work day done? Let's compile some code while I do 3D animations" breed). His main Silicon Valley "connection" works at Apple, and he owes his job to updating his LinkedIn, and being extremely good (I don't whine because he deserves to be at Google with all the perks, when I know I don't).
> the interface doesn't shrink down to as small as Winamp / Audacious can
And this is most of the reason why I use winamp on all my machines, and have for over 15 years. Winamp in shrunk mode, with the shrunk playlist attached to it, always sits in the top left corner of my screen. All the important controls are visible, time left to end of song, and the playlist gives the title if I skip forward (or forget what that song is called). From there it's only a couple clicks for >99% of my needs. Need me? Wrist twitch sends mouse top left corner - click - press C to pause ($5 keyboards, no fancy buttons) - "how can I help?" (probably reliably under 2 seconds from disruption to mute, by now) All that convenience and it doesn't even cover a third of the top icon row. I don't need to shrink other windows to fit my full-featured player.
Can you name another player that small? (I'm assuming single-key shortcuts are common.)
the other main reason to keep winamp is that I have my own filing system and too many players want "libraries". Winamp just plays the files wherever they are, and doesn't make catalogs or whatever.
I've got a tip for you: Those Christmas LED lights can also be used inside. My strings of 60 LEDs use about 3W (measured), and are designed for nasty environments. They are surprisingly bright, and really cheap right now.
Beforehand, there's champagne and flowers During the build, there are strawberries and ice cream And, like the local loop, the most expensive is the last few inches.
If you have a factory in a third-world country, it's cheap, but the odds of issues are higher. If you have a first-world factory, even making them is expensive. The only part that's cheap is the checkout process when you are ordering.
Until American taste for bacon means that the pigs can't even breed anymore. Like for turkey.
Whether coned bacon would beat inseminated bacon is a question you need to ask to the guy extracting the male contribution...
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The problem with the goal of not having to work because the machines do all the menial stuff, is that pesky concept of Money.
Everyone still needs to find a way to convince someone else that the latter will better off if they give the former some of the money they control. If too many tasks are automated, a huge number of people will lack the skills required for that age-old civilization arrangement. Which leaves the others either the choice to subsidize them for nothing, eliminate the concept of money, or eliminate those unable to earn it. Not highly appealing.
While this has always been true, the path of innovation is such that it's no longer the lazy, the sick, or the idiots (in the medical sense) who find themselves unable to rejoin the workforce. Most people cannot fathom how to "recycle" the millions who are about to lose their jobs to ever-smarter machines, because the threshold for valuable work keeps rising, while the basic jobs keep shrinking.
In the end, which is far from tomorrow, you end up with either a police state or a revolution, while those who either control the machines or have not been replaced yet try to hang on to what they have.
Agreed, but if you roll the cost of the single-mode into the house, it doesn't need to be re-budgeted when you find that 10GE (or in a few years 100GE) router that you absolutely have to have. If this slashdotter has a significant other (at 4000ft2, you'd hope), that may not be a negligible thing. Not having to spend a few hours measuring and pulling it (unless you terminate your own fiber) may make it worth having a few strands that will never be used.
Did I mention having enough power near the conduits for the Christmas lights?
And if you really want to show off, have an expanded-beam fiber connector on a panel outside and/or in your garage... because 100GE to the pool is even cooler if you can hose the plug clean.
Start using them by running two CAT-6, a pair of multimode, and if you can afford it (4000ft2?) a pair of singlemode fiber. Don't need to connect them yet, just have enough space for outlets. At least two of these conduits per room, opposite walls/corners. At least one conduit to each outside wall of the house (put power in these ones too, not everything is PoE). Maybe one more conduit to the top of each outside wall if you want to add cameras-over-IP out of reach, while keeping regular plugs low.
Ideally you'd have all the conduits lead to two different rooms/closets/hidden_panels, in case you have to modify the house in the future, or if you expect people to come grabbing, whether they knock with a warrant or break the window.
> - Windows 2015: Gaming Edition: Get Windows 7;-) > - Windows 2015: Business Edition: Get Windows 7;-)
FTFY My win7 machines start clean, most background stuff is not allowed to start. A proper OS will then allow me to launch the program I'm in the mood for.
I AM wearing one. It's just the new Nanotech ones, that are so thin you can't see it! It's also super-micro-coated so it doesn't hurt regardless of what we do! You trust me, right?
[In passing, condoms have been used for centuries. It's latex ones that are only a few decades old]
"1. Start with Your Audience 2. Involve Stakeholders Early and Often 3. Keep it Iterative 4. Create Multidisciplinary Content Teams 5. Make Governance Central 6. Workflow that Works 7. Invest in Professionals and Trust Them "
I've seen enough powerpoints to know that the first layoff is less than two quarters away. Isn't that list a template from "MBA for dummies"?
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If by "Seoul" you mean "collateral damage area 1, in which innocent civilians were killed, demonstrating that $dictator was evil and needed to be removed", you do have a point that for a few inconsequential people, the war would not be clean.
Whether Seoul would really turn into Dresden rather than Sderot remains to be seen. The ability of North Korea to inflict more than a propaganda strike on anyone else is seriously limited.
One would hope that the US and Korean military have a whole bunch of tools ready to unleash to convince parts of LFK's army that not all orders should be followed.
But it's not doomsday, barely a small quick regional conflict which might involve a few nukes.
And it's not going to happen, because Kim likes to be alive and knows his odds (actually he has more to worry about his generals doing something stupid so we take him out), and the South Korean and Chinese do not want an influx of refugees.
What's the song? "I hope the [Koreans] love their children too"
If you had watched the documentary correctly, the killer robots are only temporarily delayed by the particle accelerator.
Since they are currently upgrading the LHC, the robots are free to kill us all.
Once the LHC is at full power, we'll be protected again.
"World War III" would require a lot of people involved.
If Little-Fat-Kim nukes anyone, he's going to be playing Saddam-on-ice for a few weeks, while a lot of people use his oppressed citizens as testbenches for their latest cool weapons.
Not a world war, and hardly doomsday outside of the radius of the first nuke, and maybe Pyongyang.
Per the Holy Market rules, it's your job to ask your boss for more money (it's better if you deserve it and your company is making a profit).
It's fun to point and laugh when the NHL/NBA/MLB go on strike over salaries, but as all valuable employees of very profitable corporations, they have the right to ask for their cut (and these guys can't exactly find multi-million contracts elsewhere).
Be valuable, get paid well. You sound more whiny than they do.
Talking about individuals' salaries is definitely a problem, but companies do industry surveys all the time to make sure that they fall within the right salary ranges: avoid overpaying any non-exec, prevent useful underlings from looking elsewhere. Non-poaching tacit agreements tend to exist between suppliers and customers (because it's bad business), but they shouldn't exist between competitors. Anytime competitors agree on anything, cartel laws have to get involved.
The only Googler I know is an Uber-Geek (of the "Work day done? Let's compile some code while I do 3D animations" breed). His main Silicon Valley "connection" works at Apple, and he owes his job to updating his LinkedIn, and being extremely good (I don't whine because he deserves to be at Google with all the perks, when I know I don't).
And it works better with two grounds, one at each end.
So run the tinfoil from your ears down your pants and spread your legs while you walk.
You will know it is working if the clueless people still affected by the mind-control waves look at you like you're an alien.
I'm sure the people protesting in SF will be glad to hear that the Googlers are, in fact, underpaid.
> the interface doesn't shrink down to as small as Winamp / Audacious can
And this is most of the reason why I use winamp on all my machines, and have for over 15 years. Winamp in shrunk mode, with the shrunk playlist attached to it, always sits in the top left corner of my screen. All the important controls are visible, time left to end of song, and the playlist gives the title if I skip forward (or forget what that song is called). From there it's only a couple clicks for >99% of my needs.
Need me? Wrist twitch sends mouse top left corner - click - press C to pause ($5 keyboards, no fancy buttons) - "how can I help?" (probably reliably under 2 seconds from disruption to mute, by now)
All that convenience and it doesn't even cover a third of the top icon row. I don't need to shrink other windows to fit my full-featured player.
Can you name another player that small? (I'm assuming single-key shortcuts are common.)
the other main reason to keep winamp is that I have my own filing system and too many players want "libraries". Winamp just plays the files wherever they are, and doesn't make catalogs or whatever.
I've got a tip for you: Those Christmas LED lights can also be used inside.
My strings of 60 LEDs use about 3W (measured), and are designed for nasty environments.
They are surprisingly bright, and really cheap right now.
Don't worry, they will all be slaughtered by Arthur Dent.
> Maybe making them is inexpensive
Beforehand, there's champagne and flowers
During the build, there are strawberries and ice cream
And, like the local loop, the most expensive is the last few inches.
If you have a factory in a third-world country, it's cheap, but the odds of issues are higher. If you have a first-world factory, even making them is expensive.
The only part that's cheap is the checkout process when you are ordering.
Until American taste for bacon means that the pigs can't even breed anymore.
Like for turkey.
Whether coned bacon would beat inseminated bacon is a question you need to ask to the guy extracting the male contribution...
The problem with the goal of not having to work because the machines do all the menial stuff, is that pesky concept of Money.
Everyone still needs to find a way to convince someone else that the latter will better off if they give the former some of the money they control.
If too many tasks are automated, a huge number of people will lack the skills required for that age-old civilization arrangement.
Which leaves the others either the choice to subsidize them for nothing, eliminate the concept of money, or eliminate those unable to earn it. Not highly appealing.
While this has always been true, the path of innovation is such that it's no longer the lazy, the sick, or the idiots (in the medical sense) who find themselves unable to rejoin the workforce. Most people cannot fathom how to "recycle" the millions who are about to lose their jobs to ever-smarter machines, because the threshold for valuable work keeps rising, while the basic jobs keep shrinking.
In the end, which is far from tomorrow, you end up with either a police state or a revolution, while those who either control the machines or have not been replaced yet try to hang on to what they have.
Triax, in case he wants to go into video production.
Agreed, but if you roll the cost of the single-mode into the house, it doesn't need to be re-budgeted when you find that 10GE (or in a few years 100GE) router that you absolutely have to have.
If this slashdotter has a significant other (at 4000ft2, you'd hope), that may not be a negligible thing. Not having to spend a few hours measuring and pulling it (unless you terminate your own fiber) may make it worth having a few strands that will never be used.
Did I mention having enough power near the conduits for the Christmas lights?
And if you really want to show off, have an expanded-beam fiber connector on a panel outside and/or in your garage... because 100GE to the pool is even cooler if you can hose the plug clean.
Start using them by running two CAT-6, a pair of multimode, and if you can afford it (4000ft2?) a pair of singlemode fiber. Don't need to connect them yet, just have enough space for outlets.
At least two of these conduits per room, opposite walls/corners. At least one conduit to each outside wall of the house (put power in these ones too, not everything is PoE). Maybe one more conduit to the top of each outside wall if you want to add cameras-over-IP out of reach, while keeping regular plugs low.
Ideally you'd have all the conduits lead to two different rooms/closets/hidden_panels, in case you have to modify the house in the future, or if you expect people to come grabbing, whether they knock with a warrant or break the window.
So your reaction is to have proactively addressed the topic?
I don't care how you make your non-skeuomorphic ice cubes, they're worth another $7M because it's cool.
Only of you draw a cloud on it
Considering they already did measurements in some sewer systems to estimate that's city's cocaine consumption...
What would Google suggestion to you be: "buy bitcoin mining hardware / visit Silk Roak", or get "discount lawyers"
cliffhanger?
> - Windows 2015: Gaming Edition: Get Windows 7 ;-) ;-)
> - Windows 2015: Business Edition: Get Windows 7
FTFY
My win7 machines start clean, most background stuff is not allowed to start.
A proper OS will then allow me to launch the program I'm in the mood for.
I AM wearing one. It's just the new Nanotech ones, that are so thin you can't see it!
It's also super-micro-coated so it doesn't hurt regardless of what we do!
You trust me, right?
[In passing, condoms have been used for centuries. It's latex ones that are only a few decades old]
"1. Start with Your Audience
2. Involve Stakeholders Early and Often
3. Keep it Iterative
4. Create Multidisciplinary Content Teams
5. Make Governance Central
6. Workflow that Works
7. Invest in Professionals and Trust Them "
I've seen enough powerpoints to know that the first layoff is less than two quarters away.
Isn't that list a template from "MBA for dummies"?
I'm sure a lawyer somewhere is salivating while going over airline disclosures... The average Joe may make him a lot of dough.
I hope it's not connected to the web, I don't the wrong people to be able to read the pressure in my pants.