Trying consuming experiences rather than things. I always ask for a vacation with the family for Christmas. It's fun, and it's always something different!:-)
Remember the Hostess bankruptcy? Sales of Twikies kept going down, and they said the reason was because "customers have migrated to healthier foods." Which supports your claim about people wanting to live better and feel better.
America wants to throw money and technology at every known problem in order to solve it. We're a bit like the ancient Greeks and their dislike of manual labor that prevented their further intellectual and practical advance. They thought that manual labor was the duty of slaves, and did not want to get their aristocratic hands dirty. So I think your advice, as fine as it is, will fall on deaf ears.
That's a great quote from Helen Keller, and I enjoyed your signature quote from Blade Runner as well. Did you know that the form of that quote was actually improvised by the actor, Rutger Hauer? It's true... see the Wikipedia article for the usual hows and whys.
In the video, they mentioned that the target audience was hotels or high end apartments. In a hotel, this actually makes sense. The business traveler can use it to catch up with the market or the news, and the leisure traveler can catch the weather while someone else is watching TV. There probably won't be steam issues since mirrors in hotels are often not actually in the bathroom. The device is probably a good selling point for the room as well, because it gives it a sense of high tech and luxury, which would attract a well-heeled geek crowd. Furthermore, I think this device is just one of a wave of future similar devices where cheap electronics are integrated with every other piece of consumer furniture, toy, or clothing, which in many cases will be quite useful. I would use it just for the novelty.
In case you hadn't noticed, women are the most expensive thing on the planet.
Who the fuck modded this shit insightful. My SO earns more than I do, so the net cost is negative. Try treating women as fellow people rather than whatever weirdass thing you've made them up to be in your mind.
Your SO sounds prime. I'd like to open up the bidding for her at 75K. Assuming she's still in reasonably good condition, of course.
So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
Perhaps. But in any case, a simple change of venue out of Texas when they make their appeal may be all they need to win this one. Best of luck to New Egg!
Yes, thank goodness all of us random Internet guys will be able to immediately do what Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of cryptography, failed to do. What would the Internet do without Slashdot?
I read the article. Some guy worked 2.5 hours of overtime one day and got sore feet. He spoke of "hobbling" so he probably just didn't feel good that day, and he described feeling "absolutely shattered" because of his feet.
According to the article, his average speed for his shift (11 miles in 10.5 hours) works out to about 1 mile an hour. My walking speed is 4.5 miles per hour. I assume that he was simply unused to being on his feet all day or maybe overweight or has badly fitting shoes. The truly ironic fact is that my job involves sitting all day and is way less healthy than his. However, I can understand why he might complain about the sore feet, which would make his job more difficult and less pleasant.
The "mental illness" of the title was just a generic embellishment by some professor. Unfortunately, he didn't specify what characteristics he thought were risky about this job, so I didn't learn very much.
Well, I for one agree with what you are saying. Slashdot's opinion on copyright issues is mostly ignorant, inconsistent, populist BS, as the comments below abundantly illustrate. However, bear in mind that Slashdot is an entertainment site with no legal standing.
My two cents:
$1.3 million seems like a lot to be compensated for a couple of pictures.
250,000 people died in those earthquakes. All we can think of is the money?
His high-pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma of Intelligence (1983), p. 251.
Describing an incident which occurred in the New York AT & T lab cafeteria in 1943
Well, it's not doing experiments, just looking at photographs (later, they plan to have it watch YouTube videos). I agree that the feedback model of learning is more powerful, since it can learn causation, but here it is just learning to make associations by identifying objects in the pictures and looking for spatial and type relationships between the objects.
From the article:
For example, the computers have figured out that zebras tend to be found in savannahs and that tigers look somewhat like zebras.
Things it tries to learn include X is found in Y and X looks like Y.
The article doesn't mention how the researchers are attempting to correct the AI. Either the researchers tell it that it is wrong for specific inferences (for example, it wrongly learned that "rhino can be a kind of antelope" and they could maybe tell it "No!") or else they just look at its wrong inferences and rewrite the program that is making the inferences, which is a type of learning not available to humans and the kind I think they are probably using.
The real problem with this website is too much ambition. They should have started with the simplest working project, something like Health Sherpa, proved that it worked, and then tried scaling up from there. That's the Lizze Borden school of web design. Cut your design down to the bone. Just when you think you're done, no matter -- there's always one more whack you can make!
The Wikipedia article was quite informative and even had some nice pictures of the parents' bodies. For the curious, the actual number of hatchet (not axe) wounds appears to have been 10-11 chops to the head and face for the father (including one that split one of his eyeballs in two), and 19 blows to the head of the mother from behind, crushing her skull. There is some question about whether someone tried to poison them before the axe murders, as the family had been violently ill in the few days preceding. No evidence of poisoning was found during the autopsy, however. Whoever killed them, the motive appears to have been money, with the Bordens' estate being worth about $10 million in present day dollars.
That's true, but we all know it is quite unlikely. Just look how Apple (and other tech companies) are zealous to reduce their tax burden internationally. Probably they'll close those loopholes one of these days.
The city is not paying Apple anything; it is actually increasing their tax burden from the formerly reduced state. Thus the article, which says "the residents of Cupertino will pay [Apple] only $4.4 million to stick around" is misleading and deliberately inflammatory.
The agreement was approved unanimously by the board. They think they are getting a good deal by having the world's largest corporation build a giant, permanent, iconic headquarters there and I agree. Any city in America would be happy to have them. Just think of all the tourists who are going to show up from around the world just to see this new building.
The city gets a lot of benefits from Apple employees living and working there aside from direct taxation, in terms of personal living expenses and a well-educated populace, as mentioned elsewhere in the article.
They can always renegotiate the tax breaks later if they really need the money.
Actually, I can think of a use for recording the GPS data. They can create a map of the city that shows police cruiser coverage, then make sure they are covering the city more evenly for improved crime prevention. It also reduces the paperwork burden of reporting where they were and when and provides a backup record to clarify any uncertainty as to their location in case a problem occurs.
Finally, I don't see why meeting with a witness requires a location that is secret from the police... it's not as if the GPS is going to identify the witness. If it does, they can always turn it off.
From the summary: US Government Embraces Bitcoin in Hearing on Virtual Currency
So glad that they are embracing Bitcoin. However, that reminds me of a quotation. From Wikipedia:
In a famous exchange with John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich,... the latter exclaimed, "Sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox," Wilkes is reported to have replied, "That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress."
The way in which a 'ponce' may act. The actions of a pompous tosser who thinks their value is higher than it is actually worth. The actions of one who thinks they are either overly stylish, cool or smart etc, when usually their IQ is akin to a fruit and they seem like a stunt double for one of the 'idiots' on the programme 'Nathan Barley'. Usually anyone with half a brain tends to laugh at these types, but unfortunately for society, this type of action is actually accepted amongst the 'Celeb' and 'Music' industry with open arms and is also worshipped. Oh well.
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Trying consuming experiences rather than things. I always ask for a vacation with the family for Christmas. It's fun, and it's always something different! :-)
Remember the Hostess bankruptcy? Sales of Twikies kept going down, and they said the reason was because "customers have migrated to healthier foods." Which supports your claim about people wanting to live better and feel better.
America wants to throw money and technology at every known problem in order to solve it. We're a bit like the ancient Greeks and their dislike of manual labor that prevented their further intellectual and practical advance. They thought that manual labor was the duty of slaves, and did not want to get their aristocratic hands dirty. So I think your advice, as fine as it is, will fall on deaf ears.
That's a great quote from Helen Keller, and I enjoyed your signature quote from Blade Runner as well. Did you know that the form of that quote was actually improvised by the actor, Rutger Hauer? It's true... see the Wikipedia article for the usual hows and whys.
In the video, they mentioned that the target audience was hotels or high end apartments. In a hotel, this actually makes sense. The business traveler can use it to catch up with the market or the news, and the leisure traveler can catch the weather while someone else is watching TV. There probably won't be steam issues since mirrors in hotels are often not actually in the bathroom. The device is probably a good selling point for the room as well, because it gives it a sense of high tech and luxury, which would attract a well-heeled geek crowd. Furthermore, I think this device is just one of a wave of future similar devices where cheap electronics are integrated with every other piece of consumer furniture, toy, or clothing, which in many cases will be quite useful. I would use it just for the novelty.
In case you hadn't noticed, women are the most expensive thing on the planet.
Who the fuck modded this shit insightful. My SO earns more than I do, so the net cost is negative. Try treating women as fellow people rather than whatever weirdass thing you've made them up to be in your mind.
Your SO sounds prime. I'd like to open up the bidding for her at 75K. Assuming she's still in reasonably good condition, of course.
I thought it said Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarier Than We Thought.
We are.
Did anyone else think of the Rudyard Kipling poem?
Perhaps. But in any case, a simple change of venue out of Texas when they make their appeal may be all they need to win this one. Best of luck to New Egg!
Yes, thank goodness all of us random Internet guys will be able to immediately do what Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of cryptography, failed to do. What would the Internet do without Slashdot?
So, it's not Vampires at all, is it? It's really Tesla's ghost? *dumbfounded*
Yeah, why doesn't Yahoo! just make some desktop client software that integrates with their WebMail and has Outlook-style features?
Good point. We have a concrete floor in our warehouse as well, but I don't spend much time there.
I read the article. Some guy worked 2.5 hours of overtime one day and got sore feet. He spoke of "hobbling" so he probably just didn't feel good that day, and he described feeling "absolutely shattered" because of his feet.
According to the article, his average speed for his shift (11 miles in 10.5 hours) works out to about 1 mile an hour. My walking speed is 4.5 miles per hour. I assume that he was simply unused to being on his feet all day or maybe overweight or has badly fitting shoes. The truly ironic fact is that my job involves sitting all day and is way less healthy than his. However, I can understand why he might complain about the sore feet, which would make his job more difficult and less pleasant.
The "mental illness" of the title was just a generic embellishment by some professor. Unfortunately, he didn't specify what characteristics he thought were risky about this job, so I didn't learn very much.
Well, I for one agree with what you are saying. Slashdot's opinion on copyright issues is mostly ignorant, inconsistent, populist BS, as the comments below abundantly illustrate. However, bear in mind that Slashdot is an entertainment site with no legal standing.
My two cents:
Why don't you just write an AI to write the blog. That will save you some work. Seriously.
Well, it's not doing experiments, just looking at photographs (later, they plan to have it watch YouTube videos). I agree that the feedback model of learning is more powerful, since it can learn causation, but here it is just learning to make associations by identifying objects in the pictures and looking for spatial and type relationships between the objects.
From the article:
For example, the computers have figured out that zebras tend to be found in savannahs and that tigers look somewhat like zebras.
Things it tries to learn include X is found in Y and X looks like Y.
The article doesn't mention how the researchers are attempting to correct the AI. Either the researchers tell it that it is wrong for specific inferences (for example, it wrongly learned that "rhino can be a kind of antelope" and they could maybe tell it "No!") or else they just look at its wrong inferences and rewrite the program that is making the inferences, which is a type of learning not available to humans and the kind I think they are probably using.
The real problem with this website is too much ambition. They should have started with the simplest working project, something like Health Sherpa, proved that it worked, and then tried scaling up from there. That's the Lizze Borden school of web design. Cut your design down to the bone. Just when you think you're done, no matter -- there's always one more whack you can make!
The Wikipedia article was quite informative and even had some nice pictures of the parents' bodies. For the curious, the actual number of hatchet (not axe) wounds appears to have been 10-11 chops to the head and face for the father (including one that split one of his eyeballs in two), and 19 blows to the head of the mother from behind, crushing her skull. There is some question about whether someone tried to poison them before the axe murders, as the family had been violently ill in the few days preceding. No evidence of poisoning was found during the autopsy, however. Whoever killed them, the motive appears to have been money, with the Bordens' estate being worth about $10 million in present day dollars.
That's true, but we all know it is quite unlikely. Just look how Apple (and other tech companies) are zealous to reduce their tax burden internationally. Probably they'll close those loopholes one of these days.
A few observations:
The city is not paying Apple anything; it is actually increasing their tax burden from the formerly reduced state. Thus the article, which says "the residents of Cupertino will pay [Apple] only $4.4 million to stick around" is misleading and deliberately inflammatory.
The agreement was approved unanimously by the board. They think they are getting a good deal by having the world's largest corporation build a giant, permanent, iconic headquarters there and I agree. Any city in America would be happy to have them. Just think of all the tourists who are going to show up from around the world just to see this new building.
The city gets a lot of benefits from Apple employees living and working there aside from direct taxation, in terms of personal living expenses and a well-educated populace, as mentioned elsewhere in the article.
They can always renegotiate the tax breaks later if they really need the money.
From diamonds and steel to civilization and hope, everything is vulnerable to a quasar's polar jet.
Ah, you must be Slashdot's resident poet. I look forward to your next coffee table volume. ;-)
Actually, I can think of a use for recording the GPS data. They can create a map of the city that shows police cruiser coverage, then make sure they are covering the city more evenly for improved crime prevention. It also reduces the paperwork burden of reporting where they were and when and provides a backup record to clarify any uncertainty as to their location in case a problem occurs.
Finally, I don't see why meeting with a witness requires a location that is secret from the police... it's not as if the GPS is going to identify the witness. If it does, they can always turn it off.
From the summary: US Government Embraces Bitcoin in Hearing on Virtual Currency
So glad that they are embracing Bitcoin. However, that reminds me of a quotation. From Wikipedia:
It's not a Ponzi scheme... it's a Poncey scheme!
Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poncey