if the vehicle is remotely piloted, then the "pilot" can very easily check to see if your beloved pet is in the way using the camera feed.
also too, a landing pad high up clear of obstructions is not necessary. a very plan target, in white or other solid color, so that on object would stand out. Even an automated check system, will probably work. AI can give you a definite "no", but a person is required for a "yes".
Drones are coming, that's for sure.
So is incredible unemployment. The 2nd gilded age is here, and it's got climate change as a backstop. This is not going to end well.
You really don't think that Boeing has thought to do accelerated life testing on lead-free solder connections ?
after all this time, they've just been "hoping" that all those thousands of lead-free connections will hold up for a long time with drastic changes in temperature ?
really ?
yeah- i'm positive you're wrong about that. Not every bad thing that happens to electronics is because of the world-wide conspiracy to take lead out of solder.
That's right, you can have AF and not even know it. As someone who had AF (ablation fixed it, for now...), I found that to be absolutely bizarre. I absolutely knew I was in AF without even taking my pulse, and yet nurses and doctors assured me that there were people who wouldn't know they were in AF.
The fact that the watch can detect this well enough to tell you that you should talk to your doctor about it, is a big deal.
then somebody at IBM needs to hire java programmers that know what the fuck they're doing. we're using IBM notes at work and it's the slowest most unreliable piece of crap i've ever seen.
but it's written in java.
yes I know, it's just one example, but really, an example of a good java program is not coming to mind...
what's the point of this ? Orchestra members are paid too much?
you have to be at the very top, probably 0.5% or even 0.1% (think about how many people want to be musicians for a living) in terms of ability to get hired into a _major_ symphony orchestra.
do you have to be in the top 1% or ever 10% of software engineers to make 141k in San Francisco ?
Itâ(TM)s the 16th time that the Obama administration has taken complaints about China to the WTO. Of the seven cases that have been decided, the U.S. has won all seven.
yeah Obama did nothing... How this bullshit gets uprated i'll never understand.
Obama has done NOTHING ? None of you moronic moderators could spend 2 minutes searching to verify that he did NOTHING ?
And that article came from the Washington Times. Run by a right wing lunatic. Don't believe me check out the headlines at the bottom of the page. So much for fake news.
The democrats will praise this when they figure out if it really helps or not, since Trump and many of the members of his administration lie often and with impunity.
Also too, those tariffs the Trumpbots are rallying around are being paid by you, not by China.
We do not believe unions are in the best interest of our customers, our shareholders, or most importantly, our associates
what a bunch of shit. their "associates" are absolutely the least of their concern.
shareholders come first.
actually corp executives come first, then shareholders.
there's a reason that companies don't want unions and want their employees to be replaceable cogs. so they can pay them as little as possible and give them the least benefits possible.
as for the unions : thanks for nothing. while you play defense trying to save your governement employee unions you let the rest of the working people in this country suffer under the likes of amazon and wal-mart.
don't you remember why unions were formed in the first place ?
Can someone explain to me why using a dynamically typed language is a good idea for "big" applications ?
Python is subject to all sorts of really horrendous bugs that would not happen in a compiled, type-checked language.
For example if you are accessing an undefined variable in the else branch of an if statement, you won't know it's undefined unless that branch is taken. which means if it's something like a rarely occurring error condition it's kind of annoying. yes you can figure it out by writing enough test code, but really.
I love Python, but i think using for multi-thousand line application seems like a bad idea.
I know science is hard, but it's astounding how many "new and improved battery" stories that we see, and how few of them end up being useful.
it would be really interesting to do some statistics and see how many of these things have actually resulted in improvements to batteries that you can actually buy.
my guess is that he number is really low, maybe even 0.
contained dozens of fields, including personal information like a voter's name, address, gender and several years' worth of voting history, including primaries and presidential elections.
How is the voting history even available ? Isn't how you voted confidential ? Shouldn't it be ?
Take a lesson. Technology solves the problems it creates for the same reason it creates them in the first placen because technologically savvy people want to hange the state of the world.
people solve problems with technology just like people create the problems.
Don't be too sure that these problems are being "solved". we have done an incredible amount of damage the environment on this planet to support what is clearly too many people. Sure technology has made it so there is less damage than there might have been, but i'ts still a pretty fucked up place compared to what it was even 50 years ago.
Keeping too many people alive on what will be effectively a destroyed planet is not "solving" a problem.
also, technology will work until it doesn't. billions of people could die in the forseeable future. that means billions of people will have survived. would that count as "solving" the problem.
Less people is STILL the best idea. The world needs free, easily accessible contraception, not a smaller smartphone.
The system we have now is really corporatism. Very large, essentially immortal, companies that are able to achieve regulatory capture and get laws written for themselves.
Look at the way that the coal companies were able to get an exemption to clean water laws to blow the tops off of mountains and destroy streams and creeks. All so they could reduce labor costs. That's one hell of an externality they got out of.
small "c" capitalism is something a free society has to have, i.e. the ability to buy and sell goods in a relatively unfettered market. No you don't get to sell nuclear weapons, so there has to be some manner of regulation.
corporatism is all about shifting costs to the public and creating a bullshit concept that companies are somehow outside of morality and ethics. They want to be outside of morality and ethics but that doesn't mean we have to let them.
Facebook is a data harvesting engine designed for maximum privacy violation.
It is designed to make money off the flow of information regardless of whether it is "true" or not.
There is far too much information to censor it reliably, and censorship carries it's own set of problems.
About the best they can do is go after fake accounts who's whole purpose is to relay false infomation. But that will be an arms race and FB will be behind most of the time.
Ultimately, they will make decisions based on the money they are making and will do whatever is legal. He's only worried about reputation as it directly affects the bottom line, which can be a little difficult to gauge.
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if the vehicle is remotely piloted, then the "pilot" can very easily check to see if your beloved pet is in the way using the camera feed.
also too, a landing pad high up clear of obstructions is not necessary. a very plan target, in white or other solid color, so that on object would stand out. Even an automated check system, will probably work. AI can give you a definite "no", but a person is required for a "yes".
Drones are coming, that's for sure.
So is incredible unemployment. The 2nd gilded age is here, and it's got climate change as a backstop. This is not going to end well.
You really don't think that Boeing has thought to do accelerated life testing on lead-free solder connections ?
after all this time, they've just been "hoping" that all those thousands of lead-free connections will hold up for a long time with drastic changes in temperature ?
really ?
yeah- i'm positive you're wrong about that. Not every bad thing that happens to electronics is because of the world-wide conspiracy to take lead out of solder.
That's right, you can have AF and not even know it. As someone who had AF (ablation fixed it, for now...), I found that to be absolutely bizarre. I absolutely knew I was in AF without even taking my pulse, and yet nurses and doctors assured me that there were people who wouldn't know they were in AF.
The fact that the watch can detect this well enough to tell you that you should talk to your doctor about it, is a big deal.
You really, really don't want a stroke.
then somebody at IBM needs to hire java programmers that know what the fuck they're doing.
we're using IBM notes at work and it's the slowest most unreliable piece of crap i've ever seen.
but it's written in java.
yes I know, it's just one example, but really, an example of a good java program is not coming to mind...
can we forever dispense with the "both parties are the same" nonsense ?
my guess is not.
and BTW, if you give a shit about the environment, they are most definitely not the same.
I can't remember the last time one of these sorts of PR articles from a University research lab actually made me think it might mean something.
The idea behind this is solid (BTW, is this comparable in a general way to aerogels ?), it's a matter of finding a scalable manufacturing method.
Where superheavy elements form the basis of advanced technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm not sure, but Mirkheim, by Poul Anderson, may contain similar elements (pun intended).
Both great book.s
we really do...
I think the current state of smartphone OSs proves most of the major points Stallman every made about why software needs to be free.
what's the point of this ? Orchestra members are paid too much?
you have to be at the very top, probably 0.5% or even 0.1% (think about how many people want to be musicians for a living) in terms of ability to get hired into a _major_ symphony orchestra.
do you have to be in the top 1% or ever 10% of software engineers to make 141k in San Francisco ?
I doubt it...
Maybe somebody will finally explain to me why:
1 uber and lyft are, absolutely, taxi companies so why don't the cities simply slap the same regs on them as what are on taxis ?
2 ok, for some reason 1 doesn't apply. then taxi companies shouldn't exist.
uber/lyft are taxi companies, either regulate them as such or just do away with the idea of taxi regulation.
why do they keep treating them separately ??
Blaming habitat loss on cities and letting farms/agricultural off the hook is ludicrous.
Not only does agricultural consume vast areas of land, but they also use a tremendous amount of insecticides and herbicides.
I'm not really clear on why you think that a few straggling milkweeds that managed to escape a field drowned in round-up to be considered a "habitat".
Habitat loss is the number one cause of pressure on species and especially species diversity, and agriculture is a major component of that problem.
Itâ(TM)s the 16th time that the Obama administration has taken complaints about China to the WTO. Of the seven cases that have been decided, the U.S. has won all seven.
yeah Obama did nothing...
How this bullshit gets uprated i'll never understand.
Obama has done NOTHING ? None of you moronic moderators could spend 2 minutes searching to verify that he did NOTHING ?
https://www.washingtontimes.co...
And that article came from the Washington Times. Run by a right wing lunatic. Don't believe me check out the headlines at the bottom of the page. So much for fake news.
The democrats will praise this when they figure out if it really helps or not, since Trump and many of the members of his administration lie often and with impunity.
Also too, those tariffs the Trumpbots are rallying around are being paid by you, not by China.
you don't actually know if Ivanka didn't do any of that now do you ?
We'd better investigate her for the next 10 years just to be sure.
for google anything.
there whole business model is made off of your personal information.
you're literally giving them money to invade your privacy...
really, i don't get it.
how is it that many of the major Linux distributions picked up systemd?
Not only was it a terrible idea, but people who should know better put it into their systems knowing it was a terrible idea.
android might be better but not much.
personally i think android is a fucking mess.
and google's most assuredly evil invasion of your privacy is just one of the many benefits of having an android phone.
we need a free software phone, and we need it yesterday.
We do not believe unions are in the best interest of our customers, our shareholders, or most importantly, our associates
what a bunch of shit. their "associates" are absolutely the least of their concern.
shareholders come first.
actually corp executives come first, then shareholders.
there's a reason that companies don't want unions and want their employees to be replaceable cogs. so they can pay them as little as possible and give them the least benefits possible.
as for the unions : thanks for nothing. while you play defense trying to save your governement employee unions you let the rest of the working people in this country suffer under the likes of amazon and wal-mart.
don't you remember why unions were formed in the first place ?
Can someone explain to me why using a dynamically typed language is a good idea for "big" applications ?
Python is subject to all sorts of really horrendous bugs that would not happen in a compiled, type-checked language.
For example if you are accessing an undefined variable in the else branch of an if statement, you won't know it's undefined unless that branch is taken. which means if it's something like a rarely occurring error condition it's kind of annoying. yes you can figure it out by writing enough test code, but really.
I love Python, but i think using for multi-thousand line application seems like a bad idea.
Is there something I'm missing here ?
enlighten me...
very cool idea.
nowhere even remotely as good as a modern receiver IC.
but very cool idea.
I know science is hard, but it's astounding how many "new and improved battery" stories that we see, and how few of them end up being useful.
it would be really interesting to do some statistics and see how many of these things have actually resulted in improvements to batteries that you can actually buy.
my guess is that he number is really low, maybe even 0.
it's kind of a amazing.
contained dozens of fields, including personal information like a voter's name, address, gender and several years' worth of voting history, including primaries and presidential elections.
How is the voting history even available ?
Isn't how you voted confidential ?
Shouldn't it be ?
Take a lesson. Technology solves the problems it creates for the same reason it creates them in the first placen because technologically savvy people want to hange the state of the world.
people solve problems with technology just like people create the problems.
Don't be too sure that these problems are being "solved". we have done an incredible amount of damage the environment on this planet to support what is clearly too many people. Sure technology has made it so there is less damage than there might have been, but i'ts still a pretty fucked up place compared to what it was even 50 years ago.
Keeping too many people alive on what will be effectively a destroyed planet is not "solving" a problem.
also, technology will work until it doesn't. billions of people could die in the forseeable future. that means billions of people will have survived. would that count as "solving" the problem.
Less people is STILL the best idea. The world needs free, easily accessible contraception, not a smaller smartphone.
The system we have now is really corporatism. Very large, essentially immortal, companies that are able to achieve regulatory capture and get laws written for themselves.
Look at the way that the coal companies were able to get an exemption to clean water laws to blow the tops off of mountains and destroy streams and creeks. All so they could reduce labor costs. That's one hell of an externality they got out of.
small "c" capitalism is something a free society has to have, i.e. the ability to buy and sell goods in a relatively unfettered market. No you don't get to sell nuclear weapons, so there has to be some manner of regulation.
corporatism is all about shifting costs to the public and creating a bullshit concept that companies are somehow outside of morality and ethics. They want to be outside of morality and ethics but that doesn't mean we have to let them.
Ultimately that's the problem.
Facebook is a data harvesting engine designed for maximum privacy violation.
It is designed to make money off the flow of information regardless of whether it is "true" or not.
There is far too much information to censor it reliably, and censorship carries it's own set of problems.
About the best they can do is go after fake accounts who's whole purpose is to relay false infomation. But that will be an arms race and FB will be behind most of the time.
Ultimately, they will make decisions based on the money they are making and will do whatever is legal. He's only worried about reputation as it directly affects the bottom line, which can be a little difficult to gauge.
but not clever enough to avoid getting caught.
wouldn't you just be paranoid as all hell if you had done something like this ?
flashing a gucci bag ? wtf ?