It frees them up to do more productive and valuable work.
Someone's got to build and program those robots.
I don't know the last time you were at a McDonald's,...
I actually prefer not to eat the food at McDonalds, so it's been a while, but....
...but I don't see any of those workers...
Do you mean those 70-and 80-somethings who are working for something to occupy their time? Or supplement their Social Security checks? I don't want to tell them they should find something else to do, but maybe they should find something else to do. There might be some other people who really need that job.
... taking up a class on robotics or embedded systems programming any time soon.
Or maybe you mean that other class of worker that can barely speak English, but is holding down two or maybe even three jobs to support their family. Some of them might actually be able to learn the skills needed to maintain and repair them, if not actually program them or build them. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss those possibilities. Maybe if they weren't holding down three jobs they could find the time to get the training? But we don't actually allow for that.
Maybe you mean it will open up eventual programming and repair jobs for their children? The replaced workers will just have to resort to society supporting them financially for the next few decades until they die off.
I expect we're already supporting them. Walmart employees on food stamps, e.g..
Avengers Civil War or whatever that piece of carp was called
You know what the movie is called, and you eagerly went to see it multiple times. Now you're just trying to expunge your self-loathing and nerd shame, and it isn't working. You'll do this again when you buy the movie on Blu-Ray, and it won't work then either.
That sounds like the voice of experience. Now you're trying to project your own feelings of inadequacy and self loathing onto others.
No, I didn't see it multiple times, and I won't buy it on blurry-disk, or even on DVD.
That rolls right off the tongue; not. And it's not nearly as much fun as saying Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
Why don't we just call it Disney and be done.
And after seeing the big Amblin Entertainment logo at the end of Avengers Civil War or whatever that piece of carp was called, I guess I'll just sit and wait for PDLM to swallow Amblin up too.
I have a problem with certain statements here: The English language, as opposed to the German, makes no difference between a change in eating habits and a temporary measure, often extreme, with the sole goal to reduce weight.
English certainly does distinguish between "diet" as a verb and "diet" as a noun.
These days I can hardly find anything I want to watch on streaming, and I can barely keep my DVD queue full.
Hulu is a desert. I won't pay for Amazon Prime, at least not while I'm paying for Netflix. Comcast/Xfinity can't seem to make up its mind what I'm allowed to watch on my broadband-only service; I watched have of season five of Game of Thrones before they decided I wasn't really entitled to it. Yes, I am actually entitled to some things, just not very much. I almost bit when they had a Broadband+TV deal that was within a couple dollars of what I pay now, but it was one of their fscking one year deals, then the price goes up and I have to play hardball and threaten to switch to FIOS to keep them from jacking up the price.
I use a VPN to watch BBC iPlayer, where at least some of the content is a bit better than the drivel we're given here.
And my wife and I go to the movie theater to see new movies when there's something worth seeing, which kinda contributes to our inability to keep the DVD queue full. I guess I live in a civilized part of the country – nobody's phones ring in the middle of the movie, etc.
If someone spends a {week,month,year} creating something, at least they're actually creating something.
My daughter makes costumes for herself and her husband. Often they are characters from a movie, but sometimes from a book. Last year I helped her make a metal belt buckle for her Gamora costume.
Don't be dissing people for the things they like. Who are you to judge? And if they're making something, that's extra cool.
Servers like Sony's PS3 (Vita OS) and PS4 (Orbis OS), both of which are based on FreeBSD?
Most who install Ubuntu expect to have their devices ans [sic] peripherals running after install.
Citation Needed!
You know what? Linux isn't all rainbows and unicorns. A recent update to the Fedora kernel broke my dual monitor setup. Yes, the kernel. Reverting to an earlier kernel with no other changes restored my dual monitors. Gnome 3 Desktop has routine breakage. Yeah, don't tell me that Fedora isn't Ubuntu, I already know that.
Part of the difference might be that there are actual companies selling Linux. Companies with lawyers, who can approve NDAs, that allow kernel developers to get early access to new devices, so Linux tends to get support for new stuff earlier. *BSD's kernel developers may not always have that kind of luxury.
I've used FreeBSD since the beginning, and 386BSD before that. I've never had bleeding edge hardware and I've never had a problem with FreeBSD supporting my hardware.
Srsly? A year ago I was ready to replace my Gen1 MBAir, the then current 13" MBAir also had 8GB max, but for just 200g more, I bought the MBpro and put 16GB in it.
Okay, so my MBpro is a couple mm thicker. The diff between 10mm, 13mm, and 16mm doesn't bother me; mainly it's the weight I care about. And being able to put 16GB of RAM in it.
They didn't sell the cars for $1000. That was just the reservation price. $35,000 * 115,000 = $4.025 billion, which is a pretty substantial amount of money.
$4B is a lot of money. Or it will be if and when they sell those 115,000 cars.
I didn't write anything about cars being sold for $1K. What I wrote (go back and read it) is that $115M is not a lot of money. It's not a lot of money when it comes to making cars. Anyone that's impressed by Tesla raising $115M is kidding themselves if they think that's a lot of money.
$15 is a bit low for owning it on DVD; I've seen it on Costco for $18 on DVD, higher on BluRay. Wait a while and you'll probably be able to get the DVD for $12.
OTOH I did see it in the theater for $10. Big screen was well worth it for the stunning visuals.
Now that I've watched it two more times on a six inch screen during a flight I'm not sure I'd bother owning it. (Yes, I've read the book too.).
And having worked at JPL the "JPL scenes" that aren't actually at JPL leave me a tad underwhelmed. Not to mention that JPL does robotic exploration, and wouldn't have much of anything to do with manned missions – to Mars, or anywhere else.
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It frees them up to do more productive and valuable work. Someone's got to build and program those robots.
I don't know the last time you were at a McDonald's,...
I actually prefer not to eat the food at McDonalds, so it's been a while, but....
...but I don't see any of those workers...
Do you mean those 70-and 80-somethings who are working for something to occupy their time? Or supplement their Social Security checks? I don't want to tell them they should find something else to do, but maybe they should find something else to do. There might be some other people who really need that job.
... taking up a class on robotics or embedded systems programming any time soon.
Or maybe you mean that other class of worker that can barely speak English, but is holding down two or maybe even three jobs to support their family. Some of them might actually be able to learn the skills needed to maintain and repair them, if not actually program them or build them. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss those possibilities. Maybe if they weren't holding down three jobs they could find the time to get the training? But we don't actually allow for that.
Maybe you mean it will open up eventual programming and repair jobs for their children? The replaced workers will just have to resort to society supporting them financially for the next few decades until they die off.
I expect we're already supporting them. Walmart employees on food stamps, e.g..
It frees them up to do more productive and valuable work.
Someone's got to build and program those robots.
It should have happened a long time ago. It would have except wages have been kept artificially low.
You know what the movie is called, and you eagerly went to see it multiple times. Now you're just trying to expunge your self-loathing and nerd shame, and it isn't working. You'll do this again when you buy the movie on Blu-Ray, and it won't work then either.
That sounds like the voice of experience. Now you're trying to project your own feelings of inadequacy and self loathing onto others.
No, I didn't see it multiple times, and I won't buy it on blurry-disk, or even on DVD.
But thanks for playing.
Or PixDisLucMar.
That rolls right off the tongue; not. And it's not nearly as much fun as saying Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
Why don't we just call it Disney and be done.
And after seeing the big Amblin Entertainment logo at the end of Avengers Civil War or whatever that piece of carp was called, I guess I'll just sit and wait for PDLM to swallow Amblin up too.
Eating fat doesn't make you fat.
Stuffing yourself and not exercising does.
AFAIK the jury is till out on gut bacteria.
I have a problem with certain statements here: The English language, as opposed to the German, makes no difference between a change in eating habits and a temporary measure, often extreme, with the sole goal to reduce weight.
English certainly does distinguish between "diet" as a verb and "diet" as a noun.
People diet (verb) to lose weight.
While diet (noun) is the eating habits.
And you're right, English is not German.
Sleights of Mind, by Macknik, Martinez-Conde, and Blakeslee
I suggest reading "Sleight of Mind." Magicians have known for millennia how to force certain outcomes.
(I have no connection to book or the authors, other than having read the book. It's a bit pretentious at times, but otherwise rather insightful.)
If they stall too long they might have to consider Trump's nominee instead.
These days I can hardly find anything I want to watch on streaming, and I can barely keep my DVD queue full.
Hulu is a desert. I won't pay for Amazon Prime, at least not while I'm paying for Netflix. Comcast/Xfinity can't seem to make up its mind what I'm allowed to watch on my broadband-only service; I watched have of season five of Game of Thrones before they decided I wasn't really entitled to it. Yes, I am actually entitled to some things, just not very much. I almost bit when they had a Broadband+TV deal that was within a couple dollars of what I pay now, but it was one of their fscking one year deals, then the price goes up and I have to play hardball and threaten to switch to FIOS to keep them from jacking up the price.
I use a VPN to watch BBC iPlayer, where at least some of the content is a bit better than the drivel we're given here.
And my wife and I go to the movie theater to see new movies when there's something worth seeing, which kinda contributes to our inability to keep the DVD queue full. I guess I live in a civilized part of the country – nobody's phones ring in the middle of the movie, etc.
if the USPTO grants this, that's gotta be the end of the US patent system.
The Six Million Dollar Man TV show had a bionic eye – in 1973 for fsck sake.
This is the real reason FB keeps pestering me for my phone number.
Well, no!
The "lab" in our upper floor Bangalore office is maxed out, not because of space, power, or cooling, but because the floor won't carry the weight.
Our labs and DCs in our US facilities are all on the ground floor or in the basement for that reason.
I honestly wonder if those architects really considered the fact that racks of 20 2U servers weighs in at over half a tonne (1100 lbs) per sq meter.
One human in a cube probably weighs in at less than 1/50th of that (75kg human and another 75kg of desk and computer in 6-8 sq meters.
Those towers are going to need some pretty heavy duty flooring to hold that much weight.
If someone spends a {week,month,year} creating something, at least they're actually creating something.
My daughter makes costumes for herself and her husband. Often they are characters from a movie, but sometimes from a book. Last year I helped her make a metal belt buckle for her Gamora costume.
Don't be dissing people for the things they like. Who are you to judge? And if they're making something, that's extra cool.
FreeBSD, which is more of a server OS
Servers like Sony's PS3 (Vita OS) and PS4 (Orbis OS), both of which are based on FreeBSD?
Most who install Ubuntu expect to have their devices ans [sic] peripherals running after install.
Citation Needed!
You know what? Linux isn't all rainbows and unicorns. A recent update to the Fedora kernel broke my dual monitor setup. Yes, the kernel. Reverting to an earlier kernel with no other changes restored my dual monitors. Gnome 3 Desktop has routine breakage. Yeah, don't tell me that Fedora isn't Ubuntu, I already know that.
Part of the difference might be that there are actual companies selling Linux. Companies with lawyers, who can approve NDAs, that allow kernel developers to get early access to new devices, so Linux tends to get support for new stuff earlier. *BSD's kernel developers may not always have that kind of luxury.
I've used FreeBSD since the beginning, and 386BSD before that. I've never had bleeding edge hardware and I've never had a problem with FreeBSD supporting my hardware.
I can see it, but only because I knew what was coming.
If I hadn't known, I'd probably still be wondering.
Epic fail IMO.
Srsly? A year ago I was ready to replace my Gen1 MBAir, the then current 13" MBAir also had 8GB max, but for just 200g more, I bought the MBpro and put 16GB in it.
Okay, so my MBpro is a couple mm thicker. The diff between 10mm, 13mm, and 16mm doesn't bother me; mainly it's the weight I care about. And being able to put 16GB of RAM in it.
that was probably your boyfriend convincing you to swallow his spunk
You seem to know quite a bit about this topic. First hand experience?
ISTR hearing about new research showing that the amount of salt in your diet has little to no effect on coronary heart disease.
While we're on the subject, the amount of fat in your diet has been shown to have no effect on blood cholesterol levels.
Not that I'm suggesting you consume salt by the bucketful or anything.
They didn't sell the cars for $1000. That was just the reservation price. $35,000 * 115,000 = $4.025 billion, which is a pretty substantial amount of money.
$4B is a lot of money. Or it will be if and when they sell those 115,000 cars.
I didn't write anything about cars being sold for $1K. What I wrote (go back and read it) is that $115M is not a lot of money. It's not a lot of money when it comes to making cars. Anyone that's impressed by Tesla raising $115M is kidding themselves if they think that's a lot of money.
I dunno about you, but for building cars, $100M isn't a lot of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
$15 is a bit low for owning it on DVD; I've seen it on Costco for $18 on DVD, higher on BluRay. Wait a while and you'll probably be able to get the DVD for $12.
OTOH I did see it in the theater for $10. Big screen was well worth it for the stunning visuals.
Now that I've watched it two more times on a six inch screen during a flight I'm not sure I'd bother owning it. (Yes, I've read the book too.).
And having worked at JPL the "JPL scenes" that aren't actually at JPL leave me a tad underwhelmed. Not to mention that JPL does robotic exploration, and wouldn't have much of anything to do with manned missions – to Mars, or anywhere else.
If the company has $50M debt and you need to give four or five founders about $10M each? There you go, $100M.
(Note: Bangladesh Bank isn't like Bank of America; it's the country's central bank.)
Bangladesh Bank is like the US Federal Reserve; it's the country's central bank.
fixed that for you.
I'd be more likely to believe it if one of their devs told me.