I live in a very rural area. So rural in fact that my house is off grid with the exception of broadband internet (don't know how this happened).
Anyway, my neighbors seem to be ditching it in favour of smartphones. Most couldn't afford both and phones are sufficient for everything that people out here use the internet for (amazon, ebay, weather, news, email and farm ville). Does it really make sense to cater to the 3 / 7,000 people in 30 km^2 who really could utilize a high speed connection to the home?
It's too late. This is already going to happen even if we went to zero today. That would lead to big wars and even more release of carbon. It's so inevitable (as I have been told numerous times) that I gave up caring and never felt better about my own personal future.
wtf is up with that? I watch about the most bland/nerdy/geeky/instructional videos on youtube and some of them have been removed????
Stuff like - soldier a jumper across these two pins shorting out diode protection and increasing performance saving 15w if you really know what you are doing stuff. Warning, you will fry your last 3 weeks of work if you plug it in backward after this.
That's exactly what I do and some items in the 'save for later' that have been there for years. I actually put everything that I think I could ever want or collect in there and stopped adding to the list a year or two ago and now am slowly buying down the list as I get money. Or deleting things that I think are dumb or I obtain by other means. $5k (mainly big ticket items like a sawstop) more and it will be done. +/- incidentals, I'll have everything a nerd could possibly use in a lifetime. I already need a barn to store the crap I do have.
I'm a very big user of amazon (>95% of all non food purchases) and have been for over a decade and have never used it. Amazon does seem to have the best designed and least painful ordering systems available, so I don't mind the one extra click - submit order confirm
The Nazi's were the first ones into space, passing the Karman line in the 1940's, The first computers were used for ballistic trajectory solutions. The science historian James Burke once said that the only thing that science has historically been good for is making money and war. Most of today's technology is a result of WWII and the cold war.
At present, human scientists are attempting to communicate outside our species to primates and cetaceans, and in a limited way to a few other vertebrates. This is inordinately difficult, and yet it represents a gap of at most a few SQ points. The farthest we can reach in our "communication" with vegetation is when we plant, water, or fertilize it, but it is evident that messages transmitted across an SQ gap of 10 points or more cannot be very meaningful. What, then, could an SQ +50 Superbeing possibly have to say to us?
I don't care. Maybe they changed the name, but it was referred to as Agnes for a long time. At least up until 85-86 when I switched over to IBM PCs. Could have been the development name. It would be interesting to find why the name change.
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Anyway, my neighbors seem to be ditching it in favour of smartphones. Most couldn't afford both and phones are sufficient for everything that people out here use the internet for (amazon, ebay, weather, news, email and farm ville). Does it really make sense to cater to the 3 / 7,000 people in 30 km^2 who really could utilize a high speed connection to the home?
It's too late. This is already going to happen even if we went to zero today. That would lead to big wars and even more release of carbon. It's so inevitable (as I have been told numerous times) that I gave up caring and never felt better about my own personal future.
So don't buy it
Oh wait. Too close to home?
current purge on Youtube
wtf is up with that? I watch about the most bland/nerdy/geeky/instructional videos on youtube and some of them have been removed????
Stuff like - soldier a jumper across these two pins shorting out diode protection and increasing performance saving 15w if you really know what you are doing stuff. Warning, you will fry your last 3 weeks of work if you plug it in backward after this.
I thought we were supposed to be tolerant of everyone. And how many nazis are there? I have never met one, but knew someone who was a hitler youth.
it will be a hate crime not to use google
I hate everybody. Equally. If everyone knows I'm a hater, maybe they'll stay away.
I'd say the whole Pearl Harbor thing is the worst naval disaster.
That's exactly what I do and some items in the 'save for later' that have been there for years. I actually put everything that I think I could ever want or collect in there and stopped adding to the list a year or two ago and now am slowly buying down the list as I get money. Or deleting things that I think are dumb or I obtain by other means. $5k (mainly big ticket items like a sawstop) more and it will be done. +/- incidentals, I'll have everything a nerd could possibly use in a lifetime. I already need a barn to store the crap I do have.
I'm a very big user of amazon (>95% of all non food purchases) and have been for over a decade and have never used it. Amazon does seem to have the best designed and least painful ordering systems available, so I don't mind the one extra click - submit order confirm
want to know
Sounds like QNX
It took 60million years to go from a mouse to people walking on the moon. Dinosaurs were around 3x longer than that...160 million years.
The Nazi's were the first ones into space, passing the Karman line in the 1940's, The first computers were used for ballistic trajectory solutions. The science historian James Burke once said that the only thing that science has historically been good for is making money and war. Most of today's technology is a result of WWII and the cold war.
There's any number of science experiments people would like to run that would benefit from beefy local processing handling large amounts of data.
Care to share any of them?
What if there are other types of intelligence?
Xenopsychology - Robert Freitas
At present, human scientists are attempting to communicate outside our species to primates and cetaceans, and in a limited way to a few other vertebrates. This is inordinately difficult, and yet it represents a gap of at most a few SQ points. The farthest we can reach in our "communication" with vegetation is when we plant, water, or fertilize it, but it is evident that messages transmitted across an SQ gap of 10 points or more cannot be very meaningful. What, then, could an SQ +50 Superbeing possibly have to say to us?
—Robert A. Freitas Jr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nuclear war is very messy, but won't exterminate life. Especially human life.
Also,the Sentient Quotien
I don't care. Maybe they changed the name, but it was referred to as Agnes for a long time. At least up until 85-86 when I switched over to IBM PCs. Could have been the development name. It would be interesting to find why the name change.
Hey, I can find dozens more than you that call it agnes.
Here's a May 1988 computer magazine archive that calls it the Agnes. http://www.atarimagazines.com/...