I'm thinking about general computing ideas. The smartphone/tablet thing was being researched in the 1980s by DR. Karmarkar's algorithm - who'd fund that research today? SONET. Research in EMP hardening of telecom networks (done in the 1960s by BTL).
I first realized this when in the age of Napster I actually heard someone say "This new technology is called peer to peer!" and thought "Um, wasn't that out of the 1970s in computing?"
As long as the efficiency standards mean that the devices still work.
Look at the dubious results of lowering the standards on washing machines - so now they don't clean all that well.
It's the energy savings on RANGES that I can't understand. Last I noted, stoves were supposed to get hot. But of course, if they do, they use fuel.
Good thing I just bought an antique stove.
That's because the useful idiots on the left are trying to demonize firearms. Because after all, once the state has the only monopoly on force, utopia will occur.
Just ask the Ukranians, the Jews, et al.
What?
I live in the middle of the bible belt and I don't see this. Of course, I live in an area of the country where multi ethnic people, mostly men, came for decades prior to the railroads arriving. So maybe that's it.
And what is your point to make?
Funny, I live very remote and work from home 100% of the time. Yet I'm on phone, IM, online conferences with coworkers constantly.
I don't feel the slightest bit out of touch.
An awful lot of "women's lib" started out to get women respect for the roles they had - stay at home wife and mother.
Certainly nobody thought there should be barriers to women have "careers" if they wished them but somehow the whole women's lib thing was taken over by those (mostly women) who denigrated the jobs that women HAD BEEN doing - like raising children.
The sad thing now is that NOBODY wants to raise kids. Instead they give 'em to daycare and complain when it costs hundreds/month to pay minimum wage to daycare workers and pay for insurance.
Tragic.
Robots are programmed by humans. Further, many human programmers are very removed from the battlefield. Additionally, war gaming make "loss of life" seem trivial. Draw the implications.
I think I'd rather trust a human at the controls, thanks.
I'm not a woman but as a white man I can also say "Thank God I was smart and didn't go to work in academia 30 years ago."
The amount of BS there is amazing. Corporate work is far easier.
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I'm thinking about general computing ideas. The smartphone/tablet thing was being researched in the 1980s by DR. Karmarkar's algorithm - who'd fund that research today? SONET. Research in EMP hardening of telecom networks (done in the 1960s by BTL). I first realized this when in the age of Napster I actually heard someone say "This new technology is called peer to peer!" and thought "Um, wasn't that out of the 1970s in computing?"
As long as the efficiency standards mean that the devices still work. Look at the dubious results of lowering the standards on washing machines - so now they don't clean all that well.
It's the energy savings on RANGES that I can't understand. Last I noted, stoves were supposed to get hot. But of course, if they do, they use fuel. Good thing I just bought an antique stove.
That's because the useful idiots on the left are trying to demonize firearms. Because after all, once the state has the only monopoly on force, utopia will occur. Just ask the Ukranians, the Jews, et al.
But the innovation has slowed down - an awful lot of 'new cutting edge stuff' today is based on research done at BTL in the 1970s.
Yet Michigan is a high tax state.
What? I live in the middle of the bible belt and I don't see this. Of course, I live in an area of the country where multi ethnic people, mostly men, came for decades prior to the railroads arriving. So maybe that's it. And what is your point to make?
I'm sure Bangalore is a nice place, but so is Kearney, Nebraska - and YES I have been there, a number of times. (Kearney, not Bangalore).
Funny, I live very remote and work from home 100% of the time. Yet I'm on phone, IM, online conferences with coworkers constantly. I don't feel the slightest bit out of touch.
Yes. The men all wore jackets, dress shirts, ties, trousers, and "office" shoes.
Indeed, now nobody can type!
Funny, I think of Holmdel, NJ
An awful lot of "women's lib" started out to get women respect for the roles they had - stay at home wife and mother. Certainly nobody thought there should be barriers to women have "careers" if they wished them but somehow the whole women's lib thing was taken over by those (mostly women) who denigrated the jobs that women HAD BEEN doing - like raising children. The sad thing now is that NOBODY wants to raise kids. Instead they give 'em to daycare and complain when it costs hundreds/month to pay minimum wage to daycare workers and pay for insurance. Tragic.
In general we men aren't too bright when it comes to this.
Most coding was done at a desk. You took the deck to the computer room and had it run but you didn't necessarily stay there.
How unfortunate we decided that we didn't need it.
Your statement has nothing to do with what I said. I was pointing out hypocrisy.
This. "I was only operating under orders!"
So if you're an anti-gunner you're saying that you want to hire OTHER PEOPLE to do violence for you, aka cops. Interesting.
Robots are programmed by humans. Further, many human programmers are very removed from the battlefield. Additionally, war gaming make "loss of life" seem trivial. Draw the implications. I think I'd rather trust a human at the controls, thanks.
I'm not a woman but as a white man I can also say "Thank God I was smart and didn't go to work in academia 30 years ago." The amount of BS there is amazing. Corporate work is far easier.
And usually those people aren't white men.
Can Russia have an internet Czar since they aren't a monarchy anymore?
Yeah not even a t-shirt.
The hippies have destroyed the entire country, not just Hawaii. Or maybe I should say the Baby Boomers - but I repeat myself.