Yeah, so $150 to refurb my old Moto X Pure with a screen and battery, vs. waiting for a decent phone to go on sale for $250 every month or so with a warranty, better CPU, more memory, more storage.
I mean, it's nice that you can and all, but holy cow those are inflated prices for parts.
Because it's a damn good database. The question isn't about it's capabilities
Actually, it is. The Oracle vs. Google lawsuit was about Oracle's wanting to use Java patents to hammer Google into cross-licensing its map-reduce patents so that Oracle could scale to the levels demanded by customers like Amazon. Cringely had a leaker years back confirming this.
Google won that one, and now Amazon has broken free of Oracle.
Personally I like it that my Subscribe-and-Save stopped taking 3 minutes to update an order. That was a scaling problem that bled through to the UI.
Microplastics are in salt mined from deposits deep underground? That's really surprising and hard to believe. Even if they were of natural origin that salt was deposited there millions of years ago and plastics usually don't last that long.
This study might need replication and checks for contamination.
Strings are 1D and this is a test in 3D - don't we expect to see an electron in 3D space? The 1D projection would be a point plus a radius... if I recall correctly.
I know, we'll force shipwrights to go into cancer research. It's basically the same type of job for the same type of personality with very similar training requirements.
Don't be a useful idiot - of course WashPo is going to highlight the sketchy pages and not not the anti-authoritarian pages. There were dozens of police accountability pages that were taken down - Copblock and the like. They had some opinion pieces, sure, and authority didn't like them, obviously, but most all of the content in the groups I saw disappeared was links to police brutality pieces. All gone, thanks for using Facebook.
The revolution will not be carried on corporate hosting platforms.
Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.
What a socialist prick that Q is. He sees people in terms of groups, not individuals.
Picard was the wiser of the two. Sadly, Roddenberry was more like Q and saw this as one of Picard's faults.
Soyuz launches are suspended for a while and there is no Space Shuttle alternative available. Can Space X deliver?
The SpaceX Crew Dragon is fully complete and certified. SpaceX was informed by NASA last week that it will require another four months at least to complete its own paperwork before it can fly.
SpaceX could fly them with probably two weeks' notice at this point - it doesn't employ bureaucrats.
Elon says their goal is to be fast enough so that a human can only see their motion clearly with the use of a flash strobe. It's very likely that he knows the right people to be able to say this with some certainty, but the trajectory is rapidly in that direction regardless.
Now, then, arm them with blades, guns, and autonomous AI.
When protesters get a little too forceful, just send out the 'ninjas'. Congress doesn't really have to worry about what laws it passes any more.
If somebody doesn't do usability testing, and claims to be a UI expert, those are the people you should fire. Human computer action is a real science, and treating pretenders like engineers doesn't get you down the right path.
The better question is why does the c-suite put up with departments of people who have no credentials? Well I guess the answer is the ones who do will quickly go out of business, leaving the smart ones to earn the profits.
If there's one thing i like about Apple it's their intense hatred for either doing the government's bidding or funding their attempts to do so.
If there's one thing I like about the Feds it's... ok, there's nothing I like about the Feds but one can at least recognize that the powerful interests scratch each other's backs and Michael "Disarm the Jews" Bloomberg would be happy to help the FBI, et. al. build their case that Apple/must/ be/compelled/ to make iOS spy on its users for them, because "Apple can't even be trusted with its own security."
Look for natural alliances and opportunities to harm their common enemy. Apple isn't making me buy their walled-garden shit so on this one they're an ally of the people who want privacy and personal freedom.
Maybe you haven't heard, but Silicon Valley is destroying Itself by trying to ensure that everyone who works there has an identical set of political values and beliefs.
The most startling fact I've heard about the robot army scare is that Boston Dynamics, or whatever they're called now, has as a goal, making that mule robot so fast that a human will need to use a strobe light to see its movements clearly - it'll be a blur to the human eye otherwise, when it's done. Keep that in mind when you consider the idea of a human army fighting a robot army. Now make those robots autonomous and more intelligent than humans.
Of the two Steves that founded the company, Steve Jobs was the one who lacked ethics. This idiot idolized the wrong Steve.
Jobs did have a hardon for snuffing out quality problems. Say what you want about him but his OCD about getting things just right sometimes penetrated corporate bureaucracy. And infuriated plenty of people.
This guy knows what he's talking about, but that doesn't mean you have to like Jobs more than Woz.
SEC has no problem with forcing on the company things that its shareholders don't want.
The whole point of any regulatory body is to protect people from their "own stupidity".
Now, you might argue that the bureaucrats at the SEC don't know what's better for Tesla than its shareholders, but those bureaucrats would strongly disagree and they have the power to punish anybody who disagrees with their omniscience.
30 years ago this might have been OK, but now it's market moving info and you arrange the transaction in secret and announce it once it's done.
It's great how the SEC is there to keep shareholders of public companies in the dark about what's going on in the companies, especially when they all have equal access to that information. I know, I know, the institutional investors need to have priority access so the poor schmucks at retail don't stand a chance.
Elon got governmented good and hard. A shame; he can get back to productive private-sector business now, though, so there's a silver lining. But we all learned a few lessons on this one.
The reason for the SUV explosion was the CAFE standards on car fleets which effectively outlawed big station wagons. Trucks like SUV's were not subject so everybody got trucks even though they wanted cars really.
Blame the EPA for the direct results of their actions, not average families who just want a car that doesn't make the kids crazy.
US Soldiers are happy to call the Taliban "camel fuckers" but guess who's actually getting fucked in Afghanistan? Even the best-equipped army in the world can't win against stubborn people defending their homeland.
Meanwhile, plenty of consumers will refuse to support companies building the weapons of war. It's amazing that Magic Leap thinks it's worth $6B but still needs DoD money. Maybe that shows the real story.
The UK is powerless to regulate Bitcoin. They can prevent their citizens from participating in the future of money (whatever crypto that ends up being) but they cannot stop a global phenomenon.
I hope they do too - there are some smart UK'ers and who wants them competing with us?/s
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Yeah, so $150 to refurb my old Moto X Pure with a screen and battery, vs. waiting for a decent phone to go on sale for $250 every month or so with a warranty, better CPU, more memory, more storage.
I mean, it's nice that you can and all, but holy cow those are inflated prices for parts.
Because it's a damn good database. The question isn't about it's capabilities
Actually, it is. The Oracle vs. Google lawsuit was about Oracle's wanting to use Java patents to hammer Google into cross-licensing its map-reduce patents so that Oracle could scale to the levels demanded by customers like Amazon. Cringely had a leaker years back confirming this.
Google won that one, and now Amazon has broken free of Oracle.
Personally I like it that my Subscribe-and-Save stopped taking 3 minutes to update an order. That was a scaling problem that bled through to the UI.
Microplastics are in salt mined from deposits deep underground? That's really surprising and hard to believe. Even if they were of natural origin that salt was deposited there millions of years ago and plastics usually don't last that long.
This study might need replication and checks for contamination.
Strings are 1D and this is a test in 3D - don't we expect to see an electron in 3D space? The 1D projection would be a point plus a radius ... if I recall correctly.
Maybe the equations say something else?
corruption?
I know, we'll force shipwrights to go into cancer research. It's basically the same type of job for the same type of personality with very similar training requirements.
Don't be a useful idiot - of course WashPo is going to highlight the sketchy pages and not not the anti-authoritarian pages. There were dozens of police accountability pages that were taken down - Copblock and the like. They had some opinion pieces, sure, and authority didn't like them, obviously, but most all of the content in the groups I saw disappeared was links to police brutality pieces. All gone, thanks for using Facebook.
The revolution will not be carried on corporate hosting platforms.
Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.
What a socialist prick that Q is. He sees people in terms of groups, not individuals.
Picard was the wiser of the two. Sadly, Roddenberry was more like Q and saw this as one of Picard's faults.
Soyuz launches are suspended for a while and there is no Space Shuttle alternative available. Can Space X deliver?
The SpaceX Crew Dragon is fully complete and certified. SpaceX was informed by NASA last week that it will require another four months at least to complete its own paperwork before it can fly.
SpaceX could fly them with probably two weeks' notice at this point - it doesn't employ bureaucrats.
Elon says their goal is to be fast enough so that a human can only see their motion clearly with the use of a flash strobe. It's very likely that he knows the right people to be able to say this with some certainty, but the trajectory is rapidly in that direction regardless.
Now, then, arm them with blades, guns, and autonomous AI.
When protesters get a little too forceful, just send out the 'ninjas'. Congress doesn't really have to worry about what laws it passes any more.
https://www.stopkillerrobots.o...
If somebody doesn't do usability testing, and claims to be a UI expert, those are the people you should fire. Human computer action is a real science, and treating pretenders like engineers doesn't get you down the right path.
The better question is why does the c-suite put up with departments of people who have no credentials? Well I guess the answer is the ones who do will quickly go out of business, leaving the smart ones to earn the profits.
Nihilistic angst is paralyzing. The rest of us will live the best lives possible.
What I find amazing is that there doesn't seem to be a video showing actual shredding. Just the aftermath.
Why is that amazing? Who shoots video of paintings that just sold at an art auction?
If there's one thing i like about Apple it's their intense hatred for either doing the government's bidding or funding their attempts to do so.
If there's one thing I like about the Feds it's ... ok, there's nothing I like about the Feds but one can at least recognize that the powerful interests scratch each other's backs and Michael "Disarm the Jews" Bloomberg would be happy to help the FBI, et. al. build their case that Apple /must/ be /compelled/ to make iOS spy on its users for them, because "Apple can't even be trusted with its own security."
Look for natural alliances and opportunities to harm their common enemy. Apple isn't making me buy their walled-garden shit so on this one they're an ally of the people who want privacy and personal freedom.
Maybe you haven't heard, but Silicon Valley is destroying Itself by trying to ensure that everyone who works there has an identical set of political values and beliefs.
The most startling fact I've heard about the robot army scare is that Boston Dynamics, or whatever they're called now, has as a goal, making that mule robot so fast that a human will need to use a strobe light to see its movements clearly - it'll be a blur to the human eye otherwise, when it's done. Keep that in mind when you consider the idea of a human army fighting a robot army. Now make those robots autonomous and more intelligent than humans.
Of the two Steves that founded the company, Steve Jobs was the one who lacked ethics. This idiot idolized the wrong Steve.
Jobs did have a hardon for snuffing out quality problems. Say what you want about him but his OCD about getting things just right sometimes penetrated corporate bureaucracy. And infuriated plenty of people.
This guy knows what he's talking about, but that doesn't mean you have to like Jobs more than Woz.
SEC has no problem with forcing on the company things that its shareholders don't want.
The whole point of any regulatory body is to protect people from their "own stupidity".
Now, you might argue that the bureaucrats at the SEC don't know what's better for Tesla than its shareholders, but those bureaucrats would strongly disagree and they have the power to punish anybody who disagrees with their omniscience.
30 years ago this might have been OK, but now it's market moving info and you arrange the transaction in secret and announce it once it's done.
It's great how the SEC is there to keep shareholders of public companies in the dark about what's going on in the companies, especially when they all have equal access to that information. I know, I know, the institutional investors need to have priority access so the poor schmucks at retail don't stand a chance.
Elon got governmented good and hard. A shame; he can get back to productive private-sector business now, though, so there's a silver lining. But we all learned a few lessons on this one.
The reason for the SUV explosion was the CAFE standards on car fleets which effectively outlawed big station wagons. Trucks like SUV's were not subject so everybody got trucks even though they wanted cars really.
Blame the EPA for the direct results of their actions, not average families who just want a car that doesn't make the kids crazy.
All that was done with the Integral Fast Reactor in the 90's. It ran well for a couple years before being defunded by Gore and his allies.
This company failed for business reasons, not theoretical ones.
US Soldiers are happy to call the Taliban "camel fuckers" but guess who's actually getting fucked in Afghanistan? Even the best-equipped army in the world can't win against stubborn people defending their homeland.
Meanwhile, plenty of consumers will refuse to support companies building the weapons of war. It's amazing that Magic Leap thinks it's worth $6B but still needs DoD money. Maybe that shows the real story.
The UK is powerless to regulate Bitcoin. They can prevent their citizens from participating in the future of money (whatever crypto that ends up being) but they cannot stop a global phenomenon.
I hope they do too - there are some smart UK'ers and who wants them competing with us? /s
I'm so glad you signed your post -jcr, otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue from your username who posted it.
Seems high in trait neuroticism.
It's a safe bet. Want to put $500 on whether Musk flies tourist(s) around the moon?