Maybe to start them up. But try anyhing significant with thousands of cells, formulae, and VB code, all of which is script on top of script, and RAM skyrockets and speed slows.
Having said that, VB is pretty fast as script goes. Some cleve people have optimized it internally pretty well.
Engineer: "Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it."
In time, governments will try to tax and control it, perhaps even stopping colonization or private enterprise, probably even cheered on by some around here who, one presumes, were completely down with Europe looting the New World to feed their governments' voracious appetites for cash, dead-set against any colonies not their own, much less independence.
How mch dose will kill, say, 50% with cancer wothin 10 years? Or just 20%? What if it is a slow release rather than literally a bomb, and takes days or weeks before detection?
(Warrantless) Metadata: That info with which the King of England would have rounded up the Founding Fathers, and thus they would have considered it part of search and sezure protections.
These things get built while lawyers in the US are still filing delays over environmental impact statements in the US.
True story: Lawyers have been fighting longer, delaying the dredging of some bays in the US, to make them 5 feet deeper, so they can accommodate the new "Superpanamax" ships (the Panama canal is being expanded on the max size it can handle) than the original Panama Canal took to build.
Meanwhile, China is building an even bigger canal next door, for even bigger ships.
The US has lost, because it has tied its own hands with regulations, as certainly as if we were a dictatorship with kickbacks at every level, from buildings to drivers licenses.
Force them to say loud and up front, "We, Comcast (or Time-Warner or Whoever) intend to slow down Netflix so it is crappy unless they pay us some of what you pay them."
If they are proud and this isn't scurrilous behavior, let them put it in blinking lights in their ads and on the first page of their contract.
"Whelp," thought The Comedian, staring at the big, ugly figure in the door, "I suppose it was only a matter of time before computer analysis to assuredly declare you committing thought crimes got here. Kinda strange, given I'm supposed to be the fascist."
I can drop my wallet in public. That doesn't mean someone can run up and take it and run away before I can even bend over.
While being held financially responsible for the whole amount is questionable -- or maybe not -- that he participated in this fun, cool kids game, and is thus partly responsible, is not.
Talk to your congressmen, who write the laws allowing full financial responsibility to be ladeled atop the poor sucker who got caught in a group crime. Good luck with that.
Even assuming for the sake of argument, ludicrously, that every last penny, and then some, at the state and federal level is spent on something Wise and Wonderful and Proper, you still can't just waive away constitutional provisions laying out the relationships between the states and each other, and the feds.
So if Amazon has no presence, but they are selling on behalf of some company in New York, to somebody in New York, and it ships from that company in New York, not from an Amazon warehouse outside New York, that seems fine.
But do they have to collect tax from a 3rd party company that is, itself, also outsode New York, just because some completely separate partner is in New York?
I would never buy Christmas gifts over smartphone surfing. I guess I'm just old school and like the hustle and bustle of leisurely picking through products and buying at my nice, large computer screen.
This story nicely demonstrates how the modern media has no time (or desire) to think on their own.
This system is completely impractical. Anyone who has any idea on the capabilities of octocopters can immediately see that this idea is DOA.
- Range is abysmal. If you are not within walking distance of a distribution center, you are not in range of one of these. They could offer 10x better service for those within walking distance of their distribution hub by offering in-situ instant pickup if you are happy to walk to the center. - Payload is non-existing - 0.5kg is quite a bit for an octocopter. Lets say they make a bigger "cargo" version and manage to quadruple that. 2kg. Too little for anything useful. - Octocopters are good-weather toys. They cannot be flown in heavy winds. "Sorry, no deliveries today, it's too windy". Yeah. Right. - The technology just isn't robust enough to be scaled up to meaningful numbers - crashes due to mechanical faults are inevitable, potentially hitting something and as a minimum causing an expensive tech toy wreck for Amazon. Often.
So this is purely a silly story to get Amazon into headlines right around "Cyber Monday" so buyers would remember that Amazon exists.
It's like the scientists who figure out practical ways the pyramids could have been built, or ancient stone flake knives chipped, or the gears of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism cut, I suppose. Reasonable techniques, but just a guess without more evidence.
Crowley's, a department store in Detroit, scammed people when it went out of business a few years back. Right after Christmas, they went bankrupt, and refused to honor gift cards, like the $200 one they sold my dad for my grandma. These frauds knew they were doing this and took the money anyway. Apparently they aren't as good as cash, but rather are a contract.
> The idea that 'people have natural rights' is not falsifiable. Your disgreement with the OP is an entirely religious one.
BS. The "government" doesn't exist -- only people and things exist. To say "the government" grants you rights means other people grant you rights. How in god's name did they get this awesome power? Why do you think it's proper to get on bended knee and beg for rights from them?
People can't "grant" rights, but they sure as hell can take away others' rights. Stop lying supine for your masters, begging for your life, and your right to live, liberty, property, and happiness.
Historically, far and away the most dangerous information a web site can host is the idea it's good, necessary, and proper for a government to have the power to censor.
That's just based on a silly metric called megadeaths, though.
Slashdot Mirror
On my mobile device, half the text is under the X-rays, looking like some bizarre part of it.
Needlessly using some complicated HTML generator that tries to control layout down to the atom FTL.
Maybe to start them up. But try anyhing significant with thousands of cells, formulae, and VB code, all of which is script on top of script, and RAM skyrockets and speed slows.
Having said that, VB is pretty fast as script goes. Some cleve people have optimized it internally pretty well.
Senator: "What good is electricity in the house?"
Engineer: "Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it."
In time, governments will try to tax and control it, perhaps even stopping colonization or private enterprise, probably even cheered on by some around here who, one presumes, were completely down with Europe looting the New World to feed their governments' voracious appetites for cash, dead-set against any colonies not their own, much less independence.
How mch dose will kill, say, 50% with cancer wothin 10 years? Or just 20%? What if it is a slow release rather than literally a bomb, and takes days or weeks before detection?
(Warrantless) Metadata: That info with which the King of England would have rounded up the Founding Fathers, and thus they would have considered it part of search and sezure protections.
This "it's just metadata" is a fraud.
These things get built while lawyers in the US are still filing delays over environmental impact statements in the US.
True story: Lawyers have been fighting longer, delaying the dredging of some bays in the US, to make them 5 feet deeper, so they can accommodate the new "Superpanamax" ships (the Panama canal is being expanded on the max size it can handle) than the original Panama Canal took to build.
Meanwhile, China is building an even bigger canal next door, for even bigger ships.
The US has lost, because it has tied its own hands with regulations, as certainly as if we were a dictatorship with kickbacks at every level, from buildings to drivers licenses.
Force them to say loud and up front, "We, Comcast (or Time-Warner or Whoever) intend to slow down Netflix so it is crappy unless they pay us some of what you pay them."
If they are proud and this isn't scurrilous behavior, let them put it in blinking lights in their ads and on the first page of their contract.
There is no evidence that this action is anything but voluntary.
Come back when these journalists are actually being restrained.
By then it will be too late.
"Whelp," thought The Comedian, staring at the big, ugly figure in the door, "I suppose it was only a matter of time before computer analysis to assuredly declare you committing thought crimes got here. Kinda strange, given I'm supposed to be the fascist."
I can drop my wallet in public. That doesn't mean someone can run up and take it and run away before I can even bend over.
While being held financially responsible for the whole amount is questionable -- or maybe not -- that he participated in this fun, cool kids game, and is thus partly responsible, is not.
Talk to your congressmen, who write the laws allowing full financial responsibility to be ladeled atop the poor sucker who got caught in a group crime. Good luck with that.
I was about to complain about using "effects" instead of "affects", but I believe "effects" (brings about) actually works here, too.
Even assuming for the sake of argument, ludicrously, that every last penny, and then some, at the state and federal level is spent on something Wise and Wonderful and Proper, you still can't just waive away constitutional provisions laying out the relationships between the states and each other, and the feds.
So if Amazon has no presence, but they are selling on behalf of some company in New York, to somebody in New York, and it ships from that company in New York, not from an Amazon warehouse outside New York, that seems fine.
But do they have to collect tax from a 3rd party company that is, itself, also outsode New York, just because some completely separate partner is in New York?
That would be wrong.
I would never buy Christmas gifts over smartphone surfing. I guess I'm just old school and like the hustle and bustle of leisurely picking through products and buying at my nice, large computer screen.
This story nicely demonstrates how the modern media has no time (or desire) to think on their own.
This system is completely impractical. Anyone who has any idea on the capabilities of octocopters can immediately see that this idea is DOA.
- Range is abysmal. If you are not within walking distance of a distribution center, you are not in range of one of these. They could offer 10x better service for those within walking distance of their distribution hub by offering in-situ instant pickup if you are happy to walk to the center.
- Payload is non-existing - 0.5kg is quite a bit for an octocopter. Lets say they make a bigger "cargo" version and manage to quadruple that. 2kg. Too little for anything useful.
- Octocopters are good-weather toys. They cannot be flown in heavy winds. "Sorry, no deliveries today, it's too windy". Yeah. Right.
- The technology just isn't robust enough to be scaled up to meaningful numbers - crashes due to mechanical faults are inevitable, potentially hitting something and as a minimum causing an expensive tech toy wreck for Amazon. Often.
So this is purely a silly story to get Amazon into headlines right around "Cyber Monday" so buyers would remember that Amazon exists.
"Mr. Nimziki, you're fired."
It's like the scientists who figure out practical ways the pyramids could have been built, or ancient stone flake knives chipped, or the gears of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism cut, I suppose. Reasonable techniques, but just a guess without more evidence.
Crowley's, a department store in Detroit, scammed people when it went out of business a few years back. Right after Christmas, they went bankrupt, and refused to honor gift cards, like the $200 one they sold my dad for my grandma. These frauds knew they were doing this and took the money anyway. Apparently they aren't as good as cash, but rather are a contract.
Well, why doesn't Verizon include it in a bundle?
> The idea that 'people have natural rights' is not falsifiable. Your disgreement with the OP is an entirely religious one.
BS. The "government" doesn't exist -- only people and things exist. To say "the government" grants you rights means other people grant you rights. How in god's name did they get this awesome power? Why do you think it's proper to get on bended knee and beg for rights from them?
People can't "grant" rights, but they sure as hell can take away others' rights. Stop lying supine for your masters, begging for your life, and your right to live, liberty, property, and happiness.
So the corn that Jimmy cracked was wheat -- he was husking wheat! It finally makes sense!
Not when averaged over the past 100 years.
Enjoying your freedom to be enlightened? We're glad.
He did put it next to a letter s.
One cannot rule out the lesser-sized, but very real industry of trumping up faux problems for the purpose of becoming talking heads.
Historically, far and away the most dangerous information a web site can host is the idea it's good, necessary, and proper for a government to have the power to censor.
That's just based on a silly metric called megadeaths, though.
> fashion a tinfoil hat and wear it
Not good enouh anymore! There are air gap infection methods that use sound waves into your ears now.!
L2/.