I don't have the numbers on me, but every time I've seen someone do the numbers, if we roofed all human structures with solar panels...
The problem then becomes not one of energy generation, but distribution. Administratively and operationally, it's a lot easier to run one big plant, than 50 million tiny ones.
No, Apple is being smart. They have realized that Smartwatches are not technology products, they are fashion accessories.
You are right that watches are fashion accessories, but the Apple watch isn't what I'd call "fashionable". Maybe to the dorks who think funny t-shirts and jeans are a fashion statement, but your average Rolex owner isn't going to be rushing out to buy a tacky gimmick like this.
I just came to say how awesome maps are. Not Google Maps, that is becoming more and more shit by day, but maps in general. Can you even imagine the old days when you couldn't get an accurate map anywhere? Imagine how hard that would've been?
I travel a fair bit, and my first stop is always to grab a free local tourist map, it makes such a huge difference once you have even a high level layout of the land.
Go maps!
The OP was about the start menu, so here's a real goddamned problem with linux.
I'm using Linux Mint, which comes with cinnamon.
You can configure the start menu, but it's clunky.
I've used Linux on the desktop at various times over the last 20 years and it still sucks. I have a Mint laptop and Win10 desktop and Win10 user experience just shits all over Linux.
But when it comes to the Server space, the 90:10 split flips the other way. Linux rules the roost there.
Smaller government doesn't mean no government. It means smaller. Smaller, less powerful and less money to spend means less attractive to those who would use the power of government for their own plunder.
Smaller than what? This is the problem with using such vague goals, you never really know if you've achieved it or not.
How do you measure the size of a government? What's the SI unit for that, and how do you decide what the appropriate number should be?
And if you have an ideal number, what is your response to the guy next to you who claims your number is too big, and that we really need a 'smaller govt'?
The whole concept is just meaningless.
You have to admire those Members of Congress, they go after the most hard-to-find targets first.
How do you expect this to work?
If you have an issue you should be able to contact your local congressperson and if legitimate, have them represent your views at a higher level. This is precisely how democracy is supposed to work and you are complaining about it?
Do you not have any data files? I have records of several thousand students over the past decade for whom people occasionally ask me about their grades or for a reference.
This sounds wrong. Shouldn't the school be keeping grades in a proper records management system? Or is hacking your PC the only thing stopping me from a glowing reference?
My partner has over 300 clients who maybe ask about a certain part of their website once a year.
No CMS?
I had to do a local search today to find the particular class in which I referenced Noam Chomsky two years ago. People actually using their computers to do stuff over several years do this all the time.
Most people use Apps to do stuff on computers, and those apps have features like search built-in. Anyone relying ton OS level tools the manage their business needs help.
First thing I do when installing windows 10 is to disable cortana,
Same here. this should be a non-story for most people, and for the rest it will be the end of Cortana and Edge.
Google and Firefox will be loving this move.
You do. Just stop buying their products.
Or do really mean you should have editorial decision over the movies you pay $15 to watch because you are 'the customer'?
as long as you find a little plot of land somewhere (even if in the middle of a forest) then you would have a good chance of a means to support yourself.
If you want to live by 18th century standards you can still do that. The difference is most people like electricity, refrigeration, and sanitation. They also have a life expectancy greater than 30.
So, yeah, you can still do that, it's just that most people in the 21st century have higher expectations.
irrelevant, was speaking of human effort only. the offspring of a wild horse can be domesticated easily,
By a human. How many humans does it take to domesticate a horse? breed, feed, and house it?
I don't have the exact figures, but I'll be willing to bet that the net human effort to build a billion cars is less than the same effort to produce a billion usable horses.
It never ceases to amaze me how the content creation types think that annoying their indented audience increases viewership.
They think that because it works. Just because it doesn't work on you or me, doesn't me it isn't working.
I worked on a project for a streaming audio solution for a popular youth retail chain. They had metrics of the type and volume of music that promotes more sales. And they had stats on days when a particular store's music system failed, and sales dropped off along with it.
Personally when I hear the loud music, I turn around and walk out, but their target market isn't me.
I suspect you are ignoring the mining, energy resources, refining of various materials, science and engineering, manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing
Only you are ignoring evolution and domestication.
Go on, make a horse and a car from scratch, (with no existing horse) and let me know which is easier...
The bigger concern is robot semi-trucks. Robot cars will eliminate the taxi industry which is small compared to the trucking industry by an order of 1 to 100. Furthermore, efficiency is everything to the shipping business which is the greatest benefit that automation provides. There has already been a successful automated shipping test in Europe. There are 3 million truckers in the US alone with their jobs on the line.
I wonder how many elevator operators lost there jobs when elevators became fully automated?
It takes very few people to raise and care for horses, even including accessories like horseshoes and saddles.
That's because not everyone owned a horse, because they were expensive to own and maintain.
1000 years ago a sizable town could comfortably employ an entire horse industry to serve the local area. No way could one town employ an automotive industry for the local area.
Of course they could. My uncle built his own car in his garage. It wouldn't be as easy or cheap, and only rich people could afford them, but it could be done. Pretty much exactly like horses in the old days, or how the early car industry operated, local manufacturing in local areas.
Cars are one of the great examples of increased productivity resulting in vastly greater complexity rather than fewer jobs.
Fewer horse jobs, more car jobs.
You know we have robot trains right now, and people still work in the train industry?
If you mean fully driverless, then still I wouldn't call it a pipe dream because we have proof of concept, huge money and will to implement it, and obvious business opportunities. It's going to happen.
Of course, but that is like looking at AOL in 1996 and saying you know what the the future of the Internet is.
Who knows where robot cars will land, I can't see them simply being as 1 for 1 replacement for regular cars. Some people might not want one (I have robot feature on my car and hate them because they still aren't as good as I am at navigating/parking/awareness etc) , some might not need one due to improved robot bus and taxi services.
In short, the sky isn't going to fall on your head.
The shift to automobiles did not reduce the requirement for jobs as AI will. The automobile did not replace people, AI replaces people.
It took more people to maintain a horse than a car.
Widespread robot cars are still a pipe dream at the moment, making statements about how many or how few jobs it will destroy is quite brave.
If you need a suitable analogy, we have robot trains right now, and a the rail company still hires lots of people.
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I don't have the numbers on me, but every time I've seen someone do the numbers, if we roofed all human structures with solar panels...
The problem then becomes not one of energy generation, but distribution. Administratively and operationally, it's a lot easier to run one big plant, than 50 million tiny ones.
Last time I checked, interest still cost money.
Only if the interest rate is higher than inflation or capital gain of the asset in which you are investing.
No, Apple is being smart. They have realized that Smartwatches are not technology products, they are fashion accessories.
You are right that watches are fashion accessories, but the Apple watch isn't what I'd call "fashionable". Maybe to the dorks who think funny t-shirts and jeans are a fashion statement, but your average Rolex owner isn't going to be rushing out to buy a tacky gimmick like this.
But, but, Twitter!
I think he just added another one to the list...
I just came to say how awesome maps are. Not Google Maps, that is becoming more and more shit by day, but maps in general. Can you even imagine the old days when you couldn't get an accurate map anywhere? Imagine how hard that would've been?
I travel a fair bit, and my first stop is always to grab a free local tourist map, it makes such a huge difference once you have even a high level layout of the land.
Go maps!
The OP was about the start menu, so here's a real goddamned problem with linux.
I'm using Linux Mint, which comes with cinnamon.
You can configure the start menu, but it's clunky.
I've used Linux on the desktop at various times over the last 20 years and it still sucks. I have a Mint laptop and Win10 desktop and Win10 user experience just shits all over Linux.
But when it comes to the Server space, the 90:10 split flips the other way. Linux rules the roost there.
Smaller government doesn't mean no government. It means smaller. Smaller, less powerful and less money to spend means less attractive to those who would use the power of government for their own plunder.
Smaller than what? This is the problem with using such vague goals, you never really know if you've achieved it or not.
How do you measure the size of a government? What's the SI unit for that, and how do you decide what the appropriate number should be?
And if you have an ideal number, what is your response to the guy next to you who claims your number is too big, and that we really need a 'smaller govt'?
The whole concept is just meaningless.
I noticed the letter is dated June 2015. Must be a slow "News" day...
You have to admire those Members of Congress, they go after the most hard-to-find targets first.
How do you expect this to work?
If you have an issue you should be able to contact your local congressperson and if legitimate, have them represent your views at a higher level. This is precisely how democracy is supposed to work and you are complaining about it?
Don't forget, all those rules are only there to protect the incumbents from newcomers... regulatory capture to impose costs on them...
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not. I'd like to think it is, but something tells me you are serious.
Slashdot has a far smaller readership than it did a decade ago. I don't think the "Slashdot effect" is a real thing anymore.
This probably has more to do with the fact that most web servers these days are no longer behind 128k ISDN lines...
This would annoy me if I had any reason to run Windows. Thankfully, that's not the case.
-jcr
I have Windows and Linux, but have never used Cortana, so it's no big deal.
Do you not have any data files? I have records of several thousand students over the past decade for whom people occasionally ask me about their grades or for a reference.
This sounds wrong. Shouldn't the school be keeping grades in a proper records management system? Or is hacking your PC the only thing stopping me from a glowing reference?
My partner has over 300 clients who maybe ask about a certain part of their website once a year.
No CMS?
I had to do a local search today to find the particular class in which I referenced Noam Chomsky two years ago. People actually using their computers to do stuff over several years do this all the time.
Most people use Apps to do stuff on computers, and those apps have features like search built-in. Anyone relying ton OS level tools the manage their business needs help.
First thing I do when installing windows 10 is to disable cortana,
Same here. this should be a non-story for most people, and for the rest it will be the end of Cortana and Edge.
Google and Firefox will be loving this move.
Often people are surprised at how well scanners work on Linux in general.
I'm surprised people still use scanners? Do you also still have a fax machine and a cheque book too?
This is wrong, very wrong !
It is the customers who should have the final say
You do. Just stop buying their products.
Or do really mean you should have editorial decision over the movies you pay $15 to watch because you are 'the customer'?
as long as you find a little plot of land somewhere (even if in the middle of a forest) then you would have a good chance of a means to support yourself.
If you want to live by 18th century standards you can still do that. The difference is most people like electricity, refrigeration, and sanitation. They also have a life expectancy greater than 30.
So, yeah, you can still do that, it's just that most people in the 21st century have higher expectations.
Like many other CEOs, she thought short-term without considering the long-term implications of her actions.
Yes that's it. CEO 101 all boiled down to one sentence. How can we make you president of the universe?
irrelevant, was speaking of human effort only. the offspring of a wild horse can be domesticated easily,
By a human. How many humans does it take to domesticate a horse? breed, feed, and house it?
I don't have the exact figures, but I'll be willing to bet that the net human effort to build a billion cars is less than the same effort to produce a billion usable horses.
It never ceases to amaze me how the content creation types think that annoying their indented audience increases viewership.
They think that because it works. Just because it doesn't work on you or me, doesn't me it isn't working.
I worked on a project for a streaming audio solution for a popular youth retail chain. They had metrics of the type and volume of music that promotes more sales. And they had stats on days when a particular store's music system failed, and sales dropped off along with it.
Personally when I hear the loud music, I turn around and walk out, but their target market isn't me.
I suspect you are ignoring the mining, energy resources, refining of various materials, science and engineering, manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing
Only you are ignoring evolution and domestication.
Go on, make a horse and a car from scratch, (with no existing horse) and let me know which is easier...
The bigger concern is robot semi-trucks. Robot cars will eliminate the taxi industry which is small compared to the trucking industry by an order of 1 to 100. Furthermore, efficiency is everything to the shipping business which is the greatest benefit that automation provides. There has already been a successful automated shipping test in Europe. There are 3 million truckers in the US alone with their jobs on the line.
I wonder how many elevator operators lost there jobs when elevators became fully automated?
It takes very few people to raise and care for horses, even including accessories like horseshoes and saddles.
That's because not everyone owned a horse, because they were expensive to own and maintain.
1000 years ago a sizable town could comfortably employ an entire horse industry to serve the local area. No way could one town employ an automotive industry for the local area.
Of course they could. My uncle built his own car in his garage. It wouldn't be as easy or cheap, and only rich people could afford them, but it could be done. Pretty much exactly like horses in the old days, or how the early car industry operated, local manufacturing in local areas.
Cars are one of the great examples of increased productivity resulting in vastly greater complexity rather than fewer jobs.
Fewer horse jobs, more car jobs.
You know we have robot trains right now, and people still work in the train industry?
If you mean fully driverless, then still I wouldn't call it a pipe dream because we have proof of concept, huge money and will to implement it, and obvious business opportunities. It's going to happen.
Of course, but that is like looking at AOL in 1996 and saying you know what the the future of the Internet is. Who knows where robot cars will land, I can't see them simply being as 1 for 1 replacement for regular cars. Some people might not want one (I have robot feature on my car and hate them because they still aren't as good as I am at navigating/parking/awareness etc) , some might not need one due to improved robot bus and taxi services.
In short, the sky isn't going to fall on your head.
Perhaps it took more people to maintain a horse then a car, but when cars became popular they still needed domestic employees to manufacture them.
The country I live in has no domestic car manufacturing industry, and the sky hasn't fallen on our heads...
The shift to automobiles did not reduce the requirement for jobs as AI will. The automobile did not replace people, AI replaces people.
It took more people to maintain a horse than a car.
Widespread robot cars are still a pipe dream at the moment, making statements about how many or how few jobs it will destroy is quite brave.
If you need a suitable analogy, we have robot trains right now, and a the rail company still hires lots of people.