Don't get me wrong, video is great, but I'm still waiting for a system that does voice really well and can call out to "real" phone numbers. Skype can do it. Google does it for free. Why not FaceTime?
For that matter, if both ends are on iPhones, and we're both on Wifi, why can't it route my phone call over FT back end invisibly, just like it does in Messages now?
A friend from Ireland had a Jag E-type and there was one switch that would always die. It cost some ungodly amount. However, the exact same switch was also used in a low-end design, with a different badge (Mini?). That version, absolutely identical, sold for something like 1/4 the price. That was in the 70s.
Although I would much prefer an entirely new enclosure with a built-in hub. Anyone know of such a thing? I'm not a fan of the various outright replacements.
> Then, in the Unix era, we learned how to connect to that computer using dumb (not a pejorative) terminals
The "Unix era" started in the 1990s with Linux. Before that, even at its greatest extent, it was largely limited to universities and some vertical tasks like workstations and file servers. We're talking a few million machines on the planet, compared to several billion today.
In any event, the period in which Unix was associated with dumb terminals was a tiny, tiny slice of its history. Dumb terminals are far more associated with the minicomputer era than "the Unix era". Yes, mainframes had them too, but the history of mainframes is mostly in the offline-storage era (punch cards and tapes) and its period of use with terminals is about the same as the mini.
>Production of cement is disastrous for our biosphere
Hmmm, ok.
>Concrete production is responsible for approximately 5% of global man-made CO2 emissions,
So, no.
We get the same result by improving car mileage by 15%, which we could have done a decade ago, as reducing concrete's output by 100%, which we can't do even in theory.
When you're solving a set of problems you start with the biggest one first. This is not the biggest problem.
Not that long, the UK's Slavery Abolition Act was in 1833, which supersedes the 1807 law. France was 1976 IIRC. So around 50 to 60 years, which isn't that long in the grand scheme of things.
Note that we count our rate differently than in the US, and there's about a 1% difference if we count using the US methods. So this corresponds to something around 4.7% compared to the current US rate of 4.1%
> It's only prioritized on feeds of people who are anti-Trump
No, no no no no.
FB doesn't know anything about politics. All it knows is that people who read post X will more likely click on Y. That's it. That's the entire algorithm.
So if you like hamburgers, you're likely going to click on posts about hamburgers. And if you like chicken, you're going to see adds for chicken.
And if you like Trump, and ever clicked on a pro-Trump article, guess what, you're 0.01% more likely to click on the next pro-Trump sponsored post. And if you hate him, the reverse.
It's *very dangerous* to ascribe motive to these posts. The only motive is to get the most clicks. Period.
I did a search for a part for our Subaru *once*, and ended up on a site to sold to FB. For *months* my stream was polluted was Subaru ads.
The experience is more than enough to make me laugh every time I hear someone talk about how AI is coming for us all.
> Things get cited all the time that either aren't or are later determined to be incorrect
Yes.
> The problem is that because it can be changed
That's the *solution* to the problem you *just posted*.
The problem is that knowledge changes and articles summarizing that knowledge become out of date. The solution is to change the summation of that knowledge to reflect the current knowledge.
Are you actually stating that we're better off with a world of outdated knowledge?!
> web page that can be changed any time with no version tracking it is impossible to know what data was cited
There's a button labeled "History" at the top of every Wiki page that lists every single edit to the page.
Every edit has its own URL and you can link to any one of them.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't get me wrong, video is great, but I'm still waiting for a system that does voice really well and can call out to "real" phone numbers. Skype can do it. Google does it for free. Why not FaceTime?
For that matter, if both ends are on iPhones, and we're both on Wifi, why can't it route my phone call over FT back end invisibly, just like it does in Messages now?
They've been doing this for DECADES.
A friend from Ireland had a Jag E-type and there was one switch that would always die. It cost some ungodly amount. However, the exact same switch was also used in a low-end design, with a different badge (Mini?). That version, absolutely identical, sold for something like 1/4 the price. That was in the 70s.
> Or buy a Keyspan USB to ADB converter.
Still useful for those Apple Extended II's.
Although I would much prefer an entirely new enclosure with a built-in hub. Anyone know of such a thing? I'm not a fan of the various outright replacements.
> Then, in the Unix era, we learned how to connect to that computer using dumb (not a pejorative) terminals
The "Unix era" started in the 1990s with Linux. Before that, even at its greatest extent, it was largely limited to universities and some vertical tasks like workstations and file servers. We're talking a few million machines on the planet, compared to several billion today.
In any event, the period in which Unix was associated with dumb terminals was a tiny, tiny slice of its history. Dumb terminals are far more associated with the minicomputer era than "the Unix era". Yes, mainframes had them too, but the history of mainframes is mostly in the offline-storage era (punch cards and tapes) and its period of use with terminals is about the same as the mini.
>Production of cement is disastrous for our biosphere
Hmmm, ok.
>Concrete production is responsible for approximately 5% of global man-made CO2 emissions,
So, no.
We get the same result by improving car mileage by 15%, which we could have done a decade ago, as reducing concrete's output by 100%, which we can't do even in theory.
When you're solving a set of problems you start with the biggest one first. This is not the biggest problem.
I worked finance for a decade. It was filled with physicists, mathematicians and engineers. And in one case, a classic French poetry critic.
In any event, it remains the largest collection of smart people I've seen, and that includes university research departments.
Not that long, the UK's Slavery Abolition Act was in 1833, which supersedes the 1807 law. France was 1976 IIRC. So around 50 to 60 years, which isn't that long in the grand scheme of things.
And even more often, right.
> they chose a country that is more difficult to enter legally than the US
Canada has a population of 30 million and brings in 300,000 a year, so that's 1%
The US has a population of 325 million and brings in 1.5 million a year, so that's 0.5%
So Canada is twice as easy to get into, legally.
> When I asked him about it he said that he was having too much trouble finding work in Canada lately.
Well I can't speak for "that guy", but unemployment in Canada is on its historical low:
http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/canadas-unemployment-rate-declines-to-lowest-in-four-decades
Note that we count our rate differently than in the US, and there's about a 1% difference if we count using the US methods. So this corresponds to something around 4.7% compared to the current US rate of 4.1%
Wait, you don't work for Ford do you?
> 100,000 square foot
That's just over 2 acres.
It takes 3 to 5 acres to feed a family.
So they are going to do what, make it 1 million stores high?
This is a joke, right?
> filling out the form
Yeah, sure, but there are *millions* of such documents. There's probably one guy who's job this is. This isn't going to solve the problem.
And it's not just US government works. It's also Canadian government works, and I assume every other government as well.
And everything that's fallen into public domain, which is also "preview" only, or less.
> Trump seems to have realised this
That's one possibility.
Another is that he's facing a worldwide shitstorm and is looking for any way to back down that saves face.
You decide which is more likely.
> That means people who broke their phone and had the audacity to get it repaired by anyone other than Apple
Repair shops have access to Apple OEM screens. Even the one run out of a basement a couple of streets away from me has OEM.
The 3rd party screens are CRAP - I know because I got the "best one" and it was dead in 2 weeks.
So if your repair shop is using a 3rd party screen, that's the problem right there. I'm *sure* they didn't tell the customer they were being fleeced.
> Except the income taxes are not progressive, they're highly regressive. :rolleyes:
They are not. Please read the definition before posting about it.
> Since the payroll taxes are part of the income taxes
Payroll taxes are NOT part of "the income taxes". Have you ever filed a tax return? Did you understand why you were entering those numbers?
> they tax rates were increased for the jump to the next bracket
And he still made more money. It appears you are unaware of the definition of "marginal tax rate" as well.
> This is about China using economic warfare to destroy our manufacturing capability
Or it's about China trying to provide a modern quality of life to their citizens.
> almost all of the manufacturing for the war effort was in the United States
Soviet production numbers were pretty similar to the US. Aircraft, tanks, trucks, all pretty similar.
> The Chinese see this and have been paying the investment bankers
So based on a baseless assumption and counter-factual claim, now I introduce a conspiracy theory.
And you think the problem in the US is China?
> The move would hike the costs of about 1,300 products, including industrial robots
So the solution to China taking all the jobs because of low labor costs is to increase the cost of robots? Yeah, that'll fix 'er.
Great, now we'll get *yet another* GUI API that is *really* universal, this time we mean it!
*Face-palm*?
Nice.
> Verizon is planning on launch a Palm-branded smartphone later this year
Yeah, because \the world needs *another* OS *after* peak-smartphone.
My kid slammed my iPhone 6 onto the hardwood, repeatedly, until it got the dreaded "Touch Disease". I still haven't bothered to replace it.
So, good luck with that, Verizon.
> It's only prioritized on feeds of people who are anti-Trump
No, no no no no.
FB doesn't know anything about politics.
All it knows is that people who read post X will more likely click on Y.
That's it. That's the entire algorithm.
So if you like hamburgers, you're likely going to click on posts about hamburgers. And if you like chicken, you're going to see adds for chicken.
And if you like Trump, and ever clicked on a pro-Trump article, guess what, you're 0.01% more likely to click on the next pro-Trump sponsored post. And if you hate him, the reverse.
It's *very dangerous* to ascribe motive to these posts. The only motive is to get the most clicks. Period.
I did a search for a part for our Subaru *once*, and ended up on a site to sold to FB. For *months* my stream was polluted was Subaru ads.
The experience is more than enough to make me laugh every time I hear someone talk about how AI is coming for us all.
> so the cutouts at the top are self-evidently motivated by the desire to just look -- not function, look -- like an iPhone
The cargo cults of the modern world.
> even if you get one ($20,000+ later), you can't afford to use it against any adversary big enough to matter
Right, so that's why there's a bunch of nobodies successfully suing fortune 500 companies in Texas.
Because the term "patent troll" doesn't exist.
> Their stock fell into a hole this afternoon
You must be pretty small if you think 0.34% is a "hole". It's down 60 cents in a moving five-day that's up $10.
You should invest all your money in the stock market.
> Things get cited all the time that either aren't or are later determined to be incorrect
Yes.
> The problem is that because it can be changed
That's the *solution* to the problem you *just posted*.
The problem is that knowledge changes and articles summarizing that knowledge become out of date.
The solution is to change the summation of that knowledge to reflect the current knowledge.
Are you actually stating that we're better off with a world of outdated knowledge?!
> web page that can be changed any time with no version tracking it is impossible to know what data was cited
There's a button labeled "History" at the top of every Wiki page that lists every single edit to the page.
Every edit has its own URL and you can link to any one of them.
Duh.