From TFA: "one manned flight where the crew would be sent to the low Earth Orbit for five to seven days". Close enough for Ganesh to come help them if they screw up.
You give the crows' intelligence too little credit.
I predict that they will soon learn to crap on all guests that don't have a cigarette in their hand. Smokers will have a more pleasurable experience in the park and thus over time become a larger portion of the visitors.
But since they are about to release a new version of their software, with "full self-driving features", could you hook them up to make it play Pole Position by itself?
Now that I think of it, maybe that is how they train the self-driving.
[...] low-price Chinese imports are needed to "make ends meet" for cash-strapped Americans [...]
So much for the American Dream.
"[...] an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream)
I don't live in the USA but somehow the qoute makes me sad.
Thanks, that is an interesting graph. I find a couple of things remarkable compared to what I expected:
1. As you point out, the revenue of a US user is 3x that of a european. 2. At ~$100/year for an american pair of eyeballs, the numbers are much larger than I expected. 3. The revenue seems to keep growing exponentially.
Yeah, I agree. At $10/m, it is probably more attractive to most people to just to pay with your soul.
Also, Taligent was/turned into a joint venture together with IBM. That can delay, half-ass and grow-to-unusable-proportions anything.
Ahhh, fond memories of an intensive Taligent programming course at IBM in Austin, where a GUI Hello World program took ~10 min to build on a then pretty-much-state-of-the-art Pentium 100MHz. That course turned out to be a not so good investment for my employer.:)
I have the same sentiment, but after having discussed it with people I have come to believe that it is not likely to work even if the trust issue was somehow resolved.
Reason one is that it would require that close to all users pay for membership. The value as an advertising company is largely based on the sheer amount of eyeballs coupled with the massive amount of decent quality profiling information. If they lost that from 50% of their users, the ad value of the remaining 50% of the members would be less than 50%.
Reason two, which is for the tinfoils among us, is that if they want to use the platform for other ends than to make ad money, e.g. to drive a political agenda or superintelligence takeover, then they would still need the profiling as input and could use the ad/"news" as a manipulation stream.
Even taxis, parkings, road tolls and similar services normally takes electronic payments.
As do many street beggars, and school children selling cookies and charity flowers ("majblommor").
It is actually getting slightly hard to be cash-only for day-to-day life in Sweden. As mentioned, many establishments have turned cash-only. It is legal to demand electronic payment if both parties have agreed to before the service is rendered. A note by the counter or on the door is regarded enough. Without such an "agreement", you can insist on paying in cash. They can refuse to accept it, but then it is not your problem.
Whenever my kids get cash from a well-meaning relative or somesuch, they give the money to me and ask me to put in on their card accounts.
Forget about paying rent or selling/buying a used car with cash; you are likely to get investigated if you enter one of the very few remaining bank offices that handle cash and don't have a very good paper trail for the money. It seems that the easiest thing to buy with a bunch of bank notes is drugs or weapons.
Killer robots are a GOOD thing. They will result in a NET REDUCTION in hostilities. People don't pick fights they know they can't win!
$TERRORIST_ORGANISATION or $STATE_WITH_A_LEADER_WITH_A_SMALL_PENIS creates 1M AI killer robots and unleashes them on the US with the aim of killing everyone.
The Apple products you have used must also have been eight years old then (ok, maybe four), if by outperforms you mean generally run faster.
The T400:s are great machines, but neither my T430 with a SATA SSD or the newer ones my colleges at work have, touch my 2015 MPB in speed. And the MBP touchpad makes the T4?0:s feel like toys.
Remember to separate price (objective) from value (subjective). If you don't value the lightness, the price increase is just a negative.
And, for a fair comparison and as by your statement ("make sure that all data matches"), the macbook should also match the alternative. I would expect a $3500 device to have a USB-A port, and would value that more than -300 g.
That said, I sometimes explain (and demonstrate) to my coworkers that their $1400 equivalent Lenovo T-series laptop is not, in fact, equivalent (2 cores instead of 4, lower CPU speed, SATA SSD, intel GPU) to my MBP (no touchbar). (It is easy to demonstrate; build times are consistently ~30% lower on my laptop than theirs, no hocus-pocus.) Equally specced out, the price difference turns out marginal, as you indicate. And then my smug glee turns into a frown as they go to IT and get 32 MB installed while I am stuck with 16.
I get a version of this, but without the email reference. He often comes to my desk and just continues the conversation that he started in an email or Slack message that he sent just before getting up from his chair about 10 m away. Our encounters often start with a sensation of a blown short-term memory.
We went through our CD collection a couple of years ago and realized that much of our tastes in music had changed. Kept around 30 of 500 disks. Did the same with vinyl 15 years ago. Threw all ~2-300 and bought a very few of them on CD.
Not much of an investment, I would say.
Now, for the cost of one full-price CD per month, the entire family can listen to whichever music each member likes, change tastes with trends and maturity, explore new artists and music styles, rediscover old ones, etc. When I was a kid spending my pocket money buying the latest records, I would have been ecstatic if I could have payed for one record per month (about what I could afford back then) but gotten *all* of the latest and all of the old music.
I get *far* more value from Spotify than CD:s, both short-term and long-term. Even if they pull the plug tomorrow.
I am not saying that my use case is more valid than yours, or the reverse. But you may find it rewarding to try to see things through the eyes of others before calling them stupid.
That shop floor area and that employee time can be used for some products that are more profitable. Those same resources can yield $1k from CD sales or $4k from $LATEST_FAD per day. Depending on the store's profile, that may be an attractive proposition.
The main motivation is ads, this is where money presently are.
In my country that is probably true, but I would guess not in a country with a totalitarian regime. I may be in a minority, but I am not really very bothered by the ads being targeted. I can ad-block most of those, and anyway, if I am happy buying a certain brand of $STUFF then it doesn't matter that much whether my happiness is based on whether it was a company, a friend or my own experience that formed the opinion.
Still, if you are not using platform that customizes news for you, you are immune.
Ahh, but how do you know? I am not even sure that I see the same front page or contents of Slashdot as you do.
Pretend you are from Netherlands, get GDPR protection. It might still be technically possible to track you, but it is much more difficult and results are less reliable.
I already live in the EU. I would be surprised to learn that the global information players collect substantially - if any - different information about me than about a person from/in USA or Zimbabwe.
You seem to be keeping your gaze too low. You are not just a target for buying stuff; you are also a target for modifying your opinion and behaviour in politics and other questions.
You can be targeted through other vectors than traditional ads, e.g. notification flows, news flows, ads-or-propaganda-disguised-as-news, product placement, insurance company policies, employability, police knocking on your door,...
As an extreme, think China. The view we outsiders get is that if they collect the wrong data about you, they will *target* you in a way that no ad-blocker will stop.
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From TFA: "one manned flight where the crew would be sent to the low Earth Orbit for five to seven days". Close enough for Ganesh to come help them if they screw up.
Still cold as hell though.
I don't believe that Google gets a licensing fee on common math. Yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You give the crows' intelligence too little credit.
I predict that they will soon learn to crap on all guests that don't have a cigarette in their hand. Smokers will have a more pleasurable experience in the park and thus over time become a larger portion of the visitors.
Thanks, hadn't heard about that one. Interesting and scary reading.
Why would this method be limited to scientists? Couldn't it be asked to write up a bio of anyone?
In what way is it ambiguous?
This on the other hand...
But since they are about to release a new version of their software, with "full self-driving features", could you hook them up to make it play Pole Position by itself?
Now that I think of it, maybe that is how they train the self-driving.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1098/
God, I would hate getting an SMS message every minute saying "You are traveling at 67 km/h".
[...] low-price Chinese imports are needed to "make ends meet" for cash-strapped Americans [...]
So much for the American Dream.
"[...] an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream)
I don't live in the USA but somehow the qoute makes me sad.
Thanks, that is an interesting graph. I find a couple of things remarkable compared to what I expected:
1. As you point out, the revenue of a US user is 3x that of a european.
2. At ~$100/year for an american pair of eyeballs, the numbers are much larger than I expected.
3. The revenue seems to keep growing exponentially.
Yeah, I agree. At $10/m, it is probably more attractive to most people to just to pay with your soul.
Also, Taligent was/turned into a joint venture together with IBM. That can delay, half-ass and grow-to-unusable-proportions anything.
Ahhh, fond memories of an intensive Taligent programming course at IBM in Austin, where a GUI Hello World program took ~10 min to build on a then pretty-much-state-of-the-art Pentium 100MHz. That course turned out to be a not so good investment for my employer. :)
I have the same sentiment, but after having discussed it with people I have come to believe that it is not likely to work even if the trust issue was somehow resolved.
Reason one is that it would require that close to all users pay for membership. The value as an advertising company is largely based on the sheer amount of eyeballs coupled with the massive amount of decent quality profiling information. If they lost that from 50% of their users, the ad value of the remaining 50% of the members would be less than 50%.
Reason two, which is for the tinfoils among us, is that if they want to use the platform for other ends than to make ad money, e.g. to drive a political agenda or superintelligence takeover, then they would still need the profiling as input and could use the ad/"news" as a manipulation stream.
From TFA: "The Titan Key is specifically for customers who want security keys and trust Google."
I figure that the overlap of those two groups should be rather small.
Even taxis, parkings, road tolls and similar services normally takes electronic payments.
As do many street beggars, and school children selling cookies and charity flowers ("majblommor").
It is actually getting slightly hard to be cash-only for day-to-day life in Sweden. As mentioned, many establishments have turned cash-only. It is legal to demand electronic payment if both parties have agreed to before the service is rendered. A note by the counter or on the door is regarded enough. Without such an "agreement", you can insist on paying in cash. They can refuse to accept it, but then it is not your problem.
Whenever my kids get cash from a well-meaning relative or somesuch, they give the money to me and ask me to put in on their card accounts.
Forget about paying rent or selling/buying a used car with cash; you are likely to get investigated if you enter one of the very few remaining bank offices that handle cash and don't have a very good paper trail for the money. It seems that the easiest thing to buy with a bunch of bank notes is drugs or weapons.
Killer robots are a GOOD thing. They will result in a NET REDUCTION in hostilities. People don't pick fights they know they can't win!
$TERRORIST_ORGANISATION or $STATE_WITH_A_LEADER_WITH_A_SMALL_PENIS creates 1M AI killer robots and unleashes them on the US with the aim of killing everyone.
Still a GOOD thing?
The Apple products you have used must also have been eight years old then (ok, maybe four), if by outperforms you mean generally run faster.
The T400:s are great machines, but neither my T430 with a SATA SSD or the newer ones my colleges at work have, touch my 2015 MPB in speed. And the MBP touchpad makes the T4?0:s feel like toys.
Remember to separate price (objective) from value (subjective). If you don't value the lightness, the price increase is just a negative.
And, for a fair comparison and as by your statement ("make sure that all data matches"), the macbook should also match the alternative. I would expect a $3500 device to have a USB-A port, and would value that more than -300 g.
That said, I sometimes explain (and demonstrate) to my coworkers that their $1400 equivalent Lenovo T-series laptop is not, in fact, equivalent (2 cores instead of 4, lower CPU speed, SATA SSD, intel GPU) to my MBP (no touchbar). (It is easy to demonstrate; build times are consistently ~30% lower on my laptop than theirs, no hocus-pocus.) Equally specced out, the price difference turns out marginal, as you indicate. And then my smug glee turns into a frown as they go to IT and get 32 MB installed while I am stuck with 16.
I get a version of this, but without the email reference. He often comes to my desk and just continues the conversation that he started in an email or Slack message that he sent just before getting up from his chair about 10 m away. Our encounters often start with a sensation of a blown short-term memory.
We went through our CD collection a couple of years ago and realized that much of our tastes in music had changed. Kept around 30 of 500 disks. Did the same with vinyl 15 years ago. Threw all ~2-300 and bought a very few of them on CD.
Not much of an investment, I would say.
Now, for the cost of one full-price CD per month, the entire family can listen to whichever music each member likes, change tastes with trends and maturity, explore new artists and music styles, rediscover old ones, etc. When I was a kid spending my pocket money buying the latest records, I would have been ecstatic if I could have payed for one record per month (about what I could afford back then) but gotten *all* of the latest and all of the old music.
I get *far* more value from Spotify than CD:s, both short-term and long-term. Even if they pull the plug tomorrow.
I am not saying that my use case is more valid than yours, or the reverse. But you may find it rewarding to try to see things through the eyes of others before calling them stupid.
That shop floor area and that employee time can be used for some products that are more profitable. Those same resources can yield $1k from CD sales or $4k from $LATEST_FAD per day. Depending on the store's profile, that may be an attractive proposition.
Unfortunately, in contrast to you, most people (would) gain notoriety by making asses of themselves in public.
Myself included, probably.
They need the human to put the blame on when the technology fails.
The main motivation is ads, this is where money presently are.
In my country that is probably true, but I would guess not in a country with a totalitarian regime. I may be in a minority, but I am not really very bothered by the ads being targeted. I can ad-block most of those, and anyway, if I am happy buying a certain brand of $STUFF then it doesn't matter that much whether my happiness is based on whether it was a company, a friend or my own experience that formed the opinion.
Still, if you are not using platform that customizes news for you, you are immune.
Ahh, but how do you know? I am not even sure that I see the same front page or contents of Slashdot as you do.
Pretend you are from Netherlands, get GDPR protection. It might still be technically possible to track you, but it is much more difficult and results are less reliable.
I already live in the EU. I would be surprised to learn that the global information players collect substantially - if any - different information about me than about a person from/in USA or Zimbabwe.
You seem to be keeping your gaze too low. You are not just a target for buying stuff; you are also a target for modifying your opinion and behaviour in politics and other questions.
You can be targeted through other vectors than traditional ads, e.g. notification flows, news flows, ads-or-propaganda-disguised-as-news, product placement, insurance company policies, employability, police knocking on your door, ...
As an extreme, think China. The view we outsiders get is that if they collect the wrong data about you, they will *target* you in a way that no ad-blocker will stop.