But that doesn't include the gamer marker this is aimed at. Any new laptop using the 980M will almost certainly be price above $1,500. For half the price you could build a comparably specked desktop.
I'm amazed at how otherwise rational people get bamboozled into the idea of space colonization or asteroid mining, which are endeavors so expensive and perilous and with little practical value as to be impossible.
Take asteroid mining. The costs alone are incredibly prohibited, not to mention the fact that if you did mine gold, for instance, it would be the most expensive gold ever to be sold, because the costs would be so high. There will never be a point at which the rate of return on space-gold exceeds the cost.
But these techno-utopians won't listen to reason and always just dismiss the real-world or technical limitations inherit in a venture like this as Ludditism, when it's just realism.
Even within our own human population it seems that only a relatively small number of people have allowed us to advance past the age of agriculture, into the age of electronics and interconnected networks.
I don't think that's true at all. Anyone who studies technological advancement, or the philosophy of science, can tell that it's a heuristic process. In other words, it's the result of many, sometimes "average" people taking a crack at a problem over a long period of time, until someone is finally able to put all that work together to get a solution.
The oft-cited "genius" making a technological breakthrough by himself is really just a myth.
I like cats if they are friendly, but they are not good for me; I am somewhat allergic to them. This allergy makes my face itch and my eyes water. So the bed, and the room I will usually be staying in, need to be clean of cat hair. However, it is no problem if there is a cat elsewhere in the house—I might even enjoy it if the cat is friendly.
Dogs that bark angrily and/or jump up on me frighten me, unless they are small and cannot reach much above my knees. But if they only bark or jump when we enter the house, I can cope, as long as you hold the dog away from me at that time. Aside from that issue, I'm ok with dogs.
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I can visit with, that will be nice too.
DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.
I imagine some people do this, especially given how easy it is to do coding work over the internet. You could easily work for 2 or 3 other clients via SSH while at your "actual" job.
Just wait until you have pop-over/under adware on android phones that you can't get rid of. I bet you people will start complaining then about security.
Hardware hasn't advanced that much, especially on the desktop side, in the last 5 years. You could easily have a zippy Core2 Duo with 8GB of ram and run linux on it, no problem, especially if you aren't doing anything cycle-intensive like model rendering, or video encoding.
It might run hotter than a haswell corei7, but that's about it. What cost are you talking about?
I just came out with a GoT RPG board game having to do with the many face god. I wanted to promoted using the domain facebook.com, but some guy named Zuckerberg totally cybersquatted the name.
>No. It could be done with a handheld camera, plus some platforms and safety harnesses, and plenty of extra hours of work. Inspecting the tail fins, and the top of the fuselage is far easier, quicker, and cheaper with a drone.
Hear that? The sound a $300 drone makes when crashing into a $50,000 piece of equipment. It might be quicker with a drone, but it's def. not cheaper.
Does anyone know of a SOHO package that can keep out the three letter agencies? I'm pretty sure even if these SOHO routers had stellar security does anyone believe they could keep out the NSA or a determined attacker from compromising your network? Even the best models basically just have a linux distro running iptables.
Yeah, it just seems to me that girls are under a lot of peer pressure to pursue social, status-raising activities. Sitting in front of a PC hammering-away Java for 5 hours a day isn't very glamorous, exciting, or social, and there's the "nerd" stigma associated with it.
Even women who are naturally inclined to pursue Comp Sci or engineering do so to pursue careers in finance or business, and make more money, not necessarily because they love computers. And moreover women who are employed by tech-companies usually work in the non-technical areas, like PR, marketing, sales, etc.
If Google wants more women in tech, they should make coding (a solitary and unglamorous pursuit) look cool, exciting, and socially positive. Maybe they need a Java Camel.
Except it's 2015, there's hardly a structural barrier keeping women out of STEM. In fact girls are overly encouraged to study math and science. Celebrities and the media tell girls it's cool to study science.
The thing is that college and graduate level science courses are hard, require practically a single-minded dedication to succeed in, and have very little social prestige. And even then there are plenty of women who graduate with hard science degrees (chemistry, physics, math) from 4-year colleges.
But then they go off to work on Wall Street, where the money is, instead of going to graduate schools (for science) or going into a lab.
So enough of the 'it's 1955 all over-again' bullshit!
Slashdot Mirror
You'll just become unindicted co-conspirator #3
Neal Stephenson beat you to it.
How man days before Russian criminal gangs or the Chinese government figure out how to break into these backdoors.
But that doesn't include the gamer marker this is aimed at. Any new laptop using the 980M will almost certainly be price above $1,500. For half the price you could build a comparably specked desktop.
I'm amazed at how otherwise rational people get bamboozled into the idea of space colonization or asteroid mining, which are endeavors so expensive and perilous and with little practical value as to be impossible.
Take asteroid mining. The costs alone are incredibly prohibited, not to mention the fact that if you did mine gold, for instance, it would be the most expensive gold ever to be sold, because the costs would be so high. There will never be a point at which the rate of return on space-gold exceeds the cost.
But these techno-utopians won't listen to reason and always just dismiss the real-world or technical limitations inherit in a venture like this as Ludditism, when it's just realism.
Thanks AT&T!
I don't think that's true at all. Anyone who studies technological advancement, or the philosophy of science, can tell that it's a heuristic process. In other words, it's the result of many, sometimes "average" people taking a crack at a problem over a long period of time, until someone is finally able to put all that work together to get a solution.
The oft-cited "genius" making a technological breakthrough by himself is really just a myth.
yay, teh futurz, lol!
There goes slashdot again, with their clickbait headlines!
http://gizmodo.com/5853729/ple...
Just use an ad blocking hosts file like MVPS. no Google ads regardless of browser. I have it set up on my AP.
I imagine some people do this, especially given how easy it is to do coding work over the internet. You could easily work for 2 or 3 other clients via SSH while at your "actual" job.
You'd probably have an easier time finding an original classic car on eBay than in Havana.
Just wait until you have pop-over/under adware on android phones that you can't get rid of. I bet you people will start complaining then about security.
Hardware hasn't advanced that much, especially on the desktop side, in the last 5 years. You could easily have a zippy Core2 Duo with 8GB of ram and run linux on it, no problem, especially if you aren't doing anything cycle-intensive like model rendering, or video encoding.
It might run hotter than a haswell corei7, but that's about it. What cost are you talking about?
Liberia, er, Libertarianstan (same difference)
I just came out with a GoT RPG board game having to do with the many face god. I wanted to promoted using the domain facebook.com, but some guy named Zuckerberg totally cybersquatted the name.
Any day now...
>No. It could be done with a handheld camera, plus some platforms and safety harnesses, and plenty of extra hours of work. Inspecting the tail fins, and the top of the fuselage is far easier, quicker, and cheaper with a drone.
Hear that? The sound a $300 drone makes when crashing into a $50,000 piece of equipment. It might be quicker with a drone, but it's def. not cheaper.
There's a scene in Casino where the feds plane runs out of gas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Does anyone know of a SOHO package that can keep out the three letter agencies? I'm pretty sure even if these SOHO routers had stellar security does anyone believe they could keep out the NSA or a determined attacker from compromising your network? Even the best models basically just have a linux distro running iptables.
Yeah, it just seems to me that girls are under a lot of peer pressure to pursue social, status-raising activities. Sitting in front of a PC hammering-away Java for 5 hours a day isn't very glamorous, exciting, or social, and there's the "nerd" stigma associated with it.
Even women who are naturally inclined to pursue Comp Sci or engineering do so to pursue careers in finance or business, and make more money, not necessarily because they love computers. And moreover women who are employed by tech-companies usually work in the non-technical areas, like PR, marketing, sales, etc.
If Google wants more women in tech, they should make coding (a solitary and unglamorous pursuit) look cool, exciting, and socially positive. Maybe they need a Java Camel.
I'm out, and I'm gone!
Android was updated... Nevermind I can't afford a new phone.
Except it's 2015, there's hardly a structural barrier keeping women out of STEM.
In fact girls are overly encouraged to study math and science. Celebrities and the media
tell girls it's cool to study science.
The thing is that college and graduate level science courses are hard, require practically a single-minded dedication to succeed in, and have very little social prestige. And even then there are plenty of women who graduate with hard science degrees (chemistry, physics, math) from 4-year colleges.
But then they go off to work on Wall Street, where the money is, instead of going to graduate schools (for science) or going into a lab.
So enough of the 'it's 1955 all over-again' bullshit!