I once had a state trooper flash his headlights at me when I was on the highway. I thought it was weird but decided to treat it as I would had any other driver done it. I slowed way down to the speed limit and about a mile ahead passed a dozen or so county police having themselves a grand time with this huge assembly line of a speed trap they had created.
Allowing inventory articles you sent in to be comingled is an option. You can turn it off, and should, even if it costs a bit more. Your reputation should be worth still more.
But scientists just announced a laser that can cause a person to hear words. Connect this gadget up to that laser (and maybe put it in a bionic eye) and boom, something not too different from telepathy.
I get a call from a number I don't recognize then I don't answer. They get one chance to leave a message. If they fail to do that they are blocked. Life is too short for a more forgiving policy.
It's just too easy to make snarky remarks based on what little is said here. Go read about Neuralink and what it aims to do (the Wait But Why website has an interesting piece on it). But yeah, if you believe AI is inevitable and that it might be dangerous, it actually makes sense to form a symbiotic relationship early on. If you can't beat them, join them, etc. but do it while you can still dictate terms.
"known to have associations to the Pyongyang regime" Seriously? If they are operating out of North Korea they are just stooges for that Joffrey wannabe. Get it straight. There is no Pyongyang regime. There is no North Korean government. It's just that piece of slime. Every news report or article that says something like "the North Korean government did or said thus and so" should get the publisher slapped silly. They know his name.
Most people's interests aren't really a secret (except for the ones they might want to hide, and those shouldn't be on FaceBook). People need to stop seeing everything as an opportunity to rant.
Regardless of what things FaceBook may be guilty of, not everything in FB, or in life is out to take advantage of us in some sort of zero-sum game. There are win-win situations being sought as well. I've received ads for books on several occasions that were targeted at me based on other books I had liked. I've found some good ones that way and I'd rather see ads for those than for cookbooks or Harlequin romances.
When I advertised my own books, written for a niche genre, I knew what books had inspired me most, and that people that had enjoyed them were the most likely to enjoy mine. With FB I was able to direct my ads to those people. I got a good response for the money I spent, and got several good reviews (without any negative ones). It seems to me those people were happy they had learned of my books and were pleased with their purchases.
What would be served for anyone in my paying far more just to blindly send a lot more ads to people who wouldn't be the least bit interested? That's not a win for them or for me.
Game developer in most cases (not all) means low wages, long hours, zero job security, high-stress, and very little personal autonomy.
You won't be getting much that resembles game time and the real fun for a dev is in creatively finding solutions and solving problems. IT in any industry can provide that. I've done my work primarily at large insurance and finance companies. Met quite a few former game developers who switched to doing the kind of thing I was doing for all of the reasons above.
What you want is high wages, good job security, short hours, flexible hours, low-stress (no midnight phone calls), good benefits, opportunity to learn, and a lot of personal autonomy. Start with looking for high wages and as much of the rest as you can. Take that and keep on looking. I know for a fact it's possible to eventually get them all, and no, once you reach a attain a certain level of real and unquestioned competence, gray hair (or even bald) doesn't hurt at all, and may even be an asset.
Everquest, World of Warcraft, and others have been doing this for a long time and still are. In fact, in just three months time it will be two full decades for Everquest.
No, I spent some time as a contracting officer for a federal installation. It was ridiculous.
Say I needed twenty buttons for a communications console that are only made by AT&T. Buying them from AT&T would have required 3 days of paperwork justifying why I had to buy them from the only manufacturer, despite the fact they were not a small business and were not female or minority owned. Instead I would would call three such companies, probably operating out of the family garage, who had no idea what I wanted, but would get back to me. Then they called AT&T, would get a price, then call me with that price plus around ten percent. And I was instructed to get it from which ever one was cheapest, rather than take the 3 days of my time working up a small purchase order. In that one case, once I had the overpriced quotes, and because I was young and outraged, I called AT&T, explained the problem, and they sent us the buttons as a free sample, but you certainly can't count on that happening very often, and I had dozens of purchase orders a day to cut.
The GSA schedule was a joke, too. In many cases, I would have been money and time ahead just to jump in my car and drive over to Wal-Mart or Home Depot and buy whatever it was. Hell, I probably could have filled hundreds of work orders a day on that basis.
Now I use Amazon for a lot of my basic needs at home because it's generally a good price and tends to come right to my front door when they say it will. Personally, I suspect this could be a serious win-win-win for Amazon, the government and, of course, us taxpayers.
Really glad I bought some stock in Amazon. but that's beside the point, I'd sell it and boycott them if I really felt like they were taking advantage of me.
You must be a bad luck magnet. We do hundreds of orders a year and have been doing so for more than a decade. Only have one or two issues a year and, so far, it has never had to do with a product defect.
Good thing as, other than for food, the stores around us are generally small, feature a limited selection, are poorly stocked, require navigating heavy traffic, have little parking, and are inordinately expensive.
It's bad enough when some bureaucrat wants to protect us from ourselves, even when they have their facts right. Doing it when they are wrong is just adding insult.
Not unlike how my generation was trained that any briefing (usually in PowerPoint) was to have three main points because, if you couldn't present in three bullet statements it was too complicated to be briefing to upper management (or even lower level folks). Less than three was also unacceptable; it meant you hadn't done your homework or some such.
Obviously, having everything limited to three main points is ridiculous. So called "leaders" (bad managers) were usually just making decisions based on whose bullets made the best sound bites.
This is great, now they can pitch in and clean up that huge orbital debris mess they made hugely larger than it already was in their 2007 anti-satellite weapon test. (See the Kessler Syndrome.)
It's something he can do, as opposed to trying to make deals with every polluting country on the planet. More importantly, it gets the issue out in the headlines where people become more aware of it and become more supportive of looking for alternate, more effective strategies. Lastly . . . well . . . it might do some good, or lead to something that does.
Maybe. But it has nothing to do with the fact that China has been breaking every rule it can on free trade for a couple of decades and no one has been willing to stand up to them on it.
China loves free trade . . . for everyone else. For themselves they much prefer mercantilism (fostering their economy with subsidies, tariffs, investment controls, currency controls, technology theft, government sponsored corporate spying, and any other trade barriers they can raise to their advantage). It's past time the playing field was leveled. If they want to keep playing with the big kids they need to start playing by the rules.
Too many chump western politicians have let this go for far too long, rather than make the necessary waves.
While people that engage in burger flipping for purposes of personal gain might all be wonderfully erudite and full of fascinating facts to discuss, the question becomes, unless you work at the same place they do, when was the last time you jumped the counter and went back into the kitchen to chat with one while they cooked your burger?
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I once had a state trooper flash his headlights at me when I was on the highway. I thought it was weird but decided to treat it as I would had any other driver done it. I slowed way down to the speed limit and about a mile ahead passed a dozen or so county police having themselves a grand time with this huge assembly line of a speed trap they had created.
I knew about spelling bees, but who would have guessed there are also math bees?
Allowing inventory articles you sent in to be comingled is an option. You can turn it off, and should, even if it costs a bit more. Your reputation should be worth still more.
If it's intended for going to Mars, shouldn't be called Planetship Raptor, instead of starship?
Your anonymous cowardice is showing.
. . . to be served as the test passenger in experimental driver-less vehicles.
But scientists just announced a laser that can cause a person to hear words. Connect this gadget up to that laser (and maybe put it in a bionic eye) and boom, something not too different from telepathy.
Belgium? I'm not sure that's true anymore because I've been waiting a long time for the next Tintin release.
I get a call from a number I don't recognize then I don't answer. They get one chance to leave a message. If they fail to do that they are blocked. Life is too short for a more forgiving policy.
It's just too easy to make snarky remarks based on what little is said here. Go read about Neuralink and what it aims to do (the Wait But Why website has an interesting piece on it). But yeah, if you believe AI is inevitable and that it might be dangerous, it actually makes sense to form a symbiotic relationship early on. If you can't beat them, join them, etc. but do it while you can still dictate terms.
"known to have associations to the Pyongyang regime" Seriously? If they are operating out of North Korea they are just stooges for that Joffrey wannabe. Get it straight. There is no Pyongyang regime. There is no North Korean government. It's just that piece of slime. Every news report or article that says something like "the North Korean government did or said thus and so" should get the publisher slapped silly. They know his name.
Most people's interests aren't really a secret (except for the ones they might want to hide, and those shouldn't be on FaceBook). People need to stop seeing everything as an opportunity to rant.
Regardless of what things FaceBook may be guilty of, not everything in FB, or in life is out to take advantage of us in some sort of zero-sum game. There are win-win situations being sought as well. I've received ads for books on several occasions that were targeted at me based on other books I had liked. I've found some good ones that way and I'd rather see ads for those than for cookbooks or Harlequin romances.
When I advertised my own books, written for a niche genre, I knew what books had inspired me most, and that people that had enjoyed them were the most likely to enjoy mine. With FB I was able to direct my ads to those people. I got a good response for the money I spent, and got several good reviews (without any negative ones). It seems to me those people were happy they had learned of my books and were pleased with their purchases.
What would be served for anyone in my paying far more just to blindly send a lot more ads to people who wouldn't be the least bit interested? That's not a win for them or for me.
Probably because a lot of folks are waiting for an alternative to Verizon or Comcast.
Game developer in most cases (not all) means low wages, long hours, zero job security, high-stress, and very little personal autonomy. You won't be getting much that resembles game time and the real fun for a dev is in creatively finding solutions and solving problems. IT in any industry can provide that. I've done my work primarily at large insurance and finance companies. Met quite a few former game developers who switched to doing the kind of thing I was doing for all of the reasons above.
What you want is high wages, good job security, short hours, flexible hours, low-stress (no midnight phone calls), good benefits, opportunity to learn, and a lot of personal autonomy. Start with looking for high wages and as much of the rest as you can. Take that and keep on looking. I know for a fact it's possible to eventually get them all, and no, once you reach a attain a certain level of real and unquestioned competence, gray hair (or even bald) doesn't hurt at all, and may even be an asset.
Darn, at first I read too fast and was thinking they meant Washington DC. I had some suggestions on where to start.
Everquest, World of Warcraft, and others have been doing this for a long time and still are. In fact, in just three months time it will be two full decades for Everquest.
No, I spent some time as a contracting officer for a federal installation. It was ridiculous.
Say I needed twenty buttons for a communications console that are only made by AT&T. Buying them from AT&T would have required 3 days of paperwork justifying why I had to buy them from the only manufacturer, despite the fact they were not a small business and were not female or minority owned. Instead I would would call three such companies, probably operating out of the family garage, who had no idea what I wanted, but would get back to me. Then they called AT&T, would get a price, then call me with that price plus around ten percent. And I was instructed to get it from which ever one was cheapest, rather than take the 3 days of my time working up a small purchase order. In that one case, once I had the overpriced quotes, and because I was young and outraged, I called AT&T, explained the problem, and they sent us the buttons as a free sample, but you certainly can't count on that happening very often, and I had dozens of purchase orders a day to cut.
The GSA schedule was a joke, too. In many cases, I would have been money and time ahead just to jump in my car and drive over to Wal-Mart or Home Depot and buy whatever it was. Hell, I probably could have filled hundreds of work orders a day on that basis.
Now I use Amazon for a lot of my basic needs at home because it's generally a good price and tends to come right to my front door when they say it will. Personally, I suspect this could be a serious win-win-win for Amazon, the government and, of course, us taxpayers.
Really glad I bought some stock in Amazon. but that's beside the point, I'd sell it and boycott them if I really felt like they were taking advantage of me.
You must be a bad luck magnet. We do hundreds of orders a year and have been doing so for more than a decade. Only have one or two issues a year and, so far, it has never had to do with a product defect.
Good thing as, other than for food, the stores around us are generally small, feature a limited selection, are poorly stocked, require navigating heavy traffic, have little parking, and are inordinately expensive.
It's bad enough when some bureaucrat wants to protect us from ourselves, even when they have their facts right. Doing it when they are wrong is just adding insult.
Not unlike how my generation was trained that any briefing (usually in PowerPoint) was to have three main points because, if you couldn't present in three bullet statements it was too complicated to be briefing to upper management (or even lower level folks). Less than three was also unacceptable; it meant you hadn't done your homework or some such.
Obviously, having everything limited to three main points is ridiculous. So called "leaders" (bad managers) were usually just making decisions based on whose bullets made the best sound bites.
This is great, now they can pitch in and clean up that huge orbital debris mess they made hugely larger than it already was in their 2007 anti-satellite weapon test. (See the Kessler Syndrome.)
It's something he can do, as opposed to trying to make deals with every polluting country on the planet. More importantly, it gets the issue out in the headlines where people become more aware of it and become more supportive of looking for alternate, more effective strategies. Lastly . . . well . . . it might do some good, or lead to something that does.
Maybe. But it has nothing to do with the fact that China has been breaking every rule it can on free trade for a couple of decades and no one has been willing to stand up to them on it.
China loves free trade . . . for everyone else. For themselves they much prefer mercantilism (fostering their economy with subsidies, tariffs, investment controls, currency controls, technology theft, government sponsored corporate spying, and any other trade barriers they can raise to their advantage). It's past time the playing field was leveled. If they want to keep playing with the big kids they need to start playing by the rules.
Too many chump western politicians have let this go for far too long, rather than make the necessary waves.
While people that engage in burger flipping for purposes of personal gain might all be wonderfully erudite and full of fascinating facts to discuss, the question becomes, unless you work at the same place they do, when was the last time you jumped the counter and went back into the kitchen to chat with one while they cooked your burger?