Just par for the course for the internet, with snail mail being it's first and biggest victim (and slowest to die).
A more interesting question to me, is what future libraries will look like bereft of physical media.
Who knew, when they were building thepiratebay, they were simply making the library of the future? Not just in an idealized sense, but in an actual sense of keeping the industry somewhat honest, like what the used car or textbook business does.
What is brain controlled? That the mind points to where it wants to go, and the computer has to figure out how to get there without stalling, crashing into things, going into a spiral and what not?
Because withouth knowing the concepts of aerodynamics, what exactly is the brain going to contribute?
And what happens when the mind wanders?
I fail to see how this is better than a touch screen interface that would turn it into a self-flying plane.
I tried to rank them by what I think will be highest to lowest. Self-driving car will eliminate the top cost. It should lower insurance (not guaranteed) and will maximize fuel.
Add in electric vehicles to the mix and fuel will be lowered and maintenance by a whole hell of a lot but of course that can be done with drivered cars as well.
Cost and availability will kill many human cab services. But the good thing is that finally the boondock areas will get taxi service unlike today. Excellent for seniors and disabled. Taxi and rental car services will merge in fact. Nothing more annoying than an idle fleet.
Think of the children is a legitimate line of thought when it's actually about children and not someone trying to gain personal power or push through a bad policy by using our empathy against us and linking it to a unconnected issue.
Do you really think I'm on some power grab or trying to push through a bad policy with my argument here?
As of yet autonomous vehicles are unproven. It would be nice to have a driver on the wheel just in case. This might not be for emergencies as a person would be reading or whatever and it's dangerous to give him the wheel unprepared and unaware. But we can presume that the computer might just get confused (lets say a construction site) and come to a stop and say "Please, human, guide me here until I can take over again." That's legitimate because the first generation of autonomous vehicles are certainly not going to be perfect.
Second, we don't want kids having free access to autonomous vehicle. 10 year old Johnny is riding in a car with no parents and just cannot resist the urge to take over the controls. 9 year old Amanda just met a really cool adult online that promises her if she goes to this one address, she's getting all the toys she wants.
So maybe not a driver's license, since blind people should have access to this technology after the bugs are worked out, but there should be some regulation.
is to congratulate the NSA and FBI on what a fine job they are doing spying on us. How safe they kept us with ever intrusive nets. That they can't even catch a kid whose own relatives called the police on him worried and posted out in the open that he'll kill people.
And then they go on how they need more powers to protect us. Yeah, right, more like to control the populace.
and it was designed i think well over 20 possibly even 30 years ago. so it has a very *very* gentle acceleration and deceleration curve. gentle acceleration because that is not only fuel-efficient but also the cars of that time simply could not accelerate that much...
WTF are you blabbering on about? Cars from 1980 or 1990 could not accelerate that much?
You must be a young kid or something, but not everything before your time was primitive by virtue of you not having come along yet.
To be honest, it kinda sucks compared to an iPad but makes for good presents. What makes it suck is android more than the hardware, tbh. Android and software bloat by the manufacturer. HP won't be any different going by past computer purchases.
My complaint is always the lack of vertical resolution. At least for a working monitor. 1440 is little better than most of the monitors outtoday but very little in proportion to its horizontal resolution.
As a TV display, I'd be hesitant to buy nonstandard resolutions as current HDMI has a bandwidth problem with 4k at a decent frame rate let alone finding media for it. I've seen 4K resolution playing 4K media. It's very beautiful but it also suffers from the industry or whoever announcing 8k already, so I'm in wait mode if economical models ever come along.
Until then, 1080p is good enough for TV and I'll find something not quite so wide for computers.
Blu-rays biggest failure was not to have a backwards compatible dvd layer. Nothing worse than going to a friend's house and find out he doesn't have the right player. Or Grandma not being able to play the fucking disc she rented (regioning is a joy too, yo). They should have made the transition seamless.... but instead got hardons thinking people give a shit about their propietary formats.
I agree with that statement, but how do bootcamps not inspire that?
Mostly because the time involve (8-12 weeks) means that they will push a ton of hours and a lot of milestones. They'll have a lot of assignments to grade the student on. It's going to be very structured.
It's like cramming for the SATs or something. Someone can do it and score highly, but do they truly learn much from the exercise?
Play/Experimentation for the beginner has to be unstructured in a fashion. Without pressing time constraints or milestones. Like kids on a playground.
I remember learning C from C in 21 Days. I did all the assignments but I truly never played with the language until that was well behind me. At that point, I was making timid tests with my foot in the waters of the language to see how the ripples react, not diving in.
All I'm saying is they are taking a Ruby in 21 days course or what not and paying way too much for it.
1. Programming can't be learned in a few weeks. You need the freedom to play with it. To experiment. Boot Camp doesn't exactly inspire that.
I do believe you can be marketable within a year though.
2. This is about selling papers, certs. Just like colleges are most just about selling diplomas now.
3. What you learn there, you can learn online, for free.
Of course, you won't learn collaboration and all that (except on soureforge or someplace) but not really at a bootcamp either. That's what a job is for.
4. Pumping these students out suggests there will be soon a glut in the market. There is only so much software needed in the world. Other than games, there isn't the same demand for big, constant changes (maintenance and adhering to law changes notwithstanding) in all markets. Not that a bootcamp gives one the experience to touch old/big/production systems anyway.
Then I'm not interested. Seriously, chrome has gotten me way to lazy in this regard. And FF has frustrated me on this since (and yes, I know there is an add-on).
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Just par for the course for the internet, with snail mail being it's first and biggest victim (and slowest to die).
A more interesting question to me, is what future libraries will look like bereft of physical media.
Who knew, when they were building thepiratebay, they were simply making the library of the future? Not just in an idealized sense, but in an actual sense of keeping the industry somewhat honest, like what the used car or textbook business does.
That might be great for fighter pilots, but they're talking about making flight more accessible.
It seems the effort is losing Steam.
What is brain controlled? That the mind points to where it wants to go, and the computer has to figure out how to get there without stalling, crashing into things, going into a spiral and what not?
Because withouth knowing the concepts of aerodynamics, what exactly is the brain going to contribute?
And what happens when the mind wanders?
I fail to see how this is better than a touch screen interface that would turn it into a self-flying plane.
And all that will be negated by cost. There will be 5 major costs in taxi afaik:
-driver
-fuel
-insurance
-car (initial cost)
-maintenance
I tried to rank them by what I think will be highest to lowest. Self-driving car will eliminate the top cost. It should lower insurance (not guaranteed) and will maximize fuel.
Add in electric vehicles to the mix and fuel will be lowered and maintenance by a whole hell of a lot but of course that can be done with drivered cars as well.
Cost and availability will kill many human cab services. But the good thing is that finally the boondock areas will get taxi service unlike today. Excellent for seniors and disabled. Taxi and rental car services will merge in fact. Nothing more annoying than an idle fleet.
I bet the old ones aren't even that old. And these stupid things cost many 10s of millions.
They should design them modular so that additions can be built when needed.
Think of the children is a legitimate line of thought when it's actually about children and not someone trying to gain personal power or push through a bad policy by using our empathy against us and linking it to a unconnected issue.
Do you really think I'm on some power grab or trying to push through a bad policy with my argument here?
I think the concern is twofold.
As of yet autonomous vehicles are unproven. It would be nice to have a driver on the wheel just in case. This might not be for emergencies as a person would be reading or whatever and it's dangerous to give him the wheel unprepared and unaware. But we can presume that the computer might just get confused (lets say a construction site) and come to a stop and say "Please, human, guide me here until I can take over again." That's legitimate because the first generation of autonomous vehicles are certainly not going to be perfect.
Second, we don't want kids having free access to autonomous vehicle. 10 year old Johnny is riding in a car with no parents and just cannot resist the urge to take over the controls. 9 year old Amanda just met a really cool adult online that promises her if she goes to this one address, she's getting all the toys she wants.
So maybe not a driver's license, since blind people should have access to this technology after the bugs are worked out, but there should be some regulation.
is to congratulate the NSA and FBI on what a fine job they are doing spying on us. How safe they kept us with ever intrusive nets. That they can't even catch a kid whose own relatives called the police on him worried and posted out in the open that he'll kill people.
And then they go on how they need more powers to protect us. Yeah, right, more like to control the populace.
Congratulations Law Enforcement. Awesome work.
This is glorified juice-filled candy. Whole fruit has all that fiber and other stuff good for someone.
What about splinters? I can imagine those are nasty in a crash, so how is that minimized?
WTF are you blabbering on about? Cars from 1980 or 1990 could not accelerate that much?
You must be a young kid or something, but not everything before your time was primitive by virtue of you not having come along yet.
last Christmas.
It's similiarly specced to the HP. Something like this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...
To be honest, it kinda sucks compared to an iPad but makes for good presents. What makes it suck is android more than the hardware, tbh. Android and software bloat by the manufacturer. HP won't be any different going by past computer purchases.
My complaint is always the lack of vertical resolution. At least for a working monitor. 1440 is little better than most of the monitors outtoday but very little in proportion to its horizontal resolution.
As a TV display, I'd be hesitant to buy nonstandard resolutions as current HDMI has a bandwidth problem with 4k at a decent frame rate let alone finding media for it. I've seen 4K resolution playing 4K media. It's very beautiful but it also suffers from the industry or whoever announcing 8k already, so I'm in wait mode if economical models ever come along.
Until then, 1080p is good enough for TV and I'll find something not quite so wide for computers.
Unimpressive specs. 864x480 resolution. 75 lumens.
Yeah, I'm going to wait a few years before getting one of it's descendants.
Especially when you consider the price and specs for this:
http://www.amazon.com/ViewSoni...
Or something like it. Because the brix is just a toy right now.
Gotta love all the surcharges. Especially the ones that the company says the government tells them they can charge (but doesn't have to).
Only data-based landline I have is internet. Don't care how many worthless bundles they throw at me.
Stop making those stupid low margin shaving handles and FOCUS SOLELY on cartridges!!!!
Cover the items you want to protect in duct tape. The shitty looking silver kind. Or a bunch of stupid stickers from a dollar store.
Obviously doesn't work for TVs but awesome for boxes where you only need to see a small portion of its face.
People are visual creatures and thieves operate fast. They're trying for low hanging fruit and aren't going to appraise every piece carefully.
None of which I am in position or inclination to refute, seeing how we can't program the hardware we make ourselves all that great...
Blu-rays biggest failure was not to have a backwards compatible dvd layer. Nothing worse than going to a friend's house and find out he doesn't have the right player. Or Grandma not being able to play the fucking disc she rented (regioning is a joy too, yo). They should have made the transition seamless.... but instead got hardons thinking people give a shit about their propietary formats.
Of course I'm saying it will make a glut in low level script writers.
Just like a thousand real bootcamps would create a glut of grunts during peacetime but not impact the market for generals.
Mostly because the time involve (8-12 weeks) means that they will push a ton of hours and a lot of milestones. They'll have a lot of assignments to grade the student on. It's going to be very structured.
It's like cramming for the SATs or something. Someone can do it and score highly, but do they truly learn much from the exercise?
Play/Experimentation for the beginner has to be unstructured in a fashion. Without pressing time constraints or milestones. Like kids on a playground.
I remember learning C from C in 21 Days. I did all the assignments but I truly never played with the language until that was well behind me. At that point, I was making timid tests with my foot in the waters of the language to see how the ripples react, not diving in.
All I'm saying is they are taking a Ruby in 21 days course or what not and paying way too much for it.
1. Programming can't be learned in a few weeks. You need the freedom to play with it. To experiment. Boot Camp doesn't exactly inspire that.
I do believe you can be marketable within a year though.
2. This is about selling papers, certs. Just like colleges are most just about selling diplomas now.
3. What you learn there, you can learn online, for free.
Of course, you won't learn collaboration and all that (except on soureforge or someplace) but not really at a bootcamp either. That's what a job is for.
4. Pumping these students out suggests there will be soon a glut in the market. There is only so much software needed in the world. Other than games, there isn't the same demand for big, constant changes (maintenance and adhering to law changes notwithstanding) in all markets. Not that a bootcamp gives one the experience to touch old/big/production systems anyway.
5. This will end badly.
Then I'm not interested. Seriously, chrome has gotten me way to lazy in this regard. And FF has frustrated me on this since (and yes, I know there is an add-on).
WTF are they digging this up for?