1TB for $500? Remember when the 16gb ones were expensive as hell just a few years back?
I guess they're bound to replace platter based drives even for storage by the end of the decade, since that just really budged in capacity significantly in years.
Right now doing fine with a 256gb one. 128gb ended up cramped far too often with os/apps and normal downloads.
Back when the aptera was a possibility, they removed the mirrors in favor of camera for the aerodynamic gains. (Aptera was a very aerodynamic car so the gains were real). Unfortunately, state laws didn't allow it everywhere, so they had to put them back on.
Also, mirrors aren't that simple. Even in many low end cars, they have electronics to move them around in the meantime for the driver and I'm it can break. Mirror themselves often are poorly made and lose their finish (see this on vans and the like).
So I think a nonmoveable camera might actually work better if it has a wide angle.
Right now, someone designed a mirror without blindspots that wouldn't cost much to implement, but current law doesn't allow for that either.
Sounds a bit like Enterprise's In a Mirror, Darkly eps (and yeah, that TOS ep with goateed spock which I forgot the name of too). Excellent eps by the way.
Not quite Captain material, but perhaps a less sleazy Riker. Or more sleazy, depending on how he wants to play it. But unlike the 90s-early00s Star Trek, this one needs more humor in it (understated, mind you, like TOS), and a bit more world building. No longer hitting the reset button at the end of every show.
Hell, if it's better than the braindead JJ Abrams stuff, I'd be happy.
I suspect a kill switch may hurt or help handset makers another way. The loads of people who thought they lost/had their phone stolen but find it shortly after again.
Will they demand free replacements and the manufacturers bow to their demands or will they just go out and buy a new one?
A little more than 1/100. The weight of water in such a pool is 2,500 tons. The weight of the peanut butter is 25 tons. Water density is 1 g/cc. Unsalted peanut butter is 1.09 g/cc.
Every time I see new construction around here, they put dig some ridiculous pond/hole-in-the-ground for water to go. Except it's way out of proportion to what they're are builing (like 1/5 the constuction size in my area). So lots of still standing ponds and swampy areas. And people wonder why the area has a mosquito problem and then spray poisons to reduce them. Which probably lead to something else.
I don't even know the point of the ponds, don't see them in Europe at all. Probably something civil engineers instructed townships to do to justify their existence, and it's spreading as township tend to just copy each other.
These virtual currencies only have value due to consensus
That's the value of everything. Say a nuclear holocaust happens, 90% of people die. What do you think happens to the value of gold or coca cola stock?
You can move to dogecoin or whereever, but bitcoin has the same value as ebay. Firstmover status. Do you know any online auctions? Because I do. Places like epier or ioffer. None of them are inherently less valuable than ebay in its early days, but people just don't use them. So their entire value (or lack of) comes from a network effect that isn't easily duplicated once an equitable service is in effect.
Considering the poor quality of most photographs, I don't think most people's face are that identifiable. Especially once you run into the millions and billions.
Less rubberstamping committees, more restritictions on the government.
Carter started extraconstitutional spying on suspected foreign agents (tapping phones) and had FISA courts oversee the implementation, and those courts I think went ahead with all but 4 out of 17,000+ requests in one of the past years.
Oversight is always than complete government restriction.
Oil specifically, the US consumers 18.8 million bbl a day with 313 M population. The EU comes in a distant second with 12.8 million bbl a day with a population of 507 M.
For the US, that means an expenditure of 2.5 gallons oil per person per day. For the EU, that means an expenditure of 1.1 gallons oil per person per day.
Because no black market is a bad thing, of course. If the market has demand for hired killers, for example, obviously they should exist.
(The is/should fallacy of free marketism is legitimately scary to me)
The black market often brings goods in demand to people where the government blocks them. During many war times, they were the only way people got around rations to get food and luxuries in a decent supply.
Drugs are often a black market. Yet, by and large marijuana is harmless, legal alcohol is not.
Markets have existed before governments rose. Markets are not scary, they are what make us inherently human. The exchange.
Your fearmongering is rather sad. Yes, criminal acts are possible. That doesn't come from the nature of the exchange, it comes from human nature.
Do I have to point out that a lot of military spending, including the labor force (soldiers and the like), isn't bringing the US Taxpayer all that great ROI?
There is spending for defense, and then there is our level of spending.
Idk all the obstacles to robots, but considering the story weeks ago on artificial muscles being built from fishing line and activated by heat in a way that was never really considered before for that application... I think technology can overcome this.
Tech cannot overcome everything (fundamental laws of physics) or provide quick fixes... but if nature can build a human or cat or whatever really cheap, I don't see why we can't do so artificially eventually.
I don't buy into the iRobot future - a bunch of crappy to mediocre (and very limited tools) integrated with their robot to provide a middling experience for a small subset of tasks. I can't see how we won't eventually transistion to a central unit like a walking robot using cheap or dedicated tools for the job.
It will take decades, but there's a lot of demand that some dedicated experimenters will try to supply.
For this to take off, it has to offer more than just upgradable specs... because people generally buy what they can at purchase and phones are at a place now where computers were at around 2003-4, speed gains still to be had but the majorly common tasks no longer benefitted from upgrading the bleeding edge hardware as much because the old stuff didn't feel quite so anemic anymore.
That means modules with hardware that adds capabilities and not just speed. Problem is that, as seen in the console market, most apps don't cater to what can be connect but what is connected by default.
Google could carve out a definite niche with this, but I'm not really seeing it as a marketshare dominator.
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1TB for $500? Remember when the 16gb ones were expensive as hell just a few years back?
I guess they're bound to replace platter based drives even for storage by the end of the decade, since that just really budged in capacity significantly in years.
Right now doing fine with a 256gb one. 128gb ended up cramped far too often with os/apps and normal downloads.
Back when the aptera was a possibility, they removed the mirrors in favor of camera for the aerodynamic gains. (Aptera was a very aerodynamic car so the gains were real). Unfortunately, state laws didn't allow it everywhere, so they had to put them back on.
Also, mirrors aren't that simple. Even in many low end cars, they have electronics to move them around in the meantime for the driver and I'm it can break. Mirror themselves often are poorly made and lose their finish (see this on vans and the like).
So I think a nonmoveable camera might actually work better if it has a wide angle.
Right now, someone designed a mirror without blindspots that wouldn't cost much to implement, but current law doesn't allow for that either.
https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/...
So I would be pleased if the law does change to allow both/more flexibility.
Sounds a bit like Enterprise's In a Mirror, Darkly eps (and yeah, that TOS ep with goateed spock which I forgot the name of too). Excellent eps by the way.
Not quite Captain material, but perhaps a less sleazy Riker. Or more sleazy, depending on how he wants to play it. But unlike the 90s-early00s Star Trek, this one needs more humor in it (understated, mind you, like TOS), and a bit more world building. No longer hitting the reset button at the end of every show.
Hell, if it's better than the braindead JJ Abrams stuff, I'd be happy.
It's called the Apt Tax and could replace many of our existing taxes and severely reduce the IRS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
http://www.apttax.com/
The guy who quoted 2% is much too expensive though. It should be less than 1%.
I suspect a kill switch may hurt or help handset makers another way. The loads of people who thought they lost/had their phone stolen but find it shortly after again.
Will they demand free replacements and the manufacturers bow to their demands or will they just go out and buy a new one?
A little more than 1/100. The weight of water in such a pool is 2,500 tons. The weight of the peanut butter is 25 tons. Water density is 1 g/cc. Unsalted peanut butter is 1.09 g/cc.
Every time I see new construction around here, they put dig some ridiculous pond/hole-in-the-ground for water to go. Except it's way out of proportion to what they're are builing (like 1/5 the constuction size in my area). So lots of still standing ponds and swampy areas. And people wonder why the area has a mosquito problem and then spray poisons to reduce them. Which probably lead to something else.
I don't even know the point of the ponds, don't see them in Europe at all. Probably something civil engineers instructed townships to do to justify their existence, and it's spreading as township tend to just copy each other.
We welcome him with a lot of calls. Remember to be nice to the prescreeners.
That's the value of everything. Say a nuclear holocaust happens, 90% of people die. What do you think happens to the value of gold or coca cola stock?
You can move to dogecoin or whereever, but bitcoin has the same value as ebay. Firstmover status. Do you know any online auctions? Because I do. Places like epier or ioffer. None of them are inherently less valuable than ebay in its early days, but people just don't use them. So their entire value (or lack of) comes from a network effect that isn't easily duplicated once an equitable service is in effect.
Still could be recording conversation though.
Considering the poor quality of most photographs, I don't think most people's face are that identifiable. Especially once you run into the millions and billions.
I actually have a less-than symbol in there somewhere but slashdot deleted that. I forgot the nuances of this specific site.
2008.... what like the 1st year the app store was even out, Iphone barely a year old....have something a bit more recent?
Less rubberstamping committees, more restritictions on the government.
Carter started extraconstitutional spying on suspected foreign agents (tapping phones) and had FISA courts oversee the implementation, and those courts I think went ahead with all but 4 out of 17,000+ requests in one of the past years.
Oversight is always than complete government restriction.
The US consumes 1/5 the energy in the world:
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/...
Oil specifically, the US consumers 18.8 million bbl a day with 313 M population. The EU comes in a distant second with 12.8 million bbl a day with a population of 507 M.
For the US, that means an expenditure of 2.5 gallons oil per person per day. For the EU, that means an expenditure of 1.1 gallons oil per person per day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Oh wow, that's cool. Never knew that existed. The sucessor to that today seems to be a 1500 watt electric scooter, such as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Similiar weight (~90lb), similiar top speed (30-35+mph).
As to the briefcase scooter, just too expensive.
The black market often brings goods in demand to people where the government blocks them. During many war times, they were the only way people got around rations to get food and luxuries in a decent supply.
Drugs are often a black market. Yet, by and large marijuana is harmless, legal alcohol is not.
Markets have existed before governments rose. Markets are not scary, they are what make us inherently human. The exchange.
Your fearmongering is rather sad. Yes, criminal acts are possible. That doesn't come from the nature of the exchange, it comes from human nature.
Do I have to point out that a lot of military spending, including the labor force (soldiers and the like), isn't bringing the US Taxpayer all that great ROI?
There is spending for defense, and then there is our level of spending.
I don't think there is an intelligent, focused process at work behind evolution.
Idk all the obstacles to robots, but considering the story weeks ago on artificial muscles being built from fishing line and activated by heat in a way that was never really considered before for that application... I think technology can overcome this.
Tech cannot overcome everything (fundamental laws of physics) or provide quick fixes... but if nature can build a human or cat or whatever really cheap, I don't see why we can't do so artificially eventually.
I don't buy into the iRobot future - a bunch of crappy to mediocre (and very limited tools) integrated with their robot to provide a middling experience for a small subset of tasks. I can't see how we won't eventually transistion to a central unit like a walking robot using cheap or dedicated tools for the job.
It will take decades, but there's a lot of demand that some dedicated experimenters will try to supply.
Too bad scifi is wrong on both counts. We have a lot of both. Just maybe not on earth itself.
His amazing salesmanship skills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
At the end of that, I feel myself pulling my wallet out and going "NO, IT CAN'T BE JUST $99, let me pay more!"
For this to take off, it has to offer more than just upgradable specs... because people generally buy what they can at purchase and phones are at a place now where computers were at around 2003-4, speed gains still to be had but the majorly common tasks no longer benefitted from upgrading the bleeding edge hardware as much because the old stuff didn't feel quite so anemic anymore.
That means modules with hardware that adds capabilities and not just speed. Problem is that, as seen in the console market, most apps don't cater to what can be connect but what is connected by default.
Google could carve out a definite niche with this, but I'm not really seeing it as a marketshare dominator.
Just a question, but have we become so stupid as a society that we need analogies for even simplistic situations to begin with?