While that's true, my guess would be that they monitor those frequencies. When a signal or code goes out on them, they probably know exactly where it's coming from and thus could figure out where the person who detonated the bomb was, yes?
Well, there's also the ecological cost of the materials that build the car themselves. I'm not positive what it's made of but I would guess that given the danger/ability to crash while going really fast and thus need to be safer/the strength required to make it fly, it would require much more environmentally damaging materials
But the gender of those nouns in native languages have been shown to have an effect on the way we think about things. I forget the specifics but there was a study done with the words 'key' in 'bridge' where one was maculine in one language and feminine in another and the other was the opposite.
Only a picture was shown and the subjects were asked to describe it. Basicaly, they were seen in gendered ways. For example, in the language where key was feminine, it was 'delicate', 'small' and 'shiny' and in the one where it was masculine it was 'hard', 'sharp' and 'metal'.
Maybe if it's as humaniod as they make it sound, then the elderly won't be too worried about breaking it. Sometimes, it seems like more low-tech solutions are just less intimidating for people that grew up with less technology.
It seems to me like as we have technology, the definition of the 'fittest' changes. The fact is that people with curable conditions are 'fit' enough to survive. Evolution will select out people who are less able to do the things that are most important or need to be done in our society. Maybe some of the things that were once really important in our society (having clotting blood, non-sickle cells, etc) are no longer that relevant because of technology development.
Maybe the reason this is so annoying is because we now don't have easy horizontal scrolls. If everyone buys one then websites will start being bigger horizontally so you have to scroll and then you will need it, quite likely.
You have a good point. I now agree with you. I think maybe I should get off of slashdot for a while. It's messing with my mind. (it's like everything you read here could be some masterminded conspiracy to invade your personal and privacy rights) Besides, there are much more important personal freedoms being denied right now via Patriot act and this just makes things that are already done faster. Thanks for bringing me back to earth:-)
"It would let authorities, for instance, instantly find the name and address of every brown-haired owner of a red Ford pickup truck in a 20-mile radius of a suspicious event."
Things like this seem to me to only hurt the innocent. I mean, given that everyone can now read about this existing, any half-witted criminal would get a haircut, steal a new car and do something far away from home, right? I mean, if someone didn't take precautions such as these given this system, then they would probably be the type of criminal who would leave other evidence everywhere. This seems to have a ton of privacy implications and would target a lot of innocent people who, just say, happened to own red trucks or whatever the case may be, without targetting the actual criminals. What a waste. And they used my tax dollars to pay for a stupid, incorrect acronym, too. Grrr...
Targetted pricing is a good thing. One contraversial example is medicines. They pay a ton for R&D but much less to actually make the stuff. Therfore, they can sell it to people in, say, parts of Africa for very low prices while selling it here for high ones. This is a good thing both morally and financially for the company as the people in Africa may not buy anything at all if they were paying for R&D as they honestly couldn't afford it while people here can support the R&D (yes, it's expensive but hey, soon to be subsidized for seniors and already medicaid buys drugs for the poor.
Targetted pricing allows people who could normally not afford it access to products they couldn't normally buy. And it despite what it seems, it doesn't raise the price for others - they would be having to pay this price anyway but now others also have access. It may even increase the value of the product they buy because if more other people are using it, in some cases, compatibility issues stop hindering its usefulness.
Guys, we should be celebrating!!!
Now, one man-one vote has become if-you're-a-nerd-you-can-vote-a-million-times. Finally some laws we like (filesharing, open source).
Oh, wait. I bet those people with lots of money will vote even more. And that's not us since we're all getting outsourced.
At my school a lot of the larger classes put (password-protected) tapes of the lectures online. Some people choose to watch these instead of lectures because 1) you can choose to do it at 2 in the moring and 2) you can talk with others and do homework during it without being rude.
I took a physics class last semester where everyone except me, it seemed, brought in theirl laptop and messaged but it wasn't that productive - it was more commenting on stupid things the professor did or said and then everyone with the laptops would start laughing all at the same time. While kind of amusing, it was also just eerie.
I'm not sure that they provided any useful purpose although it would be cool to be able not to go to class and still enter these discussions.
Imagine the fun of not having to leave your dorm room and to still sort of know what's going on.
So maybe robots will take over fast food but I think that restaurants in general will keep their human service workers. Part of the restaurant experience is having a waiter. But then again, my grandfather thinks that part of a bank experience is the teller so we'll see if I'm right.
Isn't it funny that not so long ago people said that everyone from waiters to policemen would be replaced by robots?
I want the robopolice. Do you think that's coming soon, too?
What other kinds of service jobs will be replaced next? Salesmen? Professors?
There are inherent benefits to having people in some positions, for example as teachers. Teaching in elementrary schools is not primarily academic, it is more social. As of yet, robots aren't very good at teaching kids how to treat each other or of social custom. I think we have a while to go before living an automated life...
I wonder if they will count the costs of the commercials in the money they are loosing every year to piracy...
Well, the article says: "each network donating 30 seconds in the first prime time break." and "every major exhibitor in the country will donate time to play daily trailers on all screens in more than 5,000 theaters" and as I understand it almost all of the cost of comericials comes in the airtime. And if not, this is a bunch of movie companies so I'm sure that they can find guys to do their comercials pretty cheaply.
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While that's true, my guess would be that they monitor those frequencies. When a signal or code goes out on them, they probably know exactly where it's coming from and thus could figure out where the person who detonated the bomb was, yes?
Well, there's also the ecological cost of the materials that build the car themselves. I'm not positive what it's made of but I would guess that given the danger/ability to crash while going really fast and thus need to be safer/the strength required to make it fly, it would require much more environmentally damaging materials
But the gender of those nouns in native languages have been shown to have an effect on the way we think about things. I forget the specifics but there was a study done with the words 'key' in 'bridge' where one was maculine in one language and feminine in another and the other was the opposite. Only a picture was shown and the subjects were asked to describe it. Basicaly, they were seen in gendered ways. For example, in the language where key was feminine, it was 'delicate', 'small' and 'shiny' and in the one where it was masculine it was 'hard', 'sharp' and 'metal'.
Maybe if it's as humaniod as they make it sound, then the elderly won't be too worried about breaking it. Sometimes, it seems like more low-tech solutions are just less intimidating for people that grew up with less technology.
It seems to me like as we have technology, the definition of the 'fittest' changes. The fact is that people with curable conditions are 'fit' enough to survive. Evolution will select out people who are less able to do the things that are most important or need to be done in our society. Maybe some of the things that were once really important in our society (having clotting blood, non-sickle cells, etc) are no longer that relevant because of technology development.
Wow, the mob mentality for mice.
You have a good point. I now agree with you. I think maybe I should get off of slashdot for a while. It's messing with my mind. (it's like everything you read here could be some masterminded conspiracy to invade your personal and privacy rights) Besides, there are much more important personal freedoms being denied right now via Patriot act and this just makes things that are already done faster. Thanks for bringing me back to earth :-)
Things like this seem to me to only hurt the innocent. I mean, given that everyone can now read about this existing, any half-witted criminal would get a haircut, steal a new car and do something far away from home, right? I mean, if someone didn't take precautions such as these given this system, then they would probably be the type of criminal who would leave other evidence everywhere. This seems to have a ton of privacy implications and would target a lot of innocent people who, just say, happened to own red trucks or whatever the case may be, without targetting the actual criminals. What a waste. And they used my tax dollars to pay for a stupid, incorrect acronym, too. Grrr...
Targetted pricing allows people who could normally not afford it access to products they couldn't normally buy. And it despite what it seems, it doesn't raise the price for others - they would be having to pay this price anyway but now others also have access. It may even increase the value of the product they buy because if more other people are using it, in some cases, compatibility issues stop hindering its usefulness.
Man, if you think it sucks to be in IT right now, it sucks much more to be a telemarketer... now, and every day.
Guys, we should be celebrating!!! Now, one man-one vote has become if-you're-a-nerd-you-can-vote-a-million-times. Finally some laws we like (filesharing, open source). Oh, wait. I bet those people with lots of money will vote even more. And that's not us since we're all getting outsourced.
1) you can choose to do it at 2 in the moring and
2) you can talk with others and do homework during it without being rude.
Is IMing during class really necessary?
I took a physics class last semester where everyone except me, it seemed, brought in theirl laptop and messaged but it wasn't that productive - it was more commenting on stupid things the professor did or said and then everyone with the laptops would start laughing all at the same time. While kind of amusing, it was also just eerie. I'm not sure that they provided any useful purpose although it would be cool to be able not to go to class and still enter these discussions. Imagine the fun of not having to leave your dorm room and to still sort of know what's going on.
So maybe robots will take over fast food but I think that restaurants in general will keep their human service workers. Part of the restaurant experience is having a waiter. But then again, my grandfather thinks that part of a bank experience is the teller so we'll see if I'm right.
Isn't it funny that not so long ago people said that everyone from waiters to policemen would be replaced by robots?
I want the robopolice. Do you think that's coming soon, too?
What other kinds of service jobs will be replaced next? Salesmen? Professors?
There are inherent benefits to having people in some positions, for example as teachers. Teaching in elementrary schools is not primarily academic, it is more social. As of yet, robots aren't very good at teaching kids how to treat each other or of social custom. I think we have a while to go before living an automated life...
Is there precedent for this kind of thing? Have other companies done it in the past?
Well, the article says: "each network donating 30 seconds in the first prime time break." and "every major exhibitor in the country will donate time to play daily trailers on all screens in more than 5,000 theaters" and as I understand it almost all of the cost of comericials comes in the airtime. And if not, this is a bunch of movie companies so I'm sure that they can find guys to do their comercials pretty cheaply.