Light comes in units of photons. Saying, "just a little bigger than a single photon," doesn't make sense. Was it two photons? Is this an artifact of averaging and poor journalism, where the target was really 1 photon, and sometimes more are released?
It's a photon with just a smattering of gluon the side.
Yes that is a thing. And it's bad and histoy is replete with examples. Amazon has well over a 90% share in some sectors. What's reasonable for most companies is not reasonable for a company with a 90% market share.
How about an 89% share? An 88% share? An 87% share? At what level is it reasonable, and how exactly do you determine that?
Except instead of using common sense you're just "hurr derrr gubbmint is teh evul!!11!11oneelevenONE11!11"
Common sense is allowing consenting adults to make their own decisions. Without interference from an obtrusive third party. Yes, that is a thing. And it's bad and history is replete with examples.
Stop using common sense, regulators need to regulate. The argument you're going to see is "Consumers are too stupid to make their own decisions. What could be worse for consumers than being able to buy a quality Amazon item at a lower price than a brand name item? It's unfair that Amazon can make comparable items at lower prices AND also sell them on their own site! Abusing market position, monopoly power, other scary words to justify our existence!!!"
makes me sad that a great piece of nature can't stay clean for a few days unless there are paid people who clean up after the visitors - the real trash are the humans leaving their trash behind.
If you see the examples in TFA about the National Mall, it's not that people are trash for leaving trash behind, it's that the dedicated bins to leave said trash are actually being used as expected by normal decent people, but are not being emptied and thus are overflowing with garbage.
Yeah there's some grubs out there, but in this case the people attempting to do the right thing are unable to do it.
FizzBuzz is AI? Do you need funding for it? I am looking for the next new thing. AI is where it is at!
Yes, please! So far, I can figure out if a variable is divisible by 3, or if it's divisible by 5, but the AI for detecting if a variable is divisible by 3 AND 5 has been a real challenge. I'm sure some funding will really help move it along. The name of my company is Cloud Artificial Blockchain Intelligence. We're leveraging blockchains in the cloud to use artificial intelligence to 3D print drones that are capable of livestreaming Ninja while he's playing Fortnite. It's going to be HUGE!
I'm assuming this is data collected by Microsoft, hard to imagine it would extend to any other services (FB, Twitter, etc.). Still, it would be interesting to see what data they've collected on me, since we use Office 365 here at work.
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a football game. To me, football games have always been about doing something. I might check out a clip from a football game to see what it's like, but it's hard to see myself watching someone play a football game & blather on while they're doing it. Maybe it's a generational thing? I'd sincerely like to hear someone explain to my why this is a thing.
Now do you understand? It's not a generational thing - every previous generation watched others play games. This generation has another game to watch. Nothing has changed.
Switching the words doesn't make your case. In most instances, you're not listening to the football players themselves blather. They don't get extensive individual airtime. Watching someone play a video game seems about as interesting as watching the world's fastest typist type a post on slashdot.
And yet go to YouTube and you will see hundreds of pages of pro plumbers showing you how to install a sink which someone might do as a one off but even the quality of that install will likely not be as good as a pros.
That's more in the line of instructional videos. Something I might do if I had to install a sink but didn't know how, and I'd only watch it when I needed it, not for entertainment purposes.
I watch soccer, I've played it all my life and watch it religiously but I find no appeal in the NFL - I think it's a really boring game. To say you don't see the appeal in watching Fortnite is akin to me saying I don't see the appeal in American Football but difference is I don't denigrate those who do
I'm not denigrating anyone.I said I don't understand the appeal of watching a video game--I'd much rather play one than watch someone else. I used to play football, hockey, baseball & basketball and still enjoy watching those occasionally. I enjoyed playing soccer, but I find that tedious to watch.
prohibitively expensive to get a football and throw it around with friends? Most folks I know drive a car. The difference is I can't do any of that at a world class level.
It seems odd that you'd mock, given that's the context I was referring to. It's dangerous to play pro sports, and it's expensive as well. You probably don't know anyone who can afford to put together a NASCAR team.
The folks making big money in competitive gaming are very good at what they do. I would stand the same chance of winning a game of horse against Steph Curry, or a race against Jeff Gordon as I would a game of Fortnite against Ninja.
I'm not doubting their talent, and the fact that I can't beat them doesn't mean that I'd find it interesting to watch them. I can't do plumbing as good or as fast as a pro, but I wouldn't want to watch a live stream of them installing a sink.
Have you ever watched someone play basketball? football? baseball? drive a car? Let's face it, we are all going to be only so good at some things. Few of us will ever be among the best in the world. It's fun to watch the best in the world do their thing. Even more so when we understand the nuances and difficulties in their accomplishments.
Most of those activities for the average person are either physically dangerous, prohibitively expensive, or both. I'm reasonably certain that most of the people watching these streams already have a computer/console/smartphone capable of playing the games that they're watching others play. The average person can participate without physical danger or extreme expense. Therein lies the difference to me.
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a video game. To me, video games have always been about doing something. I might check out a clip from a game to see what it's like, but it's hard to see myself watching someone play a game & blather on while they're doing it. Maybe it's a generational thing? I'd sincerely like to hear someone explain to my why this is a thing.
The French have the right idea: pitchforks, torches, barricades, and yellow vests.
They did that here too, but they got called alarmist, conspiracy theorists, kooks & racists. Some of them may have been some or all of those things, but they were only the fringes of a fringe movement.
When I need to tell people how long I've been making websites, I say "I've been doing this since frames were the hot new thing!"
LOL! One of my students in my web programming class was having a problem with an embedded style sheet. I looked at it and noticed she was missing a semicolon in one of her styles. I pointed it out to her immediately and she said in amazement "How long have you been doing this?" and I said "Since before you were born." I think she's a sophomore, makes me feel OLD.
So socialism is now defined as helping the people who need it most? The poor and elderly.
Socialism is the redistribution of wealth, so yeah, I suppose it is.
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." --Frederic Bastiat, The Law
You forgot bank bailouts. ("Socialism for the rich").
Don't stop there. There's also auto bailouts, green energy subsidies, farm subsidies, economic grants for women and minorities, etc. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that just because someone is against social welfare that they can't be against corporate welfare as well.
You forgot EIC (Earned Income Credit) which is a negative tax.
That and subsidized housing, subsidized public transport, tuition grants, etc. However, I felt that I provided enough to demonstrate that GP's point was patently false. We currently do have a system resembling something like socialism.
How is this "AI"? What "complex data"? The sensors are simple. The program would look like if (concentration_of_gas1 > threshold_a && concentration_of_gas2 > threshold_b) {you_stink=true;}
The A.I. part comes into play when it gives you the notification. It will learn your personality, and determine if telling you "Dude, you stink!" is going to hurt your feelings, thereby switching to "It may be beneficial for you to apply some deodorant in the near future, but only if you want to."
First they repealed Net Neutrality, and a year after that, this is happening. How many people have we lost this year to pre-existing brain cancer caused by cell phones, because evil ISPs have teamed up with Facebook to use IP tracking to block people from accessing their local Obamacare online exchanges? Not that it really matters. We're all doomed thanks to global warming. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up.
I don't have a fancy app or anything, but if I see an incoming call I don't recognize from my contacts list, I just don't answer it.
I've been answering them. I put it on speaker phone, wait for the spiel, then I troll them in front of my coworkers. They will usually hang up after a minute or so, particularly when I tell them my name is Donald Trump. That seems to really enrage them. It's good for a few laughs, and if I've wasted their time and money, then it's worthwhile. On a side note, I was just talking with one of my coworkers, mentioning how I haven't received any of those calls for the past few weeks. Maybe it worked, because asking to be placed on their do not call list certainly didn't.
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Light comes in units of photons. Saying, "just a little bigger than a single photon," doesn't make sense. Was it two photons? Is this an artifact of averaging and poor journalism, where the target was really 1 photon, and sometimes more are released?
It's a photon with just a smattering of gluon the side.
Yes that is a thing. And it's bad and histoy is replete with examples. Amazon has well over a 90% share in some sectors. What's reasonable for most companies is not reasonable for a company with a 90% market share.
How about an 89% share? An 88% share? An 87% share? At what level is it reasonable, and how exactly do you determine that?
Except instead of using common sense you're just "hurr derrr gubbmint is teh evul!!11!11oneelevenONE11!11"
Common sense is allowing consenting adults to make their own decisions. Without interference from an obtrusive third party. Yes, that is a thing. And it's bad and history is replete with examples.
Half Jeff, half!
I wonder if the upgrade was worth it?
So? what's different in this case?
Stop using common sense, regulators need to regulate. The argument you're going to see is "Consumers are too stupid to make their own decisions. What could be worse for consumers than being able to buy a quality Amazon item at a lower price than a brand name item? It's unfair that Amazon can make comparable items at lower prices AND also sell them on their own site! Abusing market position, monopoly power, other scary words to justify our existence!!!"
-See I would say those fair questions for the newly elected representative; others would say its disruptive or even harrasment.
But it would probably be totally cool if you asked her if she "impeached the motherf*****" yet -- without the asterisks...
makes me sad that a great piece of nature can't stay clean for a few days unless there are paid people who clean up after the visitors - the real trash are the humans leaving their trash behind.
If you see the examples in TFA about the National Mall, it's not that people are trash for leaving trash behind, it's that the dedicated bins to leave said trash are actually being used as expected by normal decent people, but are not being emptied and thus are overflowing with garbage.
Yeah there's some grubs out there, but in this case the people attempting to do the right thing are unable to do it.
It's already being cleaned up voluntarily:Libertarians step in to clean up Washington during government shutdown
FizzBuzz is AI? Do you need funding for it? I am looking for the next new thing. AI is where it is at!
Yes, please! So far, I can figure out if a variable is divisible by 3, or if it's divisible by 5, but the AI for detecting if a variable is divisible by 3 AND 5 has been a real challenge. I'm sure some funding will really help move it along. The name of my company is Cloud Artificial Blockchain Intelligence. We're leveraging blockchains in the cloud to use artificial intelligence to 3D print drones that are capable of livestreaming Ninja while he's playing Fortnite. It's going to be HUGE!
This is about as much an application of A.I. as FizzBuzz.
I'm assuming this is data collected by Microsoft, hard to imagine it would extend to any other services (FB, Twitter, etc.). Still, it would be interesting to see what data they've collected on me, since we use Office 365 here at work.
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a football game. To me, football games have always been about doing something. I might check out a clip from a football game to see what it's like, but it's hard to see myself watching someone play a football game & blather on while they're doing it. Maybe it's a generational thing? I'd sincerely like to hear someone explain to my why this is a thing.
Now do you understand? It's not a generational thing - every previous generation watched others play games. This generation has another game to watch. Nothing has changed.
Switching the words doesn't make your case. In most instances, you're not listening to the football players themselves blather. They don't get extensive individual airtime. Watching someone play a video game seems about as interesting as watching the world's fastest typist type a post on slashdot.
And yet go to YouTube and you will see hundreds of pages of pro plumbers showing you how to install a sink which someone might do as a one off but even the quality of that install will likely not be as good as a pros.
That's more in the line of instructional videos. Something I might do if I had to install a sink but didn't know how, and I'd only watch it when I needed it, not for entertainment purposes.
I watch soccer, I've played it all my life and watch it religiously but I find no appeal in the NFL - I think it's a really boring game. To say you don't see the appeal in watching Fortnite is akin to me saying I don't see the appeal in American Football but difference is I don't denigrate those who do
I'm not denigrating anyone.I said I don't understand the appeal of watching a video game--I'd much rather play one than watch someone else. I used to play football, hockey, baseball & basketball and still enjoy watching those occasionally. I enjoyed playing soccer, but I find that tedious to watch.
LOL! It's physically dangerous to bounce a ball and try and throw it through a hoop?
There are more injuries in basketball than there are in any other sport.
prohibitively expensive to get a football and throw it around with friends? Most folks I know drive a car. The difference is I can't do any of that at a world class level.
It seems odd that you'd mock, given that's the context I was referring to. It's dangerous to play pro sports, and it's expensive as well. You probably don't know anyone who can afford to put together a NASCAR team.
The folks making big money in competitive gaming are very good at what they do. I would stand the same chance of winning a game of horse against Steph Curry, or a race against Jeff Gordon as I would a game of Fortnite against Ninja.
I'm not doubting their talent, and the fact that I can't beat them doesn't mean that I'd find it interesting to watch them. I can't do plumbing as good or as fast as a pro, but I wouldn't want to watch a live stream of them installing a sink.
Have you ever watched someone play basketball? football? baseball? drive a car? Let's face it, we are all going to be only so good at some things. Few of us will ever be among the best in the world. It's fun to watch the best in the world do their thing. Even more so when we understand the nuances and difficulties in their accomplishments.
Most of those activities for the average person are either physically dangerous, prohibitively expensive, or both. I'm reasonably certain that most of the people watching these streams already have a computer/console/smartphone capable of playing the games that they're watching others play. The average person can participate without physical danger or extreme expense. Therein lies the difference to me.
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a video game. To me, video games have always been about doing something. I might check out a clip from a game to see what it's like, but it's hard to see myself watching someone play a game & blather on while they're doing it. Maybe it's a generational thing? I'd sincerely like to hear someone explain to my why this is a thing.
The French have the right idea: pitchforks, torches, barricades, and yellow vests.
They did that here too, but they got called alarmist, conspiracy theorists, kooks & racists. Some of them may have been some or all of those things, but they were only the fringes of a fringe movement.
Guessing they meant Sue..
I duspect you're right!
Stop making fun of the editors, dued!
When I need to tell people how long I've been making websites, I say "I've been doing this since frames were the hot new thing!"
LOL! One of my students in my web programming class was having a problem with an embedded style sheet. I looked at it and noticed she was missing a semicolon in one of her styles. I pointed it out to her immediately and she said in amazement "How long have you been doing this?" and I said "Since before you were born." I think she's a sophomore, makes me feel OLD.
So socialism is now defined as helping the people who need it most? The poor and elderly.
Socialism is the redistribution of wealth, so yeah, I suppose it is.
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."
--Frederic Bastiat, The Law
You forgot bank bailouts. ("Socialism for the rich").
Don't stop there. There's also auto bailouts, green energy subsidies, farm subsidies, economic grants for women and minorities, etc. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that just because someone is against social welfare that they can't be against corporate welfare as well.
You forgot EIC (Earned Income Credit) which is a negative tax.
That and subsidized housing, subsidized public transport, tuition grants, etc. However, I felt that I provided enough to demonstrate that GP's point was patently false. We currently do have a system resembling something like socialism.
But that's okay... we prefer to believe we all have a chance at the American Dream, rather than have anything that resembles socialism.
We have all of these in the U.S.:
Medicare
Medicade
Progressive Income Tax
Social Security
Social Security Disability
Unemployment Insurance
SNAP (Food Stamps)
WIC
What world do you live in where this doesn't resemble socialism?
How is this "AI"? What "complex data"? The sensors are simple. The program would look like if (concentration_of_gas1 > threshold_a && concentration_of_gas2 > threshold_b) {you_stink=true;}
The A.I. part comes into play when it gives you the notification. It will learn your personality, and determine if telling you "Dude, you stink!" is going to hurt your feelings, thereby switching to "It may be beneficial for you to apply some deodorant in the near future, but only if you want to."
It's even better when there's an animal in the picture. Try this one for instance: (photo of lady with Great Dane).
First they repealed Net Neutrality, and a year after that, this is happening. How many people have we lost this year to pre-existing brain cancer caused by cell phones, because evil ISPs have teamed up with Facebook to use IP tracking to block people from accessing their local Obamacare online exchanges? Not that it really matters. We're all doomed thanks to global warming. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up.
I don't have a fancy app or anything, but if I see an incoming call I don't recognize from my contacts list, I just don't answer it.
I've been answering them. I put it on speaker phone, wait for the spiel, then I troll them in front of my coworkers. They will usually hang up after a minute or so, particularly when I tell them my name is Donald Trump. That seems to really enrage them. It's good for a few laughs, and if I've wasted their time and money, then it's worthwhile. On a side note, I was just talking with one of my coworkers, mentioning how I haven't received any of those calls for the past few weeks. Maybe it worked, because asking to be placed on their do not call list certainly didn't.