This is clear evidence that the US is trying to kill Iran's petroleum market, one not tagged to the dollar. Petrodollars are the last thread holding up the fragile US economy before it falls off a cliff.
For all the people saying they don't want a smart gun, and giving a good reason why not...so what? Who cares? The question is really if ANYBODY would. And surely there is a percent of people who do want to buy them.
To use a car metaphor, I would never buy a Ford Explorer, and I can give you lots of reasons why it's not a great car for me....but that's an entirely different question than if they're bad for everybody.
It's not like "have more content" is some revolutionary business model that requires young people to understand. It's just not licensed cheaply enough to really make sense. And no reason to license it at super-cheap prices, when there's other streaming services willing to pay.
Really what has to change is consumer attitudes. It's not going to happen for $10/month, and many subscribers wouldn't pay $60/month due to cost expectations/competition.
People buying Tesla don't give a damn about depreciation. Of course they do. Plenty of car enthusiasts plan to only have their car for a few years before moving on to the latest and greatest.
People buying smaller electric cars (Nissan Leaf etc.) clearly don't care too much about value for money either. Of course they do, unless they lease (very common with small electric cars).
I don't see that a cab driver is going to tolerate cutting earnings in half every day while they wait for the car to charge... This article is about Robo-Taxis. You can't really compare it to what's out now, because it imagines a future where most vehicle traffic is robo-taxi. So it makes general sense that cars would drive during rush-hour and then would recharge during business hours or at night.
Even if it wasn't about robotaxis, it comes down to economics. If electricity is cheaper than gas, and electricity can be easily re-charged during taxi downtime (most Uber Drivers spend most of their time idling), then electricity is a great replacement for gas.
I'm leasing, and even though I think leasing is generally a scam, the deal was impossible to beat. Thing is, the article is wrong. Really. I leased a 2015 Volkswagen eGolf. I love it, although there's obvious room for improvement. But the 2016 model is almost the exact same thing as the 2015, except with an improved entertainment system. Same range, same basic engine, etc. Nissan Leaf is basically the same car for the past 3 years as well.
Given the rate of technological advance, I don't think there's really room for major yearly improvements. Just as with gas engines, it'll incrementally improve, and maybe they'll come up with cool new design decisions during a model re-design. There is certainly no comparison to Moore's Law.
Gamergate started around a girl who made an art video game and was accused of leaving her boyfriend for some other guy. It didn't coalesce around dogmatic intrusion into gamer's personal lives. It was just a bunch of people online being assholes because they liked a whiney blog post by some guy talking about shit that happens in any teen drama. Gamergaters were villianized because they acted in a genuinely (and sensationally) shitty manner for no good reason, and they came together. Maybe there was confirmation bias, in that "gamer" was in the name of the scandal...
That said, I don't think Gamergate led people to think all video game players are like that. Just that hard-core video game players are often anti-social and misogynistic. I also don't think "video game players" are a clearly defined group where it even makes sense to talk about "lost decades of progress." What progress? People grow up and get jobs and stop playing video games so much. In twenty years nerdy kids will probably be less into video games and more into VR headsets or mind-expanding drugs or sous vide cooking or who know what the fuck.
Casinos are extremely expensive to build. Of course they don't re-coup the money almost immediately, or there would be approximately ten thousand times more casinos than there currently are.
Generally speaking, Trump is a property developer, not merely a speculator. He makes long-term investments that will not pay off for the long term. I am NOT a Trump fan or apologist, but get real.
Long-term investments are not a rare thing. They are not punished by the stock market. One technology company after the other is losing money quarter after quarter, yet has a very high market capitalization because investors see a possibility of long-term investment. Amazon, for example, is only now beginning to actually earn a profit after a decade+ of being a hot stock, and even now the market capitalization only makes sense if the markets are looking at long-term growth.
Imagine the government mandated safety regulations, even though they cost money. It would be horrific. Kids wouldn't be allowed to ride around in the back of pickup trucks. Lead paint wouldn't be sold in stores. Radium would no longer light up our watch faces. Seat belts would be mandatory. Slashdot, we CAN'T let this happen!
Honestly, even 2GB of RAM works pretty well for Windows 10. Certainly it's enough for a light-use PC (maybe a few programs and 5 tabs open). 4GB is totally fine.
Going rate for discovery is at least $40/hour. And it's a whole lot of hours billed at that (or higher) rates. It would much things up to do printed today, it's all on computer and that's just how the workflow works, maybe it was different 25 years ago.
Even if it was $20/hour, a roomful of employees earning $20/hour is still a fair amount of money (in modern times they don't provide the office, these jobs are contracted out to people who probably work from home). Heck, McDonalds is busy automating its workers earning $8/hour.
I see this as being able to almost completely take over discovery/document review (which is done by lawyers the public will never see, probably working from home, on a non-contractual basis).
The whole process will be pretty much transparent to people who aren't in the field, except that becoming a lawyer will be an even shittier career choice for people who can't get into tier one schools - document review is done by people who graduate from lower-end schools.
Uber is far better than buses or taxis. Sure, ditching a car for public transport could be done before, but only in extreme cases. Now I have normal non-hippie friends doing just that, with Uber.
At the very least, it hurts the case for buying a 2nd car.
I remember this story from my Facebook News feed a couple days ago! Finally I have the chance to revisit this story, and hear what the man-children of Slashdot have to say about it!
Five hundred years ago, very few people thought the earth was flat.
Fifteen hundred years ago, people thought the Earth was the center of the universe, until Newton and Copernicus and others realized that the sun was actually the center. It wasn't until a hundred years ago that the modern view center-free view came about. Perhaps you're getting confused with the idea that the earth revolves around the sun?
I realize this post is pedantic, but why are you quoting history in the first place if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about?
Franklin wasn't talking about 1st amendment rights. He was talking about the Penn's family attempt to 'purchase' a favorable tax deal from the governor of Pennsylvania, and how the state government shouldn't give up its rights to tax citizens. The quote is about the government's rights over that of citizens, even the rich and powerful.
Anyway, why do people 'earn' the right to deserve liberty or safety? It's a basic right of any human being, even people with different political views than yourself.
Basically, this is a stupid quote that needs to die.
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This is clear evidence that the US is trying to kill Iran's petroleum market, one not tagged to the dollar. Petrodollars are the last thread holding up the fragile US economy before it falls off a cliff.
For all the people saying they don't want a smart gun, and giving a good reason why not...so what? Who cares? The question is really if ANYBODY would. And surely there is a percent of people who do want to buy them.
To use a car metaphor, I would never buy a Ford Explorer, and I can give you lots of reasons why it's not a great car for me....but that's an entirely different question than if they're bad for everybody.
It's not like "have more content" is some revolutionary business model that requires young people to understand. It's just not licensed cheaply enough to really make sense. And no reason to license it at super-cheap prices, when there's other streaming services willing to pay.
Really what has to change is consumer attitudes. It's not going to happen for $10/month, and many subscribers wouldn't pay $60/month due to cost expectations/competition.
Russia does too - the TP-82
People buying Tesla don't give a damn about depreciation.
Of course they do. Plenty of car enthusiasts plan to only have their car for a few years before moving on to the latest and greatest.
People buying smaller electric cars (Nissan Leaf etc.) clearly don't care too much about value for money either.
Of course they do, unless they lease (very common with small electric cars).
I don't see that a cab driver is going to tolerate cutting earnings in half every day while they wait for the car to charge...
This article is about Robo-Taxis. You can't really compare it to what's out now, because it imagines a future where most vehicle traffic is robo-taxi. So it makes general sense that cars would drive during rush-hour and then would recharge during business hours or at night.
Even if it wasn't about robotaxis, it comes down to economics. If electricity is cheaper than gas, and electricity can be easily re-charged during taxi downtime (most Uber Drivers spend most of their time idling), then electricity is a great replacement for gas.
I'm leasing, and even though I think leasing is generally a scam, the deal was impossible to beat. Thing is, the article is wrong. Really. I leased a 2015 Volkswagen eGolf. I love it, although there's obvious room for improvement. But the 2016 model is almost the exact same thing as the 2015, except with an improved entertainment system. Same range, same basic engine, etc. Nissan Leaf is basically the same car for the past 3 years as well.
Given the rate of technological advance, I don't think there's really room for major yearly improvements. Just as with gas engines, it'll incrementally improve, and maybe they'll come up with cool new design decisions during a model re-design. There is certainly no comparison to Moore's Law.
Chinese pavilion surely used workers from Taiwan or Hong Kong.
Gamergate started around a girl who made an art video game and was accused of leaving her boyfriend for some other guy. It didn't coalesce around dogmatic intrusion into gamer's personal lives. It was just a bunch of people online being assholes because they liked a whiney blog post by some guy talking about shit that happens in any teen drama. Gamergaters were villianized because they acted in a genuinely (and sensationally) shitty manner for no good reason, and they came together. Maybe there was confirmation bias, in that "gamer" was in the name of the scandal...
That said, I don't think Gamergate led people to think all video game players are like that. Just that hard-core video game players are often anti-social and misogynistic. I also don't think "video game players" are a clearly defined group where it even makes sense to talk about "lost decades of progress." What progress? People grow up and get jobs and stop playing video games so much. In twenty years nerdy kids will probably be less into video games and more into VR headsets or mind-expanding drugs or sous vide cooking or who know what the fuck.
35 years old. I still play about 2 or 3 hours of "Lemonade Stand" a day.
I thought bittorrent was mostly used for Linux distributions?
Casinos are extremely expensive to build. Of course they don't re-coup the money almost immediately, or there would be approximately ten thousand times more casinos than there currently are.
Generally speaking, Trump is a property developer, not merely a speculator. He makes long-term investments that will not pay off for the long term. I am NOT a Trump fan or apologist, but get real.
Long-term investments are not a rare thing. They are not punished by the stock market. One technology company after the other is losing money quarter after quarter, yet has a very high market capitalization because investors see a possibility of long-term investment. Amazon, for example, is only now beginning to actually earn a profit after a decade+ of being a hot stock, and even now the market capitalization only makes sense if the markets are looking at long-term growth.
I'm a little confused. Windows 8 users didn't upgrade at the first opportunity?
Imagine the government mandated safety regulations, even though they cost money. It would be horrific. Kids wouldn't be allowed to ride around in the back of pickup trucks. Lead paint wouldn't be sold in stores. Radium would no longer light up our watch faces. Seat belts would be mandatory. Slashdot, we CAN'T let this happen!
Honestly, even 2GB of RAM works pretty well for Windows 10. Certainly it's enough for a light-use PC (maybe a few programs and 5 tabs open). 4GB is totally fine.
$500? For a low-spec computer with 64 gb hd and no operating system?
I can't imagine why somebody would want this.
LOL I make that much in like a day.
This is going to be great...everybody here loves "Big Bang" and knows that it's the best representation of "nerd" culture out there! Za-zing!
"Unwatchable"? Plex calls 1.5Mps 480p/DVD quality. Pretty good on a 5" screen.
Generally speaking, document review does require that you have passed the bar, and can't be done by paralegals/unqualified sex partners.
Going rate for discovery is at least $40/hour. And it's a whole lot of hours billed at that (or higher) rates. It would much things up to do printed today, it's all on computer and that's just how the workflow works, maybe it was different 25 years ago.
Even if it was $20/hour, a roomful of employees earning $20/hour is still a fair amount of money (in modern times they don't provide the office, these jobs are contracted out to people who probably work from home). Heck, McDonalds is busy automating its workers earning $8/hour.
I see this as being able to almost completely take over discovery/document review (which is done by lawyers the public will never see, probably working from home, on a non-contractual basis).
The whole process will be pretty much transparent to people who aren't in the field, except that becoming a lawyer will be an even shittier career choice for people who can't get into tier one schools - document review is done by people who graduate from lower-end schools.
Uber is far better than buses or taxis. Sure, ditching a car for public transport could be done before, but only in extreme cases. Now I have normal non-hippie friends doing just that, with Uber.
At the very least, it hurts the case for buying a 2nd car.
I remember this story from my Facebook News feed a couple days ago! Finally I have the chance to revisit this story, and hear what the man-children of Slashdot have to say about it!
Five hundred years ago, very few people thought the earth was flat.
Fifteen hundred years ago, people thought the Earth was the center of the universe, until Newton and Copernicus and others realized that the sun was actually the center. It wasn't until a hundred years ago that the modern view center-free view came about. Perhaps you're getting confused with the idea that the earth revolves around the sun?
I realize this post is pedantic, but why are you quoting history in the first place if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about?
Franklin wasn't talking about 1st amendment rights. He was talking about the Penn's family attempt to 'purchase' a favorable tax deal from the governor of Pennsylvania, and how the state government shouldn't give up its rights to tax citizens. The quote is about the government's rights over that of citizens, even the rich and powerful.
Anyway, why do people 'earn' the right to deserve liberty or safety? It's a basic right of any human being, even people with different political views than yourself.
Basically, this is a stupid quote that needs to die.