You seem to have never read a history book before. It's not a matter of one company saving a few bucks. It's a matter of creating a system where the vast majority have no hope of ever getting out of a subsistence existence where the small few with the money to buy those robots take all the luxury for themselves.
If you tell them to eat cake when they can't afford bread (or cake), they will silt your throat and take your cake. It happens *every* time the rich get too greedy.
The team's main goal was to create this illusion as cheaply as possible.
Do it properly in R&D. Then see if you can do it cheaper or otherwise reduce costs through scale once you know what you're doing. By focusing too much on cost upfront, you will miss important avenues of research.
You completely misunderstood my post. MST3K was in the 10% that is good which by definition is why we're still talking about it. Had it been in the 90% bad it would be forgotten which is why most of the old stuff we remember is good. (unless we try to recall the bad stuff).
This new MST3K may or may not be good, but it *seems* like new stuff is worse in general because it hasn't been culled of the bad part.
90% of everything is bad. 10% is good. Over time, that 10% is remembered, re-watched, re-lisened to, etc. While the bad 90% is forgotten.
So when you look back at the old, you're only remembering the good, it's all been well screened for quality. When you look at what's new, you see it all so it's 90% bad.
1. Every time they repaint the lines on the road, you have to buy a new Apple car.
2. Every year, you'll have to replace the Engine with a new version. This will be free, but the handling will become less responsive. The only way to fix this will be to buy a new car.
3. It will be the narrowest car ever made. There will only be room for a driver, but for some reason people will say this is better than the old clunky fat cars from over 100 years ago. Besides, everyone loves driving, why would you want a passenger?
4. Because it's so narrow, there won't be room for a steering wheel. But the car will come with an iTouch that links to the car via bluetooth to let you steer using touch screen controls.
5. There will only be one pedal. You press it with your right foot to accelerate and left foot to brake.
6. Headlights will not be user replaceable. When the headlights burn out, you have to buy a new car.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People will get excited about the "new" features in the Apple Cars, forgetting completely that they have been available in other cars for many years.
9. The Apple car will only work with Apple fuel. It will be much more expensive, less efficient, and more polluting than gasoline, but Apple will tell us how great it is for the environment anyway.
10. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off and start a 60 second countdown.
11. They won't build their own engines, but buy them from their most hated competitors who they're constantly involved in court battles with.
12. The latest engine will have 32 cylinders, and multi-point fuel injectors. But the fuel pump will be so under-powered that the car stalls several times a day.
13. They will replace the liquid cooling system with an air cooling system. If you ever take the car up to highway speeds, you'll have to stop for 5 minutes every half hour, but the car sure will run quiet.
14. You will only be able to listen to music on Apple Music. Playing any other audio in the car will void the warranty.
15. All roads will have to become toll roads with 30% of the tolls going to Apple. If any states refuse to charge these tolls, your car won't drive on them.
16. If you don't upgrade to the latest version every year, people will make fun of you even though your car drives faster.
17. The car will only be able to drive in the right lane. The ability to switch to other lanes will require an ICP (in car purchase) and you'll have to spend 5 TimGolds every time you change lanes.
18. Using the windshield wipers will be 10 TimGolds.
19. Instead of being made of steel, the car will be made out of paper thin aluminum. Crashes will not be survivable but every will applaud when Apple makes he car 3mm narrower.
You know Russia has subs parked on every undersea communication link that the US has right? The first blow in any war will be the US having its metaphorical eyes, ears, and tongue hacked off.
I'll take your word for it, since it doesn't say that in the article.
Even so it's just more indication that RPi is full of bullshit. Now they're lumping way too many models from way too many companies over 35 years as a single "computer" because taking each product line individually would probably knock RPi off the top 100 list.
If they want to do the math that way, how dare they not take all the commodore machines together as well putting the total several times higher than RPi.
Not to mention they're counting the sale of a $5 PCB that needs $30 of support parts 1 for 1 with a complete computer that cost $1500 (corrected to inflation).
Basically this entire claim by RPi is total bullshit and they deserve to be called out for it.
This is 12.5 million units across how many different models of RPi? If I'm going to count all versions of RPi, what are total sales of Dell Latitude? How many total MacBooks of all versions have been sold?
Also c64 sold 12-30 million units. Creative misuse of numbers on the RPi part.
Which is exactly my point. The process by which we make beer (or bread) is very, very non-obvious. 3000 years ago, it's likely they had very different ideas then we do today.
To take an approximate guess of the ingredients and then assume you can recreate the recipe is idiocy. Can you take a fresh bottle of modern beer as a finished product, analyze it in a lab and create an identical copy? Of course not. And we know all the modern beer making techniques. So you think you can take 3000 year old residue of beer and figure out what they did 3000 years ao?
The odds that the absurd methods they used to recreate the recipe have anything to do with how beer tasted 5000 years ago is exactly the same as the odds that anything else in a history book about people 5000 is remotely realistic. Exactly Zero.
Gotta love history. Make the whole thing up and pretend it's real.
Assuming it takes on average 10 seconds to identify and delete the email; some people are slower, the average slashdot user is faster, that's 116 days the guy wasted. Nice try though.
You understand I was complaining about the dumbing down of games for modern snowflakes and QDM was better than anything released the past 5 years, right?
Kids today don't want a skill based game. It's not fair that the better player should win most of the time.
The sense of entitlement kids and snowflakes are learning these days is everyone is equal, you put in your time (grinding) and you get your gold star (level up). I hate the current 5v5 model because it hides your skill completely. Whether you win or lose is up to the random generator that made the teams and there's almost nothing you can do about it.
Just try to find a game where it's everyone for themselves, they're very rare and usually lower budget indie game. Treating players differently based on skill is just discrimination against bad players. We can't allow that. Of course bringing your own team of 5 is being a social little snowflake and that will be rewarded with plenty of wins.
Like everything else Apple has done for the past 5 years, it's long overdue, it should be ready any month now, and it's way, way more expensive than the previous version while somehow failing to impress as much as the hype.
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You seem to have never read a history book before. It's not a matter of one company saving a few bucks. It's a matter of creating a system where the vast majority have no hope of ever getting out of a subsistence existence where the small few with the money to buy those robots take all the luxury for themselves.
If you tell them to eat cake when they can't afford bread (or cake), they will silt your throat and take your cake. It happens *every* time the rich get too greedy.
The team's main goal was to create this illusion as cheaply as possible.
Do it properly in R&D. Then see if you can do it cheaper or otherwise reduce costs through scale once you know what you're doing. By focusing too much on cost upfront, you will miss important avenues of research.
These people have already failed.
You completely misunderstood my post. MST3K was in the 10% that is good which by definition is why we're still talking about it. Had it been in the 90% bad it would be forgotten which is why most of the old stuff we remember is good. (unless we try to recall the bad stuff).
This new MST3K may or may not be good, but it *seems* like new stuff is worse in general because it hasn't been culled of the bad part.
Yes, but it's more subtle than that.
90% of everything is bad. 10% is good. Over time, that 10% is remembered, re-watched, re-lisened to, etc. While the bad 90% is forgotten.
So when you look back at the old, you're only remembering the good, it's all been well screened for quality. When you look at what's new, you see it all so it's 90% bad.
Features of the Apple Car:
1. Every time they repaint the lines on the road, you have to buy a new Apple car.
2. Every year, you'll have to replace the Engine with a new version. This will be free, but the handling will become less responsive. The only way to fix this will be to buy a new car.
3. It will be the narrowest car ever made. There will only be room for a driver, but for some reason people will say this is better than the old clunky fat cars from over 100 years ago. Besides, everyone loves driving, why would you want a passenger?
4. Because it's so narrow, there won't be room for a steering wheel. But the car will come with an iTouch that links to the car via bluetooth to let you steer using touch screen controls.
5. There will only be one pedal. You press it with your right foot to accelerate and left foot to brake.
6. Headlights will not be user replaceable. When the headlights burn out, you have to buy a new car.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People will get excited about the "new" features in the Apple Cars, forgetting completely that they have been available in other cars for many years.
9. The Apple car will only work with Apple fuel. It will be much more expensive, less efficient, and more polluting than gasoline, but Apple will tell us how great it is for the environment anyway.
10. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off and start a 60 second countdown.
11. They won't build their own engines, but buy them from their most hated competitors who they're constantly involved in court battles with.
12. The latest engine will have 32 cylinders, and multi-point fuel injectors. But the fuel pump will be so under-powered that the car stalls several times a day.
13. They will replace the liquid cooling system with an air cooling system. If you ever take the car up to highway speeds, you'll have to stop for 5 minutes every half hour, but the car sure will run quiet.
14. You will only be able to listen to music on Apple Music. Playing any other audio in the car will void the warranty.
15. All roads will have to become toll roads with 30% of the tolls going to Apple. If any states refuse to charge these tolls, your car won't drive on them.
16. If you don't upgrade to the latest version every year, people will make fun of you even though your car drives faster.
17. The car will only be able to drive in the right lane. The ability to switch to other lanes will require an ICP (in car purchase) and you'll have to spend 5 TimGolds every time you change lanes.
18. Using the windshield wipers will be 10 TimGolds.
19. Instead of being made of steel, the car will be made out of paper thin aluminum. Crashes will not be survivable but every will applaud when Apple makes he car 3mm narrower.
You know Russia has subs parked on every undersea communication link that the US has right? The first blow in any war will be the US having its metaphorical eyes, ears, and tongue hacked off.
I fell for that last time a GLaDOS offered me free cake. THE CAKE IS A LIE!!.
I think it's called Fiverr because you work for an hour and earn a fiver, or something.
And then you give back $1 to the company running the website, so $4/hour.
I'll take your word for it, since it doesn't say that in the article.
Even so it's just more indication that RPi is full of bullshit. Now they're lumping way too many models from way too many companies over 35 years as a single "computer" because taking each product line individually would probably knock RPi off the top 100 list.
If they want to do the math that way, how dare they not take all the commodore machines together as well putting the total several times higher than RPi.
Not to mention they're counting the sale of a $5 PCB that needs $30 of support parts 1 for 1 with a complete computer that cost $1500 (corrected to inflation).
Basically this entire claim by RPi is total bullshit and they deserve to be called out for it.
This is 12.5 million units across how many different models of RPi? If I'm going to count all versions of RPi, what are total sales of Dell Latitude? How many total MacBooks of all versions have been sold?
Also c64 sold 12-30 million units. Creative misuse of numbers on the RPi part.
Like the police do anything to find a mugger? If he does call the police to swear a statement against you he's just wasting his time anyway.
The music industry has made musicians into beggars by their abusive usury
Usury: noun The illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
Are you sure that word means what you think it does?
Sounds like you're just posting the same thing. It's not a serious computing device. You're just offering a reason why.
They could easily add a USB3 host controller, but you're right they never will because RPi is just a cheesy toy.
**that we know of.
Which is exactly my point. The process by which we make beer (or bread) is very, very non-obvious. 3000 years ago, it's likely they had very different ideas then we do today.
To take an approximate guess of the ingredients and then assume you can recreate the recipe is idiocy. Can you take a fresh bottle of modern beer as a finished product, analyze it in a lab and create an identical copy? Of course not. And we know all the modern beer making techniques. So you think you can take 3000 year old residue of beer and figure out what they did 3000 years ao?
Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones?
Whenever a question is the headline to an article here, the answer is always no. It's the first fundamental rule of slashdot.
They found 3000 year old honey in an Egyptian pyramid that's still perfectly edible.
The only downside is the horrible curse that will destroy the life of anyone who dates taste the honey.
You'd be right. Except that all they're doing is creating a work of fiction to steal headlines.
The odds that the absurd methods they used to recreate the recipe have anything to do with how beer tasted 5000 years ago is exactly the same as the odds that anything else in a history book about people 5000 is remotely realistic. Exactly Zero.
Gotta love history. Make the whole thing up and pretend it's real.
1 million is such a small number these days.
Assuming it takes on average 10 seconds to identify and delete the email; some people are slower, the average slashdot user is faster, that's 116 days the guy wasted. Nice try though.
You understand I was complaining about the dumbing down of games for modern snowflakes and QDM was better than anything released the past 5 years, right?
You idiot.
Kids today don't want a skill based game. It's not fair that the better player should win most of the time.
The sense of entitlement kids and snowflakes are learning these days is everyone is equal, you put in your time (grinding) and you get your gold star (level up). I hate the current 5v5 model because it hides your skill completely. Whether you win or lose is up to the random generator that made the teams and there's almost nothing you can do about it.
Just try to find a game where it's everyone for themselves, they're very rare and usually lower budget indie game. Treating players differently based on skill is just discrimination against bad players. We can't allow that. Of course bringing your own team of 5 is being a social little snowflake and that will be rewarded with plenty of wins.
Like everything else Apple has done for the past 5 years, it's long overdue, it should be ready any month now, and it's way, way more expensive than the previous version while somehow failing to impress as much as the hype.
It sounds like Apple is going to have to get their fans addicted to something stronger than Kool-Aid to keep the reality distortion field going.
Until Queen Merkel puts a 25% tariff on all UK goods entering the EU.