longer work hours due to a tight labor market is what's killing sleep. Folks need time for their brains to spin down and the internet does that as well as anything else. Put a tablet in blue light mode and you don't even have eye problems. The trouble is we're putting in 10+ hour days with 1 hour commutes and then spending 4 hours helping our kids with the piles of homework they get and maybe have 1 or 2 hours to ourselves if we're lucky. That's not enough time to spin down.
People are about twice as productive as they were 60 years ago. That's not all chalked up to machines & computers. A lot of that is just plain less downtime all around. Hell, computers make it possible to track and eliminate your downtime. Look at Amazon. They have pedometers on their employees. I knew a buddy of mine that got a cushy job going around satellite TV users homes to check if they were pirating the signal (lots were and didn't know it because some random guy from the "cable company" would sell them a card). His job was to make them go legit and maybe show them how to order pay-per-view. Computers showed the company how much revenue the company made off the scheme and it was less than the employees cost. He was fired soon after. Or take Sega of America. They stopped advertising in print magazines years ago because data analytics showed it wasn't worth it. Good for Sega but not for all the video game mags that closed shop.
We're all working way, way too hard. That's what's costing us sleep. Not the crap we do at night to try and settle down enough to sleep.
the current Supreme Court is stacked against government regulation of any kind. That is by design. We've been electing right wing presidents since I was born (yes, both Obama and Clinton, especially Clinton, were on the right wing). As the saying goes, Elections have consequences. America continues to choose candidates who oppose government regulation and favor leaving things up to the markets. We should stop acting surprised when that happens just because they're striking down a regulation we happen to like.
I want unedited bluerays (e.g. no special edition) with all the clean ups. Those DVD based LD rips are nice, but I want the quality of the special editions w/o the special edition edits and without having to pirate to get it.
and they're doing something screwy to hide the actual backend exchange and eating the fees. On a $5 coffee there's probably enough margin there to get away with it in exchange for the advertising bump they're getting and if the exchange rate results in losses more than the advert is worth they'll quietly stop taking bitcoin like Valve did.
or ever wonder why there are so many little itty bitty crypto currencies? Go through enough layers and by the time the law catches up to you your long gone. It's the money laundering equivalent to putting a club on your car steering wheel. The cop'll get an easier target.
As for Drugs, we have very, very uneven enforcement of drug policy in America. Solidly middle class folk can often use with impunity while a poor person (especial if their black) can get 2 years for a bag of weed. More if it's a second offense. That makes using a traceable medium practical.
And finally, I never said these folks were smart. A woman in California just got nailed in a sting op because the undercover cop told her the money they were giving her came from drugs.
that's the trouble with making everything x86 DirectX boxes, it's easy enough for a large competitor to move in. Sony/Microsoft have never been able to develop a definitive identity like Nintendo has. e.g. there's no one game everybody floods to their platform for and that they control. No Mario, no Zelda, no Smash. Halo's cool and all, but there's a dozen shooters that can replace it. Same goes for Sony's first party stuff.
if I'm still posting after this much time I've long since lost hopes, dreams and aspirations. Dry eyes aren't a problem though. Amazon can ship eye drops same day.
Oh, and is it just me or is the quality of Trolls declining? I mean, can I at least get a Greased up Yoda doll in here or some of Natalie Portman's Hot Grits (I'd display a trademark symbol here but/. doesn't support Unicode...)
I know this isn't a popular opinion around here, but man, there is something deeply wrong with this much effort being extended for what at the end of the day amounts to little more than a vehicle for money laundering. Folks do know that if crypto ever gets big enough for the big boys to take notice (re: Goldman Sachs) they'll have it under their thumb in no time, right? We're talking about a market that a few guys in China were able to manipulate.
Heck, just legalizing Pot would be a huge blow to the price of crypto currencies and that's more thank likely coming (assuming we can get "tough on crime" conservatives with ties to private prison lobbies out of the way). If we finished the job by legalizing all drugs and treating the hard stuff as a medical problem like the Scandinavians do then all you'd have left is generic money laundering and a few traders playing games.
I'm just saying that we as a species have better things to do with the miracle that is electricity than to make it easy for some guy to get his fix or to hide a bit of dirty money...
is being brought into the equation. Most folks who want/need that performance are doing work or playing games, and in both cases you're probably near by a power supply.
and a Kindle Fire for $90 (or $45 if I want to wait for prime day, or an off brand with good reviews for that price) and save myself $100 bucks.
Tablets are for consuming quick, cheap content. They're the computer equivalent to potato chips. I don't need a $700 potato chip when a $90 one will do nicely.
the huge spike in car costs is largely down to expensive new safety features. Cars don't kill you when they get in a fender bender like the Tsuru did in Mexico. Fuel economy improvements largely paid for themselves on a month to month basis, especially when you take into account that most people have a car loan. Not sure about you, but I factor the cost of gas into my overall car & driver budget.
They use our roads, schools, military and police without paying a dime, it's about time they pay their dues sames as me. And SK just had a major bribery scandal so it'll be hard to just grease palms over there.
Brings out a lot of loons and empowers them. There's a science fiction book called Distractions by Bruce Sterling that covered this. In it you could trigger an assassin by spreading conspiracy theories on the net to naturally receptive individuals. If you keep encouraging the crazies they'll start getting violent
if they hadn't built that $1 trillion dollar valuation on the backs of overworked and underpaid Chinese factory workers living and breathing in the pollution from said factories...
Yeah, yeah, I'm a hypocrite because my devices were made by the same abused labor. I get it. But Motorola was manufacturing phones profitably in the United States with the EPA making sure they did it clean and only stopped because it was cheaper to do it in China. At some point if us hypocrites don't speak up nothing will ever improve. Plus I can guarantee that our corporate overlords are eyeing the high salaries of Americans. Global race to the bottom you know...
Oracle more or less resells GPL & MIT licensed software (with the occasional patent here and there to make it hard to just re-implement everything they do). If you're as big as Amazon why pay the crazy fees. Just go to the source and hire your own engineers.
in this country. I've been hearing about this for years and nobody's doing much of anything about it. Certainly not enough. Meanwhile in the United States we've got a resurgence of things like Faith Healers and the like (plus numbskulls pushing Homeopathy and "Essential Oils"). It doesn't help that we don't have universal healthcare so I know a ton of people turned away from science because they just plain can't afford medical care. Faith Healers & Homeopathy are still cheaper than a doctor visit over here. And don't get me started on the number of folks I knew who saved antibiotics for the next time they got sick because it costs $200 bucks to have a doctor write the script...
when they're uneducated. By definition most people are average. They can only do so much. You spend money on those because they're a massive population and when they get desperate an uneducated populace will put a dictator in charge to solve their problems. OTOH if you educate them they'll understand that putting a dictator in charge is not the solution and demand real progress. Or you can ignore them until they turn on you and blame you, the intelligentsia, for their problems.
TL;DR: Having a large mass of uneducated people never ends well for the educated.
right? I went to magnet schools when I was a kid for science and tech. It's where I learned to program even though my family was generally too poor to own a computer until the early 90s (single mom, nurse, her income went way up around then).
Those trillions are very well spent. Teaching your most vulnerable math, science and literature means they can think and reason better. You want that, because otherwise they become an easily manipulated and increasingly destitute demographic. Sooner or later they'll find someone to fix the problems they have, like a fascist dictator. That never ends well for the well educated among a population.
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longer work hours due to a tight labor market is what's killing sleep. Folks need time for their brains to spin down and the internet does that as well as anything else. Put a tablet in blue light mode and you don't even have eye problems. The trouble is we're putting in 10+ hour days with 1 hour commutes and then spending 4 hours helping our kids with the piles of homework they get and maybe have 1 or 2 hours to ourselves if we're lucky. That's not enough time to spin down.
People are about twice as productive as they were 60 years ago. That's not all chalked up to machines & computers. A lot of that is just plain less downtime all around. Hell, computers make it possible to track and eliminate your downtime. Look at Amazon. They have pedometers on their employees. I knew a buddy of mine that got a cushy job going around satellite TV users homes to check if they were pirating the signal (lots were and didn't know it because some random guy from the "cable company" would sell them a card). His job was to make them go legit and maybe show them how to order pay-per-view. Computers showed the company how much revenue the company made off the scheme and it was less than the employees cost. He was fired soon after. Or take Sega of America. They stopped advertising in print magazines years ago because data analytics showed it wasn't worth it. Good for Sega but not for all the video game mags that closed shop.
We're all working way, way too hard. That's what's costing us sleep. Not the crap we do at night to try and settle down enough to sleep.
the current Supreme Court is stacked against government regulation of any kind. That is by design. We've been electing right wing presidents since I was born (yes, both Obama and Clinton, especially Clinton, were on the right wing). As the saying goes, Elections have consequences. America continues to choose candidates who oppose government regulation and favor leaving things up to the markets. We should stop acting surprised when that happens just because they're striking down a regulation we happen to like.
Crap, that means Google's going to shut down the Earth.
I want unedited bluerays (e.g. no special edition) with all the clean ups. Those DVD based LD rips are nice, but I want the quality of the special editions w/o the special edition edits and without having to pirate to get it.
and they're doing something screwy to hide the actual backend exchange and eating the fees. On a $5 coffee there's probably enough margin there to get away with it in exchange for the advertising bump they're getting and if the exchange rate results in losses more than the advert is worth they'll quietly stop taking bitcoin like Valve did.
the earth is a flat disk born atop a giant turtle which is itself on top of a larger turtle.
or ever wonder why there are so many little itty bitty crypto currencies? Go through enough layers and by the time the law catches up to you your long gone. It's the money laundering equivalent to putting a club on your car steering wheel. The cop'll get an easier target.
As for Drugs, we have very, very uneven enforcement of drug policy in America. Solidly middle class folk can often use with impunity while a poor person (especial if their black) can get 2 years for a bag of weed. More if it's a second offense. That makes using a traceable medium practical.
And finally, I never said these folks were smart. A woman in California just got nailed in a sting op because the undercover cop told her the money they were giving her came from drugs.
that's the trouble with making everything x86 DirectX boxes, it's easy enough for a large competitor to move in. Sony/Microsoft have never been able to develop a definitive identity like Nintendo has. e.g. there's no one game everybody floods to their platform for and that they control. No Mario, no Zelda, no Smash. Halo's cool and all, but there's a dozen shooters that can replace it. Same goes for Sony's first party stuff.
and that it's been the video game equivalent of unobtainium for over a year now.
if I'm still posting after this much time I've long since lost hopes, dreams and aspirations. Dry eyes aren't a problem though. Amazon can ship eye drops same day.
/. doesn't support Unicode...)
Oh, and is it just me or is the quality of Trolls declining? I mean, can I at least get a Greased up Yoda doll in here or some of Natalie Portman's Hot Grits (I'd display a trademark symbol here but
I know this isn't a popular opinion around here, but man, there is something deeply wrong with this much effort being extended for what at the end of the day amounts to little more than a vehicle for money laundering. Folks do know that if crypto ever gets big enough for the big boys to take notice (re: Goldman Sachs) they'll have it under their thumb in no time, right? We're talking about a market that a few guys in China were able to manipulate.
Heck, just legalizing Pot would be a huge blow to the price of crypto currencies and that's more thank likely coming (assuming we can get "tough on crime" conservatives with ties to private prison lobbies out of the way). If we finished the job by legalizing all drugs and treating the hard stuff as a medical problem like the Scandinavians do then all you'd have left is generic money laundering and a few traders playing games.
I'm just saying that we as a species have better things to do with the miracle that is electricity than to make it easy for some guy to get his fix or to hide a bit of dirty money...
is being brought into the equation. Most folks who want/need that performance are doing work or playing games, and in both cases you're probably near by a power supply.
but a bit out of the price range.
and a Kindle Fire for $90 (or $45 if I want to wait for prime day, or an off brand with good reviews for that price) and save myself $100 bucks.
Tablets are for consuming quick, cheap content. They're the computer equivalent to potato chips. I don't need a $700 potato chip when a $90 one will do nicely.
Not when I can get one of these for that price or this if I don't need a good GPU.
the huge spike in car costs is largely down to expensive new safety features. Cars don't kill you when they get in a fender bender like the Tsuru did in Mexico. Fuel economy improvements largely paid for themselves on a month to month basis, especially when you take into account that most people have a car loan. Not sure about you, but I factor the cost of gas into my overall car & driver budget.
They use our roads, schools, military and police without paying a dime, it's about time they pay their dues sames as me. And SK just had a major bribery scandal so it'll be hard to just grease palms over there.
Brings out a lot of loons and empowers them. There's a science fiction book called Distractions by Bruce Sterling that covered this. In it you could trigger an assassin by spreading conspiracy theories on the net to naturally receptive individuals. If you keep encouraging the crazies they'll start getting violent
if they hadn't built that $1 trillion dollar valuation on the backs of overworked and underpaid Chinese factory workers living and breathing in the pollution from said factories...
Yeah, yeah, I'm a hypocrite because my devices were made by the same abused labor. I get it. But Motorola was manufacturing phones profitably in the United States with the EPA making sure they did it clean and only stopped because it was cheaper to do it in China. At some point if us hypocrites don't speak up nothing will ever improve. Plus I can guarantee that our corporate overlords are eyeing the high salaries of Americans. Global race to the bottom you know...
+5 isn't enough. This. So much This.
That predominantly services the upper class is the most valuable company in history. There's something not right there. It's just not sustainable...
Oracle more or less resells GPL & MIT licensed software (with the occasional patent here and there to make it hard to just re-implement everything they do). If you're as big as Amazon why pay the crazy fees. Just go to the source and hire your own engineers.
in this country. I've been hearing about this for years and nobody's doing much of anything about it. Certainly not enough. Meanwhile in the United States we've got a resurgence of things like Faith Healers and the like (plus numbskulls pushing Homeopathy and "Essential Oils"). It doesn't help that we don't have universal healthcare so I know a ton of people turned away from science because they just plain can't afford medical care. Faith Healers & Homeopathy are still cheaper than a doctor visit over here. And don't get me started on the number of folks I knew who saved antibiotics for the next time they got sick because it costs $200 bucks to have a doctor write the script...
when they're uneducated. By definition most people are average. They can only do so much. You spend money on those because they're a massive population and when they get desperate an uneducated populace will put a dictator in charge to solve their problems. OTOH if you educate them they'll understand that putting a dictator in charge is not the solution and demand real progress. Or you can ignore them until they turn on you and blame you, the intelligentsia, for their problems.
TL;DR: Having a large mass of uneducated people never ends well for the educated.
right? I went to magnet schools when I was a kid for science and tech. It's where I learned to program even though my family was generally too poor to own a computer until the early 90s (single mom, nurse, her income went way up around then).
Those trillions are very well spent. Teaching your most vulnerable math, science and literature means they can think and reason better. You want that, because otherwise they become an easily manipulated and increasingly destitute demographic. Sooner or later they'll find someone to fix the problems they have, like a fascist dictator. That never ends well for the well educated among a population.