Sexual Harassment is a crime, and unless/until he is convicted of it, he didn't do it, and there was no wrongdoing.
Where I work, you certainly wouldn't be allowed to hang a bikini calendar on the wall, and that's no crime. (Although it probably would get the employer sued, and is therefore sort of defacto illegal).
Look at this part of the article in particular: "It also highlights that working from home can increase home energy use by as much as 30 per cent, and can lead to people moving further from the workplace, stretching urban sprawl and increasing pollution."
So, since you don't have to commute as much, you might not mind moving further from work, making a longer drive on days you still do commute.
Unfortunately the linked article doesn't contain enough meat for meaningful discussion. If this is just another fairly blind application of Jevons Paradox (soon to become a slashdot meme!) then I'm not too interested.
But they probably would've done even better if they had stuck to technology instead of trying to solve the world's political and social issues.
To say that somebody would have been more effective without the very thing that motivated them - after they were in fact highly successful - just strikes me as nonsensical.
If their goal was to 'free technology from the grip of the military-industrial complex and bring computation to the people,' how could it have been any more successful?
You can always say, "well, it probably would have happened anyways," but really, what technologies can surpass WIMP in helping to popularize computing? Hardly any.
I find the claim of 60 wpm amazing. I use a tracfone where you have to push a number key about 7 times in a row to add a period to the end of a sentence and I haven't figured out how to turn off ALL CAPS. Reading this article is making me realize that, by the standards of many younger people, I am (in one sense) illiterate. I was working with a college kid and when he asked for my cellphone number and I had to look it up he laughed in my face. But I just don't enjoy being in touch all the time.
I don't think your ambulatory computers will ever be clever enough to figure out those situations.
Never say never. It's just a matter of time. Even if some situations are hard to automate, a large percentage of all driving hours (freeway driving, I would think) could be automated much more easily.
The motivation to reclaim driving time is huge. People spend / waste a fantastic amount of time driving. I couldn't find global figures, but apparently Americans spend over 100 hours per year commuting (not driving in total - just commuting); the total driving figure in Israel is 577 hours per year; and about 40% of mothers in the US spend over 2 hours per day driving. Then there are truck drivers and delivery workers whose annual total must be closer to a couple thousand hours per year (i.e. basically their whole life).
Dishwashing machines are very popular, and how much time do they actually save, 20 minutes per day? I can't think of anything the average person more, that could be automated as easily, as driving.
Agreed for the most part, except I'm not so sure the Taliban could reach 60,000 feet. The stinger missile, for example, reaches 26,000 feet. The SA-7, only 5000 feet, the SA-16 and SA-18, 11,000 feet. What defence could the Taliban possibly mount?
Fair enough, although having seen both, I don't think equating Dances with Wolves vs. Avatar makes a lot of sense. The plots are fairly similar, but so what? Rocky and Raging Bull could both be called boxing movies, does that make them similar? Compared to Dancing with Wolves, Avatar had a lot more fantasy and action, including plenty of Tom-Clancy-style technology fetishism (even though you were lead to root against the machines - but whoever designed and animated that machinery was clearly into it (and had clearly played Halo...)) I liked how Gaia was implemented on that planet. And, yes, the visuals were awesome, and yes, largely because it was in 3D (which isn't a draw in your case). Who's to say that grand spectacle is artistically invalid?
I don't get it either, when the article says "harvesting solar energy during the day that will be stored in fuel cells."
Quoting wikipedia: "Fuel cells are different from conventional electrochemical cell batteries in that they consume reactant from an external source, which must be replenished - a thermodynamically open system. By contrast, batteries store electrical energy chemically and hence represent a thermodynamically closed system."
So AFAIK there is no way to "recharge" a fuel cell from solar cells, and it's weird they'd come into it since there are plenty of other rechargeable battery technologies.
50,000 feet is easily within reach of missiles. So other than areas where there is already full air dominance, I would not expect to see these in combat situations.
When was the last combat situation where the US did not establish air dominance within a week or two? 40 years ago in Vietnam?
The main disadvantage of these compared to satellites is they're no good overhead nations you're not (yet) at war with, since airspace is sovereign territory.
This isn't a shrinkwrapped product to do your dishes. The OEM should focus on physical specs like range of motion, torque, and number/type of sensors integrated. Then let researchers go from there.
HDCP doesn't even necessarily increase profits for them. I've had no interest in Blu-Ray, since I can't get them onto my PVR (no I don't upload them to the Internet), and fiddling with discs is outmoded. Now I might actually consider blu-ray.
Hopefully their recommendation system doesn't take into account raters who fall more than 2 standard deviations outside the mean.
Exactly... extreme outliers are the easiest to discard.
It would be more nefarious if there were an organized effort to astroturf for certain films by using a cracked database of valid logins, or by creating a bunch of trial accounts, or something like that.
Even $5 a gallon will not do it. Last time or time before that I was in Germany I was paying something like twice that.
Per capita energy consumption of the US is approximately double that of Germany, which if anything argues that high cost is highly effective in increasing efficiency.
Fraud corrupts the system, so it is too risky to lend capital. The upshot is, credit is more expensive for everybody.
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I've played the Halo 3 campaign a couple times now and don't understand the narrative at all. The Princess Leah hologram quietly muttering unintelligible things, the "hungry belly" voice grumbling unintelligible things that shake the screen, the little flying robot that turns from good to bad over and over (as do the zombies at some point)... it needs subtitles at the very least.
Thanks, good link. Unfortunately, I think it will be very hard for an upstart for dethrone Apple. Maybe a third party will make something like this as an add-on for the iPad.
THEN we can start living, not just this handful of years between being a powerless child and a weak, aging adult. Then you can worry about galaxies.
Nature already has a process for eternal renewal - death and birth. Our species as a whole has no pre-determined expiration date, and the ability to pass information through the generations. What difference does it really make whether it's us individually that live on, or our descendants?
I think the answer is a wireless connection between the top & bottom half.
What are the things you almost ALWAYS need? Processor, screen, battery, wifi.
Whare are the things you SOMETIMES need? Keyboard, DVD/Blu-Ray drive (hey, some people still use them for movies), touchpad...?
So, a tablet with a wireless "base" that has a DVD drive, keyboard, and touchpad, and which the tablet snaps into to protect the screen when not in use, seems the logical way to go. The main point is co-locate the screen and processor so you don't have the video signal sent through the hinge.
Oh, it was already imagined in sci-fi novels and childrens' TV programs? Quick, somebody tell NASA before they waste a bunch of money developing a usable capability!
To my mind, epistemological flaw of atheism is that it accept as knowledge only one kind of knowledge - based on science. For them that's the only kind of knowledge.
That's not why I left religion; I was wide open to the idea that faith should be based on subjective spiritual perceptions rather than science (after all, how could a just God judge people on their access to education, or their IQ for that matter?)
No, my problem was that I looked and listened for God carefully, for a long time, and simply didn't find anything there (that didn't seem more likely to be something else). I'm still open to the idea that something beyond our current understanding is out there. But I have pretty much ruled out the idea of God as an old man who micromanages earth, and who personally backs a particular denomination, and tells some people to tell everybody else what to do.
Has Intel ever made a quality graphics coprocessor?
Exactly - why isn't AMD doing this first? They already have ATI Radeon / Firepro GPUs that are actually decent. All they have to do is drag and drop one of those designs onto their next CPU layout with the next process shrink:) OK, probably not that easy, but surely it's a huge leg up for AMD.
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Where I work, you certainly wouldn't be allowed to hang a bikini calendar on the wall, and that's no crime. (Although it probably would get the employer sued, and is therefore sort of defacto illegal).
So, since you don't have to commute as much, you might not mind moving further from work, making a longer drive on days you still do commute.
Unfortunately the linked article doesn't contain enough meat for meaningful discussion. If this is just another fairly blind application of Jevons Paradox (soon to become a slashdot meme!) then I'm not too interested.
To say that somebody would have been more effective without the very thing that motivated them - after they were in fact highly successful - just strikes me as nonsensical.
If their goal was to 'free technology from the grip of the military-industrial complex and bring computation to the people,' how could it have been any more successful?
You can always say, "well, it probably would have happened anyways," but really, what technologies can surpass WIMP in helping to popularize computing? Hardly any.
I find the claim of 60 wpm amazing. I use a tracfone where you have to push a number key about 7 times in a row to add a period to the end of a sentence and I haven't figured out how to turn off ALL CAPS. Reading this article is making me realize that, by the standards of many younger people, I am (in one sense) illiterate. I was working with a college kid and when he asked for my cellphone number and I had to look it up he laughed in my face. But I just don't enjoy being in touch all the time.
Never say never. It's just a matter of time. Even if some situations are hard to automate, a large percentage of all driving hours (freeway driving, I would think) could be automated much more easily.
The motivation to reclaim driving time is huge. People spend / waste a fantastic amount of time driving. I couldn't find global figures, but apparently Americans spend over 100 hours per year commuting (not driving in total - just commuting); the total driving figure in Israel is 577 hours per year; and about 40% of mothers in the US spend over 2 hours per day driving. Then there are truck drivers and delivery workers whose annual total must be closer to a couple thousand hours per year (i.e. basically their whole life).
Dishwashing machines are very popular, and how much time do they actually save, 20 minutes per day? I can't think of anything the average person more, that could be automated as easily, as driving.
It's not a "prophesy," it's a measurement. (Unless you think that trend will suddenly reverse for some unexplained reason?)
Agreed for the most part, except I'm not so sure the Taliban could reach 60,000 feet. The stinger missile, for example, reaches 26,000 feet. The SA-7, only 5000 feet, the SA-16 and SA-18, 11,000 feet. What defence could the Taliban possibly mount?
Fair enough, although having seen both, I don't think equating Dances with Wolves vs. Avatar makes a lot of sense. The plots are fairly similar, but so what? Rocky and Raging Bull could both be called boxing movies, does that make them similar? Compared to Dancing with Wolves, Avatar had a lot more fantasy and action, including plenty of Tom-Clancy-style technology fetishism (even though you were lead to root against the machines - but whoever designed and animated that machinery was clearly into it (and had clearly played Halo...)) I liked how Gaia was implemented on that planet. And, yes, the visuals were awesome, and yes, largely because it was in 3D (which isn't a draw in your case). Who's to say that grand spectacle is artistically invalid?
Quoting wikipedia: "Fuel cells are different from conventional electrochemical cell batteries in that they consume reactant from an external source, which must be replenished - a thermodynamically open system. By contrast, batteries store electrical energy chemically and hence represent a thermodynamically closed system."
So AFAIK there is no way to "recharge" a fuel cell from solar cells, and it's weird they'd come into it since there are plenty of other rechargeable battery technologies.
When was the last combat situation where the US did not establish air dominance within a week or two? 40 years ago in Vietnam?
The main disadvantage of these compared to satellites is they're no good overhead nations you're not (yet) at war with, since airspace is sovereign territory.
Whether it counts as "sci-fi" is of course another question, but then again, who cares?
This isn't a shrinkwrapped product to do your dishes. The OEM should focus on physical specs like range of motion, torque, and number/type of sensors integrated. Then let researchers go from there.
HDCP doesn't even necessarily increase profits for them. I've had no interest in Blu-Ray, since I can't get them onto my PVR (no I don't upload them to the Internet), and fiddling with discs is outmoded. Now I might actually consider blu-ray.
Exactly... extreme outliers are the easiest to discard.
It would be more nefarious if there were an organized effort to astroturf for certain films by using a cracked database of valid logins, or by creating a bunch of trial accounts, or something like that.
Surely this is just people writing bots to screw with the system?
Per capita energy consumption of the US is approximately double that of Germany, which if anything argues that high cost is highly effective in increasing efficiency.
Fraud corrupts the system, so it is too risky to lend capital. The upshot is, credit is more expensive for everybody.
I've played the Halo 3 campaign a couple times now and don't understand the narrative at all. The Princess Leah hologram quietly muttering unintelligible things, the "hungry belly" voice grumbling unintelligible things that shake the screen, the little flying robot that turns from good to bad over and over (as do the zombies at some point)... it needs subtitles at the very least.
Thanks, good link. Unfortunately, I think it will be very hard for an upstart for dethrone Apple. Maybe a third party will make something like this as an add-on for the iPad.
Nature already has a process for eternal renewal - death and birth. Our species as a whole has no pre-determined expiration date, and the ability to pass information through the generations. What difference does it really make whether it's us individually that live on, or our descendants?
What are the things you almost ALWAYS need? Processor, screen, battery, wifi.
Whare are the things you SOMETIMES need? Keyboard, DVD/Blu-Ray drive (hey, some people still use them for movies), touchpad ...?
So, a tablet with a wireless "base" that has a DVD drive, keyboard, and touchpad, and which the tablet snaps into to protect the screen when not in use, seems the logical way to go. The main point is co-locate the screen and processor so you don't have the video signal sent through the hinge.
Oh, it was already imagined in sci-fi novels and childrens' TV programs? Quick, somebody tell NASA before they waste a bunch of money developing a usable capability!
That's not why I left religion; I was wide open to the idea that faith should be based on subjective spiritual perceptions rather than science (after all, how could a just God judge people on their access to education, or their IQ for that matter?)
No, my problem was that I looked and listened for God carefully, for a long time, and simply didn't find anything there (that didn't seem more likely to be something else). I'm still open to the idea that something beyond our current understanding is out there. But I have pretty much ruled out the idea of God as an old man who micromanages earth, and who personally backs a particular denomination, and tells some people to tell everybody else what to do.
Exactly - why isn't AMD doing this first? They already have ATI Radeon / Firepro GPUs that are actually decent. All they have to do is drag and drop one of those designs onto their next CPU layout with the next process shrink :) OK, probably not that easy, but surely it's a huge leg up for AMD.