Actually it's a misnomer to say health care is rationed by corporate bureaucrats in the US - that's only for the ones well off enough to have health insurance. For the poor, health care allocations are pre-determined: you get nothing, outside of possibly fatal emergencies.
All the countries with socialized medicine pay less for health care than we do. It's pointless expressing your opinion without at least addressing the fact that it flies in the face of all evidence.
Yes, but I think this announcement is that "we haven't found anything." The positive spin is that "this is exciting because now there are fewer places to look."
Leaving a big corporation to lead a tiny team of young developers is the opposite of slowing down, creatively at least. Leading 5-year development cycles of huge teams creates many opportunities, but also precludes many others. He wants freedom.
Yeah, he might just be saying what sounds good, and go live in an RV in rural Arizona with no address and watch satellite TV all day. But that's not what he's saying.
That is interesting, although a distinction must be made between a wheel (with an axle) and something that disperses further simply because it is round and rolls more easily. (Hopefully I'm not starting to sound like I have an axe to grind here, because I don't.)
I wonder if they could make a solar powered mouse to match?
I would LOVE it if they made one with a built-in trackpoint or touchpad (to control the computer on my TV from the couch), and neither of those requires powering a light source for the optical mouse, which would seemingly be a significant power draw.
Although, the battery-powered wireless RF keyboard/touchpad I have now runs for months on 2 AAAs...
I am amazed that conventional water-cooled reactors are only 5% efficient. It sure casts the seemingly low efficiency factors of other alternative fuels(such as the cheapest solar panels) into a different light.
This moralistic spin ("lazy" programmers) is absurd. The tradeoff between development cost and hardware requirements is obviously affected by cheaper yet higher-spec hardware. If you want to run WordPerfect for DOS at insane speeds on modern hardware, go right ahead. That piece of that software cost $495 in 1983 (cite) and was written in assembly language for speed. (I hope the connection there is not lost on anybody).
Of course, a 3m metal sphere full of molten sodium is, in turn, just a model of the earth, which in theory preserves many of the earth's interesting properties, and
imposes a different set of fidelity limitations as compared to a computer model. Whether this physical model is better than a computer model probably depends on the question being asked, but more importantly, each informs the other.
I love headphones, but they're not the "ultimate," as in, the best imaginable. When my son joined the school band, I started going to his concerts and hearing and feeling the bass of the big drums and brass - it's really exciting. Headphones can't do that. I ended up buying a 15" sub for my home stereo. It's better, but still not quite there...
But this is all temporary, as streaming improves. Netflix HD is already a better picture than DVD. (I know somebody will object and claim I'm oblivious to compression artifacts. But I'm not, I still think Netflix HD looks better than DVD).
Frankly, your suspicion of their motives is irrelevant, because their motives are irrelevant. Their actions, and their success, PROVED a problem exists.
Well, this one is 600 light years away, so Christopher Columbus hasn't been born yet in their frame of reference. I hope they aren't eagerly tuning in to see how well we'll run the planet for the last 600 years, how embarrassing that would be.
I see the potential too, but my concern is, you can't go back. Classic Mustangs are still cool today because they were so cool then, but release the identical car today, and it would be a laughable. The 1966 V8 Mustang had a quarter-mile time right in line with a modern Toyota Camry.
The narco insurgency has a much wealthier "tax base" than the legitimate government of Mexico. Our dirty money is overturning that nation. It's horrible.
I suppose it's almost impossible to avoid sliding into a partisan debate given the issue I chose, but my main point was simply that the majority almost always votes for immediate gratification.
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Actually it's a misnomer to say health care is rationed by corporate bureaucrats in the US - that's only for the ones well off enough to have health insurance. For the poor, health care allocations are pre-determined: you get nothing, outside of possibly fatal emergencies.
All the countries with socialized medicine pay less for health care than we do. It's pointless expressing your opinion without at least addressing the fact that it flies in the face of all evidence.
If they do find it, I will look for your post calling it "boring."
Yes, but I think this announcement is that "we haven't found anything." The positive spin is that "this is exciting because now there are fewer places to look."
Now that they're computer-generated, they could put a little slider bar on the web page, allowing you to get as much padding as you please.
But then you will suggest something like FatBooth, but in reverse... give me some abs...
Yeah, he might just be saying what sounds good, and go live in an RV in rural Arizona with no address and watch satellite TV all day. But that's not what he's saying.
You: "I read this as 'I'm burnt out. I'm tired of the front lines and really just want to play the role of grandpa now.'"
If you want to believe your own narrative based on your own intuition, fine. But there's no particular link between his words and your narrative.
Keeping money in a bank is really just keeping data in a cloud. It seems to work for most.
That is interesting, although a distinction must be made between a wheel (with an axle) and something that disperses further simply because it is round and rolls more easily. (Hopefully I'm not starting to sound like I have an axe to grind here, because I don't.)
Timex makes several watches with an advertized battery life of 10 years.
Besides, the battery doesn't particularly need to be in any standard form factor if it will never be replaced.
I would LOVE it if they made one with a built-in trackpoint or touchpad (to control the computer on my TV from the couch), and neither of those requires powering a light source for the optical mouse, which would seemingly be a significant power draw.
Although, the battery-powered wireless RF keyboard/touchpad I have now runs for months on 2 AAAs...
Evolution uses everything? I've heard it said evolution never discovered the wheel.
I am amazed that conventional water-cooled reactors are only 5% efficient. It sure casts the seemingly low efficiency factors of other alternative fuels(such as the cheapest solar panels) into a different light.
1) Do you still use assembler as often as you did back then?
2) If not, is it because you weren't "lazy" then but now are?
This moralistic spin ("lazy" programmers) is absurd. The tradeoff between development cost and hardware requirements is obviously affected by cheaper yet higher-spec hardware. If you want to run WordPerfect for DOS at insane speeds on modern hardware, go right ahead. That piece of that software cost $495 in 1983 (cite) and was written in assembly language for speed. (I hope the connection there is not lost on anybody).
Of course, a 3m metal sphere full of molten sodium is, in turn, just a model of the earth, which in theory preserves many of the earth's interesting properties, and imposes a different set of fidelity limitations as compared to a computer model. Whether this physical model is better than a computer model probably depends on the question being asked, but more importantly, each informs the other.
I love headphones, but they're not the "ultimate," as in, the best imaginable. When my son joined the school band, I started going to his concerts and hearing and feeling the bass of the big drums and brass - it's really exciting. Headphones can't do that. I ended up buying a 15" sub for my home stereo. It's better, but still not quite there...
But this is all temporary, as streaming improves. Netflix HD is already a better picture than DVD. (I know somebody will object and claim I'm oblivious to compression artifacts. But I'm not, I still think Netflix HD looks better than DVD).
Frankly, your suspicion of their motives is irrelevant, because their motives are irrelevant. Their actions, and their success, PROVED a problem exists.
Well, this one is 600 light years away, so Christopher Columbus hasn't been born yet in their frame of reference. I hope they aren't eagerly tuning in to see how well we'll run the planet for the last 600 years, how embarrassing that would be.
I see the potential too, but my concern is, you can't go back. Classic Mustangs are still cool today because they were so cool then, but release the identical car today, and it would be a laughable. The 1966 V8 Mustang had a quarter-mile time right in line with a modern Toyota Camry.
The sad part Mexico really is/was all they way up there at Democracy. Perhaps a bit less so each day.
The narco insurgency has a much wealthier "tax base" than the legitimate government of Mexico. Our dirty money is overturning that nation. It's horrible.
I suppose it's almost impossible to avoid sliding into a partisan debate given the issue I chose, but my main point was simply that the majority almost always votes for immediate gratification.