Read this thread and reflect on how abusive government will take advantage of week crypro, or how criminals will not follow the law anyway, or how you probably not want limits on your key size or registration of all strong encryption. Live and let live!
Along with free/$0.99 apps. At the time Internet went mainstream, people were already accustomed to getting phone and TV bills with extra charges for things like long distance calls and premium services. We could charge a penny per article, $1.99/month for a social network and so on. $4.99 minimum apps could have provided an incentive to develop an app for a one time purchase without ads / in app purchases / cryptocurrency mining etc. Ad supported discount/free services could have still been available for low income customers, just like Amazon Kindles with special offers. Instead we have devalued digital contest which is increasingly valuable in favor of ads for physical trinkets which are increasingly commodity. It's more important for a consumer to watch Youtube videos that match his/her interests than decide between Diet Pepsi and Coke Zero while being held captive to sensibility of these advertisers.
To physically switch control of screen, keyboard, camera, microphone and so on. Otherwise non-work untrusted app can present work UI and steal your credentials. Even with a switch you could forget to flip it. A physical separate device is still best for security, even at the cost of a slight inconvinience.
I didn't get into coding because it was hot. It was for nerds who were not physically strong enough to get into manufacturing and not social enough to be in management. Few girls wanted to be total outcasts. I had a physical fistfight with my father for not going into business instead. If you really want a (far out) chance to be a recognizable household name, follow your inner calling rather than current trends. It may not pan out, but you will have fun.
Is seems that everyone is discriminating against everyone. How about we let women in Microsoft who feel sexualized and discriminated start their own software company? Call it Themyscirasoft. Find out if patriarchy is really getting you down. Same for black-only company, LGBTQ only company (won't you still have to deal with sexual harassment though?) and so on. You will obviously have to let straight white dudes also have their own company - can't expect them to give up working because others want their own space. But if, as people keep saying, diversity is good for business, diverse companies will succeed and become the norm. They will also be free to achieve whatever diversity ratios they want - hire this many men, that many women, this many latinos... - rather than having to try to dance around the rules. And, since their employees have other choices free of racism/sexism/transphobia/etc, these diverse companies will be very proactive at not allowing these things to happen. It seems to me that all current laws do is keep us in limbo, with everyone grousing of being discriminated against and how great life would be without all this nonsense. So lets move on already, we can pass new laws.
There is plenty of real fun stuff now - "I expect you will die", "The climb", both episodes of "The Gallery", Obduction, Google Earth... Beyond immersive effect, big world games make more sense in VR as you intuitively grasp directions rather than having to keep track of rooms and various entrances.
I over 40, so that's already a strike in hugely ageist Sillicon Valley. Not interested in going into management or whatever. If you like coding, you like coding regardless of age. Now I hear that promotion to the next level of individual technical expertise will depend on my chromosomal makeup or melatonin level in my skin. Never mind that I was an oppressed minority in my birth country, spent a year homeless in US before clawing my way out and so on. Are there still non-assinine employees that seek to provide friendly working environment for everyone and disparage nobody?
If you have ever been in a cohesive group on the same page about its goals, quick votes are a very natural way to make decisions. First colonists will be highly knowlegable explorers who just want things to work so that they can satisfy their curiosity. Complex politics can wait until later. Things may be different for asteroid miners working in a corporate environment where its clear what the purpose is and who is paying the bills.
Cryptocurrencies are useful and will always have value. It's not guaranteed that Bitcoin in general or a particular variant of Bitcoin in particular is a long term future. But in general cryptocurrencies are not going anywhere any more than Internet is going anywhere. That's just wishful thinking on the part of threatened financial institutions that face being made redundant.
Black screen buffering... death happen every half an hour even without Superbowl. Then in the middle of the game, NBC Roku app told me to install NBS Sports, which took time away from interesting moments and showed the rest of the game in blurry resolution AND with more buffering deaths. I don't understand why NFL can't find a more reliable streaming partner for Superbowl. ABC does not seem to have any of these problems.
You want a niche feature that would be detrimental or confusing to most users. An average photographer's nightmare is losing an amazing shot and encryption is likely to screw up any recovery attempts. Others would get in more trouble because of encryption than because of actual photos. Sounds like a good case for a Kickstarter project to make an Android-based camera where you can use a photo app that suits your specific needs. If there is mobile data, you would ideally upload shots to your studio and the securely erase them locally so that no evidence, including evidence of hiding evidence, is left.
Seriously, if you can't sleep, maybe that's because you are not tired. Of course if you do a one off work out, sore muscles will keep you awake. But else, do what nature intended and take a sufficiently challenging hike to be TIRED. You'll sleep like you probably don't remember. Seeing that people sit on their butts these days, I am not surprised they can't sleep at night.
That's almost half of annual GDP. Sounds too big to fail. Is this a good thing and should we worry about what happens if Wells Fargo assets grow to more than annual GDP?
Finally, no way to claim that your career problems are due to racism, sexism and homophobia. Everyone is the same online and nobody is grabbing anyone else's body parts. Rise up on your merit and if you don't, you only have yourself to blame.
Dead tree publishing is a vanishing use case. Both people who still need it can upgrade to Windows 10, or try Libreoffice. Tools for modern collaboration and online/social publishing are generally web based, free and accessible from any laptop or mobile device. A better question is how does Microsoft even get a return on investment to keep developing Office at this point.
As a libertarian, you should appreciate that while your self-ownership of your own body does not decline with age, exchange value of your bodily fluids takes a drastic dip. Having too many old people on is not good for a platform that relies on purely physical attraction. Paying higher prices allows old people access to the platform for high value used cases, like being sugar daddies, while subsidizing young attractive users for them to swipe right. The logical extension is paid swipes, but current statist policies only allow that in certain counties of Nevada.
Doesn't mean they aren't after you. There is Radio Free Europe that has been broadcasting into Russia since Cold War. It would be naive to think that its programs have been unbiased. At the same time, Facebook has bazillions of advertisers and domestic political advertisers are trolls too. Maybe it's marginally better to have competition from foreign trolls. However much they lie, they will also expose whatever truthful information suits their needs. You can see Russian propoganda in action for yourself. No doubt biased, but isn't there still something useful to learn from a different perspective?
Why don't we get used to ideas that are relevant right now, and let people of 24th century do what is relevant then? Human labor is not anywhere close to obsolete, though very repetitive labor needed on large scale may be. When a bunch of machines are not working for some reason, we need a human to spend hours crawling and climbing around in a factory, figure out WHY things are not working and do a unique task of clearing our debris and replacing broken parts. We are nowhere close to even having a portable power supply that would enable a robot to accomplish these tasks. So while we need human labor, humans should be generally required to participate and incentivised to learn necessary skills. Admitedly, AMOUNT of labor does not have to be same as in early 20th century and we need more learning and less doing.
Desktops are fine. Either you have a small screen and fullscreen apps with no title bar. Or a big monitor and space taken by title bars is a rounding error. These concerns seem to linger from days of 1024x768 15 inch monitors where real estate was at a premium.
Why not take all this energy to change things and put it into modernizing actual apps? Word processing has not changed from the days where people would write stuff and print it out as books and fliers. Make a "word processor" for web and mobile consumption with interactive feachers. Make a music jukebox and a video player for organizing content from multiple streaming services.
Instead people have itching fingers to keep rearranging basic UI, making things look fresh but preventing anyone from becoming really proficient.
Say most of routine human work can be automated. There will always be some demand for human labor - because we like to see each other's faces and because of one off tasks for which it's not worth building a robot. According to laws of supply and demand, a little bit of human labor will then buy a lot of robot labor. Works for $19.95 smartphones right? So you will work for two days per week and enjoy living in a home built by a home-building robot, eating produce harvested by a self driving combine harvester and so on. Just like in a primitive society people used to spend 3 days hunting a zebra and two weeks eating a zebra while painting cave walls and dancing around the fire. Except you get to live much nicer by having robots raise and butcher your zebras. Instead, we insist on confining ourselves to industrial monestories for much of our waking time. If anything, lots of software people can afford to work part time from remote and still get by in an affordable area of the country. Maybe that will set a trend? What the world needs now is an army of slackers.
Drivethrough use case has very different latency requirements than dining in, I don't mind BK deploing traffic shaping to account for that. For Netflix-style bulk consumption of the same item, it would make sense to just have a pile of burgers on the counter and have everyone grab one and swipe their credit card. Sure they get preferential service, but they also don't route their orders all the way to the kitchen and are in and out fast.
The first missions to orbit and moon had important purposes - to see if humans can survive, to make science experiements in microgravity, to look for signs of life on moon, demostrate that Americans and Russians can cooperate without ripping each other's throats out and so on. But space is mostly... empty. Before we continue manned exploration, we need to decide WHY. Are we going to mine an asteroid for materials important on Earth? Will we be able to establish a permanent colony for people to develop as they wish? Is orbital tourism going to become practical? Until then - no hurry. Robotic missions are much cheaper/safer and suffice for most purposes. We could not even dream of having a human take high resolution photos of pluto. Maybe one day we will all be robots.
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Read this thread and reflect on how abusive government will take advantage of week crypro, or how criminals will not follow the law anyway, or how you probably not want limits on your key size or registration of all strong encryption. Live and let live!
Along with free/$0.99 apps. At the time Internet went mainstream, people were already accustomed to getting phone and TV bills with extra charges for things like long distance calls and premium services. We could charge a penny per article, $1.99/month for a social network and so on. $4.99 minimum apps could have provided an incentive to develop an app for a one time purchase without ads / in app purchases / cryptocurrency mining etc. Ad supported discount/free services could have still been available for low income customers, just like Amazon Kindles with special offers. Instead we have devalued digital contest which is increasingly valuable in favor of ads for physical trinkets which are increasingly commodity. It's more important for a consumer to watch Youtube videos that match his/her interests than decide between Diet Pepsi and Coke Zero while being held captive to sensibility of these advertisers.
To physically switch control of screen, keyboard, camera, microphone and so on. Otherwise non-work untrusted app can present work UI and steal your credentials. Even with a switch you could forget to flip it. A physical separate device is still best for security, even at the cost of a slight inconvinience.
I didn't get into coding because it was hot. It was for nerds who were not physically strong enough to get into manufacturing and not social enough to be in management. Few girls wanted to be total outcasts. I had a physical fistfight with my father for not going into business instead. If you really want a (far out) chance to be a recognizable household name, follow your inner calling rather than current trends. It may not pan out, but you will have fun.
Is seems that everyone is discriminating against everyone. How about we let women in Microsoft who feel sexualized and discriminated start their own software company? Call it Themyscirasoft. Find out if patriarchy is really getting you down. Same for black-only company, LGBTQ only company (won't you still have to deal with sexual harassment though?) and so on. You will obviously have to let straight white dudes also have their own company - can't expect them to give up working because others want their own space. But if, as people keep saying, diversity is good for business, diverse companies will succeed and become the norm. They will also be free to achieve whatever diversity ratios they want - hire this many men, that many women, this many latinos... - rather than having to try to dance around the rules. And, since their employees have other choices free of racism/sexism/transphobia/etc, these diverse companies will be very proactive at not allowing these things to happen. It seems to me that all current laws do is keep us in limbo, with everyone grousing of being discriminated against and how great life would be without all this nonsense. So lets move on already, we can pass new laws.
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There is plenty of real fun stuff now - "I expect you will die", "The climb", both episodes of "The Gallery", Obduction, Google Earth... Beyond immersive effect, big world games make more sense in VR as you intuitively grasp directions rather than having to keep track of rooms and various entrances.
I over 40, so that's already a strike in hugely ageist Sillicon Valley. Not interested in going into management or whatever. If you like coding, you like coding regardless of age. Now I hear that promotion to the next level of individual technical expertise will depend on my chromosomal makeup or melatonin level in my skin. Never mind that I was an oppressed minority in my birth country, spent a year homeless in US before clawing my way out and so on. Are there still non-assinine employees that seek to provide friendly working environment for everyone and disparage nobody?
If you have ever been in a cohesive group on the same page about its goals, quick votes are a very natural way to make decisions. First colonists will be highly knowlegable explorers who just want things to work so that they can satisfy their curiosity. Complex politics can wait until later. Things may be different for asteroid miners working in a corporate environment where its clear what the purpose is and who is paying the bills.
Cryptocurrencies are useful and will always have value. It's not guaranteed that Bitcoin in general or a particular variant of Bitcoin in particular is a long term future. But in general cryptocurrencies are not going anywhere any more than Internet is going anywhere. That's just wishful thinking on the part of threatened financial institutions that face being made redundant.
Black screen buffering... death happen every half an hour even without Superbowl. Then in the middle of the game, NBC Roku app told me to install NBS Sports, which took time away from interesting moments and showed the rest of the game in blurry resolution AND with more buffering deaths. I don't understand why NFL can't find a more reliable streaming partner for Superbowl. ABC does not seem to have any of these problems.
You want a niche feature that would be detrimental or confusing to most users. An average photographer's nightmare is losing an amazing shot and encryption is likely to screw up any recovery attempts. Others would get in more trouble because of encryption than because of actual photos. Sounds like a good case for a Kickstarter project to make an Android-based camera where you can use a photo app that suits your specific needs. If there is mobile data, you would ideally upload shots to your studio and the securely erase them locally so that no evidence, including evidence of hiding evidence, is left.
Seriously, if you can't sleep, maybe that's because you are not tired. Of course if you do a one off work out, sore muscles will keep you awake. But else, do what nature intended and take a sufficiently challenging hike to be TIRED. You'll sleep like you probably don't remember. Seeing that people sit on their butts these days, I am not surprised they can't sleep at night.
That's almost half of annual GDP. Sounds too big to fail. Is this a good thing and should we worry about what happens if Wells Fargo assets grow to more than annual GDP?
Finally, no way to claim that your career problems are due to racism, sexism and homophobia. Everyone is the same online and nobody is grabbing anyone else's body parts. Rise up on your merit and if you don't, you only have yourself to blame.
Dead tree publishing is a vanishing use case. Both people who still need it can upgrade to Windows 10, or try Libreoffice. Tools for modern collaboration and online/social publishing are generally web based, free and accessible from any laptop or mobile device. A better question is how does Microsoft even get a return on investment to keep developing Office at this point.
As a libertarian, you should appreciate that while your self-ownership of your own body does not decline with age, exchange value of your bodily fluids takes a drastic dip. Having too many old people on is not good for a platform that relies on purely physical attraction. Paying higher prices allows old people access to the platform for high value used cases, like being sugar daddies, while subsidizing young attractive users for them to swipe right. The logical extension is paid swipes, but current statist policies only allow that in certain counties of Nevada.
Doesn't mean they aren't after you. There is Radio Free Europe that has been broadcasting into Russia since Cold War. It would be naive to think that its programs have been unbiased. At the same time, Facebook has bazillions of advertisers and domestic political advertisers are trolls too. Maybe it's marginally better to have competition from foreign trolls. However much they lie, they will also expose whatever truthful information suits their needs. You can see Russian propoganda in action for yourself. No doubt biased, but isn't there still something useful to learn from a different perspective?
It was not going to take that long to have flying cars since before I was born. I am glad we did not hurry to demolish the roads.
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Why don't we get used to ideas that are relevant right now, and let people of 24th century do what is relevant then? Human labor is not anywhere close to obsolete, though very repetitive labor needed on large scale may be. When a bunch of machines are not working for some reason, we need a human to spend hours crawling and climbing around in a factory, figure out WHY things are not working and do a unique task of clearing our debris and replacing broken parts. We are nowhere close to even having a portable power supply that would enable a robot to accomplish these tasks. So while we need human labor, humans should be generally required to participate and incentivised to learn necessary skills. Admitedly, AMOUNT of labor does not have to be same as in early 20th century and we need more learning and less doing.
Desktops are fine. Either you have a small screen and fullscreen apps with no title bar. Or a big monitor and space taken by title bars is a rounding error. These concerns seem to linger from days of 1024x768 15 inch monitors where real estate was at a premium.
Why not take all this energy to change things and put it into modernizing actual apps? Word processing has not changed from the days where people would write stuff and print it out as books and fliers. Make a "word processor" for web and mobile consumption with interactive feachers. Make a music jukebox and a video player for organizing content from multiple streaming services.
Instead people have itching fingers to keep rearranging basic UI, making things look fresh but preventing anyone from becoming really proficient.
Say most of routine human work can be automated. There will always be some demand for human labor - because we like to see each other's faces and because of one off tasks for which it's not worth building a robot. According to laws of supply and demand, a little bit of human labor will then buy a lot of robot labor. Works for $19.95 smartphones right? So you will work for two days per week and enjoy living in a home built by a home-building robot, eating produce harvested by a self driving combine harvester and so on. Just like in a primitive society people used to spend 3 days hunting a zebra and two weeks eating a zebra while painting cave walls and dancing around the fire. Except you get to live much nicer by having robots raise and butcher your zebras. Instead, we insist on confining ourselves to industrial monestories for much of our waking time. If anything, lots of software people can afford to work part time from remote and still get by in an affordable area of the country. Maybe that will set a trend? What the world needs now is an army of slackers.
Drivethrough use case has very different latency requirements than dining in, I don't mind BK deploing traffic shaping to account for that. For Netflix-style bulk consumption of the same item, it would make sense to just have a pile of burgers on the counter and have everyone grab one and swipe their credit card. Sure they get preferential service, but they also don't route their orders all the way to the kitchen and are in and out fast.
The first missions to orbit and moon had important purposes - to see if humans can survive, to make science experiements in microgravity, to look for signs of life on moon, demostrate that Americans and Russians can cooperate without ripping each other's throats out and so on. But space is mostly... empty. Before we continue manned exploration, we need to decide WHY. Are we going to mine an asteroid for materials important on Earth? Will we be able to establish a permanent colony for people to develop as they wish? Is orbital tourism going to become practical? Until then - no hurry. Robotic missions are much cheaper/safer and suffice for most purposes. We could not even dream of having a human take high resolution photos of pluto. Maybe one day we will all be robots.