Well, the long term idea is that computers will be able to ``understand'' what you mean, kind of like humans can understand what you mean most of the time. We currently don't "see it" because current generation of speech-to-text (and vice versa) just sucks. It's phrased based, not semantics based.
Do you see people still using keyboards 200 years from now? How about 50? If not... then -something- has got to replace'em... Also notice the lack of keyboards on startrek:-)
God saw "The Matrix" as well, and has since corrected the universe. Before the movie came out, you -could- run up the wall, if you wanted to (and were convinced enough that it would work). Now you can't. Same thing for time slowing down.
I am living proof of this as my meds cost around 80k a month.
wow. don't even wanna know what you have.
But, aren't these prices ridiculous? I mean, it would be cheaper to just feed you diamonds or something, how the heck can medicine be that expensive? It's usually pretty standard chemicals mixed in various proportions.
Were Iran to test a nuclear weapon in real life, they would get noticed pretty quickly (the seismic readings would see to that), and a preemptive strike would soon follow.
I don't want them to have nukes, but...
Taking the crazy point of view, if you live in a place that may be -preemptively- attacked by folks who completely don't understand you (imagine the whole world is an Islamic state, and you're the ONLY democracy in the world), wouldn't you build nukes? And lots of them?
So... why are we surprised that they're building them? From their perspective, it's a completely reasonable thing for them to be doing---even the `for protection' may actually be quite reasonable.
And don't say "they got nothing to fear"... they actually do! If politicians and media were still playing buddies with Bush on this Iran issue, they might've been -preemptively- attacked just like Iraq... you know... to `liberate them' from their own craziness.
The Iran's government would be stupid to approach AMD directly. And AMD (or Intel) would be stupid to sell to them directly. They likely have someone in friendly country ordering 10 of these every few days (ie: ``making boxes for customers''), putting them in a suitcase, and physically taking the few hundred chips to Iran.
All I'm saying is that it's sort of pointless to ban these things, since you're not really hurting the government itself.
"Why did you cut corners on important security stuff? Why didn't you shell out some money for a real solution?"...``Now you'll lose a whole week of future vacation time due to this multimillion dollar screwup!''
Lets say five years later they find out that shortly after quitting, you started a $100-million dollar corp. They'll sue you then for losses/damages resulting from that---they'll claim the sole reason your whole corp exists and was successful is 'cause you took whatever is theirs, etc.
It's a civil case, it doesn't -have- to make sense.
Though historically, most of the world's biggest corps were started by pissed off employees who quit and started a better company (ie: if you have a good lawyer, you got nutn to worry about).
Or better yet, just literally cross out the lines saying anything about non-compete stuff, tell the other party that you've crossed them out (with initials) 'cause you don't agree to -them-, and then sign. It's usually easier negotiation wise (ie: ``I'm not signing this.'' vs ``I'm singing it with these conditions.'').
Non-compete should apply ONLY while you're working for your employer. Not afterwards. Once you're not longer working for them, anything goes. That's capitalism. They don't and can't "own" you---and cannot dictate stuff to you after they stop paying you.
If they want 6 months after termination non-compete, insist on getting paid for those 6 months 20% above your previous salary [after all, you do need to support yourself in those 6 months you cannot work in the field]. A contract should be seen as a two way negotiation. You can bind -them- to things just as well as they can bind you.
Also, just to be clear, non-compete means "ideas in your head"; it should certainly not be legal for you to take code developed at one place and use it to start your own venture elsewhere.
and set it off to go off a -few- times (in 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years, and 10000 years, etc.,)
From what I understand, if humans don't maintain, say corn, for a few seasons (global nukilar war?), the entire plant species will disappear from the planet.
But there's so much crap in the patent system, that it's not feasible to go through searching for patents on every feature you come up with.
Which is why the patent system is only good for Big Corps, that can afford expensive lawyers to crush small inventors, and go against competitors. Nobody without expensive lawyers, deep pockets, and a large patent portfolio (to counteract) can ``invent'' anything new and survive to profit from it.
And this is precisely why patents were setup to being with!
Maybe patent law should be amended that an entity worth more than $10m (market cap) cannot be granted patents longer than 6 months (and cannot hold a patent longer than that), as it obviously has enough resources to profit from them on short notice. This would ensure the small inventors get to profit (right upto the point they become worth more than say $10m), and big corps can't hold small inventors (or each other) hostage to patent lawsuits.
I think it's stupid removing hardware that's already there. Why not just make'em free for local calls?
Maybe if they eliminate the folks who actually physically go around collecting quarters from those things, they'd actually break even by selling ad space? Also won't have to make phones tough---'cause there's no money in the case.
I mean really, what does it cost to maintain a street phone that's already physically in place? (and that you only service once in a long while if it's broken). The good-will alone would be worth it for the corp! (ie: ``Count on us in an emergency!'' banner or something). Maybe the city could subsidize or give a tax break on that.
I think that's what many countries in the eastern block did when their currency became worthless (coin currency disappeared). They just made all street phones completely free. Call anywhere local. I think that's a pretty neat idea, why don't the phone corps do that? I bet if it was Google behind this, they'd do it. Provide free phone calls but with a 15 second advertisement that plays as you dial the number or something.
When the second one was turned on, it found the devices on the other desk instead of its own ones
But imagine all the fun you can have by... say swapping a buncha keyboards/mice after hours. If they're all the same make/model, it's great. Walk by 10 cubicles, pickup their mice, shuffle'em, replace them where they were before.
This is even better than setting their wallpaper to be a screenshot of their screen!
Eh. I used to wr0k at a clothing factory and when cutting fabric, if you can't fit a "large" piece for something, you substitute a "medium" (and so on and so on)---primarily to save on fabric (it's a jigsaw puzzle where you layout the pieces, and then cut'em, and when some pieces don't perfectly fit, you use a smaller piece instead).
It's well known. Experienced folks often adjust things by a fraction (so things will only be a quarter of an inch different, and not a whole size different). The labels still stay as they are of course ('cause you still need to deliver X number of large, Y number of mediums, etc.). You also relabel things once in a while. Make a small into a medium, etc,---to get the shipped numbers right.
Some fabrics are easier to tweak than others. If it stretches, you can bet the sizes are almost always off. Gotta be very careful when doing this to denim though.
In any case, it certainly doesn't surprise me that -exactly- the same labeled sizes have different actual sizes.
This is in NYC... high end expensive stuff... with only a few thousand pieces in production.
I think you're a bit confused about quantum mechanics. Light doesn't just `travel'; you can say that it decides to be emitted (possibly many light years ago) the moment you observe it just now.
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Well, the long term idea is that computers will be able to ``understand'' what you mean, kind of like humans can understand what you mean most of the time. We currently don't "see it" because current generation of speech-to-text (and vice versa) just sucks. It's phrased based, not semantics based.
:-)
Do you see people still using keyboards 200 years from now? How about 50? If not... then -something- has got to replace'em... Also notice the lack of keyboards on startrek
Well, if you -knew- you were a lab rat... would you run the maze?
I'm in favor of using a large trebuchet.
Or from scientist's perspective, it was in the right place at the right time.
God saw "The Matrix" as well, and has since corrected the universe. Before the movie came out, you -could- run up the wall, if you wanted to (and were convinced enough that it would work). Now you can't. Same thing for time slowing down.
I am living proof of this as my meds cost around 80k a month.
wow. don't even wanna know what you have.
But, aren't these prices ridiculous? I mean, it would be cheaper to just feed you diamonds or something, how the heck can medicine be that expensive? It's usually pretty standard chemicals mixed in various proportions.
Hmm... That may just be the discovery that makes "the best of 2007"!
Then again,... I think it's been done. But... doesn't hurt to do it again!
That ensures we don't re-discover the same clam next year...again, as the world's oldest animal, a 406 year-old clam.
I also middle-click on every ad, and then middle-click to close the tab :-)
Were Iran to test a nuclear weapon in real life, they would get noticed pretty quickly (the seismic readings would see to that), and a preemptive strike would soon follow.
I don't want them to have nukes, but...
Taking the crazy point of view, if you live in a place that may be -preemptively- attacked by folks who completely don't understand you (imagine the whole world is an Islamic state, and you're the ONLY democracy in the world), wouldn't you build nukes? And lots of them?
So... why are we surprised that they're building them? From their perspective, it's a completely reasonable thing for them to be doing---even the `for protection' may actually be quite reasonable.
And don't say "they got nothing to fear"... they actually do! If politicians and media were still playing buddies with Bush on this Iran issue, they might've been -preemptively- attacked just like Iraq... you know... to `liberate them' from their own craziness.
The Iran's government would be stupid to approach AMD directly. And AMD (or Intel) would be stupid to sell to them directly. They likely have someone in friendly country ordering 10 of these every few days (ie: ``making boxes for customers''), putting them in a suitcase, and physically taking the few hundred chips to Iran.
All I'm saying is that it's sort of pointless to ban these things, since you're not really hurting the government itself.
"Why did you cut corners on important security stuff? Why didn't you shell out some money for a real solution?" ...``Now you'll lose a whole week of future vacation time due to this multimillion dollar screwup!''
Not only that, but his job is already practically vacation!
they might go beserk and kill people. ...by repeatedly kicking them!
...wait till they start kicking back!
Lets say five years later they find out that shortly after quitting, you started a $100-million dollar corp. They'll sue you then for losses/damages resulting from that---they'll claim the sole reason your whole corp exists and was successful is 'cause you took whatever is theirs, etc.
It's a civil case, it doesn't -have- to make sense.
Though historically, most of the world's biggest corps were started by pissed off employees who quit and started a better company (ie: if you have a good lawyer, you got nutn to worry about).
Or better yet, just literally cross out the lines saying anything about non-compete stuff, tell the other party that you've crossed them out (with initials) 'cause you don't agree to -them-, and then sign. It's usually easier negotiation wise (ie: ``I'm not signing this.'' vs ``I'm singing it with these conditions.'').
Non-compete should apply ONLY while you're working for your employer. Not afterwards. Once you're not longer working for them, anything goes. That's capitalism. They don't and can't "own" you---and cannot dictate stuff to you after they stop paying you.
If they want 6 months after termination non-compete, insist on getting paid for those 6 months 20% above your previous salary [after all, you do need to support yourself in those 6 months you cannot work in the field]. A contract should be seen as a two way negotiation. You can bind -them- to things just as well as they can bind you.
Also, just to be clear, non-compete means "ideas in your head"; it should certainly not be legal for you to take code developed at one place and use it to start your own venture elsewhere.
and set it off to go off a -few- times (in 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years, and 10000 years, etc.,)
From what I understand, if humans don't maintain, say corn, for a few seasons (global nukilar war?), the entire plant species will disappear from the planet.
...What if someone started a rumor that there's oil on mars...
But there's so much crap in the patent system, that it's not feasible to go through searching for patents on every feature you come up with.
Which is why the patent system is only good for Big Corps, that can afford expensive lawyers to crush small inventors, and go against competitors. Nobody without expensive lawyers, deep pockets, and a large patent portfolio (to counteract) can ``invent'' anything new and survive to profit from it.
And this is precisely why patents were setup to being with!
Maybe patent law should be amended that an entity worth more than $10m (market cap) cannot be granted patents longer than 6 months (and cannot hold a patent longer than that), as it obviously has enough resources to profit from them on short notice. This would ensure the small inventors get to profit (right upto the point they become worth more than say $10m), and big corps can't hold small inventors (or each other) hostage to patent lawsuits.
Indeed!
I think it's stupid removing hardware that's already there. Why not just make'em free for local calls?
Maybe if they eliminate the folks who actually physically go around collecting quarters from those things, they'd actually break even by selling ad space? Also won't have to make phones tough---'cause there's no money in the case.
I mean really, what does it cost to maintain a street phone that's already physically in place? (and that you only service once in a long while if it's broken). The good-will alone would be worth it for the corp! (ie: ``Count on us in an emergency!'' banner or something). Maybe the city could subsidize or give a tax break on that.
I think that's what many countries in the eastern block did when their currency became worthless (coin currency disappeared). They just made all street phones completely free. Call anywhere local. I think that's a pretty neat idea, why don't the phone corps do that? I bet if it was Google behind this, they'd do it. Provide free phone calls but with a 15 second advertisement that plays as you dial the number or something.
Just a crazy idea...
When the second one was turned on, it found the devices on the other desk instead of its own ones
But imagine all the fun you can have by... say swapping a buncha keyboards/mice after hours. If they're all the same make/model, it's great. Walk by 10 cubicles, pickup their mice, shuffle'em, replace them where they were before.
This is even better than setting their wallpaper to be a screenshot of their screen!
Then you should do something about taking mentally ill people off the streets, this is really quite bad.
I don't want to be taken off the streets!
Eh. I used to wr0k at a clothing factory and when cutting fabric, if you can't fit a "large" piece for something, you substitute a "medium" (and so on and so on)---primarily to save on fabric (it's a jigsaw puzzle where you layout the pieces, and then cut'em, and when some pieces don't perfectly fit, you use a smaller piece instead).
It's well known. Experienced folks often adjust things by a fraction (so things will only be a quarter of an inch different, and not a whole size different). The labels still stay as they are of course ('cause you still need to deliver X number of large, Y number of mediums, etc.). You also relabel things once in a while. Make a small into a medium, etc,---to get the shipped numbers right.
Some fabrics are easier to tweak than others. If it stretches, you can bet the sizes are almost always off. Gotta be very careful when doing this to denim though.
In any case, it certainly doesn't surprise me that -exactly- the same labeled sizes have different actual sizes.
This is in NYC... high end expensive stuff... with only a few thousand pieces in production.
I think you're a bit confused about quantum mechanics. Light doesn't just `travel'; you can say that it decides to be emitted (possibly many light years ago) the moment you observe it just now.