OTOH it won't be sitting in landfill or floating around in the ocean for 100 years and won't poison the food chain. And some of the unpleasent chemicals used in paper production are the bleaches used for white paper. For brown bags they're irrelevant. The acids used can easily be neutralised.
And thats the problem. Sure, maybe 10% of people re-use them (and thats probably being generous) but the other 90% just toss them and therein lies the problem. Yes it'll be a bit of inconvenience for you but frankly thats just tough, we're all going to have to make sacrifices in the future to stop the enviromental damage we're doing and having to buy bin liners will be the least of them.
If they didn't understand the concept of zero or empty then they'd keep going back to flowers that had run out of nectar.
Understanding quantity is a useful survival trait, I don't understand why some scientists find it so amazing that animals understand the concept of "none".
I think that horse has bolted and is grazing happily in a field right now.
You'd think a defense contractor would know not to store top secret information on internet accessible machines but I guess there's stupid in every organisation.
Indeed. Or if thats not practical just a simple video decoder that can recognise blobs moving to the left or to the right. I don't see why machine learning is required for this other than its the IT phrase du jour that garners headlines.
We have no idea how an AI would behave since it will be a completely different type of conciousness to anything that currently exists on this planet.
Plus as someone else has pointed out - children rebel. Clearly the submitter has none or he wouldn't have come up with this load of rose coloured tosh.
Theres more to a community than an economy which is a very narrow minded economists way of looking at society. New people require housing, healthcare and schools amongst other things, all of which ARE limited. Anyone who thinks an influx of people into an area is only a good thing simply because they're earning a wage is a naive fool.
"Apple would have no problem finding one farmer to sell them some land."
Sure, in the whole of Ireland, but they didn't want to just build anywhere.
"A few hundred extra jobs (heck, even a few dozen) is a meaningful boost to a rural economy."
Only if you have a few hundred people sitting around on the dole there. Otherwise they'll just be imported workers. Sure, the shops will get more cash, but they'll use up scarce services too.
Indeed. It would no doubt have been built on farmland with the local farmers - of thich there will be many - having their land compulsory purchased. All they'd see out of it is reduced income and more traffic.
Until the image recognition fails because something is hand written and you need a human to do it manually.
The only people pressing for reducing actual humans in banks are the banks themselves (to save money) and millenial geeks who break out in a cold sweat whenever they have to engage in human interaction. Normal people actually like having a fallback option of an actual person being able to help.
... then they'd be half decent coders and wouldn't be coding in babyscript, sorry, javascript. This language is where idiots and MBAs straight off an "Anyone can code!" course end up, writing Hello World style programs using half a dozen libraries to create a Hello factory and a World factory with another factory that joins factories which then creates a HelloWorld object that eventually outputs a string via some StringOutputter object.
Yeah, because medical doctors are obviously experts on coral, unlike the team of scientists who researched it. Oh wait, this is slashdot, you didn't bother reading the linked article yet you accuse me of knee jerking. Can you spell irony you brainless gimp?
So pure digital output from a sampler running at twice the frequency in question can produce a sine wave before filtering can it? Wow, you should write a white paper on this, clearly you have a nobel prize waiting!
If you looked at a 22Khz signal on an oscilloscope reproduced from a 44Khz sampling rate you'd see a square wave. This will be smoothed out to a sine wave by filtering in a player, but of course the filter has no way of knowing whether the original signal WAS a square wave , or sawtooth or triangle or anything else so to say it can reproduce it exactly is incorrect.
Reproducing a frequency and reproducing the actual sound are not the same thing.
You're missing the point. If they wanted distortion they could by a turntable for $100, but they think a more expensive one will get them "closer" to the original source. Its the usual story of idiots with too much money being parted from it by snake oil salesmen.
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OTOH it won't be sitting in landfill or floating around in the ocean for 100 years and won't poison the food chain. And some of the unpleasent chemicals used in paper production are the bleaches used for white paper. For brown bags they're irrelevant. The acids used can easily be neutralised.
They're quite common in some places and for smaller loads work fine. For bigger supermarket visits you can buy a proper bag that will last years.
And thats the problem. Sure, maybe 10% of people re-use them (and thats probably being generous) but the other 90% just toss them and therein lies the problem. Yes it'll be a bit of inconvenience for you but frankly thats just tough, we're all going to have to make sacrifices in the future to stop the enviromental damage we're doing and having to buy bin liners will be the least of them.
If they didn't understand the concept of zero or empty then they'd keep going back to flowers that had run out of nectar.
Understanding quantity is a useful survival trait, I don't understand why some scientists find it so amazing that animals understand the concept of "none".
I think that horse has bolted and is grazing happily in a field right now.
You'd think a defense contractor would know not to store top secret information on internet accessible machines but I guess there's stupid in every organisation.
They wouldn't be able to do that without permission from on high. This is obviously officially sanctioned.
Heh, didn't know that. :)
In British english its pejorative term similar to bastard. Linus obviously didn't do his homework before christening it.
Seems to me they're saying "You've been bitching for years that the community can do better, well here you go, knock yourselves out, we're done."
Indeed. Or if thats not practical just a simple video decoder that can recognise blobs moving to the left or to the right. I don't see why machine learning is required for this other than its the IT phrase du jour that garners headlines.
We have no idea how an AI would behave since it will be a completely different type of conciousness to anything that currently exists on this planet.
Plus as someone else has pointed out - children rebel. Clearly the submitter has none or he wouldn't have come up with this load of rose coloured tosh.
Theres more to a community than an economy which is a very narrow minded economists way of looking at society. New people require housing, healthcare and schools amongst other things, all of which ARE limited. Anyone who thinks an influx of people into an area is only a good thing simply because they're earning a wage is a naive fool.
"Apple would have no problem finding one farmer to sell them some land."
Sure, in the whole of Ireland, but they didn't want to just build anywhere.
"A few hundred extra jobs (heck, even a few dozen) is a meaningful boost to a rural economy."
Only if you have a few hundred people sitting around on the dole there. Otherwise they'll just be imported workers. Sure, the shops will get more cash, but they'll use up scarce services too.
Indeed. It would no doubt have been built on farmland with the local farmers - of thich there will be many - having their land compulsory purchased. All they'd see out of it is reduced income and more traffic.
Either these guys have a mischievous sense of humour or something got lost in translation from German!
"and they will even scan bills and pay them."
Until the image recognition fails because something is hand written and you need a human to do it manually.
The only people pressing for reducing actual humans in banks are the banks themselves (to save money) and millenial geeks who break out in a cold sweat whenever they have to engage in human interaction. Normal people actually like having a fallback option of an actual person being able to help.
... then they'd be half decent coders and wouldn't be coding in babyscript, sorry, javascript. This language is where idiots and MBAs straight off an "Anyone can code!" course end up, writing Hello World style programs using half a dozen libraries to create a Hello factory and a World factory with another factory that joins factories which then creates a HelloWorld object that eventually outputs a string via some StringOutputter object.
Yeah, because medical doctors are obviously experts on coral, unlike the team of scientists who researched it. Oh wait, this is slashdot, you didn't bother reading the linked article yet you accuse me of knee jerking. Can you spell irony you brainless gimp?
There's a shock. But then who cares about the enviroment when you have profit to worry about.
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" the point you're trying to make in a rather hamfisted way."
Hamfisted? Sorry if my blantantly obvious point wasn't clear to you, next time I'll trywriting it in crayon for you. Would that help?
So pure digital output from a sampler running at twice the frequency in question can produce a sine wave before filtering can it? Wow, you should write a white paper on this, clearly you have a nobel prize waiting!
That was my point you pillock.
"n your original comment you didn't distinguish between a $100 turntable and a $20,000 turntable"
I'm not sure how clearer "$20K+ turntable" could have been tbh.
If you looked at a 22Khz signal on an oscilloscope reproduced from a 44Khz sampling rate you'd see a square wave. This will be smoothed out to a sine wave by filtering in a player, but of course the filter has no way of knowing whether the original signal WAS a square wave , or sawtooth or triangle or anything else so to say it can reproduce it exactly is incorrect.
Reproducing a frequency and reproducing the actual sound are not the same thing.
You're missing the point. If they wanted distortion they could by a turntable for $100, but they think a more expensive one will get them "closer" to the original source. Its the usual story of idiots with too much money being parted from it by snake oil salesmen.