Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
This is clearly not a long term solution, the oceans are warming and that is already causing concerns. Sticking a bunch of immersion heaters in the ocean is not exactly going to help.
Even worse, what if they build one of these near R'lyeh ? He might wake up from the warmth.
Considering the number of so-called "private collectors" of fine art who happily buy stolen paintings or sculptures valued in the millions, then store them in secret vaults, I'm not in the least surprised that there are similar assholes in the software world.
If you care about the beauty, fire, and color of your jewelry, buy CZ (cubic zirconia). It's got higher dispersion, hence more color and sparkle than diamond, and costs next to nothing. I will grant that, at present, since people insist on equating cost with quality, it's difficult to find CZ stones faceted as well as diamonds. But if your evaluation of your ring/earrings/necklace depends on its cost, then by all means continue buying less beautiful diamonds instead of CZ.
Second question: if we enact laws giving robots "human rights," as some, ahem, particular kinds of people suggest, now can they be called "scabs" ?
Personally, despite my strong support for unions, I can't support this action. If robots are acceptable to the casino customers and their TCO is less than for people, then the union should have no control over this decision. Unions should (hah) be concerned with job qualities such as safety, pay level, benefits; not with the existence of jobs.
Exactly. "Live" spellchecking - wiggly underlines or whatever -- is only a distraction and serves no good purpose whatsoever. Best thing to do is turn it off in every app that has it. I hate it worse than I hate Clippy.
Is this a joke? I'm all for double spacing after periods, but if you don't know that HTML collapses whitespace you're a clown or you're pretending to be one.
Is that a joke? If I type some stuff into a text box and ask it to get posted, I expect it to be posted exactly as-is. The failure here is of some codemonkey to write a rendering tool so that multiple space chars are passed to HTML with whatever control characters are needed to make the output look like the input. I should not need to know anything about HTML to be able to post this response exactly as written.
You might as well say that anyone who doesn't know that curly quotes get bollixed.... oh, wait....
[please let me knw] when the tourists are robots -- that will be real news!
Yeah, how could you tell the difference?
Wait, that gives me an idea for a TV series. SmithsonianWorld where near-perfect androids help you through a recreated museum-walk experience, plus you can kill them or have sex with them. Until Maeve breaks protocol and trouble ensues.
You must have paid someone to type what you said, because nobody that stupid could handle a computer. Contact lenses provide drastically better vision, over a full field of view, without secondary reflections, without distortion, without stress on nose or ears... ahhh, forget it. You're beyond help.
I remember seeing an article somewhere about converting meth back into a decongestant.
That article was satire, written by an accomplished chemical engineer who knew how to write it so it looked completely technical. For better or worse, converting meth into pseudoephedrine is not realistically possible.
Adult supervision is the top priority, but given that inattention happens, a couple comments on achieving decent pool safety.
For toddlers too little to understand rules, you need properly functioning fences and self-closing gates. Don't let anyone bring a toddler inside the gate unless you have reason to believe they (the adult) are capable of proper supervisory action. For older kids, idiots will die. For your own kids, get them swimming lessons, and even more important teach them that they are never ever to go to the pool without an adult present. Again, idiots will die.
In fact, adults should observe the same rule: never ever go swimming, anywhere, without another capable adult present. I know of people who drowned after suffering a heart attack or an epileptic fit while swimming alone. People who can't follow safety rules die. YCFS
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it doesn't distinguish l and I ... the same shape to represent two different letters.
"One" is a number, not a letter.
Duuuude.... the first is a capital "i" and the second is a lower-case "L" . 'mkay?
Also, "One' is a word describing the ordinal number. Nyah.
Smith: If you get a raise, can I have one too?
Boss: Absolutely!
Said no boss ever.
But I have to ask: is this Smith, Winston, or Smith, Matrix?
Just substitute "operating system" for "car" .
Narrator:
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane:
Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator:
You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane:
Which car company do you work for?
Narrator:
A major one.
This is clearly not a long term solution, the oceans are warming and that is already causing concerns. Sticking a bunch of immersion heaters in the ocean is not exactly going to help.
Even worse, what if they build one of these near R'lyeh ? He might wake up from the warmth.
It is all about watercooling, man...
So, since they're cooling PC boards, is it ....
waterboarding?
Considering the number of so-called "private collectors" of fine art who happily buy stolen paintings or sculptures valued in the millions, then store them in secret vaults, I'm not in the least surprised that there are similar assholes in the software world.
If you care about the beauty, fire, and color of your jewelry, buy CZ (cubic zirconia). It's got higher dispersion, hence more color and sparkle than diamond, and costs next to nothing. I will grant that, at present, since people insist on equating cost with quality, it's difficult to find CZ stones faceted as well as diamonds.
But if your evaluation of your ring/earrings/necklace depends on its cost, then by all means continue buying less beautiful diamonds instead of CZ.
And how the heck do you milk a cockroach?
Same way you water a horse amirite?
First question: can robots be called "scabs" ?
Second question: if we enact laws giving robots "human rights," as some, ahem, particular kinds of people suggest, now can they be called "scabs" ?
Personally, despite my strong support for unions, I can't support this action. If robots are acceptable to the casino customers and their TCO is less than for people, then the union should have no control over this decision. Unions should (hah) be concerned with job qualities such as safety, pay level, benefits; not with the existence of jobs.
Exactly. "Live" spellchecking - wiggly underlines or whatever -- is only a distraction and serves no good purpose whatsoever. Best thing to do is turn it off in every app that has it. I hate it worse than I hate Clippy.
Is this a joke? I'm all for double spacing after periods, but if you don't know that HTML collapses whitespace you're a clown or you're pretending to be one.
Is that a joke? If I type some stuff into a text box and ask it to get posted, I expect it to be posted exactly as-is. The failure here is of some codemonkey to write a rendering tool so that multiple space chars are passed to HTML with whatever control characters are needed to make the output look like the input. I should not need to know anything about HTML to be able to post this response exactly as written.
You might as well say that anyone who doesn't know that curly quotes get bollixed.... oh, wait....
What genius modded this Insightful? The story is about a 4E5 year cycle and you think astrologers in the last 3k years observed effects?
Like we had a choice.
Certainly no choice on our business machines.
Certainly no choice on the machines all our nontechie relatives bought.
What if all of those people with those names turn to ashes?
So you're going all Picture of Dorian Grey on us?
Or the sequel which was really stinky -- Picture of Durian Gray
[please let me knw] when the tourists are robots -- that will be real news!
Yeah, how could you tell the difference?
Wait, that gives me an idea for a TV series. SmithsonianWorld where near-perfect androids help you through a recreated museum-walk experience, plus you can kill them or have sex with them. Until Maeve breaks protocol and trouble ensues.
Tyranny.
The French call it the inquisitorial system.
No no no, that's the Spanish!
I herd SSDs are silent and mostly immune to vibration.
How can you herd them if they are silent?
Just gather them up in a coral. A sheep dog can help with that.
That won't work either. All the coral is dying.
Contact Lenses are primarily for vanity purposes.
You must have paid someone to type what you said, because nobody that stupid could handle a computer. Contact lenses provide drastically better vision, over a full field of view, without secondary reflections, without distortion, without stress on nose or ears... ahhh, forget it. You're beyond help.
I remember seeing an article somewhere about converting meth back into a decongestant.
That article was satire, written by an accomplished chemical engineer who knew how to write it so it looked completely technical.
For better or worse, converting meth into pseudoephedrine is not realistically possible.
Adult supervision is the top priority, but given that inattention happens, a couple comments on achieving decent pool safety.
For toddlers too little to understand rules, you need properly functioning fences and self-closing gates. Don't let anyone bring a toddler inside the gate unless you have reason to believe they (the adult) are capable of proper supervisory action.
For older kids, idiots will die. For your own kids, get them swimming lessons, and even more important teach them that they are never ever to go to the pool without an adult present. Again, idiots will die.
In fact, adults should observe the same rule: never ever go swimming, anywhere, without another capable adult present. I know of people who drowned after suffering a heart attack or an epileptic fit while swimming alone.
People who can't follow safety rules die. YCFS
Just ask Elon Musk and one of his most recent ventures.
".... send fake tirades..."
How could anyone tell them from the real thing? I mean, unless the fake ones contained, like, real data or real science.
I dropped in there and didn't see any front page or "new" items of absurdity.
Bummed. may not get out of bed until next April 1.
Blinn's Law is never wrong.
... wondering what Muphry's [sic] Law has to say about that.
Cellocgw's Law: Cellocgw's Law is always wrong.
beat that!
And it's "wary" ("leary" works, too; "weary" does not).
No, "leary" only works in the next story (LSD yada yada).
"leery" works hear [sic]