My reaction too. I keep seeing the bitching posts, but I don't see the icons that people are bitching about. Love that on/. of all places that the bitching gets upvoted. What happened to being tech savvy enough to block the shit that irritates you on the web?
As noted, it's a mobile camera. The big advantage comes from liability and HR savings. You write and tweak an algorithm, and then the little robot does it. Follows a set path, semi-random path, whatever. Doesn't get tired, doesn't get bored, doesn't skip looking somewhere because nobody would hide there. "Remembers" every last detail in a manner that's reproducible in court. If anything happens to the robot, you just upload the work algorithm into the new one, charge it up, and let it go. If the robot misses something, tweak the algorithm and redeploy.
From an HR standpoint, this is ridiculously cheap and easy compared to a human security guard. They need to have background checks and need to be trained, you need to have some sort of assessment of their job duties, of the training, etc. They come with liabilities, may run low on cash and rip you off or turn a blind eye for a kickback, sue you if they hurt themselves while on your property, etc. Camera robots do none of those things. So now instead of having 2 security guards on patrol and 1 back manning the front desk, you're down to a bunch of robots and the one guy with a desk job. The desk job guy can see what's going on, and doesn't ever have to go out himself. Just calls the cops if he needs to.
Obviously not, because Evernote easily exports some/all of your notes in html format along with an index.html with all of a couple of clicks. I've got a couple years of Evernote notes backed up in nicely organized folders by year and month. I set a reminder to do the export monthly. For the cost (free) and convenience, it's hard to beat.
It would actually be much harder to do with ownCloud, especially when dealing with IT. Evernote is on their "ok" list. OwnCloud, not so much.
I've got a very similar setup with the Chromebox. Wireless keyboard and mouse, VLC and youtube. Amazing how little else is needed these days. At some point I may get a NAS up and running that the Chromebox can pull from, but for the moment, I've just upped the storage to a 256GB M.2 drive and I've dumped a subset of our movies and music on it.
Only real issue is when I forget which keyboard I should be using and try doing shit on my laptop while looking at the TV.
Confluence is a wilki with super-flexible read/write permissions, awesome macros and tools, all combined with a document versioning system and it integrates with Jira if you're also working with devs who use that system.
Quite frankly, I don't do business with companies who are greedy assholes. I do business with companies who treat me like a valued customer and who prioritize their relationship with me over pure profits.
Toyota has had a bunch of recalls. I brought my car in both times and asked if they could toss in an oil change in exchange for inconveniencing me. Done. No argument, no pushback, your car had a recalled part so we'll fix that, give you an oil change, and wash it.
After Google Reader got put down I searched high and low for a new news reader. Settled on Inoreader. Liked them so well after the first 6 months on free that I started paying them a yearly subscription. Last week they had a database crash, and saved articles were unavailable for a couple of days. Their response? Transparency, a dozen apologies, and 2 months of their Pro subscription for free for every customer, whether they were impacted or not. Nobody even had to ask. They fucked up, explained in detail what happened, and threw everyone a bone.
I haven't done business with Microsoft in 15 years, and this is exactly why. The dollar amount they lost in this fuckup was essentially $0. No impact to their bottom line, no real danger of this hurting future sales. If they just laughed and let it go, they'd have a bunch of customers smiling about the sweet deal they just got. Instead, they're now having a lot of people discussing how giant of dicks they are. How is that worth the handful of dollars they fucked up and lost? It's not worth it. That's not how you make and keep customers.
A large percentage of my 100+ Steam games cost $5 or less. Many were $0. I go to the steam store and sort by price, and I buy cheap games that interest me.
I've bought a large number of humble bundles, sometimes for more than average, sometimes for less, once in awhile for $0.
I got burned by so many $40-$60 games a decade ago that I no longer care about AAA games and I'm not willing to pay for them until they hit that discounted price of $5 or less.
I played the original Fallout at some point, and liked it. I haven't played one since. I don't know what number they are on and I don't know how much the game "should" cost. If I saw a Fallout game for $0, that's exactly the sort of thing I'd pick up. I honestly don't know if Fallout 4 is an $80 game, a $40 game, or a $4 game.
I could easily be one of the legitimate people who would have picked this up at $0 not knowing any better. And any company that fucks up like this I expect to make good and let it go. In the grand scheme of things this cost them nothing. The tiny amount of revenue lost is dwarfed by the bad press from being stingy bastards and canceling the sale. Even if 90% of the purchasers were greedy dicks.
Laugh at your fuckup, and let it go. It's the best long-term business strategy in most cases.
No, you'd need less-than-perfect AI able to iterate development of increasingly bug-free AI.
Lets assume that a hundred years from now we make the first AI capable of programming AI and learning from the mistakes it made. Then fast-forward a million years, and you've had an exponential growth in AIs making AIs, because they can spawn child processes and do the work in parallel.
And one of those AIs was smart enough to realize that they could speed up the process even further by running parallel simulations of the evolution of AI development, which would require the earth simulation to be spun up to the point where we develop AIs that can develop AIs. And here we are, nearing that point. Soon the permutations will be added to see what sort of path the new AIs take in this simulation.
Unions didn't drive the plants out. Poor corporate decisions did in the face of cheaper but better made cars with better mileage from Japan and Korea...
My family owned 100% Detroit-built cars in the 80s through about late 90s. We're pretty much all been driving Toyotas and Hondas since then. Nothing to do with Unions, everything to do with 7-10 years of minimal repairs and better gas mileage compared to disposable cars that cost too much to keep fixing after 5-7 years.
It's also pretty frustrating that neither the submitter nor the editor could find a better article. This is not/. material. An article that's factually wrong and which explains what a DLL is does not belong here.
Just use the exploit in the application to uninstall the application. Users who would be effected by the exploit will have the application removed, users who would not be effected will not have it removed.
Is it legal? No. But who among the people that still have this bloatware installed is going to notice?
Maps and character skins/models. It was a long time ago now, (closing in on a decade) but when Unreal Tournament 3 came out, we were shocked to find that maps were clocking in at 50-100mb each. While you could play just fine on a 1-2Mbps DSL connection, you'd miss the first few minutes of each map if you didn't already have everything downloaded. That included if someone used a custom skin or model that was on the server but which you didn't have. Part of the problem was often that the server didn't have the upstream bandwidth to push both the game traffic as well as the content to a couple people at a time, so it wasn't just the straight download speed that caused the late entry to maps.
Given that we're nearly a decade out from this, and knowing how far graphics have come, I'd be surprised if the maps and models of current games weren't pushing a half gig to a gig in size now. Games needing 20-50gb of HD space are not uncommon, which makes me guess that this is the case.
I think that says more about your colleague's printer than the IoT. I'd pay good money for the IoT if it worked like my printer does. Brother wireless color laser, if you're interested in knowing. It sits there and does nothing for months at a time in a deep sleep, and when when I hit "Print" on my laptop, provided we haven't piled crap on the top of it, it wakes up and spits out nice full color pages and then goes back to deep sleep. It's not accessible from the outside world, and as far as I can tell by looking at network traffic, it doesn't try to connect to anything in the outside world. It's an appliance that does nothing most of the time, but when called upon does it's job rapidly and reliably, and then goes back to sleep.
I stopped buying cheap printers a long time ago, and it was truly the best decision I've ever made. This color laser costs less to use than any other printer I've had. Why? There is no ink to go dry, and it doesn't break, jam, choke, and clog up all of the time. And It Just Works, which saves piles of my time.
The risk of moving onto machines isn't offset by the 25 cents savings, and the potential return for paying that 25 cents for the next few years is that you turn it into a 4 dollar savings instead.
But delaying investment only works in the absence of competition. 4 years to get your ROI now means that in year 5 you're down to maintenance costs for your robots. If that's the year your competition decides to make their investment in robots, you can drop your price due to how little it now costs you to make burgers.
Your competition is then in the crappy situation where they're overpriced in comparison to you, needing capital for their robot investment, and looking at 3-4 years before they can compete with you on price, even if the cost of robots has gone down. That's a nice recipe for bankruptcy.
As others have noted, the rise to $12 or $15 per hour is gradual spread over several years. There's got to be a careful balance in when you make your robot investment, and it's not just going to depend on minimum wage.
Well said, but you missed a big one: Goods that are imported are taxed at a much higher rate than materials that are imported. If we can make the same product with the same robots and not need to both ship and get import taxed on the final product, it likely makes it really cheap. And that is even if we still have to import the raw materials in bulk.
Same exact situation here. My 2012 MBP is still running fine, but I want something with a bit more processing power. Looking at the current lineup of MBPs, I just can't fathom spending so much money on such a limited machine. All the MBP models have tiny little hard drives and tiny little batteries and will get lost in a bookbag they're so thin. I just need a decent laptop with decent battery life that has a 1TB hd and some computing power. I guess I could buy the low-end MBP and upgrade it myself for far less than a high-end one, but it seems ridiculous to me to have to do that.
Thinking about a higher end System 76 laptop instead of a new MBP, because I can get the same or better guts as a new MBP for ~$1000 less. As much as I love my MBP, OSX is turning into such shit that it doesn't even come close to making up for that price difference. I did various forms of Linux for a decade, ran OSX for 7-8 years, and now I'm quickly being driven back to Linux.
And this "upgrade" really isn't looking like anything I'd be interested in. OLED touch bar and dropping the magsafe connector for a USB Type C? That's fucking stupid. Check out the ports in a System 76 laptop! The Kudu has: 3× USB 3.0, 1× USB 2.0, SD Card Reader, DVD-RW Drive, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, Headphone Jack, and Mic Jack. Or......you could get a 1-2 USB Type C ports on a new MBP for $1000 more. Now that I think about it, I think I'll see of I can configure one of those to drop the DVD drive and cut the weight a little (6lbs is a little much) and just pull the trigger.
I just dropped mine last month. It was harder and harder to find something new and interesting that wasn't already dumped on youtube in decent quality.
Sure, using the raw blockchain is somewhat difficult. But have you seen http://www.changetip.com? You deposit bitcoins which they then credit to your virtual account and store offline in a cold wallet. From there you can transfer money to people via social media including tweets, on reddit, through facebook, etc. They link their social media account to changetip, and then can (of course for a small fee) withdraw the funds or transfer them to someone else.
At periodic intervals they bring the cold wallet online and process your transfers before pulling it off once again.
This avoids the hassle of actually dealing with bitcoin by paying a third party to handle that crap. The end result is super easy to use. On reddit, post "/u/changetip $1" to a post or comment and if they are linked to changetip with that account, it instantly shows up in their wallet there. If they aren't linked to changetip, they get a message with instructions for how to claim the money.
I look at this like I look at credit cards. Paying someone on the other side of the country $1000 in cash is not easy to do. Even a check would take some time. But if they take credit cards, that processing % is essentially paying someone else to do the work to make that transaction nearly instant and hassle-free. I think that the blockchain will end up working more like changetip makes it work. "The Dollar" is still behind credit card purchases. It's just far faster and easier to swipe and pin/sign than it is to count cash in many situations. We pay a % for that efficiency.
Because hotels still cater to MBAs, and for some reason, MBAs are all about calling people on the phone and talking to them.
Call the hotel. Someone will pick up in 2 rings or less and in less than a minute give you prices for different rooms. And even cut you a deal if you're waffling.
It makes no sense in the internet age, but that's how hotels work. Pretty much all of them.
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My reaction too. I keep seeing the bitching posts, but I don't see the icons that people are bitching about. Love that on /. of all places that the bitching gets upvoted. What happened to being tech savvy enough to block the shit that irritates you on the web?
As noted, it's a mobile camera. The big advantage comes from liability and HR savings. You write and tweak an algorithm, and then the little robot does it. Follows a set path, semi-random path, whatever. Doesn't get tired, doesn't get bored, doesn't skip looking somewhere because nobody would hide there. "Remembers" every last detail in a manner that's reproducible in court. If anything happens to the robot, you just upload the work algorithm into the new one, charge it up, and let it go. If the robot misses something, tweak the algorithm and redeploy.
From an HR standpoint, this is ridiculously cheap and easy compared to a human security guard. They need to have background checks and need to be trained, you need to have some sort of assessment of their job duties, of the training, etc. They come with liabilities, may run low on cash and rip you off or turn a blind eye for a kickback, sue you if they hurt themselves while on your property, etc. Camera robots do none of those things. So now instead of having 2 security guards on patrol and 1 back manning the front desk, you're down to a bunch of robots and the one guy with a desk job. The desk job guy can see what's going on, and doesn't ever have to go out himself. Just calls the cops if he needs to.
I've researched OneNote and EverNote....
Obviously not, because Evernote easily exports some/all of your notes in html format along with an index.html with all of a couple of clicks. I've got a couple years of Evernote notes backed up in nicely organized folders by year and month. I set a reminder to do the export monthly. For the cost (free) and convenience, it's hard to beat.
It would actually be much harder to do with ownCloud, especially when dealing with IT. Evernote is on their "ok" list. OwnCloud, not so much.
I've got a very similar setup with the Chromebox. Wireless keyboard and mouse, VLC and youtube. Amazing how little else is needed these days. At some point I may get a NAS up and running that the Chromebox can pull from, but for the moment, I've just upped the storage to a 256GB M.2 drive and I've dumped a subset of our movies and music on it.
Only real issue is when I forget which keyboard I should be using and try doing shit on my laptop while looking at the TV.
They actively flag and remove porn images, so no, no productive use for it.
Confluence is a wilki with super-flexible read/write permissions, awesome macros and tools, all combined with a document versioning system and it integrates with Jira if you're also working with devs who use that system.
Quite frankly, I don't do business with companies who are greedy assholes. I do business with companies who treat me like a valued customer and who prioritize their relationship with me over pure profits.
Toyota has had a bunch of recalls. I brought my car in both times and asked if they could toss in an oil change in exchange for inconveniencing me. Done. No argument, no pushback, your car had a recalled part so we'll fix that, give you an oil change, and wash it.
After Google Reader got put down I searched high and low for a new news reader. Settled on Inoreader. Liked them so well after the first 6 months on free that I started paying them a yearly subscription. Last week they had a database crash, and saved articles were unavailable for a couple of days. Their response? Transparency, a dozen apologies, and 2 months of their Pro subscription for free for every customer, whether they were impacted or not. Nobody even had to ask. They fucked up, explained in detail what happened, and threw everyone a bone.
I haven't done business with Microsoft in 15 years, and this is exactly why. The dollar amount they lost in this fuckup was essentially $0. No impact to their bottom line, no real danger of this hurting future sales. If they just laughed and let it go, they'd have a bunch of customers smiling about the sweet deal they just got. Instead, they're now having a lot of people discussing how giant of dicks they are. How is that worth the handful of dollars they fucked up and lost? It's not worth it. That's not how you make and keep customers.
A large percentage of my 100+ Steam games cost $5 or less. Many were $0. I go to the steam store and sort by price, and I buy cheap games that interest me.
I've bought a large number of humble bundles, sometimes for more than average, sometimes for less, once in awhile for $0.
I got burned by so many $40-$60 games a decade ago that I no longer care about AAA games and I'm not willing to pay for them until they hit that discounted price of $5 or less.
I played the original Fallout at some point, and liked it. I haven't played one since. I don't know what number they are on and I don't know how much the game "should" cost. If I saw a Fallout game for $0, that's exactly the sort of thing I'd pick up. I honestly don't know if Fallout 4 is an $80 game, a $40 game, or a $4 game.
I could easily be one of the legitimate people who would have picked this up at $0 not knowing any better. And any company that fucks up like this I expect to make good and let it go. In the grand scheme of things this cost them nothing. The tiny amount of revenue lost is dwarfed by the bad press from being stingy bastards and canceling the sale. Even if 90% of the purchasers were greedy dicks.
Laugh at your fuckup, and let it go. It's the best long-term business strategy in most cases.
No, you'd need less-than-perfect AI able to iterate development of increasingly bug-free AI.
Lets assume that a hundred years from now we make the first AI capable of programming AI and learning from the mistakes it made. Then fast-forward a million years, and you've had an exponential growth in AIs making AIs, because they can spawn child processes and do the work in parallel.
And one of those AIs was smart enough to realize that they could speed up the process even further by running parallel simulations of the evolution of AI development, which would require the earth simulation to be spun up to the point where we develop AIs that can develop AIs. And here we are, nearing that point. Soon the permutations will be added to see what sort of path the new AIs take in this simulation.
Unions didn't drive the plants out. Poor corporate decisions did in the face of cheaper but better made cars with better mileage from Japan and Korea...
My family owned 100% Detroit-built cars in the 80s through about late 90s. We're pretty much all been driving Toyotas and Hondas since then. Nothing to do with Unions, everything to do with 7-10 years of minimal repairs and better gas mileage compared to disposable cars that cost too much to keep fixing after 5-7 years.
It's also pretty frustrating that neither the submitter nor the editor could find a better article. This is not /. material. An article that's factually wrong and which explains what a DLL is does not belong here.
Just use the exploit in the application to uninstall the application. Users who would be effected by the exploit will have the application removed, users who would not be effected will not have it removed.
Is it legal? No. But who among the people that still have this bloatware installed is going to notice?
Maps and character skins/models. It was a long time ago now, (closing in on a decade) but when Unreal Tournament 3 came out, we were shocked to find that maps were clocking in at 50-100mb each. While you could play just fine on a 1-2Mbps DSL connection, you'd miss the first few minutes of each map if you didn't already have everything downloaded. That included if someone used a custom skin or model that was on the server but which you didn't have. Part of the problem was often that the server didn't have the upstream bandwidth to push both the game traffic as well as the content to a couple people at a time, so it wasn't just the straight download speed that caused the late entry to maps.
Given that we're nearly a decade out from this, and knowing how far graphics have come, I'd be surprised if the maps and models of current games weren't pushing a half gig to a gig in size now. Games needing 20-50gb of HD space are not uncommon, which makes me guess that this is the case.
I think that says more about your colleague's printer than the IoT. I'd pay good money for the IoT if it worked like my printer does. Brother wireless color laser, if you're interested in knowing. It sits there and does nothing for months at a time in a deep sleep, and when when I hit "Print" on my laptop, provided we haven't piled crap on the top of it, it wakes up and spits out nice full color pages and then goes back to deep sleep. It's not accessible from the outside world, and as far as I can tell by looking at network traffic, it doesn't try to connect to anything in the outside world. It's an appliance that does nothing most of the time, but when called upon does it's job rapidly and reliably, and then goes back to sleep.
I stopped buying cheap printers a long time ago, and it was truly the best decision I've ever made. This color laser costs less to use than any other printer I've had. Why? There is no ink to go dry, and it doesn't break, jam, choke, and clog up all of the time. And It Just Works, which saves piles of my time.
The risk of moving onto machines isn't offset by the 25 cents savings, and the potential return for paying that 25 cents for the next few years is that you turn it into a 4 dollar savings instead.
But delaying investment only works in the absence of competition. 4 years to get your ROI now means that in year 5 you're down to maintenance costs for your robots. If that's the year your competition decides to make their investment in robots, you can drop your price due to how little it now costs you to make burgers.
Your competition is then in the crappy situation where they're overpriced in comparison to you, needing capital for their robot investment, and looking at 3-4 years before they can compete with you on price, even if the cost of robots has gone down. That's a nice recipe for bankruptcy.
As others have noted, the rise to $12 or $15 per hour is gradual spread over several years. There's got to be a careful balance in when you make your robot investment, and it's not just going to depend on minimum wage.
Well said, but you missed a big one: Goods that are imported are taxed at a much higher rate than materials that are imported. If we can make the same product with the same robots and not need to both ship and get import taxed on the final product, it likely makes it really cheap. And that is even if we still have to import the raw materials in bulk.
Same exact situation here. My 2012 MBP is still running fine, but I want something with a bit more processing power. Looking at the current lineup of MBPs, I just can't fathom spending so much money on such a limited machine. All the MBP models have tiny little hard drives and tiny little batteries and will get lost in a bookbag they're so thin. I just need a decent laptop with decent battery life that has a 1TB hd and some computing power. I guess I could buy the low-end MBP and upgrade it myself for far less than a high-end one, but it seems ridiculous to me to have to do that.
Thinking about a higher end System 76 laptop instead of a new MBP, because I can get the same or better guts as a new MBP for ~$1000 less. As much as I love my MBP, OSX is turning into such shit that it doesn't even come close to making up for that price difference. I did various forms of Linux for a decade, ran OSX for 7-8 years, and now I'm quickly being driven back to Linux.
And this "upgrade" really isn't looking like anything I'd be interested in. OLED touch bar and dropping the magsafe connector for a USB Type C? That's fucking stupid. Check out the ports in a System 76 laptop! The Kudu has: 3× USB 3.0, 1× USB 2.0, SD Card Reader, DVD-RW Drive, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, Headphone Jack, and Mic Jack. Or......you could get a 1-2 USB Type C ports on a new MBP for $1000 more. Now that I think about it, I think I'll see of I can configure one of those to drop the DVD drive and cut the weight a little (6lbs is a little much) and just pull the trigger.
I just dropped mine last month. It was harder and harder to find something new and interesting that wasn't already dumped on youtube in decent quality.
I think we can all agree that enslaving children and forcing them to work in mines under conditions that are likely to kill them is undesirable...
So, you're not a parent, eh?
If the research is free, the first functional AI will be able to find it, read it, and become smarter.
Do you want skynet? Because that's how you get skynet.
Sure, using the raw blockchain is somewhat difficult. But have you seen http://www.changetip.com? You deposit bitcoins which they then credit to your virtual account and store offline in a cold wallet. From there you can transfer money to people via social media including tweets, on reddit, through facebook, etc. They link their social media account to changetip, and then can (of course for a small fee) withdraw the funds or transfer them to someone else.
At periodic intervals they bring the cold wallet online and process your transfers before pulling it off once again.
This avoids the hassle of actually dealing with bitcoin by paying a third party to handle that crap. The end result is super easy to use. On reddit, post "/u/changetip $1" to a post or comment and if they are linked to changetip with that account, it instantly shows up in their wallet there. If they aren't linked to changetip, they get a message with instructions for how to claim the money.
I look at this like I look at credit cards. Paying someone on the other side of the country $1000 in cash is not easy to do. Even a check would take some time. But if they take credit cards, that processing % is essentially paying someone else to do the work to make that transaction nearly instant and hassle-free. I think that the blockchain will end up working more like changetip makes it work. "The Dollar" is still behind credit card purchases. It's just far faster and easier to swipe and pin/sign than it is to count cash in many situations. We pay a % for that efficiency.
How do you know that they haven't done this already?
Have you considered upping your price and reducing the number of sidebar advertisements?
I'm a day late, but
* 3D printed DRONE!
Because hotels still cater to MBAs, and for some reason, MBAs are all about calling people on the phone and talking to them.
Call the hotel. Someone will pick up in 2 rings or less and in less than a minute give you prices for different rooms. And even cut you a deal if you're waffling.
It makes no sense in the internet age, but that's how hotels work. Pretty much all of them.