If taxis are so much better than car ownership, why haven't they taken over already? I can't see how the self-driving aspect will improve the convenience or lower the price of a ride enough to make a revolutionary difference.
GP could not have designed systems to educate 7 million children without the technology we have today. Was that technology designed and marketed with the goal of educating children? No, but that's the beauty of advancing technology which you are missing.
If a project expands our base of knowledge or makes technology more affordable we will see other applications grow out of it, regardless of what the short term goal of the initial project was,
I suppose it depends on whether you consider Theranos a successful scam that could only happen in Silicon Valley, or a massive failure which could only happen at that magnitude in Silicon Valley.
Well, it's an app with something over 300 million active users, so I expect there's more to it than tossing a VoIP app out on github. But obviously you know more about how the company should be run than the company itself.
As far as the 400 "redundant" people, than just means they're closing the office and moving the work elsewhere, not that 400 people aren't needed somewhere.
I'd use precise rather than accurate though. It can measure time intervals very precisely, but if it was set to the wrong time in the first place it isn't accurate.
What are they going to do, kick the door in? Break a window? It's not like stealing a 1963 Volkswagen. Unless you've already taken control of it from the ground I doubt there would be any way for a person to get inside and do anything.
You just repeated the point that the scientists made: humans are consuming the larger forms of marine life at an unsustainable pace.
There is hope though. Whales have made quite a recovery since the Russians stopped slaughtering them. International agreements on fishing can make a difference.
The threat the city has made is to sue Verizon unless Verizon caves into the city's demands voluntarily.
What I don't understand is why this is even a story on slashdot, nothing has happened until a suit has been filed. I suppose any story about a big evil mobile network provider is good clickbait.
Yes and no. The maximum salary for an ambassador is under $200k, so a wealthy donor certainly isn't in it for the money. In fact they usually end up spending far more than that out of their own pockets to keep up appearances.
A new grant, with a total budget of 120 million euro, will allow public authorities to purchase state-of-the art equipment, for example a local wireless access point.
Well, it will have been state-of-the-art at some point in time before it was purchased. It will be obsolescent by the time it's installed.
There are few analysts who would argue that Tesla or SpaceX could not raise money by selling equity; they're both very valuable companies.
The analyst in the linked article disagrees. He's selling Tesla and SolarCity short because he thinks they're way overpriced. If the bubble bursts the option of selling equity to raise the cash they need becomes much more difficult. Think it can't happen? Look at what happened to Enron and Theranos.
Ambassadors are largely ceremonial posts, there's no reason to fret about who gets them.
The DNC's problem is that they got caught anointing Hillary as the candidate, completely taking the choice away from voters. That and milking donors to support her and her only.
They're usually not quite lined up due to the inclination of the Moon's orbital plane relative to the plane of the ecliptic, but they're close enough. An eclipse happens occasionally when the Moon lines up exactly with the Earth and the Sun.
Isn't that the whole point of good Sci-Fi -- to light our imagination with possibilities?
That's true of all fiction. The problem with science fiction is that its fans lose track of the "fiction" part and start thinking what they read is real or possible.
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If taxis are so much better than car ownership, why haven't they taken over already? I can't see how the self-driving aspect will improve the convenience or lower the price of a ride enough to make a revolutionary difference.
Okay, I'll correct myself to say he didn't point what looked like a gun at them in a manner that made them think he was going to shoot them.
I feel sorry for the operators who don't get any credit.
If you had bothered to read the first sentence of the summary you would know that they did get credit.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies used a robot to stealthily snatch a rifle from an attempted murder suspect
He also wasn't shooting at them.
Agreed. One could argue that the gold rush attitude in Silicon Valley is partly to blame but scams were certainly not invented there.
Is there anybody who makes significant use of hardcopies anymore?
25,000 pages of emails.
Hey, you asked the question!
GP could not have designed systems to educate 7 million children without the technology we have today. Was that technology designed and marketed with the goal of educating children? No, but that's the beauty of advancing technology which you are missing.
If a project expands our base of knowledge or makes technology more affordable we will see other applications grow out of it, regardless of what the short term goal of the initial project was,
I suppose it depends on whether you consider Theranos a successful scam that could only happen in Silicon Valley, or a massive failure which could only happen at that magnitude in Silicon Valley.
Nobody disagrees that cruise missiles and UAVs will play bigger and bigger roles in the future. But the future isn't here yet.
Well, it's an app with something over 300 million active users, so I expect there's more to it than tossing a VoIP app out on github. But obviously you know more about how the company should be run than the company itself.
As far as the 400 "redundant" people, than just means they're closing the office and moving the work elsewhere, not that 400 people aren't needed somewhere.
diminishes over distance? Maybe even non-lineally?
How about in free fall. And yes, we all know gravity is the reason it stays in constant free fall.
There's nothing wrong with the word exactitude.
I'd use precise rather than accurate though. It can measure time intervals very precisely, but if it was set to the wrong time in the first place it isn't accurate.
What are they going to do, kick the door in? Break a window? It's not like stealing a 1963 Volkswagen. Unless you've already taken control of it from the ground I doubt there would be any way for a person to get inside and do anything.
Style is all about overpriced stuff people can't or won't buy because of the price tag. That's the whole pint of designer labels.
You just repeated the point that the scientists made: humans are consuming the larger forms of marine life at an unsustainable pace.
There is hope though. Whales have made quite a recovery since the Russians stopped slaughtering them. International agreements on fishing can make a difference.
"For some reason, though, Ajit wrote that his internet speed test app still worked"
When I read that in the summary I assumed the "some reason" was because someone told him it would work.
The threat the city has made is to sue Verizon unless Verizon caves into the city's demands voluntarily.
What I don't understand is why this is even a story on slashdot, nothing has happened until a suit has been filed. I suppose any story about a big evil mobile network provider is good clickbait.
Yes and no. The maximum salary for an ambassador is under $200k, so a wealthy donor certainly isn't in it for the money. In fact they usually end up spending far more than that out of their own pockets to keep up appearances.
A new grant, with a total budget of 120 million euro, will allow public authorities to purchase state-of-the art equipment, for example a local wireless access point.
Well, it will have been state-of-the-art at some point in time before it was purchased. It will be obsolescent by the time it's installed.
There are few analysts who would argue that Tesla or SpaceX could not raise money by selling equity; they're both very valuable companies.
The analyst in the linked article disagrees. He's selling Tesla and SolarCity short because he thinks they're way overpriced. If the bubble bursts the option of selling equity to raise the cash they need becomes much more difficult. Think it can't happen? Look at what happened to Enron and Theranos.
Ambassadors are largely ceremonial posts, there's no reason to fret about who gets them.
The DNC's problem is that they got caught anointing Hillary as the candidate, completely taking the choice away from voters. That and milking donors to support her and her only.
They're usually not quite lined up due to the inclination of the Moon's orbital plane relative to the plane of the ecliptic, but they're close enough. An eclipse happens occasionally when the Moon lines up exactly with the Earth and the Sun.
Isn't that the whole point of good Sci-Fi -- to light our imagination with possibilities?
That's true of all fiction. The problem with science fiction is that its fans lose track of the "fiction" part and start thinking what they read is real or possible.
Shocked that someone felt the need to ask that question. Censorship and propaganda are as old as politics.
The prairie dogs that live around there are a well known vector.