“Earth needs a virtual country: #Rationalia, with a one-line Constitution: All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence[.]”
All the reaction to that tweet is based on what people assume he meant by it. This is obviously a sociologist's dream topic to discuss because it can mean whatever you want it to mean and debate it endlessly without ever reaching a conclusion.
There have been a ton of niche job boards crop up over the past few years, which are targeted to precise audiences and that are creating more competition.
In other words, he's getting his butt kicked by the competition. But he's in denial, so he blames the job market.
SD cards (and CF) are not going to be replaced in cameras any time soon so this new standard provides zero benefit to me
Existing SD cards are fast enough and have enough capacity for cameras, so yes, a UFS card won't be useful in the camera you have.
But new devices and applications will arrive in a few years that will require high speed and very large capacity. We just don't know what those devices are. Yet. I'm guessing virtual reality and AI will be involved somehow, and maybe even cold fusion (but that's a long shot).
It also requires that funky looking camera that won't fit in a pocket. But the shroud might mean it has its own light source so color accuracy could be okay.
Read between the lines. It draws 168 watts with the (old) default configuration. Draws 190 watts when overclocked. The "compatibility" mode draws less power but with lower performance - kinda sounds like they're underclocking it to reduce power draw, no?
2. "Passengers might board a capsule at a local bus station and wake up in another city on the other side of the country, or planet, after a road, air and rail journey during which they didn't leave their seat."
They are also completely ignoring why airports are called "hubs" in the first place. People travel to the airport from all different directions, it's almost always a fairly long commute by car, bus, or train. Fifty people aren't standing around in the middle of a city all waiting to take the same flight to the same destination.
a normal mirror is never going randomly cut out on you.
I've had a couple that did randomly cut out on me. While driving down the road the glass just fell off the driver's side mirror. Another time the interior mirror came unglued and dropped off the windshield.
A building with high ceilings and large windows was cooler in the summer, but very hard to heat in the winter (because warm air rises). A building with low ceilings and small windows was easier to heat in the winter but will be hot in the summer. Generous roof overhangs will shade the house in the summer when the Sun is higher but collect some heat through the windows in the winter. Same with deciduous shade trees. Many old houses had a summer kitchen out back so the cook stove wouldn't heat the house in the summer. A second stove inside the house was used in cool weather to cook and heat.
In other words, use design features that help keep the house warm in the winter but keep it cool in the summer. Not sure why that's so difficult to parse.
It might not have been made up. A lawsuit like this would have all kinds of subpoenas and discovery. That doesn't mean the lawyer could blab that information in court.
Once we settle on an initial perspective we don't seek alternative ways of looking at the problem," author Michael Michalko wrote. "Like our first impressions of people, our initial perspective on problems and situations are apt to be narrow and superficial. We see no more than we expect to see based on our past experiences in life, education and work." [...] (to highlight a contemporary example) early carmakers that went with gasoline instead of something better for the environment.
Early car designers tried all kinds of different power sources: electricity, steam, and internal combustion. It turned out that gasoline was the best alternative and hasn't (yet) been replaced by anything else. There was talk of using gas turbines for a while but they're too expensive and finicky. Maybe battery/electric will replace gasoline in the future when the technology advances to the point it's a viable alternative.
His point about air conditioning in building makes no sense either; architects design building for specific purposes - office space, retail shopping, manufacturing, whatever. New building techniques and materials are constantly being introduced. Could a building be designed for passive cooling today? Sure, but very few people would want it in place of central air conditioning. Being creative is one thing, building a product people actually want is something else entirely. And his rant about window unit air conditioners makes no sense at all; no building is designed to use window units, they're a hack. Sheesh
as opposed to northern climates that might have to shut down due to whiteout conditions for days at a time. This is why businesses tend to move to more southern areas.
Wrong on both counts. Factories in northern climates very rarely close due to weather. Municipalities have equipment to plow snow and people who live there know how to drive in it. The reason factories moved south in the US was to escape unions; same reason they're moving to Mexico and China today.
it's much cheaper to send it with enough fuel to get into orbit, then refuel in space and send it further
It might be easier to engineer a vehicle that can be boosted in two parts (payload and secondary thruster) so they can be connected while in LEO. But making fuel in space, either on the Moon or on an asteroid, makes no sense at all. Way too much infrastructure for the number of missions that will ever be flown.
Sun's main driver behind Java was to provide a language that could compete with Microsoft's Visual suite (Visual Basic and Visual C++). They had to keep tight control of the language to prevent Microsoft from usurping it (remember the J++ lawsuit?).
Sun succeeded to some extent, but it bled them to death. Their hardware couldn't compete with Intel and they weren't making any money on Java. Now Oracle is looking over their shoulder at Postgresql and not making any money on Java.
Pretty much every big city has adequate public transportation. It doesn't work well at all in less congested areas because there will never be enough riders on all the different routes that would make it useful.
that engineer probably was under severe pressure to get the thing out the door with absolutely minimal development time in the first place
If you believe that I have a bridge in New York to sell you. Chinese company sells a product that opens your network to a server conveniently located in China. I have a hard time believing that was a mistake.
novel animations it used to guide you through the app -- tap on a link and it would unfold like a letter; pull down on the story and it would fold back up, returning you to the feed.
Maybe a little animated paper clip would have made it more successful. Or maybe users just don't want crap like that wasting their time.
If you read the original study you'll see that the author expected women to do better when the interviewer thought they were male. But that didn't happen, they actually did worse. And men did better when the interviewer thought they were female.
What one might conclude is that women are given some leeway, but the same responses from a man are knocked down.
So the author fell back to a different study which shows women in general do worse than men, and concludes that it must be because of discrimination even though her own study indicated otherwise
Pretty sure there were no Libertarians involved in this
I can't tell if that was an overly subtle attempt a parody, but don't confuse Liberals (a.k.a. Democrats or Libtards) with Libertarians. Completely different philosophies.
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“Earth needs a virtual country: #Rationalia, with a one-line Constitution: All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence[.]”
All the reaction to that tweet is based on what people assume he meant by it. This is obviously a sociologist's dream topic to discuss because it can mean whatever you want it to mean and debate it endlessly without ever reaching a conclusion.
There have been a ton of niche job boards crop up over the past few years, which are targeted to precise audiences and that are creating more competition.
In other words, he's getting his butt kicked by the competition. But he's in denial, so he blames the job market.
That would seem like a reasonable complement
He admitted that was a lie
But you believe him when he says he lied to you last time? Why?
First off, what does removable storage have to do with any of the things you mentioned? Cold fusion? Seriously?
Same as removable storage has to do with a telephone, camera, or music player. And the cold fusion part was a joke that whooshed right over you.
In any case make a storage standard that is backwards compatible with current standards.
They don't want you to add storage to an existing device. They want you to buy a shiny new device every couple of years.
SD cards (and CF) are not going to be replaced in cameras any time soon so this new standard provides zero benefit to me
Existing SD cards are fast enough and have enough capacity for cameras, so yes, a UFS card won't be useful in the camera you have.
But new devices and applications will arrive in a few years that will require high speed and very large capacity. We just don't know what those devices are. Yet. I'm guessing virtual reality and AI will be involved somehow, and maybe even cold fusion (but that's a long shot).
I can see no flaw in that plan.
Well, other than not having any revenue. But they'll make it up in volume.
her solution does one other thing
It also requires that funky looking camera that won't fit in a pocket. But the shroud might mean it has its own light source so color accuracy could be okay.
I had Hughes for a while. Way too much lag for VPN or VoIP.
Read between the lines. It draws 168 watts with the (old) default configuration. Draws 190 watts when overclocked. The "compatibility" mode draws less power but with lower performance - kinda sounds like they're underclocking it to reduce power draw, no?
2. "Passengers might board a capsule at a local bus station and wake up in another city on the other side of the country, or planet, after a road, air and rail journey during which they didn't leave their seat."
They are also completely ignoring why airports are called "hubs" in the first place. People travel to the airport from all different directions, it's almost always a fairly long commute by car, bus, or train. Fifty people aren't standing around in the middle of a city all waiting to take the same flight to the same destination.
a normal mirror is never going randomly cut out on you.
I've had a couple that did randomly cut out on me. While driving down the road the glass just fell off the driver's side mirror. Another time the interior mirror came unglued and dropped off the windshield.
A building with high ceilings and large windows was cooler in the summer, but very hard to heat in the winter (because warm air rises). A building with low ceilings and small windows was easier to heat in the winter but will be hot in the summer. Generous roof overhangs will shade the house in the summer when the Sun is higher but collect some heat through the windows in the winter. Same with deciduous shade trees. Many old houses had a summer kitchen out back so the cook stove wouldn't heat the house in the summer. A second stove inside the house was used in cool weather to cook and heat.
In other words, use design features that help keep the house warm in the winter but keep it cool in the summer. Not sure why that's so difficult to parse.
It might not have been made up. A lawsuit like this would have all kinds of subpoenas and discovery. That doesn't mean the lawyer could blab that information in court.
Once we settle on an initial perspective we don't seek alternative ways of looking at the problem," author Michael Michalko wrote. "Like our first impressions of people, our initial perspective on problems and situations are apt to be narrow and superficial. We see no more than we expect to see based on our past experiences in life, education and work." [...] (to highlight a contemporary example) early carmakers that went with gasoline instead of something better for the environment.
Early car designers tried all kinds of different power sources: electricity, steam, and internal combustion. It turned out that gasoline was the best alternative and hasn't (yet) been replaced by anything else. There was talk of using gas turbines for a while but they're too expensive and finicky. Maybe battery/electric will replace gasoline in the future when the technology advances to the point it's a viable alternative.
His point about air conditioning in building makes no sense either; architects design building for specific purposes - office space, retail shopping, manufacturing, whatever. New building techniques and materials are constantly being introduced. Could a building be designed for passive cooling today? Sure, but very few people would want it in place of central air conditioning. Being creative is one thing, building a product people actually want is something else entirely. And his rant about window unit air conditioners makes no sense at all; no building is designed to use window units, they're a hack. Sheesh
as opposed to northern climates that might have to shut down due to whiteout conditions for days at a time. This is why businesses tend to move to more southern areas.
Wrong on both counts. Factories in northern climates very rarely close due to weather. Municipalities have equipment to plow snow and people who live there know how to drive in it. The reason factories moved south in the US was to escape unions; same reason they're moving to Mexico and China today.
it's much cheaper to send it with enough fuel to get into orbit, then refuel in space and send it further
It might be easier to engineer a vehicle that can be boosted in two parts (payload and secondary thruster) so they can be connected while in LEO. But making fuel in space, either on the Moon or on an asteroid, makes no sense at all. Way too much infrastructure for the number of missions that will ever be flown.
Sun's main driver behind Java was to provide a language that could compete with Microsoft's Visual suite (Visual Basic and Visual C++). They had to keep tight control of the language to prevent Microsoft from usurping it (remember the J++ lawsuit?).
Sun succeeded to some extent, but it bled them to death. Their hardware couldn't compete with Intel and they weren't making any money on Java. Now Oracle is looking over their shoulder at Postgresql and not making any money on Java.
Or it might face the same fate as Hitchbot
No the fans of "globalization" are rubbing their hands in glee
"Globalists" are the "One World Government" crowd, they are on the opposite end of the political spectrum from corporate globalization.
Pretty much every big city has adequate public transportation. It doesn't work well at all in less congested areas because there will never be enough riders on all the different routes that would make it useful.
that engineer probably was under severe pressure to get the thing out the door with absolutely minimal development time in the first place
If you believe that I have a bridge in New York to sell you. Chinese company sells a product that opens your network to a server conveniently located in China. I have a hard time believing that was a mistake.
novel animations it used to guide you through the app -- tap on a link and it would unfold like a letter; pull down on the story and it would fold back up, returning you to the feed.
Maybe a little animated paper clip would have made it more successful. Or maybe users just don't want crap like that wasting their time.
If you read the original study you'll see that the author expected women to do better when the interviewer thought they were male. But that didn't happen, they actually did worse. And men did better when the interviewer thought they were female.
What one might conclude is that women are given some leeway, but the same responses from a man are knocked down.
So the author fell back to a different study which shows women in general do worse than men, and concludes that it must be because of discrimination even though her own study indicated otherwise
Libtards are self inflicting
Pretty sure there were no Libertarians involved in this
I can't tell if that was an overly subtle attempt a parody, but don't confuse Liberals (a.k.a. Democrats or Libtards) with Libertarians. Completely different philosophies.