No they weren't. The price of a newspaper in 1915 was $.05 for Sunday. Today, the NYT costs $5 for Sunday. Adjusting $.05 from 1915 gives $1.17 today. So the cost of newspapers has risen dramatically from then.
Two hundred years ago they were more rare but still available to anyone in a decent sized city.
You were also right. They carried a great deal of news. Spanish-American War (1898) anyone? Reporters (Hemingway) on the field. Same for the Boxer Rebellion (1898) in China.
I don't think the world would have known about every single one that got smashed.
You moved the goalposts. *He* said "A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you'd never even hear about it.". The 'you' in there doesn't refer to the world but the next village over.
As long as your definition of enormous is a few acres, you are correct. What it takes more than space is time and work. Lots of time and work to plant and maintain, then harvest. And, after harvest (spring->fall}, it must be preserved for winter. Takes a lot of t/w.
My wife had a foggy dream of being self-sustaining. I wasn't interested in being a farmer. She gave up on the idea very quickly.
Inventor David Shepard appears on a 1959 episode of "I've Got a Secret" [with demonstration] with the secret "I invented a machine that read and writes." Mr. Shepard is considered to be the inventor of the first OCR (Optical Character Recognition) machine, though that term is not used here.
So, it's been around too long for him. What we appear to have with crediting Kurzweil with inventing OCR is a moving of goal posts to accommodate his tech instead of the fundamental idea and implementation.
A search on "OCR inventor" yields the name Emanuel Goldberg as the inventor of Optical Character Recognition (1931).
So Kurzweil moved it into a more modern computer, he didn't invent OCR per se.
It's not about the machine, it's about the human. They may not have much significance in a one sentence comment but they certainly have significance in a long (what should be) multi-paragraph one.
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Quelle surprise - That's because that's called theft.
Did you check your state laws? A contract can contain pretty much anything. Doesn't mean it's enforceable.
They deserve to enjoy it if and only if hey don't screw it up. Then they deserve those desserts.
I'm sure it doesn't. Now what?
When you tie the yoke around your own neck you deserve no pity.
No they weren't. The price of a newspaper in 1915 was $.05 for Sunday. Today, the NYT costs $5 for Sunday. Adjusting $.05 from 1915 gives $1.17 today. So the cost of newspapers has risen dramatically from then.
Two hundred years ago they were more rare but still available to anyone in a decent sized city.
You were also right. They carried a great deal of news. Spanish-American War (1898) anyone? Reporters (Hemingway) on the field. Same for the Boxer Rebellion (1898) in China.
You moved the goalposts. *He* said "A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you'd never even hear about it.". The 'you' in there doesn't refer to the world but the next village over.
As long as your definition of enormous is a few acres, you are correct. What it takes more than space is time and work. Lots of time and work to plant and maintain, then harvest. And, after harvest (spring->fall}, it must be preserved for winter. Takes a lot of t/w.
My wife had a foggy dream of being self-sustaining. I wasn't interested in being a farmer. She gave up on the idea very quickly.
For instance:
So, it's been around too long for him. What we appear to have with crediting Kurzweil with inventing OCR is a moving of goal posts to accommodate his tech instead of the fundamental idea and implementation.
A search on "OCR inventor" yields the name Emanuel Goldberg as the inventor of Optical Character Recognition (1931).
So Kurzweil moved it into a more modern computer, he didn't invent OCR per se.
Everyone else is *not* getting poorer They're not gaining wealth as quickly as the rich. Not at all the same thing.
Some of. Some is. Neither has any relevance to the manner in which farmers comport themselves.
So... Could you point us to some good scifi?
Seriously though. As someone else said, this is just a meat measuring contest and won't mean a thing pretty much next year even.
Mine is a XXXXXXX monitor.
Difference is, you can choose. I can scrub my machine and switch OS's.
Boobies. How disingenuous of you.
"before long superior in taste and tone" That part's a pipe dream and an oxymoron if you're imitating meat.
"The comment quality of this site gets worse every single day."
And you've shown that to be true.
Apples and oranges. Airbags and seat belts are designed to be of use during an already underway accident. Autopilot caused the accident.
It's perhaps worth less than his re comments in Linux that he is involved with. Your opinion is of equal worth otherwise. He's not a god, he's a guy.
It's not about the machine, it's about the human. They may not have much significance in a one sentence comment but they certainly have significance in a long (what should be) multi-paragraph one.
"or jump into an FPS" - LOL Truer words...
Sir, I salute you and will be using that in the future. Many thanks.
Utter bullshit. Many TVs come with a plethora of connector types. I've used TVs for my monitors for at least a decade now.
Yet again bullshit. My machine is a tower with five fans and you can barely hear it. Don't buy cheapass fans.
One last time, bullshit. Don't project your woman's unreasonableness onto those of the rest of us.
Unfortunately, no one can determine your overall view.