I believe the industry term is meta-analysis. It actually makes sense that it exists, as there's far too much information for one analyst or one team to analyze, especially when it crosses disciplines. At some point analysis has to trust on the other of other analysis.
It's probably in the interest of the higher-level analyst to be a natural skeptic though, since it's always a good idea to at least spot-check the work of others that one is reliant on.
So if the idea is that complex consciousness (animals, humans) derive from the consciousness of the mass of aggregated simple particles, I would think that an understanding of biological processes related to childhood development, adulthood, and then aging would seem to deny that theory. Our consciousness does not change enough over time such that it would reflect our aggregated mass and changes in the individual particles we have over our lives as our cells die-off and are replaced.
I didn't think that having written some little find-the-bomb puzzle game in the late eighties would qualify one for modern gaming unless he'd kept with the progress of game development over the last thirty years.
This isn't the first time they've had this sort of problem. What is funny though, is that we're almost to the point where there's no reason to use "smartphone" anymore since nearly all mobile phones are this type. It's like there's no need to refer to your new TV as a flatscreen TV, because all new TVs are flatscreen TVs. If they'd made this ruling about a decade ago it would make sense, but now, not so much.
But it does make for an amusing plot-point when the cop stops the truck with the spraypainted expressions on it to cite the dual-language law and help them spraypaint the truck with french translations...
Sure, and those very long distance flights are only a small part of the airline industry. There are loads of people flying within the same continent or merely crossing the Atlantic where it's not so critical to have onboard bathing facilities, and many of the most popular cities are either expanding their airports to allow for more takeoff/landing slots, or are adding additional airports in the vicinity.
In my admittedly anecdotal experience, both men and women may be actually paid more for less productivity, if they have offset that poor level of productivity by socializing with their superiors.
The world is not the meritocracy that it should be. Sharing in the boss's favorite sport or hobby or spending time with them off-hours counts far more than it should.
There cannot be perfect equality, but when one aggregates a huge sample, the statistical centers for each gender group should be roughly the same, because with a large enough sample, individual deviations for things like actual hours worked and the strengths and weaknesses for particular work-related skills should even-out. Of course there will be outliers, both people earning more and people earning less, and both types will have deserved and undeserved reasons, but for the vast majority it should statistically be about the same.
It's possible that there are careers that would favor one gender over another, but those are mostly lower-skilled jobs that require brute strength. Even a lot of low-skill jobs should be roughly at parity, because there are a lot of labor-saving devices that any able-bodied individual can use. A worker in an automotive assembly plant attaching doors to car bodies uses a gantry to pick up, move, and position the door, and probably uses a machine to drive-in and torque the fasteners. Just about anyone able-bodied that has reached adolescence could operate that machine, there is no need for greater strength or dexterity. Neither gender really has any advantage over the other in this scenario, so there should be no reason to pay either gender more than the other for this sort of work.
Which also takes us into arguments of age and experience. The youngest drivers usually have the best reaction time but may not necessarily make the best choices prior to needing to use that reaction time. The oldest drivers have the most experience with what traffic conditions are to be like but may have very poor reaction times. The sweet-spot is kind of hard to calculate but probably biases toward a youngish driver that has figured out traffic conditions but still has fast reaction times.
When I read the article summary it sounds like they want our cars to operate like trains, which all maintain the same distance (on account of mechanical coupling) and all go the exact same speed (again, mechanical coupling). Trouble is, with cars everyone has different destinations and therefore won't maintain the same speed. Cars slow to turn-off. Cars must enter the right-of-way. Not all drivers are driving for the same reason either, some enjoy driving performance vehicles, using that quick acceleration to get up to speed whenever they can, while others drive much more gently.
The argument for us all driving an exactly particular way rings of the spherical cows in a vacuum solution to a farming problem. Isn't going to work in real-world applications.
And a couple decades ago it didn't mean laptops or "notebook" computers as they were commonly known either. It also was a term that Apple fanboys attempted to avoid because of its ubiquity with Intel/compatible computers running MS-DOS and Windows.
My point is that back to the original meaning, it was a local computer that ran its own programs that wasn't operating in a multiuser capacity. It was the user's own personal computer. These modern devices do not appear to have the same cloud reliance as cell phones do, and also appear to be oriented towards general-purpose software rather than being predominantly dependent on a particular party's application repository like Android and iOS.
I suppose it depends if there's a killer app for the niche computer, where the niche computer doesn't have too many demerits to hamper its sales.
I probably wouldn't go for this kind of device myself, as I carry an overly large cell phone (Kyocera Duraforce XD) and I pair it with a folding bluetooth keyboard with touchpad and a terminal shell for Anrdroid for when I need more than basic Android stuff, or else I use an actual laptop with a 13" screen as a small portable full-featured computer. On the other hand the bluetooth keyboard with touchpad is a huge pain in the ass for slash, backslash, comma, apostrophe, tilde, question-mark, and even escape as they saved on square-inchage by making those accessible by function key. This is a problem when doing network switch maintenance as slash and comma are routine characters for interfaces and interface ranges, question-mark triggers commandline assistance, and the lack of dedicated escape key is just asinine. It's acceptable for those I'm-not-on-call-but-get-called-anyway times because those times don't happen all that much and the folded keyboard is no bigger than the cell phone, and when I am the responsible party I need not only the laptop but the other supplies too.
If I had a job that didn't require any supplies and only needed me to pound-away on a keyboard for short amounts of time at odd-hours then perhaps device like this would be on my radar, but only because it would be more portable than the laptop while still having a good physical interface.
I donno, it's difficult to get more personal than a computer that one keeps on one's person, especially when it's not a phone or some other particular special-purpose device like a cell phone.
Even if that is true, this doesn't mean that the women are culturally and possibly legally blocked from sleeping with other men. It doesn't lead to an enforced surplus of men that are chaste against their will because there are literally no available women to even compete for.
That's the problem that polygamy creates, rather than polyamory. People may choose to settle down to monogamy after playing the field, so even those who are not especially successful in their early adult years may still find someone later. Those people will be denied mates in true polygamy, since there will never be similar-age women available. They may then turn to younger women after they've established themselves financially, which then denies that generation's men the women that would normally make for natural mates, etc.
What do you do with a surplus of men that cannot find women? You have to get rid of them. War is a very efficient way to get rid of them.
Smart watches are for showing the weather, caller ID and what's next on the schedule. Doing much more than that doesn't work well due to the form factor. Certainly not anything that requires complicated inputs or a large screen.
The main reason why these are failing is because they aren't being marketed correctly and aren't focused on getting those things right. If they had those things right, they'd probably be selling far more of them.
Most people don't really need those three features enough to pay for a smartwatch. Even most technically-savvy people don't need those features. Many of those who are in that many meetings or have that many incoming calls to field are in management and may have secretaries that handle a lot of that stuff.
I don't see a killer application for the smartwatch.
A couple of coworkers have them. The screens are so small as to be nearly useless. The prolific texter frequently gets frustrated and gets his phone out because he can't reply on the watch with any accuracy. Without good interactivity they do not appear to be any more useful than as a timekeeping device. I suppose if one reads a lot of RSS feeds or twitter feeds or the like it could be a more convenient way to keep current, but when I'm at work I'm supposed to be working so I shouldn't make it even easier to get off-task.
We're at a weird crossroads with technology. We pushed for faster and higher resolution for a very long time, and now that often is at-odds with portability. I'm typing this on a very upoptioned XPS 13 with the 3200x1800 display and honestly this computer has moved a little too far in the direction of screen resolution, without scaling it's unusably high-res, and its battery life is OK but isn't astounding (admittedly with Linux). Not sure exactly what the resolution on these watches is, but on something that's one or two square inches anything over good old fashioned VGA is probably unusable, but most applications are designed for higher res than that even for smartphones. Not sure how they're supposed to overcome that for watches.
Because his companies are developing new products that are accessible to the middle-class in many cases, and disrupt the traditional pricing models across the board?
Solar City was arguably the least innovative company of the bunch but a lot of people have achieved greater energy independence because of them. Sure, other companies do solar too, but the more players, the cheaper the prices.
Tesla Motors has shown that a car company can manufacture only electric cars and manage to move models. True, they may not be profitable yet, but not only have they managed to make sales, but they've managed to stir up enough interest that other automakers are now selling multiple models of electrics and plug-in hybrids that are primary-electric instead of primary-gasoline. They've also demonstrated that electric cars can be cool looking, they don't have to be dorky like so many production vehicles have been. Tesla's influence has undoubtedly shifted the market on vehicles even if Tesla themselves doesn't survive.
SpaceX may not be accessible to the average person, but they've managed to create a paradigm shift in rocketry to the point that competitors that don't follow suit and manage to make relaunchable rockets won't be in the industry anymore. Think about it, even the price of a first-flight rocket launch will be far less if the launch company expects to land and reuse the rocket, and so far SpaceX has not had a launch failure of a used rocket in-flight. So far all payloads that saw T=0 have made it to orbit on used rockets, and I fully expect flights with used rockets to cost less than those with new ones. Access to space, formerly the purview of nations and of megacorporations, suddenly becomes accessible to smaller corporations and even to public nonprofits. Groups with ideas for space science or space settlement might actually be able to afford to test their ideas without having to convince a government agency to fund them, and science into multiple directions of research may yield unexpected positive results.
Compared what's normally launched in satellites I doubt that such materials would matter in the slightest, or if they do, then there are more fundamental problems.
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I believe the industry term is meta-analysis. It actually makes sense that it exists, as there's far too much information for one analyst or one team to analyze, especially when it crosses disciplines. At some point analysis has to trust on the other of other analysis.
It's probably in the interest of the higher-level analyst to be a natural skeptic though, since it's always a good idea to at least spot-check the work of others that one is reliant on.
and if that's the case, then why aren't the other things conscious ? Like chairs or trees, or my left buttock ?
Because you're not in politics...
So if the idea is that complex consciousness (animals, humans) derive from the consciousness of the mass of aggregated simple particles, I would think that an understanding of biological processes related to childhood development, adulthood, and then aging would seem to deny that theory. Our consciousness does not change enough over time such that it would reflect our aggregated mass and changes in the individual particles we have over our lives as our cells die-off and are replaced.
I didn't think that having written some little find-the-bomb puzzle game in the late eighties would qualify one for modern gaming unless he'd kept with the progress of game development over the last thirty years.
This isn't the first time they've had this sort of problem. What is funny though, is that we're almost to the point where there's no reason to use "smartphone" anymore since nearly all mobile phones are this type. It's like there's no need to refer to your new TV as a flatscreen TV, because all new TVs are flatscreen TVs. If they'd made this ruling about a decade ago it would make sense, but now, not so much.
But it does make for an amusing plot-point when the cop stops the truck with the spraypainted expressions on it to cite the dual-language law and help them spraypaint the truck with french translations...
Which becomes an even funnier comment when even extended ASCII code page 437 isn't fully supported on Slashdot.
Sure, and those very long distance flights are only a small part of the airline industry. There are loads of people flying within the same continent or merely crossing the Atlantic where it's not so critical to have onboard bathing facilities, and many of the most popular cities are either expanding their airports to allow for more takeoff/landing slots, or are adding additional airports in the vicinity.
...we have another employee suing because he felt discriminated-against because of policies designed to increase diversity.
You can't satisfy all of the people all of the time.
I'm referring to jobs/workers/wages in a particular field. I am not comparing different types of jobs.
In my admittedly anecdotal experience, both men and women may be actually paid more for less productivity, if they have offset that poor level of productivity by socializing with their superiors.
The world is not the meritocracy that it should be. Sharing in the boss's favorite sport or hobby or spending time with them off-hours counts far more than it should.
There cannot be perfect equality, but when one aggregates a huge sample, the statistical centers for each gender group should be roughly the same, because with a large enough sample, individual deviations for things like actual hours worked and the strengths and weaknesses for particular work-related skills should even-out. Of course there will be outliers, both people earning more and people earning less, and both types will have deserved and undeserved reasons, but for the vast majority it should statistically be about the same.
It's possible that there are careers that would favor one gender over another, but those are mostly lower-skilled jobs that require brute strength. Even a lot of low-skill jobs should be roughly at parity, because there are a lot of labor-saving devices that any able-bodied individual can use. A worker in an automotive assembly plant attaching doors to car bodies uses a gantry to pick up, move, and position the door, and probably uses a machine to drive-in and torque the fasteners. Just about anyone able-bodied that has reached adolescence could operate that machine, there is no need for greater strength or dexterity. Neither gender really has any advantage over the other in this scenario, so there should be no reason to pay either gender more than the other for this sort of work.
Which also takes us into arguments of age and experience. The youngest drivers usually have the best reaction time but may not necessarily make the best choices prior to needing to use that reaction time. The oldest drivers have the most experience with what traffic conditions are to be like but may have very poor reaction times. The sweet-spot is kind of hard to calculate but probably biases toward a youngish driver that has figured out traffic conditions but still has fast reaction times.
When I read the article summary it sounds like they want our cars to operate like trains, which all maintain the same distance (on account of mechanical coupling) and all go the exact same speed (again, mechanical coupling). Trouble is, with cars everyone has different destinations and therefore won't maintain the same speed. Cars slow to turn-off. Cars must enter the right-of-way. Not all drivers are driving for the same reason either, some enjoy driving performance vehicles, using that quick acceleration to get up to speed whenever they can, while others drive much more gently.
The argument for us all driving an exactly particular way rings of the spherical cows in a vacuum solution to a farming problem. Isn't going to work in real-world applications.
And a couple decades ago it didn't mean laptops or "notebook" computers as they were commonly known either. It also was a term that Apple fanboys attempted to avoid because of its ubiquity with Intel/compatible computers running MS-DOS and Windows.
My point is that back to the original meaning, it was a local computer that ran its own programs that wasn't operating in a multiuser capacity. It was the user's own personal computer. These modern devices do not appear to have the same cloud reliance as cell phones do, and also appear to be oriented towards general-purpose software rather than being predominantly dependent on a particular party's application repository like Android and iOS.
I suppose it depends if there's a killer app for the niche computer, where the niche computer doesn't have too many demerits to hamper its sales.
I probably wouldn't go for this kind of device myself, as I carry an overly large cell phone (Kyocera Duraforce XD) and I pair it with a folding bluetooth keyboard with touchpad and a terminal shell for Anrdroid for when I need more than basic Android stuff, or else I use an actual laptop with a 13" screen as a small portable full-featured computer. On the other hand the bluetooth keyboard with touchpad is a huge pain in the ass for slash, backslash, comma, apostrophe, tilde, question-mark, and even escape as they saved on square-inchage by making those accessible by function key. This is a problem when doing network switch maintenance as slash and comma are routine characters for interfaces and interface ranges, question-mark triggers commandline assistance, and the lack of dedicated escape key is just asinine. It's acceptable for those I'm-not-on-call-but-get-called-anyway times because those times don't happen all that much and the folded keyboard is no bigger than the cell phone, and when I am the responsible party I need not only the laptop but the other supplies too.
If I had a job that didn't require any supplies and only needed me to pound-away on a keyboard for short amounts of time at odd-hours then perhaps device like this would be on my radar, but only because it would be more portable than the laptop while still having a good physical interface.
I donno, it's difficult to get more personal than a computer that one keeps on one's person, especially when it's not a phone or some other particular special-purpose device like a cell phone.
Even if that is true, this doesn't mean that the women are culturally and possibly legally blocked from sleeping with other men. It doesn't lead to an enforced surplus of men that are chaste against their will because there are literally no available women to even compete for.
That's the problem that polygamy creates, rather than polyamory. People may choose to settle down to monogamy after playing the field, so even those who are not especially successful in their early adult years may still find someone later. Those people will be denied mates in true polygamy, since there will never be similar-age women available. They may then turn to younger women after they've established themselves financially, which then denies that generation's men the women that would normally make for natural mates, etc.
What do you do with a surplus of men that cannot find women? You have to get rid of them. War is a very efficient way to get rid of them.
Smart watches are for showing the weather, caller ID and what's next on the schedule. Doing much more than that doesn't work well due to the form factor. Certainly not anything that requires complicated inputs or a large screen.
The main reason why these are failing is because they aren't being marketed correctly and aren't focused on getting those things right. If they had those things right, they'd probably be selling far more of them.
Most people don't really need those three features enough to pay for a smartwatch. Even most technically-savvy people don't need those features. Many of those who are in that many meetings or have that many incoming calls to field are in management and may have secretaries that handle a lot of that stuff.
I don't see a killer application for the smartwatch.
A couple of coworkers have them. The screens are so small as to be nearly useless. The prolific texter frequently gets frustrated and gets his phone out because he can't reply on the watch with any accuracy. Without good interactivity they do not appear to be any more useful than as a timekeeping device. I suppose if one reads a lot of RSS feeds or twitter feeds or the like it could be a more convenient way to keep current, but when I'm at work I'm supposed to be working so I shouldn't make it even easier to get off-task.
We're at a weird crossroads with technology. We pushed for faster and higher resolution for a very long time, and now that often is at-odds with portability. I'm typing this on a very upoptioned XPS 13 with the 3200x1800 display and honestly this computer has moved a little too far in the direction of screen resolution, without scaling it's unusably high-res, and its battery life is OK but isn't astounding (admittedly with Linux). Not sure exactly what the resolution on these watches is, but on something that's one or two square inches anything over good old fashioned VGA is probably unusable, but most applications are designed for higher res than that even for smartphones. Not sure how they're supposed to overcome that for watches.
I was inspired by this 20 year old comic.
Because his companies are developing new products that are accessible to the middle-class in many cases, and disrupt the traditional pricing models across the board?
Solar City was arguably the least innovative company of the bunch but a lot of people have achieved greater energy independence because of them. Sure, other companies do solar too, but the more players, the cheaper the prices.
Tesla Motors has shown that a car company can manufacture only electric cars and manage to move models. True, they may not be profitable yet, but not only have they managed to make sales, but they've managed to stir up enough interest that other automakers are now selling multiple models of electrics and plug-in hybrids that are primary-electric instead of primary-gasoline. They've also demonstrated that electric cars can be cool looking, they don't have to be dorky like so many production vehicles have been. Tesla's influence has undoubtedly shifted the market on vehicles even if Tesla themselves doesn't survive.
SpaceX may not be accessible to the average person, but they've managed to create a paradigm shift in rocketry to the point that competitors that don't follow suit and manage to make relaunchable rockets won't be in the industry anymore. Think about it, even the price of a first-flight rocket launch will be far less if the launch company expects to land and reuse the rocket, and so far SpaceX has not had a launch failure of a used rocket in-flight. So far all payloads that saw T=0 have made it to orbit on used rockets, and I fully expect flights with used rockets to cost less than those with new ones. Access to space, formerly the purview of nations and of megacorporations, suddenly becomes accessible to smaller corporations and even to public nonprofits. Groups with ideas for space science or space settlement might actually be able to afford to test their ideas without having to convince a government agency to fund them, and science into multiple directions of research may yield unexpected positive results.
Compared what's normally launched in satellites I doubt that such materials would matter in the slightest, or if they do, then there are more fundamental problems.
T-10 - inside of the cargo bay...
T=0 - inside of the cargo bay...
T+3 - inside of the cargo bay, very mild amount of visible vibration...
T+30 - inside of the cargo bay, mild amount of visible vibration...
T+60 - inside of the cargo bay, mild amount of visible vibration...
T+120 - inside of the cargo bay, mild amount of visible vibration...
T+2400 - inside of the cargo bay, very mild amount of visible vibration...
T+3600 - inside of the cargo bay...
Like, stuffed animal cows, or like taxidermy cows? 'cause one wouldn't be enough mass and the other is a bit on the creepy side...
Well Trump said he wants to go to Mars, and SpaceX has a capsule design...