Well its most likely not going to be humans flying these things, at least at first. And if they did fly them they will be highly automated. Its not hard to setup a new infrastructure computer system that controls the sky level that these things will be flying in, different levels have different directions. When you fly over the treetops and buildings, your obstacle avoidance isn't that hard. There will be virtual roads seen by the heads up display in the flying car thing, so you will see roads boundaries and stoplights and other traffic that is tagged and entrance and exit ports. Watch The Fifth Element for some flying excitement. 100 years from now we will all be amazed how we ever got along without flying cars.
Ok so the Stock started at $178.42. The Stock Ended the day at: $169.90 (Low of $133.00)
The Snap IPO filing also discloses a lot of elements of the Snapchat company that may scare investors off, or at least they should. For one thing, there's the shareholder-unfriendly corporate governance structure that gives 26-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel near absolute control, or the fact that Snap says it doesn't have any intention of paying cash dividends, possibly ever. or how absurdly expensive it will be, Snapchat has reportedly been seeking a $25 billion valuation. Snapchat's parent company is asking for a valuation of nearly 62 times its revenue. (Snap lost $515 million last year, or 38% more than it lost in 2015. )
Snap warns in its IPO filing that its expenses are also increasing rapidly, and could outpace revenue growth for a long time. The number of Snapchat employees for one, more than tripled to 1,859 in 2016.
Investors are betting on a future dream of earnings that is still so far away, it may disappear before that day ever comes.
So where is the growth? Snap's sales are growing fastest in other parts of the world besides the U.S. and Europe, increasing 53% in the fourth quarter year over year there, but only 39% in North America. Still, the U.S. and North America account for about 90% of Snap's overall revenue.
Probably best to wait a bit on this to see what happens.
So how will this affect 3D movies? The main selling point for going to the theater was that you can watch it in 3D, at a higher ticket price. But now that the after market will be going away, will they still continue to make 3D movies? When I watch a 3D movie, I see it there, but after the movie is over, it's not like I remember the 3D effect.
So if you go to a movie in a Theater, say you pay for 2 people and popcorn and all of that. about $60 these day. Then when the move comes out instead of paying for it again..you just download it, is that still piracy? and I spend alot on going to movies mind you, like twice a week, to support the kinds of movies I would like to keep seeing.
Lets discriminate against robots before they are here. I can't see anything wrong with that...And god forbid we get an emotional attachment to one. And define a robot for me? Kill switch on a thermostat?
AI will be used by both good and bad people, just like the internet and you can't stop it and you can't put in controls so that it only makes the decisions you want. Do we have $10 million dollars to show that all of the teachers on the planet make good decisions for the kids they teach? No, all you can do is test them and verify that they have some soft of formal education. So I guess all the AI's will have to take the ethical 101 course if they are going to be used in the public.
I started out programming Apple II+ and while it was fun learning assembly and peeks and pokes and breaking apart everything, you just could not do what you can today. (I consider that generation of kids in the 1980's to be the first digital generation.) Yes I know trying to stuff all that code into 64K was something you just can't do today, but the programs are more complex and the hardware is more complex. Its like saying well Black and White TV was great and the shows were great.. yes, but HD TV in color is much crisper and nicer, people don't remember what analog TV is anymore and how bad the picture was.
Put yourself in this position, as I do on several occasions. If you had to go back to your younger years, what device would you take with you to make programming more fun then?
Yes everything was new and that generation has lived through one of those periods in human kind where things where a first. Like when they first discovered how to fly, do you think it was more fun then to fly then now?
Today there is so much available, books and code and game engines, graphics cards, mico-controllers, Linux, that one person can use to do almost anything, and do it quite fast... It is so easy to get a good education without going to school with so much online. I wish I had all this when I was a kid, There is so much fun stuff to do today, so many new ideas, games, apps and ways to go about doing it that I can't write systems fast enough to do all those ideas I want to do. Try building and running a Neural Network in 1982 and tell me that was fun compared to what you can do today.
Give me today and the future over living in nostalgia and only remember the good fun new things.
The only constant is change.
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I mean really, what is the deal? Do they not provide a service that everyone enjoys and uses and a much lower rate with better service than the local taxi service that doesn't even have an app? I don't understand why drivers expect to get all these benefits for working part time, they signed on to work for them, they can get another job if they don't like the situation, or they just expect that because it's a big company they should get more? then the prices for fares will rise.
I think this is more political, and the lobbyists are not getting their kickbacks like they do from local taxi companies.
Change is always hard when your the one getting squeezed out..
Who gets all this free money? I will probably be collected over years, but what does it go for to reduce the deficit? Why not give it to the people to help spur the economy, or use it to find the Mars missions or something positive, instead of some layers pockets.
It wasn't 50 Terabytes of data, it was drives that were capable of storing 50 Terabytes of data or 500 million pages of documents.
By extrapolation, 50 terabytes can hold 500 million pages. SO they are charging him with the max.
It doesn't mean there was that much info, there could be 1 document on the drive. He had like a dozen drives.
But he had stuff sitting in plain site in his car, so didn't look like he cared to protect it. Not sure why it took so long to catch him.
Can someone tell me where in the DNA sequence that information is stored? And how did they prove that it really is a result of those genes? Where are the published papers for this?
People in dire situations will come up with amazing discoveries that will change the way the world works.
If you start giving everyone a little something to feel good, then they won't want to go out and change things.
The way that people need to think and see the future needs to change, and welcome the change. It really is only going to get better as people move on to other jobs that were not there before.
There are so many areas that need people to create new industries and make changes. This is a global economy, you want jobs back here, then figure out a way to make it cheaper here in the US.
If your doing a routine task that can be automated or exported, then yes you are at risk and should start thinking about how to change what your doing.
But if the thing in the VR world your in is so real that it seems like the real thing?
Or another person in the VR world that you are interacting with. isn't that human contact?
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Well its most likely not going to be humans flying these things, at least at first. And if they did fly them they will be highly automated. Its not hard to setup a new infrastructure computer system that controls the sky level that these things will be flying in, different levels have different directions. When you fly over the treetops and buildings, your obstacle avoidance isn't that hard. There will be virtual roads seen by the heads up display in the flying car thing, so you will see roads boundaries and stoplights and other traffic that is tagged and entrance and exit ports. Watch The Fifth Element for some flying excitement. 100 years from now we will all be amazed how we ever got along without flying cars.
Ok so the Stock started at $178.42.
The Stock Ended the day at: $169.90 (Low of $133.00)
The Snap IPO filing also discloses a lot of elements of the Snapchat company that may scare investors off, or at least they should.
For one thing, there's the shareholder-unfriendly corporate governance structure that gives 26-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel near absolute control,
or the fact that Snap says it doesn't have any intention of paying cash dividends, possibly ever.
or how absurdly expensive it will be, Snapchat has reportedly been seeking a $25 billion valuation.
Snapchat's parent company is asking for a valuation of nearly 62 times its revenue. (Snap lost $515 million last year, or 38% more than it lost in 2015. )
Snap warns in its IPO filing that its expenses are also increasing rapidly, and could outpace revenue growth for a long time. The number of Snapchat employees for one, more than tripled to 1,859 in 2016.
Investors are betting on a future dream of earnings that is still so far away, it may disappear before that day ever comes.
So where is the growth?
Snap's sales are growing fastest in other parts of the world besides the U.S. and Europe, increasing 53% in the fourth quarter year over year there, but only 39% in North America. Still, the U.S. and North America account for about 90% of Snap's overall revenue.
Probably best to wait a bit on this to see what happens.
Elite Scientists my A** they have probably already been taken over by the AI's.... "Do not panic all is ok..."
So how will this affect 3D movies? The main selling point for going to the theater was that you can watch it in 3D, at a higher ticket price. But now that the after market will be going away, will they still continue to make 3D movies? When I watch a 3D movie, I see it there, but after the movie is over, it's not like I remember the 3D effect.
So if you go to a movie in a Theater, say you pay for 2 people and popcorn and all of that. about $60 these day. Then when the move comes out instead of paying for it again..you just download it, is that still piracy? and I spend alot on going to movies mind you, like twice a week, to support the kinds of movies I would like to keep seeing.
Lets discriminate against robots before they are here. I can't see anything wrong with that...And god forbid we get an emotional attachment to one. And define a robot for me? Kill switch on a thermostat?
AI will be used by both good and bad people, just like the internet and you can't stop it and you can't put in controls so that it only makes the decisions you want. Do we have $10 million dollars to show that all of the teachers on the planet make good decisions for the kids they teach? No, all you can do is test them and verify that they have some soft of formal education. So I guess all the AI's will have to take the ethical 101 course if they are going to be used in the public.
Yes when you have a global currency, then there are many more factors to take into account for the value of that currency.
I started out programming Apple II+ and while it was fun learning assembly and peeks and pokes and breaking apart everything, you just could not do what you can today. (I consider that generation of kids in the 1980's to be the first digital generation.) Yes I know trying to stuff all that code into 64K was something you just can't do today, but the programs are more complex and the hardware is more complex. Its like saying well Black and White TV was great and the shows were great.. yes, but HD TV in color is much crisper and nicer, people don't remember what analog TV is anymore and how bad the picture was. Put yourself in this position, as I do on several occasions. If you had to go back to your younger years, what device would you take with you to make programming more fun then? Yes everything was new and that generation has lived through one of those periods in human kind where things where a first. Like when they first discovered how to fly, do you think it was more fun then to fly then now? Today there is so much available, books and code and game engines, graphics cards, mico-controllers, Linux, that one person can use to do almost anything, and do it quite fast... It is so easy to get a good education without going to school with so much online. I wish I had all this when I was a kid, There is so much fun stuff to do today, so many new ideas, games, apps and ways to go about doing it that I can't write systems fast enough to do all those ideas I want to do. Try building and running a Neural Network in 1982 and tell me that was fun compared to what you can do today. Give me today and the future over living in nostalgia and only remember the good fun new things. The only constant is change.
But what is going to happen to all those people that stand outside the doors asking for money? They can't ask the drones now...
If I won $5 million in the Lottery, then I would re-invest it all in the Lottery to win the $50 million.. $5 million just doesn't cut it today..
That's about the price of a new Fighter Jet built in the USA...
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Just hope it's streaking away from us and not towards us...
Ask the Scrap-hiaparelli Mars mission how they tested their system..
I mean really, what is the deal? Do they not provide a service that everyone enjoys and uses and a much lower rate with better service than the local taxi service that doesn't even have an app? I don't understand why drivers expect to get all these benefits for working part time, they signed on to work for them, they can get another job if they don't like the situation, or they just expect that because it's a big company they should get more? then the prices for fares will rise. I think this is more political, and the lobbyists are not getting their kickbacks like they do from local taxi companies. Change is always hard when your the one getting squeezed out..
Who gets all this free money? I will probably be collected over years, but what does it go for to reduce the deficit? Why not give it to the people to help spur the economy, or use it to find the Mars missions or something positive, instead of some layers pockets.
Yes they want to hook Siri up to your home and you just ask Siri and it will figure out the rest for you...
It wasn't 50 Terabytes of data, it was drives that were capable of storing 50 Terabytes of data or 500 million pages of documents. By extrapolation, 50 terabytes can hold 500 million pages. SO they are charging him with the max. It doesn't mean there was that much info, there could be 1 document on the drive. He had like a dozen drives. But he had stuff sitting in plain site in his car, so didn't look like he cared to protect it. Not sure why it took so long to catch him.
Can someone tell me where in the DNA sequence that information is stored? And how did they prove that it really is a result of those genes? Where are the published papers for this?
Yea we spend all that "Extra" work time fighting with the windows 10 machine,
And would these UBI people pay Income Tax? If not, then that is a huge tax base to loose.
People in dire situations will come up with amazing discoveries that will change the way the world works. If you start giving everyone a little something to feel good, then they won't want to go out and change things. The way that people need to think and see the future needs to change, and welcome the change. It really is only going to get better as people move on to other jobs that were not there before. There are so many areas that need people to create new industries and make changes. This is a global economy, you want jobs back here, then figure out a way to make it cheaper here in the US. If your doing a routine task that can be automated or exported, then yes you are at risk and should start thinking about how to change what your doing.
But if the thing in the VR world your in is so real that it seems like the real thing? Or another person in the VR world that you are interacting with. isn't that human contact?
Yes people have lost that old Hacker attitude to do stuff just to see if they can...