You can't sue a liquor company for your DUI conviction or because said DUI convict killed somebody else. You also can't sue the bar for not preventing you from driving drunk. Of course, drinking and smoking are all entirely optional in life. It's impossible to exist in the modern world without energy.
There is a significant benefit to using robots to make the food. Consistency and quality. I can remember the first time I had a Sourdough Jack in SoCal. The toast and the bacon was crispy and the food was hot. Apparently all of it had just been made. It's rarely been as good since. Soggy toast, severely under-cooked bacon (bacon is SUPPOSED TO BE CRISP, DAMMIT!!!). Robots won't get stoned and not care about the quality of the food. They can be programmed on the fly to make things the way the customers wants them. If you want crispy bacon and crispy fries, you program it that way. If you're someone with zero gastronomic taste and want soggy bacon and lousy fries, there's a button for that.
But here's a much better question: Why the f*ck isn't it the responsibility of the OS and browser companies to patch their security holes for free and provide their own anti-malware capability? They are the ones making the problems possible.
Given that the web as it was originally design is a lot like DOS and everything that's been grafted on top of it is crap like Windows, I'd almost rather surf in pure text mode.
Well, not internet-based updating per se. But let's say you need to update certain libraries or perhaps install a new piece of software like PHP or something. A super user has the privilege to modify stuff in the OS directory tree so you need to allow the customer or even the updater to be a super user. How do you do that without allowing them to touch stuff you don't want them to?
Sorry folks, but net neutrality should never have been foist on the country by an unelected, unaccountable regulatory agency. This and pretty much everything done in the last 8+ years and probably longer should have been put through the congressional law-making process and let the chips fall where they may. However your elected representatives and senators vote will be subject to the mercy of the voters. This is how the country is supposed to work.
So, let's say you're designing a Linux-based embedded system and you want to be able to make modifications and upgrades to the OS in the field. How do you allow for this without root access? And so what if the root user has a password? If you have to give that to a customer to perform these upgrades, that password is no longer secure.
Somehow, somewhere, some government agency has a plan to tax people based on this. They're certainly not going to let an opportunity to cover their financial asses go to waste. One could argue that the price of net neutrality was eventually going to be a national sales tax. If the government controls it, the government can tax it.
This seems to be a really niche bit of science yet somebody convinced some people that it was worth spending a lot of money on as opposed to the types of missions mere mortals can appreciate like manned missions to some place other than the ISS.
Seriously, who decides how fast is fast? If you want uninterrupted 8K Netflix movies, well, perhaps you should pay more for that because plenty of people are happy with 4K and most people only own an HD TV. Pay more for that level of service. A library probably doesn't need to stream video nor does a Starbucks. Of course, the ISPs aren't too honest about their tier performances. The basic service usually doesn't give you enough data per month to allow for nightly streaming movies. They know this too but their performance charts are nebulous at best until you get dinged for using too much data.
She was 90. The woman was a machine. 6 months after the surgery, she and my dad rebuilt a 300 foot field stone wall. The thing is that at the time I had no clue how serious her condition was. I was too busy trying to pass high-school chemistry class.
People in their 20s and 30s have no clue how far we've come. My mother (RIP) was one of the earliest recipients of a triple heart bypass in 1980. She lived another 37 years. When I was a kid, it was a big deal to have your own computer.
Putting the bullsh*t-artist CEO issue aside, is what they were trying to accomplish technically possible? Is existing medical testing simply bogged down by non-technical reasons e.g. insane bureaucracy, paperwork tsunamis, etc? I know for a fact that hospitals have a 4-to-1 ratio of non-medical staff to actual doctor/nurse medical staff which is a significant factor in the exponential rise in costs. So how bad is it in the testing realm?
15 minutes translates to different dollar amounts for different people. For the minimum wage employee, that's a few bucks. For the overpaid lawyer, that might be several hundred dollars. You do that twice a day five days a week, that adds up no matter who you are. Of course, you'd no longer be able to say that 15 minutes saved you 15% on your car insurance by switching to Geico.
Don't be too quick to pass judgement when a "news" story appears. There's a high probability that your snap judgement will be wrong a week or two after.
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IMHO, the only way something like this could succeed against Amazon or Walmart is if they scored exclusivity with certain brands and product lines.
You can't sue a liquor company for your DUI conviction or because said DUI convict killed somebody else.
You also can't sue the bar for not preventing you from driving drunk.
Of course, drinking and smoking are all entirely optional in life. It's impossible to exist in the modern world without energy.
You can't sue a company for misuse of its products.
...Someone blows smoke up your ass?
There is a significant benefit to using robots to make the food. Consistency and quality.
I can remember the first time I had a Sourdough Jack in SoCal. The toast and the bacon was crispy and the food was hot. Apparently all of it had just been made. It's rarely been as good since. Soggy toast, severely under-cooked bacon (bacon is SUPPOSED TO BE CRISP, DAMMIT!!!). Robots won't get stoned and not care about the quality of the food. They can be programmed on the fly to make things the way the customers wants them. If you want crispy bacon and crispy fries, you program it that way. If you're someone with zero gastronomic taste and want soggy bacon and lousy fries, there's a button for that.
I hear Radioshack and Sears have some retail storefront space to throw into the pot.
Then why do programs like McAfee, Kaspersky, PCMatic, etc, even exist?
But here's a much better question: Why the f*ck isn't it the responsibility of the OS and browser companies to patch their security holes for free and provide their own anti-malware capability? They are the ones making the problems possible.
Given that the web as it was originally design is a lot like DOS and everything that's been grafted on top of it is crap like Windows, I'd almost rather surf in pure text mode.
Call me crazy, but I don't want to spend money on a subscription. I practice safe web.
Well, not internet-based updating per se. But let's say you need to update certain libraries or perhaps install a new piece of software like PHP or something. A super user has the privilege to modify stuff in the OS directory tree so you need to allow the customer or even the updater to be a super user. How do you do that without allowing them to touch stuff you don't want them to?
Sorry folks, but net neutrality should never have been foist on the country by an unelected, unaccountable regulatory agency. This and pretty much everything done in the last 8+ years and probably longer should have been put through the congressional law-making process and let the chips fall where they may. However your elected representatives and senators vote will be subject to the mercy of the voters. This is how the country is supposed to work.
So, let's say you're designing a Linux-based embedded system and you want to be able to make modifications and upgrades to the OS in the field. How do you allow for this without root access? And so what if the root user has a password? If you have to give that to a customer to perform these upgrades, that password is no longer secure.
Somehow, somewhere, some government agency has a plan to tax people based on this. They're certainly not going to let an opportunity to cover their financial asses go to waste. One could argue that the price of net neutrality was eventually going to be a national sales tax. If the government controls it, the government can tax it.
This seems to be a really niche bit of science yet somebody convinced some people that it was worth spending a lot of money on as opposed to the types of missions mere mortals can appreciate like manned missions to some place other than the ISS.
Seriously, who decides how fast is fast? If you want uninterrupted 8K Netflix movies, well, perhaps you should pay more for that because plenty of people are happy with 4K and most people only own an HD TV. Pay more for that level of service. A library probably doesn't need to stream video nor does a Starbucks. Of course, the ISPs aren't too honest about their tier performances. The basic service usually doesn't give you enough data per month to allow for nightly streaming movies. They know this too but their performance charts are nebulous at best until you get dinged for using too much data.
This. A thousand times this. The title and summary assume that EVERYONE a) uses Windoze and b) uses Kodi.
A friend of mine has hearing-aids with Bluetooth. I really want to hack into them to gaslight the guy.
She was 90. The woman was a machine. 6 months after the surgery, she and my dad rebuilt a 300 foot field stone wall.
The thing is that at the time I had no clue how serious her condition was. I was too busy trying to pass high-school chemistry class.
People in their 20s and 30s have no clue how far we've come. My mother (RIP) was one of the earliest recipients of a triple heart bypass in 1980. She lived another 37 years. When I was a kid, it was a big deal to have your own computer.
Also, get off my lawn.
It's amazing to me how many people think that the US was this backwater, third-world country before 2008.
Putting the bullsh*t-artist CEO issue aside, is what they were trying to accomplish technically possible? Is existing medical testing simply bogged down by non-technical reasons e.g. insane bureaucracy, paperwork tsunamis, etc? I know for a fact that hospitals have a 4-to-1 ratio of non-medical staff to actual doctor/nurse medical staff which is a significant factor in the exponential rise in costs. So how bad is it in the testing realm?
15 minutes translates to different dollar amounts for different people. For the minimum wage employee, that's a few bucks. For the overpaid lawyer, that might be several hundred dollars. You do that twice a day five days a week, that adds up no matter who you are. Of course, you'd no longer be able to say that 15 minutes saved you 15% on your car insurance by switching to Geico.
Technically, you can build apps in Qt and run them on any device but the results can be pretty messy.
Don't be too quick to pass judgement when a "news" story appears. There's a high probability that your snap judgement will be wrong a week or two after.