Dude, it's Burning Man! You are paying someone to sit in the desert, discard your gadgets, and feel good about yourself! Not since Tom Sawyer tricked half his town into white-washing his fence for him has there been a bigger scam than Burning Man 2017!
You obviously spend too much time in the Center Camp Cafe doing acroyoga. You should try actually getting out and doing something.
Was clever and original enough when is started, for a few years, back in the 90s. Now? An over-priced Disneyland for Marketing Execs going through their second childhood or third divorce...
Ya, if you were there for the driving wrecklessly through the desert, shooting guns, blowing things up, and going to hot springs, there is the annual DPW BBQ, 4th of Juplaya where you can do all the things you could do in the early 90's that you can't do now. If you are there for the art, the things that are there now so outclass what was there in the 90's that it's not even funny. A little less dangerous perhaps as we don't have Camp Semen's industrial art shows or the Molotov Cocktail Throwing Range any more.
There's a wee bit of difference between getting drunk for an evening and a week of vacation with no phone coverage at all, in the days most crucial for the company's survival (in this case, getting bought out so they can continue to scam).
It used to be the case that Burning Man was pretty much made everybody incommunicado, but not these days. Cell phone coverage now is pretty constant and even usable during the daytime by anybody (although maybe not reliably). There are even wifi spots if you look around for them and make friends with the owners. Even as much as twenty years ago, the Burning Man org had their own lines of communication out that were pretty easy to access, especially for "important people". All you had to do is register as a journalist and you had access to a nice little room with connections to the outside world and AC so you could send info back to whoever you were working for. I did so just because, and also got access to absinth parties with Larry Harvey and the other top tier of Burning Man. If people are there without phone coverage at all, then it's because they simply refuse to communicate with the outside world, which is typically what I do.
Hardware made in China, but the firmware, OS and software are made in the U.S.A. and other not-China countries.
Is the hardware made in China now? I've seen breakdowns from when the iPad came out and the hardware was mostly made in Taiwan, Korea, and Japan and assembled in China.
Another example is the Traveller RPG; published in 1977, and set in a future where human and alien civilizations spanned a significant part of the galaxy, ship's computers take up a minimum of 14 cubic meters of volume in the ship -- a starship of 400 tons displacement with a medium-size computer system would have it taking up 56 cubic meters of volume -- four 'tons' in the design process -- and this computer can only run eight programs simultaneously. It's like having ENIAC on your ship.
Which is fairly realistic for mature server setup running mission critical programs needed to keep you from dying. Once you include racks, redundant systems, cooling, the actual computers, data storage, and routers, and depending on the ship floorplan, space to access them, 14 cubic meters is a modest server room. The programs are all things controlling the vast systems of a space ship including calculating various jump space coordiantes needed to travel lightyears in normal space in a week, probably with reduntdant systems because if something goes wrong, ship is destroyed and everybody dies (which is a risk even then if things are done sloppily). The tech is mature so even with increase of tech level, you don't get much more efficiency out of newer models.
As a former pizza delivery driver, we remember who tips and who doesn't. That does matter as we often take the orders, also help make the pizzas, in many cases route them, and decide in what order they get delivered in once out the door.
To be honest, I'm curious why someone hasn't already looked into tapping underground magma pools for power sources. If practical, it seems like a low-impact method to get a large amount of power.
Lots of people have. Trouble is that geothermal isn't all that clean or easy. Unless it's a closed system, there are all sorts of minerals and other items that go into the water, corrode equipment, and brings toxic elements back to the surface.
I'm old enough to remember when they made you pay for this "mouse" thingy that nobody had asked for and nobody wanted.
Don't forget when they made us all pay for the uncommon and expensive 3.5" floppies rather than the ubiquitous 5.24" floppies that was the industry standard. I won't even go into how they tied up system resources with a GUI.
I am sure that somewhere between the slaughter and you seeing them cut it, there will be a point they could do it.
You don't pump meat full of water, it starts that way. Typically meat is aged and dried to lose water and become more flavorful. If the meat is filled with more water, then it is probably fresher (but also less flavorful).
Not to get too personal, but could you list a few you supported, both some that succeeded and some that failed? or the 'type' of product if you can?
Not the original poster, but I've also probably kickstarted a hundred projects, and I can't think of any that have failed. Some that were way over due, perhaps by a year or two, but so far I have gotten what I was expecting or am at least getting updates and progress is being made. Of course, I'm mainly kickstarting books, video games, RPGs, miniatures, and a few art projects that will give you swag as thanks. From the podcasts I've been listening too, board games also seem to have a good return in high quality products. Enough that they are declaring this a new golden age of boardgames as they have more new boardgames than they can find time to play.
The main failures seem to be in tech products, especially for things that seem cutting edge. Besides the inherent risks of people who have never done manufacturing before, there are all sorts of things that can kill something including success. Mainly, it just seems like they get all coked up and believe their own hype but can't produce their product in the end.
I trust that they have built the regenerative system heavily. Driving a truck down a hill is where truck drivers earn their money, and drivers will love them if they make that job easy.
Hell, if the regenerative breaking system is able to draw out enough power, drivers will want it if just for additional breaking on mountain passes.
Having been the IT guy assigned to help people fulfill these roles. First off, I would assume the request got mangled and by time it reached the person that needed to do the work, it is probably confused if not unintelligible. See, they talk to their lawyers, their lawyers talk to NASA's lawyers who talk to the administration who send the request down to lower administration who send it to who they think need to do the work who eventually talks to somebody who knows what email is. All the way, there is a big game of telephone as each group redefines the request in their particular language while concealing what they think needs to be concealed for legal and privacy reasons. Take the summary for example. "all emails from a specific NASA email address" Is that sent from or received from? By time the instructions gets to the person that is supposed to do the work, no telling what they are actually asking for. Even if you're the admin over the person that uses that email, sent emails can reside on on the local machine only and possibly not any server depending on how things are set up. How much due dilligence needs to be taken? What about that one computer that crashed and they lost all their sent mail? What if multiple people use that email? Hell, even if it's a simple request and makes it to somebody, they might not know how to do the search. Perhaps they sent nice instructions for searching on Outlook on a PC with instructions stating "use these instructions exactly" but the person in question uses Mail App on a Mac? That has happened too.
NOW you want me to pay for a streaming service full of shit that a little kid wont watch, and a bigger kid wont watch as well??
LOL fuck you and good luck with that crap
It's worse than that. They want you to pay for a streaming service full of their movies and your little kid will pick their favorite and play it over and over and over till you have all the songs memorized and are driven insane. Judging by the tone of your post, that may have already happened.
Ya, it usually takes UNIX to do something like that. I remember one job, I was given and account on the company application and told I was an admin so I could fix the problems that we had just discussed. The boss then told me to get in there and look around. One of the choices was Email, so I went into email as the application had it's own email system (which as not attached to the outside world so it was just used for internal communication). Then I was greeted with 8 or 9 options such as Read Email. So I read my email of which there was already 30 or so, but most were just department wide things and only a few were actually addressed to me. I got out of the Read function and noticed that down below was Delete All Email, right above Create Email Folder. I thought that I could get rid of most of what was spam anyway, so I hit Delete All Email. It asked "Do you want to Delete All Email?" and I said yes. It then said "Deleting Email...Deleting Email...Deleteing Email" and went on for quite some time. Then the phone calls started coming in. Seems that option was to delete all email on the server, not just my own. Only admins get that option, of which I was one. I felt bad even though my boss had been telling people not to use that system for quite some time. I felt a little less bad when another newbie did the exact same thing two years later.
What would be an even more interesting feature is if you held down a certain key sequence (three long, three short, three long sounds good...SOS) and the phone instantly wiped itself by shorting out the flash memory and destroying itself. You wouldn't have your $1000 computer in your pocket anymore, but you'd have to decide if that was worth less than the evidence the police could have obtained.
That could be possible proof that you destroyed evidence though. I think I'd rather see something like multiple passcodes combined with a way to mark files or features as "special encrypted". One pass code unlocks everything while another unlocks everything but the specially marked items. Of course, such a system would have to obfuscate that there are multiple passcodes and encrypted items while also no overwriting the protected spaces while not fully unlocked.
Which of those is illegal, and under which statutes?
I doubt he has done much illegal if anything. If you were in on a conspiracy to collude with the Russian, would you let Mister Rage Tweet in on it? Unless they come up with some financial thing unrelated with the Presidency, the worst he is probably responsible for is firing Comey in an attempt to interfer with an investigation. His son seems to have agreed to join into a conpsiracy, even if there was no conspiracy. I could see his son getting smacked and then him doing something illegal to try and save his son.
Let's say they put them on iTunes and expect to simply sell them. $1 Billion between ten series at $100 million each. Each one a 13 episode season at $3 per episode or $30 per show. Assuming that the 30% iTunes store cost does go to maintenance costs (or at least not the Apple department that does movies), they'd need around 5,000,000 buyers to break even. Even thought that's over the entire span of hosting the movie, it seems like a lot.
Articles from last January, when this information was released seemed to indicate much less quality than one would expect for that many buyers, and that this would be associated with their music service rather than iTunes store. With their money they could probably get some of the movies that studios won't rent to Netflix, or perhaps the exact same ones as the studios might be hoping to damage Netflix.
That is actually pretty scary. Imagine all children being given this at birth in a small enough dose that it doesn't make them trip out. So now they have a permanent colony of these things and due to the tolerance will never be able to enjoy mushroom tripping again.
Think about all the times in the past it has happened naturally and will never realize it because this has alreayd happened. How may drugs are coursing through our system that we have developed permanent immunity to?
Because people of science require evidence, and right now the information we have is piss poor.
Nope, wrong. Completely wrong.
The burden of proof is on people saying life exists elsewhere, not the other way around hotshot.
However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For the arguement that aliens have been to Earth, contacted people, etc. There have been many testable hypothesis and pretty much all come up zilch. Sort of like evidence of advanced ancient civilizations. If such had happened, there would lots of evidence which we do not find. So, we could claim aliens haven't really been to earth that we can tell. If they exist at all? Our science isn't up to snuff to look for any but the most blatant evidence which we can conclude probably doesn't exist to begin with. Other searches are things we'll do anyway in studying other planets and solar systems. After we get the atmospheric compositions of a couple of dozen extra solar planets and find nothign indicating life, we can start to form an opinion.
Because people of science require evidence, and right now the information we have is piss poor.
Nope, wrong. Completely wrong.
The burden of proof is on people saying life exists elsewhere, not the other way around hotshot.
Nope. You're trying to prove a negative which you can't do. Without sufficient evidence, you have to say "We just don't know." In the meantime some people choose to look, and some people will choose not to.
"There are two kinds of countries: the kind who have sent men to the moon, and the kind who use the metric system."
The actual joke is that NASA, the company that landed the men on the moon, now mostly uses the metric system, and was partly using it back then.
In fact, the guidance computers of the Apollo missions were programmed in metric, but displayed/input in English.
IIRC, the USA was the second nation to switch to the metric system. However, it does not forcefully proscribe its usage. For science, metric notation is used for most everything. Even in standard measurements, they are all officially determined by metric values.
The map of Antartica has an "East" and "West" half. There is no such thing. Everything not in the center is in the South. The part that is close to South America is just as much West as it is East. The part that is closer to Australia is also just as much West as it is East.
However, people that actually study antarctica apparently have a different opinion:
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Dude, it's Burning Man! You are paying someone to sit in the desert, discard your gadgets, and feel good about yourself! Not since Tom Sawyer tricked half his town into white-washing his fence for him has there been a bigger scam than Burning Man 2017!
You obviously spend too much time in the Center Camp Cafe doing acroyoga. You should try actually getting out and doing something.
Was clever and original enough when is started, for a few years, back in the 90s. Now? An over-priced Disneyland for Marketing Execs going through their second childhood or third divorce...
Ya, if you were there for the driving wrecklessly through the desert, shooting guns, blowing things up, and going to hot springs, there is the annual DPW BBQ, 4th of Juplaya where you can do all the things you could do in the early 90's that you can't do now. If you are there for the art, the things that are there now so outclass what was there in the 90's that it's not even funny. A little less dangerous perhaps as we don't have Camp Semen's industrial art shows or the Molotov Cocktail Throwing Range any more.
There's a wee bit of difference between getting drunk for an evening and a week of vacation with no phone coverage at all, in the days most crucial for the company's survival (in this case, getting bought out so they can continue to scam).
It used to be the case that Burning Man was pretty much made everybody incommunicado, but not these days. Cell phone coverage now is pretty constant and even usable during the daytime by anybody (although maybe not reliably). There are even wifi spots if you look around for them and make friends with the owners. Even as much as twenty years ago, the Burning Man org had their own lines of communication out that were pretty easy to access, especially for "important people". All you had to do is register as a journalist and you had access to a nice little room with connections to the outside world and AC so you could send info back to whoever you were working for. I did so just because, and also got access to absinth parties with Larry Harvey and the other top tier of Burning Man. If people are there without phone coverage at all, then it's because they simply refuse to communicate with the outside world, which is typically what I do.
Hardware made in China, but the firmware, OS and software are made in the U.S.A. and other not-China countries.
Is the hardware made in China now? I've seen breakdowns from when the iPad came out and the hardware was mostly made in Taiwan, Korea, and Japan and assembled in China.
3) Was yet another comic book movie (Do we really need more than 3 of these a year?)
Yes. (So long as they're Marvel.)
Another example is the Traveller RPG; published in 1977, and set in a future where human and alien civilizations spanned a significant part of the galaxy, ship's computers take up a minimum of 14 cubic meters of volume in the ship -- a starship of 400 tons displacement with a medium-size computer system would have it taking up 56 cubic meters of volume -- four 'tons' in the design process -- and this computer can only run eight programs simultaneously. It's like having ENIAC on your ship.
Which is fairly realistic for mature server setup running mission critical programs needed to keep you from dying. Once you include racks, redundant systems, cooling, the actual computers, data storage, and routers, and depending on the ship floorplan, space to access them, 14 cubic meters is a modest server room. The programs are all things controlling the vast systems of a space ship including calculating various jump space coordiantes needed to travel lightyears in normal space in a week, probably with reduntdant systems because if something goes wrong, ship is destroyed and everybody dies (which is a risk even then if things are done sloppily). The tech is mature so even with increase of tech level, you don't get much more efficiency out of newer models.
Anyone tipping 20% is retarded.
As a former pizza delivery driver, we remember who tips and who doesn't. That does matter as we often take the orders, also help make the pizzas, in many cases route them, and decide in what order they get delivered in once out the door.
To be honest, I'm curious why someone hasn't already looked into tapping underground magma pools for power sources. If practical, it seems like a low-impact method to get a large amount of power.
Lots of people have. Trouble is that geothermal isn't all that clean or easy. Unless it's a closed system, there are all sorts of minerals and other items that go into the water, corrode equipment, and brings toxic elements back to the surface.
If it was email (apple/gmail/yahoo) these would be lost forever unless someone had his password and cellphone for two factor authentication.
If it was a few years later, it would have all be phone conversations that never would have been recorded in the first place.
I'm old enough to remember when they made you pay for this "mouse" thingy that nobody had asked for and nobody wanted.
Don't forget when they made us all pay for the uncommon and expensive 3.5" floppies rather than the ubiquitous 5.24" floppies that was the industry standard. I won't even go into how they tied up system resources with a GUI.
I am sure that somewhere between the slaughter and you seeing them cut it, there will be a point they could do it.
You don't pump meat full of water, it starts that way. Typically meat is aged and dried to lose water and become more flavorful. If the meat is filled with more water, then it is probably fresher (but also less flavorful).
Not to get too personal, but could you list a few you supported, both some that succeeded and some that failed? or the 'type' of product if you can?
Not the original poster, but I've also probably kickstarted a hundred projects, and I can't think of any that have failed. Some that were way over due, perhaps by a year or two, but so far I have gotten what I was expecting or am at least getting updates and progress is being made. Of course, I'm mainly kickstarting books, video games, RPGs, miniatures, and a few art projects that will give you swag as thanks. From the podcasts I've been listening too, board games also seem to have a good return in high quality products. Enough that they are declaring this a new golden age of boardgames as they have more new boardgames than they can find time to play.
The main failures seem to be in tech products, especially for things that seem cutting edge. Besides the inherent risks of people who have never done manufacturing before, there are all sorts of things that can kill something including success. Mainly, it just seems like they get all coked up and believe their own hype but can't produce their product in the end.
I trust that they have built the regenerative system heavily. Driving a truck down a hill is where truck drivers earn their money, and drivers will love them if they make that job easy.
Hell, if the regenerative breaking system is able to draw out enough power, drivers will want it if just for additional breaking on mountain passes.
Having been the IT guy assigned to help people fulfill these roles. First off, I would assume the request got mangled and by time it reached the person that needed to do the work, it is probably confused if not unintelligible. See, they talk to their lawyers, their lawyers talk to NASA's lawyers who talk to the administration who send the request down to lower administration who send it to who they think need to do the work who eventually talks to somebody who knows what email is. All the way, there is a big game of telephone as each group redefines the request in their particular language while concealing what they think needs to be concealed for legal and privacy reasons. Take the summary for example. "all emails from a specific NASA email address" Is that sent from or received from? By time the instructions gets to the person that is supposed to do the work, no telling what they are actually asking for. Even if you're the admin over the person that uses that email, sent emails can reside on on the local machine only and possibly not any server depending on how things are set up. How much due dilligence needs to be taken? What about that one computer that crashed and they lost all their sent mail? What if multiple people use that email? Hell, even if it's a simple request and makes it to somebody, they might not know how to do the search. Perhaps they sent nice instructions for searching on Outlook on a PC with instructions stating "use these instructions exactly" but the person in question uses Mail App on a Mac? That has happened too.
NOW you want me to pay for a streaming service full of shit that a little kid wont watch, and a bigger kid wont watch as well??
LOL fuck you and good luck with that crap
It's worse than that. They want you to pay for a streaming service full of their movies and your little kid will pick their favorite and play it over and over and over till you have all the songs memorized and are driven insane. Judging by the tone of your post, that may have already happened.
Ya, it usually takes UNIX to do something like that. I remember one job, I was given and account on the company application and told I was an admin so I could fix the problems that we had just discussed. The boss then told me to get in there and look around. One of the choices was Email, so I went into email as the application had it's own email system (which as not attached to the outside world so it was just used for internal communication). Then I was greeted with 8 or 9 options such as Read Email. So I read my email of which there was already 30 or so, but most were just department wide things and only a few were actually addressed to me. I got out of the Read function and noticed that down below was Delete All Email, right above Create Email Folder. I thought that I could get rid of most of what was spam anyway, so I hit Delete All Email. It asked "Do you want to Delete All Email?" and I said yes. It then said "Deleting Email ...Deleting Email ...Deleteing Email" and went on for quite some time. Then the phone calls started coming in. Seems that option was to delete all email on the server, not just my own. Only admins get that option, of which I was one. I felt bad even though my boss had been telling people not to use that system for quite some time. I felt a little less bad when another newbie did the exact same thing two years later.
What would be an even more interesting feature is if you held down a certain key sequence (three long, three short, three long sounds good...SOS) and the phone instantly wiped itself by shorting out the flash memory and destroying itself. You wouldn't have your $1000 computer in your pocket anymore, but you'd have to decide if that was worth less than the evidence the police could have obtained.
That could be possible proof that you destroyed evidence though. I think I'd rather see something like multiple passcodes combined with a way to mark files or features as "special encrypted". One pass code unlocks everything while another unlocks everything but the specially marked items. Of course, such a system would have to obfuscate that there are multiple passcodes and encrypted items while also no overwriting the protected spaces while not fully unlocked.
Which of those is illegal, and under which statutes?
I doubt he has done much illegal if anything. If you were in on a conspiracy to collude with the Russian, would you let Mister Rage Tweet in on it? Unless they come up with some financial thing unrelated with the Presidency, the worst he is probably responsible for is firing Comey in an attempt to interfer with an investigation. His son seems to have agreed to join into a conpsiracy, even if there was no conspiracy. I could see his son getting smacked and then him doing something illegal to try and save his son.
I still don't quite understand why old content owners are so reluctant to license content to Netflix, especially content that's pre-1975 or so.
Because people would spend their time and money watching the cheaper content rather than watching newer more expensive content.
Let's say they put them on iTunes and expect to simply sell them. $1 Billion between ten series at $100 million each. Each one a 13 episode season at $3 per episode or $30 per show. Assuming that the 30% iTunes store cost does go to maintenance costs (or at least not the Apple department that does movies), they'd need around 5,000,000 buyers to break even. Even thought that's over the entire span of hosting the movie, it seems like a lot.
Articles from last January, when this information was released seemed to indicate much less quality than one would expect for that many buyers, and that this would be associated with their music service rather than iTunes store. With their money they could probably get some of the movies that studios won't rent to Netflix, or perhaps the exact same ones as the studios might be hoping to damage Netflix.
That is actually pretty scary. Imagine all children being given this at birth in a small enough dose that it doesn't make them trip out. So now they have a permanent colony of these things and due to the tolerance will never be able to enjoy mushroom tripping again.
Think about all the times in the past it has happened naturally and will never realize it because this has alreayd happened. How may drugs are coursing through our system that we have developed permanent immunity to?
Nope, wrong. Completely wrong.
The burden of proof is on people saying life exists elsewhere, not the other way around hotshot.
However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For the arguement that aliens have been to Earth, contacted people, etc. There have been many testable hypothesis and pretty much all come up zilch. Sort of like evidence of advanced ancient civilizations. If such had happened, there would lots of evidence which we do not find. So, we could claim aliens haven't really been to earth that we can tell. If they exist at all? Our science isn't up to snuff to look for any but the most blatant evidence which we can conclude probably doesn't exist to begin with. Other searches are things we'll do anyway in studying other planets and solar systems. After we get the atmospheric compositions of a couple of dozen extra solar planets and find nothign indicating life, we can start to form an opinion.
Nope, wrong. Completely wrong.
The burden of proof is on people saying life exists elsewhere, not the other way around hotshot.
Nope. You're trying to prove a negative which you can't do. Without sufficient evidence, you have to say "We just don't know." In the meantime some people choose to look, and some people will choose not to.
There's a joke about that.
"There are two kinds of countries: the kind who have sent men to the moon, and the kind who use the metric system."
The actual joke is that NASA, the company that landed the men on the moon, now mostly uses the metric system, and was partly using it back then. In fact, the guidance computers of the Apollo missions were programmed in metric, but displayed/input in English.
IIRC, the USA was the second nation to switch to the metric system. However, it does not forcefully proscribe its usage. For science, metric notation is used for most everything. Even in standard measurements, they are all officially determined by metric values.
The map of Antartica has an "East" and "West" half. There is no such thing. Everything not in the center is in the South. The part that is close to South America is just as much West as it is East. The part that is closer to Australia is also just as much West as it is East.
However, people that actually study antarctica apparently have a different opinion:
"Although the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a continuous mass of ice, but it is sometimes helpful to think of it as two separate masses known as the West Antarctic and East Antarctic ice sheets, which are separated by the Transantarctics. Ice on the west side of this line flows west, while the opposite happens east of the divide."