I still have my HP-12C that took me through college and my first decade of engineering in the aerospace business. Found it in a box of old office supplies recently and it came on after I replaced the batteries. These days I use an RPN calculator app on my phone thatI configured with an HP face, sometimes I grab the HP for old times sake. But my first calculator was the TI-30 with the denim printed vinyl case. I wish I knew where it went, probably lying in some box in my garage. I miss the bright red LED display that hurt your eyes after a while. That was my high school buddy, until my friend got an HP - well actually he borrowed his big brother's HP-41CV - and I learned RPN. When I started college, the TI-30 went with me but I picked up my HP-12C at the bookstore and have had it since 1980.
There isn't a single algorithm at play, it is all the algorithms that are being generated by morally unmoored young engineers. Recall when Google was in its infancy, with the heady idealism that everyone is innately good, so they used the mantra Don't Be Evil and recently abandoned that when it began to hinder profit opportunity. At the outset they tried to be moral, yet what anchor were they using? Simple idealism failed, so now there is no anchor, and we can see it in FB which was designed as an incel stalker tool that is trying to enforce morality with no visible anchor.
The term hate speech was invented in the nascent PC culture as a convenient tool to, first ignore and then attack other persons with whom one has a disagreement. It was extended to hate crimes in order to incrementally increase punishment in a vain attempt to correct peoples' thinking when it doesn't conform to one's own perception of political correctness. Thus it is totally subjective and fluid, so that any attempt to codify it as a set of AI rules is bound to fail.
performing tasks is a somewhat finite subset of life experience and begin good at repetitive execution does not constitute full machine intelligence. AI has been touted as being just about ready, continually for a half century, yet we can see that it is still unable to grasp context, nuance, intention, or any of the myriad emotional motivations that comprise random living beings.
That's not much of a base, much too small to provide a counterbalancing to a 60m tower. I remember when the Gateway Arch monument was raised in St. Louis, it stands 630 feet (about 190m), with each leg set upon a foundation equal in depth to the height of the tower. It will sway in the wind, no more than.5m to and fro. It's frightening if all wind turbine towers are set upon what appears to be a less than 5m thick base.
Manufacturers were told to sort it out, and didn't.
Swap the word Apple for Manufacturers and the picture becomes much clearer. Apple has resisted and rejected common connectors for all its history, and even as the world seemingly is converging on USB-C they drag their feet. More important to feed the trillion$ beast with sales of $50 adapters for everything.
Throughout recent history (last 40 years) there have been a cavalcade of revenue for education initiatives in the US states which invariably end up with the new revenues being raised and then an equal or greater amount (to the new revenue) is subtly drained from the education budget to fund other political whims. The biggest offenders are the state controlled lottery proceeds that are always said to benefit education. Now comes another sales tax for education, which likely won't be what is advertised.
I really can't find fault in collecting sales tax across the internet for ecommerce, now that commerce is the major function of the internet and is no longer needing the protection from taxation. There are numerous services that can provide tax calculation and payment on behalf of small companies; not everyone needs to build their own tax engine.
Hilarious. Nearly half the country doesn't even pay any income tax. Large percentages have their utilities (like power and water) subsidized or entirely paid for by other people. Your notion of "everybody paying" isn't even on the same planet as the reality of the situation.
yup, spot on. The half of the nation that pays the income tax is even smaller in terms of absolute dollars because the tech titan robber barons hold nearly all the wealth in tax advantaged offshore accounts, so the burden falls on the ever shrinking middle class bums
Look at how Starbucks and Amazon reacted when progressive Seattle attempted to levy a head tax on each employee of large companies to fund homeless housing plans. The big techs are exactly the same, they have been actively creating strategies to avoid taxation for decades and they won't willingly to participate in a tax to fibre-wire SF.
will Nalgene bottles be included as part of the plastic straw ban? that's gonna be tough on those paper straws to be bent over in the straw holder of these bottles.
Oh no, you misunderstand me. I meant that when LinkedIn or any other site offers to look at my Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, xyzeieio contacts list to find my friends I say no and just move on without clicking the link. Sometimes I reload the page to see if the dialog pops up again. But I just don't let sites use my contact lists.
The simple response to LinkedIn when the question pops up is NO. I never allow any app or site just blithely take my contacts list. Of course, I grew up in the day when door-to-door vacuum cleaner and encyclopedia salesmen would come to sell you their stuff and then ask you to rat out a dozen of your friends before they leave. Now the salesmen simply suck it down from FB. Thus I never ever had an FB account.
The idea of barcodes was attempted 20 years ago at the then brand new Denver International Airport (DIA). The designers came up with an extraordinary plan to reduce the need for baggage handlers by building a sophisticated underground cart system, which looked kind of like a roller coaster, which could read the barcodes of the luggage tags and route each cart to the proper baggage carousel inside the main terminal while passengers deplaned and rode the underground train to the main terminal. In theory, passengers and baggage would arrive at nearly same time, reducing the wait.
The system failed.
Firstly, only United Airlines was using it as this was part of their deal to get faster than the competition, so none of the other carriers were involved at the start. Then, the roller coaster carts began to mis-deliver the baggage. The final problem was the instances of lost baggage due to bags falling out of the carts in transit and getting stuck in the underground areas. As you may imagine, not all of the dropped bags landed on the floor, some became lodged in the tracks and motors, causing the entire system to halt continually. After a few years, United and DIA declared the experiment over and turned it off, restaffing the baggage handlers who drive the luggage back to the main terminal.
True, SW has always done a first come first served approach. I recall when they were still using the plastic number cards 3 decades ago, when I'd try to be among first in line to get a card in the first 30. Now they do it online with check-in precisely 24 hours before flight, but the first 16 are reserved for those who will buy business select. They also implemented A-list priority if you pay $15 each way to let the system automatically check you in rather than waiting to click the check-in button on your browser. That is the only extra fee I pay to fly SW, it's still cheaper than the other airlines fares.
If you choose to fly out of and in to Burbank Airport using Southwest, you'll enjoy the boarding of both front and rear doors. It is such a pleasure to walk across the tarmac toward the tail of the aircraft whilst nearly everyone else is crowding up the front stairs.
you're thinking of Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette magazine which had the hex code programs. I used to type them into my VIC-20 and then my C=64s. Amazing what you can do with 3.5KB RAM on a VIC-20 using the built-in routines that Commodore put into ROM. Do you remember Speedscript?
The local Kroger stores (named Ralphs) in my town have dry aged beef at the butcher counter, several even have the ageing cooler in plain view behind the butchers. As to visiting more than one grocery store, that's part of the pleasure of shopping when you have the traditional supermarkets supplemented by TJ and WF, as well as Aldi and the myriad Mexican and Asian supermarkets. It's an experience that can't be had while staring at your iphone to buy apples (organic of course).
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I still have my HP-12C that took me through college and my first decade of engineering in the aerospace business. Found it in a box of old office supplies recently and it came on after I replaced the batteries. These days I use an RPN calculator app on my phone thatI configured with an HP face, sometimes I grab the HP for old times sake. But my first calculator was the TI-30 with the denim printed vinyl case. I wish I knew where it went, probably lying in some box in my garage. I miss the bright red LED display that hurt your eyes after a while. That was my high school buddy, until my friend got an HP - well actually he borrowed his big brother's HP-41CV - and I learned RPN. When I started college, the TI-30 went with me but I picked up my HP-12C at the bookstore and have had it since 1980.
There isn't a single algorithm at play, it is all the algorithms that are being generated by morally unmoored young engineers. Recall when Google was in its infancy, with the heady idealism that everyone is innately good, so they used the mantra Don't Be Evil and recently abandoned that when it began to hinder profit opportunity. At the outset they tried to be moral, yet what anchor were they using? Simple idealism failed, so now there is no anchor, and we can see it in FB which was designed as an incel stalker tool that is trying to enforce morality with no visible anchor.
The term hate speech was invented in the nascent PC culture as a convenient tool to, first ignore and then attack other persons with whom one has a disagreement. It was extended to hate crimes in order to incrementally increase punishment in a vain attempt to correct peoples' thinking when it doesn't conform to one's own perception of political correctness. Thus it is totally subjective and fluid, so that any attempt to codify it as a set of AI rules is bound to fail.
performing tasks is a somewhat finite subset of life experience and begin good at repetitive execution does not constitute full machine intelligence. AI has been touted as being just about ready, continually for a half century, yet we can see that it is still unable to grasp context, nuance, intention, or any of the myriad emotional motivations that comprise random living beings.
That's not much of a base, much too small to provide a counterbalancing to a 60m tower. I remember when the Gateway Arch monument was raised in St. Louis, it stands 630 feet (about 190m), with each leg set upon a foundation equal in depth to the height of the tower. It will sway in the wind, no more than .5m to and fro. It's frightening if all wind turbine towers are set upon what appears to be a less than 5m thick base.
Manufacturers were told to sort it out, and didn't.
Swap the word Apple for Manufacturers and the picture becomes much clearer. Apple has resisted and rejected common connectors for all its history, and even as the world seemingly is converging on USB-C they drag their feet. More important to feed the trillion$ beast with sales of $50 adapters for everything.
These already exist, it's just a matter of providing it at a cost that isn't onerous to the small businessman
I really can't find fault in collecting sales tax across the internet for ecommerce, now that commerce is the major function of the internet and is no longer needing the protection from taxation. There are numerous services that can provide tax calculation and payment on behalf of small companies; not everyone needs to build their own tax engine.
Hilarious. Nearly half the country doesn't even pay any income tax. Large percentages have their utilities (like power and water) subsidized or entirely paid for by other people. Your notion of "everybody paying" isn't even on the same planet as the reality of the situation.
yup, spot on. The half of the nation that pays the income tax is even smaller in terms of absolute dollars because the tech titan robber barons hold nearly all the wealth in tax advantaged offshore accounts, so the burden falls on the ever shrinking middle class bums
Look at how Starbucks and Amazon reacted when progressive Seattle attempted to levy a head tax on each employee of large companies to fund homeless housing plans. The big techs are exactly the same, they have been actively creating strategies to avoid taxation for decades and they won't willingly to participate in a tax to fibre-wire SF.
This is gonna be bad for the Boba shops
will Nalgene bottles be included as part of the plastic straw ban? that's gonna be tough on those paper straws to be bent over in the straw holder of these bottles.
you have 9600????!! we're still going with a 300bps plugged into the game port of our C=64
mod +1M
Oh no, you misunderstand me. I meant that when LinkedIn or any other site offers to look at my Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, xyzeieio contacts list to find my friends I say no and just move on without clicking the link. Sometimes I reload the page to see if the dialog pops up again. But I just don't let sites use my contact lists.
The simple response to LinkedIn when the question pops up is NO. I never allow any app or site just blithely take my contacts list. Of course, I grew up in the day when door-to-door vacuum cleaner and encyclopedia salesmen would come to sell you their stuff and then ask you to rat out a dozen of your friends before they leave. Now the salesmen simply suck it down from FB. Thus I never ever had an FB account.
P.S. They actually tried to make it work for 10 years before throwing in the towel.
The system failed.
Firstly, only United Airlines was using it as this was part of their deal to get faster than the competition, so none of the other carriers were involved at the start. Then, the roller coaster carts began to mis-deliver the baggage. The final problem was the instances of lost baggage due to bags falling out of the carts in transit and getting stuck in the underground areas. As you may imagine, not all of the dropped bags landed on the floor, some became lodged in the tracks and motors, causing the entire system to halt continually. After a few years, United and DIA declared the experiment over and turned it off, restaffing the baggage handlers who drive the luggage back to the main terminal.
True, SW has always done a first come first served approach. I recall when they were still using the plastic number cards 3 decades ago, when I'd try to be among first in line to get a card in the first 30. Now they do it online with check-in precisely 24 hours before flight, but the first 16 are reserved for those who will buy business select. They also implemented A-list priority if you pay $15 each way to let the system automatically check you in rather than waiting to click the check-in button on your browser. That is the only extra fee I pay to fly SW, it's still cheaper than the other airlines fares.
If you choose to fly out of and in to Burbank Airport using Southwest, you'll enjoy the boarding of both front and rear doors. It is such a pleasure to walk across the tarmac toward the tail of the aircraft whilst nearly everyone else is crowding up the front stairs.
you're thinking of Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette magazine which had the hex code programs. I used to type them into my VIC-20 and then my C=64s. Amazing what you can do with 3.5KB RAM on a VIC-20 using the built-in routines that Commodore put into ROM. Do you remember Speedscript?
so very unfortunate that the cute cloud symbol we old guys used as diagram shorthand has now taken on a life of its own.
$60M shipping if they use SpaceX
The answer is: return to the stone age
The local Kroger stores (named Ralphs) in my town have dry aged beef at the butcher counter, several even have the ageing cooler in plain view behind the butchers. As to visiting more than one grocery store, that's part of the pleasure of shopping when you have the traditional supermarkets supplemented by TJ and WF, as well as Aldi and the myriad Mexican and Asian supermarkets. It's an experience that can't be had while staring at your iphone to buy apples (organic of course).