Chances are their maximum weight allowance (most things start complaining around 120kg) would prevent a lot of geeks from playing VR games on them. Especially games that contain running.
Someone can spend a day to walk 20 miles that could be driven in half an hour. Where is the fairness in that?
Of course, people who just download stuff into their brain and don't bother to actually use their brains to learn and study are much more likely to have their brain degrade on them over time, just like people who drive everywhere are much more likely have their muscles degarde on them over time.
... I don't drink coffee, but I like their hot chocolate. It has whipped cream and they use hot milk, whereas in some local coffee shops you can get a hot chocolate with no whipped cream and made with hot water instead of hot milk. Might as well be drinking hot brown water.
I'm not saying that jamming cell phones is a good thing (although I think it can't hurt in high risk situations), but how did you people survive in the days before cell phones? What I gather from this topic is your cell phones are an essential part of your survival.
I have a cell phone. I use it to arrange my alcoholic activities. I could easily live without it.
Sounds to me like it could just as well be a case of introducing cane toads to eat the insects that eat the sugar cane. Problem is, the cane toads do more damage than the insects.
I remember something from years ago where they were testing a vaccine that was effectively the AIDS virus cut up into small pieces. Apparently it worked well enough on monkeys. Whatever happened with that?
Anyway, I think an important part of treatment of any contagious terminal disease is quarantine. Lock them all up.
You don't need to create artificial gravity for the entire ship. All you need is a machine that you stand in (up to your chest) with an air-tight seal and it vaccuums you downwards onto a treadmill.
I think the Russians use elastic bands to keep them on a treadmill
I'm no expert on the subject by any means, but isn't water supposed to be a very good radiation shielder? It's not exactly light, but I'm guessing that it's lighter than lead, and the body produces it as a waste product.
So, all you'd have to do is have triple outer walls with gaps inbetween and an adjustable middle wall, fill one of the gaps with a bit more than enough water to last the return trip and hook up the waste system to extact the water from all waste products and pump it back into the other gap. As the waste product water grows and the drinking water product reduces, change the position of the middle wall.
It's true, there are a lot of unskilled programmers out there. And there are a lot of skilled programmers out there that aren't very good at commercial development.
When I first started contracting I worked at a company that heaped praise upon me for my ability when I wasn't very happy about the quality of my own work. Apparently the people they hired before me were very very bad at what they did.
I've seen a few people like that since. Mostly they're people who taught themselves to program or did a quick programming course. Their code may be technically excellent, but it can also be very buggy and unnecessarily complex. It's not just a case of knowing how to get something to work, but it's also a case of keeping it as simple as possible.
It was mentioned in another thread that programming is just a case of copying code around and knowing what functions to use. This is partially true. And that's the way it should be. A program should be as consistant and structured as possible. However, this is where the 80/20 rule comes in. 20% of the code is going to be significantly different from the rest of the application and requires some actual thought and skill to implement and will take 80% of the time to develop.
And as for outsourcing, I know a company that some years ago outsourced an application to an outsourcing company in India. At the end of the outsourcing contract, the company was left with an application that was a shell and didn't actually do anything and the company had to write it themselves in the end. Of course, the project was obviously not managed properly by the company, but it raises questions in my mind about the work ethic of outsourcing companies. I don't want to come of as racist here, but India is well known for being a very corrupt country.
I don't know about America, but there are already a lot of CCTV cameras all over the place to stop and record criminal activity. You wouldn't need special cameras, just software on the other end to process what information the cameras receive.
This has already been done in several American cities and airports to pick up known criminals based on a facial recognition software program. As far as I am aware there was a zero percent success rate fairly universally. I believe that in one airport it failed to pick up staff members in a trial run.
I don't necessarily think the technology is bad, but it's too immature at the moment to be effective.
I agree. At the very most, money will take a separate form (such as energy used to power the nanobots).
As you say, raw materials need to be purchased and transported and products will need to be designed and programmed. People don't want to wear the same thing as everyone else. People like buildings to look interesting and unique. People want to drive cars that take the attention away from their balding heads and expanding waist lines. And people get bored of playing the same computer game all the time. To name but a very few examples.
Designers then will become a very hot commodity, as products would only be limited by the imagination and the availability of raw materials. And let's not forget artists and musicians.
I also think that non-nanobot built products will become fashionable.
And Land. Land will need money. You can get nanobots to build your house, but you can't get them to make land for you.
Money is not going away, whatever form it takes.
The author comes across as a salesman or manager who is trying to sell a product that he knows very little about.
I was once told in an interview by a manager that the company uses "extreme programming" methods. Turned out that their version of paired programming involved them talking to each other about their problems when they got stuck.
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Chances are their maximum weight allowance (most things start complaining around 120kg) would prevent a lot of geeks from playing VR games on them. Especially games that contain running.
Someone can spend a day to walk 20 miles that could be driven in half an hour. Where is the fairness in that? Of course, people who just download stuff into their brain and don't bother to actually use their brains to learn and study are much more likely to have their brain degrade on them over time, just like people who drive everywhere are much more likely have their muscles degarde on them over time.
My monitor is bigger than my TV...
Everyone knows that the true purpose of the PC is to allow us to connect to the internet so we can download porn!
... I don't drink coffee, but I like their hot chocolate. It has whipped cream and they use hot milk, whereas in some local coffee shops you can get a hot chocolate with no whipped cream and made with hot water instead of hot milk. Might as well be drinking hot brown water.
I'm not saying that jamming cell phones is a good thing (although I think it can't hurt in high risk situations), but how did you people survive in the days before cell phones? What I gather from this topic is your cell phones are an essential part of your survival. I have a cell phone. I use it to arrange my alcoholic activities. I could easily live without it.
Sounds to me like it could just as well be a case of introducing cane toads to eat the insects that eat the sugar cane. Problem is, the cane toads do more damage than the insects. I remember something from years ago where they were testing a vaccine that was effectively the AIDS virus cut up into small pieces. Apparently it worked well enough on monkeys. Whatever happened with that? Anyway, I think an important part of treatment of any contagious terminal disease is quarantine. Lock them all up.
You don't need to create artificial gravity for the entire ship. All you need is a machine that you stand in (up to your chest) with an air-tight seal and it vaccuums you downwards onto a treadmill.
I think the Russians use elastic bands to keep them on a treadmill
I'm no expert on the subject by any means, but isn't water supposed to be a very good radiation shielder? It's not exactly light, but I'm guessing that it's lighter than lead, and the body produces it as a waste product.
So, all you'd have to do is have triple outer walls with gaps inbetween and an adjustable middle wall, fill one of the gaps with a bit more than enough water to last the return trip and hook up the waste system to extact the water from all waste products and pump it back into the other gap. As the waste product water grows and the drinking water product reduces, change the position of the middle wall.
It's true, there are a lot of unskilled programmers out there. And there are a lot of skilled programmers out there that aren't very good at commercial development.
When I first started contracting I worked at a company that heaped praise upon me for my ability when I wasn't very happy about the quality of my own work. Apparently the people they hired before me were very very bad at what they did.
I've seen a few people like that since. Mostly they're people who taught themselves to program or did a quick programming course. Their code may be technically excellent, but it can also be very buggy and unnecessarily complex. It's not just a case of knowing how to get something to work, but it's also a case of keeping it as simple as possible.
It was mentioned in another thread that programming is just a case of copying code around and knowing what functions to use. This is partially true. And that's the way it should be. A program should be as consistant and structured as possible. However, this is where the 80/20 rule comes in. 20% of the code is going to be significantly different from the rest of the application and requires some actual thought and skill to implement and will take 80% of the time to develop.
And as for outsourcing, I know a company that some years ago outsourced an application to an outsourcing company in India. At the end of the outsourcing contract, the company was left with an application that was a shell and didn't actually do anything and the company had to write it themselves in the end. Of course, the project was obviously not managed properly by the company, but it raises questions in my mind about the work ethic of outsourcing companies. I don't want to come of as racist here, but India is well known for being a very corrupt country.
I don't know about America, but there are already a lot of CCTV cameras all over the place to stop and record criminal activity. You wouldn't need special cameras, just software on the other end to process what information the cameras receive.
This has already been done in several American cities and airports to pick up known criminals based on a facial recognition software program. As far as I am aware there was a zero percent success rate fairly universally. I believe that in one airport it failed to pick up staff members in a trial run.
I don't necessarily think the technology is bad, but it's too immature at the moment to be effective.
I agree. At the very most, money will take a separate form (such as energy used to power the nanobots). As you say, raw materials need to be purchased and transported and products will need to be designed and programmed. People don't want to wear the same thing as everyone else. People like buildings to look interesting and unique. People want to drive cars that take the attention away from their balding heads and expanding waist lines. And people get bored of playing the same computer game all the time. To name but a very few examples. Designers then will become a very hot commodity, as products would only be limited by the imagination and the availability of raw materials. And let's not forget artists and musicians. I also think that non-nanobot built products will become fashionable. And Land. Land will need money. You can get nanobots to build your house, but you can't get them to make land for you. Money is not going away, whatever form it takes.
The author comes across as a salesman or manager who is trying to sell a product that he knows very little about. I was once told in an interview by a manager that the company uses "extreme programming" methods. Turned out that their version of paired programming involved them talking to each other about their problems when they got stuck.