Go placidly amidst the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep. Rotate your tires. Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself; and heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys. Know what to kiss - and when. Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do. Wherever possible, put people on hold. Be comforted, that in the face of all irridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Remember the Pueblo. Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI. Exercise caution in your daily affairs, especially with those persons closest to you... That lemon on your left, for instance. Be assured that a walk through the seas of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet. Fall not in love, therefore, it will stick to your face. Gracefully surrender the things of youth: the birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan - and let not the sands of time get in your lunch. Hire people with hooks. For a good time, call 606-4311, ask for Ken. Take heart in the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese. And reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Milwaukee.
Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you perceive him to be: hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin. With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal, the world continues to deteriorate. GIVE UP!
(You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. Whether you can hear it or not, The universe is laughing behind your back.)
Nope, but that's not the way it will happen. The Internet Toaster won't care if my toast is perfect. It WILL care what brand of bread I use and will want to tell me about other wonderful choices in the world of sliced bread. And THAT will take 15 seconds, be associated with an annoying noise, voice and / or blinky light.
Then the company that made the toaster will shut off the server for reasons unclear in the engineering world. I won't be able to put another slice of bread in it until I either buy a subscription to toast.biz or another fucking toaster.
It's not the microprocessor and sensor suite that is the issue (although you can overthink a problem pretty easily these days). It's the connection to the cloud for no apparent gain other than to line somebody else's pockets.
While your second point is quite valid, the estimated economic viability of a coal (or any other plant) could well change depending on a number of external factors. If coal demand drops, some mines will close which could make the transport economics of a particular plant less favorable. If grid demand drops because of on site power generation the even the maintenance / financing costs of a coal burner may not make much sense.
In many places you have to at least partially clean up your mess - which is another cost. It may be cheaper to convert the plant into a natural gas peaker.
The whole point of the walled-garden, aka App Store, is to prevent exactly this sort of thing. The fact that this sort of thing is able to exist for more than 5 minutes simply shows that Apple is perfectly willing to take its 30% commission and turn a blind eye to scams.
Hyperbolic much?
What happens to you when you encounter a real problem like when you forgot to buy Doritos at the store?
Not that I think this is a particularly useful bit of research but - the study's patients pretest probability of suicide was much higher than the general population. These are people who are ADMITTED TO A HOSPITAL with concerns of self harm. They've already passed a bunch of screens to separate them from everybody else.
So you are talking a group of people that the current system thinks is at some non trivial risk of suicide and trying to figure out which ones are at the highest risk.
So it's quite a bit more useful than some of the posters have been assuming. Still not sure how generalizable this will be, but give the researchers a bit of a break.
Recall that a good number of Shuttle flights were run by the Air Force and that much of the flight manifest and records are classified. So, the Shuttle had some utility for the AF. Think of the XB-37 as Shuttle 2 - minus the meatsacs and a couple of other things that they found out they didn't need.
At the rate we're going, your grandchildren will be huddling in a cave trying to hook up an old car alternator to a paddle wheel so they can charge a 12V lead acid battery.
NoScript already doesn't fly on most pages. It is truly a niche product that puts a large part of the web off limits. The large part of the web that wants to load stuff from 20 different sites just to serve up a paragraph of text and some generic image with tits.
It is getting pretty ugly already.
And don't get me started about mobile 'browsing'.
Off my lawn if you don't mind. I want to take a nap.
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But it's worth about the same in Scrabble.
So you want to give 'ol Slartibartfast another go at things?
Pining for the fjords, are we?
How about 'no test code on the production servers'?
Remember that bit of ancient wisdom?
Go placidly amidst the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep. Rotate your tires. Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself; and heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys. Know what to kiss - and when. Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do. Wherever possible, put people on hold. Be comforted, that in the face of all irridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Remember the Pueblo. Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI. Exercise caution in your daily affairs, especially with those persons closest to you... That lemon on your left, for instance. Be assured that a walk through the seas of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet. Fall not in love, therefore, it will stick to your face. Gracefully surrender the things of youth: the birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan - and let not the sands of time get in your lunch. Hire people with hooks. For a good time, call 606-4311, ask for Ken. Take heart in the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese. And reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Milwaukee.
Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you perceive him to be: hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin. With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal, the world continues to deteriorate. GIVE UP!
(You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
Whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back.)
This is correct. Your brain (which controls thirst) is smarter than you are.
Trust your brain.
Disco sucks!
Live music is best!
(Sorry, I'll go back to bed now.)
Artisanal toasters. Who knew?
Yes! Coffee is going to become scarcer due to Global Warming. Extract ALL of the goodness from the beans before it's too late.
And you can use the residue to dissolve annoying relatives without leaving any forensic evidence.
Nope, but that's not the way it will happen. The Internet Toaster won't care if my toast is perfect. It WILL care what brand of bread I use and will want to tell me about other wonderful choices in the world of sliced bread. And THAT will take 15 seconds, be associated with an annoying noise, voice and / or blinky light.
Then the company that made the toaster will shut off the server for reasons unclear in the engineering world. I won't be able to put another slice of bread in it until I either buy a subscription to toast.biz or another fucking toaster.
It's not the microprocessor and sensor suite that is the issue (although you can overthink a problem pretty easily these days). It's the connection to the cloud for no apparent gain other than to line somebody else's pockets.
Great. You just Rule 34'd a thread on ball bearing toys.
I hope you're happy now.
While your second point is quite valid, the estimated economic viability of a coal (or any other plant) could well change depending on a number of external factors. If coal demand drops, some mines will close which could make the transport economics of a particular plant less favorable. If grid demand drops because of on site power generation the even the maintenance / financing costs of a coal burner may not make much sense.
In many places you have to at least partially clean up your mess - which is another cost. It may be cheaper to convert the plant into a natural gas peaker.
It's complicated.
The whole point of the walled-garden, aka App Store, is to prevent exactly this sort of thing. The fact that this sort of thing is able to exist for more than 5 minutes simply shows that Apple is perfectly willing to take its 30% commission and turn a blind eye to scams.
Hyperbolic much?
What happens to you when you encounter a real problem like when you forgot to buy Doritos at the store?
Ah, one of the 15%. You'll fit right in here.
Slashdot, pioneer of unsocial media.
Not that I think this is a particularly useful bit of research but - the study's patients pretest probability of suicide was much higher than the general population. These are people who are ADMITTED TO A HOSPITAL with concerns of self harm. They've already passed a bunch of screens to separate them from everybody else.
So you are talking a group of people that the current system thinks is at some non trivial risk of suicide and trying to figure out which ones are at the highest risk.
So it's quite a bit more useful than some of the posters have been assuming. Still not sure how generalizable this will be, but give the researchers a bit of a break.
That would describe my hard drive, but why Elon wants to charge me more than Apple leaves me a bit confused.
mmmm omelettes.
Recall that a good number of Shuttle flights were run by the Air Force and that much of the flight manifest and records are classified. So, the Shuttle had some utility for the AF. Think of the XB-37 as Shuttle 2 - minus the meatsacs and a couple of other things that they found out they didn't need.
My toy box. All mine.
Trump will leak it to the Russians if he's in office long enough.
I thought we weren't going to talk about the pee tapes here.
At the rate we're going, your grandchildren will be huddling in a cave trying to hook up an old car alternator to a paddle wheel so they can charge a 12V lead acid battery.
Your lucky grandchildren.
Fetchez la vache!
Melting the payload might be considered a downside. Next time, leave engineering to the engineers.
NoScript already doesn't fly on most pages. It is truly a niche product that puts a large part of the web off limits. The large part of the web that wants to load stuff from 20 different sites just to serve up a paragraph of text and some generic image with tits.
It is getting pretty ugly already.
And don't get me started about mobile 'browsing'.
Off my lawn if you don't mind. I want to take a nap.
Elitist? Nah, these guys sound just like the good ol folk you would see in a Wal-Mart.
We Boggies are a hairy folk,
Who like to eat until they choke.
Loving all like friend and brother,
We hardly ever eat each other.
Ever hungry, ever thirsting
Never stop till belly's bursting.
Porking out from morn till moon,
And don't forget your plate and spoon.
Oh, wait.
It probably is too much to ask Trump to make a decision based on his own 'rational mind'.
He appears to have the intellectual capacity of an Etch a Sketch.
Sorry for the bad link. Insufficient caffeine (and Slashdot's rather 'minimalist' approach to linking).
Paracelsus.