Yes, but you also have to keep track of your stock very well so the computer knows what is in the store. I would assume this wouldn't matter as much as the store sized increased. But the rest I agree with.
A few years ago when I worked in retail, everything was going smoothly. Every night the managers would go around with electronic guns and see what needed ordering the next day. Except for the busiest times of the year the backroom was pretty much empty of stock, and on top of the aisles the extra stock was minimal.
Then one day, the managers were really excited, as we were going to have a computer order everything for us, from records of sales from before and it would "predict" what we would need. They said the extra stock on top of the aisles would be eliminated. We would be able to concentrate on customer service.
Well, the day came, and for a few months you could tell the computer was fighting with limited data. Some weeks would be rediculously overstocked on a few items, others, the leading sellers in the store would have empty shelves. When it finally settled down after a year, it was worse than before the computer.
The top of aisles were jammed to the ceiling with stock, there was never any room to put anything up there, and getting to the bottom for something you needed cost a lot of time. Plus, the backroom was packed with stock. You could hardly move around, and trying to find the last box of something buried underneath these huge piles was a task that killed your morale. During the slow months, one stocker for the whole store was enough for a night, now 3 were common to deal with all the stock.
My school used something almost exactly like this for their only computing class... in 1995. I remember one good quote from it "Most floppies are 8" to a side, but 5 1/4" disks are becoming more popular" My school wasn't very tech savvy to say the least.
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Why are some of the comments here so negative?
People saying, oh I can't play this with these two little sticks...
Why is the mouse and keyboard the only way to go? So what if you can't get a headshot in.2 seconds 90% of the time with the Xbox controller? A game isn't all about being l33t, but about having fun.
My friend and I play Co-op Halo all the time, because we can scheme together, plan and all that stuff while sitting next to each other. It really quite fun flanking pockets of resistance (as we call it;)) and coming out hardly scratched. It's also fun when one of us runs into the battle, and the other one doesn't notice and pitches a grenade in and sticks it on the other's head.
Also it's a game where you can become pretty good at it quickly. He is as good as me, even though I play PC fps from time to time. On the PC I usually break even on kill-death ratio, some days I get way higher than that for some unknown reason. If he played PC FPS online, I would guarentee he would get totally smoked. Plus he doesn't even have a computer so it wouldn't be worth it to set it up just so we can play some l33t fest online.
Based on the radar data, Titan is extremely flat. I've also seen on the posts here that people expect it to have some tetonics, or heat inside the planet due to all the stress of hanging around saturn.
Is it possible that the reason the satellite is so smooth is because of some erosion? If the weather conditions are hostile, and throw in that the clouds might consist of polymers, then that would just tear everything to shreds.
Humans have made incredible things, but we are still unable to truly look into the center of the earth. There are probably flows so deep that affect the surface, that we can't even make guesses about them.
Maybe he just wishes that he was working for a company that had his and his kid's future guarenteed? You really can't retire young with just $1 million dollars these days, but it'd still be really nice to have.
If SpaceShipOne reaches the 100km mark on Monday, will the other competitors just give in, or will they too try to prove that they have the design and technology to reach space? Even if SpaceShipOne did not launch Oct. 4th, would anybody even be close enough to take advantage of this? (Hoping that any failure of the SSO mission would not result in casulties)
I think it would be unlikely, as whoever tries it only has about 5 years to start developing it, and I'm sure an orbiting capsule will take a while to build, and design. The only way I could see it happening is if a large corporation gets on board i.e. Boeing or Lockheed. Of course, surprises do happen, and it'd be a nice surprise.
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The there's routing - with the current roading scheme annoying things like buildings and general housing get in your way. With skyways as long as the basic altitude is high enough you'll be quickly eliminating most of those problems.
I dunno about you, but I would not like an aircar "highway" above my house.
Generally, in today's air traffic, you want to avoid stacking the planes vertically, unless there is a great amount of space between them. Usually when planes are following each other into port, you want them ahead and behind each other, just like cars on a highway, AND you want them at different altitudes for added saftey. Although, they don't always stack them like that.
Merging off a busy freeway is difficult enough through a couple lanes of traffic. Worrying about people under you (which is really hard to judge, even if you do have a clear bottom) would be insane.
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Flying cars will only be there because somebody just wanted to "do it". They won't be pratical. What will they accomplish that the automobile won't? Sure, they look good to somebody that looks up to the open sky, but if everyone had one, you wouldn't be flying "as the crow" everywhere. Rules of the air will be created (They're already there for the larger planes, less restrictive to smaller ones). Jumbo jets must stay on little sky highways to the destinations, and if you've ever seen those maps where the position of every plane in the US is shown, you'll know what I am talking about. Thus the benefit of them over cars will be nullfied. Sure, they'd be pretty cool, but light planes already exist;)
Also, what about terrorism? Not to be a fearmonger, a group could get maybe 20 of these if they are plentiful, and just crash one after another into the White House, something you can't exactly do with cars. Plus, people fall asleep in cars enough, I can't imagine trying to pilot a car/plane unconciously.
You can't but like Paul Allen sometimes just because of how insane he is. Watching an old Windows 1.0 "commercial" he did, it almost seems like a parody of a computer commercial. It might be, but I cannot tell;)
They talk a lot about space tourism in the article, but I believe that is a long, long way off still. The first thing that would happen is private launch of payloads, but that already happens..
Even so, even something like $20,000 is cheap for a ticket and right now you'd only get a 10 second ride in space, and back down ya go.
Back when I was in high school I ended up troubleshooting some computer that was only used for email and attendence by the teacher. I looked around a bit and it had dual Voodoo 3d cards. I guess that's what happens to a school system that has no high school computing classes:P
Lets say Google is building a browser.
Won't it be hard for it to get adopted since it isn't already installed on every windows computer? FireFox is free and does a lot of things much better than IE and you don't see it shooting off into space with use when compared to IE. Most likely, google's browser won't be free either, ads or whatever would probably be inserted.
Of course, the only time someone has literally laughed in my face for not having an email account was for Gmail...
Even though I'm not the only one in my family that knows a lot about computers, I seem to be the only one willing to help with other family member's problems.
Usually the only problem is that the computer is sluggish from being really full of spyware, adware, and viruses. So I just point them at Mozilla and tell them why they should use it. After a few days and pretty much the thing that keeps them hooked is the pop-up blocking. So far I've probably converted around 8 people, and I myself have been using Mozilla for only 6 months so far.
Of course, after you install Mozilla, its best to delete the IE icon. For some reason my Uncle would end up with half of his file extensions being associated with IE everytime I came over, and this was the solution;)
Genetic Algorithms are really neat. I've seen a bunch go, and it is fun to see what they come up with in the end and how they get there. But what they simulate seems very strange to me.
First off, my favorite computer games are driving simulations, and Electronic Arts is always harshly critisized by the sim community on how "arcade" their games are. It would seem doubtful that they designed a new piece of software just for this, but you never know.
Second, is variables that change every hour at the track. 30F difference in temperature is HUGE in the way it affects how the car handles. Even 10F would most likely warrant some changes to the chassis. Plus, parts of the race track might be in the shade, also cloud cover affects a bunch of things. It could be done to write something that includes all the things head engineers face on race day, but it would take a lot of real life experimentation.
As much as our understanding about the world through science is flawed, religion is flawed in many respects too. Nobody believes 100% of the things either claim anyway.;)
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Yes, but you also have to keep track of your stock very well so the computer knows what is in the store. I would assume this wouldn't matter as much as the store sized increased. But the rest I agree with.
A few years ago when I worked in retail, everything was going smoothly. Every night the managers would go around with electronic guns and see what needed ordering the next day. Except for the busiest times of the year the backroom was pretty much empty of stock, and on top of the aisles the extra stock was minimal.
Then one day, the managers were really excited, as we were going to have a computer order everything for us, from records of sales from before and it would "predict" what we would need. They said the extra stock on top of the aisles would be eliminated. We would be able to concentrate on customer service.
Well, the day came, and for a few months you could tell the computer was fighting with limited data. Some weeks would be rediculously overstocked on a few items, others, the leading sellers in the store would have empty shelves. When it finally settled down after a year, it was worse than before the computer.
The top of aisles were jammed to the ceiling with stock, there was never any room to put anything up there, and getting to the bottom for something you needed cost a lot of time. Plus, the backroom was packed with stock. You could hardly move around, and trying to find the last box of something buried underneath these huge piles was a task that killed your morale. During the slow months, one stocker for the whole store was enough for a night, now 3 were common to deal with all the stock.
My school used something almost exactly like this for their only computing class... in 1995. I remember one good quote from it "Most floppies are 8" to a side, but 5 1/4" disks are becoming more popular" My school wasn't very tech savvy to say the least.
Why are some of the comments here so negative? People saying, oh I can't play this with these two little sticks... Why is the mouse and keyboard the only way to go? So what if you can't get a headshot in .2 seconds 90% of the time with the Xbox controller? A game isn't all about being l33t, but about having fun.
My friend and I play Co-op Halo all the time, because we can scheme together, plan and all that stuff while sitting next to each other. It really quite fun flanking pockets of resistance (as we call it ;)) and coming out hardly scratched. It's also fun when one of us runs into the battle, and the other one doesn't notice and pitches a grenade in and sticks it on the other's head.
Also it's a game where you can become pretty good at it quickly. He is as good as me, even though I play PC fps from time to time. On the PC I usually break even on kill-death ratio, some days I get way higher than that for some unknown reason. If he played PC FPS online, I would guarentee he would get totally smoked. Plus he doesn't even have a computer so it wouldn't be worth it to set it up just so we can play some l33t fest online.
Based on the radar data, Titan is extremely flat. I've also seen on the posts here that people expect it to have some tetonics, or heat inside the planet due to all the stress of hanging around saturn.
Is it possible that the reason the satellite is so smooth is because of some erosion? If the weather conditions are hostile, and throw in that the clouds might consist of polymers, then that would just tear everything to shreds.
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Humans have made incredible things, but we are still unable to truly look into the center of the earth. There are probably flows so deep that affect the surface, that we can't even make guesses about them.
Maybe he just wishes that he was working for a company that had his and his kid's future guarenteed? You really can't retire young with just $1 million dollars these days, but it'd still be really nice to have.
If SpaceShipOne reaches the 100km mark on Monday, will the other competitors just give in, or will they too try to prove that they have the design and technology to reach space? Even if SpaceShipOne did not launch Oct. 4th, would anybody even be close enough to take advantage of this? (Hoping that any failure of the SSO mission would not result in casulties)
So if it takes off 20 minutes late, will the launch be 20 minutes late, or can it climb faster?
Now all we need is the dog version of muscle gain, just so he/she can carry the 20 lbs of strange electronic devices.
I think it would be unlikely, as whoever tries it only has about 5 years to start developing it, and I'm sure an orbiting capsule will take a while to build, and design. The only way I could see it happening is if a large corporation gets on board i.e. Boeing or Lockheed. Of course, surprises do happen, and it'd be a nice surprise.
The there's routing - with the current roading scheme annoying things like buildings and general housing get in your way. With skyways as long as the basic altitude is high enough you'll be quickly eliminating most of those problems.
I dunno about you, but I would not like an aircar "highway" above my house. Generally, in today's air traffic, you want to avoid stacking the planes vertically, unless there is a great amount of space between them. Usually when planes are following each other into port, you want them ahead and behind each other, just like cars on a highway, AND you want them at different altitudes for added saftey. Although, they don't always stack them like that. Merging off a busy freeway is difficult enough through a couple lanes of traffic. Worrying about people under you (which is really hard to judge, even if you do have a clear bottom) would be insane.
Flying cars will only be there because somebody just wanted to "do it". They won't be pratical. What will they accomplish that the automobile won't? Sure, they look good to somebody that looks up to the open sky, but if everyone had one, you wouldn't be flying "as the crow" everywhere. Rules of the air will be created (They're already there for the larger planes, less restrictive to smaller ones). Jumbo jets must stay on little sky highways to the destinations, and if you've ever seen those maps where the position of every plane in the US is shown, you'll know what I am talking about. Thus the benefit of them over cars will be nullfied. Sure, they'd be pretty cool, but light planes already exist ;)
Also, what about terrorism? Not to be a fearmonger, a group could get maybe 20 of these if they are plentiful, and just crash one after another into the White House, something you can't exactly do with cars. Plus, people fall asleep in cars enough, I can't imagine trying to pilot a car/plane unconciously.
Actaully that's ballmer. I've been on slashdot for too long today :(
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ballmerwindows.html Have fun.
You can't but like Paul Allen sometimes just because of how insane he is. Watching an old Windows 1.0 "commercial" he did, it almost seems like a parody of a computer commercial. It might be, but I cannot tell ;)
They talk a lot about space tourism in the article, but I believe that is a long, long way off still. The first thing that would happen is private launch of payloads, but that already happens..
Even so, even something like $20,000 is cheap for a ticket and right now you'd only get a 10 second ride in space, and back down ya go.
Back when I was in high school I ended up troubleshooting some computer that was only used for email and attendence by the teacher. I looked around a bit and it had dual Voodoo 3d cards. I guess that's what happens to a school system that has no high school computing classes :P
Lets say Google is building a browser. Won't it be hard for it to get adopted since it isn't already installed on every windows computer? FireFox is free and does a lot of things much better than IE and you don't see it shooting off into space with use when compared to IE. Most likely, google's browser won't be free either, ads or whatever would probably be inserted. Of course, the only time someone has literally laughed in my face for not having an email account was for Gmail...
Even though I'm not the only one in my family that knows a lot about computers, I seem to be the only one willing to help with other family member's problems. Usually the only problem is that the computer is sluggish from being really full of spyware, adware, and viruses. So I just point them at Mozilla and tell them why they should use it. After a few days and pretty much the thing that keeps them hooked is the pop-up blocking. So far I've probably converted around 8 people, and I myself have been using Mozilla for only 6 months so far. Of course, after you install Mozilla, its best to delete the IE icon. For some reason my Uncle would end up with half of his file extensions being associated with IE everytime I came over, and this was the solution ;)
Genetic Algorithms are really neat. I've seen a bunch go, and it is fun to see what they come up with in the end and how they get there. But what they simulate seems very strange to me. First off, my favorite computer games are driving simulations, and Electronic Arts is always harshly critisized by the sim community on how "arcade" their games are. It would seem doubtful that they designed a new piece of software just for this, but you never know. Second, is variables that change every hour at the track. 30F difference in temperature is HUGE in the way it affects how the car handles. Even 10F would most likely warrant some changes to the chassis. Plus, parts of the race track might be in the shade, also cloud cover affects a bunch of things. It could be done to write something that includes all the things head engineers face on race day, but it would take a lot of real life experimentation.
As much as our understanding about the world through science is flawed, religion is flawed in many respects too. Nobody believes 100% of the things either claim anyway. ;)