The API approach taken by Qt gets this somewhat better than Java. Setting up Qt support in a new environment is quite a pain, but once it's done, you get executables that actually run just about the same in multiple environments. Java, I'm always having to tweak the JVM on the target machine - wrong version of this, missing that, outdated, no longer supported, blocked for security concerns, etc.
Qt + target compilers isn't far behind, and is pretty far ahead of Java in terms of the quality of products developed (when we're talking about bigger, more complex applications like CAD programs, etc.)
No, but with current subsidy levels for things like basic grains, cheese, etc. it is basically free plus whatever the food processing / packaging industry and retail supply chain tacks on.
It's nice to earn income without having to be physically present at any particular place - still hard to find good paying reliable work like that, but it's nice when you can get it.
So much food today is already pre-chewed, think about oatmeal, cereals, mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, ground beef, it just goes on and on. My wife worries about our cat choking on our food - I remind her that our cat eats uncooked squirrels, nothing on our plates is nearly as challenging to chew as an uncooked squirrel.
There's a farm in Florida that ships live greens to restaurants for salads, they're quite good when they're taken from the field within 24 hours of being served, and not even severed from their roots until minutes before you eat them. Similar things have been done with lobster for years.
During the Publix pilot program, the produce they shipped was only the best stuff. You could choose how green you wanted your bananas. Remember, the produce is coming direct from the warehouse to your kitchen, it doesn't have to sit in the retail bins being fondled by everyone and sprayed every 5 minutes to stay looking fresh. If you want really ripe watermelon, or something like that, it might be a problem, but mostly, the warehouse doesn't ship bad stuff to the store - the stuff goes bad while on the store shelves.
When our chain did this, we lived in Miami - they dispatched a medium sized truck from a warehouse sometimes 50 miles away, sometimes 200 miles away, depended on what was where when... but, that truck made over a dozen deliveries, kept those people's cars off the road, out of the store parking lot, out of the checkout lines, and also reduced the big trucks going to the local stores. If the program really took hold, it could have reduced the number of stores too.
Net - I think the direct home delivery reduces local traffic, maybe increases traffic and chaos around the warehouses, but decreases it in the neighborhoods where a single truck is doing delivery for multiple houses. The food still travels from the warehouse to your kitchen, but it doesn't have to stop off at the local store - employees don't have to drive to the store to make the shelves look pretty for you and check and bag your order, and manage those employees.
When our local chain did home delivery for $10 per order, we happened to have a newborn and really took them up on the deal - 5% delivery fee for a $200 order, not a problem - 80%+ of our groceries came to the house via that delivery program. This was 2003, apparently it wasn't working for the store, they shut the program down after about a year's trial.
Today, I don't think I'd pay $10 per order for delivery - I'd rather take the kids to the store just to get out in the world a little bit, but that's our personal circumstance.
The piracy "educational" messages could be 100% bogus and still yield the observed effect of reduction in pirate activity among the "educated" IP addresses. Note that the summary said piracy overall remains constant, but a significant reduction has been observed among the educated. From my perspective, this could mean that the educated secured their WiFi and quit using their own traceable IP addresses for pirate activity, while the uneducated have not secured their WiFi and are now hosting increased piracy activity from the newly educated.
Has there been any study of relative TOR activity pre vs post education?
You forgot the God money. If it creates income, the God money says it is good. "Poor" farmer folk with nothing but (millions of dollars worth of) land can get income from these billboards to help them pay their taxes. These same "poor" farmer folk also have lots of lobbying power with the legislatures. As long as advertisers are willing to pay for billboards, there will be people ready to take the money.
62 years, with air conditioning, motor vehicle transport, more food than they need - imported from around the globe including not only dried spices but also fresh fruit produce meats and fish, better medical care (yes, even those without insurance have better medical care today), education, access to tremendously more and better (not yet perfect, but better) information, global communication.
Tudors may have lived to 70, on average, as they report the stories in written history, but did they really have it better, or just better than their contemporaries?
Persons from the United States are a subset of all Americans, actually about a 1/3 subset.
Many other Americans just refer to their own country, distancing themselves from the terror in el Norte, but they are all Americans - a Colombian once told me this.
You hit a trigger point for me with sneakers. The shopping malls of America are filled with shoes, "reasonably priced" "attractively styled" "ingeniously marketed" crappy shoes. I've had a couple of pairs of really good shoes over the years, and so much crap, expensive crap, cheap crap, all of it just such poor quality - with little or no correlation to price. Some specialty running shoes are good for a few months, but then the internal construction falls apart and they're transformed into barely adequate junk. Glove leather OluKais that last for years, look great, and feel great the whole time hardly cost twice as much as Sketchers that feel like they're made of recycled cardboard and fall apart at the first hint of actually using them. Over the years, I've encountered 3 or 4 pair of shoes at or above the level of the OluKais, always hard to find - so very worth the money, but so vastly outnumbered by such a pile of junk.
So, there's something of value in life: good shoes - they protect your feet while you walk. I'd hazard to say that shoes have done more for me in my lifetime than my cellphones, if I had to give up one or the other forever, it would be the cellphone, and I don't even like shoes - prefer flip flops, when social circumstances permit.
The worst example, granted. Still, typical CNC machines take a fair number of human work-hours to build, and regular human maintenance to keep them running and even setup before each job and attend while the job is running.
Black Mirror, Season One, Episode 2 (I think) - virtual value is bull----. What's the point of working if all you get is a new hat for your avatar that doesn't even exist in the real world? Just because stuff has a price doesn't mean it's good, or has value. So much "value" created today is just a way to waste people's spare time, which they apparently have far too much of. And it doesn't have to be "virtual" product like avatars, or movies, music, or books. Walk through Target / WalMart / KMart / JCPenney / Sears / Dillards / Bonwitt Teller / Neimann Marcus / Whatever and behold the array of stuff, so very very much stuff of so very very little life enhancing value. A 60" TV does not enhance your life 2x as much as a 19" screen - better? sure, more valuable? a little, life changing? not really much at all. That array of stores all carries clothing, some at quite dramatically varying price points - is the $200 shirt really 20x better than the $10 one? Oh, yes, anyone can tell the $200 shirt looks better, but 20x better? Even 5x better on sale? Hardly.
There's many sides of the larger economic picture.
People without jobs and money become a burden on society - it's cheaper to "give away money" than it is to house them in prisons. You could just kill them when they no longer "earn their keep," that would solve all sorts of environmental problems, but it doesn't look like a direction I'd like to see followed.
working class people who think it's in their best interests to make the rich richer so that a little more can trickle down to their level.
The propagandists use another trick, claiming that if the gov't or unions get big in general, then they will use their power to do "anti-Christian" things, like build gender-neutral restrooms and make Christians pay for them. Bundled FUD.
Nothing new, at least there is some discussion of material issues during the election cycles - seems like the BS ratio gets higher between elections.
Turn up your sarcasm detector, it looks like you've got it set to negative gain.
First, the majority of Americans didn't even vote in the Trump-Clinton election, 580 million people live in North America, 420 million more in South America, just under 130 million Americans voted in the election, and, as you point out, only 45.9% of them voted for the Trumpinator - so, I read the 2016 election as a "thumbs up" from roughly 6% of the American population in favor of Trump's image and policies. I'd wager much more than 7% of Americans would have voted against him, given the chance.
I used to work in small companies, where response to government oversight seemed like a huge burden on top of whatever it was we were trying to do. Now I work in a larger corporation where well over half of our resources are devoted to satisfying government oversight requirements - entire departments full of people who do nothing else, and all the other departments spend significant amounts of their time serving the needs of the regulatory departments. Oversight is necessary, and I think with strong transparency requirements the burden could actually be lessened, but it's no joke that we're already employing a huge number of people who do nothing but document and audit how other people work.
I got that TA position while attending Uni on a scholarship - not too much privilege required to get there, other than the fact that my parents were self-sufficient so I didn't have to go out to work to keep a roof over their heads.
So, the big contrast TA vs WallyWorld Minion is that I was on the "ain't gonna be doing this forever" track, whereas you need to win a minor lottery to take a step up the WallyWorld ladder. I got to choose when I stepped off the subsistence income merry-go-round and into decently paid employment.
Sadly, even college grads with MS degrees now need a degree of luck to move up from the minimum wage + 10% level.
Let's make it where people can spend their time tending public spaces, working basic infrastructure projects, or maintenance, or interesting high tech endeavors and have assurance of a decent place to live, raise a family, food and medical care. I don't give a damn what numbers you put on the scenario - provide for shelter, security, and well-being in exchange for tending to something that needs doing. If nothing needs doing, great - just don't take away people's shelter, security and well-being because somebody fucked up the quarterly forecast again.
If there's stuff that needs doing that nobody is interested in or apparently qualified to do, break out the incentives - higher pay, better benefits, lower working hour demands, whatever floats the boats to get qualified people to pick up those tasks instead of tending the local park garden.
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The API approach taken by Qt gets this somewhat better than Java. Setting up Qt support in a new environment is quite a pain, but once it's done, you get executables that actually run just about the same in multiple environments. Java, I'm always having to tweak the JVM on the target machine - wrong version of this, missing that, outdated, no longer supported, blocked for security concerns, etc.
The Java VMs have been waiting for "Heavy optimizations" since 2001. Still on the platform, waiting for a train that will never come.
Qt + target compilers isn't far behind, and is pretty far ahead of Java in terms of the quality of products developed (when we're talking about bigger, more complex applications like CAD programs, etc.)
No, but with current subsidy levels for things like basic grains, cheese, etc. it is basically free plus whatever the food processing / packaging industry and retail supply chain tacks on.
It's nice to earn income without having to be physically present at any particular place - still hard to find good paying reliable work like that, but it's nice when you can get it.
So much food today is already pre-chewed, think about oatmeal, cereals, mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, ground beef, it just goes on and on. My wife worries about our cat choking on our food - I remind her that our cat eats uncooked squirrels, nothing on our plates is nearly as challenging to chew as an uncooked squirrel.
There's a farm in Florida that ships live greens to restaurants for salads, they're quite good when they're taken from the field within 24 hours of being served, and not even severed from their roots until minutes before you eat them. Similar things have been done with lobster for years.
During the Publix pilot program, the produce they shipped was only the best stuff. You could choose how green you wanted your bananas. Remember, the produce is coming direct from the warehouse to your kitchen, it doesn't have to sit in the retail bins being fondled by everyone and sprayed every 5 minutes to stay looking fresh. If you want really ripe watermelon, or something like that, it might be a problem, but mostly, the warehouse doesn't ship bad stuff to the store - the stuff goes bad while on the store shelves.
When our chain did this, we lived in Miami - they dispatched a medium sized truck from a warehouse sometimes 50 miles away, sometimes 200 miles away, depended on what was where when... but, that truck made over a dozen deliveries, kept those people's cars off the road, out of the store parking lot, out of the checkout lines, and also reduced the big trucks going to the local stores. If the program really took hold, it could have reduced the number of stores too.
Net - I think the direct home delivery reduces local traffic, maybe increases traffic and chaos around the warehouses, but decreases it in the neighborhoods where a single truck is doing delivery for multiple houses. The food still travels from the warehouse to your kitchen, but it doesn't have to stop off at the local store - employees don't have to drive to the store to make the shelves look pretty for you and check and bag your order, and manage those employees.
When our local chain did home delivery for $10 per order, we happened to have a newborn and really took them up on the deal - 5% delivery fee for a $200 order, not a problem - 80%+ of our groceries came to the house via that delivery program. This was 2003, apparently it wasn't working for the store, they shut the program down after about a year's trial.
Today, I don't think I'd pay $10 per order for delivery - I'd rather take the kids to the store just to get out in the world a little bit, but that's our personal circumstance.
The pirates could be posting with an intentional misspelling, like "fake books" in the music publishing industry - it's not an exact copy, so....
The piracy "educational" messages could be 100% bogus and still yield the observed effect of reduction in pirate activity among the "educated" IP addresses. Note that the summary said piracy overall remains constant, but a significant reduction has been observed among the educated. From my perspective, this could mean that the educated secured their WiFi and quit using their own traceable IP addresses for pirate activity, while the uneducated have not secured their WiFi and are now hosting increased piracy activity from the newly educated.
Has there been any study of relative TOR activity pre vs post education?
You forgot the God money. If it creates income, the God money says it is good. "Poor" farmer folk with nothing but (millions of dollars worth of) land can get income from these billboards to help them pay their taxes. These same "poor" farmer folk also have lots of lobbying power with the legislatures. As long as advertisers are willing to pay for billboards, there will be people ready to take the money.
In post-soviet Russia, advertising watches you!
62 years, with air conditioning, motor vehicle transport, more food than they need - imported from around the globe including not only dried spices but also fresh fruit produce meats and fish, better medical care (yes, even those without insurance have better medical care today), education, access to tremendously more and better (not yet perfect, but better) information, global communication.
Tudors may have lived to 70, on average, as they report the stories in written history, but did they really have it better, or just better than their contemporaries?
Persons from the United States are a subset of all Americans, actually about a 1/3 subset.
Many other Americans just refer to their own country, distancing themselves from the terror in el Norte, but they are all Americans - a Colombian once told me this.
You hit a trigger point for me with sneakers. The shopping malls of America are filled with shoes, "reasonably priced" "attractively styled" "ingeniously marketed" crappy shoes. I've had a couple of pairs of really good shoes over the years, and so much crap, expensive crap, cheap crap, all of it just such poor quality - with little or no correlation to price. Some specialty running shoes are good for a few months, but then the internal construction falls apart and they're transformed into barely adequate junk. Glove leather OluKais that last for years, look great, and feel great the whole time hardly cost twice as much as Sketchers that feel like they're made of recycled cardboard and fall apart at the first hint of actually using them. Over the years, I've encountered 3 or 4 pair of shoes at or above the level of the OluKais, always hard to find - so very worth the money, but so vastly outnumbered by such a pile of junk.
So, there's something of value in life: good shoes - they protect your feet while you walk. I'd hazard to say that shoes have done more for me in my lifetime than my cellphones, if I had to give up one or the other forever, it would be the cellphone, and I don't even like shoes - prefer flip flops, when social circumstances permit.
The worst example, granted. Still, typical CNC machines take a fair number of human work-hours to build, and regular human maintenance to keep them running and even setup before each job and attend while the job is running.
Black Mirror, Season One, Episode 2 (I think) - virtual value is bull----. What's the point of working if all you get is a new hat for your avatar that doesn't even exist in the real world? Just because stuff has a price doesn't mean it's good, or has value. So much "value" created today is just a way to waste people's spare time, which they apparently have far too much of. And it doesn't have to be "virtual" product like avatars, or movies, music, or books. Walk through Target / WalMart / KMart / JCPenney / Sears / Dillards / Bonwitt Teller / Neimann Marcus / Whatever and behold the array of stuff, so very very much stuff of so very very little life enhancing value. A 60" TV does not enhance your life 2x as much as a 19" screen - better? sure, more valuable? a little, life changing? not really much at all. That array of stores all carries clothing, some at quite dramatically varying price points - is the $200 shirt really 20x better than the $10 one? Oh, yes, anyone can tell the $200 shirt looks better, but 20x better? Even 5x better on sale? Hardly.
There's many sides of the larger economic picture.
People without jobs and money become a burden on society - it's cheaper to "give away money" than it is to house them in prisons. You could just kill them when they no longer "earn their keep," that would solve all sorts of environmental problems, but it doesn't look like a direction I'd like to see followed.
The propagandists use another trick, claiming that if the gov't or unions get big in general, then they will use their power to do "anti-Christian" things, like build gender-neutral restrooms and make Christians pay for them. Bundled FUD.
Nothing new, at least there is some discussion of material issues during the election cycles - seems like the BS ratio gets higher between elections.
Turn up your sarcasm detector, it looks like you've got it set to negative gain.
First, the majority of Americans didn't even vote in the Trump-Clinton election, 580 million people live in North America, 420 million more in South America, just under 130 million Americans voted in the election, and, as you point out, only 45.9% of them voted for the Trumpinator - so, I read the 2016 election as a "thumbs up" from roughly 6% of the American population in favor of Trump's image and policies. I'd wager much more than 7% of Americans would have voted against him, given the chance.
I used to work in small companies, where response to government oversight seemed like a huge burden on top of whatever it was we were trying to do. Now I work in a larger corporation where well over half of our resources are devoted to satisfying government oversight requirements - entire departments full of people who do nothing else, and all the other departments spend significant amounts of their time serving the needs of the regulatory departments. Oversight is necessary, and I think with strong transparency requirements the burden could actually be lessened, but it's no joke that we're already employing a huge number of people who do nothing but document and audit how other people work.
I got that TA position while attending Uni on a scholarship - not too much privilege required to get there, other than the fact that my parents were self-sufficient so I didn't have to go out to work to keep a roof over their heads.
So, the big contrast TA vs WallyWorld Minion is that I was on the "ain't gonna be doing this forever" track, whereas you need to win a minor lottery to take a step up the WallyWorld ladder. I got to choose when I stepped off the subsistence income merry-go-round and into decently paid employment.
Sadly, even college grads with MS degrees now need a degree of luck to move up from the minimum wage + 10% level.
Building the robots is currently rather labor intensive - think of how many people-hours have gone into Mars' Pathfinder missions.
Numbers mean nothing.
Let's make it where people can spend their time tending public spaces, working basic infrastructure projects, or maintenance, or interesting high tech endeavors and have assurance of a decent place to live, raise a family, food and medical care. I don't give a damn what numbers you put on the scenario - provide for shelter, security, and well-being in exchange for tending to something that needs doing. If nothing needs doing, great - just don't take away people's shelter, security and well-being because somebody fucked up the quarterly forecast again.
If there's stuff that needs doing that nobody is interested in or apparently qualified to do, break out the incentives - higher pay, better benefits, lower working hour demands, whatever floats the boats to get qualified people to pick up those tasks instead of tending the local park garden.