yeah that was pretty annoying. But I've rationalized it as the technology of the day (way better than what we have) they were far more scientific about the force than yoda and obi wan were about it in the originals. Perhaps midichlorians are just a physical by-product of the actual Force being present in you. But once New Hope comes around remaining Jedi have accepted that faith in the Force is more important than trying to understand it at that level. I know it's a stretch. But hey...
I've seen quite a few examples of this outside of the military as well. The bigger the contractor and the bigger the project the closer it gets to guaranteed failure. Generally it starts with a complete vaporware sales job without an ounce of true understanding of if they can actually build whatever it is within the timeframe required. Then they may throw some "star" players in at the beginning to get things going while they build a much larger team of barely able to feed themselves noobs earning nearly minimum wage (likely plucked off the street and run through a boot camp on how to be a consultant) so that they can charge a bunch of hours before the customer can realize it is doomed. I assume this scales up dramatically with military contractors in basically the same way.
in this case they're providing design/architectural services in addition to bringing developers to the table to do the actual coding. But while you can't automate that, if the coders just have to know how to do those design/architectural services or if that part gets Gigstered out too, then it could be all automated.
even though this whole branch of the replies is in jest, there are many drones available that can carry a brick. Specifically getting one designed to carry and drop something may reduce the field of available options, but still there and commercially available. Still...requires relatively (compared to internet) close physical presence.
Not sensible at all. Make it illegal to carry a gun outside the home and locked away from usefulness in defense is NOT sensible in anyway.
At what point would that have stopped the San Bernardino? They could have had all their guns locked away right up till they loaded them and brought them to the party. And the same exact thing would have happened.
He still hasn't actually given them all raises to $70K. It's a 3 year plan where at the end everyone will have a minimum of $70K salary. He cut his salary, mortgaged his property and sold all his investments to add cash to the company bottom line. He will be lucky if the company survives three years if he actually lives up to his promise.
They just need to be worried about what happens when in the midst of the 3 year plan costs exceed revenue due to flattening revenue growth or increased employee count to cover existing revenue growth. Altruism whether real or imagined won't keep them from being laid off when there is no money to pay them.
The consumer always has the option of whether to heed to recall or not. The Voluntary part of this is that Tesla decided to issue the recall without a mandate from the NHTSA or whoever it is that can mandate recalls. Consumer can still ignore it if the NHTSA mandates it.
Is Volvo also legally and financially responsible for the driver's side backseat passenger being crushed to severe injury or death immediately upon enabling self-driving mode? Source: the concept pic at the bottom of the article.
Where exactly did that come from? Did you pee in his cheerios or something? He sure does have a lot of time to spend finding every post you ever post and replying ad nauseum with something about...well I'm not sure exactly what it is about.
No need for forgiveness. Modeling what may happen with this level of abstract data is good for planning contingencies. What if scenarios sometimes have no precedent. It is a complete farce to use it to promote carbon taxation because that implies that they actually know what will truly positively affect the climate change that they are modeling. Bringing this back to Slashdot, this is therefore classified as FUD.
Because Iran is in the middle east and there is legitimate concern that they will abuse the enrichment ban being lifted to build a nuclear arsenal. Other than North Korea, which we already know has nuclear weapon capabilities of some sort, what other countries are pursuing this?
I assume this means they're certain he is NOT an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies? I mean, it does seem pretty unlikely, but we should at least check into it.
I agree. It's certainly fine for google to see that statistic and do some due diligence to make sure their are not any issues in their hiring managers/process. But the answer is almost certainly in the available pool of people who apply. I'd definitely be interested to see the percentage of people who applied that are white vs black, male vs female. If those percentages are way different than their work force make-up, then maybe there's something more to look at. However you'd then have to investigate a large number of individual examples to see if qualifications and interview results show a valid reason for the difference. All-in-all the likelihood that it involves racist HR/hiring managers at google is extremely unlikely.
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yeah that was pretty annoying. But I've rationalized it as the technology of the day (way better than what we have) they were far more scientific about the force than yoda and obi wan were about it in the originals. Perhaps midichlorians are just a physical by-product of the actual Force being present in you. But once New Hope comes around remaining Jedi have accepted that faith in the Force is more important than trying to understand it at that level. I know it's a stretch. But hey...
I've seen quite a few examples of this outside of the military as well. The bigger the contractor and the bigger the project the closer it gets to guaranteed failure. Generally it starts with a complete vaporware sales job without an ounce of true understanding of if they can actually build whatever it is within the timeframe required. Then they may throw some "star" players in at the beginning to get things going while they build a much larger team of barely able to feed themselves noobs earning nearly minimum wage (likely plucked off the street and run through a boot camp on how to be a consultant) so that they can charge a bunch of hours before the customer can realize it is doomed. I assume this scales up dramatically with military contractors in basically the same way.
in this case they're providing design/architectural services in addition to bringing developers to the table to do the actual coding. But while you can't automate that, if the coders just have to know how to do those design/architectural services or if that part gets Gigstered out too, then it could be all automated.
even though this whole branch of the replies is in jest, there are many drones available that can carry a brick. Specifically getting one designed to carry and drop something may reduce the field of available options, but still there and commercially available. Still...requires relatively (compared to internet) close physical presence.
Barstewards suggestions were not sensible and would not have stopped any part of the San Bernardino shooting.
Not sensible at all. Make it illegal to carry a gun outside the home and locked away from usefulness in defense is NOT sensible in anyway. At what point would that have stopped the San Bernardino? They could have had all their guns locked away right up till they loaded them and brought them to the party. And the same exact thing would have happened.
Also it was part of the former Soviet Union, so....
He still hasn't actually given them all raises to $70K. It's a 3 year plan where at the end everyone will have a minimum of $70K salary. He cut his salary, mortgaged his property and sold all his investments to add cash to the company bottom line. He will be lucky if the company survives three years if he actually lives up to his promise.
They just need to be worried about what happens when in the midst of the 3 year plan costs exceed revenue due to flattening revenue growth or increased employee count to cover existing revenue growth. Altruism whether real or imagined won't keep them from being laid off when there is no money to pay them.
and suddenly slashdot was silent.....
It could still live on as an optional add-on, but focusing on making a really good browser is a great idea.
The consumer always has the option of whether to heed to recall or not. The Voluntary part of this is that Tesla decided to issue the recall without a mandate from the NHTSA or whoever it is that can mandate recalls. Consumer can still ignore it if the NHTSA mandates it.
Is Volvo also legally and financially responsible for the driver's side backseat passenger being crushed to severe injury or death immediately upon enabling self-driving mode? Source: the concept pic at the bottom of the article.
Where exactly did that come from? Did you pee in his cheerios or something? He sure does have a lot of time to spend finding every post you ever post and replying ad nauseum with something about ...well I'm not sure exactly what it is about.
A tool meant to let the CEO concentrate on the strategic tasks that an CEO should focus on
Don't worry, it's 97% compatible with HTML5 and ECMAScript 5 specs *** (Citation needed)
No need for forgiveness. Modeling what may happen with this level of abstract data is good for planning contingencies. What if scenarios sometimes have no precedent. It is a complete farce to use it to promote carbon taxation because that implies that they actually know what will truly positively affect the climate change that they are modeling. Bringing this back to Slashdot, this is therefore classified as FUD.
Because Iran is in the middle east and there is legitimate concern that they will abuse the enrichment ban being lifted to build a nuclear arsenal. Other than North Korea, which we already know has nuclear weapon capabilities of some sort, what other countries are pursuing this?
That's funny...I had to do a find for that because I'd somehow missed it. When I found it I'd read it as marketplace. What a weird word to use there.
It only applies to the evil kind.
So even without the little pi symbol Gatekeeper is still full of holes.
that really wasn't nearly realistic as Pole Position on the Atari 5200
Or this will help end the idea of internet use tax altogether when it falls flat on its face. Which would be the best case scenario.
I assume this means they're certain he is NOT an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies? I mean, it does seem pretty unlikely, but we should at least check into it.
I agree. It's certainly fine for google to see that statistic and do some due diligence to make sure their are not any issues in their hiring managers/process. But the answer is almost certainly in the available pool of people who apply. I'd definitely be interested to see the percentage of people who applied that are white vs black, male vs female. If those percentages are way different than their work force make-up, then maybe there's something more to look at. However you'd then have to investigate a large number of individual examples to see if qualifications and interview results show a valid reason for the difference. All-in-all the likelihood that it involves racist HR/hiring managers at google is extremely unlikely.