how could these companies say with a straight face that they only want more H1B visa employees due to lack worker shortage and not because they're trying to find cheaper labor?
Because he was being snarky while adding nothing to the discussion.
"Because China has a wonderful record on industrial pollution"
And this will affect the financial success of the project how? Grandparent's point was that technological advances since Panama Canal will make the project more cost effective.
"and Central America has a wonderful record on fiscal responsibility and accountable government."
Except it's the Chinese footing the bill and making the decisions, so this comment is irrelevant.
He's just pandering to Slashdot groupthink and bashing China pollution and Latin American corruption. And it worked too, currently at +5 insightful.
Dude, they're not talking about drug tests where your employer wants to check if you're high on crack cocaine.
They're talking about drug tests where a new experimental drug needs to be tested, first on mice and then humans, to see if it's safe enough for FDA approval.
It's great that you bench 285. However you conveniently neglected to mention how much you weigh and how many umpteen thousands of calories you stuff in your face every day.
Would it be better if my niece took a course in the Arts, since creativity is looking to be one of humanity's final frontiers against the inevitable Rise of the Machines?
Unfortunately taking art classes does nothing to actually increase your creativity -- it's an innate characteristic of the human soul (or brain, depending on your religious views).
Tell her to go into medicine. There is no way doctors are gonna be replaced by robots, ever.
On the off chance that some tremendous breakthroughs do lead to medical robots like in Star Wars, NOBODY will have to worry about getting a job. I'm not holding my breath though.
A Mars landing will cost hundreds of millions, even if these experiment payloads are small. How exactly are they gonna come up with that kind of money? Skimming through TFA didn't reveal any details.
Is this like, put out a bunch of press releases to get publicity, then hope Paul Allen or some other billionaire will fund it? Because the kind of budget they will need is a wee bit out of Kickstarter territory.
a power source that isn't crappy. That would enable exoskeletons and robots that are useful.
If you watch the demo videos, they all either have a power cord dangling off the exoskeleton/robot (presumably plugged into A/C mains) or an annoyingly loud and smoky 2-stroke generator running onboard. That's because current batteries provide nowhere near enough juice to power these suits/robots to any degree of usefulness.
We aren't lacking in servo/microcontroller/robotics tech, we're lacking a decent battery tech.
The thing is, it's not really sarcasm. Pretending to be stupid and confused while not making a point doesn't serve any purpose other than maybe as a troll.
Gee, I guess the engineers at NASA don't know about radiation levels at Jupiter. Lucky for them you posted about it on the internets. I'll forward them your post so they aren't left in the dark.
little engineering justification, sure. But there's a whole lot of financial justification.
It's all about operational costs. To retrieve something like an Apollo capsule that pops a parachute and lands in the ocean, they have to deploy fleet of ships and bunch of personnel, which all costs money even though it has nothing to do with rocket engineering. Also landing in salt water will mean extensive refurbishing and/or making the rocket marine-resistant, which leads to even more downtime and money.
Like in the airliner business, time is money. The faster you can relaunch, more money you save. Elon's goal is to have both stages land in the same place they launched from, clean em up a bit, refuel, and relaunch in a matter of days (or hours). Like an airliner.
after so much BS over the years, I think we should disregard any further studies proclaiming great health benefits of (____) and just rely on common sense.
Common sense tells me that the best things to eat for an animal species is what it's evolved to eat in its natural habitat. Pomegranates might be awesome food but not for lions.
For humans, that would be 2 million years of eating nuts and fruits and clams and fish and some red meat on occasion.
Yes computers and internet are important but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The most important engineering currently being done is still analog, like reusable rockets and fusion reactors. These rank slightly higher on the scale of importance to humanity than the guys making internet-connected refrigerators and targeted website ads.
Reminds me a few years ago when some dudes running websites voted "the internet" the most important invention in human history. It's as if they never heard of agriculture, or fire, or electricity, or indoor plumbing, or any number of things that are keeping these idiots alive.
It's funny, I was watching Nat Geo and they were showing a program about dinosaurs. They described the Cretaceous world that dinosaurs lived in, and explained how life forms (both plant and animal) were able to reach such gigantic size. Highlights: higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere (higher than today even with all the man-made carbon emissions) which led to gigantic forests. Higher oxygen levels which enabled animals to grow bigger. Hotter temperatures (than today), higher humidity and rainfall.
The narrator described it as a "hot and steamy jungle paradise thriving with life". Which was ended by a gigantic asteroid strike.
An hour later the same channel (Nat Geo) showed a program on climate change and how increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will lead to irreversible runaway global warming which will doom everyone and everything and turn the earth into a barren wasteland.
The test as specified by Alan Turing involves a human judge sitting in front of two terminals. One is a computer and the other is human-operated. The judge asks both terminals questions and tries to figure out which one is computer and which is human. It's quite specific.
It does not involve unsuspecting normal people in everyday situations who are duped into thinking they're interacting with a human... that would be quite easy. For instance if somebody asked the TigerDirect customer service chat window questions they have about a product and receive a good answer, they might not suspect it's a bot. Doesn't mean the TigerDirect bot passed the Turing test.
Turing also didn't say anything about crippling the test by making it a child who doesn't speak fluent English.
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how could these companies say with a straight face that they only want more H1B visa employees due to lack worker shortage and not because they're trying to find cheaper labor?
Because he was being snarky while adding nothing to the discussion.
"Because China has a wonderful record on industrial pollution"
And this will affect the financial success of the project how? Grandparent's point was that technological advances since Panama Canal will make the project more cost effective.
"and Central America has a wonderful record on fiscal responsibility and accountable government."
Except it's the Chinese footing the bill and making the decisions, so this comment is irrelevant.
He's just pandering to Slashdot groupthink and bashing China pollution and Latin American corruption. And it worked too, currently at +5 insightful.
"geunyeo hanteseo tteol-eojyeo" - "Get away from her" --> This is correct.
"dangsin-eun nappeun!" - this is wrong, it means "You are a bad person" and it's in the polite form even.
"Geh sek ki ya" would be more appropriate, it's a commonly used expletive meaning "dog offspring".
Dude, they're not talking about drug tests where your employer wants to check if you're high on crack cocaine.
They're talking about drug tests where a new experimental drug needs to be tested, first on mice and then humans, to see if it's safe enough for FDA approval.
cos the factory makes cars that run on 1.21 gigawatts at 80mph.
>Haven't Android and iOS completely cornered the market?
Yes.
>Is there any hope for the likes of Tizen,
No.
>Firefox OS,
No.
>and Windows
Yes.
It's great that you bench 285. However you conveniently neglected to mention how much you weigh and how many umpteen thousands of calories you stuff in your face every day.
Would it be better if my niece took a course in the Arts, since creativity is looking to be one of humanity's final frontiers against the inevitable Rise of the Machines?
Unfortunately taking art classes does nothing to actually increase your creativity -- it's an innate characteristic of the human soul (or brain, depending on your religious views).
Tell her to go into medicine. There is no way doctors are gonna be replaced by robots, ever.
On the off chance that some tremendous breakthroughs do lead to medical robots like in Star Wars, NOBODY will have to worry about getting a job. I'm not holding my breath though.
A Mars landing will cost hundreds of millions, even if these experiment payloads are small. How exactly are they gonna come up with that kind of money? Skimming through TFA didn't reveal any details.
Is this like, put out a bunch of press releases to get publicity, then hope Paul Allen or some other billionaire will fund it? Because the kind of budget they will need is a wee bit out of Kickstarter territory.
so how *do* you pronounce etc?
Community ENTerprise so pronounced like KENT?
Or like a cent (penny) sounding like SENT?
as opposed to internet of ideas? Or internet of energy?
yeah I was like "WTF is Aereo" also, and had to google for it.
And the summary mentions the Supremes but does not explain why Diana Ross and the Supremes are involved with a flaky soon-to-be-dead internet startup.
Kind of like how climate change activists erased the Medieval Warm Period off of Wikipedia a few years ago.
earth bugs would die from the intense radiation around Jupiter.
a power source that isn't crappy. That would enable exoskeletons and robots that are useful.
If you watch the demo videos, they all either have a power cord dangling off the exoskeleton/robot (presumably plugged into A/C mains) or an annoyingly loud and smoky 2-stroke generator running onboard. That's because current batteries provide nowhere near enough juice to power these suits/robots to any degree of usefulness.
We aren't lacking in servo/microcontroller/robotics tech, we're lacking a decent battery tech.
The thing is, it's not really sarcasm. Pretending to be stupid and confused while not making a point doesn't serve any purpose other than maybe as a troll.
Gee, I guess the engineers at NASA don't know about radiation levels at Jupiter. Lucky for them you posted about it on the internets. I'll forward them your post so they aren't left in the dark.
little engineering justification, sure. But there's a whole lot of financial justification.
It's all about operational costs. To retrieve something like an Apollo capsule that pops a parachute and lands in the ocean, they have to deploy fleet of ships and bunch of personnel, which all costs money even though it has nothing to do with rocket engineering. Also landing in salt water will mean extensive refurbishing and/or making the rocket marine-resistant, which leads to even more downtime and money.
Like in the airliner business, time is money. The faster you can relaunch, more money you save. Elon's goal is to have both stages land in the same place they launched from, clean em up a bit, refuel, and relaunch in a matter of days (or hours). Like an airliner.
Huh? No the first stage never makes it into orbit. Otherwise you wouldn't need a second stage and it would be a SSTO vehicle.
after so much BS over the years, I think we should disregard any further studies proclaiming great health benefits of (____) and just rely on common sense.
Common sense tells me that the best things to eat for an animal species is what it's evolved to eat in its natural habitat. Pomegranates might be awesome food but not for lions.
For humans, that would be 2 million years of eating nuts and fruits and clams and fish and some red meat on occasion.
Yes computers and internet are important but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The most important engineering currently being done is still analog, like reusable rockets and fusion reactors. These rank slightly higher on the scale of importance to humanity than the guys making internet-connected refrigerators and targeted website ads.
Reminds me a few years ago when some dudes running websites voted "the internet" the most important invention in human history. It's as if they never heard of agriculture, or fire, or electricity, or indoor plumbing, or any number of things that are keeping these idiots alive.
It's funny, I was watching Nat Geo and they were showing a program about dinosaurs. They described the Cretaceous world that dinosaurs lived in, and explained how life forms (both plant and animal) were able to reach such gigantic size. Highlights: higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere (higher than today even with all the man-made carbon emissions) which led to gigantic forests. Higher oxygen levels which enabled animals to grow bigger. Hotter temperatures (than today), higher humidity and rainfall.
The narrator described it as a "hot and steamy jungle paradise thriving with life". Which was ended by a gigantic asteroid strike.
An hour later the same channel (Nat Geo) showed a program on climate change and how increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will lead to irreversible runaway global warming which will doom everyone and everything and turn the earth into a barren wasteland.
The test as specified by Alan Turing involves a human judge sitting in front of two terminals. One is a computer and the other is human-operated. The judge asks both terminals questions and tries to figure out which one is computer and which is human. It's quite specific.
It does not involve unsuspecting normal people in everyday situations who are duped into thinking they're interacting with a human... that would be quite easy. For instance if somebody asked the TigerDirect customer service chat window questions they have about a product and receive a good answer, they might not suspect it's a bot. Doesn't mean the TigerDirect bot passed the Turing test.
Turing also didn't say anything about crippling the test by making it a child who doesn't speak fluent English.
Not only that, a non-native speaker who is a child.
5 minutes of "oh I can't understand you because I'm from Ukraine" plus 5 minutes of "oh I don't know about that because I'm only 13".