When Spaceship One blasted off to win the X-Prize. I remember being very excited. I watched the launch and read as many articles about it as I could.
That was 10 years ago. Now we have SpaceX and Orbital Sciences making orbit. Tremendous new things seem possible now with Falcon Heavy and Grasshopper reusable stage coming in the pipeline. SpaceShipTwo? A bigger version of SpaceShipOne that carries passengers, but still only suborbital with no further prospects. Where is the Tier Two orbital program that Rutan hinted at? Why did it take so long to get SS2 off the ground? Did Scaled get lost and rudderless with Burt retiring? Did they lack funding? What's the deal?
I am no philosopher wise man (and judging by your post neither are you) but I have experienced periods in my work where I sat around doing nothing, just surfing the internet. I have also done extremely useful work writing code that went into production. Even though I made the exact same money "working" exactly same hours, I can tell you that my mood and mental health during the two periods were drastically different, like night and day.
There is something to be said about meaningful work. The writers of old knew more than you think.
I just touched my 27 inch LCD monitor and it was a bad experience. The screen looked like it deformed and pushing liquid to the side. Plus it left a greasy fingerprint. I wouldn't buy this thing for $5 or 5 cents.
Google glass-wearing hipster overlords will watch them.
Another thought: if every citizen walking around is wearing his own personal camera and recording everything, and nobody has access to the recording but the owner, maybe we don't need police surveillance cameras everywhere. In a clear case of public danger such as the Boston marathon bombing, citizens will be glad to provide their footage to the police. Otherwise they can refuse to hand it over to anyone.
I've also never heard of it before. And I won't be hearing about it after it disappears like most of its dot.com brethen.
When I saw the headline, I thought for sure it was some kind of a hack or exploit that allowed a spammer to inject spam. Quirky Change the World? What the fuck lol
I got a game called War Thunder via bit torrent. What you do is download a small installer program from the publisher's website and run that. The installer automatically connects to BT seeds and peers and downloads the actual game itself.
There is no other way to get War Thunder. I suppose since they're a small publisher, their web server can't handle distributing the 13 GB game file to tens of thousands of users.
I'd rather have a few mediocre developers who are nice to each other, write to spec, comment appropriately, and write code that anyone can understand and maintain.
If they could do that (esp. the bold part), they wouldn't be mediocre developers.
A vending machine cooking dried (ramen-style) noodles will not dispense the same quality product as noodles made using traditional methods, which is what this robot does.
Yeah, they need to get someone experienced in public announcement to do these things. Maybe an air show commentator or something. Because this guy is pretty bad... he's probably an engineer.
Or at least have a script and tell the guy a list of things to say and go over it beforehand, maybe practice a few times.
Hint: Just say "All systems nominal" once, and don't bring it up again until something *isn't* nominal. You don't need to say "XXX is nominal" every 2 seconds.
IBM PCs were hardly garbage when IBM sold it. The ThinkPad line was highly regarded and the business as a whole was doing ok. The profits were low and declining but that was due to the cutthroat competition and commoditization of PCs rather than anything majorly wrong with IBMs.
Looks like Lenovo has done well since buying the Thinkpad line. They're the only PC maker with a pulse right now.
A lot of Amazon ebooks that are OCR scans (rather than directly made from author's digital source) are complete junk full of errors. (example: 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene) Now if their "focus" involves having human readers who *like* reading books as a hobby go through the scan and correct OCR errors by referencing the printed book, then yes I would say their focus can make them the best.
In the past you've been cited as a noted skeptic of man-made global warming. Has any of the recent events made you change your mind? Events such as the Arctic becoming completely free of ice, or Britain having snow-free winters?
Okay those events haven't actually happened yet, but eminent climate scientists have ran computer models and they say these things will happen very soon. Are you alarmed enough to change your stance on global warming?
ready to take over in case of an emergency, what is the point of the whole thing?
And assuming the human will be tweeting on his Facebook Amazon phone with his hands nowhere near the steering wheel and feet propped up on the dashboard, how is he going to take over control of the car in a split second when an emergency occurs? He can't. So that means he will have to be alert and in a ready driving posture and paying attention to the road like he's really driving. But then what is the point? Might as well have him drive it himself and save money by not buying the Google Car stuff in the first place.
Either make a car that can go 100% without a human driver, or go back to web advertising and forget about the whole thing.
Year 2000: According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.
Year 2013: No mention is made of the weather in England, with the presence of heavy snow and ice completely ignored. However, "ALL ARCTIC ICE WILL DISAPPEAR VERY SOON"
back in the day, not everybody had a PC. Gamers and engineers and other hardcore users comprised a larger % of the PC market. These users tend to upgrade often to run the latest Doom at max 640x480 resolution with all options on.
Nowadays everybody, i mean EVERYBODY has a pc, even the village idiot and 98 year old grandmas. All they do is check facebook, google maps, and send some email. These users do fine with 5 year old pcs. The hardcore users are a tiny percentage of the market now.
btw TFS is not quite right, the old machines weren't of lesser quality... my old 486 ran great for 10 years and it was still working when I threw it out.
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When Spaceship One blasted off to win the X-Prize. I remember being very excited. I watched the launch and read as many articles about it as I could.
That was 10 years ago. Now we have SpaceX and Orbital Sciences making orbit. Tremendous new things seem possible now with Falcon Heavy and Grasshopper reusable stage coming in the pipeline. SpaceShipTwo? A bigger version of SpaceShipOne that carries passengers, but still only suborbital with no further prospects. Where is the Tier Two orbital program that Rutan hinted at? Why did it take so long to get SS2 off the ground? Did Scaled get lost and rudderless with Burt retiring? Did they lack funding? What's the deal?
work is not virtuous.
I am no philosopher wise man (and judging by your post neither are you) but I have experienced periods in my work where I sat around doing nothing, just surfing the internet. I have also done extremely useful work writing code that went into production. Even though I made the exact same money "working" exactly same hours, I can tell you that my mood and mental health during the two periods were drastically different, like night and day.
There is something to be said about meaningful work. The writers of old knew more than you think.
I just touched my 27 inch LCD monitor and it was a bad experience. The screen looked like it deformed and pushing liquid to the side. Plus it left a greasy fingerprint. I wouldn't buy this thing for $5 or 5 cents.
Google glass-wearing hipster overlords will watch them.
Another thought: if every citizen walking around is wearing his own personal camera and recording everything, and nobody has access to the recording but the owner, maybe we don't need police surveillance cameras everywhere. In a clear case of public danger such as the Boston marathon bombing, citizens will be glad to provide their footage to the police. Otherwise they can refuse to hand it over to anyone.
I've also never heard of it before. And I won't be hearing about it after it disappears like most of its dot.com brethen.
When I saw the headline, I thought for sure it was some kind of a hack or exploit that allowed a spammer to inject spam. Quirky Change the World? What the fuck lol
Thanks to Slashdot's video implementation, I get a big div in the middle of the screen that says,
This plugin is vulnerable and should be updated.
Check for updates...
Click here to activate the Adobe Flash plugin.
Now my Firefox is up to date and the Flash plugin was updated earlier this month.
I got a game called War Thunder via bit torrent. What you do is download a small installer program from the publisher's website and run that. The installer automatically connects to BT seeds and peers and downloads the actual game itself.
There is no other way to get War Thunder. I suppose since they're a small publisher, their web server can't handle distributing the 13 GB game file to tens of thousands of users.
sure, just as there are rational people who pump-and-dump penny stocks. They don't necessarily have to have faith the product they're pumping.
I'd rather have a few mediocre developers who are nice to each other, write to spec, comment appropriately, and write code that anyone can understand and maintain.
If they could do that (esp. the bold part), they wouldn't be mediocre developers.
A vending machine cooking dried (ramen-style) noodles will not dispense the same quality product as noodles made using traditional methods, which is what this robot does.
causes rust accumulation on components, so they substituted with copper. And the green-blooded IBM became very cold and inhuman.
Yeah, they need to get someone experienced in public announcement to do these things. Maybe an air show commentator or something. Because this guy is pretty bad... he's probably an engineer.
Or at least have a script and tell the guy a list of things to say and go over it beforehand, maybe practice a few times.
Hint: Just say "All systems nominal" once, and don't bring it up again until something *isn't* nominal. You don't need to say "XXX is nominal" every 2 seconds.
yup, C# is what Java should've been in the first place and what Java wishes it was.
Slashtards are down on it just because it's from M$.
IBM PCs were hardly garbage when IBM sold it. The ThinkPad line was highly regarded and the business as a whole was doing ok. The profits were low and declining but that was due to the cutthroat competition and commoditization of PCs rather than anything majorly wrong with IBMs.
Looks like Lenovo has done well since buying the Thinkpad line. They're the only PC maker with a pulse right now.
Well, he created Wikileaks and was featured in many news headlines by fleeing Sweden.
Oh wait, that's not technology is it... Paris Hilton can also claim the same thing. Okay the summary is bullshit.
Ah but focusing *can* lead to superior results.
A lot of Amazon ebooks that are OCR scans (rather than directly made from author's digital source) are complete junk full of errors. (example: 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene) Now if their "focus" involves having human readers who *like* reading books as a hobby go through the scan and correct OCR errors by referencing the printed book, then yes I would say their focus can make them the best.
In the past you've been cited as a noted skeptic of man-made global warming. Has any of the recent events made you change your mind? Events such as the Arctic becoming completely free of ice, or Britain having snow-free winters?
Okay those events haven't actually happened yet, but eminent climate scientists have ran computer models and they say these things will happen very soon. Are you alarmed enough to change your stance on global warming?
small doses of hydrogen sulfide given to growing infants made them grow larger and more powerful. They became the X-men.
ready to take over in case of an emergency, what is the point of the whole thing?
And assuming the human will be tweeting on his Facebook Amazon phone with his hands nowhere near the steering wheel and feet propped up on the dashboard, how is he going to take over control of the car in a split second when an emergency occurs? He can't. So that means he will have to be alert and in a ready driving posture and paying attention to the road like he's really driving. But then what is the point? Might as well have him drive it himself and save money by not buying the Google Car stuff in the first place.
Either make a car that can go 100% without a human driver, or go back to web advertising and forget about the whole thing.
but piratebay and isohunt are still here
he didn't answer my question about the greatest TV show in history which he worked on, He-Man and the Master of the Universe
From the very mouth of CRU, the holy gatekeepers of the Church of Climate Scientology. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Year 2000: According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.
Year 2013: No mention is made of the weather in England, with the presence of heavy snow and ice completely ignored. However, "ALL ARCTIC ICE WILL DISAPPEAR VERY SOON"
Britain was supposed to be completely snow and ice free by 2010 due to global warming, according to climate scientologists. I am not making this up.
Ask any chap in England how the winter was this year.
back in the day, not everybody had a PC. Gamers and engineers and other hardcore users comprised a larger % of the PC market. These users tend to upgrade often to run the latest Doom at max 640x480 resolution with all options on.
Nowadays everybody, i mean EVERYBODY has a pc, even the village idiot and 98 year old grandmas. All they do is check facebook, google maps, and send some email. These users do fine with 5 year old pcs. The hardcore users are a tiny percentage of the market now.
btw TFS is not quite right, the old machines weren't of lesser quality... my old 486 ran great for 10 years and it was still working when I threw it out.
Google CEO: If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.