Don't have links or citations, I'm watching local TV and radio news here in California. As with early reports of a breaking story, many or all of these details could be wrong. Take with a grain of salt.
- Shooter is described as a white female, wearing a dark headscarf.
- One witness says she shot her boyfriend, 10 times.
- Coroner has been called, so at least one person is dead
- Suspect also reported dead possibly from a self-inflicted wound
Smaller landmasses surrounded by water tend to be nicer places to live than huge continents. For example, much of Pangaea's interior was a desert wasteland.
Well yeah, most people drive used cars. I drive a 2016 Toyota Highlander SUV, that's certainly a used car (we are in the year 2018).
The relevant factor is, what is the median age of all cars on the road today. I'll be it's hell of a lot younger than your 1994 Dodge. Most likely 6 years, that would be my guess. But let's say the average car is 10 years old. If electric cars became cheaper to buy and maintain than comparable petrol cars, and batteries improved to a point where range anxiety was a nonfactor for most people (400 mile per charge would probably do it), most people would buy electric because charging your car at night is hell of a lot cheaper than filling it with gasoline. At this point, only 10 years (or 6 years if my guess is correct) would need to pass before majority of the cars on the road are electric.
There's like, the 49-state version and then there's a California version with extra emissions equipment. At least that's the way it's been in the motorcycle world since.... the 80's?
But I don't think any of this matters, what Trump EPA does or what Obama EPA did. World will pretty much be all electric in the near future. Not because of ideological beliefs, but because of the march of (technological) progress means it will simply make more economic sense for people to buy electric cars than petrol burning cars.
Comic books are something teenagers read. Yes I know there are adults who read it too but that's mostly for nostalgia because they used to read it when they were kids.
It's like skateboarding. Virtually every adult skater does it because they've been doing it since they were small. Nobody turns 35 and then thinks "hmm I should take up skateboarding even though I've never tried it before".
I had a huge stash of 80's and 90's Marvel comic books that I've collected since I was 11 (it's mostly gone now, given away to various people). A few years ago I read em again, and aside from nostalgia I found them unreadable. They were obviously written for a middle-school audience and completely beneath my current level of intellect. They were fine when I was 11-15, not so much now.
You can always bring a respirator with a full face goggle, Heisenberg style. If you wear this during the flight, you're protected from airborne spit particles that are ejected when a neighbor sneezes AND you're protected from germs on surfaces (because you have to touch the surface with your hand and then touch your mouth/nose/eyes with your hand to get infected, and you can't touch your face if you have the respirator on).
After you get off the plane, take off the respirator first *then* thoroughly wash your hands. If you wash your hands first and then take off the mask, your hands could get germs that are sitting on the outside surface of the mask.
Most likely gravity behaves differently at very (very) long distances than the usual inverse square. Kinda like how things behave differently at very very high speeds (i.e. special relativity)
I haven't figured out exactly how this works or even any way to prove it happens, but when I do work it out I'll let you guys know.
Iraq war was funded by the US govt. It was a national effort. This train is a state project.
Secondly, just because you wasted a lot of money on a big worthless project in the past, doesn't make it okay to keep on wasting money on further worthless projects. And yes I do agree that Iraq was a clusterfuck and that US should GTFO of the middle east completely.
I'm hoping Elon will put this matter to rest with his Boring company. By that I mean, the Senate Launch System, which at $1 billion+ per launch is a wasteful pork barrel project designed only to line the pockets of former Shuttle defense contractors. But with the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy (which currently costs less than 1/10th of the SLS but eventually with reusability will probably reach 1/100th the cost of the SLS) not even the most pork-doling corrupt senator will be able to justify the SLS's existence.
Anyways I'm hoping Boring company will do to worthless pork barrel trains what SpaceX has done to worthless pork barrel rockets.
It's not a general purpose robot! All it can do is flip burger patties already sitting on a grill. It can't even put cheese on top of the patty, that has to be done by a human.
Why not use a conveyor oven ?
Because nobody wants a baked hamburger.
Or a two sided contact grill for one or two patties
That would actually make sense if I were building a burger factory to churn out ten thousand patties a day. That's how I'd do it.
However this is just one restaurant and it's probably making only a few hundred patties a day. You wouldn't want to spend too much money on a whole new automated grill system. This particular robot only costs 60 grand (relatively cheap) and it leverages the existing grill.
Why is it that the richest country in the world is not able to provide such basic
Not the richest country, not even close. In some ways it's the poorest country in the world.
Who is richer, the guy making 70k a year but spends 120k a year and has a debt of 500k, with assets of 250k, for a net worth of negative 250k? Or the guy making 35k per year with 10k of debt and 20k in assets?
USA has a federal debt of $20 trillion dollars. That's $70,000 in debt for every man, woman and child. But more to the point, that's $170,000 in debt per taxpayer (because a lot of people don't pay any taxes). It is by far the most indebted of any major country in the world.
And that's just the federal govt. Many of the states are even worse off. Think Illinois. They think the Feds will bail them out, but that's like the crew of a sinking fishing boat hoping the crew of the Titanic will save them.
How did it get so fucked up, in such a short period of time? USA used to be the biggest creditor nation in the world, as recently as the 1960s. Some of you were alive back then. You could legitimately call it the richest nation in the world. Now it's just shit.
"Dropbox Files for IPO" would've been a much clearer headline, but the editors wanted to avoid using fancy terms like IPO that children or people with sub-90 IQ wouldn't recognize.
Sucks to be you. My solution is to never fly *commercial*. Flying my own airplane, as long as the destination is under 1100 nautical miles I save time vs. flying in an overcrowded 737.
Did you skim the summary and miss the word manufacturing? Your HP deskjet is not involved in manufacturing.
Another key word would be "automation". Meaning, a task that used to be done by a human, is no longer done by a human. Car painting robot is a valid example.
The Shuttle hasn't been involved since 2011 and the ISS costs somewhere around $3 Billion/year according to NASA. According to NASA launch and transport costs account for about 34% of ISS operating costs. Systems operation and maintenance accounts for about 43% of costs.
You're talking about this year's operating costs. I'm talking about the whole thing, starting from the 1990's, cost to build it and launch it piece by piece, R&D, everything. That's what I meant by "great expense".
They don't need Falcon Heavy to support the ISS at this point. Falcon 9 is already supply resupply missions
I'm not talking about supporting the ISS with food and water. If launch costs are cheap enough you can do extensive modifications or add additional modules. All indications point to launch costs becoming that cheap in the near future.
I may have misinterpreted Elon's recent statements, but the sense I'm getting is that FH will be doing most of the heavy lifting going forward (because it lifts so much more payload than F9 while not costing that much more), and F9 will be relegated to manned crew missions (because FH isn't man-rated and will be problematic and take too long to man-rate, while F9 is already near manned approval). Of course the long term strategy is to rely on BFR for everything, but that's 5-10 years out.
Give me a credible reason why SpaceX would be interested
I don't know, we could call Elon and ask.
But if I were trying to set up a Mars colony, and if there's any kind of a need for orbital rendezvous or storage depot or some place to put people up for a few days while your big transports get refueled and serviced, and there's already a big space station there that you can use for cheap (or free), I might take it.
Or maybe Bigelow could take it over and make it into an orbiting hotel. Anything is possible if launch costs become cheap enough.
Main reason for the great expense (of putting up the ISS and maintaining it) was that the govt spent $1 billion - $2 billion (depending on who you ask) per Shuttle launch to get up there.
Falcon Heavy costs less than 1/10th of that now, perhaps 1/100th of that in the near future, and carries more payload per launch to boot.
and little profit,
Actually it's no profit, because profit was never a mission requirement. Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent for some science missions and international cooperation kumbaya. But really the biggest (but unspoken) mission requirement was to give Shuttle a reason for existing, and keeping the gravy train coming for defense contractors.
More specifically, how do we prevent some corporation, de-facto owned and operated by, say, China, from making it a covert military station in LEO?
Don't sell it to China? Seems like a real simple solution.
When the times nears that ISS needs to be de-orbited or given costly maintenance, it might be sensible to just give it away to SpaceX in return for promising to keep it in orbit and operational for a certain number of years. They might be able to do something useful with it. Because whatever the government ends up spending to repair anything, you know Elon can do it for an order of magnitude cheaper.
I thought TFS was talking about Snapchat, which changed its name to Snap.
So my initial take on the story was, Ubuntu will come with Snapchat preinstalled. Presumably they got paid by Snap, Inc. to do this, similar to how Mozilla gets paid by Google to be its default search engine.
f it's not better than a Human with an IQ of no less than 135 at literally everything it's not AI.
Well it looks like you just made up your own definition of AI. I've never seen that anywhere.
It's Artificial Intelligence, not Artificial Higher-than-average-human Intelligence.
If they made a robot dog that behaves exactly like a real dog, with all the doglike mental powers, I would definitely call that real AI. Unfortunately they're still nowhere near making dog-level AI.
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It said the faulty system was restarted at 19:00 GMT, and normal operations had resumed.
Must be a Windows system.
Don't have links or citations, I'm watching local TV and radio news here in California. As with early reports of a breaking story, many or all of these details could be wrong. Take with a grain of salt.
- Shooter is described as a white female, wearing a dark headscarf.
- One witness says she shot her boyfriend, 10 times.
- Coroner has been called, so at least one person is dead
- Suspect also reported dead possibly from a self-inflicted wound
- At least 4 bystanders were hit by gunfire
Smaller landmasses surrounded by water tend to be nicer places to live than huge continents. For example, much of Pangaea's interior was a desert wasteland.
Well yeah, most people drive used cars. I drive a 2016 Toyota Highlander SUV, that's certainly a used car (we are in the year 2018).
The relevant factor is, what is the median age of all cars on the road today. I'll be it's hell of a lot younger than your 1994 Dodge. Most likely 6 years, that would be my guess. But let's say the average car is 10 years old. If electric cars became cheaper to buy and maintain than comparable petrol cars, and batteries improved to a point where range anxiety was a nonfactor for most people (400 mile per charge would probably do it), most people would buy electric because charging your car at night is hell of a lot cheaper than filling it with gasoline. At this point, only 10 years (or 6 years if my guess is correct) would need to pass before majority of the cars on the road are electric.
There's like, the 49-state version and then there's a California version with extra emissions equipment. At least that's the way it's been in the motorcycle world since.... the 80's?
But I don't think any of this matters, what Trump EPA does or what Obama EPA did. World will pretty much be all electric in the near future. Not because of ideological beliefs, but because of the march of (technological) progress means it will simply make more economic sense for people to buy electric cars than petrol burning cars.
Comic books are something teenagers read. Yes I know there are adults who read it too but that's mostly for nostalgia because they used to read it when they were kids.
It's like skateboarding. Virtually every adult skater does it because they've been doing it since they were small. Nobody turns 35 and then thinks "hmm I should take up skateboarding even though I've never tried it before".
I had a huge stash of 80's and 90's Marvel comic books that I've collected since I was 11 (it's mostly gone now, given away to various people). A few years ago I read em again, and aside from nostalgia I found them unreadable. They were obviously written for a middle-school audience and completely beneath my current level of intellect. They were fine when I was 11-15, not so much now.
Have you guys ever kissed anyone?
Kissing a healthy person who is not infected with a communicable disease = harmless. Kissing an infected person = you will be infected.
You aren't going to die from germs.
I suggest you google "young adult influenza deaths 2018"... you might change your mind.
You can always bring a respirator with a full face goggle, Heisenberg style. If you wear this during the flight, you're protected from airborne spit particles that are ejected when a neighbor sneezes AND you're protected from germs on surfaces (because you have to touch the surface with your hand and then touch your mouth/nose/eyes with your hand to get infected, and you can't touch your face if you have the respirator on).
After you get off the plane, take off the respirator first *then* thoroughly wash your hands. If you wash your hands first and then take off the mask, your hands could get germs that are sitting on the outside surface of the mask.
Most likely gravity behaves differently at very (very) long distances than the usual inverse square. Kinda like how things behave differently at very very high speeds (i.e. special relativity)
I haven't figured out exactly how this works or even any way to prove it happens, but when I do work it out I'll let you guys know.
Iraq war was funded by the US govt. It was a national effort. This train is a state project.
Secondly, just because you wasted a lot of money on a big worthless project in the past, doesn't make it okay to keep on wasting money on further worthless projects. And yes I do agree that Iraq was a clusterfuck and that US should GTFO of the middle east completely.
I'm hoping Elon will put this matter to rest with his Boring company. By that I mean, the Senate Launch System, which at $1 billion+ per launch is a wasteful pork barrel project designed only to line the pockets of former Shuttle defense contractors. But with the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy (which currently costs less than 1/10th of the SLS but eventually with reusability will probably reach 1/100th the cost of the SLS) not even the most pork-doling corrupt senator will be able to justify the SLS's existence.
Anyways I'm hoping Boring company will do to worthless pork barrel trains what SpaceX has done to worthless pork barrel rockets.
So what you're telling me is that Zuck's law that says Facebook users double every year isn't a real law??
It's not a general purpose robot! All it can do is flip burger patties already sitting on a grill. It can't even put cheese on top of the patty, that has to be done by a human.
Why not use a conveyor oven ?
Because nobody wants a baked hamburger.
Or a two sided contact grill for one or two patties
That would actually make sense if I were building a burger factory to churn out ten thousand patties a day. That's how I'd do it.
However this is just one restaurant and it's probably making only a few hundred patties a day. You wouldn't want to spend too much money on a whole new automated grill system. This particular robot only costs 60 grand (relatively cheap) and it leverages the existing grill.
he seems to be everywhere these days.
I don't suppose it's Al Bundy... unless they're talking about shoe store jobs
Why is it that the richest country in the world is not able to provide such basic
Not the richest country, not even close. In some ways it's the poorest country in the world.
Who is richer, the guy making 70k a year but spends 120k a year and has a debt of 500k, with assets of 250k, for a net worth of negative 250k? Or the guy making 35k per year with 10k of debt and 20k in assets?
USA has a federal debt of $20 trillion dollars. That's $70,000 in debt for every man, woman and child. But more to the point, that's $170,000 in debt per taxpayer (because a lot of people don't pay any taxes). It is by far the most indebted of any major country in the world.
And that's just the federal govt. Many of the states are even worse off. Think Illinois. They think the Feds will bail them out, but that's like the crew of a sinking fishing boat hoping the crew of the Titanic will save them.
How did it get so fucked up, in such a short period of time? USA used to be the biggest creditor nation in the world, as recently as the 1960s. Some of you were alive back then. You could legitimately call it the richest nation in the world. Now it's just shit.
Probably like $10 for one hour of wifi. At least if they get it to work well with decent speeds it'll be worth it.
Me, I'll just use Elon's low earth orbit satellites. It should work from inside an airplane, right?
"Dropbox Files for IPO" would've been a much clearer headline, but the editors wanted to avoid using fancy terms like IPO that children or people with sub-90 IQ wouldn't recognize.
Sucks to be you. My solution is to never fly *commercial*. Flying my own airplane, as long as the destination is under 1100 nautical miles I save time vs. flying in an overcrowded 737.
There is nothing preventing them from mounting the iphone on a tripod or a gyro-stabilized drone.
I'd just be glad if Slashdot doesn't jump on the bandwagon and change its name to CryptoSlash.
before 2091, as being space junk and a hazard to interplanetary spacecraft.
That's if Elon's dream of cheap spaceflight and interplanetary travels becomes reality.
Did you skim the summary and miss the word manufacturing? Your HP deskjet is not involved in manufacturing.
Another key word would be "automation". Meaning, a task that used to be done by a human, is no longer done by a human. Car painting robot is a valid example.
The Shuttle hasn't been involved since 2011 and the ISS costs somewhere around $3 Billion/year according to NASA. According to NASA launch and transport costs account for about 34% of ISS operating costs. Systems operation and maintenance accounts for about 43% of costs.
You're talking about this year's operating costs. I'm talking about the whole thing, starting from the 1990's, cost to build it and launch it piece by piece, R&D, everything. That's what I meant by "great expense".
They don't need Falcon Heavy to support the ISS at this point. Falcon 9 is already supply resupply missions
I'm not talking about supporting the ISS with food and water. If launch costs are cheap enough you can do extensive modifications or add additional modules. All indications point to launch costs becoming that cheap in the near future.
I may have misinterpreted Elon's recent statements, but the sense I'm getting is that FH will be doing most of the heavy lifting going forward (because it lifts so much more payload than F9 while not costing that much more), and F9 will be relegated to manned crew missions (because FH isn't man-rated and will be problematic and take too long to man-rate, while F9 is already near manned approval). Of course the long term strategy is to rely on BFR for everything, but that's 5-10 years out.
Give me a credible reason why SpaceX would be interested
I don't know, we could call Elon and ask.
But if I were trying to set up a Mars colony, and if there's any kind of a need for orbital rendezvous or storage depot or some place to put people up for a few days while your big transports get refueled and serviced, and there's already a big space station there that you can use for cheap (or free), I might take it.
Or maybe Bigelow could take it over and make it into an orbiting hotel. Anything is possible if launch costs become cheap enough.
1. There's great expense
Main reason for the great expense (of putting up the ISS and maintaining it) was that the govt spent $1 billion - $2 billion (depending on who you ask) per Shuttle launch to get up there.
Falcon Heavy costs less than 1/10th of that now, perhaps 1/100th of that in the near future, and carries more payload per launch to boot.
and little profit,
Actually it's no profit, because profit was never a mission requirement. Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent for some science missions and international cooperation kumbaya. But really the biggest (but unspoken) mission requirement was to give Shuttle a reason for existing, and keeping the gravy train coming for defense contractors.
More specifically, how do we prevent some corporation, de-facto owned and operated by, say, China, from making it a covert military station in LEO?
Don't sell it to China? Seems like a real simple solution.
When the times nears that ISS needs to be de-orbited or given costly maintenance, it might be sensible to just give it away to SpaceX in return for promising to keep it in orbit and operational for a certain number of years. They might be able to do something useful with it. Because whatever the government ends up spending to repair anything, you know Elon can do it for an order of magnitude cheaper.
I thought TFS was talking about Snapchat, which changed its name to Snap.
So my initial take on the story was, Ubuntu will come with Snapchat preinstalled. Presumably they got paid by Snap, Inc. to do this, similar to how Mozilla gets paid by Google to be its default search engine.
Turns out this wasn't it at all.
f it's not better than a Human with an IQ of no less than 135 at literally everything it's not AI.
Well it looks like you just made up your own definition of AI. I've never seen that anywhere.
It's Artificial Intelligence, not Artificial Higher-than-average-human Intelligence.
If they made a robot dog that behaves exactly like a real dog, with all the doglike mental powers, I would definitely call that real AI. Unfortunately they're still nowhere near making dog-level AI.