You just gave me my million dollar invention! I'll hang out at the less-than-affluent parts of the city, selling paper protection products. Much like the disposable toilet seat covers, these would be Uber or Lyft Ride Share Covers. Lightly scented, guaranteed to stop chewing-gum butt!
Interesting that you immediately tied VR to upcoming PC sales, as that's my gating factor right now. The rig I have is 'good enough' to handle the games I play now. But I'm thinking about going to VR next. I did a little checking, and it would cost a lot more to upgrade my current rig to be beefy enough to handle VR than it would be to just buy a rig designed to handle VR.
When I saw the headline, I was going to come here and post a joke about the "world's oldest profession". But after reading the summary/article, I'm really saddened. Every family has skeletons in their closets, but this deception goes right to the core of who we are as humans.
Didn't the original Bob Newhart Show take place (mostly) in a shared office environment? Bob was a psychologist, I know there was a dentist. Maybe a lawyer too? I can't remember.
I'm not sure you could call it 'synergy' in the workplace. But there was lots of funny scenes, I bet that would be marketable in today's shared office environment.
To a degree, a dystopian future implies that at least SOME technologies would actually backslide. We see evidence in movies like Star Wars when lightsabers become unknown. Or books like Frank Herbert's 'Dune' with computers. The technology existed at some point in the past, but reverted due to significant societal stresses. It may be that payphones make a comeback when some global threat manages to take out all the cell phone towers.
It must be your infrastructure. In the Minnesota metro area, I use chip+pin in many different retail locations. It only takes a few seconds. The longest part of the transaction is me entering my PIN. Well, OK. The longest part of the transaction is me entering my phone number because I forgot that stupid little fob to get my rewards. But still.
On the advice of a coworker I went to buy this book. It's obscenely expensive because it is mandatory reading for many Computer Science grads. It's even expensive on the second hand market because the poor graduate students are attempting to recover SOME of the obscene cost.
I'm still confused. The XKCD cartoon shows a single source - the Moon, Sun, etc. But what they are doing here has 149 sources of energy. So if you had a binary sun (hypothetically identical suns) with two lenses, each focusing on a single spot - wouldn't that be 2x the temp? Isn't that a better example of what they are doing? And if you get things hot enough, could you start fusion which would then release vast amounts energy?
The backup plan if he can't get the batteries up and running.... 1. Buy the USS Nimitz 2. Back it into a large South Australian port 3. Hook it up to the grid 4. Profit!
How does your country feel about DDT? I have mixed feelings on using it. I understand it's been instrumental in curbing malaria in many parts of the world, but there are environmental consequences to using it.
You've all got it wrong. The REAL conspiracy is that if the embargo were lifted, Cuba could field a Major League Baseball team. If they fielded a team made up exclusively by Cuban and Latin American players, they would completely dominate the sport. The Major League Sport Hegemony couldn't allow such an embarrassment!
(tongue on partially in cheek)
In Hawaii, I believe no one is allowed to own land. That state owns it all and leases it back to the homeowners. Maybe we could create some independent government authority that would 'own' the Moon, and lease land out to the homesteaders.
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“Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.”
Much like Watergate, it wasn't the crime that caused the fallout. It was the cover up.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
I came here expecting an early comment to reference Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.
I left disappointed....
I just want to go on record that I am ABSOLUTELY AGAINST guns controlling self driving cars. That way madness lies.
You just gave me my million dollar invention! I'll hang out at the less-than-affluent parts of the city, selling paper protection products. Much like the disposable toilet seat covers, these would be Uber or Lyft Ride Share Covers. Lightly scented, guaranteed to stop chewing-gum butt!
Blowing up something space? Sounds like a job for the new Space Force!!!!
Interesting that you immediately tied VR to upcoming PC sales, as that's my gating factor right now. The rig I have is 'good enough' to handle the games I play now. But I'm thinking about going to VR next. I did a little checking, and it would cost a lot more to upgrade my current rig to be beefy enough to handle VR than it would be to just buy a rig designed to handle VR.
Didn't invoke Godwin's Law, either. Prat.
When I saw the headline, I was going to come here and post a joke about the "world's oldest profession". But after reading the summary/article, I'm really saddened. Every family has skeletons in their closets, but this deception goes right to the core of who we are as humans.
Didn't the original Bob Newhart Show take place (mostly) in a shared office environment? Bob was a psychologist, I know there was a dentist. Maybe a lawyer too? I can't remember.
I'm not sure you could call it 'synergy' in the workplace. But there was lots of funny scenes, I bet that would be marketable in today's shared office environment.
To a degree, a dystopian future implies that at least SOME technologies would actually backslide. We see evidence in movies like Star Wars when lightsabers become unknown. Or books like Frank Herbert's 'Dune' with computers. The technology existed at some point in the past, but reverted due to significant societal stresses. It may be that payphones make a comeback when some global threat manages to take out all the cell phone towers.
It must be your infrastructure. In the Minnesota metro area, I use chip+pin in many different retail locations. It only takes a few seconds. The longest part of the transaction is me entering my PIN. Well, OK. The longest part of the transaction is me entering my phone number because I forgot that stupid little fob to get my rewards. But still.
Honestly - do you REALLY want to be up in the air with dozens of people who "learned to fly in minutes"?
On the advice of a coworker I went to buy this book. It's obscenely expensive because it is mandatory reading for many Computer Science grads. It's even expensive on the second hand market because the poor graduate students are attempting to recover SOME of the obscene cost.
I just started tackling "Crucifixion of the Warrior God" by Greg Boyd. Deep Christian theology.
When I need a break from too much deep thought, I'm cruising through the Hitchhiker's series again.
I'm still confused. The XKCD cartoon shows a single source - the Moon, Sun, etc. But what they are doing here has 149 sources of energy. So if you had a binary sun (hypothetically identical suns) with two lenses, each focusing on a single spot - wouldn't that be 2x the temp? Isn't that a better example of what they are doing? And if you get things hot enough, could you start fusion which would then release vast amounts energy?
The backup plan if he can't get the batteries up and running....
1. Buy the USS Nimitz
2. Back it into a large South Australian port
3. Hook it up to the grid
4. Profit!
Thanks for the response Volanin!
How does your country feel about DDT? I have mixed feelings on using it. I understand it's been instrumental in curbing malaria in many parts of the world, but there are environmental consequences to using it.
You've all got it wrong. The REAL conspiracy is that if the embargo were lifted, Cuba could field a Major League Baseball team. If they fielded a team made up exclusively by Cuban and Latin American players, they would completely dominate the sport. The Major League Sport Hegemony couldn't allow such an embarrassment! (tongue on partially in cheek)
+1 pseudo Monty Python quote....
In Hawaii, I believe no one is allowed to own land. That state owns it all and leases it back to the homeowners. Maybe we could create some independent government authority that would 'own' the Moon, and lease land out to the homesteaders.
I not only played the teletype version of the game, later when I had a real job I worked on the MECC mainframes a couple times. Now get off my lawn!
Interesting read, thanks! Sorry, no mod points...
To make the video complete, we need a car driving by the sign with one of those fake missiles chasing it....