Comcast offered a $50 cash card if we signed up for internet service with them. We signed up in May, and the card never came. We called and they denied that they ever offered the card. A few more calls later, they agreed that they offered it and said they would send it. It never came. Last month, five months, a final call was made and the card arrived.
Clearly they have a strategy of screwing customers, either through intentional scripting or extreme negligence.
Exactly. It's missing most of the features that a liberal healthcare act would have. No one outside of the USA would view it as liberal.
It's missing: single payer universal healthcare free healthcare etc...
It keeps: privatization of healthcare insurance providers market huge medical settlements very minimal to non-existent penalties for not getting healthcare
Interesting. The Obamacare of X analogy is great. Well, except that Obamacare is a conservative approach to healthcare, that only gets portrayed as liberal because Obama is pushing it. No one cared when Romney rolled out Romneycare in his own state.
Politics aside, how is it that republicans want to fuck over everyone but the privileged and corporate, yet get such widespread support from the people who will suffer most from their policies?
There will be trillions of life forms across a trillion times as many planets across a trillion times as many stars...and that's just in our known universe. Of course we have no idea what they will look like.
Agreed. I bought two homes. Both times the sellers defrauded us. Both times the seller's agent was colluding. One time our agent was in on it. Worse than car sales people because at least everyone understands that car sales people are out to screw them.
I tell people the same. Know someone on the inside, or don't spend more than 10 minutes applying.
I think if you know someone, you have a 50% chance of getting an interview and a 10% chance of getting a job. Otherwise, I'd say you have a 5% chance of getting an interview and a 1% chance of getting a job. all things being equal.
I was told by Google HR that they do NOT require CS degrees for their computer scientist / software engineer positions. They were eager to hire me for this position despite my not having a CS degree (I have a related advanced technical degree). However, I wanted a product manager position, and they refused to even interview me for it on the basis that I didn't have a CS degree. They said a CS degree WAS required for this position. We went round and round about the absurdity of not requiring it for a computer science position but requiring it for a product management position, until I said, fuck it, this doesn't sound like the place for me. Sad.
Agreed. Part of the reason this is possible, though, is due to faster SSDs and RAM and efficiency gains in caching, algorithms, etc, and the push to do lots of processing in the cloud. The processor stopped being the bottleneck long ago.
With a few trillion planets in orbit, makes me think that if life is a 1 in a million chance, we've got millions of planets with life just in our galaxy....with at least trillions of planets of life across the universe.
I guess I can't convince the ignorant masses. All I can say is that I have first hand experience with this and I can tell you that the remaining issues are primarily legal and regulatory. No major technology breakthroughs are needed at this point. Just costs need to come down and some engineering needs to happen.
The technical challenges are nearly completely solved. What remains is infrastructure improvements, standardization, iterative improvements that will come from wide spread rollout of incremental features towards full autonomy.
An economic incentive that causes many companies to put pressure on their representatives...
or
A major tragedy that could have been avoided with autonomy that gets continual news coverage (not that this worked for gun control)...otherwise, reason and good sense have no place here
Employees are worried about critical thinking skills in their executive leadership. They worry that leaders are making it to their management structure who fail to recognize what's wrong with their products, how to best leverage their workforce, and how to respond to changing needs of the market.
Cars will use LIDAR, ultrasonic, and video for first party sensing.
But a lot of sensing will come from their party. Other cars reporting their position on the road. Their intent and upcoming moves. Details about the environment that they sense. Additional the infrastructure can provide info. The roads can report if cars are present. If there is ice, etc.
Anyways, the issue isn't if there is ice or snow on it's sensors. That will be easy to mitigate. The problem is the ice and snow in the environment that it needs to see through.
Self driving cars will turn out to be faster, even if they obey the speed limit...because traffic will disappear or lessen significantly and intersections can be managed dynamically without the need for stoplights that make you sit constantly. There won't be accidents to jam up the roads, and detours will be seamless because all cars will coordinate a good distribution over alternative roads. Parents don't have to have screaming kids because they can be facing them and engaging them during the drive. And there will be no need to park when you arrive, saving time at the destination. And you'll be driving less overall as well. Need something quick at the store? Send your car out to pick it up. Or request delivery from the store. No need to physically go.
Slashdot Mirror
Comcast offered a $50 cash card if we signed up for internet service with them. We signed up in May, and the card never came. We called and they denied that they ever offered the card. A few more calls later, they agreed that they offered it and said they would send it. It never came. Last month, five months, a final call was made and the card arrived.
Clearly they have a strategy of screwing customers, either through intentional scripting or extreme negligence.
Exactly. It's missing most of the features that a liberal healthcare act would have. No one outside of the USA would view it as liberal.
It's missing:
single payer
universal healthcare
free healthcare
etc...
It keeps:
privatization of healthcare
insurance providers market
huge medical settlements
very minimal to non-existent penalties for not getting healthcare
A cross on every door would scare the fuck out of me. OTOH, a Starbucks on every corner sounds great!
How long until number of Starbucks coffees becomes the global cost basis across currencies?
Interesting. The Obamacare of X analogy is great. Well, except that Obamacare is a conservative approach to healthcare, that only gets portrayed as liberal because Obama is pushing it. No one cared when Romney rolled out Romneycare in his own state.
Politics aside, how is it that republicans want to fuck over everyone but the privileged and corporate, yet get such widespread support from the people who will suffer most from their policies?
Duh.
There will be trillions of life forms across a trillion times as many planets across a trillion times as many stars...and that's just in our known universe. Of course we have no idea what they will look like.
Agreed. I bought two homes. Both times the sellers defrauded us. Both times the seller's agent was colluding. One time our agent was in on it. Worse than car sales people because at least everyone understands that car sales people are out to screw them.
I tell people the same. Know someone on the inside, or don't spend more than 10 minutes applying.
I think if you know someone, you have a 50% chance of getting an interview and a 10% chance of getting a job.
Otherwise, I'd say you have a 5% chance of getting an interview and a 1% chance of getting a job.
all things being equal.
I was told by Google HR that they do NOT require CS degrees for their computer scientist / software engineer positions. They were eager to hire me for this position despite my not having a CS degree (I have a related advanced technical degree). However, I wanted a product manager position, and they refused to even interview me for it on the basis that I didn't have a CS degree. They said a CS degree WAS required for this position. We went round and round about the absurdity of not requiring it for a computer science position but requiring it for a product management position, until I said, fuck it, this doesn't sound like the place for me. Sad.
Agreed. Part of the reason this is possible, though, is due to faster SSDs and RAM and efficiency gains in caching, algorithms, etc, and the push to do lots of processing in the cloud. The processor stopped being the bottleneck long ago.
With a few trillion planets in orbit, makes me think that if life is a 1 in a million chance, we've got millions of planets with life just in our galaxy....with at least trillions of planets of life across the universe.
With the compromised emails floating around, who knows who REALLY sent out the notice. ;)
evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve."
By "beings", I hope he mains simple self replicating single celled organisms, or he's got it wrong.
I guess I can't convince the ignorant masses. All I can say is that I have first hand experience with this and I can tell you that the remaining issues are primarily legal and regulatory. No major technology breakthroughs are needed at this point. Just costs need to come down and some engineering needs to happen.
Coward! I take it your reaction is from a perspective of ignorance. My assertion is not.
It's purely a political and legal issue.
The technical challenges are nearly completely solved. What remains is infrastructure improvements, standardization, iterative improvements that will come from wide spread rollout of incremental features towards full autonomy.
An economic incentive that causes many companies to put pressure on their representatives...
or
A major tragedy that could have been avoided with autonomy that gets continual news coverage (not that this worked for gun control) ...otherwise, reason and good sense have no place here
Or to reverse it...
Employees are worried about critical thinking skills in their executive leadership. They worry that leaders are making it to their management structure who fail to recognize what's wrong with their products, how to best leverage their workforce, and how to respond to changing needs of the market.
Cars will use LIDAR, ultrasonic, and video for first party sensing.
But a lot of sensing will come from their party. Other cars reporting their position on the road. Their intent and upcoming moves. Details about the environment that they sense. Additional the infrastructure can provide info. The roads can report if cars are present. If there is ice, etc.
Anyways, the issue isn't if there is ice or snow on it's sensors. That will be easy to mitigate. The problem is the ice and snow in the environment that it needs to see through.
Self driving cars will turn out to be faster, even if they obey the speed limit...because traffic will disappear or lessen significantly and intersections can be managed dynamically without the need for stoplights that make you sit constantly. There won't be accidents to jam up the roads, and detours will be seamless because all cars will coordinate a good distribution over alternative roads. Parents don't have to have screaming kids because they can be facing them and engaging them during the drive. And there will be no need to park when you arrive, saving time at the destination. And you'll be driving less overall as well. Need something quick at the store? Send your car out to pick it up. Or request delivery from the store. No need to physically go.
put god in jail!
ha, just kidding.
there is no god.
Yeah, you're asking for a Pebble. They currently cost $100. It will be $50 in a couple of yrs.
But the OLED display is not always on on the AppleWatch. It's mostly off. It only turns on when you look at it.
I thought they would create a line of ice for lots of parallel processing (pickup), rather than a line of people for single ping processing (pickup)
Or maybe some predictive processing...hand out ice to people who look like they need it before they get in line. :P
could he not call it "art" and get out of these shenanigans? it is "art" after all.