I just reviewed the post up to the parent post and there is no such mention. People are talking about the current self service checkout machines in grocery stores now.
So.. first an adhominem... then a lie, lack of reading comprehension, or a massive error on your part.
Care to try for the bonus round?
Perhaps you should finish your high school degree first?
While i agree with your point, as we become a more complex society it becomes harder to agree on a common morality.
Some societies legitimately value the individual over the group.
Some societies legitimately value the group over the individual.
Morality is often arbitrarily set by religion.
And when money is at stake, people's morality becomes a lot more flexible. And they sincerely believe they are being moral while doing whackjob evil shit.
On top of that, companies spend hundreds of billions of dollars to influence and change our morality. To the point that people support positions which are against those people's self interest (even to the point of early death).
My point is that appealing to what's moral is not as clear as we would like it to be. And very often, people appealing to morality are bad actors.
More likely is they'll pick the 80% of the market they can serve profitably and ignore the 20% they can't. So if you have gates, bizzare front garden footpaths, overhanging vegetation, etc. you'll have to go to the store, pay more for the privilege and be offered a worse selection.
It'll be on you to bring your house into compliance before they'll serve you.
The RFID model and the "click and pickup" model are the more likely models.
In the first, you pick up the product and simply walk out the door with it and you are billed.
In the second, you modify your standard order, submit it to the store from home, drive to the store, the product is loaded in your car (you already paid for it).
What they are doing here is charging you $2.07 if you are in jeans and driving a honda at 3pm but $2.75 if it's midnight and they know the other stations are closed. And $3.75 if you are driving a nice car at midnight.
Try to buy 24 cans of cat food, dog food, or similar products.
Oh.. or.. all 3 bags are full. I have to call for assistance as I move one of the bags to the cart.
The code for this vegetable is not available. Search for it by name. You happen to have the code for onions, bulk memorized?
Oh... Beer. Wait.. wait.. wait..
Beep (didn't scan)... beep.. beep... beep. wipe off moisture on glass.. beep. straighten crumpled bar code.. beep.. call for assistance. ---
Banks are not charging them a fee in MY neighborhood. They even get free *everything*. You want to drive off a customer with a six figure checking, savings, and brokerage account over a teller fee?!?!? Young and stupid might perhaps.
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Yes, self service will continue to improve.
And packagers and managers and executives will continue to cut corners negating some of the benefits of that improvement.
Cashier lines are 2x to 5x faster if you have over 20 items that includes frozen products and more if you have coupons or booze. Cashiers know the code for bulk onions is 4335 off the top of their head. They can approve a booze purchase in under 30 seconds.
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I agree ATMs are great now. But bills and checks are a much simpler use case. The more likely replacement is "click and save" where you order on your smart phone and pull up and they load your car with the already paid for groceries which they picked for you. For an up charge of $3 to save you at least 15 and maybe up to 30 minutes of your time.
Self service are not appropriate for many of the use cases. And they will be until you can pull your basket up and simply load the products onto the belt and it processes them without manual intervention.
There is little difference between FLAC and 320 mp3.
Listening on cheap ear buds there is probably no difference. And listening while doing something else there is not a big difference (exercising, folding laundry). It's only when you listen specifically to listen to the music.
OTH, I'm not an audiophile and on the rare occasion when I listen to mp3 vs cd on large speakers in a large room at moderate volume and especially if there is a wide range (ala classical music and bands that use more than a guitar and some drums) it's easy to hear the difference. Mp3 sounds muddy. If it were a video, it would be one with the contrast turned way down so everything kinda looked grey.
In a car- at modest speeds (so no road/wind noise), the difference is apparent side by side, but not so noticeable after you've been listening to the mp3's for 10 to 15 minutes. (You adapt- just like you do to watching movies on tiny phone screens).
I don't use FLAC because it's huge and I own CD's of the music I want to listen to like that anyway.
I wouldn't sweat it if you don't notice a difference.
But it's there- and it's measurable. There's just less data.
A human nose has around 400 types of scent receptors. When the smell of coffee wafts through a room, for example, specific receptors in the nose detect molecular components of the odour, eliciting a series of neural responses that draw oneâ(TM)s attention to the coffee pot. But many details of that sequence are still unknown.
âoeThe relationship between the number of odorants that we can discriminate and the number of receptors that we have is unclear,â says Noam Sobel, a neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Some scientists assume that having more types of scent receptors indicates a more-sensitive sniffer.
However, some recent behavioral studies suggest that primates, including humans, have relatively good senses of smell. Resolution of this paradox may come from a larger perspective on the biology of smell. Here we begin by reassessing several overlooked factors: the structure of the nasal cavity, retronasal smell, olfactory brain areas, and language. In these arenas, humans may have advantages which outweigh their lower numbers of receptors. It appears that in the olfactory system, olfactory receptor genes do not map directly onto behavior; rather, behavior is the outcome of multiple factors. If human smell perception is better than we thought, it may have played a more important role in human evolution than is usually acknowledged.
Comparing the data on smell detection thresholds shows that humans not only perform as well or better than other primates, they also perform as well or better than other mammals. When tested for thresholds to the odors of a series of straight-chain (aliphatic) aldehydes, dogs do better on the short chain compounds, but humans perform as well or slightly better than dogs on the longer chain compounds, and humans perform significantly better than rats (Laska et al. 2000). Similar results have been obtained with other types of odors.
A third type of study demonstrating human olfactory abilities shows that in tests of odor detection, humans outperform the most sensitive measuring instruments such as the gas chromatograph.
A surprising new study suggests that people can track a scent across a grassy field--at least if they're willing to get down on their hands and knees and put their noses to the ground. The findings are unlikely to put hunting hounds and drug sniffing dogs out of work, but they may earn a little respect for the poorly regarded human sense of smell.
Humans are widely believed to be poor at tracking scents, especially when compared to other mammals such as dogs and rodents. But few had ever put that idea to the test. A research team led by Jess Porter and Noam Sobel at the University of California, Berkeley, dipped 10 meters of twine in chocolate essence and laid it in a field to form two straight lines connected at a 135Â angle. Then they blindfolded 32 undergraduate students and had them don earmuffs, thick gloves and kneepads to prevent them from using sensory cues other than smell. When set loose in the field, two-thirds of the subjects successfully followed the scent, zigzagging back and forth across the path like a dog tracking a pheasant, the researchers report online 17 December in Nature Neuroscience.
Nearly all the subjects reported that the task was challenging, Porter says, but four of them got a chance to improve with practice. Over the course of several days, they learned to follow the trail faster and deviate less. Even so, their performance remained well below what other researchers have reported in dogs.
And this ignores the not uncommon case of people who have more sensitive sense of smell than average.
I surprised you feel this way as Trump has repeatedly demonstrated he is loyal to them until the second he fires them and then gives them a bad nickname. The only things he is loyal to are himself first and then his family.
Anyone else could be given the guillotine without notice. Especially if they show any signs of weakness or disloyalty to him. Thank god he's so old. We'd be in real trouble if he was in his 50s.
The republican party appears ready to sacrifice the country.
Fired US Attorney Preet Bharara was investigating a key member of President Trumpâ(TM)s cabinet, a new report Friday revealed.
Bharara was looking into allegations that Tom Price, the health and human services secretary and the administrationâ(TM)s point man on efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, improperly traded health care stocks while he was a member of the House of Representatives, ProPublica reported.
Price maintained that he broke no laws when he traded health care stocks even as he was involved in legislation relevant to the health care sector. He traded over $300,000 worth of shares of relevant companies during a four-year period in the House.
The issue played a significant role in Priceâ(TM)s confirmation process, and he was asked about it numerous times during his Senate hearing.
The revelation that Bharara was investigating Price comes as many were surprised the US attorney from the Southern District of New York was not retained by the Trump administration.
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Preet was investigating cabinet members of Mr. Trump's administration. And it was in his jurisdiction to investigate Mr. Trump in new york and there were rumors that he might do so about the time he was fired after Mr. Trump had said personally given Preet assurances that would preet be retained.
I've been hearing comments like that for 35 years since I was programming in sweet 16 on the apple.
Kotlin has no jobs compared to mainstream languages and so it has no installed base. And so when a company needs to find a Kotlin programmer, it will take longer and they'll have less ability to judge the skill level of a Kotlin (or Scala) programmer.
At one shop a friend worked at it was "D". Never heard of it. Guy there was a big fanatic of the "D" language. And he helped found the company so he had some stroke in getting it used. When he left, that was it. They are almost entirely SQL with java.
Because it's easy to find people with SQL and Java. And because it's likely to be easy to find developers who have SQL with java 15 years from now too.
So a replacement for Java can't merely be better. It has to be an order of magnitude better. It has to have widespread industry support.
This is all academic for me- I'm retired. I noodle a bit in openoffice basic (Star Fleet Battle damage program) and java (minecraft) but I haven't programmed on a daily basis for 6 years.
Perhaps things are changing, but I'm not seeing it yet.
I suspect if there is a new language, it will come from Android.
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You kinda underestimate the number of java libraries.
And recognizing that you need to use the library because you already know it exists isn't something you can pick up in a month.
If you are simply coding then sure. You can rely on an experienced programmer to know what's needed and simply code.
Here's a good start..
http://blog.takipi.com/the-top...
Also only 12 states have higher populations.
I just reviewed the post up to the parent post and there is no such mention. People are talking about the current self service checkout machines in grocery stores now.
So.. first an adhominem... then a lie, lack of reading comprehension, or a massive error on your part.
Care to try for the bonus round?
Perhaps you should finish your high school degree first?
While i agree with your point, as we become a more complex society it becomes harder to agree on a common morality.
Some societies legitimately value the individual over the group.
Some societies legitimately value the group over the individual.
Morality is often arbitrarily set by religion.
And when money is at stake, people's morality becomes a lot more flexible. And they sincerely believe they are being moral while doing whackjob evil shit.
On top of that, companies spend hundreds of billions of dollars to influence and change our morality. To the point that people support positions which are against those people's self interest (even to the point of early death).
My point is that appealing to what's moral is not as clear as we would like it to be. And very often, people appealing to morality are bad actors.
More likely is they'll pick the 80% of the market they can serve profitably and ignore the 20% they can't. So if you have gates, bizzare front garden footpaths, overhanging vegetation, etc. you'll have to go to the store, pay more for the privilege and be offered a worse selection.
It'll be on you to bring your house into compliance before they'll serve you.
In my state they are required to look at your id (even if you are obviously old) and click a box saying they did so on the screen.
Actually, kiosk are temporary.
The RFID model and the "click and pickup" model are the more likely models.
In the first, you pick up the product and simply walk out the door with it and you are billed.
In the second, you modify your standard order, submit it to the store from home, drive to the store, the product is loaded in your car (you already paid for it).
They have kept gaming the coupons until the coupons are without value to me.
I think the last one was 50 cents off three products that cost about $3. I'm not excited enough to track a 17 cent coupon.
Doesn't work for me.
Coupons generally suck these days. It's not just the ones from kiosks.
What they are doing here is charging you $2.07 if you are in jeans and driving a honda at 3pm but $2.75 if it's midnight and they know the other stations are closed. And $3.75 if you are driving a nice car at midnight.
Groups of citizens in an area however can make an exclusive contract with a single company to provide a service.
And they will want the company to provide service to the entire area for reasonable prices.
And if you don't comply, they can fine you, confiscate your equipment, even put you in jail.
You don't have a right to sell your product in a particular area without complying to local costs and legal requirements..
Try to buy 24 cans of cat food, dog food, or similar products.
Oh.. or .. all 3 bags are full. I have to call for assistance as I move one of the bags to the cart.
The code for this vegetable is not available. Search for it by name. You happen to have the code for onions, bulk memorized?
Oh... Beer. Wait.. wait.. wait..
Beep (didn't scan)... beep.. beep... beep. wipe off moisture on glass.. beep. straighten crumpled bar code.. beep.. call for assistance.
---
Banks are not charging them a fee in MY neighborhood. They even get free *everything*. You want to drive off a customer with a six figure checking, savings, and brokerage account over a teller fee?!?!? Young and stupid might perhaps.
---
Yes, self service will continue to improve.
And packagers and managers and executives will continue to cut corners negating some of the benefits of that improvement.
Cashier lines are 2x to 5x faster if you have over 20 items that includes frozen products and more if you have coupons or booze. Cashiers know the code for bulk onions is 4335 off the top of their head. They can approve a booze purchase in under 30 seconds.
---
I agree ATMs are great now. But bills and checks are a much simpler use case. The more likely replacement is "click and save" where you order on your smart phone and pull up and they load your car with the already paid for groceries which they picked for you. For an up charge of $3 to save you at least 15 and maybe up to 30 minutes of your time.
Self service are not appropriate for many of the use cases. And they will be until you can pull your basket up and simply load the products onto the belt and it processes them without manual intervention.
Pretty much every other country on earth outside of the middle east pays more for gasoline than the U.S.
And if it follows the prior pattern, the price will be down for about 8 years and then have another crazy spike.
This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
From my experience, it's more like 2% vs 16%.
And that matters on tablets and smart phones which have a lot less storage.
There is little difference between FLAC and 320 mp3.
Listening on cheap ear buds there is probably no difference. And listening while doing something else there is not a big difference (exercising, folding laundry). It's only when you listen specifically to listen to the music.
OTH, I'm not an audiophile and on the rare occasion when I listen to mp3 vs cd on large speakers in a large room at moderate volume and especially if there is a wide range (ala classical music and bands that use more than a guitar and some drums) it's easy to hear the difference. Mp3 sounds muddy. If it were a video, it would be one with the contrast turned way down so everything kinda looked grey.
In a car- at modest speeds (so no road/wind noise), the difference is apparent side by side, but not so noticeable after you've been listening to the mp3's for 10 to 15 minutes. (You adapt- just like you do to watching movies on tiny phone screens).
I don't use FLAC because it's huge and I own CD's of the music I want to listen to like that anyway.
I wouldn't sweat it if you don't notice a difference.
But it's there- and it's measurable. There's just less data.
Converting to another format won't improve the data that's there now.
So what you say is only true if you mean "acquire new copies encoded from the master files (CD) in ACC format.
That was my thought as well. Because the cost WILL be passed on to the student.
It could even be more expensive than a physical calculator after the schools markup for the cost of the service.
He's talking about the original u.s. copyright which came much later.
http://www.arl.org/focus-areas...
http://www.nature.com/news/hum...
A human nose has around 400 types of scent receptors. When the smell of coffee wafts through a room, for example, specific receptors in the nose detect molecular components of the odour, eliciting a series of neural responses that draw oneâ(TM)s attention to the coffee pot. But many details of that sequence are still unknown.
âoeThe relationship between the number of odorants that we can discriminate and the number of receptors that we have is unclear,â says Noam Sobel, a neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Some scientists assume that having more types of scent receptors indicates a more-sensitive sniffer.
2004 study
http://journals.plos.org/plosb...
However, some recent behavioral studies suggest that primates, including humans, have relatively good senses of smell. Resolution of this paradox may come from a larger perspective on the biology of smell. Here we begin by reassessing several overlooked factors: the structure of the nasal cavity, retronasal smell, olfactory brain areas, and language. In these arenas, humans may have advantages which outweigh their lower numbers of receptors. It appears that in the olfactory system, olfactory receptor genes do not map directly onto behavior; rather, behavior is the outcome of multiple factors. If human smell perception is better than we thought, it may have played a more important role in human evolution than is usually acknowledged.
Comparing the data on smell detection thresholds shows that humans not only perform as well or better than other primates, they also perform as well or better than other mammals. When tested for thresholds to the odors of a series of straight-chain (aliphatic) aldehydes, dogs do better on the short chain compounds, but humans perform as well or slightly better than dogs on the longer chain compounds, and humans perform significantly better than rats (Laska et al. 2000). Similar results have been obtained with other types of odors.
A third type of study demonstrating human olfactory abilities shows that in tests of odor detection, humans outperform the most sensitive measuring instruments such as the gas chromatograph.
2006 study
http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
A surprising new study suggests that people can track a scent across a grassy field--at least if they're willing to get down on their hands and knees and put their noses to the ground. The findings are unlikely to put hunting hounds and drug sniffing dogs out of work, but they may earn a little respect for the poorly regarded human sense of smell.
Humans are widely believed to be poor at tracking scents, especially when compared to other mammals such as dogs and rodents. But few had ever put that idea to the test. A research team led by Jess Porter and Noam Sobel at the University of California, Berkeley, dipped 10 meters of twine in chocolate essence and laid it in a field to form two straight lines connected at a 135Â angle. Then they blindfolded 32 undergraduate students and had them don earmuffs, thick gloves and kneepads to prevent them from using sensory cues other than smell. When set loose in the field, two-thirds of the subjects successfully followed the scent, zigzagging back and forth across the path like a dog tracking a pheasant, the researchers report online 17 December in Nature Neuroscience.
Nearly all the subjects reported that the task was challenging, Porter says, but four of them got a chance to improve with practice. Over the course of several days, they learned to follow the trail faster and deviate less. Even so, their performance remained well below what other researchers have reported in dogs.
And this ignores the not uncommon case of people who have more sensitive sense of smell than average.
Can't mod today but I'd give you +5 Informative if I could!
Netflix and other streaming services need to simply start their own awards.
And then when everything is streaming and going straight to disk and theaters are dead- Cannes will be irrelevant.
I surprised you feel this way as Trump has repeatedly demonstrated he is loyal to them until the second he fires them and then gives them a bad nickname. The only things he is loyal to are himself first and then his family.
Anyone else could be given the guillotine without notice. Especially if they show any signs of weakness or disloyalty to him. Thank god he's so old. We'd be in real trouble if he was in his 50s.
The republican party appears ready to sacrifice the country.
It certainly is given that Comey informed the public on three separate occasions that Mr. Trump was under investigation.
You are correct
http://nypost.com/2017/03/17/b...
Fired US Attorney Preet Bharara was investigating a key member of President Trumpâ(TM)s cabinet, a new report Friday revealed.
Bharara was looking into allegations that Tom Price, the health and human services secretary and the administrationâ(TM)s point man on efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, improperly traded health care stocks while he was a member of the House of Representatives, ProPublica reported.
Price maintained that he broke no laws when he traded health care stocks even as he was involved in legislation relevant to the health care sector. He traded over $300,000 worth of shares of relevant companies during a four-year period in the House.
The issue played a significant role in Priceâ(TM)s confirmation process, and he was asked about it numerous times during his Senate hearing.
The revelation that Bharara was investigating Price comes as many were surprised the US attorney from the Southern District of New York was not retained by the Trump administration.
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Preet was investigating cabinet members of Mr. Trump's administration. And it was in his jurisdiction to investigate Mr. Trump in new york and there were rumors that he might do so about the time he was fired after Mr. Trump had said personally given Preet assurances that would preet be retained.
I've been hearing comments like that for 35 years since I was programming in sweet 16 on the apple.
Kotlin has no jobs compared to mainstream languages and so it has no installed base. And so when a company needs to find a Kotlin programmer, it will take longer and they'll have less ability to judge the skill level of a Kotlin (or Scala) programmer.
At one shop a friend worked at it was "D". Never heard of it. Guy there was a big fanatic of the "D" language. And he helped found the company so he had some stroke in getting it used. When he left, that was it. They are almost entirely SQL with java.
Because it's easy to find people with SQL and Java. And because it's likely to be easy to find developers who have SQL with
java 15 years from now too.
So a replacement for Java can't merely be better. It has to be an order of magnitude better. It has to have widespread industry support.
This is all academic for me- I'm retired. I noodle a bit in openoffice basic (Star Fleet Battle damage program) and java (minecraft) but I haven't programmed on a daily basis for 6 years.
Perhaps things are changing, but I'm not seeing it yet.
I suspect if there is a new language, it will come from Android.
If every one bets on "Loopsy Louie" to win or place then the other horses than win or place get higher payouts right?
Great way to mislead people if you can feed it bad data.
I'd want to put this through something more like Alphago anyway tho.