For the cost of the vehicle itself, maybe. If you factor in insurance, maintenance and fuel, you'd probably get a bit closer. I believe it's illegal not to carry insurance in all 50 states, but the company's still going to need to have some of their own for the occasional jackass who doesn't. The driver would be paying for their own fuel, but vehicle depreciation from mileage is also something the company has to consider.
That being said, you can find an older beater car for between $1000 and $2000 if you shop around a bit. In my youth I found an old RX/7 in pretty workable condition that the guy wanted $900 for. I drove that thing for several years and it was a pretty reliable vehicle that I could do many of my own repairs on.
Yeah. I really feel like we've forgotten a lot in the last couple of decades (Trying to get my units right this time heh heh.) I had to audit the source code to the original AT&T awk back in the '90's, and it's really the only time I've ever seen Lex (I forget if they also used Yacc) used in a non-academic setting. I've seen a lot of really bad attempts to tokenize strings in C and Java since then, that would have worked a lot better with C and Lex. DSLs are all the craze these days, but people would rather implement a bad one with Ruby or Groovy rather than use tools that were actually designed to do that sort of thing.
Also, although no actual AI came of the AI research in the '70's and '80's, a lot of really cool solutions around machine learning and reasoning were found. Again, I've seen very poorly implemented attempts to do similar types of things in recent code. Those problems were solved ages ago, but the programmers were not even aware of that.
If the average and unsophisticated user is worried about his privacy, he's probably not average or unsophisticated. There are a number of privacy management plugins you can install on popular browsers that can help with this. If you're really paranoid, you could just do all your web browsing with Tor Browser and never sign in to anything. Especially not Facebook.
The most current popular browsers all have an agenda and don't have your best interests in mind. Neither does the HTTP standard. I keep thinking that one of these days we're going to see something like netnews or gopher make a comeback. Most major ISPs dropped netnews support ages ago, but it's really not that difficult to configure a store and forward network. Perhaps some people are already doing this and just not talking about it that much on the web.
It's a government contract. It's pretty much guaranteed to go over budget! By the time they're done, they could easily be 2-3 times over their original budget!
I would expect most projects to fail. Nothing about this model insures any higher success rate than any other model of starting a business. Except maybe you have a clearer idea of how many people will actually want to buy a product you want to make. Investment is entirely about risk and how much of it you want to take on. It seems many investors have forgotten about that, or were never aware of it in the first place.
Really? Google may want algorithm people, but I'd be looking for people who knew their tools and could use them effectively. I'd be overjoyed if I were interviewing a C programmer and they used the qsort standard library call to sort some shit, rather than reinventing a wheel that's been done to death in CS for half a decade.
Probably not. IBM licensed compatibility for any Windows 3.x version, and that's as far as OS/2 ever went. You could run a Windows 3.1 program pretty well, but anything later will most likely not work.
Yeah, the saying at the time was that Commodore couldn't market eternal life if they had sole rights. Business viewed the Amiga as a toy or a gaming system, not something you did business on. There are probably still some people out there using them for video processing.
Yeah. I was doing tech support at the time and volunteering at tech conferences and ham radio shows. We set up a Compaq quad-processor system that had an astounding 16 MB of RAM with 4 video players running side by side, at the '95 summer COMDEX. One of my demos was to format a disk and run a print job at the same time. You had to be careful how you set that one up, though. It wouldn't work if you did the format through the GUI, you had to do it from the command line.
Another problem with the OS was that it was actually multitasking but goddamn everyone wrote their apps in a single thread, and the system input queue would get stopped up. Even IBM did this -- ironically the windows version of their document viewer ran better in OS/2 than the OS/2 version did. Windows apps couldn't block the system input queue, so you could still do things with your computer when the app froze up during long processing jobs.
OS/2 was extremely advanced for its time, but under the hood it was very MIcrosoft-flavored. I started switching over to Linux almost as soon as Slakware came out. Funnily enough I could run OS/2 with it's GUI on a 16 MhZ 386SX with 4 MB of RAM, but X11 was way too slow. So my first couple years of Linux was switching between console terminals on that machine.
So far, every police department that I've heard of doing that has lost in court. Then they get dinged for a civil rights violation on top of whatever shenanigans their officers were up to in the first place.
Getting Emacs set up is a good bit better since they added package support. You can mostly just package install a bunch of packages and they seem to work sensibly. Stuff like vi style paran matching in edit mode takes a bit more work, but there's a function you can bind to a key on the Emacs Wilki.
I weep for the unborn generations of children who will never know the joy of taking a break from helping dad lay asbestos in the attic to enjoy a smooth cigarette and a delicious mercury smoothie.
People'll get fixated on anything. I like to play a dangerous game where I turn safe search off and search for word combinations in Google that really should never be put together. The only thing that really sticks in my mind, as far as this is concerned, is a fanfic I stumbled across about a homoerotic encounter between Optimus Prime and Megatron. Of course due to rule 34, even if there wasn't a robo porn site before I mentioned it, one should be created before I finish typing this sentence... and in fact, typing "robo porn" into google bears this out. I'm... so not clicking on any of those...
Oh, wait, they probably can. That means the window for man-robot love is going to be precariously short. The robophiles in the audience are going to have to act quickly, or they're going to miss the action!
The other day someone was complaining that Siri, when asked for the dimensions of the new iPhone, would simply refer you to the Apple website. Curious, I asked my android phone the same question. Not only did it give me the dimensions of all the models of the new iPhone, it gave me the dimensions of the current one for comparison. It's a kind of interesting difference. Or at least I found it interesting.
Statistically you never will.If they need human intervention right now, they'll call 911. Otherwise they can afford the time to leave a message and wait for a callback. Unless you're a doctor on call, you don't need to be instantly accessible.
Essentially a lot of people started making meth with pseudoephedrine, and someone slipped a rider into the patriot act that if you wanted a cold medication with the stuff in it, you'd need to use some form of ID.
You can still go to the pharmacist and ask for something with the good stuff. Box of Primatene tablets usually does the trick.
You don't just upgrade shit. That requires documentation changes and purchasing requests! They've got to be bid out to the lowest bidder! You've got to fill out a 27b/6! In triplicate! Fuckers should have just got their encryption algorithm right the first time. Probably would have been PGP, but the SHA-1 guy's bid came in lower. That's how it works. Hell, the Navy was on OS/2 1.2 for years! They paid IBM huge briefcases full of cash to maintain that thing well beyond its end-of-life date! HUGE briefcases! I haven't kept up on what they've been up to recently over there. Probably still saddled with some Citrix bullshit from EDS. Whole government's like that. You want to work with some cutting edge shit, that's not where you go. If you like the challenge of running last-decade's windows technology on a 486, it might be your speed.
I imagine zero G would make printing squishy things a lot easier. A 3D printed organ facility could probably fund the cost of launching such a facility into space.
I hope one day to be famous enough that my kids and grandkids can whore out my image for decades or centuries after my death. Mmm an eternity of corporate whoring. What could be better?
It sounds more like a 250 mile wide tornado than a hurricane. I hope the people there are going to take that thing seriously. We should already be lining up an international response to the devastation it's going to cause.
Well lately Amazon's prices have been coming in between 1.5 and 5 times the cost of what it would cost to go get the same product at the store, and that's before shipping. Even if you find something that's going to cost about what it would at a local B&M, by the time they tack on S&H, you're paying $20-$30 more for it. For the same price, Walmart could just locate the closest store to your house and have some dude drive it to you. Even if that dude can only make one such delivery an hour, my average Amazon shipping cost is about 3 times what that guy makes in an hour. At the very least, a little competition might keep Amazon honest.
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That being said, you can find an older beater car for between $1000 and $2000 if you shop around a bit. In my youth I found an old RX/7 in pretty workable condition that the guy wanted $900 for. I drove that thing for several years and it was a pretty reliable vehicle that I could do many of my own repairs on.
Also, although no actual AI came of the AI research in the '70's and '80's, a lot of really cool solutions around machine learning and reasoning were found. Again, I've seen very poorly implemented attempts to do similar types of things in recent code. Those problems were solved ages ago, but the programmers were not even aware of that.
This guy hits the nail on the head.
The most current popular browsers all have an agenda and don't have your best interests in mind. Neither does the HTTP standard. I keep thinking that one of these days we're going to see something like netnews or gopher make a comeback. Most major ISPs dropped netnews support ages ago, but it's really not that difficult to configure a store and forward network. Perhaps some people are already doing this and just not talking about it that much on the web.
It's a government contract. It's pretty much guaranteed to go over budget! By the time they're done, they could easily be 2-3 times over their original budget!
I would expect most projects to fail. Nothing about this model insures any higher success rate than any other model of starting a business. Except maybe you have a clearer idea of how many people will actually want to buy a product you want to make. Investment is entirely about risk and how much of it you want to take on. It seems many investors have forgotten about that, or were never aware of it in the first place.
Really? Google may want algorithm people, but I'd be looking for people who knew their tools and could use them effectively. I'd be overjoyed if I were interviewing a C programmer and they used the qsort standard library call to sort some shit, rather than reinventing a wheel that's been done to death in CS for half a decade.
They're pretty good at finding dildos, though. All those D cells light the scanner up like a pride parade. Maybe someone just misread their mandate.
Probably not. IBM licensed compatibility for any Windows 3.x version, and that's as far as OS/2 ever went. You could run a Windows 3.1 program pretty well, but anything later will most likely not work.
Yeah, the saying at the time was that Commodore couldn't market eternal life if they had sole rights. Business viewed the Amiga as a toy or a gaming system, not something you did business on. There are probably still some people out there using them for video processing.
Another problem with the OS was that it was actually multitasking but goddamn everyone wrote their apps in a single thread, and the system input queue would get stopped up. Even IBM did this -- ironically the windows version of their document viewer ran better in OS/2 than the OS/2 version did. Windows apps couldn't block the system input queue, so you could still do things with your computer when the app froze up during long processing jobs.
OS/2 was extremely advanced for its time, but under the hood it was very MIcrosoft-flavored. I started switching over to Linux almost as soon as Slakware came out. Funnily enough I could run OS/2 with it's GUI on a 16 MhZ 386SX with 4 MB of RAM, but X11 was way too slow. So my first couple years of Linux was switching between console terminals on that machine.
So far, every police department that I've heard of doing that has lost in court. Then they get dinged for a civil rights violation on top of whatever shenanigans their officers were up to in the first place.
Getting Emacs set up is a good bit better since they added package support. You can mostly just package install a bunch of packages and they seem to work sensibly. Stuff like vi style paran matching in edit mode takes a bit more work, but there's a function you can bind to a key on the Emacs Wilki.
That's exactly what dad said! Then he'd pour some over his Kelloggs Shredded Asbestos(tm) and hand me another Pall Mall!
I weep for the unborn generations of children who will never know the joy of taking a break from helping dad lay asbestos in the attic to enjoy a smooth cigarette and a delicious mercury smoothie.
People'll get fixated on anything. I like to play a dangerous game where I turn safe search off and search for word combinations in Google that really should never be put together. The only thing that really sticks in my mind, as far as this is concerned, is a fanfic I stumbled across about a homoerotic encounter between Optimus Prime and Megatron. Of course due to rule 34, even if there wasn't a robo porn site before I mentioned it, one should be created before I finish typing this sentence... and in fact, typing "robo porn" into google bears this out. I'm... so not clicking on any of those...
Oh, wait, they probably can. That means the window for man-robot love is going to be precariously short. The robophiles in the audience are going to have to act quickly, or they're going to miss the action!
The other day someone was complaining that Siri, when asked for the dimensions of the new iPhone, would simply refer you to the Apple website. Curious, I asked my android phone the same question. Not only did it give me the dimensions of all the models of the new iPhone, it gave me the dimensions of the current one for comparison. It's a kind of interesting difference. Or at least I found it interesting.
Statistically you never will.If they need human intervention right now, they'll call 911. Otherwise they can afford the time to leave a message and wait for a callback. Unless you're a doctor on call, you don't need to be instantly accessible.
You can still go to the pharmacist and ask for something with the good stuff. Box of Primatene tablets usually does the trick.
You don't just upgrade shit. That requires documentation changes and purchasing requests! They've got to be bid out to the lowest bidder! You've got to fill out a 27b/6! In triplicate! Fuckers should have just got their encryption algorithm right the first time. Probably would have been PGP, but the SHA-1 guy's bid came in lower. That's how it works. Hell, the Navy was on OS/2 1.2 for years! They paid IBM huge briefcases full of cash to maintain that thing well beyond its end-of-life date! HUGE briefcases! I haven't kept up on what they've been up to recently over there. Probably still saddled with some Citrix bullshit from EDS. Whole government's like that. You want to work with some cutting edge shit, that's not where you go. If you like the challenge of running last-decade's windows technology on a 486, it might be your speed.
I'd think they'd be using them on their own employees, given the shenanigans at the IRS over the past few years.
I imagine zero G would make printing squishy things a lot easier. A 3D printed organ facility could probably fund the cost of launching such a facility into space.
I hope one day to be famous enough that my kids and grandkids can whore out my image for decades or centuries after my death. Mmm an eternity of corporate whoring. What could be better?
It sounds more like a 250 mile wide tornado than a hurricane. I hope the people there are going to take that thing seriously. We should already be lining up an international response to the devastation it's going to cause.
Well lately Amazon's prices have been coming in between 1.5 and 5 times the cost of what it would cost to go get the same product at the store, and that's before shipping. Even if you find something that's going to cost about what it would at a local B&M, by the time they tack on S&H, you're paying $20-$30 more for it. For the same price, Walmart could just locate the closest store to your house and have some dude drive it to you. Even if that dude can only make one such delivery an hour, my average Amazon shipping cost is about 3 times what that guy makes in an hour. At the very least, a little competition might keep Amazon honest.