Robotic engineering is my field and I'm sure a lot, even here in/., still feel threatened by the rise of robots. You know, the "Robot will take our job and kill us all" mojo.
First, don't forget that mondialisation have cut a lot, LOT more occident job than robot. I'm sure everyone here know someone whose job have been lost after the plant have been relocated in China. In fact, the way I see it, robotisation will help to bring back more job lost to the chinese that we'll lose.
Second, robot "can't" do everything (well, not yet). Most industrial robot application are still hightly repetitive (read "boring") manual task. There's a lot of our customer that need to bring people from other countries because Millennials doesn't want to do them.
Third, robot still need worker. I had that plant where all riveting were done by employees with big machineries. Because of poor ergonomy and all the vibration, most workers had a lot of back pain problems avec a few dozens years. They were pissed to see us at first, but now everyone want his own robot so he can sit down and listen to the radio while he monitor the robot work. Futhermore, robot operator have higher salary than a simple manufacture worker.
Of course, I know I'm indirectly responsible that some people lost their jobs. There's that new contrat we just got where I met with my boss to share my concern that our client want the robots to fire a few people even if he say he won't. It's part of the job and I live with it thinking that I bringing more good than bad for the society.
So this Slashdot story about $11 prank... or "ICO"... basically will up chewing about $25,000 worth of time from its primarily tech/IT-related audience.
Citation needed!
And it's a funny story with a very funny/. comment section. Help with my morale for the day.
Tool-assisted means in an emulator. The vast majority of emulators are at most cycle-accurate, which in some cases changes observable behaviour. Also, it's possible it was a different version of the game -- a lot of game rips are not bit-to-bit identical; versions for different markets notoriously have slight or not-so-slight alterations beyond just translated messages. Likewise, PAL vs SECAM vs NTSC have different timings that often alter the game.
Yeah, I was wondering too if they were miss something.
I'm not saying the guy is legit, but I still wonder if Todd Rogers really cheated and if all those people analysing the record are forgetting a little detail like that.
Still, since the only proof he have is a picture of the score, it's pretty poor since he could have hacked the memory to achieve it.
One thing the video doesn't cover is people abandoning Burger King and going to McDonalds, Wendy's, Whataburger, In-N-Out, Jack In the Box, Burger Street, Steak-N-Shake where this isn't done. Or any number of mom-and-pop burger places going up that will provide a reasonable order-to-delivery model for burgers that people like.
Of course, this model is based on Burger King having a complete monopoly on the Whopper itself. But Comcast doesn't own or control Netflix, Hulu, Google, etc. So in this "analogy", is really more like Uber Eats, where Uber Eats would charge more to deliver a Whopper than a Big Mac. They are a deliver service, not a content provider. So like Google Fiber, Burger King would start it's own delivery service that would deliver Whoppers or Big Macs at the same or lower price - and drive Uber Eats out of business or force them to charge the same price.
Never underestimate the power of the people and the drive of competition.
And your point is?
I think that you focus too much on "It won't help peoples to undersand what Net Neutrality is".
The way I see it, it doesn't matter (much?) that people undertands the details of Net Neutrality. The only thing they need to know is that Net Neutrality is a bad thing and that video is pretty efficient at it.
If we assume Woppers are a substitute for torrents then the net neutrality parallel is obvious - unfortunately the target audience for the commercial won't make the connection.
I don't think it's important that they make the connection about how eaxactly Net Neutrality will affect this but not that.
Waiting for their Whopper is pissing them off like Net Neutrality will piss them off. It's all that matters.
Did it? I mean, I've heard about the video, but I haven't bothered watching it, because it's a Burger King commercial and I don't care.
You're on Slashdot so I'm pretty sure you're aware about the importance of Net Neutrality. So it doesn't matter if "you" saw the video or not
As for the video, it was released 2 days ago and it already have +2.5 M views so I think we can agree it reached a "lot" of ordinary people that doesn't have a clue about what Net Neutrality mean : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Plus, even if it did, so what? Had they released this before the FCC vote, it might have mattered. Granted it still wouldn't have, but it might have. But the FCC vote is over. Net neutrality is dead. It's never coming back.
Is it? I live in Canada and, as far as I know, it's pretty much alive here. USA Rest of the World
And I wouldn't be so sure that democrat won't cancel this. I got the feeling that the next democrat president will take a linking to destroy everything that Trump made.
So what's the point to doing the video now?
Well, to sell shitty hamburgers, of course, under the guise of "informing the public." Who aren't informed and largely don't care about the boring details of net neutrality.
Unless you want the Net Neutrality to stay dead, why would you bother that Burger King spend its own money to teach people about it? Of course it's a publicity stunt, but they could have instead created 4 different flavor of Whopper : https://www.gq.com/story/new-d...
Yeah, I agree it's a bad analogy. I think a better one would be a grocery store where each checkout line is a different speed and price, faster lines charging more, and the brand of the item you choose depends on which line you are allowed to queue up in. If you have a non-preferred brand of cereal, Kellogs and Post for example, you must join the slower lane. Oh, but you can pay extra to take the non-preferred brand into the express lane, which already includes preferred brands of General Mills who payed extra to be included in that lane by default.
I agree the analogy isn't perfect but, well, it's an analogy do it "can't" be perfect.
Personally, I found the video both funny and entertaining. And, more importantly, it reached a lot of ordinary people and tell them that killing net neutrality is a bad thing. And that worth more than the best analogy we could come with.
Assuming you can get some templates, and I'd be shocked if they weren't available either from Nintendo or from fans within days, then it's very much a minimal cost / minimal difficulty DIY project.
Oh I'm sure they will be cheap to produce, but I don't think will send replacement for free neither.
So the question is how much will the replacement cost?
Considering most of the cost should come from the game (and not the cardboard), I wonder how much it'll cost to replace the cardboard when you (eventually) break them.
Most consumers will never notice, most of the pancake syrups in the supermarket are just manufactured sugar with some coloring.
And well, another corporate cartel with price fixing experiences bad karma, let me shed a tear for you. As for the trees, I do feel bad for them.
As a representant of the nicest country in the world, I call that this is utter nonsense! (Sorry about that)
Talking about the trees... If the climate get hotter, couldn't we simply move the production more to the north? After all, It's not like we don't have space avalaible : http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/cen...
The James Webb Space Telescope has emerged from a large vacuum chamber that was home to temperatures of just 20 degrees Celsius above absolute zero. Scientists have reviewed the data and given the instrument a clean bill of health.
I guess 20 Kelvin was too "scientific" to be used instead of "20C above absolute zero".
Well, if you have 99% of the population female and 1% male, unless they are monogamous, you can have 99% of the population procreating. It seems like a way to ensure lots of new baby turtles...
If this specie of turtle is independant and meeting between turtle isn't frequent, it could backfire. Not every male animal are like rabbit.
I get the article and it give a good insight. But when I think it been 20 years that I remind my mother that she don't need to double-click a link on her facebook, I'm pretty sure the elderly won't be too thrilled about automomus car.
On the other hand I look at myself. I got a car with a manual transmission and, once, I told a techie friend that I'm not gonna buy a self-driving car because I love to drive. But then he told me that not only and I could play with my phone or look at the TV but also that I could start my work shift in my car and nullify most of the time lost while driving to work (I can work at home so my employer would allow it).
There's a pretty huge gap between "Alcohol Can Cause Irreversible Genetic Damage To Stem Cells, Says Study" and "However, these earlier studies had relied on extremely high concentrations of acetaldehyde and used cells in a dish rather than tracking its effects within the body."
Now I wonder what 3 BFR attached together will look like.
I don't think he's ever going to attach rockets together after the FH. According to Musk it was a lot harder than anticipated.. In the BFR isn't big enough, they'll probably just make a bigger one.
Really?
I thought the FH was pushed off because they were able to raise the payload of regular falcon by freezing the fuel and the FH wasn't as important anymore.
Do you have the story about the difficulty of the FH? I'm intrigued.
The intro in not correct in calling the Falcon Heavy the rocket that will take humans to Mars. This is just a heavy payload version of Falcon which still uses the Merlin engine. The BFR (Big Fucking Rocket) will have 31 Raptor engines (more powerful) and a completely redesigned booster and second stage. It's the BFR that will go to Mars. https://www.nasaspaceflight.co...
Now I wonder what 3 BFR attached together will look like.
Gun launch (incl rail guns, hyperloop etc.) is a dead end. Getting to orbit is about speed - and you can only gain a (relatively) small amount of speed using a gun, because you're limited by air resistance in the lower atmosphere. Going to a vacuum tunnel removes the speed problem, and introduces a new one: you have to exit the tunnel at some point. Even if you can create a vacuum seal that the rocket can pass through, it'll slam into the atmosphere at 5 km altitude - which is still significant. Building the tunnel exit at higher altitude isn't possible either (building cost is prohibitive). Going by your own numbers, you could save 300 m/s of delta-V out of about 9000 m/s. 3% savings would make the rocket a few meters shorter, and you might be able to remove 1 engine, but the rocket doesn't become significantly cheaper.
Granted, adding a sort of big slingshot in the complex engineering of a rocket launch doesn't seem fausible. But, then again, what would you have said 10 years ago if I brought the idea of bringing back the first stage to land it at the pad where it was launched?
At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers. For example, when you purchase and activate your iPhone, you authorize Apple and your carrier to exchange the information you provide during the activation process to carry out service. If you are approved for service, your account will be governed by Apple and your carrier’s respective privacy policies. Personal information will only be shared by Apple to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.
Irrevevant,
I quoted the statement. What you added was an example that Apple choosed to make the statement look more acceptable.
Roughly the equivalent of : "By signing this, Apple can undess you and fuck you in the ass whenever they please. For instance, if you're into getting your ass fucked, Apple could invite you on a date, get to know you, buy you a pony and ask you, very politely, if you're into sodomy and then engage in completely consensual buttsex".
We could *already* get to it, if we really wanted. Dawn has reached a 10 km/s delta-v even with primitive ion thrusters and simple solar panels. With the DS4G thrusters currently in development, you could do twenty times as much.
Wait, until there's something in "Detla-V" that I'm missing, 10 km/s is 36 000 km/h and twenty times that is 720 000 km/h. Still not "that" much faster to catch up to him quickly. And I'm guessing coming back with a sample is out of the equasion.
...and to whom they are selling the data. At least I know Apple isn't monetizing the information about where I drive.
Hahaha that's a good one!
From Apple's website:
At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers.
Slashdot Mirror
Robotic engineering is my field and I'm sure a lot, even here in /., still feel threatened by the rise of robots. You know, the "Robot will take our job and kill us all" mojo.
First, don't forget that mondialisation have cut a lot, LOT more occident job than robot. I'm sure everyone here know someone whose job have been lost after the plant have been relocated in China. In fact, the way I see it, robotisation will help to bring back more job lost to the chinese that we'll lose.
Second, robot "can't" do everything (well, not yet). Most industrial robot application are still hightly repetitive (read "boring") manual task. There's a lot of our customer that need to bring people from other countries because Millennials doesn't want to do them.
Third, robot still need worker. I had that plant where all riveting were done by employees with big machineries. Because of poor ergonomy and all the vibration, most workers had a lot of back pain problems avec a few dozens years. They were pissed to see us at first, but now everyone want his own robot so he can sit down and listen to the radio while he monitor the robot work. Futhermore, robot operator have higher salary than a simple manufacture worker.
Of course, I know I'm indirectly responsible that some people lost their jobs. There's that new contrat we just got where I met with my boss to share my concern that our client want the robots to fire a few people even if he say he won't. It's part of the job and I live with it thinking that I bringing more good than bad for the society.
I'm pretty sure there's some IP reason, but why they doesn't support Blu-ray disk yet?
So this Slashdot story about $11 prank... or "ICO"... basically will up chewing about $25,000 worth of time from its primarily tech/IT-related audience.
Citation needed!
And it's a funny story with a very funny /. comment section. Help with my morale for the day.
Tool-assisted means in an emulator. The vast majority of emulators are at most cycle-accurate, which in some cases changes observable behaviour. Also, it's possible it was a different version of the game -- a lot of game rips are not bit-to-bit identical; versions for different markets notoriously have slight or not-so-slight alterations beyond just translated messages. Likewise, PAL vs SECAM vs NTSC have different timings that often alter the game.
Yeah, I was wondering too if they were miss something.
I'm not saying the guy is legit, but I still wonder if Todd Rogers really cheated and if all those people analysing the record are forgetting a little detail like that.
Still, since the only proof he have is a picture of the score, it's pretty poor since he could have hacked the memory to achieve it.
5. HomePod can't hook up to another device using an auxiliary cord.
It have a lot of courage!|
One thing the video doesn't cover is people abandoning Burger King and going to McDonalds, Wendy's, Whataburger, In-N-Out, Jack In the Box, Burger Street, Steak-N-Shake where this isn't done. Or any number of mom-and-pop burger places going up that will provide a reasonable order-to-delivery model for burgers that people like.
Of course, this model is based on Burger King having a complete monopoly on the Whopper itself. But Comcast doesn't own or control Netflix, Hulu, Google, etc. So in this "analogy", is really more like Uber Eats, where Uber Eats would charge more to deliver a Whopper than a Big Mac. They are a deliver service, not a content provider. So like Google Fiber, Burger King would start it's own delivery service that would deliver Whoppers or Big Macs at the same or lower price - and drive Uber Eats out of business or force them to charge the same price.
Never underestimate the power of the people and the drive of competition.
And your point is?
I think that you focus too much on "It won't help peoples to undersand what Net Neutrality is".
The way I see it, it doesn't matter (much?) that people undertands the details of Net Neutrality. The only thing they need to know is that Net Neutrality is a bad thing and that video is pretty efficient at it.
If we assume Woppers are a substitute for torrents then the net neutrality parallel is obvious - unfortunately the target audience for the commercial won't make the connection.
I don't think it's important that they make the connection about how eaxactly Net Neutrality will affect this but not that.
Waiting for their Whopper is pissing them off like Net Neutrality will piss them off. It's all that matters.
Is it? I live in Canada and, as far as I know, it's pretty much alive here. USA Rest of the World
I meant : USA (Insert "Isn't Equal" character here) Rest of the World.
I could add the character while writting, but it disapeared when click the "Submit" button
Did it? I mean, I've heard about the video, but I haven't bothered watching it, because it's a Burger King commercial and I don't care.
You're on Slashdot so I'm pretty sure you're aware about the importance of Net Neutrality. So it doesn't matter if "you" saw the video or not
As for the video, it was released 2 days ago and it already have +2.5 M views so I think we can agree it reached a "lot" of ordinary people that doesn't have a clue about what Net Neutrality mean : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Plus, even if it did, so what? Had they released this before the FCC vote, it might have mattered. Granted it still wouldn't have, but it might have. But the FCC vote is over. Net neutrality is dead. It's never coming back.
Is it? I live in Canada and, as far as I know, it's pretty much alive here. USA Rest of the World
And I wouldn't be so sure that democrat won't cancel this. I got the feeling that the next democrat president will take a linking to destroy everything that Trump made.
So what's the point to doing the video now?
Well, to sell shitty hamburgers, of course, under the guise of "informing the public." Who aren't informed and largely don't care about the boring details of net neutrality.
Unless you want the Net Neutrality to stay dead, why would you bother that Burger King spend its own money to teach people about it? Of course it's a publicity stunt, but they could have instead created 4 different flavor of Whopper : https://www.gq.com/story/new-d...
Yeah, I agree it's a bad analogy. I think a better one would be a grocery store where each checkout line is a different speed and price, faster lines charging more, and the brand of the item you choose depends on which line you are allowed to queue up in. If you have a non-preferred brand of cereal, Kellogs and Post for example, you must join the slower lane. Oh, but you can pay extra to take the non-preferred brand into the express lane, which already includes preferred brands of General Mills who payed extra to be included in that lane by default.
I agree the analogy isn't perfect but, well, it's an analogy do it "can't" be perfect.
Personally, I found the video both funny and entertaining. And, more importantly, it reached a lot of ordinary people and tell them that killing net neutrality is a bad thing. And that worth more than the best analogy we could come with.
Really, so now is the time where the Doomsday Clock is the closest to midnight in its whole history? Really?
More than those WW3 close calls? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The future is now, old man.
It's cardboard.
Assuming you can get some templates, and I'd be shocked if they weren't available either from Nintendo or from fans within days, then it's very much a minimal cost / minimal difficulty DIY project.
Oh I'm sure they will be cheap to produce, but I don't think will send replacement for free neither.
So the question is how much will the replacement cost?
Considering most of the cost should come from the game (and not the cardboard), I wonder how much it'll cost to replace the cardboard when you (eventually) break them.
Most consumers will never notice, most of the pancake syrups in the supermarket are just manufactured sugar with some coloring.
And well, another corporate cartel with price fixing experiences bad karma, let me shed a tear for you. As for the trees, I do feel bad for them.
As a representant of the nicest country in the world, I call that this is utter nonsense! (Sorry about that)
Talking about the trees... If the climate get hotter, couldn't we simply move the production more to the north? After all, It's not like we don't have space avalaible : http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/cen...
The James Webb Space Telescope has emerged from a large vacuum chamber that was home to temperatures of just 20 degrees Celsius above absolute zero. Scientists have reviewed the data and given the instrument a clean bill of health.
I guess 20 Kelvin was too "scientific" to be used instead of "20C above absolute zero".
Well, if you have 99% of the population female and 1% male, unless they are monogamous, you can have 99% of the population procreating. It seems like a way to ensure lots of new baby turtles...
If this specie of turtle is independant and meeting between turtle isn't frequent, it could backfire. Not every male animal are like rabbit.
that will lead the Self-Driving Revolution.
I get the article and it give a good insight. But when I think it been 20 years that I remind my mother that she don't need to double-click a link on her facebook, I'm pretty sure the elderly won't be too thrilled about automomus car.
On the other hand I look at myself. I got a car with a manual transmission and, once, I told a techie friend that I'm not gonna buy a self-driving car because I love to drive. But then he told me that not only and I could play with my phone or look at the TV but also that I could start my work shift in my car and nullify most of the time lost while driving to work (I can work at home so my employer would allow it).
I wonder about motion sickness though...
There's a pretty huge gap between
"Alcohol Can Cause Irreversible Genetic Damage To Stem Cells, Says Study"
and
"However, these earlier studies had relied on extremely high concentrations of acetaldehyde and used cells in a dish rather than tracking its effects within the body."
Thanks but we already knew that alcoholic have an higher risk of cancer : https://www.elementsbehavioral...
But I guess I should be thankful that, for once, the real signifiant fact is inside the summary...
Now I wonder what 3 BFR attached together will look like.
I don't think he's ever going to attach rockets together after the FH. According to Musk it was a lot harder than anticipated.. In the BFR isn't big enough, they'll probably just make a bigger one.
Really?
I thought the FH was pushed off because they were able to raise the payload of regular falcon by freezing the fuel and the FH wasn't as important anymore.
Do you have the story about the difficulty of the FH? I'm intrigued.
The intro in not correct in calling the Falcon Heavy the rocket that will take humans to Mars. This is just a heavy payload version of Falcon which still uses the Merlin engine. The BFR (Big Fucking Rocket) will have 31 Raptor engines (more powerful) and a completely redesigned booster and second stage. It's the BFR that will go to Mars. https://www.nasaspaceflight.co...
Now I wonder what 3 BFR attached together will look like.
Gun launch (incl rail guns, hyperloop etc.) is a dead end. Getting to orbit is about speed - and you can only gain a (relatively) small amount of speed using a gun, because you're limited by air resistance in the lower atmosphere.
Going to a vacuum tunnel removes the speed problem, and introduces a new one: you have to exit the tunnel at some point. Even if you can create a vacuum seal that the rocket can pass through, it'll slam into the atmosphere at 5 km altitude - which is still significant. Building the tunnel exit at higher altitude isn't possible either (building cost is prohibitive).
Going by your own numbers, you could save 300 m/s of delta-V out of about 9000 m/s. 3% savings would make the rocket a few meters shorter, and you might be able to remove 1 engine, but the rocket doesn't become significantly cheaper.
Granted, adding a sort of big slingshot in the complex engineering of a rocket launch doesn't seem fausible. But, then again, what would you have said 10 years ago if I brought the idea of bringing back the first stage to land it at the pad where it was launched?
You should really include a link and indicate that there’s more in the paragraph.
https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/privacy/en-ww/
Irrevevant,
I quoted the statement. What you added was an example that Apple choosed to make the statement look more acceptable.
Roughly the equivalent of :
"By signing this, Apple can undess you and fuck you in the ass whenever they please. For instance, if you're into getting your ass fucked, Apple could invite you on a date, get to know you, buy you a pony and ask you, very politely, if you're into sodomy and then engage in completely consensual buttsex".
We could *already* get to it, if we really wanted. Dawn has reached a 10 km/s delta-v even with primitive ion thrusters and simple solar panels. With the DS4G thrusters currently in development, you could do twenty times as much.
Wait, until there's something in "Detla-V" that I'm missing, 10 km/s is 36 000 km/h and twenty times that is 720 000 km/h. Still not "that" much faster to catch up to him quickly. And I'm guessing coming back with a sample is out of the equasion.
...and to whom they are selling the data. At least I know Apple isn't monetizing the information about where I drive.
Hahaha that's a good one!
From Apple's website :
At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers.