Yes, the planet is heating up, time to figure out what to do next.
All this bullshit about blaming us for warming up the planet. Whether we have directly done this, or some natural occurring change has happened, its irrelevant.
Bottom line is, yes lets stop living as an excessive society. If we can make technology that don't pump pollutants or excessive CO2 into the atmosphere then lets do it. Don't do it to "Save the Planet" do it because it its just about being state-of-the art. Like, how about we stop exploding hydrocarbons in mechanical devices invented 100 years ago so that only 5% of the available energy is used to move us towards a drive thru. I think we can come up with better ways to propelling ourselves forward that doesn't involve exploding something.
Second, yes, if you live on the coast you are going to have problems with rising sea levels and super-storms. Deal with it. Don't build cheap flimsy buildings next to the ocean, and if you can't afford to strengthen you home, then move. Katrina and Sandy are a beginning, not anomalies. All those people wanting a nice view when they wake up in the morning need to wake up and realize that view will try to kill them one day. I'm tired of people bemoaning when their house got washed away when they choose to live below sea level. 99% of the country is not on the fucking coast.
Third, don't worry about the fucking polar bears. The polar bears only came into existence 600,000 years ago during the last ice age. They evolved from regular black or brown bears to deal better with falling temperatures and long term snowy conditions. Times change, animals evolve. Lamenting the loss of a species that evolved to survive specialized climate conditions that are changing is just stupid. Yes, they evolved, God didn't put them there for us to tend to and coddle.
Lastly, we will not destroy our planet. Sure, conditions for human survival might make it more difficult in the long run, and I am sure that as pressures mount from having 7+ billion people vying for a better quality of life might eventually wipe us out from global war, the bottom line is the planet itself has survived far worse then us. Plants and animals, and eventually another evolution of a dominant intelligent species will probably happen several more times over the next few billions years until the sun blows up and nukes the plant forever more. But the idea we will turn our planet into Mars is just laughable. Think about it, what plant doesn't like warmer weather and more CO2?
Everybody grab a towel and don't panic! Its just a warming planet. Its been warm, its been cold, it keeps going and going.
You bought a cellphone manufacturer but then use other companies to make Nexus products, and those companies are unable to keep up with even the limited demand of the Nexus brand.
Then you are carrying on your back's a company that has been unable to offer a compelling product since the original Droid phone (which turned out to be a dismal phone).
How about axing Motorola and rebranding them as Nexus, period. Throw out anybody that made decision about Motorola phones for the last 10 years and hire some new innovative people to manage that division.
Honestly, sometimes it just seems like Google doesn't now how to run themselves in spite of billions in profit. The are succeeding in spite of themselves.
Microsoft's been posing shit about Scroogled so its just fair play that Google should tip off the EU that Microsoft isn't respecting their legal responsibilities
Don't you love it when billion dollar corporations act like children?
By rights you are mixing medical bills with medial records. Medical records are your actual physical medical history, the fact if you got cancer or a cold and what was done to treat it. Finding out you were doubled billed for blankets during a hospital stay is a completely different issue.
I completely agree you have a right to know your medical bill and should review it, but you don't have the medical training to know if doctors made errors with your actual physical medial history. All I would have to say about that is you should have the right to have your medial history reviewed by another professional of your choosing at any time for that purpose.
Retailers need to rebel and send back every copy of Sim City to let EA know that their shenanigans will no longer be tolerated. Gamers and by extension, the retailers selling games to gamers, need to set a precedence that they will no longer buy or sell broken games; not broken with play-ability issues, not broken with Draconian DRM schemes.
But, stupid people rush out and buy a game on day one and either ignore reviews or don't seem to believe that the widely claimed issues will happen for them. Every person complaining about Sim City and its DRM is an utter moron. Every person claiming it isn't that bad is a moron.
Because I get paid $120k a year to develop proprietary.Net code. You can be a moron and only write code you "believe" in, or enjoy a comfortable life writing code for the "man" so you can go home and write code for yourself using whatever you like.
I generally avoid ALL 3rd party code and libraries, free or not, due to relatively poor quality. I find most 3rd party stuff to work well for the specific intent it was designed for, but most 3rd party libraries fall over the moment you need to customize something. I've struggled to "fix" retail 3rd party code just as much as open source code, and find in general that the time "saved" by fixing someone else's code could be better used to create a optimized and direct component specific to your needs.
Also, in general, you simply can't use open source stuff if you are writing retail software, which the vast majority of.Net Developers are doing. Most.Net houses simply have a blanket policy to avoid any code content found online simply because of all the caveats of using open source code. I agree in many cases that there is just a lack of understanding the various licences, but its just easier to not use some 3rd party component.
PC's are running behind mobile and tablets these days so all AMD and nVidia are doing is trying to be king of #3. Considering how little interest there is for multi-monitor gaming, this is even a feeble contest.
Look, society is getting dumber, period. I mean most people these days are lacking in basic common sense.
A robot that is programmed to do the dishes or sweep the floors isn't going to activate in the middle of the night and stab the occupants in their sleep. Anyone with common sense will understand that these robots are not "thinking" they are only programmed to do certain tasks. I've had a Roomba for several years now, I have never feared it having some ulterior motive other then sweeping up my floors.
But of course there will be a huge amount of distrust for personal service robots because society has been addled by watching movies and TV show showing robots wreaking havoc and destroying all humans. Because people no longer think, and are only influenced by public opinion, the fact is that people will never trust robots in the home.
I tire of working at a company that is effectively bossless. I have a team lead who only took the position because it offered a $15k raise. He doesn't know how to lead a software team and is making no effort to do so. I have a project manager that has no ability to write product requirements. I have a software director that has no ability to figure out the direction a product should take.
So I essentially work in a "boneless" company because I have to make all the decisions to do my job as effectively as possible to produce a good a product as I am capable of delivering while other people make more money then me because of a title.
Never seen such a spoiled brat in business in all my life. Its like he just assumes he has created the best product in the world and then anybody that doesn't think so needs to be sued out of existence.
First, Tesla may have created a nice looking vehicle but it is completely priced out of the range of the average person and so has no real world testing and performance numbers. Driving it in the "most ideal way" possible is not the way the average driver will drive this car, and until Tesla gets several hundred thousand vehicles on the road they have no right to claim the performance numbers they do. Instead of attacking people for claiming that it doesn't perform according to your website, embrace the criticism and start working on Gen 2 products that will meet, and better yet exceed, real life expectations.
Second, Musk needs to grow a set of big brass balls because people are going to criticize his car and company and he is just going to have to learn to take it. Shows like Top Gear don't like any car in existence, particularly electric vehicles, the show is built around the idea of ripping all cars to shreds. Top Gear is not a real car review show anyways, its a comedy show that involves cars.
Musk is going to have to realize he created a very expensive commuter vehicle. The argument made by Top Gear is that all electric vehicles have poor range and if you don't happen to be near one of those rapid charge stations when you are running out of power then you are spending hours charging your vehicle to get only another few hundred kilometers range. Whether that number is 400 or 300 or 200, it's irrelevant, it's still a limited amount of range compared to gas powered cars and therefore is not a valid alternative to gas powered cars unless all you are doing is running errands or driving to work.
I don't think Google is going to take over the world with this thing, but there are a whole slew of people with highly disposable income, you know, nerds that get paid well for being nerdy. This is the kind of device that nerds will drool over, I am. That's the beauty of capitalism, you can pretty much sell anything at any price and there will always be a market for it, even if you don't get it.
Nexus Q was completely misguided however. It wasn't a Google TV product yet could connect to a TV and it was described as some vague social networking platform for music or video. Google didn't even know what the hell it was so they couldn't market it properly and were completely out to lunch with the price and design of the thing. But Google knows exactly who they are targeting with the Pixel.
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Yes, the planet is heating up, time to figure out what to do next.
All this bullshit about blaming us for warming up the planet. Whether we have directly done this, or some natural occurring change has happened, its irrelevant.
Bottom line is, yes lets stop living as an excessive society. If we can make technology that don't pump pollutants or excessive CO2 into the atmosphere then lets do it. Don't do it to "Save the Planet" do it because it its just about being state-of-the art. Like, how about we stop exploding hydrocarbons in mechanical devices invented 100 years ago so that only 5% of the available energy is used to move us towards a drive thru. I think we can come up with better ways to propelling ourselves forward that doesn't involve exploding something.
Second, yes, if you live on the coast you are going to have problems with rising sea levels and super-storms. Deal with it. Don't build cheap flimsy buildings next to the ocean, and if you can't afford to strengthen you home, then move. Katrina and Sandy are a beginning, not anomalies. All those people wanting a nice view when they wake up in the morning need to wake up and realize that view will try to kill them one day. I'm tired of people bemoaning when their house got washed away when they choose to live below sea level. 99% of the country is not on the fucking coast.
Third, don't worry about the fucking polar bears. The polar bears only came into existence 600,000 years ago during the last ice age. They evolved from regular black or brown bears to deal better with falling temperatures and long term snowy conditions. Times change, animals evolve. Lamenting the loss of a species that evolved to survive specialized climate conditions that are changing is just stupid. Yes, they evolved, God didn't put them there for us to tend to and coddle.
Lastly, we will not destroy our planet. Sure, conditions for human survival might make it more difficult in the long run, and I am sure that as pressures mount from having 7+ billion people vying for a better quality of life might eventually wipe us out from global war, the bottom line is the planet itself has survived far worse then us. Plants and animals, and eventually another evolution of a dominant intelligent species will probably happen several more times over the next few billions years until the sun blows up and nukes the plant forever more. But the idea we will turn our planet into Mars is just laughable. Think about it, what plant doesn't like warmer weather and more CO2?
Everybody grab a towel and don't panic! Its just a warming planet. Its been warm, its been cold, it keeps going and going.
You bought a cellphone manufacturer but then use other companies to make Nexus products, and those companies are unable to keep up with even the limited demand of the Nexus brand.
Then you are carrying on your back's a company that has been unable to offer a compelling product since the original Droid phone (which turned out to be a dismal phone).
How about axing Motorola and rebranding them as Nexus, period. Throw out anybody that made decision about Motorola phones for the last 10 years and hire some new innovative people to manage that division.
Honestly, sometimes it just seems like Google doesn't now how to run themselves in spite of billions in profit. The are succeeding in spite of themselves.
Microsoft's been posing shit about Scroogled so its just fair play that Google should tip off the EU that Microsoft isn't respecting their legal responsibilities
Don't you love it when billion dollar corporations act like children?
But your doing it for Jesus, aren't you.
A team of Russian scientists suddenly went missing near Lake Vostok. The only clues left behind was a mysterious slime that covered their labs.
Sounds like another bad SyFy movie in the making.
By rights you are mixing medical bills with medial records. Medical records are your actual physical medical history, the fact if you got cancer or a cold and what was done to treat it. Finding out you were doubled billed for blankets during a hospital stay is a completely different issue.
I completely agree you have a right to know your medical bill and should review it, but you don't have the medical training to know if doctors made errors with your actual physical medial history. All I would have to say about that is you should have the right to have your medial history reviewed by another professional of your choosing at any time for that purpose.
Retailers need to rebel and send back every copy of Sim City to let EA know that their shenanigans will no longer be tolerated. Gamers and by extension, the retailers selling games to gamers, need to set a precedence that they will no longer buy or sell broken games; not broken with play-ability issues, not broken with Draconian DRM schemes.
But, stupid people rush out and buy a game on day one and either ignore reviews or don't seem to believe that the widely claimed issues will happen for them. Every person complaining about Sim City and its DRM is an utter moron. Every person claiming it isn't that bad is a moron.
Seriously, when marketing costs 10x the price to make something, there is something wrong with that "industry".
First world problems...
This is the EU, obviously gay porn is acceptable.
Do you still have to make a gun out of your hand and go "pew, pew" when you play FPS?
Because I get paid $120k a year to develop proprietary .Net code. You can be a moron and only write code you "believe" in, or enjoy a comfortable life writing code for the "man" so you can go home and write code for yourself using whatever you like.
I generally avoid ALL 3rd party code and libraries, free or not, due to relatively poor quality. I find most 3rd party stuff to work well for the specific intent it was designed for, but most 3rd party libraries fall over the moment you need to customize something. I've struggled to "fix" retail 3rd party code just as much as open source code, and find in general that the time "saved" by fixing someone else's code could be better used to create a optimized and direct component specific to your needs.
Also, in general, you simply can't use open source stuff if you are writing retail software, which the vast majority of .Net Developers are doing. Most .Net houses simply have a blanket policy to avoid any code content found online simply because of all the caveats of using open source code. I agree in many cases that there is just a lack of understanding the various licences, but its just easier to not use some 3rd party component.
PC's are running behind mobile and tablets these days so all AMD and nVidia are doing is trying to be king of #3. Considering how little interest there is for multi-monitor gaming, this is even a feeble contest.
Look, society is getting dumber, period. I mean most people these days are lacking in basic common sense.
A robot that is programmed to do the dishes or sweep the floors isn't going to activate in the middle of the night and stab the occupants in their sleep. Anyone with common sense will understand that these robots are not "thinking" they are only programmed to do certain tasks. I've had a Roomba for several years now, I have never feared it having some ulterior motive other then sweeping up my floors.
But of course there will be a huge amount of distrust for personal service robots because society has been addled by watching movies and TV show showing robots wreaking havoc and destroying all humans. Because people no longer think, and are only influenced by public opinion, the fact is that people will never trust robots in the home.
I tire of working at a company that is effectively bossless. I have a team lead who only took the position because it offered a $15k raise. He doesn't know how to lead a software team and is making no effort to do so. I have a project manager that has no ability to write product requirements. I have a software director that has no ability to figure out the direction a product should take.
So I essentially work in a "boneless" company because I have to make all the decisions to do my job as effectively as possible to produce a good a product as I am capable of delivering while other people make more money then me because of a title.
Never seen such a spoiled brat in business in all my life. Its like he just assumes he has created the best product in the world and then anybody that doesn't think so needs to be sued out of existence.
First, Tesla may have created a nice looking vehicle but it is completely priced out of the range of the average person and so has no real world testing and performance numbers. Driving it in the "most ideal way" possible is not the way the average driver will drive this car, and until Tesla gets several hundred thousand vehicles on the road they have no right to claim the performance numbers they do. Instead of attacking people for claiming that it doesn't perform according to your website, embrace the criticism and start working on Gen 2 products that will meet, and better yet exceed, real life expectations.
Second, Musk needs to grow a set of big brass balls because people are going to criticize his car and company and he is just going to have to learn to take it. Shows like Top Gear don't like any car in existence, particularly electric vehicles, the show is built around the idea of ripping all cars to shreds. Top Gear is not a real car review show anyways, its a comedy show that involves cars.
Musk is going to have to realize he created a very expensive commuter vehicle. The argument made by Top Gear is that all electric vehicles have poor range and if you don't happen to be near one of those rapid charge stations when you are running out of power then you are spending hours charging your vehicle to get only another few hundred kilometers range. Whether that number is 400 or 300 or 200, it's irrelevant, it's still a limited amount of range compared to gas powered cars and therefore is not a valid alternative to gas powered cars unless all you are doing is running errands or driving to work.
To paraphrase:
"We are worried that drones might catch us breaking the law. That is just unconstitutional, we have a right to break the law and not get caught."
The world needs cheaper unobtanium, the big blue Smurfs put up a good fight.
For $500 you get not only a fast SD card but also high quality gold contacts to ensure you photos are crisp and clear.
I'm joking of course, but Monster isn't.
Only humans should be on the battlefield killing each other, robots killing robots is just so inhumane.
There will be one less millionaire on planet Earth then cause he won't survive the trip or will come back as a massive tumor.
Yeah, that is the human way, destroy a species because of some minor inconvenience.
While mosquitoes are evolving to be smarter, humans keep spreading carcinogens on them to avoid a little itch.
Thank God for capitalism.
I don't think Google is going to take over the world with this thing, but there are a whole slew of people with highly disposable income, you know, nerds that get paid well for being nerdy. This is the kind of device that nerds will drool over, I am. That's the beauty of capitalism, you can pretty much sell anything at any price and there will always be a market for it, even if you don't get it.
Nexus Q was completely misguided however. It wasn't a Google TV product yet could connect to a TV and it was described as some vague social networking platform for music or video. Google didn't even know what the hell it was so they couldn't market it properly and were completely out to lunch with the price and design of the thing. But Google knows exactly who they are targeting with the Pixel.