Surely the successful way to go is:
1.) Idea!
2.) Glossy, gushing description
3.) Shiny "proof of concept" i.e. a non-working mock-up of what it might look like, eventually
4.) Completely fabricated sales projection, BoM, development costs
5.) Get on the VC circuit until some sucker bites.
6.) Try to work out what the minimum acceptable design would actually be
7.) Cut every corner possible. Scrimp pennies. Use untested software. Manufacture with the cheapest materials
8.) Spend the majority of the funding on advertising, packaging and marketing
OK, I got bored after the first couple of words. Can anyone fill me in on if there was anything worthwhile after that?
But seriously, haven't most people developed a "baby filter" so far as TV ads are concerned. What I mean is the self-preservation shield that parents have where they can just screen out all the random noise that comes from their children - while being alert to any signs of distress.
For advertisements, I generally haven't a clue what was being advertised 5 minutes ago, an hour ago, yesterday or any other time. Apart from the few stand-out advertisements, which are more like performances - all the rest just get "filtered".
The article reads like a long list of cliches, harvested from clippings.
So far as I know, the "nap-bars" mentioned were only in the news recently because one has just opened.
My personal experience is that spanish businesses and most shops open at 10 (local time) until 2. Everybody has lunch at 2 - which depending on whether daylight savings is in effect of not is roughly the local noon, or one hour past.
Small shops reopen at 4-ish, if they reopen at all. Supermarkets are open for the whole day.
Businesses can be open until 9 at night. Although that is still generally before the spanish eat their late meal (the main meal is lunch). And the day ends at about midnight local time - except at weekends and fiestas: of which there are many.
As for being unique? I seem to recall Italy working to the same schedule when I worked there briefly in the 90's.
that's the size of the battery park that you need to support that. Real tiny."
and real easy to target
So apart from the obvious reasons for not doing this - the weather, you also have to consider resilience, counter-terrorism, not having all your wires in one basket.
And on top, the requirement for electricity will always keep growing. So that 1 sq. mile will become 2 (especially when everyone has an electric car). And while the batteries may only take up a square mile, how much space will the industrial slag from their manufacture take up?
Whether it is the brand new cabinet of AI or the CIO's daughter's piece of crap bought off eBay. Or, depending on the size of the organisation, any other random piece of electronics owned by any staff member.
as a former Gawker editor says in the film, "If you're not pissing off a billionaire, what's the point?"
I do not believe free speech provides a cloak of invulnerability that allows a person to insult someone they don't like, without any consequences.
And if you make a business out of honking-off powerful people, you should not be surprised when they eventually decide to squash your like a bug.
Also, nobody should be under the illusion that dishing the dirt (whether true or not) on people you envy, just because you disagree with them or dislike what they stand for, is by default responsible journalism.
Apart from all its clunky UX in just about every element of its design, the one that bugs me the most is after you have done something to an image and saved your changed version. You then go to close the original and it asks if you want to save the changes.
Next worst is the stupidity around saving JPG files. I can't save as a JPG - I have to export it. I don't care about the technicalities. I don't care about free and non-free. I don't care about any of the "theoretical" or purist reasons. I just want to click SAVE and the data appears on disk.
There are too many crappy films and TV programmes that show people being robbed in the street. This inevitably affects young, impressionable, minds and gives the idea that crime is rife, that having a dollar in your pocket will attract "criminals" - as if they can sniff-out cash, like a dog could smell a steak.
You cannot address these fears with rational argument. Or by quoting statistics. If people "know" that carry money is dangerous (although wearing a $200 pair of trainers or carrying $1000 of electronics doesn't seem to register), then they won't do it.
Does it matter, should we care? Probably not. Everyone has their own irrational phobias. Just don't ever lend those individuals money if they need some cash to get out of a jam. If they aren't used to dealing in the folding stuff, you'll never know if they're good to pay you back - or if the reason they don't carry cash is because they don't have any money.
South Korea is now setting its sights on making AI that can play soccer
Playing soccer (aka football) is the easy bit: kick and miss.
But will the AI be able to convincingly roll around on the ground just inside the penalty box? And more importantly will it be able to deal with the paparazzi and make vacuous statements like "it was a game of two halves" and "if we'd only scored more, we could have won".
The United States Space Corps would be the first new branch of the military since 1947, when the Air Force was formed
... for a country that lost the ability to send people into space in 2011 and is still scratching its head to work out how (or if) it can get back in the game.
People should also ask: what the hell is the point? Since the USA has no "space" assets that need defending, nor has the ability to hold territory against foes and can't even claim rights to anything that might be in orbit.
But I suppose that if you want to provoke all the other world powers, who have much more advanced capabilities, into militarising space then go right ahead.
From this I conclude that when they say "light" quarks they mean down, up and strange. (I was very frustrated that they didn't say what they meant by "light" quarks.)
And when they describe a particle as "heavy", they really mean it has extra cheese.
I have enough computers, thanks. I don't need any more. And if you need a $100 display + $5 mouse and $10 keyboard, then whether the single board computer costs $25 or $35 doesn't really matter.
My view of these (and I have used a few NanoPi Neo's) is that they are simply a part of a bigger project. Generally something that needs a WiFi connection, or audio / video / USB. They are just a step up from an Arduino.
"If you don't feel rejuvenated and keen to face Monday after two work-free days, there might be a reason: You're doing your weekend wrong,"
But it's far more likely that if you feel tired when returning to work, it is because you spent the whole weekend partying.
And if not burning the candle at both ends, then chasing around after your children: taxiing them all over the place, shopping, cleaning, tidying, doing laundry, home maintenance, cooking and walking the dog.
The USA already enforces its laws on the RoW, so it's reasonable for any other country to do the same.
The US decided on its own that any data which touches american soil is subject to american laws. This has been tested in the financial world where transactions that were legal in the country they took place were "bounced" in and out of the USA and the yanks deemed that they therefore were subject to their laws, which did not allow that activity to be legal.
The individuals in question were extradited to the US, and such is the extreme cost to defendants to produce witnesses and to support a lawsuit - esp. against the federal government and even more so when all those witnesses are from another country (and therefore have to be transported and accommodated at the defendants' expense for the duration of the trial), that they were unable to defend themselves and had to plea bargain a jail sentence.
"despite so many bugs being present, developers were not concentrating on fixing them, but rather on adding support for more devices."
This could be a generic description for Linux in general. It is hard to get people who volunteer their time to do work (or is it really play?) on things they don't want to.
Writing new stuff is fun. People will do that. Fixing bugs is hard work. It requires effort and thought and understanding. You can't persuade people to give up their time to do that, it's not fun.
The only way I can see this working is if they price their items higher to account for the costs of the clothing that is returned without being purchased. How does this model make business sense?
That is what happens in shops - they stock many different sizes and have to wait for the right-sized customer to come in and buy.
But this way, Amazon swaps the overheads of retail outlets for the overheads of transportation costs, which I would guess are a lot lower.
Coinbase sent Troia back an email explaining that those actions were against the exchange's rules and shut down his account.
That seems reasonable. Coinbase is an american company. There are laws against financing or facilitating the financing of terrorist and/or criminal activities.
Slashdot Mirror
Surely the successful way to go is:
1.) Idea!
2.) Glossy, gushing description
3.) Shiny "proof of concept" i.e. a non-working mock-up of what it might look like, eventually
4.) Completely fabricated sales projection, BoM, development costs
5.) Get on the VC circuit until some sucker bites.
6.) Try to work out what the minimum acceptable design would actually be
7.) Cut every corner possible. Scrimp pennies. Use untested software. Manufacture with the cheapest materials
8.) Spend the majority of the funding on advertising, packaging and marketing
"It seemed like this was something that was doable and easy, and had worked in other fields."
So where are the studies that "prove" this? Oh, and they'd better have a significance of 0.005 or better.
Employees increasingly "have to give up their constitutional right to speak freely about their experiences if they want to be part of the work force,"
It would seem that the U.S. has a pretty poor constitution if it can be superceded by contract law.
Isn't the whole point of a country's constitution that it stands above all "lesser" principles and laws.
OK, I got bored after the first couple of words. Can anyone fill me in on if there was anything worthwhile after that?
But seriously, haven't most people developed a "baby filter" so far as TV ads are concerned. What I mean is the self-preservation shield that parents have where they can just screen out all the random noise that comes from their children - while being alert to any signs of distress.
For advertisements, I generally haven't a clue what was being advertised 5 minutes ago, an hour ago, yesterday or any other time. Apart from the few stand-out advertisements, which are more like performances - all the rest just get "filtered".
So far as I know, the "nap-bars" mentioned were only in the news recently because one has just opened.
My personal experience is that spanish businesses and most shops open at 10 (local time) until 2. Everybody has lunch at 2 - which depending on whether daylight savings is in effect of not is roughly the local noon, or one hour past.
Small shops reopen at 4-ish, if they reopen at all. Supermarkets are open for the whole day.
Businesses can be open until 9 at night. Although that is still generally before the spanish eat their late meal (the main meal is lunch). And the day ends at about midnight local time - except at weekends and fiestas: of which there are many.
As for being unique? I seem to recall Italy working to the same schedule when I worked there briefly in the 90's.
Avast will maintain the CCleaner brand of products
Good, because I generally use CCleaner to get rid of crappy anti-virus apps.
that's the size of the battery park that you need to support that. Real tiny."
and real easy to target
So apart from the obvious reasons for not doing this - the weather, you also have to consider resilience, counter-terrorism, not having all your wires in one basket.
And on top, the requirement for electricity will always keep growing. So that 1 sq. mile will become 2 (especially when everyone has an electric car). And while the batteries may only take up a square mile, how much space will the industrial slag from their manufacture take up?
Whether it is the brand new cabinet of AI or the CIO's daughter's piece of crap bought off eBay. Or, depending on the size of the organisation, any other random piece of electronics owned by any staff member.
as a former Gawker editor says in the film, "If you're not pissing off a billionaire, what's the point?"
I do not believe free speech provides a cloak of invulnerability that allows a person to insult someone they don't like, without any consequences.
And if you make a business out of honking-off powerful people, you should not be surprised when they eventually decide to squash your like a bug.
Also, nobody should be under the illusion that dishing the dirt (whether true or not) on people you envy, just because you disagree with them or dislike what they stand for, is by default responsible journalism.
Apart from all its clunky UX in just about every element of its design, the one that bugs me the most is after you have done something to an image and saved your changed version. You then go to close the original and it asks if you want to save the changes.
Next worst is the stupidity around saving JPG files. I can't save as a JPG - I have to export it. I don't care about the technicalities. I don't care about free and non-free. I don't care about any of the "theoretical" or purist reasons. I just want to click SAVE and the data appears on disk.
You cannot address these fears with rational argument. Or by quoting statistics. If people "know" that carry money is dangerous (although wearing a $200 pair of trainers or carrying $1000 of electronics doesn't seem to register), then they won't do it.
Does it matter, should we care? Probably not. Everyone has their own irrational phobias. Just don't ever lend those individuals money if they need some cash to get out of a jam. If they aren't used to dealing in the folding stuff, you'll never know if they're good to pay you back - or if the reason they don't carry cash is because they don't have any money.
South Korea is now setting its sights on making AI that can play soccer
Playing soccer (aka football) is the easy bit: kick and miss.
But will the AI be able to convincingly roll around on the ground just inside the penalty box? And more importantly will it be able to deal with the paparazzi and make vacuous statements like "it was a game of two halves" and "if we'd only scored more, we could have won".
The United States Space Corps would be the first new branch of the military since 1947, when the Air Force was formed
People should also ask: what the hell is the point? Since the USA has no "space" assets that need defending, nor has the ability to hold territory against foes and can't even claim rights to anything that might be in orbit.
But I suppose that if you want to provoke all the other world powers, who have much more advanced capabilities, into militarising space then go right ahead.
journalists will still be involved in spotting and creating stories and will use artificial intelligence to increase the amount of content.
And then users will employ another AI to filter out the dross and compress these stories back down to just the salient facts.
If people prefer to spend their time watching crappy TV, rather than spending time with you, that just says that you're not very interesting.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have better things to do than hang around here
do people just not care (or even know about) sound fidelity anymore...?
if you checked out the quality of the average ear-buds that people use with their phones, you would have the answer to that question.
From this I conclude that when they say "light" quarks they mean down, up and strange. (I was very frustrated that they didn't say what they meant by "light" quarks.)
And when they describe a particle as "heavy", they really mean it has extra cheese.
I have enough computers, thanks. I don't need any more. And if you need a $100 display + $5 mouse and $10 keyboard, then whether the single board computer costs $25 or $35 doesn't really matter.
My view of these (and I have used a few NanoPi Neo's) is that they are simply a part of a bigger project. Generally something that needs a WiFi connection, or audio / video / USB. They are just a step up from an Arduino.
I would also point out that he didn't require a doctorate in sociology in order to arrive at this insight.
I am far from convinced that having a doctorate in sociology helps to draw any conclusions about human behaviour.
"If you don't feel rejuvenated and keen to face Monday after two work-free days, there might be a reason: You're doing your weekend wrong,"
But it's far more likely that if you feel tired when returning to work, it is because you spent the whole weekend partying.
And if not burning the candle at both ends, then chasing around after your children: taxiing them all over the place, shopping, cleaning, tidying, doing laundry, home maintenance, cooking and walking the dog.
From his article:
Was this meandering collection of platitudes, non-sequiturs and aphorisms supposed to contain some great insight?
The US decided on its own that any data which touches american soil is subject to american laws. This has been tested in the financial world where transactions that were legal in the country they took place were "bounced" in and out of the USA and the yanks deemed that they therefore were subject to their laws, which did not allow that activity to be legal.
The individuals in question were extradited to the US, and such is the extreme cost to defendants to produce witnesses and to support a lawsuit - esp. against the federal government and even more so when all those witnesses are from another country (and therefore have to be transported and accommodated at the defendants' expense for the duration of the trial), that they were unable to defend themselves and had to plea bargain a jail sentence.
Look up the Natwest three
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"despite so many bugs being present, developers were not concentrating on fixing them, but rather on adding support for more devices."
This could be a generic description for Linux in general. It is hard to get people who volunteer their time to do work (or is it really play?) on things they don't want to.
Writing new stuff is fun. People will do that. Fixing bugs is hard work. It requires effort and thought and understanding. You can't persuade people to give up their time to do that, it's not fun.
The only way I can see this working is if they price their items higher to account for the costs of the clothing that is returned without being purchased. How does this model make business sense?
That is what happens in shops - they stock many different sizes and have to wait for the right-sized customer to come in and buy.
But this way, Amazon swaps the overheads of retail outlets for the overheads of transportation costs, which I would guess are a lot lower.
Coinbase sent Troia back an email explaining that those actions were against the exchange's rules and shut down his account.
That seems reasonable. Coinbase is an american company. There are laws against financing or facilitating the financing of terrorist and/or criminal activities.