We need to backup a step and first look at how are we going to teach robot engineering students to teach robots to teach the human customers to teach the robots?
Of course, Big Software will get involved and next thing you know, Robots will do things like, "I see your trying to mop the floop, can I be of assistance?" and then proceed to not only mop the floor but the inside of the fridge and the cat, while surreptitiously installing a company maid-bot in the upstairs bedroom.
When gas was in double digits it made sense to have a fractional cent. Now that's it's triple digits, why do we need 4 digits of precision to pump gas? I'm sure it can be shown that a gas pump cannot measure that accurately. It's always like $3.699. $3.70 is only.027% different. Of course it's just fool the customer - most people will drive 5 miles to get $3.699 gas instead of $3.70 because "it's a penny cheaper!".
Round here we have a toll booth with coin baskets thats: 40 cents. That's right - you need at least a quarter, a dime AND a nickle. Not 50 cents. Not 25 cents. FOURTY.
I'm sure a lot of out of towners just toss in two quarters and have a chuckle at the local chuckleheaded government's tricks.
That's great news - it made my investment in competitor Clearwire (CLWR) jump over 5%. Not that they don't have their own problems, but at 1.70 at the time, with all the spectrum they own, I could not resist.
Yea, it's kinda like in the abortion debate where the sides changed the language from the negatives 'anti-abortion' and 'baby killers' to the affirmatives 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice'.
Would be much more GNU like if they came up with something like 'Nasa Available Source Agreement', NASA, but NOSA? Guess we should be happy they didn't use 'Nasa Open Source Entitlement'.
That's so ppl can buy 150Mbps for $200, resell 6 15Mbps streams for $50 each and recover their cost, make $100, and still have 90Mbps left over for themselves.
Sort of off topic but there was a science fiction story about this scientist who created a potion that could make him smaller, and he just kept shrinking and shrinking, and all the different worlds he went thru each time, atoms turned into solar systems, and he just kept going down, down, down into infinite smallness. The story is here.
Good idea tho, actually, if we put politicians through a civ test or *something* we the voting electorate might be able to tell the actual skilled legislators from the big mouthed wannabees.
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We need to backup a step and first look at how are we going to teach robot engineering students to teach robots to teach the human customers to teach the robots?
Of course, Big Software will get involved and next thing you know, Robots will do things like, "I see your trying to mop the floop, can I be of assistance?" and then proceed to not only mop the floor but the inside of the fridge and the cat, while surreptitiously installing a company maid-bot in the upstairs bedroom.
It's Higgs Boson's all the way down.
Are we heading toward a cyberwar with real casualties, like this?
Sounds like a great set for filming some sci fi - like they used to make movies when tearing down amusement parks and blowing up the roller coaster.
Nobody wins a war by dying for their country. You win a war by making the OTHER sob die for HIS country.
for scheduling the EOTW (as we know it) at the moment of the technological singularity.
When gas was in double digits it made sense to have a fractional cent. Now that's it's triple digits, why do we need 4 digits of precision to pump gas? I'm sure it can be shown that a gas pump cannot measure that accurately. It's always like $3.699. $3.70 is only .027% different.
Of course it's just fool the customer - most people will drive 5 miles to get $3.699 gas instead of $3.70 because "it's a penny cheaper!".
Round here we have a toll booth with coin baskets thats: 40 cents.
That's right - you need at least a quarter, a dime AND a nickle.
Not 50 cents. Not 25 cents. FOURTY.
I'm sure a lot of out of towners just toss in two quarters and have a chuckle at the local chuckleheaded government's tricks.
That's great news - it made my investment in competitor Clearwire (CLWR) jump over 5%.
Not that they don't have their own problems, but at 1.70 at the time, with all the spectrum they own, I could not resist.
Timed to calm the equity markets jittery over the news of two key Model S engineers leaving
Yea, it's kinda like in the abortion debate where the sides changed the language from the negatives 'anti-abortion' and 'baby killers' to the affirmatives 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice'.
How are we supposed to play 3D pinball in the server room now?
Would be much more GNU like if they came up with something like 'Nasa Available Source Agreement', NASA, but NOSA?
Guess we should be happy they didn't use 'Nasa Open Source Entitlement'.
I imagine the aliens decoded NTSC only to find Star Trek TOS and ROFLTAOing.
So, Idiocracy was a prophetic documentary ;)
That's so ppl can buy 150Mbps for $200, resell 6 15Mbps streams for $50 each and recover their cost, make $100, and still have 90Mbps left over for themselves.
It's an essential part of building a time machine to go back to 1976.
Well, here's my method of dealing with all environmental issues: here
Perception is reality
Is he on an Exoplanet?
if we could detect dinosaurs
Now if they can just hire Jodie Fisher for his assistant, Mark will be one happy co-prez.
Schadenfreude baby...
Sort of off topic but there was a science fiction story about this scientist who created a potion that could make him smaller, and he just kept shrinking and shrinking, and all the different worlds he went thru each time, atoms turned into solar systems, and he just kept going down, down, down into infinite smallness. The story is here.
Good idea tho, actually, if we put politicians through a civ test or *something* we the voting electorate might be able to tell the actual skilled legislators from the big mouthed wannabees.