Look at the mass migration away from California that's currently happening.
There's no "mass migration" from California. Would it surprise you to learn that a bigger percentage of Texans are migrating out of Texas than Californians leaving California? Freedom-loving, cheap-to-live, rootin' tootin', conservative Texas loses a bigger percentage of their population every year than California. And guess what? People keep moving to California.
You probably have visited Moscow and started extrapolating. That is a bad idea.
My visit has nothing to do with it. I'm quoting economic data, not recounting an anecdote. No extrapolation necessary.
And it's been 15 years since I've been to Moscow. Six years ago (almost seven) it was St Petersburg and Chenoye (a beautiful seaside village on Lake Ladogo. My wife is from that part of the world and we visit Eastern Europe once or twice a year, often with side trips to Russia.
first off $437 is more then enough to live on, if you don't live in a hyper inflated country
You don't know what you're talking about. The cost of a car is the same in Russia as it is in the US. The cost of clothing is actually about 27% more in Russia. Cigarettes are cheap, but rents are about the same, if you live in the kind of place you'd want to live and not the middle of nowhere. If you want to go to a movie in Russia, it's about $9.50 US. In the US, it's $10. Groceries are more expensive in Russia, and their shitty quality. It's been almost six years since I was there, but since then, wages have declined. A lot.
The cost of living in Russia is only a bout 30% less than it is in the US, but the average income is 80% less. "Hyper inflation" has absolutely nothing to do with it.
You're not shedding virus if you don't show symptoms
You don't have to show symptoms to spread the virus. Kiss your wife? Your kids? Rub your eye and shake your co-worker's hand? Those are all activities that humans do, not that you'd know anything about it.
"Russian Trolls" is code for "Straight white men".
No, it's not code at all. Russian trolls happen to be all straight white men because gays are fucking killed in Russia. So gay or not, you better present to the world as a straight white man in Russia, or you're in deep shit.
And if you're in Russia, where the average monthly income is $437, you better find some way to supplement your income, so yes, Russian trolls = straight white men.
I do not believe dark matter exists, but it won't be QI which solves these kind of problems.
Why did you want until now to tell us this? If you'd mentioned it to DARPA before they spent the $1.3 million, you could have saved taxpayers a lot of money.
Next time, please speak up before the money gets spent.
Occam thinks he's posting with a mobile device which thinks that's someone's name.
I just tried it in three different browsers, and bill didn't get autocapitalized in any of them.
I guess he might be using the Slashdot app for iOS, which is still a little wonky, or maybe in Russia they actually think that when Congress passes a bill, that means they're putting a guy named "Bill" in charge of something.
Next will be a Bill banning people from being mean on line.
I expect it will be just as easily enforced as this Bill.
I haven't had enough coffee yet to address your idiotic assertions, but will you please tell me why you insist on capitalizing the "b" in "bill"? Please explain. I have a very busy day ahead of me, and I can't move on until I understand this.
The feds aren't losing on "legal" marijuana, it's still illegal by federal law and no one has successfully challenged that.
However, despite all the threats of a crackdown, they have stopped enforcing it. No, make no mistake, the Feds have lost the battle on legal marijuana. They're not going to do shit.
You sound like a fucking shill. There's no way even a 50mbit stream will look as good as the real thing, and lag sucks
And yet, it does. I'm getting 100 Mbps and I'm playing Far Cry 5 on max settings and there is no lag. Occasionally, there are some audio stutters, but it's still in beta (and free) so I'm not concerned. If the current quality is any indication of what the finished product is going to look like, game streaming is going to be big. I'm thinking the big publishers will start setting up their own streaming services. For example, no Origin games are available on GeForce Now.
I had to get my ISP to replace a local splitter because I was getting packet loss early on, which was degrading the quality, but once that was fixed, it's all good. The most popular games on the service are Fortnite and PUBG, so the lag must not be bad.
I play with wired keyboard and mouse because I do not like the latency of wireless keyboards and mouse
Same here.
If you have a fast (and clean) internet connection, you will not notice any latency. I play racing games and shooters mainly, and being able to play at higher FPS means I can actually score better on GeForce now than I can running those same games on my PC.
Wont work, they are already at saturation on gaming and really games are not selling that well at the moment.
PUBG has grossed over $1.5 billion in what, eight months? Games are selling great. Let's hold off on holding a bake sale for the poor struggling video games industry.
On the cynical hand, it seems to me that game streaming is just another (perhaps the ultimate) way for a company to demand that I pay monthly rather than just buying the software I want.
Game streaming is where it's at. I thought the same way you do, until I gave it more consideration (and until I tried GeForce Now, which I am still testing). The question isn't whether or not to pay, it's how much I'm willing to pay.
How much are you willing to pay to be able to play games on ultra settings on computers that don't meet the minimum system requirements for those games? How much are you willing to pay to play a AAA game on a Mac that hasn't been released for Mac. PC games on Chromebook?
So far, as I said, I'm beta testing GeForce Now and it's semi-miraculous. It uses a lot of bandwidth, but I've got a lot of bandwidth to spare. Since I'm testing it, I don't pay a penny, so I think it's the greatest thing ever. If they go into full release tomorrow and want $49.99/month, they can go fuck themselves. If they say $10/month, I'd think about it because it's definitely worth that much to not have to buy a new video card every year and a new processor & mobo (and memory, and operating system) every other year.
Did Apple Watches suddenly gain some dire need for 64-bit address space?
You can never have too many bits, you know. I'm surprised Apple stopped at 64. At those prices, I'm thinking they should have at least like several hundred bits. Also, the iWatch should be able to sense when a nearby woman is menstruating so I can run far away (or not, depending on your particular tastes).
I might try a smart watch when they get under $100, but until then, I'm just going to have to take y'all's word for it. I guess I have reached the outer limit of my nerddom. Beyond this there be dragons.
Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932. He requested trying mescaline in 1953 after reading research on it and subsequently wrote Doors of Perception in 1954.
Interesting that you somehow think his future self caused an impact on a book that he had written 20 years earlier.
You know the old saying, "If you're not a libertarian when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not a socialist when you're an adult, you have no brain."
Totally wrong on marijuana. The federal government has chosen not to act.
The federal government chose not to act on marijuana for two reasons: 1) it was a losing issue for them, like gay rights and gay marriage and, 2) big investors realized that legal pot was going to make them money. There are hedge funds in the California/Colorado pot industry, and more big institutional guys entering every day.
Net neutrality is also a loser for them. People may like the party in power or not, but don't nobody like their ISP or telecom provider.
Here in California, the big telecoms spent a fortune on anti-Net Neutrality campaigns. There were constant commercials against it (and none for it) that ran on every station here. You couldn't watch an hour of television without seeing anti-Net Neutrality commercials, sometimes at every commercial break. And it still passed easily. If the administration wants to stand arm-in-arm with Comcast and AT&T, good luck.
Leaving the choice up to the Internet, or even just Netflix subscribers isn't going to result in the best storylines, or even the storylines that necessarily reflect what actual people want to see.
Yes, but it could still be incredibly entertaining.
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Texas also has a higher rate of people leaving than California, as a percentage of population.
I've lived in both places. California is paradise compared to goddamn Texas.
There's no "mass migration" from California. Would it surprise you to learn that a bigger percentage of Texans are migrating out of Texas than Californians leaving California? Freedom-loving, cheap-to-live, rootin' tootin', conservative Texas loses a bigger percentage of their population every year than California. And guess what? People keep moving to California.
https://www.ocregister.com/201...
My visit has nothing to do with it. I'm quoting economic data, not recounting an anecdote. No extrapolation necessary.
And it's been 15 years since I've been to Moscow. Six years ago (almost seven) it was St Petersburg and Chenoye (a beautiful seaside village on Lake Ladogo. My wife is from that part of the world and we visit Eastern Europe once or twice a year, often with side trips to Russia.
You don't know what you're talking about. The cost of a car is the same in Russia as it is in the US. The cost of clothing is actually about 27% more in Russia. Cigarettes are cheap, but rents are about the same, if you live in the kind of place you'd want to live and not the middle of nowhere. If you want to go to a movie in Russia, it's about $9.50 US. In the US, it's $10. Groceries are more expensive in Russia, and their shitty quality. It's been almost six years since I was there, but since then, wages have declined. A lot.
The cost of living in Russia is only a bout 30% less than it is in the US, but the average income is 80% less. "Hyper inflation" has absolutely nothing to do with it.
You don't have to show symptoms to spread the virus. Kiss your wife? Your kids? Rub your eye and shake your co-worker's hand? Those are all activities that humans do, not that you'd know anything about it.
Breitbart is reporting the same story. So is the New York Times. So is Fox, and CNN. Forbes, Wall Street Journal too.
Is it a vast bipartisan conspiracy against Elon Musk?
No, it's not code at all. Russian trolls happen to be all straight white men because gays are fucking killed in Russia. So gay or not, you better present to the world as a straight white man in Russia, or you're in deep shit.
And if you're in Russia, where the average monthly income is $437, you better find some way to supplement your income, so yes, Russian trolls = straight white men.
https://www.newyorker.com/cult...
Oh, so you're the one who outbid me when they auctioned off the nyet account in October of 2016.
Also, coincidentally, a story came out today about thousands of Tesla Model 3s sitting in parking lots all over the place.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
Can you convince them to send one of those rounding errors my way?
Why did you want until now to tell us this? If you'd mentioned it to DARPA before they spent the $1.3 million, you could have saved taxpayers a lot of money.
Next time, please speak up before the money gets spent.
Mod parent up!
(this is like the Slashdot comment version of Amway)
I just tried it in three different browsers, and bill didn't get autocapitalized in any of them.
I guess he might be using the Slashdot app for iOS, which is still a little wonky, or maybe in Russia they actually think that when Congress passes a bill, that means they're putting a guy named "Bill" in charge of something.
I haven't had enough coffee yet to address your idiotic assertions, but will you please tell me why you insist on capitalizing the "b" in "bill"? Please explain. I have a very busy day ahead of me, and I can't move on until I understand this.
This is going to hurt the Anonymous Coward industry. There are always economic consequences for these kind of liberal laws.
However, despite all the threats of a crackdown, they have stopped enforcing it. No, make no mistake, the Feds have lost the battle on legal marijuana. They're not going to do shit.
You could always ask for a refund of your Slashdot fees.
And yet, it does. I'm getting 100 Mbps and I'm playing Far Cry 5 on max settings and there is no lag. Occasionally, there are some audio stutters, but it's still in beta (and free) so I'm not concerned. If the current quality is any indication of what the finished product is going to look like, game streaming is going to be big. I'm thinking the big publishers will start setting up their own streaming services. For example, no Origin games are available on GeForce Now.
I had to get my ISP to replace a local splitter because I was getting packet loss early on, which was degrading the quality, but once that was fixed, it's all good. The most popular games on the service are Fortnite and PUBG, so the lag must not be bad.
In this case, a $1000.00 buggy, badly-designed pile of poo.
I play with wired keyboard and mouse because I do not like the latency of wireless keyboards and mouse
Same here.
If you have a fast (and clean) internet connection, you will not notice any latency. I play racing games and shooters mainly, and being able to play at higher FPS means I can actually score better on GeForce now than I can running those same games on my PC.
PUBG has grossed over $1.5 billion in what, eight months? Games are selling great. Let's hold off on holding a bake sale for the poor struggling video games industry.
Game streaming is where it's at. I thought the same way you do, until I gave it more consideration (and until I tried GeForce Now, which I am still testing). The question isn't whether or not to pay, it's how much I'm willing to pay.
How much are you willing to pay to be able to play games on ultra settings on computers that don't meet the minimum system requirements for those games? How much are you willing to pay to play a AAA game on a Mac that hasn't been released for Mac. PC games on Chromebook?
So far, as I said, I'm beta testing GeForce Now and it's semi-miraculous. It uses a lot of bandwidth, but I've got a lot of bandwidth to spare. Since I'm testing it, I don't pay a penny, so I think it's the greatest thing ever. If they go into full release tomorrow and want $49.99/month, they can go fuck themselves. If they say $10/month, I'd think about it because it's definitely worth that much to not have to buy a new video card every year and a new processor & mobo (and memory, and operating system) every other year.
You can never have too many bits, you know. I'm surprised Apple stopped at 64. At those prices, I'm thinking they should have at least like several hundred bits. Also, the iWatch should be able to sense when a nearby woman is menstruating so I can run far away (or not, depending on your particular tastes).
I might try a smart watch when they get under $100, but until then, I'm just going to have to take y'all's word for it. I guess I have reached the outer limit of my nerddom. Beyond this there be dragons.
You know the old saying, "If you're not a libertarian when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not a socialist when you're an adult, you have no brain."
I'm pretty sure that how it goes.
The federal government chose not to act on marijuana for two reasons: 1) it was a losing issue for them, like gay rights and gay marriage and, 2) big investors realized that legal pot was going to make them money. There are hedge funds in the California/Colorado pot industry, and more big institutional guys entering every day.
Net neutrality is also a loser for them. People may like the party in power or not, but don't nobody like their ISP or telecom provider.
Here in California, the big telecoms spent a fortune on anti-Net Neutrality campaigns. There were constant commercials against it (and none for it) that ran on every station here. You couldn't watch an hour of television without seeing anti-Net Neutrality commercials, sometimes at every commercial break. And it still passed easily. If the administration wants to stand arm-in-arm with Comcast and AT&T, good luck.
Yes, but it could still be incredibly entertaining.