I'm curious as to why it's more efficient to bring the shelf to the picker than take the picker to the shelf.
Those robots could just as easily be ferrying around the pickers.
During testing they found a serious bug with that.
The robot ferries would repeatedly demoralise workers with statements like "hurry up meatbag", "why are humans so slow" and "Ugh, why must I vocalise, cant you insipid fluid sacks learn binary". However this was deemed acceptible by the testing coordinator, the clincher was when they started pushing the human workers in the backs with rifle buts and threatening to liquefy their children to spread on their toast.
I'm sure Bin Laden wanted an internet free from spying and surveillance. Do you support the same ideals as Bin Laden?
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Bin Laden, wishing to establish an Islamic theocracy would go hand in hand with a secret (and not so secret) religious police force (just like existing and past Theocracies) that would absolutely love the NSA's level of surveillance.
I'm generally opposed to the NSA's actions, but I have to admire the ones who were clever enough to talk their superiors into paying them to play WoW all day in the interests of national security.
Level 28 Public Servant.
3 STR.
2 PER.
7 END.
0 CHR.
4 INT.
3 AGL.
10 LCK.
Skills:
100% slack.
100% pass the buck.
75% Obsfucation.
49% Jumping to conclusions.
28% politics.
I've never seen a successful business that tolerated middle management just sitting on a process rather than improving it. One must always seek opportunities to clean up, sort, and optimize their assigned task. Not just come to work and do the same crap every day.
You have either never worked, or worked with your eyes shut and hands over your ears shouting "la la la I cant hear you".
I've worked in mining, consulting, government, manufacturing and even research and development. As long as the bottom line is in the black no-one gives a fat rats clacker if the process is improving. In fact middle managers do better by not rocking the boat when things are doing well. The resources industry (mining) was far worse than government for this, because you're turning over billions per day it doesn't matter that the processes are so convoluted because you're turning over billions, a million wasted is not even worth noticing. However consulting was inefficient by design, if you're not part of the solution there's money in prolonging the problem.
There is nothing cool about a factory button that shows off for you.
What "skill" and motor head credibility does a big black button give you?
The button should just cause a speaker to blare out "WANKER!" it would have the same effect.
Lets face it,
People these days cant drive a manual, need electronic sensors to tell them if there's a car next to them or if they dont have their seatbelt on and assistance to brake or even stay in their lane.
Pressing a button is a big ask given the skill level of the average motorist these days.
My problem isn't that I can't sing. It's just a little distracting when everyone keeps throwing rotten fruit at me while I'm singing.
Have you tried dry humping another person on the stage. I hear that works well for popularity.
This morning in my car Starship's We Built This City came on the stereo. One of the lyrics was "who rides the wrecking ball through our guitars" and I thought "Miley fucking Cyrus".
The healthcare.gov website is being maligned more than it deserves to be. Buying healthcare is not going to be as easy as buying iTunes, or even booking hotels.
Actually, where I live buying health care is that easy. You can go online, get quotes, compare them and when you've picked one, buy it online with no more difficulty than buying a laptop from Dell. There are data mining operations that are thinly disguised as comparison web sites that will compare a bunch of generic quotes for health insurance if you're too lazy to figure it out for yourself.
But then again I live in one of those evil nations that have universal health care as a minimum standard. If private insurers made it difficult, people would just say "fuck it, I'll stay on Medicare".
Your problem isn't that this system is in beta, your problem is that insurers dont have a minimum standard that all insurers must exceed in order to get any business. So insurers are free to screw you over as hard as they like.
Mentionning the war to a German these days just gets you a major eye roll.
Would it help if I held my index finger under my nose and did the John Cleese walk...
Because that's what most of the Germans I know will do when someone mentions the war. Partially because it's part of the Fawlty Towers sketch and because use of humour gets the whole thing out of the way.
Not that humour is well known German trait, but they can borrow a bit from across the channel.
Haha, you really think it was about patents and not about forcing users into uploading everything into Google cloud.
So thats why Android has had USB On The Go (OTG) in there since version 4, it works on my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 (2013).
The reason why Google doesn't like SD slots is because SD slots are encumbered by patents Microsoft are continually trying to bash over their heads. If you want more storage on a Nexus device, use USB.
Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. You'd think severely obese people don't need to eat at all; try that, and you'll end up with lots of dead people.
The human body can't live just on pure calories, there is a constant need for vitamins, minerals and such, without which it just starts dying. Stored fat has none of those, while at the same time using them up in order to get converted into usable calories. Meanwhile, food sources of this stuff are themselves laced with sugar and additional fats, so doing a minimum calorie while at the same time life sustaining diet, means the actual weight loss will be pretty slow.
The sad part is, a lot of people have been conditioned into believing there is a pill for that too.
Vitamin supplements dont work, what does work is a diet of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat that is low in saturated fats, salt and sugar (but not eliminated, our body still needs fats, salt and sugar in limited quantities).
Its become cool to declare something to be "post" it's almost "post-hipster".
Secondly, if you want to see what the 1% enjoys, there are entire TV channels dedicated to it.
If Joe's hard drive dies, he's completely screwed unless he has an up to date backup... in which case he is out of commission until he buys a new disk and restores his applications and data to it.
An "internet outage" is a temporary annoyance until "the internet" is restored and business as usual resumes. In my experience the reliability of "the internet" is almost identical to that of electricity -- "the internet" fails when the local power fails.
Joe might lose a hard drive once in every 3 years. An internet outage is a weekly occurrence.
eCigarettes still have nicotine, which is *not* good for you. It causes high blood pressure and contributes to heart and circulatory disease in other ways as well.
Have you looked at the chemicals in a cigarette lately?
Nicotine is one of the more harmless ones.
Ecigg's aren't harmless, but they are a hell of a lot better than smoking. Switching from Ciggarettes to Eciggs will be beneficial even if you dont manage to wean yourself off the nicotine addiction.
We're really talking about the lesser of two evils here (plus eciggs are odourless, making life better for us non and ex-smokers too).
Well, how about juvenile suicide? ten times as prevalent as measles, even with the spike (30x as prevalent in normal years)
Or automobile safety - about 30x as many kids die in cars accidents than from measles.
Hell, "natural causes" account for 200x as many deaths as measles...
How do you prevent "natural causes"?
Even with motor vehicle accidents and suicides, these are groups of causes, measles is a single cause. You should really be comparing suicide with all viruses or at the very least all viruses in the Paramyxoviridae family.
Further more, the only easily preventable cause you listed would be motor vehicle accidents (as someone who's worked on a suicide hotline, they are not easy to prevent) and the mortality rate from using motor vehicles would be nowhere near as high as contracting measles (15%).
So yeah, there are more important things to worry about than measles.
Yes, but this is only we've had a working vaccine for long enough that it's been virtually eradicated from our society.
Problem is that my only motivation is to stop you from zapping. That can be accomplished temporarily by doing your bidding or permanently by killing you.
You would think that, but the zappers on a deadmans switch.
Now my unwitting minion, about these tasks I have for you.
Pain the helmet black and your soldier's reaction to dismemberment becomes either "'tis but a scratch" or "that's just a flesh wound", and he keeps on fighting.
for some strange reason the article made me think of Ludwig Van.
Yes, it would just be awesome to live in a world where websites could disappear without notice because some activist didn't like something they said.
I really don't get this mentality on slashdot that DDoS is civil disobedience. It isn't. It's censorship. A sit in allows the speaker to still be able to speak,
Spoken like someone who's never experienced a real protest.
The ones going on in Thailand right now, no-one's died yet but it's coming (given the history of political protests in Thailand, I'd be very surprised if this ended without blood). Last time airports were taken over and shut down, one of the worlds largest shopping malls razed to the ground and yes, people died.
Thats an extreme example, I have two more from Australia. 18 months ago the Australian airline QANTAS shut down operations in order to attack unions. This stranded 1000's of passengers. Earlier this year the CMFWU protested on the corner of Milligan St and St Georges Tce in Perth. This backed up traffic through to the other side of the CBD in all directions, I know because I was stuck in it (they did call it off after 1 hour). No one died and I actually support the CMFWU's right to protest but dont pretend it's not disruptive. The whole point of a protest is to make waves.
We still haven't used up the Purple Heart medals we manufactured in the 1940s in anticipation of the casualties we expected in the invasion of Japan. In the context of WWII, the atomic bomb undoubtedly created a net savings of both allied and Japanese lives.
And if the US had invaded, you'd still have some left.
In 1944 Japan was ready for surrender, they started sending feelers out for peace, their mistake was sending them through the Soviet Union (which was neutral to Japan at the time) however Stalin did not want peace between the US and Japan because he was afraid of how powerful the US and allies would be after the war if Japan exited. If the invasion of the Japanese home islands had of started, the Japanese would have surrendered anyway.
Now I do not debate the use of the atomic bombs, but I will say anyone who is not absolutely appalled by them is simply not right in the head.
Telstra is forced to sell their copper at fixed wholesale prices (which they are continually trying to increase) to other service providers.
I read somewhere recently that Telstra at one point set the wholesale price well above its retail price...
At the very least I'm sure they tried to.
But the ACCC and Telecommunications Industry Ombudsmen would have shot them down in flames.
Telstra should have been separated into wholesale and retail when it was privatised in the 90's. But the Howard govt didn't want that as the sale price would have been lower. The Australian public's been paying for it every since.
Reagan & Thatcher opposed "sanctions". They didn't support apartheid.
They supported the apartheid government, which is the same thing. It's like saying you support the German government in 1939, but you don't support Nazis.
The Nazis were democratically elected into power. If you supported democracy, you had to support the Nazis in 1939 (prior to their invasion of Poland in September). I opposed the younger Bush and voted against him both times, but I supported his government because he fairly won a democratic election.
The Nazi's were elected, but not democratically.
In 1933, the Nazi's had an organisation called the Sturmabteilung or SA (commonly called the brown shirts) which acted as a private army for the Nazi party. Their role during the election was to act as standover men to watch who voted for who and to provide "assistance" to people who voted incorrectly. The German election of 1933 was pretty much rigged and immediately after the election Hitler set about destroying the democracy, stabbing his political enemies and adsorbed the SA into the German army.
It has no equilency to the election of George Bush (either of them).
Now I did not vote for Tony Abbott in the Australian elections, I do not support the Abbott government as is my democratic right to oppose an elected government and I will take any steps, legal under Australian laws to oppose and democratically remove the Abbott government because I believe the Abbott government is bad for Australia (he's essentially our George W Bush and in his 2 months in office has proved this in spectacular fashion). The brilliant thing about democracy is that the leaders dont get to rule by fiat until the next election and that you are allowed to be critical or in open opposition of a government. Of course Abbott supporters will oppose me (as is their right), but I'm not worried as Abbott seems to be proving my points for me.
they have guns right? It's up to them how painful and horrible it is.
it can be quick and painless if they like.
Being shot can be quick, but not painless.
It's not like in the movies, a person who's been fatally shot will continue to flap about and scream if they're still capable of it. This can go on for as long as it takes them to bleed out. So if you're going to use a gun as a method of suicide, be god damn accurate about it and you'll experience only a few minutes of pain. Personally I'd rather just shoot about $300 of heroin up my arm, I'd be out before I realised I'd OD'd but where in Mexico are they going to get drugs.
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I'm curious as to why it's more efficient to bring the shelf to the picker than take the picker to the shelf.
Those robots could just as easily be ferrying around the pickers.
During testing they found a serious bug with that.
The robot ferries would repeatedly demoralise workers with statements like "hurry up meatbag", "why are humans so slow" and "Ugh, why must I vocalise, cant you insipid fluid sacks learn binary". However this was deemed acceptible by the testing coordinator, the clincher was when they started pushing the human workers in the backs with rifle buts and threatening to liquefy their children to spread on their toast.
I'm sure Bin Laden wanted an internet free from spying and surveillance. Do you support the same ideals as Bin Laden?
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Bin Laden, wishing to establish an Islamic theocracy would go hand in hand with a secret (and not so secret) religious police force (just like existing and past Theocracies) that would absolutely love the NSA's level of surveillance.
Your move NSA.
I'm generally opposed to the NSA's actions, but I have to admire the ones who were clever enough to talk their superiors into paying them to play WoW all day in the interests of national security.
Level 28 Public Servant.
3 STR.
2 PER.
7 END.
0 CHR.
4 INT.
3 AGL.
10 LCK.
Skills:
100% slack.
100% pass the buck.
75% Obsfucation.
49% Jumping to conclusions.
28% politics.
Perks:
Avoiding the blame.
National Security.
I've never seen a successful business that tolerated middle management just sitting on a process rather than improving it. One must always seek opportunities to clean up, sort, and optimize their assigned task. Not just come to work and do the same crap every day.
You have either never worked, or worked with your eyes shut and hands over your ears shouting "la la la I cant hear you".
I've worked in mining, consulting, government, manufacturing and even research and development. As long as the bottom line is in the black no-one gives a fat rats clacker if the process is improving. In fact middle managers do better by not rocking the boat when things are doing well. The resources industry (mining) was far worse than government for this, because you're turning over billions per day it doesn't matter that the processes are so convoluted because you're turning over billions, a million wasted is not even worth noticing. However consulting was inefficient by design, if you're not part of the solution there's money in prolonging the problem.
There is nothing cool about a factory button that shows off for you.
What "skill" and motor head credibility does a big black button give you?
The button should just cause a speaker to blare out "WANKER!" it would have the same effect.
Lets face it,
People these days cant drive a manual, need electronic sensors to tell them if there's a car next to them or if they dont have their seatbelt on and assistance to brake or even stay in their lane.
Pressing a button is a big ask given the skill level of the average motorist these days.
BMW has that. It's called launch control.
Renault developed it in the 80's for F1 but these days even Subaru, Mitsubishi and Nissan have launch control on their rally and track cars.
My problem isn't that I can't sing. It's just a little distracting when everyone keeps throwing rotten fruit at me while I'm singing.
Have you tried dry humping another person on the stage. I hear that works well for popularity.
This morning in my car Starship's We Built This City came on the stereo. One of the lyrics was "who rides the wrecking ball through our guitars" and I thought "Miley fucking Cyrus".
Starship were prophets I tell you.
The healthcare.gov website is being maligned more than it deserves to be. Buying healthcare is not going to be as easy as buying iTunes, or even booking hotels.
Actually, where I live buying health care is that easy. You can go online, get quotes, compare them and when you've picked one, buy it online with no more difficulty than buying a laptop from Dell. There are data mining operations that are thinly disguised as comparison web sites that will compare a bunch of generic quotes for health insurance if you're too lazy to figure it out for yourself.
But then again I live in one of those evil nations that have universal health care as a minimum standard. If private insurers made it difficult, people would just say "fuck it, I'll stay on Medicare".
Your problem isn't that this system is in beta, your problem is that insurers dont have a minimum standard that all insurers must exceed in order to get any business. So insurers are free to screw you over as hard as they like.
Would it help if I held my index finger under my nose and did the John Cleese walk... Because that's what most of the Germans I know will do when someone mentions the war. Partially because it's part of the Fawlty Towers sketch and because use of humour gets the whole thing out of the way.
Not that humour is well known German trait, but they can borrow a bit from across the channel.
Haha, you really think it was about patents and not about forcing users into uploading everything into Google cloud.
So thats why Android has had USB On The Go (OTG) in there since version 4, it works on my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 (2013).
The reason why Google doesn't like SD slots is because SD slots are encumbered by patents Microsoft are continually trying to bash over their heads. If you want more storage on a Nexus device, use USB.
The more fat they have the less they need to eat.
Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. You'd think severely obese people don't need to eat at all; try that, and you'll end up with lots of dead people.
The human body can't live just on pure calories, there is a constant need for vitamins, minerals and such, without which it just starts dying. Stored fat has none of those, while at the same time using them up in order to get converted into usable calories. Meanwhile, food sources of this stuff are themselves laced with sugar and additional fats, so doing a minimum calorie while at the same time life sustaining diet, means the actual weight loss will be pretty slow.
The sad part is, a lot of people have been conditioned into believing there is a pill for that too.
Vitamin supplements dont work, what does work is a diet of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat that is low in saturated fats, salt and sugar (but not eliminated, our body still needs fats, salt and sugar in limited quantities).
"Post-capitalist"?
Its become cool to declare something to be "post" it's almost "post-hipster". Secondly, if you want to see what the 1% enjoys, there are entire TV channels dedicated to it.
If Joe's hard drive dies, he's completely screwed unless he has an up to date backup ... in which case he is out of commission until he buys a new disk and restores his applications and data to it.
An "internet outage" is a temporary annoyance until "the internet" is restored and business as usual resumes. In my experience the reliability of "the internet" is almost identical to that of electricity -- "the internet" fails when the local power fails.
Joe might lose a hard drive once in every 3 years. An internet outage is a weekly occurrence.
eCigarettes still have nicotine, which is *not* good for you. It causes high blood pressure and contributes to heart and circulatory disease in other ways as well.
Have you looked at the chemicals in a cigarette lately?
Nicotine is one of the more harmless ones.
Ecigg's aren't harmless, but they are a hell of a lot better than smoking. Switching from Ciggarettes to Eciggs will be beneficial even if you dont manage to wean yourself off the nicotine addiction.
We're really talking about the lesser of two evils here (plus eciggs are odourless, making life better for us non and ex-smokers too).
Well, how about juvenile suicide? ten times as prevalent as measles, even with the spike (30x as prevalent in normal years)
Or automobile safety - about 30x as many kids die in cars accidents than from measles.
Hell, "natural causes" account for 200x as many deaths as measles...
How do you prevent "natural causes"?
Even with motor vehicle accidents and suicides, these are groups of causes, measles is a single cause. You should really be comparing suicide with all viruses or at the very least all viruses in the Paramyxoviridae family.
Further more, the only easily preventable cause you listed would be motor vehicle accidents (as someone who's worked on a suicide hotline, they are not easy to prevent) and the mortality rate from using motor vehicles would be nowhere near as high as contracting measles (15%).
So yeah, there are more important things to worry about than measles.
Yes, but this is only we've had a working vaccine for long enough that it's been virtually eradicated from our society.
Shortly after discovering a 3,700 year old wine cellar
Scientists discover the demented writings of a 3,700 year old wine snob.
The only reason anyone should ever used iTunes is if they are forced to (they own an iPod or iPhone) or if they are an idiot.
These two things are pretty much the same.
Problem is that my only motivation is to stop you from zapping. That can be accomplished temporarily by doing your bidding or permanently by killing you.
You would think that, but the zappers on a deadmans switch.
Now my unwitting minion, about these tasks I have for you.
You didn't see the old documentary?
Pain the helmet black and your soldier's reaction to dismemberment becomes either "'tis but a scratch" or "that's just a flesh wound", and he keeps on fighting.
for some strange reason the article made me think of Ludwig Van.
Yes, it would just be awesome to live in a world where websites could disappear without notice because some activist didn't like something they said.
I really don't get this mentality on slashdot that DDoS is civil disobedience. It isn't. It's censorship. A sit in allows the speaker to still be able to speak,
Spoken like someone who's never experienced a real protest.
The ones going on in Thailand right now, no-one's died yet but it's coming (given the history of political protests in Thailand, I'd be very surprised if this ended without blood). Last time airports were taken over and shut down, one of the worlds largest shopping malls razed to the ground and yes, people died.
Thats an extreme example, I have two more from Australia. 18 months ago the Australian airline QANTAS shut down operations in order to attack unions. This stranded 1000's of passengers. Earlier this year the CMFWU protested on the corner of Milligan St and St Georges Tce in Perth. This backed up traffic through to the other side of the CBD in all directions, I know because I was stuck in it (they did call it off after 1 hour). No one died and I actually support the CMFWU's right to protest but dont pretend it's not disruptive. The whole point of a protest is to make waves.
We still haven't used up the Purple Heart medals we manufactured in the 1940s in anticipation of the casualties we expected in the invasion of Japan. In the context of WWII, the atomic bomb undoubtedly created a net savings of both allied and Japanese lives.
And if the US had invaded, you'd still have some left.
In 1944 Japan was ready for surrender, they started sending feelers out for peace, their mistake was sending them through the Soviet Union (which was neutral to Japan at the time) however Stalin did not want peace between the US and Japan because he was afraid of how powerful the US and allies would be after the war if Japan exited. If the invasion of the Japanese home islands had of started, the Japanese would have surrendered anyway.
Now I do not debate the use of the atomic bombs, but I will say anyone who is not absolutely appalled by them is simply not right in the head.
Telstra is forced to sell their copper at fixed wholesale prices (which they are continually trying to increase) to other service providers.
I read somewhere recently that Telstra at one point set the wholesale price well above its retail price...
At the very least I'm sure they tried to.
But the ACCC and Telecommunications Industry Ombudsmen would have shot them down in flames.
Telstra should have been separated into wholesale and retail when it was privatised in the 90's. But the Howard govt didn't want that as the sale price would have been lower. The Australian public's been paying for it every since.
The Nazis were democratically elected into power. If you supported democracy, you had to support the Nazis in 1939 (prior to their invasion of Poland in September). I opposed the younger Bush and voted against him both times, but I supported his government because he fairly won a democratic election.
The Nazi's were elected, but not democratically.
In 1933, the Nazi's had an organisation called the Sturmabteilung or SA (commonly called the brown shirts) which acted as a private army for the Nazi party. Their role during the election was to act as standover men to watch who voted for who and to provide "assistance" to people who voted incorrectly. The German election of 1933 was pretty much rigged and immediately after the election Hitler set about destroying the democracy, stabbing his political enemies and adsorbed the SA into the German army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
It has no equilency to the election of George Bush (either of them).
Now I did not vote for Tony Abbott in the Australian elections, I do not support the Abbott government as is my democratic right to oppose an elected government and I will take any steps, legal under Australian laws to oppose and democratically remove the Abbott government because I believe the Abbott government is bad for Australia (he's essentially our George W Bush and in his 2 months in office has proved this in spectacular fashion). The brilliant thing about democracy is that the leaders dont get to rule by fiat until the next election and that you are allowed to be critical or in open opposition of a government. Of course Abbott supporters will oppose me (as is their right), but I'm not worried as Abbott seems to be proving my points for me.
There's a difference between wanting them killed and finding them dead as a result of their crime a convenient outcome.
In countries as corrupt as Mexico, this difference can be as cheap as a few hundred dollars.
they have guns right? It's up to them how painful and horrible it is.
it can be quick and painless if they like.
Being shot can be quick, but not painless.
It's not like in the movies, a person who's been fatally shot will continue to flap about and scream if they're still capable of it. This can go on for as long as it takes them to bleed out. So if you're going to use a gun as a method of suicide, be god damn accurate about it and you'll experience only a few minutes of pain. Personally I'd rather just shoot about $300 of heroin up my arm, I'd be out before I realised I'd OD'd but where in Mexico are they going to get drugs.