They fought tooth and nail against every new technology... vhs, audio compression, video streaming... that's how Netflix has become as valuable as Disney in one tenth of the time! These greedy assholes never learn: You catch more flies with honey. Long term business success is achieved by providing a valuable service to your customers! They only know to profit by treating customers like cattle. A short-sighted money grab never works in the end. RIAA/MPAA is just Kodak with a different name... refusing to change in a changing world like the Amish... at least the Amish aren't trying to keep everyone else in the dark ages!
This is actually part of a cycle: As temperature heats up, more people use their air conditioners which heat up the air even more, power central has to burn more fuel. It's one of many feedback loops that ensure climate change inevitable. The only thing you can do is prepare for it.
You misuse the term "raster graphics", as that refers to bitmaps, not vector based real-time 3D rendering. Real-time ray-tracing has been around for almost two decades, but it wasn't mainstream until recently. As the parallel computational power of GPU increases, ray-tracing becomes the inevitable future.
If you are a misogynistic closed-minded racist xenophobe in favor of discrimination, do you have legal standing for facing discrimination?
Can you claim your discriminatory closed-minded xenophobic racism is something you're born with, not something you choose? Perhaps being xenophobe will become a protected status, and discrimination will be protected as freedom of expression? Is this what Damore is trying to accomplish? It's as dumb as him.
Back in the good old days, it took thousands of men picking in a field to make cotton, fifty percent of Americans were farmers. The cotton gin sure as hell ruined all that, then came all the rest of the automated farm equipment. Now, less than five percent of the population need to be farmers.
Agreed. The reason they're horribly inefficient is because programmers don't understand how to use javascript, so they end up using massive frameworks and libraries to do even the most basic things. http://vanilla-js.com/
About 2 billion will be going to Randall L. Stephenson. Another 2 billions will be distributed among the executive officers. The remaining 2.5 billion will slowly sublimate over 5 years. When the project is nowhere near completion after 5 years and the money runs dry, government will allocate another $4 billion dollars to the project. About 1/5th of that 4 billion will be used to build the actual communication network...
A capacitor is not a battery! They can fulfill the same need sometimes, but it's entirely different principle of operation. Next, the article is all about how lithium batteries suck, but doesn't talk about how this new capacitor compares to other capacitors or batteries. Before you can tell if this is useful at all or just junk, you have to know at least these four key metrics:
energy density per mass
energy density volume
power density per mass
power density per volume
The article is useless, doesn't list anything relevant.
I'll give two pennies: The whole social media craze is a giant pimple that's about to burst. Companies like twitter and facebook aren't worth nearly as much as people think they're worth. That's my two cents.
including hiking rates during peak hours with so-called surge pricing
Oh no he's charging more when the supply can't keep up with the demand! how dare he?! Reminds me of the Taiwanese flood that disabled hard drive factories, hard drive prices shot up because supply twiddled. How is that immoral (let alone illegal) in any way? It's completely benign, they should go after assholes like Marty Skreli instead, and assholes that profit only from arbitrage and asshole tactics.
I had cable TV for free for many years because my cable modem provider forgot to block cable TV when I signed up for just internet. Even though I was getting hundreds of channels for free, I just couldn't get myself to watch it. I'm not sure why anyone would pay for to watch that drivel.
I pay for Netflix now because I like the TV shows they have... but I still download the pirated versions of the TV shows even if Netflix has them just because I like the ability to click a file and have it instantly start playing without buffering or having to get it from a server, without having to worry about Network congestion.
They show the desk recline and the mouse stays attached to the mouse pad. It's either:
A. mouse glued down: useless
B. magnetic pad with enough friction to hold a mouse still (too much friction)
C. magic (aka lies)
Either way this doesn't seem useful. I wouldn't get one even if it was 1/50th of the cost. There are suckers out there who are willing to give it a try, that's why there are companies out there that make this junk and this is why God invented the "junk closet" - because that's where this contraption will go after roughly 5 hours of usage.
I can't find anywhere on this article... did he actually make this stupid clock or did he just disassemble a cots alarm clock and stick it the parts in a briefcase?
It sounds like the latter, because why would you make it plug-in if you're making your own alarm clock to go in a brief case?
"All life dying" is never going to happen. Life has survived on this planet through far worse cataclysmic events. And humans aren't about to go extinct anytime soon.
However, climate change has consequences. When climate shifts, fertile land becomes less fertile. When food runs out, there's famine. When there's famine there's disease and war.
Let's say it's a relatively small disruption, then only 1% of population dies off. That's not too bad? That's 70 million people. If you kill 70 people, you're a serial killer. If you kill 70 million people, you're a climate change denier.
You already pay the AG's salary as well as his business expenses and his medical/dental/vision through your taxes. You shouldn't have to illegally bribe him extra to have him do what's best for the general public that he's being legally paid to serve.
Serving someone other than the people who elect you and pay your salary needs to be tried as treason or at least heavily stigmatized. Unfortunately, it's not even frowned upon lately.
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They fought tooth and nail against every new technology... vhs, audio compression, video streaming ... that's how Netflix has become as valuable as Disney in one tenth of the time! These greedy assholes never learn: You catch more flies with honey. Long term business success is achieved by providing a valuable service to your customers! They only know to profit by treating customers like cattle. A short-sighted money grab never works in the end. RIAA/MPAA is just Kodak with a different name... refusing to change in a changing world like the Amish... at least the Amish aren't trying to keep everyone else in the dark ages!
This is actually part of a cycle: As temperature heats up, more people use their air conditioners which heat up the air even more, power central has to burn more fuel. It's one of many feedback loops that ensure climate change inevitable. The only thing you can do is prepare for it.
You misuse the term "raster graphics", as that refers to bitmaps, not vector based real-time 3D rendering. Real-time ray-tracing has been around for almost two decades, but it wasn't mainstream until recently. As the parallel computational power of GPU increases, ray-tracing becomes the inevitable future.
If you are a misogynistic closed-minded racist xenophobe in favor of discrimination, do you have legal standing for facing discrimination? Can you claim your discriminatory closed-minded xenophobic racism is something you're born with, not something you choose? Perhaps being xenophobe will become a protected status, and discrimination will be protected as freedom of expression? Is this what Damore is trying to accomplish? It's as dumb as him.
There are 22 million people who still have cable TV? Did they just forgot to cancel the subscription?
Back in the good old days, it took thousands of men picking in a field to make cotton, fifty percent of Americans were farmers. The cotton gin sure as hell ruined all that, then came all the rest of the automated farm equipment. Now, less than five percent of the population need to be farmers.
Agreed. The reason they're horribly inefficient is because programmers don't understand how to use javascript, so they end up using massive frameworks and libraries to do even the most basic things. http://vanilla-js.com/
Patent, Trademark, Copyright are 3 very different things.
gets charged for felony copyright violation.
Bitcoin ... the currency of criminals.
Just fire the nukes already!
more like Sigh... yet another "silicon valley startup" ... is this going to be like the $400 bag squeezer?
About 2 billion will be going to Randall L. Stephenson. Another 2 billions will be distributed among the executive officers. The remaining 2.5 billion will slowly sublimate over 5 years. When the project is nowhere near completion after 5 years and the money runs dry, government will allocate another $4 billion dollars to the project. About 1/5th of that 4 billion will be used to build the actual communication network...
Toshiba is still in business? What business are they in? I've not seen a Toshiba product in the past decade.
A capacitor is not a battery! They can fulfill the same need sometimes, but it's entirely different principle of operation. Next, the article is all about how lithium batteries suck, but doesn't talk about how this new capacitor compares to other capacitors or batteries. Before you can tell if this is useful at all or just junk, you have to know at least these four key metrics:
energy density per mass
energy density volume
power density per mass
power density per volume
The article is useless, doesn't list anything relevant.
I'll give two pennies: The whole social media craze is a giant pimple that's about to burst. Companies like twitter and facebook aren't worth nearly as much as people think they're worth. That's my two cents.
Facebook is the worst thing that happened to Oculus.
including hiking rates during peak hours with so-called surge pricing
Oh no he's charging more when the supply can't keep up with the demand! how dare he?! Reminds me of the Taiwanese flood that disabled hard drive factories, hard drive prices shot up because supply twiddled. How is that immoral (let alone illegal) in any way? It's completely benign, they should go after assholes like Marty Skreli instead, and assholes that profit only from arbitrage and asshole tactics.
Rent Seeking
I had cable TV for free for many years because my cable modem provider forgot to block cable TV when I signed up for just internet. Even though I was getting hundreds of channels for free, I just couldn't get myself to watch it. I'm not sure why anyone would pay for to watch that drivel.
I pay for Netflix now because I like the TV shows they have... but I still download the pirated versions of the TV shows even if Netflix has them just because I like the ability to click a file and have it instantly start playing without buffering or having to get it from a server, without having to worry about Network congestion.
They show the desk recline and the mouse stays attached to the mouse pad. It's either:
A. mouse glued down: useless
B. magnetic pad with enough friction to hold a mouse still (too much friction)
C. magic (aka lies)
Either way this doesn't seem useful. I wouldn't get one even if it was 1/50th of the cost. There are suckers out there who are willing to give it a try, that's why there are companies out there that make this junk and this is why God invented the "junk closet" - because that's where this contraption will go after roughly 5 hours of usage.
The new bent box design is a hint of what they think of their customers... "get bent."
I can't find anywhere on this article... did he actually make this stupid clock or did he just disassemble a cots alarm clock and stick it the parts in a briefcase? It sounds like the latter, because why would you make it plug-in if you're making your own alarm clock to go in a brief case?
"All life dying" is never going to happen. Life has survived on this planet through far worse cataclysmic events. And humans aren't about to go extinct anytime soon.
However, climate change has consequences. When climate shifts, fertile land becomes less fertile. When food runs out, there's famine. When there's famine there's disease and war.
Let's say it's a relatively small disruption, then only 1% of population dies off. That's not too bad? That's 70 million people. If you kill 70 people, you're a serial killer. If you kill 70 million people, you're a climate change denier.
You already pay the AG's salary as well as his business expenses and his medical/dental/vision through your taxes. You shouldn't have to illegally bribe him extra to have him do what's best for the general public that he's being legally paid to serve.
Serving someone other than the people who elect you and pay your salary needs to be tried as treason or at least heavily stigmatized. Unfortunately, it's not even frowned upon lately.