I replied, "We could change it now. Robots are doing all the work. Human beings -- all human beings -- could now be on perpetual vacation. That's what bugs me. If society had been designed for it somehow, we could all be on vacation instead of on welfare. Everyone on the planet could be living in luxury. Instead, they are planning to kill us off. Did you hear that women were trying to drink the water out of the river? Some people think they're putting contraceptives in the water."
Whenever you set off to do something like "setting up an internal corporate Intranet site", you should always be very clear about your answer to this question: "Why are we doing this?" As in, what problem are we solving? How do we actually imagine this being used?
That sounds like it might make a good first post for your wall.
I have a repository for a project that's been going on for a few years and has a few hundred photos of whiteboards. Trying to find one is almost impossible because there's no full-text search for photos of whiteboards.
Isn't that exactly what Evernote is supposed to be able to do?
Dave Barry described this in some 'detail' (from Bad Habits):
What we are in is a recession. The key economic indicator of a recession is that government economists go around announcing that the economy is improving. The truth, of course, is that government economists don't have the slightest notion what the economy is doing; if they did, they would have decent jobs. But they keep trying. Every few days they come out with some economic statistic and attempt to explain it, using charts and pointers, to the news media:
["press release" omitted]
Government economists are always hopeful, for two reasons:
They have jobs.
If they aren't hopeful, the President wil fire them.
So government economists go around with big smiles on their faces all the time. For the past thirty years, presidents increased spending and deficits like clockwork, and the government economists smiled. Then Ronald Reagan said he was against big spending and deficits, and the government economists smiled. Now it turns out that spending and deficits are still going up, and the government economists are still smiling. Phyllis George would be a good government economist.
Think about it this way, if you are getting changed in your room and have very poor / no curtains at all then you can't or shouldn't be allowed to complain when someone see's you naked.
Exactly! Under no circumstances should they be allowed to complain... oh wait, never mind.
And I figure replacing a broken LiDAR unit would be a lot more expensive than replacing a couple of slashed tires.
Not knowing anything about LiDAR, my first assumption was that it was pretty much like any mass-produced electronic system -- a few printed circuit boards and a power supply, and with enough sensors and emitters on it, may not even need any moving parts. Or is that wrong?
At least attempt to consistently fake representing oneself as a woman
Must attend class in drag
90% or greater attendance rate
Must attend all three months of classes
If you meet the above requirements, we'll assume you want the training badly enough and will be eligible for attendance and reimbursement of deposit upon completion.
Maybe if the ban had been in place and functional for a few years before such a ruling, people would have gotten used to smaller sized non-diet soda drinks anyway, and food service businesses would come up with a way to accommodate the new rules.
At a minimum, it would have brought the issue right to the fast-food counter that the health issues were big enough to consider taking action on.
the newborn universe would appear as a Big Bang, the Higgs field would become overloaded with an energetic inflationary period, and the whole lot would vanish in a blink of an eye.
You're apparently about ten years behind the times. But considering history probably repeats itself, you're likely also about ten years ahead of the times.
Software developer Vijay Pandurangan did just that, and in less than two hours he had completely de-anonymized all 173 million entries.
Having thereby run afoul of the circumvention of copyright protection mechanisms clause of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, he was then subjected to the NYPD's controversial new program, and subsequently incarcerated.
I read this, and thought, "Wait, I'm currently playing this in simulationâ¦" It's sad that this is manner in which life has chosen to imitate art. It also raises the question, "Did the researchers see the game and decide to try it? Is the game really a covert proof-of-concept? Or is this *really* just a coincidence? (Go away you nutty conspiracy theorists!)"
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Or in this case, with unintentionally accurate simulations.
The weird thing about this is that other than its verbosity, it sounds like something a corporate IP lawyer at a company might write to another one, and that a Justice at any level would find perfectly reasonable, even ordinary, in the arena of law.
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I replied, "We could change it now. Robots are doing all the work. Human beings -- all human beings -- could now be on perpetual vacation. That's what bugs me. If society had been designed for it somehow, we could all be on vacation instead of on welfare. Everyone on the planet could be living in luxury. Instead, they are planning to kill us off. Did you hear that women were trying to drink the water out of the river? Some people think they're putting contraceptives in the water."
From Manna.
The questions, I mean.
Whenever you set off to do something like "setting up an internal corporate Intranet site", you should always be very clear about your answer to this question: "Why are we doing this?" As in, what problem are we solving? How do we actually imagine this being used?
That sounds like it might make a good first post for your wall.
I have a repository for a project that's been going on for a few years and has a few hundred photos of whiteboards. Trying to find one is almost impossible because there's no full-text search for photos of whiteboards.
Isn't that exactly what Evernote is supposed to be able to do?
Dave Barry described this in some 'detail' (from Bad Habits):
What we are in is a recession. The key economic indicator of a recession is that government economists go around announcing that the economy is improving. The truth, of course, is that government economists don't have the slightest notion what the economy is doing; if they did, they would have decent jobs. But they keep trying. Every few days they come out with some economic statistic and attempt to explain it, using charts and pointers, to the news media:
["press release" omitted]
Government economists are always hopeful, for two reasons:
So government economists go around with big smiles on their faces all the time. For the past thirty years, presidents increased spending and deficits like clockwork, and the government economists smiled. Then Ronald Reagan said he was against big spending and deficits, and the government economists smiled. Now it turns out that spending and deficits are still going up, and the government economists are still smiling. Phyllis George would be a good government economist.
I totally hear what you're saying.
Think about it this way, if you are getting changed in your room and have very poor / no curtains at all then you can't or shouldn't be allowed to complain when someone see's you naked.
Exactly! Under no circumstances should they be allowed to complain ... oh wait, never mind.
Whatever the truth turns out to be I suspect it will be fascinating!
Or terrifying. Or both!
And I figure replacing a broken LiDAR unit would be a lot more expensive than replacing a couple of slashed tires.
Not knowing anything about LiDAR, my first assumption was that it was pretty much like any mass-produced electronic system -- a few printed circuit boards and a power supply, and with enough sensors and emitters on it, may not even need any moving parts. Or is that wrong?
In their defense, they were probably developing the show in 2010, about a far-future dystopia ... the year 2014.
Minimum requirements:
If you meet the above requirements, we'll assume you want the training badly enough and will be eligible for attendance and reimbursement of deposit upon completion.
Or perhaps in an even more sinister vein, that it's not their blimp?
Maybe if the ban had been in place and functional for a few years before such a ruling, people would have gotten used to smaller sized non-diet soda drinks anyway, and food service businesses would come up with a way to accommodate the new rules.
At a minimum, it would have brought the issue right to the fast-food counter that the health issues were big enough to consider taking action on.
I mean, imagine you're good looking, would you want to join a club that only lets beautiful people join?
That's the kind of question only a nerd would ask. Seriously, did you even attend high school?
Well, it may not be all that universally useful.
Buy some hardware and provide scholarships in Software Engineering in MMORPG design and implementation?
the newborn universe would appear as a Big Bang, the Higgs field would become overloaded with an energetic inflationary period, and the whole lot would vanish in a blink of an eye.
Thanks, Obama!
No need -- heesa the narrator on your audio tour.
Let me get that down ... Anna Brown ... ok, the no-fly list is now one entry longer.
WTF. This world no longer makes any sense to me.
You're apparently about ten years behind the times. But considering history probably repeats itself, you're likely also about ten years ahead of the times.
Software developer Vijay Pandurangan did just that, and in less than two hours he had completely de-anonymized all 173 million entries.
Having thereby run afoul of the circumvention of copyright protection mechanisms clause of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, he was then subjected to the NYPD's controversial new program, and subsequently incarcerated.
They don't have to outsource to a foreign country. Although in this case, that might explain a few things.
And you know what they say, whenever you start using new software, you're gonna get some hop-ons.
I read this, and thought, "Wait, I'm currently playing this in simulationâ¦" It's sad that this is manner in which life has chosen to imitate art. It also raises the question, "Did the researchers see the game and decide to try it? Is the game really a covert proof-of-concept? Or is this *really* just a coincidence? (Go away you nutty conspiracy theorists!)"
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Or in this case, with unintentionally accurate simulations.
The weird thing about this is that other than its verbosity, it sounds like something a corporate IP lawyer at a company might write to another one, and that a Justice at any level would find perfectly reasonable, even ordinary, in the arena of law.