Yet the actual data says the number of computer science graduates in the US is higher than its ever been. (Though it did dip for a decade following the dot-com bubble).
The contention that airlines would somehow save money by reducing padding is clearly wrong, as if that were the case, they would have done it. The airline industry is competitive and like any competitive industry, it's in their interests to make as much money as possible.
TFA also leaves out a major difference between now and the 1960s- the number of airline flights is massively higher. This makes coordination in both airports and in the air much more difficult and provides many more opportunities for a problem somewhere in this complex system to cascade into delays affecting many flights
Cats can be trained just as well as dogs, it's just a lot harder to do because they lack a pack instinct to follow a leader. I've seen a circus act with a dozen trained cats climbing, jumping, performing tricks.
I don't get what's so hard to understand. You own game X on PC. Let's say you bought it on PC because the graphics are better and the options are better. You want to play said game on your couch occasionally. You don't want to run new wiring through your house.
Or an even better use case- you have emulators on PC (which are banned on the XBox Store), and you want to play them in the living room like they were designed for.
You mean besides not starting two world wars and nearly annihilating ourselves, right? And inventing a large portion of the gizmos that drive the modern world?
I guess you didn't go to an Ivy League school or never worked with someone who went to one. I didn't go to one but nearly every person I've worked with who has gone to one has been extremely bright and hard working. And the overwhelming vast majority do not end up in "very rewarding very light duty sinecures, risk free jobs..."
The whole point of Ivy League is that it suggests a high level of rigor in the course work that only the hardest working and smartest people will be able to complete.
Yes, having family that went to an Ivy League school helps acceptance but it does not help you get good grades or pass classes. As an example, look at George W Bush. He got into Yale because his family is as close to aristocracy as it gets in the United States, yet he managed to only barely graduate with a 2.35 out of 4.00 GPA (the equivalent of a C).
Your spiel sounds like a nice conspiracy theory (though you did forget to mention Illuminati anywhere), but I don't think it has much basis in reality.
To be fair, the application of sandpaper and file in the video were very light and wholly unscientific. I don't think lightly grazing the coating with sandpaper a few times is a really good indicator of its durability.
He is completely right. We are nothing but biological machines. Our brains are not some form of magic, they are corporeal organs with advantages and limitations. Barring some kind of cataclysm, it is inevitable that humans will one day design something as good or better than our own intelligence. Whether this takes 50 years, 100 years, or 1000 years is irrelevant; it remains almost a certainty.
And when that happens what role is left for humanity? If we don't self-evolve to integrate our technology into ourselves we will become pointless.
Will there be opposition? Of course. But as others have pointed out we're already installing technology into ourselves. Medical uses are how this sort of thing will slowly become acceptable. Say artificial eyes are invented. Will people really stand in the way of restoring sight to the blind? Of course not. And then what happens when those artificial eyes are superior to human eyes? Soon some sighted people will replace their healthy eyes. And before you know it, human augmentation has become acceptable.
I've always thought Star Trek had it backwards- the Borg, not the Federation, is much closer to what humankind's future will likely look like.
I honestly do not understand why GIMP gets so much hate. Is it a little awkward to use? Yes, but so is Photoshop if you don't know how to use it. Is it less feature rich than Photoshop? Absolutely.
But it's also 100% cheaper and sufficient for the majority of casual image editing.
How disheartening is it to see Slashdot of all places shit all over the FOSS alternative to Photoshop.
I've worked in a company where GPAs strongly influenced hiring decisions (yes, even after years in the workforce). At that company myself and most of my colleagues had 3.5+ GPAs from top universities. I've also worked at companies where GPA and school meant zero towards the hiring process.
The difference in the quality of personnel was stark. At the high GPA company everyone was incredibly smart, hard working, and overachieving. At the anything-goes companies, *some* people are smart and hard working, but most are just there to clock in their 9-5, get their paycheck, and put in the minimal amount of effort along the way that they can without being fired.
What makes Alexa so special here? Should Dell and every other OEM also pay Wikipedia money because I can use their computers to visit Wikipedia? And what about phone manufacturers? I guess they should pony up too.
So Google engineers are so outraged that their company works with the DoD that they stage protests, petitions and resignations. But working with the Chinese government, one of the world's foremost oppressors of human rights, is fine with them.
The hypocrisy and hatred for their own country above all else by many on the American left is stunning.
"But people routinely do not hire the best people - they hire the people they are most comfortable with and who by and large look the most like themselves."
If this statement were true tech companies wouldn't have such huge amount of ethnically Asian employees. And indeed, intentionally limit the amounts of them that they hire.
Of course, Asians are a "minority" whose culture strongly values education and hard work and this results in their success in entering engineering fields. But of course, this reality doesn't jive with the left's fantasy storyline of "systemic oppression" so it's always ignored.
10% of 4 billion is not 600 million to 1 billion. And they've almost certainly already made their money back that they invested in purchasing the rights. (And you shouldn't rely on index funds always returning that- past performance does not guarantee future results!:)
They just need to find the right balance between budgeting their crappy movies and churning out from the assembly line at the right pace to keep profits steady and the shareholders happy. The balance they've reached with Marvel.
There is no reason these movies should cost anywhere near what they spent on Solo. The stories for these movies could easily be written by a computer because they all use the exact same cookie cutter Save the Cat! plot beats. And the special effects are almost entirely CGI now anyway, so the costs of that should be a fraction of what doing physical stunts costs. It's just plain mismanagement that resulted in this loss.
Badly written? Lucas is a poor director and he can't write dialog but his stories are fantastic, which is why Star Wars and Indiana Jones became the behemoths they are.
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Yet the actual data says the number of computer science graduates in the US is higher than its ever been. (Though it did dip for a decade following the dot-com bubble).
https://docs.google.com/spread...
Source: NCES
You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up!
It's cute that you think the US intelligence apparatus can charge people with crimes.
The contention that airlines would somehow save money by reducing padding is clearly wrong, as if that were the case, they would have done it. The airline industry is competitive and like any competitive industry, it's in their interests to make as much money as possible.
TFA also leaves out a major difference between now and the 1960s- the number of airline flights is massively higher. This makes coordination in both airports and in the air much more difficult and provides many more opportunities for a problem somewhere in this complex system to cascade into delays affecting many flights
This is the UN budget hard at work for you. Paying for absurd proposals that any decent high school science student could tear to shreds.
Cats can be trained just as well as dogs, it's just a lot harder to do because they lack a pack instinct to follow a leader. I've seen a circus act with a dozen trained cats climbing, jumping, performing tricks.
Seems irrational to me.
I don't get what's so hard to understand. You own game X on PC. Let's say you bought it on PC because the graphics are better and the options are better. You want to play said game on your couch occasionally. You don't want to run new wiring through your house.
Or an even better use case- you have emulators on PC (which are banned on the XBox Store), and you want to play them in the living room like they were designed for.
"The one thing the USA did better."
You mean besides not starting two world wars and nearly annihilating ourselves, right? And inventing a large portion of the gizmos that drive the modern world?
I guess you didn't go to an Ivy League school or never worked with someone who went to one. I didn't go to one but nearly every person I've worked with who has gone to one has been extremely bright and hard working. And the overwhelming vast majority do not end up in "very rewarding very light duty sinecures, risk free jobs..."
The whole point of Ivy League is that it suggests a high level of rigor in the course work that only the hardest working and smartest people will be able to complete.
Yes, having family that went to an Ivy League school helps acceptance but it does not help you get good grades or pass classes. As an example, look at George W Bush. He got into Yale because his family is as close to aristocracy as it gets in the United States, yet he managed to only barely graduate with a 2.35 out of 4.00 GPA (the equivalent of a C).
Your spiel sounds like a nice conspiracy theory (though you did forget to mention Illuminati anywhere), but I don't think it has much basis in reality.
To be fair, the application of sandpaper and file in the video were very light and wholly unscientific. I don't think lightly grazing the coating with sandpaper a few times is a really good indicator of its durability.
He is completely right. We are nothing but biological machines. Our brains are not some form of magic, they are corporeal organs with advantages and limitations. Barring some kind of cataclysm, it is inevitable that humans will one day design something as good or better than our own intelligence. Whether this takes 50 years, 100 years, or 1000 years is irrelevant; it remains almost a certainty.
And when that happens what role is left for humanity? If we don't self-evolve to integrate our technology into ourselves we will become pointless.
Will there be opposition? Of course. But as others have pointed out we're already installing technology into ourselves. Medical uses are how this sort of thing will slowly become acceptable. Say artificial eyes are invented. Will people really stand in the way of restoring sight to the blind? Of course not. And then what happens when those artificial eyes are superior to human eyes? Soon some sighted people will replace their healthy eyes. And before you know it, human augmentation has become acceptable.
I've always thought Star Trek had it backwards- the Borg, not the Federation, is much closer to what humankind's future will likely look like.
Hollywood needs to move on from the superhero genre entirely. It was overdone fifteen years ago.
FTFY
I honestly do not understand why GIMP gets so much hate.
Is it a little awkward to use? Yes, but so is Photoshop if you don't know how to use it. Is it less feature rich than Photoshop? Absolutely.
But it's also 100% cheaper and sufficient for the majority of casual image editing.
How disheartening is it to see Slashdot of all places shit all over the FOSS alternative to Photoshop.
If you RTFA you would see the blog post specifically call out the ability to do smart colorization of inked drawings.
I've worked in a company where GPAs strongly influenced hiring decisions (yes, even after years in the workforce). At that company myself and most of my colleagues had 3.5+ GPAs from top universities. I've also worked at companies where GPA and school meant zero towards the hiring process.
The difference in the quality of personnel was stark. At the high GPA company everyone was incredibly smart, hard working, and overachieving. At the anything-goes companies, *some* people are smart and hard working, but most are just there to clock in their 9-5, get their paycheck, and put in the minimal amount of effort along the way that they can without being fired.
What you think is wrong. The Federal Reserve explicitly state on its website that businesses are not required to accept cash.
https://www.federalreserve.gov...
What makes Alexa so special here? Should Dell and every other OEM also pay Wikipedia money because I can use their computers to visit Wikipedia? And what about phone manufacturers? I guess they should pony up too.
Azure's SQL Data Warehouse can scale horizontally- that's one of its biggest features. So your claim about needing NoSQL to do so is not true.
I can't speak as to what Google and Amazon's similar products are but I expect they have some.
So Google engineers are so outraged that their company works with the DoD that they stage protests, petitions and resignations. But working with the Chinese government, one of the world's foremost oppressors of human rights, is fine with them.
The hypocrisy and hatred for their own country above all else by many on the American left is stunning.
"But people routinely do not hire the best people - they hire the people they are most comfortable with and who by and large look the most like themselves."
If this statement were true tech companies wouldn't have such huge amount of ethnically Asian employees. And indeed, intentionally limit the amounts of them that they hire.
Of course, Asians are a "minority" whose culture strongly values education and hard work and this results in their success in entering engineering fields. But of course, this reality doesn't jive with the left's fantasy storyline of "systemic oppression" so it's always ignored.
It may have been a Master Debater, but its Israeli opponents were Cunning Linguists.
10% of 4 billion is not 600 million to 1 billion. And they've almost certainly already made their money back that they invested in purchasing the rights. (And you shouldn't rely on index funds always returning that- past performance does not guarantee future results! :)
They just need to find the right balance between budgeting their crappy movies and churning out from the assembly line at the right pace to keep profits steady and the shareholders happy. The balance they've reached with Marvel.
There is no reason these movies should cost anywhere near what they spent on Solo. The stories for these movies could easily be written by a computer because they all use the exact same cookie cutter Save the Cat! plot beats. And the special effects are almost entirely CGI now anyway, so the costs of that should be a fraction of what doing physical stunts costs. It's just plain mismanagement that resulted in this loss.
Badly written? Lucas is a poor director and he can't write dialog but his stories are fantastic, which is why Star Wars and Indiana Jones became the behemoths they are.
Apparently this journalist never attended PDC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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