Subscribe Subscribe Subscribe! Everything a subscription! Everything an ongoing revenue stream! Lock people in, charge them forever, everything, everywhere, everywhen! Keep them paying! Continue to innovate? That's just not a practical ongoing business model.
The Alien hardware seems pretty swell, but with Steam requiring internet I'm not sure it gets my seal of approval. The other day I went to play L4D2 for the first time in years, and upon startup it informed me that it would take an hour and a half to update, I was like "Abalone!" and killed it. But I'm hooked on indy games. I don't think an expensive unit like this would reel me in, but I've kept a cheaper computer in my living room for years now.
"The economy was heading to a recession when Bush was elected. He lowered taxes to bring it back up."
I remember when Bush (the second) was trying to push the tax cuts. The initial take was that there was going to be a big surplus. Bush's response was that we should cut taxes to return that money to the people. Then the economy turned down and the surplus evaporated. Bush's response was that we should cut taxes to stimulate the economy. What I took from this is that Bush's support for tax cuts had nothing to do with the state of the economy.
Super cool app to change the color temp of your computer screen automatically toward red in the evening so that you can go to sleep. I run it and I normally don't even notice it in action. As it gets dark outside the colors still look correct. But I don't feel like my eyes get burned by the computer at night.
They won't rest until the web is like television. Unidirectional, full of corporate messaging, highly polished emptiness. Think back to the web in the late 1990's. They're already 80% of the way there.
"I'm sure New York has deeper pockets and can afford more than the small jurisdiction I work for, but in our case camera footage ends up deleted for very practical reasons: storage space."
Therein lies the rub, my friend. 'We needn't consider this case because it isn't possible' leads to a creeping precedent that allows it. You don't have a right to not be recorded every time you go out in public why? Because it wasn't possible when the founding fathers were codifying rights. Had they read Orwell or seen what the paparazzi were capable of maybe it would have turned out differently, but that wasn't possible.
1) we just have a security camera by the register, in case something happens, but it's not like they're everywere. 2) ok, cameras are a lot cheaper, so they are everywhere, but it's not like we can keep the data for long 3) ok, storage is getting really cheap, so we can keep the data for a long time, but it's not like we can really process that much data to mine personal info about you. 4) ok, so google actually can process all that data and mine personal information, but they can't link it to your phone to identify -- oh. uh. nevermind what I just said there... Look at these coupons that we have special for you! Coupons are nothing like oppression. That could never happen.
I recently had a though about how society values women and sex... Totally unrelated to TFA...
Consider that a large percentage of women used to die in childbirth. Also that sex causes pregnancy. Therefore sex causes women to die.
Natural conclusions (for people of the time) are that sex is bad, or that women are flawed / weak / worthless. Both of these we see in some prominent value systems from the past.
Happily, unwanted pregnancy and death in childbirth are way down from historical levels. Presuming the politicians don't screw up health care and access to birth control perhaps we can outgrow these attitudes about sex and women also.
This is pretty sweet. I'll bet you could get all sorts of insight about a life in this fashion. But what are the chances that (the average) someone will be able to gather this data and run the analysis and then keep the resulting insight under their own control? What are the chances that this data could be used by a person to improve their quality of life, as opposed to used by a corporation to more effectively vacuum up the money and utility people shed?
Well, anything you plug into the wall will use the electrical grid as an antenna. If your car doesn't plug in it's got an advantage over your computer.
Man, I stretch every morning. I stretch my achillies and hamstrings, and lower back. I had some issues with plantar fasciitis, and the stretching has really helped there. I don't know that it would help to prevent injury, I do it to maintain flexibility. So I say it's not a con. =)
Faster than any Pre1990 Porsche? Yes, I guess so. That would be pretty impressive if it were 1990. Really, 4.4s is still very impressive, for any car. But...
There are a lot of Porsche 911 variants out there. A large fraction of the modern ones list sub 4.4s times.
(0-60 times often have largeish error bars)
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BTW, you have that exactly backwards.
hmmm I'm not sure he does? Consider:
At 30 feet depth, you need to handle a 14psi differential This is your own statement, and (without checking your actual #) it's true, because water is so heavy (massive). But change your depth 30 ft in the atmosphere and there is relatively little pressure difference. You can go up and down in an elevator all day and you won't explode. This is because air is so light (lacking mass).
The GP's point - I think - is that if you have a 30 foot tall underwater structure filled with pressurized gas, the pressure created by the water will be (by your number) 14psi greater at the bottom part than at the top part. But because the gas pressure differential is much less variant by depth the gas pressure at the top is the same as at the bottom. So you actually have to worry about blowing out the top of your open-on-the-bottom underwater highrise. There goes the whole 0 psi differential idea, but in the opposite direction one might expect. Maybe an easier problem to deal with (if you keep your structure squat), but still something to make sure the engineers account for.
In all fairness, there is a heck of a lot more value in software than in hardware.
You know why? Artificial scarcity. The more America decides to make it's economy around software, the more software patents we're going to need to set up and defend. Don't Copy That Floppy! I've got a patent on 1-click checkout nobody else can do it! Get used that, if you want an economy based on software.
And in other news, this is one of the very very rare piece of wisdom to make it up the front page of slashdot in a long time.
This is a terrible idea. Manufacturing requires tooling and raw materials. And at the end is a physical thing that needs to be sent to wherever it is needed. And that all got sent overseas! All software needs is a computer. Oh, sure, and the knowledge to program it. The USA has an advantage there today, but there's no reason for it to persist. We have a head start over the Chinese, but they're not stupid. They'll have to transition from their cheap labor model to a well-educated labor model to become a software power. That's coming.
Easier than trying to control ideas (which is all software is anyway), would be to abandon the free trade that has moved out all our manufacturing anyway. Objects are easier to control than ideas. Taxes on imports would bring manufacturing back, and would also cut the power of international corporations over our government. It would be a huge change, and not an easy one. I think we'd be healthier for it though.
There's no need to create matter out of pure energy. All that is necessary is to re-arrange it from something you don't want into whatever it is that you do want. Non-trivial, so be sure, but nothing like E=MC^2 would suggest.
Let the TSA and police do their jobs without having to equally check everyone so we can pretend like terrorists don't all come from the same background.
How about we let the TSA fuck right off and we leave the issue to previous security measures augmented with secured pilot cabins and increased air marshal activity?
Holy crap teens want to do something to establish intimacy! WHATEVER IT IS IT MUST STOP!!!1!
For realz all of my account password resets point at my email account! Like banking! And billpay! And paypal! And my credit cards! These teens are setting themselves up to ruin their HUGE and HIGHLY INVOLVED financial structures that they don't have.
Whatevs. TFA has no actual criticism other than your messy breakup might be messy. Whoa drama in teen romance LOOK OUT.
If sharing passwords creates the intimacy and allows teens to forgo ACTUALLY DANGEROUS behavior then go for it. Beats the hell out of getting a tattoo. Just change your password when you break up. Before your SO changes it out from under you...
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As we continue to optimize, society will become less tolerant of sub-optimal behavior.
Ding Dongs, on the other hand, are fantastic.
Subscribe Subscribe Subscribe! Everything a subscription! Everything an ongoing revenue stream! Lock people in, charge them forever, everything, everywhere, everywhen! Keep them paying! Continue to innovate? That's just not a practical ongoing business model.
Ha! My Dreamcast still works, and I still play SoulCalibur on it. Any guesses how long XB1 will continue to function after MS end-of-life's it?
The Alien hardware seems pretty swell, but with Steam requiring internet I'm not sure it gets my seal of approval. The other day I went to play L4D2 for the first time in years, and upon startup it informed me that it would take an hour and a half to update, I was like "Abalone!" and killed it. But I'm hooked on indy games. I don't think an expensive unit like this would reel me in, but I've kept a cheaper computer in my living room for years now.
"The economy was heading to a recession when Bush was elected. He lowered taxes to bring it back up."
I remember when Bush (the second) was trying to push the tax cuts. The initial take was that there was going to be a big surplus. Bush's response was that we should cut taxes to return that money to the people. Then the economy turned down and the surplus evaporated. Bush's response was that we should cut taxes to stimulate the economy. What I took from this is that Bush's support for tax cuts had nothing to do with the state of the economy.
Hmmm, mine has a an option for transition speed, fast is 20 seconds, slow is 60 min.
Light up alarm clocks are the bomb.
Try This:
http://stereopsis.com/flux/
Super cool app to change the color temp of your computer screen automatically toward red in the evening so that you can go to sleep. I run it and I normally don't even notice it in action. As it gets dark outside the colors still look correct. But I don't feel like my eyes get burned by the computer at night.
It's way cool.
They won't rest until the web is like television. Unidirectional, full of corporate messaging, highly polished emptiness. Think back to the web in the late 1990's. They're already 80% of the way there.
"I'm sure New York has deeper pockets and can afford more than the small jurisdiction I work for, but in our case camera footage ends up deleted for very practical reasons: storage space."
Therein lies the rub, my friend. 'We needn't consider this case because it isn't possible' leads to a creeping precedent that allows it. You don't have a right to not be recorded every time you go out in public why? Because it wasn't possible when the founding fathers were codifying rights. Had they read Orwell or seen what the paparazzi were capable of maybe it would have turned out differently, but that wasn't possible.
1) we just have a security camera by the register, in case something happens, but it's not like they're everywere.
2) ok, cameras are a lot cheaper, so they are everywhere, but it's not like we can keep the data for long
3) ok, storage is getting really cheap, so we can keep the data for a long time, but it's not like we can really process that much data to mine personal info about you.
4) ok, so google actually can process all that data and mine personal information, but they can't link it to your phone to identify -- oh. uh. nevermind what I just said there... Look at these coupons that we have special for you! Coupons are nothing like oppression. That could never happen.
How many rot-13 widgets on the web will be /.'d today?
I recently had a though about how society values women and sex... Totally unrelated to TFA...
Consider that a large percentage of women used to die in childbirth. Also that sex causes pregnancy. Therefore sex causes women to die.
Natural conclusions (for people of the time) are that sex is bad, or that women are flawed / weak / worthless. Both of these we see in some prominent value systems from the past.
Happily, unwanted pregnancy and death in childbirth are way down from historical levels. Presuming the politicians don't screw up health care and access to birth control perhaps we can outgrow these attitudes about sex and women also.
This is pretty sweet. I'll bet you could get all sorts of insight about a life in this fashion. But what are the chances that (the average) someone will be able to gather this data and run the analysis and then keep the resulting insight under their own control? What are the chances that this data could be used by a person to improve their quality of life, as opposed to used by a corporation to more effectively vacuum up the money and utility people shed?
Well, anything you plug into the wall will use the electrical grid as an antenna. If your car doesn't plug in it's got an advantage over your computer.
Man, I stretch every morning. I stretch my achillies and hamstrings, and lower back. I had some issues with plantar fasciitis, and the stretching has really helped there. I don't know that it would help to prevent injury, I do it to maintain flexibility. So I say it's not a con. =)
Faster that which porsche 911?
http://www.zeroto60times.com/Porsche-0-60-mph-Times.html
Faster than any Pre1990 Porsche? Yes, I guess so. That would be pretty impressive if it were 1990. Really, 4.4s is still very impressive, for any car. But...
1993 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6 0-60 mph 4.3 Quarter mile 12.5
1995 Porsche 911 Turbo 0-60 mph 3.8 Quarter mile 12.3
1997 Porsche 911 Turbo 0-60 mph 3.6 Quarter mile 12.1
1997 Porsche RUF CTR-2 0-60 mph 3.4 Quarter mile11.2
2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S 0-60 mph 2.9 Quarter Mile 10.6
There are a lot of Porsche 911 variants out there. A large fraction of the modern ones list sub 4.4s times.
(0-60 times often have largeish error bars)
BTW, you have that exactly backwards.
hmmm I'm not sure he does? Consider:
At 30 feet depth, you need to handle a 14psi differential
This is your own statement, and (without checking your actual #) it's true, because water is so heavy (massive). But change your depth 30 ft in the atmosphere and there is relatively little pressure difference. You can go up and down in an elevator all day and you won't explode. This is because air is so light (lacking mass).
The GP's point - I think - is that if you have a 30 foot tall underwater structure filled with pressurized gas, the pressure created by the water will be (by your number) 14psi greater at the bottom part than at the top part. But because the gas pressure differential is much less variant by depth the gas pressure at the top is the same as at the bottom. So you actually have to worry about blowing out the top of your open-on-the-bottom underwater highrise. There goes the whole 0 psi differential idea, but in the opposite direction one might expect. Maybe an easier problem to deal with (if you keep your structure squat), but still something to make sure the engineers account for.
Unless I've got it all wrong?
In all fairness, there is a heck of a lot more value in software than in hardware.
You know why? Artificial scarcity. The more America decides to make it's economy around software, the more software patents we're going to need to set up and defend. Don't Copy That Floppy! I've got a patent on 1-click checkout nobody else can do it! Get used that, if you want an economy based on software.
And in other news, this is one of the very very rare piece of wisdom to make it up the front page of slashdot in a long time.
This is a terrible idea. Manufacturing requires tooling and raw materials. And at the end is a physical thing that needs to be sent to wherever it is needed. And that all got sent overseas! All software needs is a computer. Oh, sure, and the knowledge to program it. The USA has an advantage there today, but there's no reason for it to persist. We have a head start over the Chinese, but they're not stupid. They'll have to transition from their cheap labor model to a well-educated labor model to become a software power. That's coming.
Easier than trying to control ideas (which is all software is anyway), would be to abandon the free trade that has moved out all our manufacturing anyway. Objects are easier to control than ideas. Taxes on imports would bring manufacturing back, and would also cut the power of international corporations over our government. It would be a huge change, and not an easy one. I think we'd be healthier for it though.
There's no need to create matter out of pure energy. All that is necessary is to re-arrange it from something you don't want into whatever it is that you do want. Non-trivial, so be sure, but nothing like E=MC^2 would suggest.
TSA's previous actions are relevant here...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/24/rape-victim-arrested-refusing-tsa-pat/
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/11/it-begins-us-passenger-arrested-for-refusing-tsa-screening-process-then-paraded-through-airport-in-his-underwear/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014331/Mother-attitude-arrested-refusing-TSA-pat-daughter.html
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-20/business/sfl-airport-scans-pat-downs-refual-20101121_1_tsa-airport-checkpoint-sari-koshetz
etc..
Let the TSA and police do their jobs without having to equally check everyone so we can pretend like terrorists don't all come from the same background.
How about we let the TSA fuck right off and we leave the issue to previous security measures augmented with secured pilot cabins and increased air marshal activity?
Of course, if he wasn't a senator he probably would have been arrested for refusing to complete the security process.
This this this.
See:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/24/rape-victim-arrested-refusing-tsa-pat/
additionally...
https://www.google.com/search?q=arrested+for+refusing+tsa&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Holy crap teens want to do something to establish intimacy! WHATEVER IT IS IT MUST STOP!!!1!
For realz all of my account password resets point at my email account! Like banking! And billpay! And paypal! And my credit cards! These teens are setting themselves up to ruin their HUGE and HIGHLY INVOLVED financial structures that they don't have.
Whatevs. TFA has no actual criticism other than your messy breakup might be messy. Whoa drama in teen romance LOOK OUT.
If sharing passwords creates the intimacy and allows teens to forgo ACTUALLY DANGEROUS behavior then go for it. Beats the hell out of getting a tattoo. Just change your password when you break up. Before your SO changes it out from under you...
I don't know about Ireland, but the labor market around here couldn't take the termination of all those construction laborers.
Indy gaming is why to stick with the PC. It's inexpensive and user-centric, compared to $60+ DRM'd AAA titles.