That's probably what he is afraid of: people still drive horses and carts for fun, but they are relegated to minor roads. Like horses, humans will not be able to keep up with what comes next: self driving cars. Imagine a special "diamond lane" for autonomous cars: you could have those cars do 180km/h and follow each other really closely, but a human would have no business driving in that lane. Then, those lanes are expanded and highways may (or may not) be left with a single "slow poke" lane for human drivers. Then come intersections without traffic lights, etc... At some point it will be too dangerous or too disruptive to let human-driven cars onto the highways and major thoroughfares in town.
Yeah, I think you're right.
We will soon reach a point where human-driven vehicles are no longer allowed on roadways because we're not as good as the computer driving the car.
The existing automobile is responsible for untold waste and pollution and deaths, but it is also responsible for much of the quality of life which allowed us to develop the technology to build autonomous vehicles. The horse and buggy had to be invented before the steel mill could be invented, before the car, before the TV set, before the computer, and therefore the autonomous car. One innovation fuels the next in some way.
We did teach machines how to drive. They still only have their learner's permit, but with a little practice, they will exceed human drivers by any measure.
Except one: only humans will understand the beauty of the machine under their direct control, the thrum of the engine, the instant response of thousands of pounds of steel to the touch of your finger or your foot on the pedal. It's visceral.
I've lamented before that today's kids don't know about the tactile experience of choosing their music, putting a cassette in the deck and fast-forwarding to find it. Now, we click on the song we want to hear. Some people are resisting; look at the resurgence of vinyl. You appreciate watching television much more when this is how you watch 480i than you do by clicking a Netflix or YouTube video. Likewise, literally "going somewhere" will always require the human touch. Or else it will be no more special than clicking on a map.
Human drivers will still be on the roadways for a long, long time. But machines will be dominant roadway users in ten years; they will be better than human drivers in every way.
I think of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash and virtually every other car, truck, or bus accident as reason why autonomous vehicles will take over quickly. Once they're proven to be safe, everyone from MADD to every medical group to every government agency will be finding ways to promote the sales of autonomous cars over conventional cars.
A baby born today might never know human-driven cars, like a person born in 1997 might not know "Be Kind, Rewind" stickers.
Screencomposers Guild of Canada is just trying to strongarm a handout from Canadians.
No one is watching, let alone pirating, the dreck like Anne With An E. And we heard enough of the Tragically Hip's Bobcaygeon in the 1990s before FM radio was replaced with services that gave us the option to avoid ever hearing its constant CanCon rotation again.
But this still avoids addressing the central problem. Information wants to be free - that's what the Internet is about. The old distribution and revenue models have to change; RIAA, MPAA and all might as well be typewriter and sliderule manufacturers whining about the invention of the microprocessor.
I can really see an eventual return to product placement being a prime revenue generator for TV and movies; even if the movie is pirated a million times, that becomes a million more views for what effectively becomes an ad for a company's products.
Right, because humans never make a process mistake that applies to more than one unit on the production line?
Yeah... right. Garbage In = Garbage Out, whether your employees are humans or machines.
Every employee, human or machine, only works on the best available data. Missing spot welds = missing data.
If you have one of these cars, hold onto it. Verify that it is one of these cars, then save it someplace warm and dry. Automotive oddities, especially manufacturer recalls, are always important to collectors.
If you have to drive it, remember that it's a modern car with modern safety systems. In the rare case of one specific kind of accident, it will be weaker than it should be.
Thirty years ago, you could have had an open beer while you were waiting in line at the DMV. ("I spilled beer all over me, I could have been killed! / A car crashed into me and all you've got is light beer?" - Biff Tannen, Back To The Future, 1985). There were ashtrays in the lineup when I got my driver's license.
Your Subaru is safe. They made a mistake. 10,000 moving parts, and if it's only 99.99% right, there are how many things still wrong with it?
Save it, understand the fault, and don't make thousands of tons more greenhouse gas to scrap it.
Don't drink and drive. Don't text and drive. Your Subaru is safe.
If a certain 'currency' is 'spent' 'just once' how the heck is it a currency ??
No currency is spent just once. Think of the journey of a dollar. It is spent by customers and received by your employer to pay your paycheck. It is spent when you go to the store to buy a box of toothpaste, where it is spent on employees, inventory, real estate, utilitiies, insurance. And the mop heads and detergent to clean up after someone made a mess in the bathroom. The manufacturer of the toothpaste spends the dollar to buy the cardboard box, have the box printed, have the toothpaste tube made, have the contents made, have the research scientists who made that new Iridescent White formula made, have the PR company come up with the trade name Iridescent White, etc...
How many hands and pockets and car cupholders does a coin go through in its lifetime?
Every time it is voluntarily exchanged and enters the possession a new holder in its lifetime, it has been spent. Same with paper money. Same with electronic funds transfers.
No currency is spent just once.
Remember that money is just a physical representation of services rendered. Work performed, or materials delivered (work performed by the people who supplied the materials - ie making paper, panning for gold, or running an oil rig to make plastic for iPhones). Money is just a modeling language.
That exposes a basic misunderstanding of how software in Linux is built. The program which presents a remote filesystem should be separate from the program which synchronizes files. That's the unix way.
It also makes Dropbox's job simple: a fuse (filesystem in userspace) driver and then let folks stack whatever other Linux software they want to on top of it.
Yeah, I was confused about that argument about fractured filesystems (among other things) in the original post. How and why does that matter to them, unless they're doing something at a lower level than userspace?
Yes, I agree, the Linux community is horribly fractured and must be a big nightmare for some applications to be ported. But if it's available for anything Apple, or anything Android, porting it to Linux should be relatively easy.
From article:
Although I am very willing to pay for software on Linux, it's a rare occasion that I do (mostly because I haven't found a piece of must-have software that has an associated cost).
Mostly because we're accustomed to having enterprise-grade software free. Linux users aren't cheapskates, and consider that ALL the computers in the TOP500 list are running Linux. Linux users can shell out money.
I'd be a lot more receptive to AutoCAD, for example, if they put out a Linux version. But why bother? There's FreeCAD and a host of others. Photoshop? GIMP. And let's not even get going on Blender.
Dropbox - isn't it, really in the end, just rsync being run within a script? I liked the name for the credibility, but again, Linux has credibility in its own right.
If it turns out he colluded with Russia I am sure the well regulated militia will deal with that. Unless the Dallas Cowboys are playing - then they might need to wait until Monday.
LOL. Militias have all the right priorities, which is why we want them armed. Right? Wow, that's genius!!
We have a government position called the "Auditor General", whose mandate is to keep the government honest. Stateside, Robert Mueller is basically that guy right now.
Well fortunately here in the US we have an honest, clean government that serves the people. All thanks to the well regulated militia with their AR-15s from Bass Pro Shop.
...and a leader who was a reality TV show star who likely colluded with Russia and might be escorted out of the Oval Office in handcuffs. Great job, I'm so proud of you! You've elevated reality TV to the presidency!
I'll even give you a nice red star to take home and show Uncle Vlad.
I love Americans. I love the United States. And I'm embarrassed for the majority of you (Clinton won the popular vote). So turn off the attitude, douchebag.
You don't understand: without these patriots with guns protecting our freedoms we would have a government that spies on us, only serves the corporations, and is corrupt. Lucky we have them and their well regulated militia standing by keeping our government honest.
Oh, I do get it. I have spent a lot of time in the United States.
Distrust of your government is one of those things that is uniquely American; while in most other G7 countries we may disagree with our governments, we do generally trust them. Your people, on the other hand, put Donald Trump in the White House.
You don't see that because you're on the other side of the issue, on the side of speech you don't like.
We often say that freedom of speech means freedom for others to say things we don't like.
You don't like it, I get that.
Do you believe in free speech or do you believe in suppression of speech?
I believe in Freedom of Speech, and I believe in freedom of knowledge and information.
I also believe that I should be able to walk down the street, or board an aircraft, safe in the knowledge that there are no guns around me.
You can yell FIRE!!! in a crowded theater if you want to, but there should be serious repercussions if you do it for your own amusement.
While it's pretty difficult to control the files people e-mail or torrent each other, it's a hell of a lot easier for the government to clamp down on the ownership of 3D printers.
Free speech, in this case, will kill innovation. Buy your 3D printer now, before there's a law against their personal ownership.
I will never make a weapon, or a part of a weapon, with mine.
maybe why that's my workplace sells several million dollars of beer every year.
And, ironically, I'll crush your face with my steel-toed workboot with the casual ease which put out my last cigarette.
Your workplace sells millions of dollars of beer every year, and you wear steel-toed work boots? I can think of a few jobs that match, but that's an uncommon combination.
Moving large quantities of beer requires forklift trucks. Pretty much any health and safety standard requires steel-toed boots when around forklift trucks.
Sorry if you're used to cute little retail where some bored housewife buys a 6-pk of Corona bottles.
Actually, I enjoyed school for most of the time, despite wearing glasses. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I was passable at sports and even won the occasional fight on the school yard.
>But what we experienced on the playground must never be forgotten. It has, I believe, damaged the social skills of a lot of us.
Go tell it to your therapist, nerd. Nobody wants to hear you whining about your childhood.
Sure, and when you're dealing with the health care costs of addiction and mental health issues that childhood bullying is proven to cause, you can whine on your precious Internet and smartphone (both of which we created while you were running around in circles after a ball like a stupid dog that chases its own tail) about how I'm a nerd.
Get cancer. Please. Just so you can thank the nerds in the white lab coats for saving your life.
And, ironically, I'll crush your face with my steel-toed workboot with the casual ease which put out my last cigarette.
I suspect that geeks generally lack the part of the brain that allows them to laugh at themselves. Kinda like reptiles lack that area of the brain that would allow them to experience emotional attachment.
Elementary school probably wasn't fun for most of us who wear the geek label with pride.
We grew up having to be defensive. Defensive of our interests, our property, our lunch money.
Why would I learn emotional attachment when I'm being called a freak by people who are more interested in kicking a ball around than doing something intelligent like reading a book?
I'm a nerd. I'm a four-eyes. I'm smarter than you, I'm tougher than you, and I'm proud to be who I am.
But what we experienced on the playground must never be forgotten. It has, I believe, damaged the social skills of a lot of us.
From the article: How do you feel about the ending of The Big Bang Theory?
Sad.
Say whatever else you want about the show, it showed an oddball coolness to geekdom.
Howard gets jerked off by a robot arm... and gets stuck. This would be lame lonely geek turf, but who owned that arm? NASA.
Raj can't talk to women until he's drunk... hmmm... maybe why that's my workplace sells several million dollars of beer every year.
Penny is the struggling waitress wanna-be actress turned pharmaceutical rep - sales is sales, and sometimes you just have to move onto what you're good at.
Sheldon makes semi-functional Aspergers cool in its own infuriating way.
And Leonard somehow is the leader (despite the Roommate Agreement) and keeps the place from falling apart.
Chuck Lorre is a genius.
I suspect that geeks generally lack the part of the brain that allows them to laugh at themselves. Kinda like reptiles lack that area of the brain that would allow them to experience emotional attachment.
And that's precisely the problem, and what made Chuck Lorre's show such a hit for so many years.
Some people shop locally, find what they want, then buy on Amazon. I do it the opposite way, I find a product on Amazon, read the reviews, check out the user guide, then do a search to see who has it locally and go there.
Amazon: the world's greatest catalog. I like it.:)
Popping up as a new one. It is not as of their stock has been confiscated. Nothing a bit of scripting could not handle. Because it all depends how much they get, not how much they did not get.
I bought a microSD card from Amazon and I got a fake labeled with more capacity than it really had. Amazon really didn't care; they got their commission. I had to fight to get a refund from a Chinese seller who is still ripping people off many years later.
I will never buy from Amazon again.
You can say what you want about Walmart and Home Depot and other retailers, but bricks-and-mortar retailers hate thieves more than anyone else. If they accidentally sell counterfeits, they take it very seriously.
Jeff Bezos may be the richest man on the planet but I feel like he's one of the most unscrupulous. I wish only the slowest and most painful of cancers on him.
essentially a resistance heater in an electricity storage device.. for when the natural heat generated from charging isn't 'enough' to keep a suitable temperature?
wow. it took 'til 2018 to come up with that?
next you're gonna tell me they got a cooler for batteries for use in hot climates.....
Basically, a PetSmart aquarium heater in the electrolyte. Generations of Canadians have known that hair dryers are Really Good Things at 4:AM and it's -30C and you car *MUST* *START* *NOW*. (Or, usually, within 15 minutes.)
The concept of heating a battery is nothing new. And I applaud any effort which brings practical renewable energy to any environment.
The gasoline engine is an absolutely beautiful thing, but it is an inefficient machine, and it wastes the vast majority of its input energy as the heat that burns your hands on the exhaust manifold.
If you're espousing electric cars as the way of the future, are you sure you want to be wasting precious electricity as heat? I'd be far more impressed if those heaters were off-spec GPUs working World Community Grid problems, mining currency, or, maybe somehow part of the autonomous driving system.
We're bragging that we've invented the Battery With A Shelf Life. We're celebrating a car which intentionally leaks its own fuel.
I'll celebrate if they improved the battery technology enough that hair dryers weren't waking up neighbours at 4:AM.
I believe the consciousness exists in the software. How inextricably linked the hardware and the software may be, that's another story. (And when you start getting into flash memories and FPGAs, then we might be getting a taste of how the brain works to merge the two concepts.)
Consciousness is probably like software that is compiled uniquely for every device (human) it runs on. Even so, neither is magic, since the same laws of physics still seem to apply inside our craniums and outside our craniums.
So it's a black box that's a combination of hardware and software. Just like any digital computer seems to be, especially if you don't have the schematics and programmer's manual.
Why not? Probably the next n-generation computers have no such ability, but what is special about a machine made out of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen by accident compared to one made out of silicon and copper by design?
If there is something special about organic materials that allow sentience; if we made a machine, or artificially constructed a brain, or computers out of organics would that still not be AI?
What is an analog computer except a simulation of springs and dampers and a whole lot more built out of RC circuits and op-amps?
What is emulation of one computer system inside another, or virtual machines?
Aren't mammalian brains just simply a different kind of digital computer than those we've made of silicon?
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On Feb. 1, 2017, Oculus lost an intellectual property (IP) theft case against game maker ZeniMax, to the tune of $500 million.
So a civil court (not a criminal court) found him guilty of theft.
How can your boss, your company (the group of people you work with), or your Company (Facebook Inc) ever trust you not to steal from them?
He's lucky not to be leaving in handcuffs.
LOL... I hit send before I was ready. I think we'll see human-driven cars disallowed from some, maybe most, roadways.
That's probably what he is afraid of: people still drive horses and carts for fun, but they are relegated to minor roads. Like horses, humans will not be able to keep up with what comes next: self driving cars. Imagine a special "diamond lane" for autonomous cars: you could have those cars do 180km/h and follow each other really closely, but a human would have no business driving in that lane. Then, those lanes are expanded and highways may (or may not) be left with a single "slow poke" lane for human drivers. Then come intersections without traffic lights, etc... At some point it will be too dangerous or too disruptive to let human-driven cars onto the highways and major thoroughfares in town.
Yeah, I think you're right.
We will soon reach a point where human-driven vehicles are no longer allowed on roadways because we're not as good as the computer driving the car.
The existing automobile is responsible for untold waste and pollution and deaths, but it is also responsible for much of the quality of life which allowed us to develop the technology to build autonomous vehicles. The horse and buggy had to be invented before the steel mill could be invented, before the car, before the TV set, before the computer, and therefore the autonomous car. One innovation fuels the next in some way.
We did teach machines how to drive. They still only have their learner's permit, but with a little practice, they will exceed human drivers by any measure.
Except one: only humans will understand the beauty of the machine under their direct control, the thrum of the engine, the instant response of thousands of pounds of steel to the touch of your finger or your foot on the pedal. It's visceral.
I've lamented before that today's kids don't know about the tactile experience of choosing their music, putting a cassette in the deck and fast-forwarding to find it. Now, we click on the song we want to hear. Some people are resisting; look at the resurgence of vinyl. You appreciate watching television much more when this is how you watch 480i than you do by clicking a Netflix or YouTube video. Likewise, literally "going somewhere" will always require the human touch. Or else it will be no more special than clicking on a map.
Human drivers will still be on the roadways for a long, long time. But machines will be dominant roadway users in ten years; they will be better than human drivers in every way.
I think of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash and virtually every other car, truck, or bus accident as reason why autonomous vehicles will take over quickly. Once they're proven to be safe, everyone from MADD to every medical group to every government agency will be finding ways to promote the sales of autonomous cars over conventional cars.
A baby born today might never know human-driven cars, like a person born in 1997 might not know "Be Kind, Rewind" stickers.
Work they're producing? What work is that?
Screencomposers Guild of Canada is just trying to strongarm a handout from Canadians.
No one is watching, let alone pirating, the dreck like Anne With An E. And we heard enough of the Tragically Hip's Bobcaygeon in the 1990s before FM radio was replaced with services that gave us the option to avoid ever hearing its constant CanCon rotation again.
But this still avoids addressing the central problem. Information wants to be free - that's what the Internet is about. The old distribution and revenue models have to change; RIAA, MPAA and all might as well be typewriter and sliderule manufacturers whining about the invention of the microprocessor.
I can really see an eventual return to product placement being a prime revenue generator for TV and movies; even if the movie is pirated a million times, that becomes a million more views for what effectively becomes an ad for a company's products.
Right, because humans never make a process mistake that applies to more than one unit on the production line?
Yeah... right. Garbage In = Garbage Out, whether your employees are humans or machines.
Every employee, human or machine, only works on the best available data. Missing spot welds = missing data.
If you have one of these cars, hold onto it. Verify that it is one of these cars, then save it someplace warm and dry. Automotive oddities, especially manufacturer recalls, are always important to collectors.
If you have to drive it, remember that it's a modern car with modern safety systems. In the rare case of one specific kind of accident, it will be weaker than it should be.
Thirty years ago, you could have had an open beer while you were waiting in line at the DMV. ("I spilled beer all over me, I could have been killed! / A car crashed into me and all you've got is light beer?" - Biff Tannen, Back To The Future, 1985). There were ashtrays in the lineup when I got my driver's license.
Your Subaru is safe. They made a mistake. 10,000 moving parts, and if it's only 99.99% right, there are how many things still wrong with it?
Save it, understand the fault, and don't make thousands of tons more greenhouse gas to scrap it.
Don't drink and drive. Don't text and drive. Your Subaru is safe.
If a certain 'currency' is 'spent' 'just once' how the heck is it a currency ??
No currency is spent just once. Think of the journey of a dollar. It is spent by customers and received by your employer to pay your paycheck. It is spent when you go to the store to buy a box of toothpaste, where it is spent on employees, inventory, real estate, utilitiies, insurance. And the mop heads and detergent to clean up after someone made a mess in the bathroom. The manufacturer of the toothpaste spends the dollar to buy the cardboard box, have the box printed, have the toothpaste tube made, have the contents made, have the research scientists who made that new Iridescent White formula made, have the PR company come up with the trade name Iridescent White, etc...
How many hands and pockets and car cupholders does a coin go through in its lifetime?
Every time it is voluntarily exchanged and enters the possession a new holder in its lifetime, it has been spent. Same with paper money. Same with electronic funds transfers.
No currency is spent just once.
Remember that money is just a physical representation of services rendered. Work performed, or materials delivered (work performed by the people who supplied the materials - ie making paper, panning for gold, or running an oil rig to make plastic for iPhones). Money is just a modeling language.
That exposes a basic misunderstanding of how software in Linux is built. The program which presents a remote filesystem should be separate from the program which synchronizes files. That's the unix way.
It also makes Dropbox's job simple: a fuse (filesystem in userspace) driver and then let folks stack whatever other Linux software they want to on top of it.
Yeah, I was confused about that argument about fractured filesystems (among other things) in the original post. How and why does that matter to them, unless they're doing something at a lower level than userspace?
Yes, I agree, the Linux community is horribly fractured and must be a big nightmare for some applications to be ported. But if it's available for anything Apple, or anything Android, porting it to Linux should be relatively easy.
From article:
Although I am very willing to pay for software on Linux, it's a rare occasion that I do (mostly because I haven't found a piece of must-have software that has an associated cost).
Mostly because we're accustomed to having enterprise-grade software free. Linux users aren't cheapskates, and consider that ALL the computers in the TOP500 list are running Linux. Linux users can shell out money.
I'd be a lot more receptive to AutoCAD, for example, if they put out a Linux version. But why bother? There's FreeCAD and a host of others. Photoshop? GIMP. And let's not even get going on Blender.
Dropbox - isn't it, really in the end, just rsync being run within a script? I liked the name for the credibility, but again, Linux has credibility in its own right.
Auditor General? Is that like Dollar General? Does he have an AR-15 or a Ruger 10/22? If he don't got a gun, he don't got no freedoms.
Nope, he has handcuffs.
If it turns out he colluded with Russia I am sure the well regulated militia will deal with that. Unless the Dallas Cowboys are playing - then they might need to wait until Monday.
LOL. Militias have all the right priorities, which is why we want them armed. Right? Wow, that's genius!!
We have a government position called the "Auditor General", whose mandate is to keep the government honest. Stateside, Robert Mueller is basically that guy right now.
Well fortunately here in the US we have an honest, clean government that serves the people. All thanks to the well regulated militia with their AR-15s from Bass Pro Shop.
...and a leader who was a reality TV show star who likely colluded with Russia and might be escorted out of the Oval Office in handcuffs. Great job, I'm so proud of you! You've elevated reality TV to the presidency!
I'll even give you a nice red star to take home and show Uncle Vlad.
I love Americans. I love the United States. And I'm embarrassed for the majority of you (Clinton won the popular vote). So turn off the attitude, douchebag.
You don't understand: without these patriots with guns protecting our freedoms we would have a government that spies on us, only serves the corporations, and is corrupt. Lucky we have them and their well regulated militia standing by keeping our government honest.
Oh, I do get it. I have spent a lot of time in the United States.
Distrust of your government is one of those things that is uniquely American; while in most other G7 countries we may disagree with our governments, we do generally trust them. Your people, on the other hand, put Donald Trump in the White House.
Actually, he pretty-much is.
You don't see that because you're on the other side of the issue, on the side of speech you don't like.
We often say that freedom of speech means freedom for others to say things we don't like.
You don't like it, I get that.
Do you believe in free speech or do you believe in suppression of speech?
I believe in Freedom of Speech, and I believe in freedom of knowledge and information.
I also believe that I should be able to walk down the street, or board an aircraft, safe in the knowledge that there are no guns around me.
You can yell FIRE!!! in a crowded theater if you want to, but there should be serious repercussions if you do it for your own amusement.
While it's pretty difficult to control the files people e-mail or torrent each other, it's a hell of a lot easier for the government to clamp down on the ownership of 3D printers.
Free speech, in this case, will kill innovation. Buy your 3D printer now, before there's a law against their personal ownership.
I will never make a weapon, or a part of a weapon, with mine.
Your workplace sells millions of dollars of beer every year, and you wear steel-toed work boots? I can think of a few jobs that match, but that's an uncommon combination.
Moving large quantities of beer requires forklift trucks. Pretty much any health and safety standard requires steel-toed boots when around forklift trucks.
Sorry if you're used to cute little retail where some bored housewife buys a 6-pk of Corona bottles.
I sell millions of dollars of beer every year.
>Get cancer. Please. Just so you can thank the nerds in the white lab coats for saving your life.
Well thanks Ace, but I already have it.
Good.
Actually, I enjoyed school for most of the time, despite wearing glasses. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I was passable at sports and even won the occasional fight on the school yard.
I had to win the schoolyard fights. And so I did.
>But what we experienced on the playground must never be forgotten. It has, I believe, damaged the social skills of a lot of us.
Go tell it to your therapist, nerd. Nobody wants to hear you whining about your childhood.
Sure, and when you're dealing with the health care costs of addiction and mental health issues that childhood bullying is proven to cause, you can whine on your precious Internet and smartphone (both of which we created while you were running around in circles after a ball like a stupid dog that chases its own tail) about how I'm a nerd.
Get cancer. Please. Just so you can thank the nerds in the white lab coats for saving your life.
And, ironically, I'll crush your face with my steel-toed workboot with the casual ease which put out my last cigarette.
Have an adequate day.
I suspect that geeks generally lack the part of the brain that allows them to laugh at themselves. Kinda like reptiles lack that area of the brain that would allow them to experience emotional attachment.
Elementary school probably wasn't fun for most of us who wear the geek label with pride.
We grew up having to be defensive. Defensive of our interests, our property, our lunch money.
Why would I learn emotional attachment when I'm being called a freak by people who are more interested in kicking a ball around than doing something intelligent like reading a book?
I'm a nerd. I'm a four-eyes. I'm smarter than you, I'm tougher than you, and I'm proud to be who I am.
But what we experienced on the playground must never be forgotten. It has, I believe, damaged the social skills of a lot of us.
From the article: How do you feel about the ending of The Big Bang Theory?
Sad.
Say whatever else you want about the show, it showed an oddball coolness to geekdom.
Howard gets jerked off by a robot arm... and gets stuck. This would be lame lonely geek turf, but who owned that arm? NASA.
Raj can't talk to women until he's drunk... hmmm... maybe why that's my workplace sells several million dollars of beer every year.
Penny is the struggling waitress wanna-be actress turned pharmaceutical rep - sales is sales, and sometimes you just have to move onto what you're good at.
Sheldon makes semi-functional Aspergers cool in its own infuriating way.
And Leonard somehow is the leader (despite the Roommate Agreement) and keeps the place from falling apart.
Chuck Lorre is a genius.
I suspect that geeks generally lack the part of the brain that allows them to laugh at themselves. Kinda like reptiles lack that area of the brain that would allow them to experience emotional attachment.
And that's precisely the problem, and what made Chuck Lorre's show such a hit for so many years.
Some people shop locally, find what they want, then buy on Amazon. I do it the opposite way, I find a product on Amazon, read the reviews, check out the user guide, then do a search to see who has it locally and go there.
Amazon: the world's greatest catalog. I like it. :)
Spoken like a bigblockmopar fan. Get a real car, gramps.
No wonder you're posting as AC. Even from here, I can smell the cheese under your foreskin.
Half an engine, pointed the wrong way under the hood, and driving the wrong set of wheels... is that what you like to drive?
Gramps is crazy, Gramps takes shit from no one, Gramps was on the Internet before it was even called the Internet, and Gramps will step on your face.
Too bad you're not man enough to post under your own name.
Popping up as a new one. It is not as of their stock has been confiscated. Nothing a bit of scripting could not handle.
Because it all depends how much they get, not how much they did not get.
I bought a microSD card from Amazon and I got a fake labeled with more capacity than it really had. Amazon really didn't care; they got their commission. I had to fight to get a refund from a Chinese seller who is still ripping people off many years later.
I will never buy from Amazon again.
You can say what you want about Walmart and Home Depot and other retailers, but bricks-and-mortar retailers hate thieves more than anyone else. If they accidentally sell counterfeits, they take it very seriously.
Jeff Bezos may be the richest man on the planet but I feel like he's one of the most unscrupulous. I wish only the slowest and most painful of cancers on him.
essentially a resistance heater in an electricity storage device.. for when the natural heat generated from charging isn't 'enough' to keep a suitable temperature?
wow. it took 'til 2018 to come up with that?
next you're gonna tell me they got a cooler for batteries for use in hot climates.....
Basically, a PetSmart aquarium heater in the electrolyte. Generations of Canadians have known that hair dryers are Really Good Things at 4:AM and it's -30C and you car *MUST* *START* *NOW*. (Or, usually, within 15 minutes.)
The concept of heating a battery is nothing new. And I applaud any effort which brings practical renewable energy to any environment.
The gasoline engine is an absolutely beautiful thing, but it is an inefficient machine, and it wastes the vast majority of its input energy as the heat that burns your hands on the exhaust manifold.
If you're espousing electric cars as the way of the future, are you sure you want to be wasting precious electricity as heat? I'd be far more impressed if those heaters were off-spec GPUs working World Community Grid problems, mining currency, or, maybe somehow part of the autonomous driving system.
We're bragging that we've invented the Battery With A Shelf Life. We're celebrating a car which intentionally leaks its own fuel.
I'll celebrate if they improved the battery technology enough that hair dryers weren't waking up neighbours at 4:AM.
Mel. See http://catb.org/jargon/html/st...
TI-99/4A GPL (programming language). Auto increment +1 +1 +1.... Mel was sold in K-Mart stores in 1982 for $99.
I believe the consciousness exists in the software. How inextricably linked the hardware and the software may be, that's another story. (And when you start getting into flash memories and FPGAs, then we might be getting a taste of how the brain works to merge the two concepts.)
Consciousness is probably like software that is compiled uniquely for every device (human) it runs on. Even so, neither is magic, since the same laws of physics still seem to apply inside our craniums and outside our craniums.
So it's a black box that's a combination of hardware and software. Just like any digital computer seems to be, especially if you don't have the schematics and programmer's manual.
Why not? Probably the next n-generation computers have no such ability, but what is special about a machine made out of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen by accident compared to one made out of silicon and copper by design?
If there is something special about organic materials that allow sentience; if we made a machine, or artificially constructed a brain, or computers out of organics would that still not be AI?
What is an analog computer except a simulation of springs and dampers and a whole lot more built out of RC circuits and op-amps?
What is emulation of one computer system inside another, or virtual machines?
Aren't mammalian brains just simply a different kind of digital computer than those we've made of silicon?