Posts by DrStrangeLug 124 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Feb 2008
Ha, brings back memories.
Worked at a company that moved to a new building. During the pre-move tour and Q&A somebody asked "Can we have a toaster?" and was told firmly no.
First morning in, after just 20 minutes , the smoke alarm went off. Somebody had brought in an unuathorised toaster.
Regarding your point 3, thats just an electronic primitive version of how it works for people.
We're born, we have inbuilt pattern recognition for faces and learn from those around us. The inputs are live and varied rather than scraped, but they must form a large part of our thought processes. Part of it must come from how we're grown (built) but much of it must be environment.
I know thats the nature/nurture argument thats been raging for centuries but there's a reason we still dont have the answer.
I guess the question everyone asks but nobody dares to ask is "At any point does Samantha have a soul" ?
Is she really real? Are you ? Am I?
A previous employer of mine had a clause along the lines of "the company may changet his contract at any time". But one of our developers was employed via his own private company and argued that the phrase "the company" was ambiguous and he could change the contract as well.
So he changed the contract and named his company as the only party who could change the contract.
I visited three years ago and was chatting to a ncie retired gentleman who was doing part time Uber driving . He said that there's a lot growth in startups and tech companies moving because the taxes are lower than in California.
But the entire states demographics have been shifting for a while now and a lot of people think it's not a case of if Texas turns Democrat but when.
"Wagering on outcomes not related to sport."
Like shorting or going long on stock ? That is definitely a wager, and under this law now illegal on the internet because you cant guarantee the transcation does not cross state lines.
Make the perps serve the sentences consecutively and watch high frequency traders rack up a million year sentence in five minutes.
Gene Kranz himself said in an interview that the large heavy lift rocket was the wrong approach. Its so expensive that they'll only every be able to afford one a year .
A better solution would have been a cheaper smaller rocker and assembling missions in orbit. That give you multiple launches, in space time for crew and experience at on orbit assembly. All stuff which is valuable skill and can be transferred to the inevitable change of program when a new administration comes in.
You see this kind of article every ten years and it always boils down to "in the future you technology X will save you from having to spend that money on expensive developers." It NEVER happens.
Remember in the mid 90's when visual programming languages would mean you could write software without the need to code ?
Remember being told that all those cheap offshore developers were going to take your jobs and there would be almost no domestic developer jobs in the 2010-2020 timeline ?
I saw the "Prelude to Axanar" video on youtube last year and thought it was awesome, and I was so looking forward to the final version.
Several other fan produced not-for-profit productions have been made and paramount seems to be OK with them so long as nobody profits from it. I dont really know why Axanar is different. However having seen the the other productions I suspect Axanar is actually being sued for being too good.
IDK why Paramount didnt just buy them out .
Lol, the
"no-changes-on-a-Friday window"
which always translates into
"no-changes-on-a-friday-unless-somebody does their 'baby wants is rattle' impression and cries loud enough and then you'll have to fix it I dont care how long it it takes and yes the person who asked for the changes does get to go home on time but you dont."
It's the wrong kind of rocket - with their budget they'll be lucky to launch two a year and it'll take ages to do anything.
It would be much better to have more smaller rockets and a reusable crew capsule. Assembling things on orbit in multiple launches would give more flight time for Astronauts and experience in orbital assembly.
How are you going to learn about orbital assembly and evolve new techniques if you just package everything up onto one rocket ?
I was originally hoping to upgrade to an S5 (from an S3) but when I looked I didn't find the features that enticing.
Fingerprint Sensor - Useless and cracked within a week of launch.
Waterproof - I seriously doubt that halfway through a two year contract those covers over the ports will still be tight and waterproof.
I went for a Note 3, the large screen nicely sits in my heat slab hands.
If you don't allow ISP's to throttle certain *cough*netflix*cough* services they there is no way to entice customers to use anybody's VPN service to bypass their throttling.
Seriously if you get the connection you pay for why would you want to pay another party so you can actually use it?
The one thing this show didnt mention was the long term effect on the end users and the population at large.
I think the biggest achievement to come out of the British home computer boom of the 80's is the number of developers this country currently has. I can think of entire development teams that wouldn't exists if you wiped the ZX Spectrum out of history.
Bought a new laptop recently and it came with 8 installed on it. A very quick instlall to 8.1 yet still it's rubbish.
All those shortcuts like Alt+F4 no longer work, I actually paid £££ for a 3rd party app to get a proper start menu, and it looks and feels just slightly worse that windows 7.
It's on borrowed time - one big screwup and it goes straight to linux.
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