Comment: Re:Just a thought... (Score 1) 140
There was suddenly an enormous amount of energy and it started to expand. Colloquially, that sounds like an explosion.
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Comment: Re:Early Universe (Score 1) 140
Surely, according to the current theories, the "big bang" would be similar to just a "big supernova" in which heavy elements and very heavy elements are created
Nope. It was too hot for matter to exist. Particles didn't even start to form until some time after the Big Bang.
Comment: Re:Authority (Score 1) 229
With the same authority that they can tell states how to use air waves.
Comment: Re:Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More R (Score 1) 186
Advances in AI will make it possible to replace large swaths of 'smart' and 'creative' jobs by 2050.
Solving a problem is the easiest part. The hardest part is identifying and describing the problem. Once AIs can both identify and solve problems, then there will be absolutely nothing left for humans for "jobs".
Comment: Re:Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More R (Score 1) 186
The employees can't afford the robots and it takes a while to pay off the investment for them. So the employees become the employer, except the employees can't afford the robots. Do you see a problem with this? Someone has to pay for the robots and they're too expensive to be owned individually and it would be wasteful because no one needs an entire factor of cars for themselves. The logical conclusion of what you're getting after is for the robots to be collectively owned, a form of socialism.
Comment: Re: Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More (Score 1) 186
If we categorized people based disposable income and normalized that value for the cost of good and services, would the middle class still be shrinking?
Comment: Re:Whiteboards and whiteboarding are a bad idea. (Score 2) 162
If you can't express the idea in text and text alone, then you haven't broken it down properly. Drawing pictures on a whiteboard won't help with this.
And you should be able to compose great music via sheet music alone, but it might be a good idea to actually listen to your music.
Comment: Re: Queue it up (Score 1) 132
Cold temps suddenly seem much more bearable.
Comment: Re:Noooo, not the life link (Score 3, Insightful) 132
Shouldn't an ISP have at least 2 and preferably 3 or more separate trunk links?
Comment: Re:Single point of failure (Score 2) 132
Running fiber is about 40% of the overall cost of a fiber last mile network. Trunks are relatively cheap compared to the last mile network. Customer support is the single most expensive part of an ISP. Keeping customers happy is the best way to keep costs down.
Comment: Re: Queue it up (Score 2) 132
-20f nights and 0f days are great at keeping hard core druggies away from here. Nearly all of our crime are along the lines of some bored teenagers trying to lift candy bars at Walmart. I remember this one time that someone was actually shot and killed. That one murder filled the news papers of several local counties for months. It was my first time ever hearing of one happening locally.
Comment: Re:It's open source, stupid (Score 1) 85
Don't like your government? Replace it. Don't like your opensource software, add a feature.
Comment: Re: nice, now for the real fight (Score 1) 631
only 8 pages of rules, the rest were comments.
Comment: Re:About time... (Score 2) 153
Turns out he was using the framework to pull all the records from a couple of different tables and doing the join in Java
Who gave him direct table access?! They should be fired!
Comment: Re:About time... (Score 1) 153
Yep, nothing quite like a bunch of frameworks strung together in a way they were never envisioned and doing things that look the same on the surface but are quite different underneath. If you don't understand how a framework works, you'll never use it correctly.
