This is childish. Apple's version of this works better, in real time, in FaceTime, because it's above a threshold of kiddiness.
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Businesses hate instability.
Finally, I complained to the nytimes.com ombudsman. Gone in a day! Someone there must have agreed with me. Click farm behavior.
Also, if you can find an ancient copy of Thomas Calculus when it was two volumes. Buy the first volume. Solve all the odd problems, the solutions are in the back. That's how I learned!
A later edition of Thomas was a single volume big thick yellowish book. It was very good. We used it as freshmen at MIT. You could learn from it. I don't remember if that version had answers in it. But solving problems and having answers to check against is key.
I had abdominal surgery. They had to remove 14cm of my colon which was badly inflamed due to diverticulitis. When I woke up, I was so doped up that I felt no pain. I even danced a jig in my room.
That evening they hooked me up to a hydromorphone injector for the inevitable pain. Every 12 minutes or so, I could give myself a shot into my IV. Hydromorphone is about 100 times stronger than morphine, so the doses were in micrograms. I was allowed, like, 5 shots per hour, and the machine could get loaded with about 50 shots. I kept a record of the shots in my Iphone Notes. I tried to space them further than 12 minutes, but I only decreased the frequency by a few minutes. I liked those shots. They worked. The nursing staff encouraged me to use this. They could reload the machine, no trouble.
Now the thing about colon surgery is, your colon has to get working. Those opiate shots very effectively prevent this. I wanted to get out of that place. So the next night, I quit cold turkey. I was freezing cold, and the pain I felt was not just from the after effects of the surgery, I am pretty sure. It was fucking horrible.
Now the things is, I was addicted. I did succeed in quitting cold turkey. My colon still didn't work for a day, so I vomited almost a gallon of green bile over the edge of my gurney. It was so much, it lapped up against the walls. Then my colon worked, and I got to go home.
But I was addicted, and I am a recovering addict, from that one time. And every nurse I mention this to says, "Oh no, you weren't an addict." They even quote some bullshit criterion for addiction, which I've forgotten.
I haven't had any problems since, and if I have to take oral oxycodone, or hydrocodone, there have been no problems or instance of abuse.
But I was an addict.
"I need to find something with purpose,big money, and satisfaction"
Hold yoga poses long. Take strong patent medicine herbs. Knitting. Volunteering at an animal shelter. Cold showers. Realistic goals on the bench press. Scuba diving.
The answer has become clear.
Go for the money.
You can see I'm mostly stuck in the past. Many of these products had more capable successors, but felt bloated, and were harder to use.
And by the way, there tends to be significant wage deflation of automation workers with time. I can show you an advertisement for a part time machinist who is expected to work without much supervision, use sophisticated CAM software to program parts, and run them on a CNC mill. For $14.25 an hour.
Is a CNC mill a robot? What is a robot? Who decides? Do we hire some CIS and philosophy professors to study this?
Should a hammer be taxed at a very low rate? Does the hardware store checkout robot register the hammer to our SSN? Should self-driving cars get even more expensive?
Should the state be a nanny and tax only new robots that come in and take away jobs right now?
I think the issue is who owns the robot. You ultimately only tax people. My general feeling is that in general, a pair of persons A and B are unequal in their abilities to use the national infrastructure and access markets. The one more successful at this, as shown by his wealth generation, owes something back that is greater than the one just getting by. And philosophically, this is not confiscation or a taking, but a kind of use tax.
"The usual suspects would be Russia, Iran, and maybe even China." Even China? The article pertains more to China than to any other country.
Which model of System 360?
This might have been obviated by some share nonsense I did with iPhotos. Dropbox seems to be working better and better.
Available offline is the killer feature of both Dropbox and Drive. You still cannot depend on connectivity, and have to plan ahead with critical documents. It becomes part of your travel routine.
But iCloud is the sleeper. In particular, Notes seems to be open on my desktop and all my devices. A terrific application.
What I don't see is:
(1) Some control over professors running outright businesses, and once tenured, putting much of their effort into those businesses, while still drawing senior-level pay. I don't claim this is common. But it is a major moral hazard. (2) Little compensation for graduate students whose contributions range from scutwork to the critical innovation involved. They have to execute the technology in the lab -- in industry, this is most prized, not "the idea." What mechanism is their for fairness here? Oh, right, they're getting a free education. OK. But what if the university earns $10's of millions of dollars off their labor? (3) When professors innovate in active commercial markets, rather than in really bleeding edge areas, there is an intrinsic unfairness. In essence, the government, through its funding, is picking winners.
It is a defense if the overall society is improved. If professors get rich, that's also fine.
The navigation system on 2016 Volvos is usable.