Amazon's dumb Echo speaker, like a Siri with whom you can curl up and watch a movie and ask, "is that the guy from Mr. Holland's Opus??" is dotting the home front for the lonely and the reckless wielders of discretionary income. The voice-activated Echo may also bear witness to any crimes taking place in your humble dwellings. At least
That's exactly what the killer did in the episode Playback. He sent a video tape of an empty room to the guardhouse, then shot the victim. He then arranged the video equipment to wait until he was far away setting up his alibi and then feed the murder scene to the guard. Really cool.
Not the ones who are actual scientists doing actual science. The rest of them are a little nuts. Every time the tornado sirens go off here, I immediately start chucking cats into the basement. I have 8 of them, and I've got it down to under 3 minutes. Some of them are trained to go downstairs when I say "out."
Training cats is hard, but it can be done. I have one who jumps through hoops, from chair to chair. We're working on "give paw" right now. I obviously have no life.
I have a friend whose team was acquired by Uber, and while he was still feeling hopeful about the place he invited me to one of their tech recruiting events so it wouldn't look so much like a sausage fest. Personally I've side-eyed them from the first sales pitch that was along the lines of "Women! Don't get in a marked taxi with a stranger (who is accountable to the system, flawed as it may be) late at night when the clubs are closing, get in a car with a (totally unaccountable) stranger!"
So - their engineering mantra is that they want it to be "reliable as running water". They said that so many times that evening, and every time I'm thinking "could they be more first-world oblivious?" Or even oblivious to the purported first-world cities of Flint or their neighbor East Palo Alto?
'So - their engineering mantra is that they want it to be "reliable as running water".'
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language.
Yes. The Penis of Death and Destruction. Respect the POD, or die!
That's exactly what the killer did in the episode Playback. He sent a video tape of an empty room to the guardhouse, then shot the victim. He then arranged the video equipment to wait until he was far away setting up his alibi and then feed the murder scene to the guard. Really cool.
Not the ones who are actual scientists doing actual science. The rest of them are a little nuts. Every time the tornado sirens go off here, I immediately start chucking cats into the basement. I have 8 of them, and I've got it down to under 3 minutes. Some of them are trained to go downstairs when I say "out."
Elton John, eat your heart out!
That child sure comes with a lot of warnings!
didnut know that wuz even pozzible!
It looks like babby is a fan of OHJB.
Yep, you have to, sometimes. Miles Davis was a pimp and a wife beater. I'm not into Jazz, but he's considered a genius in that form of music.
Training cats is hard, but it can be done. I have one who jumps through hoops, from chair to chair. We're working on "give paw" right now. I obviously have no life.
Great idea! Take your mind off politics:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I have a friend whose team was acquired by Uber, and while he was still feeling hopeful about the place he invited me to one of their tech recruiting events so it wouldn't look so much like a sausage fest. Personally I've side-eyed them from the first sales pitch that was along the lines of "Women! Don't get in a marked taxi with a stranger (who is accountable to the system, flawed as it may be) late at night when the clubs are closing, get in a car with a (totally unaccountable) stranger!"
So - their engineering mantra is that they want it to be "reliable as running water". They said that so many times that evening, and every time I'm thinking "could they be more first-world oblivious?" Or even oblivious to the purported first-world cities of Flint or their neighbor East Palo Alto?
I'm afraid 2017 will look something like this:
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Doesn't the Uber guy get at least a date with Cybil Sheperd?
'So - their engineering mantra is that they want it to be "reliable as running water".'
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language.
Spoken by the person who gave us a language with half a dozen modifiers for a variable declaration - const static mutable '&' '*' and ' ', wtf.
"Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay
Smalltalk forever! (Or ObjectiveC)
Speaking as an MSM, that's just excessive.