There is a place for the "delegate everything"-type manager though. It's just only in a moderate to large department and one who knows how to "delegate everything" **properly**. At that point, said manager is more or less a "workflow router" distributing tasks preferentially to those who are best capable, with an eye for load balancing. It requires a fine hand and close understanding of each employees capabilities, speed, and accuracy. Hell, where I work (and we have a very *weird* organizational structure) there's a guy in shipping that has as a side duty "determine what ideas are worth bringing to me in my programmer capacity (as opposed to my other 4 hats)" for whenever the owner or operations manager have a "neat idea". He doesn't know enough to actually build onto our intranet app in any significant way, but he knows enough to be able to eyeball an idea and know if it's reasonable to do in the first place, and accordingly acts as a "gateway", saving me from having to explain *why* some things are unreasonable as opposed to getting something done in one of my other assorted roles with that time (we actually jokingly refer to my job title as "wearer of hats" sometimes...the phrase came up at my last review).
My great grandmother passed away within 30 days of her 100th birthday party. Huge affair with literally every living descendant of hers present except for one (my father). 4 generations of people crammed into a relatively small room just to see her. Just another anecdote for the anecdote pile. =p
Other than assuming the worst, there's no reason to assume the game cannot function in single player without being connected to battle.net.
After all (and ignoring that GFWL is crap for a second), I could make the same statements about Fallout 3, Dawn of War, or Resident Evil 5 and GFWL. Being able to be "always connected" for "enhanced functionality". None of them require you to log into GFWL to function in single player though. Or any Steam game for that matter (you can go to offline mode, but then you lose the "enhanced functionality" of steam achievements and friends.
I'd expect something similar to the Steam overlay for the new battle.net.
Thank you sweet merciful lady of chaos. I used to play Tribes all the time, and wasn't aware you could do this. Wonder if there are still any Shifter servers running...
What you are saying is that we should assume that vaccinations are not to be trusted because there exist cases of children who develop autism at some point after vaccination (given the relatively high rate of vaccination, isn't that just a few hairs short of "autism exists, therefore vaccinations might cause it"?).
Wouldn't the obvious converse that should also be true if it's specifically caused by vaccines be that there be no cases of autism in unvaccinated children ever? What about in places where any especially suspect vaccination is given at a later age, are rates of autism dramatically lower among those populations?
Actually, I meant "three" and somehow wrote "two" I literally intended from the top of the list through public nudity. My bad.
If you violate traffic laws, dependent to some extent on the situation, you are creating an environment that endangers others. It's one thing to go 90 in a 60 at 4 AM when you literally are the only car on that road within a mile in either direction (that's basically my morning commute), it's another thing entirely to do it at 4PM during rush hour. Unless you just kind of mash them all together into "reckless driving" and devise a way to make it absolutely clear what is and what is not reckless without somehow describing specific verboten behaviours it's difficult to find the line between what is "excessive traffic regulation" and what is "recklessly endangering others, even if you manage to pull it off".
Taking a shit in the street is violating the property of an individual or organization (gov't property in this case, unless you did so in someone's driveway in which case it would be their property you've violated).
What you are saying is that there's no difference in the "harm" caused by tearing down say a small town street at 90 MPH during trick-or-treating at Halloween and watching a football game, so long as everyone on that street managed to get out of the way/you avoided them. Surely you see a difference in magnitude between these things, even though both only create an "increased statistical risk of injury or death", and why one of the two might be reasonable to make illegal versus the other?
Johnny and Suzie (both 15 years old) take nude photos of themselves and give them to each other. This act causes recognizable harm to society (or it's people on the whole) itself (pollution, bribery/corruption), some kind of violation of the property of an individual or organization (trespassing, vandalizing gov't property, potentially pollution again), or creates a situation wherein you are endangering others (traffic laws, pollution again)? At least enough so as to jail them and/or brand them for life, right? Or does it just show poor judgment and not really harm anyone?
Because out of the whole of your list, most of the ones that I wouldn't agree need changed (personally feel drug charges should be limited to a DUI-type structure wherein being under the effect of intoxicants of any stripe serves to aggravate charges for other malfeasance) fall into one or another of those categories (only listed 1 or 2 for each but most of the others fit one grouping or another).
The funny part is I preordered World of Goo from them specifically because it was basically real time bridge builder and they didn't include any of the DRM BS present in most titles.
As for them pulling the number out of their ass, the game does phone home in response to a certain feature being used: There's a sort of freeform "tower building" mode that uses the gooballs you saved in the normal levels, and it phones home to do a sort of automatic scoreboard (It puts markers from other users near your height on signs in the air near your tower). So they could look at the disparity between the number of sales and the number of names on the scorechart and get a vague estimate.
Heh, you said it. Last year I got a $1 return from federal, and owed the state something like $3. I rather enjoy having as much of my money actually be mine (what little it is -- I'm not terrifically well paid) rather than an interest-free loan to the government.
So what you are saying is that if administrator's are punished over false negatives (which they are, this is not reacting to a genuine threat) but also get punished over false positives that they'll simply get out because they might have to, you know, look into the situation before making any drastic reactions?
The same way we've genetically engineered dogs since at least the dawn of civilization, without really knowing the nature of "genes" for almost all of that time. It's admittedly a much slower generational process, but surely you don't think that the pretty broad genetic differences between breeds of dog are combinations that would likely arise and be successful without human meddling. Selective breeding is nothing but a very slow primitive form of genetic engineering.
Can you give me a good reason why creating a calf of gold and worshipping IHVH around it should be clearly wrong to people, especially given that their divinely-appointed priest instructed them to do so?
More importantly, can you give me a reason that that's the case but, say, building a 10' tall backlit cross (It's wall mounted and has lighting run behind it so that the light appears as though it's emanating from the sides of the cross -- Methodist church in my area has one of these things) and worshipping IHVH before it is accordingly OK?
I don't know, I could argue that Christianity has an important story that could be interpreted in such a way as to say that it's just to order moderate to large scale killings if people violate God's law, even if they haven't been given God's law yet and even if their *divinely appointed* religious leader (claiming to follow the same god we're talking about here) is complicit in the violation.
1. Moses goes up the Mt. Sinai to be handed down laws from God. 2. People at the base of the mountain get restless and ask their divinely appointed religious leader for help. 3. Said divinely appointed religious leader has an idol crafted from materials on hand. 4. People worship at the idol. 5. Moses comes back down with the new rules, which include not doing exactly what they were doing. 6. Moses smashes the tablet, orders the punishment.
What was this punishment, for breaking one of the rules of the as-yet-unreceived ten commandments, in accordance with the divinely appointed priest Aaron? Exodus 32:27: "And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour."
After that it states about 3000 dead from that verse (Exodus 32:28), God decides that isn't sufficient and then plagues them (Exodus 32:35).
So, if you ask me, I could say it's reasonable to say that Exodus Ch 32 could be interpreted in such a way as to imply that if some group is violating God's laws, even if doing so at the behest of their priest, and even if they're ignorant of the law in question that it's only right to murder them in the name of God (after all Moses ordered his followers to do exactly that), and to be thorough, so God doesn't need to follow up with a plague
I can also make an argument that what happens after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah clearly indicated that inbreeding with your father (with or without his knowledge/consent) is an entirely righteous choice if your mother is dead, your father has no sons, and is unlikely to get a new wife in the very near future.
When a religious extremist murders someone, often they themselves blame it on/connect it to their religion.
It's a lot harder ot find an atheist that murders because his targets have a god (as the reason given by your atheist killer) than it is to find religious folks who kill because their targets have no/the wrong god (as the reason given by your religious killer).
Presuming you can in fact root the device, they'd be relying on being Google, and having ads that don't piss off the majority of users and accordingly being less likely to be blocked. Imagine if they crossed this with some voice recognition and a bit of their search tech.
You talk about catching a movie, the screen on the phone provides a list of nearby theaters/current schedules automatically, default ordering based on advertising revenue.
You talk about planning to eat out, it hears "grabbing" "dinner" "Chinese", and lists appropriate restaurants immediately on screen, again default ordering based on ad revenue.
Conversation context sensitive ads if done right could actually be very useful, and if done wrong will result in Hulk-like rage.
Isn't the reality of the scenario that official policy stated that he was only to provide that information to a very specific list of people, and he was unwilling to do so to his manager (who wasn't on said list) or over a teleconference (where he could not verify all receivers were on said list) but did so when presented with an opportunity to do so in accordance with the policy he was supposed to follow in the first place?
That last sentence is more or less the point. The State has to get the carcass off the road one way or another, and every one that someone brings home and butchers is that much less that has to be spent on retrieval and disposal.
Isn't the entirety of the whole singularity concept the eventuality of creating a machine intelligence capable of refining the design of technology for greater capability/efficiency at a much greater speed than any human is able, including itself, and accordingly creating a sort of spiraling out of control where machine intelligence creates ever greater forms of itself which in turn solve ever greater problems growing farther and farther beyond the range of man to comprehend within a lifetime?
Effectively an inventor inventing a better inventor who can do the same ad nauseum?
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There is a place for the "delegate everything"-type manager though. It's just only in a moderate to large department and one who knows how to "delegate everything" **properly**. At that point, said manager is more or less a "workflow router" distributing tasks preferentially to those who are best capable, with an eye for load balancing. It requires a fine hand and close understanding of each employees capabilities, speed, and accuracy. Hell, where I work (and we have a very *weird* organizational structure) there's a guy in shipping that has as a side duty "determine what ideas are worth bringing to me in my programmer capacity (as opposed to my other 4 hats)" for whenever the owner or operations manager have a "neat idea". He doesn't know enough to actually build onto our intranet app in any significant way, but he knows enough to be able to eyeball an idea and know if it's reasonable to do in the first place, and accordingly acts as a "gateway", saving me from having to explain *why* some things are unreasonable as opposed to getting something done in one of my other assorted roles with that time (we actually jokingly refer to my job title as "wearer of hats" sometimes...the phrase came up at my last review).
My great grandmother passed away within 30 days of her 100th birthday party. Huge affair with literally every living descendant of hers present except for one (my father). 4 generations of people crammed into a relatively small room just to see her. Just another anecdote for the anecdote pile. =p
Other than assuming the worst, there's no reason to assume the game cannot function in single player without being connected to battle.net.
After all (and ignoring that GFWL is crap for a second), I could make the same statements about Fallout 3, Dawn of War, or Resident Evil 5 and GFWL. Being able to be "always connected" for "enhanced functionality". None of them require you to log into GFWL to function in single player though. Or any Steam game for that matter (you can go to offline mode, but then you lose the "enhanced functionality" of steam achievements and friends.
I'd expect something similar to the Steam overlay for the new battle.net.
Thank you sweet merciful lady of chaos. I used to play Tribes all the time, and wasn't aware you could do this. Wonder if there are still any Shifter servers running...
A song by Metallica titled One. http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/10241/
What you are saying is that we should assume that vaccinations are not to be trusted because there exist cases of children who develop autism at some point after vaccination (given the relatively high rate of vaccination, isn't that just a few hairs short of "autism exists, therefore vaccinations might cause it"?).
Wouldn't the obvious converse that should also be true if it's specifically caused by vaccines be that there be no cases of autism in unvaccinated children ever? What about in places where any especially suspect vaccination is given at a later age, are rates of autism dramatically lower among those populations?
Actually, I meant "three" and somehow wrote "two" I literally intended from the top of the list through public nudity. My bad.
If you violate traffic laws, dependent to some extent on the situation, you are creating an environment that endangers others. It's one thing to go 90 in a 60 at 4 AM when you literally are the only car on that road within a mile in either direction (that's basically my morning commute), it's another thing entirely to do it at 4PM during rush hour. Unless you just kind of mash them all together into "reckless driving" and devise a way to make it absolutely clear what is and what is not reckless without somehow describing specific verboten behaviours it's difficult to find the line between what is "excessive traffic regulation" and what is "recklessly endangering others, even if you manage to pull it off".
Taking a shit in the street is violating the property of an individual or organization (gov't property in this case, unless you did so in someone's driveway in which case it would be their property you've violated).
What you are saying is that there's no difference in the "harm" caused by tearing down say a small town street at 90 MPH during trick-or-treating at Halloween and watching a football game, so long as everyone on that street managed to get out of the way/you avoided them. Surely you see a difference in magnitude between these things, even though both only create an "increased statistical risk of injury or death", and why one of the two might be reasonable to make illegal versus the other?
So, let me see if *I* understand your stance.
Johnny and Suzie (both 15 years old) take nude photos of themselves and give them to each other. This act causes recognizable harm to society (or it's people on the whole) itself (pollution, bribery/corruption), some kind of violation of the property of an individual or organization (trespassing, vandalizing gov't property, potentially pollution again), or creates a situation wherein you are endangering others (traffic laws, pollution again)? At least enough so as to jail them and/or brand them for life, right? Or does it just show poor judgment and not really harm anyone?
Because out of the whole of your list, most of the ones that I wouldn't agree need changed (personally feel drug charges should be limited to a DUI-type structure wherein being under the effect of intoxicants of any stripe serves to aggravate charges for other malfeasance) fall into one or another of those categories (only listed 1 or 2 for each but most of the others fit one grouping or another).
The funny part is I preordered World of Goo from them specifically because it was basically real time bridge builder and they didn't include any of the DRM BS present in most titles.
As for them pulling the number out of their ass, the game does phone home in response to a certain feature being used: There's a sort of freeform "tower building" mode that uses the gooballs you saved in the normal levels, and it phones home to do a sort of automatic scoreboard (It puts markers from other users near your height on signs in the air near your tower). So they could look at the disparity between the number of sales and the number of names on the scorechart and get a vague estimate.
Heh, you said it. Last year I got a $1 return from federal, and owed the state something like $3. I rather enjoy having as much of my money actually be mine (what little it is -- I'm not terrifically well paid) rather than an interest-free loan to the government.
My highest tax return ever was $273.
...unless they start doing it to porn, in which case he'll give two hooters...
So what you are saying is that if administrator's are punished over false negatives (which they are, this is not reacting to a genuine threat) but also get punished over false positives that they'll simply get out because they might have to, you know, look into the situation before making any drastic reactions?
I'm not sure that "it wouldn't make much difference", surely you eventually get tired and/or bored and/or sore.
The same way we've genetically engineered dogs since at least the dawn of civilization, without really knowing the nature of "genes" for almost all of that time. It's admittedly a much slower generational process, but surely you don't think that the pretty broad genetic differences between breeds of dog are combinations that would likely arise and be successful without human meddling. Selective breeding is nothing but a very slow primitive form of genetic engineering.
WV there's a weight limit on the animal.
Can you give me a good reason why creating a calf of gold and worshipping IHVH around it should be clearly wrong to people, especially given that their divinely-appointed priest instructed them to do so?
More importantly, can you give me a reason that that's the case but, say, building a 10' tall backlit cross (It's wall mounted and has lighting run behind it so that the light appears as though it's emanating from the sides of the cross -- Methodist church in my area has one of these things) and worshipping IHVH before it is accordingly OK?
I don't know, I could argue that Christianity has an important story that could be interpreted in such a way as to say that it's just to order moderate to large scale killings if people violate God's law, even if they haven't been given God's law yet and even if their *divinely appointed* religious leader (claiming to follow the same god we're talking about here) is complicit in the violation.
1. Moses goes up the Mt. Sinai to be handed down laws from God.
2. People at the base of the mountain get restless and ask their divinely appointed religious leader for help.
3. Said divinely appointed religious leader has an idol crafted from materials on hand.
4. People worship at the idol.
5. Moses comes back down with the new rules, which include not doing exactly what they were doing.
6. Moses smashes the tablet, orders the punishment.
What was this punishment, for breaking one of the rules of the as-yet-unreceived ten commandments, in accordance with the divinely appointed priest Aaron? Exodus 32:27: "And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour."
After that it states about 3000 dead from that verse (Exodus 32:28), God decides that isn't sufficient and then plagues them (Exodus 32:35).
So, if you ask me, I could say it's reasonable to say that Exodus Ch 32 could be interpreted in such a way as to imply that if some group is violating God's laws, even if doing so at the behest of their priest, and even if they're ignorant of the law in question that it's only right to murder them in the name of God (after all Moses ordered his followers to do exactly that), and to be thorough, so God doesn't need to follow up with a plague
I can also make an argument that what happens after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah clearly indicated that inbreeding with your father (with or without his knowledge/consent) is an entirely righteous choice if your mother is dead, your father has no sons, and is unlikely to get a new wife in the very near future.
When a religious extremist murders someone, often they themselves blame it on/connect it to their religion.
It's a lot harder ot find an atheist that murders because his targets have a god (as the reason given by your atheist killer) than it is to find religious folks who kill because their targets have no/the wrong god (as the reason given by your religious killer).
Well, they are *clearly* his degenerate spawn, and reacting to the dreams of his coming... =)
Presuming you can in fact root the device, they'd be relying on being Google, and having ads that don't piss off the majority of users and accordingly being less likely to be blocked. Imagine if they crossed this with some voice recognition and a bit of their search tech.
You talk about catching a movie, the screen on the phone provides a list of nearby theaters/current schedules automatically, default ordering based on advertising revenue.
You talk about planning to eat out, it hears "grabbing" "dinner" "Chinese", and lists appropriate restaurants immediately on screen, again default ordering based on ad revenue.
Conversation context sensitive ads if done right could actually be very useful, and if done wrong will result in Hulk-like rage.
I'a! I'a! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Isn't the reality of the scenario that official policy stated that he was only to provide that information to a very specific list of people, and he was unwilling to do so to his manager (who wasn't on said list) or over a teleconference (where he could not verify all receivers were on said list) but did so when presented with an opportunity to do so in accordance with the policy he was supposed to follow in the first place?
That last sentence is more or less the point. The State has to get the carcass off the road one way or another, and every one that someone brings home and butchers is that much less that has to be spent on retrieval and disposal.
Tell that to the insurance. =)
Isn't the entirety of the whole singularity concept the eventuality of creating a machine intelligence capable of refining the design of technology for greater capability/efficiency at a much greater speed than any human is able, including itself, and accordingly creating a sort of spiraling out of control where machine intelligence creates ever greater forms of itself which in turn solve ever greater problems growing farther and farther beyond the range of man to comprehend within a lifetime?
Effectively an inventor inventing a better inventor who can do the same ad nauseum?