The people complaining the most vocally will not be happy until the day when every photo or moving image of a woman they see magically looks exactly like them so they can feel better about themselves.
People who are whiny and insecure about their own looks would not feel better seeing themselves on display. They'd just notice their own flaws sticking out, and become more self-loathing.
It seems that the only person saying that Watson *could* be used "to battle patent trolls" is the last article's author. Nobody else has said that IBM or any customer using Watson is actually pursuing this use.
Yes, there's some good shows. But it's not worth watching TV to see them. A lot of people catch an episode of something they like, or hear people talk about something of interest, then watch it on DVD when it comes out or download/watch it online.
The whole TV "experience" is painful and insulting. Need to watch it on their schedule (if you don't have a Tivo-alike), inundated with insipid shallow advertising, stuff splattered all over the bottom & sides of the screen during the show, etc. Get just the content itself separate from TV, and it's a much better product that you can actually enjoy.
As a child during the 80s, I remember a lot of this sort of positive attitude. It seems that children were always having "You can do whatever you set your mind to", and the Army's "Be all you can be" sort of slogans shoved in their face. Sure, not everybody embraced that but I think it had a generally empowering effect.
Then the "don't hurt anybody's feelings by being better than them" and "just because you suck doesn't mean you need to change" mantras rose up and it seems to have a superhero-reducing effect.
I do believe these attitudes have a rippling effect, but they stem from the culture's perception of children and education. Nowadays the culture of education is driven by the noisiest parents (at least in the USA), and changing that is quite a chore.
I would suspect that there are far more people employed in writing mundane crap like "accounts receivable form generator that Jim made before quitting" than any of the effects areas you mention.
Western Governor's University basically does this, in that they rely on you taking & passing industry-standard certification tests in order to progress in their IT fields. However, there are a number of other "normal" classes with papers and whatnot to submit. They're properly accredited and will get you a real bachelor's degree, but they're generally thought of as a degree mill.
Why would anybody possibly stay in a province whose tax rate increases by 20 percentage points? Increase taxes (at least on that scale) and you choke off your taxable base.
No, the only solution is for everyone to say "You're not worth it" to the media companies and ignore all their products. Don't buy them, don't download them, don't acknowledge them in any way whatsoever. Pirating just acknowledges the public's desire for that product, and gives it word-of-mouth advertising on which others will buy it.
- Disrespectful behaviour is bad behaviour, and bad behaviour should not be tolerated (and should never be legitimised for any reason, including free speech).
For behavior that is "bad", but only because it's divisive, insensitive, or offensive:
- It should not be tolerated by malleable local culture/convention == Fine, culture defines what is offensive/insensitive and it changes quite quickly. People will shun those undesirable to them.
- It should not be tolerated by legal enforcement == Tyranny.
Your viewpoint is one of the most destructive anti-freedom political ideals in existence today, found in both first-world and lagging nations. People are not a monoculture, and they will always hold opposing viewpoints. These viewpoints will cause conflicts, and preventing people from merely holding & expressing selected viewpoints is nothing but censorship and thoughtcrime.
Holding & expressing differing political viewpoints to some is disrespectful, as are differing social ideas, cultural ideas, musical tastes, fashion styles, and on down to however insignificant you want to go. As long as 2 people exist on this planet, there will be disrespect at some level, with both sides being well-meaning and feeling they're on higher ground.
"Freedom of speech within...." is NOT freedom of speech. You hear the strictest and egregiously punitive of theocratic governments claim they believe "Freedom of speech" with all sorts of "Well, *obviously* you can't say X/Y/Z" tacked on. It destroys the entire concept. Yes, freedom of speech in the USA is already broken, and far from what the country was designed to uphold.
The US government believes that certain rights exist naturally. However, it still must somewhere enumerate those beliefs that it embraces, or else consistently and accountedly acting on those beliefs becomes impossible.
The terrorists' actions don't matter any more to you, since you obviously have already been terrorized and there's nothing more they need to do to you. Those who still have their self intact will continue on with progress.
I've got a couple of T221s and I use an appropriate font size as well: 4pt. I have LOTS of text onscreen, and yes, my eyes are very good at reading microprint et al.
OSes haven't failed as a whole. The current desktop/server ones just haven't caught up to and rediscovered the proper design principles of the old mainframes.
Each thread/process deals with a 32-bit slice of a larger processing domain. Even when working with huge databases, there's no reason that each processing node of it can't work well within 1GB of RAM. (It seems there are 4 cores per 4GB of RAM).
In the "many low-power CPU" strategy, saddling each CPU to work with 64-bit by default could be a real waste of memory bandwidth compared to the actual slice of the workload that it will get. But I expect this line to get full 64-bit just for ease & transparency in not too long. The full 64-bit ARM stuff has been announced already, but is still a few years out.
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They probably list things like cigarette lighters as "explosives".
The people complaining the most vocally will not be happy until the day when every photo or moving image of a woman they see magically looks exactly like them so they can feel better about themselves.
People who are whiny and insecure about their own looks would not feel better seeing themselves on display. They'd just notice their own flaws sticking out, and become more self-loathing.
It seems that the only person saying that Watson *could* be used "to battle patent trolls" is the last article's author. Nobody else has said that IBM or any customer using Watson is actually pursuing this use.
Yes, there's some good shows. But it's not worth watching TV to see them. A lot of people catch an episode of something they like, or hear people talk about something of interest, then watch it on DVD when it comes out or download/watch it online.
The whole TV "experience" is painful and insulting. Need to watch it on their schedule (if you don't have a Tivo-alike), inundated with insipid shallow advertising, stuff splattered all over the bottom & sides of the screen during the show, etc. Get just the content itself separate from TV, and it's a much better product that you can actually enjoy.
As a child during the 80s, I remember a lot of this sort of positive attitude. It seems that children were always having "You can do whatever you set your mind to", and the Army's "Be all you can be" sort of slogans shoved in their face. Sure, not everybody embraced that but I think it had a generally empowering effect.
Then the "don't hurt anybody's feelings by being better than them" and "just because you suck doesn't mean you need to change" mantras rose up and it seems to have a superhero-reducing effect.
I do believe these attitudes have a rippling effect, but they stem from the culture's perception of children and education. Nowadays the culture of education is driven by the noisiest parents (at least in the USA), and changing that is quite a chore.
I would suspect that there are far more people employed in writing mundane crap like "accounts receivable form generator that Jim made before quitting" than any of the effects areas you mention.
Western Governor's University basically does this, in that they rely on you taking & passing industry-standard certification tests in order to progress in their IT fields. However, there are a number of other "normal" classes with papers and whatnot to submit. They're properly accredited and will get you a real bachelor's degree, but they're generally thought of as a degree mill.
That's not creating a job, that's creating a worker's skills.
Creating a job means that there is a need for work to be done, and a flow of money sufficient to hire somebody to do it.
Why would anybody possibly stay in a province whose tax rate increases by 20 percentage points? Increase taxes (at least on that scale) and you choke off your taxable base.
That's what licensing is for. If they're properly licensed to do the job, does it matter whether they went to learn?
I would suspect that at least some portion of the American HAM increases is related to concern for the continued stability of the country.
No, the only solution is for everyone to say "You're not worth it" to the media companies and ignore all their products. Don't buy them, don't download them, don't acknowledge them in any way whatsoever. Pirating just acknowledges the public's desire for that product, and gives it word-of-mouth advertising on which others will buy it.
Let them rot.
- Disrespectful behaviour is bad behaviour, and bad behaviour should not be tolerated (and should never be legitimised for any reason, including free speech).
For behavior that is "bad", but only because it's divisive, insensitive, or offensive:
- It should not be tolerated by malleable local culture/convention == Fine, culture defines what is offensive/insensitive and it changes quite quickly. People will shun those undesirable to them.
- It should not be tolerated by legal enforcement == Tyranny.
Your viewpoint is one of the most destructive anti-freedom political ideals in existence today, found in both first-world and lagging nations. People are not a monoculture, and they will always hold opposing viewpoints. These viewpoints will cause conflicts, and preventing people from merely holding & expressing selected viewpoints is nothing but censorship and thoughtcrime.
Holding & expressing differing political viewpoints to some is disrespectful, as are differing social ideas, cultural ideas, musical tastes, fashion styles, and on down to however insignificant you want to go. As long as 2 people exist on this planet, there will be disrespect at some level, with both sides being well-meaning and feeling they're on higher ground.
"Freedom of speech within...." is NOT freedom of speech. You hear the strictest and egregiously punitive of theocratic governments claim they believe "Freedom of speech" with all sorts of "Well, *obviously* you can't say X/Y/Z" tacked on. It destroys the entire concept. Yes, freedom of speech in the USA is already broken, and far from what the country was designed to uphold.
The US government believes that certain rights exist naturally. However, it still must somewhere enumerate those beliefs that it embraces, or else consistently and accountedly acting on those beliefs becomes impossible.
The terrorists' actions don't matter any more to you, since you obviously have already been terrorized and there's nothing more they need to do to you. Those who still have their self intact will continue on with progress.
"Eat healthy. Eat vegetarians."
Because using Slashdot's "piracy" logo seems a bit counter-productive. Wikipedia shows a logo for the international organization.
IIRC, BC actually takes place in a future post-apocalyptic setting, not the distant past. Wrap your brain around that.
I've got a couple of T221s and I use an appropriate font size as well: 4pt. I have LOTS of text onscreen, and yes, my eyes are very good at reading microprint et al.
If you're in the front seat, you're not a stranded motorist needing a lift. Those go in the back seat.
If you're carrying a gas can and need fuel, you're not a ride-along.
Just as we know it. But I feel fine.
Stop throwing all these other confusing details at me; I'm still cowering in fear of global cooling!
OSes haven't failed as a whole. The current desktop/server ones just haven't caught up to and rediscovered the proper design principles of the old mainframes.
Each thread/process deals with a 32-bit slice of a larger processing domain. Even when working with huge databases, there's no reason that each processing node of it can't work well within 1GB of RAM. (It seems there are 4 cores per 4GB of RAM).
In the "many low-power CPU" strategy, saddling each CPU to work with 64-bit by default could be a real waste of memory bandwidth compared to the actual slice of the workload that it will get. But I expect this line to get full 64-bit just for ease & transparency in not too long. The full 64-bit ARM stuff has been announced already, but is still a few years out.