I wouldn't call people like Cheney or Romney caring, but I do realize I'm always an odd duck. They don't give anywhere near the level of money I would, I wouldn't even consider purchasing a house over half a million no matter how much money I had, nor any jewellery or sport cars or restaurants costing more than a couple hundred to dine. I am trying to get rich for the purpose of spreading the wealth, my last game hit the top 10 in a couple countries on the AppStore and investors are interested in my next game, so fingers crossed. Feel free to vilify me if money corrupts;)
Exactly how does Mickey mouse being "protected" by copyright spur Pixar? The same could be said for Mickey going public domain, it spurred Pixar to re-create Mickey, enchanting a new generation and pushed animation to a new height... Draconian copyright laws help no-one!
I have great doubts this could be achieved for only $140B. Here in Australia we're doing FTTH at a cost of around $40B, and we're a very small country that huddles along the coastline (inner land gets wireless not fibre). To upscale to the size of the USA and given how spread out everyone is, it just seems like a pipe dream for only 3.5x the cost.
I can say with a 110% confidence that SSRIs work wonders for me, though I tend to get to the suicidal ideation stage before jumping on them. I have my doubts the scientific field completely disregards them, you can't base your findings off one study otherwise we'd all be damning vaccinations.
I've almost finished a book called Resilience 'The science of mastering life's greatest challengers", it's only a couple months old and has dozens of references to the benefits of SSRIs in combination with therapy. I'd recommend you read it, it gets straight to the point and ends each chapter ends with up to 2 pages of references, it just assaults you with science!
I'm one of the few people who actually enjoyed Daikatana, finished it with minimal issues.... Actually that's a lie, I remember the terrible team AI now, caused a few reloads from their deaths or getting stuck. But I did find that it was a pretty epic game, a heap of weapons and monsters and different time periods. I think the worst visual design was the first part of the game, it got better after that imo.
Being an Aussie I can say hell yeah! In fact our government recently admitted to an issue with our dental care and will spend $4.1 billion on dental schemes! I've been meaning to do a reality check with US deniers of free health care. Maybe draw a little comic that shows their "reality" and the real reality of it. Something along the lines of:
Brainwashed masses reality
Person gets cancer, Doctors try to save person's life using expensive methods, person lives but everyone burdened by their "debt". Country goes broke.
Actual reality
Person gets cancer, gets into remission, person lives and goes on to work another 30 years generating wealth and tax that pays back more than the cost of his treatment. Maybe even some good culture by spreading their personal story of triumph over cancer without needing a bajillion dollars.
Let's do it to dental care in celebration of Australia's one smart move (hey, we don't have many lately!):
Person needs a filling and dental health encouragement, can't afford dentist and never gets help, gum infection spreads and person dies an early death from heart disease. The sad reality and end.
But why would we be going back to moving files and folders with these HUDs? I just don't see the logic in it. The smartphone won't be displaced for AR until we get neural interfaces working and I can't see consumers wanting to remember where they put a file rather than the computer/AI keeping track based on context so a user only has to think of a task.
The Oculus Rift has a 5.5" screen covering almost the entire person's field of view, they even mentioned last week to backers that they upgraded to a 7" screen (due to their original screen no longer being available) but it would only result in a negligible increased FOV. Seems to me we'll be concentrating on smaller and higher res screens as we reach for getting AR/VR in contact lenses.
And I did google both, your google "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" came up with the first website about it being a hoax. "Iranian girl sentenced" never came up with any hoaxes or myths.
I guess you would then use my next reply that does say google glass isn't a small screen, so now we can skip this line of conversation and get back to the original argument of file-based vs task-based.
> small screen still has a big future to play thanks to augmented reality. AR which will be controlled via the user's smartphone....
Hmm, nope, didn't reference small screens being USED in AR devices. We're not going to overlap the real world via camera feed onto a "small opaque screen". I guess I should have assumed less.
Well if you were keeping track of our conversation, it was that task-based interfaces, aka the smart phone, are surpassing file-based interfaces in the mainstream.
Oh and you completely missed the part where the small screen of the smartphone will still be the primary control mechanism of AR. I too believe that AR will flourish as a HUD, in fact I hold that be the end of the decade it'll experience a growth beyond what smartphones achieved and be the fastest technology yet to reach mainstream usage thanks mostly to it's low cost as it piggybacks off more expensive smart phones.
I think it's more from the simplification but let's say your right then the small screen still has a big future to play thanks to augmented reality. AR which will be controlled via the user's smartphone, which is a task-based interface.
From my view the world is using smartphones, and hence task-based OS, much more than file-based. Perhaps you hang around too many other IT enthusiasts rather than an array of backgrounds? Sure it could be the same old file system, but the overlaying interface won't be the same old file-based view.
Where did I say anything about coding? I'm a developer and I know I'll be one of the last to abandon the desktop because it's the only one I know how to code on. The vast majority are consumers not creators, you should keep that in mind.
I'd find it rather odd if either Apple or MS put much more effort into the classic desktop, they'd be going against progress and the market. Whether you like it or not, the classic desktop is magnitudes more difficult to operate for the vast majority of humans than the task-based interfaces we're getting with touch devices. I just don't see a file-based system having a future in any major OS other than Linux. We're on the verge of AI based agents being a common interface using natural language processing and this will be even easier to use, which means complex file-based systems will look even more ancient and complex for someone used to just speaking to a computer (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc)
Until they decided that all progress was evil and halted their scientific progression allowing the rest of the world to catch up and subsequently pass them by. Killed by religion. Such a shame.
Key point: Mental abuse.
Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse or mental abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Telling children that if they touch themselves, if they have feelings for the opposite sex or deny the existence of a man in the sky they can't see, that they'll be tortured and burn in a nasty place for eternity might not be too far fetched to classify as mental abuse. Add in the fact they are watched 24/7 by this perve and I bet you'd end up creating some of the above behaviour.
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I wouldn't call people like Cheney or Romney caring, but I do realize I'm always an odd duck. They don't give anywhere near the level of money I would, I wouldn't even consider purchasing a house over half a million no matter how much money I had, nor any jewellery or sport cars or restaurants costing more than a couple hundred to dine. I am trying to get rich for the purpose of spreading the wealth, my last game hit the top 10 in a couple countries on the AppStore and investors are interested in my next game, so fingers crossed. Feel free to vilify me if money corrupts ;)
I've always said I'd be happy to pay a million in tax because it means I'm earning a hell of a lot more!
They are two different cities, but don't worry I'm an ignorant Queenslander who's only briefly visited the south east ;)
1) The other one being Brisbane and Gold Coast at 100km apart, I would say we're just concentrated on the coast line, not at all huge.
Exactly how does Mickey mouse being "protected" by copyright spur Pixar? The same could be said for Mickey going public domain, it spurred Pixar to re-create Mickey, enchanting a new generation and pushed animation to a new height... Draconian copyright laws help no-one!
I have great doubts this could be achieved for only $140B. Here in Australia we're doing FTTH at a cost of around $40B, and we're a very small country that huddles along the coastline (inner land gets wireless not fibre). To upscale to the size of the USA and given how spread out everyone is, it just seems like a pipe dream for only 3.5x the cost.
I can say with a 110% confidence that SSRIs work wonders for me, though I tend to get to the suicidal ideation stage before jumping on them. I have my doubts the scientific field completely disregards them, you can't base your findings off one study otherwise we'd all be damning vaccinations.
I've almost finished a book called Resilience 'The science of mastering life's greatest challengers", it's only a couple months old and has dozens of references to the benefits of SSRIs in combination with therapy. I'd recommend you read it, it gets straight to the point and ends each chapter ends with up to 2 pages of references, it just assaults you with science!
...pirated content, and that does take money away from content creators.
Please provide sources showing loss of revenue from piracy. PS. I'm an actual content creator, indie game developer, so if I was bias...
I'm one of the few people who actually enjoyed Daikatana, finished it with minimal issues.... Actually that's a lie, I remember the terrible team AI now, caused a few reloads from their deaths or getting stuck. But I did find that it was a pretty epic game, a heap of weapons and monsters and different time periods. I think the worst visual design was the first part of the game, it got better after that imo.
cool story right!
Being an Aussie I can say hell yeah! In fact our government recently admitted to an issue with our dental care and will spend $4.1 billion on dental schemes! I've been meaning to do a reality check with US deniers of free health care. Maybe draw a little comic that shows their "reality" and the real reality of it. Something along the lines of:
Brainwashed masses reality
Person gets cancer, Doctors try to save person's life using expensive methods, person lives but everyone burdened by their "debt". Country goes broke.
Actual reality
Person gets cancer, gets into remission, person lives and goes on to work another 30 years generating wealth and tax that pays back more than the cost of his treatment. Maybe even some good culture by spreading their personal story of triumph over cancer without needing a bajillion dollars.
Let's do it to dental care in celebration of Australia's one smart move (hey, we don't have many lately!):
Person needs a filling and dental health encouragement, can't afford dentist and never gets help, gum infection spreads and person dies an early death from heart disease. The sad reality and end.
But why would we be going back to moving files and folders with these HUDs? I just don't see the logic in it. The smartphone won't be displaced for AR until we get neural interfaces working and I can't see consumers wanting to remember where they put a file rather than the computer/AI keeping track based on context so a user only has to think of a task.
The Oculus Rift has a 5.5" screen covering almost the entire person's field of view, they even mentioned last week to backers that they upgraded to a 7" screen (due to their original screen no longer being available) but it would only result in a negligible increased FOV. Seems to me we'll be concentrating on smaller and higher res screens as we reach for getting AR/VR in contact lenses.
And I did google both, your google "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" came up with the first website about it being a hoax. "Iranian girl sentenced" never came up with any hoaxes or myths.
I did a quick search and wonder how you would explain Atefah Sahaaleh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atefah_Sahaaleh ?
To be honest I'm not entirely sure what you're belief status actually is, care to clarify facts not movies?
I guess you would then use my next reply that does say google glass isn't a small screen, so now we can skip this line of conversation and get back to the original argument of file-based vs task-based.
> small screen still has a big future to play thanks to augmented reality. AR which will be controlled via the user's smartphone....
Hmm, nope, didn't reference small screens being USED in AR devices. We're not going to overlap the real world via camera feed onto a "small opaque screen". I guess I should have assumed less.
Err wouldn't you be the one being obtuse? That projection has to hit something.
Well if you were keeping track of our conversation, it was that task-based interfaces, aka the smart phone, are surpassing file-based interfaces in the mainstream.
Oh and you completely missed the part where the small screen of the smartphone will still be the primary control mechanism of AR. I too believe that AR will flourish as a HUD, in fact I hold that be the end of the decade it'll experience a growth beyond what smartphones achieved and be the fastest technology yet to reach mainstream usage thanks mostly to it's low cost as it piggybacks off more expensive smart phones.
That HUD in google glass isn't a small screen!?
I think it's more from the simplification but let's say your right then the small screen still has a big future to play thanks to augmented reality. AR which will be controlled via the user's smartphone, which is a task-based interface.
From my view the world is using smartphones, and hence task-based OS, much more than file-based. Perhaps you hang around too many other IT enthusiasts rather than an array of backgrounds? Sure it could be the same old file system, but the overlaying interface won't be the same old file-based view.
Where did I say anything about coding? I'm a developer and I know I'll be one of the last to abandon the desktop because it's the only one I know how to code on. The vast majority are consumers not creators, you should keep that in mind.
I'd find it rather odd if either Apple or MS put much more effort into the classic desktop, they'd be going against progress and the market. Whether you like it or not, the classic desktop is magnitudes more difficult to operate for the vast majority of humans than the task-based interfaces we're getting with touch devices. I just don't see a file-based system having a future in any major OS other than Linux. We're on the verge of AI based agents being a common interface using natural language processing and this will be even easier to use, which means complex file-based systems will look even more ancient and complex for someone used to just speaking to a computer (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc)
Until they decided that all progress was evil and halted their scientific progression allowing the rest of the world to catch up and subsequently pass them by. Killed by religion. Such a shame.
Key point: Mental abuse.
Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse or mental abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Telling children that if they touch themselves, if they have feelings for the opposite sex or deny the existence of a man in the sky they can't see, that they'll be tortured and burn in a nasty place for eternity might not be too far fetched to classify as mental abuse. Add in the fact they are watched 24/7 by this perve and I bet you'd end up creating some of the above behaviour.