Except that the Watson programmed to diagnose diseases is still called Watson. A Watson programmed to guess prices would still carry the brand name "Watson."
I would suspect that a computer much less powerful than Watson could be unbeatable at Wheel of Fortune. The Price is Right might be interesting--you could feed it tons of data about retail prices and not get everything. Could it extrapolate the price of one particular brand of cough drops or dishwasher from other similar products it already knows?
Mostly because nobody plays MTG anymore. WoTC destroyed that game.
Nobody plays? They've actually had four years in a row of record numbers of players. MTG is bigger than it's ever been. (And as someone who has been playing since 1994, the game is as good or better than it's ever been, too).
In my area, there are three stores that sell vinyl records (one of these, that's all he sells). There are zero stores that rent DVDs. My advice is close the store, get a Redbox franchise and rent a spot next to the soda machine at the grocery store.
How you voted is secret. That you voted is public record, same as the fact that that you're registered to vote. I wonder if they were correlating "vote vs. abstained" with results of past elections.
You haven't had problems with the Sharpie liquid pencil making inconsistent lines? The "ink" runs dry intermittently in the ones I tried. I was disappointed, because if it worked properly, that would be my go-to writing tool.
It's not so much that I can't handle real hardcore literature so much as I can't keep track of who is who when every character has six different nicknames that different people use interchangeably with no explanation. That made Brothers K impenetrable to me.
I have no love for anybody who has voted for any US budget the last dozen or so years (think back to with Clinton, disregarding a few tricks, the budget was nearly balanced).
Was it a fabrication? More or less. Fact is she was shot but a nutjob not a wingjob. Psychosis not politics was the motivator.
What difference does it make what the motivation was? The action taken was the same.
And for most people who aren't criminally sociopathic, there is, and should be, a huge gap between "no love for..." and "shooting and killing".
We can change it. Unfortunately, violence may be required.
Let me point out what that would look like: Remember Gabrielle Giffords? A judge and a rep were shot, and a completely innocent kid got killed at the same time. You're talking about that times a thousand?
When Giffords was shot, we, as a nation, decided we didn't like that. (Or was the outpouring of sympathy just a fabrication by corporate-owned media?)
I'm sure your revolution will be completely different than that because your revolution will be based on rational grievances like copyright law, rather than schizo lunacy. And you'll only go after those awful, horrible, oppressors who no one likes. Also, your marksmanship is so much better that little kids won't get killed in your crossfire.
Don't even write a story about it. THe crime itself is a "performance" and any depictions of it are unauthorized infringements on your intellectual property.
Yes!!! I have tremendous respect for Nate Silver for all he did in the 2008 elections to explain polling and statistical modeling, and for holding polling agencies accountable for their results.
While this is more or less true, "self correcting" is a euphemism for all sorts of nastiness that most people who aren't sociopaths aren't willing to just passively allow. What you call "correcting," I call "living in a dystopian shithole that could have been avoided."
What's bad design is to make a game that requires using the buttons and the touchscreen at the same time. DS games generally require one or the other, but not both.
(A lot of people said the same thing, but replying to you because you're the non-AC).
A B.A. in philosophy + a J.D. is a common combination of degrees. Philosophy is increasingly becoming the undergrad foundation for graduate studies in Law. It's like being a premed major, which doesn't qualify you to do much of anything except go to med school.
When i picture an "american hunter" i picture a middle aged overweight guy in flannel. Not exactly the most swift or agile type of human out there.
I don't know how many hunters you actually know, but all the ones I know could probably make it out there. Flannel: definitely. Overweight: a little, some of them. Not swift or agile: WTF? The hunters I know don't spend their days sitting in an office chair typing code all day; they carry heavy shit up scaffolding onto roofs, or lug spools of cable into basements and pull it through walls all day, or walk with surveying gear for miles every single day. Physically, they're all in good shape.
If there were a zombie infestation, their biggest liability would be lack of sufficient imagination because, unlike a lot of us Slashdotters, they never liked sci-fi even as kids and stopped playing pretend a long time ago.
I believe I may have seen once in a special feature on a Stargate DVD that they are convenient in how they fire. The casings fall straight down as opposed to off to the side. If they go to the side the other actors can be hit with them and I guess that just doesn't look as good.
That was pretty much it. Without the shell casings flying at their faces, they could stand the actors closer to one another, which is helpful for framing shots for television.
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Disc golf has exploded in popularity around here.
I am so glad there is someone keeping this alive.
Except that the Watson programmed to diagnose diseases is still called Watson. A Watson programmed to guess prices would still carry the brand name "Watson."
He did say "moved on" to other games. I took it to mean "How would a properly prepared Watson do at those games?"
I would suspect that a computer much less powerful than Watson could be unbeatable at Wheel of Fortune. The Price is Right might be interesting--you could feed it tons of data about retail prices and not get everything. Could it extrapolate the price of one particular brand of cough drops or dishwasher from other similar products it already knows?
Nobody plays? They've actually had four years in a row of record numbers of players. MTG is bigger than it's ever been. (And as someone who has been playing since 1994, the game is as good or better than it's ever been, too).
In my area, there are three stores that sell vinyl records (one of these, that's all he sells). There are zero stores that rent DVDs. My advice is close the store, get a Redbox franchise and rent a spot next to the soda machine at the grocery store.
How you voted is secret. That you voted is public record, same as the fact that that you're registered to vote. I wonder if they were correlating "vote vs. abstained" with results of past elections.
You haven't had problems with the Sharpie liquid pencil making inconsistent lines? The "ink" runs dry intermittently in the ones I tried. I was disappointed, because if it worked properly, that would be my go-to writing tool.
It's not so much that I can't handle real hardcore literature so much as I can't keep track of who is who when every character has six different nicknames that different people use interchangeably with no explanation. That made Brothers K impenetrable to me.
What difference does it make what the motivation was? The action taken was the same.
And for most people who aren't criminally sociopathic, there is, and should be, a huge gap between "no love for..." and "shooting and killing".
Let me point out what that would look like: Remember Gabrielle Giffords? A judge and a rep were shot, and a completely innocent kid got killed at the same time. You're talking about that times a thousand?
When Giffords was shot, we, as a nation, decided we didn't like that. (Or was the outpouring of sympathy just a fabrication by corporate-owned media?)
I'm sure your revolution will be completely different than that because your revolution will be based on rational grievances like copyright law, rather than schizo lunacy. And you'll only go after those awful, horrible, oppressors who no one likes. Also, your marksmanship is so much better that little kids won't get killed in your crossfire.
Don't even write a story about it. THe crime itself is a "performance" and any depictions of it are unauthorized infringements on your intellectual property.
Wind Waker definitely brought that feeling back for me. Especially given the cartoony graphics. Despite its flaws, that game felt amazing.
LttP or OoT probably would have, except I didn't play them until a long time after they came out (OoT on Gamecube and LttP on Wii Virtual Console).
Mod up. Lessig would be a great Slashdot interview.
Yes!!! I have tremendous respect for Nate Silver for all he did in the 2008 elections to explain polling and statistical modeling, and for holding polling agencies accountable for their results.
How about interviewing Lawrence Lessig on this topic?
Metamoderate more often. When I metamoderate, I usually get about 15 +1/Likes the next day.
While this is more or less true, "self correcting" is a euphemism for all sorts of nastiness that most people who aren't sociopaths aren't willing to just passively allow. What you call "correcting," I call "living in a dystopian shithole that could have been avoided."
"Like spell check."
That's a really good analogy for how it should be used.
What's bad design is to make a game that requires using the buttons and the touchscreen at the same time. DS games generally require one or the other, but not both.
(A lot of people said the same thing, but replying to you because you're the non-AC).
A B.A. in philosophy + a J.D. is a common combination of degrees. Philosophy is increasingly becoming the undergrad foundation for graduate studies in Law. It's like being a premed major, which doesn't qualify you to do much of anything except go to med school.
Could it be argued that the tattoo is a "work for hire" and Tyson, as the client who commissioned it, owns it?
I don't know how many hunters you actually know, but all the ones I know could probably make it out there. Flannel: definitely. Overweight: a little, some of them. Not swift or agile: WTF? The hunters I know don't spend their days sitting in an office chair typing code all day; they carry heavy shit up scaffolding onto roofs, or lug spools of cable into basements and pull it through walls all day, or walk with surveying gear for miles every single day. Physically, they're all in good shape.
If there were a zombie infestation, their biggest liability would be lack of sufficient imagination because, unlike a lot of us Slashdotters, they never liked sci-fi even as kids and stopped playing pretend a long time ago.
That was pretty much it. Without the shell casings flying at their faces, they could stand the actors closer to one another, which is helpful for framing shots for television.