The framing of this article seriously makes me want to take Slashdot off the list of sites I look at. Politically correct? Because he's not white?
Cowardly, pissant, fragile ego white kids need to get over themselves. And now.
If you don't like it, stop developing the tech. Because if it exists, it will be used against you.
That will never happen. If a tech can be developed, someone will develop it. What we need is a real civil government. Mind you, I have no idea how to implement that these days.
I would argue that the effects are observable, and they're against it. If every choice is available somewhere, why does probability work so well? Why can we somehow navigate this infinite sea of all possibilities with confidence?
The only problem with this is that a huge amount of time web devs are working on servers they don't own and don't have install privileges to. That's why PHP wins.
Actually, right now, you can buy all the ddo content and come out ahead of six months of a paid account. That'll probably change, but at the moment you get a monetary advantage being a free player.
Unless it's an unusually uh, moist, area, you'd get the same thing with water collectors anywhere there's a settlement and no need to pay a farmer plus transport it. It didn't look real wet around that farm.
R2-D2
Sure, he's cute, but the flaws in his design are obvious the first time he approaches anything but the shallowest of stairs. Also: He has jets, a periscope, a taser and oil canisters to make enforcer droids fall about in slapsticky fashion -- and no voice synthesizer. Imagine that design conversation: "Yes, we can afford slapstick oil and tasers, but we'll never get a 30-cent voice chip past accounting. That's just madness."
I believe his primary function is a flight droid so they were built to interface with ships. Not a lot else. John Scalzi seems to suffer from the "must have everything" school of thought and doesn't think the future will focus on minimalism and getting one thing right. Thank god he's not writing software and just another hot air blogger. I reject Episodes I, II & III so I don't know what he's talking about with the oil slick and jets.
Yeah, well my toasters primary function is to make toast. However, they decided to put a lever that allows me to communicate with it so that I'm not in the dark as to what's going on. Here's the design meeting:
"Hey we've got this kickass flight droid that will sit right behind you and help you out while you fly"
"Sweet, so it'll like, tell me if there's problems"
"Oh sure. As long as you speak boopie-beepie"
"...."
C-3PO
Can't fully extend his arms; has a bunch of exposed wiring in his abs; walks and runs as if he has the droid equivalent of arthritis. And you say, well, he was put together by an eight-year-old. Yes, but a trip to the nearest Radio Shack would fix that. Also, I'm still waiting to hear the rationale for making a protocol droid a shrieking coward, aside from George Lucas rummaging through a box of offensive stereotypes (which he'd later return to while building Jar-Jar Binks) and picking out the "mincing gay man" module.
Again, you're overlooking his primary function. C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication." So he's got arthritis, well, you didn't build him to be flexible or fight. You built him to look pretty and translate. Everything else is bells and whistles. I think he was meant to stand in a corner for some rich merchant or politician and translate any language imaginable. Are you going to tell me that my car is flawed because I couldn't afford a $20 toaster to put in the dash?
Nah, I'll tell you your car is flawed if they put an air conditioner in it that only blows hot sand. So what he's a protocol droid? They gave him ARMS AND LEGS. And then made sure that they barely work? What the hell.
Death Star
An unshielded exhaust port leading directly to the central reactor? Really? And when you rebuild it, your solution to this problem is four paths into the central core so large that you can literally fly a spaceship through them? Brilliant. Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can't get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room.
Uh, the second Death Star was never completed, you idiot. The rebels learned about it and attacked it before it had everything completed so anything like "four paths to the central core" or "exposed shafts" could well have been necessary during its construction. Haven't you seen Clerks or watched Robot Chicken's parody of Palpatine trying to talk to the foreman?
Yeah, so here's a guy who already lost one giant pile of money (plus like a million people which makes Skywalker one of the great genociders of the SW universe, but I digress) by having a kid blow the first one up with a single shot. You're going to build another one, you know he and his pain in the ass rebellion is still around, and is watching you. So what you do see, is oh, DON'T PUT THE EXPLOSIVE REACTOR IN UNTIL LAST. Just a thought.
Nah. I've played this game.
I'm working on this project (thank god I can talk about it) and that's fairly accurate. They're improving the tracking on this thing on a weekly basis and it's pretty playable now. I'm not sure whether this is going to set the world on fire or not, but what you saw being played on stage is the real deal.
Tiered pricing is no different than tiered pricing in any other arena. Prime office space on the top floor in downtown San Francisco, California is going to cost you a lot more than the shack behind Pete's Tacos. A Rodeo Drive storefront costs more than your mom's basement
Right, except in your rather strained analogy, noone is saying what you can do inside the space you've bought. The price tiering here is bandwidth, not access to a certain class of packets.
Welcome to the world of capitalism, where nothing is free except you.
Yes, well theoretically capitalism is our economic model and democracy is our political model, with the expectation that the latter will be valued over the former. Not that it always works, but shrugging your shoulders and saying "that's how they get ya" is simply admitting it's too hard and you don't want to think about it.
Slashdot Mirror
Not as long as I can go home at 5, no.
The framing of this article seriously makes me want to take Slashdot off the list of sites I look at. Politically correct? Because he's not white? Cowardly, pissant, fragile ego white kids need to get over themselves. And now.
We better not be violating the second Benthic treaty, that's all I have to say...
If you don't like it, stop developing the tech. Because if it exists, it will be used against you.
That will never happen. If a tech can be developed, someone will develop it. What we need is a real civil government. Mind you, I have no idea how to implement that these days.
The Future: A first post, stamping on an article, forever.
I need to compile a list, but off the top of my head Earth: The Final Conflict did this years before Minority Report. That is all.
I would argue that the effects are observable, and they're against it. If every choice is available somewhere, why does probability work so well? Why can we somehow navigate this infinite sea of all possibilities with confidence?
Is this vastly different than the Predator drones we use in AfPak? Or are we just freaked out because someone else is doing it?
Very carefully?
The only problem with this is that a huge amount of time web devs are working on servers they don't own and don't have install privileges to. That's why PHP wins.
Sad but true.
Actually, right now, you can buy all the ddo content and come out ahead of six months of a paid account. That'll probably change, but at the moment you get a monetary advantage being a free player.
Weird, DDO doesn't have this problem. Does this mean it's doomed? Can you now predict success of an MMO on spam levels?
Right, and how do they grow it?
Unless it's an unusually uh, moist, area, you'd get the same thing with water collectors anywhere there's a settlement and no need to pay a farmer plus transport it. It didn't look real wet around that farm.
R2-D2 Sure, he's cute, but the flaws in his design are obvious the first time he approaches anything but the shallowest of stairs. Also: He has jets, a periscope, a taser and oil canisters to make enforcer droids fall about in slapsticky fashion -- and no voice synthesizer. Imagine that design conversation: "Yes, we can afford slapstick oil and tasers, but we'll never get a 30-cent voice chip past accounting. That's just madness."
I believe his primary function is a flight droid so they were built to interface with ships. Not a lot else. John Scalzi seems to suffer from the "must have everything" school of thought and doesn't think the future will focus on minimalism and getting one thing right. Thank god he's not writing software and just another hot air blogger. I reject Episodes I, II & III so I don't know what he's talking about with the oil slick and jets.
Yeah, well my toasters primary function is to make toast. However, they decided to put a lever that allows me to communicate with it so that I'm not in the dark as to what's going on. Here's the design meeting:
"Hey we've got this kickass flight droid that will sit right behind you and help you out while you fly"
"Sweet, so it'll like, tell me if there's problems"
"Oh sure. As long as you speak boopie-beepie"
"...."
C-3PO Can't fully extend his arms; has a bunch of exposed wiring in his abs; walks and runs as if he has the droid equivalent of arthritis. And you say, well, he was put together by an eight-year-old. Yes, but a trip to the nearest Radio Shack would fix that. Also, I'm still waiting to hear the rationale for making a protocol droid a shrieking coward, aside from George Lucas rummaging through a box of offensive stereotypes (which he'd later return to while building Jar-Jar Binks) and picking out the "mincing gay man" module.
Again, you're overlooking his primary function. C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication." So he's got arthritis, well, you didn't build him to be flexible or fight. You built him to look pretty and translate. Everything else is bells and whistles. I think he was meant to stand in a corner for some rich merchant or politician and translate any language imaginable. Are you going to tell me that my car is flawed because I couldn't afford a $20 toaster to put in the dash?
Nah, I'll tell you your car is flawed if they put an air conditioner in it that only blows hot sand. So what he's a protocol droid? They gave him ARMS AND LEGS. And then made sure that they barely work? What the hell.
Death Star An unshielded exhaust port leading directly to the central reactor? Really? And when you rebuild it, your solution to this problem is four paths into the central core so large that you can literally fly a spaceship through them? Brilliant. Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can't get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room.
Uh, the second Death Star was never completed, you idiot. The rebels learned about it and attacked it before it had everything completed so anything like "four paths to the central core" or "exposed shafts" could well have been necessary during its construction. Haven't you seen Clerks or watched Robot Chicken's parody of Palpatine trying to talk to the foreman?
Yeah, so here's a guy who already lost one giant pile of money (plus like a million people which makes Skywalker one of the great genociders of the SW universe, but I digress) by having a kid blow the first one up with a single shot. You're going to build another one, you know he and his pain in the ass rebellion is still around, and is watching you. So what you do see, is oh, DON'T PUT THE EXPLOSIVE REACTOR IN UNTIL LAST. Just a thought.
But
Right. Besides the aqueducts, medicine, roads, and irrigation, the bully has given us nothing!
Actually, he used to put his good les pauls on a stand behind the amp, pull out a cheap copy and smash the crap out of it. He wasn't totally stupid.
Now if I could just find an XP vending machine, I 'd be all set.
Nah. I've played this game. I'm working on this project (thank god I can talk about it) and that's fairly accurate. They're improving the tracking on this thing on a weekly basis and it's pretty playable now. I'm not sure whether this is going to set the world on fire or not, but what you saw being played on stage is the real deal.
Fundamental to my argument is that people have a right to that which they produce.
Well, you may want to check with whoever you work for. Most people don't.
Secondary to that is that people know how best to spend the money that they earn
Yeah, especially the people who run fortune 500 companies. They do great.
Geez, you need a girlfriend.
But I loved SWBF 2.
I'm looking forward to this, but a playable ewok? Who the hell wants that?
As if ringtones weren't annoying enough. Welcome to hell.
Pets like the toilet because preferring water from running sources is a great survival strategy.
Ugh, that's just idiotic.
Tiered pricing is no different than tiered pricing in any other arena. Prime office space on the top floor in downtown San Francisco, California is going to cost you a lot more than the shack behind Pete's Tacos. A Rodeo Drive storefront costs more than your mom's basement
Right, except in your rather strained analogy, noone is saying what you can do inside the space you've bought. The price tiering here is bandwidth, not access to a certain class of packets.
Welcome to the world of capitalism, where nothing is free except you.
Yes, well theoretically capitalism is our economic model and democracy is our political model, with the expectation that the latter will be valued over the former. Not that it always works, but shrugging your shoulders and saying "that's how they get ya" is simply admitting it's too hard and you don't want to think about it.