it's "fewer votes" not "less votes"
the same way you say "greater than" not "greater then"
It's also customary to start sentences with capital letters and end them with a full stop. When it comes to your own posts it seems that you grasp the idea that an internet post does not have to contain precisely correct English (mine certainly don't). So it is rather strange that you won't let similar lapses in other people's posts pass without criticism.
Actually, if you want to get pedantic... format variation (e.g. poetic verse) is not the same as a grammar mistake.
Instead of paintball, you and your buddies go for a weekend of defending a "fort" against robots just like these. The robots don't have your agility or intelligence, but they can taze you. And you can beat the crap out of them with melee weapons of your choice. In fact, they're designed for it - to be "broken", and rebuilt later - but it takes a lot of force. You and your buddies get to go nuts, and the situation can be cranked up to be nuts, too, all the way up to being overrun.
I would pay so much money just to try something like that.
...the better the chance this hype will have fizzled and that you will not have to buy anything! VR is about as "ready" as 3D television, which is completely over because it does not really work at this time. The same is true for VR.
Holy shit, this comment got marked insightful?
VR developer, here. Tell us you've actually tried VR, or STFU.
The human brain runs on about twenty watts. The computational power required to match it is barely imaginable.
Clearly we are a long, long way from the limits imposed by the laws of physics.
No, not really. The 'barely imaginable' computational power required now comes from clumsy, inaccurate, and barely-informed emulation.
When we finally understand it, a faithful execution of the brain's design will have fairly modest hardware requirements. It will be like a graphics card.
After all these years, VR is still a technology desperately looking for a problem that it is actually needed for. Sure, Oculus headsets are nifty things: but outside some niche applications, actually useful they are not.
In a real emergency, there'd be holy hell to pay if a robot assumed authority and lead people to their deaths.
Humans can make mistakes and can be individually accountable. When a machine malfunctions, that liability passes strait through to the manufacturer, and whatever authority certified its safety.
When (and if) machines are finally delegated such responsibility, aside from maybe one highly-publicized case that everyone goes apeshit over, you can bet your ass that they will be reliable.
When I get out of shape and start exercising again, my weight balance shifts between fat and muscle first, by more than 5%, before I start to actually lose weight.
Just like BMI, I think studies that focus on weight alone leave out too much information on what's happening internally.
That is, I'd wager losing 5% of your weight from a week of stomach flu is not the same as 'earning' it.
Why would a PC game that happens to be running on a console run badly on a PC? I've got breaking news for you: PC games also manage to run on lower spec crummy desktops. The Minimum System Requirements are usually a few generations *older* than the latest consoles. So if you're going to make a cross-release game you just make the PC version and then hardcode the resolution to "1920x1080" and the quality settings to "Textures: Good, Models: Better, Shaders:Best,Lighting: Good." And hit ship.
Also, this might surprise you but every PC Game you probably play today will work great with an Xbox One controller. Just plug it in and you're good to go. The controls don't suck.
But the controls do suck.
Remember the Diablo-style drag-and-drop inventory system introduced 20 years ago? Well for modern games, making a good inventory system is effing rocket science. Look at the inventory system in Borderlands (any version) and tell me how the hell that got out of design, let alone passed QA. Let's play Unreal Tournament (1999, 2004, or 2015 alpha) together, you with a controller, me with a mouse and keyboard, and tell me there's no difference.
For some things, the controller will ALWAYS BE SHIT.
The UBI operates under the assumption that everyone manages money in a rational manner, which is completely at odds with actual experience...
The UBI will not change human nature. It will instead become one of the biggest entitlement boondoggles in the history of civilization.
That's a bit unlikely considering it's being tried on small scales first.
Also, the lack of ability to plan and take care of yourself could be addressed to some or even a large degree by focusing on that in primary school.
And those who fail with free money? Declare them incompetent and think up a way to deal with those "special" cases. I guarantee they're already a problem so it's nothing new.
First up, I have never, ever seen your "mobile" site... it's blank. Always. Both on my phone and on my main machines. I've had to change my phone's browser UserAgent just to get the links I open to stop redirecting to "m.slashdot" even though I have an "always desktop mode" plugin.
Anyway, I read Slashdot mostly on my phone when I'm out and bored. I try to review every summary that I haven't seen yet, and open a new tab for each article I want to read as I go. Sometimes I get interrupted, and when I come back, slashdot auto-reloads and annoys the hell out of me by making me lose my place. Sometimes, it will auto-reload while I'm in the middle of reading a summary and every time I wonder why the hell anyone would want such an annoying feature.
This is, however, a symptom of the underlying problem that your pagination always changes every time an article is added. I would like the option to browse with URLs that use constant pagination. The simplest would be by day.
This comes up again and again. A group of people grab a cause that falls under the umbrella of political correctness to bludgeon everyone else over the head with it.
Sort of like religious people declaring that you can't be moral if you don't have god in your life - it's just a cultural power play. It has nothing to do with what's right and what's wrong.
As for patents, they should just be completely obliterated. I have never seen a patent where I said, if we didn't grant this patent, we would never have got this thing invented. The inventor would have been too scared.
While I generally agree with the sentiment of your post, you probably forgot about drug development, which can take billions of dollars.
Without patents, some drugs / therapies would simply never be developed. At least, not without a more robust way of doing it with state funds.
Haven't we already chucked the 4th amendment out the window? Might as well make the best of it and mandate that all footage be available to the public after 30 days, no exceptions. None of this $200/hr crap.
Bonus: regular people get body cams, too, if they want them.
Slashdot Mirror
Since you're already in trouble.
it's "fewer votes" not "less votes"
the same way you say "greater than" not "greater then"
It's also customary to start sentences with capital letters and end them with a full stop. When it comes to your own posts it seems that you grasp the idea that an internet post does not have to contain precisely correct English (mine certainly don't). So it is rather strange that you won't let similar lapses in other people's posts pass without criticism.
Actually, if you want to get pedantic... format variation (e.g. poetic verse) is not the same as a grammar mistake.
No, seriously. Lemme 'splain.
Instead of paintball, you and your buddies go for a weekend of defending a "fort" against robots just like these. The robots don't have your agility or intelligence, but they can taze you. And you can beat the crap out of them with melee weapons of your choice. In fact, they're designed for it - to be "broken", and rebuilt later - but it takes a lot of force. You and your buddies get to go nuts, and the situation can be cranked up to be nuts, too, all the way up to being overrun.
I would pay so much money just to try something like that.
why any ISP is also allowed to be a content provider?
At sufficient scale, this combination obviously creates perverse incentives.
How would this not just worsen the market failure we're already seeing?
The researchers dropped 297 USB flash drives on a university campus
Come on. Of course students are going to pick them up.
...the better the chance this hype will have fizzled and that you will not have to buy anything! VR is about as "ready" as 3D television, which is completely over because it does not really work at this time. The same is true for VR.
Holy shit, this comment got marked insightful?
VR developer, here. Tell us you've actually tried VR, or STFU.
The human brain runs on about twenty watts. The computational power required to match it is barely imaginable.
Clearly we are a long, long way from the limits imposed by the laws of physics.
No, not really. The 'barely imaginable' computational power required now comes from clumsy, inaccurate, and barely-informed emulation.
When we finally understand it, a faithful execution of the brain's design will have fairly modest hardware requirements. It will be like a graphics card.
After all these years, VR is still a technology desperately looking for a problem that it is actually needed for. Sure, Oculus headsets are nifty things: but outside some niche applications, actually useful they are not.
You just don't know what you're talking about.
Even with f.lux and in "night view mode", monitors are unbearably bright to night-adjusted vision.
I discovered PangoBright when I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep one night.
It works great, and now I always work at 30% brightness at night.
Most (but not all) desktop application use cases can be accomplished with a web browser these days.
Not if you want to use the application to get any work done. You know, the kind that you actually need to use, and not just browse cat videos with?
Your kind of thinking has been trashing UI/UX for more than a decade. Especially now when everyone's copying the ugly-as-hell Metro/touchscreen style.
What's a pliancy cue? Oh we don't learn about that because touchscreens don't use mice!
Holy SHIT. Even Google doesn't know what a pliancy cue is any more.
In a real emergency, there'd be holy hell to pay if a robot assumed authority and lead people to their deaths.
Humans can make mistakes and can be individually accountable. When a machine malfunctions, that liability passes strait through to the manufacturer, and whatever authority certified its safety.
When (and if) machines are finally delegated such responsibility, aside from maybe one highly-publicized case that everyone goes apeshit over, you can bet your ass that they will be reliable.
When I get out of shape and start exercising again, my weight balance shifts between fat and muscle first, by more than 5%, before I start to actually lose weight.
Just like BMI, I think studies that focus on weight alone leave out too much information on what's happening internally.
That is, I'd wager losing 5% of your weight from a week of stomach flu is not the same as 'earning' it.
I am at a loss at knowing/understanding what IBM does.
IBM makes mainframes and provide services. You can never go wrong with IBM.
Really? I've seen IBM perpetrate spectacular failure with their "services".
So, this is neat and all... but where does it go next?
Recursive manufacturing will only be owned by the very wealthy at first.
And what do you think they'll do with everyone else once labor isn't needed?
Why would a PC game that happens to be running on a console run badly on a PC? I've got breaking news for you: PC games also manage to run on lower spec crummy desktops. The Minimum System Requirements are usually a few generations *older* than the latest consoles. So if you're going to make a cross-release game you just make the PC version and then hardcode the resolution to "1920x1080" and the quality settings to "Textures: Good, Models: Better, Shaders:Best,Lighting: Good." And hit ship.
Also, this might surprise you but every PC Game you probably play today will work great with an Xbox One controller. Just plug it in and you're good to go. The controls don't suck.
But the controls do suck.
Remember the Diablo-style drag-and-drop inventory system introduced 20 years ago? Well for modern games, making a good inventory system is effing rocket science. Look at the inventory system in Borderlands (any version) and tell me how the hell that got out of design, let alone passed QA. Let's play Unreal Tournament (1999, 2004, or 2015 alpha) together, you with a controller, me with a mouse and keyboard, and tell me there's no difference.
For some things, the controller will ALWAYS BE SHIT.
The UBI operates under the assumption that everyone manages money in a rational manner, which is completely at odds with actual experience ...
The UBI will not change human nature. It will instead become one of the biggest entitlement boondoggles in the history of civilization.
That's a bit unlikely considering it's being tried on small scales first.
Also, the lack of ability to plan and take care of yourself could be addressed to some or even a large degree by focusing on that in primary school.
And those who fail with free money? Declare them incompetent and think up a way to deal with those "special" cases. I guarantee they're already a problem so it's nothing new.
Please stop linking to sites that can't even use correct spelling in their titles.
Quiet right... except that it's wrong. Thank you for your input.
Here's an example.
First up, I have never, ever seen your "mobile" site... it's blank. Always. Both on my phone and on my main machines. I've had to change my phone's browser UserAgent just to get the links I open to stop redirecting to "m.slashdot" even though I have an "always desktop mode" plugin.
Anyway, I read Slashdot mostly on my phone when I'm out and bored. I try to review every summary that I haven't seen yet, and open a new tab for each article I want to read as I go. Sometimes I get interrupted, and when I come back, slashdot auto-reloads and annoys the hell out of me by making me lose my place. Sometimes, it will auto-reload while I'm in the middle of reading a summary and every time I wonder why the hell anyone would want such an annoying feature.
This is, however, a symptom of the underlying problem that your pagination always changes every time an article is added. I would like the option to browse with URLs that use constant pagination. The simplest would be by day.
This comes up again and again. A group of people grab a cause that falls under the umbrella of political correctness to bludgeon everyone else over the head with it.
Sort of like religious people declaring that you can't be moral if you don't have god in your life - it's just a cultural power play. It has nothing to do with what's right and what's wrong.
As for patents, they should just be completely obliterated. I have never seen a patent where I said, if we didn't grant this patent, we would never have got this thing invented. The inventor would have been too scared.
While I generally agree with the sentiment of your post, you probably forgot about drug development, which can take billions of dollars.
Without patents, some drugs / therapies would simply never be developed. At least, not without a more robust way of doing it with state funds.
Both are free.
https://projecteuler.net/archives
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx
IT Professionals Association?
;)
How about the 'Professional IT Association'?
I could see that it was less than 2, but doing arbitrary roots in your head can be tricky.
Wolfram Alpha is great when you're out and all's you got is your phone.
Haven't we already chucked the 4th amendment out the window? Might as well make the best of it and mandate that all footage be available to the public after 30 days, no exceptions. None of this $200/hr crap.
Bonus: regular people get body cams, too, if they want them.