Unfortunately, I have to agree: speaking as someone who considers himself an environmentalist, I've yet to meet a fellow self-identified "environmentalist" who can even explain the difference between radiation and radioactive particles.
Parts of Japan, Russia [and likely lots of other places we might never even know about] are contaminated due to bureaucracy, nepotism shortsightedness, politics and corruption: coal generated a lot more toxic, low-level waste than fission but thanks for playing.
And all these things, graphics, sound, physics, textures and AI, they are prohibitively expensive.
There's a world of difference between paying artists to create textures, meshes and sounds and paying programmers to work on physics/AI. While the former certainly means lots of man hours (oops, sorry, I don't want to offend the mediocrity police; perhaps "androgynous freak hours" would be more palatable), physics/AI are largely programming challenges that have been greatly reduced by the availability and ease-of-use of ubiquitous game-development environments such as UDK.
Regardless of what sort of asshole I resemble on here (grin), I'm actually a highly-empathic vegan with Buddhist leanings who loves all animals... but you... "crackhead" and "mildly schizophrenic" come to mind.
Look at the US, the vast majority of the central part of th country is minimally developed yet FAR easier to live in than the desert or tundra.
Hicks, ticks, fleas, flies, mites, mosquitoes, roaches, leeches, snakes, spiders, humidity, mold, fungus, earthquakes, tornadoes and ice storms... Oklahoma: not fit for human habitation (don't ask me how I know). I'll take the high desert (minimum 7,000' elevation) any day...
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It is just a tool
Levandowski is indeed just that.
Whatever's spoken in India will probably be the winner...
More than any other language, that would be Hindi.
It's not at all surprising that computers would need some of that same kinds of interactions to be able to speak to us on our terms.
In an attempt to grasp why we should't anthropomorphize technology, we anthropomorphize technology.
Explaining machine logic to 'soft science' majors: futile
If people didn't tend to be such stupid, fucking sheep, this wouldn't work - but it does.
That's kind of silly logic, isn't it?
Only if it was actually logic; it sounds more like metal poisoning.
I have no respect for a company who builds a business model around exploiting addictions.
I guess that puts Krispy Kreme and Jergens Lotion out of the running...
In reality it impoverishes the lower and middle classes
I wish the naive would realize that that is one of the goals.
Even rabid dogs don't deserve STD's.
Unfortunately, I have to agree: speaking as someone who considers himself an environmentalist, I've yet to meet a fellow self-identified "environmentalist" who can even explain the difference between radiation and radioactive particles.
Arstechnica went full-blown pro-establishment a while back; they have not an ounce of fucking credibility any more..
The only reason I would have reservations when it comes to nuclear power is the fact that there is no real responsibility for safety.
Agreed.
Dead panels? It goes back to the store or maker.
You went from being logical and objective to being incredibly naive. There are no guarantees of anything of the sort occurring in the long run.
Japan and Russia have no man's lands due to that.
Parts of Japan, Russia [and likely lots of other places we might never even know about] are contaminated due to bureaucracy, nepotism shortsightedness, politics and corruption: coal generated a lot more toxic, low-level waste than fission but thanks for playing.
More likely the Envirowackos.
Follow the money... and don't be stupid.
If we include seawater extraction and thorium we can run our civilization for millions of years.
Reprocessing of spent fuel in combination with pebble-bed designs would go a long way...
The less exposure the ignorant and vulnerable have to the fundamentalist crazies (regardless of what flag they wave), the better.
And all these things, graphics, sound, physics, textures and AI, they are prohibitively expensive.
There's a world of difference between paying artists to create textures, meshes and sounds and paying programmers to work on physics/AI. While the former certainly means lots of man hours (oops, sorry, I don't want to offend the mediocrity police; perhaps "androgynous freak hours" would be more palatable), physics/AI are largely programming challenges that have been greatly reduced by the availability and ease-of-use of ubiquitous game-development environments such as UDK.
Hard to turn around once they have a course set.
Especially when there's a sociopath with an IQ of ~110 at the helm.
Using digital technology, especially for primary school children, is an idiotic idea.
Not if you're the elite and the idea of an educated middle class has abhorred you ever since the peasants had the nerve to learn to read...
can't "big data Uber" figure this out
Definitely.Dishonest drivers in Lagos, in the other hand, apparently aren't bright enough to figure out what Uber can easily figure out.
Some should.
We're up his ass, along with his head.
Regardless of what sort of asshole I resemble on here (grin), I'm actually a highly-empathic vegan with Buddhist leanings who loves all animals... but you... "crackhead" and "mildly schizophrenic" come to mind.
Look at the US, the vast majority of the central part of th country is minimally developed yet FAR easier to live in than the desert or tundra.
Hicks, ticks, fleas, flies, mites, mosquitoes, roaches, leeches, snakes, spiders, humidity, mold, fungus, earthquakes, tornadoes and ice storms... Oklahoma: not fit for human habitation (don't ask me how I know). I'll take the high desert (minimum 7,000' elevation) any day...
In traffic at that!
...companies will just move their operations to India.
Sure they will; superior infrastructure and all that. (I'm actually fairly amused that you're dumb enough to try and play that card...)