It doesn't matter whether he can get into the debates, not really. Just look at what happened to Dr. Paul. When the people with real power make that decision it sticks. Only the blessed are given any chance at all to win the primaries.
How's the support for novel camera placement? High frame rates for arbitrary movement? Resolution swap to ultra high resolution per-object on demand? Sound transform on player movement? Destructive environments? Voxel fill rate from texture? Large texture handling? Let's take this into the future!
David D. Davidson at your service. If surrendering anonymity is the cost of doing business I will not be doing business. If enough people feel the same way business will become more anonymous.
Why should a company have to explain this at all? For things that aren't a public good it's morally a company's right to charge what the market will bear. Obviously charging $30 for a surgical mask after 9/11 or $750 for an AIDS pill that costs $1 to make is immoral, but we're talking about a new, innovative product used for entertainment. They don't owe it to the public to charge as little as possible.
If another company can make one just as good for a cheaper price, that's awesome. Until then this is a luxury item with the price of a luxury item and that's okay.
In World War II the British government once asked civilians to turn in extra pots and pans to be melted down for materials for the war effort. They received a small mountain of them. I don't know what they did with them but the materials were all but useless. It was a propaganda effort, intended to make the British people aware of how serious the war effort was.
If this CO2 product plan actually makes the slightest dent in CO2 storage I'll be shocked. It's a propaganda measure, and a mis-aimed one at that. Even if the media decides to loudly announce it the common man won't care about a new thing that can be made from CO2. And such propaganda aimed at nerds, makers, and the informed would be pointless as well. Most of us already have set feelings about global warming and already know how big the atmosphere is.
My Grandmother, a lifelong devout Christian who read the bible daily, did not believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, but not for the reason you give. She told me she didn't think God would have sent his son to die twice. Her point of view was that life on other planets is possible but intelligence not, for that reason. The Christian bible doesn't say God only sent his son to this place, just that he did.
Your company name gets verbed ONLY when it's both appropriate and a new word is necessary. You get verbed by popular consent. I'm not saying a massive advertising campaign won't do it, but it's damn hard to force a meme. Xerox. Jeep. Scotch tape. They were verbed because they offered something new. Google. Skype. They were verbed because so many people used their products. But even a massive advertising agency couldn't do it for, say, Bing. So what has Uber done to justify verbing? Sure it's shorter than, say, "out-innovated". But "Ubered"? It just sticks in my craw. No thanks. And take your viral marketing with you.
> you don't joke around about stuff like that. Ever.
Fuck this paranoid bullshit. Until terrorism is a real actual problem that harms people as much as say, falling into pools accidentally there's no reason for this allergic reaction of a response.
It depends on how much actual authority you have, how conservative the corporate culture is, and whether there are any entrenched ways of doing things. This isn't a technical question but a political one. If you actually (as opposed to officially) have authority to tell them how to do things you need first find out how the system is working now. Maybe they didn't set up passwords because multiple departments need to connect to the same server and there's no secure password control in place. Maybe they're disorganized. Maybe they're inexperienced. These all require different activities to repair the problem.
You mentioned EOL hardware, but you didn't say whether a migration is planned or whether the money is available for one. Obviously new hardware is a great opportunity for user training, but again there are too many unknowns here. How much extra time do the engineers have to train? How much of the existing system setup is invisibly a part of how the users interact with it?
It sound to me like you're standing on a powder keg. The right way to deal with it is to gather information. Make benchmarks. Understand system inter-operations and use. Learn who is doing what and why. Only a fool would start declaring X and Y need to be done without taking a look around first.
The preponderance of the masses are too busy, sick, or lazy (or all of the above) to vote, and those who do are told who to vote for by the mass media.
That's not the main point. Right now things clearly aren't bad enough for voters to inform themselves. If things do get that bad people may not know how to vote to fix things but they'll at least vote against whoever is in office. Verifiable elections are a strong bulwark against non-democratic processes even if the people don't really know who they're voting for. For proof look at the new governments in Africa.
Whenever a machine fails there's a risk of lost votes. More importantly these machines are just insecure. We need voting machines with open source hardware, open source software, and encrypted, hashed, anonymous publicly available vote records. Ask for a password. Hash the password, the vote, the polling booth's number, and the time (in 15 minute increments) and make that immediately publicly available.
Each voter can then go to a publicly accessible website and enter where and when he voted and what password he used, and be told how he voted. If that bothers you add a unique password inside each booth the person can alternatively use to be told he voted differently, or allow entry of an alternate password to be answered a user-selectable vote.
The hashed verifiable votes will be proof against election fraud.
I now, right? When I buy Star Wars memorabilia the first> concern is how much of a panty dropper it is. My light sabre collection, for example, oh that gets them going. I'll bring a girl home and just five minutes into explaining the Han Solo grip she's just SWOONing. They're so anxious to get to bed they start pretending to be sleepy. And my full collection of Princess Leia mugs, they love those. And they're a great conversation piece! You can tell them how it shows your respect for women. But what really does it is my set of costumes. I had a girl here just last night BEGGING me to get out of the Wookie costume. She wanted my body that bad. It sucks that her brother called right at that moment.
This watch? nah, it just won't pull them in like a good Vader voice.
I'm STILL waiting for a rational explanation for how destructive scanning isn't death. Another person being created at the same time isn't it. Ship of Theseus isn't it. The brain isn't just software, its hardware is inherently part of the program.Destroy the hardware, destroy the program. Even if you made a backup that program is gone. I can buy another computer just like mine and install the same software, but it would be silly to say the other computer IS this one, whether or not I destroy this one.
People who think destructive scanning is the same as life extension and people who think cryonics is a scam are both emotionally invested in accepting death or denying its existence.
I lived a while in Japan so I get it It's not easy to explain. Japanese, Indonesian, and Philippine culture (I'm sure there are others but I only know this about those three) emphasize... group orientation I guess? The group is more important than its members. To sacrifice for the group is good. Therefore one must be encouraging to others, even at the cost of self-expression. Therefore, in turn, keeping up apparent enthusiasm is vital.
In Japan the above coupled with the importance of one's company (the loyalty owed) means a non-workplace is needed to hash out personal problems. You can't ever show you're unhappy at work, but you need a place to bring up real problems so you have to go. After all someone else may have a bone to pick with you. So you all go to the karaoke bar, drink a little, and whatever comes out there doesn't have to interfere with work. Steam gets released and you can return to work with a better mutual understanding and hopefully less stress.
In the Philippines and Indonesia (and Italy?) laughing is often used to show displeasure. The root of humor is a disconnect between what one is supposed to perceive and what one does perceive. They laugh to say "I'm supposed to be feeling good about you but that's different from what I feel". But you always smile and laugh together because it means you're still socially connected. To stop laughing is to declare you're refusing future discourse: diplomacy has failed.
So in a lot of places a lot of laughing means something completely different from, "ha ha that was funny" and a smile means something different from "I'm happy". To bring in a cheerleader is to support employees by helping them pretend and break up the tension behind the smiles.
Stonehenge was for music.BOOONG said stonehenge. Stonehenge goes BOOONG. BOOOOONG. BOOOONG. You are Stonehenges. Say BOOONG. Say BOOOOONG you stonehenges!
Call me an old onion-belt but I just don't get it. How is waving my hands around like an idiot in front of my computer... how is that immersive? VR, I understand. A wearable display, that's immersive because I'm not looking at everything else in the room. Hand tracking, that's immersive because it replaces typing with more natural movement. But none of that works without a full VR system. Put hand tracking on a normal laptop or desktop and you have yet another input device doomed to failure because it does the same thing with more effort.
This is just a huge stinking pile of feeping creaturitus,
The funny thing about this is until this I was willing to send telemetry to Microsoft. I understand how them knowing when my system crashes helps them fix bugs. I understand the wealth of good-for-everyone knowledge that comes with reports of which precise system file had a problem performing what kind of information. I would block crash reports sometimes, and I would allow other basic telemetry most of the time.
But due to their new privacy policy and other privacy rapine I've blocked every form of telemetry on my machine. They no longer get to hear a damn thing. Surely this was predictable. And how many regular and corporate sales has Microsoft lost already over this? Everyone knows to ask their local nerd what OS and other software to use. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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I'm looking forward to the even more important "longest time in space while being female" award.
It doesn't matter whether he can get into the debates, not really. Just look at what happened to Dr. Paul. When the people with real power make that decision it sticks. Only the blessed are given any chance at all to win the primaries.
How's the support for novel camera placement? High frame rates for arbitrary movement? Resolution swap to ultra high resolution per-object on demand? Sound transform on player movement? Destructive environments? Voxel fill rate from texture? Large texture handling? Let's take this into the future!
David D. Davidson at your service. If surrendering anonymity is the cost of doing business I will not be doing business. If enough people feel the same way business will become more anonymous.
>Honestly, its probably him you should be hating on and Pokemon International who merely hired his firm.
Lie down with dogs...
Why should a company have to explain this at all? For things that aren't a public good it's morally a company's right to charge what the market will bear. Obviously charging $30 for a surgical mask after 9/11 or $750 for an AIDS pill that costs $1 to make is immoral, but we're talking about a new, innovative product used for entertainment. They don't owe it to the public to charge as little as possible.
If another company can make one just as good for a cheaper price, that's awesome. Until then this is a luxury item with the price of a luxury item and that's okay.
Block slashdot.org##.nav-social
In World War II the British government once asked civilians to turn in extra pots and pans to be melted down for materials for the war effort. They received a small mountain of them. I don't know what they did with them but the materials were all but useless. It was a propaganda effort, intended to make the British people aware of how serious the war effort was.
If this CO2 product plan actually makes the slightest dent in CO2 storage I'll be shocked. It's a propaganda measure, and a mis-aimed one at that. Even if the media decides to loudly announce it the common man won't care about a new thing that can be made from CO2. And such propaganda aimed at nerds, makers, and the informed would be pointless as well. Most of us already have set feelings about global warming and already know how big the atmosphere is.
I am an atheist. That said:
My Grandmother, a lifelong devout Christian who read the bible daily, did not believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, but not for the reason you give. She told me she didn't think God would have sent his son to die twice. Her point of view was that life on other planets is possible but intelligence not, for that reason. The Christian bible doesn't say God only sent his son to this place, just that he did.
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.
- Igor Sikorsky
If you're testing for that many viruses any false positive is unacceptable. So what's the false positive rate?
Your company name gets verbed ONLY when it's both appropriate and a new word is necessary. You get verbed by popular consent. I'm not saying a massive advertising campaign won't do it, but it's damn hard to force a meme. Xerox. Jeep. Scotch tape. They were verbed because they offered something new. Google. Skype. They were verbed because so many people used their products. But even a massive advertising agency couldn't do it for, say, Bing. So what has Uber done to justify verbing? Sure it's shorter than, say, "out-innovated". But "Ubered"? It just sticks in my craw. No thanks. And take your viral marketing with you.
> you don't joke around about stuff like that. Ever. Fuck this paranoid bullshit. Until terrorism is a real actual problem that harms people as much as say, falling into pools accidentally there's no reason for this allergic reaction of a response.
It depends on how much actual authority you have, how conservative the corporate culture is, and whether there are any entrenched ways of doing things. This isn't a technical question but a political one. If you actually (as opposed to officially) have authority to tell them how to do things you need first find out how the system is working now. Maybe they didn't set up passwords because multiple departments need to connect to the same server and there's no secure password control in place. Maybe they're disorganized. Maybe they're inexperienced. These all require different activities to repair the problem.
You mentioned EOL hardware, but you didn't say whether a migration is planned or whether the money is available for one. Obviously new hardware is a great opportunity for user training, but again there are too many unknowns here. How much extra time do the engineers have to train? How much of the existing system setup is invisibly a part of how the users interact with it?
It sound to me like you're standing on a powder keg. The right way to deal with it is to gather information. Make benchmarks. Understand system inter-operations and use. Learn who is doing what and why. Only a fool would start declaring X and Y need to be done without taking a look around first.
The preponderance of the masses are too busy, sick, or lazy (or all of the above) to vote, and those who do are told who to vote for by the mass media.
That's not the main point. Right now things clearly aren't bad enough for voters to inform themselves. If things do get that bad people may not know how to vote to fix things but they'll at least vote against whoever is in office. Verifiable elections are a strong bulwark against non-democratic processes even if the people don't really know who they're voting for. For proof look at the new governments in Africa.
Whenever a machine fails there's a risk of lost votes. More importantly these machines are just insecure. We need voting machines with open source hardware, open source software, and encrypted, hashed, anonymous publicly available vote records. Ask for a password. Hash the password, the vote, the polling booth's number, and the time (in 15 minute increments) and make that immediately publicly available.
Each voter can then go to a publicly accessible website and enter where and when he voted and what password he used, and be told how he voted. If that bothers you add a unique password inside each booth the person can alternatively use to be told he voted differently, or allow entry of an alternate password to be answered a user-selectable vote.
The hashed verifiable votes will be proof against election fraud.
I imagine their target market is "billionaires who buy really stupid shit just to laugh at the sycophants praising said stupid shit"
I now, right? When I buy Star Wars memorabilia the first> concern is how much of a panty dropper it is. My light sabre collection, for example, oh that gets them going. I'll bring a girl home and just five minutes into explaining the Han Solo grip she's just SWOONing. They're so anxious to get to bed they start pretending to be sleepy. And my full collection of Princess Leia mugs, they love those. And they're a great conversation piece! You can tell them how it shows your respect for women. But what really does it is my set of costumes. I had a girl here just last night BEGGING me to get out of the Wookie costume. She wanted my body that bad. It sucks that her brother called right at that moment.
This watch? nah, it just won't pull them in like a good Vader voice.
I'm STILL waiting for a rational explanation for how destructive scanning isn't death. Another person being created at the same time isn't it. Ship of Theseus isn't it. The brain isn't just software, its hardware is inherently part of the program.Destroy the hardware, destroy the program. Even if you made a backup that program is gone. I can buy another computer just like mine and install the same software, but it would be silly to say the other computer IS this one, whether or not I destroy this one. People who think destructive scanning is the same as life extension and people who think cryonics is a scam are both emotionally invested in accepting death or denying its existence.
I lived a while in Japan so I get it It's not easy to explain. Japanese, Indonesian, and Philippine culture (I'm sure there are others but I only know this about those three) emphasize... group orientation I guess? The group is more important than its members. To sacrifice for the group is good. Therefore one must be encouraging to others, even at the cost of self-expression. Therefore, in turn, keeping up apparent enthusiasm is vital.
In Japan the above coupled with the importance of one's company (the loyalty owed) means a non-workplace is needed to hash out personal problems. You can't ever show you're unhappy at work, but you need a place to bring up real problems so you have to go. After all someone else may have a bone to pick with you. So you all go to the karaoke bar, drink a little, and whatever comes out there doesn't have to interfere with work. Steam gets released and you can return to work with a better mutual understanding and hopefully less stress.
In the Philippines and Indonesia (and Italy?) laughing is often used to show displeasure. The root of humor is a disconnect between what one is supposed to perceive and what one does perceive. They laugh to say "I'm supposed to be feeling good about you but that's different from what I feel". But you always smile and laugh together because it means you're still socially connected. To stop laughing is to declare you're refusing future discourse: diplomacy has failed.
So in a lot of places a lot of laughing means something completely different from, "ha ha that was funny" and a smile means something different from "I'm happy". To bring in a cheerleader is to support employees by helping them pretend and break up the tension behind the smiles.
Stonehenge was for music. BOOONG said stonehenge. Stonehenge goes BOOONG. BOOOOONG. BOOOONG. You are Stonehenges. Say BOOONG. Say BOOOOONG you stonehenges!
Listening to/watching a publicly broadcast, unsecured video/audio stream isn't hacking.
Call me an old onion-belt but I just don't get it. How is waving my hands around like an idiot in front of my computer... how is that immersive? VR, I understand. A wearable display, that's immersive because I'm not looking at everything else in the room. Hand tracking, that's immersive because it replaces typing with more natural movement. But none of that works without a full VR system. Put hand tracking on a normal laptop or desktop and you have yet another input device doomed to failure because it does the same thing with more effort.
This is just a huge stinking pile of feeping creaturitus,
The funny thing about this is until this I was willing to send telemetry to Microsoft. I understand how them knowing when my system crashes helps them fix bugs. I understand the wealth of good-for-everyone knowledge that comes with reports of which precise system file had a problem performing what kind of information. I would block crash reports sometimes, and I would allow other basic telemetry most of the time.
But due to their new privacy policy and other privacy rapine I've blocked every form of telemetry on my machine. They no longer get to hear a damn thing. Surely this was predictable. And how many regular and corporate sales has Microsoft lost already over this? Everyone knows to ask their local nerd what OS and other software to use. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
If movies have taught me anything it's never, ever bet against the drunk in the Cessna.