i bought about 5 fullpriced games so far this year, all the others were bought on ebay.(which is more than usual because of the novelty of kinect earlier) If i had to pay full price for the others i would not have bought them at all. I dont know what someone else would do but that's how it goes for me... no company would be making more money because of some nazi-attack on the second hand market . What's next ? Buying second hand is theft or some sort of smear campaign where you get to see all these homeless devs who lost their jobs because people didnt fork out the 60 euros for that crap game the company spent all that advertising money on ?
Totally, i always thought friday afternoons at school should be spent playing civilization, alpha centauri or maybe even heroes of might & magic (all of which are like a more advanced version of chess), but this is really not a bad start, i hope schools around the world adopt it.
so, its just another case of evolution saying : you're obsolete, redesign yourself with what you have ? if they can use it to enhance my memory fifty years from now i am their biggest fan
skynet and hal were both perfected AI's who ruled without emotion, they were not tainted by it, thats why they acted how they did : take the best possible course of action to improve the present into the future, with no bias or emotion, as in, no wasting energy on the weakest link that would die anyway eventually and move all the energy to/dev/null as it was in the old days instead of using it on constructive solutions to improve the matters at hand (is it still , what would i know?)
Ofcourse computers cant feel regret, but neither can humans, what you think you feel is mostly caused by chemicals released into the brain. im very much a layman to everything, a specialist to nothing but i have wide eyes, no, so you could say that computers feeling regret through electrical current are pretty much comparable to how humas are programmed to release dopamine as reward and other shit as punishment? No ? well, i think you could.
I think slashdot is the number one site when it comes to information and mirrorring everything you are and know to other points of view... but lets not get sentimental. If evolution stops in humans, nothing dictates it has stopped. If we are the tools of evolution, we will provide it with the next step.
Now THAT, that is where skynet comes into play:p
irony? no more space shuttles but we will provide you with extraterrestrial dominance components if you pay us in rare raw materials that are unfortunately not available on our soil ?
The best minds do not think about making people click ads. Those minds are loud but mediocre at best. The best minds could care less about ads. The best minds will never fall into marketing because marketing itself is a scam. Its purpose is to scam people into buying stuff they probably dont even need. So how, i ask thee, could the best minds fall for something thats so easy to see through? Money? myeah maybe but if i look back in history, most of the best minds that survived the test of time were never in it for the money. Why would this have changed ? Another major mistake by evolution itself like letting humans have the upper hand ?
It's not because you're in the spotlight that you are the best. Spotlight kids are usually backed up by better minds who either dont care about the spotlight
poop candy ? i think dutch is more limited than english, i think it even has fewer words than english and words are as they are a very limited means of communication, formed by a very limited number of combinations. It takes a lot of words to describe one single concept or symbol or idea, its a waste of time but sadly i dont know the formula on how to create the new breed of telepaths. But what i wanted to say : i think awkward is the least of your concern if you are on a 'deep'-space mission and you get the choice between being sick or putting a jello bit up your arse to make it better. As stated above i think these people would be very much used to having little privacy (except for the recreational hour on the holodeck ofcourse...)
im sure someone else pointed this out before me but how about having sensitive documents like this handled only by people who actually know a bit about the software they work with? Its not very reassuring that someone who has access to and even has the right to edit this kind of information makes what seems to be a layman's mistake.
If Sony had such people working for them we'd all be making ps3 backups for a long time now, no ?
i rhink the low-skill refers to the fact that you mostly wait for the machine to do the job. The function of the worker is to intervente when something goes wrong, to correct small errors in a batch when the machine does not get stopped for repairs or tuning before the batch is complete because there's quota to be upheld or the worker is just used to package the parts (which is probably needed less and less). The jobs are mostly low-skill really, the real skill consists in being capable of withstanding the day by day repetition. Maybe you could call them mind-killing jobs or something.
In my little country the governments would try to solve this as always by taxing the hell out of consumers for buying products that are imported. How this solves anything i dont know since nothing is really produced right here. We do seem to have a lot of money to support a lot of governments though
i would hardly call china a backwater nation, in fact except maybe the last few 100 years after the brits went to corrupt their asses they have always been a force to be reckoned with. Europe's clearly in the state where Rome was when it kicked the bucket (barbarians at the gates?) and Asia seems to be on the rise again. An unbroken cycle maybe. Since US seems bent on not having anything to do with a space program and europe seems to be somewhat incompetent when it comes to that i hope they succeed. There is such a thing as mankind and there are these who dont do geographical borders. If anyone succeeds it will in the end benefit us all, even if it means we have to welcome our new chinese overlords:p
where everyone can hear it , or i put on a monster magnet cd REAL loud with my window open, will i be sent to copyright reform school cos my neighbours now know that i really, really like monster magnet ?
whatever was left after the warmongers got killed by the peacemongers, no one wants to be a nazi or a hippie (not where i'm standing) and our government wants to act ever so civilized and enlightened , but this time it looks like they actually got on the right track, but as stated above, its not cos they cant be forced to do it that they cant be convinced to do it. Or does it say : will under no circumstances provide private user data to trolls and / or corporations somewhere ? Maybe in the next millenium
i read about this type of tactic before, i also read about the underground try-before-you-buy groups catching up pretty quickly with a patch once it is discovered, to those guys it's a matter of honour, not money , thieves honour ?... maybe...
it doesnt matter how you succeed? at the end of the day microsoft gets the money anyway ? you think they ever cheat ? probably not, how could they have made it in life if they were to do such evil deeds ?
But we did provide the world with iPhones, didnt we, o joy, o glory. I'm pretty much convinced if we dont get working stuff into orbit so we can build and launch and mine and expedition from there we're screwed and since recources are limited down here there's a time limit to that too.
But we do provide the world with iPads, dont we, o joy, o glory
once more these dreaded teenagers with their taperecorders will become the end of the beatles and the whole art - industry (everytime i read that combination i ponder on the contradiction) , damn those taperecorders !
if something has no reputation or a name that invokes a certain mindset to the people hearing it, it has to prove itself, the people who created can work fresh, with no expectation of getting credit for whatever they did before, its motivation, but only to the ones who mean it:p
the importance of NOT thinking in words but in symbols and concepts if you want at least a bit of privacy in the (maybe near?) future. But, on the upside, we WILL have the joy of preserving hawkings brain a jar then. Provost Zakharov would have been proud...
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would it be allowed to play with itself or would it be rated mature only ?
i bought about 5 fullpriced games so far this year, all the others were bought on ebay.(which is more than usual because of the novelty of kinect earlier) If i had to pay full price for the others i would not have bought them at all. I dont know what someone else would do but that's how it goes for me ... no company would be making more money because of some nazi-attack on the second hand market . What's next ? Buying second hand is theft or some sort of smear campaign where you get to see all these homeless devs who lost their jobs because people didnt fork out the 60 euros for that crap game the company spent all that advertising money on ?
that's right what's with the morals? i've been playing space invaders since when i was like seven. Does that mean i will kos any alien i meet ?
Totally, i always thought friday afternoons at school should be spent playing civilization, alpha centauri or maybe even heroes of might & magic (all of which are like a more advanced version of chess), but this is really not a bad start, i hope schools around the world adopt it.
so, its just another case of evolution saying : you're obsolete, redesign yourself with what you have ? if they can use it to enhance my memory fifty years from now i am their biggest fan
skynet and hal were both perfected AI's who ruled without emotion, they were not tainted by it, thats why they acted how they did : take the best possible course of action to improve the present into the future, with no bias or emotion, as in, no wasting energy on the weakest link that would die anyway eventually and move all the energy to /dev/null as it was in the old days instead of using it on constructive solutions to improve the matters at hand (is it still , what would i know?)
Ofcourse computers cant feel regret, but neither can humans, what you think you feel is mostly caused by chemicals released into the brain. im very much a layman to everything, a specialist to nothing but i have wide eyes, no, so you could say that computers feeling regret through electrical current are pretty much comparable to how humas are programmed to release dopamine as reward and other shit as punishment? No ? well, i think you could.
I think slashdot is the number one site when it comes to information and mirrorring everything you are and know to other points of view ... but lets not get sentimental. If evolution stops in humans, nothing dictates it has stopped. If we are the tools of evolution, we will provide it with the next step.
Now THAT, that is where skynet comes into play :p
irony? no more space shuttles but we will provide you with extraterrestrial dominance components if you pay us in rare raw materials that are unfortunately not available on our soil ?
The best minds do not think about making people click ads. Those minds are loud but mediocre at best. The best minds could care less about ads. The best minds will never fall into marketing because marketing itself is a scam. Its purpose is to scam people into buying stuff they probably dont even need. So how, i ask thee, could the best minds fall for something thats so easy to see through? Money? myeah maybe but if i look back in history, most of the best minds that survived the test of time were never in it for the money. Why would this have changed ? Another major mistake by evolution itself like letting humans have the upper hand ? It's not because you're in the spotlight that you are the best. Spotlight kids are usually backed up by better minds who either dont care about the spotlight
poop candy ? i think dutch is more limited than english, i think it even has fewer words than english and words are as they are a very limited means of communication, formed by a very limited number of combinations. It takes a lot of words to describe one single concept or symbol or idea, its a waste of time but sadly i dont know the formula on how to create the new breed of telepaths. But what i wanted to say : i think awkward is the least of your concern if you are on a 'deep'-space mission and you get the choice between being sick or putting a jello bit up your arse to make it better. As stated above i think these people would be very much used to having little privacy (except for the recreational hour on the holodeck ofcourse ...)
im sure someone else pointed this out before me but how about having sensitive documents like this handled only by people who actually know a bit about the software they work with? Its not very reassuring that someone who has access to and even has the right to edit this kind of information makes what seems to be a layman's mistake. If Sony had such people working for them we'd all be making ps3 backups for a long time now, no ?
i rhink the low-skill refers to the fact that you mostly wait for the machine to do the job. The function of the worker is to intervente when something goes wrong, to correct small errors in a batch when the machine does not get stopped for repairs or tuning before the batch is complete because there's quota to be upheld or the worker is just used to package the parts (which is probably needed less and less). The jobs are mostly low-skill really, the real skill consists in being capable of withstanding the day by day repetition. Maybe you could call them mind-killing jobs or something. In my little country the governments would try to solve this as always by taxing the hell out of consumers for buying products that are imported. How this solves anything i dont know since nothing is really produced right here. We do seem to have a lot of money to support a lot of governments though
i would hardly call china a backwater nation, in fact except maybe the last few 100 years after the brits went to corrupt their asses they have always been a force to be reckoned with. Europe's clearly in the state where Rome was when it kicked the bucket (barbarians at the gates?) and Asia seems to be on the rise again. An unbroken cycle maybe. Since US seems bent on not having anything to do with a space program and europe seems to be somewhat incompetent when it comes to that i hope they succeed. There is such a thing as mankind and there are these who dont do geographical borders. If anyone succeeds it will in the end benefit us all, even if it means we have to welcome our new chinese overlords :p
if only for the fact that ms and sony get some extra competition, i think it sounds good
where everyone can hear it , or i put on a monster magnet cd REAL loud with my window open, will i be sent to copyright reform school cos my neighbours now know that i really, really like monster magnet ?
whatever was left after the warmongers got killed by the peacemongers, no one wants to be a nazi or a hippie (not where i'm standing) and our government wants to act ever so civilized and enlightened , but this time it looks like they actually got on the right track, but as stated above, its not cos they cant be forced to do it that they cant be convinced to do it. Or does it say : will under no circumstances provide private user data to trolls and / or corporations somewhere ? Maybe in the next millenium
i read about this type of tactic before, i also read about the underground try-before-you-buy groups catching up pretty quickly with a patch once it is discovered, to those guys it's a matter of honour, not money , thieves honour ? ... maybe ...
it doesnt matter how you succeed? at the end of the day microsoft gets the money anyway ? you think they ever cheat ? probably not, how could they have made it in life if they were to do such evil deeds ?
But we did provide the world with iPhones, didnt we, o joy, o glory. I'm pretty much convinced if we dont get working stuff into orbit so we can build and launch and mine and expedition from there we're screwed and since recources are limited down here there's a time limit to that too. But we do provide the world with iPads, dont we, o joy, o glory
once more these dreaded teenagers with their taperecorders will become the end of the beatles and the whole art - industry (everytime i read that combination i ponder on the contradiction) , damn those taperecorders !
myeah i agree, if it is used to blow up things and make beavis go heheh, tha was kewl! i think it is a waste of money
if something has no reputation or a name that invokes a certain mindset to the people hearing it, it has to prove itself, the people who created can work fresh, with no expectation of getting credit for whatever they did before, its motivation, but only to the ones who mean it :p
... sad ...
you meant to say "the doctor AND the drug company", right? :)
Sir, i think your sig is dubbleplusgood
the importance of NOT thinking in words but in symbols and concepts if you want at least a bit of privacy in the (maybe near?) future. But, on the upside, we WILL have the joy of preserving hawkings brain a jar then. Provost Zakharov would have been proud ...