You do realize that the mere idea of a "governmental commercial satellite" is pretty much an oxymoron? The government trailblazed satellites, there's no questioning that. From then on, commercial entities could begin to leverage all the data that governments amassed from doing this to create commercial satellites. THAT is the point, not your entire rant on government.
Canada still has a lot of "long distance charges" and they're almost invariably stupid, like say calling a number in the same area code (but in a different subset of the area code) costs money but calling a number in a different, farther one doesn't.
Any sample size can be used for a study. You just get less precision in the results when the sample is smaller (ie. a very small sample will basically give you random noise). A proper statistical analysis can give you exactly how precise they are. My statistics are very rusty, but you can see on the tables used throughout the paper that they're using Student's t-test, which seems appropriate given the situation (assuming normal distribution).
If there wasn't any movement towards restricting the distribution and sales of games, if we didn't constantly get games being censored for content deemed too violent or too gross (games targeted at adults no less!), if we didn't see all the blatant misinformation being circulated by the media concerning games and violence, then yeah, it wouldn't be news.
As is, the point needs to be hammered home as much as possible if we're to keep the medium on an equal footing to all other media.
It can be closed and the documentation sealed in a titanium safe stored inside a reinforced container dropped at the bottom of the Mariana Trench for all I care; if the API is active in production models, it's going to get discovered and exploited. Nefarious usage, especially, won't be stopped by "Hey, you're not supposed to use this!"
There really is no excuse for this. It's just sloppy security practices.
I'd give him a bit more credit than that, personally. He may not have gotten the execution right on some of these, but he got the spirit of it. Robot housekeeping? The Roomba and such are quite close, they're just not as advanced. We do have 3D movies, just not multi-view ones. We may not have moving sidewalks outdoors, but some shopping malls and especially airports do. Postal mail's not sent throughout the city using air ducts, but postal centers are largely automated using conveyor belts (which function like compressed air tubes in all but appearance). While it may not be yeast or algae, tofu and such is still the same idea of plant-based food being flavored to imitate something else. Finally, psychiatry may not be the most important medical specialty, but psychology in general has grown dramatically since the 60s as we've expanded our knowledge of mental health.
The missiles Asimov mentions in his opening paragraph are what stopped his vision on electricity from coming anywhere near reality: "The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. The isotopes will not be expensive for they will be by- products of the fission-power plants which, by 2014, will be supplying well over half the power needs of humanity. But once the isotype batteries are used up they will be disposed of only through authorized agents of the manufacturer."
Instead, we're still just as dependent on coal, oil and gas as ever.
That's selection bias at work. It's extremely hard for a woman to land a job in this field, and even before that there's a lot of pressure against it (the stupid idea that women can't do maths, the extremely male-oriented lingo and focus, etc.), so only the most persevering, most enduring women make it through.
You're claiming that being technically savvy is equivalent to chasing the latest fashion. I'm sorry but that's not savvy, it's trendy.
It's not because Cobol is an old, horrible language that people who know it aren't technically savvy. On the contrary, how few people would want to learn Cobol these days? On the flip side, knowing Twitter talk or knowing how to use the thing mean very little when it's going to get replaced by something else in the next few years (just like it's replaced something else). Oh, and knowing C++ (or C or Fortran or whatever other featured language of your choice) is pretty much fundamental to being technically savvy. You're equating "knowing C++" with "only knowing C++", the former of which is important and the latter foolish. There never was a time where just knowing a language made you technically savvy.
And that GTX 680MX is still not a high-end card, especially when you're talking about a desktop (which this thing is much closer to). It's about in line with a GTX580 (so two generations out of date by now) for an absurdly higher price tag. You're really paying through the nose to get the styling.
A replacement Hubble would be really hard because it's not really about tech, it's about mirror size. Have fun designing a larger mirror which can still be launched by rockets into space without a ridiculously prohibitive price tag, all with NASA's funding being cut down dramatically.
What if I told you that "that America" was just a myth? Not necessarily a lie, but an ideal to strive towards but never actually reach? For all the romanticization of the past, I doubt it's all quite as idealistic and perfect as people make it up to be.
Fukushima, that badly inspected, badly maintained, badly regulated, overdue for decommissioning power plant which still managed to last through a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and accompanying 40m-high tsunami, all while not actually killing anyone? I'd love to see any other power plant last through that and come out with only a few injuries. Ironically, the plant should've been decommissioned years ago but wasn't because people pressured against building new (safer, better, more efficient, more powerful) nuclear plants, which gave an energy deficit that could only be filled by keeping old power plants online.
The shitty part about it all, though, is that because nuclear has such a bad reputation (thanks to people like you), Fukushima overshadowed the tsunami itself which killed over 15,000 people. Fuck the power plant, the tsunami was the actual disaster.
Sure, start by not using your car, computer and everything else you assume you have available. Also get friends and neighbors do the same. We'll see how this works out for you.
Look, it's quite simple: if your solution is to get people to use less power, you're fucked. People won't use less power unless they're entirely unable to do so. You need to work off that fact instead of trying to handwave it away.
The Model S is a really heavy car, actually, almost the weight of the Ford F-150. Only a Hummer or another such extremely rare car weights significantly more. I think that speaks more for how dangerous Hummers are on the roads than how "unsafe" the Model S is. Regardless, though, the Model S is safer than any other car in its category, which is the metric that actually matters. If you're shopping for a sedan, you don't give a shit if a semi is going to give you better survival rates in a collision.
Also, don't expect safety in any vehicle above 60mph. Drive safely instead of relying on technical means to buffer a crash.
Lead has had an extremely long life as a common metal throughout humanity for piping, building and much more. You can't assume that just because something has been around for a long time that it's going to be fine, that's foolish. Likewise, assuming that anything GM is going to be more dangerous is rather shortsighted. Remember, most of the stuff we eat is GM, it just happened through more traditional methods.
I think it's just an excuse for a much more simple fact: there was no game behind this. All he had was an idea (just like Minecraft, really) which wasn't much of a game. Let's have space ships and programming and let's make it like Minecraft and Elite and whatever! Then, unlike Minecraft, he didn't manage to figure out how to make it into a game. It just ended up being a bunch of disparate systems which didn't work well together or just weren't fun to use.
That's the way I see it anyway. Throughout the news about that game, all I ever heard was how cool some feature was, except it really wasn't. Coding in assembly? Dear god no. Exploring procedurally generated space? That's been done before, and most of it would turn into Minecraft again. There wasn't a whole lot to it yet.
Well, I know in certain fields (say, MBA), you don't need to do research, and I have vaguely heard of a way of doing a Master's through courses solely, but I'd say 95% of the people I know (computer science, mathematics, physics people, so YMMV obviously) go down the thesis or article route. Again, from the perspective of someone going through such a thing, I doubt you'd be able to learn anywhere near as much just by following courses, especially remotely.
I'm not sure from a cursory glance at the program description, but this seems to only involve courses? My perspective of a Master's is that courses are really just a tiny slice of what you do. Research and synthesizing that research into papers and/or a thesis is what really makes it different from undergrad courses. Maybe it's antiquated, but I wouldn't consider the two on equal footing because it's rather easy to go through a bunch of courses without really getting deeply familiar and involved with anything.
From what I've gleaned (I'm also interested in game development), you'd be best to avoid the very large developers like EA, Activision, Blizzard, etc. They tend to consider their manpower as resources to be exploited and discarded if they stop working properly. The hours are horrible and the salaries don't match up. Instead, try finding small or mid-sized studios; the pay might not be the highest around, but the atmosphere and challenges will usually be a lot better. With smaller devs especially, you get to touch a bit of everything and you're closer to "owning" the project. The hardest part is finding such a studio in your area and getting in, since they usually have very little extra money to go by. It's also a riskier proposition since you can get laid off if even just one project doesn't go well because the developer's fate is hanging in the balance of every new game they make.
Then there's a few really rare developers such as Valve which seem to have kept the ethos of smaller developers while sitting on such an absurd pile of money they aren't rushed. Blizzard probably used to be like that but I think the Activision merger caused the corporate to take over. Good luck getting in such studios as a first job though!
What the fuck does that even mean? Would you rather we come back to living ~30 years on average, like back in ancient times? What is that (x) you speak of, and how can you claim it is so well defined and most importantly so sacred it should not be modified?
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You do realize that the mere idea of a "governmental commercial satellite" is pretty much an oxymoron? The government trailblazed satellites, there's no questioning that. From then on, commercial entities could begin to leverage all the data that governments amassed from doing this to create commercial satellites. THAT is the point, not your entire rant on government.
Canada still has a lot of "long distance charges" and they're almost invariably stupid, like say calling a number in the same area code (but in a different subset of the area code) costs money but calling a number in a different, farther one doesn't.
I'd add a 0. to this list:
0. Listen to your fucking customers.
If they'd just keep this in mind, the rest of the list (and much more) falls in place naturally.
Any sample size can be used for a study. You just get less precision in the results when the sample is smaller (ie. a very small sample will basically give you random noise). A proper statistical analysis can give you exactly how precise they are. My statistics are very rusty, but you can see on the tables used throughout the paper that they're using Student's t-test, which seems appropriate given the situation (assuming normal distribution).
If there wasn't any movement towards restricting the distribution and sales of games, if we didn't constantly get games being censored for content deemed too violent or too gross (games targeted at adults no less!), if we didn't see all the blatant misinformation being circulated by the media concerning games and violence, then yeah, it wouldn't be news.
As is, the point needs to be hammered home as much as possible if we're to keep the medium on an equal footing to all other media.
It can be closed and the documentation sealed in a titanium safe stored inside a reinforced container dropped at the bottom of the Mariana Trench for all I care; if the API is active in production models, it's going to get discovered and exploited. Nefarious usage, especially, won't be stopped by "Hey, you're not supposed to use this!"
There really is no excuse for this. It's just sloppy security practices.
I'd give him a bit more credit than that, personally. He may not have gotten the execution right on some of these, but he got the spirit of it. Robot housekeeping? The Roomba and such are quite close, they're just not as advanced. We do have 3D movies, just not multi-view ones. We may not have moving sidewalks outdoors, but some shopping malls and especially airports do. Postal mail's not sent throughout the city using air ducts, but postal centers are largely automated using conveyor belts (which function like compressed air tubes in all but appearance). While it may not be yeast or algae, tofu and such is still the same idea of plant-based food being flavored to imitate something else. Finally, psychiatry may not be the most important medical specialty, but psychology in general has grown dramatically since the 60s as we've expanded our knowledge of mental health.
The missiles Asimov mentions in his opening paragraph are what stopped his vision on electricity from coming anywhere near reality: "The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. The isotopes will not be expensive for they will be by- products of the fission-power plants which, by 2014, will be supplying well over half the power needs of humanity. But once the isotype batteries are used up they will be disposed of only through authorized agents of the manufacturer."
Instead, we're still just as dependent on coal, oil and gas as ever.
Well at least with this you'll be able to say "dupe!" when an article pops up in July 2023 about this, so there's some value... I guess?
That's selection bias at work. It's extremely hard for a woman to land a job in this field, and even before that there's a lot of pressure against it (the stupid idea that women can't do maths, the extremely male-oriented lingo and focus, etc.), so only the most persevering, most enduring women make it through.
You're claiming that being technically savvy is equivalent to chasing the latest fashion. I'm sorry but that's not savvy, it's trendy.
It's not because Cobol is an old, horrible language that people who know it aren't technically savvy. On the contrary, how few people would want to learn Cobol these days? On the flip side, knowing Twitter talk or knowing how to use the thing mean very little when it's going to get replaced by something else in the next few years (just like it's replaced something else). Oh, and knowing C++ (or C or Fortran or whatever other featured language of your choice) is pretty much fundamental to being technically savvy. You're equating "knowing C++" with "only knowing C++", the former of which is important and the latter foolish. There never was a time where just knowing a language made you technically savvy.
And that GTX 680MX is still not a high-end card, especially when you're talking about a desktop (which this thing is much closer to). It's about in line with a GTX580 (so two generations out of date by now) for an absurdly higher price tag. You're really paying through the nose to get the styling.
Totally. Now define quality in quantifiable terms.
A replacement Hubble would be really hard because it's not really about tech, it's about mirror size. Have fun designing a larger mirror which can still be launched by rockets into space without a ridiculously prohibitive price tag, all with NASA's funding being cut down dramatically.
What if I told you that "that America" was just a myth? Not necessarily a lie, but an ideal to strive towards but never actually reach? For all the romanticization of the past, I doubt it's all quite as idealistic and perfect as people make it up to be.
Fukushima, that badly inspected, badly maintained, badly regulated, overdue for decommissioning power plant which still managed to last through a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and accompanying 40m-high tsunami, all while not actually killing anyone? I'd love to see any other power plant last through that and come out with only a few injuries. Ironically, the plant should've been decommissioned years ago but wasn't because people pressured against building new (safer, better, more efficient, more powerful) nuclear plants, which gave an energy deficit that could only be filled by keeping old power plants online.
The shitty part about it all, though, is that because nuclear has such a bad reputation (thanks to people like you), Fukushima overshadowed the tsunami itself which killed over 15,000 people. Fuck the power plant, the tsunami was the actual disaster.
Sure, start by not using your car, computer and everything else you assume you have available. Also get friends and neighbors do the same. We'll see how this works out for you.
Look, it's quite simple: if your solution is to get people to use less power, you're fucked. People won't use less power unless they're entirely unable to do so. You need to work off that fact instead of trying to handwave it away.
The Model S is a really heavy car, actually, almost the weight of the Ford F-150. Only a Hummer or another such extremely rare car weights significantly more. I think that speaks more for how dangerous Hummers are on the roads than how "unsafe" the Model S is. Regardless, though, the Model S is safer than any other car in its category, which is the metric that actually matters. If you're shopping for a sedan, you don't give a shit if a semi is going to give you better survival rates in a collision.
Also, don't expect safety in any vehicle above 60mph. Drive safely instead of relying on technical means to buffer a crash.
Lead has had an extremely long life as a common metal throughout humanity for piping, building and much more. You can't assume that just because something has been around for a long time that it's going to be fine, that's foolish. Likewise, assuming that anything GM is going to be more dangerous is rather shortsighted. Remember, most of the stuff we eat is GM, it just happened through more traditional methods.
I think it's just an excuse for a much more simple fact: there was no game behind this. All he had was an idea (just like Minecraft, really) which wasn't much of a game. Let's have space ships and programming and let's make it like Minecraft and Elite and whatever! Then, unlike Minecraft, he didn't manage to figure out how to make it into a game. It just ended up being a bunch of disparate systems which didn't work well together or just weren't fun to use.
That's the way I see it anyway. Throughout the news about that game, all I ever heard was how cool some feature was, except it really wasn't. Coding in assembly? Dear god no. Exploring procedurally generated space? That's been done before, and most of it would turn into Minecraft again. There wasn't a whole lot to it yet.
Well, I know in certain fields (say, MBA), you don't need to do research, and I have vaguely heard of a way of doing a Master's through courses solely, but I'd say 95% of the people I know (computer science, mathematics, physics people, so YMMV obviously) go down the thesis or article route. Again, from the perspective of someone going through such a thing, I doubt you'd be able to learn anywhere near as much just by following courses, especially remotely.
I'm not sure from a cursory glance at the program description, but this seems to only involve courses? My perspective of a Master's is that courses are really just a tiny slice of what you do. Research and synthesizing that research into papers and/or a thesis is what really makes it different from undergrad courses. Maybe it's antiquated, but I wouldn't consider the two on equal footing because it's rather easy to go through a bunch of courses without really getting deeply familiar and involved with anything.
Obama would be right wing in just about any other Western country. The US is an aberration.
From what I've gleaned (I'm also interested in game development), you'd be best to avoid the very large developers like EA, Activision, Blizzard, etc. They tend to consider their manpower as resources to be exploited and discarded if they stop working properly. The hours are horrible and the salaries don't match up. Instead, try finding small or mid-sized studios; the pay might not be the highest around, but the atmosphere and challenges will usually be a lot better. With smaller devs especially, you get to touch a bit of everything and you're closer to "owning" the project. The hardest part is finding such a studio in your area and getting in, since they usually have very little extra money to go by. It's also a riskier proposition since you can get laid off if even just one project doesn't go well because the developer's fate is hanging in the balance of every new game they make.
Then there's a few really rare developers such as Valve which seem to have kept the ethos of smaller developers while sitting on such an absurd pile of money they aren't rushed. Blizzard probably used to be like that but I think the Activision merger caused the corporate to take over. Good luck getting in such studios as a first job though!
"The universe built humans to last (x) long."
What the fuck does that even mean? Would you rather we come back to living ~30 years on average, like back in ancient times? What is that (x) you speak of, and how can you claim it is so well defined and most importantly so sacred it should not be modified?