> Also, cotton gins and blacksmiths, therefore computers will never take our jobs.
They don't need to take all our jobs. Humans needs don't increase beyond shelter, security, food and water. The 'need' of entertainment is a bottomless pit in which you can throw money and out comes stories, sports, children and art, to name a few. Humans are definitely bright, but we are also routine and we like it when things at work don't change that much, so we can keep up.
When the majority of us like average, easy to accomplish problems inside a set framework, and robots(now equipped with functional eyes thanks to neural networks) decimate that form of work, what do that very large number of people do?
This isn't some off distant future. Since those jobs did vanish, people saw fit to add to their own value by increasing their education, but due to the above limitations on human needs, specialized problems are by nature a rare thing. This leads to a quick saturation of highly educated individuals still without positions. So they go into the only jobs on offer in the service sector, creating massive under-unemployment. All the rest that are still employed are doing the most vile thing I can fathom: creating work where there was none like renaming buildings, companies, projects. Shifting peoples seating. Sitting on old technology.
At some point you have to ask, what the fuck are we doing?
Entertainers leverage technology and are able to reach millions using it. They don't use a small stage anymore.
If the basic needs are met, what I would consider shelter, security, food and water, I do agree that entertainment is a bottomless pit of money however; you can only wear so many Rolexes at once. The jobs that form the basis of entertainment can not possibly sustain a substantial workforce on their own because they themselves work on the principle of entertaining as many people as possible already.
You are right about the job creation though. From automation of all the haulpacks on our mine sites here in western australia, there was no need for a babysitter watching them all when they had human drivers. So I guess even if the ratio of loss to creation is pretty bad, it still proves you right: new positions are being made.
>It is important to support EME as providing a relatively safe online environment in which to watch a movie, as well as the most convenient
Its slightly more convenient than torrents. Less so when you hold 4k netflix behind a kaby lake, windows 10 edge only browser exclusivity. However the payment model sucks donkey nuts. On steam I can pay the developers and publishers directly for their works, and ignore the shitty ones. I'd like to think collectively, this has an effect on the overall quality; shitty content creators get nothing.
But amy schumers 'netflix special' was likely paid for, as the sub goes to everyone. Then there is bitrate, which has a directly impact on bandwidth costs. Lower, and it saves them money, so where is their incentive, to make it high enough(for a given amount of motion)? No. I could even remedy some of that myself, with madVR, were I allowed to use my own video players. Thats not mentioning editing or traveling and taking actual files with you.
Streaming is 'enough' for me when its livestreams, as they make sense. But if its tv shows, anime and movies, netflix and co can get fucked.
>Exactly how does funding a study that indicates you should do something that is healthy for you a complete and utter sham?
Its a distraction tactic, just like hydrogen fuel cels for greener cars are. And it works, people think you can exercise to lose weight. What coca-cola et al. do not want you to think is that reducing calories is the best and most effective method for weight loss(so people don't stop drinking their products).
Exercise has numerous health benefits, thats not in question. Its useless for losing weight.
The debate centers on the predictions of what might happen due to anthropomorphic climate change. Not the settled conclusions based on what has already been measured, and where it came from.
But feel free to do your own global measurements on CO2 PPM and temperature over time, will specifics on the last 200 years of human industrialization. We as the supreme leaders in our climate change cult eagerly await your results.
I thought they might have ditched the idea of building an interface that connects directly to your brain(avoiding slow ponderous hand motions of keyboards/mice) and just jumped straight in the brain computer.
Humans can't eat trees. We need arable land to farm on. They also decompose so you need to keep planting them year on year.
It's like us humans are in a boat on the sea, and we have a bit of rain every now and then in the boat, but it evaporates. So we decided to hook up a bunch of industrial pumps to the side and just shit in water from the ocean. And every time I read about trees, its a tiny ass bucket scooping a pitiful amount of water out of this boat. Meanwhile their get in their ice cars and heat their homes using a fuckload of coal power while voting against nuclear.
>Have an average-sized body? Call us when you've starved yourself.
Eating a TDEE of a 20 bmi person is not starving, its called being a responsible adult. It's also more attractive as selection pressure is biased on successfully carrying a life sucking parasite, or baby to term, requiring a healthy form.
Just because the average is now overweight or obese does not absolve your continued gluttony.
The convenience of streaming I understand. It is superior to torrents. But I'll never sub to any of these streaming services unless they change the way they deliver the media itself. Torrents still offer the best product, its playable in anything, offline, high bitrate, and editable.
Then theres how they get paid. On Steam for example, I can pay a developer of a game directly. That means money goes exactly where I want it to go. The content creators I like stay in business meanwhile for her 'netflix special' amy schumer is still getting a cut of everyones sub.
This also solves a networking issue: peak congestion. If people can download and store what they want to watch, they don't all get home at the same time and start streaming it, throwing a big wrench in every ISPs contention ratio and slowing everything to a crawl.
And Steam has also proved it can handle large file sizes, as video games are now what would equate to multiple seasons of compressed video in not 'network extorted' bitrates.
>The idea is that communicating by thought alone could be much faster and even allow us to become more competitive with the artificial intelligence that is supposedly coming for everyone's jobs very soon.
Having us communicate a little faster isn't going to suddenly stop us requiring a livable wage, sleep, extensive training and comfortable working conditions. We are investing in these machines for good reasons.
This for long term energy storage yes? Why not use a better chemical for this, and a local company like Redflow's zinc bromide flow batteries. Those shitters don't drop in capacity over age.
>Just as Netflix delivers entertainment we want
Netflix streams content and I cannot pay the content creator directly. I can pirate mkvs with much higher bitrates given to the codec within, use them on any player and edit them how I please. I do not want the educational version of that.
This is great at all, especially if in winds up in the webm wrapper. But can the slashdot audience please inform the general plebs about the death of gifs already. Gfycat and imgurs switcher extension.gifv are not gifs. They are motion compressed video files, forced to support h.264 inside mp4 because of apple product users.
Please god can we come up with a new word, the tools people search for in 'how to make gifs' are still out there and i wish them to be quite DEAD
is not a container for any video codec... it's not 'output to' anything. To date, all you can output on adobe products without 3rd party plugins is h.264, 75 patents owned by microsoft alone, among others like apple in the group MPEG-LA.
I didn't read a single line mentioning webm, vp8/9 or vorbis and opus. You know, the actual open source ones. HTML5 is fast becoming another marketing buzzword equally irritating as cloud.
Yep in between all the marketing dribble its HEVC, Main 10 profile. No vp9, licensed codec. Don't even care if the fees aren't that make, it's a lost battle in the war for a standard codec.
In my mind, governments were setup with the ideology they'd be the biggest kid on the block in terms of raw income through taxation.
They have the media on their asses to keep them honest and are required full disclosure of almost all public funds(military spending somewhat grey there). But along comes the accountant in a private corporation, sees his opex is cut into heavily by wages.
So they capex some fancy robotic automation overlords to do job x that wage taker did and then 'right-size' a giant chunk of workforce. Suddenly a massive amount of people arent getting taxed, because no laws are in place to tax robots(unless im missing something obvious). The few top end of the corporations are earning more and more so they get to lobby and _donate_ money to government policymakers disturbing basic democracy.
I see the only answer coming from the government increasing a generalist tax(like GST) in order to cover a basic income for the... robotically displaced meatbags... and also to pull into line some feisty corporate meddling.
After all this time reporting on our robotic overlords, somebody realizes they don't get paid, desire no sleep nor suffer as many inaccuracies as us meatbags!
Eventually people will get off this train of consumerism for the good of economic growth, which in the end doesn't mean much for peoples real needs like shelter, food and water. All humanity needs to contribute is entertainment(our only true want) with our overlords taking care of the rest.
I feel like this term HMTL5 is misleading - its a codec war between h.264 and vp8. Google threw down with buying On2 and open sourcing it to escape paying for h.264 which microsoft owns. It's inside the webm container with vorbis which is under rapid adoption.
Adobe still has its clutches on flash, and its premiere which refuse to support it officially, same with apple. But lets take a look at what does support it. Wow, only apple and IE, fancy that.
Adding to the fact imgur and 'gfycat' try and fence sit by creating a wrapper and container both an mp4 and webm file with the latter offering a baseline profile on their h.264 inside the mp4 for wider support and imgur shitting the bed. The multiple amounts of profiles available for h.264 might create better quality/size comparisons on benchmarks with vp8 but does the codec a disservice when trying to become a standard. Plus, its still licensed code.
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> Also, cotton gins and blacksmiths, therefore computers will never take our jobs.
They don't need to take all our jobs. Humans needs don't increase beyond shelter, security, food and water. The 'need' of entertainment is a bottomless pit in which you can throw money and out comes stories, sports, children and art, to name a few. Humans are definitely bright, but we are also routine and we like it when things at work don't change that much, so we can keep up.
When the majority of us like average, easy to accomplish problems inside a set framework, and robots(now equipped with functional eyes thanks to neural networks) decimate that form of work, what do that very large number of people do?
This isn't some off distant future. Since those jobs did vanish, people saw fit to add to their own value by increasing their education, but due to the above limitations on human needs, specialized problems are by nature a rare thing. This leads to a quick saturation of highly educated individuals still without positions. So they go into the only jobs on offer in the service sector, creating massive under-unemployment. All the rest that are still employed are doing the most vile thing I can fathom: creating work where there was none like renaming buildings, companies, projects. Shifting peoples seating. Sitting on old technology.
At some point you have to ask, what the fuck are we doing?
Lets be real here. You didn't get it because it was electric but because it has autopilot and you want to masturbate on the way to work
Entertainers leverage technology and are able to reach millions using it. They don't use a small stage anymore.
If the basic needs are met, what I would consider shelter, security, food and water, I do agree that entertainment is a bottomless pit of money however; you can only wear so many Rolexes at once. The jobs that form the basis of entertainment can not possibly sustain a substantial workforce on their own because they themselves work on the principle of entertaining as many people as possible already.
You are right about the job creation though. From automation of all the haulpacks on our mine sites here in western australia, there was no need for a babysitter watching them all when they had human drivers. So I guess even if the ratio of loss to creation is pretty bad, it still proves you right: new positions are being made.
>It is important to support EME as providing a relatively safe online environment in which to watch a movie, as well as the most convenient
Its slightly more convenient than torrents. Less so when you hold 4k netflix behind a kaby lake, windows 10 edge only browser exclusivity. However the payment model sucks donkey nuts. On steam I can pay the developers and publishers directly for their works, and ignore the shitty ones. I'd like to think collectively, this has an effect on the overall quality; shitty content creators get nothing.
But amy schumers 'netflix special' was likely paid for, as the sub goes to everyone. Then there is bitrate, which has a directly impact on bandwidth costs. Lower, and it saves them money, so where is their incentive, to make it high enough(for a given amount of motion)? No. I could even remedy some of that myself, with madVR, were I allowed to use my own video players. Thats not mentioning editing or traveling and taking actual files with you.
Streaming is 'enough' for me when its livestreams, as they make sense. But if its tv shows, anime and movies, netflix and co can get fucked.
>Exactly how does funding a study that indicates you should do something that is healthy for you a complete and utter sham?
Its a distraction tactic, just like hydrogen fuel cels for greener cars are. And it works, people think you can exercise to lose weight. What coca-cola et al. do not want you to think is that reducing calories is the best and most effective method for weight loss(so people don't stop drinking their products).
Exercise has numerous health benefits, thats not in question. Its useless for losing weight.
The debate centers on the predictions of what might happen due to anthropomorphic climate change. Not the settled conclusions based on what has already been measured, and where it came from.
But feel free to do your own global measurements on CO2 PPM and temperature over time, will specifics on the last 200 years of human industrialization. We as the supreme leaders in our climate change cult eagerly await your results.
You know its ethanol, right? Am I on slashdot...I thought this crew had more respect for themselves.
I thought they might have ditched the idea of building an interface that connects directly to your brain(avoiding slow ponderous hand motions of keyboards/mice) and just jumped straight in the brain computer.
Whatever that is.
Humans can't eat trees. We need arable land to farm on. They also decompose so you need to keep planting them year on year.
It's like us humans are in a boat on the sea, and we have a bit of rain every now and then in the boat, but it evaporates. So we decided to hook up a bunch of industrial pumps to the side and just shit in water from the ocean. And every time I read about trees, its a tiny ass bucket scooping a pitiful amount of water out of this boat. Meanwhile their get in their ice cars and heat their homes using a fuckload of coal power while voting against nuclear.
>Have an average-sized body? Call us when you've starved yourself. Eating a TDEE of a 20 bmi person is not starving, its called being a responsible adult. It's also more attractive as selection pressure is biased on successfully carrying a life sucking parasite, or baby to term, requiring a healthy form.
Just because the average is now overweight or obese does not absolve your continued gluttony.
The convenience of streaming I understand. It is superior to torrents. But I'll never sub to any of these streaming services unless they change the way they deliver the media itself. Torrents still offer the best product, its playable in anything, offline, high bitrate, and editable.
Then theres how they get paid. On Steam for example, I can pay a developer of a game directly. That means money goes exactly where I want it to go. The content creators I like stay in business meanwhile for her 'netflix special' amy schumer is still getting a cut of everyones sub.
This also solves a networking issue: peak congestion. If people can download and store what they want to watch, they don't all get home at the same time and start streaming it, throwing a big wrench in every ISPs contention ratio and slowing everything to a crawl.
And Steam has also proved it can handle large file sizes, as video games are now what would equate to multiple seasons of compressed video in not 'network extorted' bitrates.
As does the practice of calling motion compressed video files gifs. People still search for 'how to make gifs' instead of 'how to make webms'.
I had a giggle at that too, wonder if its on purpose.
>The idea is that communicating by thought alone could be much faster and even allow us to become more competitive with the artificial intelligence that is supposedly coming for everyone's jobs very soon.
Having us communicate a little faster isn't going to suddenly stop us requiring a livable wage, sleep, extensive training and comfortable working conditions. We are investing in these machines for good reasons.
This for long term energy storage yes? Why not use a better chemical for this, and a local company like Redflow's zinc bromide flow batteries. Those shitters don't drop in capacity over age.
http://redflow.com/
>Just as Netflix delivers entertainment we want Netflix streams content and I cannot pay the content creator directly. I can pirate mkvs with much higher bitrates given to the codec within, use them on any player and edit them how I please. I do not want the educational version of that.
This is great at all, especially if in winds up in the webm wrapper. But can the slashdot audience please inform the general plebs about the death of gifs already. Gfycat and imgurs switcher extension .gifv are not gifs. They are motion compressed video files, forced to support h.264 inside mp4 because of apple product users.
Please god can we come up with a new word, the tools people search for in 'how to make gifs' are still out there and i wish them to be quite DEAD
is not a container for any video codec... it's not 'output to' anything. To date, all you can output on adobe products without 3rd party plugins is h.264, 75 patents owned by microsoft alone, among others like apple in the group MPEG-LA.
I didn't read a single line mentioning webm, vp8/9 or vorbis and opus. You know, the actual open source ones. HTML5 is fast becoming another marketing buzzword equally irritating as cloud.
Yep in between all the marketing dribble its HEVC, Main 10 profile. No vp9, licensed codec. Don't even care if the fees aren't that make, it's a lost battle in the war for a standard codec.
In my mind, governments were setup with the ideology they'd be the biggest kid on the block in terms of raw income through taxation.
They have the media on their asses to keep them honest and are required full disclosure of almost all public funds(military spending somewhat grey there). But along comes the accountant in a private corporation, sees his opex is cut into heavily by wages.
So they capex some fancy robotic automation overlords to do job x that wage taker did and then 'right-size' a giant chunk of workforce. Suddenly a massive amount of people arent getting taxed, because no laws are in place to tax robots(unless im missing something obvious). The few top end of the corporations are earning more and more so they get to lobby and _donate_ money to government policymakers disturbing basic democracy.
I see the only answer coming from the government increasing a generalist tax(like GST) in order to cover a basic income for the... robotically displaced meatbags... and also to pull into line some feisty corporate meddling.
After all this time reporting on our robotic overlords, somebody realizes they don't get paid, desire no sleep nor suffer as many inaccuracies as us meatbags!
Eventually people will get off this train of consumerism for the good of economic growth, which in the end doesn't mean much for peoples real needs like shelter, food and water. All humanity needs to contribute is entertainment(our only true want) with our overlords taking care of the rest.
None of those additions were harder to access from the old UI nor easier from the new one. And most people just play games and shitpost on windows.
I wonder how these stack up... ahem with intels new offering.
I feel like this term HMTL5 is misleading - its a codec war between h.264 and vp8. Google threw down with buying On2 and open sourcing it to escape paying for h.264 which microsoft owns. It's inside the webm container with vorbis which is under rapid adoption.
Adobe still has its clutches on flash, and its premiere which refuse to support it officially, same with apple. But lets take a look at what does support it. Wow, only apple and IE, fancy that.
Adding to the fact imgur and 'gfycat' try and fence sit by creating a wrapper and container both an mp4 and webm file with the latter offering a baseline profile on their h.264 inside the mp4 for wider support and imgur shitting the bed.
The multiple amounts of profiles available for h.264 might create better quality/size comparisons on benchmarks with vp8 but does the codec a disservice when trying to become a standard. Plus, its still licensed code.
Just buy a crash test dummy and give him a pair of dark glasses, they'll never know you're enjoying 40 winks in the back seat.