If everyone thought like you did, we'd still be in the dark ages. You never know what research will find, but because of all that research of no known future application was done, we have a world of computers, medicine, worldwide communication, and a multitude of other wonders.
There's a reason I'm on the do not call list, to get rid of that kind of B.S. in the first place. As to landlines, I only know 4 people that have one, everyone else just has cellphones.
LoL, I'll have to use that term the next time I'm in a Shadowrun or Cyberpunk game. In real life though, just stick with recalls, votes, and writing your politicians to tell them what you think about it.
Odd. I've only ever heard complaints about them in the last 5 or 6 years, and yet they've been in use since at least the 50s, and I'm pretty sure back to the 40s. Marketing changed the name though, they used to be called R/C, which is short for Radio Controlled. There have been many thousands of R/C enthusiasts since long before I was born. I think you're overreacting, to put it mildly. Too much hyperbole there AC.
I'm pretty sure there are laws that cover situations like this where you suddenly have to agree to some kind of new restrictions or things, you can cancel or ask for and receive and immediate full refund. (ianal) You see this with phone contracts a lot, though the phone companies try to keep it quiet, but it covers a heck of lot more than just that. I'd give that a shot. Sure, you won't have that R/C toy anymore, but you'll get your money back and can buy a competitors, or wait until this DJI pulls their head out of their rectum.
Reagans trickle down b.s. had been dismissed as voodoo garbage years before Reagan and friends pushed it. Of course, when they implemented it, it failed miserably as all reputable economists had stated.
That's what you get for being dumb enough to bet your money on a single letter based trademark (even if one of them is repeating the letter in what looks like a shadow instead of a separate letter.)
They'd have problems with all of that, and if you haven't seen people complaining about it, I guess you have been hanging out in the wrong forums. Heck, the government thing even hit the TV News.
Yep, he's either delusional, or it's part of some huge scam. I'm voting for delusional.
Still, the brain only would actually be harder than a head transplant. Kind of the same way it's easier for surgeons, real ones that is, to transplant the entire heart and both lungs than it is to just do the heart.
Of course, that cretin should first get his epic fail and possible murder or manslaughter charges for his head transplant he's already committed himself to before he goes for the wetware only version. Speaking of committed, why hasn't anyone dragged him off to the nuthouse for an examination yet?
Letting reporters interpret any scientific results is an endeavor bound to cause numerous issues and fallacies. (In my opinion, most of them couldn't even pass a journalism class anymore, much less a high school science class.)
Then there's also the possibility that Subway got duped on the chicken and are just a victim of an unscrupulous supplier. It's happened to other chain foods before. I'll never forget back in the 80s when a beef supplier was actually selling multiple burger chains beef that was actually kangaroo. We drove the people at the burger joints nuts by going in and ordering Roo-Burgers. You really found out which of them had a sense of humor.;)
Actually the latest things they've been putting out on the tests of antimatter is that is seems it's not exactly the same as matter but with an opposite charge. Indications are that it acts slightly different. They are still check those experiments over to try and make sure they haven't goofed up anywhere. You know, that whole increasing the sigmas bit.
If you want to play with the simulation idea, then all the quantum uncertainty is just the computer saving resources by not computing every little particle specifically unless it has to, otherwise a less precise fuzzy kind of thing is used since you get the same macroresults and don't overload the system.:P
Actually there are a number of bugs and glitches that can allow software, or portions of it, to run outside their box. Crackers often use those to try and break into computer systems. Have you ever heard of Stack Overlow Violation? That's an old one that almost nobody fails to protect from anymore. If our existence is a computer simulation, it might be possible to find a way to probe around outside of it, possibly even influence it or relocate to another memory runspace. It wouldn't be easy, but unlike the software we run on our computers, we are sentient beings able to analyze and deduce things from observations we make, unlike let's say Duke Nukem or Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yes, it's a rather silly proposal, and not backed up by any evidence, but it is still a possibility that we may be able to prove someday. Especially if their programmers make mistakes like ours do.;)
Heck, I also had a computer running GEM. (Graphic Environment Manager) Other than the operating system switch by clicking on a directory/folder/virtual cabinet (all 3 are the same thing in a graphic environment) I don't see anything that wasn't already available in the 80s, and even that might have existed.
Agreed. Has anyone that doesn't agree tried to get a job anytime in the last 10 years someplace that's not out in the boonies and it's not your uncles business?
Heck, most places don't even accept resumes or applications in person anymore, it's all "Go to our website and apply". I don't even know what the heck use there is going to a job fair, they're the exact same thing, "Go to our website and apply".
Neither young nor old is an advantage to actually knowing the field. It's the training and experience. I've talked to idiots that think their hard drive with drive C: doesn't have any partitions on it. I've dealt with a guy in his 90s that traded traded overclocking tips with me. I myself have solved issues in minutes that a bunch of hot shot college kids couldn't figure out in half a day because they only knew the computer from the gui level and didn't even know what machine language was!
Nobody is ever born knowing anything about computers. You learn it as you go. Older may have had more time, but that's not a guarantee by any means. Then again, the industry is biased against age. Sometimes it's because of the flawed idea that the young are more enthusiastic and know the new hip stuff. Anyone can be just as enthusiastic and knowledgeable in the new stuff, but after a while you stop jumping up and down screaming cool every ten seconds despite the fact that this cool new thing makes you feel like the first time you were kissed by your true love. Sometimes they think the old can't change. When often the old are the ones that built the very things they want. Other times it's because this new idea is an old idea in different colors. Some things are never going to be good, but if you don't have a sufficient foundation you probably won't know that in the first place. A great example of a failure that keeps reoccurring about every decade or so is some form of Smellovision. The same problem tanks it every time, no good way to clear out the old smells. Yet about every 10-15 years, someone tries to push their 'new invention'. There's a ton of these same kind of things in every field, but due to the bias for new people in the computer field, they have a shortage of people with the experience to recognize these things. Often the people doing the supervising or hiring of computer people, aren't themselves computer people and so fall for the myths that are out there. But I still think one of the reasons that the industry won't admit to, but is still a major factor, is simply that they know the older and more experienced people just won't take the same kind of labour abuse the young ones in their ignorance will. Got a show stopper bug 2 weeks before advertised launch day? Bosses panic and scream for everyone to stay in the office and work around the clock till it's fixed. Older guy tells him to chill out and get a goods night rest, and if they have to, the date can be pushed back. You see, he already knows that allnighters do a lot of work, just not a lot of good work. The problem is more likely to be solved by people that aren't dead on their feet and barely able to function, and that marketing dates are about as trustworthy as the marketing weasels themselves. On top of that, there's a real tendency for those nobody goes home things to violate lots of labor laws, and they often short you on your overtime pay for it anyway, so it's not worth killing yourself over somebody elses mistakes. (In my personal experience, the round the clock panic will often go for 30-40 hours, then somebody who actually went home and got a goods night rest comes in and comes up with a good solution in a few hours. Makes all that panic and crunch time seem kind of pointless.) Oh well, just my opinion, everyone has their own.:)
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If everyone thought like you did, we'd still be in the dark ages.
You never know what research will find, but because of all that research of no known future application was done, we have a world of computers, medicine, worldwide communication, and a multitude of other wonders.
Have you ever gotten death threats?
Letting it ring to voicemail is a way to screen that kind of garbage.
There's a reason I'm on the do not call list, to get rid of that kind of B.S. in the first place.
As to landlines, I only know 4 people that have one, everyone else just has cellphones.
LoL, I'll have to use that term the next time I'm in a Shadowrun or Cyberpunk game. In real life though, just stick with recalls, votes, and writing your politicians to tell them what you think about it.
Odd. I've only ever heard complaints about them in the last 5 or 6 years, and yet they've been in use since at least the 50s, and I'm pretty sure back to the 40s.
Marketing changed the name though, they used to be called R/C, which is short for Radio Controlled. There have been many thousands of R/C enthusiasts since long before I was born.
I think you're overreacting, to put it mildly. Too much hyperbole there AC.
I'm pretty sure there are laws that cover situations like this where you suddenly have to agree to some kind of new restrictions or things, you can cancel or ask for and receive and immediate full refund. (ianal) You see this with phone contracts a lot, though the phone companies try to keep it quiet, but it covers a heck of lot more than just that.
I'd give that a shot. Sure, you won't have that R/C toy anymore, but you'll get your money back and can buy a competitors, or wait until this DJI pulls their head out of their rectum.
Reagans trickle down b.s. had been dismissed as voodoo garbage years before Reagan and friends pushed it. Of course, when they implemented it, it failed miserably as all reputable economists had stated.
In the US, it seems that anything related to IP can be fought over with hordes of rabid lawyers if you have enough money.
That's what you get for being dumb enough to bet your money on a single letter based trademark (even if one of them is repeating the letter in what looks like a shadow instead of a separate letter.)
You aren't the only that thought of that.
And the whole secure in your papers thing, even if no physical sheet of dried wood pulp/linen pulp/ papyrus/ scraped sheepskin/etc is used.
They'd have problems with all of that, and if you haven't seen people complaining about it, I guess you have been hanging out in the wrong forums. Heck, the government thing even hit the TV News.
Yep, he's either delusional, or it's part of some huge scam.
I'm voting for delusional.
Still, the brain only would actually be harder than a head transplant. Kind of the same way it's easier for surgeons, real ones that is, to transplant the entire heart and both lungs than it is to just do the heart.
Of course, that cretin should first get his epic fail and possible murder or manslaughter charges for his head transplant he's already committed himself to before he goes for the wetware only version. Speaking of committed, why hasn't anyone dragged him off to the nuthouse for an examination yet?
Isn't the usual results of a class action suit something along the lines of:
Lawyer - $18,000,000
Plaintiff - Coupon for $3 off a 5 foot party sub, only good on tuesdays before 3pm.
Letting reporters interpret any scientific results is an endeavor bound to cause numerous issues and fallacies.
(In my opinion, most of them couldn't even pass a journalism class anymore, much less a high school science class.)
Then there's also the possibility that Subway got duped on the chicken and are just a victim of an unscrupulous supplier. ;)
It's happened to other chain foods before.
I'll never forget back in the 80s when a beef supplier was actually selling multiple burger chains beef that was actually kangaroo. We drove the people at the burger joints nuts by going in and ordering Roo-Burgers. You really found out which of them had a sense of humor.
Darn you Paradox, foiled again! :D
Actually the latest things they've been putting out on the tests of antimatter is that is seems it's not exactly the same as matter but with an opposite charge. Indications are that it acts slightly different. They are still check those experiments over to try and make sure they haven't goofed up anywhere. You know, that whole increasing the sigmas bit.
Not really, it just depends on how you define observer. Nobody said it had to be us, or even sentient, or for that matter, inside the simulation.
If you want to play with the simulation idea, then all the quantum uncertainty is just the computer saving resources by not computing every little particle specifically unless it has to, otherwise a less precise fuzzy kind of thing is used since you get the same macroresults and don't overload the system. :P
Actually there are a number of bugs and glitches that can allow software, or portions of it, to run outside their box.
;)
Crackers often use those to try and break into computer systems.
Have you ever heard of Stack Overlow Violation?
That's an old one that almost nobody fails to protect from anymore.
If our existence is a computer simulation, it might be possible to find a way to probe around outside of it, possibly even influence it or relocate to another memory runspace. It wouldn't be easy, but unlike the software we run on our computers, we are sentient beings able to analyze and deduce things from observations we make, unlike let's say Duke Nukem or Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yes, it's a rather silly proposal, and not backed up by any evidence, but it is still a possibility that we may be able to prove someday. Especially if their programmers make mistakes like ours do.
Heck, I also had a computer running GEM. (Graphic Environment Manager)
Other than the operating system switch by clicking on a directory/folder/virtual cabinet (all 3 are the same thing in a graphic environment) I don't see anything that wasn't already available in the 80s, and even that might have existed.
Seems pretty accurate to me.
Agreed. Has anyone that doesn't agree tried to get a job anytime in the last 10 years someplace that's not out in the boonies and it's not your uncles business?
Heck, most places don't even accept resumes or applications in person anymore, it's all "Go to our website and apply".
I don't even know what the heck use there is going to a job fair, they're the exact same thing, "Go to our website and apply".
Neither young nor old is an advantage to actually knowing the field. It's the training and experience. I've talked to idiots that think their hard drive with drive C: doesn't have any partitions on it. I've dealt with a guy in his 90s that traded traded overclocking tips with me. I myself have solved issues in minutes that a bunch of hot shot college kids couldn't figure out in half a day because they only knew the computer from the gui level and didn't even know what machine language was!
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Nobody is ever born knowing anything about computers. You learn it as you go. Older may have had more time, but that's not a guarantee by any means. Then again, the industry is biased against age.
Sometimes it's because of the flawed idea that the young are more enthusiastic and know the new hip stuff. Anyone can be just as enthusiastic and knowledgeable in the new stuff, but after a while you stop jumping up and down screaming cool every ten seconds despite the fact that this cool new thing makes you feel like the first time you were kissed by your true love.
Sometimes they think the old can't change. When often the old are the ones that built the very things they want. Other times it's because this new idea is an old idea in different colors. Some things are never going to be good, but if you don't have a sufficient foundation you probably won't know that in the first place. A great example of a failure that keeps reoccurring about every decade or so is some form of Smellovision. The same problem tanks it every time, no good way to clear out the old smells. Yet about every 10-15 years, someone tries to push their 'new invention'. There's a ton of these same kind of things in every field, but due to the bias for new people in the computer field, they have a shortage of people with the experience to recognize these things.
Often the people doing the supervising or hiring of computer people, aren't themselves computer people and so fall for the myths that are out there.
But I still think one of the reasons that the industry won't admit to, but is still a major factor, is simply that they know the older and more experienced people just won't take the same kind of labour abuse the young ones in their ignorance will. Got a show stopper bug 2 weeks before advertised launch day? Bosses panic and scream for everyone to stay in the office and work around the clock till it's fixed. Older guy tells him to chill out and get a goods night rest, and if they have to, the date can be pushed back. You see, he already knows that allnighters do a lot of work, just not a lot of good work. The problem is more likely to be solved by people that aren't dead on their feet and barely able to function, and that marketing dates are about as trustworthy as the marketing weasels themselves. On top of that, there's a real tendency for those nobody goes home things to violate lots of labor laws, and they often short you on your overtime pay for it anyway, so it's not worth killing yourself over somebody elses mistakes. (In my personal experience, the round the clock panic will often go for 30-40 hours, then somebody who actually went home and got a goods night rest comes in and comes up with a good solution in a few hours. Makes all that panic and crunch time seem kind of pointless.)
Oh well, just my opinion, everyone has their own.