If you're afraid that the population will be seduced by it, you have bigger problems than the book.
Was there any doubt? That's why governments are afraid of publishing the book: because the population, by large, is borderline retarded, not from an IQ perspective, but from a "bar height" perspective. Meaning most people would fail the rule called "don't readily believe any shit that's thrown your way". Note: I don't agree with keeping the book under wraps, but I understand why that was desired.
That's BS. Large corporations can and do request Microsoft to hand them complete documentation on how to modify, alter, disable features under Windows 10. Furthermore, large corporations already operate behind proper firewalls which block certain data from being transferred to Microsoft servers. The corporation I work for already rolled out a windows 10 pilot, and guess what? All the telemetry feature are inactivated by default. Amazingly, Cortana works - because it points to servers within the company's internal network.
So why not have both? To me, the best UX is the one which lets you point-n-click as well as use a hotkey/shortcut for each button or command. people gotta start somewhere, and people nowadays start with point-n-click, simply because they don't know all the hotkeys. If the point-n-click side is lacking, they will give up and go to the more friendly competitor - which might be worse from a functionality point of view but newbie-friendly. You also nee to remember that most users never pass amateur-level. All they need is the basics with the occasional foray into a more specific functionality, which they might need twice a year.
No, I don't, and I don't give a fuck either way. Privacy has its threshold too. it's equally ridiculous to put up all your life publicly on Facebook, or to be afraid that "the Man" is looking up your asshole through a hidden camera while you take a shit. When some average private individuals go to greater lengths to protect their data than the Secret Services, it's safe to say they're just a wee bit nuts.
Or so you think... But seriously, I don't give a fuck that Google sees decent pictures of me and my family. Or reads the "A Steam product from your Wishlist is on sale" e-mails. The whole setup in TFS has an eerie resemblance to the '80s radio setups emitting tinfoil theories from a van in the boonies, using a generator for power and being "off the grid".
I was never bothered by spoilers. One could come and tell me the whole movie over a beer or two, and I would still immensely enjoy it when watching it.
That's bullshit rhetoric. "I am not going to go green because it would change nothing" - multiply this by 7 billion and you get a clear picture. If total disaster looms 200 years away and by going green you delay it by 1000 years, that's pretty awesome. Gives you enough time to convince (or coerce) the rest of the world to follow your path.
Waste of time from whose point of view? From their point of view, it was very valuable. Getting drunk together, spending some quality time doing nothing useful, heh, my dream vacation! Oh, you meant from Average Joe's point of view? Meh, who gives a fuck about Average Joe...:(
And that's exactly why I don't understand why people get excited like kids with ADHD when such an "agreement" is being signed. IMO it has NULL value. It's just words which countries are going to ignore.
Equatorial Guinea has a population of 722,000 people. IQ: 59. India has a population of 1.252 billion people and an average IQ of 82. That's a lot more damage potential than Equatorial Guinea.
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Most of the time my CPU temperature is around 20C.
Must be awfully cold where you live.
If you're afraid that the population will be seduced by it, you have bigger problems than the book.
Was there any doubt?
That's why governments are afraid of publishing the book: because the population, by large, is borderline retarded, not from an IQ perspective, but from a "bar height" perspective. Meaning most people would fail the rule called "don't readily believe any shit that's thrown your way".
Note: I don't agree with keeping the book under wraps, but I understand why that was desired.
Ones who don't belong to a posse anymore, I presume?
That's BS. Large corporations can and do request Microsoft to hand them complete documentation on how to modify, alter, disable features under Windows 10. Furthermore, large corporations already operate behind proper firewalls which block certain data from being transferred to Microsoft servers.
The corporation I work for already rolled out a windows 10 pilot, and guess what? All the telemetry feature are inactivated by default. Amazingly, Cortana works - because it points to servers within the company's internal network.
Crack, Hookers and Alcohol.
Three major reasons for recording explicit scenes on their devices.
So why not have both?
To me, the best UX is the one which lets you point-n-click as well as use a hotkey/shortcut for each button or command.
people gotta start somewhere, and people nowadays start with point-n-click, simply because they don't know all the hotkeys. If the point-n-click side is lacking, they will give up and go to the more friendly competitor - which might be worse from a functionality point of view but newbie-friendly.
You also nee to remember that most users never pass amateur-level. All they need is the basics with the occasional foray into a more specific functionality, which they might need twice a year.
America declared it's independence.
America: "It's Independence!"
Britain: "No, it's Not!"
No, I don't, and I don't give a fuck either way.
Privacy has its threshold too. it's equally ridiculous to put up all your life publicly on Facebook, or to be afraid that "the Man" is looking up your asshole through a hidden camera while you take a shit.
When some average private individuals go to greater lengths to protect their data than the Secret Services, it's safe to say they're just a wee bit nuts.
Or so you think...
But seriously, I don't give a fuck that Google sees decent pictures of me and my family. Or reads the "A Steam product from your Wishlist is on sale" e-mails.
The whole setup in TFS has an eerie resemblance to the '80s radio setups emitting tinfoil theories from a van in the boonies, using a generator for power and being "off the grid".
It is sad indeed.
Oh well, I guess sacrificing 200 books for one (so far) movie must look good in some ledger.
I'm really curious how would this fit with the book-created Universe. Probably not at all, which is a wee bit sad as far as I'm concerned.
I was never bothered by spoilers. One could come and tell me the whole movie over a beer or two, and I would still immensely enjoy it when watching it.
xmas muzak which starts exactly December 1st and lasts until two months before Easter, when it's replaced by... Easter muzak.
At the beginning: "Only imperial storm troopers are so precise"
Further down the movie: Imperial storm troopers don't hit shit.
I wonder how badly the other thugs were shooting. Would they miss an execution shot to the head from zero distance?
Precisely so.
The Interwebz.
Bullshit rhetoric.
It's words which EVERYONE will ignore.
That's bullshit rhetoric.
"I am not going to go green because it would change nothing" - multiply this by 7 billion and you get a clear picture.
If total disaster looms 200 years away and by going green you delay it by 1000 years, that's pretty awesome. Gives you enough time to convince (or coerce) the rest of the world to follow your path.
Waste of time from whose point of view? From their point of view, it was very valuable. Getting drunk together, spending some quality time doing nothing useful, heh, my dream vacation! :(
Oh, you meant from Average Joe's point of view? Meh, who gives a fuck about Average Joe...
And that's exactly why I don't understand why people get excited like kids with ADHD when such an "agreement" is being signed.
IMO it has NULL value. It's just words which countries are going to ignore.
An Indian Median.
Equatorial Guinea has a population of 722,000 people. IQ: 59.
India has a population of 1.252 billion people and an average IQ of 82. That's a lot more damage potential than Equatorial Guinea.
Average IQ in the USA: 98. Pretty damn good.
You think Median is the same as Average? :)
What's your IQ again?
More than 50%.
100 on the IQ scale is not an average. It's a standard.
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