If we have learned anything from UBIsoft and Electronic Rats and their success with choke-chained games then that gamers just LOVE having to have their system permanently connected to a server that is more or less, kinda-sorta, maybe sometimes reachable.
Yeah. That's gonna fly.
Google? Ya know, beating the dead horse more is not gonna make it run faster.
Ah, the desensitizing argument. It has a lot of that "gateway drug" argument. Usually it comes down to the question whether you think you would have become a violent bastard had you played those games. And usually the answer is no. Which makes me question why you think it applies to everyone else. It surprises me to no end why again and again I run into people who would assume that everyone else is stupid or weak-willed, but they themselves would never "fall" for whatever they accuse everyone else to be susceptible to.
Let's say 200 years ago. 100 years ago the decline of the primary sector was already in full swing and the share of people in the primary sector was about 30%. Anyway. 200 years ago, when agriculture was automated and released a lot of unskilled labor, the newly created factories were there to gobble them up. And I think it's no secret just what the working conditions in those factories was like. Human life was considered expendable. And it pretty much was for the factory owners, there was a large surplus of people looking for work compared to available work.
We're heading there again. Just without ANY kind of industry able and willing to at least take a fraction of the people losing their job by automation. There is no industry that needs unskilled labor. When production automated, the service industry was looking for waiters. Where are they going to go now?
Has anyone checked how long those batteries last with a less bloated OS?
It's somewhat unlikely that the browser is what's going to determine how long your battery lasts. How often do you really ONLY use the browser, with no power hungry plugins, of course, e.g. to render videos.
Textile manufacturing: Not a service industry. Car building: Not a service industry. Bank clerks: Replaced service person with self service, not automation. Insurance broker: Replaced service person with self service, not automation. Travel agents: Replaced service person with self service, not automation.
Not bullying. Not at all. That's why kids shoot up schools instead of, say, shopping malls where it would be easy to rack up a way higher body count. That's why they shoot their former classmates and teachers instead of simply kicking open and spraying bullets into the first classroom they get to.
But you can't say that. How DARE you blame the poor, poor children? Just because they had a little fun with the evil, evil shooter.
YouTube needs a competitor badly, but Vevo never was that competitor. Vevo was a music playback service for the big music studios, if you want "controversial" or at least "non-mainstream" stuff, this is not the place to look for it.
How that happened is easy. By being owned by the rights owners who DMCA'ed everyone else trying to show their video into oblivion. If you have no competition, it doesn't matter how crippled, censured and low-res your content is.
Vevo was no competitor for YouTube, at least when you cite demonetization and de-platforming. Vevo was an outlet for the music studios. And you can get all those videos from your favorite overhyped zero-skill autotuners on Youtube just fine.
The amount of ads I want to see is zero, and the kind is none. This is why I use an adblocker.
As long as you don't care what I really want to see and only pretend you do while trying to abuse me, I don't care what your ad revenue is and only pretend to watch your ads while trying to get to my videos. Deal? Deal.
Nature is cruel. Sorry, but that's how life is. That we are civilized and managed to escape it is a different matter, but I guess the question is what's better: Being alive and afraid for your life or being dead.
Every animal is, by definition. We eat stuff that would certainly have preferred to retain its sugar, starch and protein, because it certainly did not synthesize it for our consumption.
The plague pretty much killed "randomly", in that there is a protein expression that makes you more resistant to it. If you had it, lucky you, if you didn't, well, can I have your stuff?
That's pretty much random, considering it depends on whether you had the right genetic makeup.
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If we have learned anything from UBIsoft and Electronic Rats and their success with choke-chained games then that gamers just LOVE having to have their system permanently connected to a server that is more or less, kinda-sorta, maybe sometimes reachable.
Yeah. That's gonna fly.
Google? Ya know, beating the dead horse more is not gonna make it run faster.
Just wait 'til the left discovers IS Defense.
(for those that don't want to look it up: It's basically you with a large, fixed MG mowing down ISIS suicide bombers)
Ah, the desensitizing argument. It has a lot of that "gateway drug" argument. Usually it comes down to the question whether you think you would have become a violent bastard had you played those games. And usually the answer is no. Which makes me question why you think it applies to everyone else. It surprises me to no end why again and again I run into people who would assume that everyone else is stupid or weak-willed, but they themselves would never "fall" for whatever they accuse everyone else to be susceptible to.
Let's say 200 years ago. 100 years ago the decline of the primary sector was already in full swing and the share of people in the primary sector was about 30%. Anyway. 200 years ago, when agriculture was automated and released a lot of unskilled labor, the newly created factories were there to gobble them up. And I think it's no secret just what the working conditions in those factories was like. Human life was considered expendable. And it pretty much was for the factory owners, there was a large surplus of people looking for work compared to available work.
We're heading there again. Just without ANY kind of industry able and willing to at least take a fraction of the people losing their job by automation. There is no industry that needs unskilled labor. When production automated, the service industry was looking for waiters. Where are they going to go now?
Has anyone checked how long those batteries last with a less bloated OS?
It's somewhat unlikely that the browser is what's going to determine how long your battery lasts. How often do you really ONLY use the browser, with no power hungry plugins, of course, e.g. to render videos.
Textile manufacturing: Not a service industry.
Car building: Not a service industry.
Bank clerks: Replaced service person with self service, not automation.
Insurance broker: Replaced service person with self service, not automation.
Travel agents: Replaced service person with self service, not automation.
Not bullying. Not at all. That's why kids shoot up schools instead of, say, shopping malls where it would be easy to rack up a way higher body count. That's why they shoot their former classmates and teachers instead of simply kicking open and spraying bullets into the first classroom they get to.
But you can't say that. How DARE you blame the poor, poor children? Just because they had a little fun with the evil, evil shooter.
If you think this is possible, you don't know how Vegas is run. Hint: You don't just build a better casino when certain others don't like that idea.
Re-training to what? What is that magical low-skill job that isn't going to be replaced by robots soon?
You can actually show a case where replacing workers with automation led to better service?
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Get out of the fucking time machine
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YouTube needs a competitor badly, but Vevo never was that competitor. Vevo was a music playback service for the big music studios, if you want "controversial" or at least "non-mainstream" stuff, this is not the place to look for it.
How that happened is easy. By being owned by the rights owners who DMCA'ed everyone else trying to show their video into oblivion. If you have no competition, it doesn't matter how crippled, censured and low-res your content is.
Vevo was no competitor for YouTube, at least when you cite demonetization and de-platforming. Vevo was an outlet for the music studios. And you can get all those videos from your favorite overhyped zero-skill autotuners on Youtube just fine.
The amount of ads I want to see is zero, and the kind is none. This is why I use an adblocker.
As long as you don't care what I really want to see and only pretend you do while trying to abuse me, I don't care what your ad revenue is and only pretend to watch your ads while trying to get to my videos. Deal? Deal.
Now how are we going to convince our dupes to buy the same game again if we can't say "but it's on a new console"?
Javascript in a web application, using a browser for input that runs in a sandbox.
Next question.
Nature is cruel. Sorry, but that's how life is. That we are civilized and managed to escape it is a different matter, but I guess the question is what's better: Being alive and afraid for your life or being dead.
Somehow I'd prefer to be alive.
Every animal is, by definition. We eat stuff that would certainly have preferred to retain its sugar, starch and protein, because it certainly did not synthesize it for our consumption.
The plague pretty much killed "randomly", in that there is a protein expression that makes you more resistant to it. If you had it, lucky you, if you didn't, well, can I have your stuff?
That's pretty much random, considering it depends on whether you had the right genetic makeup.
On average, sure. Individually, you probably still use more resources to flush your toilet than the average Namibian family for their living.
So why try harder?
Aka "You needn't run faster than the lion, only faster than one of your teammates".
You identified the problem correctly. The choice is shooting or hanging, but simply "fuck you, neither" has been eliminated as an option.
I think in newspeak that's called "collateral damage".