I actually checked out Infiniminer when it came out, before Minecraft existed. It's comparable to Creation Mode in Minecraft, which was more complete at first than Survival Mode. Sure, a huge part of Minecraft's early appeal was "look at what someone made in Minecraft!" but another large part was the "Let's Play"s of survival mode. IMO creation mode is less interesting than survival mode.
If we're talking about Minecraft's influences, you should also mention Dwarf Fortress.
Between this, and Macs moving away from Intel CPUs (and reportedly to ARM as well), Intel is in deep trouble, their low-power CPUs in particular. Pretty much anything open-source will be recompiled for Windows on ARM, legacy proprietary apps will be about the only thing propping up x86, and emulation will serve for anything not performance-critical. The latest ARM chips are on a smaller node than the latest Intel chips, and have been for a while, so Intel no longer has a process advantage compared to the ARM manufacturers. I wonder if anyone will start producing larger ARM chips that have the power of the larger Intel chips.
To be fair, Steam also takes 30%, so it makes little difference for game developers. Sure, you can distribute through other digital game stores, but the ones that don't also take 30% aren't nearly as popular as Steam. If you're Notch, and invented a new game genre with no competitors, and are riding the wave of a new way to experience games (Let's Plays narrated by Youtube personalities) then you can sell the game exclusively through your own website, with a processor that takes only 3%, and still become a billionaire. But pretty much noone else has pulled that off.
Genetic engineering flips the epigenetic 'evil bit', automatically making the data 'bad'. Ever see 'attack of the killer tomatoes'? It's a warning about Monsanto.
I, for one, am looking forward to CRISPR-enhanced lettuce, at my local grocery. Also, I'm shocked a Republican administration would do any pro-GMO move, even if they frame it as 'less regulation'.
A man told me that today is the anniversary of a famous man, a son of a carpenter, being resurrected 3 days after his death, making his followers speak in tongues, and then joining his father, an invisible man in the sky. I laughed pretty hard at that one, but for some reason he seemed offended...
It might make more sense to create a DNS-type protocol that browsers interface with, that link shorteners can be compliant with, rather than relying on the sites to do that. Then again, now that Twitter no longer counts URLs in the 140 character limit, there's little reason to still use URL shorteners.
If the system disengages, requiring an intervention, due to a bag blowing in the road, we shouldn't assume a serious collision would otherwise occur (from the point of view of the car; the bag might disagree.) If a disengagement is accompanied by automatic braking, and/or pulling over, then there may be little risk in some situations.
When I was in a car as a child, I'd play "stick my hand out the window and use it as a wing", "jump Mario over street cracks" and "hop Mario over the wiper blades". Not sure you want to use children as your standard for 'understanding obstacles'.
They can just rebrand as 'Death Race 2000: The Ride' and it'll be a smash success. Throw in an AR HUD, microtransactions, and it'll be a real hit. Actually, Carmageddon might be a better license; kill off competing Uber cabbies to increase your surge pricing profits.
I'm pretty sure they mean, fact-checking the text content of images, rather than detecting doctored photos. Images with text conveying some controversial message are ubiquitous on Facebook. Same with uploaded videos containing rants/conspiracy theories.
Wrong film. Precogs predict when your house is going to be dirty, and troopers descend from a dropship. They can also be summoned by saying 'Alexa, clean my house'. You don't even need an Echo, the Precogs KNOW.
The point of the STS (the rockets at least) and SLS are they they use old, proven, reliable tech. It's very easy to sell 'old, proven, reliable' to the old men (particularly conservatives) who decide the funding for this. "If it got us to the Moon, then dad gum, it's good enough for us." To these people, NASA is ALL ABOUT big rockets that say 'U.S.A.' in as large of font as possible. I.e. it's all dick-waving.
It'd be cheaper to built a fully-automated ICBM factory. Then, 'maintaining expertise' would no longer be necessary. All you'd need is the engineering schematics and you can build another one. Also, my understanding is that ICBMs often use liquid fuel (that degrades, necessitating it be regularly changed with fresh fuel).
Also, milk comes out of the wobbly things on the underside of Cows, and is used to feed their calves. They completely fail to mention this on the packaging. Antibiotics are excreted by fungi; in fact, most medicine you find in hospitals comes from GMO fungi; won't you think of the poor innocent bacteria?! Vanillin is the strongest flavoring naturally found in vanilla extract; it can also be extracted from cow manure, or synthesized from other chemicals. Helium is a 'waste product' that comes from mining other substances; such large amounts of it are unintentionally extracted that the price of helium is far lower than where the demand curve would place it, leading to worry of a future permanent helium shortage, since you can't just make more. 'Spent' nuclear fuel rods can be reprocessed and used in other nuclear reactor designs.
Plenty of 'waste' has later found a usage, as someone figures out a use for it. Doesn't mean it's bad or useless just because it's a byproduct. Oh, and dosage determines toxicity. Fluoride levels are low enough (I'd bet) to be nontoxic unless you drink amounts of water that'd be lethal due to electrolytic imbalances. Chlorine, a poison, is also put in drinking water intentionally, to kill remaining microbes.
Forgot to mention he started some new project that involved buying up former writers and editors from The Onion. I'm really interested to see what comes out of that, hopefully some kind of political satire thing that gets people to laugh at their own stupidity and move on, FSM knows our world needs plenty of both.
Headline could've been better. The point is that certain countries which own the IP and the robot-manufacturing-robots, will dominate the countries that merely possess the resulting worker robots. Sure, the latter will be able to enjoy increased productivity... but that productivity comes at the cost of dependence on the OTHER countries that produce those robots.
I'm reminded of Phantasy Star 2, where the people become so reliant on the computer that does all the real work, that when it 'goes amok' and stops working, the people have no idea how to function economically. Similarly, going to war with the country who owns the kill-switch for the bots that run your economy, might not be wise. This is why owning the means of the means of production is also important.
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I actually checked out Infiniminer when it came out, before Minecraft existed. It's comparable to Creation Mode in Minecraft, which was more complete at first than Survival Mode. Sure, a huge part of Minecraft's early appeal was "look at what someone made in Minecraft!" but another large part was the "Let's Play"s of survival mode. IMO creation mode is less interesting than survival mode.
If we're talking about Minecraft's influences, you should also mention Dwarf Fortress.
Billy Gates advocating Wintel? Who would've guessed?!
Between this, and Macs moving away from Intel CPUs (and reportedly to ARM as well), Intel is in deep trouble, their low-power CPUs in particular. Pretty much anything open-source will be recompiled for Windows on ARM, legacy proprietary apps will be about the only thing propping up x86, and emulation will serve for anything not performance-critical. The latest ARM chips are on a smaller node than the latest Intel chips, and have been for a while, so Intel no longer has a process advantage compared to the ARM manufacturers. I wonder if anyone will start producing larger ARM chips that have the power of the larger Intel chips.
To be fair, Steam also takes 30%, so it makes little difference for game developers. Sure, you can distribute through other digital game stores, but the ones that don't also take 30% aren't nearly as popular as Steam. If you're Notch, and invented a new game genre with no competitors, and are riding the wave of a new way to experience games (Let's Plays narrated by Youtube personalities) then you can sell the game exclusively through your own website, with a processor that takes only 3%, and still become a billionaire. But pretty much noone else has pulled that off.
For self-defense against vengeance-seeking genetically-modified super-plants.
Interesting, thanks. Anti-GMO sounds like 'food purity' to me, and purity is traditionally a conservative political consideration.
Genetic engineering flips the epigenetic 'evil bit', automatically making the data 'bad'. Ever see 'attack of the killer tomatoes'? It's a warning about Monsanto.
I, for one, am looking forward to CRISPR-enhanced lettuce, at my local grocery.
Also, I'm shocked a Republican administration would do any pro-GMO move, even if they frame it as 'less regulation'.
Gentlemen, I present to you our latest revolution in AI development: Punishment!
Seriously, ask any parent or psychologist and they could tell you that a positive-reinforcement-only training regimen will lead to problems.
A man told me that today is the anniversary of a famous man, a son of a carpenter, being resurrected 3 days after his death, making his followers speak in tongues, and then joining his father, an invisible man in the sky. I laughed pretty hard at that one, but for some reason he seemed offended...
It might make more sense to create a DNS-type protocol that browsers interface with, that link shorteners can be compliant with, rather than relying on the sites to do that. Then again, now that Twitter no longer counts URLs in the 140 character limit, there's little reason to still use URL shorteners.
It'll be shut down so fast, it'll be Faster Dan Light.
If the system disengages, requiring an intervention, due to a bag blowing in the road, we shouldn't assume a serious collision would otherwise occur (from the point of view of the car; the bag might disagree.) If a disengagement is accompanied by automatic braking, and/or pulling over, then there may be little risk in some situations.
When I was in a car as a child, I'd play "stick my hand out the window and use it as a wing", "jump Mario over street cracks" and "hop Mario over the wiper blades". Not sure you want to use children as your standard for 'understanding obstacles'.
They can just rebrand as 'Death Race 2000: The Ride' and it'll be a smash success. Throw in an AR HUD, microtransactions, and it'll be a real hit.
Actually, Carmageddon might be a better license; kill off competing Uber cabbies to increase your surge pricing profits.
something sure to impress your next date -- and possibly your last
Not bloody likely, my last date stopped answering my calls.
He can spin off instances of himself, Dr. Manhattan-style.
I'm pretty sure they mean, fact-checking the text content of images, rather than detecting doctored photos. Images with text conveying some controversial message are ubiquitous on Facebook. Same with uploaded videos containing rants/conspiracy theories.
Wrong film. Precogs predict when your house is going to be dirty, and troopers descend from a dropship.
They can also be summoned by saying 'Alexa, clean my house'. You don't even need an Echo, the Precogs KNOW.
The point of the STS (the rockets at least) and SLS are they they use old, proven, reliable tech. It's very easy to sell 'old, proven, reliable' to the old men (particularly conservatives) who decide the funding for this. "If it got us to the Moon, then dad gum, it's good enough for us." To these people, NASA is ALL ABOUT big rockets that say 'U.S.A.' in as large of font as possible. I.e. it's all dick-waving.
It'd be cheaper to built a fully-automated ICBM factory. Then, 'maintaining expertise' would no longer be necessary. All you'd need is the engineering schematics and you can build another one. Also, my understanding is that ICBMs often use liquid fuel (that degrades, necessitating it be regularly changed with fresh fuel).
Also, milk comes out of the wobbly things on the underside of Cows, and is used to feed their calves. They completely fail to mention this on the packaging.
Antibiotics are excreted by fungi; in fact, most medicine you find in hospitals comes from GMO fungi; won't you think of the poor innocent bacteria?!
Vanillin is the strongest flavoring naturally found in vanilla extract; it can also be extracted from cow manure, or synthesized from other chemicals.
Helium is a 'waste product' that comes from mining other substances; such large amounts of it are unintentionally extracted that the price of helium is far lower than where the demand curve would place it, leading to worry of a future permanent helium shortage, since you can't just make more.
'Spent' nuclear fuel rods can be reprocessed and used in other nuclear reactor designs.
Plenty of 'waste' has later found a usage, as someone figures out a use for it. Doesn't mean it's bad or useless just because it's a byproduct.
Oh, and dosage determines toxicity. Fluoride levels are low enough (I'd bet) to be nontoxic unless you drink amounts of water that'd be lethal due to electrolytic imbalances. Chlorine, a poison, is also put in drinking water intentionally, to kill remaining microbes.
Forgot to mention he started some new project that involved buying up former writers and editors from The Onion. I'm really interested to see what comes out of that, hopefully some kind of political satire thing that gets people to laugh at their own stupidity and move on, FSM knows our world needs plenty of both.
The molds will be baked using Boring Company flamethrowers. Suddenly it all makes sense!
Headline could've been better. The point is that certain countries which own the IP and the robot-manufacturing-robots, will dominate the countries that merely possess the resulting worker robots. Sure, the latter will be able to enjoy increased productivity... but that productivity comes at the cost of dependence on the OTHER countries that produce those robots.
I'm reminded of Phantasy Star 2, where the people become so reliant on the computer that does all the real work, that when it 'goes amok' and stops working, the people have no idea how to function economically. Similarly, going to war with the country who owns the kill-switch for the bots that run your economy, might not be wise. This is why owning the means of the means of production is also important.