Double tap guide, down to all settings. Jobs a good'un, probably just as quick as you saying whatever if not quicker as it doesn't have to process your voice to figure out what you want, if it can even understand your accent. Anyway with the next update you don't even need kinect to do voice commands, not that you ever should have but there you go. Kinect is a mostly useless piece of shit (disclaimer, when attached to an xbox, in itself it's actually pretty cool and has a ton of cool applications. proper gaming isn't one of them. Not yet anyway).
The fact that you're playing a console oriented game on a PC is already a massive disadvantage even if it worked well.
Ha PC master race never noticed the switch when console games get ported to pc rather than the other way around nowadays. They're all the same anyway just what input device they've been designed for primarily.
Are you sure? It's the people who use kinect that have the degraded experience imho. With each update they've moved things around a bit and tried to make it easier but you've always been able to go into settings and they're all there. Ok, you might have to find that if you don't initially know where it is instead of saying xbox whatever, but mad exploration? Hardly. FYI all settings is at the bottom of the quick menu you get by double tapping the guide button. You can get practically anywhere from there without talking to your console, looking and feeling like a twat while you repeat commands because it doesn't understand your ever so slightly off norm accent then just doing it manually anyway.
Read it again. I didn't pick random times, I picked one big time. When as you say the initial technology of a steam engine has been available, reinvented a few times, and then as you say it wasn't until the late 1800's when it was invented again and then that's the time it took off and spawned everything since. Why did it not do that on any of it's previous iterations? I'm not saying religion was the only cause, but religion is very much anti progress. Not the religions in and of themselves but those who abuse them to keep themselves powerful and rich and the population weak and poor. Obviously there are a ton of different factors at play but you can't ignore that while Europe at least was under religious rule of the vatican, not much progress was made and it was pretty bad for most people. As religion loosened it's vice grip technology started to take off, coincidence?
You drop the middle/dark ages thing. They are the same thing, wiki even says so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Called the dark ages because of all the terrible shit that went on, not because its unknown like fucking dark matter or something.
Of course it's a European centric view. I was talking technological progress rather than culture. You could probably argue out of those three china had the most progress and was least religious but they had all kinds of other shit going on. Arabs were kinda into science but as I understand it that was more astrology and math. Persia's not even really a thing anymore but I'm not sure how relevant that is. the current state of Africa is kinda our fault too but both they and a lot of Asian nations are still deeply religious now. It's not the religion per se keeping them down but those in charge do very much abuse it to keep the status quo.
If you can even get to the battery.... with newer cars, the days of shadetree mechanics are long gone, how long is it before removing the connectors fromt he posts will require special tools.
Before too long you want even be able to open the bonnet without specialised tools.
That may be the definition you use, but the definition we use around our office is "we currently don't know a way to get it working again". It's a subtle difference, but maybe somebody will figure out a software update to fix it and thus "unbrick it", but at the moment it's as useful as a brick.
So you completely missed the point, maybe the mention of religion got you all hot under the collar. For Dark ages, read middle ages, when much of Europe was under the iron rule of the pope leading to such wondrous events as the crusades and inquisition, when for a good 1000 or so years humans made very little technological progress. Sure things got invented and scientific progress was made but not without great effort and sacrifice. Remind me again what happened to people who dared to suggest outrageous things like maybe the Earth wasn't the centre of everything or even just disagree with Church teachings. It usually ended up pretty bad for someone. Religion ruled so tightly you had be in it or at least pretend to even be acknowledged by society, if you openly said I don't believe in god, you would usually end up dead before too long so people went with it because for the most part they probably enjoyed being alive.
As you say the first steam engine was invented in the first century, how long did it take to move up a level? around 1700 years by my count. Most people associate the steam engine with the industrial revolution, as Christianity was beginning to loosen it's grip over the continent. Just look at how much progress we've made since then. Just look at the countries today which are still heavily ruled by religion, as in are the government. They're very resistant to change and anything against the status quo, sure they use the technology available and stuff comes out of there but still. Look at Israel. There's some ultra ortadox sect that say girls over 5 shouldn't ride bikes and the internet isn't kosher. Do you hear some of the ridiculous claims clerics from UAE and others make? Don't take my post as an attack on Christianity, all religions are as bad as each other in that respect. They still stone people to death over there like a bunch of fucking savages and then get all uppity about it when anyone says anything about it.
And whatever constitutes "teeming with aliens". Is that 10 planets per galaxy? 100? 1,000?
And the time involved. How long ago did life start on Earth? How many mass extinctions have there been? Would ANY of those have been detected by aliens on their home planet using technology equivalent to ours?
The Fermi "paradox" is based upon alien expansion. Which is, in turn, based upon tech advances that we don't have.
The galaxy could be "teeming with aliens" that we cannot detect and that we cannot reach with our technology. Nor can they detect us or reach us.
To be fair, if we never hard the dark ages and big stretches of time that religion was in charge and very little actual progress was made we would probably be way ahead of where we are now.
Yeah I could get behind that. Actually, the last car I got, I could not for the life of me find the control for the side lights so I did what a lot of people do seem incapable of and checked the manual.
So what is it you propose? A one time check to make sure people can operate a vehicle safely? A periodical such? That one has intimate knowledge of internal combustion engines? Be able to strip the car to it's component parts and put it back together? Something else? Personally I'd say you'd have to renew your licence every ten years as a good compromise. Where do you come down?
Most of all I don't use more words than absolutely, positively and ultimately required to express the message that I wish to convey.
So you are right. The word I should have used is "demand".
Good luck with that one.
Also I would put it to you that positively and ultimately are unneeded to express the message you are conveying. I would assume sarcasm but you seem to be really quite serious, so not so sure. Are you sure, absolutely sure that you couldn't have expressed that message any shorter?
Would you really wanna be in the middle lane of a 5-lane, 65 mph, highway and have your car 'controlled brake' to a stop?
What about when your pulling out of a parking lot, turning left across a busy 2 lane road?
Crossing railroad tracks?
On an icy road?
There are quite a few situations where I wouldn't want my car to begin a controlled braking action.
I would tend to agree that there is no 'perfect' failsafe action that does not take into consideration the context of the situation.
Would you want it to apply full acceleration instead? It seems to me in all those scenarios it would be better for the car to do nothing with the throttle and let it coast to a stop.
- (automatic): The A320 has independent Angle Of Attack probes, but if you climb through heavy icing, it turns out two can freeze up at the same time. The system sees a confirmed stall (even though it should be impossible given the current speed, attitude and inertial measurements) because two systems agreeing can't ever be wrong, and it pushes the nose down. Even if both pilots pull back on the stick, the nose continues to drop. We now have an official procedure to shut off two of the Air Data Reference units, leaving only one remaining. That's the only way of shaking the absolute confidence of the system in two identical but false signals.
I'm not sure that's accurate. It's slightly different situation but that air france 447 was an airbus, and its sensors froze causing the pilots to think it was stalling so one of the pilots for some reason decided to pull up and it stayed pulling up until it hit the deck. Maybe your thing was implemented after that though?
True, but if you knew there was a gun waiting to go off if you misbehaved you'd probably try and disarm it some how all sneaky like. Especially if you're super smart.
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Double tap guide, down to all settings. Jobs a good'un, probably just as quick as you saying whatever if not quicker as it doesn't have to process your voice to figure out what you want, if it can even understand your accent. Anyway with the next update you don't even need kinect to do voice commands, not that you ever should have but there you go. Kinect is a mostly useless piece of shit (disclaimer, when attached to an xbox, in itself it's actually pretty cool and has a ton of cool applications. proper gaming isn't one of them. Not yet anyway).
The fact that you're playing a console oriented game on a PC is already a massive disadvantage even if it worked well.
Ha PC master race never noticed the switch when console games get ported to pc rather than the other way around nowadays. They're all the same anyway just what input device they've been designed for primarily.
Are you sure? It's the people who use kinect that have the degraded experience imho. With each update they've moved things around a bit and tried to make it easier but you've always been able to go into settings and they're all there. Ok, you might have to find that if you don't initially know where it is instead of saying xbox whatever, but mad exploration? Hardly. FYI all settings is at the bottom of the quick menu you get by double tapping the guide button. You can get practically anywhere from there without talking to your console, looking and feeling like a twat while you repeat commands because it doesn't understand your ever so slightly off norm accent then just doing it manually anyway.
Read it again. I didn't pick random times, I picked one big time. When as you say the initial technology of a steam engine has been available, reinvented a few times, and then as you say it wasn't until the late 1800's when it was invented again and then that's the time it took off and spawned everything since. Why did it not do that on any of it's previous iterations? I'm not saying religion was the only cause, but religion is very much anti progress. Not the religions in and of themselves but those who abuse them to keep themselves powerful and rich and the population weak and poor. Obviously there are a ton of different factors at play but you can't ignore that while Europe at least was under religious rule of the vatican, not much progress was made and it was pretty bad for most people. As religion loosened it's vice grip technology started to take off, coincidence?
You drop the middle/dark ages thing. They are the same thing, wiki even says so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Called the dark ages because of all the terrible shit that went on, not because its unknown like fucking dark matter or something.
Isn't that tor?
I have a patent on first posts. You'll be hearing from my lawyer. See you in Texas!
Of course it's a European centric view. I was talking technological progress rather than culture. You could probably argue out of those three china had the most progress and was least religious but they had all kinds of other shit going on. Arabs were kinda into science but as I understand it that was more astrology and math. Persia's not even really a thing anymore but I'm not sure how relevant that is. the current state of Africa is kinda our fault too but both they and a lot of Asian nations are still deeply religious now. It's not the religion per se keeping them down but those in charge do very much abuse it to keep the status quo.
If you can even get to the battery.... with newer cars, the days of shadetree mechanics are long gone, how long is it before removing the connectors fromt he posts will require special tools.
Before too long you want even be able to open the bonnet without specialised tools.
That may be the definition you use, but the definition we use around our office is "we currently don't know a way to get it working again". It's a subtle difference, but maybe somebody will figure out a software update to fix it and thus "unbrick it", but at the moment it's as useful as a brick.
What you should be saying is borked.
Maybe, I'd say it's closer to pissing away your teens then trying to get on track at 20.
So you completely missed the point, maybe the mention of religion got you all hot under the collar. For Dark ages, read middle ages, when much of Europe was under the iron rule of the pope leading to such wondrous events as the crusades and inquisition, when for a good 1000 or so years humans made very little technological progress. Sure things got invented and scientific progress was made but not without great effort and sacrifice. Remind me again what happened to people who dared to suggest outrageous things like maybe the Earth wasn't the centre of everything or even just disagree with Church teachings. It usually ended up pretty bad for someone. Religion ruled so tightly you had be in it or at least pretend to even be acknowledged by society, if you openly said I don't believe in god, you would usually end up dead before too long so people went with it because for the most part they probably enjoyed being alive.
As you say the first steam engine was invented in the first century, how long did it take to move up a level? around 1700 years by my count. Most people associate the steam engine with the industrial revolution, as Christianity was beginning to loosen it's grip over the continent. Just look at how much progress we've made since then. Just look at the countries today which are still heavily ruled by religion, as in are the government. They're very resistant to change and anything against the status quo, sure they use the technology available and stuff comes out of there but still. Look at Israel. There's some ultra ortadox sect that say girls over 5 shouldn't ride bikes and the internet isn't kosher. Do you hear some of the ridiculous claims clerics from UAE and others make? Don't take my post as an attack on Christianity, all religions are as bad as each other in that respect. They still stone people to death over there like a bunch of fucking savages and then get all uppity about it when anyone says anything about it.
You gonna app your way across the galaxy?
Not if you're some kind of Luddite. Where did that guy go?
You forgot the Soviet Russia, no?
where meme forgets you?
Yep, it's the distance.
And whatever constitutes "teeming with aliens". Is that 10 planets per galaxy? 100? 1,000?
And the time involved. How long ago did life start on Earth? How many mass extinctions have there been? Would ANY of those have been detected by aliens on their home planet using technology equivalent to ours?
The Fermi "paradox" is based upon alien expansion. Which is, in turn, based upon tech advances that we don't have.
The galaxy could be "teeming with aliens" that we cannot detect and that we cannot reach with our technology. Nor can they detect us or reach us.
To be fair, if we never hard the dark ages and big stretches of time that religion was in charge and very little actual progress was made we would probably be way ahead of where we are now.
Yeah I could get behind that. Actually, the last car I got, I could not for the life of me find the control for the side lights so I did what a lot of people do seem incapable of and checked the manual.
Is this a pro-pedo message?
So what is it you propose? A one time check to make sure people can operate a vehicle safely? A periodical such? That one has intimate knowledge of internal combustion engines? Be able to strip the car to it's component parts and put it back together? Something else? Personally I'd say you'd have to renew your licence every ten years as a good compromise. Where do you come down?
Most of all I don't use more words than absolutely, positively and ultimately required to express the message that I wish to convey.
So you are right. The word I should have used is "demand".
Good luck with that one.
Also I would put it to you that positively and ultimately are unneeded to express the message you are conveying. I would assume sarcasm but you seem to be really quite serious, so not so sure. Are you sure, absolutely sure that you couldn't have expressed that message any shorter?
Most of all I don't use more words than absolutely, positively and ultimately required to express the message that I wish to convey.
So you are right. The word I should have used is "demand".
Good luck with that one.
Would you really wanna be in the middle lane of a 5-lane, 65 mph, highway and have your car 'controlled brake' to a stop? What about when your pulling out of a parking lot, turning left across a busy 2 lane road? Crossing railroad tracks? On an icy road? There are quite a few situations where I wouldn't want my car to begin a controlled braking action. I would tend to agree that there is no 'perfect' failsafe action that does not take into consideration the context of the situation.
Would you want it to apply full acceleration instead? It seems to me in all those scenarios it would be better for the car to do nothing with the throttle and let it coast to a stop.
- (automatic): The A320 has independent Angle Of Attack probes, but if you climb through heavy icing, it turns out two can freeze up at the same time. The system sees a confirmed stall (even though it should be impossible given the current speed, attitude and inertial measurements) because two systems agreeing can't ever be wrong, and it pushes the nose down. Even if both pilots pull back on the stick, the nose continues to drop. We now have an official procedure to shut off two of the Air Data Reference units, leaving only one remaining. That's the only way of shaking the absolute confidence of the system in two identical but false signals.
I'm not sure that's accurate. It's slightly different situation but that air france 447 was an airbus, and its sensors froze causing the pilots to think it was stalling so one of the pilots for some reason decided to pull up and it stayed pulling up until it hit the deck. Maybe your thing was implemented after that though?
Don't believe everything you read on the internet - Abraham Lincoln
That might possibly be a end game for an advanced ai and would definitely be preferable to a terminator scenario.
True, but if you knew there was a gun waiting to go off if you misbehaved you'd probably try and disarm it some how all sneaky like. Especially if you're super smart.
Okay, second place.