Nobody had to pay $40 to vote in the Slashdot poll. They had to pay at least $40 to vote in the Hugos. This is also, apparently, a huge increase over the last number of people who voted in the Hugos (65% more than last time?) suggesting a significant groundwell.
Interesting, so it looks like they are making a lot more money on this, while making the awards entirely meaningless. Well played, WorldCons, well played.
Perhaps this move by Twitter comes after some external political pressure, because it's certainly not something that Twitter's own policies deem as necessary.
Or some perceived pressure. They realize that those politicians making an ass of themselves on Twitter also have the power to make Twitter disappear.
Then they would get hit with the fine again and again until they quit it. It is just like speeding. You get a ticket today for speeding, you are not covered, if you speed again you can get a ticket again right away.
And people are going to be watching this company very closely now.
Prediction: NX will use Amiibos instead of optical drive for games. At first it will unlock a download. In a few years all the games will come on Yoshii dolls.
That makes no sense.
Which is why I think you are right. Flash media costs about nothing per gigabyte, now. Soon you can put several gigabytes into everything for the cost of the plastic to make the thing.
Or they care just as much as Hasbro/WoTC cares about what you do with old Magic cards. Sell them, use them, keep them in a shoebox, set them on fire; they are just going to print more. Assuming nothing has changed in the last decade or so, cards from more than a few releases ago are not valid in tournaments. Planned obsolescence and whatnot.
This is how it used to be. But only in general terms of pass/fail. Now that they can have metrics to account for every minute of time spent at the office. Nickel and diming each employee and accounting every moment they spend in the office will not increase productivity.
Also, employers don't want what you describe. When they find out that tompaulco gets as much done in 4 hours as nitehawk214 does all day, do you think they will be happy with tompaulco leaving after a half day... or paying you twice as much? No, they will find a way to force you to do twice as much work for the same pay.
The metrics are designed such that they can only benefit the employer. Why would they do something to help out the employees?
They know that if they make a tangible carrot that actually effects the bottom line of the paycheck... all people will do is game the metrics instead of doing their actual work. Why would anyone do anything else, if getting your actual job done no longer is what gets you paid.
Sure, they can tune the metrics so that things that for each individual actually doing the job properly gets the employee paid the most. But at that point we would be exactly where we were before. The supervisor or manager makes a decision on each worker to see if they are performing well enough. Trying to game out that extra 10% efficiency will require so much overhead that it makes things worse.
They used to say that generals always fight the last war. But they still haven't learned the lessons from the last 2 wars in Iraq. Once you obliterate the enemy's air defenses using stealth, drones and combat aircraft, there is no need for stealth anymore. The A-10 does much better at close air support than an F-16 or F-35.
But I guess they are still trying to fight the war they wanted; NATO vs Soviet Union in 1985.
The issue is that the middle of New York and Pennsylvania and other places are filled with mountains. That means they need to put a cell tower on each one to get full coverage, and there isn't enough people there to make it worth their while. Easier to stick to the metro areas where the money is to be made.
The design of the F-22 is such that it is faster than everything else on the field. So if it gets spotted it simply pulls back and waits. Sound military tactic, only fight when you know you have the advantage.
But the F-35 is supposed to be a strike aircraft. If you want to hit the enemy on the ground, you are going to need to go where they are. And with all the complicated electronics the thing is fragile. Not a good combination
Selective breeding is humans directing natural selection. We have been doing it for millennium. Wheat and maize only exist because humans have influenced them.
Though I would expect that this kind of GM would not be banned, unless the hippies that are running things have really gone off the hook. But even still, this "science = BAD!" generalization is not helping things. What happened to having some government organization look at each proposed GM change and authorize them on a case-by-case basis?
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Oh wait, its a HughPickens post. Nevermind, I understand now, carry on.
Agreed. They aren't advocating "teaching ignorance". that is something young-earth creationists do.
This is saying to accept that we are ignorant about things; and that if we know what things we are ignorant about, we can handle things intelligently.
One installation in NYC and one in LA does not equal "covers the entire US".
There is exactly no possibility of this happening. They couldn't even connect all major cities, let alone the entire country.
But this is not to be used as an excuse to make fallacious arguments.
Nobody had to pay $40 to vote in the Slashdot poll. They had to pay at least $40 to vote in the Hugos. This is also, apparently, a huge increase over the last number of people who voted in the Hugos (65% more than last time?) suggesting a significant groundwell.
Interesting, so it looks like they are making a lot more money on this, while making the awards entirely meaningless. Well played, WorldCons, well played.
Perhaps this move by Twitter comes after some external political pressure, because it's certainly not something that Twitter's own policies deem as necessary.
Or some perceived pressure. They realize that those politicians making an ass of themselves on Twitter also have the power to make Twitter disappear.
Hyperloop Is Not A Vatican
Hyperloop Is Not A Vacation
Hyperloop Is Not A Vitamin
This is a bad analogy. There was no point when flash was great.
More like dumb city. Very dumb city.
Then they would get hit with the fine again and again until they quit it. It is just like speeding. You get a ticket today for speeding, you are not covered, if you speed again you can get a ticket again right away.
And people are going to be watching this company very closely now.
And this has been the point of consoles since the 90's.
I am willing to bet a lot more people go back and replay NES and SNES games than N64 or GameCube. Something was lost in console gaming.
Prediction: NX will use Amiibos instead of optical drive for games. At first it will unlock a download. In a few years all the games will come on Yoshii dolls.
That makes no sense.
Which is why I think you are right. Flash media costs about nothing per gigabyte, now. Soon you can put several gigabytes into everything for the cost of the plastic to make the thing.
Or they care just as much as Hasbro/WoTC cares about what you do with old Magic cards. Sell them, use them, keep them in a shoebox, set them on fire; they are just going to print more. Assuming nothing has changed in the last decade or so, cards from more than a few releases ago are not valid in tournaments. Planned obsolescence and whatnot.
This is how it used to be. But only in general terms of pass/fail. Now that they can have metrics to account for every minute of time spent at the office. Nickel and diming each employee and accounting every moment they spend in the office will not increase productivity.
Also, employers don't want what you describe. When they find out that tompaulco gets as much done in 4 hours as nitehawk214 does all day, do you think they will be happy with tompaulco leaving after a half day... or paying you twice as much? No, they will find a way to force you to do twice as much work for the same pay.
The metrics are designed such that they can only benefit the employer. Why would they do something to help out the employees?
They know that if they make a tangible carrot that actually effects the bottom line of the paycheck... all people will do is game the metrics instead of doing their actual work. Why would anyone do anything else, if getting your actual job done no longer is what gets you paid.
Sure, they can tune the metrics so that things that for each individual actually doing the job properly gets the employee paid the most. But at that point we would be exactly where we were before. The supervisor or manager makes a decision on each worker to see if they are performing well enough. Trying to game out that extra 10% efficiency will require so much overhead that it makes things worse.
Great movie.
They used to say that generals always fight the last war. But they still haven't learned the lessons from the last 2 wars in Iraq. Once you obliterate the enemy's air defenses using stealth, drones and combat aircraft, there is no need for stealth anymore. The A-10 does much better at close air support than an F-16 or F-35.
But I guess they are still trying to fight the war they wanted; NATO vs Soviet Union in 1985.
The issue is that the middle of New York and Pennsylvania and other places are filled with mountains. That means they need to put a cell tower on each one to get full coverage, and there isn't enough people there to make it worth their while. Easier to stick to the metro areas where the money is to be made.
The design of the F-22 is such that it is faster than everything else on the field. So if it gets spotted it simply pulls back and waits. Sound military tactic, only fight when you know you have the advantage.
But the F-35 is supposed to be a strike aircraft. If you want to hit the enemy on the ground, you are going to need to go where they are. And with all the complicated electronics the thing is fragile. Not a good combination
Forcing crops on you? Unless you are being force-fed or ass raped by mutant corn, I don't see how this is.
Now, loopholes where companies can lie about GM labeling need to be closed, this lets consumers make their own choices.
Selective breeding is humans directing natural selection. We have been doing it for millennium. Wheat and maize only exist because humans have influenced them.
Though I would expect that this kind of GM would not be banned, unless the hippies that are running things have really gone off the hook. But even still, this "science = BAD!" generalization is not helping things. What happened to having some government organization look at each proposed GM change and authorize them on a case-by-case basis?
It is their right to do this, just as it is my right to block ads.
If the site refuses to load, that makes it quite easy to decide to never return to it.
Its just a brand name .. they sell mobile phones. They kept the name because apparently it hasd brand value
Brand value? So they are also idiots in marketing as well as security.
Now you understand. Isn't it a wonderful feeling when the random crazy thing you want already exists?
I haven't seen the sequel yet, but I hear it is equally as good/bad.
If you are a social justice warrior of their SRS board, you are authorized by Reddit management to dox, harass, libel, to anyone outside the SJW realm.
Any attempt to complain gets you banned with no way to defend yourself.
Basically it is the internet-lynch mob. Reddit management is aware of this and fully supports it.