If you are the guy that is awesome because he stopped watching so much TV a few months ago, I'm the guy that is even more awesome because he doesn't even own a TV.
Of course, what I mean is that I never bought new ink cartridges after I graduated from college. I wonder if my printer even works anymore.
Or video footage of a charismatic dictator just started it's 200 year journey towards us. I mean, we aren't doing a whole lot about sentient life that is suffering on planets other than Earth(or here for that matter).
I'm not saying that they should stick everything on one chip anytime soon, just that there is actually a limit somewhere in the medium term future where you start spending improvements somewhere other than raw performance. For casual users, that's really soon(because dpi isn't that important 3 or 4 feet away from your face, most people's eyes don't have the resolution for it to matter).
How many more pixels do you think you need? I'm glad they are looking ahead to the point when graphics is sitting on chip.
(current high end boards will push an awful lot of pixels. Intel is a generation or two away from single chip solutions that will push an awful lot of pixels. Shiny only needs to progress to the point where it is better than our eyes, and it isn't a factor of 100 away, it is closer to a factor of 20 away, less on smaller screens)
That just makes me liar. There isn't any law against being a liar. There are hoards of laws regarding specific types of lies, but none against lying in general, and I don't think any of the existing laws would apply to my chalkboard.
The problem isn't biased military officials appearing on television, it is pretending that they are unbiased military officials. Transparency isn't simply about clear unbiased information(because there is very little of it), but also about being forthright.
I'm not trying to make any package deal. Given that it is the internet, I should have written "all moral issues regarding the property of the deceased".
Decrypting information that happens to be stored on the property is like sharing a secret that your friend only told you, not like his mom reading a paper journal. The issue is muddled, not clear.
Your belief that the passing of the property to the survivors sets aside all moral issues regarding the deceased doesn't necessarily apply to everybody else. I would agree without hesitation that any professional code of ethics would have no problem with helping the survivors gain access to their property, but that's not what morality is about.
It's an example of doing something for someone else that is obviously not moral.
You stated that it was moral to help the family simply because they asked. That isn't the case (it certainly could be moral, but the fact that they have the legal right to the information and have asked for help in obtaining are not the only considerations).
The dollar is probably somewhat weaker than it will be in the long term, and this is coming off a period where it was pretty strong compared to the long term. That exaggerates the comparison (because we remember recent stuff more powerfully).
There is some good news in the fact that Europe is having trouble doing business in the U.S., it means that things have swung to far and will probably swing back. If Europe was doing crazy business with U.S. companies despite the dollar, things would be pretty bleak.
Compare the dollar and euro salaries for jobs. The numbers make more sense now than they used to(i.e., people making 60,000 dollars do about the same work and have about the same buying power as people making 40,000 euros).
The military already has weapons that could completely annihilate civilization several times over. If it takes 2,000 bombs right now they may well be motivated to get that down to something more manageable, like 100, but at some point, even crazy destruction bent madmen would be satisfied(like if they had a globebuster).
I'm pretty sure that 'useful' amounts of supercomputer capacity aren't taken offline as new capacity comes online, they are simply repurposed to lower priority topics. So maybe the new one only gets used to make weapons more reliable, but it still frees up the old one to calculate the weather.
Part of my argument is that failing to play back DVDs and the like on their platforms is something that would alienate their customer base. Working on the development of HDCP means that they get to make sure that it works on something like Windows Media Center Edition, rather than not working. So they have good reason to support both DRM(content providers are reluctant to release unencumbered media, so DRM increases availability of content) and to support unencumbered media (it would piss people off to no end if they couldn't edit their own video footage or whatever).
The point that they could make a huge amount of money as the content gatekeeper still stands. Hopefully that isn't their goal(and I'm sure it isn't the goal of the many minions that merely work at Microsoft).
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If you are the guy that is awesome because he stopped watching so much TV a few months ago, I'm the guy that is even more awesome because he doesn't even own a TV.
Of course, what I mean is that I never bought new ink cartridges after I graduated from college. I wonder if my printer even works anymore.
You got the joke!
Or video footage of a charismatic dictator just started it's 200 year journey towards us. I mean, we aren't doing a whole lot about sentient life that is suffering on planets other than Earth(or here for that matter).
To what end?
I'm not saying that they should stick everything on one chip anytime soon, just that there is actually a limit somewhere in the medium term future where you start spending improvements somewhere other than raw performance. For casual users, that's really soon(because dpi isn't that important 3 or 4 feet away from your face, most people's eyes don't have the resolution for it to matter).
The option should be called
[X] Automatically control chat input window size.
How many more pixels do you think you need? I'm glad they are looking ahead to the point when graphics is sitting on chip.
(current high end boards will push an awful lot of pixels. Intel is a generation or two away from single chip solutions that will push an awful lot of pixels. Shiny only needs to progress to the point where it is better than our eyes, and it isn't a factor of 100 away, it is closer to a factor of 20 away, less on smaller screens)
When Al Gore says jump, does the internet say "Please don't hit me again Mr. Gore"?
Doesn't the availability of the t-shirts at a store in the mall say something about how authentic the image of the bands is?
That just makes me liar. There isn't any law against being a liar. There are hoards of laws regarding specific types of lies, but none against lying in general, and I don't think any of the existing laws would apply to my chalkboard.
The problem isn't biased military officials appearing on television, it is pretending that they are unbiased military officials. Transparency isn't simply about clear unbiased information(because there is very little of it), but also about being forthright.
What are they gonna do about it?
If I have a chalk board in my garage that I let other people write on whenever they want, that doesn't mean that I have to let you write on it.
I'm not trying to make any package deal. Given that it is the internet, I should have written "all moral issues regarding the property of the deceased".
Decrypting information that happens to be stored on the property is like sharing a secret that your friend only told you, not like his mom reading a paper journal. The issue is muddled, not clear.
It's my pin-striped suit.
Your belief that the passing of the property to the survivors sets aside all moral issues regarding the deceased doesn't necessarily apply to everybody else. I would agree without hesitation that any professional code of ethics would have no problem with helping the survivors gain access to their property, but that's not what morality is about.
It's an example of doing something for someone else that is obviously not moral.
You stated that it was moral to help the family simply because they asked. That isn't the case (it certainly could be moral, but the fact that they have the legal right to the information and have asked for help in obtaining are not the only considerations).
What if you don't agree that they family should have access to the data?
It's ethical in a professional sense, but I'm not sure it is entirely ethical(i.e., the point can probably be debated).
That's so impossibly wrong-headed I don't even know what to say.
Sure there is a moral issue. If someone pays you to murder someone, you are still responsible for your actions. This is no different.
The fact that the property now belongs to the heirs probably sets aside any legal issues, but being legal doesn't make something moral.
I don't know where you live, but here, we've had mirrors for years and years.
The dollar is probably somewhat weaker than it will be in the long term, and this is coming off a period where it was pretty strong compared to the long term. That exaggerates the comparison (because we remember recent stuff more powerfully).
There is some good news in the fact that Europe is having trouble doing business in the U.S., it means that things have swung to far and will probably swing back. If Europe was doing crazy business with U.S. companies despite the dollar, things would be pretty bleak.
He's a billionaire. He can probably afford some dental work.
Compare the dollar and euro salaries for jobs. The numbers make more sense now than they used to(i.e., people making 60,000 dollars do about the same work and have about the same buying power as people making 40,000 euros).
The military already has weapons that could completely annihilate civilization several times over. If it takes 2,000 bombs right now they may well be motivated to get that down to something more manageable, like 100, but at some point, even crazy destruction bent madmen would be satisfied(like if they had a globebuster).
I'm pretty sure that 'useful' amounts of supercomputer capacity aren't taken offline as new capacity comes online, they are simply repurposed to lower priority topics. So maybe the new one only gets used to make weapons more reliable, but it still frees up the old one to calculate the weather.
That's a great point.
Part of my argument is that failing to play back DVDs and the like on their platforms is something that would alienate their customer base. Working on the development of HDCP means that they get to make sure that it works on something like Windows Media Center Edition, rather than not working. So they have good reason to support both DRM(content providers are reluctant to release unencumbered media, so DRM increases availability of content) and to support unencumbered media (it would piss people off to no end if they couldn't edit their own video footage or whatever).
The point that they could make a huge amount of money as the content gatekeeper still stands. Hopefully that isn't their goal(and I'm sure it isn't the goal of the many minions that merely work at Microsoft).
While the theater surrounding laptops is irritating, you are confusing the TSA with customs.