It'll pass, there's a fixed amount people can spend on entertainment so they will end up stepping on eachother's toes at some price point, then they will start competing with eachother on price.
Things don't get cheaper, they get more expensive and inflation goes up, but this part is already priced in - what people were paying for cable is what it will level out at.
The issue was allowing poor people to have disposable income, there's not putting genie back in the bottle.
I hope so, but I'm not optimistic. Look at what happened to cable prices. I think a lot of people that still have cable are paying upwards of $100 a month. I'm baffled why anyone would spend that much to watch TV, but the cable companies manage to convince some people to pay that much. I think if cable companies can extract that much- the individual streaming services might be hoping to get a significant chunk of that cash from the cord cutters.
you could move out of the USA. The It's being shown on Netflix here.
I could... but then I would pay double income tax. I got my US citizenship a few years ago before learning that the US is the only country in the world that collects income tax from citizens who emigrate. If I moved back to Europe I'd pay my income taxes there and then my US income taxes on top of that. Would have to be a huge pay raise to cover the double taxation.
.. Since when is Valve involved in cryptocurrency and social networking?
In a useful and effective way, that is. Most people's "Community" page is as blank as my own.
Cryptocurrency maybe not yet; but they're already a social network. Not everyone uses them as one, but they are very much setup as one. Incorporating cryptocurrency isn't a far stretch. Especially since they're already handling money and have their own form of currency in the form of "badges" and "Stickers" already. (obviously not the same thing- but they've been dabbling in the speculating with those things for a while).
Anyone paying for CBS to watch this is doing the rest of us a massive disservice.
You mean I get to piss off nerds WHILE WATCHING STARTREK? Sign me up.
Not just nerds... everyone. We all stand to lose out if every network decides to charge $7 a month to view their stuff. If all the networks pull their old stuff off Netflix, Amazon and Hulu and set up their own to-pay site. You either have a lot less choice- or pay a lot more money. If CBS is successful in this all the networks will do something similar.
Valve might have a case to sue. My initial thought at first glance was that this was a "Steam" social network. That's all it takes to sue is a chance a customer might confuse the companies. It isn't too far beyond what Steam already does to think they might attempt something like this. I think some people might get confused by the names... absolutely a case to sue.
. ..And I'll be damned if I'll pay extra to CBS' streaming service to watch it!
Have to agree...
I'd absolutely watch this if it were on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. I refuse to pay for CBS service though. Two reasons:
1) I don't want to pay more when I have so many shows I haven't seen on the other networks. 2) The principle. Paying for CBS service helps support the splintering of streamed TV online. If I pay- that partially contributes to the potential success of CBS's experiment. If CBS is successful then every other network is going to follow the same model. Eventually you'll end up with a dozen different streaming sites all wanting $x a month and end up paying the same as cable.
Anyone paying for CBS to watch this is doing the rest of us a massive disservice.
I am fine with the ads in most websites. The worst offenders these days are Slashdot with their tall floating banners and Cnet with their autoplaying videos.
I don't go to CNET anymore because of that... and I've considered cutting out Slashdot. (don't get your hopes up too much though)
What's worse... if Windows manages their computer; Cortana (aka Clippy 2) is probably the voice control controlling the computers. That bitch cortana is who my grand kids will have to talk to if they want their "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot". This makes me sad.
Jimmy may only be one person out of one million people named Jimmy. So makes up one millionth of all Jimmys.
The machines we know all come from one planet. Of all the billions of galaxies each of which contrain trillions of stars we have "perhaps" encountered less than one millionth of all machines in the universe.
Jimmy is "perhaps" closer to representing all of his kind than earth machines are to representing all machines in the Universe.
Unless there is another planet with people on it and some are called Jimmy... then all bets are off.
True. "Perhaps" makes the sentence not incorrect. It's also not very meaningful either.
I have a friend named Jimmy who is 6'1". I don't know anyone else named Jimmy, so I could say Jimmy is perhaps the tallest Jimmy in the world. Bit of a pointless statement considering I don't know how many Jimmys there are; the odds are likely there is a Jimmy taller because the world is full of Jimmys and people over 6'1".
They pay taxes, that's all the reason anyone needs to be able to get a better response from the government
They pay US federal taxes indeed. The federal government should help out here. Why is Trump dragging his feet? Well, Texas is a big republican state so Trump was all about helping them out. Florida is a toss up state so Trump helped a little. Puerto Rico can't vote for President and if they could there is no way they would vote for Trump.
Trump isn't going to help another human being if they can't give him something in return.
As many people have died because of idiots interpreting religious texts in the worst possible way- I would say introducing dogma backfired for the researchers (if that were true)... unless getting us to fight for their entertainment was their intention all along.
I suspect there is truth what you say, although, I imagine most people won't have a clue how much your phone cost unless you have a bargain basement phone from a no name seller. (Blu, or Le Ecco)
Thus it rules out that the universe is being simulated within a universe that plays by similar fundamental rules of math and logic
It doesn't even rule that out though. It could take a billion years to simulate a second in our universe... we wouldn't know, we're a simulation, we only see time as it appears to us. The complexity may be huge- but it doesn't all have to be handled at once.
You can read War & Peace on a kindle even though you can only read one page at a time, the rest of the book doesn't disappear even though you're on a different page.
You can drive a Honda that will get you from A/B, but you can also drive a BMW. BMW cost 2x to 5x a Honda.
I've not seen any study "satisfaction" vs "how much you spent" for phones; however, they have done studies on "how satisfied are you with your car" vs "how much did you pay for your car" and there was zero correlation (although, if I recall they didn't stoop low enough to scrape the bottom of the barrel with the 20 year old used cars with a rust hole below the passenger seat).
I suspect there is a similar phenomenon with phones. How satisfied you are with your phone probably has very little relation to how much you spent. I spent $200 on mine and couldn't be happier. The Mrs. has a Samsung that cost multiples more and hates it.
This assumes the super-universe simulating us has physics even remotely like ours. It could be trivial to perform uncounted gooleplex operations a second. Indeed, a cosmic speed limit sounds suspiciously like something one might add to a universe to prevent control over everything.
I remember when I was a kid with my ZX Spectrum computer loading a game... as the cassette spun- the loading graphic would slowly show... one line of pixels at a time. Sometimes part of it would animate.
If that animation were a "simulation" it would have no idea that it took 90 seconds for it to load to "blink".
Not that we're in a simulation... but if we were, we would have no idea how "time" works outside our universe... but suppose it works the same... one second in our universe could take a trillion years to process in the outer universe... our "ticks of time" might load one row of atoms at a time... like the pixels on my old loading screen. How would we know? We would be a simulation! Our simulated universe might get paused for a trillion years and then restarted again... we wouldn't know.
Many of the pro-simulation arguments also depend on the hosts intentionally obfuscating the simulation's nature from humanity
How self-important of humanity to assume that if this were a simulation that WE are the purpose of the simulation. An impossibly large Universe and our galaxy is but a speck on it. Our solar system is but a speck on our galaxy. Our planet is but a speck in our solar system. Men are but specks on our planet... and some people think that if this is a simulation WE are the purpose of the simulation? How utterly "human".
No, if this is a simulation we are but a mere coincidence, we are not the main focus, and the people running the simulation probably isn't aware we exist. I doubt we live in a simulation... but if we do, I'm not egotistical enough to believe that this is all about me... or even my species.
What if the programmers tricked them into convincing themselves that they're not living in a simulation?
I doubt any "programmers" if we were a simulation would be studying the minutia of an individual of a tiny species in a tiny spec of the universe.
I'm in the, I doubt we're in a simulation camp; but if we were a simulation, the questions is what is the purpose? There comes down to two main possibilities. Research, or Entertainment. If it's research, then the simulation of the universe might be to solve a problem such as "how to prevent the heat death of the universe"; that's the type of problem a species capable of running such a simulation might want to put so much resources into.
It's unlikely we are the reason for the simulation. Why create something so huge, if it's just to study us. They could have got away with a universe the size of our solar system or our galaxy. If we are not the "point" of the simulation, just a side-affect of what they're really studying, they wouldn't be paying much attention to us to "trick" us.
Yeah, but it also rules out simulations that we might come up with
Which is rather meaningless since we're nowhere near advanced enough to run such a complex simulation. We're closer to the technical abilities of a dog than we are a species capable of simulating something like the universe.
Would it be meaningful to rule out any simulation a dog might come up with?
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"according to penisPumpsRUs women prefer a length of 11 inches or more" .
All I know is that as an adult with 11 inches or more I get a lot more sex than when I was a 6 year old with only an 8 inch dingle-dangle.
It'll pass, there's a fixed amount people can spend on entertainment so they will end up stepping on eachother's toes at some price point, then they will start competing with eachother on price.
Things don't get cheaper, they get more expensive and inflation goes up, but this part is already priced in - what people were paying for cable is what it will level out at.
The issue was allowing poor people to have disposable income, there's not putting genie back in the bottle.
I hope so, but I'm not optimistic. Look at what happened to cable prices. I think a lot of people that still have cable are paying upwards of $100 a month. I'm baffled why anyone would spend that much to watch TV, but the cable companies manage to convince some people to pay that much. I think if cable companies can extract that much- the individual streaming services might be hoping to get a significant chunk of that cash from the cord cutters.
you could move out of the USA. The It's being shown on Netflix here.
I could... but then I would pay double income tax. I got my US citizenship a few years ago before learning that the US is the only country in the world that collects income tax from citizens who emigrate. If I moved back to Europe I'd pay my income taxes there and then my US income taxes on top of that. Would have to be a huge pay raise to cover the double taxation.
.. Since when is Valve involved in cryptocurrency and social networking?
In a useful and effective way, that is. Most people's "Community" page is as blank as my own.
Cryptocurrency maybe not yet; but they're already a social network. Not everyone uses them as one, but they are very much setup as one. Incorporating cryptocurrency isn't a far stretch. Especially since they're already handling money and have their own form of currency in the form of "badges" and "Stickers" already. (obviously not the same thing- but they've been dabbling in the speculating with those things for a while).
Anyone paying for CBS to watch this is doing the rest of us a massive disservice.
You mean I get to piss off nerds WHILE WATCHING STARTREK? Sign me up.
Not just nerds... everyone. We all stand to lose out if every network decides to charge $7 a month to view their stuff. If all the networks pull their old stuff off Netflix, Amazon and Hulu and set up their own to-pay site. You either have a lot less choice- or pay a lot more money. If CBS is successful in this all the networks will do something similar.
Valve might have a case to sue. My initial thought at first glance was that this was a "Steam" social network. That's all it takes to sue is a chance a customer might confuse the companies. It isn't too far beyond what Steam already does to think they might attempt something like this. I think some people might get confused by the names... absolutely a case to sue.
From what I've learned from watching James Bond you need to replace the word "Hack" in the title to another four letter word ending in "ck".
It depresses me that unselfish people are depressed. I must do something to help them... this is so depressing.
. . .And I'll be damned if I'll pay extra to CBS' streaming service to watch it!
Have to agree...
I'd absolutely watch this if it were on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. I refuse to pay for CBS service though. Two reasons:
1) I don't want to pay more when I have so many shows I haven't seen on the other networks.
2) The principle. Paying for CBS service helps support the splintering of streamed TV online. If I pay- that partially contributes to the potential success of CBS's experiment. If CBS is successful then every other network is going to follow the same model. Eventually you'll end up with a dozen different streaming sites all wanting $x a month and end up paying the same as cable.
Anyone paying for CBS to watch this is doing the rest of us a massive disservice.
I am fine with the ads in most websites. The worst offenders these days are Slashdot with their tall floating banners and Cnet with their autoplaying videos.
I don't go to CNET anymore because of that... and I've considered cutting out Slashdot. (don't get your hopes up too much though)
Who wants windows to managed their antimatter.
What's worse... if Windows manages their computer; Cortana (aka Clippy 2) is probably the voice control controlling the computers. That bitch cortana is who my grand kids will have to talk to if they want their "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot". This makes me sad.
I think you miss the point.
There could be one million Jimmys- my Jimmy is but one of them. Therefore one millionth of all Jimmys. I never said there was only one Jimmy.
Earth is but one of potentially trillions of planets with machines on it- arguable a much smaller percentage than Jimmys.
Jimmy may only be one person out of one million people named Jimmy. So makes up one millionth of all Jimmys.
The machines we know all come from one planet. Of all the billions of galaxies each of which contrain trillions of stars we have "perhaps" encountered less than one millionth of all machines in the universe.
Jimmy is "perhaps" closer to representing all of his kind than earth machines are to representing all machines in the Universe.
Unless there is another planet with people on it and some are called Jimmy... then all bets are off.
True. "Perhaps" makes the sentence not incorrect. It's also not very meaningful either.
I have a friend named Jimmy who is 6'1". I don't know anyone else named Jimmy, so I could say Jimmy is perhaps the tallest Jimmy in the world. Bit of a pointless statement considering I don't know how many Jimmys there are; the odds are likely there is a Jimmy taller because the world is full of Jimmys and people over 6'1".
That the brain is approximately like jello in texture.
Yes, but it's healthier to eat; no artificial colours and fewer sweeteners.
I don't know much about the brain but I do know if you split peas you make soup.
They pay taxes, that's all the reason anyone needs to be able to get a better response from the government
They pay US federal taxes indeed. The federal government should help out here. Why is Trump dragging his feet? Well, Texas is a big republican state so Trump was all about helping them out. Florida is a toss up state so Trump helped a little. Puerto Rico can't vote for President and if they could there is no way they would vote for Trump.
Trump isn't going to help another human being if they can't give him something in return.
As many people have died because of idiots interpreting religious texts in the worst possible way- I would say introducing dogma backfired for the researchers (if that were true)... unless getting us to fight for their entertainment was their intention all along.
I suspect there is truth what you say, although, I imagine most people won't have a clue how much your phone cost unless you have a bargain basement phone from a no name seller. (Blu, or Le Ecco)
Funnily enough- I do drive a beat up Honda Fit.
Thus it rules out that the universe is being simulated within a universe that plays by similar fundamental rules of math and logic
It doesn't even rule that out though. It could take a billion years to simulate a second in our universe... we wouldn't know, we're a simulation, we only see time as it appears to us. The complexity may be huge- but it doesn't all have to be handled at once.
You can read War & Peace on a kindle even though you can only read one page at a time, the rest of the book doesn't disappear even though you're on a different page.
You can drive a Honda that will get you from A/B, but you can also drive a BMW. BMW cost 2x to 5x a Honda.
I've not seen any study "satisfaction" vs "how much you spent" for phones; however, they have done studies on "how satisfied are you with your car" vs "how much did you pay for your car" and there was zero correlation (although, if I recall they didn't stoop low enough to scrape the bottom of the barrel with the 20 year old used cars with a rust hole below the passenger seat).
I suspect there is a similar phenomenon with phones. How satisfied you are with your phone probably has very little relation to how much you spent. I spent $200 on mine and couldn't be happier. The Mrs. has a Samsung that cost multiples more and hates it.
This assumes the super-universe simulating us has physics even remotely like ours. It could be trivial to perform uncounted gooleplex operations a second. Indeed, a cosmic speed limit sounds suspiciously like something one might add to a universe to prevent control over everything.
I remember when I was a kid with my ZX Spectrum computer loading a game... as the cassette spun- the loading graphic would slowly show... one line of pixels at a time. Sometimes part of it would animate.
If that animation were a "simulation" it would have no idea that it took 90 seconds for it to load to "blink".
Not that we're in a simulation... but if we were, we would have no idea how "time" works outside our universe... but suppose it works the same... one second in our universe could take a trillion years to process in the outer universe... our "ticks of time" might load one row of atoms at a time... like the pixels on my old loading screen. How would we know? We would be a simulation! Our simulated universe might get paused for a trillion years and then restarted again... we wouldn't know.
Many of the pro-simulation arguments also depend on the hosts intentionally obfuscating the simulation's nature from humanity
How self-important of humanity to assume that if this were a simulation that WE are the purpose of the simulation. An impossibly large Universe and our galaxy is but a speck on it. Our solar system is but a speck on our galaxy. Our planet is but a speck in our solar system. Men are but specks on our planet... and some people think that if this is a simulation WE are the purpose of the simulation? How utterly "human".
No, if this is a simulation we are but a mere coincidence, we are not the main focus, and the people running the simulation probably isn't aware we exist. I doubt we live in a simulation... but if we do, I'm not egotistical enough to believe that this is all about me... or even my species.
What if the programmers tricked them into convincing themselves that they're not living in a simulation?
I doubt any "programmers" if we were a simulation would be studying the minutia of an individual of a tiny species in a tiny spec of the universe.
I'm in the, I doubt we're in a simulation camp; but if we were a simulation, the questions is what is the purpose? There comes down to two main possibilities. Research, or Entertainment. If it's research, then the simulation of the universe might be to solve a problem such as "how to prevent the heat death of the universe"; that's the type of problem a species capable of running such a simulation might want to put so much resources into.
It's unlikely we are the reason for the simulation. Why create something so huge, if it's just to study us. They could have got away with a universe the size of our solar system or our galaxy. If we are not the "point" of the simulation, just a side-affect of what they're really studying, they wouldn't be paying much attention to us to "trick" us.
Yeah, but it also rules out simulations that we might come up with
Which is rather meaningless since we're nowhere near advanced enough to run such a complex simulation. We're closer to the technical abilities of a dog than we are a species capable of simulating something like the universe.
Would it be meaningful to rule out any simulation a dog might come up with?