Well, the truth of the matter is, what makes Science Fiction frequently valuable is not that they accurately portray the future. One of the great things about science fiction is that it alters our own reality slightly so we can look at it better.
A story with an android in it frequently isn't about androids- it's about examining what it is to be human. 1984 wasn't about the technology of two way televisions.
Very few science fiction books get everything right, and if they did, it would take away from the message being delivered.
Cortana (aka Clippy v2): I see you are trying to write an e-mail Alexa: Would you like me to order a book on how to compose killer e-mails from Amazon?
Lonely people will have 1 more AI assistant to talk to instead of being limited to only one of them.
The Japanese already have an Alexa equivalent that has a screen that displays an anime girl on it. It sends flirty messages via SMS to the owner and is supposed to be a girlfriend alternative.
That's a nice sounding theory and a lot of people subscribe to it; however, if you eat unhealthy, not only will you more than likely die at a younger age, you'll probably also have more health problems that will affect your quality of life.
Absolutely, eat what you want, it's your life and your body; long-term though eating "yummier" food doesn't necessarily equate to more happiness. It makes you happier in the moment you eat it, but if you have more medical problems and lower life quality overall- it might be making you less happy long term.
I didn't read TFA, but do they have an explanation for the old rice-eating Japanese?
For one, they're not eating processed and refined rice. For another, it is supplemented by a lot of vegetables, legumes especially soya. They're also not eating a lot of meat and what they do eat is mainly fish.
Yes, they eat rice, but they also eat a lot of vegetables, getting a lot of exercise. That's the key.
Well, one thing that has changed over time is how starchy vegetables are treated. I grew up with a diet where corn and potatoes where my primary source of vegetables.
Corn isn't a vegetable, it's a grain. Corn is basically just sugar, not much nutrition there (our obesity levels actually can be measured against subsidies for corn in the US making both corn syrup and animal feed cheaper- if we have to subsidise farming- subsidizing corn is about the worst thing we can do).
Potatoes shouldn't be overdone because they have a lot of starch, but they are better than white bread, especially if you eat the skin, which does have some nutrients.
> Well, the longest lived communities in the world have one thing in common. They DO eat very little meat and fish
Completely untrue.
It's very true! Sardinia, Okinawa, and Icaria in Greece are the three places with the longest life spans. All three locations have a legume based diet and traditionally eat almost no meat other than occasional fish. Importantly, they also don't eat any refined grains either.
When the Food Pyramid hit, the diagrams always had a small chunk for meat and fish, with the entire base was made up of bread and rice and potatoes,
Well, the longest lived communities in the world have one thing in common. They DO eat very little meat and fish (and most of their meat IS fish). The main difference between their diet and the Food Pyramid is instead of eating grains they eat vegetables.
Too many calories from grains is not a good thing. The more refined the worse they are for you.
The one thing that has remained constant in our understanding of a healthy diet in between all the different health fads is that vegetables are good. Whether you're doing low sugar, low fat, low calorie, low gluten, low processed, low anything...
But what if we readers are in the minority? I don't really know any stats, but i am afraid that the video-consumers outnumber the text-consumers by a fair bit:-(
Based on the responses of people on Slashdot, I would suspect that even if we're in the minority we're a large enough group that at least one website would want to cater to us.
If internet companies and cell phone providers are tracking me and know every thing about me, why do they think I'm a middle aged lesbian.
In this day and age of ads that track what you do to custom provide ads for you- why are 3/4 of the ads I see ads either targeted for older women, or ads encouraging me to date older women.
All I can conclude is that the great google in the sky thinks I'm a middle aged lesbian.
The other 1/4 ads I see are actually on point, IT based, etc... but that constant ads for "don't use makeup do this if you're over 50" get me confused.
How is this different to when the book publishers demanded Amazon, Apple, etc sell digital copies of books at a certain price?
The publishers lost a lawsuit and were required to pay consumers back after that for price fixing. I can't see Hollywood faring much better if they force streaming companies to sell digital copies of films for a certain price.
Just because they make videos (content or ads) doesn't mean I have to watch them. Create away!
Indeed, if it's a video, I don't watch. How many news videos have I watched online this year?
0.
If one site doesn't have text, I go to another one that does. Eventually a few media producers are going to realize that there is a large demographic who don't want videos.
I don't use consoles so excuse the ignorance, but can you not connect a keyboard and mouse to a console if you want to? I know typically people don't use them, but they could if they wanted, no?
They all have usb ports, and I thought I've seen keyboards on consoles before.
Or since you're the only person whose writing in barely or totally incomprehensible gibberish, make you super easy to identify. That's a problem with most anonymization methods: unless everyone else is using those same methods, you actually make yourself stand out.
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Well, the truth of the matter is, what makes Science Fiction frequently valuable is not that they accurately portray the future. One of the great things about science fiction is that it alters our own reality slightly so we can look at it better.
A story with an android in it frequently isn't about androids- it's about examining what it is to be human. 1984 wasn't about the technology of two way televisions.
Very few science fiction books get everything right, and if they did, it would take away from the message being delivered.
The perfect woman has a "restore to factory settings" button.
Cortana (aka Clippy v2): I see you are trying to write an e-mail
Alexa: Would you like me to order a book on how to compose killer e-mails from Amazon?
Lonely people will have 1 more AI assistant to talk to instead of being limited to only one of them.
The Japanese already have an Alexa equivalent that has a screen that displays an anime girl on it. It sends flirty messages via SMS to the owner and is supposed to be a girlfriend alternative.
I'll eat whatever I want. And I'll die happy.
That's a nice sounding theory and a lot of people subscribe to it; however, if you eat unhealthy, not only will you more than likely die at a younger age, you'll probably also have more health problems that will affect your quality of life.
Absolutely, eat what you want, it's your life and your body; long-term though eating "yummier" food doesn't necessarily equate to more happiness. It makes you happier in the moment you eat it, but if you have more medical problems and lower life quality overall- it might be making you less happy long term.
I didn't read TFA, but do they have an explanation for the old rice-eating Japanese?
For one, they're not eating processed and refined rice. For another, it is supplemented by a lot of vegetables, legumes especially soya. They're also not eating a lot of meat and what they do eat is mainly fish.
Yes, they eat rice, but they also eat a lot of vegetables, getting a lot of exercise. That's the key.
Well, one thing that has changed over time is how starchy vegetables are treated. I grew up with a diet where corn and potatoes where my primary source of vegetables.
Corn isn't a vegetable, it's a grain. Corn is basically just sugar, not much nutrition there (our obesity levels actually can be measured against subsidies for corn in the US making both corn syrup and animal feed cheaper- if we have to subsidise farming- subsidizing corn is about the worst thing we can do).
Potatoes shouldn't be overdone because they have a lot of starch, but they are better than white bread, especially if you eat the skin, which does have some nutrients.
> Well, the longest lived communities in the world have one thing in common. They DO eat very little meat and fish
Completely untrue.
It's very true! Sardinia, Okinawa, and Icaria in Greece are the three places with the longest life spans. All three locations have a legume based diet and traditionally eat almost no meat other than occasional fish. Importantly, they also don't eat any refined grains either.
Surely all the robots will emigrate to Japan to escape the Korean taxes. What are Japan's rules on migrant robot workers?
When the Food Pyramid hit, the diagrams always had a small chunk for meat and fish, with the entire base was made up of bread and rice and potatoes,
Well, the longest lived communities in the world have one thing in common. They DO eat very little meat and fish (and most of their meat IS fish). The main difference between their diet and the Food Pyramid is instead of eating grains they eat vegetables.
Too many calories from grains is not a good thing. The more refined the worse they are for you.
The one thing that has remained constant in our understanding of a healthy diet in between all the different health fads is that vegetables are good. Whether you're doing low sugar, low fat, low calorie, low gluten, low processed, low anything...
Eat vegetables.
This is why I stopped drinking Pepsi and started drinking gravy instead.
A better question would be why the fuck are you still seeing ads?
Are you one of those button smashing fakers that's too dumb to know how to actually block them for good, or what?
I had turned on Ad-Blocking, but it broke the functionality of a couple of sites I need to access for work.
This article is an Epic Pivot.
But what if we readers are in the minority? I don't really know any stats, but i am afraid that the video-consumers outnumber the text-consumers by a fair bit :-(
Based on the responses of people on Slashdot, I would suspect that even if we're in the minority we're a large enough group that at least one website would want to cater to us.
If internet companies and cell phone providers are tracking me and know every thing about me, why do they think I'm a middle aged lesbian.
In this day and age of ads that track what you do to custom provide ads for you- why are 3/4 of the ads I see ads either targeted for older women, or ads encouraging me to date older women.
All I can conclude is that the great google in the sky thinks I'm a middle aged lesbian.
The other 1/4 ads I see are actually on point, IT based, etc... but that constant ads for "don't use makeup do this if you're over 50" get me confused.
Same applies to Canada. And Canada has true multiculturism and a message of "Welcome" to newcomers.
True, and you also have Horton's which is a plus.
On the downside, winter lasts 11 months out of the year and polar bears and caribou slay and eat one out of every three women and children.
How is this different to when the book publishers demanded Amazon, Apple, etc sell digital copies of books at a certain price?
The publishers lost a lawsuit and were required to pay consumers back after that for price fixing. I can't see Hollywood faring much better if they force streaming companies to sell digital copies of films for a certain price.
Just because they make videos (content or ads) doesn't mean I have to watch them. Create away!
Indeed, if it's a video, I don't watch. How many news videos have I watched online this year?
0.
If one site doesn't have text, I go to another one that does. Eventually a few media producers are going to realize that there is a large demographic who don't want videos.
Do this if you want to see console FPS players get murdered by keyboard + mouse
Wait... do the FPS players get murdered, or just their characters?
I don't use consoles so excuse the ignorance, but can you not connect a keyboard and mouse to a console if you want to? I know typically people don't use them, but they could if they wanted, no?
They all have usb ports, and I thought I've seen keyboards on consoles before.
People don't listen to them for their "music", it's because they want to fuck them. If they were ugly, would their music sell? No.
Justin Bieber IS ugly though!
Nightclubs are full of people with PTSD.
That's because they all saw the morbidly obese woman in the club dance topless after taking ecstasy,
Your showing your age Grandpa.
It's not called Ecstasy anymore, it's Molly.
Which kind of Molly are you supposed to use? I swallowed a dozen sailfin Molly and didn't feel anything except disgust and regret.
Or since you're the only person whose writing in barely or totally incomprehensible gibberish, make you super easy to identify. That's a problem with most anonymization methods: unless everyone else is using those same methods, you actually make yourself stand out.
Relevant XKCD
I wouldn't go through all that trouble in my daily personal e-mail. Only in the anonymous stuff.
I wonder how long it will take the NSA to unmask Slashdot's Anonymous Coward.
Shouldn't be too hard. They only need to compare AC to people who are current residents of mental institutions.