Wrong. I worked on Bing maps for a year. They've bought a couple different companies over the years which provide various services including one that actually made the cameras and does the data processing for what those cameras capture, that's why they have such high quality aerial data compared to google. That's all in-house Microsoft now, that said they still buy some of their mapping data from NavTeq, but not the majority of it.
Sorry but there are a lot of good programmers out there who know how to write performant code and take one look at the resource requirements of Minecraft and it's general performance and can accurately say they could do better. That's called an expert opinion and it should be valued to an extent. I'm not saying anybody here has had their credentials checked at the door but there are more than enough people out there who have echoed this you have to assume some of them are experienced engineers. And if you need any more proof, I'm an experienced engineer and the resource requirements for what Minecraft is are a joke.
This is the thing I don't understand above all else; Why the #$%! does yahoo and google serve up ads that do this shit??? Precisely what is their ad scanning policy, seriously I would expect this from a great deal of sites but we've all seen both google and yahoo and other completely reputable sites serve up 3rd party ads that have this garbage embedded in them, and there is simply *no* excuse for it. If you ask me yahoo should be held legally accountable for serving this content, or doubleclick, or whichever host it came from, they should have some semblence of logs of how many people it was served to, take that number * $1500 for the cost of a computer because we have to assume they may have utterly destroyed each one of those and fine them. We need a freegin government anti-virus agency. The constant prevalence of this crap drives me up the damn wall, not because I get hit, I wear protection, but because by all accounts there's no reasonable manner with which this should be legal.
They're innocent until proven guilty, unfortunately they accidentally dropped a truck load of money in washington so the DOJ doesn't feel inclined to prosecute, therefore they weren't breaking the law and he gets no protections.
Kind of messed up if you think about it; whistleblower laws only protect you if they were breaking the law, which means if they aren't convicted because of their highly paid legal team any whistleblower becomes fair game and totally screwed by said highly paid legal team. That law is a farce supported by companies to get those they can't trust out of their employ.
Actually it's their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to do their due diligence. They just lost a ton of *other* peoples money due to negligence.
To fulfill your obligatory car analogy: It's like you not locking someone elses car doors and the thing getting stolen. Yes, you *are* responsible to that person now as you acted with negligence, this doesn't disavow the thief but responsibility to the car's owner is squarely on you not the thief.
This is actually a FANTASTIC idea. If you like the idea of a verizon monopoly. As of *yet* AT&T hasn't willfully sent me outright fraudulent bills, which verizon has, so how about Carly for CEO of Verizon? Oh better yet, Meg for CEO of AT&T and Carly for CEO of Verizon! I love it!
This whole idea wreaks of wussiness, one weenie is scared of killer robots and makes a big fuss so none of us get to have killer robots? I don't think so hombre.
If we are to ban such a thing, I think we must ensure appropriate even-handed enforcement of this ban, as such I propose we enlist a force strong enough to subdue any killer robot army should someone break said ban, therefore I suggest we build an army of large mechanized automatons heavily laden with weaponry to subdue any would-be killer robot army, or anyone who might be suspected of attempting to build such an army for that matter.
If you had those critical thinking skills mentioned you'd realize all attacks you listed were attacking your claims, the character attacks were just window dressing. Except that last one about digging a hole, that wasn't even a character attack but sarcastic advice based on your statements.
Here I'll give you an example, ad hominem attack:
You're a doodie head.
Attack based on your claims:
Based on what you've said I believe you are a doodie head.
Anybody got any ideas where they went? Talk about talent hitting the market, some companies must have been chasing those guys down before they even got the doors closed.
The really funny thing is when the dude holding the controls dies and then the robots no longer answer to anyone, just running everything the same way it's been for years.
You know this actually brings up a really good curiosity; what the hell ever happened to Loki Games? They just disappeared from the face of the earth near from what I can tell... I'm really curious where they went to..
Heh I appreciate you're trying to ensure people don't take me seriously, but you don't need to correct me, I was being completely sarcastic. People who fight wars are dumb, killer robots won't fix that, it'll just make it easy for dumb people to kill more
What we really need is *more* killer robots. TONS of them. Then we can just have them fight our wars for us, between each other and we don't get human casualties on either side. As soon as your killer robots have killed all of the enemies killer robots, their people will obviously secede power to you because it's not like they could defeat your killer robots without there's, so it would be stupid for them to even continue bothering.
For maximum safety, we just let the killer robots fight each other on the south pole, and war as we know it is over (though there would be a lot more wars, but they'd be nothing like our current wars.)
Creationism is the belief (regardless of source) that humans were created by a super-being 6000 years ago, despite insurmountable evidence humanity is far older.
Human caused climate change disbelief is the thought that regardless of vast scientific agreement based on hard research and evidence, humans are not in fact causing any form of climate change even if it is occurring.
Call both of those "religion and politics" if you will, but that's just displaying your lack of analytic skills which in a normal studious person can quickly identify these are both just beliefs that evidence should be thrown out and ignored. Throwing out evidence and ignoring objective analysis is the greatest practice of the intellectual underachiever, which is what this article is claiming our country's culture has pressured people towards.
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I prefer Freegin Lasers, much higher quality IMHO.
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I realize everyone here is going to say "The rest of MS", but let us not be that one sided; how about all of Apple didn't predict it?
Wrong. I worked on Bing maps for a year. They've bought a couple different companies over the years which provide various services including one that actually made the cameras and does the data processing for what those cameras capture, that's why they have such high quality aerial data compared to google. That's all in-house Microsoft now, that said they still buy some of their mapping data from NavTeq, but not the majority of it.
Sorry but there are a lot of good programmers out there who know how to write performant code and take one look at the resource requirements of Minecraft and it's general performance and can accurately say they could do better. That's called an expert opinion and it should be valued to an extent. I'm not saying anybody here has had their credentials checked at the door but there are more than enough people out there who have echoed this you have to assume some of them are experienced engineers. And if you need any more proof, I'm an experienced engineer and the resource requirements for what Minecraft is are a joke.
This is the thing I don't understand above all else; Why the #$%! does yahoo and google serve up ads that do this shit??? Precisely what is their ad scanning policy, seriously I would expect this from a great deal of sites but we've all seen both google and yahoo and other completely reputable sites serve up 3rd party ads that have this garbage embedded in them, and there is simply *no* excuse for it. If you ask me yahoo should be held legally accountable for serving this content, or doubleclick, or whichever host it came from, they should have some semblence of logs of how many people it was served to, take that number * $1500 for the cost of a computer because we have to assume they may have utterly destroyed each one of those and fine them. We need a freegin government anti-virus agency. The constant prevalence of this crap drives me up the damn wall, not because I get hit, I wear protection, but because by all accounts there's no reasonable manner with which this should be legal.
ironic timing...my wife makes me sit and watch a christmas story every thanksgiving eve
So you're saying they're trying to blunt the competition?
They're innocent until proven guilty, unfortunately they accidentally dropped a truck load of money in washington so the DOJ doesn't feel inclined to prosecute, therefore they weren't breaking the law and he gets no protections.
Kind of messed up if you think about it; whistleblower laws only protect you if they were breaking the law, which means if they aren't convicted because of their highly paid legal team any whistleblower becomes fair game and totally screwed by said highly paid legal team. That law is a farce supported by companies to get those they can't trust out of their employ.
Let's just hope this doesn't make Sharp dull...
Actually it's their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to do their due diligence. They just lost a ton of *other* peoples money due to negligence.
To fulfill your obligatory car analogy: It's like you not locking someone elses car doors and the thing getting stolen. Yes, you *are* responsible to that person now as you acted with negligence, this doesn't disavow the thief but responsibility to the car's owner is squarely on you not the thief.
This is actually a FANTASTIC idea. If you like the idea of a verizon monopoly. As of *yet* AT&T hasn't willfully sent me outright fraudulent bills, which verizon has, so how about Carly for CEO of Verizon? Oh better yet, Meg for CEO of AT&T and Carly for CEO of Verizon! I love it!
This whole idea wreaks of wussiness, one weenie is scared of killer robots and makes a big fuss so none of us get to have killer robots? I don't think so hombre.
If we are to ban such a thing, I think we must ensure appropriate even-handed enforcement of this ban, as such I propose we enlist a force strong enough to subdue any killer robot army should someone break said ban, therefore I suggest we build an army of large mechanized automatons heavily laden with weaponry to subdue any would-be killer robot army, or anyone who might be suspected of attempting to build such an army for that matter.
If you had those critical thinking skills mentioned you'd realize all attacks you listed were attacking your claims, the character attacks were just window dressing. Except that last one about digging a hole, that wasn't even a character attack but sarcastic advice based on your statements.
Here I'll give you an example, ad hominem attack:
You're a doodie head.
Attack based on your claims:
Based on what you've said I believe you are a doodie head.
Happy?
Anybody got any ideas where they went? Talk about talent hitting the market, some companies must have been chasing those guys down before they even got the doors closed.
The really funny thing is when the dude holding the controls dies and then the robots no longer answer to anyone, just running everything the same way it's been for years.
Man, there'll sure be egg on our faces that day!
I just wish wine could give me the frames of windows, as it stands it doesn't come anywhere near...
You know this actually brings up a really good curiosity; what the hell ever happened to Loki Games? They just disappeared from the face of the earth near from what I can tell... I'm really curious where they went to..
Heh I appreciate you're trying to ensure people don't take me seriously, but you don't need to correct me, I was being completely sarcastic. People who fight wars are dumb, killer robots won't fix that, it'll just make it easy for dumb people to kill more
What we really need is *more* killer robots. TONS of them. Then we can just have them fight our wars for us, between each other and we don't get human casualties on either side. As soon as your killer robots have killed all of the enemies killer robots, their people will obviously secede power to you because it's not like they could defeat your killer robots without there's, so it would be stupid for them to even continue bothering.
For maximum safety, we just let the killer robots fight each other on the south pole, and war as we know it is over (though there would be a lot more wars, but they'd be nothing like our current wars.)
Creationism is the belief (regardless of source) that humans were created by a super-being 6000 years ago, despite insurmountable evidence humanity is far older.
Human caused climate change disbelief is the thought that regardless of vast scientific agreement based on hard research and evidence, humans are not in fact causing any form of climate change even if it is occurring.
Call both of those "religion and politics" if you will, but that's just displaying your lack of analytic skills which in a normal studious person can quickly identify these are both just beliefs that evidence should be thrown out and ignored. Throwing out evidence and ignoring objective analysis is the greatest practice of the intellectual underachiever, which is what this article is claiming our country's culture has pressured people towards.
It's much more careful going backwards, it walks instead of running, good thing too, wouldn't want time to trip and fall.
They just needed a significant enough sample size for their time experiment to be proved out, like four years.
Are you insulting bananas!?