And how do you define a "good movie"? Blade Runner won an Oscar, has a 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is good. By all objective metrics except maybe for financial success, it is a good movie. It may be interesting to see how it will do 20+ years from now but people who can see the future are too busy winning lotteries.
There is a difference between solving in the general case and a good enough solution. I can write you an efficient travelling salesman problem solver without solving P=NP, and I can write a program that can tell if your code will enter an infinite loop without solving the halting problem. It is just that it won't work every time. In some cases, it is all that's needed.
In that case, the point is obviously not to solve the general case. There isn't even a formal definition of what a bug is.
Your post started well, then degenerated in a criticism of capitalism. Today's society certainly has its flaws, but putting capitalism as the main reason behind escapism is a bit too much. It capitalism really is the cause for escapism, then that would be a success rather than a flaw. The reason: it is now possible to live in fantasy-land and survive. Put all these game addicts in a situation where they need to go out in order to survive, and 99% of them will go out, survival instinct is strong. There are always people dissatisfied with their society, and often with good reasons, the 1% in capitalism is like nobles in monarchy, or the party members in communism. Nothing new here.
TBH, we are getting to the point where swear words are considered terrorist content and homework is considered child abuse. So maybe we could put copyright infringement on the same level.
The problem is that the copy has the same name as the original, it even has the nerve of calling itself "the original" in the Amazon listing.
I have no problem in people making cheaper versions of popular products, but they have to stand by their own merit.
Also, if you look closely, on the left product, presumably the copy, the double-sided tape is thinner and doesn't fit properly, the molding marks are more noticeable too. It means that they didn't even bother paying the whole 12 cents required to get to the same level as the original. This is nothing less than a scam.
But these few are those who know better. The current web stack is barely catching up to what Flash did 20 years ago. And does is less efficiently. Flash was awesome tech, killed by Apple, who disliked the idea that it could be used to replace apps, and also by Adobe, who neglected it.
Pretty much every technology killed some people in some way. Electricity caused many deaths, and the wheel, and fire. Even medicine kills on a regular basis. A company making helicopters even use this argument in their communication. They proudly say that helicopters saved more lives than they took. They don't deny that helicopters kill, they just say that they make up for it by saving others during search-and-rescue missions.
The argument works in reverse. One could argue that the atomic bomb saved lives by ending war early. In the case of bitcoin and drugs, drugs found on the deep web are supposedly of better quality than these found on the street, and then preventing deaths from bad products. I don't know if it is true but it shows that the exact same argument can be used both ways.
The thing is: $80 may not be enough to cover the full costs and margins of some AAA titles. And only a small part of the benefits are here to make the top executives rich, most of it simply pay normal people who work there. Well there is the communication budget too, but the thing is, these games are ridiculously expensive to produce, and people are not ready to pay more than $80 up front. Loot boxes and paid DLC is how they get the money they need. Paying for cosmetics seems to be relatively well accepted, as opposed to pay-to-win.
You may want to reject the AAA industry as a whole, but IMHO, there is only so much indies can do. While they can do really awesome games, they are limited to relatively simple things : 2D platformers, rhythm games, roguelikes, VNs... Things like the huge open world games we have now are simply out of reach, and it would be a shame to lose these.
It is a complex problem with no easy solution. If you have one, then you should start your business and become a billionaire.
They can release the source, they can even publish it as a reversible patch and it won't do much. First thing: Kodi is GPLv2, it doesn't prevent "Tivoization", so the code can be made useless by preventing custom firmwares. Second, whatever they do, if it requires ROM hacks in order to re-enable blocked features, it stops being a plug-and-play experience. It means they lose much of their appeal compared to say, a Raspberry Pi.
No they can't. Not if they don't want a lawsuit they are almost guaranteed to lose. And this is the reason they probably didn't do it earlier. Google hate bad ads, it causes people to install full ad blockers, and it gives web advertising a even worse reputation than they deserve. But because they are in the ad business themselves, they have to be extremely careful before implementing such a feature. So here comes the Coalition for Better Ads. A group that includes many major players, including Google competitors. By letting the group decide what should be blocked based on objective criteria, it is harder to accuse them of anticompetitive practices.
I don't think anyone is gaming the system here. It is just that the way you start your query matters. For example "Islamists" is rarely used positively, and the suggestion reflect that. People genuinely interested in Islam would probably use another term, like "Muslims". "Blacks" is probably more negative than "black people". "Jews", or even worse "jew", is used more negatively than "the Jewish". As for "Hitler is", why would you type that unless you are expecting something unconventional? People more interested in history are more likely to type "Hitler was", because you know, he's dead. Google is serving exactly what most people entering these queries want. And if they are disseminating their personal views, they only do it among themselves, not to those who use more "reasonable" search terms.
First of all, it isn't really "science" as much as "science class at home." He's just dorking around on video. Nerds should love it, but that doesn't make it science.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/397/ That one is about Mythbusters but it applies to Cody's Lab too. tl;dr: It is science
Sure, it is not an opiate, it is an opioid. But it doesn't matter when it come to risks.
The difference is that opiates are extracted from the opium poppy, while opioids include all chemicals acting on opioid receptors. Morphine, codeine and heroin are opiates and opioids. Fentanyl and kratom are opioids but not opiates. The origin of the substance or whether it is natural or synthetic doesn't matter to your body.
Notice that he said "most cryptocurrencies", not "all".
The situation is that it is important to come early in the game of cryptocurrencies. Also, Bitcoin doesn't look like the end game. As a result, a strategy is to invest in many emerging cryptocurrencies and hope that one of them will become the next Bitcoin. Most people probably expect that most of these will soon become worthless, but they hope they invested in the good one, or that they can sell before the crash.
Let's say that economically, Falcon Heavy makes a lot more sense than Saturn V. And in fact, the regular Falcon 9 probably makes even more sense.
However some missions require really big rockets. Moon landings for instance. There are also things like space telescopes that need to be big and launched in one go. There is a reason SpaceX announced the BFR. Even Falcon Heavy isn't enough for Elon Musk's plans with Mars.
It is a bit more complex than that. It implies trademarks, derivative works, etc... It is the kind of situation where IANAL doesn't cut it.
I suppose Bilzzard has the right to take on individual players, but they probably won't. They know better than to attack paying customers. Bans are usually limited to highly disruptive players. As using the legal system against players for just playing pirated games is not very effective.
Ads are much more controlled than government propaganda. For example there are already disclaimers when a video contains ads in addition to the obvious "ad" slot. Also, companies can get punished when they go too far (ex: outright lies).
A prank or something written by a madman. Even if it is highly plausible, knowing what the prank is about is interesting by itself. It is noteworthy that it seems to follow patterns of natural languages (ex: Zipf law). So it is unlikely to be random.
Most IDEs and advanced text editors have a "full screen" mode. They also often have sidebars and highly customizable layouts. And while you can use a lot of tools as a developer, most of them are usually well integrated. Pilots need all these bells and whistles because they need to know at a glance how their plane is doing. Programmers don't need constant awareness, they need focus, and they need to have their toolbox readily available. That's a different philosophy.
It is relative to the size of the country. There is quite a lot coming out of South Korea for a country with a population of 50 million. Sure, we talk more about China and the US, maybe even India, but these countries are huge compared to the likes of Sweden and Singapore, so there isn't too much merit.
After the MacBook Air came out, Apple discontinued the regular MacBook, because the Air filled the "low end" slot. With the new MacBook Pros, the Air is not that much more portable, so it doesn't make much sense to market it as a special, ultralight "Air" product. So they brought back the regular MacBook brand and will most likely merge the Air family into it. Essentially, that's just dropping the "Air" in the name.
I mean, in order for people to use safety gear that can save their lives, we need strict regulations and punishments. And I don't mean employers not caring about employees safety, I mean employees having everything they need at their disposal and not using it despite the signs.
Security is about spending time doing non-functional stuff and restraining yourself. People hate that. And even if it is provably useful, it goes against human instinct which is to prioritize short term goals.
Unless you are talking about cute anime girls, you probably mean "anthropogenic". Bus now, I wonder what Japan came up with to represent global warming. They tend to turn everything into cute anime girls.
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And how do you define a "good movie"?
Blade Runner won an Oscar, has a 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is good. By all objective metrics except maybe for financial success, it is a good movie. It may be interesting to see how it will do 20+ years from now but people who can see the future are too busy winning lotteries.
There is a difference between solving in the general case and a good enough solution.
I can write you an efficient travelling salesman problem solver without solving P=NP, and I can write a program that can tell if your code will enter an infinite loop without solving the halting problem. It is just that it won't work every time. In some cases, it is all that's needed.
In that case, the point is obviously not to solve the general case. There isn't even a formal definition of what a bug is.
Your post started well, then degenerated in a criticism of capitalism.
Today's society certainly has its flaws, but putting capitalism as the main reason behind escapism is a bit too much.
It capitalism really is the cause for escapism, then that would be a success rather than a flaw. The reason: it is now possible to live in fantasy-land and survive. Put all these game addicts in a situation where they need to go out in order to survive, and 99% of them will go out, survival instinct is strong.
There are always people dissatisfied with their society, and often with good reasons, the 1% in capitalism is like nobles in monarchy, or the party members in communism. Nothing new here.
Manufacturers don't give a fuck what you want. You'll get what makes them the most profit, and like it.
TFA seem to imply that people don't like it, and that it goes in the way of profits.
TBH, we are getting to the point where swear words are considered terrorist content and homework is considered child abuse. So maybe we could put copyright infringement on the same level.
The problem is that the copy has the same name as the original, it even has the nerve of calling itself "the original" in the Amazon listing.
I have no problem in people making cheaper versions of popular products, but they have to stand by their own merit.
Also, if you look closely, on the left product, presumably the copy, the double-sided tape is thinner and doesn't fit properly, the molding marks are more noticeable too. It means that they didn't even bother paying the whole 12 cents required to get to the same level as the original. This is nothing less than a scam.
Mourned by few.
But these few are those who know better.
The current web stack is barely catching up to what Flash did 20 years ago. And does is less efficiently.
Flash was awesome tech, killed by Apple, who disliked the idea that it could be used to replace apps, and also by Adobe, who neglected it.
Pretty much every technology killed some people in some way. Electricity caused many deaths, and the wheel, and fire. Even medicine kills on a regular basis.
A company making helicopters even use this argument in their communication. They proudly say that helicopters saved more lives than they took. They don't deny that helicopters kill, they just say that they make up for it by saving others during search-and-rescue missions.
The argument works in reverse. One could argue that the atomic bomb saved lives by ending war early. In the case of bitcoin and drugs, drugs found on the deep web are supposedly of better quality than these found on the street, and then preventing deaths from bad products. I don't know if it is true but it shows that the exact same argument can be used both ways.
The thing is: $80 may not be enough to cover the full costs and margins of some AAA titles. And only a small part of the benefits are here to make the top executives rich, most of it simply pay normal people who work there. Well there is the communication budget too, but the thing is, these games are ridiculously expensive to produce, and people are not ready to pay more than $80 up front. Loot boxes and paid DLC is how they get the money they need. Paying for cosmetics seems to be relatively well accepted, as opposed to pay-to-win.
You may want to reject the AAA industry as a whole, but IMHO, there is only so much indies can do. While they can do really awesome games, they are limited to relatively simple things : 2D platformers, rhythm games, roguelikes, VNs ... Things like the huge open world games we have now are simply out of reach, and it would be a shame to lose these.
It is a complex problem with no easy solution. If you have one, then you should start your business and become a billionaire.
They can release the source, they can even publish it as a reversible patch and it won't do much.
First thing: Kodi is GPLv2, it doesn't prevent "Tivoization", so the code can be made useless by preventing custom firmwares.
Second, whatever they do, if it requires ROM hacks in order to re-enable blocked features, it stops being a plug-and-play experience. It means they lose much of their appeal compared to say, a Raspberry Pi.
No they can't. Not if they don't want a lawsuit they are almost guaranteed to lose.
And this is the reason they probably didn't do it earlier. Google hate bad ads, it causes people to install full ad blockers, and it gives web advertising a even worse reputation than they deserve. But because they are in the ad business themselves, they have to be extremely careful before implementing such a feature.
So here comes the Coalition for Better Ads. A group that includes many major players, including Google competitors. By letting the group decide what should be blocked based on objective criteria, it is harder to accuse them of anticompetitive practices.
I don't think anyone is gaming the system here. It is just that the way you start your query matters.
For example "Islamists" is rarely used positively, and the suggestion reflect that. People genuinely interested in Islam would probably use another term, like "Muslims". "Blacks" is probably more negative than "black people". "Jews", or even worse "jew", is used more negatively than "the Jewish".
As for "Hitler is", why would you type that unless you are expecting something unconventional? People more interested in history are more likely to type "Hitler was", because you know, he's dead.
Google is serving exactly what most people entering these queries want. And if they are disseminating their personal views, they only do it among themselves, not to those who use more "reasonable" search terms.
It may be some kind of bait for a cryptography class.
If it can get some students to get interested in maths, it is not a bad thing.
First of all, it isn't really "science" as much as "science class at home." He's just dorking around on video. Nerds should love it, but that doesn't make it science.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/397/
That one is about Mythbusters but it applies to Cody's Lab too.
tl;dr: It is science
Sure, it is not an opiate, it is an opioid. But it doesn't matter when it come to risks.
The difference is that opiates are extracted from the opium poppy, while opioids include all chemicals acting on opioid receptors. Morphine, codeine and heroin are opiates and opioids. Fentanyl and kratom are opioids but not opiates. The origin of the substance or whether it is natural or synthetic doesn't matter to your body.
Notice that he said "most cryptocurrencies", not "all".
The situation is that it is important to come early in the game of cryptocurrencies. Also, Bitcoin doesn't look like the end game. As a result, a strategy is to invest in many emerging cryptocurrencies and hope that one of them will become the next Bitcoin. Most people probably expect that most of these will soon become worthless, but they hope they invested in the good one, or that they can sell before the crash.
Let's say that economically, Falcon Heavy makes a lot more sense than Saturn V. And in fact, the regular Falcon 9 probably makes even more sense.
However some missions require really big rockets. Moon landings for instance. There are also things like space telescopes that need to be big and launched in one go. There is a reason SpaceX announced the BFR. Even Falcon Heavy isn't enough for Elon Musk's plans with Mars.
It is a bit more complex than that. It implies trademarks, derivative works, etc... It is the kind of situation where IANAL doesn't cut it.
I suppose Bilzzard has the right to take on individual players, but they probably won't. They know better than to attack paying customers. Bans are usually limited to highly disruptive players. As using the legal system against players for just playing pirated games is not very effective.
Ads are much more controlled than government propaganda. For example there are already disclaimers when a video contains ads in addition to the obvious "ad" slot. Also, companies can get punished when they go too far (ex: outright lies).
A prank or something written by a madman. Even if it is highly plausible, knowing what the prank is about is interesting by itself.
It is noteworthy that it seems to follow patterns of natural languages (ex: Zipf law). So it is unlikely to be random.
Most IDEs and advanced text editors have a "full screen" mode. They also often have sidebars and highly customizable layouts.
And while you can use a lot of tools as a developer, most of them are usually well integrated. Pilots need all these bells and whistles because they need to know at a glance how their plane is doing. Programmers don't need constant awareness, they need focus, and they need to have their toolbox readily available. That's a different philosophy.
It is relative to the size of the country.
There is quite a lot coming out of South Korea for a country with a population of 50 million. Sure, we talk more about China and the US, maybe even India, but these countries are huge compared to the likes of Sweden and Singapore, so there isn't too much merit.
After the MacBook Air came out, Apple discontinued the regular MacBook, because the Air filled the "low end" slot.
With the new MacBook Pros, the Air is not that much more portable, so it doesn't make much sense to market it as a special, ultralight "Air" product. So they brought back the regular MacBook brand and will most likely merge the Air family into it. Essentially, that's just dropping the "Air" in the name.
No one wants security, and not just in code.
I mean, in order for people to use safety gear that can save their lives, we need strict regulations and punishments. And I don't mean employers not caring about employees safety, I mean employees having everything they need at their disposal and not using it despite the signs.
Security is about spending time doing non-functional stuff and restraining yourself. People hate that. And even if it is provably useful, it goes against human instinct which is to prioritize short term goals.
Unless you are talking about cute anime girls, you probably mean "anthropogenic".
Bus now, I wonder what Japan came up with to represent global warming. They tend to turn everything into cute anime girls.