This seems like a common-sense law, and it comes in direct response to abuse by these companies. I'm generally not in favor of legislation of this sort until it's been established that there's a clear problem, but this sort of thing has gotten out of hand. For companies that complain about over-regulation, maybe if you didn't treat your customers like shit, we wouldn't have to expressly forbid that sort of behavior through explicit legislation or regulation.
Well said. In principle I'm very much against this kind of government interference in business, but in instances like this the businesses in question really left us with no other alternatives.
I never understood this logic. Assuming the errors they point out are actually errors and they're not being mean about it, what does it matter if they also make errors that are pointed out?
Does the fact that you've written code with bugs in it somehow prevent you from being allowed to point out bugs in other peoples code while reviewing it?
Reminds me of that one comic in which someone steps in to help out a bullying victim, but is then scolded by the victim for hurting the bullies feelings by calling him a bully, therefore making the guy who was just trying to help also a bully.
I'm not up to date on what features the Rift has over the Vive, but if one of them doesn't support head position tracking as well as pitch/yaw/roll that would be a dealbreaker. Not being able to sit up and forwards to look over the front of the cockpit or shift my head side to side to see around the back of the seat would be a huge step backwards in usability compared to my trackIR.
It does. Which provides more motivation for passengers to resist ("we're going to die anyway, so might as well die as heroes") on top of the justification for passengers who were going to resist anyway ("we're going to die anyway, so doesn't matter if they kill 6 more people as retaliation for my attempt at fighting them").
Bad analogy. This is more like a bakery giving people with no transportation free access to self-driving cars, but the cars are only allowed to drive to destinations approved by the bakery. The bakery promises not to do anything evil with this power they wield over the destinations these previously transportationless people can now visit (e.g. letting the people visit an amusement park for a few weeks, then threatening to take that destination away if they don't capitulate to certain demands, or enabling specific polling places as destinations based on which politicians paid for them), but has a track record of doing sketchy stuff and no one believes them.
The "cost" of this "free" access is too high, and it's being sold to people who don't know any better.
Hardly. They've giving free and borderline essential information to a large mass of people in exchange for the ability to control the flow of that information. While that's a nice gesture, it's also laying the groundwork for future abuses. The amount of power gained by the people controlling the flow of information into the information starved masses isn't something to be taken lightly, and I can think of many ways it could potentially be abused.
IT is also one of the only places where someone can:
- Slap any old system into place to solve a problem, even claiming "best practice" or whatever
- Screw up so badly that they lose data or cause a company to lose massive amounts of money
- Cobble together a fix for their mistake, blame it on some technobabble, and be congratulated for fixing it
- Repeat over and over again, getting promoted after each instance
Fixed that list a bit for you based on my own experience(s).
A flight captain and his co pilot need nerves of steel to listen to the screams of the stewardesses in the cabin and not react on the demands of he hijackers.
And they have them now, thanks to the knowledge that if they give in to the demands of the hijackers, they'll have 100x the number of horrible deaths on their hands.
And even if the pilots completely caved, a plane full of passengers knowing that they're liable to be flown into a building in a few minutes know they have nothing to lose attempting to take the aircraft back.
I don't think splitting the cost between a group of friends watching it would count as "charging money" in the sense of it being a public performance in this context. If Hollywood is going to claim otherwise, then $50 for a single viewer watching a movie from home is retarded and I take everything back.
You really can't say that without knowing the specifics of this setup and referencing a specific theater for comparison. It's obviously not as good as an idealized cinema set up for some posh exclusive viewing, but it's well past the point of caring unless you're one of those people who thinks they can hear the difference between a 512kbps mp3 and a 256kbps mp3 and buys the 5x more expensive graphics card because benchmarked 2fps faster than the cheaper one. The picture is fine, the sound is fine, and it's most definitely better than the chain theater down the street with the sticky floors, kids who won't shut up, and poorly maintained equipment.
A single viewer watching on their laptop in their parents basement probably isn't the target market.
I have a friend with a home theater. Big projection screen, proper acoustic dampening, decent sound system, 3d capable, seats 6 (more if people sit on the floor and/or double up on the couch). $50 split 6 ways is cheaper than a movie ticket, and it's way better viewing experience.
I literally spent 10 seconds googling it, this said 1.5: http://www.travelersdigest.com... But regardless, Switzerland is very small compared to the total area in the US. My point about defensive strategies not scaling up still stands.
It's a real pain with the math education in the US of A.
I spent all of 10 seconds googling. Looks like I misspoke and they were talking about Dallas and the surrounding developed area, I was using the number given here:
http://www.travelersdigest.com...
Real classy though jumping to conclusions like that.
You're assuming todays numbers on terrorist attacks will remain constant in your utopian future in which we've beat our swords into plowshares. That's kind of like claiming firewalls are pointless because you haven't been hacked in a few years (while posting from behind your firewall).
Also, terrorists aren't the only threat. If we fall behind in military technology but get our little utopia going, other countries are going to be jealous. All it takes is a charismatic leader in a country that's made some bad decisions in the past to convince the people that it's all our fault. At that point the only options are to bribe them to not kill us (not sustainable) or fight a defensive war with inferior tech when they inevitably decide they're coming over to take our cancer machines and medicine.
Except that all of the longevity machinery and jiggly boob simulations in the world won't really help you vs a crazy guy with an RPG who's convinced that god told him to kill you and/or destroy your way of life.
In addition to what the AC pointed out, Switzerland is a tiny country (barely bigger than the city of Dallas, TX according to google) with some pretty rugged mountains and not a lot in the way of natural resources. The defensive strategies for a small country with barely any resources don't really scale up to a large country with loads of natural resources and a population in the hundreds of millions.
This is yet another reason why all fiber pulls should be done by the government and owned by the community.
Except now you've just given the same people who have a monopoly on quite a few other things (regulations, law enforcement, etc.) a monopoly on communication. Considering that ability to communicate is one of the big checks and balances against the government in a successful democracy, I'm not sure that that's such a good idea. Having "community ownership" of it mitigates that slightly, but it's all too easy to manipulate a small community into making a series of decisions they probably wouldn't have made under normal circumstances.
Did you miss the part where you don't lug around a huge external GPU? The idea is that you'd be able to take your laptop to class and take notes or whatever with all kinds of battery life, then when you get home you plug in the external GPU for some gaming.
Most people can understand a bell curve just fine without ever having taken a calculus class
But at that point you're asking them to just take it on faith that that's how it works. I took a stats class in community college the semester before I did calc, and mostly remember being confused for the entire thing. I passed with flying colors, but only because I'd memorized the correct formulas, had a killer group project, and was able to logic my way through the multiple choice test that was the final. There was really no understanding there, and by the time I'd transferred out I'd forgotten it all.
Pretending it's people who want stuff for free is just a smear tactic. Self hosted ads would be hard enough to block (there's literally no way to differentiate them from other parts of the site) that the annoyance factor would have to be pretty high for someone to take the trouble of blocking it. In fact, if you insisted on self-hosting ads that were obnoxious and/or malicious, I'm pretty sure people would just quit going to your site rather than engaging in an unwinnable arms race with you. A win-win for everyone.
A manhole cover quite possibly made it to space on nuclear alone after an incident involving underground testing. The high speed footage puts its minimum speed at something well past escape velocity.
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This seems like a common-sense law, and it comes in direct response to abuse by these companies. I'm generally not in favor of legislation of this sort until it's been established that there's a clear problem, but this sort of thing has gotten out of hand. For companies that complain about over-regulation, maybe if you didn't treat your customers like shit, we wouldn't have to expressly forbid that sort of behavior through explicit legislation or regulation.
Well said. In principle I'm very much against this kind of government interference in business, but in instances like this the businesses in question really left us with no other alternatives.
Ok, you have two very different examples here that have little to nothing to do with one another.
I completely disagree with that premise, so at this point I don't think we're going to change each others minds. Thanks for the perspective though.
I never understood this logic. Assuming the errors they point out are actually errors and they're not being mean about it, what does it matter if they also make errors that are pointed out?
Does the fact that you've written code with bugs in it somehow prevent you from being allowed to point out bugs in other peoples code while reviewing it?
Reminds me of that one comic in which someone steps in to help out a bullying victim, but is then scolded by the victim for hurting the bullies feelings by calling him a bully, therefore making the guy who was just trying to help also a bully.
It's absolutely trivial given an oscilloscope and some proper live-rail bit banging.
This sounds interesting and I have a scope + old iDevice.. this seems like it might be a fun thing to try. Care to go into more detail?
I'm not up to date on what features the Rift has over the Vive, but if one of them doesn't support head position tracking as well as pitch/yaw/roll that would be a dealbreaker. Not being able to sit up and forwards to look over the front of the cockpit or shift my head side to side to see around the back of the seat would be a huge step backwards in usability compared to my trackIR.
It does. Which provides more motivation for passengers to resist ("we're going to die anyway, so might as well die as heroes") on top of the justification for passengers who were going to resist anyway ("we're going to die anyway, so doesn't matter if they kill 6 more people as retaliation for my attempt at fighting them").
Bad analogy. This is more like a bakery giving people with no transportation free access to self-driving cars, but the cars are only allowed to drive to destinations approved by the bakery. The bakery promises not to do anything evil with this power they wield over the destinations these previously transportationless people can now visit (e.g. letting the people visit an amusement park for a few weeks, then threatening to take that destination away if they don't capitulate to certain demands, or enabling specific polling places as destinations based on which politicians paid for them), but has a track record of doing sketchy stuff and no one believes them.
The "cost" of this "free" access is too high, and it's being sold to people who don't know any better.
Hardly. They've giving free and borderline essential information to a large mass of people in exchange for the ability to control the flow of that information. While that's a nice gesture, it's also laying the groundwork for future abuses. The amount of power gained by the people controlling the flow of information into the information starved masses isn't something to be taken lightly, and I can think of many ways it could potentially be abused.
IT is also one of the only places where someone can:
- Slap any old system into place to solve a problem, even claiming "best practice" or whatever
- Screw up so badly that they lose data or cause a company to lose massive amounts of money
- Cobble together a fix for their mistake, blame it on some technobabble, and be congratulated for fixing it
- Repeat over and over again, getting promoted after each instance
Fixed that list a bit for you based on my own experience(s).
A flight captain and his co pilot need nerves of steel to listen to the screams of the stewardesses in the cabin and not react on the demands of he hijackers.
And they have them now, thanks to the knowledge that if they give in to the demands of the hijackers, they'll have 100x the number of horrible deaths on their hands.
And even if the pilots completely caved, a plane full of passengers knowing that they're liable to be flown into a building in a few minutes know they have nothing to lose attempting to take the aircraft back.
I don't think splitting the cost between a group of friends watching it would count as "charging money" in the sense of it being a public performance in this context. If Hollywood is going to claim otherwise, then $50 for a single viewer watching a movie from home is retarded and I take everything back.
You really can't say that without knowing the specifics of this setup and referencing a specific theater for comparison. It's obviously not as good as an idealized cinema set up for some posh exclusive viewing, but it's well past the point of caring unless you're one of those people who thinks they can hear the difference between a 512kbps mp3 and a 256kbps mp3 and buys the 5x more expensive graphics card because benchmarked 2fps faster than the cheaper one. The picture is fine, the sound is fine, and it's most definitely better than the chain theater down the street with the sticky floors, kids who won't shut up, and poorly maintained equipment.
A single viewer watching on their laptop in their parents basement probably isn't the target market.
I have a friend with a home theater. Big projection screen, proper acoustic dampening, decent sound system, 3d capable, seats 6 (more if people sit on the floor and/or double up on the couch). $50 split 6 ways is cheaper than a movie ticket, and it's way better viewing experience.
I literally spent 10 seconds googling it, this said 1.5: http://www.travelersdigest.com... But regardless, Switzerland is very small compared to the total area in the US. My point about defensive strategies not scaling up still stands.
It's a real pain with the math education in the US of A.
I spent all of 10 seconds googling. Looks like I misspoke and they were talking about Dallas and the surrounding developed area, I was using the number given here: http://www.travelersdigest.com...
Real classy though jumping to conclusions like that.
You're assuming todays numbers on terrorist attacks will remain constant in your utopian future in which we've beat our swords into plowshares. That's kind of like claiming firewalls are pointless because you haven't been hacked in a few years (while posting from behind your firewall).
Also, terrorists aren't the only threat. If we fall behind in military technology but get our little utopia going, other countries are going to be jealous. All it takes is a charismatic leader in a country that's made some bad decisions in the past to convince the people that it's all our fault. At that point the only options are to bribe them to not kill us (not sustainable) or fight a defensive war with inferior tech when they inevitably decide they're coming over to take our cancer machines and medicine.
Except that all of the longevity machinery and jiggly boob simulations in the world won't really help you vs a crazy guy with an RPG who's convinced that god told him to kill you and/or destroy your way of life.
In addition to what the AC pointed out, Switzerland is a tiny country (barely bigger than the city of Dallas, TX according to google) with some pretty rugged mountains and not a lot in the way of natural resources. The defensive strategies for a small country with barely any resources don't really scale up to a large country with loads of natural resources and a population in the hundreds of millions.
Whoosh!
This is yet another reason why all fiber pulls should be done by the government and owned by the community.
Except now you've just given the same people who have a monopoly on quite a few other things (regulations, law enforcement, etc.) a monopoly on communication. Considering that ability to communicate is one of the big checks and balances against the government in a successful democracy, I'm not sure that that's such a good idea. Having "community ownership" of it mitigates that slightly, but it's all too easy to manipulate a small community into making a series of decisions they probably wouldn't have made under normal circumstances.
Did you miss the part where you don't lug around a huge external GPU? The idea is that you'd be able to take your laptop to class and take notes or whatever with all kinds of battery life, then when you get home you plug in the external GPU for some gaming.
Most people can understand a bell curve just fine without ever having taken a calculus class
But at that point you're asking them to just take it on faith that that's how it works. I took a stats class in community college the semester before I did calc, and mostly remember being confused for the entire thing. I passed with flying colors, but only because I'd memorized the correct formulas, had a killer group project, and was able to logic my way through the multiple choice test that was the final. There was really no understanding there, and by the time I'd transferred out I'd forgotten it all.
Pretending it's people who want stuff for free is just a smear tactic. Self hosted ads would be hard enough to block (there's literally no way to differentiate them from other parts of the site) that the annoyance factor would have to be pretty high for someone to take the trouble of blocking it. In fact, if you insisted on self-hosting ads that were obnoxious and/or malicious, I'm pretty sure people would just quit going to your site rather than engaging in an unwinnable arms race with you. A win-win for everyone.
A manhole cover quite possibly made it to space on nuclear alone after an incident involving underground testing. The high speed footage puts its minimum speed at something well past escape velocity.