3) no nickle and diming. None. I buy it, it works. I'm not doing "in-app purchases" and that's bloody final
Unless it is a genuine way to make a product that you pay for what you use - similar to the different pricing tiers of modern IDE / OS /... - but don't have to commit to a certain level at initial purchase.
However if we go this way, it should be made very clear prior to purchasing: what is in the initial product, what is not, how much are the add ons
scarce resource in an inflationary economy -> would expect price to go up (to maintain value).
Big difference between price going up, and sales numbers going up (not just sales $). Sales numbers mean more widgets must be made. Eventually we run out of supply. Money is an arbitrary system. We can just use bigger numbers on the bills indefinitely (with occasional resets of new currency or new currency unit).
Of course sales growth / adoption rates have to level off: you can't sell a billion phones every year to a population of ~7 billion indefinitely. Much like desktops before them, smartphones have reached the point where the hardware is "good enough" that replacing it at less than a 3-5 year interval is unnecessary.
A billion a year = new phone for everyone on earth every 7 years on average. That is do-able (probably in the near future), especially since first world is already comfortable with 2-3 years average.
But your point stands. Eventually growth has to level off. Even if we got to the point of buying a new phone rather than recharging, we still must hit an endpoint, where it makes no sense to buy phones on a faster cycle.
less annoying than winding up in the ER because I exceeded my max HR by 25 bpm.
So you are one of those fabled sorts that really can give 110%... hats off to you sir.
I personally say that my max HR is the maximum value that I can get on that scale. If I exceed it, then it was not my max (or I have somehow gained a heart condition - but then you usually exceed your max voluntary heart rate by 100 or more)
It lacks emotion. Music is all about emotion. Without it all you have is a series of meaningless notes.
That "song" was indeed painful to listen to. It didn't say anything to me. I didn't feel anything from it. It was nonsense.
- Review of every boy/girl band or american idol type album or indeed the majority of the pop music industry.
Unfortunately 9/10 people want mindless garbage that they can bob their head to and insert their own meaning over the top "Hey I was once in a relationship that broke up! This song is about me!"
And then you had to use the phrase "triggers me"...sigh.
There are a (very) few legitimate uses of "triggers" - sexual assault, PTSD,... - truly traumatic and objectively brain altering events. The co-opting of this term for things like the above should be incredibly insulting. You are looking to hijack this word to seemingly give your minor annoyance an artificial legitimacy.
A far more appropriate expression would've been "this really gets to me" / "this pisses me off" / "this makes me weep for the stupidity of our race"...Unless of course you were somehow attacked by a knife wielding smart kitchen appliance that is deep learning how to gut and cook a fish, in which case, please continue to be "triggered" by people referring to deep learning as AI.
Posts like this give me hope for slashdot (and the future of humanity in general).
OP posted what he had read A post then comes in with informative (or seemingly from layman's point) post discrediting / correcting OP OP asks for his sources so that he may be better informed.
No name calling, no defensiveness, just open dialog to share knowledge.
Cue next thread where people call each other shills or sjw or other in-vogue petty insults
Music composition is a narrow area with relatively well-defined inputs and outputs
That's like saying, "English is easy, there are only 26 possible outputs and 26 possible inputs." Not exactly.......
Reducto ad absurdum.
I would not have said music differs as much in possible inputs and outputs as the board game Go. The obvious BIG difference is the lack of objective measurements of "success" to evaluate positions against (as humans can't agree what is good music - many like pop and cant appreciate classical, vice versa, and so on for other styles), and the success also equates to more than the sum of the individual notes (ie how smaller pieces fit against wider song).
I agree his/her numbers are batshit insane, but maybe (s)he is counting total deaths from WW 1 and 2 as (s)he didn't really explicitly say what (s)he was counting or even what was being referred to.
The entire point of codified laws was so that people living in society could know what was legal and what was not and so the rules could be applied consistently and without bias. The law is by definition a technical matter. Words have specific meaning in law or they are supposed to have. No you can't entirely divorce the reading of law from its intent but one should do so to the degree its possible.
And thus you end up with Tax Law.
Anyone who uses the terms "technically legal" has had everyday experience with the world's tax codes, where many things that should be legal aren't due to wording and many things are. And then there is a HUGE chasm of things (95% of reality) that fall somewhere on the borderline. Some experts say legal. Some say illegal. From these muddy waters arise terms like "technically legal"
Don't be so quick to cast moral judgments. Things aren't as black and white as you think. If it were we wouldn't need judges and juries. The grey often allows the latitude for "technically legal" to separate the borderline cases (hopefully in a more just way) that a simple wording change could not do.
And before the bleeding heart crowd jump down my throat, I refer to the lamentation that previously darwinian habits (like deliberately inhaling things that cause cancer etc) do not have the corresponding effect due to socially responsible advances in medicine.
A medical-grade version gets at a different tiny market...but at least part of it has deep pockets. Think about just how much money goes into professional athletes--the medical-grade version would almost certainly be a pretty minimalist device, to cut down on R&D and certification costs, but remote monitoring of athletes' vitals is pretty much going to become a thing.
Too bad then that you can buy a medical grade pulse measurement for $100. The only downside is wearing a chest strap (not a big ask for a workout). That is what they were using as their accurate baseline to compare these fitbits to.
Wrist based measurement will never be as accurate (especially while being knocked around on the sporting field) as chest strap based monitors. Any serious athlete knows this and has a PROPER heart rate monitor for their sport.
Disclosure: Professional level athlete. I wear a wrist based smart watch for sleep tracking and resting heart rates etc. (where wrist is appropriate). I take this off for my sport and wear a chest strap band and Garmin watch. The right tool for the right job.
so if they use their software to maliciously delete all your data, or somehow murder your family, you would not sue them because their EULA attempted to say you couldn't?
We are all guilty of theoretical small crimes because so many corporations/governments have overreached.
So we will only do 2 things- drugs, and learning "pointless" skills (which I would love because I like to learn/know things). Basically the article says that the future us will be Tyrion.
Yes a lot happens, but the village also provides free condoms. Most people use them, as such, the village becomes the highest consumption of condoms ever. Easy to google and verify this. Although some of this number is people hoarding these for future use.
Long story short, all athletes going to Rio have been warned many times over and advised that men should use protection for at least a month, and should not try for children for at least 6 months post games. Similar for women (but I think they only need wait a month for some reason).
Have you been examined by a mental health professional?
You really do have some scary levels of empathy there, would suggest at least a sociopath. Not being derogatory here, merely concerned.
You weigh your freedom to engage in recreational drugs higher than other people's lives?
If the reason for it is to get through the journey, well full autonomous vehicles will let you sleep (better for your health). If the reason is purely recreation (as seems to be suggested by your post) then you have plenty of opportunity to do it at other times.
If you are worried about privacy, what incentive does the car company have to dob on you. Sure the car might talk to the cops up ahead, but it would say "Hi, I am on my way to X with some passengers". You are no more suspicious now than in a regular car. The car company is not going to go to lengths to install AI to work out what you are doing if it does not result in benefit to them (and if this happened it would cause consumers to flee, so I don't see them wanting to). If you had to avoid the cops at all costs, merely change the destination to "side of road right here", car would obey and stop. No need to signal obstacle cars up ahead if they aren't on route.
So summary.... nothing to worry about, except your mental health
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3) no nickle and diming. None. I buy it, it works. I'm not doing "in-app purchases" and that's bloody final
Unless it is a genuine way to make a product that you pay for what you use - similar to the different pricing tiers of modern IDE / OS / ... - but don't have to commit to a certain level at initial purchase.
However if we go this way, it should be made very clear prior to purchasing:
what is in the initial product,
what is not,
how much are the add ons
But that Nigerian prince seemed so nice!
People on the internet will try to take advantage of you. I am shocked.
(and this was the number one infection vector in the 90s... so this being news is like a patent being new because it is "in the cloud")
scarce resource in an inflationary economy -> would expect price to go up (to maintain value).
Big difference between price going up, and sales numbers going up (not just sales $). Sales numbers mean more widgets must be made. Eventually we run out of supply. Money is an arbitrary system. We can just use bigger numbers on the bills indefinitely (with occasional resets of new currency or new currency unit).
Of course sales growth / adoption rates have to level off: you can't sell a billion phones every year to a population of ~7 billion indefinitely. Much like desktops before them, smartphones have reached the point where the hardware is "good enough" that replacing it at less than a 3-5 year interval is unnecessary.
A billion a year = new phone for everyone on earth every 7 years on average. That is do-able (probably in the near future), especially since first world is already comfortable with 2-3 years average.
But your point stands. Eventually growth has to level off. Even if we got to the point of buying a new phone rather than recharging, we still must hit an endpoint, where it makes no sense to buy phones on a faster cycle.
less annoying than winding up in the ER because I exceeded my max HR by 25 bpm.
So you are one of those fabled sorts that really can give 110% ... hats off to you sir.
I personally say that my max HR is the maximum value that I can get on that scale. If I exceed it, then it was not my max (or I have somehow gained a heart condition - but then you usually exceed your max voluntary heart rate by 100 or more)
It lacks emotion. Music is all about emotion. Without it all you have is a series of meaningless notes.
That "song" was indeed painful to listen to. It didn't say anything to me. I didn't feel anything from it. It was nonsense.
- Review of every boy/girl band or american idol type album or indeed the majority of the pop music industry.
Unfortunately 9/10 people want mindless garbage that they can bob their head to and insert their own meaning over the top "Hey I was once in a relationship that broke up! This song is about me!"
I was really agreeing with you.
And then you had to use the phrase "triggers me" ...sigh.
There are a (very) few legitimate uses of "triggers" - sexual assault, PTSD, ... - truly traumatic and objectively brain altering events. The co-opting of this term for things like the above should be incredibly insulting. You are looking to hijack this word to seemingly give your minor annoyance an artificial legitimacy.
A far more appropriate expression would've been "this really gets to me" / "this pisses me off" / "this makes me weep for the stupidity of our race" ...Unless of course you were somehow attacked by a knife wielding smart kitchen appliance that is deep learning how to gut and cook a fish, in which case, please continue to be "triggered" by people referring to deep learning as AI.
Posts like this give me hope for slashdot (and the future of humanity in general).
OP posted what he had read
A post then comes in with informative (or seemingly from layman's point) post discrediting / correcting OP
OP asks for his sources so that he may be better informed.
No name calling, no defensiveness, just open dialog to share knowledge.
Cue next thread where people call each other shills or sjw or other in-vogue petty insults
Music composition is a narrow area with relatively well-defined inputs and outputs
That's like saying, "English is easy, there are only 26 possible outputs and 26 possible inputs." Not exactly.......
Reducto ad absurdum.
I would not have said music differs as much in possible inputs and outputs as the board game Go. The obvious BIG difference is the lack of objective measurements of "success" to evaluate positions against (as humans can't agree what is good music - many like pop and cant appreciate classical, vice versa, and so on for other styles), and the success also equates to more than the sum of the individual notes (ie how smaller pieces fit against wider song).
How to deal with Windows 10 when you are "accidentally" automatically upgraded (via timed auto upgrade, or false close icon, or...)
I agree his/her numbers are batshit insane, but maybe (s)he is counting total deaths from WW 1 and 2 as (s)he didn't really explicitly say what (s)he was counting or even what was being referred to.
Great! Open source shoe designers :)
So if they ban common passwords, then they are both:
reading my passwords
storing my password, along with some kind of counter, to work out the most common passwords.
Otherwise they are only banning PRESUMED common passwords
The entire point of codified laws was so that people living in society could know what was legal and what was not and so the rules could be applied consistently and without bias. The law is by definition a technical matter. Words have specific meaning in law or they are supposed to have. No you can't entirely divorce the reading of law from its intent but one should do so to the degree its possible.
And thus you end up with Tax Law.
Anyone who uses the terms "technically legal" has had everyday experience with the world's tax codes, where many things that should be legal aren't due to wording and many things are. And then there is a HUGE chasm of things (95% of reality) that fall somewhere on the borderline. Some experts say legal. Some say illegal. From these muddy waters arise terms like "technically legal"
Don't be so quick to cast moral judgments. Things aren't as black and white as you think. If it were we wouldn't need judges and juries. The grey often allows the latitude for "technically legal" to separate the borderline cases (hopefully in a more just way) that a simple wording change could not do.
And before the bleeding heart crowd jump down my throat, I refer to the lamentation that previously darwinian habits (like deliberately inhaling things that cause cancer etc) do not have the corresponding effect due to socially responsible advances in medicine.
And people say evolutionary pressure doesn't exist in modern society...
Pity they won't accept cash that is an accurate estimation of the sales price.
If it is THEIR estimation, I'm sure they won't have a problem with it.
I see we have completely derailed.
If I rush out quickly and find a sig, could we roast me next?
Cheers.
A medical-grade version gets at a different tiny market...but at least part of it has deep pockets. Think about just how much money goes into professional athletes--the medical-grade version would almost certainly be a pretty minimalist device, to cut down on R&D and certification costs, but remote monitoring of athletes' vitals is pretty much going to become a thing.
Too bad then that you can buy a medical grade pulse measurement for $100. The only downside is wearing a chest strap (not a big ask for a workout). That is what they were using as their accurate baseline to compare these fitbits to.
Wrist based measurement will never be as accurate (especially while being knocked around on the sporting field) as chest strap based monitors. Any serious athlete knows this and has a PROPER heart rate monitor for their sport.
Disclosure: Professional level athlete. I wear a wrist based smart watch for sleep tracking and resting heart rates etc. (where wrist is appropriate). I take this off for my sport and wear a chest strap band and Garmin watch. The right tool for the right job.
spoken on behalf of the (presumed) majority, not the entirety.
why the pretense of having a user click something?
Lawyers. They probably feel this is unethical as hell, but can probably get away without being pulled over the coals by various courts/authorities.
so if they use their software to maliciously delete all your data, or somehow murder your family, you would not sue them because their EULA attempted to say you couldn't?
We are all guilty of theoretical small crimes because so many corporations/governments have overreached.
Only just laws deserve to be followed.
So we will only do 2 things- drugs, and learning "pointless" skills (which I would love because I like to learn/know things).
Basically the article says that the future us will be Tyrion.
"That's what I do. I drink and I know things."
Competed at last few Olympics personally...
Yes a lot happens, but the village also provides free condoms. Most people use them, as such, the village becomes the highest consumption of condoms ever. Easy to google and verify this. Although some of this number is people hoarding these for future use.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Long story short, all athletes going to Rio have been warned many times over and advised that men should use protection for at least a month, and should not try for children for at least 6 months post games. Similar for women (but I think they only need wait a month for some reason).
Have you been examined by a mental health professional?
You really do have some scary levels of empathy there, would suggest at least a sociopath. Not being derogatory here, merely concerned.
You weigh your freedom to engage in recreational drugs higher than other people's lives?
If the reason for it is to get through the journey, well full autonomous vehicles will let you sleep (better for your health).
If the reason is purely recreation (as seems to be suggested by your post) then you have plenty of opportunity to do it at other times.
If you are worried about privacy, what incentive does the car company have to dob on you. Sure the car might talk to the cops up ahead, but it would say "Hi, I am on my way to X with some passengers". You are no more suspicious now than in a regular car. The car company is not going to go to lengths to install AI to work out what you are doing if it does not result in benefit to them (and if this happened it would cause consumers to flee, so I don't see them wanting to). If you had to avoid the cops at all costs, merely change the destination to "side of road right here", car would obey and stop. No need to signal obstacle cars up ahead if they aren't on route.
So summary .... nothing to worry about, except your mental health