Mary "Missy" Cummings, an engineering professor at Duke, agrees. "I don't think there should be any driverless cars on the road," she tells Ars. "I think it's unconscionable that no one is stipulating that testing needs to be done before they're put on the road."
What does she assume this whole time self driving cars have just been something in people's heads? Every company who's in on this technology brags about their logged road time... Glad she ain't my prof.
To think we're special and that we'll get ours eventually without putting in half the work our parents did. It's not a wonder that when "Too good to be true" things come our way that most tend to jump on them.
You mean fighting between clans within a set of rules to determine who's better, instead of all out war? I'd say it has done great things for humanity. Nothing's perfect, obviously!
Because part of what makes all these sports so great to begin with is the physical finesse some of the top players achieve and get results from. Seeing someone do all these amazing feats with a controller just doesn't rub people the same way.
5 people fighting 5 other people to the death with magic and dragons and.. uhh.. well you get it; isn't physically possible (VR will make this concept explode when it's capable of doing so). And there is HUGE demand to watch this, as is shown today with games like League of Legends and DotA 2. It's like the Romans watching the gladiators and slaves fight, but x9000 and without all the ethics. Think about that.
That's just one example, but you get the jist I'm sure.
Sure I'll go ahead and learn what I need to to keep your stack afloat. What's that? You don't want to pay me a reasonable wage? Well then! I guess we have a problem indeed. Scramble on, fine HR folks at "Major Banks and Parts of Federal Gov't"!
The World Cyber Games used to be a thing. Not sure if it still is or if an equivalent has surfaced; but they were essentially the Olympics of gaming and pulled in some pretty hefty crowds.
The Olympic committee is being hypocritical by saying they don't belong in "eSports" if they promote violence. All forms of martial arts and wrestling practiced at the Olympics promote physical violence, regardless of if they are actually for self-defense at their core. Kids see that stuff and just want to go roundhouse kick the first person they come across. Not to mention most people secretly (or not so much) want to see someone get knocked out by a swift kick to the face.
Anyone can make a MOBA or FPS game (like League of Legends or Counter-Strike, respectively) and define an open standard for game mechanics and balancing. If the game runs on a Linux box then all your criteria are met.
We used to play hockey on frozen ponds and never really thought it'd become as big as it is today (way too big in my opinion, like any big sport today).
This is how most e-Sports started off. The games weren't made with the intention of being big name sports, but their popularity and the community as a whole decided they wanted more out of the competitiveness of these games by organizing tournaments and leagues. (think.. South Korea during the early Starcraft days for example)
Now they make games with the full intention of them being e-Sports. At this point, what you've suggested may very well be what we'll see games become.
If they need a model to base themselves off of, they simply need to look at Riot Games. This isn't new. Yes e-Sports are sports, just as much as any physical sport may be. And from the looks of it they are here to stay.
That said some games don't deserve the title. Software versions of physical games should not replace the latter. e.g. FIFA console games replacing real football is just fucking stupid.
The energy that comes from the live audience is just as powerful as any real sport. I'm not sure what people are getting so upset about to begin with. I don't like watching 10 people on skates chase a puck on ice with their sticks, but that doesn't take away it's sport status.
But not non-existent. Why are you arguing for the sake of arguing? There are epidemics of said dangerous drugs rampant across the globe, and here you are trying to defend psychedelics even though I said nothing bad about them.
I certainly didn't come out and say all drugs are bad. Cmon now.
While I've never tried the above-mentioned, I have heard of the many possible positive effects of them on people suffering from several mental health conditions. They are well worth being looked into and their stigma isn't warranted in the least in my opinion.
While your example is true it doesn't hold up to, say, an archaeological team trying to extract information from an encrypted hard drive to piece together a story from our era.
You may find this silly, conceptually. But I promise you there are people who would use these decryption techniques for these very reasons; were they put in that scenario today.
Your credit card number might actually be part of that story, to prove you made transaction X, leading to the demise of humanity as we know it!:)
It's like saying there's an easy fix to a bug that QA just uncovered. To people who understand the problem, it may seem obvious and easy, yes.
It's dangerous wording however, because those who misunderstand the problem and/or technical details to it might interpret it as "It'll be fixed in 5 minutes." Causing those in the know-how to be under unreasonable pressure.
If the operation of finding the next prime and checking if the semi-prime is divisible took a single CPU cycle of a 10GHz processor in a cluster of 100,000 such processors, it would still take about 10^117 times the age of the universe.
Thank you for this. I always love reading about these things when defined in the terms you've set them out in.
More-so than 95% really. Almost a third of this 5% who do die from it are from accidents or suicide. Meaning alcohol played a part in the death, but was certainly not the underlying cause. Alcohol abuse that lead to suicide is a mental problem compounded by the booze. The individual would've found another compound if booze wasn't available.
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Mary "Missy" Cummings, an engineering professor at Duke, agrees. "I don't think there should be any driverless cars on the road," she tells Ars. "I think it's unconscionable that no one is stipulating that testing needs to be done before they're put on the road."
What does she assume this whole time self driving cars have just been something in people's heads? Every company who's in on this technology brags about their logged road time... Glad she ain't my prof.
No one can hear you scream in space!
It is just a language. Half an hour working with it bring you right back to where you dropped it 10 years ago.
HTML doesn't count.
To think we're special and that we'll get ours eventually without putting in half the work our parents did. It's not a wonder that when "Too good to be true" things come our way that most tend to jump on them.
You mean fighting between clans within a set of rules to determine who's better, instead of all out war?
I'd say it has done great things for humanity. Nothing's perfect, obviously!
Pardon my French mate. I don't always convey things exactly the way I mean them :)
Because part of what makes all these sports so great to begin with is the physical finesse some of the top players achieve and get results from.
Seeing someone do all these amazing feats with a controller just doesn't rub people the same way.
5 people fighting 5 other people to the death with magic and dragons and.. uhh.. well you get it; isn't physically possible (VR will make this concept explode when it's capable of doing so). And there is HUGE demand to watch this, as is shown today with games like League of Legends and DotA 2. It's like the Romans watching the gladiators and slaves fight, but x9000 and without all the ethics. Think about that.
That's just one example, but you get the jist I'm sure.
Sure I'll go ahead and learn what I need to to keep your stack afloat.
What's that? You don't want to pay me a reasonable wage? Well then! I guess we have a problem indeed. Scramble on, fine HR folks at "Major Banks and Parts of Federal Gov't"!
Plot twist:
YOU are actually a loaf!
A new study has revealed a "fast-acting neural circuit allowing gut cells to communicate with the brain in just seconds,"
That's.... not very fast.
Your reason is apparently not welcome on a lot of people's lawns. Meh fuck em anyways
Apparently only English vulgarity is considered.. vulgar? Ugh...
The World Cyber Games used to be a thing. Not sure if it still is or if an equivalent has surfaced; but they were essentially the Olympics of gaming and pulled in some pretty hefty crowds.
The Olympic committee is being hypocritical by saying they don't belong in "eSports" if they promote violence. All forms of martial arts and wrestling practiced at the Olympics promote physical violence, regardless of if they are actually for self-defense at their core. Kids see that stuff and just want to go roundhouse kick the first person they come across. Not to mention most people secretly (or not so much) want to see someone get knocked out by a swift kick to the face.
Anyone can make a MOBA or FPS game (like League of Legends or Counter-Strike, respectively) and define an open standard for game mechanics and balancing.
If the game runs on a Linux box then all your criteria are met.
We used to play hockey on frozen ponds and never really thought it'd become as big as it is today (way too big in my opinion, like any big sport today).
This is how most e-Sports started off. The games weren't made with the intention of being big name sports, but their popularity and the community as a whole decided they wanted more out of the competitiveness of these games by organizing tournaments and leagues. (think.. South Korea during the early Starcraft days for example)
Now they make games with the full intention of them being e-Sports. At this point, what you've suggested may very well be what we'll see games become.
If they need a model to base themselves off of, they simply need to look at Riot Games.
This isn't new. Yes e-Sports are sports, just as much as any physical sport may be. And from the looks of it they are here to stay.
That said some games don't deserve the title. Software versions of physical games should not replace the latter. e.g. FIFA console games replacing real football is just fucking stupid.
The energy that comes from the live audience is just as powerful as any real sport. I'm not sure what people are getting so upset about to begin with. I don't like watching 10 people on skates chase a puck on ice with their sticks, but that doesn't take away it's sport status.
Best sleep with a shotgun under your pillow.
Well, clearly what needs to be done is to tweak the appetite of those eating mosquitoes to want.. MOAR!!
But not non-existent. Why are you arguing for the sake of arguing? There are epidemics of said dangerous drugs rampant across the globe, and here you are trying to defend psychedelics even though I said nothing bad about them.
Go argue with someone else.
I certainly didn't come out and say all drugs are bad. Cmon now.
While I've never tried the above-mentioned, I have heard of the many possible positive effects of them on people suffering from several mental health conditions. They are well worth being looked into and their stigma isn't warranted in the least in my opinion.
While your example is true it doesn't hold up to, say, an archaeological team trying to extract information from an encrypted hard drive to piece together a story from our era.
You may find this silly, conceptually. But I promise you there are people who would use these decryption techniques for these very reasons; were they put in that scenario today.
Your credit card number might actually be part of that story, to prove you made transaction X, leading to the demise of humanity as we know it! :)
Exactly this.
It's like saying there's an easy fix to a bug that QA just uncovered.
To people who understand the problem, it may seem obvious and easy, yes.
It's dangerous wording however, because those who misunderstand the problem and/or technical details to it might interpret it as "It'll be fixed in 5 minutes." Causing those in the know-how to be under unreasonable pressure.
"This 160 year old hypothesis might finally be proven!!!" ... yeah but... Did anyone notice Elon Fucking Musk reads Slashdot?!?!?
If the operation of finding the next prime and checking if the semi-prime is divisible took a single CPU cycle of a 10GHz processor in a cluster of 100,000 such processors, it would still take about 10^117 times the age of the universe.
Thank you for this. I always love reading about these things when defined in the terms you've set them out in.
More-so than 95% really.
Almost a third of this 5% who do die from it are from accidents or suicide. Meaning alcohol played a part in the death, but was certainly not the underlying cause.
Alcohol abuse that lead to suicide is a mental problem compounded by the booze. The individual would've found another compound if booze wasn't available.
Before. It's pretty clear actually.
Disclaimer: Not British.