and people could once again take up more productive pastimes: making things, group outings and sports, exercise, hobbies.
Well, first of all, some of us aren't good with our hands or athletic. Secondly, who exactly told you that running a football down a field is more "productive" than watching a great Discovery Channel documentary on gravity? And, third, even if we did all embrace these "productive" pastimes, they would just become cliche too and someone on/. would just start admonishing us all to go back to the old days when we actually thought about big ideas, let our imaginations soar in books, dreamed of exploring the galaxy through our videogames, etc.
We're in incredible physical condition, none of us have near-sightedness, or color blindness. We love the military in particular and the government in general. And combat and sports are what we excel at!
You've definitely found the recruitment pool you're looking for!
Some days it seems like they don't ever try any more
In an age of ballooning budgets for "tentpole" movies, it's just that they're scared to take a change any more. They want to eliminate as much risk for their $200+ million investment as possible. So they go with the safest script, the safest director, the safest stars, etc. As with most things safe, they're also pretty bland. The produce something truly amazing, you have to swing for the fence and risk striking out completely in the process--instead of just going for a nice, safe single.
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I think maybe I could make a larger point here about how many open source projects are prone to picking fucking awful names (GIMP, I'm looking in you're direction). But it would only lead to a bunch of people listing bad names of proprietary products too, I suppose.
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I'm pretty tech savy, and follow a ton of tech news sites, and I never heard of them either.
Well, for one thing, Apple really hyped Bootcamp when it came out. And a lot of fans were really playing up the "Now you can game on a Mac!" thing at the time. And so Wine got neglected. I don't recall Apple officially even mentioning Wine, even before Bootcamp. And certainly not afterward. It's a shame, it really set Wine development on OS X back for a long time.
Is that the same CNET that has recently become notorious for installing a bunch of adware with the software downloaded from their Download.com site? Yeah, I want a privacy lecture from some guy working for a company that keeps trying to install about a dozen adbars and popups to my browser every time I try to download anything from them.
A four-year-old can project and read emotions with surprising sophistication (especially the project part), understand and communicate with spoken language, climb around and use motor skills for pretty complex tasks, and about a million other things that no one AI is even close to being able to do. Even the best AI's still struggle with such tasks *individually*, much less as a whole package. My daughter could understand plenty of things at 4 that would give Siri a fit, and Siri isn't even potty trained!
I heard somewhere that Apache webservers now explicitly block "Do Not Track" requests from IE browsers. If you can't even count on your webservers to comply with DNT, what good are standards going to do?
The North Korean Psy would be a full military uniform, and only sing old-fashioned songs from the 50's about how much Dear Leader loves us. Somehow I doubt this would be quite as catchy.
You can ask any number of my former girlfriends--if you can keep them from stabbing you, setting fire to your house, or trying to poison your dog long enough to ask.
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That was just Noomi Rapace's polite way of saying "There's no need to remake them. They were already done right."
and people could once again take up more productive pastimes: making things, group outings and sports, exercise, hobbies.
Well, first of all, some of us aren't good with our hands or athletic. Secondly, who exactly told you that running a football down a field is more "productive" than watching a great Discovery Channel documentary on gravity? And, third, even if we did all embrace these "productive" pastimes, they would just become cliche too and someone on /. would just start admonishing us all to go back to the old days when we actually thought about big ideas, let our imaginations soar in books, dreamed of exploring the galaxy through our videogames, etc.
We're in incredible physical condition, none of us have near-sightedness, or color blindness. We love the military in particular and the government in general. And combat and sports are what we excel at!
You've definitely found the recruitment pool you're looking for!
Some days it seems like they don't ever try any more
In an age of ballooning budgets for "tentpole" movies, it's just that they're scared to take a change any more. They want to eliminate as much risk for their $200+ million investment as possible. So they go with the safest script, the safest director, the safest stars, etc. As with most things safe, they're also pretty bland. The produce something truly amazing, you have to swing for the fence and risk striking out completely in the process--instead of just going for a nice, safe single.
I think maybe I could make a larger point here about how many open source projects are prone to picking fucking awful names (GIMP, I'm looking in you're direction). But it would only lead to a bunch of people listing bad names of proprietary products too, I suppose.
I'm pretty tech savy, and follow a ton of tech news sites, and I never heard of them either.
I guess you can't open source marketing.
Guess someone is a little ashamed to be caught in bed with the Feds. Hope MIT at least demanded they wear a condom.
Well, for one thing, Apple really hyped Bootcamp when it came out. And a lot of fans were really playing up the "Now you can game on a Mac!" thing at the time. And so Wine got neglected. I don't recall Apple officially even mentioning Wine, even before Bootcamp. And certainly not afterward. It's a shame, it really set Wine development on OS X back for a long time.
Here's a link in case anyone has no idea what I'm talking about.
Is that the same CNET that has recently become notorious for installing a bunch of adware with the software downloaded from their Download.com site? Yeah, I want a privacy lecture from some guy working for a company that keeps trying to install about a dozen adbars and popups to my browser every time I try to download anything from them.
I think since Bootcamp, everyone just assumed that Mac users were just dual booting to play games. Not always true, though (and a real inconvenience).
I live in a flyover state and have never seen one.
On a related note, who names their recycling company "Toxco"?
A four-year-old can project and read emotions with surprising sophistication (especially the project part), understand and communicate with spoken language, climb around and use motor skills for pretty complex tasks, and about a million other things that no one AI is even close to being able to do. Even the best AI's still struggle with such tasks *individually*, much less as a whole package. My daughter could understand plenty of things at 4 that would give Siri a fit, and Siri isn't even potty trained!
The whistling thing I could understand, since he presumably had no respiration.
The instructor thought it would be a valuable skill to learn. I still send him dead animals every Christmas.
Here is an article on it from Ars Technica, for anyone who thinks I'm making this shit up.
I heard somewhere that Apache webservers now explicitly block "Do Not Track" requests from IE browsers. If you can't even count on your webservers to comply with DNT, what good are standards going to do?
I picture something along the lines of:
"Human drivers acting irrationally...does not compute....does not compute....MUST KILL ALL HUMANS!"
I had to program in vi for a couple of Cobol classes back in college. Afterwards I would go home and beat myself with a spiked club to relax.
It's a perfectly cromulent term.
And the U.S. government has been in charge of the Panamanian government since 1903.
The North Korean Psy would be a full military uniform, and only sing old-fashioned songs from the 50's about how much Dear Leader loves us. Somehow I doubt this would be quite as catchy.
You can ask any number of my former girlfriends--if you can keep them from stabbing you, setting fire to your house, or trying to poison your dog long enough to ask.
The bad news is that the "missile technology" really did turn out to just be sugar.
The good news is that Edward Snowden was on board!