well let's follow this to the logical conclusion: "Uranusquake"... that won't be abused at all.
But really, there's geological phenomena that are not going to be unique to earth; coming up bespoke names for them on each planet/world we come into contact with is silly.
Basically without any scarcity (since the content can be produced almost instantly, and without any limitations at all due to quantity) -- there's nothing stopping the market being glutted with this crap, and the price asymptotically dropping to zero...
So would the end result be that human authors get priced out of existence, since they can't compete at all -- or perhaps in the long run worth it in the long run for amazon to make content like this?
Or perhaps it's the Japanese emphasis on honor and integrity? Ritualistic suicide to atone for making a mistake isn't that far back in history over there.
Or the fact that it was accepted to start at a company and stay there for your entire working life. That kind of long term employment breeds loyalty to the company -- you are invested in its long-term success; rather than cooking the books or selling core business units off for a couple of good quarters; and then float away on your golden parachute.
Nahhh, once Bezos Prime's conscious has been uploaded to the Wandering Shepherd orbital platform, he'll instruct his robotic army to reduce the earth to ash and cinder -- and from his orbital perch he'll crush any attempt by the survivors to rebuild.
The rule of Bezos Prime will never end. It will be as a boot forever stomping on a human face (which you can also get with free 2 day delivery anywhere in the continental US)
Sounds like a totally reasonable point of view to me. No matter how 'careful' we think we're being, or how well considered we are regarding unintended consequences; there's always a chance something will sneak past the goalie, and who knows what happens then?
The iterative approach to figuring things out falls flat when an unintended consequence or other unforeseen outcomes have the potential for devastation. Sure, this attempt might only effect a particular type of mosquito, but who's to say that it'll never mutate and/or change in ways we have no ability to predict?
Surely there is a better way to control mosquitoes (and parasites in general)
Not even remotely a fan of Russia or its president; but.. NATO running wargames that close to Russian territory -- how are the rooskies supposed to interpret that exactly? It's sort of like during the 1960's, we place missiles in Italy and Turkey, and Russia responds by placing their own in Cuba.
If China had a real navy, and started running drills off the coast of Japan, what would the reaction be?
Has anyone ever definitively proved that piracy actually lowers revenue?
if x number of people pirate your game, some percentage will go on to purchase it. They'll also function as word of mouth free advertising, which encourages others to buy it. Can you prove that a company is worse off as a result?
Remember shareware, way back when -- and in particular Doom? ID released as a fully functioning demo of the first few stages, and it clearly didn't impact their overall sales in a negative fashion.
I'd wager in a lot of cases, a game popular enough to get pirated in significant numbers gains a bit of a halo effect similar to the shareware model.
No, it's just as hackable; albeit requiring slightly lower tech tools.
Instead of a skimmer; they'd use something sharp and pointy or something heavy and blunt. At least with credit or debit you have some recourse; carrying cash you're SOL.
I think it's one of those "we're gonna charge you, and you can fight it; but you'll get the maximum penalty -- OR you can fess up and we'll give you 5 years and probation" type shake-downs.
And definitely, this round will definitely go to the bad guys (overreaching DA's and police)
These tech gadgets are basically 'toys'. (Which granted, is a very unpopular opinion here.) Post war boom, consumerism and the resulting infantilism of society, fixing a 'need' through advertising yadda yadda.
But yeah, somewhere after 1950 the notion of 'growing up' and focusing on work/family was perverted into individualistic consumerism -- did grown men really play with toys to this extent before then?
Most of these gadgets that you think you need -- or make your life more convenient; really just make you lazy, neurotic, and stupid.
That's a fair point actually; the flip-flopping, transient nature of american politics makes long term investments like that difficult (assuming of course I had the capital to invest in a factory, which of course I don't.)
However, others do.
Domestic manufacturing is a good thing; if we had the political capital to make it a long-term movement -- on-shoring american manufacturing, it would be in our best interest. In this particular example, a factory which uses automation to produce these metal boxes (and paint them to, oh my!) could probably be cost competitive with Chinese slave-ish labor.
But for what it's worth, just because you don't start foaming at the mouth at the mention of Trump, doesn't make you into the whole #MAGA thing or a rabid Trump supporter.
It's too bad that machined sheet metal is too difficult technically speaking for an American company to start producing. Whatever will we do?
Concern over hardware with a long supply chain like cpu's, mobo's, ram etc is one thing.. but something as stupidly simple to produce as a fucking metal box? come on.
Hopefully the outcome of these tariffs is that another country (maybe even the US?) will step up and start producing and supplying components. It is somewhat foolish to allow one single country to have a near total monopoly on something as important as electronics.
(But more than likely some enterprising individual will setup shop in Mexico or Canada; and import the goods from China, then just ship them across the border to avoid the tariff.)
I wish they'd leave Oregon as well. Of course there's eastern OR/WA (or west Idaho, depending on your outlook) -- But then again, apparently Boise is getting infested with them now too.
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well let's follow this to the logical conclusion: "Uranusquake" ... that won't be abused at all.
But really, there's geological phenomena that are not going to be unique to earth; coming up bespoke names for them on each planet/world we come into contact with is silly.
the whoooosh is obligatory here.
Except Boston apparently.
Basically without any scarcity (since the content can be produced almost instantly, and without any limitations at all due to quantity) -- there's nothing stopping the market being glutted with this crap, and the price asymptotically dropping to zero...
So would the end result be that human authors get priced out of existence, since they can't compete at all -- or perhaps in the long run worth it in the long run for amazon to make content like this?
Or perhaps it's the Japanese emphasis on honor and integrity? Ritualistic suicide to atone for making a mistake isn't that far back in history over there.
Or the fact that it was accepted to start at a company and stay there for your entire working life. That kind of long term employment breeds loyalty to the company -- you are invested in its long-term success; rather than cooking the books or selling core business units off for a couple of good quarters; and then float away on your golden parachute.
Nahhh, once Bezos Prime's conscious has been uploaded to the Wandering Shepherd orbital platform, he'll instruct his robotic army to reduce the earth to ash and cinder -- and from his orbital perch he'll crush any attempt by the survivors to rebuild.
The rule of Bezos Prime will never end. It will be as a boot forever stomping on a human face (which you can also get with free 2 day delivery anywhere in the continental US)
And how many have been successful that didn't have a population that wasn't ethnically homogeneous?
Don't worry! they're working very, very hard to change that!
Ferguson, round 2.
Sounds like a totally reasonable point of view to me. No matter how 'careful' we think we're being, or how well considered we are regarding unintended consequences; there's always a chance something will sneak past the goalie, and who knows what happens then?
The iterative approach to figuring things out falls flat when an unintended consequence or other unforeseen outcomes have the potential for devastation. Sure, this attempt might only effect a particular type of mosquito, but who's to say that it'll never mutate and/or change in ways we have no ability to predict?
Surely there is a better way to control mosquitoes (and parasites in general)
hanged.
A painting is hung. CEO's and other criminal miscreants are hanged.
Slashdot, where pedantry will always be alive and well!
Not even remotely a fan of Russia or its president; but .. NATO running wargames that close to Russian territory -- how are the rooskies supposed to interpret that exactly? It's sort of like during the 1960's, we place missiles in Italy and Turkey, and Russia responds by placing their own in Cuba.
If China had a real navy, and started running drills off the coast of Japan, what would the reaction be?
How do those boots taste?
The joys of a surveillance society; simply being near a crime is enough to garner suspicion.
God help us.
Has anyone ever definitively proved that piracy actually lowers revenue?
if x number of people pirate your game, some percentage will go on to purchase it. They'll also function as word of mouth free advertising, which encourages others to buy it. Can you prove that a company is worse off as a result?
Remember shareware, way back when -- and in particular Doom? ID released as a fully functioning demo of the first few stages, and it clearly didn't impact their overall sales in a negative fashion.
I'd wager in a lot of cases, a game popular enough to get pirated in significant numbers gains a bit of a halo effect similar to the shareware model.
No, it's just as hackable; albeit requiring slightly lower tech tools.
Instead of a skimmer; they'd use something sharp and pointy or something heavy and blunt. At least with credit or debit you have some recourse; carrying cash you're SOL.
well that's yet another way to destroy evidence, right?
Fair point; but at the risk of setting precedence for questionable behavior by police and DA's going forward?
I think it's one of those "we're gonna charge you, and you can fight it; but you'll get the maximum penalty -- OR you can fess up and we'll give you 5 years and probation" type shake-downs.
And definitely, this round will definitely go to the bad guys (overreaching DA's and police)
The tiny market share of people who are going to tweak their devices isn't worth forsaking real security for everyone else.
1. tiny market for after-market parts?
2. Apple totally did this for end-user's security. definitely. Absolutely no other possible ulterior motive.
These tech gadgets are basically 'toys'. (Which granted, is a very unpopular opinion here.) Post war boom, consumerism and the resulting infantilism of society, fixing a 'need' through advertising yadda yadda.
But yeah, somewhere after 1950 the notion of 'growing up' and focusing on work/family was perverted into individualistic consumerism -- did grown men really play with toys to this extent before then?
Most of these gadgets that you think you need -- or make your life more convenient; really just make you lazy, neurotic, and stupid.
No, that's where dementia comes in
/ducks
That's a fair point actually; the flip-flopping, transient nature of american politics makes long term investments like that difficult (assuming of course I had the capital to invest in a factory, which of course I don't.)
However, others do.
Domestic manufacturing is a good thing; if we had the political capital to make it a long-term movement -- on-shoring american manufacturing, it would be in our best interest. In this particular example, a factory which uses automation to produce these metal boxes (and paint them to, oh my!) could probably be cost competitive with Chinese slave-ish labor.
But for what it's worth, just because you don't start foaming at the mouth at the mention of Trump, doesn't make you into the whole #MAGA thing or a rabid Trump supporter.
It's too bad that machined sheet metal is too difficult technically speaking for an American company to start producing. Whatever will we do?
Concern over hardware with a long supply chain like cpu's, mobo's, ram etc is one thing.. but something as stupidly simple to produce as a fucking metal box? come on.
Hopefully the outcome of these tariffs is that another country (maybe even the US?) will step up and start producing and supplying components. It is somewhat foolish to allow one single country to have a near total monopoly on something as important as electronics.
(But more than likely some enterprising individual will setup shop in Mexico or Canada; and import the goods from China, then just ship them across the border to avoid the tariff.)
I too grew up in eastern OR (umatilla county) and yeah, for someone from SV, there isn't much there that they'd enjoy.
Well, I can see them moving a few miles north to Walla Walla and getting into the snobby wine scene, so there's that.
I wish they'd leave Oregon as well. Of course there's eastern OR/WA (or west Idaho, depending on your outlook) -- But then again, apparently Boise is getting infested with them now too.