Cassettes and analog cameras weren't banned. They simply fell out of favor because CDs and digital cameras were way superior as far as the end user was concerned
No they weren't. End Users bitched and moaned about being forced to upgrade all that stuff just as they are now.
Humans evolved under total surveillance. The hunter gather tribe ate, lived and breathed in each other's pocket. If your tribe-mate farted you knew about it. Sometime during the industrial revolution, technology allowed us a form of privacy because machines gave us the freedom to no longer rely on each for survival. Now we've come full circle and we'll have to be conscious of how we behave because we'll once again be visible to the larger tribe. As long as the laws maintain a power balance between govt, people, and media, then I see no problem with this.
Its not making people be nicer, its helping lonely people harass others
Actually it's both. I've seen plenty of cases first hand of bullies getting their comeuppance thanks to casual surveillance, and we've all seen cases of abuse. Like the car, it can be both a tool and weapon. It would be foolish to write off it's benefits just because of the odd car crash. As long as we manage the new era of the surveillance society, I think it can deliver a net gain.
#3 Who has more time to manipulate an open source web engine index? A do gooder looking to relfect bad SEO in a search result, or an SEO not looking to pump their own numbers floating their own crap to the top
So include a system to detect this. I'm sure it would be fairly trivial be pick out patterns and have some sort of human audit of major changes. Wikipedia already does something similar.
This pattern was one of my main frustration with MS. They increasingly adjusted the interface for stupider and stupider end users, which is ok for that type of user, but FFS at least have the "I've used a computer before and am comfortable fiddling with settings" option for the rest of us.
There's a lot of people that know what a computer is and don't need to be treated like imbeciles.
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I'm sick of Google being referred to as a technology company. They are an advertising company that uses technology. But at heart, advertising is their core business.
And, have it do an "untailored" search by default. If I type in a search phrase I get results relevant to where I live. This can be useful in the odd case I want to find a local service provider, but the 99% of the other times I want non-local, fully globalised results, and I can no longer seem to be able to that.
One example, we had a local rugby player Jarryd Hayne who went to the US to gamble on an NFL career. No matter what I search I only get results from Australian media outlets which I don't want. I want to find out the reaction in the US media (if any), but the search always tailors my results to my location which is annoying. This results in my world view being skewed because I'm increasingly only being exposed to local opinions
The Internet is supposed to be a global village. Google ruining that.
If there's one thing I've learnt from comparing countries, it's the north western Europe seems to get a LOT more things right than everyone else.
Without having any background on this topic, I'm going to have a gamble and assume they'll get this right too.
Meh. Didn't we hear the same argument when color TV was introduced? Or CDs, Digital TV, Digital cameras, Fly by wire, the Internet etc etc every other technology implementation ever?
I'm sure there'll be teething problems, there always are. But the great thing when you have a progressive mindset is when you encounter issues, you can fix them and move on.
Yeah but neither did the metric system, public health or regulation of dangerous weapons. The US is hardly the benchmark for what is considered a good idea or not.
Ships are extremely expensive to maintain, usually in the order of 10-20% of value, so keeping for another 5 years might cost as much as replacing it with a new one.
Don't fall into the trap. The sky has always been falling on our heads, whether it be foreign invaders, disease, nuclear war, the youth of today, asteroid strike, climate change, alien invasion etc. If one thing is constant throughout history it's that somehow there always seems to be a threat of sudden extinction, and when it's found to be overblown we simply find something else to replace it with. Sure one of them has to be right sooner or later, but worrying about it won't help
He lost me at "We were once just as certain that the earth was flat". No we weren't, it's a well worn myth that loses the speaker respect by quoting such rubbish.
We built one here. Sydney suffered a decade long drought and once it became apparent the reservoirs were at risk, the govt built invested $2B in a desalination plant. Just before it was completed the drought broke and the plant has never been used since. It costs taxpayers $500k/day to sit there and doing nothing.
Funny how you say it's still sh*t when those who try it can use it without even having to train the speech recognition engine (and it gets getter as the engine adapts to the speaker).
As for the reason it's not commonly used, that's mostly inertia. People don't know that their Windows laptop or Android phone can do speech recognition. When I do it on mine, they say "hey - that's not an iPhone!" So then I show them how to do it on their own device (phone or tablet) and they really like it.
We're all techno-philes here, this is a nerd site. Perhaps your one use case is different from the rest of the world where we don't all speak with American accents. I hate typing and have been actively seeking alternatives for decades. They are all shit for me all the the people I know. I have tested this with numerous people over the years and the result is always the same. I don't type because I like it, I type because it works.
Also, you're wrong - speech is far more efficient than a keyboard.
Speech is. Speech recognition isn't. I can only assume you live somewhere where everyone talks the same. I live in a extremely multicultural place where accents make machine recognition next to useless.
I disagree. The statement "institutions primarily concerned with the relationship with man and his creator". Buddhism is primarily about "the right way of living". The deity and institutions are all just bit parts.
Personally, I feel that many earlier non-mechanized societies were at least if not more civilized than we are now.
As long as you were the same race, gender, religion and sexuality as the people in charge of your local village, and there were no competing civilisations nearby that wanted your stuff, and you didn't get the flu or any minor illness which generally resulted in death...
To a 19th century standard of living, absolutely! To a late-20th/early-21st century standard of living, probably not.
What's the difference?
Looking around I can't see much I couldn't live without. A lot of the useful changes in the last 100 years are easily re-creatable (electricity, plumbing, automobiles, sanitation, Internet etc). The hard part was figuring them out the first time.
As long as I have a roof over my head and food in my tummy the rest is a luxury, and I think most people would adapt quicker than you think (just think about your last camping holiday as an example).
Gone for a lot lower number (winning low enough so you can get a cash payout at the shop (~$600/week is still a nice bonus))
This was what I was thinking. You don't need a million dollars in one go if you can get $1000/week for the rest for your life. Cheat small, but often and stay under the radar.
Yes, lottery is a tax on mathematically challenged.
Not so. I have a degree in Maths, I buy the odd ticket form time to time when the jackpot gets high because a few dollars is small entry fee for a few days of dreaming of what I would do if I won millions. I know the chance is next to zero, but it is still non-zero which is all you need to dream.
Buying a movie ticket has a similar value proposition.
Not even the really smart ones. The mildly smart ones also don't get caught. I'd even go so far as to say it's only the really stupid ones get convicted. A half smart person can still get caught, but get off in court with a half decent alibi.
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Cassettes and analog cameras weren't banned. They simply fell out of favor because CDs and digital cameras were way superior as far as the end user was concerned
No they weren't. End Users bitched and moaned about being forced to upgrade all that stuff just as they are now.
Humans evolved under total surveillance. The hunter gather tribe ate, lived and breathed in each other's pocket. If your tribe-mate farted you knew about it. Sometime during the industrial revolution, technology allowed us a form of privacy because machines gave us the freedom to no longer rely on each for survival. Now we've come full circle and we'll have to be conscious of how we behave because we'll once again be visible to the larger tribe. As long as the laws maintain a power balance between govt, people, and media, then I see no problem with this.
Its not making people be nicer, its helping lonely people harass others
Actually it's both. I've seen plenty of cases first hand of bullies getting their comeuppance thanks to casual surveillance, and we've all seen cases of abuse. Like the car, it can be both a tool and weapon. It would be foolish to write off it's benefits just because of the odd car crash. As long as we manage the new era of the surveillance society, I think it can deliver a net gain.
#3 Who has more time to manipulate an open source web engine index? A do gooder looking to relfect bad SEO in a search result, or an SEO not looking to pump their own numbers floating their own crap to the top
So include a system to detect this. I'm sure it would be fairly trivial be pick out patterns and have some sort of human audit of major changes. Wikipedia already does something similar.
This pattern was one of my main frustration with MS. They increasingly adjusted the interface for stupider and stupider end users, which is ok for that type of user, but FFS at least have the "I've used a computer before and am comfortable fiddling with settings" option for the rest of us. There's a lot of people that know what a computer is and don't need to be treated like imbeciles.
They are an ADVERTISING company
Mod Up!
I'm sick of Google being referred to as a technology company. They are an advertising company that uses technology. But at heart, advertising is their core business.
And, have it do an "untailored" search by default. If I type in a search phrase I get results relevant to where I live. This can be useful in the odd case I want to find a local service provider, but the 99% of the other times I want non-local, fully globalised results, and I can no longer seem to be able to that.
One example, we had a local rugby player Jarryd Hayne who went to the US to gamble on an NFL career. No matter what I search I only get results from Australian media outlets which I don't want. I want to find out the reaction in the US media (if any), but the search always tailors my results to my location which is annoying. This results in my world view being skewed because I'm increasingly only being exposed to local opinions
The Internet is supposed to be a global village. Google ruining that.
Blu-Ray didn't stumble because of DVDs, it had stumbled because of information distribution no longer requires physical media (ie the Internet).
If Norway does the right thing
If there's one thing I've learnt from comparing countries, it's the north western Europe seems to get a LOT more things right than everyone else. Without having any background on this topic, I'm going to have a gamble and assume they'll get this right too.
Meh. Didn't we hear the same argument when color TV was introduced? Or CDs, Digital TV, Digital cameras, Fly by wire, the Internet etc etc every other technology implementation ever?
I'm sure there'll be teething problems, there always are. But the great thing when you have a progressive mindset is when you encounter issues, you can fix them and move on.
Yeah but neither did the metric system, public health or regulation of dangerous weapons. The US is hardly the benchmark for what is considered a good idea or not.
Ships are extremely expensive to maintain, usually in the order of 10-20% of value, so keeping for another 5 years might cost as much as replacing it with a new one.
we're still amazingly primitive to think that smart watches are a pretty neat idea.
Who thinks that? Everyone I know thinks they're a stupid gimmick.
Don't fall into the trap. The sky has always been falling on our heads, whether it be foreign invaders, disease, nuclear war, the youth of today, asteroid strike, climate change, alien invasion etc. If one thing is constant throughout history it's that somehow there always seems to be a threat of sudden extinction, and when it's found to be overblown we simply find something else to replace it with. Sure one of them has to be right sooner or later, but worrying about it won't help
He lost me at "We were once just as certain that the earth was flat". No we weren't, it's a well worn myth that loses the speaker respect by quoting such rubbish.
We built one here. Sydney suffered a decade long drought and once it became apparent the reservoirs were at risk, the govt built invested $2B in a desalination plant. Just before it was completed the drought broke and the plant has never been used since. It costs taxpayers $500k/day to sit there and doing nothing.
So you're saying you behave like a woman, do you also piss sitting down?
What if his business is to compete with the Mint?
Funny how you say it's still sh*t when those who try it can use it without even having to train the speech recognition engine (and it gets getter as the engine adapts to the speaker).
As for the reason it's not commonly used, that's mostly inertia. People don't know that their Windows laptop or Android phone can do speech recognition. When I do it on mine, they say "hey - that's not an iPhone!" So then I show them how to do it on their own device (phone or tablet) and they really like it.
We're all techno-philes here, this is a nerd site. Perhaps your one use case is different from the rest of the world where we don't all speak with American accents. I hate typing and have been actively seeking alternatives for decades. They are all shit for me all the the people I know. I have tested this with numerous people over the years and the result is always the same. I don't type because I like it, I type because it works.
Also, you're wrong - speech is far more efficient than a keyboard.
Speech is. Speech recognition isn't. I can only assume you live somewhere where everyone talks the same. I live in a extremely multicultural place where accents make machine recognition next to useless.
I disagree. The statement "institutions primarily concerned with the relationship with man and his creator". Buddhism is primarily about "the right way of living". The deity and institutions are all just bit parts.
Personally, I feel that many earlier non-mechanized societies were at least if not more civilized than we are now.
As long as you were the same race, gender, religion and sexuality as the people in charge of your local village, and there were no competing civilisations nearby that wanted your stuff, and you didn't get the flu or any minor illness which generally resulted in death...
To a 19th century standard of living, absolutely! To a late-20th/early-21st century standard of living, probably not.
What's the difference?
Looking around I can't see much I couldn't live without. A lot of the useful changes in the last 100 years are easily re-creatable (electricity, plumbing, automobiles, sanitation, Internet etc). The hard part was figuring them out the first time.
As long as I have a roof over my head and food in my tummy the rest is a luxury, and I think most people would adapt quicker than you think (just think about your last camping holiday as an example).
Gone for a lot lower number (winning low enough so you can get a cash payout at the shop (~$600/week is still a nice bonus))
This was what I was thinking. You don't need a million dollars in one go if you can get $1000/week for the rest for your life. Cheat small, but often and stay under the radar.
Yes, lottery is a tax on mathematically challenged.
Not so. I have a degree in Maths, I buy the odd ticket form time to time when the jackpot gets high because a few dollars is small entry fee for a few days of dreaming of what I would do if I won millions. I know the chance is next to zero, but it is still non-zero which is all you need to dream. Buying a movie ticket has a similar value proposition.
Not even the really smart ones. The mildly smart ones also don't get caught. I'd even go so far as to say it's only the really stupid ones get convicted. A half smart person can still get caught, but get off in court with a half decent alibi.