The only reason many people get new windows is because it comes with the computer. And they get a new computer because the old one broke, or has too much malware on it. They won't see the icons on the desktop until they get it home and turn it on.
To me they look like a nice new set of icons, and if you prefer another set, put that on your windows:).
Why not do it the other way ? Keep everything the same, but offer a customize button for those who want change. That way people who just use their computer to get their work done don't have to be bothered.
As anyone who's faced an aim-bot knows, there's no real challenge for computers to perform many of the tasks humans find difficult, like putting a bullet through a moving target's forehead.
It always makes me wonder why fights in futuristic movies are always done by people aiming by hand.
With no government intervention, corporations would wipe out trade unions and any form of worker protection, and pay even less than they do now, as a near-starvation wage is better than actually starving.
The unemployed aren't actually starving right now, and they are free to sit in the park on a sunny day. Sounds better than be kept as slaves inside a factory for 24 hours a day.
Yes. but I think that the people using exercise bikes to generate power is just a placeholder for 'something else' that the author hasn't quite figured out yet
Killing the humans and burning their bodies is more energy efficient.
They want everyone to be poor so they can control us. It is all about control. That is why their kind moves jobs out of the country. What you described is their master plan. They want us to starve.
What good does it do to control an army of poor and starving people ?
the traditional model of education is not sustainable or scalable for those living in developing countries.
That's just an unfounded assertion. One teacher can easily educate 40 students, whether they are living in developing countries or not. After 10 years or so, these students can become teachers. For basic reading/writing/math you can do it even quicker. Sounds perfectly sustainable and scalable to me.
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Dyson contends that since carbon dioxide is good for plants, a warmer planet could be a very good thing.
That isn't even wrong.
Of this there can be no argument. It is established fact.
So you will have no problem proving your claim ?
The only reason many people get new windows is because it comes with the computer. And they get a new computer because the old one broke, or has too much malware on it. They won't see the icons on the desktop until they get it home and turn it on.
No, it's a way of saying "change that offers no advantage to the user, even if you get used to it"
They should look more like 3D glass.
It wasn't so much the loss 80x86 designations, as the increase of different parameters that could be tweaked for different markets.
Likewise, instead of selling condoms as small, medium and large, they are branded: regular, tight, and extra tight.
You call it a revolution. The robots call it an easy extermination.
To me they look like a nice new set of icons, and if you prefer another set, put that on your windows :).
Why not do it the other way ? Keep everything the same, but offer a customize button for those who want change. That way people who just use their computer to get their work done don't have to be bothered.
Aha, so the new icons generate more sales.. I get it.
The point is that you have to pacify the majority or else they turn on those in power.
I'm pretty sure a robot army could handle a bunch of civilians.
If this means nothing can ever get changed...
Change just for the sake of it is stupid. Are the new icons in any way better (they let people do their job faster, for example) ?
Now let's have an AI beat Zork.
http://thcnet.net/zork/index.p...
As anyone who's faced an aim-bot knows, there's no real challenge for computers to perform many of the tasks humans find difficult, like putting a bullet through a moving target's forehead.
It always makes me wonder why fights in futuristic movies are always done by people aiming by hand.
You'll get used to it..
Wouldn't it be easier to get used to the old ones ?
With no government intervention, corporations would wipe out trade unions and any form of worker protection, and pay even less than they do now, as a near-starvation wage is better than actually starving.
The unemployed aren't actually starving right now, and they are free to sit in the park on a sunny day. Sounds better than be kept as slaves inside a factory for 24 hours a day.
Robots have owners of course
And the owners take everything the robots produce. People who don't own robots can just go fuck themselves. How's that ?
they enjoy like create art, make an app, write a book etc
... fuck around, smoke meth, thrash the place...
Yes. but I think that the people using exercise bikes to generate power is just a placeholder for 'something else' that the author hasn't quite figured out yet
Killing the humans and burning their bodies is more energy efficient.
The result of the above is that food and goods become so cheap and plentiful
At least you'll need a source of free and unlimited energy for that.
They want everyone to be poor so they can control us. It is all about control. That is why their kind moves jobs out of the country. What you described is their master plan. They want us to starve.
What good does it do to control an army of poor and starving people ?
He did mention the botnet was 3 million computers. So, couldn't have been Linux.
Maybe Intel can make a special core dedicated for ads ?
How about I just don't come back to that site ?
the traditional model of education is not sustainable or scalable for those living in developing countries.
That's just an unfounded assertion. One teacher can easily educate 40 students, whether they are living in developing countries or not. After 10 years or so, these students can become teachers. For basic reading/writing/math you can do it even quicker. Sounds perfectly sustainable and scalable to me.