Something called "the Committee for Government Healthiness" spent money. Thanks Twitter. We still don't know anything about this group or whether they go by 100 other names.
Interesting thought process you have there. You presume something based on nothing more that hot air, then proceed to form a conclusion based on that presumption that has no basis in reality.?
Yeah, predicting the future is more or less always like that because no one knows the future.
I don't think it's based on politics. I think all the behavior you are seeing from Google is merely extreme arrogance.
The political stuff is a manifestation of that extreme arrogance. Think about it: when you're so much more important and simply better than everyone else, judging any outlook that differs from yours as evil (or stupid, or otherwise contemptible) becomes second nature.
Yeah, but if you read up on backpage you will see why they ended up that way. The stories I read said backpage was helping to rewrite ads offering sex with minors to avoid legal scrutiny.
The market for porn and guns may not be huge. The market for anything the Twitter mobs don't approve of is growing to include more and more things every day. @jack just had to apologize for going to Chick-fil-A a couple weeks ago to avoid being bullied.
Guns and porn today. Legal drugs tomorrow. Then church donations and non-socialist political candidates will be blacklisted. Who knows where it leads.
The same thing is happening to firearms dealers doing online sales (which have all the same safeguards and background checks as in-person sales — and actually more traceability because credit card sales are more traceable than cash sales).
Presumably these payment processors won't allow legal marijuana sales either. The realm of socially disapproved behavior grows larger every day.
This creates a big, expanding opportunity for a payment processor who won't bow to the Twitter mobs and their blacklists and witch hunts.
Here’s a question: Why are we listening to someone rant about "screens"? We get it. You have an observation about modern life and you are sure we all need to hear it. Ok. We heard it. Thanks for your observation. Can we all get back to minding our own business now? Please?
Because if you weren't doing it wrong, you wouldn't need the government or their experts or their journalist friends to lecture you. And then what would those people do?
A small amount of extra latency hardly matters in World of Warcraft. They could easily just render the entire thing in the cloud and send you the video frames. They should do that as an option right now. Then you could play it with any computer with network and video. Or an iPad or a console.
There are lots of games where an extra half second of input latency doesn't matter at all.
I think you’re still thinking of a video streaming model with a lot of videos stacked up. Even then, the info in the videos is highly redundant, so a bunch of stacked videos could be compressed together better than separately, but that’s not what I’m suggesting for most games. I’m suggesting streaming the info used to produce the scene.
Take GTA4 on the Xbox360, for example. That was a huge open world game, but it had to work in a system with 512MB and only a DVD drive. So when the player got in a car and zoomed around Liberty City, the game could only load the info for the city at the speed the laser could pass the rotating DVD media. The info was streamed from the disk. If the player turned a corner, the info to draw the new street had to be available on the disk, in a specific order so that it could be loaded without delay. In a sense, the layout of the data on the disk had to match the layout of the city streets.
If you can stream data off a disk, you can stream data off a network. And disks are dumb. Network servers can preprocess the information based on what’s happening in the game and deliver exactly what is needed, preprocessed into something that can be easily used.
Because they are using a video streaming model. Change to a more complex streaming model where input and response is handled locally and all the data for every possible different user interaction is streamed, but only the one matching the real input is displayed. Then you can make a direct bandwidth and RAM vs. latency trade off.
Meanwhile, what does Google really have to offer any gamers? There are other platforms that have everything Google is talking about, plus an attractive library of first party games, decades of experience in the industry, and a large international customer base. Why would anyone choose Google? It’s going to take a long time and a lot of money for Google to get the answer it wants to that question.
Journalists need to tell you about everything. Just wait for the story about how someone felt when they read this story! It's shocking and your doctor doesn't want you to know!
This was clear a long time ago. Intel was making X86 mobile chips for Intel to gain market share. Not because the phone makers wanted x86 chips. It was Intel-focused, not customer focused. Microsoft did similar things with Windows 8 and that metro junk.
Recently Intel has branched out into lots of other growth businesses though, buying Movidius, Altera, and MobileEye. They're making silicon photonics chips for optical networks, DOCSIS chips for cable modems and 3D Xpoint RAM to bridge the gap between DRAM and NAND. They integrated an AMD GPU and they are building a new GPU of their own.
It’s ironic that articles like this gain traction after Intel has already turned around and started to gain traction.
Do you think you are better off having been treated as a full member of society with all the freedoms everyone else has to buy and drink liquor? Or would you have been better off in a society that took a more parental approach to you specifically?
What if it were voluntary and temporary— subject to a test to get full citizenship status back: liquor is made available to you and you decline it for a period of time (like a year)?
Because the current society is a strong enabler of self-destructive behavior. And it doesn’t seem to be helping either the people who need help or the people who don’t.
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Something called "the Committee for Government Healthiness" spent money. Thanks Twitter. We still don't know anything about this group or whether they go by 100 other names.
Interesting thought process you have there. You presume something based on nothing more that hot air, then proceed to form a conclusion based on that presumption that has no basis in reality.?
Yeah, predicting the future is more or less always like that because no one knows the future.
I don't think it's based on politics. I think all the behavior you are seeing from Google is merely extreme arrogance.
The political stuff is a manifestation of that extreme arrogance. Think about it: when you're so much more important and simply better than everyone else, judging any outlook that differs from yours as evil (or stupid, or otherwise contemptible) becomes second nature.
Patreon doesn't do payment processing, so it is not their call. They are at the mercy of 3rd party payment processors.
Yeah, but if you read up on backpage you will see why they ended up that way. The stories I read said backpage was helping to rewrite ads offering sex with minors to avoid legal scrutiny.
The market for porn and guns may not be huge. The market for anything the Twitter mobs don't approve of is growing to include more and more things every day. @jack just had to apologize for going to Chick-fil-A a couple weeks ago to avoid being bullied.
Guns and porn today. Legal drugs tomorrow. Then church donations and non-socialist political candidates will be blacklisted. Who knows where it leads.
It’s an expanding opportunity for someone.
The same thing is happening to firearms dealers doing online sales (which have all the same safeguards and background checks as in-person sales — and actually more traceability because credit card sales are more traceable than cash sales).
Presumably these payment processors won't allow legal marijuana sales either. The realm of socially disapproved behavior grows larger every day.
This creates a big, expanding opportunity for a payment processor who won't bow to the Twitter mobs and their blacklists and witch hunts.
Here’s a question: Why are we listening to someone rant about "screens"? We get it. You have an observation about modern life and you are sure we all need to hear it. Ok. We heard it. Thanks for your observation. Can we all get back to minding our own business now? Please?
Thanks in advance.
Because if you weren't doing it wrong, you wouldn't need the government or their experts or their journalist friends to lecture you. And then what would those people do?
A small amount of extra latency hardly matters in World of Warcraft. They could easily just render the entire thing in the cloud and send you the video frames. They should do that as an option right now. Then you could play it with any computer with network and video. Or an iPad or a console.
There are lots of games where an extra half second of input latency doesn't matter at all.
I think you’re still thinking of a video streaming model with a lot of videos stacked up. Even then, the info in the videos is highly redundant, so a bunch of stacked videos could be compressed together better than separately, but that’s not what I’m suggesting for most games. I’m suggesting streaming the info used to produce the scene.
Take GTA4 on the Xbox360, for example. That was a huge open world game, but it had to work in a system with 512MB and only a DVD drive. So when the player got in a car and zoomed around Liberty City, the game could only load the info for the city at the speed the laser could pass the rotating DVD media. The info was streamed from the disk. If the player turned a corner, the info to draw the new street had to be available on the disk, in a specific order so that it could be loaded without delay. In a sense, the layout of the data on the disk had to match the layout of the city streets.
If you can stream data off a disk, you can stream data off a network. And disks are dumb. Network servers can preprocess the information based on what’s happening in the game and deliver exactly what is needed, preprocessed into something that can be easily used.
Yeah, it’s a lot to ask. But why not?
Because they are using a video streaming model. Change to a more complex streaming model where input and response is handled locally and all the data for every possible different user interaction is streamed, but only the one matching the real input is displayed. Then you can make a direct bandwidth and RAM vs. latency trade off.
Tencent would probably outbid Google.
Meanwhile, what does Google really have to offer any gamers? There are other platforms that have everything Google is talking about, plus an attractive library of first party games, decades of experience in the industry, and a large international customer base. Why would anyone choose Google? It’s going to take a long time and a lot of money for Google to get the answer it wants to that question.
Journalists need to tell you about everything. Just wait for the story about how someone felt when they read this story! It's shocking and your doctor doesn't want you to know!
This was clear a long time ago. Intel was making X86 mobile chips for Intel to gain market share. Not because the phone makers wanted x86 chips. It was Intel-focused, not customer focused. Microsoft did similar things with Windows 8 and that metro junk.
Recently Intel has branched out into lots of other growth businesses though, buying Movidius, Altera, and MobileEye. They're making silicon photonics chips for optical networks, DOCSIS chips for cable modems and 3D Xpoint RAM to bridge the gap between DRAM and NAND. They integrated an AMD GPU and they are building a new GPU of their own.
It’s ironic that articles like this gain traction after Intel has already turned around and started to gain traction.
Children spend lots of time “learning” in school. Since when is school like real life?
Anyone can podcast. There are zero barriers to entry.
So, by your definition, diversity is not a synonym to improvement in podcasting.
...the only ones hurt...
There’s zero evidence that plastic straws hurt anyone.
It's not "improve" podcasting, it's "diversify" podcasting.
If you want things to be better, you need to turn away from people who don't care about things being better.
Underwater aesthetics should decide how we all live our lives?
That false statistic was based on a phone survey conducted by a nine year old kid.
Do you guys care about reality at all? It doesn’t seem like you do.
Does "white knighting" self-destructive behavior help? Or does it mostly just enable the behavior?
I “just stopped” 3 times already today.
Do you think you are better off having been treated as a full member of society with all the freedoms everyone else has to buy and drink liquor? Or would you have been better off in a society that took a more parental approach to you specifically?
What if it were voluntary and temporary— subject to a test to get full citizenship status back: liquor is made available to you and you decline it for a period of time (like a year)?
Because the current society is a strong enabler of self-destructive behavior. And it doesn’t seem to be helping either the people who need help or the people who don’t.
Doesn't this apply to possibly EVERY addiction? I struggle to think of an addiction which doesn't involve "stop doing it" as a solution.
For an addicted person, what’s the acceptable alternative to stopping?
No one said it was easy. Sometimes you have to do things that aren’t easy.