I upgraded to 3.42 before taking the time to think about how much I've actually been using the PS3 for games this year. It's really just another media center for me at the moment. Since realizing that I'd rather use it as a retro gaming station than have PSN functionality, I've been frustrated by my own haste to accept the update to 3.42.
"No, dirt. But it was extra special expensive dirt. I shot me a lot of Chinese just to get a wheelbarrow full. It paid for your fancy university education. And your radiation pills."
I rarely pick up new music these days. I'd rather listen to a podcast or open university course. But when I do grab something, I'm torrenting it. If I have to pay a piracy fee to use media or hardware, then might as well make the piracy fee earn its keep. But I don't pirate software. As far as I know, I'm not taxed by software companies every time I've bought storage media.
As a long time user I get the option to disable advertising. I don't. I even whitelist Slashdot in Adblock because I support the site and the banner ads are rarely obnoxious. These poorly disguised articles-as-ads are quite annoying though. Just make KSplice pay for a banner like everyone else.
They had a Masters of Magic that would run on a modern system? Awwwww. It sucks that I missed it. Hmm. I'd heard there was a community remake out there somewhere a while back. I wonder what happened to it.
The Protestant/Catholic argument has no more point than the others, religious or not. Some people consider it important because they believe a magical sky fairy is going to invite them to their own little kingdom when they die. That doesn't make the argument important. Only dealing with the fallout that such nonsense leads to.
Isn't the base of 100 IQ points derived from the average population? How can your average be below average? Where do they create the baseline from if not from the populace?
I've not really looked into them that much. I took one and got a high score, but I'm just as prone to making stupid mistakes as anyone else. And I know some "dumb" people who have put great care into doing things correctly. Intelligence is worthless if not applied.
You walk into a dealership of recreational vehicles. You see an amphibious car on display. The head of the amphibious car manufacturing division has stopped by the dealership, and is extolling the features of it to customers. "Drives on land! Operates in water like a boat!" So you buy one. After you buy it, you might use both features, you might not. But isn't it awesome knowing if you want to you can just drive down to the lake and go for a spin? But then there's a knock on the door. A representative of the company says they would like to enter your garage and make some modifications to your amphibious car. They're just going to remove all of the features that work in water. You don't HAVE to let them modify it, but if you don't then your car will not be allowed out of your garage. You can still go out and start it up, but driving it on the road is will be expressly forbidden.
So now you're stuck with a choice. An amphibious car that doesn't drive in water, or one that doesn't drive at all.
Heck, even people in the fields of science related to some advancements don't see some of those advancements coming. In one of the Futures in Biotech podcasts (a 2007 episode if I recall) the guest was talking about gene sequencing and that as little as four years before they managed to sequence an earthworm genome it was thought to be impossible because of the work/technology involved. And then they did it. Shortly afterward the human genome project began.
Whether Kurzweil is in crazyland or not, if he's just making optimistic forecasts of the future he's at least getting people to think about it. And if people are thinking about it skeptically, at least we're going to encourage critical thinkers.
I'd like to be able to verify my vote after the fact in either paper or electronic systems. You give me my ballot and it has a unique number on it. I can use that number later to verify that the vote linked to it is what I voted. Obviously there are issues with that, such as a man-in-the-middle exploit feeding me bogus results, or your anonymity being put at risk when you attempt to verify your vote. But I'd still like to have the option. As far as anonymity goes, I have no issue with people knowing how I would vote as I usually discuss it openly. But I would rather see the ID tied to the ballot and not a name, since others may prefer to remain anonymous and simply forgo checking the ballot results in the future. If my vote has been tampered with, discarded, or double counted, I want to know.
Even in a closed system it would be possible to open it up to the homebrew community using a code signing service, wouldn't it? You make your game, register for your code, sign it, and now you can run it on console Z. If an app is nefarious, the service revokes the cert for that app/game and continues.
At first it would appear to be a silly expense to the console makers, but when they see that it creates a clear separation of homebrew and pirate communities it becomes a financially sound decision.
As much as I dislike iTunes, the idea of being able to create, sign, and distribute your software is pretty appealing. Even if their reviewers are completely inconsistent and sometimes borderline retarded.
There's a pretty big site dedicated to the growing of marijuana, where the users post pictures of their grow operations from behind the "protection" of proxies. Just for kicks one day I started checking their pictures. About 20 to 25 percent of them were geotagged. Some of those grows had hundreds, if not thousands of plants. So much for hiding behind a proxy.:)
Yeah, good idea. The company I worked for was making 125 an hour for my time. The "highly compensated computer scientists" were fresh out of school doing Visual Basic. I was earning more than them AFTER the company took the huge cut of the money.
They're probably thinking the for an investment equivalent to a small advertising campaign they build a fresh team that learns to work together, and create a product that keeps them in the public eye while the bull that is Blizzard rampages through the China shop.
Around 1997 a friend asked me to install Windows95 on his girlfriend's computer for her. I thought this was an odd request, since she had graduated from Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario that week... I thought that was nuts. And then during the Y2K upgrade boom, I was asked to install a bunch of new machines for 15 (newly graduated, but from where I don't know) programmers hired to work at a government office. I was asked to set up the development environment as well because - wait for it - none of them knew how to install any of the tools. None of them! WTF?! It boggled my mind that people who have no idea how to use a computer were getting degrees in computer science.
People will happily pay 14 dollars a month to grind shit out in an MMO like WoW. This is just a grind where the player makes money instead of paying it out. Granted, it's a low amount but you're still coming out ahead. Find a way to attach XP and make a game out of it and suddenly the appear of MT goes back up again.
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I upgraded to 3.42 before taking the time to think about how much I've actually been using the PS3 for games this year. It's really just another media center for me at the moment.
Since realizing that I'd rather use it as a retro gaming station than have PSN functionality, I've been frustrated by my own haste to accept the update to 3.42.
Crud.
Wow, I'm surprised the baseball fans didn't fill that in already.
The World doesn't refer to Earth. It was the name of a newspaper at the time.
It's like "Red Bull Air Racing".
Dirt, spice, poppies, slaves. We'll pretty much go to war over anything.
"And then World War 3 was fought over dirt."
"Don't you mean land, Grandpa?"
"No, dirt. But it was extra special expensive dirt. I shot me a lot of Chinese just to get a wheelbarrow full. It paid for your fancy university education. And your radiation pills."
I rarely pick up new music these days. I'd rather listen to a podcast or open university course.
But when I do grab something, I'm torrenting it. If I have to pay a piracy fee to use media or hardware, then might as well make the piracy fee earn its keep.
But I don't pirate software. As far as I know, I'm not taxed by software companies every time I've bought storage media.
As a long time user I get the option to disable advertising. I don't. I even whitelist Slashdot in Adblock because I support the site and the banner ads are rarely obnoxious.
These poorly disguised articles-as-ads are quite annoying though. Just make KSplice pay for a banner like everyone else.
They had a Masters of Magic that would run on a modern system? Awwwww. It sucks that I missed it.
Hmm. I'd heard there was a community remake out there somewhere a while back. I wonder what happened to it.
The Protestant/Catholic argument has no more point than the others, religious or not.
Some people consider it important because they believe a magical sky fairy is going to invite them to their own little kingdom when they die.
That doesn't make the argument important. Only dealing with the fallout that such nonsense leads to.
To add to the above: If they have anything to say to you in a meeting you want it witnessed, on paper, or recorded from this point on.
Isn't the base of 100 IQ points derived from the average population?
How can your average be below average? Where do they create the baseline from if not from the populace?
I've not really looked into them that much. I took one and got a high score, but I'm just as prone to making stupid mistakes as anyone else. And I know some "dumb" people who have put great care into doing things correctly. Intelligence is worthless if not applied.
People gathering together for a cause isn't an issue. It's when someone creates an element of unquestionable authority that you must submit to.
Whether that's Skygod Crankypants, Sauron, or Mao.
Dogmatism is a breeding ground for such "authorities".
They made Communism their religion.
Dogmatic faith is a monster, whatever guise it wears.
It is the enemy of reason. As soon as people tell you to stop questioning an idea, beware their intentions.
You walk into a dealership of recreational vehicles.
You see an amphibious car on display. The head of the amphibious car manufacturing division has stopped by the dealership, and is extolling the features of it to customers.
"Drives on land! Operates in water like a boat!"
So you buy one.
After you buy it, you might use both features, you might not. But isn't it awesome knowing if you want to you can just drive down to the lake and go for a spin?
But then there's a knock on the door. A representative of the company says they would like to enter your garage and make some modifications to your amphibious car. They're just going to remove all of the features that work in water. You don't HAVE to let them modify it, but if you don't then your car will not be allowed out of your garage.
You can still go out and start it up, but driving it on the road is will be expressly forbidden.
So now you're stuck with a choice. An amphibious car that doesn't drive in water, or one that doesn't drive at all.
Seems kind of dirty to me.
Especially after they explicitly advertised the PS3 as a computer.
http://kotaku.com/179245/why-the-ps3-is-a-computer-sony-dodges-euro-tax-men
Sony should now be required to pay back taxes on all that hardware.
Go back to his roots? Is he going to be working on Piranha 3D?
Heck, even people in the fields of science related to some advancements don't see some of those advancements coming.
In one of the Futures in Biotech podcasts (a 2007 episode if I recall) the guest was talking about gene sequencing and that as little as four years before they managed to sequence an earthworm genome it was thought to be impossible because of the work/technology involved. And then they did it. Shortly afterward the human genome project began.
Whether Kurzweil is in crazyland or not, if he's just making optimistic forecasts of the future he's at least getting people to think about it. And if people are thinking about it skeptically, at least we're going to encourage critical thinkers.
I'd like to be able to verify my vote after the fact in either paper or electronic systems.
You give me my ballot and it has a unique number on it. I can use that number later to verify that the vote linked to it is what I voted.
Obviously there are issues with that, such as a man-in-the-middle exploit feeding me bogus results, or your anonymity being put at risk when you attempt to verify your vote. But I'd still like to have the option.
As far as anonymity goes, I have no issue with people knowing how I would vote as I usually discuss it openly. But I would rather see the ID tied to the ballot and not a name, since others may prefer to remain anonymous and simply forgo checking the ballot results in the future.
If my vote has been tampered with, discarded, or double counted, I want to know.
Even in a closed system it would be possible to open it up to the homebrew community using a code signing service, wouldn't it?
You make your game, register for your code, sign it, and now you can run it on console Z.
If an app is nefarious, the service revokes the cert for that app/game and continues.
At first it would appear to be a silly expense to the console makers, but when they see that it creates a clear separation of homebrew and pirate communities it becomes a financially sound decision.
As much as I dislike iTunes, the idea of being able to create, sign, and distribute your software is pretty appealing. Even if their reviewers are completely inconsistent and sometimes borderline retarded.
There's a pretty big site dedicated to the growing of marijuana, where the users post pictures of their grow operations from behind the "protection" of proxies. :)
Just for kicks one day I started checking their pictures. About 20 to 25 percent of them were geotagged. Some of those grows had hundreds, if not thousands of plants. So much for hiding behind a proxy.
Yeah, good idea.
The company I worked for was making 125 an hour for my time.
The "highly compensated computer scientists" were fresh out of school doing Visual Basic. I was earning more than them AFTER the company took the huge cut of the money.
They're probably thinking the for an investment equivalent to a small advertising campaign they build a fresh team that learns to work together, and create a product that keeps them in the public eye while the bull that is Blizzard rampages through the China shop.
Around 1997 a friend asked me to install Windows95 on his girlfriend's computer for her. I thought this was an odd request, since she had graduated from Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario that week...
I thought that was nuts. And then during the Y2K upgrade boom, I was asked to install a bunch of new machines for 15 (newly graduated, but from where I don't know) programmers hired to work at a government office. I was asked to set up the development environment as well because - wait for it - none of them knew how to install any of the tools. None of them! WTF?!
It boggled my mind that people who have no idea how to use a computer were getting degrees in computer science.
So you want a "long term relationship" so that means everyone else must live up to your social needs or they are idiots?
Some people want committed relationships. Some people don't. Short term. Long term. Casual. One night stands.
I guess another way to look at your post is you've got a bad case of sour grapes because someone got laid more than you...
Hey, you started the judgment game. I just thought I'd play along.
They started it on an ENIAC emulator and then sped it up according to Moore's Law.
All very proper.
oops. appear/appeal.
Forgive me typo Nazis, for I have failed the party.
People will happily pay 14 dollars a month to grind shit out in an MMO like WoW.
This is just a grind where the player makes money instead of paying it out. Granted, it's a low amount but you're still coming out ahead.
Find a way to attach XP and make a game out of it and suddenly the appear of MT goes back up again.