We keep on addressing effect after effect, when we need to be addressing the cause of the problems. Our problems don't stem from Facebook or music or video games, they come from the 'values' in our society. Our 'me first' attitude of competition is coming home to roost.
Don't like bullying, well guess what, it's been taught to us from day one to 'win' and to kick someone when they're down so we can stay on top. From kids to corporate america to congress we need a values 'regime change'. Imagine what our country would be like if we were taught from day one to think of the other guy first.. and to help people succeed so that they can be around to help us when we're down.
Negative reinforcement from the time we're kids to young adult hood to the workplace... and people wonder why everyone is always afraid these days. I think my boss summed it up for me one day when talking about the company.. he said "It's all punishment and no reward." seems like a fair assessment of our society.
I just want to give props to the guy or gal who came up with "All-sky Fireball Network" that name is so full of win I can't stand it. To bad it'll likely be referred to as the ASFN. Maybe we can get scientists to name our legislation packages for us!
We don't say "ya" in Europe. Germans, some Swiss and most Austrians say "Ja", which is perhaps what you are trying to mimic.
You see here in America we say ya... as a shortened form of yes.. phonetically speaking it probably did derive from "ja" but since I'm not posting from Europe nor am I European, 'ya' is perfectly acceptable and understood.
Try working on the border between Illinois and Indiana, not only is there a timezone changeover, Illinois uses DST while Indiana does not. If I'm not mistaken part of the year their clocks match, and part of the year they're three hours different.
Self regulation is just toothless regulation, basically letting a business say, 'ya.. thats kind of a cool idea.. and if it's convenient i might consider it'
Right, taking orders from "some guy" is a lot smarter than taking orders from a carefully researched or deeply sourced algorithm.
I mean, are you really more comfortable with stupid humans mindlessly following 'bad' human direction than you are with stupid humans mindlessly following 'good' computer directions?
(I don't mean bad and good in a moral sense there, I mean in the sense that if the computer makes you more likely to win the game, the instructions it gives are better in at least one way)
and I'm saying that you'll be conditioned to accept what your told without question. You'll be a slave.. sure you'll 'win', but you'll have no free will to speak of nor the ability to think for yourself because you'll have atrophied too much. Take a look at manual math skills, sure a calculator can do it an exponential order of magnitude faster, but when you can't perform basic mathmatical functions because you rely on the machine to do it for you, then you've given up that skill and that segment of control. That's the only point I'm trying to get across. When the machine ceases to be under your control, you've gone from master to slave. You know the old saying, 'the price of freedom is eternal vigilance'
It actually worries me a bit that we're letting computers make decisions for us. I can see doing labor and computations, but when you place the machine in the decision making process and the human follows, then the machine has become the master. I know right now it's all well and good and very acedemic, but I really REALLY don't like the idea of say, a machine manager. People feel that we're already cogs in a great machine, this is just a baby step towards a very scary future.
Also, when we let machines make decisions for us, we officially stop thinking for ourselves and we let those who created the machines do the thinking for us. The machine is becoming a crutch rather than a tool, and if that happens we as a people will cease to intellectually grow.
Ubuntu has always been the villain. Or, you know, the thing that you watch other people use in bemusement and begrudging appreciation that your goals at least are getting served even if it's not by methods of which you approve.
The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
I have the distinct feeling that because Ubuntu is viewed as a distro 'for the masses', and die hard Linux users tend to view themselves as 'above the masses', it makes perfect sense that Ubuntu was/is seen as the 'villain' distro. After all, if the masses started using Linux then all the die hards would have to go somewhere else to feel superior.
Ever notice how any sort of authoritarian organization absolutely fears anything that deals with giving people imagination and creativity. From the church to the government to the corporations, I've noticed time and time again the abject fear of anything that gives creative power to the individual. Corporations tend to allow creativity with strict controls over it, and the church is the absolute worst about accepting any sort of creative ideas. (ironic)
How about a warning label for television and movies warning that prolonged exposure to violent acts desensitizes a person to violence behavior and makes it socially acceptable.
I'd trust a gamer over a person who is desensitized to their own violent and antisocial behavior from too much violent media consumption. Hell T.V. and movies glamorize violence as much if not more than video games do.
So all men were smart professional breadwinners while the wives stayed at home being magical and/or airheaded, mischievous and meddling. Things weren't more socially advanced back then, they just had more socially defined roles. i.e. 'things were so much simpler back then'
Yes, that's the problem. Shortsighted goals have fueled our financial woes. China will succeed for the time being because their goal isn't to make a fast buck, It's to strengthen their global position. China will become dominant because of our shortsighted greed. Not to worry though, because even China isn't immune to the corruption of 'values' that comes with success. China will have It's moment in the sun then fall to the same corruption that has destroyed empires for ages past. It all goes in cycles folks and no one rules forever.
I would definitely put more of an emphasis on typing accuracy than speed... It saves more time/money in the long run. You can be the fastest typist in the world but if every 3rd key is the backspace then you're losing some serious efficiency.
I don't believe this anti-theft crap for one second. You know what this is.. it's a kill switch for the **AA's to hold over your head. Mark my words this is not for YOUR security, it's security for your corporation/government.
I did it every 6-12 months and each time i spend around $500 on it (new mb, new graphics and usually a new cpu) just so I could play the latest games with details on max
I bought a quad core i-7 with a Radeon 4890 a year ago, Cost me $1300 for a machine I intended to keep for quite a while. 12 months so far.. still maxed out on game detail.. don't expect to have to drop it down any time soon. I have nothing against consoles at all, I'm just a PC enthusiast. Consoles aren't the dream solution any more than PC's are. With consoles, sure you can just pop in a disk, provided it's not damaged, but if there are errors in a game.. thats it, deal with it. Consoles by and large are not upgradeable either, you have to have your machine until a new one is released by X company. When my power is starting to wane, I upgrade components, as it should be with a PC.
In short.. a PC's flexibility is both a strength and a weakness, just as a consoles simplicity and uniformity is both a strength and a weakness. Certain games are clearly better on consoles, others are clearly better on PC's. I know game makers would love to have nothing but consoles because they provide the most control over a product, but PC's aren't going anywhere any time soon, and thats a lot of computing power and a market for game developers to take advantage of.
Personally, I look forward to years of innovation on both platforms. Choice is always good, but there will always be fanboi's as well.
Well let's assume that it's different every time and is infinitely repeatable, like rolling near infinitely sided dice. Then a person, place etc.. will exist at some point in every conceivable way it CAN exist. and IF by some chance we have no perception of time when we die, then in fact we will exist again in what would be to us, an instant, in every way we CAN exist.
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A politician complaining about the media "lobbying" the public. I can't imagine a better definition of irony!
Let's call it.... a "Memristorganism"
DAMN! Throttled again... That's Google's project right there. Hiring 1000's of first posters and measuring the delay!
We keep on addressing effect after effect, when we need to be addressing the cause of the problems. Our problems don't stem from Facebook or music or video games, they come from the 'values' in our society. Our 'me first' attitude of competition is coming home to roost. Don't like bullying, well guess what, it's been taught to us from day one to 'win' and to kick someone when they're down so we can stay on top. From kids to corporate america to congress we need a values 'regime change'. Imagine what our country would be like if we were taught from day one to think of the other guy first.. and to help people succeed so that they can be around to help us when we're down. Negative reinforcement from the time we're kids to young adult hood to the workplace... and people wonder why everyone is always afraid these days. I think my boss summed it up for me one day when talking about the company.. he said "It's all punishment and no reward." seems like a fair assessment of our society.
I just want to give props to the guy or gal who came up with "All-sky Fireball Network" that name is so full of win I can't stand it. To bad it'll likely be referred to as the ASFN. Maybe we can get scientists to name our legislation packages for us!
> ya.. thats kind of a cool idea.
We don't say "ya" in Europe. Germans, some Swiss and most Austrians say "Ja", which is perhaps what you are trying to mimic.
You see here in America we say ya... as a shortened form of yes.. phonetically speaking it probably did derive from "ja" but since I'm not posting from Europe nor am I European, 'ya' is perfectly acceptable and understood.
Try working on the border between Illinois and Indiana, not only is there a timezone changeover, Illinois uses DST while Indiana does not. If I'm not mistaken part of the year their clocks match, and part of the year they're three hours different.
Self regulation is just toothless regulation, basically letting a business say, 'ya.. thats kind of a cool idea.. and if it's convenient i might consider it'
Right, taking orders from "some guy" is a lot smarter than taking orders from a carefully researched or deeply sourced algorithm.
I mean, are you really more comfortable with stupid humans mindlessly following 'bad' human direction than you are with stupid humans mindlessly following 'good' computer directions?
(I don't mean bad and good in a moral sense there, I mean in the sense that if the computer makes you more likely to win the game, the instructions it gives are better in at least one way)
and I'm saying that you'll be conditioned to accept what your told without question. You'll be a slave.. sure you'll 'win', but you'll have no free will to speak of nor the ability to think for yourself because you'll have atrophied too much. Take a look at manual math skills, sure a calculator can do it an exponential order of magnitude faster, but when you can't perform basic mathmatical functions because you rely on the machine to do it for you, then you've given up that skill and that segment of control. That's the only point I'm trying to get across. When the machine ceases to be under your control, you've gone from master to slave. You know the old saying, 'the price of freedom is eternal vigilance'
It actually worries me a bit that we're letting computers make decisions for us. I can see doing labor and computations, but when you place the machine in the decision making process and the human follows, then the machine has become the master. I know right now it's all well and good and very acedemic, but I really REALLY don't like the idea of say, a machine manager. People feel that we're already cogs in a great machine, this is just a baby step towards a very scary future.
Also, when we let machines make decisions for us, we officially stop thinking for ourselves and we let those who created the machines do the thinking for us. The machine is becoming a crutch rather than a tool, and if that happens we as a people will cease to intellectually grow.
Make sure workers in that cave have plenty of copies of 'The Empire Strikes Back' with a high definition cave scene!
Ubuntu has always been the villain. Or, you know, the thing that you watch other people use in bemusement and begrudging appreciation that your goals at least are getting served even if it's not by methods of which you approve. The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
I have the distinct feeling that because Ubuntu is viewed as a distro 'for the masses', and die hard Linux users tend to view themselves as 'above the masses', it makes perfect sense that Ubuntu was/is seen as the 'villain' distro. After all, if the masses started using Linux then all the die hards would have to go somewhere else to feel superior.
OMG! All those old timey ray-guns... with the progressively smaller rings at the muzzle were actually accurate!!!
"No, the frog would just switch to Bing unfortunately."
without Google.. would Bing have any results though!?
Ever notice how any sort of authoritarian organization absolutely fears anything that deals with giving people imagination and creativity. From the church to the government to the corporations, I've noticed time and time again the abject fear of anything that gives creative power to the individual. Corporations tend to allow creativity with strict controls over it, and the church is the absolute worst about accepting any sort of creative ideas. (ironic)
How about a warning label for television and movies warning that prolonged exposure to violent acts desensitizes a person to violence behavior and makes it socially acceptable. I'd trust a gamer over a person who is desensitized to their own violent and antisocial behavior from too much violent media consumption. Hell T.V. and movies glamorize violence as much if not more than video games do.
So all men were smart professional breadwinners while the wives stayed at home being magical and/or airheaded, mischievous and meddling. Things weren't more socially advanced back then, they just had more socially defined roles. i.e. 'things were so much simpler back then'
This is like a patent troll in quest greens going up against the Blizzard boss.
Yes, that's the problem. Shortsighted goals have fueled our financial woes. China will succeed for the time being because their goal isn't to make a fast buck, It's to strengthen their global position. China will become dominant because of our shortsighted greed. Not to worry though, because even China isn't immune to the corruption of 'values' that comes with success. China will have It's moment in the sun then fall to the same corruption that has destroyed empires for ages past. It all goes in cycles folks and no one rules forever.
It's interesting how US was jabbing so much about cyber warfare and how they need to defend themself, and still they're the first one to attack.
From TFA, the rumored culprit is not the USA, it is "IDF’s Military Intelligence Unit 8200".
You act as if people are willing to differentiate the two...
I would definitely put more of an emphasis on typing accuracy than speed... It saves more time/money in the long run. You can be the fastest typist in the world but if every 3rd key is the backspace then you're losing some serious efficiency.
I don't believe this anti-theft crap for one second. You know what this is.. it's a kill switch for the **AA's to hold over your head. Mark my words this is not for YOUR security, it's security for your corporation/government.
Oil and government... do mix.
I did it every 6-12 months and each time i spend around $500 on it (new mb, new graphics and usually a new cpu) just so I could play the latest games with details on max
I bought a quad core i-7 with a Radeon 4890 a year ago, Cost me $1300 for a machine I intended to keep for quite a while. 12 months so far.. still maxed out on game detail.. don't expect to have to drop it down any time soon. I have nothing against consoles at all, I'm just a PC enthusiast. Consoles aren't the dream solution any more than PC's are. With consoles, sure you can just pop in a disk, provided it's not damaged, but if there are errors in a game.. thats it, deal with it. Consoles by and large are not upgradeable either, you have to have your machine until a new one is released by X company. When my power is starting to wane, I upgrade components, as it should be with a PC.
In short.. a PC's flexibility is both a strength and a weakness, just as a consoles simplicity and uniformity is both a strength and a weakness. Certain games are clearly better on consoles, others are clearly better on PC's. I know game makers would love to have nothing but consoles because they provide the most control over a product, but PC's aren't going anywhere any time soon, and thats a lot of computing power and a market for game developers to take advantage of.
Personally, I look forward to years of innovation on both platforms. Choice is always good, but there will always be fanboi's as well.
Well let's assume that it's different every time and is infinitely repeatable, like rolling near infinitely sided dice. Then a person, place etc.. will exist at some point in every conceivable way it CAN exist. and IF by some chance we have no perception of time when we die, then in fact we will exist again in what would be to us, an instant, in every way we CAN exist.