Most pacifists love initiation of force -- when it's the government enforcing political agendas beyond securing basic freedoms and rights. In this, they are not so different from most people.
Oh my god! Something that's been going on for a century but I haben't heard of it before so it's an emergency to me!
Which:
1. Idiot neophyte journalist trying to get his face in front of a camera?
2. Union/Congressional behind-the-scenes effort to drum up support for spending? Hey, where did the bridge emergency infrastructure god damn now now now emergency go?
I'll go one better -- I'd be happy to let them get away with creationism as a legitimate theory -- if they actually examined it critically.
Let them get all into buffoonlike "design". Let them explore irreducible grotesquerie and irreducible cruelty. Let them examine the statistical validity of intelligent design, where, of dozens of examples, most have been shot down, an ongoing process, so let them draw their own conclusions as to the probable certainty of the remaining.
How dare you try to listen in on privacies like political negotiations as we carve up all your reality and feed it back to you in exchange for votes! Do you know how hard it is to keep cover memes hiding the real reasons we do things in place?
That is my thought, too. Worse, Google's own lawyers probably decided they wouldn't win.
This doesn't surprise me. I used to work on navigation systems, and obvious ideas (to me) were turned down because they were already patented -- things like "find me the nearest McDonald's or fast food on the road ahead/programmed route".
IIRC, even things like company-specific icons on the map were already taken.
PCs were a thousand dollars cheaper than Macs. They started dominating, which made them the first choice for game development (in the late 80s very few games were Mac-only, and most of Mac games were later ports of the big PC hits.)
There were cases in the US where the guy refused to give it up, and they cracked it anyway. They probably have the tech to crack much of it (running a long list of known passwords used by terrorists is step one) but to magically open it reveals they have the tech to do so, which they wouldn't want to reveal as a countermeasures strategy.
It was the nuclear clock. Now it is the doomsday clock with mission creep.
As usual, they leave out the feature with far and away the greatest effect on quality and length of life: type of government.
But that gets into politics, and we only accept pre-approved political stances like *reducing* carbon thru forced measures is the solution, or, ummmmmmmm, killer robots.
Oh. My. God. They threw out the study that showed there was a difference between ham and backbacon down in the 7th or 8th decimal place of measurement.
I hope the thumbwheel is still there (the little drag rectangle in the scrollbar you grab with the mouse and drag up and down). I like to make parts of certain pictures as big as possible to barely fit onscreen, and I need that to fine-control the vertical and horizontal alignments for maximum aesthetic appreciation.
I don't wanna have to block Flash, or java, or anything else. I just want them de-balled so they can't open popups (still happens), play audio ("I created this web site for the purpose of lightening your wallet with seductive patter."), or initiate a download without my permission, especially something ending in.exe, which someone managed to do to my Chrome browser just last week.
Basically put sand in a tough balloon, push it onto something so it deforms around it, and suck out the air -- boom, a near-rocklike custom-shape gripper.
I'm shocked GPUs, especially with all this integration, haven't taken over already. The whole reason Intel bought half the industry was it became obvious a Pentium core could be tucked into a tiny corner of a 3D graphics chip, both speed and transistor count-wisr, as their development, drivin by infinite potential consumption on cooler and more complex virtual worlds, would ever-more outstrip a general-purpose CPU.
Frankly, by now I was expecting a merged GPU/monster FPGA-type design with dynamic programming keeping the hardware full of things to do, with the tiny CPU in the corner doing mundane interface and housekeeping tasks not worth it to underuse the GPU or FPGA bits, transistor-per-speedup ratio.
It's still far more expensive than regular bulbs -- the (exact same) companies will drag ass lowering costs due to massively increasiing volumes and "competition", taking advantage of legal mandates for purchase.
Better to let people choose to buy or not based on cost savings arguments in the long run. I'd rather overpay because of my own short-sighted stupidity than government mandate.
I assume "hard usage" won't burn out as a porch light every 6 weeks?
I'm old enough to remember the electric company giving out free bulb replacements for burnt out ones (early 1970s). They lasted a lot longer, like indestructible bakelite landline phones you rented.
They stopped because of another government intervention -- a lawsuit by Phillips claiming Edison and others were, by giving them out for free, restraining trade.
So government fucks you and interferes one way or another. God damn, is their no limit to their interfering presience?
Follow the money, AKA follow the politics, AKA follow the money. Somebody, well, two somebodies get their pocket lined, burping up feel-good memes that will, if designed properly, latch your mind and drive you into behaviors wbich support their spread.
It's religion, stripped of the legal power to force itself on you, with that power regained, just stripped of the word "god".
1. If it's done in the real world, a simulation or work-alike is not patentable per se.
2. If it's done over a hardline network, doing it wirelessly is not patentable.
3. If it's done on a PC, doing it on a tablet or phone or (tbd) is not inherently patentable.
This is not to say clever implementations could not be patented, but merely changing venue (device, network type, or making a simulation of a real-world thing) is in no way innovative in an obvious sense.
This is like the Star Trek movie rule -- the generalization is more imagined than real. Also, you start wrong. Windows 3x and earlier was a child's oaffish toy while 95 was the first decent one. Everything after it was new features of marginal utility combined with unfortunate bloat tendency both in RAM and CPU use, rocketting, impossibly one would think, ahead of the curve in hardware advances. Aero was very cool as an idea -- it was ambitious but suffered straining both kinds of resources in implementation.
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Eff Quake III -- it has no soul, nor did Quake II. Can someone put Quake I on something?
You simply declare not executing murderers is more civilized, then sit there, pleased and awaiting backpats from similar-minded folk.
I claim it is perfectly, if not more, civilized to use execution to "properly express civilized society's revulsion at certain heinous acts."
Scientific efficacy of different approaches, and the potential of mistakes are separate issues.
Most pacifists love initiation of force -- when it's the government enforcing political agendas beyond securing basic freedoms and rights. In this, they are not so different from most people.
As with online surfing, I am far less concerned with the big companies learning I drive to which stores than I am he government having access to it.
"Nobody can gain access without (a law for NSA? A warrant?). Isn't government abuse of spying the reason for all these protections?
Oh my god! Something that's been going on for a century but I haben't heard of it before so it's an emergency to me!
Which:
1. Idiot neophyte journalist trying to get his face in front of a camera?
2. Union/Congressional behind-the-scenes effort to drum up support for spending? Hey, where did the bridge emergency infrastructure god damn now now now emergency go?
I'll go one better -- I'd be happy to let them get away with creationism as a legitimate theory -- if they actually examined it critically.
Let them get all into buffoonlike "design". Let them explore irreducible grotesquerie and irreducible cruelty. Let them examine the statistical validity of intelligent design, where, of dozens of examples, most have been shot down, an ongoing process, so let them draw their own conclusions as to the probable certainty of the remaining.
How dare you spy on us !
How dare you try to listen in on privacies like political negotiations as we carve up all your reality and feed it back to you in exchange for votes! Do you know how hard it is to keep cover memes hiding the real reasons we do things in place?
That is my thought, too. Worse, Google's own lawyers probably decided they wouldn't win.
This doesn't surprise me. I used to work on navigation systems, and obvious ideas (to me) were turned down because they were already patented -- things like "find me the nearest McDonald's or fast food on the road ahead/programmed route".
IIRC, even things like company-specific icons on the map were already taken.
PCs were a thousand dollars cheaper than Macs. They started dominating, which made them the first choice for game development (in the late 80s very few games were Mac-only, and most of Mac games were later ports of the big PC hits.)
That's pretty much it.
Come on, nerds only go thru the drive thru late at nite.
There were cases in the US where the guy refused to give it up, and they cracked it anyway. They probably have the tech to crack much of it (running a long list of known passwords used by terrorists is step one) but to magically open it reveals they have the tech to do so, which they wouldn't want to reveal as a countermeasures strategy.
It was the nuclear clock. Now it is the doomsday clock with mission creep.
As usual, they leave out the feature with far and away the greatest effect on quality and length of life: type of government.
But that gets into politics, and we only accept pre-approved political stances like *reducing* carbon thru forced measures is the solution, or, ummmmmmmm, killer robots.
Oh. My. God. They threw out the study that showed there was a difference between ham and backbacon down in the 7th or 8th decimal place of measurement.
First of all, it's "frist psot", and secondly, anonymous coward is awesome -- he gets a ton of frist psots.
I hope the thumbwheel is still there (the little drag rectangle in the scrollbar you grab with the mouse and drag up and down). I like to make parts of certain pictures as big as possible to barely fit onscreen, and I need that to fine-control the vertical and horizontal alignments for maximum aesthetic appreciation.
I don't wanna have to block Flash, or java, or anything else. I just want them de-balled so they can't open popups (still happens), play audio ("I created this web site for the purpose of lightening your wallet with seductive patter."), or initiate a download without my permission, especially something ending in .exe, which someone managed to do to my Chrome browser just last week.
Basically put sand in a tough balloon, push it onto something so it deforms around it, and suck out the air -- boom, a near-rocklike custom-shape gripper.
I'm shocked GPUs, especially with all this integration, haven't taken over already. The whole reason Intel bought half the industry was it became obvious a Pentium core could be tucked into a tiny corner of a 3D graphics chip, both speed and transistor count-wisr, as their development, drivin by infinite potential consumption on cooler and more complex virtual worlds, would ever-more outstrip a general-purpose CPU.
Frankly, by now I was expecting a merged GPU/monster FPGA-type design with dynamic programming keeping the hardware full of things to do, with the tiny CPU in the corner doing mundane interface and housekeeping tasks not worth it to underuse the GPU or FPGA bits, transistor-per-speedup ratio.
Pay government extra, or pay that company even extra-er, or pay less now and more over the life of a bulb.
Just pay someone, says a man with a gun from the government who declares he's here to help you, mandatorily.
It's still far more expensive than regular bulbs -- the (exact same) companies will drag ass lowering costs due to massively increasiing volumes and "competition", taking advantage of legal mandates for purchase.
Better to let people choose to buy or not based on cost savings arguments in the long run. I'd rather overpay because of my own short-sighted stupidity than government mandate.
I assume "hard usage" won't burn out as a porch light every 6 weeks?
I'm old enough to remember the electric company giving out free bulb replacements for burnt out ones (early 1970s). They lasted a lot longer, like indestructible bakelite landline phones you rented.
They stopped because of another government intervention -- a lawsuit by Phillips claiming Edison and others were, by giving them out for free, restraining trade.
So government fucks you and interferes one way or another. God damn, is their no limit to their interfering presience?
Follow the money, AKA follow the politics, AKA follow the money. Somebody, well, two somebodies get their pocket lined, burping up feel-good memes that will, if designed properly, latch your mind and drive you into behaviors wbich support their spread.
It's religion, stripped of the legal power to force itself on you, with that power regained, just stripped of the word "god".
So can Hollywood!
Haw haw haw!
So can a World of Warcraft clan!
So can a university Greek fraternity or sorority system!
Wait, wait! So can a biennial Congressional election!
etc.
I will keep suggesting:
1. If it's done in the real world, a simulation or work-alike is not patentable per se.
2. If it's done over a hardline network, doing it wirelessly is not patentable.
3. If it's done on a PC, doing it on a tablet or phone or (tbd) is not inherently patentable.
This is not to say clever implementations could not be patented, but merely changing venue (device, network type, or making a simulation of a real-world thing) is in no way innovative in an obvious sense.
This is like the Star Trek movie rule -- the generalization is more imagined than real. Also, you start wrong. Windows 3x and earlier was a child's oaffish toy while 95 was the first decent one. Everything after it was new features of marginal utility combined with unfortunate bloat tendency both in RAM and CPU use, rocketting, impossibly one would think, ahead of the curve in hardware advances. Aero was very cool as an idea -- it was ambitious but suffered straining both kinds of resources in implementation.
Well, Metro, Metro, Metro, eggs.1, and Metro 'asn't got much Metro in it.