Far more likely they're resistant to using robots because they get destroyed (by design) and then they'd get yelled at for being sloppy and get demerits, then becaws it my fwend:(
A few years back some brainiac at CBS.com decided to auto-step down quality to match your live connection speed. Normally with YouTube or whatever you'd just leave quality high and pause it awhile while it caught up and buffered ahead.
The brainiac disallowed this by forbidding you setting forcibly your quality. So you ended up being forced to watch terrible quality video as a "feature" if you were having connection issues with them (which was usually them).
Byebye. Have never gone back to see if it is fixed.
I'm surprised there wasn't a class action lawsuit over that. That's fraud, like a store selling gift cards before Christmas then going out of business after and not honoring them at the going out of business sale.
Time must exist, but the argument comes from computational theory rather than physics. Certain complex problems cannot be short-circuited by some efficiency, in that there is no known solution significantly better than try all possibilities. We can do such calculations and arrive at a solution in this reality, and thus this reality is at least as complex as computational models that can solve them.
A frozen hyper-reality with no real time element Time must exist, but the argument comes from computational theory rather than physics. Certain complex problems cannot be short-circuited by some efficiency, in that there is no known solution significantly better than try all possibilities. We can do such calculations and arrive at a solution. A frozen hyper-reality with no real time element simply could not exist without those calculations actually having been run. You can't just find a magical, hyperdimensional film strip with such calculations done already.
This could be some other time axis or higher complex reality in which we are embedded, but calculations must occur, which requires time, even positing godlike oracles and entities.
Interestingly, being libertarian allows for government control over emissions -- you are polluting, i.e. using, something which does not belong to you (only a miniscule fraction.)
How much pllution, and what type, is a reasonable domain for democratic process for tradeoffs. Lives in London skyrocketted in length during the Industrial Revolution even as pollution (and terrible working conditions did too. Clobbering that process would have been murderous, not helpful, as measured by length of life.
The real fear is the use of environmental protection as a crypto method for control of industry to the detriment of advancement. I'd rather sit here with 2013 level tech than 1970 level tech such massive takeover might have left us with had people in 1900 tried to be "helpful". We know burdens slow things down.
I guarantee you'd prefer a world in 2150 with rising seas and 2150 level tech to lower seas and 2080 level tech, if saving lives is your concern.
Yes, they do exist as a social convention. That's why the concept of inalienable rights is so important. You start by assuming people have inherent rights, then you construct a government with a constitution that grants the government certain limited, well-defined powers over those rigts, and no other powers.
The goal is to remove might makes right, and it's unfortunate bastard stepchild, Vox Populi Vox Dei. Transient political winds in many countries too-easily change law.
Some charismatic demagogue who can rile people up is, like being fat, drunk, and stupid -- no way to go through life, son.
How soon also we forget the twice-failed "Hush Rush" bill, attempting to force radio stations to put on an equal, AKA 3-hour extra program for "equality", knowing full well such programs were ratings disasters, and thus a huge loss leader, and would force radio stations to think twice about conservative programming, which, of course, was the intent all along, even as they feigned Noble and Holy Purpose to get useful idiots on their side.
Meanwhile, back in actual reality, repeated economic studies show iron-clad correlation between free-market economics and increases in length and quality of life and wealth for the average person, vastly outstripping any other "system". Most socialism even relies on it as a dynamo to fund things.
In China, opening up private enterprise, you are seeing the umpteenth example of this.
While there may be a place for regulations and even the sarcastic notion of "too big to fail", screeds like yours are akin to a flat Earth society.
> Eventually we will have to have a huge class of people either allowed to starve to death or cared for by the state.
It's already happening -- 180,000 jobs a month are created. We need 230,000 to keep up with population growth (much less bring the numbers down). 260,000 a month are being dumped onto long-term disability, most for suspect reasons (NPR. had a show about it some months back. People with a sore hand who. had no more factory work, which disappeared, and the idea of a desk job was wholly foreign to their worldview.)
Robots will help us warehouse the less capable, and I don't mean disabled. Don't get mad at the messenger.
I wondered about this 30 years ago. It's more an issue of mass than anything else. You can move faster, so your brain operates more quickly to compensate. Whales and elephants even slower.
I would hypothesize an elephant brain in a vat tied in to a mouse body would speed up accordingly, and it would be less related to brain size (and intra-neural distances) than what it has to accomplish.
Similarly a human mind in a virtual world might speed up if the world's physics were sped up AKA had lowered mass relative to energy. This will be an interesting experiment for Occulus VR.
Have a contingency plan to rapidly scale up vaccine productin. You don't need costly facilities with infinite safety checks, especially in an emergency.
Remember a few years ago when there was a flu vaccine shortage? It was due to a plant in Europe being shut down (the US ones don't exist due to regulation and liability issues, another flaw in the system.)
Here's what should have happened, but didn't:
1. Keep the plant running. Just because some manufacturing standard wasn't met doesn't mean the batches are bad or contaminated.
2. Manually do extra testing of batches as necessary or desired. You could culture things out of dog shit as long as it tests fine.
Too much subgenius working hand-in-hand with government arrogancy leads to this silliness.
Amazon's 1-click patent is a bad example of bad patents (for the reasons it is talked about, anyway.)
Programmers used to write editors and other software and not even bother asking you if you wanted to save before quitting. People realized this was stupid, and started putting up confirmation questions for every damned thing. It was so pervasive, computer science even introduced the concept of "appliance models", where when you changed options, the change was immediate, as if you were adjusting the volume on a radio, no "set" or "Are you really sure you want to change the value?" stuff.
As a programmer who lived through this time, it was absolutely inconceivable you would build a system to sell something and have it just sell-and-ship with no confirmation, no "Are you sure you want to actually buy this book, you're gonna be charged real money!"
There may be other reasons it's a bad patent (it's ridiculously simple to implement, and in a sense, is to buying "the appliance model", which the real world at the store is. The cashier doesn't ask you, "Are you sure you want to buy this stuff? Gonna charge your card!"
But 1-click sales via computer were decidedly not an obvious thing until after it was done.
We'll be better off in 100 years with the most advanced tech we can produce between then and now, regardless of any climate change.
It's like people in 1900 worrying about what kind of climate they want to leave us here in 2013, and making economic changes that weaken the economy and thus slow development. I'll take 2013 tech in 2013 over 1990-level tech (or 1980 or 1960), thanks.
> That's awesome (Score:2) Probably the closest you can get to living in the future.
You've already been living in this all your life. Government officials misusing money is both the future and the ancient past. And everything in-between.
I pointed out, in a question that he chose not to answer, that the idea of people recording things on tape and shipping them back and forth regularly was used in M*A*S*H, where Charles Winchester regularly exchanged reel-to-reel tapes with his family back in Boston. That would have been the mid '70s for the show, and was probably based on things done in reality by rich people AKA early adopters, back in the 1950s.
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Far more likely they're resistant to using robots because they get destroyed (by design) and then they'd get yelled at for being sloppy and get demerits, then becaws it my fwend :(
Ooooh I gotta patent inverting the image so people can read it in their mirrors.
A few years back some brainiac at CBS.com decided to auto-step down quality to match your live connection speed. Normally with YouTube or whatever you'd just leave quality high and pause it awhile while it caught up and buffered ahead.
The brainiac disallowed this by forbidding you setting forcibly your quality. So you ended up being forced to watch terrible quality video as a "feature" if you were having connection issues with them (which was usually them).
Byebye. Have never gone back to see if it is fixed.
4-6 ads is what I get. Er, got, before I left Hulu, but I didn't buy Hulu+.
I'm surprised there wasn't a class action lawsuit over that. That's fraud, like a store selling gift cards before Christmas then going out of business after and not honoring them at the going out of business sale.
Ok what games are available for Android that would tax this? Stuff like Pocket Legends and Idiot Running Thru Temples or whatever doesn't cut it.
Invent a flower substitute that has no calories to replace bread and pastas. And leave vitamins out of it.
Carbs are 70% of McDonald's non-drink calories. I would love to drop weight on a Big Mac and Spaghetti diet.
Time must exist, but the argument comes from computational theory rather than physics. Certain complex problems cannot be short-circuited by some efficiency, in that there is no known solution significantly better than try all possibilities. We can do such calculations and arrive at a solution in this reality, and thus this reality is at least as complex as computational models that can solve them.
A frozen hyper-reality with no real time element Time must exist, but the argument comes from computational theory rather than physics. Certain complex problems cannot be short-circuited by some efficiency, in that there is no known solution significantly better than try all possibilities. We can do such calculations and arrive at a solution. A frozen hyper-reality with no real time element simply could not exist without those calculations actually having been run. You can't just find a magical, hyperdimensional film strip with such calculations done already.
This could be some other time axis or higher complex reality in which we are embedded, but calculations must occur, which requires time, even positing godlike oracles and entities.
Interestingly, being libertarian allows for government control over emissions -- you are polluting, i.e. using, something which does not belong to you (only a miniscule fraction.)
How much pllution, and what type, is a reasonable domain for democratic process for tradeoffs. Lives in London skyrocketted in length during the Industrial Revolution even as pollution (and terrible working conditions did too. Clobbering that process would have been murderous, not helpful, as measured by length of life.
The real fear is the use of environmental protection as a crypto method for control of industry to the detriment of advancement. I'd rather sit here with 2013 level tech than 1970 level tech such massive takeover might have left us with had people in 1900 tried to be "helpful". We know burdens slow things down.
I guarantee you'd prefer a world in 2150 with rising seas and 2150 level tech to lower seas and 2080 level tech, if saving lives is your concern.
Yes, they do exist as a social convention. That's why the concept of inalienable rights is so important. You start by assuming people have inherent rights, then you construct a government with a constitution that grants the government certain limited, well-defined powers over those rigts, and no other powers .
The goal is to remove might makes right, and it's unfortunate bastard stepchild, Vox Populi Vox Dei. Transient political winds in many countries too-easily change law.
Some charismatic demagogue who can rile people up is, like being fat, drunk, and stupid -- no way to go through life, son.
How soon also we forget the twice-failed "Hush Rush" bill, attempting to force radio stations to put on an equal, AKA 3-hour extra program for "equality", knowing full well such programs were ratings disasters, and thus a huge loss leader, and would force radio stations to think twice about conservative programming, which, of course, was the intent all along, even as they feigned Noble and Holy Purpose to get useful idiots on their side.
What you need to know about "For The People" vs. "Attached To Government Tit" can be summed up by Contact:
Drumlin: I've always felt science should be done to benefit The People.
Scientist: Not unlike my [work on] L-band globular clusters.
Welcome to the wonderful world of paying $600 up front for the bleeding-edge stuff.
Meanwhile, back in actual reality, repeated economic studies show iron-clad correlation between free-market economics and increases in length and quality of life and wealth for the average person, vastly outstripping any other "system". Most socialism even relies on it as a dynamo to fund things.
In China, opening up private enterprise, you are seeing the umpteenth example of this.
While there may be a place for regulations and even the sarcastic notion of "too big to fail", screeds like yours are akin to a flat Earth society.
So now they flip a bot and walk away until a flashing message appears: Item now in inventory.
Grinding is no achievement. In a cosmic sense, it's even lamer than buying good items. At least cash reflects real skill in some wierd way.
> Eventually we will have to have a huge class of people either allowed to starve to death or cared for by the state.
It's already happening -- 180,000 jobs a month are created. We need 230,000 to keep up with population growth (much less bring the numbers down). 260,000 a month are being dumped onto long-term disability, most for suspect reasons (NPR. had a show about it some months back. People with a sore hand who. had no more factory work, which disappeared, and the idea of a desk job was wholly foreign to their worldview.)
Robots will help us warehouse the less capable, and I don't mean disabled. Don't get mad at the messenger.
I wondered about this 30 years ago. It's more an issue of mass than anything else. You can move faster, so your brain operates more quickly to compensate. Whales and elephants even slower.
I would hypothesize an elephant brain in a vat tied in to a mouse body would speed up accordingly, and it would be less related to brain size (and intra-neural distances) than what it has to accomplish.
Similarly a human mind in a virtual world might speed up if the world's physics were sped up AKA had lowered mass relative to energy. This will be an interesting experiment for Occulus VR.
I've seen YouTube put up a forced ad before a movie trailer -- forcing you to watch an ad before you watch an ad.
Two 60s ads before an ad? Is that Hulu?
Hulu makes me watch 6 30-second commercials several times an hour like normal TV. Haven't done Hulu in a year and a half.
If tumblr does anything besides the occasional in-line ad as part of the tumbling scroll wall, forcing me to stop and watch, bye bye.
Have a contingency plan to rapidly scale up vaccine productin. You don't need costly facilities with infinite safety checks, especially in an emergency.
Remember a few years ago when there was a flu vaccine shortage? It was due to a plant in Europe being shut down (the US ones don't exist due to regulation and liability issues, another flaw in the system.)
Here's what should have happened, but didn't:
1. Keep the plant running. Just because some manufacturing standard wasn't met doesn't mean the batches are bad or contaminated.
2. Manually do extra testing of batches as necessary or desired. You could culture things out of dog shit as long as it tests fine.
Too much subgenius working hand-in-hand with government arrogancy leads to this silliness.
Did you miss all the sex meetup rooms where they sell ethanol-based stress-reducing libations?
Amazon's 1-click patent is a bad example of bad patents (for the reasons it is talked about, anyway.)
Programmers used to write editors and other software and not even bother asking you if you wanted to save before quitting. People realized this was stupid, and started putting up confirmation questions for every damned thing. It was so pervasive, computer science even introduced the concept of "appliance models", where when you changed options, the change was immediate, as if you were adjusting the volume on a radio, no "set" or "Are you really sure you want to change the value?" stuff.
As a programmer who lived through this time, it was absolutely inconceivable you would build a system to sell something and have it just sell-and-ship with no confirmation, no "Are you sure you want to actually buy this book, you're gonna be charged real money!"
There may be other reasons it's a bad patent (it's ridiculously simple to implement, and in a sense, is to buying "the appliance model", which the real world at the store is. The cashier doesn't ask you, "Are you sure you want to buy this stuff? Gonna charge your card!"
But 1-click sales via computer were decidedly not an obvious thing until after it was done .
We'll be better off in 100 years with the most advanced tech we can produce between then and now, regardless of any climate change.
It's like people in 1900 worrying about what kind of climate they want to leave us here in 2013, and making economic changes that weaken the economy and thus slow development. I'll take 2013 tech in 2013 over 1990-level tech (or 1980 or 1960), thanks.
> That's awesome (Score:2) Probably the closest you can get to living in the future.
You've already been living in this all your life. Government officials misusing money is both the future and the ancient past. And everything in-between.
I pointed out, in a question that he chose not to answer, that the idea of people recording things on tape and shipping them back and forth regularly was used in M*A*S*H, where Charles Winchester regularly exchanged reel-to-reel tapes with his family back in Boston. That would have been the mid '70s for the show, and was probably based on things done in reality by rich people AKA early adopters, back in the 1950s.