I think their marketing department got confused with The Sims, where, near as I can remember (it's been awhile) the chicks were kissing each other all the time.
I like the US forcing its American Way on others, insofar as it means freedom.
I don't care about your religion.
I don't care about your culture.
I don't care about your politics.
Your desire to lord over me is not on an equal footing with my desire to be free.
It is about freedom -- of associaton, of speech, of property. Everyhing else, and I mean everything, is just sophistry by angry men trying to gather a group of follower, be it by vote or a local group of thugs.
In the mid '90s, I stunned my friends by switching to the PC from the Mac. Why? They both ran Office apps, and both surfed with Netscape. It was the games.
Microsoft, panicked TV Set top DVR/console/surf would take over, created Direct X so game makers could do console and PC at the same time.
Now they are a victim of their own success. All PC games are lame ports of console designs. E.g. Star Wars The Old Republic, Diablo III, Tomb Raider, DC Universe Online. There are no PC games anymore. Goodbye, sir.
That's true, but changing size of dozens of homologous structures, e.g. arm bones, is trivial (and buolt in to sexual reproduction) already.
Changing chemistry is another matter. This seems like a statistical argument -- we habe lots of evidence of a regular pace of change (and said change requires true mutation, not just controlled rescrambling ala reproduction).
I don't know how many nucleotides there are, but if millions, this could be a fairly solid argument.
Can they even legally do this? Didn't San Francisco have a plan that included this and the FCC was like, "No you don't. We control broadcasting and we don't authorize use of jammers for any reason."
Similarly IIRC stasdiums and businesses can't, either.
Say goodbye to corrupt politicians and crime and mafia.
Expect blowback from politicians because of this, perhaps couched in memetically-active soothe-terms, like "privacy". Don't let the worms squirm out of it!
I know I read a short story once where some thugs were all bummed out they couldn't rob an old lady on a park bench because she had these huge honkin' live feed classes on.
Also, AR is really a bit of a solution in search of some problems at the moment.
Same thing was said about the Internet and it's a trillion dollar entertainment juggernaut.
Go read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge for a good estimate of the entertainment propeerties of this. Auto-tagging of objects will just be a tiny corner, the way Wikipedia is to the Internet.
after fighting its way through the thicket of regulatory hurdles and lawsuits that Energy Management Inc. was able to obtain approval from Massachusettslast year, with the Tokyo-Mitsubishi signing shortly thereafter. In all, it took 12 years and at least $65M to finally gain that approval
I see no reason to alter my parsimonious theory it's all about throwing money at people until they go away.
This is just ridiculous. Hell, just the infinitesimal decrease in future scientists because some kids won't be mesmerized will slow technological development enough to cause, by lack of invention, deaths to occur that wouldn't otherwise.
Lawyers are indistinguishable from a disease on the body of the populace. A parasite -- an organism that exists drawing resources from the host organism, and causing degradation to the host organism.
One of the bits cut out of the original Superman with Christopher Reeves on TV these past 30 years was the Hackensack missile headed to Mrs. Tessmacher's mom's house. Superman tries to get in front of it and catch it, but it's a sneaky, radar-avoidance missile, those having just been developed (or talked about), and it goes around him.
Dead reckoning preceded GPS. Earlier systems had no way to know so used a 2-pronged location method. They knew wheel speed and compass direction, and sometimes had accelerometers and whatnot.
Then they used map matching, where they took your actual path as you drove, and tried to fit it to known streets and turns. This could take quite a while before narrowing it down to only one spot that fit your path. Then they "knew" where you were, and used dead reckoning to try to not lose it.
Some systems also used Loran, which was a terrestrial-based location system for ships that preceded GPS.
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How rude!
Arise! Arise, and make your voices heard, basement-dwelling 40 year olds! >:-(
Sorry, this is my fault. I stupidly clicked "Update all apps" this morning.
Sorry.
Stupid enough? Yes.
Going to turn down a dozen government servants to do it for him or her? Hell no! That's the primary reason they are there: power.
It's a Google product so Google should fight it. And yes, Gooogle has enough money for every pixel on the screen.
Makes me wonder if Google doubts their ability to overturn the patents.
> Sim City, Brought To You By Crest
I think their marketing department got confused with The Sims, where, near as I can remember (it's been awhile) the chicks were kissing each other all the time.
I like the US forcing its American Way on others, insofar as it means freedom.
I don't care about your religion.
I don't care about your culture.
I don't care about your politics.
Your desire to lord over me is not on an equal footing with my desire to be free.
It is about freedom -- of associaton, of speech, of property. Everyhing else, and I mean everything, is just sophistry by angry men trying to gather a group of follower, be it by vote or a local group of thugs.
Given the small number of MSN users, when Microsoft dumped them onto the Internet, it was called The February 29th That Never Ended.
In the mid '90s, I stunned my friends by switching to the PC from the Mac. Why? They both ran Office apps, and both surfed with Netscape. It was the games.
Microsoft, panicked TV Set top DVR/console/surf would take over, created Direct X so game makers could do console and PC at the same time.
Now they are a victim of their own success. All PC games are lame ports of console designs. E.g. Star Wars The Old Republic, Diablo III, Tomb Raider, DC Universe Online. There are no PC games anymore. Goodbye, sir.
That's true, but changing size of dozens of homologous structures, e.g. arm bones, is trivial (and buolt in to sexual reproduction) already.
Changing chemistry is another matter. This seems like a statistical argument -- we habe lots of evidence of a regular pace of change (and said change requires true mutation, not just controlled rescrambling ala reproduction).
I don't know how many nucleotides there are, but if millions, this could be a fairly solid argument.
Can they even legally do this? Didn't San Francisco have a plan that included this and the FCC was like, "No you don't. We control broadcasting and we don't authorize use of jammers for any reason."
Similarly IIRC stasdiums and businesses can't, either.
Say goodbye to corrupt politicians and crime and mafia.
Expect blowback from politicians because of this, perhaps couched in memetically-active soothe-terms, like "privacy". Don't let the worms squirm out of it!
I know I read a short story once where some thugs were all bummed out they couldn't rob an old lady on a park bench because she had these huge honkin' live feed classes on.
Eye-glass, iGlass, now do youseall with mod points get it?
Same thing was said about the Internet and it's a trillion dollar entertainment juggernaut.
Go read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge for a good estimate of the entertainment propeerties of this. Auto-tagging of objects will just be a tiny corner, the way Wikipedia is to the Internet.
Is it technically false advertising?
However there should be full disclosure: "Negative review of competitor's product paid for." Or at least "This is a paid-for anti-advertisement."
From TFA:
I see no reason to alter my parsimonious theory it's all about throwing money at people until they go away.
Very cool!
> raised concerns over the environmental and cultural impact of such a project
I see no reason to modify my parsimonious theory that it's all about throwing money at people until they go away.
The biggest engines we could buy for our model rockets was the D. This F is awesome!
And it's just the F1 !
Don't forget to make sure there are government back doors in stuff so they can keep an eye out for terrorists!
Is figuring out what constitutes a gene for something really the Herculean effort (deserving of patent protection) it used to be?
Or is it more like the Oklahoma Land Grab at this point?
Privatization
- Less bloat.
- Kickbacks to Congresscritters from companies.
Government-Provided
- More bloat.
- Kickbacks to Congresscritters from unions.
- More voters directly attached to tit of government.
Why pandering government officials need to die screaming like pigs in Hell.
This is just ridiculous. Hell, just the infinitesimal decrease in future scientists because some kids won't be mesmerized will slow technological development enough to cause, by lack of invention, deaths to occur that wouldn't otherwise.
Lawyers are indistinguishable from a disease on the body of the populace. A parasite -- an organism that exists drawing resources from the host organism, and causing degradation to the host organism.
Where the hell do they think I'm gonna be sticking it on my body?
One of the bits cut out of the original Superman with Christopher Reeves on TV these past 30 years was the Hackensack missile headed to Mrs. Tessmacher's mom's house. Superman tries to get in front of it and catch it, but it's a sneaky, radar-avoidance missile, those having just been developed (or talked about), and it goes around him.
Dead reckoning preceded GPS. Earlier systems had no way to know so used a 2-pronged location method. They knew wheel speed and compass direction, and sometimes had accelerometers and whatnot.
Then they used map matching, where they took your actual path as you drove, and tried to fit it to known streets and turns. This could take quite a while before narrowing it down to only one spot that fit your path. Then they "knew" where you were, and used dead reckoning to try to not lose it.
Some systems also used Loran, which was a terrestrial-based location system for ships that preceded GPS.