This company makes games featuring impossibly hot ladies in skintight yoga-pant jumpsuits and thongs swinging glowing swords among other weaponry.
And the bosses had to take a survey to detect scent of a bro?
Fire the management; they have no idea what games they sell, who their market is, or what kind of staff latitude it takes to crank out one more SI Swimsuit model with armored bra and a laser cannon. What do they think keeps the lights on over there?
This isn't any less ethical than any psychological study with a control group not told they're a control group - which happens all the time precisely because people act differently when they know they're in a control group in an experiment.
To see all these folks allegedly so grounded in science and being so science-y have a breakdown being the studied instead of the studiers itself is a telling psychological experiment on this crew. And, on a side note, the profession of psychology and its assorted methodologies is at best pseudoscientific; the current reproducibility crisis is testament to that.
Also worth mentioning the entire spectrum of academic navel-gazing - gender identity (or gender-whats-my-identity), pick-my-ethno study, psychobabbology, et al - is becoming known as the joke academy where people who aren't smart enough to get a "real" college degree go for their major. The kind of brittleness and snowflake-tears response elucidated here by that gang only perpetuates that (unmentioned in polite company) stereotype.
...IBM make a living these days? They don't sell computers, matter of fact they don't seem to sell "Business Machines" at all that I know about.
So I watch their commercials sometimes, but that doesn't help - I just learn that Watson apparently is the answer for how anodyne politically-correct worlds get smarter supply chains for lattes or something.
Does IBM send an invoice after Watson makes me "smarter?" How do they get money? Who pays them? I don't know anymore.
...iOS devs pretending iOS world and any functional participation in it ceased without the comped WWDC vacation-party-networking opportunity conference.
Been holding out for upgraded SE (OLED & A12 in similiar chassis = ideal).
I was last year too, the year they puked out the X with the face gimmick. Meh.
This year they crank out the XS (decent) the XS Max (phablet?) and the XR (my wife loves her red one). And for me...they killed the form factor I wanted. That's the upgrade? Condemned to forever holding what feels like a bar of soap for a phone?
Getting tired of Big Fruit. I don't care if its another.00001mm thinner Jony Ive. I don't care that the starving orphan in China at Pegatron is using a fifty-axis laser CNC to cut out the notch or whatever. I just don't care.
Time to bite bullet and get S9 and custom ROM looks like. Man, too bad I liked iPhones.
A Microsofty complaining their cool little piece of tech was ruined by vast heartless corporation using a virtual monopoly. Does he see the irony there? Or the karma?
Every time I hear about Europe and the internet/tech its about how EU wants to tax/fine/punish/legislate/regulate something. Never about the latest thing, or the cool new invention, or whatever. Always taxes-fines-punish-etc.
This all the stranger because there's a lot of Europeans per se who've done all kinds of things for the internet. Lee invented the web, Guido invented Python, Linus invented all kinds of stuff. And they all work in the US now for US companies. Nokia gone. Ericsson hurting. Phillips now cheap Wal Mart TV's. Thompson...who's that? lol. ARM is "European" in sense of a street address for corporate HQ and nothing else.
...is probably most accomplished space-traveler to date; which means he's most accomplished traveler of all time.
John Young flew Gemini, Apollo, and the Shuttle. No one else has flown on three different space vehicles, and that's not even counting the LEM. John Young piloted the CM on Apollo 10, and walked on the Moon later. No other human being ever has been to the Moon twice and also walked on it except the (also now-late) Gene Cernan. That is a club of 2; the most unbeatable bar-brag story of all time, and it will be years before another person can make that claim. Sad.
Want long battery life and rocket-fast internet? Turn Javascript off. Yeah you can't interact with the social-media spyware plugins or comment (or read mobile slashdot) anymore, but unless one needs a piece of web outside W3C, Javascript not worth it at this point.
Megabytes of analytics and useless videos wrapped in code that loops phone into a heater half the time...just from trying to read an article on CNN. Add it all up and its like tenth of the degree that will kill us all by 2050 or whatever, and that is what Javascript is doing to us from the browser today.
As most peeps here know, trying to get customer to pay for content on website is near-impossible, and customer hates the ads etc. This makes sense, I'm the same kind of cheapskate:)
Where I get confused is TV. People are paying Dish, ATT, Sling, whoever, big bucks...this fight is over food chain of all that loot. But said customers are providing the loot to spend their time watching ads these properties are shoving hard 24/7 - and customer is paying for this, PAYING FOR ADS.
Why people so different from one medium to the next? I really don't get it.
given that the words remind some people of America's peculiar institution, a historical legacy that fires political passions to this day.
Whouzawhat now? I think chattel slavery predates existence of 'America' by a written history or so. C'mon people. How about 'domus' and 'servus?' Better? At least now we can pile on the Romans when the snowflakes start falling.
This reminds me of a joke programming language mocking feminazi women's libbers called 'C+=' and in readme they make big deal of how they banished concepts of master and slave, along with constructs of 'class' and 'inheritance' and other patriarchy-kinda stuff. Interpreter called Herterpreter etc. And its supposed to be a joke. Or it was a joke. Life imitates art sometimes I guess. As Orangeman says, Sad./P
I've mentioned this before; but seems only times I hear about 'Europe' and 'tech' is in context of EU bureaucrats peeing in some cheerios somewhere. Never hear about the proverbial Next Big Thing coming from Europe, always another dumb law or lawsuit or fine.
Of course USA gets singled out for missing 'targets' because it only reduced CO2 by x amount.
So...which of the enlightened countries in developed world met or exceeded their targets?
Also, when do the 3rd worlders start getting paid their Paris 'mitigation' checks? As I understand, that is increasingly contentious problem at the Paris Carbon-con.
There isn't a thousand elements on periodic table no matter how you count bits of nuclei or isomer configurations. This appears to be a case of smart person forgetting to be smart because so enraptured with how smart they are.
I remember my old tome Fundamentals of Astronautics. An invaluable reference. Authors include guys like von Braun, Bussard, Tsien, and Phil Bono - legendary geniuses in the field all of them. I also remember the chapter using the same analytical techniques for the rockets being used as diviners of economic costs of said rockets. It struck me as odd and kind of silly - sad even - that such smart people were so confounded by economics. All their rocket science is as good today as it was then; but these guys were estimating manned Mars missions costing ~$6 billion in "1990 dollars" among other crystal-ball gems.
So here's another paper, by not-so-genius scientists, regarding a far-less understood subject than rockets, making economic prognostications decades and decades out. Based on long-term weather trends. This is stupid.
Even judges have Trump Derangement...to point of designating Twitter user-admin shit as a 'public forum' just to stick it to Big Orange. Hope judge likes that petty little win; jurisprudence and the 1st amendment will be paying the bill for it for years.
...which is deserved IMO BTW, I just realized...why no filter controls on generic searches? That could be a business opportunity for an outfit like Google. Filter out known aggregators, filter out social networks, etc. Like maybe Google's missing out on some money there. Pay $1-per-month for Google services or some-such and get Google services with no ads or tracking, plus custom-configurable filters. Facebook would hate them much as customers might start liking them again.
I am surprised majority of biomass isn't in the ocean, but only 1%? That number has to be wrong. All the bacteria in the abyssal sludge alone is more than 1% of the worldwide total I'd bet. How did they get such a low number for the ocean?
Not really software, but some really sophisticated and clever "programming" on mechanical computers like an old Mark 37 gun director or the old Soyuz astronavigators. F-15's CAS box or F-16A analog FBW setups are more modern examples.
Yeah, it would be latency-palooza for such a homwbrewed internet. It would also be slow. It would not be optimal. Fortnight would suck on it. I get all that. What is interesting to me though is this notion of an actual 'underground internet' that is independent of any telco provider, or government sanction. Such a thing would be a godsend for citizens of places like Iran or Venezuela; and would drive their security services bonkers - and not because of the latency time.
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This company makes games featuring impossibly hot ladies in skintight yoga-pant jumpsuits and thongs swinging glowing swords among other weaponry.
And the bosses had to take a survey to detect scent of a bro?
Fire the management; they have no idea what games they sell, who their market is, or what kind of staff latitude it takes to crank out one more SI Swimsuit model with armored bra and a laser cannon. What do they think keeps the lights on over there?
Ah yes, the weekly Climate Fear Mongering article from NY Times.
Without reading it (and the attendant report) I know exactly how it goes:
1. A preamble about how its even worse than worse.
2. Then description of how researchers put new scarier variables in a video game oracle of some kind.
3. Followed by dour descriptions that the video game oracle now says that its all that much more terrible.
4. A doom-day has to be quoted if we don't repent (all cults work this angle); so something like 2050 or 2100 and we're Venus, unless...
5. The "unless" narrative that follows essentially says we need to just shutup and implement statist schemes...or its Venus.
6. Trump - or the entire USA somehow - gets tossed under rhetorical bus somewhere somehow.
This isn't any less ethical than any psychological study with a control group not told they're a control group - which happens all the time precisely because people act differently when they know they're in a control group in an experiment.
To see all these folks allegedly so grounded in science and being so science-y have a breakdown being the studied instead of the studiers itself is a telling psychological experiment on this crew. And, on a side note, the profession of psychology and its assorted methodologies is at best pseudoscientific; the current reproducibility crisis is testament to that.
Also worth mentioning the entire spectrum of academic navel-gazing - gender identity (or gender-whats-my-identity), pick-my-ethno study, psychobabbology, et al - is becoming known as the joke academy where people who aren't smart enough to get a "real" college degree go for their major. The kind of brittleness and snowflake-tears response elucidated here by that gang only perpetuates that (unmentioned in polite company) stereotype.
...IBM make a living these days? They don't sell computers, matter of fact they don't seem to sell "Business Machines" at all that I know about. So I watch their commercials sometimes, but that doesn't help - I just learn that Watson apparently is the answer for how anodyne politically-correct worlds get smarter supply chains for lattes or something. Does IBM send an invoice after Watson makes me "smarter?" How do they get money? Who pays them? I don't know anymore.
...iOS devs pretending iOS world and any functional participation in it ceased without the comped WWDC vacation-party-networking opportunity conference.
Been holding out for upgraded SE (OLED & A12 in similiar chassis = ideal). I was last year too, the year they puked out the X with the face gimmick. Meh. This year they crank out the XS (decent) the XS Max (phablet?) and the XR (my wife loves her red one). And for me...they killed the form factor I wanted. That's the upgrade? Condemned to forever holding what feels like a bar of soap for a phone? Getting tired of Big Fruit. I don't care if its another .00001mm thinner Jony Ive. I don't care that the starving orphan in China at Pegatron is using a fifty-axis laser CNC to cut out the notch or whatever. I just don't care.
Time to bite bullet and get S9 and custom ROM looks like. Man, too bad I liked iPhones.
A Microsofty complaining their cool little piece of tech was ruined by vast heartless corporation using a virtual monopoly. Does he see the irony there? Or the karma?
Don't think Wally flew on Apollo.
Every time I hear about Europe and the internet/tech its about how EU wants to tax/fine/punish/legislate/regulate something. Never about the latest thing, or the cool new invention, or whatever. Always taxes-fines-punish-etc.
This all the stranger because there's a lot of Europeans per se who've done all kinds of things for the internet. Lee invented the web, Guido invented Python, Linus invented all kinds of stuff. And they all work in the US now for US companies. Nokia gone. Ericsson hurting. Phillips now cheap Wal Mart TV's. Thompson...who's that? lol. ARM is "European" in sense of a street address for corporate HQ and nothing else.
Poor Europe.
...is probably most accomplished space-traveler to date; which means he's most accomplished traveler of all time.
John Young flew Gemini, Apollo, and the Shuttle. No one else has flown on three different space vehicles, and that's not even counting the LEM. John Young piloted the CM on Apollo 10, and walked on the Moon later. No other human being ever has been to the Moon twice and also walked on it except the (also now-late) Gene Cernan. That is a club of 2; the most unbeatable bar-brag story of all time, and it will be years before another person can make that claim. Sad.
Want long battery life and rocket-fast internet? Turn Javascript off. Yeah you can't interact with the social-media spyware plugins or comment (or read mobile slashdot) anymore, but unless one needs a piece of web outside W3C, Javascript not worth it at this point. Megabytes of analytics and useless videos wrapped in code that loops phone into a heater half the time...just from trying to read an article on CNN. Add it all up and its like tenth of the degree that will kill us all by 2050 or whatever, and that is what Javascript is doing to us from the browser today.
As most peeps here know, trying to get customer to pay for content on website is near-impossible, and customer hates the ads etc. This makes sense, I'm the same kind of cheapskate :)
Where I get confused is TV. People are paying Dish, ATT, Sling, whoever, big bucks...this fight is over food chain of all that loot. But said customers are providing the loot to spend their time watching ads these properties are shoving hard 24/7 - and customer is paying for this, PAYING FOR ADS.
Why people so different from one medium to the next? I really don't get it.
given that the words remind some people of America's peculiar institution, a historical legacy that fires political passions to this day.
Whouzawhat now? I think chattel slavery predates existence of 'America' by a written history or so. C'mon people. How about 'domus' and 'servus?' Better? At least now we can pile on the Romans when the snowflakes start falling.
This reminds me of a joke programming language mocking feminazi women's libbers called 'C+=' and in readme they make big deal of how they banished concepts of master and slave, along with constructs of 'class' and 'inheritance' and other patriarchy-kinda stuff. Interpreter called Herterpreter etc. And its supposed to be a joke. Or it was a joke. Life imitates art sometimes I guess. As Orangeman says, Sad./P
I've mentioned this before; but seems only times I hear about 'Europe' and 'tech' is in context of EU bureaucrats peeing in some cheerios somewhere. Never hear about the proverbial Next Big Thing coming from Europe, always another dumb law or lawsuit or fine.
Of course USA gets singled out for missing 'targets' because it only reduced CO2 by x amount.
So...which of the enlightened countries in developed world met or exceeded their targets?
Also, when do the 3rd worlders start getting paid their Paris 'mitigation' checks? As I understand, that is increasingly contentious problem at the Paris Carbon-con.
There isn't a thousand elements on periodic table no matter how you count bits of nuclei or isomer configurations. This appears to be a case of smart person forgetting to be smart because so enraptured with how smart they are.
I remember my old tome Fundamentals of Astronautics. An invaluable reference. Authors include guys like von Braun, Bussard, Tsien, and Phil Bono - legendary geniuses in the field all of them. I also remember the chapter using the same analytical techniques for the rockets being used as diviners of economic costs of said rockets. It struck me as odd and kind of silly - sad even - that such smart people were so confounded by economics. All their rocket science is as good today as it was then; but these guys were estimating manned Mars missions costing ~$6 billion in "1990 dollars" among other crystal-ball gems.
So here's another paper, by not-so-genius scientists, regarding a far-less understood subject than rockets, making economic prognostications decades and decades out. Based on long-term weather trends. This is stupid.
Even judges have Trump Derangement...to point of designating Twitter user-admin shit as a 'public forum' just to stick it to Big Orange. Hope judge likes that petty little win; jurisprudence and the 1st amendment will be paying the bill for it for years.
...the NSA.
...which is deserved IMO BTW, I just realized...why no filter controls on generic searches? That could be a business opportunity for an outfit like Google. Filter out known aggregators, filter out social networks, etc. Like maybe Google's missing out on some money there. Pay $1-per-month for Google services or some-such and get Google services with no ads or tracking, plus custom-configurable filters. Facebook would hate them much as customers might start liking them again.
...but conservation of momentum beats the whole universe.
I am surprised majority of biomass isn't in the ocean, but only 1%? That number has to be wrong. All the bacteria in the abyssal sludge alone is more than 1% of the worldwide total I'd bet. How did they get such a low number for the ocean?
Not really software, but some really sophisticated and clever "programming" on mechanical computers like an old Mark 37 gun director or the old Soyuz astronavigators. F-15's CAS box or F-16A analog FBW setups are more modern examples.
...Affirmative Algorithms.
Yeah, it would be latency-palooza for such a homwbrewed internet. It would also be slow. It would not be optimal. Fortnight would suck on it. I get all that. What is interesting to me though is this notion of an actual 'underground internet' that is independent of any telco provider, or government sanction. Such a thing would be a godsend for citizens of places like Iran or Venezuela; and would drive their security services bonkers - and not because of the latency time.