The fix for console lockdown would be to market PCs as replacements for consoles, including a ten-foot-friendly application launcher and a web browser with a ten-foot interface (like Opera's Internet Channel for Wii). Yet no major PC maker wants to go this route for some reason.
That's brilliant. You could call it the "X Box". I'm sure that some major corporation would think it was a good idea.
"I hear those things are awfully loud."
It glides as softly as a cloud.
"Is there a chance the track could bend?"
Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
"What about us brain-dead slobs?"
You'll be given cushy jobs.
"Were you sent here by the devil?"
No, good sir, I'm on the level.
"The ring came off my pudding can."
Take my pen knife, my good man.
There will be an immediate and nearly catastrophic increase in the amount of bad science, pseudo-science and technobabble-based science fiction in popular media.
It could be years before the world recovers from this.
If, say, 30% more people suddenly have health insurance, there could conceivably be 25% more people seeing doctors. The number of doctors has not gone up. What is the result when this happens?
Those 25% more people are seeing their damn doctors and getting the care they need _before_ they come down with something expensive or fatal. Which costs more? A brief visit to your family doctor to complain about a nagging cough, or a trip to the ER followed by a hospital stay to deal with advanced pneumonia?
Asking that the poor get sick, die, and decrease the surplus population hasn't helped. Maybe it's time to treat the problem and take some responsibility for driving costs down by preventing avoidable illnesses and injuries.
That which causes a negative impact that cannot be undone and is beyond the will of the one who receives it, so long as the receiver is competent and not currently the ward of an unwilling party?
Rule -1: A robot may not permit, and must actively prevent, a human breaking any law or government regulation.
Rule 0: A robot must prevent a human from copying or making fair use of any copyrighted work that has DRM applied to it.
Rule 1: A robot may not harm a human, or through inaction allow a human to be harmed, unless it would contradict Rule 0 or Rule -1.
Don't forget "Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown."
Because a Windows USB thumb drive will have all the necessary drivers for it to function properly.
Indeed. It's a well known fact that most portable versions of Windows ship with "SQUEALLIKEAPIG.DLL" and "HORIZONALLINESONTHELCD.DLL", so you should never assume that those are obvious hardware failures.
I think this word is a bit overused here. Disagree with me? Sociopath. Don't care about a specific group of people? Sociopath. Don't let other people's emotions forever control your actions? Sociopath. Care about some people, but not others? Sociopath. Care about people, but not enough to let their emotions stop you from doing what you feel needs to be done? Sociopath.
A person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience? Sociopath.
Then it brings up the whole question about retirement. If I'm sitting on a few million when I retire, am I really costing that much money?
Yes, you are. If you had the decency to die young, like our brave patriotic smokers do, then all that money could be put back into the economy properly instead of being wasted on your selfish, socialist "retirement".
Come on, let's light one up for America. Make mine a Fredom Stick(tm), with extra tar.
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Sounds like it's time to redefine poverty again.
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@leon You are in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
The fix for console lockdown would be to market PCs as replacements for consoles, including a ten-foot-friendly application launcher and a web browser with a ten-foot interface (like Opera's Internet Channel for Wii). Yet no major PC maker wants to go this route for some reason.
That's brilliant. You could call it the "X Box". I'm sure that some major corporation would think it was a good idea.
Worthless comments without supporting documentation.
Give him a break. He learned how to write in a US school.
Oversimplifying things leaves them... what's that word? Right. "Oversimplified".
Who could have guessed that?
So let's get started. Now, should The New Wikipedia have a spinning logo, or a flaming logo?
"I hear those things are awfully loud."
It glides as softly as a cloud.
"Is there a chance the track could bend?"
Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
"What about us brain-dead slobs?"
You'll be given cushy jobs.
"Were you sent here by the devil?"
No, good sir, I'm on the level.
"The ring came off my pudding can."
Take my pen knife, my good man.
The app steals your contact data and uploads it to a remote server
So it's just iCloud?
There will be an immediate and nearly catastrophic increase in the amount of bad science, pseudo-science and technobabble-based science fiction in popular media.
It could be years before the world recovers from this.
The first Cisco firmware to be released without a soul sucking smartnet contract, sucks your soul directly.
But... it comes with a free frogurt!
The frogurt is also cursed.
But you get your choice of toppings!
The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
Do you hear that 'whoosh' sound? They love that too.
If, say, 30% more people suddenly have health insurance, there could conceivably be 25% more people seeing doctors. The number of doctors has not gone up. What is the result when this happens?
Those 25% more people are seeing their damn doctors and getting the care they need _before_ they come down with something expensive or fatal. Which costs more? A brief visit to your family doctor to complain about a nagging cough, or a trip to the ER followed by a hospital stay to deal with advanced pneumonia?
Asking that the poor get sick, die, and decrease the surplus population hasn't helped. Maybe it's time to treat the problem and take some responsibility for driving costs down by preventing avoidable illnesses and injuries.
That which causes a negative impact that cannot be undone and is beyond the will of the one who receives it, so long as the receiver is competent and not currently the ward of an unwilling party?
Such as telling the truth?
Rule -1: A robot may not permit, and must actively prevent, a human breaking any law or government regulation. Rule 0: A robot must prevent a human from copying or making fair use of any copyrighted work that has DRM applied to it. Rule 1: A robot may not harm a human, or through inaction allow a human to be harmed, unless it would contradict Rule 0 or Rule -1.
Don't forget "Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown."
If that scenario ever came to light I would make it my life goal to hack that tracking functionality.
A digital, freedom-fighter kind of hacking...
How about just a "Leaving your phone on your desk" kind of hacking?
Or would that not be exciting and edgy enough?
a Visual Basic programmer
I understand what those words mean individually, but I don't see how they can go together in that way.
It makes gratuitous use of the word "fart".
I'm surprised it hasn't been banned.
(Please forget everything you learned from the Oatmeal about Tesla and Edison. Other than that, I'm modding you up because I completely agree with you.)
Please apply some critical thinking to everything that both Forbes and The Oatmeal have to say about Edison.
Because a Windows USB thumb drive will have all the necessary drivers for it to function properly.
Indeed. It's a well known fact that most portable versions of Windows ship with "SQUEALLIKEAPIG.DLL" and "HORIZONALLINESONTHELCD.DLL", so you should never assume that those are obvious hardware failures.
If reading a dictionary makes you this upset, perhaps you need to relax a bit.
I think this word is a bit overused here. Disagree with me? Sociopath. Don't care about a specific group of people? Sociopath. Don't let other people's emotions forever control your actions? Sociopath. Care about some people, but not others? Sociopath. Care about people, but not enough to let their emotions stop you from doing what you feel needs to be done? Sociopath.
A person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience? Sociopath.
Any other questions?
Then it brings up the whole question about retirement. If I'm sitting on a few million when I retire, am I really costing that much money?
Yes, you are. If you had the decency to die young, like our brave patriotic smokers do, then all that money could be put back into the economy properly instead of being wasted on your selfish, socialist "retirement".
Come on, let's light one up for America. Make mine a Fredom Stick(tm), with extra tar.
The EU is going broke in a hurry under the strain of paying for all those lovely "free" goodies they hand out.
...while the USA has been enjoying an unending economic boom for the past nineteen years.
Right.
And here I was trying to figure out why he had developed a tool to read encrypted bar codes.
It's a nguyen-nguyen. (I know it's a Vietnamese name but I'm reaching for clever today).
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's an Internet for?