the protagonist magically knew where all the secrets where despite never having seen the game before
Keep in mind that this was during the age of "Nintendo Power!" magazine, which frequently promoted upcoming games by revealing at least a secret or two.
1. The nanobots aren't controlled by a centralized manager that has to scale to managing exponentially large numbers of nanobots. 2. The nanobots can manipulate any molecule that's present, not just specially prepared molecules. 3. The nanobots can construct other nanobots from any molecule that's present, not just specially prepared molecules. 4. The nanobots can travel quickly enough to other molecules, once the molecules it's working on are manipulated. 5. The nanobots have a way of identifying other nanobots, so that each nanobot doesn't disassemble other nanobots.
Actually, the age of the universe is 10^18 seconds. A grain of sand contains 10^20 atoms. If a nanobot created one atom per second, it would take 100 times the age of the universe to construct a simple grain of sand.
Amazon's trustworthiness would increase a million-fold if they offered a feature to "ignore reviews from non-verified purchases." Of course, like you said, this would have to do more than just hide those reviews - it would also have to adjust any view that relied upon ranking in any way whatsoever, such as product ranking, recommended products, etc.
I love all the glowing reviews on Amazon which end with some variation of "I received this product at a discount or free in exchange for my unbiased review".
This year, Amazon disallowed vendors to offer promotional discounts in exchange for reviews. However, 98% of highly-trafficked reviews were written prior to this change in policy, and will likely remain prominent for the foreseeable future.
Go to amazon, search for "fidget spinner". Sort by "Avg. customer review", and click on the first result, "SamHity Cube in Style With Infinity Cube Pressure Reduction Toy - Infinity Turn Spin Cube Edc Fidgeting - Killing Time Toys Infinite Cube For ADD, ADHD, Anxiety, and Autism Adult and Children". You can tell right away that this is going to be a high-quality product, driven by a focused and effective product branding strategy.
133 5-star reviews, must be good, right? Let's check out what some of the reviews have to say:
"Said it before, as these are stocking stuffer for my sons, one the best charger/data cords out there." Huh, a fidget cube is also a charger/data cord?
"We love our camera! Works great, the night vision & picture and surprisingly clear." Wow! I had no idea the $8.89 fidget cube was also a night-vision camera.
"This product is great and worked exactly as described. I would highly recommend others to get this and see what I'm talking about. Especially for the price this item is well worth the buy!" I love highly specific reviews!
OK, let's tamp down some of the noise by only viewing verified purchases. "No results found." What?
So anyways, I discovered a huge number of these types of products with fake reviews over the past few months. Two months ago, I alerted amazon to the problem via multiple customer support channels. According to my last chat with an amazon product person, "my ticket is still open". When I asked him what's so challenging about spending 10 seconds to confirm that a top-ranking product has nothing but fraudulent reviews, he disconnected from chat.
So yeah, who cares if fake reviews can be written convincingly. Amazon certainly has a low bar when it comes to tolerating fraudulent reviews.
The author really should have tried to make his point with a pure science fiction story that didn't intentionally try to map older styles into the future.
He could have easily looked to the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. Set 20,000 to 50,000 years in the future, when humanity has the capability of interstellar flight, humans are still using microfiche to store their information, and pneumatic air tubes to transfer information.
I mean, c'mon - interstellar spaceships could be developed without requiring that computer consoles first exist? Many authors and artists of the past projected the mechanical-only nature of then-contemporary machines, and extrapolated them without first also envisioning the complementary technologies that would first need to be developed in the future.
A developer accidentally three-month of his work Was thrown out by his boss, a big jerk Lost some group emails too Trump screamed "What'd Hillary do?" And now outside the White House he doth lurk
One of the smartest people I know used to program emulators in FPGA. He programmed emulators for everything: TRS-80, TI-99/4A, Sinclair 1000, PDP-8, PDP-11, IBM zSeries, Cray, you name it. He eventually started doing contracts for major government contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc., and often for $200K to $600K a pop. He was very well respected in that community, and knew how to get around most of the problems inherent in FPGA emulation.
Anyways, he was paid to do a few contracts for Amiga computers, and had the most trouble with them. Apparently, their custom, decentralized architecture introduced severe "resolution artifacts" (his words, not mine) into any emulated FPGA bus. Another huge problem was something that had to do with feedback loops introduced by eddy currents caused by some of the FPGA parallelization circuits that came about due to optimization algorithms for the silicon etching process.
At the end of the day, he was very, very close to solving all of these problems, and he went outside to walk to the local 7-11 to get a Mountain Dew to refresh his energy. He crossed the wrong basketball court, however, and some local residents started getting into a beef with him, causing a lot of trouble. Those guys were clearly up to no good. End of story, his mother was afraid he'd get into more trouble in his neighborhood (after all, Philadelphia has one of the highest homicide rates in the country), so she sent him to live with his aunt in California. He took a cab to his aunt's house when he arrived at the airport, and was inspired by a pair of dice he saw hanging from the cabbie's review mirror. He thought to himself, "Life is a gamble, why waste time solving FPGA bus problems for antiquated architectures?" and gave it up in an instant. "Smell you later, dude!" he said, and sold all of his FPGA patents the next day.
Guys, guys, guys. Before you start going on about how open office plans are just blatantly evil, please consider the shareholders. That's right, publicly-traded companies are owned by investors who want, nay NEED, to ensure that their corporate ownership investments are competitive against other investment vehicles. That how they get rich. With low corporate gains taxes, investors are practically FORCED to invest in corporate ownership compared to other forms of investment. So before you go blab blabbing about how you can't stand to sit next to Shouting Stan and Coughing Cassandra, please realize that your sacrifice yields a greater return on investment for your corporate overlords than if you were each allocated 8 more square feet of floor space, and $186 worth of divider walls.
Correlation does not equal causation. Just because all professional NFL players appear to have brain damage, it does not mean that football causes brain damage.
Very true. Maybe all of these football players also had something else in common, which happened to cause the brain damage.
Oh hey, all of the football players had autopsies performed on them - maybe the autopsies caused the brain damage?
some places, get this, make you pay a percentage based on the time you spent there. Interesting, as it's almost as if companies could do the same based on how much revenue they made in said country.
There's all sort of schemes that companies use to get around this, including the corporate creation of subsidiaries designed to incur only losses, and thus show a perpetual loss on their balance sheets. The profits are funneled to sister subsidiaries through the use of clever legal arrangements that often rely upon classifying one type of financial transaction (e.g. a sale) as instead a different type of financial transaction (e.g. loan with amortized commission.)
how could the website even know you're in incognito mode?
Some browser behavior, such as visited-link highlighting and FileSystem API access, changes in incognito mode. JavaScript can be used to query whether these features work. If they're expected to work (browser version is high enough and HTML5 is supported, etc.) but they don't work, the website assumes you're using incognito mode.
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the protagonist magically knew where all the secrets where despite never having seen the game before
Keep in mind that this was during the age of "Nintendo Power!" magazine, which frequently promoted upcoming games by revealing at least a secret or two.
isn't exponential growth fun.
Exponential growth is only possible if:
1. The nanobots aren't controlled by a centralized manager that has to scale to managing exponentially large numbers of nanobots.
2. The nanobots can manipulate any molecule that's present, not just specially prepared molecules.
3. The nanobots can construct other nanobots from any molecule that's present, not just specially prepared molecules.
4. The nanobots can travel quickly enough to other molecules, once the molecules it's working on are manipulated.
5. The nanobots have a way of identifying other nanobots, so that each nanobot doesn't disassemble other nanobots.
At least, that's what I've discovered in the lab.
3....2.....1
Actually, the age of the universe is 10^18 seconds. A grain of sand contains 10^20 atoms. If a nanobot created one atom per second, it would take 100 times the age of the universe to construct a simple grain of sand.
Amazon's trustworthiness would increase a million-fold if they offered a feature to "ignore reviews from non-verified purchases." Of course, like you said, this would have to do more than just hide those reviews - it would also have to adjust any view that relied upon ranking in any way whatsoever, such as product ranking, recommended products, etc.
I love all the glowing reviews on Amazon which end with some variation of "I received this product at a discount or free in exchange for my unbiased review".
This year, Amazon disallowed vendors to offer promotional discounts in exchange for reviews. However, 98% of highly-trafficked reviews were written prior to this change in policy, and will likely remain prominent for the foreseeable future.
This doesn't really matter.
Go to amazon, search for "fidget spinner". Sort by "Avg. customer review", and click on the first result, "SamHity Cube in Style With Infinity Cube Pressure Reduction Toy - Infinity Turn Spin Cube Edc Fidgeting - Killing Time Toys Infinite Cube For ADD, ADHD, Anxiety, and Autism Adult and Children". You can tell right away that this is going to be a high-quality product, driven by a focused and effective product branding strategy.
133 5-star reviews, must be good, right? Let's check out what some of the reviews have to say:
"Said it before, as these are stocking stuffer for my sons, one the best charger/data cords out there." Huh, a fidget cube is also a charger/data cord?
"We love our camera! Works great, the night vision & picture and surprisingly clear." Wow! I had no idea the $8.89 fidget cube was also a night-vision camera.
"This product is great and worked exactly as described. I would highly recommend others to get this and see what I'm talking about. Especially for the price this item is well worth the buy!" I love highly specific reviews!
OK, let's tamp down some of the noise by only viewing verified purchases. "No results found." What?
So anyways, I discovered a huge number of these types of products with fake reviews over the past few months. Two months ago, I alerted amazon to the problem via multiple customer support channels. According to my last chat with an amazon product person, "my ticket is still open". When I asked him what's so challenging about spending 10 seconds to confirm that a top-ranking product has nothing but fraudulent reviews, he disconnected from chat.
So yeah, who cares if fake reviews can be written convincingly. Amazon certainly has a low bar when it comes to tolerating fraudulent reviews.
No, but their information has been exposed all the same.
No, iIRC is an Apple competitor to IRC, with the tagline "IRC - It's Real Crap".
The author really should have tried to make his point with a pure science fiction story that didn't intentionally try to map older styles into the future.
He could have easily looked to the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. Set 20,000 to 50,000 years in the future, when humanity has the capability of interstellar flight, humans are still using microfiche to store their information, and pneumatic air tubes to transfer information.
I mean, c'mon - interstellar spaceships could be developed without requiring that computer consoles first exist? Many authors and artists of the past projected the mechanical-only nature of then-contemporary machines, and extrapolated them without first also envisioning the complementary technologies that would first need to be developed in the future.
Kia Sherbrooke is not implicated in the sale. We simply share the same adresse as the third party
Let me guess, the car was leased and disabled by "Kia Sherbrooke Separate Leasing Entity Not The Dealership LLC".
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
It's faster than 37 seconds, but not as fast as 35 seconds.
So in other words, it's merely average.
I think someone accidentally a word.
A developer accidentally three-month of his work
Was thrown out by his boss, a big jerk
Lost some group emails too
Trump screamed "What'd Hillary do?"
And now outside the White House he doth lurk
AI is right around the corner now. Any day soon it will appear. I promise.
That's exactly what an AI bot would say, if it were trying to blend in with a geeky technical crowd.
This approach is a recipe for failure.
One of the smartest people I know used to program emulators in FPGA. He programmed emulators for everything: TRS-80, TI-99/4A, Sinclair 1000, PDP-8, PDP-11, IBM zSeries, Cray, you name it. He eventually started doing contracts for major government contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc., and often for $200K to $600K a pop. He was very well respected in that community, and knew how to get around most of the problems inherent in FPGA emulation.
Anyways, he was paid to do a few contracts for Amiga computers, and had the most trouble with them. Apparently, their custom, decentralized architecture introduced severe "resolution artifacts" (his words, not mine) into any emulated FPGA bus. Another huge problem was something that had to do with feedback loops introduced by eddy currents caused by some of the FPGA parallelization circuits that came about due to optimization algorithms for the silicon etching process.
At the end of the day, he was very, very close to solving all of these problems, and he went outside to walk to the local 7-11 to get a Mountain Dew to refresh his energy. He crossed the wrong basketball court, however, and some local residents started getting into a beef with him, causing a lot of trouble. Those guys were clearly up to no good. End of story, his mother was afraid he'd get into more trouble in his neighborhood (after all, Philadelphia has one of the highest homicide rates in the country), so she sent him to live with his aunt in California. He took a cab to his aunt's house when he arrived at the airport, and was inspired by a pair of dice he saw hanging from the cabbie's review mirror. He thought to himself, "Life is a gamble, why waste time solving FPGA bus problems for antiquated architectures?" and gave it up in an instant. "Smell you later, dude!" he said, and sold all of his FPGA patents the next day.
Guys, guys, guys. Before you start going on about how open office plans are just blatantly evil, please consider the shareholders. That's right, publicly-traded companies are owned by investors who want, nay NEED, to ensure that their corporate ownership investments are competitive against other investment vehicles. That how they get rich. With low corporate gains taxes, investors are practically FORCED to invest in corporate ownership compared to other forms of investment. So before you go blab blabbing about how you can't stand to sit next to Shouting Stan and Coughing Cassandra, please realize that your sacrifice yields a greater return on investment for your corporate overlords than if you were each allocated 8 more square feet of floor space, and $186 worth of divider walls.
They better conduct more research before doing it on humans.
Hey, that's a good idea. You should run the FDA.
is extending human life that much of a good idea?
It is, if extending the average lifespan of humans will cause them to have children later in life.
Correlation does not equal causation. Just because all professional NFL players appear to have brain damage, it does not mean that football causes brain damage.
Very true. Maybe all of these football players also had something else in common, which happened to cause the brain damage.
Oh hey, all of the football players had autopsies performed on them - maybe the autopsies caused the brain damage?
Haha, you've not used Docker with systemd, huh.
As do mint leaves.
some places, get this, make you pay a percentage based on the time you spent there. Interesting, as it's almost as if companies could do the same based on how much revenue they made in said country.
There's all sort of schemes that companies use to get around this, including the corporate creation of subsidiaries designed to incur only losses, and thus show a perpetual loss on their balance sheets. The profits are funneled to sister subsidiaries through the use of clever legal arrangements that often rely upon classifying one type of financial transaction (e.g. a sale) as instead a different type of financial transaction (e.g. loan with amortized commission.)
If there's no air in the tube, how do you breathe?
How is this current scenario handled for airplane flights that are 35,000 ft in the sky?
how could the website even know you're in incognito mode?
Some browser behavior, such as visited-link highlighting and FileSystem API access, changes in incognito mode. JavaScript can be used to query whether these features work. If they're expected to work (browser version is high enough and HTML5 is supported, etc.) but they don't work, the website assumes you're using incognito mode.
Yes, because all programmers should remember the data type of every variable and function they ever define in every program they ever write.