I believe the scarcity line more. Everything we need in terms of material (many metals, oil, etc) is being consumed at a crazy pace. Usually with these mining scenarios, you go from super high grade (ore) scenarios to poorer and poorer ones. Think about all the gold rushes where the miners initially found huge nuggets fairly consistently and up in Alaska I was told it was so rich right off the bat it was $2,000 a shovel full to lesser and lesser grades until we're using several loads from a caterpillar 797s to get a fraction of an ounce while we turn mountains into holes in the ground.
It's not so much that we can't keep getting the same amount of material needed, but it consumes ever more energy to do so.
That wouldn't be so much of a problem if our oil wasn't starting to look like every other resource. The conventional oil is the rich ore, with initally 1 barrel oil needed to get 300 out (say, like the Ghawar oil fields when first found) and now the ones we have are around 8-15:1. As that is dwindling and not meeting our demands, we're going to fracking and tar sands that have lower yields still (and likely a lower field life as well).
And yeah, we have Natural Gas. But that's a lower density energy form. In human history, we always went for higher density stuff, from wood->charcoal->coal->oil. Ever see an NG gas tank? Or the trunk of the car using it?
The middle class may grow but it will have a lower standard of living than a generation or two previous. It will denote more a relative position than an absolute one.
These belong in a public museum, not some private collection. I hope that somebody who is rich and who appreciates video games makes the purchase, and donates them to the Smithsonian or some other reputable museum so that they can be publicly displayed for all to see and to experience.
Museums are for conservations of material goods. Libraries are better to spread ideas in whatever form they come in.
Museums are not lacking in material, I can assure you. Smithsonian only displays a tiny, tiny fraction of its inventory at any one time, and a smaller amount on tour somewhere, much of it is in warehouses, many never to see the light of day in my lifetime for want of display space. Many people I know who donated anything from their great-great-....grandfather's civil war canteen to their grandfather's US Army uniform to a local Museum often were shocked to see that stuff put up for auction from same museum. Because the museum preferred the money for budget/projects rather than common to even somewhat rare (but not especially valuable) items. It's even known some curators of smaller museums that even deal in/steal/pilfer goods and replace them with copies.
Maybe, sometime, somewhere a super nintendo with a super mario cartridge belongs in a museum somewhere. But certainly not the whole collection. It's just going to collect dust and not going to introduce more people to the joys of that era. Private collectors would be great to care for that.
That makes about as much sense as giving books to a museum to spread ideas. That's where a library is more appropriate. If you really want to get that, you would call for liberalizing copyright law. Tie it to patent length or something and only keep trademarks as ongoing. That way it would be legal to have the entire library up and served on the internet for generations to come and have people actually play them, if they so chose.
I don't think it's going to be much of an experience in 100 years to go to a museum, and look at video game and dvd titles, that you may play for 5 minutes because of a line or see for 5 minutes in some demo. That would surely be a stunted experience.
No more Aspergers, Pluto is not a planet, life starts at conception, etc... Labelling something only help perpetrate the misunderstandings surrounding the very real issues. We need to stop calling things stuff and start actually understanding them in meaningful ways.
If the state doesn't want to foot the bill for the extra benefits...
You talk as if the state is one entity who has to come up with its own income by hustling like the rest of us. The taxpayers are often represented by people who are otherwise owned by someone else and certainly won't be there in 20 years, let alone foot the bills.
I've seen bureacrats flood the systems of entire countries, in both number and pay, often paying lower taxes (depends on country) by not paying into the system the same way, but getting cadillac plans on retirement as well as health.
And certainly unions bear some of the blame. They often fund the campaigns of the very politicians who agree to these promises.
You're probably correct. But if I buy a song on my phone, I was expecting sync to transfer it to my computer. To sync/transfer content basically. iCloud kinda fixes the downfalls of a lost phone but the only time I connect to a computer is todo an OS upgrade and instead of being one step, it's a series and even done correctly, all manner of screwups occur - phone populated with other people's apps and that junk.
As a PC user, always found Apple's software beyond the OS baffling and counterintuitive, probably because they hide what they are doing. Something as simple as moving and saving songs to my phone seems like an excercise in frustration - syncing is not backing up for some reason and I always end up with duplicate songs or apps from other family members' devices. If they didn't have to hide the file system.
Amazing that a company that makes decent hardware and a decent OS and ok apps can't make decent software. Hope this update fixes some of the bullshit.
Oh, the middle men understand the internet just fine. Just like buggy whip manufacturers, after the first time they seen and used a gas pedal on a car.
What I was thinking, brings to mind a quote I don't quite remember the exact details of, talking about shooting a gun to see who jumps.
So much of our mass media these days are just professional trolls who just take a contracdictory opinion to feed their bank account from the attention: Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, countless pundits, etcera. The whole 2012 election coverage was a farce to make it seem like there was an actual photofinish race vs a marathon where one guy was lagging a mile behind. Or CopperCab on Youtube.
I don't understand why people fall for the tactic again and again. So the worst is the lady may actually believe this, does anyone take the argument seriously? No, then move on and don't give her attentions/book sales/whatever either way.
Hard to tell without access to the raw figures, but if the number of T-bone crashes has reduced, replaced by more rear-end incidents, is it possible that the injury rate, or at least number of serous injuries or fatalities, has decreased? Even if the net cost in car damage increases, that would still be a win in my books.
Then why don't you look at the raw data instead of pure conjecture? And no, you are wrong.
If this is a proper driverless car, the pedestrians probably deserve it as in stepping out on the road in malice. Fuck 'em, run them over full steam ahead. Otherwise I don't see how a cautious driver can really get in that position.
DRM may not stop piracy, but there are many people out there who aren't outright looking to pirate things. These are casual users like my mother who has tons of silly little puzzle and mind type games that she buys for a few bucks. Her friend comes over and wants a copy and she gives it to them thinking nothing of it. Low and behind it doesn't work. It's a $5 game so nobody really cares. DRM isn't about the hard core pirating community in a fully electronic world. It's about discouraging the casual user who primarily passes around physical media around.
What about my parents who bought an overpriced DVD in Italy, in English, from some tourist trap, but when they got home to play it, it turned out to be region locked. Of course, they didn't know that and all they knew was what they paid for just wouldn't play. Do they ever buy DVDs overseas anymore? No.
For every "sale" DRM protects from the average consumer, there are probably a few people who either got stopped or tired of jumping through the hoops the content makers make the paying customers jump through.
To be fair, your parent said it was simply preferred and not mandatory. It sounds like an idealist notion and was put in an idealist way. Nothing wrong with that.
Consoles traditionally were single purpose devices. The OS consumed next to nothing and the game could have most of it. Plus, games were supposed to be tweaked to come in as low in resouce usage as possible.
Obviously, some of that has changed with them able to stream netflix/browse/online gaming. Even the Wii U, which has 2GB ram, 1/2 of that is dedicated to the games and GPU and the other half to the OS, which is pretty damn disgusting, if you think about it.
Nowadays, with phone camera video recorders (put neatly into a shirt pocket with a convenient stealth hole) or at least using it as an audio recorder, should make things much easier.
Just like that Casey Haynes incident a while back.
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I believe the scarcity line more. Everything we need in terms of material (many metals, oil, etc) is being consumed at a crazy pace. Usually with these mining scenarios, you go from super high grade (ore) scenarios to poorer and poorer ones. Think about all the gold rushes where the miners initially found huge nuggets fairly consistently and up in Alaska I was told it was so rich right off the bat it was $2,000 a shovel full to lesser and lesser grades until we're using several loads from a caterpillar 797s to get a fraction of an ounce while we turn mountains into holes in the ground.
It's not so much that we can't keep getting the same amount of material needed, but it consumes ever more energy to do so.
That wouldn't be so much of a problem if our oil wasn't starting to look like every other resource. The conventional oil is the rich ore, with initally 1 barrel oil needed to get 300 out (say, like the Ghawar oil fields when first found) and now the ones we have are around 8-15:1. As that is dwindling and not meeting our demands, we're going to fracking and tar sands that have lower yields still (and likely a lower field life as well).
And yeah, we have Natural Gas. But that's a lower density energy form. In human history, we always went for higher density stuff, from wood->charcoal->coal->oil. Ever see an NG gas tank? Or the trunk of the car using it?
The middle class may grow but it will have a lower standard of living than a generation or two previous. It will denote more a relative position than an absolute one.
Coursera.
Museums are for conservations of material goods. Libraries are better to spread ideas in whatever form they come in.
Museums are not lacking in material, I can assure you. Smithsonian only displays a tiny, tiny fraction of its inventory at any one time, and a smaller amount on tour somewhere, much of it is in warehouses, many never to see the light of day in my lifetime for want of display space. Many people I know who donated anything from their great-great-....grandfather's civil war canteen to their grandfather's US Army uniform to a local Museum often were shocked to see that stuff put up for auction from same museum. Because the museum preferred the money for budget/projects rather than common to even somewhat rare (but not especially valuable) items. It's even known some curators of smaller museums that even deal in/steal/pilfer goods and replace them with copies.
Maybe, sometime, somewhere a super nintendo with a super mario cartridge belongs in a museum somewhere. But certainly not the whole collection. It's just going to collect dust and not going to introduce more people to the joys of that era. Private collectors would be great to care for that.
That makes about as much sense as giving books to a museum to spread ideas. That's where a library is more appropriate. If you really want to get that, you would call for liberalizing copyright law. Tie it to patent length or something and only keep trademarks as ongoing. That way it would be legal to have the entire library up and served on the internet for generations to come and have people actually play them, if they so chose.
I don't think it's going to be much of an experience in 100 years to go to a museum, and look at video game and dvd titles, that you may play for 5 minutes because of a line or see for 5 minutes in some demo. That would surely be a stunted experience.
Shit for brains is coming soon.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
A lot of the anti-globalwarming movement rely on classic FUD, throwing enough shit on the wall and counting on that something will stick.
>....when it's extremely cold in the winter, scientists say thats just normal weather, but when it's extremely hot in the summer, it's global warming?
They don't. Some PEOPLE do, but I haven't heard climate scientists claim that. I heard some people 'disprove' global warming every time it snows.
Is it attached to a small piglet that used to do commercials for Geico?
Landlines are tied to a place.
Each will have pros and cons and which on is appropriate for the situation depends on this basic fact.
So, you're the poster formerly known as alienzed?
Maybe it's because the world is globalizing, and because of places like China, all unionizing will do us price us out of the marketplace.
I don't see union detroit doing all that great, do you?
You talk as if the state is one entity who has to come up with its own income by hustling like the rest of us. The taxpayers are often represented by people who are otherwise owned by someone else and certainly won't be there in 20 years, let alone foot the bills.
I've seen bureacrats flood the systems of entire countries, in both number and pay, often paying lower taxes (depends on country) by not paying into the system the same way, but getting cadillac plans on retirement as well as health.
And certainly unions bear some of the blame. They often fund the campaigns of the very politicians who agree to these promises.
You're probably correct. But if I buy a song on my phone, I was expecting sync to transfer it to my computer. To sync/transfer content basically. iCloud kinda fixes the downfalls of a lost phone but the only time I connect to a computer is todo an OS upgrade and instead of being one step, it's a series and even done correctly, all manner of screwups occur - phone populated with other people's apps and that junk.
As a PC user, always found Apple's software beyond the OS baffling and counterintuitive, probably because they hide what they are doing. Something as simple as moving and saving songs to my phone seems like an excercise in frustration - syncing is not backing up for some reason and I always end up with duplicate songs or apps from other family members' devices. If they didn't have to hide the file system.
Amazing that a company that makes decent hardware and a decent OS and ok apps can't make decent software. Hope this update fixes some of the bullshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nEwte-x-iw
Oh, the middle men understand the internet just fine. Just like buggy whip manufacturers, after the first time they seen and used a gas pedal on a car.
The website are also perfectly free to use robots.txt
No need for this law.
What I was thinking, brings to mind a quote I don't quite remember the exact details of, talking about shooting a gun to see who jumps.
So much of our mass media these days are just professional trolls who just take a contracdictory opinion to feed their bank account from the attention: Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, countless pundits, etcera. The whole 2012 election coverage was a farce to make it seem like there was an actual photofinish race vs a marathon where one guy was lagging a mile behind. Or CopperCab on Youtube.
I don't understand why people fall for the tactic again and again. So the worst is the lady may actually believe this, does anyone take the argument seriously? No, then move on and don't give her attentions/book sales/whatever either way.
That's probably what they are doing, but hiding the subscription model in version numbers. Not unlike iOS (where it makes a bit more sense though).
Then why don't you look at the raw data instead of pure conjecture? And no, you are wrong.
http://www.atsol.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012NJDOTrlrfinalreport.pdf
Pay attention to tables 4, 5, and 6.
If this is a proper driverless car, the pedestrians probably deserve it as in stepping out on the road in malice. Fuck 'em, run them over full steam ahead. Otherwise I don't see how a cautious driver can really get in that position.
Plus I would think I want my car to have self-preservation skills, not morale dillemas.
Also, a bus will take a crash in much better condition against a car, a bridge would be a hasty decision.
What about my parents who bought an overpriced DVD in Italy, in English, from some tourist trap, but when they got home to play it, it turned out to be region locked. Of course, they didn't know that and all they knew was what they paid for just wouldn't play. Do they ever buy DVDs overseas anymore? No.
For every "sale" DRM protects from the average consumer, there are probably a few people who either got stopped or tired of jumping through the hoops the content makers make the paying customers jump through.
To be fair, your parent said it was simply preferred and not mandatory. It sounds like an idealist notion and was put in an idealist way. Nothing wrong with that.
Consoles traditionally were single purpose devices. The OS consumed next to nothing and the game could have most of it. Plus, games were supposed to be tweaked to come in as low in resouce usage as possible.
Obviously, some of that has changed with them able to stream netflix/browse/online gaming. Even the Wii U, which has 2GB ram, 1/2 of that is dedicated to the games and GPU and the other half to the OS, which is pretty damn disgusting, if you think about it.
Nowadays, with phone camera video recorders (put neatly into a shirt pocket with a convenient stealth hole) or at least using it as an audio recorder, should make things much easier.
Just like that Casey Haynes incident a while back.