Plus, most people here would only advocate it when it's obvious there's no losses.
Like TV shows. Many people here torrent TV shows. When's the last time you let an ad influence your purchasing decisions?
Non-obvious losses are not non-losses.
Take, for example, pollution. I don't see much coming out of my SUV, and it disappears into the air momentarily, therefore the loss is non-obvious, and therefore okay, correct?
Your reasoning must always be "what if everyone did this"? In the case of pollution, it fouls the air. In the case of TV shows, advertisers quit supporting the show and it ceases being made.
Now, we can find ways to clean up pollution, and we can find alternative methods to fund show development. Both are probably good ideas. But both have costs.
So, it's important that our AIs believe that their raison d'etre is to make life better for humans, and we're smart enough to work out what "better" actually means.
At which point we'll all essentially be politicians.
For these people, an iPad is a godsend. It does exactly what they want. They know how to use it. They don't care about DRM. They don't care about Open Source. They don't even care about free beer. (Actually, they might take a pro-free beer position on that last statement).
This is exactly what I thought until I talked to my wife's mother who asked me for my recommendation. She's a Mac user but also browses online to watch Lost and the like. Guess what? No Flash. No deal. They either need to increase the content selection or they're going to lose people.
Thousands of other studies have confirmed that the climate is changing, and that humans are responsible.
Using which datasets? Climategate is regarding the creation of datasets which many thousands of studies are based on. Of course we can't verify whether this is the case because the raw data is now "lost".
I'm curious why the intense dislike for I, Robot. I read and loved the books as well, but it would have been difficult to make a movie out of them.
The only thing I disliked was the robot arm on Smith. Other than that they did it fairly well, even the flawed logic of pushing the three laws too far.
It wasn't great, but it was better than I expected.
Sigh...How do you explain Denmark's success in not only using but also exporting windmills? It gets harder to explain when you consider Denmark's equivalent of the EPA has a few more teeth than the US version.
I think... and I admit I'm guessing here without having done any research... but I think that windmills aren't the same thing as solar panels.
I understand I could be mistaken, and please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not sure what version of field runners you are using, but mine has a 'resume' button the allows you to resume playing where you left off. It does take forever to load though. Most of my FPS games load faster.
Huh, hadn't played it in awhile. That's great!
Still, I'm not aware of "perfect" multi-tasking environments that require loading screens and pressing resume buttons.:)
I like how the line of reasoning is always "You can't do two things at once, so the experience is better.", and then the answer to "What if I want to do two things as once?" is always "You don't need to, the experience is better.", and I am left scratching my head./quote.
I'm going to one up apple with a device that can't even do one thing at once. My iBrick user experience will RULE!
I have an iPhone. It's not like that. Start fieldrunners. Press home button. Go back to fieldrunners. You start at the menu screen and any current play is lost.
Start watching a show. Press home button. Select iTunes again. It gives you the movie list and you have to select your movie again.
Start safari. Press home button. Start safari again. It shows the webpage... and then pops up a list of local wi-fi hotspots that I wasn't interested in last time I and I still don't want.
So, no, it doesn't feel like it. In fact, it feels, exactly not like it.
but the usa is a cult of capitalism. they think it answers every question (it doesn't). they invoke market principles where market principles make no sense, such as in healthcare. they remove financial regulations and then act surprised when the markets bubble and burst (and then some of them, in their denial, even blame the government, magically somehow, for the market's failure, confusing cause and effect)
I heard they also make broad generalizations about hundreds of millions of people!
Once I saw a Japanese engineer give a presentation about the fuzzy logic algorithm he'd used to control the agitator in a washing machine. We're talking that thing that sticks up in the middle of the washing machine and swishes back and forth.
I think you're misunderstanding. He was simply talking about a setting for angora sweaters.
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The 24 year old wont play a game just because it has "hot horny nympho sex and buckets of blood".
Geez man! Speak for yourself and don't ruin it for the rest of us!
Whoosh indeed.
Because for some strange reason Americans are squeamish about everything sexual, and as a result have the highest rates of STDs in the G-7.....
I can also see the case for that being proof of the opposite...
I'm sorry, but I have a patent on this patent process.
Plus, most people here would only advocate it when it's obvious there's no losses.
Like TV shows. Many people here torrent TV shows. When's the last time you let an ad influence your purchasing decisions?
Non-obvious losses are not non-losses.
Take, for example, pollution. I don't see much coming out of my SUV, and it disappears into the air momentarily, therefore the loss is non-obvious, and therefore okay, correct?
Your reasoning must always be "what if everyone did this"? In the case of pollution, it fouls the air. In the case of TV shows, advertisers quit supporting the show and it ceases being made.
Now, we can find ways to clean up pollution, and we can find alternative methods to fund show development. Both are probably good ideas. But both have costs.
It's just like LCDs getting their amazing thinness by having individual pixels instead of scanning an electron beam across a vacuum tube.
Disgusting!
So, it's important that our AIs believe that their raison d'etre is to make life better for humans, and we're smart enough to work out what "better" actually means.
At which point we'll all essentially be politicians.
Economics isn't science, which is why Nobel didn't create a prize for it.
For these people, an iPad is a godsend. It does exactly what they want. They know how to use it. They don't care about DRM. They don't care about Open Source. They don't even care about free beer. (Actually, they might take a pro-free beer position on that last statement).
This is exactly what I thought until I talked to my wife's mother who asked me for my recommendation. She's a Mac user but also browses online to watch Lost and the like. Guess what? No Flash. No deal. They either need to increase the content selection or they're going to lose people.
Thousands of other studies have confirmed that the climate is changing, and that humans are responsible.
Using which datasets? Climategate is regarding the creation of datasets which many thousands of studies are based on. Of course we can't verify whether this is the case because the raw data is now "lost".
I'm curious why the intense dislike for I, Robot. I read and loved the books as well, but it would have been difficult to make a movie out of them.
The only thing I disliked was the robot arm on Smith. Other than that they did it fairly well, even the flawed logic of pushing the three laws too far.
It wasn't great, but it was better than I expected.
... when other people want to homeschool their kids.
Sigh...How do you explain Denmark's success in not only using but also exporting windmills? It gets harder to explain when you consider Denmark's equivalent of the EPA has a few more teeth than the US version.
I think... and I admit I'm guessing here without having done any research... but I think that windmills aren't the same thing as solar panels.
I understand I could be mistaken, and please correct me if I'm wrong.
Let's borrow more money from them so we can invest in winning the race to clean energy!
I'm not sure what version of field runners you are using, but mine has a 'resume' button the allows you to resume playing where you left off. It does take forever to load though. Most of my FPS games load faster.
Huh, hadn't played it in awhile. That's great!
:)
Still, I'm not aware of "perfect" multi-tasking environments that require loading screens and pressing resume buttons.
But the title says "perfect". The iPad is not a perfect MP3/Video/or book platform. Is it a more than decent substitute? Probably.
It may or may not be a decent board game substitute. But it sure as hell isn't perfect.
I like how the line of reasoning is always "You can't do two things at once, so the experience is better.", and then the answer to "What if I want to do two things as once?" is always "You don't need to, the experience is better.", and I am left scratching my head./quote. I'm going to one up apple with a device that can't even do one thing at once. My iBrick user experience will RULE!
I have an iPhone. It's not like that. Start fieldrunners. Press home button. Go back to fieldrunners. You start at the menu screen and any current play is lost.
Start watching a show. Press home button. Select iTunes again. It gives you the movie list and you have to select your movie again.
Start safari. Press home button. Start safari again. It shows the webpage... and then pops up a list of local wi-fi hotspots that I wasn't interested in last time I and I still don't want.
So, no, it doesn't feel like it. In fact, it feels, exactly not like it.
Meanwhile, the geeks are running around blasting Apple products for all the things they "don't have" and recommending complex alternatives
I'm sorry, having to shut down my web browser to check my email or look at a document or IM someone is more complex than switching windows.
but the usa is a cult of capitalism. they think it answers every question (it doesn't). they invoke market principles where market principles make no sense, such as in healthcare. they remove financial regulations and then act surprised when the markets bubble and burst (and then some of them, in their denial, even blame the government, magically somehow, for the market's failure, confusing cause and effect)
I heard they also make broad generalizations about hundreds of millions of people!
Once I saw a Japanese engineer give a presentation about the fuzzy logic algorithm he'd used to control the agitator in a washing machine. We're talking that thing that sticks up in the middle of the washing machine and swishes back and forth.
I think you're misunderstanding. He was simply talking about a setting for angora sweaters.
But this is a tempest in a teapot. Broken downloads mean nothing.
In social animals, it is the survival of the group that is driving evolution, not the survival of individual or their genes.
The question then becomes... which group.
but what profiteth a man if he wins the world and loses his soul?
The same profiteth as if he kept it.
And after all that, they then found a way to reliably convey sarcasm over the internet...