If you can't support an ideal when the going gets rough, then it's not an ideal. Either everyone (including the absolute worst of us) enjoys the same level of protection, or nobody truly does.
I'm not really sure how applicable my example will be to this situation, but when the gif patent issue was relevant most of the people working with the format just worked around the problem. It was a pain in the ass, but so were a lot of other things.
How does that line go? "The great thing about standards is that there are so many of them" or something. If licensing the proprietary standard ends up costing more than the bandwidth/time it saves, I can't see it being a very popular choice.
If you can't do this you have no business being a consultant (or general employee, for that matter).
That's a best-case scenario, and you should know it. There are plenty of jobs or projects out there where you will never be given the time it takes to "do it right." If you're the kind of person who's willing to spend their own time documenting systems then more power to you, but most of us don't want to work for free.
Look, just ask yourself if the unbillable time you're spending is making someone else money. That's the metric you need to keep in your head all the time.
It always disappoints me how little hemp is used in industry. It is my understanding that hemp is easy to grow, is a more durable replacement for cotton and can be a more sustainable fibre for paper.
Just wait. They're actively driving away non-whites in a country with a decreasing white population. The key republican strength, well-organized party unity, has become its weakness. Republicans have to toe the party line, even as it pulls them over a cliff.
To me, the interesting question is where will the fiscal conservatives go? Where is there a party for the republican who doesn't hate? Who will represent the non- or casual christian conservative?
Technological progress is a given and the more limited of Kurzweil's predictions are correct because they typically require modest improvements in current technology - but epiphenomenalism, i.e. the singularity, is far from a given.
I was under the impression that a technological singularity marks the point in time when, simply put, our technological progress moves beyond our (current) comprehension of its potential. "Not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine." and so forth.
I think after just a few of these, along with some big companies getting bitten hard by the suddenly invalidated patents, would cause quality control to skyrocket.
Or cause people to not want to work for the patent office. They're already massively understaffed, and you'd like to introduce a program that would make this worse?
MMOs make their games intentionally addictive. Nothing wrong with that, per se, and there's no reason to formally regulate it. The basic rule of "be responsible for your actions" should apply here, and to the extent that NCSoft making Lineage II addictive caused this guy harm, they should be held accountable. But, he's also an adult, and needs to have at least SOME self-control.
Your definition of either 'addictive' or 'self-control' is out of whack here. And I'm guessing that your 'adult' could use updating too;)
Seriously though, ever since Diablo a lot of these games have been essentially Skinner boxes, and we know what those do to test subjects because we were awake in psych, right?
Less crappy, yes, but still a steaming turd. UI design (and that is the entire problem, folks) hasn't progressed much in the 30+ years since Xerox let the cat out of the bag.
From my point of view the real solution would be to not rely on one company do all the UI thinking for the entire planet. Apple doesn't lead the industry in design because they're brilliant, they just actually make products with (slightly) new approaches.
Here's a simple question with a complex answer: Why is astrology no longer considered a science?
((slightly OT: the problem with applying The "Amazing" Randi's "woo" term to non-psychic phenomena is that there's a very specific reason he focuses on exposing psychic fraud. This ties in to the above question.))
I think "go wrong" means when the Taliban murders the civilians named in the documents as cooperating with ISAF, which the Taliban has already promised to do.
How would you be able to tell this from their normal asshattery? I have a feeling that both the Taliban and Fox News will start appending "because Wikileaks" to any event now.
Actually it's still "indentured servant." It still exists, but the practice is illegal in most developed nations. The closest modern equivalent position in America is probably a foreign sex worker who has to "earn" her passport back from her handlers/captors.
At best, at best, your email will end up as a check in either the "liberal loon" or "bat-shit crazy conservative" column. Your representative cares about your personal opinion, if at all, in direct proportion to the effort required to communicate it.
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That's true if your bunker or cave is a closed system. Most aren't.
They were both robots? That explains so much...
The major networks are every bit as biased as Fox.
They're just not an active fount of evil.
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If you can't support an ideal when the going gets rough, then it's not an ideal. Either everyone (including the absolute worst of us) enjoys the same level of protection, or nobody truly does.
I'm not really sure how applicable my example will be to this situation, but when the gif patent issue was relevant most of the people working with the format just worked around the problem. It was a pain in the ass, but so were a lot of other things.
How does that line go? "The great thing about standards is that there are so many of them" or something. If licensing the proprietary standard ends up costing more than the bandwidth/time it saves, I can't see it being a very popular choice.
And the award for "best waste of a fascinating premise" goes to...
You are!
*bonk*
If you can't do this you have no business being a consultant (or general employee, for that matter).
That's a best-case scenario, and you should know it. There are plenty of jobs or projects out there where you will never be given the time it takes to "do it right." If you're the kind of person who's willing to spend their own time documenting systems then more power to you, but most of us don't want to work for free.
Look, just ask yourself if the unbillable time you're spending is making someone else money. That's the metric you need to keep in your head all the time.
It always disappoints me how little hemp is used in industry. It is my understanding that hemp is easy to grow, is a more durable replacement for cotton and can be a more sustainable fibre for paper.
It is. That's why it's illegal.
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Huh, looks like you're full of shit. If even Lars "I killed a billion-dollar industry" Ulrich is on board I think you'll need to find a new straw man.
Just wait. They're actively driving away non-whites in a country with a decreasing white population. The key republican strength, well-organized party unity, has become its weakness. Republicans have to toe the party line, even as it pulls them over a cliff.
To me, the interesting question is where will the fiscal conservatives go? Where is there a party for the republican who doesn't hate? Who will represent the non- or casual christian conservative?
Michael Bloomberg is probably the man to watch right now.
Technological progress is a given and the more limited of Kurzweil's predictions are correct because they typically require modest improvements in current technology - but epiphenomenalism, i.e. the singularity, is far from a given.
I was under the impression that a technological singularity marks the point in time when, simply put, our technological progress moves beyond our (current) comprehension of its potential. "Not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine." and so forth.
Wanting a bunch of virgins is something only a virgin would want.
I think after just a few of these, along with some big companies getting bitten hard by the suddenly invalidated patents, would cause quality control to skyrocket.
Or cause people to not want to work for the patent office. They're already massively understaffed, and you'd like to introduce a program that would make this worse?
MMOs make their games intentionally addictive. Nothing wrong with that, per se, and there's no reason to formally regulate it. The basic rule of "be responsible for your actions" should apply here, and to the extent that NCSoft making Lineage II addictive caused this guy harm, they should be held accountable. But, he's also an adult, and needs to have at least SOME self-control.
;)
Your definition of either 'addictive' or 'self-control' is out of whack here. And I'm guessing that your 'adult' could use updating too
Seriously though, ever since Diablo a lot of these games have been essentially Skinner boxes, and we know what those do to test subjects because we were awake in psych, right?
Ob. P.A.
Less crappy, yes, but still a steaming turd. UI design (and that is the entire problem, folks) hasn't progressed much in the 30+ years since Xerox let the cat out of the bag.
From my point of view the real solution would be to not rely on one company do all the UI thinking for the entire planet. Apple doesn't lead the industry in design because they're brilliant, they just actually make products with (slightly) new approaches.
"If it exists, there is woo of it".
Here's a simple question with a complex answer: Why is astrology no longer considered a science?
((slightly OT: the problem with applying The "Amazing" Randi's "woo" term to non-psychic phenomena is that there's a very specific reason he focuses on exposing psychic fraud. This ties in to the above question.))
I think "go wrong" means when the Taliban murders the civilians named in the documents as cooperating with ISAF, which the Taliban has already promised to do.
How would you be able to tell this from their normal asshattery? I have a feeling that both the Taliban and Fox News will start appending "because Wikileaks" to any event now.
Well here is an example from the same source showing just how seriously people take war in games.
You want to stay the hell away from farm-raised fish.
Why are you in such a hurry to leave ze DDR?
The modern equivalent word would be "employee".
Actually it's still "indentured servant." It still exists, but the practice is illegal in most developed nations. The closest modern equivalent position in America is probably a foreign sex worker who has to "earn" her passport back from her handlers/captors.
At best, at best, your email will end up as a check in either the "liberal loon" or "bat-shit crazy conservative" column. Your representative cares about your personal opinion, if at all, in direct proportion to the effort required to communicate it.
Where do you live that a first class stamp is a quarter?
1996. The weather's nice and the politics less rabid.