Yeah. They have to dumb it down these days. They don't teach kids how to graph by hand and identify the key points (zeroes, inflections, maximum/minimum) by the function itself anymore
More likely is that "Righthaven" will simply run around jurisdiction-shopping till they find a bribable judge willing to rule in their favor, then refile all these lawsuits.
No, they were just using more complicated processors because more complicated processors were available. Follow the generic rise: 4bit->8bit->16bit->32bit->64bit->DesktopCPU + DesktopGPU. That final step's the real killer.
Well... except for the PS3. Thing's so fucking terrible to code for that IBM even gave up on their promised "octopiler" compiler for it and said they could never ever get the damn thing to work. It's one big thing holding the PS3 back from "theoretical power" as opposed to what can actually be done with it - the other thing being that it's permanently stuck in 3rd place for this generation, and nobody in their right mind except for Sony's in-house developers will do anything as mind-blowingly stupid as to fail to code and release Xbox360 port that looks and plays just as good. Most of the time, the Xbox360 is the primary code and the PS3 version is the port.
I've boycotted Starcraft 2 until I can get a 3-pack, which will be the ACTUAL full game, for $60 or less.
Of course, that's going to take a while. But if more people did like me, Blizzard (and a host of other companies) would learn they can't just turd out 1/3 of the game and demand tons of money for it while holding back the rest for "sequels" or "DLC."
No, what's frightening is the realization of how many of them get their daily programming from the likes of Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, or other Two Minutes Hate type sources.
Who knows what is available in: - China - North Korea - Vietnam - Pakistan - your tin-pot despotic regime of choice
That's as good a reason as possible to maintain something to work with should some asshole with "nothing to lose" decide to let it loose on the world. Especially since it's now "eradicated" and other orthopox viruses are not nearly as prevalent as they once were (the first smallpox vaccines were derived not from smallpox itself but from a related human-transmissible disease, cowpox).
So no, "pointing" isn't hardwired. It's something babies will pick up if their parents do it, perhaps. but it's not hardwired. About the only thing hardwired is babies crying for attention.
PS3 users weren't able to play any game requiring an online component. When the vast majority of them are PO'ed because they haven't been able to get on the various Call of Duty servers, that's no small problem.
After looking through the research, you're correct - the article's claims are very much overblown.
Do they "invent" random words for places? Yes, by throwing random characters as a preprogrammed method. Do they "communicate" this to another robot? Yes.
Is the other robot preprogrammed to (a) accept pointing as a convention and (b) receive information in the "name, point to place" format: Yes.
They share a common communication frame. That's the "language" they communicate in. And it was preprogrammed to them. That they are expanding it by "naming places" is amusing, but it's hardcoded behavior only and they could just as easily have been programmed to select an origin spot, name it "Zero", and proceed to create a north-south/east-west grid of positive and negative integers and "communicate" it in the same fashion.
Last time I pointed out how bad this was, a bunch of Sony Fanbois downmodded me.
They seem to spend far more money on faked astroturf ad campaigns than they do on security, anyways. Remember the PSP incidents?
The Sony Fanbois today are pretty much a standing example of FanDumb... not surprising since anyone with any sense jumped ship from Sony a long while ago.
If they weren't already testing for vulnerabilities, they're bigger idiots than we thought.
Someone explain why he should, merely for having the temerity to assert his right to a trial, have to pay for something they should already have been doing?
Or, to put it in a more sinister way: You get a heavier sentence if you insist on asserting your constitutional rights to a trial, to confront your accusers, to privacy from searches without probable cause, to avoid incriminating yourself, etc.
Since when has all this automatic stuff ever been done with energy efficiency in mind?
One look at all the craze over "wireless everything" shows you that people aren't serious about energy efficiency.
Then again, there was a time we had to get up off the couch to change the channel, too. Imagine the lazy people of today even thinking of such a thing or knowing where the controls were on the damn TV.
for example, if a new demographic of students starts to appear which demand to pay less but only to be tested and certified for their degrees, because the free educational material available is good enough for them.
As the cost of a college education has skyrocketed, a similar thing's happened already in both public and private institutions. Namely, kids taking a couple of years at a local community college to get their "core" out of the way before transferring in to the college they actually want to get their 4-year degree from.
But why has the cost skyrocketed? 1 - HR drones constantly inflating the "requirements" of various jobs. Jobs that used to require a HS diploma and the ability to get through a basic spoken interview, followed by the company training the worker for the specifics, now require "a BS in related field, 4 years related experience, Certifications X,Y,Z,Q,D..." Reasons for it? Apart from (a) companies not wanting to bother with even the basic training for their employees, (b) companies having zero loyalty TO their employees (and consequently, employees jumping ship / changing jobs often), and (c) the slow but sure creep of companies deliberately inflating the requirements so as to disqualify as many capable Americans as possible so they can abuse the H1-B system instead.
2 - "State Universities" used to be state-funded, to the tune of 90% or more. Thanks to Retardicans in state legislatures who don't understand the value of an actual education (face it, what they got was daddy paying a private college to let them ride and buying them a swanky place and a spot in the "for rich whiteys only" frat), your average state university now is lucky to get 20% of their budget that way. The rest is either "grant funding", alumni donations, or... you guessed it... jacked-up tuition and fees.
Still doesn't answer why something Blatantly Fucking Obvious didn't fail the Obviousness test in the first place.
US Patent Office has some explaining to do about why they are so fucking incompetent. This is clearly in the list of "how the fuck was it ever granted" patents.
(Yes, I know... overworked due to patent slamming, paid by number of patents processed rather than quality of work done vetting them, etc).
What you've made is an excellent argument for de-personing corporations, not for eliminating these sort of injunctions in cases where having a bunch of rowdy assholes show up would likely cause major problems for an entire hospital.
The upside for everyone else - Wii, Xbox, PC - is that they've been playing their games this entire time.
Oh, and they don't have to update to an untested version of the "new system software" that still has a pretty good (as in, "non-negligible") chance of bricking your console with the update-from-HDD method they were using.
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Yeah. They have to dumb it down these days. They don't teach kids how to graph by hand and identify the key points (zeroes, inflections, maximum/minimum) by the function itself anymore
More likely is that "Righthaven" will simply run around jurisdiction-shopping till they find a bribable judge willing to rule in their favor, then refile all these lawsuits.
No, they were just using more complicated processors because more complicated processors were available. Follow the generic rise: 4bit->8bit->16bit->32bit->64bit->DesktopCPU + DesktopGPU. That final step's the real killer.
Well... except for the PS3. Thing's so fucking terrible to code for that IBM even gave up on their promised "octopiler" compiler for it and said they could never ever get the damn thing to work. It's one big thing holding the PS3 back from "theoretical power" as opposed to what can actually be done with it - the other thing being that it's permanently stuck in 3rd place for this generation, and nobody in their right mind except for Sony's in-house developers will do anything as mind-blowingly stupid as to fail to code and release Xbox360 port that looks and plays just as good. Most of the time, the Xbox360 is the primary code and the PS3 version is the port.
I've boycotted Starcraft 2 until I can get a 3-pack, which will be the ACTUAL full game, for $60 or less.
Of course, that's going to take a while. But if more people did like me, Blizzard (and a host of other companies) would learn they can't just turd out 1/3 of the game and demand tons of money for it while holding back the rest for "sequels" or "DLC."
And of course, the thought of making a game good enough and non-buggy enough that people do not want to just sell it off, never occurs to them.
No, what's frightening is the realization of how many of them get their daily programming from the likes of Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, or other Two Minutes Hate type sources.
Russia is keeping theirs.
Who knows what is available in:
- China
- North Korea
- Vietnam
- Pakistan
- your tin-pot despotic regime of choice
That's as good a reason as possible to maintain something to work with should some asshole with "nothing to lose" decide to let it loose on the world. Especially since it's now "eradicated" and other orthopox viruses are not nearly as prevalent as they once were (the first smallpox vaccines were derived not from smallpox itself but from a related human-transmissible disease, cowpox).
We still have to pick up on the meaning of "pointing."
In some cultures, that's not polite to do.
So no, "pointing" isn't hardwired. It's something babies will pick up if their parents do it, perhaps. but it's not hardwired. About the only thing hardwired is babies crying for attention.
Oh do shut up.
PS3 users weren't able to play any game requiring an online component. When the vast majority of them are PO'ed because they haven't been able to get on the various Call of Duty servers, that's no small problem.
After looking through the research, you're correct - the article's claims are very much overblown.
Do they "invent" random words for places? Yes, by throwing random characters as a preprogrammed method. Do they "communicate" this to another robot? Yes.
Is the other robot preprogrammed to (a) accept pointing as a convention and (b) receive information in the "name, point to place" format: Yes.
They share a common communication frame. That's the "language" they communicate in. And it was preprogrammed to them. That they are expanding it by "naming places" is amusing, but it's hardcoded behavior only and they could just as easily have been programmed to select an origin spot, name it "Zero", and proceed to create a north-south/east-west grid of positive and negative integers and "communicate" it in the same fashion.
Be careful.
Last time I pointed out how bad this was, a bunch of Sony Fanbois downmodded me.
They seem to spend far more money on faked astroturf ad campaigns than they do on security, anyways. Remember the PSP incidents?
The Sony Fanbois today are pretty much a standing example of FanDumb... not surprising since anyone with any sense jumped ship from Sony a long while ago.
If they weren't already testing for vulnerabilities, they're bigger idiots than we thought.
Someone explain why he should, merely for having the temerity to assert his right to a trial, have to pay for something they should already have been doing?
It's probably billing him for the temerity to actually take his case to trial.
You know, exercising his constitutional rights. That's something the "justice" system has to punish at all costs.
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Or, to put it in a more sinister way: You get a heavier sentence if you insist on asserting your constitutional rights to a trial, to confront your accusers, to privacy from searches without probable cause, to avoid incriminating yourself, etc.
You're forgetting the cost (money, energy, and environmental) of producing, and disposing of when worn out, multiple metric fuck-tons of batteries.
Since when has all this automatic stuff ever been done with energy efficiency in mind?
One look at all the craze over "wireless everything" shows you that people aren't serious about energy efficiency.
Then again, there was a time we had to get up off the couch to change the channel, too. Imagine the lazy people of today even thinking of such a thing or knowing where the controls were on the damn TV.
Why do you think every one of those schools is "attached" to a major boys-only (or at least "historically boys-only") school?
Apparently you've never heard of the "Seven Sisters" colleges.
I had one who gave the wickedest "multiple choice" questions ever. Every single question had the following options:
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) A and B
(f) A and C
(g) A and D
and so on...
Of course, that doesn't work so well for math problems, but he was a psych prof.
for example, if a new demographic of students starts to appear which demand to pay less but only to be tested and certified for their degrees, because the free educational material available is good enough for them.
As the cost of a college education has skyrocketed, a similar thing's happened already in both public and private institutions. Namely, kids taking a couple of years at a local community college to get their "core" out of the way before transferring in to the college they actually want to get their 4-year degree from.
But why has the cost skyrocketed?
1 - HR drones constantly inflating the "requirements" of various jobs. Jobs that used to require a HS diploma and the ability to get through a basic spoken interview, followed by the company training the worker for the specifics, now require "a BS in related field, 4 years related experience, Certifications X,Y,Z,Q,D..." Reasons for it? Apart from (a) companies not wanting to bother with even the basic training for their employees, (b) companies having zero loyalty TO their employees (and consequently, employees jumping ship / changing jobs often), and (c) the slow but sure creep of companies deliberately inflating the requirements so as to disqualify as many capable Americans as possible so they can abuse the H1-B system instead.
2 - "State Universities" used to be state-funded, to the tune of 90% or more. Thanks to Retardicans in state legislatures who don't understand the value of an actual education (face it, what they got was daddy paying a private college to let them ride and buying them a swanky place and a spot in the "for rich whiteys only" frat), your average state university now is lucky to get 20% of their budget that way. The rest is either "grant funding", alumni donations, or... you guessed it... jacked-up tuition and fees.
Or for the private girls' school:
(iv) meeting the "right boy" to get her MRS degree with.
Did you not understand the part where patents need to be verified to be non-obvious before being granted?
Still doesn't answer why something Blatantly Fucking Obvious didn't fail the Obviousness test in the first place.
US Patent Office has some explaining to do about why they are so fucking incompetent. This is clearly in the list of "how the fuck was it ever granted" patents.
(Yes, I know... overworked due to patent slamming, paid by number of patents processed rather than quality of work done vetting them, etc).
Hey, remember when the police and the teachers' unions crashed the stock market, raided everyone's pension funds, and shipped all the jobs to India?
Yeah, neither do I.
What you've made is an excellent argument for de-personing corporations, not for eliminating these sort of injunctions in cases where having a bunch of rowdy assholes show up would likely cause major problems for an entire hospital.
The upside for everyone else - Wii, Xbox, PC - is that they've been playing their games this entire time.
Oh, and they don't have to update to an untested version of the "new system software" that still has a pretty good (as in, "non-negligible") chance of bricking your console with the update-from-HDD method they were using.
The best liars are the CEOs and hedge fund managers.
You forgot the politicians.