I didn't know who he was till I read his Wikipedia page and I've been reading SF and fantasy for over thirty years. He may be a fairly prolific writer (though no where near Asimov or P. Anthony) he's far from a household name, even just in SF circles.
Doesn't make it any safer, the problem is the conversation with someone you can't see.
Our brains are geared to use visual clues in conversation and when you can't see the other person the brain over focuses on the audio clues and starts down filtering anything not related to the conversation.
If anything hands free makes it worse, because you THINK your being safer and not putting any extra effort into your driving.
On the phone OR on the road, not both.
Actually they don't have your card # most of the time. it's kept and used just long enough to verify the transaction and generate an authorization number, which identifies that specific transaction.
Where I work once I get an authorization number there is NO way for me to go back into the system and get the card number, and I'm the boss.
This is not true across the board, but most places where you just swipe your card (or can) work this way around here.
If they're shipping oil to Japan then that means Japan is paying more than we are for oil. so If we're paying 70 a barrel and Japan is paying 75 then they can make five bucks and we still get us our barrel elsewhere.
How's this bad?
The only thing I can think of is if the 70 oil costs more to refine do to quality/type of oil and result in bigger local markup than the home drilled stuff. But if that were true then local refiners would pay the 75 that cost 5 to refine over the 70 that cost 15.
That said I do agree that it should only be a stop-gap type measure as we seek better ways of handling many of current uses for oil.
Yes because no group or subset of society has ever been wrongly subjected to bias and everyone loves targeted advertising in their mailbox (physical or email).
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls......
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No but it is a violation of the TOS, and can result in both the seller and buyer's acounts getting banned and the isk deleted. There are legit (ccp allowed) methods to turn $$$ into isk. you buy game time, eigther as code or an ingame item (plex) and sell that for isk.
Not if you put it out publicly. Want rules, go private such as a subscription model. My computer, My time, my choice.
You can say anything you want (obvious 'fire' in a crowded theater, liable, slander etc. exceptions). and people have a right to ignore any portion thereof.
Free speech != guaranteed audience or acceptance. Haven't read the article yet, but if you want it read and the adds viewed, give folks a reason past a third grade 'not fair' argument.
I'm sorry, how is an IMAGE manipulation program connecting to the internet when passed an image from another program the expected result, isn't this kind of crap what made Outlook Express (which WAS expected to connect to the internet!) such a huge virus vector.
If I drag from app a to app b I expect the two apps to pass the data itself, in this case an image, NOT connect to a third party on the net. The only time I'd expect some other behavior is when app b isn't capable of handling the data, IE passing a pdf file to an mp3 player would be an ok reason for an error message.
Sorry if that's a pass then I'd rather have a fail the just passes the image across.
IIRC you are safer underground than above in case of an earthquake as you ride WITH the ground wave rather than have the bottom of your structure pulled one way and the rest try to catch up.
You'd think so, but I've got a cousin with such a tangled romantic life(married 3 times that I know of, 1st and 3rd time to the same gal) there might actually be some confusion over maternity(and yes amongst the mothers!), let alone paternity.
Actually C) is not entirely true, and NOT guaranteed. The combination of name and number is supposed to be unique(by being so incredibly unlikely), but the generating process makes no attempt to see if a number is already in use by anyone else.
Actually CCP does somewhat limit the purchase of plex with credit cards, you can make a max of 1 purchase per 24 hour, max of 6 plex per purchase.
Although the number of different accounts that can make such purchases may not be limited, with 1/4 mill accounts (iirc) the limit is about 1.5 mill plex per day, i'd be suprised if it ever got near that limit (and if it did the sellers would so outweigh the buyer that the would sell for about 2 isk each).
T3 is in, modular cruisers, and a whole slew of new systems, though getting to and from them is iffy. as this tangential to the main article/thread I'll just stop at that.
I've had very few ATI driver crashes myself, I have ONE game that every third patch or so I can depend on locking the drivers if I do things just right(a very certain sequence, easily avoided), and even then vista re-sets them after a bit.
Nvidia on the other hand I've failed to get hardware that works long enough to comment on the drivers since the started making chip-sets for something more advanced than plain old pci.
4 different systems and 5 different cards(6xxx and 8xxx series mostly), best results I ever got was a card that wouldn't hard lock the system (Power switch on psu, not soft switch on case!) as long you didn't use the second monitor out or do anything 3d or move the cursor to fast for it.
Their motherboard chipset I do like however, three of the systems I tried their graphics cards in were Nvidia based mainboards.
I was more referring to the specific human form, I was thinking it'd be easier to build a specific mission or even general purpose type robot without anthropomorphic physical and 'mental' requirements and co-design the tools than to add 'uses tools built for humans' to the design.
In many ways the human form and functional parameters are notably sub-par in ways a robot need not be. In a martial scenario the aiming of small arms comes to mind. We have to mostly use our limited eyes and sight through a scope or such, yet a modified weapon built to provide better data coupled with a combat robot that do the math and so on would likely be far more accurate.
Though the ability to use natural language would be a boon when communicating with human operators/commanders, that's not an easy problem to solve. Though within a limited domain a reasonable approximation might be reached.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a realistic android in my lifetime, I figure we're much more likely to get there by constantly improving and widening the scope of more specific less humanoid robots than by developing a commander Data and specializing from there.
Be carefull with the 3 and 4k series, they were designed for pci-e only (not shure, but think the 2k series is the same) and they only do agp with a bridge chip of some sort and there have been issues, and ati doesn't support those configurations (you're pretty much stuck with the vendors custom version of the radeon drivers).
The effort in building a human enough like robot to use our gear is likely greater than the effort to build more mission specific bots and attendant gear, or even multi-mission capable bots.
The savings you get in transitioning like you say is kinda like paying an extra $50k on a car to qualify for the $100 cash back and fuzzy dice.
At least you got it to install, I only got that lucky ONCE. I've tried 4 revisions at least, I finally gave up despite the hype.
Oh and the one time it didn't fail mid install it overwrote my main hd's boot sector despite my telling it to only go on the 2nd hd and made a whole bunch of screwed up file association (*.iso == music/mp3?!?!) making it a chore to fix.
This isn't counting trying both the 64 and 32 bit version of the same release.
Not expressly, no. But the several amendments, the 9th and 14th in particular, as well as several others, have been held to imply it by the supreme court in several rulings.
Try googling right to privacy, several good articles out there.
I've found throwing rocks and such, properly encased in nice metal cans, can help with convincing others of the need to ship water to the moon.
But then what would I know?:)
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I didn't know who he was till I read his Wikipedia page and I've been reading SF and fantasy for over thirty years.
He may be a fairly prolific writer (though no where near Asimov or P. Anthony) he's far from a household name, even just in SF circles.
Mycroft
Doesn't make it any safer, the problem is the conversation with someone you can't see.
Our brains are geared to use visual clues in conversation and when you can't see the other person the brain over focuses on the audio clues and starts down filtering anything not related to the conversation.
If anything hands free makes it worse, because you THINK your being safer and not putting any extra effort into your driving.
On the phone OR on the road, not both.
Mycroft
Actually they don't have your card # most of the time. it's kept and used just long enough to verify the transaction and generate an authorization number, which identifies that specific transaction.
Where I work once I get an authorization number there is NO way for me to go back into the system and get the card number, and I'm the boss.
This is not true across the board, but most places where you just swipe your card (or can) work this way around here.
Mcyroft
It also deliberately reduced normal functionality of the computer, also without consent.
Thus malware.
If they're shipping oil to Japan then that means Japan is paying more than we are for oil.
so If we're paying 70 a barrel and Japan is paying 75 then they can make five bucks and we still get us our barrel elsewhere.
How's this bad?
The only thing I can think of is if the 70 oil costs more to refine do to quality/type of oil and result in bigger local markup than the home drilled stuff. But if that were true then local refiners would pay the 75 that cost 5 to refine over the 70 that cost 15.
That said I do agree that it should only be a stop-gap type measure as we seek better ways of handling many of current uses for oil.
Mycroft
Yes because no group or subset of society has ever been wrongly subjected to bias and everyone loves targeted advertising in their mailbox (physical or email).
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls......
No but it is a violation of the TOS, and can result in both the seller and buyer's acounts getting banned and the isk deleted.
There are legit (ccp allowed) methods to turn $$$ into isk. you buy game time, eigther as code or an ingame item (plex) and sell that for isk.
Mycroft.
Not if you put it out publicly. Want rules, go private such as a subscription model.
My computer, My time, my choice.
You can say anything you want (obvious 'fire' in a crowded theater, liable, slander etc. exceptions).
and people have a right to ignore any portion thereof.
Free speech != guaranteed audience or acceptance.
Haven't read the article yet, but if you want it read and the adds viewed, give folks a reason past a third grade 'not fair' argument.
Mcyroft
More like an unintended Easter egg.
Mycroft
I'm sorry, how is an IMAGE manipulation program connecting to the internet when passed an image from another program the expected result, isn't this kind of crap what made Outlook Express (which WAS expected to connect to the internet!) such a huge virus vector.
If I drag from app a to app b I expect the two apps to pass the data itself, in this case an image, NOT connect to a third party on the net. The only time I'd expect some other behavior is when app b isn't capable of handling the data, IE passing a pdf file to an mp3 player would be an ok reason for an error message.
Sorry if that's a pass then I'd rather have a fail the just passes the image across.
Mycroft
IIRC you are safer underground than above in case of an earthquake as you ride WITH the ground wave rather than have the bottom of your structure pulled one way and the rest try to catch up.
Mycroft
You'd think so, but I've got a cousin with such a tangled romantic life(married 3 times that I know of, 1st and 3rd time to the same gal) there might actually be some confusion over maternity(and yes amongst the mothers!), let alone paternity.
Mycroft
Actually C) is not entirely true, and NOT guaranteed.
The combination of name and number is supposed to be unique(by being so incredibly unlikely), but the generating process makes no attempt to see if a number is already in use by anyone else.
Mycroft
There are non visual funny-once jokes
Mycroft
Actually CCP does somewhat limit the purchase of plex with credit cards, you can make a max of 1 purchase per 24 hour, max of 6 plex per purchase.
Although the number of different accounts that can make such purchases may not be limited, with 1/4 mill accounts (iirc) the limit is about 1.5 mill plex per day, i'd be suprised if it ever got near that limit (and if it did the sellers would so outweigh the buyer that the would sell for about 2 isk each).
MYcroft
T3 is in, modular cruisers, and a whole slew of new systems, though getting to and from them is iffy.
as this tangential to the main article/thread I'll just stop at that.
I've had very few ATI driver crashes myself, I have ONE game that every third patch or so I can depend on locking the drivers if I do things just right(a very certain sequence, easily avoided), and even then vista re-sets them after a bit.
Nvidia on the other hand I've failed to get hardware that works long enough to comment on the drivers since the started making chip-sets for something more advanced than plain old pci.
4 different systems and 5 different cards(6xxx and 8xxx series mostly), best results I ever got was a card that wouldn't hard lock the system (Power switch on psu, not soft switch on case!) as long you didn't use the second monitor out or do anything 3d or move the cursor to fast for it.
Their motherboard chipset I do like however, three of the systems I tried their graphics cards in were Nvidia based mainboards.
Mycroft
I was more referring to the specific human form, I was thinking it'd be easier to build a specific mission or even general purpose type robot without anthropomorphic physical and 'mental' requirements and co-design the tools than to add 'uses tools built for humans' to the design.
In many ways the human form and functional parameters are notably sub-par in ways a robot need not be.
In a martial scenario the aiming of small arms comes to mind. We have to mostly use our limited eyes and sight through a scope or such, yet a modified weapon built to provide better data coupled with a combat robot that do the math and so on would likely be far more accurate.
Though the ability to use natural language would be a boon when communicating with human operators/commanders, that's not an easy problem to solve. Though within a limited domain a reasonable approximation might be reached.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a realistic android in my lifetime, I figure we're much more likely to get there by constantly improving and widening the scope of more specific less humanoid robots than by developing a commander Data and specializing from there.
Mycroft
Small nit, but I think you meant A. C. Clarke, not Assimov.
Mycroft
Be carefull with the 3 and 4k series, they were designed for pci-e only (not shure, but think the 2k series is the same) and they only do agp with a bridge chip of some sort and there have been issues, and ati doesn't support those configurations (you're pretty much stuck with the vendors custom version of the radeon drivers).
Mycroft
The effort in building a human enough like robot to use our gear is likely greater than the effort to build more mission specific bots and attendant gear, or even multi-mission capable bots.
The savings you get in transitioning like you say is kinda like paying an extra $50k on a car to qualify for the $100 cash back and fuzzy dice.
Mcyroft
At least you got it to install, I only got that lucky ONCE. I've tried 4 revisions at least, I finally gave up despite the hype.
Oh and the one time it didn't fail mid install it overwrote my main hd's boot sector despite my telling it to only go on the 2nd hd and made a whole bunch of screwed up file association (*.iso == music/mp3?!?!) making it a chore to fix.
This isn't counting trying both the 64 and 32 bit version of the same release.
Mycroft
Not expressly, no. But the several amendments, the 9th and 14th in particular, as well as several others, have been held to imply it by the supreme court in several rulings.
Try googling right to privacy, several good articles out there.
Mycroft
It's already been done, a bit heavy on the action and light on the other parts, but it was done.
It's also set in modern times so no flying cars.
Mycroft
I've found throwing rocks and such, properly encased in nice metal cans, can help with convincing others of the need to ship water to the moon.
But then what would I know?:)
Mycroft