Anybody who understood basic high school kinetics should be saying the same thing!
Note: F= ma also is impacted by the speed limit. You could make heavier stuff go slower. Such as those massive farm machines or houses or industrial machines that take up 1.5 lanes of the highway. They are already a problem, moving slower wouldn't hurt.
The reality is that boat and train are BETTER ways to transport heavy items and they would be cheaper if WE didn't significantly subsidize trucking in our unfairly slanted highway taxes.
No. Microsoft now has devices made to their specs and can tweak as much as apple if they wish to do so on those devices. They do have less time doing this than Apple but it's not like they can't put special effort into their own hardware -- they now can and probably do... especially with the losses on the Surface.
They are big enough to support everybody and screw everybody over while putting extra effort into their own projects... like the Zune!
All that DRM and the crazy svchost.exe mess has to cost something. Not to mention the description of address randomization which seemed to show a lack of understanding of what OpenBSD did (which I think did it 1st, along with a nice article describing it) which seemed like it would rob from entropy... but why would microsoft care about entropy? they were in bed with the NSA 1st (see the leaked powerpoint.)
I've been saying this for years... as my University added IT as a 4 year degree... I even say it for most CS professionals -- the college model doesn't fit for a trade skill - it is OK for supplement or as part of the process of going from apprentice to master if there isn't a union to do it (and somehow I doubt the union is as good at teaching the academic areas.)
The government has complete power over corporations like an OS over apps. Our problem is the root kits and privilege escalation... and our "I.T. people" are morons or corrupt.
Scientology exploits corporate powers AND religious powers together; both which go too far. The government HAD the power to define corporations and all their limitations. A religion which incorporates (non-profit or for-profit) has no special rights; if they want religious freedom, they can have it-- WITHOUT incorporating. Just as they can have schools that teach the world is flat and receive 0 tax dollars.
You can fix the problem without touching religious freedom (unless your religion is corporatism... arguably, a major religion in the USA today.)
I think people have less imagination in addition to a shorter attention span. There are signs of this out there including studies if you look.
I've been on the edge of dropping the new Who myself. I don't mind the fast pacing and I love FAST dialog (prefer it's not gibberish) but when they cut corners with it just like many lazy action films use a mess of cuts because their actors are not coordinated and their directors suck --- shows today use quick pacing, bad editing and disjointed situations to keep attention rather than focus on the story or ideas which if done right should be allowed to sit a moment and sink into the mind (but without much depth of mind, imagination, or worthy ideas to present...)
While the current writer (Steven Moffat) on Who has brilliant ideas and that got him the job; he isn't the kind of guy who should be in charge - and shouldn't have too much influence. The show reminds me more of children's programming; which fits since Steven Moffat used to do children's programming. We have a mix of a kiddie show cartoon combined with satisfying adult fans. It is surviving but it can't continue to get less sci-fi and less Doctor Who, migrating to Doctor Who the Saturday morning cartoon.
Doctor Who is not Harry Potter the TV series... using his screw driver like a magic wand whenever a problem needs solving; and uttering magical gibberish as the reasoning after the fact. I'm glad it hasn't adopted Star Trek's obsession with BS explanations...yet. It continues to move towards fantasy, magic, and mythology (prophecies) over time; which is bad for Sci-Fi, even if many of the ignorant public treat modern science similar to superstition we don't need to be promoting more of that.
1984 was written as a response to Brave New World; without it, 1984 would not have happened. 1984 is based upon almost entirely negative feedback and censorship for total control. Brave New World was based entirely upon positive feedback controls and distraction; censorship wasn't heavy handed; it didn't need to be. It was more imaginative and trying to point out new methods of control (which were beginning to be used at the time) and new problems while 1984 was a rebuttal, reminding people how human nature has always worked and therefore is likely to continue to work - both go to extremes in their opposite directions for emphasis. Both fail (probably intentionally) to address the flip side.
Creating entertaining versions of history and news which distort truth while NOT censoring the actual truth is totally like Brave New World and is not like 1984. Conditioning people to be such wimps that when they do find the truth it is so unpleasant that they essentially punish themselves with their inability to handle truth.... meanwhile being surrounded in numerous escapes... also makes it difficult to spread bad news around-- no big brother required... distributed decentralized control is even possible. FOX News is a great example, they use both techniques.
You don't need to Torture somebody to make them a loyal party member.
People get funny when Faith is involved. Many people always have had faith in the status quo and it'll blind reason, generate rationalizations, high emotions, etc.
Calling people who know technology who do not fear technology and are experts in technology Luddites is ridiculous enough that one should immediately investigate those who are calling names. Are they the ones who are clinging to the past; perhaps, even clever enough to accuse the opposition of what they are doing?
The BBC's old policy is being partially blamed on the actors unions of the time. They didn't want reruns without having the actors repeat the performance and had an agreement limiting replays. Once that limit was reached, the recording was useless.
Thinking about how technology TAKES JOBS AWAY... just imagine if such policies continued... we would employ scores more actors than we do today; the big stars wouldn't get paid as much but they'd have to work more hours. We still have theater shows and without technology, TV and Movies would be more like that - fancy mindless FX would naturally be toned down... and actors would get sick of repeating vapid lines/characters... Cartoons would likely become bigger...possibly, as they could be a work around for the limitations.
I don't have the time to waste guarding it from you in case you don't respect MY wishes... so I will hire somebody do to that for me. I shall call them "Park Rangers." Rather clever name don't you think? Gee, I'm clever.
Do you see what I'm doing here? Do you see what the "I have a right to use my public land anytime and in anyway I want" people are doing?
There is the business mentality that we can't just fully fund these things so we place usage fees and permits on them to provide some (or all) of the funding. You expect Disneyland to allow people in for free if they closed?
Would you like a bison head in your den? How about an endangered animal? Lets all pee in old faithful and put it on youtube or spray paint "God Hates Fags" on the Vietnam Memorial!
Your police dept covers your area with patrols and by being on call in case of emergency. They are not in everybody's yards (yet.)
The park services; a rather EXTREME example, have HUGE areas of empty land to manage with no hope of being everywhere all at once. They patrol routinely. Just like the police. The mere fact that they are paroling around (randomly unless you study their patterns) provides some degree of protection because people don't know if they are going to run into one and get caught. BTW, obvious tourist destinations are easy to patrol.
IF THE POLICE CLOSED DOWN, criminals would know nobody would be patrolling, nobody would be responding to reports of crimes. The park service is the same situation.
Have you even been around to the national parks? Idiot tourists are all over the place, throwing rocks at the bison, feeding the bears, dumping their trash (which blows around,) burning trash (no kidding, I've seen it,) driving off road, or walking off the board walks near the hot springs (making foot prints, if not holes where they fall to their death... all of which has happened and guess who has to clean it up to try to make it look all natural again so it is worth you going to see it? guess who warns and keeps people ON those paths?)
Don't know if it really can be legitimately called a legal system when it clearly does not work--- tomatoes are vegetables, corporations are people, HSBC launders billions in drug money... banks commit outright fraud that crashes economies around the planet... minorities get higher sentences... innocent people go broke or plea to things they are not guilty to.... people spend YEARS in court and jail without a swift trial, and my favorite one: the prisons can't even the keep illegal drugs out!
Seriously, if you can't keep drugs out of a PRISON you are a joke.
Religion doesn't require a god. Just a belief in supernatural powers impacting reality and this idea that unbridled capitalism and automation are going to give us the best utopia possible is a religion. There is no proof; only faith and a short history of failures to compare against.
A BS job of no substance with high education requirements is not equivalent of a laborer who actually contributes to society by doing something that is needed. Unhappy people who work long hours and live under a lifespan of debt with nothing meaningful to show for it but the dumpsters of junk.
Economists mostly just spout BS and pick poor representative numbers attempting to quantify the quality of life. They see a booming economy while the middle class gets weaker and weaker and their quality of life diminishes. The amount of money changing hands is a poor metric for progress. The Amish are happier people but to economists they are primitive failures. Economics is no more life than creationism is real.
2/3 of the world is poor. It is already increasing.
What will appeal to red necks visiting a car show? Well, they like to think they are self sufficient and like the 'be prepared' excuse when buying their man toys. As weak in analytical skill and technical knowledge as they are with keeping down their beer guts. A cool food? Twinkies. Naturally. I couldn't see the beer but it must be in there.
I'm surprised they didn't put in a place for a beer maker. This isn't made to attract nerds; it is made to draw in some potential truck buyers to their area (booth babes would be cheaper... I wonder how much success they'd have at a show with no cars on display but instead with 10x the girls.)
Anybody seriously thinking about disasters on that scale are not thinking about trucks.
Or maybe the probe momentarily fell into a temporal anomaly?
Almost nobody will protest as robotics eliminates another set of jobs... until it comes towards your job and nobody will defend you when the time comes. (/. making unemployment the future for everybody outside I.T.)
I could print on cakes as a teen. The obvious thing that never happened was having them print out those sugar statues to decorate the cake with.
I'm surprised somebody doesn't have sugar printers since those would have been easier to do way before these early plastic melting ones came out.
It's extravagant, but an in store printer would make it affordable enough people could be using it (at least initially with a catalog of shapes- but today you could scan a person or shape in the store.)
Dolls? (aka toy soldiers) are not so popular... Now they sell these evil candy toys with a bit of candy decorating a battery powered toy made in china - why would a child want a figurine when they could get that shiny flashy thing that does something to hold their attention...for the life of the sucker it comes with! (I love how many of these things are suckers... the pun... and how the toy's lifespan isn't much longer than the candy... that is, the use of it-- it is around the house for months before being trashed and lasting 1000s of years in the landfill.)
There is a wide range of opinion and only the top few ever get attention anymore. I'm not heavily invested in this topic. I'm not happy with the 1 sided nature of the debate and how over the years the industry is turning Ideas into property; like some big land grab... after the wealthy claimed most everything else they are now taking away ideas... something intangible and more valuable to humanity than money. I'd make a ridiculous claim about religious ideas becoming private property someday...except Scientology has basically done that already.
2) I have had friends over the years who were poor starving artists (or at least quite underfed.) Stubbornly trying to make a living while following a dream that the society heavily promotes. A lot of people, MOST, don't have their dreams come true - repeating the farce may motivate a segment of the population who wouldn't be otherwise but it sets up the majority for disappointment. Naturally the few lucky ones are out there saying "it can come true" but it really is exactly the same as the winners of the lottery put out by the marketing departments with the same message.
I've known people who will answer "Movies" are their hobby with a straight face. TV is addicting, it does more harm than good - small doses isn't what happens. I'm not saying it should be an illegal drug but it's really not that far from drugs... and the attitude towards it should be more like recreational drugs.
keyword: WANT. We'd all love to do things we like and somehow making a living from it. I'm sure some people liked delivering ice to housewives during the day... but refrigerators took that career away.
Dreams by definition have no need for any form of realism. I've dreamed of being a superman like character; naturally, I grew up - I knew it wasn't realistic then but I don't fantasize about it now or use proxies like comic book characters to help satisfy the dream subconsciously (but such behavior is heavily promoted/exploited today.)
Our economic system and our technological progress are going to conflict more over time. Artists may be one of the many wage earning professions to DIE early... along with all the low level labor machines have taken over already. More jobs will be lost to the machines and the population continues to rise. If nobody needs to work for a living - eventually if we don't kill ourselves off, that will happen. Then artists can do their thing all the time... along with the rest of us. (although realistically, it'll be a combination of techniques from 1984 and Brave New World-- because there will always be alpha male control freaks until we start using eugenics. and control freaks will need to keep us busy doing something so they can get their control freak jollies.) Unless it's a war between nerds and killer robots (well, that is if we have any chance because only nerds would stand a chance.)
I wouldn't have bothered but you said I didn't know any artists. I do. I can make the argument and not be ignorant of the issues involved. Is life fair? nope. Are things going to continue as they were forever? nope. The end of wage supported art may only be temporary but should we be bending over backwards to preserve old things?? A new way may be found it might be quick, quite different, or it may take centuries. I personally don't find the mass produced "art" all that beneficial to society or culture - we have more than enough of it -- and especially TV/movies -- a 99% decline wouldn't harm humanity significantly. Jobs... sure, those people would have to find new jobs; but if you want to talk economics-- that is the issue I was trying to not get into... people will need job protectionism to maintain the system we have because there are not enough meaningful jobs--- most jobs are meaningless and necessary to our existing economy already.... we cant consume at these rates for much longer and surely not enough to properly employ the 2/3 of the world who are already improperly employed.
1) Determine the actual RISK. (TFA's interviewee) 2) Encourage customers to inflate their risk assessments. 3) Overestimate the risk when billing the customers. 4) Profit.
Insurance people live in a bubble. What can you expect? They are only slight better than lawyers, they need something to help them sleep at night - it's not like they are drained of morality like the blood sucking lawyers are.
Waste of time. This person is clearly biased and extreme; waste of time trying to educate or correct the misinformation. Not lies but a lot of mistakes and ignorance.
For example, Global Cooling or Global Dimming is completely mischaracterized; Global Dimming science was found to be completely aligned with Global Warming science.
Oddly, the thin atmosphere is actually mentioned while at the same time as the tired argument about how we are too small to impact it. Why not mention how density works and how much gas is produced when a solid is gassified? Or follow up your lose reference to sunlight with those embarrassing arguments about solar activity, distance from sun, mars being cold, etc? Or better yet, rant about how we didn't improve the ozone or acid rain problems and that they in fact never existed but were created so that decades later they could be used as part of the scientific community's conspiracy to make us Pagan.
We are in a slow transition; but still in the old capitalist model so I'll address it from that perspective:
1) You can't always do what you want. A highly visible and vocal minority says otherwise (plus there is a lot of money to be made from all the attempts people make to join that minority.)
2) Hobby. When did hobbies die? Far fewer people have hobbies today. It is either a career path or nothing - when your hobby becomes an attempt at a career it is no longer a hobby. Many so-called hobbies today are just consumer activities; pure forms of entertainment - not hobbies. Video games are not a hobby, TV especially is not... TV isn't even brain activity (sleeping is a hobby if watching TV/movies are.)
3) Art and culture existed since cave paintings. No jobs or copyrights existed. There is zero reason it must exist in a way somebody could subsist upon it. It won't stop. Sure, we will have less bland manufactured pop... some of us would be ok with that.
No, Myst didn't need cheats! Not giving up immediately you can get it eventually. No it didn't take up a crazy amount of time me and my friend finished it faster than a Zelda game.
Myst 2: Riven was aPoS. I was mapping out the character set to decode the language used in the game until I realized the end was a lame joke of a puzzle and the language merely for decoration. I suppose most of it was ok.
Myst 3 was disappointing and tedious in some places where you had to click a lot - I totally remember hating this one level where you couldn't see where to click to get anywhere - the puzzle placement was also beginning to get too abstract, taking away from the exploring and making the world just a ploy to transition between a few puzzles they found in books. I think Luke Skywalker was the villain.
I stopped at that point. It would seem that today they either just do a puzzle as a casual app OR they remove nearly all thinking and do a choose your own adventure like The Walking Dead. (Which frankly I'd buy if they just made it into an animated series to save me the pointless wondering with the mouse - deciding at critical points could remain... choose your own adventure books are probably still published.)
Polygraph at the job interview is most likely. FBI does it.
Plenty can be done with good employees to keep them in line. The system rewards the entrenched who maintain the status quot and enemies will even collaborate. Organizational politics exist everywhere; the bigger the org the more can go on. private or public.
We have a culture that rewards crooks and punishes any true accountability; it's reflected in our private sector and our public sector. We look up to the slimy traits that make for successful lawyers, salesmen, etc. Money/power are all that matter and the ends justify the means despite what people may say - they are hypocrites. But then in a society so full of BS we desperately crave authenticity, being hypocritical is minor. (reality TV, "gritty realism", organic, being candid, no heroes..)
The only thing one must do is to NOT hire somebody who can make a huge fuss in the media; otherwise, anybody would do - you can keep them in line until they resign and hardly make a blip in the public's eye. Plus large orgs are hard to fathom - you can keep'm busy distracted with minor stuff. This can be done mindlessly by just hiring a parent above 25 years old (when the idealism is likely gone + the children are young enough to be a major burden.)
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Anybody who understood basic high school kinetics should be saying the same thing!
Note: F= ma also is impacted by the speed limit. You could make heavier stuff go slower. Such as those massive farm machines or houses or industrial machines that take up 1.5 lanes of the highway. They are already a problem, moving slower wouldn't hurt.
The reality is that boat and train are BETTER ways to transport heavy items and they would be cheaper if WE didn't significantly subsidize trucking in our unfairly slanted highway taxes.
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No.
Microsoft now has devices made to their specs and can tweak as much as apple if they wish to do so on those devices. They do have less time doing this than Apple but it's not like they can't put special effort into their own hardware -- they now can and probably do... especially with the losses on the Surface.
They are big enough to support everybody and screw everybody over while putting extra effort into their own projects... like the Zune!
All that DRM and the crazy svchost.exe mess has to cost something. Not to mention the description of address randomization which seemed to show a lack of understanding of what OpenBSD did (which I think did it 1st, along with a nice article describing it) which seemed like it would rob from entropy... but why would microsoft care about entropy? they were in bed with the NSA 1st (see the leaked powerpoint.)
I've been saying this for years... as my University added IT as a 4 year degree... I even say it for most CS professionals -- the college model doesn't fit for a trade skill - it is OK for supplement or as part of the process of going from apprentice to master if there isn't a union to do it (and somehow I doubt the union is as good at teaching the academic areas.)
One size only fits all small minds.
The government has complete power over corporations like an OS over apps. Our problem is the root kits and privilege escalation... and our "I.T. people" are morons or corrupt.
Scientology exploits corporate powers AND religious powers together; both which go too far. The government HAD the power to define corporations and all their limitations. A religion which incorporates (non-profit or for-profit) has no special rights; if they want religious freedom, they can have it-- WITHOUT incorporating. Just as they can have schools that teach the world is flat and receive 0 tax dollars.
You can fix the problem without touching religious freedom (unless your religion is corporatism... arguably, a major religion in the USA today.)
I think people have less imagination in addition to a shorter attention span. There are signs of this out there including studies if you look.
I've been on the edge of dropping the new Who myself. I don't mind the fast pacing and I love FAST dialog (prefer it's not gibberish) but when they cut corners with it just like many lazy action films use a mess of cuts because their actors are not coordinated and their directors suck --- shows today use quick pacing, bad editing and disjointed situations to keep attention rather than focus on the story or ideas which if done right should be allowed to sit a moment and sink into the mind (but without much depth of mind, imagination, or worthy ideas to present...)
While the current writer (Steven Moffat) on Who has brilliant ideas and that got him the job; he isn't the kind of guy who should be in charge - and shouldn't have too much influence. The show reminds me more of children's programming; which fits since Steven Moffat used to do children's programming. We have a mix of a kiddie show cartoon combined with satisfying adult fans. It is surviving but it can't continue to get less sci-fi and less Doctor Who, migrating to Doctor Who the Saturday morning cartoon.
Doctor Who is not Harry Potter the TV series... using his screw driver like a magic wand whenever a problem needs solving; and uttering magical gibberish as the reasoning after the fact. I'm glad it hasn't adopted Star Trek's obsession with BS explanations...yet. It continues to move towards fantasy, magic, and mythology (prophecies) over time; which is bad for Sci-Fi, even if many of the ignorant public treat modern science similar to superstition we don't need to be promoting more of that.
1984 was written as a response to Brave New World; without it, 1984 would not have happened. 1984 is based upon almost entirely negative feedback and censorship for total control. Brave New World was based entirely upon positive feedback controls and distraction; censorship wasn't heavy handed; it didn't need to be. It was more imaginative and trying to point out new methods of control (which were beginning to be used at the time) and new problems while 1984 was a rebuttal, reminding people how human nature has always worked and therefore is likely to continue to work - both go to extremes in their opposite directions for emphasis. Both fail (probably intentionally) to address the flip side.
Creating entertaining versions of history and news which distort truth while NOT censoring the actual truth is totally like Brave New World and is not like 1984. Conditioning people to be such wimps that when they do find the truth it is so unpleasant that they essentially punish themselves with their inability to handle truth.... meanwhile being surrounded in numerous escapes... also makes it difficult to spread bad news around-- no big brother required... distributed decentralized control is even possible. FOX News is a great example, they use both techniques.
You don't need to Torture somebody to make them a loyal party member.
People get funny when Faith is involved. Many people always have had faith in the status quo and it'll blind reason, generate rationalizations, high emotions, etc.
Calling people who know technology who do not fear technology and are experts in technology Luddites is ridiculous enough that one should immediately investigate those who are calling names. Are they the ones who are clinging to the past; perhaps, even clever enough to accuse the opposition of what they are doing?
The BBC's old policy is being partially blamed on the actors unions of the time. They didn't want reruns without having the actors repeat the performance and had an agreement limiting replays. Once that limit was reached, the recording was useless.
Thinking about how technology TAKES JOBS AWAY... just imagine if such policies continued... we would employ scores more actors than we do today; the big stars wouldn't get paid as much but they'd have to work more hours. We still have theater shows and without technology, TV and Movies would be more like that - fancy mindless FX would naturally be toned down... and actors would get sick of repeating vapid lines/characters... Cartoons would likely become bigger...possibly, as they could be a work around for the limitations.
I don't have the time to waste guarding it from you in case you don't respect MY wishes... so I will hire somebody do to that for me. I shall call them "Park Rangers." Rather clever name don't you think? Gee, I'm clever.
Do you see what I'm doing here? Do you see what the "I have a right to use my public land anytime and in anyway I want" people are doing?
Parent isn't insightful!
There is the business mentality that we can't just fully fund these things so we place usage fees and permits on them to provide some (or all) of the funding. You expect Disneyland to allow people in for free if they closed?
Would you like a bison head in your den? How about an endangered animal? Lets all pee in old faithful and put it on youtube or spray paint "God Hates Fags" on the Vietnam Memorial!
Your police dept covers your area with patrols and by being on call in case of emergency. They are not in everybody's yards (yet.)
The park services; a rather EXTREME example, have HUGE areas of empty land to manage with no hope of being everywhere all at once. They patrol routinely. Just like the police. The mere fact that they are paroling around (randomly unless you study their patterns) provides some degree of protection because people don't know if they are going to run into one and get caught. BTW, obvious tourist destinations are easy to patrol.
IF THE POLICE CLOSED DOWN, criminals would know nobody would be patrolling, nobody would be responding to reports of crimes. The park service is the same situation.
Have you even been around to the national parks? Idiot tourists are all over the place, throwing rocks at the bison, feeding the bears, dumping their trash (which blows around,) burning trash (no kidding, I've seen it,) driving off road, or walking off the board walks near the hot springs (making foot prints, if not holes where they fall to their death... all of which has happened and guess who has to clean it up to try to make it look all natural again so it is worth you going to see it? guess who warns and keeps people ON those paths?)
Don't know if it really can be legitimately called a legal system when it clearly does not work--- tomatoes are vegetables, corporations are people, HSBC launders billions in drug money... banks commit outright fraud that crashes economies around the planet... minorities get higher sentences... innocent people go broke or plea to things they are not guilty to.... people spend YEARS in court and jail without a swift trial, and my favorite one: the prisons can't even the keep illegal drugs out!
Seriously, if you can't keep drugs out of a PRISON you are a joke.
Religion doesn't require a god. Just a belief in supernatural powers impacting reality and this idea that unbridled capitalism and automation are going to give us the best utopia possible is a religion. There is no proof; only faith and a short history of failures to compare against.
A BS job of no substance with high education requirements is not equivalent of a laborer who actually contributes to society by doing something that is needed. Unhappy people who work long hours and live under a lifespan of debt with nothing meaningful to show for it but the dumpsters of junk.
Economists mostly just spout BS and pick poor representative numbers attempting to quantify the quality of life. They see a booming economy while the middle class gets weaker and weaker and their quality of life diminishes. The amount of money changing hands is a poor metric for progress. The Amish are happier people but to economists they are primitive failures. Economics is no more life than creationism is real.
2/3 of the world is poor. It is already increasing.
What will appeal to red necks visiting a car show?
Well, they like to think they are self sufficient and like the 'be prepared' excuse when buying their man toys. As weak in analytical skill and technical knowledge as they are with keeping down their beer guts. A cool food? Twinkies. Naturally. I couldn't see the beer but it must be in there.
I'm surprised they didn't put in a place for a beer maker. This isn't made to attract nerds; it is made to draw in some potential truck buyers to their area (booth babes would be cheaper... I wonder how much success they'd have at a show with no cars on display but instead with 10x the girls.)
Anybody seriously thinking about disasters on that scale are not thinking about trucks.
Or maybe the probe momentarily fell into a temporal anomaly?
Almost nobody will protest as robotics eliminates another set of jobs... until it comes towards your job and nobody will defend you when the time comes. ( /. making unemployment the future for everybody outside I.T.)
I could print on cakes as a teen. The obvious thing that never happened was having them print out those sugar statues to decorate the cake with.
I'm surprised somebody doesn't have sugar printers since those would have been easier to do way before these early plastic melting ones came out.
It's extravagant, but an in store printer would make it affordable enough people could be using it (at least initially with a catalog of shapes- but today you could scan a person or shape in the store.)
Dolls? (aka toy soldiers) are not so popular... Now they sell these evil candy toys with a bit of candy decorating a battery powered toy made in china - why would a child want a figurine when they could get that shiny flashy thing that does something to hold their attention ...for the life of the sucker it comes with! (I love how many of these things are suckers... the pun... and how the toy's lifespan isn't much longer than the candy... that is, the use of it-- it is around the house for months before being trashed and lasting 1000s of years in the landfill.)
There is a wide range of opinion and only the top few ever get attention anymore. I'm not heavily invested in this topic. I'm not happy with the 1 sided nature of the debate and how over the years the industry is turning Ideas into property; like some big land grab... after the wealthy claimed most everything else they are now taking away ideas... something intangible and more valuable to humanity than money. I'd make a ridiculous claim about religious ideas becoming private property someday...except Scientology has basically done that already.
2) I have had friends over the years who were poor starving artists (or at least quite underfed.) Stubbornly trying to make a living while following a dream that the society heavily promotes. A lot of people, MOST, don't have their dreams come true - repeating the farce may motivate a segment of the population who wouldn't be otherwise but it sets up the majority for disappointment. Naturally the few lucky ones are out there saying "it can come true" but it really is exactly the same as the winners of the lottery put out by the marketing departments with the same message.
I've known people who will answer "Movies" are their hobby with a straight face. TV is addicting, it does more harm than good - small doses isn't what happens. I'm not saying it should be an illegal drug but it's really not that far from drugs... and the attitude towards it should be more like recreational drugs.
keyword: WANT. We'd all love to do things we like and somehow making a living from it. I'm sure some people liked delivering ice to housewives during the day... but refrigerators took that career away.
Dreams by definition have no need for any form of realism. I've dreamed of being a superman like character; naturally, I grew up - I knew it wasn't realistic then but I don't fantasize about it now or use proxies like comic book characters to help satisfy the dream subconsciously (but such behavior is heavily promoted/exploited today.)
Our economic system and our technological progress are going to conflict more over time. Artists may be one of the many wage earning professions to DIE early... along with all the low level labor machines have taken over already. More jobs will be lost to the machines and the population continues to rise. If nobody needs to work for a living - eventually if we don't kill ourselves off, that will happen. Then artists can do their thing all the time... along with the rest of us. (although realistically, it'll be a combination of techniques from 1984 and Brave New World-- because there will always be alpha male control freaks until we start using eugenics. and control freaks will need to keep us busy doing something so they can get their control freak jollies.) Unless it's a war between nerds and killer robots (well, that is if we have any chance because only nerds would stand a chance.)
I wouldn't have bothered but you said I didn't know any artists. I do. I can make the argument and not be ignorant of the issues involved. Is life fair? nope. Are things going to continue as they were forever? nope. The end of wage supported art may only be temporary but should we be bending over backwards to preserve old things?? A new way may be found it might be quick, quite different, or it may take centuries. I personally don't find the mass produced "art" all that beneficial to society or culture - we have more than enough of it -- and especially TV/movies -- a 99% decline wouldn't harm humanity significantly. Jobs... sure, those people would have to find new jobs; but if you want to talk economics-- that is the issue I was trying to not get into... people will need job protectionism to maintain the system we have because there are not enough meaningful jobs--- most jobs are meaningless and necessary to our existing economy already.... we cant consume at these rates for much longer and surely not enough to properly employ the 2/3 of the world who are already improperly employed.
1) Determine the actual RISK. (TFA's interviewee)
2) Encourage customers to inflate their risk assessments.
3) Overestimate the risk when billing the customers.
4) Profit.
Insurance people live in a bubble. What can you expect? They are only slight better than lawyers, they need something to help them sleep at night - it's not like they are drained of morality like the blood sucking lawyers are.
Waste of time. This person is clearly biased and extreme; waste of time trying to educate or correct the misinformation. Not lies but a lot of mistakes and ignorance.
For example, Global Cooling or Global Dimming is completely mischaracterized; Global Dimming science was found to be completely aligned with Global Warming science.
Oddly, the thin atmosphere is actually mentioned while at the same time as the tired argument about how we are too small to impact it. Why not mention how density works and how much gas is produced when a solid is gassified? Or follow up your lose reference to sunlight with those embarrassing arguments about solar activity, distance from sun, mars being cold, etc? Or better yet, rant about how we didn't improve the ozone or acid rain problems and that they in fact never existed but were created so that decades later they could be used as part of the scientific community's conspiracy to make us Pagan.
It was a spoof protection measure with the advent of Windows NT.... The security minded OS from Microsoft. ;-)
We are in a slow transition; but still in the old capitalist model so I'll address it from that perspective:
1) You can't always do what you want. A highly visible and vocal minority says otherwise (plus there is a lot of money to be made from all the attempts people make to join that minority.)
2) Hobby. When did hobbies die? Far fewer people have hobbies today. It is either a career path or nothing - when your hobby becomes an attempt at a career it is no longer a hobby. Many so-called hobbies today are just consumer activities; pure forms of entertainment - not hobbies. Video games are not a hobby, TV especially is not... TV isn't even brain activity (sleeping is a hobby if watching TV/movies are.)
3) Art and culture existed since cave paintings. No jobs or copyrights existed. There is zero reason it must exist in a way somebody could subsist upon it. It won't stop. Sure, we will have less bland manufactured pop... some of us would be ok with that.
No, Myst didn't need cheats! Not giving up immediately you can get it eventually. No it didn't take up a crazy amount of time me and my friend finished it faster than a Zelda game.
Myst 2: Riven was aPoS. I was mapping out the character set to decode the language used in the game until I realized the end was a lame joke of a puzzle and the language merely for decoration. I suppose most of it was ok.
Myst 3 was disappointing and tedious in some places where you had to click a lot - I totally remember hating this one level where you couldn't see where to click to get anywhere - the puzzle placement was also beginning to get too abstract, taking away from the exploring and making the world just a ploy to transition between a few puzzles they found in books. I think Luke Skywalker was the villain.
I stopped at that point. It would seem that today they either just do a puzzle as a casual app OR they remove nearly all thinking and do a choose your own adventure like The Walking Dead. (Which frankly I'd buy if they just made it into an animated series to save me the pointless wondering with the mouse - deciding at critical points could remain... choose your own adventure books are probably still published.)
How do you think MS was able to fast track Office XML into an ISO standard?
Some "standards" don't happen without force.
Polygraph at the job interview is most likely. FBI does it.
Plenty can be done with good employees to keep them in line. The system rewards the entrenched who maintain the status quot and enemies will even collaborate. Organizational politics exist everywhere; the bigger the org the more can go on. private or public.
We have a culture that rewards crooks and punishes any true accountability; it's reflected in our private sector and our public sector. We look up to the slimy traits that make for successful lawyers, salesmen, etc. Money/power are all that matter and the ends justify the means despite what people may say - they are hypocrites. But then in a society so full of BS we desperately crave authenticity, being hypocritical is minor. (reality TV, "gritty realism", organic, being candid, no heroes..)
The only thing one must do is to NOT hire somebody who can make a huge fuss in the media; otherwise, anybody would do - you can keep them in line until they resign and hardly make a blip in the public's eye. Plus large orgs are hard to fathom - you can keep'm busy distracted with minor stuff. This can be done mindlessly by just hiring a parent above 25 years old (when the idealism is likely gone + the children are young enough to be a major burden.)
Yes, Prime Minister
watch it. learn something.