Lucas should have sold BEFORE the prequels. Hard to believe he made those classics. Some mentor must have helped Lucas in the past and died a few decades ago...
If you liked Star Trek reboot you'll like this because you've already seen his kind of Star Wars: it was NOT Star Trek no matter how many geek references he put in; Abrams wanted to do Star WARS but was stuck with Star TREK... He completely missed the point and spirit of the Treks. If you summarized something into mere factoids and considered that a valid representation then you'd not take issue with the Trek reboot.
The Abrams Star Wars warmup: Planet destroyer with a SLOW trigger. check. Sword fighting. check. Flawed "gritty" side of humanity; society hasn't really progressed... check. Logic? none. check. Way more action than talking. check.
The Idiotic Nonsense storyline was Abrams homage to Star Wars prequels (and about half the Trek films too.)
The death penalty is inhumane and should be banned; however, applying it to lawyers and ex-politicians is just, as they are not human.
When they serve, in their "great patriotism"... they should know that their life is forfeit afterwards - then maybe we can regard them higher than soldiers (as they themselves already do.)
Wake up to the other aspect of politics, watch the classic: Yes, Prime Minister.
Every month we have another crazy man gun shooting. You can't possibly pass any gun laws without being called "reactionary" because there is always a recent event one can point to; advocates naturally will use recent events to promote their cause. Duh. The proposals have been around for decades and are NOT new; obviously they are not designed for this specific shooting. The good part of this event is that more people are talking about CRAZY PEOPLE than previously and I think that is the case because nothing previously discussed would have stopped the madman.
Reactionary would be putting cops in the schools... done in many places since the 90s... cameras, metal detectors, door bells, 1 open entrance, a more prison-like school system-- that has been done and that was reactionary because it did just about nothing beneficial... like the TSA theater. These old proposals WILL do something in general and are not completely without merit. There is no magic bullet to this problem;-)
That being said, I'd ban ALL hand guns completely. I'm for FREE serious assault weapons with heavy regulation; I'm not keen on hunting rifles but i'd let them keep their so-called "sport." Hand guns are not serious arms and cause nothing but trouble... even the cops don't properly use theirs.
Finding the "crazy gene" is worth it only if someday in the future we have the political will to impose regulation on procreation or mandatory gene therapy. Otherwise you have people who will be cursed by their DNA when people find out they have the pedophile gene... etc.
Americans are happy with shallow RERUN debates from the past - a "reboot' of the last high rating programming. If you think movie franchise reboots are going too far in recent years - you need to watch some "news"...
Reality-TV loves fights so naturally the NRA vs any gun ban (no matter how reasonable) is going to get the ratings. We can't address OTHER factors - and even if we could, it has to be entertaining reality-tv for serious coverage -- because most politicians don't CARE unless there is something in it for them personally.
Mental cases need to be spotted and prevented from easy access to any weapons... or even from being in public! Whoa! what a concept! We put nutters into padded rooms away from where they can do harm! Every American I talk to still knows nothing about the Chinese man who did the same thing the same week but nobody died... because he only attacked 20 children with a KNIFE. Limited gun access SHOULD be a solution - how more obvious a contrast does one need? But it is not the only factor... Mental drugs sponsor the "news" so that issue is out. Mental checks of gun owners? maybe.. if the NRA will make a visible fight of it; or at least FOX News if they are concerned about their viewers losing their guns...
Most people can barely operate an iPhone and with these new walled garden simplified tablets most people are going to be iCripples when it comes to technology. That is, the general population is going to become MORE clueless at using technology - consumer tech is diverging from creation/pro tech. Typical consumers who didn't grow up with lego can hardly assemble their IKEA furniture.
A lazy, crazy, or moronic person is still deterred by not being able to easily BUY a solution at Walmart.
Nearly all "official" stories suck big time. I'd rather we could choose from all the unofficial stories and hopefully decent ones would prosper. It is not like copyright is required to make megabucks -- look at how Disney made nearly all his success off the public domain.
I'm not a moron who wants to see "reboots" every decade (or less) because 1 studio figures it is easier than taking the risk on a "new" story (which itself is just new to film... and likely the screen writers will have fucked up the transfer plenty good.)
The best secretaries and exec assistants are not employed to help a manager do their job-- and their job as parent stated, is NOT to innovate or make waves but to climb the corporate ladder - and naturally, proper procedures must be followed because their jobs have largely turned into enforcers of foolish policy bloat. If you've seen top secretaries and exec assistants at work you should realize they do a bulk of the actual work.
Also, Execs can more easily take credit for the work and ideas of others than a manager. The Entrepreneurs get ideas and prototypes from the whole team they just have to pick and choose from the best position to get many ideas; maybe even combine things from multiple sources in some obvious way (that is, obvious if given their perspective of the situation.)
I wish the parent bastard wasn't a coward so I could label him a foe!
Morons like this who blame rape victims for being responsible; same backward thinking.
Americans buy more than they can afford that is why personal debt is too high and then their government does the SAME thing (talk about representation...) It is NOT the fault SOME home buyers couldn't afford their houses -- going in too much debt is the American way! The highly paid bankers are supposed to earn their high income by filtering out bad risk! moron. Instead of a few incompetent bankers this was an intentional system wide FRAUD and I don't give a rip if a few home buyers took advantage of it or were bad at math (also an American characteristic.) The BIG problem is the organized criminal bankers who continue to plot their rape of the public.
He still has his job... oh wait, not that kind of CEO... Does he have any bruises from the furniture that hit him or is he good at dodging? How many times did he have to allow the stuff to hit him before his job was safe?
Objective-C++ is a COMBINED language with Objective-C and C++ and Objective-C itself is as much C as C++ is also C.
Objective-C is not bridging with some API, module, or library to talk with C code-- it IS C code. C++ and Objective-C both were made to bring OOP to C while KEEPING the C language; but they made different design choices up front. Objective-C was bigger on SmallTalk than C++ which just couldn't let go of obsessions over issues like the cost of runtime binding or making compiler authors suffer for decades... (BTW, a nice read http://yosefk.com/c++fqa )
I initially thought "Anonymous" as in the hacker group. Much more interesting... I'd like to see what kind of goofy car designed around a Guy Fawkes mask would look like! Or maybe a backdoor in all Toyota cars they discovered and the interesting things that could allow... You imagine the funny or serious ideas...
I read and watched it for years and started as soon as they had stuff online in english. They seemed like it was made up of BBC people and then I read that many people there were former BBC people; which explained why the news was so much better than the American "news." I still prefer the BBC but for some stuff they are quite good. When the USA propaganda machine started on them it seemed unfounded given what I already knew about them (at least the english part of it.) The BBC didn't say anything bad about them (positive even) and given how bad the US media is I figured it was just propaganda.
FYI: I'm anti-theist with zero connections to the region or their cultures.
Ads drive consumerism. We don't need either; however, our economic system is based upon consumers and not humans so we NEED consumers to buy stuff they do not need or want because MOST of us have worthless jobs that do nothing to benefit mankind other than prop up our consumer economy.
Alternatives? Well, that will be put off until the current system fails -- and it will eventually. Even if you control the population there is still the problem of automation replacing necessary jobs creating an unemployment problem. There is a reason modern consumerism was born just after WW2... (arguably it started before that but it didn't get the jump start until after WW2 needed to start up a real economy to replace the war economy.)
GMO has become and was largely about the business of SELLING chemicals. But if Monsanto can OWN contaminated nature they'll be glad to migrate from chemicals to owning nature.
People seem to think plants are simple so lets hack them before we hack human DNA using our limited understanding of the code nature is programmed in. What could possibly go wrong?? Lets not ask Computer Scientists about their experience with man-made programming in completely artificial environments that are 100% verifiable...
FYI: Plants have more genes than humans. I say, let us learn on simple organisms like humans before moving to plants.
Too many people? Use Birth Control. At least humans starve and it is THEIR FAULT but to wreck all of life.
The other child's parents were probably lazy and drugged the child. That is not news... But when the child uses their prescription drug on their friend's parents - that is "news". For internet? That doesn't matter, it is a child - the motives do not need to make sense.
WTF? The physics are well known and understood outside of politics: F=MA. High millage cars have less Mass. Faster roads cost more because of A, it is not difficult to find out the HUGE expense of raising speed limits have on new roads and maintenance. If you are going to tax based upon distance driven, a fuel consumption tax makes sense; however, if you do not consume ANY fuel this approach fails to be equitable. This proposal does not solve the problem and continues the same irrational solution. If one wants to be actually be "equitable," there would be a mass AND an odometer check, (or even GPS tracking.)
In my state we pay car registration tax, sticker renewal tax, plate renewal tax, tax on required insurance, in addition to gas tax. The sticker renewal tax should include an odometer check, since that is yearly and the fee wouldn't be high enough to motivate fraud... More work and effort to do that? yes; however, we waste millions on idiotic yearly stickers (and postal notifications) when we could just pay higher plate renewal tax every 6 years so practicality is already not important.
Continuation of the gradual change to metric needs to begin. Labels should all include metric - including all new street signs. Many things are labeled for both already, especially products not entirely bound for the USA. Internationalization already pushes many things towards metric; cars and science being examples.
I would make the predominant number metric; flipping the order in many places and adding metric where it was excluded. Would people complain? Sure, call them morons for not being capable of reading. Not that this would work on many Americans who have no problem with stupidity, especially if it conflicts with traditional beliefs. By having both people are "free to choose" to thoughtlessly use what they were raised with (oh the irony...)
As for estimation, that is all bunk - you use what you learn to use. I like inches, but 2cm is good enough I estimate by even numbers and it comes out good enough to ball park; over time I got more accurate. Besides, if there was something to gain by a unit between inch and yard we'd see more decimeters being used.
Identity and Authentication are government problems that need to be addressed. Regulations regarding the use of ID and authentication need to also exist. A company should have to fight to get approval for demanding Identification from a consumer. The SSN system needs upgrading; including the ENFORCEMENT of the laws passed a century ago banning the use of SSN as a unique identifier outside of SS. The replacement ID needs to include a name, photo, fingerprint... and like I said already, strict rules on where it can be required. ALSO, some nations have regulations requiring IN-PERSON identification for certain things - making automated identity attacks implausible.
Authentication does not have to involve identity, but some corps want to FORCE the two to be the same and that requires laws (aka regulation.)
Also, a government system can be put in place to verify your AGE without giving away your ID - so you can go to a bar without that bar selling your data to an aggregation company profiling you for others. A digital signing system can provide authentication absent of identification for: AGE, LEGAL CERTIFICATIONS / PRIVILEGES (driving or even public officials), and even incorporation could be signed by the state. These are things that are done with an old insecure methods already today. A card with 2D barcodes could provide many forms of authentication; and each could be handled separately so your BAR couldn't see you were also a cop when they checked your age. Yes, your face could be on the card to prevent borrowing of them but your NAME doesn't need to be.
EXACTLY. Already been happening; this was part of the reason for the move to China. In the race against machines, man has to lower his quality of life and push harder to compete. As history has shown, man eventually loses to the machine in the long term every time. Chinese are cheap human resources that are highly adaptable with far less upfront costs than automation and perform close enough to the machines for many tasks. Our CEOs never viewed human resources as people like themselves so switching them out for human cogs that were cheaper and more disposable was not a problem for them. Neither is the slow transition to machines.
Increasing workforce and decreasing labor demand = big trouble
Rarely do I get to read something written by somebody who "gets it." Thank you for showing there are some people using their brains still out there. (Seems like you are not an American? it would figure you'd not be American... The few not living in a bubble rarely want to discuss the situation.)
Hashing needs scalability; bcrypt has had it built in! as computers get faster you just amp up the complexity of the bcrypt hash function. old low complexity hashes are backwards compatible so hashes stored over long periods would need to be rehashed maybe every decade...
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Correspondence school do not have a good reputation. Wonder why? Now we have the internet somehow they are now great? Why do we need to do everything over again just because something was put on a computer? Why are the Correspondence Schools getting away with renaming themselves as universities and even worse-- why are Universities turning into Correspondence Schools?
Job training is the employer's problem. always has been. for trade skills there were trade schools (now called technical colleges.) Employers bitch about every expense and now they are pushing more than ever to externalize their costs and responsibilities that in previous generations was just part of doing business. One would think management and owners were getting pay cuts instead of increasing their income more than at any point in history.
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Lucas should have sold BEFORE the prequels. Hard to believe he made those classics. Some mentor must have helped Lucas in the past and died a few decades ago...
If you liked Star Trek reboot you'll like this because you've already seen his kind of Star Wars: it was NOT Star Trek no matter how many geek references he put in; Abrams wanted to do Star WARS but was stuck with Star TREK... He completely missed the point and spirit of the Treks. If you summarized something into mere factoids and considered that a valid representation then you'd not take issue with the Trek reboot.
The Abrams Star Wars warmup:
Planet destroyer with a SLOW trigger. check.
Sword fighting. check.
Flawed "gritty" side of humanity; society hasn't really progressed... check.
Logic? none. check.
Way more action than talking. check.
The Idiotic Nonsense storyline was Abrams homage to Star Wars prequels (and about half the Trek films too.)
The death penalty is inhumane and should be banned; however, applying it to lawyers and ex-politicians is just, as they are not human.
When they serve, in their "great patriotism" ... they should know that their life is forfeit afterwards - then maybe we can regard them higher than soldiers (as they themselves already do.)
Wake up to the other aspect of politics, watch the classic: Yes, Prime Minister.
Every month we have another crazy man gun shooting. You can't possibly pass any gun laws without being called "reactionary" because there is always a recent event one can point to; advocates naturally will use recent events to promote their cause. Duh. The proposals have been around for decades and are NOT new; obviously they are not designed for this specific shooting. The good part of this event is that more people are talking about CRAZY PEOPLE than previously and I think that is the case because nothing previously discussed would have stopped the madman.
Reactionary would be putting cops in the schools... done in many places since the 90s... cameras, metal detectors, door bells, 1 open entrance, a more prison-like school system-- that has been done and that was reactionary because it did just about nothing beneficial... like the TSA theater. These old proposals WILL do something in general and are not completely without merit. There is no magic bullet to this problem ;-)
That being said, I'd ban ALL hand guns completely. I'm for FREE serious assault weapons with heavy regulation; I'm not keen on hunting rifles but i'd let them keep their so-called "sport." Hand guns are not serious arms and cause nothing but trouble... even the cops don't properly use theirs.
Finding the "crazy gene" is worth it only if someday in the future we have the political will to impose regulation on procreation or mandatory gene therapy. Otherwise you have people who will be cursed by their DNA when people find out they have the pedophile gene... etc.
Americans are happy with shallow RERUN debates from the past - a "reboot' of the last high rating programming. If you think movie franchise reboots are going too far in recent years - you need to watch some "news"...
Reality-TV loves fights so naturally the NRA vs any gun ban (no matter how reasonable) is going to get the ratings. We can't address OTHER factors - and even if we could, it has to be entertaining reality-tv for serious coverage -- because most politicians don't CARE unless there is something in it for them personally.
Mental cases need to be spotted and prevented from easy access to any weapons... or even from being in public! Whoa! what a concept! We put nutters into padded rooms away from where they can do harm! Every American I talk to still knows nothing about the Chinese man who did the same thing the same week but nobody died... because he only attacked 20 children with a KNIFE. Limited gun access SHOULD be a solution - how more obvious a contrast does one need? But it is not the only factor... Mental drugs sponsor the "news" so that issue is out. Mental checks of gun owners? maybe.. if the NRA will make a visible fight of it; or at least FOX News if they are concerned about their viewers losing their guns...
Most people can barely operate an iPhone and with these new walled garden simplified tablets most people are going to be iCripples when it comes to technology. That is, the general population is going to become MORE clueless at using technology - consumer tech is diverging from creation/pro tech. Typical consumers who didn't grow up with lego can hardly assemble their IKEA furniture.
A lazy, crazy, or moronic person is still deterred by not being able to easily BUY a solution at Walmart.
Nearly all "official" stories suck big time. I'd rather we could choose from all the unofficial stories and hopefully decent ones would prosper. It is not like copyright is required to make megabucks -- look at how Disney made nearly all his success off the public domain.
I'm not a moron who wants to see "reboots" every decade (or less) because 1 studio figures it is easier than taking the risk on a "new" story (which itself is just new to film... and likely the screen writers will have fucked up the transfer plenty good.)
The best secretaries and exec assistants are not employed to help a manager do their job-- and their job as parent stated, is NOT to innovate or make waves but to climb the corporate ladder - and naturally, proper procedures must be followed because their jobs have largely turned into enforcers of foolish policy bloat. If you've seen top secretaries and exec assistants at work you should realize they do a bulk of the actual work.
Also, Execs can more easily take credit for the work and ideas of others than a manager. The Entrepreneurs get ideas and prototypes from the whole team they just have to pick and choose from the best position to get many ideas; maybe even combine things from multiple sources in some obvious way (that is, obvious if given their perspective of the situation.)
I wish the parent bastard wasn't a coward so I could label him a foe!
Morons like this who blame rape victims for being responsible; same backward thinking.
Americans buy more than they can afford that is why personal debt is too high and then their government does the SAME thing (talk about representation...) It is NOT the fault SOME home buyers couldn't afford their houses -- going in too much debt is the American way! The highly paid bankers are supposed to earn their high income by filtering out bad risk! moron. Instead of a few incompetent bankers this was an intentional system wide FRAUD and I don't give a rip if a few home buyers took advantage of it or were bad at math (also an American characteristic.) The BIG problem is the organized criminal bankers who continue to plot their rape of the public.
He still has his job... oh wait, not that kind of CEO... Does he have any bruises from the furniture that hit him or is he good at dodging? How many times did he have to allow the stuff to hit him before his job was safe?
Objective-C++ is a COMBINED language with Objective-C and C++ and Objective-C itself is as much C as C++ is also C.
Objective-C is not bridging with some API, module, or library to talk with C code-- it IS C code. C++ and Objective-C both were made to bring OOP to C while KEEPING the C language; but they made different design choices up front. Objective-C was bigger on SmallTalk than C++ which just couldn't let go of obsessions over issues like the cost of runtime binding or making compiler authors suffer for decades... (BTW, a nice read http://yosefk.com/c++fqa )
Personally, I am still a fan of plain old C.
I thought USB was CPU bound did 3 add DMA abilities and all the fun security issues that involves?
I initially thought "Anonymous" as in the hacker group. Much more interesting... I'd like to see what kind of goofy car designed around a Guy Fawkes mask would look like! Or maybe a backdoor in all Toyota cars they discovered and the interesting things that could allow... You imagine the funny or serious ideas...
I read and watched it for years and started as soon as they had stuff online in english. They seemed like it was made up of BBC people and then I read that many people there were former BBC people; which explained why the news was so much better than the American "news." I still prefer the BBC but for some stuff they are quite good. When the USA propaganda machine started on them it seemed unfounded given what I already knew about them (at least the english part of it.) The BBC didn't say anything bad about them (positive even) and given how bad the US media is I figured it was just propaganda.
FYI: I'm anti-theist with zero connections to the region or their cultures.
Ads drive consumerism. We don't need either; however, our economic system is based upon consumers and not humans so we NEED consumers to buy stuff they do not need or want because MOST of us have worthless jobs that do nothing to benefit mankind other than prop up our consumer economy.
Alternatives? Well, that will be put off until the current system fails -- and it will eventually. Even if you control the population there is still the problem of automation replacing necessary jobs creating an unemployment problem. There is a reason modern consumerism was born just after WW2... (arguably it started before that but it didn't get the jump start until after WW2 needed to start up a real economy to replace the war economy.)
GMO has become and was largely about the business of SELLING chemicals. But if Monsanto can OWN contaminated nature they'll be glad to migrate from chemicals to owning nature.
People seem to think plants are simple so lets hack them before we hack human DNA using our limited understanding of the code nature is programmed in. What could possibly go wrong?? Lets not ask Computer Scientists about their experience with man-made programming in completely artificial environments that are 100% verifiable...
FYI: Plants have more genes than humans. I say, let us learn on simple organisms like humans before moving to plants.
Too many people? Use Birth Control. At least humans starve and it is THEIR FAULT but to wreck all of life.
Man bites dog is "news"??
The other child's parents were probably lazy and drugged the child. That is not news... But when the child uses their prescription drug on their friend's parents - that is "news". For internet? That doesn't matter, it is a child - the motives do not need to make sense.
WTF? The physics are well known and understood outside of politics: F=MA. High millage cars have less Mass. Faster roads cost more because of A, it is not difficult to find out the HUGE expense of raising speed limits have on new roads and maintenance. If you are going to tax based upon distance driven, a fuel consumption tax makes sense; however, if you do not consume ANY fuel this approach fails to be equitable. This proposal does not solve the problem and continues the same irrational solution. If one wants to be actually be "equitable," there would be a mass AND an odometer check, (or even GPS tracking.)
In my state we pay car registration tax, sticker renewal tax, plate renewal tax, tax on required insurance, in addition to gas tax. The sticker renewal tax should include an odometer check, since that is yearly and the fee wouldn't be high enough to motivate fraud... More work and effort to do that? yes; however, we waste millions on idiotic yearly stickers (and postal notifications) when we could just pay higher plate renewal tax every 6 years so practicality is already not important.
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Continuation of the gradual change to metric needs to begin. Labels should all include metric - including all new street signs. Many things are labeled for both already, especially products not entirely bound for the USA. Internationalization already pushes many things towards metric; cars and science being examples.
I would make the predominant number metric; flipping the order in many places and adding metric where it was excluded. Would people complain? Sure, call them morons for not being capable of reading. Not that this would work on many Americans who have no problem with stupidity, especially if it conflicts with traditional beliefs. By having both people are "free to choose" to thoughtlessly use what they were raised with (oh the irony...)
As for estimation, that is all bunk - you use what you learn to use. I like inches, but 2cm is good enough I estimate by even numbers and it comes out good enough to ball park; over time I got more accurate. Besides, if there was something to gain by a unit between inch and yard we'd see more decimeters being used.
No crime; false arrest, mental anguish... Free scholarship!
Identity and Authentication are government problems that need to be addressed.
Regulations regarding the use of ID and authentication need to also exist. A company should have to fight to get approval for demanding Identification from a consumer. The SSN system needs upgrading; including the ENFORCEMENT of the laws passed a century ago banning the use of SSN as a unique identifier outside of SS. The replacement ID needs to include a name, photo, fingerprint... and like I said already, strict rules on where it can be required. ALSO, some nations have regulations requiring IN-PERSON identification for certain things - making automated identity attacks implausible.
Authentication does not have to involve identity, but some corps want to FORCE the two to be the same and that requires laws (aka regulation.)
Also, a government system can be put in place to verify your AGE without giving away your ID - so you can go to a bar without that bar selling your data to an aggregation company profiling you for others. A digital signing system can provide authentication absent of identification for: AGE, LEGAL CERTIFICATIONS / PRIVILEGES (driving or even public officials), and even incorporation could be signed by the state. These are things that are done with an old insecure methods already today. A card with 2D barcodes could provide many forms of authentication; and each could be handled separately so your BAR couldn't see you were also a cop when they checked your age. Yes, your face could be on the card to prevent borrowing of them but your NAME doesn't need to be.
EXACTLY. Already been happening; this was part of the reason for the move to China. In the race against machines, man has to lower his quality of life and push harder to compete. As history has shown, man eventually loses to the machine in the long term every time. Chinese are cheap human resources that are highly adaptable with far less upfront costs than automation and perform close enough to the machines for many tasks. Our CEOs never viewed human resources as people like themselves so switching them out for human cogs that were cheaper and more disposable was not a problem for them. Neither is the slow transition to machines.
Increasing workforce and decreasing labor demand = big trouble
Rarely do I get to read something written by somebody who "gets it." Thank you for showing there are some people using their brains still out there. (Seems like you are not an American? it would figure you'd not be American... The few not living in a bubble rarely want to discuss the situation.)
Hashing needs scalability; bcrypt has had it built in! as computers get faster you just amp up the complexity of the bcrypt hash function. old low complexity hashes are backwards compatible so hashes stored over long periods would need to be rehashed maybe every decade...
Correspondence school do not have a good reputation. Wonder why? Now we have the internet somehow they are now great? Why do we need to do everything over again just because something was put on a computer? Why are the Correspondence Schools getting away with renaming themselves as universities and even worse-- why are Universities turning into Correspondence Schools?
Job training is the employer's problem. always has been. for trade skills there were trade schools (now called technical colleges.) Employers bitch about every expense and now they are pushing more than ever to externalize their costs and responsibilities that in previous generations was just part of doing business. One would think management and owners were getting pay cuts instead of increasing their income more than at any point in history.