You go to Chuck-E-Cheese and you buy a game card with credits on it. You spend a couple of hours "gambling" for crappy in-restaurant tickets. You exchange these tickets for crappy toys. This has been going on for, what, 50 years? Why do we add "on the computer" and get upset?
Well, now you are adding a whole bunch of qualifiers that make the statement a lot less crazy. The original comment was "As with any computer type of computer operation you should be able to reverse the algorithm", and I showed how even a trivial algorithm can be non-reversible.
In this context, the algorithm is a lot more likely to be irreversible than reversible. This isn't applying a filter to a video - it is more like applying a stretchy mask to a video... anything under the mask is never coming back except perhaps the location in time of facial features.
Incorrect. If I simply overwrite data, it's gone - it is irreversible. The simplest example is setting a pixel to black; the algorithm is completely lossy - you can never reconstruct the original pixel.
On a side note - vaping itself is appealing just for the gear. Big, beefy batteries, heating profiles, LED blinky things... I've watched some stuff on YouTube and I can understand the attraction to kids just in playing with and trying to customize and improve the equipment.
Can you feel it over the effects of alcohol? I'm definitely not a smoker - all of my nicotine exposure is from cigars, but I've always been drinking fairly heavily before smoking one:)
I don't know at all - since my kids aren't yet teenagers and I'm not a teenager I have no reference. So I have to look at surveys. But it makes sense - why get hooked on nicotine if you aren't already a smoker? Vape with your friends with no (apparent) ill effects.
Nicotine is also not necessarily in the vaping fluid. A recent survey showed about 1/3 of teen use was non-nicotine. (Whether this means it was drug-free or the nicotine was substituted by another drug was not mentioned.)
I don't generally buy coffee, but if I did spend $5 on a drink that costs under a buck at home, I'd want it fucking perfect. I wouldn't be a douche about it (I worked retail), but I'd make sure they got it how I like it. That people are starving somewhere doesn't mean I have to waste my money... they are unrelated. You might as well shame me for turning on the heat at home because people sometimes die when ships sink.
Yeah, your numbers are probably right - but misleading. When you are game shopping, it feels like mostly retreads. There are only a few titles that make the console worth buying at the moment. I think one part of the disconnect for me is we are not using the portable aspect, so old titles like Stardew Valley hold little appeal.
We have one. It's fun because - even though there aren't many games out - the games tend to do multiplayer well. Most of the time it's 4 of the local kids playing Minecraft, Brawlout, or Mario Cart. Or 6 playing Just Dance (you can use any smart phone as a controller). If you are playing games solo, I assume you have better options - but I have no idea because that's not my hobby.
I've been buying Prime for several years now, but the funny thing is old habits die hard and I still act as though the shipping isn't free unless you go over a certain amount. I end up using Amazon like a shopping list, adding stuff to my cart as I think of it. Then once I actually need something in a short time I pull the trigger on the order. There is zero incentive for me to do this, but I still do it.
Why do you say this? My wife and I have two totally separate Amazon accounts that share a Prime membership. I cannot see her purchases or viewing history.
So, again, you are approaching the questing from a side that I am not. I am not saying "religious people are anti-abortion". I am saying "anti-abortion people are religious".
Unfortunately the sources are books. Fortunately, one of those books is up on Google Books. Look at Table 7.1. It's important to note that this author's thesis is that religion is secondary to involvement in the anti-abortion movement, but it's also clear that people within the anti-abortion movement are overwhelmingly religious... even if it isn't really their motivation, they are still basing their arguments and worldview on it. It's also important to note that the table I linked to has an embarrassingly low sample size - nevertheless, I'm unable to find any opinions contrary to mine. This author has every reason to find evidence to the contrary, as it would support his thesis.
Something has to be done; otherwise, we'll be engaged in this stupid, wasteful war for the rest of eternity.
It may be "stupid" and "wasteful", but most hobbies are. Some people are having a lot of fun with this. In any case, I'd much rather Nintendo create a business model based on technological means like DRM than to lean on the government for help by using copyright law. Which is how they did it in the past, and they almost certainly will fall back to once the system is cracked.
Kill at will? I think you are setting up a straw man. And conveniently forgetting that nearly every hunger charity, charity hospital, or homeless shelter is religiously-based. Just because they don't think the government can solve these problems does not mean they aren't charitable people. Wow, you guys are just as crazy as they are.
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You go to Chuck-E-Cheese and you buy a game card with credits on it. You spend a couple of hours "gambling" for crappy in-restaurant tickets. You exchange these tickets for crappy toys. This has been going on for, what, 50 years? Why do we add "on the computer" and get upset?
What do you expect from kids when they have so much screen time? ~
If the person who rigged the video for the jury or political scandal was stupid enough to lift the original from PornHub, sure.
Well, now you are adding a whole bunch of qualifiers that make the statement a lot less crazy. The original comment was "As with any computer type of computer operation you should be able to reverse the algorithm", and I showed how even a trivial algorithm can be non-reversible.
In this context, the algorithm is a lot more likely to be irreversible than reversible. This isn't applying a filter to a video - it is more like applying a stretchy mask to a video... anything under the mask is never coming back except perhaps the location in time of facial features.
Incorrect. If I simply overwrite data, it's gone - it is irreversible. The simplest example is setting a pixel to black; the algorithm is completely lossy - you can never reconstruct the original pixel.
On a side note - vaping itself is appealing just for the gear. Big, beefy batteries, heating profiles, LED blinky things... I've watched some stuff on YouTube and I can understand the attraction to kids just in playing with and trying to customize and improve the equipment.
Can you feel it over the effects of alcohol? I'm definitely not a smoker - all of my nicotine exposure is from cigars, but I've always been drinking fairly heavily before smoking one :)
I don't know at all - since my kids aren't yet teenagers and I'm not a teenager I have no reference. So I have to look at surveys. But it makes sense - why get hooked on nicotine if you aren't already a smoker? Vape with your friends with no (apparent) ill effects.
If "by far" means 66%, then yes. Are we playing language games?
The survey that I read did not ask if they owned multiple pens, just whether or not they used nicotine-free vaping fluid.
Nicotine is also not necessarily in the vaping fluid. A recent survey showed about 1/3 of teen use was non-nicotine. (Whether this means it was drug-free or the nicotine was substituted by another drug was not mentioned.)
I don't generally buy coffee, but if I did spend $5 on a drink that costs under a buck at home, I'd want it fucking perfect. I wouldn't be a douche about it (I worked retail), but I'd make sure they got it how I like it. That people are starving somewhere doesn't mean I have to waste my money... they are unrelated. You might as well shame me for turning on the heat at home because people sometimes die when ships sink.
It sure is - it reduces it.
Wishing don't make it so. Please point to anything even remotely scholarly indicating that this is the case.
Yeah, your numbers are probably right - but misleading. When you are game shopping, it feels like mostly retreads. There are only a few titles that make the console worth buying at the moment. I think one part of the disconnect for me is we are not using the portable aspect, so old titles like Stardew Valley hold little appeal.
We have one. It's fun because - even though there aren't many games out - the games tend to do multiplayer well. Most of the time it's 4 of the local kids playing Minecraft, Brawlout, or Mario Cart. Or 6 playing Just Dance (you can use any smart phone as a controller). If you are playing games solo, I assume you have better options - but I have no idea because that's not my hobby.
We definitely can share Prime Video in the US.
About as well as Pelosi voting to grant the supposedly evil Trump additional powers. But no, the parties are very different.
I've been buying Prime for several years now, but the funny thing is old habits die hard and I still act as though the shipping isn't free unless you go over a certain amount. I end up using Amazon like a shopping list, adding stuff to my cart as I think of it. Then once I actually need something in a short time I pull the trigger on the order. There is zero incentive for me to do this, but I still do it.
Why do you say this? My wife and I have two totally separate Amazon accounts that share a Prime membership. I cannot see her purchases or viewing history.
Well, I mean, there is jail time...
So, again, you are approaching the questing from a side that I am not. I am not saying "religious people are anti-abortion". I am saying "anti-abortion people are religious".
Here's the relevant Wikipedia entry.
Unfortunately the sources are books. Fortunately, one of those books is up on Google Books. Look at Table 7.1. It's important to note that this author's thesis is that religion is secondary to involvement in the anti-abortion movement, but it's also clear that people within the anti-abortion movement are overwhelmingly religious... even if it isn't really their motivation, they are still basing their arguments and worldview on it. It's also important to note that the table I linked to has an embarrassingly low sample size - nevertheless, I'm unable to find any opinions contrary to mine. This author has every reason to find evidence to the contrary, as it would support his thesis.
It is true that there are religious people who are not pro-life. It is also true that pro-life people are overwhelmingly religious, thus my comment.
We should demand an end to home and car financing. Interest is pure-profit.
Something has to be done; otherwise, we'll be engaged in this stupid, wasteful war for the rest of eternity.
It may be "stupid" and "wasteful", but most hobbies are. Some people are having a lot of fun with this. In any case, I'd much rather Nintendo create a business model based on technological means like DRM than to lean on the government for help by using copyright law. Which is how they did it in the past, and they almost certainly will fall back to once the system is cracked.
Kill at will? I think you are setting up a straw man. And conveniently forgetting that nearly every hunger charity, charity hospital, or homeless shelter is religiously-based. Just because they don't think the government can solve these problems does not mean they aren't charitable people. Wow, you guys are just as crazy as they are.