Yeah... but if those things drive too slow and your kid dies you're going to say "Oh it was worth it because I was not putting other drivers at risk..."
<quote>Bullying is a huge problem in society.</quote>
Hunger is a huge problem in society. Disease, lack of sufficient health care, people dying in wars, substance abuse, domestic violence, crime are huge problems in society. Bullying is on par with these?
Can we stop using the word bullying for teasing, verbal abuse, etc. already? Bullying implies physical abuse on a regular basis. This is harassment at most unless I've read all this wrong and there was some physical abuse. My god it blows my mind that the POLICE are being called in because on kid is teasing another... I really don't mean to make light of the tragedy of this poor girl's suicide, but that's not a failure of the harassers. Harassing others, being harassed is part of growing up and if we don't stop this nonsense we're going to end up with a generation of people who are so fragile they won't be able to deal with the hard problems. This tragedy cannot be blamed on them, the blame lies with the school and/or the parents' inability to deal with the situation.
I think for them to actually stand a chance they'd have to first stop that with the locking out other devices. Next step - make deals with all the people Netflix did somehow and get at least their catalog. (Unlikely) And then get newer stuff or something better. THEN maybe they could compete...
I have a Google TV and it would not let me watch Hulu on it without paying for Hulu plus. Considering they have nowhere near the catalog that Netflix does, I really don't see them as a serious competitor. They might have been able to get me to watch a commercial or two considering their small catalog, but they didn't want that either.
I think the best management style is like the best government for a country. It's not necessarily about which one is best, it's about which one is best for that particular group of people.
I agree! If we are going to make an effort to reduce racism and prejudice, we should start by not letting it have a place in our government. If the punishment for murder is worse for the hate crime, why not just make it worse for everyone else as well?
Killing a dude because he's gay or is in an interracial relationship is just as bad as killing a dude because he likes the Dallas Cowboys as far as I'm concerned. They are both equally despicable acts, and sexual preference is and I think should be treated the same way as preference for any other thing. It's not important and should not be.
MS has their own faults as well, but yes, credit where it's due.
Other than possibly IE (which has gotten better) I can't think of much to complain about MS doing lately. Possibly because I've been doing Apple development heh... I can think of some things Apple does which piss me off a bit - device limits in iTunes, their provisioning scheme, xCode not being very snappy... but you're right, I can't really say Apple is the old MS...
Quite possible/probable, but I welcome the cheap shot just because I hate bandwidth caps in general. If Comcast got rid of theirs maybe others would follow suit.
They should invest more in infrastructure instead. If their servers or hardware or whatever is getting so clogged up by this traffic, it's a sign they are doing well and need to upgrade. If all the ISPs follow comcast's lead, our bandwidths are only going to decrease...
How about internet providers actually invest some more in infrastructure if they are having bandwidth problems? Faster Internet is the reason it's so common today. If we were all still using 2400 baud modems, the internet would not be so widespread as it is today by a longshot. It's the reason we have tons of video flying around the internet, and all the amazing other uses (skype, games, etc.)
Congress should seriously consider passing a law that forbids bandwidth capping. If I have a 5mbps connection I expect to be able to use it as such non-stop. Bandwidth capping just stifles innovation...
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Yeah... but if those things drive too slow and your kid dies you're going to say "Oh it was worth it because I was not putting other drivers at risk..."
Elon Musk went on to say that Biofuels are cocksuckers, he did Clean Natural Gas's mother and compressed air vehicles lick donkey balls...
What really constitutes free will?
I think for something to have free will it would have to have it's own desires and the ability to act on them.
As humans we have many desires that ultimately boil down in some way to biology even if we don't realize it.
So I think to create a conscious AI you have to give it:
The ability to do things on it's own.
Hardcoded preferences for things to do as well as things it learns it likes to do as well as things it doesn't.
<quote>Bullying is a huge problem in society.</quote>
Hunger is a huge problem in society. Disease, lack of sufficient health care, people dying in wars, substance abuse, domestic violence, crime are huge problems in society. Bullying is on par with these?
Can we stop using the word bullying for teasing, verbal abuse, etc. already? Bullying implies physical abuse on a regular basis. This is harassment at most unless I've read all this wrong and there was some physical abuse. My god it blows my mind that the POLICE are being called in because on kid is teasing another... I really don't mean to make light of the tragedy of this poor girl's suicide, but that's not a failure of the harassers. Harassing others, being harassed is part of growing up and if we don't stop this nonsense we're going to end up with a generation of people who are so fragile they won't be able to deal with the hard problems. This tragedy cannot be blamed on them, the blame lies with the school and/or the parents' inability to deal with the situation.
Yeah, she deserves to go to prison for teasing another kid. "You smell funny!" 10 YEARS PRISON!
I think for them to actually stand a chance they'd have to first stop that with the locking out other devices. Next step - make deals with all the people Netflix did somehow and get at least their catalog. (Unlikely) And then get newer stuff or something better. THEN maybe they could compete...
I have a Google TV and it would not let me watch Hulu on it without paying for Hulu plus. Considering they have nowhere near the catalog that Netflix does, I really don't see them as a serious competitor. They might have been able to get me to watch a commercial or two considering their small catalog, but they didn't want that either.
I'm not a scientist, so my comment here is possibly worthless - but.. If they could reprogram them to be fresh stem cells - yes probably.
Maybe they want some of us to use a distributed computing approach to broach the key?
I have it on good sources (IE: I just made this up) that DirectX will be skipping directly to DirectX 13 like how Leisure Suit Larry 4 was skipped.
Hah! That's Larry Niven though.
I think the best management style is like the best government for a country. It's not necessarily about which one is best, it's about which one is best for that particular group of people.
By making disincentives to use DVR and/or Cable/Satellite and use the internet instead.
You know, the Mormon Fundie types that marry 14 year olds and such...
I agree! If we are going to make an effort to reduce racism and prejudice, we should start by not letting it have a place in our government. If the punishment for murder is worse for the hate crime, why not just make it worse for everyone else as well?
Killing a dude because he's gay or is in an interracial relationship is just as bad as killing a dude because he likes the Dallas Cowboys as far as I'm concerned. They are both equally despicable acts, and sexual preference is and I think should be treated the same way as preference for any other thing. It's not important and should not be.
MS has their own faults as well, but yes, credit where it's due.
Other than possibly IE (which has gotten better) I can't think of much to complain about MS doing lately. Possibly because I've been doing Apple development heh... I can think of some things Apple does which piss me off a bit - device limits in iTunes, their provisioning scheme, xCode not being very snappy... but you're right, I can't really say Apple is the old MS...
The base non-student version of their software costs 1299.
I do not want to hear ANY complaints about money from them with that kind of audacity.
Quite possible/probable, but I welcome the cheap shot just because I hate bandwidth caps in general. If Comcast got rid of theirs maybe others would follow suit.
They should invest more in infrastructure instead. If their servers or hardware or whatever is getting so clogged up by this traffic, it's a sign they are doing well and need to upgrade. If all the ISPs follow comcast's lead, our bandwidths are only going to decrease...
Sony/DRM/rootkit issues aside, this is a story of bandwidth caps directly killing new services/innovation.
I think they maybe need to outlaw these kind of bandwidth caps, they do nothing but harm...
Maybe ...Unless the guy they fired was in charge of sending out dismissals. This was his final (possibly intentional) mistake. :D
How about internet providers actually invest some more in infrastructure if they are having bandwidth problems? Faster Internet is the reason it's so common today. If we were all still using 2400 baud modems, the internet would not be so widespread as it is today by a longshot. It's the reason we have tons of video flying around the internet, and all the amazing other uses (skype, games, etc.)
Congress should seriously consider passing a law that forbids bandwidth capping. If I have a 5mbps connection I expect to be able to use it as such non-stop. Bandwidth capping just stifles innovation...
Yeah, voluntarily is fine. I just don't care for them shutting off my laundry or perhaps my computer involuntarily.
If the smart meter does what they plan with it (IE: shutting down things I'm using) I will be looking for a hack as well.