They removed the problems that killed people (mostly, no a/c is perfect)
I think it's far to say that any conditioner that could ever hurt people, nevermind kill them, is very far from perfect indeed.
He wasn't talking about aircon, you fool.
AC stands for Anonymous Coward. They're a dangerous bunch, you know...
Firmly agree. With more free time on their hands, I don't think people would spend the rest of their lives just vegetating in front of the TV. Well, they might for a bit, but after a while all but the most pathalogically inert would go out to find something a bit more rewarding to do. Like learning foreign languages, or how to dance, or building model sailing ships, or whatever.
I think it's a fallacy to look at the lifestyles of the poor and unemployed and extrapolate that to a future where no-one had to work.
1. Those people in society who are long-term unemployed due to their own inability or unwillingness to get off their arses and do something about it (and yes, despite generally being a left-leaning liberal hippy type, I have to acknowledge the existence of such people) lead pretty sedentary useless lives not because they are unemployed, but vice versa: They lead sedentary useless passive lives therefore they are unemployed. Thus, those people who are currently gainfully and actively employed would not necessarily revert to a state of torpor if their skill were no longer required. They'd just reskill, or go fishing, or something.
Yeah, I don't get it either. I mean, surely for a good RPG you need, in terms of source meterial, some decent characters/plot, neither of which are generally seen as being SF2's strong points. I mean, the game designers aren't being given much to work with?
Now, a tabletop figurine-based version of Starcraft, that I could see the point of. Or a pencil-and-paper version of Zelda, or Final Fantasy, or Half-Life, even. But SF2? I have literally no idea wtf kind of a thing that would end up being. Any ideas? How would you d it?
The average speed of a car in a major city is 6 mph.
Wrong. Not often I get to argue from a professional standpoint on/. but IAATPT (I Am A Traffic Planning Technician) in London and I know for a fact the average speed of vehicular traffic in this unusually congested city is a speedy 9 mph. Sure, that's 1 mph less than what it was when we were all using horses and carts, but it's still more than you're claiming, and enough that I would guess that a Segway with a top speed of 12 mph would not be able to get an average speed, in terms of a complete door-to-door urban journey, much faster than the average - the ability to weave through traffic etc would be outweighed by the short stretches of open road you get, even in rush hour, where everyone else accellerates to 30 - 40 mph.
Never thought my transport-geekery would ever come in handy. Just don't get me started on buses...
When my brother worked at a supermarket checkout, he'd just wave the item vaguely in front of the reader and then pass it on, whether the barcode was read or not. He was the most popular checkout guy ever.
Sorry guys, but I own the patent on posting humorous comments on/. claiming to hold ridiculous IP patents. You and about 15,000 other slashdotters owe me.
Seriously, I can see this getting old quicker than the "I, for one, welcome..." jokes.
"...the job of religion is to cause misery and suffering, propagate and encourage ignorance, and divide in war those who might otherwise work together for peace.
Does that about sum it up?"
No, dude, you forgot the part about extorting money with spooky threats. Oh, and telling poor people to have more children. And being largely responsible for the AIDS epidemic in Africa. And stuff. Welcome to my friends list.
Was it just me or did anyone else think that the last question:
"Q: This project makes me think of The Matrix -- where machines run the world and humans are slaves to the machines. Isn't this technology a move in that direction?"
was a tad melodramatic? I can't even be bothered to start to take the piss out of this kind of sloppy, recycled-thinking journalism.
No way! The only car case I have actually witnessed with my own eyes (not on TV) was pretty darn spectacular. First about three cop cars go tearing thorugh the saturday high-street traffic on both sides of the road, then a helicopter turns up, and then this beat-up old eighties nissan (the bad guys) comes screeching through the traffic with one side all dented in and steam pouring out from under the bonnet, sees the cars ahead, bumps over the central divider, tries a U-ey, sees the other cars coming up, backs up, takes a turning, screeches off...
Two important points:
1. It was a lot slower than you see in films, because this was in London on a Saturday morning, i.e. a lot of traffic, whereas in films all the traffic seems to miraculously melt away as soon as the chase starts.
2. People in other cars / crossing the road were very eager to get out of the way of the bad guys, more so than getting out of the way of the police, probably because the police are marginally less likely to be cracked-up lunatics willing to indiscriminately spray bystanders with automatic gunfire*. Marginally.
Anyway, it was really cool, and it made me think that movie car chases would actually be *more* exciting if they were slower, but there was more traffic. But it was exciting. It really made my weekend. So I don't know what you're talking about.
*yeah, I know in England we don't have as much firepower per head of population as the US, but professional criminals these days are generally pretty heavily armed.
My Lord, mayhap thou wast beinge japesome, but verily thou dost have a goode point.
Forfend that I shoulde suggest that originality might be a goode thinge for it's own sake, for 'pon my troth I am a believer of the creed 'If broken itte be not, then attempt ye not to fixe itte'.
However, I cannot believe that alle fantasye RPGs neede to bee as constrayned in thier imaginnings as they do in troth appear to be.
Whatte parte of 'fatasye' doo thse brayne-addled simpletons notte understande?
So let me get this straight: They're filling out forms all day, they have no internet access, but that's ok because that freaky guy in the shorts is at the next desk playing guitar all day?
You, my friend, have a very different idea than I of what makes a happy working environment.
I see four possible uses of face-recognition systems:
1. One to One: Like the verification example you used. Yeah, this must be the easiest, but you still don't see it a lot, even where, eg ATMs, it would be useful.
2. One to Many: For example, the police pick up a suspect, take his picture, and run it through their database to see if he's been picked up before, like they do with your name at the moment, but removing the opportunity to lie.
3. Many to One: for example, putting a bunch of cameras in a public place and giving them a picture of Bin Laden or whoever to look for. Probably computationally equivalent to 2.
4. Many to many: the system described in the article, and the most difficult.
So I'm not surprised this doesn't work, given that I haven't seen any widespread applications of 1, 2 and 3 yet.
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Obedient Aye.
I read somewhere that the chances of winning the big jackpot in the UK weekly lottery are 14,000,000:1
That means I'm 15.56 times more likely to be killed along with the rest of the human race by this asteroid than I am to win the lottery this Saturday.
These are not good odds.
A lot of tv stations (in my area at least) offer cash rewards for amateur video of crime scenes
Has there ever been a case of someone comitting a crime just to get some good footage?
They removed the problems that killed people (mostly, no a/c is perfect)
I think it's far to say that any conditioner that could ever hurt people, nevermind kill them, is very far from perfect indeed.
He wasn't talking about aircon, you fool.
AC stands for Anonymous Coward. They're a dangerous bunch, you know...
Firmly agree. With more free time on their hands, I don't think people would spend the rest of their lives just vegetating in front of the TV. Well, they might for a bit, but after a while all but the most pathalogically inert would go out to find something a bit more rewarding to do. Like learning foreign languages, or how to dance, or building model sailing ships, or whatever.
I think it's a fallacy to look at the lifestyles of the poor and unemployed and extrapolate that to a future where no-one had to work.
1. Those people in society who are long-term unemployed due to their own inability or unwillingness to get off their arses and do something about it (and yes, despite generally being a left-leaning liberal hippy type, I have to acknowledge the existence of such people) lead pretty sedentary useless lives not because they are unemployed, but vice versa: They lead sedentary useless passive lives therefore they are unemployed. Thus, those people who are currently gainfully and actively employed would not necessarily revert to a state of torpor if their skill were no longer required. They'd just reskill, or go fishing, or something.
Yeah, I don't get it either. I mean, surely for a good RPG you need, in terms of source meterial, some decent characters/plot, neither of which are generally seen as being SF2's strong points. I mean, the game designers aren't being given much to work with?
Now, a tabletop figurine-based version of Starcraft, that I could see the point of. Or a pencil-and-paper version of Zelda, or Final Fantasy, or Half-Life, even. But SF2? I have literally no idea wtf kind of a thing that would end up being. Any ideas? How would you d it?
The average speed of a car in a major city is 6 mph.
/. but IAATPT (I Am A Traffic Planning Technician) in London and I know for a fact the average speed of vehicular traffic in this unusually congested city is a speedy 9 mph. Sure, that's 1 mph less than what it was when we were all using horses and carts, but it's still more than you're claiming, and enough that I would guess that a Segway with a top speed of 12 mph would not be able to get an average speed, in terms of a complete door-to-door urban journey, much faster than the average - the ability to weave through traffic etc would be outweighed by the short stretches of open road you get, even in rush hour, where everyone else accellerates to 30 - 40 mph.
Wrong. Not often I get to argue from a professional standpoint on
Never thought my transport-geekery would ever come in handy. Just don't get me started on buses...
When my brother worked at a supermarket checkout, he'd just wave the item vaguely in front of the reader and then pass it on, whether the barcode was read or not. He was the most popular checkout guy ever.
Sorry guys, but I own the patent on posting humorous comments on /. claiming to hold ridiculous IP patents. You and about 15,000 other slashdotters owe me.
Seriously, I can see this getting old quicker than the "I, for one, welcome..." jokes.
What about a car that automagically transforms into a speedboat when it comes into contact with water?
Er, just don't drive it in the rain, I guess.
You hear about the devil-worshipping dyslexic?
He sold his soul to Santa.
"...the job of religion is to cause misery and suffering, propagate and encourage ignorance, and divide in war those who might otherwise work together for peace.
Does that about sum it up?"
No, dude, you forgot the part about extorting money with spooky threats. Oh, and telling poor people to have more children. And being largely responsible for the AIDS epidemic in Africa. And stuff. Welcome to my friends list.
If you ran a linux emulator in OSX, couldn't you run Wine in that?
Was it just me or did anyone else think that the last question:
"Q: This project makes me think of The Matrix -- where machines run the world and humans are slaves to the machines. Isn't this technology a move in that direction?"
was a tad melodramatic? I can't even be bothered to start to take the piss out of this kind of sloppy, recycled-thinking journalism.
No way! The only car case I have actually witnessed with my own eyes (not on TV) was pretty darn spectacular. First about three cop cars go tearing thorugh the saturday high-street traffic on both sides of the road, then a helicopter turns up, and then this beat-up old eighties nissan (the bad guys) comes screeching through the traffic with one side all dented in and steam pouring out from under the bonnet, sees the cars ahead, bumps over the central divider, tries a U-ey, sees the other cars coming up, backs up, takes a turning, screeches off...
Two important points:
1. It was a lot slower than you see in films, because this was in London on a Saturday morning, i.e. a lot of traffic, whereas in films all the traffic seems to miraculously melt away as soon as the chase starts.
2. People in other cars / crossing the road were very eager to get out of the way of the bad guys, more so than getting out of the way of the police, probably because the police are marginally less likely to be cracked-up lunatics willing to indiscriminately spray bystanders with automatic gunfire*. Marginally.
Anyway, it was really cool, and it made me think that movie car chases would actually be *more* exciting if they were slower, but there was more traffic. But it was exciting. It really made my weekend. So I don't know what you're talking about.
*yeah, I know in England we don't have as much firepower per head of population as the US, but professional criminals these days are generally pretty heavily armed.
My Lord, mayhap thou wast beinge japesome, but verily thou dost have a goode point.
Forfend that I shoulde suggest that originality might be a goode thinge for it's own sake, for 'pon my troth I am a believer of the creed 'If broken itte be not, then attempt ye not to fixe itte'.
However, I cannot believe that alle fantasye RPGs neede to bee as constrayned in thier imaginnings as they do in troth appear to be.
Whatte parte of 'fatasye' doo thse brayne-addled simpletons notte understande?
I'm English. Here's how it works:
1. Junior minister "leaks" proposal to, for example, tattoo barcodes on the heads of all babies at birth.
2. Liberal press goes hysterical.
3. Senior Minister / Prime Minister denies all.
4. Liberal Press claims victory.
5. Meanwhile, government slips in bill to, for example, tattoo barcodes on some babies' heads.
6. GOTO 1
I was going to mention Altered Beast, but you've spelt it wrong: I remember it being more like "Awise fwom your gwaaaave!"
No, thae bad news is that it doesn't have any weapons and can't turn into a fighter plane.
That made me laugh.
You ever think about how the big flood in Genesis is basically equivalent to God hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete?
I have worked in construction, briefly, and boy do they goof off. A non-exhaustive list:
1. Stopping work at 16:30, or 15:30 if it's a friday
2. Teabreaks every twenty minutes (I'm English)
3. My boss would sometimes wonder off for the afternoon, saying he had to "sort sometihng out"
4. Long, alcoholic lunchbreaks
5. Laughing at people when they fall over after 4.
6. Laughing at people (well, me, generally) when they hurt themselves after 4.
7. When working in a private house, wait until client goes to work and then:
7a. Go through their stuff, or
7b. Go home
Honestly, these guys are the masters at goofing off. And that's just the legal stuff
So let me get this straight: They're filling out forms all day, they have no internet access, but that's ok because that freaky guy in the shorts is at the next desk playing guitar all day?
You, my friend, have a very different idea than I of what makes a happy working environment.
I see four possible uses of face-recognition systems:
1. One to One: Like the verification example you used. Yeah, this must be the easiest, but you still don't see it a lot, even where, eg ATMs, it would be useful.
2. One to Many: For example, the police pick up a suspect, take his picture, and run it through their database to see if he's been picked up before, like they do with your name at the moment, but removing the opportunity to lie.
3. Many to One: for example, putting a bunch of cameras in a public place and giving them a picture of Bin Laden or whoever to look for. Probably computationally equivalent to 2.
4. Many to many: the system described in the article, and the most difficult.
So I'm not surprised this doesn't work, given that I haven't seen any widespread applications of 1, 2 and 3 yet.
So yeah, I'm agreeing with you, just more so.
For somebody whose job is filling out forms all day, invoicing and exporting, why do they need a Web browser?
because otherwise they will go insane with boredom, you insensitive clod!
That doesn't make sense. I can recognise a particular face from a 2D photograph. Therefore it must be possible, just difficult.