So you seriously think there could never be a situation where the world didn't behave as planned and it would have to make a choice between "Evil A" and "Evil B"?
>> Of course, this is limited to flaws in the self-driving system.
Oh your car chose to kill a kid on a bike instead of hit an old person crossing the road? Yeah sorry you're on your own since we arbitrarily choose to not identify that as a flaw in our system.
Yeah I've heard different people make exactly the same claim about what ever their favourite genre of music happens to be, including blues, country and western, pop, prog rock, and heavy metal, being the one true musical genre or whatever.
I think the problem exists because people think of rap as music in the first place, when It obviously isn't. its street poetry set to music that is often sampled/mixed/ripped off from somewhere else, so not even trying to be original, which is normally one of the most important criteria for all other forms of music. Most rap artists don't know any music theory and can't play musical instruments or even sing, so its not about creating new music. Its all about the words, hence its poetry not music. No one will admit that though because being into poetry is not exactly considered a masculine trait.
The thing is, rap seems to be very narrow as a genre. Have you not noticed how eerily similar all the drum tracks are between most rap "music"?, or how it sees almost compulsory that all rappers perform with exactly the same fake gangsta accent? Unfortunately the only thing keeping rap alive is commercialism, not musical talent. There is literally no real musical creativity going on in the rap genre which is why rap is not only not music, but is inevitably destined to implode. Personally I can't wait.
>> Are you saying rap music is just a fad that has outlived its time?
Yes. Exactly. Rap is just like every other commercially motivated music form through the last 100 years at least. look at all the biggest trends/musical fads of the last century as an example. Before 1900 classical was the mainstream thing to listen to, then by maybe 1910 it was Swing Band, then in the 1930's Jazz, up to 1950's Rock n Roll, then 60's beatle-type pop, then 70's Disco and Rock, then late 70's Punk, then early 80's New Wave/Electronic, then late 80's/90's Indie and New age, etc etc. I know the above is a very massive generalization but you get my point. Each musical mainstream style has only a few years period which was definitely identifiable as being their time. I don;t know why anyone would think Rap would be any different. Personally I can't wait for the next thing whatever it is to get here ASAP and bury rap underground where it belongs.
>> Like hippy shirts and corduroy pants being a stereotype linked to the 60's/70's, verbing our nouns (see what I did there?!) is similarly linked to the '00's.
Unfortunately "verbing our nouns" is unlike the fashion examples you mentioned in the single most important respect: It doesn't have the good taste to only exist in the same decade as when it was considered "cool". I like to call that the rap phenomenon.
I REALLY wish that Capital One could understand and cater to their UK customers that now live in a different country. Even their Android phone app wont work unless you have a UK cellphone number. WTF?
First program I ever wrote was about 38 years ago, a 0's and X's game on an Wang 380 (programmable calculator from the late 1960's that used punched cards) but I have been working as a software developer professionally for about 36 years now.
>> I mean, who is going to string thousands of kilometers of fiber through the outback?
Well there are plenty of big cities on both sides of Australia, and just outback in the middle. I don't know either way but I'd be *really* surprised if there is really no cables running through the outback connecting them (phone, data etc).
I hate companies that limit features to particular branded hardware for marketing rather than any actual technical reason. This app allows you to use nvidia gamestream with other android devices: https://play.google.com/store/...
Firstly its not a real SUV its a soccer moms van. There's no way this thing is of any use off road at all as the ground clearance is about the same as a family car, and anyone that takes a road car that cost $145k off of the tarmac is insane.
I can't imagine there are many families that can afford 132-144k on what amounts to a soccer mom's van. with the money it takes to buy an X you can get a practical people mover as good as this car, also buy a 2 seat sports car that would be more fun to drive, and still put maybe $75k in the bank.
There is also no way the math works out on the savings from no-need-to-ever-buy-gas. Even assuming all the electricity you use to charge your X is free, the extra cost of this car over an equivalent gasoline vehicle would get you 52631 gallons of gas, (i.e. enough free gas for the entire life of about 10 cars).
Those doors look cool but its just more expensive shit to go wrong. Having previous experience of owning a vehicle with vertical doors and looking at the videos of how the X opens its doors I can honestly imagine more problems than normal doors especially in small or low spaces such as commonly found in parking garages.
woops ignore me, I just googled and saw it was both VW and Audi brands.
I realise its just on diesel engines that has been discovered, but now I'm wondering about the other car badges that VW owns and how deep this could really go. Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamobrghini, Porsche, The supercar/luxury brands especially already have a lot of pressure on them to show very low emissions but not sacrifice any performance. Something has to give.
>> I don't know how you can get worked up over it.
If it was just a social/privately organized thing (like your Boys/Girls Night Out example) of course I wouldn't care, but its different when a global company like Google are sending such a message as being (in line with) their corporate policy.
>> Literally every other computer camp is a "boys computer camp" because they dominate the enrollment.
No they're not "boys computer camps". As far as I'm aware they don't limit access based on gender. Google's camp does.
If girls don't want to go to a computer camp with a gender makeup that reflects real life (i.e. non-segregated) then its THEM directly being whiny princesses and making the problem. That behaviour should not be tolerated, much less encouraged by Google.
I'm seeing this error so frequently now in written American English that I'm genuinely wondering if US schools don't bother teaching or enforcing the difference between "their" and "there" any more. Is this actually true?
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I may not be able to (re)act faster but I think real world situations still exist where I could make a better decision than a chip.
So you seriously think there could never be a situation where the world didn't behave as planned and it would have to make a choice between "Evil A" and "Evil B"?
>> Of course, this is limited to flaws in the self-driving system.
Oh your car chose to kill a kid on a bike instead of hit an old person crossing the road? Yeah sorry you're on your own since we arbitrarily choose to not identify that as a flaw in our system.
Yeah I've heard different people make exactly the same claim about what ever their favourite genre of music happens to be, including blues, country and western, pop, prog rock, and heavy metal, being the one true musical genre or whatever.
I think the problem exists because people think of rap as music in the first place, when It obviously isn't. its street poetry set to music that is often sampled/mixed/ripped off from somewhere else, so not even trying to be original, which is normally one of the most important criteria for all other forms of music. Most rap artists don't know any music theory and can't play musical instruments or even sing, so its not about creating new music. Its all about the words, hence its poetry not music. No one will admit that though because being into poetry is not exactly considered a masculine trait.
The thing is, rap seems to be very narrow as a genre. Have you not noticed how eerily similar all the drum tracks are between most rap "music"?, or how it sees almost compulsory that all rappers perform with exactly the same fake gangsta accent? Unfortunately the only thing keeping rap alive is commercialism, not musical talent. There is literally no real musical creativity going on in the rap genre which is why rap is not only not music, but is inevitably destined to implode. Personally I can't wait.
>> Are you saying rap music is just a fad that has outlived its time?
Yes. Exactly. Rap is just like every other commercially motivated music form through the last 100 years at least.
look at all the biggest trends/musical fads of the last century as an example. Before 1900 classical was the mainstream thing to listen to, then by maybe 1910 it was Swing Band, then in the 1930's Jazz, up to 1950's Rock n Roll, then 60's beatle-type pop, then 70's Disco and Rock, then late 70's Punk, then early 80's New Wave/Electronic, then late 80's/90's Indie and New age, etc etc. I know the above is a very massive generalization but you get my point. Each musical mainstream style has only a few years period which was definitely identifiable as being their time. I don;t know why anyone would think Rap would be any different.
Personally I can't wait for the next thing whatever it is to get here ASAP and bury rap underground where it belongs.
Reverse Polish Notation is apparently alive and well pretty at Yale.
I am going to a find?
Is this an American English thing?
>> Like hippy shirts and corduroy pants being a stereotype linked to the 60's/70's, verbing our nouns (see what I did there?!) is similarly linked to the '00's.
Unfortunately "verbing our nouns" is unlike the fashion examples you mentioned in the single most important respect: It doesn't have the good taste to only exist in the same decade as when it was considered "cool". I like to call that the rap phenomenon.
Clearly one of the worse side-effects of drug abuse is no longer being able to differentiate between verbs and nouns.
By "user" I meant "anyone who uses it", including distro creators and phone manufacturers.
I say good luck but I can't imagine any users ever choosing to use anything other than the "official" kernel.
I have nothing but love for old Sun OS's but can someone please explain why anyone these days would choose to run Open Solaris over Linux?
I REALLY wish that Capital One could understand and cater to their UK customers that now live in a different country.
Even their Android phone app wont work unless you have a UK cellphone number. WTF?
First program I ever wrote was about 38 years ago, a 0's and X's game on an Wang 380 (programmable calculator from the late 1960's that used punched cards) but I have been working as a software developer professionally for about 36 years now.
>> I mean, who is going to string thousands of kilometers of fiber through the outback?
Well there are plenty of big cities on both sides of Australia, and just outback in the middle. I don't know either way but I'd be *really* surprised if there is really no cables running through the outback connecting them (phone, data etc).
I hate companies that limit features to particular branded hardware for marketing rather than any actual technical reason.
This app allows you to use nvidia gamestream with other android devices:
https://play.google.com/store/...
This isn't a smart buy on any level.
Firstly its not a real SUV its a soccer moms van. There's no way this thing is of any use off road at all as the ground clearance is about the same as a family car, and anyone that takes a road car that cost $145k off of the tarmac is insane.
I can't imagine there are many families that can afford 132-144k on what amounts to a soccer mom's van. with the money it takes to buy an X you can get a practical people mover as good as this car, also buy a 2 seat sports car that would be more fun to drive, and still put maybe $75k in the bank.
There is also no way the math works out on the savings from no-need-to-ever-buy-gas. Even assuming all the electricity you use to charge your X is free, the extra cost of this car over an equivalent gasoline vehicle would get you 52631 gallons of gas, (i.e. enough free gas for the entire life of about 10 cars).
Those doors look cool but its just more expensive shit to go wrong. Having previous experience of owning a vehicle with vertical doors and looking at the videos of how the X opens its doors I can honestly imagine more problems than normal doors especially in small or low spaces such as commonly found in parking garages.
>> You think OS X and Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 are bad?
I for one do.
woops ignore me, I just googled and saw it was both VW and Audi brands.
I realise its just on diesel engines that has been discovered, but now I'm wondering about the other car badges that VW owns and how deep this could really go. Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamobrghini, Porsche,
The supercar/luxury brands especially already have a lot of pressure on them to show very low emissions but not sacrifice any performance. Something has to give.
You're saying Audi is also doing it? It would make sense but I personally haven't yet seen anyone else making that claim yet.
I bet upper management at Audi are shitting bricks and deleting many emails right now though.
>> I don't know how you can get worked up over it.
If it was just a social/privately organized thing (like your Boys/Girls Night Out example) of course I wouldn't care, but its different when a global company like Google are sending such a message as being (in line with) their corporate policy.
Seriously I can imagine a future where all the poor people live on mars and can only dream about one day being rich enough to live on earth.
>> Literally every other computer camp is a "boys computer camp" because they dominate the enrollment.
No they're not "boys computer camps". As far as I'm aware they don't limit access based on gender. Google's camp does.
If girls don't want to go to a computer camp with a gender makeup that reflects real life (i.e. non-segregated) then its THEM directly being whiny princesses and making the problem. That behaviour should not be tolerated, much less encouraged by Google.
I would go along with everything you said as long as Google were also providing an equivalent boys-only camp.
Until then, Google are guilty of blatant sexism.
>> even found there way in complicating a
I'm seeing this error so frequently now in written American English that I'm genuinely wondering if US schools don't bother teaching or enforcing the difference between "their" and "there" any more. Is this actually true?