I actually never said anything about citizenship, I simply meant that being born and raised in an advanced society is a privilege that should not be abused.
As for the risk factor (additional year of punishment vs low probability of being caught +...), I have to agree that there is so little chance of getting cough in the first place, it might not change a thing. However, doing nothing to discourage the use use of a tool while that tool can provide an advantage would tip the balance the other way (reduce the "risk" even more).
As I said in another reply, why isn't anyone questioning "armed robbery" over simple "robbery"?
People seem to find unbelievable to punish someone based on how he committed a crime, but this has been around for ages. Doesn't the justice system have different punishment for aggressions committed with bare hands, a knife or a gun...
Although the approach they took seems stupid, I think it somehow makes sense in a way that it might discourage some to try. Technology and science can be used in bad ways, most people know that; to us it's common sense, but to us so in civility (as in not robing/attacking people). Therefore I assume they make "dumb laws" for dumb people that could probably be dissuaded by such measures.
What were they supposed to do? Ban the technology? Make every piece of tech go through some comity to see if can be used for wrongdoing? Assume people are wise and smart?
To me technology is a privilege, not a right and abusing a privilege should be punished.
That is probable one of the biggest piece of false-science I have ever seen in years. The exact same thing could have been done with any compromised wireless device; the fact that the chip is under his skin is completely irrelevant. People helping to carry computer viruses have been around for decades, remember those floppies of shareware with virus on them??? Come-on!
Actually, looking at games like Crysis, I realize that in term of pixels, we reached a point where we don't actually need more pixels unless we want much bigger displays. Personally, I don't care much for resolutions like 4K x 2K, but I would really like to see full HD wearable displays like Vuzix Wrap 920 but with higher resolutions.
Is there anywhere else where this kind of law would apply, even if you have to enforce it with a class action suit?
Now they DID remove a feature that is was first advertised to have, making it LESS than it was when I first purchased it so removing value. To make an analogy, it would be like my car dealer removing my airbags saying there was a security risk, but not replacing it with an equivalent feature and not wanting to give me money back saying I never used the feature...
No I currently don't use the feature on my old phat PS3, but if I ever buy another console (the slim or a PS4 when it is released), I always considered I could use it as a HTPC... I don't like throwing away electronics, I always try to find 2nd lives for them.
From my school experience, something similar is already happening. Most of us, geeks of all kinds, have been forced to do team assignments with less than qualified people; we had the choice of either working twice as hard to get the grade WE deserve or do our fair part and end-up with the grade THEY deserve. In the end, most of us chose the first path and were not even paid for it:-/.
Depending on the need and pricing of Cat6 cable, I would also lean toward Cat6. Both will do Gigabit, but I think Cat6 can also do 10Gbps, so it might last longer and prevent you from having to rewire your house in 3-5 years.
Just to say how arbitrary this can be, I, on the other hand, would favor recycled paper and/or applications printed on both sides of the paper. It goes against most convention, but I like people that take risks based on their convictions (in this example, probably nature preservation). Then again, during the interview he might be way too much into that thing and I would find him annoying:P.
In the end, I do realize that people will use pretty much any "heuristic" they want and I'm fine with that. I'm just questioning the validity/value of that one. I mean I could always shred any application not printed on recycled paper or not using a "Sans-serif" type of font.
Who is to say that an @aol.com < @hotmail.com < @gmail.com? I believe this is just some kind of geek "racism". There are probably very good reasons to have an AOL address and it can even be a good interview question to ask; if your IT staff is based on "coolness" factor of any given technology, your are in for a nice ride.
However, as someone else already posted, the actual account name is much more important IMO as it can give an general idea of the person's personality and attention to his public image; RockCock, BongKing, KegMaster,... you know you are dealing with someone who's mind never really grew up after their 20th birthday. Not that this is necessarily bad, but not all jobs are fit for the "young at heart".
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I remember the patches when I was young, I could probably give it another try, but my lazy eye is so lazy I couldn't read or drive with it alone. As a motivation, I also read about therapy using 3D glasses (real ones, active shutters or polarized, I don't know and it might not make a difference). I would be curious to try that as the therapy might require to play games:P. Maybe I could get my insurance company to pay for the Nvidia 3D glasses thing!
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My brain IS medically incapable of 3D. I suffer from a condition called amblyopia and therefore can rarely percieve any 3D effect no matter the technology; to be honnest I probably don't see the real world in 3D either. However, for some reason, I have rather good depth perception, probably adapted over the years since I suffer from amblyopia since I was born. So I'm also part of the group that is totally indifferent to all this 3D hype beside the fact that I fear overall image quality might go down because people will put effort in the 3D.
I'm a software engineer so I had both, plus some more, plus physics classes so I've been doing "math stuff" a lot. IMO, discrete mathematics is probably the best "generic" choice as it is mostly geared toward logic. However, if you want to do 3D work or work with algorithms, you should take "analysis" because the match concepts will be more advanced.
In the end, I think the math class that was the most useful in every day work is neither, it's statistics, but that is another story:).
Not a bad solution. I'm sure if telcos were to put a bit more effort together instead of just competing, they could probably achieve much better overall customer satisfaction by sharing this kind of idea.
I like the idea of allowing people to customize their package to their needs and I think it might be the key to this whole telecom mess. One one side telcos might perceive some people as abusing their system and on the other side customers feel telcos are punishing or at least threatening them without reason...
I think you pointed-out the real problem. The telcos want you to pay for the 70Mbps line, but don't want you to use it. If you cannot support a users doing 70Mbps, don't sell 70Mbps. I know that building an infrastructure based on the assumption that all users will use maximum bandwidth would be costly, but then adapt your marketting practices; sell lower sustained speed and put a "speed on demand" service that is easy to use so when you want/need to download the new 8GB PS3 game you can play before the next week. Otherwise you can always have a maximum sustained bandwidth based on high/low period of the day, but this needs to be clear.
As you said, you'd have to sacrifice something or simply double the requirements. Either way, the GPU will still have to generate both point of view (each eye), the way the information is transmitted to the brain is then another problem:P.
No matter the technology used, polarized glasses or shutter glasses, you still need to render 2 distinct images at full resolution, one for each eye, and each need to be at least 30FPS... talking about that, I wonder how much of a motion sickness you get if the image lags differently on each eye:P.
Exactly my point of view to. Intelligence is simply a measure of raw power, like MFLOPS (all the D&D geek references were already posted so I had to find another one). It simply state that your brain is able to do some basic tasks like pattern recognition and similar stuff. You need much more to be "smart", you need to be able to filter the basic information you found your "processing" on, you need to analyze the outputs to see if they actually make sense, you need to make sure you factored in all the necessary variables. To me, "smart" is probably more of a methodology than an actual quality; intelligent people will only be smart faster:P.
The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The willingness to learn is a choice.
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It would have been nice to also include the time it takes to do a clean install of Vista on the low/med/high end machine and also a clean install of Win7. The benefit of those extra numbers would be to know if one should go Retail/OEM vs Upgrade for Win7.
I'm among the few (1-5%) who suffer from amblyopia, this, among other things, mean that stereoscopic 3D has no real effect on me.
On another thought I think the way they decided to go is a rip-off. First, I think Sony plans on delivering 3D only on top-of-the-line 240Hz TVs, when 120Hz is enough (ok, not ideal, but who cares). Second, they probably could have introduced a 3D upgrade kits for existing TVs instead of something completely new; such kits are already available for PC for ~200$.
Everybody knows that 73% of people will believe anything you say when you state numbers in your claims and it rises to 91.7% when you add decimals...:P
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I actually never said anything about citizenship, I simply meant that being born and raised in an advanced society is a privilege that should not be abused.
...), I have to agree that there is so little chance of getting cough in the first place, it might not change a thing. However, doing nothing to discourage the use use of a tool while that tool can provide an advantage would tip the balance the other way (reduce the "risk" even more).
As for the risk factor (additional year of punishment vs low probability of being caught +
As I said in another reply, why isn't anyone questioning "armed robbery" over simple "robbery"?
If used to commit a crime, why not?
People seem to find unbelievable to punish someone based on how he committed a crime, but this has been around for ages. Doesn't the justice system have different punishment for aggressions committed with bare hands, a knife or a gun...
Although the approach they took seems stupid, I think it somehow makes sense in a way that it might discourage some to try. Technology and science can be used in bad ways, most people know that; to us it's common sense, but to us so in civility (as in not robing/attacking people). Therefore I assume they make "dumb laws" for dumb people that could probably be dissuaded by such measures. What were they supposed to do? Ban the technology? Make every piece of tech go through some comity to see if can be used for wrongdoing? Assume people are wise and smart? To me technology is a privilege, not a right and abusing a privilege should be punished.
That is probable one of the biggest piece of false-science I have ever seen in years. The exact same thing could have been done with any compromised wireless device; the fact that the chip is under his skin is completely irrelevant. People helping to carry computer viruses have been around for decades, remember those floppies of shareware with virus on them??? Come-on!
Link, need I say more?
Actually, looking at games like Crysis, I realize that in term of pixels, we reached a point where we don't actually need more pixels unless we want much bigger displays. Personally, I don't care much for resolutions like 4K x 2K, but I would really like to see full HD wearable displays like Vuzix Wrap 920 but with higher resolutions.
Is there anywhere else where this kind of law would apply, even if you have to enforce it with a class action suit?
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... I don't like throwing away electronics, I always try to find 2nd lives for them.
Now they DID remove a feature that is was first advertised to have, making it LESS than it was when I first purchased it so removing value. To make an analogy, it would be like my car dealer removing my airbags saying there was a security risk, but not replacing it with an equivalent feature and not wanting to give me money back saying I never used the feature
No I currently don't use the feature on my old phat PS3, but if I ever buy another console (the slim or a PS4 when it is released), I always considered I could use it as a HTPC
From my school experience, something similar is already happening. Most of us, geeks of all kinds, have been forced to do team assignments with less than qualified people; we had the choice of either working twice as hard to get the grade WE deserve or do our fair part and end-up with the grade THEY deserve. In the end, most of us chose the first path and were not even paid for it :-/.
Depending on the need and pricing of Cat6 cable, I would also lean toward Cat6. Both will do Gigabit, but I think Cat6 can also do 10Gbps, so it might last longer and prevent you from having to rewire your house in 3-5 years.
Just to say how arbitrary this can be, I, on the other hand, would favor recycled paper and/or applications printed on both sides of the paper. It goes against most convention, but I like people that take risks based on their convictions (in this example, probably nature preservation). Then again, during the interview he might be way too much into that thing and I would find him annoying :P.
In the end, I do realize that people will use pretty much any "heuristic" they want and I'm fine with that. I'm just questioning the validity/value of that one. I mean I could always shred any application not printed on recycled paper or not using a "Sans-serif" type of font.
Who is to say that an @aol.com < @hotmail.com < @gmail.com? I believe this is just some kind of geek "racism". There are probably very good reasons to have an AOL address and it can even be a good interview question to ask; if your IT staff is based on "coolness" factor of any given technology, your are in for a nice ride.
... you know you are dealing with someone who's mind never really grew up after their 20th birthday. Not that this is necessarily bad, but not all jobs are fit for the "young at heart".
However, as someone else already posted, the actual account name is much more important IMO as it can give an general idea of the person's personality and attention to his public image; RockCock, BongKing, KegMaster,
I remember the patches when I was young, I could probably give it another try, but my lazy eye is so lazy I couldn't read or drive with it alone. As a motivation, I also read about therapy using 3D glasses (real ones, active shutters or polarized, I don't know and it might not make a difference). I would be curious to try that as the therapy might require to play games :P. Maybe I could get my insurance company to pay for the Nvidia 3D glasses thing!
My brain IS medically incapable of 3D. I suffer from a condition called amblyopia and therefore can rarely percieve any 3D effect no matter the technology; to be honnest I probably don't see the real world in 3D either. However, for some reason, I have rather good depth perception, probably adapted over the years since I suffer from amblyopia since I was born. So I'm also part of the group that is totally indifferent to all this 3D hype beside the fact that I fear overall image quality might go down because people will put effort in the 3D.
I'm a software engineer so I had both, plus some more, plus physics classes so I've been doing "math stuff" a lot. IMO, discrete mathematics is probably the best "generic" choice as it is mostly geared toward logic. However, if you want to do 3D work or work with algorithms, you should take "analysis" because the match concepts will be more advanced. In the end, I think the math class that was the most useful in every day work is neither, it's statistics, but that is another story :).
Not a bad solution. I'm sure if telcos were to put a bit more effort together instead of just competing, they could probably achieve much better overall customer satisfaction by sharing this kind of idea.
I like the idea of allowing people to customize their package to their needs and I think it might be the key to this whole telecom mess. One one side telcos might perceive some people as abusing their system and on the other side customers feel telcos are punishing or at least threatening them without reason...
I think you pointed-out the real problem. The telcos want you to pay for the 70Mbps line, but don't want you to use it. If you cannot support a users doing 70Mbps, don't sell 70Mbps. I know that building an infrastructure based on the assumption that all users will use maximum bandwidth would be costly, but then adapt your marketting practices; sell lower sustained speed and put a "speed on demand" service that is easy to use so when you want/need to download the new 8GB PS3 game you can play before the next week. Otherwise you can always have a maximum sustained bandwidth based on high/low period of the day, but this needs to be clear.
As you said, you'd have to sacrifice something or simply double the requirements. Either way, the GPU will still have to generate both point of view (each eye), the way the information is transmitted to the brain is then another problem :P.
No matter the technology used, polarized glasses or shutter glasses, you still need to render 2 distinct images at full resolution, one for each eye, and each need to be at least 30FPS ... talking about that, I wonder how much of a motion sickness you get if the image lags differently on each eye :P.
Mmm, you mean like all those people that will want 3D LCD and therefore will require double the current FPS to look as smooth as it does today?
The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The willingness to learn is a choice.
— Rebec of Ginaz
It would have been nice to also include the time it takes to do a clean install of Vista on the low/med/high end machine and also a clean install of Win7. The benefit of those extra numbers would be to know if one should go Retail/OEM vs Upgrade for Win7.
I'm among the few (1-5%) who suffer from amblyopia, this, among other things, mean that stereoscopic 3D has no real effect on me. On another thought I think the way they decided to go is a rip-off. First, I think Sony plans on delivering 3D only on top-of-the-line 240Hz TVs, when 120Hz is enough (ok, not ideal, but who cares). Second, they probably could have introduced a 3D upgrade kits for existing TVs instead of something completely new; such kits are already available for PC for ~200$.
Everybody knows that 73% of people will believe anything you say when you state numbers in your claims and it rises to 91.7% when you add decimals... :P