What human can parse this without an expert to tear apart the context? I don't see the point in trying to serve up a sentence that simply isn't a sentence to most speakers of the language.
Futurists should really learn what the word "plateau" means. The death of any given technical progression, particularly one that deals with information procesing, tends to be announced early and often, right up to the point where progress becomes meaningful again and then all of a sudden everyone saw it coming, and oh by the way where's my flying car?
"They're getting paid to etc" isn't a tenable position. It's almost always a bullshit argument, but in this case doubly so - the point being made is that the human brain does not have the capacity to be maximally responsible and alert in the situation pilots find themselves in while flying a normal flight. You cannot expect someone to be on high alert for hours in an a visually and aurally static environment, not without one hell of a lot more intensive training than pilots receive (think long-term espionage level for that type of near-autism-spectrum trained ability). Even driving a ground vehicle long distances is hard on the brain. So you provide pilots with some level of stimulation that prevents them from going into a coma. Then you balance that against the requirement to avoid dangerous mistakes from idstraction.
Who's rewriting history? The person I was responding to was suggesting that modern Muslims are not trying to deal with fanaticism. That was the context of my reply. Try not to get lost up your own ass when you respond to a thread.
Because you're not paying attention? And because the news media you might pay attention to doesn't pay attention? I've seen a room with hundreds of Muslims gathered to try to communicate this to the community (St. John's, Newfoundland, which is not the world's biggest Muslim community to begin with), so it's probably not their fault. Turn the glass to yourself and your sources and you'll have some luck discovering the cause of your ignorance.
I really don't understand why the Muslim community is not publicly outraged at these people that give their faith a bad name.
They are. There have been plenty of attempts by communities all over North America and the Middle East to raise awareness about the section of the community (read: a big slice, probably the biggest slice ie the majority) that is completely opposed to these assholes. I've gone to public discussions about the true nature of Jihad (it's an intellectual and spiritual struggle, not a physical or fanatical war), I've visited the Middle East, and I've talked to my Muslim friends in Canada, and pretty much as a unit they don't consider these idiots to be Muslims at all, just violent thugs with wrong-headed ideas that have nothing to do with Islam proper.
Exactly what I was thinking...except I was thinking about the part where those executable specifications out-compete human beings in the computing-dominated future.
Because we hope for a better standard of living someday, and if many people are striving to be a typical programmer civilization is slowly but surely walking towards an information apocalypse.
The 50 or so citations on the wikipedia article tend to indicate what most older gamers probably already know - that Elite has been a touchpoint for space games for the last 20 years or more. Who in the world can forget the damn game when it comes up constantly in game reviews and top X games lists?
Don't have a TV in your house. Don't play video games.
The only outcome this is leading to is a child who has very little notion of what's going on in the world and very little facility with modern means of communication. Didn't your parents ever watch the news or classic movies? If you think that the opposite of modern leisure and entertainment is a life of outdoorsy adventure, then your sampling of people of the last two generations must be incredibly limited.
I don't think PhysX is doing anything to slow that particular vector of suffering. Those studios that would sacrifice goodwill for additional funds are almost certainly just waiting on the appropriate framework.
Maybe it is, maybe it ain't. I know guys who would wait a week but not a month for a crack, but I can't say whether the attitude is widespread enough to make a dent.
Second, there's the incorrect assumption that it will do nothing but increase sales. No, wrong. That is based off the extremely faulty assumption that everyone who pirates a game would have bought it had they not been able to pirate it.
Actually it isn't. It's based on the idea that if you can hold off the pirates for some period of time immediately after release, you will net benefit. There were a few industry discussions of the notion a few years back, and while not everyone seemed to agree that it was so, most participants seemed to at least acknowledge that if there was benefit to be gained, that was where it lay.
You would think the furor over ACTA would put the lie to this at this point. Perhaps the out is that in the current climate it's far from a free market, but whatever is happening, it seems very likely that DRM is going to get much worse before it gets better, and it's going to be enshrined in law and hardware to boot.
For those who haven't been paying attention, there are several reverse-engineered versions of the server software for World of Warcraft. Your shitty little save-game routine is never going to be magically delicious enough that someone can't crack it. Pirates win, Ubisoft loses, consumers lose. And who wants to put money down that somewhere in the code left on the disk there's a partial or even complete local save routine left over from the development phase?
Interesting, then, that the engineers I know at the company were panicking when the Big Three threatened to collapse, since it would wipe out most of the major parts suppliers on the continent and thus destroy Toyota's ability to get reasonably-priced parts supply for North American plants.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Salesmen? For a million dollar software purchase? You're talking about teams of people, some of them techies, some support, some design, and a small number (1-2) of sales/account managers. That's just for the pitch. Their results are magical, but it's because they're competent and have good products, not because they're shysters (I'm sure some exist, but not at the top of the market, and that's where FAST lives).
Nobody's buying Google products in the enterprise search sector. Endeca, FAST, Lucene, yes. Google? Not likely, unless you count Google Desktop Search. Google doesn't even pitch enterprise search right now. They're focused on a much less fickle set of markets. If you've never experienced a pitch by an enterprise search vendor, you don't know what you're talking about. These guys do things that appear to literally be magical in nature, organizing millions of highly custom data points into a coherent data set and slapping a slick UI over top in a matter of weeks.
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You don't understand. *I* don't have a flying car. Therefore all is lost.
What human can parse this without an expert to tear apart the context? I don't see the point in trying to serve up a sentence that simply isn't a sentence to most speakers of the language.
Futurists should really learn what the word "plateau" means. The death of any given technical progression, particularly one that deals with information procesing, tends to be announced early and often, right up to the point where progress becomes meaningful again and then all of a sudden everyone saw it coming, and oh by the way where's my flying car?
"They're getting paid to etc" isn't a tenable position. It's almost always a bullshit argument, but in this case doubly so - the point being made is that the human brain does not have the capacity to be maximally responsible and alert in the situation pilots find themselves in while flying a normal flight. You cannot expect someone to be on high alert for hours in an a visually and aurally static environment, not without one hell of a lot more intensive training than pilots receive (think long-term espionage level for that type of near-autism-spectrum trained ability). Even driving a ground vehicle long distances is hard on the brain. So you provide pilots with some level of stimulation that prevents them from going into a coma. Then you balance that against the requirement to avoid dangerous mistakes from idstraction.
Who's rewriting history? The person I was responding to was suggesting that modern Muslims are not trying to deal with fanaticism. That was the context of my reply. Try not to get lost up your own ass when you respond to a thread.
If by "they" you mean "those news sources", I agree. But that's not surprising. It's not good business.
Because you're not paying attention? And because the news media you might pay attention to doesn't pay attention? I've seen a room with hundreds of Muslims gathered to try to communicate this to the community (St. John's, Newfoundland, which is not the world's biggest Muslim community to begin with), so it's probably not their fault. Turn the glass to yourself and your sources and you'll have some luck discovering the cause of your ignorance.
I really don't understand why the Muslim community is not publicly outraged at these people that give their faith a bad name.
They are. There have been plenty of attempts by communities all over North America and the Middle East to raise awareness about the section of the community (read: a big slice, probably the biggest slice ie the majority) that is completely opposed to these assholes. I've gone to public discussions about the true nature of Jihad (it's an intellectual and spiritual struggle, not a physical or fanatical war), I've visited the Middle East, and I've talked to my Muslim friends in Canada, and pretty much as a unit they don't consider these idiots to be Muslims at all, just violent thugs with wrong-headed ideas that have nothing to do with Islam proper.
Exactly what I was thinking...except I was thinking about the part where those executable specifications out-compete human beings in the computing-dominated future.
Because we hope for a better standard of living someday, and if many people are striving to be a typical programmer civilization is slowly but surely walking towards an information apocalypse.
Headline: AC fails at reading. Congratulations, you're in the dictionary next to the word fail.
The 50 or so citations on the wikipedia article tend to indicate what most older gamers probably already know - that Elite has been a touchpoint for space games for the last 20 years or more. Who in the world can forget the damn game when it comes up constantly in game reviews and top X games lists?
Don't have a TV in your house. Don't play video games.
The only outcome this is leading to is a child who has very little notion of what's going on in the world and very little facility with modern means of communication. Didn't your parents ever watch the news or classic movies? If you think that the opposite of modern leisure and entertainment is a life of outdoorsy adventure, then your sampling of people of the last two generations must be incredibly limited.
Dibs on calling my wands Hurt and Burn!
I don't think PhysX is doing anything to slow that particular vector of suffering. Those studios that would sacrifice goodwill for additional funds are almost certainly just waiting on the appropriate framework.
Light a match in pre-oxygenated alcohol, should be fun times for the smoke-when-you-drink crowd!
Maybe it is, maybe it ain't. I know guys who would wait a week but not a month for a crack, but I can't say whether the attitude is widespread enough to make a dent.
So the market isn't free. That does not change the fact that ACTA could fundamentally shift the behaviour of the system.
Second, there's the incorrect assumption that it will do nothing but increase sales. No, wrong. That is based off the extremely faulty assumption that everyone who pirates a game would have bought it had they not been able to pirate it.
Actually it isn't. It's based on the idea that if you can hold off the pirates for some period of time immediately after release, you will net benefit. There were a few industry discussions of the notion a few years back, and while not everyone seemed to agree that it was so, most participants seemed to at least acknowledge that if there was benefit to be gained, that was where it lay.
You would think the furor over ACTA would put the lie to this at this point. Perhaps the out is that in the current climate it's far from a free market, but whatever is happening, it seems very likely that DRM is going to get much worse before it gets better, and it's going to be enshrined in law and hardware to boot.
For those who haven't been paying attention, there are several reverse-engineered versions of the server software for World of Warcraft. Your shitty little save-game routine is never going to be magically delicious enough that someone can't crack it. Pirates win, Ubisoft loses, consumers lose. And who wants to put money down that somewhere in the code left on the disk there's a partial or even complete local save routine left over from the development phase?
I'm guessing he bought the Japanese version of My Pony Adventures, which is a totally different experience than the rest of the world...
Interesting, then, that the engineers I know at the company were panicking when the Big Three threatened to collapse, since it would wipe out most of the major parts suppliers on the continent and thus destroy Toyota's ability to get reasonably-priced parts supply for North American plants.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Salesmen? For a million dollar software purchase? You're talking about teams of people, some of them techies, some support, some design, and a small number (1-2) of sales/account managers. That's just for the pitch. Their results are magical, but it's because they're competent and have good products, not because they're shysters (I'm sure some exist, but not at the top of the market, and that's where FAST lives).
Nobody's buying Google products in the enterprise search sector. Endeca, FAST, Lucene, yes. Google? Not likely, unless you count Google Desktop Search. Google doesn't even pitch enterprise search right now. They're focused on a much less fickle set of markets. If you've never experienced a pitch by an enterprise search vendor, you don't know what you're talking about. These guys do things that appear to literally be magical in nature, organizing millions of highly custom data points into a coherent data set and slapping a slick UI over top in a matter of weeks.