We should use the ability of our medium to show players the issues first-hand, or give them a unique understanding of the issues and complexities by crafting game mechanics along with narrative components that result in dynamics of play that create meaning for the player in ways that other media isn't capable of.
No. I do not want to be preached at while I'm gaming, and if you put that kind of crap in the game I won't buy it.
The problem is while the java platform is extremely important to you and me, it costs money for Oracle to maintain and they don't see much benefit from it. I don't blame them for trying, in some small way, to monetize it.
The Nazis started in with the anti-Jew stuff long before they had the opportunity to take anyone's freedom away.
Do you think the North Koreans have health scares like the antivax stuff or allow news exposes on doorknob bacteria? They may natter on about foreign threats, but I doubt as a Nork you hear anything about local threats like crime, disease, and environmental contaminants.
Several civilisations have had dominant concept of communal property, and every civilisation has limited concepts of communal property: air, grazing ground, sea, health service, roads, etc.
Sure, but the idea there would be no private property just doesn't work. Even the Soviet Union backed of of that piece of silliness within a year or two, if not de jure then de facto.
And sure, there have been civilizations with a "dominant concept of communal property". Failed civilizations.
My question is: if your {AI | robot} can't be distinguished from a real human, why can't you just use a (cheap, ubiquitous) human?
Where did you get the idea humans are cheap? Robots will only become household items when they're less expensive than servants. That's the whole point.
Might be, but in our living spaces there are other considerations as well, namely aesthetics. I don't want a robot track in my ceiling. Besides, that ceiling track won't be very handy for outside chores.
As a businessman I think he is right, the human body is extremely complex because it tries to be a one size fits all solution to everything.
That would be a pretty handy design feature in a robot as well. I don't want to buy a half-dozen robots to do different things if I can buy one that does everything.
I'd just as soon "Peggy" found something else to do. The entire "shortage" is a mythical construct of tech companies engaged in their biannual attempt to raise the H1-B cap.
If you need to be convinced to take up programming you probably won't be very good at it anyway.
Internet to your dwelling is not a right. If your neighborhood doesn't have Google fiber and it means that much to you, move to a neighborhood that does.
You get paid what someone else is willing to pay, no matter what your position is - unless your argument is the process by which the board settles on an offer is somehow corrupt, the CEOs of banks and tech companies get paid exactly the right amount.
How much of this is just because flying isn't sexy any more? Even before 9/11 commercial flight transitioned from a luxury enjoyed by people with money to a Greyhound bus trip at altitude. People used to see pilots as, you know, dashing guys with an unusual skill, and these days they're seen as glorified bus drivers. Some of that has to rub off on general aviation.
Yeah, reading the title I was all ready to gin up some outrage, but if they have to sign up it falls more under the category of a service than government harassment.
What is more interesting here is that, while Norway obviously doesn't necessarily recognize a legal bucket a bitcoin can easily fit into, it's nevertheless viewing them as having some worth or profitability...
If you buy and sell anything the tax authorities will be waiting for their cut. They don't particularly care what it is.
I think it's harder and harder to avoid registering your car. There are automated license plate checkers now - a cop can drive down the street and have the system check for registration on every single car driving the other direction. I think they're used in some places in the US, though they're not widespread.
Hit a little too close to home? For all but a tiny fraction, environmentalism is all about moral preening. It melts away when sacrifices (well, sacrifices to one's own standard of living) are in the offing.
I was referring to your knee-jerk reaction referring to "cell-phone cameras", not to the (lack of) desirability of carrying interesting payloads.
There was nothing knee-jerk about it. I'm tired of people spouting idiotic nonsense about magical sensor packages.
Of course, you don't carry satellite quality sensors on reconnaissance planes because reconnaissance planes are not satellites. They don't have to qualify for the environmental condition ranges peculiar to space operations, they don't even have to endure the kind of maintenance-free operation that is regularly required of space equipment. (And also, since they operate in the stratosphere, not in the exosphere, the design considerations for the same objectives are different - different focal lengths required, different speed of the imaging platform, different ways of coping with seeing and other atmospheric influences, etc., but I digress here, as this is not as much about equipment quality but rather about its purpose and design.)
When I say satellite quality sensors I"m talking about things like resolution and tracking. Obviously.
Is it really that hard to understand? For the multi-spectrum, satellite quality sensors you're going to find in a high altitude spy plane the extra ton the U-2 can carry is a real operational consideration.
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No. I do not want to be preached at while I'm gaming, and if you put that kind of crap in the game I won't buy it.
The problem is while the java platform is extremely important to you and me, it costs money for Oracle to maintain and they don't see much benefit from it. I don't blame them for trying, in some small way, to monetize it.
The Nazis started in with the anti-Jew stuff long before they had the opportunity to take anyone's freedom away.
Do you think the North Koreans have health scares like the antivax stuff or allow news exposes on doorknob bacteria? They may natter on about foreign threats, but I doubt as a Nork you hear anything about local threats like crime, disease, and environmental contaminants.
Several civilisations have had dominant concept of communal property, and every civilisation has limited concepts of communal property: air, grazing ground, sea, health service, roads, etc.
Sure, but the idea there would be no private property just doesn't work. Even the Soviet Union backed of of that piece of silliness within a year or two, if not de jure then de facto.
And sure, there have been civilizations with a "dominant concept of communal property". Failed civilizations.
My question is: if your {AI | robot} can't be distinguished from a real human, why can't you just use a (cheap, ubiquitous) human?
Where did you get the idea humans are cheap? Robots will only become household items when they're less expensive than servants. That's the whole point.
Might be, but in our living spaces there are other considerations as well, namely aesthetics. I don't want a robot track in my ceiling. Besides, that ceiling track won't be very handy for outside chores.
As a businessman I think he is right, the human body is extremely complex because it tries to be a one size fits all solution to everything.
That would be a pretty handy design feature in a robot as well. I don't want to buy a half-dozen robots to do different things if I can buy one that does everything.
But a 50% increase in limbs will raise the cost of the robot.
No. Alternatives have been tried and found to be monumentally disastrous.
He can get away with "propability" as long as he's not writing.
I live in the country with the freest press in the world, so you'd expect there to be less fearmongering.
Quite the opposite. I would expect to find less fearmongering in less free countries.
Likely it won't be a few, but many, however that can not be proven either.
There's no reason to believe this is true. The LNT model is known to overestimate cancer incidence, and even using LNT we get "few" and not "many".
I'd just as soon "Peggy" found something else to do. The entire "shortage" is a mythical construct of tech companies engaged in their biannual attempt to raise the H1-B cap.
If you need to be convinced to take up programming you probably won't be very good at it anyway.
Internet to your dwelling is not a right. If your neighborhood doesn't have Google fiber and it means that much to you, move to a neighborhood that does.
You get paid what someone else is willing to pay, no matter what your position is - unless your argument is the process by which the board settles on an offer is somehow corrupt, the CEOs of banks and tech companies get paid exactly the right amount.
How much of this is just because flying isn't sexy any more? Even before 9/11 commercial flight transitioned from a luxury enjoyed by people with money to a Greyhound bus trip at altitude. People used to see pilots as, you know, dashing guys with an unusual skill, and these days they're seen as glorified bus drivers. Some of that has to rub off on general aviation.
Yeah, reading the title I was all ready to gin up some outrage, but if they have to sign up it falls more under the category of a service than government harassment.
If you buy and sell anything the tax authorities will be waiting for their cut. They don't particularly care what it is.
Sure you can. The tax ugliness for assets only comes when you're trading existing assets. The rules for manufacturing are different.
I think it's harder and harder to avoid registering your car. There are automated license plate checkers now - a cop can drive down the street and have the system check for registration on every single car driving the other direction. I think they're used in some places in the US, though they're not widespread.
Yes. But technically you have to do the same thing if you buy and sell euros or yen.
Hit a little too close to home? For all but a tiny fraction, environmentalism is all about moral preening. It melts away when sacrifices (well, sacrifices to one's own standard of living) are in the offing.
...or maybe people don't really like electric cars as much as they say they do.
There was nothing knee-jerk about it. I'm tired of people spouting idiotic nonsense about magical sensor packages.
When I say satellite quality sensors I"m talking about things like resolution and tracking. Obviously.
Is it really that hard to understand? For the multi-spectrum, satellite quality sensors you're going to find in a high altitude spy plane the extra ton the U-2 can carry is a real operational consideration.