What's not geeky about Beer Pong? Beer Pong, Beer Pac-Man, Beer Q-Bert, Beer Asteroids... admittedly Beer Spacewar gets a bit dicey due to the spill risk.
When I submitted this article to the Firehose it had been up for several hours, and it painted a substantially different picture. Some time in the hour or so between my submitting it, and it getting put on the front page, the Guardian received Amazon's comments and they substantially changed the tone and content of the story. Sorry for inadvertently misleading you.
At the time I submitted the article to the Firehose, neither Amazon nor Disney had submitted comments. The article was updated after publication with Amazon's remarks.
People do tend to be less considerate of bystanders when making phone calls than when talking to someone who is actually in the room in my experience; you'll see someone who's having a perfectly reasonable conversation with somebody at dinner, then turn away to answer their phone and jump up an order of magnitude in loudness. I think it's the fact that one side of the conversation is private to the other people in the room; it triggers some sort of general "private talk" flag in the brain that makes you automatically and quite unconsciously begin talking as though there was nobody else there.
By "break" they mean the app would respond in an unpredictable way, more often than not in the form of a crash. (As opposed to the preferred behaviour that the disabled features would calmly be disabled.) You don't want a user-friendly settings panel to behave in a user-unfriendly way.
Space is very cold but it's also an almost-perfect vacuum, so like the coffee I put in my thermos five hours ago, hot objects can't cool easily. Objects making their own heat such as space stations and astronauts can be at a quite serious risk of overheating, especially if they're also being warmed by the sun.
MKULTRA wasn't about imaginary weapons, but about real methods to manipulate behaviour through (for example) chemical agents. It's well documented and scientifically grounded; it's hard to imagine how it would inspire anyone to perform psi research.
You're assuming the NASA release was written with reference to ISS time; I'm not sure that's the case given that news releases are normally intended for the press.
If you read up on these guys, the amount of discipline they demonstrate is amazing: daily 8- or 10-hour training sessions just to keep their reaction times high enough, never mind developing new strategy or approaches to the game. With that kind of mindset I'd be unsurprised if they were all fitness obsessives.
The ISS is on UTC, and "Early Wednesday" presumably means early in one of the US time zones, so I actually can't give you an exact answer anyway because "early" isn't an exact time in the first place.
This is probably going to sound really stupid, but imagine for a moment that you're a company called Loolge, and you've been court-ordered to allow your home government's security agency - let's call it the NAS - access to the vast archives of information you hold on your enormous international customer base. One day a large, rival nation - Nicha - hacks into your servers and gains access to some of that prized information.
Wouldn't the NAS mandate that you immediately and permanently stop doing business in Nicha, lest there be another breach?
I can think of a thousand holes in this but it kind of demonstrates how playing ball with someone like the NSA makes all Google's previous "do no evil" actions seem suspect.
Most advertisers seem genuinely convinced that they're doing us a favour with their advertising. I'll let readers speculate as to why that might be.
The funny thing is I actually don't mind market research as a field nearly as much. If a company is looking to understand that I prefer phones that fit in my pocket and cost less than two weeks' wages, and wants to fill that niche, then more power to them. However all they seem to want to do these days is use that information to try to convince me to buy something they've already decided I want.
There's no reason not to have your own recommendation engine in your own home.
Apart from the obvious design advantages to centralising it. A recommendation engine, of all things, benefits enormously from being a shared resource. Communications, less so. There is nothing saying that you have to make that same trade-offs. That's the internet's other strength: heterogeneity.
When you assume something only happened because 99% of people are stupid, check again. There is usually a more informative explanation, especially when your criticisms can be applied to something like the majority of the world's scientific computing resources which are indeed centralised.
It's a ceremonial position and its entire purpose since its creation has been to promote businesses in the City of London. The Mayor has no political authority whatsoever.
You could break up those companies into a million pieces and it wouldn't have made a difference; the entire banking system in the US and abroad had caught the "put money into completely implausible securities" bug. Monoculture thrives in an oligopoly, but I'm not sure that one was necessary in this case.
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Well, this one was published on Arxiv. That's got to be something.
What's not geeky about Beer Pong? Beer Pong, Beer Pac-Man, Beer Q-Bert, Beer Asteroids... admittedly Beer Spacewar gets a bit dicey due to the spill risk.
When I submitted this article to the Firehose it had been up for several hours, and it painted a substantially different picture. Some time in the hour or so between my submitting it, and it getting put on the front page, the Guardian received Amazon's comments and they substantially changed the tone and content of the story. Sorry for inadvertently misleading you.
That is not what the article stated when I submitted it to the Firehose; the article was updated later.
That was not what the article stated when I submitted it to the Firehose.
At the time I submitted the article to the Firehose, neither Amazon nor Disney had submitted comments. The article was updated after publication with Amazon's remarks.
I guess Slashdot accidentally stored a hilariously inaccurate version of the summary.
There are probably better media for that than what is ostensibly an investigative-journalism show.
People do tend to be less considerate of bystanders when making phone calls than when talking to someone who is actually in the room in my experience; you'll see someone who's having a perfectly reasonable conversation with somebody at dinner, then turn away to answer their phone and jump up an order of magnitude in loudness. I think it's the fact that one side of the conversation is private to the other people in the room; it triggers some sort of general "private talk" flag in the brain that makes you automatically and quite unconsciously begin talking as though there was nobody else there.
Even if you could do that, app developers have had half a decade in which they never had any reason to do so.
By "break" they mean the app would respond in an unpredictable way, more often than not in the form of a crash. (As opposed to the preferred behaviour that the disabled features would calmly be disabled.) You don't want a user-friendly settings panel to behave in a user-unfriendly way.
Space is very cold but it's also an almost-perfect vacuum, so like the coffee I put in my thermos five hours ago, hot objects can't cool easily. Objects making their own heat such as space stations and astronauts can be at a quite serious risk of overheating, especially if they're also being warmed by the sun.
Hold on, diving a car? That's a risk factor for something else entirely.
MKULTRA wasn't about imaginary weapons, but about real methods to manipulate behaviour through (for example) chemical agents. It's well documented and scientifically grounded; it's hard to imagine how it would inspire anyone to perform psi research.
You're assuming the NASA release was written with reference to ISS time; I'm not sure that's the case given that news releases are normally intended for the press.
Diving a car is a risk factor for obesity; professional race drivers are not obese.
If you read up on these guys, the amount of discipline they demonstrate is amazing: daily 8- or 10-hour training sessions just to keep their reaction times high enough, never mind developing new strategy or approaches to the game. With that kind of mindset I'd be unsurprised if they were all fitness obsessives.
The ISS is on UTC, and "Early Wednesday" presumably means early in one of the US time zones, so I actually can't give you an exact answer anyway because "early" isn't an exact time in the first place.
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This is probably going to sound really stupid, but imagine for a moment that you're a company called Loolge, and you've been court-ordered to allow your home government's security agency - let's call it the NAS - access to the vast archives of information you hold on your enormous international customer base. One day a large, rival nation - Nicha - hacks into your servers and gains access to some of that prized information.
Wouldn't the NAS mandate that you immediately and permanently stop doing business in Nicha, lest there be another breach?
I can think of a thousand holes in this but it kind of demonstrates how playing ball with someone like the NSA makes all Google's previous "do no evil" actions seem suspect.
Most advertisers seem genuinely convinced that they're doing us a favour with their advertising. I'll let readers speculate as to why that might be.
The funny thing is I actually don't mind market research as a field nearly as much. If a company is looking to understand that I prefer phones that fit in my pocket and cost less than two weeks' wages, and wants to fill that niche, then more power to them. However all they seem to want to do these days is use that information to try to convince me to buy something they've already decided I want.
Apart from the obvious design advantages to centralising it. A recommendation engine, of all things, benefits enormously from being a shared resource. Communications, less so. There is nothing saying that you have to make that same trade-offs. That's the internet's other strength: heterogeneity.
When you assume something only happened because 99% of people are stupid, check again. There is usually a more informative explanation, especially when your criticisms can be applied to something like the majority of the world's scientific computing resources which are indeed centralised.
It's a ceremonial position and its entire purpose since its creation has been to promote businesses in the City of London. The Mayor has no political authority whatsoever.
"Anglo-Saxon style capitalism"? You mean the Guild system?
You could break up those companies into a million pieces and it wouldn't have made a difference; the entire banking system in the US and abroad had caught the "put money into completely implausible securities" bug. Monoculture thrives in an oligopoly, but I'm not sure that one was necessary in this case.