What you're missing here is that there is more than one way to have an economy, and that the idea that "everyone needs to work" isn't a fixed datum in an unchanging world.
At some point, (non-ai) robotics will assume the load of manufacturing and menial work, and from there they will percolate upwards. This may be the beginning of that trend (ignoring heavy manufacturing robotics, which are already in place and entrenched.)
You need food, shelter, and healthcare. You do not have to provide that for yourself in order to have a healthy economy.
What does it say when it's far FAR easier to find 25,000 people willing to support a joke cause than to find 25,000 people willing to tackle actual issues?
Doesn't matter as long as it remains impossible to find anyone in government to tackle actual issues.
In a democracy *the people* are the arbiters of...
A) The USA wasn't designed as a "Democracy", the design is for a Constitutional Republic, where "the people" are strictly limited to selecting the representatives.
B) The USA hasn't been a Constitutional Republic for some time, but instead is a de facto corporate oligarchy, where corporate interests are the determining factor in politics.
(A) would have been a good thing, but we were unable to keep it, just as we were warned. A Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner -- hence the need for (A) in the first place.
Perhaps it's time to rethink the whole "execute in user space" thing and go back to HTML/CSS rendering and server-side CGI.
Near as I can tell, the whole user-space execution thing has been a security and compatibility clusterfark since day one. The "cloud" is a user data loss / privacy nightmare by design, too.
Honestly, it seems to me that outside of the usual HTML uses - reading a blog or a news site, shopping, that sort of thing - most people I know actually use the web to ship video and audio back and forth. Personally, I've done less surfing, emailing and other usual net activities this year than ever before; I have dedicated appliances that stream music from Internet radio stations, deal with video, e-books...
Guess I'm just a desktop kinda guy. Get off my lawn?
Solved long ago. Spherical hab unit, shell of H2O outside the hab portion, just as thick as it needs to be. That shell is drinking water, fish habitat, exercise area, possibly even propulsion mass.
o Expensive, limited snacks o Crying children o The slob next to you, sneezing out his disease for you to inhale o idiots with cellphones o inability to pause, coupled with missing stuff when you take a whiz o the need to meet someone else's schedule instead of your own o uncomfortable seating with 1 arm per person o sitting with people... you wouldn't choose to meet o sitting through local commercials o getting your shoes washed with coke when the moron behind you spills theirs o standing in line o spending money to benefit someone else o "bragging" rights because you saw something a little bit earlier o No media copy for you o no replays o no showing friends and family o no resale value o no subtitles o no special features o no image adjustment
Bread and circuses. That's all it takes. Look no further than your television and sports spectacles, your McDonalds and your grocery store if you're looking to explain public apathy.
If asked, most US citizens couldn't tell you what the constitution says; they couldn't tell you what the authorized powers of the government are; they couldn't even recite the bill of rights to you (much less explain what they mean in 1790's terms.) Ignorance is rampant.
There will be no revolution -- it's impossible in the USA at this point in time. Guns or no guns.
Yeah, I probably just don't really understand the difference. Looking at the code the GCC compiler produces, all I can think is "that's awful"... but if it's some crazy factor faster -- like twenty or so -- then yeah, it'd come out ahead of something that took 2...6 clocks per instruction (which is where most of the 6809's instructions landed.) Also, the 6809 was random logic... one of the reasons they said they couldn't really speed it up much.
Yes, that's true. But if the software is 10x faster because the instruction set allows the compiler to produce excellent code, but the hardware is 1/2 as fast, you end up with software that is "only" 5x as fast.
Just throwing numbers, admittedly, because I don't really have deep familiarity with today's machine code, but in the 6809's day, it could do with one instruction what took several on the 6800 or many on the 6502, and the register capabilities were such that you didn't need to be constantly storing them and restoring them... with four index registers, two of which could be stack pointers, 50-odd indexing modes, that thing just felt like a code-genertor's dream. Programming the Z80 was a nightmare by comparison, that thing seemed to have been designed by 20 people in 20 separate offices who never, ever talked to each other.
I often wondered what an expanded design would be like, but Motorola really disappointed me with the 68000 and its descendants. Lots of goodies we were used to were missing; fairly obvious things that were missing in the 6809 were *also* still missing; I wrote a lot of assembler for the 68k and while it was pretty easy -- moderately consistent uP -- it wasn't a strong uP the way the 6809 was.
We can't have real 3D, whatever that means, until we give up using our eyes as input devices.
Wrong. Watch a stereo presentation; move your head: no change. Watch a 3D presentation; move your head - big change. Many more examples like this. Want your viewpoint high? Low? 3D: can do. Stereo: no. Couldn't see the ball fly in that play? Stereo: out of luck. 3D: rewind, change POV (either rotate the display field, or walk around it), replay. There it is. Cleavage fan? Stereo: You get what they choose to give you. 3D: zoom in and look down -- hey look, NICE lace! -- just like real life, except without offending anyone, lol.
Regardless of intent, the thing is: it doesn't work. Absolutely useless. If your goal is to read good threads (as mine is), using a system that hides good threads, no matter by design, intent, or outright incompetence, is a bad idea. So I don't; and my experience here is much improved.
See, the thing is, justification has to follow function to be worthy of consideration. When it follows dysfunction, it's just noise.
Slashdot is the perfect example of how metamoderation and up/down moderation doesn't work. Perfectly good threads never make it to the top, many posts are modded for difference of opinion instead of quality, vendettas are fairly common, posts are arbitrarily punished for anonymity, the moderation selection is so anemic you really can't credit the post for what you would like to, metamoderation suffers most of this, except, well, at a meta level.
Slashdot is what it is because the posters are of much higher quality, overall, then are easily found elsewhere on the net. It certainly isn't because of the moderation system. I have all that crap turned off, and my Slashdot reading enjoyment is considerably higher because of that.
Everyone should be able to moderate all the time, and moderation shouldn't be single dimensional. Agree/disagree should be available just as much as good/bad should be, funny/unfunny, etc. I'm interested in the opinions of my fellow readers, but I'm not particularly convinced that they represent some kind of distilled wisdom. And having read many book reviews on Amazon, I *know* that place doesn't represent anyone's distilled wisdom, lol.
I do review stuff on Amazon. I feel like it's a way I can contribute a bit. I also think the reviews can be useful. But you have to read them with a bit of a jaundiced eye. Sometimes it's clear that the reviewer is really trying to convey their experience; sometimes it's clear (as on slashdot) that they're just pushing an agenda and just about every word they put down is utterly worthless.
Slashdot Mirror
What you're missing here is that there is more than one way to have an economy, and that the idea that "everyone needs to work" isn't a fixed datum in an unchanging world.
At some point, (non-ai) robotics will assume the load of manufacturing and menial work, and from there they will percolate upwards. This may be the beginning of that trend (ignoring heavy manufacturing robotics, which are already in place and entrenched.)
You need food, shelter, and healthcare. You do not have to provide that for yourself in order to have a healthy economy.
Change is inevitable in this domain.
Doesn't matter as long as it remains impossible to find anyone in government to tackle actual issues.
Your opinion has been returned for misspelling. Report to the canteen for KP at 0400.
A) The USA wasn't designed as a "Democracy", the design is for a Constitutional Republic, where "the people" are strictly limited to selecting the representatives.
B) The USA hasn't been a Constitutional Republic for some time, but instead is a de facto corporate oligarchy, where corporate interests are the determining factor in politics.
(A) would have been a good thing, but we were unable to keep it, just as we were warned. A Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner -- hence the need for (A) in the first place.
Plenty of above-audible and below-audible bandwidth below 100 khz as well.
Then some wag will get a quantum link going, doesn't use EM at all, and so much for the Faraday cage.
And so it goes.
Perhaps it's time to rethink the whole "execute in user space" thing and go back to HTML/CSS rendering and server-side CGI.
Near as I can tell, the whole user-space execution thing has been a security and compatibility clusterfark since day one. The "cloud" is a user data loss / privacy nightmare by design, too.
Honestly, it seems to me that outside of the usual HTML uses - reading a blog or a news site, shopping, that sort of thing - most people I know actually use the web to ship video and audio back and forth. Personally, I've done less surfing, emailing and other usual net activities this year than ever before; I have dedicated appliances that stream music from Internet radio stations, deal with video, e-books...
Guess I'm just a desktop kinda guy. Get off my lawn?
Dinochrome. For the honor of the regiment.
It's under preferences, universal access, keyboard shortcuts. Assign the keystroke of your choice. Enjoy.
Please explain to me how an agenda of personal liberty is anti-intellectual. Thank you.
Or are you confusing libertarians with republicans?
Dish washing, floor maintenance / put stuff away, laundry, dusting, wash the windows, make the beds.
I'd say take out the trash, but I suspect that's just a highly efficient way to get your robot stolen.
And if it could cook, that'd be great.
Well, there was no point in forward testing after Dec 21, 2012, you see.
Solved long ago. Spherical hab unit, shell of H2O outside the hab portion, just as thick as it needs to be. That shell is drinking water, fish habitat, exercise area, possibly even propulsion mass.
You need better drugs.
o Expensive, limited snacks
o Crying children
o The slob next to you, sneezing out his disease for you to inhale
o idiots with cellphones
o inability to pause, coupled with missing stuff when you take a whiz
o the need to meet someone else's schedule instead of your own
o uncomfortable seating with 1 arm per person
o sitting with people... you wouldn't choose to meet
o sitting through local commercials
o getting your shoes washed with coke when the moron behind you spills theirs
o standing in line
o spending money to benefit someone else
o "bragging" rights because you saw something a little bit earlier
o No media copy for you
o no replays
o no showing friends and family
o no resale value
o no subtitles
o no special features
o no image adjustment
Son, we supplied it to you in that color, and that's the color it's going to stay. Step out of line and the rest of your life will be rit short.
c'mon mods, wake the fuck up. Parent is totally funny.
Bread and circuses. That's all it takes. Look no further than your television and sports spectacles, your McDonalds and your grocery store if you're looking to explain public apathy.
If asked, most US citizens couldn't tell you what the constitution says; they couldn't tell you what the authorized powers of the government are; they couldn't even recite the bill of rights to you (much less explain what they mean in 1790's terms.) Ignorance is rampant.
There will be no revolution -- it's impossible in the USA at this point in time. Guns or no guns.
That app only runs when the government has hacked the operating system.
Montana: 2 senators, both dems: NAY, NAY
Yeah, I probably just don't really understand the difference. Looking at the code the GCC compiler produces, all I can think is "that's awful"... but if it's some crazy factor faster -- like twenty or so -- then yeah, it'd come out ahead of something that took 2...6 clocks per instruction (which is where most of the 6809's instructions landed.) Also, the 6809 was random logic... one of the reasons they said they couldn't really speed it up much.
Yes, that's true. But if the software is 10x faster because the instruction set allows the compiler to produce excellent code, but the hardware is 1/2 as fast, you end up with software that is "only" 5x as fast.
Just throwing numbers, admittedly, because I don't really have deep familiarity with today's machine code, but in the 6809's day, it could do with one instruction what took several on the 6800 or many on the 6502, and the register capabilities were such that you didn't need to be constantly storing them and restoring them... with four index registers, two of which could be stack pointers, 50-odd indexing modes, that thing just felt like a code-genertor's dream. Programming the Z80 was a nightmare by comparison, that thing seemed to have been designed by 20 people in 20 separate offices who never, ever talked to each other.
I often wondered what an expanded design would be like, but Motorola really disappointed me with the 68000 and its descendants. Lots of goodies we were used to were missing; fairly obvious things that were missing in the 6809 were *also* still missing; I wrote a lot of assembler for the 68k and while it was pretty easy -- moderately consistent uP -- it wasn't a strong uP the way the 6809 was.
Yep. I do customize it -- by turning it off. Then it works perfectly.
Wrong. Watch a stereo presentation; move your head: no change. Watch a 3D presentation; move your head - big change. Many more examples like this. Want your viewpoint high? Low? 3D: can do. Stereo: no. Couldn't see the ball fly in that play? Stereo: out of luck. 3D: rewind, change POV (either rotate the display field, or walk around it), replay. There it is. Cleavage fan? Stereo: You get what they choose to give you. 3D: zoom in and look down -- hey look, NICE lace! -- just like real life, except without offending anyone, lol.
Beginning to get the idea?
Regardless of intent, the thing is: it doesn't work. Absolutely useless. If your goal is to read good threads (as mine is), using a system that hides good threads, no matter by design, intent, or outright incompetence, is a bad idea. So I don't; and my experience here is much improved.
See, the thing is, justification has to follow function to be worthy of consideration. When it follows dysfunction, it's just noise.
Slashdot is the perfect example of how metamoderation and up/down moderation doesn't work. Perfectly good threads never make it to the top, many posts are modded for difference of opinion instead of quality, vendettas are fairly common, posts are arbitrarily punished for anonymity, the moderation selection is so anemic you really can't credit the post for what you would like to, metamoderation suffers most of this, except, well, at a meta level.
Slashdot is what it is because the posters are of much higher quality, overall, then are easily found elsewhere on the net. It certainly isn't because of the moderation system. I have all that crap turned off, and my Slashdot reading enjoyment is considerably higher because of that.
Everyone should be able to moderate all the time, and moderation shouldn't be single dimensional. Agree/disagree should be available just as much as good/bad should be, funny/unfunny, etc. I'm interested in the opinions of my fellow readers, but I'm not particularly convinced that they represent some kind of distilled wisdom. And having read many book reviews on Amazon, I *know* that place doesn't represent anyone's distilled wisdom, lol.
I do review stuff on Amazon. I feel like it's a way I can contribute a bit. I also think the reviews can be useful. But you have to read them with a bit of a jaundiced eye. Sometimes it's clear that the reviewer is really trying to convey their experience; sometimes it's clear (as on slashdot) that they're just pushing an agenda and just about every word they put down is utterly worthless.
Like most things, caveat emptor.