Why do adults see these type of movies? Mystifying. Someone should explain the appeal.
We adults were kids once, and some of us enjoyed reading comics. With a good superhero movie, we get to see some of that come to life. It can be done well, and has been; you can also get a real stinker. Like Superman vs. Batman.
You know, just because I'm 60 doesn't mean I'm dead. Yet.
Also, comics are an art form. Like most art, it doesn't speak to everyone. That's okay. Like most art, it can be done well, or poorly. Also okay. And conversions to movies... same. But when someone does such a conversion poorly, and then claims that the audience is at fault, as here, for sharing their opinion about it... well, that's just humor.
It's not safe to make garbage and expect to turn a profit.
Exactly this. There are amazing numbers of untapped novels out there that would make wonderful movies.
That the movie industry spends most of its effort ignoring this resource leaves me with absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for any whining I hear from them. Where's Neuromancer? Where's Tau Zero? Where's (any one of) the Bolo stories, or Galactic Odyssey? Pretty much anything Gene Wolfe ever wrote? Axis of Time series? Novik's Temeraire? I could on for days just in the areas of fantasy and SF. There are tons of untapped thrillers and etc. out there too; Lots of as-yet-to-be-mades (not to mention as-yet-to-be-made-wells) from Clancy, Clavell, etc.
And then, when they commit crimes against art like create utter crap like "Soylent Green" out of really good books like "Make Room, Make Room"... then I'm glad they're not digging up good novels as sources. Let 'em make more formula superhero movies like the (utterly terrible) Batman vs. Superman we're talking about here. Keeps me from tearing my hair out.
Honestly, if the movie industry died (which it shows no sign of, this buffoon's whining aside), I'd just read more books.
Digg previously wounded itself because it threw out all of its user's work, and then compounded the insult by preventing them from commenting. It's a ghost town.
Reddit appears to be adding something, not taking something away.
If that's the case, I doubt it'll hurt them in any way. What remains to be seen is if it will benefit them. That will depend on how they manage (and limit) the new capabilities, and how their user base views what they do.
So... based on the above comments, I bought Nova launcher pro.
When I started it, all my current folders and apps.... gone. It appears I'll have to set everything up again. Am I wrong? Changing back to the Touchwiz, everything came right back. Need to explore this a little more, and seeing as it didn't destroy my previous setup (for which I am grateful), I will indeed experiment. First I guess I have to make a series of notes about the current arrangement and then go into Nova and rebuild it from the ground up. Seems... tedious. But I have the time, so... onwards.
Again, just as a data point, but at $80k, you could live like a king here in Eastern Montana. If you can deal with the rural aspect of it. We do have Internet.:)
I've done that. I have a decent lab right here. Most prototypes can be made in > 1 quantities. I did a couple front-to-back systems right here, too, back in the day. Not saying it doesn't change the dynamic, but it's not always a show-stopper, either.
The problem with 3rd party adding is that they can break, leaving you with various levels of leftover problems. This is really something that should be implemented in the GUI. There's a reason computers have hierarchical filesystems. There's a reason Android uses one too, underneath the GUI. It's because they are a profoundly useful way to organize information. I'm not railing at you here... I appreciate the pointer. I'm just frustrated by how annoyingly stupid the Android GUI remains after all this time. And iOS.
Dollars, yes, but not just dollars; but impediments to commerce and comfort. For very little effort (by which I explicitly mean, nearly none), they have thrown a huge wrench into anything that involves commercial air travel. They manipulated our control-addled congress into doing the work for them. 100% successfully.
All that was actually needed was:
o Revamp cockpits, armor thoroughly, install rest and feed facilities for long haul flights. One time cost. o Reduce cabin-to-cockpit comms to "land near hospital ASAP" One time cost. o Reduce cockpit-to-cabin comms to "belts on or off" One time cost.
What we got was the incredibly and endlessly expensive, absurdist productivity and pleasure reduction of the TSA.
On the other hand, they did finally convince me to do all my flying privately, so there's that. Unfortunately, most people can't exercise that option. But hey, vote your congress critter back in. Can't go wrong with that one, eh?
Still waiting for subfolders. Until they arrive, Android is the last place I turn for anything where I have to actually organize anything. Which is mostly everything. iOS is no better.
Spot on. I used to use the hell out of email and preferred it, same reason.
Lately, I've found slack in a web browser to be similarly async; I look at it when I'm ready, respond when ready. The richer environment -- the images, clips, etc., the ability to go live at any moment -- have moved my preference to Slack / Ryver (these are basically the same thing.) If only they'd let us have a richer text rendering environment... I've written a few bots for Slack, and I spend a fair amount of time chafing at the limits. But still... an improvement over email.
I keep slack on it's on window on its own monitor (I have eight monitors on this machine) so it's just a glance away. Usually that's all it gets. A glance.:)
Yes, one of the key benefits of working at home is control of the environment, and that most assuredly includes who gets to interrupt, or not, and when.
Working in company offices, I did some pretty good work. I tried hard, despite being very uncomfortable and unhappy. That was the job. But working at home, I did great work, became financially independent and most definitely happy. I loved (still do) my office and would (still do) burn huge numbers of hours in (t)here really Getting Shit Done. I also established myself in a very low cost-of-living location, doing high pay-in-employment work. Remotely. That's a really nice side effect of remote work, or at least it was for me. Hearing about real estate expenses in areas like Silicon Valley and various similar enclaves, I can only shake my head at the difference. I spent less in total (under $100k, all told) on nearly 6,000 sq feet of totally custom (and admittedly very eclectic) environment than most of the people in those areas spend on one bedroom apartments in less than 4 years ($2300/mo.) It really matters to your quality of life where you put your roots down.
TBH, I think one of the most programmer-hostile things a company can do is say "you have to work where we are." The tech exists, and has for some time, to make that completely unnecessary. Even if "constantly interrupt and monitor" is part of the company's operations protocols, that too is 100% doable. Throw the employee a fast connection and a good desktop, a webcam and a mic... whatever you need to do to keep in touch, you can do. Should cost a metric fuckton less than providing them office space "at" the company, too. I have never, ever, heard a decent argument for the requirement that warm flesh be present in the room in order to get good work done, or out of any employee. Frankly, if the employee can't work like that and do good work, they sure as **** aren't doing great work for you in any bloody office.
But, you know. I'm old, cranky, successful, independent, and can say these things with no fear my supervisor will see them.:)
one more thing: "really creative and inspiring locations."
Having worked for IBM back in the 1980's (in Boca Raton, FL), I can provide a datapoint: IBM labs (the MITRE Kanji printer labs, specifically) were incredibly uncomfortable, required long, annoying walks from the parking lot and between locations and buildings, and were run in an extremely uncreative manner. To describe the environment, I'd go with "windowless, cold, and cavelike." Truly a shitty place to work. Whereas working at home... okay, now that is a creative, inspiring location. Because like pretty much anyone who puts a home together, I designed it specifically to be that way to my specific interests and inclinations.
Now... it's been a long time, and perhaps if they re-hired me, they'd amaze me with a comfortable office with a view, a nearby, well-stocked cafeteria, an in-office hutch for my dog, and a secretary to handle the reams of make-work reports. Or perhaps there are no more reports (cough... cough... sorry, can't even write that with a straight face.) I find this, or any reasonable equivalency to it... unlikely. But perhaps they are actually in a position to do this now.
But then again, my experience there was so bad, I'd never respond to an IBM recruiter again, even if I was in the market for a job, which I am not.
Is it AI? Or just one of those old fashioned programs hooked up to a voice recognition front end and a back end database?
The answer, functionally speaking, is in the "Bixby-enabled programs" phrase. The program has to incorporate specific hooks into Bixby. So it's not very smart at all.
If the thing was actually fully general for this task, it'd approach the programs the same way you do; first understanding your intent, and second, implementing it through the same user interface you do. Clearly, it doesn't do that, because... "Bixby-enabled." That's clearly not a mechanism to protect you from the AI talking to programs you don't want it to; that could be done as a preferences item (and should be, for that matter.)
Nor is anything likely to reach the kind of generality required for something that "operates your phone for you" until software (likely hardware, too) gets a lot smarter. The amount of knowledge a user puts into play when interacting with a program is very wide and deep. A personal assistant isn't going to have that kind of understanding at this point in time.
For my part, I am completely unwilling to call this stuff AI. AI means "Artificial Intelligence." This type of thing is artificial, but it definitely isn't intelligent. IMHO, there is no AI. Yet. I call these things low dimensional neural-like systems. I reserve "AI" for the day when intelligence is present. I'm pretty tired of lame-ass marketers calling everything from the toaster to the thermostat "intelligent." YMMV.
Generally, they're making the informed, consensual choice to sell themselves rather than starve to death.
Your plumber makes the informed, consensual choice to dig into your toilet and root about in your waste rather than starve to death. I wrote software rather than starve to death. McDonald's employees make fast food and take extremely low wages in order not to starve to death. We all make these choices; we value them in various ways, depending on our personal outlook.
That's not a great choice.
If it's not a great choice for you, that's fine, then perhaps you'd want to try really hard not to make that choice. But don't tell others it's not a great choice. Ask them if it's a great choice. If they say no, and you can offer them an alternative they agree is better, by all means, feel free to do so.
How about we provide basic social services and jobs to those in need
Totally in favor of this. Unfortunately, we're presently under the thumb of people who are not.
so that prostitution becomes a real choice
Prostitution is a real choice, just as much as anything else is. Perhaps you're confusing it with slavery, which is something else again (and very, very rare, despite the current agitprop.)
instead of one that's essentially forced on the vast majority of those who do it?
We all have to work, unless we're born rich or we want to starve. That's the only extent to which prostitution is "forced" on anyone. Or in other words, pretty much the same as everything else that involves innate skill and suitability.
I wonder how many young non-English speaking Asian hookers fall into that category?
Perhaps you should ask them, then, instead of assuming you are "rescuing them."
It's not like the tools aren't readily available to translate. To anyone wishing to speak with them, or them.
Just because they don't speak the local language, or don't fluently speak it, doesn't mean that they aren't intelligent people making informed, consensual choices. You can't assume this, or you are automatically on the wrong side of liberty. If you are concerned, you need to ask.
When you are fortunate enough to have a personal resource — fitness, intelligence, beauty, athleticism, artistic insight, etc. — for which personal and consensual choice are the bounds employed, it is perfectly reasonable to leverage that to your personal advantage.
What is not reasonable is to dictate to others which of those resources, employed as specified, may be leveraged.
Reflective coatings tend to not be efficient enough; they ablate and/or lose reflectivity when heated, and then the laser is into the target's vitals. Also, thick armor is heavy; that makes it impractical for missiles. The corresponding truth is that missile skins are very thin.
Also, given a reflective "enough" coating, now the target is easily visible on the battlefield. That tends to work out poorly for the target.
For the price of 2 tickets we can wait until the DVD comes out, buy the DVD and watch it as many times as we like.
and...
o No dealing with other people's screaming babies o No babbling children at all (or, if they do, send them to their rooms w/o their cellphones... they'll learn fast) o No one playing with their cellphones o No one coughing the latest airborne disease out behind / next to you o No one talking (or if they do, pause and YELL at them) o Movie shows on your schedule o The ability to pause for bathroom breaks, snacks, etc o No waiting in line o No one sitting in front of you o Ability to switch movies if it turns out to suck o No freaking awful "local advertising" o Inexpensive and far higher quality snacks and drinks o No floods of someone's drink running around your shoes o Better seating (usually a lot better seating!) o Resale value for the disc, should you care to go there
...and that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more.
o Haldane’s Possible Worlds and Other Essays (1927) o F. Pohl / C M Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants (1953) o Winston Churchill’s Fifty Years Hence (1932)
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We adults were kids once, and some of us enjoyed reading comics. With a good superhero movie, we get to see some of that come to life. It can be done well, and has been; you can also get a real stinker. Like Superman vs. Batman.
You know, just because I'm 60 doesn't mean I'm dead. Yet.
Also, comics are an art form. Like most art, it doesn't speak to everyone. That's okay. Like most art, it can be done well, or poorly. Also okay. And conversions to movies... same. But when someone does such a conversion poorly, and then claims that the audience is at fault, as here, for sharing their opinion about it... well, that's just humor.
Exactly this. There are amazing numbers of untapped novels out there that would make wonderful movies.
That the movie industry spends most of its effort ignoring this resource leaves me with absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for any whining I hear from them. Where's Neuromancer? Where's Tau Zero? Where's (any one of) the Bolo stories, or Galactic Odyssey? Pretty much anything Gene Wolfe ever wrote? Axis of Time series? Novik's Temeraire? I could on for days just in the areas of fantasy and SF. There are tons of untapped thrillers and etc. out there too; Lots of as-yet-to-be-mades (not to mention as-yet-to-be-made-wells) from Clancy, Clavell, etc.
And then, when they commit crimes against art like create utter crap like "Soylent Green" out of really good books like "Make Room, Make Room"... then I'm glad they're not digging up good novels as sources. Let 'em make more formula superhero movies like the (utterly terrible) Batman vs. Superman we're talking about here. Keeps me from tearing my hair out.
Honestly, if the movie industry died (which it shows no sign of, this buffoon's whining aside), I'd just read more books.
Irony is wasted on Fox News victims.
No, it just means they'll make more money.
Here's the key idea you have to understand when you see moneyed interests enabled to make yet more money:
"Trickle down" is a metaphor for the moneyed interests pissing on your head.
Also, this.
Digg previously wounded itself because it threw out all of its user's work, and then compounded the insult by preventing them from commenting. It's a ghost town.
Reddit appears to be adding something, not taking something away.
If that's the case, I doubt it'll hurt them in any way. What remains to be seen is if it will benefit them. That will depend on how they manage (and limit) the new capabilities, and how their user base views what they do.
Facebook is certainly ripe for competition.
Found it -- import. Very good. :)
So... based on the above comments, I bought Nova launcher pro.
When I started it, all my current folders and apps.... gone. It appears I'll have to set everything up again. Am I wrong? Changing back to the Touchwiz, everything came right back. Need to explore this a little more, and seeing as it didn't destroy my previous setup (for which I am grateful), I will indeed experiment. First I guess I have to make a series of notes about the current arrangement and then go into Nova and rebuild it from the ground up. Seems... tedious. But I have the time, so... onwards.
Thanks for the tip (you and others.)
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Again, just as a data point, but at $80k, you could live like a king here in Eastern Montana. If you can deal with the rural aspect of it. We do have Internet. :)
No argument here. I think the conditions you folks have to deal with are fucking horrible.
I've done that. I have a decent lab right here. Most prototypes can be made in > 1 quantities. I did a couple front-to-back systems right here, too, back in the day. Not saying it doesn't change the dynamic, but it's not always a show-stopper, either.
The problem with 3rd party adding is that they can break, leaving you with various levels of leftover problems. This is really something that should be implemented in the GUI. There's a reason computers have hierarchical filesystems. There's a reason Android uses one too, underneath the GUI. It's because they are a profoundly useful way to organize information. I'm not railing at you here... I appreciate the pointer. I'm just frustrated by how annoyingly stupid the Android GUI remains after all this time. And iOS.
Dollars, yes, but not just dollars; but impediments to commerce and comfort. For very little effort (by which I explicitly mean, nearly none), they have thrown a huge wrench into anything that involves commercial air travel. They manipulated our control-addled congress into doing the work for them. 100% successfully.
All that was actually needed was:
o Revamp cockpits, armor thoroughly, install rest and feed facilities for long haul flights. One time cost.
o Reduce cabin-to-cockpit comms to "land near hospital ASAP" One time cost.
o Reduce cockpit-to-cabin comms to "belts on or off" One time cost.
What we got was the incredibly and endlessly expensive, absurdist productivity and pleasure reduction of the TSA.
On the other hand, they did finally convince me to do all my flying privately, so there's that. Unfortunately, most people can't exercise that option. But hey, vote your congress critter back in. Can't go wrong with that one, eh?
Still waiting for subfolders. Until they arrive, Android is the last place I turn for anything where I have to actually organize anything. Which is mostly everything. iOS is no better.
Spot on. I used to use the hell out of email and preferred it, same reason.
Lately, I've found slack in a web browser to be similarly async; I look at it when I'm ready, respond when ready. The richer environment -- the images, clips, etc., the ability to go live at any moment -- have moved my preference to Slack / Ryver (these are basically the same thing.) If only they'd let us have a richer text rendering environment... I've written a few bots for Slack, and I spend a fair amount of time chafing at the limits. But still... an improvement over email.
I keep slack on it's on window on its own monitor (I have eight monitors on this machine) so it's just a glance away. Usually that's all it gets. A glance. :)
Yes, one of the key benefits of working at home is control of the environment, and that most assuredly includes who gets to interrupt, or not, and when.
Working in company offices, I did some pretty good work. I tried hard, despite being very uncomfortable and unhappy. That was the job. But working at home, I did great work, became financially independent and most definitely happy. I loved (still do) my office and would (still do) burn huge numbers of hours in (t)here really Getting Shit Done. I also established myself in a very low cost-of-living location, doing high pay-in-employment work. Remotely. That's a really nice side effect of remote work, or at least it was for me. Hearing about real estate expenses in areas like Silicon Valley and various similar enclaves, I can only shake my head at the difference. I spent less in total (under $100k, all told) on nearly 6,000 sq feet of totally custom (and admittedly very eclectic) environment than most of the people in those areas spend on one bedroom apartments in less than 4 years ($2300/mo.) It really matters to your quality of life where you put your roots down.
TBH, I think one of the most programmer-hostile things a company can do is say "you have to work where we are." The tech exists, and has for some time, to make that completely unnecessary. Even if "constantly interrupt and monitor" is part of the company's operations protocols, that too is 100% doable. Throw the employee a fast connection and a good desktop, a webcam and a mic... whatever you need to do to keep in touch, you can do. Should cost a metric fuckton less than providing them office space "at" the company, too. I have never, ever, heard a decent argument for the requirement that warm flesh be present in the room in order to get good work done, or out of any employee. Frankly, if the employee can't work like that and do good work, they sure as **** aren't doing great work for you in any bloody office.
But, you know. I'm old, cranky, successful, independent, and can say these things with no fear my supervisor will see them. :)
From TFS:
Having worked for IBM back in the 1980's (in Boca Raton, FL), I can provide a datapoint: IBM labs (the MITRE Kanji printer labs, specifically) were incredibly uncomfortable, required long, annoying walks from the parking lot and between locations and buildings, and were run in an extremely uncreative manner. To describe the environment, I'd go with "windowless, cold, and cavelike." Truly a shitty place to work. Whereas working at home... okay, now that is a creative, inspiring location. Because like pretty much anyone who puts a home together, I designed it specifically to be that way to my specific interests and inclinations.
Now... it's been a long time, and perhaps if they re-hired me, they'd amaze me with a comfortable office with a view, a nearby, well-stocked cafeteria, an in-office hutch for my dog, and a secretary to handle the reams of make-work reports. Or perhaps there are no more reports (cough... cough... sorry, can't even write that with a straight face.) I find this, or any reasonable equivalency to it... unlikely. But perhaps they are actually in a position to do this now.
But then again, my experience there was so bad, I'd never respond to an IBM recruiter again, even if I was in the market for a job, which I am not.
They can just give you immunity for the "password crime", and there goes your 5th amendment protection right out the door.
The answer, functionally speaking, is in the "Bixby-enabled programs" phrase. The program has to incorporate specific hooks into Bixby. So it's not very smart at all.
If the thing was actually fully general for this task, it'd approach the programs the same way you do; first understanding your intent, and second, implementing it through the same user interface you do. Clearly, it doesn't do that, because... "Bixby-enabled." That's clearly not a mechanism to protect you from the AI talking to programs you don't want it to; that could be done as a preferences item (and should be, for that matter.)
Nor is anything likely to reach the kind of generality required for something that "operates your phone for you" until software (likely hardware, too) gets a lot smarter. The amount of knowledge a user puts into play when interacting with a program is very wide and deep. A personal assistant isn't going to have that kind of understanding at this point in time.
For my part, I am completely unwilling to call this stuff AI. AI means "Artificial Intelligence." This type of thing is artificial, but it definitely isn't intelligent. IMHO, there is no AI. Yet. I call these things low dimensional neural-like systems. I reserve "AI" for the day when intelligence is present. I'm pretty tired of lame-ass marketers calling everything from the toaster to the thermostat "intelligent." YMMV.
No, he specifically said there was evidence of potential violations.
Quote it correctly, or understand that others are ignoring you because you're spinning.
Further, the rule is "innocent until proven guilty. Remember? USA and all that?
Your plumber makes the informed, consensual choice to dig into your toilet and root about in your waste rather than starve to death. I wrote software rather than starve to death. McDonald's employees make fast food and take extremely low wages in order not to starve to death. We all make these choices; we value them in various ways, depending on our personal outlook.
If it's not a great choice for you, that's fine, then perhaps you'd want to try really hard not to make that choice. But don't tell others it's not a great choice. Ask them if it's a great choice. If they say no, and you can offer them an alternative they agree is better, by all means, feel free to do so.
Totally in favor of this. Unfortunately, we're presently under the thumb of people who are not.
Prostitution is a real choice, just as much as anything else is. Perhaps you're confusing it with slavery, which is something else again (and very, very rare, despite the current agitprop.)
We all have to work, unless we're born rich or we want to starve. That's the only extent to which prostitution is "forced" on anyone. Or in other words, pretty much the same as everything else that involves innate skill and suitability.
Perhaps you should ask them, then, instead of assuming you are "rescuing them."
It's not like the tools aren't readily available to translate. To anyone wishing to speak with them, or them.
Just because they don't speak the local language, or don't fluently speak it, doesn't mean that they aren't intelligent people making informed, consensual choices. You can't assume this, or you are automatically on the wrong side of liberty. If you are concerned, you need to ask.
When you are fortunate enough to have a personal resource — fitness, intelligence, beauty, athleticism, artistic insight, etc. — for which personal and consensual choice are the bounds employed, it is perfectly reasonable to leverage that to your personal advantage.
What is not reasonable is to dictate to others which of those resources, employed as specified, may be leveraged.
Reflective coatings tend to not be efficient enough; they ablate and/or lose reflectivity when heated, and then the laser is into the target's vitals. Also, thick armor is heavy; that makes it impractical for missiles. The corresponding truth is that missile skins are very thin.
Also, given a reflective "enough" coating, now the target is easily visible on the battlefield. That tends to work out poorly for the target.
and...
o No dealing with other people's screaming babies
...and that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more.
o No babbling children at all (or, if they do, send them to their rooms w/o their cellphones... they'll learn fast)
o No one playing with their cellphones
o No one coughing the latest airborne disease out behind / next to you
o No one talking (or if they do, pause and YELL at them)
o Movie shows on your schedule
o The ability to pause for bathroom breaks, snacks, etc
o No waiting in line
o No one sitting in front of you
o Ability to switch movies if it turns out to suck
o No freaking awful "local advertising"
o Inexpensive and far higher quality snacks and drinks
o No floods of someone's drink running around your shoes
o Better seating (usually a lot better seating!)
o Resale value for the disc, should you care to go there
See:
o Haldane’s Possible Worlds and Other Essays (1927)
o F. Pohl / C M Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants (1953)
o Winston Churchill’s Fifty Years Hence (1932)