Our nav system just gives a speech warning when you go over the limit but obviously some people only want to know about the limit when a trap is nearby...
There's also random probing so people always fear there might be a speed trap nearby and won't race like mad until they reach a known trap location. Probably not enough of that though.
The member states signed treaties that they will have to obey certain restrictions imposed upon them by the EU. If they didn't want that they shouldn't have joined the EU. They wanted the benefits, they gotta live with the downsides too. France isn't a small country and could certainly have stayed out of the EU without being bullied into joining.
The "uncanny valley" is about making a robot that looks like a human but doesn't move like a human. It can be sidestepped completely by making the robots not look like humans. Who wants a real Bender?
It's useful for human-machine interaction. When you want to use a robot where it interacts with people it should probably seem more alive to the humans. Somebody's gotta invent it and there are enough companies working on different applications for robotics that the sensor and mechanical challenges get handled by someone else.
Naah, closed code is still an asset you might be able to convince someone to pay for. Even if it's just users raising money to buy the code to opensource it.
Any change can be claimed to be the beginning of a slippery slope. Knowing when to stop (or knowing how to figure it out) is one critical part to making sane changes.
Without the law many people who think they're really good drivers (95% of the drivers consider themselves above average if I recall the polls correctly) would go without insurance because they think they don't need it as they're good enough to just avoid accidents. Combine with the number of peopel who are up to their neck in debts anyway and couldn't pay at an accident and you got a recipe for desaster.
That's why it's a tradeoff, you can't have perfect security without losing too many freedoms and you can't have perfect freedom without making life too dangerous. It was decided that traffic laws provide enough safety to warrant losing the freedom of e.g. racing at insane speeds. What tradeoffs are seen as justified varies between different political leanings and such. That's also why it's important to remember the qualifiers in the famous quote: "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety..."
Noone here would argue that it's a good personal liberty to be able to kill anyone you don't like and many wouldn't even recognize it as liberty. However something like the liberty to take something if you need it (independent of ownership) is a bit more popular and copying something without having the copyright is considered a freedom that should be there by some and a problem that needs to be fixed by others. Abortion is seen as the freedom of control over your body by some (and considered a normal liberty in many parts of the western world) and as a crime by others. Different people have different views on what freedoms are ridiculous, what freedoms are essential and everything inbetween.
But if they don't even know this Phorm thing exists?
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I've been considering Saint's Row but the back of the box was talking about needing bling-bling to gain respect and I really don't want to play retarded MTV clichees.
Also money MS throws at Rockstar isn't really taken from the users, they're massively loss leading and the system itself is dropping in price, not going up. Besides, you can't pass fixed costs (like moneyhats) on to the customer because you'd make less money by raising the price (unless you're below the optuimum price already in which case, why didn't you raise it to the optimum price earlier?).
Also everyone claims "it's going to be fixed soon, we promise" but people are impatient when their time costs money, when experience shows them that promises like that tend to be false and when competitors are already done implementing all the stuff.
Usually "faith" is considered to apply to the things you cannot detect with your senses instead of whether you trust your senses. Once you assume that all data from your senses can be an internally consistent lie it's pointless to argue anything because then you're dealing with things that are unfalsifiable (there is no condition that has to remain true for the idea to remain possible). Unfalsifiable things can be thought up in infinite numbers and discussing them is absolutely pointless.
He didn't mention it directly but the console's rejection of burned copies from P2P is what caused his complaint because it also affects backups. Yeah, yeah, arguing semantics is pointless, I concur.
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Our nav system just gives a speech warning when you go over the limit but obviously some people only want to know about the limit when a trap is nearby...
There's also random probing so people always fear there might be a speed trap nearby and won't race like mad until they reach a known trap location. Probably not enough of that though.
Speech alerts that tell you to slow down immediately? Many people will probably just hit the brakes without a warning to the following cars.
The output might depend on the climate it's in, would your dehumidifier grab as much water in the desert?
The "dry air" simply has a lower water saturation, hot air can hold more water than cold air.
The member states signed treaties that they will have to obey certain restrictions imposed upon them by the EU. If they didn't want that they shouldn't have joined the EU. They wanted the benefits, they gotta live with the downsides too. France isn't a small country and could certainly have stayed out of the EU without being bullied into joining.
Some countries require the internet for some government interaction tasks.
I guess they wanted to be really sure it wasn't an ICBM.
Rogue? Isn't that a bit old? Come on, people would be a lot less bored in their MMOs if they at least had something like Nethack!
Awwww, an army of Barney robots would at least make fighting the robot insurrection more fun. Who doesn't want to shove an RPG up Barney's arse?
The "uncanny valley" is about making a robot that looks like a human but doesn't move like a human. It can be sidestepped completely by making the robots not look like humans. Who wants a real Bender?
IOW, it's the robotic equivalent of Nintendogs.
It's useful for human-machine interaction. When you want to use a robot where it interacts with people it should probably seem more alive to the humans. Somebody's gotta invent it and there are enough companies working on different applications for robotics that the sensor and mechanical challenges get handled by someone else.
Naah, closed code is still an asset you might be able to convince someone to pay for. Even if it's just users raising money to buy the code to opensource it.
Any change can be claimed to be the beginning of a slippery slope. Knowing when to stop (or knowing how to figure it out) is one critical part to making sane changes.
Without the law many people who think they're really good drivers (95% of the drivers consider themselves above average if I recall the polls correctly) would go without insurance because they think they don't need it as they're good enough to just avoid accidents. Combine with the number of peopel who are up to their neck in debts anyway and couldn't pay at an accident and you got a recipe for desaster.
That's why it's a tradeoff, you can't have perfect security without losing too many freedoms and you can't have perfect freedom without making life too dangerous. It was decided that traffic laws provide enough safety to warrant losing the freedom of e.g. racing at insane speeds. What tradeoffs are seen as justified varies between different political leanings and such. That's also why it's important to remember the qualifiers in the famous quote: "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety ..."
Noone here would argue that it's a good personal liberty to be able to kill anyone you don't like and many wouldn't even recognize it as liberty. However something like the liberty to take something if you need it (independent of ownership) is a bit more popular and copying something without having the copyright is considered a freedom that should be there by some and a problem that needs to be fixed by others. Abortion is seen as the freedom of control over your body by some (and considered a normal liberty in many parts of the western world) and as a crime by others. Different people have different views on what freedoms are ridiculous, what freedoms are essential and everything inbetween.
But if they don't even know this Phorm thing exists?
I've been considering Saint's Row but the back of the box was talking about needing bling-bling to gain respect and I really don't want to play retarded MTV clichees.
The game is cross-platform.
Also money MS throws at Rockstar isn't really taken from the users, they're massively loss leading and the system itself is dropping in price, not going up. Besides, you can't pass fixed costs (like moneyhats) on to the customer because you'd make less money by raising the price (unless you're below the optuimum price already in which case, why didn't you raise it to the optimum price earlier?).
Too much work for something that's getting EOLed anyway.
Also everyone claims "it's going to be fixed soon, we promise" but people are impatient when their time costs money, when experience shows them that promises like that tend to be false and when competitors are already done implementing all the stuff.
Usually "faith" is considered to apply to the things you cannot detect with your senses instead of whether you trust your senses. Once you assume that all data from your senses can be an internally consistent lie it's pointless to argue anything because then you're dealing with things that are unfalsifiable (there is no condition that has to remain true for the idea to remain possible). Unfalsifiable things can be thought up in infinite numbers and discussing them is absolutely pointless.
Which works really well when the data that gets compromised is a record stored at your cellphone company...
You could try selling it as a board game...
He didn't mention it directly but the console's rejection of burned copies from P2P is what caused his complaint because it also affects backups. Yeah, yeah, arguing semantics is pointless, I concur.