I'm not sure why anyone would think of CSI, L&O or 24 in a conversation about Sci-Fi. If they qualify for the category it's only very loosely and there are lots and lots of shows that fully qualify (the only thing sci-fi about 24 is their dubious use of the term "socket")
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That's great except that the maker of this particular stuff didn't want them to make a movie version, so I'm not sure which side you're taking by watching it
what made the 90s awful was black page backgrounds, blink tags, banner tags, HR tags that dripped blood, and the GeoCities navigation that was no doubt accompanying all the above "features"
But the climate is not reading our models and changing its behavior because of them. With stock market models if enough investors are reading this model that is essentially predicting their own behavior, and they're using it to determine what they do than you have a feedback loop. That is bound to push things further in whichever direction they're moving than would go otherwise.
Advancing AI means that total information awareness is coming. It's just a matter of time before you can't take a shit without Google noticing. Skynet was a fuzzy kitten compared to what will happen...
I don't want Google following everything I do with face matching either, but I think they're a ways away from being able to send morphing androids through time and space to kill my ancestors
It's also a way to infer something completely untrue and purposefully inflammatory while protecting yourself from a lawsuit because you didn't make a statement you "only asked and answered a question on everyone's minds." e.g. "did Barack just give Michelle a terrorist fist jab?"
But isn't assuming that pirating has no effect on the publisher just as dumb as assuming it is a loss of a sale? You're attacking the people who are making an assumption that you would have bought the software, but you seem to be taking it for granted that people who use pirated copies would never have bought it. One of the things that people do when they create software is estimate the market for it by trying to figure out how many people would have a use for it. If massive amounts of people who would have a use for the software aren't willing to spend any money on it at all, how can you afford to create it?
Given how obviously different the situation would be if every single person pirated all their software, why is it so hard to see that the impact of individuals doing that is not zero?
If it takes a certain amount of money to pay workers to create the software and the cost is spread among fewer people because some of those who use it choose to not pay for it, then the cost to those that do pay for it must necessarily be higher than it would with more people paying a share (this is even more exaggerated than with products that have a non-trivial duplication cost). Obviously less than 100% of the price of software is going towards paying the costs of its creation, but that's what we in the western world call profit and the potential for that profit is why people risk the initial investments that make things happen.
I think free software is fantastic, but those that argue that the existence of some free software makes all software costless are deliberately missing the point
I would suggest that authoritarianism does not require a rise in living standards to keep on going, and indeed I would suggest that a perception of danger and mass insecurity in the face of either economic or military threat is what often creates it in hard times. If you are American you have surely just lived through a period where the political utility of the perceptual emergency was clear.
military threats and economic threats are pretty different. military threats are generally external and so they don't seem to always damage the regime that's in power, but economic threats generally are perceived to be due to an internal problem and so people want a change to rectify that problem. Right now Putin is trying to emphasize that he thinks that the economic problem was caused by the US and not their own system, so that he can avoid just that problem.
I believe it's ok in California as long as the bomb mechanism is a female target shot with a male projectile, rather than a male target by a male projectile
You're right, sorry, I was including all the economic benefits of two people living together with marriage. While being married implies the other savings, you can get the savings living together sans marriage.
Personally? I don't think any breaks should be given to anyone just for being married or having kids. It makes those that are not...effectively subsidizing the behavior of those that do.
we "subsidize" all sorts of behaviors, and in this case that behavior is the reason that each one of us is alive. I don't have a problem with tax breaks for those people that are having kids, but if that's what we're doing then those tax breaks should be specifically for that and not just for getting married (which is already a good financial strategy).
That happens a lot, I'm surprised you haven't seen it. I've seen it happen on muddy fields that are more brown than green, snow covered fields, fields with overturned turf, fields with uneven lighting so that a large sunny spot doesn't get a line over it.
The reason for the padding, like it or not, is that American football developed into a game with much larger, stronger, faster, players rather than a slogged out game of endurance.
the helmets are there to prevent head injuries, and the padding is there to protect people's bodies from the helmets
Where that force is being applied is a big deal, because mass-of-power-source-and-its-fuel is part of the package if the power source has to be taken along for the ride. That's probably why commercial elevator companies are interested in this, they'd rather have as much of the elevator powering mechanicism as they can in the basement rather than on the roof.
The time that it takes you to fast-forward or rewind your VCR to that spot in the movie that you want to watch is the VCR equivalent of a random pause. VCRs have been replaced in most households, sticking around in a few for the same reason that the plaid couch from 1970 does. They had an extended lifetime past their usefulness as a movie player, because DVD recording never hit its stride. But a DVD + DVR combo is really the way to go for most people, blowing a VCR out of the water for features and usability.
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I'm not sure why anyone would think of CSI, L&O or 24 in a conversation about Sci-Fi. If they qualify for the category it's only very loosely and there are lots and lots of shows that fully qualify (the only thing sci-fi about 24 is their dubious use of the term "socket")
That's great except that the maker of this particular stuff didn't want them to make a movie version, so I'm not sure which side you're taking by watching it
are you sure it has? I see a June article saying they were down 3 billion dollars and an October article saying that the games division was still losing money. I'm sure Christmas helped, but that's a big deficit to overcome
what made the 90s awful was black page backgrounds, blink tags, banner tags, HR tags that dripped blood, and the GeoCities navigation that was no doubt accompanying all the above "features"
But the climate is not reading our models and changing its behavior because of them. With stock market models if enough investors are reading this model that is essentially predicting their own behavior, and they're using it to determine what they do than you have a feedback loop. That is bound to push things further in whichever direction they're moving than would go otherwise.
Advancing AI means that total information awareness is coming. It's just a matter of time before you can't take a shit without Google noticing. Skynet was a fuzzy kitten compared to what will happen...
I don't want Google following everything I do with face matching either, but I think they're a ways away from being able to send morphing androids through time and space to kill my ancestors
It's also a way to infer something completely untrue and purposefully inflammatory while protecting yourself from a lawsuit because you didn't make a statement you "only asked and answered a question on everyone's minds." e.g. "did Barack just give Michelle a terrorist fist jab?"
but it's scheduled downtime so that still counts as 100% availability
But isn't assuming that pirating has no effect on the publisher just as dumb as assuming it is a loss of a sale? You're attacking the people who are making an assumption that you would have bought the software, but you seem to be taking it for granted that people who use pirated copies would never have bought it. One of the things that people do when they create software is estimate the market for it by trying to figure out how many people would have a use for it. If massive amounts of people who would have a use for the software aren't willing to spend any money on it at all, how can you afford to create it?
Given how obviously different the situation would be if every single person pirated all their software, why is it so hard to see that the impact of individuals doing that is not zero?
If it takes a certain amount of money to pay workers to create the software and the cost is spread among fewer people because some of those who use it choose to not pay for it, then the cost to those that do pay for it must necessarily be higher than it would with more people paying a share (this is even more exaggerated than with products that have a non-trivial duplication cost). Obviously less than 100% of the price of software is going towards paying the costs of its creation, but that's what we in the western world call profit and the potential for that profit is why people risk the initial investments that make things happen.
I think free software is fantastic, but those that argue that the existence of some free software makes all software costless are deliberately missing the point
I would suggest that authoritarianism does not require a rise in living standards to keep on going, and indeed I would suggest that a perception of danger and mass insecurity in the face of either economic or military threat is what often creates it in hard times. If you are American you have surely just lived through a period where the political utility of the perceptual emergency was clear.
military threats and economic threats are pretty different. military threats are generally external and so they don't seem to always damage the regime that's in power, but economic threats generally are perceived to be due to an internal problem and so people want a change to rectify that problem. Right now Putin is trying to emphasize that he thinks that the economic problem was caused by the US and not their own system, so that he can avoid just that problem.
quantum computers are a pipe dream, as they require exponential power in the number of qbits.
Maybe quantum power supplies will be really good at doing this (see, there's an answer like this for anything)
I believe it's ok in California as long as the bomb mechanism is a female target shot with a male projectile, rather than a male target by a male projectile
You're right, sorry, I was including all the economic benefits of two people living together with marriage. While being married implies the other savings, you can get the savings living together sans marriage.
most people use a collar with a little bell on it
Personally? I don't think any breaks should be given to anyone just for being married or having kids. It makes those that are not...effectively subsidizing the behavior of those that do.
we "subsidize" all sorts of behaviors, and in this case that behavior is the reason that each one of us is alive. I don't have a problem with tax breaks for those people that are having kids, but if that's what we're doing then those tax breaks should be specifically for that and not just for getting married (which is already a good financial strategy).
That happens a lot, I'm surprised you haven't seen it. I've seen it happen on muddy fields that are more brown than green, snow covered fields, fields with overturned turf, fields with uneven lighting so that a large sunny spot doesn't get a line over it.
The reason for the padding, like it or not, is that American football developed into a game with much larger, stronger, faster, players rather than a slogged out game of endurance.
the helmets are there to prevent head injuries, and the padding is there to protect people's bodies from the helmets
a customer-removable battery can't be in a place that's obstructed from easy removal by things like the motherboard
as far as I can tell there is still DRM on movies, I imagine that will be the next thing to be complained about
Where that force is being applied is a big deal, because mass-of-power-source-and-its-fuel is part of the package if the power source has to be taken along for the ride. That's probably why commercial elevator companies are interested in this, they'd rather have as much of the elevator powering mechanicism as they can in the basement rather than on the roof.
no time to add this code, he's too busy...take a guess
The time that it takes you to fast-forward or rewind your VCR to that spot in the movie that you want to watch is the VCR equivalent of a random pause. VCRs have been replaced in most households, sticking around in a few for the same reason that the plaid couch from 1970 does. They had an extended lifetime past their usefulness as a movie player, because DVD recording never hit its stride. But a DVD + DVR combo is really the way to go for most people, blowing a VCR out of the water for features and usability.
I rediscovered it when my PC slowed down while I was playing the youtube clip
start recording Noggin from now until midnight and then play that stuff on a loop until they resolve their differences?