The basis of what they are describing was used by nintendo in a Zelda game a bit ago (namely, that the manner in which your character swung it's sword would relate to how you move the wii controller). This sounds eminently doable, though 500k sounds very light on money required. I'm not sure what they were going to try to do hardware wise, but most of the tech does exist if you can write the code in an efficient manner to translate your motions quickly into on screen actions. Of course, there were major problems they would need to overcome to make it some form of networked game, but some sort of local distribution could respond fast enough to make it interesting.
A proper business plan would amount to what was written on kickstarter. If you have ever seen new companies' business plans, you would know they are generally a lot of smoke and mirrors.
my appreciation for a repository of software which has passed basic functionality and security checks has no bearing on my view of NSA spying. In no way does the existence of the app store inhibit me from installing any software I want on my apple device. But it nicely prevents a lot of people, the vast majority of whom are morons when it comes to computers, from screwing up (which, if you have done any tech support work ever, you should know happens to the vast majority of computer users).
Hell, it's not like apple charges me for this validated software repository directly (obviously, a fraction of what I pay for an app, if I pay, goes to apple). It's awesome because it saves me the time I used to waste finding tools to do X in windows or Linux and half of what I download to be poorly documented, not compatible, or not offering the features as advertised. And it seems the security they force on every piece of software has prevented any system level hacks of Apple in the pwn2own contests (doesn't mean they don't exist, obviously, but it's better than if they were getting pwn'ed constantly).
what are you talking about? in 2012 apple osx + safari was the only one of the possible targets left standing and in 2013 no one even tried. In mobile pwn2own apple did fall to a recovery of Facebook account credentials, which makes me worry about what cookies are kept on my device. But it doesn't seem it got into the iCloud password set. There is a big difference (at least for me).
Apple is a lot of things, and one of them is probably the best widespread vendor when it comes to security (at least in competitions like this). Samsung S4 fell horrifically, to a system level hack via a preinstalled app. Now you may say microsoft and blackberry had no attacks shown at mobile, but it could be they just aren't popular (you can't really say that with a straight face about apple OSX and safari in the full OS version of pwn2own)
really? are you a well studied mormon? Just a basic search of google shows tons of Mormon sources that validate the story of him putting the plates into a hat and putting his head into the hat and translate. It was the first thing I looked up after seeing that episode and found lots of early mormons validating this story.
just wondering, why do you say the hebrews took the story from Babylonian scriptures? My (limited) experience has shown flood myths in basically every religion that came up as far East as India and as far west as north Africa. Is there any reason you don't think it was an actual historic event that led to similar stories (or more possibly, a single old religion as populations branched in that area at that time)?
Anyways, how do you call something a religion or not? I'm not sure the distinction. I think you are equally deluded to believe in scientology as anything else (as, even taking as a given the existence of a creator, there is not logical basis to that ascribe any form of reason to the behavior or expected behavior of people of said creator). It's just as valid as any other religion.
except aren't the vast majority of race cars run on dual clutch paddle shifters now? Manual transmissions are far worse than DSG and driving both, I can't imagine wanting a manual in a city, it's just such an incredible pain to constantly be shifting between neutral, 1st,and 2nd. But I can understand why some people may feel different. Driving a manual makes you "feel" faster, even though you are far more likely to be much slower at shifting vs a decent automatic (and far slower than a DSG).
My experience diving there says there are already so many holes in the roads no one would really notice (ghostbusters 2 paraphrased and my real experience there)
I think you need to legal lesson on the difference between the US and a common law country. Legal precedent means nothing in so much as the law is concerned. It is ONLY a guide for how other people have decided in a similar situation and at ANY TIME a judge can rule in a way that is completely against previous precedent (see the entire civil rights era for a long series of these rulings).
The only law in this country is the written law and, as criminal law goes, the only proper group to make any statement about it is a jury in a courtroom, and at times a judge in some limited circumstances (this isn't the Japanese system).
Anyways, it has made the american people aware of our government's crimes. There is a ruling that specifically says their actions are unconstitutional, i.e. violating the highest law of the land. There is another ruling that says it is ok because it is a tool that only works if you have mass surveillance (which basically can be interpreted is that you only need to follow the constitution unless you break it on a large enough scale). This will go up the courts and most likely we will have a ruling by the supreme court on this (the only court, constitutionally, that matters).
there is no such thing as bad art. just art that some people think is of low artistic quality. Art is not science (which is why I think it all is roughly equivalent to... fill in the blank with whatever you want), there is not scale but whatever arbitrary one you have chosen. My childhood finger painting are as much art as the modern art I see in galleries... and frankly they are just as "good" (if you can use such an adjective regarding art). On the other hand, your last two categories are correct, you can like something. or not like something. that is about it when it comes to art. At least for me, this is why science and maths are so much more attractive on so many levels. But I can understand that that is a choice, and again pretty arbitrary.
so basically ew can replace all you wrote about google with Facebook, except Facebook also tries to link your account to other accounts you have with totally unrelated services (create an account, OR log in with Facebook for ease)
All online companies doing things for free are in the business of trying to build up as extensive of an online profile of you, so they can sell targeted ads to companies at the highest price (why pay much for a targeted ad if the company only has sparse, and limited profiles?)
this is funniest because I think in the Snowden documents Facebook sold out to the NSA way before google did, and of course, runs on the exact same business model except with far more intrusive and annoying ads.
similar to the UK. is it like the UK in that it is for certain channels (BBC in my case) but if you want to watch any channels (i.e. receive any transmission) you have to pay it? When I moved here I went through a long series of back and forth culminating in not hooking up an antennae to my TV or getting a decoder for the non-public financed channels I wanted to watch sometimes so that I didn't have to pay for the government subsidized channels I thought were absolutely useless.
I think you are confused on the meaning of a subsidy (or in this case, a tax subsidy). The Archduke wasn't levying a tax on all people under Hapsburg dominion to pay Beethoven to compose. If a private individual decides to freely, not under threat of law, to give money to someone to make something, that is the definition of private industry. Beethoven found a buyer for his goods and sold them.
But as you said, many "traditional" cultural enterprises are supported massively through the US tax code, but this in general does not include any Hollywood produced movies, which are probably the closest thing we have to non-subsidized cultural works.
But there are large subsidies to Hollywood and each jurisdiction that offers these should be questioned. Most of these are compeitive, where Hollywood studios offer several locations the chance to "buy" where the movie is produced. Each state is free to offer nothing and usually the best offer is taken. this is usually in the form of "you don't pay state income taxes and other taxes on production if you agree to produce here and use X amount of local stuff". you can decide if that is the same as the state of north carolina levying a tax to pay for the production of ironman 3.
no there aren't, there are a few. There is a huge difference between enough to keep an industry solvent on its own and what there is.
granted, it may just be a result of the ridiculous convolution of tax laws that exist in France. if you dig deep enough, you'll find that it may only be uneconomical because of tons of other one off taxes that are placed on the movie business.
it's a horrible idea, it means the federal government will become even more incapable of coming to any compromise. There are great articles you can read about how as election districts and populations have become hardened in their views of democrat or republican, representatives have more of a reason to not compromise than to compromise (because that is actually better representing their districts). Look at the number of districts that were won with >60% of the vote (a basically insurmountable advantage as long as you are true to your base) vs 30 years ago.
The more certain you are of reelection/worried about a challenge from a more polarizing figure vs a middle-of-the-road figure, means you act in the way most people are acting in congress right now.
There is a good reason Clinton and Reagan could compromise across the isle with congress, as both presidents were formed by voting patterns that weren't nearly as set in stone and the number of swing states/districts was MUCH higher.
that's ridiculous, if you use the smallest state to scale, then everyone is short representatives, because representatives are floored at 1, regardless of the size of the state. In actuality, you aren't talking about a lot of votes relatively, because quite a number of states require more representatives. On your basis, there should be 523 members of the house (314 mio/ 600k), so the total count goes up by ~25% and california goes up by ~20%, so california is a net beneficiary on the current system vs your new weightings.
I hate to break it to you, but the detonation of one nuclear weapon in a population center in no way imperils human society. It wouldn't even register as a blip on the radar.
what in the world do you think would cause the collapse of human civilization if a million people died tomorrow in an explosion? Death on that scale has happened many times, when the world population was much smaller, and hasn't caused any real upheaval in civilization.
Even if you said 100 million, you are only on par with some of the worst disasters we have had, in terms of percent of world population effected. And actually less as a nuclear weapon is not diffuse in it's impact (like say, the spanish flu was).
your question is pretty unrelated. BTC are as much a ponzi scheme as fancy diamonds or gold is a ponzi scheme. when you buy them, you are doing it right now with the explicit expectation that you can/will find someone else to buy it from you for a greater amount.
BTC, at the very least, can already be used as a currency in transactions, but the amount it is being used for transactions is so small it's pretty irrelevant.
Just like gold or diamonds, the value could collapse if people decide it's not worth their money. I guess on the downside you don't have billions of women saying "oooooh, shiny" to keep the value up like gold and diamonds, so as a spec investment, it has that risk.
And with an infinitely divisible currency, people do not need to pay 1 bit coin for a goat. in fact, at some point, people could start calling 0.1 bit coins a bit coin and the goal still costs 1 of the standard unit. There is nothing special about where you choose to put the decimal place.
I have a MBP (2011 spring) and love the computer. But I have upgraded the ram already. When I bought it, I bought it with minimum ram(4GB) because the upgrade didn't seem worth it. But I noticed when I started trying to tinker with developer work and drive several heavier apps at once (once I got an external display so at home it was a proper desktop replacement), that wasn't nearly enough. I really appreciated not paying apple 300 dollars at the time to get 16 GB, and instead paid 100 dollars and popped the ram in myself.
I don't know how my use case will change over the 5-6 years I try to keep my laptops around. And frankly, the build quality on this is good enough and my use case has changed enough that I could see keeping this one around for even longer. As long as the CPU and logic board hold together, I can swap hard drives for an SSD, replace ram if it burns out, etc. I like the ability to keep a working computer around with minimal fuss, and I really like ability to modify the specs to a certain degree to make sure the computer can adapt to my needs as they change. They have changed in the last 2 years, and I expect they will change again when I have kids.
well I'm not sure about the native americans, but I'm damn certain the african americans are doing a hell of a lot better than the africans in the regions they were taken from. I know I"d prefer to be black in America than in many of the African countries at all.
but in regards to Japan and China, Japan is (I think) the only ally we have a mutual defense treaty with. It was been publicly stated by the US that the Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory and fall within the purview of this defense treaty. So actually the US would (assuming we don't have leadership that backs down from its commitments) send a carrier battle group, with the express purpose of securing the Islands for Japan.
actually some countries we do charge. Japan has some complex agreement worked out where they pay a significant portion of maintaining our military presence in Japan.
or just decide that these small countries get the shrift so the vast majority of people get a better deal? Constantly changing definitions to fit each and every circumstance is what causes problems like this anyways. Much better to simply ignore the individual countries with a few hundred people in them.
because those taxes were fictitious? The only way you get a bunch of extremely wealthy members of congress to vote for a tax increase to those levels is to reinstate all the incredible deductions that existed (basically, you would pay for everything you ever wanted through the company as a legit expense but not as compensation).
Else why would all the wealthy people who are in congress ever pass taxes like that? Most liberal/progressives want very high taxes on the other guy. Countries that create more progressive societies do it by taxing EVERYONE at a high level (functionally). Look at the UK,if you make more than 50k USD your marginal tax rate jumps to about 50%. The US doesn't even come close, with people at those levels maybe reaching up to 20%. Hell, it's basically 30% for everyone below that income, which is more than lots of people in the top 10% pay in the US. It's only at the extreme ends of income that the US begins to approach the UK, making us far more progressive in taxation (but functionally without the money to run similar social programs).
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why was clang a bad idea (or unrealistic)?
The basis of what they are describing was used by nintendo in a Zelda game a bit ago (namely, that the manner in which your character swung it's sword would relate to how you move the wii controller). This sounds eminently doable, though 500k sounds very light on money required. I'm not sure what they were going to try to do hardware wise, but most of the tech does exist if you can write the code in an efficient manner to translate your motions quickly into on screen actions. Of course, there were major problems they would need to overcome to make it some form of networked game, but some sort of local distribution could respond fast enough to make it interesting.
A proper business plan would amount to what was written on kickstarter. If you have ever seen new companies' business plans, you would know they are generally a lot of smoke and mirrors.
my appreciation for a repository of software which has passed basic functionality and security checks has no bearing on my view of NSA spying. In no way does the existence of the app store inhibit me from installing any software I want on my apple device. But it nicely prevents a lot of people, the vast majority of whom are morons when it comes to computers, from screwing up (which, if you have done any tech support work ever, you should know happens to the vast majority of computer users).
Hell, it's not like apple charges me for this validated software repository directly (obviously, a fraction of what I pay for an app, if I pay, goes to apple). It's awesome because it saves me the time I used to waste finding tools to do X in windows or Linux and half of what I download to be poorly documented, not compatible, or not offering the features as advertised. And it seems the security they force on every piece of software has prevented any system level hacks of Apple in the pwn2own contests (doesn't mean they don't exist, obviously, but it's better than if they were getting pwn'ed constantly).
what are you talking about? in 2012 apple osx + safari was the only one of the possible targets left standing and in 2013 no one even tried. In mobile pwn2own apple did fall to a recovery of Facebook account credentials, which makes me worry about what cookies are kept on my device. But it doesn't seem it got into the iCloud password set. There is a big difference (at least for me).
Apple is a lot of things, and one of them is probably the best widespread vendor when it comes to security (at least in competitions like this). Samsung S4 fell horrifically, to a system level hack via a preinstalled app. Now you may say microsoft and blackberry had no attacks shown at mobile, but it could be they just aren't popular (you can't really say that with a straight face about apple OSX and safari in the full OS version of pwn2own)
really? are you a well studied mormon? Just a basic search of google shows tons of Mormon sources that validate the story of him putting the plates into a hat and putting his head into the hat and translate. It was the first thing I looked up after seeing that episode and found lots of early mormons validating this story.
just wondering, why do you say the hebrews took the story from Babylonian scriptures? My (limited) experience has shown flood myths in basically every religion that came up as far East as India and as far west as north Africa. Is there any reason you don't think it was an actual historic event that led to similar stories (or more possibly, a single old religion as populations branched in that area at that time)?
Anyways, how do you call something a religion or not? I'm not sure the distinction. I think you are equally deluded to believe in scientology as anything else (as, even taking as a given the existence of a creator, there is not logical basis to that ascribe any form of reason to the behavior or expected behavior of people of said creator). It's just as valid as any other religion.
except aren't the vast majority of race cars run on dual clutch paddle shifters now? Manual transmissions are far worse than DSG and driving both, I can't imagine wanting a manual in a city, it's just such an incredible pain to constantly be shifting between neutral, 1st,and 2nd. But I can understand why some people may feel different. Driving a manual makes you "feel" faster, even though you are far more likely to be much slower at shifting vs a decent automatic (and far slower than a DSG).
My experience diving there says there are already so many holes in the roads no one would really notice (ghostbusters 2 paraphrased and my real experience there)
I think you need to legal lesson on the difference between the US and a common law country. Legal precedent means nothing in so much as the law is concerned. It is ONLY a guide for how other people have decided in a similar situation and at ANY TIME a judge can rule in a way that is completely against previous precedent (see the entire civil rights era for a long series of these rulings).
The only law in this country is the written law and, as criminal law goes, the only proper group to make any statement about it is a jury in a courtroom, and at times a judge in some limited circumstances (this isn't the Japanese system).
Anyways, it has made the american people aware of our government's crimes. There is a ruling that specifically says their actions are unconstitutional, i.e. violating the highest law of the land. There is another ruling that says it is ok because it is a tool that only works if you have mass surveillance (which basically can be interpreted is that you only need to follow the constitution unless you break it on a large enough scale). This will go up the courts and most likely we will have a ruling by the supreme court on this (the only court, constitutionally, that matters).
where do you work that has something that cool outside? That has to be a hit, especially on bring your kid to work day.
there is no such thing as bad art. just art that some people think is of low artistic quality. Art is not science (which is why I think it all is roughly equivalent to ... fill in the blank with whatever you want), there is not scale but whatever arbitrary one you have chosen. My childhood finger painting are as much art as the modern art I see in galleries... and frankly they are just as "good" (if you can use such an adjective regarding art). On the other hand, your last two categories are correct,
you can like something. or not like something. that is about it when it comes to art. At least for me, this is why science and maths are so much more attractive on so many levels. But I can understand that that is a choice, and again pretty arbitrary.
so basically ew can replace all you wrote about google with Facebook, except Facebook also tries to link your account to other accounts you have with totally unrelated services (create an account, OR log in with Facebook for ease)
All online companies doing things for free are in the business of trying to build up as extensive of an online profile of you, so they can sell targeted ads to companies at the highest price (why pay much for a targeted ad if the company only has sparse, and limited profiles?)
this is funniest because I think in the Snowden documents Facebook sold out to the NSA way before google did, and of course, runs on the exact same business model except with far more intrusive and annoying ads.
similar to the UK. is it like the UK in that it is for certain channels (BBC in my case) but if you want to watch any channels (i.e. receive any transmission) you have to pay it? When I moved here I went through a long series of back and forth culminating in not hooking up an antennae to my TV or getting a decoder for the non-public financed channels I wanted to watch sometimes so that I didn't have to pay for the government subsidized channels I thought were absolutely useless.
I think you are confused on the meaning of a subsidy (or in this case, a tax subsidy). The Archduke wasn't levying a tax on all people under Hapsburg dominion to pay Beethoven to compose. If a private individual decides to freely, not under threat of law, to give money to someone to make something, that is the definition of private industry. Beethoven found a buyer for his goods and sold them.
But as you said, many "traditional" cultural enterprises are supported massively through the US tax code, but this in general does not include any Hollywood produced movies, which are probably the closest thing we have to non-subsidized cultural works.
But there are large subsidies to Hollywood and each jurisdiction that offers these should be questioned. Most of these are compeitive, where Hollywood studios offer several locations the chance to "buy" where the movie is produced. Each state is free to offer nothing and usually the best offer is taken. this is usually in the form of "you don't pay state income taxes and other taxes on production if you agree to produce here and use X amount of local stuff". you can decide if that is the same as the state of north carolina levying a tax to pay for the production of ironman 3.
no there aren't, there are a few. There is a huge difference between enough to keep an industry solvent on its own and what there is.
granted, it may just be a result of the ridiculous convolution of tax laws that exist in France. if you dig deep enough, you'll find that it may only be uneconomical because of tons of other one off taxes that are placed on the movie business.
it's a horrible idea, it means the federal government will become even more incapable of coming to any compromise. There are great articles you can read about how as election districts and populations have become hardened in their views of democrat or republican, representatives have more of a reason to not compromise than to compromise (because that is actually better representing their districts). Look at the number of districts that were won with >60% of the vote (a basically insurmountable advantage as long as you are true to your base) vs 30 years ago.
The more certain you are of reelection /worried about a challenge from a more polarizing figure vs a middle-of-the-road figure, means you act in the way most people are acting in congress right now.
There is a good reason Clinton and Reagan could compromise across the isle with congress, as both presidents were formed by voting patterns that weren't nearly as set in stone and the number of swing states/districts was MUCH higher.
that's ridiculous, if you use the smallest state to scale, then everyone is short representatives, because representatives are floored at 1, regardless of the size of the state. In actuality, you aren't talking about a lot of votes relatively, because quite a number of states require more representatives.
On your basis, there should be 523 members of the house (314 mio/ 600k), so the total count goes up by ~25% and california goes up by ~20%, so california is a net beneficiary on the current system vs your new weightings.
I hate to break it to you, but the detonation of one nuclear weapon in a population center in no way imperils human society. It wouldn't even register as a blip on the radar.
what in the world do you think would cause the collapse of human civilization if a million people died tomorrow in an explosion? Death on that scale has happened many times, when the world population was much smaller, and hasn't caused any real upheaval in civilization.
Even if you said 100 million, you are only on par with some of the worst disasters we have had, in terms of percent of world population effected. And actually less as a nuclear weapon is not diffuse in it's impact (like say, the spanish flu was).
your question is pretty unrelated. BTC are as much a ponzi scheme as fancy diamonds or gold is a ponzi scheme. when you buy them, you are doing it right now with the explicit expectation that you can/will find someone else to buy it from you for a greater amount.
BTC, at the very least, can already be used as a currency in transactions, but the amount it is being used for transactions is so small it's pretty irrelevant.
Just like gold or diamonds, the value could collapse if people decide it's not worth their money. I guess on the downside you don't have billions of women saying "oooooh, shiny" to keep the value up like gold and diamonds, so as a spec investment, it has that risk.
you are really wrong about math:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach-Tarski_paradox
And with an infinitely divisible currency, people do not need to pay 1 bit coin for a goat. in fact, at some point, people could start calling 0.1 bit coins a bit coin and the goal still costs 1 of the standard unit. There is nothing special about where you choose to put the decimal place.
I have a MBP (2011 spring) and love the computer. But I have upgraded the ram already. When I bought it, I bought it with minimum ram(4GB) because the upgrade didn't seem worth it. But I noticed when I started trying to tinker with developer work and drive several heavier apps at once (once I got an external display so at home it was a proper desktop replacement), that wasn't nearly enough. I really appreciated not paying apple 300 dollars at the time to get 16 GB, and instead paid 100 dollars and popped the ram in myself.
I don't know how my use case will change over the 5-6 years I try to keep my laptops around. And frankly, the build quality on this is good enough and my use case has changed enough that I could see keeping this one around for even longer. As long as the CPU and logic board hold together, I can swap hard drives for an SSD, replace ram if it burns out, etc. I like the ability to keep a working computer around with minimal fuss, and I really like ability to modify the specs to a certain degree to make sure the computer can adapt to my needs as they change. They have changed in the last 2 years, and I expect they will change again when I have kids.
well I'm not sure about the native americans, but I'm damn certain the african americans are doing a hell of a lot better than the africans in the regions they were taken from. I know I"d prefer to be black in America than in many of the African countries at all.
but in regards to Japan and China, Japan is (I think) the only ally we have a mutual defense treaty with. It was been publicly stated by the US that the Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory and fall within the purview of this defense treaty. So actually the US would (assuming we don't have leadership that backs down from its commitments) send a carrier battle group, with the express purpose of securing the Islands for Japan.
actually some countries we do charge. Japan has some complex agreement worked out where they pay a significant portion of maintaining our military presence in Japan.
or just decide that these small countries get the shrift so the vast majority of people get a better deal? Constantly changing definitions to fit each and every circumstance is what causes problems like this anyways. Much better to simply ignore the individual countries with a few hundred people in them.
because those taxes were fictitious? The only way you get a bunch of extremely wealthy members of congress to vote for a tax increase to those levels is to reinstate all the incredible deductions that existed (basically, you would pay for everything you ever wanted through the company as a legit expense but not as compensation).
Else why would all the wealthy people who are in congress ever pass taxes like that? Most liberal/progressives want very high taxes on the other guy. Countries that create more progressive societies do it by taxing EVERYONE at a high level (functionally). Look at the UK,if you make more than 50k USD your marginal tax rate jumps to about 50%. The US doesn't even come close, with people at those levels maybe reaching up to 20%. Hell, it's basically 30% for everyone below that income, which is more than lots of people in the top 10% pay in the US. It's only at the extreme ends of income that the US begins to approach the UK, making us far more progressive in taxation (but functionally without the money to run similar social programs).