The stories premise is that Europeans were the vector for massive death in the Americas due to disease. Thus immediately following the arrival of Europeans, the population of the Americas dropped dramatically, and that is when the forests grew back causing the mini ice age. Over time, the European population grew to a number that the land could be re-deforested.
I have found on my Android that enunciating too clearly can give a lower recognition than enunciating less clearly. The speech recognition is good enough that this is rarely an issue, but if it doesn't understand you the first time, speaking clearer generally isn't the solution.
That seems like a recipe for disaster when it detects you leg as your head and pocket dials the wrong person at the wrong time. Maybe Apple has that figured out. I would just worry that their way of figuring it out is to tell you "You're holding it wrong."(TM)
No, it would be like the Banker deciding to sell property from the bank at a different price than what the card is listed at. The umpires are not their as players. They are there to make sure the rules are followed. Up until this point, we have accepted that they are human, and will sometimes make mistakes. The umpires making mistakes was never in the rules. If umpires make intentional "mistakes", then they are not mistakes. They are cheating. Just as if the banker in a game of Monopoly decides not "accidentally" collect too little money for a property.
I will put in my 2 cents for Brother printers. They are durable, inexpensive, and just work whether you are using Windows, OSX or Linux. Cannon and HP have given me problems. I also have a color Samsung laser printer that seems to be holding up pretty well, although it is used WAY less than the Brother printer I currently own.
And did those police officers arrest the violent attacker? Clearly they know that he had committed a crime. Or did they become accomplices by being an armed intimidating force to prevent anyone else from stopping the crime?
"Native American" is a worse term than "Indian". I am a Native American. I was born here. My parents were born here. Just because my grand parents were not born here doesn't not make me an alien. Claiming the name "Native American" by a group because their genetic line has been on this contenent longer than mine is no better than the stereo type jerk that brags that he is more "American" because his family came over on the Mayflower.
Exactly. The biggest threat to AMD is that ARM chips are being seen as a competitor to x86. If ARM were to capture 10% of the desktop market, AMD would need to really start worrying.
John Stewert does lie. He just does it by 'implying' things. There is a current, and very bad trend of allowing any political statement to pass unquestioned if it is embedded in comedy. The Daily Show is a political commentary that uses (sort of) comedy as a vehicle. It is not a comedy that is using politics as a vehicle. Tone of voice, context, or even a face made at the screen can turn a true statement into a lie by indicating that the meaning of the previous words are the opposite of what was meant. I got tired of The Daily Show a long time ago because it became increasingly preachy, and crossed the line from making fun of the right to being bat shit crazy left. It started taking itself too seriously while still claiming immunity from criticize because "it's was just a joke".
Satire is great. It is important, and it can get a message across. It is also fair to criticize when its claims are wrong, just like any other political speech.
Last I checked, 3 is more than 2. I really don't mean that to sound as snarky as it sounds to me, but 3 really is more than two. I also agree though. The US, and the world have enough resources to do BOTH manned and unmanned space missions.
I recognize the need for a military, but we really don't need one that is at the scale we have now.
Some people call stealing form the bank in Monopoly, "part of the exitement of the game". Some people call it cheating. I would be in the latter group.
You bag touching description is one of rules. They are questions that should be answered before the game ever starts. Claiming that the rules are "subjective" is basically admitting that the sport has just accepted cheating as the status quo. I understand that with limited technology, and the very real situation that humans a falable, accepting that we have to follow the rules as best we can is sometimes the only answer we can give, but (not being a sports fan) I hadn't realized that cheating was officially sanctioned in pro baseball.
Making a patch on the uniform that indicated the position of the knee, shoulder and belt would solve the zone problems trivially. We are talking about improving accuracy in a PROFESSION. A slight uniform change requirement isn't a huge thing to ask, and the claim that being a sloppy dresser should exclude them from accurate judgement is kind of silly. Questions like "What if my shoulders are angled?" or "When is the boundary zone determined?" are rules questions. They should be answered before the game ever starts whether it is a human or a robot making the calls. Anything less is simply cheating? Have these not already been determined in baseball?
You example of tagging the bag. Yes, it would be disruptive. It would be disruptive because the players would have to start following the rules. Not being a sports fan, I can't say whether making the players follow the rules or not is going to improve the game or ruin it, but there have been lots of changes in baseball that have been disruptive in comparison to how it was traditionally played.
I don't know why you don't call a thermostat a robot. In the olden days, people had to feel how cold it was. If it started getting too cold, they had to go over to their heater (generally a fireplace) and manually add fuel to it. Your modern heating system has a sensor that constantly checks how cold it is. If it gets below a certain temperature, it autonomously adds more fuel to it's burner. It is sensing it's environment and autonomously taking physical action in response. Heck, most of them even take the time of day and the day of the week into account when deciding what to do. No, your heater isn't an android that can be passed off as human, but it is certainly a robot.
A uniform requirment that put a patch on the players knee, shoulder and belt would make it trivial for a computerized visual system to determine EXACTLY where the strike zone is.
Seems this is would be one of the few good things that pro sports would bring to society. The fact that kids couldn't get the cameras isn't an issue. Kids also can't get full pro sports stadiums, professional umpires, steroids (Well, OK, some of them can), the quality of equipment, and a host of other features that the pro sports have. That doesn't mean they can't play the game.
As you pointed out, the tech gets cheaper. It gets cheaper fast. If electronic umpires became the norm, you would likely see the price drop to consumer levels really quick. With 9 positions for each side, even $40 a piece could pay for a $360 umpiring system. For all but the most casual of players, the kids will be spending way more than that on playing sports. For the casual games, it wouldn't be out of line to have casual human umpires.
The cost barrier of entry for amateurs is a non-issue.
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The stories premise is that Europeans were the vector for massive death in the Americas due to disease. Thus immediately following the arrival of Europeans, the population of the Americas dropped dramatically, and that is when the forests grew back causing the mini ice age. Over time, the European population grew to a number that the land could be re-deforested.
It is worse than being intellectually lazy. It is being intellectually hostile.
Your post says more about you than it does about people being able to analyze jobs they do not do.
You said that it would activate automatically. If you have to press buttons to get it to work, then it isn't activating automatically.
I have found on my Android that enunciating too clearly can give a lower recognition than enunciating less clearly. The speech recognition is good enough that this is rarely an issue, but if it doesn't understand you the first time, speaking clearer generally isn't the solution.
That seems like a recipe for disaster when it detects you leg as your head and pocket dials the wrong person at the wrong time. Maybe Apple has that figured out. I would just worry that their way of figuring it out is to tell you "You're holding it wrong."(TM)
The iPhone is the first Apple product that could be said to appeal to the mainstream, and it is already losing ground there.
Gotcha. Actually reading the word class makes a big difference when it comes counting.
No, it would be like the Banker deciding to sell property from the bank at a different price than what the card is listed at. The umpires are not their as players. They are there to make sure the rules are followed. Up until this point, we have accepted that they are human, and will sometimes make mistakes. The umpires making mistakes was never in the rules. If umpires make intentional "mistakes", then they are not mistakes. They are cheating. Just as if the banker in a game of Monopoly decides not "accidentally" collect too little money for a property.
I will put in my 2 cents for Brother printers. They are durable, inexpensive, and just work whether you are using Windows, OSX or Linux. Cannon and HP have given me problems. I also have a color Samsung laser printer that seems to be holding up pretty well, although it is used WAY less than the Brother printer I currently own.
I am a Native American. I am not an American Indian.
And did those police officers arrest the violent attacker? Clearly they know that he had committed a crime. Or did they become accomplices by being an armed intimidating force to prevent anyone else from stopping the crime?
"Native American" is a worse term than "Indian". I am a Native American. I was born here. My parents were born here. Just because my grand parents were not born here doesn't not make me an alien. Claiming the name "Native American" by a group because their genetic line has been on this contenent longer than mine is no better than the stereo type jerk that brags that he is more "American" because his family came over on the Mayflower.
True. Do any of the X-Men hide their identities?
No. In non-violent situations stepping is is being a good Samaritan. In violent situation, stepping is is being a Hero.
Exactly. The biggest threat to AMD is that ARM chips are being seen as a competitor to x86. If ARM were to capture 10% of the desktop market, AMD would need to really start worrying.
John Stewert does lie. He just does it by 'implying' things. There is a current, and very bad trend of allowing any political statement to pass unquestioned if it is embedded in comedy. The Daily Show is a political commentary that uses (sort of) comedy as a vehicle. It is not a comedy that is using politics as a vehicle. Tone of voice, context, or even a face made at the screen can turn a true statement into a lie by indicating that the meaning of the previous words are the opposite of what was meant. I got tired of The Daily Show a long time ago because it became increasingly preachy, and crossed the line from making fun of the right to being bat shit crazy left. It started taking itself too seriously while still claiming immunity from criticize because "it's was just a joke".
Satire is great. It is important, and it can get a message across. It is also fair to criticize when its claims are wrong, just like any other political speech.
Last I checked, 3 is more than 2. I really don't mean that to sound as snarky as it sounds to me, but 3 really is more than two. I also agree though. The US, and the world have enough resources to do BOTH manned and unmanned space missions.
I recognize the need for a military, but we really don't need one that is at the scale we have now.
Some people call stealing form the bank in Monopoly, "part of the exitement of the game". Some people call it cheating. I would be in the latter group.
You bag touching description is one of rules. They are questions that should be answered before the game ever starts. Claiming that the rules are "subjective" is basically admitting that the sport has just accepted cheating as the status quo. I understand that with limited technology, and the very real situation that humans a falable, accepting that we have to follow the rules as best we can is sometimes the only answer we can give, but (not being a sports fan) I hadn't realized that cheating was officially sanctioned in pro baseball.
Making a patch on the uniform that indicated the position of the knee, shoulder and belt would solve the zone problems trivially. We are talking about improving accuracy in a PROFESSION. A slight uniform change requirement isn't a huge thing to ask, and the claim that being a sloppy dresser should exclude them from accurate judgement is kind of silly. Questions like "What if my shoulders are angled?" or "When is the boundary zone determined?" are rules questions. They should be answered before the game ever starts whether it is a human or a robot making the calls. Anything less is simply cheating? Have these not already been determined in baseball?
You example of tagging the bag. Yes, it would be disruptive. It would be disruptive because the players would have to start following the rules. Not being a sports fan, I can't say whether making the players follow the rules or not is going to improve the game or ruin it, but there have been lots of changes in baseball that have been disruptive in comparison to how it was traditionally played.
I don't know why you don't call a thermostat a robot. In the olden days, people had to feel how cold it was. If it started getting too cold, they had to go over to their heater (generally a fireplace) and manually add fuel to it. Your modern heating system has a sensor that constantly checks how cold it is. If it gets below a certain temperature, it autonomously adds more fuel to it's burner. It is sensing it's environment and autonomously taking physical action in response. Heck, most of them even take the time of day and the day of the week into account when deciding what to do. No, your heater isn't an android that can be passed off as human, but it is certainly a robot.
A uniform requirment that put a patch on the players knee, shoulder and belt would make it trivial for a computerized visual system to determine EXACTLY where the strike zone is.
A shoulder patch and a knee patch with a marker in the ball, and a strike zone would be trivial to determine electronically.
Seems this is would be one of the few good things that pro sports would bring to society. The fact that kids couldn't get the cameras isn't an issue. Kids also can't get full pro sports stadiums, professional umpires, steroids (Well, OK, some of them can), the quality of equipment, and a host of other features that the pro sports have. That doesn't mean they can't play the game.
As you pointed out, the tech gets cheaper. It gets cheaper fast. If electronic umpires became the norm, you would likely see the price drop to consumer levels really quick. With 9 positions for each side, even $40 a piece could pay for a $360 umpiring system. For all but the most casual of players, the kids will be spending way more than that on playing sports. For the casual games, it wouldn't be out of line to have casual human umpires.
The cost barrier of entry for amateurs is a non-issue.