Right - like the war in 1948 where Arabs were massacred or ethnic-cleansed out of their villages... that wasn't aggressive.
Also some were just terrified of what the Israeli military might do and fled. However, when it looked safe to go back to their homes, they discovered that they were not allowed to return. Israel has always had a problem which is that it wants to be both a Jewish state, but also a democracy. The only way you can really do that is by ensuring that the majority of people in that state are Jewish. This is why the Palestinians were not allowed to return. It also explains why so many of the Holocaust Jews ended up in Israel. Many of them didn't want to go an live in some Middle Eastern desert. They were Europeans and would much have preferred to go to the US, Canada or perhaps some other European country. They were being deliberately channelled into Palestine to build up the numbers.
As I understand it, solid state drives will have zero seek time (since their is no physical head that has to be moved). In contrast with a HDD you have a mechanical arm that has to whiz about all over the place, sometimes short distances, sometimes longer distances. As a result of this, lots of things are designed to minimize accessing data that's far apart on hard drives, particularly in applications like databases. It sounds like SSD drives with their zero seek times could simplify a lot of software and various design issues.
It's far from a perfect system, but it's still the best we have.
The UN is really a complete affront to democracy. It's effectively a five country dictatorship. You have 5 countries which can veto the will of all the world's countries and they can never be removed from their position on the Security Council. They can also veto the appointment of a UN Secretary General, even if the rest of the world wants that person for the role. It's amazing really that the media do not direct their attention at the UN's completely undemocratic structure rather than just its operational failures (which often stem from that structure).
I mean, what's more outrageous. That some UN officials have been corrupt in the past or that the organisation is itself a dictatorship?
Yes, the distinction that they are probably trying to make is that between procedural or algorithmic content generation and the more common situation where content is created individually by artists.
Yeah, that would be something interesting to talk about. Whoever wrote the article probably isn't the man to do it though. Did you ever play Kreiger? http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger#20 They managed to cram a 3D first person shooter into 96k. It relies heavily on procedurally generated content.
it's just that the universe isn't very conducive to producing life-bearing planets.
I'm not sure you can really say that, given that current detection methods are really suited to finding larger planets that are not so suitable for life. What we have is an observational selection effect.
Coincidentally this comes at the same time as the Afghan people unveil the new Robo-Civilian-3000. With UN reports showing that NATO are killing more civilians than the Taliban, mostly in air-strikes, something had to be done.
Ahmed Abdullah is one of the first to receive Robo-Civilian-3000 units to replace his family. He had this to say.
"It's just so much safer for us now with these robots. Our robot selves can be in our house making sure no-one steals our stuff, but at the same time if NATO bombs the whole village without warning to kill some suspected Taliban, none of us are hurt. Also, on the occasions that soldiers would risk coming in on the ground, we still had the situation where they would just toss grenades into our houses. No we don't even have to worry about that. These robots truly are a godsend!"
New Zealanders should use their votes to oppose this. Let it be know that you will not vote for people who pass this sort of nonsense. At least in New Zealand your votes count for something. Here in the UK we don't have Proportional Representation and my vote (like hundreds of thousands of others) goes straight down the loo.
That great unbiased news service you have found on line isn't unbiased. It just shares your bias.
Bias can be a strange and nebulous thing though. For example, the practical definition of impartiality in the media seems to be relying on official sources for everything. Questioning and challenging official sources is often taken to be left-wing and biased.
In fact pretty much any challenge to authority seems to be regarded that way.
Hand in hand with bias comes the artificial notion of "balance". The problem is, things very often aren't balanced in reality, so balancing them in a report becomes quite misleading. For example, 98% of Epidemiologists might support the Lancet Report, but a news channel will be happy to dig up the one or two people who do not support it. It can give a very distorted view of things.
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You need to invite strangers to your house while you are playing, who will annoyingly hang around the machine hoping for a free go.
I seem to remember that part of the plot was based on the "seed". Instead of relying on a feed and a "microwave oven" device, you were free to just plant a seed that would grow into what you wanted.
Maybe the government should say "If you keep lobbying and pestering everyone, we are going to look at reducing the current 50 year term. ". That will shut them up.
I have a feeling these things might not be so good. I mean, it's probably going to be quite slow to fire. You won't be able to blast off loads of shots like in Star Wars. It will be more like a Musket being frantically reloaded while dozens of artillery shells are on the way.
..there is no domestic European camera industry to protect? As they say in the article, all the cameras are manufactured outside Europe. The purpose of tariff barriers is to protect domestic industry (or so I thought).
Back in the 70s the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology had plans for an "Acoustic Cat". The plan was to surgically alter it, insert batteries and turn its tail into an aerial. It was apparently run over by a taxi before it could be trained for its mission.
No, of course not. That would be just as bad. The point is that no one person should have so much power to push their views on the people. It's better to have lots of different people speaking their own mind.
I don't know about the impact of MySpace, but the biggest disruption of established media has been with the news. People are no longer confined to just a few news channels and papers owned by just a handful of people. Things that were possible before, such as D-Notices (where the UK media are blocked from reporting something by the government) are now quite ineffective. However, Murdoch and the big outlets do have a big web presence and we should avoid them like the plague.
Using the UK Freedom of Information act, it has recently emerged that Tony Blair had 3 telephone conversations with Rupert Murdoch in the 10 days leading up to the invasion of Iraq. No doubt he wanted to know how much support he would get. War sells papers and increases viewing figures, so it would not have been a good business decision for Murdoch to oppose the war. Do you really want to sit there passively consuming Rupert Murdoch's political views, channelled though different newsreaders and outlets? We should be avoiding Murdoch's empire as much as possible. It's not healthy for so much of the media to be owned by so few people. Fortunately the net makes it easy to hunt around and find more independent outlets.
If anyone is interested, the FOI request was made by Lord Avebury and it took him a long time to get the information released.
One researcher predicts it will be five to seven years before only the "die-hard" desktop users are left.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not too keen on using a microscope and optical tweezers every time I want to upgrade my PC. Everything is too small and packed in too tightly in Notebooks. Another issue is that with a PC you can easily upgrade your monitor and perhaps sell the old one. With a Notebook you are stuck with the one it came with. A lot of the time we have so much paraphernalia around our PCs, like graphics tablets, USB hard drives etc that portable PCs aren't so portable anyway.
"NATO commanders are not stupid. They realize that dropping a few thousand pound bombs into the village center is a really shitty way to get the locals on your side."
It hasn't stopped them so far.
"Civilian casualties never do anything good for your cause."
That depends on what your cause is. If your aim is collective punishment which many people believe was the case with Fallujah, then it does make sense. Another example is that one of the NATO officials during the Serbian bombing said that the goal was to create hell for the people so they would overthrow Milosevic.
A soldier that doesn't sleep and doesn't care if it dies is a soldier that can go out of its way to avoid civilian casualties.
But if that soldier is also rather expensive, they might prefer to have some civilians killed rather than risk losing the unit. I think with robots the potential is there to reduce civilian casualties if they are used correctly, but I have my doubts they would be. For one thing, if Robots do the fighting, there will be less of a resistance in going to war in the first place. Military deaths are often the cause of ending wars, e.g. Vietnam.
The problem is, at the moment there is a policy of sacrificing civilians in order to keep military casualties low. This is most evident in Afghanistan. Sending men in on the ground is safer for the civilians but bombing the whole village from the air is safer for the soldiers. I think this establishes a general level of contempt for foreign civilians which is not likely to change with the introduction of robots. As a general rule, if the public don't care too much about something (which sadly they don't seem to about foreign civilian deaths) the government won't mind doing it.
If anyone does complain about civilians being killed by robots, the military would just fall back on the same tired old excuse that it was the "terrorists" fault for hiding among the civilians. This excuse would never wash if the same strategy was applied in a western country of course.
You can exert mechanical pressure but the real air pressure inside the suit is going to be zero. That means water is going to boil off. Presumably they have considered that issue.
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Also some were just terrified of what the Israeli military might do and fled. However, when it looked safe to go back to their homes, they discovered that they were not allowed to return. Israel has always had a problem which is that it wants to be both a Jewish state, but also a democracy. The only way you can really do that is by ensuring that the majority of people in that state are Jewish. This is why the Palestinians were not allowed to return. It also explains why so many of the Holocaust Jews ended up in Israel. Many of them didn't want to go an live in some Middle Eastern desert. They were Europeans and would much have preferred to go to the US, Canada or perhaps some other European country. They were being deliberately channelled into Palestine to build up the numbers.
As I understand it, solid state drives will have zero seek time (since their is no physical head that has to be moved). In contrast with a HDD you have a mechanical arm that has to whiz about all over the place, sometimes short distances, sometimes longer distances. As a result of this, lots of things are designed to minimize accessing data that's far apart on hard drives, particularly in applications like databases. It sounds like SSD drives with their zero seek times could simplify a lot of software and various design issues.
The UN is really a complete affront to democracy. It's effectively a five country dictatorship. You have 5 countries which can veto the will of all the world's countries and they can never be removed from their position on the Security Council. They can also veto the appointment of a UN Secretary General, even if the rest of the world wants that person for the role. It's amazing really that the media do not direct their attention at the UN's completely undemocratic structure rather than just its operational failures (which often stem from that structure).
I mean, what's more outrageous. That some UN officials have been corrupt in the past or that the organisation is itself a dictatorship?
To rig this technology up to George Bush's autocue? That would be fun :)
Yeah, that would be something interesting to talk about. Whoever wrote the article probably isn't the man to do it though. Did you ever play Kreiger? http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger#20 They managed to cram a 3D first person shooter into 96k. It relies heavily on procedurally generated content.
I really feel like the person who wrote the article doesn't know what he is talking about.
I'm not sure you can really say that, given that current detection methods are really suited to finding larger planets that are not so suitable for life. What we have is an observational selection effect.
Coincidentally this comes at the same time as the Afghan people unveil the new Robo-Civilian-3000. With UN reports showing that NATO are killing more civilians than the Taliban, mostly in air-strikes, something had to be done.
Ahmed Abdullah is one of the first to receive Robo-Civilian-3000 units to replace his family. He had this to say.
"It's just so much safer for us now with these robots. Our robot selves can be in our house making sure no-one steals our stuff, but at the same time if NATO bombs the whole village without warning to kill some suspected Taliban, none of us are hurt. Also, on the occasions that soldiers would risk coming in on the ground, we still had the situation where they would just toss grenades into our houses. No we don't even have to worry about that. These robots truly are a godsend!"
New Zealanders should use their votes to oppose this. Let it be know that you will not vote for people who pass this sort of nonsense. At least in New Zealand your votes count for something. Here in the UK we don't have Proportional Representation and my vote (like hundreds of thousands of others) goes straight down the loo.
Bias can be a strange and nebulous thing though. For example, the practical definition of impartiality in the media seems to be relying on official sources for everything. Questioning and challenging official sources is often taken to be left-wing and biased. In fact pretty much any challenge to authority seems to be regarded that way.
Hand in hand with bias comes the artificial notion of "balance". The problem is, things very often aren't balanced in reality, so balancing them in a report becomes quite misleading. For example, 98% of Epidemiologists might support the Lancet Report, but a news channel will be happy to dig up the one or two people who do not support it. It can give a very distorted view of things.
You need to invite strangers to your house while you are playing, who will annoyingly hang around the machine hoping for a free go.
I seem to remember that part of the plot was based on the "seed". Instead of relying on a feed and a "microwave oven" device, you were free to just plant a seed that would grow into what you wanted.
Maybe the government should say "If you keep lobbying and pestering everyone, we are going to look at reducing the current 50 year term. ". That will shut them up.
I have a feeling these things might not be so good. I mean, it's probably going to be quite slow to fire. You won't be able to blast off loads of shots like in Star Wars. It will be more like a Musket being frantically reloaded while dozens of artillery shells are on the way.
It's one of the few times I actually believe what a military spokesman says
Of course, this is exactly the kind of protectionism that the IMF demands developing countries abandon.
..there is no domestic European camera industry to protect? As they say in the article, all the cameras are manufactured outside Europe. The purpose of tariff barriers is to protect domestic industry (or so I thought).
Back in the 70s the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology had plans for an "Acoustic Cat". The plan was to surgically alter it, insert batteries and turn its tail into an aerial. It was apparently run over by a taxi before it could be trained for its mission.
No, of course not. That would be just as bad. The point is that no one person should have so much power to push their views on the people. It's better to have lots of different people speaking their own mind.
I don't know about the impact of MySpace, but the biggest disruption of established media has been with the news. People are no longer confined to just a few news channels and papers owned by just a handful of people. Things that were possible before, such as D-Notices (where the UK media are blocked from reporting something by the government) are now quite ineffective. However, Murdoch and the big outlets do have a big web presence and we should avoid them like the plague.
Using the UK Freedom of Information act, it has recently emerged that Tony Blair had 3 telephone conversations with Rupert Murdoch in the 10 days leading up to the invasion of Iraq. No doubt he wanted to know how much support he would get. War sells papers and increases viewing figures, so it would not have been a good business decision for Murdoch to oppose the war. Do you really want to sit there passively consuming Rupert Murdoch's political views, channelled though different newsreaders and outlets? We should be avoiding Murdoch's empire as much as possible. It's not healthy for so much of the media to be owned by so few people. Fortunately the net makes it easy to hunt around and find more independent outlets.
If anyone is interested, the FOI request was made by Lord Avebury and it took him a long time to get the information released.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not too keen on using a microscope and optical tweezers every time I want to upgrade my PC. Everything is too small and packed in too tightly in Notebooks. Another issue is that with a PC you can easily upgrade your monitor and perhaps sell the old one. With a Notebook you are stuck with the one it came with. A lot of the time we have so much paraphernalia around our PCs, like graphics tablets, USB hard drives etc that portable PCs aren't so portable anyway.
Ignoring police software may open up a hole that other keyloggers can use.
It hasn't stopped them so far.
"Civilian casualties never do anything good for your cause."
That depends on what your cause is. If your aim is collective punishment which many people believe was the case with Fallujah, then it does make sense. Another example is that one of the NATO officials during the Serbian bombing said that the goal was to create hell for the people so they would overthrow Milosevic.
A soldier that doesn't sleep and doesn't care if it dies is a soldier that can go out of its way to avoid civilian casualties.
But if that soldier is also rather expensive, they might prefer to have some civilians killed rather than risk losing the unit. I think with robots the potential is there to reduce civilian casualties if they are used correctly, but I have my doubts they would be. For one thing, if Robots do the fighting, there will be less of a resistance in going to war in the first place. Military deaths are often the cause of ending wars, e.g. Vietnam.
The problem is, at the moment there is a policy of sacrificing civilians in order to keep military casualties low. This is most evident in Afghanistan. Sending men in on the ground is safer for the civilians but bombing the whole village from the air is safer for the soldiers. I think this establishes a general level of contempt for foreign civilians which is not likely to change with the introduction of robots. As a general rule, if the public don't care too much about something (which sadly they don't seem to about foreign civilian deaths) the government won't mind doing it.
If anyone does complain about civilians being killed by robots, the military would just fall back on the same tired old excuse that it was the "terrorists" fault for hiding among the civilians. This excuse would never wash if the same strategy was applied in a western country of course.
You can exert mechanical pressure but the real air pressure inside the suit is going to be zero. That means water is going to boil off. Presumably they have considered that issue.