It seems to me that unless one is very wealthy, it would be in their best interest not to further the research and construction of these robots. Which is a shame, because this stuff is pretty cool.
This isn't a new problem of course; I suppose similar issues were being discussed whenever significant productivity increasing machines were invented.
I doubt anyone really cares how Blizzard does the merges as long as players don't have to rename their characters (which they accomplished by appending realm names) and performance doesn't suffer noticably. I sure don't, and I would probably be considered hardcore by many casual gamers.
Will switching to Macs solve the problem though? I was under the impression that Apple supports old OS X versions for a shorter period than Microsoft supports old versions of Windows. Snow Leopard was released in 2009, XP SP3 in 2008. According to Wikipedia Snow Leopard isn't supported anymore, let alone anything released in 2001 when XP first came out.
With a libre software solution you would have the option to pay someone to backport security fixes so you could run the current versions for a long time, but I guess this would be too expensive to do properly.
Why would the deaths be any different than they currently are? Fewer and fewer babies born each year for whatever reasons would lead to our extinction. Violence isn't necessary nor desirable.
I apologize for being probably very unclear. My thoughts aren't very clear even to myself due to a high fever, but a nice, gentle pop out of existence is what I was thinking of last night when I felt I would be ok with it.
I've usually considered myself a caring person. Reading these discussions has made me reconsider that view, because many posters seem to express actual concern over the future of humans, and whether our species will still be around many thousands, even millions of years from now.
But me, I don't seem to care. I certainly don't wish to expedite the process by harming any fellow humans, but if our species was to go extinct in the relatively near future even (hundreds of years), I would be ok with it. Species go extinct all the time. If we don't get to spread all over the galaxy, that's fine too. We aren't any more or less important than other species. (Or maybe I feel that way merely because my sense of self-worth is very low.)
I admit I don't know almost anything on this subject, but would this non-amounting-to-anything necessarily lead to people being unhappy? If not, why does it matter if the society isn't going anywhere?
Every time I start my windows laptop, I want to groan: wait . . . wait . . . wait, while windows makes long series of updates. When I want to shut down it's the same thing.
So you only use the computer on the second Tuesday of each month?:-)
Serious question: Why don't you become the new maintainer yourself, if you honestly believe you can do a significantly better job at it than the current person(s)?
I don't do it myself because I can not guarantee that I wouldn't make even worse mistakes. I'm glad there are people out there who are willing to do the job, and I'm in no position to bite their heads off when they mess it up. And you're probably glad that I'm not a maintainer of anything even remotely security-related:-)
How does your post help the submitter? Your post and now mine aren't any more helpful than those you call unhelpful drivel.
I use both Windows and Debian GNU/Linux. Both work fine for me. There are nice and not-so-nice people in both Windows and Linux communities. The niceness of the community doesn't have anything to do with technical superiority or inferiority of the operating systems (or kernels if you will).
Nice story, sounds quite familiar. Nowadays it's so easy to find tools and applications for almost anything that I usually don't feel the need to code stuff (I did it professionally for a while but I'm back to being a hobbyist coder). I wonder if I'm just not that interested in programming any more, or whether it's because I haven't had an itch to scratch in a while.
It's hard and really annoying to read conversations on Twitter. And the character limit means that people have to break their messages into several tweets, which again makes following the conversation harder.
There is no need to covertly adbicate responsibility, when it's spelled out clearly in every license I've ever read that the developers take no responsibility whatsoever.
I see. I wonder what benefits Chase sees in the system; it seems to me that security-wise there is a downside in using login usernames for payment addressing. I'm not familiar enough with US banking to figure out the upsides, but most probably the system will lower costs somehow.
Password reset process maybe, but wouldn't creating an account (in the online banking sense, not a bank account) require a visit to the branch in person? That's what I remember doing quite a few years ago when I started doing banking online. Money transfers use IBANs or a similar system of account numbers, which are separate from login usernames.
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It seems to me that unless one is very wealthy, it would be in their best interest not to further the research and construction of these robots. Which is a shame, because this stuff is pretty cool.
This isn't a new problem of course; I suppose similar issues were being discussed whenever significant productivity increasing machines were invented.
Anyone who thinks suing (and winning) for this is even remotely okay is anti-freedom.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Shouldn't an offended* party be allowed the opportunity to settle their grievances in a court of law?
(* even if the offense seems really minor or imaginary to impartial observers)
I doubt anyone really cares how Blizzard does the merges as long as players don't have to rename their characters (which they accomplished by appending realm names) and performance doesn't suffer noticably. I sure don't, and I would probably be considered hardcore by many casual gamers.
Will switching to Macs solve the problem though? I was under the impression that Apple supports old OS X versions for a shorter period than Microsoft supports old versions of Windows. Snow Leopard was released in 2009, XP SP3 in 2008. According to Wikipedia Snow Leopard isn't supported anymore, let alone anything released in 2001 when XP first came out.
With a libre software solution you would have the option to pay someone to backport security fixes so you could run the current versions for a long time, but I guess this would be too expensive to do properly.
From the Fisher-Price Windows XP to the poker-machine-look-a-like Windows 8 :-)
If you can read this, posting works without Javascript.
Why would the deaths be any different than they currently are? Fewer and fewer babies born each year for whatever reasons would lead to our extinction. Violence isn't necessary nor desirable.
I apologize for being probably very unclear. My thoughts aren't very clear even to myself due to a high fever, but a nice, gentle pop out of existence is what I was thinking of last night when I felt I would be ok with it.
I've usually considered myself a caring person. Reading these discussions has made me reconsider that view, because many posters seem to express actual concern over the future of humans, and whether our species will still be around many thousands, even millions of years from now.
But me, I don't seem to care. I certainly don't wish to expedite the process by harming any fellow humans, but if our species was to go extinct in the relatively near future even (hundreds of years), I would be ok with it. Species go extinct all the time. If we don't get to spread all over the galaxy, that's fine too. We aren't any more or less important than other species. (Or maybe I feel that way merely because my sense of self-worth is very low.)
I admit I don't know almost anything on this subject, but would this non-amounting-to-anything necessarily lead to people being unhappy? If not, why does it matter if the society isn't going anywhere?
It has the best gui.
I recall it being ridiculed as a Fisher Price GUI when it was new. Windows 8 will probably also be remembered as the Best Windows GUI Ever one day. :-)
So people do still buy phones to make calls? I thought it was all about the "smart" stuff nowadays. Or was that the actual joke? :)
I found the parent's explanation useful and read it in a teacher-like calm tone in my head. What made you think the poster is autistic or was enraged?
Every time I start my windows laptop, I want to groan: wait . . . wait . . . wait, while windows makes long series of updates. When I want to shut down it's the same thing.
So you only use the computer on the second Tuesday of each month? :-)
Exactly. See this site for more information on enterprise-level quality :-)
Serious question: Why don't you become the new maintainer yourself, if you honestly believe you can do a significantly better job at it than the current person(s)?
I don't do it myself because I can not guarantee that I wouldn't make even worse mistakes. I'm glad there are people out there who are willing to do the job, and I'm in no position to bite their heads off when they mess it up. And you're probably glad that I'm not a maintainer of anything even remotely security-related :-)
If I only hear it spoken the spelling may be off. I read a lot so more often I only see it spelled and the pronunciation is off.
That's a bug in the English language :-)
How does your post help the submitter? Your post and now mine aren't any more helpful than those you call unhelpful drivel.
I use both Windows and Debian GNU/Linux. Both work fine for me. There are nice and not-so-nice people in both Windows and Linux communities. The niceness of the community doesn't have anything to do with technical superiority or inferiority of the operating systems (or kernels if you will).
Luckily there are enough offline games to last a lifetime.
Nice story, sounds quite familiar. Nowadays it's so easy to find tools and applications for almost anything that I usually don't feel the need to code stuff (I did it professionally for a while but I'm back to being a hobbyist coder). I wonder if I'm just not that interested in programming any more, or whether it's because I haven't had an itch to scratch in a while.
It's hard and really annoying to read conversations on Twitter. And the character limit means that people have to break their messages into several tweets, which again makes following the conversation harder.
There is no need to covertly adbicate responsibility, when it's spelled out clearly in every license I've ever read that the developers take no responsibility whatsoever.
They work exactly like the developers in question want.
I see. I wonder what benefits Chase sees in the system; it seems to me that security-wise there is a downside in using login usernames for payment addressing. I'm not familiar enough with US banking to figure out the upsides, but most probably the system will lower costs somehow.
Password reset process maybe, but wouldn't creating an account (in the online banking sense, not a bank account) require a visit to the branch in person? That's what I remember doing quite a few years ago when I started doing banking online. Money transfers use IBANs or a similar system of account numbers, which are separate from login usernames.
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