While partly true, humans have still been evolving even despite modern medicine. Contrary to the movie idiocracy, The average human IQ is in fact going up every generation. Roughly every decade the average IQ goes up 3 points, this is known as the Flynn effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Not to mention with pathfinder, pretty much everything is SRD, the monster stats, the rules, wealth by level, virtually everything you would want or need to run a game. (3.5 did this for the most part, but intentionally left major omissions such as wealth by level, experience tables and pretty much everything that was added in the suppliments after the fact). You can pretty much run a pathfinder game straight from the information at d20pfsrd.com
That is great and fully possible except for one huge flaw, the device has to be logged into that cloud provider, which makes it still equally easy to delete it from the cloud on that device. Many police stations give their officers lessons on how to delete photos/video from a phone, if that became a more common practice, they would add lessons on how to delete from cloud apps.
Not to mention the fact that the majority of the companies who have been granted this government sanctioned monopoly are not exclusively ISP's, their main form of business is generally CableTV. IE if their traffic shapings side effect is that they harm independent movie startups, or larger content providers that may compete with cableTV (Netflix, Hulu, Youtube etc...) That not only isn't a drawback for them, it is an added bonus. The conflict of interest between being an ISP and being a media provider is growing larger every day. The fact that these companies have the legal rights to prevent ISPs outside of their circle from starting up, is the greater issue. Free market isn't a bad thing with the philosophy that if one company screws it's customers over, a new one will rise up to fill the need. When the main companies have the right to prevent new companies from arising, then "let the free market take care of it" is off the table.
Well yeah, that is kind of a given around the country, or probably the world. In almost every scenerio I would imagine the self driving cars will outperform real drivers, but the first major accident will lead to a large amount of controversy where people are judging are these things safe on the road, even if their miles/accident ratio is 1/100th of a humans. I suppose that is humans natural inclination to prefer when faced with risks, a statistical 5% chance of killing themselves from their own fault, over a.0001% chance of killing themselves from something they can't control. Same reason why many are afraid to fly, but are perfectly fine driving. or despite statistics repeatedly confirming that people are far more likely to accidentally shoot themselves, than they are to successfully thwart an intruder, many people feel safer with a gun near their bed.
The only 2 companies with the money and the level of disconnect to directly initiate fights in this war are more or less apple and Microsoft. In general other then those 2 companies (and a bit of sony, but that's small potatoes by comparison) the companies that were actually making phones before the smartphone patent war mess, in general wanted to avoid a patent war and actually try to win by making a better phone. Heck if I recall at one point it was more or less a cease fire before microsoft made 2 anouncements within 2 hours of eachother. Anouncement 1: Microsoft will cover legal fees for windows phones if a patent suit arises, and a few hours later, microsoft anounced the start of their suing people making android manufactures in the start of the lawsuits that lead to the $15 payment for every android that sells.
I think the suspicion is more or less that it is a worthless gesture. We will make a legal contract to make it take us 2 steps to do an evil act instead of 1. Personally I don't think they've done or are planning on doing anything evil, I just find the gesture meaningless and silly. Requiring permission from their own employee who created the technology essentially means they need to get permission from themselves. It's like the president of the united states, making a bill requiring a vote of his personal cabinet before he can launch a nuke, Sure it adds an extra step, and it dosn't mean he's planning on attacking anyone, it's just a strange gesture that in no way makes a visible difference on what he can/will do.
Sounds about right, They felt the system failed them last time, because major webpages actually told the public what was being planned. The goal the next round is going to be to figure out how to slip it in without anyone who actually understands it getting a voice. It still cracks me up how with SOPA, the most common statement from the congressmen making the decision was "I'm not a computer nerd, so I don't understand how this works at all", that part was what the **AA's considered, the process as intended. The companies and people who were effected by it speaking up and making sure that the ramifications of it were understood, that was an "abuse of power".
What exactly can't the chinese do for a fraction of the cost of us. Think of and plan the ideas is a 1 time task that is a very short term responsibility and in general does not need a huge labor force. Actually doing anything is solidly in chinas favor, what physical task can 1 american do, that can't be done by 9 chinese people. (as the estimated pay of a foxcon worker per day is considerably less then american minimum hourly wage). In the end the only options are to greatly disallow the development of things overseas, or find a way to force the payment of installation costs to be higher.
Not only that, but even when the companies realize they were hacked, they are also very likely to cover it up instead of anounce they had a breech. When anouncing the crime is harmful to both the criminal, and the holders of the evidence, things tend to not be reported.
It does very much, what is worse though, there's hundreds of factions you can join and every one of those factions tells you that all the other factions has a crappy ending except theirs. Unfortunately once you reach the end you get permabanned and are forbidden from making a new character... Unless the bhuddist faction is right, then you just make a new character, but are forbidden from telling anyone what your previous character was and restart just as if it was a new character.
I would say she would probably be most known for her role in Dr Horrible, Though yeah little appearences on random fantasy/sci-fi near their death's also (buffy, eureka, supernatural etc...)
More or less because the worlds in minecraft are generated uniquely on each server, and I do believe endless on any direction, the further out you explore, the more resources you are using on the server, ad infinium. Unlike a normal game where you have say 8 GB of a map that is permanantly cached, minecraft may have less detail per inch, but it essentially can have infinate space.
Indeed all of the actual holes that were exploited on 9/11 were pretty much patched very early. The main holes being 1. Policies saying let hijackers do whatever they want, wait till they land to have them arrested. 2. the cockpit doors being weak. Even if the underware and shoebomber both succeeded (both of which succesfully being thwarted without the super overintrusive new TSA rules), air travel as a whole still has less total risks than driving to the airport. In the end soceity has to realize that to some extent we have to ballance control of horrible deaths. I would imagine there are far more ways that people die that could be prevented if we applied anywhere near the money we put into TSA post 9/11 than we saved in reality. There are no shortage of underfunded disaster control, rescue, fire departments, starving homeless etc... We also could improve the quality of life by putting things into schools, or encorage more science by funding NASA etc... Decisions inspired by sudden knee jerk fear are rarely good ones and often we forget the scale of what we are fighting against is actually very small.
I'd disagree with that statement, ads generate revenue, but the search is why people actually use it. That's like saying every other company's main business is money. Yes their objective and means of making a profit is finding a way to show you an add or make you click them. Just like microsoft and apples main goal is to get you to hand them money directly. That doesn't change the result of many things.
What I think would be interesting, in general when most people think (feel?) only half of the time are they right. Just like in countless experiments, people who swear up and down that bottled water tastes far better than tap water, almost all of them fail to detect it in a blind taste test. Out of curriosity have you ever tried a blind test. Take 10 or 15 songs or so, put then in 96 kHz and 48kHz, and have someone else play them without telling you which one they are playing. Find out if it really sounds better, or if your mind is expecting it to be better, and thus makes it better.
It actually is the goal, but society kind of failed the majority of the world in the process. 100 years ago the prediction was we'll reduce the labor and then everyone will work shorter work days, if 100 years ago they knew the grade of technology they probably would have expected everyone to be working 6 hour work days for roughly the same equivelent payscale that was back then, rather than having unemployment edging towards 10%.
Highly unlikely that they are the only copy, knowing sony they are probably behind the times, and thus have copies on CD's for the executives to listen to, and no matter how good a hacker is... destroying CDs remotely is not an easy feat.
The point is there are dozens of other reasons why google search results are absolutely no indication of actual crashes. I'm sure there are bugs that thousands have had but few reported, and crashes that only a handful of people have had, but posted to 15 different places to find a solution. Timeframe is just one of dozens of variables that are examples of why search engine hits is a lousy indicator of actual events.
That has to be the worse possible way to calculate out crashes. So many random things you can assert from search results. 1. IE users are more likely to fork over $150 to geek squad, before posting on a forum or anywhere google can index. 2. places they post to are less likely to be indexed. or 3. They are so used to crashes they don't even bother to talk about them. Let me try this game
windows.me.crashes -> 45,900,000
windows.7.crashes - > 50,600,000
macos.crashes -> 42,500,000
There we have it, scientific proof that windows ME is more stable than windows 7.
Depends, good enough or best is your goal. If you are working on a spreadsheet is a tablet better or worse? What percentage of people use features that google docs or openoffice couldn't handle? Converting to something that is only slightly worse, is not usually a step in the right direction for anyone.
I'm actually currious how long or if the tablet concept can hold up. They are great for reading, great for reviewing on the go, but I don't see any real advantage for creating content. Sure you can get a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and work almost as comfortably as on a laptop with a wireless mouse, for almost as much space and twice the price of a laptop... but really what's the advantage. I just can't see anyone sanely working on advanced photo editing or spread sheet writing etc... on a tablet.
You are quite right, Vista really is windows 7 pre-alpha that was released to the public due to massive overshooting of the balmer peak http://xkcd.com/323/ and then continous attempts to fix it before the damage was severe and they had to actually just finish the product and release it.
What capital or incentives can google throw? They did launch with several features that facebook lacked (or at least had buried so deep they may as well have lacked them for all practical purposes). The problem... google isn't a patent troll, virtually every feature they focused on, was mimiced by facebook within days. I do have to say though google's hangouts are extremely useful, 5 person video chats works wonders for my D&D games.
Actually i think the myspace stagnation isn't quite as true as people think. Facebook overtook myspace, because they competed in a different arena and gathered a different crowd. Facebook timed it so that they didn't have to focus on converting myspace's X million users, they grabbed a few million people that did not use social networking and pulled them in first, then once facebooks userbase outgrew myspace, then they got people to switch.
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While partly true, humans have still been evolving even despite modern medicine. Contrary to the movie idiocracy, The average human IQ is in fact going up every generation. Roughly every decade the average IQ goes up 3 points, this is known as the Flynn effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Not to mention with pathfinder, pretty much everything is SRD, the monster stats, the rules, wealth by level, virtually everything you would want or need to run a game. (3.5 did this for the most part, but intentionally left major omissions such as wealth by level, experience tables and pretty much everything that was added in the suppliments after the fact). You can pretty much run a pathfinder game straight from the information at d20pfsrd.com
That is great and fully possible except for one huge flaw, the device has to be logged into that cloud provider, which makes it still equally easy to delete it from the cloud on that device. Many police stations give their officers lessons on how to delete photos/video from a phone, if that became a more common practice, they would add lessons on how to delete from cloud apps.
Not to mention the fact that the majority of the companies who have been granted this government sanctioned monopoly are not exclusively ISP's, their main form of business is generally CableTV. IE if their traffic shapings side effect is that they harm independent movie startups, or larger content providers that may compete with cableTV (Netflix, Hulu, Youtube etc...) That not only isn't a drawback for them, it is an added bonus. The conflict of interest between being an ISP and being a media provider is growing larger every day. The fact that these companies have the legal rights to prevent ISPs outside of their circle from starting up, is the greater issue. Free market isn't a bad thing with the philosophy that if one company screws it's customers over, a new one will rise up to fill the need. When the main companies have the right to prevent new companies from arising, then "let the free market take care of it" is off the table.
Well yeah, that is kind of a given around the country, or probably the world. In almost every scenerio I would imagine the self driving cars will outperform real drivers, but the first major accident will lead to a large amount of controversy where people are judging are these things safe on the road, even if their miles/accident ratio is 1/100th of a humans. I suppose that is humans natural inclination to prefer when faced with risks, a statistical 5% chance of killing themselves from their own fault, over a .0001% chance of killing themselves from something they can't control. Same reason why many are afraid to fly, but are perfectly fine driving. or despite statistics repeatedly confirming that people are far more likely to accidentally shoot themselves, than they are to successfully thwart an intruder, many people feel safer with a gun near their bed.
The only 2 companies with the money and the level of disconnect to directly initiate fights in this war are more or less apple and Microsoft. In general other then those 2 companies (and a bit of sony, but that's small potatoes by comparison) the companies that were actually making phones before the smartphone patent war mess, in general wanted to avoid a patent war and actually try to win by making a better phone. Heck if I recall at one point it was more or less a cease fire before microsoft made 2 anouncements within 2 hours of eachother. Anouncement 1: Microsoft will cover legal fees for windows phones if a patent suit arises, and a few hours later, microsoft anounced the start of their suing people making android manufactures in the start of the lawsuits that lead to the $15 payment for every android that sells.
I think the suspicion is more or less that it is a worthless gesture. We will make a legal contract to make it take us 2 steps to do an evil act instead of 1. Personally I don't think they've done or are planning on doing anything evil, I just find the gesture meaningless and silly. Requiring permission from their own employee who created the technology essentially means they need to get permission from themselves. It's like the president of the united states, making a bill requiring a vote of his personal cabinet before he can launch a nuke, Sure it adds an extra step, and it dosn't mean he's planning on attacking anyone, it's just a strange gesture that in no way makes a visible difference on what he can/will do.
Sounds about right, They felt the system failed them last time, because major webpages actually told the public what was being planned. The goal the next round is going to be to figure out how to slip it in without anyone who actually understands it getting a voice. It still cracks me up how with SOPA, the most common statement from the congressmen making the decision was "I'm not a computer nerd, so I don't understand how this works at all", that part was what the **AA's considered, the process as intended. The companies and people who were effected by it speaking up and making sure that the ramifications of it were understood, that was an "abuse of power".
What exactly can't the chinese do for a fraction of the cost of us. Think of and plan the ideas is a 1 time task that is a very short term responsibility and in general does not need a huge labor force. Actually doing anything is solidly in chinas favor, what physical task can 1 american do, that can't be done by 9 chinese people. (as the estimated pay of a foxcon worker per day is considerably less then american minimum hourly wage). In the end the only options are to greatly disallow the development of things overseas, or find a way to force the payment of installation costs to be higher.
Not only that, but even when the companies realize they were hacked, they are also very likely to cover it up instead of anounce they had a breech. When anouncing the crime is harmful to both the criminal, and the holders of the evidence, things tend to not be reported.
It does very much, what is worse though, there's hundreds of factions you can join and every one of those factions tells you that all the other factions has a crappy ending except theirs. Unfortunately once you reach the end you get permabanned and are forbidden from making a new character... Unless the bhuddist faction is right, then you just make a new character, but are forbidden from telling anyone what your previous character was and restart just as if it was a new character.
I would say she would probably be most known for her role in Dr Horrible, Though yeah little appearences on random fantasy/sci-fi near their death's also (buffy, eureka, supernatural etc...)
More or less because the worlds in minecraft are generated uniquely on each server, and I do believe endless on any direction, the further out you explore, the more resources you are using on the server, ad infinium. Unlike a normal game where you have say 8 GB of a map that is permanantly cached, minecraft may have less detail per inch, but it essentially can have infinate space.
Indeed all of the actual holes that were exploited on 9/11 were pretty much patched very early. The main holes being 1. Policies saying let hijackers do whatever they want, wait till they land to have them arrested. 2. the cockpit doors being weak. Even if the underware and shoebomber both succeeded (both of which succesfully being thwarted without the super overintrusive new TSA rules), air travel as a whole still has less total risks than driving to the airport. In the end soceity has to realize that to some extent we have to ballance control of horrible deaths. I would imagine there are far more ways that people die that could be prevented if we applied anywhere near the money we put into TSA post 9/11 than we saved in reality. There are no shortage of underfunded disaster control, rescue, fire departments, starving homeless etc... We also could improve the quality of life by putting things into schools, or encorage more science by funding NASA etc... Decisions inspired by sudden knee jerk fear are rarely good ones and often we forget the scale of what we are fighting against is actually very small.
I'd disagree with that statement, ads generate revenue, but the search is why people actually use it. That's like saying every other company's main business is money. Yes their objective and means of making a profit is finding a way to show you an add or make you click them. Just like microsoft and apples main goal is to get you to hand them money directly. That doesn't change the result of many things.
What I think would be interesting, in general when most people think (feel?) only half of the time are they right. Just like in countless experiments, people who swear up and down that bottled water tastes far better than tap water, almost all of them fail to detect it in a blind taste test. Out of curriosity have you ever tried a blind test. Take 10 or 15 songs or so, put then in 96 kHz and 48kHz, and have someone else play them without telling you which one they are playing. Find out if it really sounds better, or if your mind is expecting it to be better, and thus makes it better.
It actually is the goal, but society kind of failed the majority of the world in the process. 100 years ago the prediction was we'll reduce the labor and then everyone will work shorter work days, if 100 years ago they knew the grade of technology they probably would have expected everyone to be working 6 hour work days for roughly the same equivelent payscale that was back then, rather than having unemployment edging towards 10%.
Highly unlikely that they are the only copy, knowing sony they are probably behind the times, and thus have copies on CD's for the executives to listen to, and no matter how good a hacker is... destroying CDs remotely is not an easy feat.
The point is there are dozens of other reasons why google search results are absolutely no indication of actual crashes. I'm sure there are bugs that thousands have had but few reported, and crashes that only a handful of people have had, but posted to 15 different places to find a solution. Timeframe is just one of dozens of variables that are examples of why search engine hits is a lousy indicator of actual events.
windows.me.crashes -> 45,900,000
windows.7.crashes - > 50,600,000
macos.crashes -> 42,500,000
There we have it, scientific proof that windows ME is more stable than windows 7.
Depends, good enough or best is your goal. If you are working on a spreadsheet is a tablet better or worse? What percentage of people use features that google docs or openoffice couldn't handle? Converting to something that is only slightly worse, is not usually a step in the right direction for anyone.
I'm actually currious how long or if the tablet concept can hold up. They are great for reading, great for reviewing on the go, but I don't see any real advantage for creating content. Sure you can get a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and work almost as comfortably as on a laptop with a wireless mouse, for almost as much space and twice the price of a laptop... but really what's the advantage. I just can't see anyone sanely working on advanced photo editing or spread sheet writing etc... on a tablet.
You are quite right, Vista really is windows 7 pre-alpha that was released to the public due to massive overshooting of the balmer peak http://xkcd.com/323/ and then continous attempts to fix it before the damage was severe and they had to actually just finish the product and release it.
What capital or incentives can google throw? They did launch with several features that facebook lacked (or at least had buried so deep they may as well have lacked them for all practical purposes). The problem... google isn't a patent troll, virtually every feature they focused on, was mimiced by facebook within days. I do have to say though google's hangouts are extremely useful, 5 person video chats works wonders for my D&D games.
Actually i think the myspace stagnation isn't quite as true as people think. Facebook overtook myspace, because they competed in a different arena and gathered a different crowd. Facebook timed it so that they didn't have to focus on converting myspace's X million users, they grabbed a few million people that did not use social networking and pulled them in first, then once facebooks userbase outgrew myspace, then they got people to switch.