I can't entirely agree or disagree with you, but for the customer it is a matter of, do they get their moneys worth out of it. Are movie theiters immoral? IMO they are considerably worse, when I buy an item in a game, I get a preview of exactly what it is and what it does. I rarely pay more then $5 for it, and I can roughly estimate how much enjoyment I will get out of having it, no it won't be there forever, but unless the game is on it's last legs it can be safely assumed it will be there for at least a year. Someone going to a movie on opening night, is basing their purchase decision on 15 seconds to 1 minute of out of context footage of the movie, even if enjoyable the movie will be at max 3 hours of enjoyment. Now where in game items can go completely evil, a game starts out free to play, items are mostly cosmetic, as the game progresses, they start leaking in game effecting items, small slight, barely significant, then start either ramping up the difficulty of the enemies, or making PVP a larger part of the game, and then steadilly increasing the power and necesity of the cash shop items. When a game starts out as one thing, then switches half way through when you've already put time/money into it, that is where I find it borderline Immoral. When the terms are clear from the start of the game, that is where I consider it perfectly reasonable.
I wonder if this will work like other games, where the kinect will by default opt in to taking random pictures of you and posting it to your Xboxlive profile.
I'm trying to see where the age discrimination plays a part here. They are saying "If you are over 45 and still writing in C or Cobol" your job is at risk? What does age have to do with this at all? Is the over 45 even worth mentioning besides for shock value? Let me rephrase it, "If you haven't kept up with modern technology and aren't willing to adapt to the companies new needs, but still want to be paid the same 145K salary you started with, your job might be at risk". I know every story sells more when they call it discrimination, but this dosn't sound like it. Discrimination is 2 candidates apply for the same job, and the company hires the one that has less of the needed skills, based on a different factor (age/gender/race). At least from what I am gathering, they are saying "a company would like to hire someone for 60k that will know the latest technology over someone who wants 140k and does not know what he needs for the job. How is this discrimination? That is like calling it sexism when a company will hire a man who has 5 years experience in C++, Java and SQL will likely be chosen over a woman who knows Microsoft Excel for a senior programing position. You aren't doomed if you are older, you have to study and keep up with modern languages. News at 11, technology moves fast, to work in technology you have to keep up with it or be replaced.
I wonder if their outrageous claims give them legal viability.
"We want 100 billion dollars from them"
Judge: No
OK 50 billion
No
5 billion then
No
2 billion
That dosn't sound like much, OK.
Defendent: But they haven't even proven we have done anything wrong
Judge: Well they aren't asking much lets just give it to them so they stop bugging us.
I was going to say, the motherboard should be the 2nd most expensive component in your typical computer. $50 one is seriously cutting a corner in a way to make almost everything else you buy work at half efficiency. If the mobo isn't close to the price of your CPU, you either A. are running a system that was purely designed to be a cheap piece of crap to handle basic things and you don't really have a reason to care if you are running SATA 3 or plain old fashioned IDE. Or B. you are running a high end system, that runs at the pace of a low/mid end system. a $500 graphics card and a $500 CPU, assuming they even are compatible with a piece of crap $50 board, will likely be slowed down to the speed of a $100 CPU and card.
Well with all do respect, we are a planet known for screwing things up. As budgets, cost cutting etc continue to occor, we cause major catastrophes that cause worse case scenerios we didn't even think of. I mean face it we've been drilling for oil for centuries, and yet we still manage to ruin half a gulf without even coming up with a solution. Space projects, while america has a pretty good track record, I have a feeling china's results will be more like russia, 9/10 projects fail, only publicise the 10th. I have little fear of terrorism etc... mainly because I know that humanity as a species, screws up most of the time, and if they are trying to kill us and scare us, they will probably fail. I do have reason to question a for profit company that's first goals will be cutting costs to make it profitable, playing around with things that potentially can cause an extinction grade event.
you are kinda still lacking in the laws of physics then. No matter how your acceleration is, you cannot accelerate faster then the speed of light following current laws of physics. Meaning if a ship could consistantly accelerate, it would cap out at the speed of light and cease to be able to accelerate. That is on par in accuracy with saying, if you just drive your car at 60MPH, you will reach australia in just a few months. That being said the accurate question shouldn't be can we get there, Obviously reaching a star is rather pointless, the sun has been significantly closer for years, I don't see us landing on it any time soon, due to the whole, it is a giant ball of burning gasses that would completely destroy any thing or any one that got near it. The question is, is ther anything that could be gathered by observing it, that can't be gathered from observing our own sun or the farther stars. That question still remains to be answered.
True, though nitroglicerine could be very effective in checked luggage. From what I gathered it is safe when frozen. then extremely volitile to movement etc... Toss frozen nitroglicerine into your checked luggage, or sneak it into someone elses. it thaws out a couple hours into flight. First turbulance the plane hits, will be the last.
Your employer also requires you to sign a waver saying that you aknowlege that anything you do can and will be monitored by the company on their machines. Most companies even have the message pop up via the login script saying the same thing. There is a reason for it, you can monitor people all day long, as long as they are aware of it. If they have no way to know the computer isn't really theirs, you don't have those rights. If your company gave you a laptop, told you it was a perk and no information of it belonging to the company, they would be at fault, the same way the schools were in the wrong when they gave out the laptops, and monitored their webcams.
My local goodwill has similar prices on PCs etc... never seen a laptop at that price, but I wouldn't be shocked to. Pawn shops and desperate students you could expect similar, particularly if the laptop is very old. I still fail to see the arguement, she bought it cheap she had to know it was stolen. Secondly there is the fact that dozens of people have looked at the pictures before they tracked the laptop down and learned the price it sold for. It isn't so much an issue of whether or not she is inocent or guilty, it's a detail of what they snooped before learning any of it. For all they know while looking at her pictures, she could have paid $500 on ebay.
The knowingly is the grey area here it can't be proven either way yet, and certainly couldn't when the pictures were taken and investigated. I do have to agree on the borderline legallity of the situation. Tim thief steals a laptop from joe schmoe, imidiately takes it straight to the pawn shop. Joe had software on the laptop to record and send video to himself whenever something happened. Sarah smith buys the laptop from the pawn shop, the software records her undressing in the privacy of her own bedroom. Now Joe and the software vendors for joes software have vouyer videos of sarah, and can now bring the police in to even start unraveling what happened and determine whether or not Sarah had any way of knowing the laptop she bought was stolen.
I have very little knowlege of basic chemistry, but I do know a handful of thigns that can work. I mean ignoring the difficulty and danger in transport, would a water bottle filled with nitroglicerine be capable of dealing notable damage to an airplane?
While ludicriously unlikely, that does not fall into the lines of imposible. Play any sports ever, even going to a store etc... Someone infected could get a nose bleed and sneeze on you, are you 100% certain of the path your food has taken every inch of the way before it got to you. Maybe an infected butcher cut his hand while slicing the food to prepare. Now admitted, all of these thoughts are about as probable to infect you and happen to you, as multiple lightning strikes, or a volcano in the living room, but immune or imposible is inaccurate of a statement.
Cleverbot has never had that ability, its generally good for screwing with people. It lacks any consistancy because it is mimicing thousands of people at the same time essentially. That and half of it's knowlege comes from 4chan users, if you ask it where women belong it will usually tell you the kitchen.
It's cleverbot, basically cleverbot gathers information from random conversations it has had with others, so if one person using it a year ago said I am not a robot I am a unicorn, he would have a chance of re-using it. That is also why cleverbot has a tendency to call everyone else a robot, basically a very compex monkey see monkey do.
Also good for people who are browsing slashdot at work, and either don't have sound or lack headphones to get away with it, or places with youtube blocked.
I absolutely agree for the american industry, for china though I would say it is more or less a lost cause, in china between the average household having so little, and a lack of any concern for any foreign companies at all in their culture (they've pretty much been surrounded by propoganda that other countries are evil), tacked on with the lack of any enforcement against piracy in their laws (in addition to being perfectly able to be sold in stores/streetcorners etc... even companies can get away with using pirated software with little reason to fear reprecussions. In america I can agree with you, treating your customers well and offering a good value would decrease piracy significantly, or at the very least increase sales to their maximum potential regardless of piracy (I do believe that is where companies fail to realize, 10,000 copies sold and 5k pirated is worse then 100k sold, 5 million pirated.
Ditto, I have used MS office in my job for years as well Generally after 2 years of getting used to it, I can find things almost 75% as quickly as I could in the menu interface. In general I know a few people that claim to be at roughly the same speed. I don't really think I've met anyone in person who likes it better. The one thing I don't get with MS, why not make it an optional style. In general if everyone wants to turn it off in a week, you know it's bad design. Also don't reffer to me as afraid of change, I started learning to type with dvorak about a month ago, I'm not quite up to my qwerty speed, but I can see clearly why it would be faster when I get used to it. Ribbon I just don't see an increase in speed, unless your computer is so slow that menus take 3 seconds to pop up after you mouse over them.
I'm not implying the charging station being the origional distributer. For charging stations to be viable, they need a large amount of customers. So joe swaps out his good battery for a crap one that can only go 40 miles per charge, drives 35 miles to a swap station, trades the crap one for a real battery, drive 1 mile, change the new battery for another fake, head to another station repeat. Preventing this means adding more paperwork tracking etc... into the system of the batteries, which eliminates the convinience of the swap and opens up privacy worries.
Even better question, how would you prevent tricks. Fake batteries etc... Heck who knows maybe even cheap chinese knockoffs that seem real but have 1/16th of the battery life, maybe even perform similar tricks to that loopback flash drive that registers as a 8GB and then just rewrites over the old data whenever it hits the 16MB of storage it had, could a similar trick be done on a battery to fool the chargers?
You missed H) Miami's population has an unsettling number of senior citizens, many of which are particularly good at handling situations they are familiar with, let alone new ones. I would say the choice of Florida as a state to test things out on, is a direct intent to say "we tried and it failed let us never try again".
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I can't entirely agree or disagree with you, but for the customer it is a matter of, do they get their moneys worth out of it. Are movie theiters immoral? IMO they are considerably worse, when I buy an item in a game, I get a preview of exactly what it is and what it does. I rarely pay more then $5 for it, and I can roughly estimate how much enjoyment I will get out of having it, no it won't be there forever, but unless the game is on it's last legs it can be safely assumed it will be there for at least a year. Someone going to a movie on opening night, is basing their purchase decision on 15 seconds to 1 minute of out of context footage of the movie, even if enjoyable the movie will be at max 3 hours of enjoyment. Now where in game items can go completely evil, a game starts out free to play, items are mostly cosmetic, as the game progresses, they start leaking in game effecting items, small slight, barely significant, then start either ramping up the difficulty of the enemies, or making PVP a larger part of the game, and then steadilly increasing the power and necesity of the cash shop items. When a game starts out as one thing, then switches half way through when you've already put time/money into it, that is where I find it borderline Immoral. When the terms are clear from the start of the game, that is where I consider it perfectly reasonable.
it runs off of a kinect, so it is a camera.
I wonder if this will work like other games, where the kinect will by default opt in to taking random pictures of you and posting it to your Xboxlive profile.
I'm trying to see where the age discrimination plays a part here. They are saying "If you are over 45 and still writing in C or Cobol" your job is at risk? What does age have to do with this at all? Is the over 45 even worth mentioning besides for shock value? Let me rephrase it, "If you haven't kept up with modern technology and aren't willing to adapt to the companies new needs, but still want to be paid the same 145K salary you started with, your job might be at risk". I know every story sells more when they call it discrimination, but this dosn't sound like it. Discrimination is 2 candidates apply for the same job, and the company hires the one that has less of the needed skills, based on a different factor (age/gender/race). At least from what I am gathering, they are saying "a company would like to hire someone for 60k that will know the latest technology over someone who wants 140k and does not know what he needs for the job. How is this discrimination? That is like calling it sexism when a company will hire a man who has 5 years experience in C++, Java and SQL will likely be chosen over a woman who knows Microsoft Excel for a senior programing position. You aren't doomed if you are older, you have to study and keep up with modern languages. News at 11, technology moves fast, to work in technology you have to keep up with it or be replaced.
"We want 100 billion dollars from them"
Judge: No
OK 50 billion
No
5 billion then
No
2 billion
That dosn't sound like much, OK.
Defendent: But they haven't even proven we have done anything wrong
Judge: Well they aren't asking much lets just give it to them so they stop bugging us.
I was going to say, the motherboard should be the 2nd most expensive component in your typical computer. $50 one is seriously cutting a corner in a way to make almost everything else you buy work at half efficiency. If the mobo isn't close to the price of your CPU, you either A. are running a system that was purely designed to be a cheap piece of crap to handle basic things and you don't really have a reason to care if you are running SATA 3 or plain old fashioned IDE. Or B. you are running a high end system, that runs at the pace of a low/mid end system. a $500 graphics card and a $500 CPU, assuming they even are compatible with a piece of crap $50 board, will likely be slowed down to the speed of a $100 CPU and card.
Well with all do respect, we are a planet known for screwing things up. As budgets, cost cutting etc continue to occor, we cause major catastrophes that cause worse case scenerios we didn't even think of. I mean face it we've been drilling for oil for centuries, and yet we still manage to ruin half a gulf without even coming up with a solution. Space projects, while america has a pretty good track record, I have a feeling china's results will be more like russia, 9/10 projects fail, only publicise the 10th. I have little fear of terrorism etc... mainly because I know that humanity as a species, screws up most of the time, and if they are trying to kill us and scare us, they will probably fail. I do have reason to question a for profit company that's first goals will be cutting costs to make it profitable, playing around with things that potentially can cause an extinction grade event.
you are kinda still lacking in the laws of physics then. No matter how your acceleration is, you cannot accelerate faster then the speed of light following current laws of physics. Meaning if a ship could consistantly accelerate, it would cap out at the speed of light and cease to be able to accelerate. That is on par in accuracy with saying, if you just drive your car at 60MPH, you will reach australia in just a few months. That being said the accurate question shouldn't be can we get there, Obviously reaching a star is rather pointless, the sun has been significantly closer for years, I don't see us landing on it any time soon, due to the whole, it is a giant ball of burning gasses that would completely destroy any thing or any one that got near it. The question is, is ther anything that could be gathered by observing it, that can't be gathered from observing our own sun or the farther stars. That question still remains to be answered.
True, though nitroglicerine could be very effective in checked luggage. From what I gathered it is safe when frozen. then extremely volitile to movement etc... Toss frozen nitroglicerine into your checked luggage, or sneak it into someone elses. it thaws out a couple hours into flight. First turbulance the plane hits, will be the last.
Your employer also requires you to sign a waver saying that you aknowlege that anything you do can and will be monitored by the company on their machines. Most companies even have the message pop up via the login script saying the same thing. There is a reason for it, you can monitor people all day long, as long as they are aware of it. If they have no way to know the computer isn't really theirs, you don't have those rights. If your company gave you a laptop, told you it was a perk and no information of it belonging to the company, they would be at fault, the same way the schools were in the wrong when they gave out the laptops, and monitored their webcams.
My local goodwill has similar prices on PCs etc... never seen a laptop at that price, but I wouldn't be shocked to. Pawn shops and desperate students you could expect similar, particularly if the laptop is very old. I still fail to see the arguement, she bought it cheap she had to know it was stolen. Secondly there is the fact that dozens of people have looked at the pictures before they tracked the laptop down and learned the price it sold for. It isn't so much an issue of whether or not she is inocent or guilty, it's a detail of what they snooped before learning any of it. For all they know while looking at her pictures, she could have paid $500 on ebay.
The knowingly is the grey area here it can't be proven either way yet, and certainly couldn't when the pictures were taken and investigated. I do have to agree on the borderline legallity of the situation. Tim thief steals a laptop from joe schmoe, imidiately takes it straight to the pawn shop. Joe had software on the laptop to record and send video to himself whenever something happened. Sarah smith buys the laptop from the pawn shop, the software records her undressing in the privacy of her own bedroom. Now Joe and the software vendors for joes software have vouyer videos of sarah, and can now bring the police in to even start unraveling what happened and determine whether or not Sarah had any way of knowing the laptop she bought was stolen.
I have very little knowlege of basic chemistry, but I do know a handful of thigns that can work. I mean ignoring the difficulty and danger in transport, would a water bottle filled with nitroglicerine be capable of dealing notable damage to an airplane?
While ludicriously unlikely, that does not fall into the lines of imposible. Play any sports ever, even going to a store etc... Someone infected could get a nose bleed and sneeze on you, are you 100% certain of the path your food has taken every inch of the way before it got to you. Maybe an infected butcher cut his hand while slicing the food to prepare. Now admitted, all of these thoughts are about as probable to infect you and happen to you, as multiple lightning strikes, or a volcano in the living room, but immune or imposible is inaccurate of a statement.
Cleverbot has never had that ability, its generally good for screwing with people. It lacks any consistancy because it is mimicing thousands of people at the same time essentially. That and half of it's knowlege comes from 4chan users, if you ask it where women belong it will usually tell you the kitchen.
It's cleverbot, basically cleverbot gathers information from random conversations it has had with others, so if one person using it a year ago said I am not a robot I am a unicorn, he would have a chance of re-using it. That is also why cleverbot has a tendency to call everyone else a robot, basically a very compex monkey see monkey do.
Also good for people who are browsing slashdot at work, and either don't have sound or lack headphones to get away with it, or places with youtube blocked.
True, but I would imagine the further along the AI's get, the more interesting it gets.
I absolutely agree for the american industry, for china though I would say it is more or less a lost cause, in china between the average household having so little, and a lack of any concern for any foreign companies at all in their culture (they've pretty much been surrounded by propoganda that other countries are evil), tacked on with the lack of any enforcement against piracy in their laws (in addition to being perfectly able to be sold in stores/streetcorners etc... even companies can get away with using pirated software with little reason to fear reprecussions. In america I can agree with you, treating your customers well and offering a good value would decrease piracy significantly, or at the very least increase sales to their maximum potential regardless of piracy (I do believe that is where companies fail to realize, 10,000 copies sold and 5k pirated is worse then 100k sold, 5 million pirated.
Ditto, I have used MS office in my job for years as well Generally after 2 years of getting used to it, I can find things almost 75% as quickly as I could in the menu interface. In general I know a few people that claim to be at roughly the same speed. I don't really think I've met anyone in person who likes it better. The one thing I don't get with MS, why not make it an optional style. In general if everyone wants to turn it off in a week, you know it's bad design. Also don't reffer to me as afraid of change, I started learning to type with dvorak about a month ago, I'm not quite up to my qwerty speed, but I can see clearly why it would be faster when I get used to it. Ribbon I just don't see an increase in speed, unless your computer is so slow that menus take 3 seconds to pop up after you mouse over them.
umm... you were beaten by like the 2nd post. titled "already knew that"
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I'm not implying the charging station being the origional distributer. For charging stations to be viable, they need a large amount of customers. So joe swaps out his good battery for a crap one that can only go 40 miles per charge, drives 35 miles to a swap station, trades the crap one for a real battery, drive 1 mile, change the new battery for another fake, head to another station repeat. Preventing this means adding more paperwork tracking etc... into the system of the batteries, which eliminates the convinience of the swap and opens up privacy worries.
Even better question, how would you prevent tricks. Fake batteries etc... Heck who knows maybe even cheap chinese knockoffs that seem real but have 1/16th of the battery life, maybe even perform similar tricks to that loopback flash drive that registers as a 8GB and then just rewrites over the old data whenever it hits the 16MB of storage it had, could a similar trick be done on a battery to fool the chargers?
You missed H) Miami's population has an unsettling number of senior citizens, many of which are particularly good at handling situations they are familiar with, let alone new ones. I would say the choice of Florida as a state to test things out on, is a direct intent to say "we tried and it failed let us never try again".