That statement is being thrown around a lot lately... I must say, I never had that impression, and can't understand why people keep say that.
I'm under the impression that generations preceding mine are more clueless than my own, and those succeeding mine seem to be smarter. But that's just my subjective impression from everyday dealing with people, i.e., a limited subset.
So please, enlighten me, give me a study, an anecdote, anything that proves that people are getting stupider.
The GGP doesn't count by the way - it's not stupid to be wrong, and presenting things that are thought to be correct as a fact is a normal mode of conversation. After all, a slashdot comment isn't a thesis.
When people around me start talking on the telephone, loudly, and without the decency of walking away, I include myself into their conversation too. Actually, I don't get a choice in the matter - they're forcing me to partake. They're just too ignorant to notice, so I interrupt them, get involved into their call, getting on their nerves. Hoping they'll take the hint.
Huh? You're saying art assets are easier to come by than new code?
How, then, do you explain the utter lack of high quality art in free games and mods, compared to the abundance of said games and mods?
It seems to me you've got it backwards, but feel free to prove your point.
Yes, you're right, there could not be a single OS for all these different types of robots you listed.
But there are, for example, OSes that are used on a lot of those RC airplanes turned UAV, at least on those that are homebuilt along the lines of some vague instructions. Which applies to pretty much all privately owned UAVs I've seen so far. MikroKopter comes to mind.
Point being, robots of a certain class tend to have enough in common to also share some the same code. Some robots, like vacuuming/lawn moving robots are so simple they won't need it, but e.g. all bipeds need to overcome the same physical problems, so why not reuse that code?
Those robots are pretty dumb, at least the ones I know about.
Basically they go forward until they bump into something either physical, like a tree, or some sort induction barrier, which limits the robots territory. Then it would go back a little, rotate a random degree, and start from going forward again.
A little more advanced ones would have some routine to wiggle free when stuck.
Seems terribly inefficient to me, and would like to hear about more intelligently designed lawn mowing/vacuuming robots.
I didn't read the article, this being slashdot and all, but I'm not sure this camp is something the government came up with. The parents paid $1000, and I assume that's US Dollars, which is a lot of money in a country where the per capita GDP is 6000$.
This camp seems more like a free enterprise, in all it's capitalist glory, trying to worry better-off parents into handing over the cash to cure their kids from the terrible ailment.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with China being (kind of... in a way... well, not really) communist, or their government failing at moderation, but more with some overzealous fearmongers totally losing it.
Because except for reproduction, we can easily survive our whole life alone.
Really? It's been tried, mostly in the 19th century - letting human children grow up in isolation, isolating grown people (can't find a link right now for either)... Anyway, as far as I can recollect, it didn't work. People go insane when isolated, children die.
People use "correlation does not imply causation" in a wrong way? How is that possible? I've only skimmed that Wikipedia article you linked, but it seems it really does mean exactly what it says, things that correlate don't necessarily cause each other. Which seems obvious, at least given my superficial knowledge of the phrase.
What am I missing, in what way can that statement be used that is incorrect?
The summary says that this Chrome OS's "main selling points are speed, simplicity and security". That's different from focus.
Of course, that doesn't mean that the "current No.1 OS" (and all others too, actually) doesn't deliver in all those areas - just one of them. Which, in most cases, would probably be simplicity, which in turn implies the other two.
In one of their earlier games (Doom, iirc), they did license some sound library (or something). Guess it was so annoying getting rid of that library when they open sourced that engine later on, they just gave up on using (commercial) third party libraries altogether..
Though I didn't know you could even make iPhone games without using Apples' libraries, which, afaik, are not free.
Sure, because games that rely on non-standard hardware do so very well (obvious exceptions, like Guitar Hero, notwithstanding).
Especially a keyboard.. You don't sit at your desk, on your office chair with its comfortable typing position. You sit on your couch, and type with your keyboard on your lap, a fair distance from your screen. Must be a hell of a game, to make you suffer through that much strain.
Eh. You think people are downloading TV shows because.. of the channel overlays?
Actually, those things are still included in the torrents (except when they're DVD rips, but they hardly ever are). The only ads you evade by downloading are the ones that are put in between the scenes.
I suppose all the TV show downloading encouraged the companies to put in overlays, rather than the other way around.
You can not expect people to just answer your questions and ignore the way they're phrased.
And your question was presented in a way that disqualifies you from being taken seriously in this discussion.
Teehee, you're so invited to join just any angry mob, you play that role that well.
Ever thought of a career as a spokesperson for, I don't know, any organization/movement that's a little on the fanatic side? Pro-Life? PETA?
Give it some thought, you're a natural.
Hm, at least over here, local news keeps going on about how very unlikely, nigh impossible, it is for lightning to take down a plane that size. It being a large Faraday cage and all, and how all the components are tested for EM insensitivity.
Though if you have some more insight into that matter, I'd be glad to hear it.
Besides that dude's lack of social grace, the point I think he was trying to make still seems valid to me.
Why would the whole crew have to struggle physically, if it's a fly-by-wire system? Don't they just have to make the right call, and let the hydraulics handle the rest? Why would that be physically engaging?
Oh yeah, the presence of Graffiti heralds the downfall of society and our descent into anarchy.
Everyone their own bogeyman, but are you sure you're not exaggerating, at least a little? Law enforcement hopefully has higher priorities than some teenage scumbags and their territorial pissings, and if they don't, that means it's probably an authoritarian state with a huge police/population ratio - using the term 'police' quite loosely in that case. At least in the western hemisphere.
Maybe those Asian countries you're referring to are not authoritarian, but Western and Eastern cultures do indeed have very deeply rooted differences, so comparing those two takes a lot more than a/. comment and some portrayal of seemingly shared values.
You don't say.
Do you really think the author, or the readers, think the world revolves around IT? Okay, in some ways, they might, but of course they're also aware there are things that don't get fixed in software.
No need for you to get your panties in a bunch just because the author tried to relate to his readers' startup experiences and/or preconceptions.
Planes' interiors are made to be customizable, and are customized all the time.
Many airlines do this to account for a changing market - more people on a plane, less comfort, cheaper tickets.
Also, there are airlines that rely on second hand planes, which usually carter to a different audience than the airline they bought the planes from.
Technology is past that - UAVs are capable of some degree of autonomy, most likely enough to avoid flying into walls.
Check out what those quadcopter people are playing around with, they've got some advanced stuff, and it's safe to assume government developed UAVs are further advanced than that.
I don't know where you live, and how things are done there, but in Western Europe the state provides the infrastructure required for conducting business, and takes a part of the profits to cover the costs.
In theory at least, there's a lot to be desired in how tax money is spent of course.
But in principle that's how it works, and yes, it is sensible.
Your analogies don't hold. Recognizing that some part of your car's hardware needs replacement is akin to figuring out one of your keyboard's keys don't work - both don't require any knowledge of the underlying technology.
I can't think of anything that resembles ice/snow on the roof in both its obviousness, and its danger to others, in computing.
Becoming a bothost fails the obviousness criteria.
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That statement is being thrown around a lot lately... I must say, I never had that impression, and can't understand why people keep say that.
I'm under the impression that generations preceding mine are more clueless than my own, and those succeeding mine seem to be smarter. But that's just my subjective impression from everyday dealing with people, i.e., a limited subset.
So please, enlighten me, give me a study, an anecdote, anything that proves that people are getting stupider.
The GGP doesn't count by the way - it's not stupid to be wrong, and presenting things that are thought to be correct as a fact is a normal mode of conversation. After all, a slashdot comment isn't a thesis.
When people around me start talking on the telephone, loudly, and without the decency of walking away, I include myself into their conversation too. Actually, I don't get a choice in the matter - they're forcing me to partake. They're just too ignorant to notice, so I interrupt them, get involved into their call, getting on their nerves. Hoping they'll take the hint.
I guess I'm being dense, but even after years of roaming through the internets, I have yet to figure out what this [sic] is supposed to mean..
Huh? You're saying art assets are easier to come by than new code?
How, then, do you explain the utter lack of high quality art in free games and mods, compared to the abundance of said games and mods?
It seems to me you've got it backwards, but feel free to prove your point.
Yes, you're right, there could not be a single OS for all these different types of robots you listed.
But there are, for example, OSes that are used on a lot of those RC airplanes turned UAV, at least on those that are homebuilt along the lines of some vague instructions. Which applies to pretty much all privately owned UAVs I've seen so far. MikroKopter comes to mind.
Point being, robots of a certain class tend to have enough in common to also share some the same code. Some robots, like vacuuming/lawn moving robots are so simple they won't need it, but e.g. all bipeds need to overcome the same physical problems, so why not reuse that code?
Those robots are pretty dumb, at least the ones I know about.
Basically they go forward until they bump into something either physical, like a tree, or some sort induction barrier, which limits the robots territory. Then it would go back a little, rotate a random degree, and start from going forward again.
A little more advanced ones would have some routine to wiggle free when stuck.
Seems terribly inefficient to me, and would like to hear about more intelligently designed lawn mowing/vacuuming robots.
I didn't read the article, this being slashdot and all, but I'm not sure this camp is something the government came up with. The parents paid $1000, and I assume that's US Dollars, which is a lot of money in a country where the per capita GDP is 6000$.
This camp seems more like a free enterprise, in all it's capitalist glory, trying to worry better-off parents into handing over the cash to cure their kids from the terrible ailment.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with China being (kind of... in a way... well, not really) communist, or their government failing at moderation, but more with some overzealous fearmongers totally losing it.
On the matter of tags... What the hell are those "story" tags for?
Because except for reproduction, we can easily survive our whole life alone.
Really? It's been tried, mostly in the 19th century - letting human children grow up in isolation, isolating grown people (can't find a link right now for either)... Anyway, as far as I can recollect, it didn't work. People go insane when isolated, children die.
People use "correlation does not imply causation" in a wrong way? How is that possible? I've only skimmed that Wikipedia article you linked, but it seems it really does mean exactly what it says, things that correlate don't necessarily cause each other. Which seems obvious, at least given my superficial knowledge of the phrase.
What am I missing, in what way can that statement be used that is incorrect?
Hm, market force?
The summary says that this Chrome OS's "main selling points are speed, simplicity and security". That's different from focus.
Of course, that doesn't mean that the "current No.1 OS" (and all others too, actually) doesn't deliver in all those areas - just one of them. Which, in most cases, would probably be simplicity, which in turn implies the other two.
In one of their earlier games (Doom, iirc), they did license some sound library (or something). Guess it was so annoying getting rid of that library when they open sourced that engine later on, they just gave up on using (commercial) third party libraries altogether..
Though I didn't know you could even make iPhone games without using Apples' libraries, which, afaik, are not free.
Sure, because games that rely on non-standard hardware do so very well (obvious exceptions, like Guitar Hero, notwithstanding).
Especially a keyboard.. You don't sit at your desk, on your office chair with its comfortable typing position. You sit on your couch, and type with your keyboard on your lap, a fair distance from your screen. Must be a hell of a game, to make you suffer through that much strain.
Eh. You think people are downloading TV shows because.. of the channel overlays?
Actually, those things are still included in the torrents (except when they're DVD rips, but they hardly ever are). The only ads you evade by downloading are the ones that are put in between the scenes.
I suppose all the TV show downloading encouraged the companies to put in overlays, rather than the other way around.
You can not expect people to just answer your questions and ignore the way they're phrased.
And your question was presented in a way that disqualifies you from being taken seriously in this discussion.
Teehee, you're so invited to join just any angry mob, you play that role that well.
Ever thought of a career as a spokesperson for, I don't know, any organization/movement that's a little on the fanatic side? Pro-Life? PETA?
Give it some thought, you're a natural.
Hm, at least over here, local news keeps going on about how very unlikely, nigh impossible, it is for lightning to take down a plane that size. It being a large Faraday cage and all, and how all the components are tested for EM insensitivity.
Though if you have some more insight into that matter, I'd be glad to hear it.
Besides that dude's lack of social grace, the point I think he was trying to make still seems valid to me.
Why would the whole crew have to struggle physically, if it's a fly-by-wire system? Don't they just have to make the right call, and let the hydraulics handle the rest? Why would that be physically engaging?
Oh yeah, the presence of Graffiti heralds the downfall of society and our descent into anarchy. /. comment and some portrayal of seemingly shared values.
Everyone their own bogeyman, but are you sure you're not exaggerating, at least a little? Law enforcement hopefully has higher priorities than some teenage scumbags and their territorial pissings, and if they don't, that means it's probably an authoritarian state with a huge police/population ratio - using the term 'police' quite loosely in that case. At least in the western hemisphere.
Maybe those Asian countries you're referring to are not authoritarian, but Western and Eastern cultures do indeed have very deeply rooted differences, so comparing those two takes a lot more than a
You don't say.
Do you really think the author, or the readers, think the world revolves around IT? Okay, in some ways, they might, but of course they're also aware there are things that don't get fixed in software.
No need for you to get your panties in a bunch just because the author tried to relate to his readers' startup experiences and/or preconceptions.
Planes' interiors are made to be customizable, and are customized all the time.
Many airlines do this to account for a changing market - more people on a plane, less comfort, cheaper tickets.
Also, there are airlines that rely on second hand planes, which usually carter to a different audience than the airline they bought the planes from.
Technology is past that - UAVs are capable of some degree of autonomy, most likely enough to avoid flying into walls.
Check out what those quadcopter people are playing around with, they've got some advanced stuff, and it's safe to assume government developed UAVs are further advanced than that.
I don't know where you live, and how things are done there, but in Western Europe the state provides the infrastructure required for conducting business, and takes a part of the profits to cover the costs.
In theory at least, there's a lot to be desired in how tax money is spent of course.
But in principle that's how it works, and yes, it is sensible.
Your analogies don't hold. Recognizing that some part of your car's hardware needs replacement is akin to figuring out one of your keyboard's keys don't work - both don't require any knowledge of the underlying technology.
I can't think of anything that resembles ice/snow on the roof in both its obviousness, and its danger to others, in computing.
Becoming a bothost fails the obviousness criteria.