When Google finally perfects its robotic driving system, hopefully it will become mandatory for all cars and trucks in the U.S, and us motorcyclists can rejoice!
No more texting drivers like from TFA. No more drunk drivers. No more brain-dead drivers who turn left right in front of you in broad daylight, even though you have headlights on high beam and even partially blind people can see you.
Even so, RAID 1 is not a valid backup strategy because of things like trojans/virus, user accidentally deleting files, software-induced database corruption, etc.
If someone stole your bicycle or broke into your car and stole your stereo, you wouldn't report it to the police because their time and money is better spent going after murderers and rapists, rather than petty crime such as yours? Is that your logic?
I used to work next door to a small 3-woman firm that licenses Warner Brothers (mostly Batman and Looney Tunes) characters and puts them on car floormats and sells them to auto supply shops. Theirs is "officially licensed product". They pay 10 to 20 grand for a logo per shipment of floormats, and they take all the risk (they pay the license fee regardless of whether the product sells or sits in a warehouse). Competing against cheaper pirated products can easily make them lose money and put them out of business.
They were nice people and one of them was very cute btw....
Evolution requires death, selective pressure, serious things like that, and takes place over generations. This ain't evolution. It's just people getting into a habit.
Yes it probably does change our brains on a cellular level, just like the recent habit of no hard physical labor changed our muscles on a cellular level. It's easily reversible simply by doing the old things again.
Begging the question of whether a cellphone bluetooth conversation is more distracting than talking to your passenger or not, there's the issue of "you're likely to run out of things to talk about to your passenger pretty quickly, whereas with a cellphone you can talk nonstop with any of 8 billion people".
Plus the majority of cars on the road (at least in the US) are occupied by a single person (the driver).
Plus with a cellphone, even with a bluetooth headset, incoming calls demand your attention... who is it? Do I wanna answer him or send him to voicemail, etc.
EMP directed into that city - cut the power, no jamming... Easy as pie...
How do you do that, exactly? Hit a city 60km away with EMP strong enough to knock out their electrical equipment?
I suppose you could explode a nuclear bomb at high altitude, but that would knock out everything in South Korea too, and probably much of Japan. Or you could send fighter jets over the DMZ and drop FCGs on the city, but that would probably be interpreted by Mr. Kim as an all-out war.
Is there an "easy as pie" method that only Anonymous Cowards know about?
i see what you're saying, and I think it makes sense too... but then there's Facebook, which is only like, the biggest website in the world, and they use PHP..... *scratches head*
Death is meaningless unless it happens before the specimen has a chance to breed. There is no selective pressure against things that happen in old age, like heart attacks. (which is why they're still with us)
On the other hand, there seems to be a strong selective pressure against high IQ in modern society. It only started recently - only a couple of generations ago - so we haven't seen much effect yet.... but if this keeps up, the entire planet is going to be 3rd world eventually.
I agree that secret patents are a stupid idea. However,
fully staff the US Patent Office with sufficient qualified researches that granting patents does not have an average three-year schedule
This is also the wrong solution. We could do without yet even more federal employees.
The correct solution is to not allow stupid shit like software patents and one-click business model patents in the first place. Then BAM, watch the number of patent applications plummet.
AFAIK, all of the software patent insanity stemmed from *one* activist judge in the early 80's who interpreted existing patent laws to encompass software. Again AFAIK, patent laws do not (yet) explicitly state whether computer software is patentable or not... it was a court ruling that said it is.
I mean, it's still the same thing, politicians buying votes with money, but at least that way I get some of it, instead of TV stations (i.e. corporations) getting all the money.
but wait... no one would dispute that calling someone an asshole/idiot is free speech, correct? So if I call my boss an assholeidiot behind his back, and he finds out and then fires me, is this a travesty against human rights and freedom?
why not? Should be easy enough. By default set everything to 24 fps, and just select some scenes and flag beginning and end frames for doubling up to 48 fps.
Pirates that upload DVD-ripped movies eyeball each scene and manually adjust the bitrate all the time. (the better ones do, anyways) They do this to fit the movie onto a 700 MB fixed size. Basically you allocate more bitrate to scenes with motion, and less bitrate to mostly still scenes. Software can do this automatically, but humans with an artistic touch can do a much better job.
And that's just *one* guy doing this for a whole movie in one evening. Should be nothing to a studio.
a solution might be to show the movie at 48 fps but keep most of the source 24 fps... ramping up to 48 fps during scenes that require it (such as camera panning)
So basically what you'd do is shoot everything in 48 fps, but for most scenes take out every other frame, and just show the remaining frames twice. Then it would look like a regular 24 fps movie.
For scenes with lots of motion, DON'T take out every other frame, show the full 48 fps.
Yes, the part about advanced civilizations not wanting suicides, I heard from a bartender.
But I also thought of something else, and that is, if through experimentation someone discovered the true nature of the universe, that it's all an illusion perceived by a spirit observer -- similar to what Buddha discovered -- and took it a step further, and figured out how to directly manipulate the matrix, he'd have godlike powers. Imagine the Galactic Lensmen, or Scientology OT's, or Gods on Mount Olympus.... all battling it out with each other and flattening entire cities. Very dangerous! I wouldn't want that in *my* space empire. I'd ban it!
are banned in advanced technical civilizations, for good reasons.
Suppose scientific experimentation confirms the existence of the soul, and that we all end up in Hell (or some very unpleasant equivalent), but the older you are when you die, the more painful it becomes? Or, that afterlife is extremely pleasant, better than anything you've ever experienced on earth, and the scientists build a machine that can give you a brief preview of this?
That's right, mass suicides. The population of an entire planet disappeared this way.
has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You're talking to your wife on the phone and you use the word "bomb", "president", "Allah", any of a hundred keywords, the computer recognizes it, automatically records it, red-flags it for analysis. That was 20 years ago.
autism, hemophilia, etc... things like this used to be very rare because people with these genes tended to not pass them down (due to lower survival rate, or in autism's case due to social stigma attached to mating with one).
Left to nature, contra-survival traits like these weed themselves out in any population, not just human. But nowadays they're being kept alive and allowed to breed wantonly, which might be admirable from a moral standpoint... but it's not doing the human gene pool any favors.
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When Google finally perfects its robotic driving system, hopefully it will become mandatory for all cars and trucks in the U.S, and us motorcyclists can rejoice!
No more texting drivers like from TFA. No more drunk drivers. No more brain-dead drivers who turn left right in front of you in broad daylight, even though you have headlights on high beam and even partially blind people can see you.
now why don't you fix your little problems and light this candle!
Even so, RAID 1 is not a valid backup strategy because of things like trojans/virus, user accidentally deleting files, software-induced database corruption, etc.
If someone stole your bicycle or broke into your car and stole your stereo, you wouldn't report it to the police because their time and money is better spent going after murderers and rapists, rather than petty crime such as yours? Is that your logic?
I used to work next door to a small 3-woman firm that licenses Warner Brothers (mostly Batman and Looney Tunes) characters and puts them on car floormats and sells them to auto supply shops. Theirs is "officially licensed product". They pay 10 to 20 grand for a logo per shipment of floormats, and they take all the risk (they pay the license fee regardless of whether the product sells or sits in a warehouse). Competing against cheaper pirated products can easily make them lose money and put them out of business.
They were nice people and one of them was very cute btw....
Evolution requires death, selective pressure, serious things like that, and takes place over generations. This ain't evolution. It's just people getting into a habit.
Yes it probably does change our brains on a cellular level, just like the recent habit of no hard physical labor changed our muscles on a cellular level. It's easily reversible simply by doing the old things again.
Begging the question of whether a cellphone bluetooth conversation is more distracting than talking to your passenger or not, there's the issue of "you're likely to run out of things to talk about to your passenger pretty quickly, whereas with a cellphone you can talk nonstop with any of 8 billion people".
Plus the majority of cars on the road (at least in the US) are occupied by a single person (the driver).
Plus with a cellphone, even with a bluetooth headset, incoming calls demand your attention... who is it? Do I wanna answer him or send him to voicemail, etc.
EMP directed into that city - cut the power, no jamming... Easy as pie...
How do you do that, exactly? Hit a city 60km away with EMP strong enough to knock out their electrical equipment?
I suppose you could explode a nuclear bomb at high altitude, but that would knock out everything in South Korea too, and probably much of Japan. Or you could send fighter jets over the DMZ and drop FCGs on the city, but that would probably be interpreted by Mr. Kim as an all-out war.
Is there an "easy as pie" method that only Anonymous Cowards know about?
i see what you're saying, and I think it makes sense too... but then there's Facebook, which is only like, the biggest website in the world, and they use PHP..... *scratches head*
not this crude matter!
they're gonna go bankrupt anyways after I invent working cold fusion.
Death is meaningless unless it happens before the specimen has a chance to breed. There is no selective pressure against things that happen in old age, like heart attacks. (which is why they're still with us)
On the other hand, there seems to be a strong selective pressure against high IQ in modern society. It only started recently - only a couple of generations ago - so we haven't seen much effect yet.... but if this keeps up, the entire planet is going to be 3rd world eventually.
I agree that secret patents are a stupid idea. However,
fully staff the US Patent Office with sufficient qualified researches that granting patents does not have an average three-year schedule
This is also the wrong solution. We could do without yet even more federal employees.
The correct solution is to not allow stupid shit like software patents and one-click business model patents in the first place. Then BAM, watch the number of patent applications plummet.
AFAIK, all of the software patent insanity stemmed from *one* activist judge in the early 80's who interpreted existing patent laws to encompass software. Again AFAIK, patent laws do not (yet) explicitly state whether computer software is patentable or not... it was a court ruling that said it is.
Engineer John Doe: From my point of view, the FCC is evil.
Sergey Brin: Well then you are lost!
they should just pay the voters directly.
I mean, it's still the same thing, politicians buying votes with money, but at least that way I get some of it, instead of TV stations (i.e. corporations) getting all the money.
but wait... no one would dispute that calling someone an asshole/idiot is free speech, correct? So if I call my boss an assholeidiot behind his back, and he finds out and then fires me, is this a travesty against human rights and freedom?
despite a huge bias among buyers for 10-inch tablets.
What he really meant was, despite a huge bias among buys for the APPLE IPAD
why not? Should be easy enough. By default set everything to 24 fps, and just select some scenes and flag beginning and end frames for doubling up to 48 fps.
Pirates that upload DVD-ripped movies eyeball each scene and manually adjust the bitrate all the time. (the better ones do, anyways) They do this to fit the movie onto a 700 MB fixed size. Basically you allocate more bitrate to scenes with motion, and less bitrate to mostly still scenes. Software can do this automatically, but humans with an artistic touch can do a much better job.
And that's just *one* guy doing this for a whole movie in one evening. Should be nothing to a studio.
a solution might be to show the movie at 48 fps but keep most of the source 24 fps... ramping up to 48 fps during scenes that require it (such as camera panning)
So basically what you'd do is shoot everything in 48 fps, but for most scenes take out every other frame, and just show the remaining frames twice. Then it would look like a regular 24 fps movie.
For scenes with lots of motion, DON'T take out every other frame, show the full 48 fps.
Yes, the part about advanced civilizations not wanting suicides, I heard from a bartender.
But I also thought of something else, and that is, if through experimentation someone discovered the true nature of the universe, that it's all an illusion perceived by a spirit observer -- similar to what Buddha discovered -- and took it a step further, and figured out how to directly manipulate the matrix, he'd have godlike powers. Imagine the Galactic Lensmen, or Scientology OT's, or Gods on Mount Olympus.... all battling it out with each other and flattening entire cities. Very dangerous! I wouldn't want that in *my* space empire. I'd ban it!
are banned in advanced technical civilizations, for good reasons.
Suppose scientific experimentation confirms the existence of the soul, and that we all end up in Hell (or some very unpleasant equivalent), but the older you are when you die, the more painful it becomes? Or, that afterlife is extremely pleasant, better than anything you've ever experienced on earth, and the scientists build a machine that can give you a brief preview of this?
That's right, mass suicides. The population of an entire planet disappeared this way.
I remember seeing lots of little Real-encoded videos on websites back in the day... whatever happened to them?
Subatomic laws
Scientific pause
Synchronicity
has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You're talking to your wife on the phone and you use the word "bomb", "president", "Allah", any of a hundred keywords, the computer recognizes it, automatically records it, red-flags it for analysis. That was 20 years ago.
autism, hemophilia, etc... things like this used to be very rare because people with these genes tended to not pass them down (due to lower survival rate, or in autism's case due to social stigma attached to mating with one).
Left to nature, contra-survival traits like these weed themselves out in any population, not just human. But nowadays they're being kept alive and allowed to breed wantonly, which might be admirable from a moral standpoint... but it's not doing the human gene pool any favors.
imm getting the hell outta here...... it's depressing