Most likely why were involved in foreign wars all the time...
Institutionalized misogyny is largely absent;
Though if your black or openly gay and then depending on where you live...
Hugely xenophobic attitudes towards other races are held by a minority of the population, again usually not well-thought-of by the rest.
Except some Fox News and former CNN commentators and the supposed 49% that watches them.
Hivemind-like business practices? Uh, no.
No, in America its called "Golden Parachute" practices... Where the CEO screws all the hardworking employees out of job and gets to retire while the poor saps go stand in the unemployment line.
Oh and we don't have pedophiles here that dress people up in cartoon outfits but rather altar boy outfits which their bosses then try to cover up... Of course that is more of a bigger problem than just the US. Just happened a lot over here.
And no, I'm not European, but I am just sick of American hypocrisy when talking about other nations... Yes, we aren't like Japan but we got our own set of problems which IMO view as a problem.
Maybe Japan's problems would be acceptable in my view as an American living in a major city, I can walk about two blocks and point out a drug dealer to you and a few places where someone got murdered. Oh and I took you on a tour of a school in this city, you'd be ashamed.
I'd be hard pressed in most European or Japanese cities to do the same.
Just because you live in a gated community with a good job and school, doesn't mean the rest of USA is like that. In fact, its really crappy in some places. The sad thing is that we can fix it, but we spend too much time fixing other nations problems and bailing out people who are already millionaires.
Easy. Morals (in the western world) does not always equate causing harm or preventing harm.
I mean, there is the issue of thou shalt not lie. I mean if you lie about something not being dangerous and someone gets hurt because of it, then that is about harm.
But lets say someone calls you up and asks you how's the weather, and you lie about it, then no one is going to usually die over that.
Also lets take a lot into consideration about gambling or say polygamy. Most people have moral offense to either, but they aren't exactly causing the deaths of people on a grand scale (or at all really).
It doesn't sound like a sound defense. Moral judgements have nothing to do with legality; there's nothing immoral about smoking pot, for example.
Mmmm... If can prove that you were forced to commit the crime under duress or under influence that was not of your choosing, then you usually won't be convicted.
Like assaulting someone after going under anethesiea and coming too during a panic at a hospital for example.
Actually a good anecdotal story, there was a guy at my old job who had an epileptic attack and hit a few people and cops and paramedics, they had to tackle him and hold him down and put a wallet in his mouth, but they didn't charge him because... Well... He's epileptic. Its what happens.
It hit the front page of BBC for a bit. May not be a big concern to gamers, but it did hit Sony with some major bad press that even non-gamer's will go "I was thinking about buying a Sony Camera, but I saw that article about the complaints and I guess I go with a Nikon"
So having a little number on the screen go from 100 to 85 DOESN'T trivialize gunshot wounds but adding some vibration does?
I don't know if you been playing video games much these days, but the hit boxes are pretty detailed so it knows when you are shot in the head, foot, stomach, back etc. If you felt a vibration on your back that would mean your being shot that way and would know which direction they are.
Some games have a red flash on an area of the screen to try to do this, but sometimes the visual guess are being overwhelming if you are being attacked in different directions.
Also... Most newer games dropped the 100 to 85 system and show a body silhouette that go from green to red as showing 0 to 100 all over would get confusing.
Seems like this works so well they want more of it... but in order for it to do all that they want it to do they'll have to divert resources from the manned flights that exist now.
Just a thought...
Manned flights may actually be over and done with in 20 years.
Considering the extra cost of the life support systems just for the pilot, the time it takes to train the pilot, the political problems if a pilot is captured, and the over all stress related issues that a pilot must face when during long air patrols, its no wonder they haven't scrapped maned aircraft already.
The only real objection I can think about to manned versus unmanned is jamming systems.
Though, that would give a manned pilot just as much trouble flying blind and if we are facing someone with said technology, its most likely Russia or China and we've got bigger problems. And if they are jamming us, that means we have air superiority as it would most likely affect their own craft guidance systems.
It's a load of bunk. (Biggest bit: A knife fight today is the same as a knife fight 10,000 years ago. Technology advances, but only to physical limits. Oh, and not only does nobody remember the Indians that Columbus met, but most Native peoples don't date themselves as "Post-Columbian" and "Pre-Columbian.")
Um... No.
In fact if an Native American met a crusader knight wearing chainmail, he's have a hard time killing him with a knife.
Actually, during Columbus's time, they still wore plate armor much of the time so that might be more problematic for the native american wielding the knife.
Anways after the gun became more eligible due to advances in muzzle velocity in the 1700's, they dropped the body armor and used guns. By the 1860's the bayonet was rendered mostly useless by rifling and trenches except for the most suicidal charges and by 1914 the majority of casualties were done by machine gun and artillery fire.
Though the native american would have a hard time stabbing a US soldier these days unless he aimed for the face but chances are that he's going to be stabbed or shot first.
Which leads me to my next point... Which I whole heartily agree with... That anyone sufficient to travel more than a light year has quite a bit of technology behind them.
You might be able to stab the alien but chances are they will have nano-technology to instantly heal the wound, but chances are they are using a remote drone anyways so if you did happen to kill the alien it would not really be the alien.
And if the Aliens did exist and wanted to kill us, they could do lots of things that we could not stop:
1. Drop a rock from orbit 2. emp the entire planet burning off the ozone and let us fry to death 3. drop self replicating nano-technology that simply eats us 4. send in wave after way of robot drones just for the fun of it
Hopefully, if there are Aliens they won't simply view us as insects as something to burn off but rather treat us like sentient beings and share their technology with us or just leave us alone like a nature reserve.
Quote: There are still people.. lots of them.. who will print out emails to read them. No technology will fix this.
No technology will fix this, but old age and death will.
Eventually given 20 to 50 years all of those workers will be long gone. Then you'll have people who have never learned how to use cursive or what was life before cells phones working those jobs.
Personally, I often get worried that I am showing my age when I don't accept a new technology as it might be signs that I am approaching that fateful date.
Find any government agency that's tried to do exceptionally well and you'll find that the smaller the scope of their responsibility the better they did.
NASA, DARPA, NSA, and most military branches.
And secondly... The USPS aint bad these days as it was like the 1980s. I chalk that up to the competition with FedEx, UPS, and email.
So true. Because any voice contrary to what we already believe should be feared and silenced!
I don't know.
If someone advocated that you were to be killed or let to die, then you have legitimate issue with it.
The key problem I have with people against socialized health-care is that they are indirectly advocating at the most murder and at the least negligible homicide when people are allowed to die because they didn't have insurance.
That said, this bill does nothing to improve health care to something like the Canada's or the UK.
I recently went into a local indie record store a few months ago and saw a stack of new cassette tapes for sale at the register.
And I was like: "Hah! Did someone find these in an old factory somewhere unopened?" Indie store guy: "No, these are brand new from a local artist." Me: "Ummm... Why?" Indie store guy: "Yeah its a new hot trend for local bands to make cassette tapes now instead of releasing them on CD or Vinyl" Me: "Ok... But can you even buy cassette players anymore?" Indie store guy: "Nope. But they still sell for some reason amoung the hipsters."
The entire premise for your argument that the honeypot is a stupid idea rests on an assumption that if the CIA didn't operate a jihadi site, all those same site visitors wouldn't be going to any number of other jihadi sites instead.
One point. Web development sometimes costs a bit of money and skill depending on traffic to the site.
At some point you have to figure out if you are actually saving terrorists money in hosting or development fees if the site gets too popular.
In that regards its easier to track money to real people than it is to IP addresses in internet cafee's in Yemen or Iran so if the terrorists had to pay their own bills, you could find it easier to find them by tracing the money they pay to their ISP back to them directly.
These images and this concept have been floating around for years now. The only new pitch is the solar-poweredness. Besides that, this is old hat just sitting on the back burner. Call me when there's a press demonstration
I think the main reason VR goggles never took off is that they:
1. Made you look dumb 2. Strained your eyes 3. were uncomfortable to wear on your head 4. cumbersome to use while interacting with the real world
With contacts, as long they don't strain your eyes then the majority of the problems would be solved.
That said, when I saw a article on this or something similar years ago, I wondered how comfortable it would be to have wires attached to your contacts to the power source.
And he's stops in the middle of the presentation and turns to the audience and says "You know... This is actually scary."
Oh and don't forget about the military use of Pro-Vigil etc in their fighter pilots.
Yes... I know you mostly mean how technology hasn't really changed the way people think in terms of cell phones and the internet, but some technology is actually changing the biology of the human mind.
And also... One last think. Instead of replacing competitors ads with your, when not the user just replace them with nothing at all.
I was watching TV the other night and thought how cool it would be if I just have add block for my eyes.
The upgrade paths for Apple have been far more expensive, for far less features.
Recently I bought $29 Snow Leopard and a blank hard drive to upgrade a Macbook simultaneously and discovered that it never asked to see either the previous partition or an old install CD like the MS upgrades do. I even hard the Leopard CD out ready to show it.
Though it did say "DON'T STEAL" on the Snow Leopard Box.
So in theory... If you're hardware can run it... Its only $29.
Anways... Every OS X upgrade see the main improvement that I am concerned with rather than features which is mainly speed and performance.
Which is why Win7 was way better than Vista in my eyes.
When you tie yourself to Microsoft Office you have physical possession of the software and they can't change it from under you. When you buy a copy of Microsoft Office and use it to script your business and finance operations, you can count on it continuing to work for 10 years, no question, as long as you can keep the hardware running, and then as long as you can run the OS in a VM.
Hallooo!
2 points I would like to make:
1. You can download your Google information into txt or csv files which basically can be used by any program out there.
2. Microsoft ninja'd properitaried office 2007 with the whole.docx and.xlsx and although you could plod happily along with your office 97, if you sent your file to someone else who had Office 2007 and then worked on your file, saved it, and sent it back to you then your SOL by default. You could email the person back and say, "Hey this file doesn't work for me? Save it in the old version in the Save As page"... Well depending on the person YMMV.
Oh and something I thought of in addition...
3. Thirdly... Old hardware breaks and floppy disks decay.
...but am I the only person here who senses an innate danger to entrusting one's data to a for-profit entity? I simply cannot fathom a scenario in which I would create a business-critical or personal spreadsheet to be stored on a Google server.
I use Google spreadsheets to share the monthly bills with room mates and grocery shopping expenses.
Though I don't know if that is business mission critical... I wouldn't be upset if someone saw or destroyed that data.
Score: Computer Science Degree for me, MacDonald's for multitaskers
Sadly, I've worked for a few fortune 500 it desks that demanded things that were impossible to do unless you were ADD.
And no you can't stay more than 60 hours a week uncomped because they were already sued for that... So they specifically said to do things while you were doing other things when someone objected to the lack of time to complete said objectives.
Considering they laid off half their workforce... And fired anyone for the most inconsequential thing.
I'm glad I resigned... Anyways.
Just saying there are a few major companies out there that not only suggest multi-tasking... But demand it in writing.
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Yes, but how does this help me play my flash based games!!
Simple. You buy the paid version off the iTunes store.
(you see what they did there?)
Apparently CPU power for transcoding Flash and bandwidth for streaming the result are both free, if the cloud is involved. What's in it for them?
Erm... Chances are (as this is for the iPad) you can only get the App by paying for it on the iTunes store.
This is hypocritical, especially considering that the SWF format is totally open and people have written their own interpretters.
Have you tried to make a Flash game using tools only on Linux without the Adobe suite?
Actually... Have you even tried to get Youtube running on Firefox on Linux without typing a command in the console?
Video games, whores, web conferencing, etc.
Which is why Flash will never die, but we won't miss it either when its not around...
Meetings are not the scourge of business, improperly managed meetings are.
Excessive meetings tend to be the symptom of an improperly managed business.
America lacks almost completely the equating of product defects with moral defects.
Exactly why the FDA and many other organizations have to mandate it so we won't have poop in our cereal and rotting meat sold to us for a profit.
It lacks a deep insecurity of its own culture
Most likely why were involved in foreign wars all the time...
Institutionalized misogyny is largely absent;
Though if your black or openly gay and then depending on where you live...
Hugely xenophobic attitudes towards other races are held by a minority of the population, again usually not well-thought-of by the rest.
Except some Fox News and former CNN commentators and the supposed 49% that watches them.
Hivemind-like business practices? Uh, no.
No, in America its called "Golden Parachute" practices... Where the CEO screws all the hardworking employees out of job and gets to retire while the poor saps go stand in the unemployment line.
Oh and we don't have pedophiles here that dress people up in cartoon outfits but rather altar boy outfits which their bosses then try to cover up... Of course that is more of a bigger problem than just the US. Just happened a lot over here.
And no, I'm not European, but I am just sick of American hypocrisy when talking about other nations... Yes, we aren't like Japan but we got our own set of problems which IMO view as a problem.
Maybe Japan's problems would be acceptable in my view as an American living in a major city, I can walk about two blocks and point out a drug dealer to you and a few places where someone got murdered. Oh and I took you on a tour of a school in this city, you'd be ashamed.
I'd be hard pressed in most European or Japanese cities to do the same.
Just because you live in a gated community with a good job and school, doesn't mean the rest of USA is like that. In fact, its really crappy in some places. The sad thing is that we can fix it, but we spend too much time fixing other nations problems and bailing out people who are already millionaires.
Something over here doesn't sit right with me...
What distinction are they making between the two?
Easy. Morals (in the western world) does not always equate causing harm or preventing harm.
I mean, there is the issue of thou shalt not lie. I mean if you lie about something not being dangerous and someone gets hurt because of it, then that is about harm.
But lets say someone calls you up and asks you how's the weather, and you lie about it, then no one is going to usually die over that.
Also lets take a lot into consideration about gambling or say polygamy. Most people have moral offense to either, but they aren't exactly causing the deaths of people on a grand scale (or at all really).
It doesn't sound like a sound defense. Moral judgements have nothing to do with legality; there's nothing immoral about smoking pot, for example.
Mmmm... If can prove that you were forced to commit the crime under duress or under influence that was not of your choosing, then you usually won't be convicted.
Like assaulting someone after going under anethesiea and coming too during a panic at a hospital for example.
Actually a good anecdotal story, there was a guy at my old job who had an epileptic attack and hit a few people and cops and paramedics, they had to tackle him and hold him down and put a wallet in his mouth, but they didn't charge him because... Well... He's epileptic. Its what happens.
It hit the front page of BBC for a bit. May not be a big concern to gamers, but it did hit Sony with some major bad press that even non-gamer's will go "I was thinking about buying a Sony Camera, but I saw that article about the complaints and I guess I go with a Nikon"
So having a little number on the screen go from 100 to 85 DOESN'T trivialize gunshot wounds but adding some vibration does?
I don't know if you been playing video games much these days, but the hit boxes are pretty detailed so it knows when you are shot in the head, foot, stomach, back etc. If you felt a vibration on your back that would mean your being shot that way and would know which direction they are.
Some games have a red flash on an area of the screen to try to do this, but sometimes the visual guess are being overwhelming if you are being attacked in different directions.
Also... Most newer games dropped the 100 to 85 system and show a body silhouette that go from green to red as showing 0 to 100 all over would get confusing.
Seems like this works so well they want more of it... but in order for it to do all that they want it to do they'll have to divert resources from the manned flights that exist now.
Just a thought...
Manned flights may actually be over and done with in 20 years.
Considering the extra cost of the life support systems just for the pilot, the time it takes to train the pilot, the political problems if a pilot is captured, and the over all stress related issues that a pilot must face when during long air patrols, its no wonder they haven't scrapped maned aircraft already.
The only real objection I can think about to manned versus unmanned is jamming systems.
Though, that would give a manned pilot just as much trouble flying blind and if we are facing someone with said technology, its most likely Russia or China and we've got bigger problems. And if they are jamming us, that means we have air superiority as it would most likely affect their own craft guidance systems.
It's a load of bunk. (Biggest bit: A knife fight today is the same as a knife fight 10,000 years ago. Technology advances, but only to physical limits. Oh, and not only does nobody remember the Indians that Columbus met, but most Native peoples don't date themselves as "Post-Columbian" and "Pre-Columbian.")
Um... No.
In fact if an Native American met a crusader knight wearing chainmail, he's have a hard time killing him with a knife.
Actually, during Columbus's time, they still wore plate armor much of the time so that might be more problematic for the native american wielding the knife.
Anways after the gun became more eligible due to advances in muzzle velocity in the 1700's, they dropped the body armor and used guns. By the 1860's the bayonet was rendered mostly useless by rifling and trenches except for the most suicidal charges and by 1914 the majority of casualties were done by machine gun and artillery fire.
Though the native american would have a hard time stabbing a US soldier these days unless he aimed for the face but chances are that he's going to be stabbed or shot first.
Which leads me to my next point... Which I whole heartily agree with... That anyone sufficient to travel more than a light year has quite a bit of technology behind them.
You might be able to stab the alien but chances are they will have nano-technology to instantly heal the wound, but chances are they are using a remote drone anyways so if you did happen to kill the alien it would not really be the alien.
And if the Aliens did exist and wanted to kill us, they could do lots of things that we could not stop:
1. Drop a rock from orbit
2. emp the entire planet burning off the ozone and let us fry to death
3. drop self replicating nano-technology that simply eats us
4. send in wave after way of robot drones just for the fun of it
Hopefully, if there are Aliens they won't simply view us as insects as something to burn off but rather treat us like sentient beings and share their technology with us or just leave us alone like a nature reserve.
Beyond that... There is nothing we can really do.
Otherwise...
Quote: There are still people.. lots of them.. who will print out emails to read them. No technology will fix this.
No technology will fix this, but old age and death will.
Eventually given 20 to 50 years all of those workers will be long gone. Then you'll have people who have never learned how to use cursive or what was life before cells phones working those jobs.
Personally, I often get worried that I am showing my age when I don't accept a new technology as it might be signs that I am approaching that fateful date.
Find any government agency that's tried to do exceptionally well and you'll find that the smaller the scope of their responsibility the better they did.
NASA, DARPA, NSA, and most military branches.
And secondly... The USPS aint bad these days as it was like the 1980s. I chalk that up to the competition with FedEx, UPS, and email.
So true. Because any voice contrary to what we already believe should be feared and silenced!
I don't know.
If someone advocated that you were to be killed or let to die, then you have legitimate issue with it.
The key problem I have with people against socialized health-care is that they are indirectly advocating at the most murder and at the least negligible homicide when people are allowed to die because they didn't have insurance.
That said, this bill does nothing to improve health care to something like the Canada's or the UK.
Vinyl sales are rising because people are fools.
I recently went into a local indie record store a few months ago and saw a stack of new cassette tapes for sale at the register.
And I was like: "Hah! Did someone find these in an old factory somewhere unopened?"
Indie store guy: "No, these are brand new from a local artist."
Me: "Ummm... Why?"
Indie store guy: "Yeah its a new hot trend for local bands to make cassette tapes now instead of releasing them on CD or Vinyl"
Me: "Ok... But can you even buy cassette players anymore?"
Indie store guy: "Nope. But they still sell for some reason amoung the hipsters."
With their tutelage, the CIA became a formidable tool against the Soviet threat throughout the cold war.
I hate to say this, but because of the Soviet infiltration in MI5, the CIA lost a lot of people and organizations in the field.
The entire premise for your argument that the honeypot is a stupid idea rests on an assumption that if the CIA didn't operate a jihadi site, all those same site visitors wouldn't be going to any number of other jihadi sites instead.
One point. Web development sometimes costs a bit of money and skill depending on traffic to the site.
At some point you have to figure out if you are actually saving terrorists money in hosting or development fees if the site gets too popular.
In that regards its easier to track money to real people than it is to IP addresses in internet cafee's in Yemen or Iran so if the terrorists had to pay their own bills, you could find it easier to find them by tracing the money they pay to their ISP back to them directly.
These images and this concept have been floating around for years now. The only new pitch is the solar-poweredness. Besides that, this is old hat just sitting on the back burner. Call me when there's a press demonstration
I think the main reason VR goggles never took off is that they:
1. Made you look dumb
2. Strained your eyes
3. were uncomfortable to wear on your head
4. cumbersome to use while interacting with the real world
With contacts, as long they don't strain your eyes then the majority of the problems would be solved.
That said, when I saw a article on this or something similar years ago, I wondered how comfortable it would be to have wires attached to your contacts to the power source.
The solar power kind of solves that.
Technology does not change the way people think.
Depends:
1. If technology involves chemicals or invasive measures to the neural system.
or
2. If the technology involved traumatic or behavior changing events that result in a self induced neural change of sorts.
You may think I'm being funny...
But check out this guy's talk at standford and a video demonstration on who he basically changed the way rats behaved with fiber optics in their brain.
And he's stops in the middle of the presentation and turns to the audience and says "You know... This is actually scary."
Oh and don't forget about the military use of Pro-Vigil etc in their fighter pilots.
Yes... I know you mostly mean how technology hasn't really changed the way people think in terms of cell phones and the internet, but some technology is actually changing the biology of the human mind.
And also... One last think. Instead of replacing competitors ads with your, when not the user just replace them with nothing at all.
I was watching TV the other night and thought how cool it would be if I just have add block for my eyes.
The upgrade paths for Apple have been far more expensive, for far less features.
Recently I bought $29 Snow Leopard and a blank hard drive to upgrade a Macbook simultaneously and discovered that it never asked to see either the previous partition or an old install CD like the MS upgrades do. I even hard the Leopard CD out ready to show it.
Though it did say "DON'T STEAL" on the Snow Leopard Box.
So in theory... If you're hardware can run it... Its only $29.
Anways... Every OS X upgrade see the main improvement that I am concerned with rather than features which is mainly speed and performance.
Which is why Win7 was way better than Vista in my eyes.
Seizure of intellectual property doesn't mean you don't have it any more, it means so does your competition, thus greatly reducing its value.
Ergo the real reason of why no company should base their stock value around their IP property and lawyers.
As in you're only one law or lawsuit away from going broke.
When you tie yourself to Microsoft Office you have physical possession of the software and they can't change it from under you. When you buy a copy of Microsoft Office and use it to script your business and finance operations, you can count on it continuing to work for 10 years, no question, as long as you can keep the hardware running, and then as long as you can run the OS in a VM.
Hallooo!
2 points I would like to make:
1. You can download your Google information into txt or csv files which basically can be used by any program out there.
2. Microsoft ninja'd properitaried office 2007 with the whole .docx and .xlsx and although you could plod happily along with your office 97, if you sent your file to someone else who had Office 2007 and then worked on your file, saved it, and sent it back to you then your SOL by default. You could email the person back and say, "Hey this file doesn't work for me? Save it in the old version in the Save As page"... Well depending on the person YMMV.
Oh and something I thought of in addition...
3. Thirdly... Old hardware breaks and floppy disks decay.
...but am I the only person here who senses an innate danger to entrusting one's data to a for-profit entity? I simply cannot fathom a scenario in which I would create a business-critical or personal spreadsheet to be stored on a Google server.
I use Google spreadsheets to share the monthly bills with room mates and grocery shopping expenses.
Though I don't know if that is business mission critical... I wouldn't be upset if someone saw or destroyed that data.
Score: Computer Science Degree for me, MacDonald's for multitaskers
Sadly, I've worked for a few fortune 500 it desks that demanded things that were impossible to do unless you were ADD.
And no you can't stay more than 60 hours a week uncomped because they were already sued for that... So they specifically said to do things while you were doing other things when someone objected to the lack of time to complete said objectives.
Considering they laid off half their workforce... And fired anyone for the most inconsequential thing.
I'm glad I resigned... Anyways.
Just saying there are a few major companies out there that not only suggest multi-tasking... But demand it in writing.