Imagine being able to ask google "in one paragraph, summarize the most influential inventions of 2015". Not the most interesting or illuminating example, but you get the idea.
user: in one paragraph, summarize the most influential inventions of 2015 google: my AI.
The NanoBusiness Alliance, a group of large and small businesses, is looking at working with other groups to conduct an economic analysis of the level of funding that is needed for environmental health and safety research in the coming year.
typically, just enough to not be liable if/when it hits the fan.
i thought "Anti-Paparazzi Flash, The";-) was a totally cool idea. if it could be fine tuned massively, even as just a detector, it would help the paranoid. find out when the [ 3-letter-org ] is tailing u. ofcourse, it wouldn't work...but if u're truly paranoid, nothing will.
it's called Water Joe and i've heard good things about it...but only from coffee "enthusiasts". it can be made freakishly strong...especially if u try something crazy like brewing it twice. i think i'll try that if i ever get my hands on some.
pointing out the fact that i/we weren't under the influence while the observations were made. we weren't there to see the stars or look at anything specific...so there goes ur "astronomers trying to look like jocks" theory.
bragging about getting drunk...? talk about projecting! Freudian Projection:
"The individual perceives in others the motive he denies having himself. Thus the cheat is sure that everyone else is dishonest. The would-be adulterer accuses his wife of infidelity."
"A defense mechanism in which the individual attributes to other people impulses and traits that he himself has but cannot accept. It is especially likely to occur when the person lacks insight into his own impulses and traits."
me and a bunch of friends were at a hill station sorta place (on nov. 3rd, 0100-0400). very little ambient town light so it was those typical starry nights u never see in the city...really starry.
between the 5 of us we saw 5-6 of these. none of them were bright enough to be "fireballs" but of one them, which i missed, was bright enough for me to see the area light up from the flash.
probably so that if the car does do well (results aside), then they won't have to re-invent what they've already done when they want to expand on the idea ie. autonomous car testing, etc.
It's not like they'd be making use of spotlight or having a dashboard widget drive the car!
expand implies they might. design issues aside, speed and reliability would/should be the main reasons for choosing an OS. versatility and future integration would be "bigger picture" reasons that might also be part of the decision.
while i personally would've gone with linux or a *nix, in a large enough group of evangelists u'll obviously find alternate and/or opposing views.
being familiar with the inner workings of any system is another obvious reason (as stated before). the article mentions the lead guys' experiences with apple.
it's cool that there are several OSes involved in the race but it's not a big deal that a particular team picked OS X (unless it was a company with conflicting interests; which is not the case here).
if one person/entity (AI or alien or other) is using a console with fixed font size of 19x19 pixels and the other is using a GUI version of the same app that displays it as a 19x19 pixel emoticon OR (boolean) vice-versa, has one caused the other OR both to break the patent?
1. A method, comprising: selecting pixels to be used as an emoticon; assigning a character sequence to the pixels; and transmitting the character sequence to a destination to allow for reconstruction of the pixels at the destination.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the pixels comprise a pixel array of pre-determined dimensions.
3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the pixels comprise a 19.times.19 pixel grid.
from 2, the emoticon's size is pre-determined. from 3, it's a 19x19 grid.
can MS spell redundant?
so don't use 19x19 images, well wtf, make it 20x20 with the last row and column being transparent/background (which any lawyer could argue is NOT a 19x19 image).
in the meanwhile, someone else can patent emoticon resizing (perhaps based on the font size) so MS can't use anything but 19x19s across source to destination.
curiously, in all the excitment of writing up this innovative patent, did the lawyers miss something i.e. destination/destinations. so the patent doesn't cover any conversation involving more than 2 ppl (or is that implicit: no such thing for MS lawyers).
that whole arm/grapple thing is almost like the one in 'batman forever' on nintendo gameboy...45 deg, vertical and horizontal "deployment" for the grapple. and just hanging or climbing down wasn't an option.
used extensively in the (2nd) level where u're supposed to defuse the bomb at the circus.
that might work if they had something obvious that made it a parody before they were "In Trouble Over Free Music".
anyways, they (BBC) are giving stuff away for free that was performed by the BBC Orchestra. if it was someone else's product being discounted by the govt then it would constitute unfair government competition (imho).
and what does the "claim" mean? that if anything in any form ever had a cost, no one can ever give it for free? or just not the government? in either case, that's just sad (and VERY VERY stupid).
i think (read: imho) they're just picking up on the popularity of battlestar galactica with "the online community" before it aired on sci-fi channel at primetime. (i think it was sky-one before that).
cool way to get a bunch of geeks to check out something (boosh) they may not have bothered with otherwise.
my 0.02 euro.
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maybe people have started taking an extreme liking to more life-like* FPS. factors like recoil, spray, real-world guns...
i have no preference in this coz either type can be as entertaining. for multi-player, it depends entirely on the kind of ppl u play with**. interesting story lines help (though not for repetitive gameplay).
* i don't mean ppl actually going around killing each other...like they do in real life. ** (for the really anal)...the kind of ppl with whom u play.
real life and games. one good reason not to do an ALL OUT religious game: people tend to be fanatics about religion more than anything else. and they get irrational about things that obviously don't mean any harm/ill-will.
imho, doom et al don't motivate kids to kill their classmates. but a game with a religious base is just asking for trouble...more than it's worth. in GTA, where u kill everyone: innocent ppl of various backgrounds and ethnicity's, prostitutes, cops, criminals, etc. it's all OK, it's not personal (and even then, it received complaints from various groups). but when u represent some sort of religious-someone killing ppl of other religions, it's very specific. asking for a boatload of trouble.
even if it's a peaceful game (like The Longest Journey which i played recently), religious leaders and followers may take offense to implications of religious unity/mixing and any kind of "religion X is better than religion Y"-attitude (prepend 'ppl of' for added effect).
so (assuming u wanted to avoid aforementioned issues) how interesting could a religious game be? all i can think of is educational games for kids.
if they're trying to log keystrokes along with internet activity, now the employer will have to go to their ISP to find out...since they are required to know what ppl are doing online.;-)
i wonder if they'll need a subpoena for records about themselves...
in bombay/mumbai (india), they aren't. most roads have a 40 kph (25 mph) speed limit. this includes overpasses which actually have it specifically mentioned. if anyone actually drives at that speed, there WILL be a lot of accidents.
on one such overpass, i was doing about 65-70 kph, which is slower than most ppl (and lil faster than trucks). which was enough to slowly overtake a police car. i.e. they were going at about 60 kph. no sirens and in the left lane (the slow one), just crusing.
if gps was used to track speeds, the government would make a load of cash, coz the speed limits are set ridiculously low everywhere. the govt's idea of fast is 60 kph (37 mph) on highways and 80 kph (50 mph) on expressways. only cars that are breaking down (flat tyre, overheating) travel at that speed. police cars included.
fortunately, there are only a few roads that have police with those radar speed guns actually checking. but the point is: if they wanted to give u a hard time for speeding, they could.
btw, the police cars here break most of the rules as a "this is how it is" thing. signals, speed limits, no parking, paking on the road, etc. so they ARE above the law in that sense. unless they do someting quite bad, they never get heat for it.
when was the last time you played a non-RPG that portrayed romance, that centered around relationships, that placed cooperation above competition, and didn't marginalize women as sex-objects or helpless damsels in distress?
the longest journey
bit of romance (talk/implied). all of the others. it was an RPG though. 3.5 of 5?
how exactly would a non-RPG portray romance?
there was this game review i saw...it's an FPS about a couple's child who gets kidnapped/goes missing. the mother jumps on to the father's back and they go on a (murderous) rampage instead of leaving it to the authorities. it's supposed to be fun, not gory. (even had that move where the bad guys bounce in the air with consecutive shotgun shots). they weren't human btw. kinda wookie looking. and it wasn't initially for PCs. so it's "...a non-RPG (FPS) that portrayed romance (most likely), that centered around relationships (2 diff types: husband + wife and parent + child), that placed cooperation above competition (between husband and wife?:P), and didn't marginalize women as sex-objects or helpless damsels in distress (not at all, though i don't know the gender of the child/baby...definitlely not old enough to be a damsel and not a sex object to most ppl)."
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longest journey moment: the hover/shuttle bus which crashes and the stat from the cop "it's the safest mode of travel...if you're not in it."
so imagine how much worse it'll get if/when 5th element mode-of-travel becomes current tech (read: reality).
google: my AI.
not if the Google rep(s) and Dr. Lee were thrown-chaired-to-death into agreeing to MS's terms.
i thought "Anti-Paparazzi Flash, The" ;-) was a totally cool idea. if it could be fine tuned massively, even as just a detector, it would help the paranoid. find out when the [ 3-letter-org ] is tailing u. ofcourse, it wouldn't work...but if u're truly paranoid, nothing will.
it's called Water Joe and i've heard good things about it...but only from coffee "enthusiasts". it can be made freakishly strong...especially if u try something crazy like brewing it twice. i think i'll try that if i ever get my hands on some.
...at "Readers beware: Motivated by pure venom, I'm going to spoil the hell out of this episode."
this reminds me of "Sound of the Day".
archives go back to Dec 2004. (wrt to geotagged freesounds it wouldn't be much but that's still +~365...and it's interesting)
spiderzilla currently still works only under mozilla. dunno why it hasn't been updated to work with firefox yet.
bragging about getting drunk...? talk about projecting!
Freudian Projection: more info on ur issues here.
me and a bunch of friends were at a hill station sorta place (on nov. 3rd, 0100-0400). very little ambient town light so it was those typical starry nights u never see in the city...really starry.
between the 5 of us we saw 5-6 of these. none of them were bright enough to be "fireballs" but of one them, which i missed, was bright enough for me to see the area light up from the flash.
this was before we got drunk.
there are already 2 (basic) entries in about:config...
security.enable_ssl2
security.enable_ssl3
there are more pertaining to specific encryptions like security.ssl2.des_ede3_192 and security.ssl3.dhe_dss_aes_256_sha.
(right click -> 'toggle' to disable)
i do agree that they shouldn't remove it; just 'disable by default'.
i welcome our new...oh shpx it.
when can we grow our own "implants"?
expand implies they might. design issues aside, speed and reliability would/should be the main reasons for choosing an OS. versatility and future integration would be "bigger picture" reasons that might also be part of the decision.
while i personally would've gone with linux or a *nix, in a large enough group of evangelists u'll obviously find alternate and/or opposing views.
being familiar with the inner workings of any system is another obvious reason (as stated before). the article mentions the lead guys' experiences with apple.
it's cool that there are several OSes involved in the race but it's not a big deal that a particular team picked OS X (unless it was a company with conflicting interests; which is not the case here).
if one person/entity (AI or alien or other) is using a console with fixed font size of 19x19 pixels and the other is using a GUI version of the same app that displays it as a 19x19 pixel emoticon OR (boolean) vice-versa, has one caused the other OR both to break the patent?
from 3, it's a 19x19 grid.
can MS spell redundant?
so don't use 19x19 images, well wtf, make it 20x20 with the last row and column being transparent/background (which any lawyer could argue is NOT a 19x19 image).
in the meanwhile, someone else can patent emoticon resizing (perhaps based on the font size) so MS can't use anything but 19x19s across source to destination.
curiously, in all the excitment of writing up this innovative patent, did the lawyers miss something i.e. destination/destinations. so the patent doesn't cover any conversation involving more than 2 ppl (or is that implicit: no such thing for MS lawyers).
that whole arm/grapple thing is almost like the one in 'batman forever' on nintendo gameboy...45 deg, vertical and horizontal "deployment" for the grapple. and just hanging or climbing down wasn't an option.
used extensively in the (2nd) level where u're supposed to defuse the bomb at the circus.
that might work if they had something obvious that made it a parody before they were "In Trouble Over Free Music".
anyways, they (BBC) are giving stuff away for free that was performed by the BBC Orchestra. if it was someone else's product being discounted by the govt then it would constitute unfair government competition (imho).
and what does the "claim" mean? that if anything in any form ever had a cost, no one can ever give it for free? or just not the government? in either case, that's just sad (and VERY VERY stupid).
i think (read: imho) they're just picking up on the popularity of battlestar galactica with "the online community" before it aired on sci-fi channel at primetime. (i think it was sky-one before that).
cool way to get a bunch of geeks to check out something (boosh) they may not have bothered with otherwise.
my 0.02 euro.
maybe people have started taking an extreme liking to more life-like* FPS. factors like recoil, spray, real-world guns...
...the kind of ppl with whom u play.
i have no preference in this coz either type can be as entertaining. for multi-player, it depends entirely on the kind of ppl u play with**. interesting story lines help (though not for repetitive gameplay).
* i don't mean ppl actually going around killing each other...like they do in real life.
** (for the really anal)
real life and games. one good reason not to do an ALL OUT religious game: people tend to be fanatics about religion more than anything else. and they get irrational about things that obviously don't mean any harm/ill-will.
imho, doom et al don't motivate kids to kill their classmates. but a game with a religious base is just asking for trouble...more than it's worth. in GTA, where u kill everyone: innocent ppl of various backgrounds and ethnicity's, prostitutes, cops, criminals, etc. it's all OK, it's not personal (and even then, it received complaints from various groups). but when u represent some sort of religious-someone killing ppl of other religions, it's very specific. asking for a boatload of trouble.
even if it's a peaceful game (like The Longest Journey which i played recently), religious leaders and followers may take offense to implications of religious unity/mixing and any kind of "religion X is better than religion Y"-attitude (prepend 'ppl of' for added effect).
so (assuming u wanted to avoid aforementioned issues) how interesting could a religious game be? all i can think of is educational games for kids.
umm. call centres.
(ps: "claimed" fact)
if they're trying to log keystrokes along with internet activity, now the employer will have to go to their ISP to find out...since they are required to know what ppl are doing online. ;-)
i wonder if they'll need a subpoena for records about themselves...
in bombay/mumbai (india), they aren't. most roads have a 40 kph (25 mph) speed limit. this includes overpasses which actually have it specifically mentioned. if anyone actually drives at that speed, there WILL be a lot of accidents.
on one such overpass, i was doing about 65-70 kph, which is slower than most ppl (and lil faster than trucks). which was enough to slowly overtake a police car. i.e. they were going at about 60 kph. no sirens and in the left lane (the slow one), just crusing.
if gps was used to track speeds, the government would make a load of cash, coz the speed limits are set ridiculously low everywhere. the govt's idea of fast is 60 kph (37 mph) on highways and 80 kph (50 mph) on expressways. only cars that are breaking down (flat tyre, overheating) travel at that speed. police cars included.
fortunately, there are only a few roads that have police with those radar speed guns actually checking. but the point is: if they wanted to give u a hard time for speeding, they could.
btw, the police cars here break most of the rules as a "this is how it is" thing. signals, speed limits, no parking, paking on the road, etc. so they ARE above the law in that sense. unless they do someting quite bad, they never get heat for it.
bit of romance (talk/implied). all of the others. it was an RPG though.
3.5 of 5?
how exactly would a non-RPG portray romance?
there was this game review i saw...it's an FPS about a couple's child who gets kidnapped/goes missing. the mother jumps on to the father's back and they go on a (murderous) rampage instead of leaving it to the authorities. it's supposed to be fun, not gory. (even had that move where the bad guys bounce in the air with consecutive shotgun shots). they weren't human btw. kinda wookie looking. and it wasn't initially for PCs.
so it's
"...a non-RPG (FPS) that portrayed romance (most likely), that centered around relationships (2 diff types: husband + wife and parent + child), that placed cooperation above competition (between husband and wife?