Well, the infant mortality is explained elsewhere in the thread (sorry I didn't pull the entire debate into my one post for you), having to do with non-reporting in other nations of infants that die within the first 24 hours, and also their lack of intervention in threatened pregnancies... resulting in miscarrages, which again aren't counted as infant mortality.
So the life expectancy is poor data analysis, and so is the infant mortality. Is the data on maternal death during childbirth any better? I don't know, but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt after those first two.
It was written up as a tech failure (and not a people failure) because newsmen who call their sources stupid lose their sources. As others have pointed out, the answer to your question of why this is news is because of the system failure resulting is death.
Cliffs notes: Robots take over jobs. Efficiencies result in higher profits, not lower prices People are laid off, first with the bad workers, then with everyone else in a bottom-up fashion. Author does not explain why competition doesn't lower prices Author does not explain who is buying products with workforce laid off Rebellion is impossible due to surveillance, and society apparently does not have benefit of 1st or 2nd amendment. Gov't is corrupted because only the rich can get elected. The unemployed are imprisoned in huge housing projects. All the wealth is concentrated to evil CEOs who are wealthy by virtue of owning resources.
Protagonist gets to move to a commune due to his father having bought shares in a new corporation decades before. The commune is a utopia built by the corporation with dollars invested decades before. Shareholders are equal beneficiaries of robot labor with corporate resources. Robotic efficiencies result in almost free consumer goods, paid for with shareholder credits. Protagonist is once again living the relative rich life, by virtue of the investment his father made, while he neglects the poor (non-shareholders left in america). He does not reflect on this. Author does not explain how commune is governed that it avoids the corruption that befell america. Author mentions people in the communes have children, but does not address how the ownership of shares in the corporation, and the benefits they bestow, are passed to future generations.
"We have engineered intelligence into our 4 series graphics driver such that when a workload saturates graphics engine with pixel and vertex processing, the CPU can assist with DX10 geometry processing to enhance overall performance. 3DMarkVantage is one of those workloads, as are Call of Juarez, Crysis, Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions, and Company of Heroes. We have used similar techniques with DX9 in previous products and drivers. The benefit to users is optimized performance based on best use of the hardware available in the system. Our driver is currently in the certification process with Futuremark and we fully expect it will pass their certification as did our previous DX9 drivers. "
The article confirms that the driver also plays crysis faster if you don't rename it. Maybe 3DMark is obsolete now that drivers are optimizing for individual games.
You inferred an attempt to persuade where there was none. Parent said people don't do such-and-such, and I knew Denver was doing such-and-such. It was front page news. I didn't have to read through "50,000 budget decisions" to "cherry pick" anything. A quick cut-and-paste and the leading sentence of his two-page post is falsified, without moral judgment on the subject matter.
Strawmen don't fly well here. Backing off hyperbole and onto what was actually said, your insistence that "if spending is not at the level you think it should be, it has to do with someone thinking less is needed for that particular spending allotment, in a vacuum of any other consideration," is clearly made absurd by your use of the word "needed." Denver doesn't need less cops, the press coverage was pretty clear on that. Denver just has to pay less for something to balance the budget. Cops lost. The homeless might get 500 new homes, though, and some people think those priorities are wrong. Budget items can't be considered independently, as you claim they can, when they must all sum to equal the revenue. If you don't believe me, take your credit card out on the town and make a lot of decisions "in the vacuum of any other considerations" and let me know how that works out.
RTFA. Researchers registered domains that were next in line to receive messages from the infected machines, and listened to what was coming in.
Death doesn't have those costs.
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People who die remove critical knowledge and skills from the economy that makes a society function.
Please explain the critical knowledge and skills the average 74-year-old-going-to-die-tomorrow person uses to keep society functioning. Were you referring to... social security lobbying and walmart greeting?
Although aging and retiring are costs to society, dying is not. Heck, when you die society gets a bunch of your stuff, and the funeral industry gets a sort of cash-for-clunkers.
I agree with your sentiment, but shy away from words like 'impossible' where politics is concerned. Who would have guessed that the cops in the Rodney King incident would keep getting tried until they were convicted? I'm also not sure the simple facts in the constitution are read so simply. Apparently the 4th amendment discusses abortion. The 2nd covers only certain types of arms. And who knew the commerce clause was so broad?
Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
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The department of pre-crime will be able to see who thinks screwdrivers are for stabbing.
Grounds for a civil suit?
I don't think that word means what you think it means. (Alanis?)
An interesting concern, since the UK's waiting lists are forcing people to pull their own teeth with pliers and vodka. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article105238.ece
Well, the infant mortality is explained elsewhere in the thread (sorry I didn't pull the entire debate into my one post for you), having to do with non-reporting in other nations of infants that die within the first 24 hours, and also their lack of intervention in threatened pregnancies... resulting in miscarrages, which again aren't counted as infant mortality.
So the life expectancy is poor data analysis, and so is the infant mortality. Is the data on maternal death during childbirth any better? I don't know, but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt after those first two.
we drive more than anyone else, and the WHO includes accidents in "life expectancy."
It's the second funniest. The funniest is Lost Engineer's reply to the post
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1123995&cid=26815281
be sure to read the replies
It was written up as a tech failure (and not a people failure) because newsmen who call their sources stupid lose their sources. As others have pointed out, the answer to your question of why this is news is because of the system failure resulting is death.
A study found people with Rh-neg blood and toxoplasmosis had more accidents. Here's more info:
http://theshermanfoundation.blogspot.com/2009/06/toxoplasma-parasite-may-cause-humans-to.html
Cliffs notes:
Robots take over jobs.
Efficiencies result in higher profits, not lower prices
People are laid off, first with the bad workers, then with everyone else in a bottom-up fashion.
Author does not explain why competition doesn't lower prices
Author does not explain who is buying products with workforce laid off
Rebellion is impossible due to surveillance, and society apparently does not have benefit of 1st or 2nd amendment.
Gov't is corrupted because only the rich can get elected.
The unemployed are imprisoned in huge housing projects.
All the wealth is concentrated to evil CEOs who are wealthy by virtue of owning resources.
Protagonist gets to move to a commune due to his father having bought shares in a new corporation decades before.
The commune is a utopia built by the corporation with dollars invested decades before.
Shareholders are equal beneficiaries of robot labor with corporate resources.
Robotic efficiencies result in almost free consumer goods, paid for with shareholder credits.
Protagonist is once again living the relative rich life, by virtue of the investment his father made, while he neglects the poor (non-shareholders left in america). He does not reflect on this.
Author does not explain how commune is governed that it avoids the corruption that befell america.
Author mentions people in the communes have children, but does not address how the ownership of shares in the corporation, and the benefits they bestow, are passed to future generations.
will need to know how to use the new scheduling system now!
I think I found video of the coin battle mode
http://www.hulu.com/watch/57938/saturday-night-live-wii-guys
... the first MMO will use public surveillance cameras for input when populating their environment with NPCs.
But if you can show where these were all wrong, it'd be worth a Nobel
I don't think the bar for a Nobel is quite that high.
"We have engineered intelligence into our 4 series graphics driver such that when a workload saturates graphics engine with pixel and vertex processing, the CPU can assist with DX10 geometry processing to enhance overall performance. 3DMarkVantage is one of those workloads, as are Call of Juarez, Crysis, Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions, and Company of Heroes. We have used similar techniques with DX9 in previous products and drivers. The benefit to users is optimized performance based on best use of the hardware available in the system. Our driver is currently in the certification process with Futuremark and we fully expect it will pass their certification as did our previous DX9 drivers. "
The article confirms that the driver also plays crysis faster if you don't rename it. Maybe 3DMark is obsolete now that drivers are optimizing for individual games.
You inferred an attempt to persuade where there was none. Parent said people don't do such-and-such, and I knew Denver was doing such-and-such. It was front page news. I didn't have to read through "50,000 budget decisions" to "cherry pick" anything. A quick cut-and-paste and the leading sentence of his two-page post is falsified, without moral judgment on the subject matter.
Strawmen don't fly well here. Backing off hyperbole and onto what was actually said, your insistence that "if spending is not at the level you think it should be, it has to do with someone thinking less is needed for that particular spending allotment, in a vacuum of any other consideration," is clearly made absurd by your use of the word "needed." Denver doesn't need less cops, the press coverage was pretty clear on that. Denver just has to pay less for something to balance the budget. Cops lost. The homeless might get 500 new homes, though, and some people think those priorities are wrong. Budget items can't be considered independently, as you claim they can, when they must all sum to equal the revenue. If you don't believe me, take your credit card out on the town and make a lot of decisions "in the vacuum of any other considerations" and let me know how that works out.
maybe i should just stop trying to fight for truth
yes, maybe you should... at least until you calm down and not take a few newspaper links as a personal attack.
The Denver Mayor is cutting police funding (nearly 100 police will be laid off), and asking for 2.3 million to build 500 homes for the homeless. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21210487/detail.html http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20659996/detail.html http://www.denverpost.com/election08/ci_13249592
RTFA. Researchers registered domains that were next in line to receive messages from the infected machines, and listened to what was coming in.
People who die remove critical knowledge and skills from the economy that makes a society function.
Please explain the critical knowledge and skills the average 74-year-old-going-to-die-tomorrow person uses to keep society functioning. Were you referring to... social security lobbying and walmart greeting? Although aging and retiring are costs to society, dying is not. Heck, when you die society gets a bunch of your stuff, and the funeral industry gets a sort of cash-for-clunkers.
I agree with your sentiment, but shy away from words like 'impossible' where politics is concerned. Who would have guessed that the cops in the Rodney King incident would keep getting tried until they were convicted? I'm also not sure the simple facts in the constitution are read so simply. Apparently the 4th amendment discusses abortion. The 2nd covers only certain types of arms. And who knew the commerce clause was so broad?
Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
Any actual prosecution in the courts will be complicated by the ex-post-facto aspect of all these laws changing back and forth.
This talk should be an introduction to "singularity stuff" in the same way a John Stewart skit should be an introduction to "political stuff."