To be impressed, they need to really do something that you know is really difficult.
Who cares if you blue screen a car jumping 60' over a truck (gone in 60 seconds 2000 edition).
But the original is still impressive today.. The car really did the jump.
A real person on a real ledge 60 stories up is tense. A real person on a fake ledge 60 stories up is a yawn. A fake person on a fake ledge is only there to tell the story-- not to be impressive.
That's okay if you have a good story and at some point the person needs to walk on a ledge over the street.
It's not okay if the entire point of the scene is how dangerous walking 60 stories up is (or how close the CGI rendered blade came (Last Avatar) or how far the car jumped over a truck (gone in 60 seconds), etc.
There are things with Martin in Lewis in the Colgate comedy hour which are so impressive, I don't think people do them any more. They are swinging and tossing around this 5' dancing lady-- at one point Lewis falls backwards, bending at the knees, to his frikkin shoulders-- JUST as her feet swing through/over him, and he literally bounces right back up off his shoulders to a standing position. This was on LIVE TV. They really did it. If they were even slightly wrong he would have been kicked hard and things would have collapsed. There was real risk.
Actually, this is one of the governments proper purposes. To be wise and lead.
Just as they "force" us to wear seatbelts (and save a lot of lives while irritating many) and "force" us to pay higher prices for food, they are going to "force" us to pay higher prices for internet... but hopefully it will maintain our productivity advantage over the rest of the world and preserve our pay levels.
And a lot of people will bitch about it (including many who will benefit from it).
Personally- I agree with the other poster that they already paid for this upgrade and the Telco companies stole the money.
Reasonably well put for this particular argument. It doesn't mean it's not a fallacy to the proper argument form.
I get your point, if anyone takes the lead, then everyone benefits.
It's kind of a reverse "tragedy of the commons". It has a name too- and hard data showing that you are much more likely get help from one person than from a group- because in a group, everyone is waiting for someone else to go first.
However, since it's very expensive to test these things, really you need to get a group of people to donate money so one person can lead the fight.
For example, if I donate to wikileaks and no one else does, it goes down with $50 dollars worth of donations. Collective action is required tho only one person can lead the case, they need financial support of many. Same thing for supreme court cases.
"We are headed towards the waterfalls, we need to row towards shore" "You want it so much, why don't you row while I sit back"
"We are short on food, or we will starve before we get to civilization!" "You think food's a problem, you stop eating. I'm going to chow down."
"We need to address overpopulation before it becomes critical!" "You think overpopulation is a problem then shoot yourself, I'm having 4 kids and banning birth control foreign aid."
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The correct process in a democracy, discussion or debate is, you raise the issue, folks discuss it, and a majority (or judges) (or the one with the gun) decides.
I'm sure there is a formal fallacy name for this approach. It's just stupid and I hope folks can see how it would often lead to anarchy and the worst possible results.
If they are watching video, they have the potential to need it with very little warning. I have low tech friends who went to bluray + netflix before I did.
You go from 0 to 120 in 2 seconds the instant you start watching heavy netflix.
I'm not sure if the local providers can buffer netflix for multiple users either. (Anyone know if they can?)
It's an obvious improvement for any popular movie to keep copies buffered in various internet spots so it's not all coming from netflix every time.
We let a single large provider (or perhaps two) get a monopoly on an area for extended periods of time (up to 25 years) in return for a tiny amount of money to the local government.
It's why our service is so bad. Eventually someone else "drives around" the provider with new technology but it can take decades.
The internet should really be a utility like electricity.
And I agree with one of the other posters. We are losing the producer/creator mentality as to serving content. But you can set up a site inexpensively on a provider and upload/download your content.
I've noticed my connection has gotten faster. I used to top out at 33mb/s upload on comcast in houston. I now hit 60 to 90mb/s. I've hit 120mb/s a few times. So upgrades are happening.
I also use more 3g/4g (and consume about 500mb to 1gb per month).
I use AVG, not sure what is best free virus scanner. Don't think the commercial scanners are significantly better (maybe not better at all) than the free ones.
This is news? It was apparent as early as the 80's that content sharing groups do so out of pride and altruism. They care about getting out first. They care about getting a rep.
Most users Don't care and just want the content. Are happy to share content they have to get new content.
If the RIAA/ Government actually shuts it down, The size of the market is much smaller than they think. There is a lot of free content out there and it is improving in quality and popularity.
My work has tried 3 or 4 times to make programmers generic glorp since 2000.
Our main system has 3 to 4 million lines. Our overall system is composed of over 10 systems this size (but the rest are owned by businesses so we don't actually code them but we do interface with them and each interface can have 300 to 500 entry/exit points).
They really just don't get it. At least a couple times a year something breaks and it comes down to 1 or 2 people who actually can fix it. It gets hard for those 1 or 2 people to maintain their skill level when they keep getting put on unrelated stuff.
1) A friend of mine has these on his prius-- It's nice. I think people are not 100% more likely to look at the screen than they are to look out the rear window now. There might be a rise of people looking at the screen who back out in front of a car and create T-Bone accidents. Sort of like the red light cameras that reduce T-Bone collisions but increase rear end collisions. It's a trade off.
2) I think the audio alert if something is back there is a pure win-- if the people pay attention to it. Again, if they are upset, in a hurry, etc. some will keep backing up and not realize for a few seconds that the alarm is going. So many beepings and boopings in cars these days.
3) The cost will be yet another $100 added on to our cars. I'm not sure if they noticed but wages are stagnant or declining for 80% of the population. This is just one more "straw". Perhaps they could require them on all cars that cost $25k and up. That way poor people would have an option for a cheaper car.
4) The 3rd light was very effective... when it was unusual. Less effective as it became more common. I expect the cameras will vary in effectiveness (but also distraction) the longer the owners have them.
I remember there were special patterns which made cool things happen.
If you moved just the right way, then as you came down a corridor, you would go through one of the ghosts. It had to be some sort of "collision detection" bug or optimization. How the first person isolated it and documented it (at a quarter a game), who knows.
There were 30 of them in the book I bought. I was much better at Ms pacman than pacman (but only like level 12 or 13).
Now that's even more ridiculous. Once again pretty females probably get the best rate. First they can go into a club when they don't meet dress code, and now they get a bigger discount depending on what they bare.
In most cases,people stop uploading at a 1:1 ratio- so she likely only distributed 1 copy of each song. If she was a leecher, she probably distributed less than 1 copy of each song.
The fines are completely heinous. But folks do still have the option of recording the song off the radio, youtube, etc. Or using sneakernet. Or just turning it down and getting the free music (lots of it decent now)out there.
"rape" isn't merely a semantic word. It's one of the most highly charged words in the world. Probably on the short list of top 100 politically charged words. You can't even open a conversation about it or study facts like "does wearing sexy clothing increase the risk of rape" because that data is specifically suppressed by the courts.
The entire thing stinks to high heaven, even more so with the CIA links alleged above in this thread.
However, I agree that the law could be different and he might be guilty of something by swedish law. I had a friend who ran into this in Louisiana in the states. Two drink girl (not plastered) and boy friend- three way- three weeks later he gets a letter back in texas- he's guilty of rape. A girl with one drink in lousiana can't legally give consent and can change her mind after the fact. He spent a lot of money, lost a very good job, and in the end got off with some sort of fine and no criminal record. The girl's boyfriend who also had sex with her at the same time was not raping her.
The rules have changed constantly in my life time. I was lucky to be in three decade long relationships and skip past the entire bar/drinking hookup thing.
Since you went AC, I'll repost for you at a more visible level.
The parent AC said: "both ladies... decided they were raped"
"It is thought that one of the women involved, Anna Ardin, specializes in women's rights as part of her work. If so, she would have known the legal process intimately when it comes to reporting rape cases in Sweden... It was known from the start that Ardin didn't make an official allegation of rape at the police station. She merely "wanted some advice on what to do" perhaps knowing that by doing so, legally she couldn't later be accused of making a false accusation or charged with wasting police time if the allegations turned out to be false. However, if she had an in-depth knowledge of the legal procedure when it comes to reporting rape in Sweden, she may have known that legally, the police had to record it as a rape incident and thus set the wheels in motion to capture the so called rapist."
Even in a normal case, that really is presuming guilt. In this case, where it looks like it isn't even a rape by classic measures, it's more dubious.
As far as I can tell, both ladies had voluntary sex and then later, based on additional facts, decided they were raped. As far as I can tell, no one has alleged Assange forcibly had sex with them while they were saying "no".
Odd. I'd seen it used that way but trivial googles don't find it.
It was used as "LD50 for male aging is 75 years".
And you are correct.
What I meant was the median age at death-- which is hard to find. For the U.S. it maybe 77.5 to 80, but that may be an average that includes infant mortality.
The probable number of years for a 50 year old male is 28.49 so that's in the range.
However, it is necessary for some people to get certain infections to be healthy. There is that stomach condition permanently cured by getting the parasitic worms.
Slashdot Mirror
Horses?
Don't even look at the barn door.
Actually, just don't even look in the direction of the large red unnamed building.
We know everyone else in the world has seen it, probably including you, but don't look now. It's classified.
To be impressed, they need to really do something that you know is really difficult.
Who cares if you blue screen a car jumping 60' over a truck (gone in 60 seconds 2000 edition).
But the original is still impressive today.. The car really did the jump.
A real person on a real ledge 60 stories up is tense.
A real person on a fake ledge 60 stories up is a yawn.
A fake person on a fake ledge is only there to tell the story-- not to be impressive.
That's okay if you have a good story and at some point the person needs to walk on a ledge over the street.
It's not okay if the entire point of the scene is how dangerous walking 60 stories up is (or how close the CGI rendered blade came (Last Avatar) or how far the car jumped over a truck (gone in 60 seconds), etc.
There are things with Martin in Lewis in the Colgate comedy hour which are so impressive, I don't think people do them any more. They are swinging and tossing around this 5' dancing lady-- at one point Lewis falls backwards, bending at the knees, to his frikkin shoulders-- JUST as her feet swing through/over him, and he literally bounces right back up off his shoulders to a standing position. This was on LIVE TV. They really did it. If they were even slightly wrong he would have been kicked hard and things would have collapsed. There was real risk.
It was really cool.
Actually, this is one of the governments proper purposes. To be wise and lead.
Just as they "force" us to wear seatbelts (and save a lot of lives while irritating many) and "force" us to pay higher prices for food, they are going to "force" us to pay higher prices for internet... but hopefully it will maintain our productivity advantage over the rest of the world and preserve our pay levels.
And a lot of people will bitch about it (including many who will benefit from it).
Personally- I agree with the other poster that they already paid for this upgrade and the Telco companies stole the money.
Reasonably well put for this particular argument. It doesn't mean it's not a fallacy to the proper argument form.
I get your point, if anyone takes the lead, then everyone benefits.
It's kind of a reverse "tragedy of the commons". It has a name too- and hard data showing that you are much more likely get help from one person than from a group- because in a group, everyone is waiting for someone else to go first.
However, since it's very expensive to test these things, really you need to get a group of people to donate money so one person can lead the fight.
For example, if I donate to wikileaks and no one else does, it goes down with $50 dollars worth of donations. Collective action is required tho only one person can lead the case, they need financial support of many. Same thing for supreme court cases.
I call this the "lifeboat" fallacy.
"We are headed towards the waterfalls, we need to row towards shore"
"You want it so much, why don't you row while I sit back"
"We are short on food, or we will starve before we get to civilization!"
"You think food's a problem, you stop eating. I'm going to chow down."
"We need to address overpopulation before it becomes critical!"
"You think overpopulation is a problem then shoot yourself, I'm having 4 kids and banning birth control foreign aid."
---
The correct process in a democracy, discussion or debate is, you raise the issue, folks discuss it, and a majority (or judges) (or the one with the gun) decides.
I'm sure there is a formal fallacy name for this approach. It's just stupid and I hope folks can see how it would often lead to anarchy and the worst possible results.
If they are watching video, they have the potential to need it with very little warning. I have low tech friends who went to bluray + netflix before I did.
You go from 0 to 120 in 2 seconds the instant you start watching heavy netflix.
I'm not sure if the local providers can buffer netflix for multiple users either. (Anyone know if they can?)
It's an obvious improvement for any popular movie to keep copies buffered in various internet spots so it's not all coming from netflix every time.
In many area's america is no longer capitalistic.
We let a single large provider (or perhaps two) get a monopoly on an area for extended periods of time (up to 25 years) in return for a tiny amount of money to the local government.
It's why our service is so bad. Eventually someone else "drives around" the provider with new technology but it can take decades.
The internet should really be a utility like electricity.
And I agree with one of the other posters. We are losing the producer/creator mentality as to serving content. But you can set up a site inexpensively on a provider and upload/download your content.
I've noticed my connection has gotten faster. I used to top out at 33mb/s upload on comcast in houston. I now hit 60 to 90mb/s. I've hit 120mb/s a few times. So upgrades are happening.
I also use more 3g/4g (and consume about 500mb to 1gb per month).
Aye!
Adblock, No-Script.
I use AVG, not sure what is best free virus scanner. Don't think the commercial scanners are significantly better (maybe not better at all) than the free ones.
And the next step is to not say "We are firmly for position X" in public while saying "We agree, we are against position X" in private.
The bald faced lies tend to make honest humans want to rat them out periodically.
I stopped playing multi-player games about three years ago.
1) I could never compete with people who had more spare time.
2) And starting about 3 years ago, I couldn't compete with people who have more money.
The games are monetized now. You can do things the hard way but everything can be easier if you spend extra money.
I play board games now. And single player iphone games ( Angry Birds! is nice).
What the title really means is "EA is done writing singleplayer games".
Other people will step up and write single player games.
If you create any content (even large blocks of text, much less cad, drawings, etc.), all the other devices suck terribly.
But if you want to play games, listen to songs, watch videos, read what other people write, I agree.
This is news? It was apparent as early as the 80's that content sharing groups do so out of pride and altruism.
They care about getting out first.
They care about getting a rep.
Most users
Don't care and just want the content.
Are happy to share content they have to get new content.
If the RIAA/ Government actually shuts it down,
The size of the market is much smaller than they think.
There is a lot of free content out there and it is improving in quality and popularity.
If people want to casually post loose, rouge, etc. I'm willing to let it slide.
But having it in a headline just makes slashdot look pathetic.
Are there no editors, are they illiterate, or do they just not care?
My work has tried 3 or 4 times to make programmers generic glorp since 2000.
Our main system has 3 to 4 million lines. Our overall system is composed of over 10 systems this size (but the rest are owned by businesses so we don't actually code them but we do interface with them and each interface can have 300 to 500 entry/exit points).
They really just don't get it. At least a couple times a year something breaks and it comes down to 1 or 2 people who actually can fix it. It gets hard for those 1 or 2 people to maintain their skill level when they keep getting put on unrelated stuff.
1) A friend of mine has these on his prius-- It's nice. I think people are not 100% more likely to look at the screen than they are to look out the rear window now. There might be a rise of people looking at the screen who back out in front of a car and create T-Bone accidents. Sort of like the red light cameras that reduce T-Bone collisions but increase rear end collisions. It's a trade off.
2) I think the audio alert if something is back there is a pure win-- if the people pay attention to it. Again, if they are upset, in a hurry, etc. some will keep backing up and not realize for a few seconds that the alarm is going. So many beepings and boopings in cars these days.
3) The cost will be yet another $100 added on to our cars. I'm not sure if they noticed but wages are stagnant or declining for 80% of the population. This is just one more "straw". Perhaps they could require them on all cars that cost $25k and up. That way poor people would have an option for a cheaper car.
4) The 3rd light was very effective... when it was unusual. Less effective as it became more common. I expect the cameras will vary in effectiveness (but also distraction) the longer the owners have them.
I remember there were special patterns which made cool things happen.
If you moved just the right way, then as you came down a corridor, you would go through one of the ghosts. It had to be some sort of "collision detection" bug or optimization. How the first person isolated it and documented it (at a quarter a game), who knows.
There were 30 of them in the book I bought. I was much better at Ms pacman than pacman (but only like level 12 or 13).
Now that's even more ridiculous. Once again pretty females probably get the best rate.
First they can go into a club when they don't meet dress code, and now they get a bigger discount depending on what they bare.
Yes they are critical of the US but one of them has ties to the CIA as well ( the one with cuban ties) so she could be a double agent/sleeper agent.
In any case, I imagine hundreds if not thousands of similar "rapes" to the one Assange committed occur and are not prosecuted in sweden every day.
This stinks to high heaven.
In most cases,people stop uploading at a 1:1 ratio- so she likely only distributed 1 copy of each song. If she was a leecher, she probably distributed less than 1 copy of each song.
The fines are completely heinous. But folks do still have the option of recording the song off the radio, youtube, etc. Or using sneakernet. Or just turning it down and getting the free music (lots of it decent now)out there.
"rape" isn't merely a semantic word. It's one of the most highly charged words in the world. Probably on the short list of top 100 politically charged words. You can't even open a conversation about it or study facts like "does wearing sexy clothing increase the risk of rape" because that data is specifically suppressed by the courts.
The entire thing stinks to high heaven, even more so with the CIA links alleged above in this thread.
However, I agree that the law could be different and he might be guilty of something by swedish law. I had a friend who ran into this in Louisiana in the states. Two drink girl (not plastered) and boy friend- three way- three weeks later he gets a letter back in texas- he's guilty of rape. A girl with one drink in lousiana can't legally give consent and can change her mind after the fact. He spent a lot of money, lost a very good job, and in the end got off with some sort of fine and no criminal record. The girl's boyfriend who also had sex with her at the same time was not raping her.
The rules have changed constantly in my life time. I was lucky to be in three decade long relationships and skip past the entire bar/drinking hookup thing.
Since you went AC, I'll repost for you at a more visible level.
The parent AC said: ... decided they were raped"
"both ladies
"It is thought that one of the women involved, Anna Ardin, specializes in women's rights as part of her work. If so, she would have known the legal process intimately when it comes to reporting rape cases in Sweden ... It was known from the start that Ardin didn't make an official allegation of rape at the police station. She merely "wanted some advice on what to do" perhaps knowing that by doing so, legally she couldn't later be accused of making a false accusation or charged with wasting police time if the allegations turned out to be false. However, if she had an in-depth knowledge of the legal procedure when it comes to reporting rape in Sweden, she may have known that legally, the police had to record it as a rape incident and thus set the wheels in motion to capture the so called rapist."
http://nicholasmead.com/2010/08/21/how-to-smear-a-hero/
Mmm. That depends on how "well equipped" your basement is. Do you have a St. Andrew's Cross?
Even in a normal case, that really is presuming guilt. In this case, where it looks like it isn't even a rape by classic measures, it's more dubious.
As far as I can tell, both ladies had voluntary sex and then later, based on additional facts, decided they were raped. As far as I can tell, no one has alleged Assange forcibly had sex with them while they were saying "no".
Odd. I'd seen it used that way but trivial googles don't find it.
It was used as "LD50 for male aging is 75 years".
And you are correct.
What I meant was the median age at death-- which is hard to find. For the U.S. it maybe 77.5 to 80, but that may be an average that includes infant mortality.
The probable number of years for a 50 year old male is 28.49 so that's in the range.
However, it is necessary for some people to get certain infections to be healthy.
There is that stomach condition permanently cured by getting the parasitic worms.