It's a good point. It's somewhat akin to reading the "Cliffs Notes" of a book. Sure, you find out what happened, but you miss the art that is presented.
Granted, for a good deal of popular culture, "art" may be considered an overstatement.
Unless wind/solar/etc work when it's cloudy or windy like in other parts of the world nearly all the time it'll never replace other sources like hydro-electric or nuclear.
Wind power works quite well when it's windy. Sorry, but I couldn't resist.
Your point is valid, but it's also arguably one of transmission. The sun is shining and the wind is blowing somewhere. Maybe not in your town/state/country...
The issue is how do you get that excess power from where the sun is shining to where it's cloudy and, in our capitalistic society, how do those people get paid for doing so?
Nobody does a background check or require a cooling period for buying a car or licensing as a doctor and those kill WAY more people per year than Guns can even get close to.
Worst. Car analogy. Ever.
In order to legally drive a car, you need a driver's license which means you need to pass various tests--something you can't just do in the heat of the moment. It's not like I can go into a car dealership, buy a car, and drive it off the lot and run over someone. They'll let you buy the car without a license--hey, money's money--but they won't let you leave with it.
But you don't need to take a class or anything to own a gun.
If he couldn't get a gun, he could have used an Axe, Hammer, Machete or Bats etc.
Axes, hammers, machetes, and bats don't have the range of a gun. It's pretty difficult to kill someone from the other side of a room with an axe. And while you can conceivably throw the axe at someone and kill them, then you don't have an axe anymore. I suppose I could walk into someplace with 30 hatchets (which could weigh around 50 pounds) and throw them at people if I was talented with throwing hatchets. Of course, I have to have skills. So we need a psychotic with hatchet throwing skills. There are far fewer of those than there are psychotics, so you've already reduced the potential number of people who can kill lots of innocent people.
The radiation and differences in gravity would wreak havoc on humans [...]
The radiation, I can agree with. Differences in gravity?
Don't get me wrong, Zero G isn't good for you. But we really have no clue what one-third G will do. Unfortunately, NASA budget cuts left the Centrifuge Accommodations Module sitting on Earth, which we could have used to figure out the effects of less/more G over long durations.
This isn't like the moon... which is at least theoretically close enough that it is at least technologically feasible to orchestrate a rescue mission to bring people home if things go awry
No, actually, it isn't.
I read a little bit of obscure history awhile ago. While in the Apollo 11 LEM, one of astronauts accidentally broke the switch they would use to turn on the ascent engine. Fortunately, Buzz was able to cram a pen in there and launch off of the Moon. But Nixon already had his speech prepared--the two astronauts would have died on the Moon and there wasn't a damn thing NASA could have done for them.
The company had previously commented on the issue, noting that these apps work in conjunction with the core of the operating system, so uncoupling them wasn't so easy.
Sounds like what Microsoft said about Internet Explorer. Turns out, gosh, you can survive with them.
No, because anyone planning to murder 50 people is just going to shoot the guard(s) at the metal detector and walk in anyway.
Perhaps we need something a bit strong, then. Like a metal eradicator. So when you walk through the door with metal, pointy metal spikes automatically pop out and skewer you.
If that were the case, I'd bet you make doubly sure that you didn't leave your keys in your pocket...
Somewhat true: That genie is already out of the bottle. As an NRA spokesman might say, "You'll get my gun when you take it out of my cold dead hands."
Ammunition, on the other hand, might be an interesting way to go. Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people. One could argue that the second amendment says nothing about restricting ammunition sales...
Speed of light and the simultaneity problem get in the way if you want to go to really large audiences.
Well, if we're assuming a Star Trek:TNG universe, that seems to be pretty well solved. How many times did we see Picard have a real-time conversation with Admiral Whatsisface at Starfleet? I doubt there'd be much of an issue.
In Apple's defense, the Keynotes tend to be more for "the public" than for developers. The last couple times I went to WWDC, I blew off the keynote. I was more interested in the appropriate platform's "State of the Union." I could sleep late and go to the conference hall around noon, eat lunch (before the lines get too long), and look over all the stuff that gets reported.
So things like RAID, iSCSI, hypervisors, and the like get mentioned elsewhere because most reporters would just sort of glaze over that stuff.
Actually in a VR everyone would be in a front seat (with his friends around him) and the other seats where just simulations.
Well, there are some interesting angles to this.
You're right--as a performer, I could just get up and perform my song once and be done with it. And everybody could watch that concert from wherever in the virtual venue they wanted. Heck, they could be right up on stage. And, yes, there is certainly a market for that.
But there is something to do be said for a "live" performance--despite the inconvenience of having to be somewhere at a certain time so you don't miss anything. The performer feeds on the excitement of the audience and the audience feeds on the excitement of the performer. Consider performers like Bruce Springsteen as an example.
So the performer wants to see the audience because he will feed off of that. That's part of what makes concerts fun for everyone. So, yes, you can be the "invisible man" sitting right up front and so can everyone else. But the performer obviously can't see you and it's not going to be as interesting a concert.
Suppose you want to build a house on a plot of land right on a beach with a view. Other people would like to build there too... who gets it? That's easy: someone buys it, with money.
Well, if we're talking about ST:TNG, you build a holographic environment that looks like your beach house. So, when I'm done with work, I can go out back and sit in my hammock on the beach.
But if I'm looking for the real thing, well, you're right. There's a finite amount of beachfront property...on Earth. But with a large number of habitable planets, there's plenty of beachfront property out there.
Suppose you want to go to a concert, in person, rather than watching it in your personal holodeck or whatever. There are a limited number of seats. Who gets those seats? That's easy: tickets cost money.
In person? You mean at a particular time that someone else chose? Like Mom and Dad did? What a marvelously quaint idea!
But imagine I'm a performer. Why would I want to do that? You mean, like, travel somewhere and play in a 60,000 seat stadium? It'd be far more convenient to do it from my home. I could sell 200,000 tickets a night in such a virtual arena and make more money! And who gets the good seats and who gets the bad seats? Well, I can shuffle my viewers around instantaneously, so people could be moved around between every song! Maybe do it at random, so everybody/registered group of everybodies has a chance to be in the front row for a song.
Suppose you want a human being to come and watch your pets while you travel, and you don't want to impose on your friends all the time. Why would a person take their valuable time to do you a favor? That's easy: you agree to pay the person.
Uh...robots? I've dogsat before--feed the animal and take it for a walk. Maybe play with it a bit. You're telling me you can't create a robot to adequately perform these tasks for two weeks?
Second, why wouldn't you take your pet? You mean, with Star Trek transporter technology, there's going to be an issue taking your dog somewhere? It's not like you have to lock the thing in a cage in the belly of a jumbo jet...
I recently flew United and, I have to admit, I had mixed feelings about having to download their app if I wanted to watch in-flight entertainment. I somewhat understand the rationale--now-a-days, I see that most people are bringing their own screen on an airplane to play games or read or use the in-flight WiFi to stay connected, or whatever. And I'd definitely rather watch the movie on my iPad Pro or laptop versus on the little screen in the back of the seat or the antique CRT that drops from the ceiling every five rows with inconsistent color.
On the other hand, I do get a bit grumpy about having to waste my storage space and battery life for this (especially when they don't put plugs at the seats). The app also does more than just let me watch in-flight entertainment. So I download their app and then have to take a trip through Settings and say, "No, you don't get to put up notifications, no, you can't have access to my address book and calendar, etc. etc."
When I was 15 and learning to drive, we had driver's ed classes in school (on an automatic) and my parents were also teaching me (on a manual). So I was going back and forth.
My favorite clumsy moment was when I was pressing the brake to stop at an intersection and the car started sputtering, so I immediately took my right foot off the brake and pressed down the clutch. Now we're rolling towards the intersection and my Mom is screaming for me to stop so I take my left foot, cross it over, and press the brake.
So here I am, sitting at the intersection, with my legs crossed and I'm thinking, "How do I get out of this mess?" My right foot is on the clutch and my left foot is on the brake. If I release the clutch with my right leg, in order to get my feet untangled, we stall. If I release the brake with my left leg, the clutch pedal is too small for me to easily transfer it and free my right leg. Meanwhile, my Mom has figured out my dilemma and is laughing her ass off. She finally recovers enough to suggest I put the car in neutral so I can release the clutch and get my feet all sorted out.
So, when you panic and press the clutch and the brake, make sure you do them with the proper legs.
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It's a good point. It's somewhat akin to reading the "Cliffs Notes" of a book. Sure, you find out what happened, but you miss the art that is presented.
Granted, for a good deal of popular culture, "art" may be considered an overstatement.
Oh, be quiet, Mr. Green.
Unless wind/solar/etc work when it's cloudy or windy like in other parts of the world nearly all the time it'll never replace other sources like hydro-electric or nuclear.
Wind power works quite well when it's windy. Sorry, but I couldn't resist.
Your point is valid, but it's also arguably one of transmission. The sun is shining and the wind is blowing somewhere. Maybe not in your town/state/country...
The issue is how do you get that excess power from where the sun is shining to where it's cloudy and, in our capitalistic society, how do those people get paid for doing so?
I believe they sell mostly chicken and vegetables.
There was a scandal a few years ago when it was discovered that the grease that they use to cook their fries contained beef fat.
Nobody does a background check or require a cooling period for buying a car or licensing as a doctor and those kill WAY more people per year than Guns can even get close to.
Worst. Car analogy. Ever.
In order to legally drive a car, you need a driver's license which means you need to pass various tests--something you can't just do in the heat of the moment. It's not like I can go into a car dealership, buy a car, and drive it off the lot and run over someone. They'll let you buy the car without a license--hey, money's money--but they won't let you leave with it.
But you don't need to take a class or anything to own a gun.
If he couldn't get a gun, he could have used an Axe, Hammer, Machete or Bats etc.
Axes, hammers, machetes, and bats don't have the range of a gun. It's pretty difficult to kill someone from the other side of a room with an axe. And while you can conceivably throw the axe at someone and kill them, then you don't have an axe anymore. I suppose I could walk into someplace with 30 hatchets (which could weigh around 50 pounds) and throw them at people if I was talented with throwing hatchets. Of course, I have to have skills. So we need a psychotic with hatchet throwing skills. There are far fewer of those than there are psychotics, so you've already reduced the potential number of people who can kill lots of innocent people.
I don't want to be forced to buy a $40 adapter [...]
Yeah, but they make the coolest adapters!
Too soon.
Unfortunately, Francisco Franco is still dead.
The radiation and differences in gravity would wreak havoc on humans [...]
The radiation, I can agree with. Differences in gravity?
Don't get me wrong, Zero G isn't good for you. But we really have no clue what one-third G will do. Unfortunately, NASA budget cuts left the Centrifuge Accommodations Module sitting on Earth, which we could have used to figure out the effects of less/more G over long durations.
This isn't like the moon... which is at least theoretically close enough that it is at least technologically feasible to orchestrate a rescue mission to bring people home if things go awry
No, actually, it isn't.
I read a little bit of obscure history awhile ago. While in the Apollo 11 LEM, one of astronauts accidentally broke the switch they would use to turn on the ascent engine. Fortunately, Buzz was able to cram a pen in there and launch off of the Moon. But Nixon already had his speech prepared--the two astronauts would have died on the Moon and there wasn't a damn thing NASA could have done for them.
The company had previously commented on the issue, noting that these apps work in conjunction with the core of the operating system, so uncoupling them wasn't so easy.
Sounds like what Microsoft said about Internet Explorer. Turns out, gosh, you can survive with them.
No, because anyone planning to murder 50 people is just going to shoot the guard(s) at the metal detector and walk in anyway.
Perhaps we need something a bit strong, then. Like a metal eradicator. So when you walk through the door with metal, pointy metal spikes automatically pop out and skewer you.
If that were the case, I'd bet you make doubly sure that you didn't leave your keys in your pocket...
(And, no, I'm not being serious).
Agreed. Of course, people forget to do that. Then something bad happens. But if we try to make the owner of the gun responsible?
"You can't do that! I got a right! Why should I be punished just because I made a silly mistake that I'll never do again?"
Somewhat true: That genie is already out of the bottle. As an NRA spokesman might say, "You'll get my gun when you take it out of my cold dead hands."
Ammunition, on the other hand, might be an interesting way to go. Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people. One could argue that the second amendment says nothing about restricting ammunition sales...
Police don't appear magically, instantly out of thin air.
There's our technology solution: We need teleporters.
Speed of light and the simultaneity problem get in the way if you want to go to really large audiences.
Well, if we're assuming a Star Trek:TNG universe, that seems to be pretty well solved. How many times did we see Picard have a real-time conversation with Admiral Whatsisface at Starfleet? I doubt there'd be much of an issue.
In Apple's defense, the Keynotes tend to be more for "the public" than for developers. The last couple times I went to WWDC, I blew off the keynote. I was more interested in the appropriate platform's "State of the Union." I could sleep late and go to the conference hall around noon, eat lunch (before the lines get too long), and look over all the stuff that gets reported.
So things like RAID, iSCSI, hypervisors, and the like get mentioned elsewhere because most reporters would just sort of glaze over that stuff.
Actually in a VR everyone would be in a front seat (with his friends around him) and the other seats where just simulations.
Well, there are some interesting angles to this.
You're right--as a performer, I could just get up and perform my song once and be done with it. And everybody could watch that concert from wherever in the virtual venue they wanted. Heck, they could be right up on stage. And, yes, there is certainly a market for that.
But there is something to do be said for a "live" performance--despite the inconvenience of having to be somewhere at a certain time so you don't miss anything. The performer feeds on the excitement of the audience and the audience feeds on the excitement of the performer. Consider performers like Bruce Springsteen as an example.
So the performer wants to see the audience because he will feed off of that. That's part of what makes concerts fun for everyone. So, yes, you can be the "invisible man" sitting right up front and so can everyone else. But the performer obviously can't see you and it's not going to be as interesting a concert.
Suppose you want to build a house on a plot of land right on a beach with a view. Other people would like to build there too... who gets it? That's easy: someone buys it, with money.
Well, if we're talking about ST:TNG, you build a holographic environment that looks like your beach house. So, when I'm done with work, I can go out back and sit in my hammock on the beach.
But if I'm looking for the real thing, well, you're right. There's a finite amount of beachfront property...on Earth. But with a large number of habitable planets, there's plenty of beachfront property out there.
Suppose you want to go to a concert, in person, rather than watching it in your personal holodeck or whatever. There are a limited number of seats. Who gets those seats? That's easy: tickets cost money.
In person? You mean at a particular time that someone else chose? Like Mom and Dad did? What a marvelously quaint idea!
But imagine I'm a performer. Why would I want to do that? You mean, like, travel somewhere and play in a 60,000 seat stadium? It'd be far more convenient to do it from my home. I could sell 200,000 tickets a night in such a virtual arena and make more money! And who gets the good seats and who gets the bad seats? Well, I can shuffle my viewers around instantaneously, so people could be moved around between every song! Maybe do it at random, so everybody/registered group of everybodies has a chance to be in the front row for a song.
Suppose you want a human being to come and watch your pets while you travel, and you don't want to impose on your friends all the time. Why would a person take their valuable time to do you a favor? That's easy: you agree to pay the person.
Uh...robots? I've dogsat before--feed the animal and take it for a walk. Maybe play with it a bit. You're telling me you can't create a robot to adequately perform these tasks for two weeks?
Second, why wouldn't you take your pet? You mean, with Star Trek transporter technology, there's going to be an issue taking your dog somewhere? It's not like you have to lock the thing in a cage in the belly of a jumbo jet...
I think the idea is that you could use Bluetooth instead of WiFi for your Internet of Things, which makes you cool and hep and all that sort of stuff.
I mean, what happened to the "Personal Area Network"?
The US should totally build one.
We cannot have a Sea Lab Gap!
We shouldn't anthropomorphize our software applications.
Yeah. They told me that they hate that.
I gotta admit, that might be the new answer for the annoying "Why?" game--replacing "because I said so."
"Why?"
"Why?"
"Why?"
"Go ask Alexa."
I recently flew United and, I have to admit, I had mixed feelings about having to download their app if I wanted to watch in-flight entertainment. I somewhat understand the rationale--now-a-days, I see that most people are bringing their own screen on an airplane to play games or read or use the in-flight WiFi to stay connected, or whatever. And I'd definitely rather watch the movie on my iPad Pro or laptop versus on the little screen in the back of the seat or the antique CRT that drops from the ceiling every five rows with inconsistent color.
On the other hand, I do get a bit grumpy about having to waste my storage space and battery life for this (especially when they don't put plugs at the seats). The app also does more than just let me watch in-flight entertainment. So I download their app and then have to take a trip through Settings and say, "No, you don't get to put up notifications, no, you can't have access to my address book and calendar, etc. etc."
You panic, you stomp brake and clutch.
When I was 15 and learning to drive, we had driver's ed classes in school (on an automatic) and my parents were also teaching me (on a manual). So I was going back and forth.
My favorite clumsy moment was when I was pressing the brake to stop at an intersection and the car started sputtering, so I immediately took my right foot off the brake and pressed down the clutch. Now we're rolling towards the intersection and my Mom is screaming for me to stop so I take my left foot, cross it over, and press the brake.
So here I am, sitting at the intersection, with my legs crossed and I'm thinking, "How do I get out of this mess?" My right foot is on the clutch and my left foot is on the brake. If I release the clutch with my right leg, in order to get my feet untangled, we stall. If I release the brake with my left leg, the clutch pedal is too small for me to easily transfer it and free my right leg. Meanwhile, my Mom has figured out my dilemma and is laughing her ass off. She finally recovers enough to suggest I put the car in neutral so I can release the clutch and get my feet all sorted out.
So, when you panic and press the clutch and the brake, make sure you do them with the proper legs.