Unfortunately, whatever robotic technology that's used to help disabled people will end up just being co-opted to let fat people get fatter. The disabled are not a big enough market. Morbidly obese people are already a major market for the medical equipment industry.
Half-Life only continued what Doom started, with the intermediate step being Quake.
Not even close. Half-Life invented the NPC that actually paid attention. It was a sea change in how people viewed their own character vis-a-vis the characters that populate the world.
George Ellis is one of the greatest relativistic cosmologists of the 20th century (and therefore by definition of all time). In the 60s and 70s, Ellis worked extensively with collaborators including most famously Stephen Hawking, to properly characterise the large-scale structure of spacetime through relativity.
Is that a nice way of saying, "Old and in the way"?
Sales up 240 per cent, Lies Damn Lies and Statistics Last year they could have sold 10 records this year 24 thats 240% of last year What are the raw numbers ?
Here are the US numbers for vinyl, from Billboard:
Sales up 240 per cent, Lies Damn Lies and Statistics Last year they could have sold 10 records this year 24 thats 240% of last year What are the raw numbers ?
I know it's more fun to say fuck it I want to blow shit up, but without the basic research we wind up with more holes and poorer understanding.
It's not blowing anything up. It's just continuing to do what's been done for centuries. And there's tons of basic research being done. But it can't ALL be basic research. The statements of these two "leading researchers", George Ellis and Joseph Silk, sound a lot like axes being ground to me. Somebody lost a grant to someone else or didn't get the nice corner office and now they want to throw some colleagues under the bus. A lot of the people who work at that level have very thin skin.
The line between theoretical physics is very fine, and wiggles a whole lot. I've watched my mathematician wife navigate that line for a couple of decades. Often, you can look at the work of a theoretical physicist and a pure mathematician and there's not a nickel's difference between them. There not being the technical means to set up experiments is no reason to stop doing work.
I assure you, theoretical physicists and pure mathematicians (and applied mathematicians, for that matter) mostly don't care what department they're in. They just want to do their work.
The nation is getting back into the groove with a resurgence in sales of record players alongside music on vinyl.
Sales of turntables are up by a staggering 240 per cent at John Lewis in the first few months of this year compared to same period in 2014.
It was widely believed that digital music, the iPod and the internet had killed vinyl, the record player and record shop, however the sales figures paint a very different picture.
You ignore, of course, that country has been coopted by the Nashville machine and is now a tool of the capitalist oppressors.
No, I didn't ignore that. It's why I wrote this:
"Yes, country music has always been the music of the proletariat, even with the "New Country" flag-waving "I believe in Amurka" mass-produced crapola that was sold to the yokels after 9/11."
When country bars are playing good, proletarian Cuban music on their digital jukeboxes, it'll be a glorious time to be alive.
You really don't realize that American country music has always been the music of the proletariat? Do you know anything at all about the "Father of Country Music"?
And yes, good old Kenny Chesney is singing "union made". Yes, country music has always been the music of the proletariat, even with the "New Country" flag-waving "I believe in Amurka" mass-produced crapola that was sold to the yokels after 9/11. It was Tennessee Ernie Ford that stated in no uncertain terms that he "owed his soul to the company store". Country music wasn't only the music of the proletariat, it was the music of the revolutionary, pro-union, anti-corporate proletariat. And if you could take off your elitist goggles for one second, you'd see that the people in those country bars have a lot more in common with the people in Cuba than they have differences.
And as far as Cuban music over current country music, there's something wrong with you if you'd rather hear Carrie Underwood than this.
The most outrage I can muster here is that some of these researchers are housed in the wrong departments. The horror.
This is the truth.
Let them dream. The ability to test these hypotheses by experiment will come along soon enough. Just because it now lags behind doesn't mean we should just stop the show.
And, this supposed "non-empirical science" is not new. I bet we can come up with many examples of hypotheses that took decades to be properly tested.
Pop science fans like the ones you find working in tech can be so bloody-minded.
Techniques used for secretly alerting a user to a NSA request include (among others) misleadingly long loop execution, replacing user #defines with system ones, K&R style function declarations to avoid type checking, and using system #includes to covertly change structure packing. The winning entry exploits a system-provided function that is implemented as a poorly protected macro, tricking it into executing a piece of code given as an argument multiple times.
I've just come in from a few hours of sitting on the back porch and sipping spirits, so I'm not at the heights of my cognitive powers. Can someone explain in a few sentences how this works as an alert to the user? Wouldn't the user just think the website is a little bit broken? Or is that the point?
Available: Bernie, The Newton Boys, School of Rock Missing: Boyhood, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Dazed and Confused, A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life
I'm certain I've streamed Dazed and Confused and A Scanner Darkly.
I think movies come and go on Netflix. There one minute, gone the next and then back again months later.
For example, there's Bunraku, a chop socky flick. I watched it, recommended it to some friends who found that it was gone. The Aviator and Fargo were DVD only and then they were both on streaming.
I just hope Netflix doesn't completely blow up their back catalog stuff. As a film buff, it's one of the main reasons I keep the subscription. Of course, I have the DVD package as well, so I can get most stuff. I love streaming, but it's not the end of the world to have to wait for a DVD of a Jodorowsky film, considering there was a time I'd have to order it on 16mm from Criterion in order to see it.
[update: I just noticed that Netflix has taken down all the Jodorowsky movies. Those fuckers. I hope someone realizes there's room in the market for a streaming service that's modeled on the old fashioned independent video rental store.]
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Clippy got a golden parachute and invested in a social media startup.
He currently lives in a Portland duplex.
Unfortunately, whatever robotic technology that's used to help disabled people will end up just being co-opted to let fat people get fatter. The disabled are not a big enough market. Morbidly obese people are already a major market for the medical equipment industry.
And the cost will be borne by all of us.
I understand that Siri only gets paid 76.5% of what Clippy gets. That hardly seems fair.
Do you read the user agreements for those rewards "clubs"?
No, you clearly don't read the user agreements for those rewards clubs.
If there was ever a time to be mindful as a consumer, it's right now. Good luck.
Nobody who is driving today will see ubiquitous self-driving passenger cars.
And Half-Life did it in 1998, and is widely considered the best video game of all time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's a very compelling argument.
I am older than you are, and have been playing games longer.
Their eyes stayed on you as you moved about. This small innovation has done more to change the way we relate to NPCs than almost anything else.
All NPCs in all games are "entirely scripted" by the way.
Not even close. Half-Life invented the NPC that actually paid attention. It was a sea change in how people viewed their own character vis-a-vis the characters that populate the world.
Half-Life changed video games forever. It's an order of magnitude more important than WoW.
[citation needed]
Plus, who's to say the "mind" is exclusively in the head?
Is that a nice way of saying, "Old and in the way"?
Here are the US numbers for vinyl, from Billboard:
https://www.billboard.com/arti...
Check your math.
It's not blowing anything up. It's just continuing to do what's been done for centuries. And there's tons of basic research being done. But it can't ALL be basic research. The statements of these two "leading researchers", George Ellis and Joseph Silk, sound a lot like axes being ground to me. Somebody lost a grant to someone else or didn't get the nice corner office and now they want to throw some colleagues under the bus. A lot of the people who work at that level have very thin skin.
The line between theoretical physics is very fine, and wiggles a whole lot. I've watched my mathematician wife navigate that line for a couple of decades. Often, you can look at the work of a theoretical physicist and a pure mathematician and there's not a nickel's difference between them. There not being the technical means to set up experiments is no reason to stop doing work.
I assure you, theoretical physicists and pure mathematicians (and applied mathematicians, for that matter) mostly don't care what department they're in. They just want to do their work.
Who indeed...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
No, I didn't ignore that. It's why I wrote this:
"Yes, country music has always been the music of the proletariat, even with the "New Country" flag-waving "I believe in Amurka" mass-produced crapola that was sold to the yokels after 9/11."
You really don't realize that American country music has always been the music of the proletariat? Do you know anything at all about the "Father of Country Music"?
https://youtu.be/Miy4io-rGo0
Or maybe something a little more recent:
https://youtu.be/VfiJEfBNRqg
And yes, good old Kenny Chesney is singing "union made". Yes, country music has always been the music of the proletariat, even with the "New Country" flag-waving "I believe in Amurka" mass-produced crapola that was sold to the yokels after 9/11. It was Tennessee Ernie Ford that stated in no uncertain terms that he "owed his soul to the company store". Country music wasn't only the music of the proletariat, it was the music of the revolutionary, pro-union, anti-corporate proletariat. And if you could take off your elitist goggles for one second, you'd see that the people in those country bars have a lot more in common with the people in Cuba than they have differences.
And as far as Cuban music over current country music, there's something wrong with you if you'd rather hear Carrie Underwood than this.
https://youtu.be/bZ2mJehaNbE?t...
This is the truth.
Let them dream. The ability to test these hypotheses by experiment will come along soon enough. Just because it now lags behind doesn't mean we should just stop the show.
And, this supposed "non-empirical science" is not new. I bet we can come up with many examples of hypotheses that took decades to be properly tested.
Pop science fans like the ones you find working in tech can be so bloody-minded.
I've just come in from a few hours of sitting on the back porch and sipping spirits, so I'm not at the heights of my cognitive powers. Can someone explain in a few sentences how this works as an alert to the user? Wouldn't the user just think the website is a little bit broken? Or is that the point?
Nobody's going to need your data in 1 million years, considering that by then humanity will have been extinct for about 999,900 years.
IPv6 is two better than IPv4, but I'm still holding out for IPvX.
Most of the countries that buy that $1.623billion in goods from the US are in the EU.
Wait, let me get this straight: they're paying for the Netflix? Then how could it possibly be "stealing"?
Maybe I'm a little messed up because I had a few beers at a softball game this afternoon, but where does the stealing part come in again?
I'm certain I've streamed Dazed and Confused and A Scanner Darkly.
I think movies come and go on Netflix. There one minute, gone the next and then back again months later.
For example, there's Bunraku, a chop socky flick. I watched it, recommended it to some friends who found that it was gone. The Aviator and Fargo were DVD only and then they were both on streaming.
I just hope Netflix doesn't completely blow up their back catalog stuff. As a film buff, it's one of the main reasons I keep the subscription. Of course, I have the DVD package as well, so I can get most stuff. I love streaming, but it's not the end of the world to have to wait for a DVD of a Jodorowsky film, considering there was a time I'd have to order it on 16mm from Criterion in order to see it.
[update: I just noticed that Netflix has taken down all the Jodorowsky movies. Those fuckers. I hope someone realizes there's room in the market for a streaming service that's modeled on the old fashioned independent video rental store.]