than suppressing music and movie piracy? Those individual rights ideas in the constitution that we inherited from the Magna Carta just make that soooooo... difficult.
Excuse me, I have to go wipe up some of that sarcasm that's dripping on the floor here.
Direct understandable interfaces changed to obfuscated, hidden, over-engineered nonsense. Is Google now taking its cues from the MIcrosoft Office interface design team?
The most common way is for crowd members to transmit and receive most information from each other, instead of all doing their own research. This tends to amplify distortion (Remember the "telephone" game from your childhood). When intra-crowd communication is minimized, the crowd again becomes accurate.
This principle can be demonstrated by blogs that repeat stories from blogs that repeat stories from blogs.... Copy and paste, oddly enough, serves to minimize some of the distortion effects, however, additional commentary that accretes around the original story with each telling inevitably creates more distortion.
Another distortion is the "Fox News" effect, where erroneous information is repeated endlessly to a large portion of the crowd. Repeated enough times, this method too distorts the information picture by adding single-source bias. FYI, this happens with all MSM media outlets. Fox News is just the most obvious example.
So the wisdom of crowds exists and is useful, but the internet has provided a friction free means by which it can be distorted and become useless, or worse.
standard household 120v AC, hooked to each antenna for a few seconds should modify the unit to the desired operating status.
The neighbor's van solution *is* funnier, however, although placing it in the middle of a raw sewage processing facility, a rural outhouse or a porn theatre has some appeal.
So you're going to get the news that a bunch of wealthy people want you to hear. Period. End of story. You want reality? Stick with the blogs until those too are corrupted.
1) Report your location 2) Perform any financial transaction 3) Scan UPC and other computer codes 4) Has a camera, sometimes front and back 5) Can pick up sound and conversation
and... (Drumroll please) report all this back to a central authority anonymously. The ghost of Stalin must be green with envy. And the best thing is, the people actually pay for this themselves!
What next, a site that compiles all personal information of all suspected subversives, er, "friends" and the people those "friends" are connected to?
can I get the machine to withhold soda from someone? Better yet, can I get the machine to travel to a friend's house and steal their soda? I'd pay extra for that!
Not that engineers, developers and IT folk aren't relatively well compensated, but it doesn't compare with what a lawyer or a manager can pull down. Those in power (executive management, lawyers, politicians), have the power to control their own salaries. Those in engineering, not so much. Inevitably, this leads to the dysfunctional parasitism that has infected the current economy of the USA.
and only heard, "Cloud, cloud, cloud! It's new and shiny and cheaper than those annoying internal IT guys so I get a bonus!" learn to pay the stupidity tax.
Next up, learning just how *much* of your cloud data has been stolen and resold by those trustworthy souls in China and India.
...a cyborg from the future, his task was to so muck up the computing ecosystem that significant progress in AI or any other field of computation was nearly impossible.
...and always has been. You get software coded in India, who then themselves outsource to Pakistan, Vietnam, etc. and they put in backdoors. You get chips made in China and they put in backdoors or transmitter capability. You give financial information to India or the Phillipines and they can hold it hostage for either money or political concessions. Only a damn fool, a politician, or an executive focused on this quarter's bonus is dim enough to think otherwise.
Yeah! Why back when I was a boy, we didn't have no fancy-dancy-tablety-touchy-feely-screens for our inputs. No Sir! We used a GENU-WINE IBM keyboard weighing in at about 40 pounds and made of good honest American gunmetal steel. When if finally wore out you could use is as a boat anchor or sell it for scrap for a pretty penny. Yes, that's the way it was, AND WE LIKED IT.........!
I think the "up-down" property is more generally defined as "supporting continuous interval values along a discrete coordinate system", but yes, I think you're basically correct.
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More great taste. Much less filling! *And* you don't have to listen to those annoying proselytizers.
that if I want to profit from spam with no risk, then I should open a credit-card processing center in lower Buttfukkistan. Hmm... Interesting idea.
Arrrrrhhh. Ye may have a point, matey!
than suppressing music and movie piracy? Those individual rights ideas in the constitution that we inherited from the Magna Carta just make that soooooo... difficult.
Excuse me, I have to go wipe up some of that sarcasm that's dripping on the floor here.
Direct understandable interfaces changed to obfuscated, hidden, over-engineered nonsense. Is Google now taking its cues from the MIcrosoft Office interface design team?
The most common way is for crowd members to transmit and receive most information from each other, instead of all doing their own research. This tends to amplify distortion (Remember the "telephone" game from your childhood). When intra-crowd communication is minimized, the crowd again becomes accurate.
This principle can be demonstrated by blogs that repeat stories from blogs that repeat stories from blogs.... Copy and paste, oddly enough, serves to minimize some of the distortion effects, however, additional commentary that accretes around the original story with each telling inevitably creates more distortion.
Another distortion is the "Fox News" effect, where erroneous information is repeated endlessly to a large portion of the crowd. Repeated enough times, this method too distorts the information picture by adding single-source bias. FYI, this happens with all MSM media outlets. Fox News is just the most obvious example.
So the wisdom of crowds exists and is useful, but the internet has provided a friction free means by which it can be distorted and become useless, or worse.
What ass thought up that idea? C'mon. Don't be stubborn, just tell us.
standard household 120v AC, hooked to each antenna for a few seconds should modify the unit to the desired operating status.
The neighbor's van solution *is* funnier, however, although placing it in the middle of a raw sewage processing facility, a rural outhouse or a porn theatre has some appeal.
Most major media outlets in the USA are owned by 6 companies...
http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main?gclid=CMz5vrT5y6gCFchJ2godnlqPrw
and the boards of directors of these 6 media companies are also the boards of directors on most of the other major companies in the USA...
http://www.progressiveliving.org/mass_media_and_politics.htm
So you're going to get the news that a bunch of wealthy people want you to hear. Period. End of story. You want reality? Stick with the blogs until those too are corrupted.
1) Report your location
2) Perform any financial transaction
3) Scan UPC and other computer codes
4) Has a camera, sometimes front and back
5) Can pick up sound and conversation
and... (Drumroll please) report all this back to a central authority anonymously. The ghost of Stalin must be green with envy. And the best thing is, the people actually pay for this themselves!
What next, a site that compiles all personal information of all suspected subversives, er, "friends" and the people those "friends" are connected to?
No, wait...
can I get the machine to withhold soda from someone? Better yet, can I get the machine to travel to a friend's house and steal their soda? I'd pay extra for that!
Not that engineers, developers and IT folk aren't relatively well compensated, but it doesn't compare with what a lawyer or a manager can pull down. Those in power (executive management, lawyers, politicians), have the power to control their own salaries. Those in engineering, not so much. Inevitably, this leads to the dysfunctional parasitism that has infected the current economy of the USA.
It's all about the money honey.
Me, I'm heading for the bunker.
and only heard, "Cloud, cloud, cloud! It's new and shiny and cheaper than those annoying internal IT guys so I get a bonus!" learn to pay the stupidity tax.
Next up, learning just how *much* of your cloud data has been stolen and resold by those trustworthy souls in China and India.
Cheers!
...a cyborg from the future, his task was to so muck up the computing ecosystem that significant progress in AI or any other field of computation was nearly impossible.
Too bad he didn't get a more convincing disguise.
...and always has been. You get software coded in India, who then themselves outsource to Pakistan, Vietnam, etc. and they put in backdoors. You get chips made in China and they put in backdoors or transmitter capability. You give financial information to India or the Phillipines and they can hold it hostage for either money or political concessions. Only a damn fool, a politician, or an executive focused on this quarter's bonus is dim enough to think otherwise.
Liquid hydrocarbon depletion will outrun all our attempts to replace the 160 exajoules that oil adds to the world's energy supply each year.
At least they're trying though. That's more than I can say for the USA federal government.
Yeah! Why back when I was a boy, we didn't have no fancy-dancy-tablety-touchy-feely-screens for our inputs. No Sir! We used a GENU-WINE IBM keyboard weighing in at about 40 pounds and made of good honest American gunmetal steel. When if finally wore out you could use is as a boat anchor or sell it for scrap for a pretty penny. Yes, that's the way it was, AND WE LIKED IT.........!
I think they have a cream for that now. Ask a physician.
Without natural cow's milk, they'll be moooving on to greener pastures.
Only Satanists will have internet.
Wow, that really doesn't work does it?
Of course, you can criticize the party....once.
Welcome to the new conservative USSA, now with exciting new political correctness!
He doesn't even have his deriver's license yet!
A framework and language are a means to an end. Having a religious or emotional attachment to either is sheer stupidity.
I think the "up-down" property is more generally defined as "supporting continuous interval values along a discrete coordinate system", but yes, I think you're basically correct.