too bad when you send them food the government takes it
I'm having difficulties interpreting that in any way that would make sense... but I guess you could mean that when delivering resources to locations torn by war and ruled by dictators, it's pretty difficult to ensure that the resources go to the people who need them the most.
So, what's the answer? Should the industrialized world take their armies and guns and occupy these countries and install a government? Has that ever gone well?
No, not at all. If you had a full campus while charging $5K/yr, you'll raise your tuition to $65K a year, because you'll collect the "free" $60K plus your campus full of students obviously can afford $5K/yr.
Not one extra person will attend (duh, the out of pocket cost remains $5K) and not one extra person will not attend (free money for all !!!)
Well, no, you don't do it all at once. You raise by $2.4K to $7.4K/yr, and the cashier's office can heavily advertise free government money to help cover the increase. People in the middle of getting their degrees aren't going to leave their living and work situations and their friends for an increase they just have to fill out a form to basically ignore. Maybe some new students will go someplace else, but since education grants are universal, every other institution has incentive to raise rates, too. Institutional education is a racket, just like when all the insurance companies decide to hike rates on compulsory coverage.
Then, 25 years later, you've raised tuition to $65K/yr and we take a step back and ask ourselves, "how did we get here?"
My problem with streaming is that things are always in flux. You never know which labels are participating with X streaming service, and even when they do, the contracts are being changed. If you're counting on your favorite song being available online for streaming in 6 years when you want to reminisce, it's a losing battle.
Looking at my YouTube favorites list, a whole bunch of videos are removed due to vauge "terms of use", "copyright claims", or "user deletions". It makes me wish I had been ripping them.
And those mistakenly flagged will be forced to endure cheaters blatantly cheating, ruining the experience for them when they've done nothing wrong. If there's no way to get back to the general population, they might as well ban themselves by not playing anymore. Either way, they find themselves unable to fully play the game for which they paid.
It's like enjoying Tetris for the multiplayer aspects until the server decides I'm doing too well so it's going to send me a non stop flow of S shapes.
I guess it can be argued that once you embrace server-based multiplayer, you defer the ability to deny you enjoyment from your game to someone else, but it's pretty scummy anyway.
I was more thinking on the lines of the conspiracy theriosts that would say this was to prevent proving the landing was a hoax.
Or plausible deniability when investigators don't actually find anything.* "Well, sure, you didn't find anything because YOU stole it and wiped out the footprints."
* full disclosure: I'm quite sure we actually went to the moon.
But sometimes it's not important to be "right". Maybe you just need values compared with some previous sampling, so that the difference between two answers that are wrong is the same that the difference between two answers that are right. Maybe that delta only needs to be accurate to a certain number of significant digits.
Unfortunately neither of the articles really describes what an "occasional error" actually entails. Are these chips occasionally wrong in a predictable way? Are they wrong by a random amount? Are they always wrong for certain calculations or does it depend on the operands?
Not yet anyway. If someone else comes out with a better equivalent to Siri, or Siri starts producing terrible results that aren't for gimmicky questions people will drop it like a rock.
Nope, because Apple would simply disallow any app from their market from competing with Siri (just like alternate web browsers, alternate stores, etc). iPhone users can't run what they want without talented hackers.
I would absolutely use a car that had an auto-drive mode. If everyone did, then you wouldn't even need stop lights or other controls at intersections, or speed limits, as the vehicles would work together to melt traffic into a perfect flow. It might be a bit unnerving at first, watching traffic weaving through intersections, but we would get used to it.
Google or not.
I don't know if that is completely true. You still have to account for mechanical failure. A overlord system would have to monitor for such failures externally and space traffic enough so that it can compensate when a failure occurs.
There aren't a whole lot of mechanical failures that couldn't be predicted. Granted, cars use "miles/km" for wear instead of a more appropriate "hours" like everything else motorized, but with all the datapoints a proper AI car would have to gather, a subsampling can easily detect if the tires are near blowout, if the shocks aren't absorbing what they should, brake response is delayed, and the car can refuse to function until it's corrected.
Even things like roadkill or debris on the road could be noticed by one car's sensors and communicated to all others in short order.
p>What worries me is the increasing incidence of big-rig drivers to run GPS Jammers just so their cargo can't track its own route. I've had my GPS jump two states away just because an 18 wheeler pulled up behind me. I whipped out my phone only to find it couldn't get a fix either. 10 miles this went on, then the trucker tuned onto a different highway, and everything went back to normal.
Where was this, if you don't mind me asking? In the US, I'm pretty sure the FCC prohibits jamming devices, so if a cargo company is deploying them wholesale it would be a very interesting allegation.
Why would anyone ever buy a Porsche, or Vette or even a high powered Camero again..if you couldn't take it out on the streets and drive it like you would today?
For the same reason you don't take a horse on the freeway. Progress is funny like that. Things become obsolete.
There would be dedicated "amusement roads" for such purposes, much like there are horseback tours today.
But why only for women. There's also a problem with men in most magazines. Most of them look like they spend 16 hours a day in a gym and are probably on steroids. Should we start to legislate how much muscle men pictured in magazines can have. Because if we don't we might have too many young men experimenting with steroids.
Society places an exponential weight on how a woman looks versus how a man looks. Little girls are being indoctrinated with the idea that "thin, and nothing else, is sexy" from a very early age, and feel shamed for not meeting those standards.
Boys, on the other hand, do not. They are indoctrinated with other messages, like competition and winning, and are given pro athletes to idolize and want to be.
It's also a negative influence, but at least athletes are actually performing the acts they do in the games. No one will argue that boys playing sports is bad for their health (even though it could be, look at how many kids are injured in organized school sports), but girls starving themselves for an ideal only made possible by photoshopping is much more harmful.
Besides, I got tired of buying a new video card every year just to keep up with the latest titles. I know for a fact that any console game will run on the console.
I'm pretty weary of that myth. Three years ago I built a computer with fairly reasonable specs, an ATI 4870 (was about $270) and a Core 2 Duo E6540 (about $150) and incidentals including memory, motherboard, etc all for about $800. To this date it's still running recent games just fine. The only people stuck in the upgrade rut are those that see running a game at anything other than max detail at 100fps as not being able to play the game, which is ridiculous.
Granted $800 is more than a $600 launch day PS3, but I can also use it for, well, everything I could need a computer for. I imagine someone with a lot more money could get even more ahead of the curve.
Except that Google is an American company, and EU law has no effect on American soil. What Google does in America is governed by American law and no other.
Alsup could, if he so desired, completely ignore EU law and judge them copyrightable. That would have an interesting effect that will finish the job the DMCA started: pushing all remaining technological innovation out of the US.
Just curious, what's your position on violent media -- books, music, movies, video games -- and it's relation to actual real life violence? By your analysis of religious texts, surely you firmly believe that violent media is directly responsible for violent actions of disturbed individuals?
By the very nature of the mundane, we never quite hear from the live/let-live folks of faith. The everyday people just clawing through this sick mass of humanity to make a living and trying to raise their kids to be decent human beings. We only get to hear from the psychopaths and sociopaths and schizophrenics and pedophiles and otherwise raving lunatics.
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too bad when you send them food the government takes it
I'm having difficulties interpreting that in any way that would make sense... but I guess you could mean that when delivering resources to locations torn by war and ruled by dictators, it's pretty difficult to ensure that the resources go to the people who need them the most.
So, what's the answer? Should the industrialized world take their armies and guns and occupy these countries and install a government? Has that ever gone well?
Pell grants are not loans.
No, not at all. If you had a full campus while charging $5K/yr, you'll raise your tuition to $65K a year, because you'll collect the "free" $60K plus your campus full of students obviously can afford $5K/yr.
Not one extra person will attend (duh, the out of pocket cost remains $5K) and not one extra person will not attend (free money for all !!!)
Well, no, you don't do it all at once. You raise by $2.4K to $7.4K/yr, and the cashier's office can heavily advertise free government money to help cover the increase. People in the middle of getting their degrees aren't going to leave their living and work situations and their friends for an increase they just have to fill out a form to basically ignore. Maybe some new students will go someplace else, but since education grants are universal, every other institution has incentive to raise rates, too. Institutional education is a racket, just like when all the insurance companies decide to hike rates on compulsory coverage.
Then, 25 years later, you've raised tuition to $65K/yr and we take a step back and ask ourselves, "how did we get here?"
My problem with streaming is that things are always in flux. You never know which labels are participating with X streaming service, and even when they do, the contracts are being changed. If you're counting on your favorite song being available online for streaming in 6 years when you want to reminisce, it's a losing battle.
Looking at my YouTube favorites list, a whole bunch of videos are removed due to vauge "terms of use", "copyright claims", or "user deletions". It makes me wish I had been ripping them.
With the kind of specs they show for the $45 netbook, what would be the point of either one of them?
And those mistakenly flagged will be forced to endure cheaters blatantly cheating, ruining the experience for them when they've done nothing wrong. If there's no way to get back to the general population, they might as well ban themselves by not playing anymore. Either way, they find themselves unable to fully play the game for which they paid.
It's like enjoying Tetris for the multiplayer aspects until the server decides I'm doing too well so it's going to send me a non stop flow of S shapes.
I guess it can be argued that once you embrace server-based multiplayer, you defer the ability to deny you enjoyment from your game to someone else, but it's pretty scummy anyway.
Don't be so negative. Believe in yourself and practice. Pretty soon you'll easily be able to throw it that far.
Freedom -- true freedom -- is about people having the ability to be assholes if they choose.
Is this a real article? Or is it just an attempt to make pedophiles feel safe using Tor so they can be swept up?
Surely if investigation efforts weren't progressing they wouldn't be publicizing them.
This reads a little like some of the old Leonard J. Crabs articles from Something Awful back in the day.
I was more thinking on the lines of the conspiracy theriosts that would say this was to prevent proving the landing was a hoax.
Or plausible deniability when investigators don't actually find anything.*
"Well, sure, you didn't find anything because YOU stole it and wiped out the footprints."
* full disclosure: I'm quite sure we actually went to the moon.
Go away astroturfer scum
EA offering to lend you a hand is a little like making a deal with the Devil.
This link is much better and gets right to the point: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/morgan-stanley-goldman-got-53-of-facebook-shares-2012-05-18
and how do you know which one is right?
With 4 chips, you can get 4 different answers.
But sometimes it's not important to be "right". Maybe you just need values compared with some previous sampling, so that the difference between two answers that are wrong is the same that the difference between two answers that are right. Maybe that delta only needs to be accurate to a certain number of significant digits.
Unfortunately neither of the articles really describes what an "occasional error" actually entails. Are these chips occasionally wrong in a predictable way? Are they wrong by a random amount? Are they always wrong for certain calculations or does it depend on the operands?
In neither of these cases does imprecise math help the intelligence of they system.
It might, if the fuzzy math enables calculations 10,000 times a second instead of 10 times a second.
That's not turning away wealth, that's turning away discomfort.
Sort of like jumping into water just to jump into water, and jumping into water to put out your inconveniently burning body.
Not yet anyway. If someone else comes out with a better equivalent to Siri, or Siri starts producing terrible results that aren't for gimmicky questions people will drop it like a rock.
Nope, because Apple would simply disallow any app from their market from competing with Siri (just like alternate web browsers, alternate stores, etc). iPhone users can't run what they want without talented hackers.
I would absolutely use a car that had an auto-drive mode. If everyone did, then you wouldn't even need stop lights or other controls at intersections, or speed limits, as the vehicles would work together to melt traffic into a perfect flow. It might be a bit unnerving at first, watching traffic weaving through intersections, but we would get used to it.
Google or not.
I don't know if that is completely true. You still have to account for mechanical failure. A overlord system would have to monitor for such failures externally and space traffic enough so that it can compensate when a failure occurs.
There aren't a whole lot of mechanical failures that couldn't be predicted. Granted, cars use "miles/km" for wear instead of a more appropriate "hours" like everything else motorized, but with all the datapoints a proper AI car would have to gather, a subsampling can easily detect if the tires are near blowout, if the shocks aren't absorbing what they should, brake response is delayed, and the car can refuse to function until it's corrected.
Even things like roadkill or debris on the road could be noticed by one car's sensors and communicated to all others in short order.
p>What worries me is the increasing incidence of big-rig drivers to run GPS Jammers just so their cargo can't track its own route. I've had my GPS jump two states away just because an 18 wheeler pulled up behind me. I whipped out my phone only to find it couldn't get a fix either. 10 miles this went on, then the trucker tuned onto a different highway, and everything went back to normal.
Where was this, if you don't mind me asking? In the US, I'm pretty sure the FCC prohibits jamming devices, so if a cargo company is deploying them wholesale it would be a very interesting allegation.
Why would anyone ever buy a Porsche, or Vette or even a high powered Camero again..if you couldn't take it out on the streets and drive it like you would today?
For the same reason you don't take a horse on the freeway. Progress is funny like that. Things become obsolete.
There would be dedicated "amusement roads" for such purposes, much like there are horseback tours today.
But why only for women. There's also a problem with men in most magazines. Most of them look like they spend 16 hours a day in a gym and are probably on steroids. Should we start to legislate how much muscle men pictured in magazines can have. Because if we don't we might have too many young men experimenting with steroids.
Society places an exponential weight on how a woman looks versus how a man looks. Little girls are being indoctrinated with the idea that "thin, and nothing else, is sexy" from a very early age, and feel shamed for not meeting those standards.
Boys, on the other hand, do not. They are indoctrinated with other messages, like competition and winning, and are given pro athletes to idolize and want to be.
It's also a negative influence, but at least athletes are actually performing the acts they do in the games. No one will argue that boys playing sports is bad for their health (even though it could be, look at how many kids are injured in organized school sports), but girls starving themselves for an ideal only made possible by photoshopping is much more harmful.
Besides, I got tired of buying a new video card every year just to keep up with the latest titles. I know for a fact that any console game will run on the console.
I'm pretty weary of that myth. Three years ago I built a computer with fairly reasonable specs, an ATI 4870 (was about $270) and a Core 2 Duo E6540 (about $150) and incidentals including memory, motherboard, etc all for about $800. To this date it's still running recent games just fine. The only people stuck in the upgrade rut are those that see running a game at anything other than max detail at 100fps as not being able to play the game, which is ridiculous.
Granted $800 is more than a $600 launch day PS3, but I can also use it for, well, everything I could need a computer for. I imagine someone with a lot more money could get even more ahead of the curve.
Except that Google is an American company, and EU law has no effect on American soil. What Google does in America is governed by American law and no other.
Alsup could, if he so desired, completely ignore EU law and judge them copyrightable. That would have an interesting effect that will finish the job the DMCA started: pushing all remaining technological innovation out of the US.
Just curious, what's your position on violent media -- books, music, movies, video games -- and it's relation to actual real life violence? By your analysis of religious texts, surely you firmly believe that violent media is directly responsible for violent actions of disturbed individuals?
By the very nature of the mundane, we never quite hear from the live/let-live folks of faith. The everyday people just clawing through this sick mass of humanity to make a living and trying to raise their kids to be decent human beings. We only get to hear from the psychopaths and sociopaths and schizophrenics and pedophiles and otherwise raving lunatics.