You hit on one point, but what he says has merit as a whole.
I've worked with some people who were told to use Notepad++, but have no sense of what they're doing. 30 open files, half of which don't even exist anymore. Standard notepad is *simple* and that is all I need most of the time.
For a moment, I forgot you were talking about Japan and were commenting on America instead.
This article has so much wrong with it that I'm surprised to see this on Slashdot. Or I would be, if this were 20 years ago.
You say that like it's a bad thing, but I say if it can be automated it should be automated. The only real problem here is how artificial scarcity and this "You MUST earn your continued existence" attitude that is prevalent in modern society.
Well, now you do know someone. I haven't had nicotine in about 2 months. I smoked a pack a day starting in my early 20s up until my early 30s. That's when vaping started becoming a thing and I decided to try that instead. Vaped for several years and over time, reduced my nicotine content from 24%, to 12%, to 6%, to 3% and now, 0%. That's a cool thing about vaping: You can just reduce nicotine potency over time and trick yourself into thinking you're still getting it because you're still following the habits and motions. At some point, (probably soon) I'll stop vaping all together. I know some people are capable of just dropping cigarettes all together and going cold turkey. I'm not one of those people.
EPA has the utmost confidence in its career scientist
Note the singular usage.
wants to upgrade to the Iphone X. He's using an Iphone 7 right now, and has had it for less than a year.
His reasoning? He believes that Apple intentionally causes older phones to run slower when new phones are released. I asked him why he doesn't switch away from Apple products then if he believes they're using such business tactics, and his response is that he didn't want to have to repurchase his library of movies and music he has on Itunes.
This is your average consumer.
It may only be part of a "marketing strategy" as you say, but it still illustrates the fact that having things open for use leads to further creativity and production of art.
Putting the vocoder itself aside, there's far more to the scene than the voice itself. Had this only been a piece of voice software without a character attached, it wouldn't have been nearly as successful. Evidence of this is scene in the prior releases of the Vocaloid software, such as Lola (http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/LOLA). While this reinforces that releasing the designs into the wild was a marketing move, it also illustrates that the openness of the designs lead to a burst of creativity and production. Even for those that never produced any music using the software, it provided opportunities to participate in the community and contribute in other ways, such as illustrations, animations, instrumentation, etc.
The irony here is, the resulting videos and photos would not be illegal, so long as that AC wasn't a minor.
Had this been 2010, I would have agreed with you. The numbers for 2015 show that esports isn't just a game these days, though. Sure, these aren't NFL or MLB numbers, but they aren't minor either.
all I can say is, Hahahaha, Good luck with that.
The only way this robot can lead a customer to an item is if that item is in it's correct place. Considering how these stores are actually run, it's becoming more and more often that the items simply aren't in their system recorded location. Either because the stockers are told to push everything out to keep the back rooms clean and empty, or because the people who set the locations are told to "approve" all location settings before the items are ever actually moved to those locations.
A friend of mine bought the Vive and I've had the pleasure of using it. I didn't find any real issue with the resolution myself, but aside from that it all comes down to price point, and I feel you're right, $300 would be ideal. The $399 price point and major franchises releasing games for the PS VR is why I think if any headset is going to succeed from our current crop, that would be the one.
It may seem common sense, but that's not a reason to not get empirical data illustrating the assumption.
Actually, this pretty much already exists. Go buy a $1 OTG USB cable and a $25 wired Xbox 360 controller and it just works. Or, you can get something like this for $12.
It's not that there's lack of controller support in terms of hardware or the OS. It's just that game companies aren't rolling out support for them.
I'm not seeing where it grants a right to acquire information. I'm also not seeing where it grants freedom of speech to non-U.S. residents.
So long as the websites in question do not originate in the United States, they may very well have every right to restrict our access to them?
Don't panic.
