But they do follow the phonotactics of the speaker’s language – the rules of which are ultimately arbitrary.
But they do follow the phonotactics of the speaker’s language – the rules of which are ultimately arbitrary.
I agree with all this, but I think it is all to say: ISPs support Net Neutrality when it behooves them.
At this point I could give up a lot in terms of budget. Give me text without audio all day long if the writing is good. I think we’ve lost our way on RPGs.
All language is arbitrary.
Cf. Ferdinand de Saussure.
I live here too. I’ve seen it many times.
PS- the post title is written? I guess I don’t see your point.
Yeah, they jumped the shark with that shit a while ago.
Note that it will also have an effect on the quality of reviews. Glassdoor is only worried about number of accounts at this point. It’s unfortunate, since sharing this kind of information is constitutionally protected, but it isn’t necessarily profitable.
Shareholders demand ever increasing return. There is only one way any of this goes, and we are witnessing a total systematic collapse. It is a mathematical certainty.
You cannot squeeze blood from a stone.
What a cop-out.
Bethesda didn’t have trouble making games when they cared about making games. Now, they care about making money. Yes, devs should get paid for their work. But design decisions based on anything other than making a good game poison the well.
This is why small devs are absolutely killing it with indie games on PC at the moment. AAA titles fail over and over again, because they’re designed for C-suite pockets first and gamers second.
“Calif.” is one of the two traditional abbreviations for California.
It’s certainly possible. I do get ads that don’t seem relevant for me pretty regularly. But this last time I’m referencing: one of the first ads I saw that night was for our discussion topic.
I’m not disagreeing with you, so I’ll just mention it’s safe to say: whether it is digital fingerprinting or mic listening, the surveillance level is absolutely off the charts.
They’re not listening to your microphone, at least not while your phone is in your pocket or whatever, because they don’t need to.
I don’t deny that fingerprinting is powerful. But, I also have started to wear a tinfoil hat on the “mic always listening” issue. I have experienced (several times) ads for random things that I have only discussed – never searched for or had other interaction with in any way.
It wouldn’t be in my fingerprint, so the only other possibility is that others with a similar fingerprint to me had already searched for the same thing. Frankly, from an Occam’s Razor perspective, I just find it far less likely that we have such a hive mentality that everyone with similar digital fingerprints ends up having the same “random” discussions. At that point, “they’re always listening to your mic” seems downright practical.
And the really shocking thing is how easy that was to normalize.
Talk about random thing at dinner, phone in pocket.
Post dinner, hit up Insta and boom, ad for random thing… and at that point, some people go “heh” and keep scrolling. Some likely think it’s “the algorithm” being magical and just using other context cues to guess that they would have mentioned it at dinner. Many have realized that, in fact, the devices you pay for and subscribe to are actively spying on you. Constantly.
And yet, the number of people who have opted out of using these devices and services is relatively minimum. There is a good reason for that: many of these services are so ubiquitous, they look and feel like utilities. And in some cases, they effectively are, as it can be impossible to use another service without a smartphone.
Hell, I can’t even pay my damn rent without using some stupid app.
How stupid has the populace become that they can’t see this high school bullshit.
Sounds like they want a round of layoffs but don’t want to pay severance.
The primary argument against the death penalty are the sheer number of people who were executed in spite of later being found innocent.
Just because it doesn’t apply in this particular case doesn’t mean anything needs to change.
The legal system does not have 100% accuracy.
But then how would I get my breakfast beer? Only at an airport do you get the plausibility of being accustomed to a different time zone.
In all seriousness though, this is the classic “blame the person or the tool” argument.
Good thing he gutted Twitter’s content moderation teams in the name of “free speech”, eh?
If I had a dollar for every time a billionaire loses more money than I could ever dream of because their hubris got in the way or they misunderstood a concept or were just plain dumb – well, I guess I’d be a billionaire too.
Oh, I totally agree. My comment was intended more to get away from the idea that these people are simply unintelligent, which I don’t think is the case.
100% they have a responsibility to think critically. Conditioning may make that difficult, but a lack of effort would be an entirely different thing.
Trump’s achilles’ heel is pride and ego. He surrounds himself with yes-people to constantly stroke that ego.
But he isnt dumb. He must know (maybe deep down) that she got under his skin and as a result she embarrassed him on national TV.
He cannot risk any more detriment to the ego.
The existing MSFS is already effectively a live service. Lots of features which make it stand out are not available in offline mode.