about the only thing in the patent that may be innovative [that is that hasn't already been done] is claim 25 about their new manufacturing process [or not, it could be obvious in of its self, who knows] other than that, why hasn't this been thrown out yet due to prior art?
Just like my car, DVD player and computer *fell together* unintelligently... right.
genetic programming is being used to "design" more complicated machinery than that by computers using evolutionary theory as a guide. already, it has produced alloys rivaling or exceeding the properties of alloys that we've designed and worked around patents as well as produce more efficient electronics [now being researched and used by NASA] and proteins that do things that have never been observed in nature.
Getting sophisticated technology in life, like this from non intelligence is a claim no one can prove nor disprove, our science isn't even proto-science yet, ou science is nowhere near complete so comparing the theory that their is an intelligence
evidence is the currency of science not magical thinking. you observe phenomena, propose a hypothesis, make predictions, revise your hypothesis if needed and rinse repeat until you find something that makes no sense under the current hypothesis and experiment to find out why. that's a far cry from what intelligent design does, ID starts from the position that there *is* a designer and to hell with the evidence to the contrary or lack of evidnece in favor of ID. basically science goes like this: see>>question>>hypothesize>>test>>question>>hypothesize>>test... while religion [intelligent design] goes like this: read holy book>>ignore evidence>>keep idea forever>>prophet!
The research is a little deeper than you imply, it seems to be showing the biochemical mechanism which causes this phenomenon. knowing that repetition helps learning is simple, knowing exactly why it does so is useful if we ever want to do anything interesting with our brains from a technological standpoint.
as a bad analogy: knowing that an apple fell and whacked you on the head is obvious, knowing that the Earth curved space in such a way to allow this is something quite different.
exactly, and utterly meaningless to boot- the only people who would actually follow the law are the ones who wouldn't commit computer crime. these kind of laws serve nothing more than to limit what law abiding citizens can do, it's nothing more than one more meaningless set of laws to make it appear that they are doing something constructive.
funny you mention drug testing, it could be a new way to test for drugs. basically, how it would work is the antibody would bind to the drug, a secondary antibody would bind to the first and that would have a tag which would then be detectable. it is basically using the ELISA set of tests to detect the drug. [Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISA
Yes, the number of bombings on US soil (and embassies) has risen sharply since 9/11. Oh wait... the opposite it true.
technically Iraq doesn't count since it isn't on US soil but it sure is doing a good job killing our troops and by the looks of it, they're using it as a training ground and using it to strengthen their cause. What was once a fringe group is now seen as "freedom fighters" to drive out the people who blow the hell out of their country. I mean really, wtf would you have done if some country started blowing the shit out of us? oh wait.. it's only terrorism if other people do it.
ya.. spend a few hours in customs and save ten seonds by not having to manually read the passport... efficient use of their resources isn't it?
but because it's a real pain in the ass being treated like a "suspect" from the minute you drive to an airport until you drive out of one. Now ask me if I think the US is "winning the war on terror"?
I think we know by now that the "war on terror" isn't going to be decreasing terrorism [it is in fact increasing it] nor is it protecting freedoms or safety, it is in fact eroding freedoms that they never had the right to take away in the first place. sigh... as an American, I hope this never spreads to Canada but judging by recent events, it may indeed happen anyway...
Sorry, I have a real problem with Congress taking away my own rights to my own music after just five years.
I agree in this case, that 5 yrs is probably too short, more like 15 but I still think that extending copyright until you're long dead isn't beneficial to you or anyone in society but the RIAA companies. after all, how can you personally benefit from a copyright that out lasts you?
But if you're telling me you're affraid you can't get your data out of XML down the road, and out of a documented XML format at that, no offense, but I hope you're not having anything to do with programming or management.
sigh.. if there's an open format for it I save it to that format, this little problem MS has created doesn't affect me in the slightest. what bothers me about it is MS is playing parental figure again and the vast majority of people are bending over for them out of habit. sure they could use FOSS to access the data or even modify their registry so that they could open and convert the files but from what I've seen, it will be far more likely that they'll just write it off as a common failure of software that they've been lulled into accepting as normal. this isn't a technical problem as it is ignorance and laziness on both MS's end and anyone unfortunate enough to not know any better.
I bet they'll do the same thing down the line if OOXML ever gets the ISO stamp of approval. let this be a warning to you, with MS your files are accessible for however long they decide they should be, with FOSS, they're accessible as long as anyone is alive capable of re-compiling the source.
an open search algorithm can more easily be checked for any flaws and by extension, can be fixed- closed search can only be reverse engineered for good or bad. with closed source you may be able to find a problem with the software/algorithm but there is nothing you can really do about it, it's completely at the whims of whoever created it and that's the problem.
you making the assumption that the only way that you can believe is by going to church every sunday. that's not really true, a major reason for going to church is to worship with others and strengthen your faith. I did go to church when I was very young but to tell you the truth it never really did anything for me, it felt like a chore- like everyone went because they felt they needed to rather than wanting to srengthen their faith. it felt hollow to me and I choose to believe my own way, to read the bible myself rather than having everything dictated to me by someone else. years later, I went to college and met new friends, many of which were very religious and I decided to go with them to church again. I thought it would be different this time but it wasn't. going to church and worshipping with them made me re-evaluate what I believed and why I believed it. It was out of a curiousity and respect for religion that I attempted to strengthen my beliefs in church which ironically lead me to reject the entire faith. the church its self really wasn't the problem, it just lead me to examine what I believed in greater detail.
Who are you blaming after all? What is mother nature? I just can't wrap my head around the entity that is blamed here?
Are you blaming earth for being so imperfect with all the volcanoes and earthquakes? Are you blaming yourself for continuously degrading the environment thus making it harder for you to live?
you... need to go outside more.. mother nature she "loves" you, specifically she loves to attempt to kill you at every chance she gets, that's why we develop technology to enforce the restraining order against her.
if you link your online accounts to your real identity, you have to keep in mind that it is just the same as if you actually said what you posted line in reality. that in mind, you should have the same standards for your online account that is linked to you as you would in real life. anything you want to say that you wouldnt want linked to your name, you should really post under an account that your employer cant link to you or if that isn't possible somehow, don't say it.
apparently not the number of visits nearly tripled from 2006. TFA says
t was as low as one percent at some points, and was around four percent when 2007 began. Now it's seven percent. That's still teensy compared to the 90 percent-plus who use various versions of Windows, but it's almost certainly the highest in the history of this site.
change through absurdity, basically the idea is to herd companies favoring control to become so draconian in their attempts to control their products that even the most dim-witted consumer will wake up to the fact that it is utter lunacy to buy said company's products.
if you did LOTR without a plot it would be fscking awful and you know this. I would rather have a good plot and few effects than a fscking awful plot that was scribbled on a napkin 5 mins prior to shooting the film with awsesome effects and I bet a lot of people would agree. enough in fact that ignoring them is a huge mistake.
Oh, also I don't agree that if the story is bad a film can't be successful. Look at the first Star Wars movie. The plot was derivative, predictable crap. It was an amazing success because it had a significant fan base.
there fixed that for you. like you said, episode one [I assume that's what you meant] had a pretty poor plot, the effects were good but what really mattered was the fact that starwars as a series has a huge number of devoted fans who regardless of the terrible state of the first plot will go dsee it anyway because it is starwars. in other words, it was bad but not bad enough to drive them away. now let me direct your attention to a set of series where good special effects and enormous amounts of money thrown at it were not enough to save them... Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Enterprise.. true that they weren't movie theatre productions but they did fail because of horrible plot lines.
You cant produce something like Lord of the Rings with a webcam and a youtube account
I dont care how much money they throw at the problem, if their storyline/plot are bad the movie is BAD. no amount of eye candy and pretty shots are going to fix it. LOTR did well because of the plot not so much because of the effects. take the plot away and you've got a mediocre movie that really isnt worth watching. that being said, money can improve a plot but it can not in its self make a good movie. then there's the motivation for creating the film in the first place, when your loyalty is to the almighty dollar sign, its that much easier to create boat loads of half baked movies.
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about the only thing in the patent that may be innovative [that is that hasn't already been done] is claim 25 about their new manufacturing process [or not, it could be obvious in of its self, who knows] other than that, why hasn't this been thrown out yet due to prior art?
even better:
rm -rf /
yes there would, the learning curve would just be *a lot* higher than it is now. Not only that but the spammer species would go extinct quite quickly.
The research is a little deeper than you imply, it seems to be showing the biochemical mechanism which causes this phenomenon. knowing that repetition helps learning is simple, knowing exactly why it does so is useful if we ever want to do anything interesting with our brains from a technological standpoint.
as a bad analogy: knowing that an apple fell and whacked you on the head is obvious, knowing that the Earth curved space in such a way to allow this is something quite different.
they've already tried that, embedding certain customer info into the files- people didn't liek this very much apparently citing privacy concerns...
exactly, and utterly meaningless to boot- the only people who would actually follow the law are the ones who wouldn't commit computer crime. these kind of laws serve nothing more than to limit what law abiding citizens can do, it's nothing more than one more meaningless set of laws to make it appear that they are doing something constructive.
funny you mention drug testing, it could be a new way to test for drugs. basically, how it would work is the antibody would bind to the drug, a secondary antibody would bind to the first and that would have a tag which would then be detectable. it is basically using the ELISA set of tests to detect the drug. [Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISA
will angry mutated sea-bass suffice?
I don't suppose you actually read newspapers, otherwise you would know better.
I think we know by now that the "war on terror" isn't going to be decreasing terrorism [it is in fact increasing it] nor is it protecting freedoms or safety, it is in fact eroding freedoms that they never had the right to take away in the first place. sigh... as an American, I hope this never spreads to Canada but judging by recent events, it may indeed happen anyway...
I bet they'll do the same thing down the line if OOXML ever gets the ISO stamp of approval. let this be a warning to you, with MS your files are accessible for however long they decide they should be, with FOSS, they're accessible as long as anyone is alive capable of re-compiling the source.
an open search algorithm can more easily be checked for any flaws and by extension, can be fixed- closed search can only be reverse engineered for good or bad. with closed source you may be able to find a problem with the software/algorithm but there is nothing you can really do about it, it's completely at the whims of whoever created it and that's the problem.
homeland security.
you making the assumption that the only way that you can believe is by going to church every sunday. that's not really true, a major reason for going to church is to worship with others and strengthen your faith. I did go to church when I was very young but to tell you the truth it never really did anything for me, it felt like a chore- like everyone went because they felt they needed to rather than wanting to srengthen their faith. it felt hollow to me and I choose to believe my own way, to read the bible myself rather than having everything dictated to me by someone else. years later, I went to college and met new friends, many of which were very religious and I decided to go with them to church again. I thought it would be different this time but it wasn't. going to church and worshipping with them made me re-evaluate what I believed and why I believed it. It was out of a curiousity and respect for religion that I attempted to strengthen my beliefs in church which ironically lead me to reject the entire faith. the church its self really wasn't the problem, it just lead me to examine what I believed in greater detail.
I changed my mind about religion, ironically it was because I started going back to church that I realized I didn't believe any of it.
you... need to go outside more.. mother nature she "loves" you, specifically she loves to attempt to kill you at every chance she gets, that's why we develop technology to enforce the restraining order against her.
if you link your online accounts to your real identity, you have to keep in mind that it is just the same as if you actually said what you posted line in reality. that in mind, you should have the same standards for your online account that is linked to you as you would in real life. anything you want to say that you wouldnt want linked to your name, you should really post under an account that your employer cant link to you or if that isn't possible somehow, don't say it.
change through absurdity, basically the idea is to herd companies favoring control to become so draconian in their attempts to control their products that even the most dim-witted consumer will wake up to the fact that it is utter lunacy to buy said company's products.
there fixed that for you. like you said, episode one [I assume that's what you meant] had a pretty poor plot, the effects were good but what really mattered was the fact that starwars as a series has a huge number of devoted fans who regardless of the terrible state of the first plot will go dsee it anyway because it is starwars. in other words, it was bad but not bad enough to drive them away. now let me direct your attention to a set of series where good special effects and enormous amounts of money thrown at it were not enough to save them... Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Enterprise.. true that they weren't movie theatre productions but they did fail because of horrible plot lines.