The nuclear pusher-plate idea is not making a comeback, nor is it being worked at all into current spacecraft technology in even the most distantly-related senses. That's one of the problems I'm complaining about.. The current Orion spacecraft in development by NASA has nothing at all to do with the Project Orion nuclear pusher-plate propulsion idea. The name is unfortunate, because now everyone who's ever heard of Project Orion is going to think NASA is going to kill the earth.. and if people are going to think that anyway, then why not actually go ahead with it? Right? Flawless reasoning..
Erg. I read your link before I visited it. Click *my* link. Your link is NASA's most recent effort to get people to the moon. My link has nothing to do with your link.
Yes, exactly. That link which I already linked to in my original comment.
It only seems like a bad idea because you've been brainwashed by eco-nazis into thinking all things nuclear are by default a bad idea. There are solutions to the problems, we just have to have the vision to sieze on them and develop the idea into a safe and effective way to get us off this rock and permanently establish a space presence.
Not necessarily so. Antarctica or desert launches would limit the contamination significantly. Additionally, the potential for the advancement of the species is too great to ignore. It's not a write-off, it's just a 10 megaton blast. That's a measly one Tunguska's worth.
Don't be a wimp.. We're constraining ourselves to dinky launches of dinky payloads and dinky little experiments for no good reason. This would free us from Earth forever, in one single launch. That's not worth it?
You all are looking at this in completely the wrong way. The cost of getting stuff up into space doesn't have to be significant. We can send tonnes and tonnes and tonnes of crap up there relatively inexpensively, and the vehicle to do it would be reusable and have a significant lifetime. Just build an Orion spaceship. Piece of cake. We can send thousands of people up, tonnes of supplies.. heck we could launch an entire colony in one shot, and not really have to worry much about carefully conserving every gram of fuel.
Whoah! Uh, what items are you calling the use of criminal when not in the hands of a private investigator? Where can I find Item 1(a)? You're not talking about traceroute and friends are you?
By the by, I missed your original reply to my challenge regarding the Canadian Charter. (Yes, I'm following you here because that other thread was archived before I had a chance to form my own response.)
If your best research is an article on Wikipedia which doesn't adequately (or even intelligently) explain the R. v. Keegstra case; In your original note, you said, " a caveat that in my opinion makes it practically meaningless" when referring to the exception to the freedom of expression clause in the Canadian Charter.
The best you can come up with is the hate speech limitation?
You argument boils down to this:
You: "The Canadian Charter is useless because it provides an exception."
Me: "WTF are you talking about? There are well-known tests regarding those exceptions."
You: "29 years and a hate speech exception means you're going straight to hell in another century."
LISTEN TO PARENT. He's 100% correct! Cripes people, we don't even have a clear definition of intelligence, let alone consciousness, let slone anything approaching "human-level" intelligence. And yet you all think it's just a question of raw computing power?
> (a) that's the way nature does it for all its intelligences, high and low, so we know the process works
Uh.. since we have no idea what the process is yet, this statement is meaningless. Therefore all you're making is a statement of optimism, and there's absolutely no basis for this. We have no idea what consciousness is, and can't define it outside of subjective internal experience. Therefore, there's no reason for the optimism shown both in the original article, and by all the people in here commenting from their armchairs as though AI is right around the g-d corner. It's not, and our best guess is it won't be for the foreseeable future. The problem is too fundamentally unsolved.
... you mean except for all those weird tiny little un-studied structures mentioned by the scientists in Consciousness right? The ones they have no idea the purpose of? And that could increase by a few thousand orders of magnitude the estimates of the idiotic "computing capacity" of the human brain?
They've been making these predictions for decades. We haven't even begun to identify what it means to be conscious, and a fundamental property of human intelligence is consciousness. What, you think it'll spontaneously develop once we put enough computing power together and fire it in the right order?
What's the right order?
Raw computing power ISN'T the problem that needs to be solved to develop a machine with the intelligence of a human.
"Legally"? Ah, I see. OS/X is your "distro" of choice. Well, the choice is of course one of usability and friendliness versus FSF-styled freedom. But for sheer volume of software (and quality, since you're willing to pay for it) Windows XP work on it straight out of the box.
And I would compare an Air with an actually useful ultraportable because the only thing the Air has going for it is super thin-ness.. the dimensions aside from height unfortunately strike it right off my list of "bring with me when I travel" devices.
One's the size of a large-print novel and fits into my inside pocket. One is huge and wouldn't fit in anything but a briefcase. To me, the choice is clear.
Be sure to track down the source of those rumours. Asus is happy about the sales volume of the Eee, I'm not so sure a touchscreen is even in the works.
That page doesn't have any evidence. That's a graduation outline and description. It appears on that page the implication is that you can call yourself a Software Engineer upon graduation.
In Canada, I'm pretty sure the term can actually be applied to yourself: Engineer, I mean. So far there's no precedent that says the term is the desmesnes of standards and accreditation bodies. I think you just can't call yourself a "Civil Engineer" or an "Electrical Engineer."
I would be interested if someone would point out actual law that says the term Engineer can't be applied basically willy-nilly (except for established practices as I mentioned.) Precedent would be even better.
You are incorrect in your assessment of Canadian Law. There are plenty of freely-knowable tests that are applied in the case of freedom of expression in Canada, and your characterization of Canadian freedom of expression is a poor one at best.
Either back up your assertions with fact and reference, or state a retraction. As we all know, an armchair Slashdot lawyer's opinion is worth exactly nothing.
I did. I'm glad I did, the thing rocks, especially after I plugged 2GB RAM and a 8GB SDHC into it.
Here's why an Eee PC rocks:
- Eee software is 99.9% hackable. Replace your OS with another distro, or boot off the SD slot. - Eee hardware is hugely hackable. For another $450, you can plug in additional USB hubs, a GPS module, bluetooth, another SDHC card reader with another 8GB SDHC card, another 4GB USB drive, a 802.11N wifi, an FM transmitter, a Conexant modem, and a 2GB DDR2 memory module. All of it internally. Yourself. - Eee hardware is so cheap, you won't worry about breaking it when you hack it. Just buy another one. - 18 second boot-up. - 4 second shutdown. - Super-portable, about the size of a large-print paperback. - Super-portable! Only 0.92kg!!
Honestly, for the features on the $350 version, I don't know why anyone would bother with anything else if they want an ultraportable. And if they're willing to buy a more expensive machine, then go with the Thinkpad X61s, or wait for the upcoming Lenovo ultraportable, or a Sony Vaio.. Why pay the premium for the Mac except to get the Mac software and usability?
The linked article goes into exactly one single detail that somehow magically links the videogame Neuromancer with the Blade Runner movie: "its realisation of the urban sprawl[.]"
Gimme a break. Urban frigging sprawl means the Neuromancer videogame somehow took its cues from Blade Runner? There IS no urban sprawl in the videogame! It's one of the most sterile, perfect-looking, and primarily *EMPTY* "sprawls" ever conceived!
It's crystal clear neither Scott Sharkey nor Jenn Frank (the authors of the linked article) actually played the game, nor in their haste to say something witty and clever and find links and patterns where there are none, did they manage to actually make a coherent point.
.. and how can we exercise choice as to whether we're exposed to a potentially harmful chemical? (And can we take some of it to make sure that it is indeed what they say it is?)
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The nuclear pusher-plate idea is not making a comeback, nor is it being worked at all into current spacecraft technology in even the most distantly-related senses. That's one of the problems I'm complaining about.. The current Orion spacecraft in development by NASA has nothing at all to do with the Project Orion nuclear pusher-plate propulsion idea. The name is unfortunate, because now everyone who's ever heard of Project Orion is going to think NASA is going to kill the earth.. and if people are going to think that anyway, then why not actually go ahead with it? Right? Flawless reasoning..
Erg. I read your link before I visited it. Click *my* link. Your link is NASA's most recent effort to get people to the moon. My link has nothing to do with your link.
Yes, exactly. That link which I already linked to in my original comment.
It only seems like a bad idea because you've been brainwashed by eco-nazis into thinking all things nuclear are by default a bad idea. There are solutions to the problems, we just have to have the vision to sieze on them and develop the idea into a safe and effective way to get us off this rock and permanently establish a space presence.
Not necessarily so. Antarctica or desert launches would limit the contamination significantly. Additionally, the potential for the advancement of the species is too great to ignore. It's not a write-off, it's just a 10 megaton blast. That's a measly one Tunguska's worth.
Don't be a wimp.. We're constraining ourselves to dinky launches of dinky payloads and dinky little experiments for no good reason. This would free us from Earth forever, in one single launch. That's not worth it?
Think big, man!
Ah. So where are the Items 1(a) and so on so I can see what these photographs you're talking about are described as..?
You all are looking at this in completely the wrong way. The cost of getting stuff up into space doesn't have to be significant. We can send tonnes and tonnes and tonnes of crap up there relatively inexpensively, and the vehicle to do it would be reusable and have a significant lifetime. Just build an Orion spaceship. Piece of cake. We can send thousands of people up, tonnes of supplies.. heck we could launch an entire colony in one shot, and not really have to worry much about carefully conserving every gram of fuel.
What's an Orion?
Glad you asked: Orion Spacecraft Rule
Nuclear pulse propulsion behind giant push-plates on springs, man! With a payload measured by the tonne rather than the kilo!
Whoah! Uh, what items are you calling the use of criminal when not in the hands of a private investigator? Where can I find Item 1(a)? You're not talking about traceroute and friends are you?
So what's left before the complete documentation sets are in our hands?
By the by, I missed your original reply to my challenge regarding the Canadian Charter. (Yes, I'm following you here because that other thread was archived before I had a chance to form my own response.)
If your best research is an article on Wikipedia which doesn't adequately (or even intelligently) explain the R. v. Keegstra case; In your original note, you said, " a caveat that in my opinion makes it practically meaningless" when referring to the exception to the freedom of expression clause in the Canadian Charter.
The best you can come up with is the hate speech limitation?
You argument boils down to this:
You: "The Canadian Charter is useless because it provides an exception."
Me: "WTF are you talking about? There are well-known tests regarding those exceptions."
You: "29 years and a hate speech exception means you're going straight to hell in another century."
Spot the fallacy.
LISTEN TO PARENT. He's 100% correct! Cripes people, we don't even have a clear definition of intelligence, let alone consciousness, let slone anything approaching "human-level" intelligence. And yet you all think it's just a question of raw computing power?
You people read wayy too much scifi.
> (a) that's the way nature does it for all its intelligences, high and low, so we know the process works
Uh.. since we have no idea what the process is yet, this statement is meaningless. Therefore all you're making is a statement of optimism, and there's absolutely no basis for this. We have no idea what consciousness is, and can't define it outside of subjective internal experience. Therefore, there's no reason for the optimism shown both in the original article, and by all the people in here commenting from their armchairs as though AI is right around the g-d corner. It's not, and our best guess is it won't be for the foreseeable future. The problem is too fundamentally unsolved.
... you mean except for all those weird tiny little un-studied structures mentioned by the scientists in Consciousness right? The ones they have no idea the purpose of? And that could increase by a few thousand orders of magnitude the estimates of the idiotic "computing capacity" of the human brain?
They've been making these predictions for decades. We haven't even begun to identify what it means to be conscious, and a fundamental property of human intelligence is consciousness. What, you think it'll spontaneously develop once we put enough computing power together and fire it in the right order?
What's the right order?
Raw computing power ISN'T the problem that needs to be solved to develop a machine with the intelligence of a human.
What the heck? It was a specific gain as a result of a crime. Is that still legal in the U.S.?
The article mentions perpetual motion too.. did you read it?
"Legally"? Ah, I see. OS/X is your "distro" of choice. Well, the choice is of course one of usability and friendliness versus FSF-styled freedom. But for sheer volume of software (and quality, since you're willing to pay for it) Windows XP work on it straight out of the box.
And I would compare an Air with an actually useful ultraportable because the only thing the Air has going for it is super thin-ness.. the dimensions aside from height unfortunately strike it right off my list of "bring with me when I travel" devices.
One's the size of a large-print novel and fits into my inside pocket. One is huge and wouldn't fit in anything but a briefcase. To me, the choice is clear.
Be sure to track down the source of those rumours. Asus is happy about the sales volume of the Eee, I'm not so sure a touchscreen is even in the works.
That page doesn't have any evidence. That's a graduation outline and description. It appears on that page the implication is that you can call yourself a Software Engineer upon graduation.
In Canada, I'm pretty sure the term can actually be applied to yourself: Engineer, I mean. So far there's no precedent that says the term is the desmesnes of standards and accreditation bodies. I think you just can't call yourself a "Civil Engineer" or an "Electrical Engineer."
I would be interested if someone would point out actual law that says the term Engineer can't be applied basically willy-nilly (except for established practices as I mentioned.) Precedent would be even better.
You are incorrect in your assessment of Canadian Law. There are plenty of freely-knowable tests that are applied in the case of freedom of expression in Canada, and your characterization of Canadian freedom of expression is a poor one at best.
Either back up your assertions with fact and reference, or state a retraction. As we all know, an armchair Slashdot lawyer's opinion is worth exactly nothing.
I did. I'm glad I did, the thing rocks, especially after I plugged 2GB RAM and a 8GB SDHC into it.
Here's why an Eee PC rocks:
- Eee software is 99.9% hackable. Replace your OS with another distro, or boot off the SD slot.
- Eee hardware is hugely hackable. For another $450, you can plug in additional USB hubs, a GPS module, bluetooth, another SDHC card reader with another 8GB SDHC card, another 4GB USB drive, a 802.11N wifi, an FM transmitter, a Conexant modem, and a 2GB DDR2 memory module. All of it internally. Yourself.
- Eee hardware is so cheap, you won't worry about breaking it when you hack it. Just buy another one.
- 18 second boot-up.
- 4 second shutdown.
- Super-portable, about the size of a large-print paperback.
- Super-portable! Only 0.92kg!!
Honestly, for the features on the $350 version, I don't know why anyone would bother with anything else if they want an ultraportable. And if they're willing to buy a more expensive machine, then go with the Thinkpad X61s, or wait for the upcoming Lenovo ultraportable, or a Sony Vaio.. Why pay the premium for the Mac except to get the Mac software and usability?
Unless the alleged infringer is in Canada, of course.
The linked article goes into exactly one single detail that somehow magically links the videogame Neuromancer with the Blade Runner movie: "its realisation of the urban sprawl[.]"
Gimme a break. Urban frigging sprawl means the Neuromancer videogame somehow took its cues from Blade Runner? There IS no urban sprawl in the videogame! It's one of the most sterile, perfect-looking, and primarily *EMPTY* "sprawls" ever conceived!
It's crystal clear neither Scott Sharkey nor Jenn Frank (the authors of the linked article) actually played the game, nor in their haste to say something witty and clever and find links and patterns where there are none, did they manage to actually make a coherent point.
What utter, typical crap.
Hear, hear!!
.. and how can we exercise choice as to whether we're exposed to a potentially harmful chemical? (And can we take some of it to make sure that it is indeed what they say it is?)
Don't spray crap at me, man.
... and it'll completely transform Linux.