One can easily pass through security with several little bottles of liquor (1.5 ounces apiece). They look at them but don't verify that the seal isn't broken (anecdotaly speaking, mine are always sealed but they always just received a cursory glance. Probably very common for flights to Vegas...).
Quote: A war like that takes months of planning and logistics if it's going to go well.
Does any war go well? Some are certainly justified (the ends justify the means, take the US Revolutionary War as an example), but to say that it "went well" isn't appropriate as war is about people killing people (War on Drugs included).
Maybe he shouldn't have posted it for all the world to see, available to the public.
When I state my opinions to my friends, I don't use a public forum.
The console will not have an always on connection requirement. Oh wait, I said that in public... (my broken DVD drive first gen Xbox360 requires a constant connection, because it's only good for Neflix and Amazon streaming services)
If you post for everyone to see, everyone is entitled to respond with their opinion. If one creates a shitstorm that may impact one's employer, your job could/should be on the line. The company had to make a public response over a private opinion.
Can it be used for all future RFP requests? Do the users like it better (more convenient, easier)?
For $7,800, that would be incredible ($10,000 limit I understand, not much for such a project in my opinion). Think about what corporations spend on small IT projects (internally or externally developed).
I'm assuming the developer was familiar with all of the tools and already had ample experience piecing them together. The time frame makes it so.
Great post, to me financial innovation is defined as "when one or more parties take advantage of legal edge-cases (loopholes) to their benefit". This happens a lot in the insurance industry.
Now to nit-pick, but with a comedic approach...
You said: "One cannot eat gold, wear it, drink it, shelter under it, use it to bind wounds or cure ailments."
Single generation adaptation would seem to indicate, at least to me, that there are recessive genes that are expressed based on environmental factors (O2 levels for example).
I've always wondered, if a sherpa's child was raised at sea level (and/or during in vitro, I would guess this is a critical period for such adaptations), would the child retain or loose their family's inherent traits associated with high altitude living?
Watching sherpa's summit Everest constantly without supplemental oxygen (on the show Everest: Beyond the Limit) is incredible. In fact, during the 2nd season of the show, a climber wanted to go up the North face and then down another route, and then back again; he didn't do it because he said it would have only been possible because of his sherpa, it wouldn't have been a personal accomplishment.
Thanks for the PDF, it seems to directly address these questions and concepts, I look forward to reading it.
The speed of the warming is the only real issue. Adaptation in nature isn't a fast process, unless you are bacteria/virii. Plants and animals adapt at different speeds, and this results in differing selection pressures throughout a given ecosystem. An example would be a plant that adapts very slowly during a warming period, resulting in less of the plant, and the animals that feed on the plant have less food to go around. Less animals survive to reproduce, and the predators that feed on the plant eaters now have less food and therefore suffer.
Man doesn't have this problem, we've basically got adaptability conquered (we can go miles below the ocean surface, to the moon, and to the highest mountain tops).
But if ecosystems collapse then we are directly threatened.
Of course cockroaches will survive, and while I've eaten a few, it wasn't pleasant. But I would do it to survive.
What he did was premeditated, one doesn't just aim a laser at an airplane without that being the goal.
Further, the worst case scenario is that the pilots cannot operate the plane effectively and it goes down, with a potential great loss of life.
Therefore, in my opinion, what he did should be classified as 1 count of premeditated attempted murder for every individual on the plane. A quick search finds that the sentencing guidelines vary by state (in California the maximum penalty if life for a single count).
I don't want this guy to be a part of the general public, his personal judgement about things is warped, psychotic, and dangerous.
Of course, if he was drunk he should only get 90 days, probably with work release..............
A US based militia in a conflict against the government could last as long as Afghanistan or Iraq wars. These wars were/are wars of attrition. They last until the aggressor decides to leave.
How long would an individual last? Hard to say, not very long in direct combat. But our wars are no longer direct with large armies meeting on the field.
How long would such a war last? Until the government decides to stop it.
The key question: Have we killed all of the insurgents and terrorists? No. It's a war of attrition, it goes on forever until one side decides to give up (people who live in the war zone will never give up, something the US has a problem understanding in my opinion).
Winning isn't possible, other than "The only winning move is not to play" (Wargames).
The answer to the original question is no. Because we don't have the AI technology at this point.
Why? Because of wisdom, a completely human trait that our technology cannot reproduce.
Wisdom involves knowing enough about disparate topics to develop a novel solution. That's what this "keyword" based system is trying to target.
Wisdom is something inherently human, per our evolution and our ability to think about things and react to our knowledge.
Computers, at this point, can provide specific results. This is important. If you know what to search for then the results could inspire. If you don't, then there is no benefit. The person searching has to know what to search for, that is the wisdom. The results are basically an more specific Google search.
My "smart watch" performs basic watch features (the time, stopwatch, alarms) as well as altitude, relative atmospheric pressure, temperature (can't be on the wrist for that), and a compass.
Smart enough, and it basically lasts forever as it is solar powered enough.
Start running Ghostery. Yeah, it will block the ads (which I have also clicked on in the past, but no more), but it also prevents most popups as well as cross site tracking in general.
Sometimes issues such as these must be addressed by the Individual, not the Organization (or Corporation). The Organization will do as it pleases, and so will the Individuals. So it goes...
For the record, I've never seen a popover ad on Slashdot.
I don't think so, science is based on experimentation and tangible, repeatable results. A lot of science starts with "I wonder if this is possible", sort of a belief in a result. But the validation or proof of an idea is experimentally driven, moving beyond a belief to either "it works" or "it doesn't work".
At some point Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were made up, and many people take them very seriously. It's basically a question of how long ago the invention occurred.
Personally, I'd like to see a return to Greek or Roman gods, much more interesting in my opinion, and just as believable...
I'd love to build a temple to Athena in a modern city (I think it would make a fantastic tourist attraction). I just don't have the funds.
As the link points out, there are ways around these restrictions (altering the "country of last export" by moving them around before importing them to the US).
Blood/conflict diamonds are mined by people who are very oppressed. One could argue that many things from China are created by people who are very oppressed (low pay, terrible work conditions, high suicide rates, etc.).
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Twitter is really growing up these days.
You are correct sir. I would feel otherwise about the Oscars had Beasts of the Southern Wild won some awards this year.
It was the best picture of the year, and it had the best actress of the year (even though she was 5/6 years old during filming).
The Oscars are a circle-jerk at this point, awarding themselves awards for awarding themselves awards.
One can easily pass through security with several little bottles of liquor (1.5 ounces apiece). They look at them but don't verify that the seal isn't broken (anecdotaly speaking, mine are always sealed but they always just received a cursory glance. Probably very common for flights to Vegas...).
Quote: A war like that takes months of planning and logistics if it's going to go well.
Does any war go well? Some are certainly justified (the ends justify the means, take the US Revolutionary War as an example), but to say that it "went well" isn't appropriate as war is about people killing people (War on Drugs included).
The race to the bottom has produced some pretty nice laptops in the $400 range. Decent gaming laptops (fans always on...) can be had for about $1,000.
I like the race to the bottom, it saves me considerable amount of money.
Maybe he shouldn't have posted it for all the world to see, available to the public.
When I state my opinions to my friends, I don't use a public forum.
The console will not have an always on connection requirement. Oh wait, I said that in public... (my broken DVD drive first gen Xbox360 requires a constant connection, because it's only good for Neflix and Amazon streaming services)
If you post for everyone to see, everyone is entitled to respond with their opinion. If one creates a shitstorm that may impact one's employer, your job could/should be on the line. The company had to make a public response over a private opinion.
Anti-trust regulations would probably prevent such a move, otherwise Apple would have done it already...
Interesting idea.
I request the manual pat down every time I fly (very rarely these days, under once per year).
If 5% of people flying did this the system would be crushed under it's own weight.
The people have the latitude to choose to be searched, take advantage of it as often as possible.
Quote: Most people won't rape someone for money, for example.
Banks will rape you, and they only do it for the money.
Can it be used for all future RFP requests? Do the users like it better (more convenient, easier)?
For $7,800, that would be incredible ($10,000 limit I understand, not much for such a project in my opinion). Think about what corporations spend on small IT projects (internally or externally developed).
I'm assuming the developer was familiar with all of the tools and already had ample experience piecing them together. The time frame makes it so.
That's the one thing I didn't bother searching for, great find.
Great post, to me financial innovation is defined as "when one or more parties take advantage of legal edge-cases (loopholes) to their benefit". This happens a lot in the insurance industry.
Now to nit-pick, but with a comedic approach...
You said: "One cannot eat gold, wear it, drink it, shelter under it, use it to bind wounds or cure ailments."
* Eat Gold - Gold flaked ice cream: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-05/world/35270313_1_ice-cream-iranians-oil-windfall
* Wear Gold - Seriously, this is extremely common...
* Drink Gold: Goldschläger
* Shelter Under Gold: http://www.barnettassociates.net/a-house-made-of-gold-where-to-see-it/
* Bind Wounds or Cure Ailments (medical use in general): http://ezinearticles.com/?Medical-Uses-of-Gold&id=3234400
Yeah, they are mostly edge cases, but searching for them was fun...
Thanks again for the post, it was well spoken and I don't have karma at this time.
Single generation adaptation would seem to indicate, at least to me, that there are recessive genes that are expressed based on environmental factors (O2 levels for example).
I've always wondered, if a sherpa's child was raised at sea level (and/or during in vitro, I would guess this is a critical period for such adaptations), would the child retain or loose their family's inherent traits associated with high altitude living?
Watching sherpa's summit Everest constantly without supplemental oxygen (on the show Everest: Beyond the Limit) is incredible. In fact, during the 2nd season of the show, a climber wanted to go up the North face and then down another route, and then back again; he didn't do it because he said it would have only been possible because of his sherpa, it wouldn't have been a personal accomplishment.
Thanks for the PDF, it seems to directly address these questions and concepts, I look forward to reading it.
The speed of the warming is the only real issue. Adaptation in nature isn't a fast process, unless you are bacteria/virii. Plants and animals adapt at different speeds, and this results in differing selection pressures throughout a given ecosystem. An example would be a plant that adapts very slowly during a warming period, resulting in less of the plant, and the animals that feed on the plant have less food to go around. Less animals survive to reproduce, and the predators that feed on the plant eaters now have less food and therefore suffer.
Man doesn't have this problem, we've basically got adaptability conquered (we can go miles below the ocean surface, to the moon, and to the highest mountain tops).
But if ecosystems collapse then we are directly threatened.
Of course cockroaches will survive, and while I've eaten a few, it wasn't pleasant. But I would do it to survive.
What he did was premeditated, one doesn't just aim a laser at an airplane without that being the goal.
Further, the worst case scenario is that the pilots cannot operate the plane effectively and it goes down, with a potential great loss of life.
Therefore, in my opinion, what he did should be classified as 1 count of premeditated attempted murder for every individual on the plane. A quick search finds that the sentencing guidelines vary by state (in California the maximum penalty if life for a single count).
I don't want this guy to be a part of the general public, his personal judgement about things is warped, psychotic, and dangerous.
Of course, if he was drunk he should only get 90 days, probably with work release..............
A US based militia in a conflict against the government could last as long as Afghanistan or Iraq wars. These wars were/are wars of attrition. They last until the aggressor decides to leave.
How long would an individual last? Hard to say, not very long in direct combat. But our wars are no longer direct with large armies meeting on the field.
How long would such a war last? Until the government decides to stop it.
The key question: Have we killed all of the insurgents and terrorists? No. It's a war of attrition, it goes on forever until one side decides to give up (people who live in the war zone will never give up, something the US has a problem understanding in my opinion).
Winning isn't possible, other than "The only winning move is not to play" (Wargames).
The answer to the original question is no. Because we don't have the AI technology at this point.
Why? Because of wisdom, a completely human trait that our technology cannot reproduce.
Wisdom involves knowing enough about disparate topics to develop a novel solution. That's what this "keyword" based system is trying to target.
Wisdom is something inherently human, per our evolution and our ability to think about things and react to our knowledge.
Computers, at this point, can provide specific results. This is important. If you know what to search for then the results could inspire. If you don't, then there is no benefit. The person searching has to know what to search for, that is the wisdom. The results are basically an more specific Google search.
Seriously.
It's not uncommon for Canadians to purchase cars in the US. Not at all.
My "smart watch" performs basic watch features (the time, stopwatch, alarms) as well as altitude, relative atmospheric pressure, temperature (can't be on the wrist for that), and a compass.
Smart enough, and it basically lasts forever as it is solar powered enough.
Start running Ghostery. Yeah, it will block the ads (which I have also clicked on in the past, but no more), but it also prevents most popups as well as cross site tracking in general.
Sometimes issues such as these must be addressed by the Individual, not the Organization (or Corporation). The Organization will do as it pleases, and so will the Individuals. So it goes...
For the record, I've never seen a popover ad on Slashdot.
I don't think so, science is based on experimentation and tangible, repeatable results. A lot of science starts with "I wonder if this is possible", sort of a belief in a result. But the validation or proof of an idea is experimentally driven, moving beyond a belief to either "it works" or "it doesn't work".
Not so much with religion.
At some point Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were made up, and many people take them very seriously. It's basically a question of how long ago the invention occurred.
Personally, I'd like to see a return to Greek or Roman gods, much more interesting in my opinion, and just as believable...
I'd love to build a temple to Athena in a modern city (I think it would make a fantastic tourist attraction). I just don't have the funds.
A better "edge" example would be blood/conflict diamonds. Diamonds are legal, generally.
But the US does ban diamonds from certain countries, and requires certification from others:
http://www.policyalmanac.org/world/archive/conflict_diamonds.shtml
As the link points out, there are ways around these restrictions (altering the "country of last export" by moving them around before importing them to the US).
Blood/conflict diamonds are mined by people who are very oppressed. One could argue that many things from China are created by people who are very oppressed (low pay, terrible work conditions, high suicide rates, etc.).
The legality (or not) of the object would override any first-sale doctrine.
Your example is a good one, as is purchasing fully-automatic AK-47s in Africa/Eastern Europe and trying to bring them into the US.
In this case you aren't importing something, you are trafficking it.