Logical statements can be proven 100% correct within a formal system. That's what I was talking about.
Belief without evidence is just stupid. Btw, my cat just farted a rainbow, can you believe? Do you want evidence? Tides go in, tides go out... I bet that wouldn't be of much use in court.
I think he knows. Hence the UX called Unity. Unfortunately, it too is geared exclusively towards novices and casual users.
I'm neither novice nor casual user, and I disagree with you. While I couldn't stand the earlier versions (having switched to LXDE) the current version is quite good. With MyUnity and CompizConfig I could configure it the way I like it, there is no functionality missing from before.
Because it is easy to set it up. And all the other "literally thousand" options would benefit from the security of EncFS too. Any sensitive data should be encrypted in the client side, if you are willing to use storage that you don't physically own and secure.
And it shows. You should perhaps refrain from making claims about something you don't know about.
For instance, you said the brain is analog. Well, a lot of its functionality is as analog as your computer. Take vision, for instance: light -> photoreceptor -> bipolar cell [ok, graded potentials, analog so far] -> ganglion cells [spectral intensity/motion cue encoded in spike frequency: you can argue the period is analog, ok] -> LGN -> visual cortex [here (and over all neocortex really) the spatio-temporal signals are encoded by sets of neurons whose activation is sparse in both space and time, forming steady patterns, couldn't be farther from analog than this].
The neocortex is the biggest part of the brain, so I can safely say: no, the brain is not only analog and most of it is not.
It does not use binary logic either, but what GP was referring to (neural integration) could indeed be achieved with something similar to this chip. It will certainly be better than the current stimulation through electrodes.
False dichotomy. Creationism refers specifically to the unsubstantiated (as in "no evidence at all") theory of the god Yahweh creating the world. But what about the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Or the Tooth Fairy? Perhaps Santa Claus gave us all the universe as a christmas gift? If you call 'absolutist' those who realize the world doesn't need a supernatural explication for its existence, count me in.
It sounds like you are deliberately denying the existence of an alternative. I mentioned VODO because I already donated to several projects, including Pioneer One. I also backed the Double Fine's Adventure on Kickstarter. I'm pretty sure my money contributes to pay for
the rent comes due, or the transmission in thier car needs repair, or they get hungry, their kid needs to go to doctor, etc.
And it all comes to reducing the "men in middle". Direct communication. Open your eyes.
[...] contrary to what you appear to think, not every joke deserves a laugh, or even a chuckle.
I didn't say every joke deserves a laugh, what I said was not every bad joke deserves to be negatively criticized.
As for "[sic]", isn't it just a bit odd that we're still using that long dead language in the 21st Century, one that's most prolific users these days are lawyers?
May I ask you why you find it odd? I love languages, so perhaps I'm not the right person to ask that question. Also my native language Portuguese is strongly rooted on Latin. And my field of study, neuroscience, is filled with ganglia, girii, nuclei, fasciculi, etc... mostly Latin and some Greek. Lawyers are only more visible because they indistinctly f**k with the lives of everyone. [<--- warning, this was a humorous attempt]
:) This reminded me of when a dog is looking for his toy and you point in its direction, and the dog keeps looking at your finger. I better go sleep.
We use lots of Latin expressions because they are useful, have a very strict meaning, and have a usual form. I don't think I've ever read the full "sic erat scriptum", neither "exempli gratia", nor "id est"... et cetera (this is the only one that I remember having read in full). But "so" doesn't make sense alone, it is there to say "and so it was written". Meaning there was something that erat scriptum.
Sic sorry to disappoint you, but "[sic]" is to be used only when quoting, as both definitions you pasted explicitly said.
To be fair, I've seen that happening with several OS'... last time it was in a workshop about math in neurosciences. The presenter had a MacBook, and her slides had lots of formulas and plots, but she couldn't show everything at once, being forced to keep scrolling all the time. But it is true that Ubuntu and other distros are particularly prone to that problem when dealing with projectors.
Dear humor impaired/.er, you should not use 'sic erat scriptum' when you are not quoting anyone, because there was nothing erat scriptum. Also don't mix languages and scripts. My native language isn't English, but that doesn't mean I have a free pass to commit every possible mistake.
Try to let harmless humorous attempts slide, perhaps you'd even have fun.
[I know I'm gonna be modded troll, but whatever...]
People pay for a computer with an OS, then pay again to remove all the crap that come bundled. Yet it will still interrupt them in the middle of their presentations with annoying antivirus/upgrade/whatever messages, or keep them from using their computer for more than ten minutes when they had to restart, and the system becomes non-interactive updating itself*.
Then these same people come and ask me: why do you use a free OS? It must be crap! [insert facepalm image here]
[*true story, happened to my teacher during class. I guess it was deserved, for he had installed Windows in his MacBook.]
That said, doubling the sampling rate isn't going to do anything for a digital signal. At best, the new signal will simply play each of the old signal's samples twice.
Actually upsampling can be useful when you apply digital filters. There is no such thing as an ideal filter, so if you modify one frequency band (e.g. in a equalizer) you end up modifying all others. The higher is the sample rate the lower is this sideband interference.
I had the same opinion until the latest release. I expressed here several times my frustration with both Unity and Gnome Shell, and ended up using LXDE with Compiz. With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 I decided to give Unity another chance, and to my suprise it is working pretty well. Everything I need is working, and I'm starting to get used to the 'lens' concept, which in the end will replace the gnome-do that I was used to. So, well done Canonical and Ubuntu community!:)
Isn't it the opposite? Like, gamma-rays were thought to be unfocusable until just recently, when they made a sandwich of diffraction patterns achieving an IOR of 1.00000000001, or something like that?
Anyway, I was talking about the communication between the photoreceptor array and the optic nerve link... if you could hijack the wifi link you could do some interesting stuff. With infrared you could still flood the general direction of the eye with your signal, but I bet it would not be too comfortable, neither imperceptible...:p
Yeah, reading the summary I instantly remembered Ghost in the Shell - Standalone Complex, where augmented people could easily have their eyes hacked. Too bad it is infrared, imagine the possibilities if it was wifi.:)
He was talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices “[...] recorded their history for more than eight hundred years back, and that were interpreted for me by very ancient Indians.” (Zorita 1963, 271-2). Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas lamented that when found, such books were destroyed: "These books were seen by our clergy, and even I saw part of those that were burned by the monks, apparently because they thought [they] might harm the Indians in matters concerning religion, since at that time they were at the beginning of their conversion." And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Inquisition "[...] The failure of this movement prompted more aggressive evangelization, with the Franciscans finding out that despite their efforts much of traditional beliefs and practice survived. They, under the leadership of Fray Diego de Landa, decided to make an example of those they considered back-sliders without regard to proper legal formalities. Large numbers of people were subjected to torture and as many of the Maya sacred books as could be found were burned." The emphasis on the "good" actions of the church is mine.
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[and before anybody mentions Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, please note I didn't say *all* statements.]
Logical statements can be proven 100% correct within a formal system. That's what I was talking about.
Belief without evidence is just stupid. Btw, my cat just farted a rainbow, can you believe? Do you want evidence? Tides go in, tides go out... I bet that wouldn't be of much use in court.
Just a small correction:
It may be 100% true and correct. Every word, every letter of the Bible could be correct.
Nopz, it can't, because it is full of contradictions. Unless you put logic aside it can't be proven 100% correct even if god itself showed evidence.
I think he knows. Hence the UX called Unity. Unfortunately, it too is geared exclusively towards novices and casual users.
I'm neither novice nor casual user, and I disagree with you. While I couldn't stand the earlier versions (having switched to LXDE) the current version is quite good. With MyUnity and CompizConfig I could configure it the way I like it, there is no functionality missing from before.
Because it is easy to set it up. And all the other "literally thousand" options would benefit from the security of EncFS too. Any sensitive data should be encrypted in the client side, if you are willing to use storage that you don't physically own and secure.
I don't know enough about the brain
And it shows. You should perhaps refrain from making claims about something you don't know about.
For instance, you said the brain is analog. Well, a lot of its functionality is as analog as your computer. Take vision, for instance: light -> photoreceptor -> bipolar cell [ok, graded potentials, analog so far] -> ganglion cells [spectral intensity/motion cue encoded in spike frequency: you can argue the period is analog, ok] -> LGN -> visual cortex [here (and over all neocortex really) the spatio-temporal signals are encoded by sets of neurons whose activation is sparse in both space and time, forming steady patterns, couldn't be farther from analog than this].
The neocortex is the biggest part of the brain, so I can safely say: no, the brain is not only analog and most of it is not.
It does not use binary logic either, but what GP was referring to (neural integration) could indeed be achieved with something similar to this chip. It will certainly be better than the current stimulation through electrodes.
I hope I'll be able to see the next transit with my naked cyber-eye.
False dichotomy. Creationism refers specifically to the unsubstantiated (as in "no evidence at all") theory of the god Yahweh creating the world. But what about the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Or the Tooth Fairy? Perhaps Santa Claus gave us all the universe as a christmas gift?
If you call 'absolutist' those who realize the world doesn't need a supernatural explication for its existence, count me in.
We already said that, and they replied "fuck you".
It sounds like you are deliberately denying the existence of an alternative. I mentioned VODO because I already donated to several projects, including Pioneer One. I also backed the Double Fine's Adventure on Kickstarter. I'm pretty sure my money contributes to pay for
the rent comes due, or the transmission in thier car needs repair, or they get hungry, their kid needs to go to doctor, etc.
And it all comes to reducing the "men in middle". Direct communication. Open your eyes.
Communication is the issue. If you have direct communication you don't need TV neither ads. The best thing is Bittorrent and VODO.
When it was showing a projection on a tetrahedron, the whole thing (visual and sound) reminded me of the bridges on The Dig.
[...] contrary to what you appear to think, not every joke deserves a laugh, or even a chuckle.
I didn't say every joke deserves a laugh, what I said was not every bad joke deserves to be negatively criticized.
As for "[sic]", isn't it just a bit odd that we're still using that long dead language in the 21st Century, one that's most prolific users these days are lawyers?
May I ask you why you find it odd? I love languages, so perhaps I'm not the right person to ask that question. Also my native language Portuguese is strongly rooted on Latin. And my field of study, neuroscience, is filled with ganglia, girii, nuclei, fasciculi, etc... mostly Latin and some Greek. Lawyers are only more visible because they indistinctly f**k with the lives of everyone. [<--- warning, this was a humorous attempt]
:)
This reminded me of when a dog is looking for his toy and you point in its direction, and the dog keeps looking at your finger. I better go sleep.
We use lots of Latin expressions because they are useful, have a very strict meaning, and have a usual form. I don't think I've ever read the full "sic erat scriptum", neither "exempli gratia", nor "id est"... et cetera (this is the only one that I remember having read in full). But "so" doesn't make sense alone, it is there to say "and so it was written". Meaning there was something that erat scriptum.
Sic sorry to disappoint you, but "[sic]" is to be used only when quoting, as both definitions you pasted explicitly said.
To be fair, I've seen that happening with several OS'... last time it was in a workshop about math in neurosciences. The presenter had a MacBook, and her slides had lots of formulas and plots, but she couldn't show everything at once, being forced to keep scrolling all the time.
But it is true that Ubuntu and other distros are particularly prone to that problem when dealing with projectors.
Dear humor impaired /.er, you should not use 'sic erat scriptum' when you are not quoting anyone, because there was nothing erat scriptum. Also don't mix languages and scripts. My native language isn't English, but that doesn't mean I have a free pass to commit every possible mistake.
Try to let harmless humorous attempts slide, perhaps you'd even have fun.
[I know I'm gonna be modded troll, but whatever...]
People pay for a computer with an OS, then pay again to remove all the crap that come bundled. Yet it will still interrupt them in the middle of their presentations with annoying antivirus/upgrade/whatever messages, or keep them from using their computer for more than ten minutes when they had to restart, and the system becomes non-interactive updating itself*.
Then these same people come and ask me: why do you use a free OS? It must be crap! [insert facepalm image here]
[*true story, happened to my teacher during class. I guess it was deserved, for he had installed Windows in his MacBook.]
In other words, product placement for the USPTO staff.
That said, doubling the sampling rate isn't going to do anything for a digital signal. At best, the new signal will simply play each of the old signal's samples twice.
Actually upsampling can be useful when you apply digital filters. There is no such thing as an ideal filter, so if you modify one frequency band (e.g. in a equalizer) you end up modifying all others. The higher is the sample rate the lower is this sideband interference.
I had the same opinion until the latest release. I expressed here several times my frustration with both Unity and Gnome Shell, and ended up using LXDE with Compiz. With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 I decided to give Unity another chance, and to my suprise it is working pretty well. Everything I need is working, and I'm starting to get used to the 'lens' concept, which in the end will replace the gnome-do that I was used to. :)
So, well done Canonical and Ubuntu community!
Isn't it the opposite? Like, gamma-rays were thought to be unfocusable until just recently, when they made a sandwich of diffraction patterns achieving an IOR of 1.00000000001, or something like that?
Anyway, I was talking about the communication between the photoreceptor array and the optic nerve link... if you could hijack the wifi link you could do some interesting stuff. With infrared you could still flood the general direction of the eye with your signal, but I bet it would not be too comfortable, neither imperceptible... :p
Yeah, reading the summary I instantly remembered Ghost in the Shell - Standalone Complex, where augmented people could easily have their eyes hacked. Too bad it is infrared, imagine the possibilities if it was wifi. :)
Interesting fact of the day: the retina is actual brain tissue that during development migrates, forming the optic nerve and back of the eye.
"how intelligent is your average thief?" and "[...] I'm going to do is wipe/reformat [...]"
Am I the only one who find this ironic? :p
He was talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
“[...] recorded their history for more than eight hundred years back, and that were interpreted for me by very ancient Indians.” (Zorita 1963, 271-2). Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas lamented that when found, such books were destroyed: "These books were seen by our clergy, and even I saw part of those that were burned by the monks, apparently because they thought [they] might harm the Indians in matters concerning religion, since at that time they were at the beginning of their conversion."
And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Inquisition
"[...] The failure of this movement prompted more aggressive evangelization, with the Franciscans finding out that despite their efforts much of traditional beliefs and practice survived. They, under the leadership of Fray Diego de Landa, decided to make an example of those they considered back-sliders without regard to proper legal formalities. Large numbers of people were subjected to torture and as many of the Maya sacred books as could be found were burned."
The emphasis on the "good" actions of the church is mine.