A starting point, but if the article is good, it will ist a good set of sources, and there's no reason for you to not take your information directly from those.
Well, that depends on how it works... Obviously, in order to make use of its intelligence it would also need knowledge. I doubt any human would feel like objectively telling the machine about every bit of knowledge an average human has about the physical world, so it would have to learn most of it by itself, just like humans do. Going around, experiencing, interacting with the world... Thats how you learn. I'd say making machines that can make use of communications effectively is actually part of the key to making ultra-intelligent machines.
"For games, the player *is* the hero. They want to be the primary character in the tale, they want stuff to do, action. They want to feel like they're facing risk and danger. They also want to make decisions that have meaning; be the one that changes the world."
Some people like that, I don't. I hate it when I play a game only to realize that everything that happens in the game revolves around me. I guess it makes the story interesting for the player, but it doesn't make it believable, because that's not how real life looks. I hated that in morrowind, they created this huge world... where nothing happened if the player didn't come along. Obviously, creating a truly living world is very hard, but you can at least try to convince the player (me) that the world will go on without them. Morrowind utterly failed at that, and by this advice, that is apparently a good thing.
Similarly, I hated the Kirk character. Partly because he was way too stupid to feel like a true captain, but also just because the world seemed to always revolve around him. Nothing ever happened that was completely unrelated to him. In TNG, this was not the case. Sure, Picard ended up in situations where he could change the world, but these moments where very rare, and he wasn't the only one.
2010: Space shuttle retired 2014: New Orion vehicle mission to space station 2020: Moon landing by NASA 2025: Start construction of privately owned space station 2027: Moon landing by China 2030: Privately owned shuttle equivalent 2031: Start construction of moon base (Many nations cooperate) 2035: Permanent moon presence 2045: Manned Mars mission 2057: Space Elevator from the Moon to L1 begins construction.
In other words, I agree on most points, but perhaps not their exact dates. The space elevator from the moon can basically be built as soon as there's permanent presence (or even earlier, but that's unlikely). It doesn't really require any tech we don't have today (which is not to say it wouldn't require any R&D), all it takes is a massive effort and loads of money. But if many nations can cooperate with a permanently manned lunar base, there would basically be no reason not to consider it. I don't think we'll ever see one on earth, however.
Actually, the problem is that encryption is NOT the solution in this case. You see, what this here means is that if ISPs are unable to stop file sharing, they might be fined in some way. That means higher internet costs for everyone.
They can't stop file sharing, but they can make it so expensive, students won't be able to afford it...
Sure, everyone wants that, its just that robotics isn't at that level yet. NASA is increasing its spending on robotics research though. Perhaps for the future mars mission, that's how we'll do it.
The thing is, the challenges of sending humans beyond Mars are so many times greater than sending humans to mars and the moon. Have you seen the debates on how humans will cope psychologically with the long trip to mars? Well, mars it at 1.5 AU from the sun, Jupiter is at 5.2 AU and Saturn at a staggering 9.2 AU! Mars may seem a long distance away, but thats just peanuts compared to Saturn, the difference is in order of magnitudes. This also means that much less sunlight will hit you when in orbit around Saturn, so where will our astronauts get power from? Sure, nuclear power in space isnt uncommon, but think of the scale in this case. You'd probably need to send many astronauts to keep them from going insane and as backup if someone dies, so lets say there are 5 of them. They need heat, they need food, they need entertainment and communications and considering the distance, they probably also need propulsion, and all this needs to be fueled with nuclear power.
Well, I could go on, but the point is that this current burst of interest in manned missions will end with mars, just like the manned missions to the moon suddenly ended around 40 years ago. After that, perhaps we'll see something comparable to the ISS: A space elevator or some mining operation or something like that on mars or on the moon, which, as you say, will be a springboard for further exploration.
Some of my (female) friends apparently practice their camera smile, and they also tend to look the same in all pictures. If your hobby is to end up on pictures with celebrities, I guess you should practice it and that probably means you'll eventually develop your standard smile.
This seems to be turning into a real space race. On one hand we have china and india competing in who will land a human first, and on the other hand we have Russia and the US competing for the first moon base. But in the end, the US will be looked upon as the total victor of this space race as well. The reason is that because of their new long term vision, the US is the only contender that will develop a way to go to mars at the same time as they're planning the moon trip. By 2030 when moon bases are old news, everyone will be looking at mars but the US will be the only country with a chance to get there. Mars will probably be the end of this space race since its so much harder to go anywhere else.
On the other hand, that also means the americans probably won't keep ther moon base manned for many years. The russians probably will though and the moon base will become their source of space prestige.
Meanwhile, ESA will stick to cheap, unmanned missions: 500 years of world domination means the europeans don't need to prove anything;)
I really liked this games concept, but I didn't get it to work on wine.
Oh well, its nice that they've realized its time to close down, nothing is more pathetic than MMO's that keep on trying even though they were outdated in 2003 or something.
Well, the core of the issue you're presenting is that people will assume that the facts are correct if the article has a good rating, and you are right that most people will. But I have a feeling that the articles with high rating will also be very carefully reviewed by dedicated wikipedians, just like featured articles are. Wikipedians with a high credibility rating will not be the ones who remove sections that refer to good research, so all it takes is for one wikipedian to find good research, write correct information based on it, and then refer to it.
If there were laws that forced certain genetic experiments to be done on the moon, it would be a lot safer for everyone, and it could form the basis of a real commercial space industry.
It would also be another good reason to build a space elevator on the moon, which would be extremely good for further space exploration.
Oh come on, she's 11. Her hormones have probably made her insecure, and thats why she claims to be unable to do something that she could do before. It has nothing to do with where she's schooled, and it's temporary.
Why would you want to build wind generators in cities? See, this is part of my point. It is good if electricity is generated locally because power is lost in the grid, but this isn't really a big deal. Google wanted to generate power locally to draw attention to themselves, rather than making the smart choice of generating power where the wind blows. You don't have to generate your power locally, and Google ignored that, as do most people.
Wind generators give more clean electricity for the buck, and thats all there is to it. Thats not to say solar power is unimportant: It will become important once all the perfect spots for wind generators are taken and that will actually happen pretty soon.
Yay, google has coated its building with solar panels. Meanwhile, the wind blows freely over some farmers fields. But I guess spending all that money to impress some farmer just isnt worth it when you can impress anyone who visits Google HQ, even though wind power is actually a better way of generating electricity.
You are right, and I actually think this might be a good thing for the employees. Now they don't have to put on a face and "be" the organization to any harassing journalist, but they can still tell the journalist anything they feel like.
But of course, the media hates this: Where will they find crazy headlines now?
"The sad reality is that most of life is boring -- and the sooner people recognize this, accept it, move on and learn the necessary material anyway, the better off we'll all be."
Hah! The sooner other people accept this, the better off I will be.
People have told me that most of life is boring, and I've made it a personal goal in life to prove them wrong. Life is only boring if you do what other people want you to do. Sure, its good for civilization that people do boring stuff, but for the individual its just pointless. I live for myself, not for the rest of the world, than you.
But those games tend to sell pretty good too. The hype around this game will make sure it sells more than 250k copies, even if the buyers found that their boxes were empty, heh.
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A starting point, but if the article is good, it will ist a good set of sources, and there's no reason for you to not take your information directly from those.
Well, it wouldn't have been very underground if you had.
Without any story? So what is it we're commenting right now?
Well, that depends on how it works... Obviously, in order to make use of its intelligence it would also need knowledge. I doubt any human would feel like objectively telling the machine about every bit of knowledge an average human has about the physical world, so it would have to learn most of it by itself, just like humans do. Going around, experiencing, interacting with the world... Thats how you learn. I'd say making machines that can make use of communications effectively is actually part of the key to making ultra-intelligent machines.
Well, it might just upgrade itself, or perhaps it would "feel" that its creations are just an extension of itself.
"For games, the player *is* the hero. They want to be the primary character in the tale, they want stuff to do, action. They want to feel like they're facing risk and danger. They also want to make decisions that have meaning; be the one that changes the world."
Some people like that, I don't. I hate it when I play a game only to realize that everything that happens in the game revolves around me. I guess it makes the story interesting for the player, but it doesn't make it believable, because that's not how real life looks. I hated that in morrowind, they created this huge world... where nothing happened if the player didn't come along. Obviously, creating a truly living world is very hard, but you can at least try to convince the player (me) that the world will go on without them. Morrowind utterly failed at that, and by this advice, that is apparently a good thing.
Similarly, I hated the Kirk character. Partly because he was way too stupid to feel like a true captain, but also just because the world seemed to always revolve around him. Nothing ever happened that was completely unrelated to him. In TNG, this was not the case. Sure, Picard ended up in situations where he could change the world, but these moments where very rare, and he wasn't the only one.
2010: Space shuttle retired
2014: New Orion vehicle mission to space station
2020: Moon landing by NASA
2025: Start construction of privately owned space station
2027: Moon landing by China
2030: Privately owned shuttle equivalent
2031: Start construction of moon base (Many nations cooperate)
2035: Permanent moon presence
2045: Manned Mars mission
2057: Space Elevator from the Moon to L1 begins construction.
In other words, I agree on most points, but perhaps not their exact dates. The space elevator from the moon can basically be built as soon as there's permanent presence (or even earlier, but that's unlikely). It doesn't really require any tech we don't have today (which is not to say it wouldn't require any R&D), all it takes is a massive effort and loads of money. But if many nations can cooperate with a permanently manned lunar base, there would basically be no reason not to consider it. I don't think we'll ever see one on earth, however.
Man, is it SO hard for us westerners to remember who and what belongs to chinese history and to japanese history. Sun Tzu was Chinese.
Actually, the problem is that encryption is NOT the solution in this case. You see, what this here means is that if ISPs are unable to stop file sharing, they might be fined in some way. That means higher internet costs for everyone.
They can't stop file sharing, but they can make it so expensive, students won't be able to afford it...
Sure, everyone wants that, its just that robotics isn't at that level yet. NASA is increasing its spending on robotics research though. Perhaps for the future mars mission, that's how we'll do it.
I said THIS space race, not THE space race.
The thing is, the challenges of sending humans beyond Mars are so many times greater than sending humans to mars and the moon. Have you seen the debates on how humans will cope psychologically with the long trip to mars? Well, mars it at 1.5 AU from the sun, Jupiter is at 5.2 AU and Saturn at a staggering 9.2 AU! Mars may seem a long distance away, but thats just peanuts compared to Saturn, the difference is in order of magnitudes. This also means that much less sunlight will hit you when in orbit around Saturn, so where will our astronauts get power from? Sure, nuclear power in space isnt uncommon, but think of the scale in this case. You'd probably need to send many astronauts to keep them from going insane and as backup if someone dies, so lets say there are 5 of them. They need heat, they need food, they need entertainment and communications and considering the distance, they probably also need propulsion, and all this needs to be fueled with nuclear power.
Well, I could go on, but the point is that this current burst of interest in manned missions will end with mars, just like the manned missions to the moon suddenly ended around 40 years ago. After that, perhaps we'll see something comparable to the ISS: A space elevator or some mining operation or something like that on mars or on the moon, which, as you say, will be a springboard for further exploration.
Some of my (female) friends apparently practice their camera smile, and they also tend to look the same in all pictures. If your hobby is to end up on pictures with celebrities, I guess you should practice it and that probably means you'll eventually develop your standard smile.
This seems to be turning into a real space race. On one hand we have china and india competing in who will land a human first, and on the other hand we have Russia and the US competing for the first moon base. But in the end, the US will be looked upon as the total victor of this space race as well. The reason is that because of their new long term vision, the US is the only contender that will develop a way to go to mars at the same time as they're planning the moon trip. By 2030 when moon bases are old news, everyone will be looking at mars but the US will be the only country with a chance to get there. Mars will probably be the end of this space race since its so much harder to go anywhere else.
;)
On the other hand, that also means the americans probably won't keep ther moon base manned for many years. The russians probably will though and the moon base will become their source of space prestige.
Meanwhile, ESA will stick to cheap, unmanned missions: 500 years of world domination means the europeans don't need to prove anything
I really liked this games concept, but I didn't get it to work on wine.
Oh well, its nice that they've realized its time to close down, nothing is more pathetic than MMO's that keep on trying even though they were outdated in 2003 or something.
Well, the core of the issue you're presenting is that people will assume that the facts are correct if the article has a good rating, and you are right that most people will. But I have a feeling that the articles with high rating will also be very carefully reviewed by dedicated wikipedians, just like featured articles are. Wikipedians with a high credibility rating will not be the ones who remove sections that refer to good research, so all it takes is for one wikipedian to find good research, write correct information based on it, and then refer to it.
If there were laws that forced certain genetic experiments to be done on the moon, it would be a lot safer for everyone, and it could form the basis of a real commercial space industry.
It would also be another good reason to build a space elevator on the moon, which would be extremely good for further space exploration.
But I digress.
Oh come on, she's 11. Her hormones have probably made her insecure, and thats why she claims to be unable to do something that she could do before. It has nothing to do with where she's schooled, and it's temporary.
And you don't think creating opinion against this is part of changing the rules?
Why would you want to build wind generators in cities? See, this is part of my point. It is good if electricity is generated locally because power is lost in the grid, but this isn't really a big deal. Google wanted to generate power locally to draw attention to themselves, rather than making the smart choice of generating power where the wind blows. You don't have to generate your power locally, and Google ignored that, as do most people.
Wind generators give more clean electricity for the buck, and thats all there is to it. Thats not to say solar power is unimportant: It will become important once all the perfect spots for wind generators are taken and that will actually happen pretty soon.
Yay, google has coated its building with solar panels. Meanwhile, the wind blows freely over some farmers fields. But I guess spending all that money to impress some farmer just isnt worth it when you can impress anyone who visits Google HQ, even though wind power is actually a better way of generating electricity.
Yeah, like all of todays movies are boring because they're not in 3d.
You are right, and I actually think this might be a good thing for the employees. Now they don't have to put on a face and "be" the organization to any harassing journalist, but they can still tell the journalist anything they feel like.
But of course, the media hates this: Where will they find crazy headlines now?
Uh, i think the issue is the other way around: They couldn't explain to the marketing guys why 5% of the users didn't give any ad revenue.
If they made money off those 5%, there wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
"The sad reality is that most of life is boring -- and the sooner people recognize this, accept it, move on and learn the necessary material anyway, the better off we'll all be."
Hah! The sooner other people accept this, the better off I will be.
People have told me that most of life is boring, and I've made it a personal goal in life to prove them wrong. Life is only boring if you do what other people want you to do. Sure, its good for civilization that people do boring stuff, but for the individual its just pointless. I live for myself, not for the rest of the world, than you.
But those games tend to sell pretty good too. The hype around this game will make sure it sells more than 250k copies, even if the buyers found that their boxes were empty, heh.