When i make purchases with my credit card, i'm not worried about someone knowing it was me, Shadowrat, who made the purchase. When did people claim that you could anonymously buy anything with a credit card? Obviously that's stored in lots of places. I buy something online, the vendor needs to know where to ship it, my credit card company knows who to bill, amazon knows because they are passing the info on.
What i worry about is someone stealing my number. This Honestly, i don't even worry about that so much anymore since it's happened enough and i've come away completely unharmed, i'm just kind of numb to it.
true, but with a 4 engine plane, if 1 fails, you are still good, if 2 fail, chances are you are still good. Ive even heard of 3 engines going down and a plane landing safely with 1 of 3 engines.
So true. if 3 engines fail on a 2 engine plane, it pretty much destroys everything and resets the universe. a 4 engine plane is just the sane choice.
we use latin words to be unambiguous, but we come up with the latin names ourselves. the romans didn't name a rattlesnake crotalus atrox. They hadn't even determined the whole family genus species classification stuff.
Now, if we described stuff by it's percentages of fire earth air and water and spirit...
unless we are talking about may 17, 2013. for that time period, china did apparently produce 1 coal plant a day.
i don't even know why i feel the need to argue this though. it has little to do with the topic. i just can't fight the urge to look up statistics. i think there's something wrong with me.
Read the article. This is about RECRUITERS. They go out and find candidates. If you're passively waiting for applicants, I'd fire you as a recruiter on the spot.
what are the recruiters supposed to do? just start asking random women on the street if they want to work in IT? Even recruiters are limited to the pool of people that make it known they want those jobs.
As far as I can tell, the primary reason is that they are completely unable to manage and plan long term and agile is a perfect refuge for those who lack these skills but nevertheless covet the 'manager' title.
I think you are making it too complicated. i thought it was because they heard agile was the best.
I grant that machine sentience is possible. It would appear as though a physical system can become sentient if i use ourselves as an example. It's also reasonable to assume that such an intelligence could become our enemy. Again i can cite numerous examples where known intelligences did become enemies.
The doom and gloom scenarios all hinge on this idea that the AI is going to be so much smarter and more powerful than we are. That's where it's dipping way into just crazy speculation. Based on what we know about intelligent beings, the system is full of flaws that slow everything down. For all we know, the AI may never be any better at anything than we are. I'd wager the first truly sentient AI's will be quite a bit duller.
I think it's important that we devote a little bit of thought to "how can we be nice to our AI when it becomes sentient." but not because of any impending doom. i mean really, if it IS self aware, it's only right to treat it as such and be nice to it. Honestly, we kind of have a good track record there. all the AI needs to do is watch star trek and see a whole bunch of episodes devoted to how Data was a wonderful person who should be respected and cherished.
Out of curiosity, what would you consider a "true" (not false) religion?
I've been told there are some sects of buddhism that believe we can't possibly know any metaphysical crap and just need to focus on the here and now. i'm paraphrasing, but that sounds like a pretty rational basis to start with.
the give up starbucks (or your favorite coffee place) arguments are always a bit too simple. Taken at face value, it's an expensive cup of coffee, but what is it really? for many people it's a social event. You see the same people each day, you say hi. sometimes you meet friends and former coworkers who got a job at the agency around the corner. someone remembers your name and favorite drink. It's fun. it's hard to say that fun is or is not overpriced. If you can afford it, what is wrong with having a bit fun every day?
lucky for me, i ended up in a job where i can go make a fancy esspresso drink in the break room and hang out with people. i don't have to go EVERY day, but still, i like to go damnit. i see different people at the coffee house.
i also end up going to bars. i'm pretty sure that ads up to more than coffee each year.
plumbing, as it turns out, is kind of a tricky beast. with all the plumbing analogies in EE, i figured, it's just like making a circuit. in practice, leaks and pressure are far from their electrical counterparts. it's not like your power supply delivers 3.3v if it's below the breadboard, or 9v if it's 2 feet above the breadboard.
i build my own stuff around my raspberry pi. i've got motion detection, temperature sensors, lights, garage doors, plant irrigators. it's all fun, but be prepared to spend a lot of time. If you are making this yourself, you are taking up electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, running to home depot. Everytime i do a project i tell myself, next time i'm just buying something.
then i come back and do another.
just be realistic about what you want. do you want good home automation? or do you want to putz about with computers and components? (for me, it seems to be the later)
I've always found it fascinating that Christians in the US, who supposedly are all about Jesus, blindly support Judaism which says point blank: Jesus wasn't the messiah, yet they are so vocally opposed to Islam which says that Jesus was a prophet of God.
I chalk it down to ignorance, stupidity... or both.
Yahweh in the old testament is pretty much a real son of a bitch, no different than the angry father next door beating his kid for their lack of compliance. Though, somehow, you call the cop on latter, and prey the former.
My history is a little rusty, but isn't yahweh of the old testament and allah the same god?
i'm wondering, can there be anything in there that justifies this cost?
most of the hardware isn't stellar (the software is android, probably not the fastest chip, some decent batteries and screen on it, some audiodecoding software that is probably already available for all android devices)
So all that is left is the hardware for actually creating the audio signal, which should be worth a lot in this thing, is there really hardware that is so suberb in quality that it's worth this price?
Once you hear it, you will realize it's far superior to any other listening experience. Of course, you might not be a prosumer audiphile with the refinement and experience required to properly enjoy it. Maybe you can just stick with your beats by dr dre and ipod shuffle like the rest of the plebes.
run along now. my highly acute audio perception wants to enjoy the miracle of hi-res audio as it was meant to be heard, devoid of the racket of the unwashed masses.
still, there are, apparently, legions of people who are maintaining annonymity online while engaging not just in research, but outright hostile attacks. It would seem that it's possible to keep a low profile while researching sensitive subjects.
Why can't they just be anonymous? anonymous is anonymous. if legions of script kiddies can remain hidden under all this surveillance, it must be possible for a writer who isn't ddosing to do it. I doubt it's even that difficult.
get yourself some laptop.
run some linux distro.
never connect it to the interwebs.
write.
transfer your writing across sneaker net in some seedy cyber cafe and you are publishing your subversive thoughts to the chagrin of governments everywhere! you could even wear a fedora to make you feel clandestine and important, and match your OS.
idk, these results seem more similar to how humans see than they do different. When people don't know exactly what they are looking at, the brain just puts in it's best guess. people certainly see faces and other familiar objects in tv static. They see bigfoot in a collection of shadows or a strange angle on a bear. i even feel like i did sort of see a peacock in the one random image labeled peacock. it's sort of like the computer vision version of a rorschach test.
i have long wondered if the result of global warming should really be less extreme weather. my (admittedly limited) understanding of storms is that they are the result of masses of air of different temperatures combining. if everything is warmer, it seems like the percentage differences between various parcels of air in the atmosphere would be going down. ie: if it's 90 at the equator and 20 at the poles. thats a 78% difference. now if the global temps raise by 10 degrees, that's only a 70% difference, and that's assuming that somehow everything goes up by 10 degrees. it's probably more likely that the colder parts would get warmer faster than the already warm parts.
Who get's to simply claim a public street as their own? I live on a street. Cars drive down the street. They have every right to. Either move to a gated community or campaign for telecommuting or something. This isn't the fault of waze or any other navigation system. There are simply too many people. they have to go somewhere. They can't all keep fitting down the same pipe. The navigation systems are likely helping traffic on the whole.
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EVERYTHING!? that's way too much moderation! you die.
When i make purchases with my credit card, i'm not worried about someone knowing it was me, Shadowrat, who made the purchase. When did people claim that you could anonymously buy anything with a credit card? Obviously that's stored in lots of places. I buy something online, the vendor needs to know where to ship it, my credit card company knows who to bill, amazon knows because they are passing the info on.
What i worry about is someone stealing my number. This Honestly, i don't even worry about that so much anymore since it's happened enough and i've come away completely unharmed, i'm just kind of numb to it.
true, but with a 4 engine plane, if 1 fails, you are still good, if 2 fail, chances are you are still good. Ive even heard of 3 engines going down and a plane landing safely with 1 of 3 engines.
So true. if 3 engines fail on a 2 engine plane, it pretty much destroys everything and resets the universe. a 4 engine plane is just the sane choice.
we use latin words to be unambiguous, but we come up with the latin names ourselves. the romans didn't name a rattlesnake crotalus atrox. They hadn't even determined the whole family genus species classification stuff.
Now, if we described stuff by it's percentages of fire earth air and water and spirit...
i get a statistic that in 2013, china produced approximately 1 coal plant a week.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
unless we are talking about may 17, 2013. for that time period, china did apparently produce 1 coal plant a day.
i don't even know why i feel the need to argue this though. it has little to do with the topic. i just can't fight the urge to look up statistics. i think there's something wrong with me.
It's pure hubris to think that scientists in the future are going to go along with our stupid names for stuff.
Read the article. This is about RECRUITERS. They go out and find candidates. If you're passively waiting for applicants, I'd fire you as a recruiter on the spot.
what are the recruiters supposed to do? just start asking random women on the street if they want to work in IT? Even recruiters are limited to the pool of people that make it known they want those jobs.
As far as I can tell, the primary reason is that they are completely unable to manage and plan long term and agile is a perfect refuge for those who lack these skills but nevertheless covet the 'manager' title.
I think you are making it too complicated. i thought it was because they heard agile was the best.
I grant that machine sentience is possible. It would appear as though a physical system can become sentient if i use ourselves as an example. It's also reasonable to assume that such an intelligence could become our enemy. Again i can cite numerous examples where known intelligences did become enemies.
The doom and gloom scenarios all hinge on this idea that the AI is going to be so much smarter and more powerful than we are. That's where it's dipping way into just crazy speculation. Based on what we know about intelligent beings, the system is full of flaws that slow everything down. For all we know, the AI may never be any better at anything than we are. I'd wager the first truly sentient AI's will be quite a bit duller.
I think it's important that we devote a little bit of thought to "how can we be nice to our AI when it becomes sentient." but not because of any impending doom. i mean really, if it IS self aware, it's only right to treat it as such and be nice to it. Honestly, we kind of have a good track record there. all the AI needs to do is watch star trek and see a whole bunch of episodes devoted to how Data was a wonderful person who should be respected and cherished.
Out of curiosity, what would you consider a "true" (not false) religion?
I've been told there are some sects of buddhism that believe we can't possibly know any metaphysical crap and just need to focus on the here and now. i'm paraphrasing, but that sounds like a pretty rational basis to start with.
i dunno man... apples seem like a pretty good investment :)
http://9to5mac.com/2010/11/11/...
the give up starbucks (or your favorite coffee place) arguments are always a bit too simple. Taken at face value, it's an expensive cup of coffee, but what is it really? for many people it's a social event. You see the same people each day, you say hi. sometimes you meet friends and former coworkers who got a job at the agency around the corner. someone remembers your name and favorite drink. It's fun. it's hard to say that fun is or is not overpriced. If you can afford it, what is wrong with having a bit fun every day?
lucky for me, i ended up in a job where i can go make a fancy esspresso drink in the break room and hang out with people. i don't have to go EVERY day, but still, i like to go damnit. i see different people at the coffee house.
i also end up going to bars. i'm pretty sure that ads up to more than coffee each year.
Give up some free time now to do your school work, get paid $800,000 more later.
wtf? i did school work. where's my $800,000!?
plumbing, as it turns out, is kind of a tricky beast. with all the plumbing analogies in EE, i figured, it's just like making a circuit. in practice, leaks and pressure are far from their electrical counterparts. it's not like your power supply delivers 3.3v if it's below the breadboard, or 9v if it's 2 feet above the breadboard.
i build my own stuff around my raspberry pi. i've got motion detection, temperature sensors, lights, garage doors, plant irrigators. it's all fun, but be prepared to spend a lot of time. If you are making this yourself, you are taking up electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, running to home depot. Everytime i do a project i tell myself, next time i'm just buying something.
then i come back and do another.
just be realistic about what you want. do you want good home automation? or do you want to putz about with computers and components? (for me, it seems to be the later)
I've always found it fascinating that Christians in the US, who supposedly are all about Jesus, blindly support Judaism which says point blank: Jesus wasn't the messiah, yet they are so vocally opposed to Islam which says that Jesus was a prophet of God. I chalk it down to ignorance, stupidity... or both.
logic has no place in religion.
sarcasm. text doesn't carry it.
Yahweh in the old testament is pretty much a real son of a bitch, no different than the angry father next door beating his kid for their lack of compliance. Though, somehow, you call the cop on latter, and prey the former.
My history is a little rusty, but isn't yahweh of the old testament and allah the same god?
i'm wondering, can there be anything in there that justifies this cost? most of the hardware isn't stellar (the software is android, probably not the fastest chip, some decent batteries and screen on it, some audiodecoding software that is probably already available for all android devices) So all that is left is the hardware for actually creating the audio signal, which should be worth a lot in this thing, is there really hardware that is so suberb in quality that it's worth this price?
Once you hear it, you will realize it's far superior to any other listening experience. Of course, you might not be a prosumer audiphile with the refinement and experience required to properly enjoy it. Maybe you can just stick with your beats by dr dre and ipod shuffle like the rest of the plebes.
run along now. my highly acute audio perception wants to enjoy the miracle of hi-res audio as it was meant to be heard, devoid of the racket of the unwashed masses.
that IS a good point.
still, there are, apparently, legions of people who are maintaining annonymity online while engaging not just in research, but outright hostile attacks. It would seem that it's possible to keep a low profile while researching sensitive subjects.
transfer your writing across sneaker net in some seedy cyber cafe and you are publishing your subversive thoughts to the chagrin of governments everywhere! you could even wear a fedora to make you feel clandestine and important, and match your OS.
idk, these results seem more similar to how humans see than they do different. When people don't know exactly what they are looking at, the brain just puts in it's best guess. people certainly see faces and other familiar objects in tv static. They see bigfoot in a collection of shadows or a strange angle on a bear. i even feel like i did sort of see a peacock in the one random image labeled peacock. it's sort of like the computer vision version of a rorschach test.
i have long wondered if the result of global warming should really be less extreme weather. my (admittedly limited) understanding of storms is that they are the result of masses of air of different temperatures combining. if everything is warmer, it seems like the percentage differences between various parcels of air in the atmosphere would be going down. ie: if it's 90 at the equator and 20 at the poles. thats a 78% difference. now if the global temps raise by 10 degrees, that's only a 70% difference, and that's assuming that somehow everything goes up by 10 degrees. it's probably more likely that the colder parts would get warmer faster than the already warm parts.
obviously still bad for polar bears though.
Who get's to simply claim a public street as their own? I live on a street. Cars drive down the street. They have every right to. Either move to a gated community or campaign for telecommuting or something. This isn't the fault of waze or any other navigation system. There are simply too many people. they have to go somewhere. They can't all keep fitting down the same pipe. The navigation systems are likely helping traffic on the whole.
Have you been car shopping lately? Find a car that meets all of your non-electric criteria that still has physical buttons.
For some reason auto manufactures think we all want nifty touch screens - and consumers now don't have a choice.
there are plenty of used cars with physical knobs in need of good homes. http://www.carmax.com/