Well, I'm a scientist and not a philosopher, so I'm happy with the wealth of evidence and lack of counter evidence I have observed over the years.
When someone is making outlandish (supernatural) claims with no evidence or proof, it's relatively easy to make a general case for skepticism -no need to argue each and every special case.
To require proof (or evidence) of a thing in order to believe it exists is not a belief, but simply rational scepticism.
If I tell you that sea water is made of supernatural jello, you are perfectly capable of asking me for some proof without forming a new "belief" that seawater is *not* made out of supernatural jello. Perhaps, you could argue that valuing scepticism is a belief, but then the onus is not on the GP to disprove God but simply to prove scepticism in general has value (easy).
It is useless if sliding on ice, slush, or water (hydroplaning). Turn the wheel hard over, you'll have even less steering control than if your brakes locked up on dry pavement.
I'm not sure I understand your statement, or you may be confused. On a slippery surface, it is difficult to steer around objects while breaking with normal breaks. With ABS you have significantly more* steering ability while breaking in the same conditions. You are always going to have less traction than dry pavement, but ABS does allow fairly hard steering while breaking hard on ice or snow.
*unless you are a professional driver trained for racing on slippery surfaces.
I always wondered who's bright idea "Save" and "Save As" was. Surely something like "Save" and "Create a new copy" or something like that would be more intuitive.
I assume this new radar-controlled braking, would, by default, include the older, radar-controlled cruise control. If that's the case, the tailgating problem is already improved.
Not to defend improper mods, but freedom of speech doesn't mean I have to listen to your dribble. Rant all you want, but there's nothing wrong with me adjusting my settings so that I don't have to read it. You are confusing Freedom of Speech with a guaranteed audience.
To do work? Like read a technical document? write a paper? or code? When the iPhone has a full qwerty keyboard, a screen at least 800px wide, can display a letter sized pdf without scrolling, then I might say it's useful.
No thanks. I will always prefer to spend 8+ hours a day on my workstation than using an iPhone. All these "iPhone-is-the-future" comments seem to neglect the fact that most people use their computers for work. Sure, eventually you will be able to "dock" your iPhone into a monitor and keyboard, but that won't gain me much (I already have a portable phone, and my files follow me with network access or a thumbdrive).
btw (GP), (La)TeX made word processors obsolete before there were word processors.
Wow. Way to freak on someone with a different opinion than you. You do know that copyright is not a fundamental right either way, but simply a pragmatic mechanism for encouraging work right? There are valid arguments for and against the usefulness of the mechanism, including the importance of the public's access to it's own culture, and the importance of encouraging the producers to make new culture. By being just as in-tolerant, you are as bad as the RIAA and commercial/career "pirates" who simply insult and condemn anyone with a different viewpoint.
Maybe there will even be virtual crowds, virtual lines at the checkout, and maybe even virtual parking issues! This sounds like yet another "innovative" way of taking something real, and moving it to a digital space as similar as possible (problems and all). Kind of like PDF "papers" and those soft-phones which have dialling pad on them.
Very true. But, is the threat of jail time going to change anything? how about the ability to go to a doctor, or clinic and receive medical or psychological help without worrying about being prosecuted? Discourage drugs all you want, but making users into criminals is not a valid solution.
Take a biology course. There are plenty of "auto-correcting" mechanisms for repairing damaged DNA. They, however, have almost nothing to do with the kind of mutations that provide the genetic diversity necessary for natural selection to work. Those kind of mutations generally occur during recombination (i.e., sex). Cancer occurs when somatic cells (i.e., not sperm or eggs) are damaged and does not (*usually) effect the next generation. *other than by killing people before reproduction.
I haven't purchased a first-hand CD from a major label in years. Right now, my music comes from Free sources, or my unlimited download membership at magnatune.com. I really don't feel that I'm missing anything at this point.
I'm sorry. WRONG. Stop spreading misinformation. That's worse than the average troll. Breastfeeding is great (my son was exclusively breastfed up to 18mo), but you are just plain wrong.
Funny. The "nightmare" situation you describe resulting from a retailer ignoring MAP only becomes a problem because of MAP. 1,2,3 and 4 would not have happened if the regular retailers were "allowed" to lower their prices in response to the current (temporary) situation in the marketplace. Its plain and simple legal manipulation of the retail markets by manufacturers, and hurts everyone else.
I thing GP was trying to make the point that cognition is not optimal. The kind of AI used for Google strives to be the best solution to a problem. Humans on the other hand, use (bad) heuristics, guesswork, and even superstition. When programming AI to try to understand "human intelligence" it's probably important to try to understand what "human intelligence" is.
Unfortunately the Internet doesn't have any easy mechanism to indicate which peers would be better. Good solutions would likely have to be built on additional knowledge - which implies a database to hold and serve it - which implies a new central infrastructure and queries of it - which both breaks the decentralized model and provides additional points of attack if the ISPs continue to treat this as a war and attempt to suppress "unauthorized"/"enemy" torrents.
Last time I used ktorrent, it put little flags beside each peer's IP address. It sounds like that "database" is already being used to some degree (although, ping times are probably a better metric).
I am constantly picking up on new stuff on stations that specialize in college-syle formats, alt rock, etc. I would spend more than $13 a month hunting and pecking through the piles of pre-determined major label crap that Amazon, Apple, et al are trying to shove down my throat on their sites to find some of the smaller, shinier gems.
For around $13 a month I have an unlimited download membership from Magnatune.com. If you like "smaller, shinier jems," that may be the ticket.
To use the oft abused car metaphor: If someone doesn't make a car I want in the color I want, I'm not allowed to steal it just so I can paint it the color I want.
What? that doesn't even make sense. I guess I'm hurting those poor used book stores as well, since I use the library. People don't "deserve" to earn money if they don't provide a service people want; those stores will exist as long as people want to buy used books, and no longer.
I think you'd be hard-pressed today to find anything whose creation (and the creation of all its subparts) could be credited to one individual or company.
Huh, I think that statement might have more wisdom to it than you intended.
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Well, I'm a scientist and not a philosopher, so I'm happy with the wealth of evidence and lack of counter evidence I have observed over the years.
When someone is making outlandish (supernatural) claims with no evidence or proof, it's relatively easy to make a general case for skepticism -no need to argue each and every special case.
To require proof (or evidence) of a thing in order to believe it exists is not a belief, but simply rational scepticism.
If I tell you that sea water is made of supernatural jello, you are perfectly capable of asking me for some proof without forming a new "belief" that seawater is *not* made out of supernatural jello. Perhaps, you could argue that valuing scepticism is a belief, but then the onus is not on the GP to disprove God but simply to prove scepticism in general has value (easy).
It is useless if sliding on ice, slush, or water (hydroplaning). Turn the wheel hard over, you'll have even less steering control than if your brakes locked up on dry pavement.
I'm not sure I understand your statement, or you may be confused. On a slippery surface, it is difficult to steer around objects while breaking with normal breaks. With ABS you have significantly more* steering ability while breaking in the same conditions. You are always going to have less traction than dry pavement, but ABS does allow fairly hard steering while breaking hard on ice or snow.
*unless you are a professional driver trained for racing on slippery surfaces.
I always wondered who's bright idea "Save" and "Save As" was. Surely something like "Save" and "Create a new copy" or something like that would be more intuitive.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/140247
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/02/001225
Google is your friend.
I assume this new radar-controlled braking, would, by default, include the older, radar-controlled cruise control. If that's the case, the tailgating problem is already improved.
I think the idea is that while the car is "slowly sliding into the car in front," you have full steering ability and can simply drive around it.
Not to defend improper mods, but freedom of speech doesn't mean I have to listen to your dribble. Rant all you want, but there's nothing wrong with me adjusting my settings so that I don't have to read it. You are confusing Freedom of Speech with a guaranteed audience.
To do work? Like read a technical document? write a paper? or code? When the iPhone has a full qwerty keyboard, a screen at least 800px wide, can display a letter sized pdf without scrolling, then I might say it's useful.
Legal Torrents:
http://www.jamendo.com/ -CC music
http://bt.etree.org/ -Live music archive
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/ -Fan made movies (allowed by trademark owners)
http://www.getmiro.com/ -Free video downloader/player with Free content.
http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Legal_torrent_sites -List of many more
Plenty of Legal uses for the technology.
What plugins is he talking about?
Quicktime. I have never been able to get all those "buffer overflows" I keep hearing about.
No thanks. I will always prefer to spend 8+ hours a day on my workstation than using an iPhone. All these "iPhone-is-the-future" comments seem to neglect the fact that most people use their computers for work. Sure, eventually you will be able to "dock" your iPhone into a monitor and keyboard, but that won't gain me much (I already have a portable phone, and my files follow me with network access or a thumbdrive).
btw (GP), (La)TeX made word processors obsolete before there were word processors.
Wow. Way to freak on someone with a different opinion than you. You do know that copyright is not a fundamental right either way, but simply a pragmatic mechanism for encouraging work right? There are valid arguments for and against the usefulness of the mechanism, including the importance of the public's access to it's own culture, and the importance of encouraging the producers to make new culture. By being just as in-tolerant, you are as bad as the RIAA and commercial/career "pirates" who simply insult and condemn anyone with a different viewpoint.
Maybe there will even be virtual crowds, virtual lines at the checkout, and maybe even virtual parking issues! This sounds like yet another "innovative" way of taking something real, and moving it to a digital space as similar as possible (problems and all). Kind of like PDF "papers" and those soft-phones which have dialling pad on them.
Very true. But, is the threat of jail time going to change anything? how about the ability to go to a doctor, or clinic and receive medical or psychological help without worrying about being prosecuted? Discourage drugs all you want, but making users into criminals is not a valid solution.
Take a biology course. There are plenty of "auto-correcting" mechanisms for repairing damaged DNA. They, however, have almost nothing to do with the kind of mutations that provide the genetic diversity necessary for natural selection to work. Those kind of mutations generally occur during recombination (i.e., sex). Cancer occurs when somatic cells (i.e., not sperm or eggs) are damaged and does not (*usually) effect the next generation. *other than by killing people before reproduction.
I haven't purchased a first-hand CD from a major label in years. Right now, my music comes from Free sources, or my unlimited download membership at magnatune.com. I really don't feel that I'm missing anything at this point.
I'm sorry. WRONG. Stop spreading misinformation. That's worse than the average troll. Breastfeeding is great (my son was exclusively breastfed up to 18mo), but you are just plain wrong.
Funny. The "nightmare" situation you describe resulting from a retailer ignoring MAP only becomes a problem because of MAP. 1,2,3 and 4 would not have happened if the regular retailers were "allowed" to lower their prices in response to the current (temporary) situation in the marketplace. Its plain and simple legal manipulation of the retail markets by manufacturers, and hurts everyone else.
I thing GP was trying to make the point that cognition is not optimal. The kind of AI used for Google strives to be the best solution to a problem. Humans on the other hand, use (bad) heuristics, guesswork, and even superstition. When programming AI to try to understand "human intelligence" it's probably important to try to understand what "human intelligence" is.
Unfortunately the Internet doesn't have any easy mechanism to indicate which peers would be better. Good solutions would likely have to be built on additional knowledge - which implies a database to hold and serve it - which implies a new central infrastructure and queries of it - which both breaks the decentralized model and provides additional points of attack if the ISPs continue to treat this as a war and attempt to suppress "unauthorized"/"enemy" torrents.
Last time I used ktorrent, it put little flags beside each peer's IP address. It sounds like that "database" is already being used to some degree (although, ping times are probably a better metric).
I am constantly picking up on new stuff on stations that specialize in college-syle formats, alt rock, etc. I would spend more than $13 a month hunting and pecking through the piles of pre-determined major label crap that Amazon, Apple, et al are trying to shove down my throat on their sites to find some of the smaller, shinier gems.
For around $13 a month I have an unlimited download membership from Magnatune.com. If you like "smaller, shinier jems," that may be the ticket.
To use the oft abused car metaphor: If someone doesn't make a car I want in the color I want, I'm not allowed to steal it just so I can paint it the color I want.
What? that doesn't even make sense. I guess I'm hurting those poor used book stores as well, since I use the library. People don't "deserve" to earn money if they don't provide a service people want; those stores will exist as long as people want to buy used books, and no longer.
impracticable in an emergency
Ever hear of ambulances and taxi cabs?
They require more time
A little battery and hub motor can change that.
I think you'd be hard-pressed today to find anything whose creation (and the creation of all its subparts) could be credited to one individual or company.
Huh, I think that statement might have more wisdom to it than you intended.