Actually, no, it doesn't. Regen braking only improves range by ~10% in the best case, the majority of the savings come from having a smaller, higher efficiency engine which is better managed (idle stop etc). The electric drive helps by allowing a smaller fuel engine, and by taking over in driving circumstances that are worst for fuel efficiency (slow moving stop start traffic).
and actually do some damage that'd justify the assault charge.
I always thought it ironic that they stopped making keyboards with metal chassis at about the same time they started putting those stupid labels on them saying that "use of a keyboard may cause serious injury". Not any more, they may'n't.:/
You ignore the fact that many games that I own from the past will not play on my Windows XP machine now. Just owning the physical media doesn't mean it is going to work in the future.
Anything Intel-based that's old enough not to run on XP should be old enough to run happily in DosBox or similar. I know what you mean, though, because I have a shelf full of 5.25" floppies that I can't read because I don't have the right cable to connect my old BBC Micro up to the TV, and to be perfectly honest I can't remember how to use the thing any more anyway. Which reminds me, must look up how to talk to the old drive so I can code something up and copy those discs across...
Pretty sure copyright infringement (let's not make it sound all exotic now, there's no boats or cutlasses involved) is about not paying for copies of things that other people made. DRM is companies trying to stop that happening.
I must admit, though, that every time I have to watch that retarded "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy clip (that you can't skip on a standard DVD player) I get one step closer to just saying "fuck you, I'm torrenting my movies from now on".
Same, with the multiple line thing. Then again I know a couple of people who could easily be bots online; they respond to most things with "lol" or "hehe", and frequently make non-sequitur comments or just don't respond to statements.
I think emotions were just another example of something computers are bad at. Bit of a non-sequitur but still valid.
So basically, you can trick a chat by setting it problems that require inference to solve. "Bob likes cheese. Sally gives Bob some cheese. How does Bob feel?" requires outside knowledge and reasoning to reply "Bob feels happy" or some variant thereof.
When they do start solving inference problems (which expert systems have been able to do for ages now, iirc) we'll have to ramp up the difficulty. I'd try questions that require a theory of mind. Show me a chat bot that can correctly answer variants of this one (via reasoning, not hard coding) and I'll be very impressed:
Bob and Sally are in a room. Bob puts a marble in a box. Sally goes out of the room. Bob takes the marble out of the box and puts it in his pocket. Sally comes back into the room. Where does Sally think the marble is?
I'm actually planning to turn my ancient PS/2 keyboard (soft-touch but still with nice key action and full sized chunky keys, none of this slimline crap they push on us these days) into a hausbrau 'das keyboard' with a tin of black enamel.:)
Given an essentially infinite lifespan, intelligence greater than ours, a body capable of manipulating the physical world at least as well as a human can (actually, wouldn't even need to be that good), an AI entity would have very little difficulty colonizing space. Humans need a habitable biosphere that is vastly different than most of the universe; robots could easily survive in virtually any location in the universe.
You know, that's a very good argument against the Singularity being possible (or us being in a virtual universe, tying into the Simulation Argument wonderfully!)
At least one of the following is true:
(1) intelligent species are overwhelmingly likely to go extinct before creating intelligent, self-reproducing machines;
(2) such machines are overwhelmingly likely to maintain a stable population or completely wipe themselves or each other out rather than expanding to fill space.
(3a) such machines have no use for materials on Earth
(3b) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation (or the machine have declared our solar system a 'nature reserve').
My wife, who's never seen any of 4chan, maintains that "4chan" is disgusting and perverted and she'll never ever go there. I think she has it confused with the goatse image that Mr Munroe has mixed in with his cartoons. (I was first introduced to XKCD via a deep link to one of the cartoons, or maybe it was a mirror, this was a long time ago, anyway I lopped the filename.gif off the URL as you do and proceeded to read the comics. One of the images was... not savoury. Albeit in a way that's also not sweet.)
Military intervention absolutely is useful, the issue is that it's not being backed up by the improvements to peoples lives through engineering projects and so forth that must go with it.
<troll>No, the issue is that most cultures in that whole region are batshit insane and have thousands of years of blood feud built up against everyone around them. Once you get rid of the fundamental religious nutjobs the problem will go away.</troll>
If you need to post anonymously, you didn't have free speech in the first place.
You don't have free speech in the first place.
Or rather, "free speech" has so many caveats that it's close to useless. Sure, you can criticise the government (for all the good it will do), but you can't say anything they actually want to stop you saying.
The search protocol names "distribution of porn" (AFAIK not a crime) as the reason. It's fairly obvious that the reason for the search are the leaked filter lists of various countries.
Just because the list of URLs is a leak that the government is trying to suppress in Australia doesn't mean it's not also a huge fat list of active kiddie pron links. I'm pretty sure that if I published a picture of the king of Thailand doing a 12-year-old, I wouldn't expect the fact that lese majeste is a crime there to protect me from the fact that distributing kiddie pron is a crime here.
Slashdot Mirror
Like the software on a Tivo. Gotchya.
That's ok, neither of those are really people anyway. /rimshot
Actually, no, it doesn't. Regen braking only improves range by ~10% in the best case, the majority of the savings come from having a smaller, higher efficiency engine which is better managed (idle stop etc). The electric drive helps by allowing a smaller fuel engine, and by taking over in driving circumstances that are worst for fuel efficiency (slow moving stop start traffic).
Just like dimples on golf balls. This is also why I laugh at "hardcore" sports people who shave to reduce air resistance...
You forgot polandium!
Whoooooossshhh!
More like BAAAAANG!!! amirite?
and actually do some damage that'd justify the assault charge.
I always thought it ironic that they stopped making keyboards with metal chassis at about the same time they started putting those stupid labels on them saying that "use of a keyboard may cause serious injury". Not any more, they may'n't. :/
You ignore the fact that many games that I own from the past will not play on my Windows XP machine now. Just owning the physical media doesn't mean it is going to work in the future.
Anything Intel-based that's old enough not to run on XP should be old enough to run happily in DosBox or similar. I know what you mean, though, because I have a shelf full of 5.25" floppies that I can't read because I don't have the right cable to connect my old BBC Micro up to the TV, and to be perfectly honest I can't remember how to use the thing any more anyway. Which reminds me, must look up how to talk to the old drive so I can code something up and copy those discs across...
Pretty sure copyright infringement (let's not make it sound all exotic now, there's no boats or cutlasses involved) is about not paying for copies of things that other people made. DRM is companies trying to stop that happening.
I must admit, though, that every time I have to watch that retarded "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy clip (that you can't skip on a standard DVD player) I get one step closer to just saying "fuck you, I'm torrenting my movies from now on".
Same, with the multiple line thing. Then again I know a couple of people who could easily be bots online; they respond to most things with "lol" or "hehe", and frequently make non-sequitur comments or just don't respond to statements.
So basically, you can trick a chat by setting it problems that require inference to solve. "Bob likes cheese. Sally gives Bob some cheese. How does Bob feel?" requires outside knowledge and reasoning to reply "Bob feels happy" or some variant thereof.
When they do start solving inference problems (which expert systems have been able to do for ages now, iirc) we'll have to ramp up the difficulty. I'd try questions that require a theory of mind. Show me a chat bot that can correctly answer variants of this one (via reasoning, not hard coding) and I'll be very impressed:
Bob and Sally are in a room. Bob puts a marble in a box. Sally goes out of the room. Bob takes the marble out of the box and puts it in his pocket. Sally comes back into the room. Where does Sally think the marble is?
Who said anything about having a high metabolism? He's talking about living exclusively on pizza, man!
I'm actually planning to turn my ancient PS/2 keyboard (soft-touch but still with nice key action and full sized chunky keys, none of this slimline crap they push on us these days) into a hausbrau 'das keyboard' with a tin of black enamel. :)
This post deserves to be read out loud in the voice of Stewie from Family Guy. Then again virtually anything is funny under those conditions. :)
"Mal? He killed me, Mal! Isn't that weird?"
You're not REALLY typing unless your keyboard makes the sound of the postman being bitten by your dog as he picks up your mail.
Fair 'nuff. I guess if your chance of personal absolution is equally small either way, you might as well take 'em down with you. :)
Except it's not, it's the cheer squad ON the football field. And you're complaining because you can't see their tits clearly.
Given an essentially infinite lifespan, intelligence greater than ours, a body capable of manipulating the physical world at least as well as a human can (actually, wouldn't even need to be that good), an AI entity would have very little difficulty colonizing space. Humans need a habitable biosphere that is vastly different than most of the universe; robots could easily survive in virtually any location in the universe.
You know, that's a very good argument against the Singularity being possible (or us being in a virtual universe, tying into the Simulation Argument wonderfully!)
At least one of the following is true:
(1) intelligent species are overwhelmingly likely to go extinct before creating intelligent, self-reproducing machines;
(2) such machines are overwhelmingly likely to maintain a stable population or completely wipe themselves or each other out rather than expanding to fill space.
(3a) such machines have no use for materials on Earth
(3b) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation (or the machine have declared our solar system a 'nature reserve').
It's because they're fuzzy, obviously.
My wife, who's never seen any of 4chan, maintains that "4chan" is disgusting and perverted and she'll never ever go there. I think she has it confused with the goatse image that Mr Munroe has mixed in with his cartoons. (I was first introduced to XKCD via a deep link to one of the cartoons, or maybe it was a mirror, this was a long time ago, anyway I lopped the filename.gif off the URL as you do and proceeded to read the comics. One of the images was... not savoury. Albeit in a way that's also not sweet.)
Ah, but it opens you up for Ad Nonymous, the automatic discreditation of anything you say because "well you're just an AC".
Military intervention absolutely is useful, the issue is that it's not being backed up by the improvements to peoples lives through engineering projects and so forth that must go with it.
<troll>No, the issue is that most cultures in that whole region are batshit insane and have thousands of years of blood feud built up against everyone around them. Once you get rid of the fundamental religious nutjobs the problem will go away.</troll>
If you need to post anonymously, you didn't have free speech in the first place.
You don't have free speech in the first place.
Or rather, "free speech" has so many caveats that it's close to useless. Sure, you can criticise the government (for all the good it will do), but you can't say anything they actually want to stop you saying.
The search protocol names "distribution of porn" (AFAIK not a crime) as the reason. It's fairly obvious that the reason for the search are the leaked filter lists of various countries.
Just because the list of URLs is a leak that the government is trying to suppress in Australia doesn't mean it's not also a huge fat list of active kiddie pron links. I'm pretty sure that if I published a picture of the king of Thailand doing a 12-year-old, I wouldn't expect the fact that lese majeste is a crime there to protect me from the fact that distributing kiddie pron is a crime here.
(oops did I say that out loud anonymously?)
Nope, the feds are on their way. :P