Maybe someday when we have a real science of A.I. something like this might be possible, but all it shows is that this university professor will happily take government money for delivering absolutely nothing.
He has already perfected the software and is using it to game the grant system.
Most of what we call "swearing" isn't technically swearing - it's just using words that the culture has established as being vulgar. True swearing would be saying God's name in vain (which, ironically, you can say on TV).
No more debates as to whether or not stuff like Tivoization should be allowed - you click a check box if you want to allow it, and leave it unchecked if you don't.
You'll still have people claiming it's evil and others claiming it's okay, but at least they won't have to fight about it in the same license.
You can only get in trouble if they catch you. I don't know how difficult encrypting your BitTorrent traffic would make it to track you down, but it can't hurt.
...and I don't believe a lot of stuff that mainstream science says about how we got here, so you can probably call me a fundamentalist. Heck, the very idea that someone just called the universe into existence is pretty unscientific in itself.
But remember, just because some are extremists doesn't mean we all are. Same goes for Muslims and pretty much every other religious group out there. It goes for non-religious groups, too.
Voltaire didn't say it, but it's frequently attributed to him: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Fighting dirty is a bad idea - it does nothing but give your side a bad name.
Calling something like this an "OS" really gets on my nerves, mostly because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what an OS is. For me, what's really sad is not that the author claims that the product is "a complete virtual PC", but that I'm hoping the misleading marketing was intentional.
I suppose I shouldn't let it bother me too much, but still... this reminds me so much of the "internet is inside the little blue e" stuff.
I think an analogy to programming styles is appropriate here. Clever code is often lauded, just because so-and-so managed to write a one-liner that does . People compete to be clever (see those obfuscated C contests). Clever is impressive.
But obvious stuff like writing easy-to-understand, well-documented code... that's just expected, no matter how hard it is to do in practice.
And yes, I know that single-celled life forms are used in food production. But they aren't eaten as-is - they're used to ferment or leaven some material from a multi-celled life form.
I suppose you could eat a whole colony of bacteria, but I don't know what that would be like (nutritional value, side-effects, taste).
So, when will we start seeing legislation for warnings on food? If this takes off, I can see companies making stuff like pseudo-cows and pseudo-chickens that are cheaper to breed in the long term.
I suppose they'll start out with plant-like forms of life for simplicity. Strangely, eating artificial plants wouldn't bother me as much as artificial animals.
Sure, a lot of the super-paranoid people are nutjobs, but you have to remember: it's because of the super-paranoid nutjobs that everyone else can sit at ease.
It's a balance. If everyone was trusting, we'd be slaves to some dictator. If everyone was paranoid, we'd never get anything done.
4: More focus toward simulation. Google Sky is a collection of pictures from inside an imaginary "sky sphere." It's really neat, but it's mostly what Google Earth is for the planet surface - an interactive map. Stellarium actually keeps track of all the stuff that's out there and where it's going. This makes it trivial to get a view from the Moon, for example.
"I have to laugh, because I've outsmarted even myself. My enemy, my foe, is a cancer. In order to conquer the cancer, I have to learn to think like an cancer. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta get inside this guy's cell wall and crawl around for a few days."
No, haven't you ever heard of Brainf**k, the exponentially-advanced extension of the Brainf language?
It's a public awareness issue, I tell you. Programmers everywhere can understand that C strongly influenced C++, yet none of them know of Brainf**k's Brainf heritage. Get the word out, people, Urban Mueller didn't write Brainf**k from scratch!
Yes. The title of this article really was misleading, especially with that one about BitTorrent the other day - saying that they're "closing off" their source makes it sound like they were planning on going fully closed-source.
It's a health issue. You see, the Earth has a fever.
Seriously, though, it is a bit curious - though I suppose the point was that he was censored for being too open-minded, not for knowing all about global warming. Or is that the same thing?
No one knows how to produce an authentic Word document to the last detail.
To the last detail, no, but 99% percent of the time, I can save something in Word and open it in OpenOffice.org, and vice versa.
And as someone else here replied, lack of interoperability isn't security.
Most people will probably just buy a new phone, but I bet there'll be a few hardware hackers who try to install a third-party battery - not because it's cheaper, but just because they can.
...I won't be terribly impressed until they start cobbling together custom genetic material, instead of just copy-paste from one microbe to another. No disrespect to the scientists - I'm sure even copy-paste's hard to do - but don't call it synthetic life if you didn't create anything original, know what I mean?
Also, be warned that I will be as scared as I will be impressed when they do write their own software for the hardware.
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Um, Leopard is version 10.5, Tiger is 10.4, and Panther is 10.3.
Most of what we call "swearing" isn't technically swearing - it's just using words that the culture has established as being vulgar. True swearing would be saying God's name in vain (which, ironically, you can say on TV).
Just because the licenses have confusing names doesn't make them "absolutely f***ing useless."
No more debates as to whether or not stuff like Tivoization should be allowed - you click a check box if you want to allow it, and leave it unchecked if you don't. You'll still have people claiming it's evil and others claiming it's okay, but at least they won't have to fight about it in the same license.
You can only get in trouble if they catch you. I don't know how difficult encrypting your BitTorrent traffic would make it to track you down, but it can't hurt.
...and I don't believe a lot of stuff that mainstream science says about how we got here, so you can probably call me a fundamentalist. Heck, the very idea that someone just called the universe into existence is pretty unscientific in itself.
But remember, just because some are extremists doesn't mean we all are. Same goes for Muslims and pretty much every other religious group out there. It goes for non-religious groups, too.
Voltaire didn't say it, but it's frequently attributed to him: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Fighting dirty is a bad idea - it does nothing but give your side a bad name.
Mod parent up.
Calling something like this an "OS" really gets on my nerves, mostly because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what an OS is. For me, what's really sad is not that the author claims that the product is "a complete virtual PC", but that I'm hoping the misleading marketing was intentional.
I suppose I shouldn't let it bother me too much, but still... this reminds me so much of the "internet is inside the little blue e" stuff.
I think an analogy to programming styles is appropriate here. Clever code is often lauded, just because so-and-so managed to write a one-liner that does . People compete to be clever (see those obfuscated C contests). Clever is impressive.
But obvious stuff like writing easy-to-understand, well-documented code... that's just expected, no matter how hard it is to do in practice.
I know, but there's not much meat on a bacterium.
And yes, I know that single-celled life forms are used in food production. But they aren't eaten as-is - they're used to ferment or leaven some material from a multi-celled life form.
I suppose you could eat a whole colony of bacteria, but I don't know what that would be like (nutritional value, side-effects, taste).
So, when will we start seeing legislation for warnings on food? If this takes off, I can see companies making stuff like pseudo-cows and pseudo-chickens that are cheaper to breed in the long term.
I suppose they'll start out with plant-like forms of life for simplicity. Strangely, eating artificial plants wouldn't bother me as much as artificial animals.
Pillow fight?
Sure, a lot of the super-paranoid people are nutjobs, but you have to remember: it's because of the super-paranoid nutjobs that everyone else can sit at ease.
It's a balance. If everyone was trusting, we'd be slaves to some dictator. If everyone was paranoid, we'd never get anything done.
That's my philosophy, anyway.
3: Open source.
4: More focus toward simulation. Google Sky is a collection of pictures from inside an imaginary "sky sphere." It's really neat, but it's mostly what Google Earth is for the planet surface - an interactive map. Stellarium actually keeps track of all the stuff that's out there and where it's going. This makes it trivial to get a view from the Moon, for example.
"I have to laugh, because I've outsmarted even myself. My enemy, my foe, is a cancer. In order to conquer the cancer, I have to learn to think like an cancer. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta get inside this guy's cell wall and crawl around for a few days."
They aren't removing articles, they're just... rectifying them.
And shame is implied.
No, haven't you ever heard of Brainf**k, the exponentially-advanced extension of the Brainf language?
It's a public awareness issue, I tell you. Programmers everywhere can understand that C strongly influenced C++, yet none of them know of Brainf**k's Brainf heritage. Get the word out, people, Urban Mueller didn't write Brainf**k from scratch!
Yes. The title of this article really was misleading, especially with that one about BitTorrent the other day - saying that they're "closing off" their source makes it sound like they were planning on going fully closed-source.
It's a health issue. You see, the Earth has a fever.
Seriously, though, it is a bit curious - though I suppose the point was that he was censored for being too open-minded, not for knowing all about global warming. Or is that the same thing?
Most people will probably just buy a new phone, but I bet there'll be a few hardware hackers who try to install a third-party battery - not because it's cheaper, but just because they can.
...how we feel about DRM.
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...I won't be terribly impressed until they start cobbling together custom genetic material, instead of just copy-paste from one microbe to another. No disrespect to the scientists - I'm sure even copy-paste's hard to do - but don't call it synthetic life if you didn't create anything original, know what I mean?
Also, be warned that I will be as scared as I will be impressed when they do write their own software for the hardware.