This is the best line from "I, Robot.". Will Smith to the robot: "Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?" The robot responds, "Can you?".
I want to talk to these AIs myself! Give me a webpage or irc chatroom to interact with it directly. It sounds fascinating even if its only 'close' to passing the test.
I have a DNA sequence from 23andme. I'd like to see the first service do any kind of analysis where I can upload my genome sequence and see the results of the analysis.
Another option for small servings of coffee is switching to cold brew. Its far less bitter and much easier on your stomach. It keeps in the refrigerator so it can be poured in one cup servings. It takes a little more setup work.
Whats the industry ratio of circuit boards manufactured per month versus circut boards recycled per month? The eWaste stream is worth thinking about and should be included in the price of electronics. Maybe tablets shouldnt be $38 because so many of them will get thrown away, with their toxic components in a landfill that eventually leaks into the groundwater.
I agree, the 4 USB lines are bound to be in the connector. I believe the original kinect connector also had lines for extra power, and other useful stuff. There are some legitimate reasons for a new connector, but lock-in sure seems like a major factor. Adapting to a PC USB should be easy.
Miners can request/impose a fee for including transactions into the next block. It was part of the system from the beginning and is meant to eventually replace the incentive of the 50 (soon to be 25)BTC bounty.
Agreed. Electrolysis of water to release hydrogen is easy to perform and well understood. Getting electricity back out with a fuel cell is a bit harder.
If you watch the github commit log for diaspora, it shows the project has been under continuous development since the first release. Its really quite usable now and an important piece on the gameboard of social networking. Check out poddery.com for a well maintained public diaspora server.
I found the AVOS terms of use to be disappointing. 8 pages of 'me me me' and boiler plate.
"YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE... YOU ARE INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE SITE."
That's interesting. In the agreement they want me to agree to, they state I have already agreed to it.
"You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current and complete."
You want to make it legally binding that my street address stay up to date? I call that legal overkill. I can see wanted to get accurate information but I take legal agreements seriously and I dont want to worry about what contracts I'm breaking by forgetting to keep my street address up to date.
"We may, in our sole discretion, permit Members to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit Member Content. By making available any Member Content through the Site and Service, you hereby grant to AVOS a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view..."
We *may* allow you to post stuff, but we own everything you post. Status.net has a similar model of collecting and distributing user content and they use a Creative Commons license.
"You agree not to do any of the following:... 6. Attempt to access or search the Site... through the use of any engine, software, tool..."
So much for an extensible platform.
What are some good bookmark apps that I can install on my own server?
you can. they're called unlocked GSM phones. I use a phone i got off ebay on the tmobile network. works great.
i too wonder why phones are not sold outside of carrier agreements in general. the FIC FreeRunner phone will be sold that way, and it runs on open source software.
if they could care less, then they care more than the minimum possible. that opens the door to them caring care some, and possibly a lot, about consumer choice. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/care.html
if someone's livingroom lamp happened to be bright enough to illuminate part of the sidewalk, and if someone is walking down the sidewalk and takes out a piece of paper to read in the light, is that 'stealing'?
i have been waiting for the neo1973 since i first heard about it in februrary. i thought it'd be great to at least have until the launch of the iPhone. i waited for months on #openmoko and hardware news was extremely hard to come by. now that the iphone is out im not sure the neo1973 has enough appeal anymore. video playback is what i mostly want in my next phone. i played with an iphone today and it was completely seducing. the neo1973 has a smaller screen. the one hardware feature it has going for it is a GPS receiver.
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People have been building the protocols to support this at https://indieweb.org/ and http://activitypub.rocks/.
If you're not ready to host your own software, public installations of Mastodon are a decent alternative - https://instances.social/list
This is the best line from "I, Robot.".
Will Smith to the robot: "Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?"
The robot responds, "Can you?".
I want to talk to these AIs myself! Give me a webpage or irc chatroom to interact with it directly. It sounds fascinating even if its only 'close' to passing the test.
I have a DNA sequence from 23andme. I'd like to see the first service do any kind of analysis where I can upload my genome sequence and see the results of the analysis.
Revive a 30,000 year old virus, they said. It'll be fun they said.
Another option for small servings of coffee is switching to cold brew. Its far less bitter and much easier on your stomach. It keeps in the refrigerator so it can be poured in one cup servings. It takes a little more setup work.
Whats the industry ratio of circuit boards manufactured per month versus circut boards recycled per month? The eWaste stream is worth thinking about and should be included in the price of electronics. Maybe tablets shouldnt be $38 because so many of them will get thrown away, with their toxic components in a landfill that eventually leaks into the groundwater.
http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators
The CO2 graph (direct measurement) is clearly climbing at a never-before-seen rate. How does this compare to the conclusions in the report?
I agree, the 4 USB lines are bound to be in the connector. I believe the original kinect connector also had lines for extra power, and other useful stuff. There are some legitimate reasons for a new connector, but lock-in sure seems like a major factor. Adapting to a PC USB should be easy.
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
How is this fork any different/better than Ubuntu 12.04 after installing the gnome-shell package?
Miners can request/impose a fee for including transactions into the next block. It was part of the system from the beginning and is meant to eventually replace the incentive of the 50 (soon to be 25)BTC bounty.
This is the same kind of observations are encapsulated in the One Subject at a Time act.
https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/
Agreed. Electrolysis of water to release hydrogen is easy to perform and well understood. Getting electricity back out with a fuel cell is a bit harder.
Agreed. reading a barcode or listening to a fixed beacon is an integral part of the patent. sounds more like indoor positioning to me.
The open-source minecraft clone, minetest, is surprisingly complete, playable, and fun.
http://c55.me/minetest/download.php
If you watch the github commit log for diaspora, it shows the project has been under continuous development since the first release. Its really quite usable now and an important piece on the gameboard of social networking. Check out poddery.com for a well maintained public diaspora server.
I found the AVOS terms of use to be disappointing. 8 pages of 'me me me' and boiler plate.
"YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE ... YOU ARE INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE SITE."
That's interesting. In the agreement they want me to agree to, they state I have already agreed to it.
"You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current and complete."
You want to make it legally binding that my street address stay up to date? I call that legal overkill. I can see wanted to get accurate information but I take legal agreements seriously and I dont want to worry about what contracts I'm breaking by forgetting to keep my street address up to date.
"We may, in our sole discretion, permit Members to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit Member Content. By making available any Member Content through the Site and Service, you hereby grant to AVOS a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view..."
We *may* allow you to post stuff, but we own everything you post. Status.net has a similar model of collecting and distributing user content and they use a Creative Commons license.
"You agree not to do any of the following: ... 6. Attempt to access or search the Site ... through the use of any engine, software, tool..."
So much for an extensible platform.
What are some good bookmark apps that I can install on my own server?
you can. they're called unlocked GSM phones.
I use a phone i got off ebay on the tmobile network.
works great.
i too wonder why phones are not sold outside of carrier
agreements in general. the FIC FreeRunner phone will
be sold that way, and it runs on open source software.
if they could care less, then they care more than the minimum possible.
that opens the door to them caring care some, and possibly a lot, about consumer choice.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/care.html
if someone's livingroom lamp happened to be bright enough to illuminate part of the sidewalk, and if someone is walking down the sidewalk and takes out a piece of paper to read in the light, is that 'stealing'?
The obvious acronym to me is
FTTC
Fiber To The Crapper
the king of off-beat technical documentation is Why's Poignant Guide to ruby.
i second the good books notion and thanks for the reference to Rusling's book - I haven't heard of that one.
I can say that Robert Love's book, Linux Kernel Development (2004) is very well written and easy to read and understand. (print only)
There is also Greg Kroah-Harman's Linux Kernel in a nutshell at http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ - free PDF download.
>end up solidifying your knowledge.
Thats the missing phrase!
'solidifying' makes a lot more sense than 'hardening'.
i have been waiting for the neo1973 since i first heard about it in februrary.
i thought it'd be great to at least have until the launch of the iPhone.
i waited for months on #openmoko and hardware news was extremely hard to
come by. now that the iphone is out im not sure the neo1973 has enough appeal
anymore. video playback is what i mostly want in my next phone. i played
with an iphone today and it was completely seducing. the neo1973 has a
smaller screen. the one hardware feature it has going for it is a GPS receiver.