Those who can't do, teach. I had a lecturer in mechanics who could only work in universities because some structure he designed collapsed and killed some people. Most places he wouldn't even get that job - but then this is Africa.
I've had very few teachers/lecturers with a genuine interest in the students. The point is, most are there because there is nowhere else to go or nothing else to do with all those letters after their name.
As I said this is Africa, and a failed state at that. YMMV.
Yes, I know its different in some ways, but both are cases of potential. A potential human being is an unknown - may be a benefit or a drain on society. Since you don't have that knowledge, what arrogant illusion gives you the right to judge? Any judgement made without facts is most likely made in error.
Your reason for locking up the killer is the damage to society. My reason for saving the potential humans is the possible benefit to society. Not apples and oranges - more like two sides of the same coin. If you are justified in locking up a potential murderer, then you are justified in protecting a potential human being. But perhaps you can't see that?
I see what you're saying, but I am pointing out to you that if we can't ignore that someone potentially could have killed, how can any reasonable person ignore the fact that a group of cells, which if left as is(with the mother) will(almost certainly) become sentient? I see no way of making my point clearer. We simply can not ignore the potential. In both cases someone's potential at life is removed. Think about it.
No offence, but to be honest your whole argument sounds to me like a way to dodge through a loop-hole. Sometimes the spirit of the law is more important than the letter.
To you, yes. To me its all but the same. I doubt I can change your mind, but may I just ask, how does a blade of grass have the potential for sentience?(Within reason that is)
That would depend on the circumstances, I suppose. If it was due to negligence or trauma the mother suffered suffered as a result of abuse then it sounds like manslaughter to me - if not actual murder. For all I know, it may legally be that way already. Otherwise I'd say its just like cancer related death. Unfortunate, unavoidable and no one's fault.
Its a matter of potential; If I attempt to kill you, but fail, I am prosecuted for attempted murder. I'm locked up because I potentially would have killed you. Why, then is it such a big jump to say that a bunch of cells has the potential for life and when destroyed this, while not as bad as actual murder is at least as bad as attempted murder?
Please don't carry this argument too far; I am not catholic and have no problem with contraception. For obvious reasons contraception is a different story to abortion.
No. Prioritize by ASL. A smart tracker would get a BGP feed...
There fixed it for you...
Seriously though, I'm not that clued up on network acronyms. I know I'll be told to google it, but why can't we just type the whole set of words out? It's not that hard is it?
Try Jettico personal firewall - it has caught all of viruses trying to get on my laptop. After a year using jettico under Win2000(with no virus scanner or updates), I pulled the hard disk out and did a virus check on another machine using an up to date copy of AVG. No viruses. That laptop had been in so many public infested networks and on the net for ages.
The downside is it is extremely anoying - it asks you about everything at least once, and you have to make intelligent decisions.
I don't know, do NASA really need more than 2kbs right now? You normally design for what you need. It would be more expensive, yes, but it would be needed in order to send scientific data back - everyone says this will be a one way trip.
Some form of QPSK modulation to overcome the noise and weak signal, a clever protocol that breaks everythin into blocks sends all the blocks at once and only failed blockd are re-requested and a system of satellites. I reckon it could be done. Only problem is mentioned by your sibling poster.
Why waste weight on movie/video games? Admittedly a link to Mars would be very low bandwidth, but if it's always on, why not just use any excess bandwidth on the link to send stuff to mars. A suitable high latency tolerant protocol probably already exists. And if you had spectrum to spare, the bandwidth could be increased. That being said, flash memory is quite compact/light.
If you're a kid, it may be a usable computer, but I'd advise against getting one for personal use. The sun screen is incredibly awesome and the hand crank is neat. If I could just pay $600 for an eee that could take variable power source and had the OLPC's sun viewable I'd totally do it (
Its called a DC-DC converter. Its fairly simple and cheap to build(1 IC, an inductor and a FET are the major components), and if you put a step-down after a step-up you can build a high current system that will take anything between 6V and 28V and provide the correct output for any laptop. I run my laptop off such a system without problems. Efficiency is above 80%. Just make sure the supply can provide sufficient current. Sealed Pb-Acid batteries work well.
The sunlight readable screen is just a bit harder though..I had an idea about replacing the white paper behind the TFT matrix with a mirror, but I think it would distort the colours.
4? Oh yeah, that's right - the religious folks have only really bothered to keep around the gospels that suited their purpose. There were dozens of gospels, all from roughly the same era and time. Funny how only certain select ones are accepted.
These are chosen based on historical evidence and agreement with the old testament. A lot of people tried (and still do) to "poison" Christianity with fake/dodgy stuff. It was rejected. Paul's work(for example) made it in because he was an OT scholar. Whatever else you may say about it, if you study it, Christianity is self consistent.
Ummm... Way to quote the bible out of context. I really hate it when people quote 1 verse as proof of x, y or z crackpot theory they have.
Get back to me when you've read the rest of that mathew passage, the passage in acts that deals with clean and unclean meat (that I can't be bothered to find for a Christianity bashing Karma whore/troll, and look at the context and greek word for "hate" in your Luke 24 passage.
There are many things wrong with modern Christianity - especially (I'm sorry to say) the radical unballanced fundamentalists, but if you clearly don't know what you're talking about, please shut up.
Car-gin-ogen... Sounds like drunk driving... Imagine the hangover..
Seriously though, these substances are in small quantities in sealed plastic containers. I am not a material scientist, but I don't see the containers breaking/disintergrating easily, so whats the problem? Just need to look at safety in manufacturing. heck, even these "energy saver" bulbs are full of mercury which we know to be highly poisonous. And they break easily.
downloading music and sometimes even asserting that charging for music is somehow immoral - "Information wants to be free" type stuff.
Is it just me or is this a strawman argument. I've not often seen anyone seriously say "information wants to be free". Not that I wildly disagree with you though:If a man will not work, he shall not eat => if a man works he is entitled to a reasonable (ah, the sticky point) compensation for his work.
But can we stop putting words into peoples mouths? Oh... wait this is/. never mind.
Yes! I've got it. All we have to do is teach computers intuition which is how quite a few good players I know play. [/sarcasm]
I suspect playing go well is related to creativity. Show me a program with creativity. Randomness doen't cut it, and you can't model a brain with a computer. Its not the "too complex" problem - it's the too different problem. Brains!=computers.
In Zimbabwe we call a trillion a "Tridza"... Until recently we didn't deal in figures below 1 billion. Funny thing is ( I suppose we're not a technical country), we never used SI units. Just things like, "mill", "bill" and "wire"... Practically SI units for currency don't seem to make sense.
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Those who can't do, teach. I had a lecturer in mechanics who could only work in universities because some structure he designed collapsed and killed some people. Most places he wouldn't even get that job - but then this is Africa.
I've had very few teachers/lecturers with a genuine interest in the students. The point is, most are there because there is nowhere else to go or nothing else to do with all those letters after their name.
As I said this is Africa, and a failed state at that. YMMV.
I can see the point you're trying to mske, but I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'm not sure if you ever saw my point.
Have fun.
Yes, I know its different in some ways, but both are cases of potential. A potential human being is an unknown - may be a benefit or a drain on society. Since you don't have that knowledge, what arrogant illusion gives you the right to judge? Any judgement made without facts is most likely made in error.
Your reason for locking up the killer is the damage to society. My reason for saving the potential humans is the possible benefit to society. Not apples and oranges - more like two sides of the same coin. If you are justified in locking up a potential murderer, then you are justified in protecting a potential human being. But perhaps you can't see that?
I see what you're saying, but I am pointing out to you that if we can't ignore that someone potentially could have killed, how can any reasonable person ignore the fact that a group of cells, which if left as is(with the mother) will(almost certainly) become sentient? I see no way of making my point clearer. We simply can not ignore the potential. In both cases someone's potential at life is removed. Think about it.
No offence, but to be honest your whole argument sounds to me like a way to dodge through a loop-hole. Sometimes the spirit of the law is more important than the letter.
To you, yes. To me its all but the same. I doubt I can change your mind, but may I just ask, how does a blade of grass have the potential for sentience?(Within reason that is)
Nice try dodging the argument though. :)
That would depend on the circumstances, I suppose. If it was due to negligence or trauma the mother suffered suffered as a result of abuse then it sounds like manslaughter to me - if not actual murder. For all I know, it may legally be that way already. Otherwise I'd say its just like cancer related death. Unfortunate, unavoidable and no one's fault.
Disclaimer: IANAL.
Its a matter of potential; If I attempt to kill you, but fail, I am prosecuted for attempted murder. I'm locked up because I potentially would have killed you. Why, then is it such a big jump to say that a bunch of cells has the potential for life and when destroyed this, while not as bad as actual murder is at least as bad as attempted murder?
Please don't carry this argument too far; I am not catholic and have no problem with contraception. For obvious reasons contraception is a different story to abortion.
No. Prioritize by ASL. A smart tracker would get a BGP feed...
There fixed it for you...
Seriously though, I'm not that clued up on network acronyms. I know I'll be told to google it, but why can't we just type the whole set of words out? It's not that hard is it?
Try Jettico personal firewall - it has caught all of viruses trying to get on my laptop. After a year using jettico under Win2000(with no virus scanner or updates), I pulled the hard disk out and did a virus check on another machine using an up to date copy of AVG. No viruses. That laptop had been in so many public infested networks and on the net for ages.
The downside is it is extremely anoying - it asks you about everything at least once, and you have to make intelligent decisions.
Its easier to ask for permission than forgiveness...?
I don't know, do NASA really need more than 2kbs right now? You normally design for what you need. It would be more expensive, yes, but it would be needed in order to send scientific data back - everyone says this will be a one way trip.
Some form of QPSK modulation to overcome the noise and weak signal, a clever protocol that breaks everythin into blocks sends all the blocks at once and only failed blockd are re-requested and a system of satellites. I reckon it could be done. Only problem is mentioned by your sibling poster.
Why waste weight on movie/video games? Admittedly a link to Mars would be very low bandwidth, but if it's always on, why not just use any excess bandwidth on the link to send stuff to mars. A suitable high latency tolerant protocol probably already exists. And if you had spectrum to spare, the bandwidth could be increased. That being said, flash memory is quite compact/light.
If you're a kid, it may be a usable computer, but I'd advise against getting one for personal use. The sun screen is incredibly awesome and the hand crank is neat. If I could just pay $600 for an eee that could take variable power source and had the OLPC's sun viewable I'd totally do it (
Its called a DC-DC converter. Its fairly simple and cheap to build(1 IC, an inductor and a FET are the major components), and if you put a step-down after a step-up you can build a high current system that will take anything between 6V and 28V and provide the correct output for any laptop. I run my laptop off such a system without problems. Efficiency is above 80%. Just make sure the supply can provide sufficient current. Sealed Pb-Acid batteries work well.
The sunlight readable screen is just a bit harder though..I had an idea about replacing the white paper behind the TFT matrix with a mirror, but I think it would distort the colours.
uhhh... whoosh? But GP may not have realised what (s)he posted was a joke.
Agreed, everyone except for nVidia and maybe Matrox (side note: what a shitty company) is opening their specs.
And SIS.
The possibilities are: a) Vengeance b) Deterrence for the general public c) Deterrence for the individual
What about protection of society from dangerous criminals by removing their opotunity to commit another similar crime? What about rehabilitation?
If it's only about punishment and deterrence, then your legal system is really messed up. Think about it.
4? Oh yeah, that's right - the religious folks have only really bothered to keep around the gospels that suited their purpose. There were dozens of gospels, all from roughly the same era and time. Funny how only certain select ones are accepted.
These are chosen based on historical evidence and agreement with the old testament. A lot of people tried (and still do) to "poison" Christianity with fake/dodgy stuff. It was rejected. Paul's work(for example) made it in because he was an OT scholar. Whatever else you may say about it, if you study it, Christianity is self consistent.
Ummm... Way to quote the bible out of context. I really hate it when people quote 1 verse as proof of x, y or z crackpot theory they have.
Get back to me when you've read the rest of that mathew passage, the passage in acts that deals with clean and unclean meat (that I can't be bothered to find for a Christianity bashing Karma whore/troll, and look at the context and greek word for "hate" in your Luke 24 passage.
There are many things wrong with modern Christianity - especially (I'm sorry to say) the radical unballanced fundamentalists, but if you clearly don't know what you're talking about, please shut up.
Car-gin-ogen... Sounds like drunk driving... Imagine the hangover..
Seriously though, these substances are in small quantities in sealed plastic containers. I am not a material scientist, but I don't see the containers breaking/disintergrating easily, so whats the problem? Just need to look at safety in manufacturing. heck, even these "energy saver" bulbs are full of mercury which we know to be highly poisonous. And they break easily.
downloading music and sometimes even asserting that charging for music is somehow immoral - "Information wants to be free" type stuff.
Is it just me or is this a strawman argument. I've not often seen anyone seriously say "information wants to be free". Not that I wildly disagree with you though:If a man will not work, he shall not eat => if a man works he is entitled to a reasonable (ah, the sticky point) compensation for his work.
But can we stop putting words into peoples mouths? Oh... wait this is /. never mind.
while pirating some band's entire discography in a 250MB RAR file?
Which band...? I'm really curious even if you meant GB. Maybe RAR compression is really that good? :-D
Yes! I've got it. All we have to do is teach computers intuition which is how quite a few good players I know play. [/sarcasm]
I suspect playing go well is related to creativity. Show me a program with creativity. Randomness doen't cut it, and you can't model a brain with a computer. Its not the "too complex" problem - it's the too different problem. Brains!=computers.
Don't forget about hard hacks and hard hackers... They're fun, a challenge and (mostly) even legal... :-)
Don't forget all the hard hacks too. They're fun, a challenge and (mostly) even legal.
Signed
An Electronic Eng Student
In Zimbabwe we call a trillion a "Tridza"... Until recently we didn't deal in figures below 1 billion. Funny thing is ( I suppose we're not a technical country), we never used SI units. Just things like, "mill", "bill" and "wire"... Practically SI units for currency don't seem to make sense.