We in Australia are doing something about it with a carbon tax, hopefully our ways will spread to other countries! We even have a global emissions trading scheme about to start where a company can use green power in other countries and get accredited for it, which should also help push for global change.
I was tasked with getting a multi-user database and customized front-end up and running by the time the field staff were ready in a couple weeks. I ended up having to patch and fix it as it was being used for weeks before requesting that I then start on another one.
In their almighty wisdom they thought I wasn't doing as great a job and replaced me with some kid straight out of university who had never programmed in his life. The entire data team crashed, stopped accepting data and had a huge backlog, cost tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity and project holdups. It was my state government btw and it taught me that my imagination is lacking when it comes to government waste and abuse.
Yep, sounds like you got it. See I wonder about that question a fair bit as well, especially being someone who'd jump at the chance to assimilate. How much could I replace/upgrade before the death of my self? I wouldn't even know if it happened (err, being on the death is the ultimate end outlook of life) which means I shouldn't waste my time on concerning myself with such questions.
I only see the issue with the brain btw, you could teleport everything but my brain and I'll be comfortable, I see the body as a life support for my brain and self. I'm aiming to read the Enchiridion of Epictetus next as that was recommended to me recently, perhaps some breakthroughs await there!
So let's say a doctor puts you into an induced coma, freezes you, manually moves each of your cells individually across the room, then reassembles them while preserving all connectivity between cells. They then thaw you out and restart your heart. Are you the same person?
Sure, still the same person.
What if, instead of moving each cell across the room, the cells were transported to another location via a hypothetical teleporter - and a doctor at the other end re-assembled you according to the same process. Would you then be the same person? What is the real difference between the two methods of re-assembly?
The real difference is that, from what I'm aware of, the use of quantum entanglement for teleportation results in the information being transferred and the physical cell material being destroyed. Or is this not correct?
Final scenario. You slide one meter to the right on a rolling office chair. All your cells have been translated in one spatial axis by one meter. Are you still the same person? How can you be sure?
Again, same person. But you can't be entirely sure, which is a good thing as the worst fate of the future would be running out of unanswered questions.
huh actually have actually pondered that sleeping scenario. I guess the main worry for me is that the cells are all being copied at once, whereas it takes years to replace every cell through ageing. Perhaps as more understanding of the quantum world comes to light it'll provide me with some relief.
I doubt the energy required to grow brainless clones would be as cost effective as printing the organ's protein structures and using pluripotent stemcells to grow your own replacement on demand. Plus we'll have that technology decades earlier than human cloning's 50 years!
I would never ever step into a teleport, the physics of them means it's a new copy and the original is destroyed in the process. I am really curious though as to how many would use them knowing this? To be it's an instant death machine, I cease to be and the clone continues on until he takes a teleporter.
You do realize that Nvidia offering a 6 fold increase is because it isn't anywhere near up to par with comparable hardware on the market? But I too foresee the death of consoles, down to a niche like the custom built desktop.
I've never coded an FPS though but can imagine it would involve more use of raycasting (and a high precision) compared to that of an RTS, which I have one shipped game experience.
Code Hero is still in progress, the dude recently responded and mentioned a new alpha soon. But more importantly, why does Unity deserve a WTF?
I've coded my own 2d engines from scratch and dabbled in 3d in the early Direct X 5-6 days but for the past few years I've been using Unity. There's no sense in recreating the wheel every time, you are just wasting time coding the same logic again and again (how to load a file, read in a bitmap...), so exactly why do you think using a well planned and executed 3d engine toolkit isn't "doing" or programming?
I found Hawkings latest book on how the universe began very insightful. Looking at the creation of the universe as a quantum event which has the properties to allow self-creation via quantum fluctuations. No need for a deity!
I earn less than $30k a year, yet I can still comfortable afford to release my apps for free. Though prior to Apple's AppStore it was common for similar offerings to be at a snug 50% with restrictions on developer advertising. Similar to the good old Atari days from what I've read of them.
Happens every week or so in Australia, one store advertises then the next and so forth. Usually I pick up 2 $50 cards for $70, have never even considered buying them at face value.
I'm an indie developer going all the way back to the Macintosh System 6 days and I absolutely love the low cost of the AppStore. The reality is that Apple has helped bring sweeping changes and advances to the indie game and app markets. If you think it's so bad might I ask what you do for a living?
The article actually does state the fires are bad:
"Aside from clearing pristine forest and eliminating habitats for native species, the burning of such huge quantities of plant material pumps out massive amounts of carbon in to the atmosphere, and floods the soil with minerals and nutrients that are quickly washed away. It takes a long time for essential nutrients to be fixed in a rainforest, and releasing them all at once means pastures are viable for a few years before going totally bare."
Thanks! Your right as well, money is addictive and I do hope I don't fall into it's embrace. I think my greatest hope is that I'm a very logical person, family and friends comment on how the character of Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is based on me.
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Of course I did, the fact they thought someone who never programmed could pick it up within a week really highlights how incompetent they were.
We in Australia are doing something about it with a carbon tax, hopefully our ways will spread to other countries! We even have a global emissions trading scheme about to start where a company can use green power in other countries and get accredited for it, which should also help push for global change.
I was tasked with getting a multi-user database and customized front-end up and running by the time the field staff were ready in a couple weeks. I ended up having to patch and fix it as it was being used for weeks before requesting that I then start on another one.
In their almighty wisdom they thought I wasn't doing as great a job and replaced me with some kid straight out of university who had never programmed in his life. The entire data team crashed, stopped accepting data and had a huge backlog, cost tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity and project holdups. It was my state government btw and it taught me that my imagination is lacking when it comes to government waste and abuse.
Australian too, cool. Will check him out, thanks!
Yep, sounds like you got it. See I wonder about that question a fair bit as well, especially being someone who'd jump at the chance to assimilate. How much could I replace/upgrade before the death of my self? I wouldn't even know if it happened (err, being on the death is the ultimate end outlook of life) which means I shouldn't waste my time on concerning myself with such questions.
I only see the issue with the brain btw, you could teleport everything but my brain and I'll be comfortable, I see the body as a life support for my brain and self. I'm aiming to read the Enchiridion of Epictetus next as that was recommended to me recently, perhaps some breakthroughs await there!
So let's say a doctor puts you into an induced coma, freezes you, manually moves each of your cells individually across the room, then reassembles them while preserving all connectivity between cells. They then thaw you out and restart your heart. Are you the same person?
Sure, still the same person.
What if, instead of moving each cell across the room, the cells were transported to another location via a hypothetical teleporter - and a doctor at the other end re-assembled you according to the same process. Would you then be the same person? What is the real difference between the two methods of re-assembly?
The real difference is that, from what I'm aware of, the use of quantum entanglement for teleportation results in the information being transferred and the physical cell material being destroyed. Or is this not correct?
Final scenario. You slide one meter to the right on a rolling office chair. All your cells have been translated in one spatial axis by one meter. Are you still the same person? How can you be sure?
Again, same person. But you can't be entirely sure, which is a good thing as the worst fate of the future would be running out of unanswered questions.
huh actually have actually pondered that sleeping scenario. I guess the main worry for me is that the cells are all being copied at once, whereas it takes years to replace every cell through ageing. Perhaps as more understanding of the quantum world comes to light it'll provide me with some relief.
I doubt the energy required to grow brainless clones would be as cost effective as printing the organ's protein structures and using pluripotent stemcells to grow your own replacement on demand. Plus we'll have that technology decades earlier than human cloning's 50 years!
I would never ever step into a teleport, the physics of them means it's a new copy and the original is destroyed in the process. I am really curious though as to how many would use them knowing this? To be it's an instant death machine, I cease to be and the clone continues on until he takes a teleporter.
I'll have to check out that Trek reference.
Yeah they need to work on their dual-screen tablet interface!
/troll fail.
It's a nightmare on dual-screens, but I found windows key + C to be much easier :)
Psychopaths have empathy, it's just that they are capable of toggling it off and on at will when it bests suits them. http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5798/psychopaths-can-empathise-demand
You do realize that Nvidia offering a 6 fold increase is because it isn't anywhere near up to par with comparable hardware on the market? But I too foresee the death of consoles, down to a niche like the custom built desktop.
I've never coded an FPS though but can imagine it would involve more use of raycasting (and a high precision) compared to that of an RTS, which I have one shipped game experience.
More logic than any Earth based religion I meant. Since the laws themselves are, as you said, a "god".
True, but at least it's far more logical than an old white dude.
Code Hero is still in progress, the dude recently responded and mentioned a new alpha soon. But more importantly, why does Unity deserve a WTF?
I've coded my own 2d engines from scratch and dabbled in 3d in the early Direct X 5-6 days but for the past few years I've been using Unity. There's no sense in recreating the wheel every time, you are just wasting time coding the same logic again and again (how to load a file, read in a bitmap...), so exactly why do you think using a well planned and executed 3d engine toolkit isn't "doing" or programming?
I found Hawkings latest book on how the universe began very insightful. Looking at the creation of the universe as a quantum event which has the properties to allow self-creation via quantum fluctuations. No need for a deity!
I earn less than $30k a year, yet I can still comfortable afford to release my apps for free. Though prior to Apple's AppStore it was common for similar offerings to be at a snug 50% with restrictions on developer advertising. Similar to the good old Atari days from what I've read of them.
Happens every week or so in Australia, one store advertises then the next and so forth. Usually I pick up 2 $50 cards for $70, have never even considered buying them at face value.
I'm an indie developer going all the way back to the Macintosh System 6 days and I absolutely love the low cost of the AppStore. The reality is that Apple has helped bring sweeping changes and advances to the indie game and app markets. If you think it's so bad might I ask what you do for a living?
The article actually does state the fires are bad:
"Aside from clearing pristine forest and eliminating habitats for native species, the burning of such huge quantities of plant material pumps out massive amounts of carbon in to the atmosphere, and floods the soil with minerals and nutrients that are quickly washed away. It takes a long time for essential nutrients to be fixed in a rainforest, and releasing them all at once means pastures are viable for a few years before going totally bare."
I wasn't aware BitZtream was elected the representative for most of us...
Thanks! Your right as well, money is addictive and I do hope I don't fall into it's embrace. I think my greatest hope is that I'm a very logical person, family and friends comment on how the character of Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is based on me.
There'd be a lot more issues to deal with if tax rates went that high champ. Better get off your daddies computer now and let the grown ups talk.