How many acres of wheat do you need to keep yourself in flour for the year?
One acre can produce around half a ton of flour (26 bushels at 50 lbs each producing.85 lbs of flour per lb of wheat) so at the rate you went through flour you have 60 lbs per person per year. So one acre can produce enough for ~1000/60 = 16.6 people.
I should clarify that I when I say it appears sentient that appears so from an engineering standpoint as well and not just to the average person. By this I mean that an engineer should know whether the machine's behavior is the result of mimicking human behavior or if it from higher order thought. If the machine is capable of learning, growing and actually becoming self-aware that is fundamentally different than one that simply mimics as the result of a clear instruction set.
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You're never going to get a Turing computer to actually think, although some future chemical or something machine may.
Never say never:) It is hard to say whether an AI could ever accomplish thinking (or sentience) or not. It seems to be an emergent quality and I doubt whether it is chemical or electrical will matter much. And for the most part appearing sentient might as well be sentient. Outside of myself I can only assume others are sentient because they appear so and because we are genetically similar. There is not exactly a good standard or definition of what is or isn't sentient that doesn't depend on the bias of being human.
I didn't say it was right I just said it wasn't a hard argument to make. Of course it will probably come down to whether the consumer (whether that is considered the end user or DISH Network) is held to any contractual obligation not to alter content. Even then it would only affect pay-for TV as OTA has no contract to agree to.
We all knew this was coming. It is not a hard argument to make that skipping commercials is basically equivalent to pirating content. It makes little difference if you are stealing by not paying with dollars or stealing by not paying with ad views. Current copyright is simply awful. How in the world is a book like Caves of Steel $7.99 for an ebook. Written nearly 60 years ago. Somehow society at large is okay with this. Our only hope is that lawsuits like this will help to make people understand how ridiculous our current copyright law is.
The sun shines all day - when my car is in the underground car park - at work.
So home Solar and electric cars don't work together in any useful way.
Electric cars have a long way to go before they can replace combustion engines but your post doesn't really mean anything. The solar cells don't have to be on the car.
Contrary to your understanding, time didn't begin only 20 years ago. It's been going a lot longer than that. For example, I've heard it said there was once a "1950s".
By my recollection time started some time in the late 1970s. You can not prove to me that anything existed before this. I therefore demand that you teach my alternate theory of time starting somewhere between 1975-1980 alongside this '1950s theory' of yours.
What are you talking about I don't even read the summary half the time and skip straight to the comments. According to the comments the summary is bad.
A brand new, fresh install of Windows of any OS variation going to google.com will see a "get chrome" button.
The user will be using Internet Explorer because it was installed when Windows was. The home page will default to a Microsoft site like MSN or Bing then the user will have to navigate to Google (by actually typing something in), click on the Chrome is great button, download it and run it after accepting a warning that files from the internet my be dangerous. It is hard to argue Google has some kind of unfair advantage here. If people are actually clicking on what amounts to another ad it shows that they like Google.
More rambling by me
To go even further the Internet Explorer icon doesn't get removed. Changing the default browser doesn't have much of an effect since most people are likely to get online by open the browser directly. Hmmm, I wonder how many people download Chrome and use it because it defaults to opening on Google's homepage. Given that most people don't know how to change their homepage I could see people opening Chrome just because they think it is a link straight to Google search and with IE they have to type it in each time.
It also helps that MS ties its browser to its own operating systems. As tablets and smart phones are used more and more to access the Internet and with so many of those devices running non MS operating systems, Internet Explorer market share will continue to fall. Four short years ago Windows had 95% market share. For 2012 it is at 85%.
The real danger for MS is that as more and more people become familiar with other operating systems like iOS and android they will eventually become more comfortable with the idea of a non-MS pc. If I were MS I would segregate my products and let each compete on its own on any OS.
Even for businesses, there is a move to web apps and making sure they work on iOS and android so there is becoming less and less need for Windows (there are still a lot of businesses that need Windows but the trend is clear).
by not living here, he's not enjoying (from a legal sense) the privileges and protections that go along with citizenship, so why should he subsidize those things?
Perhaps not that specifically but since DARPA created the internet it would be hard to argue that he hasn't reaped a great many benefits from what taxes have funded.
As long as you don't mind making up the difference. Sure government should be smaller and we should be spending way less but if you justify others dodging taxes just remember you or your grandchildren will have to make up the difference.
I know he mentioned sales tax but at least for income tax you are supposed to pay tax on the fair market value. But yeah, who in there right mind would do that. Bartering has value, it's just that a currency representing that value was not exchanged. Currency doesn't have value, it just represents it.
If a friend lends me money to buy a car, he cant go too the dealership and demand they hold the title until I pay him back
If a bank lends you money to buy a car they most certainly hold the title until you pay them back(even in states where you hold the title the back is still the lien holder. They are basically putting a lien on your transcript that they loaned you money to get. One could argue that holding your transcript prevents you from making money to pay them back. However that would not stop a creditor from taking back oven a restaurant buys on credit if they default.
So I think we are left with the argument that a loan for something entitles the debtor to some period of possession. In all cases of secured loans (after all they will make the argument that your transcript secures their loan) the debtor typically has possession of the product before it's taken back.
I don't like the idea of treating a transcript like collateral but I can see the argument being made and won for it. Of course if I were a banker I would like the idea of transcripts backing up student loan debt. I would then bundle them up and sell them to other banks with the assurance the transcripts are worth $100,000 because that's what I valued them at when I gave the loan. And people signed up for the loans so they are obviously worth that much. So the loans are secured and we're all gonna be rich.
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If the military publishes it, let 'em try and sue. How do you sue the Pentagon?
Ask them
Where did he say $1 was worth the same in living standards?
I can't tell if this is a talented troll or a clueless shill.
How many acres of wheat do you need to keep yourself in flour for the year?
One acre can produce around half a ton of flour (26 bushels at 50 lbs each producing .85 lbs of flour per lb of wheat) so at the rate you went through flour you have 60 lbs per person per year. So one acre can produce enough for ~1000/60 = 16.6 people.
I should clarify that I when I say it appears sentient that appears so from an engineering standpoint as well and not just to the average person. By this I mean that an engineer should know whether the machine's behavior is the result of mimicking human behavior or if it from higher order thought. If the machine is capable of learning, growing and actually becoming self-aware that is fundamentally different than one that simply mimics as the result of a clear instruction set.
You're never going to get a Turing computer to actually think, although some future chemical or something machine may.
Never say never :) It is hard to say whether an AI could ever accomplish thinking (or sentience) or not. It seems to be an emergent quality and I doubt whether it is chemical or electrical will matter much. And for the most part appearing sentient might as well be sentient. Outside of myself I can only assume others are sentient because they appear so and because we are genetically similar. There is not exactly a good standard or definition of what is or isn't sentient that doesn't depend on the bias of being human.
I didn't say it was right I just said it wasn't a hard argument to make. Of course it will probably come down to whether the consumer (whether that is considered the end user or DISH Network) is held to any contractual obligation not to alter content. Even then it would only affect pay-for TV as OTA has no contract to agree to.
We all knew this was coming. It is not a hard argument to make that skipping commercials is basically equivalent to pirating content. It makes little difference if you are stealing by not paying with dollars or stealing by not paying with ad views. Current copyright is simply awful. How in the world is a book like Caves of Steel $7.99 for an ebook. Written nearly 60 years ago. Somehow society at large is okay with this. Our only hope is that lawsuits like this will help to make people understand how ridiculous our current copyright law is.
The sun shines all day - when my car is in the underground car park - at work.
So home Solar and electric cars don't work together in any useful way.
Electric cars have a long way to go before they can replace combustion engines but your post doesn't really mean anything. The solar cells don't have to be on the car.
For your convenience Windows vastly out numbers other operating systems either by market share or by usage.
Sourced from first hits (at least for me) on searches for operating system market share and operating system by usage respectively.
Contrary to your understanding, time didn't begin only 20 years ago. It's been going a lot longer than that. For example, I've heard it said there was once a "1950s".
By my recollection time started some time in the late 1970s. You can not prove to me that anything existed before this. I therefore demand that you teach my alternate theory of time starting somewhere between 1975-1980 alongside this '1950s theory' of yours.
What are you talking about I don't even read the summary half the time and skip straight to the comments. According to the comments the summary is bad.
It's probably how many people know what pirating means. Copying or downloading software you would normally pay for... oh that's what that's called. :)
A brand new, fresh install of Windows of any OS variation going to google.com will see a "get chrome" button.
The user will be using Internet Explorer because it was installed when Windows was. The home page will default to a Microsoft site like MSN or Bing then the user will have to navigate to Google (by actually typing something in), click on the Chrome is great button, download it and run it after accepting a warning that files from the internet my be dangerous. It is hard to argue Google has some kind of unfair advantage here. If people are actually clicking on what amounts to another ad it shows that they like Google.
More rambling by me To go even further the Internet Explorer icon doesn't get removed. Changing the default browser doesn't have much of an effect since most people are likely to get online by open the browser directly. Hmmm, I wonder how many people download Chrome and use it because it defaults to opening on Google's homepage. Given that most people don't know how to change their homepage I could see people opening Chrome just because they think it is a link straight to Google search and with IE they have to type it in each time.
It also helps that MS ties its browser to its own operating systems. As tablets and smart phones are used more and more to access the Internet and with so many of those devices running non MS operating systems, Internet Explorer market share will continue to fall. Four short years ago Windows had 95% market share. For 2012 it is at 85%.
The real danger for MS is that as more and more people become familiar with other operating systems like iOS and android they will eventually become more comfortable with the idea of a non-MS pc. If I were MS I would segregate my products and let each compete on its own on any OS. Even for businesses, there is a move to web apps and making sure they work on iOS and android so there is becoming less and less need for Windows (there are still a lot of businesses that need Windows but the trend is clear).
by not living here, he's not enjoying (from a legal sense) the privileges and protections that go along with citizenship, so why should he subsidize those things?
Perhaps not that specifically but since DARPA created the internet it would be hard to argue that he hasn't reaped a great many benefits from what taxes have funded.
As long as you don't mind making up the difference. Sure government should be smaller and we should be spending way less but if you justify others dodging taxes just remember you or your grandchildren will have to make up the difference.
You mean it wasn't answered here?
"Groupthink" isn't a buzzword.
That's just the current Groupthink. I the individual think it is. ~
I was thinking the same thing. I guess one man's regress is another's progress.
Look how far the word dashboard has come.
I know he mentioned sales tax but at least for income tax you are supposed to pay tax on the fair market value. But yeah, who in there right mind would do that. Bartering has value, it's just that a currency representing that value was not exchanged. Currency doesn't have value, it just represents it.
I was just going off the debt clock page. It list $692k per family for debt, so not sure what else adds up to make that.
I flag and report them. Don't know if it will help. I click the flag in the lower right. If anyone knows a better way...
If a friend lends me money to buy a car, he cant go too the dealership and demand they hold the title until I pay him back
If a bank lends you money to buy a car they most certainly hold the title until you pay them back(even in states where you hold the title the back is still the lien holder. They are basically putting a lien on your transcript that they loaned you money to get. One could argue that holding your transcript prevents you from making money to pay them back. However that would not stop a creditor from taking back oven a restaurant buys on credit if they default.
So I think we are left with the argument that a loan for something entitles the debtor to some period of possession. In all cases of secured loans (after all they will make the argument that your transcript secures their loan) the debtor typically has possession of the product before it's taken back.
I don't like the idea of treating a transcript like collateral but I can see the argument being made and won for it. Of course if I were a banker I would like the idea of transcripts backing up student loan debt. I would then bundle them up and sell them to other banks with the assurance the transcripts are worth $100,000 because that's what I valued them at when I gave the loan. And people signed up for the loans so they are obviously worth that much. So the loans are secured and we're all gonna be rich.