Consciousness is clearly a continuum. As a very small child, you have no context to place all the sensory data into, and this restricts what you can do. It's interesting to read about people with hyperthymedia, also known as autobiographical memory, because many of them have clear memories from before the age of 1 year old.
Yup. My first memory as a child is some time before I was one. I toilet trained very early. I also contracted some sort of illness and spent a day or two in the hospital. While my mother told the nurses that I was trained, the nurses insisted that no kid that young could be toilet trained. So they put me in a diaper. Which pissed me off royally.
So at some point during the day, I had to whizz. Now we get to the part of my memory. I recall looking out the window from the crib I was in, and removing my diaper, pointing old willy out over the crib, then letting loose. The nurse walks in the room, and laughs. Then she says "Your Mommy was right."
I have many memories from an early age. I just like this one best because it illustrates my sparkling personality to folks.
I can make a cat chase a laser dot around the room endlessly.
When I waggled a laser dot infront of my infant, he identified me as the source of the phenomenon after about 2 seconds, gave up on the dot and came for the emitter itself.
You are confusing the activity with the thought process. Our cats identified the source of the light pretty quickly, but continued to play.
This probably had a lot to do with the fact that other than playing with the dot, the cat doesn't have much use for the laser.
Over time, and watching and associating with all manner of animals, that there is a consciousness of sorts going on. It isn't necessarily the same sort of self awareness that humans have, but then again, believing that only the human sort of self awareness counts is one hellava conceit. But spend some time with an orangutan, and you might be seriously spooked. Even when an African Gray parrot asked a question "What color am I?" which was completely untaught, or of course the signing apes - you get some insight that saying they just somehow exist, without knowing or thinking, is something approximating bullshit.
It's okay to upgrade. Just pray you were not one of the beta testers who 'upgraded' a drive that was not well backed up.
And if you are doing that without taking the drop-dead-simple step of making a Time Machine backup first, you deserve just EXACTLY what you get, sorry!
Be nice. Windows users don't even know what Time Machine does.
The Internet was once a fun place, it had it's share of kooks, but today's Internet is data collection, business, and crime.
Any of these groups will kill all of us before releasing their death grip on us. The late 1990's early 2000's internet is dead, and will never be revived.
However, she had copied the presentation way deep into the filesystem hierarchy, something like C:\Users\Guest\Department\Documents\Conference\Presentations\Saturday\ blah blah blah.
I remembered in the back of my mind something about paths in Windows being limited to 255 characters or thereabouts, so I copied the whole presentation and source videos up to C:\Users\Guest\Desktop and the videos played fine.
Sometimes things don't even have to be converted to fail...
I call these "Stupid Windows tricks" and assign a big number to them. All manner of amazing things, like people not finishing a CD, which you can't do anything about, to the pretend long filenames they had. Using weird fonts that are only on their machine, Microsoft getting ito a bitchfight with a popular codec provider, so they removed the codec, and left you high and dry.
This can happen even if you pre-flight the things. We had a dry run once the evening before a big meeting and everything worked. Our IT department pushed an update in the middle of the night, and the next morning no one's video worked. Of course, the IT department only checked if Office Word and Excel opened. The only cure we ever came up with was for me to use my own special case laptop, which was independent of the local network, and not updated until I said it was.
(((Michael Arnstein)))
(((Jeweler)))
Why does this stereotype write itself?
Some races criminals are prodominantly petty crime while others are white collar crime. A few have an even mix of both.
Any "race" can have criminals.
As for the stereotype you are whining about, you need to go and study some european history to see why it is traditional for people of the Jewish persuasion to be working in the jewelry and financial sectors. At one time that was the only careers they were allowed to have.
Hint - its another dumbass thing in the holy babble about who is allowed to make loans to who.
Who said there was a problem? It's more of an "amazement at the stupidity of this guy" story.
Slashdot is full of people who know exactly what should or shouldn't be slashstories. Of course, they tend to want only stories they are personally interested in.
There is still no proof of second hand cigarette smoke causing a single death (unsubstantiated unscientific claims but why should science matter?) but the freedom of choice brigade is there to tell you what to do in all public space. Now shut up and inhale this diesel exhaust. Bah!
Oh hell, the smoking fascists are on to 3rd hand smoke by now. People have to hate something, I guess.I suspect many of the people who believe this also believe in crystal resonances and astral projection.
Tobacco consumption is responsible for nearly 700,000 deaths in the EU every year. Smokers suffer more from poor health (as they are more at risk of cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases) and half of them die prematurely (14 years on average).
Entropy is _everything_ in passwords. Use lots of it.
Oh boy, it's she semi-monthly Slashdot Password thread.
Make certain you use 5 sets of random numbers, and all special characters, and a minimum length of 1200 characters with a new password generated every 5 minutes. And for gawd's sake, never write it down.
What I want is to make phone calls where the other person can hear me and vice versa, and use a few hundred megabytes of tethering per month without paying an arm and a leg.
Project Fi gives me the latter but not the former...
Sorry, but the advertisers need those 50 GByte to tell you about their wonderful products and services.
I could get a data connection when I'm outside of a big city or major thoroughfare. Rural areas are still T-Mobile's weak zones, and it's something I wish they'd focus a bit more of their efforts on. It's well established that if you want full coverage everywhere, the only choice is Verizon, but if T-Mobile were to actively work on solidifying their coverage they could change that perception and really have some ground to stand on as a competitor.
Probably a feature the advertisers don't care about. Seems that most of that free data you are getting is just getting gobbled up by all of the important ads you are "served".
There is only one Office suite that works on all three, and is compatible between all three. And that is AO.
Or Office365. Microsoft, of all companies, has been the one to abstract their Office suite away from the OS and make it OS agnostic by putting it on the web.
Unless there has been a drastic change, opening up a PowerPoint that was composed on a Windows machine then on a Mac, gives fascinating results, and you would not want to wager a cup of coffee, much less your job on them looking like they did as originally composed.
The cause and effect could be backwards. Maybe the kids were already cheating, and adults mistakenly believed they were doing well because they were smart.
I dunno. The effects would jibe with th bad results of the Self Esteem movement in schools, where children are praised as special for anything they do, like looking toward the blackboard.
Disclaimer: Nobody ever told me I was smart.
Awwww Come on! Must.......resist........ obvious......sla....AGGHHHH!
Why would I stand on a dark corner talking on a payphone, all ripe for armed robbery?
Oh sheesh, you are kinda what we are warned against. Once upon a time, I would take off for an entire day without anyone knowing where I was. Now my wife and others expect to contact me immediately whenever and wherever I am. They freak if they cannot. And people shit themselves when that last signal strength bar goes away. This is the problem - addiction to the little things.
I like my smartphones. They are technology that is simply amazing. I use many of their features. But I can and do turn mine off when I don't feel like being bothered. I do any and all social media on a desktop, and walk around the world. But I'm not addicted to the smartphone like many people are. I think this is the point, and the unabomber positive cite simply alienates the people who could use the most help with their addiction.
The Unabomber was a fucking psychotic luddite. Live without the benefits of technology if you choose. Just don't bitch when everyone else doesn't stay in the 1990s with you.
Well, it is not a digital situation. There are times when the latest technology is just tremendous. There are other times that spending one's time on social media while at the Grand Canyon indicates that there is a problem.
Not, if you specifically promote thing you are not using. It's like macdolands CEO going to burger king,
I know this is Slashdot and all, but in the world where people venture out of Mom's basement, people do eat at other places than their own. And only a few obsessive compulsives restrict their food intake to only a few things. I had a co-worker who only ate mashed potatoes or French fries, corn, and Steak or Wendy's hamburgers. That's it. And he was considered weird. With using multiple Operating systems, I know how to use whatever operating system's presentation software. And which presentation software I use has no relationship to which OS I consider "best."
I was immediately reminded of Lee Iacocca taking charge of Chrysler. A lot of senior execs were driving BMWs, Mercedes, etc. Iacocca told them to get rid of them and get a Chrysler.
He said, if you don't like it, make a Chrysler that's the car you want to drive.
I use LibreOffice. Never had a problem with PowerPoint compatibility in either direction.
I used to say that.
Last April I was given a MS PPT to convert to LibreOffice. The bullets changed (and not in a good way), the font changed, all the indents changed, all the animations stopped working, and there were problems with some of the images.
I've had that happen from one Windows machine to another. Or Windows to MacOS. Or MacOS to Windows. Office is simply not compatible with anything - including itself. This is exactly why I insisted on the presentation running on a vetted laptop where the presentation was opened, saved, and all slides veerified if MO was used.
There is only one Office suite that works on all three, and is compatible between all three. And that is AO.
Slashdot Mirror
Consciousness is clearly a continuum. As a very small child, you have no context to place all the sensory data into, and this restricts what you can do. It's interesting to read about people with hyperthymedia, also known as autobiographical memory, because many of them have clear memories from before the age of 1 year old.
Yup. My first memory as a child is some time before I was one. I toilet trained very early. I also contracted some sort of illness and spent a day or two in the hospital. While my mother told the nurses that I was trained, the nurses insisted that no kid that young could be toilet trained. So they put me in a diaper. Which pissed me off royally.
So at some point during the day, I had to whizz. Now we get to the part of my memory. I recall looking out the window from the crib I was in, and removing my diaper, pointing old willy out over the crib, then letting loose. The nurse walks in the room, and laughs. Then she says "Your Mommy was right."
I have many memories from an early age. I just like this one best because it illustrates my sparkling personality to folks.
Are cats conscious?
I can make a cat chase a laser dot around the room endlessly.
When I waggled a laser dot infront of my infant, he identified me as the source of the phenomenon after about 2 seconds, gave up on the dot and came for the emitter itself.
You are confusing the activity with the thought process. Our cats identified the source of the light pretty quickly, but continued to play.
This probably had a lot to do with the fact that other than playing with the dot, the cat doesn't have much use for the laser.
Over time, and watching and associating with all manner of animals, that there is a consciousness of sorts going on. It isn't necessarily the same sort of self awareness that humans have, but then again, believing that only the human sort of self awareness counts is one hellava conceit. But spend some time with an orangutan, and you might be seriously spooked. Even when an African Gray parrot asked a question "What color am I?" which was completely untaught, or of course the signing apes - you get some insight that saying they just somehow exist, without knowing or thinking, is something approximating bullshit.
IMO, they are conscious.
Sorry, my response got eaten...
If Windows users don't know what Time Machine does, they shouldn't be commenting here.
The big question for me is why on earth isn't there a backup utility like Time Machine for Windows baked right into the OS?
It's okay to upgrade. Just pray you were not one of the beta testers who 'upgraded' a drive that was not well backed up.
And if you are doing that without taking the drop-dead-simple step of making a Time Machine backup first, you deserve just EXACTLY what you get, sorry!
Be nice. Windows users don't even know what Time Machine does.
The Internet was once a fun place, it had it's share of kooks, but today's Internet is data collection, business, and crime.
Any of these groups will kill all of us before releasing their death grip on us. The late 1990's early 2000's internet is dead, and will never be revived.
However, she had copied the presentation way deep into the filesystem hierarchy, something like C:\Users\Guest\Department\Documents\Conference\Presentations\Saturday\ blah blah blah.
I remembered in the back of my mind something about paths in Windows being limited to 255 characters or thereabouts, so I copied the whole presentation and source videos up to C:\Users\Guest\Desktop and the videos played fine.
Sometimes things don't even have to be converted to fail...
I call these "Stupid Windows tricks" and assign a big number to them. All manner of amazing things, like people not finishing a CD, which you can't do anything about, to the pretend long filenames they had. Using weird fonts that are only on their machine, Microsoft getting ito a bitchfight with a popular codec provider, so they removed the codec, and left you high and dry.
This can happen even if you pre-flight the things. We had a dry run once the evening before a big meeting and everything worked. Our IT department pushed an update in the middle of the night, and the next morning no one's video worked. Of course, the IT department only checked if Office Word and Excel opened. The only cure we ever came up with was for me to use my own special case laptop, which was independent of the local network, and not updated until I said it was.
My hatred of Microsoft is well earned.
(((Michael Arnstein))) (((Jeweler))) Why does this stereotype write itself?
Some races criminals are prodominantly petty crime while others are white collar crime. A few have an even mix of both.
Any "race" can have criminals.
As for the stereotype you are whining about, you need to go and study some european history to see why it is traditional for people of the Jewish persuasion to be working in the jewelry and financial sectors. At one time that was the only careers they were allowed to have.
Hint - its another dumbass thing in the holy babble about who is allowed to make loans to who.
Who said there was a problem? It's more of an "amazement at the stupidity of this guy" story.
Slashdot is full of people who know exactly what should or shouldn't be slashstories. Of course, they tend to want only stories they are personally interested in.
This is a fun story.
There is still no proof of second hand cigarette smoke causing a single death (unsubstantiated unscientific claims but why should science matter?) but the freedom of choice brigade is there to tell you what to do in all public space. Now shut up and inhale this diesel exhaust. Bah!
Oh hell, the smoking fascists are on to 3rd hand smoke by now. People have to hate something, I guess.I suspect many of the people who believe this also believe in crystal resonances and astral projection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And then you look at the following:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/...
That makes the diesel exhaust problem marginal.
I see, Well then following your logic, we shouldn't have any pollution controls on diesel engines because smokers.
Oh - wait - that's just rephrasing what you wrote. My bad.
That is all.
Entropy is _everything_ in passwords. Use lots of it.
Oh boy, it's she semi-monthly Slashdot Password thread.
Make certain you use 5 sets of random numbers, and all special characters, and a minimum length of 1200 characters with a new password generated every 5 minutes. And for gawd's sake, never write it down.
I don't want to use 50GB of mobile data a month.
What I want is to make phone calls where the other person can hear me and vice versa, and use a few hundred megabytes of tethering per month without paying an arm and a leg.
Project Fi gives me the latter but not the former...
Sorry, but the advertisers need those 50 GByte to tell you about their wonderful products and services.
I could get a data connection when I'm outside of a big city or major thoroughfare. Rural areas are still T-Mobile's weak zones, and it's something I wish they'd focus a bit more of their efforts on. It's well established that if you want full coverage everywhere, the only choice is Verizon, but if T-Mobile were to actively work on solidifying their coverage they could change that perception and really have some ground to stand on as a competitor.
Probably a feature the advertisers don't care about. Seems that most of that free data you are getting is just getting gobbled up by all of the important ads you are "served".
There is only one Office suite that works on all three, and is compatible between all three. And that is AO.
Or Office365. Microsoft, of all companies, has been the one to abstract their Office suite away from the OS and make it OS agnostic by putting it on the web.
Unless there has been a drastic change, opening up a PowerPoint that was composed on a Windows machine then on a Mac, gives fascinating results, and you would not want to wager a cup of coffee, much less your job on them looking like they did as originally composed.
This is argument form experience.
ISIS claimed responsibility for your credit report. ae911truth dot org
Hmm, must be paying the bills on time, tho...
Which naively wonderful little Disney planet do you live on where that doesn't happen?
Kolob
Do you say "Let Me Google That For You" or "Let Me Google.com That For You"?
I say do a search. Not everyone uses Google.
but Outlook is a PROGRAM that doesn't require Office 365's cloud service to function. It isn't having any issues. The cloud service is.
This wouldn't happen if the cloud service was in the cloud. There are no problems with the cloud.
Then in perfected USA fashion, fire the Janitor, and give the guilty a big bonus.
The cause and effect could be backwards. Maybe the kids were already cheating, and adults mistakenly believed they were doing well because they were smart.
I dunno. The effects would jibe with th bad results of the Self Esteem movement in schools, where children are praised as special for anything they do, like looking toward the blackboard.
Disclaimer: Nobody ever told me I was smart.
Awwww Come on! Must.......resist........ obvious......sla....AGGHHHH!
There is only one Office suite that works on all three, and is compatible between all three. And that is AO.
What is "AO?" Microsoft Office? (MO) Open Office? (OO) Libre Office? (LO) Some Other Office Suite? (SOOS)
Apache Office.
Why would I stand on a dark corner talking on a payphone, all ripe for armed robbery?
Oh sheesh, you are kinda what we are warned against. Once upon a time, I would take off for an entire day without anyone knowing where I was. Now my wife and others expect to contact me immediately whenever and wherever I am. They freak if they cannot. And people shit themselves when that last signal strength bar goes away. This is the problem - addiction to the little things.
I like my smartphones. They are technology that is simply amazing. I use many of their features. But I can and do turn mine off when I don't feel like being bothered. I do any and all social media on a desktop, and walk around the world. But I'm not addicted to the smartphone like many people are. I think this is the point, and the unabomber positive cite simply alienates the people who could use the most help with their addiction.
The Unabomber was a fucking psychotic luddite. Live without the benefits of technology if you choose. Just don't bitch when everyone else doesn't stay in the 1990s with you.
Well, it is not a digital situation. There are times when the latest technology is just tremendous. There are other times that spending one's time on social media while at the Grand Canyon indicates that there is a problem.
Not, if you specifically promote thing you are not using. It's like macdolands CEO going to burger king,
I know this is Slashdot and all, but in the world where people venture out of Mom's basement, people do eat at other places than their own. And only a few obsessive compulsives restrict their food intake to only a few things. I had a co-worker who only ate mashed potatoes or French fries, corn, and Steak or Wendy's hamburgers. That's it. And he was considered weird. With using multiple Operating systems, I know how to use whatever operating system's presentation software. And which presentation software I use has no relationship to which OS I consider "best."
I was immediately reminded of Lee Iacocca taking charge of Chrysler. A lot of senior execs were driving BMWs, Mercedes, etc. Iacocca told them to get rid of them and get a Chrysler.
He said, if you don't like it, make a Chrysler that's the car you want to drive.
Imagine going from a Mercedes to a K-Car!
I use LibreOffice. Never had a problem with PowerPoint compatibility in either direction.
I used to say that.
Last April I was given a MS PPT to convert to LibreOffice. The bullets changed (and not in a good way), the font changed, all the indents changed, all the animations stopped working, and there were problems with some of the images.
I've had that happen from one Windows machine to another. Or Windows to MacOS. Or MacOS to Windows. Office is simply not compatible with anything - including itself. This is exactly why I insisted on the presentation running on a vetted laptop where the presentation was opened, saved, and all slides veerified if MO was used.
There is only one Office suite that works on all three, and is compatible between all three. And that is AO.