First, if they have anything like "a pervasive machine intelligence", then their technical development would be VASTLY beyond ours. We are not even remotely close to anything like that.
When you take into account the speed up of technology, and the way we are able to build off the previous generation of technology to help us with creating the new version, you might realise that we are probably not nearly as far out as you think(perhaps that should be "as you hope"). From the lowest estimates from the likes of Kurzweil at about 10-20 years to the highest estimates of slightly less optimistic thinkers at only about a hundred years, it is likely to come fairly soon.
Doesn't quite work like that. The DS has such a significantly different architecture that even though they use an ARM, everything will have to be emulated(with some dynamic recompilation) anyway.
I'd join you. I've been waiting to be stop-and-searched so that I can refuse and be arrested.
(that's legal here, you can be arrested for refusing to submit to a random search, as long as it's a random search for "terrorist" materials)
Sure, people may be living by the fundamentals of capitalism (maximising their own gain) but I don't think the system was ever intended to include an all powerful thief who steals money and then redistributes it to some people arbitrarily, keeping a big chunk for himself as payment for his wonderful services.
I think it just hit a bit too close to reality to be honest. They've done very similar things with animals, as a sibling post said(cockroaches). And in humans, similar things have been done for remote control: Remote-controlled humans.
That's why it's not actually that obvious that you were joking.
The problem is that while network bandwidth does not follow an exponential increase in bitrate over time, disc format capacity does. So this would suggest that the gap between online delivery and physical media is going to get larger, not smaller.
Now that's not true. I've only been online about 10 years and i can actually notice the exponential increase, something like this:
OK. this is the Argus II. Which means the MEA (microelectrode array) has only 60 electrodes. Call it 64 to make it easy. Take a picture from a camera. convert it to greyscale. Shrink it down to 8x8. Then expand it to fill your entire field of vision. (use a good enough editor- one that will do smoothing between pixels as you scale it up).
That should give you a rough idea of how much data is actually available, and also why they don't want to show a picture- people wouldn't be impressed. But to me, this is exciting.
just so that those slashdotters who didn't RTFA(i.e. everyone except those who read it earlier today off BBC's news feed) don't get confused, the parent post is a lie.
They attached a microelectrode array to the retina of his eye, which stimulates based on a black and white visual input from a camera attached to some glasses.
Websites are dynamic and can change, and I recall a case some years ago where a large sponsor dropped their support for a company because a link dried up and got replaced with a porn site or similar.
Now, are you sure want to make it law, so you have the potential to face jail time if a link on your site changes? And you may say what you want about common sense and everything but if the law is there then it is open to abuse.
I don't think he means the bios itself. most likely the bios settings, which can normally be wiped by removing the battery for a while. that will cause the computer to most likely forget about the hard drive and not boot. So instructions should be included for how to set that up.
I'm actually in the UK. yes, I think the US system is shitty, but a truly unregulated free market system would be best. the U.S. by no means has a free market(in the libertarian totally unregulated sense rather than the economic perfect-information-and-competition sense), especially not in the medical industry.
do you actually live here in the UK? the national insurance system is for Jobseeker's Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, a Widows Pension, Maternity Allowance and the Retirement Pension (ref). not for healthcare. The NHS comes out of taxes and is not at all optional.
Since you said that, I take it that if the government didn't force you to give your money towards health care, then you'd be willing to give some of it up voluntarily to a charity that deals with health care for the poor, or your local hospital?
yes: what makes you think others don't feel the same? Or are you superior to everyone else?
no: then you are a hypocrite, using authority to force people to do what you want when you wouldn't even do it yourself.
I type chinese with pinyin- you type the pinyin phonetic without any tones, and then use numbers to select the correct character. It's fairly slow for me(I'm learning chinese), but seems to work pretty well for natives who have got used to it.
but among nerds in the know, he's widely regarded as a shameless self-promoter, all-round media-tart and frankly, a bit of a joke.
Also known among his students, where his lecture slides invariably contain a picture of him, and every couple of weeks he's somewhere in the department with a camera crew, doing an interview about his several years old "research" of putting a chip in his arm and classifying the signals to move a robotic hand.
And what if you are still on FF version 2 because you don't like some of the 'features' introduced in FF version 3? I'm looking at you, 'Awesome Bar'.
There was a lot of resistance to the awesome bar, and I thought it was a stupid idea at first, but honestly, give it a week and you'll get used to it and wish it was there when you're forced to use other browsers.
I don't think you understand.. (very simply,) the protection comes from a list that gets downloaded from google... google are discontinuing this in favour of a more modern format, so your "protection" is(will be) useless anyway. Updating your v2.x will just remove the feature from the browser itself, hopefully pushing more people to upgrade to the 3.x release, because now they will no longer have the perceived protection that in fact no longer works.
This requires some careful balancing of various interests.
Not at all... let it happen. High street shops go under, at first this means less high street shops. But that causes prices for renting high street shops to go down until it becomes profitable again, the shops come back and prices work out to be where they should be without "careful balancing".
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sounds pretty useful to me, personally.
First, if they have anything like "a pervasive machine intelligence", then their technical development would be VASTLY beyond ours. We are not even remotely close to anything like that.
When you take into account the speed up of technology, and the way we are able to build off the previous generation of technology to help us with creating the new version, you might realise that we are probably not nearly as far out as you think(perhaps that should be "as you hope"). From the lowest estimates from the likes of Kurzweil at about 10-20 years to the highest estimates of slightly less optimistic thinkers at only about a hundred years, it is likely to come fairly soon.
What does magenta look like? Its always transparent to me.
Doesn't quite work like that. The DS has such a significantly different architecture that even though they use an ARM, everything will have to be emulated(with some dynamic recompilation) anyway.
You need to get a patent on that idea quick!
I'd join you. I've been waiting to be stop-and-searched so that I can refuse and be arrested.
(that's legal here, you can be arrested for refusing to submit to a random search, as long as it's a random search for "terrorist" materials)
... Gary McKinnon?
Sure, people may be living by the fundamentals of capitalism (maximising their own gain) but I don't think the system was ever intended to include an all powerful thief who steals money and then redistributes it to some people arbitrarily, keeping a big chunk for himself as payment for his wonderful services.
I think it just hit a bit too close to reality to be honest. They've done very similar things with animals, as a sibling post said(cockroaches). And in humans, similar things have been done for remote control: Remote-controlled humans.
That's why it's not actually that obvious that you were joking.
The problem is that while network bandwidth does not follow an exponential increase in bitrate over time, disc format capacity does. So this would suggest that the gap between online delivery and physical media is going to get larger, not smaller.
Now that's not true. I've only been online about 10 years and i can actually notice the exponential increase, something like this:
1999 56k
2003 256kbit
2004 512kbit
2005 1MBit
2006 2MBit
2007 4Mbit
2008 10MBit
At least, that's been my experience in the UK. Here's another diagram going from 1982(log scale, so it's exponential)
OK. this is the Argus II. Which means the MEA (microelectrode array) has only 60 electrodes. Call it 64 to make it easy. Take a picture from a camera. convert it to greyscale. Shrink it down to 8x8. Then expand it to fill your entire field of vision. (use a good enough editor- one that will do smoothing between pixels as you scale it up).
That should give you a rough idea of how much data is actually available, and also why they don't want to show a picture- people wouldn't be impressed. But to me, this is exciting.
just so that those slashdotters who didn't RTFA(i.e. everyone except those who read it earlier today off BBC's news feed) don't get confused, the parent post is a lie.
They attached a microelectrode array to the retina of his eye, which stimulates based on a black and white visual input from a camera attached to some glasses.
There has certainly been some precedent for this.
Websites are dynamic and can change, and I recall a case some years ago where a large sponsor dropped their support for a company because a link dried up and got replaced with a porn site or similar.
Now, are you sure want to make it law, so you have the potential to face jail time if a link on your site changes? And you may say what you want about common sense and everything but if the law is there then it is open to abuse.
This looked awesome until I watched the video, then it looked pretty shoddy. There've been some much better snake robots.
I don't think he means the bios itself. most likely the bios settings, which can normally be wiped by removing the battery for a while. that will cause the computer to most likely forget about the hard drive and not boot. So instructions should be included for how to set that up.
I'm actually in the UK. yes, I think the US system is shitty, but a truly unregulated free market system would be best. the U.S. by no means has a free market(in the libertarian totally unregulated sense rather than the economic perfect-information-and-competition sense), especially not in the medical industry.
do you actually live here in the UK? the national insurance system is for Jobseeker's Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, a Widows Pension, Maternity Allowance and the Retirement Pension (ref). not for healthcare. The NHS comes out of taxes and is not at all optional.
Since you said that, I take it that if the government didn't force you to give your money towards health care, then you'd be willing to give some of it up voluntarily to a charity that deals with health care for the poor, or your local hospital?
yes: what makes you think others don't feel the same? Or are you superior to everyone else?
no: then you are a hypocrite, using authority to force people to do what you want when you wouldn't even do it yourself.
oh you pay for it. and if you don't go to the doctor much, you probably pay more for it than you would if it was private.
I type chinese with pinyin- you type the pinyin phonetic without any tones, and then use numbers to select the correct character. It's fairly slow for me(I'm learning chinese), but seems to work pretty well for natives who have got used to it.
but among nerds in the know, he's widely regarded as a shameless self-promoter, all-round media-tart and frankly, a bit of a joke.
Also known among his students, where his lecture slides invariably contain a picture of him, and every couple of weeks he's somewhere in the department with a camera crew, doing an interview about his several years old "research" of putting a chip in his arm and classifying the signals to move a robotic hand.
but we changed the terms last week... it's ok, we don't have to tell you.. it's in the terms
And what if you are still on FF version 2 because you don't like some of the 'features' introduced in FF version 3? I'm looking at you, 'Awesome Bar'.
There was a lot of resistance to the awesome bar, and I thought it was a stupid idea at first, but honestly, give it a week and you'll get used to it and wish it was there when you're forced to use other browsers.
I don't think you understand.. (very simply,) the protection comes from a list that gets downloaded from google... google are discontinuing this in favour of a more modern format, so your "protection" is(will be) useless anyway. Updating your v2.x will just remove the feature from the browser itself, hopefully pushing more people to upgrade to the 3.x release, because now they will no longer have the perceived protection that in fact no longer works.
This requires some careful balancing of various interests.
Not at all... let it happen. High street shops go under, at first this means less high street shops. But that causes prices for renting high street shops to go down until it becomes profitable again, the shops come back and prices work out to be where they should be without "careful balancing".