I have 2 opinions that fall on both sides of this debate. Personally I do not see how they were not mentioned, as they are based completely in known facts. 1) If school was really all that stressful, such that you need months of free time to recover your sanity and physiological strength, then we should not be forcing children to spend 8 months at a time there.
2) You do want to create people who are able to function in society, you do not do so by locking them away from the world for the first 17 years of their lives.
If you substitute "happy customer" with "growing his ego, personal fortune, and celebrity status" then I would agree. I do not buy that he devoted his lived to making strangers happy when he was notorious for not caring about others, like you yourself claimed.
I understand, and still prefer my definition. Because it will always be fussy and most importantly because I do not want a group of animals I flew to an island previously uninhabited with animals of that type to suddenly become a new species.
The first definition is the only one that makes any kind of sense, and yes many many examples exists of this web of subspecies with no clear species groupings.
And you are right about Race, but subspecies has its own connotations and in general human subspecies are called "races". And if I was to call Africans (for example) a subspecies I would probably be labeled a racist because of these aforementioned connotations.
Are we talking about the same Steve Jobs? The most famous ass in the entire world of tech and all-time champion of locked and proprietary software? If anyone in the entire world would willingly lock down user's rights it would be Apple and Steve Jobs.
Anyone know what fine print he is talking about? It would be nice to see exactly what they do say. Also to those who are saying that the RIAA forces Apple to do this, what is the text of the contract that they force iTunes to abide by when using their music?
Wait, but if we could breed successfully with them then they were not really a different species, by definition. "Race" would be the more accurate word.
"A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring."
Jurors are not supposed to know the people involved in the trial, it creates huge bias. What I want to know is how did they find so many people who did not know Apple or Samsung? Because, of course, if a juror had a iPad and liked it (or just saw an apple ad, or read an article by someone saying that the iPad inspired these other devices) he/she would be biased towards Apple. So of course the only fair trial you could have would be one where all the jurors had never even heard of Apple or Samsung.
Many if not all cases are complex. And the jurors are not qualified, not that anyone can be qualified to hand down justice. Still it all round is not a horrible system.
Which every single type of engineering uses. You want to land a machine on the moon, artificial simulated evolution is one way to find the correct thrust.
Do we really have many clinics here? Never been to one myself, but I hear they exist. As far as anyone has ever told me the ER is for all medical care that cannot wait a few weeks, to get a appointment from your personal doctor. Maybe clinics are just a big city thing?
I think 99% of ER care are for these walking wounded. That is the point of the entire waiting room/receptionist setup. Obviously people who are actually dying from their injuries bet brought right past these.
If you think that hospitals are busy you are probably just going at the wrong time. Hospitals seem to have a deal with the average patient flow, but of course there are periods of high activity and low activity. I tend to get to see a doctor pretty much right away.
If it was really as bad as this guy seems to think then leftys would become rightys. It is not like being gay, it is like not being particularly proficient at a language.
Hibernation would be a far better and easier to achieve this boost. You know hard hard it would be to pack enough food for a 3 hundred year voyage with a fully functioning crew would be? What about air and water? And even if you where immortal, you could still go insane. Imagine 300 years spent in a small tin box surrounded by a black void and only the same small group of people to talk to.
Does not matter how long they were programmed to live naturally, I doubt anyone would make it alive past a few decades.
There is no magical, right, number. As long as you live long enough to become a physical adult with a few years to accomplish something, than artificially extending life past that point is just selfish and immoral. I am with Einstein on this one.
Most hospital visits are not performed when you are unconscious or in serious condition. Get a little cut and in addition to the waiting it might take an hour to sew up and bandage. You absolutely do have uses for your cell phone. Not only for the boredom but to phone your friends/work to reschedule and such.
Here in Canada at least you are not supposed to use cell phones while you are in the building. Very annoying, since when you go to the hospital you have no idea how long it will take and it can take longer than many flights.
They make it seem like this is some revolutionary new way to identify pneumonia and is better than anything we currentally have. But it just turns a cheap microphone into a crappy stethoscope.
Most digital content is not linked to you or your life at all and exists under an account. You can pass on the username and password like any other object.
If they mad 5 cents per vaccination they would be that profitable with so many people using them. And I bet they make a hell of a lot more, this is even ignoring research money.
Oh, I completely disagree. We have a AI method based off of evolution and neutral networks. In my opinion there is no reason we could not create artificial life, the only real hurdle is that it is massively parallel. So you need completely custom hardware, or possibly quantum computers will make it easy. But in my, non expert, opinion there is no reason (other than ethical, and it being useless) that we could not do rudimentary forms of artificial life quite easily now. But why? It is almost inherently unethical and not useful. If you want predictable results from AI you don't want to use true AI.
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I have 2 opinions that fall on both sides of this debate. Personally I do not see how they were not mentioned, as they are based completely in known facts.
1) If school was really all that stressful, such that you need months of free time to recover your sanity and physiological strength, then we should not be forcing children to spend 8 months at a time there.
2) You do want to create people who are able to function in society, you do not do so by locking them away from the world for the first 17 years of their lives.
If you substitute "happy customer" with "growing his ego, personal fortune, and celebrity status" then I would agree.
I do not buy that he devoted his lived to making strangers happy when he was notorious for not caring about others, like you yourself claimed.
That is actually pretty clever.
Evidence him being an "ass" http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/27/mystery-solved-why-steve-jobs-car-never-had-a-license-plate/
Evidence that he and Apple like locking stuff down: First off have you never used OS X or any iDevice?, secondly, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in#Apple_Inc., and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.#Accusations_of_anti-competitive_behavior
I understand, and still prefer my definition.
Because it will always be fussy and most importantly because I do not want a group of animals I flew to an island previously uninhabited with animals of that type to suddenly become a new species.
The first definition is the only one that makes any kind of sense, and yes many many examples exists of this web of subspecies with no clear species groupings.
And you are right about Race, but subspecies has its own connotations and in general human subspecies are called "races". And if I was to call Africans (for example) a subspecies I would probably be labeled a racist because of these aforementioned connotations.
Are we talking about the same Steve Jobs? The most famous ass in the entire world of tech and all-time champion of locked and proprietary software?
If anyone in the entire world would willingly lock down user's rights it would be Apple and Steve Jobs.
No, a CD is not equivalent to digital music. No one want to deal with CDs anymore.
That is why you torrent.
Anyone know what fine print he is talking about?
It would be nice to see exactly what they do say.
Also to those who are saying that the RIAA forces Apple to do this, what is the text of the contract that they force iTunes to abide by when using their music?
Wait, but if we could breed successfully with them then they were not really a different species, by definition. "Race" would be the more accurate word.
"A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring."
Jurors are not supposed to know the people involved in the trial, it creates huge bias.
What I want to know is how did they find so many people who did not know Apple or Samsung?
Because, of course, if a juror had a iPad and liked it (or just saw an apple ad, or read an article by someone saying that the iPad inspired these other devices) he/she would be biased towards Apple. So of course the only fair trial you could have would be one where all the jurors had never even heard of Apple or Samsung.
Many if not all cases are complex.
And the jurors are not qualified, not that anyone can be qualified to hand down justice.
Still it all round is not a horrible system.
Which every single type of engineering uses.
You want to land a machine on the moon, artificial simulated evolution is one way to find the correct thrust.
Do we really have many clinics here? Never been to one myself, but I hear they exist.
As far as anyone has ever told me the ER is for all medical care that cannot wait a few weeks, to get a appointment from your personal doctor. Maybe clinics are just a big city thing?
I think 99% of ER care are for these walking wounded. That is the point of the entire waiting room/receptionist setup. Obviously people who are actually dying from their injuries bet brought right past these.
If you think that hospitals are busy you are probably just going at the wrong time. Hospitals seem to have a deal with the average patient flow, but of course there are periods of high activity and low activity. I tend to get to see a doctor pretty much right away.
If it was really as bad as this guy seems to think then leftys would become rightys.
It is not like being gay, it is like not being particularly proficient at a language.
Hibernation would be a far better and easier to achieve this boost.
You know hard hard it would be to pack enough food for a 3 hundred year voyage with a fully functioning crew would be? What about air and water?
And even if you where immortal, you could still go insane. Imagine 300 years spent in a small tin box surrounded by a black void and only the same small group of people to talk to.
Does not matter how long they were programmed to live naturally, I doubt anyone would make it alive past a few decades.
There is no magical, right, number.
As long as you live long enough to become a physical adult with a few years to accomplish something, than artificially extending life past that point is just selfish and immoral.
I am with Einstein on this one.
... when they outfitted them with bulletproof armour.
Most hospital visits are not performed when you are unconscious or in serious condition. Get a little cut and in addition to the waiting it might take an hour to sew up and bandage. You absolutely do have uses for your cell phone. Not only for the boredom but to phone your friends/work to reschedule and such.
Here in Canada at least you are not supposed to use cell phones while you are in the building.
Very annoying, since when you go to the hospital you have no idea how long it will take and it can take longer than many flights.
They make it seem like this is some revolutionary new way to identify pneumonia and is better than anything we currentally have. But it just turns a cheap microphone into a crappy stethoscope.
Most digital content is not linked to you or your life at all and exists under an account. You can pass on the username and password like any other object.
If they mad 5 cents per vaccination they would be that profitable with so many people using them.
And I bet they make a hell of a lot more, this is even ignoring research money.
Well if I did not get it before, I still do not.
True AI is possible and in our grasp, I know little about this particular robot so will not comment on it.
Oh, I completely disagree.
We have a AI method based off of evolution and neutral networks.
In my opinion there is no reason we could not create artificial life, the only real hurdle is that it is massively parallel.
So you need completely custom hardware, or possibly quantum computers will make it easy.
But in my, non expert, opinion there is no reason (other than ethical, and it being useless) that we could not do rudimentary forms of artificial life quite easily now.
But why? It is almost inherently unethical and not useful. If you want predictable results from AI you don't want to use true AI.
And meanwhile if a corporation breaks the law the fine is like 50% of the profits they made from breaking the law.