Formerly a program/OS for the original Xbox and called XBox Media Center. They have since stopped supporting the xbox but have ported it to many OSes. I imagine it is used for computer media center for a TV setup as the interface is far to clunky for regular computer use.
It was/is (see xbmc4xbox) great on the Xbox, but I really don't see the appeal of installing it on a computer.
Could it not be just that the US government has agreed to keep prices low-ish. I believe that gas is far cheaper in the US then in most of the rest of the world, and the price might not fluctuate with the US production, but that does not mean that US production is not needed for the government to offer as big savings as they do.
What are you talking about? The next generation is on average objectively better at surviving in their current environment. And at least in specific cases you can say that it is building towards a specific goal (other then simple to be better at surviving and reproducing). While some animals do not have one huge threat and evolution is not very directed is many circumstances the sole element to survival is really a single variable (for example, how much does a bug look like a leaf) and the result is a very precise result.
"deterministic fashion" I do not think science has proven that true randomness exists (not really sure about the atom scale world) but I am pretty confident that science does not leave any reason to believe that anything that happens in the human scaled universe is not 100% complete deterministic.
It is suggesting that some magic non-deterministic thing happens and boom there is evolution that is unscientific. Evolution is not that complex or magical, and rather simple, and you can go step by step through it, make predictions, and in a simple enough environment know the goal that evolution will reach.
I don't think the idea to to tax online Connecticut businesses but to tax Connecticut citizens online. This bill and all like it are for taxing citizens on all online purchases.
And online businesses do not really have a location, Google or amazon have to have their servers somewhere but the location is immaterial.
It is not hard to grasp, it is hard to accomplish. All brick and mortar stores that pay sales take to a given state reside in that state. Imagine if the sales tax instead of being on a location basis changed to a personal basis. So if a Connecticut citizen took a holiday to Italy and bought a $10 sandwich then 60 cents had to be taxed and sent Back to Connecticut. How would you go about accomplishing this?
How do they actually make these online taxes work? force every single online payment gateway to tax every transaction from your state and send you the money?
"retroactive facilitation of recall’, which examines whether performance on a memory test can be influenced by a post-test exercise."
All they are testing is pre-cognition, aka time travel of the mind, and really the least likely psychic power to exist. The ability to do this would pretty much break science.
No one actually goes out and buys the latest OS anyways. You buy a computer and Windows comes with it, regardless of if you plan on installing Ubuntu or not., and definitely regardless of if the OS is any good or not.
Slanted or realistic? Find a single peer review article that states that we are NOT using several times more oil then is being produced by the planet. When we hit peak oil is debatable, have we already, will we in 50 years, in short it does not really matter in the long run.
I think there are a few examples of coming apocalyptic sized events that would necessitate a completely changed environment for human life that science completely agrees are just around the corner. When exactly, why exactly, is debatable, but that they are coming is not.
And what does he expect this would result in? OK, we destroy the ability of the legal system to function. The right to demand a trial with a jury would be revoked in a week.
But that raises another question. Is it better to control births by genetically programming people to act rationally in this type of environment (involving one act of totalitarianism), or to enforce a one child policy forever.
I am not to sure about this statement. I think the differing opinions are simply: "If we do not do something soon then the human species will face extinction in the immediate future, so lets get on it" "Sure, the situation is quickly becoming untenable but I will probably be dead by the time it gets really bad so why should I do anything about it?" "The situation is too complicated and would inconvenience me too much, we should wait and hope some kind-of super technology is invented between now and the fall of civilization that makes fixing everything easy"
"plus you can't negate the effects with a (fairly) simple gas mask" Yes now it takes a (fairly) simply mirror thing to not only negate it but to reflect it back.
"tear gas is pretty dangerous stuff which can cause lasting damage" I am wondering how this laser thing effects eyes.
But I will give you that this is directed and contained.
What does the iPad have to do with it? There were commercial, mass-produced, tablets way before the first iPad. I would think, either this guy owns tablet tech and has been making money of it for decades or has missed his chance.
I think it might all come down to how you look at the problem. many people have programmed AI to beat Mario, I believe a few years ago their was some random Mario level generator (possibly called Infinite Mario) and a contest to create AI to play it. The simple act of taking it one frame at a time, dodging and jumping, is not hard to program AI or resource intensive I think, but any problem can be made complicated. If you are saying take a static level, how do you get the absolute maximum score, now of course that is NP hard.
So the lights sucking the heat out of the air and feel physically cold to the touch? Does this 230% conversion ration only work in really high heat location or is this in room temperature? Would this technology not really work in -40 degree winter environments?
Ah, so you are offering a software package that allows the user to turn one of his computers into a webhost that hosts a website which gives command line access to that same server?
Interesting.
So, kindof like a Linux alternative to those remote desktop through the browser deals.
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Formerly a program/OS for the original Xbox and called XBox Media Center. They have since stopped supporting the xbox but have ported it to many OSes. I imagine it is used for computer media center for a TV setup as the interface is far to clunky for regular computer use.
It was/is (see xbmc4xbox) great on the Xbox, but I really don't see the appeal of installing it on a computer.
You do realise that gas prices fluctuate greatly in different locations, I think there are places where you pay over double what the US pays for gas.
Could it not be just that the US government has agreed to keep prices low-ish. I believe that gas is far cheaper in the US then in most of the rest of the world, and the price might not fluctuate with the US production, but that does not mean that US production is not needed for the government to offer as big savings as they do.
What are you talking about?
The next generation is on average objectively better at surviving in their current environment.
And at least in specific cases you can say that it is building towards a specific goal (other then simple to be better at surviving and reproducing).
While some animals do not have one huge threat and evolution is not very directed is many circumstances the sole element to survival is really a single variable (for example, how much does a bug look like a leaf) and the result is a very precise result.
"deterministic fashion"
I do not think science has proven that true randomness exists (not really sure about the atom scale world) but I am pretty confident that science does not leave any reason to believe that anything that happens in the human scaled universe is not 100% complete deterministic.
It is suggesting that some magic non-deterministic thing happens and boom there is evolution that is unscientific. Evolution is not that complex or magical, and rather simple, and you can go step by step through it, make predictions, and in a simple enough environment know the goal that evolution will reach.
I don't think the idea to to tax online Connecticut businesses but to tax Connecticut citizens online. This bill and all like it are for taxing citizens on all online purchases.
And online businesses do not really have a location, Google or amazon have to have their servers somewhere but the location is immaterial.
It is not hard to grasp, it is hard to accomplish. All brick and mortar stores that pay sales take to a given state reside in that state.
Imagine if the sales tax instead of being on a location basis changed to a personal basis. So if a Connecticut citizen took a holiday to Italy and bought a $10 sandwich then 60 cents had to be taxed and sent Back to Connecticut. How would you go about accomplishing this?
How do they actually make these online taxes work? force every single online payment gateway to tax every transaction from your state and send you the money?
Their has actually been some research in this area. your extensions can often create a unique identifier allowing sites to track you.
/. has at least one article, last year I think, that mentioned this fact already.
This is not a secret and a moderately well known fact.
"retroactive facilitation of recall’, which examines whether performance on a memory test can be influenced by a post-test exercise."
All they are testing is pre-cognition, aka time travel of the mind, and really the least likely psychic power to exist. The ability to do this would pretty much break science.
It does not matter if there is no proof if the cops can pressure you into confessing.
No one actually goes out and buys the latest OS anyways. You buy a computer and Windows comes with it, regardless of if you plan on installing Ubuntu or not., and definitely regardless of if the OS is any good or not.
Slanted or realistic? Find a single peer review article that states that we are NOT using several times more oil then is being produced by the planet. When we hit peak oil is debatable, have we already, will we in 50 years, in short it does not really matter in the long run.
I think there are a few examples of coming apocalyptic sized events that would necessitate a completely changed environment for human life that science completely agrees are just around the corner. When exactly, why exactly, is debatable, but that they are coming is not.
And what does he expect this would result in?
OK, we destroy the ability of the legal system to function.
The right to demand a trial with a jury would be revoked in a week.
So he wants to make everyone into Indians?
But that raises another question. Is it better to control births by genetically programming people to act rationally in this type of environment (involving one act of totalitarianism), or to enforce a one child policy forever.
"agenda which society can't even agree on"
I am not to sure about this statement. I think the differing opinions are simply:
"If we do not do something soon then the human species will face extinction in the immediate future, so lets get on it"
"Sure, the situation is quickly becoming untenable but I will probably be dead by the time it gets really bad so why should I do anything about it?"
"The situation is too complicated and would inconvenience me too much, we should wait and hope some kind-of super technology is invented between now and the fall of civilization that makes fixing everything easy"
"plus you can't negate the effects with a (fairly) simple gas mask"
Yes now it takes a (fairly) simply mirror thing to not only negate it but to reflect it back.
"tear gas is pretty dangerous stuff which can cause lasting damage"
I am wondering how this laser thing effects eyes.
But I will give you that this is directed and contained.
Sounds less effective, most costly, and more dangerous then tear gas.
What does the iPad have to do with it? There were commercial, mass-produced, tablets way before the first iPad.
I would think, either this guy owns tablet tech and has been making money of it for decades or has missed his chance.
but like the smell, they are not peering into your house just measuring the heat coming from your house's direction.
So don't count on this privacy always being the case.
I think it might all come down to how you look at the problem.
many people have programmed AI to beat Mario, I believe a few years ago their was some random Mario level generator (possibly called Infinite Mario) and a contest to create AI to play it. The simple act of taking it one frame at a time, dodging and jumping, is not hard to program AI or resource intensive I think, but any problem can be made complicated. If you are saying take a static level, how do you get the absolute maximum score, now of course that is NP hard.
So the lights sucking the heat out of the air and feel physically cold to the touch?
Does this 230% conversion ration only work in really high heat location or is this in room temperature?
Would this technology not really work in -40 degree winter environments?
I don't know how anyone in this day and age could think it was a good idea to have more dealing with the police those that are forced on you.
Ah, so you are offering a software package that allows the user to turn one of his computers into a webhost that hosts a website which gives command line access to that same server?
Interesting.
So, kindof like a Linux alternative to those remote desktop through the browser deals.