And now long would you have to run it to spend the same amount of money it takes to buy modern equipment and pay for someone to convert your accounting over?
I like "if it ain't broke" in general, but this thing has to be a massive power drain, and when it finally does break, they're likely going to be screwed.
Since AutoRip applies to physical CDs you've purchased, you've already got the lossless copy at home and you are free to reproduce it in whatever format tickles your fancy. You can even store it on your Amazon Cloud Drive if you like (albeit not completely free).
Amazon AutoRip is all about having music available on the go, and is intended for normal people, not smug people, so "shitty" mp3s are just the ticket.
Sex is neither pristine nor not pristine. You've simply run into another case of a Slashdot submitter writing much more poorly than he thinks he does and attempting to use as much flowery language as he can in a vain attempt to sound like a clever author.
The "where is the soul" problem is non-existent for non religious people
I don't know about that. I'm completely non-religious, but I still ask myself what's special about the collection of cells in my head that make me me. I don't think you have to have imaginary sky friends to ponder whether there's something about that mass of cells that can't simply be copied, taking the consciousness with it.
The "who am i" question will not arise, because the "new" you will feel exactly that the old you
And herein lies a problem I've always pondered about transporters (as in "beam me up"). If you can make a perfect copy of a thinking brain, I think you're right that the new copy will feel exactly like the old copy, which means it will think it's the old copy, which means it'll happily tell you that the copying process worked just fine and consciousness really did transfer to the new copy. How do we prove it? How can we be certain that whatever my consciousness is, whatever makes my experience mine, wasn't destroyed in the copying process, merely producing a perfect copy that thinks it's me? We could be "dying" every time we copy/transport and never know it.
I was thinking surgical transfer rather than copy. Copying is probably a lot further off technologically (if it's possible at all) and is rife with "where is the soul" and "who am I" and "what is sentience" questions. Surgically, once the technology exists, it should just be a massive cable patching task.
This raises an interesting question for the hardware types: If physical brain transfer becomes commonplace, we're going to need a standardized connector so that we're not soldering a million nerves every time. What would the connector look like? Please, not a massive version of RJ45. I feel bad enough breaking the tab off my ethernet cable connectors. Imagine how I would feel when I did that to my husband.
Right, cloning pets is completely different because... pets aren't humans!
Not trying to come across as some kind of blubbering sentimentalist, but yeah, that's exactly it. I wouldn't call humans "special snowflakes", but yes, humans are different when it comes to things like this, and the ethical questions that must be answered are a superset of those we must answer for other animals.
The only kind of human cloning I think I'd really like to see is cloning for organ farming, either cloning an entire (brainless, presumably) copy of myself so I have an entire inventory of replacement organs, or cloning individual organs as the need arises. Ultimately, I'd like to be able to grow a whole new me whose body is, say, 20 years old, and then transfer my brain into the new body. Still have to solve the problem of the brain itself decaying, but once we figure that out, the world can enjoy my rapier wit forever!
I can understand the desire to clone lost pets. The pet relationship is one of companionship, and creating a pet predisposed to similar behaviors as one who made a good companion before makes some sense, but a child? I cannot imagine most parents would want to do that, no matter the circumstances of the loss of the original child. You think it's tough on a kid finding out he's adopted? Imagine finding out you were a replacement.
Back in my day we didn't have this fancy TI-84 stuff. We had our RPN HP calculators and we liked them just fine.
Oh, and get off my lawn;-)
What you do you mean "back in my day"? RPN was and still is the best way to do handheld calculations.
When I was in university, I explained RPN to some classmates one day and was met with the incredulity I was used to, so I proposed a race. Without the participants looking, one student was to write a hugely complex, multiply tested function on the blackboard and then we'd both turn around and start feeding it to our calculators (some fancy TI job for him, HP 49G+ for me). I had the answer before my opponent was even 20% of the way through entering it. RPN uber alles.
This is exactly right. The reason the TI-8x line has been around unchanged for so long is because school systems find it sufficient, but not too much, and teachers know exactly how to reset its memory. If you let kids start using whatever software they want on their smartphones, cheating would become much more widespread than it is now. When I was in high school, I used a HP 48S (still do from time to time) and I could have cheated my pants off with that if I wanted to, as the teachers didn't have a clue about it. (I didn't, but easily could have--more important to have things like Ant in my RAM!)
I've supported this idea for years. It's so much easier to send a person with sufficient supplies to survive with a lot of hard work than it is to send a guy and return to Earth. And here's the kicker... It's not a one way trip anyway. Putting a human on Mars would generate so much interest in Mars exploration back home that I'm confident we'd have people there with return capability within 15 years.
For our first volunteers, it's a very long trip, but by no means does it have to be a suicide trip.
I think we'll find that despite the phrase "federal sales tax" being bandied about, what we'll eventually see is a redefinition of state sales tax to be based on the location of the purchaser instead of the seller. The 16th amendment wouldn't have anything to do with it.
Enjoy it while you can. Federal sales tax is probably coming in the next year or two and every online retailer will be collecting it.
For a long time, Amazon was against a federal sales tax, for obvious reasons. But now they've done an about face, again for obvious reasons. They know it's coming, so it's now to their benefit to get it as soon as possible, since they're already forced to collect sales tax in some states. They've lost that small advantage in a few states, and they want to make sure everyone else loses it, too. Got to admit it's sound business sense on their part.
Oh, Bezos. Just a few years before you formed your company, did not Intel show that you should make up a new word, rather than use a number, or as anyone would assume was clearly implied, use an existing word?
Actually, he did make up a new word. The company was originally going to be called Cadabra.com. How many shares of AMZN do you want to bet the company would have fared much poorer with that name?
And it's the name of a place?
My understanding is that he went with the name Amazon because the Amazon river moves the largest amount of water of any river in the world and he wanted to give people the impression that his company would do the same with the printed words.
Say what you wish about the TLD debate, but Bezos clearly picked an apropos name that helped his company's success immensely.
Unless you are writing British English instead of American English, in which companies or organisations are considered plural entities in and of themselves, therefore the OP's grammar is just fine.
I stand corrected. I knew the language was distinct, but I had no idea that the national identity was so vehemently independent from the Swedes/Danes/Norwegians. I get the impression that it's like calling a Scotsman English.
That's a fair comparison I think. Finnish identity is very unique. It does of course have significant influences from both Swedish/Scandinavian influences and from Russian ones, but still manages to sit between them and be itself. Finns are not generally upset if lumped in with Scandinavians, but are quick to point out the differences. But be warned: Never call a Finn a Swede.:)
All of this of couse is irrelevant to the original post (I don't know if you were that AC or not). In response to the original post, it's correct that most Finns can at least understand English reasonably well, especially among younger people, but Finnish subtitles are still sometimes helpful for some of the nuances or for things that are quiet or have a lot of extraneous noise. I try to have both Finnish and English subtitles available for all my DVDs, and sometimes that means using the fine work of Divxfinland. At home, we usually watch with English subtitles on, but sometimes when certain friends are over, the Finnish ones are very useful.
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And now long would you have to run it to spend the same amount of money it takes to buy modern equipment and pay for someone to convert your accounting over?
I like "if it ain't broke" in general, but this thing has to be a massive power drain, and when it finally does break, they're likely going to be screwed.
Could always go with US Americans, whom I would advise to head over to Amazon as soon as possible while they can still get maps tax-free.
At least it was Tesla/SpaceX making the offer, and not Fisker.
Since AutoRip applies to physical CDs you've purchased, you've already got the lossless copy at home and you are free to reproduce it in whatever format tickles your fancy. You can even store it on your Amazon Cloud Drive if you like (albeit not completely free).
Amazon AutoRip is all about having music available on the go, and is intended for normal people, not smug people, so "shitty" mp3s are just the ticket.
Sex is neither pristine nor not pristine. You've simply run into another case of a Slashdot submitter writing much more poorly than he thinks he does and attempting to use as much flowery language as he can in a vain attempt to sound like a clever author.
The "where is the soul" problem is non-existent for non religious people
I don't know about that. I'm completely non-religious, but I still ask myself what's special about the collection of cells in my head that make me me. I don't think you have to have imaginary sky friends to ponder whether there's something about that mass of cells that can't simply be copied, taking the consciousness with it.
The "who am i" question will not arise, because the "new" you will feel exactly that the old you
And herein lies a problem I've always pondered about transporters (as in "beam me up"). If you can make a perfect copy of a thinking brain, I think you're right that the new copy will feel exactly like the old copy, which means it will think it's the old copy, which means it'll happily tell you that the copying process worked just fine and consciousness really did transfer to the new copy. How do we prove it? How can we be certain that whatever my consciousness is, whatever makes my experience mine, wasn't destroyed in the copying process, merely producing a perfect copy that thinks it's me? We could be "dying" every time we copy/transport and never know it.
I was thinking surgical transfer rather than copy. Copying is probably a lot further off technologically (if it's possible at all) and is rife with "where is the soul" and "who am I" and "what is sentience" questions. Surgically, once the technology exists, it should just be a massive cable patching task.
This raises an interesting question for the hardware types: If physical brain transfer becomes commonplace, we're going to need a standardized connector so that we're not soldering a million nerves every time. What would the connector look like? Please, not a massive version of RJ45. I feel bad enough breaking the tab off my ethernet cable connectors. Imagine how I would feel when I did that to my husband.
Right, cloning pets is completely different because... pets aren't humans!
Not trying to come across as some kind of blubbering sentimentalist, but yeah, that's exactly it. I wouldn't call humans "special snowflakes", but yes, humans are different when it comes to things like this, and the ethical questions that must be answered are a superset of those we must answer for other animals.
The only kind of human cloning I think I'd really like to see is cloning for organ farming, either cloning an entire (brainless, presumably) copy of myself so I have an entire inventory of replacement organs, or cloning individual organs as the need arises. Ultimately, I'd like to be able to grow a whole new me whose body is, say, 20 years old, and then transfer my brain into the new body. Still have to solve the problem of the brain itself decaying, but once we figure that out, the world can enjoy my rapier wit forever!
I can understand the desire to clone lost pets. The pet relationship is one of companionship, and creating a pet predisposed to similar behaviors as one who made a good companion before makes some sense, but a child? I cannot imagine most parents would want to do that, no matter the circumstances of the loss of the original child. You think it's tough on a kid finding out he's adopted? Imagine finding out you were a replacement.
...multiply tested function...
Er, damn. Multiply nested.
Back in my day we didn't have this fancy TI-84 stuff. We had our RPN HP calculators and we liked them just fine.
Oh, and get off my lawn ;-)
What you do you mean "back in my day"? RPN was and still is the best way to do handheld calculations.
When I was in university, I explained RPN to some classmates one day and was met with the incredulity I was used to, so I proposed a race. Without the participants looking, one student was to write a hugely complex, multiply tested function on the blackboard and then we'd both turn around and start feeding it to our calculators (some fancy TI job for him, HP 49G+ for me). I had the answer before my opponent was even 20% of the way through entering it. RPN uber alles.
This is exactly right. The reason the TI-8x line has been around unchanged for so long is because school systems find it sufficient, but not too much, and teachers know exactly how to reset its memory. If you let kids start using whatever software they want on their smartphones, cheating would become much more widespread than it is now. When I was in high school, I used a HP 48S (still do from time to time) and I could have cheated my pants off with that if I wanted to, as the teachers didn't have a clue about it. (I didn't, but easily could have--more important to have things like Ant in my RAM!)
Research prevents media outlets from getting to shout, "FIRST POST!!!1!1!1!!"
I've supported this idea for years. It's so much easier to send a person with sufficient supplies to survive with a lot of hard work than it is to send a guy and return to Earth. And here's the kicker... It's not a one way trip anyway. Putting a human on Mars would generate so much interest in Mars exploration back home that I'm confident we'd have people there with return capability within 15 years.
For our first volunteers, it's a very long trip, but by no means does it have to be a suicide trip.
I just exchanged a few words with your refrigerator and, well, you guys need to talk.
I think we'll find that despite the phrase "federal sales tax" being bandied about, what we'll eventually see is a redefinition of state sales tax to be based on the location of the purchaser instead of the seller. The 16th amendment wouldn't have anything to do with it.
...answer the question that's been burning in our minds. Just what is a Shuttle worth?
Enjoy it while you can. Federal sales tax is probably coming in the next year or two and every online retailer will be collecting it.
For a long time, Amazon was against a federal sales tax, for obvious reasons. But now they've done an about face, again for obvious reasons. They know it's coming, so it's now to their benefit to get it as soon as possible, since they're already forced to collect sales tax in some states. They've lost that small advantage in a few states, and they want to make sure everyone else loses it, too. Got to admit it's sound business sense on their part.
....they want that joke back.
Make one that does whisky and I'm sold.
Oh, Bezos. Just a few years before you formed your company, did not Intel show that you should make up a new word, rather than use a number, or as anyone would assume was clearly implied, use an existing word?
Actually, he did make up a new word. The company was originally going to be called Cadabra.com. How many shares of AMZN do you want to bet the company would have fared much poorer with that name?
And it's the name of a place?
My understanding is that he went with the name Amazon because the Amazon river moves the largest amount of water of any river in the world and he wanted to give people the impression that his company would do the same with the printed words.
Say what you wish about the TLD debate, but Bezos clearly picked an apropos name that helped his company's success immensely.
Unless you are writing British English instead of American English, in which companies or organisations are considered plural entities in and of themselves, therefore the OP's grammar is just fine.
Anyone have some good idea's how to give these old frames a second life?
Display a different grammar rule every day. You can start with correct use of apostrophes.
I stand corrected. I knew the language was distinct, but I had no idea that the national identity was so vehemently independent from the Swedes/Danes/Norwegians. I get the impression that it's like calling a Scotsman English.
That's a fair comparison I think. Finnish identity is very unique. It does of course have significant influences from both Swedish/Scandinavian influences and from Russian ones, but still manages to sit between them and be itself. Finns are not generally upset if lumped in with Scandinavians, but are quick to point out the differences. But be warned: Never call a Finn a Swede. :)
All of this of couse is irrelevant to the original post (I don't know if you were that AC or not). In response to the original post, it's correct that most Finns can at least understand English reasonably well, especially among younger people, but Finnish subtitles are still sometimes helpful for some of the nuances or for things that are quiet or have a lot of extraneous noise. I try to have both Finnish and English subtitles available for all my DVDs, and sometimes that means using the fine work of Divxfinland. At home, we usually watch with English subtitles on, but sometimes when certain friends are over, the Finnish ones are very useful.
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Ei mitä, kaverini.