what about some kind of service that works online and/or through the phone? every parking spot could have a unique id that is easy to find, and purchasing the spot could be done on a [smart] phone. of course it would be trickier for a meter maid to determine if a spot is paid for, but i'm sure they could come up with some way to solve this...
there's a book called Infotopia (http://www.amazon.com/Infotopia-Many-Minds-Produce-Knowledge/dp/0195189280), about how information is generated and shared in an increasingly tech advanced society, and this is one of the things it mentions in its "vision for the future" in the intro. interesting book. quite optimistic.
this reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's Final Odyssey (3001), where nobody knew anything except what was required to do their job, simply because they already had to learn too much. the difference, though, is that few people are operating at the limit of their mental capacity these days (or any other day, for that matter).
Nothing wins a lot of reads like a headline making some technical advancement sound really dumb. Funny how so many readers of a high-tech news source treat high-tech advancements like Luddites.
have you ever read/. before? that's pretty much what we do here. that and welcoming various overlords.
I disagree. This isn't about forcing students to change their beliefs. The professors could justify this requirement by saying that they want their students to demonstrate that they have gained enough understanding of the issue to be able to beat some idiot on the Internet in an idiotic Internet debate. I think this is in fact a pretty good way to see how deep an understanding a student has of the material. I don't see why that's a big deal. We could all benefit from arguing from the opponent's perspective once in a while anyway - it helps widen one's views.
russia doesn't filter the internet, they just assassinate anyone who writes anything that's too troublesome. oh, i'm sorry, i should've said "anyone who writes anything that's too troublesome dies in an accident or under other circumstances completely unrelated to their political stance".
in soviet russia, only someone with no ability to detect patterns and "coincidences" whatsoever doesn't see the atrocities committed by the government.
Basically, religion and other superstitions are maladaptions of our ability to recognize patterns
Probably true, but I don't think that's the only reason why religion is so incredibly universal in human cultures. As the article says, we tend to rely on superstition/religion when we are more stressed and/or our environment is less predictable. I think this fits very well with some relatively new research that shows how depression is related to the lack of feeling in control of one's own life. Religion is just a way of regaining that sense of control, at the expense of logic and reason.
then why did it become inactive? was it because it became "useless", and thus for it to remain active was in some way wasteful? or did we all inherit the same (inactive) version of the code from a common ancestor?
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right, because aluminium is in such short supply, and the survival of the human race on earth depends on it.
what about some kind of service that works online and/or through the phone? every parking spot could have a unique id that is easy to find, and purchasing the spot could be done on a [smart] phone. of course it would be trickier for a meter maid to determine if a spot is paid for, but i'm sure they could come up with some way to solve this...
go Blue Devils!
or maybe it's a disk that is just not that interested?
*blink*
is that some kind of new super-awesome flexible organic flash memory?
so it's CACArd?
next step: open source warfare. now everyone can be a strategist!
there's a book called Infotopia (http://www.amazon.com/Infotopia-Many-Minds-Produce-Knowledge/dp/0195189280), about how information is generated and shared in an increasingly tech advanced society, and this is one of the things it mentions in its "vision for the future" in the intro. interesting book. quite optimistic.
this reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's Final Odyssey (3001), where nobody knew anything except what was required to do their job, simply because they already had to learn too much. the difference, though, is that few people are operating at the limit of their mental capacity these days (or any other day, for that matter).
step 3: claim nobody was ever convicted
step 4: 1984
step 5: profit!
*You can waste a lot of time on both, and even more time reading articles on the topic.
when you type 1234, it just shows up as ****
Nothing wins a lot of reads like a headline making some technical advancement sound really dumb. Funny how so many readers of a high-tech news source treat high-tech advancements like Luddites.
have you ever read /. before? that's pretty much what we do here. that and welcoming various overlords.
"oops, we forgot to check array bounds in one place... here come the buffer overflow attacks!"
I disagree. This isn't about forcing students to change their beliefs. The professors could justify this requirement by saying that they want their students to demonstrate that they have gained enough understanding of the issue to be able to beat some idiot on the Internet in an idiotic Internet debate. I think this is in fact a pretty good way to see how deep an understanding a student has of the material. I don't see why that's a big deal. We could all benefit from arguing from the opponent's perspective once in a while anyway - it helps widen one's views.
i write my passwords down on living trees. problem solved.
there comes a point when increased penetration turns pornography into smut. i've seen it. it ain't pretty.
russia doesn't filter the internet, they just assassinate anyone who writes anything that's too troublesome. oh, i'm sorry, i should've said "anyone who writes anything that's too troublesome dies in an accident or under other circumstances completely unrelated to their political stance".
in soviet russia, only someone with no ability to detect patterns and "coincidences" whatsoever doesn't see the atrocities committed by the government.
Basically, religion and other superstitions are maladaptions of our ability to recognize patterns
Probably true, but I don't think that's the only reason why religion is so incredibly universal in human cultures. As the article says, we tend to rely on superstition/religion when we are more stressed and/or our environment is less predictable. I think this fits very well with some relatively new research that shows how depression is related to the lack of feeling in control of one's own life. Religion is just a way of regaining that sense of control, at the expense of logic and reason.
a la "ender's game"?
then why did it become inactive? was it because it became "useless", and thus for it to remain active was in some way wasteful? or did we all inherit the same (inactive) version of the code from a common ancestor?
the revolution!
now we just need some anti-apple slogans. and no, "microsoft" doesn't count.
you'll also notice smoke rising from your computer. don't worry, it was a feature, not a bug.
i'd say it's more likely that once you stopped smoking, your doctors stopped assuming that all of your problems are caused by cigarettes.
the voice in my head tells me to smoke. i'm not sure what to do.