>>>Once the air is saturated on the allocated frequencies, we are done
Not quite "done". We can say goodbye to over-the-air FM and TV. We already lost channels 52 to 83 that were turned-over to cellphones, and I suspect it's only a matter of time until channels 2 to 51 (including the FM band) disappear. That would not meet the FCC's "30 fold" estimate, but it would increase the available wireless spectrum by about 9 times present levels.
Lower frequency shortwave and AM radio will probably survive, simply because it's not practical to carry-around 100 foot long transmitting antennas with your phone.
Or Virginal Breast Hypertrophy. The link below is NSFW so I'll quote a few sentences: "This condition causes a woman's breasts to grow rapidly to an excessive weight during puberty...... Some women with VBH experience breast growth at a constant rate for several years, but the breasts overdevelop from normal and healthy breasts." Hence an ultrathin teenaged or college-aged woman who is top-heavy.
No I was talking about thin women with large natural breasts. You can tell the difference (they don't defy gravity). When I see these girls it always surprising me, because they don't have ANY fat anywhere else on their body - just in theri breasts.
You'd be surprised. Although it's typical for thin women to have little cleavage, sometimes you see the rare thin woman with large breasts. They are like rare freaks of nature.
The U.S. Congress should ban the use of Photoshop and other digital manipulation for photos used in advertising. In fact all they really need to do is amend the "truth in advertising" laws.
I was going to say something about the impartiality of the judges and legislating from the bench, but I've reconsidered. I'm not touching this skeleton with a size 0 dress.
For some of us it still is, you insensitive clod! (crawls off to sulk over his 1/10th gig laptop).;-) I remember when 32-bit 68000 Macs were only had 0.000128 gigabytes of memory, and they worked just fine for writing book reports and making the printer go "zzzzz kachunk" "zzzzz kachunk". It was especially fun to run-off these dot-matrix banners:
>>>Neither has AMD or Intel. Most 64-bit processors provide 40 or 48 bits of address space
It's not how much memory the CPU can address, but how much data it can process with a single instruction. Take for example the low-budget 386SX, which could only address 16-bit, but was still a full 32-bit processor just like its 80386 father. So a 64 bit processor can still be considered 64 bit even it's limited to just 4 gig of RAM.
What's the point of having 128 bit compatibility? 128 bit CPUs don't even exist yet. Heck most of us are still just using 32, and haven't even visited the 64 generation yet.
Perhaps it's because you've never driven anywhere else? DC's I-95, I-295, I-66, and I-270 are like glass compared to the terrible pothole-ridden interstates leading into or out-of Philadephia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle.
And the absolute worst interstate I've ever driven was I-40 through Oklahoma City which feels like your car's going to shake to pieces. The highways/interstates leaving D.C. truly are the best in the whole nation, because that's the center of power and Congressmen would not stand for poor quality roads ruining their cars' suspensions.
>>>Very noble, very pure, very useless when your robot doesn't have any intelligence
Yes but the CPUs that used to run Game Consoles and very effectively emulate Human AI enemies, are now making their way into robots. Their base operating system could be hard-wired to recognize a human being, and not to harm it, even if the overlaying hacker software is saying, "Destroy everything."
>>>all of Asimovs stories were about how the 3 laws could be subverted
Completely and totally false. The point of the stories was how it APPEARED the laws had failed, but in reality the laws had worked as designed, to protect human life from harm. No human ever died at the hands of a robot in Asimov's stories.
>>>The only murder case regarding a robot killing a man ended with the revelation that the man was in fact a robot......and therefore no murder occurred, and the first law was not violated. You forgot to finish your sentence.:-) One of my favorite stories is about a robot on a hostile planet (Venus?) that ends-up frozen in place, not moving. I forget the precise details but he was apparently carrying a deadly radioactive isotope, and if he walked towards the space station he would risk killing the humans. And if he walked the other way towards the mines, then he risked killing the miners. So he just stood there, halfway between the two points, stuck in a potential equilibrium between two choices.
Like I said I've forgotten the precise details, but the point is - the First Law was never broken. The robot may have acted erratically, but it never violated that fundamental law not to kill.
And if a robot had killed a person, even by accident (i.e. human falls to his death) then the robot's brain was designed to fuse.
>>>For example, the story about robots who prevented humans from coming to harm through inefficient human governance
Isaac Asimov did NOT write that story, which was full of the numerous illogical holes typical of Hollywood. In Asimov's actual stories, the Three Laws were NEVER violated, and nobody ever was killed by a robot.
I've been modded "redundant"? Exactly what am I redundant of? I was the first person to mention Asimov's Law in the thread.
Meanwhile I see other people being modded "troll" or "flamebait" or "overrated" because they say they are Republican or Libertarian, as the mods try to censor the person into invisibility...... this moderation system is seriously broken.
I would *love* to be a CEO but I don't have any idea how to do that. For example how did the CEO of General Motors reach that level? I suspect it was pure luck. And the ironic thing is even if he fails, he still earns the same amount of money as I will earn over my entire life.
Yes and the shareholders, as human beings, still have their rights protected. The corporation, being not human, has NO rights. That means no right to lobby our Congress or EU Parliament and pervert the people's government.
My point was that the driver's lawsuit, to quote Benjamin Franklin, "Penny wise and dollar foolish". The guy got out of his ~$100 fine which is good, but now that the limit has been dropped to 75, he's probably getting speeding tickets left and right, and racking-up a thousand or more in fines.
Yes *this* court found. Given how the decision was written by the judge, I'm expecting the decision to be over-turned by a higher level, and the right to sell the Autodesk CD on ebay.com to be revoked.
And I WAS annoyed with you because in your original post, you made it sound like I must be stuck with the Autodesk CD forever, and never able to convert it back to its original form (approximately 50 dollars). I am certainly entitled to convert my wealth from dollars-to-Autodesk CD-and-back to dollars. To say otherwise is a violation of my property rights.
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>>>Once the air is saturated on the allocated frequencies, we are done
Not quite "done". We can say goodbye to over-the-air FM and TV. We already lost channels 52 to 83 that were turned-over to cellphones, and I suspect it's only a matter of time until channels 2 to 51 (including the FM band) disappear. That would not meet the FCC's "30 fold" estimate, but it would increase the available wireless spectrum by about 9 times present levels.
Lower frequency shortwave and AM radio will probably survive, simply because it's not practical to carry-around 100 foot long transmitting antennas with your phone.
Or Virginal Breast Hypertrophy. The link below is NSFW so I'll quote a few sentences: "This condition causes a woman's breasts to grow rapidly to an excessive weight during puberty...... Some women with VBH experience breast growth at a constant rate for several years, but the breasts overdevelop from normal and healthy breasts." Hence an ultrathin teenaged or college-aged woman who is top-heavy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginal_breast_hypertrophy
No I was talking about thin women with large natural breasts. You can tell the difference (they don't defy gravity). When I see these girls it always surprising me, because they don't have ANY fat anywhere else on their body - just in theri breasts.
>>>She looks more human here.
Still beyond my reach.
>>>a woman that skinny has no shape.
You'd be surprised. Although it's typical for thin women to have little cleavage, sometimes you see the rare thin woman with large breasts. They are like rare freaks of nature.
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The U.S. Congress should ban the use of Photoshop and other digital manipulation for photos used in advertising. In fact all they really need to do is amend the "truth in advertising" laws.
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I was going to say something about the impartiality of the judges and legislating from the bench, but I've reconsidered. I'm not touching this skeleton with a size 0 dress.
Okay... thanks for the correction. Still the 80386SX was/is considered a 32-bit CPU despite its 16/24 physical limitations. Ditto the 68000.
>>>64 bit to 128 bit is a bit more then doubled...a lot of bits more. Remember binary, not base-10.
Yeah. Exactly double the number of bits.
>>>4Gig seemed unimaginable
For some of us it still is, you insensitive clod! (crawls off to sulk over his 1/10th gig laptop). ;-) I remember when 32-bit 68000 Macs were only had 0.000128 gigabytes of memory, and they worked just fine for writing book reports and making the printer go "zzzzz kachunk" "zzzzz kachunk". It was especially fun to run-off these dot-matrix banners:
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/5065096/2379282369908fb9e03em_Full.jpg (Anyone know how I can make these banners on modern printers? I don't think it can even be done today.)
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It's a sad day when you can no longer post ASCII art onto a forum. Have we come so far that we've forgotten where we come from?
>>>Neither has AMD or Intel. Most 64-bit processors provide 40 or 48 bits of address space
It's not how much memory the CPU can address, but how much data it can process with a single instruction. Take for example the low-budget 386SX, which could only address 16-bit, but was still a full 32-bit processor just like its 80386 father. So a 64 bit processor can still be considered 64 bit even it's limited to just 4 gig of RAM.
>>>I got my geek card revoked the other day for saying 64K instead of 640 when referring to the same alleged quote.
64K's always been enough for me.
What do I need that other 500+ kilobytes for?
I'm still confused.
What's the point of having 128 bit compatibility? 128 bit CPUs don't even exist yet. Heck most of us are still just using 32, and haven't even visited the 64 generation yet.
Perhaps it's because you've never driven anywhere else? DC's I-95, I-295, I-66, and I-270 are like glass compared to the terrible pothole-ridden interstates leading into or out-of Philadephia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle.
And the absolute worst interstate I've ever driven was I-40 through Oklahoma City which feels like your car's going to shake to pieces. The highways/interstates leaving D.C. truly are the best in the whole nation, because that's the center of power and Congressmen would not stand for poor quality roads ruining their cars' suspensions.
>>>Very noble, very pure, very useless when your robot doesn't have any intelligence
Yes but the CPUs that used to run Game Consoles and very effectively emulate Human AI enemies, are now making their way into robots. Their base operating system could be hard-wired to recognize a human being, and not to harm it, even if the overlaying hacker software is saying, "Destroy everything."
>>>all of Asimovs stories were about how the 3 laws could be subverted
Completely and totally false. The point of the stories was how it APPEARED the laws had failed, but in reality the laws had worked as designed, to protect human life from harm. No human ever died at the hands of a robot in Asimov's stories.
>>>The only murder case regarding a robot killing a man ended with the revelation that the man was in fact a robot... ...and therefore no murder occurred, and the first law was not violated. You forgot to finish your sentence. :-) One of my favorite stories is about a robot on a hostile planet (Venus?) that ends-up frozen in place, not moving. I forget the precise details but he was apparently carrying a deadly radioactive isotope, and if he walked towards the space station he would risk killing the humans. And if he walked the other way towards the mines, then he risked killing the miners. So he just stood there, halfway between the two points, stuck in a potential equilibrium between two choices.
Like I said I've forgotten the precise details, but the point is - the First Law was never broken. The robot may have acted erratically, but it never violated that fundamental law not to kill.
And if a robot had killed a person, even by accident (i.e. human falls to his death) then the robot's brain was designed to fuse.
>>>For example, the story about robots who prevented humans from coming to harm through inefficient human governance
Isaac Asimov did NOT write that story, which was full of the numerous illogical holes typical of Hollywood. In Asimov's actual stories, the Three Laws were NEVER violated, and nobody ever was killed by a robot.
I've been modded "redundant"? Exactly what am I redundant of? I was the first person to mention Asimov's Law in the thread.
Meanwhile I see other people being modded "troll" or "flamebait" or "overrated" because they say they are Republican or Libertarian, as the mods try to censor the person into invisibility...... this moderation system is seriously broken.
You kidding?
I would *love* to be a CEO but I don't have any idea how to do that. For example how did the CEO of General Motors reach that level? I suspect it was pure luck. And the ironic thing is even if he fails, he still earns the same amount of money as I will earn over my entire life.
>>>Shareholders are people.
Yes and the shareholders, as human beings, still have their rights protected. The corporation, being not human, has NO rights. That means no right to lobby our Congress or EU Parliament and pervert the people's government.
>>>OMG they did nothing
>>>that they weren't required to do!
>>>Time for me to sue someone for not giving me money!
>>>
Well if the Obamacare Act passes, and your neighbors don't buy health insurance, you can fine them and..... oh never mind. That's too easy.
My point was that the driver's lawsuit, to quote Benjamin Franklin, "Penny wise and dollar foolish". The guy got out of his ~$100 fine which is good, but now that the limit has been dropped to 75, he's probably getting speeding tickets left and right, and racking-up a thousand or more in fines.
>>>What you want is exactly what the court found,
Yes *this* court found. Given how the decision was written by the judge, I'm expecting the decision to be over-turned by a higher level, and the right to sell the Autodesk CD on ebay.com to be revoked.
And I WAS annoyed with you because in your original post, you made it sound like I must be stuck with the Autodesk CD forever, and never able to convert it back to its original form (approximately 50 dollars). I am certainly entitled to convert my wealth from dollars-to-Autodesk CD-and-back to dollars. To say otherwise is a violation of my property rights.