Right now we have computers that can feign intelligence, i.e. use the internet to pass a multiple-choice test, but this is not a true measure of intelligence.
But Dude! If this were true our entire primary/secondary education system would just be one giant fuckup!
We already have people that are as dumb as computers. I say leave well enough alone.
As I noted the other day, Joan seems to be at about the level of a typical, airheaded sophmore already. I'm not sure I see any impediment to her going on for a Master's, but I'd posit that she'll have to do it in Media Studies or Knitware, not physics, seeing as the typical airheaded sophmore can't quite pass the Turing Test yet.
How does that prove the same techniques will work after the body has been in zero-g for long periods of time?
The issue is one of surgical techinique, that is to say whether or not the surgeons can manipulate the tools and patient in a manner to do the procedure.
But yes, the whole thing is really a bit silly, the statements made rather sillier and they could have gotten largely the same "results" by sending up a manicurist.
You left out one very important part. The type of book. An encyclopedia will require both more, and a different set of people than say the latest romance novel.
You left out one very important part. The type of sound recording. Sgt. Pepper will require both more, and a different set of people than say the latest solo acouctic guitar teenage angst crap.
Why don't you tell us how books and music are produce and please don't leave any of the dollar amounts
If I leave the the 486 (which so far has cost me exactly nothing) which I write on sitting on the shelf unused for a year it costs me nothing to do so.
If I leave the fiddle (which cost me thousands) I record with sitting on the shelf unused for a year it costs me $200 to be able to use it again. Costs go up if I actually deign to use the thing.
. ..there's more to releasing an ebook than spitting out a plaintext file.
I'm with your other respondant. Almost all of my ebooks are plain text files from Project Gutenberg, with a few PDFs thrown in. I'm generally perfectly happy to just read ASCII text, but for something I want prettfied I just mark it up.
The fact that it's Sony makes my spine itch, there has to be a catch in there somewhere, but this one is soooo close to what I've been waiting for. epaper, isn't bound to a propriatary format, but supports what few propriatary format documents I have by going with a standard . ..I suppose I could bitch about the lack of vorbis support, and of course I'd have to throw in at least a gig of memory to seriously consider it as a music player.
And it's a bit small. There are places to make things as small as possible; and then there are places where you shouldn't. They tried to find a compromise here. I disagree with the side of the line the fell on (they wanted to make the device the size of a paperback; I want the screen the size of a paperback), but they are in the vicinity of the line.
I'm not the target market for this thing because nobody is going to make money from me other than the sale of the device, to me ebooks are for public domain text files, Gibbon, Kipling, Burton and the like, stored in mass quantity, but for the likes of me this is the one that looks purchasable.
This would also be a boost to people who generate their own electricity (Solar, Wind, Water)
And one of my favorites, gravity drive engines. Yes, that's the core of the idea for me. High voltage AC is better for centralized distribution, but I'm independence oriented.
And this is the modern lie/myth that replaced it. Neither myth is entirely false, but neither myth is entierly true either. There are socio-political motivations to both.
The Japanese were on the verge of surrendering already. Go study WW2 history . ..
Which tells me that at that point it's silly to even talk about The Japanese. The government and military command were fracturing under the pressure of losing the war. There were so many factions it wasn't funny and one faction could be seriously and honestly negotiating surrender while another faction, of equal military strength and political power, was talking about fighting to the last little girl with a nail file.
Yes, actual offers of surrender were tendered , but there was, effectively, no central authority capable of offering a legitimate surrender, except the Emperor himself; and he had to risk his life against a military faction to do it. And those offers were themselves based on guarantees of protection for the Emperor; and although 20/20 hindsight driven by a modern political point of view might make it look like those offers should have been taken there was simply no way under the conditions of the time that Allied forces would accept anything other than absolute, unconditional surrender. As we had already recieved from Germany. After invading Germany.
Part of my study of WWII has been talking to people who were there; as well as in Japan during the occupation. No, not all of them American. My stepfather wrote for a Japanese book publisher.
The last months of the war were simply a fucking mess. Wars can be like that. The broadcast by the Emperor; and only that broadcast, is what made an end to it in a manner that didn't turn everything into a complete fucking mess even after the "end" of the war. God spoke.
The atomic bombs were almost completely unnecessary, except to establish US dominance in the world theater by demonstrating god-like firepower.
I'll agree with this provisionally. They were almost completely unecessary and a major part of their use was to display them to Stalin who had no way of knowing that we had used up the only two we had at the time.
But they had an effect, including on Emperor Showa.
An obvious alternative, yes, and the one installed in most serious solar homes these days. You can pump more power through less wire with fewer losses. All important for Telco equipment.
Perhaps I'm just being short sighted for being a 12v sort of guy. There's a tremendous amount of stuff out there already for 12v systems because of the car/boat/RV industry and I think of DC power systems for the home in terms of those, rather than in terms of conventional home systems. In terms of batteries instead of in terms wall sockets with in wall wiring. I want to be able to take my battery, just one battery, and plug it into whatever I need to use if I have to.
By the way, you can already buy ATX power supplies in 12/24/48v DC in, but they're pricey.
I like blues and classic rock, so most of the artists I want to listen to are dead. . . even if a blues-rock guitarist as good as Hendrix were to suddenly be singed by a company in the RIAA I wouldn't buy his or her cds.
I'm still waiting for Badfinger's No Dice to come down from full price. Guess I'll wait forever. Anything touched by the Beatles is always going to command a premium. I've got it on vinyl, so I'm not doing without, but the CD would be nice. I've just about worn out Janis Joplin's Pearl though and for some reason don't have Cheap Thrills. The bastards might get me on those. Sometimes I get weak.
I'll have to cruise through the local used shops and see if anybody's been idiotic enough to trade those in.
My 6th birthday had the Apollo capsule on the cake.
Mine had a deep breath for having made it through the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Kids these days, they don't know how to sing, "Duck; and cover, Duck; and cover. .."
I don't know what the hell they were thinking with that one. Even as a five year old I knew that my jacket wasn't going to do squat against an A-bomb. I suspected already that grownups were nuts, but that idea confirmed it for me. I've yet to see anything to disuade me from the notion. If anything they've gotten a damned sight nuttier. Glad I'm not one.
You'll have to forgive us. Most Americans think the Japanese bombed America at Pearl Harbor. I'm nowhere near old enough to remember that, but I predate Hawaiian statehood.
At the time, of course, Hawaii was simply an American territory, like Puerto Rico and the UK are now.
The earth has been known to go through vast changes in the past. It always seems to return to some kind of heading. The question is whether we can wihstand the G forces involved in the turn.
But one cannot avoid seeing the stinking hypocrisy in the U.S. . ..
Sure ya can. We not only do we it all the time, but we've gotten damned good at it since Mark Twain wrote "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." Practice makes less imperfect.
One standard, applied equally across the entire range of products.
The one used by the majority of DC electric devices, not just computers. The one compatable with existing external power supplies such as solar, home gas powered generators, your car battery, etc.
If motherboards were designed to run on 12v DC you could put a socket on the back of the case and jack into anything that gave you 12v DC. You could take your home desktop straight to the RV, boat, or cabin in the woods running off a turbine in the little stream or the windmill; without inverters.
I've been talking about his shit for decades. I've talked about it here. You might almost think that Google:
One could equally well define "stabilizing" the airplane to mean returning it to its original heading.
That is the definition I'm using at the moment, for the sake argument, and not chosing to get into the effects of feedback. It is given by the context of the argument.
The point is that you cannot return the plane to its former heading by simply not doing anymore what it was you did to tip it over. Once tipped, shit happens, and keeps happening. The turn is "stable," but it diverges from the striaght ahead course and continues to diverge with neutral controls.
Add in some feedback and you get a tailspin, which you can only pull of by . ..diving at the ground and hoping you can regain stability before you crash. Most people who crash from spins do not do so because they didn't have time to pull out of the dive. They crash because they didn't dive, they just tried to regain stability, and thus doomed themselves to never do so.
Go get a cheap bicycle. Bend one of the fork blades just a liiiiiiiittle bit out alignment. Now coast down the biggest hill you can find.
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The problem is that they can only detect trends and can't really predict real things.
On the other hand you've really got to give the guy mod points for bitch slapping Kevin Warwick like that.
KFG
6MHz Z80; under three bucks from Mouser in lots of 100.
KFG
Right now we have computers that can feign intelligence, i.e. use the internet to pass a multiple-choice test, but this is not a true measure of intelligence.
But Dude! If this were true our entire primary/secondary education system would just be one giant fuckup!
KFG
We already have people that are as dumb as computers. I say leave well enough alone.
As I noted the other day, Joan seems to be at about the level of a typical, airheaded sophmore already. I'm not sure I see any impediment to her going on for a Master's, but I'd posit that she'll have to do it in Media Studies or Knitware, not physics, seeing as the typical airheaded sophmore can't quite pass the Turing Test yet.
KFG
So you really are paying to play stuff you've played before all over again, just with more polys.
Yeah, well, those polys don't mine themselves, ya know?
KFG
How does that prove the same techniques will work after the body has been in zero-g for long periods of time?
The issue is one of surgical techinique, that is to say whether or not the surgeons can manipulate the tools and patient in a manner to do the procedure.
But yes, the whole thing is really a bit silly, the statements made rather sillier and they could have gotten largely the same "results" by sending up a manicurist.
KFG
In the same manner that if I own a home and a van my van is my home. . .oh, wait.
It's a very pretty river though. People come from all over the world to see it.
KFG
Yeah, we were all kinda keeping it quiet deliberately.
Very first thing I thought of on seeing the blurb. I'm afraid the marketdroids will catch on eventually.
I think the monitor has uses, insted or virtual desktops, you only need to change you position to see another desktop.
Yes, much better to move my whole body instead of just my hand.
KFG
You left out one very important part. The type of book. An encyclopedia will require both more, and a different set of people than say the latest romance novel.
You left out one very important part. The type of sound recording. Sgt. Pepper will require both more, and a different set of people than say the latest solo acouctic guitar teenage angst crap.
KFG
Why don't you tell us how books and music are produce and please don't leave any of the dollar amounts
If I leave the the 486 (which so far has cost me exactly nothing) which I write on sitting on the shelf unused for a year it costs me nothing to do so.
If I leave the fiddle (which cost me thousands) I record with sitting on the shelf unused for a year it costs me $200 to be able to use it again. Costs go up if I actually deign to use the thing.
KFG
. . .there's more to releasing an ebook than spitting out a plaintext file.
.I suppose I could bitch about the lack of vorbis support, and of course I'd have to throw in at least a gig of memory to seriously consider it as a music player.
I'm with your other respondant. Almost all of my ebooks are plain text files from Project Gutenberg, with a few PDFs thrown in. I'm generally perfectly happy to just read ASCII text, but for something I want prettfied I just mark it up.
The fact that it's Sony makes my spine itch, there has to be a catch in there somewhere, but this one is soooo close to what I've been waiting for. epaper, isn't bound to a propriatary format, but supports what few propriatary format documents I have by going with a standard . .
And it's a bit small. There are places to make things as small as possible; and then there are places where you shouldn't. They tried to find a compromise here. I disagree with the side of the line the fell on (they wanted to make the device the size of a paperback; I want the screen the size of a paperback), but they are in the vicinity of the line.
I'm not the target market for this thing because nobody is going to make money from me other than the sale of the device, to me ebooks are for public domain text files, Gibbon, Kipling, Burton and the like, stored in mass quantity, but for the likes of me this is the one that looks purchasable.
KFG
Go ahead, bomb our military base on Puerto Rico, see how we react.
We only recently gave up bombing Puerto Rico ourselves. Having someone else do it would be redundant.
KFG
This would also be a boost to people who generate their own electricity (Solar, Wind, Water)
And one of my favorites, gravity drive engines. Yes, that's the core of the idea for me. High voltage AC is better for centralized distribution, but I'm independence oriented.
KFG
This is the common lie/myth . . .
.
And this is the modern lie/myth that replaced it. Neither myth is entirely false, but neither myth is entierly true either. There are socio-political motivations to both.
The Japanese were on the verge of surrendering already. Go study WW2 history . .
Which tells me that at that point it's silly to even talk about The Japanese. The government and military command were fracturing under the pressure of losing the war. There were so many factions it wasn't funny and one faction could be seriously and honestly negotiating surrender while another faction, of equal military strength and political power, was talking about fighting to the last little girl with a nail file.
Yes, actual offers of surrender were tendered , but there was, effectively, no central authority capable of offering a legitimate surrender, except the Emperor himself; and he had to risk his life against a military faction to do it. And those offers were themselves based on guarantees of protection for the Emperor; and although 20/20 hindsight driven by a modern political point of view might make it look like those offers should have been taken there was simply no way under the conditions of the time that Allied forces would accept anything other than absolute, unconditional surrender. As we had already recieved from Germany. After invading Germany.
Part of my study of WWII has been talking to people who were there; as well as in Japan during the occupation. No, not all of them American. My stepfather wrote for a Japanese book publisher.
The last months of the war were simply a fucking mess. Wars can be like that. The broadcast by the Emperor; and only that broadcast, is what made an end to it in a manner that didn't turn everything into a complete fucking mess even after the "end" of the war. God spoke.
The atomic bombs were almost completely unnecessary, except to establish US dominance in the world theater by demonstrating god-like firepower.
I'll agree with this provisionally. They were almost completely unecessary and a major part of their use was to display them to Stalin who had no way of knowing that we had used up the only two we had at the time.
But they had an effect, including on Emperor Showa.
KFG
"Cranks, Nuts, and Screwballs"
Jeeeeeeeeesus Christ! I hate it when I find out the spooks have been talking about me behind my back; again.
KFG
An obvious alternative, yes, and the one installed in most serious solar homes these days. You can pump more power through less wire with fewer losses. All important for Telco equipment.
Perhaps I'm just being short sighted for being a 12v sort of guy. There's a tremendous amount of stuff out there already for 12v systems because of the car/boat/RV industry and I think of DC power systems for the home in terms of those, rather than in terms of conventional home systems. In terms of batteries instead of in terms wall sockets with in wall wiring. I want to be able to take my battery, just one battery, and plug it into whatever I need to use if I have to.
By the way, you can already buy ATX power supplies in 12/24/48v DC in, but they're pricey.
KFG
I like blues and classic rock, so most of the artists I want to listen to are dead. . . even if a blues-rock guitarist as good as Hendrix were to suddenly be singed by a company in the RIAA I wouldn't buy his or her cds.
I'm still waiting for Badfinger's No Dice to come down from full price. Guess I'll wait forever. Anything touched by the Beatles is always going to command a premium. I've got it on vinyl, so I'm not doing without, but the CD would be nice. I've just about worn out Janis Joplin's Pearl though and for some reason don't have Cheap Thrills. The bastards might get me on those. Sometimes I get weak.
I'll have to cruise through the local used shops and see if anybody's been idiotic enough to trade those in.
KFG
My 6th birthday had the Apollo capsule on the cake.
."
Mine had a deep breath for having made it through the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Kids these days, they don't know how to sing, "Duck; and cover, Duck; and cover. .
I don't know what the hell they were thinking with that one. Even as a five year old I knew that my jacket wasn't going to do squat against an A-bomb. I suspected already that grownups were nuts, but that idea confirmed it for me. I've yet to see anything to disuade me from the notion. If anything they've gotten a damned sight nuttier. Glad I'm not one.
KFG
You'll have to forgive us. Most Americans think the Japanese bombed America at Pearl Harbor. I'm nowhere near old enough to remember that, but I predate Hawaiian statehood.
At the time, of course, Hawaii was simply an American territory, like Puerto Rico and the UK are now.
KFG
The earth has been known to go through vast changes in the past. It always seems to return to some kind of heading. The question is whether we can wihstand the G forces involved in the turn.
Exactly.
KFG
But one cannot avoid seeing the stinking hypocrisy in the U.S. . . .
Sure ya can. We not only do we it all the time, but we've gotten damned good at it since Mark Twain wrote "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." Practice makes less imperfect.
KFG
One standard, applied equally across the entire range of products.
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The one used by the majority of DC electric devices, not just computers. The one compatable with existing external power supplies such as solar, home gas powered generators, your car battery, etc.
If motherboards were designed to run on 12v DC you could put a socket on the back of the case and jack into anything that gave you 12v DC. You could take your home desktop straight to the RV, boat, or cabin in the woods running off a turbine in the little stream or the windmill; without inverters.
I've been talking about his shit for decades. I've talked about it here. You might almost think that Google:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1977
KFG
Why stop at 100mph? If we reduce the speed of fall to 0 mph the ground is no longer coming any closer.
Well, fine. I'll toss you off the top of the building and you can just stop whenever you like.
KFG
One could equally well define "stabilizing" the airplane to mean returning it to its original heading.
.diving at the ground and hoping you can regain stability before you crash. Most people who crash from spins do not do so because they didn't have time to pull out of the dive. They crash because they didn't dive, they just tried to regain stability, and thus doomed themselves to never do so.
That is the definition I'm using at the moment, for the sake argument, and not chosing to get into the effects of feedback. It is given by the context of the argument.
The point is that you cannot return the plane to its former heading by simply not doing anymore what it was you did to tip it over. Once tipped, shit happens, and keeps happening. The turn is "stable," but it diverges from the striaght ahead course and continues to diverge with neutral controls.
Add in some feedback and you get a tailspin, which you can only pull of by . .
Go get a cheap bicycle. Bend one of the fork blades just a liiiiiiiittle bit out alignment. Now coast down the biggest hill you can find.
Wear pads.
KFG
So now Google thinks it's an expert in Electrical Engineering.
Naaaaaaaaaah! They've just been reading my posts.
KFG