Jobs said he's not going to do 3G until they can get 3G chips that use less power. Who wants to bet Apple is arranging to have exactly that available by the fall?
"The factual evidence that supports creationism is that anything exists at all"
There's an invisible dragon that lives behind my toilet and causes inclement weather. It rains, and thus factual evidence supports my claim. Just because meteorologists prefer some other theory of weather doesn't mean anything - after all, I don't see them being able to reproduce any hurricanes.
If I shoot you in the head, some impetuous folks would jump to the conclusion that this event caused your subsequent death. However, they are just guessing, since they can't repeat the experiment.
"If someone is performing a service for x amount of money, for people whose demand supports y amount of money, where x is much less than y, the middle man - the person performing the arbitrage - is getting the difference, without actually doing anything."
Except connecting those who want to supply labor with those who want to purchase it. Perhaps you think that HR should handle everything, but having been on both sides of arbitraged un-skilled and semi-skilled labor, I see definite benefits for both sides of relying on skilled connection-makers.
The real issue is that many of those supplying labor are not in free systems in which middle-men compete fairly, meaning that the arbitrageurs enjoy monopsony power with respect to the workers. There exists many potential solutions to this very serious problem, from putting anti-corruption pressure on upper classes to educating workers on how to fight monopsonistic practices, but merely condemning arbitrage is not among them.
I'm confused by "Ammonia is liquid only up to around 130 C" Ammonia's a liquid from ~195-240K at STP, which is about -70 to -35 C. On Mars it would be quite a bit lower. What did you mean to say?
"Nobody outside the NSA knows what the NSA encompasses and I'd be willing to bet most people inside the NSA don't either"
Well, I have some experience with DIA, NSA and CIA (none whatsoever with the FBI and only very tangentially with the NRO) and have spent some time at Fort Meade. Everything I've seen makes me think that if anyone wants to go do something (as opposed to study, collect or analyze something) then there are plenty of other agencies with the resources and expertise to do that and would take badly any NSA attempt to trespass on their operational turf.
Maybe that's just what they want me to think, or maybe I'm part of NSA legions of disinformation disseminators, but I would mostly ask why one would even suspect that the NSA is other than it says it is? Is SIGINT insufficient to explain its use of high classifications in your eyes? From where comes your conspiracy theory?
The NSA is not in any way like the secret police. More like government hackers. Also, you might want to look up (the declassified portions of) USSID 18. I'll get you started:
Of course, most of the protections that keep the NSA from spying on US persons can be circumvented by a determined executive branch. Fortunately the people actually at the NSA complained about the recent abuses, which is part of the reason anyone knows about abuses at all.
Huh? The Chinese computer market is growing at a blistering pace, and they now sell more than 20 million new PCs a year in a global market of fewer than 50 million units annually.
It's certainly possible. We make child soldiers and all sorts of things. I sure if we're brutal enough, we can make anything pretty psychotic.
The key thing is that is a complete working system we're not "making" it anything in the sense we make a desktop computer do something. If we were, it wouldn't really be brain-like. Instead, we're causing something brain-like to have proto-experiences. When the hardware (and low-level software) gets to be far more brain-like, to the point where from a logical topology standpoint it's difficult to tell the two apart, one can expect that these computers will be people like the rest of us, and subject to many of the same weaknesses. We'll know we've succeeded when we make a computer that's bad at math.
Impeach him on what grounds? What law would he have broken? It's not a no-confidence vote. Now, if they passed a binding bill directing him not to do something (say, attacking Iran) and he did it, then they could impeach.
It would stand to reason that those whose professional success rode on the sales of their product would not retain their employment for very long if reason had so little influence in their decisions that they chose a codec because of "hype" or "bullshit". Since the other posters pointed out significant and convincing reasons for a DAP to use AAC and for online music services to vend the same, perhaps you could elaborate on your conviction that any corporation's choice to do so would be irrational.
Why would you just assume that? Look at the other responses, all of which make perfect sense. Do you have some alternative form of Tourette's in which you involuntarily spout cynicism?
Just so - is the Mississippi of today the same river as the river draining the same area in the Olmec era? There are similarities, of course, but there are also big differences. What about when Homo Erectus arose? And so on. Exchanging neurons for electronics is like exchanging water precipitate for another liquid - it would still have to flow to the sea down a course we'd call a river.
Why would we ever suspect that we might eventually lose such a thing by replacing a biological machine with a electromechanical one? Answer that, and you've probably started toward outlining the answer to the original question.
The "software" of the mind isn't the sort of thing you can sit down and code any more than our genes code for basketball skill. I'm sure they could teach people with hardware brains to be all sorts of things, but that's nothing new. The brain may be suitable for Von Neumann implementation, but the mind can't be written in C++. Or LISP, for that matter.
Not so large a victory for those who decided to buy players that can't play AAC, perhaps. If I had a Zune I'd find this just as attractive as I do owning an iPod and using iTunes on my various computers.
I live or have lived around Amoeba, Rasputin's, Salzers, Independent, Reactor... in none of these cases would I expect my CDs to be less than $10 on average unless I was buying them used. When I order directly from record companies it's about $10, but then I have to pay shipping. Used CDs are great, but it requires a lot of time and luck to find what I want.
Until now I've only bought CDs because the non-DRM offerings out there were fragmented, sometimes of low quality and a pain to manage, but this could change things in a hurry.
No, it's wrong. Fortunately, blu3 b0y had no trouble spotting the mistake, which has that he stated the converse of what the statistics implied. Nothing to do with correlation and causation.
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I believe overshoot's post was a joke, moderator. If air pressure inside the suit was really zero, the astronaut would die of the bends.
The suit has to supply enough mechanical pressure to keep it from puffing out in response to the pneumatic pressure inside the suit.
Jobs said he's not going to do 3G until they can get 3G chips that use less power. Who wants to bet Apple is arranging to have exactly that available by the fall?
What do you mean GSM is packet oriented? Traditional GSM is connection oriented, assigning a TCH via multiframe only at call time.
"The factual evidence that supports creationism is that anything exists at all"
There's an invisible dragon that lives behind my toilet and causes inclement weather. It rains, and thus factual evidence supports my claim. Just because meteorologists prefer some other theory of weather doesn't mean anything - after all, I don't see them being able to reproduce any hurricanes.
If I shoot you in the head, some impetuous folks would jump to the conclusion that this event caused your subsequent death. However, they are just guessing, since they can't repeat the experiment.
"If someone is performing a service for x amount of money, for people whose demand supports y amount of money, where x is much less than y, the middle man - the person performing the arbitrage - is getting the difference, without actually doing anything."
Except connecting those who want to supply labor with those who want to purchase it. Perhaps you think that HR should handle everything, but having been on both sides of arbitraged un-skilled and semi-skilled labor, I see definite benefits for both sides of relying on skilled connection-makers.
The real issue is that many of those supplying labor are not in free systems in which middle-men compete fairly, meaning that the arbitrageurs enjoy monopsony power with respect to the workers. There exists many potential solutions to this very serious problem, from putting anti-corruption pressure on upper classes to educating workers on how to fight monopsonistic practices, but merely condemning arbitrage is not among them.
I'm confused by "Ammonia is liquid only up to around 130 C" Ammonia's a liquid from ~195-240K at STP, which is about -70 to -35 C. On Mars it would be quite a bit lower. What did you mean to say?
"Nobody outside the NSA knows what the NSA encompasses and I'd be willing to bet most people inside the NSA don't either"
Well, I have some experience with DIA, NSA and CIA (none whatsoever with the FBI and only very tangentially with the NRO) and have spent some time at Fort Meade. Everything I've seen makes me think that if anyone wants to go do something (as opposed to study, collect or analyze something) then there are plenty of other agencies with the resources and expertise to do that and would take badly any NSA attempt to trespass on their operational turf.
Maybe that's just what they want me to think, or maybe I'm part of NSA legions of disinformation disseminators, but I would mostly ask why one would even suspect that the NSA is other than it says it is? Is SIGINT insufficient to explain its use of high classifications in your eyes? From where comes your conspiracy theory?
The NSA is not in any way like the secret police. More like government hackers. Also, you might want to look up (the declassified portions of) USSID 18. I'll get you started:
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/07-1
Of course, most of the protections that keep the NSA from spying on US persons can be circumvented by a determined executive branch. Fortunately the people actually at the NSA complained about the recent abuses, which is part of the reason anyone knows about abuses at all.
I'm glad someone pointed this out.
Huh? The Chinese computer market is growing at a blistering pace, and they now sell more than 20 million new PCs a year in a global market of fewer than 50 million units annually.
"Unless it's specifically designed in every aspect to behave exactly like a human, and we are able to fool it into believing itself is a human"
If it behaves like a human, why is it not a human?
It's certainly possible. We make child soldiers and all sorts of things. I sure if we're brutal enough, we can make anything pretty psychotic.
The key thing is that is a complete working system we're not "making" it anything in the sense we make a desktop computer do something. If we were, it wouldn't really be brain-like. Instead, we're causing something brain-like to have proto-experiences. When the hardware (and low-level software) gets to be far more brain-like, to the point where from a logical topology standpoint it's difficult to tell the two apart, one can expect that these computers will be people like the rest of us, and subject to many of the same weaknesses. We'll know we've succeeded when we make a computer that's bad at math.
Impeach him on what grounds? What law would he have broken? It's not a no-confidence vote. Now, if they passed a binding bill directing him not to do something (say, attacking Iran) and he did it, then they could impeach.
It would stand to reason that those whose professional success rode on the sales of their product would not retain their employment for very long if reason had so little influence in their decisions that they chose a codec because of "hype" or "bullshit". Since the other posters pointed out significant and convincing reasons for a DAP to use AAC and for online music services to vend the same, perhaps you could elaborate on your conviction that any corporation's choice to do so would be irrational.
Why would you just assume that? Look at the other responses, all of which make perfect sense. Do you have some alternative form of Tourette's in which you involuntarily spout cynicism?
The person to whom I replied said "...for example, someone might be able to "program" humans as we program computers today..."
Sounds like coding a mind to me.
Just so - is the Mississippi of today the same river as the river draining the same area in the Olmec era? There are similarities, of course, but there are also big differences. What about when Homo Erectus arose? And so on. Exchanging neurons for electronics is like exchanging water precipitate for another liquid - it would still have to flow to the sea down a course we'd call a river.
Why would we ever suspect that we might eventually lose such a thing by replacing a biological machine with a electromechanical one? Answer that, and you've probably started toward outlining the answer to the original question.
The "software" of the mind isn't the sort of thing you can sit down and code any more than our genes code for basketball skill. I'm sure they could teach people with hardware brains to be all sorts of things, but that's nothing new. The brain may be suitable for Von Neumann implementation, but the mind can't be written in C++. Or LISP, for that matter.
Minds have to write themselves, or they don't work.
Not so large a victory for those who decided to buy players that can't play AAC, perhaps. If I had a Zune I'd find this just as attractive as I do owning an iPod and using iTunes on my various computers.
I live or have lived around Amoeba, Rasputin's, Salzers, Independent, Reactor... in none of these cases would I expect my CDs to be less than $10 on average unless I was buying them used. When I order directly from record companies it's about $10, but then I have to pay shipping. Used CDs are great, but it requires a lot of time and luck to find what I want.
Until now I've only bought CDs because the non-DRM offerings out there were fragmented, sometimes of low quality and a pain to manage, but this could change things in a hurry.
Windows 95 was Chicago and before that Windows 4.0 to be released in '93. Cairo was the NT-based replacement for Chicago to be released in '97.
No, it's wrong. Fortunately, blu3 b0y had no trouble spotting the mistake, which has that he stated the converse of what the statistics implied. Nothing to do with correlation and causation.
http://www.jimloy.com/logic/converse.htm