I have run an AthlonXP 2100 for 3 years and it runs at 70C under load. Using the AMD heatsink and fan in a well ventilated case. Your chip runs cooler? Good for you. It probably has a different core. Shut up now.
Well there's your problem. You shouldn't have been using milibit RAM chips. It takes 500 of the damn things just to store half a bit. And if you want to be able to count all the way up to 1, you have to drop some serious cash on even more RAM chips!
What is so wrong with selling a piece of a wrecked shuttle? Many people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall, but nobody cried when people sold pieces of it.
Your question is why haven't more species evolved the intelligence we have? And you don't think there is an answer to this question, therefore there must be supernatural influence?
Maybe we were the first, and others will eventually?
Maybe it is so highly unlikely to happen that we are the only ones who have evolved intelligence in the galaxy?
You seem to think it is impossible for random events to produce properties like intelligence. That just show's you haven't considered it on an astronomical time scale. If you randomly flip bits long enough, you will eventually end up with Microsoft Office. If you just look at Microsoft Office, you would think intelligence MUST have produced it. But life is millions (billions?) of years old! If you flip random genes around long enough, in life forms all over this planet, you will eventually end up with something that seems impossible to have happened randomly, like MS Office or Humanity. (My appologies to Humanity)
I hope this was enlightening for you.
Saying "That's amazing! A god must have done it!" has been the favorite cop-out answer among fools for centuries. And in case after case, it has been discredited.
"with every technological revolution we come up with newer, more efficient methods of eliminating members of our own species."
The majority of new technology has allowed us to live longer, healthier lives. It has the opposite effect of what you're saying. Of course the "cancer" comment pretty clearly identifies you as a troll, I suppose. So don't bother replying.
The prime directive only applies to intelligent life. Planets with no life or nothing but trees can be nuked for all the UFP cares. Get your Trek right or leave this website, never to return.
Humanity doesn't need to spread to other planets for "elbow room." It needs to spread for the survival of the human race! There is no more important goal in the history humanity than to establish itself on other planets. For all we know, if we don't get off of Earth. life itself may vanish throughout the universe.
We know we weren't "evolved for the purpose" of anything. Evolution is a phenomenon that happens as a side effect of random change. It doesn't have a purpose.
"We have shown in the past that we are likely to destroy ourselves."
That's false. We're still here. Throughout history we have only increased our population (well, modern history). This seems to show the exact opposite of what you so shamelessly present as fact.
And security is not a "yes/no" question. Something that prevents programmers from making some classes of security flaws should be used even if it doesn't prevent all classes.
Face the facts. The software you use and depend on will be written by BAD programmers who don't take "a few extra precautions." Wouldn't you prefer these bad programmers use languages which prevent them from making serious security mistakes in the products you use?
You are using the wrong techniques. When I go to clubs, I never buy girls drinks. Try dancing with them instead of wasting your money. You can tell if they are in to you if they dance closer/grind harder.. and that doesn't cost anything : )
That's a good point. There is a safe way to do this. Link fingerprints to a DB of credit cards and photographs. When you scan your finger, it brings up your photo on the clerk's computer, so he can verify that it is you. This way, if someone steals your fingerprint and makes false ones, it won't help them one bit. And this is just as convenient for the customer.
Fingerprints being used as the only means of authentication are a bad idea, though. But if it is implemented correctly, it is a good idea, and a hell of a lot better than using paper signatures.
Mod points be damned. Yes, this is AI, per the definition of AI. The real definition, not the late night scifi chanel low budget movie version. Slashdot is in a sad state when comments of legit AI researchers go untouched but BS comments from average guys who watch too much TV get modded all the way up.
Whoever submitted that needs to look up what FUD means. It is not a cool leet internet word for dogma. It specifically refers to disinformation about a competing product or competitor intended to damage their business.
Have the children of slashdot learned nothing from their elders?
Wow, what are you doing on slashdot? This site is for people that know technology. Letting someone export a song to other formats does not in any way require them to store multiple formats on their servers. Dumbass.
Why would I want to use and audio CD in an MP3 player? That wastes all the benefits of an MP3 player. Yes, I own the song but they go out of their way to make it annoying for me to use unless I put the song on an iPod or a legacy audio CD. That's treating your customers like dirt.
The iTunes DRM sucks and you know it. I have an MP3 player in my car. To use it, I need to burn MP3 files to a data CD. With iTunes, when I buy a song I CAN'T LISTEN TO IT IN MY CAR because it won't let me "export" the song to a format my hardware can parse. That's absurd.
Matthew: I think you should post this comment a few more times! Maybe the mods won't notice! Oops. I tipped them off. Welcome to the land of -1 redundant.
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The coast guard would be far better at that than some guy in a light house.
I believe you are talking about WAAS points.
I have run an AthlonXP 2100 for 3 years and it runs at 70C under load. Using the AMD heatsink and fan in a well ventilated case. Your chip runs cooler? Good for you. It probably has a different core. Shut up now.
"P90 with 24mb RAM"
Well there's your problem. You shouldn't have been using milibit RAM chips. It takes 500 of the damn things just to store half a bit. And if you want to be able to count all the way up to 1, you have to drop some serious cash on even more RAM chips!
What is so wrong with selling a piece of a wrecked shuttle? Many people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall, but nobody cried when people sold pieces of it.
Your question is why haven't more species evolved the intelligence we have? And you don't think there is an answer to this question, therefore there must be supernatural influence?
Maybe we were the first, and others will eventually?
Maybe it is so highly unlikely to happen that we are the only ones who have evolved intelligence in the galaxy?
You seem to think it is impossible for random events to produce properties like intelligence. That just show's you haven't considered it on an astronomical time scale. If you randomly flip bits long enough, you will eventually end up with Microsoft Office. If you just look at Microsoft Office, you would think intelligence MUST have produced it. But life is millions (billions?) of years old! If you flip random genes around long enough, in life forms all over this planet, you will eventually end up with something that seems impossible to have happened randomly, like MS Office or Humanity. (My appologies to Humanity)
I hope this was enlightening for you.
Saying "That's amazing! A god must have done it!" has been the favorite cop-out answer among fools for centuries. And in case after case, it has been discredited.
You, sir, have the world's record for longest sentance.
"with every technological revolution we come up with newer, more efficient methods of eliminating members of our own species."
The majority of new technology has allowed us to live longer, healthier lives. It has the opposite effect of what you're saying. Of course the "cancer" comment pretty clearly identifies you as a troll, I suppose. So don't bother replying.
The prime directive only applies to intelligent life. Planets with no life or nothing but trees can be nuked for all the UFP cares. Get your Trek right or leave this website, never to return.
Humanity doesn't need to spread to other planets for "elbow room." It needs to spread for the survival of the human race! There is no more important goal in the history humanity than to establish itself on other planets. For all we know, if we don't get off of Earth. life itself may vanish throughout the universe.
We know we weren't "evolved for the purpose" of anything. Evolution is a phenomenon that happens as a side effect of random change. It doesn't have a purpose.
"We have shown in the past that we are likely to destroy ourselves."
That's false. We're still here. Throughout history we have only increased our population (well, modern history). This seems to show the exact opposite of what you so shamelessly present as fact.
And security is not a "yes/no" question. Something that prevents programmers from making some classes of security flaws should be used even if it doesn't prevent all classes.
Face the facts. The software you use and depend on will be written by BAD programmers who don't take "a few extra precautions." Wouldn't you prefer these bad programmers use languages which prevent them from making serious security mistakes in the products you use?
It must be a busy job being president, especially since you have to take over congress's job.
You left out all the work Wesley did on the positron emmitter! Give credit where credit is due.
You are using the wrong techniques. When I go to clubs, I never buy girls drinks. Try dancing with them instead of wasting your money. You can tell if they are in to you if they dance closer/grind harder.. and that doesn't cost anything : )
That's a good point. There is a safe way to do this. Link fingerprints to a DB of credit cards and photographs. When you scan your finger, it brings up your photo on the clerk's computer, so he can verify that it is you. This way, if someone steals your fingerprint and makes false ones, it won't help them one bit. And this is just as convenient for the customer.
Fingerprints being used as the only means of authentication are a bad idea, though. But if it is implemented correctly, it is a good idea, and a hell of a lot better than using paper signatures.
And you think relying on a magnetic strip (anyone can forge that) and a signature (nobody ever even verifys that) is somehow safer?
Mod points be damned. Yes, this is AI, per the definition of AI. The real definition, not the late night scifi chanel low budget movie version. Slashdot is in a sad state when comments of legit AI researchers go untouched but BS comments from average guys who watch too much TV get modded all the way up.
Whoever submitted that needs to look up what FUD means. It is not a cool leet internet word for dogma. It specifically refers to disinformation about a competing product or competitor intended to damage their business.
Have the children of slashdot learned nothing from their elders?
Wow, what are you doing on slashdot? This site is for people that know technology. Letting someone export a song to other formats does not in any way require them to store multiple formats on their servers. Dumbass.
Why would I want to use and audio CD in an MP3 player? That wastes all the benefits of an MP3 player. Yes, I own the song but they go out of their way to make it annoying for me to use unless I put the song on an iPod or a legacy audio CD. That's treating your customers like dirt.
The iTunes DRM sucks and you know it. I have an MP3 player in my car. To use it, I need to burn MP3 files to a data CD. With iTunes, when I buy a song I CAN'T LISTEN TO IT IN MY CAR because it won't let me "export" the song to a format my hardware can parse. That's absurd.
Matthew: I think you should post this comment a few more times! Maybe the mods won't notice! Oops. I tipped them off. Welcome to the land of -1 redundant.