It doesn't matter that you don't believe in Christmas - I strongly suspect that part of it is more of an economic or socio/psychological indicator, so all the people who do observe it are dragging you down with them.
I love my computer, and I still prefer reading a print edition . . . can't even put a rational reason down.
How about the fact that in order to change the News after the fact on an online site, it is just a matter of changing the code at the site, whereas with print news, they would have to track down every copy. I don't know about you, but I don't care for retroactive information control, regardless of why it is done - they should have to leave it be, and add a retraction.
I've heard that some of these knock-off products that violate IP laws are made overseas by regimes that support terrorism, and then brought here to sell to us at flea markets and (unsuspecting?) retailers to bring in extra cash to support terrorism. Might just be propaganda, but it is EFFECTIVE propaganda, 'cause I'll make the call to turn them in every chance I get.
The only IP violations I support are the ones that don't want any money from me, 'cause they can't turn around and use it against me. Admittedly, "they" might be making free P2P programs to undermine the U.S. entertainment-based economy - but I'M not that subtle.;)
The Golden Age Superman never died - he, the GA Lois Lane, and Superboy from Earth Prime stepped into an eternal paradise world that existed, it seemed to me, inside Alexander Luthor. See "Crisis On Infinite Earths" comic miniseries or the collected graphic novel.
I always wonder why it is, when I see things like this, that the two parties can't work it out in a more straight-forward and mutually beneficial fashion. In this case, all it would probably have taken was for the publisher to have offered to pay for katie.com's hosting and registry for as long as they wished to put a small presence along the top or to one side of her page, referring people to info on the book. In the case of the two WWF's a few years back, I emailed them both outlining a mutually beneficial way to SHARE the domain name and promote both the Wildlife Fund AND the Superstars of Wrestling. Probably would have netted the World Wildlife Fund a nice new source of revenue from wrestling fans who like Jake the Snake and ACTUAL snakes, Gorilla Monsoon and REAL gorillas, and Sable and um, things with fur, but NO, we can't have that, can we?
Too many damned lawyers in the world, not enough "gentlemen's agreements".
Apparently, you've not considered the sort of mechanisms needed to achieve such a mind in the first place - they eliminate the problem you suggest, for the most part. I'll use Data as an example, since his brain has been more thoroughly described than the Asimovian ones he is based on.
First, there would be a very small number of positrons extant in the mind at any given moment, so there would be a very low yield should such a brain explode. Second, the only way positrons exist in Data's mind in the first place is through the use of a "phase discriminator". Sounds like technobabble, I know, but I don't think it is, entirely. Its name implies that it would shift the existance phase in a manner similar to what happened to LaForge and Ro in that one episode - effectively making it impossible for matter and antimatter to collide and explode. And his brain was set up in such a way that if the phase discriminator wasn't working, the brain didn't work at all.
As to why positrons would be used at all, the only thing I've ever been able to think of is that it would allow information to travel both ways simultaneously - full-duplex, if you will. Seems to me we're already exceeding what advantages we could get from that with quantum computing, and without all that nasty playing about with anti-matter.
Um, Sonny Bono, not Bono. Please don't confuse people who might think that our future Secretary General (when the world gets all cool and Bill and Ted's revolution comes) might have done something heinous like that!
I'm a retail PC tech, and I have done this many, many times, with about a 50% success rate.
Wrap the drive in a handtowel, then put in a freezer bag. Freeze for two hours, and you'll have at least 45 minutes, IF it worked. Do NOT reinstall the drive inside the machine - leave it hanging by its cable outside, because condensation of water vapor will begin in short order, and you don't want the water dripping on other, presumably good, components.
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Some of you may think this is flamebait, but I promise it isn't.....
From a certain perspective, D&D IS Satanic. That would be from the viewpoint that doing ANYTHING that doesn't glorify G_d is Satanic. It isn't a position I personally agree with - I happen to think its entirely possible to do things that are "religiously inert", if you get my meaning - but I can see where this would come from.
The usual problem with the people who use arguments like this is that they fail to apply them universally - after all, if D&D is Satanic for that reason, so is football, or chess, or any other activity humans do for recreation and not to glorify Him.
No. Actually, it was originally that she was going to get away with it, until her defense attorney found out her son was going to be a character witness against her, and decided to change tactics a bit.
Not exactly what you're asking about, but one way to scam free food out of a fast food joint is to order a small quantity of something, then come back in an hour claiming they left out some of a larger quantity. For example, order the 6 pack of tacos, then come back claiming to have ordered the 10 pack, and they left out four. Usually if they remember you were there at all, they turn over the grub.
My mom used to do this. Of course, she's an evil being who is currently serving 25 years for a hire-to-kill for insurance money, so I'll let you decide whether to emulate her or not...
Would being able to tell the country of origin for the fuel really mean anything? I mean, every nuclear power on the planet so far has let some bit of its nuclear program become 'lost'.
Seems to me this would just become a tool for blaming whomever our other intel is telling us is at fault - right or wrong, as we've seen recently.
It has occurred to me, whenever the subject of AI is broached, that scientists seem to be doing a bang-up job of heading towards replicating the proper function of a brain in computer hardware, but none of the projects I've seen try to replicate the errors that result when the brain cell sending or receiving a message dies, is replaced incorrectly, is deformed one way or another, or is subject to any of the other myriad flaws of flesh.
Could it be that sentience, in the end, is the result of brain farts?
I've had people tell me they were going to pray for me, before, and I tell them that I don't mind if they do - provided they only pray to have the way of their God SHOWN to me, and not that I have my will overpowered so that I do their God's will (really, their will, usually).
I'm well-studied in many religions, and I have a friend that, from an objective point of view, is one of the best Christians I know - and he and I get along great without him ever needing to pray for me. Or at least, he doesn't force it upon me to know that he does - prayer is supposed to be between one and one's deity, right?
And they knew how to make 'em in those days, too! Why, Knight Industries fit the entire software workings of an interactive talking car into a drive that size! And we LIKED 'em that way!
Some of my friends and I were playing Star Wars D20 (before the revisions) and we think we know what happened in the Special Edition. Greedo tried to shoot Han and missed because you can't shoot from an adjacent 2 meter square. Han, though, was experienced enough to know this, and thus shot the at the wall behind Greedo and "missed". Perfectly straight forward rules there.
Patrick Stewart? He certainly does enough commercial narration to make him a possibility. And he has a particularly nice British accent, especially for a Frenchman.
I was really impressed with the quality of the mini-series, and how it stayed true to the original without just being a straight remake. It makes me wonder, though, if its easier to make a new series when there's only 22 original episodes to follow, as opposed to the 4 series and couple of hundred episodes that result in a follow up like Enterprise, where continuity is raped on a regular basis. Mr. Moore can probably keep 'em all in his head.
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It doesn't matter that you don't believe in Christmas - I strongly suspect that part of it is more of an economic or socio/psychological indicator, so all the people who do observe it are dragging you down with them.
;)
Not that this isn't all complete poppycock.
How about the fact that in order to change the News after the fact on an online site, it is just a matter of changing the code at the site, whereas with print news, they would have to track down every copy. I don't know about you, but I don't care for retroactive information control, regardless of why it is done - they should have to leave it be, and add a retraction.
I've heard that some of these knock-off products that violate IP laws are made overseas by regimes that support terrorism, and then brought here to sell to us at flea markets and (unsuspecting?) retailers to bring in extra cash to support terrorism. Might just be propaganda, but it is EFFECTIVE propaganda, 'cause I'll make the call to turn them in every chance I get.
;)
The only IP violations I support are the ones that don't want any money from me, 'cause they can't turn around and use it against me. Admittedly, "they" might be making free P2P programs to undermine the U.S. entertainment-based economy - but I'M not that subtle.
The Golden Age Superman never died - he, the GA Lois Lane, and Superboy from Earth Prime stepped into an eternal paradise world that existed, it seemed to me, inside Alexander Luthor. See "Crisis On Infinite Earths" comic miniseries or the collected graphic novel.
I always wonder why it is, when I see things like this, that the two parties can't work it out in a more straight-forward and mutually beneficial fashion. In this case, all it would probably have taken was for the publisher to have offered to pay for katie.com's hosting and registry for as long as they wished to put a small presence along the top or to one side of her page, referring people to info on the book. In the case of the two WWF's a few years back, I emailed them both outlining a mutually beneficial way to SHARE the domain name and promote both the Wildlife Fund AND the Superstars of Wrestling. Probably would have netted the World Wildlife Fund a nice new source of revenue from wrestling fans who like Jake the Snake and ACTUAL snakes, Gorilla Monsoon and REAL gorillas, and Sable and um, things with fur, but NO, we can't have that, can we?
Too many damned lawyers in the world, not enough "gentlemen's agreements".
Silly - he doesn't need to build an OFFICE on the sun for that. All the billing has been farmed out to India!
That's okay. She was worth it.
(What do you think melted those ears in the first place? )
This appears to be the longest one it will actually DO, anything beyond is infinite.
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Apparently, you've not considered the sort of mechanisms needed to achieve such a mind in the first place - they eliminate the problem you suggest, for the most part. I'll use Data as an example, since his brain has been more thoroughly described than the Asimovian ones he is based on.
First, there would be a very small number of positrons extant in the mind at any given moment, so there would be a very low yield should such a brain explode. Second, the only way positrons exist in Data's mind in the first place is through the use of a "phase discriminator". Sounds like technobabble, I know, but I don't think it is, entirely. Its name implies that it would shift the existance phase in a manner similar to what happened to LaForge and Ro in that one episode - effectively making it impossible for matter and antimatter to collide and explode. And his brain was set up in such a way that if the phase discriminator wasn't working, the brain didn't work at all.
As to why positrons would be used at all, the only thing I've ever been able to think of is that it would allow information to travel both ways simultaneously - full-duplex, if you will. Seems to me we're already exceeding what advantages we could get from that with quantum computing, and without all that nasty playing about with anti-matter.
Actually, it's from the French navy - "Rig du Jour", or rigged for the day. It implies a temporary repair on the rigging.
Um, Sonny Bono, not Bono. Please don't confuse people who might think that our future Secretary General (when the world gets all cool and Bill and Ted's revolution comes) might have done something heinous like that!
Be Excellent To Each Other.
I'm a retail PC tech, and I have done this many, many times, with about a 50% success rate.
Wrap the drive in a handtowel, then put in a freezer bag. Freeze for two hours, and you'll have at least 45 minutes, IF it worked. Do NOT reinstall the drive inside the machine - leave it hanging by its cable outside, because condensation of water vapor will begin in short order, and you don't want the water dripping on other, presumably good, components.
Some of you may think this is flamebait, but I promise it isn't.....
From a certain perspective, D&D IS Satanic. That would be from the viewpoint that doing ANYTHING that doesn't glorify G_d is Satanic. It isn't a position I personally agree with - I happen to think its entirely possible to do things that are "religiously inert", if you get my meaning - but I can see where this would come from.
The usual problem with the people who use arguments like this is that they fail to apply them universally - after all, if D&D is Satanic for that reason, so is football, or chess, or any other activity humans do for recreation and not to glorify Him.
That would ruin BOTH effects - people would just think you were Automan!
No. Actually, it was originally that she was going to get away with it, until her defense attorney found out her son was going to be a character witness against her, and decided to change tactics a bit.
Your version IS funnier, though.
Not exactly what you're asking about, but one way to scam free food out of a fast food joint is to order a small quantity of something, then come back in an hour claiming they left out some of a larger quantity. For example, order the 6 pack of tacos, then come back claiming to have ordered the 10 pack, and they left out four. Usually if they remember you were there at all, they turn over the grub.
My mom used to do this. Of course, she's an evil being who is currently serving 25 years for a hire-to-kill for insurance money, so I'll let you decide whether to emulate her or not...
Would being able to tell the country of origin for the fuel really mean anything? I mean, every nuclear power on the planet so far has let some bit of its nuclear program become 'lost'.
Seems to me this would just become a tool for blaming whomever our other intel is telling us is at fault - right or wrong, as we've seen recently.
It has occurred to me, whenever the subject of AI is broached, that scientists seem to be doing a bang-up job of heading towards replicating the proper function of a brain in computer hardware, but none of the projects I've seen try to replicate the errors that result when the brain cell sending or receiving a message dies, is replaced incorrectly, is deformed one way or another, or is subject to any of the other myriad flaws of flesh.
Could it be that sentience, in the end, is the result of brain farts?
I've had people tell me they were going to pray for me, before, and I tell them that I don't mind if they do - provided they only pray to have the way of their God SHOWN to me, and not that I have my will overpowered so that I do their God's will (really, their will, usually).
I'm well-studied in many religions, and I have a friend that, from an objective point of view, is one of the best Christians I know - and he and I get along great without him ever needing to pray for me. Or at least, he doesn't force it upon me to know that he does - prayer is supposed to be between one and one's deity, right?
And they knew how to make 'em in those days, too! Why, Knight Industries fit the entire software workings of an interactive talking car into a drive that size! And we LIKED 'em that way!
I just figured with the Slashdot Effect, it was, "Show's over, Cinergy."
Mod me down, but you know you watched the show with the hot rocker chicks, too. I won't tell if you don't.
Some of my friends and I were playing Star Wars D20 (before the revisions) and we think we know what happened in the Special Edition. Greedo tried to shoot Han and missed because you can't shoot from an adjacent 2 meter square. Han, though, was experienced enough to know this, and thus shot the at the wall behind Greedo and "missed". Perfectly straight forward rules there.
Patrick Stewart? He certainly does enough commercial narration to make him a possibility. And he has a particularly nice British accent, especially for a Frenchman.
I was really impressed with the quality of the mini-series, and how it stayed true to the original without just being a straight remake. It makes me wonder, though, if its easier to make a new series when there's only 22 original episodes to follow, as opposed to the 4 series and couple of hundred episodes that result in a follow up like Enterprise, where continuity is raped on a regular basis. Mr. Moore can probably keep 'em all in his head.
No, no, no. It's Flied Lice, you plick!