Robots, on the other hand, can NEVER be empathetic or kind--and we know this without a doubt. There touch isn't a connection and never can be.
How could you possibly know this ? We don't know what kind of advances in AI the future might hold. And besides it's irrelevant, what matters is the human perception of the intent not the intent itself. If we can anthropomorphize animal behavior the way we do we should have no problem kidding ourselves that even a primitive robot is somehow empathetic.
It's a democracy because there are elections in which the public votes for their representatives It's a federation because it's a union of partially self-governing states. It's a republic because supreme power is in the hands of the people's representatives.
Now I'm not an American, but this whole thing sounds like a politically motivated semantic argument to me. I'd think that'd get into the way of actually teaching.
I was thinking the same thing. This kind of version inflation is ridiculous, they went from beta to version "10" in about 2 years. Wouldn't want to lag behind Internet Explorer 8. Kinda reminds me of when Slackware jumped straight from version 4 to 7.
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He would have gotten the technology a lot sooner but he didn't get much response to his add for the trial : "Scientist wants to scan your organ. Call Dr A. Atala Now. $$$ offered"
To be totally fair, it would have been necessary in an ancient civilization where birth control is nonexistant and a significant portion of the population is too stupid to know that sex makes babies. Otherwise, Israel would have had an epidemic of single mothers.
Maybe that's why they had a history of people turning up claiming to be virgin births ?
The books you are quoting there are letters by Peter, the first bishop (and pope) and so essentially the Church. They are church documents, instructions by Peter's church to his followers, included into the first bible a couple of hundred years later because they were determined to be doctrine by the same church that issued them.
Well I read it first in my teens too and those were the mid-90's. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a young geek thumbing through a well-worn copy somewhere today. The classics never go out of style.
It's messy. We could demand a 4 day week now but multinationals would counter by moving even more production off-shore. What would be required would be international solidarity by people striking and boycotting products produced by workers with less rights than us, leveling the playing field and putting the advantage back with the workers. Historically this is extremely rare.
It's too bad because an added advantage of more leisure time would be increased consumption of goods and services which would benefit companies too. They can't see it though because they're too busy squeezing every last drop of productivity out of their "human resources."
Though there's a lot less dust up there than we once thought. There's a rather enjoyable Arthur C. Clark story "A Fall Of Moondust", written pre-moon exploration, which describes ships faring through the stuff.
"With the exception of some products by D-Link and Apple's AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme, none of today's CPE can operate using IPv6 well enough for a field test trial, Bulk says."
Which apparently makes Apple the only company to be ready for IPv6 across all of their current products.
I wonder if this is where Apple is headed with Thunderbolt (née Light Peak) ? A thunderbolt-equipped iPhone could drive a large external display and still have a seperate 10 Gbps multi protocol data channel left over which to drive peripherals, which is plenty fast.
On the whole the EU is non-interventionist unlike the US which tends towards interventionism. Peacekeeping is a messy business too. How many people in Iraq have died since the US led regime change ? 100,000 civilians according to some sources and that's not even a full blown civil war like Yugoslavia was.
I could transcode video, compile a kernel, had an office suite, write code, etcetcet on 433MHz celeron with 128MB.
the functionality-to-specifications ratio is abysmal.
and don't get me started on what people pay for, today. A tea timer is an "app" ? I *pay* for that? For what i can do with my calculator and two lines of code? Or what my featurephone does on its own?
You can do whatever you want on these phones. It's just that people haven't bothered writing polished applications to do most of the stuff you're suggesting can be done better, faster and easier on other platforms, for now at least.
Agreed, the issues also seem relatively minor. Still if this article will lead to Apple doing some extra quality control that'll be a good thing. Sort of a little reminder to Apple that we hold them to a higher standard than other pc makers.
This is my working definition of life. It's best to take an anthropological view and just marvel at the amazing naked ape or you'll drive yourself bananas.
I guess it depends on whether you mean powercycling the box or rebooting the OS. In our environment a Solaris domain in a Sun Fire 15k takes about 20-25 min to reboot while an AIX LPAR in a pSeries can be back online in 5 min. The times you give look about right for powercycling though.
Yep. To quote the article: "When people frantically begin shredding sensitive documents and deleting computer files and smashing flash drives and chasing garbage trucks at 2 a.m.... it is not because they have been operating legitimately," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Ahhh the old "if you are innocent, then you shouldn't have a right to privacy" argument. Obviously I disagree. I'd destroy my hard drive too if I got word the government was coming. They don't need to know that I donated to wikileaks and other projects.
That's not what they are saying at all. The point is that they were acting suspiciously, out of the ordinary, which is circumstantial evidence they were trying to destroy the evidence against them.
The right to privacy isn't absolute either, that's what a search warrant is : the judge saying it is OK to invade your privacy because there is reasonable cause to do so. If you are worried about that you should encrypt the disk so giving access becomes a matter of self-incrimination (if your country protects against that, many don't.)
Prove a crime was committed. (Note that you can't because there's no evidence to review.)
You are assuming he destroyed all evidence, that might not be the case. Then there's the testimony of the informant and whatever incriminating things he said while being taped.
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Robots, on the other hand, can NEVER be empathetic or kind--and we know this without a doubt. There touch isn't a connection and never can be.
How could you possibly know this ? We don't know what kind of advances in AI the future might hold. And besides it's irrelevant, what matters is the human perception of the intent not the intent itself. If we can anthropomorphize animal behavior the way we do we should have no problem kidding ourselves that even a primitive robot is somehow empathetic.
It's all 3, the terms are not mutually exclusive.
It's a democracy because there are elections in which the public votes for their representatives
It's a federation because it's a union of partially self-governing states.
It's a republic because supreme power is in the hands of the people's representatives.
Now I'm not an American, but this whole thing sounds like a politically motivated semantic argument to me. I'd think that'd get into the way of actually teaching.
I was thinking the same thing. This kind of version inflation is ridiculous, they went from beta to version "10" in about 2 years. Wouldn't want to lag behind Internet Explorer 8. Kinda reminds me of when Slackware jumped straight from version 4 to 7.
He would have gotten the technology a lot sooner but he didn't get much response to his add for the trial : "Scientist wants to scan your organ. Call Dr A. Atala Now. $$$ offered"
To be totally fair, it would have been necessary in an ancient civilization where birth control is nonexistant and a significant portion of the population is too stupid to know that sex makes babies. Otherwise, Israel would have had an epidemic of single mothers.
Maybe that's why they had a history of people turning up claiming to be virgin births ?
The books you are quoting there are letters by Peter, the first bishop (and pope) and so essentially the Church. They are church documents, instructions by Peter's church to his followers, included into the first bible a couple of hundred years later because they were determined to be doctrine by the same church that issued them.
Lighten up. It's a caricature used for comic effect. It's funny precisely because the stereotype is not (or no longer) true for most of us.
Well I read it first in my teens too and those were the mid-90's. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a young geek thumbing through a well-worn copy somewhere today. The classics never go out of style.
It's messy. We could demand a 4 day week now but multinationals would counter by moving even more production off-shore. What would be required would be international solidarity by people striking and boycotting products produced by workers with less rights than us, leveling the playing field and putting the advantage back with the workers. Historically this is extremely rare.
It's too bad because an added advantage of more leisure time would be increased consumption of goods and services which would benefit companies too. They can't see it though because they're too busy squeezing every last drop of productivity out of their "human resources."
No, no. Sticky buns is what you get after using Windows Phone 7.
They'll make an italian-bot when they need something to surrender to the viking-bots and samurai-bots.
Though there's a lot less dust up there than we once thought. There's a rather enjoyable Arthur C. Clark story "A Fall Of Moondust", written pre-moon exploration, which describes ships faring through the stuff.
"With the exception of some products by D-Link and Apple's AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme, none of today's CPE can operate using IPv6 well enough for a field test trial, Bulk says."
Which apparently makes Apple the only company to be ready for IPv6 across all of their current products.
I wonder if this is where Apple is headed with Thunderbolt (née Light Peak) ? A thunderbolt-equipped iPhone could drive a large external display and still have a seperate 10 Gbps multi protocol data channel left over which to drive peripherals, which is plenty fast.
I'll certainly be claiming some of that prize money. I won the internet once in a forum discussion. Good thing I kept the voucher.
On the whole the EU is non-interventionist unlike the US which tends towards interventionism. Peacekeeping is a messy business too. How many people in Iraq have died since the US led regime change ? 100,000 civilians according to some sources and that's not even a full blown civil war like Yugoslavia was.
I could transcode video, compile a kernel, had an office suite, write code, etcetcet on 433MHz celeron with 128MB.
the functionality-to-specifications ratio is abysmal.
and don't get me started on what people pay for, today. A tea timer is an "app" ? I *pay* for that? For what i can do with my calculator and two lines of code? Or what my featurephone does on its own?
It's a fucking joke.
Install gcc toolchain on the iPhone
DocumentsToGo office suite for iPhone.
Nimbus source code editor for iOS.
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You can do whatever you want on these phones. It's just that people haven't bothered writing polished applications to do most of the stuff you're suggesting can be done better, faster and easier on other platforms, for now at least.
Agreed, the issues also seem relatively minor. Still if this article will lead to Apple doing some extra quality control that'll be a good thing. Sort of a little reminder to Apple that we hold them to a higher standard than other pc makers.
a lot of stupid people doing stupid shit.
This is my working definition of life. It's best to take an anthropological view and just marvel at the amazing naked ape or you'll drive yourself bananas.
I guess it depends on whether you mean powercycling the box or rebooting the OS. In our environment a Solaris domain in a Sun Fire 15k takes about 20-25 min to reboot while an AIX LPAR in a pSeries can be back online in 5 min. The times you give look about right for powercycling though.
You know, the ones which take upwards of 30 minutes to reboot
Ah, I see you are using Sun.
How about one of their TV's ? They run Linux you know.
Disagree with me all you want, there's no law against being wrong ;-)
Yep. To quote the article: "When people frantically begin shredding sensitive documents and deleting computer files and smashing flash drives and chasing garbage trucks at 2 a.m. ... it is not because they have been operating legitimately," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Ahhh the old "if you are innocent, then you shouldn't have a right to privacy" argument.
Obviously I disagree.
I'd destroy my hard drive too if I got word the government was coming. They don't need to know that I donated to wikileaks and other projects.
That's not what they are saying at all. The point is that they were acting suspiciously, out of the ordinary, which is circumstantial evidence they were trying to destroy the evidence against them.
The right to privacy isn't absolute either, that's what a search warrant is : the judge saying it is OK to invade your privacy because there is reasonable cause to do so. If you are worried about that you should encrypt the disk so giving access becomes a matter of self-incrimination (if your country protects against that, many don't.)
>>>used to help commit a crime
Prove a crime was committed. (Note that you can't because there's no evidence to review.)
You are assuming he destroyed all evidence, that might not be the case. Then there's the testimony of the informant and whatever incriminating things he said while being taped.