Already, computers are waaay more powerful than human minds
In which way? If a computer can make additions, subtractions, multiplications at 0.00001% of the time we're capable of, this doesn't mean they're more powerful. It only means they're more specialized in a very narrow activity. Yes, very narrow, since a human being uses a very tiny fraction of their time performing mathematical calculations.
Humans are way above machines when we're talking about performing various activities one after another without extensive downtimes spent reprogramming themselves. Here's an example: get up, dance, write a 50-word paragraph about eggs, clap hands, take a shower, hum the national anthem, name 5 random objects presented to you, understand a joke someone's telling you, smell a flower.
The list could go on. Intelligence is not about doing one thing very fast, but about doing many different things well enough. And yes, this includes animal world as well.
It's not about countries, it's about cultures. Some cultures (e.g. Western European culture) favor more serious subjects versus others. Some others (e.g. Northern American) favor lighter subjects (unwind-type). Asian cultures apparently favor explosive feeling-related and augmentative headlines ("It's SUPER effective!"; "AMAZING performance!").
Nobody's to blame, really, except companies not doing their homeworks and trying to vomit their own culture-specific successes over other cultures and promptly failing.
My manager never gets involved into the development process except when there's an escalation, usually from me. He's there to help me overcome hurdles, nothing more. And he's been really good at keeping stupid people at bay.
Dune was pretty good at the time. So were the movies derived from Arthur C Clarke's work. I'm okay with adaptation, what I'm not okay is removing the fucking main character of the book from the movie (e.g. Riverworld which was a HORRIBLE movie).
There are so many great, GREAT books which deserve great, GREAT movies: Tuf Voyaging, A Fire Upon The Deep, Spin (by Robert Charles Wilson), Camouflage (which is really not difficult to put on screen). If you really want to go crazy, Greg Egan's books are the thing. I'd be very much curious to see Schild's Ladder as a movie. As for the sex-laden tendency of HBO as of late, they should simply take "Tous vers l'extase" written by Philippe Curval and be done with it - they don't even have to modify it:)
Cmdr. Riker-like, not more. If you look at Star Trek:TNG Series 1-2, Riker was quite a ladies' man, but the way it was put on screen was great: developed his character very well without turning into softporn.
Only prison (jail) time is not (in theory) about making you feel miserable. One is not helped by being made miserable. Prison time is (in theory) intended to put someone in a controlled environment where he could redeem by performing various activities while at the same time preventing said individual from continuing on the wrong path. The fact that it, in practice, became something very different is another story.
Would a vegan eat an animal who dies of old age? Or in an accident? How about roadkill? Cicadas, for example. They have a very short life span (outside of the tree trunks) and are edible immediately after death (if cooked right).
I think we're avoiding the correct question. When you are sent to jail, you lose some rights. Would the ability to eat specific types of food (or not eat them thereof) belong to the rights you lose or not? If it does, then this is a non-issue. If it doesn't, then we have a problem.
That's if you have shit to share. I don't. My account exists there because other people have shit to share and I am perusing it. That is, a few close friends and relatives who live abroad. Handpicked people.
They could be made simpler by designing and creating applications, UIs and features which "do one thing but do it well". There's little incentive to do so, though, although I have to say that smartphones got there already, more or less.
My childhood house had this: - Rain falling on the house roof was channeled into a subterranean pool. - Water stored there was used to water the garden and wash out the shit from the outside loo.
I wonder whether building a second subterranean room below the first would do the trick. The rooms should be quite large (7x7x5 meters each!) to store up to 195 cubic meters of water, but if you have a large enough courtyard you should be able to make two 10x10x2 meter rooms on top of each other, separated by a strong ceiling. You could bring the water back to the top room by using energy coming from a small wind-operated turbine.
The function and purpose of Facebook is what I want it to be. That's the trap I was talking about. If it allows you to share all your shit, it doesn't mean you HAVE to.
So you're saying Fecesbook allows people to be idiots? What a surprise:) It's not Facebook's fault there, it's people being dickheads and not respecting your privacy.
I was on the brink for being fired because I didn't want to hide some data. Luckily, HR was on my side, which is almost unheard of, but thank God for the almost 1 GB of e-mails I had religiously saved to have my ass covered with full plate armor level 99.
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Already, computers are waaay more powerful than human minds
In which way?
If a computer can make additions, subtractions, multiplications at 0.00001% of the time we're capable of, this doesn't mean they're more powerful. It only means they're more specialized in a very narrow activity. Yes, very narrow, since a human being uses a very tiny fraction of their time performing mathematical calculations.
Humans are way above machines when we're talking about performing various activities one after another without extensive downtimes spent reprogramming themselves.
Here's an example: get up, dance, write a 50-word paragraph about eggs, clap hands, take a shower, hum the national anthem, name 5 random objects presented to you, understand a joke someone's telling you, smell a flower.
The list could go on. Intelligence is not about doing one thing very fast, but about doing many different things well enough. And yes, this includes animal world as well.
It's not about countries, it's about cultures.
Some cultures (e.g. Western European culture) favor more serious subjects versus others. Some others (e.g. Northern American) favor lighter subjects (unwind-type). Asian cultures apparently favor explosive feeling-related and augmentative headlines ("It's SUPER effective!"; "AMAZING performance!").
Nobody's to blame, really, except companies not doing their homeworks and trying to vomit their own culture-specific successes over other cultures and promptly failing.
Romanian here: Well... I'm with you fellas.
Asians would feel offended by your remarks.
They definitely need slit monitors.
My manager never gets involved into the development process except when there's an escalation, usually from me. He's there to help me overcome hurdles, nothing more. And he's been really good at keeping stupid people at bay.
Dune was pretty good at the time. So were the movies derived from Arthur C Clarke's work.
I'm okay with adaptation, what I'm not okay is removing the fucking main character of the book from the movie (e.g. Riverworld which was a HORRIBLE movie).
There are so many great, GREAT books which deserve great, GREAT movies: Tuf Voyaging, A Fire Upon The Deep, Spin (by Robert Charles Wilson), Camouflage (which is really not difficult to put on screen). :)
If you really want to go crazy, Greg Egan's books are the thing. I'd be very much curious to see Schild's Ladder as a movie.
As for the sex-laden tendency of HBO as of late, they should simply take "Tous vers l'extase" written by Philippe Curval and be done with it - they don't even have to modify it
HBO = Heavy Boobs Office?
Cmdr. Riker-like, not more.
If you look at Star Trek:TNG Series 1-2, Riker was quite a ladies' man, but the way it was put on screen was great: developed his character very well without turning into softporn.
For her "meat"?
Only prison (jail) time is not (in theory) about making you feel miserable. One is not helped by being made miserable.
Prison time is (in theory) intended to put someone in a controlled environment where he could redeem by performing various activities while at the same time preventing said individual from continuing on the wrong path. The fact that it, in practice, became something very different is another story.
Would a vegan eat an animal who dies of old age? Or in an accident? How about roadkill?
Cicadas, for example. They have a very short life span (outside of the tree trunks) and are edible immediately after death (if cooked right).
I think we're avoiding the correct question.
When you are sent to jail, you lose some rights. Would the ability to eat specific types of food (or not eat them thereof) belong to the rights you lose or not?
If it does, then this is a non-issue. If it doesn't, then we have a problem.
That's if you have shit to share. I don't. My account exists there because other people have shit to share and I am perusing it. That is, a few close friends and relatives who live abroad. Handpicked people.
I have printed porn images on HP printers around the world using just Google :)
They could be made simpler by designing and creating applications, UIs and features which "do one thing but do it well".
There's little incentive to do so, though, although I have to say that smartphones got there already, more or less.
My childhood house had this:
- Rain falling on the house roof was channeled into a subterranean pool.
- Water stored there was used to water the garden and wash out the shit from the outside loo.
I wonder whether building a second subterranean room below the first would do the trick. The rooms should be quite large (7x7x5 meters each!) to store up to 195 cubic meters of water, but if you have a large enough courtyard you should be able to make two 10x10x2 meter rooms on top of each other, separated by a strong ceiling. You could bring the water back to the top room by using energy coming from a small wind-operated turbine.
This is just theory, throw rocks at will.
Europe doesn't have much locally drillable oil resources, as for fracking, it's a sensitive subject which splits population right in half.
I was just stating possibilities, not whether it was obtained fraudulently or not...
30 years is a lot of time for extra (or any) costs to be absorbed, which means you WILL make some money.
The function and purpose of Facebook is what I want it to be. That's the trap I was talking about.
If it allows you to share all your shit, it doesn't mean you HAVE to.
So you're saying Fecesbook allows people to be idiots? What a surprise :)
It's not Facebook's fault there, it's people being dickheads and not respecting your privacy.
Wonderful, I thus would always be at the bottom of the barrel, exactly the place I want to be in :)
I was on the brink for being fired because I didn't want to hide some data. Luckily, HR was on my side, which is almost unheard of, but thank God for the almost 1 GB of e-mails I had religiously saved to have my ass covered with full plate armor level 99.
Then fan it out.