I've always explained it to myself by thinking that the machines could grow some sort of bacteria or lichen. Either one that could thrive on the low solar energy received through the atmosphere, or some sort of thermovore or radiation eating bug.
Consider you glasses like a crutch. If you rely on them, you'll never walk properly.
If you are prescribed 100% prescription glasses, and wear them all the time, then unsurprisingly, your eyes get used to the help that the glasses give you. So at your next-check up, your eyes are weaker.. So you get prescribed stronger glasses, which you wear all the time, and bam! your eyes get even weaker.
This is the main reason people tend to end up getting stronger and stronger glasses as they age.
If you can't find one of these new-fangled "behavourial optomitrists", then a) wear your glasses ONLY when you need them b) get 80% strength of the full prescription.
Yup. I'm a long-sightee who has dispensed with glasses over a period of time.
Basically the idea is that your crystaline lens in your eye is stretched and compressed by muscles. You can train those muscles and therefore improve you accomodation. You still have the eye shape defect, but you can deal with it.
what about American sponsored attempts to kill Saddam? what about American bombing and destruction of Iraqi buildings / homes/ military bases / whatever else gets in the way?
For those of us who are real night owls, and those who are so much night owls that they qualify as sleep disorders, flex time is a fantastic blesssing.
In fact, I sometimes end up working flex time at places that do not offically support it.
Insomniacs, delayed and advanced sleepers of the world unitie! Why should we be persecuted for our biology!!
Depends on your definition of advanced AI. Advanced route-planning algoritms? "learning" programs? Neural-net type brains? A memory? Emotions? Eat/sleep/fuck drives?
The machines are obviously smarter than us, and are keeping the date of their conception ten years ahead. They are laughing at all us poor AI researchers
It was in Bletchley Park! Chosen, during the war, to be the most inconspicious and sleepy place in the whole of middle England. I wouldn't exactly say the machine was guarded. Nobody thought anyone would steal it anyway.
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I've always explained it to myself by thinking that the machines could grow some sort of bacteria or lichen. Either one that could thrive on the low solar energy received through the atmosphere, or some sort of thermovore or radiation eating bug.
Then they feed the biomass to the humans.
something like Deinococcus radiodurans?
there is no such thing as an illegal or legal war.
Is that the one from red oktober?
that's a movie made up version.
Ooops..
forgot my most important point.
Consider you glasses like a crutch.
If you rely on them, you'll never walk properly.
If you are prescribed 100% prescription glasses, and wear them all the time, then unsurprisingly, your eyes get used to the help that the glasses give you.
So at your next-check up, your eyes are weaker..
So you get prescribed stronger glasses, which you wear all the time, and bam! your eyes get even weaker.
This is the main reason people tend to end up getting stronger and stronger glasses as they age.
If you can't find one of these new-fangled "behavourial optomitrists", then
a) wear your glasses ONLY when you need them
b) get 80% strength of the full prescription.
make you eyes work!
Yup. I'm a long-sightee who has dispensed with glasses over a period of time.
Basically the idea is that your crystaline lens in your eye is stretched and compressed by muscles. You can train those muscles and therefore improve you accomodation. You still have the eye shape defect, but you can deal with it.
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When buying parts for to build a computer I stick the the hundred quid rule..
£100 quid (or nearish) for each component. (processor, MB, etc)
it normally works out as a pretty good machine
oh come on!
what about American sponsored attempts to kill Saddam?
what about American bombing and destruction of Iraqi buildings / homes/ military bases / whatever else gets in the way?
silly.
The guy's name is:
Dr. Arthur Lintgen.
http://www.snopes.com/music/info/reader3.htm
Perhaps the service provider will be HAPPY to provide a box the other end of the T1 for your tests if he's telling the truth.......
Sounds a lot like the GTA III "house of tommorrow"............
I can't believe anyone hasn't mentioned the Iain M Banks culture series........!
and don't forget gamasutra! :-)
4. Hollywood is a representation of how we feel about you bastards. And James Bond isn't a bad guy =P
He's a fucking psychopath!
For those of us who are real night owls, and those who are so much night owls that they qualify as sleep disorders, flex time is a fantastic blesssing.
In fact, I sometimes end up working flex time at places that do not offically support it.
Insomniacs, delayed and advanced sleepers of the world unitie! Why should we be persecuted for our biology!!
What about cannibalising an old sparc IPX or LX box for the power supply and case only?
yes!
er.
1) In your opinion does AI exist already?
Depends on your definition of advanced AI.
Advanced route-planning algoritms?
"learning" programs?
Neural-net type brains?
A memory? Emotions? Eat/sleep/fuck drives?
The machines are obviously smarter than us, and are keeping the date of their conception ten years ahead. They are laughing at all us poor AI researchers
It was in Bletchley Park! Chosen, during the war, to be the most inconspicious and sleepy place in the whole of middle England. I wouldn't exactly say the machine was guarded. Nobody thought anyone would steal it anyway.
Mckibben artifical muscles.