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  1. absolute nonsense on Is UNIX An OS? · · Score: 1

    Just anotherone who thinks that unix is just a kernel and a shell, wha! did he took a look at the possibilities of the linux 2.4 kernel? The superior X-windows system, has he ever seen the network load of a network with 100 X consoles? Don't know from which planet/time this dude comes, but he's talking ancient nonsense.

  2. AI and chinese room experiment on Ask Jordan Pollack About AI - Or Anything Else · · Score: 1

    How is AI even going to overcome the chinese-room barier? For those who don't know what I mean: Suppose we make a computer with or without neural nets etc, expert systems or genetic algorithms or whatever, and make it reply chinese letters. We can make this computer su "human" that some chinese writing letters to it will never know if he's writing to a human or a computer. But is the computer "intelligent", I think it is. But there is something more to it, on the lowest level the computer is still just following rules, noting more, whatever program you put in it. All that "following rules" can also be done by people who don't understand a word chinese, might be a lot of work for a lot of people, but in theory, it can be done. But then the letter is never "understood", so whatever program you make, the computer can never understand something. So there is something more to intelligence, which cannot be done by a computer. does anyone have a way to overcome this (I think I have, but that's a long story)

  3. statements are incorrect on Practical Gravity Shielding for Spacecraft? · · Score: 1

    Photons don't have a null-mass, the formula's are incorrect because you need a relativistic approach. Furthermore, he is measuring nothing but lifting something with an induced current, so also the statement about needing less power at lower frequencies is incorrect. There is a known side effect involving gravity and supercondtors, but that's not yet explained (for as far as I know). I am interested in these things, but searching on the net only gave me long theoretically wrong and logically inconsistent stories.

  4. Roots of violence and other mental disorders on Geek Profiling: The Next W.A.V.E. · · Score: 1

    I think that violence, depression, fear, anger etc. are created by "wanting something". We want so much. Money, power, knowledge, control, sex, the rush of gambling or computer games, to be the best in something, to be popular, to be different, attention, alcohol etc. There is nothing wrong with wanting something, but as soon as we are "addicted", we want more and more, and it's never enough, and when we cannot get more, we have to replace it by something else, or we get some mental disorder. This sounds rather primitive, but I don't mean to judge anyone with a mental disorder, because the roots of that stuff can be somewhere very deep, somewhere in blocked childhood memories, and since these things re-create themselves then can run in the family for generations. Lots of things we teach our children are based on "having" more and more and "better" of something, pushing them to do more, be more, be good, be better. So this whole "nazi-like" plan just creates more of this. What about teaching meditations, philosofie, music or sports (for fun, not to compete and be better)? Please lets make a start in "non-competitive" things. Just to have so something different from all the advertising, competition, greed, so we can learn to accept ourselves and other just the way we and thay are.

  5. Re:Los Lobos es Loco! on Linux And Los Lobos Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    ehh, faq, not fax...sorry for the typo

  6. Re:Los Lobos es Loco! on Linux And Los Lobos Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is: Why do they use computers with 2 processors, in stead of four, I mean; every cluster fax states that SMP is much faster than clustering. So why not first exploit SMP to the max and then cluster. so, yes "Les Lobos es Loco".