When you have a facist/nazi/evil/whatever state you have people getting taken from their homes for not supporting the glorious leader/fuhrer/overlord/whatever and protesting?
The h.264 bandwagon involves someone* paying for the licenses for every copy of the browser which is used. They supported flash no problem. And I don't see how Chrome supporting h.264 is 'chipping away' at firefox's use.
*A non-profit organisation paying millions every year?
Humans will kill thousands and millions of their own species because the members of the other species did not share the same religion, culture, ideas or political ideals.
Humans will attempt to draw more 'wealth' for themselves by getting human children to work in their factories - in order to gain more profits on their sales.
Humans will dump dangerous materials into the air, sea or land and deny the effects of these materials. Humans will also destroy large ecosystems in order to farm non-native animals in that region to make cheap burgers.
Lots of creatures exhibit some form of intelligence. Should they have rights too? And why is intelligence the only factor? Should a stupid person have less rights than a dolphin? What about faster? or stronger? Should animals which have those traits be given rights too?
Why do we have the right to give other creatures rights?
And do you think tuna fishermen are going to stop using nets because they might catch something which has rights?
You think a normal person cares about horsepower? Or top speed for that matter? Even handling is a bit borderline. You're going to be as driving as fast as you feel comfortable in that situation. If I live in a built up area I don't need an engine that could accelerate a car to lightspeeds.
I think the problem is that exams, which determine whether you pass or not - is the only point for studying that subject.
I used to love science when I was younger, and I used to ask a ton of questions during class, some of which returned the answer "Because that's how it is" or "That's not in the sillabus"
The idea that we're implanting into people's heads is "You study You get a good mark in the exam". The exam will ask you to regurgitate the knowledge that you know back on the paper - and don't bother reasoning it or thinking it out.
At higher levels, then science or whatever does touch into 'you have to think', but for the first few years, the idea implanted into your head is that the exam is the most important thing, and it is a test of memory. Not logic. That's where it fails.
A game of chess can be represented as a tree. To find out the best possible move, traverse the tree until you reach the nearest win condition. Some heuristics, and a bunch of traversing and you can win.
Jeopardy on the other hand requires the computer to understand the question, be able to search for it, and return the correct uh... question.
Once upon a time, a computer beating an expert at chess was amazing. Controversial.
Even if they pull this off (which does happen to be a huge feat of AI if you think about it) - the general public won't care anymore. They think computers can do everything already.
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You're right. People don't need guns to kill people.
In fact, I just solved the US debt crisis. We can arm the military with pointed sticks instead! They don't need guns to kill insurgents.
There are tons of things which shouldn't have a leg to stand on either. Doesn't stop anyone* from doing it does it?
Good thing America is democratic! Pity the people seem to have lost their teeth a while back.
*hums* The land of the free.... and the home of the brave *hums*
*US government/MPAA/RIAA/TSA
Iceland? That's part of the country called europe right? How many nukes do they have? Do they have oil or other stuff we need?
Yes I'm being satrical.
When you have a facist/nazi/evil/whatever state you have people getting taken from their homes for not supporting the glorious leader/fuhrer/overlord/whatever and protesting?
Good times.
Is there money in that?
Time to run a sudo on my linux computer!
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The h.264 bandwagon involves someone* paying for the licenses for every copy of the browser which is used. They supported flash no problem. And I don't see how Chrome supporting h.264 is 'chipping away' at firefox's use.
*A non-profit organisation paying millions every year?
NB: Electric Chair Underwater may not be a good idea.
Humans will kill thousands and millions of their own species because the members of the other species did not share the same religion, culture, ideas or political ideals.
Humans will attempt to draw more 'wealth' for themselves by getting human children to work in their factories - in order to gain more profits on their sales.
Humans will dump dangerous materials into the air, sea or land and deny the effects of these materials. Humans will also destroy large ecosystems in order to farm non-native animals in that region to make cheap burgers.
Humans can be just as mean as other animals.
That depends. Are they leaking sensitive documents?
I'd say it shows that people like to be 'winners' even if they have to pay real money for it.
If I can obtain an item by reaching level X - or by paying $5 and showing off the item, then certain people will just cough up.
Maybe they don't need to? Necessity is the mother of invention. Maybe they don't want to invent land-scuba kits or whatever.
Also the lack of opposable thumbs kinda hinders things.
Gives a new meaning to the word "Tuna Farm" doesn't it?
Lots of creatures exhibit some form of intelligence. Should they have rights too? And why is intelligence the only factor? Should a stupid person have less rights than a dolphin? What about faster? or stronger? Should animals which have those traits be given rights too?
Why do we have the right to give other creatures rights?
And do you think tuna fishermen are going to stop using nets because they might catch something which has rights?
You think a normal person cares about horsepower? Or top speed for that matter? Even handling is a bit borderline. You're going to be as driving as fast as you feel comfortable in that situation. If I live in a built up area I don't need an engine that could accelerate a car to lightspeeds.
But the 'techy' stuff is cool.
I think the problem is that exams, which determine whether you pass or not - is the only point for studying that subject.
I used to love science when I was younger, and I used to ask a ton of questions during class, some of which returned the answer "Because that's how it is" or "That's not in the sillabus"
The idea that we're implanting into people's heads is "You study You get a good mark in the exam". The exam will ask you to regurgitate the knowledge that you know back on the paper - and don't bother reasoning it or thinking it out.
At higher levels, then science or whatever does touch into 'you have to think', but for the first few years, the idea implanted into your head is that the exam is the most important thing, and it is a test of memory. Not logic. That's where it fails.
"X is dead" is dead
Not to mention a dirty commie practice. Better dead than red!
Indian is racist! The correct word is "Native American". And "Nigger" should be replaced with "Person of African American decent".
Slave is bad too. The correct word is "Voluntary worker".
There, all safe for kiddies.
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You think a marketting stunt like this - teaching a computer to play Jeopardy against a human isn't done for the general public?
If it was for nerds, it'd do something else.
I agree with you. I think that chickens should not be considered Turing powerful.
Was watching Star Trek while I posted that. Interestingly enough.
A game of chess can be represented as a tree. To find out the best possible move, traverse the tree until you reach the nearest win condition. Some heuristics, and a bunch of traversing and you can win.
Jeopardy on the other hand requires the computer to understand the question, be able to search for it, and return the correct uh... question.
Human Language Processing is still a weak point in getting computers to do what film computers do.
If you can get a computer to understand what you mean, then it'd change UIs forever.
Once upon a time, a computer beating an expert at chess was amazing. Controversial.
Even if they pull this off (which does happen to be a huge feat of AI if you think about it) - the general public won't care anymore. They think computers can do everything already.