To find another Solar System would indicate that they've found that our Sun occipies two points in space and time and has another seperate group of stars associated with it.
(emphasis added.) Don't you mean "group of planets"?:)
Also, so I can go completely for the "retard" mod, you misspelled "occipies" and "seperate".
(If you were using FireFox or SeaMonkey, the latter two typos would have been underlined in red, giving you a chance to correct them before posting... The browser would not have caught the first one, though.)
Like you, I'm not posting to be petty, although there is a certain amount of pedantry in the gestalt.
Everyone knows that proper spelling and grammar are essential to effective communications.
(I completely agree with you, regardless of the language under discussion, whether human or computer.) You wanna know the really weird thing? I "read" the above in my Mexican co-worker's accented English. Perhaps it was the final "s", but: how did my brain know that when it started the sentence? Neat.
Testing my peripheral vision, I see that when I'm on the "Everyone", the "communications" is in my blind spot, so I definitely didn't see it when I read the first word. Going slowly, it isn't really until I'm looking at the "are" that I am aware of the period, and the "s" before it. So, perhaps it's because he begins sentences with "Everyone knows" more often than not? Probably.:) (Hi, Miguel!)
When you lose your money and can't buy the drugs anymore, this is what actually happens:
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Now, I'm in favor of legalizing drugs [...]
Not based on your 16-point checklist you're not!
There are plenty of people working at Microsoft and Google and VMware and Citrix and thousands of other smaller tech companies around the country who engage in ritual marijuana use to improve their work.
Most of them haven't even progressed to step 2 of your list. I will concede that many of them, at one time or another, didn't have a connection and "bummed" (or purchased) their next fix from friends. But step 2, borrowing money from friends? Most of them, no.
Perhaps your list fits with inner-city drug use. Perhaps even with some suburbian drug use. But professionals? They use drugs The Right Way(tm).
And, I completely agree with you that criminalizing any behavior that has no victims (or, for which the victim is yourself), is worse for society than keeping open the option to kill yourself, however slowly you choose. Forcing you to stay alive is akin to slavery.
Take that one step beyond surveillance, it probably doesn't take much verve toxin on a tiny needle (fly bite anyone?) to kill a person.:/
I know that this could be a bit paranoid of me to think this but then, perhaps not?:(
Hopefully, not.
Once we achieve full molecular nanotechnology, we'll be able to create backups of ourselves. "I" will be a construct somewhere deep within the Earth; the body you see will just be an extension, with a large-bandwidth wireless connection between us, so that the body can send back all the sensations -- and thoughts (as it's probably better to have it think for itself, than risk loss of the body due to lag), so that there would be a complete backup.
So if the unfortunate happened, say a poisonous fly wandered through the window and took out the body, "I" would have a complete record of what happened, including perhaps identifying characteristics of the fly so that I can take appropriate action.
"Appropriate action" in the future might not even involve the courts: you killed me, I saw how, I'll do a better job of protecting from that vector of attack in the future. It's a bit to wrap your head around but if you've played Dungeons and Dragons or other RPGs, or even merely Halo where death means you start back a bit, you'll understand. Life will imitate art.
So it won't matter if you die, however spectacularly. Expect to see a lot of exploratory deaths after about 15 years, possibly sooner. Fear of poisonous flies will disappear, as it will be only a temporary inconvenience.
And so what if they go after the construct? Well, it'll be backed up too, on other locations on Earth, then throughout the solar system and eventually the galaxy and then the universe. We're here to stay.:)
My first game was pong, but I did end up working at Infocom in Cambridge, MA back in high school, helping them write their graphics protocol. Too bad they never recovered from Sierra Online's headstart...
I mean, a content producer might not be allowed to impose a longer copyright than the law specifies, but he/she sure is allowed to stipulate a shorter one (e.g. 'after 15 years this becomes public domain' or 'after my death this becomes public domain).
Actually, many companies and individuals are doing exactly what you state. For instance, Jonathan Coulton's music is Creative Commons and excellent (I love 70%+ of his creations, and tolerate 95%+ -- there's only like 3 songs that I've actively removed from the playlist).
In addition, Id Software releases their source code to GPL after a few years. And SimCity was just released, see the Slashdot story on it today. There are many out there who aren't "greedy" in the "maximize profits through copyright" sense (although perhaps they are maximizing profits, through creatively relaxing distribution -- because perhaps more people will be inclined to purchase their next effort, after having experienced their previous for free).
When Mr. Coulton comes to Boston, I have 15 to 20 people ready to pay to see him.
Most people listen to music they've have or should have paid for, not "free music".
Perhaps, given the qualifier "most people".
Currently, I'm listening to "Stroller Town" (now "Re: Your Brains"), by Jonathan Coulton, who gives his music away via Creative Commons licensing.
And I've listened to his collection pretty much exclusively for the past month. Not saying I won't move on to another CC artist someday, but I'm thoroughly enjoying the music he created and gave to the world.
Seems you're right, according to AP. (And several other sites as well.) Thanks for re-educating me! Seriously, it's been a while since college, and I "remembered" that all 2-letter words should be lowercased. Doh!
It's starting to look to me like QoS from Comcast is luck of the draw.
They don't really give a shit at all.
Agreed. I own an RCA DCW615 cable modem, and have run into the issue where I can no longer control it[1], because Comcast has sent some specific data down the wire to change its function from "Residential Gateway" mode to "Cable Modem" mode. I don't know a whole lot about this, but you can see from this post that several others have run into the issue.
I called them last week to ask about this. The fucking lady hung up on me halfway through the conversation. (No, I didn't get her employee number... Always get the person's full name, employee number, and supervisor when you begin a conversation.)
I haven't called back yet; I tried calling RCA, but they told me they no longer handle this, I need to call Thompson. I will, one of these days when I have free time during working hours...
[1]: When I saw "can no longer control it" I mean: 1. I cannot log in to it any more (always comes back with the login dialog, and if I hit Esc it gives me an error message). 2. Even trying the factory reset, it doesn't, and I still can't log in.
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Then press Alt in Office 2007 and you are shown what the shortcuts are.
Not to be pedantic, but it's actually "press and release Alt" in order to see the shortcuts. I've used this a lot, and "mentally converted" all the 2003 keyboard shortcuts for 2007, like to create a 1x1 table, it used to be Alt+a, Enter, 1, Tab, 1, Enter; now it's Alt, n, t, Enter.
I like the new interface, but I don't like that I had to teach my fingers new shortcuts. Consistency is a good thing, especially with muscle memory...
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Yes, it does -- although some dialogs still don't, like Outlook's contact details...
You want to tie the dollar to something real? Then tie a dollar to five minutes of labor.
This is changing fairly quickly though. As technology advances and people begin to self-modify for improvements (speed, strength, mental capacity), the "value" of five minutes of labor will go up dramatically, especially because of the latter.
One thing from the Foresight Institute's books is that with nanotechnology, a machine the size of a sugar cube could have 1,000,000 times the power of the human brain. You can fit around 2,000 sugar cubes in your skull, so if you were able to convert your brain, in place, to the more powerful thinking medium, you'd be thinking about 2 billion times "faster" than before. This person would be worth 2 billion dollars a day. I'm not being facetious; a person who had undergone that transformation would be able to create world-changing technologies every day.
And at that point we'll be able to create thinking matter to do our jobs for us, so money won't really matter. We'll have 3D printers that can make more printers, so everyone will be able to create their own thinking matter to "work" for them; the future will consist mostly of relationships and entertainment.
And, even before getting all cosmic and nano, we can just look at today's jobs: there is generally a 100-fold difference between the janitor and the CEO, so whose "five minutes of labor" are we talking about?
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More like a "code slush"...
Just to clarify, given the current spending to date: your reasons cost about $2 each.
(emphasis added.) Don't you mean "group of planets"? :)
Also, so I can go completely for the "retard" mod, you misspelled "occipies" and "seperate".
(If you were using FireFox or SeaMonkey, the latter two typos would have been underlined in red, giving you a chance to correct them before posting... The browser would not have caught the first one, though.)
Like you, I'm not posting to be petty, although there is a certain amount of pedantry in the gestalt.
(I completely agree with you, regardless of the language under discussion, whether human or computer.) You wanna know the really weird thing? I "read" the above in my Mexican co-worker's accented English. Perhaps it was the final "s", but: how did my brain know that when it started the sentence? Neat.
Testing my peripheral vision, I see that when I'm on the "Everyone", the "communications" is in my blind spot, so I definitely didn't see it when I read the first word. Going slowly, it isn't really until I'm looking at the "are" that I am aware of the period, and the "s" before it. So, perhaps it's because he begins sentences with "Everyone knows" more often than not? Probably. :) (Hi, Miguel!)
Not based on your 16-point checklist you're not!
There are plenty of people working at Microsoft and Google and VMware and Citrix and thousands of other smaller tech companies around the country who engage in ritual marijuana use to improve their work.
Most of them haven't even progressed to step 2 of your list. I will concede that many of them, at one time or another, didn't have a connection and "bummed" (or purchased) their next fix from friends. But step 2, borrowing money from friends? Most of them, no.
Perhaps your list fits with inner-city drug use. Perhaps even with some suburbian drug use. But professionals? They use drugs The Right Way(tm).
And, I completely agree with you that criminalizing any behavior that has no victims (or, for which the victim is yourself), is worse for society than keeping open the option to kill yourself, however slowly you choose. Forcing you to stay alive is akin to slavery.
OT: sig typo: you'd rather first tax-and-spend, and then borrow-and-spend? I think you meant than.
Hopefully, not.
Once we achieve full molecular nanotechnology, we'll be able to create backups of ourselves. "I" will be a construct somewhere deep within the Earth; the body you see will just be an extension, with a large-bandwidth wireless connection between us, so that the body can send back all the sensations -- and thoughts (as it's probably better to have it think for itself, than risk loss of the body due to lag), so that there would be a complete backup.
So if the unfortunate happened, say a poisonous fly wandered through the window and took out the body, "I" would have a complete record of what happened, including perhaps identifying characteristics of the fly so that I can take appropriate action.
"Appropriate action" in the future might not even involve the courts: you killed me, I saw how, I'll do a better job of protecting from that vector of attack in the future. It's a bit to wrap your head around but if you've played Dungeons and Dragons or other RPGs, or even merely Halo where death means you start back a bit, you'll understand. Life will imitate art.
So it won't matter if you die, however spectacularly. Expect to see a lot of exploratory deaths after about 15 years, possibly sooner. Fear of poisonous flies will disappear, as it will be only a temporary inconvenience.
And so what if they go after the construct? Well, it'll be backed up too, on other locations on Earth, then throughout the solar system and eventually the galaxy and then the universe. We're here to stay. :)
JUST HOW THE FUCK IS THIS POSSIBLE???
That may well be, but Emmanuel Kant was a real pissant. Proof.
nojusttryingtohelpbutthankyouverymuch
Don't feel bad, I saw it yesterday and didn't realize it was a reference, just thought it was funny; I knew the "nikto". :)
My first game was pong, but I did end up working at Infocom in Cambridge, MA back in high school, helping them write their graphics protocol. Too bad they never recovered from Sierra Online's headstart...
Parent is offtopic and should not be.
Actually, many companies and individuals are doing exactly what you state. For instance, Jonathan Coulton's music is Creative Commons and excellent (I love 70%+ of his creations, and tolerate 95%+ -- there's only like 3 songs that I've actively removed from the playlist).
In addition, Id Software releases their source code to GPL after a few years. And SimCity was just released, see the Slashdot story on it today. There are many out there who aren't "greedy" in the "maximize profits through copyright" sense (although perhaps they are maximizing profits, through creatively relaxing distribution -- because perhaps more people will be inclined to purchase their next effort, after having experienced their previous for free).
When Mr. Coulton comes to Boston, I have 15 to 20 people ready to pay to see him.
Perhaps, given the qualifier "most people".
Currently, I'm listening to "Stroller Town" (now "Re: Your Brains"), by Jonathan Coulton, who gives his music away via Creative Commons licensing.
And I've listened to his collection pretty much exclusively for the past month. Not saying I won't move on to another CC artist someday, but I'm thoroughly enjoying the music he created and gave to the world.
Seems you're right, according to AP. (And several other sites as well.) Thanks for re-educating me! Seriously, it's been a while since college, and I "remembered" that all 2-letter words should be lowercased. Doh!
Microsoft Innovation Constantly Reinvents Operating Systems to Obsolete Future Technology.
("Is" shouldn't be capitalized...)
Agreed. I own an RCA DCW615 cable modem, and have run into the issue where I can no longer control it[1], because Comcast has sent some specific data down the wire to change its function from "Residential Gateway" mode to "Cable Modem" mode. I don't know a whole lot about this, but you can see from this post that several others have run into the issue.
I called them last week to ask about this. The fucking lady hung up on me halfway through the conversation. (No, I didn't get her employee number... Always get the person's full name, employee number, and supervisor when you begin a conversation.)
I haven't called back yet; I tried calling RCA, but they told me they no longer handle this, I need to call Thompson. I will, one of these days when I have free time during working hours...
[1]: When I saw "can no longer control it" I mean: 1. I cannot log in to it any more (always comes back with the login dialog, and if I hit Esc it gives me an error message). 2. Even trying the factory reset, it doesn't, and I still can't log in.
A corollary to bricked, I suppose.
Not to be pedantic, but it's actually "press and release Alt" in order to see the shortcuts. I've used this a lot, and "mentally converted" all the 2003 keyboard shortcuts for 2007, like to create a 1x1 table, it used to be Alt+a, Enter, 1, Tab, 1, Enter; now it's Alt, n, t, Enter.
I like the new interface, but I don't like that I had to teach my fingers new shortcuts. Consistency is a good thing, especially with muscle memory...
Yes, it does -- although some dialogs still don't, like Outlook's contact details...
I saw this here a couple weeks ago, and laughed out loud:
This is changing fairly quickly though. As technology advances and people begin to self-modify for improvements (speed, strength, mental capacity), the "value" of five minutes of labor will go up dramatically, especially because of the latter.
One thing from the Foresight Institute's books is that with nanotechnology, a machine the size of a sugar cube could have 1,000,000 times the power of the human brain. You can fit around 2,000 sugar cubes in your skull, so if you were able to convert your brain, in place, to the more powerful thinking medium, you'd be thinking about 2 billion times "faster" than before. This person would be worth 2 billion dollars a day. I'm not being facetious; a person who had undergone that transformation would be able to create world-changing technologies every day.
And at that point we'll be able to create thinking matter to do our jobs for us, so money won't really matter. We'll have 3D printers that can make more printers, so everyone will be able to create their own thinking matter to "work" for them; the future will consist mostly of relationships and entertainment.
And, even before getting all cosmic and nano, we can just look at today's jobs: there is generally a 100-fold difference between the janitor and the CEO, so whose "five minutes of labor" are we talking about?