You are completely correct yet so so wrong at the same time. I have a very large cd collection which i have ripped to a server, so there are no physical cds in my room, however, anyone who comes into my room can jump on my media server and play any one of the 3-4 thousands cds i have stored on it. Yes i could have a wall of records or cds to impress people but i find more people are impressed with being able to play anything they want within 10secs of walking into my room. The issue here is that people understand that data on a screen represents the music as well as a wall full of plastic. it is only a matter of time before people come to the same conclusion about books.
I am so sick of the OMG its so expensive whining. Either you are willing to buy it or not, if no one is willing to pay $400 then they will be forced to lower the price. If people are willing to pay $400, and i am one, then they won't lower the price. If you don't have $400 to spend on this i am sorry that sucks for you but a lot of people including myself do and want one. Just factoring the saving on hardcover books roughly $15-$20 each it pays for itself when you buy like 20 books... That is not many.
From the wiki article
It was discovered by Wilhelm Killing (1888-1890). Man at 2 he had already mastered complex mathematics. To think what he could have done if his life had not been tragically cut short...
the first thing they ask us is whether or not The Creator has sent a "Messiah" to us yet.
The implication being that The Creator has only sent us ONE messiah... If only we had been so lucky, he just keeps sending them on down, there are thousands running around right now. Maybe this mysterious Creator believes in quantity over quality.
Your argument sounds very reasonable, However, it completely ignores the fact that no one is forcing people to use offshore gambling services. If people in the US want to take the risk that these operations are more likely to cheat them out of their money then that is their choice. This is not about protecting the average gambling consumer, this is about protecting US gambling revenue...
Since everyone seems to be chiming with their favourite setup regardless of whether it actually meets this guys requirements I will also.
J river media center is IMHO the best jukebox software available, combine it with netremote or some other automation program and you can setup multiple zones around the house. I have about 500gigs worth of lossless ape files and trust me if you have even semi decent speakers you will be able to tell the difference between mp3s and an uncompressed file.
Why is it that if someones thought process works like this.
Eg: Something happened, i don't understand it... I know, it must have been an invisible guy in the sky who caused it. See i wasn't sure but that light that kind of felt like it went right through me, well that clinched it.
That you can't just lock them up or at least refer them for some sort of psycological treatment. Just imagine if you replaced the words Green Fairy for everytime someone says God, you get some hillarious results.
Surely that wasn't an attempt to spell Venezuela was it. Come on you must have some access to an atlas right... At the very least type in what you think you mean into google, it will give you a hand to work out what it is you might actually be trying to say. Either that or go back to Americalia.
"I suppose "those of us" that you mention would have said that the second world war was a European squabble."
You need to read up on your history, the war had been going on for over 2 years before the US became engaged. It wasn't until early december in 1941 that the US entered the war, and this only after the bombing of a certain harbour. So don't attempt to say that the US entered for alltruistic reasons, this is simply not true. You cannot equate the actions of the US in late 1941 with those of the US in 1991... Unless the Iraqi threat to Kuwait could be seen as a direct threat to the US, which it wasn't except in one regard, it showed that a country that had been funded and directed by the US could act on its own in its own interests. A very dangerous notion for an Arabic country, in the eyes of the US government. Something definately worth curtailing.
"and steals food we try to give the Iraqi people, so he can build huge palaces all over the country."
Just think about that sentence for one second. He is not using revenues garnered from stolen food to build palaces, why would he bother he has billions of dollars worth of oil to sell illegally for that. Stealing food to build palaces that is just plain idiotic. Think about each word before you write it.
When i said difficult to simulate i was refering to a simulation that would have anything approaching the complexity of the system being simulated. In this instance natural evolution. It is fairly obvious that it is difficult in a practice to design a system as complex as we see in the case of natural evolution. I think it would be better to start with a meta-evolutionary program and evolve the system first, then let the subjects of that system evolve.
I think you miss the point, evolution while extremely complex, is simply an expression of deterministic principles, albeit alot of them. A computer is a perfect place to simulate such an environment. Evolution is not impossible to simulate in principle, it is just very diffcult in practice. Not impossible though.
i remeber my physics teacher told our class one time about how when he was at uni they made a few very very accurate gyroscopes and they thought it would be fun to place a stream of air under one to keep it stationary and floating then to put a very high powered stream over air over the top of it to get it spinning and they kept it going for about a minute or two and it was spinning extremly fast i cannot remeber exactly how fast, but the puchline is that someone tripped over the power chord (Go Australian universities) and the gyroscope suddenly not help up any more by the stream of air hit the ground bounced twice and punched a hole through about a foot of concrete. They never found that gyroscope by the way;)
you might want to read the article, it makes a big point about the lack of workers and the quality of the existing workers, so it doesn't matter whether it costs more than employees it is an employ that is always available so it is worth alot more than the equivalent pay of a human worker. plus this price is high i would say since the person only made two of them, start mass producing them and the price will drop dramatically.
IF you read the article it is not about the technology of being able to flip burgers (they actually say in the article that it was adapted from the same technology that they use in the auto industry) it is about the fact that robotics is begining to be used in fields outside the traditional realms of robotics. This may or may not be great but the point is it is happening and it is interesting to see this technology expanding in its applications.
this kind of reminds me of a program on discovery channel the other day. They were talking about the problems with nuclear power, and they showed a little cartoon from japan where a friendly little isotope talked about how missunderstood he was and that he really wasn't all that dangerous, basically it said that if a few micrograms of plutonium were spilled into the harbour it wouldn't have any effect at all... but the funniest part was when it said that if you were to drink a glass of water with some plutonium in it 'most' of it would simply pass right through your body...as if this is ok. a few days after the cartoon aired a reporter asked the minster of energy if he could possibly demonstrate by drinking a galss of plutonium laced water...strangely he declined.
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I for one welcome our machine gun totting robot overlords...
You are completely correct yet so so wrong at the same time. I have a very large cd collection which i have ripped to a server, so there are no physical cds in my room, however, anyone who comes into my room can jump on my media server and play any one of the 3-4 thousands cds i have stored on it. Yes i could have a wall of records or cds to impress people but i find more people are impressed with being able to play anything they want within 10secs of walking into my room. The issue here is that people understand that data on a screen represents the music as well as a wall full of plastic. it is only a matter of time before people come to the same conclusion about books.
Sounds like the Milford School to me...
I am so sick of the OMG its so expensive whining. Either you are willing to buy it or not, if no one is willing to pay $400 then they will be forced to lower the price. If people are willing to pay $400, and i am one, then they won't lower the price. If you don't have $400 to spend on this i am sorry that sucks for you but a lot of people including myself do and want one. Just factoring the saving on hardcover books roughly $15-$20 each it pays for itself when you buy like 20 books... That is not many.
You do realize you are on Slashdot right?
The implication being that The Creator has only sent us ONE messiah... If only we had been so lucky, he just keeps sending them on down, there are thousands running around right now. Maybe this mysterious Creator believes in quantity over quality.
Your argument sounds very reasonable, However, it completely ignores the fact that no one is forcing people to use offshore gambling services. If people in the US want to take the risk that these operations are more likely to cheat them out of their money then that is their choice. This is not about protecting the average gambling consumer, this is about protecting US gambling revenue...
For the backend I use jriver media center
t mlr d=3o mixis.com/
for the frontend you can use jriver media center or pay a little more for Music lobby and dvd lobby.
All of this can be controlled using netremote and girder for excellent integration with your other home audio equipment.
relevant links
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/index.h
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?boa
http://www.cinemaronline.com/
http://www.pr
Since everyone seems to be chiming with their favourite setup regardless of whether it actually meets this guys requirements I will also.
J river media center is IMHO the best jukebox software available, combine it with netremote or some other automation program and you can setup multiple zones around the house.
I have about 500gigs worth of lossless ape files and trust me if you have even semi decent speakers you will be able to tell the difference between mp3s and an uncompressed file.
The Psychology of Influence
Robert b Cialdini
You obviously don't visit google 50 to 100 times per day.
The coalition of verbs that descibe knives called. They want the guy who they send out for beer back.
Why is it that if someones thought process works like this.
Eg: Something happened, i don't understand it... I know, it must have been an invisible guy in the sky who caused it. See i wasn't sure but that light that kind of felt like it went right through me, well that clinched it.
That you can't just lock them up or at least refer them for some sort of psycological treatment. Just imagine if you replaced the words Green Fairy for everytime someone says God, you get some hillarious results.
"venisualia"
Surely that wasn't an attempt to spell Venezuela was it. Come on you must have some access to an atlas right... At the very least type in what you think you mean into google, it will give you a hand to work out what it is you might actually be trying to say. Either that or go back to Americalia.
"I suppose "those of us" that you mention would have said that the second world war was a European squabble."
You need to read up on your history, the war had been going on for over 2 years before the US became engaged. It wasn't until early december in 1941 that the US entered the war, and this only after the bombing of a certain harbour. So don't attempt to say that the US entered for alltruistic reasons, this is simply not true. You cannot equate the actions of the US in late 1941 with those of the US in 1991... Unless the Iraqi threat to Kuwait could be seen as a direct threat to the US, which it wasn't except in one regard, it showed that a country that had been funded and directed by the US could act on its own in its own interests. A very dangerous notion for an Arabic country, in the eyes of the US government. Something definately worth curtailing.
"and steals food we try to give the Iraqi people, so he can build huge palaces all over the country."
Just think about that sentence for one second. He is not using revenues garnered from stolen food to build palaces, why would he bother he has billions of dollars worth of oil to sell illegally for that. Stealing food to build palaces that is just plain idiotic. Think about each word before you write it.
I think it was called "The ship that couldn't slow down"
hmmm i can only quote lisa on that one
"scanning for sarcasm...its clean"
When i said difficult to simulate i was refering to a simulation that would have anything approaching the complexity of the system being simulated. In this instance natural evolution. It is fairly obvious that it is difficult in a practice to design a system as complex as we see in the case of natural evolution. I think it would be better to start with a
meta-evolutionary program and evolve the system first, then let the subjects of that system evolve.
I think you miss the point, evolution while extremely complex, is simply an expression of deterministic principles, albeit alot of them. A computer is a perfect place to simulate such an environment. Evolution is not impossible to simulate in principle, it is just very diffcult in practice. Not impossible though.
i remeber my physics teacher told our class one time about how when he was at uni they made a few very very accurate gyroscopes and they thought it would be fun to place a stream of air under one to keep it stationary and floating then to put a very high powered stream over air over the top of it to get it spinning and they kept it going for about a minute or two and it was spinning extremly fast i cannot remeber exactly how fast, but the puchline is that someone tripped over the power chord (Go Australian universities) and the gyroscope suddenly not help up any more by the stream of air hit the ground bounced twice and punched a hole through about a foot of concrete. They never found that gyroscope by the way ;)
you might want to read the article, it makes a big point about the lack of workers and the quality of the existing workers, so it doesn't matter whether it costs more than employees it is an employ that is always available so it is worth alot more than the equivalent pay of a human worker. plus this price is high i would say since the person only made two of them, start mass producing them and the price will drop dramatically.
IF you read the article it is not about the technology of being able to flip burgers (they actually say in the article that it was adapted from the same technology that they use in the auto industry) it is about the fact that robotics is begining to be used in fields outside the traditional realms of robotics. This may or may not be great but the point is it is happening and it is interesting to see this technology expanding in its applications.
this kind of reminds me of a program on discovery channel the other day. They were talking about the problems with nuclear power, and they showed a little cartoon from japan where a friendly little isotope talked about how missunderstood he was and that he really wasn't all that dangerous, basically it said that if a few micrograms of plutonium were spilled into the harbour it wouldn't have any effect at all... but the funniest part was when it said that if you were to drink a glass of water with some plutonium in it 'most' of it would simply pass right through your body...as if this is ok. a few days after the cartoon aired a reporter asked the minster of energy if he could possibly demonstrate by drinking a galss of plutonium laced water...strangely he declined.