Sounds like there should be an upper boundary threshhold for requests.
Nope, it should be more like the current "challenge" system in tournament tennis. Make it so that WB can take down as many genuine violations as they like, but three false takedowns in a month should be considered abuse of the Special Rightsholder privilege. The penalty for that should be - for a 90 day period, suspend their Special Rightsholder Account, so that they go back to proving ownership of the IP and having to get a court order for each and every violation they find. I'm sure that 90 days of hassling their^W judges will convince them that due diligence is of value.
Ah, I get it. You see, if you were talking about a tortoise on its back, Cleverbot would have got the reference and assumed you were trying to test it, or maybe continued to roleplay and quote from the movie. But, because you were talking about a turtle, it assumed you were talking about the nature of the universe. Now, naturally, a turtle cannot be on its back because the only thing that can be on a turtle's back is the world or another turtle. If you come to Cleverbot with nonsense like turtles being on their own backs it will respond with nonsense.
20 years ago the Turing test was to impersonate a mature native-language-writing adult. Internet chat has really lowered the bar. A cat walking across a keyboard could probably pass nowadays...
20 years ago the Turing test was to impersonate a mature native-language-writing adult. Internet chat has really lowered the bar. A cat walking across a keyboard could probably pass nowadays...
People are moving more and more of their communication essentially from open protocols (email, IRC) or well regulated infrastructure (phone, mail) into closed cooperation controlled environments (G+, Facebook) and the only way to communicate with them is by using said services.
I can't say that I have noticed people abandoning email or even telephone services in favour of Facebook or G+. I still get quite a lot of material by regular post as well, so that's not dead either. I have noticed people adopting things like FB and G+ in addition to more traditional communication channels, but not instead of them.
They preclude communication with people on G+, the existence of side channels doesn't make that problem go away.
No, they do not - that problem never existed! Google+ users are not prevented from all communications with non G+ users, nor vice versa. If there are alternative communications channels still in use, it does not matter if they are side channels or not. Google is not cutting anyone off, or locking anyone in - there are real alternatives available.
Any of those are taken away, I can find alternatives very easily.
What alternative do you use to communicate with people on Google+?
Unlike email where you have an open standard and plenty of provider to chose from, you don't get that choice on Facebook or Google+, either you are with them or you are locked out of that piece of communication infrastructure.
What are you talking about? People on G+ still have facebook and email access, don't they? You could phone them or write a letter. Hell you could even talk to your friends face to face. There are plenty of options! Being pseudonymous and all, I haven't signed up for G+, so I'll go out on a limb without having read the end user agreement(s). Even though Google locks out non-G+ users from THEIR network, they do not preclude G+ users from using other technologies.
You present a well thought-out and highly cogent argument in favour of your theory of over diagnosis. Your explanation of the difference between current over diagnosis and prior under diagnosis shows remarkable insight into the psyche of diagnosticians the world over. While I tend to agree with your findings on ADHD, I was initially unconvinced that the same mechanism was at play here with AS, but the evidence you present and your deductive reasoning are absolutely irrefutable and I now find myself an unwavering supporter of your findings. I implore you to publish your groundbreaking work, perhaps in Nature or NEJM.
Yours Sincerely,
Blubrick
P.S. Incidentally, your mother's moral virtue is beyond reproach.
...there is a giant spaghetti monster living behind the moon who did it.
That's silly. The FSM lives in a Malibu beach front house.
The FSM (sauce be upon him) may take residence in a Malibu beach front house, but he lives in the hearts and minds of true Pastafarians the world over.
The Oxford University Press is hardly "any schmuck"*. Appearing in The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is a sufficiently well-respected validation of a word that it is really not unreasonable to colloquially describe such a word as "official".
*Anonymous Coward , on the other hand, pretty much is any schmuck!
It's OK to be slightly less powerful than competitors if you offer creativity.
However, if you are TOO MUCH underpowered then you're not going to compensate it with better _anything_. And iPhone is also a nice general-purpose computer - you can even make phone calls with it!
Add to that the fact that the purchase price of the iPhone is often subsidized by the service contract (thus, mostly hidden from the consumer), and a dedicated portable gaming device such as a DSi becomes a much more difficult purchase to justify. People don't usually take the running costs of the iPhone into account when they compare it to the DSi because the latter's is effectively nil*. The ongoing carrier's charge is not viewed as the cost of running an iPhone, it's seen as the cost of running any phone, so it's excluded from the comparison (not necessarily consciously, though).
* Yes, I know there's electricity for recharging, but that too is a hidden cost.
iirc from my High School days, don't we only have 8 minutes to react to anything like this anyway before we're already hit by it? What is the point of telling us to brace for stuff when we don't have time to react.
If they want an audit, blah blah blah which may be applicable to the case.
That "paragraph" consisted of only two sentences, one of 176 words and the other of 235. Only a lawyer can abuse language in that manner. I call bullshit on your claim - you are a lawyer, aren't you?
Neither the article nor the summary didn't even spell his name right. It is Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan not "Ahyan".
I kinda see what drove him to do this.
How's that? By reminding everybody of the right way to spell the part of his name they already get right? That's almost as absurd as the old Get Smart joke with "The Claw".
There will never be any interstellar trade. The distances and velocities involved require energy expenditures vastly higher than the cost of any valuables you may wish to transport.
Sounds a little like someone saying "Man will never fly" in the 1300s...
There's actually a pretty big difference. In the 1300s anyone doubting the ability of man to fly could look to birds, insects, and bats as proof that flight is at least possible. If they could do it, maybe we could too.
OTOH, we have no examples of interstellar travel that we can look to as proof it can be done.
Not true. We do have examples of interstellar travel as proof of concept. Light itself undergoes interstellar travel all the time. Now, making the conceptual link between the transit of light and the transit of matter may seem impossible to us today, but no more so than the link between the creatures of the air and mankind would have done to twelfth century philosophers. And for smaller distances, we have comets and meteors to look to for proof of concept.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like there should be an upper boundary threshhold for requests.
Nope, it should be more like the current "challenge" system in tournament tennis. Make it so that WB can take down as many genuine violations as they like, but three false takedowns in a month should be considered abuse of the Special Rightsholder privilege. The penalty for that should be - for a 90 day period, suspend their Special Rightsholder Account, so that they go back to proving ownership of the IP and having to get a court order for each and every violation they find. I'm sure that 90 days of hassling their^W judges will convince them that due diligence is of value.
Magical Fuck Frocks - Is that what they're calling garmies these days?
Ah, I get it. You see, if you were talking about a tortoise on its back, Cleverbot would have got the reference and assumed you were trying to test it, or maybe continued to roleplay and quote from the movie. But, because you were talking about a turtle, it assumed you were talking about the nature of the universe. Now, naturally, a turtle cannot be on its back because the only thing that can be on a turtle's back is the world or another turtle. If you come to Cleverbot with nonsense like turtles being on their own backs it will respond with nonsense.
20 years ago the Turing test was to impersonate a mature native-language-writing adult. Internet chat has really lowered the bar. A cat walking across a keyboard could probably pass nowadays...
20 years ago the Turing test was to impersonate a mature native-language-writing adult. Internet chat has really lowered the bar. A cat walking across a keyboard could probably pass nowadays...
Mittens! Get off my keyboard!
Yep, and the magazine-style editing of the clip with cuts so close together that it was more like a slide show than a video. Nearly unwatchable.
People are moving more and more of their communication essentially from open protocols (email, IRC) or well regulated infrastructure (phone, mail) into closed cooperation controlled environments (G+, Facebook) and the only way to communicate with them is by using said services.
I can't say that I have noticed people abandoning email or even telephone services in favour of Facebook or G+. I still get quite a lot of material by regular post as well, so that's not dead either. I have noticed people adopting things like FB and G+ in addition to more traditional communication channels, but not instead of them.
They preclude communication with people on G+, the existence of side channels doesn't make that problem go away.
No, they do not - that problem never existed! Google+ users are not prevented from all communications with non G+ users, nor vice versa. If there are alternative communications channels still in use, it does not matter if they are side channels or not. Google is not cutting anyone off, or locking anyone in - there are real alternatives available.
I have this awful feeling I just fed a Troll.
Any of those are taken away, I can find alternatives very easily.
What alternative do you use to communicate with people on Google+?
Unlike email where you have an open standard and plenty of provider to chose from, you don't get that choice on Facebook or Google+, either you are with them or you are locked out of that piece of communication infrastructure.
What are you talking about? People on G+ still have facebook and email access, don't they? You could phone them or write a letter. Hell you could even talk to your friends face to face. There are plenty of options! Being pseudonymous and all, I haven't signed up for G+, so I'll go out on a limb without having read the end user agreement(s). Even though Google locks out non-G+ users from THEIR network, they do not preclude G+ users from using other technologies.
You present a well thought-out and highly cogent argument in favour of your theory of over diagnosis. Your explanation of the difference between current over diagnosis and prior under diagnosis shows remarkable insight into the psyche of diagnosticians the world over. While I tend to agree with your findings on ADHD, I was initially unconvinced that the same mechanism was at play here with AS, but the evidence you present and your deductive reasoning are absolutely irrefutable and I now find myself an unwavering supporter of your findings. I implore you to publish your groundbreaking work, perhaps in Nature or NEJM.
Yours Sincerely,
Blubrick
P.S. Incidentally, your mother's moral virtue is beyond reproach.
...there is a giant spaghetti monster living behind the moon who did it.
That's silly. The FSM lives in a Malibu beach front house.
The FSM (sauce be upon him) may take residence in a Malibu beach front house, but he lives in the hearts and minds of true Pastafarians the world over.
Ramen.
The Oxford University Press is hardly "any schmuck"*. Appearing in The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is a sufficiently well-respected validation of a word that it is really not unreasonable to colloquially describe such a word as "official".
*Anonymous Coward , on the other hand, pretty much is any schmuck!
I demand more hamster analogies from you in the future. <3
Wish not too hard, lest thy wish be granted!
This is another one of those "top N, one per page, ads on every page" ad farm trolls.
I propose the name "Listvertizing"
Your list is incomplete, but I don't really need to add to it - you can make due with what you've got.
I guess I can sit down again.
Well, light might go into yours, but I'm pretty sure the sun shines out of mine!
It's OK to be slightly less powerful than competitors if you offer creativity.
However, if you are TOO MUCH underpowered then you're not going to compensate it with better _anything_. And iPhone is also a nice general-purpose computer - you can even make phone calls with it!
Add to that the fact that the purchase price of the iPhone is often subsidized by the service contract (thus, mostly hidden from the consumer), and a dedicated portable gaming device such as a DSi becomes a much more difficult purchase to justify. People don't usually take the running costs of the iPhone into account when they compare it to the DSi because the latter's is effectively nil*. The ongoing carrier's charge is not viewed as the cost of running an iPhone, it's seen as the cost of running any phone, so it's excluded from the comparison (not necessarily consciously, though).
* Yes, I know there's electricity for recharging, but that too is a hidden cost.
Well it can play angry birds, but I'm still not convinced consumers will go for it. You see, the refresh rate kinda sucks.
The sound of speed in a vacuum? It's best described as drug-fucked sort of whimper.
iirc from my High School days, don't we only have 8 minutes to react to anything like this anyway before we're already hit by it? What is the point of telling us to brace for stuff when we don't have time to react.
Am I missing something?
Yes, you are.
Any mad as a hatter symptoms?
Well, he is posting to slashdot...
Look! Up in the sky!
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's the joke you missed!
If they want an audit, blah blah blah which may be applicable to the case.
That "paragraph" consisted of only two sentences, one of 176 words and the other of 235. Only a lawyer can abuse language in that manner. I call bullshit on your claim - you are a lawyer, aren't you?
Neither the article nor the summary didn't even spell his name right. It is Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan not "Ahyan".
I kinda see what drove him to do this.
How's that? By reminding everybody of the right way to spell the part of his name they already get right? That's almost as absurd as the old Get Smart joke with "The Claw".
I thought Benny Hill's best material (oh, how it irks me to write those words) would be written on a postage stamp.
There will never be any interstellar trade. The distances and velocities involved require energy expenditures vastly higher than the cost of any valuables you may wish to transport.
Sounds a little like someone saying "Man will never fly" in the 1300s...
There's actually a pretty big difference. In the 1300s anyone doubting the ability of man to fly could look to birds, insects, and bats as proof that flight is at least possible. If they could do it, maybe we could too.
OTOH, we have no examples of interstellar travel that we can look to as proof it can be done.
Not true. We do have examples of interstellar travel as proof of concept. Light itself undergoes interstellar travel all the time. Now, making the conceptual link between the transit of light and the transit of matter may seem impossible to us today, but no more so than the link between the creatures of the air and mankind would have done to twelfth century philosophers. And for smaller distances, we have comets and meteors to look to for proof of concept.
Begun, the clone wars has.
When nine hundred years old you reach, remember the rules of grammar, you will not, hmm?