Bring on the websites running on iPhones so when I look out my window here in Portland I can start watching hipsters reaching into their pockets looking at their iPhones than combusting in flames.
I will send them 50 bucks in check form. This is one of the greatest 'outbreaks of common sense' in any publishing industry in the past 20 years. Some of these fields I keep abreast in can easily cost over 2000 dollars a year just in books because they have such a limited mostly 'well-funded' academic audience. This will allow theoretical work to reach a far greater amount and variety of people and hopefully engage in a more robust and full discourse as some fields have become 10 people yelling at each other while the rest of the world yawns.
Accepting a basic phenomenological ground as universal to members of the same species is what most sane philosophers do nowadays. We may not be able to make a machine have sensational awareness that is outrightly similar to human but if we replicated the device we could be pretty well-assured the duplicate would be like the original. That would pry be important considering most human conciousness we know is exhibited only around other humans. We may need to create a community of AIs and allow them to interact over an extended period of time to see if conciousness is an emergent phenomenon as it was most likely with humans.
No one thought resources were infinite or pollution was negligible during the 19th and 20th centuries. Wars were fought over resources almost every decade of the past 200 years and pollution has been noted and challenged by the populace that are affected by it since day one.
Yeah, we have had so much better luck with congress protecting the rights of minorities. Oh wait, it took them 100 years after the end of slavery to pass civil rights laws.
News as a product in the US and increasingly elsewhere has been boiled down into politics, celebrities and disasters. No one cares about social problems united as a people because everything has been turned to a fine mush of partisan bickering amidst interchangeable political personalities. I guarantee that the average American can name more politicians than laws and supreme court decisions passed in his lifetime.
For one thing, it is time to put term limits on all elected federal offices. Secondly, we should have the right to elect at least a portion of the Supreme Court. Lastly, it might just be time to have a new constitutional convention and make sure those malodorous cunts do not take away more of our rights.
It is very easy to tell good management from bad management in software development. Every half-way decent programmer slave-driver who can get 10,000 wage slaves to build the equivalent of the pyramids in software has a BS in CS or a tech field and 5+ years real world experience and than an MBA or something similar but more technical like a Systems Science degree. Every single straight business major sucks at managing anything besides a bank.
As someone who dated a copy editor at a textbook company there is usually 1.5x the material than what actually makes it in the book. This is true across all disciplines. Having access to said material allows anyone to make their own version of the book. That is what the text being treated as source code is good for, having access to alternative explanations, tangential material and to have the ability to fork at will. Try doing that with a normal textbook.
Yeah, I have listened to my voice messages like 10 times since 1996. It is a cumbersome way to try to communicate someone. Since 2006 my current voicemail box has been full since Verizon does not allow you to choose to not have the service.
I get my news from a news aggregator and not just Google News. Who the fuck watches scrolling news anymore unless you are trapped in an airport or your parent's house?
Maybe before Murdoch. Now it is rife with celebrity gossip and innuendo, partisan back and forth and economic doom and gloom. It is fast becoming Discover Magazine when it used to be Scientific American.
Meanwhile, I will read whatever is free on my RSS reader that sources over 1000 free sources. I will download them unto my e-paper reader using calibre and you will never see a red cent from me again.
The problem is when people have a whole bunch of them and 100 40 gig hard drives sold at a flea market can pickup 2000 dollars some weekends. I did a pull once where the guy was savvy enough to wipe the hard disks but did not check all the CD-Rom drives, half of which had CDs in them with corporate information. Looking it over I could of easily sold the info to an unscrupulous competitor but decided to just send them to him COD for cost of postage.
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Bring on the websites running on iPhones so when I look out my window here in Portland I can start watching hipsters reaching into their pockets looking at their iPhones than combusting in flames.
I will send them 50 bucks in check form. This is one of the greatest 'outbreaks of common sense' in any publishing industry in the past 20 years. Some of these fields I keep abreast in can easily cost over 2000 dollars a year just in books because they have such a limited mostly 'well-funded' academic audience. This will allow theoretical work to reach a far greater amount and variety of people and hopefully engage in a more robust and full discourse as some fields have become 10 people yelling at each other while the rest of the world yawns.
Think of how much fun it would be to crash one of those Eve Online ships into the shire!
Rootkits nowadays come with disk wiping utility.
Accepting a basic phenomenological ground as universal to members of the same species is what most sane philosophers do nowadays. We may not be able to make a machine have sensational awareness that is outrightly similar to human but if we replicated the device we could be pretty well-assured the duplicate would be like the original. That would pry be important considering most human conciousness we know is exhibited only around other humans. We may need to create a community of AIs and allow them to interact over an extended period of time to see if conciousness is an emergent phenomenon as it was most likely with humans.
No one thought resources were infinite or pollution was negligible during the 19th and 20th centuries. Wars were fought over resources almost every decade of the past 200 years and pollution has been noted and challenged by the populace that are affected by it since day one.
If you knew your history or had read the article linked in the header, you would.
Next rover should be designed by those insane miniature 4x4 enthusiasts. At least the drive train and suspension.
Congress is the "check" on the executive's power to elect a supreme court justice.
Yeah, we have had so much better luck with congress protecting the rights of minorities. Oh wait, it took them 100 years after the end of slavery to pass civil rights laws.
You must like being ruled by kings in suits.
News as a product in the US and increasingly elsewhere has been boiled down into politics, celebrities and disasters. No one cares about social problems united as a people because everything has been turned to a fine mush of partisan bickering amidst interchangeable political personalities. I guarantee that the average American can name more politicians than laws and supreme court decisions passed in his lifetime.
For one thing, it is time to put term limits on all elected federal offices. Secondly, we should have the right to elect at least a portion of the Supreme Court. Lastly, it might just be time to have a new constitutional convention and make sure those malodorous cunts do not take away more of our rights.
Well 90% of slashdot users pry use AdBlock in the first place. I do buy things from ThinkGeek that is enough support for me.
Most of us don't need apps on our cell phones.
Send it to them in Small-Pox rugs and glass beads. If the US can do it than it must be legal.
It is very easy to tell good management from bad management in software development. Every half-way decent programmer slave-driver who can get 10,000 wage slaves to build the equivalent of the pyramids in software has a BS in CS or a tech field and 5+ years real world experience and than an MBA or something similar but more technical like a Systems Science degree. Every single straight business major sucks at managing anything besides a bank.
As someone who dated a copy editor at a textbook company there is usually 1.5x the material than what actually makes it in the book. This is true across all disciplines. Having access to said material allows anyone to make their own version of the book. That is what the text being treated as source code is good for, having access to alternative explanations, tangential material and to have the ability to fork at will. Try doing that with a normal textbook.
Yeah, I have listened to my voice messages like 10 times since 1996. It is a cumbersome way to try to communicate someone. Since 2006 my current voicemail box has been full since Verizon does not allow you to choose to not have the service.
Seriously, I am more scared of South Korea going ballistic over Starcraft 2 than North Korea having the technical aptitude to get an ICBM together.
I get my news from a news aggregator and not just Google News. Who the fuck watches scrolling news anymore unless you are trapped in an airport or your parent's house?
Maybe before Murdoch. Now it is rife with celebrity gossip and innuendo, partisan back and forth and economic doom and gloom. It is fast becoming Discover Magazine when it used to be Scientific American.
I used to get a newspaper every now and than. Now I only get them to help light logs on fire.
Meanwhile, I will read whatever is free on my RSS reader that sources over 1000 free sources. I will download them unto my e-paper reader using calibre and you will never see a red cent from me again.
The problem is when people have a whole bunch of them and 100 40 gig hard drives sold at a flea market can pickup 2000 dollars some weekends. I did a pull once where the guy was savvy enough to wipe the hard disks but did not check all the CD-Rom drives, half of which had CDs in them with corporate information. Looking it over I could of easily sold the info to an unscrupulous competitor but decided to just send them to him COD for cost of postage.
So just get a frigging Sony Ebook Reader for like 200 bucks that works with any PDF file.