So how does Chessin unwind after a long day of talking computer users down from the ledge? She climbs into her 1994 Toyota pickup and sticks to quiet back roads for the long drive home to St. Helena.
"This is a really important time for me," she said. "My CD collection has really grown."
In other words, she's found her happy place.
In other news, Psychologist Kelly Chessin has committed suicide after the RIAA abruptly raided her Toyota truck and smashed all of her legal CD copies of music she already bought. Apparently the grief of data-loss consumed her life too much.
Androids around the world today are turning up in pieces, presumably from throwing themselves off tall buildings after realising the fact that no matter how beautiful the women is, they ain't gettin any....
In other news, scientists report that human evolution has taken its course and human many baby females will be able to reproduce every 18 days once they reach pubirty, effectively overpopulating the planet and showing it who's boss...
Bell Canada is trying to change this situation. "Bell Canada recently started converting public pay phones in Toronto, Montreal, and Kingston into terminals for 'Wi-Fi' Internet connections.
So now we'll have to pay how much for phone calls now?
No longer will you browse complex directory trees or directly interact with the HFS; instead, you define any number of document attributes when saving a document and then query a database of those attributes when trying to retrieve it later on.
Yes... lets make OS's even more confusing for the average person!
Seriously... why? All you did was change the way we access the HFS... Instead of having a directory called "Program Files" or "home", we now have an "attribute" called "Program Files" and "home". Congratulations, you've sucessfully created a file system that forces you to type in the location of the file instead of just double clicking on some icons...
...but in moderation. Sure, we might have the technology soon to change any climate into anything we want, supress natural disasters, but doing so will effect the climate globaly in ways we do not have the ability to predict. While we diverted one hurricane, the result might cause severe drout in some areas, or even spawn hurricanes that are exponentially stronger... we just don't have the knowledge necessary to control our weather effectively...
Yes, some added moisture here and there or weakening severe thunderstorms might be somewhat "safe", but when you mess with forces on a much greater scale, the new result could be much worse than the natural one...
Actually, because of a somewhat recent (clinton... 1996) democratic idea, a new act was passed called HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996). This creates a lot of change in the way we handle patient information. New electronic billing formats, and even patient sign-ins. I think that they're also going to make it where any procedure done to you must be approved by the insurance first... which really pisses me off.
Anyway, a main goal of HIPAA is the Doctor-Patient confidentiality (which is in existance today, but not really upheld). Basically, the simple fact that you go to a certian doctor is concidered "secret" by federal law... I'd imagine that for the military, it's a little more strict.
This opens the door to speculation about who would be interested in the data held by a military contractor and what they will do with the information.
Well if the military keeps a record of imunizations of its soldiers, then any country wishing to use bio weapons upon the US could use their medical record to determine which viruses/bacteria/pathogens they are weakest against.
Nor how to implicitly attempt to self-heal around a known bad connection, etc. like the biologic based computer does.
Starbridge Systems. They developed a hyper computer that was self healing... you shot a bullet through any one of its motherboards and it would reconfigure itself to work around it. I've been lookin on their site for it (www.starbridgesystems.com), but they've done some remodeling of their site over the years and technical descriptions like that can't be found as easily.
Even if the sheer processing capability could be duplicated, at a similar scale, with similar power requirements, with today's technologies there is still no true intelligence in the circuitry that is as flexible as the mind...
That makes no sense. Basically you said "Even if we could replicate it, we couldn't do it with our technology."
How do you program or develop electronic logic like that? Into mobile, autonomous units capable of effective action?
It's called neural networks... AL (artificial life). They simulate the neuron connections in a brain... If you replicate a brain well enough, it will have the same function as the original.
And there is good new for vegetarians, with turkey dinner being artificial, thanks to progress in biology and nanotechnology.
Apparently scientists will by then have understood the molecular processes needed to convert raw materials into turkey sufficiently well to make a good replica.
...does anybody care about vegetarians that much??
why does anyone take this seriously?
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Does anyone remember back in the 40s-60s when people were promissing moon colonies by the year 2000? Perfect AI? All these promisses of self-aware kitchens, nanotechnology, and...::chuckles:: mind reading with our family, and the greedy little grandsons i'm gonna have... they mean nothing to me. Just because some guy with money and a publisher came up with some ideas about the "future" from fitting a best-fit line on some innacurate graph... we should listen?
Well here's my prediction.
Christmas 2050:
During the decades after the fallout of nuclear war from WWIII (thank's to our good ol' prez G.W. Bush), the remaining 20% of humanity will have finally learned from our mistakes in the past, and a mental enlightenment will take place. No more war, poverty, or even money to spoil our greedy hands at christmas. There will be no economy anymore... just a civilization where people do their job because it betters the world.
Because of the lack of greed, the greatest minds no longer compete against eachother for grants, steal eachothers patents, or publish rediculous findings/theories just to make money... but instead will work together and finally discover a method of energy creation that is 100% efficient and very very powerful, allowing us to finally leave this polluted earth with no ozone and start again on a new planet under a distant sun after we have finally learned our lesson...
...and no one listens to "future" predictions anymore.
In all seriousness, the roots of any technical breakthrough or future event is far... far to complex to be predicted with any accuracy. In 50 years, we might not even be here to enjoy the greedy children who rape their parents for gifts and money. In 50 years, we may have made contact with an intelligent, peaceful alien race... or perhaps they are war-like and the entire earth is struggling to survive... and christmas is only a luxury once remembered.
...in 50 years, people will read our predictions of the future again and laugh...
...I want people to "steal" my work as you put it. When people read what I write and cite it, because their work is based on mine, that's the validation for what I do. It means that what I did didn't just die off, useless.
Absolutely. Although not a scientist (yet), every time I think of working in a scientific field, there is nothing I fear most than never making a difference or a contribution to my field of study. The most flattering act anyone could bestow upon me would be to cite my work and quote my words. It is as if they put me in a place above them (of course... if they are citing and quoting me positively).
I think the greatest reward any pure scientist could recieve is the recognition and even celebration of their genious and hard work.
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Yes... because Linux isn't a unix variant...
::insert huge notion of sarcasm for all who don't get it::
He claims that unix is dead because they are switching from one unix variant to another unix variant??
Is this guy stupid or something??
California is looking into claims that the site is practicing geology without a license.
I didn't know you had to have a license to look at a rock...
Althought it does sound fishy, they still didn't report exactly what information was being sent, just that it COULD be sent.
So how does Chessin unwind after a long day of talking computer users down from the ledge? She climbs into her 1994 Toyota pickup and sticks to quiet back roads for the long drive home to St. Helena.
"This is a really important time for me," she said. "My CD collection has really grown."
In other words, she's found her happy place.
In other news, Psychologist Kelly Chessin has committed suicide after the RIAA abruptly raided her Toyota truck and smashed all of her legal CD copies of music she already bought. Apparently the grief of data-loss consumed her life too much.
The RIAA can blow me...
Moderation: +5, hopefull.
Androids around the world today are turning up in pieces, presumably from throwing themselves off tall buildings after realising the fact that no matter how beautiful the women is, they ain't gettin any....
Is global warming also affecting human evolution?
In other news, scientists report that human evolution has taken its course and human many baby females will be able to reproduce every 18 days once they reach pubirty, effectively overpopulating the planet and showing it who's boss...
I wonder if anybody's run the numbers on how much extra ozone is required to statistically eliminate one skin cancer case?
None... just takes people with common sense and SPF 30.
If they're muslum, how do they know which way is East to pray to?
Bell Canada is trying to change this situation. "Bell Canada recently started converting public pay phones in Toronto, Montreal, and Kingston into terminals for 'Wi-Fi' Internet connections.
So now we'll have to pay how much for phone calls now?
...while the Radeon 9700 Pro attained only 147fps in Quake 3...
Only?!?
This intensely ordered structure might one day be key to storing information with a very high density.
Yea, who cares about this as helping us understand more and more about the quantum mechanics of our universe.... we get bigger hard drives for porn!
True, it is interesting that it could lead to bigger hard drives, but it annoys me when they post that as the "hot topic" of this new discovery.
No longer will you browse complex directory trees or directly interact with the HFS; instead, you define any number of document attributes when saving a document and then query a database of those attributes when trying to retrieve it later on.
Yes... lets make OS's even more confusing for the average person!
Seriously... why? All you did was change the way we access the HFS... Instead of having a directory called "Program Files" or "home", we now have an "attribute" called "Program Files" and "home". Congratulations, you've sucessfully created a file system that forces you to type in the location of the file instead of just double clicking on some icons...
...but in moderation. Sure, we might have the technology soon to change any climate into anything we want, supress natural disasters, but doing so will effect the climate globaly in ways we do not have the ability to predict. While we diverted one hurricane, the result might cause severe drout in some areas, or even spawn hurricanes that are exponentially stronger... we just don't have the knowledge necessary to control our weather effectively...
Yes, some added moisture here and there or weakening severe thunderstorms might be somewhat "safe", but when you mess with forces on a much greater scale, the new result could be much worse than the natural one...
Just my thoughts...
Actually, because of a somewhat recent (clinton... 1996) democratic idea, a new act was passed called HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996). This creates a lot of change in the way we handle patient information. New electronic billing formats, and even patient sign-ins. I think that they're also going to make it where any procedure done to you must be approved by the insurance first... which really pisses me off.
Anyway, a main goal of HIPAA is the Doctor-Patient confidentiality (which is in existance today, but not really upheld). Basically, the simple fact that you go to a certian doctor is concidered "secret" by federal law... I'd imagine that for the military, it's a little more strict.
This opens the door to speculation about who would be interested in the data held by a military contractor and what they will do with the information.
Well if the military keeps a record of imunizations of its soldiers, then any country wishing to use bio weapons upon the US could use their medical record to determine which viruses/bacteria/pathogens they are weakest against.
Nor how to implicitly attempt to self-heal around a known bad connection, etc. like the biologic based computer does.
Starbridge Systems. They developed a hyper computer that was self healing... you shot a bullet through any one of its motherboards and it would reconfigure itself to work around it. I've been lookin on their site for it (www.starbridgesystems.com), but they've done some remodeling of their site over the years and technical descriptions like that can't be found as easily.
Even if the sheer processing capability could be duplicated, at a similar scale, with similar power requirements, with today's technologies there is still no true intelligence in the circuitry that is as flexible as the mind...
...didn't you read anything?
That makes no sense. Basically you said "Even if we could replicate it, we couldn't do it with our technology."
How do you program or develop electronic logic like that? Into mobile, autonomous units capable of effective action?
It's called neural networks... AL (artificial life). They simulate the neuron connections in a brain... If you replicate a brain well enough, it will have the same function as the original.
genetically-engineered Furbies
I didn't know plastic had genes to engineer in the first place...
And there is good new for vegetarians, with turkey dinner being artificial, thanks to progress in biology and nanotechnology.
Apparently scientists will by then have understood the molecular processes needed to convert raw materials into turkey sufficiently well to make a good replica.
...does anybody care about vegetarians that much??
Does anyone remember back in the 40s-60s when people were promissing moon colonies by the year 2000? Perfect AI? All these promisses of self-aware kitchens, nanotechnology, and... ::chuckles:: mind reading with our family, and the greedy little grandsons i'm gonna have... they mean nothing to me. Just because some guy with money and a publisher came up with some ideas about the "future" from fitting a best-fit line on some innacurate graph... we should listen?
...and no one listens to "future" predictions anymore.
...in 50 years, people will read our predictions of the future again and laugh...
Well here's my prediction.
Christmas 2050:
During the decades after the fallout of nuclear war from WWIII (thank's to our good ol' prez G.W. Bush), the remaining 20% of humanity will have finally learned from our mistakes in the past, and a mental enlightenment will take place. No more war, poverty, or even money to spoil our greedy hands at christmas. There will be no economy anymore... just a civilization where people do their job because it betters the world.
Because of the lack of greed, the greatest minds no longer compete against eachother for grants, steal eachothers patents, or publish rediculous findings/theories just to make money... but instead will work together and finally discover a method of energy creation that is 100% efficient and very very powerful, allowing us to finally leave this polluted earth with no ozone and start again on a new planet under a distant sun after we have finally learned our lesson...
In all seriousness, the roots of any technical breakthrough or future event is far... far to complex to be predicted with any accuracy. In 50 years, we might not even be here to enjoy the greedy children who rape their parents for gifts and money. In 50 years, we may have made contact with an intelligent, peaceful alien race... or perhaps they are war-like and the entire earth is struggling to survive... and christmas is only a luxury once remembered.
...I want people to "steal" my work as you put it. When people read what I write and cite it, because their work is based on mine, that's the validation for what I do. It means that what I did didn't just die off, useless.
Absolutely. Although not a scientist (yet), every time I think of working in a scientific field, there is nothing I fear most than never making a difference or a contribution to my field of study. The most flattering act anyone could bestow upon me would be to cite my work and quote my words. It is as if they put me in a place above them (of course... if they are citing and quoting me positively).
I think the greatest reward any pure scientist could recieve is the recognition and even celebration of their genious and hard work.
measurement of the speed of light (constant! no more Ether!)
nnooppeee... it's not a constant...
This has very important implications for the fundamental principle that Science must transcend all economic, national and other barriers.
;)
there's my favorite word again!