Im on comcast in Michigan... near detroit. They sent out that update to all my friends, but out of 7 people, 6 got CD's that were cracked in half, either from comcast, or in the mail. Mine was broken too, but then again, I don't need it. I got an OpenBSD firewall running as a DNS server as well...
One of my friends (the one that actually got the working CD) Recieved a new cable modem as well... anybody else have that happen to them too?
evasive maneuvers?? Umm... it should be defensive maneuvers, unless it actually attacked the debris at the same time... which uh... i dont think they did...
...If your internet connection at home is good enough... you could listen to your own collection you have on your computer... It'll be like a portible MP3 player with the capacity of your hard drive at home...
Just make large scaled wireless (yet with actual good encryption) internet, then you could stream online radio for just the cost of your internet connection... even if you just listen to it in your car, your passenger could be browsing online with laptops, or even if you're just sittin somewhere in a park, coffie house, or anywhere... The selection you get with online radio is huge... practically limitless...
I have a question for you... (not mocking, being a smart-ass or anything... I'm just curious). Since you are a cognative scientist, do you know of any research that has delt with the direct mimicking of the signals sent through the optic nerve? I imagine that you could eventually trace the impulses sent through there to figure out what means what (after some decoding)... then from that couldn't you create your own impulses and pretty much make anybody "see" anything you want?
Sweet job, I'm a little envious (my friend is persuing a career in that field), but I've always thought that trying to compare set of static transistors with our own neurons and thinking that the "language" that our mind uses to process everything is like our own method of 1's and 0's is a good start for the basics... but doesn't finish up the job for fully understanding our mind. Take the projects in AI (which you should be familiar with)... people have been writing logistic programs to make simple conversations (simple, yet horribly complex and long I might add) with people, yet the projects dealing with the mimicking of our own neuron connections looks much more promising for the long run... but, thats my own opinion...
I think as humans we greatly underestimate the capibility of our own mind...
I guess you didn't think too much about that quote before you replied about it... We haven't even interfaced with our own brains yet, and already you're speculating on its exact functions. You said yourself that our brain (even halves of brains) has the function to reconfigure itself to become normal once again, so why can't our brain adapt to take input from something we present to it? People that have gone blind have had their brains start to use entirely different lobes to again take in visual input. So since it adapted to retreive and store data from our eyes in an entirely different way that is started out as, then why can't it adapt to a set of wires and a simple stream of 1's and 0's?
Your greatest flaw is comparing our brain to large chunk of transistors... the human brain has much more capibility than that...
look at the size of the hurdle we just got over... Not too long ago this thought wasn't even concidered sane, yet today it's reality. Who knows what we'll have accomplished 50 years from now? Personally, I'll be more than happy to wait that long to upload the encyclopedia to my mind (...first decipher my brain, backup motor/sensory sections... etc etc etc...) plus much much more...
I think as humans we greatly underestimate the capibility of our own mind...
"The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it." : The Roman Rule
Well.. If you can hook up some cable from your computer, then you could download all the information you could find off the web into your mind. Imagine the leaps and bounds in science and just everything in our society if everybody could draw in every bit of information on anything... and then improve upon it...
"For example, when the researchers put a magnetic field across a bundle at temperatures up to 400 kelvin (127 C), the bundle generated its own weak, opposing magnetic field. Such a reaction can be a sign of superconductivity."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that all current carrying deviced generated their own opposing magnetic field.... even the wires going through most all buildings. The strenght of this magnetic field would allow us to calculate the resistance in the conductor, them stating that it produced a weak magnetic field doesn't prove much...
Some guy came into my work (Einstein Bagles)... got some (you guessed it) bagles, and said "I gotta get energy for Sunday"... Sunday??... "Oh yea, the game cube is going on sale... I work for nintendo". Right then and there I wanted to say "Playstation kicks nintendo's ass!", but I was just in shock of meeting one of my idols...
"Fusion doesn't exist and would be more expensive than fission if it did.
-I thought that was understood in this discussion... after all, we're discussing possible energy sources... not sources that we've researched, mastered, and manufactured in abundance...
"If you want to put money into energy research where it will count, research how to better extract uranium from seawater."
-You don't think putting money into fusion research would count at all?? Naaaa... lets just save a coupla bucks instead of creating a more efficient and beautifully clean power source.
Humans should research everything we can think of, for we never know when out findings might just come in handy...
Is this a NEW concept or something? Hydrogen as fuel is pretty damn simple... I did experiments with various hydrogen energy sources in my AP Chem class in high school...
I can't say that I've seen the ones you all are talking about... but I've seen northern lights on many occasions here in Michigan below the 45th parallel. Some are just minor, but two summers ago while I was vacationing, I was in the middle of a light show that took up the entire sky... Wow what a sight...
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Im on comcast in Michigan... near detroit. They sent out that update to all my friends, but out of 7 people, 6 got CD's that were cracked in half, either from comcast, or in the mail. Mine was broken too, but then again, I don't need it. I got an OpenBSD firewall running as a DNS server as well...
One of my friends (the one that actually got the working CD) Recieved a new cable modem as well... anybody else have that happen to them too?
which means that the drives will work under Linux
Thank you, captian obvious...
I think that you perform evasive maneuvers when attacked
...so were they attacked?
you do...
evasive maneuvers?? Umm... it should be defensive maneuvers, unless it actually attacked the debris at the same time... which uh... i dont think they did...
...If your internet connection at home is good enough... you could listen to your own collection you have on your computer... It'll be like a portible MP3 player with the capacity of your hard drive at home...
Just make large scaled wireless (yet with actual good encryption) internet, then you could stream online radio for just the cost of your internet connection... even if you just listen to it in your car, your passenger could be browsing online with laptops, or even if you're just sittin somewhere in a park, coffie house, or anywhere... The selection you get with online radio is huge... practically limitless...
...just prove that there is hydrogen near the poles... doesn't have to be water...
I have a question for you... (not mocking, being a smart-ass or anything... I'm just curious). Since you are a cognative scientist, do you know of any research that has delt with the direct mimicking of the signals sent through the optic nerve? I imagine that you could eventually trace the impulses sent through there to figure out what means what (after some decoding)... then from that couldn't you create your own impulses and pretty much make anybody "see" anything you want?
Sweet job, I'm a little envious (my friend is persuing a career in that field), but I've always thought that trying to compare set of static transistors with our own neurons and thinking that the "language" that our mind uses to process everything is like our own method of 1's and 0's is a good start for the basics... but doesn't finish up the job for fully understanding our mind. Take the projects in AI (which you should be familiar with)... people have been writing logistic programs to make simple conversations (simple, yet horribly complex and long I might add) with people, yet the projects dealing with the mimicking of our own neuron connections looks much more promising for the long run... but, thats my own opinion...
I think as humans we greatly underestimate the capibility of our own mind...
I guess you didn't think too much about that quote before you replied about it... We haven't even interfaced with our own brains yet, and already you're speculating on its exact functions. You said yourself that our brain (even halves of brains) has the function to reconfigure itself to become normal once again, so why can't our brain adapt to take input from something we present to it? People that have gone blind have had their brains start to use entirely different lobes to again take in visual input. So since it adapted to retreive and store data from our eyes in an entirely different way that is started out as, then why can't it adapt to a set of wires and a simple stream of 1's and 0's?
Your greatest flaw is comparing our brain to large chunk of transistors... the human brain has much more capibility than that...
...how do you leave a card on a website?
look at the size of the hurdle we just got over... Not too long ago this thought wasn't even concidered sane, yet today it's reality. Who knows what we'll have accomplished 50 years from now? Personally, I'll be more than happy to wait that long to upload the encyclopedia to my mind (...first decipher my brain, backup motor/sensory sections... etc etc etc...) plus much much more...
I think as humans we greatly underestimate the capibility of our own mind...
"The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it." : The Roman Rule
"Increase/restore memory?"
Well.. If you can hook up some cable from your computer, then you could download all the information you could find off the web into your mind. Imagine the leaps and bounds in science and just everything in our society if everybody could draw in every bit of information on anything... and then improve upon it...
If ya read toms hardware.... you would know that they got rid of that little cheat...
"For example, when the researchers put a magnetic field across a bundle at temperatures up to 400 kelvin (127 C), the bundle generated its own weak, opposing magnetic field. Such a reaction can be a sign of superconductivity."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that all current carrying deviced generated their own opposing magnetic field.... even the wires going through most all buildings. The strenght of this magnetic field would allow us to calculate the resistance in the conductor, them stating that it produced a weak magnetic field doesn't prove much...
Actually it is bagles... its a new chain that sells bagles. What are bagles? Well they're umm.... uhh..... ok.... I admit it.... I can't spell...
Just remember, you only have a .2% of a third arm growing out of... well... maybe your ass in some cases.
But what if it runs it again, and it's innacurate bits match up? ...it could be very precice in its innacuracy...
Who needs English? Mathematics is the true universal lauguage...
So lets spread around Microsoft products even more... that'll decrease the percentage of the market that they hold.... geez...
Some guy came into my work (Einstein Bagles)... got some (you guessed it) bagles, and said "I gotta get energy for Sunday"... Sunday?? ... "Oh yea, the game cube is going on sale... I work for nintendo". Right then and there I wanted to say "Playstation kicks nintendo's ass!", but I was just in shock of meeting one of my idols...
"Fusion doesn't exist and would be more expensive than fission if it did.
-I thought that was understood in this discussion... after all, we're discussing possible energy sources... not sources that we've researched, mastered, and manufactured in abundance...
"If you want to put money into energy research where it will count, research how to better extract uranium from seawater."
-You don't think putting money into fusion research would count at all?? Naaaa... lets just save a coupla bucks instead of creating a more efficient and beautifully clean power source.
Humans should research everything we can think of, for we never know when out findings might just come in handy...
What about fusion reactors? Now that is a pretty damn good power supply... much much much better than fission (current nuclear power plants)
Is this a NEW concept or something? Hydrogen as fuel is pretty damn simple... I did experiments with various hydrogen energy sources in my AP Chem class in high school...
I can't say that I've seen the ones you all are talking about... but I've seen northern lights on many occasions here in Michigan below the 45th parallel. Some are just minor, but two summers ago while I was vacationing, I was in the middle of a light show that took up the entire sky... Wow what a sight...