slovenly? nah...all Americans shower every day, and in general, have high standards of hygeine, even in the lower class. Europeans, however...well, what can you say about a culture in which it is acceptable to shower only twice a week? Pee-yew.
Humans, and their predecessors, single-celled organisms, have indeed been sentient for a large portion of the Earth's existence. Perhaps you have been misusing the term sentient? It merely means "able to sense", or "able to respond to stimuli", and not any kind of higher intelligence. "Self-aware" would be a better expression in that case.
Ever checked out the Golden Fleece Awards? Lots of projects that have no use whatsoever, done under the rubric of "pure science", with your money. Typical example: funding a study of behavior and social relationships in a Peruvian brothel to the tune of $97,000.
Wow, I never knew there was a sequel...I never saw Westworld until a few months ago...I always thought it was one of those horrid 70s monstrosities, but it's surprisingly lucid. It's so similar to "The Terminator", you'd think they ripped it off...oh, wait.
Yeah, sure, Northpoint wouldn't have gone out of business if they hadn't have gone after that mean man who knocked you off irc with a pingflood. Poor baby.
There are many constructive tasks that robots could compete at
So, TV producers should go into a Toyota plant and see how many welds a robot could make in a day? If you wanted competition, its productivity could be measured against other robots from GM and Ford plants.
Perhaps I'm expecting too much from television
Yup. Sure are.
the potential in robotics is amazing and it's a shame that isn't demonstrated more in these shows.
Battlebots doesn't have any robots on the show. They're all remote-control cars. Saying robotics has something to do with it is a misnomer.
So when you go home to bed tonight make sure and think about how much extra suffering
your lack of editorial integrity may have caused cancer sufferers due to lost computing
resources for this project.
You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding.
Wasn't the whole rationale of the distributed.net project to develop a distributed computing client? I don't think it's hypocritical to attack this falsely-philanthropic company, since they don't have anything to do with the RC5-DES project. I mean, the crypto breaking thing is nice, but their mission statement says nothing about crypto or non-profitness. Distributed.net has a distributed computing client for twenty or thirty different operating systems.
You wouldn't hire someone who has just said he would experience stress and burn out quickly from being forced to implement the latest buzzword? You must be in HR to be this sharp.
I can only speak from my own knowledge of java programs, non-GUI system daemons in a production environment, and they're slow as hell and crash a lot. We're slowly replacing them with ProC and C++ agents, and the difference is like night and day.
I don't know where that unwieldy explanation for "ping" comes from. At any rate, "ping" an onomatopoeia of the sound old-time audible-range sonar makes, not an acronym. As Mike Muuss, the man who created ping says, "From my point of view
PING is not an acronym
standing for Packet InterNet Grouper,
it's a sonar analogy."
You do bring up a point - should newscasts that spend 10 out of their 23 minutes covering gruesome highway crashes and drug-related murders receive an "M" rating and be capable of being blocked by this V-chip? After all, this is real, not ficticious violence. I don't know about the rest of you, but I've seen far too many blood smears, weeping mothers, and covered gurneys being loaded into hearses on my local newscast. I bet newscasts won't be blocked, though...media is too powerful.
Two friends of mine, stayed at another friend's house for a few days, who had a most excellent cable selection. When they left, they gave him a parting gift - they used the cable box to set parental controls on all the channels and didn't leave him the password. Of course, they did leave C-SPAN, all the religious channels, and Lifetime unlocked, so he wouldn't get bored. Oh, and the program guide channel, so he could see what he was missing.
I think he ended up calling the cable company out to reset the box.
The whole thing is like the Grammys - the opinions of a few people who are blissfully ignorant of the wide ocean that lays before them, preferring instead to stare at the muddy puddle at their feet.
Please...don't ever, in the slightest, feel sorry or nostalgic for T$R. This big, mean, nasty company had a record every bit as scary as Microsoft's. They would sue you in a heartbeat, knowingly release crappy games, and screw their contractors in payment. T$R didn't advance gaming by a decade, it held it back...trust me on this one.
Hey...you're thinking the wrong way. We *should* have human cloning today, so when the horrifying results ensue, which they will, everybody will be sufficiently repulsed and human cloning would be banned indefinitely. It would be even better to have these clones produced by shady legal means, so as to fix the idea that cloners have about same capacity for feeling bad that lawyers do.
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Microsoft vs. Nintendo...the world hasn't seen an evil-versus-evil matchup like this since Stalin vs. the Little Corporal.
Hey, that's three different telcos...in Japan you deal with Nippon Telephone & Telegraph, or you go home. Go find some old linemen and ask about how things were in the AT&T pre-deathstar logo days. Example: "You can't connect that phone that wasn't manufactured by AT&T to your phone line, it will run amok and damage the entire public network!" NTT has a similar parochial attitude, and if you want to see *really* bad, go try to get Telmex to install a new phone line. I dare you.
it talked about the Aztecs, and is hence politically correct and worthy of moderation. As far as the article, all scientists have to collect data and process it into usable form. Nothing new about it, except that the pen and paper has been made obsolete for calculations.
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slovenly? nah...all Americans shower every day, and in general, have high standards of hygeine, even in the lower class. Europeans, however...well, what can you say about a culture in which it is acceptable to shower only twice a week? Pee-yew.
Humans, and their predecessors, single-celled organisms, have indeed been sentient for a large portion of the Earth's existence. Perhaps you have been misusing the term sentient? It merely means "able to sense", or "able to respond to stimuli", and not any kind of higher intelligence. "Self-aware" would be a better expression in that case.
well, how do you know whatever planets there might be out there have enough Si to combine with all the ambient O2?
Ever checked out the Golden Fleece Awards? Lots of projects that have no use whatsoever, done under the rubric of "pure science", with your money. Typical example: funding a study of behavior and social relationships in a Peruvian brothel to the tune of $97,000.
Wait, wait...let's all read this last sentence again. Read it a few times.
Wow, I never knew there was a sequel...I never saw Westworld until a few months ago...I always thought it was one of those horrid 70s monstrosities, but it's surprisingly lucid. It's so similar to "The Terminator", you'd think they ripped it off...oh, wait.
Yeah, sure, Northpoint wouldn't have gone out of business if they hadn't have gone after that mean man who knocked you off irc with a pingflood. Poor baby.
So, TV producers should go into a Toyota plant and see how many welds a robot could make in a day? If you wanted competition, its productivity could be measured against other robots from GM and Ford plants.
Perhaps I'm expecting too much from television
Yup. Sure are.
the potential in robotics is amazing and it's a shame that isn't demonstrated more in these shows.
Battlebots doesn't have any robots on the show. They're all remote-control cars. Saying robotics has something to do with it is a misnomer.
You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding.
Wasn't the whole rationale of the distributed.net project to develop a distributed computing client? I don't think it's hypocritical to attack this falsely-philanthropic company, since they don't have anything to do with the RC5-DES project. I mean, the crypto breaking thing is nice, but their mission statement says nothing about crypto or non-profitness. Distributed.net has a distributed computing client for twenty or thirty different operating systems.
You wouldn't hire someone who has just said he would experience stress and burn out quickly from being forced to implement the latest buzzword? You must be in HR to be this sharp.
In other words, he nags you.
I can only speak from my own knowledge of java programs, non-GUI system daemons in a production environment, and they're slow as hell and crash a lot. We're slowly replacing them with ProC and C++ agents, and the difference is like night and day.
I don't know where that unwieldy explanation for "ping" comes from. At any rate, "ping" an onomatopoeia of the sound old-time audible-range sonar makes, not an acronym. As Mike Muuss, the man who created ping says, "From my point of view PING is not an acronym standing for Packet InterNet Grouper, it's a sonar analogy."
You do bring up a point - should newscasts that spend 10 out of their 23 minutes covering gruesome highway crashes and drug-related murders receive an "M" rating and be capable of being blocked by this V-chip? After all, this is real, not ficticious violence. I don't know about the rest of you, but I've seen far too many blood smears, weeping mothers, and covered gurneys being loaded into hearses on my local newscast. I bet newscasts won't be blocked, though...media is too powerful.
I think he ended up calling the cable company out to reset the box.
Homer Simpson: Hey, what gives? I thought you had a satellite dish.
Homer clicks the remote several times, sees nothing but dead air
Ned Flanders: Sure dodilly-do. Over 230 channels...looocked out!
The whole thing is like the Grammys - the opinions of a few people who are blissfully ignorant of the wide ocean that lays before them, preferring instead to stare at the muddy puddle at their feet.
Please...don't ever, in the slightest, feel sorry or nostalgic for T$R. This big, mean, nasty company had a record every bit as scary as Microsoft's. They would sue you in a heartbeat, knowingly release crappy games, and screw their contractors in payment. T$R didn't advance gaming by a decade, it held it back...trust me on this one.
Hey...you're thinking the wrong way. We *should* have human cloning today, so when the horrifying results ensue, which they will, everybody will be sufficiently repulsed and human cloning would be banned indefinitely. It would be even better to have these clones produced by shady legal means, so as to fix the idea that cloners have about same capacity for feeling bad that lawyers do.
Microsoft vs. Nintendo...the world hasn't seen an evil-versus-evil matchup like this since Stalin vs. the Little Corporal.
Hey, that's three different telcos...in Japan you deal with Nippon Telephone & Telegraph, or you go home. Go find some old linemen and ask about how things were in the AT&T pre-deathstar logo days. Example: "You can't connect that phone that wasn't manufactured by AT&T to your phone line, it will run amok and damage the entire public network!" NTT has a similar parochial attitude, and if you want to see *really* bad, go try to get Telmex to install a new phone line. I dare you.
woo-hoo...so if I want to check out the bus schedule .pdf's at honolulu.state.hi.us I can get super performance. Everything else is the same.
Karaoke is as big as John Romero is in Japan. And that's a fact.
it talked about the Aztecs, and is hence politically correct and worthy of moderation. As far as the article, all scientists have to collect data and process it into usable form. Nothing new about it, except that the pen and paper has been made obsolete for calculations.