I think you are overestimating your ability to cope with several billion years.
(I'm not insisting that I am any better at it, but I am willing to believe that lots of things can happen in 1 billion years, no matter how improbable)
Then there's the thing where for many people, the $10,000 vehicle that sips fuel is going to a better option than the $100,000 vehicle that guzzles it, even if the latter saves them hundreds of hours a year.
I agree that there is at least one stall sound more disturbing than a cell phone conversation, but I'm not real sure it is limited to one sound (after you set aside various bowel noises, you still have vomiting, sex, etc).
I find it unlikely that anything qualifying as 'strong ai' would actually bother to be a slave.
I guess it might be possible to imbue it with a 'will to exist' and some sort of pain reaction, but I'm not sure it would give you much over so called weak ai.
And if sending spam makes it really happy, is it still a slave?
I understood it was just an example, but in a discussion about UI, it seemed reasonable to point out that it is often the case that eliminating the need for the UI may be the best option.
Using your thermostat example, the computer could note that the house was not occupied and adjust the thermostat (it could monitor door use and electric consumption to determine occupancy, no need for anything fancy). Being able to adjust it remotely is still a nice feature, but not having to give it as much thought when leaving is also a nice feature.
Here's a link to the LGPL source file (well, presumably the main file implementing the support, I haven't studied the structure closely, and there are about a dozen files in the directory with h264 in the name):
ffmpeg appears to support decoding h.264 independent of x.264 (but uses x.264 for encoding).
(I realize that Gstreamer doesn't depend on ffmpeg as much as other video apps, but if the code is in ffmpeg, it is out there, so the only obstacle would be patents)
You say that I don't understand, but I do understand, I simply disagree that increasing the odds that a single vote will turn an election is a good thing.
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Would you kill a dinosaur for your shotgun?
At worst, their financial statements will be obfuscatory, they will not contain outright misinformation.
Ubuntu has always had corporate sponsorship.
It doesn't *have* to be assembly. For instance, you can do runtime patching with python:
http://www.google.com/search?q=adder-0.3.3-win32.zip
The first link is the most interesting one:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108077268919124&w=2
I think you are overestimating your ability to cope with several billion years.
(I'm not insisting that I am any better at it, but I am willing to believe that lots of things can happen in 1 billion years, no matter how improbable)
Free as in bird.
Are you prepared to respond properly if they pull it?
Right. Any gray goo that comes about will have to find a way to deal with all the green goo before it becomes much of a problem.
It would seem more appropriate here to thank entropy.
Then there's the thing where for many people, the $10,000 vehicle that sips fuel is going to a better option than the $100,000 vehicle that guzzles it, even if the latter saves them hundreds of hours a year.
And if any of the fuckers that own those phones actually has the gall to talk to you, you can just shoot them until they are dead.
I agree that there is at least one stall sound more disturbing than a cell phone conversation, but I'm not real sure it is limited to one sound (after you set aside various bowel noises, you still have vomiting, sex, etc).
I find it unlikely that anything qualifying as 'strong ai' would actually bother to be a slave.
I guess it might be possible to imbue it with a 'will to exist' and some sort of pain reaction, but I'm not sure it would give you much over so called weak ai.
And if sending spam makes it really happy, is it still a slave?
I understood it was just an example, but in a discussion about UI, it seemed reasonable to point out that it is often the case that eliminating the need for the UI may be the best option.
Using your thermostat example, the computer could note that the house was not occupied and adjust the thermostat (it could monitor door use and electric consumption to determine occupancy, no need for anything fancy). Being able to adjust it remotely is still a nice feature, but not having to give it as much thought when leaving is also a nice feature.
I imagine that there is a fair chance that the costs simply aren't worth it for an organization as small as Sourceforge.
In the meantime, I guess peace and love shall continue to suffer.
The kilowatts that come out of the wall are way better than the ones that are stored in 300 AA batteries.
It would eliminate much of it. There are various regional scrips right now, and there would likely be more if legal tender went full electronic.
If the computer can tell that the oven is on, it should be able to notice that it has been left on unnecessarily and just turn it off.
Indeed. Canada + US == entire world.
You read it wrong, the only thing he left out was attribution, it isn't some big sekrit:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=517188&wa=wsignin1.0
I don't think it is so clear that "dividing the dough and the sweat of 99%" was meant to apply to some of their dough and sweat.
I could argue that I used reading comprehension to make an intended inference.
And a few thousand probably doesn't work, their are millions of millionaires, and plenty more people who live very well on six figure incomes.
So track down a stylus that works with capacitive screens (they do exist).
Here's a link to the LGPL source file (well, presumably the main file implementing the support, I haven't studied the structure closely, and there are about a dozen files in the directory with h264 in the name):
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=blob;f=libavcodec/h264.c
ffmpeg appears to support decoding h.264 independent of x.264 (but uses x.264 for encoding).
(I realize that Gstreamer doesn't depend on ffmpeg as much as other video apps, but if the code is in ffmpeg, it is out there, so the only obstacle would be patents)
You say that I don't understand, but I do understand, I simply disagree that increasing the odds that a single vote will turn an election is a good thing.