The amount of energy consumed by 'comfort' degrees of heating and cooling would be far larger (That is, people don't really need to heat their house to 75 F in the winter and cool it to 70 F in the summer, but they do).
My thinking was more that the edifice of reason you have built around this is going to be smashed by reality. It is unlikely you are really detached enough from that edifice to completely escape disappointment.
Philosophy is interesting. You talk about putting everything learned to doubt; to a large extent, this is an interesting exercise in thinking, but not particularly productive (for instance, the ground is there, it is independent of your belief in it; sure, pondering the relationship between your belief and the ground is interesting, but only to you, the ground isn't worried about what you believe).
So philosophy, which is a tool we reach for when faced with the intractable (to learn about something we first have to decide what we want to learn, and then we have to decide how we should learn that, and so on, thinking about thinking), has been turned onto the highly tractable and made into a game. The results of that game are interesting, but they are not hugely consequential (which is why things like existentialism are so silly).
I am me and he is he, but we were me. That we cannot both continue to be me doesn't require that we both have souls, it is a natural product of our divergent experiences.
And I'm not sure why you are insisting that phenomenological consciousness requires an external component, for example, everything in your link is well explained by a person being the unique sum of their function and experience (there is no need to separate the user from the experience, which is where you started).
From what I can tell, you are willing to argue forever that you have a soul, because it makes a bunch of interesting philosophical questions more comfortable. On the other hand, there is some chance that we are in violent agreement, with you simply insisting on using a loaded word.
Given sufficient fidelity of the copy, would you rather have a copy of you continue, or not?
If you would like the copy to continue, you are mostly playing semantic games (i.e., whether it is worthy of the label 'Immortality' isn't particularly relevant).
Anybody not looking at Windows 7 as the equivalent of a Vista service pack (a big one) is swallowing an awful lot of marketing, so I hope that isn't why people are waiting.
I wouldn't mind it. I have trouble seeing that show as much more than pro-torture propaganda though, so between that and the ludicrous durability of Jack Bauer, I don't watch it.
If the doS... lines in the second example started in the same column, they would be valid python. Is that unreadable?
The tortured line breaks in the first sample are tortured because they are tortured, not because they are python (but they illustrate a couple of instances where a change in indentation does not change the block level).
It sounds to me like the reviewed book is aimed at 4th-5th-6th graders, and looking at the link, it looks like that book is mostly aimed at 9th-10th-11th graders.
(The younger kids will find the older book incredibly dry, and the older kids will find the younger book childish)
Yes, I do expect Word 2003 to work on Windows 8 and 9.
Microsoft's support for binary backwards compatibility is generally better than Linux support for source backwards compatibility (the source has the advantage that you can fix it after it has been broken, but in practical terms, a Windows binary from 1995 is more likely to work on Vista than an unedited open source program from 1995 is to directly compile on Ubuntu 8.04).
And really, I don't have any trouble upgrading software (I tend to believe that the hundreds of thousands of dollars Microsoft spends on usability testing is probably productive) or keeping track of install media for expensive software (To test this, I just eyeballed my Windows 95 CD that came with the computer I purchased in 1997).
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The most used python interpreter is indeed written in C (though there are projects in C#, Java and Python; That's Jython, IronPython and PyPy, respectively). On the other hand, the default install ships with a couple of megabytes of python source files (many of the standard libraries are pure python code).
So just stop upgrading. Files from recent versions go back and forth about as well as files from the same version, so compatibility isn't a huge problem.
It takes 5 clicks to disable. It is a little unfortunate that you have to click 'Settings' on the message box that pops up and then press 'Settings' again on the Dialog that the first click brings up, but yeash.
The station has a mass of 300,000 kg. I'm not going to look up how much power the solar panels produce and how much thrust that would translate into, but even so, I'm pretty sure it is not even close to enough.
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I welcome less sophomoric word play.
Or perhaps joke fail. I sure didn't think it was hilarious.
The amount of energy consumed by 'comfort' degrees of heating and cooling would be far larger (That is, people don't really need to heat their house to 75 F in the winter and cool it to 70 F in the summer, but they do).
The Apollo missions put about 30,000 kg into lunar orbit. ISS has a mass just above 300,000 kg.
So it is entirely possible, but it sounds awful expensive.
At least a little, they apparently made the mistake of trusting the root CA.
My thinking was more that the edifice of reason you have built around this is going to be smashed by reality. It is unlikely you are really detached enough from that edifice to completely escape disappointment.
Philosophy is interesting. You talk about putting everything learned to doubt; to a large extent, this is an interesting exercise in thinking, but not particularly productive (for instance, the ground is there, it is independent of your belief in it; sure, pondering the relationship between your belief and the ground is interesting, but only to you, the ground isn't worried about what you believe).
So philosophy, which is a tool we reach for when faced with the intractable (to learn about something we first have to decide what we want to learn, and then we have to decide how we should learn that, and so on, thinking about thinking), has been turned onto the highly tractable and made into a game. The results of that game are interesting, but they are not hugely consequential (which is why things like existentialism are so silly).
I am me and he is he, but we were me. That we cannot both continue to be me doesn't require that we both have souls, it is a natural product of our divergent experiences.
And I'm not sure why you are insisting that phenomenological consciousness requires an external component, for example, everything in your link is well explained by a person being the unique sum of their function and experience (there is no need to separate the user from the experience, which is where you started).
From what I can tell, you are willing to argue forever that you have a soul, because it makes a bunch of interesting philosophical questions more comfortable. On the other hand, there is some chance that we are in violent agreement, with you simply insisting on using a loaded word.
You forgot to repeatedly mention, and link to, his new project.
Given sufficient fidelity of the copy, would you rather have a copy of you continue, or not?
If you would like the copy to continue, you are mostly playing semantic games (i.e., whether it is worthy of the label 'Immortality' isn't particularly relevant).
End of 2010.
Anybody not looking at Windows 7 as the equivalent of a Vista service pack (a big one) is swallowing an awful lot of marketing, so I hope that isn't why people are waiting.
That's the sound of anger and frustration.
Any animal would be angry and frustrated to find out that the being in control of their life was a moron.
Gas costs about $2.50 right now, which has nothing to do with the 1981 peak. The graph is a year out of date.
I wouldn't mind it. I have trouble seeing that show as much more than pro-torture propaganda though, so between that and the ludicrous durability of Jack Bauer, I don't watch it.
Except cells do undergo the occasional survivable mutation, and then there are the people that integrated what would have been a twin, and so on.
There is a fair chance that you will be greatly disappointed at some moment in the next 30 years or so.
$4 was a lot, but current prices are arguably 'normal':
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasoline_inflation_chart.htm
You speak very authoritatively about something that you surely don't know for certain.
And of course, the concept of dignity is likely the result of some programming.
If the doS... lines in the second example started in the same column, they would be valid python. Is that unreadable?
The tortured line breaks in the first sample are tortured because they are tortured, not because they are python (but they illustrate a couple of instances where a change in indentation does not change the block level).
It sounds to me like the reviewed book is aimed at 4th-5th-6th graders, and looking at the link, it looks like that book is mostly aimed at 9th-10th-11th graders.
(The younger kids will find the older book incredibly dry, and the older kids will find the younger book childish)
Yes, I do expect Word 2003 to work on Windows 8 and 9.
Microsoft's support for binary backwards compatibility is generally better than Linux support for source backwards compatibility (the source has the advantage that you can fix it after it has been broken, but in practical terms, a Windows binary from 1995 is more likely to work on Vista than an unedited open source program from 1995 is to directly compile on Ubuntu 8.04).
And really, I don't have any trouble upgrading software (I tend to believe that the hundreds of thousands of dollars Microsoft spends on usability testing is probably productive) or keeping track of install media for expensive software (To test this, I just eyeballed my Windows 95 CD that came with the computer I purchased in 1997).
The most used python interpreter is indeed written in C (though there are projects in C#, Java and Python; That's Jython, IronPython and PyPy, respectively). On the other hand, the default install ships with a couple of megabytes of python source files (many of the standard libraries are pure python code).
So just stop upgrading. Files from recent versions go back and forth about as well as files from the same version, so compatibility isn't a huge problem.
It takes 5 clicks to disable. It is a little unfortunate that you have to click 'Settings' on the message box that pops up and then press 'Settings' again on the Dialog that the first click brings up, but yeash.
The station has a mass of 300,000 kg. I'm not going to look up how much power the solar panels produce and how much thrust that would translate into, but even so, I'm pretty sure it is not even close to enough.