Laptop users have more of a reason to use wireless than desktop users, right? As the earlier poster mentioned. He was talking about desktop users using wireless.
Wireless is worse than wired for speed, cost, security, and fussiness. It's what you use when the convenience outweighs the risk.
Well, so it's subjective. If you think you die when you sleep, you'll be the type who dies during a braintape. Instead, if you feel your consciousness continues through minor inconveniences you'll happily "survive".
Your personality in the new body will likely feel complete with no gaps, but the original would feel the same way.
So no, in an objective way that you could show the continuity of any given brain wave, the clone is not thinking your thoughts. But they're identical (in the beginning) to yours, so does it matter?
No, this is a common design flaw. You cannot code for every eventuality or you'll end up with a crufty codebase, whole sections nearly duplicated but with subtle differences, conflicting exceptions without clear rules for precedence, etc.
You probably don't even have tests, real user requirements, code reviews, or even consistent metrics to test against.
The concept of defense for example should be pulled out of every individual law and made into a module - defenses to a crime requiring intent are similar, from murder to shoplifting.
There's a LOT of work to be done before the legal system was self-correct, let alone as functional as a third-world airline.
Hardly. I'd likely never notice that you were Jewish, or care if I did, as Jewish is a race first, then a religion, and never a country. Israel is an entity that needs to be judged on its own. It's not some sort of cosmic gestalt of all blood descendants of Abraham, it's a country - like all others. There's a big difference between the two.
Why do you have a hard time separating religion, race, and jingo/zionism?
I consider myself a supporter of Israel, but mostly because it's far better than anything around it, not because it's related to Jews. That's just one of those trivial facts. Rome is more than some Catholic nonsense - so too is Israel.
Racism is ignorance, but so is labeling inconvenient truths as racism.
I don't see the "Which branch gets your subjective consciousness" question in your original post. You asked if they believed copies would share a brain or not. They clearly answered not, then went on to other things.
What sort of answer do you want? It seems pretty obvious. If we imagine a ctrl-c/v type copy and paste, the you who existed before the ctrl-c is of course the same one who exists after. And it's similarly easy to see that once I've scanned you, my later making a duplicate won't affect you at all. The 'you' who gets created may or may not know it's different (did everything else get duplicated? did you notice the copying?) but would be a different creature and thus about as likely to share a brain with you as a pine-cone would be.
The objective answers seem all too obvious.
But the sense of self is subjective. So that's where it gets fuzzy. Some people see brain-taping/cloning as immortality because they'd lose only tiny bits of their life at each death - others see anything that interrupts their consciousness, even for a second, as true death.
Depends what you consider you, and what part of that you can explain as monkey goo and which parts you need to get metaphysical for.
Lexmark supports their business on failing ink (and toner) cartridges. They've got no incentive to make it work longer - you've already bought the printer.
Lexmark's laser printers suck less than their inkjets, but that's totally unintentional - just a consequence of the technology. It's still the same company and they're still out to get and milk consumer lock-in.
High-quality products can't be used to force repeat purchases - I think you'll find Lexmark to always be the lowest quality alternative in its price range. You might as well buy a no-name laser printer - it'd be hard for it to be lower base quality, and the company probably doesn't play Lexmark's type of ink/toner games.
Perhaps, but there are companies out there who don't try to abuse the DMCA to make tinkering illegal. Manufacturing a product whose claim to fame is simply working as well as expected shouldn't be a feather in their cap.
My friend uses a Canon S9000 with six inks. He's got one of third-party inks systems with 500ml bottles - enough ink for years!
Even with Canon's cheap ink, he says it's at least 1/20th the cost.
I'd have thought it was only a low-mid level solution until I saw his results - they're amazing!
He's an avid photographer and very into color matching, etc. He shopped around for ink, not using just the standard ones but trying to find ones with photo-inks, high quality, etc.
I don't know if he's done fading tests, but at his costs it's pretty cheap to just print another. Besides, almost anything in direct sunlight fades - it's not like it's a surprise.
After all, the whole discussion has been on how Mac needs a video card slot. No. You're totally wrong.
The whole discussion is about how some people want the option of installing a better video card, or other card of their choice.
Someone feels it needs more video power, another thinks is needs a tuner, another wants to install some data-capturing or anything else.
And they aren't saying that the Mac needs to be like this. They're looking to buy something else, aren't they? They realize that the whole market isn't just like them. So why don't you?
You've simply been yammering on because other people's needs don't meet your approval. As if anyone asked you. And you're wrong in pretty much all ways to boot - about the tuners, about the demand, and about what people want or are trying to do. Get a fucking clue. You haven't been relevant to the actual conversation once, nor have you added anything but naysaying and insults.
How, EXACTLY will a village in the Amazon continue to support their OLPC computers if OLPC were to vanish? They wouldn't. That wasn't the point. The OLPC organization merely isn't locking itself in the equation. Some first-world donors would still have to sponsor the hardware, but they could have the work done anywhere, by anyone, and supply compatible parts.
On the other hand if this was running MS software and MS vanished it wouldn't be legal to continue duplicating WinXP.
The OLPC project could continue without OLPC, but a similar project run by MS/Intel couldn't continue without their ongoing cooperation. It's a simple matter of not buying single-source parts.
Only if those millions of kids grew up some in alternate universe - because here in the real world, applications weren't written in BASIC nor source code provided. BASIC is closer to C, Ruby, and other languages than baseball is... Just seeing some source code for some programs was enough to demonstrate how it worked.
Additionally, here in the real world - the large majority of open source apps languish without a sufficient developer base to maintain them. Yeah? And how many of all projects stagnate and die? How many products never see the light of day because they're obsolete by the time they're finished - and perhaps should have been abandoned sooner? Open source is just like that - but without the waste because dead projects can be openly mined for ideas.
Really? If you run any sort of useful facility you should be able to unplug *any* one thing and not disrupt operations. Ideally up to and including an entire facility.
Which overlaps a lot with moderation, being the same thing but without a formal point system... Maybe with some distributed trust system a tag system could replace the moderation system.
We need a way for people to say "I Agree!" without modding the post up with 'Insightful' or something. And vice-versa. Many people moderate down anything they disagree with just because they have to disagree somehow but aren't prepared to write a message. If they could tag something quick they might be satisfied. (Or if not, in comes that distributed system of trust to reduce the value of their always exaggerated claims.)
That's a pretty good fix, in it's way. Did the trick which is all that matters.
You should post that on the DailyWTF, which is I'm sure what some hacker ever thought if they disassembled (in more ways than one) their talking clock and found the voice code mucking with memory in some other subsystem to mutate code at runtime. They'd have wondered if it was some sort of anti-disassembler trick or something.
I'm sure many more stories like yours lie at the bottom of the tech all around us. Sort of scary in a way, because talking clocks are the least of our problems.
You'd think so. It's good to start the project from a simple base.
law Murder
matches death
ensures guilt
Everyone, including nature, who kills someone, is guilty of murder. All deaths are equal.
But simulations showed complete death of the subject population - that's when the requirement that the victim be sentient, to let people kill plants and animals for food, etc. That angered some people, but we felt it was for the better.
The user stories for the law were mainly about safety. Simulations of versions without a self-defense clause didn't provide safety, so we put that line of development on indefinite hold.
By the time the second draft rolled around Right-to-Dignity groups had lobbied for the right to assist someone in suicide.
The short version you propose doesn't have the flexibility, or provide the necessary benefits, and so needs a lot of work before it's ready.
Exactly. If someone asked the honest question "Why don't you believe in god" I'd try to answer. But if they jump straight to ID and browbeat me with religious idiocy such as "Athiesm is just a religion", "ID is as much a science as the big bang", "... paranoid evolutionists", they're obviously just pushing their agenda, like Rush Limbaugh. And they're about as welcome.
I know a guy who believes in the "Electrical Universe", the idea that plasmas are much more powerful than we think, etc. He believes the solar system changed configurations multiple times in recent pre-history. (Anything the ancients said they saw in the sky or we can guess they did from vague analysis of cave-blotches and burial rituals, they did see - and it WAS plasma, damn it!) His only evidence is that "the electrical force is FAR stronger than gravitational".
He's not content to just have a different idea and mull it over with friends, it has to be the center piece of every discussion. The electrical force is very strong you know, so it's relevant to everything. Anything not proven wrong is assumed to be true, and he doesn't trust anyone's proofs. He insists on shoving it into most conversations and acts repressed if you try to say you don't think it's related.
It's a lot like ID. Both fantastically wrong. Both totally based on supposition instead of observation. Both believed because they're more comfortable. Both pushed into places they don't belong by fanatics who literally do not understand the meaning of proof.
It's not a popularity contest, nor a vote. That millions agree merely proves that millions have no clue.
Or, that sports car could have a webserver + webapp for configuring the fuel injection parameters and checking status - at little extra cost because they used open source software for it.
Your point about open designs is a good one that too many people forget. Who wants to be stuck with a single supplier? It's like handing them your wallet and asking them to return the money they don't want.
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Yeah, and maybe the Psystar is being marketed to people who would... oh, I dunno, spend all day in OpenGL apps?
Maybe you should just shut up and use your Mac. Nobody is telling you not to.
Laptop users have more of a reason to use wireless than desktop users, right? As the earlier poster mentioned. He was talking about desktop users using wireless.
Wireless is worse than wired for speed, cost, security, and fussiness. It's what you use when the convenience outweighs the risk.
The value of aesthetics, yes. But not the fact that the MMini is stylish. (After all, bell-bottoms are stylish, but the value of that is in question.)
I see. The fact that you actually had the key clouded it. :)
Well, so it's subjective. If you think you die when you sleep, you'll be the type who dies during a braintape. Instead, if you feel your consciousness continues through minor inconveniences you'll happily "survive".
Your personality in the new body will likely feel complete with no gaps, but the original would feel the same way.
So no, in an objective way that you could show the continuity of any given brain wave, the clone is not thinking your thoughts. But they're identical (in the beginning) to yours, so does it matter?
No, this is a common design flaw. You cannot code for every eventuality or you'll end up with a crufty codebase, whole sections nearly duplicated but with subtle differences, conflicting exceptions without clear rules for precedence, etc.
You probably don't even have tests, real user requirements, code reviews, or even consistent metrics to test against.
The concept of defense for example should be pulled out of every individual law and made into a module - defenses to a crime requiring intent are similar, from murder to shoplifting.
There's a LOT of work to be done before the legal system was self-correct, let alone as functional as a third-world airline.
Hardly. I'd likely never notice that you were Jewish, or care if I did, as Jewish is a race first, then a religion, and never a country. Israel is an entity that needs to be judged on its own. It's not some sort of cosmic gestalt of all blood descendants of Abraham, it's a country - like all others. There's a big difference between the two.
Why do you have a hard time separating religion, race, and jingo/zionism?
I consider myself a supporter of Israel, but mostly because it's far better than anything around it, not because it's related to Jews. That's just one of those trivial facts. Rome is more than some Catholic nonsense - so too is Israel.
Racism is ignorance, but so is labeling inconvenient truths as racism.
I don't see the "Which branch gets your subjective consciousness" question in your original post. You asked if they believed copies would share a brain or not. They clearly answered not, then went on to other things.
What sort of answer do you want? It seems pretty obvious. If we imagine a ctrl-c/v type copy and paste, the you who existed before the ctrl-c is of course the same one who exists after. And it's similarly easy to see that once I've scanned you, my later making a duplicate won't affect you at all. The 'you' who gets created may or may not know it's different (did everything else get duplicated? did you notice the copying?) but would be a different creature and thus about as likely to share a brain with you as a pine-cone would be.
The objective answers seem all too obvious.
But the sense of self is subjective. So that's where it gets fuzzy. Some people see brain-taping/cloning as immortality because they'd lose only tiny bits of their life at each death - others see anything that interrupts their consciousness, even for a second, as true death.
Depends what you consider you, and what part of that you can explain as monkey goo and which parts you need to get metaphysical for.
What does the glock have to do with this story?
Are they insane? I've seen a third-party inks cost 1/20th of the regular, and produce amazing photo results.
Maybe they're going by the cost of having small carts refilled professionally versus buying the ink straight or something.
Lexmark supports their business on failing ink (and toner) cartridges. They've got no incentive to make it work longer - you've already bought the printer.
Lexmark's laser printers suck less than their inkjets, but that's totally unintentional - just a consequence of the technology. It's still the same company and they're still out to get and milk consumer lock-in.
High-quality products can't be used to force repeat purchases - I think you'll find Lexmark to always be the lowest quality alternative in its price range. You might as well buy a no-name laser printer - it'd be hard for it to be lower base quality, and the company probably doesn't play Lexmark's type of ink/toner games.
Perhaps, but there are companies out there who don't try to abuse the DMCA to make tinkering illegal. Manufacturing a product whose claim to fame is simply working as well as expected shouldn't be a feather in their cap.
Lexmark? Never.
That's all you need to know.
My friend uses a Canon S9000 with six inks. He's got one of third-party inks systems with 500ml bottles - enough ink for years!
Even with Canon's cheap ink, he says it's at least 1/20th the cost.
I'd have thought it was only a low-mid level solution until I saw his results - they're amazing!
He's an avid photographer and very into color matching, etc. He shopped around for ink, not using just the standard ones but trying to find ones with photo-inks, high quality, etc.
I don't know if he's done fading tests, but at his costs it's pretty cheap to just print another. Besides, almost anything in direct sunlight fades - it's not like it's a surprise.
(Score:0, Offtopic) Heh, no. Slashdot does not. G'bye now.
Or punched your girlfriend in the nose...
The whole discussion is about how some people want the option of installing a better video card, or other card of their choice.
Someone feels it needs more video power, another thinks is needs a tuner, another wants to install some data-capturing or anything else.
And they aren't saying that the Mac needs to be like this. They're looking to buy something else, aren't they? They realize that the whole market isn't just like them. So why don't you?
You've simply been yammering on because other people's needs don't meet your approval. As if anyone asked you. And you're wrong in pretty much all ways to boot - about the tuners, about the demand, and about what people want or are trying to do. Get a fucking clue. You haven't been relevant to the actual conversation once, nor have you added anything but naysaying and insults.
On the other hand if this was running MS software and MS vanished it wouldn't be legal to continue duplicating WinXP.
The OLPC project could continue without OLPC, but a similar project run by MS/Intel couldn't continue without their ongoing cooperation. It's a simple matter of not buying single-source parts. Only if those millions of kids grew up some in alternate universe - because here in the real world, applications weren't written in BASIC nor source code provided. BASIC is closer to C, Ruby, and other languages than baseball is... Just seeing some source code for some programs was enough to demonstrate how it worked. Additionally, here in the real world - the large majority of open source apps languish without a sufficient developer base to maintain them. Yeah? And how many of all projects stagnate and die? How many products never see the light of day because they're obsolete by the time they're finished - and perhaps should have been abandoned sooner? Open source is just like that - but without the waste because dead projects can be openly mined for ideas.
The audit trail was messy.
Really? If you run any sort of useful facility you should be able to unplug *any* one thing and not disrupt operations. Ideally up to and including an entire facility.
I think it means we need tagging for posts.
Which overlaps a lot with moderation, being the same thing but without a formal point system... Maybe with some distributed trust system a tag system could replace the moderation system.
We need a way for people to say "I Agree!" without modding the post up with 'Insightful' or something. And vice-versa. Many people moderate down anything they disagree with just because they have to disagree somehow but aren't prepared to write a message. If they could tag something quick they might be satisfied. (Or if not, in comes that distributed system of trust to reduce the value of their always exaggerated claims.)
That's a pretty good fix, in it's way. Did the trick which is all that matters.
You should post that on the DailyWTF, which is I'm sure what some hacker ever thought if they disassembled (in more ways than one) their talking clock and found the voice code mucking with memory in some other subsystem to mutate code at runtime. They'd have wondered if it was some sort of anti-disassembler trick or something.
I'm sure many more stories like yours lie at the bottom of the tech all around us. Sort of scary in a way, because talking clocks are the least of our problems.
You'd think so. It's good to start the project from a simple base.
law Murder
matches death
ensures guilt
Everyone, including nature, who kills someone, is guilty of murder. All deaths are equal.
But simulations showed complete death of the subject population - that's when the requirement that the victim be sentient, to let people kill plants and animals for food, etc. That angered some people, but we felt it was for the better.
The user stories for the law were mainly about safety. Simulations of versions without a self-defense clause didn't provide safety, so we put that line of development on indefinite hold.
By the time the second draft rolled around Right-to-Dignity groups had lobbied for the right to assist someone in suicide.
The short version you propose doesn't have the flexibility, or provide the necessary benefits, and so needs a lot of work before it's ready.
I think they're saying limited exclusivity on placement of Nasa's brand.
So you could have the only Nasa-approved MMO, fighting authentic space orcs.
Still, they seem to overvalue their name/logo just a little bit.
Exactly. If someone asked the honest question "Why don't you believe in god" I'd try to answer. But if they jump straight to ID and browbeat me with religious idiocy such as "Athiesm is just a religion", "ID is as much a science as the big bang", "... paranoid evolutionists", they're obviously just pushing their agenda, like Rush Limbaugh. And they're about as welcome.
I know a guy who believes in the "Electrical Universe", the idea that plasmas are much more powerful than we think, etc. He believes the solar system changed configurations multiple times in recent pre-history. (Anything the ancients said they saw in the sky or we can guess they did from vague analysis of cave-blotches and burial rituals, they did see - and it WAS plasma, damn it!) His only evidence is that "the electrical force is FAR stronger than gravitational".
He's not content to just have a different idea and mull it over with friends, it has to be the center piece of every discussion. The electrical force is very strong you know, so it's relevant to everything. Anything not proven wrong is assumed to be true, and he doesn't trust anyone's proofs. He insists on shoving it into most conversations and acts repressed if you try to say you don't think it's related.
It's a lot like ID. Both fantastically wrong. Both totally based on supposition instead of observation. Both believed because they're more comfortable. Both pushed into places they don't belong by fanatics who literally do not understand the meaning of proof.
It's not a popularity contest, nor a vote. That millions agree merely proves that millions have no clue.
Yeah.
Or, that sports car could have a webserver + webapp for configuring the fuel injection parameters and checking status - at little extra cost because they used open source software for it.
Your point about open designs is a good one that too many people forget. Who wants to be stuck with a single supplier? It's like handing them your wallet and asking them to return the money they don't want.