I'll be the one in the next tent over annotating that day's digital pictures with my PowerBook.;)
We'll I have to admit that I havent looked at Powerbooks in awhile, I just recall that a few years ago, trying to go more than a few days without power was problematic. Heck my cell phone needs to be plugged in once a week.
While I'd agree that typewriters aren't nearly as common as they used to be, they still have there uses. If I plan to be anywhere without electricity for a period of time a typewriter is much easier to deal with than 5,000 batteries. Besides It just feels wrong to to sitting in a tent in the middle of nowhere with a pc;).
While I agree that it is disturbing that people beleive ESP and psychic powers exist, I think its a little far to say they definetly do not. Science can easily prove that a specific person has shown none of these abilities. I know of no research that has shown that no person is capable of this, since doing so would require testing everybody. Obviously its unlikely, but I think the truely disturbing thing is that we have a huge population of people who do not seem to understand what it means to prove something, and instead accept any repeatable phenomenon as ultimate truth.
Actually if a clause in a contract really bothers you its almost always possible to find someone else who offers the same service with a different contract. However if you don't bother to read contracts thoroughly before signing them, then you deserve whatever you get.
First of all I don't think this article was addressing the possibility of creating consciousness. Nobody can agree on what that is anyway. What I think this article is referring to is the possibility that in the future AI programs could be created with enough "intellegence" to infer more about the world than was intended, and therefore outwit humans in an attempt to allow itself to complete some arbitrary task in an unexpected way. Basically, a simulated brain doesn't need to be conscious to act like a human brain and even outperform one.
I've learned from history and am not doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Actually I think you'll find that quite a few companies that seemed as solid as Microsoft have eventually failed for one reason or another( The problem with making unspecific historical generalities is that history covers an awful lot of data;) ), While I don't think RedHat is a strong competitor yet, I see no reason for them to die anytime soon, and the longer they live the better there chances.
Scheme does take longer to get used to then some languages, but somebody forced me to use it until it warped my mind. Now I think in scheme and love it. I guess my to favourite aspects of scheme are the ease with which I can write very short recursive algorithms in it, and the ability to write functions that return completely new functions.
My own experience with perl is that it is one of the least restrictive languages I know of. This means that its easy to throw something togethor fast, but I avoid it like the plague simply because my code always looks like it was run over by a lawnmower when I'm through with it. But then what do I know, I'm still in love with scheme;).
Umm.... nested tags aren't exactly rocket science. Although they appear to be if you go by the code generated by many of the commercial web design products. I'd choose Emacs over anything else without a second thought. Image maps are pretty easy too, as long as you have some idea what the dimensions of your image are.
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I'll be the one in the next tent over annotating that day's digital pictures with my PowerBook. ;)
We'll I have to admit that I havent looked at Powerbooks in awhile, I just recall that a few years ago, trying to go more than a few days without power was problematic. Heck my cell phone needs to be plugged in once a week.
While I'd agree that typewriters aren't nearly as common as they used to be, they still have there uses. If I plan to be anywhere without electricity for a period of time a typewriter is much easier to deal with than 5,000 batteries. Besides It just feels wrong to to sitting in a tent in the middle of nowhere with a pc ;).
While I agree that it is disturbing that people beleive ESP and psychic powers exist, I think its a little far to say they definetly do not. Science can easily prove that a specific person has shown none of these abilities. I know of no research that has shown that no person is capable of this, since doing so would require testing everybody. Obviously its unlikely, but I think the truely disturbing thing is that we have a huge population of people who do not seem to understand what it means to prove something, and instead accept any repeatable phenomenon as ultimate truth.
Actually if a clause in a contract really bothers you its almost always possible to find someone else who offers the same service with a different contract. However if you don't bother to read contracts thoroughly before signing them, then you deserve whatever you get.
First of all I don't think this article was addressing the possibility of creating consciousness. Nobody can agree on what that is anyway. What I think this article is referring to is the possibility that in the future AI programs could be created with enough "intellegence" to infer more about the world than was intended, and therefore outwit humans in an attempt to allow itself to complete some arbitrary task in an unexpected way. Basically, a simulated brain doesn't need to be conscious to act like a human brain and even outperform one.
-Jon
I've learned from history and am not doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
;) ), While I don't think RedHat is a strong competitor yet, I see no reason for them to die anytime soon, and the longer they live the better there chances.
Actually I think you'll find that quite a few companies that seemed as solid as Microsoft have eventually failed for one reason or another( The problem with making unspecific historical generalities is that history covers an awful lot of data
Scheme does take longer to get used to then some languages, but somebody forced me to use it until it warped my mind. Now I think in scheme and love it. I guess my to favourite aspects of scheme are the ease with which I can write very short recursive algorithms in it, and the ability to write functions that return completely new functions.
-Jon Schaab
My own experience with perl is that it is one of the least restrictive languages I know of. This means that its easy to throw something togethor fast, but I avoid it like the plague simply because my code always looks like it was run over by a lawnmower when I'm through with it. But then what do I know, I'm still in love with scheme ;).
-Jon Schaab
Umm.... nested tags aren't exactly rocket science.
Although they appear to be if you go by the code generated by many of the commercial web design products. I'd choose Emacs over anything else without a second thought. Image maps are pretty easy too, as long as you have some idea what the dimensions of your image are.