So if I Tivo a soccer match and replay it, then the players have no free will? Essentially that is the Christian concept of God. He exists in the past, present and future and knows how everything will turn out.
Granted, I have a problem with free will but choose to believe in it because I was predestined to....
A) If you haven't read the patent, read it. B) If you don't understand how to read a patent (and odds are you don't if you've never written one or aren't a lawyer, even if you think you do), recognize that your knee-jerk reaction to it may not be accurate...
Slashdot has a long and glorious record of flamefests because 99% of its readers don't understand patents or how to read them and think a well-written fairly-narrow patent is covering some broad obvious area.
Now I'm sure the flamefest will happen, anyway, but I suppose there's always a chance...
Its hard to imagine it coming down to mere "thousands" any time soon -- adjusted for inflation and whatnot, airline ticket prices haven't fallen by a factor of 100 in the last 100 years.
That said, there's a lot more of us who could justify $50k or $100k than $200k.
It'll come down eventually, but IMO not using this technology. At, say, $2k a person you're only making $12k on a flight. With crew costs for SS2 and WK2, insurance, consumables like fuel, taxes, etc... its hard to imagine ever hitting a "thousands" price. Not unless you're getting an economy of scale in the number of passengers per flight, not number of flights.
To get a price in the thousands, you'd need to get a suborbit flight holding many dozens of passengers at the equivalent cost of a coast-to-coast aircraft flight. That's not five years away, and maybe not even fifty or a hundred years away.
Airline flights got cheaper because we figured out how to increase carrying capacity faster than fuel costs increased. It takes vastly more fuel, no matter what kind, to get a craft to mach 3.5, and you won't do it with a rubber-burning engine if you need to carry 60 people.
IMO, its not going to take an evolution of even *ideas* we have to get launch access to space affordable for anything but the super-rich -- it'll take some sort of method we've never even thought of. (Or something that has a specific impulse two orders of magnitude higher -- like a space elevator, where acceleration comes almost entirely from the Earth's spin, but I doubt anyone alive today will live to see that, and it won't help you get to LEO anyway)
Google cares about ad revenue. They needed an "open" OS because they couldn't force other phones to always funnel things their way. Verizon needs an "open" phone, because THEY want to ensure they can control it (rather than the phone vendor or user)
Best to remember that, when thinking about Google and Android.
Yes, that's explicitly what I'm saying. In fact, I'll go a step further and say you have neurological and psychological damage caused by poor parenting or other trauma leading you to believe in a fantasy world that has no basis on reality. Like anyone with a psychopathic disorder, you have gotten very good at making up excuses and explanations for your psychosis.
The laws of physics are the proof of the rainbow. You could be lying that you saw either, but its trivial to prove that they both exist.
Your training, likely since birth, to shut your critical thinking abilities off when your line of thought starts to trend in the direction of theology clearly does not need work.
As does the Bible, and pretty much any book providing social guidance written from that era of history.
Slavery? Approved. Beating your disrespectful wife? Approved. Killing your children for being disrespectful to your customs? Required.
If you are going to make an issue of things said in the Qu'ran, you should give equal opportunity to the (equally offensive) parts of the Bible.
And then remind yourself that there are equally as many fundamentalist Christians as there are Fundamentalist Muslims, and they are nearly as dangerous today, and arguably vastly more dangerous historically. (And because of the political games played in the US, arguably are vastly more impactful on the day-to-day lives of Americans...)
And lastly, you should remind yourself that the vast majority of theists of all persuasions use their faith to improve their own lives, and don't treat their core religious books as pure, unadulterated fact, don't push their beliefs on others and don't advocate killing "infidels" or abortion doctors.
Academy masturbation aside "zomg, a WOMAN made a WAR movie about IRAQ!!!", the real reason it had a poor box office showing was that the movie, frankly, sucked.
And if you believe that, you've already bought into the Pentagon propaganda.
I ask you one simple question... If he was such a 'douchebag' all along, why did we not hear ANY of this until he dared to challenge the US military? Why are all these little details suddenly 'leaking' now? The obvious answer is that it's all BS. But no one even questions it. It's scary how blindly people follow media.
Perhaps because before that point no one knew or cared who he was?
Fact of the matter is, you and the GP post know the exact same thing about the reality of the situation -- absolutely nothing. Pretending otherwise amounts to ego masturbation. You assume he's bought into the propoganda, and he assumes you're wearing a tinfoil hat.
And you want to know the real truth? Neither of you will ever have a provable position. That's the reality of the world you're on.
It doesn't have to induce behavior that complex -- it just has to inhibit or stimulate responses already genetically programmed into the ant.
Its not a safe assumption that anything about the fungus is directly causing those behaviors -- there's a lot of fungus in the world, and there's a lot of species that fungus may grow on. All you need is one combination to be beneficial to the fungus, and it'll spread.
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So if I Tivo a soccer match and replay it, then the players have no free will? Essentially that is the Christian concept of God. He exists in the past, present and future and knows how everything will turn out.
Granted, I have a problem with free will but choose to believe in it because I was predestined to....
That's why I pray to my TiVo.
A) If you haven't read the patent, read it. ...
B) If you don't understand how to read a patent (and odds are you don't if you've never written one or aren't a lawyer, even if you think you do), recognize that your knee-jerk reaction to it may not be accurate
Slashdot has a long and glorious record of flamefests because 99% of its readers don't understand patents or how to read them and think a well-written fairly-narrow patent is covering some broad obvious area.
Now I'm sure the flamefest will happen, anyway, but I suppose there's always a chance ...
Why?
For fifty years mobile phones had external antennas that drove people nuts.
Someone figured out how to make the phone actually work with an internal antenna.
They patented it.
That's the whole point of patents.
Its hard to imagine it coming down to mere "thousands" any time soon -- adjusted for inflation and whatnot, airline ticket prices haven't fallen by a factor of 100 in the last 100 years.
That said, there's a lot more of us who could justify $50k or $100k than $200k.
It'll come down eventually, but IMO not using this technology. At, say, $2k a person you're only making $12k on a flight. With crew costs for SS2 and WK2, insurance, consumables like fuel, taxes, etc ... its hard to imagine ever hitting a "thousands" price. Not unless you're getting an economy of scale in the number of passengers per flight, not number of flights.
To get a price in the thousands, you'd need to get a suborbit flight holding many dozens of passengers at the equivalent cost of a coast-to-coast aircraft flight. That's not five years away, and maybe not even fifty or a hundred years away.
Airline flights got cheaper because we figured out how to increase carrying capacity faster than fuel costs increased. It takes vastly more fuel, no matter what kind, to get a craft to mach 3.5, and you won't do it with a rubber-burning engine if you need to carry 60 people.
IMO, its not going to take an evolution of even *ideas* we have to get launch access to space affordable for anything but the super-rich -- it'll take some sort of method we've never even thought of. (Or something that has a specific impulse two orders of magnitude higher -- like a space elevator, where acceleration comes almost entirely from the Earth's spin, but I doubt anyone alive today will live to see that, and it won't help you get to LEO anyway)
I bet all the people working at Iridium would like to know they've been killed.
How unfortunate.
Google doesn't give two shits about being open.
Google cares about ad revenue. They needed an "open" OS because they couldn't force other phones to always funnel things their way. Verizon needs an "open" phone, because THEY want to ensure they can control it (rather than the phone vendor or user)
Best to remember that, when thinking about Google and Android.
Yes, that's explicitly what I'm saying. In fact, I'll go a step further and say you have neurological and psychological damage caused by poor parenting or other trauma leading you to believe in a fantasy world that has no basis on reality. Like anyone with a psychopathic disorder, you have gotten very good at making up excuses and explanations for your psychosis.
The dead body is the proof of the hit and run.
The laws of physics are the proof of the rainbow. You could be lying that you saw either, but its trivial to prove that they both exist.
Your training, likely since birth, to shut your critical thinking abilities off when your line of thought starts to trend in the direction of theology clearly does not need work.
Personal evidence is, by its very definition, imaginary evidence.
Sorry if that bursts your bubble, but that's the way you tell the difference between reality and imagination.
90% of the world believes in God(s), and there's nothing but imaginary evidence for that, too.
But by all means mock the fringe dimwits who don't actually negatively impact society.
As does the Bible, and pretty much any book providing social guidance written from that era of history.
Slavery? Approved. Beating your disrespectful wife? Approved. Killing your children for being disrespectful to your customs? Required.
If you are going to make an issue of things said in the Qu'ran, you should give equal opportunity to the (equally offensive) parts of the Bible.
And then remind yourself that there are equally as many fundamentalist Christians as there are Fundamentalist Muslims, and they are nearly as dangerous today, and arguably vastly more dangerous historically. (And because of the political games played in the US, arguably are vastly more impactful on the day-to-day lives of Americans...)
And lastly, you should remind yourself that the vast majority of theists of all persuasions use their faith to improve their own lives, and don't treat their core religious books as pure, unadulterated fact, don't push their beliefs on others and don't advocate killing "infidels" or abortion doctors.
You clearly assume a level of education in the US that is vastly above the actual level of education in the US.
And I'm sure a hundred thousand Slashdotters were curious about that...
A 20 meter asteroid is not all that small ... if it actually hit the earth, it could potentially make a few million people have a really bad day.
When your webserver dumps its cargo at the first sign of an Imperial Cruiser ...
Academy masturbation aside "zomg, a WOMAN made a WAR movie about IRAQ!!!", the real reason it had a poor box office showing was that the movie, frankly, sucked.
The people who downloaded it were the lucky ones.
So Flash cuntinues to suck on Android?
On a barbie, mate?
Underpowered. Let me know when the CPU gets up to 2x3.0MHz or 4x2.66MHz. Or feel free to point to a decent commercial front end box.
I'm pretty sure you could pick up a few Atari 800's or something, if thats all the power you need.
It is a metaphor -- just like the use of God in the founding documents of the US.
But some people don't seem to understand that.
And if you believe that, you've already bought into the Pentagon propaganda.
I ask you one simple question... If he was such a 'douchebag' all along, why did we not hear ANY of this until he dared to challenge the US military? Why are all these little details suddenly 'leaking' now? The obvious answer is that it's all BS. But no one even questions it. It's scary how blindly people follow media.
Perhaps because before that point no one knew or cared who he was?
Fact of the matter is, you and the GP post know the exact same thing about the reality of the situation -- absolutely nothing. Pretending otherwise amounts to ego masturbation. You assume he's bought into the propoganda, and he assumes you're wearing a tinfoil hat.
And you want to know the real truth? Neither of you will ever have a provable position. That's the reality of the world you're on.
I think Asus is selling a chrome/wood laptop.
No, its a precise indication of what is wrong with direct democracy and proposition-based project funding in California.
Smart people know how to take advantage of a situation to their benefit.
That'd be awesome. I'd gladly flip past ads to get them for free.
Based on my run rate since getting the Kindle, that'd save me $500 a year.
Better yet, Amazon, give me a Zune-like deal where I can pay $20 a month and read any book I want. I only read them once anyway.
It doesn't have to induce behavior that complex -- it just has to inhibit or stimulate responses already genetically programmed into the ant.
Its not a safe assumption that anything about the fungus is directly causing those behaviors -- there's a lot of fungus in the world, and there's a lot of species that fungus may grow on. All you need is one combination to be beneficial to the fungus, and it'll spread.