don't forget to mention the whole "creating life" story.
Almost certainly increased life spans for rich people.
Did anybody calculate ratios on what kind of "savings" you could expect? We need to start calculating the theoretical limit of a funcional brain. I can certainly see totally brainless human shells made to house a recently reinvigorated brain, making the term "lifetime guarantee" rather useless.
Why are lawyers the only people who ever try this stuff?
The same reasons crackers are the only ones who crack machines. And car mechanics replace good parts to charge for labor. Everyone uses their skillz to get what they want, when you understand the law you can try to manipulate it, even when you are sure it is illegal (even if you don't think so personally). People do what they can, lawyers just happen to be able to fsck the rest of us with their silly reindeer games. Is there a nice derogative term for crackin' lawyers? (or does "lawyer" pretty much cover it?)
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How's about making all posts require a Preview??
How about being able to edit your own boneheaded posts? A lot of boards do this with a quick (edited by: username, time) stamp on it. Bye, bye spelling/grammatical correction posts! (note: I have largely avoided the MM discussions so if this has already been shot down I apologize)
I think meta-moderation is a good idea (except that I get asked to meta-moderate first thing every day), even though I guess I was a bad moderator and had my karma dropped to a point where my comments no longer start at a "2"(which could have been me posting comments without the +1, which I do for quick nitpicks or other things that would most likely be moderated down to 1 for being "too high", which could be a bug or a seriously nested parenthetical aside). I am actually right on the line, if someone moderates this (or any of my other comments) up, I will return to the blessed 2 status.
Increasing the limit could also help for the sig/noise ratio. With 4-5x as many moderators and limits up to 50 or 100 there would be a better stratifation (new word!) of comments and could actually make a Top 10 posts of the Week mini-site useful. I think there is a lot of great content here that goes unnoticed (and a lot of crap to wade through to find it).
his is more annoying than the WORST hold music that could possibly be played.
no, it isn't, try USWest.net: horrible music and long waits are much worse than any good music combination.
By far the absolute worst on hold music on the planet. I've had people walk by and mention the pain that has been building in their eardrums as they get get to the source of that infernal racket.
Yes, there are many people with ADHD and dyslexia.
One of my personal pet peeves about our very modern society (US) is the overabundance of these "diagnosis"es that are made in about an hour and lead to continuous drug use to modify the behaviour of children. Then worst part is the description of most of the symptoms, doesn't pay attention in school, fidgets, low attention span, acts like a child (oops, that last one is mine). Brings to mind a certain novel about a certain drug, Pro^H^H^HSoma (which BTW was a pre-christian term for the body part of the body,mind,soul triumvirate)
One of the best parts about the article (read it, everyone) was that it said that "normal" doesn't really exist. We're all freaks in our own special ways. That's the kind of science I like.
when they could easily maintain the pace of the other students if only they were encouraged in the right way?
This is where I think education research should be focused, "how do I teach this type of child?" instead of "how do I make this child one I can teach?" Heck I've been to business training "understanding" sessions, where they basically say there are different (very and obviously) types of people that use different ways to communicate and are influenced by different criteria. I think it could be very applicable to our school system, especially for the younger children.
that's why we make such great movies and commercials. The competition of a free market makes advertising very important, thus highly skilled, and finally, highly effective.
The problem is you end up with a consumption culture (always needing that new toy or to see that new movie) that is necessary to drive a growth (acceleration not speed) driven market. This consumption culture, while it looks really cool from the outside, is nothing more than an image and is in essence an empty shell designed to sell stuff. That is the culture overrun that other countries fear and fight (while their impressionable children embrace it).
.....indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (if you have money)
new clause added in the 80's and accepted as basic fact in the 90's.
BTW: I didn't know about that "under God" part, that's the last time I'll add in that phrase. Hopefully the Internet, and the one to one people interaction it allows across borders, will keep one country from thinking another country in full of 100 million raving lunatics, instead of the 10 or 20 that happen to make the news.
Maybe this time she'll give fish a turn at ruling the planet.
70% of the planet and a huge majority of it's livable space (3d, not just surface area) are underwater, so whose to say that they don't already. I was just reading a story the other day about dolphins off the coast of madagascar with nuclear strike capabilities.
from the St. Augustine link above.... be careful with this one.
"I am somewhat pained, however, at being thus far less understood by your Holiness than I should like to be; forasmuch as you supposed that I should so receive your communication, as if you did me an injury, by making known to me what another had done. "
attention span, going, going, later. Sorry but Paraphrase fits into Auggies vocab right next to Worthwhile. Got a summary for me?
We engineer a plant that can live in the vastness of space. It depents on the sun and moonrocks to grow and it's fruit provides all essential vitamins and minerals, tastes like plums in the fall, apples in the spring, corn in the summer, and jalepenos to warm up the winter nights. It release an special customizable waste product to sanitize and stimulate the natural environment (it spread life, recursion). And oh yeah, you can smoke the flowers and get high on the moon, which happens to make you smarter and slimmer and makes your bones strong enough to survive the low gravity levels for a lifetime. Welcome to the future boys, smoke up (Tagline for Space Army 2000, coming soon to a government near you).
Nothing quite like getting a blue screen on install, or perhaps even on every third boot. Both of these have heppened to me, within the last month.
The problem of the BSOD (one of them) is the lack of info about what exactly caused the problem (unless you read hex). Include this with the overall attempt on NT to hide the hardware and you get the legend of the BSOD. I've had random BSODs, perhaps it's my inexperience, but nonetheless all my users know what it is and what it means. Turn it off and reboot again.
It's a backlash against the advertised ease of NT administration and the reality ($$$ for software, $$$ for support). Just wait until the horror stories of 2000 overwhelming admins start to surface and you'll understand.
(BTW my NTServer4.0(file, web) lasts about 35 days, until it's memory is totally maxed out (256) and needs to be resurrected)
you will no longer be able to post objectionable material in public view and expect that anybody will actually see it.
Thus the end of/. and all the other cool new media outlets that are springing up. The status quo will be supported by legislation. There's lots of money to be made by the poeple who are already in control.
When nanomachines are perfected, they'll be easy and cheap to produce, unlike the multibillion-dollar facilities needed to produce computer chips and other silicon-based devices. While Kelly took four years to design his molecule, he can now produce lots of them. "In one batch, you could make as many 1024 of individual units in principle," Davis says. "That's a trillion trillion." Which means the future machines are likely to be teeny and plentiful.
hmmm, massively reproducible, fully configurable matter changers....neat.(and cheap to boot!)
Google, which ranks its results by link "importance"... DirectHit, which bases its analysis on "what people are clicking on"... and Inktomi, which is "looking at what people are actually viewing."
Hmmm, follow the herd or go for something "immportant" (perhaps the perfect word for a search, a clue if you will) seems like a pretty simple decision. I suggested it to the folks in my company (along with www.m-w.com and babelfish) and they love it. I'm feeling lucky.....
(Get Andover to buy it, or maybe the other way around...)
I agree. Simply because the human has arisen to become the dominant form of life on the planet, what does this have to bear on the overall scheme of intellegince?
Let's see, out of how many billions of species over a few billion years have we come to dominate so totally (unless the Ants have nukes we don't know about)? My guess it has something to do with our brains, and how they work. Hands are pretty cool (read my thoughts) but I have to assume (unless you live in Kansas) that your brain helped them along to their current level of dexterity at some point (perhaps your parents chose white collar jobs?).
If machines can and do someday become intellligent, and do indeed surpass human intelligence,
it'll be 'cause we want them too. I'll leave it at that.
Read my sig, and you'll see where I fall on the debate.
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don't forget to mention the whole "creating life" story.
Almost certainly increased life spans for rich people.
Did anybody calculate ratios on what kind of "savings" you could expect? We need to start calculating the theoretical limit of a funcional brain. I can certainly see totally brainless human shells made to house a recently reinvigorated brain, making the term "lifetime guarantee" rather useless.
Why are lawyers the only people who ever try this stuff?
The same reasons crackers are the only ones who crack machines. And car mechanics replace good parts to charge for labor. Everyone uses their skillz to get what they want, when you understand the law you can try to manipulate it, even when you are sure it is illegal (even if you don't think so personally). People do what they can, lawyers just happen to be able to fsck the rest of us with their silly reindeer games. Is there a nice derogative term for crackin' lawyers? (or does "lawyer" pretty much cover it?)
How's about making all posts require a Preview??
How about being able to edit your own boneheaded posts? A lot of boards do this with a quick (edited by: username, time) stamp on it. Bye, bye spelling/grammatical correction posts! (note: I have largely avoided the MM discussions so if this has already been shot down I apologize)
I think meta-moderation is a good idea (except that I get asked to meta-moderate first thing every day), even though I guess I was a bad moderator and had my karma dropped to a point where my comments no longer start at a "2"(which could have been me posting comments without the +1, which I do for quick nitpicks or other things that would most likely be moderated down to 1 for being "too high", which could be a bug or a seriously nested parenthetical aside). I am actually right on the line, if someone moderates this (or any of my other comments) up, I will return to the blessed 2 status.
Increasing the limit could also help for the sig/noise ratio. With 4-5x as many moderators and limits up to 50 or 100 there would be a better stratifation (new word!) of comments and could actually make a Top 10 posts of the Week mini-site useful. I think there is a lot of great content here that goes unnoticed (and a lot of crap to wade through to find it).
(The Gibson Article linked above)
makes the opinions here (especially katz) look like the chickenscratch most of them are...
Seems there was too much time on them. :-)
another example here
his is more annoying than the WORST hold music that could possibly be played.
no, it isn't, try USWest.net: horrible music and long waits are much worse than any good music combination.
By far the absolute worst on hold music on the planet. I've had people walk by and mention the pain that has been building in their eardrums as they get get to the source of that infernal racket.
Yes, there are many people with ADHD and dyslexia.
One of my personal pet peeves about our very modern society (US) is the overabundance of these "diagnosis"es that are made in about an hour and lead to continuous drug use to modify the behaviour of children. Then worst part is the description of most of the symptoms, doesn't pay attention in school, fidgets, low attention span, acts like a child (oops, that last one is mine). Brings to mind a certain novel about a certain drug, Pro^H^H^HSoma (which BTW was a pre-christian term for the body part of the body,mind,soul triumvirate)
One of the best parts about the article (read it, everyone) was that it said that "normal" doesn't really exist. We're all freaks in our own special ways. That's the kind of science I like.
when they could easily maintain the pace of
the other students if only they were encouraged in the right way?
This is where I think education research should be focused, "how do I teach this type of child?" instead of "how do I make this child one I can teach?" Heck I've been to business training "understanding" sessions, where they basically say there are different (very and obviously) types of people that use different ways to communicate and are influenced by different criteria. I think it could be very applicable to our school system, especially for the younger children.
my $.02(US)
that's why we make such great movies and commercials. The competition of a free market makes advertising very important, thus highly skilled, and finally, highly effective.
The problem is you end up with a consumption culture (always needing that new toy or to see that new movie) that is necessary to drive a growth (acceleration not speed) driven market. This consumption culture, while it looks really cool from the outside, is nothing more than an image and is in essence an empty shell designed to sell stuff. That is the culture overrun that other countries fear and fight (while their impressionable children embrace it).
.....indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (if you have money)
new clause added in the 80's and accepted as basic fact in the 90's.
BTW: I didn't know about that "under God" part, that's the last time I'll add in that phrase. Hopefully the Internet, and the one to one people interaction it allows across borders, will keep one country from thinking another country in full of 100 million raving lunatics, instead of the 10 or 20 that happen to make the news.
.....indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (if you have money)
Maybe this time she'll give fish a turn at ruling the planet.
70% of the planet and a huge majority of it's livable space (3d, not just surface area) are underwater, so whose to say that they don't already. I was just reading a story the other day about dolphins off the coast of madagascar with nuclear strike capabilities.
from the St. Augustine link above....
be careful with this one.
"I am somewhat pained, however, at being thus far less understood by your Holiness than I should like to be; forasmuch as you supposed that I should so receive your communication, as if you did me an injury, by making known to me what another had done. "
attention span, going, going, later. Sorry but Paraphrase fits into Auggies vocab right next to Worthwhile. Got a summary for me?
from the Catholic FAQ: topic "the soul"
"Knowing that hell is a reality, any sane man will live so as to avoid going there. "
hmmmmm
To beg a question:"Because of a, b must be asked."
Perhaps....then again I gave up most forms of grammar after having a Nazi grandma for seventh grade english.
We engineer a plant that can live in the vastness of space. It depents on the sun and moonrocks to grow and it's fruit provides all essential vitamins and minerals, tastes like plums in the fall, apples in the spring, corn in the summer, and jalepenos to warm up the winter nights. It release an special customizable waste product to sanitize and stimulate the natural environment (it spread life, recursion). And oh yeah, you can smoke the flowers and get high on the moon, which happens to make you smarter and slimmer and makes your bones strong enough to survive the low gravity levels for a lifetime. Welcome to the future boys, smoke up (Tagline for Space Army 2000, coming soon to a government near you).
Nothing quite like getting a blue screen on install, or perhaps even on every third boot. Both of these have heppened to me, within the last month.
The problem of the BSOD (one of them) is the lack of info about what exactly caused the problem (unless you read hex). Include this with the overall attempt on NT to hide the hardware and you get the legend of the BSOD. I've had random BSODs, perhaps it's my inexperience, but nonetheless all my users know what it is and what it means. Turn it off and reboot again.
It's a backlash against the advertised ease of NT administration and the reality ($$$ for software, $$$ for support). Just wait until the horror stories of 2000 overwhelming admins start to surface and you'll understand.
(BTW my NTServer4.0(file, web) lasts about 35 days, until it's memory is totally maxed out (256) and needs to be resurrected)
hmmm, that's one funny Troll, maybe he'll come out from under the bridge and go on tour.
New Rule: Moderators must either begin smoking if they don't, or stop if they do (and I ain't talking about them tobaccy things neither)
span.
C'mon, if news only mattered for a day our lives would be very, very weird.
Nepotism is favoritism shown to family members.
no kidding, the only nepotism going on here is for the family at large, i.e. the species.
blah, blah, and blah, is my summed up opinion of the article.
Have a nice weekend!
you will no longer be able to post objectionable material in public view and expect that anybody will actually see it.
/. and all the other cool new media outlets that are springing up. The status quo will be supported by legislation. There's lots of money to be made by the poeple who are already in control.
Thus the end of
I wonder if this stuff would protect a G4 from the HERF Gun mentioned on /. today...
it might, but I know for sure those tanks wouldn't. Oh the joys of anachronistic paradox.
Could this be the software of hardware...
When nanomachines are perfected, they'll be easy and cheap to produce, unlike the multibillion-dollar facilities needed to produce computer chips and other silicon-based devices. While Kelly took four years to design his molecule, he can now produce lots of them. "In one batch, you could make as many 1024 of individual units in principle," Davis says. "That's a trillion trillion."
Which means the future machines are likely to be teeny and plentiful.
hmmm, massively reproducible, fully configurable matter changers....neat.(and cheap to boot!)
One thing, perhaps, we can agree on...
... DirectHit, which bases its analysis on "what people are clicking on" ... and Inktomi, which is "looking at what people are actually viewing."
Google, which ranks its results by link "importance"
Hmmm, follow the herd or go for something "immportant" (perhaps the perfect word for a search, a clue if you will) seems like a pretty simple decision. I suggested it to the folks in my company (along with www.m-w.com and babelfish) and they love it. I'm feeling lucky.....
(Get Andover to buy it, or maybe the other way around...)
I still think it's rather important. I mean really do you want this to be a common occurence?
I agree. Simply because the human has arisen to become the dominant form of life on the planet, what does this have to bear on the overall scheme of intellegince?
Let's see, out of how many billions of species over a few billion years have we come to dominate so totally (unless the Ants have nukes we don't know about)? My guess it has something to do with our brains, and how they work. Hands are pretty cool (read my thoughts) but I have to assume (unless you live in Kansas) that your brain helped them along to their current level of dexterity at some point (perhaps your parents chose white collar jobs?).
If machines can and do someday become intellligent, and do indeed surpass human intelligence,
it'll be 'cause we want them too. I'll leave it at that.
Read my sig, and you'll see where I fall on the debate.