I haven't tried it, but from what I understand the answer is a no. Bleem runs too close to the bleeding edge of directX (they want you to have 7.0). You might be able to run it in SW emulation mode, but I doubt it.
No we don't need a soul to have intelligence. The reason we don't have intelligent computers is that intelligence is hard to create. It took evolution 2 billion years to slouch out human intelligence.
We just don't have the hardware resources yet, and we won't for a while. A human brains has billions (not sure of the exact order of magnitude, but I know that's the right ballpark) of neurons and trillions of synapses. A large neural net model in an 'intelligent' system that does something fairly difficult might be in the thousands or tens of thousands. We are four or five orders of magnitude from the type of hardware we would need to emulate the human brain, also you have to have more precision than we currently use in (most) artifical neurons. Even with Moores law (while it holds) that's 25 years or so to achieve the kind of computing power we need. Additionally it has to be organized right, which is another whole area of challenge.
Evolution has the advantage of massively parallel processes to get everything right over long periods of time. So it will probably take us fallible humans a while longer to get it right.
Don't you think that's a little harsh? Granted for prepress work it's not good, because their is no CMYK support. But for many of the things you do with photoshop, gimp is a viable alternative. Some things are better in photoshop, some things are better in gimp. Scripting is one that comes to mind...
Exactly, Pittsburgh is full of maggotty corpses (*) who'd want to live there?
Seriously though the burgh of Pitts didn't seem all that exciting the couple times I was there. It was also perhaps the most evil place to navigate in I've ever seen! What kind of person designs their city in a triangle?
Right now I'm suffering through Cincinnati. My major complaints about the city are
1) Nothing open late - some bars and dance clubs, but even the coffee shops close at 1am. I live near downtown, and that dies at 5.
2)The cops are out of hand - we're nationally famous for arresting a little old lady for putting quarters in someone else's meter. We put mapplethorpe on trial. We keep arresting/charging larry flynt. Let me out of here.
One of my friends got arrested in a public park recently, an undercover cop said he grabbed his crotch (in a sexual, not violent manner). Knowing my friend I seriously doubt this. Two other cops testified this happened. They were not even there at the time.
3)Not very ethnically diverse - Everyone here is german or irish. The ethnic food situation (except near UC campus) is moderately bleak.
4)The venues for concert's suck - on the same thought, the radio stations blow (horrendously).
5)Kinda segragated - "Over here we have black people, and over here we have white people", I think cincinnati was declared the 11th most segragated place in the US.
6)The klan - it is so irritating/enraging when the klan puts a cross on the public square every year. This year they couldn't do it, because all the spots were taken before they applied (first come, first server basis). Two years ago they didn't, because their leader (wizard? dragon? grand high chipmunk?) was busy being busted for raping 12 & 14 year old girls.
7)Really bad air quality - regularly have mold counts in the 1000's. Among other pollutants. I never any trouble with allergies before I moved here - suck.
(*)No I'm not serious, it's a reference To Mark E. Rogers Samurai Cat Novels
I thought it might be something like that. I realized about 30 seconds after I posted that the other alternative was that your neighbors were vegatables, or close enough to it for government work.
Mmmm, seitan - ray's wheat meat kicks ass (yes I know it's not tofu - but it's all in the same section of the food mart).
As for food, I'm a vegetarian, so I have to be a little more picky in my food choices (I can't eat my neighbours, at least not many of them). I'm hoping that the canned peas and carrots will be left for last at the grocery store.
Are you going under the theory that it's okay for you to eat vegetarian's, because hey after all their certainly vegetarian!
Not the best example, but I have to support my paranoid delusions somehow.
LMAO
Hmmm, but I don't buy it, if it was Israel that had all the oil, maybe. Were fairly buddy-buddy with them. The main reason that we care what happens to the middle east is Oil. If the bottom dropped out of it tomorrow, most of the economies there would crash into the basement. With no money to provide maintenance/parts/new equipment it would seem like the rest or the region would quickly fall behind Israel in military power.
I wasn't talking about legislative rights. I was talking about being a functioning human being. Sure if I decide killing people is a great idea, and go on a killing spree. That's a 'Bad Thing'. And since it against the law, you will be locked up/executed/whatever for it. But I have the right to do this anyway, no one can take it away, and no one can grant it. There is a large difference between making a decision in my mind about how I feel about something, and picking up a gun and blowing away.
Every day you make moral judgements all by your lonesome. Some people get all there rules by adhering to a religious code, other's read kant, whatever.
There is no "right" written anywhere that says you have a "right" to play DVDs on Linux.
Actually it would seem to me that the fair use clause would apply here. I own the disk, no one said I had to use their exclusive players to look at it. Of course there's no constitutionally protected right to 'watch dvd's on linux'. But there is no damn reason I should not be able to (except corporate greed/stupidity).
Bhopal - no you are wrong. This is not due to those silly 'wog' incompetent rag-head's. This was a tragic safety failure. If the same thing had happened in the Europe or US, people would have had their heads handed to them.
As for UC having to pay a fine, I cry no tears for them. Six thousand dead should be a heavy weight on someones soul. Since corporations have no soul, they have to pay in valuta, money.
Cold Fusion - Please supply links or citations to all these marvelous validations of cold fusion. I would love for cold fusion to be true, but I don't believe it. And I've never heard from anyone credible anything to support pons and fleischman.
That leads to less oil and coal use. Which leads to trade deficts and all that blah-blah.
Actually we are a net importer of oil, and coal we use internally, and I don't believe we export a great amount of it. So free/cheap energy would help our trade deficits and be a large boost to the economy in general.
I really think that pons and fleischman are just wrong. There was too much independent evidence that it didn't work. They setup is fairly simple to reproduce. If they really had something, someone would be using it.
I guess the short form of this is, no I don't think there is a government conspiracy here. Plenty of other places, but not here.
Number one, you don't have a "right" to determine whether something is wrong. That is a very frightening belief, my friend. If I don't have the right to determine whether something is wrong, who does? Do you hold that power?
Bravo! Absolutely. I always have to right to determine if I believe something is wrong or not. That is one of the core principals of being an adult is about. Children are told what is right and wrong. Adults reason out why something is wrong or not. I don't know about you, but I'm an adult. Anyone who tries to tell you you can't decide for yourself what's right and wrong is deranged, stupid, or selling you something.
The reason this appears to be a media wide bias is that the vast majority of people working in the media today (something like 80-90%) are basically left leaning left brained, Democrat, secular humanists with a weak grasp of technology, which is much different (percentage wise anyway) from the population as a whole.
Sources Please?
Actually from what I understand, the majority of reporters are left-leaning, but 80-90%? And anyway, the majority of editors and owners of media outlets are conservative. If a editor or owner doesn't like a story, it can get axed or buried in the back page. This is why the media is not more left-leaning. If it really was all that left-leaning, you would hear about a lot more of the injustices that never get covered in our press.
He's not saying that having an overarching strategy to solve problems is bad. He's saying that taking one stance on everything is. One viewpoint, and no matter whether it fits or not, shoving the problem through it, is bad. The idea that you can reduce all of the worlds problems and solutions to a set of dogmatic beliefs.
And worse not just adopting the static set of viewpoints for yourself. But making/forcing everyone else in a state/nation/whatever to follow it also. A mature individual is someone who can calmly look at the facts, and come up with a good solution for a problem without trying to let their own biases screw up the process too much. A mature society is very similair. No one is saying you can't have a philosophy/ideology of your own. He's saying one-size-fit's-all is a poor fit for your mind.
Bah, If you're truly worried about over-population then it's not genetic engineering you should be trying to curtail. You should be trying to screw up the sewer system to sharply increase the death-rate. The lowly sewer inspector/engineers have prevented more disease than any other category of worker.
Yes, I think OP is a problem. Will genetic engineering aggravate it. Possibly. Will it make it possible so a lot of people who would normally have a lot of health problems would be perfectly healthy. Yes. Think about this, instead of people with diabetes, gauche disease, multiple schlerosis and other genetic disorders racking up huge amounts of medical bills, these illnesses will be able to be cured. They will be able to go on and lead more productive lives, not burdened down by medical debt and sickness.
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Nobody said anything about mystical powers, it has more to do with focusing your whole being on the task at hand. The way tchrist describes it as being where thought and action are one is very good IMNSHO. I believe in it for the same reason I believe in gravity, because I've experienced it. I've experienced it on 4 different occasions, in three different circumstances.
1. twice while programming 2. once while just lying in the sunlight relaxing 3. once while kneeing my friend in the groin - very long story (sorry ken)
And while it was happening, I was indeed in 'another place', and it felt damn good. A place where motion, thought, & deed were all the same. Though of course after I was finished with #3 there were some problems to deal with:)
If they ever come out with one of these I would love to get it for christmas. Unfortunately it looks like it won't be available this christmas...
Blade steel for knife - 440C - 2 1/2" long Handles made of investment cast 17-4PH steel, heat treated and corrosion resistant Opening cap. for crescent wrench is 9/16"
Tools included - slip joint pliers crescent wrench diamond coated file screwdriver bits (#2 and #3 Phillips, #2 and #1 flathead) double ended extension drive bit included. Pocket clip and lanyard hole
Tool can be taken apart to use crescent wrench and screwdrivers as separate tools.
1) Linux Journal - but of course 2) Maximum PC - not as good as Boot was, but still better than anything ZD pumps out 3) Hellblazer - Mmmm, dark & evil funny books - what could be better for christmas? 4) Scientific American - A good way to keep up with the march of progress
Hmm, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but those are all pretty good geeky periodicals.
Yes VMWare will run more stuff, but Wine runs it faster. I found that Wine basically runs things about the same speed that windows does (if it works). VMware on my system on the other hand is kinda jerky (Dual PIII-450 - 128 MB RAM). My advice would be to try wine first and see if it works. If not do the trial for vmware and see if you like it, it's a neat toy if nothing else.
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I haven't tried it, but from what I understand the answer is a no. Bleem runs too close to the bleeding edge of directX (they want you to have 7.0). You might be able to run it in SW emulation mode, but I doubt it.
Yes I can finally stop booting into windows to use Bleem!
Umm, the orb drives are currently available and have been for 3-6 months, and they've gotten good reviews also.
Sigh...
No we don't need a soul to have intelligence. The reason we don't have intelligent computers is that intelligence is hard to create. It took evolution 2 billion years to slouch out human intelligence.
We just don't have the hardware resources yet, and we won't for a while. A human brains has billions (not sure of the exact order of magnitude, but I know that's the right ballpark) of neurons and trillions of synapses. A large neural net model in an 'intelligent' system that does something fairly difficult might be in the thousands or tens of thousands. We are four or five orders of magnitude from the type of hardware we would need to emulate the human brain, also you have to have more precision than we currently use in (most) artifical neurons. Even with Moores law (while it holds) that's 25 years or so to achieve the kind of computing power we need. Additionally it has to be organized right, which is another whole area of challenge.
Evolution has the advantage of massively parallel processes to get everything right over long periods of time. So it will probably take us fallible humans a while longer to get it right.
but GIMP is hugely inferior to Photoshop.
Hugely Inferior?
Don't you think that's a little harsh? Granted for prepress work it's not good, because their is no CMYK support. But for many of the things you do with photoshop, gimp is a viable alternative. Some things are better in photoshop, some things are better in gimp. Scripting is one that comes to mind...
Top coat and tails.
Exactly, Pittsburgh is full of maggotty corpses (*) who'd want to live there?
Seriously though the burgh of Pitts didn't seem all that exciting the couple times I was there. It was also perhaps the most evil place to navigate in I've ever seen! What kind of person designs their city in a triangle?
Right now I'm suffering through Cincinnati. My major complaints about the city are
1) Nothing open late - some bars and dance clubs, but even the coffee shops close at 1am. I live near downtown, and that dies at 5.
2)The cops are out of hand - we're nationally famous for arresting a little old lady for putting quarters in someone else's meter. We put mapplethorpe on trial. We keep arresting/charging larry flynt. Let me out of here.
One of my friends got arrested in a public park recently, an undercover cop said he grabbed his crotch (in a sexual, not violent manner). Knowing my friend I seriously doubt this. Two other cops testified this happened. They were not even there at the time.
3)Not very ethnically diverse - Everyone here is german or irish. The ethnic food situation (except near UC campus) is moderately bleak.
4)The venues for concert's suck - on the same thought, the radio stations blow (horrendously).
5)Kinda segragated - "Over here we have black people, and over here we have white people", I think cincinnati was declared the 11th most segragated place in the US.
6)The klan - it is so irritating/enraging when the klan puts a cross on the public square every year. This year they couldn't do it, because all the spots were taken before they applied (first come, first server basis). Two years ago they didn't, because their leader (wizard? dragon? grand high chipmunk?) was busy being busted for raping 12 & 14 year old girls.
7)Really bad air quality - regularly have mold counts in the 1000's. Among other pollutants. I never any trouble with allergies before I moved here - suck.
(*)No I'm not serious, it's a reference To Mark E. Rogers Samurai Cat Novels
ROTFLMAO
I thought it might be something like that. I realized about 30 seconds after I posted that the other alternative was that your neighbors were vegatables, or close enough to it for government work.
Mmmm, seitan - ray's wheat meat kicks ass (yes I know it's not tofu - but it's all in the same section of the food mart).
As for food, I'm a vegetarian, so I have to be a little more picky in my food choices (I can't eat my neighbours, at least not many of them). I'm
hoping that the canned peas and carrots will be left for last at the grocery store.
Are you going under the theory that it's okay for you to eat vegetarian's, because hey after all their certainly vegetarian!
We will look the potato of injustice right in the eye!!!
Not the best example, but I have to support my paranoid delusions somehow.
LMAO
Hmmm, but I don't buy it, if it was Israel that had all the oil, maybe. Were fairly buddy-buddy with them. The main reason that we care what happens to the middle east is Oil. If the bottom dropped out of it tomorrow, most of the economies there would crash into the basement. With no money to provide maintenance/parts/new equipment it would seem like the rest or the region would quickly fall behind Israel in military power.
Sigh.
I wasn't talking about legislative rights. I was talking about being a functioning human being. Sure if I decide killing people is a great idea, and go on a killing spree. That's a 'Bad Thing'. And since it against the law, you will be locked up/executed/whatever for it. But I have the right to do this anyway, no one can take it away, and no one can grant it. There is a large difference between making a decision in my mind about how I feel about something, and picking up a gun and blowing away.
Every day you make moral judgements all by your lonesome. Some people get all there rules by adhering to a religious code, other's read kant, whatever.
There is no "right" written anywhere that says you have a "right" to play DVDs on Linux.
Actually it would seem to me that the fair use clause would apply here. I own the disk, no one said I had to use their exclusive players to look at it. Of course there's no constitutionally protected right to 'watch dvd's on linux'. But there is no damn reason I should not be able to (except corporate greed/stupidity).
Bhopal - no you are wrong. This is not due to those silly 'wog' incompetent rag-head's. This was a tragic safety failure. If the same thing had happened in the Europe or US, people would have had their heads handed to them.
As for UC having to pay a fine, I cry no tears for them. Six thousand dead should be a heavy weight on someones soul. Since corporations have no soul, they have to pay in valuta, money.
Cold Fusion - Please supply links or citations to all these marvelous validations of cold fusion. I would love for cold fusion to be true, but I don't believe it. And I've never heard from anyone credible anything to support pons and fleischman.
That leads to less oil and coal use. Which leads to trade deficts and all that blah-blah.
Actually we are a net importer of oil, and coal we use internally, and I don't believe we export a great amount of it. So free/cheap energy would help our trade deficits and be a large boost to the economy in general.
I really think that pons and fleischman are just wrong. There was too much independent evidence that it didn't work. They setup is fairly simple to reproduce. If they really had something, someone would be using it.
I guess the short form of this is, no I don't think there is a government conspiracy here. Plenty of other places, but not here.
Number one, you don't have a "right" to determine whether something is wrong.
That is a very frightening belief, my friend. If I don't have the right to determine whether something is wrong, who does? Do you hold that power?
Bravo! Absolutely. I always have to right to determine if I believe something is wrong or not. That is one of the core principals of being an adult is about. Children are told what is right and wrong. Adults reason out why something is wrong or not. I don't know about you, but I'm an adult. Anyone who tries to tell you you can't decide for yourself what's right and wrong is deranged, stupid, or selling you something.
Here's a fairly good analysis of what's been happening with PBS PBS Fact Sheet, especially as it relates to the cutting of government funding.
The reason this appears to be a media wide bias is that the vast majority of people working in the media today (something like 80-90%) are basically left leaning left brained, Democrat, secular humanists with a weak grasp of technology, which is much different (percentage wise anyway) from the population as a whole.
Sources Please?
Actually from what I understand, the majority of reporters are left-leaning, but 80-90%? And anyway, the majority of editors and owners of media outlets are conservative. If a editor or owner doesn't like a story, it can get axed or buried in the back page. This is why the media is not more left-leaning. If it really was all that left-leaning, you would hear about a lot more of the injustices that never get covered in our press.
He's not saying that having an overarching strategy to solve problems is bad. He's saying that taking one stance on everything is. One viewpoint, and no matter whether it fits or not, shoving the problem through it, is bad. The idea that you can reduce all of the worlds problems and solutions to a set of dogmatic beliefs.
And worse not just adopting the static set of viewpoints for yourself. But making/forcing everyone else in a state/nation/whatever to follow it also. A mature individual is someone who can calmly look at the facts, and come up with a good solution for a problem without trying to let their own biases screw up the process too much. A mature society is very similair. No one is saying you can't have a philosophy/ideology of your own. He's saying one-size-fit's-all is a poor fit for your mind.
Bah, If you're truly worried about over-population then it's not genetic engineering you should be trying to curtail. You should be trying to screw up the sewer system to sharply increase the death-rate. The lowly sewer inspector/engineers have prevented more disease than any other category of worker.
Yes, I think OP is a problem. Will genetic engineering aggravate it. Possibly. Will it make it possible so a lot of people who would normally have a lot of health problems would be perfectly healthy. Yes. Think about this, instead of people with diabetes, gauche disease, multiple schlerosis and other genetic disorders racking up huge amounts of medical bills, these illnesses will be able to be cured. They will be able to go on and lead more productive lives, not burdened down by medical debt and sickness.
Nobody said anything about mystical powers, it has more to do with focusing your whole being on the task at hand. The way tchrist describes it as being where thought and action are one is very good IMNSHO. I believe in it for the same reason I believe in gravity, because I've experienced it. I've experienced it on 4 different occasions, in three different circumstances.
:)
1. twice while programming
2. once while just lying in the sunlight relaxing
3. once while kneeing my friend in the groin - very long story (sorry ken)
And while it was happening, I was indeed in 'another place', and it felt damn good. A place where motion, thought, & deed were all the same. Though of course after I was finished with #3 there were some problems to deal with
If they ever come out with one of these I would love to get it for christmas. Unfortunately it looks like it won't be available this christmas...
Blade steel for knife - 440C - 2 1/2" long Handles made of investment cast 17-4PH steel, heat treated and corrosion resistant
Opening cap. for crescent wrench is 9/16"
Tools included -
slip joint pliers
crescent wrench
diamond coated file
screwdriver bits
(#2 and #3 Phillips, #2 and #1 flathead)
double ended extension drive bit included.
Pocket clip and lanyard hole
Tool can be taken apart to use crescent wrench and screwdrivers as separate tools.
Hmm good periodicals for geeks...
1) Linux Journal - but of course
2) Maximum PC - not as good as Boot was, but still better than anything ZD pumps out
3) Hellblazer - Mmmm, dark & evil funny books - what could be better for christmas?
4) Scientific American - A good way to keep up with the march of progress
Hmm, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but those are all pretty good geeky periodicals.
Morpheus is indeed the god of dreams.
Maybe your thinking of Hades, Osiris, or Pluton.
A list of greek divinities is here .
Morpheus is indeed the god of dreams.
Maybe your thinging of Hades, Osiris, or Pluton.
A list of greek divinities is here .
Yes VMWare will run more stuff, but Wine runs it faster. I found that Wine basically runs things about the same speed that windows does (if it works). VMware on my system on the other hand is kinda jerky (Dual PIII-450 - 128 MB RAM). My advice would be to try wine first and see if it works. If not do the trial for vmware and see if you like it, it's a neat toy if nothing else.