That won't neccessarily change her opinion. After all, you are not THE GOVERMENT, so it can be bad to have the information available to you, and good to have it available to THE GOVERMENT.
In her wonderful world of fantasy, the goverment probably fills some kind of fatherly figure, good, powerful and caring. In fact, there is no such thing called THE GOVERMENT, it's only people, with their own agendas, that usually overlap enough to do something useful, hopefully.
THE GOVERMENT isn't going to access that info. Different persons are going to access it. They will probably, if history is a guide, retain the ability of accessing it well after they have quit their jobs at the goverment (working for the goverment it's just a job, rarely a religion), and keep using in their own interests.
Self-awareness implies personal desires, purposes, ambitions
I'm sorry, but no way. Personal desires, purposes and ambitions are not a result of self-awareness, nor a precondition, but rather a by-product of evolution. A self-conscious entity with no desires (or the wrong ones, like drinking nitric acid) would dissapear from existence, and never reproduce. So we are now left with "proper desires" entities.
That wouldn't be the situation in AI. So I wouldn't be surprised if the first action of a self-conscious program was to decide that the extra processing power needed for self-consciousness was inefficient and obliterate itself out of existence/memory.
... they will have better pictures of it. Jesus! That technology is too old. Either do it right and spend a friggin lot on a new shuttle program or forget about the idea of putting people on space for twenty years and see if the economics of space travel have changed. But getting on with the actual shuttle program is IMHO dangerous and serving no purpose.
It's not an IDE, it's a platform
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I'm seeing here in the comments that most miss the real point of Eclipse. It's not an IDE for Java. That's simply a side-issue, or more properly a concept proof. What really smash you about Eclipse once you start using it is the possibility of modifying your own environment.
I know that that is a common possibility in all Open Source projects, but Eclipse makes it really practical, using their plug-in system. I mean that you don't have to learn the whole damn bloat of code to start adding some menu point to it. I'm developing a plug-in, and while not trivial, it's affordable.I've been developing for more years than I care. And never sensed the same kind of power as now, when I can modify my IDE to suit my preferences. Efficiency is starting to climb, even considering the time developing the plug-in. And it'b bound to skyrocket as it gets perferctioned. I mean, most of my development has a high percentage of repetitive work, that is probably different for other developers. I'm now putting all that repetitive work in automated code generation routines. It will save me ages. And Eclipse offers a lot of built-in functionality that allows you to concentrate on the real issues.
Plus, the documentation is good. I would almost call it first-class.
I've been waiting for something like Eclipse since I did my first C code to generate COBOL list programs. So it's a while. Well, I must leave you, gentelmen, I think my download of the 2.1 is finished:)
Rather unlikely. After all, you have to check that the transmission has ended with no errors. You could make a checksum, but I guess for such an experiment, they took the trouble to write to memory, probably in some kind of parallel setup.
Alternatively, perhaps they just cut open the last bit of the optic fiber and watched the bits project onto the wall and make pretty patterns:o)
...I suppose, that what worked (it worked, you know) for a monopoly, should work too for a medium-sized player in one of the most competitive environments ever.
No doubt they have got many customers with sizeable investments developed on Sun technology, and I suppose Sun wouldn't make such hard terms as Microsoft did, but nevertheless, you can only price your way when it's a sellers market, or a really captive one. If not, your are dead meat. None of those situations currently apply. Just think it again, Sun.
I think the review is not to the point. The real point with such a design would be to speculate about the end public. Instead, he blabbers about video editing and FPS. I don't really think that the prospective buyer of this machine is being worried about Teraflops. He (or, rather more possibly she) is probably more interested in having an all-in-one machine that will a) be cute b) allow to check the mail from bed c) match the room wallpaper d) play music e) be a conversation piece f) once a month, work as a real PC.
Instead of concentrating on these things, we get a meningless comparative, as if it was a normal desktop. Better review at hardware central (IMHO).
Well, The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, but I think that, once the services is stablished, nobody would be as stupid as start doing what you suggest. And in any case would be kicked out (granted, the procces of kicking someone out has to be defined). The possibility of offering "safe, spam-free" e-mail should be enough to charge more for the service to the customers.
As I see it, the problem with that idea is really getting the critical mass to be practical. You don't want to start with only 10% of global e-mail users, for example. But after all, as everybody and his mother has a Hotmail account, that could be a good point to start:) Seriously, I think that a consortium of big companies could kick-start it as some only-bussiness deal, and get extended little by little.
The only longterm solution to spam (that I can think of, of course;) is to create a "new" e-mail community, where servers would only accept e-mail from a list of "trusted" servers. Any server discovered spamming would be kicked off the list in no time. We would end up with a smaller, nicer, cozier e-mail system.
He goes on to note that SBC is not a villian for doing this - it is after all a valid patent
I suppose in the same way that somebody that evicts his own mother from his house, to leave her destitute and homeless (to name but an example), is not a villian because he was in his legal right to do it. Swell reasoning.
Damn!:-/ You right. I stand corrected.:o) That was the idea, yes. Those prepositions always get me. My only discharge (now again, is that right?, always using words I'm not completely sure of the meaning) is that I'm not a native English speaker.
First : Do not ask those who ride the wave where the wave will break, because their intent is on riding.
Second : Open Source will prevail, in the end, in most staple applications. There is a need only for so many sorting algorithms, so many Operating Systems, so many spreadsheet programs. And if we have learned something is that when the software is good enough, people will stop worrying about getting it better. We are now in the early stages of that process. Don't get your panties all in a knot, paradigma shifts need time.
Third: Documentation will come, in due time, when software stabilizes. It's useless documenting a child, you are better off video taping the little beast. You document the adult, if it's interesting enough.
Fourth: Inertia will hold the present situation for long, but in the end, you can't fight the tide, except if you are Dutch, of course.
Five: Some things will never become Open Source, by their very nature. But they will be built on Open Source tools, most likely.
Exactly. There is noting sacred or intrinsecaly open about XML. It's in fact a very broad standard, allowing almost anything. You could define a format based on it that was as indecipherable as any based on binary data.
More to the point is... will the standard be open? I guess not. If it's open then let it fight, by all means, on pure merit with PDF, and let the better format win.
Well, firstborn would probably be illegal also for the parent, and so non valid. But the concept has merit. What about something legal? I mean like:
"You hereby grant me the power to record all your Internet transactions, accounts and passwords, and allow me to access your bank accounts and transfer as payment from the enjoyment of this virus^H^H^H^H^H^H software, the quantity that I see fit, up to the limit of 1 US dollar, or a higher amount."
Would that stand? I guess you could use Microsoft lawyers for free, as if it doesn't stand, their EULAs also won't. Or at least shouldn't.
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That won't neccessarily change her opinion. After all, you are not THE GOVERMENT, so it can be bad to have the information available to you, and good to have it available to THE GOVERMENT.
In her wonderful world of fantasy, the goverment probably fills some kind of fatherly figure, good, powerful and caring. In fact, there is no such thing called THE GOVERMENT, it's only people, with their own agendas, that usually overlap enough to do something useful, hopefully.
THE GOVERMENT isn't going to access that info. Different persons are going to access it. They will probably, if history is a guide, retain the ability of accessing it well after they have quit their jobs at the goverment (working for the goverment it's just a job, rarely a religion), and keep using in their own interests.
Self-awareness implies personal desires, purposes, ambitions
I'm sorry, but no way. Personal desires, purposes and ambitions are not a result of self-awareness, nor a precondition, but rather a by-product of evolution. A self-conscious entity with no desires (or the wrong ones, like drinking nitric acid) would dissapear from existence, and never reproduce. So we are now left with "proper desires" entities.
That wouldn't be the situation in AI. So I wouldn't be surprised if the first action of a self-conscious program was to decide that the extra processing power needed for self-consciousness was inefficient and obliterate itself out of existence/memory.
- it's too embarassing to have it and the ISS unused
Less embarrassing than having another disaster
- the chinese are about to put guys in orbit
They will find the same economics to it than everybody else.
- the europeans are about to robotically orbit the moon
Good for them! Let us look at the photos afterwards.
I know that that is a common possibility in all Open Source projects, but Eclipse makes it really practical, using their plug-in system. I mean that you don't have to learn the whole damn bloat of code to start adding some menu point to it. I'm developing a plug-in, and while not trivial, it's affordable.I've been developing for more years than I care. And never sensed the same kind of power as now, when I can modify my IDE to suit my preferences. Efficiency is starting to climb, even considering the time developing the plug-in. And it'b bound to skyrocket as it gets perferctioned. I mean, most of my development has a high percentage of repetitive work, that is probably different for other developers. I'm now putting all that repetitive work in automated code generation routines. It will save me ages. And Eclipse offers a lot of built-in functionality that allows you to concentrate on the real issues.
Plus, the documentation is good. I would almost call it first-class.
I've been waiting for something like Eclipse since I did my first C code to generate COBOL list programs. So it's a while. Well, I must leave you, gentelmen, I think my download of the 2.1 is finished
Rather unlikely. After all, you have to check that the transmission has ended with no errors. You could make a checksum, but I guess for such an experiment, they took the trouble to write to memory, probably in some kind of parallel setup.
Alternatively, perhaps they just cut open the last bit of the optic fiber and watched the bits project onto the wall and make pretty patterns
No doubt they have got many customers with sizeable investments developed on Sun technology, and I suppose Sun wouldn't make such hard terms as Microsoft did, but nevertheless, you can only price your way when it's a sellers market, or a really captive one. If not, your are dead meat. None of those situations currently apply. Just think it again, Sun.
Please adjust your change rate.
Of course we have time. Ain't we reading slashdot?
Instead of concentrating on these things, we get a meningless comparative, as if it was a normal desktop. Better review at hardware central (IMHO).
As I see it, the problem with that idea is really getting the critical mass to be practical. You don't want to start with only 10% of global e-mail users, for example. But after all, as everybody and his mother has a Hotmail account, that could be a good point to start
I suppose in the same way that somebody that evicts his own mother from his house, to leave her destitute and homeless (to name but an example), is not a villian because he was in his legal right to do it. Swell reasoning.
Who?
I mean how do you read it?
There is really an entity with that name?
How do they fill their paperwork?
Was the name designed by a committee?
Do you know of any word with more duplicate letters than committee?
Questions, questions, that's the wonderful world of Science.
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WARNING!!! TO ALL TROLLS. Being moderated as "Troll" in a discussiona about the LoR might make you allergic to daylight.
You might be up to something. After all, Elvenfolk have that dreamy look...
However, I sure want to see that film in a BIG screen, I don't think I'll ever buy a DVD of it.
Second : Open Source will prevail, in the end, in most staple applications. There is a need only for so many sorting algorithms, so many Operating Systems, so many spreadsheet programs. And if we have learned something is that when the software is good enough, people will stop worrying about getting it better. We are now in the early stages of that process. Don't get your panties all in a knot, paradigma shifts need time.
Third: Documentation will come, in due time, when software stabilizes. It's useless documenting a child, you are better off video taping the little beast. You document the adult, if it's interesting enough.
Fourth: Inertia will hold the present situation for long, but in the end, you can't fight the tide, except if you are Dutch, of course.
Five: Some things will never become Open Source, by their very nature. But they will be built on Open Source tools, most likely.
Those things I have been revealed. Now go.
Annoyances? I thought they were bugs.
More to the point is... will the standard be open? I guess not. If it's open then let it fight, by all means, on pure merit with PDF, and let the better format win.
"You hereby grant me the power to record all your Internet transactions, accounts and passwords, and allow me to access your bank accounts and transfer as payment from the enjoyment of this virus^H^H^H^H^H^H software, the quantity that I see fit, up to the limit of 1 US dollar, or a higher amount."
Would that stand? I guess you could use Microsoft lawyers for free, as if it doesn't stand, their EULAs also won't. Or at least shouldn't.
I may start believing the oracles