Of course the faithful Robots Daneel and Giskard did eventually come up with the zeroth law which was something along the lines of the following, with the other laws amended accordingly:
0: A robot should harm or allow to come to harm through inaction humanity.
Of course Giskard had a nervous breakdown and died as a result of this though.... but Daneel went onto guide human kind to the stars. (We only find out how this ends with Foundation and Earth)
This was a bit of a leap for robot stories becuase it suggested a leap that had not really been seen in the books. Robot spontanously developing morals.
Where there any more rule added by others? In other contexts. I know that in Lost Little Robot the first was weakended.
This is a worrying trend that they look to label people before they do wrong. This sound like measure people's ears to tell if they are going to become a criminal, or Jewish.
But they if you know what the computer is looking for, then it will be much easier to spook. Maybe but then I have never tried to nick a car.
Also I can speak for many computing professional.... our normal day to day habits are so strange we would always be getting arrested and hasseled.
(Not that I haven't read the artical in detail, me I am waiting for the paper version!)
Hmm I couldn't even get it to start up with the Java Application I was working on. Admitedly my app does push things a little bit...... must remeber to get five mins to log a bug with IBM. (But then when will I find five mins to read./!)
I know that I am a cynic and all that, and I do not want to offend Hemos, but this did seemed to be a bit of a product plug.
Felt a bit wrong, still I could be wrong.
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If you overwrite the flash on a Palm it will not return to the default. For example when I upgraded me OS to 3.3 it gave grave warning about not interupting the process.
But having said that if I were putting this thing together I would put on some form of load in a protected area that couldn't be overwritten for safety.
Oracle 8i has a custom VM built into the database engine, it does some rather cool things to bring down the overhead of each connection. By not using threads for instance for each connection.
I am not sure they would need to use anybody else VM, also it lacks a UI implementation!
Just as an aside. I am not sure why the aussies are worried about the queen, except for some people who want power. It is not was if they have to pay for her.
Many ex Brit-Countries get this free Queen service paid for by the British tax payers.
A bill of right is not necessarily a good thing if it is the only provider of a given right.
I was told when I did a law course in university that it Britian our rights are spread accross many laws. For example to remove what we would consider a right many laws would have to be repealed. (This is relavent because Aussy law, and to some extent US laws in based on the UK system.) This is quite hard to do.
In america all you would need would be one dodgy government, and don't for one moment think that this couldn't happen in america, to make a few amendments to the constitution and voila, no rights. (For example no right to move without government permision)
Mind you I do not know what I am talking about. Please feel free to tell me I am talking rubbish!
I think what is seriously mis-understood about NCs is that they should be used for running office like bloatware. In order to NC to flurish they do not need to be used like current desktop PCs.
NC are good for people who need to run forms against a database. Or perhaps has simple access to email. All of these simple tasks can be joined together with some form of workflow implementation.
You wouldn't use a digital camera to run video game, well most people, so why try to use a NC as a workstation?
Indeed the phone will poll at full power looking for a base station when on the plane.
Another thought is what if you are going overseas and you are unfortuante not to own the GSM and going to America? You might still need the palm bit but the phone battery will flatten quickly......
It will be constantly screaming "Where is the base station, where is the base station" at full transmition power which can be a real drain. (Try taking any phone out of the coverage area)
Also in some countries it might be illegal to use the frequencies.. interferance with police cars and hospital equipment abound.
"Whatever mischief technology creates, technology can undo".
This cannot be true. Can we make life?
Also it has been calculated that the amount of energy needed to right Global warming, exceeds the remains fossil fuel resources. Ooops. Or at least I think, so anybody want to flame me on that one?
I can admit that I have not tried this phone, but will but in on my list of things to buy.:)
I main problem is that the time that I will want to have wireless connection, (For example standing on the platform waiting for a train), lineing up the two units is not going to happen.
Wires are much better if you are walking around.
Also in reply to your point about having a do all PDA... I am quite happy with the relative sparse nature of my PalmIII because it is so reliable. This one reason why I have shied away from the more complex WinCE and Epoc system. The only time I have had to reboot my Palm is when I dropped the thing very hard!
I will admit though that I have a fairly conservative range of applications:
TealDoc, TealPain, AvantGo Tricorder (Erm) GoType... etc.
Indded, but what do you do with you're hands free stuff when you are not making a phone call?
You can't bunch it up in your pocket otherwise it gets knots in it.
I hate having bits of wire hanging off my clothing. (Except maybe the remote for the MD, but that dissapears when people are around) Maybe I will get used to it.... Perhaps it is easier in sunnier climes, (I live in England), where you don't have to keep on puting on layers of clothing. I always find my MD gismo on the wrong layer... or getting tangled.
But you are right that my head is way to irradiated.
I have to save the people who want these item to become integrated need to step back and let the usability people in.
I agree that my phone and PDA should talk so that they can syn address books. They should connect using some wire/wireless protocol for connection to the net. (Preferably not optical methods, too much hassel on the train)
I too would like my PalmIII to talk to my GSM phone..... but would I want them in one box?
No, have you ever tried to write on something that is next to your ear? Or even type a number on your phone's scratch pad that somebody is dictating to you? Or tried to search AvantGo on your Palm to find out the cinema times for the person on your mobile?
Better to have two units.
Also when you forget one, the other still has your numbers on it.
After having read his books, two about robots killing us all and taking over the world, and having recently graduated from the University of Reading, I feel it is my duty to warn/. to take some of the things he says with a grain of salt!
When we all graduated he wished us all good luck! Then is was pointed out that the robots would rise up and crush us early on in the next centurary so we didn't have anthing to live for!
Indeed based on his books we will all be in termination camps before the chips come on line.
Still he is very entertaining to watch teach. And has the best range of shirts! And is very funny.
In order to stop his body going mad he had to take very large doses of anti-biotics.
The chip had a RF loop in it to control door and his computer.
More intereting would have been plan A where they were going to implant it in my friend belly button. (Catherine is a bit into having the odd bit pierces) But I think the publicity of old professor preying on the only female engineer in department probably put him of.
(PS I graduated from Reading two years ago in Human Cybernetics... hence I know a thing or two!)
What year was the ENIAC? I think it was after the end of the war.
I think that whilst the Brit computer might have been the first of it's kind.... but ENIAC might do things better.
There is also the Manchester mark I.
I think though that the first working digital computer goes to a german blokey in the late 30's. Part mechanical I think... but he got no recognition because of the war.
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Of course the faithful Robots Daneel and Giskard did eventually come up with the zeroth law which was something along the lines of the following, with the other laws amended accordingly:
0: A robot should harm or allow to come to harm through inaction humanity.
Of course Giskard had a nervous breakdown and died as a result of this though.... but Daneel went onto guide human kind to the stars. (We only find out how this ends with Foundation and Earth)
This was a bit of a leap for robot stories becuase it suggested a leap that had not really been seen in the books. Robot spontanously developing morals.
Where there any more rule added by others? In other contexts. I know that in Lost Little Robot the first was weakended.
My housemate bought a dyson because he figures that if it was more fun to do then the house might be cleaner.
Worked for about a week!
This is a worrying trend that they look to label people before they do wrong. This sound like measure people's ears to tell if they are going to become a criminal, or Jewish.
But they if you know what the computer is looking for, then it will be much easier to spook. Maybe but then I have never tried to nick a car.
Also I can speak for many computing professional.... our normal day to day habits are so strange we would always be getting arrested and hasseled.
(Not that I haven't read the artical in detail, me I am waiting for the paper version!)
Hmm I couldn't even get it to start up with the Java Application I was working on. Admitedly my app does push things a little bit...... must remeber to get five mins to log a bug with IBM. (But then when will I find five mins to read
(NT4Sp5 is that helps anybody!)
Hmmm I have just had the Diskeeper BootDefrag tool lock up my NT Workstation for 31 hours. This on a 3.1gig partition!
Maybe I would prefere it they didn't ship this tool with Window 2000, I don't think my manager will appeaciate me loosing 2 more days!
I know that I am a cynic and all that, and I do not want to offend Hemos, but this did seemed to be a bit of a product plug.
Felt a bit wrong, still I could be wrong.
If you overwrite the flash on a Palm it will not return to the default. For example when I upgraded me OS to 3.3 it gave grave warning about not interupting the process.
But having said that if I were putting this thing together I would put on some form of load in a protected area that couldn't be overwritten for safety.
Oracle 8i has a custom VM built into the database engine, it does some rather cool things to bring down the overhead of each connection. By not using threads for instance for each connection.
I am not sure they would need to use anybody else VM, also it lacks a UI implementation!
Check out the oracle technet pages.
The GSM standard doesn't prevent competition in the UK. There are four different nation providers over the two GSM bands (900 and 1800)
They all offer a range of competive product from monthly line rental to pay-as-you-go.
All with the same technology which has to bring prices down.
Just as an aside. I am not sure why the aussies are worried about the queen, except for some people who want power. It is not was if they have to pay for her.
Many ex Brit-Countries get this free Queen service paid for by the British tax payers.
:-)
A bill of right is not necessarily a good thing if it is the only provider of a given right.
I was told when I did a law course in university that it Britian our rights are spread accross many laws. For example to remove what we would consider a right many laws would have to be repealed. (This is relavent because Aussy law, and to some extent US laws in based on the UK system.) This is quite hard to do.
In america all you would need would be one dodgy government, and don't for one moment think that this couldn't happen in america, to make a few amendments to the constitution and voila, no rights. (For example no right to move without government permision)
Mind you I do not know what I am talking about. Please feel free to tell me I am talking rubbish!
I tried to download this package, but the e-comerce site barfs when I try to make the order. I have tried with both IE5 and NE4.7
Never have any problems with Amazon over a secure link.... and going through a firewall though.
Any ideas?
I think what is seriously mis-understood about NCs is that they should be used for running office like bloatware. In order to NC to flurish they do not need to be used like current desktop PCs.
NC are good for people who need to run forms against a database. Or perhaps has simple access to email. All of these simple tasks can be joined together with some form of workflow implementation.
You wouldn't use a digital camera to run video game, well most people, so why try to use a NC as a workstation?
Indeed the phone will poll at full power looking for a base station when on the plane.
Another thought is what if you are going overseas and you are unfortuante not to own the GSM and going to America? You might still need the palm bit but the phone battery will flatten quickly......
It will be constantly screaming "Where is the base station, where is the base station" at full transmition power which can be a real drain. (Try taking any phone out of the coverage area)
Also in some countries it might be illegal to use the frequencies.. interferance with police cars and hospital equipment abound.
Keep them seperate I think!
"Whatever mischief technology creates, technology can undo".
This cannot be true. Can we make life?
Also it has been calculated that the amount of energy needed to right Global warming, exceeds the remains fossil fuel resources. Ooops. Or at least I think, so anybody want to flame me on that one?
I can admit that I have not tried this phone, but will but in on my list of things to buy. :)
I main problem is that the time that I will want to have wireless connection, (For example standing on the platform waiting for a train), lineing up the two units is not going to happen.
Wires are much better if you are walking around.
Also in reply to your point about having a do all PDA... I am quite happy with the relative sparse nature of my PalmIII because it is so reliable. This one reason why I have shied away from the more complex WinCE and Epoc system. The only time I have had to reboot my Palm is when I dropped the thing very hard!
I will admit though that I have a fairly conservative range of applications:
TealDoc,
TealPain,
AvantGo
Tricorder (Erm)
GoType... etc.
Indded, but what do you do with you're hands free stuff when you are not making a phone call?
You can't bunch it up in your pocket otherwise it gets knots in it.
I hate having bits of wire hanging off my clothing. (Except maybe the remote for the MD, but that dissapears when people are around) Maybe I will get used to it.... Perhaps it is easier in sunnier climes, (I live in England), where you don't have to keep on puting on layers of clothing. I always find my MD gismo on the wrong layer... or getting tangled.
But you are right that my head is way to irradiated.
I have to save the people who want these item to become integrated need to step back and let the usability people in.
I agree that my phone and PDA should talk so that they can syn address books. They should connect using some wire/wireless protocol for connection to the net. (Preferably not optical methods, too much hassel on the train)
I too would like my PalmIII to talk to my GSM phone..... but would I want them in one box?
No, have you ever tried to write on something that is next to your ear? Or even type a number on your phone's scratch pad that somebody is dictating to you? Or tried to search AvantGo on your Palm to find out the cinema times for the person on your mobile?
Better to have two units.
Also when you forget one, the other still has your numbers on it.
Sorry rant over.
After having read his books, two about robots killing us all and taking over the world, and having recently graduated from the University of Reading, I feel it is my duty to warn
When we all graduated he wished us all good luck! Then is was pointed out that the robots would rise up and crush us early on in the next centurary so we didn't have anthing to live for!
Indeed based on his books we will all be in termination camps before the chips come on line.
Still he is very entertaining to watch teach. And has the best range of shirts! And is very funny.
In order to stop his body going mad he had to take very large doses of anti-biotics.
The chip had a RF loop in it to control door and his computer.
More intereting would have been plan A where they were going to implant it in my friend belly button. (Catherine is a bit into having the odd bit pierces) But I think the publicity of old professor preying on the only female engineer in department probably put him of.
(PS I graduated from Reading two years ago in Human Cybernetics... hence I know a thing or two!)
Babage didn't 'build' either of him machines.
Only the difference engine has been build a proved to work. (I have seen it at the museam doing power series)
His analytical engine should work but unlike the German bloke he never lived to try it.
What year was the ENIAC? I think it was after the end of the war.
I think that whilst the Brit computer might have been the first of it's kind.... but ENIAC might do things better.
There is also the Manchester mark I.
I think though that the first working digital computer goes to a german blokey in the late 30's. Part mechanical I think... but he got no recognition because of the war.