Turn it on at the same time your body is destroyed (to prevent confusion and fighting between the two) and you are now a machine and ready to rule over the meatbag fleshlings.
The more likely scenario that I've heard is that when we develop "good enough" synthetic neurons, we'll start using them to replace damaged brain tissue or to augment convenient structures. Have a stroke? Graft in some silicon, go to physical therapy to get them settled in nicely, then go on about your business. Well, eventually this becomes common enough that it's standard treatment for all sorts of things, from stroke to ADHD. At some point after that, we'll have people whose brains are more silicon than organic, but it will have been a gradual transformation.
They're really assuming that the technology will go from zero to sixty in 20 years. Which they assumed 20 years ago, too, and it didn't happen.
Having read "The Singularity Is Near", I'd have to say that Kurzweil makes a compelling case. The underlying principle of these predictions is that exponential growth is accelerating, (that is, the exponent itself is increasing). He has some shiny charts that illustrate his point better than I could. Whether these predictions pan out is another story, but I'd have to agree that they're not nearly as unbelievable as they sound when you first hear them.
But to say that $54,000 is approximately 6500x (ie $8.30) the actual damages is disingenuous at best.
Very true. Since this is the case where the RIAA invented the crime of "making available", and (as far as I know) no one has ever proven that she actually distributed a single copy of any song, it's a division-by-zero error to attempt to estimate the multiple by which she's being punished.
I live in Nebraska, but I'd like to register anyway. I have advocated "controlling and conducting" the government by means of encouraging others to vote for the candidates I like and by donating time and money to their campaigns. By South Carolina's standard, I'm a subversive. Would I get a registration form I could hang on my wall next to my college diploma, a share of SCOX stock, and a Church of the SubGenius ordination certificate?
Actually, I'm kind of serious about that. In a dream world, I'd like to see a few hundred million people register as South Carolina subversives.
When you "buy" Windows, you don't purchase the software.
Bullshit. Microsoft's own website says "[i]f you're ready to purchase Windows 7 for your own PC, order or download it today." It doesn't say jack about licensing. It asks if you want to "purchase Windows 7".
I challenge you to find any store offering to sell you a "license to run Windows" as opposed to "Windows".
Apple has already accepted number of WebKit-based browsers, so browsers in general aren't forbidden.
Such as? I don't recall seeing any non-Safari browsers in the app store. That's not counting apps that call the WebKit component to open pages without leaving the app.
My stats indicate more visitor use IE6 than Opera (all versions combined) or Safari (all versions combined).
My stats indicate more visitors use mostly-standards-compliant (all versions combined) than don't. Since Opera, Safari, and IE8 (mostly) are in the former category, we support them.
When a stock broker's trading floor system goes down, the loss is measured in millions of dollars per second
So a full day's outage would cost them $86B - or $31T a year - assuming only one million per second?
I could see that as being the value of the potential trades that couldn't be executed, but unless the broker makes 100% commission, I imagine the actually losses would be much less (although still substantial).
I've work in IT for years and the *easiest* way FOR ME to work is on a commandline or in a full-screen window (alt-tab's, multiple desktops etc. vital, of course).
Fixed that for you. Your way is completely unnatural and hideous for me, and I doubt many Mac users (for example) would like it either.
Apple is built around some pretty interesting ideas and concepts, but the moment they place limits on things, they immediately stop their growth and development. The angry public has to throw burning iPods at Apple's buildings before they get the message.
Go on a long car trip or plane ride and split that capacity among multiple people.
If you're in a car or on a plane for that long, I suggest you consider the possibility of, you know, talking to those people. Holy crap, man! Are you so shiny-driven that you can't interact with other people for a few hours at a time?
OK, fair enough. It's just that on Slashdot, you don't often hear people saying they're switching from OS X to a Free Unix. They almost exclusively talk about switching to Windows for various reasons.
I'm typing this on FreeBSD and definitely not favoring Windows.
But I really found it very frustrating when I was a Mac user, that I had to either continually upgrade the OS, or else lose access to new versions of things like VLC and Mozilla.
As opposed to, say, Windows? I'd been using Quickbooks Pro on Windows 2000, but Intuit stopped supporting the payroll service for the version I was using. The newer, supported version of Quickbooks required XP, so I had to pay (a lot more than the cost of an OS X upgrade) to buy that, too.
I know exactly how you feel. I just don't understand why your dislike applies to only one platform.
As lame as this sounds, equality at home from birth produces equality everywhere.
Childless, eh? My mom grew up in a log cabin, got the hell out of the poverty, went to college, and ended up being responsible for the communications network of a major railroad. My wife's a surgeon. My sisters have positions of responsibility in their fields. Frankly, the idea of women as somehow inferior is just foreign to me.
I have two daughters. One plays softball on a year-round team, spends her free time drawing and animating cartoons with Scratch (without me suggesting it - I just showed it to her one day and she took it from there), asked for and got a remote control helicopter for Christmas, and wants to be a biologist or an astronaut.
The other loves strawberries and picks only pink clothes, asks for and gets Littlest Pet Shops and Polly Pockets for birthday and Christmas, wants to be a puppy, and is the stereotype of a little drama queen to her mom's chagrin.
Two kids. Same environment. Same opportunities. One is science oriented, and the other seems tracked for fashion design. I think nature has a lot more influence than you're giving it credit for.
If you believe that sociopaths are more likely to become effective CEOs, as has been claimed, then given that antisocial personality disorder is about 3 times more common among men than women, this is pretty much exactly what you'd expect.
Well, "obvious" in the sense that the page scans from top to bottom, just as you'd read it and how it will come out the other side. Most imaging gear also expects the printed side down, so "obvious" also means "the way most machines do it". But for anything more advanced that an old-style fax machine, all bets are off.
Do you really want to award a patent to someone that files so many patents that they cannot take the time to send a form right side up?
It's pretty obvious which end of the paper to put into a standard sheet-feeder fax machine. It's often completely unobvious how to put paper in a multifunction machine. Even with those inscrutable little icons, I always manage to translate into 3d and back to 2d completely incorrectly (damn you, advanced calculus!). I might as well flip a coin to decide whether to put the top or bottom of the page against the edge of the glass.
If "professional" means memorizing the manuals of every scanner and fax machine I come across, then I guess I'm unprofessional. If it means putting text labels on scanners, like "TOP OF PAGE HERE", then so is every fax manufacturer.
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Turn it on at the same time your body is destroyed (to prevent confusion and fighting between the two) and you are now a machine and ready to rule over the meatbag fleshlings.
The more likely scenario that I've heard is that when we develop "good enough" synthetic neurons, we'll start using them to replace damaged brain tissue or to augment convenient structures. Have a stroke? Graft in some silicon, go to physical therapy to get them settled in nicely, then go on about your business. Well, eventually this becomes common enough that it's standard treatment for all sorts of things, from stroke to ADHD. At some point after that, we'll have people whose brains are more silicon than organic, but it will have been a gradual transformation.
They're really assuming that the technology will go from zero to sixty in 20 years. Which they assumed 20 years ago, too, and it didn't happen.
Having read "The Singularity Is Near", I'd have to say that Kurzweil makes a compelling case. The underlying principle of these predictions is that exponential growth is accelerating, (that is, the exponent itself is increasing). He has some shiny charts that illustrate his point better than I could. Whether these predictions pan out is another story, but I'd have to agree that they're not nearly as unbelievable as they sound when you first hear them.
But to say that $54,000 is approximately 6500x (ie $8.30) the actual damages is disingenuous at best.
Very true. Since this is the case where the RIAA invented the crime of "making available", and (as far as I know) no one has ever proven that she actually distributed a single copy of any song, it's a division-by-zero error to attempt to estimate the multiple by which she's being punished.
A legal system in which the powerful can obtain the practical result they desire simply by grinding down the weak has no legitimate moral authority.
Since I'm registering to become a South Carolina Subversive, I can say this: the world needs more Dexter.
I live in Nebraska, but I'd like to register anyway. I have advocated "controlling and conducting" the government by means of encouraging others to vote for the candidates I like and by donating time and money to their campaigns. By South Carolina's standard, I'm a subversive. Would I get a registration form I could hang on my wall next to my college diploma, a share of SCOX stock, and a Church of the SubGenius ordination certificate?
Actually, I'm kind of serious about that. In a dream world, I'd like to see a few hundred million people register as South Carolina subversives.
I've got an HP Mini that says they're not quite as picky as you might think.
When you "buy" Windows, you don't purchase the software.
Bullshit. Microsoft's own website says "[i]f you're ready to purchase Windows 7 for your own PC, order or download it today." It doesn't say jack about licensing. It asks if you want to "purchase Windows 7".
I challenge you to find any store offering to sell you a "license to run Windows" as opposed to "Windows".
Apple has already accepted number of WebKit-based browsers, so browsers in general aren't forbidden.
Such as? I don't recall seeing any non-Safari browsers in the app store. That's not counting apps that call the WebKit component to open pages without leaving the app.
While I agree that Microsoft's dominance is due to market control and position they are by no means a monopoly.
They were declared as such by a federal judge. Until such time as they are declared otherwise, they are a monopoly.
My stats indicate more visitor use IE6 than Opera (all versions combined) or Safari (all versions combined).
My stats indicate more visitors use mostly-standards-compliant (all versions combined) than don't. Since Opera, Safari, and IE8 (mostly) are in the former category, we support them.
All of these things are way outside the realm of emailing, which is, like regular mail, to simply correspond.
Outside the Slashdot clique, "pictures, videos, status updates, etc." is how people correspond.
When a stock broker's trading floor system goes down, the loss is measured in millions of dollars per second
So a full day's outage would cost them $86B - or $31T a year - assuming only one million per second?
I could see that as being the value of the potential trades that couldn't be executed, but unless the broker makes 100% commission, I imagine the actually losses would be much less (although still substantial).
Exactly how would this attack have been prevented by using open source?
It wouldn't. In fact, nothing can prevent that attack, because it's not theoretically possible to give someone a secret while keeping it from them.
I've work in IT for years and the *easiest* way FOR ME to work is on a commandline or in a full-screen window (alt-tab's, multiple desktops etc. vital, of course).
Fixed that for you. Your way is completely unnatural and hideous for me, and I doubt many Mac users (for example) would like it either.
Apple is built around some pretty interesting ideas and concepts, but the moment they place limits on things, they immediately stop their growth and development. The angry public has to throw burning iPods at Apple's buildings before they get the message.
"Apple Reports Record Sales, Profits for the Holiday Season". Despite how you (and I) view their gear as unsuitably locked down, the "angry" public is falling all over themselves to buy it.
Go on a long car trip or plane ride and split that capacity among multiple people.
If you're in a car or on a plane for that long, I suggest you consider the possibility of, you know, talking to those people. Holy crap, man! Are you so shiny-driven that you can't interact with other people for a few hours at a time?
OK, fair enough. It's just that on Slashdot, you don't often hear people saying they're switching from OS X to a Free Unix. They almost exclusively talk about switching to Windows for various reasons.
I'm typing this on FreeBSD and definitely not favoring Windows.
But I really found it very frustrating when I was a Mac user, that I had to either continually upgrade the OS, or else lose access to new versions of things like VLC and Mozilla.
As opposed to, say, Windows? I'd been using Quickbooks Pro on Windows 2000, but Intuit stopped supporting the payroll service for the version I was using. The newer, supported version of Quickbooks required XP, so I had to pay (a lot more than the cost of an OS X upgrade) to buy that, too.
I know exactly how you feel. I just don't understand why your dislike applies to only one platform.
What do you expect? It's an interpreted, dynamic language. Nobody has yet succeeded in making a true compiler for those.
Thus spake Wikipedia:
And everything old is new again.
As lame as this sounds, equality at home from birth produces equality everywhere.
Childless, eh? My mom grew up in a log cabin, got the hell out of the poverty, went to college, and ended up being responsible for the communications network of a major railroad. My wife's a surgeon. My sisters have positions of responsibility in their fields. Frankly, the idea of women as somehow inferior is just foreign to me.
I have two daughters. One plays softball on a year-round team, spends her free time drawing and animating cartoons with Scratch (without me suggesting it - I just showed it to her one day and she took it from there), asked for and got a remote control helicopter for Christmas, and wants to be a biologist or an astronaut.
The other loves strawberries and picks only pink clothes, asks for and gets Littlest Pet Shops and Polly Pockets for birthday and Christmas, wants to be a puppy, and is the stereotype of a little drama queen to her mom's chagrin.
Two kids. Same environment. Same opportunities. One is science oriented, and the other seems tracked for fashion design. I think nature has a lot more influence than you're giving it credit for.
If you believe that sociopaths are more likely to become effective CEOs, as has been claimed, then given that antisocial personality disorder is about 3 times more common among men than women, this is pretty much exactly what you'd expect.
These transistors are only about 9x faster than silicon, not 10x faster as the Slashdot headline claims.
Oh, well, in that case don't even bother.
Well, "obvious" in the sense that the page scans from top to bottom, just as you'd read it and how it will come out the other side. Most imaging gear also expects the printed side down, so "obvious" also means "the way most machines do it". But for anything more advanced that an old-style fax machine, all bets are off.
Do you really want to award a patent to someone that files so many patents that they cannot take the time to send a form right side up?
It's pretty obvious which end of the paper to put into a standard sheet-feeder fax machine. It's often completely unobvious how to put paper in a multifunction machine. Even with those inscrutable little icons, I always manage to translate into 3d and back to 2d completely incorrectly (damn you, advanced calculus!). I might as well flip a coin to decide whether to put the top or bottom of the page against the edge of the glass.
If "professional" means memorizing the manuals of every scanner and fax machine I come across, then I guess I'm unprofessional. If it means putting text labels on scanners, like "TOP OF PAGE HERE", then so is every fax manufacturer.
You can still buy WordPerfect, but that doesn't have a lot of bearing on today's usage.