A video game tie-in to The Passion of the Christ....It'll be violent enough for the usual FPS crowd, but since it's in service of religion, it must be okay, right?
hmmm... so a game where you play around with abusing a self proclaimed messianic figure. You must mean this:
right, what I should have said is that the song ratings were the independent variable in the experiment. Different "words" were exposed to different ratings, and lo and behold the songs rated highly by group A went on to be popular in group B.
This is actually no different than making up "fake" ratings for the songs, since the researchers selectively dish out specifically rated songs to specific "worlds".
Although it's not spelled out, this study tested whether those songs highly rated by group A, would become more popular in group B, WHETHER OR NOT the ratings were actually true; in other words, the truthfullness of the ratings was the variable.
The acticle doesn't really dwell on this, but if that's not what they were doing, then what's so surprising about the fact that both group A and group B found the same songs to be "good". (d-uh, they're actually better songs!)
In your opinion, as wikkipedia evolves, will the data that it holds become more and more formalized (via the various user-driven markup mechanisms), so that the vast amounts of data can ultimately be read/used by machines for automated processing or reasoning tasks, natural language interfaces, etc? Or would the level of markup necessary to do this be too far beyond what's easy/obvious for the general userbase to reliably do?
yeah, all you have to do is write a function called understand(), how hard can that be.
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oh, so your "wicked" attack requires that you first get slashdotted? if you're already slashdotted and want to launch an attack, why not just redirect/send all visitors to an alternate page with as many hidden frames as you like, which all load the slashdot main page? that would increase the size of the "attack" many, many times over what you've described.
wouldn't it be easier to just write a script for slashdot that would copy all the stories from digg.com, after a 12-24 hour delay? This seems to happening for the majority of stories now. I'm not flamebaiting, just pointing out the obvious.
The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation
Well, does the constitution guarantee the right to be allowed on the front of a bus? Or on a bus it all? Does it guarantee the right to visit a grocery store?
Maybe, just maybe, the DEFAULT should be that everything is allowed (isn't that called freedom?), except for those specific things that harm society in general.
"how is that different?" well, the dog can feel pain, the OS can't, that's how it's different. How it is that I (and presumably you and the dog) experience the sensation of pain is unknown. How to replicate that sensation in a non-neural substrate is unknown. But that doesn't mean that the sensation doesn't exist at all, or that it exists everywhere/anywhere we choose to label it as existing.
But I don't feel pain. What I feel is electrochemical signals from neurons that I interpret as pain.
you feel pain. not the electrochemical signal. The electrochemical signal happens at a cellular level. pain is what you FEEL, it's the conscious perception.
can you point at any specific difference between the two, other than the fact that dogs are way, way more complex? Because it sounds very much like your argument is based on 'because they're different, dammit'.
when you step on the REAL dog's tail, it feels pain. The robot dog doesn't. (And if you're not sure what I mean by "pain", just ask someone to punch you in the nose)
He seems to be saying "We've destroyed it, but we don't have the power to fix it." That's completely inconsistent.
that's not inconsistent. just because you can break something doesn't mean you can fix it. Especially if you're not the one that built it in the first place.
er, when I bought my 486 33mhz computer, a 2 gig drive wasn't "a lot", it was non-existent and unimaginable. I remember asking for a 200 *MEG* drive rather than the standard 100 meg drive, and the salesguy raised his eyebrow and asked me if I was planning on running a university.
A fellow used google maps to discover some ruins in his own back yard. while digging up the ruins, he comes across some cable, and tells his his neighbour "well there you have it, this proves that our ancient ancestors had internet".
His neighbor replies "that's nothing, yesterday I used google to find some ruins in *my* backyard. When I dug them up, I didn't find ANY cable at all. That proves that our ancient ancestors had wireless".
I just hope that it still works if you turn off your javacript!! IE I hope they still serve a non-DHTML version for old browsers and/or custom crawlers/userAgents.
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A video game tie-in to The Passion of the Christ....It'll be violent enough for the usual FPS crowd, but since it's in service of religion, it must be okay, right?
hmmm... so a game where you play around with abusing a self proclaimed messianic figure. You must mean this:
http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgerag.swf
right, what I should have said is that the song ratings were the independent variable in the experiment. Different "words" were exposed to different ratings, and lo and behold the songs rated highly by group A went on to be popular in group B.
This is actually no different than making up "fake" ratings for the songs, since the researchers selectively dish out specifically rated songs to specific "worlds".
Although it's not spelled out, this study tested whether those songs highly rated by group A, would become more popular in group B, WHETHER OR NOT the ratings were actually true; in other words, the truthfullness of the ratings was the variable.
The acticle doesn't really dwell on this, but if that's not what they were doing, then what's so surprising about the fact that both group A and group B found the same songs to be "good". (d-uh, they're actually better songs!)
...as silly as a manufacturing firm standardizing on screwdrivers for all their screw/nail/glue fastening needs.
.NET to be adequate for all their screwing needs.
Microsoft itself is finding
In your opinion, as wikkipedia evolves, will the data that it holds become more and more formalized (via the various user-driven markup mechanisms), so that the vast amounts of data can ultimately be read/used by machines for automated processing or reasoning tasks, natural language interfaces, etc? Or would the level of markup necessary to do this be too far beyond what's easy/obvious for the general userbase to reliably do?
well said
yeah, all you have to do is write a function called understand(), how hard can that be.
oh, so your "wicked" attack requires that you first get slashdotted? if you're already slashdotted and want to launch an attack, why not just redirect/send all visitors to an alternate page with as many hidden frames as you like, which all load the slashdot main page? that would increase the size of the "attack" many, many times over what you've described.
wouldn't it be easier to just write a script for slashdot that would copy all the stories from digg.com, after a 12-24 hour delay? This seems to happening for the majority of stories now. I'm not flamebaiting, just pointing out the obvious.
The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation
Well, does the constitution guarantee the right to be allowed on the front of a bus? Or on a bus it all? Does it guarantee the right to visit a grocery store?
Maybe, just maybe, the DEFAULT should be that everything is allowed (isn't that called freedom?), except for those specific things that harm society in general.
"boy, I sure hope my stupid radio.. doesn't... uh... play 92.3"
vs,
"Does your radio suck? boy I sure hope my stupid radio doesn't. Uh, play 92.3"
"how is that different?" well, the dog can feel pain, the OS can't, that's how it's different. How it is that I (and presumably you and the dog) experience the sensation of pain is unknown. How to replicate that sensation in a non-neural substrate is unknown. But that doesn't mean that the sensation doesn't exist at all, or that it exists everywhere/anywhere we choose to label it as existing.
But I don't feel pain. What I feel is electrochemical signals from neurons that I interpret as pain.
you feel pain. not the electrochemical signal. The electrochemical signal happens at a cellular level. pain is what you FEEL, it's the conscious perception.
can you point at any specific difference between the two, other than the fact that dogs are way, way more complex? Because it sounds very much like your argument is based on 'because they're different, dammit'.
when you step on the REAL dog's tail, it feels pain. The robot dog doesn't. (And if you're not sure what I mean by "pain", just ask someone to punch you in the nose)
He seems to be saying "We've destroyed it, but we don't have the power to fix it." That's completely inconsistent.
that's not inconsistent. just because you can break something doesn't mean you can fix it. Especially if you're not the one that built it in the first place.
I, fir one, would birch ya anything that they'll have to spruce up the results.
"a rock is not self aware, no matter how much you configure its atomic structure to pass electrons in a logical path."
just like a hunk of meat is not self aware, no matter how much you configure its cell structure to pass ions in a logical path?
>What I'm curious about is what causes the bubble of magma to form...
giant mushrooms
er, when I bought my 486 33mhz computer, a 2 gig drive wasn't "a lot", it was non-existent and unimaginable. I remember asking for a 200 *MEG* drive rather than the standard 100 meg drive, and the salesguy raised his eyebrow and asked me if I was planning on running a university.
about a decade too late to matter.
How are the Chinese supposed to know what's going on in the world if they can't listen to Voice of America??
for one million dollars (placing pinky on lower lip)
A fellow used google maps to discover some ruins in his own back yard. while digging up the ruins, he comes across some cable, and tells his his neighbour "well there you have it, this proves that our ancient ancestors had internet".
His neighbor replies "that's nothing, yesterday I used google to find some ruins in *my* backyard. When I dug them up, I didn't find ANY cable at all. That proves that our ancient ancestors had wireless".
I just hope that it still works if you turn off your javacript!! IE I hope they still serve a non-DHTML version for old browsers and/or custom crawlers/userAgents.