I was very disappointed to hear "brought to you by" credits for one of these companies on NPR. Have not heard it recently. I hope someone in the ad dept realized who's money they were taking.
The quarterback and receiver are together when the play begins. As the play develops they remain entangled, even over an increasing distance, up until the moment the ball is caught. Some quarterbacks are better at entanglement than others. As for wormholes, fans manifest their existence every time they shout their disapproval at the officials -- as if they were standing next to them.
I anticipate a populist backlash like what we are seeing now with regards to Genetically Modified Organisms. As portrayed in the film "A.I." Didn't Frank Herbert predict the hatred of computers in his novel "Dune?"
My view is that as long as people can control their robots the way they can a pet dog they will like their mechanical friends, but give the A.I. too much "I" and that affection will flip to distrust and outright hate. The kind we see every day between (insert group here) and (insert group here). The more an A.I. presents as human the more hatred it will trigger. I give you Hello Kitty as one example.
Back in the 80's Japanese photocopy manufacturers added recorded warning messages. Chrysler did the same for some of its cars (New Yorker?). "Please remove the original." "You are low on gas." People hated those nagging reminders. Cute ring tones work much better.
At first I was going to disagree, convinced that the broken logic was better attributed to a football player until I realized that sort is unlikely to be hanging around here. Yours is the more likely explanation. Occam's razor.
I do not embrace change for its own sake, but I am genuinely surprised how much emotion some folks show every time Slashdot makes a change. I do not see how the new look breaks the discussion and moderation system. I am replying to a post, and I see rankings like Informative and Offtopic. It looks different, but that does not mean it has been broken.
I do have a comment. The wide column to the right is great for hosting side-bar issues, but these end long before a typical discussion thread, resulting in a significant amount of wasted screen space.
Back in the stone age when I ran a lot of FreeBSD -- say 4.x days -- there was a preference for installing ports instead of packages. The reason given was that compiling source on the target system provided maximum compatibility. Has the FreeBSD community shifted any, in favor of using packages (pre-compiled binaries)? Does the package installer pull in dependencies, and update them as needed, the way portupgrade does?
I would go back even further. Pre-WWII cars had large displacement motors that produced far more power than could be put to use on dirt roads and the fragile tires of the day. I agree with the point that the move from the 1.5L formula in 67 brought faster speeds, exactly why the change was made. Lotus introduced wings; the FIA did more to ban them than encourage their use.
Ah, yes. Grad school, Saturday night, Old Milwaukee beer and Papa Del's Pizza. Lot's of both. Ice on the sidewalk. Exploding bodies going nowhere fast.
Don't confuse the composition with the performance, or a particular edition of printed music. Bach's work is public domain, but a particular printed edition, or a recorded performance, are new works covered by copyright law. Open-Source derives its power from copyright law.
"As part of a broader, chilling Chinese crackdown on Internet dissent, Chinese blogger Charles Xue appeared on Chinese state television in handcuffs on Sunday, denouncing his blog and praising government censorship."
Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit... "The patent troll's attorney also made the claim that calling someone a 'patent troll' was actually a 'hate crime' under 'Ninth Circuit precedent' and threatened to file criminal charges"
Freedom of speech is constantly under attack, especially by those who want their freedom at the expense of yours.
Where I live we have a leash law. When you take your dog beyond your property it must be on a leash. But many people have small lots, or live in high-rises. People wanted dogs to have a bit of freedom, so the city built dog parks. Inside a large, fenced-in area a dog can run around free, just like they could always do when I was a boy. The dogs are happy, their owners are happy.
I foresee the day, not too far off, when all cars on city streets must be computer controlled. Folks who want to enjoy driving will trailer a car to a track.
BTW, I disagree with the post's use of "self-driving." If a self-made computer is one I built myself, then a self-driving car is one I drive myself. But where do we draw the line? Shifting gears? In my grandparents day, ignition advance was manual. No electric starter. So do the new crop of self-braking, accident avoiding cars still self-driven? They are certainly not autonomous.
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I was very disappointed to hear "brought to you by" credits for one of these companies on NPR. Have not heard it recently. I hope someone in the ad dept realized who's money they were taking.
I heard somewhere that Ukraine was Russia.
The Gremlin emits a field inside which time slows down.
The quarterback and receiver are together when the play begins. As the play develops they remain entangled, even over an increasing distance, up until the moment the ball is caught. Some quarterbacks are better at entanglement than others. As for wormholes, fans manifest their existence every time they shout their disapproval at the officials -- as if they were standing next to them.
I anticipate a populist backlash like what we are seeing now with regards to Genetically Modified Organisms. As portrayed in the film "A.I." Didn't Frank Herbert predict the hatred of computers in his novel "Dune?"
My view is that as long as people can control their robots the way they can a pet dog they will like their mechanical friends, but give the A.I. too much "I" and that affection will flip to distrust and outright hate. The kind we see every day between (insert group here) and (insert group here). The more an A.I. presents as human the more hatred it will trigger. I give you Hello Kitty as one example.
Back in the 80's Japanese photocopy manufacturers added recorded warning messages. Chrysler did the same for some of its cars (New Yorker?). "Please remove the original." "You are low on gas." People hated those nagging reminders. Cute ring tones work much better.
Time for drone manufacturers to hire attorneys and argue the case in court.
What jobs? I see no jobs in your comment, only a description of need.
A, B, and D are redundant.
The tasp in Ringworld, by Larry Niven.
At first I was going to disagree, convinced that the broken logic was better attributed to a football player until I realized that sort is unlikely to be hanging around here. Yours is the more likely explanation. Occam's razor.
Well, using common core math, maybe.
The real question is, how many Babel Fish can you shoot in a becquerel? ... or ...
Do those Fukushima engineers have enough towels to clean up the mess?
Apologies to Douglas Adams.
We have GPS on Mars? I like the cafe idea, American probes are so anal.
I do not embrace change for its own sake, but I am genuinely surprised how much emotion some folks show every time Slashdot makes a change. I do not see how the new look breaks the discussion and moderation system. I am replying to a post, and I see rankings like Informative and Offtopic. It looks different, but that does not mean it has been broken.
I do have a comment. The wide column to the right is great for hosting side-bar issues, but these end long before a typical discussion thread, resulting in a significant amount of wasted screen space.
Back in the stone age when I ran a lot of FreeBSD -- say 4.x days -- there was a preference for installing ports instead of packages. The reason given was that compiling source on the target system provided maximum compatibility. Has the FreeBSD community shifted any, in favor of using packages (pre-compiled binaries)? Does the package installer pull in dependencies, and update them as needed, the way portupgrade does?
I would go back even further. Pre-WWII cars had large displacement motors that produced far more power than could be put to use on dirt roads and the fragile tires of the day. I agree with the point that the move from the 1.5L formula in 67 brought faster speeds, exactly why the change was made. Lotus introduced wings; the FIA did more to ban them than encourage their use.
Ah, yes. Grad school, Saturday night, Old Milwaukee beer and Papa Del's Pizza. Lot's of both. Ice on the sidewalk. Exploding bodies going nowhere fast.
Try to get a Republican to understand how formaldehyde and ammonia are essential to the creation of life. Go ahead, I'll stand over here and watch.
A new MMORPG?
Don't confuse the composition with the performance, or a particular edition of printed music. Bach's work is public domain, but a particular printed edition, or a recorded performance, are new works covered by copyright law. Open-Source derives its power from copyright law.
Also seen today on /.
"As part of a broader, chilling Chinese crackdown on Internet dissent, Chinese blogger Charles Xue appeared on Chinese state television in handcuffs on Sunday, denouncing his blog and praising government censorship."
Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit ... "The patent troll's attorney also made the claim that calling someone a 'patent troll' was actually a 'hate crime' under 'Ninth Circuit precedent' and threatened to file criminal charges"
Freedom of speech is constantly under attack, especially by those who want their freedom at the expense of yours.
Is 4TB representative? Or are you just putting more spin on this story?
Where I live we have a leash law. When you take your dog beyond your property it must be on a leash. But many people have small lots, or live in high-rises. People wanted dogs to have a bit of freedom, so the city built dog parks. Inside a large, fenced-in area a dog can run around free, just like they could always do when I was a boy. The dogs are happy, their owners are happy.
I foresee the day, not too far off, when all cars on city streets must be computer controlled. Folks who want to enjoy driving will trailer a car to a track.
BTW, I disagree with the post's use of "self-driving." If a self-made computer is one I built myself, then a self-driving car is one I drive myself. But where do we draw the line? Shifting gears? In my grandparents day, ignition advance was manual. No electric starter. So do the new crop of self-braking, accident avoiding cars still self-driven? They are certainly not autonomous.
If indeed calling someone a Neanderthal becomes a compliment, call that same person a politician instead. Language does evolve.
Yep. Go into a store and shoplift a DVD, misdemeanor. Unauthorized copy via Internet, felony. Go figure. Credit Cory Doctorow, "Pirate Cinema."