They are not complete inverses of each other.
More security does not always equal less freedom of speech and less security does not always equal more freedom of speech. Security helps minority groups from getting the shit kicked out of them and from them stepping over the boundaries of the majority and vice versa. Some security is always necessary because the world isn't ideal and people can be harmful to the others, fortunately. America uses security to enhance freedom of speech, not slow it down. Without security, we would have a bunch of people argueing with rifles and shotguns and a state of anarchy. With security, we can stifle the gun opposition and let them argue "peacefully." Too much security is bad because then security might be stifling FOS but we have to do all that we can in our power to prevent this. ----
I read like 20 pages of the findings w/ respect to this writing. It sounds to me like the court agrees with most of the lower courts findings but is "on" Microsoft's side because the judge was impartial and thus, Microsoft did not get a fair trial.:) ----
I love this line. Gee, Microsoft isn't trying to UP Apple when its their ass is on the line.
Micro-soft responds only by saying:' 'the district court 's market
definition is so narrow that it excludes Apple 's Mac OS,which
has competed with Windows for years,simply because the
Mac OS runs on a different microprocessor.'' ----
Perhaps the analogy you suggest would work if the human brain were an unformed mass of grey matter, attached to some sensors and very simple logic. That is what the human brain is. Why wouldn't work for computers? Cyc is tatking the wrong approach. It will never be true AI. If a machine has the ability to take in input and interpret itself, take that processed data and apply it to something else then, in the long term, the machine might eventually become something. It's a long shot but the most viable long term solution. Cyc's solution is short term and is not true AI. ----
They should be able to delete them(or atleast reedit them), prevent them from being Modded in any which directiion and copywrite them while their at it. Sue anybody who quotes them without their permission and put their own license agreement on them. ----
I like google, I use it as my Search Engine. What I don't see is investing in a company that doesn't have a "real" product, something that I can touch and feel, all I see is their services. Just delivering services can be a good thing on one side but on the other, if Google ever just closes, they have little to fall back on because they are no longer delivering. It might be a good IPO but it certainly won't be a Microsoft unless they get into a few more markets. ----
Extremely True. Unfortunately, I don't think the world is willing to change the story that it wants to believe any time soon. Tradition and Oral history can be much more persuasive then evidence. ----
And if the slaves were actually were allowed to learn to read and write maybe they would produce better records. If I was the pharaoh of great, ancient Egypt, do you think I would let my slaves learn to read(except, BIG maybe to educate the Wealthier Egyptians) and write Grafitti on the Walls and Pyramids of the Gods. Probably not. ----
We know what happened in the Industrial Revolution and so, we are not amazed by it. We have surpassed it so far that we can just throw the idea over our shoulders. 5000 years ago seem more interesting because they propose new questions like, can we use kites to lift large blocks of stones. Problems like this can be easily solved with a modern Engineering but, what if we didnt' live in the modern age and had limited resources, how would we do this. It is a more interesting question because we know how they did it in the Industrial Revolution but we are unsure about Ancient Egypt. ----
Every able person worked on the pyramids and temples for the Gods for a few weeks of the year and then, went home and did their own thing. The illiteracy rate in ancient was ridiculously low and so, more people are likely to believe in the Gods and to make sure not to anger them(they were keeping the Nile flooded and fertilized, thus, keeping them alive.) This was one way of keeping the gods happy, working on the projects for the Pharaoh and temples in honor of a local god. ----
unfortunately, we'll never know if that's how they did it. It' like the hanging gardens of Babylon, no one we'll actually know for absolutely sure if the Gardens ever existed or, if they did, how did they get the water up that hill to the plants. ----
No, you are the morone. You are a closed mind Genome that thinks they are superior to everybody else and won't ever consider another person's point. Marsupials are of the Animal family, yes. This is the most common definition. Giving an animal wings does not make it a bird. Wow, that took an IQ of what, 70, mr. Gump. Marsupial is a state of a creature, not a class, by common definition. It's in the same type of class as Herbivores and Carnivores like flying animals and non-flying animals. It is not a limited cause. If a Gecko was to grow a pouch, we would call it a Marsupial. Plain and simple. If you don't have a brain, please don't speak. ----
s for the falling of computer prices, the only
thing I've heard that can compare in price to a computer is thinknic at $199.99 and that's not easily available to me (I'm not in the US). You can actually buy a p200(the chip, not the computer itself) for only a few bucks. You can buy an E-machine for $299.99 w/o monitor. You could buy a $120 mobo with a NIC and old processor, add 64 megs($30) and a floppy drive(for bootable linux) for $20, no case and you can easily build a cluster of your own design. Not the recommended route, but possible. As for the cross-compiler, I know GCC is a cross-compiler but I don't think it supports playstation Architecture. I think you might have to buy the kit in order to get the compiler. ----
Most(if not all)Marsupials are mammals. The north-american possom is a marsupial and is also a mammal. All an animal has to have in order to be a marsupial is a pouch to carry their young in. ----
I agree. They are approaching it the wrong way. Giving a computer a huge database of practical knowledge and it trying to figure out what solution is the best one is not AI. The only way I see AI coming of age is if we give a computer basic instructions(like instinct and self-maintenance) for the processes of input and output. From their, start the computer off with absolutely no knowledge and let it interpret the world and make assumptions from its sensors based on very simple logic from some sort of BIOS. Let it self-interpret this knowledge and let it apply the "interesting" aspects of it to future knowledge. This is how the human brain works and should be a logical step in getting computers to learn through experience, not from predetermined input. ----
I can send predominately random notes into a MIDI player, based on DNA, just so I can produce about the same quality music as I could with a Random Number Generator. ----
I haven't tried it but I've thought about it. The problem lies with having differnet architectures is you have a binary for each one. No one wants to do it that way so you're going to need a server(preferably something that is easily upgradeable like a PC) that stores binaries for each different machine and some type of ethernet card for every single one of them. This might be a viable solution because Sony and Dreamcast(very cheap, $99) sale hardware at below cost. The problem lies in the fact that you have to have a cross-compiler on your server and last time I've heard, they were not cheap(correct me if I'm wrong.) You also have the 32mb memory problem in the PS2 and the fact that computer prices are falling much faster then the price/ps2. In the long run, you're probably best setting up a cluster of x86s. You won't be quite as limited in the years to come. ----
If I had several thousand dollars available I would invest in Redhat on the basis that
1) Redhat has turned a profit. With the prospect of future profit, their is now more reason to invest in it.
2) Microsoft is rolling out WinXP. Although this is a "consumer" OS, their will be problems with it. Major problem is installation. Everytime you wish to reinstall WinXP you're going to have to call MS. This isn't a problem with home consumers but is for businesses. If you bought a thousand brand-new spanking compuers with XP on it, that is a thousand phone calls you're going to have to make and one to two day wages for someone to make that call. If you're a techie and have to reinstall OSes all day long, this will become an extreme pain in the butt. This will ultimately lead to more businesses searching for alternatives to this problem.
3) With respect to other OSes, XP is massively overpriced. This will lead businesses and home consumers to look for alternatives for their needs.
4) When XP comes out, MS is going to force increase sales of XP w/ respect to other MS OSes. OEMs have seen this before and will only take Microsoft's shit for so long before they start to look for alternatives.
5) Linux is really cool and returns the power to the user. Red Hat helps provide this.
6) As Red Hat decreases the Learning Curve and more apps become available for Linux, it will become more and more viable solution to the end consumer. In other words, as total price/item becomes lower(including tech. support), it will become a better alternative for businesses and home consumers alike.
7) RH increases competition in a dominately closed market. People see and recognize this and so, more money will go into RH in order to decrease OS prices, increase competition and selection, resulting in better deals for end users.
8) As recorded by History, the world is statistically better when more then one person rules it, resulting in something that is more efficient and better for its citizens overall. This applies here. What would happen if the world had only one electic company who happened to be unregulated. It would give electricity to those in Rich Metropolitan areas, jacking up the price so that only a select few can afford it, leaving everybody else behind, and become unbelievably rich.
The only way to defeat Microsoft is to stop giving Microsoft more money. Ways of doing that including Boycotting MS and taking away their business. Like you said, we need enormous amounts of cash to do this and some person or some organization as an intermediary to disperse this cash toward the current needs for commercialization, education, and the courts. As for boycotting, this is tough but requires less money. Try convincing millions of Ford buyers to purchase Toyottas instead. You're going to have a hard time. ----
Not all companies can grow big over night. Some take an initial lost in order to stimulate the business for a future gain. This just might be the beginning of a new empire. The one that finally destroys Microsoft or we could have another Black Tuesday and Redhat be completely wiped out, it could go either way. Hopefully, the first. ----
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They are not complete inverses of each other. More security does not always equal less freedom of speech and less security does not always equal more freedom of speech. Security helps minority groups from getting the shit kicked out of them and from them stepping over the boundaries of the majority and vice versa. Some security is always necessary because the world isn't ideal and people can be harmful to the others, fortunately. America uses security to enhance freedom of speech, not slow it down. Without security, we would have a bunch of people argueing with rifles and shotguns and a state of anarchy. With security, we can stifle the gun opposition and let them argue "peacefully." Too much security is bad because then security might be stifling FOS but we have to do all that we can in our power to prevent this.
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Give me no less then 40 hours a year for a continued education.
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Isn't that a violation of freedom or privacy?
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And X11 doesn't work? I've been using X11 for ages and it has rarely ever crashed on me or gave me problems. Get a life.
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I read like 20 pages of the findings w/ respect to this writing. It sounds to me like the court agrees with most of the lower courts findings but is "on" Microsoft's side because the judge was impartial and thus, Microsoft did not get a fair trial. :)
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I love this line. Gee, Microsoft isn't trying to UP Apple when its their ass is on the line.
Micro-soft responds only by saying:' 'the district court 's market definition is so narrow that it excludes Apple 's Mac OS,which has competed with Windows for years,simply because the Mac OS runs on a different microprocessor.''
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Do you have a link to that article? It sounds pretty funny and I would like to read it.
Thanks.
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Perhaps the analogy you suggest would work if the human brain were an unformed mass of grey matter, attached to some sensors and very simple logic. That is what the human brain is. Why wouldn't work for computers? Cyc is tatking the wrong approach. It will never be true AI. If a machine has the ability to take in input and interpret itself, take that processed data and apply it to something else then, in the long term, the machine might eventually become something. It's a long shot but the most viable long term solution. Cyc's solution is short term and is not true AI.
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They should be able to delete them(or atleast reedit them), prevent them from being Modded in any which directiion and copywrite them while their at it. Sue anybody who quotes them without their permission and put their own license agreement on them.
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I like google, I use it as my Search Engine. What I don't see is investing in a company that doesn't have a "real" product, something that I can touch and feel, all I see is their services. Just delivering services can be a good thing on one side but on the other, if Google ever just closes, they have little to fall back on because they are no longer delivering. It might be a good IPO but it certainly won't be a Microsoft unless they get into a few more markets.
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Extremely True. Unfortunately, I don't think the world is willing to change the story that it wants to believe any time soon. Tradition and Oral history can be much more persuasive then evidence.
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Its going to also be Baptist theory beause
1) Christianity is a departure of Judaism with most of the Judist beliefs plus many additional ones.
2) Roman Catholics is a division of Christrianity.
3) Baptism is a derivative of the Roman Catholic sect of the Christian Religion.
Following these steps, it only makes sense that Baptist believe many of the same things as the Judist Israelites.
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And if the slaves were actually were allowed to learn to read and write maybe they would produce better records. If I was the pharaoh of great, ancient Egypt, do you think I would let my slaves learn to read(except, BIG maybe to educate the Wealthier Egyptians) and write Grafitti on the Walls and Pyramids of the Gods. Probably not.
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We know what happened in the Industrial Revolution and so, we are not amazed by it. We have surpassed it so far that we can just throw the idea over our shoulders. 5000 years ago seem more interesting because they propose new questions like, can we use kites to lift large blocks of stones. Problems like this can be easily solved with a modern Engineering but, what if we didnt' live in the modern age and had limited resources, how would we do this. It is a more interesting question because we know how they did it in the Industrial Revolution but we are unsure about Ancient Egypt.
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Every able person worked on the pyramids and temples for the Gods for a few weeks of the year and then, went home and did their own thing. The illiteracy rate in ancient was ridiculously low and so, more people are likely to believe in the Gods and to make sure not to anger them(they were keeping the Nile flooded and fertilized, thus, keeping them alive.) This was one way of keeping the gods happy, working on the projects for the Pharaoh and temples in honor of a local god.
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unfortunately, we'll never know if that's how they did it. It' like the hanging gardens of Babylon, no one we'll actually know for absolutely sure if the Gardens ever existed or, if they did, how did they get the water up that hill to the plants.
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No, you are the morone. You are a closed mind Genome that thinks they are superior to everybody else and won't ever consider another person's point. Marsupials are of the Animal family, yes. This is the most common definition. Giving an animal wings does not make it a bird. Wow, that took an IQ of what, 70, mr. Gump. Marsupial is a state of a creature, not a class, by common definition. It's in the same type of class as Herbivores and Carnivores like flying animals and non-flying animals. It is not a limited cause. If a Gecko was to grow a pouch, we would call it a Marsupial. Plain and simple. If you don't have a brain, please don't speak.
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s for the falling of computer prices, the only thing I've heard that can compare in price to a computer is thinknic at $199.99 and that's not easily available to me (I'm not in the US). You can actually buy a p200(the chip, not the computer itself) for only a few bucks. You can buy an E-machine for $299.99 w/o monitor. You could buy a $120 mobo with a NIC and old processor, add 64 megs($30) and a floppy drive(for bootable linux) for $20, no case and you can easily build a cluster of your own design. Not the recommended route, but possible. As for the cross-compiler, I know GCC is a cross-compiler but I don't think it supports playstation Architecture. I think you might have to buy the kit in order to get the compiler.
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Most(if not all)Marsupials are mammals. The north-american possom is a marsupial and is also a mammal. All an animal has to have in order to be a marsupial is a pouch to carry their young in.
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I agree. They are approaching it the wrong way. Giving a computer a huge database of practical knowledge and it trying to figure out what solution is the best one is not AI. The only way I see AI coming of age is if we give a computer basic instructions(like instinct and self-maintenance) for the processes of input and output. From their, start the computer off with absolutely no knowledge and let it interpret the world and make assumptions from its sensors based on very simple logic from some sort of BIOS. Let it self-interpret this knowledge and let it apply the "interesting" aspects of it to future knowledge. This is how the human brain works and should be a logical step in getting computers to learn through experience, not from predetermined input.
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I can send predominately random notes into a MIDI player, based on DNA, just so I can produce about the same quality music as I could with a Random Number Generator.
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I haven't tried it but I've thought about it. The problem lies with having differnet architectures is you have a binary for each one. No one wants to do it that way so you're going to need a server(preferably something that is easily upgradeable like a PC) that stores binaries for each different machine and some type of ethernet card for every single one of them. This might be a viable solution because Sony and Dreamcast(very cheap, $99) sale hardware at below cost. The problem lies in the fact that you have to have a cross-compiler on your server and last time I've heard, they were not cheap(correct me if I'm wrong.) You also have the 32mb memory problem in the PS2 and the fact that computer prices are falling much faster then the price/ps2. In the long run, you're probably best setting up a cluster of x86s. You won't be quite as limited in the years to come.
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If I had several thousand dollars available I would invest in Redhat on the basis that
1) Redhat has turned a profit. With the prospect of future profit, their is now more reason to invest in it.
2) Microsoft is rolling out WinXP. Although this is a "consumer" OS, their will be problems with it. Major problem is installation. Everytime you wish to reinstall WinXP you're going to have to call MS. This isn't a problem with home consumers but is for businesses. If you bought a thousand brand-new spanking compuers with XP on it, that is a thousand phone calls you're going to have to make and one to two day wages for someone to make that call. If you're a techie and have to reinstall OSes all day long, this will become an extreme pain in the butt. This will ultimately lead to more businesses searching for alternatives to this problem.
3) With respect to other OSes, XP is massively overpriced. This will lead businesses and home consumers to look for alternatives for their needs.
4) When XP comes out, MS is going to force increase sales of XP w/ respect to other MS OSes. OEMs have seen this before and will only take Microsoft's shit for so long before they start to look for alternatives.
5) Linux is really cool and returns the power to the user. Red Hat helps provide this.
6) As Red Hat decreases the Learning Curve and more apps become available for Linux, it will become more and more viable solution to the end consumer. In other words, as total price/item becomes lower(including tech. support), it will become a better alternative for businesses and home consumers alike.
7) RH increases competition in a dominately closed market. People see and recognize this and so, more money will go into RH in order to decrease OS prices, increase competition and selection, resulting in better deals for end users.
8) As recorded by History, the world is statistically better when more then one person rules it, resulting in something that is more efficient and better for its citizens overall. This applies here. What would happen if the world had only one electic company who happened to be unregulated. It would give electricity to those in Rich Metropolitan areas, jacking up the price so that only a select few can afford it, leaving everybody else behind, and become unbelievably rich.
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The only way to defeat Microsoft is to stop giving Microsoft more money. Ways of doing that including Boycotting MS and taking away their business. Like you said, we need enormous amounts of cash to do this and some person or some organization as an intermediary to disperse this cash toward the current needs for commercialization, education, and the courts. As for boycotting, this is tough but requires less money. Try convincing millions of Ford buyers to purchase Toyottas instead. You're going to have a hard time.
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Not all companies can grow big over night. Some take an initial lost in order to stimulate the business for a future gain. This just might be the beginning of a new empire. The one that finally destroys Microsoft or we could have another Black Tuesday and Redhat be completely wiped out, it could go either way. Hopefully, the first.
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