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I think it was an editing issue. I'd have to check, but maybe he had a different editor for BA than on AC. In Altered Carbon he didn't do it at all.
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I'd have to disagree with you -- I see ansibles as more likely than digitizing the human mind. We already understand quantum entanglement, so we understand how spooky action at a distance could create an ansible-like comm system.
Now, digitizing the human mind, that's a hornets nest. Since we still can't really pin down what consciousness is or how it emerges, just downloading and uploading a cognitive state is pretty scary, and frankly, beyond the realm of possibility at this time.
But thats just the way I see it, IMO.
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Hehe that was only ONE character. Three or four of them do it in the novel. Which is. A bit. Ridiculous.
You know, I didn't really pick up on it being a similarity. They're handled in such drastically different ways I didn't feel like it was ripping from Simmons at all.
It was a good story but....
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It was a good novel, very Indiana Jones-like. Unfortunately, Morgan got into the habit of putting periods in odd places. His characters. Started talking. Like this.
You have a faulty assumption. We already know our WMD detecting techs work, because we can use them to detect WMDs. The SETI@Home tech may work, but its never been proven to actually detect an ETI. Maybe ETIs use some other form of communcation that we're not looking for.
Completely different. We have the technology to detect WMD, but we can't find any, so the following conclusion is that there aren't any. That's different from not being even being technologically able to detect small planets and jumping to the conclusion that there aren't any.
Fair enough, but also consider this possibility: We can't see any rocky small planets, so its reasonable to assume that they're everywhere but we just can't see.
Either assumption is still a gun-jumped assumption.
I think finding LIFE, let alone intelligent life, would be pretty amazing and paradigm shifting. And who's to say it couldn't arise on a moon of a gas giant? We'd never know if space giraffes were walking around on some moon. This article is just silly. There may be life out there, there may not, but its FAR too early to say one way or the other. Best to keep looking.
Its too early to say there are none or few rocky body systems out there. First off, we haven't even come close to surveying a representative portion of the sky, and second, we don't yet have good enough technology to detect small planets. If we were 500 light years away from our system, we probably wouldn't be able to detect earth.
Yesterday when I first checked there were over 300 reviews, most of them negative and the book scored only 2 stars total. Today, the book has 81 reviews with an average rating of 3 1/2 stars."
Wait, it has FEWER reviews today than yesterday? What's the story there?
Indeed, choice IS good -- but what I fear is that these 2 year CS burners will give people false hope. I think many companies and business will want a person with a more full degree, and so then these kids will have more limited options than they expected, and that's unfortunate. I'm sure many of them will be smart kids with a lot of potential, but will be stunted by the close-focused education. Again, IMO.
And in the interest of full-disclosure, I ended up bailing out of the CS program and my school and graduated with a History degree. I was much happier, did much better, and went on to learn on my own and am a programmer. Go figure.
Or you could have gotten out in 2 years and still been messing around with alcohol and have totally screwed up your life. Or not taken those anthro or culture classes and come out with a totally myopic view of the world. I'd be willing to bet the things you think were just wastes of time actually helped you out in ways you don't know -- you got all the silly kid partying out of you, so it wouldnt affect you by the time you got in the real world, and you had a better view of humanity and the world than if you had just been coding 18 hours a day with no other stimulus.
Indeed. Well-rounded individuals should be more valuable. Unless your company wants mindless coding drones who dont think about what they're doing in the big picture (Microsoft's Security Team, or SCO might jump all over these guys...)
Well it sure is an interesting idea...and I'm sure many will jump on it. But in my experience, turboing a CS course of study is bad. There's a lot to said for maturity and experience. I know I had a lot of trouble keeping up with a normal program -- it just moved so fast and skimmed so much -- but now that I have time and experience under my belt, it all seems so much easier and more clear. Sometimes taking your time is a good thing, and I think that getting a degree is one of those things that should take a while -- experience is often the most valuable asset.
I haven't checked out that particular PW, but what I would really like to see are some open-source PWs like Nordock. Worlds that I can d/l and run for me and a close group of friends, where we have control over the code and the administration. That would be awesome. Nordock was good, but had issues that ended up never being resolved, and it was a shame.
For all the brilliance of the Google tech guys, it seems their accountants are pretty overwhelmed. I've heard some criticism of the way the IPO was being handled by some financial folk, but I wrote it off to the Old Guard fearing that which they did not understand. Now it seems that Google really does have problems with their bookkeepers. Its too bad. 8(
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I think it was an editing issue. I'd have to check, but maybe he had a different editor for BA than on AC. In Altered Carbon he didn't do it at all.
I'd have to disagree with you -- I see ansibles as more likely than digitizing the human mind. We already understand quantum entanglement, so we understand how spooky action at a distance could create an ansible-like comm system.
Now, digitizing the human mind, that's a hornets nest. Since we still can't really pin down what consciousness is or how it emerges, just downloading and uploading a cognitive state is pretty scary, and frankly, beyond the realm of possibility at this time.
But thats just the way I see it, IMO.
Hehe that was only ONE character. Three or four of them do it in the novel. Which is. A bit. Ridiculous.
You know, I didn't really pick up on it being a similarity. They're handled in such drastically different ways I didn't feel like it was ripping from Simmons at all.
It was a good novel, very Indiana Jones-like. Unfortunately, Morgan got into the habit of putting periods in odd places. His characters. Started talking. Like this.
Bugged me.
Other than that, a fun novel.
You have a faulty assumption. We already know our WMD detecting techs work, because we can use them to detect WMDs. The SETI@Home tech may work, but its never been proven to actually detect an ETI. Maybe ETIs use some other form of communcation that we're not looking for.
not conducive to life as you know it. but maybe something with crazy hibernation abilities could evolve. you can't prove otherwise!
Completely different. We have the technology to detect WMD, but we can't find any, so the following conclusion is that there aren't any. That's different from not being even being technologically able to detect small planets and jumping to the conclusion that there aren't any.
Fair enough, but also consider this possibility: We can't see any rocky small planets, so its reasonable to assume that they're everywhere but we just can't see.
Either assumption is still a gun-jumped assumption.
I think finding LIFE, let alone intelligent life, would be pretty amazing and paradigm shifting. And who's to say it couldn't arise on a moon of a gas giant? We'd never know if space giraffes were walking around on some moon. This article is just silly. There may be life out there, there may not, but its FAR too early to say one way or the other. Best to keep looking.
Its too early to say there are none or few rocky body systems out there. First off, we haven't even come close to surveying a representative portion of the sky, and second, we don't yet have good enough technology to detect small planets. If we were 500 light years away from our system, we probably wouldn't be able to detect earth.
Yesterday when I first checked there were over 300 reviews, most of them negative and the book scored only 2 stars total. Today, the book has 81 reviews with an average rating of 3 1/2 stars."
Wait, it has FEWER reviews today than yesterday? What's the story there?
Hmm. that doesnt sound very promising for DaVinci at all. 8/
Is the SpaceShipOne team planning for a rapid turnaround (48hr? 72hr?) to try and grab the XPrize before DaVinci has a chance?
Where are the obligatory 100 pictures of weirded out booth babes?
What? It's not that kind of convention?
Crap. That's not much of a convention at all then...
If Northface is about getting a 2nd or additional degree, then that changes everything. That wasn't what I got from the article though.
I agree that taking off after only completing part of the accelerated coursework, they're going to really regret it.
most people will run anything they're asked to.
Indeed, choice IS good -- but what I fear is that these 2 year CS burners will give people false hope. I think many companies and business will want a person with a more full degree, and so then these kids will have more limited options than they expected, and that's unfortunate. I'm sure many of them will be smart kids with a lot of potential, but will be stunted by the close-focused education. Again, IMO.
And in the interest of full-disclosure, I ended up bailing out of the CS program and my school and graduated with a History degree. I was much happier, did much better, and went on to learn on my own and am a programmer. Go figure.
Or you could have gotten out in 2 years and still been messing around with alcohol and have totally screwed up your life. Or not taken those anthro or culture classes and come out with a totally myopic view of the world. I'd be willing to bet the things you think were just wastes of time actually helped you out in ways you don't know -- you got all the silly kid partying out of you, so it wouldnt affect you by the time you got in the real world, and you had a better view of humanity and the world than if you had just been coding 18 hours a day with no other stimulus.
But thats just IMO.
Indeed. Well-rounded individuals should be more valuable. Unless your company wants mindless coding drones who dont think about what they're doing in the big picture (Microsoft's Security Team, or SCO might jump all over these guys...)
Well it sure is an interesting idea...and I'm sure many will jump on it. But in my experience, turboing a CS course of study is bad. There's a lot to said for maturity and experience. I know I had a lot of trouble keeping up with a normal program -- it just moved so fast and skimmed so much -- but now that I have time and experience under my belt, it all seems so much easier and more clear. Sometimes taking your time is a good thing, and I think that getting a degree is one of those things that should take a while -- experience is often the most valuable asset.
ok it wasnt funny until i read "fiver mountain"
now to clean up the coffee....
I haven't checked out that particular PW, but what I would really like to see are some open-source PWs like Nordock. Worlds that I can d/l and run for me and a close group of friends, where we have control over the code and the administration. That would be awesome. Nordock was good, but had issues that ended up never being resolved, and it was a shame.
For all the brilliance of the Google tech guys, it seems their accountants are pretty overwhelmed. I've heard some criticism of the way the IPO was being handled by some financial folk, but I wrote it off to the Old Guard fearing that which they did not understand. Now it seems that Google really does have problems with their bookkeepers. Its too bad. 8(
the single player campaign was fine, but way too short to be the only reason to buy the game.