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  1. Re:Lists vs. Reasoning on Ask Dr. Richard Wallace, Artificial Intelligence Researcher · · Score: 1

    Please excuse my ignorance on this topic. I find A.I. fascinating but have no strong knowledge on the subject.

    What would lead you to believe that your 'Intelligence' is anything other than a complex set of lists built up over your lifetime...

    Many decisions that I make could be described as referencing a set of lists... last time I saw this situation I did this and it worked... Last time things were arranged like this, I put my hand there, and it got burned... etc.

    What distinguishes 'Intelligence' from complex list referencing. And if an object can through list referencing mimic (to pass a turing test) intelligence what short-comings would if have in a more general sense.

  2. Re:Possible to have too much power on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 1

    The book is called Friday.

  3. Removeable 5GB HDD on Toshiba's iPod Competitor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Removeable 5GB HDD, that fits in a card slot...
    That has potential... I see many options... Most of them along the lines of a decent replacement for the floppy disk finally.

    The player itself seems no different from a host of others.

  4. Duh! on The Widening Tech-Savvy Gap · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Television, meanwhile, continues its long reign as Americans' most beloved and comprehensible technology. In fact, for years TV has not gotten its due as one of the monumentally successful technologies of all time -- cheap, reliable, easy to use. More than 80 percent of respondents across the country understood how to work a TV better than a computer, something for the computer industry to ponder long and hard.
    Well no shit. The TV has ~5 options (power on/off, channel up, channel down, volume up, volume down) as compared to the computer which is designed to be versitile and has more options than I can enumerate. You increase an objects complexity and fewer people understand it. Why is this even worth mentioning?
  5. Re:Doubt it. on Continuing Twists In Microsoft, Intel Cases · · Score: 1

    Try vi, or cat and ^D, or pico (or any GUI notepad like application). WYSIWYG Editors tend to make developers lazy, result in code they don't understand, and lean towards the bloated. Do yourself a favor and learn to code HTML not push buttons in dreamweaver (or pagemill, golive, etc)