Yup, when someone steals something from your house while you are out it is called burglary, not robbery. I believe robbery requires some sort of force or fear involved against someone in order to obtain something.
make some wise crack about the amazing graphics of that movie, but i'd probably just get flamed... unless the flames are artificial.. which in that case.. "Man those are some amazing graphics.. artificially speaking that is"
Man: You sit here, dear. Wife: All right. Man: Morning! Waitress: Morning! Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... Waitress:...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Waitress:...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam. Wife: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Wife: I don't want ANY spam! Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage? Wife: THAT'S got spam in it! Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it? Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...) Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then? Waitress: Urgghh! Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam. Wife: I don't like spam! Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam! Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off. Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then? Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words) Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
It's true that the average person does not care whether their kernel is Linux or NT or BSD or whatever. But there has been a lot of growth in the computing community in the past years. I remember when I first started playing with Linux in 1996, nobody i knew in real life knew anything about it, and at that point in time I would say most people didnt even know there was an alternative to OS/2 / DOS / Win 3.1 / Win 95. But now there are a lot of people who have been exposed to a *nix variant of some sort and understand the benefits of being able to customize the kernel. Then again it could be the same idea behind cars. I always compared Windows to an automatic and linux/freebsd to a standard. It might require a little more work but you'll have more control and usually more noticeable power with standards (linux/freebsd), but sometimes people don't care how it runs and just like to get from point A to point B without having to work much [automatic] (Windows).
Ok I admit there can be an overkil on choices, I remember studying that in college in my Interface Design class. Adding too much functionality or too many buttons to something eventually has a negative effect on it's efficiency and useability (and learnability, is that even a word? heh).
"Choice is nice, but when you are overwhelmed with choices, you just end up going with what everyone else uses, which means we all end up using windows."
You see though? It was YOUR choice to go with what everyone else uses. Nobody said you had to use windows, which is what would happen if you had no choice.
The funny thing about choice is that if people dont have a choice they'll be upset with the choice they are forced with, but in a choice situation they probably would have picked the choice that was forced upon them anyway.
Example: If windows was forced upon every computer user more and more people would be outraged with Microsoft and think that Windows was some lame operating system, but if they had a choice of Windows, MacOS, Solaris, all the BSD's, and all the Linux distro's, a majority of them would probably go windows anyway, but why did they complain in the first scenario? Because people tend to get rebelious when there is no choice.
I know exactly what you mean. I did my last year of college completely online taking full time classes. It takes a lot of discipline to accomplish work at home. I remember at the beginning of each quarter I would go like 2-3 weeks without doing any real work on my projects, then i spent the next 7+ weeks catching up and submitting projects just on time. It was crazy. I'm sure the same would happen for working at home, too many distractions.
I agree. Not everyone has the same needs in a computing environment. I don't see why people are like "OMG another linux distro.. jeez", that's like saying.. "OMG another SUV" or "OMG another car" People love having choices. So cars are a lot like linux distros in a way, lots of different models/makes and have a lot of the same "packages". Would you like a cd player? 6 speakers? sunroof? moonroof?
Why get crazy when someone introduces more choice? I think this world would be pretty dull with only one fast food chain and only one type of car available. I would rather have 300 OS choices, instead of conforming to only one choice.
Some questions I have about AI deal with human emotions and the ability to have faith and or belief in something. Is it possible for an AI to achieve emotions without them being all pre-programmed? I mean like is an AI going to get jealous if you spend more time with yoru wife? Is it going to feel lonely when you go and watch a movie in the other room? Is it going to be happy when it doesnt something right? Will it know what fun is? What about Love?
As for belief, will an AI be able to belief in something greater than itself? Will it be able to trust? trust too much? Will it have faith?
I agree, a lot of human 'Intelligence' is from what we have learned or experienced. An infant doesnt know that a stove gets hot and wont distinguish it as a bad thing until either A.) It touches it and gets burnt (and making a mental note of what to do in that situation in the future), or B.) A parent prevents them and when they get old enough to understand the parent explains why.
I think a true AI would have to begin with an infant stage, where it learned from environment and human interaction. It wouldnt just 'know' everything already, it would learn, and during that learning, it would make mistakes, but it would learn from those mistakes by remembering them and categorizing them.
In my opinion, the hardest thing in AI would be emotion. That would have to be pre-programmed I think. Is a computer or an AI going to be sad and lonely when you put it on the shelf and read a book? Is it going to be jealous when you go out and play with your friends or your girlfriend/boyfriend? Is it going to express happiness when you play with it or when it has fun, does it know what fun is? How?
I remember the days, back in college. Surviving on Mountain Dew and Jolt. Microwaveable . I knew I had to kick the habit when what little sleep I did get was consumed with dreams of coding. Nightmares of large code segments chasing me around. Ahh, those were the days. Oh wait, I still have one more year left!
I can understand a little why prices might be high (not extremely high) but there is a need tp make a profit. I don't know how much research and development went into this technology but that needs to be considered as well. All in all though, a lot of companys take it too far and become greedy. Why sell the super thin rollup tv with awesome resolution (that only costs.. lets say $200 to make) for $500 when they can sell it for $1500?
I agree. Sometimes you have to wonder if when a device is being designed that they have to put a little imperfection into it. There is the argument that it would be a loss of money when people were using their warranties and 30-60 day guarentee things. But it still makes you wonder about bad design actually being added in sometimes. Especially when most of the world can see why it is a bad design.
I dont think the AC was trying to flame you, he/she was just saying that the kind of email flood and damage the virus could have done to systems could not take out "real" routers. Sure if you have a 486 with 8 megs ram and no swap on a fractional t1, I can see you having a little trouble, but with a cisco 6509 router it would take a heck of a lot more than a mellisa virus to pull those monsters down. I am a sys admin on a few linux machines and If they had a static line to the internet with dns and mail then I would have pulled my systems ofline to avoid the virus, its common administration. You dont try putting out the fire when it hits, you avoid the fire by being secure and safe. Just my $00.02
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Yup, when someone steals something from your house while you are out it is called burglary, not robbery. I believe robbery requires some sort of force or fear involved against someone in order to obtain something.
make some wise crack about the amazing graphics of that movie, but i'd probably just get flamed... unless the flames are artificial.. which in that case.. "Man those are some amazing graphics.. artificially speaking that is"
Not Likely.
"Is that a server in your pocket..."
Is it like a fat-loss clinic in space?
I can see the advertisements:
"Because without gravity you are as light as a feather"
"Sir, I think I Just got port scanned."
Barney has gone missing.
they have opened themselves up to a swamp of 'he said-she said' about where code came from.
He said "If I tell you, i'd have to kill you".
Take that Oil Companies!
"Dude, you're getting an HP"
Man: You sit here, dear. ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress:
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress:
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
Yeah, there are too many illegal sections on /. =)
It's true that the average person does not care whether their kernel is Linux or NT or BSD or whatever. But there has been a lot of growth in the computing community in the past years. I remember when I first started playing with Linux in 1996, nobody i knew in real life knew anything about it, and at that point in time I would say most people didnt even know there was an alternative to OS/2 / DOS / Win 3.1 / Win 95. But now there are a lot of people who have been exposed to a *nix variant of some sort and understand the benefits of being able to customize the kernel. Then again it could be the same idea behind cars. I always compared Windows to an automatic and linux/freebsd to a standard. It might require a little more work but you'll have more control and usually more noticeable power with standards (linux/freebsd), but sometimes people don't care how it runs and just like to get from point A to point B without having to work much [automatic] (Windows).
Brings more meaning to rack mounted hardware.
Ok I admit there can be an overkil on choices, I remember studying that in college in my Interface Design class. Adding too much functionality or too many buttons to something eventually has a negative effect on it's efficiency and useability (and learnability, is that even a word? heh).
"Choice is nice, but when you are overwhelmed with choices, you just end up going with what everyone else uses, which means we all end up using windows."
You see though? It was YOUR choice to go with what everyone else uses. Nobody said you had to use windows, which is what would happen if you had no choice.
The funny thing about choice is that if people dont have a choice they'll be upset with the choice they are forced with, but in a choice situation they probably would have picked the choice that was forced upon them anyway.
Example: If windows was forced upon every computer user more and more people would be outraged with Microsoft and think that Windows was some lame operating system, but if they had a choice of Windows, MacOS, Solaris, all the BSD's, and all the Linux distro's, a majority of them would probably go windows anyway, but why did they complain in the first scenario? Because people tend to get rebelious when there is no choice.
I know exactly what you mean. I did my last year of college completely online taking full time classes. It takes a lot of discipline to accomplish work at home. I remember at the beginning of each quarter I would go like 2-3 weeks without doing any real work on my projects, then i spent the next 7+ weeks catching up and submitting projects just on time. It was crazy. I'm sure the same would happen for working at home, too many distractions.
I agree. Not everyone has the same needs in a computing environment. I don't see why people are like "OMG another linux distro.. jeez", that's like saying.. "OMG another SUV" or "OMG another car" People love having choices. So cars are a lot like linux distros in a way, lots of different models/makes and have a lot of the same "packages". Would you like a cd player? 6 speakers? sunroof? moonroof?
Why get crazy when someone introduces more choice? I think this world would be pretty dull with only one fast food chain and only one type of car available. I would rather have 300 OS choices, instead of conforming to only one choice.
thing I see right now is that my browser window just turned some nasty colors. Boooooo! Slashdot forced my colors to shutdown.
Some questions I have about AI deal with human emotions and the ability to have faith and or belief in something. Is it possible for an AI to achieve emotions without them being all pre-programmed? I mean like is an AI going to get jealous if you spend more time with yoru wife? Is it going to feel lonely when you go and watch a movie in the other room? Is it going to be happy when it doesnt something right? Will it know what fun is? What about Love?
As for belief, will an AI be able to belief in something greater than itself? Will it be able to trust? trust too much? Will it have faith?
I agree, a lot of human 'Intelligence' is from what we have learned or experienced. An infant doesnt know that a stove gets hot and wont distinguish it as a bad thing until either A.) It touches it and gets burnt (and making a mental note of what to do in that situation in the future), or B.) A parent prevents them and when they get old enough to understand the parent explains why.
I think a true AI would have to begin with an infant stage, where it learned from environment and human interaction. It wouldnt just 'know' everything already, it would learn, and during that learning, it would make mistakes, but it would learn from those mistakes by remembering them and categorizing them.
In my opinion, the hardest thing in AI would be emotion. That would have to be pre-programmed I think. Is a computer or an AI going to be sad and lonely when you put it on the shelf and read a book? Is it going to be jealous when you go out and play with your friends or your girlfriend/boyfriend? Is it going to express happiness when you play with it or when it has fun, does it know what fun is? How?
I remember the days, back in college. Surviving on Mountain Dew and Jolt. Microwaveable . I knew I had to kick the habit when what little sleep I did get was consumed with dreams of coding. Nightmares of large code segments chasing me around. Ahh, those were the days. Oh wait, I still have one more year left!
I can understand a little why prices might be high (not extremely high) but there is a need tp make a profit. I don't know how much research and development went into this technology but that needs to be considered as well. All in all though, a lot of companys take it too far and become greedy. Why sell the super thin rollup tv with awesome resolution (that only costs.. lets say $200 to make) for $500 when they can sell it for $1500?
I agree. Sometimes you have to wonder if when a device is being designed that they have to put a little imperfection into it. There is the argument that it would be a loss of money when people were using their warranties and 30-60 day guarentee things. But it still makes you wonder about bad design actually being added in sometimes. Especially when most of the world can see why it is a bad design.
Actually, Japan's 4th was our 2nd, and Japans 6th was our 3rd.
:)
Japan - 4(US-2 SNES)
Japan - 6(Us-3 SNES)
And I have to agree, the SNES FF2 & FF3 were the best
(Got zsnes with both roms, woo!)
I dont think the AC was trying to flame you, he/she was just saying that the kind of email flood and damage the virus could have done to systems could not take out "real" routers. Sure if you have a 486 with 8 megs ram and no swap on a fractional t1, I can see you having a little trouble, but with a cisco 6509 router it would take a heck of a lot more than a mellisa virus to pull those monsters down. I am a sys admin on a few linux machines and If they had a static line to the internet with dns and mail then I would have pulled my systems ofline to avoid the virus, its common administration. You dont try putting out the fire when it hits, you avoid the fire by being secure and safe. Just my $00.02