Farming is a noble occupation, but if you have to spend time tending a biological system when a chemical system will work flawlessly without any monitoring, well, that's why we make chemical systems instead of just using biological ones.
1. Invoke mental imagery, preferably without interfering with normal vision. 2. Infer mental imagery manipulation.. for example, when you hear the question "what letter do you get by turning a Z on its side?" results in a common specific quale of visual intelligence. 3. Test and improve the rate and bandwidth.
With such an interface you can do human computer interaction in ways that are completely unavailable to current input devices. Imagine having a 3d modeling tool where you can just think about the object you want, or how it differs from the object you're seeing. Imagine, if you can, receiving data at a higher bandwidth than video.
And there are a whole boatload of people who go to AA and never kick the habit. You can't just count successes and declare yourself helpful. There's never been any scientific study of AA effectiveness and the whole emphasis on converting people to christian values makes it entirely suspect.
Indeed. My in-dash navigation system often pops up warnings telling me that the map information hasn't been verified for the area that I'm in... covering up the map in doing so.. requiring me to press OK on the touch screen or wait 30 seconds.. which is about 10x longer than it needs to be there.
Ya, that's exactly what Dodge's in-car navigation system does. And it is annoying as hell, as I'm quite capable of driving and not getting distracted by the tv while the passengers watch it.
I live in Australia and we use coal. This is not even slightly environmentally responsible. In an effort to placate the greenies the government has been looking into clean coal and co2 sequestration. The general opinion of the green movement is that "clean coal" is an oxymoron and co2 sequestration is "just burying the problem". Wind and solar are continually touted as a realistic solution. They are not. If you were to ban coal, they say, wind and solar would be the only option so it would obviously grow. So long as you maintained our current ban on nuclear of course. Oh, and ban burning oil. This is nonsense. The result would simply be that the cost of power would go through the roof and all our industry would shut down. The economy would go into the toilet and that would raise the real cost of power to even higher, and the demand would go down even more. By the end of the year we'd be all living in dirt huts.
But, ya know, reality.. never let it get in the way of an indignant cause.
Friend of mine got a scare or two when his girlfriend "went off the pill" in a, what he says, deliberate attempt to get pregnant. So he went off and got a vasectomy without telling her. Few years later they got married. Few years after that she went batshit insane and ended up committing herself. Turns out she had been seeing fertility expert after fertility expert who said it wasn't her, but she didn't believe it, and she refused to get him tested because she was sure it was her problem. Needless to say, they got divorced and she got a new boyfriend and had a bunch of kids and eventually got more sane and came and spoke to him about it and he insisted that he had told her about the vasectomy, and she insisted he didn't (he didn't) and she just put it down to the fact that she was insane (clinically diagnosed and all). Since then his relationships have become significantly less pathological and his current girlfriend is well aware that he wont be having any kids.
Ya.. and consistently german code is the worst I've ever seen. Variable names should be descriptive.. single letters are not. Oh, and using macros to change the syntax of the language is *wrong*, don't do that.
Eventually, one of these manufacturers (I'm looling at you Nokia) is going to break ranks and stop signing exclusive deals. They'll actually make phones with a price point that is reasonable (ya know, like the god damn iPhone is outright? how the hell has Apple become the low cost option you greedy bastards?) and sell directly to consumers. Retail really isn't that hard these days.. just provide a web only shop.. then cave a few years later and open emporiums.
when I have to review code coming from India it is full of bugs, short cuts, and shit that doesn't make a damn bit of sense even to the Indian staff that's stateside?
Umm.. because it's written by programmers?:)
Seriously, this is standard no matter what the nationality.
Do the rich in Europe run tv spots to encourage voters to turn out and support candidates that back their pet cause? Does that mean the opposing candidate has to run a campaign to keep voters focused on the real issues, or just to explain the legitimate reasons why he/she may not be backing the pet cause? Because that's the kinda shit that happens in the US.. and is why politics is so monetized there.
In general people favor giving an artist control of their creations.
In general people are apathetic about a law that doesn't touch their lives.. until it does touch their lives.. and then they proclaim how completely unfair it is. In the case of copyright, they're right.
"Gee, how can I piss off a bunch of rich and powerful people.. I know, I'll take away their special rights to a government granted monopoly, that sounds like a great idea!"
Ya know, talking about a finding of "guilt" in a civil case really doesn't do much to allay the accusation that Slashdotters don't know shit about the law.
It is possible to commit a crime and tort at the same time, yes. But one does not imply the other. That's why we have different names for them.. and completely different legal systems.
umm.. no. In common spoken English it's a tort.. maybe you should learn the language.
People say "I'm being sued".. to which you may reply "what's the tort?" or just "what for?" but if you were to reply "what crime?" they would look at you funny and wonder how you could have come to the conclusion that they had committed a crime.
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Farming is a noble occupation, but if you have to spend time tending a biological system when a chemical system will work flawlessly without any monitoring, well, that's why we make chemical systems instead of just using biological ones.
the last place i want a virus is in my brain from hooking it to a computer
Too late.
Things you need to do with your DNI:
1. Invoke mental imagery, preferably without interfering with normal vision.
2. Infer mental imagery manipulation.. for example, when you hear the question "what letter do you get by turning a Z on its side?" results in a common specific quale of visual intelligence.
3. Test and improve the rate and bandwidth.
With such an interface you can do human computer interaction in ways that are completely unavailable to current input devices. Imagine having a 3d modeling tool where you can just think about the object you want, or how it differs from the object you're seeing. Imagine, if you can, receiving data at a higher bandwidth than video.
And there are a whole boatload of people who go to AA and never kick the habit. You can't just count successes and declare yourself helpful. There's never been any scientific study of AA effectiveness and the whole emphasis on converting people to christian values makes it entirely suspect.
then you probably haven't heard of AA, or you know absolutely nothing about Alcoholism.
Or you know nothing about AA.. for example, if you're not a christian, or willing to become one, you'll probably get nothing out of it.
I heard Jobs was an alcoholic, and that they don't allow alcoholics to have liver transplants. What's the deal?
That's just what I heard.
but they couldn't find his old one.
It's an in-dash navigation unit.. it mutes the music to say its bit.
Kinda sounds like you're not so much against libertarians are you are against liberty.
My guess would be because they're fucking morons.
Indeed. My in-dash navigation system often pops up warnings telling me that the map information hasn't been verified for the area that I'm in... covering up the map in doing so.. requiring me to press OK on the touch screen or wait 30 seconds.. which is about 10x longer than it needs to be there.
Ya, that's exactly what Dodge's in-car navigation system does. And it is annoying as hell, as I'm quite capable of driving and not getting distracted by the tv while the passengers watch it.
All of those laws and that technology already exists.
If there was a genetically engineered pest that would erradicate all of tobacco and pot i'd release it.
Any ethnic groups you'd like to exterminate too?
is a cost effective wind turbine design. Sheesh.
I live in Australia and we use coal. This is not even slightly environmentally responsible. In an effort to placate the greenies the government has been looking into clean coal and co2 sequestration. The general opinion of the green movement is that "clean coal" is an oxymoron and co2 sequestration is "just burying the problem". Wind and solar are continually touted as a realistic solution. They are not. If you were to ban coal, they say, wind and solar would be the only option so it would obviously grow. So long as you maintained our current ban on nuclear of course. Oh, and ban burning oil. This is nonsense. The result would simply be that the cost of power would go through the roof and all our industry would shut down. The economy would go into the toilet and that would raise the real cost of power to even higher, and the demand would go down even more. By the end of the year we'd be all living in dirt huts.
But, ya know, reality.. never let it get in the way of an indignant cause.
Friend of mine got a scare or two when his girlfriend "went off the pill" in a, what he says, deliberate attempt to get pregnant. So he went off and got a vasectomy without telling her. Few years later they got married. Few years after that she went batshit insane and ended up committing herself. Turns out she had been seeing fertility expert after fertility expert who said it wasn't her, but she didn't believe it, and she refused to get him tested because she was sure it was her problem. Needless to say, they got divorced and she got a new boyfriend and had a bunch of kids and eventually got more sane and came and spoke to him about it and he insisted that he had told her about the vasectomy, and she insisted he didn't (he didn't) and she just put it down to the fact that she was insane (clinically diagnosed and all). Since then his relationships have become significantly less pathological and his current girlfriend is well aware that he wont be having any kids.
Ya.. and consistently german code is the worst I've ever seen. Variable names should be descriptive.. single letters are not. Oh, and using macros to change the syntax of the language is *wrong*, don't do that.
Eventually, one of these manufacturers (I'm looling at you Nokia) is going to break ranks and stop signing exclusive deals. They'll actually make phones with a price point that is reasonable (ya know, like the god damn iPhone is outright? how the hell has Apple become the low cost option you greedy bastards?) and sell directly to consumers. Retail really isn't that hard these days.. just provide a web only shop.. then cave a few years later and open emporiums.
when I have to review code coming from India it is full of bugs, short cuts, and shit that doesn't make a damn bit of sense even to the Indian staff that's stateside?
Umm.. because it's written by programmers? :)
Seriously, this is standard no matter what the nationality.
Do the rich in Europe run tv spots to encourage voters to turn out and support candidates that back their pet cause? Does that mean the opposing candidate has to run a campaign to keep voters focused on the real issues, or just to explain the legitimate reasons why he/she may not be backing the pet cause? Because that's the kinda shit that happens in the US.. and is why politics is so monetized there.
Change you can believe in. It won't happen, but you sure can believe in it.
That's what I call Christian Values.
In general people favor giving an artist control of their creations.
In general people are apathetic about a law that doesn't touch their lives.. until it does touch their lives.. and then they proclaim how completely unfair it is. In the case of copyright, they're right.
"Gee, how can I piss off a bunch of rich and powerful people.. I know, I'll take away their special rights to a government granted monopoly, that sounds like a great idea!"
Ya know, talking about a finding of "guilt" in a civil case really doesn't do much to allay the accusation that Slashdotters don't know shit about the law.
It is possible to commit a crime and tort at the same time, yes. But one does not imply the other. That's why we have different names for them.. and completely different legal systems.
umm.. no. In common spoken English it's a tort.. maybe you should learn the language.
People say "I'm being sued" .. to which you may reply "what's the tort?" or just "what for?" but if you were to reply "what crime?" they would look at you funny and wonder how you could have come to the conclusion that they had committed a crime.