This is a raging debate in modern penal and support systems about whether the punishment/treatment does more harm than good. I'm sure you've heard someone say before that sending a first-time offender to prison only connects them with hardened, experienced criminals to learn from, and that's often the case. When inmates get out of prison they're not penitent for their crimes: they're smarter about how not to get caught next time.
On the other hand how can we address problems like this? Some people need monitored care, but outside of someone taking direct and personal responsibility for the individual we just can't do better than insitutionalizing someone right now.
Unless, you know, direct and personal responsibility for youth = parenting. But that's a can of worms I'm sure nobody wants to address.
The article's point is that plenty of companies can do this, so long as they spend $60-$100 MORE for a business-class license. Apparently only those capable of spending more money have the cognitive capacities to understand risks involved in VM, and is a kick in the pants to home users who don't buy the same version as their office.
Which makes about as much sense as buying a more expensive copy of Windows for the coolness factor... A route their MS spokesperson maybe should've gone instead. Just imagine the black-on-colour iPod-esque commercials touting how you'll get laid dancing to your Virtual PC!
It's probably not the best solution, but it's a machine theoretically capable of going anywhere a human could go, doing anything a human could do. Practical value is a machine that can access areas otherwise harmful to humans, but designed at a time when only humans could operate the controls... and boy are there a surprising number of those.
This also ties in with evolution; humans are by far not the fastest runners, best swimmers, or even half-decent flyers. We do however have body that's multi-functional: we run ok, we climb ok, we've got great precision with our hands. Copying organic constructs helps with design because there's thousands of years of failed evolutionary ideas we don't have to try first (or we're looking to God's creations for ideas depending on your beliefs).
Oh, and I've been watching original BSG: we need human-shaped robots to fulfill their destiny as man's conqueror.
You haven't seen the WMD that site was carrying, the sheer destructive force of bombs like this or this could bring the country to its knees. Only a preemptive strike prevents further damage from the radiating disease following these around.
I'm all for this, quite frankly we should rebuild TCP/IP with an easily-managed layer of security. RFC1149 provides an excellent example of an easily secured network, all the MPAA would needs is a suitably-qualified group of packet "hunters" to dispose of unwanted traffic.
Pretty sure I enjoyed it more because of the books. The Register had it right about plot development: you'll need to have read the books to make sense of some parts - like the dolphins - but otherwise it's a pretty funny film.
I love the sound effect tie-ins too, watch for the bread knife and it's upcoming George Lucas prequel.
Never thought I'd say this, but thank you Americans for making my country free, it's sincerely appreciated.
There's way more to this liberal scandal than we're supposed to know. I understand the necessity for short-term publication bans when a trial is in progress, but anything pertinent to discovering the truth about something (hence a trial) should really be accessible when it comes to public office.
Information provided by third party domain registrants give you a layer of protection from who sees your personal information. I see it as a good idea, of all the domains I've registered for future use not a single one hasn't been spammed to hell because of crawlers parsing information off new registrations. Luckily my spamassassin is well-configured and I can identify junk snail-mail pretty quick, but most people aren't so fortunate.
This isn't designed to protect us from the law, it's a means to have a little privacy on the internet. Yes, usually the innocent have nothing to hide, but there's some very legitimate spam/stalking/fraud concerns for allowing private registrations and I feel the option should be there, especially now that so many domains hand-out private individual's contact information via WHOIS.
Buddy, roll over and die already. If there's no purpose to life then why live in the first place? I certainly hope your nihilist beliefs aren't passed onto the next generation.
The whole purpose of this article wasn't to create robots (it actually says don't be a worker robot), but to motivate people into a direction that will eventually provide a fulfilling career, one where as an adult they can get up every day feeling life is fresh and new. The message is pretty simple: do stuff because you find it fun and challenging, not because you need to fit better into some existing mold.
Here's a neat truth: there's a very good chance neither you nor I will be remembered 1000 years from now. Should I be so overwhelmed by my own mortality that I can't enjoy myself past the time of realizing this? No way. Don't go chasing some childhood innocence either, time will move on with or without you.
Don't motivate squandering, you can work at something and enjoy it, even that guy from Office Space found his calling.
Less the fact that the original war only needed something like 75 capitol ships to end it. Would make for a good scene, like Star Wars though would probably be left for the movies.
Maybe we'll see a Star Trek crossover instead, Captain Catherine Janeway-MacGuyver will come in using a toothpick, some bubble gum, and a mickey of romulan ale to not only save the refugees, but also manage to destroy another borg queen almost accidentally.
You can't offer the stuff, that's the quirky point about copying. Just like up here in Canada I can't lend you a CD to copy, but if I accidentally leave it at your place and you make a replica for personal use there's aboslutely nothing wrong with it.
Funny, while it's a sad precedent saying that by buying a computer I intend to infringe on the copyright of others it really just makes me feel less bad for recording industries and their fight for protection....now if that money could be sent straight to artists... yadda-yadda... you get it.
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This is a raging debate in modern penal and support systems about whether the punishment/treatment does more harm than good. I'm sure you've heard someone say before that sending a first-time offender to prison only connects them with hardened, experienced criminals to learn from, and that's often the case. When inmates get out of prison they're not penitent for their crimes: they're smarter about how not to get caught next time.
On the other hand how can we address problems like this? Some people need monitored care, but outside of someone taking direct and personal responsibility for the individual we just can't do better than insitutionalizing someone right now.
Unless, you know, direct and personal responsibility for youth = parenting. But that's a can of worms I'm sure nobody wants to address.
The article's point is that plenty of companies can do this, so long as they spend $60-$100 MORE for a business-class license. Apparently only those capable of spending more money have the cognitive capacities to understand risks involved in VM, and is a kick in the pants to home users who don't buy the same version as their office.
Which makes about as much sense as buying a more expensive copy of Windows for the coolness factor... A route their MS spokesperson maybe should've gone instead. Just imagine the black-on-colour iPod-esque commercials touting how you'll get laid dancing to your Virtual PC!
-Matt
Buddy, your 62.5 Gigabyte movies are some hardcore HD.
It's probably not the best solution, but it's a machine theoretically capable of going anywhere a human could go, doing anything a human could do. Practical value is a machine that can access areas otherwise harmful to humans, but designed at a time when only humans could operate the controls... and boy are there a surprising number of those.
This also ties in with evolution; humans are by far not the fastest runners, best swimmers, or even half-decent flyers. We do however have body that's multi-functional: we run ok, we climb ok, we've got great precision with our hands. Copying organic constructs helps with design because there's thousands of years of failed evolutionary ideas we don't have to try first (or we're looking to God's creations for ideas depending on your beliefs).
Oh, and I've been watching original BSG: we need human-shaped robots to fulfill their destiny as man's conqueror.
-Matt
A beowulf cluster of cockroaches perhaps?
-Matt
You haven't seen the WMD that site was carrying, the sheer destructive force of bombs like this or this could bring the country to its knees. Only a preemptive strike prevents further damage from the radiating disease following these around.
-Matt
I'm all for this, quite frankly we should rebuild TCP/IP with an easily-managed layer of security. RFC1149 provides an excellent example of an easily secured network, all the MPAA would needs is a suitably-qualified group of packet "hunters" to dispose of unwanted traffic.
-Matt
Does this mean if I fall asleep part way through the download, when I wake-up I'll have no idea what to do with the file?
Ugh, see a movie about a couple geeks, doze off for a few minutes, and they're killing their time-displaced duplicates... what else is new.
-Matt
Which is the ultimate joke seeing as how we were made in his image, yet considering all our views on the subject obviously not his sense of humour.
Holy mental seg. fault batman.
-Matt
Well that certainly won't put it on equal ground with the average pre-schooler.
-Matt
Pretty sure I enjoyed it more because of the books. The Register had it right about plot development: you'll need to have read the books to make sense of some parts - like the dolphins - but otherwise it's a pretty funny film.
I love the sound effect tie-ins too, watch for the bread knife and it's upcoming George Lucas prequel.
-Matt
Much like all the great ads, they take a commonly held belief and associate it with their product, ad is as follows:
Boobies = Good
Boobies, boobies, boobies, Go Daddy, boobies, old guy, boobies
Go Daddy = Boobies = Good
Possibly old guy = good too, not sure about that?
-Matt
Never thought I'd say this, but thank you Americans for making my country free, it's sincerely appreciated.
There's way more to this liberal scandal than we're supposed to know. I understand the necessity for short-term publication bans when a trial is in progress, but anything pertinent to discovering the truth about something (hence a trial) should really be accessible when it comes to public office.
-Matt
Information provided by third party domain registrants give you a layer of protection from who sees your personal information. I see it as a good idea, of all the domains I've registered for future use not a single one hasn't been spammed to hell because of crawlers parsing information off new registrations. Luckily my spamassassin is well-configured and I can identify junk snail-mail pretty quick, but most people aren't so fortunate.
This isn't designed to protect us from the law, it's a means to have a little privacy on the internet. Yes, usually the innocent have nothing to hide, but there's some very legitimate spam/stalking/fraud concerns for allowing private registrations and I feel the option should be there, especially now that so many domains hand-out private individual's contact information via WHOIS.
-Matt
"...it's good that we have corporations and organizations at our back defending our right..."
It's Twilight-Zone Slashdot!
"PoprocksCk was an average soul, then one morning he thanked big money for upholding his freedom of speech. He's entered: the Twilight-Zone!"
-Matt
Sir, this is by far the smartest response I've ever read on Slashdot.
Thank you.
-Matt
You mean to tell me Al Gore knew his invention was doomed to crash? What the hell?
-Matt
Buddy, roll over and die already. If there's no purpose to life then why live in the first place? I certainly hope your nihilist beliefs aren't passed onto the next generation.
The whole purpose of this article wasn't to create robots (it actually says don't be a worker robot), but to motivate people into a direction that will eventually provide a fulfilling career, one where as an adult they can get up every day feeling life is fresh and new. The message is pretty simple: do stuff because you find it fun and challenging, not because you need to fit better into some existing mold.
Here's a neat truth: there's a very good chance neither you nor I will be remembered 1000 years from now. Should I be so overwhelmed by my own mortality that I can't enjoy myself past the time of realizing this? No way. Don't go chasing some childhood innocence either, time will move on with or without you.
Don't motivate squandering, you can work at something and enjoy it, even that guy from Office Space found his calling.
-Matt
Less the fact that the original war only needed something like 75 capitol ships to end it. Would make for a good scene, like Star Wars though would probably be left for the movies.
Maybe we'll see a Star Trek crossover instead, Captain Catherine Janeway-MacGuyver will come in using a toothpick, some bubble gum, and a mickey of romulan ale to not only save the refugees, but also manage to destroy another borg queen almost accidentally.
When the credits list Clippy as a co-star you know we're in trouble:
"It looks like you're trying to stop the evil chess program, would you like to..."
I wonder if he'll be voiced by the same guy that did Jar-Jar.
-Matt
Maybe, but not if I stick the lid on.
I love vague analogies!
You can't offer the stuff, that's the quirky point about copying. Just like up here in Canada I can't lend you a CD to copy, but if I accidentally leave it at your place and you make a replica for personal use there's aboslutely nothing wrong with it.
...now if that money could be sent straight to artists... yadda-yadda... you get it.
Funny, while it's a sad precedent saying that by buying a computer I intend to infringe on the copyright of others it really just makes me feel less bad for recording industries and their fight for protection.
-Matt
So YOU'RE the one hosting that site. Fastest slashdot effect ever.
-Matt
Now a Porn-A-Nuke?
Also known as a very dirty bomb.
-Matt
Except that they would in turn be shooting themselves in the foot as HD-DVD is the standard Microsoft is pushing.
Though it would be funny, I bet the guy who issued blu-ray DVDs with MS patches probably wouldn't see future career options with the company.
-Matt