you have to set it up since it's hidden and it's a partition since it's seperate from everything else.
Wrong and wrong. Plug any ipod into your PC, and it will show up as a harddrive. You can browse it directly, you can copy music files off of it without any additional software, and you can create extra folders to store your own files in (as I have done for storing large video files). It's just a USB/firewire hard disk. The only thing you need extra software for is finding the actual music file that corresponds to a song, because they're all renamed when they're copied to the ipod, so that although you can copy files off of the ipod with explorer, you might need a program to locate the actual file you want.
So stop yer whining, go buy a license, and make one!
A license costs 10.000 usd. Do you have that kind of money lying around? I sure don't.
Isn't that what Linux users are always saying when someone else points out a missing feature in their program? "Well, grab the source and do it your damn self!"
The source is out there, there are tons of highly capable dvd players for linux. They just happen to all be illegal.
InterVideo has for a while now offered licensed DVD player software for Linux.
No they haven't. Just surf to intervideo's site and try to buy the lindvd player. You can't, because it's not available for sale to end-users. Well, ok, so technically they've offered it to "selected partners", but frankly, that's not the meaning I associate with the word "offered".
The license intervideo has for selling dvd players on linux has been used as an excuse by the media industry for years, and there's still not a single legal dvd player I can buy and install on my linux machines.
My sister is exactly the same way. She used to browse from my W2K laptop when she hung out with me (instead of using a linux box), and despite firefox being right there on the desktop and IE being deep down in the start menu, she would always launch IE and use that to browse. When I asked her why she did that it basically came down to "using IE feels better". Then I performed a little experiment to see how loyal she was to IE, and the results were most interesting. I removed IE from the start menu, and told her I had removed IE and she had to use firefox now. After that, she stopped using that computer entirely, and will only surf the web from a windows box using IE, even though the only computer available to her for that is an old pentium, which is horribly slow.
That big blue e has a LOT of brand power. People use IE for the logo, not for the browsing experience. It's like with just about any drink made by the coca-cola company. In every single market there is a cheaper product that tastes better, and in fact, I think most of them (fanta, sprite, minute maid, diet coke,...) taste downright horrible, but just because of brand power people honestly genuinely have made themselves believe they are not only quality products, but the best in the market. Or it's like clothing from nike. It's not better quality, it's a lot more expensive, it's made under horrible labor conditions, and yet nike outsells most clothing firms on the planet simply because of brand power.
Until the mozilla team creates an appealing brand, pushes it really hard, and makes people associate good feelings with the brand, it won't get anywhere with the average user. It's good to see the marketing efforts surrounding firefox, trying to create an appealing, easily recognizable logo, running a coherent marketing campaign. But with the dichotomy between mozilla and firefox there's still a mixed message hitting users. Mozilla, the suite, either has to adopt the firefox branding, or it has to be made invisible to the end user. Nothing else will clear up the brand confusion.
Which is exactly why we (the United States) had (initially) a democratic republic as opposed to a pure democracy. Some/most U.S. citizens are:
stupid/ignorant/evil/jerk-offs/small-minded/"can 't think for themselves"/un-informed.
Just because they are citizens does not mean that they should be allowed to make policy. Viz, just because they happen to be human doesn't mean their opinion is useful, important, or valuable.
You do realise that that is the argument used for centuries to keep blacks and women from voting, right?
Can you prove that a dumb person has less value than a smart person, and is less deserving of being heard?
I would say that if most people are too ignorant or don't have the right values to make a sane decision voting-wise, then what is needed is a better education system, not a better voting system.
I really wonder why the guy took the patent out. Does he really believe anyone would build an AI that is covered by it during the 20 years that a patent lasts?
I assume any AI will not be comparable to humans in how its value system works, since the human value system is largely based on faith and instinct, while an AI value system would be based on basic goals programming, and higher-order logic to interpret those goals.
It seems like 10 laws would be too little or too much anyway. You could not possibly boil down all moral decisions to 10 basic usecases, and if you make abstract laws that require reasoning and induction to conclude actual real life decisions from, all you would need is one: "do the least harm possible".
From TFA: We have to protect official sponsors who have paid millions to make the Olympics happen.
Silly me. I thought it was the that made the Olympics happen.
If a form or venue of advertising bothers you, just boycott the advertised product. It's only because advertising at the olympics leads to a huge leap in sales that companies do something like that. Take away the leap, and you'll take away the advertising.
Having no up to date stable kernel will encourage forking. All distributions must now roll their own stable kernel if they want one.
Even though they all have to release the changes back, they're still going to be incompatible eventually.
All the major distro's were already using a forked kernel anyway. There is no real change. Distro's will still take linus' official kernel releases, and then modify them to fit their purposes. Linus' move is merely an acknowledgement of that fact. The only people who can complain are people who not only compile their own kernel, but compile the mainline linus kernel release, without applying patches. On the other hand, nobody should ever have a need to do that.
A real life example: the linux kernel is BSD-relicensed, DistroInc turns it into a closed source kernel on which a closed source linux distro is based. DistroInc has gained freedoms by the relicensing, but everyone else has lost them, because if the kernel were not relicensed, DistroInc would have to have made their improvements public, thereby benefiting everyone in the community, giving them higher freedom to use DistroInc's advancements.
Now, they're not that big, but there's not really anyone lobbying against them. At least, not in the ways it counts, through money and people actually in congress talking with congressmen day in day out.
You don't really have to worry about wings or air availability at altitude if you can reach escape velocity.
From the earth's surface escape velocity is 25000mph. Mach 1 is 760mph, so escape velocity is mach 32. Ofcourse, that ignores air friction, and I have no idea whether a scramjet could ever reach that speed.
Ofcourse, the higher you go, the lower the escape velocity becomes. So maybe someone who actually knows what they're talking about can tell us how fast you would need to go at altitudes where the scramjet is still operational to reach escape velocity?
Ximian Evolution is the Managerial, Outlook-esque product for Linux that you seem to be missing.
The thing is, if you tie it in with exchange you're still locked into MS, and if you don't, there's simply nothing on the server end that provides the same kinf of functionality.
If it really WAS a good cheaper outlook alternative, lots more people would be switching to it than are.
The firefox installer skims off a few megs by using 7zip compression (which is why the linux and mac builds are so much bigger, no 7zip). I would imagine the sunbird installer exe isn't built with 7zip support yet.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
That's handily vague. Unreasonable to whom? If you mean to the person being searched, all searches are unreasonable, and that doesn't seem like the right interpretation, and if you mean unreasonable to the courts, it gives them free range to pretty much ok any kind of search there is.
Just like how "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts" and "limited times" have been deemed too vague to mean anything, and therefore giving free range to the government to design copyright law as they please.
The constitution, wonderful though it is, is simply too vague to mean anything. Besides, I think a constitution doesn't really help all that much in guaranteeing freedom. The people demanding it at all costs, that's what helps.
There is nothing "theatrical" about people interfering with your bank account, denying you access, manipulating your health records and all of the other things that happen when, under the pretext of security, an ID card with a single number connected to you is mandated by the state.
Do you have evidence for this? Show the documented evidence that national standardised ID's lead to more identity theft and abuse.
I live in the US mainland, and my family lives in Hawaii.
It's your decision to live so far away from your family you can't reach them in time without taking an airplane in case of emergencies.
People used to do without ALL technology, you can learn to do so again, but nobody ever claimed it was easy, and I'm not going to claim I would be willing to do it.
In order for computers to start thinking like humans, we first have to be able to properly understand and model how humans think. The computers, no matter how massive the computational power available to them is, aren't going to spontaneously "wake up" (what the hell is he talking about there?) and develop consciousness - humans developed consciousness because brains evolved via very complex evolutionary mechanisms over millenia - mechanisms that computers don't exhibit or use.
You make a number of assumptions. First that truly intelligent AI would have to be humanlike, and secondly that the only way to do that is through evolution. I wouldn't agree with either.
What seems to me is most necessary is pattern recognition techniques for learning language structure and associating meaning with it, data representation models for representing that meaning, reasoning algorithms that draw new conclusions from incomplete and fuzzy data, and a planning engine that ties it all together. It should all be extremely forgiving of incomplete, unexpected or wrong data. It's really difficult indeed, but I wouldn't say it's impossible.
A few plants and animals may die off, but I don't know why people are convinced the planet has to be exactly the same now as it was in the beginning of recorded history.
Small temperature shifts of only a few degrees can absolutely destroy an ecosystem. When temperatures move past the point where the dominant plant species can thrive, the base of the ecocycle gets removed, planteaters start dying off, and then flesheaters can't find enough planteaters and die off too. We've seen it over and over. Look at reef death for a recent example.
We do not yet know how to build our own ecosystem. The human-created ecosystems are very unstable, and very simplistic (with poor biodiversity). So, if we destroy an ecosystem, we have nothing to replace it wait and have to wait for nature and evolution to make up for our stupidity. That's a reason why we have to be careful before we go do our thing to nature.
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you have to set it up since it's hidden and it's a partition since it's seperate from everything else.
Wrong and wrong. Plug any ipod into your PC, and it will show up as a harddrive. You can browse it directly, you can copy music files off of it without any additional software, and you can create extra folders to store your own files in (as I have done for storing large video files). It's just a USB/firewire hard disk. The only thing you need extra software for is finding the actual music file that corresponds to a song, because they're all renamed when they're copied to the ipod, so that although you can copy files off of the ipod with explorer, you might need a program to locate the actual file you want.
So stop yer whining, go buy a license, and make one!
A license costs 10.000 usd. Do you have that kind of money lying around? I sure don't.
Isn't that what Linux users are always saying when someone else points out a missing feature in their program? "Well, grab the source and do it your damn self!"
The source is out there, there are tons of highly capable dvd players for linux. They just happen to all be illegal.
InterVideo has for a while now offered licensed DVD player software for Linux.
No they haven't. Just surf to intervideo's site and try to buy the lindvd player. You can't, because it's not available for sale to end-users. Well, ok, so technically they've offered it to "selected partners", but frankly, that's not the meaning I associate with the word "offered".
The license intervideo has for selling dvd players on linux has been used as an excuse by the media industry for years, and there's still not a single legal dvd player I can buy and install on my linux machines.
My sister is exactly the same way. She used to browse from my W2K laptop when she hung out with me (instead of using a linux box), and despite firefox being right there on the desktop and IE being deep down in the start menu, she would always launch IE and use that to browse. When I asked her why she did that it basically came down to "using IE feels better". Then I performed a little experiment to see how loyal she was to IE, and the results were most interesting. I removed IE from the start menu, and told her I had removed IE and she had to use firefox now. After that, she stopped using that computer entirely, and will only surf the web from a windows box using IE, even though the only computer available to her for that is an old pentium, which is horribly slow.
...) taste downright horrible, but just because of brand power people honestly genuinely have made themselves believe they are not only quality products, but the best in the market. Or it's like clothing from nike. It's not better quality, it's a lot more expensive, it's made under horrible labor conditions, and yet nike outsells most clothing firms on the planet simply because of brand power.
That big blue e has a LOT of brand power. People use IE for the logo, not for the browsing experience. It's like with just about any drink made by the coca-cola company. In every single market there is a cheaper product that tastes better, and in fact, I think most of them (fanta, sprite, minute maid, diet coke,
Until the mozilla team creates an appealing brand, pushes it really hard, and makes people associate good feelings with the brand, it won't get anywhere with the average user. It's good to see the marketing efforts surrounding firefox, trying to create an appealing, easily recognizable logo, running a coherent marketing campaign. But with the dichotomy between mozilla and firefox there's still a mixed message hitting users. Mozilla, the suite, either has to adopt the firefox branding, or it has to be made invisible to the end user. Nothing else will clear up the brand confusion.
The problem is emulating a PPC processor on x86 hardware. It is much harder than the other way around.
Why is this? I've never heard this. I would have thought the PPC instruction set to be simpler than x86.
Which is exactly why we (the United States) had (initially) a democratic republic as opposed to a pure democracy. Some/most U.S. citizens are:
n 't think for themselves"/un-informed.
stupid/ignorant/evil/jerk-offs/small-minded/"ca
Just because they are citizens does not mean that they should be allowed to make policy. Viz, just because they happen to be human doesn't mean their opinion is useful, important, or valuable.
You do realise that that is the argument used for centuries to keep blacks and women from voting, right?
Can you prove that a dumb person has less value than a smart person, and is less deserving of being heard?
I would say that if most people are too ignorant or don't have the right values to make a sane decision voting-wise, then what is needed is a better education system, not a better voting system.
I really wonder why the guy took the patent out. Does he really believe anyone would build an AI that is covered by it during the 20 years that a patent lasts?
I assume any AI will not be comparable to humans in how its value system works, since the human value system is largely based on faith and instinct, while an AI value system would be based on basic goals programming, and higher-order logic to interpret those goals.
It seems like 10 laws would be too little or too much anyway. You could not possibly boil down all moral decisions to 10 basic usecases, and if you make abstract laws that require reasoning and induction to conclude actual real life decisions from, all you would need is one: "do the least harm possible".
From TFA: We have to protect official sponsors who have paid millions to make the Olympics happen.
Silly me. I thought it was the that made the Olympics happen.
If a form or venue of advertising bothers you, just boycott the advertised product. It's only because advertising at the olympics leads to a huge leap in sales that companies do something like that. Take away the leap, and you'll take away the advertising.
Having no up to date stable kernel will encourage forking. All distributions must now roll their own stable kernel if they want one.
Even though they all have to release the changes back, they're still going to be incompatible eventually.
All the major distro's were already using a forked kernel anyway. There is no real change. Distro's will still take linus' official kernel releases, and then modify them to fit their purposes. Linus' move is merely an acknowledgement of that fact. The only people who can complain are people who not only compile their own kernel, but compile the mainline linus kernel release, without applying patches. On the other hand, nobody should ever have a need to do that.
A real life example: the linux kernel is BSD-relicensed, DistroInc turns it into a closed source kernel on which a closed source linux distro is based. DistroInc has gained freedoms by the relicensing, but everyone else has lost them, because if the kernel were not relicensed, DistroInc would have to have made their improvements public, thereby benefiting everyone in the community, giving them higher freedom to use DistroInc's advancements.
But spammers? They're not particularly organized, as far as I know.
I would guess it's mainly the direct marketing association that lobbies for weaker spam regulation. They are opposing a national do-not-spam list, and they're the main reason why the do-not-call list has no power.
Now, they're not that big, but there's not really anyone lobbying against them. At least, not in the ways it counts, through money and people actually in congress talking with congressmen day in day out.
You don't really have to worry about wings or air availability at altitude if you can reach escape velocity.
From the earth's surface escape velocity is 25000mph. Mach 1 is 760mph, so escape velocity is mach 32. Ofcourse, that ignores air friction, and I have no idea whether a scramjet could ever reach that speed.
Ofcourse, the higher you go, the lower the escape velocity becomes. So maybe someone who actually knows what they're talking about can tell us how fast you would need to go at altitudes where the scramjet is still operational to reach escape velocity?
I think I speak for everyone when I say that I don't want smaller robots. I want bigger robots.
Maybe you should ask these guys when they're finally going to have something to show off and crush earthlings with.
Ximian Evolution is the Managerial, Outlook-esque product for Linux that you seem to be missing.
The thing is, if you tie it in with exchange you're still locked into MS, and if you don't, there's simply nothing on the server end that provides the same kinf of functionality.
If it really WAS a good cheaper outlook alternative, lots more people would be switching to it than are.
The firefox installer skims off a few megs by using 7zip compression (which is why the linux and mac builds are so much bigger, no 7zip). I would imagine the sunbird installer exe isn't built with 7zip support yet.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
That's handily vague. Unreasonable to whom? If you mean to the person being searched, all searches are unreasonable, and that doesn't seem like the right interpretation, and if you mean unreasonable to the courts, it gives them free range to pretty much ok any kind of search there is.
Just like how "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts" and "limited times" have been deemed too vague to mean anything, and therefore giving free range to the government to design copyright law as they please.
The constitution, wonderful though it is, is simply too vague to mean anything. Besides, I think a constitution doesn't really help all that much in guaranteeing freedom. The people demanding it at all costs, that's what helps.
There is nothing "theatrical" about people interfering with your bank account, denying you access, manipulating your health records and all of the other things that happen when, under the pretext of security, an ID card with a single number connected to you is mandated by the state.
Do you have evidence for this? Show the documented evidence that national standardised ID's lead to more identity theft and abuse.
I live in the US mainland, and my family lives in Hawaii.
It's your decision to live so far away from your family you can't reach them in time without taking an airplane in case of emergencies.
People used to do without ALL technology, you can learn to do so again, but nobody ever claimed it was easy, and I'm not going to claim I would be willing to do it.
Holding a job requires making compromises. I do my best.
Historically when people opposed oppressive governments, they didn't just give up their jobs, they gave up their lives.
I don't like what I see day by day, that people just have to give up a bit more freedom to ascertain "safety" (baah).
As benjamin franklin said:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I would agree with that.
In order for computers to start thinking like humans, we first have to be able to properly understand and model how humans think. The computers, no matter how massive the computational power available to them is, aren't going to spontaneously "wake up" (what the hell is he talking about there?) and develop consciousness - humans developed consciousness because brains evolved via very complex evolutionary mechanisms over millenia - mechanisms that computers don't exhibit or use.
You make a number of assumptions. First that truly intelligent AI would have to be humanlike, and secondly that the only way to do that is through evolution. I wouldn't agree with either.
What seems to me is most necessary is pattern recognition techniques for learning language structure and associating meaning with it, data representation models for representing that meaning, reasoning algorithms that draw new conclusions from incomplete and fuzzy data, and a planning engine that ties it all together. It should all be extremely forgiving of incomplete, unexpected or wrong data. It's really difficult indeed, but I wouldn't say it's impossible.
On the other hand, hydrogen, being much lighter than air, would disperse to non-dangerous levels a LOT more quickly than gasoline.
If a $100 billion investment was all it took, I think it would already be here. Fusion isn't easy.
Fusion is very easy. It's fusion that produces more energy than it uses up that is not easy.
However, the ITER people seem to think commercially viable fusion is not only possible, but realisable within a few decades.
The total cost for the ITER project is valued at 5 billion dollars, only a part of which is paid for by the US.
I think 100 billion dollars would make a big difference. ITER needs to be railroaded, since it's just moving too annoyingly slow.
A few plants and animals may die off, but I don't know why people are convinced the planet has to be exactly the same now as it was in the beginning of recorded history.
Small temperature shifts of only a few degrees can absolutely destroy an ecosystem. When temperatures move past the point where the dominant plant species can thrive, the base of the ecocycle gets removed, planteaters start dying off, and then flesheaters can't find enough planteaters and die off too. We've seen it over and over. Look at reef death for a recent example.
We do not yet know how to build our own ecosystem. The human-created ecosystems are very unstable, and very simplistic (with poor biodiversity). So, if we destroy an ecosystem, we have nothing to replace it wait and have to wait for nature and evolution to make up for our stupidity. That's a reason why we have to be careful before we go do our thing to nature.
Check to see how much the environmental laws have slowed new housing developments.
Any substantiation of your claim? You just can not throw that out there without even a single link to back it up with.