what if we had some sort of protocol for making an online peer-to-peer "music library" where everyone had their CD collection available, and the protocol was made in such a way that the song could only be simultaneously played by as many people as copies of it were available in the library? Then I'd just be "borrowing" the song from you- no different than borrowing the physical album from you. Would that be legal?
i like macs. i like OSX. it's great when you use it with a real mouse. i'd be happy if apple just sold a "pro" mouse, or whatever, that matches the design of their computers. it's a shame to spend all that money to get such a fancily designed computer to just have to buy a logitech mouse that doesn't match at all in order to make efficient use of it.
amen- and this is why the one button mouse on the mac is so friggin' retarded. they may have done a study way back when that showed people had an easier time with one button, but people who have learned how to use multiple buttons are way more productive. when i sit down at a mac, it's like having my hand chopped off and navigating with a nub. some things are worth learning. what's needed is effective methods for teaching them, not dumbing down things.
i like the idea of various "levels" of interface- the old geoworks desktop office apps used to do this, however i take issue with your notion that features have to come at usability's expense. usability means being able to do whatever you want--intuitively. if you can't do what you want, it's not usable. all the features should be available, just organized and represented in an intuitive way.
how do you know it's uncomputable? define computable, anyway- are we talking readily computable in real-time by a human? what if i can compute the response 5 weeks after the fact with a supercomputer? does it still have free will? and my computer creates tons of information- does it have free will?
certainly- but to assume something is non-deterministic when there is plenty of evidence to suggest that it is deterministic is just silly. the whole of human learning has taken us from an entirely non-deterministic world, where we ascribed everything in our experience to mysterious and tempremental gods, to one that we mostly accept as being completely deterministic, yet most of us seem to think that this doesn't apply to ourselves. humans are somehow special and non-deterministic, despite being composed of matter and operating within this universe. at some point humans will have to face whatever it is that makes them afraid of accepting that their behavior is deterministic. only then will we really be able to control ourselves and break out of these destructive patterns that plague our daily lives.
define free will, please. as best as i can tell, people don't have free will. it's a holdout from dualistic religious thinking that imagined an ethereal "spirit" that was "free" to control one's body.
surely developments in science over the past 100 years have suggested that this is hardly the case. check out the work of b.f. skinner. he makes a pretty clear and convincing scientific argument that there is no "ghost in the machine", but that it's all just learned behavior. we have certain biological responses that reward and punish behavior, and then through our experiences we build more complex systems of reward and punishment that define our behavior. sure, it's extremely complex. chaotic, even. but it doesn't just happen for no reason, which is what you basically suggest when you imply free will.
So do us all a favor and shut the fuck up about how video games totally force shitheads to go out and commit acts of violence
did i say anything to that effect? clearly, you are retarded, and i don't know why i'm bothering to respond, but alas i feel generous today- i didn't say video games, rap music, the media, or anything causes people to be violent. the fact of the matter is that history has shown that people do occasionally become violent from time to time for whatever reason, and that sometimes includes teenagers, and sometimes they choose to attack their school.
if our own army uses these same video games to teach squad tactics to their soldiers, is it such a stretch to believe that they must have some value in improving their performance in battle? and that they would similarly improve a teenager's perfomance?
i'm not saying that their aim will be better, but there are tactics that get you success in the game that you might not otherwise learn, like alternating providing cover fire while leapfrogging forward, or where to take cover, etc.
and, by the way, your "leftist copout" "world government" shit sounds a little paranoid to me. been watching alex jones and smoking the doob a bit much lately?
how long before some kids try to pull another columbine-type thing, this time implementing the tactics they've learned by playing America's Army, or Full Spectrum Warrior, making their attack far more deadly?
...a rather confusingly worded comment- Do you hold the door open for old ladies entering a shopping center? is a nice thing. everything else is a rude, selfish, or paranoid thing. and i am supposing when you say Only be nice when it's legislated. you are describing this person's behavior and not issuing a command. perhaps a better phrasing would be you're only nice if it's legislated". or are you tired of unwarranted niceness and wishing people would just stick to what is mandated by law?
i'm of the opinon that you can have sufficiently thick layers at the node level to make network-level security unnecessary, particularly for residential traffic.
there is an added bonus to having open networks be the norm- privacy and untraceabilty. while this allows the potential for abuse, if openness is the norm it could be a viable defense in court, and i see the abuses (e.g. spam) are more of a problem with other things (open mail servers).
anonymity on the web is as vital for freedom as anonymity in reality, and the situation with networks is not too different than with say, roads. we could prevent people from using roads to get away with bank robberies by requiring authorization for any use, but even not counting the logistical concerns, we wouldn't for obvious privacy issues. instead, we just secure the banks.
i agree. shouldn't we just leave the networks open and have secure computers? what's the problem with having a wide open network if you've got your computer all patched up and are encrypting your e-mail, etc?
seems to me that if you secure your data at the earliest possible point, it doesn't matter what sort of insecure territory (and there will likely always be insecure territory SOMEWHERE) it passes through to get to its destination.
chipotle is far better than freebirds. the quality of the ingredients alone is enough, not to mention the atmosphere and price. besides, you obviously missed the point that the original post was a joke.
that's sorta like how i learned how to touch type quickly- my freshman year of college, i would stay up late chatting with people online after my roommate had gone to bed. forcing yourself to type in the dark will make you a good typist quick
my grandfather once had in his garage a "teaching typewriter" which had no letters on any of the keys. i suppose, if you have one of the old ibm-type keyboards, you could remove all the caps and make your own...
perhaps the wikipedia should have some sort of statistical moderation thing. you could vary your settings to see what a high percentage of a large number of people agreed with to get the most probable truth, or you could lower your settings to see other views, and perhaps mod them up, if you think they are more accurate representations of reality...
The iPAQ h6315 looks like it has everything I'd want from a pocket device. I can't wait 'till these start having higher resolution cameras, more storage, and faster processors.
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this isn't intended to be a city bus, silly- nobody's gonna be pulling any tabs to get off at the next corner. what this is intended to do is be a bridge between long-distance passenger bus service (greyhound) -where it has the drawback of being able to get stuck in traffic- and long-distance passenger rail service (amtrak) -where it has the drawback of only being able to go where the rail goes, and only being able to stop at rail stations.
this is intended to be the best of both worlds- pick people up where they are, and then get onto the rail and away from traffic.
why is it that when everyone views ads as annoying on websites and uses technology to avoid them, nobody really complains, yet when something like a tivo comes out, the tv networks get to bribe the FCC or whatever to prevent it from having ad blocking features? let's hope internet advertisers don't ever become a powerful lobbying group...
you should probably rethink that- it seems to me that a better strategy would be to support the businesses of people whom you know to be like minded and happen to be in Utah.
Utah, sadly, is not likely to cease being a state or having two senators or congressmen anytime soon. If thinking people can't do business there, and consequently move out, that will leave only morons to do all the voting there. We want to encourage intelligent, thinking people to go there and vote, not drive them out.
who needs the boof!? tom clancy books are boilerplate, like john grisham or stephen king, or any other mass-marketed serial novelist's books. they're romance novels for men. yet people continue to buy them over and over again....
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what if we had some sort of protocol for making an online peer-to-peer "music library" where everyone had their CD collection available, and the protocol was made in such a way that the song could only be simultaneously played by as many people as copies of it were available in the library? Then I'd just be "borrowing" the song from you- no different than borrowing the physical album from you. Would that be legal?
i like macs. i like OSX. it's great when you use it with a real mouse. i'd be happy if apple just sold a "pro" mouse, or whatever, that matches the design of their computers. it's a shame to spend all that money to get such a fancily designed computer to just have to buy a logitech mouse that doesn't match at all in order to make efficient use of it.
amen- and this is why the one button mouse on the mac is so friggin' retarded. they may have done a study way back when that showed people had an easier time with one button, but people who have learned how to use multiple buttons are way more productive. when i sit down at a mac, it's like having my hand chopped off and navigating with a nub. some things are worth learning. what's needed is effective methods for teaching them, not dumbing down things.
i like the idea of various "levels" of interface- the old geoworks desktop office apps used to do this, however i take issue with your notion that features have to come at usability's expense. usability means being able to do whatever you want--intuitively. if you can't do what you want, it's not usable. all the features should be available, just organized and represented in an intuitive way.
how do you know it's uncomputable? define computable, anyway- are we talking readily computable in real-time by a human? what if i can compute the response 5 weeks after the fact with a supercomputer? does it still have free will? and my computer creates tons of information- does it have free will?
certainly- but to assume something is non-deterministic when there is plenty of evidence to suggest that it is deterministic is just silly. the whole of human learning has taken us from an entirely non-deterministic world, where we ascribed everything in our experience to mysterious and tempremental gods, to one that we mostly accept as being completely deterministic, yet most of us seem to think that this doesn't apply to ourselves. humans are somehow special and non-deterministic, despite being composed of matter and operating within this universe. at some point humans will have to face whatever it is that makes them afraid of accepting that their behavior is deterministic. only then will we really be able to control ourselves and break out of these destructive patterns that plague our daily lives.
define free will, please. as best as i can tell, people don't have free will. it's a holdout from dualistic religious thinking that imagined an ethereal "spirit" that was "free" to control one's body.
surely developments in science over the past 100 years have suggested that this is hardly the case. check out the work of b.f. skinner. he makes a pretty clear and convincing scientific argument that there is no "ghost in the machine", but that it's all just learned behavior. we have certain biological responses that reward and punish behavior, and then through our experiences we build more complex systems of reward and punishment that define our behavior. sure, it's extremely complex. chaotic, even. but it doesn't just happen for no reason, which is what you basically suggest when you imply free will.
So do us all a favor and shut the fuck up about how video games totally force shitheads to go out and commit acts of violence
did i say anything to that effect? clearly, you are retarded, and i don't know why i'm bothering to respond, but alas i feel generous today- i didn't say video games, rap music, the media, or anything causes people to be violent. the fact of the matter is that history has shown that people do occasionally become violent from time to time for whatever reason, and that sometimes includes teenagers, and sometimes they choose to attack their school.
if our own army uses these same video games to teach squad tactics to their soldiers, is it such a stretch to believe that they must have some value in improving their performance in battle? and that they would similarly improve a teenager's perfomance?
i'm not saying that their aim will be better, but there are tactics that get you success in the game that you might not otherwise learn, like alternating providing cover fire while leapfrogging forward, or where to take cover, etc.
and, by the way, your "leftist copout" "world government" shit sounds a little paranoid to me. been watching alex jones and smoking the doob a bit much lately?
how long before some kids try to pull another columbine-type thing, this time implementing the tactics they've learned by playing America's Army, or Full Spectrum Warrior, making their attack far more deadly?
...pressurized from the INSIDE. making it easy to pop the door right open. heck, the emergency exit even has instructions right on it...
didn't dr. atkins die because he slipped and fell, hitting his head? i'm not sure it was in any way related to his diet...
...a rather confusingly worded comment- Do you hold the door open for old ladies entering a shopping center? is a nice thing. everything else is a rude, selfish, or paranoid thing. and i am supposing when you say Only be nice when it's legislated. you are describing this person's behavior and not issuing a command. perhaps a better phrasing would be you're only nice if it's legislated". or are you tired of unwarranted niceness and wishing people would just stick to what is mandated by law?
i'm of the opinon that you can have sufficiently thick layers at the node level to make network-level security unnecessary, particularly for residential traffic.
there is an added bonus to having open networks be the norm- privacy and untraceabilty. while this allows the potential for abuse, if openness is the norm it could be a viable defense in court, and i see the abuses (e.g. spam) are more of a problem with other things (open mail servers).
anonymity on the web is as vital for freedom as anonymity in reality, and the situation with networks is not too different than with say, roads. we could prevent people from using roads to get away with bank robberies by requiring authorization for any use, but even not counting the logistical concerns, we wouldn't for obvious privacy issues. instead, we just secure the banks.
i agree. shouldn't we just leave the networks open and have secure computers? what's the problem with having a wide open network if you've got your computer all patched up and are encrypting your e-mail, etc?
seems to me that if you secure your data at the earliest possible point, it doesn't matter what sort of insecure territory (and there will likely always be insecure territory SOMEWHERE) it passes through to get to its destination.
chipotle is far better than freebirds. the quality of the ingredients alone is enough, not to mention the atmosphere and price. besides, you obviously missed the point that the original post was a joke.
Brainwashing is one of the greatest joys of parenthood. :D
too bad so many people are relegating that joy to corporations like Disney...
that's sorta like how i learned how to touch type quickly- my freshman year of college, i would stay up late chatting with people online after my roommate had gone to bed. forcing yourself to type in the dark will make you a good typist quick
my grandfather once had in his garage a "teaching typewriter" which had no letters on any of the keys. i suppose, if you have one of the old ibm-type keyboards, you could remove all the caps and make your own...
perhaps the wikipedia should have some sort of statistical moderation thing. you could vary your settings to see what a high percentage of a large number of people agreed with to get the most probable truth, or you could lower your settings to see other views, and perhaps mod them up, if you think they are more accurate representations of reality...
The iPAQ h6315 looks like it has everything I'd want from a pocket device. I can't wait 'till these start having higher resolution cameras, more storage, and faster processors.
The specs look a lot like the O2 XDA II. Anyone know how a 168MHz TI OMAP 1510 compares to a 400MHz Intel Xscale PXA 263?
this isn't intended to be a city bus, silly- nobody's gonna be pulling any tabs to get off at the next corner. what this is intended to do is be a bridge between long-distance passenger bus service (greyhound) -where it has the drawback of being able to get stuck in traffic- and long-distance passenger rail service (amtrak) -where it has the drawback of only being able to go where the rail goes, and only being able to stop at rail stations.
this is intended to be the best of both worlds- pick people up where they are, and then get onto the rail and away from traffic.
not that this would ever happen in reality...
that's a shitload of gasoline... i'd hate to see one of those get in a wreck...
why is it that when everyone views ads as annoying on websites and uses technology to avoid them, nobody really complains, yet when something like a tivo comes out, the tv networks get to bribe the FCC or whatever to prevent it from having ad blocking features? let's hope internet advertisers don't ever become a powerful lobbying group...
...so what your saying is...
we could really cut costs if somebody could just invent dehydrated water?
you should probably rethink that- it seems to me that a better strategy would be to support the businesses of people whom you know to be like minded and happen to be in Utah.
Utah, sadly, is not likely to cease being a state or having two senators or congressmen anytime soon. If thinking people can't do business there, and consequently move out, that will leave only morons to do all the voting there. We want to encourage intelligent, thinking people to go there and vote, not drive them out.
who needs the boof!? tom clancy books are boilerplate, like john grisham or stephen king, or any other mass-marketed serial novelist's books. they're romance novels for men. yet people continue to buy them over and over again....