Yeah your right about exiting atmospheric particles - here is a pdf that talks about it. But the original point remains - nuclear explosions in Earth orbit would seriously mess with ground infrastructure.
First, in Earth orbit a nuclear explosion would at least knock out the power grid of the continent it happened to be above due to the electro-magnetic pulse of the explosion interacting with the Earth's natural fields and secondly, having so many atomic bombs just lying about (each spacecraft would need how many for propulsion?) could very easily lead to some of the charges going "missing".
What I would like to see more companies do is license their artwork and map geometry under a creative commons type license. It would be really nice if the complete quakes 1-3 were free for non-commercial use and modification.
And what I would really love to see as I'm not that good at managing my own memory is a python engine embedded within the quake 3 engine. Then I could program all my slow high level ai and use quake 3 as a visualization engine either in real time or by generating demonstration files in a machinama kind of way.
Windows Vista is Microsoft's next consumer operating system while longhorn is now the new name for Windows Server 2006 (or 7?). Basically they renamed longhorn to vista then renamed server to longhorn.
Monadology seems to be a protoscience towards the understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Today we call things Quantum back then it was essences. Notice how consciousness is described as an attribute of matter instead of an emergent artifact which in a real sense does not physically exist within our Universe, it only logically exists like calling a collection of cells a "glider" in Conways Game of Life.
My 2 cents anyway.
Here's the very Squashed version with the important text reproduced here:
All the plenum of the universe is entirely filled with tiny Monads, which cannot fail, have no constituent parts and have no windows through which anything could come in or go out. Every Monad is different and is continuously changing. All simple substances or Monads might be called Entelechies, for they have in them a certain perfection and a certain self-sufficiency. As they have some perception and desire, they may be called souls, but animal Souls are accompnied by memory. In dreamless sleep our soul is like a Monad. The knowledge of necessary and eternal truths distinguishes us from the animals and gives us Reason. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths. The final reason of things must be in a necessary substance, which we call God. God holds an infinity of ideas, and chooses the most perfect ones. Each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and, consequently, that it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe; though it represents more distinctly the body of which it is the entelechy. Each portion of matter is like a pond full of fishes, where each drop of its liquid parts is also another pond. Thus there is nothing fallow, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe. All the parts of every living body are full of other living beings, each with its dominant entelechy or soul. Thus there never is absolute birth nor complete death. Minds are images of the Deity, capable of knowing the system of the universe, each being like a small divinity in its own sphere. Whence the totality of all spirits must compose the City of God, where no good action would be unrewarded and no bad one unpunished. If we could understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds the desires of the wisest men.
Check out Arimaa. It's a game based on positional intelligence in stark contrast to brute force adaptive space searching that a chess engine uses. What is positional intelligence? Don't know, you gotta play it to learn it. But one thing that has been demonstrated so far is that a beginner human player has a good chance of beating the best computer player yet devised. And Arimaa has the same depth that is intrinsic within chess as well - your rating as a player ranges from novice to grandmaster. Positional intelligence has yet to pan out but one thing is proven by Arimaa, a new approach is needed to when dealing with the evaluation of the rules of it's game.
Compression is a far better basis for intelligence competition than chess, the Turing test or even SAT verbal analogy tests.
Or view intelligence as a signal to noise ratio with more signal representing a greater degree of some type of information. Compression is not intelligence, it is representation. This representation must be a program that, taking no outside inputs, produces the exact sample it compressed.
All compressed representations of information as we know it today compress by replacing a percieved order with smaller tokens with the effect that the data becomes more and more random until it has reached it's maximum compression and no new order can be tokenized. The reason this works as an AI quality test is that compression requires predictive modeling. If you can predict what someone is going to say, you have modeled their mental processes and by inference have a superset of their mental faculties.
Compression is not predictive. While there is a grain of truth with prediction, it's more like intelligence is the ability to predict and apply the predictions to create a desired outcome within your environment. It is dark. I predict flicking that switch will create light. Flick's switch. And to model someone's processes to the detail that they do your would need about three pounds of meat plus your extra process modeler to do so accurately. Of course there would be ethical problems with doing so.
I don't know offhand if Ubuntu has support for mp3 out of the box but, it's very friendly and at the very least it's easy to play audio cd's and rip them to ogg which is all you really need unless your downloading your songs off of p2p.
...In the end, the only people that DRM in games hardware has killed off are the bedroom programmers who don't have the resources to circumvent it.
That's why I love my linux PC. It's mine and you can't retroactively change that...
Your language is English but your meaning is completely unfathomable to me.
I wish companies would just drop DRM - it only hurts their legitimate customers. The warez pirates crack the protection within hours or days and then the pirates don't have to mess around with finding the CD when they want to play a game, etc. Sure DRM stops casual piracy but still there should be some limitations like what Id software does: CD protection at first but then remove it in some later patch to the game. This stops casual piracy for the immediate term while later on removing the annoyances for customers.
For a more scientific perspective, it's difficult. There's so many things that exist in a intelligence: the substrate it's built on (what it is composed of), a fundamental unit of computation (a nueron), and the connectivity patterns of the units to each other. Then, from a computational perspective, you have to compartmentalize your knowledge in a way our current scientific method is not good at: Instead of breaking things down into subunits (reductionism: what we're good at), you have to instead discover the emergent or metaphysical logical "atoms" that the higher level order is composed of given some substrate (Holistic: what we're not good at).
I don't know. And apparently nobody else does either.
Phrenology is so pre-modern. The Germans we're also pursuing quantum zero-point energy during WWII because Relativity would never amount to anything. (e=mc^2 of course as expressed as a nuclear weapon)
Whats neat is that the folding is a fractal structure which when unfolded has a very large surface area vs. it's actual size when folded. So I don't know about more folds implying a more complex wiring pattern, instead providing more neurons to be wired in some way.
If you thought as good about everything as a savant thought about one thing, I believe it would show that with proper organization a well wired smaller mass can be capable of greater predictions of the environment than a larger brain mass.
But considering that we all share the same assembly instructions, apples to apples maybe bigger is better.
I know where I'd like to see this first: A digital librarian for Wikipedia. An agent that would recommened articles based on your preferences and maybe store the articles in some language neutral format where articles could be expressed into a target language or parsed from a language into neutral format. Too bad nobodies publicly demonstrated anything close to the level of machine intelligence that would be required to do it.
Any program that was able to do two things would pass: The ability to load remote information into memory and to begin execution of the loaded information.
A way to automatically find this would be to use an execution tracer that would alert you when the programs point of execution "left" it's source code or allowed system api's.
And complete video surveillence of the passenger section and stream it live to the ground where it's recorded. It would not only give crucial video of what happened but would also be one more thing the terrorists had to disable. Or sleeping gas that only gets pumped into the passenger section too.
Or something, the point you make is the best: There's lot's more that can be done before you have to resort to some dehumanizing and intrusive invasive scan.
I wouldn't blog if I lived in China because you never know what could be used against you.
On another level, blogging could give open societies an edge as they offer processed information in the form of opinions which can be accepted or rejected as a whole when you only need general working knowledge of a topic. The quicker opinions can be integrated with yourself, the more mental ground you can cover. Of course if I was doing something critical I would not depend on Joe's opinion but would instead research the material myself.
Or not.
I can't wait until the music and hollywood industries wake up and start to sell their products in the way that people want to buy them. I'm more than willing to pay for my music but I'm not going to pay for a whole album when all I want is one song. It's kind of like going back to the 50's when the music industry was single driven instead of album driven. Right now we're between the old and new models of business - I can't wait until the transition is over.
It's good for business and if it turns out that in 30 or 40 years from now we can replace all our business with some magical positive return system then we can switch to it then. But in the mean time we're finding that we have mostly knowledge as our primary assets and pragmatically it is being protected through these treaties.
Take that with a grain of salt, it's just my off the cuff reaction.
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Yeah your right about exiting atmospheric particles - here is a pdf that talks about it. But the original point remains - nuclear explosions in Earth orbit would seriously mess with ground infrastructure.
First, in Earth orbit a nuclear explosion would at least knock out the power grid of the continent it happened to be above due to the electro-magnetic pulse of the explosion interacting with the Earth's natural fields and secondly, having so many atomic bombs just lying about (each spacecraft would need how many for propulsion?) could very easily lead to some of the charges going "missing".
What I would like to see more companies do is license their artwork and map geometry under a creative commons type license. It would be really nice if the complete quakes 1-3 were free for non-commercial use and modification.
And what I would really love to see as I'm not that good at managing my own memory is a python engine embedded within the quake 3 engine. Then I could program all my slow high level ai and use quake 3 as a visualization engine either in real time or by generating demonstration files in a machinama kind of way.
Windows Vista is Microsoft's next consumer operating system while longhorn is now the new name for Windows Server 2006 (or 7?). Basically they renamed longhorn to vista then renamed server to longhorn.
Monadology seems to be a protoscience towards the understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Today we call things Quantum back then it was essences. Notice how consciousness is described as an attribute of matter instead of an emergent artifact which in a real sense does not physically exist within our Universe, it only logically exists like calling a collection of cells a "glider" in Conways Game of Life.
My 2 cents anyway.
Here's the very Squashed version with the important text reproduced here:
All the plenum of the universe is entirely filled with tiny Monads, which cannot fail, have no constituent parts and have no windows through which anything could come in or go out. Every Monad is different and is continuously changing. All simple substances or Monads might be called Entelechies, for they have in them a certain perfection and a certain self-sufficiency. As they have some perception and desire, they may be called souls, but animal Souls are accompnied by memory. In dreamless sleep our soul is like a Monad. The knowledge of necessary and eternal truths distinguishes us from the animals and gives us Reason. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths. The final reason of things must be in a necessary substance, which we call God. God holds an infinity of ideas, and chooses the most perfect ones. Each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and, consequently, that it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe; though it represents more distinctly the body of which it is the entelechy. Each portion of matter is like a pond full of fishes, where each drop of its liquid parts is also another pond. Thus there is nothing fallow, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe. All the parts of every living body are full of other living beings, each with its dominant entelechy or soul. Thus there never is absolute birth nor complete death. Minds are images of the Deity, capable of knowing the system of the universe, each being like a small divinity in its own sphere. Whence the totality of all spirits must compose the City of God, where no good action would be unrewarded and no bad one unpunished. If we could understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds the desires of the wisest men.
I hope terrorists don't turn into Eurasia.
Seriously.
I hope he wins a nice settlement once it go's through arbitration and he wins an unfair dismissal case. (If he does that is).
Check out Arimaa. It's a game based on positional intelligence in stark contrast to brute force adaptive space searching that a chess engine uses. What is positional intelligence? Don't know, you gotta play it to learn it. But one thing that has been demonstrated so far is that a beginner human player has a good chance of beating the best computer player yet devised. And Arimaa has the same depth that is intrinsic within chess as well - your rating as a player ranges from novice to grandmaster. Positional intelligence has yet to pan out but one thing is proven by Arimaa, a new approach is needed to when dealing with the evaluation of the rules of it's game.
Compression is a far better basis for intelligence competition than chess, the Turing test or even SAT verbal analogy tests.
Or view intelligence as a signal to noise ratio with more signal representing a greater degree of some type of information. Compression is not intelligence, it is representation.
This representation must be a program that, taking no outside inputs, produces the exact sample it compressed.
All compressed representations of information as we know it today compress by replacing a percieved order with smaller tokens with the effect that the data becomes more and more random until it has reached it's maximum compression and no new order can be tokenized.
The reason this works as an AI quality test is that compression requires predictive modeling. If you can predict what someone is going to say, you have modeled their mental processes and by inference have a superset of their mental faculties.
Compression is not predictive. While there is a grain of truth with prediction, it's more like intelligence is the ability to predict and apply the predictions to create a desired outcome within your environment. It is dark. I predict flicking that switch will create light. Flick's switch. And to model someone's processes to the detail that they do your would need about three pounds of meat plus your extra process modeler to do so accurately. Of course there would be ethical problems with doing so.
I don't know offhand if Ubuntu has support for mp3 out of the box but, it's very friendly and at the very least it's easy to play audio cd's and rip them to ogg which is all you really need unless your downloading your songs off of p2p.
...In the end, the only people that DRM in games hardware has killed off are the bedroom programmers who don't have the resources to circumvent it.
That's why I love my linux PC. It's mine and you can't retroactively change that...
Your language is English but your meaning is completely unfathomable to me.
I wish companies would just drop DRM - it only hurts their legitimate customers. The warez pirates crack the protection within hours or days and then the pirates don't have to mess around with finding the CD when they want to play a game, etc. Sure DRM stops casual piracy but still there should be some limitations like what Id software does: CD protection at first but then remove it in some later patch to the game. This stops casual piracy for the immediate term while later on removing the annoyances for customers.
Man, if zero-point energy had worked out we would have PHASERS! Freakin' Phasers! Oh just as well; can't have everything from Star Trek.
It's like Conway's Game of Life: A glider is not composed in the population rules instead it is an emergent behavior of the system.
For a more scientific perspective, it's difficult. There's so many things that exist in a intelligence: the substrate it's built on (what it is composed of), a fundamental unit of computation (a nueron), and the connectivity patterns of the units to each other. Then, from a computational perspective, you have to compartmentalize your knowledge in a way our current scientific method is not good at: Instead of breaking things down into subunits (reductionism: what we're good at), you have to instead discover the emergent or metaphysical logical "atoms" that the higher level order is composed of given some substrate (Holistic: what we're not good at).
I don't know. And apparently nobody else does either.
Phrenology is so pre-modern. The Germans we're also pursuing quantum zero-point energy during WWII because Relativity would never amount to anything. (e=mc^2 of course as expressed as a nuclear weapon)
Whats neat is that the folding is a fractal structure which when unfolded has a very large surface area vs. it's actual size when folded. So I don't know about more folds implying a more complex wiring pattern, instead providing more neurons to be wired in some way.
If you thought as good about everything as a savant thought about one thing, I believe it would show that with proper organization a well wired smaller mass can be capable of greater predictions of the environment than a larger brain mass.
But considering that we all share the same assembly instructions, apples to apples maybe bigger is better.
I know where I'd like to see this first: A digital librarian for Wikipedia. An agent that would recommened articles based on your preferences and maybe store the articles in some language neutral format where articles could be expressed into a target language or parsed from a language into neutral format. Too bad nobodies publicly demonstrated anything close to the level of machine intelligence that would be required to do it.
Any program that was able to do two things would pass: The ability to load remote information into memory and to begin execution of the loaded information.
A way to automatically find this would be to use an execution tracer that would alert you when the programs point of execution "left" it's source code or allowed system api's.
Try looking up wpakill on google - some network of self referential search engines have broken google's ability to find relevant results for the term.
And complete video surveillence of the passenger section and stream it live to the ground where it's recorded. It would not only give crucial video of what happened but would also be one more thing the terrorists had to disable. Or sleeping gas that only gets pumped into the passenger section too.
Or something, the point you make is the best: There's lot's more that can be done before you have to resort to some dehumanizing and intrusive invasive scan.
I wouldn't blog if I lived in China because you never know what could be used against you.
On another level, blogging could give open societies an edge as they offer processed information in the form of opinions which can be accepted or rejected as a whole when you only need general working knowledge of a topic. The quicker opinions can be integrated with yourself, the more mental ground you can cover. Of course if I was doing something critical I would not depend on Joe's opinion but would instead research the material myself.
Or not.
I can't wait until the music and hollywood industries wake up and start to sell their products in the way that people want to buy them. I'm more than willing to pay for my music but I'm not going to pay for a whole album when all I want is one song. It's kind of like going back to the 50's when the music industry was single driven instead of album driven. Right now we're between the old and new models of business - I can't wait until the transition is over.
It's good for business and if it turns out that in 30 or 40 years from now we can replace all our business with some magical positive return system then we can switch to it then. But in the mean time we're finding that we have mostly knowledge as our primary assets and pragmatically it is being protected through these treaties.
Take that with a grain of salt, it's just my off the cuff reaction.