and return to posting when you understand things like 'marginal value' and 'efficiency'. I trust then I won't have to listen to your informed lectures on the 'pharmacudical' industry.
I wish the goal were not space, but cancer, or nanofabrication, or such. It would mean more to the lives of their citizens and eventually the world if they spent the money on bioengineering, medicine, genetic modification of crops, training their people in science and engineering, IT, and such. Space is a less efficient expenditure of resources, despite how cool and prestigious it is. Certain other technical objectives as the goal for the race could have greater rewards than Space.
Being that I'm in physics and I barely need a home computer, I'm always mystified by people who have things like rack-mount systems in their homes. I never manage to understand why you'd need that sort of thing.
a burgeoning competition between other states to achieve a difficult technical objective--there will be benefits for the whole world, as well as give competition for America, without which we'll be less inspired, and motivated, and such.
But I wish the goal were not space, but cancer, or nanofabrication, or such. It would mean more to the lives of their citizens and eventually the world if they spent the money on bioengineering, medicine, genetic modification of crops, training their people in science and engineering, IT, and such. Space is a less efficient expenditure of resources, despite how cool and prestigious it is. Certain other technical objectives as the goal for the race could have greater rewards than Space.
why i'm not optimistic about these systems working is, for instance, my mom has had 26 years to get acquainted with me, and if she started making decisions for me, I'd just have to go around and undo them. I'd have to de-reserve seats at the next church gala, then i'd have to de-order those tickets to the next billy graham stadium event, then I'd have to de-one-click-order-from-Amazon that bible, then I'd have to de-order those Jerry Fallwell videos about how the Clintons are bloodthirsty satanist pedophile druggie rapists, then delete the 'nasa's discoveres biblical missing day' emails, and so forth.
Then again, it might not take all that long to program a PDA to be smarter than her, so maybe it would work.
Having been in a position to...ahem...stare at such textures...I agree with you. Tuning out the detail makes it easier to see the 'that lion's about to eat me' picture.
If everyone was smart, the smart would loose their advantage
You have to think beyond that simple calculation. Because if you don't, you'd find it advantageous for everyone else to be made much dumber. And we know that would not have good effects for you or the world, most likely.
And FWIW, which often isn't much in the realm of science, it makes sense that it could be important from a survival standpoint to hide some hypothetical lower structures which, say, count 87 toothpicks, and just send to the upper level an exectutive summary, like 'lots of toothpicks'. Considering what kludges biological things are, it wouldn't surprise me if researchers found that's what was going on.
Do you people honestly think the Honda engineers aren't bright enough to think of the objections people here came up with 5 seconds after reading the article summary and pouncing on the "Post" button?
Good point. Lately I've seen that failure to understand the intelligence of others contributes to bad thinking in many cases. This is a new example. Where I originally noticed this is, creationists fail to understand what it means that thousands of science ph.d.'s believe evolution makes sense.
Now that is a really strong point. Whereas the first thing you said was ignorable and offensive. Myself, I think it's most effective to argue with very precise statements. I found this out the hard way.:-)
And so now, if you get diagnosed with RSI, you can get disability pay, early retirement, or at least many ergonomic adjustments to facilitate your recovery... IF you're white.
Only whites get these things? I think you're not telling the truth.
it would be really funny to paint your car up like a big rock and drive it at 7 mph (651,000,000 mph in scale) to simulate an asteroid collision at near light speed.
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A potential weakness of OSS. A company (Microsoft f.i.) which felt threatened by an up-and-coming OSS project could plot to submit through a fictitious developer proprietary code to the OSS project, wait a few years, and tip someone off anonymously.
that 'probability in time' argument is lifted straght from a book called I think Manifold Time. Either that or Manifold Space, I can't remember. A character called Cornelius makes that exact argument.
It would mean more to the lives of their citizens and eventually the world if they spent the money on bioengineering, medicine, genetic modification of crops, training their people in science and engineering, IT, and such. Space is a less efficient expenditure of resources, despite how cool and prestigious it is.
I've been following slashdot and using Windows and Linux for years now, and one thing bothers me--the people who endlessly say, 'Windows is not stable'. That's just bullshit. It used to be true, but hasn't been true for years now, at least since Win2k. I've used many W2k boxes over the last three years, for an average of 10 hrs per day, for intensive things like Mathematica, compiling C++, etc., and have seen maybe four crashes. My CPU process on this box here at work has been running for the last 1628 hours and 49 minutes. It's no longer sensible to complain about Windows stability.
Also, it is actually nearly impossible for a film made by people from the United States not to have some Christian overtones. This is a country based on Christian values (if not beliefs).Fortunately this country is not based on christian values, but rather, Enlightenment values. I'm much happier in a country based on Hume and Voltare than the aformentioned thousand pages of crap. There were probably some slaves at the founding of the country who wished it were based even More on Enlightenment and human rights, and less on christian values like slaveholding.
I'm really tired of people equating the Matrix with christianity. I think it's a disservice to the movie to compare it with a thousand pages of confused hallucinogenic gibberish.
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and return to posting when you understand things like 'marginal value' and 'efficiency'. I trust then I won't have to listen to your informed lectures on the 'pharmacudical' industry.
I wish the goal were not space, but cancer, or nanofabrication, or such. It would mean more to the lives of their citizens and eventually the world if they spent the money on bioengineering, medicine, genetic modification of crops, training their people in science and engineering, IT, and such. Space is a less efficient expenditure of resources, despite how cool and prestigious it is. Certain other technical objectives as the goal for the race could have greater rewards than Space.
While it's a good piece I think it could have used some editing for brevity.
Being that I'm in physics and I barely need a home computer, I'm always mystified by people who have things like rack-mount systems in their homes. I never manage to understand why you'd need that sort of thing.
But I wish the goal were not space, but cancer, or nanofabrication, or such. It would mean more to the lives of their citizens and eventually the world if they spent the money on bioengineering, medicine, genetic modification of crops, training their people in science and engineering, IT, and such. Space is a less efficient expenditure of resources, despite how cool and prestigious it is. Certain other technical objectives as the goal for the race could have greater rewards than Space.
Then again, it might not take all that long to program a PDA to be smarter than her, so maybe it would work.
Having been in a position to...ahem...stare at such textures...I agree with you. Tuning out the detail makes it easier to see the 'that lion's about to eat me' picture.
You have to think beyond that simple calculation. Because if you don't, you'd find it advantageous for everyone else to be made much dumber. And we know that would not have good effects for you or the world, most likely.
my first priority would be changing my life so that it no longer featured Tercels. water cooling can wait.
And FWIW, which often isn't much in the realm of science, it makes sense that it could be important from a survival standpoint to hide some hypothetical lower structures which, say, count 87 toothpicks, and just send to the upper level an exectutive summary, like 'lots of toothpicks'. Considering what kludges biological things are, it wouldn't surprise me if researchers found that's what was going on.
Good point. Lately I've seen that failure to understand the intelligence of others contributes to bad thinking in many cases. This is a new example. Where I originally noticed this is, creationists fail to understand what it means that thousands of science ph.d.'s believe evolution makes sense.
Go contemplate your own shame while I rent some DVDs and ignore you.
Now that is a really strong point. Whereas the first thing you said was ignorable and offensive. Myself, I think it's most effective to argue with very precise statements. I found this out the hard way. :-)
Only whites get these things? I think you're not telling the truth.
it would be really funny to paint your car up like a big rock and drive it at 7 mph (651,000,000 mph in scale) to simulate an asteroid collision at near light speed.
A potential weakness of OSS. A company (Microsoft f.i.) which felt threatened by an up-and-coming OSS project could plot to submit through a fictitious developer proprietary code to the OSS project, wait a few years, and tip someone off anonymously.
your iRoom is uGly. ;-)
that 'probability in time' argument is lifted straght from a book called I think Manifold Time. Either that or Manifold Space, I can't remember. A character called Cornelius makes that exact argument.
It would mean more to the lives of their citizens and eventually the world if they spent the money on bioengineering, medicine, genetic modification of crops, training their people in science and engineering, IT, and such. Space is a less efficient expenditure of resources, despite how cool and prestigious it is.
why would I apply XP patches to a W2K box?
I've been following slashdot and using Windows and Linux for years now, and one thing bothers me--the people who endlessly say, 'Windows is not stable'. That's just bullshit. It used to be true, but hasn't been true for years now, at least since Win2k. I've used many W2k boxes over the last three years, for an average of 10 hrs per day, for intensive things like Mathematica, compiling C++, etc., and have seen maybe four crashes. My CPU process on this box here at work has been running for the last 1628 hours and 49 minutes. It's no longer sensible to complain about Windows stability.
14 workstations running Linux is fine, but what's with the significant digits?
Also, it is actually nearly impossible for a film made by people from the United States not to have some Christian overtones. This is a country based on Christian values (if not beliefs).Fortunately this country is not based on christian values, but rather, Enlightenment values. I'm much happier in a country based on Hume and Voltare than the aformentioned thousand pages of crap. There were probably some slaves at the founding of the country who wished it were based even More on Enlightenment and human rights, and less on christian values like slaveholding.
I'm really tired of people equating the Matrix with christianity. I think it's a disservice to the movie to compare it with a thousand pages of confused hallucinogenic gibberish.
because they're SCA people whom you can smell sneaking up on you. I'd be laying waste to them as they spun flax and argued about Babylon 5.