As for the artifacts and telling the difference between being saved in the camera vs photoshopped, the thing is, most of the photos you see in media probably have been saved in photoshop anyway, even if it was just to save as a different format, color correct, adjust contrast, levels, histogram, etc...
The edges depend on the skill of the photoshopper. I've become very good at edges. You're right about the clone tool, though... that's definitely a weakness. Anytime you have to create background that wasn't there, it's gonna be VERY difficult. But whether or not you have to do that depends on the pictures you choose.
I've done a ton of realistic photoshopping, and it's actually quite easy. You give me any picture of someone being tortured by someone else, a consumer digital camera, the right lighting/lights, and a US military uniform, and I can make a photo that appears to be real at anything less than a ridiculous resolution.
Also, you give me a photo of an American soldier, for instance, helping an Iraqi up, with smiles on their faces, and in an hour I can turn it into a photo of torture. It really isn't difficult at all.
Yeah, but you're assuming he knows nothing about what operations will be necessary in the systems. There are plenty of systems in which inserts only happen extremely rarely but reads occur very frequently, in which case the insert penalty won't matter.
In ninety-nine percent of the apps a programmer builds, he knows something about the data that means he can't design around the eventual usage of the app, rather than assuming random usage.
Contrary to what others are saying after reading your full statement, I now see your point more clearly and understand a good portion of it.
Not attending the meeting to present a video at another meeting that you feel is more important is very understandable. Resigning in order to free yourself up to pursue a cause you feel is more important is both admirable and understandable.
Nevertheless, I think abandoning Linux or blaming Linux, etc. is very misguided. It ignores the myriad of other tools the army uses that you also use.
I understand your disgust that something you contributed to is now aiding a cause you do not support. Perhaps that is the biggest downside to GPL'd software: even those you don't want to help can use what you produce.
My take on the matter is this... as long as Linux remains equally free for everyone to use, Iraqis, US Army, etc., then what you've done, and the OS you have previously supported, has not provided an objective competitive advantage to either side. So be at peace with Linux and whatever you've contributed to its adoption, community, and development. But remain as angry and appalled as you choose to be at the actions of your government.
Nor did he try Mandrake, which markets itself as the most consumer-friendly distro, as well as the easiest install and configuration. I think you're right about your last point, and they probably did work but didn't support his thesis.
The all-important questions for amazing water cooling:
1. Is it electrically conductive?
2. Is it thermally conductive?
If it is electrically conductive, you can pretty much forget about it having any greater use in water cooling than water, except to minimize risk in spills. If not, we can move on to question 2.
Just because it is a liquid does not necessarily mean it will have the thermal conductivity necessary to successfully cool a system.
If we are ever able to create a truly self-aware machine, the fact that humans in other countries are denied basic rights would be no reason at all to deny that intelligence those same rights.
That is probably true. But empirically, intelligence is not a big factor in whether or not we deem something worthy of rights like a human's. How much an entity is like us is a much more popular factor. Animals are intelligent, too, perhaps even plants. We differ from them only in degree of intelligence.
What we do use as to determine whether or not to award rights (in US philosophy anyway, and even then this is questionable) is personhood.
Definitions of personhood are widely varying, but according to Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, etc., one of the most important factors in self-awareness (one of the main symptoms of personhood) is embodiment.
In other words, to have a human intelligence, an organism, artificial or natural, must have a human body. If it lacks this body, it cannot possess the same self-awareness. That is not to say that it can't possess a different, perhaps stronger self-awareness, but it can not be the same.
So, it won't be until we can combine the AI with the toys that we'll have to really start worrying about whether or not they're human. And going by current attitudes, it won't be until then that we will ascribe rights to it.
The first AI (if/when) will probably NOT be in a robot; it'll be too large to be mobile, perhaps it'll even be a distributed supercomputer.
That is probably true. But intelligence is not a good indicator of whether or not we deem something worthy of rights as a human. Animals are intelligent, too, perhaps even plants. We differ from them in degree of intelligence.
What we use as to determine whether or not to award rights (in the US anyway, and even then this is questionable) is personhood.
Definitions of personhood are widely varying, but according to Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, etc., one of the most important factors in self-awareness (one of the main symptoms of personhood) is embodiment.
In other words, to have a human intelligence, an organism, artificial or natural, must have a human body. If it lacks this body, it cannot possess the same self-awareness. That is not to say that it can't possess a different, perhaps stronger self-awareness, but it can not be the same.
So, it won't be until we can combine the AI with the toys that we'll have to really start worrying about whether or not they're human. And going by current attitudes, it won't be until then that we will ascribe rights to it.
I work at Circuit City, selling computers. I know eMachines have a bad rep, but right now, they're the best machines we carry. All but their absolute lowest end model ($399 like you said), has an open AGP slot if the board has integrated graphics. If you've got 256MB or 512MB RAM, it always comes in one stick, instead of two half-size sticks like HP, Compaq (whose desktop brands are still quite different), Dell, and often Sony. They're more upgradeable and have all the same components as any of the others. You can make an argument with service, but none of the brand-names give you any decent service. I always take customers and show them a roughly equivalent HP and eMachines. I open up the case for them, point out the single stick of memory and how they can upgrade easier, show them that the motherboard is the same brand and model on both of them, etc.
Give the eMachines a chance. If I were gonna be buying a brand-name computer instead of building one, I definitely wouldn't have any qualms about buying an eMachines.
Vaccine only. They don't then verify that the vaccine works by exposing you to the virus and seeing whether or not your eyes bleed. They verify that it works by testing your production of antibodies and comparing those antibodies to ones that have been shown, in separate tests, to attack the virus.
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As for the artifacts and telling the difference between being saved in the camera vs photoshopped, the thing is, most of the photos you see in media probably have been saved in photoshop anyway, even if it was just to save as a different format, color correct, adjust contrast, levels, histogram, etc...
The edges depend on the skill of the photoshopper. I've become very good at edges. You're right about the clone tool, though... that's definitely a weakness. Anytime you have to create background that wasn't there, it's gonna be VERY difficult. But whether or not you have to do that depends on the pictures you choose.
I've done a ton of realistic photoshopping, and it's actually quite easy. You give me any picture of someone being tortured by someone else, a consumer digital camera, the right lighting/lights, and a US military uniform, and I can make a photo that appears to be real at anything less than a ridiculous resolution.
Also, you give me a photo of an American soldier, for instance, helping an Iraqi up, with smiles on their faces, and in an hour I can turn it into a photo of torture. It really isn't difficult at all.
Yeah, but you're assuming he knows nothing about what operations will be necessary in the systems. There are plenty of systems in which inserts only happen extremely rarely but reads occur very frequently, in which case the insert penalty won't matter.
In ninety-nine percent of the apps a programmer builds, he knows something about the data that means he can't design around the eventual usage of the app, rather than assuming random usage.
Here at Vanderbilt, we're i2, but we're 129.59.*.*
Your scheme sounds good though.
Contrary to what others are saying after reading your full statement, I now see your point more clearly and understand a good portion of it.
Not attending the meeting to present a video at another meeting that you feel is more important is very understandable. Resigning in order to free yourself up to pursue a cause you feel is more important is both admirable and understandable.
Nevertheless, I think abandoning Linux or blaming Linux, etc. is very misguided. It ignores the myriad of other tools the army uses that you also use.
I understand your disgust that something you contributed to is now aiding a cause you do not support. Perhaps that is the biggest downside to GPL'd software: even those you don't want to help can use what you produce.
My take on the matter is this... as long as Linux remains equally free for everyone to use, Iraqis, US Army, etc., then what you've done, and the OS you have previously supported, has not provided an objective competitive advantage to either side. So be at peace with Linux and whatever you've contributed to its adoption, community, and development. But remain as angry and appalled as you choose to be at the actions of your government.
Nor did he try Mandrake, which markets itself as the most consumer-friendly distro, as well as the easiest install and configuration. I think you're right about your last point, and they probably did work but didn't support his thesis.
Hahahaha
The all-important questions for amazing water cooling:
1. Is it electrically conductive? 2. Is it thermally conductive?
If it is electrically conductive, you can pretty much forget about it having any greater use in water cooling than water, except to minimize risk in spills. If not, we can move on to question 2.
Just because it is a liquid does not necessarily mean it will have the thermal conductivity necessary to successfully cool a system.
how useful would it still be for cooling purposes if it were a gas?
Potentially very useful depending on the properties of that gas.
There will be at least ten comments that say (even though it's a pigeon and not a swallow): "Was it African, or European?"
And they deserve what they get.
Sounds like you not only misunderstood what the dude was saying, but also misused a term.
And is free for the home user.
Wouldn't the plural of "Knoppix" be "Knoppices"?
hahahaha
If you don't have any spamguarding on your email address, you sir, are a moron, and I will certainly NOT buy your book.
If we are ever able to create a truly self-aware machine, the fact that humans in other countries are denied basic rights would be no reason at all to deny that intelligence those same rights.
That is probably true. But empirically, intelligence is not a big factor in whether or not we deem something worthy of rights like a human's. How much an entity is like us is a much more popular factor. Animals are intelligent, too, perhaps even plants. We differ from them only in degree of intelligence.
What we do use as to determine whether or not to award rights (in US philosophy anyway, and even then this is questionable) is personhood.
Definitions of personhood are widely varying, but according to Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, etc., one of the most important factors in self-awareness (one of the main symptoms of personhood) is embodiment.
In other words, to have a human intelligence, an organism, artificial or natural, must have a human body. If it lacks this body, it cannot possess the same self-awareness. That is not to say that it can't possess a different, perhaps stronger self-awareness, but it can not be the same.
So, it won't be until we can combine the AI with the toys that we'll have to really start worrying about whether or not they're human. And going by current attitudes, it won't be until then that we will ascribe rights to it.
The first AI (if/when) will probably NOT be in a robot; it'll be too large to be mobile, perhaps it'll even be a distributed supercomputer.
That is probably true. But intelligence is not a good indicator of whether or not we deem something worthy of rights as a human. Animals are intelligent, too, perhaps even plants. We differ from them in degree of intelligence.
What we use as to determine whether or not to award rights (in the US anyway, and even then this is questionable) is personhood.
Definitions of personhood are widely varying, but according to Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, etc., one of the most important factors in self-awareness (one of the main symptoms of personhood) is embodiment.
In other words, to have a human intelligence, an organism, artificial or natural, must have a human body. If it lacks this body, it cannot possess the same self-awareness. That is not to say that it can't possess a different, perhaps stronger self-awareness, but it can not be the same.
So, it won't be until we can combine the AI with the toys that we'll have to really start worrying about whether or not they're human. And going by current attitudes, it won't be until then that we will ascribe rights to it.
Obviously not those who covert little blonde boys.
Covert? Like, what, force them into hiding?
Or do you mean convert? Which is one of several things priests do to little blonde boys.
Or perhaps cover, which is something priests do not do to little blonde boys.
Oh, you meant covet. Which is something the parent does to little boys.
I work at Circuit City, selling computers. I know eMachines have a bad rep, but right now, they're the best machines we carry. All but their absolute lowest end model ($399 like you said), has an open AGP slot if the board has integrated graphics. If you've got 256MB or 512MB RAM, it always comes in one stick, instead of two half-size sticks like HP, Compaq (whose desktop brands are still quite different), Dell, and often Sony. They're more upgradeable and have all the same components as any of the others. You can make an argument with service, but none of the brand-names give you any decent service. I always take customers and show them a roughly equivalent HP and eMachines. I open up the case for them, point out the single stick of memory and how they can upgrade easier, show them that the motherboard is the same brand and model on both of them, etc.
Give the eMachines a chance. If I were gonna be buying a brand-name computer instead of building one, I definitely wouldn't have any qualms about buying an eMachines.
There are plenty of cases where the page will not yet have been cached before being linked to by Slashdot.
We Vanderbilt English/Computer Science double-majors not only know our grammar, but expound its rhetoric to the Slashdot community.
Easy solution: Daisy chain.
Yeah, well... if I'm gonna let them inject me with experimental substances, the least I can do is treat myself to ad-free pages.
Vaccine only. They don't then verify that the vaccine works by exposing you to the virus and seeing whether or not your eyes bleed. They verify that it works by testing your production of antibodies and comparing those antibodies to ones that have been shown, in separate tests, to attack the virus.