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Lets get transendental baby Its ok, we can only partially diferentiate if you dont want to go all the way Lets try the trapizoidal rule,its in the Joy of calculus! Ok, so the optimal angle is pi/2 for this??? Wanna try LUD decomposition, it wont hurt, trust me...
Has anyone looked in depth at the impact of secondary effects in heural nets akin to those that might happen in the human brain, for example the injection of noise from physically close neurons? If having some random noise in our neural nets is a requirement for a conscious being, then surely we can never hold exact knowledge and that would also eliminate any possiblity of there being a conscious God with all knowledge as the two states are mutually exclusive? What do you see as the social impact of creating a conscious machine? How to you see the work in AI contributing to other disciplines like psychology? Do you think that complexity, whether expressed as a genotype/phenotype or consciousness is the maximum potential output of the universe and therefore the "meaning" of the universe is to be a generator of these ever more complex systems?
The mistake you are making is thst you are talking about the state today, not the process, that is the important thing, Marx did have one right "continual revolution", just not in the form he invisioned, its not out there, its in you and me.
Wasnt the whole point of that to put the means of production in the hands of the masses? Looks like technology is doing a much better job than violent revolution, maybe there is a lesson somewhere...hmmm..
People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from vendors. So much for corporate rhetoric about adding value to commoditized products
This is actually very true, I am part of the current trial of ADSL technology in the UK, and the support we give each other is an order of magnitude better than that we get from the incumbant telecoms company (BT) that supplies the service, personally if I wanted to build good customer service I would hire the people who naturally gravitate towards helping others in that area, as they are a self selecting group and their knowledge and expertise would mean that there would be better FAQs, and smaller overall numbers of support staff.
I would disagree with this on the premise that rather than breaking the chains, the truth is that the Internet is making people aware that there ARE chains on their backs..
"You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"
This is part of being human, after all what do we do? We make patterns in our heads and then imprint them on the world, that is the nature of homo sapiens. However, the Cluetrain manifesto is making the point that the Net, in all its forms is changing the granularity of this process, so that we can examine and debate at an individual level, think of it like a market, when you have few players prices and products/services tend to be different than in a market where there are hundreds or thousands of people competing, to me this is a Good Thing, as this finer granularity removes us from static positions into conversation, negotiation, innovation and change, a shift of focus from the destination to the path, this is just another step along the way, I know many here on/. already live life like this, the Cluetrain Manifesto is just that message wrapped up in marketers clothing, I for one think they have done a service to try to bring onboard another section of the population.
You neglected to mention that most fund managers are dumb herd animals, before the launch of the Euro I spoke to many who where all saying how strong the currency would be, when I pointed out all the unresolved issues they poo pooed me, now I have been shown to be completely correct, the problem with fund managers is they are ranked against each other, rather than against the market, AFAIK only about 5% of fund managers equal or exceed the market (S&P500, FTSE etc).
The MS monopoly has already been determined, whether they have used that to abuse their position and break the law is the ruling we are waiting for, the betting is the judge will rule against MS.
This is absolutely false, I know, I wanted to use some of the APIs that Office calls, not on MSDN, and then they charged me for tech support to tell me they completely refuse to disclose them.
Why not have a teacher invite you in to talk about your expereinces, explain how you have used the differences in a positive way, show that conformity breeds stagnation, and how understanding can create new opportunities for all.
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What about running it for charities / NGOs around world, allowing them to report daily on activities, or for third world communications, allowing weekly updates on sponsored children, remote village life etc.
Has anyone noticed by now how effective that chap was who started all this religious stuff in this thread, here we could be discussing a brilliant man, and yet we have still ended up dividing ourselves into these groups, this time its religion, it shows humanities immaturity, if someone wants to beleive something that makes him feel good, but does not harm others then why not, should we force their minds to be free?
Just a little note here, religions are ideologies, they claim to have "the answer", science is a method for attempting to find "the answer", its a path not a destination.
Ok, here is a common mistake, and I cannot beleive you made it, a belief in a thing is not the same as a man made heirachical institution that uses a belief in that thing to lord (excuse the pun) over others. The problem is the original message gets appropriated and twisted and that goes for science too, which is why there is so much pseudo-scientific claptrap around, go believe what ever you want, but dont make the mistake of clinging to a heirachy that is there for its own survival and actually has nothing to do with your beliefs.
Why not just spread your meme by showing the things that are blocked, to show why blocking software is currently inaccurate, I think if you started a leafeting campaign a la 2600 and DeCSS you could spread the word, if you print the American constitution or the Bill of Rights and then explain that these things are blocked by the filtering software, also use HTML redirections in web pages for those topics and put up standard message saying its nessecary to avoid the URL from being blocked, start a web site and "ribbon" campaign, spread your meme.
Just rename your encrypted files FILE0001.CHK etc on an MS based system, so they appear as if they were blocks recovered by SCANDISK, noone can say they are not, so as they are not encrypted there is no key to supply and so you cannot fall foul of the law.
If you choose SuSE-Q not only do you get a great name, but a theme song too and Q of TNG is a chameleon of sorts as well, else Ling (ChangeLing), Mir (shortened Mirror).
Well if you're not in the country to get those stations then having the TV on the desk makes no difference, e.g. I was able to see the Kevin Mitnik interview on 60 minutes via ICraveTV here in the UK (the picture was bad but the sound ok), I also saw a PBS documentary on codebreaking in WWII which was good. What ever happened to "information wants to be free"?? If ICraveTV hadnt lost, it would have meant an increase in pressure for the TV stations to broadcast over the Net in tandem with normal transmissions, and also to get their libraries of video online.
Ok, well here is how I have fun with TV, I desect the program, look for the media hooks, and second guess what is going to happen next, now that can be great fun, especially with freinds, when I pronounce on "what happens next" and get to be right, normal people look at me and start asking if I am psychic or if its a repeat and I had seen it before, Oh what fun! The only other thing is some good documentaries, like for example the recent series on the Japanese economic bubble and a good history of the LTCM (Long Term Capital Management) debacle, so I do manage to get something for the licence fee, although not that much, also I have now started watching some of the documentaries on PBS via ICraveTV over the Net, which fill in blanks in my head, TV can make you think, but we need more and better programs to do so. Just my 2p worth.
..True, however if you connect via the phone company (i.e. DSL not Cable modem) you probably will have less trouble, as phone companies are less likely to try and police contents of your Web server....
Here in England, I am on the British Telecom DSL trial, and the routers are programmed to stop us from hosting sites (i.e. no incoming connections), some have modified code on the routers to get around this, however they have been warned that if they do, they will face having their service withdrawn and that is it illegal hacking i.e. to get the service that you are contracted to get, you have to perform an illegal activity and go to jail, now thats corporate abuse of a monopoly, backed by the government at its worst, if we start being thrown in jail, it will make the Kevin Mitnik saga look like swift justice.
Why not just post it to Usenet, then it will be picked up by Deja, Supernews and all ISPs that carry NGs, now the MPAA arent going to sue them, why? Because the only way for Deja etc to not pick this off the NGs is to stop allowing access to them, and therefore they would be out of business, and I think all the millions that use these resources would get very upset. That way we we get everyone involved. Just my 2 pence worth.
He was not at all technical, but with his influence and that of Dr. Who (I never got my Sonic Screwdriver for Xmas), I had to become a geek, and total gadget freak, and I'm sure I'm not the only one he influenced, I'll miss seeing him in Bond films, I hope they dedicate the next one too him.
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Lets get transendental baby
Its ok, we can only partially diferentiate if you dont want to go all the way
Lets try the trapizoidal rule,its in the Joy of calculus!
Ok, so the optimal angle is pi/2 for this???
Wanna try LUD decomposition, it wont hurt, trust me...
Has anyone looked in depth at the impact of secondary effects in heural nets akin to those that might happen in the human brain, for example the injection of noise from physically close neurons? If having some random noise in our neural nets is a requirement for a conscious being, then surely we can never hold exact knowledge and that would also eliminate any possiblity of there being a conscious God with all knowledge as the two states are mutually exclusive? What do you see as the social impact of creating a conscious machine? How to you see the work in AI contributing to other disciplines like psychology? Do you think that complexity, whether expressed as a genotype/phenotype or consciousness is the maximum potential output of the universe and therefore the "meaning" of the universe is to be a generator of these ever more complex systems?
The mistake you are making is thst you are talking about the state today, not the process, that is the important thing, Marx did have one right "continual revolution", just not in the form he invisioned, its not out there, its in you and me.
Wasnt the whole point of that to put the means of production in the hands of the masses? Looks like technology is doing a much better job than violent revolution, maybe there is a lesson somewhere...hmmm..
People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from vendors. So much for corporate rhetoric about adding value to commoditized products
This is actually very true, I am part of the current trial of ADSL technology in the UK, and the support we give each other is an order of magnitude better than that we get from the incumbant telecoms company (BT) that supplies the service, personally if I wanted to build good customer service I would hire the people who naturally gravitate towards helping others in that area, as they are a self selecting group and their knowledge and expertise would mean that there would be better FAQs, and smaller overall numbers of support staff.
I would disagree with this on the premise that rather than breaking the chains, the truth is that the Internet is making people aware that there ARE chains on their backs..
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"You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"
Spooky....
...A manifesto is a tool for pushing conformity..
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Ok my manifesto is
1. Think for yourself.
2. If in doubt see Manifesto point 1.
Time for some deep-deep-deep recursion
This is part of being human, after all what do we do? We make patterns in our heads and then imprint them on the world, that is the nature of homo sapiens. However, the Cluetrain manifesto is making the point that the Net, in all its forms is changing the granularity of this process, so that we can examine and debate at an individual level, think of it like a market, when you have few players prices and products/services tend to be different than in a market where there are hundreds or thousands of people competing, to me this is a Good Thing, as this finer granularity removes us from static positions into conversation, negotiation, innovation and change, a shift of focus from the destination to the path, this is just another step along the way, I know many here on /. already live life like this, the Cluetrain Manifesto is just that message wrapped up in marketers clothing, I for one think they have done a service to try to bring onboard another section of the population.
The MS spokesdroid on the BBC just said the very same thing!
You neglected to mention that most fund managers are dumb herd animals, before the launch of the Euro I spoke to many who where all saying how strong the currency would be, when I pointed out all the unresolved issues they poo pooed me, now I have been shown to be completely correct, the problem with fund managers is they are ranked against each other, rather than against the market, AFAIK only about 5% of fund managers equal or exceed the market (S&P500, FTSE etc).
The MS monopoly has already been determined, whether they have used that to abuse their position and break the law is the ruling we are waiting for, the betting is the judge will rule against MS.
This is absolutely false, I know, I wanted to use some of the APIs that Office calls, not on MSDN, and then they charged me for tech support to tell me they completely refuse to disclose them.
Why not have a teacher invite you in to talk about your expereinces, explain how you have used the differences in a positive way, show that conformity breeds stagnation, and how understanding can create new opportunities for all.
What about running it for charities / NGOs around world, allowing them to report daily on activities, or for third world communications, allowing weekly updates on sponsored children, remote village life etc.
Has anyone noticed by now how effective that chap was who started all this religious stuff in this thread, here we could be discussing a brilliant man, and yet we have still ended up dividing ourselves into these groups, this time its religion, it shows humanities immaturity, if someone wants to beleive something that makes him feel good, but does not harm others then why not, should we force their minds to be free?
Just a little note here, religions are ideologies, they claim to have "the answer", science is a method for attempting to find "the answer", its a path not a destination.
Ok, here is a common mistake, and I cannot beleive you made it, a belief in a thing is not the same as a man made heirachical institution that uses a belief in that thing to lord (excuse the pun) over others. The problem is the original message gets appropriated and twisted and that goes for science too, which is why there is so much pseudo-scientific claptrap around, go believe what ever you want, but dont make the mistake of clinging to a heirachy that is there for its own survival and actually has nothing to do with your beliefs.
Why not just spread your meme by showing the things that are blocked, to show why blocking software is currently inaccurate, I think if you started a leafeting campaign a la 2600 and DeCSS you could spread the word, if you print the American constitution or the Bill of Rights and then explain that these things are blocked by the filtering software, also use HTML redirections in web pages for those topics and put up standard message saying its nessecary to avoid the URL from being blocked, start a web site and "ribbon" campaign, spread your meme.
Just rename your encrypted files FILE0001.CHK etc on an MS based system, so they appear as if they were blocks recovered by SCANDISK, noone can say they are not, so as they are not encrypted there is no key to supply and so you cannot fall foul of the law.
If you choose SuSE-Q not only do you get a great name, but a theme song too and Q of TNG is a chameleon of sorts as well, else Ling (ChangeLing), Mir (shortened Mirror).
Well if you're not in the country to get those stations then having the TV on the desk makes no difference, e.g. I was able to see the Kevin Mitnik interview on 60 minutes via ICraveTV here in the UK (the picture was bad but the sound ok), I also saw a PBS documentary on codebreaking in WWII which was good. What ever happened to "information wants to be free"?? If ICraveTV hadnt lost, it would have meant an increase in pressure for the TV stations to broadcast over the Net in tandem with normal transmissions, and also to get their libraries of video online.
Ok, well here is how I have fun with TV, I desect the program, look for the media hooks, and second guess what is going to happen next, now that can be great fun, especially with freinds, when I pronounce on "what happens next" and get to be right, normal people look at me and start asking if I am psychic or if its a repeat and I had seen it before, Oh what fun! The only other thing is some good documentaries, like for example the recent series on the Japanese economic bubble and a good history of the LTCM (Long Term Capital Management) debacle, so I do manage to get something for the licence fee, although not that much, also I have now started watching some of the documentaries on PBS via ICraveTV over the Net, which fill in blanks in my head, TV can make you think, but we need more and better programs to do so. Just my 2p worth.
..True, however if you connect via the phone company (i.e. DSL not Cable modem) you probably will have less trouble, as phone companies are less likely to try and police contents of your Web server....
Here in England, I am on the British Telecom DSL trial, and the routers are programmed to stop us from hosting sites (i.e. no incoming connections), some have modified code on the routers to get around this, however they have been warned that if they do, they will face having their service withdrawn and that is it illegal hacking i.e. to get the service that you are contracted to get, you have to perform an illegal activity and go to jail, now thats corporate abuse of a monopoly, backed by the government at its worst, if we start being thrown in jail, it will make the Kevin Mitnik saga look like swift justice.
Why not just post it to Usenet, then it will be picked up by Deja, Supernews and all ISPs that carry NGs, now the MPAA arent going to sue them, why? Because the only way for Deja etc to not pick this off the NGs is to stop allowing access to them, and therefore they would be out of business, and I think all the millions that use these resources would get very upset. That way we we get everyone involved. Just my 2 pence worth.
He was not at all technical, but with his influence and that of Dr. Who (I never got my Sonic Screwdriver for Xmas), I had to become a geek, and total gadget freak, and I'm sure I'm not the only one he influenced, I'll miss seeing him in Bond films, I hope they dedicate the next one too him.