Why did this story not generate much buzz? Because as the author implied, Wired was allready dead. The only thing that sets it apart from other magazines now is annoying unreadable page layouts.
As for reporting all news remotely attached to the computer industry in depth and encouraging discussion. Slashdot does a better job (and it's owned by externals too you know.)
Goodbye Wired, but I feel like I'm saying not saying that the first time.
i think that we could have a truce with the advertisers: only block out car commercials and disgusting products. wouldn't that be enough? especially the disgusting products they used to be only girl stuff but now we've got bob dole telling me to be brave and try some viagra.... oh god the world is going to hell in a handbasket!!!
actually my school still uses the Apple ]['s that they bought in the 80's. The sad fact is, there is no budget in the public schools for good technology education
as in 6 degrees of! You could trace an invention James Burk style! And think about this crackers: if you were willing to be a little technologically naughty, you could get dirt on anyone in the world. The internet has given us all our own fan zine, now we can all have paparazzi stalkers too! A Cowardly New World!!!! ha ha ha ha ha!
(and if it wasn't solely for the URL, from that picture, I would have assumed the story to be fake)
The average lifespan is 76 years (for an American Male -- much shorter out there in the real world)
We use all of our brain -- most of it is devoted to motor functions and involuntary things like digestion and heartbeat.
Memory is stored in the neurons linked to our senses by the buildup of chemicals. If those memories are frequently accessed then they build up in strength, if they are not accessed then they weaken and go away.
Also you can't think of human menory like computer memory, it's not like.bmp and.au files building up. You probably remember what your elementary school looks like, but I doubt you could conjure up a picture in your brain to count how many bricks were on the front or something. You may remember people's faces and be able to recognize them, but you probably couldn't draw an accurate picture of anybody from memory unless you knew them very very well, and saw them regularly.
You can't remember everything, I bet you can't remember the names of your kindergarten classmates or the experience of your first words, and no amount of recall or prodding can get those memories out of you: they're not there.
In short: a niological system like the brain can't be measured in terms of processing power or had drive space. A Human on a disk would require some sort of "emulator" software to simulate the natural fuzzyness of human thaught. I doubt it could do it very well. A true human on a disk would need to be a molecule by molecule simulation of the operation of the brain.
That barely deserves a response, as people who know nothing of what they speak of shouldn't talk. If any organ in your body was only 10% used it would only be 10% of the size it is now (actually more correctly it would only use 10% of the resourses it uses now) We use our entire brain. The 10% thing either comes from how much is used for concious thaught (i'm not sure about that figure, but i've heard it elsewhere), how much is used at once (also not entirely sure), or something somebody made up to try to explain psychics and geniuses (i guess, by this 'theory' they use 20% or something) it isn't true though, every part of your brain is used.
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Life's just looking stinky. Not only are the Chemical Brothers not coming to Atlanta, but I'm missing the Linux thing.
Hey if anybody knows of an Athens Georgia based LUG could they give me a message. I have some questions and I'd like some local help.
Why did this story not generate much buzz? Because as the author implied, Wired was allready dead. The only thing that sets it apart from other magazines now is annoying unreadable page layouts.
As for reporting all news remotely attached to the computer industry in depth and encouraging discussion. Slashdot does a better job (and it's owned by externals too you know.)
Goodbye Wired, but I feel like I'm saying not saying that the first time.
i think that we could have a truce with the advertisers: only block out car commercials and disgusting products. wouldn't that be enough? especially the disgusting products they used to be only girl stuff but now we've got bob dole telling me to be brave and try some viagra.... oh god the world is going to hell in a handbasket!!!
actually my school still uses the Apple ]['s that they bought in the 80's. The sad fact is, there is no budget in the public schools for good technology education
as in 6 degrees of! You could trace an invention James Burk style! And think about this crackers: if you were willing to be a little technologically naughty, you could get dirt on anyone in the world. The internet has given us all our own fan zine, now we can all have paparazzi stalkers too! A Cowardly New World!!!! ha ha ha ha ha!
(and if it wasn't solely for the URL, from that picture, I would have assumed the story to be fake)
Yes yes, but the Nazi's ideas, though evil, were on occasion original.
"lowering both cost and price"
it's an interesting story, but whoever wrote the article is an idiot.
The average lifespan is 76 years (for an American Male -- much shorter out there in the real world)
.bmp and .au files building up. You probably remember what your elementary school looks like, but I doubt you could conjure up a picture in your brain to count how many bricks were on the front or something. You may remember people's faces and be able to recognize them, but you probably couldn't draw an accurate picture of anybody from memory unless you knew them very very well, and saw them regularly.
We use all of our brain -- most of it is devoted to motor functions and involuntary things like digestion and heartbeat.
Memory is stored in the neurons linked to our senses by the buildup of chemicals. If those memories are frequently accessed then they build up in strength, if they are not accessed then they weaken and go away.
Also you can't think of human menory like computer memory, it's not like
You can't remember everything, I bet you can't remember the names of your kindergarten classmates or the experience of your first words, and no amount of recall or prodding can get those memories out of you: they're not there.
In short: a niological system like the brain can't be measured in terms of processing power or had drive space. A Human on a disk would require some sort of "emulator" software to simulate the natural fuzzyness of human thaught. I doubt it could do it very well. A true human on a disk would need to be a molecule by molecule simulation of the operation of the brain.
>>"we only use 10 percent of our brains..."
That barely deserves a response, as people who know nothing of what they speak of shouldn't talk. If any organ in your body was only 10% used it would only be 10% of the size it is now (actually more correctly it would only use 10% of the resourses it uses now) We use our entire brain. The 10% thing either comes from how much is used for concious thaught (i'm not sure about that figure, but i've heard it elsewhere), how much is used at once (also not entirely sure), or something somebody made up to try to explain psychics and geniuses (i guess, by this 'theory' they use 20% or something) it isn't true though, every part of your brain is used.