That's the main reason I was hoping he was going to get in it. Just once I'd like to see a debate where the candidates were called on their bullshit non-answers. If nothing else, he'd at least draw attention to answers of "I'm pro puppies and happiness!" as not having any actual meaning. When they're asked questions about how they intend to tackle some problem, they deserve to be mocked if they try to pass off platitudes instead of plans.
Not to mention that any university worth the name will 'force' everyone to have a basic foundation in all basic knowledge bases before they can graduate.
And they're surprisingly good. I'd heard the quality was a bit lacking, and as a result waited until this week to check any out. I've been burned so many times by shows coming back from cancelation as zombified mockeries of their former selves to make that a default assumption. However, the two I've seen so far, battlefield earth and troll 2 were just as good as mst3k. I'd assume that the ones with 'only' mike wouldn't be nearly as fun, but those seem to be the minority.
In much the same way as I don't care if a leader is a literature major but do care if he's literate, I'd like to know that he has basic scientific literacy. The kind of thing that I'd expect any second year university student to be able to do. Basically just show himself able to sit down with a study, whether he's familiar with the subject or not, and offer up at least some understanding of the basic methodology used and 'why' the conclusions shown in the abstract do or do not match up. I'm being a bit kind there as well in not saying that should be considered a skill any high school graduate should be able to demonstrate.
1. Do they really expect us to believe that all of humanity that came before them were collective idiots?
No, just that they were more ignorant of the world around them than those of today. We've had more opportunity to critically examine various beliefs than those. So as a general rule, each generation has had a tendency to become less ignorant of the world around them. Lack of knowledge is in no way the same as lack of intelligence though. As well, it's only recently that we've known enough for a god of the gaps argument to not be somewhat valid.
2. Do they think we should have to prove what each generation since Adam has come to accept as true?
Yes. That's where the largest boosts to humanity have come from, in critically examining our long held beliefs. It's by taking an experimental look at beliefs which seem obvious that we often find huge benefit. Say, "everyone knows that X will heal you". By examining X against other things, we find out that it has benefit but only up to the same level as a random substance put forward to be X. So we learn about the placebo effect, and the improve testing procedures allow better development of medicine.
3. Doesn't it occur to them that if they aren't seeing what everyone else around them is seeing/perceiving, perhaps it is they who have the vision/perception problem?
Sure. So they test things which are in dispute. The vast majority of people don't see atoms, doesn't change things though.
How does age of a topic in any way make it more or less valid? You sound like people who insist acupuncture or astrology are true just because they're old.
This is the kind of thing which makes the audience of talk shows think their psychic knows more about physics than physicists. It's a dumbed down abstraction, nothing more, nothing less. It's cool on that level, but saying that one understand string theory after watching it is like a kid thinking they understand gravity because they saw something fall to the ground.
Anyone tried this with kmail? It's been really slow for me, and seemingly at random it'll just finish up with a partial listing of my gmail inbox. I haven't used kmail in something like a year though, so I'm not really sure if this might just be some normal bugginess. Last year I never had any problems with imap on it though, with a pretty heavy amount of email traffic.
To be fair, that's one of the nice things about google. They've been pretty good about moving applications they've bought out into gdata, with the offline backup that suggests. Not to mention gears.
I think in large part it's due more to the fact that we really don't have much of a sense of smell when compared to other mammals. It's a bit like a blind cave fish trying to create good tests for vision when that concept is almost totally alien to it.
It was also common sense that killing a woman was a good test of whether or not she was a witch, or that it was impossible that a drop of pond water had little invisible animals swimming around in it. That's the whole point of science, testing common sense because humans are so bad at interpreting the world around us.
That video could have saved a lot of time by just having a frame or two saying "Hey, remember how Hiro made money in Snowcrash? I wonder if that might happen."
It's possible, depending on how the kubuntu folk pack up the kde binaries. If you're willing to just compile it yourself, certainly. KDE itself is pretty modular, broken up cleanly into different and fairly independent libs. Amarok uses a pretty large amount of the KDE functionality, so you are probably going to wind up with a fair amount extra. I doubt you'd have enough extra loaded to even hit 0.5% of your memory though.
There's a line everyone has to face where they decide increased safety isn't worth constantly hiding. If more people actually stood up for themselves instead of assuming that hiding in a cloak of conformity should be the norm, things might be different.
As far as the record industry goes though, if they're doublechecking files on your hard drive against lastfm records, you're screwed already no matter what the results. Otherwise, just because it shows up on there doesn't mean actually having an mp3. The vast majority of internet radio I listen to, for example, scrobs onto there.
Do you remember what the web was like before google? I recall the relief on peoples faces when I showed google to them. Not a surprise at all that they moved up so quickly.
Lurker187 said it better. but the whole mental workout thing is mostly anti-tiger rocks. Coming from a family with a high rate of alzheimer's, and loving academic pursuits, I really wish it were true. But so far, every study I've seen as a reference to this turns out to have been totally misunderstood by a pop.science journalists.
I don't know, seems like the majority of my non-work phone use comes down to deciding where to meet up with people. Movies, bars, restaurants and the like. Seems like it'd be both useful to me, and to google to target to that. Now whether they could actually implement it or not is a different story.
Depends on the baseline for the human involved. There's already people who actually do consider their relationshps with real dolls to be on an emotional level. I think most would consider these folks to be emotionally damaged somehow, but it does demonstrate that the bar is considerably lower for some people. And while the turing test is a bit of a pipedream for the average adult, there have been ample cases where folks interact with even badly scripted chatbots for quite some time before realizing what's going on. Or, they might never figure it out. Again though, these tend to be on the far lower end of the intellectual spectrum, but I could see this if the early adopters were a little emotionally damaged, not very socially active or intelligent.
Possibly. But there seems to be a strong implication there of central homunulous, instead of what we now know of intelligence as the end result of many individual processes.
Do they ever bring up Mercerism in it? I thought that was one of the best parts of electric sheep, and a shame to have it fall out of the movie storyline.
That's about the only thing that'd get me to watch trek in a theater again. I wish they would decide to just go out on a bang and make it as stupidly fun as possible. Zombies, crossovers with the leprechaun and Jason. Now that I think of it though, the borg movie was about the last trek I really enjoyed, and it was pretty close to being a zombie movie in space.
She's also parent to a teenager. There's few things which can turn someone in the industry to a luddite like having their kids reach that age. For the most part, I think we like to imagine ourselves as somehow immune to shifts in technology by being in such a fast moving industry. The reality is that generational shifts seem to hit us just as hard, but it can go somewhat under the radar for a while. And there's few things that can kick someone in the head like finding out your kid knows more about some aspects of your career than you do, and coming to the realization that it's only going to get worse as time goes by.
I switched my wife's to kubuntu a couple years back, and it took her about a day to get used to it. Actually, we weren't married at that point yet. Sometimes I half think she wanted to ensure a contractual obligation for tech support. So I guess it's girlfriend's computer yes, wife's computer no.
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That's the main reason I was hoping he was going to get in it. Just once I'd like to see a debate where the candidates were called on their bullshit non-answers. If nothing else, he'd at least draw attention to answers of "I'm pro puppies and happiness!" as not having any actual meaning. When they're asked questions about how they intend to tackle some problem, they deserve to be mocked if they try to pass off platitudes instead of plans.
Not to mention that any university worth the name will 'force' everyone to have a basic foundation in all basic knowledge bases before they can graduate.
And they're surprisingly good. I'd heard the quality was a bit lacking, and as a result waited until this week to check any out. I've been burned so many times by shows coming back from cancelation as zombified mockeries of their former selves to make that a default assumption. However, the two I've seen so far, battlefield earth and troll 2 were just as good as mst3k. I'd assume that the ones with 'only' mike wouldn't be nearly as fun, but those seem to be the minority.
In much the same way as I don't care if a leader is a literature major but do care if he's literate, I'd like to know that he has basic scientific literacy. The kind of thing that I'd expect any second year university student to be able to do. Basically just show himself able to sit down with a study, whether he's familiar with the subject or not, and offer up at least some understanding of the basic methodology used and 'why' the conclusions shown in the abstract do or do not match up. I'm being a bit kind there as well in not saying that should be considered a skill any high school graduate should be able to demonstrate.
1. Do they really expect us to believe that all of humanity that came before them were collective idiots?
No, just that they were more ignorant of the world around them than those of today. We've had more opportunity to critically examine various beliefs than those. So as a general rule, each generation has had a tendency to become less ignorant of the world around them. Lack of knowledge is in no way the same as lack of intelligence though. As well, it's only recently that we've known enough for a god of the gaps argument to not be somewhat valid.
2. Do they think we should have to prove what each generation since Adam has come to accept as true?
Yes. That's where the largest boosts to humanity have come from, in critically examining our long held beliefs. It's by taking an experimental look at beliefs which seem obvious that we often find huge benefit. Say, "everyone knows that X will heal you". By examining X against other things, we find out that it has benefit but only up to the same level as a random substance put forward to be X. So we learn about the placebo effect, and the improve testing procedures allow better development of medicine.
3. Doesn't it occur to them that if they aren't seeing what everyone else around them is seeing/perceiving, perhaps it is they who have the vision/perception problem?
Sure. So they test things which are in dispute. The vast majority of people don't see atoms, doesn't change things though.
How does age of a topic in any way make it more or less valid? You sound like people who insist acupuncture or astrology are true just because they're old.
This is the kind of thing which makes the audience of talk shows think their psychic knows more about physics than physicists. It's a dumbed down abstraction, nothing more, nothing less. It's cool on that level, but saying that one understand string theory after watching it is like a kid thinking they understand gravity because they saw something fall to the ground.
Anyone tried this with kmail? It's been really slow for me, and seemingly at random it'll just finish up with a partial listing of my gmail inbox. I haven't used kmail in something like a year though, so I'm not really sure if this might just be some normal bugginess. Last year I never had any problems with imap on it though, with a pretty heavy amount of email traffic.
To be fair, that's one of the nice things about google. They've been pretty good about moving applications they've bought out into gdata, with the offline backup that suggests. Not to mention gears.
I think in large part it's due more to the fact that we really don't have much of a sense of smell when compared to other mammals. It's a bit like a blind cave fish trying to create good tests for vision when that concept is almost totally alien to it.
It was also common sense that killing a woman was a good test of whether or not she was a witch, or that it was impossible that a drop of pond water had little invisible animals swimming around in it. That's the whole point of science, testing common sense because humans are so bad at interpreting the world around us.
That video could have saved a lot of time by just having a frame or two saying "Hey, remember how Hiro made money in Snowcrash? I wonder if that might happen."
It's possible, depending on how the kubuntu folk pack up the kde binaries. If you're willing to just compile it yourself, certainly. KDE itself is pretty modular, broken up cleanly into different and fairly independent libs. Amarok uses a pretty large amount of the KDE functionality, so you are probably going to wind up with a fair amount extra. I doubt you'd have enough extra loaded to even hit 0.5% of your memory though.
There's a line everyone has to face where they decide increased safety isn't worth constantly hiding. If more people actually stood up for themselves instead of assuming that hiding in a cloak of conformity should be the norm, things might be different.
As far as the record industry goes though, if they're doublechecking files on your hard drive against lastfm records, you're screwed already no matter what the results. Otherwise, just because it shows up on there doesn't mean actually having an mp3. The vast majority of internet radio I listen to, for example, scrobs onto there.
Do you remember what the web was like before google? I recall the relief on peoples faces when I showed google to them. Not a surprise at all that they moved up so quickly.
Even aside from edge, I'm a little saddened by the lack of a camera. I'm tired of carrying around multiple gadgets at this point.
Lurker187 said it better. but the whole mental workout thing is mostly anti-tiger rocks. Coming from a family with a high rate of alzheimer's, and loving academic pursuits, I really wish it were true. But so far, every study I've seen as a reference to this turns out to have been totally misunderstood by a pop.science journalists.
I don't know, seems like the majority of my non-work phone use comes down to deciding where to meet up with people. Movies, bars, restaurants and the like. Seems like it'd be both useful to me, and to google to target to that. Now whether they could actually implement it or not is a different story.
Depends on the baseline for the human involved. There's already people who actually do consider their relationshps with real dolls to be on an emotional level. I think most would consider these folks to be emotionally damaged somehow, but it does demonstrate that the bar is considerably lower for some people. And while the turing test is a bit of a pipedream for the average adult, there have been ample cases where folks interact with even badly scripted chatbots for quite some time before realizing what's going on. Or, they might never figure it out. Again though, these tend to be on the far lower end of the intellectual spectrum, but I could see this if the early adopters were a little emotionally damaged, not very socially active or intelligent.
Possibly. But there seems to be a strong implication there of central homunulous, instead of what we now know of intelligence as the end result of many individual processes.
Do they ever bring up Mercerism in it? I thought that was one of the best parts of electric sheep, and a shame to have it fall out of the movie storyline.
That's about the only thing that'd get me to watch trek in a theater again. I wish they would decide to just go out on a bang and make it as stupidly fun as possible. Zombies, crossovers with the leprechaun and Jason. Now that I think of it though, the borg movie was about the last trek I really enjoyed, and it was pretty close to being a zombie movie in space.
She's also parent to a teenager. There's few things which can turn someone in the industry to a luddite like having their kids reach that age. For the most part, I think we like to imagine ourselves as somehow immune to shifts in technology by being in such a fast moving industry. The reality is that generational shifts seem to hit us just as hard, but it can go somewhat under the radar for a while. And there's few things that can kick someone in the head like finding out your kid knows more about some aspects of your career than you do, and coming to the realization that it's only going to get worse as time goes by.
I'm going to guess it was a starndard format with the file extension changed.
I switched my wife's to kubuntu a couple years back, and it took her about a day to get used to it. Actually, we weren't married at that point yet. Sometimes I half think she wanted to ensure a contractual obligation for tech support. So I guess it's girlfriend's computer yes, wife's computer no.