I couldn't see something like that happening on a large scale. I don't know how many people would admit it but most, conscious or unconscious of the fact, have kids in order to launch their genes into the future. I could see a minority of people willing to raise a child born from anthers DNA, but for better or for worse, I think people that unselfish are few and far between.
I think this is making a lot of large assumptions. Firstly, the idea that it's only an either or situation as far as enhancements. Somatic might not be 'quite' as effective as germline therapy, at least from my armchair amateur view, but I'd assume it'd at least get someone in the game if they'd not been lucky enough to receive treatment before birth. Secondly, it makes a rather large assumption about the level of changes. We're talking tweaking here, not outright creation of a new species. At most I doubt there'd be, at least initially, as much difference as exists between the lower and upper class already. While I'm just middle class I can certainly say I've never felt the desire to go into a low income neighbourhood and feed peanuts to the people living there! And if I can't get a position because Richie McRicherson bought better enhancements than I could afford, I don't think it's that much of a change from the way things already are. The rich can afford private schools for their kids which beat the hell out of the sorry state public education is now in, they usually have better food for their child during both gestation and later development which gives them a boost in both body and mind from the start, and they have social doors open to them that the rest of us can only dream of. I think the world you're scared of losing never existed in the first place. If anything, I'd say genetic engineering for the purposes of augmentation might even give lower classes a slight head up on an upper class so blindsided by their own ideas of "human dignity" that it'd give others a better chance at the pot for a while.
In any case though, that's pretty much just wild theory at this point. There's people with genetic diseases, or even those like the parent with simple genetic annoyances, that could really use treatment right now. And I really hope they don't wind up missing out of it either because of too much speculation on futures we can't possibly predict, or because of religious beliefs foisted upon nonbelievers because of their country of origin.
I should probably preface this by saying my experience with AI is pretty low(just a few 'very' small projects for school), and with robotics nothing more than a spectator. Still, I have to wonder if a lot of the limitations have more to do with hardware, and less with the actual AI. Bugs have pretty nice bodies, with lots of sensors and a good amount of flexibility. The current tech doesn't seem to offer anything much on that level, or at least much that could be applied easily to a lightweight mobile robot. Even with that, a lot of insects still bump into walls, windows, and fall off of things. The soccer playing aibos seem to have as much grace and basic environment recognition as many insects. Well, OK, a few insects. Hey, I'm still amazed at fairly cheap devices able to, with some tinkering, do such a good job of differentiating betwen a red ball and things that are not a red ball.
We *don't* know what is required (software-wise) to make a robot alive.
I'm not sure if that's really fair. I'd strongly agree that we don't know what's required for mammal-like intelligence, or sentience, but I would classify current AI as among the level of simple biological intelligence.
I should probably keep my mouth shut on this one since I'm only peripheraly aware of what's going on with the release schedule. If I'm wrong, hopefully someone might step up and correct me. But isn't the release delay also responsible for some packages and updates not making it into even unstable, such as x.org or kde 3.4?
I've read this complaint before, but I've only encountered it once: an internal application only works with the MS JRE.
For me, it's DVArchive - a program to transfer video betwean computer and ReplayTV. Users are pretty much stuck keeping an older version of Java around as Dvarchive chokes on anything recent. Or in using a very old version of Dvarchive which modern incarnations of Java don't seem to have a problem with.
Early christians were more tolerant and sophisticated than modern fundamentalists
I have to disagree on the tolerance point, or at least modify that to "many early Christians". To me at least, it seemed like there was a huge amount of conflict between different Christian groups fighting with each other for dominance and declaring each other heretics. And even at the point where the modern roots of Christianity really took hold, trying to remove the existence of the other Christian philosophies became an even more significant and workable priority.
'cept for the mass hangings, death penalty for premarital sex or alcohol consumption, and women forced to wear veils, of course.
To be fair we're getting pretty close on the alcohol consumption part, except with another fairly mild recreational drug, marijuana. It might not be death, but the stuff one has to endure if tossed in prison sure isn't humane either.
I was a little surprised they didn't mention QuizCards , which seems at or above the level of those reviewed. It's open source, and written in Java using swing for the gui.
I'd say there's a number of programs that compare well to apt-get, such as urpmi with mandrake. The problem is that, at least in my opinion, none of the software repositories are on the same level as debian unstables. It's the only linux distro where I've never found myself having to sit around compiling something or other.
That's a good question, and one I always find myself wondering whenever the usual Democrat VS. Republican arguments break out here. I think some, certainaly not all but at least a portion of it comes down to humans having some inate need to believe in a higher power. One which has a greater knowledge than the individual and can provide another group of people to hate. Couple hundred years back it would have been preachers telling of the danger posed by witches and heathens, now it's politicians preaching about the evil ways of their oposing party. A lot of folks would be quick to believe anything, provided it gave an easy target to explain why things are going wrong. It's them darn liberals/It's them darn conservitives! From what I've heard, even the politicians themselves are trapped in it, pretty quickly finding their former views lost and replaced by whatever their peers particular view is.
In this case, my totally uninformed guess is that the patients subconcious became trained to associate opiates with an IV. The brain gets its "time for opiates" call when the needle was inserted, and when it doesn't get any morphine, takes that as a cue to churn out some of its own opioids - which would then be blocked by the naloxone.
Especially given that his link title is only applicable to platforms with no native IE.
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Men tend to get called on more than women in classes, and also tend to get taken more seriously than women, all the way back into elementary schools, by both male and female teachers.
I have to wonder what period the book you mention was getting its data from. We covered sex differences within education in a sociology class I took recently, and at least as far as the lower grades went, the conclusions usually seemed to swing in the opposite direction. That around the 90s the emphasis went to concentrating on female instead of male students both in class and extracraricular activities.
Small correction, as far as I know DVArchive isn't open source. I wish it was, because I'm using an older version of it due to incompatibilities with recent versions of java that I'm assuming would be pretty easy to iron out if the source code to the current version was there. It's a fairly small itch though, as all the functionality I need is in 3.0 anyway. Besides that small point, I agree that DVArchive is a pretty great piece of software. In fact, it's one of the reasons I went with ReplayTV over tivo.
After all, these people have some of the best clinical and occupational psychologists in the world working for them.
Working for, and being headed by, are two very different things. I'm sure we've all seen our fair share of politicians with access to highly trained people in the scientific comunity who, despite that access, are able to maintain an incredible level of bias and ignorance on scientific matters.
Wasn't that fixed in the 2.5 branch? I'm using a couple wx applications, often for fairly extended periods of time, with a 2.5 gtk2 build and haven't seen any problems.
Interesting that they switched to gtk from wxWidgets. Given the fairly minimal gui on the official client anyway, it seems a bit odd that they'd go to the trouble. I wonder what the motivation was.
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And they hate, hate, zombies.
I couldn't see something like that happening on a large scale. I don't know how many people would admit it but most, conscious or unconscious of the fact, have kids in order to launch their genes into the future. I could see a minority of people willing to raise a child born from anthers DNA, but for better or for worse, I think people that unselfish are few and far between.
I think this is making a lot of large assumptions. Firstly, the idea that it's only an either or situation as far as enhancements. Somatic might not be 'quite' as effective as germline therapy, at least from my armchair amateur view, but I'd assume it'd at least get someone in the game if they'd not been lucky enough to receive treatment before birth. Secondly, it makes a rather large assumption about the level of changes. We're talking tweaking here, not outright creation of a new species. At most I doubt there'd be, at least initially, as much difference as exists between the lower and upper class already. While I'm just middle class I can certainly say I've never felt the desire to go into a low income neighbourhood and feed peanuts to the people living there! And if I can't get a position because Richie McRicherson bought better enhancements than I could afford, I don't think it's that much of a change from the way things already are. The rich can afford private schools for their kids which beat the hell out of the sorry state public education is now in, they usually have better food for their child during both gestation and later development which gives them a boost in both body and mind from the start, and they have social doors open to them that the rest of us can only dream of. I think the world you're scared of losing never existed in the first place. If anything, I'd say genetic engineering for the purposes of augmentation might even give lower classes a slight head up on an upper class so blindsided by their own ideas of "human dignity" that it'd give others a better chance at the pot for a while.
In any case though, that's pretty much just wild theory at this point. There's people with genetic diseases, or even those like the parent with simple genetic annoyances, that could really use treatment right now. And I really hope they don't wind up missing out of it either because of too much speculation on futures we can't possibly predict, or because of religious beliefs foisted upon nonbelievers because of their country of origin.
Weird, I don't have it installed and I'm not getting anything at the chrisbenard page. I even tried it with konqueror, and still nothing.
I should probably preface this by saying my experience with AI is pretty low(just a few 'very' small projects for school), and with robotics nothing more than a spectator. Still, I have to wonder if a lot of the limitations have more to do with hardware, and less with the actual AI. Bugs have pretty nice bodies, with lots of sensors and a good amount of flexibility. The current tech doesn't seem to offer anything much on that level, or at least much that could be applied easily to a lightweight mobile robot. Even with that, a lot of insects still bump into walls, windows, and fall off of things. The soccer playing aibos seem to have as much grace and basic environment recognition as many insects. Well, OK, a few insects. Hey, I'm still amazed at fairly cheap devices able to, with some tinkering, do such a good job of differentiating betwen a red ball and things that are not a red ball.
We *don't* know what is required (software-wise) to make a robot alive.
I'm not sure if that's really fair. I'd strongly agree that we don't know what's required for mammal-like intelligence, or sentience, but I would classify current AI as among the level of simple biological intelligence.
A "real release" of Debian doesn't matter
I should probably keep my mouth shut on this one since I'm only peripheraly aware of what's going on with the release schedule. If I'm wrong, hopefully someone might step up and correct me. But isn't the release delay also responsible for some packages and updates not making it into even unstable, such as x.org or kde 3.4?
I've read this complaint before, but I've only encountered it once: an internal application only works with the MS JRE.
For me, it's DVArchive - a program to transfer video betwean computer and ReplayTV. Users are pretty much stuck keeping an older version of Java around as Dvarchive chokes on anything recent. Or in using a very old version of Dvarchive which modern incarnations of Java don't seem to have a problem with.
Early christians were more tolerant and sophisticated than modern fundamentalists
I have to disagree on the tolerance point, or at least modify that to "many early Christians". To me at least, it seemed like there was a huge amount of conflict between different Christian groups fighting with each other for dominance and declaring each other heretics. And even at the point where the modern roots of Christianity really took hold, trying to remove the existence of the other Christian philosophies became an even more significant and workable priority.
'cept for the mass hangings, death penalty for premarital sex or alcohol consumption, and women forced to wear veils, of course.
To be fair we're getting pretty close on the alcohol consumption part, except with another fairly mild recreational drug, marijuana. It might not be death, but the stuff one has to endure if tossed in prison sure isn't humane either.
I was a little surprised they didn't mention QuizCards , which seems at or above the level of those reviewed. It's open source, and written in Java using swing for the gui.
People will never forgive you belonging to circle they can't.
I agree. Scrolling through the list of negative comments about mensa so far, more and more it's beginning to smell a bit like sour grapes.
I'd say there's a number of programs that compare well to apt-get, such as urpmi with mandrake. The problem is that, at least in my opinion, none of the software repositories are on the same level as debian unstables. It's the only linux distro where I've never found myself having to sit around compiling something or other.
That's a good question, and one I always find myself wondering whenever the usual Democrat VS. Republican arguments break out here. I think some, certainaly not all but at least a portion of it comes down to humans having some inate need to believe in a higher power. One which has a greater knowledge than the individual and can provide another group of people to hate. Couple hundred years back it would have been preachers telling of the danger posed by witches and heathens, now it's politicians preaching about the evil ways of their oposing party. A lot of folks would be quick to believe anything, provided it gave an easy target to explain why things are going wrong. It's them darn liberals/It's them darn conservitives! From what I've heard, even the politicians themselves are trapped in it, pretty quickly finding their former views lost and replaced by whatever their peers particular view is.
In this case, my totally uninformed guess is that the patients subconcious became trained to associate opiates with an IV. The brain gets its "time for opiates" call when the needle was inserted, and when it doesn't get any morphine, takes that as a cue to churn out some of its own opioids - which would then be blocked by the naloxone.
Is Java really that bad for 3D? While I haven't seen much 3D done in Java, most of the time I came away surprised by the performance not sucking.
That's all that matters then...
Especially given that his link title is only applicable to platforms with no native IE.
Men tend to get called on more than women in classes, and also tend to get taken more seriously than women, all the way back into elementary schools, by both male and female teachers.
I have to wonder what period the book you mention was getting its data from. We covered sex differences within education in a sociology class I took recently, and at least as far as the lower grades went, the conclusions usually seemed to swing in the opposite direction. That around the 90s the emphasis went to concentrating on female instead of male students both in class and extracraricular activities.
Small correction, as far as I know DVArchive isn't open source. I wish it was, because I'm using an older version of it due to incompatibilities with recent versions of java that I'm assuming would be pretty easy to iron out if the source code to the current version was there. It's a fairly small itch though, as all the functionality I need is in 3.0 anyway. Besides that small point, I agree that DVArchive is a pretty great piece of software. In fact, it's one of the reasons I went with ReplayTV over tivo.
After all, these people have some of the best clinical and occupational psychologists in the world working for them.
Working for, and being headed by, are two very different things. I'm sure we've all seen our fair share of politicians with access to highly trained people in the scientific comunity who, despite that access, are able to maintain an incredible level of bias and ignorance on scientific matters.
Wasn't that fixed in the 2.5 branch? I'm using a couple wx applications, often for fairly extended periods of time, with a 2.5 gtk2 build and haven't seen any problems.
Interesting that they switched to gtk from wxWidgets. Given the fairly minimal gui on the official client anyway, it seems a bit odd that they'd go to the trouble. I wonder what the motivation was.
Don't Americans use the word touque?
Python + wxPython = killer cross platform Rapid development language.... as soon as you get past the quirks.
Speaking of both ipaqs and WxPython, anyone know if the guy who ported WxPython to the PocketPC ever uploaded it anywhere?
As a personal opinion: honestly, I can't see why one would want to use Firefox under Linux at all.
For me, it's the extensions. If not for that I'd be using Konqueror.