Here's a topic to get it started: How you avoid women like this when you're dating? It seems most guys don't realize their future wife will be like this until after they've tied the knot.
Or if you get one that won't let you buy stuff, you can change her by making her wear one of those shock-collars for disobedient dogs. I make my girlfriend wear one, it works wonders.
After a few rounds of voltage to the base of the skull, they'll pretty much accept one of these, no problem.
Perhaps instead of framing the "game" (of math or of anything else) as a contest, we ought to be looking at ways to make progress that makes use of both the experience of age and the quickness of youth.
Perhaps you should realize that since you've fulfilled your primary purpose as a human being (reproduction), all you're doing is taking up space and resources needed by the next generation to raise its offspring.
In other words, hurry up and die. Your life past this point is merely an exercise in selfish indulgence.
Although it does remind me of one of Iraq's current problems, that being piles of trash that haven't been picked up in months and are still a low priority. Too bad it's also a recipe for a cholera epidemic.
Yeah, but THEY'RE FREE NOW. Who cares? Onward to Syria!
Seriously though, if we just make some commercials that say "garbage helps terrorism", people will just stop making garbage. Problem solved.
My cousin had a in car DVD player in his Audi A4, and he greatly regrets this purchase. While driving on the highway during a sunday afternoon he was momentarily distracted by a fight scene in the latest Vin Deisel flick and in that split second his car hit another.
Your cousin's an idiot.
I mean, he has an in-dash DVD player and he wastes it on Vin Diesel? Has he not heard of DVD pr0n?
IDE drives and RAM aren't cheap crap, true. Second-rate IDE drives and RAM used to cut the overall price of the system are, and that's what Apple doesn't use.
Dell uses Micron RAM and Quantum Drives. Guess what I have here on my desk? A drive I pulled out of an iMac (with a bad screen, so the computer's useless. great design). It's a Quantum, and the RAM I pulled out of the Mac is Micron.
The only thing worse than elitism is ignorance, and you're heavy on both.
Seriously. The games.slashdot color scheme would be right at home. Maybe taco's trying to tell us something about the type of gaming that he's really into.
I've been to the National Cathedral... it's a beautiful place, even for pagans such as myself. Why would they carve a Darth Vader into the arches?
"To Find Darth Vader you have to leave the building through the ramp entrance. This is located at the northwest corner of the nave, through the double wooden doors of Lincoln Bay. Go down the ramp, and step into the parking lot. Then, turn around and look back up at the tower closest to you. He is almost impossible to see ithout the assistance of binoculars."
Something tells me the "addition" isn't exactly an eyesore.
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The writers of The Real Ghostbusters (yeah, remember that cartoon?) should be pissed. A war of vampires vs werewolves?
(continued where the parent got cut off)... On the other hand, a creature might be profoundly stupid and still have subjective experiences.
Agent Smith is an example of a machine that manifests humanlike behavior--which, if you witnessed such words and gestures in a human, you would immediately regard them as showing conscious emotions and volitions. Indeed, it is the immediacy of the interpretation that is deceptive. When you see someone laugh with joy, or scream in pain, you do not knowingly infer the person's mental state from those outward signs. Rather, it is as if you see the emotions directly. Yet, we know from accomplished actors that these signs of emotions can be faked. Therefore, you are indeed making an inference, albeit an automatic one. It is a job of philosophy to scrutinize such automatic inference. When you see another human being emoting, your inference is not based wholly on what you see, but also on background information (such as whether the person is acting on the stage). More fundamentally, you are relying on the reasonable assumption that the person's behavior arises from a biological brain just as yours does. Whenever those premises are undermined, you inevitably revise any inferences you have made from the emoting. If the emoting stops and people around you clap, you realize it was a piece of street theatre, and the person was only acting out those emotions. Or, if the person has a nasty car accident that breaks open his head, revealing electronic circuitry instead of a brain, you realize that it was only an android and you may conclude that it was only simulating emotions.
A key step in the inference is the premise that the emotion plays a role in the causal loop that produces the outward words and gestures. If, instead, we have established that the observed words and gestures are wholly explained in some other way, without involving those emotions--then the inference collapses. The exterior emoting behavior then ceases to count as evidence for an interior emotional experience. If we know that an actor's words and gestures are scripted, then we cease to regard them as evidence for an inward mental state. Likewise, if we know that the words and gestures of an android or avatar are programmed, then they too cease to support any inference of a mental state.
In an android, or in a software simulation of a human such as an agent, words and gestures are produced by millions of lines of programmed software. The software advances from instruction to instruction in a deterministic manner. Some instructions move pieces of information around inside memory, others execute calculations, others send motor signals to actuators in the body. Each line of code references objective memory locations and ports in the physical hardware. It may do so symbolically, and it may do so via sophisticated data structures, for example, using the tag "vision-field" to reference the stabilized and edge-enhanced data from the eye cams. Nevertheless, nowhere in the software suite does the code break out of that objective environment and refer to the enigmatic contents of consciousness. Nor could the programmer ever do so, since she would need an objective, third-person pointer to the conscious experience--which, being a subjective, first-person thing, cannot be labeled with such a pointer.
Everything that the android says and does is fully accounted for by its software. There is no explanatory gap left for machine consciousness to fill. When the android says, "I see colors and feel emotions just as humans do," we know that those words are produced by deterministic lines of software that functions perfectly well without any involvement of consciousness. It is because of this that the android's emoting does not provide an iota of evidence for any interior mental life. All the outward signs are faked, and the programmer knows in comprehensive detail how they are faked.
This point is systematically ignored by the mathematicians and engineers who enthuse about artif
What about the package maintainers for the various Linux distributions? If someone installs the "firebird" package, are they getting a web browser or a database?
If they install a "Firebird" package, they're getting a web browser. If they install a "FirebirdSQL" package, they're getting a database. If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading the story.
Their database is called "Firebird", not "Phoenix". If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading the story.
Their organization is called "IBPhoenix", and the browser is called "Phoenix". If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading their website.
The database is called "FirebirdSQL", not "Firebird. If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading the story.
Here we go again with the over-personification.
There's a big difference between expecting past behavior to continue and actually being intelligent (and then going crazy)
Which is why HAL is such a bad example. HAL wasn't behaving unpredictably, or even crazy. HAL started behaving the way he did because the humans around him had the need to lie. Mission Control's order for HAL to lie to Dave and Frank about the purpose of their mission conflicted with the basic purpose of HAL's design--the accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment. As explained in 2010, "He was trapped. HAL was told to lie by people who found it easy to lie. HAL didn't know how to lie, so he couldn't function. "
I'm unsure and someone will be able to probably correct me but I seem to remember a court case in the 80s regarding rental of copyrighted material.
This is what you're referring to:
"For years Nintendo had been trying to stop the burgeoning industry of video-game rentals. It took the largest video-game rental company, Blockbuster, to court and worked with Hill & Knowlton's Massey to attempt to convince legislators to make it illegal. At the same time, Nintendo also attempted to stop video-game rentals by coercion and threats.
To supplement their business in an increasingly competitive market, a few video-rental outfits began renting Nintendo games in 1987 and 1988, when demand for cartridges was enormous. For some of those stores, Nintendo rentals represented 30 to 40 percent of their business. For most it was a lower but still significant 10 to 15 percent. The largest rental chain, Blockbuster, had revenues of $1.5 billion in 1990, and perhaps $150 million of this was from Nintendo game rentals (Blockbuster would not disclose the exact figure).
Nintendo not only refused to sell to the chains and individual stores that rented movies and games and pressured its retailers to do the same. In addition, it attempted to address the problem in court and in Congress. Legislation was proposed in the Senate in May 1989, spearheaded by software companies such as Wordperfect Corporation and Microsoft and the Software Publishers Association, that would prohibit the rental of all computer software, including video games.
The trade association of video-rental dealers, the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA), promised to crush the bill as long as video games were part of it; video-game rentals were too lucrative to give up. The computer-software companies and the SPA succumbed, according to Howard Lincoln, and cut a deal with the VSDA, agreeing to exclude video games, unlike floppy disk-based software, were not copiable. It was easy to rent computer software and make a permanent copy at home, but it was nearly impossible to make a copy of "Super Mario Bros." (although one Taiwanese company, Baelih, advertised a game-copying device.)
Before 1989, Nintendo had never been represented in Washington and had relied on the SPA. However, Howard Lincoln charged, the association "sold us down the river," as did Microsoft, their neighbor in Redmond. (Howard Lincoln was rebuffed when he went to the company to ask for its support.)
Don Massey, a lobbyist who represented such clients as the government of Turkey and Gerber Products Co., was retained to attempt to influence the rental legislation. Nintendo's position was supported only halfheartedly by Washington State's congressional delegation, which was caught in the middle; their other constituent in Redmond was Microsoft, which wanted the bill to go through whether or not Nintendo liked it. With Massey's help, Nintendo fought the change vigorously, but lost in July of 1989.
NOA then tried to push for a compromise bill that would prohibit rental of a video game for a year after its release. This was proposed in Congress by Representative Joe Barton, from Texas, a friend of Byron Cook, the president of a Nintendo licensee called Trade West. Nintendo lost that one too. There was one more try, an attempt to pass a bill similar to one sponsored by the record industry that sought to ban the rental of records, but it never made it through the House Judiciary Committee. "We got killed on Capitol Hill," Lincoln admits.
There were other avenues Lincoln took in his attempt to stop the rental companies. He considered suing them but concluded that Nintendo wouldn't prevail; a guiding principle in copyright law called the "first-sale doctrine" said the buyer of a piece of property could do just about anything with it. Since a ban on rentals by the courts or Congress seemed unlikely, Nintendo trued another tack. The video-rental companies were packaging game cartridges with photocopies of Nintendo's instru
If your at the level where this advice makes sense to you, go the local university and enroll in something that isn't programming realted... Real coders can work in machine code if needed because they understand whats going on at the low level.
If you're at the level where this post makes sense to you, go to the local university and enroll in something that will teach you proper grammar and spelling.
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Here's a topic to get it started: How you avoid women like this when you're dating? It seems most guys don't realize their future wife will be like this until after they've tied the knot.
Or if you get one that won't let you buy stuff, you can change her by making her wear one of those shock-collars for disobedient dogs. I make my girlfriend wear one, it works wonders.
After a few rounds of voltage to the base of the skull, they'll pretty much accept one of these, no problem.
Perhaps instead of framing the "game" (of math or of anything else) as a contest, we ought to be looking at ways to make progress that makes use of both the experience of age and the quickness of youth.
Perhaps you should realize that since you've fulfilled your primary purpose as a human being (reproduction), all you're doing is taking up space and resources needed by the next generation to raise its offspring.
In other words, hurry up and die. Your life past this point is merely an exercise in selfish indulgence.
Isn't this just as illegal as releasing the worm itself? What if the fix has some adverse effects that we don't know about?
Although it does remind me of one of Iraq's current problems, that being piles of trash that haven't been picked up in months and are still a low priority. Too bad it's also a recipe for a cholera epidemic.
Yeah, but THEY'RE FREE NOW. Who cares? Onward to Syria!
Seriously though, if we just make some commercials that say "garbage helps terrorism", people will just stop making garbage. Problem solved.
My cousin had a in car DVD player in his Audi A4, and he greatly regrets this purchase. While driving on the highway during a sunday afternoon he was momentarily distracted by a fight scene in the latest Vin Deisel flick and in that split second his car hit another.
Your cousin's an idiot.
I mean, he has an in-dash DVD player and he wastes it on Vin Diesel? Has he not heard of DVD pr0n?
What are you talking about? I read the summary as follows:
"An anonymous reader submits a link to this Computer Graphics World article on a Freedom-made film to be released in June."
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to finish my Freedom Fries, and Freedom kiss my wife who's dressed up in a Freedom Maid outfit.
For outlook users, i recommend Spammunition [upserve.com] and I just use mozilla's spam filtering, which works great.
Eudora users can use Spamnix. Works like a charm.
IDE drives and RAM aren't cheap crap, true. Second-rate IDE drives and RAM used to cut the overall price of the system are, and that's what Apple doesn't use.
Dell uses Micron RAM and Quantum Drives. Guess what I have here on my desk? A drive I pulled out of an iMac (with a bad screen, so the computer's useless. great design). It's a Quantum, and the RAM I pulled out of the Mac is Micron.
The only thing worse than elitism is ignorance, and you're heavy on both.
The whole point of buying from Apple is that it's NOT cheap crap like a PC, or worse my mom's Dell.
You realize, of course, that Apples are built of the same "cheap crap" as PCs (RAM, IDE drives, etc), and that same "cheap crap" is assembled for Apple by the same company that assembles computers for Dell, HP, and Compaq.
So you want to buy a new implementation of a dead OS?
/me is completely shocked.
Apple seems to be doing okay on that business model. Unless all that stuff I read about on slashdot about BSD being dead wasn't true.
DEA? Hell, I'm sure Rumsfeld would like to know about it. They made a pretty big fuss about a comparable find in Iraq.
Like I'd really want to use this thing after countless numbers of people touched it shortly after wiping their asses
Yeah. That number 2.0 is a messy one. Especially if you've been eating corn and chili.
Seriously. The games.slashdot color scheme would be right at home. Maybe taco's trying to tell us something about the type of gaming that he's really into.
Hell, if the filter worked 90% of the time I'd use it at my ISP...
One word: Spamnix.
Out of the 25 or so spams I get every time I check my email, maybe one actually lands in my inbox.
I've been to the National Cathedral... it's a beautiful place, even for pagans such as myself. Why would they carve a Darth Vader into the arches?
"To Find Darth Vader you have to leave the building through the ramp entrance. This is located at the northwest corner of the nave, through the double wooden doors of Lincoln Bay. Go down the ramp, and step into the parking lot. Then, turn around and look back up at the tower closest to you. He is almost impossible to see ithout the assistance of binoculars."
Something tells me the "addition" isn't exactly an eyesore.
The writers of The Real Ghostbusters (yeah, remember that cartoon?) should be pissed. A war of vampires vs werewolves?
I seem to remember an episode called No one comes to Lupusville that features that same story.
White Wolf seems to have stolen most of its premise lock, stock and barrel.
(continued where the parent got cut off) ... On the other hand, a creature might be profoundly stupid and still have subjective experiences.
Agent Smith is an example of a machine that manifests humanlike behavior--which, if you witnessed such words and gestures in a human, you would immediately regard them as showing conscious emotions and volitions. Indeed, it is the immediacy of the interpretation that is deceptive. When you see someone laugh with joy, or scream in pain, you do not knowingly infer the person's mental state from those outward signs. Rather, it is as if you see the emotions directly. Yet, we know from accomplished actors that these signs of emotions can be faked. Therefore, you are indeed making an inference, albeit an automatic one. It is a job of philosophy to scrutinize such automatic inference. When you see another human being emoting, your inference is not based wholly on what you see, but also on background information (such as whether the person is acting on the stage). More fundamentally, you are relying on the reasonable assumption that the person's behavior arises from a biological brain just as yours does. Whenever those premises are undermined, you inevitably revise any inferences you have made from the emoting. If the emoting stops and people around you clap, you realize it was a piece of street theatre, and the person was only acting out those emotions. Or, if the person has a nasty car accident that breaks open his head, revealing electronic circuitry instead of a brain, you realize that it was only an android and you may conclude that it was only simulating emotions.
A key step in the inference is the premise that the emotion plays a role in the causal loop that produces the outward words and gestures. If, instead, we have established that the observed words and gestures are wholly explained in some other way, without involving those emotions--then the inference collapses. The exterior emoting behavior then ceases to count as evidence for an interior emotional experience. If we know that an actor's words and gestures are scripted, then we cease to regard them as evidence for an inward mental state. Likewise, if we know that the words and gestures of an android or avatar are programmed, then they too cease to support any inference of a mental state.
In an android, or in a software simulation of a human such as an agent, words and gestures are produced by millions of lines of programmed software. The software advances from instruction to instruction in a deterministic manner. Some instructions move pieces of information around inside memory, others execute calculations, others send motor signals to actuators in the body. Each line of code references objective memory locations and ports in the physical hardware. It may do so symbolically, and it may do so via sophisticated data structures, for example, using the tag "vision-field" to reference the stabilized and edge-enhanced data from the eye cams. Nevertheless, nowhere in the software suite does the code break out of that objective environment and refer to the enigmatic contents of consciousness. Nor could the programmer ever do so, since she would need an objective, third-person pointer to the conscious experience--which, being a subjective, first-person thing, cannot be labeled with such a pointer.
Everything that the android says and does is fully accounted for by its software. There is no explanatory gap left for machine consciousness to fill. When the android says, "I see colors and feel emotions just as humans do," we know that those words are produced by deterministic lines of software that functions perfectly well without any involvement of consciousness. It is because of this that the android's emoting does not provide an iota of evidence for any interior mental life. All the outward signs are faked, and the programmer knows in comprehensive detail how they are faked.
This point is systematically ignored by the mathematicians and engineers who enthuse about artif
What about the package maintainers for the various Linux distributions? If someone installs the "firebird" package, are they getting a web browser or a database?
If they install a "Firebird" package, they're getting a web browser. If they install a "FirebirdSQL" package, they're getting a database. If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading the story.
Their database is called "Firebird", not "Phoenix". If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading the story.
Their organization is called "IBPhoenix", and the browser is called "Phoenix". If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading their website.
The database is called "FirebirdSQL", not "Firebird. If you had any reading comprehension skills you would know that from reading the story.
Using IBPhoenix's own logic, why doesn't someone flood them with email, for "stealing" the name from Phoenix Technologies?
That's right, because nobody's going to confuse a database with a browser. Oh, wait, nevermind, I guess they do.
It's funny that they didn't mention the most successful indie label out there, Epitaph.
Here we go again with the over-personification. There's a big difference between expecting past behavior to continue and actually being intelligent (and then going crazy)
Which is why HAL is such a bad example. HAL wasn't behaving unpredictably, or even crazy. HAL started behaving the way he did because the humans around him had the need to lie. Mission Control's order for HAL to lie to Dave and Frank about the purpose of their mission conflicted with the basic purpose of HAL's design--the accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment. As explained in 2010, "He was trapped. HAL was told to lie by people who found it easy to lie. HAL didn't know how to lie, so he couldn't function. "
Here's an animated graphic (.mng, currently viewable only in Mozilla) of a torrent transfer.
.gif, not an mng.
Uhh.. it worked fine for me in IE6. Not only that, but the graphic was a
I'm unsure and someone will be able to probably correct me but I seem to remember a court case in the 80s regarding rental of copyrighted material.
This is what you're referring to:
"For years Nintendo had been trying to stop the burgeoning industry of video-game rentals. It took the largest video-game rental company, Blockbuster, to court and worked with Hill & Knowlton's Massey to attempt to convince legislators to make it illegal. At the same time, Nintendo also attempted to stop video-game rentals by coercion and threats.
To supplement their business in an increasingly competitive market, a few video-rental outfits began renting Nintendo games in 1987 and 1988, when demand for cartridges was enormous. For some of those stores, Nintendo rentals represented 30 to 40 percent of their business. For most it was a lower but still significant 10 to 15 percent. The largest rental chain, Blockbuster, had revenues of $1.5 billion in 1990, and perhaps $150 million of this was from Nintendo game rentals (Blockbuster would not disclose the exact figure).
Nintendo not only refused to sell to the chains and individual stores that rented movies and games and pressured its retailers to do the same. In addition, it attempted to address the problem in court and in Congress. Legislation was proposed in the Senate in May 1989, spearheaded by software companies such as Wordperfect Corporation and Microsoft and the Software Publishers Association, that would prohibit the rental of all computer software, including video games.
The trade association of video-rental dealers, the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA), promised to crush the bill as long as video games were part of it; video-game rentals were too lucrative to give up. The computer-software companies and the SPA succumbed, according to Howard Lincoln, and cut a deal with the VSDA, agreeing to exclude video games, unlike floppy disk-based software, were not copiable. It was easy to rent computer software and make a permanent copy at home, but it was nearly impossible to make a copy of "Super Mario Bros." (although one Taiwanese company, Baelih, advertised a game-copying device.)
Before 1989, Nintendo had never been represented in Washington and had relied on the SPA. However, Howard Lincoln charged, the association "sold us down the river," as did Microsoft, their neighbor in Redmond. (Howard Lincoln was rebuffed when he went to the company to ask for its support.)
Don Massey, a lobbyist who represented such clients as the government of Turkey and Gerber Products Co., was retained to attempt to influence the rental legislation. Nintendo's position was supported only halfheartedly by Washington State's congressional delegation, which was caught in the middle; their other constituent in Redmond was Microsoft, which wanted the bill to go through whether or not Nintendo liked it. With Massey's help, Nintendo fought the change vigorously, but lost in July of 1989.
NOA then tried to push for a compromise bill that would prohibit rental of a video game for a year after its release. This was proposed in Congress by Representative Joe Barton, from Texas, a friend of Byron Cook, the president of a Nintendo licensee called Trade West. Nintendo lost that one too. There was one more try, an attempt to pass a bill similar to one sponsored by the record industry that sought to ban the rental of records, but it never made it through the House Judiciary Committee. "We got killed on Capitol Hill," Lincoln admits.
There were other avenues Lincoln took in his attempt to stop the rental companies. He considered suing them but concluded that Nintendo wouldn't prevail; a guiding principle in copyright law called the "first-sale doctrine" said the buyer of a piece of property could do just about anything with it. Since a ban on rentals by the courts or Congress seemed unlikely, Nintendo trued another tack. The video-rental companies were packaging game cartridges with photocopies of Nintendo's instru
If your at the level where this advice makes sense to you, go the local university and enroll in something that isn't programming realted ... Real coders can work in machine code if needed because they understand whats going on at the low level.
If you're at the level where this post makes sense to you, go to the local university and enroll in something that will teach you proper grammar and spelling.