Outside of the whole "going insane because of conflicting programming" thing, HAL didn't do a lot more than Google Now can do. HAL 9000 mostly provided a text-to-speech interface for a governance and caretaker system for hibernating astronauts and the ship that housed them. It mostly just kept antennas pointed and turned on the lights when it was time to wake up.
There are two things HAL could do, that Google Now doesn't do. HAL could make decisions -- but they were pretty simple logical pre-programmed decision trees. Sorry, one astronaut dead, can't allow the other one in the airlock because it doesn't meet the safety case. Second, HAL could carry on rudimentary conversations. Vastly better than the ELIZAs of the world, but mostly for the sake of making him a fleshy character for movies and novels.
I certainly wouldn't argue that libraries are self-aware.
It all goes back to the definition of smart is. Libraries certainly contain more information -- at least, in a classical sense. [Maybe one good memory of a sunset contains more information - wtfk] Watson, for example, is just a library with a natural language interface at the door. By at least one measure -- Jeopardy:) -- a library (Watson) is smarter than a lot of people.
...while there are certainly some Kurzweil nuthugging fanbois out there, they don't seem to exist in any vast number.
While those who have opinions of Kurzweil probably span the spectum, it seems that there's a bunch of level-headed folk who think Kurzweil is a smart guy with some interesting thoughts about the future, and on the other side, there's an angry mob throwing rotten fruit shouting "Your ideas are bad, and you should feel bad about it!"
In a large number of ways, a 1950's library is smarter than any human.
If the measure of "smart" is how closely it behaves like a human - sure, we're probably a ways off. If the measure of "smart" is what we know (in bulk), we're already there. If the measure of "smart" is the ability to synthesize what we know in useful relevant ways......we're making progress, but have a way to go.
There are those who think Kurzweil is a crazy dreamer and declare his ideas bunk. There are those who think Kurzweil is a smart guy who's been right about a fair number of things, but take his predictions with a grain of salt.
Study also shows that between 1 and 3% of online survey takers don't give a crap about the questions they're being asked, and just want the survey to be over with.
Even HuffPo got it right, outside of the sensational article title.
"The question you have posed is therefore entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no president will ever have to confront. It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States," Holder wrote.
In short, he said he could imagine such a situation, but it'd take something akin to Pearl Harbor or 911 to even get into the realm of speculation.
If you're on a carb restricted diet, you should be getting your carbs from green vegetables, not bits of sugar to supplement your steak. Anyone carb restricted and doing it right should have plenty of fiber from leafy vegetables.
Windows Media Center's primary benefit is a high Wife Acceptance Factor. It's polished well, and that goes a long way.
If you want OTA and WMC, I suggest some Hauppauge cards -- enough to satisfy your need to record multiple channels at once during sweeps without conflicts. Perhaps: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/...
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
Jonathan Green, who tells as many people as possible that he is "fully weaned off the glass teat."
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."
According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Green's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Green steers the conversation toward television whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.
"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying her new contacts were bothering her," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew Jonathan would pounce. He was like, 'I didn't know you had contacts, Annette. Are your eyes bad? That a shame. I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't watch TV. In fact, I don't even own one."
According to Elkins, "idiot box" is Green's favorite derogatory term for television.
"He uses that one a lot," she said. "But he's got other ones, too, like 'boob tube' and 'electronic babysitter.'"
Elkins said Green always makes sure to read the copies of Entertainment Weekly and People lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the stars and shows he's never heard of."
"Last week, in one of the magazines, there was a picture of Calista Flockhart," Elkins said, "and Jonathan announced, 'I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. Calista who? Am I supposed to have heard of her? I'm sorry, but I haven't.'"
Tony Gerela, who lives in the apartment directly below Green's and occasionally chats with the 37-year-old by the mailboxes, is well aware of his neighbor's disdain for television.
"About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of Simpsons reference," Gerela said. "He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him it was from a TV show, he just went off, saying how the last show he watched was some episode of Cheers, and even then, he could only watch for about two minutes before having to shut it off because it insulted his intelligence so terribly."
Added Gerela: "Once, I made the mistake of saying I saw something on the news, and he started in with, 'Saw the news? I don't know about you, but I read the news."
Green has lived without television since 1989, when his then-girlfriend moved out and took her set with her.
"When Claudia went, the TV went with her," Green said. "But instead of just going out and buying another one–which I certainly could have afforded, that wasn't the issue–I decided to stand up to the glass teat."
"I'm not an elitist," Green said. "It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen."
"If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university," Green said. "I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out."
Continued Green: "People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit–or, shall I say, addiction–eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television."
I made very clear that a good Atkins meal was a skinless chicken breast with a green vegetable side, not covered in bacon and cheese.
...but you want to argue fat counts in ground beef. Atkins eaters can make simple substitutions to their daily life, and enjoy the occasional cheeseburger, and enjoy change. Not loading up on unnecessary fat is what separates people being successful with carb-restricted diets and not.
Well, if your previous meal was a super-size double quarter pounder meal, and you now, instead, order a super-size double-quarter-pounder meal "Atkins style" -- bunless, no ketchup, no onions with side salad instead of fries and a diet soda or water, you've cut HUNDREDS of calories out of your previous meal.
-550 calories on the fry-to-salad substitution alone.
If you cut 600 calories per meal out of your normal routine, you'll lose weight -- or at least stop gaining it as fast.
Nobody thinks you should eat McDonald's every meal for good health -- Atkins or not.
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That's $96/hr, which seems within the ballpark for full-time contracted 10-99 labor with the requirement of special certifications and skills.
To be fair, your ability to tell if the grass needs cut is also based on sampling grass growing patterns over your entire life...
Outside of the whole "going insane because of conflicting programming" thing, HAL didn't do a lot more than Google Now can do. HAL 9000 mostly provided a text-to-speech interface for a governance and caretaker system for hibernating astronauts and the ship that housed them. It mostly just kept antennas pointed and turned on the lights when it was time to wake up.
There are two things HAL could do, that Google Now doesn't do. HAL could make decisions -- but they were pretty simple logical pre-programmed decision trees. Sorry, one astronaut dead, can't allow the other one in the airlock because it doesn't meet the safety case. Second, HAL could carry on rudimentary conversations. Vastly better than the ELIZAs of the world, but mostly for the sake of making him a fleshy character for movies and novels.
I certainly wouldn't argue that libraries are self-aware.
It all goes back to the definition of smart is. Libraries certainly contain more information -- at least, in a classical sense. [Maybe one good memory of a sunset contains more information - wtfk] Watson, for example, is just a library with a natural language interface at the door. By at least one measure -- Jeopardy :) -- a library (Watson) is smarter than a lot of people.
...while there are certainly some Kurzweil nuthugging fanbois out there, they don't seem to exist in any vast number.
While those who have opinions of Kurzweil probably span the spectum, it seems that there's a bunch of level-headed folk who think Kurzweil is a smart guy with some interesting thoughts about the future, and on the other side, there's an angry mob throwing rotten fruit shouting "Your ideas are bad, and you should feel bad about it!"
In a large number of ways, a 1950's library is smarter than any human.
If the measure of "smart" is how closely it behaves like a human - sure, we're probably a ways off. ...we're making progress, but have a way to go.
If the measure of "smart" is what we know (in bulk), we're already there.
If the measure of "smart" is the ability to synthesize what we know in useful relevant ways...
There's two schools of thought on this:
There are those who think Kurzweil is a crazy dreamer and declare his ideas bunk.
There are those who think Kurzweil is a smart guy who's been right about a fair number of things, but take his predictions with a grain of salt.
There doesn't seem to be a lot in the middle.
[You can score me in the second camp, FWTW.]
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Well, it's Android, so try MessagEase or a Dvorak keyboard, or any of a hundred others.
My customers think I'm racist when I tell them their shipment is still in "Chong Ching China."
There 'ya go :)
[I keed, I keed....]
This is Slashdot. I'm going to need a car analogy if you want me to understand these things...
Kidnapped? Tortured? Killed?
My vote, anyway. They seem fun.
Yeah! They're not spending all of their time giving me free stuff. Screw them sideways!
Thanks for being the first person on Slashdot to eloquently explain the difference between theft and copyright. :/
Study also shows that between 1 and 3% of online survey takers don't give a crap about the questions they're being asked, and just want the survey to be over with.
Even HuffPo got it right, outside of the sensational article title.
"The question you have posed is therefore entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no president will ever have to confront. It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States," Holder wrote.
In short, he said he could imagine such a situation, but it'd take something akin to Pearl Harbor or 911 to even get into the realm of speculation.
If you're on a carb restricted diet, you should be getting your carbs from green vegetables, not bits of sugar to supplement your steak. Anyone carb restricted and doing it right should have plenty of fiber from leafy vegetables.
Shit. Beaten out by refresh!
Windows Media Center's primary benefit is a high Wife Acceptance Factor. It's polished well, and that goes a long way.
If you want OTA and WMC, I suggest some Hauppauge cards -- enough to satisfy your need to record multiple channels at once during sweeps without conflicts. Perhaps: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/...
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
Jonathan Green, who tells as many people as possible that he is "fully weaned off the glass teat."
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."
According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Green's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Green steers the conversation toward television whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.
"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying her new contacts were bothering her," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew Jonathan would pounce. He was like, 'I didn't know you had contacts, Annette. Are your eyes bad? That a shame. I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't watch TV. In fact, I don't even own one."
According to Elkins, "idiot box" is Green's favorite derogatory term for television.
"He uses that one a lot," she said. "But he's got other ones, too, like 'boob tube' and 'electronic babysitter.'"
Elkins said Green always makes sure to read the copies of Entertainment Weekly and People lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the stars and shows he's never heard of."
"Last week, in one of the magazines, there was a picture of Calista Flockhart," Elkins said, "and Jonathan announced, 'I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. Calista who? Am I supposed to have heard of her? I'm sorry, but I haven't.'"
Tony Gerela, who lives in the apartment directly below Green's and occasionally chats with the 37-year-old by the mailboxes, is well aware of his neighbor's disdain for television.
"About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of Simpsons reference," Gerela said. "He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him it was from a TV show, he just went off, saying how the last show he watched was some episode of Cheers, and even then, he could only watch for about two minutes before having to shut it off because it insulted his intelligence so terribly."
Added Gerela: "Once, I made the mistake of saying I saw something on the news, and he started in with, 'Saw the news? I don't know about you, but I read the news."
Green has lived without television since 1989, when his then-girlfriend moved out and took her set with her.
"When Claudia went, the TV went with her," Green said. "But instead of just going out and buying another one–which I certainly could have afforded, that wasn't the issue–I decided to stand up to the glass teat."
"I'm not an elitist," Green said. "It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen."
"If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university," Green said. "I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out."
Continued Green: "People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit–or, shall I say, addiction–eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television."
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Replace "Atkins" with any diet, and you're still correct.
...except there's no reason to eat more calories.
Onions are high sugar.
Anything you can order "caramelized" (like, say, onions) is bad.
You're missing the point.
I made very clear that a good Atkins meal was a skinless chicken breast with a green vegetable side, not covered in bacon and cheese.
Well, if your previous meal was a super-size double quarter pounder meal, and you now, instead, order a super-size double-quarter-pounder meal "Atkins style" -- bunless, no ketchup, no onions with side salad instead of fries and a diet soda or water, you've cut HUNDREDS of calories out of your previous meal.
-550 calories on the fry-to-salad substitution alone.
If you cut 600 calories per meal out of your normal routine, you'll lose weight -- or at least stop gaining it as fast.
Nobody thinks you should eat McDonald's every meal for good health -- Atkins or not.