Robots are no more alive than animals are (defining 'alive' as possessing a free will/soul). A soul is necessary to lust/sin. These robots are merely being programmed to mate, not to lust. Besides, why would you want to teach robots (or any other being, for that matter) to sin? If they were to ever have the capacity to sin, they would also have the capacity to love instead.
I began such a language (called Fog) a few months ago with a few goals in mind: 1. Easilly manipulatable by non-programming-aware applications (XML-based accomplishes this to an extent) 2. Extensible enough to handle future enhancements (based on the MOO programming language) 3. Designed for visual effects (the XML+MOO combo was to be embedded in its own stream in video files and interpreted on the fly to add special effects)
I haven't worked much on the project (IIRC, only a few statements are supported) since it is so large and only 3 or 4 people have shown interest in it, but if others are interested, we could possibly get something working in a few months...
So I haven't thought much about possible flaws and such. I'm not a physics major. I probably couldn't determine if your arguments are valid or not.
You insist on gravity. Prove it.
Despite the Big Bang theory (along with other parts of evolutionism) have been *dis*proven many times, I find that countless people still blindly believe them.
Gravity is believed by virtually everyone these days, yet it is impossible to prove. I like to stress this by denying gravity and believing instead that the less matter things have, the more they *repel* other things-- should have the same end effect. Newton himself didn't believe in gravity..
I lost access to my old Yahoo account by requesting a new password be sent to me. Unfortunately, the alternate email I had on file has been non-existent for years. Yahoo refuses to even reset my password to what it was prior to my new-password-request... Just imagine if someone else had requested my password changed. Sure, they wouldn't end up with access, but they would have sure effectively stopped mine.:(
It has already been demonstrated that licenses can take away rights. Many EULAs do this every day. For example, the Windows license, the VMWare license, etc all remove the rights to redistribute and modify the software from anyone who agrees.
The GPL specifies that it can be "upgraded" to any newer version, so the GPLv3 could, in theory, be a completely proprietary license granting GNU all rights to the software. Then, GNU would be able to create a completely proprietary OS based on GPL'd software.
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Utopios's package manager is being designed to have this kind of an effect.
When comparing Firefox 1.0 to Konqueror 3.3.1, I find Konqueror comes out the better browser.
Seriously, almost every DE has its own superior-or-equivalent-to-Firefox browser. I haven't used GNOME in ages, but unless it is lacking a browser (or integrates Moz/FF), Firefox is mostly just useful for Windows and the rare webpage.
1. Can be implemented in the protocol layer 2. No more overhead than savings from not using TCP 3. So? 4. I never liked buddy images, anyway. Still, it makes for a cheap server too:) 5. TCP wouldn't. UDP will. It's quite fun to use PPP over UDP to establish a connection between two NAT'd boxen. Just make sure there's a ping going in the background to keep the NATs from closing it. 6. Sure you would; as long as you're on the net, you're connected 7. One thing I hated about the original IM (ICQ)... Luckily, we have a nice standard these days that supports a server-side roster (XMPP)
I back up all printed CDs that I own and use the copies instead of the originals. This way, the originals stay in near-original condition. Take into consideration that I would never *buy* a printed CD (I might pay for one to support someone, but not with the CD as the reason), and it might seem even more odd. Examples of backup CDs I have made semi-recently: Sharp Zaurus SL-C760 USB driver, Revolution OS DVD
I complain when people delete emails anyway... I have every email I received over the past 5 years in my mailbox (with the exception of some spam, though I have a lot of that too since it's automaticly put in my Spam folder) My maildir only uses 650 MB (150 MB compressed), so it's not like space is a reason to delete email... People just need to make folders and use them.:)
Sure... that's why my Asus K8V SE happens to have a corrupt EEPROM for the network interface. This is a problem with *all* (or most, at least) K8V SE boards. They couldn't at least check to make sure the data was correct before mass producing?
My college is quite small (~1000 students) and still had Internet II. We dropped it for another connection a few months ago, though... Nobody actually used the InetII features (though had I known we had it, I might have).
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Either way, the end (creating a cure) does not justify the means (murder).
Robots are no more alive than animals are (defining 'alive' as possessing a free will/soul). A soul is necessary to lust/sin.
These robots are merely being programmed to mate, not to lust.
Besides, why would you want to teach robots (or any other being, for that matter) to sin? If they were to ever have the capacity to sin, they would also have the capacity to love instead.
Correction: *All* of the great stem cell achievements have been from non-fetal stem cells.
Zaurii aren't PDAs, they're handheld computers. There *is* a difference.
I refuse to do that anyway. Logic suggests a period should be outside the quotation marks unless it is actually part of the quote.
I began such a language (called Fog) a few months ago with a few goals in mind:
1. Easilly manipulatable by non-programming-aware applications (XML-based accomplishes this to an extent)
2. Extensible enough to handle future enhancements (based on the MOO programming language)
3. Designed for visual effects (the XML+MOO combo was to be embedded in its own stream in video files and interpreted on the fly to add special effects)
I haven't worked much on the project (IIRC, only a few statements are supported) since it is so large and only 3 or 4 people have shown interest in it, but if others are interested, we could possibly get something working in a few months...
Actually, evolutionism (inclusive of the common stuff many people today now blindly accept as facts) *has* been proven wrong, a number of times...
So I haven't thought much about possible flaws and such. I'm not a physics major. I probably couldn't determine if your arguments are valid or not. You insist on gravity. Prove it.
Despite the Big Bang theory (along with other parts of evolutionism) have been *dis*proven many times, I find that countless people still blindly believe them.
Gravity is believed by virtually everyone these days, yet it is impossible to prove. I like to stress this by denying gravity and believing instead that the less matter things have, the more they *repel* other things-- should have the same end effect. Newton himself didn't believe in gravity..
I lost access to my old Yahoo account by requesting a new password be sent to me. Unfortunately, the alternate email I had on file has been non-existent for years. :(
Yahoo refuses to even reset my password to what it was prior to my new-password-request...
Just imagine if someone else had requested my password changed. Sure, they wouldn't end up with access, but they would have sure effectively stopped mine.
Why not just use standard IM (RFCs 3920-3923)?
Apparently you've never heard of OpenEmbedded...
It has already been demonstrated that licenses can take away rights. Many EULAs do this every day. For example, the Windows license, the VMWare license, etc all remove the rights to redistribute and modify the software from anyone who agrees.
The GPL specifies that it can be "upgraded" to any newer version, so the GPLv3 could, in theory, be a completely proprietary license granting GNU all rights to the software. Then, GNU would be able to create a completely proprietary OS based on GPL'd software.
Utopios's package manager is being designed to have this kind of an effect.
When comparing Firefox 1.0 to Konqueror 3.3.1, I find Konqueror comes out the better browser. Seriously, almost every DE has its own superior-or-equivalent-to-Firefox browser. I haven't used GNOME in ages, but unless it is lacking a browser (or integrates Moz/FF), Firefox is mostly just useful for Windows and the rare webpage.
Yea, too bad all companies/organizations don't use such simple websites...
Seriously, simple isn't neccesarilly a bad thing.
Do you have evidence for this? With all the unborn children murdered every day, I find this very hard to believe.
1. Can be implemented in the protocol layer :)
2. No more overhead than savings from not using TCP
3. So?
4. I never liked buddy images, anyway. Still, it makes for a cheap server too
5. TCP wouldn't. UDP will. It's quite fun to use PPP over UDP to establish a connection between two NAT'd boxen. Just make sure there's a ping going in the background to keep the NATs from closing it.
6. Sure you would; as long as you're on the net, you're connected
7. One thing I hated about the original IM (ICQ)... Luckily, we have a nice standard these days that supports a server-side roster (XMPP)
I back up all printed CDs that I own and use the copies instead of the originals. This way, the originals stay in near-original condition. Take into consideration that I would never *buy* a printed CD (I might pay for one to support someone, but not with the CD as the reason), and it might seem even more odd. Examples of backup CDs I have made semi-recently: Sharp Zaurus SL-C760 USB driver, Revolution OS DVD
I complain when people delete emails anyway... :)
I have every email I received over the past 5 years in my mailbox (with the exception of some spam, though I have a lot of that too since it's automaticly put in my Spam folder)
My maildir only uses 650 MB (150 MB compressed), so it's not like space is a reason to delete email... People just need to make folders and use them.
Sure... that's why my Asus K8V SE happens to have a corrupt EEPROM for the network interface. This is a problem with *all* (or most, at least) K8V SE boards. They couldn't at least check to make sure the data was correct before mass producing?
Linux can handle case insensitive filenames. Just mount a FAT or NTFS partition. The point is, case sensitivity is a *feature*!
My college is quite small (~1000 students) and still had Internet II. We dropped it for another connection a few months ago, though... Nobody actually used the InetII features (though had I known we had it, I might have).
That used the be the case many years ago, but these days, AMD = superior quality