Actually, it's the workstations which provide the gfx card manufacturors profits...you know, the CAD/CAM/simulation market. The gamers justr provide a convenient, profitable testbed for new tech.
But as far as grandparent poster is concerned: pc gaming wion't die for two reasons: a) it's too profitable and b) you can't mod (and will never be able to to the same degree) on a console. Look at Valve: they've only made ONE game in their existence, but due to modding, they're still making money from it.
A very true posting. And a scary one in light of some hearsay I've...uh... heard (dunno if it's true, but it could well be). Seems that 'history' is no longer to be taken up in standard school curriculum. Instead, the only kind of history to be given is 'american history'. I find that dangerous because, as a wiser man than me once said: "he who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it".
Yoyu might want to read David Deutch's "The fabric of reality" for refutations to your specific problem; he's wrong on quite a few aspects in that book, but I think that in relation to your specific case (the complexity of knowledge) he's right: human effort has successfull gone into reducing the complexity of knowledge...nearly each new theory in all subjects describes more and is 'smaller' than the last when compared to what it describes.
Hurah! Too true... And, to state what the author of the article meant but put in 8 paragraphs, the thing is that if one relies too much on a closed society, there will still be people who will want to commit mass murder. The problem is that there will only be a small percentage of people knowledgable enough to stop their efforts. In an open society there might be more people who can commit mass murder, but there is also a huge group who can devote effort to stop them. And, quite relevant due to SARS, people in an open society will also know/that there is something to stop/!
I'm very sorry, but: what strong economy? The US' economy is down the crapper..even more so after spending another 100 billion on Iraq instead of education, debt reduction or healthcare.
Because you're connected to an international powergrid; there is, literaly, not one single day in the year where there is no wind or sun in enough parts of the world. And if you're afraid there would be...you could prepare for that by storing energy in massive fuel cells, just like there are oil/gas reserves.
Not really. satelite image interpretation is only difficult when one is trying to see what hight that building is, or what kind of car/truck/tanks is rolling along there. Checking to see if that patch is foilage or groundcover is very easy to do.
As for "Just because it has nice, colourful pictures does not mean it is a mickey mouse job." What exactly do you mean by that? The guys who made the photo didn't do a 'mickley mouse job'...they just posted the data which came from the satelite. Or do you mean me and my interpretation? Well, trust me (and if you had a look at some satelite imagery yourself, you'd know this): deforestation (ie the absence of trees) is damn easy to spot. Especially if you have a picture showing the same area a couple of months back, when there where trees.
Now please stop posting about things you obviously haven't even taken the time to even google for.
Not exactly...fossil fuels win at sea for one reason only: they won't run out on you. Solar and wind power however have the problem that you'll invariably find a day when you can't move due to lack of sunlight/wind.
Actually, it's more like 460 billion (since Bush just got another 100 billion from congress) out of 1.2 trillion, but hey, don't listen to the foreigner who knows more about your budgetary situation than you...
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OTOH, you can often still use that 20-year old piece of software:) Just ask NASA (and every other space agency) 'bout the advantages of that.
"Do you really think that the U.N. could mount a "posse" against the U.S.?"
Considering the fact that the US spends half of it's national budget on the military (and thus more than the next 16 nations combinied), it would be difficult.
It also explains why Americans so favour the military option: gotta use that toy to validate spending so much money on it...otherwise budget cuts are made to that lovely bundle of cash.
No, you didn't. The first person the Japanese elected wasn't too friendly towards the Americans. Obviously. So the Americans decided to annul that election and the Japanese had to vote again...but the guy who had won wasn't on the ballot.
Ah, now that could very well be true of your household. I don't doubt your word on it.
But a) it doesn't apply to every household: there are many where one of the two makes most of the decisions and b) it doesn't scale up very well; the more people you have, the more dumb people you have who would make dumb decisions. If a population is large enoughy, a simple bell-curve will show that people with less insight will overrule the people who would make the right decision. This also happens when you do the same plot with household instead of people. And that is because to say 'all people are equal' is to lie to yourself about the nature of people.
Do not compare this to anything...comparison is irrelevant.
What is relevant is that this has happened. Something has happened which is against the rules you purpose to live by. Camp x-ray violates the geneva convention. This guy has been treated in a way that pre-9/11 would have digusted you.
The fact that 9/11 happened should not change that one iota; something like 9/11 is the price you pay for freedom. The rules should not change; changing the rules means you lose your freedom.
All the 'must''s and 'should''s you mention are fine...but they are not in effect! And that means that what has happened is wrong. THAT is what you must protest if you even consider yourself worthy of the freedom you say you live in.
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Even better: BMW is going over to embedded linux for it's cars, dumping WinCE flat out :)
Actually, it's the workstations which provide the gfx card manufacturors profits...you know, the CAD/CAM/simulation market. The gamers justr provide a convenient, profitable testbed for new tech.
But as far as grandparent poster is concerned: pc gaming wion't die for two reasons: a) it's too profitable and b) you can't mod (and will never be able to to the same degree) on a console. Look at Valve: they've only made ONE game in their existence, but due to modding, they're still making money from it.
A very true posting. ...uh... heard (dunno if it's true, but it could well be). Seems that 'history' is no longer to be taken up in standard school curriculum. Instead, the only kind of history to be given is 'american history'. I find that dangerous because, as a wiser man than me once said: "he who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it".
And a scary one in light of some hearsay I've
Yoyu might want to read David Deutch's "The fabric of reality" for refutations to your specific problem; he's wrong on quite a few aspects in that book, but I think that in relation to your specific case (the complexity of knowledge) he's right: human effort has successfull gone into reducing the complexity of knowledge...nearly each new theory in all subjects describes more and is 'smaller' than the last when compared to what it describes.
Hurah! Too true... /that there is something to stop/!
And, to state what the author of the article meant but put in 8 paragraphs, the thing is that if one relies too much on a closed society, there will still be people who will want to commit mass murder. The problem is that there will only be a small percentage of people knowledgable enough to stop their efforts. In an open society there might be more people who can commit mass murder, but there is also a huge group who can devote effort to stop them.
And, quite relevant due to SARS, people in an open society will also know
I'm very sorry, but: what strong economy? The US' economy is down the crapper..even more so after spending another 100 billion on Iraq instead of education, debt reduction or healthcare.
Because you're connected to an international powergrid; there is, literaly, not one single day in the year where there is no wind or sun in enough parts of the world. And if you're afraid there would be...you could prepare for that by storing energy in massive fuel cells, just like there are oil/gas reserves.
Not really. satelite image interpretation is only difficult when one is trying to see what hight that building is, or what kind of car/truck/tanks is rolling along there. Checking to see if that patch is foilage or groundcover is very easy to do.
As for "Just because it has nice, colourful pictures does not mean it is a mickey mouse job." What exactly do you mean by that? The guys who made the photo didn't do a 'mickley mouse job'...they just posted the data which came from the satelite. Or do you mean me and my interpretation? Well, trust me (and if you had a look at some satelite imagery yourself, you'd know this): deforestation (ie the absence of trees) is damn easy to spot. Especially if you have a picture showing the same area a couple of months back, when there where trees.
Now please stop posting about things you obviously haven't even taken the time to even google for.
Not exactly...fossil fuels win at sea for one reason only: they won't run out on you. Solar and wind power however have the problem that you'll invariably find a day when you can't move due to lack of sunlight/wind.
"is not all that clear that any deforestation happened during the last 10 years, worldwide"
What? You easily check this yourself by having a gander at some satelite photo's.
Actually, it's more like 460 billion (since Bush just got another 100 billion from congress) out of 1.2 trillion, but hey, don't listen to the foreigner who knows more about your budgetary situation than you...
OTOH, you can often still use that 20-year old piece of software :) Just ask NASA (and every other space agency) 'bout the advantages of that.
Oops! That should read 'superluminal' effect :)
Well, they explain it in another part of the site: it's something called the superliminal effect. Find the description here:
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/light_ech
and the pretty picture to accompany it here:
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedispla
I can't wait until they see a Kournikova :)
Use it or lose it: apply the patent by making something usefull, or lose the patent to the public domain.
And only allow patents to physical processes, not mental ones, organistaional ones or mathematical ones.
Can you spot the logical phalacy in that statement?
Try http://gncurtis.home.texas.net/ for hints!
And where was the US when this kind of stuff happened in Rwanda?
You can only claim morality when you are consistent. Otherwise you're oppertunistic.
"Do you really think that the U.N. could mount a "posse" against the U.S.?"
Considering the fact that the US spends half of it's national budget on the military (and thus more than the next 16 nations combinied), it would be difficult.
It also explains why Americans so favour the military option: gotta use that toy to validate spending so much money on it...otherwise budget cuts are made to that lovely bundle of cash.
No, you didn't. The first person the Japanese elected wasn't too friendly towards the Americans. Obviously.
So the Americans decided to annul that election and the Japanese had to vote again...but the guy who had won wasn't on the ballot.
Isn't history interesting?
Try Homeworld...and in acouple of months, Homeworld 2 (man, I've seen the screenshots and I'm drooling!).
Ah, now that could very well be true of your household. I don't doubt your word on it.
But a) it doesn't apply to every household: there are many where one of the two makes most of the decisions and b) it doesn't scale up very well; the more people you have, the more dumb people you have who would make dumb decisions. If a population is large enoughy, a simple bell-curve will show that people with less insight will overrule the people who would make the right decision. This also happens when you do the same plot with household instead of people. And that is because to say 'all people are equal' is to lie to yourself about the nature of people.
Man, fuck /funny/...you should have gotten /insightfull/. 9/11 was Bush's Reichstag.
No. I say again: no!
Do not compare this to anything...comparison is irrelevant.
What is relevant is that this has happened. Something has happened which is against the rules you purpose to live by. Camp x-ray violates the geneva convention. This guy has been treated in a way that pre-9/11 would have digusted you.
The fact that 9/11 happened should not change that one iota; something like 9/11 is the price you pay for freedom. The rules should not change; changing the rules means you lose your freedom.
All the 'must''s and 'should''s you mention are fine...but they are not in effect! And that means that what has happened is wrong. THAT is what you must protest if you even consider yourself worthy of the freedom you say you live in.
But Xerox Parc has something like this (and has had for a while now) for webpages.
:)
I came across it after I had the exact same idea, only to find that XerocParc had already implemented it