I know you're trolling, but this is a common view so I'll bite.
You're assuming a premise, and we don't know that it's true. If computers can do what we do, then there's reason to believe that we may be able to build some that can do it better than us.
That said, we are nowhere close to building computers that do what we do. Our best models of cognition and language (which we believe to be central to our 'intelligence') fail miserably when we try to implement them on a large scale using computer systems. Even if it worked, there's no reason to believe it would be a "Terminator II" scenario. We can always quite literally pull the plug. It would be a miracle to create a computer with the intelligence of a mentally retarded child, so to entertain notions of a computer that suddenly becomes self aware and takes over everything (like Cartman's Trapper-Keeper) is rather fanciful.
The point I was trying to make (albeit before I'd had my coffee...) was that after about $5,000 or so, any amount of money you try to extort from a college student is just absurd. If you're going to ask me to pay $97 billion, fuck, why not make it an even 100 trillion?
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The problem (and this is why I've passed on many a cheap laptop LCD on eBay) is that most laptop LCDs use some proprietary interface that you can't just get a pinout for and hook up to your DVI or VGA output. It makes sense that they would not incorporate the ADC circuitry that most CRT replacement LCDs have, but as far as I know you'd still need the rest of the laptop to drive the display, since its not exactly sitting there in an AGP slot. . .
What's worse is seeing games that cater to that crowd. I was excited to try Anarchy Online last summer--the game seemed to have a lot of potential--only you must spend the first several hours leveling up in the training grounds, which are filled with creatures with names like "leet" "eleet" etc, which taunt you with phrases such as "i will 0wn j00". It turned me off to the entire game, and was one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription.
Funny you should mention that, I was just watching Wayne's World last night. Anyway, I will grant that there is some element of nostalgia, but it wasn't what I was getting at.
Also, I will be using an iBook laptop since I want a portable Unix machine, but not Linux/*BSD. Does the Extigy work w/ Macs? I haven't been able to find anything.
We're pretty far away from that. It's very difficult to record from single neurons. Having to record from every neuron in a massive fiber tract would be damn near impossible with our current technology.
Besides, even if we could do just that, we aren't sure how the data is encoded. Much of the 'knowledge' in a neural net is stored in the network itself, not in the pattern of activity at any single synapse.
It's not about which feature a given person wants, or trying to prove one is better. It's about choice. Commercial offerings may not provide as much choice, but when they do, you can bet it does not take the form of "go look for this abandoned sourceforge page, download sources, build w/ dependencies, and install manually".
You see this? Are you looking? The parent post illustrates what is wrong w/ Linux GUI offerings right now. Someone wants a simple feature that other commercial offerings have had for years, and they are told to go look for an abandoned sourceforge page somewhere. Wonderful:)
Unfortunately, unless you can form the gas into the shapes you want, your lasers will make lines through all of X and all of Y, not dots at X,Y.
So far, the best attempts at 3D I've seen have relied on tricks to make a 2D image seem to have depth rather than attempting to actually add a physical element of depth. I'd hesitate to claim that we'll never overcome this, but I think our best bets for 3D lie in projecting directly to the retina.
This suggests an interesting solution--don't tie dormnet (or resnet if you prefer) to the academic network. Bring in separate lines for the dorms, and allow people to purchase connectivity plans the way you would purchase meal plans (i.e. light user: 64/64 bidirectional, medium user: 512/512, power user: 1.5/1.5).
This may pose a few problems for schools that provide many academic services over the LAN, but any group of competent network admins should be able to set up local peering.
Right on the money. I think people in that position won't or can't admit that part of the reason they can't let go is they feel snubbed from some group they idolized at some level, which is of course the ultimate cognitive dissonance. Once you do let go of the cool kids as the ideal, the heartache sort of falls out of the picture and you can start feeling sorry for them instead of yourself.
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That doesn't mean you have to tie your identity to it. In 7th grade, I was chased around campus being beaten with a stick while other people watched and cheered. The principal told me that the kid was 'just playing' and wondered why I was having her 'brow-beat' a fellow student. I was also told that it was one of the 'star students' that punched me in the chest at the bus stop in front of everyone, knocking the wind out of me. I could go on. The point I'm trying to make is, I can talk about these things without feeling sorry for myself. I don't know why that is but I'd like to suggest that as bad as I had it (or you had it), people can and do overcome much, much worse. There are holocaust survivors that came out of concentration camps and still manage to live happy fulfilled lives. No, they don't forget, but you owe it to yourself and those around you to move on, and ultimately, you'll respect yourself more for it.
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Very true. What's important is to not have your identity tied up in the fact that not everyone likes you. While you don't have to go around being nice to everyone, you don't have to go around being a prick either. Respectful indifference. It's a hard battle, and I don't know how I accomplished it (so I can't give advice), but be comfortable with who you are, and the rest will follow. That perspective is hard to gain in high school especially, but I think those that manage are all the better for it.
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You're assuming a premise, and we don't know that it's true. If computers can do what we do, then there's reason to believe that we may be able to build some that can do it better than us.
That said, we are nowhere close to building computers that do what we do. Our best models of cognition and language (which we believe to be central to our 'intelligence') fail miserably when we try to implement them on a large scale using computer systems. Even if it worked, there's no reason to believe it would be a "Terminator II" scenario. We can always quite literally pull the plug. It would be a miracle to create a computer with the intelligence of a mentally retarded child, so to entertain notions of a computer that suddenly becomes self aware and takes over everything (like Cartman's Trapper-Keeper) is rather fanciful.
It's actually: "You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"
The point I was trying to make (albeit before I'd had my coffee...) was that after about $5,000 or so, any amount of money you try to extort from a college student is just absurd. If you're going to ask me to pay $97 billion, fuck, why not make it an even 100 trillion?
Six of one, a half-dozen of the other.
I like to think of them as getting less pointful.
The problem (and this is why I've passed on many a cheap laptop LCD on eBay) is that most laptop LCDs use some proprietary interface that you can't just get a pinout for and hook up to your DVI or VGA output. It makes sense that they would not incorporate the ADC circuitry that most CRT replacement LCDs have, but as far as I know you'd still need the rest of the laptop to drive the display, since its not exactly sitting there in an AGP slot. . .
Yeah, and Sablotron!
What's worse is seeing games that cater to that crowd. I was excited to try Anarchy Online last summer--the game seemed to have a lot of potential--only you must spend the first several hours leveling up in the training grounds, which are filled with creatures with names like "leet" "eleet" etc, which taunt you with phrases such as "i will 0wn j00". It turned me off to the entire game, and was one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription.
How the fuck did this get modded 'Funny'?
Funny you should mention that, I was just watching Wayne's World last night. Anyway, I will grant that there is some element of nostalgia, but it wasn't what I was getting at.
Like Invader Zim, South Park, and Futurama, where they use 3D effects for effect, not as a central element of the show.
Also, I will be using an iBook laptop since I want a portable Unix machine, but not Linux/*BSD. Does the Extigy work w/ Macs? I haven't been able to find anything.
They're extremely high? No, you're extremely high.
I am now!
Besides, even if we could do just that, we aren't sure how the data is encoded. Much of the 'knowledge' in a neural net is stored in the network itself, not in the pattern of activity at any single synapse.
No, because Bose speakers are of mediocre quality and are overpriced.
It's not about which feature a given person wants, or trying to prove one is better. It's about choice. Commercial offerings may not provide as much choice, but when they do, you can bet it does not take the form of "go look for this abandoned sourceforge page, download sources, build w/ dependencies, and install manually".
You see this? Are you looking? The parent post illustrates what is wrong w/ Linux GUI offerings right now. Someone wants a simple feature that other commercial offerings have had for years, and they are told to go look for an abandoned sourceforge page somewhere. Wonderful :)
So far, the best attempts at 3D I've seen have relied on tricks to make a 2D image seem to have depth rather than attempting to actually add a physical element of depth. I'd hesitate to claim that we'll never overcome this, but I think our best bets for 3D lie in projecting directly to the retina.
This may pose a few problems for schools that provide many academic services over the LAN, but any group of competent network admins should be able to set up local peering.
Or, just set up an opennap or direct connect server on the campus LAN. I'd be surprised if something like this wasn't already in place.
Is there an echo in here? Slashdot is higher th a n a kite.
Right on the money. I think people in that position won't or can't admit that part of the reason they can't let go is they feel snubbed from some group they idolized at some level, which is of course the ultimate cognitive dissonance. Once you do let go of the cool kids as the ideal, the heartache sort of falls out of the picture and you can start feeling sorry for them instead of yourself.
That doesn't mean you have to tie your identity to it. In 7th grade, I was chased around campus being beaten with a stick while other people watched and cheered. The principal told me that the kid was 'just playing' and wondered why I was having her 'brow-beat' a fellow student. I was also told that it was one of the 'star students' that punched me in the chest at the bus stop in front of everyone, knocking the wind out of me. I could go on. The point I'm trying to make is, I can talk about these things without feeling sorry for myself. I don't know why that is but I'd like to suggest that as bad as I had it (or you had it), people can and do overcome much, much worse. There are holocaust survivors that came out of concentration camps and still manage to live happy fulfilled lives. No, they don't forget, but you owe it to yourself and those around you to move on, and ultimately, you'll respect yourself more for it.
Very true. What's important is to not have your identity tied up in the fact that not everyone likes you. While you don't have to go around being nice to everyone, you don't have to go around being a prick either. Respectful indifference. It's a hard battle, and I don't know how I accomplished it (so I can't give advice), but be comfortable with who you are, and the rest will follow. That perspective is hard to gain in high school especially, but I think those that manage are all the better for it.