Respectfully, I think you are drunk. To quote you directly, you say "He's using it correctly". The only "He" you could be referring to is the person that replied to my post. If you believe that "He's" using it correctly, then you believe that I am begging the question. Sorry - this is as close to a Venn diagram as you're going to see.
As the "they" you are referring to, I do NOT assume that this is from space. I simply stated that it should be tested before calling it bullshit. In fact, my first question implies the opposite - if it rained this way for 2 months, how could it have anything to do with an object from space?
I understand your description of "begging the question", but I don't think the original author's intent was of this meaning.
1. How could a single meteor/comet cause _two months_ of red rain? 2. Why the crys of "bullshit" from other researchers? There is a piece of evidence, not just a claim. It seems easy to figure out what's going on by analyzing the contents of that bottle.
Have you guys considered that maybe Apple is no longer just a technology company, but also a fashion company? People don't find anything wrong with fashion designers hyping new hand-bags. You are being self-centered to think that you, a basement dwelling troll, are still Apple's main market; their central customer is now the fashion conscious girl walking down a Manhattan boulevard with her iPod.
Your response was easily predicted. Think into the future man. This is an alpha version of the first of it's kind. Imagine what these things might do in the future. It might be able to walk to a 90 degree rock face and then scale it, with the soldier sitting on a little fold-out platform. It might run at 70 MPH into a fox hole and take out a bunch of soldiers with little turrets. The possibilities are endless. The "mule" platform is not very extensible, but this robot is, and will be improved upon with future revisions.
Your statement is almost a non-sequitur. If your screen showed imagery in 3d would it make a difference? The imagery is still in front of you. Is you meaning that you don't have visuals behind you, so why would should you have sounds? That doesn't make sense either though, because you can never see behind you. You don't need to turn your head during a movie - the camera does the head turning for you. e.g. say the camera was pointing at a wall during at a rock concert. you would hear the music behind you. The camera would "turn your head", and point towards the band, and the sound would then come from the front speakers. What is so strange about this? It makes sense to me.
Uh, guys, I think Client/Server already hit the web a long time ago... ICQ? Napster? Skype? TurboTax? These required specialist developers to write. Ok, so they don't run in a web browser, but it's been here a long time already.
I think YOU missed your parent post's point. He was giving an analogy, and wasn't literally referring to rewriting individual documents. If you look at the body of documents as a whole, they present a story. You can create a different story by releasing some documents and holding others. He analogizes sentence fragments to entire documents.
The ironic thing about this is that the BBC, perhaps the only major English news website that is consistently blocked by the Chinese firewall, is reporting on how Chinese communist party elders are decrying censorship. I'm writing this from Beijing, and viewing the BBC article through a proxy tunnel.
What you say makes no sense. The quality of a game has nothing to do with the hype and the anticipation. Say a new car was announced 10 years ago, and was finally released after much anticipation. If it's still better than the rest, people will drive it.
That's only if you recognize these individuals as your ruler. True freedom is when you don't acknowledge the authority of these so-called "rulers", and live in your own fashion. Freedom is not a resource to be given or taken, it is a lack of bindings.
You guys have this all wrong when it comes to the "locked door" analogy. I figure the reason they are doing this is so that when they bust pedophiles, crackers, and other criminals, they won't have the excuse that someone else must have logged into their open access point and committed these crimes. BTW I am in no way for such a law.
Why is it that every time there's an article about alternative energy sources someone comes out cursing and spewing venom against some mysterious environmental faction that is theoretically against said technology? Where does your anger come from? You are going nuts before even hearing a single environmentalist rail against this tech. Is this leftover hatred regarding the nuclear energy thing? Whether your are right or not, your attitude only reinforces the behavior of those who like to bash anything "environmentalist", whether the idea makes sense or not.
What if every time there's an article on the GPL you post
"That said, no matter how much the GPL is promoted by one faction of the open source movent there will always be the fringe who hates any restrictive license that benefits humans...."
or take the recent article on telecommuting taxes - you could just come out railing against taxes in general. Or everytime there's an article on the ipod you post about how there's 50 other devices that are better and cheaper.
It's OFFTOPIC you anti-enviro-whacko. You only get modded up because there are a lot of other whackos on Slashdot who think like you.
Come now, these perks are not in order at the public's expense. They can walk a few feet, it would be good for their health, and it would prevent problems in case the building ACTUALLY DID catch on fire. This is besides the fact that it pisses everyone off that they believe themselves somehow superior to the rest of the public. They can get all the perks they want on Apple and Oracle private property. The city is not their property, sorry.
Ok, I'll be honest and admit that I do think it's a conceit to believe that we are close to pulling it all together. But I don't also think it's inexplicable. All I'm saying is that if we can't yet see the light at the end of the tunnel, how do we know how far the tunnel goes?
I'm not an expert on the brain, but isn't it common knowledge that we do not yet fully understand it's workings, let alone the physics and chemistry that underly the atoms the make it up? We can only simulate to a certain aproximation, and I'm not confident that all the conscious and behavioral phenomena the brain exhibits can be explained or simulated without a full understanding of how it works. Considering that brain essentially creates subjective reality (everything you are thinking, seeing in front of you, smelling, etc.), I think that it's complexity is deep, perhaps infinite. We do not yet know how deep the complexity of the brain, or the universe for that matter goes.
It's not just hardware or software, it's how the hardware is organized. The brain isn't based around the CPU/memory/bus/instruction set model, so emulating it on a computer will probably result in a loss of efficiency of multiple orders of magnitude, making the terraflop measurements meaningless.
Maybe the reason they changed the name is because they added "Taco" to a list of banned words (taco is slang for vagina), and his name got flagged. After he made the request as to why his name was banned, perhaps they realized who he was, and then concocted the story about the prefix so as to avoid bringing up the whole pussy thing in public.
BTW, Taco, did you ever think that your name is essentially equivalent to Captain Cunt?
So are you suggesting that terrorists couldn't be fought if freedom isn't first taken away? Are you suggesting that law enforcement and government agencies shouldn't have to be held to the law as well? That is what I see you implying. If not, then what exactly is your point? Couldn't it be possible that there are bad people besides terrorists and drug dealers, and some of these bad people might actually hold office or law enforcement positions? You can't deny that in other countries there is massive corruption, greed, and violence committed by governments. What makes the US so special? That it's a democracy? Germany was a democracy before the Nazis took over. Again, what is your point?
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OK, I was really tired. You may have been drunk, but it did not seem to affect your logic skills.
LS
Respectfully, I think you are drunk. To quote you directly, you say "He's using it correctly". The only "He" you could be referring to is the person that replied to my post. If you believe that "He's" using it correctly, then you believe that I am begging the question. Sorry - this is as close to a Venn diagram as you're going to see.
LS
As the "they" you are referring to, I do NOT assume that this is from space. I simply stated that it should be tested before calling it bullshit. In fact, my first question implies the opposite - if it rained this way for 2 months, how could it have anything to do with an object from space?
I understand your description of "begging the question", but I don't think the original author's intent was of this meaning.
LS
It appears that something similar occurred over Florida mid-December.
Here's the article
LS
1. How could a single meteor/comet cause _two months_ of red rain?
2. Why the crys of "bullshit" from other researchers? There is a piece of evidence, not just a claim. It seems easy to figure out what's going on by analyzing the contents of that bottle.
LS
People here in Beijing say heaven is a Japanese Wife, American Salary, and German Car.
Have you guys considered that maybe Apple is no longer just a technology company, but also a fashion company? People don't find anything wrong with fashion designers hyping new hand-bags. You are being self-centered to think that you, a basement dwelling troll, are still Apple's main market; their central customer is now the fashion conscious girl walking down a Manhattan boulevard with her iPod.
LS
It's extrememly easy to mirror the video to switch right and left...
LS
Your response was easily predicted. Think into the future man. This is an alpha version of the first of it's kind. Imagine what these things might do in the future. It might be able to walk to a 90 degree rock face and then scale it, with the soldier sitting on a little fold-out platform. It might run at 70 MPH into a fox hole and take out a bunch of soldiers with little turrets. The possibilities are endless. The "mule" platform is not very extensible, but this robot is, and will be improved upon with future revisions.
LS
Your statement is almost a non-sequitur. If your screen showed imagery in 3d would it make a difference? The imagery is still in front of you. Is you meaning that you don't have visuals behind you, so why would should you have sounds? That doesn't make sense either though, because you can never see behind you. You don't need to turn your head during a movie - the camera does the head turning for you. e.g. say the camera was pointing at a wall during at a rock concert. you would hear the music behind you. The camera would "turn your head", and point towards the band, and the sound would then come from the front speakers. What is so strange about this? It makes sense to me.
Uh, guys, I think Client/Server already hit the web a long time ago... ICQ? Napster? Skype? TurboTax? These required specialist developers to write. Ok, so they don't run in a web browser, but it's been here a long time already.
LS
I think YOU missed your parent post's point. He was giving an analogy, and wasn't literally referring to rewriting individual documents. If you look at the body of documents as a whole, they present a story. You can create a different story by releasing some documents and holding others. He analogizes sentence fragments to entire documents.
LS
The ironic thing about this is that the BBC, perhaps the only major English news website that is consistently blocked by the Chinese firewall, is reporting on how Chinese communist party elders are decrying censorship. I'm writing this from Beijing, and viewing the BBC article through a proxy tunnel.
LS
What you say makes no sense. The quality of a game has nothing to do with the hype and the anticipation. Say a new car was announced 10 years ago, and was finally released after much anticipation. If it's still better than the rest, people will drive it.
That's only if you recognize these individuals as your ruler. True freedom is when you don't acknowledge the authority of these so-called "rulers", and live in your own fashion. Freedom is not a resource to be given or taken, it is a lack of bindings.
LS
You guys have this all wrong when it comes to the "locked door" analogy. I figure the reason they are doing this is so that when they bust pedophiles, crackers, and other criminals, they won't have the excuse that someone else must have logged into their open access point and committed these crimes. BTW I am in no way for such a law.
LS
Why is it that every time there's an article about alternative energy sources someone comes out cursing and spewing venom against some mysterious environmental faction that is theoretically against said technology? Where does your anger come from? You are going nuts before even hearing a single environmentalist rail against this tech. Is this leftover hatred regarding the nuclear energy thing? Whether your are right or not, your attitude only reinforces the behavior of those who like to bash anything "environmentalist", whether the idea makes sense or not.
What if every time there's an article on the GPL you post
"That said, no matter how much the GPL is promoted by one faction of the open source movent there will always be the fringe who hates any restrictive license that benefits humans...."
or take the recent article on telecommuting taxes - you could just come out railing against taxes in general. Or everytime there's an article on the ipod you post about how there's 50 other devices that are better and cheaper.
It's OFFTOPIC you anti-enviro-whacko. You only get modded up because there are a lot of other whackos on Slashdot who think like you.
Come now, these perks are not in order at the public's expense. They can walk a few feet, it would be good for their health, and it would prevent problems in case the building ACTUALLY DID catch on fire. This is besides the fact that it pisses everyone off that they believe themselves somehow superior to the rest of the public. They can get all the perks they want on Apple and Oracle private property. The city is not their property, sorry.
LS
but a display using LEDs is by definition not an LCD, correct? LED is "Light Emitting Diode" and LCD is "Liquid Crystal Display". LEDs are not LCDs.
Ok, I'll be honest and admit that I do think it's a conceit to believe that we are close to pulling it all together. But I don't also think it's inexplicable. All I'm saying is that if we can't yet see the light at the end of the tunnel, how do we know how far the tunnel goes?
I'm not an expert on the brain, but isn't it common knowledge that we do not yet fully understand it's workings, let alone the physics and chemistry that underly the atoms the make it up? We can only simulate to a certain aproximation, and I'm not confident that all the conscious and behavioral phenomena the brain exhibits can be explained or simulated without a full understanding of how it works. Considering that brain essentially creates subjective reality (everything you are thinking, seeing in front of you, smelling, etc.), I think that it's complexity is deep, perhaps infinite. We do not yet know how deep the complexity of the brain, or the universe for that matter goes.
LS
And a lot of people are using the Internet? Woah, what was that? I think I just saw Captain Obvious fly by!
It's not just hardware or software, it's how the hardware is organized. The brain isn't based around the CPU/memory/bus/instruction set model, so emulating it on a computer will probably result in a loss of efficiency of multiple orders of magnitude, making the terraflop measurements meaningless.
LS
Maybe the reason they changed the name is because they added "Taco" to a list of banned words (taco is slang for vagina), and his name got flagged. After he made the request as to why his name was banned, perhaps they realized who he was, and then concocted the story about the prefix so as to avoid bringing up the whole pussy thing in public.
BTW, Taco, did you ever think that your name is essentially equivalent to Captain Cunt?
So are you suggesting that terrorists couldn't be fought if freedom isn't first taken away? Are you suggesting that law enforcement and government agencies shouldn't have to be held to the law as well? That is what I see you implying. If not, then what exactly is your point? Couldn't it be possible that there are bad people besides terrorists and drug dealers, and some of these bad people might actually hold office or law enforcement positions? You can't deny that in other countries there is massive corruption, greed, and violence committed by governments. What makes the US so special? That it's a democracy? Germany was a democracy before the Nazis took over. Again, what is your point?