Indeed. I can understand enforcement where the manufacturer sets the "bayback" price at some level, where it's just not economical for anyone to sell it for less... ie: if manufacturer would like to prevent anyone from selling their product for less then $X, then offer to buy back that product for $X (if they really think it's worth that much in the first place, it's a great deal for them, no?)
I think you misunderstand. Intelligence - at least meaningful intelligence - can be represented by a few things. One of them is clearly exercising control over the environment or habitat.
Thank you for listing some -characteristics- of what you think our "intelligence set" is (ie: things that we would likely recognize as intelligent). This is exactly the bias I've mentioned, and it's unavoidable.
There exists (in imagination land) a set of all things we (supposedly intelligent beings) would consider `intelligent'. This set does not (and cannot) include everything. In fact, it will not include -all- `intelligent' things that could exist---just ones we would consider intelligent.
We cannot escape this bias. It's not enough to spot intelligence... we also have to recognize it as intelligence.
(ie: is our planet intelligent? is jupiter intelligent? how about our sun? how about our solar system? is an electron intelligent?; consider that the universe may be playing out all the synapses of a brain on a much grander scale)
Right now, when we look for intelligent life, we are looking for signs of our intelligence set. Problem is, we do not know what this set is---which is why this question came up. Easiest way to answer it right now: If it looks intelligent (stuff looks like ``roads'' and ``cities''; no other reasonable explanation) then it is intelligence.
Very likely (I hope), one day, AI field may lead us to a definition of what this intelligence set is for us.
Eh, I remember reading a game programming book back in... early '90s, and anything above 15fps was "acceptable" (with 30fps being desirable). Now it's 60fps minimum, even for high end games...
Define ``Enterprise Grade''? I know plenty of fortune 500 corps that use Linux in pretty critical places (ie: trading and backend systems at many stock exchanges run linux, etc.). Just 'cause there are bugs, doesn't mean that the alternatives don't have bugs.
So when he said he'll bring change to the government, little did we know he meant a website. Yes, change.gov is finally here and is happening right now.
...had the experience of trying to find a file for a customer who had just finished editing a critical report, saved it, and then couldn't locate it...
None of this would be an issue if folks were competent and created directories themselves, and Word (or whatever) asked where to save stuff, as opposed to just assuming (or insisting on) some default system provided directory.
Am I the only person who hates those "My Documents" folders? Or on a Mac iTunes insisting on putting music in a certain weird place? I want to create my own folders, and maintain why own directory structure, and know exactly where stuff is because I put it there---not because Microsoft/Apple/Ubuntu think that's where I should keep stuff.
For the most part, maintaining my own folders for stuff works out just fine (easy backup, easy moving among environments, etc.), except when some program assumes it knows better, and saves a file "somewhere"; really hate it when that happens.
ie: The problem is caused by Microsoft/Apple (and Linux following) to cater to stupid users who just want to create a document and not care where it is saved. Those same users probably wouldn't be able to locate the file (for copy/backup, etc) unless they use the same program they used to create the file.
Or simply have a dozen chips doing all the calculations in lockstep, and then taking the median as the result for all numbers. If a shower of neutrons crews that up, it will likely screw up any shielding anyone comes up with anyway.
There's still.com; and at $180k, most spammers won't be able to grab many, and it will be jokingly easy to block them.
I'd imagine these things will follow in the footsteps of.info,.biz, etc., which is to say "mostly nowhere". All corps will still try to grab the.com name.
Though I can see top level "google" (as in, search.google, mail.google, docs.google, etc.) becoming popular.
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Indeed. I can understand enforcement where the manufacturer sets the "bayback" price at some level, where it's just not economical for anyone to sell it for less... ie: if manufacturer would like to prevent anyone from selling their product for less then $X, then offer to buy back that product for $X (if they really think it's worth that much in the first place, it's a great deal for them, no?)
I'm sure weapons manufacturers completely disagree with you, and... they probably lobby congress too.
cat > hello.pl
printf("hello world");
^D
perl hello.pl
hello world
:-)
Recent stuff I ran across that seemed very interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M
Beyond that, Neural Networks are a dead field; they're cool, but can't really do much with them.
I think you misunderstand. Intelligence - at least meaningful intelligence - can be represented by a few things. One of them is clearly exercising control over the environment or habitat.
Thank you for listing some -characteristics- of what you think our "intelligence set" is (ie: things that we would likely recognize as intelligent). This is exactly the bias I've mentioned, and it's unavoidable.
There exists (in imagination land) a set of all things we (supposedly intelligent beings) would consider `intelligent'. This set does not (and cannot) include everything. In fact, it will not include -all- `intelligent' things that could exist---just ones we would consider intelligent.
We cannot escape this bias. It's not enough to spot intelligence... we also have to recognize it as intelligence.
(ie: is our planet intelligent? is jupiter intelligent? how about our sun? how about our solar system? is an electron intelligent?; consider that the universe may be playing out all the synapses of a brain on a much grander scale)
Right now, when we look for intelligent life, we are looking for signs of our intelligence set. Problem is, we do not know what this set is---which is why this question came up. Easiest way to answer it right now: If it looks intelligent (stuff looks like ``roads'' and ``cities''; no other reasonable explanation) then it is intelligence.
Very likely (I hope), one day, AI field may lead us to a definition of what this intelligence set is for us.
Eh, I remember reading a game programming book back in ... early '90s, and anything above 15fps was "acceptable" (with 30fps being desirable). Now it's 60fps minimum, even for high end games...
And the only reason why I just logged in is 'cause WoW crashed, and I can't seem to login :-(
advocate torture, gladiatorial contests and being thrown to the lions as acceptable punishments
Give it time. The Romans didn't think of these things on day 1 either.
Wait till DMCA lawyers get a hold of this...
Even in 2008, a billion US dollars is still a *lot* of money.
Someone should let congress know that!
Define ``Enterprise Grade''? I know plenty of fortune 500 corps that use Linux in pretty critical places (ie: trading and backend systems at many stock exchanges run linux, etc.). Just 'cause there are bugs, doesn't mean that the alternatives don't have bugs.
...so desperate to recoup their losses with the big payout, they decend into a vicious cycle of *betting* money in hopes the false promises...
Eh, just like the stock market :-)
Obama Launches Change.gov
So when he said he'll bring change to the government, little did we know he meant a website. Yes, change.gov is finally here and is happening right now.
I also like this one: ``And the down economy isn't going to turn this trend around...''
Yeah, just like the housing market, people need to live somewhere, so it can't go down, eh?
...allow people who pay nothing to exploit the system.
Like corporations that get to... use public lands for private gains?
Exactly. What is this Twitter they speak of?
Hey, American people: if you want to look for reasons why we are no longer on top...
Luckily, our strategy is to drag everyone right under us once more...
...had the experience of trying to find a file for a customer who had just finished editing a critical report, saved it, and then couldn't locate it...
None of this would be an issue if folks were competent and created directories themselves, and Word (or whatever) asked where to save stuff, as opposed to just assuming (or insisting on) some default system provided directory.
Am I the only person who hates those "My Documents" folders? Or on a Mac iTunes insisting on putting music in a certain weird place? I want to create my own folders, and maintain why own directory structure, and know exactly where stuff is because I put it there---not because Microsoft/Apple/Ubuntu think that's where I should keep stuff.
For the most part, maintaining my own folders for stuff works out just fine (easy backup, easy moving among environments, etc.), except when some program assumes it knows better, and saves a file "somewhere"; really hate it when that happens.
ie: The problem is caused by Microsoft/Apple (and Linux following) to cater to stupid users who just want to create a document and not care where it is saved. Those same users probably wouldn't be able to locate the file (for copy/backup, etc) unless they use the same program they used to create the file.
Or simply have a dozen chips doing all the calculations in lockstep, and then taking the median as the result for all numbers. If a shower of neutrons crews that up, it will likely screw up any shielding anyone comes up with anyway.
There's still .com; and at $180k, most spammers won't be able to grab many, and it will be jokingly easy to block them.
I'd imagine these things will follow in the footsteps of .info, .biz, etc., which is to say "mostly nowhere". All corps will still try to grab the .com name.
Though I can see top level "google" (as in, search.google, mail.google, docs.google, etc.) becoming popular.
...that is more-or-less what this does... generate a shared key for later communication.
Indeed. PhD worthy?
beh, too bad Mike died...
The settlers were people who were so fed up with the way their government was run that they would risk everything they had to escape it.
Don't worry, we're getting there.
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...yes, the evil one.