If the brain is deterministic, it should be resetting to start state every time you wake up.
You're wrong in just so many accounts.
First, when you're sleeping, your brain isn't switched off. It is just in a different mode of operation (indeed, it switches between different modes of operation). There's nothing special on the specific process of waking up, it's just one of the mode switches the brain does (either because the brain determines that it is time to wake up, or because there's an external signal that might need attention).
Second, learning causes permanent physical changes in your brain; even if your brain were reset on awaking in the same way a computer is reset on a power cycle, it would still behave differently based on past input. Expecting it not to behave diffeerently is like expecting a computer to start Windows again on reboot after you replaced the Windows installation with a Linux installation because, after all, the computer is deterministic and rebooting it resets it.
Also, getting bored itself is a process in the brain. It's sort of a watchdog process, because if you do the same thing over and over again without getting some sort of success feedback, it's an indication that whatever you're doing probably goes nowhere and you should try something else instead.
Where I live, payphones are extremely rare (and if you find one, you're lucky if it works). OTOH, mobile phones can be used to do emergency calls even without a contract (it then is the only thing you can do with them).
There would be content on the internet that is not on the web? Oh the horror! </sarcasm>
Seriously, I want them to provide their own programs for DRM-protected stuff. That stuff just doesn't belong on the web. After all, even if it were made with HTML5+DRM and accessed through web browsers, it would still not really be part of the web, because I could not just fire up any web browser and watch it; I'd first have to install their proprietary DRM. So what is the big difference, if I have to install some proprietary code anyway? If it's a separate program, I'll at least know up front that it's not part of the web.
Also, in my experience, native programs tend to have the better interfaces anyway.
I'm sure they have no interest in having their customers being thrown to jail. They however may have some interest in getting information which they can then use to milk even more money from their customers... err... I mean, to better adapt their offerings to the customers' needs, of course.;-)
While you don't need a smartphone, it's a good idea to have a simple phone with you in case you've got an emergency. Being able to call for help immediately may make the difference between life and death. Given that simple phones are very cheap these days, there's IMHO no good reason not to have one.
Yes, they certainly should have used "172.86 kiloseconds" instead of "48 hours, 1 minute". Those odd factor-60 minutes and hours should die. It's not that hard to remember that a day is 86.4 kiloseconds and a year is about 31.5 megaseconds, after all.
Actually AFAIK it's not the nicotine in the cigarettes which kills you. It's all of the burning byproducts. Nicotine is responsible for making you addict, though.
A solution which fails in typical situations is not just not 100% perfect, it's seriously limited.
However, in this case I doubt that this specific problem actually exists: It should be trivial to have the lights in different rooms react to different frequencies.
Actually, while the mean voltage is 230V, there's a tolerance interval of 10%, so the actual voltage at any time may be anywhere between 207V and 253V (actually, in the UK the lower tolerance level is at 216V, to avoid problems with old devices). In other words, you might measure 234.9V elsewhere in Europe (actually, it also was already inside the tolerance interval in Germany even when the German voltage was just 220V).
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Hereby I claim that robots already experience qualia, they are just not able to tell us.
Disprove me.
You're wrong in just so many accounts.
First, when you're sleeping, your brain isn't switched off. It is just in a different mode of operation (indeed, it switches between different modes of operation). There's nothing special on the specific process of waking up, it's just one of the mode switches the brain does (either because the brain determines that it is time to wake up, or because there's an external signal that might need attention).
Second, learning causes permanent physical changes in your brain; even if your brain were reset on awaking in the same way a computer is reset on a power cycle, it would still behave differently based on past input. Expecting it not to behave diffeerently is like expecting a computer to start Windows again on reboot after you replaced the Windows installation with a Linux installation because, after all, the computer is deterministic and rebooting it resets it.
Also, getting bored itself is a process in the brain. It's sort of a watchdog process, because if you do the same thing over and over again without getting some sort of success feedback, it's an indication that whatever you're doing probably goes nowhere and you should try something else instead.
Where I live, payphones are extremely rare (and if you find one, you're lucky if it works). OTOH, mobile phones can be used to do emergency calls even without a contract (it then is the only thing you can do with them).
I don't see adds with it either way. I guess my add blocking in Firefox is enough.
Do you also block subtracts?
There would be content on the internet that is not on the web? Oh the horror! </sarcasm>
Seriously, I want them to provide their own programs for DRM-protected stuff. That stuff just doesn't belong on the web. After all, even if it were made with HTML5+DRM and accessed through web browsers, it would still not really be part of the web, because I could not just fire up any web browser and watch it; I'd first have to install their proprietary DRM. So what is the big difference, if I have to install some proprietary code anyway? If it's a separate program, I'll at least know up front that it's not part of the web.
Also, in my experience, native programs tend to have the better interfaces anyway.
Mike Frett, assuming he wrote the truth.
I'm sure they have no interest in having their customers being thrown to jail. They however may have some interest in getting information which they can then use to milk even more money from their customers ... err ... I mean, to better adapt their offerings to the customers' needs, of course. ;-)
While you don't need a smartphone, it's a good idea to have a simple phone with you in case you've got an emergency. Being able to call for help immediately may make the difference between life and death. Given that simple phones are very cheap these days, there's IMHO no good reason not to have one.
So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice.
That won't help. You need Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Actually a good way to remember the length of a year is to remember that pi gigaseconds give (almost) a century.
That is.... Water!
After the explosion, yes.
Yes, they certainly should have used "172.86 kiloseconds" instead of "48 hours, 1 minute". Those odd factor-60 minutes and hours should die. It's not that hard to remember that a day is 86.4 kiloseconds and a year is about 31.5 megaseconds, after all.
Actually hydrogen mixed with oxygen in the relation 2:1 is much worse than hydrogen as a concentrated cloud.
I think tomatoes are very popular, as part of ketchup.
Actually AFAIK it's not the nicotine in the cigarettes which kills you. It's all of the burning byproducts. Nicotine is responsible for making you addict, though.
Well, the first amendment speaks about the right to bear arms, not about the right to make arms.
Perl is the one where you can recognize the individual characters.
A real artist would have used C-x M-c M-butterfly ...
Wake me up when vote counting goes bad at America's Next President.
Oh wait, that already happened.
In the past, there have been much more interesting things you could do by whistling ...
Maybe someone should write the "Fucking Bible":
"In the beginning god created the fucking heaven and the damn earth. And the earth was bloody formless and goddamn empty ..."
A solution which fails in typical situations is not just not 100% perfect, it's seriously limited.
However, in this case I doubt that this specific problem actually exists: It should be trivial to have the lights in different rooms react to different frequencies.
Actually, while the mean voltage is 230V, there's a tolerance interval of 10%, so the actual voltage at any time may be anywhere between 207V and 253V (actually, in the UK the lower tolerance level is at 216V, to avoid problems with old devices). In other words, you might measure 234.9V elsewhere in Europe (actually, it also was already inside the tolerance interval in Germany even when the German voltage was just 220V).
Might it be possible that they got the reference from OED?
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Yes, of course, now I see it. They should just remove the line
from their hosts file, then they'll find the book.