... is how certain parameters affect the "pure human" version.
The original version is to have a male playing a female. Of course there's no a priori reason why it shouldn't be the other way round. Of course, all the questioners are usually either male or female as well. So there are actually four different games to analyze (male tries to detect male acting as female, female tries to detect male acting as female, male tries to detect female acting as male, female tries to detect female acting as male).
Now, what would this buy you? Well, I can imagine that there's a significant advantage if the questioner is of the same gender as the "honest" person (because (s)he shares knowledge about how it is to be (fe)male, to an extent they probably are even not able to clearly express). Of course, there could be general differences in the ability of men and women to do this test as well, and you need all four constellations to distinguish.
Now the point is, if there's indeed such a same-gender advantage, then one would assume that there's even more of a same-type-of-being advantage, i.e. even a computer which is as intelligent as a human would have a harder time to convince a real human that he's the real human.
The drawbacks of this are that old machines still use [...] almost the same amount of electricity, as newer, more powerful machines.
Are you sure about that? After all, modern processors consume so much energy that they need monster coolers, while an old 486 needs no processor cooler at all.
Unless you have your partition almost completely full (or the backup partition already contains a significant amount of data), it's certainly possible to backup a 120GB partition on a 110GB one without taking up a lot of CPU: Store only the used sectors.
Depends. It won't work if/dev/hdb1 is your largest file system. And of course you don't want to do that while/dev/hdb1 is in use, since you otherwise risk inconsistent data structures.
Well, sometimes in C or C++ you also have one-liners in braces (e.g. one-line functions). I actually use the folowing rules:
Corresponding braces have to be either at the same line or at the same column. Unconditionally.
For braces at the same column, the line containing the opening brace doesn't contain anything else (except whitespace). Not even a comment. (This makes it easy to find out where to look for the corresponding closing brace: If there's anything else on the same line as the opening brace, the closing brace is too).
You are surely informed about the undeniable fact that there are some required statements to be said about the absolute absence of anything resembling content. It enables you to produce large amounts of texts without the need of unnecessary using the central nervous system.
Hmmm... still too short. Err, I mean, the length still lets something to be desired. Err... the total number of words is clearly beyond the threshold of acceptability. Ok, that's better, next try: The total number of words the above text actually consists of can easily be seen to clearly be beyond the business-standard threshold of acceptability. Yes, that's it!;-)
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Why not? Have one computer pretending to be female, and another one pretending to be a male pretending to be female.
While we are at it, replace the person who should decide which is which by a computer as well.
... is how certain parameters affect the "pure human" version.
The original version is to have a male playing a female. Of course there's no a priori reason why it shouldn't be the other way round. Of course, all the questioners are usually either male or female as well. So there are actually four different games to analyze (male tries to detect male acting as female, female tries to detect male acting as female, male tries to detect female acting as male, female tries to detect female acting as male).
Now, what would this buy you? Well, I can imagine that there's a significant advantage if the questioner is of the same gender as the "honest" person (because (s)he shares knowledge about how it is to be (fe)male, to an extent they probably are even not able to clearly express). Of course, there could be general differences in the ability of men and women to do this test as well, and you need all four constellations to distinguish.
Now the point is, if there's indeed such a same-gender advantage, then one would assume that there's even more of a same-type-of-being advantage, i.e. even a computer which is as intelligent as a human would have a harder time to convince a real human that he's the real human.
Hmmm ... did they have a garage at CERN to develop the WWW in? :-)
Well, there are too many rules in the Battle for Wesnoth. Try xbill instead. :-)
I'm waiting for:
New wonder: Slashdot. Can DoS the AI.
Are you sure about that? After all, modern processors consume so much energy that they need monster coolers, while an old 486 needs no processor cooler at all.
But could the poetry of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings?
Well, this attitude is dying. Therefore prepare to live with it for a long time.
Unless you have your partition almost completely full (or the backup partition already contains a significant amount of data), it's certainly possible to backup a 120GB partition on a 110GB one without taking up a lot of CPU: Store only the used sectors.
Depends. It won't work if
... and then use a time machine and sue the cornflakes company for stealing that sentence.
Does it run Linux?
But strictly speaking, even a rare event causing darkness makes it not permanently lit.
Well, actually "radio" and "light" are both distinct subsets of "electromagnetic wave". With "light" being at a much higher frequency.
While we're at it ... does it run Linux? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! I for one welcome our new frozen light overlords.
... well, we need some comments for the forthcoming dupe as well, don't we? :-)
1. Slow down light to bicycle speed.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Ok, I think I've got all the obligatory stuff now. If not
I'm almost sure that if it were not for the clones, the PC would not be where it is today.
Well, the question is: Are you killing standard time?
Well, since he was not moderating, he probably thought he'd be safe to ignore it.
Well, tracing death rays really works better in darkness. ;-)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of random comment generators!
You are surely informed about the undeniable fact that there are some required statements to be said about the absolute absence of anything resembling content. It enables you to produce large amounts of texts without the need of unnecessary using the central nervous system.
... still too short. Err, I mean, the length still lets something to be desired. Err ... the total number of words is clearly beyond the threshold of acceptability. Ok, that's better, next try: The total number of words the above text actually consists of can easily be seen to clearly be beyond the business-standard threshold of acceptability. Yes, that's it! ;-)
Hmmm
Well, maybe they could use this program to filter the generated stuff out
With no possibility of copyright violation. However, it could still be patent-contaminated.
The part with the evil bit set, of course.