Windows 98 allowed any user with console access to operate as root for years... Now you think an obscure exploit that has been around for over 10 years is going to cause the downfall of windows?
I could be wrong, but I don't think that there's a neccesarily direct path between robots that are programmed to socialize and robots that begin adopting actual human characteristics.
Humans learn to use violence as a problem solving technique through early interaction with other humans. Unless the robot was *programmed* to be violent, or was capable of learning by itself AND was introduced to social situations where violence was used, we wouldn't have to worry about it.
With more and more patents being applied for buisiness practices and non-tangible inventions, how is the requirement for working examples being affected. Specifically, do you feel that patent requirements have had to be relaxed because of the nondemonstrable qualities of many patent applications recently?
As usual, they paid a hell of a lot of money to learn something that any random person would have told them for free.
Someone once said that a million monkeys sitting at a million typewriters would eventually compose the collected works of Shakespear. We have now learned that this is not correct, a million monkees at a million keyboards will eventually form the most popular ISP in the US.
I see most of their current actions as nothing more than a bid for some quick good faith. Many of the.Net and Palladium structures that they're trying to push through have been met with an extreme (and understandable) amount of skepticism and mistrust. I think that they're trying to force a quick image makeover so that people will be less likely to look at their plans in a "worst case scenario" kind of way.
No, I've just grown up my whole life with logging on part of my families ground. People give loggers a hard time out of ignorance. If they actually knew the first thing about logging they'd realize that it isn't neccesarily bad, and that the vast majority of the loggers out there are actually doing a service to the forests that they work in (even WITH the roads that they have to cut). I have no personal interesting in the logging industry (my family lost the land a long time ago after the controlling generation died off).
Logging isn't neccesarily a bad thing. I personally have seen logging in effect my entire life on some land that my family owned, and the parts of the forest that were logged were much healthier and much more receptive to wildlife than the parts that weren't.
Yes, read above. There have been numerous links to sources. The differences are that UPS is a)mainly a package service, and b)they are considered to be "expedited" (as in "rush"). There have been attempts in the past to set up competitive letter carrier services (for one they even found a way to make it a completely free service), and they have always been shut down by the courts.
Do some research on it, it's an interesting subject.
100 kiloWatts is a helluva powerful laser. When they say that it could potentially blind people, they're not talking about people who get hit in the eyes with it. Those people just die. They're talking about anybody who has a line of sight to the target. If they hit a wall with it, anybody facing that wall will be blinded.
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I can't imagine having to do all of my research and and read all of my class texts on a monitor.
Ouch. My eyes are going bad quickly enough as it is.
And what about the mountains of resources that aren't available in digital format?
Windows 98 allowed any user with console access to operate as root for years... Now you think an obscure exploit that has been around for over 10 years is going to cause the downfall of windows?
Excuse my extreme skepticism.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that there's a neccesarily direct path between robots that are programmed to socialize and robots that begin adopting actual human characteristics.
Humans learn to use violence as a problem solving technique through early interaction with other humans. Unless the robot was *programmed* to be violent, or was capable of learning by itself AND was introduced to social situations where violence was used, we wouldn't have to worry about it.
With more and more patents being applied for buisiness practices and non-tangible inventions, how is the requirement for working examples being affected.
Specifically, do you feel that patent requirements have had to be relaxed because of the nondemonstrable qualities of many patent applications recently?
As usual, they paid a hell of a lot of money to learn something that any random person would have told them for free. Someone once said that a million monkeys sitting at a million typewriters would eventually compose the collected works of Shakespear. We have now learned that this is not correct, a million monkees at a million keyboards will eventually form the most popular ISP in the US.
I see most of their current actions as nothing more than a bid for some quick good faith. .Net and Palladium structures that they're trying to push through have been met with an extreme (and understandable) amount of skepticism and mistrust. I think that they're trying to force a quick image makeover so that people will be less likely to look at their plans in a "worst case scenario" kind of way.
Many of the
Just the opinion of a professional MS boy.
No, I've just grown up my whole life with logging on part of my families ground. People give loggers a hard time out of ignorance. If they actually knew the first thing about logging they'd realize that it isn't neccesarily bad, and that the vast majority of the loggers out there are actually doing a service to the forests that they work in (even WITH the roads that they have to cut). I have no personal interesting in the logging industry (my family lost the land a long time ago after the controlling generation died off).
Do you actually know anybody in the logging industry? No? I didn't think so.
Logging isn't neccesarily a bad thing. I personally have seen logging in effect my entire life on some land that my family owned, and the parts of the forest that were logged were much healthier and much more receptive to wildlife than the parts that weren't.
No, but if the tree has already been cut down we really don't care what's good for it, now do we?
On the other hand, leaving as much of the tree behind to decompose IS good for the rest of the trees.
But a laptop that you can't see IS suspicious?
Would this be considered to be advertising" under law?
Yes, read above. There have been numerous links to sources.
The differences are that UPS is a)mainly a package service, and b)they are considered to be "expedited" (as in "rush"). There have been attempts in the past to set up competitive letter carrier services (for one they even found a way to make it a completely free service), and they have always been shut down by the courts. Do some research on it, it's an interesting subject.
Because whoever provides the infrastructure also controls the infrastructure.
Mt. Ranier type CD-R's can do this. I don't think they've been released for sale yet, but they are a reality.
Not powerful? You've gotta be kidding me, right?
100 kiloWatts is a helluva powerful laser. When they say that it could potentially blind people, they're not talking about people who get hit in the eyes with it. Those people just die. They're talking about anybody who has a line of sight to the target. If they hit a wall with it, anybody facing that wall will be blinded.
Well, DivX and .mp3's have me stretching the limits of my 80 Gig, two 30's, and a 40.
So to answer your question, I need 200 Gigs.