The entire cerebral cortex is something lizards don't possess. It might all just be "more neurons, more connections" but they're arranged in different, specific ways, many of which are unique to humans.
Exactly as I've pointed earlier: quantitative differences, not qualitative. You don't need anything more or novel than a neuron to build one or the other. As a matter of fact, both evolved from the same mutual ancestor.
Today's computers provide the 'neuron', they just don't provide Broca's areas or such. Yet. The nature had millions of years to evolve from reptile to humans, to figure out (by chance and selection) how to make higher brain functions. On the other hand, computers double in their capabilities every couple of years. By our directed research and focused effort. I believe the trip from computer neuron to computer brain will definitely not take millions of years.
The computers, no matter how massive the computational power available to them is, aren't going to spontaneously "wake up" (what the hell is he talking about there?) and develop consciousness
Conscioucness is an emergent quality. Reptiles and humans esseantially share the same brain, there are no qualitative differences between them, only quantitative (more neurons, more connections). Unless you believe in an act of God that stamped conciousness in human brain, by the sheer fact of evolution you must accept that somewhere, somehow a human brain did eventually just "wake up" and developed consciousness, out of the blue.
Why wouldn't computers, which in all qualitative functions can emulate human brain, be impossible of making that transition?
Don't confuse your inability to imagine a thing happening with the imposibility of a thing to happen.
Though the prompt appears to be asking if the user wants to block the application from connecting to the internet, it is actually prompting to block a connection from the internet to your computer.
Along with a picture of a dialog asking if it should block Doom3. How on world would 'the internet' decide to out-of-the-blue contact Doom3 on my machine? What the prompt actually says is: 'This program opened a port in listen mode, should I block it?' Which is an _excellent_ feature, since no program (trojan!) can now open a port for scanners to see, without you knowing and/or approving.
My guess would be that OCR lost it's appeal when pretty much every text on paper originated in a computer. OCRing nowadays is a need to only a niche of users (form scanning, archives and stuff like that), and those are always expected to pay the premium.
Anyways, the possible comeback of OCR may occur in the near future, with the inevitable ubiquity of camera phones and processor power behing them. I sure could use a phone that could scan an URL from a newspaper and take me there. Or call a phone number printed in the ad. Or mail/SMS a piece of an article. Or even translate a foreign text.
BTW, I still have fond memories of reading OCRed Amiga Hardware Reference Manual (THE book for Amiga hacking) with every other 'm' recognised as a 'rn'.:-)
Microsoft is clueless as to what to do with the piles of cash they have. They don't seem to have any bright ideas on deploying this cash to reap more returns.
Yeah, dude, you tell them! If only Microsoft would do the right thing and listen to guys in their mother's basements, instead of $10000 an hour bussiness consultants... Maybe they could even become a proper bussiness, instead of this poor $1 bn a month generating, $50+bn cash reserve sorry excuse for a company. Clueless, that's what they are.
I'm sure Netcraft is about to make an anouncement...
might be enlightening if some insider anonymously posted their newer long-term shift in direction. This is a pretty major change and their motivation is what?
IANAI, but my guess would be that on the one hand a transition from 'hot' (expected to rise) to 'value' (expected to hold) stock, and on the other hand, the possibility that Kerry becomes a president and reverts stock income tax from 15% to 35%. Apparently, a bunch o companies are doing a similar thing tight now.
1. Standard apps (such as palm hotsynch) and many games don't work properly as non-root
Most of the time just a matter of setting the permissions right on various files and folders. Get yourself a monitoring tool or two (www.sysinternals.com) and see what is really the problem.
2. I don't want to have switch user each time I need to do an administrator-level activity -- particlulary since brain-dead windoze takes a minute or more to do this even on a fast machine.
Ever tried shift+right click on an item? Noticed the 'run as' option? Guess not...
Windoze is still a buggy, toy operating system relative to Linux or any other half-decent flavor of Unix...
Right. Behold a true wizard speaking.
If I had a penny for each ignoramus who mistakes his limitations for systems limitations...
VCD/SVCD/??VCD all suck and should be consigned to history along with VHS and audio cassette tapes.
Well, not if you're living in China, Russia or someplace else and you want to buy the movie to play in your DVD/VCD player. Market is the reason VCDs are still around.
LAN parties? Surely you mean _copy_ parties. There were no LANs in the _real_ good old days. Hard disks were scarce, too. And bandwidth was measured by how many floppies would fit in a envelope.
It's in the middle of f'n nowhere and you want me to go there to solve puzzles?
Middle of nowhere? Score: -1, ignoramus.
Croatia is just north of Italy, south of Austria (which is a whole different country than Australia, in case you were wondering), actually pretty much in the center of Europe. City of Opatija is less than 100 miles away from Venice (a city in Italy, not a beach in the US).
What am I supposed to do for fun, cross the border and pick me up some romanian women???......
Opatija is actually a pretty high-profile vacation resort (and has been about as long as the US has been a country), so you probably couldn't even afford to stay there, much less have fun.
As strange as it seems, people in Croatia not only have the electricity, but read Slashdot, too!
Yes, but it's easy to fix. You just have to reverse the polarity on the phase manifolds in your keyboard. They're next to the inertial coupling stablizer.
Damn, so that's how! And there I was, ejecting the core every time plasma leak happened...
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Let's look at what the real implications of cheap solar power are:
But, the interesting fact is that there are industries, countries and individuals that stand to lose billions of dollars in income if/when such advances in solar energy take place. And billions of dollars they make now buy _a_lot_ of influence. So, don't expect the changes to happen overnight, or any time soon...
I'm not sure how shortsighted it really is. After all, if I can make myself $10 million over the next week, but in the process I guarantee that I can never get a job in my current industry, should I really care?
They say that humans differ from animals by the ability to think about the long term consequences of their actions. I guess we're not that different after all...
Why would producers of legitimate software, e.g. Kazaa, Weatherbug, etc. bundle their stuff with known spamware, ad-serving crap, and general spyware bullshit?
Isn't it obvious why? Because it makes money, and right now. Do spammers care if they kill the medium they use? Nope, because they're making money from it, right now.
Who cares, it works for me, at least for now.
It's shortsighted but unfortunately it fits the general profile of human behaviour. I don't see the way spammers or malware producers behave any differently than the way big companies or governments behave, just on a different level. So, I think it's safe to say that things like this will go on for the forseable future.
The US has fought defensive wars, is that what you're trying to say? Well, since none of them were waged on US soil, what would you conclude, who was the rapist?
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The entire cerebral cortex is something lizards don't possess. It might all just be "more neurons, more connections" but they're arranged in different, specific ways, many of which are unique to humans.
Exactly as I've pointed earlier: quantitative differences, not qualitative. You don't need anything more or novel than a neuron to build one or the other. As a matter of fact, both evolved from the same mutual ancestor.
Today's computers provide the 'neuron', they just don't provide Broca's areas or such. Yet. The nature had millions of years to evolve from reptile to humans, to figure out (by chance and selection) how to make higher brain functions. On the other hand, computers double in their capabilities every couple of years. By our directed research and focused effort. I believe the trip from computer neuron to computer brain will definitely not take millions of years.
The computers, no matter how massive the computational power available to them is, aren't going to spontaneously "wake up" (what the hell is he talking about there?) and develop consciousness
Conscioucness is an emergent quality. Reptiles and humans esseantially share the same brain, there are no qualitative differences between them, only quantitative (more neurons, more connections). Unless you believe in an act of God that stamped conciousness in human brain, by the sheer fact of evolution you must accept that somewhere, somehow a human brain did eventually just "wake up" and developed consciousness, out of the blue.
Why wouldn't computers, which in all qualitative functions can emulate human brain, be impossible of making that transition?
Don't confuse your inability to imagine a thing happening with the imposibility of a thing to happen.
Yeah exactly. Doom3 refuses to install if you have software it dosn't like.
And, on top of that, requires admin rights to run. Not cool.
Save your time - don't bother.
Absolutely. From the article:
Though the prompt appears to be asking if the user wants to block the application from connecting to the internet, it is actually prompting to block a connection from the internet to your computer.
Along with a picture of a dialog asking if it should block Doom3. How on world would 'the internet' decide to out-of-the-blue contact Doom3 on my machine? What the prompt actually says is: 'This program opened a port in listen mode, should I block it?' Which is an _excellent_ feature, since no program (trojan!) can now open a port for scanners to see, without you knowing and/or approving.
My guess would be that OCR lost it's appeal when pretty much every text on paper originated in a computer. OCRing nowadays is a need to only a niche of users (form scanning, archives and stuff like that), and those are always expected to pay the premium.
:-)
Anyways, the possible comeback of OCR may occur in the near future, with the inevitable ubiquity of camera phones and processor power behing them. I sure could use a phone that could scan an URL from a newspaper and take me there. Or call a phone number printed in the ad. Or mail/SMS a piece of an article. Or even translate a foreign text.
BTW, I still have fond memories of reading OCRed Amiga Hardware Reference Manual (THE book for Amiga hacking) with every other 'm' recognised as a 'rn'.
If they win, I will eat my socks. /me bookmarks the comment
:-)
You never know.
Microsoft is clueless as to what to do with the piles of cash they have. They don't seem to have any bright ideas on deploying this cash to reap more returns.
Yeah, dude, you tell them! If only Microsoft would do the right thing and listen to guys in their mother's basements, instead of $10000 an hour bussiness consultants... Maybe they could even become a proper bussiness, instead of this poor $1 bn a month generating, $50+bn cash reserve sorry excuse for a company. Clueless, that's what they are.
I'm sure Netcraft is about to make an anouncement...
might be enlightening if some insider anonymously posted their newer long-term shift in direction. This is a pretty major change and their motivation is what?
IANAI, but my guess would be that on the one hand a transition from 'hot' (expected to rise) to 'value' (expected to hold) stock, and on the other hand, the possibility that Kerry becomes a president and reverts stock income tax from 15% to 35%. Apparently, a bunch o companies are doing a similar thing tight now.
1. Standard apps (such as palm hotsynch) and many games don't work properly as non-root
Most of the time just a matter of setting the permissions right on various files and folders. Get yourself a monitoring tool or two (www.sysinternals.com) and see what is really the problem.
2. I don't want to have switch user each time I need to do an administrator-level activity -- particlulary since brain-dead windoze takes a minute or more to do this even on a fast machine.
Ever tried shift+right click on an item? Noticed the 'run as' option? Guess not...
Windoze is still a buggy, toy operating system relative to Linux or any other half-decent flavor of Unix...
Right. Behold a true wizard speaking.
If I had a penny for each ignoramus who mistakes his limitations for systems limitations...
That said, am I stupid for thinking that most people aren't going to switch to Linux primarily to play Windows games?
No. But, maybe they won't switch at all because they can't play games on Linux?
VCD/SVCD/??VCD all suck and should be consigned to history along with VHS and audio cassette tapes.
Well, not if you're living in China, Russia or someplace else and you want to buy the movie to play in your DVD/VCD player. Market is the reason VCDs are still around.
from the days of glorified LAN parties
;-)
LAN parties? Surely you mean _copy_ parties. There were no LANs in the _real_ good old days. Hard disks were scarce, too. And bandwidth was measured by how many floppies would fit in a envelope.
Oh yeah, and we had to walk uphill both ways.
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave.
Oh yeah? How about Amiga? How about BeOS? Hm... Never mind.
Linux users have no reason to ever expect spyware. Hopefully this never changes.
So, what you're saying is that you hope Linux stays a niche, server platform, with a marginal desktop usage?
Yes, I can see how that would be preferable for some people.
...but in general we're radiating heat like crazy. It only makes sense to make use of this heat loss when possible.
:-)
Well, since majority of the body heat is released through the head, it will make for some interesting contraptions...
It's in the middle of f'n nowhere and you want me to go there to solve puzzles?
Middle of nowhere? Score: -1, ignoramus.
Croatia is just north of Italy, south of Austria (which is a whole different country than Australia, in case you were wondering), actually pretty much in the center of Europe. City of Opatija is less than 100 miles away from Venice (a city in Italy, not a beach in the US).
What am I supposed to do for fun, cross the border and pick me up some romanian women???......
Opatija is actually a pretty high-profile vacation resort (and has been about as long as the US has been a country), so you probably couldn't even afford to stay there, much less have fun.
As strange as it seems, people in Croatia not only have the electricity, but read Slashdot, too!
Gore or Bush. Well, how bout neither.
I think you misspeled 'Nader'.
Yes, but it's easy to fix. You just have to reverse the polarity on the phase manifolds in your keyboard. They're next to the inertial coupling stablizer.
Damn, so that's how! And there I was, ejecting the core every time plasma leak happened...
Let's look at what the real implications of cheap solar power are:
But, the interesting fact is that there are industries, countries and individuals that stand to lose billions of dollars in income if/when such advances in solar energy take place. And billions of dollars they make now buy _a_lot_ of influence. So, don't expect the changes to happen overnight, or any time soon...
I'm not sure how shortsighted it really is. After all, if I can make myself $10 million over the next week, but in the process I guarantee that I can never get a job in my current industry, should I really care?
They say that humans differ from animals by the ability to think about the long term consequences of their actions. I guess we're not that different after all...
You're one of them!
/me ditches false beard and mustaches
Lynch mob!
Damn! My cover is blown!
Run for the hills!
Why would producers of legitimate software, e.g. Kazaa, Weatherbug, etc. bundle their stuff with known spamware, ad-serving crap, and general spyware bullshit?
Isn't it obvious why? Because it makes money, and right now. Do spammers care if they kill the medium they use? Nope, because they're making money from it, right now.
Who cares, it works for me, at least for now.
It's shortsighted but unfortunately it fits the general profile of human behaviour. I don't see the way spammers or malware producers behave any differently than the way big companies or governments behave, just on a different level. So, I think it's safe to say that things like this will go on for the forseable future.
Adding sshd to windows would be rather useless since almost nothing can be done via the command line on windows.
:-)
Open mouth, insert foot.
A case of I-don't-know-so-it-can't-be-done expert, eh?
You know, it takes two to perpetrate a rape...
The US has fought defensive wars, is that what you're trying to say? Well, since none of them were waged on US soil, what would you conclude, who was the rapist?
Tell that to the North Koreans, the Palestinians, the old-world Soviets, the Taliban, Muslim extremists, and I could go on and on....
You know, it takes two to start a fight... Or do you fall for that 'they hate freedom' idiocy?
Thou shalt not fuck with me, because I am covered in spikes and will hurt you if you try to bite me.
An eye for an eye in the end makes the whole world blind...