Intelligence, true intelligence, may not require consciousness. We don't know. Consciousness, qualia, the feeling of awareness is the aspect of mind we know least about (and most about in another way I suppose). A human-like intelligence may well be harder to achieve than another sort of intelligence, however you might decide on that.
But when you get right down to it, we know that machines can be made that have human intelligence. They're called humans. Unless we resort to superstition to "explain" our intelligence and awareness it's clear that AI is in principle possible.
More configurable? I can completely alter Firefox's UI and most of its behaviour without recompiling. I just have to edit XUL, CSS, and Javascript files. I haven't used K-Meleon but I doubt it's that configurable. Maybe you mean it has more options in the preferences dialog, but that's probably just bad UI. I'm waiting to be corrected though, since I haven't used it.
You might be able to argue that Opera is slightly better than Firefox (you'd be wrong, but at least I wouldn't laugh at you for it) but you can't claim that it's 40-worth better (or whatever the actual price is).
I bet 90% of the people on this site have been to a Best Buy in the last year...
Been where? Oh, you must be assuming everyone is American. I'd wager more than 10% of Slashdotters aren't American and therefore haven't been anywhere near Best Buy in the last year.
Buffy was produced by Fox and shown on the WB and UPN. Production companies and TV stations don't seem to be too closely linked. Then again, Start Trek has been a flagship for Paramount for years, they might not want to let it go.
Damn right. Even from people I'd expect a less emotional response from.
Most of our capacity for intelligence is a result of trying to survive in an environment made of other people. That's why we're smarter than other animals; because we need that intelligence to get by in our societies.
Since men's and women's roles in society (and I'm talking about the primitive societies that had the greatest impact on our evolution, not modern society) are so different it isn't unreasonable to suggest that we would have very different capacities in different areas of intelligence. Women may very well be naturally better able at modelling the minds of other people as they had to raise children; while men might be naturally better at spatial reasoning if they had to hunt.
I'm not saying this is necessarily the case, or that there's even a wealth of evidence to support it. But there's enough of a reasonable basis to formulate a hypothesis that can be tested. Why are people angry at the idea that men and women might think differently?
I had a lecturer who use the phrase "in terms of" as if it was punctuation. He literally (and I do mean literally, unlike most people who use the word) said "in terms of" instead of "eh" or "um" when he was thinking about what to say. I counted over 130 uses of the phrase in a 50-minute lecture. That's nearly once every 20 seconds.
I didn't get modded up, I just have obscenely high karma and forgot to remove the bonus from my post. I usually try to keep the score down on off-topic replies like these so I don't get burned by off-topic mods, and so that I don't annoy people who want to read comments about the story itself.
Australian? It's English. It's used throughout the UK, Ireland, and Australia at least. The problem is that many Americans don't speak or understand English.
I suspect Disney is counting on getting a lot more cinema-goers than just those who've read the books or heard the radio series. In that case a review by someone who is equally ignorant of the source material is valuable. Just not to fans.
OT: the word genius when used in a technical sense refers to anyone whose measured IQ is more than two standard deviations from the mean. That's about 2% of people. Of course this meaning is hijacking the older meaning that had no specific limits but was probably still much more exclusive than one in 50.
Good call. That's the movie that Yahoo! referred to as fullscreen. It's the biggest one available. Of course they're all fullscreen after the customary tap of the F key.
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Intelligence, true intelligence, may not require consciousness. We don't know. Consciousness, qualia, the feeling of awareness is the aspect of mind we know least about (and most about in another way I suppose). A human-like intelligence may well be harder to achieve than another sort of intelligence, however you might decide on that. But when you get right down to it, we know that machines can be made that have human intelligence. They're called humans. Unless we resort to superstition to "explain" our intelligence and awareness it's clear that AI is in principle possible.
I would if Dell hadn't forced me to give it to Bill Gates first. I guess some of that $750M is mine then.
The Mozilla Foundation (MoFo) isn't a company; it's a not-for-profit organisation.
More configurable? I can completely alter Firefox's UI and most of its behaviour without recompiling. I just have to edit XUL, CSS, and Javascript files. I haven't used K-Meleon but I doubt it's that configurable. Maybe you mean it has more options in the preferences dialog, but that's probably just bad UI. I'm waiting to be corrected though, since I haven't used it.
You might be able to argue that Opera is slightly better than Firefox (you'd be wrong, but at least I wouldn't laugh at you for it) but you can't claim that it's 40-worth better (or whatever the actual price is).
Been where? Oh, you must be assuming everyone is American. I'd wager more than 10% of Slashdotters aren't American and therefore haven't been anywhere near Best Buy in the last year.
Buffy was produced by Fox and shown on the WB and UPN. Production companies and TV stations don't seem to be too closely linked. Then again, Start Trek has been a flagship for Paramount for years, they might not want to let it go.
Star Wars Episode III is coming out this year. Different horse, same beating.
The best sci-fi uses technology as a backdrop to Patrick Stewart quoting Shakespeare.
Damn right. Even from people I'd expect a less emotional response from.
Most of our capacity for intelligence is a result of trying to survive in an environment made of other people. That's why we're smarter than other animals; because we need that intelligence to get by in our societies.
Since men's and women's roles in society (and I'm talking about the primitive societies that had the greatest impact on our evolution, not modern society) are so different it isn't unreasonable to suggest that we would have very different capacities in different areas of intelligence. Women may very well be naturally better able at modelling the minds of other people as they had to raise children; while men might be naturally better at spatial reasoning if they had to hunt.
I'm not saying this is necessarily the case, or that there's even a wealth of evidence to support it. But there's enough of a reasonable basis to formulate a hypothesis that can be tested. Why are people angry at the idea that men and women might think differently?
I had a lecturer who use the phrase "in terms of" as if it was punctuation. He literally (and I do mean literally, unlike most people who use the word) said "in terms of" instead of "eh" or "um" when he was thinking about what to say. I counted over 130 uses of the phrase in a 50-minute lecture. That's nearly once every 20 seconds.
I didn't get modded up, I just have obscenely high karma and forgot to remove the bonus from my post. I usually try to keep the score down on off-topic replies like these so I don't get burned by off-topic mods, and so that I don't annoy people who want to read comments about the story itself.
Oh yeah, try not to make eye-contact or draw their attention.
Australian? It's English. It's used throughout the UK, Ireland, and Australia at least. The problem is that many Americans don't speak or understand English.
Let he who is without sin throw the switch.
All of them.
The Sun's output peeks in the green part of the spectrum as far as I remember.
I suspect Disney is counting on getting a lot more cinema-goers than just those who've read the books or heard the radio series. In that case a review by someone who is equally ignorant of the source material is valuable. Just not to fans.
I think you'll find that all of the material in that book has been published...
OT: the word genius when used in a technical sense refers to anyone whose measured IQ is more than two standard deviations from the mean. That's about 2% of people. Of course this meaning is hijacking the older meaning that had no specific limits but was probably still much more exclusive than one in 50.
Informative? Very well done moderators.
Whoa buddy! No-one's screening my nuts.
We also measure network bandwidth in Mbps and Internet connectivity in kbps.
Good call. That's the movie that Yahoo! referred to as fullscreen. It's the biggest one available. Of course they're all fullscreen after the customary tap of the F key.
Me too. It feels like levelling up. ;)