What in the hell did your story (the journal link) where you bragged that all the whores give you discounts add to the discussion? I think I was expecting something a little more insightful...my mistake.
Sometimes ads and popups are based on your IP address/location.
For instance, I've heard many times of only some people getting made spyware popups, but when the admin checked, he NEVER did. He finally figured out that the ad system only gave out evil ads when you were accessing the site from a non-US IP.
If we could control the tanks from afar with our minds with this technology, then why couldn't we just control them afar with remote controls? I don't see how this would by itself change warfare all that much. It would be one more tool for precise or quick control, thats all.
If you can think of that, I hope they can too. It sounds like a really good idea. The investigators still would have to be in that inner circle that makes these deals.
Some comments seem to question the computational power of the notebooks. Now, if it were possible for them to be buildt to be extremly tough, reliable, and able to effectivly compute the needed data without being too big/heavy/power needing/detectable, then that would be best. But if not, couldn't the computing be done somewhere else? All they need send is their location, destination, and conditions affecting travel. ex. over loaded transports. If they are constantly updating each other of their position, and getting data from sats and other sources, then it doesn't sound like a problem to be transmiting (you already are). And yes, the data should be encrypted and sent as a burst.
And what if the slower code you have written is too slow for your audience? Or is for real-time applications? Needs to be low-latency? I have no real opinion about the speed differences of the two, but I disagree when you say that most of the time a program that takes ten times longer to run is better if it takes half as long to write. I can see too many instances where that would be totally unrealistic. What happens when another programmer/team takes the extra time and has a much more responsive program and the perspective customer gets a look at this?
We used to make something between a blow-gun and a spitwad shooter out of the cheap plastic mechanical pencils. You break the pointed tip of, then pull really hard on the eraser side to pull out the mechanism that pushed the lead forward. Next you attached rubber bands to that same mechanism and to the front and leave the mechanism in. Its hard to desribe and its been awhile okay? It would get good range and you didn't have to blow into it.
You know, I don't know why I'm "replying" to this AC, but I am. I'm sick of hereing this meme. The people mentioning it usually aren't aware that the health department had repeatedly asked McDonalds to turn down the temp. of the coffee makers. The coffee makers were set extra hot because you need less coffee grounds that way.
What I find so funny about this idea, is the image of all the ways it might report ones death early. "Oops, we didn't catch that bug", or "Oops, wrong command, I just started the wrong program". Better be ready to call up every one you know and inform them that "Hey Mom, I'm not dead, and if you check your email and get a message from two minites ago that I am, well, I'm not..."
If you are still alive, and an exact copy of you is made (mind and body). Is that you or a copy of you? Now I distroy the original. Have I killed you or not? Your copy still lives, but you're dead, neh?
So, how can you say that downloading someone makes them immortal? Perhaps their copy is semi-immortal.
There are still plenty of ways for the copy to die, even if the process is perfect: insanity, lose of power, deletion (murder or accident), hardware/software failure, bitrot.....
The article claims one can compare signals in the throat to sounds produced/though, and then relibily translate just the signals without hearing the sounds. If this works then do the rest of my muscles work the same way? Do I send impulses to my arm when I think about moving it even if I don't? Could a system be designed to read that as well? Could this be used as a new imput method?
If setup propery (which I'm betting this version of linux would almost have to be) Linux can use Fat32 and other windows disk formats, so yes you'd be able to share data between Windows and Linux, as long as the file formats were compatible. Just try opening an Office doc. with vi for example (not gonna happen Poncho).
I know its silly to mention this, but eggs do not come out of a chicken's ass. I like to disturb my regular's at Waffle House by telling them eggs are sort of chicken menstration. They are after all unfertilized eggs (usually).
We need to have all the unhappy customers send in their "robots" to one of the fighting robot shows and they could compete over who can kill the most of these things in under 5 minites.
I am in complete agreement. Something that hasn't been mentioned though, is the amount of methane gas that is vented and burned because it cannot be safely stored and transported. For example the big stacks many oil drilling platforms have, if huge flames wasteing all that methane. Making it easier to store andtransport might mean getting at least some return on that energy,insteadof zero. Just a though
Well, one of the main problems is preserving a method to read the data, not just preserving the data. How are you going to preserve the method of reading the data from the DNA, and interpreting it?
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Did you watch the avi titled: HBOwatcher? That was a load of wtf.
What in the hell did your story (the journal link) where you bragged that all the whores give you discounts add to the discussion? I think I was expecting something a little more insightful...my mistake.
Sometimes ads and popups are based on your IP address/location. For instance, I've heard many times of only some people getting made spyware popups, but when the admin checked, he NEVER did. He finally figured out that the ad system only gave out evil ads when you were accessing the site from a non-US IP.
If we could control the tanks from afar with our minds with this technology, then why couldn't we just control them afar with remote controls?
I don't see how this would by itself change warfare all that much. It would be one more tool for precise or quick control, thats all.
In Soviet Russia, the poster's dupe the editors.
If you can think of that, I hope they can too. It sounds like a really good idea. The investigators still would have to be in that inner circle that makes these deals.
I just googled exquisite corpse because I had until very recently never heard of it. Sounds like fun, thanks for mentioning it.
Some comments seem to question the computational power of the notebooks. Now, if it were possible for them to be buildt to be extremly tough, reliable, and able to effectivly compute the needed data without being too big/heavy/power needing/detectable, then that would be best. But if not, couldn't the computing be done somewhere else? All they need send is their location, destination, and conditions affecting travel. ex. over loaded transports. If they are constantly updating each other of their position, and getting data from sats and other sources, then it doesn't sound like a problem to be transmiting (you already are). And yes, the data should be encrypted and sent as a burst.
And what if the slower code you have written is too slow for your audience? Or is for real-time applications? Needs to be low-latency? I have no real opinion about the speed differences of the two, but I disagree when you say that most of the time a program that takes ten times longer to run is better if it takes half as long to write. I can see too many instances where that would be totally unrealistic. What happens when another programmer/team takes the extra time and has a much more responsive program and the perspective customer gets a look at this?
You can't prove a negative. And at .1% a year, you are only proving that it usually works correctly.
We used to make something between a blow-gun and a spitwad shooter out of the cheap plastic mechanical pencils. You break the pointed tip of, then pull really hard on the eraser side to pull out the mechanism that pushed the lead forward. Next you attached rubber bands to that same mechanism and to the front and leave the mechanism in. Its hard to desribe and its been awhile okay? It would get good range and you didn't have to blow into it.
Cull the bottom 75% of the IQ curve? I thought you just said you wanted to live forever....Man you seem to change your mind fast.
I wonder how hard it would be, I have a fairly small multi-meter on my desk, but its still bigger than most of the new phines out there.
You know, I don't know why I'm "replying" to this AC, but I am. I'm sick of hereing this meme. The people mentioning it usually aren't aware that the health department had repeatedly asked McDonalds to turn down the temp. of the coffee makers. The coffee makers were set extra hot because you need less coffee grounds that way.
What I find so funny about this idea, is the image of all the ways it might report ones death early. "Oops, we didn't catch that bug", or "Oops, wrong command, I just started the wrong program". Better be ready to call up every one you know and inform them that "Hey Mom, I'm not dead, and if you check your email and get a message from two minites ago that I am, well, I'm not..."
what about parisites?
So, how can you say that downloading someone makes them immortal? Perhaps their copy is semi-immortal.
There are still plenty of ways for the copy to die, even if the process is perfect: insanity, lose of power, deletion (murder or accident), hardware/software failure, bitrot.....
Without self, a human life becomes more like a vegtable life.
The article claims one can compare signals in the throat to sounds produced/though, and then relibily translate just the signals without hearing the sounds. If this works then do the rest of my muscles work the same way? Do I send impulses to my arm when I think about moving it even if I don't? Could a system be designed to read that as well? Could this be used as a new imput method?
If setup propery (which I'm betting this version of linux would almost have to be) Linux can use Fat32 and other windows disk formats, so yes you'd be able to share data between Windows and Linux, as long as the file formats were compatible. Just try opening an Office doc. with vi for example (not gonna happen Poncho).
Yeah, just like Proprietary ink.
I know its silly to mention this, but eggs do not come out of a chicken's ass. I like to disturb my regular's at Waffle House by telling them eggs are sort of chicken menstration. They are after all unfertilized eggs (usually).
We need to have all the unhappy customers send in their "robots" to one of the fighting robot shows and they could compete over who can kill the most of these things in under 5 minites.
I am in complete agreement. Something that hasn't been mentioned though, is the amount of methane gas that is vented and burned because it cannot be safely stored and transported. For example the big stacks many oil drilling platforms have, if huge flames wasteing all that methane. Making it easier to store andtransport might mean getting at least some return on that energy,insteadof zero. Just a though
Well, one of the main problems is preserving a method to read the data, not just preserving the data. How are you going to preserve the method of reading the data from the DNA, and interpreting it?