Diamonds purchased from a jeweler are overpriced because you're getting it from a cartel. I recommend getting a ring from a pawn shop; the price of that diamond will be closer to an actual market value of that gem. The cost will be considerably lower than that from a jeweler, and you are getting the exact same type of rock.
If you want to rely on a numerical rating for a movie review, go ahead, but I think even a non-slashdot reader will understand that it has inherent shortcomings. Furthermore, Ebert's review is only Ebert's opinion. You might find yourself disagreeing with any reviewer.
I think elsewhere in this article's comments, someone mentions that Ebert rates a movie according to its genre, so that a mindless summer action flick that is a *good* mindless summer action flick gets 4 stars, while a crappy drama gets 2 stars.
Siruis programming will be podcasted whether they like it or not. Someone will rip sirius content and post it to filesharing sites, and then it will find its way onto a podcasting network.
Sirius can turn this into a money-making equation if the cost of receiving podcasted content wins out over the delay of waiting for pirated Sirius material on the internet.
I think Sirius can do this. It shouldn't cost too much more than having an iPod and a Sirius subscription at the same time. But, Apple has the upper hand in these negotiations.
This is not justice. Who says that this site or that site is a fraudulent bank? How would you like it if a 'vigilante' defaced your site claiming you were a fraud?
If you don't have a trial with evidence, all you are doing is creating cycles of revenge, with no resolution. With a justice system, wrongs can be righted, and then we are done with the matter.
There is no justice system that is totally perfect, but resorting to vigilantism when justice isn't perfect would make the situation much much worse.
Siruis programming will be podcasted whether they like it or not. Someone will rip sirius content and post it to filesharing sites, and then it will find its way onto a podcasting network.
Sirius can turn this into a money-making equation if the cost of receiving podcasted content wins out over the delay of waiting for pirated Sirius material on the internet.
I think Sirius can do this. It shouldn't cost too much more than having an iPod and a Sirius subscription at the same time. But, Apple has the upper hand in these negotiations.
You're missing the point. How do we know that the ego or consciousness does not die in deep sleep? This is a question that goes far back in Indian philosophy. The Hindu answer is that there is an eternal, base consciousness, and that creates continuity of identity throughout the night. It's called be unseen see-er, by this reasoning: Do you see? Do you see that you see? Or, are you aware that you see? Are you aware that you are aware that you see? This can go on forever. There must be (so the argument goes) an unseen see-er, one that sees without itself being seen.
Buddhists take the opposite tack. Basically the ego dies everynight, and re-creates itself.
Everytime one of these stories come up, I make this same post.
The mind is not a turing machine. Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem shows us that there are some mathematical proofs that people can understand, but no Turing machine (read: any computer) will be able to compute. Therefore, human minds are qualitatively different than a turing machine. Minds are something other than computers. They are two diferent things.
So regardless of downloading your mind onto some computer, you won't really be cheating death, because that machine is not a feature-complete mind (or you will have some kind of severe mental imparement).
Currently, we don't even have a theoretical model of what the mind is.
*Do* people want to use these things? It might be the least worst tool for the job. Remember, most people have computers, and only tolerate them in order to get a paycheck and communicate with loved ones.
I was an exchagne student in Finland when I got out of high school. I was struggling to learn Finnish, which is totally unrelated to any European language. The part of Finland I lived in had a significant number of Swedish speakers, and my exchange student buddies who were learning Swedish were practically fluent already.
Every day on my way to school I passed by an AMT. The sign above of stuck out of the wall. One day I glanced up at it and it made sense -- "Gold mint" -- 'money mint'? I was elated that I was finally picking up the language. That same day I was returning home from school and I looked at the sign. It was as cryptic as ever -- it read "kultarahaa". Then, as I passed under the sign, I realized that there was easy to guess Swedish on one side -- "Guldmynt", and Finnish on the other -- "Kultarahaa".
Do you also look forward to not having the option of "owning" any of the software you have on your machine?"
How much of the software on your computer did you write yourself? Even if you use only open source software, you don't own any of it. You just have a license to use it. The only difference with thin client computing is that the terms of the license is different.
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This is slashdot, you know. There are some science geeks that hang around here. Do you have any numbers to back up this claim?
Start tunnelling. Let's make an underground network!
Can you enlighten me as to the type of ink this is that chips? Does it act more like a paint than a dye? What kind of material can a Torah be made of?
Diamonds purchased from a jeweler are overpriced because you're getting it from a cartel. I recommend getting a ring from a pawn shop; the price of that diamond will be closer to an actual market value of that gem. The cost will be considerably lower than that from a jeweler, and you are getting the exact same type of rock.
I mean, it could be lying about its age. If you disagree, what clock can you consult for arbitration?
Now maybe they can get rid of that pesky angel trying to destroy the planet.
Member since '01.
Jees, There's absolutely *no way* I would've known you were being sarcastic without the sarcams tags!
We only see what we are prepared to understand. Memorization of facts leads to understanding. When you understand more, you can see more.
These days, knowledge is so specialized, you have to cover a lot of background to even start to see the cutting edge.
If you want to rely on a numerical rating for a movie review, go ahead, but I think even a non-slashdot reader will understand that it has inherent shortcomings. Furthermore, Ebert's review is only Ebert's opinion. You might find yourself disagreeing with any reviewer.
I think elsewhere in this article's comments, someone mentions that Ebert rates a movie according to its genre, so that a mindless summer action flick that is a *good* mindless summer action flick gets 4 stars, while a crappy drama gets 2 stars.
How about, "Using numbers to rate movies is subjective. That's part of the difficulty of this job." ?
Sirius can turn this into a money-making equation if the cost of receiving podcasted content wins out over the delay of waiting for pirated Sirius material on the internet.
I think Sirius can do this. It shouldn't cost too much more than having an iPod and a Sirius subscription at the same time. But, Apple has the upper hand in these negotiations.
If you don't have a trial with evidence, all you are doing is creating cycles of revenge, with no resolution. With a justice system, wrongs can be righted, and then we are done with the matter.
There is no justice system that is totally perfect, but resorting to vigilantism when justice isn't perfect would make the situation much much worse.
Sirius can turn this into a money-making equation if the cost of receiving podcasted content wins out over the delay of waiting for pirated Sirius material on the internet.
I think Sirius can do this. It shouldn't cost too much more than having an iPod and a Sirius subscription at the same time. But, Apple has the upper hand in these negotiations.
Yes. Xenon is something we can *all* relate to.
What is it, again?
Shut up, righty.
Buddhists take the opposite tack. Basically the ego dies everynight, and re-creates itself.
The mind is not a turing machine. Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem shows us that there are some mathematical proofs that people can understand, but no Turing machine (read: any computer) will be able to compute. Therefore, human minds are qualitatively different than a turing machine. Minds are something other than computers. They are two diferent things.
So regardless of downloading your mind onto some computer, you won't really be cheating death, because that machine is not a feature-complete mind (or you will have some kind of severe mental imparement).
Currently, we don't even have a theoretical model of what the mind is.
And there's nothing *better* than having a few firebats waiting for them.
*Do* people want to use these things? It might be the least worst tool for the job. Remember, most people have computers, and only tolerate them in order to get a paycheck and communicate with loved ones.
I was an exchagne student in Finland when I got out of high school. I was struggling to learn Finnish, which is totally unrelated to any European language. The part of Finland I lived in had a significant number of Swedish speakers, and my exchange student buddies who were learning Swedish were practically fluent already.
Every day on my way to school I passed by an AMT. The sign above of stuck out of the wall. One day I glanced up at it and it made sense -- "Gold mint" -- 'money mint'? I was elated that I was finally picking up the language. That same day I was returning home from school and I looked at the sign. It was as cryptic as ever -- it read "kultarahaa". Then, as I passed under the sign, I realized that there was easy to guess Swedish on one side -- "Guldmynt", and Finnish on the other -- "Kultarahaa".
I'm proud of my struggle to learn Finnish.
That's nothing. In Finland, one of the most high-tech countries on the planet, they still refer to magazines and newspapers as 'leaves' (lehtiä)!
In the near future, all that a pick pocket has to do is bump into you and he's got your entire wallet.
I dub this "Phishpocketing".
How much of the software on your computer did you write yourself? Even if you use only open source software, you don't own any of it. You just have a license to use it. The only difference with thin client computing is that the terms of the license is different.
At least the Message of the Day wasn't lost!