One thing that came to mind after the submit button is that your ears and nose keep growing throughout your life. This is why old men, who have ears and noses larger than women's in the first place, have such large ears and noses. So if we live to be 1000, people will look like elephants!
Is it really possible to maintain our cellular superstructre indefinately? It seems likely that we will have the technology to destroy problem cells (i.e. cancer) and force the growth of new cells through stem cells, but what I think we're missing is the tissue structure that makes our bodies function. If you look at, say, the nervous system, or the circulatory system, it's a complex system of tissues, interwoven into the reset of the body. Can cells be made to grow properly to replace, say, a length of worn out artery? If not, rejuvination will require a lot of complex surgery.
It's eaiser to build from scratch than to renovate.
I thought '$x. Profit' was the command form of the verb 'to profit' (I guess sence all previous steps, except '???' are commands) -- but you seem to suggest that it is the the noun. Interesting.
You bring up an interesting point. Technically, you could call modern dishwashers or automatic carwashers robots. But it seems that people think 'robot' = 'mechanical living thing', where the criteria for 'living thing' is based on morphology -- it should look like a humanoid, or a 4 legged animal, or an insect... I guess plant-shaped robots don't count, unless they could grow somehow. Perhaps another criterion is automotive -- not like a car, but something that truly moves on its own. This might necessitate sensors and AI, to fit most people's idea of a robot.
It's shows a lot about human psychology to ask what is a proper robot. The mechanical slaves we have today (washers, cars, microwaves) really aren't credited for the incredible amounts of drudgery they save us from.
Given a 40 hour work-week, 1 month is 160 hours, and 6 months is 960 hours. This sounds ridiculous! I'm in the third year of my CRT monitor, and I don't have the money to replace it anytime soon, esp. not if I have to buy a new OLED every six months!
"Everything I've looked at so far seems too complicated (Scheme, Python, VB) or too childish (Logo, Squeak, Lego Mindstorms).
Maybe you should look at these with her. You might think they are too complicated or childish, but she may not. In fact, she might surprise you with what she likes.
Pistols to shoot the other in case he goes insane - OK, is it insane to luahc, or to refuse to launch? Man, i think the best case scenario is that they both shoot each other dead, so there's no launch. At that point we're fucked anyway, so why waste Russia?
"He [Solomon] made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it"
"Vogons aren't funny because they are grotesque green aliens, they are funny because they are the local council town planning department in space."
Yeah, we don't have anything like that over here on the other side of the pond. Ha! Who said Americans can do subtle humor?! heh heh.
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I've seen several projects where people use their PDA/GPS to map their daily route. Maybe it's time someone organized a collective mapping project, for release cunder the creative commons license.
Remember that a story is something you tell after the fact. It has a punchline, like a joke. Something that hits you. Good stories are planned out, and their telling is practiced.
For good, unplanned stories to happen, I think that will only happen in MMORPGS with either great AI (unlikely), or a lot of freedom for avatars. And then, again, *a story will be a re-telling of events that have already happened* .
Hey, did you see what happened in $_MMORPG yesterday? I finally got my castle fortifications set up, and that jerk Ermond did a surprise attacks, but he didn't know that I had a pet dragon, so I let his forces in, and they all died a fiery death! That'll teach him.
The thing is that currently, a computer doesn't have enough AI to be a narrator. Right now only a human being can wedge events into a narrative stream and tell it to someone.
These people should do some reading on narrative theory.
A story is a meaning applied to events after they have occured. A game is a game, like sports or a board game. You can only make a story out of it after events have been completed.
A story has a status quo, an event that disrupts that status quo, and a hero who overcomes a challenge to create a new status quo. You can only joing narrative events to actual events after they have all taken place. If you have a wandering storyline, what's to say that this particular event is the shift to the 2nd or 3rd act? It's only after you have everything that you can make a complete story. And that's not to say that there's only one story. Any event might serve as any of the narrative events, depending on the story you're telling.
All we are looking for at this point is free software. We really don't care what kind of sucky deals IBM makes with Fortune 500 companies -- as long as we can jump of the windows bandwagon and onto free software, we're good.
IBM can't put the GPL genie back in the bottle. Sure, after eveyone's on Linux, they might roll out their own unix that runs DB2 better, but they're only aiming for the corporate users. At that point we have already broken free of MS in the home.
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Well, I wouldn't call it music radio. All I hear on it is talk.
They're calling it "the cubicle".
Windows 2003 on a $500 Dell has a lower TCO than IBM Linux on a z100...
For some reason, I thought that Rasmussen did the film with a buddy. RTFA. Nevermind the 'one man' comment.
But I'm more impressed b/c this is the work of one man!
Bayes rules are not specific to spam filtering. They are more general data processing techniques. So they are not implicitly accepting any prior art.
One thing that came to mind after the submit button is that your ears and nose keep growing throughout your life. This is why old men, who have ears and noses larger than women's in the first place, have such large ears and noses. So if we live to be 1000, people will look like elephants!
It's eaiser to build from scratch than to renovate.
So is there is not FPS for the eyes, how exactly do they work?
I thought '$x. Profit' was the command form of the verb 'to profit' (I guess sence all previous steps, except '???' are commands) -- but you seem to suggest that it is the the noun. Interesting.
It's shows a lot about human psychology to ask what is a proper robot. The mechanical slaves we have today (washers, cars, microwaves) really aren't credited for the incredible amounts of drudgery they save us from.
Yeah, that's a good point. They would probably make a base unit that has replaceable screens.
Given a 40 hour work-week, 1 month is 160 hours, and 6 months is 960 hours. This sounds ridiculous! I'm in the third year of my CRT monitor, and I don't have the money to replace it anytime soon, esp. not if I have to buy a new OLED every six months!
Maybe you should look at these with her. You might think they are too complicated or childish, but she may not. In fact, she might surprise you with what she likes.
Pistols to shoot the other in case he goes insane - OK, is it insane to luahc, or to refuse to launch? Man, i think the best case scenario is that they both shoot each other dead, so there's no launch. At that point we're fucked anyway, so why waste Russia?
Including the Kremlin.
It says "circular", not "perfect circle".
Yeah, we don't have anything like that over here on the other side of the pond. Ha! Who said Americans can do subtle humor?! heh heh.
I've seen several projects where people use their PDA/GPS to map their daily route. Maybe it's time someone organized a collective mapping project, for release cunder the creative commons license.
For good, unplanned stories to happen, I think that will only happen in MMORPGS with either great AI (unlikely), or a lot of freedom for avatars. And then, again, *a story will be a re-telling of events that have already happened* . Hey, did you see what happened in $_MMORPG yesterday? I finally got my castle fortifications set up, and that jerk Ermond did a surprise attacks, but he didn't know that I had a pet dragon, so I let his forces in, and they all died a fiery death! That'll teach him.
The thing is that currently, a computer doesn't have enough AI to be a narrator. Right now only a human being can wedge events into a narrative stream and tell it to someone.
A story is a meaning applied to events after they have occured. A game is a game, like sports or a board game. You can only make a story out of it after events have been completed. A story has a status quo, an event that disrupts that status quo, and a hero who overcomes a challenge to create a new status quo. You can only joing narrative events to actual events after they have all taken place. If you have a wandering storyline, what's to say that this particular event is the shift to the 2nd or 3rd act? It's only after you have everything that you can make a complete story. And that's not to say that there's only one story. Any event might serve as any of the narrative events, depending on the story you're telling.
IBM can't put the GPL genie back in the bottle. Sure, after eveyone's on Linux, they might roll out their own unix that runs DB2 better, but they're only aiming for the corporate users. At that point we have already broken free of MS in the home.
Besides the whole throwing them in a coffin and then burying it.
If you're put to death for refusing to wear it, how could there be anyone disallowed from commerce for not having it?
What will Slashdot talk about once SCO goes under?! Ba-dum Ching!