Don't put the cart before the horse, its much harder that way.
Parent is correct. Besides, by the time we can go to mars-- robotics and computers will surpass whatever benefits of having people in space. Including research in regard to human travel; so it can be done when it doesn't cost so much.
Its no surprise nerds would have trouble restraining themselves from excessive tech.
Obviously, you have a trust system like the others where you have to trust somebody.
Technology will get to the point where you can't detect the altered photo, sound, or video.
A digital photo of a crime can be submitted into court TODAY and never get expert review and eventually even the experts will get fooled.
Devices should sign their data, users can optionally remove it (because somebody will figure that out if its not easy.) Editors should be able to sign it as well, so if you trust the editor, you can trust the image.
Our brains are adept at pattern recognition (one could go even further than that.)
We know nothing, the more we learn the more patterns we have to apply against the unknown. (and the more likely you are to try to fit stuff into what you know, IMHO.)
When we see a cause-affect pattern we tend to apply it, sometimes its correct and sometimes it is not (ex: gravity, global warming, lucky charms.)
Therefore, it makes sense than humans are wired to come up with "explanations" which have zero tangible or logical backing, with the degree of ignorance increasing the possibility for error.
Superstition comes out of the most 'reasonable' people when they are gambling, about to die, etc. It doesn't really ever go away.
To clarify, religions explain the unknown using known patterns/concepts and from there create a foundation of patterns/concepts upon which even more is built. It is similar to how science or math builds upward, and it can become every bit as complex a field of study (in fact, more so because of heavy use of unproven and untestable theories.)
The air and water are public resources. Privatization of them is not a good thing, if you can't accept that stop reading and please shoot yourself now.
Sewers must use common pipes for many reasons, water as well. This requires a "neutral" area of land for interconnections. Nearly all roads are a public resource (well, the land is.) Typically, the pipes run on the land the roads also do. Depending on the wisdom & corruption of your local government determines how well it is managed.
Using the SAME LOGIC we regulate radio waves. Its a public resource and its quite limited. The FCC is doing a poor job managing OUR air waves. Cell phone companies are wasting good bandwidth with this so called "wonderful" competition. It would be better to force them to share a wide band, which would necessitate some sort of industry standard. Its not necessary to mandate specifics, but if competent at it, I see no reason why not to do so as well.
Its under this direction of management that it begins to make sense to have local governments setup more; depending on how much accessibility you want.
Given how bad cell phones and ISPs are today, I can't see how a somewhat corrupt government can't beat them.
Would deities and gods described from anew today have as many human character flaws and titillating stories to go with them?
The Soap Operahs will always fill a certain need (Jerry Springer re-runs for the rest of us) and before those existed that need was filled by books, gossip and the mythology that builds up around every religion over time.
Would the story be as "humanized" if told today? Or would it be sensationalized in more modern terms?
Contributing CO2 to is like golfing during a lightning storm or tightrope walking during an earthquake. It may or may not make things worse but its a STUPID thing to do.
Sadly, by the time enough proof is available millions will be DEAD. How about we let Japan or the EU launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory but no-- Bush does not want the USA to contribute anything.
Lets stop the fags from getting married so we can decrease asthma, acid rain, smog, severe weather, mad cow, etc. because god is causing those to punish us for tolerating our neighbors.
We are only talking 36Mbps a second tops for HD/blueray top data rates. A cheap re-encryption chip within 10 years that can do that is quite possible.
The LAST LINK ultimately has to be open to the end user to receive the data.
This message will self-destruct after reading and take out your browser cache, ram, swap, isp proxy, and everybody at your terminal... so you can't pirate it.
Outside of obvious military motives, there is no worthwhile reason to go back to the moon in this way. think about it.
2020: robotics will be much further along. Probes and robots are better and cheaper than humans and the case only gets stronger with time.
BioSphere: a failed project in habitation. More work along these lines would be a better use of money. The low gravity issues can largely be tested remotely if need be. Building a spinning space module for the space station for testing moon gravity would be cheaper.
Resources: power or material transport is an issue. robots have been encroaching on manufacturing for some time... Long term changes in mass are an issue; it may sound nuts but mankind is short sighted and willfully underestimates its' impact. One thing could be the slight change could alter a Meteor's path altering the odds of impact.
How about we look into how to cheapen space transport? (elevator?) How about we look into energy transport for space based solar power? How about we look at some clever Meteor defense plans or space JUNK?
Carter recently stated (I believe it was on CSPAN) that he supports nuclear power and that it can be handled in as safe way. (Not as much the case back when he was president and we still had a large nuclear bogyman. Don't forget the total lack of security when it came to nuclear missile defense, which Carter fixed. He couldn't counter an actor playing president let alone calm the publics' fears; remember when 3-mile-island occurred.)
Common sense isn't common. (so it doesn't really exist)
Hate speech is speech and it should be protected. As soon as you give an inch you open the flood gates to further exceptions to the rule on similar grounds. WHO decides just exactly what one can say? Obviously, there must be some reasonable interpretation--we all hope... but often it doesn't work.
When I hear "think of the children" or "think of the terrorists" I get many times more skeptical. Reactionary laws that exploit the times (like some horrible recent event) to pass laws which attack liberty either on purpose or simply lack depth because the real purpose is to apease the mob.
There are PLENTY of laws one could apply if he went too far. But hate speech and protests are not enough. We already have "free speech zones," how bad does it have to get??
When you allow people to lay blame on hate speech, video games, movies, etc. You are undermining the concept of free will and showing a lack in belief in its existance. DNA excuses will further undermine our whole system within my lifetime.
The media will kiss the ass of anybody who payed for as much ADVERTISING as Microsloth. Microsoft was treated so nice that when the EMAIL macro virus problem hit-- nobody reported it only existed on OUTLOOK.
Now Apple spends more than they ever did on traditional advertising. I hardly watch TV and I see plenty of ipod and mac ads.
Now the media is somewhere in the middle of two large customers. Back when windows XP came out, that was not the case.
If SLASHDOT or MOZILLA payed for a chunk of ads, we'd hear about how much better Firefox is, evil Windows Vista DRM, how Vista can never be secure, ODF, and how MS bribes politicians.
1) password strength is important (and used only 1 thing) 2) If they can HEAR you type it, they can guess it 3) They can install a keyloggers of many kinds 4) ENCRYPT YOUR SWAP FILE-- don't assume that memory is locked 5) Encrypted swap implementation has to properly handle the keys 6) You must be in control of the information, 3rd parties can give into probable cause 7) Using a rare filesystem has gotten people off in some cases 8) Beware of wireless keyboards 9) Some forms of security without government back doors may become a crime in the future. (I watched CSPAN in the late 90s it came up more than you think.) 10) Obstruction charges for not unlocking it for them will become common. 11) Flash RAM can't be securely wiped from what I've read 12) RAM leaves traces. The longer data stays the more "burned" in the traces are for that data. 13) Nobody is thinking about planting "evidence." Fine encrypt your drive, I can plant jpegs on a different mount point, browser cache, the company servers. 14) Nobody things about identity security when they are reasonably anonymous. User cje posted a bunch of "evidence" online from the library trying to hide his tracks... 15) IT guy can use access to do just about anything. Its probably been done but nobody caught them so it didn't make the news.
When you put voting in machines you take it from the voters. period.
The USA military doesn't code our hi-tech weapons with Al Qaeda does it? (even back when we were allies) For voting, both "sides" of the political conflict can not be totally excluded nor can you be sure that they are.
BILLIONS of dollars are at stake and LIVES are at stake. This is proper motivation to exploit any system. No man-made and man-operated system can be completely foolproof (unless we find a way to remove the fool from the man.)
A magic black box takes your vote and counts it-- that should sound STUPID to anybody who isn't mystified by computers and knows they don't just magically work.
No perfect solution, but in fitting with the dead ideals that the USA once inspired the world with, the error should be on the side of liberty not on the side of state-imposed monopoly holders.
1) By using the term Intellectual Property(IP) you already change the language of any argument towards 1 side. Property does not imply any temporary rights, its a permanent thing. Don't forget the power of terminology, the people who promote such terms don't.
2) A great deal of man's progress was possible and still continues without great monetary incentive; which is the purpose behind protection of creative works, on the premise it will encourage more progress than occurs without it I shouldn't have to expand on this, other than to say that anything truly new comes from creativity (I'd argue even the accidental ones.)
3) The creative works encouragement lost its focus long ago and now it is a protectionist racket. Most incursions on other liberties are incidental because the primary concern is protecting the racket.
I wouldn't say PPC was a mistake at all. I would say there were many other mistakes far more to blame than the chip.
Every mac place had to go with them, the old "solid" reason being they did not want to switch away from mac. Many were "sane" and went along for the smooth ride.
Microsoft has a monopoly, in the 90s they were not at any risk. If MS switched and was able to pull it off, most the world would have gone with them like it or not. Now, they face the threat from linux and such a move would only quicken their product's death.
No "sane" business would switch to windows XP or Vista without a "sane" reason-- that being that they have no choice even if it crashes more and requires upgrades to support it; just so they can run office software and simple business applications... "Sane" would be investing in linux.
Actually, having done some consulting, I think a "sane" business is RARE in regard to IT planning. Many places could be running linux and suffer about as much as windows upgrades caused (like the win3.1 to 95) but they will have less trouble in the long term. I hope they remain stupid because it will put more kids thru college...
The best feature of Javascript is the ability to alter objects!
Just like your DESKTOP, if you include libraries that are not safe, they have total control over your memory space...
Seriously, we need a REAL TWO WAY TCP protocol accessible to javascript which sends and receives TEXT with any other server. Then add a parse to xml feature to create an XML dom object. Its STUPID to always pass xml/soap all the time; furthermore, its STUPID to have a one-way street. It encourages polling which can generate massive server load.
We have been using this frame-hack method and further hacked into XMLHttpRequest for far too long! I prefer the old javascript hack with JSON.
We are still working from hacks when we should have a DESIGNED solution!
I think we NEED the ability to override the access/assign of properties with functions! Imagine finally being able to add an object like.style to MSIE which when used just forwards to MSIE's embedded style object! You could code to standard and just include a javascript "patch" which makes bad browsers work properly! We re-invent and re-use the same dom hacks when they should just be an include that fixes browser dom bugs.
Mozilla already has features along this line already. (but Firefox works, so they are not needed much.)
Keep your eyes open for when domfu.org gets online. I hear their goal is javascript browser patches.
U coward, you don't even have an intel mac. I'm posting on the macbook pro, where I hardly notice the difference even when I open up Photoshop 7. You have to push certain software hard to have it become a speed issue. (windows xp on here sometimes feels more 'emulated'.)
Back when I bought photoshop 7, it ran on the best mac at the time and then I used it professionally-- my macbook pro emulates it about that speed from my experience. Its NOT horrid performance, and only a few special cases is it bad enough for concern (Vector Works is like back to 1998.)
Its not like previous speeds are the end of the world, people DID make livings on computers back then. You know, even in 1980s (when you were born?) computers helped productivity so much they became wide spread.
Oh, now there is better emulation, >1 cpus, more idle cpu time, more ram/disk for caching, and the biggest language is JAVA which is NOT cpu specific!! Even scripting languages are in many video game engines now.
Its not just the ISA getting less important due to abstraction.
As much fun as religious flame wars were back during this debate; it is a total was of space and time. Especially now when desktops are stuck on 1 chip design.
As far as we know now, the increased integration 10 years from now may end up splitting up design; where fab plants make chips which contain multiple products possibly from different vendors on the same die. We could have smarter designed chips with microcode translators...wait x86 has that already. Well, we could have an AMD cpu, ATI GPU, intel 100gig ethernet, intel memory controller, and an IBM programmable gate array... who knows.
I for one would gladly welcome more system on the chip over more cores I won't use most the time.
The die overhead is not tiny. Tiny is a relative term. That space could go towards better stuff, its not like they have die space to waste.
If we want a microcode chip so bad, how about making a better instruction set? The new 64 one they fixed enough that I'm not as upset. I would however like to see more Altivec like vectors.. How about using some space to provide a hardware accelerated stack? How about a better MMU so we can FINALLY run driver code outside the kernel? How about on-die GPUs?
A good emulator setup makes a transition possible. Apple has does it TWO TIMEs both working probably better than windows running natively. Microsoft just can't handle it and that keeps us STUCK on x86.
Perhaps when linux takes over we can have some diversity?? Perhaps when China takes over we will see their chip designs bring some diversity?
Ask a human if it wants rights. If it doesn't, well, that's it.
A human only wants what it's conditioned to want, if it's conditioned to want some rights cover it'll want those but if it's conditioned to e.g. not mind being kicked it won't demand not to be kicked.
If there needs to be an ethical rule for humans and rights it should be not to condition humans to demand something they can't get. Don't make them want to have rights, make them so they're "happy" in their position.
We don't kick a dog because we know pain and that they feel similar pain themselves.
Biological creatures are cheap, heal themselves, are quite flexible, and run for long periods without needing replacement parts. Robots only have an edge in part replacement, they are behind in many other areas; besides, when they catch up on just 1 other area, biological part replacement will have progressed greatly...
Nothing can be done about the pain caused the dog for that period of time; unless severe, it will heal or adapt. Robots can not do that.
If you can not identify with the dog's suffering, you will not mind kicking it.
The real questions behind this are MUCH deeper. Simulating a dog is easier and will come first. When does the simulation become real? Since it IS a simulation we started...
Primates get little consideration now and they have plenty of "proof" which is dismissed by many on the same grounds I expect AI to be when it surpasses the primates.
Will we end up defining life as a mathematical approximation? (referring to the neuron network ability to approximate mathematical descriptions that are themselves already incomprehensible in their complexity.)
At which point, free will vs random fractals becomes a serious issue which in turn messes with all aspects of our fundamental beliefs.
Only my apple ][ out lived my dogs.
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I would not assume an Alien would think or act like we do (better for us.) They are alien to us after all.
To get here, they would be far past our physics. We can't get anywhere with our speed limits and 3 dimensions (and confined in the 4th.)
So, if you went to 2D world (with time you detail bastards) what would they observe as you freely moved around? Many of us would probably not do what we do in SIM games...
Possibly a few UFOs were alien, but we have tons of non alien ones to distract us.
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Don't put the cart before the horse, its much harder that way.
Parent is correct. Besides, by the time we can go to mars-- robotics and computers will surpass whatever benefits of having people in space. Including research in regard to human travel; so it can be done when it doesn't cost so much.
Its no surprise nerds would have trouble restraining themselves from excessive tech.
Obviously, you have a trust system like the others where you have to trust somebody.
Technology will get to the point where you can't detect the altered photo, sound, or video.
A digital photo of a crime can be submitted into court TODAY and never get expert review and eventually even the experts will get fooled.
Devices should sign their data, users can optionally remove it (because somebody will figure that out if its not easy.) Editors should be able to sign it as well, so if you trust the editor, you can trust the image.
Who says history doesn't repeat itself??
Name the asteroid Katrina.
Our brains are adept at pattern recognition (one could go even further than that.)
We know nothing, the more we learn the more patterns we have to apply against the unknown. (and the more likely you are to try to fit stuff into what you know, IMHO.)
When we see a cause-affect pattern we tend to apply it, sometimes its correct and sometimes it is not (ex: gravity, global warming, lucky charms.)
Therefore, it makes sense than humans are wired to come up with "explanations" which have zero tangible or logical backing, with the degree of ignorance increasing the possibility for error.
Superstition comes out of the most 'reasonable' people when they are gambling, about to die, etc. It doesn't really ever go away.
To clarify, religions explain the unknown using known patterns/concepts and from there create a foundation of patterns/concepts upon which even more is built. It is similar to how science or math builds upward, and it can become every bit as complex a field of study (in fact, more so because of heavy use of unproven and untestable theories.)
The air and water are public resources. Privatization of them is not a good thing, if you can't accept that stop reading and please shoot yourself now.
Sewers must use common pipes for many reasons, water as well. This requires a "neutral" area of land for interconnections. Nearly all roads are a public resource (well, the land is.) Typically, the pipes run on the land the roads also do. Depending on the wisdom & corruption of your local government determines how well it is managed.
Using the SAME LOGIC we regulate radio waves. Its a public resource and its quite limited. The FCC is doing a poor job managing OUR air waves. Cell phone companies are wasting good bandwidth with this so called "wonderful" competition. It would be better to force them to share a wide band, which would necessitate some sort of industry standard. Its not necessary to mandate specifics, but if competent at it, I see no reason why not to do so as well.
Its under this direction of management that it begins to make sense to have local governments setup more; depending on how much accessibility you want.
Given how bad cell phones and ISPs are today, I can't see how a somewhat corrupt government can't beat them.
Would deities and gods described from anew today have as many human character flaws and titillating stories to go with them?
The Soap Operahs will always fill a certain need (Jerry Springer re-runs for the rest of us) and before those existed that need was filled by books, gossip and the mythology that builds up around every religion over time.
Would the story be as "humanized" if told today? Or would it be sensationalized in more modern terms?
Sadly, by the time enough proof is available millions will be DEAD. How about we let Japan or the EU launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory but no-- Bush does not want the USA to contribute anything.
Lets stop the fags from getting married so we can decrease asthma, acid rain, smog, severe weather, mad cow, etc. because god is causing those to punish us for tolerating our neighbors.
We are only talking 36Mbps a second tops for HD/blueray top data rates.
A cheap re-encryption chip within 10 years that can do that is quite possible.
The LAST LINK ultimately has to be open to the end user to receive the data.
This message will self-destruct after reading and take out your browser cache, ram, swap, isp proxy, and everybody at your terminal... so you can't pirate it.
Outside of obvious military motives, there is no worthwhile reason to go back to the moon in this way. think about it.
2020: robotics will be much further along. Probes and robots are better and cheaper than humans and the case only gets stronger with time.
BioSphere: a failed project in habitation. More work along these lines would be a better use of money. The low gravity issues can largely be tested remotely if need be. Building a spinning space module for the space station for testing moon gravity would be cheaper.
Resources: power or material transport is an issue. robots have been encroaching on manufacturing for some time... Long term changes in mass are an issue; it may sound nuts but mankind is short sighted and willfully underestimates its' impact. One thing could be the slight change could alter a Meteor's path altering the odds of impact.
How about we look into how to cheapen space transport? (elevator?) How about we look into energy transport for space based solar power? How about we look at some clever Meteor defense plans or space JUNK?
B.
Carter recently stated (I believe it was on CSPAN) that he supports nuclear power and that it can be handled in as safe way. (Not as much the case back when he was president and we still had a large nuclear bogyman. Don't forget the total lack of security when it came to nuclear missile defense, which Carter fixed. He couldn't counter an actor playing president let alone calm the publics' fears; remember when 3-mile-island occurred.)
Common sense isn't common. (so it doesn't really exist)
Hate speech is speech and it should be protected. As soon as you give an inch you open the flood gates to further exceptions to the rule on similar grounds. WHO decides just exactly what one can say? Obviously, there must be some reasonable interpretation--we all hope... but often it doesn't work.
When I hear "think of the children" or "think of the terrorists" I get many times more skeptical. Reactionary laws that exploit the times (like some horrible recent event) to pass laws which attack liberty either on purpose or simply lack depth because the real purpose is to apease the mob.
There are PLENTY of laws one could apply if he went too far. But hate speech and protests are not enough. We already have "free speech zones," how bad does it have to get??
When you allow people to lay blame on hate speech, video games, movies, etc. You are undermining the concept of free will and showing a lack in belief in its existance. DNA excuses will further undermine our whole system within my lifetime.
The media will kiss the ass of anybody who payed for as much ADVERTISING as Microsloth. Microsoft was treated so nice that when the EMAIL macro virus problem hit-- nobody reported it only existed on OUTLOOK.
Now Apple spends more than they ever did on traditional advertising. I hardly watch TV and I see plenty of ipod and mac ads.
Now the media is somewhere in the middle of two large customers. Back when windows XP came out, that was not the case.
If SLASHDOT or MOZILLA payed for a chunk of ads, we'd hear about how much better Firefox is, evil Windows Vista DRM, how Vista can never be secure, ODF, and how MS bribes politicians.
1) password strength is important (and used only 1 thing)
2) If they can HEAR you type it, they can guess it
3) They can install a keyloggers of many kinds
4) ENCRYPT YOUR SWAP FILE-- don't assume that memory is locked
5) Encrypted swap implementation has to properly handle the keys
6) You must be in control of the information, 3rd parties can give into probable cause
7) Using a rare filesystem has gotten people off in some cases
8) Beware of wireless keyboards
9) Some forms of security without government back doors may become a crime in the future. (I watched CSPAN in the late 90s it came up more than you think.)
10) Obstruction charges for not unlocking it for them will become common.
11) Flash RAM can't be securely wiped from what I've read
12) RAM leaves traces. The longer data stays the more "burned" in the traces are for that data.
13) Nobody is thinking about planting "evidence." Fine encrypt your drive, I can plant jpegs on a different mount point, browser cache, the company servers.
14) Nobody things about identity security when they are reasonably anonymous. User cje posted a bunch of "evidence" online from the library trying to hide his tracks...
15) IT guy can use access to do just about anything. Its probably been done but nobody caught them so it didn't make the news.
Feeling any safer?
When you put voting in machines you take it from the voters. period.
The USA military doesn't code our hi-tech weapons with Al Qaeda does it? (even back when we were allies) For voting, both "sides" of the political conflict can not be totally excluded nor can you be sure that they are.
BILLIONS of dollars are at stake and LIVES are at stake. This is proper motivation to exploit any system. No man-made and man-operated system can be completely foolproof (unless we find a way to remove the fool from the man.)
A magic black box takes your vote and counts it-- that should sound STUPID to anybody who isn't mystified by computers and knows they don't just magically work.
No perfect solution, but in fitting with the dead ideals that the USA once inspired the world with, the error should be on the side of liberty not on the side of state-imposed monopoly holders.
1) By using the term Intellectual Property(IP) you already change the language of any argument towards 1 side. Property does not imply any temporary rights, its a permanent thing. Don't forget the power of terminology, the people who promote such terms don't.
2) A great deal of man's progress was possible and still continues without great monetary incentive; which is the purpose behind protection of creative works, on the premise it will encourage more progress than occurs without it I shouldn't have to expand on this, other than to say that anything truly new comes from creativity (I'd argue even the accidental ones.)
3) The creative works encouragement lost its focus long ago and now it is a protectionist racket. Most incursions on other liberties are incidental because the primary concern is protecting the racket.
I wouldn't say PPC was a mistake at all. I would say there were many other mistakes far more to blame than the chip.
Every mac place had to go with them, the old "solid" reason being they did not want to switch away from mac. Many were "sane" and went along for the smooth ride.
Microsoft has a monopoly, in the 90s they were not at any risk. If MS switched and was able to pull it off, most the world would have gone with them like it or not. Now, they face the threat from linux and such a move would only quicken their product's death.
No "sane" business would switch to windows XP or Vista without a "sane" reason-- that being that they have no choice even if it crashes more and requires upgrades to support it; just so they can run office software and simple business applications... "Sane" would be investing in linux.
Actually, having done some consulting, I think a "sane" business is RARE in regard to IT planning. Many places could be running linux and suffer about as much as windows upgrades caused (like the win3.1 to 95) but they will have less trouble in the long term. I hope they remain stupid because it will put more kids thru college...
The best feature of Javascript is the ability to alter objects!
.style to MSIE which when used just forwards to MSIE's embedded style object! You could code to standard and just include a javascript "patch" which makes bad browsers work properly! We re-invent and re-use the same dom hacks when they should just be an include that fixes browser dom bugs.
Just like your DESKTOP, if you include libraries that are not safe, they have total control over your memory space...
Seriously, we need a REAL TWO WAY TCP protocol accessible to javascript which sends and receives TEXT with any other server. Then add a parse to xml feature to create an XML dom object. Its STUPID to always pass xml/soap all the time; furthermore, its STUPID to have a one-way street. It encourages polling which can generate massive server load.
We have been using this frame-hack method and further hacked into XMLHttpRequest for far too long! I prefer the old javascript hack with JSON.
We are still working from hacks when we should have a DESIGNED solution!
I think we NEED the ability to override the access/assign of properties with functions!
Imagine finally being able to add an object like
Mozilla already has features along this line already. (but Firefox works, so they are not needed much.)
Keep your eyes open for when domfu.org gets online. I hear their goal is javascript browser patches.
I don't want to even imagine some future version of an "inflate-a-date" breeding with some /. member.
I would not be surprised if the inventor was on /. or if the first human rejected by a sex machine was a /. member.
U coward, you don't even have an intel mac. I'm posting on the macbook pro, where I hardly notice the difference even when I open up Photoshop 7. You have to push certain software hard to have it become a speed issue. (windows xp on here sometimes feels more 'emulated'.)
Back when I bought photoshop 7, it ran on the best mac at the time and then I used it professionally-- my macbook pro emulates it about that speed from my experience. Its NOT horrid performance, and only a few special cases is it bad enough for concern (Vector Works is like back to 1998.)
Its not like previous speeds are the end of the world, people DID make livings on computers back then. You know, even in 1980s (when you were born?) computers helped productivity so much they became wide spread.
Oh, now there is better emulation, >1 cpus, more idle cpu time, more ram/disk for caching, and the biggest language is JAVA which is NOT cpu specific!!
Even scripting languages are in many video game engines now.
Its not just the ISA getting less important due to abstraction.
As much fun as religious flame wars were back during this debate; it is a total was of space and time. Especially now when desktops are stuck on 1 chip design.
As far as we know now, the increased integration 10 years from now may end up splitting up design; where fab plants make chips which contain multiple products possibly from different vendors on the same die. We could have smarter designed chips with microcode translators...wait x86 has that already. Well, we could have an AMD cpu, ATI GPU, intel 100gig ethernet, intel memory controller, and an IBM programmable gate array... who knows.
I for one would gladly welcome more system on the chip over more cores I won't use most the time.
The die overhead is not tiny. Tiny is a relative term.
That space could go towards better stuff, its not like they have die space to waste.
If we want a microcode chip so bad, how about making a better instruction set? The new 64 one they fixed enough that I'm not as upset. I would however like to see more Altivec like vectors.. How about using some space to provide a hardware accelerated stack? How about a better MMU so we can FINALLY run driver code outside the kernel? How about on-die GPUs?
A good emulator setup makes a transition possible. Apple has does it TWO TIMEs both working probably better than windows running natively. Microsoft just can't handle it and that keeps us STUCK on x86.
Perhaps when linux takes over we can have some diversity??
Perhaps when China takes over we will see their chip designs bring some diversity?
Slightly altered from parent post:
Ask a human if it wants rights. If it doesn't, well, that's it.
A human only wants what it's conditioned to want, if it's conditioned to want some rights cover it'll want those but if it's conditioned to e.g. not mind being kicked it won't demand not to be kicked.
If there needs to be an ethical rule for humans and rights it should be not to condition humans to demand something they can't get. Don't make them want to have rights, make them so they're "happy" in their position.
Problem solved.
False.
We don't kick a dog because we know pain and that they feel similar pain themselves.
Biological creatures are cheap, heal themselves, are quite flexible, and run for long periods without needing replacement parts. Robots only have an edge in part replacement, they are behind in many other areas; besides, when they catch up on just 1 other area, biological part replacement will have progressed greatly...
Nothing can be done about the pain caused the dog for that period of time; unless severe, it will heal or adapt. Robots can not do that.
If you can not identify with the dog's suffering, you will not mind kicking it.
The real questions behind this are MUCH deeper. Simulating a dog is easier and will come first. When does the simulation become real? Since it IS a simulation we started...
Primates get little consideration now and they have plenty of "proof" which is dismissed by many on the same grounds I expect AI to be when it surpasses the primates.
Will we end up defining life as a mathematical approximation? (referring to the neuron network ability to approximate mathematical descriptions that are themselves already incomprehensible in their complexity.)
At which point, free will vs random fractals becomes a serious issue which in turn messes with all aspects of our fundamental beliefs.
Only my apple ][ out lived my dogs.
I would not assume an Alien would think or act like we do (better for us.)
They are alien to us after all.
To get here, they would be far past our physics. We can't get anywhere with our speed limits and 3 dimensions (and confined in the 4th.)
So, if you went to 2D world (with time you detail bastards) what would they observe as you freely moved around? Many of us would probably not do what we do in SIM games...
Possibly a few UFOs were alien, but we have tons of non alien ones to distract us.