Symbols are the whole reason I had trouble with higher mathematics.
Reminds me of something a math teacher mentioned some time ago. Those symbols made math quite a bit easier. Just imagine how a prove would look like in plain text.
Being able to "back up" a mind would definetly be one of those day-the-universe-changed moments. If death could mean more a loss of short-term memory since last backup, rather than loss of known existence, almost every aspect of our culture would be shaken to its core. Any number of results could be imagined.
Intresting, but wouldn't you just be death? I mean you make a copy and when you die, the copy lives on. But that still leaves you quite death and burried.
It would be a way to keep exceptional people around, but I doubt it would be real immortality.
But that would probably result in B. Gates (or any other generic rich person) being around forever.
I'm all for hooking the kittens up to serial ports or whatever to experement.
That's cruel! Can't they use humans for that purpose? I mean kittens are cute, while most humans are quite annoying.
I guess we all have our list of prefered "volunteers" for medical experiments.
"All data public," I think, makes an equally good, perhaps more mature, world.
I think it would make more spam in all of its many forms. You know what happens when you post your email adres on a site. It gets put in a database and flagged with "this person is intrested in lots of penis enlargment pills and cheap drugs".
Now if everybody would have access to all the email adresses. We would receive spam from every spam creature on the planet. Now we wouldn't like that, would we?
I think your free data utopia would be a spam nightmare.
we must for once pay attention to nature and reduce power consuption to a minimum
That's already a major design criterium for many IC-designers. Mostly thanks to the popularity of portable gadgets like MP3 players and the lack of a powerfull portable energy source that's small and light enough.
(While you could power a MP3 player with a 7.5Ah lead accu, it wouldn't be very popular because of it's weight and size)
I've got 2 NiMH rechargeable batteries (AA; 1.2V; 1800mAh), these last for about 1.5h in my MP3-player, a (relatively) cheap MP3-player with CD's. 1.5h isn't much, and these were damn expensive batteries.
It would be usefull for better MRI pictures. The wavelength determines how small the visual details can be. In analogy a shorter wavelength would be like a higher number of Pixels per inch for a digital camera.
Things get worse one small step at a time and people accept that. If you want a revolution to happen, you'll need to make a large group of people feeling very unconfortable (unconfortable as in food shortage or very high crime rates, not just missing TV for a few days or even losing some freedom) and be a leader. People rarely rebel unless they are forced to and have a person acting as a leader and therefor taking responsibility for the whole thing.
Change is necessary. And I hope we can make that happen before we need a full scale revolution for it.
Remember, we (common Joe Sixpacks) are much more numerouse than Them (Evil Corporation Members and Devious Politicians), but we are mostly passive. Get those passive Joes Sixpacks on their feet and yelling "no!" and you wouldn't need a revolution.
Omigosh!! It would be hard to live in denial with one of these things =)
Sheesh, denial is way more powerfull than that.
try this:
Monday: go to my fantastic work ass early as possible. sit in my wonderfull cube. go to my perfect home.
Slashdot Mirror
Why don't you try the candyman approach? Or doesn't MS count as a bogeyman?
It would be a way to keep exceptional people around, but I doubt it would be real immortality.
But that would probably result in B. Gates (or any other generic rich person) being around forever.
I guess we all have our list of prefered "volunteers" for medical experiments.
If the brain up/download software is as stable as many software these days, I think I prefer to remain insane.
Now pass me the happy pills please.
I don't know about your spam, but mine does usualy come with a forged header and without the "This spam presented to you by..."-line
Now if everybody would have access to all the email adresses. We would receive spam from every spam creature on the planet. Now we wouldn't like that, would we?
I think your free data utopia would be a spam nightmare.
(While you could power a MP3 player with a 7.5Ah lead accu, it wouldn't be very popular because of it's weight and size)
I've got 2 NiMH rechargeable batteries (AA; 1.2V; 1800mAh), these last for about 1.5h in my MP3-player, a (relatively) cheap MP3-player with CD's. 1.5h isn't much, and these were damn expensive batteries.
It would be usefull for better MRI pictures. The wavelength determines how small the visual details can be. In analogy a shorter wavelength would be like a higher number of Pixels per inch for a digital camera.
Things get worse one small step at a time and people accept that. If you want a revolution to happen, you'll need to make a large group of people feeling very unconfortable (unconfortable as in food shortage or very high crime rates, not just missing TV for a few days or even losing some freedom) and be a leader. People rarely rebel unless they are forced to and have a person acting as a leader and therefor taking responsibility for the whole thing.
Change is necessary. And I hope we can make that happen before we need a full scale revolution for it.
Remember, we (common Joe Sixpacks) are much more numerouse than Them (Evil Corporation Members and Devious Politicians), but we are mostly passive. Get those passive Joes Sixpacks on their feet and yelling "no!" and you wouldn't need a revolution.
What's really scary is someone modded his post "informative".
try this:
Monday: go to my fantastic work ass early as possible. sit in my wonderfull cube. go to my perfect home.
Me neither. TV these days seems to be an enviromentalists utopie. Nowhere else there is so much recycling of old stuff.
/. for fresh and original stuff. ;-)
Luckily there's always
In Soviet Russia the party controls what you see.
In United States the MPAA controls what you see.
In European Union they'll imitate the USA
So we're all fuck*d!
Twenty-seven!...Twenty-six!...Twenty-five!....
Hey Bomb!
Yes what?... Oh, damn now I lost my count! thirty!... twenty-nine!...
(Stolen from Starship Titanic)
Yes. And I'll keep doing that until mirror industry pays me a 100 million dollar.
Thanks to alcohol, there aint no such thing as an ugly chick.