I commute by public transportation. I used to listen to podcasts but went back to the old style, you know, reading thing. The biggest reason: I can read much faster than listening to a guy talking. If I have a lot of material to catch-up reading is much more effective.
Why did Mother Teresa do the good deeds for the poor? It is obvious her actions did not raise her genetic fitness. Would she have acted the same if there wasn't the benefit for her soul in the after life promised in her religion?
Yes:
"For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether wordly or divine." - Thich Thien-An
Shapiro serves as an adviser to entrepreneur Steven Laken and has a financial interest in Cephos Corp...
Just the fact that Shapiro is financing this should invalidate the whole project. He's a professional manipulator trained on how to beat the system to win criminal cases at all costs. He doesn't care about truth, just how to win a case (and make profit from it). He could get a wife killer out of jail, and now he wants a machine to help him?
Shapiro: "OK OJ, here's what you do when you're inside the fMRI..."
Intelligence is heritable and the intelligent are having fewer children than the dull.
True, but there's a reason for this: intelligent people understand that to raise an intelligent human being takes a lot effort for many years to come. After all it's not only heritage but the combination of how you are raised that makes you who you are. It's hard to put that parental effort if you have a lot of children. "The dull" as you state it, let their children raise themselves (more or less), not much effort required in the raising process, hence it's OK to have many children. Not to mention the welfare benefits (at least in the US) of having many children.
Anyone else noticed the IV injector with some red fluid between the "Oracle 8 DBA Handbook" and "Linux FNS..." books? (Zoom in the JPEG if you're using Firefox)
Not sure what he's into, if that was a red pill, I would say he's into Matrix or something...
I admit it didn't take me 15 mins, but it did take 30 seconds of random clicking and cursing.
I remember the times when people used to read a manual before using a product... oh wait, there was never such time...
I'm not a Mac user, and I'm not defending or attacking their design, but I guess if you spent just 10 minutes going through the manual reading about the basic functionality, you would avoid the random clicking. Would you kick and scream on your car, pressing or pulling anything available while driving?
Suppose you have two pieces of quantum information, one positive and one negative. The negative piece could negate the positive one which would result in 0 total pieces of information instead of 2.
So we're talking a perfect eraser/formatter here? Just send a 120Gigs (or whatever your capacity is) of anti-information to your HD and it's like new.
The next revolution in AI will be when someone figures out how conciousness in the brain works, figure out how to imitate it on a computer, and finally use it to create a truly intelligent AI, not just a bunch of heuristic scripts.
Not necessary. AI doesn't have to internally work same way as human brain. As long as it simulates a task close enough, that's good. A plane doesn't fly the way birds fly, and yet it's good at what it does. If AI would work the way brain works, we could as well drop the "A" from AI, couldn't we?
I thought your post was interesting up to this statement:
Anyone can write a massively parallel program...
We must be from different worlds or something. In my world anyone (OK, let's limit "anyone" to "anyone within the programming community") can write a sequential program, but parallel programming is so much more complex, only a few know how to do it.
American culture (whatever that is:) ) tends to be much more pragmatic and about ability rather than titles.
I agree completely. Basically:
Europe - diploma very important
US - show us what you can
I was thinking about why it is so, and the conclusion I came to is that in Europe burocracy is quite high, and paperwork matters. In US money rules, so if you can bring money to a company you'll be hired. It's what you do that matters, and if you have diploma, are a self learner, or just some talented geek, is your own business - as long as you produce results.
Not that there is anything wrong with the US approach. I'm all for it myself.
The moral is: don't dismiss native stories so easily.
Certainly. There's lot of knowledge in various native stories (applying not only to archeology, but also some of their healing methods, weather prediction, etc.) I remember reading an article several years ago about some meteorologists in Australia working with a few natives to improve their weather predictions. Apparently there was some hidden knowledge allowing the natives to predict certain weather phenomena. Combining this knowledge with current science allowed for more accurate predictions. Same is happening with western medicine where f.ex. acupuncture is being accepted as a valid treatment method.
You're saying that an archeologist couldn't tell the difference between a stunted or juvenine human and an adult 3-foot hominid?
Just out of curiosity: how do they know these are adult skeletons and not children's? Various aging techniques (carbon aging, etc) can tell you how long the skeleton has been in the ground, but how can you determine the actual age when it died? Specially when it is a new species, and there's nothing to compare it to?
Perhaps they didn't so much get onto the island as the land broke away from the main island isolating them.
If we're into various theories, perhaps they coexisted with humans, and some of them used to "jump" on boats when humans traveled. What if some human ships arrived to the island, these "species" jumped off, humans decided the island is not for them, but these "species" stayed? I mean possibilities are endless. If they lived in the same time frame, they could realize that humans are better with traveling, and used that for their advantage. Maybe in return they did some favors (jobs) for the humans, and this cooperation was tolerated.
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I commute by public transportation. I used to listen to podcasts but went back to the old style, you know, reading thing. The biggest reason: I can read much faster than listening to a guy talking. If I have a lot of material to catch-up reading is much more effective.
Yes:
"For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether wordly or divine." - Thich Thien-An
From the article:
Shapiro serves as an adviser to entrepreneur Steven Laken and has a financial interest in Cephos Corp...
Just the fact that Shapiro is financing this should invalidate the whole project. He's a professional manipulator trained on how to beat the system to win criminal cases at all costs. He doesn't care about truth, just how to win a case (and make profit from it). He could get a wife killer out of jail, and now he wants a machine to help him?
Shapiro: "OK OJ, here's what you do when you're inside the fMRI..."
Intelligence is heritable and the intelligent are having fewer children than the dull.
True, but there's a reason for this: intelligent people understand that to raise an intelligent human being takes a lot effort for many years to come. After all it's not only heritage but the combination of how you are raised that makes you who you are. It's hard to put that parental effort if you have a lot of children. "The dull" as you state it, let their children raise themselves (more or less), not much effort required in the raising process, hence it's OK to have many children. Not to mention the welfare benefits (at least in the US) of having many children.
What makes it less real than an organic dog?
Life energy.
Anyone else noticed the IV injector with some red fluid between the "Oracle 8 DBA Handbook" and "Linux FNS..." books? (Zoom in the JPEG if you're using Firefox)
Not sure what he's into, if that was a red pill, I would say he's into Matrix or something...
Teach a man to phish: he eats for a lifetime.
Yes, they feed you well in prison...
The summary doesn't make this clear, but this procedure is intended only for severely disfigured people due to burn scars and such.
Yes, but something tells me rich criminals who need to disappear will be the most popular customers...
I agree, they didn't specify WHICH milk cartoon:
there are probably more, but the few I'm aware of:
- half pints carton - popular in schools
- 24oz - for those afraid of 32oz
- 32oz - for those who think quarter is too much
- quarter - known as liter in Europe
- half gallon - quite popular in US, you need 2 to replace those plastic gallon containers
- and of course there's the full size one
So how are poor readers to know what NASA, err... Canadian Space something - is talking about?I admit it didn't take me 15 mins, but it did take 30 seconds of random clicking and cursing.
I remember the times when people used to read a manual before using a product... oh wait, there was never such time...
I'm not a Mac user, and I'm not defending or attacking their design, but I guess if you spent just 10 minutes going through the manual reading about the basic functionality, you would avoid the random clicking. Would you kick and scream on your car, pressing or pulling anything available while driving?
Are there any curious Slashdot readers with the usual great insight into how to calculate a trip to Mars?
Planning to move out of Mom's basement soon? I mean, come on, can't be THAT bad... Unless you're living with a mother in law or something...
"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."
Could you please explain this? I feel like I understand less now than... ehhh... never mind.
Suppose you have two pieces of quantum information, one positive and one negative. The negative piece could negate the positive one which would result in 0 total pieces of information instead of 2.
So we're talking a perfect eraser/formatter here? Just send a 120Gigs (or whatever your capacity is) of anti-information to your HD and it's like new.
The next revolution in AI will be when someone figures out how conciousness in the brain works, figure out how to imitate it on a computer, and finally use it to create a truly intelligent AI, not just a bunch of heuristic scripts.
Not necessary. AI doesn't have to internally work same way as human brain. As long as it simulates a task close enough, that's good. A plane doesn't fly the way birds fly, and yet it's good at what it does. If AI would work the way brain works, we could as well drop the "A" from AI, couldn't we?
I thought your post was interesting up to this statement:
Anyone can write a massively parallel program...
We must be from different worlds or something. In my world anyone (OK, let's limit "anyone" to "anyone within the programming community") can write a sequential program, but parallel programming is so much more complex, only a few know how to do it.
Unless I misunderstood your post...
Could someone summarize it without using the letter 'e'?
Sure.
That should be "Sur."
She was a conservative ... and now she is a full fleged geek...
Are you implying that a geek must be a leftist liberal in nature, or maybe that a conservative cannot be a geek? I find it a little strange.
Well, I spell it `grammar', too. I misspell it `grammer'. Consistantly, in that post. If you RTFA, you're probably not surprised.
OK, so you misspell "grammar" to prove a point.
Did you misspell "consistently" too, to prove a point about proving a point?
I agree completely. Basically:
- Europe - diploma very important
- US - show us what you can
I was thinking about why it is so, and the conclusion I came to is that in Europe burocracy is quite high, and paperwork matters. In US money rules, so if you can bring money to a company you'll be hired. It's what you do that matters, and if you have diploma, are a self learner, or just some talented geek, is your own business - as long as you produce results.Not that there is anything wrong with the US approach. I'm all for it myself.
You know why fatass managers make ten times that? Anyone can run a fucking meeting and shove donuts in their face.
Wrong. Fatass managers make ten times that because they carry ten times the responsibility.
Re:Direct-to-user-programming? (Score:2, Informative)
...Informative mod, please.
Wow, it really works:
"Ask, and you shall receive".
OK, funny mod, please.
She said wait until you here the child that is just learning to speak...
...you can be sure they aren't just imitating what they here.
:)
Did she also explain why some adults use "here" instead of "hear" even though the first one doesn't make sense?
The moral is: don't dismiss native stories so easily.
Certainly. There's lot of knowledge in various native stories (applying not only to archeology, but also some of their healing methods, weather prediction, etc.) I remember reading an article several years ago about some meteorologists in Australia working with a few natives to improve their weather predictions. Apparently there was some hidden knowledge allowing the natives to predict certain weather phenomena. Combining this knowledge with current science allowed for more accurate predictions. Same is happening with western medicine where f.ex. acupuncture is being accepted as a valid treatment method.
You're saying that an archeologist couldn't tell the difference between a stunted or juvenine human and an adult 3-foot hominid?
Just out of curiosity: how do they know these are adult skeletons and not children's? Various aging techniques (carbon aging, etc) can tell you how long the skeleton has been in the ground, but how can you determine the actual age when it died? Specially when it is a new species, and there's nothing to compare it to?
Perhaps they didn't so much get onto the island as the land broke away from the main island isolating them.
If we're into various theories, perhaps they coexisted with humans, and some of them used to "jump" on boats when humans traveled. What if some human ships arrived to the island, these "species" jumped off, humans decided the island is not for them, but these "species" stayed? I mean possibilities are endless. If they lived in the same time frame, they could realize that humans are better with traveling, and used that for their advantage. Maybe in return they did some favors (jobs) for the humans, and this cooperation was tolerated.