No, that's what *you* think because you're spoon fed that information.
But if doom and gloom will result from raising tax on gasoline, how come it isn't a problem in Europe.
Classic case of faulty reasoning. It is possible to have BETTER conditions than what you currently have, just imagine sometime and open your eyes to the world beyond your doorstep.
E.g. increase the gas prices through taxation so people will stop buying ridicious cars.
I agree, raise the gas prices. It also has other good side effects, like increasing the cost of manufacturing basic plastics, raising transportation costs of food, increasing prices across the board on basic necessities and foods, rising inflation, and hurting one certain class of people the most...the poor.
It's this kind of attitude that separates the innovators from us normal people. The easy viewpoint is to isolate the one reason you use service A over service B, and then complain that A is changing their interface. The innovator has the viewpoint that you chose their service A because it was different from B, and hence, another competitor C can come along and make yet another simple change to make the drones move over to C.
Facebook is innovating, they realize they can't stand still. And yes, the large crowd will complain and ask, "why are you changing?" When Facebook released the News Feeds, it seemed like everyone screamed, but sure enough, they've proved successful and have only increased traffic.
Facebook will be replaced by the next guy, and everyone will point out why Facebook sucks, and for that reason, they have to stay ahead of the curve.
the reality is that Google's employees are unable to deliver beyond the patented PageRank search algorithm
I'd say Google Maps was a deliverable they punched through. It revolutionalized (ok maybe not such a strong word) online maps, kicking mapquest and yahoo in the butt. But you're right, google maps was a while ago...
While I'm sure those are all excellent references, the parent's title already referenced the necessary resource, to which I add the much needed:
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Sites that are adopting the notion of education through collaboration are becoming pretty popular. I've seen several pop up the past couple of months, but one of the first ones has always been We the Teachers. Many of the sites out there seem to be pushing resources and a wiki-approach, but this one has always been focused on building community around resources. You can't have education without community, otherwise people have little motivation to participate.
Sounds like a troll angry at his own mistakes. Transporting alcohol across state borders is a common felony everywhere. Feel free to try New York to Pennsylvania...let me know how it goes. -t
I think you just confirmed the parent's point. If you have to resort to decimals in celsius, then you are agreeing that you need a finer measurement. So to the parent...farenheit is indeed easier to use.
You don't even need wikipedia to realize the Union of Concerned Scientists isn't actually a union of scientists. They say so on their own page. "UCS members are people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students." They declare 200,000 members, and invite everyone to join, whether you have anything to do with science or not.
It's pretty obvious they have their own agenda just by browsing their pages, and no, the agenda does not start from science.
Note that their BIG STORY is that ExxonMobil spent $16 million over the course of 7 years. Let's see...that's about $2.3 million each year. It's a tiny drop in the bucket...
It will not be very long (a decade? two decades?) before face, body, gait, license plate, voice, speech, handwriting, textual habits, (and so on) recognition software will be powerful enough to recognize people in real-time, from a variety of real-time inputs.
I think your decade or two is far too short a time prediction. These technologies will take much longer than you anticipate before they are usable in the manner you describe. You even mention the Semantic Web as a means of putting together these complicated tasks....what's funny about this is that the semantic web is pointless if we have Natural Language Understanding. In many respects, language understanding is just as difficult (more difficult, most likely) as these other intelligent tasks. Predictions about technology due tend to be in the 10-20 year range, but recent history shows that we need far more time. Marvin Minsky advised the creation of "2001: A Space Oddysey" back in 1968. We are now 33 years since then, 5 years after 2001, and the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence isn't even 10% of what HAL represented.
That's why I love reading evolution "research" papers. They explain and explain, and then something happens to show it doesn't work, so they come up with a completely different explanation, etc. etc. I mean, come on, how hand wavy can you get and still call it valid science?
And no, I'm not anti-evolution (and no, not creationist, I'm just open to criticizing my own thoughts). I just enjoy how overly-serious people treat evolution theories, based on basically no evidence. Now we found a mouse! Ok, new theory! Bow to me!
Then take your pick of other news coverage. Don't be biased because you don't like a bias.
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Anyone read Sinclair's The Jungle? This parent post reads just like the last 80 pages of that book, a true communist manifesto. Of course, The Jungle was written in 1906 just before the Communists killed tens of millions of people over the next several decades. After that, those chapters seem to lose their edge, don't they? I guess it's been long enough now for people to start rehashing the same rhetoric, thinking they're brilliant.
I have two accounts for each. My first web-based email account was Yahoo!, so I've been with them for a very long time.
Just curious...have you moved/tried Yahoo's new ajax email interface? It's top notch and is more "friendly" to the average user because it looks and feels like a standalone product (such as Outlook). More users are and will find that interface way better than gmail's. Gmail tried to redefine the interface to e-mail rather than give users what they want. Only months and months of complaints later did they add the "delete" button, oooooh, new feature!! Yahoo! email will always have an advantage in that the commone web user is used to that kind of drag and drop folder-based organization.
You can't compare Wikipedia to Cyc. If you do, then you are just misunderstanding what Cyc is and what it is not. Cyc is a database of logical relations representing common sense knowledge. It contains something like 20 different meanings of the word "lie" and such things as this. It is not concerned with knowledge of popular culture, but rather the underlying semantic rules that we use to talk about things such as pop culture.
Maybe they should just face the truth and rename the 'alert level' system to 'scare-the-shit-out-of-the-public-to-push-our-poli tical-agenda-o-meter'
I'd think arresting 21+ people and finding explosives would be enough. I'm just curious what it takes to make people like you raise security threats. Do people have to die before you raise the alert? It's called a threat alert, not a disaster alert. Tornados in the US are rated *after* the destruction happens, based on the amount of destruction. I'd personally prefer an alternative like the current system that raises the alerts before any of that happens. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
Maybe because Google owns 5% of AOL and all Google does is run search requests. Do you really not see the connection, or are you just defending Google?
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I thought the US didn't care about the poor ?
No, that's what *you* think because you're spoon fed that information.
But if doom and gloom will result from raising tax on gasoline, how come it isn't a problem in Europe.
Classic case of faulty reasoning. It is possible to have BETTER conditions than what you currently have, just imagine sometime and open your eyes to the world beyond your doorstep.
there was damage done by leaving out such things as Bombadil, and if you don't understand that, then you are not a true fan.
I love how everyone who posts about LoTR feels the need to mention Bombadil. Everyone striving to be unique yet using the same platitudes...
E.g. increase the gas prices through taxation so people will stop buying ridicious cars.
I agree, raise the gas prices. It also has other good side effects, like increasing the cost of manufacturing basic plastics, raising transportation costs of food, increasing prices across the board on basic necessities and foods, rising inflation, and hurting one certain class of people the most...the poor.
It's this kind of attitude that separates the innovators from us normal people. The easy viewpoint is to isolate the one reason you use service A over service B, and then complain that A is changing their interface. The innovator has the viewpoint that you chose their service A because it was different from B, and hence, another competitor C can come along and make yet another simple change to make the drones move over to C.
Facebook is innovating, they realize they can't stand still. And yes, the large crowd will complain and ask, "why are you changing?" When Facebook released the News Feeds, it seemed like everyone screamed, but sure enough, they've proved successful and have only increased traffic.
Facebook will be replaced by the next guy, and everyone will point out why Facebook sucks, and for that reason, they have to stay ahead of the curve.
the reality is that Google's employees are unable to deliver beyond the patented PageRank search algorithm
I'd say Google Maps was a deliverable they punched through. It revolutionalized (ok maybe not such a strong word) online maps, kicking mapquest and yahoo in the butt. But you're right, google maps was a while ago...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Sites that are adopting the notion of education through collaboration are becoming pretty popular. I've seen several pop up the past couple of months, but one of the first ones has always been We the Teachers. Many of the sites out there seem to be pushing resources and a wiki-approach, but this one has always been focused on building community around resources. You can't have education without community, otherwise people have little motivation to participate.
From the article: "The Doomsday Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability."
I'm just curious...says who?
You don't even need wikipedia to realize the Union of Concerned Scientists isn't actually a union of scientists. They say so on their own page. "UCS members are people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students." They declare 200,000 members, and invite everyone to join, whether you have anything to do with science or not.
It's pretty obvious they have their own agenda just by browsing their pages, and no, the agenda does not start from science.
Note that their BIG STORY is that ExxonMobil spent $16 million over the course of 7 years. Let's see...that's about $2.3 million each year. It's a tiny drop in the bucket...
It will not be very long (a decade? two decades?) before face, body, gait, license plate, voice, speech, handwriting, textual habits, (and so on) recognition software will be powerful enough to recognize people in real-time, from a variety of real-time inputs.
I think your decade or two is far too short a time prediction. These technologies will take much longer than you anticipate before they are usable in the manner you describe. You even mention the Semantic Web as a means of putting together these complicated tasks....what's funny about this is that the semantic web is pointless if we have Natural Language Understanding. In many respects, language understanding is just as difficult (more difficult, most likely) as these other intelligent tasks. Predictions about technology due tend to be in the 10-20 year range, but recent history shows that we need far more time. Marvin Minsky advised the creation of "2001: A Space Oddysey" back in 1968. We are now 33 years since then, 5 years after 2001, and the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence isn't even 10% of what HAL represented.
"So now we need to explain..."
That's why I love reading evolution "research" papers. They explain and explain, and then something happens to show it doesn't work, so they come up with a completely different explanation, etc. etc. I mean, come on, how hand wavy can you get and still call it valid science?
And no, I'm not anti-evolution (and no, not creationist, I'm just open to criticizing my own thoughts). I just enjoy how overly-serious people treat evolution theories, based on basically no evidence. Now we found a mouse! Ok, new theory! Bow to me!
I have two accounts for each. My first web-based email account was Yahoo!, so I've been with them for a very long time.
Just curious...have you moved/tried Yahoo's new ajax email interface? It's top notch and is more "friendly" to the average user because it looks and feels like a standalone product (such as Outlook). More users are and will find that interface way better than gmail's. Gmail tried to redefine the interface to e-mail rather than give users what they want. Only months and months of complaints later did they add the "delete" button, oooooh, new feature!! Yahoo! email will always have an advantage in that the commone web user is used to that kind of drag and drop folder-based organization.
You can't compare Wikipedia to Cyc. If you do, then you are just misunderstanding what Cyc is and what it is not. Cyc is a database of logical relations representing common sense knowledge. It contains something like 20 different meanings of the word "lie" and such things as this. It is not concerned with knowledge of popular culture, but rather the underlying semantic rules that we use to talk about things such as pop culture.
Completely different.
Maybe they should just face the truth and rename the 'alert level' system to 'scare-the-shit-out-of-the-public-to-push-our-poli tical-agenda-o-meter'
I'd think arresting 21+ people and finding explosives would be enough. I'm just curious what it takes to make people like you raise security threats. Do people have to die before you raise the alert? It's called a threat alert, not a disaster alert. Tornados in the US are rated *after* the destruction happens, based on the amount of destruction. I'd personally prefer an alternative like the current system that raises the alerts before any of that happens. Or maybe I'm just crazy.