Pen/Pencil and Paper for serious equations will beat any I/O interface anyday. Even tablet recognition pales in comparison, though direct tablet drawing might come a close second. I do this for all the notes I need to take, and as an added benefit, I'm forced to review my notes if I want to enter them onto my computer when I have more time. Plus, you can absorb the lessons better if you're not focused on the details of entering long equations into your computer.
I am nearly done a double degree, B.Sc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy. So many people tell me that "that's an interesting combination" and roll their eyes slightly, but I think that the two are more closely linked than most other fields of study, besides some of the obvious, like Math and CS. Especially when you consider the impacts that advances in AI will bring in the next decade or two, and many other aspects as well.
I haven't done much to combine the actual studies of the two, besides the obvious commonalities of logics in the two, but I'll at least be able to finish my CS degree with the ability to properly write down my ideas and convey them to other people in a clear and concise manner, and that alone is worth the Phil. degree. It's not for everyone, but I think people should look into at least a few Phil courses in any of their studies.
One of my friends made an interesting point when I mentioned that I was concerned about my privacy on Facebook, and the general loss of privacy on the web. It's coming to the point where by removing yourself from the "grid" as it were you end up standing out more and more from your other peers. While the rest of us blend in and willingly share our generic details with the likes of Facebook and Google and become just another number in the crowd, and reaping the benefits of the exchange, those who avoid giving up their info and thus avoiding the benefits of the new Web become become the unique and identifiable individuals.
Of course, with all this in mind you should still be aware that everything you put on the web is eaten up by the data miners and ad machines and sinister agencies and can all be connected to you so be sure to put up only the right kind of information and use it as a chance to craft your online (and more and more the real) self into the image you want to share.
Why on earth would the "brain in the box" need to move around? If it's part of some large system it could have specialized subsystems that did all that data-collection for them. We already have autonomous robots that excel at collecting data. If they all pump this data back to some collective mind then that should easily satisfy any data requirements it has. Why these AI's of the Singularity need to resemble us in any way is beyond me.
Alright, I haven't read all the comments, so I hope I'm not just repeating what someone else says (I doubt it, the quality of posts around here has been weak for a while)
I'm normally all for libertarianism, the government should stay the hell out of how I live my life, until it starts affecting the lives of other. But I think I have to admit that I might side with the "censorship" side of things on this one. Sadly, WAY too many people use TV to babysit, and I really don't see why we need to highlight violence when there's healthier and, well I guess, better things to highlight with the power TV has. Sex and love and doing what you can to help your fellow man aren't intrinsically void of good plots, and they can certainly lead to great ideas and stories that could help guide the impressionable to make our nations really great again. It's a shame that the people who come up with the drivel on TV, with the real power of thought-control they have, waste it on the crap that's fed to us. There are a few smart shows out there, but most of it just helps feed negative messages to the viewers, feeds that consumerist need, and leads to a wasteful life. If suggestions (sadly in the form of legal controls) from the government can help reduce negative images and (hopefully) encourage more positive thoughts in viewers then I'm forced to agree with their doing so. But of course this "censorship" will likely be politically motivated in some way or another and won't serve any purpose but that of the people who want to enact such a law, and it'll just further fuck up an already sick nation. I guess that's the reason I'm against governments sticking their grubby hands in places they shouldn't be.
It looks as though the Italian contact with Litvinenko is safe and isn't suffering any radiation sickness, though he was admitted to the hospital with concerns of massive radiation poisoning. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,19 62535,00.html
"Won't somebody think of the children!?!"
It's of course a noble goal, but as a Canadian I've always taken a little pride in the fairly open and uncensored access to the world we seem to get(of course I don't know if this is the case since I don't know how much more or less the rest of the world gets) and to see any sort of infringement on this irks me. There's also the issue of what counts as child-porn; I understand we've categorized http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoliconLolicon as being under this category. I didn't even know about the existence of Lolicon until last week but they could throw all sorts of silly things under that blanket. And of course they can use this as precedent to blacklist other objectionable subjects to those in power, a very slippery cliff indeed.
Eww. There's something about GPS-enabled contacts having to be fetched by a plumber that makes me think they wouldn't be fit for anything, except maybe as homing devices for all my friends so I knew when they were less than 25 miles away and I'd have a chance to run and hide
And the Canadian Government is also beginning to assert sovereignty in the area, making sure they have rights over the shipping lanes and oil/mineral rights in soon-to-be contentious regions.
And surely a few diamonds will be found among the huge pile of crap that gets submitted. And it'll give kids something better to do than sit on a WoW server every day.
I did an upgrade to Edgy from Dapper and it seemed to go almost flawlessly, except for a slow dl rate that required a few attempts at getting all the packages. When I tried upgrading the video driver (nvidia 7950) so I could use Compiz and Beryl and that was a mess. I still don't have surround and for some reason Eclipse doesn't work. I haven't had time to figure out why and I don't need it at the moment but I'm still wondering why it's broken.
I don't think there's enough space in all of California that could be covered in the solar panels needed to power their data centers. Maybe if they bought New Mexico and turned it into one big panel array though.
Almost all the content on YouTube that I view is created and uploaded by users, not copyrighted material. I'm sure Google will maintain the same level of copyright protection on YouTube that they do on their other projects. There is plenty of media that can be shared via YouTube that doesn't infringe on any copyrights.
Start pestering the makers of these programs to start working on porting them. The more people start making a racket about being tied to one OS and demanding that their money be given a choice, the more software companies will listen up and start working on giving us all freedom of software
I wish I had some mod points to give you! It's too bad that those who agree with what you say are the ones who don't need convincing, and the ones that need convincing won't listen to the facts and will instead denouce us all as paranoid lunatics who run around with tin-foil hats screaming about the downfall of our society.
I remember my PC getting stoned from a game being passed around, what an annoyance that was (relatively speaking). From that point on I swore never to let my computers near drugs again.
I thought the Plywood flight myth was concerning a man who claimed to have been blown off the roof of a building under construction (several stories high) while holding onto a sheet of plywood. As the myth goes he managed to use the plywood as a sort of parachute and floated down to the ground unharmed. The Mythbusters apprentices did the actual leg-work in breaking the myth and found that the force against the wood was too much to handle and the board continually fell out of their hands. (they set-up some rig where one of the guys held onto the board, with an anemometer and such to test various forces) They failed to take into account the sheer determination a man falling to his potential death would have in holding onto his life-saving device.
Troll? How are half of these troll? They repsond directly to the article in question. Is it because they aren't pro-American? In noticed others that are equally pointless but pro-American are +2, +3, not -1 troll. The mods need to check their politics at the door.
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Pen/Pencil and Paper for serious equations will beat any I/O interface anyday. Even tablet recognition pales in comparison, though direct tablet drawing might come a close second. I do this for all the notes I need to take, and as an added benefit, I'm forced to review my notes if I want to enter them onto my computer when I have more time. Plus, you can absorb the lessons better if you're not focused on the details of entering long equations into your computer.
Was it carried by those terrorists we let in to fly planes into those buildings? ;)
I am nearly done a double degree, B.Sc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy. So many people tell me that "that's an interesting combination" and roll their eyes slightly, but I think that the two are more closely linked than most other fields of study, besides some of the obvious, like Math and CS. Especially when you consider the impacts that advances in AI will bring in the next decade or two, and many other aspects as well. I haven't done much to combine the actual studies of the two, besides the obvious commonalities of logics in the two, but I'll at least be able to finish my CS degree with the ability to properly write down my ideas and convey them to other people in a clear and concise manner, and that alone is worth the Phil. degree. It's not for everyone, but I think people should look into at least a few Phil courses in any of their studies.
One of my friends made an interesting point when I mentioned that I was concerned about my privacy on Facebook, and the general loss of privacy on the web. It's coming to the point where by removing yourself from the "grid" as it were you end up standing out more and more from your other peers. While the rest of us blend in and willingly share our generic details with the likes of Facebook and Google and become just another number in the crowd, and reaping the benefits of the exchange, those who avoid giving up their info and thus avoiding the benefits of the new Web become become the unique and identifiable individuals. Of course, with all this in mind you should still be aware that everything you put on the web is eaten up by the data miners and ad machines and sinister agencies and can all be connected to you so be sure to put up only the right kind of information and use it as a chance to craft your online (and more and more the real) self into the image you want to share.
Why on earth would the "brain in the box" need to move around? If it's part of some large system it could have specialized subsystems that did all that data-collection for them. We already have autonomous robots that excel at collecting data. If they all pump this data back to some collective mind then that should easily satisfy any data requirements it has. Why these AI's of the Singularity need to resemble us in any way is beyond me.
Alright, I haven't read all the comments, so I hope I'm not just repeating what someone else says (I doubt it, the quality of posts around here has been weak for a while) I'm normally all for libertarianism, the government should stay the hell out of how I live my life, until it starts affecting the lives of other. But I think I have to admit that I might side with the "censorship" side of things on this one. Sadly, WAY too many people use TV to babysit, and I really don't see why we need to highlight violence when there's healthier and, well I guess, better things to highlight with the power TV has. Sex and love and doing what you can to help your fellow man aren't intrinsically void of good plots, and they can certainly lead to great ideas and stories that could help guide the impressionable to make our nations really great again. It's a shame that the people who come up with the drivel on TV, with the real power of thought-control they have, waste it on the crap that's fed to us. There are a few smart shows out there, but most of it just helps feed negative messages to the viewers, feeds that consumerist need, and leads to a wasteful life. If suggestions (sadly in the form of legal controls) from the government can help reduce negative images and (hopefully) encourage more positive thoughts in viewers then I'm forced to agree with their doing so. But of course this "censorship" will likely be politically motivated in some way or another and won't serve any purpose but that of the people who want to enact such a law, and it'll just further fuck up an already sick nation. I guess that's the reason I'm against governments sticking their grubby hands in places they shouldn't be.
I wish I had modpoints to give you, great reference
It looks as though the Italian contact with Litvinenko is safe and isn't suffering any radiation sickness, though he was admitted to the hospital with concerns of massive radiation poisoning. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,19 62535,00.html
"Won't somebody think of the children!?!" It's of course a noble goal, but as a Canadian I've always taken a little pride in the fairly open and uncensored access to the world we seem to get(of course I don't know if this is the case since I don't know how much more or less the rest of the world gets) and to see any sort of infringement on this irks me. There's also the issue of what counts as child-porn; I understand we've categorized http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoliconLolicon as being under this category. I didn't even know about the existence of Lolicon until last week but they could throw all sorts of silly things under that blanket. And of course they can use this as precedent to blacklist other objectionable subjects to those in power, a very slippery cliff indeed.
really? What shape are the corners on the message title of your message? (at least on the new discussion system) They sure aren't squared-off.
Eww. There's something about GPS-enabled contacts having to be fetched by a plumber that makes me think they wouldn't be fit for anything, except maybe as homing devices for all my friends so I knew when they were less than 25 miles away and I'd have a chance to run and hide
Mod parent down, funny my ass. It's obviously flamebait
And the Canadian Government is also beginning to assert sovereignty in the area, making sure they have rights over the shipping lanes and oil/mineral rights in soon-to-be contentious regions.
And surely a few diamonds will be found among the huge pile of crap that gets submitted. And it'll give kids something better to do than sit on a WoW server every day.
I did an upgrade to Edgy from Dapper and it seemed to go almost flawlessly, except for a slow dl rate that required a few attempts at getting all the packages. When I tried upgrading the video driver (nvidia 7950) so I could use Compiz and Beryl and that was a mess. I still don't have surround and for some reason Eclipse doesn't work. I haven't had time to figure out why and I don't need it at the moment but I'm still wondering why it's broken.
I don't think there's enough space in all of California that could be covered in the solar panels needed to power their data centers. Maybe if they bought New Mexico and turned it into one big panel array though.
Almost all the content on YouTube that I view is created and uploaded by users, not copyrighted material. I'm sure Google will maintain the same level of copyright protection on YouTube that they do on their other projects. There is plenty of media that can be shared via YouTube that doesn't infringe on any copyrights.
Start pestering the makers of these programs to start working on porting them. The more people start making a racket about being tied to one OS and demanding that their money be given a choice, the more software companies will listen up and start working on giving us all freedom of software
I wish I had some mod points to give you! It's too bad that those who agree with what you say are the ones who don't need convincing, and the ones that need convincing won't listen to the facts and will instead denouce us all as paranoid lunatics who run around with tin-foil hats screaming about the downfall of our society.
I blame Google and their apaprent policy to keep production-quality software in Beta stage
I remember my PC getting stoned from a game being passed around, what an annoyance that was (relatively speaking). From that point on I swore never to let my computers near drugs again.
I thought the Plywood flight myth was concerning a man who claimed to have been blown off the roof of a building under construction (several stories high) while holding onto a sheet of plywood. As the myth goes he managed to use the plywood as a sort of parachute and floated down to the ground unharmed. The Mythbusters apprentices did the actual leg-work in breaking the myth and found that the force against the wood was too much to handle and the board continually fell out of their hands. (they set-up some rig where one of the guys held onto the board, with an anemometer and such to test various forces) They failed to take into account the sheer determination a man falling to his potential death would have in holding onto his life-saving device.
Troll? How are half of these troll? They repsond directly to the article in question. Is it because they aren't pro-American? In noticed others that are equally pointless but pro-American are +2, +3, not -1 troll. The mods need to check their politics at the door.