No, particle/theoritical physicists will discover two more fundamental forces.
I was hinting that First* Contact will happen by ~ 2032 (give or take a few years.) Frankly, I just want this be over with so we can move onto bigger questions -- What is your preception of Mathematics? Physics? Biology? Theology? If FTL isn't going to give the physicists head-aches for years, then when they understand the "edge" of the Universe, that will.;-)
Save this post so we can come back to it and laugh over how it absolutely ridiciously insane and silly it must seem now, but won't then, and we can talk "How the Hell did you know this back then...?":-)
Anyways, its going to get real interesting "soonish", and we can stop this nonsense of trying to guess the answer to the one of the biggest questions of all time "Are we alone?" because it will be a fact.
"May you live in interesting times!" Indeed.
* Technically, it's not "First", but whether it is 1st, 1,000 or 1,000,000 doesn't really matter. IMHO, the BIGGER questions is "WTF do they look like us?"
-- So if an Alien lands on earth, gets off their ship, but looks human, is it still considered alien?
As a game programmer, designer, and the UI work I've done, I've found the exact same thing. Right-Click. Nope. Tooltips. Also can't do those on a touchscreen. Vertical/Horizontal scroll bars? Functionally the user can "scroll" by dragging _anywhere_. The more I use iPhone apps, the more I am impressed with the set of controls, and the SDK Apple has provided. Just the screen lack of screen real estate forces you to consciously priority WHAT and HOW MUCH info you show to the user.
The Nintendo DS can use the IMP* metaphor because you have a touch pen. Finger touch-screen needs to use IM** metaphor.
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and public order... what have the Government done for us?
> The same way it's possible to force him to pay for roads he doesn't use, police he doesn't need, or libraries he doesn't want. It's like people never heard of taxes before.
Obviously you are not a lawyer, because, with all due respect, you don't know what you are talking about.
I once got a lawyer to begudgringly admit, ALL law is based on Contract Law. There is NO LAW that forces a person to pay for those things -- if you are then you have _contracted_ to. e.g. If you are paying property tax, it is because you do NOT own the land -- you might want to look up what the words "Allodial Title" means.
To toggle between insert and over-strike mode like any editor worth a dam has. I hate having to remember some stupid custom key combination when it has been a standard dedicated key, say for the past ~ 20 years (give or take a few years)
That's about the only thing that pisses me off on a Mac keyboard.. you can take the insert key from my cold dead fingers.
It's weird how Apple gets somethings right (the Apple//e had dedicated open-apple, closed-apple keys), yet it took Microsoft until 1995 to have a dedicated Windows key, had arrow keys, numeric keypad, yet Apple never had an Insert key (as far as I can tell...)
> what's the significance of video card news as of late again?
1920 x 1080 max details, 4x MSAA, 16xAA, in the latest games: Battlefield Bad Co 2, CoD, etc.
Now before you accuse me of being a 3d graphics whore, I was playing glQuake at 512x384 res to guarantee a min 60 Hz framerate, so I've payed my dues of low rez.:-)
IMHO the Radeon HD 5770 at ~ $125, is one of the nicest bang/buck. Especially in Crossfire mode.
> Rediscovering something can be really cool on a one off basis, but there isn't time to do that for the entire body of knowledge nor should we try.
I don't think anyone is arguing to try to teach the WHOLE domain of one field that way. We're talking about the _basics_. What is taught for today's Math is a total joke - kids aren't taught to think, just to mindless follow some "arcane formula". e.g. "Two weeks of content are stretched to semester length by masturbatory definitional runarounds." EVERYONE should read these two papers.
> quantum entanglement. It doesn't allow for instantaneous communication, even in the laboratory It certainly allows for information to be transmitted faster then 'c'. See what Einstein called "Spooky Action at a Distance."
> causality would be violated Your confusion is assuming Fate and Free Will are mutually exclusive. Also,
a) You are assuming that Causality is some sort of "Law", and b) You and/or the author doesn't seem to be aware of, or understand the concept of time lines, Furthermore, Time is not absolute, it is relative. FTL doesn't break causality.
> do you propose that the brains have become entangled? Consciousness is not limited to the speed of light. While the brain has hard physical limits, the mind has an significantly higher limit. Time is simply one dimension of the mind; the mind is able to operate outside these limits and thus it is possible to know things before they have happened, aka intuition, similar to the same way our hearts receive signals before they happened. (See http://www.heartmath.org/research/research-library/research-library.html ) You may want to research why Einstein said: "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
True, but you could always drink or smoke yourself to death...:/ Seems to me it is only the timeframe that people don't like -- quick and painless, or the long, slow, painful in agony.
Not sure what gives the the living to dictate the rights over my body and / or control how I wish to die...
Well, what’s going on in the laboratory - and I have some fantastic graduate students and we work together as a team - and what we have found for example, is that if you place two different brains, two different people at a distance, you put a circular magnetic field around both. There’s a magnetic field going around like a coil, around both brains even at a distance. You make sure both coils are connected to the same computer which means they’re generating the same configuration of two different spaces.
If you flash a light in one person’s eye, even though they’re in a chamber that’s closed up, the person in the other room that’s receiving just the magnetic field now, they’re not aware of the light flashing or not, they will show similar changes in frequency in the room. And we think that’s tremendous because that maybe the first macro demonstration of a quantum connection or so-called quantum entanglement. And if that’s true then there’s another way of potential communication that may have physical application and application, for example, in space travel because there’s no time involved with it. That’s one thing we’re looking at. That’s one of our more exotic hypotheses.
> Because robots can't have a soul. You need a spirit to have that kind of consciousness. Sorry, but that is an invalid conclusion based on incorrect assumptions.
Not to sound like a dick, but your understanding of consciousness is woefully incomplete / archaic. There are 7 layers of conciousness: Mineral, Plants, Animal occupy the bottom 3, with humans occupying the interesting position in the middle. (There seems little point to disucss the upper 3 when you are still struggling to understand the bottom 3.)
True Artificial Intelligence will eventually be created with bio-computing -- when computure are made from existing organic matter. In the mean-time the joke called Artificial Ignorance is nothing close to intelligent -- it doesn't create new information or make new choices from existing information.
> Immortality through perpetuated consciousness. Consciousness is _already_ immortal, since it exists outside the physical space-time reality. The AI and atheists guys are clueless are about the difference between brain and mind. An crude *analogy* is that the brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.
Your physical body is ONLY a container for your consciousness.
If you want to _begin_ to understand how consciousness works, study OBEs and Lucid Dreaming. Specifically Robert Monroe's pioneering work.
> Do you suddenly develop a psychic link with your other self, experiencing both existences at once, living in two different places?... ridiculous. It is only ridiculous to you, because again, you are viewing and interpretting how "you think" consciousness works through the narrow filter of the human (physical) kind only, not through the soul or spirit level. At the highest level, we are all connected, there is only One. At the bottom level where we are all seperate, it is hard to imagine how one could even conceive of this connection. http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
> Why are you conscious? Actually, this is the first truely thought-provoking question you've mentioned.
That is almost as "difficult" as asking "Why does the Universe even exist at all?" It only "appears" difficult when one has a limited perspective.
The short answer is "Because God wanted to explore & experience itself." Now that begs the questions "Who/What" is God ? To which Buddha answered this question:
"What could you know about God? What do you know about yourself? Do you know anything about yourself? No? So how could you know anything about God? Leave God aside, for the time being, and find out who you are."
-- Inner Space, not Outer Space is the FINAL frontier.
> Lack of horrifically long unskippable cut scenes
FTFY.
The second (or nth) time playing a game, I DON'T want to see your (shitty) cutscenes. This is one thing Sniper: Ghost Warrior got right on PC, ESC lets you *gasp* skip the mission / level cutscenes !
Yes, I understand that game devs don't want to spend the time making sure their game works when the cutscenes are skipped, but seriously, that's what GOOD game design, implementation, and testing are for.
Slashdot Mirror
Beautiful summary !
"The Corporation" is a wonderful documentary that analyzes the behavior of corporations and comes to the conclusion that they are psychopaths.
* Video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87
* Transcript avail. at http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=314
You mean like "Quality Assurance" ;-)
No, particle/theoritical physicists will discover two more fundamental forces.
I was hinting that First* Contact will happen by ~ 2032 (give or take a few years.) Frankly, I just want this be over with so we can move onto bigger questions -- What is your preception of Mathematics? Physics? Biology? Theology? If FTL isn't going to give the physicists head-aches for years, then when they understand the "edge" of the Universe, that will. ;-)
Save this post so we can come back to it and laugh over how it absolutely ridiciously insane and silly it must seem now, but won't then, and we can talk "How the Hell did you know this back then...?" :-)
Anyways, its going to get real interesting "soonish", and we can stop this nonsense of trying to guess the answer to the one of the biggest questions of all time "Are we alone?" because it will be a fact.
"May you live in interesting times!" Indeed.
* Technically, it's not "First", but whether it is 1st, 1,000 or 1,000,000 doesn't really matter. IMHO, the BIGGER questions is "WTF do they look like us?"
--
So if an Alien lands on earth, gets off their ship, but looks human, is it still considered alien?
Someone mod parent up about WIMP !
As a game programmer, designer, and the UI work I've done, I've found the exact same thing. Right-Click. Nope. Tooltips. Also can't do those on a touchscreen. Vertical/Horizontal scroll bars? Functionally the user can "scroll" by dragging _anywhere_. The more I use iPhone apps, the more I am impressed with the set of controls, and the SDK Apple has provided. Just the screen lack of screen real estate forces you to consciously priority WHAT and HOW MUCH info you show to the user.
The Nintendo DS can use the IMP* metaphor because you have a touch pen. Finger touch-screen needs to use IM** metaphor.
WIMP = window, icon, menu, pointing device
*IMP = icon, menu, pointing device
**IM = icon, menu
Mod parent up as funny, sad but true ...?
You, along with Stephen Hawking, will want to re-visit those thoughts in the next 20 years ...
> When was the last time our government, did something to help people? I can't think of anything, really.
Oblg. http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/whattheromans.html
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and public order... what have the Government done for us?
> The same way it's possible to force him to pay for roads he doesn't use, police he doesn't need, or libraries he doesn't want. It's like people never heard of taxes before.
Obviously you are not a lawyer, because, with all due respect, you don't know what you are talking about.
I once got a lawyer to begudgringly admit, ALL law is based on Contract Law. There is NO LAW that forces a person to pay for those things -- if you are then you have _contracted_ to.
e.g. If you are paying property tax, it is because you do NOT own the land -- you might want to look up what the words "Allodial Title" means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
> What does anyone need the Insert key for?
Program much??
To toggle between insert and over-strike mode like any editor worth a dam has. I hate having to remember some stupid custom key combination when it has been a standard dedicated key, say for the past ~ 20 years (give or take a few years)
Have to agree.
That's about the only thing that pisses me off on a Mac keyboard .. you can take the insert key from my cold dead fingers.
It's weird how Apple gets somethings right (the Apple //e had dedicated open-apple, closed-apple keys), yet it took Microsoft until 1995 to have a dedicated Windows key, had arrow keys, numeric keypad, yet Apple never had an Insert key (as far as I can tell...)
> what's the significance of video card news as of late again?
1920 x 1080 max details, 4x MSAA, 16xAA, in the latest games: Battlefield Bad Co 2, CoD, etc.
Now before you accuse me of being a 3d graphics whore, I was playing glQuake at 512x384 res to guarantee a min 60 Hz framerate, so I've payed my dues of low rez. :-)
IMHO the Radeon HD 5770 at ~ $125, is one of the nicest bang/buck. Especially in Crossfire mode.
> It's almost taken as a given that the world would have less creativity without copyright but I do wonder.
Uhm, you want to tell that to the Fasion Industry ?
http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/25/lessons_from_fa/
2. Sell the bombs
FTFY ;-)
> Rediscovering something can be really cool on a one off basis, but there isn't time to do that for the entire body of knowledge nor should we try.
I don't think anyone is arguing to try to teach the WHOLE domain of one field that way. We're talking about the _basics_. What is taught for today's Math is a total joke - kids aren't taught to think, just to mindless follow some "arcane formula". e.g. "Two weeks of content are stretched to semester length by masturbatory definitional runarounds." EVERYONE should read these two papers.
* A Mathematician's Lament
http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
* The Underground History of American Education
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
> quantum entanglement. It doesn't allow for instantaneous communication, even in the laboratory
It certainly allows for information to be transmitted faster then 'c'. See what Einstein called "Spooky Action at a Distance."
> causality would be violated
Your confusion is assuming Fate and Free Will are mutually exclusive. Also,
a) You are assuming that Causality is some sort of "Law", and
b) You and/or the author doesn't seem to be aware of, or understand the concept of time lines,
Furthermore, Time is not absolute, it is relative. FTL doesn't break causality.
> do you propose that the brains have become entangled?
Consciousness is not limited to the speed of light. While the brain has hard physical limits, the mind has an significantly higher limit. Time is simply one dimension of the mind; the mind is able to operate outside these limits and thus it is possible to know things before they have happened, aka intuition, similar to the same way our hearts receive signals before they happened. (See http://www.heartmath.org/research/research-library/research-library.html ) You may want to research why Einstein said: "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
> i don't put on *magnetic field* god helmets
FTFY. RTFA. There is nothing magical about it.
Posting to UNDO the moderation.
Sorry, accidently moderated this as redundant, instead of informative ... Please mod parent up as informative. Thanks.
> where suicide and assisted suicide are illegal,
True, but you could always drink or smoke yourself to death ... :/ Seems to me it is only the timeframe that people don't like -- quick and painless, or the long, slow, painful in agony.
Not sure what gives the the living to dictate the rights over my body and / or control how I wish to die ...
And your credentials compared to "Neuroscience Researcher and Laurentian University professor, Dr. Michael Persinger" are what again?
Don't shoot the messenger.
Sorry for the bad netiquette, forgot a link of non-locality of mind ...
> Do you suddenly develop a psychic link with your other self, experiencing both existences at once, living in two different places? ... ridiculous.
http://www.skeptiko.com/michael-persinger-discovers-telepathic-link/
Well, what’s going on in the laboratory - and I have some fantastic
graduate students and we work together as a team - and what we have
found for example, is that if you place two different brains, two
different people at a distance, you put a circular magnetic field
around both. There’s a magnetic field going around like a coil, around
both brains even at a distance. You make sure both coils are connected
to the same computer which means they’re generating the same
configuration of two different spaces.
If you flash a light in one person’s eye, even though they’re in a
chamber that’s closed up, the person in the other room that’s
receiving just the magnetic field now, they’re not aware of the light
flashing or not, they will show similar changes in frequency in the
room. And we think that’s tremendous because that maybe the first
macro demonstration of a quantum connection or so-called quantum
entanglement. And if that’s true then there’s another way of potential
communication that may have physical application and application, for
example, in space travel because there’s no time involved with it.
That’s one thing we’re looking at. That’s one of our more exotic
hypotheses.
> OBE's ... it is caused by your visual system being turn on without any reference of were you are in the scene
Even when the [physical] body is in pitch black ?
> Because robots can't have a soul. You need a spirit to have that kind of consciousness.
Sorry, but that is an invalid conclusion based on incorrect assumptions.
Not to sound like a dick, but your understanding of consciousness is woefully incomplete / archaic. There are 7 layers of conciousness: Mineral, Plants, Animal occupy the bottom 3, with humans occupying the interesting position in the middle. (There seems little point to disucss the upper 3 when you are still struggling to understand the bottom 3.)
True Artificial Intelligence will eventually be created with bio-computing -- when computure are made from existing organic matter. In the mean-time the joke called Artificial Ignorance is nothing close to intelligent -- it doesn't create new information or make new choices from existing information.
> Immortality through perpetuated consciousness.
Consciousness is _already_ immortal, since it exists outside the physical space-time reality. The AI and atheists guys are clueless are about the difference between brain and mind. An crude *analogy* is that the brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.
> I experience consciousness due to a series of electrochemical reactions in my brain. End of story.
LOL. uhm, no. Go study people who have been _dead_ for 30 mins to over an hour. There was NO EEG waveform.
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/braindeath.html
http://www.skeptiko.com/eeg-expert-on-near-death-experience/
Your physical body is ONLY a container for your consciousness.
If you want to _begin_ to understand how consciousness works, study OBEs and Lucid Dreaming. Specifically Robert Monroe's pioneering work.
> Do you suddenly develop a psychic link with your other self, experiencing both existences at once, living in two different places? ... ridiculous.
It is only ridiculous to you, because again, you are viewing and interpretting how "you think" consciousness works through the narrow filter of the human (physical) kind only, not through the soul or spirit level. At the highest level, we are all connected, there is only One. At the bottom level where we are all seperate, it is hard to imagine how one could even conceive of this connection.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
> Why are you conscious?
Actually, this is the first truely thought-provoking question you've mentioned.
That is almost as "difficult" as asking "Why does the Universe even exist at all?" It only "appears" difficult when one has a limited perspective.
The short answer is "Because God wanted to explore & experience itself." Now that begs the questions "Who/What" is God ? To which Buddha answered this question:
"What could you know about God? What do you know about yourself? Do you know anything about yourself? No? So how could you know anything about God? Leave God aside, for the time being, and find out who you are."
--
Inner Space, not Outer Space is the FINAL frontier.
> Lack of horrifically long unskippable cut scenes
FTFY.
The second (or nth) time playing a game, I DON'T want to see your (shitty) cutscenes. This is one thing Sniper: Ghost Warrior got right on PC, ESC lets you *gasp* skip the mission / level cutscenes !
Yes, I understand that game devs don't want to spend the time making sure their game works when the cutscenes are skipped, but seriously, that's what GOOD game design, implementation, and testing are for.
Also see ...
Bubbles of Energy Are Found [in our] Galaxy [Center]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/science/space/10galaxy.html?scp=5&sq=galaxy&st=cse
Looks like Science/Scienctists might discover White Holes as early as next year if this keeps up. :-)
Stay classy /.