They linked autism to very specific skills: math and science.
The point is that a balance is needed. Slashdotters: find yourself an artsy chick to get down with; one who's pretty smart and asthetically pleasing. Add a little creativity to them logical sperm you've been carrying around.
I'd do it in a closed container - which you'd have to use for distilling anyway. Funny thing is, petroleum will not ignite without oxygen, and the lighter gasses will boil off well before any of the petroleums' flash points. This means the oxy will get evacuated well before you're in danger of burning any of it.
Actually, I was thinking more like artificial ecosystems; If you've been to an aquarium you've seen 'em. They pump high-CO2 air through the bottom of a small, self-contained water-based ecosystem. The sediment is regularly filtered out and can be reused as part-compost, being nicely nitrogen carbon rich. They're probably the most ecologically friendly method of cleaning up the atmosphere. They need the solar power just to keep the motors running.
And the arrangement of neurons in your brain are physical. Meanwhile neither/process/ is physical. It's purely logical (in the sense that a HD partition can be logical, not in the 'if this and that then the other sense').
I think it's a misnomer, actually. RTFA and you'll be able to figure what I've figured:
The idea here is that the water takes on a negative charge, with reduces its surface tension. The wine, or rather, its non-water elements, get a positive charge. When they are recombined, the water molecules cluster around the alcohol and flavorants. The flavorants that are water soluble reintegrate with the water while the alcohol soluble flavorants stay trapped in their alcohol domiain/water shell.
The idea is that this happens naturally, as the wine settles. Alcohol globules converge into small alcohol domains trapped by networks of water molecules. Since alcohol and water have specific gravities that are close enough that gravity has little say in the matter, yes, this is an appropriate conclusion as to how wine mellows. It does not, however, complexify it. That comes from the wooding of the wine; the water and alcohol dissolve the complex compounds found in the caramelized sublayer of charred wood.
So yes, this machine does what it intends: it makes young wines more drinkable, which does, in fact, produce a better vintage (the quality of a vintage is entirely based on how it tastes). It does not, on the other hand 'roll back' the vintage or age the wine.
It also does not automatically make a cheap wine more complex.
That said, I'd like to use the machine. I make my own homebrew, and going more rapidly from grape juice to drinkable wine would be great; I wouldn't have to store so many bottles of the stuff.
Yeah, but never underestimate the demand for cheap wines. If this device can make cheap wines taste better without costing much, you can be guaranteed that it'll be used to justify an extra cost of $5-10 a bottle on the $5 wines.
Also try their cheap Shiraz; I've never gotten a headache from a cheap Australian Shiraz - and they're damned good too (Favorite: Little Penguin, ironically enough)
Snake oil or not, there is science behind the way it works. Trapping alcohol molecules in clusters of water molecules seems like it would mellow out a wine.
I make my own homebrew wine. It takes two weeks to a month or so to ferment, and about six months to become drinkable (though I quite like it young and rustic, most people don't). It then takes ANOTHER six months to become really good.
I'd like to buy one of these devices just to see what it can do to my product. I'd also like to try it on 'Chick Drink' (A party drink in which gatorade powder is rehydrated with 50-50 everclear and sprite) - which is almost undetectable as alcohol - to see if it makes it COMPLETELY undetectable as alcohol.
Query: Why, if chips are becoming smaller and cooler, has the 'computer-on-chip' concept not hit mainstream?
I mean, seriously. Tell me you wouldn't like to plug a 2cmx2cm chip into a 4cmx4cm mobo and have two ide chanels, two usb ports, a video port, an ethernet cable and a power input feed.
Sorry. I geek out for the small computers, and I WANT THEM SMALLER!!!
"Mind" is a concept, or rather, a collection of concepts. Most specifically, it's a way of saying "The processes, concepts, reactions and behaviors occuring within a brain"'
To that end, no a computer doesn't have a mind, per se. We haven't written a good one for them yet.
No. Just having a bunch of computers hooked together will produce nothing without some software.
We don't have software - but then, we're not general purpose devices. We're bred with some intrinsic stuff: find food. eat food. sleep. have sex.
There's other stuff in there, too: Poke things (they might be food). Look for new things (you might be able to eat/sleep on/have sex with them). Speak with other people (you might be able to eat/sleep with/have sex with them). Protect your territory (it's where you sleep/eat/have sex/keep your food).
Building a thinking machine you could relate to would probably require building elements that are - if not these - like these. You know, find electrical power. Hook electrical power to power socket. Perform self-maintenance. Interface.
They must also be placed in situations where this is not easy, have a system of recording experiences as causal-effective data (this could be done to that to produce the other), have a system of generating or acquiring shorthand to define experiences, properties, actions and items (ie: lift arm==run actuator 59266 at 25% and actuator 4985 at 50% for 0.25 seconds).
Ever play those old ScummVM adventure games? Yeah, those were fun.
I'm wondering about the economics of a robot-driven culture.
If robots do all the work, what is a dollar (pound rubel yen etc) worth? No, seriously. If we have robots doing all the manual labor, and thinker machines doing all the hard number crunching, do we end up as a race of philosophisers - or more likely, variants of Zaphod Beeblebrox?
"brain activity is more analogous to the super-complex and near-chaotic changes in the atmosphere than the stages of the computation of an algorithm"
You're only saying that 'cos you can't get a look at the source code.
No, seriously. You can figure a program by its source code, but can you by its machine code? Or, let's be fair here, since it's the only way you can examine the brain, by watching the electrons fly in its wires?
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Yes! Purple's my favorite, though I've heard a number of people love the Blizzard.
Though, nothing's more popular than the failed democracy flavored crack. It's Marion Barrie's favorite!
Eh. I don't think she'd take offense. I *do* try to stick to 'pretty thing' and 'you look wonderful, dear', though.
Yeah. I love my tri-platform artsy/geek girl.
I somehow doubt the words 'artsy chick' are to be found anywhere in the bible.
They linked autism to very specific skills: math and science.
The point is that a balance is needed. Slashdotters: find yourself an artsy chick to get down with; one who's pretty smart and asthetically pleasing. Add a little creativity to them logical sperm you've been carrying around.
And you smoke what flavor of crack now?
Seriously.
I'd do it in a closed container - which you'd have to use for distilling anyway. Funny thing is, petroleum will not ignite without oxygen, and the lighter gasses will boil off well before any of the petroleums' flash points. This means the oxy will get evacuated well before you're in danger of burning any of it.
I like you! I friend you!
Actually, I was thinking more like artificial ecosystems; If you've been to an aquarium you've seen 'em. They pump high-CO2 air through the bottom of a small, self-contained water-based ecosystem. The sediment is regularly filtered out and can be reused as part-compost, being nicely nitrogen carbon rich. They're probably the most ecologically friendly method of cleaning up the atmosphere. They need the solar power just to keep the motors running.
And the arrangement of neurons in your brain are physical. Meanwhile neither /process/ is physical. It's purely logical (in the sense that a HD partition can be logical, not in the 'if this and that then the other sense').
Not sure. Where are the penguins in Australia?
Meh. You're just bitching 'cos you never thought of it.
I wouldn't have.
I think it's a misnomer, actually. RTFA and you'll be able to figure what I've figured:
The idea here is that the water takes on a negative charge, with reduces its surface tension. The wine, or rather, its non-water elements, get a positive charge. When they are recombined, the water molecules cluster around the alcohol and flavorants. The flavorants that are water soluble reintegrate with the water while the alcohol soluble flavorants stay trapped in their alcohol domiain/water shell.
The idea is that this happens naturally, as the wine settles. Alcohol globules converge into small alcohol domains trapped by networks of water molecules. Since alcohol and water have specific gravities that are close enough that gravity has little say in the matter, yes, this is an appropriate conclusion as to how wine mellows. It does not, however, complexify it. That comes from the wooding of the wine; the water and alcohol dissolve the complex compounds found in the caramelized sublayer of charred wood.
So yes, this machine does what it intends: it makes young wines more drinkable, which does, in fact, produce a better vintage (the quality of a vintage is entirely based on how it tastes). It does not, on the other hand 'roll back' the vintage or age the wine.
It also does not automatically make a cheap wine more complex.
That said, I'd like to use the machine. I make my own homebrew, and going more rapidly from grape juice to drinkable wine would be great; I wouldn't have to store so many bottles of the stuff.
Yeah, but never underestimate the demand for cheap wines. If this device can make cheap wines taste better without costing much, you can be guaranteed that it'll be used to justify an extra cost of $5-10 a bottle on the $5 wines.
Also try their cheap Shiraz; I've never gotten a headache from a cheap Australian Shiraz - and they're damned good too (Favorite: Little Penguin, ironically enough)
Peasant!
Elitist!
Snake oil or not, there is science behind the way it works. Trapping alcohol molecules in clusters of water molecules seems like it would mellow out a wine.
I make my own homebrew wine. It takes two weeks to a month or so to ferment, and about six months to become drinkable (though I quite like it young and rustic, most people don't). It then takes ANOTHER six months to become really good.
I'd like to buy one of these devices just to see what it can do to my product. I'd also like to try it on 'Chick Drink' (A party drink in which gatorade powder is rehydrated with 50-50 everclear and sprite) - which is almost undetectable as alcohol - to see if it makes it COMPLETELY undetectable as alcohol.
Query:
Why, if chips are becoming smaller and cooler, has the 'computer-on-chip' concept not hit mainstream?
I mean, seriously. Tell me you wouldn't like to plug a 2cmx2cm chip into a 4cmx4cm mobo and have two ide chanels, two usb ports, a video port, an ethernet cable and a power input feed.
Sorry. I geek out for the small computers, and I WANT THEM SMALLER!!!
Google for InPhase.
Meanwhile, grandad is just using a bunch of buzzwords to promote sarcasm.
sar-chasm...
ok, why the blank stare?
Mod parent up 'Informative'. Not too many people already know about low-level logic physics.
Then why did they switch to intel again? AMD's stuff is cheaper AND performs better.
Seriously, I think it's cause Intel was all about the TPM.
You know what? I don't care. I want 2 16M DDR ZRAM chips in my computer RIGHT THIS SECOND.
"Mind" is a concept, or rather, a collection of concepts. Most specifically, it's a way of saying "The processes, concepts, reactions and behaviors occuring within a brain"'
To that end, no a computer doesn't have a mind, per se. We haven't written a good one for them yet.
*sigh*
No. Just having a bunch of computers hooked together will produce nothing without some software.
We don't have software - but then, we're not general purpose devices. We're bred with some intrinsic stuff: find food. eat food. sleep. have sex.
There's other stuff in there, too: Poke things (they might be food). Look for new things (you might be able to eat/sleep on/have sex with them). Speak with other people (you might be able to eat/sleep with/have sex with them). Protect your territory (it's where you sleep/eat/have sex/keep your food).
Building a thinking machine you could relate to would probably require building elements that are - if not these - like these. You know, find electrical power. Hook electrical power to power socket. Perform self-maintenance. Interface.
They must also be placed in situations where this is not easy, have a system of recording experiences as causal-effective data (this could be done to that to produce the other), have a system of generating or acquiring shorthand to define experiences, properties, actions and items (ie: lift arm==run actuator 59266 at 25% and actuator 4985 at 50% for 0.25 seconds).
Ever play those old ScummVM adventure games? Yeah, those were fun.
I'm wondering about the economics of a robot-driven culture.
If robots do all the work, what is a dollar (pound rubel yen etc) worth? No, seriously. If we have robots doing all the manual labor, and thinker machines doing all the hard number crunching, do we end up as a race of philosophisers - or more likely, variants of Zaphod Beeblebrox?
"brain activity is more analogous to the super-complex and near-chaotic changes in the atmosphere than the stages of the computation of an algorithm"
You're only saying that 'cos you can't get a look at the source code.
No, seriously. You can figure a program by its source code, but can you by its machine code? Or, let's be fair here, since it's the only way you can examine the brain, by watching the electrons fly in its wires?
Lets just hope the 'bots have WiFi and are poorly programmed.