Um, I'm a student. What money do you propose I pay for this mouse with?
(How do you switch weapons in UT2k4 without it?)
Assuming you're referring to "Unreal Tournament," I don't own it and have never played it. I just want to ctrl+c a URL and paste it in the address bar without it deciding to copy the address already in the bar, thus undoing the copy!
I started as a windows user, and I'm very used to ctrl + c to copy and ctrl + v to paste.
This "Select to copy and middle button to paste" thing irritates me quite a bit, especially because I have a two button mouse (I would consider linux unusable if not for chordmiddle).
You say that regulations "Drive businesses away," however, who said that nations need companies?
A company is just a group of people who are trying to make the most amount of money possible. Regulations merely say "This is what it takes to earn money legally in this country."
Therefore, for maximum profits, a company would need to function in the maxiumum number of countries, while following their regulations, and keeping production in the cheapest possible country.
The nation does not owe the corporations that dwell within a profit.
Plants get their energy from the sun's light. Insufficient light means no plants. No plants means no food. (Meat isn't plants, but it's powered by plants, so no plants, no meat either.)
One unfortunate thing about polution is that the wind blows it everywhere. A coal factory darkens the skies in antartica no matter if it's location is in Denver, Stockholm, or Bejing.
It sounds to me like Egypt is in despirate need to install solar cells on every house to harness the abundant solar energy. (It's mostly a desert, so not a lot of cloudy days, right?)
They constantly bomb our email with unwanted junk, postage due, and then claim that we wanted it because we talked to some friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of theirs.
If you ask me, selling "permission" should be a crime.
I'm tempted to ask my congressman to authorize the use of nuclear weapons against spammers....but he's probably also on the take.
Earlier in the thread, people were talking to chinese room type programs with the nonsense sentance "Please don't eat my foot."
A proper sentient response would be something like "I had no intention of eating your foot, why would I do that?"
Since there were no pre-programmed responses to that, it either A) Gave a red herring response ("How does that make you feel?") B) Changed the topic entirely ("Oh yeah? You suck!") or C) Echoed it with variation ("What do you think about don't eat my foot?")
This is how I believe the chinese room does not in fact invalidate the turing test.
Under my definitions, HAL 9000 is a posessor of a mind, and thus a sentient being.
The computer in front of me is more questionable. Information goes in, information goes out, but it's all processed by a preset program. An unexpected stimulus would crash it.
On one hand, no patents means that inventing something immediately gets stolen, evil corporation profits millions of dollars, joe inventor gets squat.
However, too many patents means that when joe inventor makes something, evil corporation sues him for violating patent 284958390*pi^12, "Use of energy to propell machine," and steals his work anyway, making millions of dollars while give the original invetor squat.
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Um, I'm a student. What money do you propose I pay for this mouse with?
(How do you switch weapons in UT2k4 without it?)
Assuming you're referring to "Unreal Tournament," I don't own it and have never played it. I just want to ctrl+c a URL and paste it in the address bar without it deciding to copy the address already in the bar, thus undoing the copy!
I started as a windows user, and I'm very used to ctrl + c to copy and ctrl + v to paste.
This "Select to copy and middle button to paste" thing irritates me quite a bit, especially because I have a two button mouse (I would consider linux unusable if not for chordmiddle).
It is bad for the consumer, therefore they should not get away with it!
It seems like everything these days is self serving and dishonest.
So sad, so sad.
You say that regulations "Drive businesses away," however, who said that nations need companies?
A company is just a group of people who are trying to make the most amount of money possible. Regulations merely say "This is what it takes to earn money legally in this country."
Therefore, for maximum profits, a company would need to function in the maxiumum number of countries, while following their regulations, and keeping production in the cheapest possible country.
The nation does not owe the corporations that dwell within a profit.
Based on that, they should build solar arrays out in the desert, since no one is there anyway.
Gigawatt after Gigawatt is available to them!
Plants get their energy from the sun's light. Insufficient light means no plants. No plants means no food. (Meat isn't plants, but it's powered by plants, so no plants, no meat either.)
One unfortunate thing about polution is that the wind blows it everywhere. A coal factory darkens the skies in antartica no matter if it's location is in Denver, Stockholm, or Bejing.
It sounds to me like Egypt is in despirate need to install solar cells on every house to harness the abundant solar energy. (It's mostly a desert, so not a lot of cloudy days, right?)
Too bad they're so expensive.
I meant as in "The doctor is busy and cannot see you now."
:P
Houston, Texas, Soviet Russia, what's the difference?
How many times have we wanted to see a website, except that it has been slashdotted and cannot see us now?
Caching is intelligent because we are interested in the content itself rather than the connection to that particular computer.
How dare these feces-for-brains!
They constantly bomb our email with unwanted junk, postage due, and then claim that we wanted it because we talked to some friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of theirs.
If you ask me, selling "permission" should be a crime.
I'm tempted to ask my congressman to authorize the use of nuclear weapons against spammers....but he's probably also on the take.
Just this morning, I got a spam inviting me to look at child pornography!
:(
Perhaps I should inform the FBI of this?
Nah. probably a Joe Job anyways.
I've seen keyloggers do exactly that for YEARS.
This patent is weak. Someone challenge it please.
Sure you stopped temporarily.
But you didn't need to be repaired or rebooted.
No, the idea isn't that it would be created psychotic, but that, like regular humans, could become psychotic.
That might be proof of a mind.
By unexpected I mean by the designer. (God if you're a theist, nature if you're not.)
Cognitive?
That I think would be the ability to process information.
Your date appears. You have never met her before.
You do not abruptly crash and stare at her until she leaves.
Instead, you think of things to say to her.
Something happens at work that has never happened before.
You do not stop functioning for the day.
Trust me. You DO have a mind.
This person is asking if an AI could be psychotic. ...yes, I think it could. Neurotic is also possible.
Earlier in the thread, people were talking to chinese room type programs with the nonsense sentance "Please don't eat my foot."
A proper sentient response would be something like "I had no intention of eating your foot, why would I do that?"
Since there were no pre-programmed responses to that, it either A) Gave a red herring response ("How does that make you feel?") B) Changed the topic entirely ("Oh yeah? You suck!") or C) Echoed it with variation ("What do you think about don't eat my foot?")
This is how I believe the chinese room does not in fact invalidate the turing test.
The chinese room suggests that sentience can be faked.
BUT. A caveat.
To actually have a chinese room, you'd need ALL POSSIBLE STIMULI.
Ask a very unusual question and see if you still get an answer.
And with most chinese rooms: No. You don't. You get a statement that suggests that the inside understood nothing at all.
Under my definitions, HAL 9000 is a posessor of a mind, and thus a sentient being.
The computer in front of me is more questionable. Information goes in, information goes out, but it's all processed by a preset program. An unexpected stimulus would crash it.
Mind
A cognitive system able to process unexpected situations.
Software
An abtraction of a list of instructions to follow.
Could a computer or robot be said to have a "mind" the way a human does?
What is the difference between "mind" and "software"?
On one hand, no patents means that inventing something immediately gets stolen, evil corporation profits millions of dollars, joe inventor gets squat.
However, too many patents means that when joe inventor makes something, evil corporation sues him for violating patent 284958390*pi^12, "Use of energy to propell machine," and steals his work anyway, making millions of dollars while give the original invetor squat.
.....I'd buy this one.
It'd look fairly nice, I'd drill air holes where needed, varnish it.
Pfft, yeah right, like I have the money to worry about what my computer case looks like.