Precisely. My friends may be good at recommending a pub that I would like. But I don't think my network of friends would be particularly trustworthy for recommending with digital SLR to buy.
More pertinently, he created the bloated, slow monstrosity which was Groove - a peer-to-peer groupware product which he sold to Microsoft. Don't get me wrong - the idea was lovely (and rather like Wave in some ways, except with a closed source dedicated client), but the implementation was grim.
And has is the computer to judge between the an amazingly innovative flight manoeuvre on behalf of the pilot, and a pilot slumped dead in his seat over the controls?
Surely it is simpler than that. There's no need to muck about with source code and forking. Without trademark protection, Microsoft could simply launch MIcrosoft Firefox, which would be identical to Internet Explorer in all respects, except with a different skin. Actually it wouldn't even need a different skin. The "new" browser could run on Microsoft Linux, which would be a rebranded version of Windows 98.
You seem to jump oddly from scale-to-scale. So on the one hand you argue that a materialist should be able to explain why "precisely why particular arrangements of protons and electrons and neutrons bring [consciousness] about. But then you complain that most drug studies involve descriptions of what the patient reports.
In between the proton scale and the patient scale there is a wealth of experimental evidence about the effect of particular chemicals on neurons. You appear to be ignoring this aspect, for some reason.
"To begin to act like we have this all figured out is frankly rather silly." you say, and frankly I agree. But I would submit that there is more than enough evidence to tentatively take on trust the idea that consciousness is an emergent property of the physical brain and the arrangement of cells and chemicals therein.
Clearly your moral framework is more absolute than mine. There are things that I want to look at and play with that I don't particularly want my 3 year old exploring (yet). So that's why parental controls make sense (to me).
Hardly rocket science. I presume you never watch an R-rated films.
It's not that I buy my kids an iPhone, but they do occasionally get to play with the iPod Touch (for example on long flights I pop a kids' film on there, or they play a game). Having parental controls makes sense, I suspect.
Apart from anything else, the BBC didn't hack the botnet - the program producers paid to use it. And the result wasn't a scholarly paper on Botnet size and command and control architecture - it was a 5 minute TV slot which could have been produced without paying the botnet's author.
Usually, I find myself defending the BBC, I believe it is one of the most downright excellent organisations out there. Not this time, though.
It is left as an exercise for the reader to identify the corporate interests of the owners of the BBC and the Scott Trust which owns The Observer and The Guardian in the UK.
Or do as we do in some parts of the UK - use pumped storage power stations. Excess energy is used to pump water from a lake to a high reservoir. When the energy is needed the sluices are opened and the water drives turbines.
I suggest you pull your finger out and try to help your fellow man a bit more, rather than trying to worry about making god happy.
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I agree that Oracle will kill off Sparc, but I would expect it to retain a Sun-branded hardware business, based on Intel. That will be a key part of the soup-to-nuts stack strategy, I would have thought.
>That depends entirely on your jurisdictional ability to prosecute me.
Not at all. Whether it is OK or not does not depend on jurisdictional reach. It depends on whether you believe its OK to go and burgle someone's house simply because their house is unlocked. Whether the cops see you is neither here nor there.
Storing your data in "the cloud" isn't really for home users, the advantages are minimal.
With all due respect that's entirely wrong. Me, my friends and family all backup our photos and bits and bobs on Mozy or Dropbox or whatever as well as on an external drive precisely because it gives us an easy cheap method of off-site storage. Yes "cloud" storage may prove unreliable. But all I need to know is that either my external hard drive or the cloud-based data set is available on the day that my hard drive goes phoom.
You seem to be under the impression that modern evolutionary theory is in some way largely dependent on the raw data collected by Darwin. He was an excellent naturalist and an amazing observer/investigator - but this is simply not true.
It is not bad to provoke thought and questions regarding evolution. But starting with the axiom that life was created and shaped through some unseen intelligence is bad.
OK, I'll bite. First of all, evolutionary theory should always be taught as the best theory that fits the available evidence. And it is the best theory. But as a good biology grad, I'm always interested in hearing about holes - so what, in your opinion are the biggest problems and holes?
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Precisely. My friends may be good at recommending a pub that I would like. But I don't think my network of friends would be particularly trustworthy for recommending with digital SLR to buy.
My 5 year old daughter tries to shoulder surf my password. She hasn't installed a keylogger yet to my knowledge.
Perhaps he was trying to explain the part of the story where he translated the message into Spanish. Or should he have self-censored that aspect?
More pertinently, he created the bloated, slow monstrosity which was Groove - a peer-to-peer groupware product which he sold to Microsoft. Don't get me wrong - the idea was lovely (and rather like Wave in some ways, except with a closed source dedicated client), but the implementation was grim.
And has is the computer to judge between the an amazingly innovative flight manoeuvre on behalf of the pilot, and a pilot slumped dead in his seat over the controls?
Notes Sync is included in 3.0 - at least according to the keynote where the features were unveiled.
There are alternatives to the pill, such as the coil, you know. /Slightly worried that this appears under the existing topic subject line, but hey.
Surely it is simpler than that. There's no need to muck about with source code and forking. Without trademark protection, Microsoft could simply launch MIcrosoft Firefox, which would be identical to Internet Explorer in all respects, except with a different skin. Actually it wouldn't even need a different skin. The "new" browser could run on Microsoft Linux, which would be a rebranded version of Windows 98.
You seem to jump oddly from scale-to-scale. So on the one hand you argue that a materialist should be able to explain why "precisely why particular arrangements of protons and electrons and neutrons bring [consciousness] about. But then you complain that most drug studies involve descriptions of what the patient reports.
In between the proton scale and the patient scale there is a wealth of experimental evidence about the effect of particular chemicals on neurons. You appear to be ignoring this aspect, for some reason.
"To begin to act like we have this all figured out is frankly rather silly." you say, and frankly I agree. But I would submit that there is more than enough evidence to tentatively take on trust the idea that consciousness is an emergent property of the physical brain and the arrangement of cells and chemicals therein.
Clearly your moral framework is more absolute than mine. There are things that I want to look at and play with that I don't particularly want my 3 year old exploring (yet). So that's why parental controls make sense (to me).
Hardly rocket science. I presume you never watch an R-rated films.
I'm pretty tired of seeing its xenophobic, ill-informed, sensationalist, scare-mongering drivel linked to from various forums.
It's not that I buy my kids an iPhone, but they do occasionally get to play with the iPod Touch (for example on long flights I pop a kids' film on there, or they play a game). Having parental controls makes sense, I suspect.
Apart from anything else, the BBC didn't hack the botnet - the program producers paid to use it. And the result wasn't a scholarly paper on Botnet size and command and control architecture - it was a 5 minute TV slot which could have been produced without paying the botnet's author.
Usually, I find myself defending the BBC, I believe it is one of the most downright excellent organisations out there. Not this time, though.
It is left as an exercise for the reader to identify the corporate interests of the owners of the BBC and the Scott Trust which owns The Observer and The Guardian in the UK.
Or do as we do in some parts of the UK - use pumped storage power stations. Excess energy is used to pump water from a lake to a high reservoir. When the energy is needed the sluices are opened and the water drives turbines.
I suggest you pull your finger out and try to help your fellow man a bit more, rather than trying to worry about making god happy.
I agree that Oracle will kill off Sparc, but I would expect it to retain a Sun-branded hardware business, based on Intel. That will be a key part of the soup-to-nuts stack strategy, I would have thought.
Not at all. Whether it is OK or not does not depend on jurisdictional reach. It depends on whether you believe its OK to go and burgle someone's house simply because their house is unlocked. Whether the cops see you is neither here nor there.
That's actually one of the saddest thing I've read for a long time. I hope she never elopes with a Windows 7 install.
Because one day your house may either burn down or get burgled. Basically the same reasons that anyone ever uses off-site storage.
With all due respect that's entirely wrong. Me, my friends and family all backup our photos and bits and bobs on Mozy or Dropbox or whatever as well as on an external drive precisely because it gives us an easy cheap method of off-site storage. Yes "cloud" storage may prove unreliable. But all I need to know is that either my external hard drive or the cloud-based data set is available on the day that my hard drive goes phoom.
Precisely. As an atheist, I would argue that this is exactly what all good science teaching should do anyway.
Better than that - they dug up fossils.
Oh, by the way: "Water boils at 100c and freeze at 0c" is not a fact. You're being much too dogmatic there.
You seem to be under the impression that modern evolutionary theory is in some way largely dependent on the raw data collected by Darwin. He was an excellent naturalist and an amazing observer/investigator - but this is simply not true.
It is not bad to provoke thought and questions regarding evolution. But starting with the axiom that life was created and shaped through some unseen intelligence is bad.
OK, I'll bite. First of all, evolutionary theory should always be taught as the best theory that fits the available evidence. And it is the best theory. But as a good biology grad, I'm always interested in hearing about holes - so what, in your opinion are the biggest problems and holes?