I prefer to think of it in terms of the Allegory of the Cave. Descartes saw the Light of cogito ergo sum. It blinded him and made him go bat-shit insane, which is where all his "proofs" of God come from.
You can create whatever reality you want and...1+1=2.
Only because that's how we decided to define mathematics to begin with. Same with logic. They're tools we created to help us understand the universe, and are internally consistent because we defined them to be that way. But in order to apply those tools to anything outside the definitions, we must make unprovable assumptions.
And maybe calculus only appears to work because you are programmed to think that it does.
But surely at least mathematics and logic would be universal?
Unless they are merely a bunch of nonsense we were programmed to think consistent. In any case, the very first line in that Church-Turing article reveals that it's a hypothesis.
Lucky bastard. My dreams are way to realistic to involve any kind of sexual intercourse. I really need to have a chat with my sub-conscious about that.
Mine tend to be more useful. For example, back in elementary school we had these drinking fountains near the gym shaped like urinals. In one dream I actually used one as a urinal, and then couldn't find how to flush it. Plus all the other kids pointed and laughed. So that's why, to this day, I've never peed in a drinking fountain, and I have that dream to thank for it.
I don't know, Moties seemed to do it at regular intervals. Just have to build a few robust museums to shorten the Dark Ages. An Encyclopedia Galactica might help there as well.
The average screen writer makes very little money in the first place, then to deny them any of the profits from redistribution in a digital form on the internet is just stealing.
You're not going to win lots of support on slashdot with a view that distribution of any content on the internet can be equated to stealing.
I love Alien Arena for the fact that it runs great on my P3-800 ^_^.
My main wish is that the Galaxy game browser could sort servers based on the number of real players. It's annoying as hell selecting each game of 4+ "players" to see that all but one of them have 0 ping.
You realize that Network Solutions is nothing but a registrar itself? A big one, but still just a registrar. They're not ICANN or even Verisign. Why would they take the time and effort to help their competition?
2) They're becoming worse and worse. There's now something like 5 advertising screens you need to click through after you register a domain.
Hint: There's a "shopping cart" link at the top right. After you've selected the domain(s) you want, the link text will be updated with the number of items in the cart. Just click the link to go directly to the order page and skip all the extra service ads.
There have been articles about it before, and I know for a fact that some registrars reserve a domain as soon as someone uses their site to do an availability/whois search for it. Several days later the reservation is released. During this period only that registrar can be used to register the domain. For the customer, this has both an advantage and a disadvantage.
The obvious disadvantage is that they can't use one registrar to determine that a domain is available and then shop around and use a cheaper registrar to actually buy the domain.
The advantage is that no third party squatter will be able to snipe the domain for themselves - unless of course they use the same registrar.
Interestingly enough, some months back I talked to an old lady who said the film version of The Shining couldn't hold a candle to the novel. Never read the book myself though.
Is this a gutshot reaction or something? Seriously, I don't see what the problem with this is. They're not planning to put up pictures of recently released criminals. They're not planning to put up pictures of sex offenders in your neighborhood. They're not planning to put up pictures telling you to vote Republican. This is to be used same way as America's Most Wanted and backs of milk cartons. At least for now. If that changes, then start complaining.
They just have to make sure they display a context label with each photo. Wouldn't want a kidnap victim to be confused for a terrorist.
You mean like if MSN Messenger suddenly started showing your IE Favorites to all your Windows Live contacts? I mean Favorites is just URLs, anyone can surf to them. Right?
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How about Dilbert? It regularly gets a smile (and sometimes a laugh) out of me.
I prefer to think of it in terms of the Allegory of the Cave. Descartes saw the Light of cogito ergo sum. It blinded him and made him go bat-shit insane, which is where all his "proofs" of God come from.
Define "perfect"? The simulation could be full of inconsistencies, but we could be programmed to ignore them.
You can create whatever reality you want and...1+1=2.
Only because that's how we decided to define mathematics to begin with. Same with logic. They're tools we created to help us understand the universe, and are internally consistent because we defined them to be that way. But in order to apply those tools to anything outside the definitions, we must make unprovable assumptions.
And maybe calculus only appears to work because you are programmed to think that it does.
Computer, exit.
Computer, exit.
Computer, exit.
But surely at least mathematics and logic would be universal?
Unless they are merely a bunch of nonsense we were programmed to think consistent. In any case, the very first line in that Church-Turing article reveals that it's a hypothesis.
Don't you mean "every pubic surveillance camera"?
Lucky bastard. My dreams are way to realistic to involve any kind of sexual intercourse. I really need to have a chat with my sub-conscious about that.
Is Uwe Boll making a RoR movie or something?
Mine tend to be more useful. For example, back in elementary school we had these drinking fountains near the gym shaped like urinals. In one dream I actually used one as a urinal, and then couldn't find how to flush it. Plus all the other kids pointed and laughed. So that's why, to this day, I've never peed in a drinking fountain, and I have that dream to thank for it.
I don't know, Moties seemed to do it at regular intervals. Just have to build a few robust museums to shorten the Dark Ages. An Encyclopedia Galactica might help there as well.
Yes, I've found myself averaging more hours of computer games per day than I have since my college days.
The average screen writer makes very little money in the first place, then to deny them any of the profits from redistribution in a digital form on the internet is just stealing.
You're not going to win lots of support on slashdot with a view that distribution of any content on the internet can be equated to stealing.
I love Alien Arena for the fact that it runs great on my P3-800 ^_^.
My main wish is that the Galaxy game browser could sort servers based on the number of real players. It's annoying as hell selecting each game of 4+ "players" to see that all but one of them have 0 ping.
You mean Journal of Irreproducible Results .
You realize that Network Solutions is nothing but a registrar itself? A big one, but still just a registrar. They're not ICANN or even Verisign. Why would they take the time and effort to help their competition?
That's why instead of using the whois search you should go the "random address typing" approach. No one is abused other than the ISP.
2) They're becoming worse and worse. There's now something like 5 advertising screens you need to click through after you register a domain.
Hint: There's a "shopping cart" link at the top right. After you've selected the domain(s) you want, the link text will be updated with the number of items in the cart. Just click the link to go directly to the order page and skip all the extra service ads.
Come on, it should at least be "Don't taste me, Bro!"
There have been articles about it before, and I know for a fact that some registrars reserve a domain as soon as someone uses their site to do an availability/whois search for it. Several days later the reservation is released. During this period only that registrar can be used to register the domain. For the customer, this has both an advantage and a disadvantage.
The obvious disadvantage is that they can't use one registrar to determine that a domain is available and then shop around and use a cheaper registrar to actually buy the domain.
The advantage is that no third party squatter will be able to snipe the domain for themselves - unless of course they use the same registrar.
Interestingly enough, some months back I talked to an old lady who said the film version of The Shining couldn't hold a candle to the novel. Never read the book myself though.
Is this a gutshot reaction or something? Seriously, I don't see what the problem with this is. They're not planning to put up pictures of recently released criminals. They're not planning to put up pictures of sex offenders in your neighborhood. They're not planning to put up pictures telling you to vote Republican. This is to be used same way as America's Most Wanted and backs of milk cartons. At least for now. If that changes, then start complaining.
They just have to make sure they display a context label with each photo. Wouldn't want a kidnap victim to be confused for a terrorist.
Makes for a very cool demo, but doesn't seem too useful for video games (or normal TV watching for that matter).
You mean like if MSN Messenger suddenly started showing your IE Favorites to all your Windows Live contacts? I mean Favorites is just URLs, anyone can surf to them. Right?
you know, the ones under 12, the only ones left
Not all Slashdot users are that young you know.