Wouldn't our understanding of something as fundamental as general relativity far out weigh any kind of understanding we could gain from Mars? Even if life is found on Mars, it does little to solidify our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
Gravity is one of the most important, and least understood forces in the physical world. Mars is just a big rock in orbit around our tiny little sun. Going there is a cooler project that this, but the information garnered from such a mission seems to be less important than what this mission is set to show.
I didn't actually forget that. I even mentioned it (violet light having higher energy than other colors).
It doesn't matter anyway, since I misunderstood the posting, and asked a question directed towards an AI, rather than some kind of wierd human psychiatrist that deals with human-robot interactions.
Ok, I just reread the posting, and I see that I misunderstood it. However, after rereading it, I still think it was very poorly written, it mentions no where that Dr. Pransky is a human. In fact, the way it is written seems to indicate that she is a robot (a robotic psychiatrist, not a human psychiatrist dealing with robotic issues).
It states that she is real, but it doesn't state that she is a real person, or a real robot. It says she is as qualified as any living human being to answer your questions, and I took this to mean that she herself wasn't a living human being (obviously I was wrong).
I was stupid not to follow the links and find out clearly what the article was about, but I think the only way anyone could know for sure what was indicated by the text of the posting would be to know who the heck Dr. Susan Calvin is. I have never read anything by Asimov, so I assumed Dr. Calvin must have been a robot who was also a psychiatrist.
Anyway, now that I'm sorry that I fouled everything up with my post, but I'm glad my mistake was dubed a troll (how kind). And thank you for so tactfully pointing out my mistake, as it proves without a doubt that you are clearly of a superior intellect.
Like hell this is off topic. I want to know if the Dr. has a favorite color. The article specifically asks for questions.
I think the quickest way to show how artificial "she" is, is to show how hard it would be to answer a question like this.
How can a machine have a preference for a quantity that has no functional advantage? A machine could decide they would rather have a car than a truck for some particular functional reason (passenger capacity for instance), but why one color over another? I can't think of a function that would calculate blue > red. You would have to attach some kind of weight to each color, and what basis could be used for that weight?
I know I have been rambling, but I think a question like this would be an excelent question to ask the Dr. I would be impressed if "she" could actually come up with an answer, and some kind of reasonable justification for that answer (like: "I like blue because it reminds me of the ocean"). I'd even be satisfied with "I like violet because it has a higher energy than most other visible colors."
Aww... are you sad that some one pointed out your mistake? Poor little boy. I'm so sad for you.
Seriously though, don't mock someone for knowing something you don't. It makes you look even dumber. Any one should know that cocoa doesn't have anything to do with a coconut. I mean it certainly doesn't take a "Dr. Science."
You have to be joking me. You can easily put each site in its own subdirectory and host as many sites as you want. I mean I meant my post as a joke, but come on it could work if you really wanted it to.
The real reason to use dns isn't the fancy names, it is the location transparency the domain name offers. You can change IPs when ever you want (accounting for the delays in DNS propagation of course), and all you have to do is make the dns entry point to the new IP.
Actually the definition I stated came directly from a dictionary. Being a pedant means to act educated. However, I see your point, because it is often only used to describe people who are actually educated, but I would suggest that even a moron can be pedantic. Infact, it is offten those who know the least who want to make the most of it. I would think that the majority of pedants are hardly intellegent themselves.
Everyone knows something, even an idiot, and to be pedantic is simply to show off what you know. Even if the pool of knowledge from which an idiot draws is relatively small, eventually they will find something they know that someone else does not (like for instance a spelling mistake). Pointing out said mistake makes them pedantic if they are doing it for the purpose of showing off.
At this point one may accurately point out that this entire thread is full of pedants. Myself included.
Ok, so now it's not okay to make sarcastic slams on stupid trolls? Thanks a bunch for the offtopic -1. My reply was right on topic with the message I was replying to.
especially ones that outsourced support to other countries.
This just seems like a particularlly ignorant thing to say. Why are foreigners more likely to snoop on your email than their domestic counterparts? You don't have any privacy with email no mater who you use as your email provider. It doesn't matter where their employees live.
Other than that, I agree with what you are saying.
Why even bother with DNS? You can just use IP addresses, and it doesn't cost you a thing. No hosting or anything. With google, and bookmarks, hardly anyone bothers typing URLs anyway. Those that do can get by with an IP address. IPv4 addresses aren't that much to remeber anyway.
Well I feel a little stupid. I didn't realize that people were working on this sort of thing. Well I retract the first part of my statement, but I still stick to the rest of my asertions.
Perhaps I haven't followed the development, but I don't seem to recall any of those source releases leading to further development. When is the last time you played the fully updated and evolved open source Doom?
I just think your whole arguement is a little silly. If a company wants to give away its source that is fine with me. If a company wants to give away binaries and protect its IP that should be okay too.
And who cares if this is just a publicity stunt to promote the new version of Tribes? It is still an really nice thing for them to do. Are you just opposed to the idea of doing something that may result in making money? Sorry to say, but they don't owe you anything. If you don't want their free gift, then don't take it. Just don't bitch about them not giving you more. You have no entitlement to their source code if they don't want to give it to you. If you want it, then reimplement the game from the ground up.
Wow, your sister cowered when I forced into her tonight, didn't she (referring to the first stuffing to both her cunt and her anus)? How pryed open she was.
Yea, I would have left for a party an hour ago but I enjoy dick sucking my mother almost as much as I do having her suck it.
Umm... this sort of thing is actually done. You can buy CDs of engine recordings from popular car models (In particular high-end sports cars are popular).
Just because you have a computer laying around doesn't mean it is more eco-friendly to use it than to send it to the dump... Eventually it will die (No component will last forever), and will end up in the dump any way. Why waste all of that extra electricity (which probably came from burning some fossil fuel) to prolong the enevitable?
Unless you are planning on upgrading your old POS with some new hard drives it hardly seems like it would be worth using as a file server anyway. At that point why not just pop the new hard drives in your replacement pc? You waste a lot less electricty that way. Admitedly this is a lot less fun... It is just cool to have home "servers" laying around. You can play sysadmin at home, but don't fool yourself into thinking that you are helping the environment by doing so.
The best way to help the environment would be to buy fewer computers in general... I for one would have a hard time with this choice. Well actually I haven't bought a computer in 5 years, but it has nothing to do with the enviornment... I admit it, I'm poor.
Would anyone like to donate their old (2-3 years old) computer to a poor computer science graduate student? I promise to only use it when I really need it, so you need not worry about excessive electricty usage.
That's right...
I think in the future we will all be getting from place to place by way of cannon. You just get yourself a nice helmet, climb down the barrel, and you're off. Easy as that.
Alternatively we could all ride camels.
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Wouldn't our understanding of something as fundamental as general relativity far out weigh any kind of understanding we could gain from Mars? Even if life is found on Mars, it does little to solidify our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
Gravity is one of the most important, and least understood forces in the physical world. Mars is just a big rock in orbit around our tiny little sun. Going there is a cooler project that this, but the information garnered from such a mission seems to be less important than what this mission is set to show.
I didn't actually forget that. I even mentioned it (violet light having higher energy than other colors).
It doesn't matter anyway, since I misunderstood the posting, and asked a question directed towards an AI, rather than some kind of wierd human psychiatrist that deals with human-robot interactions.
Ok, I just reread the posting, and I see that I misunderstood it. However, after rereading it, I still think it was very poorly written, it mentions no where that Dr. Pransky is a human. In fact, the way it is written seems to indicate that she is a robot (a robotic psychiatrist, not a human psychiatrist dealing with robotic issues).
It states that she is real, but it doesn't state that she is a real person, or a real robot. It says she is as qualified as any living human being to answer your questions, and I took this to mean that she herself wasn't a living human being (obviously I was wrong).
I was stupid not to follow the links and find out clearly what the article was about, but I think the only way anyone could know for sure what was indicated by the text of the posting would be to know who the heck Dr. Susan Calvin is. I have never read anything by Asimov, so I assumed Dr. Calvin must have been a robot who was also a psychiatrist.
Anyway, now that I'm sorry that I fouled everything up with my post, but I'm glad my mistake was dubed a troll (how kind). And thank you for so tactfully pointing out my mistake, as it proves without a doubt that you are clearly of a superior intellect.
Like hell this is off topic. I want to know if the Dr. has a favorite color. The article specifically asks for questions.
I think the quickest way to show how artificial "she" is, is to show how hard it would be to answer a question like this.
How can a machine have a preference for a quantity that has no functional advantage? A machine could decide they would rather have a car than a truck for some particular functional reason (passenger capacity for instance), but why one color over another? I can't think of a function that would calculate blue > red. You would have to attach some kind of weight to each color, and what basis could be used for that weight?
I know I have been rambling, but I think a question like this would be an excelent question to ask the Dr. I would be impressed if "she" could actually come up with an answer, and some kind of reasonable justification for that answer (like: "I like blue because it reminds me of the ocean"). I'd even be satisfied with "I like violet because it has a higher energy than most other visible colors."
What is your favorite color?
Oh... I feel like an ass. Please disregard my comment then.
Aww... are you sad that some one pointed out your mistake? Poor little boy. I'm so sad for you.
Seriously though, don't mock someone for knowing something you don't. It makes you look even dumber. Any one should know that cocoa doesn't have anything to do with a coconut. I mean it certainly doesn't take a "Dr. Science."
I suggest the POS as an apt title for the device instead.
you can only host one site per ip
You have to be joking me. You can easily put each site in its own subdirectory and host as many sites as you want. I mean I meant my post as a joke, but come on it could work if you really wanted it to.
The real reason to use dns isn't the fancy names, it is the location transparency the domain name offers. You can change IPs when ever you want (accounting for the delays in DNS propagation of course), and all you have to do is make the dns entry point to the new IP.
Actually the definition I stated came directly from a dictionary. Being a pedant means to act educated. However, I see your point, because it is often only used to describe people who are actually educated, but I would suggest that even a moron can be pedantic. Infact, it is offten those who know the least who want to make the most of it. I would think that the majority of pedants are hardly intellegent themselves.
Everyone knows something, even an idiot, and to be pedantic is simply to show off what you know. Even if the pool of knowledge from which an idiot draws is relatively small, eventually they will find something they know that someone else does not (like for instance a spelling mistake). Pointing out said mistake makes them pedantic if they are doing it for the purpose of showing off.
At this point one may accurately point out that this entire thread is full of pedants. Myself included.
Ok, so now it's not okay to make sarcastic slams on stupid trolls? Thanks a bunch for the offtopic -1. My reply was right on topic with the message I was replying to.
especially ones that outsourced support to other countries.
This just seems like a particularlly ignorant thing to say. Why are foreigners more likely to snoop on your email than their domestic counterparts? You don't have any privacy with email no mater who you use as your email provider. It doesn't matter where their employees live.
Other than that, I agree with what you are saying.
I actually wasn't breating, thanks for reminding me... I almost died.
Why even bother with DNS? You can just use IP addresses, and it doesn't cost you a thing. No hosting or anything. With google, and bookmarks, hardly anyone bothers typing URLs anyway. Those that do can get by with an IP address. IPv4 addresses aren't that much to remeber anyway.
I don't see your point. She/He used pedantic properly.
/. posters are pedants.
A pedant is:
One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
In otherwords, typical
Well I feel a little stupid. I didn't realize that people were working on this sort of thing. Well I retract the first part of my statement, but I still stick to the rest of my asertions.
Perhaps I haven't followed the development, but I don't seem to recall any of those source releases leading to further development. When is the last time you played the fully updated and evolved open source Doom?
I just think your whole arguement is a little silly. If a company wants to give away its source that is fine with me. If a company wants to give away binaries and protect its IP that should be okay too.
And who cares if this is just a publicity stunt to promote the new version of Tribes? It is still an really nice thing for them to do. Are you just opposed to the idea of doing something that may result in making money? Sorry to say, but they don't owe you anything. If you don't want their free gift, then don't take it. Just don't bitch about them not giving you more. You have no entitlement to their source code if they don't want to give it to you. If you want it, then reimplement the game from the ground up.
Thanks for posting this one... Robot insurance was the first thing I thought of when I read the article.
I have to appologize for that... I just wanted to see if I could do one of these too... It turned out aweful, and I'm ashamed I even tried.
Wow, your sister cowered when I forced into her tonight, didn't she (referring to the first stuffing to both her cunt and her anus)? How pryed open she was.
Yea, I would have left for a party an hour ago but I enjoy dick sucking my mother almost as much as I do having her suck it.
Umm... this sort of thing is actually done. You can buy CDs of engine recordings from popular car models (In particular high-end sports cars are popular).
Check out www.enginemusic.com for instance.
By the way, I don't understand the appeal.
You mean there is news on slashdot?
Anonymity != ( credibility || newsworthy)
Much like your post I suppose?
That was my thought exactally...
Why hasn't this post been modded up?
Just because you have a computer laying around doesn't mean it is more eco-friendly to use it than to send it to the dump... Eventually it will die (No component will last forever), and will end up in the dump any way. Why waste all of that extra electricity (which probably came from burning some fossil fuel) to prolong the enevitable?
Unless you are planning on upgrading your old POS with some new hard drives it hardly seems like it would be worth using as a file server anyway. At that point why not just pop the new hard drives in your replacement pc? You waste a lot less electricty that way. Admitedly this is a lot less fun... It is just cool to have home "servers" laying around. You can play sysadmin at home, but don't fool yourself into thinking that you are helping the environment by doing so.
The best way to help the environment would be to buy fewer computers in general... I for one would have a hard time with this choice. Well actually I haven't bought a computer in 5 years, but it has nothing to do with the enviornment... I admit it, I'm poor.
Would anyone like to donate their old (2-3 years old) computer to a poor computer science graduate student? I promise to only use it when I really need it, so you need not worry about excessive electricty usage.
That's right... I think in the future we will all be getting from place to place by way of cannon. You just get yourself a nice helmet, climb down the barrel, and you're off. Easy as that. Alternatively we could all ride camels.