I have a form that sends a verification email to the recipient that the recipient must reply to in order to receive newsletters and to be eligible to win a monthly prize we give away.
80% of AOL users that fill out the form tell AOL that the verification email is SPAM.
4% of the AOL users in the current database reports the newsletters as SPAM.
With that being said, we are seriously thinking if removing all AOL users from our database and not allowing AOL email addresses to be used. We've said it time and time again yet we always 'wait another month'.
If the military can colorize the output from infrared goggles realtime to look 'real', I'm sure the brains at NASA can colorize infrared images just like they colorize the Hubble images.
The Spitzer telescope has produced a few pretty images.
These tripe lists are opinions. YMMV in all cases.
I've been a T-mobile customer, Verizon, Nextel, and Cingular.
Cingular is the only carrier where I reside now. T-mobile removed a tower and Verizon has an extremely weak signal. Nextel was a company provided plan so that doesn't apply to me anymore.
I've had great service will all four of them.
My current opinion is
1)Cingular 2)T-Mobile 3)Verizon 4)Nextel
My opinion a year ago would have been 1)T-Mobile 2)Verizon 3)Nextel
and my opinion 3 years before that would be different too.
5 years ago, only VoiceStream (now T-mobile) had a family plan.
I've heard nothing but bad things about them and I've never had a complaint.
If killing one cow feeds ten people, then so be it.
PeTA's assertion is to kill ten people to save one cow.
People who favor PeTA's talking points will state that the cow doesn't need to die in order to feed ten people.
If you add that there isn't enough veggie food around to feed ten people for the immediate now and killing the cow is neccessary to feed said tem people, I say kill the cow, PeTA says kill the people.
The fact that you are making a conscious effort to not reproduce.
The parent implied that we are nothing but a complex array of IF..THEN statements to which I replied that we are driven by the conditional OR. Machines in their current state today aren't capable of understanding as their purpose is to follow instructions, not alter expectations as they are not able to be set mechanically autonomously.
Existence of living organisms is about consuming food, water, and reproducing. There are those that will put a religious spin on the purpose of life but that doesn't take away the need for food, water, and shelter.
Your existence is about maintaining food, water, and shelter. Whatever you learn, record, etc., will die with you. You have a companion that shares the same expectation which provides comfort. Machines are incapabale of wanting to which the parent would imply that the condition isn't programmed.
I say BS on that as the fact that you have a want that is a condtion of shelter (comfort), you have altered your biologically programmed purpose and have changed the expectation of your being.
I'm sure they had a local geek do the shift test. How could they NOT do it.
I bet it was one of those "Shhhhhhhh, don't say a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g!"
They were up on a deadline, that was the first test that worked but could be bypassed by holding down the shift key so they moved on until the deadline loomed and they brought out the first test.
There is one thing that is innate within all living things as we understand it and that our being has a need to multiply. That belief system that is within all our cells and further into the organism gives us a need that doesn't need to be taught.
In order to fulfill that need, we (organisms and individual cells) need food and water and we'll do whatever it takes to get it.
You could add that we will do whatever it takes to get food and water OR we'll die. That is the understanding that we will cease to exist if our needs aren't met. Computers and AI aren't that sosphisticated yet or if ever (I tend to think eventually when another method of skinning the cat comes about but not now).
Computers don't understand, they follow instructions. They need power and don't do a damn thing about it if it is threatened. It has no desire to learn, it only observes and records and makes no correlation among sets of data.
A computer isn't self aware, a program has to be written to record uptime and keep a tally to simulate self awareness.
We can decide a favorite color, shape, and musical pattern that isn't passed down within our instructions (DNA). We question, machines only maintain and report. We have the ability to learn, machines can only record.
So, if you'd like to say that we are a complex set of IF..THEN statments, then go ahead. The difference between our IF..THEN and a machine is that we have the conditional OR that rules us and the ability to change expectations and adapt. Machines don't. Machines can be programmed to adapt but so far, the best machines are proxies for humans and none are autonomous.
Conscious thought has everything to do with mistakes.
A machine is mechanical and is incapable of mistakes as it can't set expectations.
From your quote, "Mistakes are when you have some kind of expectation and those expectations fail to be met.", machines aren't capable of setting expectations, only following a basic 'to do' list.
If a machine adds 1+1 and returns 3 to the register, then it didn't fail, it added 1+1 in the way it knows how to.
AI today is nothing more than a bunch of IF..THEN possiblities run on fast processors to make it seem instantaneous and 'alive'.
You can program a machine to be aware of it's power (Voltage) and you can have a program set to monitor that power with cameras and laser beams and whatever else with commands to shoot laser beams at any device that comes near that power but the machine still isn't aware of what power is.
Not to get philosophical here but IMO, AI won't ever be real until a machine has a belief system and part of that belief system relies upon it's own ability to get energy, just like animals do.
It's possible that a program can be written so that a machine is aware of it's own requirements but then we're back to a bunch of IF..THEN statements written by programmers.
The "repair permissions" is when you do a software upgrade like 10.3.1 to 10.3.2 and so on.
It's not required and honestly, I've never had problems with not doing it. I've gone months without rebooting too saving whatever latest update that requires a reboot to do just that.
I figure that if repair permissions is a requirement, it would be part of the upgrade process.
Enforcing the registration of every little political blogger is impossible and is equivalent to censorship if it came to be enforced - (READ: throw more of our tax money at it).
Talk radio is opinion or entertainment - not factual unless it is a NEWS program where there is no room for opinions (except for PBS and their colorful adjectives).
Most savvy users would be able to smell the stink of paid political ads especially if it's from a consistent site. Opinions from a site that lean one way will attract the choir and detractors will automatically spew negatives about it.
This isn't your old time newspaper where one size has to fit all.
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I have a site that follows said rules.
I have a form that sends a verification email to the recipient that the recipient must reply to in order to receive newsletters and to be eligible to win a monthly prize we give away.
80% of AOL users that fill out the form tell AOL that the verification email is SPAM.
4% of the AOL users in the current database reports the newsletters as SPAM.
With that being said, we are seriously thinking if removing all AOL users from our database and not allowing AOL email addresses to be used.
We've said it time and time again yet we always 'wait another month'.
Fortunately, the images will be better.
If the military can colorize the output from infrared goggles realtime to look 'real', I'm sure the brains at NASA can colorize infrared images just like they colorize the Hubble images.
The Spitzer telescope has produced a few pretty images.
I know. These images suck from the Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope.
There is absolutely no way that we can extrapolate any color from those images.
c). social networking? What is this adjective "social" you are talking about?
The Zune. C'mon. Haven't you joined the social?
These tripe lists are opinions. YMMV in all cases.
I've been a T-mobile customer, Verizon, Nextel, and Cingular.
Cingular is the only carrier where I reside now. T-mobile removed a tower and Verizon has an extremely weak signal.
Nextel was a company provided plan so that doesn't apply to me anymore.
I've had great service will all four of them.
My current opinion is
1)Cingular
2)T-Mobile
3)Verizon
4)Nextel
My opinion a year ago would have been
1)T-Mobile
2)Verizon
3)Nextel
and my opinion 3 years before that would be different too.
5 years ago, only VoiceStream (now T-mobile) had a family plan.
I've heard nothing but bad things about them and I've never had a complaint.
You can't account for fonts. PDF allows insertion of fonts. That is what makes it 100% compatible across platforms and rips.
Why does the smoke appear to be saturated?
A coal powered plant in Cartersvile, Georgia is the same way.
Hey man, I'm just spreadin' the gospel of Microsoft.
I don't know about you but I stamp out spam using my Microsoft(TM) Dance Dance Revolution interface.
This shouldn't be seen as a viable business service, only a "just be glad we have it at all".
~300ms latency is better than 2-4 hour latency.
The alternative is to pay $2 a minute on those phones they have and use the modem.
The iPod is a silly music player.
I can buy other music players that don't carry the iPod name.
If I want to buy a computer retail, I have few choices from manufacturers to choose from and the required OS isn't my choice.
This search from CDW returns 3 Mac OSX choices and the rest Windows.
This search returns 3 iPods and the rest are mixed.
Hardly a monopoly.
Not only that but the fact it's for a silly music player.
A computer is a tool and applications are required for proper function.
Most of said useful applications are written for Microsoft's platform and they get a free pass.
Vista will be Microsoft's best seller ever. You wait and see.
In fact, I will bookmark this comment and see when that statment will come true.
If killing one cow feeds ten people, then so be it.
PeTA's assertion is to kill ten people to save one cow.
People who favor PeTA's talking points will state that the cow doesn't need to die in order to feed ten people.
If you add that there isn't enough veggie food around to feed ten people for the immediate now and killing the cow is neccessary to feed said tem people, I say kill the cow, PeTA says kill the people.
The fact that you are making a conscious effort to not reproduce.
The parent implied that we are nothing but a complex array of IF..THEN statements to which I replied that we are driven by the conditional OR.
Machines in their current state today aren't capable of understanding as their purpose is to follow instructions, not alter expectations as they are not able to be set mechanically autonomously.
Existence of living organisms is about consuming food, water, and reproducing.
There are those that will put a religious spin on the purpose of life but that doesn't take away the need for food, water, and shelter.
Your existence is about maintaining food, water, and shelter. Whatever you learn, record, etc., will die with you. You have a companion that shares the same expectation which provides comfort. Machines are incapabale of wanting to which the parent would imply that the condition isn't programmed.
I say BS on that as the fact that you have a want that is a condtion of shelter (comfort), you have altered your biologically programmed purpose and have changed the expectation of your being.
I'm sure they had a local geek do the shift test. How could they NOT do it.
I bet it was one of those "Shhhhhhhh, don't say a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g!"
They were up on a deadline, that was the first test that worked but could be bypassed by holding down the shift key so they moved on until the deadline loomed and they brought out the first test.
I wonder what the PeTA crowd thinks of this 'experimentation' on cats.
Actually, who cares what they think.
In their warped logic, this should be outlawed.
There is one thing that is innate within all living things as we understand it and that our being has a need to multiply.
That belief system that is within all our cells and further into the organism gives us a need that doesn't need to be taught.
In order to fulfill that need, we (organisms and individual cells) need food and water and we'll do whatever it takes to get it.
You could add that we will do whatever it takes to get food and water OR we'll die. That is the understanding that we will cease to exist if our needs aren't met.
Computers and AI aren't that sosphisticated yet or if ever (I tend to think eventually when another method of skinning the cat comes about but not now).
Computers don't understand, they follow instructions.
They need power and don't do a damn thing about it if it is threatened. It has no desire to learn, it only observes and records and makes no correlation among sets of data.
A computer isn't self aware, a program has to be written to record uptime and keep a tally to simulate self awareness.
We can decide a favorite color, shape, and musical pattern that isn't passed down within our instructions (DNA).
We question, machines only maintain and report.
We have the ability to learn, machines can only record.
So, if you'd like to say that we are a complex set of IF..THEN statments, then go ahead. The difference between our IF..THEN and a machine is that we have the conditional OR that rules us and the ability to change expectations and adapt. Machines don't. Machines can be programmed to adapt but so far, the best machines are proxies for humans and none are autonomous.
Explain to me how it is NOT Vista's problem if the decoder works in XP?
Conscious thought has everything to do with mistakes.
A machine is mechanical and is incapable of mistakes as it can't set expectations.
From your quote, "Mistakes are when you have some kind of expectation and those expectations fail to be met.", machines aren't capable of setting expectations, only following a basic 'to do' list.
If a machine adds 1+1 and returns 3 to the register, then it didn't fail, it added 1+1 in the way it knows how to.
AI today is nothing more than a bunch of IF..THEN possiblities run on fast processors to make it seem instantaneous and 'alive'.
You can program a machine to be aware of it's power (Voltage) and you can have a program set to monitor that power with cameras and laser beams and whatever else with commands to shoot laser beams at any device that comes near that power but the machine still isn't aware of what power is.
Not to get philosophical here but IMO, AI won't ever be real until a machine has a belief system and part of that belief system relies upon it's own ability to get energy, just like animals do.
It's possible that a program can be written so that a machine is aware of it's own requirements but then we're back to a bunch of IF..THEN statements written by programmers.
Except Vista is a beta.
Life critical is the CT Scan or the MRI that is running at the moment of capture.
Post processing images whilst the tech is listening to his favorite music isn't.
Many times the techs will receive images from another facility and will have to deal with them. Sometimes it piles up and the 2AM guy organizes them.
AFP is a component of AppleTalk.
Can't go wrong with using SMB for your local network.
The "repair permissions" is when you do a software upgrade like 10.3.1 to 10.3.2 and so on.
It's not required and honestly, I've never had problems with not doing it. I've gone months without rebooting too saving whatever latest update that requires a reboot to do just that.
I figure that if repair permissions is a requirement, it would be part of the upgrade process.
It's on the Goddamn internets for cripes sake.
If you belive that Bill Gates said that 640k ought to be enough for anybody, then you need to turn in your internet usage license.
Enforcing the registration of every little political blogger is impossible and is equivalent to censorship if it came to be enforced - (READ: throw more of our tax money at it).
Talk radio is opinion or entertainment - not factual unless it is a NEWS program where there is no room for opinions (except for PBS and their colorful adjectives).
Most savvy users would be able to smell the stink of paid political ads especially if it's from a consistent site.
Opinions from a site that lean one way will attract the choir and detractors will automatically spew negatives about it.
This isn't your old time newspaper where one size has to fit all.