I find your post remarkable:
(1) the package manager is in no way as easy as a drag and drop operation. It's not bad, but come on!
(2) what can you not do with the keyboard on a mac. I assume you have seen the terminal, right?
I am a developer that uses Ubuntu (work) and OS X (home). I rely on the terminal rather a lot in both cases, Using the GUI only when it saves time.
Right now, I just cannot think of an operation on the Mac that cannot be done via the command line.
did at least promise that it wouldn't be a "it was all a dream" or a "they're already dead" ending Oh God, if he did that, I'd personally bust his kneecaps!
you are, on the whole, right, that if consciousness emerges from the brain, and that we were able to understand how the genotype level (the neurons) translate the the phenotype level (our minds), then we could undertake these sorts of experiments to see how consciousness changes.
But the whole train of thought, rides on some pretty big assumptions.
At this stage, we really don't know what consciousness is, or where it comes from. Some have conjectured that it is an emergent property of the brain, but this is completely unproven, and has, currently no basis in fact. The compelling-seeming arguments in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter, when you look closely at the logical processes in his algorithms, amounts to quite some hand-waving. It sorta comes down to "enough self-referentialness and recursion, and suddenly boom, you get self awareness". It a bit like Heinlein saying, "enough digital connections in a computer, and boom, suddenly its self-aware".
I realise that I'm on Slashdot, so there is probably a materialist assumption residing in most people that post here, but even with that restriction, there could be a lot of other models out there, that we're not thinking about.
hmmm...vacuum's not that bad, actually in places where there is no direct sunlight, It'll be -273 degrees C, so you'll probably find that that bit of exposed flesh would get really cold. If exposed to sunlight, it'll burn pretty quickly, but not before you can get some tape on it.
I'm not an astrophysicist, but my understanding is that time also began in the big bang. It's not like one moment there was lots of mass and energy when there was none the previous moment. There was no previous moment. A tad disingenious sir. The guy might have a point here. I realise that a spontaneous eruption out of nothing is not the same as the expectations of a perpetual motion machine. Nonetheless, why should we consider the universe as a whole exempt from the requirements of the universe within, without at least some thought on the matter.
I actually find the whole creatio ex nihlo thing one of the most distasteful aspects of the big bang theory.
Maybe your post made me feel like an old fogey, or maybe you're plain wrong. I'm 38, I work in a major dotcom as a Senior Java Developer, I commit heaps of code to a new SOA rebuild of the current business tier, we're all pretty proud of it.
Now, maybe my age has made me short-sighted, but I don't see anyone trying to edge me out here.
1. Leverage: that is, I'm going to leverage something - magically turning an adjective into a verb.
2. Incentivise: WTF? How 'bout "provide an incentive"? sure its three words, but it doesn't sound so stupid.
Okay, I'm going to have a crack at this because I think even this is only haif the story:
The effect of measurement within the car, like, say observing that the driver's hand is in fact on the gearstick, rather than his girlfriends boob. Has collapsed the wave function to the hand on gearstick state. This negates the other possible states, and it does so retro-actively. This is because it takes a finite time to make the observation, during which the observed has to make preparations for the correct state upon collapse. The Best example of this is observing a photon that has (necessarily) gone one way around an intervening galaxy to appear as a spot on your phosphour screen as opposed to the interference pattern observed by a photon interfering with itself as it goes both ways round at once. In this case, the preparation time is millions of years. Demonstrating the paradox rather nicely.
Therefore the observed has to back track in its history, so that it can behave as observed.
The grandparent suggests one way around this absurdity, which is if we had no free-will, then the photon/driver's hand is already fated to be observed in a particular way. But Bell himself, I believe, thought that this was rediculous.
So the problem remains (to most people's opinion). Many of suggested all sorts of solutions that make mockeries of Occam's Razor such as many worlds theorems, but for me, I think the Copenhagen Interpretation is the original and best.
This was brought up in the early meetings, but there were some problems encountered
(1) The US Army seemed unwilling to share their information (imagine that).
(2) Ratifying the results would have required all future Mars missions to be flown by Islamic astronauts
(3) No one was sure how to systematically torture the astronauts throughout the mission, except by providing no communication from earth unless it was backed with a Bryan Adams soundtrack.
You've got it around the wrong way, OPEL (a consortium lead by Optus) has been working on this for a while, they made a completed submission a couple of weeks ago, which the Government decided to adopt. They didn't start the process. Also, it was not a billion-dollar contract, but the first 958 million or so for upgrading the existing ADSL network. The wireless part will be put out to tender later.
There is no commitment to fibre in this, not even to the node. But as usual, the Government has taken credit, and there's always an army of drones to believe them.
As per normal, Howard's doing this because, after attacking the opposition over more or less the same plan, he discovered that the polls show that Australians want this. So he's decided to adopt the plan, but make it even better than the opposition's idea, by increasing the penetration by a massive 1% from 98% to 99%.
MonkeyBoyo: Jesus?
Jesus: Yes, my brother?
MonkeyBoyo: bring on the Intelligent Design wakos!
Jesus: well, I'm not supposed to indulge masochism, but have you tried some of the churches around utah?
Your screed defending the freedom of speech made me think a bit about the difference between a simple belief and an ideology. In particular your reference to islam as a crazy religion. You see, I don't think that its islam that does this, certainly no more than Christianity, anyway. I think its ideologues within those religions that use the texts and the power of public opinion to push certain agendas (such as killing protestants in the middle ages, and Americans in 20th and 21st Centuries).
A belief in islam in and of itself is likely only to be a belief in a single God, His laws, and being generally more hospitable to your fellow man, including the poor and some such. In essence, that same sort of stuff that's in the New Testament.
But anyone can go into either of these books pick out a few passages and use them to justify to a frightened population as to why they should be killing Americans, Infedels, Jews, and why doing so elevates you to heaven, paradise, the Nazi superman ideal, or whatever. This is what islamism, nazism, christian fundamentalism, corpratism does. It uses language to change the opinions of a target audience.
I think that this is what most people seem to miss. I think that its ideologies that shout for censorship, because they don't want competing ideologies, and they certainly don't want free thought.
Perhaps the only thing we should censor are these ideologues and leave everyone else alone
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I find your post remarkable: (1) the package manager is in no way as easy as a drag and drop operation. It's not bad, but come on! (2) what can you not do with the keyboard on a mac. I assume you have seen the terminal, right? I am a developer that uses Ubuntu (work) and OS X (home). I rely on the terminal rather a lot in both cases, Using the GUI only when it saves time. Right now, I just cannot think of an operation on the Mac that cannot be done via the command line.
ah, of course, thankyou.
...is even self-aware
I don't know. Does the idea scare you?
It's too late for that, we all know who you are Deep Throat!
you are, on the whole, right, that if consciousness emerges from the brain, and that we were able to understand how the genotype level (the neurons) translate the the phenotype level (our minds), then we could undertake these sorts of experiments to see how consciousness changes.
But the whole train of thought, rides on some pretty big assumptions.
At this stage, we really don't know what consciousness is, or where it comes from. Some have conjectured that it is an emergent property of the brain, but this is completely unproven, and has, currently no basis in fact. The compelling-seeming arguments in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter, when you look closely at the logical processes in his algorithms, amounts to quite some hand-waving. It sorta comes down to "enough self-referentialness and recursion, and suddenly boom, you get self awareness". It a bit like Heinlein saying, "enough digital connections in a computer, and boom, suddenly its self-aware".
I realise that I'm on Slashdot, so there is probably a materialist assumption residing in most people that post here, but even with that restriction, there could be a lot of other models out there, that we're not thinking about.
look, ummm... I dunno how to break it to you...but your computer...you see...doesn't have a personality...I know, I know...
hmmm...vacuum's not that bad, actually in places where there is no direct sunlight, It'll be -273 degrees C, so you'll probably find that that bit of exposed flesh would get really cold. If exposed to sunlight, it'll burn pretty quickly, but not before you can get some tape on it.
...now a micrometeor in the arse...
I actually find the whole creatio ex nihlo thing one of the most distasteful aspects of the big bang theory.
Maybe your post made me feel like an old fogey, or maybe you're plain wrong. I'm 38, I work in a major dotcom as a Senior Java Developer, I commit heaps of code to a new SOA rebuild of the current business tier, we're all pretty proud of it.
Now, maybe my age has made me short-sighted, but I don't see anyone trying to edge me out here.
But I was taught in the Book of Conan that the 3 good things in life were:
1) to crush you enemies;
2) to have dem driven before you; and
3) to see de lamentation of de women
1. Leverage: that is, I'm going to leverage something - magically turning an adjective into a verb.
2. Incentivise: WTF? How 'bout "provide an incentive"? sure its three words, but it doesn't sound so stupid.
20721 FTW? Got me there chief, what are you on about?
Okay, I'm going to have a crack at this because I think even this is only haif the story:
The effect of measurement within the car, like, say observing that the driver's hand is in fact on the gearstick, rather than his girlfriends boob. Has collapsed the wave function to the hand on gearstick state. This negates the other possible states, and it does so retro-actively. This is because it takes a finite time to make the observation, during which the observed has to make preparations for the correct state upon collapse. The Best example of this is observing a photon that has (necessarily) gone one way around an intervening galaxy to appear as a spot on your phosphour screen as opposed to the interference pattern observed by a photon interfering with itself as it goes both ways round at once. In this case, the preparation time is millions of years. Demonstrating the paradox rather nicely.
Therefore the observed has to back track in its history, so that it can behave as observed.
The grandparent suggests one way around this absurdity, which is if we had no free-will, then the photon/driver's hand is already fated to be observed in a particular way. But Bell himself, I believe, thought that this was rediculous.
So the problem remains (to most people's opinion). Many of suggested all sorts of solutions that make mockeries of Occam's Razor such as many worlds theorems, but for me, I think the Copenhagen Interpretation is the original and best.
This was brought up in the early meetings, but there were some problems encountered
(1) The US Army seemed unwilling to share their information (imagine that).
(2) Ratifying the results would have required all future Mars missions to be flown by Islamic astronauts
(3) No one was sure how to systematically torture the astronauts throughout the mission, except by providing no communication from earth unless it was backed with a Bryan Adams soundtrack.
You've got it around the wrong way, OPEL (a consortium lead by Optus) has been working on this for a while, they made a completed submission a couple of weeks ago, which the Government decided to adopt. They didn't start the process. Also, it was not a billion-dollar contract, but the first 958 million or so for upgrading the existing ADSL network. The wireless part will be put out to tender later.
There is no commitment to fibre in this, not even to the node. But as usual, the Government has taken credit, and there's always an army of drones to believe them.
I'm afraid Australia is run by vested (not public) interests.
As per normal, Howard's doing this because, after attacking the opposition over more or less the same plan, he discovered that the polls show that Australians want this. So he's decided to adopt the plan, but make it even better than the opposition's idea, by increasing the penetration by a massive 1% from 98% to 99%.
sigh
Actually, I can see the conversation now:
MonkeyBoyo: Jesus?
Jesus: Yes, my brother?
MonkeyBoyo: bring on the Intelligent Design wakos!
Jesus: well, I'm not supposed to indulge masochism, but have you tried some of the churches around utah?
you're asking Jesus for wackos?
- ducks -
love your wallpaper image though!
Your screed defending the freedom of speech made me think a bit about the difference between a simple belief and an ideology. In particular your reference to islam as a crazy religion. You see, I don't think that its islam that does this, certainly no more than Christianity, anyway. I think its ideologues within those religions that use the texts and the power of public opinion to push certain agendas (such as killing protestants in the middle ages, and Americans in 20th and 21st Centuries).
A belief in islam in and of itself is likely only to be a belief in a single God, His laws, and being generally more hospitable to your fellow man, including the poor and some such. In essence, that same sort of stuff that's in the New Testament.
But anyone can go into either of these books pick out a few passages and use them to justify to a frightened population as to why they should be killing Americans, Infedels, Jews, and why doing so elevates you to heaven, paradise, the Nazi superman ideal, or whatever. This is what islamism, nazism, christian fundamentalism, corpratism does. It uses language to change the opinions of a target audience.
I think that this is what most people seem to miss. I think that its ideologies that shout for censorship, because they don't want competing ideologies, and they certainly don't want free thought.
Perhaps the only thing we should censor are these ideologues and leave everyone else alone