The tricky part is how to define a feral human to begin with. A human, completely isolated from birth, has as much change of survival as almost any other animal isolated from birth. (not quite true, there are plenty of creatures that manage to survive based on instincts alone, but those still have obscene death rates. But the general thought still applies). It would still need some form of care at birth.. but since humans learn from their parents, even during their subconscious states before their consciousness really forms, how can you raise the child without breaking the experiment, to let them learn 'feral' methods of food gathering and survival? And even then, you still need a community to make it a proper experiment, since primates and birds often live in communities too, which implies several generations...
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
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Based on your own judgment of intelligent and sentient, of course.
Judge, jury, executioner.
But you'd have no /.!
The tricky part is how to define a feral human to begin with. A human, completely isolated from birth, has as much change of survival as almost any other animal isolated from birth. (not quite true, there are plenty of creatures that manage to survive based on instincts alone, but those still have obscene death rates. But the general thought still applies). It would still need some form of care at birth.. but since humans learn from their parents, even during their subconscious states before their consciousness really forms, how can you raise the child without breaking the experiment, to let them learn 'feral' methods of food gathering and survival? And even then, you still need a community to make it a proper experiment, since primates and birds often live in communities too, which implies several generations...
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
Your point makes no sense, especially if we're talking about the game lemmings.
1) Lemmings do NOT follow each other. They move blindly, period.
2) Lawyers do seem to follow each other, or at least follow where the money is.
Greed may be evil, but it isn't stupid. Which is what this bill is.
So you're legalizing planned obsolescence?
Somehow, I think there are more threats to Earth down here than up there..
People aren't very transparent, nor honest.
Does marketing research count as traditional media?
Or they can rebrand themselves as part of the entertainment industry, just as what WWF/WWE did.
Or just gaming in mind. Nintendo's not the only gaming hardware company.
1/2 the framerate or 1/2 resolution is a significant overhead. You're getting 1/2 the performance.
I thought it's the implementation that patentable, and not the idea itself, or am I mistaken?
Here's a pdf of the specs for PICA200.
http://www.dmprof.com/release/leaflet_PICA200_en.pdf
The point is to reduce wrongful convictions. Prevention is better than cure.
Actually, ignore this, I misunderstood the reply.
That's precisely what it does. Do note the topic states BOTH solving crimes (rightfully convicted) and clearing people who were wrongly convicted.
Now? Isn't Wii performance below the PS3 and 360, and yet still thrives? The knew this a LONG time ago, get with the times, man.
Just a question to naysayers: how is this different from the state wanting to know where you live, or wanting your name on record?
It allows the law enforcement to skip the step of having to arrest you to get your DNA to test.
Unless it was placed into public domain without consent.
I think you need an assassin for that..
Bend over? More like a judo toss. Did you even read the subsequent reply Slashdot posted after following them through?
Yeah, just like how consoles were replaced by those general purpose PCs (and imitators, *cough*). It's gonna happen soon, right?