It's a USB hardware RNG about the size of a thumb drive. 100 kb/sec. It's cool but I don't use it much. Linux friendly, and if Java ever gets around to a USB API it will work well with that.
I've had nearly every console out there, and have never busted a single one. Maybe a controller here and there. Someone working for these companies has the real data, and I doubt they plan for more than 1/8th needing to be replaced.
I usually remembered some fantastic games coming near the end of the lifecycle, like Earthworm Jim 2 for the SNES or Return of Joker for NES. Developers learn the intricacies of what you can do, and do more amazing stuff as time goes by. Better perhaps than even these artificial demos. Respect the software.
There's an interesting debate on going swapless in both Windows and Linux worlds. No swap means neither drive. Swapping will be to memory like it should be.
This solution makes a lot more sense than those hybrid drives with both flash and platters. Keep it simple. I won't mourn the demise of the spinning discs. Speaking of KISS, going swapless when using this as your only drive makes a lot of sense too.
I'd be quite interested in this for a desktop. Would pair nicely with a passively cooled system.
I just let out a huge sigh when I read the headline. I haven't read the link, or any replies. I do not intend to. OK. Stop. Please. It WILL happen. But please calm down.
For one, the central goal here is not to download the brain. It is to establish a continuity of consciousness to a machine. We forget things all the time--there is no need to be able to remember everything you would have as a human.
Look at the brain. For some reason people with a keen interest in the future but little knowledge of neuroscience like to say things like "DOWNLOAD THE BRAIN". Philosophers seem to think they suddenly have a detailed knowledge of neuroscience.
You could very likely remove the cerebellum, medulla, and primary motor/sensory cortices. These are better understood and could be either removed or replicated. The spinal cord is technically a part of the CNS, and in fact is quite well understood. This can be removed, as can be seen in how those who have it sliced rather high up don't become zombies. There are many other areas that are understood such as Weirnikie's and Broca's areas mainly through injury studies. Again, people do not become zombies if these areas are compromised.
Please, everyone, learn some neuroscience. Learn lots of science. Science will give the individual complete liberation from any society and money concept. Science, not philosophy.
If it really is correlated, then that itself is quite interesting. Casuality makes little sense here anyway--that's like presuming writing equations on a chalkboard kills XX sperm.
Ok, I was once the rabid type who would say this immediately. English can be an ambiguous language. But we can talk in a nonambiguous way by choosing the correct words. We can also use our capacity to disambiguate. "Drinking" sometimes means "drinking ethanol". "Animal" sometimes means "non-human animal".
This use of animal has religious connetations. This use of theft has political connetations. Get over it. English won't be around forever. We'll get to an unambiguous binary language soon enough (see lojban for a preview).
First of all, thank you for writing this. I'd also like to thank the one who modded it up.
I am so sick of people calling themselves "transhumans" there are *no* transhumans, there are only people who advocate it, aka. transhumanists. (yeah and before you say it some dude with a pacermaker is "transhuman".... right...).
I am not a full transhuman. I would like to be one.
To be a transhumanist you have to advocate the marriage of machines, technology (nanotech, biotech) with humans. But on the whole the people who advocate such a theory haven't considered the moral, philosophical and even technical implications of transhumanism and tend to be incredibly ignorant apes.
No, to be a transhuman...you have to be transhuman.
For example. when I use a computer, am I not augmenting myself? A hammer? Am I not a cyborg, am I not transhuman when I get inside a car or ride a bike? How are these different from being able to replace legs with wheels? How is google different from having an auto-memory?
The line is usually given as the skin. Having had a castration done, I am technically posthuman in a nonsuperficial way.
Oh that's right, you like to make a big deal out of your little "futurist" theory because the future is "cool" and you haven't the capacity to see the wonders and operations of technology in our present day and age. There are no end of these people preying on the "coolness" of the "future" like the college professor who claims a chip in his arm makes him the first cyborg, forgetting the first pacemaker, or hearing aid. Forgeting the sword and the bow.
It will be interesting. "Cool" is not a technical term, and has little meaning.
Transhumanists and futurists etc. are without deviation snake oil salesmen and dreamers. I am not saying thinking about the future is bad, but thinking in such utterly *stupid* terms is worthy of contempt.
Sure you can make money off it. A good amount really are dreamers (not a bad thing) and not out to make money.
Without fail, these people are from the sciences, who may gave a better grasp of the potential technologies, but in their ignorance of history forget how radical the changes that have already occured have been.
Is this worse than the inevitable ethicists, philosophers, and theologians that crop up in any article on contraversial science?
Go to any "transhumanist" website or description and it will be *dripping* in buzzwords and bullshit. The problems, questions and answers to the singularity, skynet, and other AI fantasies or to transhumanism and the "posthuman" condition won't be found in some over-cooked science drop-outs rantings, they will be found in a proper philosophical and cultural analysis.
They will be found in both.
I will stress again, I am not saying these questions aren't interesting. But transhumanism is a proto-cult about the promise of the future dreamed up by those who do not fit into the present (not a bad thing) and fail to see why (stupid).
Well it looks like more of us will have to deal with UNICODE above 0xFFFF. Some of these additional characters have important business implications as some Asian names just plain need code points above 0xFFFF. So these bloggers will tip the scales even further.
Any bets when we'll meet a bunch of sentients from another galaxy and break past thirty-two bits per code point?
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But the 404 is the least you can do. Same thing with the links to the webpage.
I see a link to report dead torrents. Why not automatically check for dead links occasionally?
I suppose they can be given some leniency, but if it's down for a whole week, it shouldn't require human intervention to drop from the page.
It's a USB hardware RNG about the size of a thumb drive. 100 kb/sec. It's cool but I don't use it much. Linux friendly, and if Java ever gets around to a USB API it will work well with that.
I've had nearly every console out there, and have never busted a single one. Maybe a controller here and there. Someone working for these companies has the real data, and I doubt they plan for more than 1/8th needing to be replaced.
I usually remembered some fantastic games coming near the end of the lifecycle, like Earthworm Jim 2 for the SNES or Return of Joker for NES. Developers learn the intricacies of what you can do, and do more amazing stuff as time goes by. Better perhaps than even these artificial demos. Respect the software.
There's the Stanford transhumanist society one. Can't think of any other good ones.
Bluetooth headset. Throw science texts into a nice text-to-speech, and learn while you walk! Good stuff.
My sig, however, will soon become quite explicit. But with a lot of warning!
Transhumanists are simply ahead of their time. I know I am.
By the way, you forgot to say "take your medication". Other than that, it's all been said. Many times.
Some stuff is just really important. I'd like a RAID-1 flash array with covered connectors for that.
Not porn of course. Would be nice to store detailed maps of the thalamus. Transhumanity awaits.
There's an interesting debate on going swapless in both Windows and Linux worlds. No swap means neither drive. Swapping will be to memory like it should be.
If your're gonna jettison old crap, do away with PATA as well.
This solution makes a lot more sense than those hybrid drives with both flash and platters. Keep it simple. I won't mourn the demise of the spinning discs. Speaking of KISS, going swapless when using this as your only drive makes a lot of sense too.
I'd be quite interested in this for a desktop. Would pair nicely with a passively cooled system.
I just let out a huge sigh when I read the headline. I haven't read the link, or any replies. I do not intend to. OK. Stop. Please. It WILL happen. But please calm down.
For one, the central goal here is not to download the brain. It is to establish a continuity of consciousness to a machine. We forget things all the time--there is no need to be able to remember everything you would have as a human.
Look at the brain. For some reason people with a keen interest in the future but little knowledge of neuroscience like to say things like "DOWNLOAD THE BRAIN". Philosophers seem to think they suddenly have a detailed knowledge of neuroscience.
You could very likely remove the cerebellum, medulla, and primary motor/sensory cortices. These are better understood and could be either removed or replicated. The spinal cord is technically a part of the CNS, and in fact is quite well understood. This can be removed, as can be seen in how those who have it sliced rather high up don't become zombies. There are many other areas that are understood such as Weirnikie's and Broca's areas mainly through injury studies. Again, people do not become zombies if these areas are compromised.
Please, everyone, learn some neuroscience. Learn lots of science. Science will give the individual complete liberation from any society and money concept. Science, not philosophy.
If it really is correlated, then that itself is quite interesting. Casuality makes little sense here anyway--that's like presuming writing equations on a chalkboard kills XX sperm.
More testosterone in the womb leads to boys.
What does this have to do with the father? What does this have to do with which sperm gets into the egg?
It will happen.
English has ambiguity. Sometimes the ambiguity has political or religious connetation. Get over it! One day we'll be transhumans talking machine code.
Ok, I was once the rabid type who would say this immediately. English can be an ambiguous language. But we can talk in a nonambiguous way by choosing the correct words. We can also use our capacity to disambiguate. "Drinking" sometimes means "drinking ethanol". "Animal" sometimes means "non-human animal".
This use of animal has religious connetations. This use of theft has political connetations. Get over it. English won't be around forever. We'll get to an unambiguous binary language soon enough (see lojban for a preview).
First of all, thank you for writing this. I'd also like to thank the one who modded it up.
I am so sick of people calling themselves "transhumans" there are *no* transhumans, there are only people who advocate it, aka. transhumanists. (yeah and before you say it some dude with a pacermaker is "transhuman".... right...).
I am not a full transhuman. I would like to be one.
To be a transhumanist you have to advocate the marriage of machines, technology (nanotech, biotech) with humans. But on the whole the people who advocate such a theory haven't considered the moral, philosophical and even technical implications of transhumanism and tend to be incredibly ignorant apes.
No, to be a transhuman...you have to be transhuman.
For example. when I use a computer, am I not augmenting myself? A hammer? Am I not a cyborg, am I not transhuman when I get inside a car or ride a bike? How are these different from being able to replace legs with wheels? How is google different from having an auto-memory?
The line is usually given as the skin. Having had a castration done, I am technically posthuman in a nonsuperficial way.
Oh that's right, you like to make a big deal out of your little "futurist" theory because the future is "cool" and you haven't the capacity to see the wonders and operations of technology in our present day and age. There are no end of these people preying on the "coolness" of the "future" like the college professor who claims a chip in his arm makes him the first cyborg, forgetting the first pacemaker, or hearing aid. Forgeting the sword and the bow.
It will be interesting. "Cool" is not a technical term, and has little meaning.
Transhumanists and futurists etc. are without deviation snake oil salesmen and dreamers. I am not saying thinking about the future is bad, but thinking in such utterly *stupid* terms is worthy of contempt.
Sure you can make money off it. A good amount really are dreamers (not a bad thing) and not out to make money.
Without fail, these people are from the sciences, who may gave a better grasp of the potential technologies, but in their ignorance of history forget how radical the changes that have already occured have been.
Is this worse than the inevitable ethicists, philosophers, and theologians that crop up in any article on contraversial science?
Go to any "transhumanist" website or description and it will be *dripping* in buzzwords and bullshit. The problems, questions and answers to the singularity, skynet, and other AI fantasies or to transhumanism and the "posthuman" condition won't be found in some over-cooked science drop-outs rantings, they will be found in a proper philosophical and cultural analysis.
They will be found in both.
I will stress again, I am not saying these questions aren't interesting. But transhumanism is a proto-cult about the promise of the future dreamed up by those who do not fit into the present (not a bad thing) and fail to see why (stupid).
I don't fit into the present.
A lot of good points.
I wonder if any subject or news item could be unrelated to transhumanism.
Don't get your ego wrapped up in this. Transhumans can do puzzles fast just like forklifts can lift fast.
Any bets when we'll meet a bunch of sentients from another galaxy and break past thirty-two bits per code point?
There is a somewhat hilarious description of how the Java developers dealt with all this: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/In tl/Supplementary/.
Transhumanism/singularity will probably whittle down the whole thing to the bit of course!