Maybe battery/electric will replace gasoline in the future when the technology advances to the point it's a viable alternative.
By viable alternative, do you mean the price point or the technology? Because unless I'm mistaken (and please correct me if I'm wrong) we've reached the point that battery/electric is, technologically speaking, a viable alternative.
I have a Google Play Music family account. This gives me, my partner, our siblings and one parent access to service for AUD$18 per month. It also gives all of us ad-free YouTube Red as part of the package.
I work in a fairly relaxed office environment in which I'm allowed to listen to music over headphones. I also have a pretty eclectic taste in music, so I like to switch beats depending on my mood or what I'm working on. It also lets me discover new artists.
So all in all, I think it's a fantastic service that's worth every cent.
We seem to incrementally moving towards smarter and more complex AI. I'm interested to know when we'll classify it as a form of life; does it have to be sentient (self-aware), or could you argue that some animals/insects aren't self aware? Do we adjust the current definition of life (around reproduction and respiration and all that) or create one that's more fitting for a computer based life form?
This topic is really interesting to me. I had a professor a few years ago when I was doing postgrad that thought exactly that; that the Japanese had reached the capitalist endgame. He went on to explain (at great length) that the Japanese were still clinging to the original model of capitalism, and the only way forward was high tech communism.
What he meant wasn’t the communism of the Soviet era, but a communism in which menial work is left to robotics and AI with humans having the freedom to engage in creative pursuits, invention and leisure. He believes (and his arguments were quite convincing) that the Japanese have a HUGE supply productive potential with very little demand, and that their current socio-economic model is the product of not seeing the forest for the trees.
That being said, I would be very surprised if every country in the world (potentially discounting states like Luxenbourg) didn't have its equivalent of the Sons of Odin. Whether they're organised or not.
It disturbs me that the United States has for-profit prisons, and impose harsh penalties on crimes that would (in many other countreis) be considered quite minor. And from what I understand, other countries are trying to emulate this model?
Prisons in the US seem to turn idiot kids into hardened criminals. The Scandinavian model of rehabilitation over punishment seems a far better solution.
I really want him to provide a definition of what a "sense of humanity" is, and apply it equally to a pool of well known individuals (Dalai Lama, Joseph Stalin, Charles Manson, Nelson Mandela) and try to avoid miring that definition in some sort of wishy-washy, mythical or biblical masturbation.
You led me on a Wikipedia trail, resulting in the revelation that there are French monarchists around who think 29 year old Jean-Cristophe, descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte, should be the head of the Imperial House of France...
I'd love the freedom to walk down the street without some douchebag walking in front of me and creating chemical clouds in my path. I'd love the freedom to enjoy the outdoors seating area at a cafe without having cigarette smoke mingling with my coffee. And I'd love the freedom to take a break every hour at work to do nothing.
I'm all for one's personal freedom to ravage one's own body with 7000 chemicals condensed into a single, burning stick. But I'd like the freedom from that being inflicted on me in public spaces, too.
After his experience, he said “There is a definitely a difference between my life before and after spending days in Virtual Reality. I was marked by it. And now, in an exciting way, everything feels slightly superficial or unreal.”
I want to know how, how it's affected his daily life, and whether that unreality is starting to pass. I've read quite a bit about the effects of LSD and psilocybin, and would like to know if there are any similarities.
It's a pity there wasn't a team of researchers there with him...
That being said, I've never really understood why people would abstain from the vote. If you're faced with two evils and no other choices, vote for the lesser. It's the governance of the country at stake, and it directly or indirectly affects every citizen.
In my opinion, if you abstain from voting, you really have no basis upon which to complain about government.
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Considering the amount of interest and the number of comments this submission is getting, I'm guessing it's news that nerds care about.
Anecdotal evidence: I'm a nerd, and this matters to me.
Maybe battery/electric will replace gasoline in the future when the technology advances to the point it's a viable alternative.
By viable alternative, do you mean the price point or the technology? Because unless I'm mistaken (and please correct me if I'm wrong) we've reached the point that battery/electric is, technologically speaking, a viable alternative.
Seriously...pay for music?
Why would I do that?
I have a Google Play Music family account. This gives me, my partner, our siblings and one parent access to service for AUD$18 per month. It also gives all of us ad-free YouTube Red as part of the package.
I work in a fairly relaxed office environment in which I'm allowed to listen to music over headphones. I also have a pretty eclectic taste in music, so I like to switch beats depending on my mood or what I'm working on. It also lets me discover new artists.
So all in all, I think it's a fantastic service that's worth every cent.
Da-dum dum dum-dum.
You're right; I'm at work, so I forwarded myself the link to watch it later. The topic just got me thinking! :D
And then I went off on all sorts of tangents from there...
We seem to incrementally moving towards smarter and more complex AI. I'm interested to know when we'll classify it as a form of life; does it have to be sentient (self-aware), or could you argue that some animals/insects aren't self aware? Do we adjust the current definition of life (around reproduction and respiration and all that) or create one that's more fitting for a computer based life form?
Interesting times.
Seaquest DSV.
Keeppass... is an unfortunate name.
xkcd covered this a while ago.
I use this now. Not the actual passphrase, but the principle.
This topic is really interesting to me. I had a professor a few years ago when I was doing postgrad that thought exactly that; that the Japanese had reached the capitalist endgame. He went on to explain (at great length) that the Japanese were still clinging to the original model of capitalism, and the only way forward was high tech communism.
What he meant wasn’t the communism of the Soviet era, but a communism in which menial work is left to robotics and AI with humans having the freedom to engage in creative pursuits, invention and leisure. He believes (and his arguments were quite convincing) that the Japanese have a HUGE supply productive potential with very little demand, and that their current socio-economic model is the product of not seeing the forest for the trees.
I'm not actually Scandinavian, or in Scandinavia.
That being said, I would be very surprised if every country in the world (potentially discounting states like Luxenbourg) didn't have its equivalent of the Sons of Odin. Whether they're organised or not.
It disturbs me that the United States has for-profit prisons, and impose harsh penalties on crimes that would (in many other countreis) be considered quite minor. And from what I understand, other countries are trying to emulate this model?
Prisons in the US seem to turn idiot kids into hardened criminals. The Scandinavian model of rehabilitation over punishment seems a far better solution.
Now they're trying Stockholm Syndrome?
I really want him to provide a definition of what a "sense of humanity" is, and apply it equally to a pool of well known individuals (Dalai Lama, Joseph Stalin, Charles Manson, Nelson Mandela) and try to avoid miring that definition in some sort of wishy-washy, mythical or biblical masturbation.
Quid quo pro, no?
You led me on a Wikipedia trail, resulting in the revelation that there are French monarchists around who think 29 year old Jean-Cristophe, descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte, should be the head of the Imperial House of France...
Huh.
Basically what that amounts to is you cherry picking results.
...Cherryh picking?
Sorry. I'll show myself out.
Other than driverless cars
Go back a handful of years, and you wouldn't even write that.
He was 14 when he "invented email".
Let's just ignore ARPANET, which had been floating about for a while.
...just my arm? ;D
Some idiot's driving 200 km/h down a residential street? Then get out of the way!
Junkies are dropping syringes all over the beach? Then don't go to the beach!
All the grocers in your city block are importing contaminated food? Then grow your own!
Arguments like that are always quite stupid, and as a fellow Slashdotter (despite your ACing), I hope you don't need further explanation as to why.
Absolutely! I'm all about personal freedom.
I'd love the freedom to walk down the street without some douchebag walking in front of me and creating chemical clouds in my path. I'd love the freedom to enjoy the outdoors seating area at a cafe without having cigarette smoke mingling with my coffee. And I'd love the freedom to take a break every hour at work to do nothing.
I'm all for one's personal freedom to ravage one's own body with 7000 chemicals condensed into a single, burning stick. But I'd like the freedom from that being inflicted on me in public spaces, too.
There's a lot of military hardware that runs on circa 1970s computer systems.
After his experience, he said “There is a definitely a difference between my life before and after spending days in Virtual Reality. I was marked by it. And now, in an exciting way, everything feels slightly superficial or unreal.”
I want to know how, how it's affected his daily life, and whether that unreality is starting to pass. I've read quite a bit about the effects of LSD and psilocybin, and would like to know if there are any similarities.
It's a pity there wasn't a team of researchers there with him...
We have compulsory voting in Australia.
That being said, I've never really understood why people would abstain from the vote. If you're faced with two evils and no other choices, vote for the lesser. It's the governance of the country at stake, and it directly or indirectly affects every citizen.
In my opinion, if you abstain from voting, you really have no basis upon which to complain about government.