but please remember, this stuff doesn't grow on trees
But is does! Metaphorically speaking, ofcourse. In the old days companies like Walt Disney were the only ones to create content as marvellous as this, and it took years of hard labour. But now *a lot* of independant artist, filmmakers, musicians create wunderful stuff as wel and publish it through the internet. Things are different these days. And the way we consume and produce is very different than 70 years ago.
Now, that doesn't mean there shouldn't be legal protection like copyright, but IMHO there should be other forms of protections and regulations.
If you want to select records use: SELECT
If you want to update records use: UPDATE
If you want to delete records use: DELETE
If you want to use a database use: USE
On your computer, you write a letter digital. Then you print it out analog, so you can feed it to the fax machine digital. The fax sends it over the telephone line using bleebs and hiss analog. The telephonecompany doesn't send sound, it sends bits. Your sounds gets converted to bits digital and back again to sounds analog. The recipients fax machine hears these sounds and converts them to a digital document digital. It then prints it out on paper analog. The recipient reads the fax, thinks it is important and scans to document to store it on the computer digital.
I was quite aware of my lack of knowledge about your background, but hoped I could get away with it. This is/. and most people here are techy nerds. But the funny thing is that you seem to do the same thing. You asume that my background isn't cognitive science (probably based on my blabbling and not talking the lingo). So, my background is cognitive science, or it isn't. You don't know. But if this were a game of poker, I would be holding my cards with a big smile.
I must agree with you that my remark is vague, and I'll try to elaborate. By boundaries I mean that we live in a world defined by laws. There are laws on all levels; the laws of physics, biological processes and human interaction. We cannot break those rules, because we are what we are because of those laws. I believe that creativity is not about breaking those laws, but creativity is about using those laws on ways previously unknown. If there would be no rules, there was nothing to be creative about.
That's what I mean with by boundaries and wouldn't work. I hope I have clarified myself more for you.
And for what it is worth. My background is not Cognitive Science. It is Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, which is the Dungeons & Dragons of the Cognitive Science. Now, what's yours?
Creativity is about new ideas and concepts that didn't exist before and actually making them happen.
Oh, dear. Another techy nerd who thinks they understand how humans 'think' but really doesn't. There have to be boundaries, because otherwise you new ideas and concepts wouldn't work.
With hard drives, data doesn't just go away. Sure, it may not be recoverable with simple "undelete" software, but data recovery experts will charge far less than $200,000 to pull important files off of a wiped hard drive.
No no no! You don't understand. It says clearly that consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data. Who needs data recovery experts after that? Sure, data recovery expert can retrieve data from disks that have been submerged in acid for three weeks, but hey, this is a Microsoft consultant!
One day after sleeping badly, an anatomist went to his frog laboratory and removed from a cage one frog with white spots on its back. He placed it on a table and drew a line just in front of the frog. "Jump frog, jump!" he shouted. The little critter jumped two feet forward. In his lab book, the anatomist scribbled, "Frog with four legs jumps two feet."
Then, he surgically removed one leg of the frog and repeated the experiment. "Jump, jump!" To which, the frog leaped forward 1.5 feet. He wrote down, "Frog with three legs jumps 1.5 feet."
Next, he removed a second leg. "Jump frog, jump!" The frog managed to jump a foot. He scribbled in his lab book, "Frog with two legs jumps one foot."
Not stopping there, the anatomist removed yet another leg. "Jump, jump!" The poor frog somehow managed to move 0.5 feet forward. The scientist wrote, "Frog with one leg jumps 0.5 feet."
Finally, he eliminated the last leg. "Jump, jump!" he shouted, encouraging forward progress for the frog. But despite all its efforts, the frog could not budge. "Jump frog, jump!" he cried again. It was no use; the frog would not response. The anatomist thought for a while and then wrote in his lab book, "Frog with no legs goes deaf."
Wouldn't it be interesting, though, if it turns out that the genome could be understood as a 'program', and a specially coded interpreter could process it...... what would the binaries do?
The genome is a program and children are it's binaries. But please do tell me more about that interpreter stuff, that seems, uhm, nice.
I'm sorry but gaming is about interactivity
I think gaming is about having fun. You like to put a lot of effort in it, to win, to beat the computer. For others it is laughing at that little funny guy that jumps in the air when you push the spacebar.
I find this very remarkable to read. In the sixties we were able to send a team to the moon (July 16th 1969) just 7 years after the famous "We choose to go to the Moon" speech by John F. Kennedy (September 12th 1962). That is: building things from scratch in a time where computers had the size of rooms and the calculating capacity of an everage wristwatch and we had no knowledge of space travel.
And now, with all the knowledge of spacetravel, simulation software, computing power, smart people and a few bags of fake moondust we take 5 years just to reverse engineer the software?
"Here you see the pattern from which my great work is derived. It expresses the symbolic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratinjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities, with which you are possibly familiar."
Slashdot Mirror
I believe this to be fake. The tentacles look painted. Maybe inspired by Captain Nemo spotting a giant squid?
but please remember, this stuff doesn't grow on trees
But is does! Metaphorically speaking, ofcourse. In the old days companies like Walt Disney were the only ones to create content as marvellous as this, and it took years of hard labour. But now *a lot* of independant artist, filmmakers, musicians create wunderful stuff as wel and publish it through the internet. Things are different these days. And the way we consume and produce is very different than 70 years ago.
Now, that doesn't mean there shouldn't be legal protection like copyright, but IMHO there should be other forms of protections and regulations.
"You're talking about memories."
No problem here, then.
I always use this cheatsheet:
If you want to select records use: SELECT
If you want to update records use: UPDATE
If you want to delete records use: DELETE
If you want to use a database use: USE
This list can also be used with other db systems.
Even better: if you quote it, it becomes a string.
My Fax? Let me tell you about my fax.
On your computer, you write a letter digital. Then you print it out analog, so you can feed it to the fax machine digital. The fax sends it over the telephone line using bleebs and hiss analog. The telephonecompany doesn't send sound, it sends bits. Your sounds gets converted to bits digital and back again to sounds analog. The recipients fax machine hears these sounds and converts them to a digital document digital. It then prints it out on paper analog. The recipient reads the fax, thinks it is important and scans to document to store it on the computer digital.
That, my friend, is a FAX.
For introducing me to Arvo Pärt.
What do you do when your own system locks you out because you've gotten better at typing your own password?
Simple solution: use the same password. Everywhere. Always. Never change your password.
Ah yes, nice one. But the second sun on the PF album was manmade. "And as the windshield melts. My tears eveaporate"
I was quite aware of my lack of knowledge about your background, but hoped I could get away with it. This is /. and most people here are techy nerds. But the funny thing is that you seem to do the same thing. You asume that my background isn't cognitive science (probably based on my blabbling and not talking the lingo). So, my background is cognitive science, or it isn't. You don't know. But if this were a game of poker, I would be holding my cards with a big smile.
I must agree with you that my remark is vague, and I'll try to elaborate. By boundaries I mean that we live in a world defined by laws. There are laws on all levels; the laws of physics, biological processes and human interaction. We cannot break those rules, because we are what we are because of those laws. I believe that creativity is not about breaking those laws, but creativity is about using those laws on ways previously unknown. If there would be no rules, there was nothing to be creative about.
That's what I mean with by boundaries and wouldn't work. I hope I have clarified myself more for you.
And for what it is worth. My background is not Cognitive Science. It is Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, which is the Dungeons & Dragons of the Cognitive Science. Now, what's yours?
Creativity is about new ideas and concepts that didn't exist before and actually making them happen.
Oh, dear. Another techy nerd who thinks they understand how humans 'think' but really doesn't. There have to be boundaries, because otherwise you new ideas and concepts wouldn't work.
With hard drives, data doesn't just go away. Sure, it may not be recoverable with simple "undelete" software, but data recovery experts will charge far less than $200,000 to pull important files off of a wiped hard drive.
No no no! You don't understand. It says clearly that consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data. Who needs data recovery experts after that? Sure, data recovery expert can retrieve data from disks that have been submerged in acid for three weeks, but hey, this is a Microsoft consultant!
We should require users to obtain personal licenses before using a computer and/or the Internet.
Please say you are trolling.
One day after sleeping badly, an anatomist went to his frog laboratory and removed from a cage one frog with white spots on its back. He placed it on a table and drew a line just in front of the frog. "Jump frog, jump!" he shouted. The little critter jumped two feet forward. In his lab book, the anatomist scribbled, "Frog with four legs jumps two feet."
Then, he surgically removed one leg of the frog and repeated the experiment. "Jump, jump!" To which, the frog leaped forward 1.5 feet. He wrote down, "Frog with three legs jumps 1.5 feet."
Next, he removed a second leg. "Jump frog, jump!" The frog managed to jump a foot. He scribbled in his lab book, "Frog with two legs jumps one foot."
Not stopping there, the anatomist removed yet another leg. "Jump, jump!" The poor frog somehow managed to move 0.5 feet forward. The scientist wrote, "Frog with one leg jumps 0.5 feet."
Finally, he eliminated the last leg. "Jump, jump!" he shouted, encouraging forward progress for the frog. But despite all its efforts, the frog could not budge. "Jump frog, jump!" he cried again. It was no use; the frog would not response. The anatomist thought for a while and then wrote in his lab book, "Frog with no legs goes deaf."
(joke shamelessy copied from this site)
a datadump?
Nothings could have happened last night; my hardware doesn't meet her requirements. Should upgrade first.
Wouldn't it be interesting, though, if it turns out that the genome could be understood as a 'program', and a specially coded interpreter could process it... ... what would the binaries do?
The genome is a program and children are it's binaries. But please do tell me more about that interpreter stuff, that seems, uhm, nice.
I'm sorry but gaming is about interactivity
I think gaming is about having fun. You like to put a lot of effort in it, to win, to beat the computer. For others it is laughing at that little funny guy that jumps in the air when you push the spacebar.
Ask yourself: who wants to have sex with someone who burns sponges in his microwave?
closest galaxy? You mean the closest star. I wonder where, on your scale, the closest galaxy would be. Maybe the sun?
:q!
I find this very remarkable to read. In the sixties we were able to send a team to the moon (July 16th 1969) just 7 years after the famous "We choose to go to the Moon" speech by John F. Kennedy (September 12th 1962). That is: building things from scratch in a time where computers had the size of rooms and the calculating capacity of an everage wristwatch and we had no knowledge of space travel.
And now, with all the knowledge of spacetravel, simulation software, computing power, smart people and a few bags of fake moondust we take 5 years just to reverse engineer the software?
Why?
From "Cugel the Clever" by Jack Vance:
"Here you see the pattern from which my great work is derived. It expresses the symbolic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratinjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities, with which you are possibly familiar."
Second Life was inspired by Snow Crash.
I think that Linden Labs will find this very cool. Annoying, but cool. They must have been aware that it would come to this one day.