Not at all. A Millennium can mean ANY thousand year period. So from Jan 1 1000, to Jan 1 2000, is a millennium also. We can choose to celebrate the end of any millenium we choose. Personaly I think I'll celibrate the one ending at about noon tommorrow just to mess with people's minds.
I don't want so much computers that I'd throw away. What I would like is computers that are cheap enough that I could throw them away without worrieing about them. Imagine the PADDs in Star Trek. Appently they're dirt cheap and everyone has bunches of them. And they use them just like paper. They don't hesitate to hand one to someone else and they don't worry about getting it back. Likewise if it's damaged they don't hesitate to dump it. Like we treat Pens today.
Wouldn't this mean that a huge percentage of the total population would be simultaneously pregnant? This could cause difficulties if there's much manual labor to be done. (No pun intended.)
Of course the conversation might go a bit like this :
Guy : Hello? MS-Guy : Sir, We accidentaly shiped you a one of a kind very valuable prototype unit and we'd like to-... Hello? Sir Please open the door. Sir?
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How do they know they weren't damaged during launch?
They will be wise enough, after they do it. There's only one way to learn. I simply don't understand why people seem to believe that there are Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know. If there's knowledge we're not meant to know, why is it there? Supreme Being or no, isn't that what's knowledge for?
As a side-note, "Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know" would look cool as a title for some dust covered volume buried somewhere.
This isn't what the artical talks about. If this technology was used to simply tell the automated computers which way to point the cameras I don't see how that's any worse then what we've got now. Better even. Same loss-of-privacy but better results. But the article talks about sending guards down to intercept the guy before he nicks the car. So now you've intercepted a guy because a computer thinks that the guy is thinking about stealing a car! What if the guy is thinking about stealing a car. I often look at things and think to myself "wow, that'd be easy to steal." but I'll never actualy do it. Will the computer be able to tell the diference? I hope so. I think there was a T-zone about a guy who fantasized about robing a bank and anouther guy who could read minds... "Penny for you Thoughts" I think.
This is the introductions section of the show : "I get the deductions on robb commander cockrell mullah eyeing the toast and or mayan jeffery"
I relise that theres a disclamer saying that the transcripts wouldn't be exact. But I was expecting on or two words off.
Actualy, after looking through a couple more of these transcripts it seems to have a problem with the nature of Geeks in space. That is, when the voice changes it takes the program a little while to catch up. When there are long stretches of only one person talking it seems to do better. ("the most interesting thing that pops up today is that microsoft is set up a box and they have basically challenged the internet to crack it...")
Interestingly enough not a single episode of GiS seems to include the word "Taco".
I'd like to offer this definition of life. : Any object or group of materials that givin time, raw material, and energy can create 2 or more exect copys of the original.
Intelligence is something completly diferent and harder to define. So I'll just mention the Turing Test.
Therefore, the Internet is not alive because it has never created a baby Internet. And The Internet is not intelligent because it does not have abstract thoughts that can be expressed the way we express ours. Or in any other usefull way.
"1. It is inhospitable. 2. It would be incredibly expensive. 3. No one wants to live there. "
This can be said of any fronteer. But people always go when the opertunity to go. If tommorrow NASA said "OK We need some people to man a Mars colony." Do you think people wouldn't show up? This would actualy make a good Slashdot poll. I know I'd sign up. At the very least that asshole geologist would sign up. (He'd better be able to play Quake). Sure Internet access would suck, but compared to the fronteers of old we'ed have the best communication by far.
Yes, it's taken. But just because Planet #1 isn't perfect doesn't mean we can't start on #2. Earth will never be the Eden it's portrayed as in Star Trek. Europe wasn't an Eden when they started colonising either, but I think looking back, I'm glad they still went ahead and did it. Same goes for research grants of all sorts. The fact that we're not living in Eden is no excuse to stop exploring.
I realise this is very easy for me to say because I'm not one of the people who did starve. But when you think of the money and resources that aer wasted in this world, I can't even imagine that anyone would object to puting some to a good cause. Even if it's not the cause they had in mind. Puting money into a space program doesn't stop you from puting other money into Africa.
This isn't actually true. Imagine if instead of Sending explorers to North America, somehow a exact replica of the Mars Pathfinder was sent. Imagine what little they'd learn about this continent. Now imagine they sent 100 probes. Do you honestly think they'd know more about North America then we do now? Sure sending half a dozen men for a few weeks is only a start. But we have to do this in small steps. But the hopeful end result of a Maned mars program would be a permanent colony. Can you honestly say an unmanned probe would do more good then a permanent human presence?
What type of input device would you give your cat? I don't think he'd do to well with a keyboard or a (sigh) mouse. You'd probably have a hard tome geting her to actualy pay attention. Although if you could get her to where 3d glasses it might catch her attenton. All in all I think you'd be better of with a dog.
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Not at all. A Millennium can mean ANY thousand year period. So from Jan 1 1000, to Jan 1 2000, is a millennium also. We can choose to celebrate the end of any millenium we choose. Personaly I think I'll celibrate the one ending at about noon tommorrow just to mess with people's minds.
I don't want so much computers that I'd throw away. What I would like is computers that are cheap enough that I could throw them away without worrieing about them.
Imagine the PADDs in Star Trek. Appently they're dirt cheap and everyone has bunches of them. And they use them just like paper. They don't hesitate to hand one to someone else and they don't worry about getting it back. Likewise if it's damaged they don't hesitate to dump it. Like we treat Pens today.
Wouldn't this mean that a huge percentage of the total population would be simultaneously pregnant? This could cause difficulties if there's much manual labor to be done. (No pun intended.)
Didn't Quake1 also have a security back-door? I wonder if it's still in the source or if they took it out.
Of course the conversation might go a bit like this :
... Hello? Sir Please open the door. Sir?
Guy : Hello?
MS-Guy : Sir, We accidentaly shiped you a one of a kind very valuable prototype unit and we'd like to-
How do they know they weren't damaged during launch?
Clearly, cloning TRex and turning them loose would be a mistake.
Why do you say that?
I think "turning them loose" was the important part of that sentence.
They will be wise enough, after they do it. There's only one way to learn. I simply don't understand why people seem to believe that there are Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know. If there's knowledge we're not meant to know, why is it there? Supreme Being or no, isn't that what's knowledge for?
As a side-note, "Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know" would look cool as a title for some dust covered volume buried somewhere.
This isn't what the artical talks about. If this technology was used to simply tell the automated computers which way to point the cameras I don't see how that's any worse then what we've got now. Better even. Same loss-of-privacy but better results.
But the article talks about sending guards down to intercept the guy before he nicks the car. So now you've intercepted a guy because a computer thinks that the guy is thinking about stealing a car!
What if the guy is thinking about stealing a car. I often look at things and think to myself "wow, that'd be easy to steal." but I'll never actualy do it. Will the computer be able to tell the diference? I hope so. I think there was a T-zone about a guy who fantasized about robing a bank and anouther guy who could read minds... "Penny for you Thoughts" I think.
This is the introductions section of the show : "I get the deductions on robb commander cockrell mullah eyeing the toast and or mayan jeffery"
I relise that theres a disclamer saying that the transcripts wouldn't be exact. But I was expecting on or two words off.
Actualy, after looking through a couple more of these transcripts it seems to have a problem with the nature of Geeks in space. That is, when the voice changes it takes the program a little while to catch up. When there are long stretches of only one person talking it seems to do better. ("the most interesting thing that pops up today is that microsoft is set up a box and they have basically challenged the internet to crack it...")
Interestingly enough not a single episode of GiS seems to include the word "Taco".
If they had to decriminalise it at some point it was true. Therefore it's not a myth.
This is probably just a single example of a law that makes sense. For instanse. Perhaps the law is against sexual relations with ANY animal.
I'd consider upgrading to a retna the could see IR if I could do it without losing resolution.
I'd like to offer this definition of life. :
Any object or group of materials that givin time, raw material, and energy can create 2 or more exect copys of the original.
Intelligence is something completly diferent and harder to define. So I'll just mention the Turing Test.
Therefore, the Internet is not alive because it has never created a baby Internet.
And The Internet is not intelligent because it does not have abstract thoughts that can be expressed the way we express ours. Or in any other usefull way.
He ment that if you think it's a real snake, the surveillance equipment inside would be undected.
"1. It is inhospitable. 2. It would be incredibly expensive. 3. No one wants to live there. "
This can be said of any fronteer. But people always go when the opertunity to go. If tommorrow NASA said "OK We need some people to man a Mars colony." Do you think people wouldn't show up? This would actualy make a good Slashdot poll.
I know I'd sign up. At the very least that asshole geologist would sign up. (He'd better be able to play Quake). Sure Internet access would suck, but compared to the fronteers of old we'ed have the best communication by far.
There will be when we're done with it.
Yes, it's taken. But just because Planet #1 isn't perfect doesn't mean we can't start on #2. Earth will never be the Eden it's portrayed as in Star Trek. Europe wasn't an Eden when they started colonising either, but I think looking back, I'm glad they still went ahead and did it. Same goes for research grants of all sorts. The fact that we're not living in Eden is no excuse to stop exploring.
I realise this is very easy for me to say because I'm not one of the people who did starve. But when you think of the money and resources that aer wasted in this world, I can't even imagine that anyone would object to puting some to a good cause. Even if it's not the cause they had in mind. Puting money into a space program doesn't stop you from puting other money into Africa.
This isn't actually true. Imagine if instead of Sending explorers to North America, somehow a exact replica of the Mars Pathfinder was sent. Imagine what little they'd learn about this continent. Now imagine they sent 100 probes. Do you honestly think they'd know more about North America then we do now? Sure sending half a dozen men for a few weeks is only a start. But we have to do this in small steps. But the hopeful end result of a Maned mars program would be a permanent colony. Can you honestly say an unmanned probe would do more good then a permanent human presence?
What type of input device would you give your cat? I don't think he'd do to well with a keyboard or a (sigh) mouse. You'd probably have a hard tome geting her to actualy pay attention. Although if you could get her to where 3d glasses it might catch her attenton.
All in all I think you'd be better of with a dog.
Yea, you keep thinking like that, you'll be sorry when year 1,000,000 comes along.
I'm more worried about the one's playing Carmagedon.
If the was nothing else available I'll bet the first four would come around prety fast.
Perhaps the technology isn't seriously useable. Perhaps there's too much random noise to make it usefull. So the anouncement is just PR.
"Some scientist say that to see the real effects in case of GMO's may take a generation. "
Aren't there children born to parents who ate GMOs? They've been around more then 9 months right? What specificly are people afraid will happen?