I remember when 20MB seemed impossible to fill up [...] Today, 500GB is way more than I need for my music and movies
And after 10 years you'll be singing the same tune, and thinking that the capacity you have then is way more than you need. As computational capabilities grow, new uses for storage pop up. What that has to do with Microsoft is a mystery to me.
Nonsense? There already have been experiments where meat has been grown in a laboratory without any nervous system, so the technology already exists. What they are offering the prize for is a method of mass producing said meat, which would be a superior solution compared to the situation right now.
Not all creatures are designed to eat meat. Unfortunately, Humans are not one of those creatures. Rather than
this nonsense perhaps the PETA people might want to sponsor some
genetic engineering research to allow humans to digest the plant
matter that cows can eat that we can't.
Huh? You seem to be saying that because humans eat meat, we should not develop methods to produce said meat ethically. That does not make sense. You do realize that this isn't some "fake meat" made out of beans or whatever, but real, live animal meat? The only difference to "natural meat" is that it is grown without a nervous system.
The more the merrier. I have nothing against freeing the Indians, Aborigines, Basques, Kurds and so forth. The less power central governments have the better.
Give the man a cookie, for he gets it (even if he doesn't know it himself). 100% unemployment and total automation is what we should strive for. The day my job becomes automated is the day mankind is set free, for programming is something only intelligent machines can do.
When it costs practically nothing to produce a 1:1 copy of something, then it becomes impossible to charge much more than nothing for it. It really is as simple as that. There are huge changes coming and telling people to fuck off to North Korea won't change that.
It doesn't surprise me though, slashdot is becoming more and more of a PR site for the piratebay and the pirate party. Its only a matter of time before it has a warez and torrents section:(
It's not just slashdot, every place is starting to see imaginary property for what it is. That's what you get when near-infinite supply meets demand, prices go down.
But then, if we somehow find a way to gradually and slowly replace one neuron at a time with a machine in a way that we don't percieve the difference, rather than the more unappealing "clone the brain and kill the original" approach (i.e., you get to die and your simulated self lives), sign me up.
When someone consumes a large enough amount of alcohol, they "black out", i.e. are unable to remember what they did during the time between too much alcohol and waking up somewhere. What I realized after experiencing such an event when I was younger, was that the mind is just a processing device that acts on memories, refining the responses to sensory inputs through new memories.
Consciousness is just an illusion. There is no "free will" so to speak, everything you think, do and feel is entirely predetermined by your body and the experiences you have had. Therefore worrying about replacing your neurons one at a time is unnecessary, as you have most likely "died" many times since your birth already. If someone were to connect two persons brains together in some manner, to form a higher level of intelligence i.e. hive mind, who do you think would be in control? I personally think that every individual node would feel like they are in control, when in fact their decisions are subtly influenced by every node in the hive. Thus a new "consciousness" would exist, without destroying the old ones.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that how do you know that this isn't just a memory you are having of your past self? Perhaps it is in fact the year 2035 now and this version of you is already dead, getting his memories downloaded into a machine.
Ah, you were lamenting on the ignorance of the average user. I misunderstood and thought you were annoyed by the fact that most monitors automatically scale the image with no setting to disable the feature.:)
DVI-connected LCD monitors configured with 1:1 pixel ratios (instead of BlurryVision and/or FatPersonVision)
NVIDIA cards have a setting in the control panel that disables scaling, inserting black borders on the sides that need them. ATI probably has something similar.
Every OS project has people who think the project is going in the wrong way. The great thing about OS is that instead of complaining about it on slashdot they can work on the things they think matter themselves, or in some cases even fork the project completely.
If you look at a list of countries that have hosted the olympic games in modern times, you'll notice that it consists of industrialised nations. By hosting the olympic games, China wants to show the world that they are now a member of the club.
That's a bit subjective, and I personally wouldn't use a single-core CPU for any kind of work. I've been forced to use a single-core machine at my job this last month and it's so unresponsive when multitasking that it feels like it's 1995 all over again.
I'm guessing you run the 32-bit version of Vista? SP1 includes this patch.
That's only a temporary solution however. Games like "The Witcher" run out of virtual address space on a patched 32-bit Vista, and the only permanent (at least for the foreseeable future) way to solve the problem is a 64-bit OS.
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Huh? You seem to be saying that because humans eat meat, we should not develop methods to produce said meat ethically. That does not make sense. You do realize that this isn't some "fake meat" made out of beans or whatever, but real, live animal meat? The only difference to "natural meat" is that it is grown without a nervous system.
In other news, The Standish Group reports that a slashdot poster is causing them a loss of $1000 dollars in revenues.
The more the merrier. I have nothing against freeing the Indians, Aborigines, Basques, Kurds and so forth. The less power central governments have the better.
What does that have to do with it? The GP didn't say that "Free Tibet" is about Tibetans bringing back the feudal theocracy of yore.
Give the man a cookie, for he gets it (even if he doesn't know it himself). 100% unemployment and total automation is what we should strive for. The day my job becomes automated is the day mankind is set free, for programming is something only intelligent machines can do.
You forgot to add "Get off my lawn!".
When it costs practically nothing to produce a 1:1 copy of something, then it becomes impossible to charge much more than nothing for it. It really is as simple as that. There are huge changes coming and telling people to fuck off to North Korea won't change that.
Consciousness is just an illusion. There is no "free will" so to speak, everything you think, do and feel is entirely predetermined by your body and the experiences you have had. Therefore worrying about replacing your neurons one at a time is unnecessary, as you have most likely "died" many times since your birth already. If someone were to connect two persons brains together in some manner, to form a higher level of intelligence i.e. hive mind, who do you think would be in control? I personally think that every individual node would feel like they are in control, when in fact their decisions are subtly influenced by every node in the hive. Thus a new "consciousness" would exist, without destroying the old ones.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that how do you know that this isn't just a memory you are having of your past self? Perhaps it is in fact the year 2035 now and this version of you is already dead, getting his memories downloaded into a machine.
Ah, you were lamenting on the ignorance of the average user. I misunderstood and thought you were annoyed by the fact that most monitors automatically scale the image with no setting to disable the feature. :)
If you meant HDCP, I'm sorry to say that it supports DVI and DisplayPort as well.
Every OS project has people who think the project is going in the wrong way. The great thing about OS is that instead of complaining about it on slashdot they can work on the things they think matter themselves, or in some cases even fork the project completely.
:)
So what are you waiting for?
This is why I hate april fools, many of the almost plausible "jokes" become persistent myths.
Considering that the government is just a subsidiary of the corporates, they already have de facto powers of taxation.
Fuzzy logic seems apt.
Perhaps the GP types with his butt?
If you look at a list of countries that have hosted the olympic games in modern times, you'll notice that it consists of industrialised nations. By hosting the olympic games, China wants to show the world that they are now a member of the club.
That's a bit subjective, and I personally wouldn't use a single-core CPU for any kind of work. I've been forced to use a single-core machine at my job this last month and it's so unresponsive when multitasking that it feels like it's 1995 all over again.
I'd be content if people would just grow up. But I guess renaming it would be more likely.
Timings are relative to clockspeed. So 4-4-4 on 800 Mhz RAM is the same amount of time as 2-2-2 on 400 Mhz.
No. Being in denial doesn't make the harm go away, and being addictive doesn't make something harmful.
I'm guessing you run the 32-bit version of Vista? SP1 includes this patch.
That's only a temporary solution however. Games like "The Witcher" run out of virtual address space on a patched 32-bit Vista, and the only permanent (at least for the foreseeable future) way to solve the problem is a 64-bit OS.
It's called popular science for a reason.