They see the same world we do, but from only one point of view which means that they have no in-built sense of depth. Do you honestly believe a person with only one eye can perceive depth the same as a normal sighted person?
Of course 2 displays are just two 2D interfaces. Two cameras (or eyes) on the other hand, enable a new way to interpret the world around you in what some would call "2.5D".
Here in the UK the JooJoo is £320 while the cheapest iPad is over £400. I looked at the JooJoo specs last night though and it doesn't appear to have expandable storage either.. and with only 4GB of storage it's rather limiting. Guess I'm back to waiting to see what other cool stuff comes out in the next few months. I'm still happy with my netbook too, but there are a couple of things that a tablet would be nice for if the price was right.
on the other hand, TFA says this won't be out until the end of 2011:/ Best just to wait and see what other decent tablets come out in the meantime.. preferably ones with expandable storage, and an open environment..
AFAIK you can install your own version of Ubuntu onto the Joojoo, which is way cheaper than an iPad but has decent enough hardware specs.. this could be really awesome!
Originally the PPC stuff was done by an add-on card and you could still run 68k software AFAIK. I couldn't afford to upgrade to PPC though and ended up going to PCs instead.. I'm still slightly tempted by the whole thing just for fun.. with a decent browser then an Amiga could be almost as useful to me as any Mac or Linux machine.. then again if I'm going to bother buying a desktop machine I'd probably get it with Windows so that I could do a bit of gaming on it. If there's a PPC Amiga emulator out there I might give it a go for just to see what it's like..
According to the third movie I think Skynet was meant to be more of a defence system than a weapon.. I can't remember though, I usually try to pretend that movie never existed.
The point is that even if we don't build a weapon per se, we have lots of advanced manufacturing facilities that could be used to build them. Skynet was originally just a computer program that built its own warriors.
Yes I know it's all just a movie and rather far-fetched, but it's still fun, and not entirely implausible, apart from the time travel stuff (and I suppose we don't really know if that's technically impossible or not, though IMO it is)
Okay then, please tell me.. how do you personally pronounce "through?"?
(yes I'm a Scotsman, and no Edinburgh was not originally an English word).
On a side note, I tried slashdot.jp with google translate and it's awesome! This is from their poll about preferred compression formats:
Compressed format (scores of: 4, Funny funny) Anonymous Coward : 14:30 Jun 07, 2010 (# 1775906) What good is both breast and chest compression in a leotard swimsuit that is compressed with school?
Re: compression format (Score: 3, great insight.) Tomo_Aquarius (22 511) : 57 minutes June 07, 2010 14:00 (# 1775928) Journal Smaller size is better even without compression.
I didn't say we should be afraid of technology at all, but if we do develop AI based on human traits, or even non human AI based on a set of rules like Asimov's laws of robotics, we obviously have to be capable what stuff it gets access to as input/output. I've thought for a while that it would be funny to let a learning AI loose on the internet and see what kind of crazy "facts" it knew after browsing all the crazy chats people are having on internet forums.
Seemed pretty cautionary to me: don't create powerful networked and potentially evil AIs with access to military killbots and manufacturing facilities.
Yeah I know, it just seems a bit of a lame gesture if the guy actually had to go to a mental institution because of all of this. I suppose something is better than nothing though, and if hundreds of thousands of people chipped in it would actually have some meaning. I think the video is pretty cool, and the fallout of it is probably the biggest effect this guy is going to have on the world, it's more than most people will ever achieve in a way:P I did exactly the same kind of stuff messing around with sticks when I was his age.. I didn't film it, but I probably looked just as silly xD
I didn't deny any of that, I'm just saying that if the question posed to the participants was anything like the question in the summary, I'm not surprised people got it wrong. I'm sure plenty would have got it wrong anyway, of course.
Yes, the Prius is a joke. Give me all electric or FO, none of this "hybrid" nonsense which just has the combined weight of both systems to screw your mileage.
That is such a heap of bullshit, I've killed plenty of small animals and I'm definitely a well adjusted individual. Take back your fucking retarded comment or I'm gonna come over there, rip your spine out and use it to literally beat you shit out of you, then make you eat it, then beat it out again and make you eat the shit made out of the shit you already had beat out of you. You have 20 seconds to comply.
I don't see here what the "misconception" is with the actual mpg figure. It works exactly the same as km/l, just on an inverted scale where bigger numbers are better. I initially chose the 10mpg to 20mpg here because it's basically doubling efficiency (but it's still shit), then wondered if there was some kind of trick to the question, ie what they actually meant by the wording.
Obviously having a 33mpg and switching to 50mpg is still the better scenario because you're wasting a lot less money per mile (on fuel at least) than the 10/20mpg scenario either way! You are still "saving" more gasoline in absolute terms than the person in the 10 to 20mpg scenario, even if you are not in fact doubling your efficiency - because you aren't using as much fuel to start with. The relative increase in mileage is a stupid thing to care about - overall mileage is king here.
Oh. In that case, I probably would enjoy the "war games". I did buy some game that was meant to simulate some Napoleonic battles for my Amiga when I was a kid, but I had no idea how the hell it worked.
Also there is some real world utility to being strong, its more "serious" or "adult" than moving a ball around by kicking it or tossing it.
It's definitely beneficial to be strong, but professional football players are generally more fit than bodybuilders, and probably just as strong as many of them when it comes to their legs at least. There's a lot of overlap among the two, and IMO it's only your own opinion of what is important that decides that a weightlifter has more value than a footballer.
I happen to think football as a game is overrated, but I do respect the athletic ability of the players. Most bodybuilders, even if they also do a bit of cardio, would have nowhere near the stamina of a footballer for, nor would they have the same level of body awareness and coordination in their legs and therefore would be more likely to hurt themselves after becoming fatigued for whatever reason - say if they went camping with a heavy backpack.
The type of athlete that I currently respect above any other would probably be rock climbers - they're usually wiry little guys but have incredibly good all-round functional strength, stamina, proprioception, confidence and coordination.
Almost no one watches real athletes like mountain climbers, weight lifters, soldiers qualifications courses, or deep sea divers.
A few points:
Mountain climbers and soldiers, I'll give you;)
I lift weights. Weights are easy, it just takes the right pattern of reps at a certain percentage of your maximum, and good nutrition, to see gains (especially when beginning, and by the time you hit plateus you're probably already a monster). They're pretty much equivalent to playing any RPG where all you need is time to gain XP.
SCUBA diving is another one I've done. There were loads of old guys in the club and they even described it as an "old man's sport". You need basically no strength apart from when you're getting back into the boat. It's all just about controlling your buoyancy and monitoring your air supplies, and not ascending too quickly at the end. The rest of the time you're almost weightless and it requires very little effort. Deep sea diving on different types of gas is a bit more complex, but it's still not going to take an elite athlete to do it, just someone with a cool head and a lot of diving experience.
No one watches real gamers like hard core strategic wargamers. Just big steroid addicts playing kids ball games, and twitchy shooters.
I actually think some people probably still do watch Starcraft tournaments and the like but I'm not sure; I've always found those types of game to be boring as hell. I love turn based strategy games like Chess and Risk so it's not that I dislike strategy games per se, but I just find realtime strategy games annoying. I can do okay on them, but I just don't really enjoy the rushing for resources nor having to be a "manager", I prefer to be part of the action. Twitchy FPS games are simply fun, and you do still need to be strategic to do well. Even after I stopped playing CS for a few years, I tried it again one time and was still able to do okay despite my aim being very rusty, simply because I knew the levels and played relatively intelligently.
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They see the same world we do, but from only one point of view which means that they have no in-built sense of depth. Do you honestly believe a person with only one eye can perceive depth the same as a normal sighted person?
Of course 2 displays are just two 2D interfaces. Two cameras (or eyes) on the other hand, enable a new way to interpret the world around you in what some would call "2.5D".
Here in the UK the JooJoo is £320 while the cheapest iPad is over £400. I looked at the JooJoo specs last night though and it doesn't appear to have expandable storage either.. and with only 4GB of storage it's rather limiting. Guess I'm back to waiting to see what other cool stuff comes out in the next few months. I'm still happy with my netbook too, but there are a couple of things that a tablet would be nice for if the price was right.
on the other hand, TFA says this won't be out until the end of 2011 :/ Best just to wait and see what other decent tablets come out in the meantime.. preferably ones with expandable storage, and an open environment..
AFAIK you can install your own version of Ubuntu onto the Joojoo, which is way cheaper than an iPad but has decent enough hardware specs.. this could be really awesome!
Originally the PPC stuff was done by an add-on card and you could still run 68k software AFAIK. I couldn't afford to upgrade to PPC though and ended up going to PCs instead.. I'm still slightly tempted by the whole thing just for fun.. with a decent browser then an Amiga could be almost as useful to me as any Mac or Linux machine.. then again if I'm going to bother buying a desktop machine I'd probably get it with Windows so that I could do a bit of gaming on it. If there's a PPC Amiga emulator out there I might give it a go for just to see what it's like..
According to the third movie I think Skynet was meant to be more of a defence system than a weapon.. I can't remember though, I usually try to pretend that movie never existed.
The point is that even if we don't build a weapon per se, we have lots of advanced manufacturing facilities that could be used to build them. Skynet was originally just a computer program that built its own warriors.
Yes I know it's all just a movie and rather far-fetched, but it's still fun, and not entirely implausible, apart from the time travel stuff (and I suppose we don't really know if that's technically impossible or not, though IMO it is)
Okay then, please tell me.. how do you personally pronounce "through?"?
(yes I'm a Scotsman, and no Edinburgh was not originally an English word).
On a side note, I tried slashdot.jp with google translate and it's awesome! This is from their poll about preferred compression formats:
Compressed format (scores of: 4, Funny funny)
Anonymous Coward : 14:30 Jun 07, 2010 (# 1775906)
What good is both breast and chest compression in a leotard swimsuit that is compressed with school?
Re: compression format (Score: 3, great insight.)
Tomo_Aquarius (22 511) : 57 minutes June 07, 2010 14:00 (# 1775928) Journal
Smaller size is better even without compression.
I didn't say we should be afraid of technology at all, but if we do develop AI based on human traits, or even non human AI based on a set of rules like Asimov's laws of robotics, we obviously have to be capable what stuff it gets access to as input/output. I've thought for a while that it would be funny to let a learning AI loose on the internet and see what kind of crazy "facts" it knew after browsing all the crazy chats people are having on internet forums.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
he definitely doesn't sound like he's trying to hide anything in this case
Terminator was not a cautionary tale.
Seemed pretty cautionary to me: don't create powerful networked and potentially evil AIs with access to military killbots and manufacturing facilities.
It's good advice!
patrolling everyone's backyards surveying the nude sunbathers and what's growing back there.
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Yeah I know, it just seems a bit of a lame gesture if the guy actually had to go to a mental institution because of all of this. I suppose something is better than nothing though, and if hundreds of thousands of people chipped in it would actually have some meaning. I think the video is pretty cool, and the fallout of it is probably the biggest effect this guy is going to have on the world, it's more than most people will ever achieve in a way :P I did exactly the same kind of stuff messing around with sticks when I was his age.. I didn't film it, but I probably looked just as silly xD
I didn't deny any of that, I'm just saying that if the question posed to the participants was anything like the question in the summary, I'm not surprised people got it wrong. I'm sure plenty would have got it wrong anyway, of course.
Yes, the Prius is a joke. Give me all electric or FO, none of this "hybrid" nonsense which just has the combined weight of both systems to screw your mileage.
I doubt an iPod is going to mean anything to him compared to the $250k or whatever settlement he got out of the lawsuits resulting from the video..
That is such a heap of bullshit, I've killed plenty of small animals and I'm definitely a well adjusted individual. Take back your fucking retarded comment or I'm gonna come over there, rip your spine out and use it to literally beat you shit out of you, then make you eat it, then beat it out again and make you eat the shit made out of the shit you already had beat out of you. You have 20 seconds to comply.
I don't see here what the "misconception" is with the actual mpg figure. It works exactly the same as km/l, just on an inverted scale where bigger numbers are better. I initially chose the 10mpg to 20mpg here because it's basically doubling efficiency (but it's still shit), then wondered if there was some kind of trick to the question, ie what they actually meant by the wording.
Obviously having a 33mpg and switching to 50mpg is still the better scenario because you're wasting a lot less money per mile (on fuel at least) than the 10/20mpg scenario either way! You are still "saving" more gasoline in absolute terms than the person in the 10 to 20mpg scenario, even if you are not in fact doubling your efficiency - because you aren't using as much fuel to start with. The relative increase in mileage is a stupid thing to care about - overall mileage is king here.
Damn that DHMO, it's everywhere these days!
Oh. In that case, I probably would enjoy the "war games". I did buy some game that was meant to simulate some Napoleonic battles for my Amiga when I was a kid, but I had no idea how the hell it worked.
Also there is some real world utility to being strong, its more "serious" or "adult" than moving a ball around by kicking it or tossing it.
It's definitely beneficial to be strong, but professional football players are generally more fit than bodybuilders, and probably just as strong as many of them when it comes to their legs at least. There's a lot of overlap among the two, and IMO it's only your own opinion of what is important that decides that a weightlifter has more value than a footballer.
I happen to think football as a game is overrated, but I do respect the athletic ability of the players. Most bodybuilders, even if they also do a bit of cardio, would have nowhere near the stamina of a footballer for, nor would they have the same level of body awareness and coordination in their legs and therefore would be more likely to hurt themselves after becoming fatigued for whatever reason - say if they went camping with a heavy backpack.
The type of athlete that I currently respect above any other would probably be rock climbers - they're usually wiry little guys but have incredibly good all-round functional strength, stamina, proprioception, confidence and coordination.
Almost no one watches real athletes like mountain climbers, weight lifters, soldiers qualifications courses, or deep sea divers.
A few points:
Mountain climbers and soldiers, I'll give you ;)
I lift weights. Weights are easy, it just takes the right pattern of reps at a certain percentage of your maximum, and good nutrition, to see gains (especially when beginning, and by the time you hit plateus you're probably already a monster). They're pretty much equivalent to playing any RPG where all you need is time to gain XP.
SCUBA diving is another one I've done. There were loads of old guys in the club and they even described it as an "old man's sport". You need basically no strength apart from when you're getting back into the boat. It's all just about controlling your buoyancy and monitoring your air supplies, and not ascending too quickly at the end. The rest of the time you're almost weightless and it requires very little effort. Deep sea diving on different types of gas is a bit more complex, but it's still not going to take an elite athlete to do it, just someone with a cool head and a lot of diving experience.
No one watches real gamers like hard core strategic wargamers. Just big steroid addicts playing kids ball games, and twitchy shooters.
I actually think some people probably still do watch Starcraft tournaments and the like but I'm not sure; I've always found those types of game to be boring as hell. I love turn based strategy games like Chess and Risk so it's not that I dislike strategy games per se, but I just find realtime strategy games annoying. I can do okay on them, but I just don't really enjoy the rushing for resources nor having to be a "manager", I prefer to be part of the action. Twitchy FPS games are simply fun, and you do still need to be strategic to do well. Even after I stopped playing CS for a few years, I tried it again one time and was still able to do okay despite my aim being very rusty, simply because I knew the levels and played relatively intelligently.
I'm a diehard gamer, but I'm not foolish enough to think it's anything other than pointless entertainment, just like life.
TWGFTFY :P
Thanks to HTML5 offline support, designers can build web applications that store themselves on your computer, where you have immediate access to them. Along with the application, web developers can also choose to store the application’s data on your system, so you always have the information you need. Applications and data can be stored in a traditional SQL-like database serving as an application cache or as a “super cookie,” which stores data in the familiar cookie format.
Sounds like a malware author's wetdream..!
What about empty files? Or setting up an iMac?
If it keeps up for a little longer, I might even be able to browse Slashdot.
That's almost what she said!