Right, and what is the fundamental issue here is the word SIMULATE. The question whether simulation of intelligence is sufficient for the presence of intelligence.
Oh, but how do you know whether I am not just simulating intelligence? Or that you are not just simulating intelligence?
First, you should define what you actually mean by the term intelligence as well as by the term simulation. I suspect that you are using ill-defined concepts here.
6- physics? to graduate from highschool everyone should have a semester of chem II and physics? it's not practical.. not everyone needs these classes.
In Bavaria, we have got three kinds of schools. One of these, which is called Gymnasium, is meant to prepare you for University. (There are ways around it, but those only qualify you for a particular field of study. Finishing Gymnasium qualifies you for any University degree whatsoever, and most University students have finished Gymnasium, as far as I know). We don't use a course system as American highschools do. Up to the 10th grade, everyone is required to pass largely the same courses, including music, chemistry, physics, math, history, German, English, economics, sociology, another foreign language and more. University students are expected to be at least minimally knowledgable in topics outside their field of study.
In my opinion, we still have far too many University students (especially in CS -- but that is a topic for another day), so it is certainly practical to expect students to take physics classes. Not only practical, of course, but probably a good idea, anyway. Our system may not prduce the best computer scientists -- I don't know about that --, but at least it doesn't produce horribly narrow-minded people. (Well, it does, but that doesn't change the fact that it hints at the right direction.)
Disclaimer I: Unfortunately, I don't know much about the US' school system, so my explanations may be misleading.
Disclaimer II: I personally finished Gymnasium about two years ago, and our school system has been reformed lately. My statements may not be completely accurate now.
You pronounce "flavor" as you do "flower"? You English speaking people are funny:D
As far as I know, the Latin "a" is pronounced like English "ah", "o" like the "o" in "ton" (that's actually not quite right, but I can't think of an English word with the right sound... maybe such a thing doesn't even exist), and "v" as something in between "v", "w" and the sound right in the middle of "flower". I'm not sure how the "r" is pronounced at the end of a word. I always pronounce it like I do in German (a bit like the "a"), but it may well be supposed to be spoken like a normal German (or Latin) "r", which is something that English doesn't even have (it's a very rough sound).
That's how I learned Latin. I still don't think that's the exact pronounciation. I consider it highly probable that the Romans had what we would call an Italian accent. There might have been regional differences, too, of course. But "flower" for "flavor"? Definitely not! I'm 100 % certain that my German-accent Latin is much more accurate than your English-accent one:)
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The age of majority? I'm not a native speaker, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't that be maturity? If Blizzard's lawyers are this bad, they're certainly going to lose the suit. Jeez...
Limewire will now require licensing in its files, hardly something you'd do for your own personal files.
According to an article at heise.de, LimeWire is going to support attaching a Creative Commons licence to your own works and sharing them.
Although one has to wonder whether this is going to work out. I mean, what prevents your average W4r3Z D00dZ from attaching a Creative Commons licence to a work ripped from a CD? In the end, LimeWire LLC is probably going out of business, anyway.
My ideal license would be betwee[n] GPL and BSD: one where only contributions (changes, fixes, enhancements, etc.) to so-licensed code would have to be published. This way, open code stays open without 'infecting' everything that uses it.
I'm not sure of course, but I rather doubt the capability of a javascript based spreadsheet. It might be ok for holding a small set of data and a handful of equations, but I wouldn't much like to view the last 10 years of accounts of a medium sized company with one. It'd be considerably slower than a properly compiled and optimized application.
del.icio.us direc.tor shows that you can do some really nifty things like sorting large amounts of data from within Javascript code quite efficiently by using the browser's XSLT processor (which is usually compiled natively, of course).
That said, there are limits, no doubt. And there's a lot of things you probably can't use XSLT for. I can't imagine a really responsive video editing application in Javascript, for example. But there's still some potential in approaches like this that has yet to be discovered.
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Oh, but how do you know whether I am not just simulating intelligence? Or that you are not just simulating intelligence?
First, you should define what you actually mean by the term intelligence as well as by the term simulation. I suspect that you are using ill-defined concepts here.
In Bavaria, we have got three kinds of schools. One of these, which is called Gymnasium, is meant to prepare you for University. (There are ways around it, but those only qualify you for a particular field of study. Finishing Gymnasium qualifies you for any University degree whatsoever, and most University students have finished Gymnasium, as far as I know). We don't use a course system as American highschools do. Up to the 10th grade, everyone is required to pass largely the same courses, including music, chemistry, physics, math, history, German, English, economics, sociology, another foreign language and more. University students are expected to be at least minimally knowledgable in topics outside their field of study.
In my opinion, we still have far too many University students (especially in CS -- but that is a topic for another day), so it is certainly practical to expect students to take physics classes. Not only practical, of course, but probably a good idea, anyway. Our system may not prduce the best computer scientists -- I don't know about that --, but at least it doesn't produce horribly narrow-minded people. (Well, it does, but that doesn't change the fact that it hints at the right direction.)
Disclaimer I: Unfortunately, I don't know much about the US' school system, so my explanations may be misleading.
Disclaimer II: I personally finished Gymnasium about two years ago, and our school system has been reformed lately. My statements may not be completely accurate now.
You probably meant: Na gut, das ist es wohl wert.
Yeah, I'm a pedantic German.
You pronounce "flavor" as you do "flower"? You English speaking people are funny :D
As far as I know, the Latin "a" is pronounced like English "ah", "o" like the "o" in "ton" (that's actually not quite right, but I can't think of an English word with the right sound... maybe such a thing doesn't even exist), and "v" as something in between "v", "w" and the sound right in the middle of "flower". I'm not sure how the "r" is pronounced at the end of a word. I always pronounce it like I do in German (a bit like the "a"), but it may well be supposed to be spoken like a normal German (or Latin) "r", which is something that English doesn't even have (it's a very rough sound).
That's how I learned Latin. I still don't think that's the exact pronounciation. I consider it highly probable that the Romans had what we would call an Italian accent. There might have been regional differences, too, of course. But "flower" for "flavor"? Definitely not! I'm 100 % certain that my German-accent Latin is much more accurate than your English-accent one :)
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According to an article at heise.de, LimeWire is going to support attaching a Creative Commons licence to your own works and sharing them.
Although one has to wonder whether this is going to work out. I mean, what prevents your average W4r3Z D00dZ from attaching a Creative Commons licence to a work ripped from a CD? In the end, LimeWire LLC is probably going out of business, anyway.