Am I the only one who thinks that the Singularity sounds awfully like the atheist computer nerd version of the Rapture?
We will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029.
And you base this claim on? Absolutely nothing? Oh, your wet dreams? Well that's different then..
Please allow me to predict the dream recording device for 2024, the first webcomic written by an human-like AI by 2037 and the infinite zoom algorithm for June 2031!
If he was a gangster rapper you'd see people coming up with faked death theories with weird patterns in numbers related to his disappearance to give us all hope...
Unfortunately he was no gangster rapper, only a simple average white billionaire..
Wait, pornographers don't want children to watch porn? So, that means that pornographers are at last not evil amoral perverts who want to corrupt our children's minds and destroy our values and by extension America? The shock! Please let me take a few more years to enjoy my phase of denial.
No, they mean costs. Did you really think that pharmaceutical companies could make profit off healing and saving people? Of course not, but they do it anyways, because if they weren't there, then who would make all these medicines for us? That's right, they do it all because they care about us and they want us to be alive and well, even if it's going to cost them hundreds of billion dollars every year.
Think about it next time you consider buying Pfizer stock.
Re:Not just Ron paul included, Mike Gravel too
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Yes, indeed, why is the best candidate still in the race?
I knew it! I knew that Gravel had to have hardcore supporters around here just like Ron Paul does! I was starting to look at Ron Paul like an anomaly, but now I know it all just has to do with being an underdog. Or maybe just being there. I guess everyone could have fans.
Not just Ron paul included, Mike Gravel too
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Am I the only one who realised with surprise after looking at TFA that Mike Gravel was still running?
Well, if you read WV as VW it means your dyslexic.
I'm actually dysgraphic but anyways it's close enough, I mean it's two short waves and one large wave instead of one large wave and two short waves, plus the logo of Volkswagen is a V on top of a W, and the W is larger, so it's kind of up to you to decide which is more important than the other..:-)
should be enough to power a perpetual tiny rendition of Gene Kelly' 1952 hit film.
Would that be "Watching 'Singing in the rain' in the rain"? That would make a catchy song! "I'm watching Singing in the rain in the rain, I'm watching Singing in the rain in the rain, what a glorious feeling, I'm happy again!"
How do you screw up an operating system this badly and still make money with it?
You mean besides by shoving it down manufacturers' and customers' throats and making them pay for it? Well, by shoving it down their throat and making them pay for it, really. No matter how crappy their next OS is going to be people are going to buy it because they don't really have a choice. And when I say people I also mean manufacturers, we don't have a choice because they don't have a choice in the first place.
Male brains wired for video game obsession, because everyone knows a girl wouldn't get obsessed with The Sims or World of Warcraft. Nope. Only males.
In other news, little girl brains are wired to enjoy playing with toys (now that sounded ambiguous), a research revealed by surveying boys and girls when given Barbie dolls to play with.
The people who make the gaming industry evolve are the ones who do something new, don't get me wrong, not original, new. Might sound obvious, it even might be a truism, but we must keep this in mind, for so few make anything new, from home-brew abstract puzzle hobbyist creators to big game studio designers.
Little is truly new, people like to explore the already explored.
you could use it to knock down bigger skyscrapers and the agencies won't have to explain why they did nothing - noone saw them comming!
Yeah, there's a fat chance an unqualified (terrorist) pilot could fly such a plane at such a speed (or even a third of that speed) at very low altitude into a sky-scraper.
Some analysts say "looming recession", people think "Oh noes" and stop buying stuff/investing => recession.
Yay \o/ that means I'm not the only Slashdotter who watches the Daily Show with Jon Stewart! (For those who don't watch, a guest explained that recession thing to Jon Stewart like last week).
It would certainly produce a powerful ticket (or vice versa).
I don't doubt that from the voter point of view it would be indeed a powerful and federating combination, but from Obama's point of view well I'm pretty sure he'd like Edwards or actually anyone but Clinton as his VP.
Oh wait, you said Obama being Hillary's VP? My pro-Obama bias again, sorry. Yeah I totally see that happening.
Before I actually read what IPv6 was about years ago, I assumed it would be like the phone number extension we had in France (we added a two number prefix before all phone numbers) and that say 62.165.135.248 would become 0.0.62.165.135.248 (or a well-thought and defined prefixing scheme) and that new IPv6 addresses would be assigned to full xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx adresses, and I thought that sounded great.
Only I read about what the IPv6 would really be and I knew I didn't want it. Why? Because it's more complicated, as in much longer, and it uses hexadecimal numbers, and well, it's too unlike IPv4. Why couldn't IPv6 be a mere extension of IPv4? Why does it have to be so different? Wouldn't it have been more widely adopted if it was a more simple evolution?
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How many barn swallows can fly at 40,000 ft?
Or better yet, how many barn swallows flying at 460 mph could corner as fast as an aircraft flying at 460 mph.
Am I the only one who thinks that the Singularity sounds awfully like the atheist computer nerd version of the Rapture?
We will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029.
And you base this claim on? Absolutely nothing? Oh, your wet dreams? Well that's different then..
Please allow me to predict the dream recording device for 2024, the first webcomic written by an human-like AI by 2037 and the infinite zoom algorithm for June 2031!
And the Rapture for 2048. I mean the Singularity.
The impression I got was that Mr. Fosset was anything but /average/.
Whoosh..
Why not let science teachers decide what should be taught in science?
Fixed it for you. You're welcome.
If he was a gangster rapper you'd see people coming up with faked death theories with weird patterns in numbers related to his disappearance to give us all hope...
Unfortunately he was no gangster rapper, only a simple average white billionaire..
Wait, pornographers don't want children to watch porn? So, that means that pornographers are at last not evil amoral perverts who want to corrupt our children's minds and destroy our values and by extension America? The shock! Please let me take a few more years to enjoy my phase of denial.
Would that be why I caught a trojan right after installing that version and browsing sites of questionable trustworthiness?
And how does the pillbox know that you actually took the pill, as opposed to taking it out of the pillbox so that it will quit nagging you?
And how does it know that the pill you just took out didn't fall in the sewer and that you need another one right now?
Did they want to say brings ?
No, they mean costs. Did you really think that pharmaceutical companies could make profit off healing and saving people? Of course not, but they do it anyways, because if they weren't there, then who would make all these medicines for us? That's right, they do it all because they care about us and they want us to be alive and well, even if it's going to cost them hundreds of billion dollars every year.
Think about it next time you consider buying Pfizer stock.
Yes, indeed, why is the best candidate still in the race?
I knew it! I knew that Gravel had to have hardcore supporters around here just like Ron Paul does! I was starting to look at Ron Paul like an anomaly, but now I know it all just has to do with being an underdog. Or maybe just being there. I guess everyone could have fans.
Am I the only one who realised with surprise after looking at TFA that Mike Gravel was still running?
I mean, why??
CD-Player plays Britney Spears songs over and over. Beethoven spins in his grave providing mechanical energy to generator.
You know your music really sucks when even deaf composers spin in their grave because of it.
Well, if you read WV as VW it means your dyslexic.
I'm actually dysgraphic but anyways it's close enough, I mean it's two short waves and one large wave instead of one large wave and two short waves, plus the logo of Volkswagen is a V on top of a W, and the W is larger, so it's kind of up to you to decide which is more important than the other.. :-)
should be enough to power a perpetual tiny rendition of Gene Kelly' 1952 hit film.
Would that be "Watching 'Singing in the rain' in the rain"? That would make a catchy song! "I'm watching Singing in the rain in the rain, I'm watching Singing in the rain in the rain, what a glorious feeling, I'm happy again!"
Just wondering, am I the only one stupid enough to think it had to be about Volkswagen upon reading the title? I'm worried.. :-/
How do you screw up an operating system this badly and still make money with it?
You mean besides by shoving it down manufacturers' and customers' throats and making them pay for it? Well, by shoving it down their throat and making them pay for it, really. No matter how crappy their next OS is going to be people are going to buy it because they don't really have a choice. And when I say people I also mean manufacturers, we don't have a choice because they don't have a choice in the first place.
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Male brains wired for video game obsession, because everyone knows a girl wouldn't get obsessed with The Sims or World of Warcraft. Nope. Only males.
In other news, little girl brains are wired to enjoy playing with toys (now that sounded ambiguous), a research revealed by surveying boys and girls when given Barbie dolls to play with.
The people who make the gaming industry evolve are the ones who do something new, don't get me wrong, not original, new. Might sound obvious, it even might be a truism, but we must keep this in mind, for so few make anything new, from home-brew abstract puzzle hobbyist creators to big game studio designers.
Little is truly new, people like to explore the already explored.
you could use it to knock down bigger skyscrapers and the agencies won't have to explain why they did nothing - noone saw them comming!
Yeah, there's a fat chance an unqualified (terrorist) pilot could fly such a plane at such a speed (or even a third of that speed) at very low altitude into a sky-scraper.
Is it that AOL is doing bad? Because I haven't received any CDs from them in a while, so I'm getting worried..
Some analysts say "looming recession", people think "Oh noes" and stop buying stuff/investing => recession.
Yay \o/ that means I'm not the only Slashdotter who watches the Daily Show with Jon Stewart! (For those who don't watch, a guest explained that recession thing to Jon Stewart like last week).
It would certainly produce a powerful ticket (or vice versa).
I don't doubt that from the voter point of view it would be indeed a powerful and federating combination, but from Obama's point of view well I'm pretty sure he'd like Edwards or actually anyone but Clinton as his VP.
Oh wait, you said Obama being Hillary's VP? My pro-Obama bias again, sorry. Yeah I totally see that happening.
Before I actually read what IPv6 was about years ago, I assumed it would be like the phone number extension we had in France (we added a two number prefix before all phone numbers) and that say 62.165.135.248 would become 0.0.62.165.135.248 (or a well-thought and defined prefixing scheme) and that new IPv6 addresses would be assigned to full xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx adresses, and I thought that sounded great.
Only I read about what the IPv6 would really be and I knew I didn't want it. Why? Because it's more complicated, as in much longer, and it uses hexadecimal numbers, and well, it's too unlike IPv4. Why couldn't IPv6 be a mere extension of IPv4? Why does it have to be so different? Wouldn't it have been more widely adopted if it was a more simple evolution?
It's called dignity.
Don't you rather mean integrity?