So, if i watch a movie once, its rarely used, put on the slowest disk and stutters when played?;p Well, anyways, where on a desktop system would you need really expensive high speed data stortage? Normal disks these days are extremely large and fast and they never come under any stress anywhere near a high performance webserver or anything alike. While backups system will get more important while disk space gets cheaper and cheaper, i dont see any need for more performace. People will just put up a raid with some 500GB drives pretty soon...
I study physics, and there are a few other theories, but none has less problems than the string theory. Also, claiming that it doesn't make any predictions that can be checked is wrong, it predicts a new particle that we might find when the LHC is finished and running on its top energy.
I think these guys are obviously just trying to sell a book by making up a controversy where there is no real one, just like the ID guys...
yeah, my problem is something else. Sure, the dogs can produce some semi-random sounds for each property of a object and the object itself, for other dogs to figure out that they mean ( but then, they could also send out unique random numbers instead. Sound might be more common to us, but its not a must for a language)
But, i dont think the dogs are capable of actually deciding which properties of an object are important and which are not, nor can they make up new properties. They dont actually describe an object in the sense of thinking "what is important about this object? Size? Color? luminosity? material? estimated wheight? How much information is sufficent to describe the object?" I think the dogs just have an internal model of an object (ie "height","location") and tranlate it into sounds. That way one dog can never "explain" a new property ("material") of an object to another dog that has no concept of this property. That would be actual language, everything else is just more or less complicated encryption of data by one dog and decryption of the data by the other dog.
Here in germany, we had a somewhat similar debate about the net long before it really became an issue on the web:
In germany, it is forbidden to show images or text a racist background. So basically, after a author wrote an essay about how ridiculus a neo-nazi website (which was located in the USA and untouchable by german law) was, and linked to it, he got sued because of this link. He won the trail, because the judgde decided that he clearly wasn't linking to the website to promote it, but to make fun of the idiots behind it. But now politicans steped in, with their funny views on how the web works, and demanded ISP to make the webiste and other unacessible to users from germany ( yes germany, not china), therefore giving up their neutrality.
That is the main point why we must have net neutrality: Nobody would care about a website being pulled down, but where do you draw the line? Sure, there is a big gap between making some racist idiots website unaccessible and doing the same to the opposing political party or information about humans right like china. But its a small step in this very direction.
"Wehret den Anfängen"
Without net neutrality, each ISP's "internet" would just be a huge billboard with some websites between. I dont see whats the problem for the ISPs with the current internet model. If the costs are too high, here is a hint: people already pay for internet access.
So i dont exactly have less money ( Guild wars is free to play with an full price addon coming out every 6 month so areanet can pay for the servers;-) but i sure spend alot less on other games, just because GW PVP keeps me busy. But on the other had, before GW i was playing WC3 for years without buying much other games, and before that it was Diablo2 Quake3 even or Ultima Online.. So, i've always been a heavy internet/multiplayer gamer, long before every kids on the planet got into WOW. The change is not MMORPGs per se, but simply the internet. Playing with/against humans keeps the replay value high, in any genre not just MMORPGs.
But i guess, "Does the internet cause people to buy fewer Games?" would have not been exactly "news" ^^
to me, it sounds like they just had the dogs make up word for things, not exactly creating a language itself. I think the concepts of a language to describe things was already programmed into these dogs, so they only had to make up sounds to fill already given attributes like "thing.size" "thing.direction". Doesn't sound like a step in actual AI, but i coulda be usefull for translators...
Has this guy actually written these lines? " v = dt/dt " as a "proof" that time travel is impossible? The only thing this proofs is that the write is an idiot. The fact that something is not allowed in our current hypotheses does not proof its not possible, there is always the other option that our theories are not accurate.
Anyways, if you want a simple logic argument against time travel: If time travel was possible, infint people from all times would be visiting us right now and and at every other place of interest around.
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ebay loves banning competition, same with Rapleaf. Maybe they think about moving to china and try to get used to the local modus operandi ^^
So, if i watch a movie once, its rarely used, put on the slowest disk and stutters when played? ;p Well, anyways, where on a desktop system would you need really expensive high speed data stortage? Normal disks these days are extremely large and fast and they never come under any stress anywhere near a high performance webserver or anything alike. While backups system will get more important while disk space gets cheaper and cheaper, i dont see any need for more performace. People will just put up a raid with some 500GB drives pretty soon ...
I study physics, and there are a few other theories, but none has less problems than the string theory. Also, claiming that it doesn't make any predictions that can be checked is wrong, it predicts a new particle that we might find when the LHC is finished and running on its top energy. I think these guys are obviously just trying to sell a book by making up a controversy where there is no real one, just like the ID guys ...
yeah, my problem is something else. Sure, the dogs can produce some semi-random sounds for each property of a object and the object itself, for other dogs to figure out that they mean ( but then, they could also send out unique random numbers instead. Sound might be more common to us, but its not a must for a language) But, i dont think the dogs are capable of actually deciding which properties of an object are important and which are not, nor can they make up new properties. They dont actually describe an object in the sense of thinking "what is important about this object? Size? Color? luminosity? material? estimated wheight? How much information is sufficent to describe the object?" I think the dogs just have an internal model of an object (ie "height","location") and tranlate it into sounds. That way one dog can never "explain" a new property ("material") of an object to another dog that has no concept of this property. That would be actual language, everything else is just more or less complicated encryption of data by one dog and decryption of the data by the other dog.
Here in germany, we had a somewhat similar debate about the net long before it really became an issue on the web: In germany, it is forbidden to show images or text a racist background. So basically, after a author wrote an essay about how ridiculus a neo-nazi website (which was located in the USA and untouchable by german law) was, and linked to it, he got sued because of this link. He won the trail, because the judgde decided that he clearly wasn't linking to the website to promote it, but to make fun of the idiots behind it. But now politicans steped in, with their funny views on how the web works, and demanded ISP to make the webiste and other unacessible to users from germany ( yes germany, not china), therefore giving up their neutrality. That is the main point why we must have net neutrality: Nobody would care about a website being pulled down, but where do you draw the line? Sure, there is a big gap between making some racist idiots website unaccessible and doing the same to the opposing political party or information about humans right like china. But its a small step in this very direction. "Wehret den Anfängen"
Without net neutrality, each ISP's "internet" would just be a huge billboard with some websites between. I dont see whats the problem for the ISPs with the current internet model. If the costs are too high, here is a hint: people already pay for internet access.
So i dont exactly have less money ( Guild wars is free to play with an full price addon coming out every 6 month so areanet can pay for the servers ;-) but i sure spend alot less on other games, just because GW PVP keeps me busy. But on the other had, before GW i was playing WC3 for years without buying much other games, and before that it was Diablo2 Quake3 even or Ultima Online .. So, i've always been a heavy internet/multiplayer gamer, long before every kids on the planet got into WOW. The change is not MMORPGs per se, but simply the internet. Playing with/against humans keeps the replay value high, in any genre not just MMORPGs.
But i guess, "Does the internet cause people to buy fewer Games?" would have not been exactly "news" ^^
to me, it sounds like they just had the dogs make up word for things, not exactly creating a language itself. I think the concepts of a language to describe things was already programmed into these dogs, so they only had to make up sounds to fill already given attributes like "thing.size" "thing.direction". Doesn't sound like a step in actual AI, but i coulda be usefull for translators ...
here is some more advanced math for you: iTunes = Teh Suck.
Has this guy actually written these lines? " v = dt/dt " as a "proof" that time travel is impossible? The only thing this proofs is that the write is an idiot. The fact that something is not allowed in our current hypotheses does not proof its not possible, there is always the other option that our theories are not accurate. Anyways, if you want a simple logic argument against time travel: If time travel was possible, infint people from all times would be visiting us right now and and at every other place of interest around.