I take it you've never lived in a city?
Where I used to work got robbed on a semi-regular basis, I've been shot at before and threatened with knives, bats, guns etc.
Yet, I have absolutely no sympathy for police officers who are overly aggressive. Yes, sometimes they do need to be that way in order to take down a perp before he causes any harm, BUT this kind of situation is more rare than you can imagine. At the same time, I've been arrested, and not told anything until after I was stripped naked and given prison clothes. Also, sitting in a cell for 4 days straight without getting out for a shower or anything is pretty shitty.
Now, the point is this, the police are people, but they are NOT citizens when they put on that badge. They are servants of the public. They are no longer allowed to expect the rights of the rest of us to apply to them. They are nonetheless given more rights in some ways than the rest of us.
This puts them in a special position of needing to be watched more than the general public due to the powers they possess.
I'm no expert in this field but I think the link that you provided had underestimated the human brain by many orders of magnitude. The human brain is not a hard drive. I don't think there is even any counterpart to it in current computer technology (maybe quantum computing?), whatever that is, so the comparison is meaningless. The brain doesn't just "store" information like a hard drive. It analyses, modifies, categorises, correlates, extrapolates, fills in missing blanks, filters and blanks out others and many other things that we are just beginning to discover. For example, a human child will quickly grasp the concept of doors and doorknobs, without any "programming" (I've had toddlers so believe me on this). This is why I think A.I. enthusiasts will ultimately fail.
People like you drive me nutters.
The human brain has billions of years of evolutionary programming built into the seperate layers of the brain, there are so many built in functions that we don't even realize it in normal everyday activities.
For example, your brain is "hardwired" from birth to recognize human faces, and to emit "happy juice" when the faces are familar or matched with motherly smells.
Just because its not programmed after birth, does not mean that the hardware itself is not built for the task. This is no different from creating a custom asic or fpga for doing GA's or ANN's.
He said nothing of the sort, he said knowing math and science does not make you more intelligent, it makes you more knowledgeable, theres quite a bit of difference there.
The IQ test does not, NOT, measure pure intelligence, it assumes that you have working knowledge of language and math.
So, in short, intelligence has nothing to do with specific types of knowledge, it has to do with how well you can reason and think and observe.
I'm pretty sure the WISP I work for still uses 802.11a,b,g and even 900mhz equipment for people who can't get LOS to our AP's.
Sure, we only offer a 1mbit speed, but thats pretty sweet compared to the maximum 24.4 dialup they are used to.
We can cover something around eight thousand square miles (if my math is right, ~25 towers at ~10 miles radius for CPE's to connect well).
So, yea, if you wanna push it, you can even do bigger links with higher DB antennaes for the CPE's and AP's. We've a few links from AP to CPE that approach 20 miles.
So if you could do 20 miles thats approximately 20*20*3.14 = ~1200 sq miles PER tower/AP.
When your wife finds out you spent $5 on a perfect diamond that was made in a lab instead of by the Earths natural and loving embrace, you will find out how loving and warm your couch is...
If your wife is shallow enough to care about the price of a diamond instead of the fact that you thought enough to buy her one, you need a new wife.
You honestly think that, in america, being poor means you don't have luxuries?
Yes.
If you don't have enough gumption to get off your ass and make some money, then you don't deserve to eat. I know its VERY possible to make money easily, as when I was 16 I was making 1500+ dollars a month mowing lawns in the summer as a subcontractor for several realty companies in the town I lived. This was a business me and my 17 year old buddy started ourselves. It is easy. Don't be a lazyass and you can make lots of money.
Either it just happened or a giant cosmic fairy that has existed for eternity and is eternal caused it.
What makes more sense and is simpler, the fact that the universe is "eternal" and subject to natural cycles, or something else exists outside the universe and caused those cycles to begin?
And yes, creationism IS so flawed. It makes no sense whatsoever, and if you are a creationist, I have about as much respect for you as a 40 year old who still believes in the tooth fairy and santa claus, and I don't care if you are the president or my own mother, I would tell you the same thing.
Finally, the whole reason that this IS IMPORTANT to the debate, is that if she doesn't think that one of the basest principles about science is correct and that things based on NO evidence are admissible as science, then it is a very scary future indeed.
Its not the fact that evolution is being challenged, but the fact that the science community is being looked down upon for doing what they do and coming up with the best explanation for our existence that is based upon evidence.
Well, there do exist isp's that run bridged networks. Thats what I was pointing at.
That and I assumed (falsely apparently) that internet activity light simply meant the lights on a switch. (to most "users" there is no difference).
You do realize that in a network of ~10 windows computers there is going to be an average of 20 - 50 kbps of "ambient" network noise, due to net-bios and wins traffic?
That is ALL broadcast traffic, which is why all ISP's should block those ports at the customer premise equipment, as well as subnet the customers to keep them from easily spreading their junk.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHH!
I have no IDEA why people don't understand that just because code is GPL'd that you cannot sell it. People do it to distro's all the time, the only thing you have to do is provide a copy of the code to anyone who asks. Now, this is how tivo and all the other companies who use or used linux to run their devices made money, by tying the software to the hardware. Sure you can have the code, but how much help will it be to "hack" the devices.
GPL allows you freedoms, but removes the "freedom" to use the code and distribute it without releasing the source as well.
Whether this makes it more free or less free, I dunno, thats why I use different licenses for different projects.
No I'm simply implying that MS doesn't have experts.
I mean, look at the debacle that was vista, they couldn't even get their own networking stack right, and you are going to trust them to provide networking for a GAME?
I mean, come on, in an environment that require optimal latencies and clean fast code, you would use MS's stuff ?
Right, I actually know the son of the man who invented the cruise control. Seriously.
He patented it, and didn't get a dime for it, due to the fact that car companies didn't want to use it. This is why you don't see cruise control until the late 70's and early 80's.
He just wanted to make some money from his idea, but the corps just wanted to buy it from it for something ridiculously low like 20k.
Of course, he probably could have worked something out, but hey.
Thats why patents are good, and bad.
Funny thing about that is, if you are running it like I did with a nfsroot mounting on the pxe booting diskless nodes, all you need in the compute nodes is ram,proc,nic. Then you are using maybe 50-60 watts IN TOTAL for the p3 system.
I know when I had a 30 box cluster(all ~1ghz), my electric bill at home only went up about 40-50 dollars a month. So I think it can be worth it, if you can set it up correctly.
I would not say that directX is superior due to the stacks being tied together. Opengl allows you to decide what you want to use to implement all those features instead of trying to force bloated software on you. It also allows you to pick libraries that have been made by experts in the area the lib focuses on.
For example, openal, clam, etc for sound and whatever else for whatever else you are doing.
I'm not so sure about that, in the research I've done in psychology, most of the evidence points to forgetting at LEAST 50% of what you've seen/studied in a day unless you repeat it several times.
This is why its so important to write, speak, and look at things when you are studying. It also helps to visualize putting things in "rooms" in your "brain house". That way the memories are organized and made to seem more important. The more important something seems, the more likely you will remember it.
You need to remember that 90% of laptop CPUs will automatically downclock themselves if they are overheating (or over a certain temperature threshold.)
They also do this if the cpu is more idle.
That is, until someone figures out how to easily use the pc to generate the content itself (meaning textures/3d models, not the game content), removing the need for 3d artists, and pushing the indie game realm back into the limelight, due to the fact that you could create all the crap you need that way, and only need to program again.
Build a box out of an old crappy pc (find one in a dumpster, I've found working amd64 3200+'s that work) and install smoothwall or monowall or pfsense or ipcop or any other simple boxed firewall distro's?
This reminds me of the time my high school told us that we were not allowed to do write in votes on the ballet for homecoming king and queen.
The winners, strangely enough, turned out to be dave, and "billies nipples", getting about 1/3 of all the votes.
It was too bad though, made us do a revote, and threatened to suspend people who made lewd comments on it again.
I bet if we could get rid of all the spam, viruses, and other crap on the internet, we could remove 30% of the traffic out there anyways.
I could be wrong, but hell, its worth it anyway.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that we have pushed links 45 miles from access point to access point, but, it limits the uplink to 15-18mbps, so its harder to do that and provide service to loads of people
Well, our lowest package is 35/month.
but thats for a 512down/128up, so I don't think its too badly priced (that, and we actually take a loss on the install to buy the CPE).
Anyways, with a slightly better antennae I know that we have pushed a link from a customer to the access point from 15 miles away.
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I take it you've never lived in a city?
Where I used to work got robbed on a semi-regular basis, I've been shot at before and threatened with knives, bats, guns etc.
Yet, I have absolutely no sympathy for police officers who are overly aggressive. Yes, sometimes they do need to be that way in order to take down a perp before he causes any harm, BUT this kind of situation is more rare than you can imagine. At the same time, I've been arrested, and not told anything until after I was stripped naked and given prison clothes. Also, sitting in a cell for 4 days straight without getting out for a shower or anything is pretty shitty.
Now, the point is this, the police are people, but they are NOT citizens when they put on that badge. They are servants of the public. They are no longer allowed to expect the rights of the rest of us to apply to them. They are nonetheless given more rights in some ways than the rest of us.
This puts them in a special position of needing to be watched more than the general public due to the powers they possess.
Combofix! Go download it and use it. it will slaughter those stupid antivirus xp 200x and all that jazz. I want to make out with whoever made it.
I'm no expert in this field but I think the link that you provided had underestimated the human brain by many orders of magnitude. The human brain is not a hard drive. I don't think there is even any counterpart to it in current computer technology (maybe quantum computing?), whatever that is, so the comparison is meaningless. The brain doesn't just "store" information like a hard drive. It analyses, modifies, categorises, correlates, extrapolates, fills in missing blanks, filters and blanks out others and many other things that we are just beginning to discover. For example, a human child will quickly grasp the concept of doors and doorknobs, without any "programming" (I've had toddlers so believe me on this). This is why I think A.I. enthusiasts will ultimately fail.
People like you drive me nutters. The human brain has billions of years of evolutionary programming built into the seperate layers of the brain, there are so many built in functions that we don't even realize it in normal everyday activities. For example, your brain is "hardwired" from birth to recognize human faces, and to emit "happy juice" when the faces are familar or matched with motherly smells. Just because its not programmed after birth, does not mean that the hardware itself is not built for the task. This is no different from creating a custom asic or fpga for doing GA's or ANN's.
He said nothing of the sort, he said knowing math and science does not make you more intelligent, it makes you more knowledgeable, theres quite a bit of difference there.
The IQ test does not, NOT, measure pure intelligence, it assumes that you have working knowledge of language and math.
So, in short, intelligence has nothing to do with specific types of knowledge, it has to do with how well you can reason and think and observe.
I'm pretty sure the WISP I work for still uses 802.11a,b,g and even 900mhz equipment for people who can't get LOS to our AP's.
Sure, we only offer a 1mbit speed, but thats pretty sweet compared to the maximum 24.4 dialup they are used to.
We can cover something around eight thousand square miles (if my math is right, ~25 towers at ~10 miles radius for CPE's to connect well).
So, yea, if you wanna push it, you can even do bigger links with higher DB antennaes for the CPE's and AP's. We've a few links from AP to CPE that approach 20 miles.
So if you could do 20 miles thats approximately 20*20*3.14 = ~1200 sq miles PER tower/AP.
When your wife finds out you spent $5 on a perfect diamond that was made in a lab instead of by the Earths natural and loving embrace, you will find out how loving and warm your couch is...
If your wife is shallow enough to care about the price of a diamond instead of the fact that you thought enough to buy her one, you need a new wife.
You honestly think that, in america, being poor means you don't have luxuries?
Yes.
If you don't have enough gumption to get off your ass and make some money, then you don't deserve to eat. I know its VERY possible to make money easily, as when I was 16 I was making 1500+ dollars a month mowing lawns in the summer as a subcontractor for several realty companies in the town I lived. This was a business me and my 17 year old buddy started ourselves. It is easy. Don't be a lazyass and you can make lots of money.
All I could think of was
This is AAANNDDROOOOIIIIIDDDD!
where did god come from to "just happen"?
The whole argument about the big bang is this....
Either it just happened or a giant cosmic fairy that has existed for eternity and is eternal caused it.
What makes more sense and is simpler, the fact that the universe is "eternal" and subject to natural cycles, or something else exists outside the universe and caused those cycles to begin?
And yes, creationism IS so flawed. It makes no sense whatsoever, and if you are a creationist, I have about as much respect for you as a 40 year old who still believes in the tooth fairy and santa claus, and I don't care if you are the president or my own mother, I would tell you the same thing.
Finally, the whole reason that this IS IMPORTANT to the debate, is that if she doesn't think that one of the basest principles about science is correct and that things based on NO evidence are admissible as science, then it is a very scary future indeed.
Its not the fact that evolution is being challenged, but the fact that the science community is being looked down upon for doing what they do and coming up with the best explanation for our existence that is based upon evidence.
Well, there do exist isp's that run bridged networks. Thats what I was pointing at. That and I assumed (falsely apparently) that internet activity light simply meant the lights on a switch. (to most "users" there is no difference).
hahahahahahhahah
You do realize that in a network of ~10 windows computers there is going to be an average of 20 - 50 kbps of "ambient" network noise, due to net-bios and wins traffic?
That is ALL broadcast traffic, which is why all ISP's should block those ports at the customer premise equipment, as well as subnet the customers to keep them from easily spreading their junk.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHH! I have no IDEA why people don't understand that just because code is GPL'd that you cannot sell it. People do it to distro's all the time, the only thing you have to do is provide a copy of the code to anyone who asks. Now, this is how tivo and all the other companies who use or used linux to run their devices made money, by tying the software to the hardware. Sure you can have the code, but how much help will it be to "hack" the devices. GPL allows you freedoms, but removes the "freedom" to use the code and distribute it without releasing the source as well. Whether this makes it more free or less free, I dunno, thats why I use different licenses for different projects.
No I'm simply implying that MS doesn't have experts. I mean, look at the debacle that was vista, they couldn't even get their own networking stack right, and you are going to trust them to provide networking for a GAME? I mean, come on, in an environment that require optimal latencies and clean fast code, you would use MS's stuff ?
Right, I actually know the son of the man who invented the cruise control. Seriously. He patented it, and didn't get a dime for it, due to the fact that car companies didn't want to use it. This is why you don't see cruise control until the late 70's and early 80's. He just wanted to make some money from his idea, but the corps just wanted to buy it from it for something ridiculously low like 20k. Of course, he probably could have worked something out, but hey. Thats why patents are good, and bad.
Funny thing about that is, if you are running it like I did with a nfsroot mounting on the pxe booting diskless nodes, all you need in the compute nodes is ram,proc,nic. Then you are using maybe 50-60 watts IN TOTAL for the p3 system. I know when I had a 30 box cluster(all ~1ghz), my electric bill at home only went up about 40-50 dollars a month. So I think it can be worth it, if you can set it up correctly.
I would not say that directX is superior due to the stacks being tied together. Opengl allows you to decide what you want to use to implement all those features instead of trying to force bloated software on you. It also allows you to pick libraries that have been made by experts in the area the lib focuses on. For example, openal, clam, etc for sound and whatever else for whatever else you are doing.
I'm not so sure about that, in the research I've done in psychology, most of the evidence points to forgetting at LEAST 50% of what you've seen/studied in a day unless you repeat it several times. This is why its so important to write, speak, and look at things when you are studying. It also helps to visualize putting things in "rooms" in your "brain house". That way the memories are organized and made to seem more important. The more important something seems, the more likely you will remember it.
You need to remember that 90% of laptop CPUs will automatically downclock themselves if they are overheating (or over a certain temperature threshold.) They also do this if the cpu is more idle.
That is, until someone figures out how to easily use the pc to generate the content itself (meaning textures/3d models, not the game content), removing the need for 3d artists, and pushing the indie game realm back into the limelight, due to the fact that you could create all the crap you need that way, and only need to program again.
Build a box out of an old crappy pc (find one in a dumpster, I've found working amd64 3200+'s that work) and install smoothwall or monowall or pfsense or ipcop or any other simple boxed firewall distro's?
This reminds me of the time my high school told us that we were not allowed to do write in votes on the ballet for homecoming king and queen. The winners, strangely enough, turned out to be dave, and "billies nipples", getting about 1/3 of all the votes. It was too bad though, made us do a revote, and threatened to suspend people who made lewd comments on it again.
I bet if we could get rid of all the spam, viruses, and other crap on the internet, we could remove 30% of the traffic out there anyways. I could be wrong, but hell, its worth it anyway.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that we have pushed links 45 miles from access point to access point, but, it limits the uplink to 15-18mbps, so its harder to do that and provide service to loads of people
Well, our lowest package is 35/month. but thats for a 512down/128up, so I don't think its too badly priced (that, and we actually take a loss on the install to buy the CPE). Anyways, with a slightly better antennae I know that we have pushed a link from a customer to the access point from 15 miles away.