The advantages of immortality outweigh the disadvantages no matter how you look at it. If you disagree you can (sorry if this sounds dramatic) go kill yourself.
Doing it to other brain cells had 0 effect. The fact that they narrowed it down to 12 brain-cells that were responsible should be telling.
Higher animals may experience some level of dissonance though since we don't AS easily accept things. I think it is likely it would work on many parts of us though. Colouring memories of people and such.
Amazing interview, the interviewer was a bit blah, it wasn't his field (the field has existed a bit under 3years). But the researcher really took off explaining everything quite well including the experiment. WELL worth the listen.
Even if this was a joke. The scientists did enough tests and rounds to isolate the cells necessary down to 12. They say they may reduce that number further. I really bot think controls is an issue.
There are less trashcans pathetically because of terrorist fears. As sad as that was trash in the streets was shown to drop. Since studies have been done on this and it is the idea that seeing garbage makes it more acceptable to litter. As well people miss garbage cans or wind blows garbage out so there is garbage on the street which makes it more acceptable to litter. I think that redesigning the aesthetics of garbage cans could directly contribute to reduced trash in cities. And likely cost a lot less than cleaning crews.
Another interesting country to look at is Japan. It is a social faux pas to eat while walking, as it is offensive to the food, disrespectful to whoever made it. This results in much less trash in the streets. And while there are vending machines everywhere you are generally expected to drink there before moving on (This has gotten more lax in recent times). There are also less trashcans, hardly any, I've seen more bottle recycling spots than trashcans. That also contributes to keeping the streets clean. And on top of that they have very industrious cleaning crews which leave the place spotless. When this is maintained people are far less likely to litter if they see no one else doing it. I'm sure you or someone you know applies this method in their own homes, it works just as well scaled up to cities. This combined results in very very clean cities. The cleaning crew costs have dropped since their goal is more to maintain a high level of clean rather than clean up the huge mess to an acceptable level.
I think you might be making a bit of a fallacy of choice mistake. Perhaps not you but it was lead into by GP's posts. You say that while people might prefer the law to exist as opposed to not. This may be completely true. But those aren't the two choices available to us.
OT: The criminalization of society is indeed a problem but I don't think littering is particularly one of them. You don't need to live in fear that the cops will dig up some old littering you did and charge you with it.
This is a practice Canada currently uses. And we are ditching it. Estimates are that prices will almost double and dozens of companies will go broke as a bell monopoly forms and dominates the ISP market in Canada. Its like doomsday.
I think it is safe to say that if the US implements it you will see lots of competition and halving of prices if this is implemented in the US. The idea that all countries don't do this is ridiculous. And the only people it hurts are entrenched corrupt monopolists.
That'd be like a site blocker for kids that advertised that kids will only run into hardcore porn a few times a day but the purveyors are quickly shut down. Yeahhhhhh...
You could move everyone on earth at near light speed while you sit in a pod in space. You will die as a few seconds pass for them and you wont need a very big key, also your life span was not reduced.
Sounds like the fault of the benchmarking community not ATI. Why should we be annoyed that it runs the top game of the year extra well? Being able to run Quake3 was a major selling point. Should ATI not make quake 3 run faster even though they could? Hell no, that would be stupid. I suppose they probably could have included a sticker that said made with quake in mind or something and maybe they did I dunno.
In any case application specific optimizations are a great tool. They got an extra 18% speed out of the chip with just application specific tweaks. That's a pretty damn significant increase. Ignoring that would be a terrible decision. All graphics drivers should use this and update the drivers every few months as new games come out.
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Better yet we could regrow whole Shakey's Pizzas!
The advantages of immortality outweigh the disadvantages no matter how you look at it. If you disagree you can (sorry if this sounds dramatic) go kill yourself.
Doing it to other brain cells had 0 effect. The fact that they narrowed it down to 12 brain-cells that were responsible should be telling.
Higher animals may experience some level of dissonance though since we don't AS easily accept things. I think it is likely it would work on many parts of us though. Colouring memories of people and such.
Amazing interview, the interviewer was a bit blah, it wasn't his field (the field has existed a bit under 3years). But the researcher really took off explaining everything quite well including the experiment. WELL worth the listen.
Even if this was a joke. The scientists did enough tests and rounds to isolate the cells necessary down to 12. They say they may reduce that number further. I really bot think controls is an issue.
The elderly are immune to H1N1. Making it even stupider.
There are less trashcans pathetically because of terrorist fears. As sad as that was trash in the streets was shown to drop. Since studies have been done on this and it is the idea that seeing garbage makes it more acceptable to litter. As well people miss garbage cans or wind blows garbage out so there is garbage on the street which makes it more acceptable to litter. I think that redesigning the aesthetics of garbage cans could directly contribute to reduced trash in cities. And likely cost a lot less than cleaning crews.
Another interesting country to look at is Japan. It is a social faux pas to eat while walking, as it is offensive to the food, disrespectful to whoever made it. This results in much less trash in the streets. And while there are vending machines everywhere you are generally expected to drink there before moving on (This has gotten more lax in recent times). There are also less trashcans, hardly any, I've seen more bottle recycling spots than trashcans. That also contributes to keeping the streets clean. And on top of that they have very industrious cleaning crews which leave the place spotless. When this is maintained people are far less likely to litter if they see no one else doing it. I'm sure you or someone you know applies this method in their own homes, it works just as well scaled up to cities. This combined results in very very clean cities. The cleaning crew costs have dropped since their goal is more to maintain a high level of clean rather than clean up the huge mess to an acceptable level.
I think you might be making a bit of a fallacy of choice mistake. Perhaps not you but it was lead into by GP's posts. You say that while people might prefer the law to exist as opposed to not. This may be completely true. But those aren't the two choices available to us.
OT: The criminalization of society is indeed a problem but I don't think littering is particularly one of them. You don't need to live in fear that the cops will dig up some old littering you did and charge you with it.
Sexism and racism at least in Canada is strongly opposed by the vast majority of Canadians. And was so when the laws were passed though less strongly.
Already gone through we are trying to reverse the decision before it is implemented. http://www.consumersforinternetcompetition.com/default.aspx sign the petition~
Oh tfa example is fraud. But the AMD one they were optimizing a game ... seems fine to me.
I'd mod you up but I wasn't sure if you were shooting for redundant too.
"likely to be fucking Christians"
They better be married then!
This is a practice Canada currently uses. And we are ditching it. Estimates are that prices will almost double and dozens of companies will go broke as a bell monopoly forms and dominates the ISP market in Canada. Its like doomsday.
I think it is safe to say that if the US implements it you will see lots of competition and halving of prices if this is implemented in the US. The idea that all countries don't do this is ridiculous. And the only people it hurts are entrenched corrupt monopolists.
Which is why it probably won't happen.
So it is safe to say 512bits should be enough for anyone? haha
Chainsaws also have "do not stop with genitals" warnings never underestimate litigious idiots.
You are confusing ANAL with IANAL. Which is also not to be confused with iANAL, Apples latest sex toy, they said it appealed to their demographic.
Disclaimer: My apology to the queer community, I meant no insult linking you to Apple products. It was only in jest.
Disclaimer: No really, I do think Apple would release a sex toy if they could make one shiny enough that gangstas would wear it as bling.
That'd be like a site blocker for kids that advertised that kids will only run into hardcore porn a few times a day but the purveyors are quickly shut down. Yeahhhhhh...
Curses, I knew it was a risk making any firm statements about star trek on /. But damn it /. I'm a computer nerd not a star trek geek.
If you ignore the teleporter and holodeck I'm sure everything in star trek could be run on a decently optimized modern computer.
World recreation through a pure physics sim?
You could move everyone on earth at near light speed while you sit in a pod in space. You will die as a few seconds pass for them and you wont need a very big key, also your life span was not reduced.
Is that a Godwin of the 2nd degree?
Sounds like the fault of the benchmarking community not ATI. Why should we be annoyed that it runs the top game of the year extra well? Being able to run Quake3 was a major selling point. Should ATI not make quake 3 run faster even though they could? Hell no, that would be stupid. I suppose they probably could have included a sticker that said made with quake in mind or something and maybe they did I dunno.
In any case application specific optimizations are a great tool. They got an extra 18% speed out of the chip with just application specific tweaks. That's a pretty damn significant increase. Ignoring that would be a terrible decision. All graphics drivers should use this and update the drivers every few months as new games come out.
Uh google doesn't give anything so I'll go with no.