The point is that many people have seen this 'work' and been duped, just like you.
The point is that many people have tried to do this blindfold, or with no prior knowledge of where the supposed buried item is, in controlled tests, and it has been shown time and time again *not to work*.
If you really think it does, why don't you go to Randi and demonstrate, Surely a million bucks isn't to be sneezed at.
Jeez, you sound like the Audiophools. "To all the skeptics I strongly encourage you to listen to these cables and hear the difference"... yeah, anyone can hear the difference when they think the cables are worth $7000 more. The point is that when they are told there's no difference, they CAN'T, and this has been proven time and time again in controlled tests.
That is awesome.
I wonder if you could manipulate the harmonic quality of the hum, and take it as far as synthesized speech. "welcome" or "yokoso" as you enter town.
That would be jaw-droppingly awesome.
>I mean, there's pretty much no way a man can be expected to make enough vacuum tubes to make even a simple computer... I'm thinking it'd take you thousands of tubes...
The same could be said of many things, including roads, cathedrals, ports.
But seriously, it's not the software which is crap, it's the people who use it. In my experience there are very few people who know how to give a presentation. Most just do what you were trying to parody.
A good presentation has pictures, diagrams, charts, flowcharts, possibly a small number of bullets with minimal wording. These should outline and support the presentation but not contain the entire fsking script!
I'm glad he did, for without his interpretation I had abandoned your post as gobbledygook. I only opened his response to see how he could reply to such a nonsensical post.
In the UK consumers rights extend to a "fit for purpose" law whereby the goods you bought must be fit for the purpose for which they were sold.
I.e. if you bought something which is supposed to be a fridge/freezer with separate compartments it better had work in both compartments at once or you can demand a return, WITHOUT a warranty, and without so much as a receipt. If the store refuses to take it back you can set the law on them.
Then you are totally missing the point. I often get this kind of response from "tech" guys and it pisses me off completely. Sure, it's easier to say "it shouldn't have been there in the first place" and lay blame at someone's feet without trying to actually *solve the problem*.
Assuming TimeMachine actually does allow such a functionality, which I doubt, but that's the premise here... There could be any number of reasons why a file which you do not want public *RIGHT NOW* was at some point in a public directory. Whether some idiot put it there forgetting it could be recovered later. Maybe they thought it would be OK because they gave it a cryptic name and nobody knew it was there. Maybe they put it there by accident "oops.. wrong file!", Maybe it was not deemed to be sensitive at the time but subsequent developments rendered the contents sensitive and worthy of retraction from public view. "what do you mean the ID was fake and she was only 17!?"
What if you forgot to lock your door, then remembered 20 yards down the street and came back to lock it. Only to have someone use "time machine" to go to the 30 second window you had left it unlocked and rob your house. Then you get some insurance dweeb coming to you with "well you shouldn't have left it open in the first place".
I had a Japanese model casio 'organiser' way back in 1993.
The damned thing is to this day the most reliable and *sensible function* packed device I ever owned. One quick example... the ability to update "holidays" so that repeating appointments could be moved to the following day if they fell on a holiday, and not just on a weekend.
It's a shame it was ahead of it's time. I'm not aware of any English-language version of this thing, and my Japanese was barely good enough to use it back then.
It seems to me that her defense really did suck. I mean maybe I'm wrong, but it's pretty damned clear to me she had all her files shared on P2P. They even went through a stage of trying to prove that she'd ripped the music herself and hadn't downloaded them, thus obliterating any possibility in the minds of the jury that it was anyone else who shared those files. Any 'defense' involving 'spoofing', shared-IPs, hacked wireless networks etc might work in a criminal case, but for this, a civil case, there's more than a preponderance of evidence to say she's guilty of copyright infringement. Her defense trying all the angles to try to get her off the hook on technicalities for this really pissed off the jury by the sound of it.
It was pretty clear she was 'liable', in hindsight, defense might have been better off working on a 'Yeah maybe she shared the files, but hardly nobody downloaded them and come on, who hasn't made a mix tape or copied a friend's CD. Is that worth several grand per song?' defense.
> Charging royalties for unwanted intrusions of music is the most absurd damn thing I've ever heard of, and tries to claim economic value where none exists.
Worse. This is publically available radio that incurs no fees except by advertising, so by getting more customers to listen to it the company is creating economic value. They ought to get some of the advertising revenues.
You're right.
I didn't know Share had sprung up to replace Winny, but it's also true that the sort of thing I'm likely to want to download is English-language TV shows and the odd demo software (English language) so I don't think I'm gonna find it on the Japanese networks.
The little Sony Vaio TR-1MP that I'm using now tops out at around 24 MB/S in any speed test I can find. My big dual-opteron with gigabit ethernet can pull down high 90s, as can my iMac Pro.
What I find, though, is that I never get anything like this kind of data throughput because most of the web is throttled at a few mb/s per connection and many sites are getting smart to users with download managers and restricting the number of connections at any one time. It's frustrating to have to wait 15 minutes to download a porn^H^H^H^Heducational video when I know my fiber connection is capable of pulling it down in a matter of seconds.
Even using torrents for TV shows, I almost never go above a few hundred Kb/S even downloading 3-4 episodes or LOST or suchlike, as there are simply too few users with fast enough connections feeding the data to me.
If I were downloading Japanese content, that might change, but they are extremely strict with copyright law when it comes to their own stuff and people have been thrown in jail for downloading AND for sharing japanese movies.
Well up until this point a battery had the potential to give you mere burns on your lap.
Now it can help you with family planning!... on a more serious note. Tritium is not a particularly dangerous thing to have leak. It finds the shortest route up and out of harms way anyway.
Well bloody hell.. you could have provided some references.
Now all I have to go on are three newly-ordered-from-amazon books. by Arp, Scott, and Lerner. I don't think all the points you mention in your post are covered there.
I'm glad I don't have mod points, so now I'm forced to reply to you instead.
That's exactly my thoughts. Kurzweil (and whomever else) talk about creating an intelligence greater than the human mind, but a single human mind is already *far* surpassed in intelligence by a society of human minds.
The advent of computing and communications technology has *already* created a collective augmented intelligence which is far greater than the human intelligence alone, and the technological revolution is exactly the explosion in 'intelligence' as described. Except the explosion is in the collective intelligence as we use newly designed calculation machines and databases to build ever more complex newer calculation engines and databases, spewing out technological innovation after innovation as we go.
If you want a true singularity, whereby human intelligence is no longer necessary to continue the explosion, we're going to need machine intelligence which is greater than the sum of modern society as a whole. This, to my mind, is far far greater than the "decades" some pundits like to say we are from such an event.
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The point is that many people have seen this 'work' and been duped, just like you.
... yeah, anyone can hear the difference when they think the cables are worth $7000 more. The point is that when they are told there's no difference, they CAN'T, and this has been proven time and time again in controlled tests.
The point is that many people have tried to do this blindfold, or with no prior knowledge of where the supposed buried item is, in controlled tests, and it has been shown time and time again *not to work*.
If you really think it does, why don't you go to Randi and demonstrate, Surely a million bucks isn't to be sneezed at.
Jeez, you sound like the Audiophools. "To all the skeptics I strongly encourage you to listen to these cables and hear the difference"
It was a 135" projector screen. It only looks small because of the wide angle lens used to take the shot.
Just in case you were wondering, the screen is in the 2nd shot. The plasma in the 4th is not the Home Theatre screen.
That is awesome. I wonder if you could manipulate the harmonic quality of the hum, and take it as far as synthesized speech. "welcome" or "yokoso" as you enter town. That would be jaw-droppingly awesome.
Am I the only one here for whom the word "swarm" has lost all meaning and become a mere phoneme after reading that summary?
TFA was very cool though. I'd love to watch a video on this.
Molecular Tapas Bar in the Oriental Lounge, Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo.
It rocks.
>I mean, there's pretty much no way a man can be expected to make enough vacuum tubes to make even a simple computer... I'm thinking it'd take you thousands of tubes...
The same could be said of many things, including roads, cathedrals, ports.
You need a society.
I've had the ability to turn wine (and other alcohol based beverages) into water for quite some time. Well... a water-like substance anyway.
Two words...
Rocket Candy
But seriously, it's not the software which is crap, it's the people who use it. In my experience there are very few people who know how to give a presentation. Most just do what you were trying to parody.
A good presentation has pictures, diagrams, charts, flowcharts, possibly a small number of bullets with minimal wording. These should outline and support the presentation but not contain the entire fsking script!
Except the ones who are dead.
I'm glad he did, for without his interpretation I had abandoned your post as gobbledygook. I only opened his response to see how he could reply to such a nonsensical post.
In the UK consumers rights extend to a "fit for purpose" law whereby the goods you bought must be fit for the purpose for which they were sold.
I.e. if you bought something which is supposed to be a fridge/freezer with separate compartments it better had work in both compartments at once or you can demand a return, WITHOUT a warranty, and without so much as a receipt. If the store refuses to take it back you can set the law on them.
Doesn't the US have a similar kind of law?
Then you are totally missing the point. I often get this kind of response from "tech" guys and it pisses me off completely. Sure, it's easier to say "it shouldn't have been there in the first place" and lay blame at someone's feet without trying to actually *solve the problem*.
Assuming TimeMachine actually does allow such a functionality, which I doubt, but that's the premise here... There could be any number of reasons why a file which you do not want public *RIGHT NOW* was at some point in a public directory. Whether some idiot put it there forgetting it could be recovered later. Maybe they thought it would be OK because they gave it a cryptic name and nobody knew it was there. Maybe they put it there by accident "oops.. wrong file!", Maybe it was not deemed to be sensitive at the time but subsequent developments rendered the contents sensitive and worthy of retraction from public view. "what do you mean the ID was fake and she was only 17!?"
What if you forgot to lock your door, then remembered 20 yards down the street and came back to lock it. Only to have someone use "time machine" to go to the 30 second window you had left it unlocked and rob your house. Then you get some insurance dweeb coming to you with "well you shouldn't have left it open in the first place".
Exactly.. that's not the fucking point, is it.
I had a Japanese model casio 'organiser' way back in 1993.
The damned thing is to this day the most reliable and *sensible function* packed device I ever owned. One quick example... the ability to update "holidays" so that repeating appointments could be moved to the following day if they fell on a holiday, and not just on a weekend.
It's a shame it was ahead of it's time. I'm not aware of any English-language version of this thing, and my Japanese was barely good enough to use it back then.
It seems to me that her defense really did suck. I mean maybe I'm wrong, but it's pretty damned clear to me she had all her files shared on P2P. They even went through a stage of trying to prove that she'd ripped the music herself and hadn't downloaded them, thus obliterating any possibility in the minds of the jury that it was anyone else who shared those files. Any 'defense' involving 'spoofing', shared-IPs, hacked wireless networks etc might work in a criminal case, but for this, a civil case, there's more than a preponderance of evidence to say she's guilty of copyright infringement. Her defense trying all the angles to try to get her off the hook on technicalities for this really pissed off the jury by the sound of it.
It was pretty clear she was 'liable', in hindsight, defense might have been better off working on a 'Yeah maybe she shared the files, but hardly nobody downloaded them and come on, who hasn't made a mix tape or copied a friend's CD. Is that worth several grand per song?' defense.
> Charging royalties for unwanted intrusions of music is the most absurd damn thing I've ever heard of, and tries to claim economic value where none exists.
Worse. This is publically available radio that incurs no fees except by advertising, so by getting more customers to listen to it the company is creating economic value. They ought to get some of the advertising revenues.
umm.. I'm finding it quite difficult to find this "Share" ( of which you speak. Mostly I suspect because of the generic nature of the name.
You wouldn't happen to have a link?
You're right. I didn't know Share had sprung up to replace Winny, but it's also true that the sort of thing I'm likely to want to download is English-language TV shows and the odd demo software (English language) so I don't think I'm gonna find it on the Japanese networks.
The little Sony Vaio TR-1MP that I'm using now tops out at around 24 MB/S in any speed test I can find. My big dual-opteron with gigabit ethernet can pull down high 90s, as can my iMac Pro.
What I find, though, is that I never get anything like this kind of data throughput because most of the web is throttled at a few mb/s per connection and many sites are getting smart to users with download managers and restricting the number of connections at any one time. It's frustrating to have to wait 15 minutes to download a porn^H^H^H^Heducational video when I know my fiber connection is capable of pulling it down in a matter of seconds.
Even using torrents for TV shows, I almost never go above a few hundred Kb/S even downloading 3-4 episodes or LOST or suchlike, as there are simply too few users with fast enough connections feeding the data to me.
If I were downloading Japanese content, that might change, but they are extremely strict with copyright law when it comes to their own stuff and people have been thrown in jail for downloading AND for sharing japanese movies.
Well up until this point a battery had the potential to give you mere burns on your lap. Now it can help you with family planning! ... on a more serious note. Tritium is not a particularly dangerous thing to have leak. It finds the shortest route up and out of harms way anyway.
Well bloody hell.. you could have provided some references.
Now all I have to go on are three newly-ordered-from-amazon books. by Arp, Scott, and Lerner. I don't think all the points you mention in your post are covered there.
I'm glad I don't have mod points, so now I'm forced to reply to you instead.
That's exactly my thoughts. Kurzweil (and whomever else) talk about creating an intelligence greater than the human mind, but a single human mind is already *far* surpassed in intelligence by a society of human minds.
The advent of computing and communications technology has *already* created a collective augmented intelligence which is far greater than the human intelligence alone, and the technological revolution is exactly the explosion in 'intelligence' as described. Except the explosion is in the collective intelligence as we use newly designed calculation machines and databases to build ever more complex newer calculation engines and databases, spewing out technological innovation after innovation as we go.
If you want a true singularity, whereby human intelligence is no longer necessary to continue the explosion, we're going to need machine intelligence which is greater than the sum of modern society as a whole. This, to my mind, is far far greater than the "decades" some pundits like to say we are from such an event.
What? You mean TFA didn't have the right TLA's or FLA's or maybe FPGA's are just not your COT and SHA-1 is no BFD to you but to URG it's a BFD.
what?
Case in point:- $3 for a ringtone. Who the hell buys these things? Probably not your or me, but someone does!
mp3.com, anyone? How can microsoft justify allowing you to upload music to their servers where it could be downloaded by anyone with the password?