The entire article can be summed up in the Slashdot replies whenever there is a new release of Opera. Half of them complain about how you have to pay for it, or that it's filled with ads.
Salon's editor is not being insightful here, not any more than the collective insight gathered from/. comment content.
That's odd. I remember an MTV with not enough stuff to show, so they had to throw ANYTHING up there. Like Grateful Dead concerts from the early 70s on Saturday nights, and the usual "smash or trash" with the VJ asking people to vote, just like on a commercial radio station! Groundbreaking!
And let's not forget the various bits of weird animation they had to show in between the videos because they just didn't have anything to show.
Sound familiar? 95% stuff you didn't want to see, and at best some music. People's memories of the "early days" of MTV is so much rosier than it really was.
It's not "all" they have to be. It is merely one moral position they have to maintain.
The problem is in the intelligent position maintaining that state while making other separate moral decisions. For something to be pure evil, they must be able to differentiate all forms of good and evil and prefer to choose those which are evil.
So while you can claim "blah blah muslim terrorist" you have to realize that all muslim terrorists in your limp-wristed example will necessarily make at least one choice in a certain situation which you will define as good.
A truly evil AI must, by definition, make a choice which would be ALWAYS considered evil.
I was a student of Dr. Bringsjord's as he developed this program.
Dr Bringsjord has two working definitions differentiating good and evil. He has his academic definitions, and then he has what I called his "cocktail party" definitions, which are supposed to be used to describe what he's doing without prompting further inquiry, or at least inquiry that is not in-depth.
The definition he's offering here is much closer to his usual "cocktail party" definition differentiating "good" and "evil" (as you can see from the use of the phrase "good thing" to define the relativistic definition of "evil."
I only mention this because since nobody here is getting the honest academic "full-definition" insight into what the decision making process is between state A.good and state B.evil, then conjecture on just what the hell is going on is going to be fruitless....he says, writing that as if he's never read slashdot threads.
The problem with labeling such as "graphic novels" is that you force all objects with that structure to be novels, and all objects with the former structure (i.e. story-arc over multiple works) to be books.
Compare works of literature: With this consideration, Harry Potter is no longer 7 works, it's one series of "word books." The Lord of the Rings Series is a series of "word books." And "Goodnight moon" becomes a "childrens' novel."
Claiming "graphic novel" as a difference you are necessarily taking umbrage at "comic book" as somehow being a lesser work.
Personally, I say they are all comic books. More than one person works on them. Novels are done by one person.
So there's sci-fi, and then there's REAL sci-fi.
Your descriptions necessarily entails any science fiction becoming popular makes it lose its REAL sci-fi status. Whatever that is.
This is akin to saying a band "sells out" when they actually get popular, or the fans who don't want a particular band to be popular because they knew about them first.
Science fiction is a genre. That's all it is. There is no membership. The so-called fans do not determine what is "real" sci-fi and what isn't anymore than hipster indie-cred band followers determine what "real" music is or is not.
I can't be the only one who finds it strange that a licensing agreement has a release just as any other product. This is a product? It's legal terminology. I wouldn't consider the Declaration of Human Rights (to make a spurious connection) a product.
Am I wrong in this?
That's the logic to apply?
Good thing you posted that on Slashdot, because there was never anywhere else to post a knee-jerk reaction of a comment in a public forum....oh, wait.
Not only did they just get a guy from Wal-Mart, they got THE guy who changed Wal-Mart from the way it was when Sam Walton ran it. Sam ran a "Sell it cheap, yes, but let's source American as much as possible / Loyal customers are worth more than bargain hunters" model. I remember a few instances where Sam bought into factories so that they could keep buying from American production (even if some were foreign-based companies, the production was still in the USA).
David Porter is responsible for everything negative you think of when you think of Wal-Mart. Low price first, customer service costs money, fuck loyalty, stockholders not customers, etc.
This could be made more scientific, in my mind, if he loaded, say, DSL or Puppy Linux on both computers and checking the download speeds for both computers.
If both computers get the same D/L speed, then we know the hardware configuration (likely) is not a factor.
If they were going to use this for handing out speeding tickets, they would have been doing it everywhere there's an EZPass/equivalent system for using toll roads. Clock on the NYS Thruway at one point, clock off 80 miles and 45 minutes later, but no ticket is issued.
Tech is already in place for this and it isn't being used. In fact, tech for this was in place before the EZPass system, where they stamped your ticket with the entrance time and the person in the booth stamped it with your exit time.
If the system were to be as Capitalistically Orwellian as you paint, they'd be doing it already.
That's Right!
Stop spending federal money to get people to live somewhere that isn't suitable for human life!
Start with the removal of all submarines! And yachts! And any other floating living spaces.
After that, eliminate funding for the ISS, all moon missions, all rover missions and anything searching for extraterrestrial life.
Give me a break. If you can't tell masago (smelt roe) from tobiko (flying fish roe) then you have simply never seen the two. You don't need a DNA scanner to tell the difference because masago is dull and solid, tobiko is jewel-like and transluscent.
As an instructor and, yes, a textbook writer, I can tell you that professors don't make squat doodly form textbooks (Though I'm sure there are a very few exceptions that are big money makers).
And a big reason as to why they are so expensive is that the books are sold through warehouses, not form the publishers to the university bookstore. So the warehouse gets these books at $12 or so per, and then sells them at 8x-12x markup (even more if it's for law school, speaking of outrageous pricing) because there are only 6-8 weeks a year that the books can be sold. The bulk of the year is spent costing the warehouse in storage.
So earlier, when NBC edited to re-arrange the entrance of nations in the opening ceremonies, this was a blasphemy on par with claiming Richard Stallman owns an iPhone. But now, with the information coming from the UK, this information is "good natured"?
I have no doubts that Ramji is expecting the worst when it comes to the community treatment he'll receive.
But claiming that he should be prepared to expect shoddy treatment does not give the open-source community the right to hand out that shoddy treatment.
So to continue your line:
If Ramji wants to be taken seriously, he should be prepared to be received poorly by the community.
And if the Open Source Community wants to be taken seriously as a community of developers that work together, they should work together with Ramji.
What entry level job isn't boring?
Off the top of my head:
Prison guard
Police officer
Firefighter
EMT...all of which require that new-to-the-job be in service, in the field.
But that seems to be the gist of UMG's argument. That since first sale didn't exist (in their eyes) that there are damages to be had from a further sale.
Since the publisher accepts that as a portion of the contract means that the books 'are made not suitable for resale' (that was the phrase in the contract I'd seen oh so many years ago), isn't that suitability relative to the fact that damages cannot be had in light of this ruling? That's my question. If these contracts (assuming they're the way they looked 18+ years ago, of course) render the book, at least the CONTENT of the book, is a non-entity as far as the publisher is concerned, then can't the bookseller, or whomever, resell this or trade this to their heart's content?
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The EU is really treating Microsoft unfairly. Not to mention the amount of money spent on bureaucracy of the most inane kind.
The entire article can be summed up in the Slashdot replies whenever there is a new release of Opera. Half of them complain about how you have to pay for it, or that it's filled with ads. Salon's editor is not being insightful here, not any more than the collective insight gathered from /. comment content.
A coffee shop in a prep school library? I've been away from New England for a while, but is this that common?
That's odd. I remember an MTV with not enough stuff to show, so they had to throw ANYTHING up there. Like Grateful Dead concerts from the early 70s on Saturday nights, and the usual "smash or trash" with the VJ asking people to vote, just like on a commercial radio station! Groundbreaking! And let's not forget the various bits of weird animation they had to show in between the videos because they just didn't have anything to show. Sound familiar? 95% stuff you didn't want to see, and at best some music. People's memories of the "early days" of MTV is so much rosier than it really was.
It's not "all" they have to be. It is merely one moral position they have to maintain. The problem is in the intelligent position maintaining that state while making other separate moral decisions. For something to be pure evil, they must be able to differentiate all forms of good and evil and prefer to choose those which are evil. So while you can claim "blah blah muslim terrorist" you have to realize that all muslim terrorists in your limp-wristed example will necessarily make at least one choice in a certain situation which you will define as good. A truly evil AI must, by definition, make a choice which would be ALWAYS considered evil.
I was a student of Dr. Bringsjord's as he developed this program. Dr Bringsjord has two working definitions differentiating good and evil. He has his academic definitions, and then he has what I called his "cocktail party" definitions, which are supposed to be used to describe what he's doing without prompting further inquiry, or at least inquiry that is not in-depth. The definition he's offering here is much closer to his usual "cocktail party" definition differentiating "good" and "evil" (as you can see from the use of the phrase "good thing" to define the relativistic definition of "evil." I only mention this because since nobody here is getting the honest academic "full-definition" insight into what the decision making process is between state A.good and state B.evil, then conjecture on just what the hell is going on is going to be fruitless. ...he says, writing that as if he's never read slashdot threads.
The problem with labeling such as "graphic novels" is that you force all objects with that structure to be novels, and all objects with the former structure (i.e. story-arc over multiple works) to be books. Compare works of literature: With this consideration, Harry Potter is no longer 7 works, it's one series of "word books." The Lord of the Rings Series is a series of "word books." And "Goodnight moon" becomes a "childrens' novel." Claiming "graphic novel" as a difference you are necessarily taking umbrage at "comic book" as somehow being a lesser work. Personally, I say they are all comic books. More than one person works on them. Novels are done by one person.
So there's sci-fi, and then there's REAL sci-fi. Your descriptions necessarily entails any science fiction becoming popular makes it lose its REAL sci-fi status. Whatever that is. This is akin to saying a band "sells out" when they actually get popular, or the fans who don't want a particular band to be popular because they knew about them first. Science fiction is a genre. That's all it is. There is no membership. The so-called fans do not determine what is "real" sci-fi and what isn't anymore than hipster indie-cred band followers determine what "real" music is or is not.
I can't be the only one who finds it strange that a licensing agreement has a release just as any other product. This is a product? It's legal terminology. I wouldn't consider the Declaration of Human Rights (to make a spurious connection) a product. Am I wrong in this?
Why is it that city dwellers try to eliminate the countryside at every effort? A city is not a place to grow things.
That's the logic to apply? Good thing you posted that on Slashdot, because there was never anywhere else to post a knee-jerk reaction of a comment in a public forum....oh, wait.
Not only did they just get a guy from Wal-Mart, they got THE guy who changed Wal-Mart from the way it was when Sam Walton ran it. Sam ran a "Sell it cheap, yes, but let's source American as much as possible / Loyal customers are worth more than bargain hunters" model. I remember a few instances where Sam bought into factories so that they could keep buying from American production (even if some were foreign-based companies, the production was still in the USA). David Porter is responsible for everything negative you think of when you think of Wal-Mart. Low price first, customer service costs money, fuck loyalty, stockholders not customers, etc.
Oh, so they found a broken tool.
This could be made more scientific, in my mind, if he loaded, say, DSL or Puppy Linux on both computers and checking the download speeds for both computers. If both computers get the same D/L speed, then we know the hardware configuration (likely) is not a factor.
I don't have time to read TFA, I'm too busy playing solitaire.
If they were going to use this for handing out speeding tickets, they would have been doing it everywhere there's an EZPass/equivalent system for using toll roads. Clock on the NYS Thruway at one point, clock off 80 miles and 45 minutes later, but no ticket is issued. Tech is already in place for this and it isn't being used. In fact, tech for this was in place before the EZPass system, where they stamped your ticket with the entrance time and the person in the booth stamped it with your exit time. If the system were to be as Capitalistically Orwellian as you paint, they'd be doing it already.
become a cartoon. Maybe like Rocky & Bullwinkle. "Hey Jamie! Watch me pull our show's credibility out of a hat!"
That's Right! Stop spending federal money to get people to live somewhere that isn't suitable for human life! Start with the removal of all submarines! And yachts! And any other floating living spaces. After that, eliminate funding for the ISS, all moon missions, all rover missions and anything searching for extraterrestrial life.
Give me a break. If you can't tell masago (smelt roe) from tobiko (flying fish roe) then you have simply never seen the two. You don't need a DNA scanner to tell the difference because masago is dull and solid, tobiko is jewel-like and transluscent.
As an instructor and, yes, a textbook writer, I can tell you that professors don't make squat doodly form textbooks (Though I'm sure there are a very few exceptions that are big money makers). And a big reason as to why they are so expensive is that the books are sold through warehouses, not form the publishers to the university bookstore. So the warehouse gets these books at $12 or so per, and then sells them at 8x-12x markup (even more if it's for law school, speaking of outrageous pricing) because there are only 6-8 weeks a year that the books can be sold. The bulk of the year is spent costing the warehouse in storage.
So earlier, when NBC edited to re-arrange the entrance of nations in the opening ceremonies, this was a blasphemy on par with claiming Richard Stallman owns an iPhone. But now, with the information coming from the UK, this information is "good natured"?
I have no doubts that Ramji is expecting the worst when it comes to the community treatment he'll receive. But claiming that he should be prepared to expect shoddy treatment does not give the open-source community the right to hand out that shoddy treatment. So to continue your line: If Ramji wants to be taken seriously, he should be prepared to be received poorly by the community. And if the Open Source Community wants to be taken seriously as a community of developers that work together, they should work together with Ramji.
What entry level job isn't boring? Off the top of my head: Prison guard Police officer Firefighter EMT ...all of which require that new-to-the-job be in service, in the field.
The biggest problem AI has had is the major shift in recent cognition theories in recent years. You can't reliably recreate what you don't understand.
But that seems to be the gist of UMG's argument. That since first sale didn't exist (in their eyes) that there are damages to be had from a further sale. Since the publisher accepts that as a portion of the contract means that the books 'are made not suitable for resale' (that was the phrase in the contract I'd seen oh so many years ago), isn't that suitability relative to the fact that damages cannot be had in light of this ruling? That's my question. If these contracts (assuming they're the way they looked 18+ years ago, of course) render the book, at least the CONTENT of the book, is a non-entity as far as the publisher is concerned, then can't the bookseller, or whomever, resell this or trade this to their heart's content?