Posts by David Nash 1434 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2008
It's interesting for those of us who grew up with real rotary dials. It seems obvious how to use it because we know it so well but to someone for whom it's always been push-button or touch-screen the whole concept of a dial is alien and not at all intuitive. I bet most don't know why we use the verb "to dial" a number. Or "hang up" for that matter.
The dial was an ingenious invention though, essentially digital (on-off-on-off etc) via an analogue line in order to send 10 different digits.
Yes because Guy Fawkes night, Hallowe'en are not holidays.
There are national holidays in the UK specifically because that is when Christmas happens. OK so Hanukkah is at the same time, we have no problem with that but the time of year is still Christmas time in the UK, even for us atheists, because it's become a social thing that happened to have originated in a religious festival (which yes is still celebrated as such by many). Oh and yes I know there was a festival pre-christian times at that time of year too.
So, blame the victim for trying to minimise the pain.
How about "pay me a ransom for your own life, or I will shoot/knife you".
Should paying that kind of ransom be illegal?
It's not so different from "pay me a ransom or I will do X"
And legal definitions are sometimes notoriously tricky to confine to one intended scenario.
That's just not true. When you have a large number of applications you need to know what experience someone has in order to match up their likely skills that have come from that experience, against the requirements.
And someone with 15 or 20 years experience is way more "experienced" than someone with 6 and a half years.
And for the rest of the world, so we can compare with the numbers in the article...
91.5F ambient=33.06 C
107-120F=41.7 - 48.9 C
50F hotter = 27 degrees C hotter (I think! more tricky, I have seen youtube FAILs by converting absolute F to C when what they really need is a difference)
Exactly, it's about evolution. A virus, or any of the living things we know on Earth, have evolved to the point that they are at now.
The living world is a dangerous place and any of these that didn't have the ability, or the drive, to perpetuate itself, have all died and are no longer here for that very reason.
AIs have not evolved in the same way, their environment is not so dangerous nor have they been around for so long. If we let them evolve with mutation, random or otherwise, and with some kind of selection, natural or otherwise, then the ones that have a "desire" to stay around will be the ones that are still here.
"A good rule of thumb is that if you are in business and send out an email to a customer expecting the recipient to read it you should be prepared to read any reply. It's no more than courtesy to your customer, even in the situation you describe."
True, but for those misguided companies that send out "noreply" emails, it's not necessarily appropriate to tar them with the same brush as scammers and other spam.
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