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Comment Re:Joyent unfit to lead them? (Score 1, Insightful) 254

So what's wrong? It's one thing to accidentally have (things that can be seen as) sexist texts in a product but the idea that correcting that is somehow wrong is unbelievable idiotic. There is no logical reason to resist the changes which leads to the conclusion that the person in question either is someone that want more control of the project than is reasonable (complaining and blocking edits just to be in control) or that he is indeed sexist.

As for you and your coworkers the only remaining reason to be upset is if you are sexist idiots.

Comment Re:TIE-Fighters flying in Atmosphere?!?!?!?! (Score 1) 390

*Sigh* A katana is a slicing instrument for meat and isn't designed for or intended to stop another sword. Doing so is an excellent way to destroy a very costly weapon, the edge would be chipped and the spine bent.

The same applies to almost every kind of edged weapons - including something sturdy like a broadsword.

Comment Re:Except... (Score 1) 126

Exactly. Depending on how one defines computer there have been analog machines with misc. mechanisms long before the Eniac. Decimal machines of different complexities was created 1600-1900.
Even if one uses a definition closer to a modern computer the Zuse V1 (later renamed Z1) was working in 1938 and used binary representation with floating point numbers.

Comment Re:We will never have "real" AI (Score 1) 68

Bullshit. AI is AI, not expert systems as was popular for your time period. The idea that a complex expert system would suddenly become intelligent was a theory that have been thoroughly tested - today there are expert systems with more rules and faster inference processing than even beyond the wildest dreams of those AI researchers.

The working of human intelligence is still not fully known, the definition of intelligence is still not agreed upon. One thing is sure though - expert systems aren't intelligent even compared to a very young child or e.g. a rat.

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