Comment Not Anti-tech, (Score 1) 870
The movie portrayed paramilitary/mercenary and stockholder-driven corporate interests as the primary antagonists, to both the scientists, the Na'vi, and Pandora itself.
although it's not clear how Facebook can validate the death of a member if neither of those pieces of information is published on the internet.
Well, in America there is this thing called the Social Security Death Master File if you need to verify that someone has died. Its not immediate, but its better than nothing at all.
Right, a full, as in "make this character *completely* different in every way, from the ground up" - it's supposed to encourage people to make alts when they want to try new builds.
Except that most players only have 8 character slots total. See whats wrong with this thinking.
So the complexity of the problem is probably an order of magnitude beyond 22 billion neurones and 220 trillion connections.
Its probably worse than that. Texts disagree on the total number of neurons, varying between 10 and 200 billion, depending on the text. Although its possible that this a normal range of variance of the brain.
This is a great idea... If nothing else, it might help induce certain monopolies to become more competitive and re-focus on creating better software, rather than spending its resources trying to crush its opponents.
I have to agree with the competition thing, but it also goes deeper. It would allow my employer to open source some of our projects, continue working on them, and then make money off of the support contracts.
For me, it would mean I would still have a job next month.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin