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Comment Re:Shorter copyright (Score 2) 480

by ChiefNX (#46348565) Attached to: Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will
That's interesting. Wouldn't the copyright / licensing on emacs be renewed with each new release though? IANAL - which of these is true? Emacs would become public domain Source code from versions of emacs released up to 2009 would become public domain Emacs would not be public domain at all, since it is still actively developed

Comment Re:I'm a dude who knows God loves you, Jesus is LO (Score 1) 717

by ChiefNX (#37935828) Attached to: Censored Religious Debate Video Released After Public Outrage
I've asked this question to many Christians too. A common belief (which I cannot give a biblical reference for) is that those that haven't explicitly encountered the gospel may gain entrance to heaven by concluding that God exists independently, e.g. by 'observing the miracle of creation'. (N.B. God in this contexts means something closer to 'deity/creator' than the being specifically described in the Christian mythology.)

So that's a slightly more coherent explanation for you and in my experience it's closer to what more critical and thoughtful Christians believe.

I've not yet talked to a believer who could satisfactorily answer whether babies/young children enter heaven if they die before their brains develop sufficiently to deal with the concept of God though. I'd be grateful if anyone could provide an answer to that one?
Education

What Does IQ Really Measure? 488

Posted by Soulskill from the how-quickly-you-get-angry-when-you-lose-at-chess dept.
sciencehabit writes "Kids who score higher on IQ tests will, on average, go on to do better in conventional measures of success in life: academic achievement, economic success, even greater health, and longevity. Is that because they are more intelligent? Not necessarily. New research concludes that IQ scores are partly a measure of how motivated a child is to do well on the test. And harnessing that motivation might be as important to later success as so-called native intelligence."
Portables

Lenovo's New ThinkPad Has 2 LCD Screens, Weighs 11 Pounds 194

Posted by Soulskill from the portables-with-a-nontrivial-schwarzschild-radius dept.
ericatcw writes "With many users now used to having multiple monitors at home or work, you had to figure someone would try to offer a 'desktop replacement' laptop that offered the same. Lenovo is the first. Its new W700ds laptop will offer a 10.6 inch LCD screen in addition to the 17-inch primary display. The W700ds also sports a quad-core Intel Core 2 CPU, up to almost 1 TB of storage, and an Nvidia Quadro mobile chip with up to 128 cores. A Lenovo exec called this souped-up version of the normally buttoned-down-for-business ThinkPads the 'nitro-burning drag racer of ThinkPads.' There is even a Wacom digitizer pad and pen for graphic artists, who are expected to be the target market, along with photographers and other creative types who are willing to trade shoulder-aching bulk (11 pounds) and price (minimum of $3,600) for productivity enhancements." At the other end of the laptop size spectrum, Dell recently announced plans to launch a rival to the MacBook Air. Called "Adamo," it is supposedly "thinner than the MacBook Air," though further details will have to wait for the Computer Electronics Show in early January.
Programming

Loebner Talks AI 107

Posted by timothy from the well-tell-him-ai-back dept.
Mighty Squirrel writes "This is a fascinating interivew with Hugh Loebner, the academic who has arguably done more to promote the development of artifical intelligence than anyone else. He founded the Loebner prize in 1990 to promote the development of artificial intelligence by asking developers to create a machine which passes the Turing Test — meaning it responds in a way indistinguishable from a human. The latest running of the contest is this weekend and this article shows what an interesting and colourful character Loebner is."

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