ram1024

i'm having trouble wrapping my head around the logistics of this...

i am ever so pleased that you enjoyed my mundane utterance.

and check out that downvoting! apparently this place is rife with crazies. butthurt ones...

the rest of us are fine, but thank you very much for asking

i suggest people buy left4dead to catch it up. because THAT game is funtastic.

you have no idea

consciousness is simply the state of being responsive to one's environment.

it can boil down as far as gauging the responses of one neuron, but the "environment" of that neuron is its connectivity to others, so it's far more comprehensive to total consciousness up as the whole collective.

ideally, you'd be able to single out a singular and distinct "thought" and trace the workings of all your cognitive elements involved. the result of this thought then loops back through the system and re-patterns it with a "conclusion".

the chemical nature of one's neurons is the important part whether malleable or incorrigible, allowing us to exhibit unique traits and personality.

don't know what you're trying to say, really.

but if you're wanting inboxes to be request verification on incoming mail, it's not going to work very well for the service mails that are truly useful, like bill notifications from your creditors and the like.

and it will inconvenience the hell outta your friends and family...

so the question is. what happens at 1000 that kills us, and why aren't we solving that problem?

WTF didn't anyone see this coming? might as well just die now if it's all going to be the same...

way more information needed to make constructive observations

most of my downvotes are from me being deliberately inflammatory, so i generally know why...

a few of them are wonderful mysteries though. fun!

bare essentials:

uses memory to create hypothesis about situations

experiments using hypothesis

augments memory with results

loop

i like the idea of investor "bidding" but of course it seems like a hard task keeping everything honest.

the whole concept seems burdened "legally" so to speak.

would be neat to see something like this fly, though

and if you slot a penny in the back end, they drive around doing wheelies!

very few buy ideas anymore, they prefer to have the people create a company proving that the idea is viable/valuable then they buy it out

has to be the scariest thing i've read all year

add me a nice "port to iPhone/Android" button and i'm sold.

seriously i would pay hard cash for it

best case i would have both. require the author to select a category when posting, and using this category either pull random image out of stock photos in the category or if you want to get cheeky, parse the text and run semantic to get a closer match (does it really matter though? :D ). if user decides to upload his own photo, just use that instead.

easy peesy

nice block of text for someone purporting to "hate writing" :D

in any case, i don't think there's a job that distinctively encompasses "learner/problemsolver" sans the execution of the actual fix itself :(

you need to be independently wealthy and be a designer/projectmanager and commission your own ideas into reality to fill the niche role that you've defined

male to female disparities means i am allowed to have my harem...

the semantic web doesn't have to actively "think" it just needs the ability to allow users of the web to properly define relationships itself democratically so to speak and display the internet using these relationships.

we're starting to see the formation of web 3.0 with social tagging, voting, rating, commenting, and flagging. this along with the vetting of user profiles via reputationing systems is solidifying the structure of the web we are to use in the future

he doesn't...

and i have a trained ear for picking out lithpers

a universal "reputation" tied to your email account might be useful

universally

hmm... i thought disqus or whatever was supposed to unify social media commenting

never used reddit, but here's a "solution" system i thought up on the fly for a social posting site.

"karma" like HN for participating/socializing on the site.

with enough karma you can log into new.sitenamehere.com and vote on new submissions which are in queue for an hour. if you upvote something that gets more downvotes than upvotes, you lose karma. if you upvote something that passes the votes you gain karma, but the whole process is a blind vote, you don't see the results till the end.

what this does is puts moderation of site content into the hands of the people actively participating in the site, they're karmicly "voted" into moderator position, and then further vetted when they review content for the site.

downside: hour long submission "queue" before they show up on the site proper (or get rejected)

what the hell is going on here...

i thought it was going to be some kinda charades thing, but they just cut out the word responses to the questions and left the parts where they're not speaking.

doesn't really give any information at all

so... it's a patent for method to use a special spatula that they use to build the "fixins" on, which they later invert onto the bun.

sounds very scientific, i doubt anyone would have ever come up with this, let alone put it to significant commercial use other than mcdonalds. i for one welcome our new mcoverlords.

because unlike a standard material commodity, a playing card's value can be dramatically affected by whatever the publishing company decides to do to the game. whether it be printing more of the card, releasing a new version of the card that's more powerful, making that one obsolete, or even discontinuing the game altogether.

i'm sure you COULD make something like this, but really with the value of the item being intangible and largely based on emotional/prospective value, it'd be hard to get traction with the idea...

<disclosure: i know nothing about WoW cards>

sounds like a "leave your morals and ethics at home" venture

oh well, good luck with your hunt

any company that's actually generating revenue. until facebook itself has a method of making money, spending FUNDING to acquire more uncommercial services under its belt is wildly irresponsible.

sure it might turn out to be a good idea, but it could more easily turn out to be a bad, horribly bad idea.

no

long story short, if media is your business, and media is changing, you'd best change with it because its not going to wait around for you.

seems like common sense, but i guess when you get to be old and venerable you also acquire a stance of complacency. no one is invulnerable however. seth should have reminded nytimes of their mortality about five years ago.