Does it drive anyone else crazy that Google Reader will update the feed you are reading, while you are reading it, and completely disorient you?

caliber · 1 day

It's so buggy for me that I went back to Pulse and haven't really missed any of the feature G Reader had.

jasonhaley · 12 days

This report says this just happened in Sherbrooke but there have been cases in other parts of Quebec this year. It also occurred in the US last December: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/health/story/2011-12-01/Syringes-found-inside-clothes-at-Ga-Walmart-store/51543476/1?csp=34news

jasonhaley · 18 days

What is "The Linux Journalist?"

vinay427 · 18 days

I came to this subreddit specifically looking for any updates on this and it's awesome to find this at the top of the list. I am holding off on buying a new phone, laptop, and tablet (not that I'd buy a tablet but this will eliminate any advantages I see in tablets) and waiting for this. I want it so bad that I'm willing to be an "early buyer" and putting up with all the bugs that usually come with that. If I can get a phone to hook up to a laptop (like the Atrix laptop dock) and have a fully functional ubuntu pop up.. it would be worth the wait. The all-in-one factor just makes so much sense.

filosohoez · 22 days

I like where you were going with the second one. The first one reasoning just seemed like it was establishing borders around what Hume said, but the second reasoning is a really interesting path of thinking. Is it your own idea? If you ever decide to expand on the idea let me know.

squareshot · 24 days

Because we aren't aware of a Mr.B existing either.

We aren't absolutely sure whether everything is pre-determined by someone or some thing, and more importantly no one actually acts like they don't have free will. If I went to a store and stole candy, I would have a hard time convincing either myself or society that I had no other option. Even if I were to say "Normally I'm a law abiding citizen but I had to prove to myself I had no free-will, so I had to do it despite knowing I may get caught."

squareshot · 24 days

The way I understood the example is that the detection of whether the device was used simply depends on whether Mr.B used it or not. Without Mr. B I'm unaware of a more satisfactory test on whether something was used. The actions are the same by all external forms of detection: Mr. J did action X. We could ask Mr. J and he would either say "I don't know why I did X or I did X on purpose" and would have to take him at his word. Mr.B is placed in the hypothetical scenario to add more of an empirical external detection. Without him we would have none, and would have to make up another empirical detection (i.e Mr G , Mr. E , Mrs. Q, mind-control, aliens..etc)

squareshot · 24 days

You're view of compatibilism is pretty good. The problem with combatibilism is that it's a relatively new argument with strong support... so not everything is crystal clear. Just keep in mind that the main idea is that determinism and free will can co-exist. Even if that means our world consists of 99.99% determinism and 0.001% free will. Again, read Fischer for the best definition. However, for an exam I would also consider reading whatever texts your professor uses and let him/her know that you're also reading Fischer - if they don't know who Fischer is, then you should inform them.

I'm not the biggest fan of Fischer's work, but I think he gives the best general definition of where compatibilism is headed.

squareshot · 25 days

So does that mean you're a high school philosophy student? I'm from a non-American "ivy league-equivalent" university. Anyway, although your example is one which can be applied to compatibilism, I don't think the definition you use really defines what compatiblism is... unless your teacher is trying to simplify a certain argument to the point where I guess we can think of it that way.

It's not just semantics, because compatibilists actually try to incorporate the idea of free-will into determinism. They may be tweaking the definition, but the "spirit" is to incorporate a form of free-will into our lives. If you're trying to understand the view compatibilists have you should accept that they use the term 'free will.' If you don't then you're understanding on compatibilism becomes an incompatibilist's view on what compatibilism is. That isn't a good approach to philosophy, (even though some very smart people take that route) because it makes discussion harder than it needs to be.

For example, I'm a compatiblist at heart but I understand the incompatiblist's argument enough to often understand they may have the upperhand in the debate. I understand that they truly believe there is no free will. I credit that to my ability to read incompatibilism as an incompatibilist would. To do so I set aside my compatibilist alignments to more of a belief (read Kane for similar beliefs). I suggest you do the same if you truly want to understand compatibilism.

Considering what I said, have you read Fishcer's work on compatibilism? He provides Frankfurt-type examples (much like the one you provided) and applies them compatibilism ([CITATION] "Frankfurt-type examples and semi-compatibilism" JM Fischer - The Oxford handbook of free will, 2002 - New York: Oxford University Press). His arguments aren't the strongest, but they can start you off in the right direction.

squareshot · 25 days

I'm confused by your question. From your title it seems like you're implying that "compatiblism" attempts to predict how a hypothetical human with no free will could be detected. Whereas, I view compabitilism as trying to detect free will (alongside determinism) and not lack of it.

allittakes2 · 1 month

I thought Stringer Bell made a mistake in dropping his shares. He justified dropping the shares because he thought that if people in the ghetto can afford two cellphones then there is market saturation. What he neglected (and should have known if he were more "gangster") was that people in the ghetto were going through several phones a month and then re-purchasing whole cellphones to re-supply. So although cellphones reached saturation if 1 person = 1 cellphone was true, he neglected that people were wiling to buy several cellphones with the decreased cost. I thought the scene in The Wire was showing that Bell isn't infallible and possibly foreshadowing his demise.

TestAcctPlsIgnore · 2 months

Really? What did they say?

BigRick35 · 2 months

Thanks!

BigRick35 · 2 months

I've been wondering how can they disrupt the power grid but not an unplugged laptop? What is the basic cause of the disruption?

rcaicedo · 2 months

... if that wasn't what made you quit Reddit once then what was?

Also where did you go?

themackster · 2 months

If you ever get around to making a Macbook Tiger OS version, please let me know :)

crollaa · 3 months

I think you're thinking of it as a "one person job" kind of deal. But getting an extra set of hands (for almost free) at big business isn't so bad. Either a bunch of odd jobs will be done more efficiently or the mail will be delivered twice as fast (assuming that's their exact position). I remember when Nortel was coming to a crash a bunch of suits and programmers were losing their jobs by the thousands, but my friend who didn't have white-collar skills nor a degree kept her low-paying job at Nortel just because she did all the small odd jobs (from filing to organizing desks to keeping coffee going) that no one else was doing.

At the end of the day, no matter who is left at the top, they will still want their garbage cleaned sooner than later. If you can get two workers for the price of one then the extra health insurance isn't a problem.

spagmuff · 3 months

The circular trackpad is something I didn't notice as odd until people pointed it out to me. But I honestly don't notice much difference between it and the Mac I'm using right now. Actually, the one small advantage the circular design has is that it has a slight bevel on the side so that when you do edge-scroll you know exactly when you're by it, and it doesn't affect your scroll.

The tiny spacebar may take a bit more time to get used to... but again, I actually didn't even notice it was smaller until you pointed it out. But yeah I guess your hands are bit more squished (I have medium size hands so I don't know if it's worse if you have big hands). Keep in mind that the circular trackpad does allow for your hands to be a bit more closer together so there isn't as much reach from your thumb to the spacebar.

spagmuff · 3 months

I owned two Pansonic laptops. They were the "Let's Note" series from the toughbooks. So not only were they physically "tough" and could withstand abuse (they had internal shock absorbers and strong cases) but the "Let's Note" is also lighter than the Macbook Air. I personally think the build quality was better than both Apple and Thinkpads (including both before and after Lenovo took over.) They were only an inch thick too.

I've actually been considering buying a new one, it's just that they're really expensive. So I may just buy a new battery for my old one.

Here's the latest ones: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Panasonic-introduces-Let-s-Note-SX-and-NX-notebooks.69554.0.html

forteller · 3 months

I'm glad to see Ubuntu doing it first. It's kind of funny how the post right after this is the one saying "Ubuntu: You're doing it wrong."

Actions > words.

jasonhaley · 3 months

I actually looked up what you said because I never heard that before..and you're completely wrong. And honestly, I don't get how some people can just make up facts. Chappelle was a Muslim well before the show even started. He converted back in 1998. He never had a problem with his content and Islam and in fact he did the opposite of hiding his funny-side, he kept his religious beliefs separate from his public life:

"I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way." -Dave Chappelle

davidreiss666 · 3 months

Not only that, but Harris extends this argument to animals. So that if I walk on the sidewalk and step on a fly that I suspect may have a "conscious experience" (As Harris says, it doesn't matter if it has one, just whether I'm concerned that it might have one) then I have done an objectively bad thing.

I'm fully aware that driving in my car will kill many bugs all the time. I also eat fish. I must be evil.

davidreiss666 · 3 months

Categorical imperatives are absolutes. They are unconditional requirement no matter what the circumstances.

As Benjamin Constant tried proving: absolutes don't work. As an example he used Kant's famous categorical imperatives: Honesty. It sounds beautiful and simple at first until you realize that if a murderer comes to your door and asks where you hid the child he wants to kill, you cannot lie and have to be honest.

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