Recent content by Threesan

If I completely artificially craft an egg from scratch such that it will give birth to a chicken, have I created a chicken egg or a human egg or a technological egg? Perhaps others' thoughts differ, but to me this is obviously an artificially created chicken egg. "Artificial" modifies the egg...

As a side note and correction to my earlier reference, the showing of L'arrivée du train (circa 1903) that may or may not have caused some alarm in the audience may have been shown in anaglyphic 3D (colored glasses).

The mouse is an interesting point. I wonder if a solution might be to relegate the cursor (or any HUD elements?) to either the left or right eye, at the user's discretion. Alternatively, I'm trying to imagine setting the HUD further back in the scene, sort of in the mid-ground. I wonder if...

I find the claim to be perfectly reasonable. Stereoscopic depth perception is an environment humans (and their predecessors) have evolved in for a long time. The ability to fairly accurately and very easily and quickly gauge distance and relative distance with a mere glance is automatic and easy...

Unless they changed it recently so you can't..? I'd always found it odd that you could change the poll options after people vote. It's not just open for outright abuse, but even adding an option might give the impression that something was always available and that people didn't like it as much...

Went searching for a Mandelbrot one specifically and am fairly happy with one I found [http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/31714], though the white text could perhaps be taken down to 80%. But I'd take white over something like Arcane, which makes it hard to read inactive tab titles or...

edit, might as well repeat here: Those of you doing the original C&C (Gold, presumably): there's an unofficial patch that you might want to get that fixes some bugs, and lets you run it in high resolution. Firestorm is an expansion to the standalone game C&C: Tiberian Sun.

Those of you doing C&C (Gold, presumably): there's an unofficial patch [http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cnc95upd/cc95p106/] that you might want to get that fixes some bugs, and lets you run it in high resolution.

That's fine, but I was pointing out that you're not talking about an outcome of a quantum bit anymore in that an a,b superposition is necessarily collapsed by measurement (any intermediate state being by definition not an outcome), to one of two possible values (if it's being used as a bit)...

What's the complaint against paypal? I've used it a bit with a credit(debit) card attached, and with my bank account attached without trouble (yet?)...

I had a similar experience on PSN. First time I tried to buy something from their store, it appeared to go OK, and I downloaded it OK and all, but the next day I tried to buy something else but found that my account was banned (but I only discovered this after I did a google search for error...

Well, you have something like Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Granted that is a vetted formal proof of impossibility whereas the wall/link-argument(s) are neither formal nor vetted. Actually, Gödel's incompleteness theorems provide an interesting :p (analogical? or actual?)...

By definition a qubit is a quantum representation of a bit, or binary integer. Measuring a qubit has exactly two possible outcomes: 0 or 1. Anything shifting the alignment away from exactly the angles representing 0 or 1 is error or randomness, and is discarded by the measurement. An n qubit...

The concept of Mario, the thought that represents Mario... in the abstract sense Mario exists. In the concrete sense, only representations, be they in neurons, silicon or watercolor. In the sense that Mario exerts influence on the world he is real. But that is not the same as being able to...

Assuming awareness arose via evolution, it should be fundamentally possible to create a new awareness. Evolution is not magic, it just had a lot of time and space on its hands. Even a non-deterministic Turing machine can be run on a deterministic Turing machine. Nothing's changed on what is...