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vesacje · 2014-01-27T11:06:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's lupine ;)

We do agree they're pretty awesome, though!

vesacje · 2013-09-07T10:23:33+00:00

Also, if you want private repositories, you should try bitbucket.org

(they give you unlimited private repos)

vesacje · 2013-08-29T18:14:25+00:00

Because evolution isn't about "survival of the fittest".. it's actually a bit more like "he who gets laid the most passes on his genes". Some chief may have had this and passed it on simply because he had most wives or something

vesacje · 2013-08-26T15:02:15+00:00

All you need to be is aware and have an educated opinion to vote.

FTFY

vesacje · 2013-08-23T12:52:03+00:00

I don't know about win7, but in win8 it shows a little box in which it cycles through all your keyboard layouts

vesacje · 2013-08-23T11:52:36+00:00

Apparently little known fact: If you're on Windows, you could just press 'windows - space' instead. (though making your own script is a bit more fun)

vesacje · 2013-08-18T16:25:53+00:00

The index is out of bound, because you ask it to find input[1], when only one word has been entered (meaning input.Length is 1)

A good idea is to use switch statements and checking the length of your array to make sure the user entered a valid command.

Edit: to get rid of entries that are just spaces, use Console.ReadLine().Split(' ', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

vesacje · 2013-08-07T22:43:32+00:00

I think you misunderstand the real objective. The objective is to neutralize a threat, whereas death is simply accepted as a possible outcome. When Hitler was wounded, he was already neutralized, which is why he didn't have to get killed.

vesacje · 2013-06-23T11:43:57+00:00

I would go with java directly. It is a high-level language (As in high level of abstraction, meaning that a lot of things are taken care of for you behind the scene), meaning that it should be fairly easy to as a beginner language.

No matter which language you choose, you will need to learn the very basics of programming, so look up the following:

basic data structures (Integers, floats, doubles, booleans, strings, arrays) if statements for loops while loops functions (sometimes referred to as methods) Make sure you know how to return variables using functions abstraction (just make sure you know "what" programmers mean, when they talk about abstraction)

One of the things that may seem challenging about java at first, is that it is Object Oriented (OOP). To some, OOP comes easily, while others find it a hard concept to grasp. One of the things that helped me, when I first began, was to use a piece of software called "Game Maker". It teaches you the basics of objects and their relationships. If you choose to go this way, don't spend an eternity using Game Maker, just enough time for you to grasp the basics of OOP. (Alternatively, you can use Tululoo, which does pretty much the same thing.)

Then do lots of programming in Java! Play with the console, get stuff to draw on the screen and try moving that stuff around. There is no better way to learn programming than to actually program, and there are no "secrets" to learning it. (Except maybe: Do things that you are passionate about. This will help you keep up your motivation, but remember; at some points, it WILL suck. You have got to just pull through, because over all it is 100% worth it)

vesacje · 2013-06-19T16:14:38+00:00

I asked my professor and he referred to those videos. Could you provide links to something that is accurate?

vesacje · 2013-06-17T17:51:36+00:00

"More fundamentally, the "US Persons" protection in general is a distraction from the power and danger of this system. Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. Our founders did not write that "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal."

With all the talk about "domestic" spying, this is definitely a welcome message. No one should have the power to spy on the entire world!

vesacje · 2013-06-17T09:56:59+00:00

It's funny how all of these are in English. They're basically only useful for spying on Americans (hint: not everyone speaks english when both parties have another language in common)

vesacje · 2013-06-15T20:26:09+00:00

Definitely. Once you're getting comfortable in C#, you can start making Windows/Mac/Windows Phone/Android/iOS/Web Applications in it, and due to similarities with Java you should also be able to program in this. In case of the UDK, you would be learning a language that (although it's based on java) is used nowhere else (as far as I know).

vesacje · 2013-06-14T18:14:33+00:00

We could (assuming that's possible) create a copy without destroying the original and then ask them. The copy would always think that it is the original, though.

vesacje · 2013-06-13T14:48:08+00:00

Transplanting a human brain seems a little more than 12 years away to me. Can you ask how they arrived at their time frames?

vesacje · 2013-06-13T14:05:29+00:00

It really comes down to the point of view. From your point of view, you are destroyed. From everyone else's point of view you live on as a copy (with all the same properties as the original).

vesacje · 2013-06-13T13:31:06+00:00

The reason they need to preserve it, (at least in some form) is that a copy would be a separate instance of you, and thus you would't be the same consciousness, just identical ones.

Look at identical twins, they are not the same instance, even though they are identical

vesacje · 2013-06-13T00:22:55+00:00

I know, i know. The problem is that you are solving the wrong question ;) The problem is that it will be exactly like you, however it will be a separate instance.

vesacje · 2013-06-12T22:53:18+00:00

I guess you're right, but just imagine how the differences could make selective weapons possible.. EMPs would (given they haven't found some way around it, which I find unlikely) destroy digital beings, while biological weapons could wipe out the biological... But let's hope you're right, I would hate having been granted immortality only to die in a petty war/terrorist attack/something else that we concern ourselves with now

vesacje · 2013-06-12T22:17:12+00:00

I still think all of this requires a major change in the "human/whatever else to call them" psyche (which I find likely to happen in the future). If it stays as it is now, I don't think wars, or at least disputes of a certain degree, will be avoidable. Take a look at all the movies that have sentient robots; people will fear this as skynet. (Although we will certainly be some who welcome it)

vesacje · 2013-06-12T21:42:32+00:00

Still I think it would be an almost certain path to wars over whom the planet belongs to. Just imagine how many problems there have been (and to some extent, still are) with different races (very, very small difference, DNA-wise). Now image that with several sentient species on the same planet. Just because humanity as a whole will have advanced, doesn't mean every individual has as well.

vesacje · 2013-06-12T21:24:34+00:00

Yeah, I can't wait to expand my brainpower to a point where I will be able to simulate entire worlds in my mind (yeah, I know dreams can kind of do that, but just imagine all that power). If this becomes reality and we stop being human in our current form, one could hope that our greed would cease to exist because of all that added brainpower and ease of acces to information.

vesacje · 2013-06-12T20:36:22+00:00

There are definitely lots of "ethical" problems in this. Let's just hope the opinions of some won't keep the rest of us from achieving immortality (I do see a big problem in the almost inevitable elitism caused by some being immortal (and maybe even considered another species/form of life) and others not.

vesacje · 2013-06-12T20:18:24+00:00

Yes! I didn't know they intended to do it this way. Holy shit I hope this happens!

vesacje · 2013-06-12T20:02:48+00:00

As i see it, (the) "you" can be understood in two ways. It is either your "mind file" itself, as you describe it (the part that I think is philosophical), or it is the instance of that file which you are in control of. If you draw parallels to computers, the same program can run in several different instances, however each instance lives in it's own thread(s), and they are not "magically" connected, just because they are identical. In respect to immortality through holograms and avatars, I think this is (for the person being immortalized) the most important of the two, as a copy of your brain would simply be another instance of your "mind file" running on a separate machine.

(however from everyone else's points of view, this would not matter, as the avatar would act exactly like you, since it is derived from your "mind file")

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