Comments for Ellis Benus http://www.ellisbenus.com Seeking Insight and Knowledge In All I Can... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:21:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 Comment on Create the Ultimate Entertainment Grab Bag by Eugene http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/create-the-ultimate-entertainment-grab-bag/#comment-2266 Eugene Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:53:37 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/create-the-ultimate-entertainment-grab-bag/#comment-2266 Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene

]]> Comment on Modernized Aesop Ant and Grasshopper Story by KJS http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/modernized-aesop-ant-and-grasshopper-story/#comment-2200 KJS Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:09:05 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/modernized-aesop-ant-and-grasshopper-story/#comment-2200 Welcome to America. The land of what's free and the home of the not-so-brave welfare recipients. Welcome to America. The land of what’s free and the home of the not-so-brave welfare recipients.

]]> Comment on Dorm Room Biz launches Revoluminary by chris.pund http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/dorm-room-biz-launches-revoluminary/#comment-1563 chris.pund Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:11:02 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/dorm-room-biz-launches-revoluminary/#comment-1563 Hi Ellis, I am not actually the one launching the website, it was a guest post by Max, one of the co-founders of Revoluminary. I guess I should have made that clear at the end of the post. I'll change that now! Sorry for the confusion! Hi Ellis, I am not actually the one launching the website, it was a guest post by Max, one of the co-founders of Revoluminary. I guess I should have made that clear at the end of the post. I’ll change that now! Sorry for the confusion!

]]> Comment on Cars Will Drive Themselves in 10 Years by Dweh http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cars-will-drive-themselves-in-10-years/#comment-1449 Dweh Thu, 22 May 2008 15:14:48 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cars-will-drive-themselves-in-10-years/#comment-1449 This is perfectly well and good as long as MS is not writing the OS for the thing to run on. It kind of frightens me to think of the catastrophe of your car swerving into oncoming traffic because the sensor on the left side of the car (right for you Europeans) says that you are too far from the center line erroneously. The other problem is that a computer has no capability to make choices. If a crash is inevitable then the computer will decide to protect the driver and passengers of the car. Well, what if your choices are hitting a tree that just fell or running over a small child that just stepped onto the road from behind an embankment. The computer will "decide" that the child has less impact on the car. Computers would likely be able to react faster (we hope), but there still remain physical laws that the computer must operate the car within. The moral decisions that a human can make on the fly are not programmable at this point and therefore we should never (until there is some new breakthrough in technology or technique) let computers drive our cars. You might say that the price the little girl pays is dwarfed by the astounding number of lives this would save, but I will let you justify that to her parents. This nears the forbidden experiment in moral ramifications. Hope that shows some of the potential problems/downsides we have yet to consider with this issue. D This is perfectly well and good as long as MS is not writing the OS for the thing to run on. It kind of frightens me to think of the catastrophe of your car swerving into oncoming traffic because the sensor on the left side of the car (right for you Europeans) says that you are too far from the center line erroneously.

The other problem is that a computer has no capability to make choices. If a crash is inevitable then the computer will decide to protect the driver and passengers of the car. Well, what if your choices are hitting a tree that just fell or running over a small child that just stepped onto the road from behind an embankment. The computer will “decide” that the child has less impact on the car. Computers would likely be able to react faster (we hope), but there still remain physical laws that the computer must operate the car within. The moral decisions that a human can make on the fly are not programmable at this point and therefore we should never (until there is some new breakthrough in technology or technique) let computers drive our cars.

You might say that the price the little girl pays is dwarfed by the astounding number of lives this would save, but I will let you justify that to her parents. This nears the forbidden experiment in moral ramifications.

Hope that shows some of the potential problems/downsides we have yet to consider with this issue.

D

]]> Comment on Quotes by Jim http://www.ellisbenus.com/in-remembrance/quotes/#comment-1401 Jim Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:24:12 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/in-remembrance/quotes/#comment-1401 To be or not to be.... Shakespeare To do is to be. Voltaire Do be do be do. Sinatra To be or not to be….
Shakespeare

To do is to be.
Voltaire

Do be do be do.
Sinatra

]]> Comment on Use Two Mice to be More Productive by andrew parker http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/use-two-mice-to-be-more-productive/#comment-1144 andrew parker Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:27:47 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/use-two-mice-to-be-more-productive/#comment-1144 i got a kingstom trackball. i love it. i got it for $5.00. its old, and i still havent figured out how to get it to work with my core2 duo, but i love it all the same. its like the trackball from one of those video game cabinets you know what i mean? http://www.geocities.com/bubbyparker/SANY0199.png in this picture it has the new .5 lb cats-eye sphere that i got from ebay i thought would work for a trackball, but it doesn't quite fit. i got a kingstom trackball. i love it. i got it for $5.00. its old, and i still havent figured out how to get it to work with my core2 duo, but i love it all the same. its like the trackball from one of those video game cabinets you know what i mean?

http://www.geocities.com/bubbyparker/SANY0199.png

in this picture it has the new .5 lb cats-eye sphere that i got from ebay i thought would work for a trackball, but it doesn’t quite fit.

]]> Comment on Cancel your Trash Service to Save Money and the Environment by andrew parker http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cancel-your-trash-service-to-save-money-and-the-environment/#comment-1143 andrew parker Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:11:26 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cancel-your-trash-service-to-save-money-and-the-environment/#comment-1143 you can find intresting ways to reuse junk to make stuff (along with other progects) at: www.instructables.com some of the stuff people throw out is good stuff that they just dont need anymore, dont have the space for, and dont know anyone who needs it, and we all know garage sales dont get rid of everything. at freecycle you can post descriptions of your stuff and arrange for people who can use it to come by and pick it up. groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycleColumbiaMO/ you can find intresting ways to reuse junk to make stuff (along with other progects) at:
www.instructables.com

some of the stuff people throw out is good stuff that they just dont need anymore, dont have the space for, and dont know anyone who needs it, and we all know garage sales dont get rid of everything.
at freecycle you can post descriptions of your stuff and arrange for people who can use it to come by and pick it up.
groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycleColumbiaMO/

]]> Comment on Find Great Unknown Sites with Anti-StumbleUpon by andrew parker http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/anti-digg-stumbleupon/#comment-1142 andrew parker Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:57:05 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/anti-digg-stumbleupon/#comment-1142 stumble upon assists you by showing you stuff that other people like, doing the opisate would be to show you stuff people hate which i dont think would be very usefull. you could make it to where it shows you stuff nobody has commented on before but then how would it know what the site is about, or if it is interesting. if there were such a thing it would probably be similar to a search engine with web crawler bots. these web crawler bots would not just search for certian words, but they would have to guess the topic of websites and put them in the stumble upon database. this part would need to be invented, and would probably take a lot more processor power and time than normal methods. the bots would probably not do a good job at this so then people using a modified version of stumble upon designed to find the sites that haven't been rated but are in the database (anti stumblers), would check if the website was in the right topic and rate it. stumble upon assists you by showing you stuff that other people like, doing the opisate would be to show you stuff people hate which i dont think would be very usefull. you could make it to where it shows you stuff nobody has commented on before but then how would it know what the site is about, or if it is interesting.
if there were such a thing it would probably be similar to a search engine with web crawler bots. these web crawler bots would not just search for certian words, but they would have to guess the topic of websites and put them in the stumble upon database. this part would need to be invented, and would probably take a lot more processor power and time than normal methods. the bots would probably not do a good job at this so then people using a modified version of stumble upon designed to find the sites that haven’t been rated but are in the database (anti stumblers), would check if the website was in the right topic and rate it.

]]> Comment on Cancel your Trash Service to Save Money and the Environment by Ellis Benus » Blog Archive » It has been said, many times, many ways… http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cancel-your-trash-service-to-save-money-and-the-environment/#comment-1122 Ellis Benus » Blog Archive » It has been said, many times, many ways… Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:43:06 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cancel-your-trash-service-to-save-money-and-the-environment/#comment-1122 [...] writing about recycling, composting and gardening, I’m now noticing articles about this popping up all over my RSS [...] […] writing about recycling, composting and gardening, I’m now noticing articles about this popping up all over my RSS […]

]]> Comment on ERBSIX by Dad http://www.ellisbenus.com/in-remembrance/erbsix/#comment-783 Dad Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:23:54 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/in-remembrance/erbsix/#comment-783 High Son: just found this page. Love ya, Dad ps, need another working computer !@!! High Son:

just found this page.

Love ya,
Dad

ps, need another working computer !@!!

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