Sunday, June 24, 2012

What to Consider before Choosing Life Insurance


          People should be aware of any danger that might cause them to injury and even to death so it is vital to have life insurance with them. Having life insurance is not only for those older people but young person also needs it. Aside from individual protection, life insurance can protect your family. You do not need to worry if one of your family members are getting problem in car crush for you will be helped by life insurance if something happen with your family. After all, life insurance online is a kind of investment for a better future that gives you peace and security.

         In general, there are four types of life insurances offered to you. They are Whole life, Universal life, and Variable life and Term life insurance. In considering one of those life insurances as your choice, you should ponder the pros and cons that is offered by each type of life insurance along with the premium costs they offer. Each person needs different type of life insurance with others. There are people who need permanent life insurance like Whole life or Universal life insurance and some others need permanent life insurance like term life insurance. Consider carefully on pros and cons that are offered before choosing one of those life insurances. 

How To Handle Pay Day Loan Service


         With the increasing number of people who use the pay day loan service in the internet, the pay day loan service has been seen as one of the best solutions that they will choose whenever they need some amount of money fast. However, some people see that the payday loans service does not give people any advantages. In fact, based on some interviews that I have seen in the internet forum, there are some people who are suffered more when they use payday advance loan service. How can this happen?

Well, there might be several reasons that you have to know about why the pay day loan service can turn into something bad. However, one of the most important reasons that you have to know is that you have to remember that pay day loan service will charge you with a high rate, even higher than the bank. So, whenever you want to make any attempt in using the pay day loan, you must be prepared for the rates. However, despite the high rate, this loan will give you the money you need in no time. So, if you want to take the best advantage of the loan service, you need to be sure that you know how to handle it.  

Free Insurance Quotes In The Net? Why Not?


Before the internet had been invented, there had been a lot of people who went to one car insurance company to another because they want to get the best choice of car insurance. Right now, as the technology has been developed better than that time, finding the right car insurance company is now easier compared with around 20 years ago. In fact, there are a lot of websites in the internet that really can help you in determining the best online car insurance company and what kind of coverage that you need to choose for you. If you use this kind of website, there will be a lot of advantages that you can grab. What are the advantages?

The first advantage that you can get from using this kind of website is that you will be able to save your time and money in finding the right car insurance company. Remember when you used to walk form one company to another company just to find the best one? Well, right now, you do not need to do that anymore because all of the information that you need has already put into this website. Another advantage that you can grab is that you might have the chance to get some free quotes. 

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Business Opportunities for Fresh Graduates


           Some fresh graduates may be confused on how to earn money or get a new job. Thus, they can obtain a cash loan to start a new business. If they are too tired of applying for a job here and there, it means that they have to create a new job. There are many kinds of payday loans fresh graduates can get. Knowing that a pay day loan will give not too large amount of money, the cash approval process is quick. Hence, the requirements are not too difficult so that fresh graduates can get a loan to support their business idea. Therefore, there are many kinds of business opportunities they can get.

            As the beginning, they can try the simplest and smallest ones. For example, they can be a fresh juice seller. It can be done by using a small space to put the juicer or blender, many kinds of fruits, Cremer, the ice cubes, and else. More so, the money venture is quite small. It can be quite simple and easy. As long as a person can do it sincerely, he will succeed and there is a great chance to build a bigger business. In short, if they know how to find (or create) opportunities, fresh graduates can easily succeed in the future.

Managing Your Monthly Income


If you have a stable job with monthly income, you should know how to use the money to cover all of your needs for a whole month. If you cannot manage your money well, you may get money troubles and need to get payday loans immediately. Getting cash from a pay day loan can be an alternative to overcome your money problems. Moreover, you can avoid any kinds of monetary problems if you can manage your monthly income rightfully.
            No one wants to get big downs in money management. Either way, no one wants to get any kinds of money troubles. You can follow these simple steps in managing your monthly income properly. The first step is saving some of your salary. It is very important as you need to be careful when there are unexpected things happen in the future. The second step is making a list of things you have to buy every month. There must be things you have to buy every month and it should be put in the first priority. The third step is avoiding to use credit cards. You are allowed to use credit cards as long as you do not use it for unnecessary things.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Artificial Intelligence and Authentic Intelligence


Scientific people have always enjoyed the thought of artificial intelligence--of a machine being able to think and act on its own. It's a popular theme for novels and movies too. And who of us wouldn't love to have a personal robot to anticipate our needs and take care of them? I even remember a production from the local planetarium about computers worldwide that networked and synergized their data. At the end of the production this networked computer system commanded, "Let there be light!" and a new universe was born.
Artificial intelligence has as many definitions as people defining it. For some it is only a matter of a machine being able to analyze data and then take an appropriate action. But I think for most, it means that a machine can actually think, can learn, can create, can come up with original ideas--that it can act like a person and be indistinguishable from a human being in its actions and thoughts.
If artificial intelligence is only a machine or a system acting on its own, then a lawn sprinkler system that has a moisture meter to know if it has rained or not would be artificial intelligence. If it has rained, the sprinklers will not come on until the sensor dries out. But this system has been programmed to act that way, and the only reason it won't act that way is if it malfunctions. In no way is that intelligent. The system is not thinking at all. It is doing what it has been programmed to do and has no other choice.
I maintain that the more popular definition of artificial intelligence--that a machine or system can think, decide, and create--is impossible.
First, a definition of intelligence that I think most people would agree with: Intelligence is the ability to learn; to have experiences that teach what works and what doesn't. Then to take that learning and do something worthwhile with it.
To truly learn something, a machine would need emotions. People need emotions to learn too, and since we have them there is no end to what we can learn or what we can do with our knowledge. Higher animals also have emotions and are able to learn. The less intelligent an organism is, the more instinctual it is, meaning it does things because it doesn't have a choice--because it is less intelligent. Lower organisms like bacteria do not have emotions at all, as far as we know, and they act more like machines that have been programmed than like living organisms. They don't act as if they have a choice. They simply do what their genetic programming makes them do.
Machines do not have emotions and are incapable of having them. A person can program a machine to act as if it has emotions, but obviously it doesn't really have them. A machine can be programmed to search the Internet, watch television and listen to radio broadcasting, read books and magazines, and listen to people speak. It can amass huge amounts of data and it can analyze those data and act. But only as it has been programmed to act. It has lots of data but it doesn't care about them. It couldn't care less if all those data sat on its hard drive and nothing ever became of them. It couldn't care less if someone came along and erased all those data. It wouldn't feel bad for a week because all that hard work had come to naught. So any machine or system that has to be programmed to act because it doesn't care about acting otherwise, even thought it can be and do amazing things, is no more intelligent than a lawn sprinkler system with a moisture meter to indicate whether the sprinklers should run or not. And even though all the "knowledge" on earth can be stored on computers, and computers can be networked together to maximize their power, that will never create a God who can create a new universe.
We people learn because of emotions. We want things. We need things. People have only one instinct: self-preservation. We learn things to keep ourselves alive and comfortable. We sometimes learn because of embarrassment or disappointment. We get excited about things and want to know everything about them. I have talked to 5-year-old children who knew more about dinosaurs than I will ever know or care to know.
I saw a Nova program on PBS about separating conjoined twins. One of the twins had a tracheotomy, and therefore had no voice. But she quickly learned to pull her sister's hair so that her sister did the crying for both of them. She also, later, learned to cover her throat with her hand so that breath passed through her vocal cords. Each time she vocalized in this way she smiled, pleased with her ability to learn something and act intelligently.
People are authentically intelligent because they can and do learn new things on their own, and then figure out how to put their knowledge to use to preserve themselves, then to help others, then to try to make the whole human experience on Earth better. There is certainly a place among us for machines that can analyze data and act as they have been programmed, but that is the extent of their worth.
Companies, parents, and governments should value people because they are people. Machines will never replace people. Treating people as extensions of technology will never lead to success. Letting people use their intelligence and technology to do amazing things will lead to outrageous success.
It is very good to be a thinking, creating, choosing, feeling, remembering, self-actualizing, improving person. Nothing pleases me more than that I am a person.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Evolution of Digital Cameras


The concept of capturing still images evolved from the basic ideas of the camera, with its roots found deep into the historical time frame of the early Chinese as well as Greeks. The first attempt at photography was achieved with the idea of viewing images through the idea of the pin-hole device. This idea of this device was thought of as theologically conceived, based on the earlier concept of a Divine power. The digital camera known today is descended from a long lineage of cameras.
The technology behind the pin-hole camera enabled creative minds to conceive of the idea of capturing still images, which led to an earlier version of the camera. The first recorded knowledge of the device implemented with the capacity to capture images reveals the idea that transportability was not taken into account when establishing this device. It was large enough to accommodate individuals.
The image capturing processes of this version of the camera was enabled through the available elements of nature, which provided the lighting that was captured through the pin hole. This then enabled the image of the individual inside to be displayed on a screen. The displayed image was then manually copied onto available materials.
This camera was solely intended to entertain. This version of the camera developed in to the later version which enabled more convenient portability. This was due to the improvements made by certain inventors of the time, using the properties of certain versions of darkening chemicals at the time. The darkening aspects of the chemicals revealed themselves under the needed light to see the images. Due to this, the images did not last.
A more successful attempt using a different substance at the time resulted in a lasting captured image. A gelatinous plating devised by a later scientist enabled higher speed image capturing, with improved standards of image result. The quality of speed required a capturing system to meet the newer standards, which resulted in a shutter that observed a mechanical response when triggered.
After the invention of the first form of film, the first recognizable form of the device known as the camera was established. The version of the nineteenth century was black block shaped device, with the same capturing technologically advanced capabilities known to later cameras. While the cameras evolved, different types became more readily available, with the latest improvement being the digital cameras known today. The latest choices offer features such as video capture and photographic upload into a storage medium, such as computers before being shared.