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2003 Edge.org World Question
murky.waters writes "The responses to this year's Edge.org question have been published; basically, people were asked to imagine they were nominated as White House science adviser and the President asked them what are some important issues in science and what we should do about them. There are 84 responses, ranging in topic from advanced nanotechnology to the psychology of foreign cultures, and lots of ideas regarding science, technology, politics, and education. The responses were written by academics (e.g. Roger Schank, Marvin Minsky), journalists (Kevin Kelly), Nobel Laureates (Eric Kandel), and others (Alan Alda). Some of responses are politically loaded but the majority has either a more specialised proposal, or general remarks about our world. Many are absolutely fascinating: funny, insightful, interesting, hell even informative. ... One of the most public supporters of the Singularity 'religion', Ray Kurzweil, is a regular at Edge, and currently discussed issues range from said transhumanism to early-universe theories, and many other kinds of exciting and novel science."
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It's nice to see America having so many JEWISH academics.
YOU ARE A TERRORIST
Seriously though, human genome research through other means is a biggy.
I'd put it just above computer science with the procedes(source code) going to the public. We(OSS developers) are far ahead of a multi-billion dollar corporation in terms of development; I'd like to see what results we could achieve without those pesky day jobs.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
or better yet, a beowulf cluster of hawkmeisters
huh?
too many cocktails? I dunno, but I read it twice and this still eludes me . . .
everything in moderation
we imagine we are the science advisor and ask the president to russia you!
have a session on the promising new technology of gaysexwithdogs? This area need a dramatic rise, if you ask me.
Michael Sims is Odd
Crack Smoking Moderators
This is not a troll
Intel seriously undercutting AMD on dual multiprocessing systems
AMD far behind on price, performance...
By Mike Magee: Monday 06 January 2003, 09:30
IT'S NOW FAR cheaper for system integrators worldwide to build dual systems using Intel Xeon chips than dual Athlon MP 2200+ processors, it has emerged.
Unless, that is, you consider RDRAM memory, of course.
Intel's new pricing strategy is causing some flurry of activity in the SI channel because price and performance rule the roost.
One system integrator told the INQ that, for example, a dual Xeon 2.4GHz, which comes with GigEthernet, PCI-X and other nicer features than you can get with Athlon MPs, means a switch from AMD.
Why?
He claimed that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has not dropped the price of its MP processors since last April, and don't seem to want to release any MP CPUs faster than 2.4GHz until Mr Barton MP makes his appearance.
In the meantime, he said, Intel has announced the 3.06GHz Xeon, although it's still a rara avis, and is already shipping 2.8GHz and 2.6GHz Xeons, the premium price point models and therefore attractive buys.
And Intel is shipping 2.4GHz Xeons for less money than the 2.2GHz Xeons.
That, he suggests, means that Intel is providing the dual system CPUs at the 2.4GHz speeds to kill the sales of AMD MP processors.
And, he claims, that is going to seriously affect AMD's bottom line on the lucrative MP chips.
There's one of those little caveats to be entered here, however, and that's for RDRAM memory, if that matters anymore.
Memory is by far the most expensive component in a good workstation. For example, to put 4GB of memory in a Xeon workstation could cost well over $4,000, for those ECC, registered types. So, even if the Xeons are priced below the AMD MP chips, 4GB of memory for a dual Athlon system will cost under $2,000, contrasted with RDRAM based workstations.
For example, a Dell Precision 530 uses PC 800 RDRAM RIMMs, so to add 4GB of memory you're going to have to pay a rather considerable price of nearly $6,000.
Mind you -- that's kind of a defunct configuration...
But if you're using DDR 266 registered memory, like you would do with the new Xeons that use dual channel DDR, well that's a different matter...
Alan Alda had gaysexwithdogs at the conference?
No one has told you to go back to hating Arabs or any other ethnic group. On the contrary, President Bush and his administration have time after time gone out on the limb and publicly denounced the calls for general retribution against the Arab world or American Arabs. And who lashed at Trent Lott, who was one of the most prominent Republicans in the U.S.A. at the time, almost without delay? Yup, President Bush. But that wasn't good enough for the liberal press (who said anything about jews? I don't have anything against the Jews!). No, they had to tear the poor man to peaces in public. Conservative press would never have stooped that low if it had been a Democrat on the spot.
As far as Bush's alleged stupidity goes, I have only this to say: if you can get yourself elected as the President of the U.S.A. and deal with the 9/11 atrocities with the skill, restraint and diplomacy as he has done so far, you cannot be stupid.
Admit it. You and your liberal butt-buddies are just bitter after losing two elections and looking to lose the 2004 year presidential elections too.
At least, three articles out of ninety + articles were insightful. Compared to the three years of news headlines I've seen at Slashdot, that's pretty good.
Now, if edge.org could only have some slashcode running in the backend for each one of those articles, the overall result and the resulting insights would be a lot better than Slashdot.