That page applies only to the PPC Macs, not the Intel Macs. Intel Macs use EFI, and I would bet that this Phoenix stuff does too, with a BIOS compatibility module.
What gave you that idea? Nickel-cadmium batteries are obviously afflicted. What is a common misconception is that Nickel metal hydride batteries are also affected.
Wow. If it weren't for the subtlety, I'd think you were an Intelligent Design guy.
Anyways, it is perfectly valid to say that the problem (creating sentience) is 100% solvable. If it weren't, humans couldn't exist. (Your point about "artificially" is meaningful only for a fixed and narrow definition of artificial.) The thing that might not be right is to say that the problem is 100% solvable by humans. We might not be smart enough to create an AI. But I think we are. It seems pretty certain that we'll soon have the computational power to do a brute-force physical simulation of a brain, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it done in real-time in my lifetime. Beyond that, the only challenge it to reduce the simulation to more abstract thought processes that require less computational power. Given the progress that's been made so far, with fairly limited computers, there's no reason to expect that we'll hit an insurmountable brick wall before creating something that can pass the Turing test.
Hmmm... I always thought C++ was messier than Java and C# because it completely different design goals. ie. Java and C# are simple, platform independent OO languages, whereas C++ tries very hard to avoid abstracting away anything useful for writing high-performance code (real pointers, for example), while still giving you the full power of an extensible OO language (instead of the crippled feature set of Java). What you perceive as "cruft" in C++ is actually what allows it to still be usable for writing things like operating systems.
Creating a programming language that allows you to use abstract concepts and tinker with what's under the hood is hard. Making it pretty is probably impossible.
I see that another poster has pointed out that they sued Cisco 3 years ago. So, why don't Reuters and the other wire services ever dig up those details on their own? Shouldn't they try to answer some of the obvious questions, rather than just post a notice that the lawsuit exists?
I wish we had journalists instead of just reporters.
Another story more notable for what's missing than for what's included.
Cisco (who also owns Linksys) is missing from the list of companies, despite being one of the biggest players in the wi-fi market. If they have already licensed the patents in question, that is a very important detail that should be explored.
On the other hand, if Cisco has also been ignoring those patents, and the patent troll in question is not attacking Cisco, there is probably a very interesting reason.
Google's privacy policy includes a statement that they won't reduce your rights under the privacy policy without your explicit consent. If they want to start releasing or selling your information, they have to explicitly ask you to agree to the new privacy policy that permits that. If you don't agree to the new policy, they can't release your information under the new terms.
You must be new here (despite your UID). The Linksys WRT54G and derivatives has been the most popular 802.11b/g/etc. router for years (since 2003, according to wikipedia). One of the reasons for its popularity is that it runs Linux, and there are many projects offering customized firmware, such as DD-WRT and OpenWRT. This has been popular enough that when Linksys chose to switch to VxWorks and halve the amount of flash, they released the WRT54GL with the old hardware configuration specifically for people wanting to modify the firmware.
If you pick up one of the models with a USB port, you can trivially expand its storage capacity, although the built-in RAM and Flash is usually sufficient.
HD graphics doesn't enable console games to do anything new; they do the same stuff as N64 games, but better looking (and with some features borrowed from PCs, like networked multiplayer). The wiimote enables games to do things that are truly new for mainstream consumer entertainment products.
That's a feature, not a bug. The existence of that hole is well-documented and intentional (even if the details of exploiting it aren't). I haven't used VMware, so I can't comment on whether that feature can be disabled by the user, but it would be trivial for VMware to do so.
Fewer lines of code in the hypervisor makes it easier to audit the whole thing for bugs. Yes, there will still be bugs, but it is quite feasible for a hypervisor to have significantly fewer bugs per line of code than the operating systems it runs.
When the shit does hit the fan, the pessimists are the only ones prepared to comp, thus they aren't the ones freaking out. There's nothing odd or unexpected (ha!) about that. Pessimism only gets to be a problem if your sense of probabilities it distorted enough that you spend too much time worrying about things that are very unlikely, and end up not being well prepared for the most likely outcome.
... They immediately foresee the risks of each situation (due to their personality, not a conscious decision)... I would tend to say it is because they are in the habit of using their brains.
(Yes, there are smart optimists, but it almost always turns out that they are either being ignorant or they aren't just afraid of the potential negative consequences.)
Note: I've been in the PULSTAR reactor room several times.
Nuclear reactors generally pose two threats. The first is that they will get out of control. That can't happen at NC State. By the time the water gets hotter than bathwater, alarms would be going off. The reactor isn't allowed to get at all close to boiling.
The other risk comes from the radioactive substances being stolen. Ignoring the fact that the stuff in the reactor is the least accessible stuff in the building, you would need lethal weapons and scuba gear to get significant quantities out of the reactor room. Getting the stuff off campus would be even harder.
There is a much bigger risk of somebody raiding the chemistry labs for chemical weapons materials.
I get the feeling you don't know who the fuck Weisman is or what he said, or what the wikipedia article you linked to says. Most of the pest species of roach would die off in the non-tropical regions if not for the warmth of human created habitats.
If the volume went down and the weight went up, I would expect it to have better battery life, which is in fact added value. And it is still under 8 ounces, so it isn't a brick.
Hmmm... You must have missed the bit about every OS X release being faster on the same hardware than its predecessor. Unless you've got the minimal stock RAM of the early Minis, an "upgrade" to Leopard can be expected to be a real upgrade.
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That page applies only to the PPC Macs, not the Intel Macs. Intel Macs use EFI, and I would bet that this Phoenix stuff does too, with a BIOS compatibility module.
Hmmmm.... Sounds a lot like what RISC OS was doing circa 1989. (Although it used ROM instead of flash.)
What gave you that idea? Nickel-cadmium batteries are obviously afflicted. What is a common misconception is that Nickel metal hydride batteries are also affected.
Wow. If it weren't for the subtlety, I'd think you were an Intelligent Design guy.
Anyways, it is perfectly valid to say that the problem (creating sentience) is 100% solvable. If it weren't, humans couldn't exist. (Your point about "artificially" is meaningful only for a fixed and narrow definition of artificial.) The thing that might not be right is to say that the problem is 100% solvable by humans. We might not be smart enough to create an AI. But I think we are. It seems pretty certain that we'll soon have the computational power to do a brute-force physical simulation of a brain, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it done in real-time in my lifetime. Beyond that, the only challenge it to reduce the simulation to more abstract thought processes that require less computational power. Given the progress that's been made so far, with fairly limited computers, there's no reason to expect that we'll hit an insurmountable brick wall before creating something that can pass the Turing test.
Works for me on Leopard. I guess that means it's a bug that won't get fixed in Tiger.
Hmmm... I always thought C++ was messier than Java and C# because it completely different design goals. ie. Java and C# are simple, platform independent OO languages, whereas C++ tries very hard to avoid abstracting away anything useful for writing high-performance code (real pointers, for example), while still giving you the full power of an extensible OO language (instead of the crippled feature set of Java). What you perceive as "cruft" in C++ is actually what allows it to still be usable for writing things like operating systems.
Creating a programming language that allows you to use abstract concepts and tinker with what's under the hood is hard. Making it pretty is probably impossible.
Or Wash?
This is a rapid prototyping machine. It enables R&D. It isn't meant for mass-production.
I see that another poster has pointed out that they sued Cisco 3 years ago. So, why don't Reuters and the other wire services ever dig up those details on their own? Shouldn't they try to answer some of the obvious questions, rather than just post a notice that the lawsuit exists?
I wish we had journalists instead of just reporters.
Another story more notable for what's missing than for what's included.
Cisco (who also owns Linksys) is missing from the list of companies, despite being one of the biggest players in the wi-fi market. If they have already licensed the patents in question, that is a very important detail that should be explored.
On the other hand, if Cisco has also been ignoring those patents, and the patent troll in question is not attacking Cisco, there is probably a very interesting reason.
Google's privacy policy includes a statement that they won't reduce your rights under the privacy policy without your explicit consent. If they want to start releasing or selling your information, they have to explicitly ask you to agree to the new privacy policy that permits that. If you don't agree to the new policy, they can't release your information under the new terms.
Obscure articles don't cause bandwidth problems, and storage space isn't a problem either (it is only a few gigabytes).
More than my ISP. Beyond that, it really doesn't matter.
You must be new here (despite your UID). The Linksys WRT54G and derivatives has been the most popular 802.11b/g/etc. router for years (since 2003, according to wikipedia). One of the reasons for its popularity is that it runs Linux, and there are many projects offering customized firmware, such as DD-WRT and OpenWRT. This has been popular enough that when Linksys chose to switch to VxWorks and halve the amount of flash, they released the WRT54GL with the old hardware configuration specifically for people wanting to modify the firmware.
If you pick up one of the models with a USB port, you can trivially expand its storage capacity, although the built-in RAM and Flash is usually sufficient.
HD graphics doesn't enable console games to do anything new; they do the same stuff as N64 games, but better looking (and with some features borrowed from PCs, like networked multiplayer). The wiimote enables games to do things that are truly new for mainstream consumer entertainment products.
You're trying to say that there is a difference between "next gen" and "next big thing". Microsoft and Sony very much don't want that to be the case.
That's a feature, not a bug. The existence of that hole is well-documented and intentional (even if the details of exploiting it aren't). I haven't used VMware, so I can't comment on whether that feature can be disabled by the user, but it would be trivial for VMware to do so.
Fewer lines of code in the hypervisor makes it easier to audit the whole thing for bugs. Yes, there will still be bugs, but it is quite feasible for a hypervisor to have significantly fewer bugs per line of code than the operating systems it runs.
When the shit does hit the fan, the pessimists are the only ones prepared to comp, thus they aren't the ones freaking out. There's nothing odd or unexpected (ha!) about that. Pessimism only gets to be a problem if your sense of probabilities it distorted enough that you spend too much time worrying about things that are very unlikely, and end up not being well prepared for the most likely outcome.
... They immediately foresee the risks of each situation (due to their personality, not a conscious decision)(Yes, there are smart optimists, but it almost always turns out that they are either being ignorant or they aren't just afraid of the potential negative consequences.)
Note: I've been in the PULSTAR reactor room several times.
Nuclear reactors generally pose two threats. The first is that they will get out of control. That can't happen at NC State. By the time the water gets hotter than bathwater, alarms would be going off. The reactor isn't allowed to get at all close to boiling.
The other risk comes from the radioactive substances being stolen. Ignoring the fact that the stuff in the reactor is the least accessible stuff in the building, you would need lethal weapons and scuba gear to get significant quantities out of the reactor room. Getting the stuff off campus would be even harder.
There is a much bigger risk of somebody raiding the chemistry labs for chemical weapons materials.
How much fiber is owned by Google? I think they'll be moving into the monopoly-busting business over then next few years.
I get the feeling you don't know who the fuck Weisman is or what he said, or what the wikipedia article you linked to says. Most of the pest species of roach would die off in the non-tropical regions if not for the warmth of human created habitats.
If the volume went down and the weight went up, I would expect it to have better battery life, which is in fact added value. And it is still under 8 ounces, so it isn't a brick.
Hmmm... You must have missed the bit about every OS X release being faster on the same hardware than its predecessor. Unless you've got the minimal stock RAM of the early Minis, an "upgrade" to Leopard can be expected to be a real upgrade.