The problem with self-driving cars is that they ALL have to be self-driving for it to work properly.
Wrong. There have already been successful completely automated cars driven on motorways which could overtake other cars when it needed to. And this was over 10 years ago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUREKA_Prometheus_Project
Is a camera necessary in the first place? If you only bought things which you needed, you would own less than half of what you do now. People buy items because they like them. It doesn't matter if you think that people won't bother buying a 1 Gigapixel camera - they will if it is cheap and available.
Indeed, the military surely will not appreciate the digital zoom on a 16 Gigapixel camera. What's the point of being able to see far distances in high detail? Beats me.
I CANNOT believe the lack of foresight of those writing this article. They might as well say that 640k is enough for anyone. Just look at this graph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hendys_Law.jpg see how well the points fit on teh logarithmic graph. I have no idea why anyone would ever say such a ridiculous statement which will inevitably be proven wrong. The megapixel march continues. I can't believe anyone these day would say that, knowing that the rate of progress in virtually all areas of computing is exponential.
It may have been the case that the debris collects together meaning that there's less chance of a collision past a certain amount of debris. Do you believe that everything they say must be extremely complicated?
The article fails to mention video on demand (other than in the notes). 30 years from now, people will think how stupid it was that you had to wait for your favorite TV show to come on at a specific time, rather than watching it whenever you wanted.
I wasn't discussing goals. And yes you're right to think that it's possible to have a server which doesn't go down. However, you know I was referring to the probability of a failure. Also, the probability of a server failing is VERY relevant. "Sir, the server nearly failed yesterday after the temperature of it became extremely high. It couldn't handle the load and the traffic is only going to increase. I would recommend buying a new, faster server." "What the HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! That server has had 100% UPTIME! WHO CARES IF THERE'S A CHANCE IT FAILS?!"
I disagree. 100% uptime is impossible. There will always be some probability of the server and all of it's backups failing. If it was possible to have a server which never went down then backup servers wouldn't be needed. The chance of one server going down in a year might be 10%. Using a backup would reduce that to 1%. Using another backup leads to 0.1% and so on. It's never quite 0%.
Christ, they put those cameras in several years ago in the most high crime parts of Chicago. And you know what? They're still the most high crime parts of Chicago.
CCTV does not prevent crime. It helps to presecute those who commit it, taking them off the streets.
What utter bullshit. This is online poker we're talking about. The term cleaning out tables isn't used online because players will simply bring more chips to the table (very easy to do - it can be automatic) or the player will leave and someone else will join which makes me think you're not familiar with online poker. Besides, even if you were colluding with two friends it's not possible to "clean out every table [you] played at" unless you were running like god. On top of that, you would have also been caught not only by the regs, but by the software too.
Reading your post makes me angry. There's already enough misinformation about online poker. Why lie about cheating online? Do you want attention? If it's the second case then you have succeeded thanks to the ignorance of many slashdot members of what online poker is actually like. Cheating is NOT rife. It is possible to win consistently at poker. It's possible to make a good living from online poker and many people do.
Even so, why do I think this is not actually going to work? Because for the last fifty years, fusion power has been constantly just twenty years in the future, that's why.
We have certainly made a lot of progress towards sustainable fusion power in the last 50 years. There's no need to dismiss advancements just because we haven't reached the final stage of sustainable fusion power.
Nuclear power has a massive, massive externality attached to it. You let private industry run it without interference your tap water will glow in the dark before long.
A common misconception. Radioactive substances do not glow...
If the computer was indeed perfect, betting history would be completely irrelevant. That is the difference between exploitative play and optimal play. If a player went all in every hand before the flop for 50X the BB at 6 max table, a bot playing exploitatively might call with TT (for example), whereas a bot playing optimally would only call with AA. The flaw with exploitative play is that he may have been going all in legitamately with AA every time and now you're a huge underdog with just two tens. With optimal play this is irrelevant.
Poker sites are not full of bots. The one I play at is full of terrible players who enjoy throwing their money away.
No bot plays perfect poker. I'm sure that no bot will be perfect for a very, very long time (way beyond my lifetime). The mathematics behind poker is incredibly complex. A good book about it is the mathematics of poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. From reading your post it seems to me that you have a very little idea about the problems with solving poker and even how to play poker. You can't just call when you have the odds and fold when you don't. It just doesn't work that way - that strategy is easily exploited. I'm also not sure why you were modded +5 Insightful... I guess there aren't many poker players here at/.
"This block seems to be related to the recent launch of Messenger TV in 20 countries which allows for sharing video clips from MSN Video on messenger."
My Guess is that they havent bothered blocking the URLs in those countries which havent had the launch of MessengeR TV.
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Maybe it's because nobody purchases anything from YouTube.
Use a keyboard which changes the entire key layout every time you press any key.
When will America start using SI units as the standard? Pounds don't mean anything to me.
It was also found he was breathing the night before he killed those people. We should ban that too.
The problem with self-driving cars is that they ALL have to be self-driving for it to work properly.
Wrong. There have already been successful completely automated cars driven on motorways which could overtake other cars when it needed to. And this was over 10 years ago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUREKA_Prometheus_Project
Is a camera necessary in the first place? If you only bought things which you needed, you would own less than half of what you do now. People buy items because they like them. It doesn't matter if you think that people won't bother buying a 1 Gigapixel camera - they will if it is cheap and available.
Indeed, the military surely will not appreciate the digital zoom on a 16 Gigapixel camera. What's the point of being able to see far distances in high detail? Beats me.
I CANNOT believe the lack of foresight of those writing this article. They might as well say that 640k is enough for anyone. Just look at this graph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hendys_Law.jpg see how well the points fit on teh logarithmic graph. I have no idea why anyone would ever say such a ridiculous statement which will inevitably be proven wrong. The megapixel march continues. I can't believe anyone these day would say that, knowing that the rate of progress in virtually all areas of computing is exponential.
It may have been the case that the debris collects together meaning that there's less chance of a collision past a certain amount of debris. Do you believe that everything they say must be extremely complicated?
The article fails to mention video on demand (other than in the notes). 30 years from now, people will think how stupid it was that you had to wait for your favorite TV show to come on at a specific time, rather than watching it whenever you wanted.
...And laugh at all the idiots who thought it was "obvious" the iPhone was doomed to be a failure in Japan.
I wasn't discussing goals. And yes you're right to think that it's possible to have a server which doesn't go down. However, you know I was referring to the probability of a failure. Also, the probability of a server failing is VERY relevant. "Sir, the server nearly failed yesterday after the temperature of it became extremely high. It couldn't handle the load and the traffic is only going to increase. I would recommend buying a new, faster server." "What the HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! That server has had 100% UPTIME! WHO CARES IF THERE'S A CHANCE IT FAILS?!"
I disagree. 100% uptime is impossible. There will always be some probability of the server and all of it's backups failing. If it was possible to have a server which never went down then backup servers wouldn't be needed. The chance of one server going down in a year might be 10%. Using a backup would reduce that to 1%. Using another backup leads to 0.1% and so on. It's never quite 0%.
Christ, they put those cameras in several years ago in the most high crime parts of Chicago. And you know what? They're still the most high crime parts of Chicago.
CCTV does not prevent crime. It helps to presecute those who commit it, taking them off the streets.
The World's Heaviest Robot, not the robot with the largest mass ;)
Try using spreeder. It increases the speed you can read at by a lot. http://www.spreeder.com/
What utter bullshit. This is online poker we're talking about. The term cleaning out tables isn't used online because players will simply bring more chips to the table (very easy to do - it can be automatic) or the player will leave and someone else will join which makes me think you're not familiar with online poker. Besides, even if you were colluding with two friends it's not possible to "clean out every table [you] played at" unless you were running like god. On top of that, you would have also been caught not only by the regs, but by the software too.
Reading your post makes me angry. There's already enough misinformation about online poker. Why lie about cheating online? Do you want attention? If it's the second case then you have succeeded thanks to the ignorance of many slashdot members of what online poker is actually like. Cheating is NOT rife. It is possible to win consistently at poker. It's possible to make a good living from online poker and many people do.
Even so, why do I think this is not actually going to work? Because for the last fifty years, fusion power has been constantly just twenty years in the future, that's why.
We have certainly made a lot of progress towards sustainable fusion power in the last 50 years. There's no need to dismiss advancements just because we haven't reached the final stage of sustainable fusion power.
Nuclear power has a massive, massive externality attached to it. You let private industry run it without interference your tap water will glow in the dark before long.
A common misconception. Radioactive substances do not glow...
If the computer was indeed perfect, betting history would be completely irrelevant. That is the difference between exploitative play and optimal play. If a player went all in every hand before the flop for 50X the BB at 6 max table, a bot playing exploitatively might call with TT (for example), whereas a bot playing optimally would only call with AA. The flaw with exploitative play is that he may have been going all in legitamately with AA every time and now you're a huge underdog with just two tens. With optimal play this is irrelevant.
Poker sites are not full of bots. The one I play at is full of terrible players who enjoy throwing their money away.
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No bot plays perfect poker. I'm sure that no bot will be perfect for a very, very long time (way beyond my lifetime). The mathematics behind poker is incredibly complex. A good book about it is the mathematics of poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. From reading your post it seems to me that you have a very little idea about the problems with solving poker and even how to play poker. You can't just call when you have the odds and fold when you don't. It just doesn't work that way - that strategy is easily exploited. I'm also not sure why you were modded +5 Insightful... I guess there aren't many poker players here at
"This block seems to be related to the recent launch of Messenger TV in 20 countries which allows for sharing video clips from MSN Video on messenger."
My Guess is that they havent bothered blocking the URLs in those countries which havent had the launch of MessengeR TV.
D'oh. It's probably because I'm not in one of the 20 countries "which allows for sharing video clips from MSN Video on messenger".
I am sending and receiving youtube links perfectly. I am in the UK.