from his bio, my emphasis:
Escient Technologies, LLC, is a high technology accelerator and management company that channels promising new technologies into strategic positions in the marketplace. One affiliate, Gracenote, formerly CDDB, Inc., is a powerhouse in the exploding field of digitally downloaded music and features the world's largest and most comprehensive CD database on the Internet.
I've read several posts that skirt the edges of my thoughts on this. It seems to me that fighting a war between robots is not truly fighting a war at all.
There might be economic damage inflicted to both sides, but not human damage. Sure, robots could attack cities, but it seems more likes that robots will intercept, and be intercepted by other robots.
What point, then, is there in fighting a war at all, if there is nothing to lose but metal? War will become nothing but a video game. There is no soul to robots nor to any war that they might fight.
It was done, says my reader -- who works at a Microsoft-dependent organization and asked not to be named -- without anyone's knowledge or consent,...
This, to me, is the strongest reason to fear, and prosecute, Microsoft as an abusive monopoly. It's telling to have to talk about a company--one that has its finger in every sector of our economy--anonymously for fear of an 'audit' or somesuch nonsense
I think we should give serious thought as to what we are doing to encourage the REST of the kids out there to pursue math, science, and engineering careers.
I've seen this phrase a thousand times, and it has just struck me: why do we have to push kids into engineering?
Sure, we're always going to need some engineers, but why do we have to have more and more, quicker growth of engineers? What's wrong with pushing out new computer tech a bit slower, if it means that we get people that actually like what they do? Let the kids study art or architecture or English or economics or philosophy if they want to.
What's the perfect PC for the "experiences" promised by Microsoft's forthcoming Windows XP operating system? That's one of the topics Microsoft is talking about with hardware developers here at the company's annual Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, which ends today.Some of the items I've listed are requirements and others are mere recommendations or best practices; for simplicity's sake, I have made no distinction between them.
I think you have spent 10 paragraphs explaining what Editor Coursey thinks, not Microsoft. Read the damn story. No need for long-windedness
But, what good is a war that doesn't hurt. Wars fought like this--without soldiers-- don't inflict the kind of loss that really hurts. So, while there may be fewer impediments to going to war, the very act of warring will also be less powerful. Hmm...war version 2
But....
These bottlenecks that you speak of are what affect the performance of a computer that you or I use. We can't just sort of interface brain-->Thunderbird. Keep in mind that, for the real world, a benchmark that takes into account these things is perfectly legitimate.
However, I agree totally that, as far as just comparing the fattest new processors, synthetic CPU only marks are great...
How clean is it really?
I've got it in my head (no references) that solar cells are *insanely* dirty to produce--something about the silicon substrates used. Does anyone know anything about this?
So, on the off chance that they are dirty, one must not ignore this as pollution, in the same way people forget that for all the beautiful zero emissions, battery powered things running around, there are lead-acid batteries to produce, and coal burning power plants to charge them...
'And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.'
Revelation 13:16-17
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from his bio, my emphasis: Escient Technologies, LLC, is a high technology accelerator and management company that channels promising new technologies into strategic positions in the marketplace. One affiliate, Gracenote, formerly CDDB, Inc., is a powerhouse in the exploding field of digitally downloaded music and features the world's largest and most comprehensive CD database on the Internet.
There might be economic damage inflicted to both sides, but not human damage. Sure, robots could attack cities, but it seems more likes that robots will intercept, and be intercepted by other robots.
What point, then, is there in fighting a war at all, if there is nothing to lose but metal? War will become nothing but a video game. There is no soul to robots nor to any war that they might fight.
This, to me, is the strongest reason to fear, and prosecute, Microsoft as an abusive monopoly. It's telling to have to talk about a company--one that has its finger in every sector of our economy--anonymously for fear of an 'audit' or somesuch nonsense
I've seen this phrase a thousand times, and it has just struck me: why do we have to push kids into engineering?
Sure, we're always going to need some engineers, but why do we have to have more and more, quicker growth of engineers? What's wrong with pushing out new computer tech a bit slower, if it means that we get people that actually like what they do? Let the kids study art or architecture or English or economics or philosophy if they want to.It won't hurt us to slow down a bit.
What's the perfect PC for the "experiences" promised by Microsoft's forthcoming Windows XP operating system? That's one of the topics Microsoft is talking about with hardware developers here at the company's annual Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, which ends today. Some of the items I've listed are requirements and others are mere recommendations or best practices; for simplicity's sake, I have made no distinction between them. I think you have spent 10 paragraphs explaining what Editor Coursey thinks, not Microsoft. Read the damn story. No need for long-windedness
Ahh! Ayn Rand isn't dead!
But, what good is a war that doesn't hurt. Wars fought like this--without soldiers-- don't inflict the kind of loss that really hurts. So, while there may be fewer impediments to going to war, the very act of warring will also be less powerful. Hmm...war version 2
But.... These bottlenecks that you speak of are what affect the performance of a computer that you or I use. We can't just sort of interface brain-->Thunderbird. Keep in mind that, for the real world, a benchmark that takes into account these things is perfectly legitimate. However, I agree totally that, as far as just comparing the fattest new processors, synthetic CPU only marks are great...
How clean is it really? I've got it in my head (no references) that solar cells are *insanely* dirty to produce--something about the silicon substrates used. Does anyone know anything about this? So, on the off chance that they are dirty, one must not ignore this as pollution, in the same way people forget that for all the beautiful zero emissions, battery powered things running around, there are lead-acid batteries to produce, and coal burning power plants to charge them...
On a more solemn note:
'And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.'
Revelation 13:16-17
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