It has been known that magpies can solve various kinds of mechanical puzzles, much better than most (all?) other birds and even mammals. Now this isn't related to self-avareness, I guess, but it is quite interesting nonetheless.
I don't mean to be offensive, but almost all those numbers are just pulled from your ass (and I am sure you'll agree).
For the record, today exist technologies for depositing atomic monolayers of various oxides and even elements. Also, if you think of it, CNTs are nothing more than graphene cylinders - therefore, a carbon atom monolayer.
Furthermore, CMOS transistors with 17nm long gates have been fabricated already in the distant 2006. Planar CMOS with gates of 15nm have been fabricated in "prehistoric" 2001! And if you think that is impressive, check out this article from the even more distant past
So, 22nm is far from a physical limit, which is a statement easily demonstrated - by historical events, so to say.
To be fair, all universities in Finland use (3rd party) textbooks as well. Yes, you usually get handouts/course notes from the prof, but you also get a list of recommended reading.
I think a university course that does not prompt the student to do some research is not a very serious one, so I personally like the finnish system. Which, by the way, seems to be the exact same as in all the other european countries (at least in italy, france, hungary and germany, from which I have experience).
and if you can't see why then I'm not going to explain it again.
Again? You never explained jack in the fist place.
Just because you got some mods-on-crack to mod your original post up, doesn't make it valuable or truthful, and does NOT fool the majority of its readers.
I think you, and most others who answered my post, are missing the point: it does not matter who can predict the future, and whether or not a machine able to calculate the future can be created. What matters is whether the future is absolutely predetermined or not, and whether our actions are just as absolutely predetermined, us being part of the physical world and made of matter, our thoughts determined by physical phenomena.
Even Pascal understood this. Why can't you (and by "you" I don't mean just the person I am answering)?
Thank you! I'll check out his book (the one you linked to first); this topic interests me, and as you can see from the other replies to my post, it's hard to find interlocutors, let alone scholars truly interested in it.
...if you are willing (and able) to scientifically analyse what human will (free or otherwise) really is, and what are the boundaries of its freedom. If we hadn't have quantum mechanical phenomena, there would be no room for free will whatsoever, and we'd be all living a predetermined life.
When I try to discuss this topic with my friends, they are either not scientifically minded enough to follow through, or just can't accept the fact that, as physical beings, we would be absolutely determined in our behaviour and actions. And then, there's the concept of "soul" that, so far, has only helped to muddy the waters of reasoning in this topic. I'd really like to see a way that the concept of "soul" could be included in the discussion of free will in a physical world, I just don't know of any scientifically minded philosopher who had done it.
i did enjoy working as an assembler programmer back in the days of the first home computers
That's exactly the kind of enjoyment I had in mind. Just to be able to get one pixel on that LCD screen to blink would provide me with some fun. Call me nostalgic, I don't mind; coding close to the HW has always been my passion, ever since the 80's.
I know I'd enjoy hacking on this thing, changing the microcode and making of it something entirely different from a calculator, or make my own functions, my own interactive system, etc. etc.... So I can see the point. Maybe there are more people like me. Maybe your view of the world is narrow.
Personally, I think it makes it a bit more disgusting that the completely innocent person you are torturing over a frivolous, nonexistent, totally unnecessary, case, happens to be a disabled single mother of a small child whose sole income is Social Security Disability. Here [blogspot.com]'s some background.
There seem to be a few people who don't think it should matter at all. Those aren't my kind of people. I think people should have a heart.
I'm glad I gave you opportunity to boast a bit. I believe I do more sport than you, with an average of 12.000 km/year on my bicycle, but I admit I would hate to carry 25Kg on my back to work and back - especially since it's a 2x15Km commute (on bicycle) and I walk 7 flights of stairs.
Conclusion: I must be weak and you are so strong, please do buy a 6 Kg laptop. Since you believe you won't notice it with 20 Kg on your back already. And by the way, I am sure those millions of people who got an ultraportable are just whiney, too. You outclass us all.
Who the heck would want this thing? If you need that kind of power you are much better off wit a desktop. The Lenovo monster is just barely transporable, but so is a desktop.
I am trying to imagine this smart-dressed designer sitting in a cafe in spring, and placing his/her 6 Kg powerguzzler machine on the fine cafe table in front - that image just doesn't work.
Seeing as though the Olympic games are the most fake, pretentious and commercialized show on earth, that even the setup is fake ("it's about the sport, not the politics"), that the host country did 0 about the preconditions to host them save for the glitzy part, I'd say that a fake fireworks is perfectly pertinent.
Oh, add also a fake lack of rain to the list;o)
I know I'll be modded down, I don't care. Fuck the Olympics.
The ultraportables is a fast growing market, and if, as I suspect, VIA focuses on cheap low-consumption CPU + chipset, they are in a great position to capitalize from this market.
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Psystar. Plus, that'll make baby Jobs cry.
That actually isn't true! Engine failures on commercial aircraft are extremely rare. On a per-flight count, we're talking ppb (partes per billion).
It has been known that magpies can solve various kinds of mechanical puzzles, much better than most (all?) other birds and even mammals. Now this isn't related to self-avareness, I guess, but it is quite interesting nonetheless.
Although I ultimately decided to publish under a Create Commons license instead,
Freudian lapsus? ;)
Anyway, wish you good luck with your work.
I don't mean to be offensive, but almost all those numbers are just pulled from your ass (and I am sure you'll agree).
For the record, today exist technologies for depositing atomic monolayers of various oxides and even elements. Also, if you think of it, CNTs are nothing more than graphene cylinders - therefore, a carbon atom monolayer.
Furthermore, CMOS transistors with 17nm long gates have been fabricated already in the distant 2006. Planar CMOS with gates of 15nm have been fabricated in "prehistoric" 2001! And if you think that is impressive, check out this article from the even more distant past
So, 22nm is far from a physical limit, which is a statement easily demonstrated - by historical events, so to say.
Yep, deep in the valley :) the easiest I know is by the fact that I didn't find the animated girl hot.
No, it's called a millimetre. From the french millimètre.
Your French is great, compared to your physics skills.
To be fair, all universities in Finland use (3rd party) textbooks as well. Yes, you usually get handouts/course notes from the prof, but you also get a list of recommended reading.
I think a university course that does not prompt the student to do some research is not a very serious one, so I personally like the finnish system. Which, by the way, seems to be the exact same as in all the other european countries (at least in italy, france, hungary and germany, from which I have experience).
It's called micrometer. I know, that sounds too sciency, sorry.
and if you can't see why then I'm not going to explain it again.
Again? You never explained jack in the fist place.
Just because you got some mods-on-crack to mod your original post up, doesn't make it valuable or truthful, and does NOT fool the majority of its readers.
I think you're missing the point of that declaration: she only meant to indicate how fond she was of music.
Psystar are bad guys.
How is Psystar the bad guys? If anything, Psystar are awesomely great guys, standing against the idiocy of EULAs and Apple's strong-arming.
Psystar are very unusual in that they have had the cojones to stand up to Apple in what seems an almost suicidal move.
I think you, and most others who answered my post, are missing the point: it does not matter who can predict the future, and whether or not a machine able to calculate the future can be created. What matters is whether the future is absolutely predetermined or not, and whether our actions are just as absolutely predetermined, us being part of the physical world and made of matter, our thoughts determined by physical phenomena.
Even Pascal understood this. Why can't you (and by "you" I don't mean just the person I am answering)?
Thank you! I'll check out his book (the one you linked to first); this topic interests me, and as you can see from the other replies to my post, it's hard to find interlocutors, let alone scholars truly interested in it.
...if you are willing (and able) to scientifically analyse what human will (free or otherwise) really is, and what are the boundaries of its freedom. If we hadn't have quantum mechanical phenomena, there would be no room for free will whatsoever, and we'd be all living a predetermined life.
When I try to discuss this topic with my friends, they are either not scientifically minded enough to follow through, or just can't accept the fact that, as physical beings, we would be absolutely determined in our behaviour and actions. And then, there's the concept of "soul" that, so far, has only helped to muddy the waters of reasoning in this topic. I'd really like to see a way that the concept of "soul" could be included in the discussion of free will in a physical world, I just don't know of any scientifically minded philosopher who had done it.
i did enjoy working as an assembler programmer back in the days of the first home computers
That's exactly the kind of enjoyment I had in mind. Just to be able to get one pixel on that LCD screen to blink would provide me with some fun. Call me nostalgic, I don't mind; coding close to the HW has always been my passion, ever since the 80's.
I know I'd enjoy hacking on this thing, changing the microcode and making of it something entirely different from a calculator, or make my own functions, my own interactive system, etc. etc.... So I can see the point. Maybe there are more people like me. Maybe your view of the world is narrow.
Personally, I think it makes it a bit more disgusting that the completely innocent person you are torturing over a frivolous, nonexistent, totally unnecessary, case, happens to be a disabled single mother of a small child whose sole income is Social Security Disability. Here [blogspot.com]'s some background.
There seem to be a few people who don't think it should matter at all. Those aren't my kind of people. I think people should have a heart.
I'm so with you on this.
Many of Tibet's citizens are indeed wealthier, freer and healthier as a result of the invasion.
And many are a bit more dead-er.
I'm glad I gave you opportunity to boast a bit. I believe I do more sport than you, with an average of 12.000 km/year on my bicycle, but I admit I would hate to carry 25Kg on my back to work and back - especially since it's a 2x15Km commute (on bicycle) and I walk 7 flights of stairs.
Conclusion: I must be weak and you are so strong, please do buy a 6 Kg laptop. Since you believe you won't notice it with 20 Kg on your back already. And by the way, I am sure those millions of people who got an ultraportable are just whiney, too. You outclass us all.
Who the heck would want this thing? If you need that kind of power you are much better off wit a desktop. The Lenovo monster is just barely transporable, but so is a desktop.
I am trying to imagine this smart-dressed designer sitting in a cafe in spring, and placing his/her 6 Kg powerguzzler machine on the fine cafe table in front - that image just doesn't work.
In fact, in China we don't have communism but rather textbook fascism, and Beijing 2008 is exactly as Berlin 1936.
Seeing as though the Olympic games are the most fake, pretentious and commercialized show on earth, that even the setup is fake ("it's about the sport, not the politics"), that the host country did 0 about the preconditions to host them save for the glitzy part, I'd say that a fake fireworks is perfectly pertinent.
Oh, add also a fake lack of rain to the list ;o)
I know I'll be modded down, I don't care. Fuck the Olympics.
The ultraportables is a fast growing market, and if, as I suspect, VIA focuses on cheap low-consumption CPU + chipset, they are in a great position to capitalize from this market.
Have some faith in human stupidity.