Logic and what we know already point to a universe filled with intelligent life or at least life. Yet we seem so all alone.
We, as a society, wouldn't be able to recognize intelligent life if it hit us in the head. Just look at the contempt most people show towards clearly sentient animals like elephants, dolphins and whales. (Some) scientists recognize their sentience, but almost nobody outside of their circles.
Hell, a few centuries ago, even black people from Africa were considered "without soul" (roughly translated as "without sentience"). I give us 0 chance of recognizing an alien life as intelligent.
Intelligent? Let me downgrade even that expectation: we're not ready to recognize even basic life, let alone intelligent. Just look at how NASA brushed under the carpet the results from the Viking probes.
It's just my misfortune to be part of the apparent minority that would prefer a fact-based, non-dramatic, non-populist intelligent choice between two similarly valid, well reasoned world views with well articulated plans for future goals and methods.
I bet you'd also like them to not be pathological liars, am I right?
He's still a complete douche, right down to the bottom of his trolling little heart.
I am shocked that this cheap piece of character assassination got modded +4
If you want to criticize someone, please provide some arguments. Until then, the man did nothing bad. In fact, of the moderately rich people, he is one of the few that arrived to his riches with honest work. You disagree? Fine, provide some fucking arguments instead of just ad hominem insults.
Looking at the specs of the iPad Mini: crappy dual-core CPU, crappy screen, 0.5 GB RAM, glued battery etc. and the fact that it's basically the iPad 2 shrunk, I came to the conclusion that this is a product on which Apple spent nearly 0 engineering and it is made from super-cheap components. In other words, at US$ 330 for the cheapest model and a whopping US$ 530 for the 32 GB model, Apple is going to make a fucking profit genocide! This goes beyond printing money, this is like stealing candy from toddlers, except the candy is made from platinum.
From a purely profit POV, this might very well be Apple's most successful product, ever.
That old Alpha chip did about 5 GFLOPS with a single core on 666Mhz, so 16 of these at 1.1Ghz would go up to about the 140GFLOPS that are stated on the wikipedia on the ShenWei SW1600. Thats about twice as fast as an i7-930@4.2 Ghz.
You're right. Alpha CPUs were, AFAIK, quite well-suited for multicore operation, though the Chinese must have created some impressive glue logic.
The original 21164 was implemented using a paltry (by today's standards) 10 million transistors. Using 350 nm technology, at that. The Chinese are capable of reducing that by about an order of magnitude, achieving a significant speedup because of the smaller gates - that's just by using the new cleanroom microfabrication tech.
Actually, I'm wishing good luck to the Chinese engineers. And a big fat "fuck you" to the managers/CxOs that doomed the amazing technologies from DEC (Alpha wasn't the only one that died on the chopping board of corporate stupidity).
Nope. But if Microsoft continues this nonsense and major game developers switch to Linux, 2014 will be.
I just realized something, and need a sounding board: what if the larger game publishers feel that they don't want to depend on a (game) marketplace, whether it belongs to Microsoft or Gabe?
I think Valve definitely should go with one or several established distros, instead of rolling their own, to show that they don't own the platform and won't lock any game publisher into their "App" store.
Mind you, just 24 hours ago I was of the opposite opinion.
I've seen how apps are sideloaded on a Windows RT tablet, and it's ugly - it's just one step removed from being rooting the device. It's such a hack that it looks like MS is going to plug it ASAP.
And, as you said yourself, even MS is saying that sideloading apps isn't possible, which signals their actual intentions on the issue.
If you want to be as safe from the hurricane as possible, you should then find shelter in one of those nuclear plants. They\re the best built structures by a very large margin.
Only thing is, I don\t believe you'll be lucky enough to be let in.
Wow, for someone with such experience you seem to not know much about boats. Aluminium is quite a common material to make boats with, just google "aluminium boat" if you need more info.
You can't make this stuff up: the Navy concedes the first vessel in its latest fleet of warships - the 18-month old USS Independence (not to be confused with the late aircraft carrier sporting the same name) - is suffering from "aggressive" corrosion.
In '59, I had the pleasure of being a bench tech, at a little place on Mission Bay called Oceanographic Engineering, helping to assemble the electronics for the 2 cameras that were mounted on the Trieste when it went down onto the mohole in the Pacific a few months later.
You worked on the Trieste? F#ck, you're hardcore. I'm so jealous....
Do you have a website/blog where you present some of your memories from that time?
In bikeforums.net, there is a thread called "Jackass bikes", where people post pics of bicycles put together in the least practical and at the same time most aesthetically misguided ways. These bikes usually sport expensive components, some costing thousands of $s.
Well, this boat belongs to that thread. Expensive, impractical for the stated purpose and ugly.
Libertarians believe that companies who "doctor" their drugs will fail by popular opinion.
It is impossible, for the great majority of customers, to have even the slightest idea of the composition of a drug or even foodstuff, to be able to make an informed decision, provided that the customer even has the necessary training/skills to make such decision even after knowing that composition. Take essential oils, for one example of rampant adulteration: 99% of Indian Sandalwood oil is nowadays adulterated. A lot of the times even I can't tell for sure, without doing a GC-MS analysis. I am bringing up this example, because it's a market unregulated by the FDA.
I foresee losses due to eddy currents induced in the chassis of many cars. Because metal (usually steel) is the predominant chassis material currently and in the foreseeable future.
The day a large american city is devastated by a tornado, and an evacuation was not organized in time because of no weather satellite, you'll wish there was a "Model-T" of a weather satellite sent into orbit.
Don't take it personally, but I think you can take your car analogy and shove it.
I'll actually go ahead and disagree with your message: talking about these issues, even if we don't do anything immediately, is trillions times better than just staying put and consuming some pop entertainment. We share among us our thoughts on what's wrong, what should and what shouldn't be, we educate each other on facts and events.
I cannot but look at this as a positive way to spend one's time.
Simple- it wouldn't. Android on a desktop box would work just like Android on a phone. It wouldn't keep separate users. Why would it? It's not a multi-user system. You seem to want a new feature to Android for a desktop box. Since desktop isn't their goal, I doubt they'd add it.
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Slashdot editors, have you no shame?
Logic and what we know already point to a universe filled with intelligent life or at least life. Yet we seem so all alone.
We, as a society, wouldn't be able to recognize intelligent life if it hit us in the head. Just look at the contempt most people show towards clearly sentient animals like elephants, dolphins and whales. (Some) scientists recognize their sentience, but almost nobody outside of their circles.
Hell, a few centuries ago, even black people from Africa were considered "without soul" (roughly translated as "without sentience"). I give us 0 chance of recognizing an alien life as intelligent.
Intelligent? Let me downgrade even that expectation: we're not ready to recognize even basic life, let alone intelligent. Just look at how NASA brushed under the carpet the results from the Viking probes.
Amigo, we're pathetic.
It's just my misfortune to be part of the apparent minority that would prefer a fact-based, non-dramatic, non-populist intelligent choice between two similarly valid, well reasoned world views with well articulated plans for future goals and methods.
I bet you'd also like them to not be pathological liars, am I right?
He's still a complete douche, right down to the bottom of his trolling little heart.
I am shocked that this cheap piece of character assassination got modded +4
If you want to criticize someone, please provide some arguments. Until then, the man did nothing bad. In fact, of the moderately rich people, he is one of the few that arrived to his riches with honest work. You disagree? Fine, provide some fucking arguments instead of just ad hominem insults.
and never need a vehicle that holds more than a bag of groceries,
These cycles do hold much more than "a bag of groceries". They're very practical, actually.
Only if the lame specs don't kill the Christmas market.
If you slap the Apple logo on a piece of turd, apple fanbois will still buy it, because, frankly, they're somehow stupid/infatuated/all about status.
Mark my words; Apple will sell tens of millions of these Mini turds.
Looking at the specs of the iPad Mini: crappy dual-core CPU, crappy screen, 0.5 GB RAM, glued battery etc. and the fact that it's basically the iPad 2 shrunk, I came to the conclusion that this is a product on which Apple spent nearly 0 engineering and it is made from super-cheap components. In other words, at US$ 330 for the cheapest model and a whopping US$ 530 for the 32 GB model, Apple is going to make a fucking profit genocide! This goes beyond printing money, this is like stealing candy from toddlers, except the candy is made from platinum.
From a purely profit POV, this might very well be Apple's most successful product, ever.
Sadly!
If the only thing that sucks about WinRT is that it's "closed", then I'll take one.
Windows RT (WinRT is the new API, Windows RT is the new OS) is not "closed", it is closed, and that's not the only thing that sucks about it.
That old Alpha chip did about 5 GFLOPS with a single core on 666Mhz, so 16 of these at 1.1Ghz would go up to about the 140GFLOPS that are stated on the wikipedia on the ShenWei SW1600. Thats about twice as fast as an i7-930@4.2 Ghz.
You're right. Alpha CPUs were, AFAIK, quite well-suited for multicore operation, though the Chinese must have created some impressive glue logic.
The original 21164 was implemented using a paltry (by today's standards) 10 million transistors. Using 350 nm technology, at that. The Chinese are capable of reducing that by about an order of magnitude, achieving a significant speedup because of the smaller gates - that's just by using the new cleanroom microfabrication tech.
Actually, I'm wishing good luck to the Chinese engineers. And a big fat "fuck you" to the managers/CxOs that doomed the amazing technologies from DEC (Alpha wasn't the only one that died on the chopping board of corporate stupidity).
Nope. But if Microsoft continues this nonsense and major game developers switch to Linux, 2014 will be.
I just realized something, and need a sounding board: what if the larger game publishers feel that they don't want to depend on a (game) marketplace, whether it belongs to Microsoft or Gabe?
I think Valve definitely should go with one or several established distros, instead of rolling their own, to show that they don't own the platform and won't lock any game publisher into their "App" store.
Mind you, just 24 hours ago I was of the opposite opinion.
I've seen how apps are sideloaded on a Windows RT tablet, and it's ugly - it's just one step removed from being rooting the device. It's such a hack that it looks like MS is going to plug it ASAP.
And, as you said yourself, even MS is saying that sideloading apps isn't possible, which signals their actual intentions on the issue.
If you want to be as safe from the hurricane as possible, you should then find shelter in one of those nuclear plants. They\re the best built structures by a very large margin.
Only thing is, I don\t believe you'll be lucky enough to be let in.
I most of my computers have 2 GB of RAM. I wouldn't mind to upgrade to, say, 8 GB
Wow, for someone with such experience you seem to not know much about boats. Aluminium is quite a common material to make boats with, just google "aluminium boat" if you need more info.
I am not the person you're replying to, but I did google for aluminum ships. This was the first hit in my list.
Quoting the article:
You can't make this stuff up: the Navy concedes the first vessel in its latest fleet of warships - the 18-month old USS Independence (not to be confused with the late aircraft carrier sporting the same name) - is suffering from "aggressive" corrosion.
In '59, I had the pleasure of being a bench tech, at a little place on Mission Bay called Oceanographic Engineering, helping to assemble the electronics for the 2 cameras that were mounted on the Trieste when it went down onto the mohole in the Pacific a few months later.
You worked on the Trieste? F#ck, you're hardcore. I'm so jealous....
Do you have a website/blog where you present some of your memories from that time?
In bikeforums.net, there is a thread called "Jackass bikes", where people post pics of bicycles put together in the least practical and at the same time most aesthetically misguided ways. These bikes usually sport expensive components, some costing thousands of $s.
Well, this boat belongs to that thread. Expensive, impractical for the stated purpose and ugly.
Libertarians believe that companies who "doctor" their drugs will fail by popular opinion.
It is impossible, for the great majority of customers, to have even the slightest idea of the composition of a drug or even foodstuff, to be able to make an informed decision, provided that the customer even has the necessary training/skills to make such decision even after knowing that composition. Take essential oils, for one example of rampant adulteration: 99% of Indian Sandalwood oil is nowadays adulterated. A lot of the times even I can't tell for sure, without doing a GC-MS analysis. I am bringing up this example, because it's a market unregulated by the FDA.
I foresee losses due to eddy currents induced in the chassis of many cars. Because metal (usually steel) is the predominant chassis material currently and in the foreseeable future.
...unlike those other companies, Cisco's products are carefully and lovingly fabricated in..... China?
Oops..
The day a large american city is devastated by a tornado, and an evacuation was not organized in time because of no weather satellite, you'll wish there was a "Model-T" of a weather satellite sent into orbit.
Don't take it personally, but I think you can take your car analogy and shove it.
...Or reading/posting to Slashdot about it. ;)
I'll actually go ahead and disagree with your message: talking about these issues, even if we don't do anything immediately, is trillions times better than just staying put and consuming some pop entertainment. We share among us our thoughts on what's wrong, what should and what shouldn't be, we educate each other on facts and events.
I cannot but look at this as a positive way to spend one's time.
If billionaires are needed to get justice in the US, the problem isn't with the billionaires, its with the justice system.
I wonder who broke and corrupted the US justice system, so that it works only for the wealthy?
Simple- it wouldn't. Android on a desktop box would work just like Android on a phone. It wouldn't keep separate users. Why would it? It's not a multi-user system. You seem to want a new feature to Android for a desktop box. Since desktop isn't their goal, I doubt they'd add it.
Your claim is easy and quick to dispute, amigo.
But don't worry; pompousness and self-confidence will get you far in life!
If the review unit has a non-IPS screen the chance that the shipping unit has an IPS screen is low :/
please use correct grammar when calling someone a moron or else its less credible - its "you're" a moron
Please use correct grammar, including correct apostrophe placement, when correcting someone else's grammar.