You'd be able to destroy any manned vehicle created in the next 20 years with $10,000 too, but if it was autonomous there'd be no casualties. That's a pretty big difference.
rtfa, they said that the networked army worked the way it was supposed to, difference is that it wasn't designed to fight this kind of war or occupy a country.
We got to the moon before the decade was out by throwing a bunch of money at it. Although mars is significantly more of a problem than the moon, we've also had 30 years of progress to rely on, things like Core 2s.
I'm talking about, in an extreme case, places like Sudan, where day to day survival is still an issue. If people are being shot or starving, we first have to make sure they survive long enough to get and make use of any education.
Not entirely so, but you're right, if Intel was the only chip maker out there things would be significantly more expensive. However the fact that they aren't the only one out there is the direct result of free market. Whenever somebody's ripping everybody off, alternatives pop up. Unless of course the person ripping everybody off also controls the army (or is the army, as is the case in Pakistan).
Actually, they have done something. If you haven't noticed, computers have gone from being $10K to $300 or less for a budget machine. Laptops are also getting ever cheaper and were going to be hitting the $300 price point themselves because middle-class kids all want laptops and not all parents are all that rich.
There are two kinds of poor countries we're talking about here: There's China and India, who don't need our help, their economies are exploding and are going to take care of themselves, and then there's the African countries wracked with violence who wouldn't have money to spare on laptops for all their children no matter how cheap they were.
Only by creating his laptop in bulk can he manufacture them cheaply, so he thinks he deserves an initial monopoly to get started. However he really ought to leave this stuff to the pros and let the market bring prices down.
If you emulate a human brain in real time, as well as connections to emulated eyes, ears, and mouths, you just have to talk to it for a couple years and it'll learn English. =D
They may not have to sell it strictly as total bandwidth/# of customers, but as people start using more they can by themselves more bandwidth and increase the prices. Electricity is technically unlimited, but if people start using more the electric companies start charging more.
On a side note, with my window size the two instances of ", but ** people start using more the*" lined up to the character in this reply form, reminds me of an xkcd.
If it's for a class any competent university could set up a local server for the professors to host files on. If it's student generated and he/she isn't willing to put the file up on the server, the file's academic honesty is quite doubtful.
I never did see the whole thing about restarting. I'll have XP running for a week, even if I had installed the Crysis demo, played through 5 times, and uninstalled, and then even when I want to reboot it takes all of 45 seconds (however going through and closing uTorrent, skype, trillian, and all the instances of firefox, vlc media player, windows explorer, blender, and visual studio that have accumulated takes significantly longer simply because of the sheer number of them and the fact that they were banished from RAM to the hdd two days prior). The whole time I never see my computer slowing down unless firefox is taking 300 megs of memory, which is certainly not microsoft's fault. It does start to act funny sometimes however, but it's nothing that impedes productivity.
How does an non-idiot manage to create a memory leak with managed code? I mean seriously, there's like two ways to make that happen, and somehow I doubt they'd use many delegates or event handlers in something that runs the exact same way every time...
Show me an industry where there are no defects or imperfections.
There's nothing particularly wrong with the software world, it's a human creation after all.
Yay Cox!
The one time I got a cease and desist it was actually sent by the copyright holder and forwarded home. Cox seems to be excellent about the whole privacy thing, from what I've seen they never act on the actions of users unless prodded by a 3rd party or an explicit violation of their terms of use, which are pretty loose, arises.
There's no way for an English-speaking fan to support the creator. They could buy the original Japanese version, but that would be utterly useless, and you can't expect them to do that. If it's one that's been licensed by an American company, only a small portion of the money, if any, will be sent to the creator, and the general consensus is that they'll get a worse product than that created by a fansub group.
The usual argument is that the popularity of a series in the fansub community gets the American companies to buy a license, which gives millions to the creators, and this seems like a perfectly valid point.
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You'd be able to destroy any manned vehicle created in the next 20 years with $10,000 too, but if it was autonomous there'd be no casualties. That's a pretty big difference.
rtfa, they said that the networked army worked the way it was supposed to, difference is that it wasn't designed to fight this kind of war or occupy a country.
Well we haven't been driven out, so technically we haven't lost.
yet
Man that would be awesome, maybe I've been watching too much gundam, but a militarized space would probably speed up progress tenfold.
We got to the moon before the decade was out by throwing a bunch of money at it. Although mars is significantly more of a problem than the moon, we've also had 30 years of progress to rely on, things like Core 2s.
Um, sustaining human life in space and robotic probes on mars? I'd say that's pretty significant.
I don't get it, what exactly is NASA doing wrong?
I'm talking about, in an extreme case, places like Sudan, where day to day survival is still an issue. If people are being shot or starving, we first have to make sure they survive long enough to get and make use of any education.
Not entirely so, but you're right, if Intel was the only chip maker out there things would be significantly more expensive. However the fact that they aren't the only one out there is the direct result of free market. Whenever somebody's ripping everybody off, alternatives pop up. Unless of course the person ripping everybody off also controls the army (or is the army, as is the case in Pakistan).
I'm saying Africa has other problems that need to be solved long before we think about getting all their kids laptops.
Actually, they have done something. If you haven't noticed, computers have gone from being $10K to $300 or less for a budget machine. Laptops are also getting ever cheaper and were going to be hitting the $300 price point themselves because middle-class kids all want laptops and not all parents are all that rich. There are two kinds of poor countries we're talking about here: There's China and India, who don't need our help, their economies are exploding and are going to take care of themselves, and then there's the African countries wracked with violence who wouldn't have money to spare on laptops for all their children no matter how cheap they were.
Only by creating his laptop in bulk can he manufacture them cheaply, so he thinks he deserves an initial monopoly to get started. However he really ought to leave this stuff to the pros and let the market bring prices down.
If you emulate a human brain in real time, as well as connections to emulated eyes, ears, and mouths, you just have to talk to it for a couple years and it'll learn English. =D
How the heck do you program something that complex though?
So you just kinda owned yourself there eh?
They may not have to sell it strictly as total bandwidth/# of customers, but as people start using more they can by themselves more bandwidth and increase the prices. Electricity is technically unlimited, but if people start using more the electric companies start charging more. On a side note, with my window size the two instances of ", but ** people start using more the*" lined up to the character in this reply form, reminds me of an xkcd.
The picture you take at the game would otherwise not be available no matter how much you pay. The movie will be out in a few months.
If it's for a class any competent university could set up a local server for the professors to host files on. If it's student generated and he/she isn't willing to put the file up on the server, the file's academic honesty is quite doubtful.
I never did see the whole thing about restarting. I'll have XP running for a week, even if I had installed the Crysis demo, played through 5 times, and uninstalled, and then even when I want to reboot it takes all of 45 seconds (however going through and closing uTorrent, skype, trillian, and all the instances of firefox, vlc media player, windows explorer, blender, and visual studio that have accumulated takes significantly longer simply because of the sheer number of them and the fact that they were banished from RAM to the hdd two days prior). The whole time I never see my computer slowing down unless firefox is taking 300 megs of memory, which is certainly not microsoft's fault. It does start to act funny sometimes however, but it's nothing that impedes productivity.
How does an non-idiot manage to create a memory leak with managed code? I mean seriously, there's like two ways to make that happen, and somehow I doubt they'd use many delegates or event handlers in something that runs the exact same way every time...
Show me an industry where there are no defects or imperfections. There's nothing particularly wrong with the software world, it's a human creation after all.
Yay Cox! The one time I got a cease and desist it was actually sent by the copyright holder and forwarded home. Cox seems to be excellent about the whole privacy thing, from what I've seen they never act on the actions of users unless prodded by a 3rd party or an explicit violation of their terms of use, which are pretty loose, arises.
The fact that Japanese shows (albeit domestically dubbed and altered) get weekly airtime at all means that it has to be pretty dang popular.
And if said car happened to be packed with a quarter ton of high explosives, it definitely wasn't me.
There's no way for an English-speaking fan to support the creator. They could buy the original Japanese version, but that would be utterly useless, and you can't expect them to do that. If it's one that's been licensed by an American company, only a small portion of the money, if any, will be sent to the creator, and the general consensus is that they'll get a worse product than that created by a fansub group. The usual argument is that the popularity of a series in the fansub community gets the American companies to buy a license, which gives millions to the creators, and this seems like a perfectly valid point.