It's sort of like how doctor's show the immune system a less dangerous version of a virus for it to study (as a vaccine). The students study this trojan so they can recognize the real thing.
Yeah I'd rather have a quad core machine for my desktop with three 2ghz processors and one 8ghz core instead of any number of more 2ghz cores. 3 is enough to take care of the os and 2 background apps and the blazing fast one for whatever I'm working on currently. But that's not the way it goes I guess.
I've noticed this with LCD monitors at newegg.com. I bought a 21 inch lcd monitor for around $200 a year ago and now I can get a 23 inch for $200. But what I'd really like is a brand new 21 inch for less than $200 but no such luck, the minimum size available to buy keeps going up.
The only thing better than watching doctors operate on your own heart live would be watching them do it while on acid. There's a chance someone's mind might not survive though.
I think a lot of the criticism in the review you linked is based on the characters being portrayed too simply polarized into good people/ bad people. In a way I agree that the colonel could have been a more dynamic character with a moment of doubt about his agenda or at least not continuing on fighting when the battle had already been lost, apparently just because he was evil. Or maybe the aliens could have been portrayed as having more flaws, for instance if the different tribes had violent battles against one another. Or maybe even it could have gone into more detail about the unobtanium, that possibly what it was capable of bringing the humans could have a chance at outweighing the cost of destroying the tribes homeland, or at least that more of a reason for obtaining it was given other than it was worth a lot of money (possibly it holds the secret to anti-gravity? I thought maybe that explains the mountains floating in mid-air)
But overall I think those are storytelling and artistic decisions that still fall within the scope of a good film and not moral caricature, I'm reminded of the statue of David by Michelangelo, it's not usually criticized for making David 8 feet tall and at the peak of physical perfection, it's probably not an accurate reflection on what the biblical David actually looked like, and it's not subtle in portraying him in a positive light, but it falls within a credible artists ability to convey how he feels about the subject rather than being uttermost realistic.
Yeah I don't even listen to music anymore unless someone I know made it. I find enjoying music too personal to get really into someone's music that I'll never even meet.
I've wondered the same thing about drivers, printer drivers for instance. What sale would they lose if the driver was open source so I could use it on linux? Are they afraid the competition could make use of it somehow?
from what I've read it is some of the widgets like screen brightness or battery life etc that are proprietary. It might be difficult to remove the proprietary parts.
That's what I was thinking too, but then there are people like me trying to devise a way to extract the cocaine from all the 1 dollar bills I come across. Seriously, even if there's only a nanogram on the bill that's still only a thousand bills for a gram of coke.
"I looked at the information and some of it had substance and some of it was completely made up."
I think I'd like a little more detail as to what facts he believed and which he didn't, or am I supposed to take his word for it, as he is an "expert". The beauty of wikipedia is it gives you some recourse to ascertain the truth or falsity of a statement via the citations, his statement did not. Wikipedia 1, Expert 0
I was thinking a bit about this, if on Linux you could "suspend" individual programs, it could write the state of the program to disk, and then later on possibly even after a reboot you could reenter that saved state with the application looking just the way it did when you suspended it, it could be like somewhere between exiting the program and just minimizing it. Could be cool.
I did do one thing on opengl that reminds me of this, I took a simulator of the heliocentric solar system and wherever the earth was I moved it to the center of the screen and moved all the other planets and the sun by the same amount, so you could see what the geocentric model would look like as the planets moved.
The "megahertz myth" is that processor clock rate has a lot to do with performance, It seems to me like his post suggests that he didn't buy into it not being impressed with the pentium 4. But the shrinkage is definitely important, as in being able to fit more than one of a modified older design like the pentium III on one chip.
The way I remember this unfolding as I did research to build my own personal computer 6 months ago (admittedly on a tight budget) was that AMD's 64 X2's were outperforming similarly clocked and more expensive intel dual cores, and it was only as they both started going quad core that amd started losing ground. maybe you know this and you're counting 2001(first itanium)-2008 as "a few years" but to me it seems like a long time.
Trying to reverse engineer the brain and then use what we find to create AI might not be a good route either. There's a possibility that the brain is not particularly a well designed example of an intelligent machine. What if most of the brain is redundant or counterproductive or just a mess in general. You know the old quote that we only use 10% of our brain (I don't know whether thats considered to be at all true anymore) maybe thats because thats the only part that works right. I feel like just after the invention of the computer we get the idea that we could program intelligence is like some cavemen discovering fire and starting on their design for a rocket. I mean the fire will be involved but there's probably a lot of other steps in between.
I read December 25th was an important date in Mythrasianism which had about the same number of churches back in that day as there were Christian churches and somehow out of that it came about.
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I wish there was a setting in Firefox to by default zoom 3 or 4 times, though. Having to do it for every page gets annoying.
Linux is open and free, Linux doesn't have any viruses that I'm aware of.
perils looks incredibly like penis when quickly scanning some text.
What about "That, my friends, is a freaking train wreck"? and how do I do that question mark at the end?
It's sort of like how doctor's show the immune system a less dangerous version of a virus for it to study (as a vaccine). The students study this trojan so they can recognize the real thing.
Yeah I'd rather have a quad core machine for my desktop with three 2ghz processors and one 8ghz core instead of any number of more 2ghz cores. 3 is enough to take care of the os and 2 background apps and the blazing fast one for whatever I'm working on currently. But that's not the way it goes I guess.
I've noticed this with LCD monitors at newegg.com. I bought a 21 inch lcd monitor for around $200 a year ago and now I can get a 23 inch for $200. But what I'd really like is a brand new 21 inch for less than $200 but no such luck, the minimum size available to buy keeps going up.
I use this thing, it works well for recording electric guitar http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/-LightSnake-GuitarKeyboard-USB-10ft-Cable?sku=332600
The only thing better than watching doctors operate on your own heart live would be watching them do it while on acid. There's a chance someone's mind might not survive though.
I think a lot of the criticism in the review you linked is based on the characters being portrayed too simply polarized into good people/ bad people. In a way I agree that the colonel could have been a more dynamic character with a moment of doubt about his agenda or at least not continuing on fighting when the battle had already been lost, apparently just because he was evil. Or maybe the aliens could have been portrayed as having more flaws, for instance if the different tribes had violent battles against one another. Or maybe even it could have gone into more detail about the unobtanium, that possibly what it was capable of bringing the humans could have a chance at outweighing the cost of destroying the tribes homeland, or at least that more of a reason for obtaining it was given other than it was worth a lot of money (possibly it holds the secret to anti-gravity? I thought maybe that explains the mountains floating in mid-air)
But overall I think those are storytelling and artistic decisions that still fall within the scope of a good film and not moral caricature, I'm reminded of the statue of David by Michelangelo, it's not usually criticized for making David 8 feet tall and at the peak of physical perfection, it's probably not an accurate reflection on what the biblical David actually looked like, and it's not subtle in portraying him in a positive light, but it falls within a credible artists ability to convey how he feels about the subject rather than being uttermost realistic.
Yeah I don't even listen to music anymore unless someone I know made it. I find enjoying music too personal to get really into someone's music that I'll never even meet.
I've wondered the same thing about drivers, printer drivers for instance. What sale would they lose if the driver was open source so I could use it on linux? Are they afraid the competition could make use of it somehow?
I saw on South Park even the main big router that all the internet comes from had to be rebooted one time. So I wouldn't hold your breath.
from what I've read it is some of the widgets like screen brightness or battery life etc that are proprietary. It might be difficult to remove the proprietary parts.
That's what I was thinking too, but then there are people like me trying to devise a way to extract the cocaine from all the 1 dollar bills I come across. Seriously, even if there's only a nanogram on the bill that's still only a thousand bills for a gram of coke.
"I looked at the information and some of it had substance and some of it was completely made up." I think I'd like a little more detail as to what facts he believed and which he didn't, or am I supposed to take his word for it, as he is an "expert". The beauty of wikipedia is it gives you some recourse to ascertain the truth or falsity of a statement via the citations, his statement did not. Wikipedia 1, Expert 0
I was thinking a bit about this, if on Linux you could "suspend" individual programs, it could write the state of the program to disk, and then later on possibly even after a reboot you could reenter that saved state with the application looking just the way it did when you suspended it, it could be like somewhere between exiting the program and just minimizing it. Could be cool.
The media: "Isn't it great that race isn't important anymore?? let's examine the many ways that race isn't important anymore."
the fpoon, no tines to pick anything up, but also can't hold liquid.
I did do one thing on opengl that reminds me of this, I took a simulator of the heliocentric solar system and wherever the earth was I moved it to the center of the screen and moved all the other planets and the sun by the same amount, so you could see what the geocentric model would look like as the planets moved.
The "megahertz myth" is that processor clock rate has a lot to do with performance, It seems to me like his post suggests that he didn't buy into it not being impressed with the pentium 4. But the shrinkage is definitely important, as in being able to fit more than one of a modified older design like the pentium III on one chip.
why isn't "biggest breasts ever.wri" underlined it won't let me click on it how do I get the file?
The way I remember this unfolding as I did research to build my own personal computer 6 months ago (admittedly on a tight budget) was that AMD's 64 X2's were outperforming similarly clocked and more expensive intel dual cores, and it was only as they both started going quad core that amd started losing ground. maybe you know this and you're counting 2001(first itanium)-2008 as "a few years" but to me it seems like a long time.
Trying to reverse engineer the brain and then use what we find to create AI might not be a good route either. There's a possibility that the brain is not particularly a well designed example of an intelligent machine. What if most of the brain is redundant or counterproductive or just a mess in general. You know the old quote that we only use 10% of our brain (I don't know whether thats considered to be at all true anymore) maybe thats because thats the only part that works right. I feel like just after the invention of the computer we get the idea that we could program intelligence is like some cavemen discovering fire and starting on their design for a rocket. I mean the fire will be involved but there's probably a lot of other steps in between.
I read December 25th was an important date in Mythrasianism which had about the same number of churches back in that day as there were Christian churches and somehow out of that it came about.