The BIOS makers will be making "secureboot-ready" chips before Win8 is even released, because OEM's want to sell "Win8-ready" computers before Win8 is even released.
In addition, I am unaware of any current x86-based UEFI implementations that does not include a legacy BIOS module. There is absolutely no reason to believe that this wont continue to be the case except for the rambling of people that are worried about 'what ifs' that are motivated by nothing more than anti-microsoft-paranoia.
I dont think people understand the motherboard market at all.
The motherboard manufacturer doesn't do any more or any less work soldering on the BIOS they purchased from a BIOS maker. To be quite clear, the motherboard manufacturers dont write the BIOS. They buy the BIOS.
This idea that the motherboard manufacturers will suddenly be writing UEFI ("doing work for server boards") instead of purchasing it is wrong, silly, and indicates a level of ignorance that suggests that you shouldn't be forming an opinion on the subject.
When you are worried about problems that dont actually exist in a demonstrable reality, there is no limit to the kinds of things that you can 'react' to. You are acting like the Bush administration right now, crying wolf over things that 'might' happen, rather than deal with things that 'actually' happen.
So wouldnt the problem be that in theory it might sometimes be an option, rather than that Microsoft requires that the motherboard support secure boot for logo certification?
Isnt is thus true that your hate for Microsoft has caused you to go overboard, missing the mark completely because you can't see clearly?
So you are protesting something that doesnt even exist! Do you realize that there is no limit to what you might protest when you allow imaginary things to be protested?
Their is nothing to stop an OEM from first charging for the PC, then charging for the unlock of the bootloader.
Thats right.. there is nothing stopping them, yet in all these years the OEM's have never locked you to a particular OS, which would have benefited their support-cost bottom line all these years.
Hell, even Apple lets you boot other OS's on Macs.
Genetic algorithms tend to be interesting search algorithms that are inspired by a genetic process, but they have little connection to the actual biological process for which they are named, so I am biased against them. This perception could just be a local cognitive minima that might be avoided with better training.
Just stop using the name 'genetic algorithm' when thinking about them.
Begin with a straightforward randomized state-space search method, simply remember the candidate solution with the best score. How can that be improved upon? We could keep a record of many of these randomized candidate solutions and their scores and derive new candidates using various methodologies, such as combining parts of two different candidates into a new candidate and then randomizing only minor parts of these new candidates. We can call this the 'directed randomized search method' where the performance of past candidate solutions influence the generation of new candidate solutions.
And there you go.. the 'Directed Randomized Search Method' AKA 'Genetic Algorithm'
What isnt so obvious is that once you start thinking about it like this, you have a greater understanding of the roles of population size, mutation rate, elitism, and so on, as well as the effects of population convergence and other observations about the population, and that the enforcement of 'generations' has no beneficial qualities (ie: it is much better to generate one new candidate at a time and moving that new information into the population immediately so that it can be leveraged immediately)
In all likelihood, the OP doesnt actually want to learn AI but rather the related subject of Machine Learning.
The problem with tackling AI is in fact everything you were talking about. Pick a simple game, write a player for it, etc, where the answer is nearly always some form of tree search leveraging hard-coded knowledge (chess-like) or simple Bayesian derivations using hard-coded knowledge (poker-like.) While that stuff (and path finding) is the mainstay of popularized AI, its both limiting and non-interesting unless you actually care about the specific game (chess engine authors love chess, not AI.. poker bot authors love poker, not AI..)
It is through the act of a program itself learning the knowledge necessary that makes AI both enjoyable and powerful. I can teach you a tree searching algorithm in a single day.. and I can teach you a machine learning algorithm like actor-critic in a single day.. only the later will reward you for a lifetime.
Except you're forgetting about the third party, the producer.
If by forgetting about them, you mean that I not only mentioned them, but that I even made a specific point about where they sit in the process..... sure... I am forgetting about them.
Sure, nobody that plays these translated games will have benefited.
The flaw in the core of your logic is that you believe that in every transaction that involves money that there is one winner and one loser. The fact is that in most transactions involving money, both the buyer and the seller win.
....that some people might give their time freely to steam in no way alters the win-win relationship between buyer and seller, but it does enable it.
The Democrats didn't force it through because they were "weak." They were strong.. strongly in favor of putting together a monstrous one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety page bill of corrupt legislation that favors the corporations that donate to their campaign coffers. You accuse the republicans of being "selfish, greedy, ignorant, and generally evil" yet it is the democrats that put together the alpha-legislation, the king, of "selfish, greedy, ignorant, and evil."
The republicans have never forced through such a one-sided bill (name a bill that passed that had 1 or less democrats voting for it in both house and senate combined) and also the republicans never drafted a bill so monstrously large.
The republicans may be shit, but the democrats are the kings of shit.. so good at it that they have half the country believing that what they themselves do is the fault of the republicans. I'm sure you heard, maybe even believe, that the housing bubble was the republicans fault, right? Even though its well documented that more than a few republicans and libertarians were trying to intervene years prior to the bust, that it was the democrats calling those trying to stop it racists.. right there in session.. that fanny and freddie must not only be allowed to continue, but to even expand its practices.
That "balanced" budget under clinton.. you probably think it was the democrats, right? That was a republican house, a republican senate, and a republican budget that made that happen The democrats get the credit because you are fucking SNOOKERED!
The democrats voted in large numbers for those wars, but I bet you believe that it was all the republicans too. Hillary, Pelosi, and so on were making public speeches about how we must start those wars. Snookered again!
When something bad goes down, you get snookered into thinking the republicans were entirely responsible (see grandparent post blaming the health care reform bill on the republicans, or any of the other factually incorrect shit spouted about) and when something good goes down you get snookered into thinking that the democrats did it (see other posts in this story championing clinton for the "balanced" budget).. totally fucking snookered.
Even the minimum wage walmart worker IS FUCKING RICH.
Get a fucking clue you lack-of-perspective bleeding-heart fuckbag that is so wrapped up in feelings, that even if it requires being completely fucking dishonest with yourself, your going to feel good no matter fucking what and that means caring about the "lower class." You don't even fucking know that having a cell phone, cable television, a fucking car, AND A GOD DAMNED WEIGHT PROBLEM is not a sign of being poor. Its a sign of SERIOUS FUCKING WHOLE-SCALE PROSPERITY. There arent "poor" people here.. there is only the lower class.. WHO ARE FUCKING RICH TOO.
Moron. I'm sure this went in one ear and out the other, because you don't give a fuck about honesty or integrity.. you just want to feel good so you need a cause to feel for... fucking pathetic EMO
Why don't you ask them why they passed it even though they are apparently now telling you they didnt want it? Fucking use your brain, tool. They wrote it and they passed it even though they knew the majority of people didn't want it passed. Let me re-iterate.. exactly 1 republican vote, combined, in both house and senate.
All those "compromises" (VOTE BUYING) they made were to get fellow democrats to vote for it (while they told you it was to please republicans, right?) and more than a few still didn't vote for it. You dont remember the final days when they were making changes just to get a few more democrat votes because they still didnt have enough? The democrats fucked that shit up all by themselves. They own it. Your party owns it.
Did they or did they not pass something that the people didn't want? Its really simple. Yes or No. Either they did or they didn't do that. We both know they did (you admit as much) so they did in fact force the health care reform bill through, in spite of you and others like you not wanting other people to point out that simple fact unchallenged. They raped all of us. Admit it.
The current trend in flash process size reduction is to trade off erase endurance for the additional area shrinkage in pretty much a linear fashion.
So while the smaller tech allows for larger capacity drives in the same form factor, for two drives of equal capacity, equal over-provisioning, but different process sizes, you are much better off (in terms of erase endurance) with the larger process size.
I believe the latest shrink cut the erase endurance by approximately half, while approximately doubling density. At some limit you end up with exactly 1 erase cycle (and if doubling/halving is a trend, this wont take all that many process reductions) and you have to provision the vast majority of the drive (reserving all but fractions of a percentage!) for "wear leveling" in order to pretend that you have something other than a WORM drive.
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Government isn't mandating that you buy health care -- just that you have it.
It is doing neither.
What is with all you liberals that dont know the difference between health care and health insurance? Seriously.. its getting old.
You act as if insured people cost us nothing. Who do you think pays for jacked-up health care prices?
The distinction here is that health care ,,,
We are talking about health insurance, not health care.
The BIOS makers will be making "secureboot-ready" chips before Win8 is even released, because OEM's want to sell "Win8-ready" computers before Win8 is even released.
In addition, I am unaware of any current x86-based UEFI implementations that does not include a legacy BIOS module. There is absolutely no reason to believe that this wont continue to be the case except for the rambling of people that are worried about 'what ifs' that are motivated by nothing more than anti-microsoft-paranoia.
I dont think people understand the motherboard market at all.
The motherboard manufacturer doesn't do any more or any less work soldering on the BIOS they purchased from a BIOS maker. To be quite clear, the motherboard manufacturers dont write the BIOS. They buy the BIOS.
This idea that the motherboard manufacturers will suddenly be writing UEFI ("doing work for server boards") instead of purchasing it is wrong, silly, and indicates a level of ignorance that suggests that you shouldn't be forming an opinion on the subject.
You seem to be mad that the shitty BIOS that doesnt support shit cost the motherboard manufacturer less to purchase and solder on. Well duh..
You are proving the point that there is a market for features, and that its a healthy market that satisfies demand.
..wait before reacting to what?
When you are worried about problems that dont actually exist in a demonstrable reality, there is no limit to the kinds of things that you can 'react' to. You are acting like the Bush administration right now, crying wolf over things that 'might' happen, rather than deal with things that 'actually' happen.
Provided that this will be an option.
So wouldnt the problem be that in theory it might sometimes be an option, rather than that Microsoft requires that the motherboard support secure boot for logo certification?
Isnt is thus true that your hate for Microsoft has caused you to go overboard, missing the mark completely because you can't see clearly?
Because they haven't shipped any yet, that's why.
So you are protesting something that doesnt even exist! Do you realize that there is no limit to what you might protest when you allow imaginary things to be protested?
Their is nothing to stop an OEM from first charging for the PC, then charging for the unlock of the bootloader.
Thats right.. there is nothing stopping them, yet in all these years the OEM's have never locked you to a particular OS, which would have benefited their support-cost bottom line all these years.
Hell, even Apple lets you boot other OS's on Macs.
Genetic algorithms tend to be interesting search algorithms that are inspired by a genetic process, but they have little connection to the actual biological process for which they are named, so I am biased against them. This perception could just be a local cognitive minima that might be avoided with better training.
Just stop using the name 'genetic algorithm' when thinking about them.
Begin with a straightforward randomized state-space search method, simply remember the candidate solution with the best score. How can that be improved upon? We could keep a record of many of these randomized candidate solutions and their scores and derive new candidates using various methodologies, such as combining parts of two different candidates into a new candidate and then randomizing only minor parts of these new candidates. We can call this the 'directed randomized search method' where the performance of past candidate solutions influence the generation of new candidate solutions.
And there you go.. the 'Directed Randomized Search Method' AKA 'Genetic Algorithm'
What isnt so obvious is that once you start thinking about it like this, you have a greater understanding of the roles of population size, mutation rate, elitism, and so on, as well as the effects of population convergence and other observations about the population, and that the enforcement of 'generations' has no beneficial qualities (ie: it is much better to generate one new candidate at a time and moving that new information into the population immediately so that it can be leveraged immediately)
In all likelihood, the OP doesnt actually want to learn AI but rather the related subject of Machine Learning.
The problem with tackling AI is in fact everything you were talking about. Pick a simple game, write a player for it, etc, where the answer is nearly always some form of tree search leveraging hard-coded knowledge (chess-like) or simple Bayesian derivations using hard-coded knowledge (poker-like.) While that stuff (and path finding) is the mainstay of popularized AI, its both limiting and non-interesting unless you actually care about the specific game (chess engine authors love chess, not AI.. poker bot authors love poker, not AI..)
It is through the act of a program itself learning the knowledge necessary that makes AI both enjoyable and powerful. I can teach you a tree searching algorithm in a single day.. and I can teach you a machine learning algorithm like actor-critic in a single day.. only the later will reward you for a lifetime.
This is probably a 4 year contract.
25 million subscribers, $8 per month, 48 months = $9.6 billion in revenue over the period.
At $30 million a pop, thats is less than 1/3rd of 1% of their revenue per movie.
They had to pass fair amount of teacher education classes and exams
The demographic breakdown of teachers also have to pass affirmative action quotas. Guess which one wins?
See my reply to theArtificial. I know what race is, I know what regional / ethnic accents are.
Just just don't seem to know how to separate them when thinking.
Except you're forgetting about the third party, the producer.
If by forgetting about them, you mean that I not only mentioned them, but that I even made a specific point about where they sit in the process..... sure... I am forgetting about them.
Come back when you turn your brain on.
Sure, nobody that plays these translated games will have benefited.
....that some people might give their time freely to steam in no way alters the win-win relationship between buyer and seller, but it does enable it.
The flaw in the core of your logic is that you believe that in every transaction that involves money that there is one winner and one loser. The fact is that in most transactions involving money, both the buyer and the seller win.
90C is the max, so clearly less is better than 90C.
60's are well below 90C.. quite a bit of headroom there.
Perhaps you are unaware...
The E-350 is rated for up to 90C.
You seem to be missing the meat of the issue.
.. totally fucking snookered.
The Democrats didn't force it through because they were "weak." They were strong.. strongly in favor of putting together a monstrous one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety page bill of corrupt legislation that favors the corporations that donate to their campaign coffers. You accuse the republicans of being "selfish, greedy, ignorant, and generally evil" yet it is the democrats that put together the alpha-legislation, the king, of "selfish, greedy, ignorant, and evil."
The republicans have never forced through such a one-sided bill (name a bill that passed that had 1 or less democrats voting for it in both house and senate combined) and also the republicans never drafted a bill so monstrously large.
The republicans may be shit, but the democrats are the kings of shit.. so good at it that they have half the country believing that what they themselves do is the fault of the republicans. I'm sure you heard, maybe even believe, that the housing bubble was the republicans fault, right? Even though its well documented that more than a few republicans and libertarians were trying to intervene years prior to the bust, that it was the democrats calling those trying to stop it racists.. right there in session.. that fanny and freddie must not only be allowed to continue, but to even expand its practices.
That "balanced" budget under clinton.. you probably think it was the democrats, right? That was a republican house, a republican senate, and a republican budget that made that happen The democrats get the credit because you are fucking SNOOKERED!
The democrats voted in large numbers for those wars, but I bet you believe that it was all the republicans too. Hillary, Pelosi, and so on were making public speeches about how we must start those wars. Snookered again!
When something bad goes down, you get snookered into thinking the republicans were entirely responsible (see grandparent post blaming the health care reform bill on the republicans, or any of the other factually incorrect shit spouted about) and when something good goes down you get snookered into thinking that the democrats did it (see other posts in this story championing clinton for the "balanced" budget)
There is no rampant poverty in America, dumbass.
Even the minimum wage walmart worker IS FUCKING RICH.
Get a fucking clue you lack-of-perspective bleeding-heart fuckbag that is so wrapped up in feelings, that even if it requires being completely fucking dishonest with yourself, your going to feel good no matter fucking what and that means caring about the "lower class." You don't even fucking know that having a cell phone, cable television, a fucking car, AND A GOD DAMNED WEIGHT PROBLEM is not a sign of being poor. Its a sign of SERIOUS FUCKING WHOLE-SCALE PROSPERITY. There arent "poor" people here.. there is only the lower class.. WHO ARE FUCKING RICH TOO.
Moron. I'm sure this went in one ear and out the other, because you don't give a fuck about honesty or integrity.. you just want to feel good so you need a cause to feel for... fucking pathetic EMO
and the DEM-controlled Senate will move to raise it back up just enough to enforce RIAA and MPAA whims.
Yes, but the Constitution limits what the political interests can filter.
Yep.. and with the help of the commerce clause, there ARE no limits.
Why don't you ask them why they passed it even though they are apparently now telling you they didnt want it? Fucking use your brain, tool. They wrote it and they passed it even though they knew the majority of people didn't want it passed. Let me re-iterate.. exactly 1 republican vote, combined, in both house and senate.
All those "compromises" (VOTE BUYING) they made were to get fellow democrats to vote for it (while they told you it was to please republicans, right?) and more than a few still didn't vote for it. You dont remember the final days when they were making changes just to get a few more democrat votes because they still didnt have enough? The democrats fucked that shit up all by themselves. They own it. Your party owns it.
Did they or did they not pass something that the people didn't want? Its really simple. Yes or No. Either they did or they didn't do that. We both know they did (you admit as much) so they did in fact force the health care reform bill through, in spite of you and others like you not wanting other people to point out that simple fact unchallenged. They raped all of us. Admit it.
The current trend in flash process size reduction is to trade off erase endurance for the additional area shrinkage in pretty much a linear fashion.
So while the smaller tech allows for larger capacity drives in the same form factor, for two drives of equal capacity, equal over-provisioning, but different process sizes, you are much better off (in terms of erase endurance) with the larger process size.
I believe the latest shrink cut the erase endurance by approximately half, while approximately doubling density. At some limit you end up with exactly 1 erase cycle (and if doubling/halving is a trend, this wont take all that many process reductions) and you have to provision the vast majority of the drive (reserving all but fractions of a percentage!) for "wear leveling" in order to pretend that you have something other than a WORM drive.