It took around a decade to discredit McCarthyism, and there's a small but significant group of right wing pundits who still defend him. While waiting for people like this to self destruct, it's important do your part and give them a good shove in that direction whenever possible.
A new generation of McCarthy sympathizers is possible, given that the Texas textbook requirements have now been revised to show McC in a positive light.
This has been the teacher and administrator MO since I was in school in the 60s. Actually it's worse than that. The teacher/administrator just wants the problem to go away so they tend to persecute and isolate the *victim* rather than the perpetrator (Johny gets bullied by a group of 5 kids on the playground so we'll keep *Johny* inside while all the kids go out to play). This usually ostracizes the victim further by pointing him/her out as the weak odd kid.
In my experience, the most culpable individuals are spineless teachers followed by spineless administrators. Children can't really be blamed. They know no better. Adults do, or should.
When I was in elementary school, if you got punched in the face and told a teacher, the puncher and you would both be punished, usually equally. One would be punished for the punch, the other for "tattling."
Back in college our daily newspaper had standing offers in the $15-50k range for eggs of a woman above a certain height, below a certain weight, and above a certain SAT score.
About a dozen times during the astro observing class he taught at Yale he pointed skyward and said, "Behold: Jove, king of the planets!" He also wrote a nifty image stacking applet for students.
...how they know it’s lensing, and that the stars aren’t just positioned like that?
Sounds to me like you could never prove, which one it really is, until you fly behind that “dark matter”. (To me still a imaginary excuse, based on the arrogance of not being able to admit that the math is wrong, but instead calling the universe wrong! ^^ [But a good {and compact!} explanation will of course change my mind.])
When you see multiple images of the same object, it's lensing. This is, in fact, how gravitational lensing was first discovered. Check out this great wikipedia image of the effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Einstein_cross.jpg. This is actually called strong lensing. TFA discusses weak lensing, which is a much smaller effect. That's detected by looking at very distant galaxies. Lensing changes the shape of galaxies such that there is a preferred orientation. If this orientation is statistically significant, i.e., too many galaxies are stretched in the same direction to be caused by normal physics, then it tells us that the weirdness is likely caused by lensing. Thanks to Hubble's ability to paint an incredibly dense picture of background galaxies, our statistics are based on a huge number of samples and we can trust them pretty thoroughly.
Somewhat offtopic, but a lot of people have been posting comments equating TFS's question to "is PC gaming dying?" Last year, when the overall gaming market declined, PC gaming revenues increased by 19% worldwide (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62729). PC Gaming is definitely not dying.
How would you describe it in comparison to a habanero? I like the heat, but frankly don't care for the flavor of habaneros. Too...I don't know. Bitter-ish? Smoky? I much prefer jalapenos and wax pepper varieties.
Pardon the lack of tildes, it takes too much effort on a netbook.
To me habaneros taste strongly of tropical fruit and jalapenos taste slightly bitter. The "ghost pepper," at least in the dried form in which I bought it, was sort of tangy like a dried thai chili.
Unfortunately for Google, totalitarian systems are very effective under some circumstances. For example, totalitarianism proved to be the most effective system during large-scaled wars and other dire conditions. Today's growth of Chinese GDP proves that it is more effective in current economical situation than either US or EU.
Don't forget, during the last twenty centuries, China had the largest economy on Earth for 18 centuries, and it always was totalitarian. Like it or not, it will soon regain its position as the largest economy on the planet. So, under the circumstances, it is Google who needs China to stay relevant in future, not vice-versa.
Objectively, both USSR and US societies were/are very strict in values, beliefs and ideology imposed on their members -- there are "sacred" ideas that, if attacked effectively and in a public manner, would earn a person ostracism and persecution. It's less visible because it applies only to things that are public and effective, and both societies had also wildly different standards on what is "public" and what can be "effective".
It sounds like you need to do some more shopping around between subcultures. Maybe it's because I spent a lot of time in college towns or because I grew up in Northern California, but I'm used to seeing two things that contradict your claims.
1) People from radically different cultures who moved to the United States and feel they're more able to practice their own culture here than back in India, China, Indonesia, etc., because in their homeland they were part of an offshoot culture than was frowned upon, while in their new homes that's absolutely welcomed.
2) People from the United States who hold very different values from the prevailing national/regional/local views, who are quite happy with their freedom to be different. I've also lived places in the U.S. where that's not the case, but usually that's been my experience.
There's a lot of room here for vegans, people who hate television, people who are only interested in Chinese music, people who want to have no friends, people who never want to be alone, socialists, anarchists, conservatives, libertarians, Wiccans, atheists, and Scientologists. There are tons of problems here, just like anywhere else, but in much of the U.S. you'll find cultural acceptance and diversity like few other places on Earth.
I suspect I would have been pretty happy in the USSR, too. It's not so hard to make oneself feel comfortable as long as there's no active oppression going on.
I *like* being able to use my phone as USB mass storage.
I *like* being able to... use a custom ROM from HTCpedia or xda-developers.
I *like* being able to tether my phone using a standard data plan.
I *like* Opera Mobile.
Android welcomes you.
And me, too. WinMo was a flawed platform with some really good flexibility that resulted in some great features not found in the iPhone. Android started with a more solid platform and duplicated the nice aspects of WinMo. WinMo7 (or whatever it's called) may quite possibly be as solid as Android/iPhone/WebOS at its core, but it's giving up the only advantages Microsoft has built in the mobile space. iPhone is the most mature of the mobile platforms, WinMo7 looks essentially like a wannabe iPhone, WebOS is attached to a rapidly sinking ship, and Android is apparently the best of all worlds. Come July I'm heading to Android.
And yet, the 'rationed' socialist healthcare here in Britain is still a metric fuckton better than what you get in the US
How strange. When I was living in the UK there always seemed to be some kid on TV looking for money to pay for them to fly to America to get treatment which they couldn't get under the rationed socialist NHS.
While I was a student there were two cases of someone in my group of a dozen friends having a serious medical problem and being told that there weren't resources in American hospitals, despite their good health insurance, to treat them promptly enough to prevent permanent disability. Both went to India and received immediate care that successfully fixed their problems and despite the fact that they had to pay 100% of the cost of surgery, the total cost including airfare was thousands less than their share of the cost for the same procedures under their health plans. Here near the northern border of the US I know someone who goes to Canada to get treatment unavailable under the rationed capitalist American system.
While it doesn't always happen, the company that provides the best prices and best selection to the consumers should be the winner. In music Apple unbundled the album and created a reasonable price point. More music is being sold, but music publishers are making less money. Consumer wins. In publishing the total cost of a book should be authors cut + cost of manufacturing + cost of distribution + marketing costs + profit for publisher + profit to distributer = total cost of book. E-books should dramatically reduce the cost of manufacturing and distribution and if things follow the music model, more books will be sold allowing for a reduction in profit margin due to volume. The consumer wins, if Apple and Amazon can strong arm the publishers not to add savings from manufacturing and distribution to their profit margins.
This particular case is Apple giving the publishers a way to strong-arm Amazon and increase prices for ebooks by 50%. If you want to look at it from the perspective of a consumer, then Apple's entrance to the market isn't very good. The funny thing is that Amazon did the same thing to Apple a few years ago by introducing the agency system to mp3 sales. The difference is that Amazon provided a superior product for the same or a lower price that forced Apple to then improve its own product by removing DRM. This time Apple is forcing Amazon to raise prices, so it's not quite as fun for those of us buying books.
US military computer specialists, over the objections of the CIA, mounted a cyberattack that dismantled an online 'honey pot' monitored by US and Saudi intelligence agencies to identify extremists before they could strike, after military commanders said that the site was putting Americans at risk.
Reading between the lines, someone in the military had a brilliant idea on how to find people liable to be extremists. "Lets make our own extremist site", they said. "Just to make sure we get them all we'll make it really fan the flames of Jihad, and tell Muslims why they should join in". What happens. A few people who would be terrorists come a long... fine. A large number of moderates come along and leave comments like "you're a disgrace to Islam" and move on.. fine. But a sizeable number of Muslims who are not extremists hit the site and become radicalised by it. Some continue to use the site, but some inevitably find other "real" sites.
Someone does an analysis and says "Look, the number of people being radicalised by us who we lose track of is now larger than the number of people who are already radical who come along and get tracked". The military intelligence guys say "what do you mean doing no good, we have dozens of people here talking about extremist acts, and we only lose track of a quarter of them!", totally missing the point that they now have a dozen untracked extremists, and three dozen who are currently tracked whereas without the site they would have had half a dozen untracked ones!
Having gone through a series of monitors with different input lags and tested my own tolerance, I can't deal with a total of more than 50 ms input lag + rendering before I'm bothered and 75 ms before I lose my mind and spend my time on slashdot instead.
If ISPs are willing to give Google half a billion dollars a year of traffic in exchange for Google giving them some equivalent value of traffic on its own fiber, we should at least consider the possibility that Google could otherwise sell that traffic. Our best guess for the opportunity cost might still be half a billion dollars.
Does anyone know how does circular polarization works in 3D movies??
I mean, I know about polarization, etc, but saying it's circular does not make sense to me
Or the glasses are actually two sheets of polarizing material (per lens) so in front you have 0 degrees and at the back you have 'something' degrees??
I believe the front is a quarter wave plate that linearizes the E field oscillation, and the back is a linear polarizer oriented to match the plane produced by one orientation of the circularly polarized light and reject the linear polarization plane produced by the opposite circular orientation.
I was under the impression that the backbones where these routers are used was never the "bottleneck" for streaming video and such. Isn't the connection from each user's home to the ISP more the issue?
I mean its great to triple the backbone bandwidth, but is it really accurate to say doing so is going to make it easier for the average user to download movies?
I have a 20 mbps connection and on a good day, speed tests will show me in the 15-18 mbps range. 99% of the time I can't break 6 mbps, though. Maybe the backbone is my bottleneck.
So, umm... with all that dust out there, is it possible that light could be attenuating between here and the perceived "edge" of the universe? Couldn't the presence of large amounts of dust mean that our universe is larger than current estimates?
Think of it like your headlights on a dark night... the further away you get the more light disperses. Since there's less stuff in space to disperse light, we can see for X billion light years, but the presence of dust could be masking a large portion of visible space in this manner. I would assume this would have to happen, otherwise space would be white with light instead of black, right?
It's well known that there's a lot of dust, that doesn't hurt our understanding of the size of the observable universe. It might increase our error bars a little in the first few steps of the distance ladder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_ladder), but probably not significantly. Dust isn't an effective absorber of every wavelength of light, so we can see through it if we want.
If you really want to get a good handle on this rather complex and fascinating topic, read the above article and the less awesome but still useful article on the size of the observable universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size_of_the_universe).
There was a bolt in your soft taco? Holy crap! According to an episode of Kenan and Kel (I hope some of you remember that show) you could totally sue them for a life supply of tuna. I mean lots of money.
That's a good point, but I was distracted at the time. As I got to the front of the line a three year old girl came sprinting away from her mom, ran into my legs, fell down and started crying. Then she pointed at me as she cried, making everyone around (I assume) think I had kicked her or something. What's _that_ about?!
No, you've missed my point: They're excusing something that's part of the test. Nowhere else do they explain away the current score or what's missing. The text on the page seems to give the impression the pause is acceptable or 'as intended'. But it's not - it has failed ACID.
They don't claim it passed ACID3. In fact, after continuing from 39, it never gets past 55. Read the IE9 arstechnica article from a few hours ago to see their comments on ACID3, mainly that they don't put any priority on passing it but that their score is going up as they improve their standards compliance.
Not only that, only nerds would get excited about a STOCK response from HR about discrimination, and then post it on slashdot. Not trying to troll here, but HR folks aren't lawyers, and are trained to be extremely careful when it comes to possible litigation. In short, even the bad publicity makes it worthwhile for HR to apologize to this "Jedi" instead of saying something like "we only recognize jedis on active duty, with working light sabers".
That's precisely why it's funny. Of course no one there takes his religion seriously, but our culture forces them to act as though they do.
So can we now expect a doubling of cores every 18 months?
Moore's Law refers to transistor density, right? As long as programming makes the expected shift to massively parallel techniques that would justify a very large number of cores I think the answer to your question is yes.
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It took around a decade to discredit McCarthyism, and there's a small but significant group of right wing pundits who still defend him. While waiting for people like this to self destruct, it's important do your part and give them a good shove in that direction whenever possible.
A new generation of McCarthy sympathizers is possible, given that the Texas textbook requirements have now been revised to show McC in a positive light.
This has been the teacher and administrator MO since I was in school in the 60s. Actually it's worse than that. The teacher/administrator just wants the problem to go away so they tend to persecute and isolate the *victim* rather than the perpetrator (Johny gets bullied by a group of 5 kids on the playground so we'll keep *Johny* inside while all the kids go out to play). This usually ostracizes the victim further by pointing him/her out as the weak odd kid.
In my experience, the most culpable individuals are spineless teachers followed by spineless administrators. Children can't really be blamed. They know no better. Adults do, or should.
When I was in elementary school, if you got punched in the face and told a teacher, the puncher and you would both be punished, usually equally. One would be punished for the punch, the other for "tattling."
It's the brightest of the planets, as seen from earth.
Venus is brighter at it's brightest.
Back in college our daily newspaper had standing offers in the $15-50k range for eggs of a woman above a certain height, below a certain weight, and above a certain SAT score.
About a dozen times during the astro observing class he taught at Yale he pointed skyward and said, "Behold: Jove, king of the planets!" He also wrote a nifty image stacking applet for students.
...how they know it’s lensing, and that the stars aren’t just positioned like that?
Sounds to me like you could never prove, which one it really is, until you fly behind that “dark matter”. (To me still a imaginary excuse, based on the arrogance of not being able to admit that the math is wrong, but instead calling the universe wrong! ^^ [But a good {and compact!} explanation will of course change my mind.])
When you see multiple images of the same object, it's lensing. This is, in fact, how gravitational lensing was first discovered. Check out this great wikipedia image of the effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Einstein_cross.jpg. This is actually called strong lensing. TFA discusses weak lensing, which is a much smaller effect. That's detected by looking at very distant galaxies. Lensing changes the shape of galaxies such that there is a preferred orientation. If this orientation is statistically significant, i.e., too many galaxies are stretched in the same direction to be caused by normal physics, then it tells us that the weirdness is likely caused by lensing. Thanks to Hubble's ability to paint an incredibly dense picture of background galaxies, our statistics are based on a huge number of samples and we can trust them pretty thoroughly.
Awesome, right?
Somewhat offtopic, but a lot of people have been posting comments equating TFS's question to "is PC gaming dying?" Last year, when the overall gaming market declined, PC gaming revenues increased by 19% worldwide (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62729). PC Gaming is definitely not dying.
How would you describe it in comparison to a habanero? I like the heat, but frankly don't care for the flavor of habaneros. Too...I don't know. Bitter-ish? Smoky? I much prefer jalapenos and wax pepper varieties.
Pardon the lack of tildes, it takes too much effort on a netbook.
To me habaneros taste strongly of tropical fruit and jalapenos taste slightly bitter. The "ghost pepper," at least in the dried form in which I bought it, was sort of tangy like a dried thai chili.
Unfortunately for Google, totalitarian systems are very effective under some circumstances. For example, totalitarianism proved to be the most effective system during large-scaled wars and other dire conditions. Today's growth of Chinese GDP proves that it is more effective in current economical situation than either US or EU.
Don't forget, during the last twenty centuries, China had the largest economy on Earth for 18 centuries, and it always was totalitarian. Like it or not, it will soon regain its position as the largest economy on the planet. So, under the circumstances, it is Google who needs China to stay relevant in future, not vice-versa.
effective != good
Objectively, both USSR and US societies were/are very strict in values, beliefs and ideology imposed on their members -- there are "sacred" ideas that, if attacked effectively and in a public manner, would earn a person ostracism and persecution. It's less visible because it applies only to things that are public and effective, and both societies had also wildly different standards on what is "public" and what can be "effective".
It sounds like you need to do some more shopping around between subcultures. Maybe it's because I spent a lot of time in college towns or because I grew up in Northern California, but I'm used to seeing two things that contradict your claims.
1) People from radically different cultures who moved to the United States and feel they're more able to practice their own culture here than back in India, China, Indonesia, etc., because in their homeland they were part of an offshoot culture than was frowned upon, while in their new homes that's absolutely welcomed.
2) People from the United States who hold very different values from the prevailing national/regional/local views, who are quite happy with their freedom to be different. I've also lived places in the U.S. where that's not the case, but usually that's been my experience.
There's a lot of room here for vegans, people who hate television, people who are only interested in Chinese music, people who want to have no friends, people who never want to be alone, socialists, anarchists, conservatives, libertarians, Wiccans, atheists, and Scientologists. There are tons of problems here, just like anywhere else, but in much of the U.S. you'll find cultural acceptance and diversity like few other places on Earth.
I suspect I would have been pretty happy in the USSR, too. It's not so hard to make oneself feel comfortable as long as there's no active oppression going on.
I *like* having native applications.
I *like* HTC's SenseUI.
I *like* being able to use my phone as USB mass storage.
I *like* being able to ... use a custom ROM from HTCpedia or xda-developers.
I *like* being able to tether my phone using a standard data plan.
I *like* Opera Mobile.
Android welcomes you.
And me, too. WinMo was a flawed platform with some really good flexibility that resulted in some great features not found in the iPhone. Android started with a more solid platform and duplicated the nice aspects of WinMo. WinMo7 (or whatever it's called) may quite possibly be as solid as Android/iPhone/WebOS at its core, but it's giving up the only advantages Microsoft has built in the mobile space. iPhone is the most mature of the mobile platforms, WinMo7 looks essentially like a wannabe iPhone, WebOS is attached to a rapidly sinking ship, and Android is apparently the best of all worlds. Come July I'm heading to Android.
And yet, the 'rationed' socialist healthcare here in Britain is still a metric fuckton better than what you get in the US
How strange. When I was living in the UK there always seemed to be some kid on TV looking for money to pay for them to fly to America to get treatment which they couldn't get under the rationed socialist NHS.
While I was a student there were two cases of someone in my group of a dozen friends having a serious medical problem and being told that there weren't resources in American hospitals, despite their good health insurance, to treat them promptly enough to prevent permanent disability. Both went to India and received immediate care that successfully fixed their problems and despite the fact that they had to pay 100% of the cost of surgery, the total cost including airfare was thousands less than their share of the cost for the same procedures under their health plans. Here near the northern border of the US I know someone who goes to Canada to get treatment unavailable under the rationed capitalist American system.
While it doesn't always happen, the company that provides the best prices and best selection to the consumers should be the winner. In music Apple unbundled the album and created a reasonable price point. More music is being sold, but music publishers are making less money. Consumer wins. In publishing the total cost of a book should be authors cut + cost of manufacturing + cost of distribution + marketing costs + profit for publisher + profit to distributer = total cost of book. E-books should dramatically reduce the cost of manufacturing and distribution and if things follow the music model, more books will be sold allowing for a reduction in profit margin due to volume. The consumer wins, if Apple and Amazon can strong arm the publishers not to add savings from manufacturing and distribution to their profit margins.
This particular case is Apple giving the publishers a way to strong-arm Amazon and increase prices for ebooks by 50%. If you want to look at it from the perspective of a consumer, then Apple's entrance to the market isn't very good. The funny thing is that Amazon did the same thing to Apple a few years ago by introducing the agency system to mp3 sales. The difference is that Amazon provided a superior product for the same or a lower price that forced Apple to then improve its own product by removing DRM. This time Apple is forcing Amazon to raise prices, so it's not quite as fun for those of us buying books.
US military computer specialists, over the objections of the CIA, mounted a cyberattack that dismantled an online 'honey pot' monitored by US and Saudi intelligence agencies to identify extremists before they could strike, after military commanders said that the site was putting Americans at risk.
Reading between the lines, someone in the military had a brilliant idea on how to find people liable to be extremists. "Lets make our own extremist site", they said. "Just to make sure we get them all we'll make it really fan the flames of Jihad, and tell Muslims why they should join in". What happens. A few people who would be terrorists come a long ... fine. A large number of moderates come along and leave comments like "you're a disgrace to Islam" and move on.. fine. But a sizeable number of Muslims who are not extremists hit the site and become radicalised by it. Some continue to use the site, but some inevitably find other "real" sites.
Someone does an analysis and says "Look, the number of people being radicalised by us who we lose track of is now larger than the number of people who are already radical who come along and get tracked". The military intelligence guys say "what do you mean doing no good, we have dozens of people here talking about extremist acts, and we only lose track of a quarter of them!", totally missing the point that they now have a dozen untracked extremists, and three dozen who are currently tracked whereas without the site they would have had half a dozen untracked ones!
What impressive baseless speculation!
Nothing is as bad for the future of America as Fox says.
BTW, I've seen thousands of comment trolls, but I think this is the first story submission troll I've seen.
Virtually every story about Apple or Microsoft is more of a troll submission than this.
Having gone through a series of monitors with different input lags and tested my own tolerance, I can't deal with a total of more than 50 ms input lag + rendering before I'm bothered and 75 ms before I lose my mind and spend my time on slashdot instead.
If ISPs are willing to give Google half a billion dollars a year of traffic in exchange for Google giving them some equivalent value of traffic on its own fiber, we should at least consider the possibility that Google could otherwise sell that traffic. Our best guess for the opportunity cost might still be half a billion dollars.
Yeah because you never forget anything, right?
Well he should be able to at least say that it represents variability in a repeated measurement. He should at least know that.
Maybe he did know that but was stumbling because he was embarrassed for not knowing the formula.
Does anyone know how does circular polarization works in 3D movies??
I mean, I know about polarization, etc, but saying it's circular does not make sense to me
Or the glasses are actually two sheets of polarizing material (per lens) so in front you have 0 degrees and at the back you have 'something' degrees??
I believe the front is a quarter wave plate that linearizes the E field oscillation, and the back is a linear polarizer oriented to match the plane produced by one orientation of the circularly polarized light and reject the linear polarization plane produced by the opposite circular orientation.
I was under the impression that the backbones where these routers are used was never the "bottleneck" for streaming video and such. Isn't the connection from each user's home to the ISP more the issue?
I mean its great to triple the backbone bandwidth, but is it really accurate to say doing so is going to make it easier for the average user to download movies?
I have a 20 mbps connection and on a good day, speed tests will show me in the 15-18 mbps range. 99% of the time I can't break 6 mbps, though. Maybe the backbone is my bottleneck.
So, umm... with all that dust out there, is it possible that light could be attenuating between here and the perceived "edge" of the universe? Couldn't the presence of large amounts of dust mean that our universe is larger than current estimates?
Think of it like your headlights on a dark night... the further away you get the more light disperses. Since there's less stuff in space to disperse light, we can see for X billion light years, but the presence of dust could be masking a large portion of visible space in this manner. I would assume this would have to happen, otherwise space would be white with light instead of black, right?
It's well known that there's a lot of dust, that doesn't hurt our understanding of the size of the observable universe. It might increase our error bars a little in the first few steps of the distance ladder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_ladder), but probably not significantly. Dust isn't an effective absorber of every wavelength of light, so we can see through it if we want.
If you really want to get a good handle on this rather complex and fascinating topic, read the above article and the less awesome but still useful article on the size of the observable universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size_of_the_universe).
There was a bolt in your soft taco? Holy crap! According to an episode of Kenan and Kel (I hope some of you remember that show) you could totally sue them for a life supply of tuna. I mean lots of money.
That's a good point, but I was distracted at the time. As I got to the front of the line a three year old girl came sprinting away from her mom, ran into my legs, fell down and started crying. Then she pointed at me as she cried, making everyone around (I assume) think I had kicked her or something. What's _that_ about?!
No, you've missed my point: They're excusing something that's part of the test. Nowhere else do they explain away the current score or what's missing. The text on the page seems to give the impression the pause is acceptable or 'as intended'. But it's not - it has failed ACID.
They don't claim it passed ACID3. In fact, after continuing from 39, it never gets past 55. Read the IE9 arstechnica article from a few hours ago to see their comments on ACID3, mainly that they don't put any priority on passing it but that their score is going up as they improve their standards compliance.
"These are not the dorks you are looking for."
Not only that, only nerds would get excited about a STOCK response from HR about discrimination, and then post it on slashdot. Not trying to troll here, but HR folks aren't lawyers, and are trained to be extremely careful when it comes to possible litigation. In short, even the bad publicity makes it worthwhile for HR to apologize to this "Jedi" instead of saying something like "we only recognize jedis on active duty, with working light sabers".
That's precisely why it's funny. Of course no one there takes his religion seriously, but our culture forces them to act as though they do.
So can we now expect a doubling of cores every 18 months?
Moore's Law refers to transistor density, right? As long as programming makes the expected shift to massively parallel techniques that would justify a very large number of cores I think the answer to your question is yes.