I see people sitting in hot tubes at my gym using them, and it's like do you really need to be connected so much you can't be away from your phone for 30 min?
... in other news, conquerors of European origin enjoyed an "unnatural" advantage over the natives by owning guns - they were not "winning" any territories, despite all the media fanfare.
Reading time is completely irrelevant. If Watson id held back by humanly slow reading, it can make it up by calculating the answer faster (eg more processors or improved algorithm). Once you can algorithmize something, it will ride with moore's law. The achievement was to demonstrate a formerly human-only capability, and it succeeded.
If you're going to be using electrical heating, you might as well get some useful work out of that energy instead of just setting it on fire.
Maybe it will be illegal in the future NOT to combine electrical heating with computer processing. Your electrical heater won't work without it receiving Folding@Home and other distributed computing tasks which in turn generate heat. In some countries kWh price is based on peak/off-peak hours and other policies; it would be illegal or extremely expensive to directly convert electrical power to the high entropy heating without harvesting computational power.
That's nothing! In my youth, my father had to build his own welding apparatus just so he can build his concrete mixer whih he then used to build our family house.
Sorry but this dr deserves to be shot, next thing he'll be figuring out how to measure the sides of a triangle given then lengths of the other two sides.
Questions: - How many sides does a triangle have, beyond the two given sides? - Is it trivial to calculate one side of a triangle, given the lengths of the other two sides?
What is slow enough? And what if it happens overnight - the person waking up will enjoy perfect continuity with his former biological state.
Maybe it will be socially accepted that we die and reborn on a daily basis, e.g. via the use of teleportation. Whoever is stepping out on the far end will have confirmation that teleportation works and his self remained intact.
The Iphone 4 has a glass back cover as a means of testing if the general public is OK with a rear touchpad in Iphone 5. Or maybe the Ios 5.0 will enable it in the Iphone 4 as well !
I install Linux from time to time and have an Ubuntu only laptop. While technically it is a decent tradesman's product it is still rough at the edges and is far from a coherent UI experience - let alone some Appleesque polish or an aesthetically pleasing experience.
It would however be possible to address rather than duplicate the shortcomings of Windows systems. But Desktop Linux is mainly a follower in features and usability rather than an innovator. Windows does not break new ground either.
Bootless computers are a reality. The operating system needs to be written in flash memory (or ROM, with flash memory patching). It's simple. The boot time of popular OSes stems from two reasons: Microsoft is a technically uninspired desktop OS monopoly; Linux has server origins and Linux on the desktop is nothing but an uninspired copycat of an uninspired MS implementation.
The Commodore 64 featured a bootless design like 30 years ago.
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Yes, Microsoft is a convicted abusive monopoly, they "cut off Netscape's air supply" etc.
I see people sitting in hot tubes at my gym using them, and it's like do you really need to be connected so much you can't be away from your phone for 30 min?
The Internet is a series of hot tubes.
I used to work for a three-person company that had higher profit per employee than that of Google, Apple or Valve.
... in other news, conquerors of European origin enjoyed an "unnatural" advantage over the natives by owning guns - they were not "winning" any territories, despite all the media fanfare.
Reading time is completely irrelevant. If Watson id held back by humanly slow reading, it can make it up by calculating the answer faster (eg more processors or improved algorithm). Once you can algorithmize something, it will ride with moore's law. The achievement was to demonstrate a formerly human-only capability, and it succeeded.
Necessity is the mother of all invention - let there be an app that alerts me when this guy is in a 1000 mile vicinity!
I see this tribalism is wrong argument popping up quite often
Pretty much any time you have to resort to playing the -ism card in a debate, you're admitting your argument is weak.
This is pure antiismism, so your argument is weak.
1. Maybe the Chinese already possess the secrets and want to legalize it on moral grounds.
2. Maybe GE is planning to indirectly increase their sales of medical imaging products.
3. Maybe GE actually thought about all pros and cons and came to the conlcusion that the deal is worth it.
4. Maybe China will get richer and buy more of GE's and other Western companies' stuff.
5. Maybe new technology will supercede the current one in five years.
6. Maybe those Chinese planes will be safer with GE tech than without.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
What made you choose or invent this sig?
If you're going to be using electrical heating, you might as well get some useful work out of that energy instead of just setting it on fire.
Maybe it will be illegal in the future NOT to combine electrical heating with computer processing. Your electrical heater won't work without it receiving Folding@Home and other distributed computing tasks which in turn generate heat. In some countries kWh price is based on peak/off-peak hours and other policies; it would be illegal or extremely expensive to directly convert electrical power to the high entropy heating without harvesting computational power.
That's nothing! In my youth, my father had to build his own welding apparatus just so he can build his concrete mixer whih he then used to build our family house.
There was also a report on a sea snail which had chlorophyll incorporated in its body, giving it a green color and energy source:
http://www.google.hu/m/search?site=images&source=mog&hl=hu&gl=hu&client=safari&q=sea%20snail%20clorophyll#i=3
Maybe all 38 studies cited it as an example for either ineffective peer review or meaningless impact metrics.
Sorry but this dr deserves to be shot, next thing he'll be figuring out how to measure the sides of a triangle given then lengths of the other two sides.
Questions:
- How many sides does a triangle have, beyond the two given sides?
- Is it trivial to calculate one side of a triangle, given the lengths of the other two sides?
What is slow enough? And what if it happens overnight - the person waking up will enjoy perfect continuity with his former biological state.
Maybe it will be socially accepted that we die and reborn on a daily basis, e.g. via the use of teleportation. Whoever is stepping out on the far end will have confirmation that teleportation works and his self remained intact.
The Iphone 4 has a glass back cover as a means of testing if the general public is OK with a rear touchpad in Iphone 5. Or maybe the Ios 5.0 will enable it in the Iphone 4 as well !
originally: most of the scientists ever born are still alive
Gosu, your new name is GOSUB but please never come back.
Can I buy it as an elecrtonic copy, e.g. Kindle?
I haven't RTFA, but a bounty of natural resources may have serious drawbacks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
... and make your visit to Mars in the last 10 when the money grew to billions and technology will have advanced.
I install Linux from time to time and have an Ubuntu only laptop. While technically it is a decent tradesman's product it is still rough at the edges and is far from a coherent UI experience - let alone some Appleesque polish or an aesthetically pleasing experience.
It would however be possible to address rather than duplicate the shortcomings of Windows systems. But Desktop Linux is mainly a follower in features and usability rather than an innovator. Windows does not break new ground either.
Bootless computers are a reality. The operating system needs to be written in flash memory (or ROM, with flash
memory patching). It's simple. The boot time of popular OSes stems from two reasons: Microsoft is a technically uninspired desktop OS monopoly; Linux has server origins and Linux on the desktop is nothing but an uninspired copycat of an uninspired MS implementation.
The Commodore 64 featured a bootless design like 30 years ago.
should be enough for anybody
This is stupid. They may just want to give the impression of competition to mislead regulators. MS is a convicted monopolist.