Definitely, a guy must have steel balls to ride that! Even more so considering that their testing budget is rather limited, like the rest of the project.
military applications pretty much require that the user control the skies
And you only control the skies if you have the most advanced hardware in the world. Creating an autonomous unmanned aircraft is not so hard, the Germans did that in WWII, the big question is if that aircraft can defeat its enemies.
Iraq in 1991 had slightly obsolete Soviet weapons, the US took no notice of them.
Sexual abuse isn't the only kind of crime that receives unusually harsh punishment. Ethanol consumption is treated much worse, and it isn't even a crime.
If rape were treated like drunk driving you would not be allowed to have a penis if you had a perceptible blood testosterone level.
Expect Julian Assange to be arrested on DUI/DWI charges soon.
Java is their language. Don't like it? Don't use Java.
Myself, I never use Java because I don't like the language, that's my personal choice. But if Google wanted to use Java in a different way they should create their own derivative like Microsoft did with C#.
It feels kinda strange to defend Microsoft, but that's the way it is.
So, if I understand you correctly... the Kirchners help corporate friends, and group Clarín is a good and big company that Argentinians should be proud of. Yet, in help of "their corporate friends", the Kirchner are pushing antimonopolic laws.
The Kirchners were glad to help Grupo Clarín build their monopoly as long as Grupo Clarín supported the Kirchner family political plans.
Now that Grupo Clarín has adopted an opposition editorial policy the Kirchners are trying to break up the monopoly they built.
That's why I'm a Libertarian at heart and believe that the government should stay as far away from the economy as possible.
Argentina is in America or is one of the Americas.
Actually, South America is the original America.
When Amerigo Vespucci explored the coast of Brazil in the early 1500s the data he brought back to Europe was used by a cartographer to draw a map where the land was named America in his honor. The naming of North America came later.
In conclusion, and at the risk of being moderated "flamebait", I must say that to me a citizen of North America calling himself an American is more or less like a citizen of West Virginia calling himself a Virginian. Not quite correct historically, but OK, so what.
US has wiped a country off a map, it was called Iraq
Checks World map. Nope, it's still there. When you wipe a country off the map you do it like North Vietnam did when they invaded South Vietnam, a border ceases to exist.
As for exploding bombs in markets, there's a very big [Citation Needed] here. Are American suicide soldiers wearing bomb vests and blowing them up?
AFAIK the motivation for suicide terrorists is the promise of going to a paradise with a bunch of virgins. The Iranian government officially believes this to be true, they are a theocracy. This is no proof that Iran is behind the terrorists in Iraq, of course, but it's a plausible theory at least.
If you look at the map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement you'll see that they had considered that.
The Shia area of current Iraq would be a British colony, while the Sunni part would be a French protectorate. Too bad the Kurds were completely forgotten in the pact.
This is just a replacement for the barcode, right?
Even if it were, it would be dangerous. Giving someone remote access to your passport/ID card number is a security risk by itself.
They already have your face, anyone can take a picture of your face without you knowing it. If they can create a fake document matching that face to the right document number that's a big step towards stealing your identity.
Can anybody or the editors explain the relevance to "my rights online" of this story, or why it would be considered news for nerds?
It's about "rights" because one of the corporations involved, Grupo Clarín, is a media company that has an editorial policy that opposes the current government of Argentina.
It's not a business decision, it's a political decision, and a frightening one.
The only problem with your analogy is that, except for price, Apple products are much closer to puppet shows than to TV.
Only one provider, you cannot switch channels, that's a puppet show, not TV. And you listen to Steve Jobs for his wisdom, and hear about outside events from travelers. All together, it costs OVER TWICE what a netbook costs.
Being in possession of a penis and attracted to women does not make anyone a potential rapist or provide motivation for being one
In criminal parlance, "motive" means what caused the crime to be committed. It does not mean that the crime is justified or that other people in the same situation would act the same way.
Unless someone has a motive, the crime does *not* happen, it's as simple as that.
However, every person is an individual, circumstances that might provide a motive for one person may not motivate others.
Not a very accurate measurement IMHO, although its just "popularity" after all
Google searches aren't directly related to popularity. When I first started using Ubuntu I used to do a lot of searches for "how to something ubuntu".
These days I rarely search for "Ubuntu" anymore. I just use it on a day to day basis, at home and at work.
When I do a search for a Linux distro it's usually about one that I had never heard of, and most probably will never use, I just want to keep tabs on what's happening.
Crime needs three things: motive, means, opportunity.
Motive, no big deal, being a heterosexual male is enough.
Means, easy, every man comes equipped with that.
Opportunity, that's the big problem.
I have lived in Sweden and cannot say I had any difficulty in picking willing girls in bars there, and I'm not even famous like Assange.
A man with his record of fighting government corruption would have an idol status in Sweden, he would have to hire security guards to keep the girls away.
If there's one case where the accused should be presumed innocent, this is it.
Let's say Kurzweil has been too optimistic about the rate of growth of our understanding of the way the brain works
I think he was right on the spot with the timing estimate regarding us having the right hardware available.
Looking from my personal perspective, here is a list of all the computers I have owned, with year when purchased and clock speed:
1987- 8 MHz 8088 CPU 1991- 33 MHz 386 CPU 1996- 133 MHz Pentium CPU 1999- 500 MHz Pentium III CPU 2004- 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Notice the clock speed quadrupling every five years or so.
Then around 2005 CPU speeds stopped growing, motherboards are too big to let a bit travel from one end to the other in a clock cycle that's faster than 3 GHz or so, a physical limit broke Moore's law. But then came multi core machines. My current computer bought in 2010 has a four core i5-750 CPU, keeping with the five years quadrupling rate.
I estimate that a machine capable of simulating all the neurons in a human brain in real time would need a million cores, by quadrupling every five years we would need 45 years to have that capacity in an average desktop computer. This seems to indicate Kurzweil is too optimistic.
But wait, the processing power is not just about the CPU, the total capacity must be considered.
My current computer has a 48 core graphics card, which can be used for neural networks. This means my desktop capacity did not get multiplied by four in the last five years, it was multiplied by 50! And what I spend in computers is going down over the years.
Let's assume I spend today the $2000 I spent in my 1991 computer, adjusted for inflation. I could get a 1000 cores machine, meaning I need to quadruple processing power five times to get to a million cores.
Twenty five years to have a desktop computer with the capacity to simulate each neuron in a human brain in real time, with luck Kurzweill will still be alive to see his vindication.
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Definitely, a guy must have steel balls to ride that! Even more so considering that their testing budget is rather limited, like the rest of the project.
As far as I remember, when a western nation tried to wipe a Muslim nation off the map NATO and the USA came to help the Muslims.
And you only control the skies if you have the most advanced hardware in the world. Creating an autonomous unmanned aircraft is not so hard, the Germans did that in WWII, the big question is if that aircraft can defeat its enemies.
Iraq in 1991 had slightly obsolete Soviet weapons, the US took no notice of them.
Sexual abuse isn't the only kind of crime that receives unusually harsh punishment. Ethanol consumption is treated much worse, and it isn't even a crime.
If rape were treated like drunk driving you would not be allowed to have a penis if you had a perceptible blood testosterone level.
Expect Julian Assange to be arrested on DUI/DWI charges soon.
Java is their language. Don't like it? Don't use Java.
Myself, I never use Java because I don't like the language, that's my personal choice. But if Google wanted to use Java in a different way they should create their own derivative like Microsoft did with C#.
It feels kinda strange to defend Microsoft, but that's the way it is.
The Kirchners were glad to help Grupo Clarín build their monopoly as long as Grupo Clarín supported the Kirchner family political plans.
Now that Grupo Clarín has adopted an opposition editorial policy the Kirchners are trying to break up the monopoly they built.
That's why I'm a Libertarian at heart and believe that the government should stay as far away from the economy as possible.
Actually, South America is the original America.
When Amerigo Vespucci explored the coast of Brazil in the early 1500s the data he brought back to Europe was used by a cartographer to draw a map where the land was named America in his honor. The naming of North America came later.
In conclusion, and at the risk of being moderated "flamebait", I must say that to me a citizen of North America calling himself an American is more or less like a citizen of West Virginia calling himself a Virginian. Not quite correct historically, but OK, so what.
Checks World map. Nope, it's still there. When you wipe a country off the map you do it like North Vietnam did when they invaded South Vietnam, a border ceases to exist.
As for exploding bombs in markets, there's a very big [Citation Needed] here. Are American suicide soldiers wearing bomb vests and blowing them up?
AFAIK the motivation for suicide terrorists is the promise of going to a paradise with a bunch of virgins. The Iranian government officially believes this to be true, they are a theocracy. This is no proof that Iran is behind the terrorists in Iraq, of course, but it's a plausible theory at least.
If you look at the map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement you'll see that they had considered that.
The Shia area of current Iraq would be a British colony, while the Sunni part would be a French protectorate. Too bad the Kurds were completely forgotten in the pact.
If that were a reasonable argument the Soviet embassy in Washington should have been invaded in the 1950s. Citation among many others.
Even if it were, it would be dangerous. Giving someone remote access to your passport/ID card number is a security risk by itself.
They already have your face, anyone can take a picture of your face without you knowing it. If they can create a fake document matching that face to the right document number that's a big step towards stealing your identity.
No way! I'm not getting a phone to run emacs. OTOH, give me a phone that runs vi and I'll buy it.
It's about "rights" because one of the corporations involved, Grupo Clarín, is a media company that has an editorial policy that opposes the current government of Argentina.
It's not a business decision, it's a political decision, and a frightening one.
The only problem with your analogy is that, except for price, Apple products are much closer to puppet shows than to TV.
Only one provider, you cannot switch channels, that's a puppet show, not TV. And you listen to Steve Jobs for his wisdom, and hear about outside events from travelers. All together, it costs OVER TWICE what a netbook costs.
In criminal parlance, "motive" means what caused the crime to be committed. It does not mean that the crime is justified or that other people in the same situation would act the same way.
Unless someone has a motive, the crime does *not* happen, it's as simple as that.
However, every person is an individual, circumstances that might provide a motive for one person may not motivate others.
Well, surprise, the Taliban *are* the bad guys. But that doesn't mean anything goes.
Being the good guys also means being subject to higher standards.
Google searches aren't directly related to popularity. When I first started using Ubuntu I used to do a lot of searches for "how to something ubuntu".
These days I rarely search for "Ubuntu" anymore. I just use it on a day to day basis, at home and at work.
When I do a search for a Linux distro it's usually about one that I had never heard of, and most probably will never use, I just want to keep tabs on what's happening.
Perhaps, but in Assange's case, he wields power by publishing secret documents. Not quite the profile of a rapist.
I'm not so sure about that. People always want some extra feature.
If they install that awesome app in their phone they'll start wondering, "if the phone is like this, imagine the desktop".
Crime needs three things: motive, means, opportunity.
Motive, no big deal, being a heterosexual male is enough.
Means, easy, every man comes equipped with that.
Opportunity, that's the big problem.
I have lived in Sweden and cannot say I had any difficulty in picking willing girls in bars there, and I'm not even famous like Assange.
A man with his record of fighting government corruption would have an idol status in Sweden, he would have to hire security guards to keep the girls away.
If there's one case where the accused should be presumed innocent, this is it.
What struck me in TFA was the scale of the project. 3.6 MW will provide 4% of the whole country's electricity needs.
To put it into perspective, the largest power plant in the world, Itaipu dam, has a 14000 MW capacity.
I think he was right on the spot with the timing estimate regarding us having the right hardware available.
Looking from my personal perspective, here is a list of all the computers I have owned, with year when purchased and clock speed:
1987- 8 MHz 8088 CPU
1991- 33 MHz 386 CPU
1996- 133 MHz Pentium CPU
1999- 500 MHz Pentium III CPU
2004- 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Notice the clock speed quadrupling every five years or so.
Then around 2005 CPU speeds stopped growing, motherboards are too big to let a bit travel from one end to the other in a clock cycle that's faster than 3 GHz or so, a physical limit broke Moore's law. But then came multi core machines. My current computer bought in 2010 has a four core i5-750 CPU, keeping with the five years quadrupling rate.
I estimate that a machine capable of simulating all the neurons in a human brain in real time would need a million cores, by quadrupling every five years we would need 45 years to have that capacity in an average desktop computer. This seems to indicate Kurzweil is too optimistic.
But wait, the processing power is not just about the CPU, the total capacity must be considered.
My current computer has a 48 core graphics card, which can be used for neural networks. This means my desktop capacity did not get multiplied by four in the last five years, it was multiplied by 50! And what I spend in computers is going down over the years.
Let's assume I spend today the $2000 I spent in my 1991 computer, adjusted for inflation. I could get a 1000 cores machine, meaning I need to quadruple processing power five times to get to a million cores.
Twenty five years to have a desktop computer with the capacity to simulate each neuron in a human brain in real time, with luck Kurzweill will still be alive to see his vindication.
Funny that you interpreted it like this. I had to read your post twice and think what made you mention homosexuality with relation to the GP.
When I read "the protein is straight" I thought the joke was that it isn't folded, so all the effort spent in studying protein folding was in vain.
Wanna bet they aren't blondes?
So, you have to be really dumb to use steroids. The prosecution rests.