"but Microsoft has released some interesting benchmarks that show the system to be quicker than Intel's current integrated DirectX 10 graphics. Running Crysis at 800 x 600 with the lowest quality settings, an eight-core Core i7 system managed an average frame rate of 7.36fps, compared with 5.17fps from Intel's DirectX 10 integrated graphics."
Advice for future: when you asked to do something you either already did or think is irrelevant, just play along. Pretend you are doing what they ask, but don't actually do it. Worked great for me.
"All right, I'm doing that as we speak... Wait... Wait.... Nope, it did not help."
Precisely. It's been done many times over. People who have now real understanding of how brains work think that if they through an obscene amount of computing power at it they will come up with a solution. How naive.
However honeybee is probably not the best example. They can solve very complex tasks, but they don't learn to do that. They are sort of programmed to do what they do. Their learning capacity is rather limited, I imagine.
I have one lappy with Transmeta CPU. Runs HORRIBLY slow, worth than PII@233MHz (which I had at that time). Battery life is nothing impressive. Practically unusable machine.
but with Python I haven't had any problems scaling to thousands of lines of code. Partly I think I've gotten to be a more disciplined programmer, partly I think Python's a better language for scalability.
Thousands lines of code is not scalability -- it is still a tiny application. With a bit of discipline easily maintainable in any language, including Assembler.
You don't encounter scalability issues until you reach 100 000 lines code or more.
Sure, I thought of that argument when I wrote my post. Of course, if you through an obscene amount of money at any given task you can make computer to outperform people -- be it flying plane or playing chess.
But in all occasions these programs operate by relying on processed and formalized existing knowledge, in case of chess - probably ALL OF IT. They do not create any new knowledge. Step out of the boundaries of the program and it will fail.
Yep. It does not really raise any questions, profound or not -- computers can't be conscious, period.
With today's cheap processing power and storage it is feasible to make a program that will react adequately on a great variety of questions. That's not intelligence, though.
Just tell it a reasonably non-trivial joke and ask the machine to explain what is funny there. Call me when machine can handle that one without having a database of all the jokes in the world.
I fail to understand, why is this about Open Source? It has to be, primarily, about crappy patent. A patent for "controlling model trains via PC"? That's bullshit, real trains had been controlled that way for ages.
The fact that the guy actually stole the s/w is secondary, since if he just stole the s/w and did not patent it, there would be no lawsuit.
Nice model, but totally impractical. Tsunami waves are extremely long, like hundreds of meters. You will need to surround your island with these pillars for the same order of distance, or these pillars will be invisible to tsunami, and not in the way authors intended.
So we are tacking what, thousands of pillars surrounding the island? Really dumb idea.
It's not that simple. I'm certain current drives already do not use just two levels to store bits at every position. It's more likely they use a lot more complex modulation scheme.
To say that one pass of random write can be easily recovered means that you can ALSO double the capacity of the drive, in which case it would have been done by the drive's manufacturer. And THAT in fact has already been done, so in all likelihood one pass of zeros will be enough to stop anyone from recovering data.
But it is a wrong question to ask. It's like asking "how many of you ever purchased stuff based on receiving spam email?" -- It will be virtually nobody, but we all know SPAM WORKS for those spammers....
My thoughts exactly. "What? Somebody still uses AOL?"
Although they are notorious for making it impossible to terminate their service... I mean, possible, but extremely hard. Google "terminate AOL", it is a fun read.
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Nothing to see there. RTFA if you want to be certain of that.
I especially hate robotic receptionist. As if having to speak to voice recognition thing over the phone is not annoying enough.
"but Microsoft has released some interesting benchmarks that show the system to be quicker than Intel's current integrated DirectX 10 graphics. Running Crysis at 800 x 600 with the lowest quality settings, an eight-core Core i7 system managed an average frame rate of 7.36fps, compared with 5.17fps from Intel's DirectX 10 integrated graphics."
That's some interesting benchmark indeed.
Advice for future: when you asked to do something you either already did or think is irrelevant, just play along. Pretend you are doing what they ask, but don't actually do it. Worked great for me.
"All right, I'm doing that as we speak... Wait... Wait.... Nope, it did not help."
Although you correct on most points, you should not discourage OP. As hard as it is, starting and running successful business is not impossible.
For some niche products you actually CAN getaway without proper management and marketing team.
I can't believe people spend their lives doing this stuff, i.e. searching and fighting "abuse of character".
It is sad, get a life people. Do something productive.
Precisely. It's been done many times over. People who have now real understanding of how brains work think that if they through an obscene amount of computing power at it they will come up with a solution. How naive.
However honeybee is probably not the best example. They can solve very complex tasks, but they don't learn to do that. They are sort of programmed to do what they do. Their learning capacity is rather limited, I imagine.
I have one lappy with Transmeta CPU. Runs HORRIBLY slow, worth than PII@233MHz (which I had at that time).
Battery life is nothing impressive. Practically unusable machine.
I noticed that too... But not just intellectual property. Intellectual property and all of it's assets!
Perhaps for ground service vehicles in airports.
Who the hell is this Andrew Keen and why do we need to discuss his predictions?
Exactly. Only dumb admin's would use gmail for their corporate email. If only for one reason -- by doing so you outsource your own job. That is dumb.
Man, that is so arrogant. It is different in every assembler. In PIC asm it is GOTO.
but with Python I haven't had any problems scaling to thousands of lines of code. Partly I think I've gotten to be a more disciplined programmer, partly I think Python's a better language for scalability.
Thousands lines of code is not scalability -- it is still a tiny application. With a bit of discipline easily maintainable in any language, including Assembler.
You don't encounter scalability issues until you reach 100 000 lines code or more.
Recognizable? Yeah, right. They don't even look like sisters.
Anyway, this is non-news. Face morphing has been around for years.
Sure, I thought of that argument when I wrote my post. Of course, if you through an obscene amount of money at any given task you can make computer to outperform people -- be it flying plane or playing chess.
But in all occasions these programs operate by relying on processed and formalized existing knowledge, in case of chess - probably ALL OF IT. They do not create any new knowledge. Step out of the boundaries of the program and it will fail.
Yep. It does not really raise any questions, profound or not -- computers can't be conscious, period.
With today's cheap processing power and storage it is feasible to make a program that will react adequately on a great variety of questions. That's not intelligence, though.
Just tell it a reasonably non-trivial joke and ask the machine to explain what is funny there. Call me when machine can handle that one without having a database of all the jokes in the world.
As far as I know, downloading a ripped copy is NOT copyright infringing. Only active distribution of copyrighted material is infringing.
So don't worry, go right ahead, download all you want.
I fail to understand, why is this about Open Source? It has to be, primarily, about crappy patent. A patent for "controlling model trains via PC"? That's bullshit, real trains had been controlled that way for ages.
The fact that the guy actually stole the s/w is secondary, since if he just stole the s/w and did not patent it, there would be no lawsuit.
Nice model, but totally impractical. Tsunami waves are extremely long, like hundreds of meters. You will need to surround your island with these pillars for the same order of distance, or these pillars will be invisible to tsunami, and not in the way authors intended.
So we are tacking what, thousands of pillars surrounding the island? Really dumb idea.
It's not that simple. I'm certain current drives already do not use just two levels to store bits at every position. It's more likely they use a lot more complex modulation scheme.
To say that one pass of random write can be easily recovered means that you can ALSO double the capacity of the drive, in which case it would have been done by the drive's manufacturer. And THAT in fact has already been done, so in all likelihood one pass of zeros will be enough to stop anyone from recovering data.
But it is a wrong question to ask. It's like asking "how many of you ever purchased stuff based on receiving spam email?" -- It will be virtually nobody, but we all know SPAM WORKS for those spammers....
Yep, I don't remember seeing an ad banner in a long time on the Internet.
If I have profile on facebook, they have all the power to display all the ads they want on my profile, without my permission. And they do.
The only entity in position to sell ad space of those "influential" friends is Facebook.
It is really stupid to involve users into this.
...elections should be a contest of ideas and not of pocketbooks â" at least not in the sense of straight-out 'I can buy your vote.'
I like his 'at least' clarification.
My thoughts exactly. "What? Somebody still uses AOL?"
Although they are notorious for making it impossible to terminate their service... I mean, possible, but extremely hard. Google "terminate AOL", it is a fun read.