Actually this is false. Emacs is the only thing computer-related that doesn't seriously aggravate my RSI (including console controllers, mice, and using anything else to do software development. I haven't used a tablet PC yet, but things don't look promising.)
Artificial intelligence is trying to make computers do things that are currently very hard for a computer to do, but very easy for a human to do. Once there are ubiquitous algorithms / hardware to do something as fast as a human can, we remove it from the category of "things computers will never be able to do as well as people."
Well, you also have control over the cord that connects the handset to the receiver, so you have a lot more control over how the sound gets to you than you would otherwise.
I obviously misspoke, and meant unicast. But the point remains, there's no reason to put required throttling in the client, and streaming is a bigger drain than p2p.
uTorrent has always had very fine control over how much bandwidth you used, per-torrent and overall.
All this does is move the throttling the ISPs used to do for no reason to the user's computer to do for no reason. It's a myth that BitTorrent causes a lot of strain on networks - it's multicast streaming like Hulu and Pandora that really do a number on their networks.
But Hulu and Pandora aren't used to download illegal things (never mind MediaFire, Rapidshare, surfthechannel and their brethren handling illegal multicast quite well.)
Oh wait - that's how everyone pirates stuff since they started cracking down on p2p.
You get the $100 dollars from the reduced electricity bill you'll have if you don't try to use a 10 year old 300 Watt machine to do the job of a brand new 5 watt one.
Well, it is a US phenomenon, it just hasn't been that way here for decades. Look at the Washington Post during the Nixon administration - they are really the ones responsible for exposing him as a crook. The first newspapers functioned almost exactly like blogs, except in a physically communal viewing space instead of the Internet.
Newspapers have mostly abdicated their role, which is why we're moving to Blogs, etc.
I think you need to read up on the historical role of newspapers. Pedro Chamorro Cardenal was the editor of La Prensa in Nicaragua, and he was a powerful opposition leader in his own right. His murder effectively started the Sandinista revolution.
You've just become accustomed to "newspaper" meaning "establishment drivel."
Yeah, I have an AMD K6 2 486 mhz sitting with my old, degraded tech. It's old enough now that I've decided to hold on to it for posterity. I need to see if I can get it in gear sooner or later.
Not really. Make sure the parts are disposed of properly, and buy something with more power for $100 that actually uses significantly less power, so if it's used for a decent amount of time, the power cost dwarfs the cost of the hardware.
Definitely. That's why it wouldn't surprise me too much if someone announced it tomorrow, but it will probably take decades.
And the biggest application I see is fast engineering, whether of software or hardware. I'd expect the first AIs to require a datacenter, so the sort of robots you often associate with AI would probably not be what the first generation would be doing.
If it's a truly sentient AI, you can just hand it Firefox with all the documentation and say "Make this as fast as you can, and remove any possible security issues. If you need any help on what constitutes a security issue, take a look at these books and blogs."
Once that's done, have the AI sit in memory looking for emergent threats.
Unless they've solved strong AI and plan to just sit in and have the AI write perfect software for them so they can rake in the licensing fees until someone else figures it out.
Wow, this thread is full of trolls. There are a lot of legitimate complaints about software on Linux, but a limited selection of shit is not one of them.
It doesn't prove that the speed of light is constant, but it does reasonably prove that the speed of light is independent of wavelength, since they left from the same source at the same time.
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That sounds vaguely familiar
I have feverishly been engaged in whacking moles, and cannot for the life of me comprehend why they continue to pop up.
Actually this is false. Emacs is the only thing computer-related that doesn't seriously aggravate my RSI (including console controllers, mice, and using anything else to do software development. I haven't used a tablet PC yet, but things don't look promising.)
Artificial intelligence is trying to make computers do things that are currently very hard for a computer to do, but very easy for a human to do. Once there are ubiquitous algorithms / hardware to do something as fast as a human can, we remove it from the category of "things computers will never be able to do as well as people."
Well, you also have control over the cord that connects the handset to the receiver, so you have a lot more control over how the sound gets to you than you would otherwise.
But I'd rather use Pidgin.
I obviously misspoke, and meant unicast. But the point remains, there's no reason to put required throttling in the client, and streaming is a bigger drain than p2p.
uTorrent has always had very fine control over how much bandwidth you used, per-torrent and overall.
All this does is move the throttling the ISPs used to do for no reason to the user's computer to do for no reason. It's a myth that BitTorrent causes a lot of strain on networks - it's multicast streaming like Hulu and Pandora that really do a number on their networks.
But Hulu and Pandora aren't used to download illegal things (never mind MediaFire, Rapidshare, surfthechannel and their brethren handling illegal multicast quite well.)
Oh wait - that's how everyone pirates stuff since they started cracking down on p2p.
You get the $100 dollars from the reduced electricity bill you'll have if you don't try to use a 10 year old 300 Watt machine to do the job of a brand new 5 watt one.
Well, it is a US phenomenon, it just hasn't been that way here for decades. Look at the Washington Post during the Nixon administration - they are really the ones responsible for exposing him as a crook. The first newspapers functioned almost exactly like blogs, except in a physically communal viewing space instead of the Internet.
Newspapers have mostly abdicated their role, which is why we're moving to Blogs, etc.
I think you need to read up on the historical role of newspapers. Pedro Chamorro Cardenal was the editor of La Prensa in Nicaragua, and he was a powerful opposition leader in his own right. His murder effectively started the Sandinista revolution.
You've just become accustomed to "newspaper" meaning "establishment drivel."
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I guess, but most people on Slashdot don't really care either way. We'd rather have a massive breakthrough than play it safe. I know I'm conflicted.
I know it's not the best coding practice, but I usually just set thisAlgorithmBecomingSkynetCost to Random(); because I don't really care.
Yeah, I have an AMD K6 2 486 mhz sitting with my old, degraded tech. It's old enough now that I've decided to hold on to it for posterity. I need to see if I can get it in gear sooner or later.
Not really. Make sure the parts are disposed of properly, and buy something with more power for $100 that actually uses significantly less power, so if it's used for a decent amount of time, the power cost dwarfs the cost of the hardware.
"These folks" made no such decisions. The decisions were made by people above their pay grade (both in business and government.)
Definitely. That's why it wouldn't surprise me too much if someone announced it tomorrow, but it will probably take decades.
And the biggest application I see is fast engineering, whether of software or hardware. I'd expect the first AIs to require a datacenter, so the sort of robots you often associate with AI would probably not be what the first generation would be doing.
If it's a truly sentient AI, you can just hand it Firefox with all the documentation and say "Make this as fast as you can, and remove any possible security issues. If you need any help on what constitutes a security issue, take a look at these books and blogs."
Once that's done, have the AI sit in memory looking for emergent threats.
The internet is more than TCP/IP,though that's the main part. This was the first protocol used in any capacity.
Unless they've solved strong AI and plan to just sit in and have the AI write perfect software for them so they can rake in the licensing fees until someone else figures it out.
Don't trivialize it. It is hard. But it's the best solution.
Wow, this thread is full of trolls. There are a lot of legitimate complaints about software on Linux, but a limited selection of shit is not one of them.
s/newer/older/ and you might have a point. Maybe.
I think, the power of a sun would be a better thing to say. And also more badass, creating an artificial controlled sun.
It doesn't prove that the speed of light is constant, but it does reasonably prove that the speed of light is independent of wavelength, since they left from the same source at the same time.
Google has far better uptime than any local IT department I've worked with.