I'm a gamer and do some fairly heavy duty work (though I know some do heavier). I bought a new machine about three years ago as a gift to myself for graduating and I wanted to play with an i7 machine. So far I have a hard time maxing the processor out even running multiple games at once. I wont upgrade for some time, except maybe new graphics cards.
When I was younger I was watching a lightning storm out the window. About 100 yards away I saw a ball of light above a tree and a moment later there was a flash of lightning so bright I lost my night vision for a few moments and there was instant thunder. I suspect it was a leader for the lightning or something like that rather than ball lightning, but who knows.
Technology is neutral, it is who uses it and how they use it that determines if it is good or bad. I agree that having people around with or without cameras wont make a lot of difference, it will only matter who those people are and what they do with that technology.
My biggest nitpick (as I type of one of these computers) is keyboards that look the same but have funciton keys in different places. I contract for two companies, one uses Dell and the other uses Lenovo. Lenovo puts the Fn key in the lower left and Ctrl to the right of that, Lenovo reverses them. I've always used Ctrl-F4 to close tabs, guess what happens when I'm going betwen those two computers and Fn-F4 is used for sleep? Bye-Bye programs with network licensing that requires always being connected...
I'm glad Lenovo went back to the (IMHO) proper layout of Ctrl in the lower left when i bought my last personal laptop from them... but this kind of makes it even worse when I go back to my work Lenovo and find Fn down there.
While I think his statement is a tad excessive, I work for a software contracting company and my company as well as two of the companies we contract for have virtually eliminated desktops for software development. The only desktops remaining are lower powered applications where the old desktop wont need replaced for a few years. This is mostly so that they can get us to work from home but whatever...
My two year old droid bionic is running just fine for me except for the battery is dying and I haven't been able to find anyone selling new droid bionic batteries anymore (amazon lies or else the batteries are seriously subpar if new).
They got hopeful after 2004? Notice other than windows 7 (and no idea yet about 9), there is no improvement since 2001. For the most part xp still works fine for me except for 7 handling more powerful machines better.
Reading this did make me think. I could probably live with metro as my desktop BACKGROUND. It is when it becomes a full screen exclusive (Steam tried the same thing and when it wouldn't turn off I was ready to stop using Steam) that doesn't share with other apps that it has to die.
Like netflix chaning their nice listing format to movie art. It takes me so much longer to find the movie I want by looking at box art rather than scanning title names.
Well at least the swings seem to be reducing. XP was really good (once we got a couple SPs anyway) and Vista was utter trash. Win 7 improved on XP a little bit and Win 8 gave up a little bit to XP (or almost gave up nothing if you install software that makes it... mostly... run like Win 7).
The Apollo program is certainly not at a peer level or more advanced than our current capabilities. I don't think the technical level is going to be the major issue.
My credit card number was stolen two or three times with one particular card years ago and never again. Through theft of my credit card the thieves had no access to my bank accounts and the extent of fighting with the card issuer was a single phone call to list which transactions were not legitimate. Total cost to me about 10 minutes of time, worth well less than $10.
To do everything in cash I would have to carry around $3-400 in cash and would still be short on the occasional rare transaction. Theft of that would be far more catastrophic.
Ultimately though I think I would prefer prepaid, disposable charge cards if they gave me the same cash back as credit cards...
“Due to the anonymized/cryptographic nature of the currency, it is almost impossible to track whether an individual has experienced a theft or loss due to other reasons–malware, a corrupt “wallet” which is stored on your hard drive, etc–and it’s especially difficult to determine with any accuracy where the stolen currency might have gone once ‘stolen’”
And anti-global warming seems just as religious as AGW to me. IMH(or not so humble)O we need to focus on actually learning how things work and applying knowledge. Both sides seem to be only paying attention to observations to back up their theories rather than taking all observations and building a complete model, with nothing invested in any specific result.
There is hyperbol and panic on both sides. Doesn't mean either side is 100% right or wrong. With humans it is usally a pretty heavy mix of right and wrong.
I think Mass Effect had a good take on this (though I suspect they stole the idea from somewhere)... We don't have AI yet, we have VI. Real AI that Asimov's laws could apply to is intelligence that can learn and decide on its own. What we have now is "intelligence" governed by fixed algorithms that will always make the same decision in the same situation. When AI can modify its own code and change its mind, lets talk about things like Asimov's laws.
Sounds like the same arguments I've heard for the F-14 vs the F-18 (though I think the maintenance on the F-14 was higher but the F-14 had much higher payloads). Still the F-18 won out in the eyes of the government. Not that that means much these days.
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I'm a gamer and do some fairly heavy duty work (though I know some do heavier). I bought a new machine about three years ago as a gift to myself for graduating and I wanted to play with an i7 machine. So far I have a hard time maxing the processor out even running multiple games at once. I wont upgrade for some time, except maybe new graphics cards.
When I was younger I was watching a lightning storm out the window. About 100 yards away I saw a ball of light above a tree and a moment later there was a flash of lightning so bright I lost my night vision for a few moments and there was instant thunder. I suspect it was a leader for the lightning or something like that rather than ball lightning, but who knows.
Technology is neutral, it is who uses it and how they use it that determines if it is good or bad. I agree that having people around with or without cameras wont make a lot of difference, it will only matter who those people are and what they do with that technology.
Sounds a lot faster than my connection at work. Makes browsing online C++ references (and slashdot nitpicking) a royal pain.
My biggest nitpick (as I type of one of these computers) is keyboards that look the same but have funciton keys in different places. I contract for two companies, one uses Dell and the other uses Lenovo. Lenovo puts the Fn key in the lower left and Ctrl to the right of that, Lenovo reverses them. I've always used Ctrl-F4 to close tabs, guess what happens when I'm going betwen those two computers and Fn-F4 is used for sleep? Bye-Bye programs with network licensing that requires always being connected...
I'm glad Lenovo went back to the (IMHO) proper layout of Ctrl in the lower left when i bought my last personal laptop from them... but this kind of makes it even worse when I go back to my work Lenovo and find Fn down there.
While I think his statement is a tad excessive, I work for a software contracting company and my company as well as two of the companies we contract for have virtually eliminated desktops for software development. The only desktops remaining are lower powered applications where the old desktop wont need replaced for a few years. This is mostly so that they can get us to work from home but whatever...
My two year old droid bionic is running just fine for me except for the battery is dying and I haven't been able to find anyone selling new droid bionic batteries anymore (amazon lies or else the batteries are seriously subpar if new).
They got hopeful after 2004? Notice other than windows 7 (and no idea yet about 9), there is no improvement since 2001. For the most part xp still works fine for me except for 7 handling more powerful machines better.
My buisness (well more often development) edition would like no useless services running...
Reading this did make me think. I could probably live with metro as my desktop BACKGROUND. It is when it becomes a full screen exclusive (Steam tried the same thing and when it wouldn't turn off I was ready to stop using Steam) that doesn't share with other apps that it has to die.
Like netflix chaning their nice listing format to movie art. It takes me so much longer to find the movie I want by looking at box art rather than scanning title names.
Well at least the swings seem to be reducing. XP was really good (once we got a couple SPs anyway) and Vista was utter trash. Win 7 improved on XP a little bit and Win 8 gave up a little bit to XP (or almost gave up nothing if you install software that makes it ... mostly ... run like Win 7).
Yeah, I ended up with a crazy stalker thanks to that...
The Apollo program is certainly not at a peer level or more advanced than our current capabilities. I don't think the technical level is going to be the major issue.
My credit card number was stolen two or three times with one particular card years ago and never again. Through theft of my credit card the thieves had no access to my bank accounts and the extent of fighting with the card issuer was a single phone call to list which transactions were not legitimate. Total cost to me about 10 minutes of time, worth well less than $10.
To do everything in cash I would have to carry around $3-400 in cash and would still be short on the occasional rare transaction. Theft of that would be far more catastrophic.
Ultimately though I think I would prefer prepaid, disposable charge cards if they gave me the same cash back as credit cards...
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With the same security a credit card provides if you get mugged?
Yeah, perfectly safe: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikamorphy/2013/12/31/with-bitcoin-in-your-pocket-is-your-identity-finally-safe/
“Due to the anonymized/cryptographic nature of the currency, it is almost impossible to track whether an individual has experienced a theft or loss due to other reasons–malware, a corrupt “wallet” which is stored on your hard drive, etc–and it’s especially difficult to determine with any accuracy where the stolen currency might have gone once ‘stolen’”
And I've seen published peer reviewed scientific articles on both sides. I believe that is typically accepted definition of real science.
And anti-global warming seems just as religious as AGW to me. IMH(or not so humble)O we need to focus on actually learning how things work and applying knowledge. Both sides seem to be only paying attention to observations to back up their theories rather than taking all observations and building a complete model, with nothing invested in any specific result.
Just my bent $0.02.
There is hyperbol and panic on both sides. Doesn't mean either side is 100% right or wrong. With humans it is usally a pretty heavy mix of right and wrong.
I think Mass Effect had a good take on this (though I suspect they stole the idea from somewhere)... We don't have AI yet, we have VI. Real AI that Asimov's laws could apply to is intelligence that can learn and decide on its own. What we have now is "intelligence" governed by fixed algorithms that will always make the same decision in the same situation. When AI can modify its own code and change its mind, lets talk about things like Asimov's laws.
Well when you hit that level, I suspect simply accounting for cost of living rather than net worth is more accurate.
Sounds like the same arguments I've heard for the F-14 vs the F-18 (though I think the maintenance on the F-14 was higher but the F-14 had much higher payloads). Still the F-18 won out in the eyes of the government. Not that that means much these days.
Are you sure it is unrelated? Facebook seems to be asking a lot of money for nothing tangible too...