I dont buy that. There were times in grad school when a class of 20 students generated enough questions on a topic that threw the instructors schedule out of whack. I know this is not grad school but I am assuming there are enough good students in Stanford itself and most people who will sign up voluntarily will be the ones who are interested about it.
I still love the idea though. Although, it makes me wonder how the students feel about it. Stanford is pretty expensive. They have paid all that money only for coming to class now, given that the exact same class material and the instructors as well are available to anyone for free ?
The government of India is pretty ill-prepared and inefficient for such events. The first instinct of most citizens is that they need to take things in their own hands. Within moments of the blasts, the people around the affected areas had immediately started getting help, getting cars to take victims to nearby hospitals, even managing traffic. The police and the ambulances arrived almost 30 mins later followed by a bunch of politicians who started the blame game.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/slideshow_mumbai-blasts-5-most-stupid-things-our-politicians-said_1565822-5#top
To me this just means that Boeing engineers need to do a better job of shielding their sensors. The world has advanced, people have such devices and flights are getting longer. I dont want to use/pay for the crappy entertainment system on the plane. I want to use my own. I understand that this might not be the priority for them right now, but it needs to happen sometime soon.
Before we go all crazy on Google, we have to understand that Google has a business to run and any movie marketplace site like this will have to come up with notices like these to even get started. I don't think the fault is completely with Google on this one. It is the movie making production companies that want to enforce these kinda things to avoid piracy.
This one needs a wing span space, not as thin as current trains. But if this design saves a lot of energy, why the heck not. This is really like a low flying airplane which sounds like a cool idea.
Your last line really says it all about Apple, that is all the point in this whole post.
Apple tried to act like God, now they have to deal with God-sized issues.
His statements are both true and false. Its true that exaflops is a big challenge, however, research on supercomputers has not stopped. But there are other areas which are being looked at too. For example - algorithms. Whenever a new supercomputer is developed, parallel programmers try to modify or come up with new algorithms that take advantage of the architectures/network speeds to make things faster. Heck, there are some applications that have started looking at avoiding huge computations and instead going for incorrect/approximate ones and converging on the solution techniques. There are many apps that are ok with approx results. Also, new denser and less power hungry memory technologies have come up and some of those links have already been posted here so I am not going to post them. Besides, there are a bunch better cooling techniques proposed by IBM and use of optical interconnects which can help organize things in a more distributed way and provide easier heat dissipation. All in all, someone is going to come up with exaflop computing soon:)
I like that firefox wants to be fast and everything but does it even matter anymore. I have at least 10-15 extensions in my browser and at least one of them keep crashing/leaking memory etc. Does this release have a better plugin container for these extensions?
My overall satisfaction with FF is at an all time low because of this. I am not ready to move to chrome yet, but I am seriously thinking about it.
FTA , "they never suffered any delays after interviews" - How many passengers do they serve a day? Can you imagine putting such a system in JFK?? I dont support the current pat down or radiation therapy , but the Israeli scheme is not scalable to US levels.
Besides, I feel that attacks on Israel have been crude and their system works well to avoid them.
The US fears of more sophisticated attacks ( or atleast wants us to fear ) and hence wants a nothing-suspicious-left-behind strategy.
To summarize, I think it is easy to study the Israeli system and come up with a way to beat it!
We keep making this a huge deal, but somehow I feel that when we do find life in other planets somehow it will not be this interesting.
It will be like finding a new crawling reptile in the Amazon.
Besides, even if we do find signs of life in a planet light years away, how much will we be able to learn about them? Space travel hasnt really taken off, we dont even have cheap and reliable means of going to the moon!
I have to throw trash down the chute into a central container for my entire apt complex and I know a lot of places here have that mechanism. How are they going to figure out then whose trash is it?
Also, what if you take your trash out yourself and not use trash services. I know a lot of people who do that - saves 20$ a month.
This is exactly the kind of stuff you need bots for. Some kind of picture recognition algorithm is needed that can at least weed out the ones that are obviously gruesome or twisted ( with no false positives etc) and then some of the ones where the machines cannot make a decision, can be sent to the humans to look. At least that will reduce the burden on these poor employees!
Hope their insurance is really good !
Facebook as a tool is very limited to imitate real life social networking.
For example I have different categories of friends on facebook and I would like to be able to literally have different profiles for each of them in FB. Yes, FB does support something like that, but it is a pain to set each post or album differently for each individual. I still have not added anyone from my work to my FB account because I am scared what they might end up seeing on my account. Ofcourse, FB also has this ridiculously bad privacy policies in which your tagged pictures get shown to everyone depending on whoever has the least restrictive privacy settings!
Yes, he could go to the library and look at papers and figure out how circuits are made. But that is not what he is asking. He wants to know a place where all his info is available in a tutorial manner. So, suggest websites if you are talking about online stuff. Even google can give you more results than needed sometimes. There is a
http://electronicsworld.tripod.com/
I used to visit this when I was in undergrad. Now I am mostly into programming:)or:( whatever.
Seriously, how about solar powered other things like water boilers that everyone needs in developing nations. The bulb takes 1 day to light up for 2 hrs which does not seem like a lot and that too depends on the weather. Does it hold it's charge for long?
I think bulbs are cheap anyway, are not power-consuming monsters and GE already has cheaper and relatively more energy efficient bulbs out.
It could be used in disaster-struck areas, that is a good point, but I have seen people come out with generator trucks for such areas and/or people getting rescued and taken to an area with power too. But it could still make things easier and we could soon see food packets with solar bulbs dropped in such areas:).
As good as this technique is, it can mostly be used at the edges, that is at beaches etc to get oil out of pools or ponds, not get oil out of the sea water.
I wonder how hard would it be to use Solar energy to convert water into steam and separate it from oil. I know there is a big difference between the boiling points of oil and water.
I am trying to get my nephew starting with programming ( okay not exactly programming but scripting ) on python. Very english-like syntax and very practical uses like auto sending emails for different tasks, logging in to websites etc etc
Maybe at some point he will pick up and learn Java/C/C++ etc etc!!
Nobody wants to pay the ridiculous land prices for storing machines and blowing cold air on them. If you come to Silicon valley you will see that there is so much space everywhere. But real estate is crazy expensive. They could totally build data centers a little away from here, it may just be easier for them to have data centers closer for reliability/availability etc etc purposes.
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I dont buy that. There were times in grad school when a class of 20 students generated enough questions on a topic that threw the instructors schedule out of whack. I know this is not grad school but I am assuming there are enough good students in Stanford itself and most people who will sign up voluntarily will be the ones who are interested about it. I still love the idea though. Although, it makes me wonder how the students feel about it. Stanford is pretty expensive. They have paid all that money only for coming to class now, given that the exact same class material and the instructors as well are available to anyone for free ?
The government of India is pretty ill-prepared and inefficient for such events. The first instinct of most citizens is that they need to take things in their own hands. Within moments of the blasts, the people around the affected areas had immediately started getting help, getting cars to take victims to nearby hospitals, even managing traffic. The police and the ambulances arrived almost 30 mins later followed by a bunch of politicians who started the blame game. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/slideshow_mumbai-blasts-5-most-stupid-things-our-politicians-said_1565822-5#top
GEICO has already been selling insurance to monkeys for quite sometime now
To me this just means that Boeing engineers need to do a better job of shielding their sensors. The world has advanced, people have such devices and flights are getting longer. I dont want to use/pay for the crappy entertainment system on the plane. I want to use my own. I understand that this might not be the priority for them right now, but it needs to happen sometime soon.
Thats exactly how my DNA-based computer works too :)
Before we go all crazy on Google, we have to understand that Google has a business to run and any movie marketplace site like this will have to come up with notices like these to even get started. I don't think the fault is completely with Google on this one. It is the movie making production companies that want to enforce these kinda things to avoid piracy.
This one needs a wing span space, not as thin as current trains. But if this design saves a lot of energy, why the heck not. This is really like a low flying airplane which sounds like a cool idea.
Your last line really says it all about Apple, that is all the point in this whole post. Apple tried to act like God, now they have to deal with God-sized issues.
His statements are both true and false. Its true that exaflops is a big challenge, however, research on supercomputers has not stopped. But there are other areas which are being looked at too. For example - algorithms. Whenever a new supercomputer is developed, parallel programmers try to modify or come up with new algorithms that take advantage of the architectures/network speeds to make things faster. Heck, there are some applications that have started looking at avoiding huge computations and instead going for incorrect/approximate ones and converging on the solution techniques. There are many apps that are ok with approx results. Also, new denser and less power hungry memory technologies have come up and some of those links have already been posted here so I am not going to post them. Besides, there are a bunch better cooling techniques proposed by IBM and use of optical interconnects which can help organize things in a more distributed way and provide easier heat dissipation. All in all, someone is going to come up with exaflop computing soon :)
The goal is to make people be ok with bugs, first in the bed, next on windows. No wonder they applied for this patent.
May be that page needs to be upgraded too?
Reading TFA, nothing convinces me that this story should come under YRA!! Idle perhaps????
Agreed which is why I have not moved out of Firefox and also mentioned about better plugin control needed on firefox than saying it sucks.
I like that firefox wants to be fast and everything but does it even matter anymore. I have at least 10-15 extensions in my browser and at least one of them keep crashing/leaking memory etc. Does this release have a better plugin container for these extensions? My overall satisfaction with FF is at an all time low because of this. I am not ready to move to chrome yet, but I am seriously thinking about it.
4 year old kids should be outside playing, spending time with friends. He can unlock the laptop when he is 8-10!
FTA , "they never suffered any delays after interviews" - How many passengers do they serve a day? Can you imagine putting such a system in JFK?? I dont support the current pat down or radiation therapy , but the Israeli scheme is not scalable to US levels. Besides, I feel that attacks on Israel have been crude and their system works well to avoid them. The US fears of more sophisticated attacks ( or atleast wants us to fear ) and hence wants a nothing-suspicious-left-behind strategy. To summarize, I think it is easy to study the Israeli system and come up with a way to beat it!
We keep making this a huge deal, but somehow I feel that when we do find life in other planets somehow it will not be this interesting. It will be like finding a new crawling reptile in the Amazon. Besides, even if we do find signs of life in a planet light years away, how much will we be able to learn about them? Space travel hasnt really taken off, we dont even have cheap and reliable means of going to the moon!
I have to throw trash down the chute into a central container for my entire apt complex and I know a lot of places here have that mechanism. How are they going to figure out then whose trash is it? Also, what if you take your trash out yourself and not use trash services. I know a lot of people who do that - saves 20$ a month.
This is exactly the kind of stuff you need bots for. Some kind of picture recognition algorithm is needed that can at least weed out the ones that are obviously gruesome or twisted ( with no false positives etc) and then some of the ones where the machines cannot make a decision, can be sent to the humans to look. At least that will reduce the burden on these poor employees! Hope their insurance is really good !
Facebook as a tool is very limited to imitate real life social networking. For example I have different categories of friends on facebook and I would like to be able to literally have different profiles for each of them in FB. Yes, FB does support something like that, but it is a pain to set each post or album differently for each individual. I still have not added anyone from my work to my FB account because I am scared what they might end up seeing on my account. Ofcourse, FB also has this ridiculously bad privacy policies in which your tagged pictures get shown to everyone depending on whoever has the least restrictive privacy settings!
Yes, he could go to the library and look at papers and figure out how circuits are made. But that is not what he is asking. He wants to know a place where all his info is available in a tutorial manner. So, suggest websites if you are talking about online stuff. Even google can give you more results than needed sometimes. There is a http://electronicsworld.tripod.com/ I used to visit this when I was in undergrad. Now I am mostly into programming :)or :( whatever.
Seriously, how about solar powered other things like water boilers that everyone needs in developing nations. The bulb takes 1 day to light up for 2 hrs which does not seem like a lot and that too depends on the weather. Does it hold it's charge for long? I think bulbs are cheap anyway, are not power-consuming monsters and GE already has cheaper and relatively more energy efficient bulbs out. It could be used in disaster-struck areas, that is a good point, but I have seen people come out with generator trucks for such areas and/or people getting rescued and taken to an area with power too. But it could still make things easier and we could soon see food packets with solar bulbs dropped in such areas :).
As good as this technique is, it can mostly be used at the edges, that is at beaches etc to get oil out of pools or ponds, not get oil out of the sea water. I wonder how hard would it be to use Solar energy to convert water into steam and separate it from oil. I know there is a big difference between the boiling points of oil and water.
I am trying to get my nephew starting with programming ( okay not exactly programming but scripting ) on python. Very english-like syntax and very practical uses like auto sending emails for different tasks, logging in to websites etc etc Maybe at some point he will pick up and learn Java/C/C++ etc etc!!
Nobody wants to pay the ridiculous land prices for storing machines and blowing cold air on them. If you come to Silicon valley you will see that there is so much space everywhere. But real estate is crazy expensive. They could totally build data centers a little away from here, it may just be easier for them to have data centers closer for reliability/availability etc etc purposes.