A Rolex isn't really a watch... it is jewelry... or a collectible if you prefer... they hold value over time, unlike most watches which are just time pieces...
A nice $20,000 Rolex in 18k gold has nothing to do with telling time and it will still be sought after in 100 years...
The might have... if doing so allowed Iran to be set back by a few years on nuclear weapons development, I could see that happening...
The question becomes, do the ends justify the means?
Most people give a straight up "yes/no" answer to that question, however the reality is that it is a gray line. It isn't hard to come up with a situation where the answer is yes, even to the most die hard "no" person.
Maybe, but the average customer doesn't know or care what resolution the game is running at, only that it runs.
The thing is, some of us would be happy to pay $100 more for a console fast enough to run it at 1080p properly, but is that enough to complicate the market?
Bullshit. Watch Air Crash investigations, there are enough autopilot caused incidents to show why pilots are needed.
You might think that, but you'd be wrong...
Pilot error is the single largest cause of all aircraft crashes...
The reality is, if you simply accepted that every time the computer messed up, everyone would die, you would have FEWER deaths than you would with the current system.
Because no one wants to hear that and can't emotionally accept any deaths as "known", we have what we have.
Source? 15 years of aviation experience, thousands of hours of flight time in everything from helicopters to corporate jets, Certified Flight Instructor in both airplanes and helicopters. I know better than most people on Slashdot about this subject. Just because you watched something on The History Channel doesn't make you an expert.
Yep, but my reply to you on Slashdot does nothing and changes nothing. It might as well not even exist.
I live in Texas, over the past 3 years, protesters have been holding a weekly rally in my town against Obama and various things from Obamacare and gun control. Groups of between 30 to 50 people get together on a bridge over the highway near my home and wave flags and hang signs.
It does nothing, there aren't nearly enough people there to make anyone care. If the media isn't showing up to record and broadcast it, then it might as well not be happening. I hope they have fun or maybe are hanging out with friends, because no one cares and it changes nothing.
Get a hundred thousand people together and maybe you'll have something. If the media decides to report it.
Can he get a fair trial anywhere in the US, given that the entire pool of jury candidates has heard about him and his alleged acts (remember - he's still innocent until proven guilty, much as many people find that concept hard to swallow).
And this is the problem with the Jury system... people like me never end up on Juries...
If Snowden was in front of me, I would vote not-guilty.
Why? Because his release of classified documents is nullified by the documents containing information about illegal acts by the US Government.
It is the right of a Jury to decide if the auctions SHOULD be illegal or not, it is the ultimate check and balance against the government.
Judges often try to tell Juries otherwise, but at the end of the day, the Jury can vote any way it wants.
While I agree with you, I grew up "proud" of the USA, as I have grown older and (hopefully) wiser, I've come to learn that nations are just put together to give those in power a way to control those who are not.
Is the USA better than North Korea? Of course... but it isn't heaven, it is just a matter of degrees...
As long as I stay on the happy side of the government, they leave me alone. But I don't believe for a second I really have the right to protest things they don't want protested. Look what happened to OWS.
All this talk is just a bunch of hot air going back and fourth... unless you get the whole planet on board, nothing we do will make any difference...
Oil and coal are easy to move around, if we don't burn them, someone else will... the US could cut all emissions to nothing tomorrow, it would make no difference.
China, India, Russian, and Brazil will replace everything the US produces today within 20 years...
Unless we plan to go to war over this, we as a human race are going to burn all of it, that's all there is to it.
They aren't "undetectable", they are "expensive to detect".:)
What the F-117A and B-2A steath aircraft did in the 80's is make the entire "very expensive" Russian air defense system obsolete, forcing a replacement.
A replacement that the USSR couldn't afford. It was just one part of the plan to push the USSR in the right direction, a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other.
The brain may have 100 billion neurons, my GPU may only have 7 billion transistors, but it can flip them a billion times a second...
My GPU should have more raw power than my brain does, but it isn't programmed nearly as well...
I think future advancements are likely to come from smarter programming, we've "gotten away" with sloppy programming because we keep making computers faster using brute force. As that slows down, maybe we'll become smarter?
The planets in the galaxy aren't that old however... the conditions which would allow civilization that we would understand have only been around for perhaps half a billion years, give or take.
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The Timex isn't a fashion statement or jewelry... it is a time piece... nothing more or less...
And that is fine, but don't kid yourself... $10K buys you a real 18k gold watch that will have real value due to that gold...
But by ten years or twenty years from now, the Apple Watch will have a ridiculously high collector value when sold to a museum.
Not sure why you'd think that, what has Apple made... ever, that is valuable? Perhaps one of the original Apple 1 boards... but that's about it...
Everything else they have made has been in such qty that it is cheap and common.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-...
Apple IIc for less than $200 in working condition...
A Rolex isn't really a watch... it is jewelry... or a collectible if you prefer... they hold value over time, unlike most watches which are just time pieces...
A nice $20,000 Rolex in 18k gold has nothing to do with telling time and it will still be sought after in 100 years...
The standard $350 Apple watch won't.
The might have... if doing so allowed Iran to be set back by a few years on nuclear weapons development, I could see that happening...
The question becomes, do the ends justify the means?
Most people give a straight up "yes/no" answer to that question, however the reality is that it is a gray line. It isn't hard to come up with a situation where the answer is yes, even to the most die hard "no" person.
Maybe, but the average customer doesn't know or care what resolution the game is running at, only that it runs.
The thing is, some of us would be happy to pay $100 more for a console fast enough to run it at 1080p properly, but is that enough to complicate the market?
...Step away from the crazy person...
In fairness, concerns about the military, government, and global power in the hands of a few is not a bad concern, but this guy is just nuts...
You aren't going to stop the march towards the future this way, you'll just be locked up and ignored...
There are ways to go about it, but this isn't it...
Bullshit. Watch Air Crash investigations, there are enough autopilot caused incidents to show why pilots are needed.
You might think that, but you'd be wrong...
Pilot error is the single largest cause of all aircraft crashes...
The reality is, if you simply accepted that every time the computer messed up, everyone would die, you would have FEWER deaths than you would with the current system.
Because no one wants to hear that and can't emotionally accept any deaths as "known", we have what we have.
Source? 15 years of aviation experience, thousands of hours of flight time in everything from helicopters to corporate jets, Certified Flight Instructor in both airplanes and helicopters. I know better than most people on Slashdot about this subject. Just because you watched something on The History Channel doesn't make you an expert.
5 years ago, I wouldn't have agreed with you...
Today, I do... sad... :(
Yep, but my reply to you on Slashdot does nothing and changes nothing. It might as well not even exist.
I live in Texas, over the past 3 years, protesters have been holding a weekly rally in my town against Obama and various things from Obamacare and gun control. Groups of between 30 to 50 people get together on a bridge over the highway near my home and wave flags and hang signs.
It does nothing, there aren't nearly enough people there to make anyone care. If the media isn't showing up to record and broadcast it, then it might as well not be happening. I hope they have fun or maybe are hanging out with friends, because no one cares and it changes nothing.
Get a hundred thousand people together and maybe you'll have something. If the media decides to report it.
Can he get a fair trial anywhere in the US, given that the entire pool of jury candidates has heard about him and his alleged acts (remember - he's still innocent until proven guilty, much as many people find that concept hard to swallow).
And this is the problem with the Jury system... people like me never end up on Juries...
If Snowden was in front of me, I would vote not-guilty.
Why? Because his release of classified documents is nullified by the documents containing information about illegal acts by the US Government.
It is the right of a Jury to decide if the auctions SHOULD be illegal or not, it is the ultimate check and balance against the government.
Judges often try to tell Juries otherwise, but at the end of the day, the Jury can vote any way it wants.
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Did he break the law? Yes, he did.
Is he guilty of a crime? No, he is not.
If you can follow that, then you get a cookie. :)
Yes, he did... but he did so for the right moral reasons...
If I were President of the United States, I'd pardon him and thank him for doing the right thing...
Which is probably why I'll never be President of the United States. :)
While I agree with you, I grew up "proud" of the USA, as I have grown older and (hopefully) wiser, I've come to learn that nations are just put together to give those in power a way to control those who are not.
Is the USA better than North Korea? Of course... but it isn't heaven, it is just a matter of degrees...
As long as I stay on the happy side of the government, they leave me alone. But I don't believe for a second I really have the right to protest things they don't want protested. Look what happened to OWS.
What is wrong with Russia?
That they have leadership that thinks it can do whatever it wants? We have that in the US as well.
If he avoids running afowl of the Russian government, I imagine he'll be just fine there.
And no one will care, you can stand out there all you like, you'll be ignored...
I've said it before, I'll say it again...
All this talk is just a bunch of hot air going back and fourth... unless you get the whole planet on board, nothing we do will make any difference...
Oil and coal are easy to move around, if we don't burn them, someone else will... the US could cut all emissions to nothing tomorrow, it would make no difference.
China, India, Russian, and Brazil will replace everything the US produces today within 20 years...
Unless we plan to go to war over this, we as a human race are going to burn all of it, that's all there is to it.
Everything else is just happy, happy talk.
They aren't "undetectable", they are "expensive to detect". :)
What the F-117A and B-2A steath aircraft did in the 80's is make the entire "very expensive" Russian air defense system obsolete, forcing a replacement.
A replacement that the USSR couldn't afford. It was just one part of the plan to push the USSR in the right direction, a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other.
Does it?
If we have 100 billion neurons and they switch at .2 khz, then we have a max compute power of 20 trillion switches per second.
I highly doubt our brains would function at that speed for very long, we're organic machines after all.
The video card can do 10 trillion per second, 24/7, for a very long time. :)
The brain may have 100 billion neurons, my GPU may only have 7 billion transistors, but it can flip them a billion times a second...
My GPU should have more raw power than my brain does, but it isn't programmed nearly as well...
I think future advancements are likely to come from smarter programming, we've "gotten away" with sloppy programming because we keep making computers faster using brute force. As that slows down, maybe we'll become smarter?
20k floating point ops per second? a few million?
The video card in my computer does 10 trillion of them per second, or so says AMD's marketing material on the R9 295x5. :)
While you're correct of course, prior "barriers" were broken, just like the sound "barrier" was...
The new one is much harder, like the light speed "barrier" is.
Atoms are only so small. :)
I make no claims as to what will be possible, this is really way outside of my expert knowledge area, as I suspect is it *most* people's.
Intel has every incentive to hire the best in the world to figure it out, so if anyone can, I would think they would.
We have super computers that already can do that, but other than being fast, they are still stupid. :)
Perhaps we suck at programming?
We don't? I don't know about you, but I sure can't do a billion math problems in a minute... but my Intel CPU sure can...
I couldn't do a billion math problems in my whole life!
Depends on how you measure processing power of course...
There is some debate among people if 5nm will make sense or even be reasonable to do...
Can a 5nm transistor be made? Sure.... Can 5 billion of them be packed onto a chip and sold for $200? That is a different question...
Going to 5nm only helps if it is a functional product that is better than what we have.
Anything further beyond that and it becomes really interesting... it might happen, but we're running out of room in the known universe.
The planets in the galaxy aren't that old however... the conditions which would allow civilization that we would understand have only been around for perhaps half a billion years, give or take.
Anything powerful enough to travel interstellar distances will put out an incredible amount of EM radiation.
Why do you say that? Do you know how FTL drive works?
Perhaps it won't.