Well, 32 bit x86 machines will run 16 bit x86 apps also, however people don't write 16 bit apps anymore. When 64 bit becomes the standard, the compilers will default to 64 bit code, then people will not write 32 bit anymore (at least not unless they need to use it in special situations)
Or would it be too detrimental to cut them out? Clearly, somewhere along the line it will be more of a benefit to cut out the oldest gears than to keep them.
Define God. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from God.
No. Although I am not a believer myself, I doubt that those who are think of God as a techno-savvy genius. Better described as something that is *not* limited by the laws of this reality that the technology must be based upon.
As far as technology goes, it's absurd that such an advanced species could not provide a cure. We're practically on the verge of it ourselves. I haven't read the book yet, but the preview leads me to believe that the author created the cancer scenario after about as much forethought as a Soap Opera writer uses before creating an evil twin.
BTW, could someone please explain to me where the "Processing" bit comes in? When I saw the title, I expected to see something like ASCI White becoming sentient and ordering us to eat silicon wafers at church services.
I'm not really familiar with the workings of the web, but why can't HTML code be devised that looks ahead to where the links lead after the rest of the page has finished loading, and return a status code on how the page is working? If it's 404, then the browser can change the link text to a predefined color so the user knows not to click on it. Any ideas?
> I am impressed with the way that Sega has been playing things lately. I think this shows that > they are continuing to think ahead
If, by "think ahead", you mean "copy Sony" then you're right. First Sega "compete" with Sony by offering Playstation ONE emulation, now this.
Nonsense. The PSX emulation is being offered by Bleem. For one system to run the hardware of another is not at all illegal (It was upheld in court for ColecoVision), but I doubt that Sega had any desire to go through the legal squabble that Sony would have brought if they tried to make the Dreamcast compatable with the PSX.
Perhaps soon we'll get a Saturn emulator for the Dreamcast, or even the PSX2. Would you complain with the same enthusiasm then? Or are you just sticking up for your favorite brand name?
Larger controllers? Like the Dreamcast controllers? Whoever designed those should be shot.
I'm sorry, but what's wrong with the Dreamcast controllers? I've used the system quite a few times, and I find them quite comfortable. They give a good grip, but the backpieces aren't forced tight to my palms like those of the PSX. It helps to prevent any buildup of sweat during long periods of play.
I can't for the life of me understand why Sony decided to go with only 2 controller ports. They must not think much of the competition from the Dreamcast, which already has 4 controller ports. But I can't say that I don't blame them for not being afraid. *sigh* I'm really rooting for the company this time around. Hopefully Bleemcast can pick up sales.
Anyway, Dr Wang + gang probably can't measure single wave packets. What they do is to send billions of packets through, and measure the click click" at the other end. Now, what they are saying is that they can get a "click" that violate the speed of light. But there is really no info sent, because the one has to have a series of "clicks" to encode information.....
If you lined 8 of these up tubes in parallel and then only sent microwaves through specific ones, haven't you just sent one byte of information faster than the speed of light?
And you think these people will hesitate for a minute before aborting a child because it's not going to be the child of their dreams?
I'm not sure. Can you tell me how many more abortions were performed after we discovered how to tell the child's gender? Surely that's one of the most important things that a parent can expect from a newborn. If we can expect the Browns to discard their unborn child because he will have a large nose, why can't we expect them to abort the child because it's not the precious little girl that they had hoped for?
Your comment about newborns in garbage cans is based on little more than an attempt at emotional prodding. Where does this happen most? Scared, uneducated teenagers who could care less about what the child would grow up to be.
Considering how long it's taking to simply put all of the information in the correct order, I think we will be in for a long wait while our computers catch up. But why is the concept of knowing what your child is going to look like so terrible? While you can't get an exact picture of what the kid will look like, ever know a pair of identical twins you could easily tell apart?) but you'll have a pretty good idea. Parents-to-be will swoon over the generated image just like they do over the sonogram images.
Personality and intellect is a different matter. You have to consider how strong of a role that nuture plays in the development of a person's traits. I doubt you could be very certain of such a prediction. But even vague results from genetic simulations could help parents know in advance if a child is likely to have any special needs, and give them advance notice to prepare for them.
What, are you worried that people are going to abort their kids if they find out they don't have blond hair and blue eyes? Or be predisposed to mathematics instead of football?
Consider this example: Even a dumb dog can know the difference between a leg and a tree. How many people can write a computer program that can distinguish between the two?
It might surprise you, if you are a programmer, but try to do it. Grab few pictures from the internet (or from you webcam) and think how would you solve this. No computer-science major/geek/whatever knows how to solve this in a reasonable way.
I don't see it as an extrodanarily difficult task, we're just not thinking the way that we should. Nature can come up with strange and startlingly efficient ways to do things that we might never think of. So we pick a particular task, evolve code to do it, and then we study the code. Our own computers will be teaching us how to think!
I believe that's the name of the book you are looking for. Scott Adams is a smart guy, but I'd take his suggestions of how reality might work with the contents of an entire salt shaker. The idea he suggests (in the very same chapter) of gravity being the effect of every object doubling in size constantly, rather than matter warping space, doesn't hold up on quite a few counts. One of them being that in the universe he describes, no large object could orbit another. How could you ignore something as crucial as that? I don't think that you can count on him to have relayed the information you quote quite so clearly.
Of course, he may one day become the leading authority on the theory of everything, given that he makes the proper "affirmations". Pheh.
... to see some of the clones stomped out. They wouldn't be all that bad, except they don't just try to emulate the gameplay, they shamelessly rip the creators off, right down to the characters. The average customer who walks into a software isle and sees the round, yellow, dot-gobbling face of Pac-the-Man (real clone) staring back at them from the box art probably wouldn't know the difference. Which is exactly what the thieving company wants. Wouldn't most of us get upset if some company copied every last detail of our most beloved games and released them under their own title? "OrcCraft?" "Not Real"? "Quack?" We'd get upset if there *weren't* lawyers fighting like jackals over the matter! It's not about making money. It's about preventing thievery. Hasbro is doing the right thing, trying to protect their intellectual property, and I respect them for this.
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Emissions are already as low as possible of cars that can still do work.
*chuckle* Like the new 50+ MPH hybrids, compared with the gas-chugging SUVs? If you honestly think that you can't make a certain vehicle more efficient, put strict price penalties on it. Fewer people will buy them. You'd be surprised how fast the auto companies find a way to do it.
Tree hugging liberal enviro-nazis
I believe that "Tree-hugging liberal enviro-communists" is what you're looking to say. Nazis come on the right, the same side as the polluters; Communists on the left, with the regulators.
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> Since they are nanotechnology, would it be possible to inject them into your bloodstream? Then you would never lose your information
Except for the prospect of having a mosquito run off with a few critical bits of your data...
I wonder how existing ROMs can be put on catridges...
With an EPROM. (flash cart)
Ever hear of Okie-Dokie?
Really? So that's what it is. One less project for Itanium...
This will only benefit AMD's new Sledgehammer! =)
Well, 32 bit x86 machines will run 16 bit x86 apps also, however people don't write 16 bit apps anymore. When 64 bit becomes the standard, the compilers will default to 64 bit code, then people will not write 32 bit anymore (at least not unless they need to use it in special situations)
Or would it be too detrimental to cut them out? Clearly, somewhere along the line it will be more of a benefit to cut out the oldest gears than to keep them.
Intel is recieving the bad rap not because of it's x86 architechure, but because of it's anti-competitive techniques.
Ugh. One-button yuppies are the worst.
Why are the v.90 modems limited to a download
speed of 53K? Will v.92 correct this shortcoming?
Define God. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from God.
No. Although I am not a believer myself, I doubt that those who are think of God as a techno-savvy genius. Better described as something that is *not* limited by the laws of this reality that the technology must be based upon.
As far as technology goes, it's absurd that such an advanced species could not provide a cure. We're practically on the verge of it ourselves. I haven't read the book yet, but the preview leads me to believe that the author created the cancer scenario after about as much forethought as a Soap Opera writer uses before creating an evil twin.
BTW, could someone please explain to me where the "Processing" bit comes in? When I saw the title, I expected to see something like ASCI White becoming sentient and ordering us to eat silicon wafers at church services.
I'm not really familiar with the workings of the
web, but why can't HTML code be devised that
looks ahead to where the links lead after the rest
of the page has finished loading, and return a
status code on how the page is working? If it's
404, then the browser can change the link text to
a predefined color so the user knows not to click
on it. Any ideas?
> I am impressed with the way that Sega has been playing things lately. I think this shows that
> they are continuing to think ahead
If, by "think ahead", you mean "copy Sony" then you're right. First Sega
"compete" with Sony by offering Playstation ONE emulation, now this.
Nonsense. The PSX emulation is being offered by Bleem. For one system to run the hardware of another is not at all illegal (It was upheld in court for ColecoVision), but I doubt that Sega had any desire to go through the legal squabble that Sony would have brought if they tried to make the Dreamcast compatable with the PSX.
Perhaps soon we'll get a Saturn emulator for the Dreamcast, or even the PSX2. Would you complain with the same enthusiasm then? Or are you just sticking up for your favorite brand name?
Larger controllers? Like the Dreamcast controllers? Whoever designed those should be shot.
I'm sorry, but what's wrong with the Dreamcast controllers? I've used the system quite a few times, and I find them quite comfortable. They give a good grip, but the backpieces aren't forced tight to my palms like those of the PSX. It helps to prevent any buildup of sweat during long periods of play.
I can't for the life of me understand why Sony decided to go with only 2 controller ports. They must not think much of the competition from the Dreamcast, which already has 4 controller ports. But I can't say that I don't blame them for not being afraid. *sigh* I'm really rooting for the company this time around. Hopefully Bleemcast can pick up sales.
Anyway, Dr Wang + gang probably can't measure single wave packets. What they do is to send billions of packets through, and measure the click click" at the other end. Now, what they are saying is that they can get a "click" that violate the speed of light. But there is really no info sent, because the one has to have a series of "clicks" to encode information.....
If you lined 8 of these up tubes in parallel and then only sent microwaves through specific ones,
haven't you just sent one byte of information faster than the speed of light?
I do believe it's pronounced as "Zeon".
And you think these people will hesitate for a minute before aborting a child because it's not going to be the child of their dreams?
I'm not sure. Can you tell me how many more abortions were performed after we discovered how to tell the child's gender? Surely that's one of the most important things that a parent can expect from a newborn. If we can expect the Browns to discard their unborn child because he will have a large nose, why can't we expect them to abort the child because it's not the precious little girl that they had hoped for?
Your comment about newborns in garbage cans is based on little more than an attempt at emotional prodding. Where does this happen most? Scared, uneducated teenagers who could care less about what the child would grow up to be.
Considering how long it's taking to simply put all of the information in the correct order, I think we will be in for a long wait while our computers catch up. But why is the concept of knowing what your child is going to look like so terrible? While you can't get an exact picture of what the kid will look like, ever know a pair of identical twins you could easily tell apart?) but you'll have a pretty good idea. Parents-to-be will swoon over the generated image just like they do over the sonogram images.
Personality and intellect is a different matter. You have to consider how strong of a role that nuture plays in the development of a person's traits. I doubt you could be very certain of such a prediction. But even vague results from genetic simulations could help parents know in advance if a child is likely to have any special needs, and give them advance notice to prepare for them.
What, are you worried that people are going to abort their kids if they find out they don't have blond hair and blue eyes? Or be predisposed to mathematics instead of football?
Read a lot of fiction?
Consider this example: Even a dumb dog can know the difference between a leg and a tree. How many people can write a computer program that can distinguish between the two?
It might surprise you, if you are a programmer, but try to do it. Grab few pictures from the internet (or from you webcam) and think how would you solve this. No computer-science major/geek/whatever knows how to solve this in a reasonable way.
I don't see it as an extrodanarily difficult task, we're just not thinking the way that we should. Nature can come up with strange and startlingly efficient ways to do things that we might never think of. So we pick a particular task, evolve code to do it, and then we study the code. Our own computers will be teaching us how to think!
Sorry, this is what should have been in the
subject header of the last post.
I believe that's the name of the book you are looking for. Scott Adams is a smart guy, but I'd take his suggestions of how reality might work with the contents of an entire salt shaker. The idea he suggests (in the very same chapter) of gravity being the effect of every object doubling in size constantly, rather than matter warping space, doesn't hold up on quite a few counts. One of them being that in the universe he describes, no large object could orbit another. How could you ignore something as crucial as that? I don't think that you can count on him to have relayed the information you quote quite so clearly.
Of course, he may one day become the leading authority on the theory of everything, given that he makes the proper "affirmations". Pheh.
... to see some of the clones stomped out. They wouldn't be all that bad, except they don't just try to emulate the gameplay, they shamelessly rip the creators off, right down to the characters. The average customer who walks into a software isle and sees the round, yellow, dot-gobbling face of Pac-the-Man (real clone) staring back at them from the box art probably wouldn't know the difference. Which is exactly what the thieving company wants. Wouldn't most of us get upset if some company copied every last detail of our most beloved games and released them under their own title? "OrcCraft?" "Not Real"? "Quack?" We'd get upset if there *weren't* lawyers fighting like jackals over the matter! It's not about making money. It's about preventing thievery. Hasbro is doing the right thing, trying to protect their intellectual property, and I respect them for this.
Emissions are already as low as possible of cars that can still do work.
*chuckle* Like the new 50+ MPH hybrids, compared with the gas-chugging SUVs? If you honestly think that you can't make a certain vehicle more efficient, put strict price penalties on it. Fewer people will buy them. You'd be surprised how fast the auto companies find a way to do it.
Tree hugging liberal enviro-nazis
I believe that "Tree-hugging liberal enviro-communists" is what you're looking to say. Nazis come on the right, the same side as the polluters; Communists on the left, with the regulators.