Sure it might mean paying the same people more, for a while. Eventually those people will retire, and they will need to be replaced at the bottom.
If we increase the pay scale we'll get more talented people, because they'll be less likely to say "well, I want to teach, but I'd rather make quadruple the money somewhere else."
Are you also the type who believes that the mythical "free market" also requires us to pay exorbitant salaries to executives of failing banks...because that's how we attract the top talent? If so please reevaluate your stance on almost everything, you might be an idiot.
There's a lot more randomness to electricity through a wire than most people think, especially at the micrometer scales of modern processors. Electricity through a wire is in fact impacted by "all sorts of things" including magnetism and background radiation. Generally though, this is seen as a bad thing to be corrected for, because randomness doesn't make for reliable computation.
You would be mistaken to think that random background interference will necessarily lead to personality. Try putting a powerful magnet next to a running microprocessor and I assure you what you get won't be a brilliant AI unlocking the secrets of the universe because the randomness of the magnetic interference has magically sparked sentience.
So were early naturalists, many of whom had no specific hypotheses to test, not a part of science? They were, after all, just looking around and recording their observations.
They had nothing but hopes and dreams and a world to explore - plus a healthy dose of curiosity. SETI represents that same basic human drive of curiosity that has always been the engine of science.
Their methods might not quite be the scientific method we learned in school, but they're still collecting massive amounts of data that I promise you will lead to something useful. We'll never know if something exists until we look for it, and you never know what you might find once you start looking. The first step into any new world (and believe me, we're still taking baby steps into understanding the universe at large) is to just look around and see what there is. That's what SETI is doing.
Back on topic, this particular guy was certainly committing an ethics violation, but making a show trial of it is equally stupid and wasteful on the administration's part.
I myself am seriously incapable of distinguishing between tones.
When I was a kid playing Myst I had to talk my mom into doing the tone matching puzzle for me, because I absolutely could not do it.
Did I sue them? No. I accepted the fact that there are some things I'm just not wired for, and I sucked it up and moved on with my life.
I'm all in favor of making things accessible, but there's a big difference between a traffic light and a video game. One being designed with poor accessibility will limit a few peoples' choices of entertainment, one will kill people.
For the record I'm all in favor of a rating system for various disabilities, but I don't think it should be mandatory, and I do think it should be an independent organization. Let's not make more hoops for developers to jump through, seeing that the ESRB hoop is already small and on fire.
I remember once when I was in school I came home complaining about a bully. My dad's answer was "could you take him?" I said "I think so." He said "what's the problem then?"
So how long until some clown patents getting muddy?
They'll be selling us carefully crafted biologically active dirt before too long.
This reminds me of when somebody discovered that a lot of the extra mobility you find in elderly Japanese people compared to Americans could be attributed to their frequent walks outside on uneven surfaces. Being the silly fools that we are, American medicine's answer wasn't the obvious "take walks outside."
No. Somebody invented a stupid mat with fake plastic cobblestones on top of it. Now old people get to walk back and forth on a 3 foot mat in the comfort of their own homes instead of - you know - taking a damn walk.
Are Americans so useless that given the news that taking walks is good for us we would prefer to walk back and forth on this abomination? It's probably so that they can more comfortably eat Cheesy Blasters and watch reality TV while they get their "exercise."
I used to smoke 30 unfiltered hand-rolled cancer sticks a day, mostly at my desk in front of my constantly on computers. These weren't those pansy filtered cigarettes either, I used to find chunks of tar in the pouches my tobacco came in. I never saw anything remotely like the damage you're describing.
If I had to pick a lifestyle choice that would void computer warranties I would pick pets. Pet hair has gummed up more fans and heat sinks of mine than any amount of smoking ever could.
That's a rendering trick that has zero impact whatsoever on the final size of a rendered frame. I highly doubt they're sending raytracing data to smartphones.
A pixel is a pixel is a pixel, no matter how you go about generating it, and a screen can only display so many of them. The smart phone or whatever isn't generating these images, it doesn't give a crap about the raytracing methods behind them. It just downloads them and puts them on the screen.
Reminds me of people who take a 300x300px image into Photoshop and change the resolution to 300dpi in an attempt to make it "print ready." Congratulations! You've made it print ready to be an inch wide.
This has happened to me. I had my timing belt tensioner fail in a Ford Ranger going 70. The timing belt of course broke, so the engine died and I was left without power steering or power brakes (in a small truck with really terrible handling, no less).
You know what I did? I didn't panic. First I tried to start it up again with the clutch in. When that didn't work I hit my turn signal and flashed my brakes, eased across the 3 lanes of traffic, parked in a parking lot with my remaining momentum and waited for the towtruck.
I never said it wasn't a dangerous situation, I just said it's not as dangerous as people are making it out to be. Like most emergencies you'll be alright if you just keep your wits about you (which most people don't).
And don't call me fat. I'm 185 which you would call big, but I'm also 6'1". I figured 200 (not 225, read) precisely to account for those "fat ass Americans."
That's the real question here. "Photorealistic" (a meaningless term in the context of transferring image data) on a smartphone screen is a whole lot smaller than on my full 1920x1280 desktop monitor.
"Photorealistic" will only ever be as high resolution as the screen you view it on.
I don't know what version of 7-Zip you're using. I've experienced few to none of those problems.
While I will admit that not being able to do file associations at install is annoying, I've managed to use the association mechanism in the program without a hitch on Vista AND 7. No I'm not doing day-to-day as admin, and yes I have UAC turned on. I've also found the shell integration to be turned on by default.
As for preserving full pathnames, I never noticed it was lacking because I never use it. I also don't do a lot of command line compressing, but if you want to delete files after archiving make a shell script or batch file, it would be about two lines long.
225 pounds on the brake pedal? That's not actually very much.
I can lift upwards of 1,000 pounds with my calves (not including my own weight), so 225 with one of them is cake. Basically if you weigh 200 pounds ask yourself if you could stand on one leg with a 25 pound backpack. If the answer is yes then you can stop that car.
Would you rather have the *choice* of insurers who will cut and run at the first sign of illness, or the right to fucking health care? Why don't we privatize the police and fire department while we're at it? I'd love to pay $100 a month for 911 service.
How exactly does health not fall under "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" I'll tell you how, it's exempt from actually serving public good because the insurance industry makes a few people way too rich for them to ever give it up without a fight.
Obamacare, if essentially ANY of the claims about it are true, would mean the on-demand try-to-collect-later health care would be across the board, not just emergency service.
Do you have any idea how much more it costs the hospital to treat someone in the emergency room than it does to treat someone in the regular hospital?
People are going to go to the hospital eventually, shouldn't we encourage them to go before it's a massive problem that requires emergency care?
Let's assume for a moment that hospitals are required to treat anyone who needs to be treated (because I like to think we're all fucking human beings here). Let's also assume that they're going to have to eat the cost of treating illegal immigrants. Do you think it's more efficient for the hospital to eat the cost of $75 worth of antibiotics when somebody gets a sinus infection? Or would you rather they wait until it turns into pneumonia and they require intubation and a couple nights in intensive care (and still eat the cost)? Suddenly giving people access outside the ER looks a whole lot cheaper.
As to the issue of requiring ID to be treated...that's fucking absurd. Let's do that, so instead of being treated I can bleed to death in the hospital waiting room because I forgot my ID in the rush of being injured.
Maybe so, if you're buying hair on the open market.
The difference is that I can produce an essentially unlimited supply of hair. All I need to do is be alive. Silicon is a little harder to produce.
You're probably thinking of wig-quality hair, which is quite valuable. As far as I could tell from TFA though, this will work with any old hair. Since it uses melanin though, would it be less effective with blond hair? (not that there are probably a lot of blonds in Nepal)
I have to wonder: If your TV is already plugged into your primary machine, complete with what sounds like a sweet menu system you made just how you like it...what exactly would you need another dedicated video machine for?
"Time to watch a movie, let's shut down computer A and watch it on computer B!"
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Sure it might mean paying the same people more, for a while. Eventually those people will retire, and they will need to be replaced at the bottom.
If we increase the pay scale we'll get more talented people, because they'll be less likely to say "well, I want to teach, but I'd rather make quadruple the money somewhere else."
Are you also the type who believes that the mythical "free market" also requires us to pay exorbitant salaries to executives of failing banks...because that's how we attract the top talent? If so please reevaluate your stance on almost everything, you might be an idiot.
There's a lot more randomness to electricity through a wire than most people think, especially at the micrometer scales of modern processors. Electricity through a wire is in fact impacted by "all sorts of things" including magnetism and background radiation. Generally though, this is seen as a bad thing to be corrected for, because randomness doesn't make for reliable computation.
You would be mistaken to think that random background interference will necessarily lead to personality. Try putting a powerful magnet next to a running microprocessor and I assure you what you get won't be a brilliant AI unlocking the secrets of the universe because the randomness of the magnetic interference has magically sparked sentience.
Yeah, it was a really interesting, groundbreaking engine.
In 1996.
That's 14 years ago, folks.
Nope, since I dumped your mom we're all just a bunch of children over here.
So were early naturalists, many of whom had no specific hypotheses to test, not a part of science? They were, after all, just looking around and recording their observations.
They had nothing but hopes and dreams and a world to explore - plus a healthy dose of curiosity. SETI represents that same basic human drive of curiosity that has always been the engine of science.
Their methods might not quite be the scientific method we learned in school, but they're still collecting massive amounts of data that I promise you will lead to something useful. We'll never know if something exists until we look for it, and you never know what you might find once you start looking. The first step into any new world (and believe me, we're still taking baby steps into understanding the universe at large) is to just look around and see what there is. That's what SETI is doing.
Back on topic, this particular guy was certainly committing an ethics violation, but making a show trial of it is equally stupid and wasteful on the administration's part.
I myself am seriously incapable of distinguishing between tones.
When I was a kid playing Myst I had to talk my mom into doing the tone matching puzzle for me, because I absolutely could not do it.
Did I sue them? No. I accepted the fact that there are some things I'm just not wired for, and I sucked it up and moved on with my life.
I'm all in favor of making things accessible, but there's a big difference between a traffic light and a video game. One being designed with poor accessibility will limit a few peoples' choices of entertainment, one will kill people.
For the record I'm all in favor of a rating system for various disabilities, but I don't think it should be mandatory, and I do think it should be an independent organization. Let's not make more hoops for developers to jump through, seeing that the ESRB hoop is already small and on fire.
I remember once when I was in school I came home complaining about a bully. My dad's answer was "could you take him?" I said "I think so." He said "what's the problem then?"
So how long until some clown patents getting muddy?
They'll be selling us carefully crafted biologically active dirt before too long.
This reminds me of when somebody discovered that a lot of the extra mobility you find in elderly Japanese people compared to Americans could be attributed to their frequent walks outside on uneven surfaces. Being the silly fools that we are, American medicine's answer wasn't the obvious "take walks outside."
No. Somebody invented a stupid mat with fake plastic cobblestones on top of it. Now old people get to walk back and forth on a 3 foot mat in the comfort of their own homes instead of - you know - taking a damn walk.
Are Americans so useless that given the news that taking walks is good for us we would prefer to walk back and forth on this abomination? It's probably so that they can more comfortably eat Cheesy Blasters and watch reality TV while they get their "exercise."
Reality. Who needs it?
I used to smoke 30 unfiltered hand-rolled cancer sticks a day, mostly at my desk in front of my constantly on computers. These weren't those pansy filtered cigarettes either, I used to find chunks of tar in the pouches my tobacco came in. I never saw anything remotely like the damage you're describing.
If I had to pick a lifestyle choice that would void computer warranties I would pick pets. Pet hair has gummed up more fans and heat sinks of mine than any amount of smoking ever could.
That's a rendering trick that has zero impact whatsoever on the final size of a rendered frame. I highly doubt they're sending raytracing data to smartphones.
A pixel is a pixel is a pixel, no matter how you go about generating it, and a screen can only display so many of them. The smart phone or whatever isn't generating these images, it doesn't give a crap about the raytracing methods behind them. It just downloads them and puts them on the screen.
Reminds me of people who take a 300x300px image into Photoshop and change the resolution to 300dpi in an attempt to make it "print ready." Congratulations! You've made it print ready to be an inch wide.
This has happened to me. I had my timing belt tensioner fail in a Ford Ranger going 70. The timing belt of course broke, so the engine died and I was left without power steering or power brakes (in a small truck with really terrible handling, no less).
You know what I did? I didn't panic. First I tried to start it up again with the clutch in. When that didn't work I hit my turn signal and flashed my brakes, eased across the 3 lanes of traffic, parked in a parking lot with my remaining momentum and waited for the towtruck.
I never said it wasn't a dangerous situation, I just said it's not as dangerous as people are making it out to be. Like most emergencies you'll be alright if you just keep your wits about you (which most people don't).
And don't call me fat. I'm 185 which you would call big, but I'm also 6'1". I figured 200 (not 225, read) precisely to account for those "fat ass Americans."
How big is your screen?
That's the real question here. "Photorealistic" (a meaningless term in the context of transferring image data) on a smartphone screen is a whole lot smaller than on my full 1920x1280 desktop monitor.
"Photorealistic" will only ever be as high resolution as the screen you view it on.
I don't know what version of 7-Zip you're using. I've experienced few to none of those problems.
While I will admit that not being able to do file associations at install is annoying, I've managed to use the association mechanism in the program without a hitch on Vista AND 7. No I'm not doing day-to-day as admin, and yes I have UAC turned on. I've also found the shell integration to be turned on by default.
As for preserving full pathnames, I never noticed it was lacking because I never use it. I also don't do a lot of command line compressing, but if you want to delete files after archiving make a shell script or batch file, it would be about two lines long.
Seriously, you'd use WinRAR?
225 pounds on the brake pedal? That's not actually very much.
I can lift upwards of 1,000 pounds with my calves (not including my own weight), so 225 with one of them is cake. Basically if you weigh 200 pounds ask yourself if you could stand on one leg with a 25 pound backpack. If the answer is yes then you can stop that car.
It's not Steampunk fiction meanderings, it's real-life science! Wow.
The right of choice, eh?
Would you rather have the *choice* of insurers who will cut and run at the first sign of illness, or the right to fucking health care? Why don't we privatize the police and fire department while we're at it? I'd love to pay $100 a month for 911 service.
How exactly does health not fall under "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" I'll tell you how, it's exempt from actually serving public good because the insurance industry makes a few people way too rich for them to ever give it up without a fight.
Obamacare, if essentially ANY of the claims about it are true, would mean the on-demand try-to-collect-later health care would be across the board, not just emergency service.
Do you have any idea how much more it costs the hospital to treat someone in the emergency room than it does to treat someone in the regular hospital?
People are going to go to the hospital eventually, shouldn't we encourage them to go before it's a massive problem that requires emergency care?
Let's assume for a moment that hospitals are required to treat anyone who needs to be treated (because I like to think we're all fucking human beings here). Let's also assume that they're going to have to eat the cost of treating illegal immigrants. Do you think it's more efficient for the hospital to eat the cost of $75 worth of antibiotics when somebody gets a sinus infection? Or would you rather they wait until it turns into pneumonia and they require intubation and a couple nights in intensive care (and still eat the cost)? Suddenly giving people access outside the ER looks a whole lot cheaper.
As to the issue of requiring ID to be treated...that's fucking absurd. Let's do that, so instead of being treated I can bleed to death in the hospital waiting room because I forgot my ID in the rush of being injured.
Maybe so, if you're buying hair on the open market.
The difference is that I can produce an essentially unlimited supply of hair. All I need to do is be alive. Silicon is a little harder to produce.
You're probably thinking of wig-quality hair, which is quite valuable. As far as I could tell from TFA though, this will work with any old hair. Since it uses melanin though, would it be less effective with blond hair? (not that there are probably a lot of blonds in Nepal)
In other news: Water wet, sky blue, puppies cute.
Just what we need. Let's ban children the world over from infringing on a Method of swinging on a swing.
Let's make sure it doesn't suck before we try to impose it on the rest of the world.
You're wrong. Every metric is not a dimension.
Am I four-dimensional because I have varying levels of density throughout my body? Nope. I certainly am not.
I, personally, don't want news items cluttering up my email.
If every website that I subscribe to via RSS were to email me every post...I'd never actually answer emails from other humans.
There's something to be said for compartmentalizing your incoming data.
So I guess you also hate IRC, email, HTTP, and all the other myriad ways hackers communicate with botnets...
OMG! YOU HATE THE INTERNET!
Since when did Slashdot start posting slightly edited press releases from little-known hardware manufacturers?
I have to wonder: If your TV is already plugged into your primary machine, complete with what sounds like a sweet menu system you made just how you like it...what exactly would you need another dedicated video machine for?
"Time to watch a movie, let's shut down computer A and watch it on computer B!"