I think he meant that there would then be enough IP addresses for everyone, not that every single person would be identified with a specific IPv6 address.
Can someone explain to me how they manage to make $1.6 billion in revenue a year? Who is paying and for what? Because I just went to my FB page for the first time after months and I could not see any ads, not a single one.
Why the hell would you give a privately owned company, based in a single country, the right to hold Internet users' single login "license"? Why? Even with the all those features you require.
And the headline was colloquially correct... he used public data that was recorded by the telescope, he neither owned nor directed the 'scope (nor did those who did have to even know that he existed). When you walk somewhere without using a car, do you mention to people that, well, in all honesty, trucks were used to pour the concrete that made the path on which you walked? Or do you design your sentence for a normal human being to understand the main point?
You can walk from A to B without a road being present. It's called hiking. He would not have discovered these planets by merely looking at the sky and noting his observations. Data did not spontaneously appear out of the blue. I don't think that your analogy really stands.
I am reading on the iPad quite often. The problem with the Wired app is that you have to pay extra dollars, even as a subscriber for the print issue, for what is basically a few videos and some cheesy animations. The really interesting content, a.k.a. the in-depth articles are not in the iPad issue. Honestly I don't see how that model could work. On the contrary, The Economist gives subscribers of the print issue the entire content at no extra cost and the app is free. You can even download the entire issue as audio files and you don't need to download an updated app every month and 300 MB of data for every single issue. Comics also make a good read. Actually reading is the only really useful feature of the iPad I found so far.
Eric Besson, the French ministry for digital economy, has declared that France cannot accept to host a website which violates the secret of diplomatic relations and endanger people who should be protected by said secret.
They at least mean the doors in his department buildings open automatically for him
Yes but is that interesting or relevant? To me it's just a PR stunt. This guy is a professor of photography and has a camera implanted in his head. It's just on par.
I wouldn't have been granted a $1600 Euro plant ticket to go rub shoulders with the giants of my field.
Most students aren't as lucky as you. In fact, the vast majority of students never travel abroad or get to experience something on the scale of what you described. I also doubt you are getting educated in the U.S. and my ranting really only applies to the U.S., mainly the Cal State system. I failed to mention that.
Go into a decent PhD program and be pro-active. In any field you can find funding to travel around, visit foreign labs, attend international conferences. Most PhD I know who do not travel much or at all do that because they don't want to or have family constraints.
And what if you went to fundamental research instead of a company after graduating? Universities are not only about learning skills for a specific industry job. For most of the faculties I know, research is the first and main activity.
Before 911 hijacked planes were most likely to be used to fly safely out of the country or to ask the liberation of some guy related to the hijackers. Not to blow up a skyscraper. It made sense then.
I assume that when you develop a game for the desktop, you develop it for the latest Windows version with some care over portability to the version prior to that and that's it. And you have only one type of input devices (keyboard plus mouse). You know that there anyway will be a big market of gamers using Win 7 with the latest generation of processors and graphic cards. I highly doubt that this variability compares to the one seen in the Android market.
There is a far right party in France, the so-called "Front National", to the right of the UMP. They did play an important role in the past decades with votes reaching in the 15-20% but are now plagued by internal dispute (not that I am unhappy about it). The UMP also did a "good" job at pushing a security agenda which took over a large share of their votes.
The stunning admission by Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi provides the clearest government confirmation that Iran has been fighting espionage at its nuclear facilities.
A quick comment, French news are actually mentioning that only a few hundred people were notified. So at the moment we are far away from the 10000 number that was put forward by the right holders.
True but the brain is highly compartmentalized. Some areas will receive sensory input and report to "higher" areas which integrate input from different modalities, probably compare that to "memories" and finally take a decision which is enacted by sending input to motor areas. (To make a simple comparison with the robot's behavior). At each stage, many different neuron types and several different neurotransmitters are used. Here you basically have one petri dish with probably one neuron type (I am not 100% sure on that one) receiving one type of input (probably the cells lie on an array of electrodes). It's not quite the same. Moreover, cell cultured neurons are very different from what you find in the real thing. Unless of course they culture brain slices.
I was wondering the same and honestly it seems fishy to me. There is no such thing as a negative electrical stimulation for neurons. Granted there is inhibition by GABA and some other neuromodulators. So unless they drop something on the tissue to induce some sort of learning, I simply don't see why any coherent behavior would emerge since there is no "motivation" to behave in one way rather than the other. From the wall-avoidance behavior video, my guess is that the sensors continuously feed the network until they detect a surface and then stop. In that case, the behavior would be hard-coded in the sensors and not in the network.
Seriously, researchers have warned for years that using antibiotics in this way is a bad idea. It is also true for human patients, distributing antibiotics like candies tends to have the same effect. People use them too often or do not complete the treatment and the strongest bugs get selected and can happily repopulate an environment now void of competition.
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I think he meant that there would then be enough IP addresses for everyone, not that every single person would be identified with a specific IPv6 address.
Can someone explain to me how they manage to make $1.6 billion in revenue a year? Who is paying and for what? Because I just went to my FB page for the first time after months and I could not see any ads, not a single one.
Why the hell would you give a privately owned company, based in a single country, the right to hold Internet users' single login "license"? Why? Even with the all those features you require.
And the headline was colloquially correct... he used public data that was recorded by the telescope, he neither owned nor directed the 'scope (nor did those who did have to even know that he existed). When you walk somewhere without using a car, do you mention to people that, well, in all honesty, trucks were used to pour the concrete that made the path on which you walked? Or do you design your sentence for a normal human being to understand the main point?
You can walk from A to B without a road being present. It's called hiking. He would not have discovered these planets by merely looking at the sky and noting his observations. Data did not spontaneously appear out of the blue. I don't think that your analogy really stands.
I am reading on the iPad quite often. The problem with the Wired app is that you have to pay extra dollars, even as a subscriber for the print issue, for what is basically a few videos and some cheesy animations. The really interesting content, a.k.a. the in-depth articles are not in the iPad issue. Honestly I don't see how that model could work. On the contrary, The Economist gives subscribers of the print issue the entire content at no extra cost and the app is free. You can even download the entire issue as audio files and you don't need to download an updated app every month and 300 MB of data for every single issue. Comics also make a good read. Actually reading is the only really useful feature of the iPad I found so far.
Eric Besson, the French ministry for digital economy, has declared that France cannot accept to host a website which violates the secret of diplomatic relations and endanger people who should be protected by said secret.
They at least mean the doors in his department buildings open automatically for him
Yes but is that interesting or relevant? To me it's just a PR stunt. This guy is a professor of photography and has a camera implanted in his head. It's just on par.
If only they had been as careful to craft the ending...
Reminds me of another world power...
I wouldn't have been granted a $1600 Euro plant ticket to go rub shoulders with the giants of my field. Most students aren't as lucky as you. In fact, the vast majority of students never travel abroad or get to experience something on the scale of what you described. I also doubt you are getting educated in the U.S. and my ranting really only applies to the U.S., mainly the Cal State system. I failed to mention that.
Go into a decent PhD program and be pro-active. In any field you can find funding to travel around, visit foreign labs, attend international conferences. Most PhD I know who do not travel much or at all do that because they don't want to or have family constraints.
And what if you went to fundamental research instead of a company after graduating? Universities are not only about learning skills for a specific industry job. For most of the faculties I know, research is the first and main activity.
It probably is but then, legality is not really the most immediate priority of the current French government.
Is his wife payed for by the music lobby?
Well, there were rumors going in that direction yes.
Before 911 hijacked planes were most likely to be used to fly safely out of the country or to ask the liberation of some guy related to the hijackers. Not to blow up a skyscraper. It made sense then.
I assume that when you develop a game for the desktop, you develop it for the latest Windows version with some care over portability to the version prior to that and that's it. And you have only one type of input devices (keyboard plus mouse). You know that there anyway will be a big market of gamers using Win 7 with the latest generation of processors and graphic cards. I highly doubt that this variability compares to the one seen in the Android market.
After this post I'll start stockpiling fuel, canned food and ammunition in preparation for the computer uprising.
There is a far right party in France, the so-called "Front National", to the right of the UMP. They did play an important role in the past decades with votes reaching in the 15-20% but are now plagued by internal dispute (not that I am unhappy about it). The UMP also did a "good" job at pushing a security agenda which took over a large share of their votes.
The stunning admission by Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi provides the clearest government confirmation that Iran has been fighting espionage at its nuclear facilities.
Truly amazing indeed...
A quick comment, French news are actually mentioning that only a few hundred people were notified. So at the moment we are far away from the 10000 number that was put forward by the right holders.
True but the brain is highly compartmentalized. Some areas will receive sensory input and report to "higher" areas which integrate input from different modalities, probably compare that to "memories" and finally take a decision which is enacted by sending input to motor areas. (To make a simple comparison with the robot's behavior). At each stage, many different neuron types and several different neurotransmitters are used. Here you basically have one petri dish with probably one neuron type (I am not 100% sure on that one) receiving one type of input (probably the cells lie on an array of electrodes). It's not quite the same. Moreover, cell cultured neurons are very different from what you find in the real thing. Unless of course they culture brain slices.
I was wondering the same and honestly it seems fishy to me. There is no such thing as a negative electrical stimulation for neurons. Granted there is inhibition by GABA and some other neuromodulators. So unless they drop something on the tissue to induce some sort of learning, I simply don't see why any coherent behavior would emerge since there is no "motivation" to behave in one way rather than the other. From the wall-avoidance behavior video, my guess is that the sensors continuously feed the network until they detect a surface and then stop. In that case, the behavior would be hard-coded in the sensors and not in the network.
I wonder if they use this https://powertraveller.com/iwantsome/primatepower/solargorilla/. I have one of their portable batteries and it is a pretty neat piece of hardware. They say somewhere that some military are using their equipment.
Seriously, researchers have warned for years that using antibiotics in this way is a bad idea. It is also true for human patients, distributing antibiotics like candies tends to have the same effect. People use them too often or do not complete the treatment and the strongest bugs get selected and can happily repopulate an environment now void of competition.
Could it be that this system blacklists the words based on the content to be displayed and not based on the input itself?