If you have the right compiler (like gcc ported to every platform imaginable) and created something that would output plain text in c or c++, wouldn't the code be the same? I thought code base was dependent on the compiler and the more complex it got (in terms of graphics, guis, hardware calls, etc) the more likely it was that you began to hit platform differentiation.
Also, not sure what your definition of app, game and all that is, but zork running on the zmachines (may disqualify this argument right there) customized (and standardized [fonts, colors, window size]) for each platform runs identically on my phone as it does in a linux console as a mac console as in windows.
I think what's really going on is the lack of skin movement during articulation. The "skin" not visibly stretching creates a plastic, robotic appearance.
Corporations may have some of the rights of people, but they're just pieces of paper. While corporations run lean, their employees get hit, they pay taxes on offices, land, purchases and just about everything else that we do. When they pay their employees, their employees pay income taxes. When they sell their goods, states collect income taxes. The government has made very sure it gets its cut every step of the way. Taxing the corporation means that they make less goods, pay their employees less (well, ludicrous bonuses aside...), and will ultimately be less productive./devils advocate
Those crafty politicians have found ways to nickel and dime EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING (in a way) to make sure that they still have a job next election.
you're forgetting the number 1 thing that happens to paper as soon as it is printed. Usually whoever gets the stack of paper (because if you're just going to do one sheet, may as well just read it and display it on the computer, will tap the stack against the desk and then staple it. Pretty much if you staple something 10-20 times, it's corners become a horrible mess (my wife is a teacher, remember back to those posters stapled to the bulletin board).
Although i guess that's a feature, if you can't use staples with the paper, you save on those too.
I've had it since this afternoon. It's really a non-event now. AOL had a social network, email, games, and a "community" in the early 90's, why are we amazed that google is trying its best to recreate AOL 15 years after the fact?
An economic downturn only affects those who get laid off...
Or don't get bonuses, or don't get the resources/personnel/equipment they need, or entrepreneurs...
I wasn't affected by the recession until I was laid off, awesome how that works, eh? It's a boolean state, either you're employed and not feeling the effects, or you're not employed and can't get a new job at the same level as before, or do get one, but get picked out of far more applicants than before. At which point, your boolean downturn.effect() is reset to zero.
They're still doing one thing concurrently with X others. Just because they all have iphones and can switch back and forth between facebook, texting, and music doesn't mean that they've magically gained the ability to do 3 things when we just used to "talk on the phone" with the radio on. They're still using the phone.
Maybe I'm wierd, but if I am talking to someone, it uses 100% of my wetware. I have to turn off the TV, ignore the computer, and stop having IM conversations. However, I can routinely have IRC open with a flowing conversation, several IM windows open, browse the net, read slashdot, and be watching discovery channel, as long as the vocalization center of my brain is not engaged. That may account for the rise in "multi-tasking" seen across generations as speaking is such an inefficient (in terms of resource usage per task) means of conveying information.
I own a phone that will never be popular. It will never be the iphone killer that it could be given 6 more months of hardcore development and polish. The nokia n900 runs similar hardware, but improves on it in many places (slide out keyboard, comes with tv-out cable right out of the box, ctrl+shift+x brings up xterm, integrates skype which means that skype calls are just as easy as phone calls), however, it will never be as popular as the iphone because it is so damn open, is without a major carrier's blessing/store shelf space (who orders a phone online? well, besides This Guy!), and, really, is rather unpolished (needs 6 months of hardcore development and polish).
People don't want open, they want easy. They want to be able to walk into a cell phone store, say "ooh! That looks pretty!" and they want a sales associate to come up to them and say "Yes, not only is it pretty, but look at all these widgets and e-doodads you can install on it with the touch of a finger! They will be useful and enhance your life in ways you can barely imagine!" and then the customer will say "Please sir, but it looks so expensive!" to which the associate will reply "But not as such! Thanks to this sim lock-in, you can pay $2000 over the course of 2 years to save $400!" and the customer will end the conversation with a triumphant reply of "Please, kind sir, relieve me of my hard earned currency!"
I'll be buying the unlocked nokia n900 to replace my treo and switch from at&t to t-mobile when i feel like it. I've been waiting to ditch at&t for a while now.
Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle. Note the color of one's carbon-stained surface.
Yeah, pretty much they don't recognize external ip rights (which i think is awesome, not because of the freedom of stuff and stuff, but mostly because i'm always a fan of a good old fashioned screw-em mentality), and yet want theirs protected. Yeah...
They used to grow plants with radiation in the soil because it would cause them to grow faster. However, the problem is that this would irradiate the food that grew off of these plants.
When they factor in or go without the gallons of oil, pounds of coal, cubic feet of natural gas, amount of uranium or other fissile fuel, wind turbine hours, and other electric generation measures, then I'll get excited. Until then the 25 gallons is a bit misleading, sort of like the volt's 240mpg. Either that or I'll forgo the above if you give me a dollar amount in electricity donated, borrowed, bought, or rented along the way.
In 20-30 years, we may have a holiday to honor the warriors of the internet battlefield. With cyber command coming online in the next few years and government sanctioned internet attacks coming out of china, the next great war might be fought with light cycles and crazy computer graphics that stand in for a command console. Think of it as a memorial day, but for those who fight to defend our infrastructure.
Now we can see gollum transformed into an eyeless demon with the eyes on the palm of the hand. I mean we saw it in pan's labyrinth as well as in hellboy 2, so why not the hobbit? That said, he does good work, I'm eagerly anticipating his dark and symbolic take on a (for tolkien) light and fun child's book.
That in lab experiments, there is often a punishment or a reward (cheese, fruit, or juice vs spray of cold water) and that in order to truly replicate animal intelligence, you need to tie those into it's core as well. Now it's not as simple as programming a while(alive) { run seek.reward(now);} loop and letting it go, but a lot of what people and mammals is based on seeking out endorphin release. The following activities will release endorphins: chewing and swallowing pleasant substances [food], cuddling a baby, orgasm, thinking of revenge, looking at beautiful women [or men, your choice], and just about anything that makes us feel 'nice'. If you'll notice, a few of those are tied very closely to survival and reproduction, that is because we have evolved this reward mechanism that drives us to do what will further our genes. Pretty neat huh?
We humans have engineered civilization to provide a steady release of endorphins for us by having a constant store of food, comfort, and certain kinds of visual stimulation on hand at all times. However, a lot of the bad sides of civilization are also about endorphin release when those mechanisms are perverted for constant endorphin release (rape, drugs, etc). Just as people sky-dive or do some types of drugs to get an endorphin rush, an AI may take risks or become addicted to certain behaviors if a reward/punishment scheme is implemented. Preventing the AI from doing that may be just as hard as winning the drug war or stopping someone from destroying themselves with destructive behavior. Maybe harder because you'd possibly have to do the equivalent of shock therapy and a lobotomy on the AI rather than stage an intervention (which doesn't have a super high success rate in real life either).
it probably duplicates core functionality in the loosest sense of the term. I.E. turns it into a "computer" that people can then "use" to "get stuff done". Then BAM! duplicate functionality.
will they be counting the time it takes to get the data from the computer, put it on the 4gb media, strap it to the bird, send it off, retrieve it, and load it onto the end computer or will they just do a door-to-door race?
It was a beta test of the Apple's new Rapid Acquisition System. They're about to roll it out for use in providing businesses with their computing needs. Apple: Breaking down barriers and plate glass doors.
the annotations were stored elsewhere in the kindle but were rather worthless without the context provided by the nearby book-text. They could still be accessed, but weren't much good alone. I.E. you can talk about how This Passage would be good to discuss for My Paper, but without This Passage, your annotation is worthless. So now that the book is returned, hopefully it will be smart enough to tie the old annotation attached to This Passage with the corresponding This Passage in the new text.
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I don't get it...
If you have the right compiler (like gcc ported to every platform imaginable) and created something that would output plain text in c or c++, wouldn't the code be the same? I thought code base was dependent on the compiler and the more complex it got (in terms of graphics, guis, hardware calls, etc) the more likely it was that you began to hit platform differentiation.
Also, not sure what your definition of app, game and all that is, but zork running on the zmachines (may disqualify this argument right there) customized (and standardized [fonts, colors, window size]) for each platform runs identically on my phone as it does in a linux console as a mac console as in windows.
I think what's really going on is the lack of skin movement during articulation. The "skin" not visibly stretching creates a plastic, robotic appearance.
Like Joan Rivers and other botox junkies?
And what field might that be in? Not all fields will have much use for calculus in the real world, but I am still curious.
Ah biology, the humanities of the science world...
Corporations may have some of the rights of people, but they're just pieces of paper. While corporations run lean, their employees get hit, they pay taxes on offices, land, purchases and just about everything else that we do. When they pay their employees, their employees pay income taxes. When they sell their goods, states collect income taxes. The government has made very sure it gets its cut every step of the way. Taxing the corporation means that they make less goods, pay their employees less (well, ludicrous bonuses aside...), and will ultimately be less productive. /devils advocate
Those crafty politicians have found ways to nickel and dime EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING (in a way) to make sure that they still have a job next election.
you're forgetting the number 1 thing that happens to paper as soon as it is printed. Usually whoever gets the stack of paper (because if you're just going to do one sheet, may as well just read it and display it on the computer, will tap the stack against the desk and then staple it. Pretty much if you staple something 10-20 times, it's corners become a horrible mess (my wife is a teacher, remember back to those posters stapled to the bulletin board).
Although i guess that's a feature, if you can't use staples with the paper, you save on those too.
I've had it since this afternoon. It's really a non-event now. AOL had a social network, email, games, and a "community" in the early 90's, why are we amazed that google is trying its best to recreate AOL 15 years after the fact?
Sweet! Now let's see combine this with past work with nanowires and make the world's first Living TV! Plasma tv that uses your own plasma? I'm game.
An economic downturn only affects those who get laid off...
Or don't get bonuses, or don't get the resources/personnel/equipment they need, or entrepreneurs...
I wasn't affected by the recession until I was laid off, awesome how that works, eh? It's a boolean state, either you're employed and not feeling the effects, or you're not employed and can't get a new job at the same level as before, or do get one, but get picked out of far more applicants than before. At which point, your boolean downturn.effect() is reset to zero.
They're still doing one thing concurrently with X others. Just because they all have iphones and can switch back and forth between facebook, texting, and music doesn't mean that they've magically gained the ability to do 3 things when we just used to "talk on the phone" with the radio on. They're still using the phone.
Maybe I'm wierd, but if I am talking to someone, it uses 100% of my wetware. I have to turn off the TV, ignore the computer, and stop having IM conversations. However, I can routinely have IRC open with a flowing conversation, several IM windows open, browse the net, read slashdot, and be watching discovery channel, as long as the vocalization center of my brain is not engaged. That may account for the rise in "multi-tasking" seen across generations as speaking is such an inefficient (in terms of resource usage per task) means of conveying information.
I own a phone that will never be popular. It will never be the iphone killer that it could be given 6 more months of hardcore development and polish. The nokia n900 runs similar hardware, but improves on it in many places (slide out keyboard, comes with tv-out cable right out of the box, ctrl+shift+x brings up xterm, integrates skype which means that skype calls are just as easy as phone calls), however, it will never be as popular as the iphone because it is so damn open, is without a major carrier's blessing/store shelf space (who orders a phone online? well, besides This Guy!), and, really, is rather unpolished (needs 6 months of hardcore development and polish).
People don't want open, they want easy. They want to be able to walk into a cell phone store, say "ooh! That looks pretty!" and they want a sales associate to come up to them and say "Yes, not only is it pretty, but look at all these widgets and e-doodads you can install on it with the touch of a finger! They will be useful and enhance your life in ways you can barely imagine!" and then the customer will say "Please sir, but it looks so expensive!" to which the associate will reply "But not as such! Thanks to this sim lock-in, you can pay $2000 over the course of 2 years to save $400!" and the customer will end the conversation with a triumphant reply of "Please, kind sir, relieve me of my hard earned currency!"
The end.
I'll be buying the unlocked nokia n900 to replace my treo and switch from at&t to t-mobile when i feel like it. I've been waiting to ditch at&t for a while now.
Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle. Note the color of one's carbon-stained surface.
Yeah, pretty much they don't recognize external ip rights (which i think is awesome, not because of the freedom of stuff and stuff, but mostly because i'm always a fan of a good old fashioned screw-em mentality), and yet want theirs protected. Yeah...
They used to grow plants with radiation in the soil because it would cause them to grow faster. However, the problem is that this would irradiate the food that grew off of these plants.
When they factor in or go without the gallons of oil, pounds of coal, cubic feet of natural gas, amount of uranium or other fissile fuel, wind turbine hours, and other electric generation measures, then I'll get excited. Until then the 25 gallons is a bit misleading, sort of like the volt's 240mpg. Either that or I'll forgo the above if you give me a dollar amount in electricity donated, borrowed, bought, or rented along the way.
because surgeons or police officers are less likely to create a website on a whim to promote a holiday.
In 20-30 years, we may have a holiday to honor the warriors of the internet battlefield. With cyber command coming online in the next few years and government sanctioned internet attacks coming out of china, the next great war might be fought with light cycles and crazy computer graphics that stand in for a command console. Think of it as a memorial day, but for those who fight to defend our infrastructure.
in the Katz decision, it finally recognized that "the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places."
Don't worry sir, we are perfectly within our right to search and seize your house, but we won't go through your pockets or perform a cavity search.
they are making a hobbit 2 when this one is finished.
Now we can see gollum transformed into an eyeless demon with the eyes on the palm of the hand. I mean we saw it in pan's labyrinth as well as in hellboy 2, so why not the hobbit? That said, he does good work, I'm eagerly anticipating his dark and symbolic take on a (for tolkien) light and fun child's book.
That in lab experiments, there is often a punishment or a reward (cheese, fruit, or juice vs spray of cold water) and that in order to truly replicate animal intelligence, you need to tie those into it's core as well. Now it's not as simple as programming a while(alive) { run seek.reward(now);} loop and letting it go, but a lot of what people and mammals is based on seeking out endorphin release. The following activities will release endorphins: chewing and swallowing pleasant substances [food], cuddling a baby, orgasm, thinking of revenge, looking at beautiful women [or men, your choice], and just about anything that makes us feel 'nice'. If you'll notice, a few of those are tied very closely to survival and reproduction, that is because we have evolved this reward mechanism that drives us to do what will further our genes. Pretty neat huh?
We humans have engineered civilization to provide a steady release of endorphins for us by having a constant store of food, comfort, and certain kinds of visual stimulation on hand at all times. However, a lot of the bad sides of civilization are also about endorphin release when those mechanisms are perverted for constant endorphin release (rape, drugs, etc). Just as people sky-dive or do some types of drugs to get an endorphin rush, an AI may take risks or become addicted to certain behaviors if a reward/punishment scheme is implemented. Preventing the AI from doing that may be just as hard as winning the drug war or stopping someone from destroying themselves with destructive behavior. Maybe harder because you'd possibly have to do the equivalent of shock therapy and a lobotomy on the AI rather than stage an intervention (which doesn't have a super high success rate in real life either).
it probably duplicates core functionality in the loosest sense of the term. I.E. turns it into a "computer" that people can then "use" to "get stuff done". Then BAM! duplicate functionality.
will they be counting the time it takes to get the data from the computer, put it on the 4gb media, strap it to the bird, send it off, retrieve it, and load it onto the end computer or will they just do a door-to-door race?
RTFA? ME? Do you know what site you're reading?
It was a beta test of the Apple's new Rapid Acquisition System. They're about to roll it out for use in providing businesses with their computing needs. Apple: Breaking down barriers and plate glass doors.
the annotations were stored elsewhere in the kindle but were rather worthless without the context provided by the nearby book-text. They could still be accessed, but weren't much good alone. I.E. you can talk about how This Passage would be good to discuss for My Paper, but without This Passage, your annotation is worthless. So now that the book is returned, hopefully it will be smart enough to tie the old annotation attached to This Passage with the corresponding This Passage in the new text.