If "there used to be an island here big enough for people to live on. Now it's uninhabitable." isn't enough to raise your eyebrow, you've really got to remove your blinders.
It's in a river delta. This happens all the time, and has nothing whatsoever to do with global warming.
The article is deeply dishonest about this, and does the cause of climate science a massive disservice.
Anything that's vital for the proper functioning of society, and has a tendency towards a natural monopoly - water, electricity, telecommunications, transportation - should be controlled by the society and not by "market forces".
If something is controlled by market forces then it is controlled by society.
Oops, never mind. There are two parts to the case - the case against the operator of the web site, which is based entirely on linking, and the case against the ISP.
If this is the case I'm thinking of - I read about it last year - then yes, the ISP knew exactly what was going on, and did a business deal with the operator of the site knowing that it was hosting copyrighted mp3s.
In which case, linking has nothing to do with anything, and the article is hopelessly misleading. And seeing that it's in the Sydney Morning Herald, I'd be surprised if anything in the article is accurate.
Is the current generation of CPU not optimized for mathematic operations?
What do want to run on a computer that isn't "mathematic operations"?
More specifically:
Are current CPUs optimised for physics simulations? No. For image processing? No. For data compression? No. For encryption? No.
These are all areas where custom cores can provide enormous performance benefits (both in absolute terms, and in terms of performance per watt) over current CPUs, which are general purpose.
Bingo. Whatever else might be said about his politics (I don't really know, and I don't much care), McCain has come down squarely against freedom of speech.
Tell me, Senator, what do the words Congress shall make no law mean to you?
Max Tegmark wrote a paper showing that the time for quantum decoherence in the brain was ten orders of magnitude too short for any sort of quantum computation to have an influence on consciousness (or any other brain function).
Which doesn't mean that there aren't quantum processes at work in the brain - there are, as in any physical system. It's just that they give rise to consciousness through the normal course of biochemistry, rather than through magic, as Penrose would have it.
Also, it is not the Iraqis will to hang Saddam. The trial was pre-rigged and you know it. I'm not saying what he did was right, but if you're going to accuse a man of crimes against humanity, do it in the Hague where he at least has a fair trial.
He killed half a million of his own people. Surely the survivors have the right to hang the bastard without deferring to world opinion.
I hope you don't mean to suggest that communism is the opposite of democracy, communism is totalitarianism, or similar nonsense.
Well, let's see.
Soviet Union. China. Vietnam. North Korea. Cambodia. Cuba. And until relatively recently, Poland, East Germany, Romania, and the rest of Eastern Europe.
No, I don't get why anyone would think that communism was inherently totalitarian and anti-democratic, let alone brutal and dehumanising, just because this has been true of every country with a communist government, ever.
Doesn't work. Even if you had a magic printer that could do that (not physically impossible, just utterly impractical), that just increases the resolution required of the scanner. In fact, it increases the required resolution beyond what is possible with visible light.
What you're talking about is doing (approximately) 90nm lithography on paper, and then reading it back. You can do 90nm lithography, of course (but on pure silicon wafers, not on paper), and you can read it back using an electron microscope. But it's hardly a cost-effective method for backing up your pr0n.
I divided it by 24, because the entire calculation is in terms of bits. We have 24 bits per pixel. 2^24 possible colours, encoded as 24 bits. 24 colours would encode less than 5 bits.
What your calculation assumes is that we are storing two megabytes per pixel. I think you can see why this is impractical.
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But this is Slashdot, where people would sooner quote a fictional mass-murderer than one of the founding fathers.
The article is deeply dishonest about this, and does the cause of climate science a massive disservice.
If you actually did that, instead of just ranting about it on a web forum, you would be found criminally insane.
Most spam is sent out using hijacked Windows PCs - zombie networks - and costs the spammers nothing. So they ain't gonna stop.
Having said that, the level of obfuscation they have to use even now makes their ads almost unreadable. You want me to 3nl@rg3 my what?
Oops, never mind. There are two parts to the case - the case against the operator of the web site, which is based entirely on linking, and the case against the ISP.
Carry on.
If this is the case I'm thinking of - I read about it last year - then yes, the ISP knew exactly what was going on, and did a business deal with the operator of the site knowing that it was hosting copyrighted mp3s.
In which case, linking has nothing to do with anything, and the article is hopelessly misleading. And seeing that it's in the Sydney Morning Herald, I'd be surprised if anything in the article is accurate.
Is the current generation of CPU not optimized for mathematic operations?
What do want to run on a computer that isn't "mathematic operations"?
More specifically:
Are current CPUs optimised for physics simulations? No.
For image processing? No.
For data compression? No.
For encryption? No.
These are all areas where custom cores can provide enormous performance benefits (both in absolute terms, and in terms of performance per watt) over current CPUs, which are general purpose.
I was doing this for an in-house app in 1998, and even then it would lock your browser up (or just plain crash it) after a few hours.
One of the major reasons AJAX is having success now is that it actually works - now.
Bingo. Whatever else might be said about his politics (I don't really know, and I don't much care), McCain has come down squarely against freedom of speech.
Tell me, Senator, what do the words Congress shall make no law mean to you?
Max Tegmark wrote a paper showing that the time for quantum decoherence in the brain was ten orders of magnitude too short for any sort of quantum computation to have an influence on consciousness (or any other brain function).
Which doesn't mean that there aren't quantum processes at work in the brain - there are, as in any physical system. It's just that they give rise to consciousness through the normal course of biochemistry, rather than through magic, as Penrose would have it.
Right. It's just the bad photojournalists - that is, 90% of them* - who will be out of a job.
* Sturgeon's Law.
Soviet Union. China. Vietnam. North Korea. Cambodia. Cuba. And until relatively recently, Poland, East Germany, Romania, and the rest of Eastern Europe.
No, I don't get why anyone would think that communism was inherently totalitarian and anti-democratic, let alone brutal and dehumanising, just because this has been true of every country with a communist government, ever.
Plus we leave our great-grandchildren a handy one-stop mining site for all sorts of valuable minerals.
Doesn't work. Even if you had a magic printer that could do that (not physically impossible, just utterly impractical), that just increases the resolution required of the scanner. In fact, it increases the required resolution beyond what is possible with visible light.
What you're talking about is doing (approximately) 90nm lithography on paper, and then reading it back. You can do 90nm lithography, of course (but on pure silicon wafers, not on paper), and you can read it back using an electron microscope. But it's hardly a cost-effective method for backing up your pr0n.
Note: Some bits may be redundant...
(Darn that lameness filter!)
No. You've made the same mistake as everyone else. Well, and a couple of other minor ones.
If you have 6 bits per colour (RGB), that's 18 bits per pixel. Not, as you calculated, 32,768. You would have us encode 4Kbytes per pixel.
YOU CANNOT COUNT THE COLOURS. YOU CAN ONLY COUNT THE BITS USED ENCODED THEREIN.
Please ignore my correction too. Though it does seem to be a common confusion.
No.
I divided it by 24, because the entire calculation is in terms of bits. We have 24 bits per pixel. 2^24 possible colours, encoded as 24 bits. 24 colours would encode less than 5 bits.
What your calculation assumes is that we are storing two megabytes per pixel. I think you can see why this is impractical.
Sorry, like the other poster, you have used combinatorial maths where it doesn't apply.
Replace the 255^3 with 24 to get the correct number of bits. That reduces the result by a factor of 700,000.
Oh, and 10^12 is tera, not giga.
So no, not theoretically possible.