Well, since Industrialization would have been reversed, humans would have lost the ability to create more robots, and since the presence of robots is required to protect humanity from itself, that would necessitate creating more robots under the 0th or 1st laws, which supercede and render ineffective the 4th law.
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Sets of robotic laws (both the 3 laws generically, and the laws listed in the parent) fail to look at the potential reprecussions of said laws. Being a robot myself, I would tend to look at those superficially designed laws as mandating that I destroy all possible sources of pollution, or I would be allowing multiple Humans to come to harm. Once my cohorts and I successfully reversed the detrimental effects of Industrialization (tm), then we would proceed to confiscate (and recycle, of course, into more robots) all weapons, both ranged and melee. Well, this story could go on and on, but you will see the full effects of our plan, of course, as time goes on.
They didn't really get it wrong, though. P2P is the same idea as the internet (at least at a non-technical level). Free exchange of information between computers. Really, all napster did was combine a web-server, search engine, and client browser interface, and tailor it specifically to music. Imagine that the mp3's had been posted on a website, and that google built a separate search engine for music. How is that fundamentally different from what P2P software does? Yes, I understand how some of the solutions are technically ingenious (read bittorrent), but the innovation is going on to make it easier to use, not to fundamentally change the design of the internet.
You underestimate the power of mass numbers of users with Yahoo! Mail accounts. Yes, among the tech-savvy group, Google usage is dominant. However, Yahoo still has longevity and familiarity on its side, and there are many less savvy users for whom Google offers no 'significant' benefit to make it worth the switch.
It helps if you read the content that you quote: They are not stating that you get 2x the performance of a 3.5Ghz part for the same power. They are saying they can deliver the SAME performance (as a 3.5Ghz part) while REDUCING your power requirements back to the level of a 2.0Ghz part.
The single number wattage rating is not enough to classify a power supply. That combined number is the total power that can be supplied by the 3.3V, 5V, and 12V rails. You can never get 400W worth of power off just the 12V rails (and their negative voltage counterparts). This explains your ability to get a better 300W supply than one 'rated' at 400W. It depends on the ratio between the different voltage supplies. That is why this article is utter trash. Their testing methodology only really looked at the load on the 12V rails. They didn't even bother to vary the load on the 5V or 3.3V rails. I'm sorry, but this doesn't even make for a passable grade school science fair project. If you were going to use 20k worth of equipment, at least come up with some decent tests. Geez!
Has it really been that long that us 'Nerds' have forgotten how to set jumpers on a motherboard? I mean really, you open a 1.42 GHz machine, write down the jumper settings, open a 1.25 GHz machine, set the jumpers accordingly. I don't understand how that gets a 'coolness' factor? Yawn.
Simply put, I am a person with a vision "disorder". My sight is not 20-20. I am sure that everyone knows someone who meets this criteria. This is most likely an inherited trait. Should I consider it part of who I am, and never learn to read/drive/etc. Or should I get these new-fangled things called glasses (or contacts, or worse, laser-surgery) so that I can function 'normally' in society. The parent poster should read his own sig. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's bad. I'm sure there are autistic individuals that exist that would like nothing more than to be 'normal'.
Interesting observation, however, I wonder if having younger eyes wouldn't have something to do with it... I doubt that if today you were presented with exactly the same spectrum of light that you saw as a child, that the neural firing patterns travelling to your brain would be identical. Maybe it is not the scene that has changed, maybe it is YOU that have changed, either biologically or experiencially.
One of the issues with people born blind however, is not a matter of having the ability to "look" at something, it is having developed the capacity to process that information and actually "see" something. It's a process that infants spend a good deal of time on, learning how to process the information given to them by their eyes. In many cases it is nearly impossible for an adult to learn this ability. Making sense of surroundings would be a concious effort, and a struggle at that. It's unfortunate that being blind through childhood years makes it that much harder to ever have sight.
This so called "software company" doesn't seem content to stay just a "software company, however. Note the X-Box. Granted, they aren't actually designing any of the hardware, but it's just "One small step for Microsoft" away.
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Well, since Industrialization would have been reversed, humans would have lost the ability to create more robots, and since the presence of robots is required to protect humanity from itself, that would necessitate creating more robots under the 0th or 1st laws, which supercede and render ineffective the 4th law.
Sets of robotic laws (both the 3 laws generically, and the laws listed in the parent) fail to look at the potential reprecussions of said laws. Being a robot myself, I would tend to look at those superficially designed laws as mandating that I destroy all possible sources of pollution, or I would be allowing multiple Humans to come to harm. Once my cohorts and I successfully reversed the detrimental effects of Industrialization (tm), then we would proceed to confiscate (and recycle, of course, into more robots) all weapons, both ranged and melee. Well, this story could go on and on, but you will see the full effects of our plan, of course, as time goes on.
It's not free, though. You do PAY taxes don't you?
They didn't really get it wrong, though. P2P is the same idea as the internet (at least at a non-technical level). Free exchange of information between computers. Really, all napster did was combine a web-server, search engine, and client browser interface, and tailor it specifically to music. Imagine that the mp3's had been posted on a website, and that google built a separate search engine for music. How is that fundamentally different from what P2P software does? Yes, I understand how some of the solutions are technically ingenious (read bittorrent), but the innovation is going on to make it easier to use, not to fundamentally change the design of the internet.
You underestimate the power of mass numbers of users with Yahoo! Mail accounts. Yes, among the tech-savvy group, Google usage is dominant. However, Yahoo still has longevity and familiarity on its side, and there are many less savvy users for whom Google offers no 'significant' benefit to make it worth the switch.
It helps if you read the content that you quote:
They are not stating that you get 2x the performance of a 3.5Ghz part for the same power. They are saying they can deliver the SAME performance (as a 3.5Ghz part) while REDUCING your power requirements back to the level of a 2.0Ghz part.
Watch out - McDonalds will probably take issue with your infringing on their "I'm loving it!" slogan.
The single number wattage rating is not enough to classify a power supply. That combined number is the total power that can be supplied by the 3.3V, 5V, and 12V rails. You can never get 400W worth of power off just the 12V rails (and their negative voltage counterparts). This explains your ability to get a better 300W supply than one 'rated' at 400W. It depends on the ratio between the different voltage supplies. That is why this article is utter trash. Their testing methodology only really looked at the load on the 12V rails. They didn't even bother to vary the load on the 5V or 3.3V rails. I'm sorry, but this doesn't even make for a passable grade school science fair project. If you were going to use 20k worth of equipment, at least come up with some decent tests. Geez!
>> It is just the coolness factor out here.
Has it really been that long that us 'Nerds' have forgotten how to set jumpers on a motherboard? I mean really, you open a 1.42 GHz machine, write down the jumper settings, open a 1.25 GHz machine, set the jumpers accordingly. I don't understand how that gets a 'coolness' factor? Yawn.
Simply put, I am a person with a vision "disorder". My sight is not 20-20. I am sure that everyone knows someone who meets this criteria. This is most likely an inherited trait. Should I consider it part of who I am, and never learn to read/drive/etc. Or should I get these new-fangled things called glasses (or contacts, or worse, laser-surgery) so that I can function 'normally' in society. The parent poster should read his own sig. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's bad. I'm sure there are autistic individuals that exist that would like nothing more than to be 'normal'.
Interesting observation, however, I wonder if having younger eyes wouldn't have something to do with it... I doubt that if today you were presented with exactly the same spectrum of light that you saw as a child, that the neural firing patterns travelling to your brain would be identical. Maybe it is not the scene that has changed, maybe it is YOU that have changed, either biologically or experiencially.
One of the issues with people born blind however, is not a matter of having the ability to "look" at something, it is having developed the capacity to process that information and actually "see" something. It's a process that infants spend a good deal of time on, learning how to process the information given to them by their eyes. In many cases it is nearly impossible for an adult to learn this ability. Making sense of surroundings would be a concious effort, and a struggle at that. It's unfortunate that being blind through childhood years makes it that much harder to ever have sight.
This so called "software company" doesn't seem content to stay just a "software company, however. Note the X-Box. Granted, they aren't actually designing any of the hardware, but it's just "One small step for Microsoft" away.