One should not forget that this time, Intel processors are not the only ones to be considerered. With the rise of the iPhone, RIM, and others, javascript performance on ARM is a serious issue.
(...) I'm guessing that at best, 128 bit IEEE 754r performs about half the speed of 64bit IEEE 754, purely because of the data width.
According to Douglas Crockford "...it's literally hundreds of times slower than the current format.".
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Okay, I should not do this...
(...)
UNIX is like the Church which dragged society out of the enlightenment of Rome and into the dark ages, filling peoples' heads with superstition and making progress a dark taboo. (...)
So what enlightend pre 70's operating systems are you referring to? Some hints are apreciated.
And what is this stuff about Rome? The good lawyers, bad mathematicians part? The "nail every escaped and caught again slave to the cross" one? The guys who institutetd christianity as state religion to save their sorry state from falling apart just to see it happen anyway?
It's all about trust, and yes, a war matters here: Waged against international law, and against the wishes of an international community. The US lost much credibility here. In the end, everyone only trusts in bodies he has had a hand in setting up. This is nothing new, but the war in Iraq surly sped things up.
Regarding the efficency of an future Internet Governance: Goof-ups will happen, but it will be an international communities own goof-ups or mishandlings, not the one of a single country. The case for erasing some countries TLD: You can bet it will be an as serious matter as declaring war: Not considered lightly.
As for foolish things like making illegal certain domain names: That is already happening, without much fuss from outside, with much help from western (US and European) IT-Firms. Why bother with international restrains against against global censorship, when you can do what you deem necessary in your own country? Even in the US library computers are censored. That's too bad, but not an argument against an international supervision of the transnational matters of the internet.
It will work like any other democracy: slowly and often with much bureaucratic infighting, but making sure the most stupid or radical ideas get thrown out.
Speaking as an european in general: Well, the US have been an okay custodian so far. But since they have launched a war of agression against an other country, since they have clearly stated to follow international treaties only if they feel like, other countries are not terribly comfortable with the thougt of prolonged US control of the internet.
On another note: No country will give up national control over its domains. And nobody is asking for that. But regarding international matters, nobody is going to tolerate one nations control over international communication any longer.
Sidenote: US scientists invented the internet. An european one created the WWW - and made it work by giving it as a gift to the world, something an us researcher would be physically unable to do.
Even 70`s Buck Rogers was better. But I digress. As a pre-teen, I really liked Galacticas escapist feeling, flying through space, occasionally blowing up some funky robots - kinda nice. But eventually I'd notice the flaws, and that was even before that kid, and the Galactica reaching earth.
The show was crap. Real crap. Bad in ervery aspect.
Will the new one be any good? I don't think so, but everyone longing for a faithfull rerendering of the original deserves to be hurt. A lot.
Realtime rendering is sorta nice, but not really in the general interest of computing. Look at a human brain: A single neuron transmits information much slower than a microchip. But as a whole, the system simply wrecks a intel (amd, motorola, etc etc) in computing power.
Its specialized, sure. But in terms of speed, microchips already fulfill 80 - 90 percent of our daily computing demands - the stuff where a mass of neurons is bad at, e.g. all sort of clulating. Difficult, but not real smart stuff.
On the technical side, the current hype is phones, not pc's - think Europa & Asia. And the next big thing will require smartness. Something a single general purpose chip, even in its multi giga hertz form, can't handle. Raw Speed alone is losing it's selling point.
For autonomous functionality, it would have to operrate with some sensor equipment - depht, physical and chemical consistensy of material, and so on. A cavern would be indicated by lesser required force to drill and call some sort of investigation routine. This shouldn't prove too big a problem.
Jeez, there's always one... Transsubstantion is a miracle only if you regard it as such. Show me a wafer turned to human meat and we'll continue this little specific discussion. For your other points:
a) The catholic church may change its rites
b) Future generations may have a different concept of the soul - preferably xml compatible.
Science Fiction isn't about maintainig orthodoxy. Get on with it.
You need to take chances for evolution to work, but you also need to select your next step carefully, or you will drown in the myriad of possibilities.
Uhm, thats not too deep.
So what do we learn from this?
Geniusses can mindfuck too! (But let them have their fun!)
Generating an artificial person takes so highly specialised manpower, it would never be cheaper than a real actor. So you try artificial intellegence.
Big Deal.
A dumb one wouldn't be very interesting in the long run. And why should a intellegent one ant to emulate humans?
They are still awfully far from home. Consider this:
step 1 (done): Obtain the DNA (from 3 different talisman tigers)
step 2 (to do):construct a genetic library, genome sequencing
step 3 (to do): reconstruct the chromosomes
step 4 (to do): Find a suitable cell, start dolly-like cloning process (which is still not a solved problem). For the tiger, hink about deciphering a text in binary form without the proper ascii table, and without knowledge of the fileformat.
step 5 (to do): Think about ethical Consequences.
-- Said Dr Firestone: "Then we will have the moral, social
-- and ethical problems. If we can actually bring something
-- back, wouldn't that be fantastic?
Not really on their agenda, and rightfully so. They woun't be playing god for a long time.
Extrapolating from human body structures to sauropodic ones was bad enough. Taking the conclusion - sauropodes were too heavy too support themselves - as main evidence that earths gravity was smaller in the Jurassic sounded like total bullcrap. What drug is this guy on? Took a quick look at the rest of his site and found a variety of themes, with "R.I.P. Evolution" sticking out. A Creationist on the loose, oh my. Still, while his arguments do sound foul, I find it necessary to check them up. Back to/. , maybe one of the posters has something valid to say. And yes, an anonymous coward and bebot point to articles on talkorigins.org. This helps. Ted Holden is known there, and is arguments are falsified in a very plausible way.
Okay, so this was interesting, I had my fun and I had some facts checked, which is always a good thing. On the other hand: Following scientific discussions from an amateurs point of view is difficult, so do raving lunatics like ted really have to be considered/slashdotted? Maybe yes, but it's still frightening that some people are that far out of touch with reality.
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One should not forget that this time, Intel processors are not the only ones to be considerered. With the rise of the iPhone, RIM, and others, javascript performance on ARM is a serious issue.
(...) I'm guessing that at best, 128 bit IEEE 754r performs about half the speed of 64bit IEEE 754, purely because of the data width.
According to Douglas Crockford "...it's literally hundreds of times slower than the current format.".
Okay, I should not do this...
(...)
UNIX is like the Church which dragged society out of the enlightenment of Rome and into the dark ages, filling peoples' heads with superstition and making progress a dark taboo.
(...)
So what enlightend pre 70's operating systems are you referring to?
Some hints are apreciated.
And what is this stuff about Rome?
The good lawyers, bad mathematicians part?
The "nail every escaped and caught again slave to the cross" one?
The guys who institutetd christianity as state religion to save their sorry state from falling apart just to see it happen anyway?
Once again, some hints are apreciated.
I could go as far as quoting a line in The Big Easy (1987, http://us.imdb.com/find?q=the%20big%20easy;s=tt): "You're not one of the good guys anymore", but, oh well.
It's all about trust, and yes, a war matters here: Waged against international law, and against the wishes of an international community. The US lost much credibility here. In the end, everyone only trusts in bodies he has had a hand in setting up. This is nothing new, but the war in Iraq surly sped things up.
Regarding the efficency of an future Internet Governance: Goof-ups will happen, but it will be an international communities own goof-ups or mishandlings, not the one of a single country. The case for erasing some countries TLD: You can bet it will be an as serious matter as declaring war: Not considered lightly.
As for foolish things like making illegal certain domain names: That is already happening, without much fuss from outside, with much help from western (US and European) IT-Firms. Why bother with international restrains against against global censorship, when you can do what you deem necessary in your own country? Even in the US library computers are censored. That's too bad, but not an argument against an international supervision of the transnational matters of the internet.
It will work like any other democracy: slowly and often with much bureaucratic infighting, but making sure the most stupid or radical ideas get thrown out.
Speaking as an european in general: Well, the US have been an okay custodian so far. But since they have launched a war of agression against an other country, since they have clearly stated to follow international treaties only if they feel like, other countries are not terribly comfortable with the thougt of prolonged US control of the internet.
On another note: No country will give up national control over its domains. And nobody is asking for that. But regarding international matters, nobody is going to tolerate one nations control over international communication any longer.
Sidenote: US scientists invented the internet. An european one created the WWW - and made it work by giving it as a gift to the world, something an us researcher would be physically unable to do.
Even 70`s Buck Rogers was better. But I digress.
As a pre-teen, I really liked Galacticas escapist feeling, flying through space, occasionally blowing up some funky robots - kinda nice. But eventually I'd notice the flaws, and that was even before that kid, and the Galactica reaching earth.
The show was crap. Real crap. Bad in ervery aspect.
Will the new one be any good? I don't think so, but everyone longing for a faithfull rerendering of the original deserves to be hurt. A lot.
Smarter devices instead of raw computing power.
Realtime rendering is sorta nice, but not really in the general interest of computing. Look at a human brain: A single neuron transmits information much slower than a microchip. But as a whole, the system simply wrecks a intel (amd, motorola, etc etc) in computing power.
Its specialized, sure. But in terms of speed, microchips already fulfill 80 - 90 percent of our daily computing demands - the stuff where a mass of neurons is bad at, e.g. all sort of clulating. Difficult, but not real smart stuff.
On the technical side, the current hype is phones, not pc's - think Europa & Asia. And the next big thing will require smartness. Something a single general purpose chip, even in its multi giga hertz form, can't handle. Raw Speed alone is losing it's selling point.
AMD seems to get it.
For autonomous functionality, it would have to operrate with some sensor equipment - depht, physical and chemical consistensy of material, and so on. A cavern would be indicated by lesser required force to drill and call some sort of investigation routine. This shouldn't prove too big a problem.
And Court sanctioned too. I'm somewhat speechless. You americans are a bunch of tough cookies.
Jeez, there's always one... Transsubstantion is a miracle only if you regard it as such. Show me a wafer turned to human meat and we'll continue this little specific discussion. For your other points:
a) The catholic church may change its rites
b) Future generations may have a different concept of the soul - preferably xml compatible.
Science Fiction isn't about maintainig orthodoxy. Get on with it.
Really. If you buy PC's, for whatever reason, stand to it. Trying to make it look like a Mac is just low.
I don't know about the human, but at least they could have hired a decent cow. This one really underperformed.
You need to take chances for evolution to work, but you also need to select your next step carefully, or you will drown in the myriad of possibilities.
Uhm, thats not too deep.
So what do we learn from this?
Geniusses can mindfuck too! (But let them have their fun!)
Generating an artificial person takes so highly specialised manpower, it would never be cheaper than a real actor. So you try artificial intellegence.
Big Deal.
A dumb one wouldn't be very interesting in the long run. And why should a intellegent one ant to emulate humans?
They are still awfully far from home. Consider this:
step 1 (done): Obtain the DNA (from 3 different talisman tigers)
step 2 (to do):construct a genetic library, genome sequencing
step 3 (to do): reconstruct the chromosomes
step 4 (to do): Find a suitable cell, start dolly-like cloning process (which is still not a solved problem). For the tiger, hink about deciphering a text in binary form without the proper ascii table, and without knowledge of the fileformat.
step 5 (to do): Think about ethical Consequences.
-- Said Dr Firestone: "Then we will have the moral, social
-- and ethical problems. If we can actually bring something
-- back, wouldn't that be fantastic?
Not really on their agenda, and rightfully so. They woun't be playing god for a long time.
This article by Ted Holden was interesting indeed.It also broadened my horizont a little, although not by design. The story so far:
/. and clicked on interesting article. It smelled fishy:
/. , maybe one of the posters has something valid to say. And yes, an anonymous coward and bebot point to articles on talkorigins.org. This helps. Ted Holden is known there, and is arguments are falsified in a very plausible way.
Fired up
Extrapolating from human body structures to sauropodic ones was bad enough. Taking the conclusion - sauropodes were too heavy too support themselves - as main evidence that earths gravity was smaller in the Jurassic sounded like total bullcrap. What drug is this guy on? Took a quick look at the rest of his site and found a variety of themes, with "R.I.P. Evolution" sticking out. A Creationist on the loose, oh my. Still, while his arguments do sound foul, I find it necessary to check them up. Back to
Okay, so this was interesting, I had my fun and I had some facts checked, which is always a good thing. On the other hand: Following scientific discussions from an amateurs point of view is difficult, so do raving lunatics like ted really have to be considered/slashdotted? Maybe yes, but it's still frightening that some people are that far out of touch with reality.