I can only agree. I have and AMD card and the company dropped driver support for my card, a Radeon 4870, in 2012. The card is still able to play most games, it was a really good card when I bought it. Was really p*ssed off, when AMD dropped the support.
For me, Mesa improvements were awesome.
In 2012, Mesa/Gallium was a lot slower and had a lot less features. Personally, I saw the most improvements in 2014, speedwise. But 2015 wasn't bad either. When Witcher 2 was released early this year/last year(don't remember) it didn't work at all with stable Mesa drivers, but it worked with drivers from the trunk. When Civ5 BE was released, the game didn't work at all. Couple of weeks later, it worked somewhat and I just tried it, it seems to work flawlessly.
Sure, there are still lots of problems, e.g. Divinity OS EE was released (finally) a few days ago. Doesn't work. It seems, the game needs an OpenGL 4.2 function which is still not implemented on Radeon. But chances are good, that it will be implemented in the next couple of weeks, it's only one of two missing extensions to become 4.2 compliant.
http://mesamatrix.net/
While that number is not reasonable by itself and far to high ("only" 200.000 people were deported to Mauthausen and its subcamps), even if it were correct, not all of those prisoners were vitims of slave labour digging a huge underground complex. I guess someone looked into WP and simply took the highest number it could find.
Of course I can read German. Sure, there is probably something there, some tunnels, a storage area maybe, but a secret/unknown "75-acre underground complex"? Those articles are totally exaggerated. There is no evidence at all for anything. Currently it's just rumors.
I just searched for St. Georgen: The current top story in local newspapers is: A lumberman was hit by a bouncing branch.
Of course, that Nazi story can be found too, but it doesn't get a lot of attention. Nobody cares because there is simply no story. That filmmaker just dug a hole and found a staircase. That's all. Well, that's not a 100% correct: They also found an army helmet, an army bike and several warning signs. Not really surprising, since it was a well known nazi base.
But hey, maybe the staircase will indeed lead to a super-secret 75-acre nuclear testing underground complex dug by 320.000 inmates that died from it. Or maybe these numbers are simply completely bogus too. The actual number of victims in KZ Gusen (I + II + III) was 44.600, that includes children and people that died from exhaustion after they were freed).
Your "personal definition" of a scientific theory is flawed. You have to throw away the thought "It's just a theory". In the end laws and theories in science are equal citizens in the city of science.
A very simplified explanation might be:
A scientific law is a description of an observed phenomenon. But it doesn't explain why it is that way.
A theory is a scientific explanation of an observed phenomenon. Unlike laws, theories actually explain why things are the way they are.
So, in a way theories are even bigger than laws.
I guess, it would have made things easier, if they had called it a "law", back in the day. But in the end, it doesn't make a difference.
To quote Magnus Carlsen from a recent interview:
"I find playing against computers very depressing. I don’t like losing."
http://venturebeat.com/2014/01...
Of course, computers profit alot from opening books alot and the books must be tuned to their play. Computers play best against humans if they avoid positions that require highly positional play (basically closed positions).
The benefit of endgame tables isn't that clear. It is very costly to hit the database, giving a benefit only in some positions. Till 2013 Nalimov tablebases were pretty much standard, but they have been replaced by Syzygy tablebases, with better compression and better performance.
Anyway, I don't think that even a Magnus Carlsen, whose playing style is very, very good against computers would win against a match against monsters like Stockfish, Komodo or Houdini.
Current information on the fight against polio can be found here: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx
While India is polio-free, the worldwide cases actually increased last year. Well, let's hope for the best, that the optimistic assessment of Dr. Jafari is true.
Well, it seems people could sue the law firm, alas, the amount is too small, so the effort is rather high, even if it is likely that they win. But at least one person has already disputed the claim and sues over it.
And: Berlin public prosecution department has already started an investigation of the matter.
It seems they sent their applications to 16 different courts, most granted their application, but more than a quarter didn't. Such applications (regarding filesharing!!) are quite common and usually the request is granted.
Well, the case at least gets a lot of press and hopefully things improve.
Not so fast.
First of all, the lawyers "cheated". They avoided the term "streaming" in their applications to court and made it look like a typical filesharing case. The courts granted most of their applications because of "unbefugtem öffentlichen Zugänglichmachen über eine sogenannte Tauschbörse" that means "unauthorized sharing of files through a file sharing network".
German internet law blogger Thomas Stadler explains in his blog, why their applications are invalid (for various reasons).
German link:
http://www.internet-law.de/2013/12/warum-die-streaming-abmahnungen-der-rechtsanwaelte-uc-unwirksam-sind.html
Old/outdated news.
The new simplified regulation that is intended to replace the old regulation had no exception for small, non-commercial farmers. After protests from the farmers organizations about the draft, the paragraph was added and the petition/open letter is moot.
They state in their blogpost from Saturday:
"Assuming you’re in the first batch of development kits to ship out, the next 24 hours are your absolute last chance to update your shipping address."
It is reasonable to assume that shipping starts/started this week. Personally I wouldn't have been surprised if shipping had been delayed till April or so. Sure, there timeline said March, but I have seen countless projects that were delayed a few weeks.
That may be so, but computing the prime factorization of 15 is not in that class.
Well, it's O(n^2 log n), which is pretty high.
http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Algorithms/splitting.html
If you have a machine, that can do it with large numbers in an instant, but only with 50%, it would be awesome. But I agree on the rest of the argument, still way to go...
Now we just need to convince the sun to shine all night. Oh, wait. That's impossible...
Ok, better idea, we just store the energy in our cheap, tiny superbatteries. Yes, that will totally work.
Oh, come on guys. Esowatch has a huge dossier on that guy and his "research".
http://www.esowatch.com/en/index.php?title=Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyzer
A convicted felon, who pulled a similar stunt before, the so called demonstrations of the E-Cat are ridiculous. He never measured the dryness of the steam, all his results are explainable by conventional physics. And of course: Cheating.
Austrian regulations for drivers license pictures state that they have to have a specified size and that the whole head has to be visible. There is no constraint that you cannot wear something on your head! Austrian police released a statement, that they do not care about that and granted it because it is within normal specifications.
Also, there was no "three year battle" at all. The guy applied for a license(Note: he specified that he did not want to be notified(!)) and the license was granted. End of story. Since the guy had specified that he wanted to take care himself and check for completion of the request himself(!), the license was simply waiting for him for more than two years.
http://derstandard.at/1310511140592/Fuehrerschein-Nudelsieb-doch-nicht-aus-religioesen-Gruenden-genehmigt
The whole movie was pure horror. I can't even name a single scene that was not stupid. (Don't worry about spoilers, the movie is so bad, you don't lose anything)
The evil computer is of course able to do all kinds of magic tricks, like severing overhead power lines which then fall down and grill a guy running beneath them. (Why he ran and didn't just walk to his car and drive away is totally beyond me, just a sidenote for those who have actually watched that crap)
Of course, the computer can only be accessed with the DNA of one guy and nobody else can do anything. That guy is dead but hey, he has a twin(!) The twin then stops the computer by ramming a rod in the eagly eye, an eye shaped "monitor". (Yeah, that totally does it). He grabs a gun, runs in the White House, jumps on a desk and shoots in the air to stop the assassination of the presidend. After he has given a couple of shots, security reacts...
I name this the worst KI movie ever, hell, it even stands a chance for most unrealistic movie ever...
Oh my. I would sacrifice a chicken to get more Firefly. Heck, another movie would be swell too, even without the full cast! Any voodoo priest here that would like to help?
Na, I definitely vote for Identity Manager. Well, it's not really a Sun product, they just bought it, but that xml language to create workflows was more than horrible
The webserver was not that bad IMHO. Never had any real problems with it, but I didn't do a lot with it.
While I would certainly love to believe that story, I know too many studies that could not be replicated. And this study hasn't even been published. Since it will be published next month, it has hopefully at least passed peer-review.
Well, I really hope this isn't just hot air...
For a good text about study quality please read e.g. here:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
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I can only agree. I have and AMD card and the company dropped driver support for my card, a Radeon 4870, in 2012. The card is still able to play most games, it was a really good card when I bought it. Was really p*ssed off, when AMD dropped the support. For me, Mesa improvements were awesome. In 2012, Mesa/Gallium was a lot slower and had a lot less features. Personally, I saw the most improvements in 2014, speedwise. But 2015 wasn't bad either. When Witcher 2 was released early this year/last year(don't remember) it didn't work at all with stable Mesa drivers, but it worked with drivers from the trunk. When Civ5 BE was released, the game didn't work at all. Couple of weeks later, it worked somewhat and I just tried it, it seems to work flawlessly. Sure, there are still lots of problems, e.g. Divinity OS EE was released (finally) a few days ago. Doesn't work. It seems, the game needs an OpenGL 4.2 function which is still not implemented on Radeon. But chances are good, that it will be implemented in the next couple of weeks, it's only one of two missing extensions to become 4.2 compliant. http://mesamatrix.net/
While that number is not reasonable by itself and far to high ("only" 200.000 people were deported to Mauthausen and its subcamps), even if it were correct, not all of those prisoners were vitims of slave labour digging a huge underground complex. I guess someone looked into WP and simply took the highest number it could find.
Of course I can read German. Sure, there is probably something there, some tunnels, a storage area maybe, but a secret/unknown "75-acre underground complex"? Those articles are totally exaggerated. There is no evidence at all for anything. Currently it's just rumors.
Na, no measurements. The filmmaker heard some rumours that the Germans experimented with nuclear weapons too. And he dug a hole. End of story.
I just searched for St. Georgen: The current top story in local newspapers is: A lumberman was hit by a bouncing branch. Of course, that Nazi story can be found too, but it doesn't get a lot of attention. Nobody cares because there is simply no story. That filmmaker just dug a hole and found a staircase. That's all. Well, that's not a 100% correct: They also found an army helmet, an army bike and several warning signs. Not really surprising, since it was a well known nazi base. But hey, maybe the staircase will indeed lead to a super-secret 75-acre nuclear testing underground complex dug by 320.000 inmates that died from it. Or maybe these numbers are simply completely bogus too. The actual number of victims in KZ Gusen (I + II + III) was 44.600, that includes children and people that died from exhaustion after they were freed).
Your "personal definition" of a scientific theory is flawed. You have to throw away the thought "It's just a theory". In the end laws and theories in science are equal citizens in the city of science. A very simplified explanation might be: A scientific law is a description of an observed phenomenon. But it doesn't explain why it is that way. A theory is a scientific explanation of an observed phenomenon. Unlike laws, theories actually explain why things are the way they are. So, in a way theories are even bigger than laws. I guess, it would have made things easier, if they had called it a "law", back in the day. But in the end, it doesn't make a difference.
To quote Magnus Carlsen from a recent interview: "I find playing against computers very depressing. I don’t like losing." http://venturebeat.com/2014/01... Of course, computers profit alot from opening books alot and the books must be tuned to their play. Computers play best against humans if they avoid positions that require highly positional play (basically closed positions). The benefit of endgame tables isn't that clear. It is very costly to hit the database, giving a benefit only in some positions. Till 2013 Nalimov tablebases were pretty much standard, but they have been replaced by Syzygy tablebases, with better compression and better performance. Anyway, I don't think that even a Magnus Carlsen, whose playing style is very, very good against computers would win against a match against monsters like Stockfish, Komodo or Houdini.
Current information on the fight against polio can be found here: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx While India is polio-free, the worldwide cases actually increased last year. Well, let's hope for the best, that the optimistic assessment of Dr. Jafari is true.
Well, it seems people could sue the law firm, alas, the amount is too small, so the effort is rather high, even if it is likely that they win. But at least one person has already disputed the claim and sues over it. And: Berlin public prosecution department has already started an investigation of the matter. It seems they sent their applications to 16 different courts, most granted their application, but more than a quarter didn't. Such applications (regarding filesharing!!) are quite common and usually the request is granted. Well, the case at least gets a lot of press and hopefully things improve.
Not so fast. First of all, the lawyers "cheated". They avoided the term "streaming" in their applications to court and made it look like a typical filesharing case. The courts granted most of their applications because of "unbefugtem öffentlichen Zugänglichmachen über eine sogenannte Tauschbörse" that means "unauthorized sharing of files through a file sharing network". German internet law blogger Thomas Stadler explains in his blog, why their applications are invalid (for various reasons). German link: http://www.internet-law.de/2013/12/warum-die-streaming-abmahnungen-der-rechtsanwaelte-uc-unwirksam-sind.html
That guy is as shady as it gets. http://psiram.com/en/index.php/Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyzer
Old/outdated news. The new simplified regulation that is intended to replace the old regulation had no exception for small, non-commercial farmers. After protests from the farmers organizations about the draft, the paragraph was added and the petition/open letter is moot.
They state in their blogpost from Saturday: "Assuming you’re in the first batch of development kits to ship out, the next 24 hours are your absolute last chance to update your shipping address." It is reasonable to assume that shipping starts/started this week. Personally I wouldn't have been surprised if shipping had been delayed till April or so. Sure, there timeline said March, but I have seen countless projects that were delayed a few weeks.
Einstein never said that as he confirmed in an unpublished letter: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-01-05/
Well, it's O(n^2 log n), which is pretty high. http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Algorithms/splitting.html If you have a machine, that can do it with large numbers in an instant, but only with 50%, it would be awesome. But I agree on the rest of the argument, still way to go...
Now we just need to convince the sun to shine all night. Oh, wait. That's impossible... Ok, better idea, we just store the energy in our cheap, tiny superbatteries. Yes, that will totally work.
Full ACK. Not sure about LENR in general, but the E-Cat is most likely fraud. http://esowatch.com/en/index.php?title=Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyzer
An analysis of the clinic/company(moneywise!): http://blog.anarchic-teapot.net/2011/11/29/should-you-invest-in-burzynski-stock/ Jennifer Jones "Master List" of all things Burszynski: http://josephinejones.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/burzynski-blogs-my-master-list/ List of most blogs about Burzynski: http://josephinejones.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/stanislaw-streisand-and-spartacus/ Esowatch Wikiarticle about Burzynski, more thorough than Wikipedia: http://esowatch.com/en/index.php?title=Antineoplaston
Oh, come on guys. Esowatch has a huge dossier on that guy and his "research". http://www.esowatch.com/en/index.php?title=Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyzer A convicted felon, who pulled a similar stunt before, the so called demonstrations of the E-Cat are ridiculous. He never measured the dryness of the steam, all his results are explainable by conventional physics. And of course: Cheating.
Austrian regulations for drivers license pictures state that they have to have a specified size and that the whole head has to be visible. There is no constraint that you cannot wear something on your head! Austrian police released a statement, that they do not care about that and granted it because it is within normal specifications. Also, there was no "three year battle" at all. The guy applied for a license(Note: he specified that he did not want to be notified(!)) and the license was granted. End of story. Since the guy had specified that he wanted to take care himself and check for completion of the request himself(!), the license was simply waiting for him for more than two years. http://derstandard.at/1310511140592/Fuehrerschein-Nudelsieb-doch-nicht-aus-religioesen-Gruenden-genehmigt
One of my favorites autors (mostly selfpublishing nowadays) predicts that it will collapse by the end of the year. I guess he is right, e.g. there is this self-publishing guy, who sells a couple of 100,000 ebooks per year for 99 cent. And that other guy, who refused 500 grand and selfpublishes instead. http://www.michaelastackpole.com/?p=2436 http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/09/0618234/Crime-Writer-Makes-a-Killing-With-99-Cent-E-Books http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/22/0125218/Best-Selling-Author-Refuses-500k-Self-Publishes-Instead
The whole movie was pure horror. I can't even name a single scene that was not stupid. (Don't worry about spoilers, the movie is so bad, you don't lose anything) The evil computer is of course able to do all kinds of magic tricks, like severing overhead power lines which then fall down and grill a guy running beneath them. (Why he ran and didn't just walk to his car and drive away is totally beyond me, just a sidenote for those who have actually watched that crap) Of course, the computer can only be accessed with the DNA of one guy and nobody else can do anything. That guy is dead but hey, he has a twin(!) The twin then stops the computer by ramming a rod in the eagly eye, an eye shaped "monitor". (Yeah, that totally does it). He grabs a gun, runs in the White House, jumps on a desk and shoots in the air to stop the assassination of the presidend. After he has given a couple of shots, security reacts... I name this the worst KI movie ever, hell, it even stands a chance for most unrealistic movie ever...
Oh my. I would sacrifice a chicken to get more Firefly. Heck, another movie would be swell too, even without the full cast! Any voodoo priest here that would like to help?
Na, I definitely vote for Identity Manager. Well, it's not really a Sun product, they just bought it, but that xml language to create workflows was more than horrible The webserver was not that bad IMHO. Never had any real problems with it, but I didn't do a lot with it.
While I would certainly love to believe that story, I know too many studies that could not be replicated. And this study hasn't even been published. Since it will be published next month, it has hopefully at least passed peer-review. Well, I really hope this isn't just hot air... For a good text about study quality please read e.g. here: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124