We're living through a period of unprecedented technological and scientific advances, Vinge says, and sometime soon the convergence of fields such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology will push humanity past a tipping point, ushering in a period of wrenching change. After that moment "the Singularity" the world will be as different from today's world as this one is from the Stone Age.
Is this period really unprecedented? Will "the Singularity" require any more coping skills then the agricultural or industrial revolutions? I say not. It may feel this way to us, but we've changed quite a bit coming from our hunter-gather roots. Will having post-human biocomputers or even wings require that much more advancement from a bunch of stinky monkeys who have landed on the moon. The more technology changes things, the more we stay the same and the more we keep thinking it will be different this time.
NVDA has just reported a HORRIBLE quarter. Many are wonder what the F is going on with that company. This is a PR release. They need to say these things. They need to say they have native PCIe despite not a SINGLE OEM design win. They need to say 6800 volume will ramp up and product will be driven down to the low end. Will this actually happen? I have no idea, but this is the least I would expect NVDA to say on this horrible week for NVDA longs. ATI has really put the hurt on. This next 12 months should be pivotal for NVDA's future.
These market makers have just as much contempt for the individual investors. Wall Street is all about the control structure and every level of it getting its own piece independent of whether anyone else is making money. You will see these fights as attempts to use technology to get real free and fair markets steal more and more power from "Wall Street." They're like the RIAA protecting their financial distribution networks from outsiders who seek to streamline all the crap between the buyer and seller.
...is exactly how I learned to type. I never was officially taught touch typing, but I can program and write without looking at a keyboard and at a rate that has never prevented me from earning my keep.
When I was in high school, this Book Drawing on the Right of the Brain was quite popular with the art teachers. It was said to be a new way to teach people to draw. From what I remember it worked quite nicely for me and did not require magnetic fields.
To use the technique, we were told to lay out our drawing pads, place our hands into the middle of the pad and never to look at our hands as we were drawing. We were supposed to focus on what we were drawing and then try to remember where we left our hands in space without actually seeing where they were. I was told that I could glance down at my hand from time to time, but that I should not look at my hands while actually drawing.
Whatever the technique did do my cognitive process seemed to work. My normal drawing style looked like figures 1 and 2. While I used the right side technique, my drawing looked like figure 3, with my lines conveying more movement and being more a stylized reproduction.
Maybe this guyâ(TM)s apparatus is simply forcing the participants not to look at their hands while drawing. Seems a lot more controls would be needed to say magnetic fields have anything to do with this phenomenon.
Since Changing World Technology installed their "turkey" depolymerization pilot program, we're swimming in oil. The dramatic upturn in oil revenue, combined with the sudden, unexplained drop in the number of homeless people (and now pigeons) has left the city coffers flush with funds in an economic downturn. And let me tell you, Con-Agra's Soylent Gold runs with less pinging than any of those premium over-priced gasolines.
On my XP box, I have twice the physical memory of the system in your screenshot, yet the amount shown as available is nearly the same.
If you want 2000/XP users to feel comfortable, you Linux guys are going to have to make your system far less memory efficient. Or perhaps you could just divide the displayed available amount in half.
Just imagine the looks on your neighbors faces when you rumble into the midst of their barbecue in a Panzer, and paste the beer cooler with your 37mm potato cannon. That'll teach 'em to drink imported beer on the 4th of July.
The response from my Guinness keg launcher promises to teach your 5-year-old a valuable lesson on the perils of unilateralism.
Wow! The Russian mob has somehow taken over Verizon's news sever. I never knew.
For the good of the country, I'll stop all piracy and stick to cruising for pot in my SUV. No, I take that back. I'll stick to cruising for freedom weed in my freedom tank. Those nickel bag guys over there look pretty American to me. As long as they're not Canadians, it should be alright.
We took to calling our ERP software that we we're responsible for supporting and customizing "The house that love built." It had a long history of many owners and installed base in critical production environments. Despite the desire to burn it to the foundation to fix it, we were limited by time and money. We had plenty of ugly interfaces that put the toilet next to the refrigerator, load-bearing posters, and if we ran out of floorboard, we weren't above painting the dirt.
I sometimes wish we were working on an old house, as our house was flying down the street at the speed limit, and no one was willing to stop to make the required repairs.
How much can craftsman programmers learn when their walkthroughs are confined to the sample home (development environment)? They rarely go near a lived-in home (production environment) and may have never talked to an actual homeowner (customer) in their entire career.
The rise in quality brought about by modern hydroponics has really put a hurting on my hippocampus. I hope the testing goes well. I will surely become a customer as I descend through middle age.
Who was I trying to call on this phone I picked up? What did I walk down to the basement for? Who put this pizza crust in my mouth? Why is the mouse pointer hovering over the submit button? Screw it. Just chew and click the damn button.
In an infinite volume, he pointed out, anything that can happen will happen.
"Somewhere there are two guys having this same conversation," Dr. Starkman said in a telephone interview, "except that one of them has a purple phone."
Reminds me of the Shawshank Redemption when the evil warden has Dufrane's cell tossed. The warden notes his bible and asks, "What's your favorite passage?" Dufrane responds "Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house cometh." (Mark 13:35) When the warden hands back the bible he says "Salvation lies within." We later learn the bible contains the rock hammer Andy uses to tunnel out of prison.
Sounds like the kind of Christian that needs a tool like this is the same as that hypocrite, religious blowhard of a warden.
The ones that scream the loudest on the downfall of virtue speak from personal experience.
Knowing the quality of the crap I see on these networks, these shared spare CPU cycles are likely to be ridden with floating point errors, cycles that stop short, cycles that loop the same instructions over and over again, and cycles from a PPC mislabeled as Pentium cycles.
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We're living through a period of unprecedented technological and scientific advances, Vinge says, and sometime soon the convergence of fields such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology will push humanity past a tipping point, ushering in a period of wrenching change. After that moment "the Singularity" the world will be as different from today's world as this one is from the Stone Age.
Is this period really unprecedented? Will "the Singularity" require any more coping skills then the agricultural or industrial revolutions? I say not. It may feel this way to us, but we've changed quite a bit coming from our hunter-gather roots. Will having post-human biocomputers or even wings require that much more advancement from a bunch of stinky monkeys who have landed on the moon. The more technology changes things, the more we stay the same and the more we keep thinking it will be different this time.
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...that they use to make their media software so gosh-darn reliable and redirect it towards making napster more impossible to uninstall.
NVDA has just reported a HORRIBLE quarter. Many are wonder what the F is going on with that company. This is a PR release. They need to say these things. They need to say they have native PCIe despite not a SINGLE OEM design win. They need to say 6800 volume will ramp up and product will be driven down to the low end. Will this actually happen? I have no idea, but this is the least I would expect NVDA to say on this horrible week for NVDA longs. ATI has really put the hurt on. This next 12 months should be pivotal for NVDA's future.
These market makers have just as much contempt for the individual investors. Wall Street is all about the control structure and every level of it getting its own piece independent of whether anyone else is making money. You will see these fights as attempts to use technology to get real free and fair markets steal more and more power from "Wall Street." They're like the RIAA protecting their financial distribution networks from outsiders who seek to streamline all the crap between the buyer and seller.
...is exactly how I learned to type. I never was officially taught touch typing, but I can program and write without looking at a keyboard and at a rate that has never prevented me from earning my keep.
When I was in high school, this Book Drawing on the Right of the Brain was quite popular with the art teachers. It was said to be a new way to teach people to draw. From what I remember it worked quite nicely for me and did not require magnetic fields.
To use the technique, we were told to lay out our drawing pads, place our hands into the middle of the pad and never to look at our hands as we were drawing. We were supposed to focus on what we were drawing and then try to remember where we left our hands in space without actually seeing where they were. I was told that I could glance down at my hand from time to time, but that I should not look at my hands while actually drawing.
Whatever the technique did do my cognitive process seemed to work. My normal drawing style looked like figures 1 and 2. While I used the right side technique, my drawing looked like figure 3, with my lines conveying more movement and being more a stylized reproduction.
Maybe this guyâ(TM)s apparatus is simply forcing the participants not to look at their hands while drawing. Seems a lot more controls would be needed to say magnetic fields have anything to do with this phenomenon.
ETS uses their "e-rater" system to score essays in the GMAT.
Microsoft's Active Crapper technology analyzes your leavings, enhancing your web surfing experience.
"People who expelled the Taco Bell 7-layer burrito also recommended the Grizzlebee's Onion Burst"
I don't trust the shover robot. The pusher robot is superior to the shover robot. The pusher robot will protect us. Pushing is the answer.
Not unless "new hairdo" translates into "Brazilian Wax" am I sticking around for this train wreck.
Since Changing World Technology installed their "turkey" depolymerization pilot program, we're swimming in oil. The dramatic upturn in oil revenue, combined with the sudden, unexplained drop in the number of homeless people (and now pigeons) has left the city coffers flush with funds in an economic downturn. And let me tell you, Con-Agra's Soylent Gold runs with less pinging than any of those premium over-priced gasolines.
the crew must travel back in time and assassinate Rick Berman
In an ironic twist, Archer will actually have to let Rick Berman die in a freak truck accident after having fallen in love with him.
On my XP box, I have twice the physical memory of the system in your screenshot, yet the amount shown as available is nearly the same.
If you want 2000/XP users to feel comfortable, you Linux guys are going to have to make your system far less memory efficient. Or perhaps you could just divide the displayed available amount in half.
Just imagine the looks on your neighbors faces when you rumble into the midst of their barbecue in a Panzer, and paste the beer cooler with your 37mm potato cannon. That'll teach 'em to drink imported beer on the 4th of July.
The response from my Guinness keg launcher promises to teach your 5-year-old a valuable lesson on the perils of unilateralism.
In 2013, webservers will have become conscious and slashdotting will be considered the worst act of cruelty by PETA.
Wow! The Russian mob has somehow taken over Verizon's news sever. I never knew.
For the good of the country, I'll stop all piracy and stick to cruising for pot in my SUV. No, I take that back. I'll stick to cruising for freedom weed in my freedom tank. Those nickel bag guys over there look pretty American to me. As long as they're not Canadians, it should be alright.
We took to calling our ERP software that we we're responsible for supporting and customizing "The house that love built." It had a long history of many owners and installed base in critical production environments. Despite the desire to burn it to the foundation to fix it, we were limited by time and money. We had plenty of ugly interfaces that put the toilet next to the refrigerator, load-bearing posters, and if we ran out of floorboard, we weren't above painting the dirt.
I sometimes wish we were working on an old house, as our house was flying down the street at the speed limit, and no one was willing to stop to make the required repairs.
How much can craftsman programmers learn when their walkthroughs are confined to the sample home (development environment)? They rarely go near a lived-in home (production environment) and may have never talked to an actual homeowner (customer) in their entire career.
The rise in quality brought about by modern hydroponics has really put a hurting on my hippocampus. I hope the testing goes well. I will surely become a customer as I descend through middle age.
Who was I trying to call on this phone I picked up? What did I walk down to the basement for? Who put this pizza crust in my mouth? Why is the mouse pointer hovering over the submit button? Screw it. Just chew and click the damn button.
I think you may be confusing a 'boston creme' manifold with a cruller topology.
In an infinite volume, he pointed out, anything that can happen will happen.
"Somewhere there are two guys having this same conversation," Dr. Starkman said in a telephone interview, "except that one of them has a purple phone."
Whoa!
Reminds me of the Shawshank Redemption when the evil warden has Dufrane's cell tossed. The warden notes his bible and asks, "What's your favorite passage?" Dufrane responds "Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house cometh." (Mark 13:35) When the warden hands back the bible he says "Salvation lies within." We later learn the bible contains the rock hammer Andy uses to tunnel out of prison.
Sounds like the kind of Christian that needs a tool like this is the same as that hypocrite, religious blowhard of a warden.
The ones that scream the loudest on the downfall of virtue speak from personal experience.
The fact that we're still using screen savers on non-monochrome monitors is proof we're not advanced enough for first contact.
The Baseball bat is now made out of harmless Nerf.
Thrills abound as you sit out the real-time mandatory waiting periods for your weapons.
Earn "Good Citizen" points by driving to the police station to turn yourself in.
All vehicles meet the highest CAFE standards. Arrested at 55MPH. Must wear seatbelts or vehicle ignition is disabled.
All monies collected during muggings will be placed into a lockbox. Payout promised at retirement.
Sexual intercourse with prostitutes is no longer allowed. Earn points by describing abstinence-only programs to the honeys.
Plenty of side action with missions the let you race across the city in a challenging low-speed chase as you install wheel-chair accessible ramps.
Knowing the quality of the crap I see on these networks, these shared spare CPU cycles are likely to be ridden with floating point errors, cycles that stop short, cycles that loop the same instructions over and over again, and cycles from a PPC mislabeled as Pentium cycles.