Yes, and parents can then put chastity belts on their daughters, cut off their sons penis, and spike their food with brain numbing drugs so they don't have any free thought.
So with 27% of Americans getting degrees, that's twice as many as what's really needed.
But the world doesn't run on telemarketing, sales, lower management, and small retail...
Repetitive manufacturing in the general sense will most likely be replaced by some sort of robotic system. The positions left will require more thought.
Construction should require at least some background in structural physics. (You should at least know something about the materials you're using).
Trades have their own college... "trade school."
Unless you like being at the bottom of the barrel, I suggest going to college for a more formal education.
all these should not require a college degree. They didn't in the past.
And in the past, humanity used to be a hunter-gather society.
What you don't realize is that using the universities name makes them responsible for actions your organization may perform...
It only make good LEGAL sense for them to not let you include it in your name. I recently started a club at my university, and they explained to me that if we use University of ____ in our club name that it would cause legal complications that the university does not wish to have.
What the hell is the big deal anyway? It's THEIR name?
It seems to me that NASA can press the nuke russia button, and then if the satalite doesn't nuke russia, NASA knows there is a problem
And who's going to be around to fix the problem if Russia bombs the %&@! out of you? Do you wait for your car's engine to lock up before changing the oil?
Why have this software onboard? If all it's going to do is suggest fixes, run it from the ground.
If you cared to read anything:
"E0-1, launched in November 2000, is a flying test bed for new technologies and techniques intended to boost safety, and to reduce costs and development times."
also
"This software grants us the ability to troubleshoot the robotic systems required to handle increasingly complex tasks of exploration, while they are millions of miles and perhaps light years away from Earth,"
and
"Engineers state that when human beings venture deeper into space, crews will need automatic tools like Livingstone software to identify spacecraft problems early and make prompt repairs."
Why waste human time to constantly run diagnostics? Restating what should be obvious from the above: 1) Quicker diagnostics time to catch a flaw before it becomes a bigger problem. 2) You don't need human interaction to diagnose the problem. and 3) It saves money.
Even if you had a diagnostics computer on the ground constantly running checks, that would absolutely waste precious bandwidth. Where's the sense in that?
Almost all airline manufactures are working on self-diagnosing systems in their planes (even for the microwaves in the kitchen) to 1) Save LOTS of time needed to run diagnostics, 2) You don't need human... etc...
And, referring to another car analogy: Would you wait for your car to just die on you before you fix it, hopefully catching the problem first by running a diagnostics on it *every time* you go somewhere, or would you rather just have the check engine light come on?
This is just giving NASA another chance to screw up their math or something.....Smart Move...
First off, NASA contracts out work for pretty much everything. Second, the math was perfect, the units were missing on transferred information so the data was interpreted the wrong way. Third, you're only a senior in high school... who the hell are you to criticize anyone's intelligence?
If you were thinking of becoming an engineer... please... don't.
Who knows, maybe human thinking could be modeled via a database full of IF statements
Considering that's mainly the method of logic everyone thinks by... yes... yes it can.
Even for emotion.
You can also think of it physically. Since our entire thought (let's not get into metaphysics) relies on the neuron connections in our brain, they all can be modeled as "IF" statements. "If this neuron fires, fire these ones as well."
Basically it would be the ultimate spaghetti code.
I guess the complainers will only be happy when they create AL (artificial life) by simulating the actual physical brain. Even then the "if statement" complainers will arrise.
I must add, however, that their complaints are rather stupid. If you just stop to think what they're saying, it's basically "...it's nothing more than a bunch of programming code. Whoopideedoo!"
They say that it was only used for a simulated run... but if it's just for practice, why the heck is there uranium in it???
I never believe what they say. The first nuclear detonation was explained to the public as a munitions explosion... (hint hint... the recent 2 mile wide mushroom cloud in NK that they say could be from a "forest fire")
This has been this way for a long time. Comcast cable even blocked the ports used for MS's file/printer sharing.... When my friend first got comcast cable internet he was able to see hundreds of people's shared folders through explorer.
Also... what the hell good is a shared folder if your firewall will block it? I would have assumed anyway that it would allow the file and printer sharing to go through.
Even if this SVP is within the actual TV, I'm assuming this will only decrypt the signal into another digital signal?
Then what's to stop someone from taking that and recording?
Unless, of course, they include a DtoA converter within the chip. But then wouldn't that kind of be bad since the preciseness of that conversion is what differentiates one TV from the next?
And what of purely digital TV's? There will be no DtoA conversion, and so it will be possible to tap into the digital signal.
//on the side
I hate the whole "lock down" companies are doing with their "property." All it seems to me is a money making scam since someone will own the patent to this technology in every single DVD player. (I'm just waiting for Microsoft to flip out a patent on DRM once everyone gets all cozy with it. Oops! Looks like every single DRM enabled chip manufacturer or anyone using DRM owes Microsoft money! Considering they "patented" sudo, I wouldn't be surprised.)
...or did that whole "benchmark" really just come off as a SoundStorm add? Kinda made me sick...
What I don't get is their reasoning. So right now, the SoundStorm is capable of taking a 5.1 signal and encoding it into Dolby Digital (which will later be decoded by a reciever, blah blah).
Later...
No other computer sound solution on the market is capable of doing this - Creative can do this with their EAX positional surround sound via enhancing the signal along analog cables...
Absolutely not. I have a creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS (normal/platinum/platimum pro make no difference... same board) using a digital output to a 4.1 Cambridge Soundworks speaker system and I get plenty of surround sound in games. You can do 5.1, 7.1, etc through the digital output as well.
They also contradict themselves...
Onboard sound solutions utilizing their digital SPDIF output can only output to the front two speakers as without an encoded 5.1 signal from the computer end beforehand, what is being sent through your digital optical/coax cable is limited to stereo (two channels) of sound... so you can kiss your surround sound in games goodbye.
Then later, when commenting about DVD player software...
This software has an option in the settings to allow your audio to be outputted in a RAW untouched format called "SPDIF".
So basically SPDIF is a raw, untouched format (which isn't what they said beforehand), but is only capable of 2 channels? Then, as they're saying it, all audio is basically 2 channels and somehow APU's or sofware magically convert that into a 5.1 surround sound. Interesting.
I just had to add this in...
The only way you can achieve proper positional surround sound in gaming with all other sound solutions on the market apart from the mighty SoundStorm is to utilize their analogue outputs (centre/sub, front, & rear jacks) but then it is not digital so you don't get the true to life effects of proper digital.
Again, no. The Audigy 2 ZS (along with my old SB Live!) had digital outputs.
There's a difference in using all virtual processors and using all the virtual processors.
Right now every single process runnin in WinXp on my machine is using both "processors" on my 2.6ghz P4.
When I play games... the same thing. BUT... that does NOT mean that the games are actually taking advantage of the hyperthreading support - it just means that Windows is sending operations to both "processors".
The game would need to be developed specifically for use with dual cores/processors to take full advantage. Even benchmarks have shown that using hyperthreading with some programs make them perform poorly compared to normal usage, even though they are runnin on all virtual processors.
I used to sit in the back of my friend's cougar that has dual 12in 600W kickers (if I'm remembering correctly)... and I used to kinda joke about how it affected my breathing when I was back there...
From the atricle: With Seti@home having analysed some 50 trillion frequency bands, it is not surprising that a signal like this occurs purely due to chance.
Signal... by chance? He makes it sound like signals pop up for no reason on a random basis with nothing causing them (let's not get into any subatomic physics or philosophy debates).
Well, personally I just heard of him, but he lost my respect for him with that statement.
Reuters has more detail on the whole process, and how this will help not only in memory, quoting:
"In a bit of semiconductor showmanship, Bohr said Intel had manufactured a memory chip with more than a half-billion transistors using its new 65-nanometer manufacturing process, which was developed at its site in Hillsboro, Oregon. "
I'm not saying that this is a bad product... it sounds like a great idea, but I just don't want people thinking it's the mericle cure to bleeding. The "hole in the heart" quote (which someone else above me has already commented on) is rediculous. How are you to stop internal bleeding?
If you get shot in the heart... sticking a patch on the hole in your chest won't help. You're dead before this bandage has time to clot your blood.
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Yes, and parents can then put chastity belts on their daughters, cut off their sons penis, and spike their food with brain numbing drugs so they don't have any free thought.
So with 27% of Americans getting degrees, that's twice as many as what's really needed.
But the world doesn't run on telemarketing, sales, lower management, and small retail...
Repetitive manufacturing in the general sense will most likely be replaced by some sort of robotic system. The positions left will require more thought.
Construction should require at least some background in structural physics. (You should at least know something about the materials you're using).
Trades have their own college... "trade school."
Unless you like being at the bottom of the barrel, I suggest going to college for a more formal education.
all these should not require a college degree. They didn't in the past.
And in the past, humanity used to be a hunter-gather society.
Again... why capitalism and science doesn't mix.
...and the human race dies off because the bureaucrat couldn't make the buck... what a wonderful system.
Chemist/Pharmacist: Look! We found the cure for cancer, AIDS, and all forms of nerve injury!
Manager: Who cares? The patent's expired.... just throw it away...
Could this be a new area of tech jobs, setting up and maintaining ecommerce sites, creating search assisting applications?
Yea... it's called a search engine...
What you don't realize is that using the universities name makes them responsible for actions your organization may perform...
It only make good LEGAL sense for them to not let you include it in your name. I recently started a club at my university, and they explained to me that if we use University of ____ in our club name that it would cause legal complications that the university does not wish to have.
What the hell is the big deal anyway? It's THEIR name?
Aha!! *That's* why you sound so stupid.
And who's going to be around to fix the problem if Russia bombs the %&@! out of you? Do you wait for your car's engine to lock up before changing the oil?
If you cared to read anything:
"E0-1, launched in November 2000, is a flying test bed for new technologies and techniques intended to boost safety, and to reduce costs and development times."
also
"This software grants us the ability to troubleshoot the robotic systems required to handle increasingly complex tasks of exploration, while they are millions of miles and perhaps light years away from Earth,"
and
"Engineers state that when human beings venture deeper into space, crews will need automatic tools like Livingstone software to identify spacecraft problems early and make prompt repairs."
Why waste human time to constantly run diagnostics? Restating what should be obvious from the above: 1) Quicker diagnostics time to catch a flaw before it becomes a bigger problem. 2) You don't need human interaction to diagnose the problem. and 3) It saves money.
Even if you had a diagnostics computer on the ground constantly running checks, that would absolutely waste precious bandwidth. Where's the sense in that?
Almost all airline manufactures are working on self-diagnosing systems in their planes (even for the microwaves in the kitchen) to 1) Save LOTS of time needed to run diagnostics, 2) You don't need human... etc...
And, referring to another car analogy: Would you wait for your car to just die on you before you fix it, hopefully catching the problem first by running a diagnostics on it *every time* you go somewhere, or would you rather just have the check engine light come on?
First off, NASA contracts out work for pretty much everything. Second, the math was perfect, the units were missing on transferred information so the data was interpreted the wrong way. Third, you're only a senior in high school... who the hell are you to criticize anyone's intelligence?
If you were thinking of becoming an engineer... please... don't.
Who knows, maybe human thinking could be modeled via a database full of IF statements
Considering that's mainly the method of logic everyone thinks by... yes... yes it can.
Even for emotion.
You can also think of it physically. Since our entire thought (let's not get into metaphysics) relies on the neuron connections in our brain, they all can be modeled as "IF" statements. "If this neuron fires, fire these ones as well."
Basically it would be the ultimate spaghetti code.
I guess the complainers will only be happy when they create AL (artificial life) by simulating the actual physical brain. Even then the "if statement" complainers will arrise.
I must add, however, that their complaints are rather stupid. If you just stop to think what they're saying, it's basically "...it's nothing more than a bunch of programming code. Whoopideedoo!"
well duh...
...to carry out the basic logic operations NOT, AND, OR, XOR, NOR and NAND
All you need is a NAND... you can make *anything* else out of a few NANDs.
But what exactly is the worry here? It deletes files in your download directory? Does that really matter?
...you don't download to C:\, do you?
They say that it was only used for a simulated run... but if it's just for practice, why the heck is there uranium in it???
...yea...
I never believe what they say. The first nuclear detonation was explained to the public as a munitions explosion... (hint hint... the recent 2 mile wide mushroom cloud in NK that they say could be from a "forest fire")
This has been this way for a long time. Comcast cable even blocked the ports used for MS's file/printer sharing.... When my friend first got comcast cable internet he was able to see hundreds of people's shared folders through explorer.
Also... what the hell good is a shared folder if your firewall will block it? I would have assumed anyway that it would allow the file and printer sharing to go through.
Even if this SVP is within the actual TV, I'm assuming this will only decrypt the signal into another digital signal?
//on the side
Then what's to stop someone from taking that and recording?
Unless, of course, they include a DtoA converter within the chip. But then wouldn't that kind of be bad since the preciseness of that conversion is what differentiates one TV from the next?
And what of purely digital TV's? There will be no DtoA conversion, and so it will be possible to tap into the digital signal.
I hate the whole "lock down" companies are doing with their "property." All it seems to me is a money making scam since someone will own the patent to this technology in every single DVD player. (I'm just waiting for Microsoft to flip out a patent on DRM once everyone gets all cozy with it. Oops! Looks like every single DRM enabled chip manufacturer or anyone using DRM owes Microsoft money! Considering they "patented" sudo, I wouldn't be surprised.)
Correction, the SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro is a different board. The Normal/Gamer/Platinum are the same board.
...or did that whole "benchmark" really just come off as a SoundStorm add? Kinda made me sick...
What I don't get is their reasoning. So right now, the SoundStorm is capable of taking a 5.1 signal and encoding it into Dolby Digital (which will later be decoded by a reciever, blah blah).
Later...
No other computer sound solution on the market is capable of doing this - Creative can do this with their EAX positional surround sound via enhancing the signal along analog cables...
Absolutely not. I have a creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS (normal/platinum/platimum pro make no difference... same board) using a digital output to a 4.1 Cambridge Soundworks speaker system and I get plenty of surround sound in games. You can do 5.1, 7.1, etc through the digital output as well.
They also contradict themselves...
Onboard sound solutions utilizing their digital SPDIF output can only output to the front two speakers as without an encoded 5.1 signal from the computer end beforehand, what is being sent through your digital optical/coax cable is limited to stereo (two channels) of sound... so you can kiss your surround sound in games goodbye.
Then later, when commenting about DVD player software...
This software has an option in the settings to allow your audio to be outputted in a RAW untouched format called "SPDIF".
So basically SPDIF is a raw, untouched format (which isn't what they said beforehand), but is only capable of 2 channels? Then, as they're saying it, all audio is basically 2 channels and somehow APU's or sofware magically convert that into a 5.1 surround sound. Interesting.
I just had to add this in...
The only way you can achieve proper positional surround sound in gaming with all other sound solutions on the market apart from the mighty SoundStorm is to utilize their analogue outputs (centre/sub, front, & rear jacks) but then it is not digital so you don't get the true to life effects of proper digital.
Again, no. The Audigy 2 ZS (along with my old SB Live!) had digital outputs.
There's a difference in using all virtual processors and using all the virtual processors.
Right now every single process runnin in WinXp on my machine is using both "processors" on my 2.6ghz P4.
When I play games... the same thing. BUT... that does NOT mean that the games are actually taking advantage of the hyperthreading support - it just means that Windows is sending operations to both "processors".
The game would need to be developed specifically for use with dual cores/processors to take full advantage. Even benchmarks have shown that using hyperthreading with some programs make them perform poorly compared to normal usage, even though they are runnin on all virtual processors.
...I'm switching to Lynx!!!
Hence the joke.
Anyway, the comparison is still rediculous.
Dell Inspiron users are reporting an extreme performance decrease since installing Windows XP SP2 - decreases as much as from 2.6ghz down to 300mhz.
Hmph... didn't know that the OS could change your clock settings.
I used to sit in the back of my friend's cougar that has dual 12in 600W kickers (if I'm remembering correctly)... and I used to kinda joke about how it affected my breathing when I was back there...
...heh, well, I guess ignorance is bliss.
...he didn't strike me as being that intelligent.
From the atricle:
With Seti@home having analysed some 50 trillion frequency bands, it is not surprising that a signal like this occurs purely due to chance.
Signal... by chance? He makes it sound like signals pop up for no reason on a random basis with nothing causing them (let's not get into any subatomic physics or philosophy debates).
Well, personally I just heard of him, but he lost my respect for him with that statement.
Scotty is an Engineer and Kirk is just management :)
::sigh::
Although Kirk didn't fire Scotty when he didn't have "the power"... unlike my job...
Actor James Doohan, aka Scotty on the original Star Trek...
There was another Scotty?!?
Reuters has more detail on the whole process, and how this will help not only in memory, quoting:
"In a bit of semiconductor showmanship, Bohr said Intel had manufactured a memory chip with more than a half-billion transistors using its new 65-nanometer manufacturing process, which was developed at its site in Hillsboro, Oregon. "
has created a fully functional 70 megabit memory chip with transistor switches measuring just 35 nanometers
I hope they mean 70,000,000 bits like they're saying...
Remember folks... the 1024 doesn't apply to bits...
I'm not saying that this is a bad product... it sounds like a great idea, but I just don't want people thinking it's the mericle cure to bleeding. The "hole in the heart" quote (which someone else above me has already commented on) is rediculous. How are you to stop internal bleeding?
If you get shot in the heart... sticking a patch on the hole in your chest won't help. You're dead before this bandage has time to clot your blood.