I'm not boycotting the music industry, I've just gotten to the point where I only buy music I think is of high quality. My behaviour bearing a great resemblance to a boycott is just a side effect.
I hate getting sucked in by a troll like this, but... Please, can we quit having the argument of what is the one true AI? 30 years ago, making computers understand a man-made language of written words was True AI (TM). Now its called compiler design. Later on, True AI was making expert systems that mimicked the behaviour of experts. Now it's called rules-based systems. Lets face it, many people want to define AI to be 'that which we humans can do that computers can't", which is a ever-moving definition used by critics to denounce the AI communities discoveries as insufficient, and used by AI researchers to come up with new research projects.
Arguing about the definition of AI is useless except as an exercise for philosophers. The definition of AI isn't nearly as interesting as the GOAL of AI: namely, to make artifacts that are useful, that perform functions that, if done by a human, would be considered intelligent. The pragmatic goal of this research is interesting, but the definition of the word 'Intelligence' and whether it applies to a man-made oject is not.
So let's look at this practically. We can drive a car. We can't get a computer to drive a car very well. Learning how to make a computer drive a car could be insanely great (apologies to Steve Jobs). And right now, making a vehicle that can pilot itself over a known (but non-trivial) course is pretty difficult. Thus the DARPA challenge. Once this challenge has been met, and we understand that problem space, then we can move along. Until then, this challenge is not the 'same old traditional stuff'
what are you doing to help? The fine researchers here are coming up with a way to help with the education level of developing countries so they CAN feed themselves, and you are knocking them because they aren't solving all the problems RIGHT NOW? I ask again, what are you doing to feed the masses? It is very easy to critisize, much more difficult to come up with a solution, even a partial solution. I applaud MIT for their efforts, and I will step off the soapbox now.
If you are looking for bragging rights, Intel does not get them. Sun has been shipping dual-core servers for over a year. I'm in a datacenter with a whole bunch of these things.
no, what he did was pretty revolutionary. Remember, the year before Star Wars: A New Hope came out, the move that won the academy award for special effects was Logan's Freaking Run. Farrah Faucet is fun to watch and all, but Logan's Run to Star Wars in one year seems pretty revolutionary.
(btw, I got a copy of Logan's Run for my 30th birthday from a friend of mine, that sick fsck)
Strange, I've often thought that Word would benefit from a 'Reveal Codes' option (never mind the obvious 'reveal file format' jokes), as word often does incomprehensible things like deleting more that what I ask it too, or change styles of existing text when I delete over a style boundary, and other strange behaviours. And the concept of 'Reveal Codes' makes a whole lot of sence when people insist on using Word for html editing.
Sun's new Ultrasparc IV shipped in the SunFire 490's and larger servers already do this. The plans right now are to scale this up to 32 cores per cpu. The only issue that I see is that the memory controller is onboard the cpu, so while you may have 2/4/8/16/32 cores, you still only have a single memory controller, which limits the ammount of ram you can have. I'm sure they have a solution for this, but I don't know what it is.
The advantage of HW raid over software is in the speed that HW offers you. Of course, if you are doing RAID 5, you usually aren't concerned with speed as much as redundancy.
I believe that the odor associated with flatulence is mostly associated with sulfur-containing compounds rather than methane. IIRC, methane by itself is odorless.
Like they say down here in the south, you're a purty fart smeller.
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I'm not boycotting the music industry, I've just gotten to the point where I only buy music I think is of high quality. My behaviour bearing a great resemblance to a boycott is just a side effect.
I call dibs on rosesareredvioletsarebl.eu
I hate getting sucked in by a troll like this, but... Please, can we quit having the argument of what is the one true AI? 30 years ago, making computers understand a man-made language of written words was True AI (TM). Now its called compiler design. Later on, True AI was making expert systems that mimicked the behaviour of experts. Now it's called rules-based systems. Lets face it, many people want to define AI to be 'that which we humans can do that computers can't", which is a ever-moving definition used by critics to denounce the AI communities discoveries as insufficient, and used by AI researchers to come up with new research projects.
Arguing about the definition of AI is useless except as an exercise for philosophers. The definition of AI isn't nearly as interesting as the GOAL of AI: namely, to make artifacts that are useful, that perform functions that, if done by a human, would be considered intelligent. The pragmatic goal of this research is interesting, but the definition of the word 'Intelligence' and whether it applies to a man-made oject is not.
So let's look at this practically. We can drive a car. We can't get a computer to drive a car very well. Learning how to make a computer drive a car could be insanely great (apologies to Steve Jobs). And right now, making a vehicle that can pilot itself over a known (but non-trivial) course is pretty difficult. Thus the DARPA challenge. Once this challenge has been met, and we understand that problem space, then we can move along. Until then, this challenge is not the 'same old traditional stuff'
what are you doing to help? The fine researchers here are coming up with a way to help with the education level of developing countries so they CAN feed themselves, and you are knocking them because they aren't solving all the problems RIGHT NOW? I ask again, what are you doing to feed the masses? It is very easy to critisize, much more difficult to come up with a solution, even a partial solution. I applaud MIT for their efforts, and I will step off the soapbox now.
Apple isn't new to Unix. They used to make AUX. We were using it back in 1990.
how about the term SunRay (I am posting this from a SunRay. They are kinda cool. Quiet, too.)
and has anyone noticed that no major character in any of the ST series were Latino?
(And you can't count Richardo 'KHAAAAAAANNNN!' Montalban, because he was a) from the 20th century, and b) Mongolian)
If you are looking for bragging rights, Intel does not get them. Sun has been shipping dual-core servers for over a year. I'm in a datacenter with a whole bunch of these things.
easy, plug in more lan cards.
no, what he did was pretty revolutionary. Remember, the year before Star Wars: A New Hope came out, the move that won the academy award for special effects was Logan's Freaking Run. Farrah Faucet is fun to watch and all, but Logan's Run to Star Wars in one year seems pretty revolutionary. (btw, I got a copy of Logan's Run for my 30th birthday from a friend of mine, that sick fsck)
Strange, I've often thought that Word would benefit from a 'Reveal Codes' option (never mind the obvious 'reveal file format' jokes), as word often does incomprehensible things like deleting more that what I ask it too, or change styles of existing text when I delete over a style boundary, and other strange behaviours. And the concept of 'Reveal Codes' makes a whole lot of sence when people insist on using Word for html editing.
Sun's new Ultrasparc IV shipped in the SunFire 490's and larger servers already do this. The plans right now are to scale this up to 32 cores per cpu. The only issue that I see is that the memory controller is onboard the cpu, so while you may have 2/4/8/16/32 cores, you still only have a single memory controller, which limits the ammount of ram you can have. I'm sure they have a solution for this, but I don't know what it is.
The advantage of HW raid over software is in the speed that HW offers you. Of course, if you are doing RAID 5, you usually aren't concerned with speed as much as redundancy.
Pray tell, how many library of congress's are there in a metric fuckton?
(At least it metric)
In poker, sometimes guts=skill. I've bluffed my way to winning a number of hands.
Math skills help out in poker at first, but poker is a game of psychology. It is as much about the cards as astronomy is about telescopes.
Now the same approach has been extended to writing maths.
I guess the submitter wasn't using dasher and it's penchant for putting together correct sentences.
OK, I have mod points. Where's the freaking [ -1, Ewww!] option?
not to be pedantic (or a karma whore) but 'google' is not a word. Googol, however, is a word representing the number 1 followed by 100 0's.
and prove that he's off by a day.
When can I buy a Nike shirt for my online avatar?
Maxim article is just rip-off of artist's real work, dum-dums. You go buy origami boulder now!
I've never asked for this before, but will somebody PLEASE mod this up... I almost choked on my coffee (not an easy task, by the way....)
no, because then MS's team of laywers will go out and patent everything that they couldn't patent before because someone else got to it first.....
We'll just have to change it to this:
To boldly have NASA crash a satelite where no one have ever crashed a satelite before....
I believe that the odor associated with flatulence is mostly associated with sulfur-containing compounds rather than methane. IIRC, methane by itself is odorless.
Like they say down here in the south, you're a purty fart smeller.