Actually, I think that it is impossible to have your antimatter burrito and eat it to. At least, not without getting more gas than eating at Taco Bell.
So if that 20 man development team can cut 2 weeks off of the project, but it'll require a SunFire 4810 to run afterwards, that's a good deal for the bottom line.
I was gonna maintain the moral high ground (HA!) and not go for the obvious pr0n joke, but then, the best thing that could be said was already in the article....
"You can not only feel the resulting force, but you can also get a sense of the quality of the object you're feeling -- whether it's soft or hard, wood-like or fleshy."
This will allow me to get closer to the dream of portable e-books that work like regular books, but it doesn't solve the problem of dog-earing a page to mark it. Dog-earing these simply marks ALL your pages, and that, my friends, is not very useful.....
This whole "evil" alien thing is ridiculous. To make an analogy- imagine you are an explorer and scientist in a vast sandy desert. You have traveled thousands of miles on foot only to stumble on a TINY oasis. In that oasis is a fantastic looking insect that you are the first to discover in the universe. Would you smash it and move on? or study it and attempt to disturb it as little as possible?
If I had travelled thousands of miles in a vast sandy desert, and a I came across a insect, I think the first thought through my brain would be 'Is it edible?'
They don't have to be evil if they want 'To Serve Man'....
Just remember, that 'average salary' of 41k is the average of all teachers, even the ones that have been teaching for 20+ years( which is a pretty hefty percentage of the teachers). This means that in order to get to that 'average' mark, you've got to be a teacher for 10+ years to reach that average. I speak from experience here. My wife has been teaching for 6 years, and I make twice her salary (and salary is nowhere near the 41k mark.. My wife's mother has been teaching for over 25 years and I make more than she does, and I've been out of school for 6 years.
Teaching is something that is done out for the love of teaching, not for the $$$. And when they keep putting more and more pressures on the teachers, less of them are willing to put up with the bullsh!t. My wife keeps threatening to quit teaching, and as much as I am proud of her for doing this job (that I couldn't/wouldn't do), I find myself telling her that she might want to find a different carreer.
Gheesh. I thought we had enought problems recycling our old CRT's. I wonder what kind of issues these materials are gonna have if they make it mainstream?
I wonder what country we're gonna pollute this time. Oh! Bad American!
>>I dare you to mention one country that hasn't killed innocents. He who is without sin, etc etc
>Vatican City.
Have you ever heard of anything called the inquisition? Oh, that's right, all the people they authorized to be killed were guilty of not sharing the same religeon.....
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3. Dress up your pool area with Natalie Portman, naked and petrified
Ya know, there seems to be a golden opportunity here for some folx to make a good living working with and for the open source community. Simply convince the US government to give you a grant/contract as a security consultant to scour particular open source projects for security holes/bugs. The source could then be cleaned up to the governments liking and used by government institutions for a cheaper price than contracting someone to write it all over again, and the source still remains public.
Hey, I'd better patent this business practice before someone else thinks of this obvious method....:-)
I've been toying with the idea of calling the BSA about this,
just to see the look on their faces when - after a long time -
I finally tell them the company I work at is Microsoft:-)
I may just be cynical, but I'm sure that your company takes a tax writeoff over that somehow.....
I have a simple algorithm for lossless compression down to one byte. Now the key for de-compressing it happens to be the same size as the original data.....
>Local service, on the other hand, is a natural monopoly:
>because there is really only one pipe coming into your premises,
>it doesn't make sense to have multiple providers yanking the
>other end of it around to this, that, or the other central
>office. As a prime example, I hand you the d.s.l. debacle. Tell me that great experiment worked!
I may be a little biased, since I work for a Bellsouth competitor, but I don't agree. Another phone company can come in with their own switching equipment (like we do) and lease just the line from the ILEC. We then can provide the same services (or different services) as the ILEC, and compete with them based on price, customer service, and product lines. I will admit that in some areas we do lease and resell Bellsouth services, but that is only in areas where our own equipment has not been rolled out to. Trust me, we don't make much off of that, we just use it to satisfy customer demand when they want to get away from the local ILEC because they are dissatisfied with the service and support from the local ILEC. If it wasn't for small companies like us, when the local ILEC pisses you off, you have no recourse but to grit your teeth and continue writing them checks.
Sure, the consumer-regulated monopoly may sound good initially, but let us look at the negative side, too.
No incentive to innovate- Why spend my profits on research when there is no competition. Why should I spend lots of cash on new, slightly better products if my profit margin is going to be the same (or worse, counting all the money I spent on research)
Don't like my customer service? Too Bad! What can you do about it, complain to some regulatory board?
As far as the company "jumping through *our* hoops", have you ever tried to push a donkey? Monopolies, like all bureaucracies, run on inertia, for good or bad. Getting them to change is never easy.
All this would be fine and dandy if one was trying to build human-like machine intelligence that can pass as human, but is that really the goal of computer science or AI? The goal is to further our understanding of 'intelligence' and to use that understanding in useful ways. Intelligence is something that is so hard to define (and worse than that, used as a relative comparison) that the detractors of AI have a blast beating up advances that are interesting by simply saying that "oh, well that may be interesting, but it cannot be considered INTELLIGENT, because it can't do X. I have seen people detract a (very smart, IMO) expert system that diagnoses heart disease (and teaches doctors how to do it) by saying "oh, that is all fine, but it's knowledge (not intelligence) is narrow in scope. A real doctor could do more that JUST diagnose heart disease. A real doctor can do all these other medical functions, as well as discuss other subjects, such as Freech wines...." Our response is always "so what? We made this to diagnose heart disease based upon what the best doctor in the world does when he diagnoses heart disease. We don't care about discussing French wines" This expert system is useful and, here's the biggie, doing a job that, if done by humans, WOULD BE CONSIDERED INTELLIGENT.
And on the subject of the Turing test being a decent test of machine intelligence, one thing must be remembered. Alan Turing did not intend the "turing test" to be THE test of machine intelligence. Most people have a only a cursory understanding of the Turing test, which leads them to fundamental misunderstandings of that the test is, and what the test isn't. Read Alan Turings paper sometime. He starts out by defining a game that he calls the Imitation Game, where a each of two contentants (A man and a woman) try to convince a judge (who cannot see them) that they are the woman and the other contestant is the man. There is no real 'winner' in this contest, but if over several iterations, the man manages to convince the judge that he is the woman roughly half the time, then the man can be considered to have succeeded in his task. Now comes Turing's subtle genius. He says that if you reset the experiment, and this time, unbeknownst to the judge, remove the man and put a computing system in his place. Now conduct the game again. The judge still thinks that the contestants are a man and a woman. Turing claims that, no matter how you define 'intelligence', if the computer system manages to convince the judge that it is the woman roughly half the time, then obviously it can be argued to be intelligent. The point of the Turing test is not to overtly compare a machine vs a human, but to conduct a behavioural test that, regarless of the sticky problem of defining the word 'intelligence', would show that if a computer system could compete in this scenario as well as a man, then it should be deemed intelligent.
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I can see now that in the near future, online contracts will have penalty clauses built into them of the form:
Clause 37: Violation of this contract will allow the violatee to haxxor you and they W1ll 0WN JU !
Actually, I think that it is impossible to have your antimatter burrito and eat it to. At least, not without getting more gas than eating at Taco Bell.
So if that 20 man development team can cut 2 weeks off of the project, but it'll require a SunFire 4810 to run afterwards, that's a good deal for the bottom line.
Sun thinks so, too....
I was gonna maintain the moral high ground (HA!) and not go for the obvious pr0n joke, but then, the best thing that could be said was already in the article....
"You can not only feel the resulting force, but you can also get a sense of the quality of the object you're feeling -- whether it's soft or hard, wood-like or fleshy."
This will allow me to get closer to the dream of portable e-books that work like regular books, but it doesn't solve the problem of dog-earing a page to mark it. Dog-earing these simply marks ALL your pages, and that, my friends, is not very useful.....
120V 20A will make almost any chip glow!
They wanted light emitting silicon, not smoke emitting silicon....
step 1. mount X-10 camera to RC car
step 2. drive through a crowd of skirts
step 3. ???
step 4. Profit!
In this case, anyone who cannot think up step 3 should be banned from slashdot.....
Look. This whole discussion about plurals of acronyms is silly. Besides, we all know that the PLC's should be fully specified out to $(PLC)s anyway.
This whole "evil" alien thing is ridiculous. To make an analogy- imagine you are an explorer and scientist in a vast sandy desert. You have traveled thousands of miles on foot only to stumble on a TINY oasis. In that oasis is a fantastic looking insect that you are the first to discover in the universe. Would you smash it and move on? or study it and attempt to disturb it as little as possible?
If I had travelled thousands of miles in a vast sandy desert, and a I came across a insect, I think the first thought through my brain would be 'Is it edible?'
They don't have to be evil if they want 'To Serve Man'....
Hey, Travelling down 110 and taking 10 for 15 miles is nothing. Oh, wait, you're not talking about Houston, not Pensacola,FL, huh? Oh, sorry
So now we'll have to put up with Nano-porn and Nano-Spam?
That's it!!!! All those other socks ended up on a different node of the cluster. CHECK THE REST OF THE MACHINES!!!
Just remember, that 'average salary' of 41k is the average of all teachers, even the ones that have been teaching for 20+ years( which is a pretty hefty percentage of the teachers). This means that in order to get to that 'average' mark, you've got to be a teacher for 10+ years to reach that average. I speak from experience here. My wife has been teaching for 6 years, and I make twice her salary (and salary is nowhere near the 41k mark.. My wife's mother has been teaching for over 25 years and I make more than she does, and I've been out of school for 6 years.
Teaching is something that is done out for the love of teaching, not for the $$$. And when they keep putting more and more pressures on the teachers, less of them are willing to put up with the bullsh!t. My wife keeps threatening to quit teaching, and as much as I am proud of her for doing this job (that I couldn't/wouldn't do), I find myself telling her that she might want to find a different carreer.
Gheesh. I thought we had enought problems recycling our old CRT's. I wonder what kind of issues these materials are gonna have if they make it mainstream?
I wonder what country we're gonna pollute this time. Oh! Bad American!
and the obligitory Windows Joke(tm)....
I guess that means all the WinNT servers represent the fault lines?
>>I dare you to mention one country that hasn't killed innocents. He who is without sin, etc etc
>Vatican City.
Have you ever heard of anything called the inquisition? Oh, that's right, all the people they authorized to be killed were guilty of not sharing the same religeon.....
3. Dress up your pool area with Natalie Portman, naked and petrified
Petrified? What use is that?
The real question is: Have the counties in question stopped purchasing M$ software? If not, why not?
The RIAA has deemed that it can be used to for piracy and therefore will be outlawed.
Ya know, there seems to be a golden opportunity here for some folx to make a good living working with and for the open source community. Simply convince the US government to give you a grant/contract as a security consultant to scour particular open source projects for security holes/bugs. The source could then be cleaned up to the governments liking and used by government institutions for a cheaper price than contracting someone to write it all over again, and the source still remains public.
Hey, I'd better patent this business practice before someone else thinks of this obvious method....:-)
I've been toying with the idea of calling the BSA about this, :-)
just to see the look on their faces when - after a long time -
I finally tell them the company I work at is Microsoft
I may just be cynical, but I'm sure that your company takes a tax writeoff over that somehow.....
I have a simple algorithm for lossless compression down to one byte. Now the key for de-compressing it happens to be the same size as the original data.....
>Local service, on the other hand, is a natural monopoly:
>because there is really only one pipe coming into your premises,
>it doesn't make sense to have multiple providers yanking the
>other end of it around to this, that, or the other central
>office. As a prime example, I hand you the d.s.l. debacle. Tell me that great experiment worked!
I may be a little biased, since I work for a Bellsouth competitor, but I don't agree. Another phone company can come in with their own switching equipment (like we do) and lease just the line from the ILEC. We then can provide the same services (or different services) as the ILEC, and compete with them based on price, customer service, and product lines. I will admit that in some areas we do lease and resell Bellsouth services, but that is only in areas where our own equipment has not been rolled out to. Trust me, we don't make much off of that, we just use it to satisfy customer demand when they want to get away from the local ILEC because they are dissatisfied with the service and support from the local ILEC. If it wasn't for small companies like us, when the local ILEC pisses you off, you have no recourse but to grit your teeth and continue writing them checks.
Sure, the consumer-regulated monopoly may sound good initially, but let us look at the negative side, too.
No incentive to innovate- Why spend my profits on research when there is no competition. Why should I spend lots of cash on new, slightly better products if my profit margin is going to be the same (or worse, counting all the money I spent on research)
Don't like my customer service? Too Bad! What can you do about it, complain to some regulatory board?
As far as the company "jumping through *our* hoops", have you ever tried to push a donkey? Monopolies, like all bureaucracies, run on inertia, for good or bad. Getting them to change is never easy.
All this would be fine and dandy if one was trying to build human-like machine intelligence that can pass as human, but is that really the goal of computer science or AI? The goal is to further our understanding of 'intelligence' and to use that understanding in useful ways. Intelligence is something that is so hard to define (and worse than that, used as a relative comparison) that the detractors of AI have a blast beating up advances that are interesting by simply saying that "oh, well that may be interesting, but it cannot be considered INTELLIGENT, because it can't do X. I have seen people detract a (very smart, IMO) expert system that diagnoses heart disease (and teaches doctors how to do it) by saying "oh, that is all fine, but it's knowledge (not intelligence) is narrow in scope. A real doctor could do more that JUST diagnose heart disease. A real doctor can do all these other medical functions, as well as discuss other subjects, such as Freech wines...." Our response is always "so what? We made this to diagnose heart disease based upon what the best doctor in the world does when he diagnoses heart disease. We don't care about discussing French wines" This expert system is useful and, here's the biggie, doing a job that, if done by humans, WOULD BE CONSIDERED INTELLIGENT.
And on the subject of the Turing test being a decent test of machine intelligence, one thing must be remembered. Alan Turing did not intend the "turing test" to be THE test of machine intelligence. Most people have a only a cursory understanding of the Turing test, which leads them to fundamental misunderstandings of that the test is, and what the test isn't. Read Alan Turings paper sometime. He starts out by defining a game that he calls the Imitation Game, where a each of two contentants (A man and a woman) try to convince a judge (who cannot see them) that they are the woman and the other contestant is the man. There is no real 'winner' in this contest, but if over several iterations, the man manages to convince the judge that he is the woman roughly half the time, then the man can be considered to have succeeded in his task. Now comes Turing's subtle genius. He says that if you reset the experiment, and this time, unbeknownst to the judge, remove the man and put a computing system in his place. Now conduct the game again. The judge still thinks that the contestants are a man and a woman. Turing claims that, no matter how you define 'intelligence', if the computer system manages to convince the judge that it is the woman roughly half the time, then obviously it can be argued to be intelligent. The point of the Turing test is not to overtly compare a machine vs a human, but to conduct a behavioural test that, regarless of the sticky problem of defining the word 'intelligence', would show that if a computer system could compete in this scenario as well as a man, then it should be deemed intelligent.