They're not putting the Star Wars Holiday Special on Disk 4? I wouldn't spend money on the special edition SW Films, but I'd easily drop $50 for an hour of laughter.
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I'm not saying the work is bad or anything (I think it shows very novel thinking), but this hasn't been peer reviewed. This is important. Until the work has been scrutinized by experts in the field you can not tell whether or not something is statistically or scientifically significant.
No, peer review is not a perfect process, but its the best one we have. Scientists and the press need to remember this before they make claims about scientific work.
Six years ago I went to Cape Canaveral with my dad to install a piece of equipment his business made. Since we had a pass to move around the installation, we got to go away from the places the tourists see. One of the engineers their told us to go check out one of the abandoned launch pads - the one Apollo 11 left from. Rusted and overgrown with weeds, completely forgotten, but all I could think was "From this spot we went to the fuckin' moon". Amazing experience.
Wasn't this the same guy who complained because a search for "Richard Nixon" didn't bring you anywhere near his namebase.org website? Some people just like to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
Even beyond base digital sercurity concerns is the fact that internet voting occurrs from non-monitored locations. So what's to stop Candidate X's staffers from driving a couple of vans through the ghetto or a senior citizen's retirement community, load 'em up, bring 'em to a computer and say "If you let us watch you cast your vote for Candidate X, we'll give you $50".
Even with webcams,etc.,etc., there is NO way to ensure that internet voting is not coerced voting.
I remember being a freshman in college, and making a dork of myself by telling all my friends how these things would be out in a year and how massively cool they would be. Oh, and electronic paper too. And those things had prototypes and everything. And even if they didn't, in 5 years or so a plasma display would only cost as much as a CRT.
Let's fast-forward 7 years to the present and there's an announcement that a lab has created a device, and we translate this to mean that functional products are just around the corner.
Excuse me for being such a cynic, but until something hits store shelves at an affordable price, its pretty pointless to get excited.
I can understand FatWallet not wanting to fight this, but I sure wish somebody would. Until there is enough momentum from the accused, we won't see any real progress on seeing the DMCA changed or overthrown.
Digital computers and the human brain work on completely different computational principles. The people who run these meaningless calculations on the "processing power of the brain" take each synapse to be a bit. That's absolute bunk when you're talking about the nonlinear properties of even small networks of neurons, much less the massively complex architecture of the brain. Until we actually develop an understanding of how neural networks (real neural networks, not the stuff that drives touchpads) operate, we can't even begin to make realistic comparisons.
btw, I'm a ee who does neuroscience research, so I'm not talking out of my ass here.
Even if it means having to live with windows (for now), I'd still rather roll my own PVR. You can do it easily for 5-6 hundred, and have the ability to burn VCDs or other archival means.
Even if they're using linux, with "server-like" capabilities, I really doubt they're going to give you any method to archive media outside of the box.
Which of the various co-hosts you've worked with over the years are your favorites? Least favorites? Did you ever just want to smack the crap out of the "punkins, punkins, punkins" guy?
I only have a problem with fancy design updates when they take precedence over fixing problems that are more important to me. Of course, my problems (like the lack of robustness in mounting smb shares), aren't everyone else's, so maybe they made the right decision.
Personally, look-and-feel is pretty low on my priorities list, but it is really nice to have someone say "what is that you're using? It looks really cool".
You know, we have something like 15 millian cows in the US alone, and we haven't even begun to milk that source yet, why go to the bottom of the ocean for it?
Other sources include:
1) Our office after Qdobo's 2 for $2 Thursday night burrito special. 2) My uncle Floyd. 3) The United States Congress.
As much as I long to see a person set foot on mars within my lifetime, I feel like we shouldn't even bother unless we're going to give a compelling reason to go. We went to the moon long before we had any plan or reason (other than "beat the russians"), and look how far that's gotten us.
Personally, I consider "research terraforming" to be the best of all possible reasons, and I think now is as good a time as any, but I don't see a bulk of the population realizing anytime soon how valuable another livable planet would be to the future of the human race.
This is very similar to what I'm doing my PhD research on.
So many neuromorphic/neuroengineering research groups (including my own, doh!) have focused on understanding the underlying neural mechanisms necessary to prodcue motion, decision making, etc, as a method to do this sort of thing. The genius behind the SUNY group's method is that they're using simple pavlovian classical conditioning. One electrode stimulates the left whisker, one stimulates the right, and one stimulates the pleasure cortex. A bit of training and bingo! you've got your remote control rat. One of those tremendously great ideas that I can't believe nobody else ever realized before.
Last I heard, the "digital theaters" were working on micromirror arrays, which are great little devices (I spent about a year in college trying to build a microscope with some), except when their pixels get stuck, which although not as frequent as, say, the blue screen of death, is frequent enough to warrant a problem for a theater running the camera for 80+ hours per week. Then again, my last experience with them was 3.5 years ago, so TI and others may have improved the performance significantly since then.
For following the "real" rules of capitalism, and bowing out when they can't compete. I've seen too many companies lately either using legislation (telcos, entertainment) or shady business practices (MS) to avoid competition, instead of re-structuring their business or leaving the market. All this does, in the long run, is stifle the economy and give capitalism a bad name.
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They're not putting the Star Wars Holiday Special on Disk 4? I wouldn't spend money on the special edition SW Films, but I'd easily drop $50 for an hour of laughter.
I'm not saying the work is bad or anything (I think it shows very novel thinking), but this hasn't been peer reviewed. This is important. Until the work has been scrutinized by experts in the field you can not tell whether or not something is statistically or scientifically significant.
No, peer review is not a perfect process, but its the best one we have. Scientists and the press need to remember this before they make claims about scientific work.
At least this article mentions the fact.
Six years ago I went to Cape Canaveral with my dad to install a piece of equipment his business made. Since we had a pass to move around the installation, we got to go away from the places the tourists see. One of the engineers their told us to go check out one of the abandoned launch pads - the one Apollo 11 left from. Rusted and overgrown with weeds, completely forgotten, but all I could think was "From this spot we went to the fuckin' moon". Amazing experience.
Will we have to start selling "vegan-friendly" fuel now?
Or rosy palmed.
Now we can have all sorts of morons hitting speed-dial and shouting out "FIRST POST!" on their phones. Yeah.
When we "re-design cities around it" (Steve Jobs, if I'm not mistaken). Once we re-design all our cities, I'm sure they'll be selling like hotcakes.
Wasn't this the same guy who complained because a search for "Richard Nixon" didn't bring you anywhere near his namebase.org website? Some people just like to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
If I hit back enough do I end up using NCSA Mosaic? Or do I just end up in gopher?
We'll meet a man who's been hiccupping for over 30 years.
"!Hic! Kill me. !Hic!"
Even beyond base digital sercurity concerns is the fact that internet voting occurrs from non-monitored locations. So what's to stop Candidate X's staffers from driving a couple of vans through the ghetto or a senior citizen's retirement community, load 'em up, bring 'em to a computer and say "If you let us watch you cast your vote for Candidate X, we'll give you $50".
Even with webcams,etc.,etc., there is NO way to ensure that internet voting is not coerced voting.
I remember being a freshman in college, and making a dork of myself by telling all my friends how these things would be out in a year and how massively cool they would be. Oh, and electronic paper too. And those things had prototypes and everything. And even if they didn't, in 5 years or so a plasma display would only cost as much as a CRT.
Let's fast-forward 7 years to the present and there's an announcement that a lab has created a device, and we translate this to mean that functional products are just around the corner.
Excuse me for being such a cynic, but until something hits store shelves at an affordable price, its pretty pointless to get excited.
I can understand FatWallet not wanting to fight this, but I sure wish somebody would. Until there is enough momentum from the accused, we won't see any real progress on seeing the DMCA changed or overthrown.
Digital computers and the human brain work on completely different computational principles. The people who run these meaningless calculations on the "processing power of the brain" take each synapse to be a bit. That's absolute bunk when you're talking about the nonlinear properties of even small networks of neurons, much less the massively complex architecture of the brain. Until we actually develop an understanding of how neural networks (real neural networks, not the stuff that drives touchpads) operate, we can't even begin to make realistic comparisons.
btw, I'm a ee who does neuroscience research, so I'm not talking out of my ass here.
Even if it means having to live with windows (for now), I'd still rather roll my own PVR. You can do it easily for 5-6 hundred, and have the ability to burn VCDs or other archival means.
Even if they're using linux, with "server-like" capabilities, I really doubt they're going to give you any method to archive media outside of the box.
Which of the various co-hosts you've worked with over the years are your favorites? Least favorites? Did you ever just want to smack the crap out of the "punkins, punkins, punkins" guy?
I only have a problem with fancy design updates when they take precedence over fixing problems that are more important to me. Of course, my problems (like the lack of robustness in mounting smb shares), aren't everyone else's, so maybe they made the right decision.
Personally, look-and-feel is pretty low on my priorities list, but it is really nice to have someone say "what is that you're using? It looks really cool".
You know, we have something like 15 millian cows in the US alone, and we haven't even begun to milk that source yet, why go to the bottom of the ocean for it?
Other sources include:
1) Our office after Qdobo's 2 for $2 Thursday night burrito special.
2) My uncle Floyd.
3) The United States Congress.
I don't know Davey, that doesn't sound like such a good idea.
As much as I long to see a person set foot on mars within my lifetime, I feel like we shouldn't even bother unless we're going to give a compelling reason to go. We went to the moon long before we had any plan or reason (other than "beat the russians"), and look how far that's gotten us.
Personally, I consider "research terraforming" to be the best of all possible reasons, and I think now is as good a time as any, but I don't see a bulk of the population realizing anytime soon how valuable another livable planet would be to the future of the human race.
Did anyone else see the "Contains sci-fi action, violence, and peril" part? This just begs for a Python tangent of some sort.
"No, No, the headbutt is far too perilous"
This is very similar to what I'm doing my PhD research on.
So many neuromorphic/neuroengineering research groups (including my own, doh!) have focused on understanding the underlying neural mechanisms necessary to prodcue motion, decision making, etc, as a method to do this sort of thing. The genius behind the SUNY group's method is that they're using simple pavlovian classical conditioning. One electrode stimulates the left whisker, one stimulates the right, and one stimulates the pleasure cortex. A bit of training and bingo! you've got your remote control rat. One of those tremendously great ideas that I can't believe nobody else ever
realized before.
Last I heard, the "digital theaters" were working on micromirror arrays, which are great little devices (I spent about a year in college trying to build a microscope with some), except when their pixels get stuck, which although not as frequent as, say, the blue screen of death, is frequent enough to warrant a problem for a theater running the camera for 80+ hours per week. Then again, my last experience with them was 3.5 years ago, so TI and others may have improved the performance significantly since then.
For following the "real" rules of capitalism, and bowing out when they can't compete. I've seen too many companies lately either using legislation (telcos, entertainment) or shady business practices (MS) to avoid competition, instead of re-structuring their business or leaving the market. All this does, in the long run, is stifle the economy and give capitalism a bad name.
Wonder if you can automatically re-configure it to simulate Dvorak keyboard? That would be wonderful.