It seems more like the non-coding region uses the coding region to get itself around. "Life" as we define could just be a means for the non-coding region to reproduce itself. In other words, we could just be containers for these so-called junk regions.
According to the numerous biology courses I took as an undergraduate, two individuals are considered members of the same species if they can breed naturally and produce fertile offsprings. If two individuals can only breed in laboratory settings, they are not considered to be members of the same species. If two individuals produce an offspring that's incapable of reproducing, they are also not considered to be members of the same species.
I stayed at a person's home in a city in southern China and I was able to access, to my surprise, cnn.com, nytimes.com, yahoo.com. and slashdot.org. Recently, back in the US, I tried exchanging photos via photos.yahoo.com with 2 people living in two different cities of China but they told me they were not able to see the pictures (still not 100% sure if it's a communication or firewall problem). It's strange how different people who visited China are reporting different experiences. Maybe the great firewall of China is not centralized?
Using the RIAA's logic, the movie industry should be experiencing low box office numbers and DVD/VHS sales because of P2P programs. I have yet to hear the movie industry complain of low revenues.
At the going rate, the board with CPU and chipset will be a daughterboard of the graphics motherboard.:]
Actually this is not far-fetched considering Nvidia is already in motherboard chipset business with ATI to follow. Both intend to eventually design chipsets that would facilitate 3D performance.
Answer: Mac because it is the least available operating system and as such fewer attacks have been created for it, even if there are hypothetically more bugs. As such, you would be less likely to suffer a problem, all else being equal
You forget that we live in a dynamic world. What's going to happen if system administrators all decide to move over to Macs? Do you think crackers will continue to develop exploits for *nix/Windows if there is no "market" for them? Of course not. They will start developing exploits for Macs. If Mac software are not BETTER designed than *nix/Windows software, you're going to see an explosion of Mac exploits. Many of these new Mac exploits will be based on the same principles of initial exploits resolved by *nix/Windows systems long ago.
Re:complexity of supercomputers approaching brain
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The brain has 100 million neurons, each connected to thousand others, and runs around 20 Hz.
As many have already pointed out, the number of neurons is believed to be on the order of 100 billion. The number of neurons can range between 1,000 to 10,000 but neurons can also communicate to other neurons via gases (such as NO). How significant and the span of these "gas connections" are not yet known. I'm not sure how the 20 Hz was calculated but I'm sure 20 cycles/sec is too slow simply because most people can see the difference between 20 frames/sec and 30 frames/sec. A neuron's firing rate via chemical synapse can be > 100 times/sec (though neurons do fatigue). A neuron's firing rate via electrical synapses (direct conduction of ions between neurons) is many times faster.
In short, any attempt to equate human brain to ops/second is probably a gross simplication because we don't fully know everything physiologically about the brain.
Either case, the point of the Do Not Call list is to reduce phone solicitation and it has for me -- dramatically. I can't remember being been bothered by any telemarketers, for-profit or non-profit, for the past month and a half. I normally get 2-3 (probably much more than that) per week prior to signing up with the Do Not Call registry. I can only hope for the rest of the country that the national list will work as well as the New York.
I'll have to agree with you and say that the NY Do Not Call Registry works really well (although it is still legal for charity organizations to call you which is fine by me). There's also a national Do Not Call list in the works and it will face stiff opposition from the DMA.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/24/telemar ke ting.list.idg/index.html
Is this chip based on the Cyrix processor core? If so, did they improved the Floating Point Unit? Remember Cyrix's Pentium-socket compatible chips had terrible FPUs, typically less than 1/2 their P-rating. I know most of you will say why would I care about FPU performance on a portable system, but I'd like to be able to Counter-Strike on my laptop occasionally.
From Linksys's page (http://www.linksys.com/edu/part6.asp):
"Q. Will there be problems if I turn on or plug in devices like a power drill or hair dryer?
A. No. If the powerline characteristics change during a session, the Instant PowerLine products will sense the change and automatically adapt to provide the most reliable data path connection."
Will this "automatic adaption" interrupt data transmission? How would this affect latency?
Imagine people complaining about getting fragged by a hair dryer.
I don't blame them for selling Square Studios
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THE SPIRITS WITHIN
As of 8/9/01
Gross-to-Date: $31,711,932
Production Budget: $115 million
"There are three kinds of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics".
Yet you used stats when you say:
psychologists are taught is 95% pseudoscience
You said:
Also having "more references" doesn't mean much - if the stuff people are referencing is crap
Yet you reference to the psychologists you've gone out with which is probably not the most unbias reference.
Now that I've lowered your high testosterone mechanical engineer mind a bit, I will present my argument.:)
If we only studied the brain based on real-time monitoring of EVERY SINGLE individual neuron of the brain, we wouldn't get anywhere. It's akin to studying how your favorite OS works by monitoring every transistor in your computer. Psychology is like reverse-enginering the brain. You draw inferences how it works by poking at it for responses. Direct observation will help support theories but they won't replace the current techniques of getting behavioral responses. Is it neccessary to directly see each individual electron (I know, Heisenberg, blah blah) to understand how an organic chemistry reaction go?
Each science has their own framework to understanding something. Physics is grounded heavily in math. Biology is not, nor is Psychology although I suspect computational models (neural nets) will be used more as processors get faster. As you go future into the miniscule scale of any science, observations become more and more indirect. We don't see subatomic particles directly but we can infer them from the way they bounce around.
The problem is not with Psychology but with the intepretation of Psychological research by media and folks like yourself. If you read any well-written research journal paper, you'll know what I'm talking about. Most Psychology choose their words carefully and make conservative intepretation of the data in their papers because of blunders of wild interpretations made by early Psychologists such as John Watson. The media has a tendency of distorting Psychological findings (as with any science) to make it interesting or understandable.
I'm not sure what school you went to but the Psychology research methods and stats (2 courses)at my school are carefully taught. In the upper level Psychology classes, we are trained to critique and recognize biases in scientific journal. In fact, I have trouble reading even NYTimes articles without the urge to tear it up.
As a student of Psychology and Biology, you are making a gross generalization when you suggest Psychology is not a science. Psychology is a broad field. What people have to know is that Psychology != Emotions. Cognitive Psychology for example rarely deals with "feelings" at all (which is actually a fallacy of the field if you think about it because emotions affect how you process information). Like any science, Psychology has also an early history of poor science. (Look up Aristotle & Anatomy or Da Vinci & Flight.) Unfortunately, when people think of Psychology, people narrowly think of Sigmund Freud, sexual repression, etc. Freud WAS NOT a Psychologist. None of his work at the time under went testing. He made his claims and people took it for truth just because it made sense to some people. If you argued with him about the Oedipus complex, he would use circular logic and say "you just have unresolve issues with your mother. That's why you can't accept my claims." Most of Freud's claims has been refuted. His work is rarely mentioned past Intro Psychology courses.
Know what you are talking about especially if you are going to criticize a particular field of science. If you are going to make generalizations, back them up with specific examples. Know your sources of a work that you are reading, if possible, read the original.
You are absolutely right when you say you notice a difference between 80 ms and 25 ms lag. From the human visual system perspective, 80 ms is a LONG time. Ask any psychologist and they'll tell you that many low level perceptual processes occurs under 20 ms.
Here's an indirect piece of evidence: Do you notice the difference between a motion video clip played at 15 frames/sec versus 30 frames/sec? At 15 frames/sec, one frame is displayed every ~67 ms. At 30 frames/sec, one frame is displayed every ~33 ms. The fact that most people are able to see a big difference between 15 and 30 fps suggests that most people will also notice a difference between playing a first person shooter with 30 ms lag vs 80 ms lag.
I would say when you have at least get below 15 ms to not notice any difference.
If computer crimes are acts of terrorism, then only terrorists would commit computer crimes.;)
Seriously though, we know that all laws and legislations in the world will not deter terrorists. As bad as it might seem, crackers serve as the invisible hand that pushes the closed-source industry towards more secured software. If there were zero-tolerance laws against crackers and script kiddies, we might get less of them. Less crackers means the closed-source industry will not be compelled to fix their holes as often, if at all. This will leave more insecure software floating around.
Terrorists want to destroy economies and kill innocent lives. As bad as crackers and script kiddies may be, they do not have the same destructive mentality as terrorists. Damage from a terrorist exposing a major security hole will be far greater than that of a script kiddy. I rather have a script kiddies force companies to patch their stuff than terrorists.
It's possible to use solar power/wind power to generate electricity to produce hydrogen. However, I think most hydrogen produced today ultimately comes from burning fossil fuel. Since you can never achieve 100% efficiency converting fossil fuel to hydrogen, you might as well as to burn jet fuel directly.
Most of us live in a society where we vote our representatives. These representatives make policies. For these type of society to work, we must understand what the heck are our representatives doing, that is, understand the policies they are passing. Take fiscal policies. We all like tax cuts but how many of us know cases where tax cuts are bad for the economy? An intro course in macroeconomics gives you good idea, along with what happens when certain policies are imposed during certain economic conditions.
College should prepare us for the world. Aside from our careers, that world also includes being a knowledgeable voter and getting a well-rounded education is the only way to that.
The argument above does not apply to communism.
Any support for virtualization?
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Anybody knows if Itanium or that 64-bit AMD processor will have better support for CPU virtualization?
If you are really serious about learning Linux, try to creating bootdisk from scratch after you are comfortable with whatever distro. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html
Personally, my favorite distro is Debian because of its package managing system. What's better than 'apt-get upgrade-distro' to upgrade your distribution?
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It seems more like the non-coding region uses the coding region to get itself around. "Life" as we define could just be a means for the non-coding region to reproduce itself. In other words, we could just be containers for these so-called junk regions.
How about a USB port mod? Tie that with the correct linux drivers and that would open up the DC to a HUGE range of hardware including USB ethernets.
According to the numerous biology courses I took as an undergraduate, two individuals are considered members of the same species if they can breed naturally and produce fertile offsprings. If two individuals can only breed in laboratory settings, they are not considered to be members of the same species. If two individuals produce an offspring that's incapable of reproducing, they are also not considered to be members of the same species.
I stayed at a person's home in a city in southern China and I was able to access, to my surprise, cnn.com, nytimes.com, yahoo.com. and slashdot.org. Recently, back in the US, I tried exchanging photos via photos.yahoo.com with 2 people living in two different cities of China but they told me they were not able to see the pictures (still not 100% sure if it's a communication or firewall problem). It's strange how different people who visited China are reporting different experiences. Maybe the great firewall of China is not centralized?
Using the RIAA's logic, the movie industry should be experiencing low box office numbers and DVD/VHS sales because of P2P programs. I have yet to hear the movie industry complain of low revenues.
Would this violate the hippocratic oath if there really was one for programmers?
Will my AMD CPU-based PDA come with oven mitts?
I still can't get myself to stop visiting slashdot every 10 minutes! argh! Time to add '209.242.124.241 slashdot.org' to my hosts file.
At the going rate, the board with CPU and chipset will be a daughterboard of the graphics motherboard. :]
Actually this is not far-fetched considering Nvidia is already in motherboard chipset business with ATI to follow. Both intend to eventually design chipsets that would facilitate 3D performance.
Answer: Mac because it is the least available operating system and as such fewer attacks have been created for it, even if there are hypothetically more bugs. As such, you would be less likely to suffer a problem, all else being equal
You forget that we live in a dynamic world. What's going to happen if system administrators all decide to move over to Macs? Do you think crackers will continue to develop exploits for *nix/Windows if there is no "market" for them? Of course not. They will start developing exploits for Macs. If Mac software are not BETTER designed than *nix/Windows software, you're going to see an explosion of Mac exploits. Many of these new Mac exploits will be based on the same principles of initial exploits resolved by *nix/Windows systems long ago.
The brain has 100 million neurons, each connected to thousand others, and runs around 20 Hz.
As many have already pointed out, the number of neurons is believed to be on the order of 100 billion. The number of neurons can range between 1,000 to 10,000 but neurons can also communicate to other neurons via gases (such as NO). How significant and the span of these "gas connections" are not yet known. I'm not sure how the 20 Hz was calculated but I'm sure 20 cycles/sec is too slow simply because most people can see the difference between 20 frames/sec and 30 frames/sec. A neuron's firing rate via chemical synapse can be > 100 times/sec (though neurons do fatigue). A neuron's firing rate via electrical synapses (direct conduction of ions between neurons) is many times faster.
In short, any attempt to equate human brain to ops/second is probably a gross simplication because we don't fully know everything physiologically about the brain.
Either case, the point of the Do Not Call list is to reduce phone solicitation and it has for me -- dramatically. I can't remember being been bothered by any telemarketers, for-profit or non-profit, for the past month and a half. I normally get 2-3 (probably much more than that) per week prior to signing up with the Do Not Call registry. I can only hope for the rest of the country that the national list will work as well as the New York.
I'll have to agree with you and say that the NY Do Not Call Registry works really well (although it is still legal for charity organizations to call you which is fine by me). There's also a national Do Not Call list in the works and it will face stiff opposition from the DMA.
r ke ting.list.idg/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/24/telema
Is this chip based on the Cyrix processor core? If so, did they improved the Floating Point Unit? Remember Cyrix's Pentium-socket compatible chips had terrible FPUs, typically less than 1/2 their P-rating. I know most of you will say why would I care about FPU performance on a portable system, but I'd like to be able to Counter-Strike on my laptop occasionally.
From Linksys's page (http://www.linksys.com/edu/part6.asp):
"Q. Will there be problems if I turn on or plug in devices like a power drill or hair dryer?
A. No. If the powerline characteristics change during a session, the Instant PowerLine products will sense the change and automatically adapt to provide the most reliable data path connection."
Will this "automatic adaption" interrupt data transmission? How would this affect latency?
Imagine people complaining about getting fragged by a hair dryer.
THE SPIRITS WITHIN
h tm
As of 8/9/01
Gross-to-Date: $31,711,932
Production Budget: $115 million
Source:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/data/finalfantasy.
You quote:
:)
"There are three kinds of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics".
Yet you used stats when you say:
psychologists are taught is 95% pseudoscience
You said:
Also having "more references" doesn't mean much - if the stuff people are referencing is crap
Yet you reference to the psychologists you've gone out with which is probably not the most unbias reference.
Now that I've lowered your high testosterone mechanical engineer mind a bit, I will present my argument.
If we only studied the brain based on real-time monitoring of EVERY SINGLE individual neuron of the brain, we wouldn't get anywhere. It's akin to studying how your favorite OS works by monitoring every transistor in your computer. Psychology is like reverse-enginering the brain. You draw inferences how it works by poking at it for responses. Direct observation will help support theories but they won't replace the current techniques of getting behavioral responses. Is it neccessary to directly see each individual electron (I know, Heisenberg, blah blah) to understand how an organic chemistry reaction go?
Each science has their own framework to understanding something. Physics is grounded heavily in math. Biology is not, nor is Psychology although I suspect computational models (neural nets) will be used more as processors get faster. As you go future into the miniscule scale of any science, observations become more and more indirect. We don't see subatomic particles directly but we can infer them from the way they bounce around.
The problem is not with Psychology but with the intepretation of Psychological research by media and folks like yourself. If you read any well-written research journal paper, you'll know what I'm talking about. Most Psychology choose their words carefully and make conservative intepretation of the data in their papers because of blunders of wild interpretations made by early Psychologists such as John Watson. The media has a tendency of distorting Psychological findings (as with any science) to make it interesting or understandable.
I'm not sure what school you went to but the Psychology research methods and stats (2 courses)at my school are carefully taught. In the upper level Psychology classes, we are trained to critique and recognize biases in scientific journal. In fact, I have trouble reading even NYTimes articles without the urge to tear it up.
As a student of Psychology and Biology, you are making a gross generalization when you suggest Psychology is not a science. Psychology is a broad field. What people have to know is that Psychology != Emotions. Cognitive Psychology for example rarely deals with "feelings" at all (which is actually a fallacy of the field if you think about it because emotions affect how you process information). Like any science, Psychology has also an early history of poor science. (Look up Aristotle & Anatomy or Da Vinci & Flight.) Unfortunately, when people think of Psychology, people narrowly think of Sigmund Freud, sexual repression, etc. Freud WAS NOT a Psychologist. None of his work at the time under went testing. He made his claims and people took it for truth just because it made sense to some people. If you argued with him about the Oedipus complex, he would use circular logic and say "you just have unresolve issues with your mother. That's why you can't accept my claims." Most of Freud's claims has been refuted. His work is rarely mentioned past Intro Psychology courses.
Know what you are talking about especially if you are going to criticize a particular field of science. If you are going to make generalizations, back them up with specific examples. Know your sources of a work that you are reading, if possible, read the original.
You are absolutely right when you say you notice a difference between 80 ms and 25 ms lag. From the human visual system perspective, 80 ms is a LONG time. Ask any psychologist and they'll tell you that many low level perceptual processes occurs under 20 ms.
Here's an indirect piece of evidence: Do you notice the difference between a motion video clip played at 15 frames/sec versus 30 frames/sec? At 15 frames/sec, one frame is displayed every ~67 ms. At 30 frames/sec, one frame is displayed every ~33 ms. The fact that most people are able to see a big difference between 15 and 30 fps suggests that most people will also notice a difference between playing a first person shooter with 30 ms lag vs 80 ms lag.
I would say when you have at least get below 15 ms to not notice any difference.
Maybe finally he'll stop the defacing of whitehouse.com with pornographic images.
If computer crimes are acts of terrorism, then only terrorists would commit computer crimes. ;)
Seriously though, we know that all laws and legislations in the world will not deter terrorists. As bad as it might seem, crackers serve as the invisible hand that pushes the closed-source industry towards more secured software. If there were zero-tolerance laws against crackers and script kiddies, we might get less of them. Less crackers means the closed-source industry will not be compelled to fix their holes as often, if at all. This will leave more insecure software floating around.
Terrorists want to destroy economies and kill innocent lives. As bad as crackers and script kiddies may be, they do not have the same destructive mentality as terrorists. Damage from a terrorist exposing a major security hole will be far greater than that of a script kiddy. I rather have a script kiddies force companies to patch their stuff than terrorists.
It's possible to use solar power/wind power to generate electricity to produce hydrogen. However, I think most hydrogen produced today ultimately comes from burning fossil fuel. Since you can never achieve 100% efficiency converting fossil fuel to hydrogen, you might as well as to burn jet fuel directly.
Most of us live in a society where we vote our representatives. These representatives make policies. For these type of society to work, we must understand what the heck are our representatives doing, that is, understand the policies they are passing. Take fiscal policies. We all like tax cuts but how many of us know cases where tax cuts are bad for the economy? An intro course in macroeconomics gives you good idea, along with what happens when certain policies are imposed during certain economic conditions.
College should prepare us for the world. Aside from our careers, that world also includes being a knowledgeable voter and getting a well-rounded education is the only way to that.
The argument above does not apply to communism.
Anybody knows if Itanium or that 64-bit AMD processor will have better support for CPU virtualization?
If you are really serious about learning Linux, try to creating bootdisk from scratch after you are comfortable with whatever distro. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO /index.html
Personally, my favorite distro is Debian because of its package managing system. What's better than 'apt-get upgrade-distro' to upgrade your distribution?