Gore seems to come dangerously close to asserting that he essentially came up with Moore's Law before Gordon Moore.
What Gore said was, "By the time I got to Congress in '76, I began holding these hearings about the future. What I realized then was that the phenomenon later to be known as Moore's Law [the prediction that transistor capacity would double every 18 months] was causing a logarithmic inrease in processing power, and yet the throughput capacity was hardly changing at all."
Here is a paper which addresses the history of Moore's Law, and it clearly says that, though he first made the observation in 1965, the current manifestation of what "shortly thereafter, someone (not Moore) dubbed this curve", was delivered in a paper at the 1975 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting. I don't know when this unknown third party dubbed Moore's Law "Moore's Law", but it's not a stretch to imagine that it happened somewhat later than Gore's 1976 Senate hearings. Gore is not saying that he observed the phenomenon before Moore did, he is just saying that at the time he did observe the phenomenon (by way of listening to tech-industry testimony at these hearings, I assume), it was not known as Moore's Law yet.
In my opinion, this does not by any stretch qualify as a Gore exaggeration.
no, i don't think word can upload data. the way the tracking works is to monitor requests for download by reading the web server logs.
a word macro virus could infect all your existing word files so that they would all have web bugs. this would allow the virus writer to presumably know when anyone read your files, but the usefulness of that ability escapes me.
Well, the problem is not the potential distraction of talking or listening, well illustrated by our racecar driver example, as well as people listening to the radio or even talking with other passengers while driving. The big problem is an interactive source of distraction which isn't sensitive the the context of driving. The radio isn't sensitive to driving stimuli, but you don't need to respond to it. The conversational passenger does require responses, but if the passenger notices that the traffic is getting a little difficult, they'll usually shut up so you can concentrate on driving. The person at the other end of a cell phone doesn't know whether you're alone on a sleepy suburban road or trying to execute a tricky high speed merge on the freeway, and they don't know when to not distract you. That's why it's more dangerous...
zdnet has removed the story which was originally posted and repl aced it with an ammended version with no mention of open source. though it would have been more responsible to make mention of the previous mistake and make a retraction, this seems to be the next best thing. good going!
first of all, it's "syzygy", not "syzgy". and second of all, the situation won't be a syzygy, think about it: there are only two ways for the earth, sun, and moon to be in a straight line:
sun, moon, earth - this is a solar eclipse. sun, earth, moon - this is a new moon, not a full one (on the moon side of the earth).
and the collies (think lassie) were highly regarded for their long, narrow snout. 'course, when they kept breeding collies with longer and narrower snouts with each other they were inadvertantly breeding dogs with less and less room in their skulls for their brains and eyes. so collies age poorly: they're dumb, and their eyesight deteriorates quickly, so after a few years they just snap viciously at blurry and threatening things that walk near them. sad...
their cultural and economic hegemony has allowed finland to advance technologically at a rate which silicon valley, working under the constraints of the US's social problems, simply cannot sustain. (not that i'm unhappy living where i do, i feel that accepting the challenges of american life can enrich, and waiting 3 months for the latest gizmo is a small price to pay for diversity and tolerance.) further reading: Finland and the Future of Europe The Rise and Fall of the "Swedish Model"
actually, i believe the clean-shaven look was mandated by Alexander the Great for his armies. it gave them an advantage in one-on-one sword combat with the unshaven soldiers whom they were fighting. (imagine how compromised you are when your opponent grabs your 2 feet of facial hair and swings you around by it. *ouch*)
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I think that's probably the patent for his stair-climbing wheelchair.
Gore seems to come dangerously close to asserting that he essentially came up with Moore's Law before Gordon Moore.
What Gore said was, "By the time I got to Congress in '76, I began holding these hearings about the future. What I realized then was that the phenomenon later to be known as Moore's Law [the prediction that transistor capacity would double every 18 months] was causing a logarithmic inrease in processing power, and yet the throughput capacity was hardly changing at all."
Here is a paper which addresses the history of Moore's Law, and it clearly says that, though he first made the observation in 1965, the current manifestation of what "shortly thereafter, someone (not Moore) dubbed this curve", was delivered in a paper at the 1975 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting. I don't know when this unknown third party dubbed Moore's Law "Moore's Law", but it's not a stretch to imagine that it happened somewhat later than Gore's 1976 Senate hearings. Gore is not saying that he observed the phenomenon before Moore did, he is just saying that at the time he did observe the phenomenon (by way of listening to tech-industry testimony at these hearings, I assume), it was not known as Moore's Law yet.
In my opinion, this does not by any stretch qualify as a Gore exaggeration.
no, i don't think word can upload data. the way the tracking works is to monitor requests for download by reading the web server logs.
a word macro virus could infect all your existing word files so that they would all have web bugs. this would allow the virus writer to presumably know when anyone read your files, but the usefulness of that ability escapes me.
why the slashdot article itself seems to have been pulled from the front page of slashdot?
Well, the problem is not the potential distraction of talking or listening, well illustrated by our racecar driver example, as well as people listening to the radio or even talking with other passengers while driving. The big problem is an interactive source of distraction which isn't sensitive the the context of driving. The radio isn't sensitive to driving stimuli, but you don't need to respond to it. The conversational passenger does require responses, but if the passenger notices that the traffic is getting a little difficult, they'll usually shut up so you can concentrate on driving. The person at the other end of a cell phone doesn't know whether you're alone on a sleepy suburban road or trying to execute a tricky high speed merge on the freeway, and they don't know when to not distract you. That's why it's more dangerous...
zdnet has removed the story which was originally posted and repl aced it with an ammended version with no mention of open source. though it would have been more responsible to make mention of the previous mistake and make a retraction, this seems to be the next best thing. good going!
first of all, it's "syzygy", not "syzgy". and second of all, the situation won't be a syzygy, think about it: there are only two ways for the earth, sun, and moon to be in a straight line:
sun, moon, earth - this is a solar eclipse.
sun, earth, moon - this is a new moon, not a full one (on the moon side of the earth).
and the collies (think lassie) were highly regarded for their long, narrow snout. 'course, when they kept breeding collies with longer and narrower snouts with each other they were inadvertantly breeding dogs with less and less room in their skulls for their brains and eyes. so collies age poorly: they're dumb, and their eyesight deteriorates quickly, so after a few years they just snap viciously at blurry and threatening things that walk near them.
sad...
their cultural and economic hegemony has allowed finland to advance technologically at a rate which silicon valley, working under the constraints of the US's social problems, simply cannot sustain. (not that i'm unhappy living where i do, i feel that accepting the challenges of american life can enrich, and waiting 3 months for the latest gizmo is a small price to pay for diversity and tolerance.)
further reading:
Finland and the Future of Europe
The Rise and Fall of the "Swedish Model"
actually, i believe the clean-shaven look was mandated by Alexander the Great for his armies. it gave them an advantage in one-on-one sword combat with the unshaven soldiers whom they were fighting. (imagine how compromised you are when your opponent grabs your 2 feet of facial hair and swings you around by it. *ouch*)
i keep a beard just cuz i hate shaving so much.