global warming (sorry GOP, I will not use the term you invented "climate change")
Climate change is actually a better term for the public, and it is still correct. When you thing global warming, people think, OK, less jackets in winter, more AC in summer, what's the big deal? It is, in fact, a compelling idea when it is cold outside. How many time did I hear variants of "wow, it's freezing, is that global warming?", or even "where is global warming when we need it". Global warming really sounds like a good thing. Climate change, which includes warming but not just that, gives a better idea of what is expected to happen. In fact, the term "climate change" is to be used against deniers, not by deniers.
...is not worth going to the theater. I may rent it later but it isn't going to get $30-$40 from me.
What kind of theater are you going to? I don't live in the US but $10 seems like an already expensive ticket. Note that I don't eat popcorn and I don't drink in theaters, but even with that, that's a lot of money for a movie.
In the past the earth had much higher CO2 values, and more plant life.
But no humans. Nature can handle CO2 just fine, it is just that we want to keep our coastal cities above water and our current crops productive. Maybe, in a few thousand years, new plant life will thrive from the increased CO2 levels but we still need to eat during the transition.
There is the biggest equation I've ever seen, followed by "However, a much simpler expression for the same integral can be found in [25] (Eq. 2BN) and in [26] (Eq. 4.1)." The two references are to unlinked (and probably paywalled) papers...
Here : https://developer.apple.com/do... I see a button for Chinese, Japanese, Korean. The rest is in English. There is nothing in French. So how am I supposed to know what your system does if I can't read English Mr. Cook? Maybe I should learn Chinese?
Languages other than English are always second class in computing. You can't code effectively without at least some basic English skills. Though if the point is to teach code as a support for logical reasoning, then why not, but in that case, it is much closer to maths than it is to any natural language.
Both accounts probably use the same IP. There are probably many common points between the two accounts : same face, same age group, same general location, etc... Facebook also tracks users on other websites using things like the "like" button. If she doesn't log out it is possible that Facebook sees similar browsing patterns. It is also possible that she made a mistake and used one account when she should have used the other.
What I see is another issue with stations. Let's say a fast charge takes about 1h, compared to less than 5 minutes at the gas station. It is about 12 times slower. If you take the highway during the busiest times, gas stations can be quite crowded. To get the same capacity with electric cars, you would need 12 times more supercharchers than there are gas pumps. I mentioned highways because they typically mean long trips and not a commute where you can charge at home... if you can charge at home. If you live in an apartment complex, you basically need a charger on every parking spot. It doesn't have to be super but that's still a lot to build.
The Rift isn't a walled garden. Most Steam games are compatible, you can freely develop on it, run free software, use WebVR, etc... You also don't need a Facebook account. The store itself is not open but you don't need to use it. In fact, with everything else being equal, it is recommended to buy your games on Steam, this way, if you get another compatible headset (like the Vive), you can still play your game. As for playing our current games in VR, it is not that simple. VR require a specific control scheme in order to be enjoyable. For example, camera movement that doesn't match player movement can make people sick. For that reason, teleportation-based movement is often preferred, and gameplay has to be adjusted for it.
[citation needed] Anyways, from what I've seen, the Oculus Go has 3-DOF tracking, which is terrible. Santa Cruz should have proper inside-out 6-DOF tracking, but it is still a prototype.
The Vive "deluxe audio strap" came out on June 6 2017, 4 months ago. GP mentions "nearly a year", he probably got the Rift well before the Vive option was even announced.
Where are the solar roofs? I mean a complete working installation on a regular customer roof. Right now, solar roofs are still vapor, though I am relatively confident it will turn into a real product. After all, solar shingles are not breakthrough technology. I am not sure about the economies of it though.
Tesla cars and Falcon launchers are very real. Hyperloop and Mars missions... not so much. Musk is not all hot air, but there is still a lot of it between the real products. He is a smart guy, he knows how to balance vaporware with solid investment for fun and profit.
Not all Intel CPUs have hyperthreading. Usually, i5 don't and i7 do. That is often the main difference between these two product lines. Lower end CPUs usually have it to make up for less physical cores.
Google says that paywalled news sites won't get downranked. It may be true in the sense that there won't be an explicit penalty. However, a common reaction after hitting a paywall is to go back to the search page and find something else. Normally, in that situation, googles downranks the offending site, considering that it didn't match the user's needs.
A smartphone is as crucial as, say, a car or a washing machine. Though it depends on the situation. Internet access is becoming essential. At least in some countries, they are talks about making it a basic right, like electricity and clean water, and making some official procedures internet-only. And for some people, especially the poorest, a smartphone may be their only way to access it. Considering you are posting on Slashdot, you probably own a computer and a home internet access, and maybe the same thing at work. And your activity most likely doesn't require you to be online at all times. In other words, you have the privilege of not needing a smartphone. It is the same as a city dweller saying that a car is not crucial. He is most likely right. In fact, in some cities, owning a car is actually undesirable. But that's forgetting that if you live in the suburbs, not having a car is inconvenient, and it is basically impossible if you live in the countryside.
It is actually a mix of both. SMTP is push-based but POP/IMAP are pull-based. A purely push-based or pull-based system would require 24/7 connectivity for all clients (for receiving and emitting respectively). Making the internal connectivity pull-based would just make things slower. Mail is push-based by nature, sending mail is the active part, receiving it is passive. With real-life post offices, the sender is the one who do all the procedures and pays for the stamp, the receiver just needs to check his mailbox. Compare to buying a newspaper, where the customers is the receiver and the sender simply makes it available.
If a private company blocks some kind of content, it is totally within their rights. They own the platform and using it is a privilege, not a right. They are only required to follow their own contracts. If you are unhappy with that, find another platform, or create your own.
When a government decides to force companies to remove content, that's real censorship. A completely different matter.
AFAIK, the USA have much stronger freedom of speech laws than the EU. And Google and Facebook usually block content on their own, probably because being associated with hate speech is bad for business.
I don't need anybody to sell me anything. I come to the store to buy a thing that I like. All I need is someone to give it to me and take my money. I actually find people giving me advices rather annoying since I usually spend days researching about the thing I want to buy.
You are the exception rather than the rule. And the reason you are doing this research is probably because you don't trust salesmen. Wouldn't it be better if you actually had a competent guy, pointing you directly to the right product, saving you all that time? And while I am also the kind of guy who spend days researching before buying, sometimes, it is easy to get lost in details. A competent seller advice can bring you back to earth. It happened to me several times.
Except you don't really have a choice. Web developers put tons crap with their webpages that make it impossible to use them with a Netscape 3 era browser. Browsers used to be document viewers, but now, they are essentially OSes.
Mein Kampf is banned in many countries. The way it was implemented is a bit uncommon because it uses the copyright law : Hitler's property was seized by the government of Bavaria, including Mein Kampf copyright, and it was used to block the sales.
I really think that no list of banned books should be without it. Because it shows that censorship is not just about LGBT stuff, it is also about what "progressives" find despicable. And if you really are against censorship, you should also fight for Mein Kampf to be available. It also shows that copyright abuse is a form of censorship.
In other words, shipping containers with people inside. With such a system, it is likely that many people for which "pods" would be their only home. In fact we are already building housing out of shipping containers.
Now, interestingly, your solution tends to be the opposite of the path we are following. Your idea is one about comfortable slow travel, which remind me of the magnificent Titanic, Orient Express and Hindenburg. Now, the idea is to pack as many people as possible and move them as fast as possible. Even first class on the best airline is nowhere near what you get on a cruise ship in terms of comfort.
Both search results and advertising work the same : try to find the most relevant site for you. The fundamental difference is than one is paid and the other is not. And in both cases short term data retention definitely helps. Long term may give a marginal improvement. One area where long term may help is with periodic tasks. For example if you are doing your taxes, remember what you did the year before may be helpful for both you (ex: you found a great site listing deductibles) and advertisers (ex: you considered hiring an accountant).
It is an unfair comparison : 1 exaFLOP is what is required to run what is essentially an emulator for a very different platform. But just as you don't port Super Mario by simulating every transistor in the NES hardware, the way of running the "human intelligence" program on a computer is unlikely to involve simulating every single synapse. It probably won't help much anyways because we still need to extract it from a human brain, a process that is still in the realm of science fiction.
If one day we manage to achieve human-level strong AI, it probably will be by simulating higher functions rather than the staying at neuron level.
Now for a comparison between a brain and a computer chip. A Snapdragon 835 has 3 billion transistors and run at 2GHz for 5W. That makes for 10 quadrillion current switches per second. That's exa-scale. I know it is stupid but so is estimating brainpower is FLOPS.
We have chips with billions of transistors clocked at several GHz and that consume less than 10W, so I'd say that on the hardware side we are on the same level with our current technology. The trick is in the software. Imagine a team of the worst programmers in the world, working on a project for a billion years by patching things randomly until it works, that's how the code in the human brain is written. It also weights at least a few GB and you don't have the source code. Try to understand that. Also https://xkcd.com/1605/
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global warming (sorry GOP, I will not use the term you invented "climate change")
Climate change is actually a better term for the public, and it is still correct.
When you thing global warming, people think, OK, less jackets in winter, more AC in summer, what's the big deal? It is, in fact, a compelling idea when it is cold outside. How many time did I hear variants of "wow, it's freezing, is that global warming?", or even "where is global warming when we need it". Global warming really sounds like a good thing.
Climate change, which includes warming but not just that, gives a better idea of what is expected to happen. In fact, the term "climate change" is to be used against deniers, not by deniers.
...is not worth going to the theater. I may rent it later but it isn't going to get $30-$40 from me.
What kind of theater are you going to? I don't live in the US but $10 seems like an already expensive ticket. Note that I don't eat popcorn and I don't drink in theaters, but even with that, that's a lot of money for a movie.
In the past the earth had much higher CO2 values, and more plant life.
But no humans.
Nature can handle CO2 just fine, it is just that we want to keep our coastal cities above water and our current crops productive. Maybe, in a few thousand years, new plant life will thrive from the increased CO2 levels but we still need to eat during the transition.
Just look at the end of the Wikipedia article for Bremsstrahlung : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is the biggest equation I've ever seen, followed by "However, a much simpler expression for the same integral can be found in [25] (Eq. 2BN) and in [26] (Eq. 4.1)." The two references are to unlinked (and probably paywalled) papers...
Here : https://developer.apple.com/do...
I see a button for Chinese, Japanese, Korean. The rest is in English. There is nothing in French.
So how am I supposed to know what your system does if I can't read English Mr. Cook? Maybe I should learn Chinese?
Languages other than English are always second class in computing. You can't code effectively without at least some basic English skills. Though if the point is to teach code as a support for logical reasoning, then why not, but in that case, it is much closer to maths than it is to any natural language.
Both accounts probably use the same IP.
There are probably many common points between the two accounts : same face, same age group, same general location, etc...
Facebook also tracks users on other websites using things like the "like" button. If she doesn't log out it is possible that Facebook sees similar browsing patterns.
It is also possible that she made a mistake and used one account when she should have used the other.
What I see is another issue with stations.
Let's say a fast charge takes about 1h, compared to less than 5 minutes at the gas station. It is about 12 times slower.
If you take the highway during the busiest times, gas stations can be quite crowded. To get the same capacity with electric cars, you would need 12 times more supercharchers than there are gas pumps. I mentioned highways because they typically mean long trips and not a commute where you can charge at home... if you can charge at home. If you live in an apartment complex, you basically need a charger on every parking spot. It doesn't have to be super but that's still a lot to build.
The Rift isn't a walled garden. Most Steam games are compatible, you can freely develop on it, run free software, use WebVR, etc... You also don't need a Facebook account.
The store itself is not open but you don't need to use it. In fact, with everything else being equal, it is recommended to buy your games on Steam, this way, if you get another compatible headset (like the Vive), you can still play your game.
As for playing our current games in VR, it is not that simple. VR require a specific control scheme in order to be enjoyable. For example, camera movement that doesn't match player movement can make people sick. For that reason, teleportation-based movement is often preferred, and gameplay has to be adjusted for it.
[citation needed]
Anyways, from what I've seen, the Oculus Go has 3-DOF tracking, which is terrible.
Santa Cruz should have proper inside-out 6-DOF tracking, but it is still a prototype.
The Vive "deluxe audio strap" came out on June 6 2017, 4 months ago. GP mentions "nearly a year", he probably got the Rift well before the Vive option was even announced.
Where are the solar roofs? I mean a complete working installation on a regular customer roof. Right now, solar roofs are still vapor, though I am relatively confident it will turn into a real product. After all, solar shingles are not breakthrough technology. I am not sure about the economies of it though.
Tesla cars and Falcon launchers are very real. Hyperloop and Mars missions... not so much. Musk is not all hot air, but there is still a lot of it between the real products. He is a smart guy, he knows how to balance vaporware with solid investment for fun and profit.
Not all Intel CPUs have hyperthreading.
Usually, i5 don't and i7 do. That is often the main difference between these two product lines.
Lower end CPUs usually have it to make up for less physical cores.
Google says that paywalled news sites won't get downranked. It may be true in the sense that there won't be an explicit penalty.
However, a common reaction after hitting a paywall is to go back to the search page and find something else. Normally, in that situation, googles downranks the offending site, considering that it didn't match the user's needs.
A smartphone is as crucial as, say, a car or a washing machine. Though it depends on the situation.
Internet access is becoming essential. At least in some countries, they are talks about making it a basic right, like electricity and clean water, and making some official procedures internet-only. And for some people, especially the poorest, a smartphone may be their only way to access it.
Considering you are posting on Slashdot, you probably own a computer and a home internet access, and maybe the same thing at work. And your activity most likely doesn't require you to be online at all times. In other words, you have the privilege of not needing a smartphone.
It is the same as a city dweller saying that a car is not crucial. He is most likely right. In fact, in some cities, owning a car is actually undesirable. But that's forgetting that if you live in the suburbs, not having a car is inconvenient, and it is basically impossible if you live in the countryside.
It is actually a mix of both. SMTP is push-based but POP/IMAP are pull-based. A purely push-based or pull-based system would require 24/7 connectivity for all clients (for receiving and emitting respectively).
Making the internal connectivity pull-based would just make things slower. Mail is push-based by nature, sending mail is the active part, receiving it is passive. With real-life post offices, the sender is the one who do all the procedures and pays for the stamp, the receiver just needs to check his mailbox. Compare to buying a newspaper, where the customers is the receiver and the sender simply makes it available.
If a private company blocks some kind of content, it is totally within their rights. They own the platform and using it is a privilege, not a right. They are only required to follow their own contracts. If you are unhappy with that, find another platform, or create your own.
When a government decides to force companies to remove content, that's real censorship. A completely different matter.
AFAIK, the USA have much stronger freedom of speech laws than the EU. And Google and Facebook usually block content on their own, probably because being associated with hate speech is bad for business.
I don't need anybody to sell me anything. I come to the store to buy a thing that I like. All I need is someone to give it to me and take my money. I actually find people giving me advices rather annoying since I usually spend days researching about the thing I want to buy.
You are the exception rather than the rule.
And the reason you are doing this research is probably because you don't trust salesmen. Wouldn't it be better if you actually had a competent guy, pointing you directly to the right product, saving you all that time?
And while I am also the kind of guy who spend days researching before buying, sometimes, it is easy to get lost in details. A competent seller advice can bring you back to earth. It happened to me several times.
Except you don't really have a choice. Web developers put tons crap with their webpages that make it impossible to use them with a Netscape 3 era browser.
Browsers used to be document viewers, but now, they are essentially OSes.
Mein Kampf is banned in many countries.
The way it was implemented is a bit uncommon because it uses the copyright law : Hitler's property was seized by the government of Bavaria, including Mein Kampf copyright, and it was used to block the sales.
I really think that no list of banned books should be without it. Because it shows that censorship is not just about LGBT stuff, it is also about what "progressives" find despicable. And if you really are against censorship, you should also fight for Mein Kampf to be available.
It also shows that copyright abuse is a form of censorship.
It is fun when you look at items like precision scales to see all the drug-related stuff being suggested. Usually that's for cannabis, but not only.
In other words, shipping containers with people inside.
With such a system, it is likely that many people for which "pods" would be their only home. In fact we are already building housing out of shipping containers.
Now, interestingly, your solution tends to be the opposite of the path we are following. Your idea is one about comfortable slow travel, which remind me of the magnificent Titanic, Orient Express and Hindenburg. Now, the idea is to pack as many people as possible and move them as fast as possible. Even first class on the best airline is nowhere near what you get on a cruise ship in terms of comfort.
If you are influencing time significantly, it means you are driving too fast. Way too fast.
Both search results and advertising work the same : try to find the most relevant site for you. The fundamental difference is than one is paid and the other is not.
And in both cases short term data retention definitely helps. Long term may give a marginal improvement. One area where long term may help is with periodic tasks. For example if you are doing your taxes, remember what you did the year before may be helpful for both you (ex: you found a great site listing deductibles) and advertisers (ex: you considered hiring an accountant).
It is an unfair comparison : 1 exaFLOP is what is required to run what is essentially an emulator for a very different platform. But just as you don't port Super Mario by simulating every transistor in the NES hardware, the way of running the "human intelligence" program on a computer is unlikely to involve simulating every single synapse. It probably won't help much anyways because we still need to extract it from a human brain, a process that is still in the realm of science fiction.
If one day we manage to achieve human-level strong AI, it probably will be by simulating higher functions rather than the staying at neuron level.
Now for a comparison between a brain and a computer chip. A Snapdragon 835 has 3 billion transistors and run at 2GHz for 5W. That makes for 10 quadrillion current switches per second. That's exa-scale. I know it is stupid but so is estimating brainpower is FLOPS.
We have chips with billions of transistors clocked at several GHz and that consume less than 10W, so I'd say that on the hardware side we are on the same level with our current technology.
The trick is in the software. Imagine a team of the worst programmers in the world, working on a project for a billion years by patching things randomly until it works, that's how the code in the human brain is written. It also weights at least a few GB and you don't have the source code. Try to understand that. Also https://xkcd.com/1605/