Venezuela and Brazil are Ecuador's allies and they would certainly take Ecuador's side. Venezuela and Brazil are not exactly banana republics the last I checked.
You must be a US agent. The Ecuadorean embassy is not interfering with the legal system of the UK. They have the right under international law to determine whether or not someone who takes refuge on their sovereign soil (yes, the embassy is their soil) is a criminal or is running away from political persecution. Only a fool or a liar would deny that Assange is a political refugee.
-What will Google's car do if it gets a flat tire on the road? -What will it do in case of an accident? -Can it back itself into the garage? -Can it parallel park? -Can it park itself at a commercial parking lot or structure? -Can it go through alleys? -Can it go where there are no roads? -Does it have to have a human on board? -Can I call it on my cell phone and tell it to pick me up at the airport? -Can vision-impaired grandma take it for a visit the doctor? -Can the kids use it to go to school?
Most social comment-driven sites that employ a user-activated reward and punishment system eventually degenerate into boring, politically correct bully pulpits where the choir preaches only to the choir while everybody with a brain bails out. The writing is on the wall. Can you Digg it, Slashdot?
Some believe that everything that ails computing, from the software unreliability and low productivity crisis to the current parallel programming crisis, can be blamed on the computer industry's strange infatuation with Turing. When you have some time, ask yourself what Turing has done for parallel programming or software unreliability. Heck, Charles Babbage's analytical engine was a Turing Machine a century before Turing. Go figure.
Updates do not solve the zero-day exploit problem. Zero-day exploits are always threatening to happen because there is no way to guarantee 100% bug-free software. At least not within the current paradigm. Maybe there is a need for a shift. Maybe the Turing Computing Model (TCM) is reaching the end of its usefulness. Maybe the security problem and the parallel programming crisis are signs of its imminent and unstoppable demise. Maybe this marks the end of the Turing Madness.
The problem with the TCM is that it is inherently sequential and timing, the most important thing in computing, is not an inherent part of the model. That is to say, the TCM is not as universal as most believe. A truly universal computing model, one that is inherently parallel, reactive and temporally deterministic can conceivably permit 100% bug-free software.
As a matter of fact, I, too, am a boomer. I am just realistic enough to recognize that my generation shot computing in the foot, big time. Although this is becoming painfully apparent as we enter the age of massive parallelism, a particularly costly consequence of our Turing-worshiping madness has been around from the beginning. It's called the software reliability and productivity crisis.
Well, how about you make it constructive rather than just stating that you hate something along with cynicism towards the community your are trying to reach.
Been there, done that. It doesn't work. I get much better results by being antagonistic and irreverent.
What is your alternative to the Turing Machine that will work with existing Von Neuman architecture and bypasses the "Parallel Programming Crisis"?
It's called COSA and it's inherently parallel and reactive. Current processors would have to be redesigned to handle COSA at the instruction level. Sorry. The baby boomers got you into this mess in the second half of the last century. Problem is, they are still in charge. Maybe it's time for them to gracefully retire and let a new generation have a turn at the wheel.
The Turing computing model has two major flaws: in addition to being inherently sequential, timing is not an inherent part of the model. IOW, there is no way to predict whether two operations are sequential or concurrent. The computer industry is facing a major problem known as the parallel programming crisis. Guess what? The Turing computing model is not the solution. In fact, it is the problem.
But who am I kidding? Turing is worshiped as a God in the computer science community. The industry will not learn its lesson until it hits them where it hurts the most, their pockets. Nobody messes with Moore's law and writes home to brag about it. Just saying.
Yep, the Analytical Engine was a Turing Machine long before Turing showed up. Babbage deserves more credit as the father of computing than Turing does, in my opinion. Just saying.
But then again, so is rocket technology. Pushing stuff out the back (propellant or elevator cable) in order to move forward is lame. We need something better, much better. We are certainly not going to colonize the solar system, let alone the stars and galaxies beyond, with a bunch of cockamamie rockets or space elevators that will never be built. But there is no need to despair. We are on the verge of a breakthrough in physics that will make every current approach to energy production and transportation obsolete.
There is clear evidence that we are swimming in an ocean of clean energy, lots and lots of it. This is a consequence of a reevaluation of our understanding of the causality of motion. It turns out that Aristotle was right to insist that motion is causal. As a result, we are immersed in an immense lattice of energetic particles without which nothing could move. Soon, we'll learn how to exploit the lattice for propulsion and energy production. We'll have vehicles that will move at tremendous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring any damage due to inertial effects. Space elevator? Bleh. Floating sky cities, unlimited clean energy, New York to Beijing in minutes, earth to Mars in hours... That's the future of energy and travel. And it will happen in your lifetime. Click on the link below if you're interested in this new exciting science of motion. You don't understand motion, even if you think you do.
Worse, Gleick was, as of yesterday, the Chair of the Task Force on Scientific Ethics at the American Geophysical Union. This is ugly, very UGLY. The climate alarmists don't have a leg to stand on. They themselves should prosecute Gleick for fucking things up for their cause.
D-Wave is selling snake oil. Their so-called quantum computer is pure hogwash. The main reason that quantum computing is nonsense is that it is based on the pseudo-scientific concept of quantum state superposition. The problem is, superposition is not observable by definition. It is just a silly interpretation of QM. Superposition is nonsense on the face of it since any child can tell you that nothing can be its own opposite. Physicists do not understand why quantum interactions are probabilistic and yet they feel knowledgeable enough to conjure up all sorts of cockamamie Star-Trek physics that make no sense.
The actual reason that quantum interactions are probabilistic is that there is no such thing as a time dimension. Therefore, nature cannot calculate the exact timing of interactions and is forced to use probability. Conservation laws are momentarily violated but are obeyed in the long run. Why is there no time dimension? Because a time dimension makes motion impossible. Surprise! This is the reason that time travel is crackpottery and that Sir Karl Popper compared Einstein to Parmenides and called spacetime, "Einstein's block universe in which nothing happens". From Science: Conjectures and Refutations. Don't take my word for it.
Slashdot Mirror
Venezuela and Brazil are Ecuador's allies and they would certainly take Ecuador's side. Venezuela and Brazil are not exactly banana republics the last I checked.
You must be a US agent. The Ecuadorean embassy is not interfering with the legal system of the UK. They have the right under international law to determine whether or not someone who takes refuge on their sovereign soil (yes, the embassy is their soil) is a criminal or is running away from political persecution. Only a fool or a liar would deny that Assange is a political refugee.
Give or take a million.
Why, the life of a Mars Rover engineer is always intense.
-What will Google's car do if it gets a flat tire on the road?
-What will it do in case of an accident?
-Can it back itself into the garage?
-Can it parallel park?
-Can it park itself at a commercial parking lot or structure?
-Can it go through alleys?
-Can it go where there are no roads?
-Does it have to have a human on board?
-Can I call it on my cell phone and tell it to pick me up at the airport?
-Can vision-impaired grandma take it for a visit the doctor?
-Can the kids use it to go to school?
There are more but you get the picture.
1.5 miles to work? What don't you use a bicycle?
Most social comment-driven sites that employ a user-activated reward and punishment system eventually degenerate into boring, politically correct bully pulpits where the choir preaches only to the choir while everybody with a brain bails out. The writing is on the wall. Can you Digg it, Slashdot?
I'm sure his DNA can be recovered from the grave and used later for cloning. Tissue in the teeth can last a long time.
Some believe that everything that ails computing, from the software unreliability and low productivity crisis to the current parallel programming crisis, can be blamed on the computer industry's strange infatuation with Turing. When you have some time, ask yourself what Turing has done for parallel programming or software unreliability. Heck, Charles Babbage's analytical engine was a Turing Machine a century before Turing. Go figure.
Parallel Computing: The End of the Turing Madness
And I was told that only atheists are allowed to be scientists. Fooled again.
Updates do not solve the zero-day exploit problem. Zero-day exploits are always threatening to happen because there is no way to guarantee 100% bug-free software. At least not within the current paradigm. Maybe there is a need for a shift. Maybe the Turing Computing Model (TCM) is reaching the end of its usefulness. Maybe the security problem and the parallel programming crisis are signs of its imminent and unstoppable demise. Maybe this marks the end of the Turing Madness.
The problem with the TCM is that it is inherently sequential and timing, the most important thing in computing, is not an inherent part of the model. That is to say, the TCM is not as universal as most believe. A truly universal computing model, one that is inherently parallel, reactive and temporally deterministic can conceivably permit 100% bug-free software.
As a matter of fact, I, too, am a boomer. I am just realistic enough to recognize that my generation shot computing in the foot, big time. Although this is becoming painfully apparent as we enter the age of massive parallelism, a particularly costly consequence of our Turing-worshiping madness has been around from the beginning. It's called the software reliability and productivity crisis.
You must be a baby boomer. LOL.
Well, how about you make it constructive rather than just stating that you hate something along with cynicism towards the community your are trying to reach.
Been there, done that. It doesn't work. I get much better results by being antagonistic and irreverent.
What is your alternative to the Turing Machine that will work with existing Von Neuman architecture and bypasses the "Parallel Programming Crisis"?
It's called COSA and it's inherently parallel and reactive. Current processors would have to be redesigned to handle COSA at the instruction level. Sorry. The baby boomers got you into this mess in the second half of the last century. Problem is, they are still in charge. Maybe it's time for them to gracefully retire and let a new generation have a turn at the wheel.
The Turing computing model has two major flaws: in addition to being inherently sequential, timing is not an inherent part of the model. IOW, there is no way to predict whether two operations are sequential or concurrent. The computer industry is facing a major problem known as the parallel programming crisis. Guess what? The Turing computing model is not the solution. In fact, it is the problem.
But who am I kidding? Turing is worshiped as a God in the computer science community. The industry will not learn its lesson until it hits them where it hurts the most, their pockets. Nobody messes with Moore's law and writes home to brag about it. Just saying.
Why I Hate All Programming Languages
All computer languages are flawed because our current computing model (the Turing Machine) is flawed.
Yep, the Analytical Engine was a Turing Machine long before Turing showed up. Babbage deserves more credit as the father of computing than Turing does, in my opinion. Just saying.
Why I Hate All Computer Programming Languages
Yep, all programming languages are crap.
But then again, so is rocket technology. Pushing stuff out the back (propellant or elevator cable) in order to move forward is lame. We need something better, much better. We are certainly not going to colonize the solar system, let alone the stars and galaxies beyond, with a bunch of cockamamie rockets or space elevators that will never be built. But there is no need to despair. We are on the verge of a breakthrough in physics that will make every current approach to energy production and transportation obsolete.
There is clear evidence that we are swimming in an ocean of clean energy, lots and lots of it. This is a consequence of a reevaluation of our understanding of the causality of motion. It turns out that Aristotle was right to insist that motion is causal. As a result, we are immersed in an immense lattice of energetic particles without which nothing could move. Soon, we'll learn how to exploit the lattice for propulsion and energy production. We'll have vehicles that will move at tremendous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring any damage due to inertial effects. Space elevator? Bleh. Floating sky cities, unlimited clean energy, New York to Beijing in minutes, earth to Mars in hours... That's the future of energy and travel. And it will happen in your lifetime. Click on the link below if you're interested in this new exciting science of motion. You don't understand motion, even if you think you do.
The Problem with Motion.
Worse, Gleick was, as of yesterday, the Chair of the Task Force on Scientific Ethics at the American Geophysical Union. This is ugly, very UGLY. The climate alarmists don't have a leg to stand on. They themselves should prosecute Gleick for fucking things up for their cause.
D-Wave is selling snake oil. Their so-called quantum computer is pure hogwash. The main reason that quantum computing is nonsense is that it is based on the pseudo-scientific concept of quantum state superposition. The problem is, superposition is not observable by definition. It is just a silly interpretation of QM. Superposition is nonsense on the face of it since any child can tell you that nothing can be its own opposite. Physicists do not understand why quantum interactions are probabilistic and yet they feel knowledgeable enough to conjure up all sorts of cockamamie Star-Trek physics that make no sense. The actual reason that quantum interactions are probabilistic is that there is no such thing as a time dimension. Therefore, nature cannot calculate the exact timing of interactions and is forced to use probability. Conservation laws are momentarily violated but are obeyed in the long run. Why is there no time dimension? Because a time dimension makes motion impossible. Surprise! This is the reason that time travel is crackpottery and that Sir Karl Popper compared Einstein to Parmenides and called spacetime, "Einstein's block universe in which nothing happens". From Science: Conjectures and Refutations. Don't take my word for it.