I do prefer Desktops for a lots of reasons, specially because I totally hate the ugly small keyboard of laptops as I prefer ergonomic ones. Mouses are in a similar situation. Also a dedicated video card is a must.
But I think that USB video capture adapters are good enough and far cheaper than the PCIe ones. Specially for standard definition video.
No, no MS operating system will be truly open, and all phone manufactures know that if they bend their will to MS they will be powerless just as PC manufacturers are.
I've never seen anything that can easily defork two different revisions of the same document like Word, comparing and letting you pick change-by change with all the variants on screen at once.
I do that all the time to my source code. It's just a version control service, diff and merge tools and it has been a standard for ages.
It's the I/O and how the system reacts to it what shows intelligent systems from non-intelligent ones.
Right now, most if not all systems seem to be very deterministic. This is almost a synonym with non-learning systems.
But this is more a limitation of the underlying programming philosophies (don't do self modificating code) than a limitation in the systems themselves.
Turing M-Machines are what we thing computers are: machines that perform a fixed set of instructions and then end (or not) their algorithms. Once the algorithm starts running it is a deterministic process.
Turing O-Machines are Turing machines with a special property: they have a special instruction that enables the machine to consult an external Oracle to get some information to continue or end an algorithm. The nature of this Oracle is undefined, except for the fact that it has the right data for the algorithm.
We are Turing O-Machines in the sense that anything we see, hear, smell, taste, feel, etc., can be regarded as an Oracle.
We can even notice it: whenever we are stuck with some calculation or mind process we look outside for inspiration. We talk to others, stare at the window, etc., and then we are out of the loop and can finish the calculation or mind process we were stuck with.
If we are subjected to sensory deprivation for too much time, we suffer from hallucinations, and we can end crazy or worse.
Computers are the same in the sense of the Turing theory: they process inputs all the time, but we regard them as deterministic. We have almost never used the outside Oracles when programming them, and if we do it, it's not something we are aware of.
That's the meaning of my signature for the last decade:
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
If you think anyone with half a brain will program a production version of a spec created by a megalomaniac bastard that calls coders 'suckers', then you either have a lot of money or are delusional.
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It has Pavlov-reinforced me the idea that Opera is safer than other browsers.
They didn't had that many colors back then.
Not natural at all, you need to bolt the monitor to a helmet and make it move when you move your head for it to work like real life!
I would totally prefer really big screens to that.
Why don't make it an excel (or other spreadsheet format) file, easily downloadable and distributable by anyone?
This way no stupid legislation or lobbying can block it.
Also... not everything has to be running on a server... are we getting a little shortsighted because of the web revolution?
That actually sounds very useful for SEO.
I do prefer Desktops for a lots of reasons, specially because I totally hate the ugly small keyboard of laptops as I prefer ergonomic ones. Mouses are in a similar situation. Also a dedicated video card is a must.
But I think that USB video capture adapters are good enough and far cheaper than the PCIe ones. Specially for standard definition video.
Of course they must invest more money on paperboard than in corn, if you judge by the flavour of the end product.
I don't think beginners have been using goto in the last 10 or even 15 years.
The magic ingredient is obviously price.
As long as Tablet = Expensive in the minds of consumers, they are missing a secret ingredient.
No, no MS operating system will be truly open, and all phone manufactures know that if they bend their will to MS they will be powerless just as PC manufacturers are.
That's why we like Android.
I love to read in a lot of different media. I can enjoy reading a novel in a web browser without any problem at all. I have done it.
However, for every user like me there are thousands who cry: 'Wall of text!' everytime they encounter some text that's more than 10 lines long.
So, complain to these lazy users that can't read, instead of complaining to the webmasters. The webmasters are simply doing what the masses ask.
Also, the game.
I've never seen anything that can easily defork two different revisions of the same document like Word, comparing and letting you pick change-by change with all the variants on screen at once.
I do that all the time to my source code. It's just a version control service, diff and merge tools and it has been a standard for ages.
Don't you mean 240p video ?
Ohh, you tilt your head!
It is my understanding that we also need some specialized circuitry to be able to learn to speak, to do geometry, 3D visualization, etc.
Without that circuitry, you can have all the motivation and the best teachers, and never learn to perform those tasks.
And of course the part of the brain that coordinates all this stuff. I think that's the part that can have a reason to learn or be motivated.
I do agree with the rest of your comment.
It's the I/O and how the system reacts to it what shows intelligent systems from non-intelligent ones.
Right now, most if not all systems seem to be very deterministic. This is almost a synonym with non-learning systems.
But this is more a limitation of the underlying programming philosophies (don't do self modificating code) than a limitation in the systems themselves.
Turing M-Machines are what we thing computers are: machines that perform a fixed set of instructions and then end (or not) their algorithms. Once the algorithm starts running it is a deterministic process.
Turing O-Machines are Turing machines with a special property: they have a special instruction that enables the machine to consult an external Oracle to get some information to continue or end an algorithm. The nature of this Oracle is undefined, except for the fact that it has the right data for the algorithm.
We are Turing O-Machines in the sense that anything we see, hear, smell, taste, feel, etc., can be regarded as an Oracle.
We can even notice it: whenever we are stuck with some calculation or mind process we look outside for inspiration. We talk to others, stare at the window, etc., and then we are out of the loop and can finish the calculation or mind process we were stuck with.
If we are subjected to sensory deprivation for too much time, we suffer from hallucinations, and we can end crazy or worse.
Computers are the same in the sense of the Turing theory: they process inputs all the time, but we regard them as deterministic. We have almost never used the outside Oracles when programming them, and if we do it, it's not something we are aware of.
That's the meaning of my signature for the last decade:
We are Turing O-Machines.
The Oracle is out there.
In a dedicated Youtube app, it would work.
Flash is the culprit there, dude.
In a dedicated Youtube app, sure.
Using Adobe Flash would surely kill the CPU and show only a slide show.
So, where do you upload your torrents ?
A perfectly cromulent answer for a cromulent question.
May be he's speaking about twitter and twitpic.
And Firefox 1.5 was crap.
If you think anyone with half a brain will program a production version of a spec created by a megalomaniac bastard that calls coders 'suckers', then you either have a lot of money or are delusional.
Nerds need and deserve respect.
Currently all non-IE browsers have more modern features than IE browsers.
Microsoft ships a few, but no Firefox or Safari support
That's the point!
I couldn't have said it better.
I totally agree with you!!
Windows 7 Rulez!!
(Really guys, this is the only way to get rid of IE6, please support Win7)
X bloat predates the GPU.