In 1960, Joe Kittinger went up in a helium balloon. This man is sometimes regarded as the first man in space, although he just went 20 miles up (outside the atmosphere, anyway).
A recent BBC documentary showed a film from this event, as the guy was smart enough to bring a film camera;-)
In fact, nobody wants a neural net in their home. Perhaps they want a smart temperature control or dishwasher, but not necessarily in terms of a neural net.
My point is, people don't want the technology, but the results of the technology (apart from some geeks and gadget freaks, of course). They want a "smart dishwasher", which may be a "neural network controlled dishwasher", but may also be controlled by fuzzy logic or plain old traditional computer algorithms -- as long as it does what you want.
That said, I've got no problems imagining many good uses for neural networks in my home. For example, I'd like my stereo to learn that I like to turn the volume up for quiet parts of classical music (or the intro of "Stairway to Heaven"), but I don't want the same volume level in the LOUD parts of the music. That sounds like something a BP neural net could learn, but there's no difference to me if another technology achieves the same thing.
If this super-duper stuff can get a rocket to Mars in two weeks, couldn't it run a power plant too? A thin film of Americum spinning a turbine to make electricity would be much more useful than a rocket to Mars.
This will obsolete everything we learnt in those chemistry classes;-) The funniest thing we did was the qualitative unorganic analysis (freely translated from Norwegian), where we spent an entire afternoon trying to find out which metals were in a sample. Now can anyone do the same analysis in a second. Boring.
For example, to type the letter "a," a typist moves the left dome to the left and the right dome toward the computer screen. Pressing one of the domes down first generates a capital "A."
XHTML is a good thing because it's strict. It's much easier to create an XHTML-compliant browser than an HTML [insert any version, variant, and de facto standard here]-compliant one. Browsers have gone too far in forgiving mistakes and accepting bad code. Well, I don't expect bad HTML to disappear overnight, but XHTML is a step in the right direction.
And when it comes to "new" markets - like the Internet on small devices - XHTML has the chance to succeed quickly. You don't have many gigabytes to play with on a PDA or a mobile phone, so a browser that parses XHTML Basic will of course use much less resources than a bloated browser that caters for all obscure HTML codings out there. This is the chance to do it right from the beginning!
Maybe it turns out that BeOS is remarkably scalable, and fits well in the embedded world. This will of course change the prospects of Linux making it into embedded electronics.
Be is already putting a lot of effort into the embedded market (perhaps more than developing BeOS itself for the PC). Ever heard of BeIA?
Here's a bit of my own, totally non-scientific, research:
Kids don't care if the games are full of the latest 3D-mega-graphic technologies or not. The games I've seen kids play are very often old platform games on the Nintendo emulator (the old 8 bit NES). OK, the graphics and sound aren't up to par with the newest games, but the gameplay keeps the kids involved for hours and hours, month after month.
When the Pentium Pro was released, back in 94/95 (?), Intel said the current processor technology couldn't go any further. The Pentium Pro was to be the last processor in the x86 line - faster processors had to use entirely different technologies. What happened? We're still squeezing out more and more Giga-Hertzes.
Yes, Slashdot is a wonderful resource - the sheer number of users is proof of that. Being the number 1 news provider (of its kind) is a large responsibility. Stories from Slashdot get reposted on smaller sites all over the world. That's why a Slashdot article has to be correct. Don't spread false information.
Of course, Slashdot wouldn't be what it is today if it was just a plain, boring news site. Informal articles, humorous stories and rumours all make a good recipe. But when it comes to news, check and double-check that your information is correct. Today's AltaVista and Opera stories were embarassing for Slashdot.
Well, well, seems you got a thing or two wrong here, Taco. Do better research next time.
Is it worth giving up your privacy for a free binary...
As noted by many others, this is not about giving up privacy. By default, you say nothing about yourself, and if you do, it'll be no more serious than "I like music, give me music ads".
... or paying fifty bucks for the binary?
Fifty? $39 is more like it. And there are many discounts, too. Upgrading from a 4.x license is free, there's a student's discount, cross-platform discounts, etc. One word, Taco: Research
Of course, stick to the large Mozilla beast if you want, but please don't spread this kind of wrong info about Opera. From now on, I'll read your posts with a more critical eye.
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So, what needs to be done? Certainly not create another, even more locked and proprietary system like C#.
In 1960, Joe Kittinger went up in a helium balloon. This man is sometimes regarded as the first man in space, although he just went 20 miles up (outside the atmosphere, anyway).
A recent BBC documentary showed a film from this event, as the guy was smart enough to bring a film camera ;-)
Read more at http://fy.chalmers.se/~f3aamp/teaching/np/balloon. html
and http://www2.tsixroads.com/corinth/jk016.html.
In fact, nobody wants a neural net in their home. Perhaps they want a smart temperature control or dishwasher, but not necessarily in terms of a neural net.
My point is, people don't want the technology, but the results of the technology (apart from some geeks and gadget freaks, of course). They want a "smart dishwasher", which may be a "neural network controlled dishwasher", but may also be controlled by fuzzy logic or plain old traditional computer algorithms -- as long as it does what you want.
That said, I've got no problems imagining many good uses for neural networks in my home. For example, I'd like my stereo to learn that I like to turn the volume up for quiet parts of classical music (or the intro of "Stairway to Heaven"), but I don't want the same volume level in the LOUD parts of the music. That sounds like something a BP neural net could learn, but there's no difference to me if another technology achieves the same thing.
If this super-duper stuff can get a rocket to Mars in two weeks, couldn't it run a power plant too? A thin film of Americum spinning a turbine to make electricity would be much more useful than a rocket to Mars.
This will obsolete everything we learnt in those chemistry classes ;-) The funniest thing we did was the qualitative unorganic analysis (freely translated from Norwegian), where we spent an entire afternoon trying to find out which metals were in a sample. Now can anyone do the same analysis in a second. Boring.
Happy new year!
Very good! The reason many still have Windows on their computer isn't MS Office and friends, but games.
From the review:
For example, to type the letter "a," a typist moves the left dome to the left and the right dome toward the computer screen. Pressing one of the domes down first generates a capital "A."
XHTML is a good thing because it's strict. It's much easier to create an XHTML-compliant browser than an HTML [insert any version, variant, and de facto standard here]-compliant one. Browsers have gone too far in forgiving mistakes and accepting bad code. Well, I don't expect bad HTML to disappear overnight, but XHTML is a step in the right direction.
And when it comes to "new" markets - like the Internet on small devices - XHTML has the chance to succeed quickly. You don't have many gigabytes to play with on a PDA or a mobile phone, so a browser that parses XHTML Basic will of course use much less resources than a bloated browser that caters for all obscure HTML codings out there. This is the chance to do it right from the beginning!
Today:
- "Should be here by December 26th."
December 26th:
- "Should be here next week..."
The next week:
- "Well, we had to ship it from Germany. It'll arrive early next week - we hope..."
- "Any time now, we promise!"
Can we expect the space industry to be any better than car repairers?
Maybe it turns out that BeOS is remarkably scalable, and fits well in the embedded world. This will of course change the prospects of Linux making it into embedded electronics.
Be is already putting a lot of effort into the embedded market (perhaps more than developing BeOS itself for the PC). Ever heard of BeIA?
Here's a bit of my own, totally non-scientific, research:
Kids don't care if the games are full of the latest 3D-mega-graphic technologies or not. The games I've seen kids play are very often old platform games on the Nintendo emulator (the old 8 bit NES). OK, the graphics and sound aren't up to par with the newest games, but the gameplay keeps the kids involved for hours and hours, month after month.
When the Pentium Pro was released, back in 94/95 (?), Intel said the current processor technology couldn't go any further. The Pentium Pro was to be the last processor in the x86 line - faster processors had to use entirely different technologies. What happened? We're still squeezing out more and more Giga-Hertzes.
Yes, Slashdot is a wonderful resource - the sheer number of users is proof of that. Being the number 1 news provider (of its kind) is a large responsibility. Stories from Slashdot get reposted on smaller sites all over the world. That's why a Slashdot article has to be correct. Don't spread false information.
Of course, Slashdot wouldn't be what it is today if it was just a plain, boring news site. Informal articles, humorous stories and rumours all make a good recipe. But when it comes to news, check and double-check that your information is correct. Today's AltaVista and Opera stories were embarassing for Slashdot.
Well, well, seems you got a thing or two wrong here, Taco. Do better research next time.
Is it worth giving up your privacy for a free binary ...
As noted by many others, this is not about giving up privacy. By default, you say nothing about yourself, and if you do, it'll be no more serious than "I like music, give me music ads".
Fifty? $39 is more like it. And there are many discounts, too. Upgrading from a 4.x license is free, there's a student's discount, cross-platform discounts, etc. One word, Taco: Research
Of course, stick to the large Mozilla beast if you want, but please don't spread this kind of wrong info about Opera. From now on, I'll read your posts with a more critical eye.