Let's consider one thing as well...
How much electricity is Alpha Go's hardware using vs that poor human brain?
Efficiency wise we still have the computer beat, even if we don't win and just come close.
Until proven wrong, I say it's Aliens. You can't prove me wrong until you have facts to dispute me
I don't have to prove you wrong. That's not how science works. You don't get to make an unsupported assertion of a positive result and then challenge others to prove you wrong. You made the assertion that it is aliens so you get to be the one to back it up with actual verifiable observations. You have a hypothesis and you get to be the one to run the experiment. For all I know it might be aliens and I'm not saying it is or is not. I'm merely saying that it isn't the most likely among the possible explanations and that we should not favor it until we have better evidence. This doesn't mean I'm ruling out out but merely that the evidence thus far does not even come close to the level needed to support that as a reasonable conclusion.
You say it's not "the most likely"? Based on what? We have absolutely NO evidence one way or the other that it's NOT extraterrestrials. So what? You can say absolutely NOTHING concrete one way or the other with NO evidence.
You can be skeptical all you want. Good for you. Sounds boring. I'm choosing to believe it's Aliens until something better comes along. My belief is cooler and more fun than yours.
Astronomers and alien life enthusiasts alike are buzzing over the sudden dimming of an otherwise unremarkable star 1300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. KIC 8462852 or "Tabby's star" has dimmed like this several times before, prompting some researchers to suggest that the megastructures of an advanced alien civilization might be blocking its light.
"Some researchers"? Perhaps as a joke. Trillions of stars out there of immense variety and form and the moment someone sees something they don't recognize immediately it clearly must be an alien superstructure... Sigh... It's like the people who see some lights in the sky they aren't familiar with and immediately forget what the "U" in UFO stands for, instead going straight to deciding it must be alien visitors.
And the proper term for "alien life enthusiasts" is "mentally ill person". These are people who for whatever reason WANT it to be an alien whatever and who see aliens and conspiracy theories everywhere with no regard to actual evidence. The pattern recognition parts of their brain are stuck in overdrive and no longer function properly because they are disconnected from the rational parts of their brain.
Until proven wrong, I say it's Aliens.
You can't prove me wrong until you have facts to dispute me, and besides my fact-less assertion is just as valid as your fact-less assertion.
One difference though. MINE is fun to think about. Yours is BORING.
There are too many shortcomings for it to supplant more valuable currencies, but as a commodity and for specific use cases it's going to stay around.
I laugh when I hear some anti-bitcoin person write or say that it's dead or going to die, yet it keeps right on doing it's thing (whatever that ends up being for whatever purpose).
Bitcoin is here to stay.
The whole JJ Abrams action and re-hash old plot lines (even to the point to duplicating them like the half-vulcan thing) is disappointing.
I guess that is what we get for paying our $$$ at the theater to see Abrams STW and ST films. Management at the studio is certain if they just duplicate that in the series, everybody will be happy and the money will roll in.
Yea, States rights were EVIL before Trump was elected, now all sorts of people have had whiplash change of mind or are "rediscovering" Federalism.
Bottom line...many people LOVE Federal power when their people are in charge and LOVE states rights and decentralized power when their people are NOT in power.
It's hypocritical, but then why should that surprise me?
It will not be a camera that they use, somebody will custom make a large capture device that fits neatly over a particular screen, blocks out all outside light and capture the movie in it's entirety. The Screen output will be good, the capture device will be good.
As long as the content has to travel as light from an emitting source, somebody will find a way to capture it at high quality.
You've got it almost right...but a little backwards.
It wasn't cable companies that forced local governments to do exclusive franchise agreements. It was local governments that OFFERED exclusive franchise agreements to cable companies who then took them up on the offer.
It's funny how people confuse internet speed (which is measured in time) vs throughput (measured in bits).
I'd FAR rather pay comcrap for QoS of my packets to the border of their network rather than more throughput.
Walmart is also facing EXTREME pressure on everyday items for grocery as well. My family shops as much as we can at Aldis for things like milk, eggs, bread and other items. Milk for instance is almost.30 cents cheaper than Walmart.
"The new report argues that, given these high costs, NASA should turn over the construction of rockets and spacecraft to the private sector."
I thought contractors already build NASA's rockets?
As much as I would love to see my sons grow up with a PhD or just a BS in some science, going into a TRADE instead would make me very happy if they don't go that route. (In actuality, I could care less WHAT they do as long as it's legal and they are happy!)
AC repair, plumbers, electricians, Robot repair (yea...that's going to be big).
These are examples of jobs you might be able to do without a 4 year degree costing that kinda $$$$ but instead can get into going into a trade. Had I known what I knew now back when I was in HS (80's) I would of supplemented my career in IT with that of a good skilled blue collar skill.
If it's mechanical in any way it's going to break. Somebody has to fix it.
With the hiring freeze in effect in the Federal Government (and it affects contractors as well), WHO is going to stand by, maintain, install, etc all those fax machines? (unless it's just a POTS fax portal which sends the fax as a scanned document to an email box..which would be funny!). Also, I'm sure their mail department will love the extra work as well......
how about this? I also lived through the tape era, buying high end TDK and Maxell. Tapes died because something better came along.
Are you REALLY going to tell me it's CHEAPER unit for unit for you to take the TIME to make a tape than burn a CD? And this whole argument about the "warmness" of tapes is goofy.
The "tape experience" I remember consisted of hiss you couldn't get rid of no matter how much noise reduction you used, low dynamic range that couldn't be increased without using something like dbx encodings, tapes that broke, tapes that de-magnetized, tapes that JAMMED.
Sorry, tapes are NOT cheaper, better than current digital mediums.
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Let's consider one thing as well... How much electricity is Alpha Go's hardware using vs that poor human brain? Efficiency wise we still have the computer beat, even if we don't win and just come close.
Until proven wrong, I say it's Aliens. You can't prove me wrong until you have facts to dispute me
I don't have to prove you wrong. That's not how science works. You don't get to make an unsupported assertion of a positive result and then challenge others to prove you wrong. You made the assertion that it is aliens so you get to be the one to back it up with actual verifiable observations. You have a hypothesis and you get to be the one to run the experiment. For all I know it might be aliens and I'm not saying it is or is not. I'm merely saying that it isn't the most likely among the possible explanations and that we should not favor it until we have better evidence. This doesn't mean I'm ruling out out but merely that the evidence thus far does not even come close to the level needed to support that as a reasonable conclusion.
You say it's not "the most likely"? Based on what? We have absolutely NO evidence one way or the other that it's NOT extraterrestrials. So what? You can say absolutely NOTHING concrete one way or the other with NO evidence. You can be skeptical all you want. Good for you. Sounds boring. I'm choosing to believe it's Aliens until something better comes along. My belief is cooler and more fun than yours.
Astronomers and alien life enthusiasts alike are buzzing over the sudden dimming of an otherwise unremarkable star 1300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. KIC 8462852 or "Tabby's star" has dimmed like this several times before, prompting some researchers to suggest that the megastructures of an advanced alien civilization might be blocking its light.
"Some researchers"? Perhaps as a joke. Trillions of stars out there of immense variety and form and the moment someone sees something they don't recognize immediately it clearly must be an alien superstructure... Sigh... It's like the people who see some lights in the sky they aren't familiar with and immediately forget what the "U" in UFO stands for, instead going straight to deciding it must be alien visitors.
And the proper term for "alien life enthusiasts" is "mentally ill person". These are people who for whatever reason WANT it to be an alien whatever and who see aliens and conspiracy theories everywhere with no regard to actual evidence. The pattern recognition parts of their brain are stuck in overdrive and no longer function properly because they are disconnected from the rational parts of their brain.
Until proven wrong, I say it's Aliens. You can't prove me wrong until you have facts to dispute me, and besides my fact-less assertion is just as valid as your fact-less assertion. One difference though. MINE is fun to think about. Yours is BORING.
There are too many shortcomings for it to supplant more valuable currencies, but as a commodity and for specific use cases it's going to stay around. I laugh when I hear some anti-bitcoin person write or say that it's dead or going to die, yet it keeps right on doing it's thing (whatever that ends up being for whatever purpose). Bitcoin is here to stay.
The whole JJ Abrams action and re-hash old plot lines (even to the point to duplicating them like the half-vulcan thing) is disappointing. I guess that is what we get for paying our $$$ at the theater to see Abrams STW and ST films. Management at the studio is certain if they just duplicate that in the series, everybody will be happy and the money will roll in.
No, but maybe a hospital should not buy an X-ray machine that runs an operating system that is sold with an "as is" license on it.
Can somebody explain to me what the need is for the elaborate suits the ground crew is wearing? They look like full on Biohazzard suits.
Yea, States rights were EVIL before Trump was elected, now all sorts of people have had whiplash change of mind or are "rediscovering" Federalism. Bottom line...many people LOVE Federal power when their people are in charge and LOVE states rights and decentralized power when their people are NOT in power. It's hypocritical, but then why should that surprise me?
.AVI??? I haven't seen an .avi in YEARS
It will not be a camera that they use, somebody will custom make a large capture device that fits neatly over a particular screen, blocks out all outside light and capture the movie in it's entirety. The Screen output will be good, the capture device will be good. As long as the content has to travel as light from an emitting source, somebody will find a way to capture it at high quality.
You've got it almost right...but a little backwards. It wasn't cable companies that forced local governments to do exclusive franchise agreements. It was local governments that OFFERED exclusive franchise agreements to cable companies who then took them up on the offer.
It's funny how people confuse internet speed (which is measured in time) vs throughput (measured in bits). I'd FAR rather pay comcrap for QoS of my packets to the border of their network rather than more throughput.
Answer: Play games in Hawaii that don't require twitch reflexes and latency requirements.
Also by Skinny people with really high metabolisms....
Keep in mind Microsoft would of NEVER done this had Google not had success with the Chromebook model.
That still exists?
Walmart is also facing EXTREME pressure on everyday items for grocery as well. My family shops as much as we can at Aldis for things like milk, eggs, bread and other items. Milk for instance is almost .30 cents cheaper than Walmart.
"The new report argues that, given these high costs, NASA should turn over the construction of rockets and spacecraft to the private sector." I thought contractors already build NASA's rockets?
The BEST part of that movie was the background music that played when they shifted focus to Wonder Woman.....
As much as I would love to see my sons grow up with a PhD or just a BS in some science, going into a TRADE instead would make me very happy if they don't go that route. (In actuality, I could care less WHAT they do as long as it's legal and they are happy!) AC repair, plumbers, electricians, Robot repair (yea...that's going to be big). These are examples of jobs you might be able to do without a 4 year degree costing that kinda $$$$ but instead can get into going into a trade. Had I known what I knew now back when I was in HS (80's) I would of supplemented my career in IT with that of a good skilled blue collar skill. If it's mechanical in any way it's going to break. Somebody has to fix it.
Yea, but who likes Thomsas Edison? He was a jerk and an ass.
Linus perspires when he codes? Ewwww
With the hiring freeze in effect in the Federal Government (and it affects contractors as well), WHO is going to stand by, maintain, install, etc all those fax machines? (unless it's just a POTS fax portal which sends the fax as a scanned document to an email box..which would be funny!). Also, I'm sure their mail department will love the extra work as well......
Because GDP is a pretty broad statistic and conditions in one part of a country are not the same in another. Also, it might not be accurate.
how about this? I also lived through the tape era, buying high end TDK and Maxell. Tapes died because something better came along. Are you REALLY going to tell me it's CHEAPER unit for unit for you to take the TIME to make a tape than burn a CD? And this whole argument about the "warmness" of tapes is goofy. The "tape experience" I remember consisted of hiss you couldn't get rid of no matter how much noise reduction you used, low dynamic range that couldn't be increased without using something like dbx encodings, tapes that broke, tapes that de-magnetized, tapes that JAMMED. Sorry, tapes are NOT cheaper, better than current digital mediums.