Doesn't matter what the piece of equipment is. It's expensive, and when I need customer service on it I expect responsiveness and knowledge so that it can be put back into service in a way that makes me not pissed off that it stopped doing the things it was supposed to do.
I went looking, but I can't find any breakdown of the tax cuts. It wasn't "incentives," it was a cut of a tax from 35% to something like 6%, and it was in that same asinine package that handed every American $300 in "rebate" that they then had to pay back in tax. Total scam.
Doesn't stop politicians in any case. But them you can get righteously pissed-off at, because they're not just doing a job, they're trying to fuck up your economy and legal system.
I bought a piece of equipment for $1,499 plus tax.
I could give fuck-all what the company that sold it to me pays their call-center employees. I want it to work. If that cuts into some fat plutocrat's viagra money, then fuck him for selling me something that can break.
There used to be a 35% tax on pay for outsourced labor.
W made sure that went away in his first tax-cut package.
Threw us from a relatively slow internet bust into an 8-year triple-dip recession that killed 2 million jobs a year in America and created 2 million a year in China and India.
Are those single- or multi-core ARM units? (does ARM even do multi-core units?)
And really, if you count all the processor units in a graphics chip, there are probably some computers that could count several million individual processors in their architecture right now.
Any major data center probably has enough power to do a human brain, if we only knew how to program it.
I think we're underestimating what these guys know about how to program it. If they can get the architecture to be more like a brain, it may allow them to implement accurate simulations of the neuronal processes we see in a brain, and then start to work on the processes those neurons are used for.
I highly doubt this will be the only iteration of the hardware needed to get it to think, even at a small-furry-mammal level, but getting it to do a few self-aware things could be very helpful.
They probably won't make it think, but there's a lot of environmental input and output that is mechanistic in nature. We do know how almost all of that works. It's the language and meme thing we're just scratching.
The boundary between symbology and mental process may be illuminated by how this thing behaves. That'd be worth its price.
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the fact that you can't find it on the internet doesn't mean it's not true
dig up a copy of the tax cut legislation and look at it yourself
it's in the library of congress
which is the size of one library of congress
Doesn't matter what the piece of equipment is. It's expensive, and when I need customer service on it I expect responsiveness and knowledge so that it can be put back into service in a way that makes me not pissed off that it stopped doing the things it was supposed to do.
I went looking, but I can't find any breakdown of the tax cuts. It wasn't "incentives," it was a cut of a tax from 35% to something like 6%, and it was in that same asinine package that handed every American $300 in "rebate" that they then had to pay back in tax. Total scam.
Nixon only kept his job long enough to resign when he was about to be impeached. Time for you to watch All the President's Men again.
The Wall Street Journal is another Murdoch paper.
Can't imagine what they get up to in order to get decent stories on a street that does nothing without cash changing hands.
It's amazing what you can sell these days, for more than it's worth.
But men were throwing away their straight razors in the 60s. Earlier, even. Straight razors are more like 20s-30s era.
The retro you're looking for is the Safety Razor.
If the intolerable hyping and biasing of the Casey Anthony trial in complete disregard of the defendant's right to due process isn't enough, there's that whole ordering people to tell lies about science to bias legislation thing.
Yeah, but you still just use a towel to dry yourself off.
That link doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
That's why they number them now.
Now all we need is a way to get to another planet so we have a need for it.
No. Gatorade is bottled sweat. It'd be better if it included some piss, though. Must have been an oversight in R&D.
We just need to outsource the Congress.
There are those who say that has already happened.
Get on the national Do Not Call registry. Got rid of 90% of the problem for me.
Doesn't stop local spammers, though your state may have its own Do Not Call registry.
Doesn't stop politicians in any case. But them you can get righteously pissed-off at, because they're not just doing a job, they're trying to fuck up your economy and legal system.
I bought a piece of equipment for $1,499 plus tax.
I could give fuck-all what the company that sold it to me pays their call-center employees. I want it to work. If that cuts into some fat plutocrat's viagra money, then fuck him for selling me something that can break.
Have you tried unplugging it?
There used to be a 35% tax on pay for outsourced labor.
W made sure that went away in his first tax-cut package.
Threw us from a relatively slow internet bust into an 8-year triple-dip recession that killed 2 million jobs a year in America and created 2 million a year in China and India.
Not exactly Paul Hogan. Does explain some things about Mel Gibson, though.
Are those single- or multi-core ARM units? (does ARM even do multi-core units?)
And really, if you count all the processor units in a graphics chip, there are probably some computers that could count several million individual processors in their architecture right now.
Project for you: identify the bad assumptions in their model without building one and trying it out.
Okay. Go.
Any major data center probably has enough power to do a human brain, if we only knew how to program it.
I think we're underestimating what these guys know about how to program it. If they can get the architecture to be more like a brain, it may allow them to implement accurate simulations of the neuronal processes we see in a brain, and then start to work on the processes those neurons are used for.
I highly doubt this will be the only iteration of the hardware needed to get it to think, even at a small-furry-mammal level, but getting it to do a few self-aware things could be very helpful.
They probably won't make it think, but there's a lot of environmental input and output that is mechanistic in nature. We do know how almost all of that works. It's the language and meme thing we're just scratching.
The boundary between symbology and mental process may be illuminated by how this thing behaves. That'd be worth its price.
which makes it all the more painful to have to pay through the NOSE for it.
In other words, it's okay if it runs slow, because your brain does, and makes up for it with parallelism and fuzzy logic.