That's a joke for funding. A project as ambitious as this cannot get much accomplished with a couple of million eurobucks. Ten times that amount would have been respectable. 1.8 million is money than it takes to open a fast food franchise joint in some cities.
The problem is the guy has been predicting an earthquake for the past umpteen years. This is very common will all kinds of crackpots who keep foretelling doom and when something does happen they rush to show their "predictions" as hitting bullseye. It's like creating a device that detects 100% of all tumors. I can build such a device today. It will just tell everyone using it that they have cancer.
You're absolutely right. I'm going to bookmark this and show it to the boss to get him off his blind devotion to everything Intel based. Money talks when the price difference is 6x. And yes our software can make use of all that RAM and then some.
It's just a matter of which number is marketed to the sheep. Imagine that instead of hdd capacity, BestBuy starts putting "Windows Load Time" as one of the top numbers...
When you have a borderline retard and a 'dr evil' wannabe at the helm this is the sort of outcome to expect. Most financial rags keep saying that we're not even in the thick of things as far as the financial meltdown is concerned. Expect lots more jobs to be lost over the coming years and not just in IT.
McCain is against net neutrality (and I sense he doesn't understand the issue either) while Obama is for protecting net neutrality and - judging by the way his campaign is ran - is a lot more tech savvy than the other remaining candidates.
I just installed it and fired it up on XP. Resizing the browser window takes 4 seconds on a 3 GHz P4 with 1 Gig of Ram. I am not joking. In terms of UI sluggishness nothing beats apple software. Not even Java Swing. It's absolutely horrendous. Save your selves the trouble and skip this browser. Truly nothing to see here.
The fundamental problem is that in North America (it applies to Canada as much as the US) is that we created an unsustainable living arrangement. The partitioning of land to residential, industrial and commercial zones resulted in a habitat that is not conducive to walking, biking or public transportation. We are going to be in a lot of pain over the next few decades as the supplies of fossil fuels begin to dwindle.
James Kunstler has called this "The greatest misallocation of resources in modern history of mankind"
So perhaps everyone else has been dancing close to an answer but Hawkins' model (if it indeed encompasses all those varieties) may be much closer to the ultimate strong AI than anything that came before it?
Yeah, with all the recent announcements it's pretty hard to disregard Kurzweil's predictions. I was very sceptical of his claims until I realized that his timeline appears to be dead on so far.
No player that's currently on the market can do podcasts half as well as the iPod/iTunes combo. For some people podcasting may be irrelevant. For others it's the sole reason they bought an iPod. Apple keep their player on the edge of what's new end trendy on the net and that's why they get the lion share of the market as a result. Until those "also ran" copycats manage to emulate all of iPod/iTunes great features they are doomed to languish in single percentage points of market share.
What is this going to do to inter-human relations? Are we going to become ultra politically correct knowing that everything we ever say and do may be recorded by someone else on their personal memex system? What about privacy issues? Is a thousand "Little Brothers" not just as bad as a "Big Brother"?
As much as the technical hurdles of such a project appear to be daunting, they are nothing compared to the social implication of such a system becoming ubuiquitous. That said, I believe memex is coming and will be prevalent within years rather than decades. Now, that's a daunting prospect.
I just don't feel up to the task of trying to educate the moronic 80% of the country. It's a herculean effort and will most likely not succeed. Young Polish people are voting... They are voting with their feet and it's up to the government and all those 50-somethings to take the hint and see the problems with their actions. I'm not going to waste my life trying to make things marginally better over there. They fucked it up, they repair it. Yeah, I'm that selfish:-)
Btw. it's emigrating not immigrating... "immigrate to a place" vs. "emigrate from a place". Sorry, had to nitpick.
You know the saying that a society gets the government it deserves? Well, the truth is that while the highly educated 20% of Poland is a pride of the nation, the remaining 80% is critically dumb. Dumber even that the southern bible belt dwellers of the US. Look around you, talk to random people and you'll quickly find those who voted for Giertych, Lepper and Kaczynski.
The truth is that the Polish society with its nationalistic streak and religious fervor is simply very immature. This is the true reason why I left Poland many years ago and never looked back. I might return one day but only if the Polish nation as a whole grows up and becomes more mature and more tolerant (and thus tolerable).
Until that time the exodus of smart people will continue unabated. Even improved economic conditions are unlikely to change that until "moherowe berety" stop voting idiots into office. These are sad times but we really shouldn't have expected anything more given the average level of enlightenment of a Polish worker.
I concur. I just want to add that I also don't want to turn on a middle east carnage simulator every time I want to entertain myself. Fox and CNN provide an overload of that without the game designers having to do that as well. If there is one type of game genre that is overcrowded it's the fucking WWII/WWIII simulators. How many can the market absorb? I'm almost ready to believe the glut of those games was created by the Bush Co. to get more rednecks to sign up for the Iraq fiasco.
I'm glad that Polish universities had a good showing. I grew up there and was educated there and always thought that CS education in Poland was top notch quality. Much better than in the UK for example, where I also studied for a while.
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That's a joke for funding. A project as ambitious as this cannot get much accomplished with a couple of million eurobucks. Ten times that amount would have been respectable. 1.8 million is money than it takes to open a fast food franchise joint in some cities.
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4. Hates the light spectrum of CFLs. The most common complaint about those bulbs BY FAR.
The problem is the guy has been predicting an earthquake for the past umpteen years. This is very common will all kinds of crackpots who keep foretelling doom and when something does happen they rush to show their "predictions" as hitting bullseye. It's like creating a device that detects 100% of all tumors. I can build such a device today. It will just tell everyone using it that they have cancer.
You're absolutely right. I'm going to bookmark this and show it to the boss to get him off his blind devotion to everything Intel based. Money talks when the price difference is 6x. And yes our software can make use of all that RAM and then some.
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It's just a matter of which number is marketed to the sheep. Imagine that instead of hdd capacity, BestBuy starts putting "Windows Load Time" as one of the top numbers...
When you have a borderline retard and a 'dr evil' wannabe at the helm this is the sort of outcome to expect. Most financial rags keep saying that we're not even in the thick of things as far as the financial meltdown is concerned. Expect lots more jobs to be lost over the coming years and not just in IT.
McCain is against net neutrality (and I sense he doesn't understand the issue either) while Obama is for protecting net neutrality and - judging by the way his campaign is ran - is a lot more tech savvy than the other remaining candidates.
The British Telecom phone booths look really nice not to mention all the handy hooker ads inside :-)
I just installed it and fired it up on XP. Resizing the browser window takes 4 seconds on a 3 GHz P4 with 1 Gig of Ram. I am not joking. In terms of UI sluggishness nothing beats apple software. Not even Java Swing. It's absolutely horrendous. Save your selves the trouble and skip this browser. Truly nothing to see here.
The fundamental problem is that in North America (it applies to Canada as much as the US) is that we created an unsustainable living arrangement. The partitioning of land to residential, industrial and commercial zones resulted in a habitat that is not conducive to walking, biking or public transportation. We are going to be in a lot of pain over the next few decades as the supplies of fossil fuels begin to dwindle. James Kunstler has called this "The greatest misallocation of resources in modern history of mankind"
So perhaps everyone else has been dancing close to an answer but Hawkins' model (if it indeed encompasses all those varieties) may be much closer to the ultimate strong AI than anything that came before it?
Yeah, with all the recent announcements it's pretty hard to disregard Kurzweil's predictions. I was very sceptical of his claims until I realized that his timeline appears to be dead on so far.
No you're not. You're either a kook or a liar and so is your cult. Go educate yourself some, you're an embarrassment to modern humanity.
No player that's currently on the market can do podcasts half as well as the iPod/iTunes combo. For some people podcasting may be irrelevant. For others it's the sole reason they bought an iPod. Apple keep their player on the edge of what's new end trendy on the net and that's why they get the lion share of the market as a result. Until those "also ran" copycats manage to emulate all of iPod/iTunes great features they are doomed to languish in single percentage points of market share.
I heard that Intelligent Rubberbands were all the rage.
What is this going to do to inter-human relations? Are we going to become ultra politically correct knowing that everything we ever say and do may be recorded by someone else on their personal memex system? What about privacy issues? Is a thousand "Little Brothers" not just as bad as a "Big Brother"? As much as the technical hurdles of such a project appear to be daunting, they are nothing compared to the social implication of such a system becoming ubuiquitous. That said, I believe memex is coming and will be prevalent within years rather than decades. Now, that's a daunting prospect.
Philosophers have been at it for 2000 years. I'd say we will understand intelligence with the advances of neuroscience, not philosophy.
Yeah. What they need is more faith based initiatives. What a way to bury the once leading in science nation.
Btw. it's emigrating not immigrating... "immigrate to a place" vs. "emigrate from a place". Sorry, had to nitpick.
The truth is that the Polish society with its nationalistic streak and religious fervor is simply very immature. This is the true reason why I left Poland many years ago and never looked back. I might return one day but only if the Polish nation as a whole grows up and becomes more mature and more tolerant (and thus tolerable).
Until that time the exodus of smart people will continue unabated. Even improved economic conditions are unlikely to change that until "moherowe berety" stop voting idiots into office. These are sad times but we really shouldn't have expected anything more given the average level of enlightenment of a Polish worker.
I concur. I just want to add that I also don't want to turn on a middle east carnage simulator every time I want to entertain myself. Fox and CNN provide an overload of that without the game designers having to do that as well. If there is one type of game genre that is overcrowded it's the fucking WWII/WWIII simulators. How many can the market absorb? I'm almost ready to believe the glut of those games was created by the Bush Co. to get more rednecks to sign up for the Iraq fiasco.
Oh my God! Wow! They really are surprised as hell!!! everyone just keeps posting lots of ??? in that story.
I'm glad that Polish universities had a good showing. I grew up there and was educated there and always thought that CS education in Poland was top notch quality. Much better than in the UK for example, where I also studied for a while.