predicting what commercial you want to see won't require use of the superposition principle;) While quantum computing will most certainly become cheaper than it is now, the actual *benefit* to it is the infinitely parallel nature of the potential.
A regular old computer for a person to play a game on, by way of comparison, just needs to entertain one person. If you want to build a computer that serves the needs for an entire city, then sure...quantum. A single person? Not so much.
most emerging techs (esp quantum computing) are only useful for massively parallel tasks, like doing weather predictions, sequencing dna, etc. Such systems won't be used for someone to do non-massively-parallel tasks (like, say, browse the web).
I'm about to buy a cell phone. I was looking at a couple blue-tooth phones, just to keep the cell phone viable for a longer period of time. Should I refrain?
I do need a PC (pretty important for my work, for one thing).
Upgrading my PC will make my overall experience better; I'll be able to do the "render a movie while burning a cd while compiling the kernel" crap, and still surf. And with that powerhouse, I'll be able to play any sort of game.
A $400 video card, btw, has better graphics than a $400 ps3. A $400 video card is also mostly useless, as games don't use its real power yet, and by the time they do it will be a $200 (or lower) card.
How many times are we going to be told that consoles are going to kill PC gaming? PS1, PS2, xbox...now xbox 360 and ps3....not gonna happen, folks. Many of us don't want to dedicate the floorspace to two seperate gaming environments.
ah, so as long as they only want what they currently have, and not something newer, then they're ok. Unfortunately, that just might work for a long time here...I do have to get by with perl5.003, for example...:/
this has been going on for quite some time now. On what planet does this qualify for news now?
Second: that fat woman in the example pic is an old version, using tech that has been replaced.
I flew from NYC to the UK last year (catch that "last year" part?) and back, and on the way back from Heathrow something peculiar happened...every young, attractive female was pulled out of the line for x-ray screening. EVERY young attractive female. It was reciprocal, too - there was absolutely no one pulled out of the line for screening that wasn't a young, attractive female (well, of the females at least...there were seperate screeners for male and female). They were selected "randomly" in theory...but of hundreds of women, why were only attractive ones...all the attractive ones...pulled out of the line?
Why? Because the pictures actually come out better than a) the old photograph in the above link, and b) the resolution of the display that someone took that picture of. Much like viewing a 1024*768*16Mill color picture on a 640*480*16 color display - it's not the picture's fault, and I refuse to believe there wasn't a higher-res display somewhere viewed by the person telling the screeners who to pull out of the line.
I work for Lockheed Martin at a NY facility, and we use Netscape's LDAP for several very important things. They also have a policy against GPL software. I wonder what this means, now...
Labor laws, for instance...MS-UK doesn't have to follow US labor laws (they could pay $3/hr, for instance...if it was legal in the UK).
There's also export/import advantages. The only things they'd get hit from as far as US laws are concerned are export restrictions. I can't off-hand think of anything else they're bound by at MS-UK, so far as US laws are concerned.
by default, if you're running XP. I know people who are still using win95 and win98. To them, windows is windows. It works, so they don't worry about it.
it's the modern culture - life is meaningless if you can't be enraged about something. Hate Michael Moore, hate GW Bush, hate your mom, hate school, hate work...hate hate hate. It's only natural that when the teeming masses see an article like this they take it far too seriously, and get pissed off.
17,000 square feet in San Francisco...that's quite a lot of overhead on the $300Mill. Wonder how much will be lost in that office alone - esp when one of the selling points was that some of the loans would be paid back. Anyone know who is responsible for this fiasco, and what the budget for this needless office is?
Uhh... right, lets see, here is a page http://www.google.com/options/index.html [google.com] with 16 Services and 8 tools that they offer, none of which are in Beta
You might want to check the link you gave. Seems your "none of which are in Beta" is a bit...off.
Alerts: ties in with news (which is beta) local: beta answers: not beta! woohoo! mobile: beta catalogs: beta news: beta directory: really just the "search" engine scholar: beta froogle: beta special searches: just web searching again, restricted groups: beta university search: search in universities... image search: search restricted to url's that end in an image extension web search: the um, search engine labs: uh...not a product. Link to a group of beta (or worse) stuff web search features: just a help center
Did you actually LOOK at the link you gave? Other than the ONE product (search engine), and oh! gosh, "google answers" (definately one of their "biggest products"), they're all in beta. Yet you claim "none of which are in beta." reaaaalllly. Look again. Go to the link you gave. Click each item on the list.
for the first 3 weeks (generally 3...) the studio will get 80% (or so) of the ticket sales...
from there, it drops steadily, until eventually the movie theatre is keeping 90% or so. Just wait to go until then - I can wait a couple months. No hurry.
hear here. This story almost brought a tear to my eye...like some part of what made slashdot cool back in the day was still alive somewhere...like it hadn't completely been destroyed by the dark side...
you know...I have to agree with you. I didn't actually intend for that to come off as funny...was just excluding it from the list of cities where hunters outnumber people shooting people by 100 to 1.
hey, I have the same # of digits as you...;) Though back then, adding 18k users probably took 100 times longer than it does now.
No, I meant to convey that it seems that a lot of folks think they are *all* those things, all at the same time. As young as I, in theory, still am...I wish "emacs vrs vi" was the biggest thing we worried about still.
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predicting what commercial you want to see won't require use of the superposition principle ;) While quantum computing will most certainly become cheaper than it is now, the actual *benefit* to it is the infinitely parallel nature of the potential.
A regular old computer for a person to play a game on, by way of comparison, just needs to entertain one person. If you want to build a computer that serves the needs for an entire city, then sure...quantum. A single person? Not so much.
most emerging techs (esp quantum computing) are only useful for massively parallel tasks, like doing weather predictions, sequencing dna, etc. Such systems won't be used for someone to do non-massively-parallel tasks (like, say, browse the web).
I'm about to buy a cell phone. I was looking at a couple blue-tooth phones, just to keep the cell phone viable for a longer period of time. Should I refrain?
or at least, a well-oiled republic ;)
I don't need a console in my normal daily life.
I do need a PC (pretty important for my work, for one thing).
Upgrading my PC will make my overall experience better; I'll be able to do the "render a movie while burning a cd while compiling the kernel" crap, and still surf. And with that powerhouse, I'll be able to play any sort of game.
A $400 video card, btw, has better graphics than a $400 ps3. A $400 video card is also mostly useless, as games don't use its real power yet, and by the time they do it will be a $200 (or lower) card.
How many times are we going to be told that consoles are going to kill PC gaming? PS1, PS2, xbox...now xbox 360 and ps3....not gonna happen, folks. Many of us don't want to dedicate the floorspace to two seperate gaming environments.
btw- first half was sarcasm.
ah, so as long as they only want what they currently have, and not something newer, then they're ok. Unfortunately, that just might work for a long time here...I do have to get by with perl5.003, for example... :/
Second: that fat woman in the example pic is an old version, using tech that has been replaced.
I flew from NYC to the UK last year (catch that "last year" part?) and back, and on the way back from Heathrow something peculiar happened...every young, attractive female was pulled out of the line for x-ray screening. EVERY young attractive female. It was reciprocal, too - there was absolutely no one pulled out of the line for screening that wasn't a young, attractive female (well, of the females at least...there were seperate screeners for male and female). They were selected "randomly" in theory...but of hundreds of women, why were only attractive ones...all the attractive ones...pulled out of the line?
Why? Because the pictures actually come out better than a) the old photograph in the above link, and b) the resolution of the display that someone took that picture of. Much like viewing a 1024*768*16Mill color picture on a 640*480*16 color display - it's not the picture's fault, and I refuse to believe there wasn't a higher-res display somewhere viewed by the person telling the screeners who to pull out of the line.
I work for Lockheed Martin at a NY facility, and we use Netscape's LDAP for several very important things. They also have a policy against GPL software. I wonder what this means, now...
nope. There are differences of laws.
Labor laws, for instance...MS-UK doesn't have to follow US labor laws (they could pay $3/hr, for instance...if it was legal in the UK).
There's also export/import advantages. The only things they'd get hit from as far as US laws are concerned are export restrictions. I can't off-hand think of anything else they're bound by at MS-UK, so far as US laws are concerned.
so? then one supports yet another company. It's called informed consumerism...
yeah - I remember how STUPID it was to suggest these folks in their late 20's were in high school.
Our hate has made us powerful?;)
no, it's made us sheep.
by default, if you're running XP. I know people who are still using win95 and win98. To them, windows is windows. It works, so they don't worry about it.
it's the modern culture - life is meaningless if you can't be enraged about something. Hate Michael Moore, hate GW Bush, hate your mom, hate school, hate work...hate hate hate. It's only natural that when the teeming masses see an article like this they take it far too seriously, and get pissed off.
OOOooooh....
It's obviously free then! I mean, the city doesn't incur any expenses in it or anything...
how in the HELL is that offtopic?
17,000 square feet in San Francisco...that's quite a lot of overhead on the $300Mill. Wonder how much will be lost in that office alone - esp when one of the selling points was that some of the loans would be paid back. Anyone know who is responsible for this fiasco, and what the budget for this needless office is?
no, he only thought he did. His "none of which are Beta" was wrong - go to the link he gave, and look at the products. Beta.
Google uses that damn word simply to shield themselves, to lower their responsibility. They've left all their corporate philosophies behind.
Uhh... right, lets see, here is a page http://www.google.com/options/index.html [google.com] with 16 Services and 8 tools that they offer, none of which are in Beta
You might want to check the link you gave. Seems your "none of which are in Beta" is a bit...off.
Alerts: ties in with news (which is beta)
local: beta
answers: not beta! woohoo!
mobile: beta
catalogs: beta
news: beta
directory: really just the "search" engine
scholar: beta
froogle: beta
special searches: just web searching again, restricted
groups: beta
university search: search in universities...
image search: search restricted to url's that end in an image extension
web search: the um, search engine
labs: uh...not a product. Link to a group of beta (or worse) stuff
web search features: just a help center
Did you actually LOOK at the link you gave? Other than the ONE product (search engine), and oh! gosh, "google answers" (definately one of their "biggest products"), they're all in beta. Yet you claim "none of which are in beta." reaaaalllly. Look again. Go to the link you gave. Click each item on the list.
and all their biggest products, sans *one*, are in beta. Ball back to you.
for the first 3 weeks (generally 3...) the studio will get 80% (or so) of the ticket sales...
from there, it drops steadily, until eventually the movie theatre is keeping 90% or so. Just wait to go until then - I can wait a couple months. No hurry.
hear here. This story almost brought a tear to my eye...like some part of what made slashdot cool back in the day was still alive somewhere...like it hadn't completely been destroyed by the dark side...
{sniffle}
you know...I have to agree with you. I didn't actually intend for that to come off as funny...was just excluding it from the list of cities where hunters outnumber people shooting people by 100 to 1.
hey, I have the same # of digits as you... ;) Though back then, adding 18k users probably took 100 times longer than it does now.
No, I meant to convey that it seems that a lot of folks think they are *all* those things, all at the same time. As young as I, in theory, still am...I wish "emacs vrs vi" was the biggest thing we worried about still.