Could be nice to do those comparisions in the same hardware betweeen i.e. Ubuntu, Gentoo and OpenSUSE, all for 64 bits, as is not clear when they are measuring against Linux or against optimizations or not that do a particular distribution. Or put where it applies (i.e. the java tests) the numbers for Windows and MacOS.
Easy to uninstall as what? An application? Is not an application that runs over Windows and you uninstall it cleaning registry and deleting some files.
Try to uninstall windows the same way... you always have to mess with some boot loader, or at least, whatever that replaces your boot loader.
There are a lot of space to complain about linux missing something or making something harder (playing some specific games, not having some windows-only program, not supporting some hardware that developed/documented drivers only for windows, etc), but installing something to boot itself is almost a must do for all operating systems.
However, when we contacted Mozilla, they advised us to use the release version which is the most compatible and bug-free. (The latest 3.1 beta does not include the code that optimizes JavaScript apps, however.)
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Only read those 3 from him (cryptonomicon/snow crash/diamond age) and the "abrupt" description fits perfectly. You have a very long book, pretty good read all the way, but the whole conclusion and closing of everything that happened there is pretty close to the "the end" word, last 2 pages or so, like he figured "oh, i had so much fun writting this 500 page book that i didnt realized that i reached the page 499... lets finish this" and in the last page he puts the conclusion.
If he finally puts a not-abrupt conclusion on a book then i should check it, even with made up words abuse.
Integrating virtual worlds with the web, or adding a new level to the communities you build around a site are things that should take off in some moment, not sure when, or if lively's implementation was the right one.
Probably something similar will appear shortly, or exist already, at least if the biggest problem of lively wasn't of the concept but that it dont fit in google's main focus.
Machines do whatever they are programmed (intended or not) to do. If a conciousness appears somewhat, what it could do? alter the way it is already behaving, the way is programmed to do? We could be speaking about rocks conciousness too.
Same happens with human beings. You can't separate "soul" from physiology, because they are tied from the start, it is part of our brain wiring, as for machines must be somehow part of their programming.
Not all programming looks like deterministic, of course. Probably the biggest culprit of hope in this area is Windows (even evil conciousness is conciousness), but whatever emerges must be somewhat programmed with space for that.
Speaking about space for that, if i remember well in Asimov's Bicentennial Man (the story, not the movie) it "emerged" with artistic sense and things like that because by a building defect, it had the space for going beyond its programming.
If most of internet spam is sent by very few people, and all this movement of information enables to track them better and maybe, finally, get them, the people source of most spam could end offline (and with a bit of luck, in guantanamo/siberia/wherever waterboarded 24/7)
Intel should use those lasers to start to make processors that use positrons instead of electrons. Robots based on those positronic "brains" will have a big potential, and could last eons.
I got more impressed with the hyperionverse, but ender's one is not so bad. Anyway, found that keep reading some series tend to degrade that whole universe instead of enriching them (felt at least that way with hyperion, ender and dune ones).
About Bean's subserie it started well, but was a mistake to keep reading the next books.
Destroy as we know it? Evolution does that, something that used to be isnt that way exactly anymore. You can call it destruction, or call improvement, or change, for better or worse. And if the software industry dont fit exactly in reality, then it must adapt or die.
And if well i dont fully agree that everything must be open source in a future (as could be cases where is better that way, even if is the "guess how i did it" game), more openness is needed definately in a lot of areas. And that wont mean the end of software industry, nor the companies on it.
But if you want to put it in monetary terms, is far cheaper anything that keeps you getting more money in the future than anything that at some point you stop receiving it (and living, but thats secondary, just money matters)
I don't fully agree with Stallman regarding cloud computing, but if you add Microsoft's usual strategies to storing all your documents with them (lets take their word that any browser will be able to use their web office) some danger could be there.
At least with Google's one i can download the docs in OpenOffice/Word/RTF/HTML format, thats the other "compatibility" that MS Web Office should provide too.
Related to this, recently was announced Google's FluTrends that tracks flu outbreaks correlating it with where people is googling for flu symtoms/treatments/etc.
Is not a big privacy problem per se, not more than a census, but could be the start of a trend. Would hate to read it as "If you have no privacy, we can help you"
3 main ways to google to get info about you: - You publish that information in your site (i.e. you give it to everyone, google included) - You give that information to google (i.e. you store your mail/documents/etc in google, or interact with your google account with google sites, like in maps, search history, etc) - You interact with google sites not with your account, but interact anyways. That could include google ads, or the search engine itself (even if is embedded in your browser), or visiting sites using google analytics.
In the first two is your choice to give them your information. And if the last one worries you, using alternative search engines or using extensions like NoScript will solve that problem.
The problem with google is that give you too much ways, most of them very handy, to store your information, and is in very good positions to combine all that sources. You can pick all yahoo services and be in more or less the same situation, but in yahoo. Or in lesser degree, can fall in the same with Microsoft, Facebook, your mail provider, etc(even slashdot could fit in that category eventually)
Some years ago, i saw a good joke about reforming the Spanish language (i.e. here). You change bit for bit of the language, till you get at the end something ridiculous that cant be even recognized, but, beware, don't touch a hair of our letter ñ.
With er... "national security", happens a bit the same, taking freedom after freedom in the name of public security (in the terrorists could use them or could be used to kill fashion) till very little freedom or privacy left, but is ok while they dont touch our god sent right of having weapons.
Regarding the mind behind the device, if you screw badly with chemistry the larger odds are against you alone, and playing with chemistry isnt exactly something too popular, you probably have a clue to start. Cars and guns are popular, you could not have a clue, and you usually affect others with your mistakes. And if you mean to damage a lot of people is easier with guns and cars than with chemistry, and anyway most of that could be done with common items.
Knives? Cars? In numbers, cars should kill orders of magnitude more than hobby chemistry (probably even you call hobby chemistry government's chemical weapons in any war). But there is a little difference between "could be used to kill" and "meant to be used to kill"
Maybe as with cars and guns, one could get a nominal/test license to practice that hobby.
Playing with chemistry toys could eventually enable you to do weapons, despite its good uses. A lot of things in a plane (from scissors to suspicious liquids like breast milk) in a plane could be used as weapon eventually.
But of course, is legal, even is a constitutional right or something similar, to own weapons, things that are only meant to kill, in the US.
McCain will be the one that will make all smarter. At least, if you manage to survive his government, you definately will be smart (or very lucky, in the Teela Brown way).
With so much data i would say that the darkness start when you get blinded by the light. Search engines do a great job, but still, the relevant, unbiased and accurate data could be very hidden by the amount of the opposite kind of data that exist in big numbers.
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Could be nice to do those comparisions in the same hardware betweeen i.e. Ubuntu, Gentoo and OpenSUSE, all for 64 bits, as is not clear when they are measuring against Linux or against optimizations or not that do a particular distribution. Or put where it applies (i.e. the java tests) the numbers for Windows and MacOS.
Easy to uninstall as what? An application? Is not an application that runs over Windows and you uninstall it cleaning registry and deleting some files.
Try to uninstall windows the same way... you always have to mess with some boot loader, or at least, whatever that replaces your boot loader.
There are a lot of space to complain about linux missing something or making something harder (playing some specific games, not having some windows-only program, not supporting some hardware that developed/documented drivers only for windows, etc), but installing something to boot itself is almost a must do for all operating systems.
What about oil, or grease or sticky substances in general?
Maybe for normal clothing wont be good, but probably will have interesting applications in other fields.
However, when we contacted Mozilla, they advised us to use the release version which is the most compatible and bug-free. (The latest 3.1 beta does not include the code that optimizes JavaScript apps, however.)
FF3.1 t is not including lately tracemonkey?
Anyway, there was a (2 months old, not sure how much changed things since) comparision between js engines in http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/ if you want to compare it against chrome.
Only read those 3 from him (cryptonomicon/snow crash/diamond age) and the "abrupt" description fits perfectly. You have a very long book, pretty good read all the way, but the whole conclusion and closing of everything that happened there is pretty close to the "the end" word, last 2 pages or so, like he figured "oh, i had so much fun writting this 500 page book that i didnt realized that i reached the page 499... lets finish this" and in the last page he puts the conclusion.
If he finally puts a not-abrupt conclusion on a book then i should check it, even with made up words abuse.
at least there when you screw something down there you dont have the whole world watching you
Forget? And miss the chance of the biggest mass trial since Nuremberg?
Ok, lets register gchat, so people will get totally lost between gchat, g-speak and google talk.
Integrating virtual worlds with the web, or adding a new level to the communities you build around a site are things that should take off in some moment, not sure when, or if lively's implementation was the right one.
Probably something similar will appear shortly, or exist already, at least if the biggest problem of lively wasn't of the concept but that it dont fit in google's main focus.
Machines do whatever they are programmed (intended or not) to do. If a conciousness appears somewhat, what it could do? alter the way it is already behaving, the way is programmed to do? We could be speaking about rocks conciousness too.
Same happens with human beings. You can't separate "soul" from physiology, because they are tied from the start, it is part of our brain wiring, as for machines must be somehow part of their programming.
Not all programming looks like deterministic, of course. Probably the biggest culprit of hope in this area is Windows (even evil conciousness is conciousness), but whatever emerges must be somewhat programmed with space for that.
Speaking about space for that, if i remember well in Asimov's Bicentennial Man (the story, not the movie) it "emerged" with artistic sense and things like that because by a building defect, it had the space for going beyond its programming.
If most of internet spam is sent by very few people, and all this movement of information enables to track them better and maybe, finally, get them, the people source of most spam could end offline (and with a bit of luck, in guantanamo/siberia/wherever waterboarded 24/7)
Intel should use those lasers to start to make processors that use positrons instead of electrons. Robots based on those positronic "brains" will have a big potential, and could last eons.
I got more impressed with the hyperionverse, but ender's one is not so bad. Anyway, found that keep reading some series tend to degrade that whole universe instead of enriching them (felt at least that way with hyperion, ender and dune ones).
About Bean's subserie it started well, but was a mistake to keep reading the next books.
Destroy as we know it? Evolution does that, something that used to be isnt that way exactly anymore. You can call it destruction, or call improvement, or change, for better or worse. And if the software industry dont fit exactly in reality, then it must adapt or die.
And if well i dont fully agree that everything must be open source in a future (as could be cases where is better that way, even if is the "guess how i did it" game), more openness is needed definately in a lot of areas. And that wont mean the end of software industry, nor the companies on it.
Smith&Wesson and Colt companies has been accused of murder, along with the cities where their factories are located.
Is far cheaper to dig a hole and put head in it.
But if you want to put it in monetary terms, is far cheaper anything that keeps you getting more money in the future than anything that at some point you stop receiving it (and living, but thats secondary, just money matters)
I don't fully agree with Stallman regarding cloud computing, but if you add Microsoft's usual strategies to storing all your documents with them (lets take their word that any browser will be able to use their web office) some danger could be there.
At least with Google's one i can download the docs in OpenOffice/Word/RTF/HTML format, thats the other "compatibility" that MS Web Office should provide too.
Is not a big privacy problem per se, not more than a census, but could be the start of a trend. Would hate to read it as "If you have no privacy, we can help you"
3 main ways to google to get info about you:
- You publish that information in your site (i.e. you give it to everyone, google included)
- You give that information to google (i.e. you store your mail/documents/etc in google, or interact with your google account with google sites, like in maps, search history, etc)
- You interact with google sites not with your account, but interact anyways. That could include google ads, or the search engine itself (even if is embedded in your browser), or visiting sites using google analytics.
In the first two is your choice to give them your information. And if the last one worries you, using alternative search engines or using extensions like NoScript will solve that problem.
The problem with google is that give you too much ways, most of them very handy, to store your information, and is in very good positions to combine all that sources. You can pick all yahoo services and be in more or less the same situation, but in yahoo. Or in lesser degree, can fall in the same with Microsoft, Facebook, your mail provider, etc(even slashdot could fit in that category eventually)
With er... "national security", happens a bit the same, taking freedom after freedom in the name of public security (in the terrorists could use them or could be used to kill fashion) till very little freedom or privacy left, but is ok while they dont touch our god sent right of having weapons.
Regarding the mind behind the device, if you screw badly with chemistry the larger odds are against you alone, and playing with chemistry isnt exactly something too popular, you probably have a clue to start. Cars and guns are popular, you could not have a clue, and you usually affect others with your mistakes. And if you mean to damage a lot of people is easier with guns and cars than with chemistry, and anyway most of that could be done with common items.
Knives? Cars? In numbers, cars should kill orders of magnitude more than hobby chemistry (probably even you call hobby chemistry government's chemical weapons in any war). But there is a little difference between "could be used to kill" and "meant to be used to kill"
Maybe as with cars and guns, one could get a nominal/test license to practice that hobby.
Playing with chemistry toys could eventually enable you to do weapons, despite its good uses. A lot of things in a plane (from scissors to suspicious liquids like breast milk) in a plane could be used as weapon eventually.
But of course, is legal, even is a constitutional right or something similar, to own weapons, things that are only meant to kill, in the US.
Irony kills too, lets ban it.
McCain will be the one that will make all smarter. At least, if you manage to survive his government, you definately will be smart (or very lucky, in the Teela Brown way).
Im more worried about the knots that can be tied but not untied. My shoes are about to get the Alexander's universal knot solution.
With so much data i would say that the darkness start when you get blinded by the light. Search engines do a great job, but still, the relevant, unbiased and accurate data could be very hidden by the amount of the opposite kind of data that exist in big numbers.