Germany migrates away from nuclear fission power, yes. But Germany is still funding science, and that not only if there is "return on investment" to be expected before the next elections.
Might be that fusion power won't be required right when it becomes feasible. But humankind might be happy to have it at hand during the next ice age.
Skimming money off gullible investors. Claiming to have found "dark matter" and, at the same time, having turned it into a viable energy source is a little bit over the top, even for fraudster standards.
Intel knows pretty well they would be knee-deep in anti-trust trouble if AMD died. They'll see to this not coming. A permanently struggling AMD that still sells mediocre x86 CPUs is in Intels best interest. And actually, AMD CPUs still deliver good bang-per-buck, if you don't need a high-end system, which few really require.
Not an MMO, but MindRover was a game completely around building bots and sending them to fight each other. There also were contests were you sent in your bot for competing against others on a manufacturer hosted machine.
And the grand father of such games, of course, was "Core Wars", without any fancy 3d-graphics.
Entertaining yourself watching others frustration of losing doesn't even require a computer.
I vividly remember a guy decades ago in school who was so reproduceably upset by losing (soccer games, card games and alike) that others started to intentionally play bad whenever they happened to be teamed up with him, just because it was so much fun watching him getting upset.
The whole time, he never seemed to realize that it was no coincidence people were losing when playing on his team.
And "being small" is a feature completely missing from every contemporary smartphone sold where I live. (By small, I mean dimensions smaller than 8cm x 5cm x 1.5cm).
20 years or so from now, people not genetically "optimized" for a certain sport won't make it into the top ranks.
I don't mind, though, since everyone else can still enjoy sports for the fun of it. It's not like people stopped playing chess just because a PC is better than a grandmaster in that discipline...
When I go on vacation, I always use an unmanned probe.
It's cheaper and there's less unnecessary risk.
Most people I know go on vacation to have some pleasant experiences and relaxing leisure time, which is quite the opposite of risky exploration tours in harsh, life threatening environments.
Don't get me wrong: If somebody wants to personally go to Mars, for whatever reason, that's fine with me, as long as he does not expect tax payers to pay for his hobby.
For the massive costs that were required to build life-support into the moon mission, automatic drills, returning samples to the lander, could have been built.
And by the time a manned Mars mission can start, chances are that AI's are good enough to even locate and visit the most interesting nearby drilling sites from an unmanned Mars lander.
Humans have been on the moon, but except for a moment of feeling proud of oneselves, that didn't really earn us more insight than unmanned probes, so it was only plausible that decades went by without further manned visits there.
It won't be any different with Mars. Somebody will go there one day, for earning the fame "to have done it first". He will find the same boring dust there that we already know about. And again, decades will pass that don't see somebody repeat the stunt.
I wished that mankind would invest more into exploring the very interesting places that still remain largely unexplored on earth, like the depths of the oceans. And using unmanned probes is fine there, too, it's just much cheaper and means less unnecessary risk.
Does KDE require a distribution to enforce its use on the user? If it's attractive to use, people will do so even if it's "optional".
Generally, I don't understand why people are so much involved with the looks of their "desktop". To me, that's the least relevant part of an operating system.
The publication.europa.eu site you cite makes other even less ASCII-compatible and some outright stupid proposals:
They propose to put a "hard space" between the currency and the value, but "hard" or "non breaking" spaces are not included in ASCII.
They propose "m EUR or bn EUR may only be used when space is insufficent for spelling out", which is outright stupid because there is a SI prefix "M" for "million" already, and "m" is also an existing SI prefix meaning "milli" - 1/1000.
However, it's a pity this site does not support Unicode, like almost every contemporary software.
foundation money to pay people who would not voluntarily work on free open source software, just because those people happened to have two X chromosomes. And that to the extend that the GNOME foundation became technically insolvent. At which time she went on to abuse other foundations' money.
It's not that I have any sympathies for commercial exploitation of free open source software, but any foundation is well advised to keep Karen Sandler away from it.
... understanding speech if you had somebody (not yourself, of course) make recordings of strangers on the street uttering just a single word, each, randomly picked from a dictionary book dictionary. Chances are your recognition rate would be somewhere around 90%.
Automatic recognizers achieve better rates on this task - but they'll loose against you when it's complete, sensible sentences that are being spoken, even more so if you heard more sentences from the speaker, before.
I've been developing automatic speech recognition systems in the 1990s. Back then, the best performing recognizers were based on Hidden Markov Models, and for "out of context" tasks like "determine whether an individual spoken word from an unknown speaker is 'nine' or 'none'", the automatic recognizers already achieved better recognition rates than humans.
However, the specific human strength when recognizing fluent speech is to (a) quickly adapt to different speakers and (b) to fill in all the uncertain words from the understanding of the context, requiring "world knowledge". And that strength makes a very big difference.
So the claim in the article is not really anything special, it is to be expected that computers are better than humans in this special task, for at least the last 20 years.
... whose monitoring you outsourced so conveniently to Elbonia... connecting all valves to the "InterNet of Things"... well... turns out the cheap Elbonian workers are just virtual, AI controlled string puppets.
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Germany migrates away from nuclear fission power, yes. But Germany is still funding science, and that not only if there is "return on investment" to be expected before the next elections.
Might be that fusion power won't be required right when it becomes feasible. But humankind might be happy to have it at hand during the next ice age.
Skimming money off gullible investors. Claiming to have found "dark matter" and, at the same time, having turned it into a viable energy source is a little bit over the top, even for fraudster standards.
Intel knows pretty well they would be knee-deep in anti-trust trouble if AMD died. They'll see to this not coming. A permanently struggling AMD that still sells mediocre x86 CPUs is in Intels best interest. And actually, AMD CPUs still deliver good bang-per-buck, if you don't need a high-end system, which few really require.
Just build a Flintstones-style car with coarse stone-made wheels and put some e-motor on the axis. Then sell stock to gullible investors.
Well, the most automatized of all MMO's certainly is Progress Quest. What fun!
Not an MMO, but MindRover was a game completely around building bots and sending them to fight each other. There also were contests were you sent in your bot for competing against others on a manufacturer hosted machine.
And the grand father of such games, of course, was "Core Wars", without any fancy 3d-graphics.
Entertaining yourself watching others frustration of losing doesn't even require a computer.
I vividly remember a guy decades ago in school who was so reproduceably upset by losing (soccer games, card games and alike) that others started to intentionally play bad whenever they happened to be teamed up with him, just because it was so much fun watching him getting upset.
The whole time, he never seemed to realize that it was no coincidence people were losing when playing on his team.
And "being small" is a feature completely missing from every contemporary smartphone sold where I live. (By small, I mean dimensions smaller than 8cm x 5cm x 1.5cm).
... for the upcoming war against the flying SkyNet minions ;-)
20 years or so from now, people not genetically "optimized" for a certain sport won't make it into the top ranks.
I don't mind, though, since everyone else can still enjoy sports for the fun of it. It's not like people stopped playing chess just because a PC is better than a grandmaster in that discipline...
So maybe the poor should re-define themselves as "potential suicide-bombers" to be treated just as generous?
When I go on vacation, I always use an unmanned probe.
It's cheaper and there's less unnecessary risk.
Most people I know go on vacation to have some pleasant experiences and relaxing leisure time, which is quite the opposite of risky exploration tours in harsh, life threatening environments.
Don't get me wrong: If somebody wants to personally go to Mars, for whatever reason, that's fine with me, as long as he does not expect tax payers to pay for his hobby.
For the massive costs that were required to build life-support into the moon mission, automatic drills, returning samples to the lander, could have been built. And by the time a manned Mars mission can start, chances are that AI's are good enough to even locate and visit the most interesting nearby drilling sites from an unmanned Mars lander.
Humans have been on the moon, but except for a moment of feeling proud of oneselves, that didn't really earn us more insight than unmanned probes, so it was only plausible that decades went by without further manned visits there.
It won't be any different with Mars. Somebody will go there one day, for earning the fame "to have done it first". He will find the same boring dust there that we already know about. And again, decades will pass that don't see somebody repeat the stunt.
I wished that mankind would invest more into exploring the very interesting places that still remain largely unexplored on earth, like the depths of the oceans. And using unmanned probes is fine there, too, it's just much cheaper and means less unnecessary risk.
Does KDE require a distribution to enforce its use on the user? If it's attractive to use, people will do so even if it's "optional".
Generally, I don't understand why people are so much involved with the looks of their "desktop". To me, that's the least relevant part of an operating system.
The publication.europa.eu site you cite makes other even less ASCII-compatible and some outright stupid proposals:
They propose to put a "hard space" between the currency and the value, but "hard" or "non breaking" spaces are not included in ASCII.
They propose "m EUR or bn EUR may only be used when space is insufficent for spelling out", which is outright stupid because there is a SI prefix "M" for "million" already, and "m" is also an existing SI prefix meaning "milli" - 1/1000.
However, it's a pity this site does not support Unicode, like almost every contemporary software.
The text of the story that I submitted specifically said 12 k€, see: http://slashdot.org/submission...
I've got no idea why the "k" before the "€" mysteriously disappeared when the story was published.
Just to set the record straight: The text of the story that I submitted specifically said 12 k€, see: http://slashdot.org/submission...
I've got no idea why the "k" before the "€" mysteriously disappeared when the story was published.
Sorry, but it is not me who cannot read: The text of the story that I submitted specifically said 12 k€, see: http://slashdot.org/submission...
I've got no idea why the "k" before the "€" mysteriously disappeared when the story was published.
Sorry, but it is not me who cannot read: The text of the story that I submitted specifically said 12 k€, see: http://slashdot.org/submission...
I've got no idea why the "k" before the "€" mysteriously disappeared when the story was published.
... but maybe you can tell me that I got it all wrong from looking at their web page for 10 seconds.
It's not that I have any sympathies for commercial exploitation of free open source software, but any foundation is well advised to keep Karen Sandler away from it.
Automatic recognizers achieve better rates on this task - but they'll loose against you when it's complete, sensible sentences that are being spoken, even more so if you heard more sentences from the speaker, before.
I've been developing automatic speech recognition systems in the 1990s. Back then, the best performing recognizers were based on Hidden Markov Models, and for "out of context" tasks like "determine whether an individual spoken word from an unknown speaker is 'nine' or 'none'", the automatic recognizers already achieved better recognition rates than humans. However, the specific human strength when recognizing fluent speech is to (a) quickly adapt to different speakers and (b) to fill in all the uncertain words from the understanding of the context, requiring "world knowledge". And that strength makes a very big difference. So the claim in the article is not really anything special, it is to be expected that computers are better than humans in this special task, for at least the last 20 years.
... whose monitoring you outsourced so conveniently to Elbonia... connecting all valves to the "InterNet of Things"... well... turns out the cheap Elbonian workers are just virtual, AI controlled string puppets.