It looks like this method, as others, divide the brain into slices for mapping. Doesn't the slicing of soft tissue make it difficult or impossible to determine the exact point of connection between slices? I imagine it like dividing a plate of spaghetti, and then trying to determine which noodles were connected to which just by looking at their new positions, whereas their previous positions were determined, in part, by the connections themselves, and the slicing process has introduced entropy.
Are the brains frozen into a solid before slicing? If not, how do you preserve the arrangement? If yes, have you had any problems with zombies trying to eat the braincicles?
I don't know about 7 vs. XP, but 7 is definitely faster than Vista in almost all respects, which breaks your model right there.
It does more, it may be sloppy code, it may be better code! but it's still, always always doing more, this rule of thumb has been since the dawn of man.
You're comparing apples to oranges here. The expectations of an OS have changed over the years, along with the capabilities of hardware. Vista can copy 10GB files faster than Windows95, because Win95 can't even handle 10GB partitions, let alone files. Beyond that, there are wider buses, multicore processors, new interfaces, etc., etc. Soon enough, technology will march along and leave XP in the dust. People won't write drivers for it, and any comparison of relative speed will be meaningless.
As for Win7 vs. XP, Microsoft is focusing very intently on optimizing their code and improving the user experience, including the responsiveness, which is what makes the OS "feel" fast. It may well be that, for all practical purposes, Win7 will be faster than XP in most metrics. It may boot more quickly. Windows may open faster. Folder contents and previews may be displayed more quickly. It is entirely possible that it could, in most respects, be faster than XP while still doing more -- if there is sufficient room for optimization, and if it can leverage the advances in hardware design that XP cannot.
You're making a false dichotomy between extreme responses. Starting off the thread with (not you, but whomever) "So no more adblock huh?" was obviously a comment published to garner a reaction, not an insightful or meaningful comment on its own. The question is valid, but the context was not.
Not all the people, but maybe some of the people who did a significant amount of work to make your life better with no expectation of compensation. I mean, if open source is going to try to make any legitimate claims to an ethos, then those claims should be backed up with at least a bit of humanity. Not bothering to tip your hat at the death of someone who helped you out personally, regardless of whether there was a personal relationship, is in poor taste, to say the least.
Now I'm not saying that YOU are the embodiment of OSS, or that WE should have some sort of wake or something (although any excuse to party is a good excuse). What I am saying is that people who create and contribute to OSS are acting in a manner that benefits society as much as, if not more than, the individual. That in and of itself deserves some recognition, at the very least when the contributor passes away. And if his work impacted you directly (as I'm sure it did for most Slashdotters), then the fact that you *didn't* know his name is, quite frankly, irrelevant to the fact that you do now, and you had a chance to at least express some gratitude, but instead created a rationale for why you can't be arsed.
Congratulations, Sony just lowered the price of the PS2 to $100. As an added bonus, it already exists, so no development time, and it has a large software library.
Yesterday's high-end consoles are today's low-end consoles. Why would anyone waste time and money redeveloping a new system using old or low-end hardware? It's almost the definition of reinventing the wheel.
The use of apostrophes to pluralize nouns is ambigious at best -- there are conflicting authoritative opinions on whether or not they are proper. Basically, unless you're writing a term paper and your prof. has an opinion one way or the other, it doesn't matter.
Hmm.. how do you disprove evolution? It seems to be more of a self-defined characteristic than a theory. Disproving evolution would be like "disproving" that heat is hot.
How does the discovery of 3 new species of octopus, none of which are known to exist today, lend itself to Creationism?
The article states that some of the features of modern octopuses are older than previously thought, not that octopuses haven't changed at all in 95M years.
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It looks like this method, as others, divide the brain into slices for mapping. Doesn't the slicing of soft tissue make it difficult or impossible to determine the exact point of connection between slices? I imagine it like dividing a plate of spaghetti, and then trying to determine which noodles were connected to which just by looking at their new positions, whereas their previous positions were determined, in part, by the connections themselves, and the slicing process has introduced entropy.
Are the brains frozen into a solid before slicing? If not, how do you preserve the arrangement? If yes, have you had any problems with zombies trying to eat the braincicles?
I don't know about 7 vs. XP, but 7 is definitely faster than Vista in almost all respects, which breaks your model right there.
It does more, it may be sloppy code, it may be better code! but it's still, always always doing more, this rule of thumb has been since the dawn of man.
You're comparing apples to oranges here. The expectations of an OS have changed over the years, along with the capabilities of hardware. Vista can copy 10GB files faster than Windows95, because Win95 can't even handle 10GB partitions, let alone files. Beyond that, there are wider buses, multicore processors, new interfaces, etc., etc. Soon enough, technology will march along and leave XP in the dust. People won't write drivers for it, and any comparison of relative speed will be meaningless.
As for Win7 vs. XP, Microsoft is focusing very intently on optimizing their code and improving the user experience, including the responsiveness, which is what makes the OS "feel" fast. It may well be that, for all practical purposes, Win7 will be faster than XP in most metrics. It may boot more quickly. Windows may open faster. Folder contents and previews may be displayed more quickly. It is entirely possible that it could, in most respects, be faster than XP while still doing more -- if there is sufficient room for optimization, and if it can leverage the advances in hardware design that XP cannot.
Nine Eleven!
Sorry, Pavlovian response.
You're making a false dichotomy between extreme responses. Starting off the thread with (not you, but whomever) "So no more adblock huh?" was obviously a comment published to garner a reaction, not an insightful or meaningful comment on its own. The question is valid, but the context was not.
Not all the people, but maybe some of the people who did a significant amount of work to make your life better with no expectation of compensation. I mean, if open source is going to try to make any legitimate claims to an ethos, then those claims should be backed up with at least a bit of humanity. Not bothering to tip your hat at the death of someone who helped you out personally, regardless of whether there was a personal relationship, is in poor taste, to say the least.
Now I'm not saying that YOU are the embodiment of OSS, or that WE should have some sort of wake or something (although any excuse to party is a good excuse). What I am saying is that people who create and contribute to OSS are acting in a manner that benefits society as much as, if not more than, the individual. That in and of itself deserves some recognition, at the very least when the contributor passes away. And if his work impacted you directly (as I'm sure it did for most Slashdotters), then the fact that you *didn't* know his name is, quite frankly, irrelevant to the fact that you do now, and you had a chance to at least express some gratitude, but instead created a rationale for why you can't be arsed.
Etiquette should always be a primary concern.
Well I liked him as that zebra in Madagascar.
Congratulations, Sony just lowered the price of the PS2 to $100. As an added bonus, it already exists, so no development time, and it has a large software library.
Yesterday's high-end consoles are today's low-end consoles. Why would anyone waste time and money redeveloping a new system using old or low-end hardware? It's almost the definition of reinventing the wheel.
Will I now have to quit slashdot too? Only time will tell.
Of course these cars are all engineered by the same people, so no, there's no measurable difference between Lexus/Toyota or Acura/Honda.
Yeah dawg, just slap a chrome L on your Yaris and park it in front of the Bellagio.. Nobody will know the difference!
Not quite.. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130099
MS shot first.
If robots are ever more intelligent than us, they'll also be intelligent enough to make good decisions.
That's exactly the sort of thinking that leads to the enslavement of humanity. Good job falling right into their trap!
No mention of the fact that it will become self-aware in 2 years and 25 days, or that two days later, the war on humanity will begin.
Sadomasochists have to work too, so just shut the fuck up and hurt me.
Good thing the sun is white, then.
Hopefully it was a mortgage-backed security broker trying to see if he could fly.
They're magically suspicious.
Also they should rename the SciFi channel to Psi Phi.
The use of apostrophes to pluralize nouns is ambigious at best -- there are conflicting authoritative opinions on whether or not they are proper. Basically, unless you're writing a term paper and your prof. has an opinion one way or the other, it doesn't matter.
Hmm.. how do you disprove evolution? It seems to be more of a self-defined characteristic than a theory. Disproving evolution would be like "disproving" that heat is hot.
Apparently you were seeing what you wanted to see.. =O
How does the discovery of 3 new species of octopus, none of which are known to exist today, lend itself to Creationism?
The article states that some of the features of modern octopuses are older than previously thought, not that octopuses haven't changed at all in 95M years.
Turn the earth into a giant snowball
Fine, but I swear to God, if you're just getting me to do this so you can throw it at me when I'm done, I'm going to be seriously pissed.
Most of what you hear about poisonous spiders, even 'first hand accounts', are simply myths.
Most, but not all.
Hint #3: It has nothing to do with an incompetent defense. Google it some time.
Nice use of the Chewbacca Defense though. Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, this does NOT make sense.
* Removable Battery
* Video
* Speech to Text
* Waterproof
* Fireproof
* Shatterproof
* Self-cleaning screen
* Wriststraps
* Juice dispenser
* Cash dispenser
* Stock predictor
* Mechanical actuators of any kind
* Biometric monitoring
* Jury tampering
* AI
* Introspection
* ESP