As of January 1995, C versions of Cyc have been compiled and tested on the following OS/hardware combinations:
UNIX OS:
Sun Sparc
DEC Alpha
Apple System 7 OS:
Macintosh Powerbook
Macintosh Quadra
Power Macintosh
Probably a little out of date by now. I wonder if they tell it "Windows is an inferior operating system" whether this will give Cyc a superiority complex.
Seems to me that if all there was on Europa was some little bacteria like the ones claimed for Mars, nobody would care much about this story. But they really should be saying "life as we know it," based on carbon, using (or generating) oxygen, and the rest of it, to play this up to the hilt.
iPaq, Palm, Yopy, whatever... In a year and a half, you will want something better, and will be able to buy something better with the change you find in your sofa.
This goes a long way toward solving your "poor student" dilemma. Buy whatever model suits your wallet and has all the must-have features. Ignore the OS it is running on. Make sure you feel confident that when the thing is obsolescent in a few years, when you're a rich bastard, you'll be able to migrate your data up to a spiffier unit and not be stranded. If you're thinking of taking notes with the thing, you'll want to have a portable keyboard rather than try inputting with a stylus, so the handwriting recognition might be less important than you would think at first.
For me, between the two in question, the iPAQ has it over the YOPY on these criteria. I made a similar calculation myself and am happy with my Visor Deluxe (with a brand new VisorPhone Springboard module!) for now, expecting to part with it in a couple of years.
It's even more complicated than this. There are two kinds of mass people talk about in connection with neutrinos: Dirac mass and Majorana mass. Dirac mass is the same kind of thing as the conventional rest mass of other particles. Majorana mass is tied together with the helicity of the particle: left handed neutrinos and right handed antineutrinos are one and the same, more or less.
All this is off the top of my head, I'm no longer in the business nowadays.
For further reference, here's an article at physicscentral.com relating to the experiment. It does not give much more details on the technical aspects of the mass, though. And here's the SNO press release off of their homepage.
This is stupid. I've been looking up stuff on the net after hearing on a radio show that out of the top 10 accident causing distractions that cell phones are #9. Ranked BELOW messing with the radio, eating, and smoking.
But I would hazard a guess that cell phone users are fewer than car radio users. Once you normalize the data, I bet the rate of mishaps relating to yakking on the phone is higher than those other things.
Besides, what radio show is going to say that listening to the radio is bad?
It's true, and I think it's because it would take some kind of headline-grabbing catastrophe to propel it to the top of our collective consciousness. A few of these, and encryption will become institutionalized like the way the use of seatbelts is now drilled into schoolchildren in the U.S.
Therefore, any large group must evolve a technology of
trust. If it doesn't do so, it will fall victim to rampant
parasitism, which will cause inefficiency, which will eventually bring stagnation and failure to compete -- that is, death.
Do you really believe this is the only logical outcome? I think that, yes, it will lead to inefficiency, which will lead to... well, just inefficiency. It depends on what kind of competition it is up against.
I personally prefer to view the argument for the social contract of the GPL in ethical terms, rather than economic terms. Does the author of a work have the moral right to tell the users of that work that they are obliged to give back to the community, or not?
I think it would be a good idea to include some ribosomes in the package as well plus some amino acids of the proper chirality. Otherwise the aliens could spend a long time trying to figure out how to play back the sequence.
And maybe if they do decode the DNA and create a population of humans on some distant planet, we might be doing our relatives a favor by including the DNA sequences for hops and barley too.
You can read a somewhat longer, though not much more technical, article written by Charles Mann in Technology Review's March 2001 issue.
I'm hoping they make display units you can put your vehicle, so that one has more choices for imparting information than honking, flashing your lights, or flipping the bird. I want a to be able to display the following message on a big sign, in reversed characters, on the front of my car:
This should work fine as long as you're limiting the usage to graphical browsers, not things like lynx or ftp.
And if you get a bump on the head so that you don't know who you are or anyone you know you'll have problems. (Should apply only to a sitcom universe where the characters spend a lot of time logging in to things.)
So what is the absolute best application for the visually-impaired which has not been developed? And is it so obvious that making images literally "tangible" isn't one way of accomplishing that goal?
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On the other hand, I'd kill (or pay $$$) for a STONE case. Any kind. Black marble or onyx or maybe granite or even just reinforced concrete.
Maybe a nice Corian case would be easier to work with. You could get it in granite, marble, or bone patterns. Or if you follow the Zodiaq link at the Dupont site, the material you use would have a quartz crystal look to it. Has someone already done this?
And the best thing would be that you could make your server match your intelligent kitchen countertops.
I see a great future for a new TV program in the spirit of Junkyard Wars. The contestants are given ten hours to scrounge parts from a heap of trashed servers to construct useful items. In the first episode, the teams must build a set of rock-and-roll instruments from a room full of PDP-11s. Hosted by Steve Wozniak and Heidi Wall.
I think the first thing you ought to think about doing is to archive any important emails you have stored in your account, in case some muckety-muck should decide to shut it down. By the time that happens, all the lawyers in the world won't be enough to make up for the grief it will have already cost you.
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Probably a little out of date by now. I wonder if they tell it "Windows is an inferior operating system" whether this will give Cyc a superiority complex.
Seems to me that if all there was on Europa was some little bacteria like the ones claimed for Mars, nobody would care much about this story. But they really should be saying "life as we know it," based on carbon, using (or generating) oxygen, and the rest of it, to play this up to the hilt.
Has anybody told them that their name is a misspelling?
Search engine, correct thyself.
For me, between the two in question, the iPAQ has it over the YOPY on these criteria. I made a similar calculation myself and am happy with my Visor Deluxe (with a brand new VisorPhone Springboard module!) for now, expecting to part with it in a couple of years.
It's even more complicated than this. There are two kinds of mass people talk about in connection with neutrinos: Dirac mass and Majorana mass. Dirac mass is the same kind of thing as the conventional rest mass of other particles. Majorana mass is tied together with the helicity of the particle: left handed neutrinos and right handed antineutrinos are one and the same, more or less.
All this is off the top of my head, I'm no longer in the business nowadays.
For further reference, here's an article at physicscentral.com relating to the experiment. It does not give much more details on the technical aspects of the mass, though. And here's the SNO press release off of their homepage.
Twenty-five quatloos to the first one who adapts this device so that it can be powered by a rocking chair, thus freeing up one's hands* for typing.
Note that this fits neatly with the theme of the recent Ask Slashdot item asking about ways to teach the Internet to seniors.
* Hey! Get your mind out of the gutter!
Compact Disk, Rotten, Wooly
But I would hazard a guess that cell phone users are fewer than car radio users. Once you normalize the data, I bet the rate of mishaps relating to yakking on the phone is higher than those other things.
Besides, what radio show is going to say that listening to the radio is bad?
It's true, and I think it's because it would take some kind of headline-grabbing catastrophe to propel it to the top of our collective consciousness. A few of these, and encryption will become institutionalized like the way the use of seatbelts is now drilled into schoolchildren in the U.S.
Do you really believe this is the only logical outcome? I think that, yes, it will lead to inefficiency, which will lead to ... well, just inefficiency. It depends on what kind of competition it is up against.
I personally prefer to view the argument for the social contract of the GPL in ethical terms, rather than economic terms. Does the author of a work have the moral right to tell the users of that work that they are obliged to give back to the community, or not?
- Toroidal watermelons, so you can hang them on your shower curtain rod, thus saving even more space in your fridge.
- Helical watermelons whose spin leads to increased projectile accuracy.
- Fractal watermelons which look the same after you hurl them at the wall.
- George W. Bush-head shaped watermelons. As decoys.
That's four ideas right there to help hasten the Day of Destruction, and I don't even like watermelon.I think it would be a good idea to include some ribosomes in the package as well plus some amino acids of the proper chirality. Otherwise the aliens could spend a long time trying to figure out how to play back the sequence.
And maybe if they do decode the DNA and create a population of humans on some distant planet, we might be doing our relatives a favor by including the DNA sequences for hops and barley too.
You can read a somewhat longer, though not much more technical, article written by Charles Mann in Technology Review's March 2001 issue.
I'm hoping they make display units you can put your vehicle, so that one has more choices for imparting information than honking, flashing your lights, or flipping the bird. I want a to be able to display the following message on a big sign, in reversed characters, on the front of my car:
This should work fine as long as you're limiting the usage to graphical browsers, not things like lynx or ftp.
And if you get a bump on the head so that you don't know who you are or anyone you know you'll have problems. (Should apply only to a sitcom universe where the characters spend a lot of time logging in to things.)
Maybe a nice Corian case would be easier to work with. You could get it in granite, marble, or bone patterns. Or if you follow the Zodiaq link at the Dupont site, the material you use would have a quartz crystal look to it. Has someone already done this?
And the best thing would be that you could make your server match your intelligent kitchen countertops.
I see a great future for a new TV program in the spirit of Junkyard Wars. The contestants are given ten hours to scrounge parts from a heap of trashed servers to construct useful items. In the first episode, the teams must build a set of rock-and-roll instruments from a room full of PDP-11s. Hosted by Steve Wozniak and Heidi Wall.
Yes, but not tourists, instead
I think Tito has an inflated idea of how much science a scientist or engineer does on the ground out of the 24 hours a day.Maids...
in...
Space..
I think the first thing you ought to think about doing is to archive any important emails you have stored in your account, in case some muckety-muck should decide to shut it down. By the time that happens, all the lawyers in the world won't be enough to make up for the grief it will have already cost you.
Well I like the Perl Cookbook too, but the very best thing for learning the language was having a real honest to gosh deadline breathing down my neck.