Agreed twenty times over. My users are all using ATI cards.
Even though they're running 2D apps on Windows, the price difference between ATI and Nvidia was practically zero for the features I needed - and the fact that I have a strong 'open' bias gave ATI the order.
Nobody lost but Nvidia. And even ATI may not realize that they made Windows sales because they freed their documents up.
NYC apartments are still being traded at around $1000 per sq ft. We're breaking through that mental hurdle now. IMHO, maybe the final low is an average of $800/sqft.
Actually, from what I dimly recall, they were on ~$100k, and demand a raise to ~$150k when they realized that what they were doing wasn't legit. They should have asked for a lot more (or quit, of course).
Of course, any terrorist with a brain would start honey-pot terrorist plans on various different sites - and see which sites lead to 'men in black' turning up.
Similarly, how better to lower terrorists' guard than to say that there is a US inter-agency turf-war that means that there are no longer any US-sponsored honey-pot sites.
... that giant trump card of calling said government's policies socialist...... (For the record, that's legitimately socialist, not the "Obamacare == teh socialists!!!111eleventyone!")...
FWIW, in most of the world Socialist is not such an synonym for Evil that it is in the US : it's much more understandable to everyone to pull out the giant trump card of calling said government's policies totalitarian, or a police state. After all that's the root of the problem.
What's INSANE about this is that the tiny heat pump that's one-fifth of a millimeter on a side is HUGE (10^7 times as big) in comparison to the one these guys are making.
This is another vote for keepass(x) - but with the addition of Unison to replicate the database everywhere you need it.
Redundancy makes the 'laptop stolen' problem less severe, since you still have your passwords backed up. I'm assuming that there's at least 1 other person here that doesn't really backup as often as they should...
Personally, I'm surprised that some people are advocating 'remembering them all' - I kind of assumed that everyone had a WiFi router, a machine with a root and root SQL pw, and a personal website, and PINs, and... Also, what about the 'name of your first school teacher' questions : it's more secure if you don't answer correctly...
So are you saying it's better to wait for calculus? Maybe not bother trying?
Most students don't ever understand algebra either ('do the same to both sides' is IMHO not real understanding). But getting exposure early means that people at least have a framework in which they can fill in the 'sophisticated' blanks. YMMV.
Maybe you tried this before you installed Windows out of frustration, but did you know that you can (most often than not) move a window around by holding down Alt while clicking & dragging? [ I've also been frustrated by screen-size dialogues not ensuring they fit on the current screen... ]
So : if HAL is turing-complete it can solve exactly the same set of problems as any machine it designs. Fair enough. But that's not so much a limitation of the potential of machines, more a limitation in the decidability of the problems. Humans wouldn't be able to decide them either : the problems simply cannot be reduced to true or false via any sequence of valid operations.
But this is no argument against the possibility of creating AI. Our limitation there is (seems to me to be) more a problem of knowing what we really want the machine to actually 'do'. We don't have a firm enough grasp of what Intelligence is to answer the question by producing the actual machine. But I don't see any reason why it should be permanently out of our grasp, since a pair humans can already produce offspring that are more intelligent than either parent - it's just that we don't know what we're doing yet.
I was there on a summer holiday job : at a small Cambridge company called Perihelion.
Oddly enough, when the company went bust, I was one of the few people who knew and/or cared what was in the physical building - and bought quite a few of the assets ("box of components #6") from the receiver/liquidator. I still have some transputers lying around (a friend and I managed to sell off a bunch of transputer modules over the course of the summer).
And I still have the old Perihelion sign... Those were the days.
Even non-core contributors have a 75% chance of getting their changes accepted - and my guess is that the probability is even higher if the changes make sense...
And rather than being a story about 'scarcity of resources', isn't it more one of Wikipedia approaching perfection?
You'd be surprised how tech-literate musicians that use Digital Audio Workstations are. A few years ago I went to an demo event for a DAW package, and half of the discussion was about hyperthreading and LII caches...
It's not like musicians want to know the low-level details, but they do need to know whether they can run 10 reverbs in real-time : and would prefer 30, 50,... effects. Their demands on hardware are insatiable - and it has to be rock-solid.
Maybe you were just pointing to the 'bundled for average guitar joe' thing.
But if you're talking Line6 products, I was surprised to find kernel drivers available for my UX1 (which I was about to sell on ebay after switching to a pure Linux environment).
Of course, the company won't notice that the Linux driver effort effectively won them a sale (because my second-hand unit wasn't on ebay to be bought by the Windows user that would have bought it in the place of the new unit...)
Kernel driver writers for odd hardware are pretty heroic IMHO.
As a legal immigrant in the States, I can state that (although I'm paying just as much tax as anyone else) : I have no vote, no free healthcare and no constitutional rights (let alone a TV show).
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Of course, in that case, it's not so much terraforming as 'somewhereelse-forming'.
And they'll be along soon to clear off the rodents from the planet they prepared earlier...
Or they could have given the Egyptians some helpful hints, and gone back to their day-jobs.
We might be a weekend gardening experiment...
Agreed twenty times over. My users are all using ATI cards.
Even though they're running 2D apps on Windows, the price difference between ATI and Nvidia was practically zero for the features I needed - and the fact that I have a strong 'open' bias gave ATI the order.
Nobody lost but Nvidia. And even ATI may not realize that they made Windows sales because they freed their documents up.
NYC apartments are still being traded at around $1000 per sq ft. We're breaking through that mental hurdle now. IMHO, maybe the final low is an average of $800/sqft.
Actually, from what I dimly recall, they were on ~$100k, and demand a raise to ~$150k when they realized that what they were doing wasn't legit. They should have asked for a lot more (or quit, of course).
Of course, any terrorist with a brain would start honey-pot terrorist plans on various different sites - and see which sites lead to 'men in black' turning up.
Similarly, how better to lower terrorists' guard than to say that there is a US inter-agency turf-war that means that there are no longer any US-sponsored honey-pot sites.
... that giant trump card of calling said government's policies socialist ... ... (For the record, that's legitimately socialist, not the "Obamacare == teh socialists!!!111eleventyone!") ...
FWIW, in most of the world Socialist is not such an synonym for Evil that it is in the US : it's much more understandable to everyone to pull out the giant trump card of calling said government's policies totalitarian, or a police state. After all that's the root of the problem.
Apart from that, I'm in total agreement.
MUST WATCH VIDEO to understand how scary a squadron of these could be in a crowded public space...
And the NRA supporters think that people with guns would help save the day?
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It's stimulating a conversation.
Have a look at the "artist's" site. He's plainly got some interesting ideas.
In many ways, these ideas are more 'accessible' than a lot of classical 'pretty pictures'.
PS:
It's also interesting to me that this guy can survive, while producing less than 1 artwork per month...
What's INSANE about this is that the tiny heat pump that's one-fifth of a millimeter on a side is HUGE (10^7 times as big) in comparison to the one these guys are making.
This is another vote for keepass(x) - but with the addition of Unison to replicate the database everywhere you need it.
Redundancy makes the 'laptop stolen' problem less severe, since you still have your passwords backed up. I'm assuming that there's at least 1 other person here that doesn't really backup as often as they should...
Personally, I'm surprised that some people are advocating 'remembering them all' - I kind of assumed that everyone had a WiFi router, a machine with a root and root SQL pw, and a personal website, and PINs, and ... Also, what about the 'name of your first school teacher' questions : it's more secure if you don't answer correctly...
Tax lawyers are the professional crackers of the tax legal code.
So are you saying it's better to wait for calculus? Maybe not bother trying?
Most students don't ever understand algebra either ('do the same to both sides' is IMHO not real understanding). But getting exposure early means that people at least have a framework in which they can fill in the 'sophisticated' blanks. YMMV.
Maybe you tried this before you installed Windows out of frustration, but did you know that you can (most often than not) move a window around by holding down Alt while clicking & dragging? [ I've also been frustrated by screen-size dialogues not ensuring they fit on the current screen... ]
So : if HAL is turing-complete it can solve exactly the same set of problems as any machine it designs. Fair enough. But that's not so much a limitation of the potential of machines, more a limitation in the decidability of the problems. Humans wouldn't be able to decide them either : the problems simply cannot be reduced to true or false via any sequence of valid operations.
But this is no argument against the possibility of creating AI. Our limitation there is (seems to me to be) more a problem of knowing what we really want the machine to actually 'do'. We don't have a firm enough grasp of what Intelligence is to answer the question by producing the actual machine. But I don't see any reason why it should be permanently out of our grasp, since a pair humans can already produce offspring that are more intelligent than either parent - it's just that we don't know what we're doing yet.
I was there on a summer holiday job : at a small Cambridge company called Perihelion.
Oddly enough, when the company went bust, I was one of the few people who knew and/or cared what was in the physical building - and bought quite a few of the assets ("box of components #6") from the receiver/liquidator. I still have some transputers lying around (a friend and I managed to sell off a bunch of transputer modules over the course of the summer).
And I still have the old Perihelion sign... Those were the days.
Even non-core contributors have a 75% chance of getting their changes accepted - and my guess is that the probability is even higher if the changes make sense...
And rather than being a story about 'scarcity of resources', isn't it more one of Wikipedia approaching perfection?
Many of the Microsoft-supporting trolls I've seen recently have this 'weekly upgrading due to exploits' meme.
What are patch-Tuesdays, but the Microsoft version of the same thing?
Remember to get married on a day that everyone else remembers.
My anniversary is July 5th : The day after Independence Day. Not a coincidence. (FWIW, we both liked the idea).
You'd be surprised how tech-literate musicians that use Digital Audio Workstations are. A few years ago I went to an demo event for a DAW package, and half of the discussion was about hyperthreading and LII caches...
It's not like musicians want to know the low-level details, but they do need to know whether they can run 10 reverbs in real-time : and would prefer 30, 50 ,... effects. Their demands on hardware are insatiable - and it has to be rock-solid.
Maybe you were just pointing to the 'bundled for average guitar joe' thing.
But if you're talking Line6 products, I was surprised to find kernel drivers available for my UX1 (which I was about to sell on ebay after switching to a pure Linux environment).
Of course, the company won't notice that the Linux driver effort effectively won them a sale (because my second-hand unit wasn't on ebay to be bought by the Windows user that would have bought it in the place of the new unit...)
Kernel driver writers for odd hardware are pretty heroic IMHO.
As a legal immigrant in the States, I can state that (although I'm paying just as much tax as anyone else) : I have no vote, no free healthcare and no constitutional rights (let alone a TV show).
But then you're obviously a troll, aren't you?
I'm surprised that you don't mention that M$ is an MS-Basic thing : A string variable called 'M$'.
It seems very fitting to me. Micro$oft is obviously a point of view, but M$ is a quick identifier (kind of like $user can be easily understood too).
And also that when the Queen says 'I', she pronounces it 'We' : As in the "Royal We" (a traditional started by Queen Victoria AFAIR).