He doesn't make the arguments that he's accused here of making. In any case, even if he was, that would be merely stupid but wouldn't detract from his main point. So what if, say, the brain is 1000 more complicated and hard to understand than Kurzweil thought? Well we're gonna need computers 1000 more powerful to simulate it. How long does that take wrt Moore's law? On the order of 10 or 15 more years or so.
PZ points out how hard it is to figure how proteins fold. We've only figured out a few so far. Well 15 years ago we knew zero extrasolar planets, now we know hundreds, and within 5 years we'll know of thousands. Within 20 years we'll have been able to detect signs of life or the lack thereof (O2 absorption rays) in their atmosphere.
Myers' post was very interesting in explaining the difficulty of the problem, but he was clearly beating really hard at a strawman that looked only remotely like Ray Kurzweil.
For space exploration to begin in earnest, we need it to be economically profitable, beyond LOE and geostationary. Has there been a study on the economic feasability of mining asteroids or something else (i.e. 4He on the moon)?
In the first elections after the damn law was passed (regionales), they got disastrous results for the below 30 demo. Sarkonazy met with UMP MPs to discuss the bad results, and according to insiders they were freaked out and complained that his pet project had cost them the young vote for good. In an unpublished poll they found out that they had lost something close to half the young voters. Now those are not the most reliable voters, but Naboléon's core demographics of Alzheimer patients, racist deranged grannies and Vichy nostalgists has one redeeming quality: they're more likely to be rotting in hell than to be getting a hard on at the fucker's newest racist gimmick while dropping their bulletin in the ballot box.
For reference, in the 2007 election, the son of a bitch got 53% of the votes; but his opponent got 53% of the below 65 demo, he just got 65% of the geriatrics! Thankfully, many of those scumbags will have expired next time.
This as yet non-existent, and obviously impossible piece of software will merely be the only way to disculpate oneself from accusations illegal warezing. Since it obviously reverses the burden of proof, it's unlikely to stand up to legal scrutiny whem it reaches a high court.
Note that, not only are the technical specs moronic, but they also are self defeating. For instance they want a FLOSS compatible version. Well, guess what, my Linux kernel license allows me to change it so that it will hide whatever I want from a given process. This is typically done by rootkits that hide their processes/files/modules from the rest of the system, but it should be quite easy to implement for the good guys.
In any case, as had been pointed out during the debates in parliament, you just need to do your downloading on a separate box, and not tell anyone about it. Sarkonazy's lapdog's response? "people onlh have one computer" - I shit. You. Not.
I keep a very expensive bottle of Champagne at all times in my fridge, just in case something humiliating and/or painful happens to the diminutive fascist son of a bitch. And if the fucker dies before the next election, I swear I'm ordering 12 case of Dom Pe to give away in the street.
The browser is quite good, quite usable, though not quite as good as the iPhone.
I'm talking about the state of the art when the iPhone came out. At that time my brother had an E60 (Symbian based blackberry look alike), and it definitely sucked very hard.
You can't buy it on the private market because there is no market for it. This shit's only useful when you don't risk poisoning anyone, and when you can't use solar panels or any form of fossil fuel. In other words, it's only useful when you're as far away as Mars, and there isn't much commercing done about there.
> how is that worse than Apple's model that actually siphons off 30% of all content and apps you install on your iDevice, and censors what apps and content are allowed, and takes a cut of wireless contracts ?
Apple taking 30% of the sales on the appstore is not shocking at all, especially if you look at how much resellers take on pretty much everything. The appstore policies are another story altogether.
I've worked with god awful programmers, and a few excellent ones. My conclusion is that the majority of programmer graduates of elite schools are very good; but the reason is probably that their degree affords them plenty of choices of career, and they would have no reason to stick to programming if they didn't excel in it.
There's another problem, though, and it hasn't got much to do with the reputation of their alma mater, but the vast majority of programmers did not study CS. I didn't (and I'm a sysadmin anyway) but I tried to educate myself in theoretical stuff. Take for instance compiler theory; formal grammars and what not. Most programmers I've worked with have absolutely no idea what the fuck it is. The result is brain dead regex-only based parsers full of glaring bugs. The other day I discovered that a piece of software I had been delivered stored financial transaction amounts in floats. I dare to advance that no CS graduate who didn't get his degree from a diploma mill would commit such a sin. But here the self-taught developer looked at me as if I was nitpicking.
Arcep is a public service that does a good job overall. They have been single-handedly (well, pushed by the European Commission) responsible for opening up the local copper loop to competition, and as a result propelling us into the top 5 for broadband speed and availability. At the same time, the Bush FCC, thanks to Verizon-ATT-cable "political contributions", which are but in name only *actual* bribes, made sure no such competition happened in the US.
AFAIK VP8 was designed with avoiding infringing patents in the first place. The easiest way to do that is to exactly like h264, while changing enough so as to be different from at least one claim of each patent. IIRC if you can show you're not doing something exactly like the claim, you're not infringing. That doesn't work when the patent is too vague, but then the patent owner faces the risk of having his patent rejected and/or having prior art.
Intel had given them the licenses because IIRC IBM required multiple sources for the 8086 on the original PC. Part of the reason for not calling the Pentium "586" was so that they didn't have to license its design.
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It's got absolutely nothing to do with analog computers. At all. The first application cited is even digital storage.
He doesn't make the arguments that he's accused here of making. In any case, even if he was, that would be merely stupid but wouldn't detract from his main point. So what if, say, the brain is 1000 more complicated and hard to understand than Kurzweil thought? Well we're gonna need computers 1000 more powerful to simulate it. How long does that take wrt Moore's law? On the order of 10 or 15 more years or so.
PZ points out how hard it is to figure how proteins fold. We've only figured out a few so far. Well 15 years ago we knew zero extrasolar planets, now we know hundreds, and within 5 years we'll know of thousands. Within 20 years we'll have been able to detect signs of life or the lack thereof (O2 absorption rays) in their atmosphere.
Myers' post was very interesting in explaining the difficulty of the problem, but he was clearly beating really hard at a strawman that looked only remotely like Ray Kurzweil.
Those radical leftists were in the street.
A little later De Gaulle is reelected.
Who are going to be the customers?
For space exploration to begin in earnest, we need it to be economically profitable, beyond LOE and geostationary. Has there been a study on the economic feasability of mining asteroids or something else (i.e. 4He on the moon)?
In the first elections after the damn law was passed (regionales), they got disastrous results for the below 30 demo. Sarkonazy met with UMP MPs to discuss the bad results, and according to insiders they were freaked out and complained that his pet project had cost them the young vote for good. In an unpublished poll they found out that they had lost something close to half the young voters. Now those are not the most reliable voters, but Naboléon's core demographics of Alzheimer patients, racist deranged grannies and Vichy nostalgists has one redeeming quality: they're more likely to be rotting in hell than to be getting a hard on at the fucker's newest racist gimmick while dropping their bulletin in the ballot box.
For reference, in the 2007 election, the son of a bitch got 53% of the votes; but his opponent got 53% of the below 65 demo, he just got 65% of the geriatrics! Thankfully, many of those scumbags will have expired next time.
This as yet non-existent, and obviously impossible piece of software will merely be the only way to disculpate oneself from accusations illegal warezing. Since it obviously reverses the burden of proof, it's unlikely to stand up to legal scrutiny whem it reaches a high court.
Note that, not only are the technical specs moronic, but they also are self defeating. For instance they want a FLOSS compatible version. Well, guess what, my Linux kernel license allows me to change it so that it will hide whatever I want from a given process. This is typically done by rootkits that hide their processes/files/modules from the rest of the system, but it should be quite easy to implement for the good guys.
In any case, as had been pointed out during the debates in parliament, you just need to do your downloading on a separate box, and not tell anyone about it. Sarkonazy's lapdog's response? "people onlh have one computer" - I shit. You. Not.
I keep a very expensive bottle of Champagne at all times in my fridge, just in case something humiliating and/or painful happens to the diminutive fascist son of a bitch. And if the fucker dies before the next election, I swear I'm ordering 12 case of Dom Pe to give away in the street.
jailbreakme.com is a remote exploit, and that's much, much, MUCH nastier.
The browser is quite good, quite usable, though not quite as good as the iPhone.
I'm talking about the state of the art when the iPhone came out. At that time my brother had an E60 (Symbian based blackberry look alike), and it definitely sucked very hard.
"Usability" is a technidcal term. You can theoretically browse the web with wget -O -, but that is not "usable."
I don't use any proprietary software ... Except the iPad. I really didn't want to buy one. But. I tried one. It fucking rocks.
10h use time on battery. Nothing beats that.
Nice, solid design. No dodgy plastic.
Display quality is amazing. Photos look better than in print.
Touch screen works amazingly well.
$500. Competitors you can't even buy yet are the same price or more expensive. Which brings me to my last point ...
There is no competition at this time. There is nothing you can buy right now that does the same things I can do with this.
Written from my ipad while waiting for a plane at the airport. And let me add that I fucking hate the apple app store / itunes bullshit.
Plenty.
How many were usable? Zero. None. Nada. Zilch.
Today only Android's come close, it's almost as good but last time I tried the iPhone still had an edge.
Now if you don't see how that made a difference, well, ...
> "Incompetent nazis" suggest to me you lack perspective and experience in supporting 10,000-100,000 users.
I'm not calling them incompetent nazis because they use Crapberry, I'm calling them incompetent Nazis because they are incompetent and arrogant.
It will crash all the time.
It will not display most web pages properly.
It will be slow as fuck.
The user interface will be confusing, the error messages will use inadequate terminology, esp. in i18n.
Scrolling through long lists will give you callosities.
It will be butt ugly.
But it will have great battery life!
In other words, I won't ever be seen carrying in one except if I'm forced to by the incompetent nazis at the IT department.
It's created as a result of deliberate human intervention instead of being found as-is in nature. It's synthetic.
You can't buy it on the private market because there is no market for it. This shit's only useful when you don't risk poisoning anyone, and when you can't use solar panels or any form of fossil fuel. In other words, it's only useful when you're as far away as Mars, and there isn't much commercing done about there.
> how is that worse than Apple's model that actually siphons off 30% of all content and apps you install on your iDevice, and censors what apps and content are allowed, and takes a cut of wireless contracts ?
Apple taking 30% of the sales on the appstore is not shocking at all, especially if you look at how much resellers take on pretty much everything. The appstore policies are another story altogether.
I've worked with god awful programmers, and a few excellent ones. My conclusion is that the majority of programmer graduates of elite schools are very good; but the reason is probably that their degree affords them plenty of choices of career, and they would have no reason to stick to programming if they didn't excel in it.
There's another problem, though, and it hasn't got much to do with the reputation of their alma mater, but the vast majority of programmers did not study CS. I didn't (and I'm a sysadmin anyway) but I tried to educate myself in theoretical stuff. Take for instance compiler theory; formal grammars and what not. Most programmers I've worked with have absolutely no idea what the fuck it is. The result is brain dead regex-only based parsers full of glaring bugs. The other day I discovered that a piece of software I had been delivered stored financial transaction amounts in floats. I dare to advance that no CS graduate who didn't get his degree from a diploma mill would commit such a sin. But here the self-taught developer looked at me as if I was nitpicking.
Arcep is a public service that does a good job overall. They have been single-handedly (well, pushed by the European Commission) responsible for opening up the local copper loop to competition, and as a result propelling us into the top 5 for broadband speed and availability. At the same time, the Bush FCC, thanks to Verizon-ATT-cable "political contributions", which are but in name only *actual* bribes, made sure no such competition happened in the US.
IF you put it in your pocket without locking it first, it registers dozens of unwanted cliks.
No such thing happens with a capacitive screen.
If you own the disc, DRM has an (negative) impact on you.
If you don't own the disc, DRM does not prevent you from using BitTorrent, since there is no DRM on thepiratebay.org..
Learn to spell "it's" and then, only then, start giving maturity lessons.
The truth is much more damning, such as they opposing seeing dogs for the blind.
You can however demand a license.
That's how most licensing is done, isn't it?
AFAIK VP8 was designed with avoiding infringing patents in the first place. The easiest way to do that is to exactly like h264, while changing enough so as to be different from at least one claim of each patent. IIRC if you can show you're not doing something exactly like the claim, you're not infringing. That doesn't work when the patent is too vague, but then the patent owner faces the risk of having his patent rejected and/or having prior art.
Intel had given them the licenses because IIRC IBM required multiple sources for the 8086 on the original PC. Part of the reason for not calling the Pentium "586" was so that they didn't have to license its design.