But really, what good is modelling a single neuron when you'd need billions or trillions of these chips clustered together to mimic an actual human brain?
They have the right to the handle with PhoneDog in it. Let them have it. But he doesn't use that handle any more; they don't have a right to his personal account.
Yeah, but when I think of "Orchard", I don't think of monoculture of Strawberries or Saskatoons. Most orchards in BC and Ontario/Quebec have a mix of fruits that harvest at different times, keeping a steady employment stream going.
What is big around here is the "pick your own" berry farm. They're so busy you have to book appointments a couple weeks or more ahead of your visit nowadays.
Not quite true, at least in the software industry. Most companies have a non-compete clause and will seize ownership of anything you create if they can, but in reality the "all your inventions are belong to us" clauses have not held up well in court. The only people who get taken by that abusive phrasing are the ones who don't know their legal rights.
I've often crossed out and initialed that clause on an employment contract just to be safe, and never had it questioned.
"Don't just create ideas, also make products here," she [Hockfield] said. "Buying back technologies that we invented changed our surplus into deficit. We need to have a substantial fraction of technologies that are made in America."
Right now the US and Canadian economies are not focused on producing anything with the new ideas that come out. The startups get bought out by the existing big companies if they have any hope of success, who immediately commoditize technology and ship it overseas for manufacturing.
If you want to create jobs, do something about the whole concept of outsourcing. The richest nations on the planet will always find it cheaper to outsource and offshore, because they're also the most expensive labour markets. Until the inevitable collapse happens when there isn't the money being earned to pay for the shiny new gadgets.
we'll be able to intersperse multiple simultaneous crops in the same field...
The most important reason why we don't see this sort of farming on a large scale is because it requires much more fine-motor work...
Soil degrades if you don't mix your crops over time, but it's not a process that would "leach" from one small plot to it's neighbour. As long as crops are rotated annually, you're good to go. Bigger machines are more efficient at harvesting. Having multiple crop types also means needing multiple machine types, adding to expense.
As far as I know, small plots were only used for family produce by the old family farms, but the bulk of the land was turned over quarter by quarter to specific crops. Things may be different in vegetable or fruit farms/orchards, but we don't really have those in Saskatchewan.
Unfortunately my experience has been largely negative. It's clear that some of the so-called universities attended by Indian students are paper mills that don't do a decent job of educating them about programming.
There's also a cultural issue. For some reason, many of those I've worked with can't or won't search for internet howto's and help instructions on their own, though they'll follow those instructions if a senior developer sends them a link.
Obviously I've worked with a lot of good Indian developers as well, but there are clearly some cultural differences that can cause friction and frustration.
Funny. Torrent sites don't seem to have trouble cleaning out the periodic floods of bogus torrents, and they don't operate on anywhere near the manpower budget Hollywood does.
Then the studios are going to have to manually verify things instead of relying on automated tools, at very least by going through the list of candidate matches by hand. With their billion dollar budget total, they can afford to do it if they're that concerned about piracy.
Otherwise they should be slammed in the courts for fraudulently claiming copyright on materials they don't own, and slammed hard. How much time does a citizen normally serve for lying in court? Or laying false charges through the police? Multiply accordingly... and the executives who approved the automatic searches should be the ones doing the time, not some underling.
Back in the early '80s, I remember being impressed by a pogo-stick hopping robot just because it could keep it's balance. That's amazing progress for 30 years when you think about it.
In addition, the movie studio states that it removed many titles based merely on keywords and without verifying their actual content.
They're not claiming they verified the content at all. But they issued takedown orders based on title keywords that they don't own. You should be at least willing to put up a list of what you claim to own so that minimal verification at least can be done before obeying a takedown order. Takedown orders are legal documents -- it's not something the ISP can arbitrarily ignore.
Inevitable car analogy: It's like me calling the police to report that "my" car was stolen, but describing yours instead.
It should be that simple, until you try to get the copyright holders to agree on a format for the database. At a minimum, that design by committee would add a couple years of delay and excuses.
Content is TV. As long as the set top boxes and built in "web" TV capabilities are restricted to a few sites like YouTube, there's absolutely no incentive to buy such a box instead of just plugging a plain old computer into the HDMI port. The player with the best content contracts will win the game, plain and simple.
What people love about TV is that it's simple. Point, click, and watch. Not point, click, type, search, play for five minutes, search again, click, click, click...
There's also the question of how much speed is enough. I can wait five minutes for patches and updates to install on a 6.5 MBit link. It's far more than adequate for a single-user home.
Even if you're a torrent freak, there's only so much content you can download and watch, and 100Mbit download is just overkill unless you've got a huge household.
Now upload speed for running a business demo website -- that I could use.
I remember reading about a case where someone's urine tested positive for cocaine. The police tried to use that as evidence of "possession", because the person "possessed" their blood. A truly twisted way of looking at things, as the individual did not physically have drugs to justify charges.
I don't know what ever happened to the case, nor do I remember which state is was in.
Never underestimate the willingness of a jackboot drug-war official to pervert the system to "do justice."
The problem is the test would only be probably cause for an analysis of whether you are intoxicated or not, but it would probably not be used that way. The police already use metabolite-based tests to "prove" you're a cannabis user, even though the 60-day old metabolites prove nothing about whether you're intoxicated.
So only lawyers are qualified to comment on a license? I guess that means all EULAs and licenses are invalid, then, because no one but a lawyer can enter into an informed agreement.
If the headers are merely an experession of documented standards like the SVR4 and BSD compatability macros, then I don't see how it could possibly be copyrightable. The whole point of standards is to share them, not own them.
But I could see a copyright troll trying to take the interpretation that they are copyrightable, as happened with the timezone data.
The US budget for 2012 military spending is well over a trillion dollars. 7.5 billion might be a lot in total dollars, but it's 0.075 percent of the total budget. Not a particularly high rate of fraud in that context.
While the Chinese companies have a lot of the current parts contracts, history is littered with cases of fraud in the big-budget aerospace and military sectors throughout the existence of those industries. The problem does need to be resolved, but the article seems like racist scare-mongering to me considering the history of the issue.
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I had to play with the beowulf meme. :)
But really, what good is modelling a single neuron when you'd need billions or trillions of these chips clustered together to mimic an actual human brain?
At least EAX worked, unlike some of the earlier sound driver APIs in Linux land.
They have the right to the handle with PhoneDog in it. Let them have it. But he doesn't use that handle any more; they don't have a right to his personal account.
Yeah, but when I think of "Orchard", I don't think of monoculture of Strawberries or Saskatoons. Most orchards in BC and Ontario/Quebec have a mix of fruits that harvest at different times, keeping a steady employment stream going.
What is big around here is the "pick your own" berry farm. They're so busy you have to book appointments a couple weeks or more ahead of your visit nowadays.
Not quite true, at least in the software industry. Most companies have a non-compete clause and will seize ownership of anything you create if they can, but in reality the "all your inventions are belong to us" clauses have not held up well in court. The only people who get taken by that abusive phrasing are the ones who don't know their legal rights.
I've often crossed out and initialed that clause on an employment contract just to be safe, and never had it questioned.
Right now the US and Canadian economies are not focused on producing anything with the new ideas that come out. The startups get bought out by the existing big companies if they have any hope of success, who immediately commoditize technology and ship it overseas for manufacturing.
If you want to create jobs, do something about the whole concept of outsourcing. The richest nations on the planet will always find it cheaper to outsource and offshore, because they're also the most expensive labour markets. Until the inevitable collapse happens when there isn't the money being earned to pay for the shiny new gadgets.
Soil degrades if you don't mix your crops over time, but it's not a process that would "leach" from one small plot to it's neighbour. As long as crops are rotated annually, you're good to go. Bigger machines are more efficient at harvesting. Having multiple crop types also means needing multiple machine types, adding to expense.
As far as I know, small plots were only used for family produce by the old family farms, but the bulk of the land was turned over quarter by quarter to specific crops. Things may be different in vegetable or fruit farms/orchards, but we don't really have those in Saskatchewan.
Unfortunately my experience has been largely negative. It's clear that some of the so-called universities attended by Indian students are paper mills that don't do a decent job of educating them about programming.
There's also a cultural issue. For some reason, many of those I've worked with can't or won't search for internet howto's and help instructions on their own, though they'll follow those instructions if a senior developer sends them a link.
Obviously I've worked with a lot of good Indian developers as well, but there are clearly some cultural differences that can cause friction and frustration.
Funny. Torrent sites don't seem to have trouble cleaning out the periodic floods of bogus torrents, and they don't operate on anywhere near the manpower budget Hollywood does.
Then the studios are going to have to manually verify things instead of relying on automated tools, at very least by going through the list of candidate matches by hand. With their billion dollar budget total, they can afford to do it if they're that concerned about piracy.
Otherwise they should be slammed in the courts for fraudulently claiming copyright on materials they don't own, and slammed hard. How much time does a citizen normally serve for lying in court? Or laying false charges through the police? Multiply accordingly... and the executives who approved the automatic searches should be the ones doing the time, not some underling.
Back in the early '80s, I remember being impressed by a pogo-stick hopping robot just because it could keep it's balance. That's amazing progress for 30 years when you think about it.
From the article:
They're not claiming they verified the content at all. But they issued takedown orders based on title keywords that they don't own. You should be at least willing to put up a list of what you claim to own so that minimal verification at least can be done before obeying a takedown order. Takedown orders are legal documents -- it's not something the ISP can arbitrarily ignore.
Inevitable car analogy: It's like me calling the police to report that "my" car was stolen, but describing yours instead.
It should be that simple, until you try to get the copyright holders to agree on a format for the database. At a minimum, that design by committee would add a couple years of delay and excuses.
Content is TV. As long as the set top boxes and built in "web" TV capabilities are restricted to a few sites like YouTube, there's absolutely no incentive to buy such a box instead of just plugging a plain old computer into the HDMI port. The player with the best content contracts will win the game, plain and simple.
What people love about TV is that it's simple. Point, click, and watch. Not point, click, type, search, play for five minutes, search again, click, click, click...
There's also the question of how much speed is enough. I can wait five minutes for patches and updates to install on a 6.5 MBit link. It's far more than adequate for a single-user home.
Even if you're a torrent freak, there's only so much content you can download and watch, and 100Mbit download is just overkill unless you've got a huge household.
Now upload speed for running a business demo website -- that I could use.
If you're abandoning a distro because you don't know how to change the default GUI, you probably shouldn't be looking at Linux in the first place.
I remember reading about a case where someone's urine tested positive for cocaine. The police tried to use that as evidence of "possession", because the person "possessed" their blood. A truly twisted way of looking at things, as the individual did not physically have drugs to justify charges.
I don't know what ever happened to the case, nor do I remember which state is was in.
Never underestimate the willingness of a jackboot drug-war official to pervert the system to "do justice."
The problem is the test would only be probably cause for an analysis of whether you are intoxicated or not, but it would probably not be used that way. The police already use metabolite-based tests to "prove" you're a cannabis user, even though the 60-day old metabolites prove nothing about whether you're intoxicated.
So only lawyers are qualified to comment on a license? I guess that means all EULAs and licenses are invalid, then, because no one but a lawyer can enter into an informed agreement.
If the headers are merely an experession of documented standards like the SVR4 and BSD compatability macros, then I don't see how it could possibly be copyrightable. The whole point of standards is to share them, not own them.
But I could see a copyright troll trying to take the interpretation that they are copyrightable, as happened with the timezone data.
I wonder if it's a tribute to the anime?
Saber Marionette J2X
Funny series, by the way. :)
A trillion is 1000 billion. 7.5 / 1000 * 100 ==> 7.5 / 10. 0.75.
Dang. You're right.
The US budget for 2012 military spending is well over a trillion dollars. 7.5 billion might be a lot in total dollars, but it's 0.075 percent of the total budget. Not a particularly high rate of fraud in that context.
While the Chinese companies have a lot of the current parts contracts, history is littered with cases of fraud in the big-budget aerospace and military sectors throughout the existence of those industries. The problem does need to be resolved, but the article seems like racist scare-mongering to me considering the history of the issue.
People hate change.
End of story.