There have been experiments with using a network of rat neurons in a substrate where the neurons were taught to recognize signal patterns and such.
While a pea-sized brain might not be able to "think", it *could* conceivably be far, far better at pattern recognition and learning than the rat experiments to date.
Of course there is the ethical issue of whether sufficiently advanced pattern recognition and learning capabilities constitute thought and therefore an individual, but somehow I don't think that's going to stop researchers from exploring the possibilities.
Or the NSA. Just think -- they could have double the brain power without having to support all those meat puppets that scan the data feeds.:P
The four are probably the whole team responsible for that subsystem. So once the subsystem was identified, it was easy to point fingers.
Mistakes happen, though. That's something these HFT systems don't really allow for: there *will* be screwups in the code from time to time.
One would think they'd do a statistical analysis of the risk of touching an HFT module at least before rolling it out, and see if it's worth the gamble.
Silly me. Thinking instead of playing golf and "doing lunch" with the powers that be.
All they did is add a button icon. You always had to float the mouse in the lower left corner of the screen to bring up the start menu/screen with Win8. Big whoop.
It does not fix the fundamental problem: the use of a start window instead of a menu.
Well, except for American media. They're still sucking up to the soundbites coming out of the oval office.
But every nation's media is biased, whether government owned or not -- including Canada's. The only way to get a comprehensive picture of what's really going on in the world is to read media from around the world, including sources that many would claim are "propaganda machines." Remember that the propaganda machines are what the people in those countries access, so it is a picture of what the "everyman" hears in those places.
While that's true, the AIO units aren't really targetted at hard-core gamers. They're marketted at people like my folks, who just wanted a nice machine that didn't take up a lot of space. Realistically, the HP they got is serious overkill for their needs -- quad core CPU, multiple gigs of RAM (I forget how much), 1TB HDD, decent graphics, nice quality built in sound -- all so they can surf the net, play the occasional YouTube, and read their email.
Even the grandkids don't really game on the system, unless you want to count web games as "gaming".
This machine should last them until they die in another 20 years or so, unless it has a hardware failure.
Crying "racism" denigrates everyone who hates Obama for his bad policies, and belittles Obama himself by portraying him as a man whose sole reason for being judged is being black.
If anyone is racist, it's those who cry "racism" in the face of years of stupid and abusive policies. They can't argue against the points, so they play the race card. It's bullshit. Obama is more than a black man. Give him some credit for being able to instigate hatred for reasons other than the colour of his skin.
Unless you're planning to build a distro from source and read all the source to make sure it has no back doors, you can't guarantee anything is "clean."
Windows 8 should have been Windows for Tablets; Windows 7 should have lived on for the desktop.
Windows Surface RT was a disaster that should never have been approved; Windows Surface Pro is not bad, though it lacks traction in the market place because Windows 8 was a hybrid between desktop and tablet interfaces.
Windows Phone was a flat out disaster.
Leasing software to Mom and Pop who don't realize they only get to use it for a year is a scam.
So, yes, Microsoft could have easily responded to the tablet and phone markets without losing scads of money doing so and failing to succeed in the new markets.
As the head man, Ballmer is responsible for those decisions. And I have to assume that someone else would have made different, and hopefully wiser, choices.
Here I thought they were going to discern the quality of coffee, not whether it's been shat by a civet cat. I've no interest in tasting cat-shit coffee at any price.
Now if they'd have come up with a way to quantify the robustness, the body, the acidity, the richness, the roast, and so on for *sane* coffee, I'd have had to read the article.:P
Uhunh. Yeah. Right. So all the "bi-lateral security agreements" that the government has bragged about are for what purpose, then?
Your NSA has been caught ignoring the rulings of the FISC that said their actions were illegal. They've been caught spying on Americans. What in all that's holy makes you think they wouldn't take data from a foreign government's spy agency when the Americans have repeatedly sent people to foreign nations to be tortured and to use that intelligence data despite the fact that it's illegal to do so?
Ah, but you're missing the key point on how the "game" is played.
The GCHQ in the UK isn't allowed to spy on UK citizens, so they spy on the rest of the EU's citizens, and apparently on the Middle East.
The NSA isn't allowed to spy on US citizens, so they spy on Canadians and others.
The Canadian spy agency isn't allowed to spy on Canadians, so it spies on Americans and others.
Australia and New Zealand spy on anyone close to their networks as well.
Even the Germans are into spying.
Then after everyone has spied on the "foreigners" who aren't protected by each nation's laws, they get together, exchange their data, and end up with the intel on their own citizens, all while claiming "but we don't spy on our own citizens."
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There is an axiom of computing that proposes that any sufficiently complex system is implicitly intelligent.
The most complex system in existence is the universe itself.
Therefore the universe is intelligent.
That does not mean the universe gives a shit about you, me, or the whole freaking planet any more than I care about the death of a cell in my body.
There have been experiments with using a network of rat neurons in a substrate where the neurons were taught to recognize signal patterns and such.
While a pea-sized brain might not be able to "think", it *could* conceivably be far, far better at pattern recognition and learning than the rat experiments to date.
Of course there is the ethical issue of whether sufficiently advanced pattern recognition and learning capabilities constitute thought and therefore an individual, but somehow I don't think that's going to stop researchers from exploring the possibilities.
Or the NSA. Just think -- they could have double the brain power without having to support all those meat puppets that scan the data feeds. :P
The four are probably the whole team responsible for that subsystem. So once the subsystem was identified, it was easy to point fingers.
Mistakes happen, though. That's something these HFT systems don't really allow for: there *will* be screwups in the code from time to time.
One would think they'd do a statistical analysis of the risk of touching an HFT module at least before rolling it out, and see if it's worth the gamble.
Silly me. Thinking instead of playing golf and "doing lunch" with the powers that be.
All they did is add a button icon. You always had to float the mouse in the lower left corner of the screen to bring up the start menu/screen with Win8. Big whoop.
It does not fix the fundamental problem: the use of a start window instead of a menu.
That's kind of the whole point of why Win7 is better than Win8. It didn't screw things up just for the sake of screwing them up.
Well, except for American media. They're still sucking up to the soundbites coming out of the oval office.
But every nation's media is biased, whether government owned or not -- including Canada's. The only way to get a comprehensive picture of what's really going on in the world is to read media from around the world, including sources that many would claim are "propaganda machines." Remember that the propaganda machines are what the people in those countries access, so it is a picture of what the "everyman" hears in those places.
Infiltration is the CIA's job.
A friend of mine bought one of the Sony's recently. She loves it.
Though I couldn't resist teasing her that she must have gained a lot of weight to have a lap big enough for it to rest on (she's 5' zip.)
While that's true, the AIO units aren't really targetted at hard-core gamers. They're marketted at people like my folks, who just wanted a nice machine that didn't take up a lot of space. Realistically, the HP they got is serious overkill for their needs -- quad core CPU, multiple gigs of RAM (I forget how much), 1TB HDD, decent graphics, nice quality built in sound -- all so they can surf the net, play the occasional YouTube, and read their email.
Even the grandkids don't really game on the system, unless you want to count web games as "gaming".
This machine should last them until they die in another 20 years or so, unless it has a hardware failure.
Crying "racism" denigrates everyone who hates Obama for his bad policies, and belittles Obama himself by portraying him as a man whose sole reason for being judged is being black.
If anyone is racist, it's those who cry "racism" in the face of years of stupid and abusive policies. They can't argue against the points, so they play the race card. It's bullshit. Obama is more than a black man. Give him some credit for being able to instigate hatred for reasons other than the colour of his skin.
Actually the media is more likely to rave about the peeping toms and stalkers working for the NSA, I think.
Unless you're planning to build a distro from source and read all the source to make sure it has no back doors, you can't guarantee anything is "clean."
Only in a delusional fanboi's world would a 66% unit sales drop be a "success".
Correction. 1,000,000,000 / 100 ==> 10,000,000 licenses.
I know one person who didn't downgrade to Windows 7 Pro.
You're smoking crack if you think RT spurred Intel to do anything. Intel wants the ARM marketplace. They could care less about Surface.
You're smoking crack about Nokia, too
A billion dollars at $100 a license is only 1,000,000 licenses. Compare that to 2010, when Office sold 30 million copies.
Clearly you're a delusional fanboi.
Win 7 downgrades are selling, not Win 8.
How do you consider a near billion dollar inventory write-off a success?
Nokia is still a bit player on the global market with their Windows phones. They are not the powerhouse they were with their own OS previously.
Sorry, but a billion dollar market share for a product that had the entrenched footprint that Office did is a joke.
Windows 8 should have been Windows for Tablets; Windows 7 should have lived on for the desktop.
Windows Surface RT was a disaster that should never have been approved; Windows Surface Pro is not bad, though it lacks traction in the market place because Windows 8 was a hybrid between desktop and tablet interfaces.
Windows Phone was a flat out disaster.
Leasing software to Mom and Pop who don't realize they only get to use it for a year is a scam.
So, yes, Microsoft could have easily responded to the tablet and phone markets without losing scads of money doing so and failing to succeed in the new markets.
As the head man, Ballmer is responsible for those decisions. And I have to assume that someone else would have made different, and hopefully wiser, choices.
Badly executed maneuvers are worse than not entering a market space at all.
There was a perfect time for the transition:
Avoiding those disastrous products would have made Microsoft billions, and those decisions were made by you, Ballmer.
Here I thought they were going to discern the quality of coffee, not whether it's been shat by a civet cat. I've no interest in tasting cat-shit coffee at any price.
Now if they'd have come up with a way to quantify the robustness, the body, the acidity, the richness, the roast, and so on for *sane* coffee, I'd have had to read the article. :P
You mean like the US paying GCHQ?
I believe the Canadian surveillance division is actually CSEC. Here's a recent article about them http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Opposition+calls+halt+agency+activities+directed/8820518/story.html
CSIS is more akin to the CIA than the NSA.
Uhunh. Yeah. Right. So all the "bi-lateral security agreements" that the government has bragged about are for what purpose, then?
Your NSA has been caught ignoring the rulings of the FISC that said their actions were illegal. They've been caught spying on Americans. What in all that's holy makes you think they wouldn't take data from a foreign government's spy agency when the Americans have repeatedly sent people to foreign nations to be tortured and to use that intelligence data despite the fact that it's illegal to do so?
Ah, but you're missing the key point on how the "game" is played.
The GCHQ in the UK isn't allowed to spy on UK citizens, so they spy on the rest of the EU's citizens, and apparently on the Middle East.
The NSA isn't allowed to spy on US citizens, so they spy on Canadians and others.
The Canadian spy agency isn't allowed to spy on Canadians, so it spies on Americans and others.
Australia and New Zealand spy on anyone close to their networks as well.
Even the Germans are into spying.
Then after everyone has spied on the "foreigners" who aren't protected by each nation's laws, they get together, exchange their data, and end up with the intel on their own citizens, all while claiming "but we don't spy on our own citizens."