Tell me about it. Ya know there's some idiots who think you can optimize computer programs automatically? Crazy I tell ya. Don't know why they waste their time.
Time is short. Senior NASA management is committed to beginning the destruction of the tooling used to construct the Space Shuttle's External Tank as early as next month. This destruction is completely unnecessary to support the current Ares 1 production plan because the floor space NASA plans to use is not occupied by the External Tank tooling. The only apparent objective of beginning the destruction of this $12-billion national asset next month, used by both the Space Shuttle and Jupiter Launch System, is to maliciously eliminate any competition to the current plan. In an attempt to put a halt to this unnecessary destruction of government property, the Senate version of 2009 NASA authorization bill sought to make this imminent action of the NASA administrator explicitly illegal. Specifically, the Senate provision directed the NASA administrator "to terminate or suspend any activity of the Agency that, if continued, would preclude the continued safe and effective flight of the Space Shuttle Orbiter after fiscal year 2010." Unfortunately, this provision, that cost us nothing to include yet wisely keeps our options open, was removed from the Senate-House conference bill just before the summer recess.
No only did I think the story was about Intellectual Property, it also makes no sense at all. The Internet Protocol has been a "Physical Reality" for decades.
How about just using one of the existing subtitle formats. SRT or SUB. They look like this:
31 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,394 I want them dead.
32 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,558 That I cannot do.
33 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,036 I'll give you anything you ask.
34 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,633 I've known you many years, but this is the first time you've asked for help.
35 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,799 I can't remember the last time you invited me for a cup of coffee.
36 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,269 Even though my wife is godmother to your only child.
37 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,190 But let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship.
38 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,915 And you were afraid to be in my debt.
Personally, I'd be much more impressed if you could take a file without the markers and infer them from the audio.. but that would take some serious speech recognition technology.
Yes, there is a distinction. But, you know what I mean and you're just being deliberately uncooperative.
That's the anti-social behaviour that results in you being hated. Of course, you probably wear that as a badge of honour because you think being "right" is more important than getting on with it. Whereas the normal people think that ignoring bullshit semantic arguments is the way to go because there's so much more interesting things to be discussing and there's only so many hours in the day.
Of everything I've written here there's millions of possible interpretations.. the fact that you can read it and get even a glimmer of what I'm trying to communicate to you is just remarkable. I don't mean that as an insult. I mean that on an evolutionary scale it is remarkable that humans are able to communicate with each other at all, let alone via the written word, let alone over a global electronic packet switched network. So to have a multi-hour conversation over the meaning of the verb "to silence" is just absurd and worthy of spite.
None of these other laptops are made for the African market. They all have terrible battery life and assume you have regular access to electricity, fast internet, etc, etc. The OLPC doesn't compare up to these other offerings if you're in a western country. There's plenty of better gadgets you can buy. But if you're a kid in Africa and your government is going to give you a laptop, the OLPC is the one you need.
When someone says "shut up" they are "silencing" you. The phrase has that meaning, at least in my dialect of english.
It *can* mean that someone is being censored, but that's not what I intended.
It can also mean that someone is being killed to keep them quiet, but that's not what I intended either.
That's the thing about communicating, you have to *want* to understand what the other person is saying. Otherwise we all have to talk to each other in legalese.
At $350 per unit, It's not cost effective as a Sony PSP or Nintendo DS, but competitive to a mix between a QWERTY PDA with usable RAM/TV-out/redundant-expansion. In other words, it's a trade-off of a better Motorola A12000 CellPhone without the lock-in, more battery life, and better than the bulk of a laptop.
Did you miss the entire freakin' point of the story or what?
Bah, the problem was too much press. If they had just quietly done what they wanted to do, they would have gotten the sales they needed without Intel and Microsoft butting in. But no, NN had to go toot his horn.
Kurtzweil is of the opinion that study of brain scanning leads to optimization of the algorithms used in the brain to run faster and better on digital computers. So when he says 2020 he means that the hardware will be commonly available to run these optimized algorithms at sufficient speed to reach human capabilities.. and then he goes on to say that the algorithms will be ready by then as there's all these practical uses for them before we even get to the point where we can combine them together into a working human-level intelligence.
I, on the other hand, am of the opinion that we don't know how to make these algorithms and that we could be studying the brain for centuries before we do.. and that there may be other algorithms which are completely unlike the ones used by the human brain, that we can't discover by studying the human brain, and yet are likely to be discovered much earlier if proper resources are dedicated to do so. I agree with him that the hardware of 2020 will be sufficient to run these algorithms at good speed, but I believe that will only be the case LONG after 2020 as we need to know how to run these things with bad performance before we start optimizing them, and that means that we need much more processing power to try out our theories with.
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Tell me about it. Ya know there's some idiots who think you can optimize computer programs automatically? Crazy I tell ya. Don't know why they waste their time.
You live in a fictional world where rocketry research is freely disseminated.
This does not happen. There are laws to prevent it.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1188/1
Time is short. Senior NASA management is committed to beginning the destruction of the tooling used to construct the Space Shuttle's External Tank as early as next month. This destruction is completely unnecessary to support the current Ares 1 production plan because the floor space NASA plans to use is not occupied by the External Tank tooling. The only apparent objective of beginning the destruction of this $12-billion national asset next month, used by both the Space Shuttle and Jupiter Launch System, is to maliciously eliminate any competition to the current plan. In an attempt to put a halt to this unnecessary destruction of government property, the Senate version of 2009 NASA authorization bill sought to make this imminent action of the NASA administrator explicitly illegal. Specifically, the Senate provision directed the NASA administrator "to terminate or suspend any activity of the Agency that, if continued, would preclude the continued safe and effective flight of the Space Shuttle Orbiter after fiscal year 2010." Unfortunately, this provision, that cost us nothing to include yet wisely keeps our options open, was removed from the Senate-House conference bill just before the summer recess.
just the journalists who try to write about it.
What a load of shit. That's gotta be the "Best Unenforceable EULA Clause" ever.
"IP Addressing of Every Little Thing"
and yes, it's boring.
No only did I think the story was about Intellectual Property, it also makes no sense at all. The Internet Protocol has been a "Physical Reality" for decades.
How about just using one of the existing subtitle formats. SRT or SUB. They look like this:
31
00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,394
I want them dead.
32
00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,558
That I cannot do.
33
00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,036
I'll give you anything you ask.
34
00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,633
I've known you many years, but this
is the first time you've asked for help.
35
00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,799
I can't remember the last time
you invited me for a cup of coffee.
36
00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,269
Even though my wife is godmother
to your only child.
37
00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,190
But let's be frank here.
You never wanted my friendship.
38
00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,915
And you were afraid to be in my debt.
Personally, I'd be much more impressed if you could take a file without the markers and infer them from the audio.. but that would take some serious speech recognition technology.
You really are baffled aren't ya?
Yes, there is a distinction. But, you know what I mean and you're just being deliberately uncooperative.
That's the anti-social behaviour that results in you being hated. Of course, you probably wear that as a badge of honour because you think being "right" is more important than getting on with it. Whereas the normal people think that ignoring bullshit semantic arguments is the way to go because there's so much more interesting things to be discussing and there's only so many hours in the day.
Of everything I've written here there's millions of possible interpretations.. the fact that you can read it and get even a glimmer of what I'm trying to communicate to you is just remarkable. I don't mean that as an insult. I mean that on an evolutionary scale it is remarkable that humans are able to communicate with each other at all, let alone via the written word, let alone over a global electronic packet switched network. So to have a multi-hour conversation over the meaning of the verb "to silence" is just absurd and worthy of spite.
I like your enthusiasm but your Ludditism is unnecessary.
None of these other laptops are made for the African market. They all have terrible battery life and assume you have regular access to electricity, fast internet, etc, etc. The OLPC doesn't compare up to these other offerings if you're in a western country. There's plenty of better gadgets you can buy. But if you're a kid in Africa and your government is going to give you a laptop, the OLPC is the one you need.
If you have your car payed off...
On the other hand, if you buy a $25000 hybrid...
Do you work for Microsoft?
So you're arguing over the semantics of "attempted silencing" vs "silencing". And geeks wonder why people don't like them.
When someone says "shut up" they are "silencing" you. The phrase has that meaning, at least in my dialect of english.
It *can* mean that someone is being censored, but that's not what I intended.
It can also mean that someone is being killed to keep them quiet, but that's not what I intended either.
That's the thing about communicating, you have to *want* to understand what the other person is saying. Otherwise we all have to talk to each other in legalese.
Theo didn't need billions of sales to make his business model work.
It's called culture. Just cause you don't like it, doesn't mean you have the right to silence others.
At $350 per unit, It's not cost effective as a Sony PSP or Nintendo DS, but competitive to a mix between a QWERTY PDA with usable RAM/TV-out/redundant-expansion. In other words, it's a trade-off of a better Motorola A12000 CellPhone without the lock-in, more battery life, and better than the bulk of a laptop.
Did you miss the entire freakin' point of the story or what?
So basically you're saying it doesn't pass Mirosoft application certification procedures?
What a surprise.
Ahh I see. More epic Safari fail I guess.
Bah, the problem was too much press. If they had just quietly done what they wanted to do, they would have gotten the sales they needed without Intel and Microsoft butting in. But no, NN had to go toot his horn.
Umm, what's it run then? Youtube seems to work.
Oh good. I laughed, I just wasn't sure if you were intentionally trying to make me laugh or not :)
Do you not think the same is true of a single process app?
Kurtzweil is of the opinion that study of brain scanning leads to optimization of the algorithms used in the brain to run faster and better on digital computers. So when he says 2020 he means that the hardware will be commonly available to run these optimized algorithms at sufficient speed to reach human capabilities.. and then he goes on to say that the algorithms will be ready by then as there's all these practical uses for them before we even get to the point where we can combine them together into a working human-level intelligence.
I, on the other hand, am of the opinion that we don't know how to make these algorithms and that we could be studying the brain for centuries before we do.. and that there may be other algorithms which are completely unlike the ones used by the human brain, that we can't discover by studying the human brain, and yet are likely to be discovered much earlier if proper resources are dedicated to do so. I agree with him that the hardware of 2020 will be sufficient to run these algorithms at good speed, but I believe that will only be the case LONG after 2020 as we need to know how to run these things with bad performance before we start optimizing them, and that means that we need much more processing power to try out our theories with.
Clearly you have no understanding grammar.