Past Turing-equivalent? That comment alone proves you're full of shit. You cannot even have a Turing machine in a physical implementation since it's impossible to have the infinite memory a TM requires, and with finite memory at best you have a Linearly Bounded Automaton, which has significantly less power (though unlike in a TM, the non-determinism provided by quantum mechanics provides some increase in power--non-deterministic LBAs are more powerful than their deterministic counterparts, but not as powerful as TMs). As for non-computational artifacts, i.e. super-Turing machines, such cannot be physically implemented as that would violate the Bekenstein Bound (and thus even brains are limited by Turing).
The truth is this is a scam by the greens. They want money to be shifted from going towards nuclear development to 'green' generation. Of course, the truth is that to sustain the increased energy demand of progress (and add to that that most of the world, now undeveloped and developing countries, will have it's usage per capita jump several times as it becomes industrialized), you'd have to cover the fucking planet in windmills and solar panels if you want to go 'green'. As fossil sources run out, only nuclear (and at that breeder reactor, due to limited mineable uranium) can sustain progress. And I suspect that for a lot of greens, this is the true agenda--they want to stop human progress. They're just Luddities, go-back-to-nature types, even if some haven't realized it yet and have this inclination still subconscious only. It's a philosophy that was extensively written about by none other than the Unabomber in his manifesto.
How is that good? It takes away resources from where they should be concentrated, nuclear power. You'd have to cover the planet in windmills and solar panels to sustain unabated progress (read: increasing energy use, while fossil sources run out). Nuclear energy is the only way to do that, especially when you consider that most of the world that's not industrial nations will, by becoming industrialized, increase many times energy use per capita. Progress is unsustainable with 'green' sources; it's part of the environmentalist scam. Currently, the ONLY very long term generation that will allow continued increase of energy use is breeder reactors (cannot just have non-breeder plants since mineable uranium is limited).
Are you shitting me? Google's tracking is far more nefarious. I quote another post from this thread by an Anonymous Coward:
Google ad sense operates on a different level...using cookies is just part of the game. Via IP pingbacks, toolbar tracking, and account identification, users may unkowningly be giving out alot more data than they realize.
Say for instance that you use Gmail. or any Google service that requires login. Google can track you via that login to each site you visit that has a google ad (70% of the net from what I understand). See, doubleclick never had this part of the equation...they never had account info. Google can tie your IPs, usernames, email content, and web browsing activity...and you can't do jack about it (short of blocking the google scripts themselves).
Even without login account info, Google has the ability to track your individual machine via IP pingbacks. If you nav to page one, the google ad gets your exposed ip, then the next page you visit that has a google ad...yep..that ip is used to track that navigation. No cookie needed. Of course, if your behind a firewall, only the firewall ip would get exposed. But still...do you really want to give anyone that much information about you?
Who's to check that they've been cited correctly? Any tool can edit a wiki page and say something, then cite it. How many people actually check the citations? Chances are most of such thing will never be caught, because there isn't that much verification going on. That does not apply as much to other sources.
Blocking wikipedia would force students to look for other (more reliable) sources, rather than wiki misinformation. I never thought I'd post in a thread where my signature would be so relevant.
Starbucks doesn't make real espresso. Catpiss is more like it. Try the coffeegeek.com forums for suggestions of places in your area that make proper espresso.
Er, by cones obviously I'm referring to the conical photosensitive cells in your retina, each of which has response curves centered around different parts of the spectrum (roughly R, G, and B), but the side lobes have very significant overlap. If the light is bright, it can saturate all three while still being monochromatic, as long as its color is at a wavelength where all three cone curves have a non-zero value (which is almost all of the color range you can see).
Wow, you're pretty dumb. It's not that the LED is glowing white (that's not possible), but that it's so bright that it's saturating all of your three cones (the response curves of the cones overlap significantly).
It's not a matter of simply difficulty. It's mathematically impossible to prove that any system that is complex enough to be Turing complete will function correctly in all circumstances.
Idiot! As complexity increases, thorough testing becomes difficult and eventually impossible. We already went through this with software in its early days.
Don't be so dense. As complexity increases, thorough testing becomes difficult and eventually impossible. We already went through this with software in its early days.
That point of view can't survive the hard reality that as complexity keeps increasing, thorough testing becomes impractical and eventually impossible. We've already gone through this threshold with software several decades away.
Why are you such a fucking cretinous imbecile? Read the fucking paper the article is based on.
The idea isn't to replace the chip with an FPGA. The idea is to include a small FPGA through which various important signals are routed.
As shipped, the FPGA is just a pass-through, which does nothing. When you find out that a bug presents in a certain situation, you modify the FPGA to intercept the problem and handle it somehow.
Freeware tools vlite (for Vista) or nlite (for XP). Also used for stripping from the installation Windows "features" besides adding updates to it, as well as some customization.
The Stratasys uses the soluble supports. Having used it several times, I can say it's a pain in the ass as they take forever to dissolve even in the ultrasonic cleaner, and I've resorted to physically chipping away larger chunks to speed up the process. Additionally, 3D printers are all incredibly energy inefficient compared to an industrialized process making the same thing from the same starting materials.
Maybe you forgot your morning coffee, but this site doesn't use fixed width paragraphs, so which line something is depends on the window size in pixels. Use a different resolution or resize the browser window, and it's a different line. On my default setup, it happens to be the 4th line.
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Past Turing-equivalent? That comment alone proves you're full of shit. You cannot even have a Turing machine in a physical implementation since it's impossible to have the infinite memory a TM requires, and with finite memory at best you have a Linearly Bounded Automaton, which has significantly less power (though unlike in a TM, the non-determinism provided by quantum mechanics provides some increase in power--non-deterministic LBAs are more powerful than their deterministic counterparts, but not as powerful as TMs). As for non-computational artifacts, i.e. super-Turing machines, such cannot be physically implemented as that would violate the Bekenstein Bound (and thus even brains are limited by Turing).
My sig says it all.
The truth is this is a scam by the greens. They want money to be shifted from going towards nuclear development to 'green' generation. Of course, the truth is that to sustain the increased energy demand of progress (and add to that that most of the world, now undeveloped and developing countries, will have it's usage per capita jump several times as it becomes industrialized), you'd have to cover the fucking planet in windmills and solar panels if you want to go 'green'. As fossil sources run out, only nuclear (and at that breeder reactor, due to limited mineable uranium) can sustain progress. And I suspect that for a lot of greens, this is the true agenda--they want to stop human progress. They're just Luddities, go-back-to-nature types, even if some haven't realized it yet and have this inclination still subconscious only. It's a philosophy that was extensively written about by none other than the Unabomber in his manifesto.
How is that good? It takes away resources from where they should be concentrated, nuclear power. You'd have to cover the planet in windmills and solar panels to sustain unabated progress (read: increasing energy use, while fossil sources run out). Nuclear energy is the only way to do that, especially when you consider that most of the world that's not industrial nations will, by becoming industrialized, increase many times energy use per capita. Progress is unsustainable with 'green' sources; it's part of the environmentalist scam. Currently, the ONLY very long term generation that will allow continued increase of energy use is breeder reactors (cannot just have non-breeder plants since mineable uranium is limited).
Are you shitting me? Google's tracking is far more nefarious. I quote another post from this thread by an Anonymous Coward:
Google ad sense operates on a different level...using cookies is just part of the game. Via IP pingbacks, toolbar tracking, and account identification, users may unkowningly be giving out alot more data than they realize.
Say for instance that you use Gmail. or any Google service that requires login. Google can track you via that login to each site you visit that has a google ad (70% of the net from what I understand). See, doubleclick never had this part of the equation...they never had account info. Google can tie your IPs, usernames, email content, and web browsing activity...and you can't do jack about it (short of blocking the google scripts themselves). Even without login account info, Google has the ability to track your individual machine via IP pingbacks. If you nav to page one, the google ad gets your exposed ip, then the next page you visit that has a google ad...yep..that ip is used to track that navigation. No cookie needed. Of course, if your behind a firewall, only the firewall ip would get exposed. But still...do you really want to give anyone that much information about you?
Who's to check that they've been cited correctly? Any tool can edit a wiki page and say something, then cite it. How many people actually check the citations? Chances are most of such thing will never be caught, because there isn't that much verification going on. That does not apply as much to other sources.
Blocking wikipedia would force students to look for other (more reliable) sources, rather than wiki misinformation. I never thought I'd post in a thread where my signature would be so relevant.
As usual, we are far more interested in what happened afterwards. Did you educate your boss?
Starbucks doesn't make real espresso. Catpiss is more like it. Try the coffeegeek.com forums for suggestions of places in your area that make proper espresso.
He was merely stereotyping.
Mod parent down--the other replies to his post have completely discredited his argument. This is another case of didn't RTFA.
Er, by cones obviously I'm referring to the conical photosensitive cells in your retina, each of which has response curves centered around different parts of the spectrum (roughly R, G, and B), but the side lobes have very significant overlap. If the light is bright, it can saturate all three while still being monochromatic, as long as its color is at a wavelength where all three cone curves have a non-zero value (which is almost all of the color range you can see).
Wow, you're pretty dumb. It's not that the LED is glowing white (that's not possible), but that it's so bright that it's saturating all of your three cones (the response curves of the cones overlap significantly).
It's not a matter of simply difficulty. It's mathematically impossible to prove that any system that is complex enough to be Turing complete will function correctly in all circumstances.
It's mathematically impossible to prove that any system that is complex enough to be Turing complete will function correctly in all circumstances.
Idiot! As complexity increases, thorough testing becomes difficult and eventually impossible. We already went through this with software in its early days.
Don't be so dense. As complexity increases, thorough testing becomes difficult and eventually impossible. We already went through this with software in its early days.
That point of view can't survive the hard reality that as complexity keeps increasing, thorough testing becomes impractical and eventually impossible. We've already gone through this threshold with software several decades away.
Why are you such a fucking cretinous imbecile? Read the fucking paper the article is based on.
The idea isn't to replace the chip with an FPGA. The idea is to include a small FPGA through which various important signals are routed.
As shipped, the FPGA is just a pass-through, which does nothing. When you find out that a bug presents in a certain situation, you modify the FPGA to intercept the problem and handle it somehow.
Freeware tools vlite (for Vista) or nlite (for XP). Also used for stripping from the installation Windows "features" besides adding updates to it, as well as some customization.
The Stratasys uses the soluble supports. Having used it several times, I can say it's a pain in the ass as they take forever to dissolve even in the ultrasonic cleaner, and I've resorted to physically chipping away larger chunks to speed up the process. Additionally, 3D printers are all incredibly energy inefficient compared to an industrialized process making the same thing from the same starting materials.
Actually, you're the incredibly fucking stupid one--all the updates can be slipstreamed into a single install.
No no, you're the stupid one. Why not just slipstream all the updates? Then you only do a single install.
AVG is not a very good antivirus. There are better free ones out there as you'll see when you look at comprehensive comparisons.
*point to 3rd*
Maybe you forgot your morning coffee, but this site doesn't use fixed width paragraphs, so which line something is depends on the window size in pixels. Use a different resolution or resize the browser window, and it's a different line. On my default setup, it happens to be the 4th line.