I am looing forward to this. While MIT's attempts to open up thier classes on the internet seemed novel, it was not the resource I was hoping it would be. I was hoping it would be a good reference place when I needed to remember something from my college days as all my textbooks from college are buried in storage. This shows promise but I will reserve my judgement for it's usefullness for now.
So I should be fine if I simply add some fake reoccurring classes to my calendar. I think I am going to "fake" take up some firearms classes and some marshal arts. It will also not hurt to add something else like, Tuesdays I will have a "fake" pit bull owners club. Or I could just not put flight information in my calendar.
As I wrote this I realized that I was going to be labeled a "Karma Whore" and contemplated not submitting. I did because the above is exactly as I feel now regardless.
Thank you. I will read this thoroughly later but on reading the abstract it seems that the camparisons were made using a basis of whole plant ethanol production. If only the corn of the plant is used there would be a higher concentration of sugar and it could be more effiecient than stated in this study.
Four times the ethanol density of corn?(2/3 of sugar?) I find that hard to believe. The property of vegitable matter that determines how much ethanol will be produced is the sugar content of said vegitable matter. Hemp doesn't have that much sugar in it. This is why sugar caen is so much better for producing ethanol than corn. No matter how sweet the corn sugar cane will have more.
I have heard the statistic many times here, that it is not effective to grow bio fuels. Here on Slashdot biofuels = knee-jerk reaction = nice green thought but the math doesn't work. It is often posted that these fuels do not produce more energy than they require to grow. I assume this calculation come from the energy required to produce the fertilizer along with the petrol consumed by the Tractors. Where does this statistic come from? If the farmers didn't fertilize (fertilizers are very energy intensive to produce ) would the energy required still be more than produced? This statistic seems old, as I remember hearing them at least 7 years ago. Perhaps the conditions are no longer valid. SHOW ME THE MATH!!! Or chemistry as it may well be.
No they are not the same. Beer is simply the most important grocery. The robot could help you carry other groceries such as, cigars, mags, condoms, lube, skittles (to mix with you beer and make skittlebrau), ammunition, handcuffs, plastic fake dog poo, and other things you get every time you go shopping.
"Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science." Well, that's what scientists to. As they search for the truth they refine thier views. Things change with new evidence. Politicians have to realize how science works.
So what they are really doing is trying to teach an AI morality? Does anybody know how they do this. What is the difference between a nipple and a cherry (the fruit) to a computer. In some point in the future will are goverment be able to make computeres see thier motrality and then tell them to go enforce it?
I would really like to actually see this study. The researchers go so far as to say that in the future a crash will be caused by some portable electronics. There must be a way to engineer around this. They not only name cells as a culprit but also laptops and other electronics. How much EM radiation do these devices really produce? It can't be that much. How sensitive are these GPS systems in the planes. Is the GPS system the only affected system? By how much is the GPS system affected. Does it show an error of a dozen meters of a dozen kilometers or does it simply not work at all? To a certain point I understand banning cell phones, but other electronic devices?
That is not that much money if you have it. I do not know the situation but asking for 1000 could be a problem depending on the administration of the school. The administration could say well, the computers aren't broken, so we see no reason to change things. They might say that instead of spending 1000 on XP that they could buy two or three more computers. They might not understand the problem of the using the different platforms. They may see nothing wrong with using Windows 95.
Much worse misusing of lists has occurred in Indiana. Before the national "do not call list" was implemented Indiana had one. Charitable organizations did not have to oblige by this list. But the FOP took it one step further, adding all the names on the "do not call list" to their call list. This undoubtedly led to them getting more than a few unlisted numbers in the process.
Everyone is always worried about governments "rewriting history" i.e. from the post "Are our intelligence agencies rewriting history, stupidly paranoid, or both?" This here is not an example of that. The government is not rewriting history, just denying access to it. Whether that is as bad is debatable.
This poster in no way agrees with what the CIA is doing, just pointing out an oft made error. This here is not some Orwellian nightmare.
Does anyone know what he is walking away with after driving his company into the ground? The article doesn't say and google isn't being much help either.
If you sent a letter through the US mail. They would find out similar information without opening the letter. They would know the return address, mailing address, What day and from what post office it was mailed from. As long as they read the subject line or email It really isn't unvasion of privacy.
And like many people have commented, if your paranoid, use incyption.
From The article "For now, all video processed through Tales is delayed by about four minutes, with an accuracy rate of between 60 and 70 percent" and "The accuracy rate could be increased to 80 percent, Roukos added"
Still even at 80 percent how good is this translation. If that 20% is the important parts of speech You could still be left clueless. Even the best Machine translations of text I have seen always leaves the text a bit garbled and confusticated.
I don't know how much delay is implied in the phrase "on the fly" , but I personally don' think there could ever be real time translation for the following reason. Sentences in different languages have different sentence structures. While in English the verb is usually the second part, in other languages the verb comes many times last (German). For the translator to get the second word of a sentence, it would have to wait till the end, of what could be a long sentence. This necessarily adds delay.
I thought this was one of the many reasons that CERN was getting new particle accelerators. It was my understanding (from my tour at CERN) that current particle accelerators just didn't have enough energy to create these miniature black holes and the first experiments to try wouldn't be started until the end of this decade when the new CERN detectors are finished.
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I am looing forward to this. While MIT's attempts to open up thier classes on the internet seemed novel, it was not the resource I was hoping it would be. I was hoping it would be a good reference place when I needed to remember something from my college days as all my textbooks from college are buried in storage. This shows promise but I will reserve my judgement for it's usefullness for now.
Thank you, I was aware of that. I did RTFA. I was just trying to be facetious. I guess I failed.
So I should be fine if I simply add some fake reoccurring classes to my calendar. I think I am going to "fake" take up some firearms classes and some marshal arts. It will also not hurt to add something else like, Tuesdays I will have a "fake" pit bull owners club. Or I could just not put flight information in my calendar.
As I wrote this I realized that I was going to be labeled a "Karma Whore" and contemplated not submitting. I did because the above is exactly as I feel now regardless.
More than ever, do I love Linux.
Thank you. I will read this thoroughly later but on reading the abstract it seems that the camparisons were made using a basis of whole plant ethanol production. If only the corn of the plant is used there would be a higher concentration of sugar and it could be more effiecient than stated in this study.
Four times the ethanol density of corn?(2/3 of sugar?) I find that hard to believe. The property of vegitable matter that determines how much ethanol will be produced is the sugar content of said vegitable matter. Hemp doesn't have that much sugar in it. This is why sugar caen is so much better for producing ethanol than corn. No matter how sweet the corn sugar cane will have more.
I have heard the statistic many times here, that it is not effective to grow bio fuels. Here on Slashdot biofuels = knee-jerk reaction = nice green thought but the math doesn't work. It is often posted that these fuels do not produce more energy than they require to grow. I assume this calculation come from the energy required to produce the fertilizer along with the petrol consumed by the Tractors. Where does this statistic come from? If the farmers didn't fertilize (fertilizers are very energy intensive to produce ) would the energy required still be more than produced? This statistic seems old, as I remember hearing them at least 7 years ago. Perhaps the conditions are no longer valid. SHOW ME THE MATH!!! Or chemistry as it may well be.
No they are not the same. Beer is simply the most important grocery. The robot could help you carry other groceries such as, cigars, mags, condoms, lube, skittles (to mix with you beer and make skittlebrau), ammunition, handcuffs, plastic fake dog poo, and other things you get every time you go shopping.
This summary doesn't actually say anything of how he is causing problems for microsoft. It is just his hacking resume.
"Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science." Well, that's what scientists to. As they search for the truth they refine thier views. Things change with new evidence. Politicians have to realize how science works.
I thought it was a scientists job to find the truth.
somebody mod me down for not knowing how to spell, My post is so embarassing.
So what they are really doing is trying to teach an AI morality? Does anybody know how they do this. What is the difference between a nipple and a cherry (the fruit) to a computer. In some point in the future will are goverment be able to make computeres see thier motrality and then tell them to go enforce it?
I would really like to actually see this study. The researchers go so far as to say that in the future a crash will be caused by some portable electronics. There must be a way to engineer around this. They not only name cells as a culprit but also laptops and other electronics. How much EM radiation do these devices really produce? It can't be that much. How sensitive are these GPS systems in the planes. Is the GPS system the only affected system? By how much is the GPS system affected. Does it show an error of a dozen meters of a dozen kilometers or does it simply not work at all? To a certain point I understand banning cell phones, but other electronic devices?
That is not that much money if you have it. I do not know the situation but asking for 1000 could be a problem depending on the administration of the school. The administration could say well, the computers aren't broken, so we see no reason to change things. They might say that instead of spending 1000 on XP that they could buy two or three more computers. They might not understand the problem of the using the different platforms. They may see nothing wrong with using Windows 95.
Much worse misusing of lists has occurred in Indiana. Before the national "do not call list" was implemented Indiana had one. Charitable organizations did not have to oblige by this list. But the FOP took it one step further, adding all the names on the "do not call list" to their call list. This undoubtedly led to them getting more than a few unlisted numbers in the process.
Everyone is always worried about governments "rewriting history" i.e. from the post "Are our intelligence agencies rewriting history, stupidly paranoid, or both?" This here is not an example of that. The government is not rewriting history, just denying access to it. Whether that is as bad is debatable.
This poster in no way agrees with what the CIA is doing, just pointing out an oft made error. This here is not some Orwellian nightmare.
Does anyone know what he is walking away with after driving his company into the ground? The article doesn't say and google isn't being much help either.
To play devils advocate
If you sent a letter through the US mail. They would find out similar information without opening the letter. They would know the return address, mailing address, What day and from what post office it was mailed from. As long as they read the subject line or email It really isn't unvasion of privacy.
And like many people have commented, if your paranoid, use incyption.
From The article "For now, all video processed through Tales is delayed by about four minutes, with an accuracy rate of between 60 and 70 percent" and "The accuracy rate could be increased to 80 percent, Roukos added"
Still even at 80 percent how good is this translation. If that 20% is the important parts of speech You could still be left clueless. Even the best Machine translations of text I have seen always leaves the text a bit garbled and confusticated.
I don't know how much delay is implied in the phrase "on the fly" , but I personally don' think there could ever be real time translation for the following reason. Sentences in different languages have different sentence structures. While in English the verb is usually the second part, in other languages the verb comes many times last (German). For the translator to get the second word of a sentence, it would have to wait till the end, of what could be a long sentence. This necessarily adds delay.
I agree, That is what I was taught plagerism was, using someones ideas without citing them.
Using copyrighted material is entirely different from plagerism. Plagersism is about not giving credit to the source.
I thought this was one of the many reasons that CERN was getting new particle accelerators. It was my understanding (from my tour at CERN) that current particle accelerators just didn't have enough energy to create these miniature black holes and the first experiments to try wouldn't be started until the end of this decade when the new CERN detectors are finished.
I agree. I have no idea why they marked my comment insightful, I was going for funny.
How dare these two groups jeopardize national security by selfishly claiming they have rights!
note: the preceding comment was intended to be facetious