I'd imagine that many of the stories go something like this: I was bored because I didn't have a job and had no hope of getting a job. I also didn't have health insurance because I lived in the US and didn't have a job and when I got an easily treatable cancer, I didn't get treatment because I didn't have insurance because I didn't have a job and I croaked.
If Picard ever stopped to think about it, I'd imagine that might begin to worry him...
Picard would probably use his 100-billion neurons firing 1,000 times per second = 100-trillion operations/second to ask "Why is Data so slow? Can't he get an upgrade?"
Why exactly should we support or admire this moron?
Because she is dedicated to having the unconstitutional statutory copyright-infringement damages declared unconstitutional. If I was in her position, I would offer to settle the case for a payment of $2-million.
The IPv6 designers made a terrible mistake by not including backward compatibility with IPv4. IPv6 is a lot like Intel's Itanium processor. It's unclear right now whether the the anointed successor will gain ground or whether some IPv4 extension hack will come along and make fools of the IPv6 crowd. (Wait, what's the opposite of "crowd"?) BTW, I'm using a x86_64 processor right now, like most people.
If most IANA analysts watched a puppy growing the the first month of its life, they'd conclude that it'll be a 400-foot tall monster trashing downtown Tokyo in two years.
Really, this is how I see medicine in the future. If you suffer serious trauma, the paramedics will simply kill you at the scene and take your corpse to a hospital where the doctors will patch you up and resurrect you several hours later. If your hand gets mangled, they will simply hack it off, slather on some stem cells, and you'll over a few months, you'll just grow a new one.
So why is not possible that we could also inadvertently alter the planet?
I have no doubt that we do have an impact on the plant, but this really isn't the pressing issue. The pressing issue is the implementation of a multi-trillion-dollar cap-and-trade system that will make everything cost more in order to fight the anthropogenic-CO2 bogeyman. This bogeyman is going to bake us and drown us real soon now if we don't commit these trillions of dollars today.
So, the issue at hand isn't whether we have an impact on the Earth, it's whether our CO2 emissions are accelerating a runaway greenhouse that will cost us enormously more than the trillions we are committing to fighting it if we don't start on Monday. Given the cooling over the past decade, there is plenty of reason to be skeptical about the specific CO2 bogeyman. Perhaps it would be much wiser to figure out what is really going on and spend our money addressing that.
I'm also concerned about the trillions of dollars that will be flowing into the hands of corrupt third-world dictators in this century. I'm not as confident as the leftists the money will be spent wisely. OTOH, I am confident that a good chunk of it will be spent on an effort that definitely reduces the human consumption of Earth's resources in the short term: rapid depopulation (of particular ethnicities).
If you ask me, they should have placed the prime meridian so that the 180th meridian goes through the center of the Bering Strait. This would provide a clean separation between Asia and North America and keep New Zealand from teetering so precariously on the edge of the map.
but it's not a completely unreasonable amount; some people are going to find that constraining in the next few years, which is why ZFS uses 128 bits.
I'm not so sure about this. Once we get beyond 2^64, we need to start talking about the number of subatomic particles within 20km of the surface of the Earth and whether we can expect them all to be stuffed into one hard-drive case.
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If my work was being used to justify the transfer of trillions of dollars to genocidal dictators, then Joe might have a point and a right.
I'd imagine that many of the stories go something like this: I was bored because I didn't have a job and had no hope of getting a job. I also didn't have health insurance because I lived in the US and didn't have a job and when I got an easily treatable cancer, I didn't get treatment because I didn't have insurance because I didn't have a job and I croaked.
Picard would probably use his 100-billion neurons firing 1,000 times per second = 100-trillion operations/second to ask "Why is Data so slow? Can't he get an upgrade?"
Because she is dedicated to having the unconstitutional statutory copyright-infringement damages declared unconstitutional. If I was in her position, I would offer to settle the case for a payment of $2-million.
I told you this years ago. The next person to set foot on the moon will be Chinese.
You can get much better than 60% simply by differentiating male and female faces, and improve that more by distinguishing age.
They could also be caused by wanting to get money for nothing.
Finally, proof that the universe is a computer simulation!
The IPv6 designers made a terrible mistake by not including backward compatibility with IPv4. IPv6 is a lot like Intel's Itanium processor. It's unclear right now whether the the anointed successor will gain ground or whether some IPv4 extension hack will come along and make fools of the IPv6 crowd. (Wait, what's the opposite of "crowd"?) BTW, I'm using a x86_64 processor right now, like most people.
If most IANA analysts watched a puppy growing the the first month of its life, they'd conclude that it'll be a 400-foot tall monster trashing downtown Tokyo in two years.
You might say "colliding with the real world".
He's an obvious case of Schizoid personality "disorder".
http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=621
Green-tech: the next big stock-market bubble. Just remember to bail out when the feeding frenzy starts to feed on itself.
Really, this is how I see medicine in the future. If you suffer serious trauma, the paramedics will simply kill you at the scene and take your corpse to a hospital where the doctors will patch you up and resurrect you several hours later. If your hand gets mangled, they will simply hack it off, slather on some stem cells, and you'll over a few months, you'll just grow a new one.
I have no doubt that we do have an impact on the plant, but this really isn't the pressing issue. The pressing issue is the implementation of a multi-trillion-dollar cap-and-trade system that will make everything cost more in order to fight the anthropogenic-CO2 bogeyman. This bogeyman is going to bake us and drown us real soon now if we don't commit these trillions of dollars today.
So, the issue at hand isn't whether we have an impact on the Earth, it's whether our CO2 emissions are accelerating a runaway greenhouse that will cost us enormously more than the trillions we are committing to fighting it if we don't start on Monday. Given the cooling over the past decade, there is plenty of reason to be skeptical about the specific CO2 bogeyman. Perhaps it would be much wiser to figure out what is really going on and spend our money addressing that.
You still can't use the tree-ring data until you nail this "environmental factor" down precisely and prove that it wasn't present before.
Perhaps he is saying that we should defer committing trillions of dollars to science that has proven to be this poorly done.
I'm also concerned about the trillions of dollars that will be flowing into the hands of corrupt third-world dictators in this century. I'm not as confident as the leftists the money will be spent wisely. OTOH, I am confident that a good chunk of it will be spent on an effort that definitely reduces the human consumption of Earth's resources in the short term: rapid depopulation (of particular ethnicities).
It will be even funnier when Murdoch gets dragged into antitrust litigation for leading an anti-market collusion racket.
Sounds like the cops need to arrest themselves. How do they think the crowd will react to something like this?
Indeed, it's not the number of neurons but how they are connected that's important. The network is the computer.
If you ask me, they should have placed the prime meridian so that the 180th meridian goes through the center of the Bering Strait. This would provide a clean separation between Asia and North America and keep New Zealand from teetering so precariously on the edge of the map.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that trade for you.
I'm not so sure about this. Once we get beyond 2^64, we need to start talking about the number of subatomic particles within 20km of the surface of the Earth and whether we can expect them all to be stuffed into one hard-drive case.