There was a problem with Fujitsu hard disks a few months back because of a problem with their silicon boards being strained. It turns out that the factory from which they were receiving their silicon from wasn't cleaning the silicon of enough impurities and this resulted in the resulting products based on the bad silicon up and dying with no warning.
While this is not the same type of straining that Intel is doing, it is important to see whether this new technology can function in real world situations without failure. And it is important to test this over a long period of time.
Not so congrats on putting a high speed line between the U.S. and China. At least Clinton isn't around to authorize transfers of government secrets to China this time around.
With all the fantasy crap that's been sweeping the theaters lately it was just a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to bring those childhood stories to the big screen.
Too bad most of the nerds who are carried away by the fantasy stories are more interested in how to attach a tail to their costume before the furry convention than in the Christianity-laced works of C.S. Lewis.
For all its cinematic glory, LOTR and the Matrix didn't have anything new to offer viewers except a nine hour fantasy-boy masturbation session.
They really highlighted the crazy lengths to which we've come using computer animation. The difference between last year's CG and this year's CG is immense and the improvements seem to be increasing at a logorythmic rate. Soon we will be able to have whole movies produced with CG and have them done faster than was ever possible before.
But the two sets of movies also show the worst of Hollywood, the deep vacancies of the writers' creativity. While the Matrix may have at least had a glimmer of originality and cleverness, LOTR just rehashed (not very well mind you, leaving out key figures like Tom Bumbledore) a years old text written by a pompous English professor who was more interested in creating new languages than in using the languages right in front of him to craft a better story. But the Matrix lapsed into a regular shoot-em-up and LOTR climaxed with a quiet shudder and the whole lot sucked up too much money for too little return to the audience.
Searching for missing hikers Surveying wildfires Surveying the houses of known government enemies Surveying the homes of suspected government enemies Surveying your home
As we make these machines bigger and better and more like ourselves, shouldn't we also consider the possibility that they will at some point have to be assigned rights just as animals and even humans have rights?
There was a film with Robin Williams in it wherein a robot in fact reached sentience and it wasn't until after the robot's death that it was granted personhood and all the rights and privileges thereby.
Should we consider these creations of ours, no matter how sophisticated and intelligent nothing more than machines?
The whole premise behind SETI is that there are intelligent beings 'out there' in the universe that are broadcasting their signals into space. Even if there were beings doing just that, they would be hundreds if not thousands if not millions or billions of light years away from us making any sort of coherent response to a signal meaningless.
If there were beings out there who had the capacity for interstellar travel (and that's the only kind that would matter because anything less than that would make communication impossible) they would have already found this noisy planet and if not made contact at least monitored us from a safe distance.
So either way SETI is unlikely to find anything meaningful. I'm with the Christians on this one. The search for extra-terrestrial life is only a substitute for the search for meaning within one's self and with one's God.
Space tourists get to bring the costs down for everyone in the long run. And they really don't get much more than bragging rights and rides in the Vomit Comet for all that money.
I'd rather spend my $20,000,000 on a long vacation in Moraco.
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Reusable shuttles? What's the point?
But what about the Beagle's problems? It's all alone on Mars and probably can't signal back it's existence.
Poor thing.
Perhaps a nuclear winter would be a good time to re-evaluate our social standings on something other than the size of our bank accounts.
Simoniker, go home! What are you doing at work?
Just leave it out on the sidewalk and enterprising young people who are cash-strapped can build their e-empire using your old throw-aways.
It's the American Dream.
Sony's PS2 unit goes so far as to disable the RGB output when playing DVDs, requiring a cable swap when changing from movie-watching to game-playing
Right off the first page. The PS2 uses a composite video cable and requires no switching of cabling to watch DVDs or to play games.
I guess the creators couldn't see the irony in the name.
Columbia makes some good bags too. Maybe something from North Face would be a little sturdier.
There was a problem with Fujitsu hard disks a few months back because of a problem with their silicon boards being strained. It turns out that the factory from which they were receiving their silicon from wasn't cleaning the silicon of enough impurities and this resulted in the resulting products based on the bad silicon up and dying with no warning.
While this is not the same type of straining that Intel is doing, it is important to see whether this new technology can function in real world situations without failure. And it is important to test this over a long period of time.
Congrats on the very well-done writeup.
Not so congrats on putting a high speed line between the U.S. and China. At least Clinton isn't around to authorize transfers of government secrets to China this time around.
The SCO case introduces no new law. The case relies almost solely on existing law.
$8,400 can buy a lot of beer.
With all the fantasy crap that's been sweeping the theaters lately it was just a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to bring those childhood stories to the big screen.
Too bad most of the nerds who are carried away by the fantasy stories are more interested in how to attach a tail to their costume before the furry convention than in the Christianity-laced works of C.S. Lewis.
The brains of the company should be in the cube farm, not the board room.
It's called Universal Plug and Play and despite appearances it is gaining popularity.
For all its cinematic glory, LOTR and the Matrix didn't have anything new to offer viewers except a nine hour fantasy-boy masturbation session.
They really highlighted the crazy lengths to which we've come using computer animation. The difference between last year's CG and this year's CG is immense and the improvements seem to be increasing at a logorythmic rate. Soon we will be able to have whole movies produced with CG and have them done faster than was ever possible before.
But the two sets of movies also show the worst of Hollywood, the deep vacancies of the writers' creativity. While the Matrix may have at least had a glimmer of originality and cleverness, LOTR just rehashed (not very well mind you, leaving out key figures like Tom Bumbledore) a years old text written by a pompous English professor who was more interested in creating new languages than in using the languages right in front of him to craft a better story. But the Matrix lapsed into a regular shoot-em-up and LOTR climaxed with a quiet shudder and the whole lot sucked up too much money for too little return to the audience.
Searching for missing hikers
Surveying wildfires
Surveying the houses of known government enemies
Surveying the homes of suspected government enemies
Surveying your home
Would the police be excluded from soliciting for fundraisers? If not, why not?
No wonder no one was taking their advice.
Encryption is good, as long as the people using it are good. When people use encryption to hurt other people, it becomes a serious liability.
As we make these machines bigger and better and more like ourselves, shouldn't we also consider the possibility that they will at some point have to be assigned rights just as animals and even humans have rights?
There was a film with Robin Williams in it wherein a robot in fact reached sentience and it wasn't until after the robot's death that it was granted personhood and all the rights and privileges thereby.
Should we consider these creations of ours, no matter how sophisticated and intelligent nothing more than machines?
The whole premise behind SETI is that there are intelligent beings 'out there' in the universe that are broadcasting their signals into space. Even if there were beings doing just that, they would be hundreds if not thousands if not millions or billions of light years away from us making any sort of coherent response to a signal meaningless.
If there were beings out there who had the capacity for interstellar travel (and that's the only kind that would matter because anything less than that would make communication impossible) they would have already found this noisy planet and if not made contact at least monitored us from a safe distance.
So either way SETI is unlikely to find anything meaningful. I'm with the Christians on this one. The search for extra-terrestrial life is only a substitute for the search for meaning within one's self and with one's God.
it makes me wonder if a pre SP build of some Microsoft products might have something under the hood for bad guys to use.
Naaaaahh
It opens in StarOffice just fine.
And they still can't prevent pop ups in Internet Explorer.
Space tourists get to bring the costs down for everyone in the long run. And they really don't get much more than bragging rights and rides in the Vomit Comet for all that money.
I'd rather spend my $20,000,000 on a long vacation in Moraco.