I know that your typical Jeep etc doesn't have wheels that can do a 360 vertical pivot, but maybe this might have some application for some earthbound specialty vehicle. Even 4 wheel drives get stuck - this could be a new strategy.
I keep hearing that the FBI is backlogged out the wazoo when it comes to translating Arabic, Pashto, etc for terrorist messages. A news story ("60 minutes"?) on the subject stated that the FBI is also sluggish to remedy the situation due to dumbass bureaucratic game-playing.
But MT seems now to be mature enough to step in and solve the problem almost in a single stroke.
"Frontline" had a story on Debeers some years ago. Back in the 50's General Electric planned on getting into the artificial diamond biz but Debeers found out. They threatened or bought off an executive and the project was killed.
But weren't Russian and Canadian diamonds supposed to queer the Debeers cartel and bring prices down?
One thing I've never seen discussed in ID is the *magnitude* of the intelligence we're talking about.
The unstated assumption is that the intelligence is superhuman.
So take the design of the human body. Extremely sophisticated, right? But with our merely human intelligence, in the course of several hundred years we've gone from square one to the knowledge of the functioning of our own molecules. For some time now we've been improving on our own design, band aid fashion, with drugs, therapies, prostheses, etc. Soon enough we will reinvent or dispose of the body entirely. So if the intelligence in ID had billions of years to design the human body, and we're bettering that in less than 1000 years, then the intelligence of ID must be on the order of 10^-6 relative to ours, yes?
Spotlight is far superior to add-on desktop search programs available for Microsoft Windows from Google and others, because it doesn't have to constantly "index" the hard disk, looking for new files while the disk spins constantly.
Even if this is a dumb idea for offshoring IT, who's to say Wal-Mart won't arm-twist their suppliers into setting up floating sweatshops? That way they can screw the americans AND the chinese!
Somewhere in the News Editor's Creed there must be a part that says articles on cold/hot fusion/flying cars/AI/home robots must be run at five year intervals, just to keep people from falling asleep.
The bible has already gone thru zillions of revisions, leaving out many parts along the way. Remember, there was a huge pile of hallucinatory writing done by starving desert dwelling hermits. They had to toss out the completely incoherent gibberish so they could publish the quasi-coherent hallucinations.
William Burroughs and Ted Kaczynsky had predecessors.
I remember clearly seeing a Union Carbide ad on TV in the late 60's. A man on a silent fuel cell powered motorbike pulls up in traffic next to a guy on a Harley. The electric motorbike is silent.
doubtful if any more new brands would fit into the soda aisle without extensive remodeling.
The only point behind all these new weird coke flavors is to grab more shelf space. Expect spillover into either 'Ethnic Foods' aisle by 2006 and whole stores dedicated to coke products by 2010.
Steve Jobs has said repeatedly that Apple isn't making money off iTunes at 99 cents a song. It's a loss leader for the highly profitable iPod.
I don't know why Apple would seriously consider trading a break-even proposition for a multimillion-dollar/year loss. This proposal makes no economic sense at all.
As a musician I've had to spend many years waiting for online music to mature to the point where it's reliable. Too many hosts have died from poor business models. Musicians need stable platforms to sell music from! Apple and CDbaby are obviously thriving... please let them continue to thrive.
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I doubt that the NSA would do encryption & cracking on a general purpose machine using floating point.
Wouldn't they be better off using a custom built processor with hardware optimized for the job?
Don't tell me endlessly repeated combinations of the same four base pairs needs 300 TB...
I know that your typical Jeep etc doesn't have wheels that can do a 360 vertical pivot, but maybe this might have some application for some earthbound specialty vehicle. Even 4 wheel drives get stuck - this could be a new strategy.
on Mars, the parking fines on 'out of towners' are astronomical...
.. they did it with panties, didn't they?
I keep hearing that the FBI is backlogged out the wazoo when it comes to translating Arabic, Pashto, etc for terrorist messages. A news story ("60 minutes"?) on the subject stated that the FBI is also sluggish to remedy the situation due to dumbass bureaucratic game-playing.
But MT seems now to be mature enough to step in and solve the problem almost in a single stroke.
FBI, are you listening?
.... don't forget good ol' pr0n!
"Frontline" had a story on Debeers some years ago. Back in the 50's General Electric planned on getting into the artificial diamond biz but Debeers found out. They threatened or bought off an executive and the project was killed.
But weren't Russian and Canadian diamonds supposed to queer the Debeers cartel and bring prices down?
... just don't promise her the Moon....
Confucius say, China citizen with broadband have fast car with no wheels.
One thing I've never seen discussed in ID is the *magnitude* of the intelligence we're talking about.
The unstated assumption is that the intelligence is superhuman.
So take the design of the human body. Extremely sophisticated, right? But with our merely human intelligence, in the course of several hundred years we've gone from square one to the knowledge of the functioning of our own molecules. For some time now we've been improving on our own design, band aid fashion, with drugs, therapies, prostheses, etc.
Soon enough we will reinvent or dispose of the body entirely.
So if the intelligence in ID had billions of years to design the human body, and we're bettering that in less than 1000 years, then the intelligence of ID must be on the order of 10^-6 relative to ours, yes?
What's to prevent a tagged person from wrapping the tag in foil? Or just letting the batteries die?
This is not a practical solution for tagging someone *forever*, against their will.
And where was the copy editor?
Yes, Tiger sounds very spiffy.
Even if this is a dumb idea for offshoring IT, who's to say Wal-Mart won't arm-twist their suppliers into setting up floating sweatshops? That way they can screw the americans AND the chinese!
Somewhere in the News Editor's Creed there must be a part that says articles on cold/hot fusion/flying cars/AI/home robots must be run at five year intervals, just to keep people from falling asleep.
The bible has already gone thru zillions of revisions, leaving out many parts along the way. Remember, there was a huge pile of hallucinatory writing done by starving desert dwelling hermits. They had to toss out the completely incoherent gibberish so they could publish the quasi-coherent hallucinations.
William Burroughs and Ted Kaczynsky had predecessors.
..gonna monitor them for steroids?
now all I have to hear is that the Fantastic Four movie sucks, and the War of the Worlds remake sucks, and I can go do something else with my summer.
Toshiba announces a thin stick-on device using nanocrystals that you can use on your cell phone....
Yeah, it's a distinction without a difference.
What's next?
Pell-Phones - Cell phones that have their own personalized number!!
I remember clearly seeing a Union Carbide ad on TV in the late 60's. A man on a silent fuel cell powered motorbike pulls up in traffic next to a guy on a Harley. The electric motorbike is silent.
doubtful if any more new brands would fit into the soda aisle without extensive remodeling.
The only point behind all these new weird coke flavors is to grab more shelf space. Expect spillover into either 'Ethnic Foods' aisle by 2006 and whole stores dedicated to coke products by 2010.
Tell me again why Apple doesn't put FM in the iPod?
Steve Jobs has said repeatedly that Apple isn't making money off iTunes at 99 cents a song. It's a loss leader for the highly profitable iPod. I don't know why Apple would seriously consider trading a break-even proposition for a multimillion-dollar/year loss. This proposal makes no economic sense at all.
... please let them continue to thrive.
As a musician I've had to spend many years waiting for online music to mature to the point where it's reliable. Too many hosts have died from poor business models. Musicians need stable platforms to sell music from! Apple and CDbaby are obviously thriving