I don't believe Intel and Microsoft are at all comparable. I can buy an AMD processor that runs all the same software, heck I wouldn't even know the difference without opening the box. The same cannot be said for the OS.
I still resent Intel for gouging me all through the 90s, but let's face it they are the best and AMD have largely kept Intel in check.
That said, if their pricing strategy is illegal, well I guess they should get sued.
True, but it's also hard to measure other intangibles such as tarnished image.
And Amazon, in my mind, doesn't quite have the nice comfy natural monopoly of network effects (think ebay, youtube or even slashdot). Nothing amazon sells cannot be bought elsewhere at about the same price. (That said, I'm a long-term and satisfied Amazon customer who tends to buy there unless I can save several bucks buying elsewhere).
Sure, generating less heat in the first place is a good idea. But there will still be data centers where a lot of processing happens. So you can either have a low-density datacenter in a huge air-conditioned facility, or a smaller high-density setup where the waste heat is collected more efficiently.
For home PC's, I think power consumption has hit the ceiling already. Power isn't getting any cheaper, and "green" is trendy.
Or, just make the circulation system extremely reliable. You had a broken pump, and I know I hate fans, since they always break and what good is a video card with a broken fan? I seem to recall some systems where the absorbed heat is used to boil the water, which drives it through cooling fins. This seems great: 1) no mechanical parts to fail, 2) change of state absorbs lots of energy, 3) no additional energy is used to power a pump or fan.
I think a "layer" consists of more than a core: "IBM plans to stack memory chips between processor cores to multiply interconnections by 100 times while reducing their feature size tenfold." So, this doesn't really say, but there could be a 4 core Power6 chip and 2 gigs of ram in a layer for all I know.
The UK is working on a massive centralized database of health records called NPfIT. Aside from all the typical delays and cost overruns of deploying a massive new IT system, there is widespread concern about privacy among citizens. It will be very interesting (and easy) for Americans to sit back and watch how it pans out. I have an in-law who was fired from a nice hospital job for unauthorized access of patient records (she was showing a friend hoping to get hired on how they file things), which showed me both that 1) privacy concerns are real, and 2) institutions take the matter seriously, at least in some cases.
I'm just trying to imagine anybody in China even noticing the RIAA request in the first place. If some Chinese industry group told all businesses in the US to boycott google, do you think it would have a big impact? It's so implausible I have to wonder what the RIAAs motives actually are.
I think ssl solves MITM about as well as it could be - browsers are hardcoded with public keys for certification authorities, which then distribute keys for other hosts.
Rather my question about ssl was whether it conceals port numbers (and any other information I haven't thought about) that routers don't need.
I agree this calls for encryption. ISPs and routers should ONLY be able to see what they need to see - IP routing information. They shouldn't be able to see content, nor port numbers. But I am unsure whether ssl provides this, and how much compute horsepower would be required for big servers to ssl everything.
The key to the singularity hypothesis is that only ONE field must reach a tipping point: Artificial Intelligence. If it gets good enough to improve itself, there should be a feedback loop. Exponential advances in aerospace, power, and medicine would then follow - in theory.
Well, to finish my point, I'm sure the default browser option comes into play occasionally, I just question how much that alone accounts for firefox reaching 20% adoption. I have to think most of it is that people are accepting firefox.
What does the "default browser" setting actually do? I always run the browser by clicking the "firefox" icon (or "internet explorer," if necessary). So I don't see when the "default browser" is invoked.
The government did not need to forcibly confiscate the $5 million dollars from innocent taxpayers against their will.
We don't need to force libertarians to pay for anything against their will. Instead, simply require them to pay a licensing fee if they choose to use any technology they did not personally invent. Such as plastic, semiconductors, cloth, agriculture... you get my drift. After all, we can't let them freeload on thousands of years of cultural development can we? They are strong individuals and wouldn't want to rely on others. Let them live in caves and wear animal skins so they don't owe anything to anybody who came before.
A fixed price agent still isn't aligned with your interests - now that they have your money, their motivation is to get the whole thing over with ASAP.
I think the barriers will be broken one way or another. Personally, I would love it if craigslist displaced MLS altogether. I think the overheads in buying and selling a home are insane, and way out of line with the technology. I would still hire a home inspector and a lawyer to make sure the legal formalities are addressed, but beyond that, it's all waste.
Small world phenomena in general aren't very interesting, but the specific results are. Your comment is like having an election and saying "big deal, I knew somebody would win!"
I think this is more interesting than either Erdos number or Kevin Bacon number - those are both social network proximities. This is about the proximity of general information. And IMHO it's somewhat believable - if I, John Doe, linked to an article about myself from the article on the UK, it would be removed very quickly. I do wonder if the results are very different than if you did latent semantic analysis on a big corpus of text from more varied sources though. I think links would be somewhat more eccentric than textual content since the links aren't the primary semantic vehicle in hypertext - text is.
Is it really enough for him to proceed on? At a big company it costs that much to keep 2 PhD's on a project for 1 year.
Presumably this project would also have a large requirement for expensive hardware.
'Anything goes' inheritance makes a mockery of the supposed link between merit and wealth. 4 of the top 10 richest people in America are Wal-Mart heirs.
A trust-fund baby will spend more unearned wealth during their lifetime than a welfare mother could ever dream of.
I agree. I also think it is entirely foolish for us to imagine that Chinese or Indians will be content indefinitely to do all the hard work while the bosses at our importer / branding companies (such as Levis and Nike) take most of the profits.
You're right, and it's a real shame what's become of the colorado river. Squandered to power gaudy lighting and air conditioning on overdrive for a locale which by its nature is uninhabitable.
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I still resent Intel for gouging me all through the 90s, but let's face it they are the best and AMD have largely kept Intel in check.
That said, if their pricing strategy is illegal, well I guess they should get sued.
And Amazon, in my mind, doesn't quite have the nice comfy natural monopoly of network effects (think ebay, youtube or even slashdot). Nothing amazon sells cannot be bought elsewhere at about the same price. (That said, I'm a long-term and satisfied Amazon customer who tends to buy there unless I can save several bucks buying elsewhere).
For home PC's, I think power consumption has hit the ceiling already. Power isn't getting any cheaper, and "green" is trendy.
Or, just make the circulation system extremely reliable. You had a broken pump, and I know I hate fans, since they always break and what good is a video card with a broken fan? I seem to recall some systems where the absorbed heat is used to boil the water, which drives it through cooling fins. This seems great: 1) no mechanical parts to fail, 2) change of state absorbs lots of energy, 3) no additional energy is used to power a pump or fan.
I think a "layer" consists of more than a core: "IBM plans to stack memory chips between processor cores to multiply interconnections by 100 times while reducing their feature size tenfold." So, this doesn't really say, but there could be a 4 core Power6 chip and 2 gigs of ram in a layer for all I know.
The UK is working on a massive centralized database of health records called NPfIT. Aside from all the typical delays and cost overruns of deploying a massive new IT system, there is widespread concern about privacy among citizens. It will be very interesting (and easy) for Americans to sit back and watch how it pans out. I have an in-law who was fired from a nice hospital job for unauthorized access of patient records (she was showing a friend hoping to get hired on how they file things), which showed me both that 1) privacy concerns are real, and 2) institutions take the matter seriously, at least in some cases.
I'm just trying to imagine anybody in China even noticing the RIAA request in the first place. If some Chinese industry group told all businesses in the US to boycott google, do you think it would have a big impact? It's so implausible I have to wonder what the RIAAs motives actually are.
Rather my question about ssl was whether it conceals port numbers (and any other information I haven't thought about) that routers don't need.
I agree this calls for encryption. ISPs and routers should ONLY be able to see what they need to see - IP routing information. They shouldn't be able to see content, nor port numbers. But I am unsure whether ssl provides this, and how much compute horsepower would be required for big servers to ssl everything.
The key to the singularity hypothesis is that only ONE field must reach a tipping point: Artificial Intelligence. If it gets good enough to improve itself, there should be a feedback loop. Exponential advances in aerospace, power, and medicine would then follow - in theory.
Keep in mind though, most people who get a hole in the head are not so lucky.
Well, to finish my point, I'm sure the default browser option comes into play occasionally, I just question how much that alone accounts for firefox reaching 20% adoption. I have to think most of it is that people are accepting firefox.
What does the "default browser" setting actually do? I always run the browser by clicking the "firefox" icon (or "internet explorer," if necessary). So I don't see when the "default browser" is invoked.
A fixed price agent still isn't aligned with your interests - now that they have your money, their motivation is to get the whole thing over with ASAP.
I think the barriers will be broken one way or another. Personally, I would love it if craigslist displaced MLS altogether. I think the overheads in buying and selling a home are insane, and way out of line with the technology. I would still hire a home inspector and a lawyer to make sure the legal formalities are addressed, but beyond that, it's all waste.
Small world phenomena in general aren't very interesting, but the specific results are. Your comment is like having an election and saying "big deal, I knew somebody would win!"
I think this is more interesting than either Erdos number or Kevin Bacon number - those are both social network proximities. This is about the proximity of general information. And IMHO it's somewhat believable - if I, John Doe, linked to an article about myself from the article on the UK, it would be removed very quickly. I do wonder if the results are very different than if you did latent semantic analysis on a big corpus of text from more varied sources though. I think links would be somewhat more eccentric than textual content since the links aren't the primary semantic vehicle in hypertext - text is.
Doesn't gmail put commercials into the emails though?
Is it really enough for him to proceed on? At a big company it costs that much to keep 2 PhD's on a project for 1 year. Presumably this project would also have a large requirement for expensive hardware.
A trust-fund baby will spend more unearned wealth during their lifetime than a welfare mother could ever dream of.
I think we're making too much of it. It's no different ethically or legally from movie theaters that ban outside food.
I agree. I also think it is entirely foolish for us to imagine that Chinese or Indians will be content indefinitely to do all the hard work while the bosses at our importer / branding companies (such as Levis and Nike) take most of the profits.
This guy certainly seems to shatter that stereotype. Yet not in the reckless or flamboyant way we associate with creativity here.
You're right, and it's a real shame what's become of the colorado river. Squandered to power gaudy lighting and air conditioning on overdrive for a locale which by its nature is uninhabitable.