IMHO it has no bearing on free will at all. Besides, people don't know (much less agree) what free will is anyways, so I don't see how a study could have any bearing on it.
Me, my dad was an engineer, and coincidentally(?) I did pretty much the same thing, went through college, and now make a middle-class living. It never really occurred to me to be a politician, or an entrepreneur, or a pro athlete. Even now I don't have a clue how one becomes those things. Could I become something different if I plunged in and figured it out? Probably (except pro athlete), but - and here's the point - I didn't. I traveled the road that was before me (which luckily put me at about the 90% percentile of earners in the US). What if I'd been born poor? How about you?
I'm flying coast to coast next week to give a 40 minute PowerPoint, and it's not the first time. So I am quite interested in this.
I do think teleconferences and videoconferences are still a poor substitute for meetings (as opposed to presentations, which aren't so interactive anyways), but we should be working harder on figuring out and fixing what's wrong with videoconferencing so it doesn't feel so socially impoverished.
That is exactly why Boeing made the 787 smaller than the A380. Boeing believes the future is in more flights between smaller regional airports, so you fly closer to where you actually want to get, with more direct flights, and don't have to get through a huge airport and load/unload with so many other passengers.
First, I think it's cool they're working on this. Too often laboratory technology only works well enough to make a cool 10 second video clip, and 5.6 miles is substantially longer than that. As research, I do think this could help shed light on how animals and people walk as well as we do.
But for applications, if we compare this to wheeled vehicles, well, the DARPA Grand Challenge Robots when 130 miles on dirt roads. And they're based on commercial automobiles, which (amazingly) can often rack up 100,000 miles with nothing but more gasoline. (Though I'd recommend changing the oil once in a while).
Then there's aircraft, which can circumnavigate the entire globe on a single tank of gas. Or spacecraft; anybody care to tabulate the mileage accumulated by a LEO satellite over its lifetime?
So this raises the question of whether walking will ever be the best way for any practical robot to move?
Once the dB level of sound starts to approach that which is experienced in the engine of a rocket, it isn't even resonance anymore, it's just plain extreme force.
Yeah, at some point, regardless of harmonics, it's a big ol' pressure wave, commonly known as an explosion.
Until a couple years ago I was running Linux on a 486 laptop with 48 megs of RAM, and it works. The OS worked great, newer kernels even better than older ones. Firefox was slow though. Definitely have to avoid opening a bunch of tabs.
For writing homework programs with emacs it was fine. I do use fvwm2, not gnome, but then I use fvwm2 on my 4GB Core 2 Duo laptop as well.
Apparently if you use their hosting service, even if you don't let it expire, they can redirect 404's from your website to any site of their choosing! No thanks!
It's neither. In fact isn't nothing more than a report of a failed experiment - I quote, "A standard 512MB HD 3850 running our Crysis benchmark in high detail at 1,280 x 1,024 averaged 26fps, while switching to the X3 increased that score by just 3fps."
In other words, it doesn't work! I'll worry about cooling 3 GPUs when they are at least able to do something useful! Until then I would cool this board by unplugging 2 of the GPUs and enjoying practically the same performance.
Of course, if you're just doing a bunch of unrelated things like serving web pages, even a big bank of old PCs can do that. Want more speed? Add more computers. So highly parallel jobs are not a very interesting case. (Though pragmatically, 1 computer with a bunch of cores would be easier to administer and cut the power bill).
Well, here is the catch. Who ever spends the money should gain control of the resulting infrastructure.
Then I should own it, because I am the one paying the bill every month. Yet somehow I keep paying and paying Comcast, and not only do I own nothing, they don't even feel obliged to spend any of the money upgrading the network.
I would rather pay my hard-earned cash to some sort of collective or municipal backbone where I would get something like ownership in return.
Well, if things were operating as they should in a capitalistic/free market, the bad loans would be written off, the banks/loan originators/brokers/hedge funds would take their lumps and we would move on. However, as the Fed has resorted to socialist policies to thwart the free market...
The truth is that nobody knows what would happen if the Fed allowed the market to take its course. What the Fed feared was this:
The worry is that if Bear Stearns collapsed, it would be forced to sell its assets, such as sub-prime mortgage securities, into the market at cut down prices.
This would have lowered their value even further.
And that could have affected the solvency of many other big US banks.
And if other big banks went bust, then credit would dry up rapidly across the whole economy, slowing economic activity.
This is what is known as "contagion."
That is why the New York Federal Reserve felt it had no choice but to intervene to support a short-term rescue deal.
If Typhoid Mary is running around town making everybody sick, do you simply let her infect everybody causing mass casualties (free market capitalism), or do you give her medical treatment for the public good even though she doesn't deserve it (a bailout), or quarantine her involuntarily (regulation)? It's not clear that lazier faire is the way to go.
So you have one big RAID-like cluster with a big "gas gauge" like dial on the front that tells you how much performance you have left...whatever that means. Whoopdedo.
I would call that a great thing. I've never understood why I couldn't just have a bank of a dozen drives with another 10 empty slots, and have it move data around automatically to increase performance and maintain redundancy. When enough data is stored or enough drives break that I'm close to losing redundancy, a light turns on, and I pop in another few drives and it keeps chugging.
A recession might just as well boost DVD sales, as people go out less. Could it be so bad that people just switch over to something cheaper, like library books? I sincerely doubt it.
Upgrading from DVD to blu-ray+HDTV, on the other hand, I can definitely see impacted by a recession.
PS, that also defeats the spam trap addresses. If you're only sending a few (or 1) spam from each account, killing an account because it sent email to a fake user doesn't help much.
What they need to do is have a process for detecting when an account is spamming. Now, you and I would just say "when an account is sending 10,000 messages a day" and that would be correct for about 99.9% of the cases.
No, that's the whole point of defeating captcha. Instead of sending 10,000 messages from 1 account, send 10 messages each from 1000 accounts.
The Telcos were not given $200 billion of taxpayer dollars. They were given tax breaks which allowed them to keep more of their money (in the same way I was given a ~$6000 standard deduction, which let me keep more of MY money).
A better analogy would be somebody who claims tax exemptions for children they don't have, or claims $20K of income when they actually made $100K. If they made a deal for the $200BN, and they welched on it and kept the money, that is a ripoff!!
People are so easily lead by spin! Remember when a few of the Katrina victims used their govt-issued debit cards for nonessentials and everybody freaked? Now the whole country is receiving a cash windfall of borrowed money from the govt. and nobody cares, because it's a "tax rebate" of "your" money - even if you didn't pay that much tax in the first place, and even though govt. services are still being provided! "Freedom isn't free so I don't mind sacrificing other people's lives for it, just don't tax my capital gains or my inheritance windfall!!!"
Warcraft is addictive, but that's different from objections some people have to other games, such as Grand Theft Auto. The headline of this article is (intentionally?) over-broad, wanting it to be a counterpoint to arguments against graphic violence in games, which it isn't.
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IMHO it has no bearing on free will at all. Besides, people don't know (much less agree) what free will is anyways, so I don't see how a study could have any bearing on it.
Me, my dad was an engineer, and coincidentally(?) I did pretty much the same thing, went through college, and now make a middle-class living. It never really occurred to me to be a politician, or an entrepreneur, or a pro athlete. Even now I don't have a clue how one becomes those things. Could I become something different if I plunged in and figured it out? Probably (except pro athlete), but - and here's the point - I didn't. I traveled the road that was before me (which luckily put me at about the 90% percentile of earners in the US). What if I'd been born poor? How about you?
I do think teleconferences and videoconferences are still a poor substitute for meetings (as opposed to presentations, which aren't so interactive anyways), but we should be working harder on figuring out and fixing what's wrong with videoconferencing so it doesn't feel so socially impoverished.
That is exactly why Boeing made the 787 smaller than the A380. Boeing believes the future is in more flights between smaller regional airports, so you fly closer to where you actually want to get, with more direct flights, and don't have to get through a huge airport and load/unload with so many other passengers.
White house email, for instance. (And yes, the link references "lost" email by both Bush and Clinton).
But for applications, if we compare this to wheeled vehicles, well, the DARPA Grand Challenge Robots when 130 miles on dirt roads. And they're based on commercial automobiles, which (amazingly) can often rack up 100,000 miles with nothing but more gasoline. (Though I'd recommend changing the oil once in a while).
Then there's aircraft, which can circumnavigate the entire globe on a single tank of gas. Or spacecraft; anybody care to tabulate the mileage accumulated by a LEO satellite over its lifetime?
So this raises the question of whether walking will ever be the best way for any practical robot to move?
My thoughts exactly. This has "interstate commerce" written all over it.
$20K isn't so ridiculous though. It's not rare for people to buy a $38K car when an $18K car would work just as well.
Until a couple years ago I was running Linux on a 486 laptop with 48 megs of RAM, and it works. The OS worked great, newer kernels even better than older ones. Firefox was slow though. Definitely have to avoid opening a bunch of tabs. For writing homework programs with emacs it was fine. I do use fvwm2, not gnome, but then I use fvwm2 on my 4GB Core 2 Duo laptop as well.
Apparently if you use their hosting service, even if you don't let it expire, they can redirect 404's from your website to any site of their choosing! No thanks!
I feel a raft of very bad patents coming on...
In other words, it doesn't work! I'll worry about cooling 3 GPUs when they are at least able to do something useful! Until then I would cool this board by unplugging 2 of the GPUs and enjoying practically the same performance.
Are you sure it's not "time to move on"? I was hoping paying a parking ticket would buy me the right to park wherever I want for the rest of my life.
Of course, if you're just doing a bunch of unrelated things like serving web pages, even a big bank of old PCs can do that. Want more speed? Add more computers. So highly parallel jobs are not a very interesting case. (Though pragmatically, 1 computer with a bunch of cores would be easier to administer and cut the power bill).
Then I should own it, because I am the one paying the bill every month. Yet somehow I keep paying and paying Comcast, and not only do I own nothing, they don't even feel obliged to spend any of the money upgrading the network.
I would rather pay my hard-earned cash to some sort of collective or municipal backbone where I would get something like ownership in return.
Upgrading from DVD to blu-ray+HDTV, on the other hand, I can definitely see impacted by a recession.
PS, that also defeats the spam trap addresses. If you're only sending a few (or 1) spam from each account, killing an account because it sent email to a fake user doesn't help much.
People are so easily lead by spin! Remember when a few of the Katrina victims used their govt-issued debit cards for nonessentials and everybody freaked? Now the whole country is receiving a cash windfall of borrowed money from the govt. and nobody cares, because it's a "tax rebate" of "your" money - even if you didn't pay that much tax in the first place, and even though govt. services are still being provided! "Freedom isn't free so I don't mind sacrificing other people's lives for it, just don't tax my capital gains or my inheritance windfall!!!"
Warcraft is addictive, but that's different from objections some people have to other games, such as Grand Theft Auto. The headline of this article is (intentionally?) over-broad, wanting it to be a counterpoint to arguments against graphic violence in games, which it isn't.