Now would be the dumbest time to start making consoles upgradeable. The long lifespan of current-gen consoles shows that the hardware is no longer improving very rapidly in any way that people are willing to pay for. The low cost yet low sales of desktop PCs confirm the same fact. The next-gen consoles ought to be designed to run a generous poly count at 1080p resolution at 120hz (i.e. 60hz in 3d). Do that, and people will be happy for quite some time.
Apparently, the superbowl coin toss "experiment" has generated nearly as large a statistical anomaly...
Not really, because that was only "predicted" after it occurred. That's cheating. In other words, if you sift through millions of events discarding all the "likely" ones (such as coin tosses in other sports, or regular season NFL games, that didn't show any consistency), it is extremely likely you'll eventually find an "unlikely" one.
In contrast, the criteria for detecting the Higgs Boson were set ahead of time.
By the way, the NFC lost the coin toss last Sunday.
If I were an injured soldier, I might want a break. Perhaps athletes will be among the first adopters. If you want to find people who are often injured, and to whom recovery might be worth tens of thousands of dollars per day, look to the NFL.
I can't claim to know what Apple does where, but there is a pretty strong incentive to do noise removal on the client - otherwise most of the bits in your compressed stream will be used up encoding high-frequency noise. For example if you try using lame to compress an mp3 from a source with lots of high-frequency noise (such as fan noise in a computer lab) the results are absolutely atrocious. (To be fair, it might have built-in noise filtering option I haven't found, or might have got better since I last tried it).
Unlike power or copper telephone, it seems like it should be relatively affordable to lay fiber in a mesh so there are redundant routes to neighborhood-level routers so service can continue, albeit at reduced capacity, if some routes go down. Does anybody do that?
I don't find that ridiculous. What's ridiculous is that some people thought it was comparable to the wiimote. Kinect won't displace gamepads, but cheap depth-field sensing is too useful to go away.
With the concerns often expressed over SSD reliability, it's interesting that Intel's 5 year warranty now bests the other SSD's 3 year warranty, whereas hard drives are moving to 1 year warranty(!)
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I get really worried when the warranty is so short, I would be extremely frustrated if the thing conked out the day after. Whereas after 5 years, I would probably be ready to move on.
Interestingly, the link you posted seems to be consistent with this new explanation: "Petrich tells 9to5Mac that the port really only works when no ambient noise is present." In the cnet article they chalk this up to microphone quality, but you would see something similar if it is indeed due to noise removal instead.
Of course, noise remval is still software algorithms, so should be possible without hardware support. Then again, the same can be said for 3d gaming, and it sucks pretty bad without hardware acceleration.
"More to the point is the fact that any form of sexual *behavior* is a choice. One's sexual orientation is not" - AC, I agree with your revision of my post.
Don't put all your weight on the question of whether behavioral disposition is a choice, or you may get trapped into defending everything from pedophilia to rape to securities fraud. For the most part we don't choose our feelings, only our actions. More to the point is the fact that homosexuality is a consensual choice with minimal impact on anybody else. That is what makes it different than the others I listed.
Well there's that, but these days, people are becoming increasingly accustomed to high priced phones and changing them out when new models come out. I don't like the trend, but it is what it is.
Often a trend isn't obvious until it's peaking, and on the verge of being stale (or outright untenable).
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In 3 years from now, I just can't imagine people will still be paying $1500/year for a phone + service. It's a lot of money!
Granted, it's paying for a massive infrastructure buildup. I keep waiting for a price war on low-end service, for people who only need 5% of the bandwidth an average iPhone user will consume. Like, 200 minutes of talk + unlimited texting for $30/month. But it isn't happening.
I would rather be in whichever one is going in AFTER the EA18G. I won't pretend to know a lot about the S300, but I doubt a cobra maneuver would throw it off. The F16 is a great workhorse but I don't think it would be sent out over enemy air defenses when it has no stealth.
Aerobatic maneuvers are useless. It's all about seeing first and shooting first. That means good radar, good missiles, datalinks, and stealth. I don't suppose India would be offered the best of those in any case, regardless of airframe.
Face it, most people know this wouldn't happen to them because their name isn't Saad Allami.
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Occasionally they're even open about it:
I'm, for one -- I know it's not politically correct to say it -- I believe in racial and ethnic profiling. I think if you're looking at people getting on an airplane and you have X amount of resources to get into it, you need to get at the targets, not my wife. And I just think it's something that should be looked into.
My question is whether there isn't more to the story. If a short text message in isolation can cause this much mess, statistically there should be hundreds of such cases every day. Yet there aren't. What is the rest of the story? And since he was never charged, is there any way to find out?
The problem with the perpetual motion machine isn't the perpetual motion, it's the machine. Einstein showed that motion is subjective; it is a measurement of changing distance between one thing and some other thing, so motion is undefined until you specify two objects (like a ratio in math). But the "machine" part implies you are performing work - extracting energy from the system, which inevitably dimishes the motion in question.
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It would be funny if quantum computers turn out to exist, but only if you never extract the answer from them!
Once the looting starts, what is the point of standing by and doing nothing? I would like to think at least some of the looting was by people who intended to safeguard national treasures.
"Computers aren't subjective, they don't make assumptions, they don't estimate, etc..."
I don't know why you say that? Any decent heuristic algorithm is all about building in a good bias (or prior), and solving simplified models of the real world, which is the essence of those supposedly human-only behaviors. Computers also do lots of things that are not foreseeable outcomes of the input (i.e. there's no way to get the answer other than to perform the full calculation). They also have entropy sources which can be either truly random, or pseudo-random in a way that far surpasses any unaided human ability to detect a pattern.
Being snarky doesn't make you right. I clearly remember sitting around with all the other grad students before the google IPO talking about how it surely couldn't go up from there. It did. I also don't remember thinking Michael Dell was an idiot when he suggested Apple should fold. It wasn't a big deal at the time because it was a reasonable suggestion at the time.
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Now would be the dumbest time to start making consoles upgradeable. The long lifespan of current-gen consoles shows that the hardware is no longer improving very rapidly in any way that people are willing to pay for. The low cost yet low sales of desktop PCs confirm the same fact. The next-gen consoles ought to be designed to run a generous poly count at 1080p resolution at 120hz (i.e. 60hz in 3d). Do that, and people will be happy for quite some time.
Not really, because that was only "predicted" after it occurred. That's cheating. In other words, if you sift through millions of events discarding all the "likely" ones (such as coin tosses in other sports, or regular season NFL games, that didn't show any consistency), it is extremely likely you'll eventually find an "unlikely" one.
In contrast, the criteria for detecting the Higgs Boson were set ahead of time.
By the way, the NFC lost the coin toss last Sunday.
If I were an injured soldier, I might want a break. Perhaps athletes will be among the first adopters. If you want to find people who are often injured, and to whom recovery might be worth tens of thousands of dollars per day, look to the NFL.
I can't claim to know what Apple does where, but there is a pretty strong incentive to do noise removal on the client - otherwise most of the bits in your compressed stream will be used up encoding high-frequency noise. For example if you try using lame to compress an mp3 from a source with lots of high-frequency noise (such as fan noise in a computer lab) the results are absolutely atrocious. (To be fair, it might have built-in noise filtering option I haven't found, or might have got better since I last tried it).
Dumb question, why don't they just spread their IPO over, say, 2 weeks, and sell at the market price each day?
Unlike power or copper telephone, it seems like it should be relatively affordable to lay fiber in a mesh so there are redundant routes to neighborhood-level routers so service can continue, albeit at reduced capacity, if some routes go down. Does anybody do that?
I am a software architect, dwelling exclusively in the ethereal realm of abstractions, trouble me not with your "physics."
I don't find that ridiculous. What's ridiculous is that some people thought it was comparable to the wiimote. Kinect won't displace gamepads, but cheap depth-field sensing is too useful to go away.
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I get really worried when the warranty is so short, I would be extremely frustrated if the thing conked out the day after. Whereas after 5 years, I would probably be ready to move on.
Of course, noise remval is still software algorithms, so should be possible without hardware support. Then again, the same can be said for 3d gaming, and it sucks pretty bad without hardware acceleration.
"More to the point is the fact that any form of sexual *behavior* is a choice. One's sexual orientation is not" - AC, I agree with your revision of my post.
I wonder if you wouldn't get a lot more bang from your compost heap by putting a tarp over it and collecting the gasses rising out of it to burn?
Don't put all your weight on the question of whether behavioral disposition is a choice, or you may get trapped into defending everything from pedophilia to rape to securities fraud. For the most part we don't choose our feelings, only our actions. More to the point is the fact that homosexuality is a consensual choice with minimal impact on anybody else. That is what makes it different than the others I listed.
Often a trend isn't obvious until it's peaking, and on the verge of being stale (or outright untenable).
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In 3 years from now, I just can't imagine people will still be paying $1500/year for a phone + service. It's a lot of money!
Granted, it's paying for a massive infrastructure buildup. I keep waiting for a price war on low-end service, for people who only need 5% of the bandwidth an average iPhone user will consume. Like, 200 minutes of talk + unlimited texting for $30/month. But it isn't happening.
If this is applied in a fairly straightforward way, I think it could make sense, like a test of typing skills for a secretary job in the old days.
I would rather be in whichever one is going in AFTER the EA18G. I won't pretend to know a lot about the S300, but I doubt a cobra maneuver would throw it off. The F16 is a great workhorse but I don't think it would be sent out over enemy air defenses when it has no stealth.
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When and if we ever get in a war serious enough to justify the existence of the F35 and F22 in the first place, they will be unleashed.
Aerobatic maneuvers are useless. It's all about seeing first and shooting first. That means good radar, good missiles, datalinks, and stealth. I don't suppose India would be offered the best of those in any case, regardless of airframe.
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Occasionally they're even open about it:
My question is whether there isn't more to the story. If a short text message in isolation can cause this much mess, statistically there should be hundreds of such cases every day. Yet there aren't. What is the rest of the story? And since he was never charged, is there any way to find out?
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It would be funny if quantum computers turn out to exist, but only if you never extract the answer from them!
Once the looting starts, what is the point of standing by and doing nothing? I would like to think at least some of the looting was by people who intended to safeguard national treasures.
And by the way, he was appointed CEO of Micron in 1994 at age 34, becoming the third youngest CEO in the Fortune 500.
I don't know why you say that? Any decent heuristic algorithm is all about building in a good bias (or prior), and solving simplified models of the real world, which is the essence of those supposedly human-only behaviors. Computers also do lots of things that are not foreseeable outcomes of the input (i.e. there's no way to get the answer other than to perform the full calculation). They also have entropy sources which can be either truly random, or pseudo-random in a way that far surpasses any unaided human ability to detect a pattern.
Being snarky doesn't make you right. I clearly remember sitting around with all the other grad students before the google IPO talking about how it surely couldn't go up from there. It did. I also don't remember thinking Michael Dell was an idiot when he suggested Apple should fold. It wasn't a big deal at the time because it was a reasonable suggestion at the time.