Why are you commenting on the lack of clean water for hydrating animals as if its relates to energy economics? Its a completely different problem altogether.
I agree with you, but as the corn Ethanol (`worst idea ever') is showing everyone... it -does- raise corn prices. So you have folks competing with cars for their food. It's not something you see in 1st world countries though [so it's $0.50 cents more expensive to buy corn, who cares], but such price movements do affed a huge chunk of the world (well, not yet, but...). Obviously it would be cheaper to use fresh water for hydrogen than ocean water... (even if it's marginal) so there will be -some- competition for fresh water (in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if folks use up all easy-to-get-to fresh water for hydrogen before they even consider looking at oceans).
If a criminal gets ahold of my bank account and starts laundering money, the bank shuts it down. "I didn't know!" and "but banking's so darn complicated!" won't help me
Hmm... So you -want- it to be YOUR problem if your account is b0rken into??? I'd much rather it be someone else's problem... like the bank! (do you want'em to tell you ``oh, well... sorry, but you should've been more careful'', or ``oh, sorry, our fault, we'll fix the account right away---don't worry about the fact that -we- might take a loss due to this'').
"well, don't buy chips from that other upstart company".
Frankly, as a consumer, I wouldn't buy a graphics card from an upstart (or a board that has built in graphics from an upstart). It's a chicken-egg problem.
Many folks got stuck with 3d hardware cards and no company and/or no supported drivers... with Nvidia (dunno about ATI), you can take their TNT2 card and still get it to work with their -current- drivers (even on Linux!). Had it been some unknown-brand card, you might not even get X to come up (and have to use Windows in VGA mode).
So yeah... competition sucks. What a small corp can do is compete on openness. Sure, I'd buy some unknown brand if it follows some open standard, has open source drivers, and works with Linux out of the box. In fact, that's the only way I see how a small corp can get ahead in this business.
So the banks will have a higher-than-normal amount of crack-attempts this month
From what the article describes, it seems they're bent on destroying data... and as everyone knows, all major financial institutions keep all (one and only one copy of) their most critical data on one web-server connected directly to the internet with a publically accessible website. Get access to that box, and the whole economy is in ruins.
I really wouldn't be surprised if, one day, somebody discovered a system to it.
Nah. Some of those things are provably uncomputable...yet you get numbers out of them. Thus, they're `random' as far as computability is concerned... There -may- well be system to it, but that system won't be computable---so it's not of much use to predict things---thus, it's ``trully random'' (though I do see your point of not knowing the things we don't know, etc.)
Just swipe past the reader and it'll tell you how much money is in your wallet. Or is that the amount in the next person's wallet? Ok, forget it.
You're not thinking like a politician... The solution isn't to forget it (you do, after all, need to spend money on -something-).
The solution is to issue everyone a tin wallet---so the amount can only be read from close proximity when the wallet is open. Didn't a similar solution work wonders for passports?
Maybe there is a significant connection between keywords and stock movements that can be exploited by a software.
I've heard a talk on this. Don't remember where. The dude used spam-like classifier (keywords, bayes, etc.) for news articles, with `stockup/stockdown' [similar to spam/nospam] indicator (within a week of a news article).
Trained it on past articles (date published) and past stock data (yahoo). Then, just like spam filters, started classifying articles on whether they'll raise or lower a stock price for some corp.
The dude said he beat the market with that. Someone else commented: `it's been done'. Someone else said that `anyone can make money in a bull market' (he did his research in the last 3 years). I'd imagine there's truth on all sides---that articles really do correlate with stock price---and that the affect is too small to matter most of the time 'cause everyone's trying to exploit it (either manually or automatically).
The problem with religion vs science is that religion doesn't like to admit that they -may- have been wrong about interpreting things from God's creation---they believe they understand how God works!
Take `the earth as the center of the universe' example... How hard would it really be for the church to admit that ``oh, gee, we stupid humans may have not seen the bigger picture many hundreds of years ago. obviously there's more there than we realized. maybe God created world is more complex than we realized.'' But no! They burned folks for it!
This is happening over and over again. The issues change. The burnings change (they don't literally burn folks now---I hope), but this goes on and on.
Most religious scientists don't place limits on their knowledge on account of religion. They don't presume they -know- what's going on in God's mind.
Religion tells us how the world -is-; you can't change that "is" easily. And when observations contradict what "is" (as religion defines), then you get into ``oh, this shouldn't be taken literally'' or ``that's how god made it'' ``we are not meant to understand gods ways'', or some other bullshit like that.
Science tells us what we -observe- of the world (if we happen to observe something else, well, then that changes our assumptions about what we might observe the next day). Granted some science has advanced to the point of being considered ``fact''---but nearly all true scientists would admit that everything is a `theory'. Heck, we could all be brains hooked up to electrodes sitting on some mad scientists desk!
If scientific observations led us to believe there's a God, well then, most of science would believe in God; but as things stand, there are far simpler explanations for how the world works at a local level (ie: our planet) than God.
(at a global level; universe, etc., nobody has yet came up with a good enough explanation for how it all works---[string theory is bordering on religion!] so God -is- on the table as a possible `theory', but due to occams razor, it's not considered seriously by anyone at this time; more like a far fetched fairy tale).
I'd estimate 20% of the time I spent in high school classes was even remotely productive.
Yes. It may all be useless. Most of the things people do are. But being pragmatic about it, how well do you think a high school drop out would do in life? (do you really think any college would seriously consider them?---and beyond that, a job?)
Sure, there may be exceptional cases of people making it big (ie: and by `big' I mean middle class income; not living paycheck to paycheck), but the chances of that happening are slim. I've seen this over and over again---folks ending up in a local grocery store in their late 20s (not a definite end of the road---but certainly much tougher to get ahead from there).
The best thing high school kids can do is stay put, learn as much as they can on their own, and get into college... then stay put, learn as much as they can, and move onto grad school and job. That way they can at least -hope- to get a chance of not serving fries all their life.
Then again, the world needs cab drivers, security guards, etc., and folks with GEDs to send to Iraq.
I can imagine the real goal being DRM. With everything on the CPU, making some instructions priviledged, they can force any program that wants to manipulate (decode?) video at a ``fast'' rate to call the OS to perform the decoding---allowing the OS to ensure the video has valid signatures before it proceeds.
Sure folks would still be able to use libraries that run on the CPU, but if those are inefficient/slow compared to the specialized instructions... then who knows.
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...and does not depend on cygwin.
Then why does it complain if it finds cygwin in the PATH?
Why are you commenting on the lack of clean water for hydrating animals as if its relates to energy economics? Its a completely different problem altogether.
I agree with you, but as the corn Ethanol (`worst idea ever') is showing everyone... it -does- raise corn prices. So you have folks competing with cars for their food. It's not something you see in 1st world countries though [so it's $0.50 cents more expensive to buy corn, who cares], but such price movements do affed a huge chunk of the world (well, not yet, but...). Obviously it would be cheaper to use fresh water for hydrogen than ocean water... (even if it's marginal) so there will be -some- competition for fresh water (in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if folks use up all easy-to-get-to fresh water for hydrogen before they even consider looking at oceans).
Though yah, I'd love to have a hydrogen economy!
It may be weird to you or I, but Hollywood does it that way because that's how your "average joe" sees it.
Not only that, but showing the -reality- would just be too damn boring for a movie!
If a criminal gets ahold of my bank account and starts laundering money, the bank shuts it down. "I didn't know!" and "but banking's so darn complicated!" won't help me
Hmm... So you -want- it to be YOUR problem if your account is b0rken into??? I'd much rather it be someone else's problem... like the bank! (do you want'em to tell you ``oh, well... sorry, but you should've been more careful'', or ``oh, sorry, our fault, we'll fix the account right away---don't worry about the fact that -we- might take a loss due to this'').
Who would have thought, places of higher learning actually caring about theories and learning and not about job skills.
I thought the problem was pointless memorization, without emphasis on `THINKING'; not theory (nor job skills).
Intel has plans for the next 18 months as well.
One would've thought the same right after they released Pentium IV.
Intel will be holding still for 18 months while AMD catches up.
Considering how they've sat still during the Pentium4 years... I wouldn't be surprised.
Run 500 metres in 5 seconds?
You will when that thing is pointing at you.
I'd imagine you can ask for some CATCHA along with the URL.
In that case, virtual characters should also be allowed to vote. Taxation without representation sucks.
If we're lucky, you'd not only get clean water, you'd get an abundance of (clean, perhaps?) energy that could be converted to electricity.
Electricity which can be used to make that blood protein!
"well, don't buy chips from that other upstart company".
Frankly, as a consumer, I wouldn't buy a graphics card from an upstart (or a board that has built in graphics from an upstart). It's a chicken-egg problem.
Many folks got stuck with 3d hardware cards and no company and/or no supported drivers... with Nvidia (dunno about ATI), you can take their TNT2 card and still get it to work with their -current- drivers (even on Linux!). Had it been some unknown-brand card, you might not even get X to come up (and have to use Windows in VGA mode).
So yeah... competition sucks. What a small corp can do is compete on openness. Sure, I'd buy some unknown brand if it follows some open standard, has open source drivers, and works with Linux out of the box. In fact, that's the only way I see how a small corp can get ahead in this business.
So the banks will have a higher-than-normal amount of crack-attempts this month
From what the article describes, it seems they're bent on destroying data... and as everyone knows, all major financial institutions keep all (one and only one copy of) their most critical data on one web-server connected directly to the internet with a publically accessible website. Get access to that box, and the whole economy is in ruins.
I really wouldn't be surprised if, one day, somebody discovered a system to it.
Nah. Some of those things are provably uncomputable...yet you get numbers out of them. Thus, they're `random' as far as computability is concerned... There -may- well be system to it, but that system won't be computable---so it's not of much use to predict things---thus, it's ``trully random'' (though I do see your point of not knowing the things we don't know, etc.)
"what dumbass civilization did this to themselves?"
Eh. We can say that about every black hole.
Prisons? Armed agents? The power to arrest and seize property?
Stop giving them ideas! (not that they can't already do that via other means...)
Just swipe past the reader and it'll tell you how much money is in your wallet. Or is that the amount in the next person's wallet? Ok, forget it.
You're not thinking like a politician... The solution isn't to forget it (you do, after all, need to spend money on -something-).
The solution is to issue everyone a tin wallet---so the amount can only be read from close proximity when the wallet is open. Didn't a similar solution work wonders for passports?
Maybe there is a significant connection between keywords and stock movements that can be exploited by a software.
I've heard a talk on this. Don't remember where. The dude used spam-like classifier (keywords, bayes, etc.) for news articles, with `stockup/stockdown' [similar to spam/nospam] indicator (within a week of a news article).
Trained it on past articles (date published) and past stock data (yahoo). Then, just like spam filters, started classifying articles on whether they'll raise or lower a stock price for some corp.
The dude said he beat the market with that. Someone else commented: `it's been done'. Someone else said that `anyone can make money in a bull market' (he did his research in the last 3 years). I'd imagine there's truth on all sides---that articles really do correlate with stock price---and that the affect is too small to matter most of the time 'cause everyone's trying to exploit it (either manually or automatically).
So this pill will surely have some side-effects,
I'd imagine a side-effect might be ``shorten lifespan by 30%''.
The problem with religion vs science is that religion doesn't like to admit that they -may- have been wrong about interpreting things from God's creation---they believe they understand how God works!
Take `the earth as the center of the universe' example... How hard would it really be for the church to admit that ``oh, gee, we stupid humans may have not seen the bigger picture many hundreds of years ago. obviously there's more there than we realized. maybe God created world is more complex than we realized.'' But no! They burned folks for it!
This is happening over and over again. The issues change. The burnings change (they don't literally burn folks now---I hope), but this goes on and on.
Most religious scientists don't place limits on their knowledge on account of religion. They don't presume they -know- what's going on in God's mind.
Religion tells us how the world -is-; you can't change that "is" easily. And when observations contradict what "is" (as religion defines), then you get into ``oh, this shouldn't be taken literally'' or ``that's how god made it'' ``we are not meant to understand gods ways'', or some other bullshit like that.
Science tells us what we -observe- of the world (if we happen to observe something else, well, then that changes our assumptions about what we might observe the next day). Granted some science has advanced to the point of being considered ``fact''---but nearly all true scientists would admit that everything is a `theory'. Heck, we could all be brains hooked up to electrodes sitting on some mad scientists desk!
If scientific observations led us to believe there's a God, well then, most of science would believe in God; but as things stand, there are far simpler explanations for how the world works at a local level (ie: our planet) than God.
(at a global level; universe, etc., nobody has yet came up with a good enough explanation for how it all works---[string theory is bordering on religion!] so God -is- on the table as a possible `theory', but due to occams razor, it's not considered seriously by anyone at this time; more like a far fetched fairy tale).
I'd estimate 20% of the time I spent in high school classes was even remotely productive.
Yes. It may all be useless. Most of the things people do are. But being pragmatic about it, how well do you think a high school drop out would do in life? (do you really think any college would seriously consider them?---and beyond that, a job?)
Sure, there may be exceptional cases of people making it big (ie: and by `big' I mean middle class income; not living paycheck to paycheck), but the chances of that happening are slim. I've seen this over and over again---folks ending up in a local grocery store in their late 20s (not a definite end of the road---but certainly much tougher to get ahead from there).
The best thing high school kids can do is stay put, learn as much as they can on their own, and get into college... then stay put, learn as much as they can, and move onto grad school and job. That way they can at least -hope- to get a chance of not serving fries all their life.
Then again, the world needs cab drivers, security guards, etc., and folks with GEDs to send to Iraq.
Did the big bang make a sound?
Didn't Al Gore heroically drown it in a cave?
I can imagine the real goal being DRM. With everything on the CPU, making some instructions priviledged, they can force any program that wants to manipulate (decode?) video at a ``fast'' rate to call the OS to perform the decoding---allowing the OS to ensure the video has valid signatures before it proceeds.
Sure folks would still be able to use libraries that run on the CPU, but if those are inefficient/slow compared to the specialized instructions... then who knows.
Just being paranoid...
No, I wouldn't like to have Bill Gates for president, not because he's an atheist, but because he's dishonest.
By that reasoning, no one should be president!