I did read it. And I stand by my point: A space ship built to withstand interstellar travel conditions doesn't need to be built to withstand explosive weapons.
Wouldn't that be covered by a license for leaving earth, instead of a license for reentry? After all, you might want to try a one-way trip to Mars, in which case there would not be any reentry.
So if they didn't get this license, does that mean it would never return to Earth?
Not legally, at least, provided your reentry path passes U.S: territory (the FAA doesn't have much to say about non-U.S. territory I think; however other countries might require licenses as well). Of course, currently there are not too many cops up there who could stop you.:-)
Of course it would be a bad surprise if you are in space and then notice that you forgot to apply for a reentry license...
That the laws of physics would be put on hold until the appropriate paperwork was filed?
Does your car refuse to work if you don't have a driving license?
That's not just comparing, that's drawing wrong conclusions from the comparison.
The comparison inside that is: A Sony Walkman can record and play music in realtime, fast-forward and rewind, and store an hour's worth of music. So can the iPod Shuffle.
That comparison is completely reasonable (and would e.g. help me if I considered whether I should replace my Sony Walkman by an iPod Shuffle). Where it goes wrong is where it draws conclusions from that fact (using unstated assumptions which are wrong).
But that's in part because the brain is trained to distinguish faces. For western people, it's usually hard to distinguish Chinese or Japanese faces. Not because Chinese or Japanese faces were closer to each other than western faces, but because our (where with "our" I mean those living in western countries) brain isn't trained to distinguish them. OTOH, it is trained starting from the very early childhood to distinguish faces of western people.
So he figured out to do the equivalent of CUDA in his brain?
(To the pedants: Yes, I do recognize that image processing in our brain works completely different from image processing in graphics cards. However, on high level, the analogy still seems apt: He's obviously doing calculations using his visual processing system instead of whatever humans normally use for it).
Well, if Intel built a processor that "couldn't divide" (i.e. had a bug which caused certain divisions to give wrong results), I don't see it as impossible that there was once a mainframe with a bug in the multiplication routine.
This is an unfair comparison..there is not much you can do with a cell phone connectivity apart from talking
Really? So why are people buying all those smartphones if all they can do with them is talk, which they could do with any cheap dumb cell phone as well?
Ah, so the terrorists are all communists. Or is it the communists who are terrorists? But the terrorists are islamists, and the communists are atheists. I'm confused...
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I did read it. And I stand by my point: A space ship built to withstand interstellar travel conditions doesn't need to be built to withstand explosive weapons.
Wouldn't that be covered by a license for leaving earth, instead of a license for reentry? After all, you might want to try a one-way trip to Mars, in which case there would not be any reentry.
Not legally, at least, provided your reentry path passes U.S: territory (the FAA doesn't have much to say about non-U.S. territory I think; however other countries might require licenses as well). Of course, currently there are not too many cops up there who could stop you. :-)
Of course it would be a bad surprise if you are in space and then notice that you forgot to apply for a reentry license ...
Does your car refuse to work if you don't have a driving license?
I don't think there are many chemical rockets armed with chemical explosive warheads in interstellar space.
From their help pages:
Anyone else amused that the word "cyber" is still in use?
I'm more amused about the "Soviet" part.
That's not just comparing, that's drawing wrong conclusions from the comparison.
The comparison inside that is: A Sony Walkman can record and play music in realtime, fast-forward and rewind, and store an hour's worth of music. So can the iPod Shuffle.
That comparison is completely reasonable (and would e.g. help me if I considered whether I should replace my Sony Walkman by an iPod Shuffle). Where it goes wrong is where it draws conclusions from that fact (using unstated assumptions which are wrong).
But that's in part because the brain is trained to distinguish faces. For western people, it's usually hard to distinguish Chinese or Japanese faces. Not because Chinese or Japanese faces were closer to each other than western faces, but because our (where with "our" I mean those living in western countries) brain isn't trained to distinguish them. OTOH, it is trained starting from the very early childhood to distinguish faces of western people.
So he figured out to do the equivalent of CUDA in his brain?
(To the pedants: Yes, I do recognize that image processing in our brain works completely different from image processing in graphics cards. However, on high level, the analogy still seems apt: He's obviously doing calculations using his visual processing system instead of whatever humans normally use for it).
Well, if Intel built a processor that "couldn't divide" (i.e. had a bug which caused certain divisions to give wrong results), I don't see it as impossible that there was once a mainframe with a bug in the multiplication routine.
Nonsense. You just did exactly that: You compared the brain to analog and digital computers, and found it works differently.
FTFA: "No pencils allowed. No calculators. Just use your brain."
Wouldn't work for me, because I tend to walk during thinking. Therefore I'd not stand on the road while thinking, but continue to walk.
Nonsense. 357 * 289 = 8778F
Yeah, we would have needed predators which asked their victims arithmetic questions, and let them go if they calculated correctly. :-)
That's before you observed it.
Yes, the universe is full of Heisenbugs.
That the universe is actually a computer.
Yes, but it's a quantum computer!
Yes, that's called the collapse of the whoosh function.
Really? So why are people buying all those smartphones if all they can do with them is talk, which they could do with any cheap dumb cell phone as well?
communism == anti-freedom
it's really that simple
Ah, so the terrorists are all communists. Or is it the communists who are terrorists? But the terrorists are islamists, and the communists are atheists. I'm confused ...
Just pull over, stop the car, and make the call. That's what I did in the "crash through the fence" incident I described.
Yeah, because there are no accidents where you are captured in the car ...
Seriously, why on EARTH would anybody care what a Microsoft employee has to say about linux, especially if its negative?
Especially?
If a Microsoft employee said anything positive about Linux (especially when compared to Windows) I think about everybody here would care!
Well, since grey goo is such an abstract concept, they thought they would rather use something more concrete ...
so i'm supposed to drive to hawaii? jackass.
No, you are supposed to swim, of course.