That's nothing. Many times, Earth was almost destroyed by colliding with Mars. Fortunately the orbit of Mars is so that it never comes close to Earth, therefore that disaster was prevented. But had the orbit of Mars been different, so that it crossed the Earth's orbit, the Earth as we know it would not exist any more.
And now imagine all Americans suddenly turning into nuclear bombs and going off all at the same time. It surely would be the end of humanity! You see, Americans are very dangerous!:-)
Well, the next step would be to extend that to all people. With the government paying a (large) fixed price per citizen and year, and in return all citizens may get the music for free (because they already payed for it with their taxes).
Well, at least at first. Because then they'll declare that certain music isn't covered. Over time, people will have to pay for more and more music, until the government payment (which isn't lowered, of course) only covers those titles which nobody actually wants anyway.
It's a unit. 1 barn = 10^-28 square meters 1 femtobarn is 10^-15 barn, i.e. 10^-43 square meters. 1 inverse femtobarn therefore is 10^43 per square meter.
Actually, the inverse of something very small is very large. For example a millionth is very small. The inverse of it is a million which is very large.
At the levels below the political appointees they weasel around doing the minimum possible to appease whoever the current boss is while changing as little as they possibly can.
Is it really that different in private businesses (except that the boss might stay a bit longer)?
Read again the sentence I've quoted. It specifically speaks about encoding, and even mentions that most of the playback features can be applied there as well (this wouldn't even make sense if they meant just hardware-acceleration of playing, because it's obvious that you can use playback features for playback, otherwise they wouldn't be called playback features).
NVidia's PureVideo product was in development in 2003. See the GeForce 6-series page for some information. I don't know if it was doing encoding on the GPU, but it was definitely doing post-processing and I believe video decoding on the GPU. This line was released in mid-2004, and features of PureVideo were released throughout that year so must have been in development since sometime in 2003.
"nVidia has also added support for video encoding with the introduction of PureVideo and most of the playback features can be applied to the encoding side of the equation as well, with the video noise reduction looking particularly handy."
Since the patent only covers encoding on a graphics processing units, just invent a special video processing unit for that. Since the VPU can also do graphics work, it can replace the GPU on graphics cards.
So a computer able to solve the world's problems one and for all to everyone's satisfaction would not be an AI because brains are obviously not very good at it...
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That's nothing. Many times, Earth was almost destroyed by colliding with Mars. Fortunately the orbit of Mars is so that it never comes close to Earth, therefore that disaster was prevented. But had the orbit of Mars been different, so that it crossed the Earth's orbit, the Earth as we know it would not exist any more.
And now imagine all Americans suddenly turning into nuclear bombs and going off all at the same time. It surely would be the end of humanity! You see, Americans are very dangerous! :-)
Kudos to using the correct term supercritical instead of critical like they do in the movies.
Don't be so supercritical of the movies!
These people will soon be in charge of health care.
This statement brought to you by the people who brought you the quote, "The government better keep its hands off my Medicare!"
Handy mit Vertrag
No, in Germany you don't get health care included in your mobile phone contract.
(For those who don't speak German: "Handy mit Vertrag" is German for "mobile phone with contract")
I didn't know that Iran is female. Does it need a burqa to cover the whole country , then?
Well, the next step would be to extend that to all people. With the government paying a (large) fixed price per citizen and year, and in return all citizens may get the music for free (because they already payed for it with their taxes).
Well, at least at first. Because then they'll declare that certain music isn't covered. Over time, people will have to pay for more and more music, until the government payment (which isn't lowered, of course) only covers those titles which nobody actually wants anyway.
It's a unit.
1 barn = 10^-28 square meters
1 femtobarn is 10^-15 barn, i.e. 10^-43 square meters.
1 inverse femtobarn therefore is 10^43 per square meter.
Actually, the inverse of something very small is very large. For example a millionth is very small. The inverse of it is a million which is very large.
Well, maybe the true reason is that they don't want to be blamed for the world ending in 2012 :-)
So even calculators now get a 16:9 screen. :-)
I wonder if they include video watching ability
They already have a sine function (the Latin word sinus means bosom).
You think so. But in reality your phone has been added to a big botnet which tries to break the nuclear codes and start a global thermonuclear war. :-)
Just give them an utterly expensive number.
Are you sure? There might be someone from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
Is it really that different in private businesses (except that the boss might stay a bit longer)?
Well, if he had managed to copy that energy, I guess he'd soon get a Nobel prize.
Read again the sentence I've quoted. It specifically speaks about encoding, and even mentions that most of the playback features can be applied there as well (this wouldn't even make sense if they meant just hardware-acceleration of playing, because it's obvious that you can use playback features for playback, otherwise they wouldn't be called playback features).
NVidia's PureVideo product was in development in 2003. See the GeForce 6-series page for some information. I don't know if it was doing encoding on the GPU, but it was definitely doing post-processing and I believe video decoding on the GPU. This line was released in mid-2004, and features of PureVideo were released throughout that year so must have been in development since sometime in 2003.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/news/2004/12/20/nVidia-Launches-PureVideo/p1
"nVidia has also added support for video encoding with the introduction of PureVideo and most of the playback features can be applied to the encoding side of the equation as well, with the video noise reduction looking particularly handy."
Since the patent only covers encoding on a graphics processing units, just invent a special video processing unit for that. Since the VPU can also do graphics work, it can replace the GPU on graphics cards.
And you obviously don't know the difference between intelligence and wisdom :-) There are many more intelligent people out there than wise people.
Yeah, and a carbon nano tube is 10^-9 carbon tubes ...
If they want to have this design accepted in the EU, they'll have to replace the nuclear lightbulb with a nuclear energy saving lamp.
So a computer able to solve the world's problems one and for all to everyone's satisfaction would not be an AI because brains are obviously not very good at it ...
That and the fact that Space travel will end up being a rude experiance. It will give jet lag feel like nothing.
Think washing machine
You mean you get hot and wet, and afterwards you are clean? :-)
Yes.