As long as you feel safe enough that nobody is going to walk by and steal your charger that would most likely be sitting out in the open. I could see people just unplugging the car just for the fun of it, to annoy the guy with the fancy electric car.
Exactly the point everyone seems to miss out on. It doesn't matter if the code is open source, because there is no way of verifying that the code running on all the machines is actually the code that's been vetted for. Sure you could probably get a team of computer scientists together to rip apart a single machine, and test all the components to ensure it's doing what it's supposed to, but it would be impossible to verify that all the machines were running the correct code on election day.
I very much agree. There's no point in having a paper trail if you can't get them to count it. They should be hand counting paper votes as the first and only option. If we've established any kind of doubt against the machine (and it seems we have) then there's no reason we should trust that number to begin with. You shouldn't have to order a recount to get a count you can trust. Recounts should be for extreme circumstances.
But then why for TV do so many people feel the need to get a feed of everything including all the junk, whereas for books, you buy only exactly what you want. I think eventually TV will switch to a service where you pay only for exactly what you are watching. If it was just me (and not my wife or kids) watching the TV, I would have switched off TV long ago and just watched everything by downloading from iTunes or similar services. I think it will take a while (probably not less than 10 years), for the general public to switch over to this idea, but I definitely think it's where things are eventually headed.
It doesn't have to cost a lot. World of Goo cost only $100,000 to make. Which sounds like a lot of money to some people, but is way less than the tens of millions of dollars that other games cost.
That reason is the reason I have the Wii this generation, and the reason I had the Gamecube last generation. Nintendo actually cares about loading times. Nintendo does a really good job with their consoles, and creates many games that don't suffer from loading times. There was quite a few games for the GC that had loading times (Need For Speed: High Stakes), but that was due more to bad design than to limitations of the console. Plenty of games like Metroid had almost no noticeable loading time. Loading on consoles annoys me to no end. Maybe it's because I grew up on the Nintendo, but games that take minutes to load are not something I like to deal with.
Maybe they can work out some kind of deal where Amazon can provide anonymous subscriber data so that their customers won't get angry, and so that WSJ can still have their demographic data they need. I imagine something as simple as Zip code, sex, and age would be enough.
Also, if he want's the information from digital subscribers, maybe he should develop his own e-book reader and his own service for downloading his newspapers. If you want to sell your products through a 3rd party vendor, don't expect them to hand over all the customer information.
Also reminds me of this. They touch your hand (which is hidden) and a fake hand at the same time, and your mind begins to think the fake hand is your own.
Good point, although I would changed it to "knowingly selling software with known bugs which are undisclosed". All the unknown bugs are obviously undisclosed, and you wouldn't want a software company fined because they didn't disclose bugs that they didn't even know about.
But animals/diseases are limited by the fact that they aren't trying to kill off the entire food supply. If they kill off too much of the food supply, they go hungry, and some die, after which the food supply picks up again, and more are created, eventually creating a balance. Robots on the other hand, assuming they were only killing for fun, and not using us a food supply would have no reason to stop killing us, and eventually kill off the entire human race. Just as humans have almost eliminated a lot of species (bison for example) before somebody stopped them and said, hey, maybe it's not such a good idea to kill off all of them.
It still takes a bunch of CPU cycles to control which instructions get run on the cpu. There is a non-zero cost involved in running your OS and apps in a VM. Otherwise, running it in the VM would be equally as fast as running it outside the VM. Which is obviously false to anybody who has tried to run any large app under a VM.
plans to create a superchip mimicking 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. Unfortunately, the human brain has 22 billion neurons and 220 trillion synapses
First off, it's been said that people only use 10% of their actual brain power. So 1 billion neurons probably isn't far off from what we would use anyway.
Secondly hardwiring a bunch of circuits together doesn't mean you have created a human brain. You still need to write the software that runs on those circuits. Currently, we don't even know how to write the software. If we did, we would have written it already. We would have a computerized brain, but it would just run slower than an actual human brain. Other's point out that the big thing about the brain is that it is constantly changing it's connections, every time we receive a stimulus. Each brain is the product of all the stimuli it has received over the lifetime of the person. How you program that into a computer is beyond me.
That's a tautology if I ever heard one. People with an ad blocker don't click on ads. Maybe that's because they can't see the ads. I don't have an adblocker, but I rarely ever click on ads. This isn't because I'm opposed to clicking on them, but more because most sites do a terrible job, and have advertisements that are for scammy products, or don't relate at all to what I'm reading. Once in a while, I will click on ads, when it is actually a good products, and is something I'm interested in, but this doesn't happen very often.
Well, to be fair, when you're running fusion, you're running 0SX and windows, so it would make sense that it would eat up more battery power. Each emulated CPU cycle is going to take more than 1 hardware CPU cycle to emulate it. Also, because you are using generic driver's, you aren't directly using the 3D hardware, and are probably wasting a lot of power doing things on the CPU that should be done on the video card.
I played many educational games in my own time. The Carmen Sandiego series immediately comes to mind. Also a lot of wheel of fortune and jeopardy. Games like this are somewhat educational while still being a lot of fun. Even when I was in school, we played games like Math Maze, and Math Ville, which were blatantly educational games but I still found them a lot of fun. At least more fun than actually doing standard math problem, while probably having about the same teaching ability.
I didn't say it was true. All I said was, "According to snopes". Any of the explanations could be right and any of them could be wrong, depending on who you point to as a source.
Maybe because of the advent of surface mount, nothing is repairable. Have you ever looked inside an iPod? Everything is so tiny in there. Only machines could have enough precision to repair those things. Most devices are just too complicated. There are too many components to test if the thing just fails to start. And if you're paying $20 an hour for someone to try and fix it, you quickly get to the point where you can just replace it cheaper than you can get it fixed. About the only thing that is fixable nowadays is cars. Most other stuff one would just throw in the trash rather than pay to get it fixed.
Depends on the hill really. If you are in good shape, and ride a bike regularly, and you aren't riding a fixie going up a reasonable hill at 15 km/h should be easy. If the hill is really steep such that you could walk faster, then get off and push the thing. Can't do that on a segway.
How many 5 cent parts do they have to sell in a day to pay that $7 an hour employee. How many cell phones do they have to sell to pay that employee. Truth is, they could probably sell 1 phone a day for an employees entire day of wages. While they would have to serve more than 1 customer every minute selling 5 cent parts. And that's just the employee. Never mind all the overhead of the store. I think a much better way of selling those little parts you need would be to have a bunch of warehouses and you order them over the internet. After which they are mailed out in the cheapest way possible. Sure you wouldn't get them very quickly, but do you have any idea how much retail space costs in this day and age. I'm surprised they carry these little electronics parts at all.
A hold up of 30 minutes doesn't exist due to the fact that not everything is done by a single person. It more likely goes like this. Person A realizes that the marked weight doesn't match the weight of the package (or some other miscellaneous clerical error). Person A fills out a bunch of paper work and puts it in a queue to be processed by person B. Person B has a backlog, so anything going in takes a day or so to get processed. This is intentionally done by person B so that it doesn't ever look like he's not busy. If there's always a backlog, he much have enough work to do. So eventually person B gets around to processing the package, and filling out a bunch of other paper work. Person B then decides it's fine and puts it in person C's queue of things to be sent out. Person C eventually gets around to processing it, and filling out even more paper work. After which it continues on with shipping.
Very true. As someone who is quite familiar with the way the distribution chain works, I was surprised that small retail stores were buying directly form EMI to begin with. I would assume that, like in many other industries, that small retailers would buy off distributors, who ordered in mass quantities. I worked for a small shop once (although not in music) and my boss often told me they could go down to the local department store and get products cheaper there, when they were on sale, then buying them directly from their distributor. It's a little unfair to the small businesses, but when you take into account all the extra shipping, management and tracking costs that go into shipping products out to these small businesses, it would make sense that it would cost them a bit more for the product.
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If you stop and think about it, it probably covers XHTML+CSS also.
As long as you feel safe enough that nobody is going to walk by and steal your charger that would most likely be sitting out in the open. I could see people just unplugging the car just for the fun of it, to annoy the guy with the fancy electric car.
Exactly the point everyone seems to miss out on. It doesn't matter if the code is open source, because there is no way of verifying that the code running on all the machines is actually the code that's been vetted for. Sure you could probably get a team of computer scientists together to rip apart a single machine, and test all the components to ensure it's doing what it's supposed to, but it would be impossible to verify that all the machines were running the correct code on election day.
I very much agree. There's no point in having a paper trail if you can't get them to count it. They should be hand counting paper votes as the first and only option. If we've established any kind of doubt against the machine (and it seems we have) then there's no reason we should trust that number to begin with. You shouldn't have to order a recount to get a count you can trust. Recounts should be for extreme circumstances.
But then why for TV do so many people feel the need to get a feed of everything including all the junk, whereas for books, you buy only exactly what you want. I think eventually TV will switch to a service where you pay only for exactly what you are watching. If it was just me (and not my wife or kids) watching the TV, I would have switched off TV long ago and just watched everything by downloading from iTunes or similar services. I think it will take a while (probably not less than 10 years), for the general public to switch over to this idea, but I definitely think it's where things are eventually headed.
It doesn't have to cost a lot. World of Goo cost only $100,000 to make. Which sounds like a lot of money to some people, but is way less than the tens of millions of dollars that other games cost.
That reason is the reason I have the Wii this generation, and the reason I had the Gamecube last generation. Nintendo actually cares about loading times. Nintendo does a really good job with their consoles, and creates many games that don't suffer from loading times. There was quite a few games for the GC that had loading times (Need For Speed: High Stakes), but that was due more to bad design than to limitations of the console. Plenty of games like Metroid had almost no noticeable loading time. Loading on consoles annoys me to no end. Maybe it's because I grew up on the Nintendo, but games that take minutes to load are not something I like to deal with.
Maybe they can work out some kind of deal where Amazon can provide anonymous subscriber data so that their customers won't get angry, and so that WSJ can still have their demographic data they need. I imagine something as simple as Zip code, sex, and age would be enough.
Also, if he want's the information from digital subscribers, maybe he should develop his own e-book reader and his own service for downloading his newspapers. If you want to sell your products through a 3rd party vendor, don't expect them to hand over all the customer information.
Also reminds me of this. They touch your hand (which is hidden) and a fake hand at the same time, and your mind begins to think the fake hand is your own.
Good point, although I would changed it to "knowingly selling software with known bugs which are undisclosed". All the unknown bugs are obviously undisclosed, and you wouldn't want a software company fined because they didn't disclose bugs that they didn't even know about.
But animals/diseases are limited by the fact that they aren't trying to kill off the entire food supply. If they kill off too much of the food supply, they go hungry, and some die, after which the food supply picks up again, and more are created, eventually creating a balance. Robots on the other hand, assuming they were only killing for fun, and not using us a food supply would have no reason to stop killing us, and eventually kill off the entire human race. Just as humans have almost eliminated a lot of species (bison for example) before somebody stopped them and said, hey, maybe it's not such a good idea to kill off all of them.
It still takes a bunch of CPU cycles to control which instructions get run on the cpu. There is a non-zero cost involved in running your OS and apps in a VM. Otherwise, running it in the VM would be equally as fast as running it outside the VM. Which is obviously false to anybody who has tried to run any large app under a VM.
First off, it's been said that people only use 10% of their actual brain power. So 1 billion neurons probably isn't far off from what we would use anyway.
Secondly hardwiring a bunch of circuits together doesn't mean you have created a human brain. You still need to write the software that runs on those circuits. Currently, we don't even know how to write the software. If we did, we would have written it already. We would have a computerized brain, but it would just run slower than an actual human brain. Other's point out that the big thing about the brain is that it is constantly changing it's connections, every time we receive a stimulus. Each brain is the product of all the stimuli it has received over the lifetime of the person. How you program that into a computer is beyond me.
That's a tautology if I ever heard one. People with an ad blocker don't click on ads. Maybe that's because they can't see the ads. I don't have an adblocker, but I rarely ever click on ads. This isn't because I'm opposed to clicking on them, but more because most sites do a terrible job, and have advertisements that are for scammy products, or don't relate at all to what I'm reading. Once in a while, I will click on ads, when it is actually a good products, and is something I'm interested in, but this doesn't happen very often.
Well, to be fair, when you're running fusion, you're running 0SX and windows, so it would make sense that it would eat up more battery power. Each emulated CPU cycle is going to take more than 1 hardware CPU cycle to emulate it. Also, because you are using generic driver's, you aren't directly using the 3D hardware, and are probably wasting a lot of power doing things on the CPU that should be done on the video card.
I played many educational games in my own time. The Carmen Sandiego series immediately comes to mind. Also a lot of wheel of fortune and jeopardy. Games like this are somewhat educational while still being a lot of fun. Even when I was in school, we played games like Math Maze, and Math Ville, which were blatantly educational games but I still found them a lot of fun. At least more fun than actually doing standard math problem, while probably having about the same teaching ability.
I didn't say it was true. All I said was, "According to snopes". Any of the explanations could be right and any of them could be wrong, depending on who you point to as a source.
Maybe because of the advent of surface mount, nothing is repairable. Have you ever looked inside an iPod? Everything is so tiny in there. Only machines could have enough precision to repair those things. Most devices are just too complicated. There are too many components to test if the thing just fails to start. And if you're paying $20 an hour for someone to try and fix it, you quickly get to the point where you can just replace it cheaper than you can get it fixed. About the only thing that is fixable nowadays is cars. Most other stuff one would just throw in the trash rather than pay to get it fixed.
Depends on the hill really. If you are in good shape, and ride a bike regularly, and you aren't riding a fixie going up a reasonable hill at 15 km/h should be easy. If the hill is really steep such that you could walk faster, then get off and push the thing. Can't do that on a segway.
How many 5 cent parts do they have to sell in a day to pay that $7 an hour employee. How many cell phones do they have to sell to pay that employee. Truth is, they could probably sell 1 phone a day for an employees entire day of wages. While they would have to serve more than 1 customer every minute selling 5 cent parts. And that's just the employee. Never mind all the overhead of the store. I think a much better way of selling those little parts you need would be to have a bunch of warehouses and you order them over the internet. After which they are mailed out in the cheapest way possible. Sure you wouldn't get them very quickly, but do you have any idea how much retail space costs in this day and age. I'm surprised they carry these little electronics parts at all.
According to snopes, it was because they didn't want to have to pay licensing fees to the commonwealth of Kentucky for using the word Kentucky.
A hold up of 30 minutes doesn't exist due to the fact that not everything is done by a single person. It more likely goes like this. Person A realizes that the marked weight doesn't match the weight of the package (or some other miscellaneous clerical error). Person A fills out a bunch of paper work and puts it in a queue to be processed by person B. Person B has a backlog, so anything going in takes a day or so to get processed. This is intentionally done by person B so that it doesn't ever look like he's not busy. If there's always a backlog, he much have enough work to do. So eventually person B gets around to processing the package, and filling out a bunch of other paper work. Person B then decides it's fine and puts it in person C's queue of things to be sent out. Person C eventually gets around to processing it, and filling out even more paper work. After which it continues on with shipping.
Well, to be fair, any digital copy is lossly. It all depends on how much loss you want to tolerate.
Very true. As someone who is quite familiar with the way the distribution chain works, I was surprised that small retail stores were buying directly form EMI to begin with. I would assume that, like in many other industries, that small retailers would buy off distributors, who ordered in mass quantities. I worked for a small shop once (although not in music) and my boss often told me they could go down to the local department store and get products cheaper there, when they were on sale, then buying them directly from their distributor. It's a little unfair to the small businesses, but when you take into account all the extra shipping, management and tracking costs that go into shipping products out to these small businesses, it would make sense that it would cost them a bit more for the product.