Does it mean the chip works, and it actually performs quantum calculations? I see nothing in the TFA where NASA confirms or denys the actual function of the chip, just that they made it based on D-Wave's design.
I still don't see any proof that anyone computed anything quantumly. How hard is this to prove, anyways, to all the quantum physicists in the house?
Neither is likely to play nice. Both have a good reason to tamper with, say, Vonage, since both offer VOIP as a part of their package deals. Both offer digital TV, and on-demand entertainment - both would want to hinder the growth of things like Vongo, and will make sure that IPTV dies in the womb.
There's very little competition, and every reason to expect collusion among the biggies.
And theres no reason at all to tamper with the current state of affairs.
Net Neutrality is the current law. They want to change it to allow ISPs to charge providers for better access to certain services, and ending their current status as neutral providers.
Right now I have comcast, and I just know they'd love to prevent me from downloading shows and movies from something like Vongo - which competes directly with their OnDemand service. If this law and others like it are passed, they can go ahead and do that. They're also in the VOIP game - wonder how vonage's service would work if this went through? Why would comcast allow vonage and others to compete directly with them, when they have control over the means of delivery?
In much of the US, you'll really only find one game in town as a broadband providor. I could switch to Verizon - but of course they're pushing the same 3-in-1 game, so I don't think they'd do any better.
And it is needed. If it isn't done, eventually one ISP will rise to the top, and be the ones to decide what you see and what you don't. When that one ISP finally takes over and claims its monopoly, we need to have some checks and balances in place.
I own 8 full sized arcade machines, and two cocktail table based machines.
Short of the PS3, I own every console that's come out.
I have no desire to spend 60 bucks for a title because it's only a day old, and am much more likely to spend it on a stack of HuCards or maybe some Jaguar carts.
I own gaming systems I'm sure most self-styled "hardcore gamers" have never heard of. Do you know Apple made one? It was called the Pippin, and it was one of the most spectacular failures they've had. I own one.
I'm a hardcore gamer, or rather "videogame enthusiast" from way back, a true OG.
What I am not, is a hardcore consumer. I will avoid bad products, and really don't tie my personal feelings to them.
BTW Sega was in the dumpster already while they designed Dreamcast, you can't blame Sony for their failure. After Sega CD, 32X, and then Saturn, the hardcore gamers (me) realized Sega for what they were: a third rate company with third rate products. I bought a Dreamcast, on release day no less, but I knew it wouldn't succeed. The games weren't there, and it was obvious from Day 1 that they weren't coming. They repeated every mistake they made with Saturn. The megadrive/Genesis was their only success, and was a stroke of luck they got their foot in the door before the SNES was released.
It's ok though, Wii is worth it if only for the first party titles.
Just like with N64 and Gamecube, there were plenty more shelves at EB stocking PSX, and then PS2 titles - but most of those are just filler crap. We're talking about dogshit like American Chopper: The Video Game.
I read an interesting article a while back about Nintendo's position and strategy as an innovative force. They continually try to invent new genre's, and capitilize as they grow, then leave them once mature. Sony and MSFT are focused solely on those mature genres. They'll deliver a very highly polished FPS, or racing game, etc, but wont risk something new.
Nintendo has to do this to stay in business, they focus on cheaper to develop games, and building new genres - the games usually have simplistic graphics, cutting down dev time, for example.
Consider the platformer - a genre nintendo largely defined with Super Mario Bros (and arguably invented with Donkey Kong), and redefined for 3D with Super Mario 64 - yet they currently have nothing in this market, it's too mature and full of competition. How many games would you consider a "Mario Kart" clone?
Sort of a tangent, but basically Nintendo doesn't need to be #1, and nintendo can survive some lack of support from third parties as long as they keep coming up with new stuff. Look at how the DS is taking off, against the PSP which I'm willing to admit is technically advanced. The "gimmick" of the touchscreen has opened whole new genre's of gaming - and this is the whole point of the wiimote.
If the wiimote spawns some successful new genres of videogaming, as it likely will, you'll see similar devices and plenty of clones of those games on Xbox and PS3. The genre will mature, get its rigid fanbase unopposed to change (there is no room for innovation in the FPS genre, the fans are too hardcore and will reject anything that isnt by-the-numbers), and Nintendo will move on.
They surely fail sometimes (Virtual Boy), but the fact that they are a company based on invention means they can keep going and succeed, where Sega failed miserably (Sega being merely another manufacturer, like Sony and MSFT).
Basically, they don't really compete with Sony and Microsoft at all. Sony and MSFT manufacture, Nintendo invents.
I bought a Wii and 360 premium at christmas, and it came out about 200 cheaper than the PS3. Got a 100 rebate on the 360, so it was 299+250 = 550, vs 700 for a PS3.
What do you mean subjects us to? I've heard of this site, but was never any way forced to see it.
So they tried a really lame advertising campaign, and it backfired. I don't get all the indignation and nerd-rage over it, like they violated your rights or something.
I don't get the anger or hostility in general. I think the PS3 is overpriced and kind of dumb, so I just dont buy one. Maybe one day I will, but I have no strong personal feelings towards it one way or another. It's just a consumer product, and not something I in any way need.
I could change that, though. I can go edit the articles and you can find out that stephen hawking is a big nigger lover. Once you see that, how much credibility does the rest have?
Really, and it wasnt peppered with side-rants about how Bush sucks and big oil this and Kyoto? If not, check again in an hour or so - they'll be defaced again.
The only thing they have in common is the word hybrid, which comes from biology. Why don't you say that this hard drive is like a Liger, bred for its skills in magick.
Or just say its a magnetic hard drive with a flash based cache.
The thing is, people work in agencies, and people have agendas, and people sometimes make mistakes.
Cops screw up all the time, with the best of intentions. I know an officer who made a traffic stop, and searched the trunk based on an exhaust leak he noticed (they can bypass the right to an unlawful search in cases like these, safety trumps it). Trunk had two kilos of cocaine, perp gets off because the judge decided the search was unlawful.
A lot of these guys really are out there trying to catch the bad guys, or just trying to get ahead in their careers. We all take shortcuts in our jobs and to reach our goals, and when you're on the street, with a bust so close you can feel it - and the only thing stopping you is what you percieve as "beurocratic red tape", it's easy to slip up.
I'm not defending them, just offering some more rational explanation other than "da govment is out to get us". It's people that screwed up, in the end.
They arent embracing anything. What they're doing will be many, many times worse for the environment than what the modern world has (centralized production of power and distribution).
Think of the turn of the century gasification plants that were in every city, before natural gas and electricity. They were an abomination.
No, this isn't "green energy", it's "whatever gets the job done".
In the age of gas lamps, before natural gas, wood or coal would be gasified and piped to you from the local gas plant. There'd be one in any city of any size. They were absolutely filthy and many times more polluting than anything going on now.
I see the same sort of thing springing up in Nigeria. I'm just pointing out that this is about setting up an infrastructure, and it's doubtful there's anything "green" about it.
SQL was originally called SEQUEL for Structured English QUEry Language, but SEQUEL was already trademarked so it was shortened.
I think it's correct to say "sequel", and I think only someone overly pedantic would spell out "ess-cue-ell" or U N I C E F, or any other acronymn. It's a waste of time, and as long as the point gets across, you've accomplished the primary goal of language. Why would your friend spell it out? Why wouldnt he say "Structured English Query Language"? Or "Transactional Structured English Query Language" since no doubt he was applying to a MS shop of some sort.
No wonder your friend is unemployed, if he never heard SQL pronounced "sequel", I'd laugh him out of the interview.
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... does that explain why I'm still waiting to see the HURD in action?
RMS seems like he'd be a tough guy to work with/for. I've always wondered if his personality doesn't slow down GNU development in general.
OTOH, Linus seems like a generally amiable dude, and the Linux community has grown more than I ever would have thought possible 10 years ago.
You don't have to use the fingerprint reader, and my understanding is that it's more of a windows-logon thing than a boot-up thing.
However, you could easily design a keypad that makes it nigh-impossible to lift a print. A simple rough textured finish on the top would do the trick.
You're right I'll wait until China produces one. There's a government I trust.
What makes this the most secure?
Is this really any more secure than dm-crypt? Faster, no doubt, but more secure?
My Treo syncs to my desktop now. My XBox 360 plays music and video from my PC, as well as my regular XBoxes.
Looks like everybody else "got it" years ago.
Apple sells jewelry.
Does it mean the chip works, and it actually performs quantum calculations? I see nothing in the TFA where NASA confirms or denys the actual function of the chip, just that they made it based on D-Wave's design.
I still don't see any proof that anyone computed anything quantumly. How hard is this to prove, anyways, to all the quantum physicists in the house?
That sounds nice.
I have a choice between Comcast, or Verizon.
Neither is likely to play nice. Both have a good reason to tamper with, say, Vonage, since both offer VOIP as a part of their package deals. Both offer digital TV, and on-demand entertainment - both would want to hinder the growth of things like Vongo, and will make sure that IPTV dies in the womb.
There's very little competition, and every reason to expect collusion among the biggies.
And theres no reason at all to tamper with the current state of affairs.
Net Neutrality is law now. What is needed is to not change that, and allow Comcast to decide how the internet will work from here on in.
Net Neutrality is the current law. They want to change it to allow ISPs to charge providers for better access to certain services, and ending their current status as neutral providers.
Right now I have comcast, and I just know they'd love to prevent me from downloading shows and movies from something like Vongo - which competes directly with their OnDemand service. If this law and others like it are passed, they can go ahead and do that. They're also in the VOIP game - wonder how vonage's service would work if this went through? Why would comcast allow vonage and others to compete directly with them, when they have control over the means of delivery?
In much of the US, you'll really only find one game in town as a broadband providor. I could switch to Verizon - but of course they're pushing the same 3-in-1 game, so I don't think they'd do any better.
Thats what governments do, they govern things.
And it is needed. If it isn't done, eventually one ISP will rise to the top, and be the ones to decide what you see and what you don't. When that one ISP finally takes over and claims its monopoly, we need to have some checks and balances in place.
... dont you realize it's just a bunch of tubes?
Or is it a truck you can just dump stuff on? I forget.
I am a hardcore gamer though.
I own 8 full sized arcade machines, and two cocktail table based machines.
Short of the PS3, I own every console that's come out.
I have no desire to spend 60 bucks for a title because it's only a day old, and am much more likely to spend it on a stack of HuCards or maybe some Jaguar carts.
I own gaming systems I'm sure most self-styled "hardcore gamers" have never heard of. Do you know Apple made one? It was called the Pippin, and it was one of the most spectacular failures they've had. I own one.
I'm a hardcore gamer, or rather "videogame enthusiast" from way back, a true OG.
What I am not, is a hardcore consumer. I will avoid bad products, and really don't tie my personal feelings to them.
BTW Sega was in the dumpster already while they designed Dreamcast, you can't blame Sony for their failure. After Sega CD, 32X, and then Saturn, the hardcore gamers (me) realized Sega for what they were: a third rate company with third rate products. I bought a Dreamcast, on release day no less, but I knew it wouldn't succeed. The games weren't there, and it was obvious from Day 1 that they weren't coming. They repeated every mistake they made with Saturn. The megadrive/Genesis was their only success, and was a stroke of luck they got their foot in the door before the SNES was released.
It's ok though, Wii is worth it if only for the first party titles.
Just like with N64 and Gamecube, there were plenty more shelves at EB stocking PSX, and then PS2 titles - but most of those are just filler crap. We're talking about dogshit like American Chopper: The Video Game.
I read an interesting article a while back about Nintendo's position and strategy as an innovative force. They continually try to invent new genre's, and capitilize as they grow, then leave them once mature. Sony and MSFT are focused solely on those mature genres. They'll deliver a very highly polished FPS, or racing game, etc, but wont risk something new.
Nintendo has to do this to stay in business, they focus on cheaper to develop games, and building new genres - the games usually have simplistic graphics, cutting down dev time, for example.
Consider the platformer - a genre nintendo largely defined with Super Mario Bros (and arguably invented with Donkey Kong), and redefined for 3D with Super Mario 64 - yet they currently have nothing in this market, it's too mature and full of competition. How many games would you consider a "Mario Kart" clone?
Sort of a tangent, but basically Nintendo doesn't need to be #1, and nintendo can survive some lack of support from third parties as long as they keep coming up with new stuff. Look at how the DS is taking off, against the PSP which I'm willing to admit is technically advanced. The "gimmick" of the touchscreen has opened whole new genre's of gaming - and this is the whole point of the wiimote.
If the wiimote spawns some successful new genres of videogaming, as it likely will, you'll see similar devices and plenty of clones of those games on Xbox and PS3. The genre will mature, get its rigid fanbase unopposed to change (there is no room for innovation in the FPS genre, the fans are too hardcore and will reject anything that isnt by-the-numbers), and Nintendo will move on.
They surely fail sometimes (Virtual Boy), but the fact that they are a company based on invention means they can keep going and succeed, where Sega failed miserably (Sega being merely another manufacturer, like Sony and MSFT).
Basically, they don't really compete with Sony and Microsoft at all. Sony and MSFT manufacture, Nintendo invents.
I bought a Wii and 360 premium at christmas, and it came out about 200 cheaper than the PS3. Got a 100 rebate on the 360, so it was 299+250 = 550, vs 700 for a PS3.
What do you mean subjects us to? I've heard of this site, but was never any way forced to see it.
So they tried a really lame advertising campaign, and it backfired. I don't get all the indignation and nerd-rage over it, like they violated your rights or something.
I don't get the anger or hostility in general. I think the PS3 is overpriced and kind of dumb, so I just dont buy one. Maybe one day I will, but I have no strong personal feelings towards it one way or another. It's just a consumer product, and not something I in any way need.
I could change that, though. I can go edit the articles and you can find out that stephen hawking is a big nigger lover. Once you see that, how much credibility does the rest have?
That's whats wrong with wikipedia.
Really, and it wasnt peppered with side-rants about how Bush sucks and big oil this and Kyoto? If not, check again in an hour or so - they'll be defaced again.
The only thing they have in common is the word hybrid, which comes from biology. Why don't you say that this hard drive is like a Liger, bred for its skills in magick.
Or just say its a magnetic hard drive with a flash based cache.
No, if you see exhaust coming from anywhere under the vehicle other than the tailpipe, the cop has to check it.
If it was leaking into the cabin, any occupants would pass out, then die, possibly while doing 70 mph.
This sort of thing is very common, and cops hand out fix-it tickets probably 10-1 over anything else.
The thing is, people work in agencies, and people have agendas, and people sometimes make mistakes.
Cops screw up all the time, with the best of intentions. I know an officer who made a traffic stop, and searched the trunk based on an exhaust leak he noticed (they can bypass the right to an unlawful search in cases like these, safety trumps it). Trunk had two kilos of cocaine, perp gets off because the judge decided the search was unlawful.
A lot of these guys really are out there trying to catch the bad guys, or just trying to get ahead in their careers. We all take shortcuts in our jobs and to reach our goals, and when you're on the street, with a bust so close you can feel it - and the only thing stopping you is what you percieve as "beurocratic red tape", it's easy to slip up.
I'm not defending them, just offering some more rational explanation other than "da govment is out to get us". It's people that screwed up, in the end.
...did not find any indication of criminal misconduct.
No chance at all.
They arent embracing anything. What they're doing will be many, many times worse for the environment than what the modern world has (centralized production of power and distribution).
Think of the turn of the century gasification plants that were in every city, before natural gas and electricity. They were an abomination.
No, this isn't "green energy", it's "whatever gets the job done".
In the age of gas lamps, before natural gas, wood or coal would be gasified and piped to you from the local gas plant. There'd be one in any city of any size. They were absolutely filthy and many times more polluting than anything going on now.
I see the same sort of thing springing up in Nigeria. I'm just pointing out that this is about setting up an infrastructure, and it's doubtful there's anything "green" about it.
My friend, the prince of nigeria, is going to be calling me about the 100 million dollars he's going to give me for helping him out!
SQL was originally called SEQUEL for Structured English QUEry Language, but SEQUEL was already trademarked so it was shortened.
I think it's correct to say "sequel", and I think only someone overly pedantic would spell out "ess-cue-ell" or U N I C E F, or any other acronymn. It's a waste of time, and as long as the point gets across, you've accomplished the primary goal of language. Why would your friend spell it out? Why wouldnt he say "Structured English Query Language"? Or "Transactional Structured English Query Language" since no doubt he was applying to a MS shop of some sort.
No wonder your friend is unemployed, if he never heard SQL pronounced "sequel", I'd laugh him out of the interview.