What bullshit you write Mr Anon. How can ISS be classified as space exploration? ISS is sitting in earth orbit with a lot of other space debris like a new building in a bad neighbourhood. Folks have been shooting stuff into orbit for decades. This is no more exploration than walking to the mailbox.
Nor does this put hurdles in place that require development of new technology. Sending people to Mars, maybe - but not just jumping on the old Shuttle for a quick bus ride to earth orbit.
For any of the tasks you mention a TabletPC is the wrong thing. A thin-client slate is far better.
Nobody wants hostpital records, warehousing inventory etc done and stored on a heavy local harddrive. Nope, you want them stored back on the server. THus no need for the local harddrive (cost, size, weight, battery life).
For any real job you need better battery life that can take you through a whole work day.
In no real organisation will the BigBoss sign up to supply the blue-collar types with the latest most fancy and expensive computers..
Jslate and aquapad-style devices are far more suited to this kind of role.
They'll sell a few TabletPCs to the BigBoss who wants the coolest toy in town. That's it.
M$ have screwed up every effort they have made to move off the desktop. This is mainly because they into a new field and try to force the Microsoft Way onto folks without understanding their needs. Unfortunately they have deep enough pockets to dominate (force out of business) anyone with real solutions.
TabletPC is about Microsoft's sixth attempt in mobile space, why should this succeed when all their other attempst have failed? Naah, TabletPC can join the junk-pile with WinCE, Windows for Pen, Stinger for phones, CarPC (or AutoPC) and all their other stuff.
The WinCE devices running on XScale are slower than they should be. We know that Linux runs sweet on these devices. Why? Some of this is due to hardware issues that you can work around in software. So why has M$ not made moves to do this?
TabletPC is Uncle Bill's pet project and has been for many years, so clearly it will get hyped big.
The WinCE devices clearly also compete in the sub-laptop space. The WinCE devices have almost all the required features, but have improved battery life. Thus, fixing the WinCE devices to let them run at full speed would erode TabletPC. This would piss off Bill and seriously undermine all that ass-kissing you'd been doing.
The x86 is the "yank-tank" of processors. If Detroit had designed a CPU, they'd have designed the x86. Other CPUs (ARM etc) are ticking along just fine with no heatsinks and still have vast improvements ahead.
As for Moore's Law, well it is more an observation than a law. IMHO "Law" should be reserved for more important stuff Murphy's Law and thermodynamics.
I don't believe that Turing proposed the Turing Test as the test to use, but rather as a "mathematical proof" that you could construct such a test.
Basically he said if you could not tell the difference between a computer and a person then you would have to say it was intellignet. ie. this is a way of establishing an upper-bound test - not necessarily that this is the best test.
Unfortunately, IMHO, the AI community and other latched onto this test and put effort into fulfilling the Tring Test rather than more practical and useful goals.
If you asked "Did you sleep well last night?" and the computer said "Me not sleep, me computer." (or some question on some other biological function) then you could probably determine the difference between a human and a computer. This need not, however, preclude machine intelligence.
Unfortunately Turing probably based his assumptions on all engineers being as intelligent as he was. But then, I guess I don't know any programmers who've eaten poisoned apples.
We can't have the roads open to the public. Terrorists could drive on the roads. Ummm, better close down Walmart too. Terrorists could buy their box cutters there.
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Nope it said:"Mod EmbeddedJanitor up!"
Innovation is done by people, not money.
Nor does this put hurdles in place that require development of new technology. Sending people to Mars, maybe - but not just jumping on the old Shuttle for a quick bus ride to earth orbit.
Yeah, well then maybe we should wait another two years until we're certain it is the 100th birthday.
To use your analogies:
Different TVs, but they all can view the same channels and use the same antenna connectors.
Different VCRs but they all use the same tapes and work with any TV.
Different cars, but they all use the same gas and standardised oil grades.
Differnt refridgerators, but they all use the same electricity.
That's the kind of similarity you need to standardise in user space.
Well duh, how can you commemorate something that never happened.
One picture taken with a digital camera is the same amount of bytes as a year of typing.
Nobody wants hostpital records, warehousing inventory etc done and stored on a heavy local harddrive. Nope, you want them stored back on the server. THus no need for the local harddrive (cost, size, weight, battery life).
For any real job you need better battery life that can take you through a whole work day.
In no real organisation will the BigBoss sign up to supply the blue-collar types with the latest most fancy and expensive computers..
Jslate and aquapad-style devices are far more suited to this kind of role.
They'll sell a few TabletPCs to the BigBoss who wants the coolest toy in town. That's it.
M$ have screwed up every effort they have made to move off the desktop. This is mainly because they into a new field and try to force the Microsoft Way onto folks without understanding their needs. Unfortunately they have deep enough pockets to dominate (force out of business) anyone with real solutions.
TabletPC is about Microsoft's sixth attempt in mobile space, why should this succeed when all their other attempst have failed? Naah, TabletPC can join the junk-pile with WinCE, Windows for Pen, Stinger for phones, CarPC (or AutoPC) and all their other stuff.
TabletPC is Uncle Bill's pet project and has been for many years, so clearly it will get hyped big.
The WinCE devices clearly also compete in the sub-laptop space. The WinCE devices have almost all the required features, but have improved battery life. Thus, fixing the WinCE devices to let them run at full speed would erode TabletPC. This would piss off Bill and seriously undermine all that ass-kissing you'd been doing.
going to all these meetings is productive?
Must be, You can see the flag waving. NASA claims to have used MorphOS on the moon.
As for Moore's Law, well it is more an observation than a law. IMHO "Law" should be reserved for more important stuff Murphy's Law and thermodynamics.
I don't believe that Turing proposed the Turing Test as the test to use, but rather as a "mathematical proof" that you could construct such a test.
Basically he said if you could not tell the difference between a computer and a person then you would have to say it was intellignet. ie. this is a way of establishing an upper-bound test - not necessarily that this is the best test.
Unfortunately, IMHO, the AI community and other latched onto this test and put effort into fulfilling the Tring Test rather than more practical and useful goals.
If you asked "Did you sleep well last night?" and the computer said "Me not sleep, me computer." (or some question on some other biological function) then you could probably determine the difference between a human and a computer. This need not, however, preclude machine intelligence.
Unfortunately Turing probably based his assumptions on all engineers being as intelligent as he was. But then, I guess I don't know any programmers who've eaten poisoned apples.
Try drive to Oz from NZ. The distance from Auckland to Sydney is about the same as London to Moscow.
They keep to .paddock.nz
Are you an Aussie? If so, do you want some marshmallows?
We can't have the roads open to the public. Terrorists could drive on the roads. Ummm, better close down Walmart too. Terrorists could buy their box cutters there.
Great, then I can flip burgers too!
Often the code becomes obsolete because it got refactored out.
Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Where do you draw the line?
Open the windows and the moths will die.
Are they going to search your packets for knives and knitting needles before you log on?
A 286-based army scares me shitless.
Yup, really
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