...and let it solve the problem. It can send tiny self-replicating nano robots to mars (and the rest of the solar system) and terraform those ugly, hostile lumps of rock and ice and gas to our heart's content. No need to send soft, squishy, inefficient bags of meat across several AUs when you can use a sturdy swarm of several trillion nanos to do the job.
And while they are at it they can clean up Earth too.
Just make sure we survive the singularity and won't turn into grey goo!
I had the same thought but I guess multigrid is limited to specific matrices while the new algorithm seems to be more generic. Not sure though, my last contact with multigrid lies 14 years ago (when algebraic multigrid was a hot topic in science).
Replace "Health Benefits" with "Nutritional Benefits" and it's ok. You certainly won't starve eating non-organic food. And you'll get pretty much the same level of basic nutritional elements (vitamins etc.).
But you will get more pesticide contamination, more genetically modified food, more additives and a few other nasty bits and pieces. And you will create more impact on the environment.
And keep in mind that this was a meta-study, just looking at existing publications. Their selection criteria pretty much guaranteed the domination of conventional food studies carried out by the industry.
No need to expand anything. People just need to eat less meat. There's a conversion factor of around 8 to 15 converting plant-based food into any kind of meat. You loose around 90% of your nutrional energy by that conversion. We could easily feed the world if the industrial nations wouldn't insist on their daily hamburgers and steaks.
Instead use one of the newer GFX cards or (for your HTPC) a new chipset like the 780G from AMD. It provides enough decoding support to decode 1080p on lowly dual cores.
To make things a little bit clearer: The restriction of games like C&C is to protect the young ones.
C&C was 'banned' because of the explicit and graphic visualisation of war, especially the attack on Bagdad.
Seems quite ironic to me now that you can see live pictures of that very thing in the news all day long. Dead bodies in the afternoon news. Very nice, the little kids will love that.
Ever tried upgrading 10.000 machines in a big business? License cost, installation problems, lotsa days wasted on administration duties, rollouts and whatever else there is.
Right now there are many reasons against moving to XP and only very few speaking for it. If I were an IT manager I'd forbid my people to even touch XP. There is NO business benefit for using XP over 2K.
Isn't that what Slashdot is about? Getting the latest geek news before everyone else does. So you can triumphantly laugh at those news shows that announce the same stuff several weeks later...
We already have some good examples to compare DDR RAM vs. the old stuff:
GeForce-based graphic cards.
They give us some idea of how much performance increase we can expect. 100% speed boost would be ridiculous. Expect something in the range of 20-30%. And that's still very good if you look at the comparatively small price tag.
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SAP provides very clear instructions on how their benchmarks have to implemented. You can bet that every single vendor tweaks the system as good as they can.
The benchmark therefore provides a very good picture of how Linux performs compared to other platforms/OSs in a real-world application relevant for businesses. This is much more telling than any artificial benchmark for pure performance measuring like the one Mindcraft did.
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...and let it solve the problem. It can send tiny self-replicating nano robots to mars (and the rest of the solar system) and terraform those ugly, hostile lumps of rock and ice and gas to our heart's content. No need to send soft, squishy, inefficient bags of meat across several AUs when you can use a sturdy swarm of several trillion nanos to do the job.
And while they are at it they can clean up Earth too.
Just make sure we survive the singularity and won't turn into grey goo!
Good read on the topic of ASI:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
What will Tom, Bert & William do now? Will they be deported as garden decoration? Poor stone trolls...
by Capers Jones.
Provides empirical evidence _why_ we need to write good code.
Here's an interview with the fella I just stumbled across yesterday:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1824791
I had the same thought but I guess multigrid is limited to specific matrices while the new algorithm seems to be more generic. Not sure though, my last contact with multigrid lies 14 years ago (when algebraic multigrid was a hot topic in science).
I don't need smart traffic lights. My MINI turns off its engine all by itself...
Replace "Health Benefits" with "Nutritional Benefits" and it's ok. You certainly won't starve eating non-organic food. And you'll get pretty much the same level of basic nutritional elements (vitamins etc.).
But you will get more pesticide contamination, more genetically modified food, more additives and a few other nasty bits and pieces. And you will create more impact on the environment.
And keep in mind that this was a meta-study, just looking at existing publications. Their selection criteria pretty much guaranteed the domination of conventional food studies carried out by the industry.
No need to expand anything. People just need to eat less meat. There's a conversion factor of around 8 to 15 converting plant-based food into any kind of meat. You loose around 90% of your nutrional energy by that conversion. We could easily feed the world if the industrial nations wouldn't insist on their daily hamburgers and steaks.
Every time you boot into Vista, god kills a little kitten!
Intelligent design for stupid people.
People that are unable to rationalize the complexity of our world and crave for simple explanations instead.
Who cares about a human-pig crossover hybrid? I demand SPIDERPIG!
If you rely on pure CPU power: yes.
Instead use one of the newer GFX cards or (for your HTPC) a new chipset like the 780G from AMD. It provides enough decoding support to decode 1080p on lowly dual cores.
Once again: "We fear what we cannot control".
My Psion 5 has had a "touch-sensitive frame" since 1998.
What kind of geek site is this if you have to mention that Solaris is from Sun etc.???
Every decent computer nerd should have those words flowing through their veins...
Just saw a documentary on TV today about manned moon mission (and if the US really went there ;-).
They said that the USSR never did any manned missions.
Enterprise ready applications: C# 0, Java 1000+
To make things a little bit clearer: The restriction of games like C&C is to protect the young ones.
C&C was 'banned' because of the explicit and graphic visualisation of war, especially the attack on Bagdad.
Seems quite ironic to me now that you can see live pictures of that very thing in the news all day long. Dead bodies in the afternoon news. Very nice, the little kids will love that.
If you are 18+ you can still buy the game.
Sweden is not landlocked.
Switzerland is. And they are the ones holding The Cup.
How many machines you got at home? 1? Maybe 5?
Ever tried upgrading 10.000 machines in a big business? License cost, installation problems, lotsa days wasted on administration duties, rollouts and whatever else there is.
Right now there are many reasons against moving to XP and only very few speaking for it. If I were an IT manager I'd forbid my people to even touch XP. There is NO business benefit for using XP over 2K.
"She's sixteen and SIN-less"
-- William Gibson
There is no decent sized shop with an 'all Microsoft network'. Things like that only exist in the head of Microsoft marketing guys.
You'll always have some Unix/Linux/whatever boxes around.
If the scenario is only slightly comparable to our own solar system, those gas giants should have heaps of lil' moons orbiting them.
Although the oceans shouldn't be too big - just imagine the tidal wasves :-)
Isn't that what Slashdot is about? Getting the latest geek news before everyone else does. So you can triumphantly laugh at those news shows that announce the same stuff several weeks later...
We already have some good examples to compare DDR RAM vs. the old stuff:
GeForce-based graphic cards.
They give us some idea of how much performance increase we can expect. 100% speed boost would be ridiculous. Expect something in the range of 20-30%. And that's still very good if you look at the comparatively small price tag.
Happy happy, joy joy!
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SAP provides very clear instructions on how their benchmarks have to implemented. You can bet that every single vendor tweaks the system as good as they can.
The benchmark therefore provides a very good picture of how Linux performs compared to other platforms/OSs in a real-world application relevant for businesses. This is much more telling than any artificial benchmark for pure performance measuring like the one Mindcraft did.