Looking at the link that you post I see that you are 'currently between jobs' at the moment, and that you've never held down a proper job. Only a few cushy web design positions. So do you accept that you are part of the vermin dragging down the IQ of the general population? No doubt you will be looking for handouts for your bastard children in a few years when the current crop of web jobs dries up and you have no real skills?
You are creating a false dichotemy here. There is no choice that will make the share-holders happy. The reason that Google gave for withholding the information was that the request was overly broad and would affect their trade secrets. If they give too wide a sample of search requests / results it will leak information about the way that page rank is tuned. This would benefit their competitors, and the spam marketers who try and abuse the system. This would damage their stock more in the long run than a small blip now for saying no to the DOJ.
While there are no estimated timescales here, beyond simulating a neocortical column in two - three years, I would expect to knock a few decades off of your estimates if the project is a success. This is one of the most interesting research projects that are using the latest Blue Gene hardware. Another factor that will make these results occur at an earlier date than expected is the aspect of simulation speed. To get interesting results froma simulated brain would not require a 1:1 ratio between simulation speed and reality. These structures could be simulated at a much slower rate whilst still revealing information about how they work.
And? Here in the US our government is about to confirm a candidate to the Supreme Court who has been clear in his opinion that the courts of the United States should not look to courts in other parts of the world as barometers of jurisprudence.
And? You are aware that this website is read by people outside of the US, and sometimes posts stories about these parts of the world, outside of the US. Perhaps it's a difficult concept, but sometimes a story has nothing to do with the US.
GPS inaccuracy is several hundred metres in altitude. I have no idea if Galileo improves this dimension as much as the others, but aircraft have been mentioned as one of the applications.
They do mind if it is 70% strength vodka, and the dirty evil bastards take it away from you at the security check. I'm not sure but I think 70% is the threshold for flammability - you can't burn 60% whiskey.
"But, much more important than the purpose of carving away the fat quickly and saving the government the training costs of those who would never cut it, was the prime purpose of making as sure as humanly possible that no cap trooper ever climbed into a capsule for a combat drop unless he was prepared for it - fitm resolute, disciplined and skilled."
There is a certain analogue here, even if your point was that by weeding out the slackers we are helping the other students rather than improving the quality of graduates.
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There is a difference between the persistance of vision and perceiving different quality. The 30fps claim is from the early days of cinema and means that at 30fps a series of single frames will appear to be continuous to the eye. This is not an upper bound, but a lower bound. Try watching a film where the the director pans the camera the wrong way through a crowed scene. It becomes very choppy because you need more than 30fps to do that properly, or fast action sports on tv, or video games...
That's why you can differentiate between 30fps and 60fps. I've not seen any specific research on what the upper bounds are. I think from annecdotal 'evidence' that they vary from person to person. My girlfriend is doing her PhD in pscyhophysical experiments to verify how we perceive rendered graphics but she said that she wasn't aware of any research to determine upper bounds.
I wondered about this. The article claims that it will be the first browser to integrate an RSS reader. Well that's... odd. I've been watching RSS feeds in firefox for six months. Is Flock mainly hype?
What bullshit. There is a ton of prior art. Redstone started operating a single number service before that. It uses a database handing off of a telecoms switch to decide how to route calls according to data in the customers account. Adding pay-as-you-go minutes is clearly a trivial change. They had already been in operation for a couple of years before 1996.
It's been a long time since I did any telecoms work and the details are somewhat fuzzy. But the whole GSM system is built around databases running L4 ISUP that tie the mobile phone number into routing information.
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Jesus dude, you really need to bump your humour detector up a notch. Yes, I know that they dissected the brains afterwards to verify the cell growth. The main experiment was detecting how willing the rats were to eat in new surroundings which is, as you point out, an accepted test for a change in anxiety. The research was not strictly about increasing cell growth per say, they are investigating the mood changes it produces to see if HU210 has a role as an antidepressent. Given the large effect that cannabis has on bi-polar patients it is a bit of a no-brainer that an artificial cannabinoid will have some effect. The research that they should be doing is seeing if the artificial version still induces psychosis or if they could make an antidepressent without the nasty side-effects that pot has for people medicating with it. OK, rant finished, it just struck me as odd that their method relied on something that is an accepted side-effect of cannabinoids. The change that they induce in the body affects the blood sugar levels causing hunger. Of course, that may not be the case with their artificial version.
On the other hand if you did want to debunk the results then their methodology would be a good place to start. The cell growth is implied by the rats reduced reluctance to eat in new surroundings. They're basing this on the fact that the rats ate more. Seriously. Has anyone done a study on whether or not rats get munchies from artificial cannabinoids?
Of course that would be the holy grail for a *phone*. Because I hold up my phone to my eye all the time. The fact that the folds in the outer idea are unique for each person and could be used as an identifier should not get in the way of a *holy grail*...
So what does a patent on a gene actually grant the holder? Surely it cannot cover all possible uses of that gene, as then they are patenting the discovering of a particular preexisting sequence. A patent has to have some element of invention in it, so is it the use of a particular gene to do X? Are all of the genes in the patents unique or is there some element of crossover, eg one patent on gene X to do Y with another patent on gene X to do Z?
If the current system has no political control then why did the.xxx domain get bounced after pressure from the whitehouse?
Besides, if everyone else splits all they have to do is put a.us top-level cc in the international system so that all of the current TLD's (.com,.gov,.net etc) get put under there where they should be, eg.com.us
If the US can't access sites outside their namespace... fuck'em.
I think that the highly modded troll speakth shite. Many countries have strong reasons for not wanting an essential part of their economic infrastructure to be under the control of the US government. After all, this is the same government that has declared a unilateral policy of intervention, and a "you're either with us or against us" approach to foreign affairs.
As far as the forcing issue goes - if the rest of the world decides to set up their own root servers, and the network splits into the US DNS system and the DNS system that the rest of the world uses, that would force the US to switch over. The alternative is to become an internet backwater.
Are you seriously suggesting that the US could respond to these events with military force? And you wonder why the world doesn't want American control of DNS...
> Look at the proportion of the world's population > living on less than a dollar a day, or the local > equivalent thereof. It's lower now than it has been > at any point in history. Ever.
Ok, I had a look at this because I couldn't see what you meant at first. You still need something.o inside that fairly particular tree to cause damage. But assuming that for some reason there is an evil tree in your file system you still just need to protect the input. Quick look at the manpage came up with this:
find . -name '*.o' | xargs -i{} echo \"{}\"
Obviously I just tested it with echo as I don't have a disposible filesystem but it appeared to work...
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Civ (and its various sequels) have kept me entertained for nearly 15 years now. I know of no other game(s) on the market that have retained a sense of fun for anywhere near that long. The only comparison that could be made is to a 'pure' game like chess or go. Did you have any idea of just how much fun civilisation would be when you were designing the first one? What is it about civ that makes it so fun to play?
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Looking at the link that you post I see that you are 'currently between jobs' at the moment, and that you've never held down a proper job. Only a few cushy web design positions. So do you accept that you are part of the vermin dragging down the IQ of the general population? No doubt you will be looking for handouts for your bastard children in a few years when the current crop of web jobs dries up and you have no real skills?
Come on leave the Canadians out of this. I know they voted for a Bush crony, but that doesn't guarantee that Google will censor their results
You are creating a false dichotemy here. There is no choice that will make the share-holders happy. The reason that Google gave for withholding the information was that the request was overly broad and would affect their trade secrets. If they give too wide a sample of search requests / results it will leak information about the way that page rank is tuned. This would benefit their competitors, and the spam marketers who try and abuse the system. This would damage their stock more in the long run than a small blip now for saying no to the DOJ.
While there are no estimated timescales here, beyond simulating a neocortical column in two - three years, I would expect to knock a few decades off of your estimates if the project is a success. This is one of the most interesting research projects that are using the latest Blue Gene hardware. Another factor that will make these results occur at an earlier date than expected is the aspect of simulation speed. To get interesting results froma simulated brain would not require a 1:1 ratio between simulation speed and reality. These structures could be simulated at a much slower rate whilst still revealing information about how they work.
And? Here in the US our government is about to confirm a candidate to the Supreme Court who has been clear in his opinion that the courts of the United States should not look to courts in other parts of the world as barometers of jurisprudence.
And? You are aware that this website is read by people outside of the US, and sometimes posts stories about these parts of the world, outside of the US. Perhaps it's a difficult concept, but sometimes a story has nothing to do with the US.
GPS inaccuracy is several hundred metres in altitude. I have no idea if Galileo improves this dimension as much as the others, but aircraft have been mentioned as one of the applications.
Err, what do you think that asynchronous means; at different rates.
They do mind if it is 70% strength vodka, and the dirty evil bastards take it away from you at the security check. I'm not sure but I think 70% is the threshold for flammability - you can't burn 60% whiskey.
"But, much more important than the purpose of carving away the fat quickly and saving the government the training costs of those who would never cut it, was the prime purpose of making as sure as humanly possible that no cap trooper ever climbed into a capsule for a combat drop unless he was prepared for it - fitm resolute, disciplined and skilled."
There is a certain analogue here, even if your point was that by weeding out the slackers we are helping the other students rather than improving the quality of graduates.
There is a difference between the persistance of vision and perceiving different quality. The 30fps claim is from the early days of cinema and means that at 30fps a series of single frames will appear to be continuous to the eye. This is not an upper bound, but a lower bound. Try watching a film where the the director pans the camera the wrong way through a crowed scene. It becomes very choppy because you need more than 30fps to do that properly, or fast action sports on tv, or video games...
That's why you can differentiate between 30fps and 60fps. I've not seen any specific research on what the upper bounds are. I think from annecdotal 'evidence' that they vary from person to person. My girlfriend is doing her PhD in pscyhophysical experiments to verify how we perceive rendered graphics but she said that she wasn't aware of any research to determine upper bounds.
It starts off as rare, but you see that little pi symbol in the corner of their website. Don't even think about it...
I wondered about this. The article claims that it will be the first browser to integrate an RSS reader. Well that's ... odd. I've been watching RSS feeds in firefox for six months. Is Flock mainly hype?
What bullshit. There is a ton of prior art. Redstone started operating a single number service before that. It uses a database handing off of a telecoms switch to decide how to route calls according to data in the customers account. Adding pay-as-you-go minutes is clearly a trivial change. They had already been in operation for a couple of years before 1996.
/. Disclaimer - Yes I *know* that you were being sarcastic, and I'm agreeing with you, not arguing.
It's been a long time since I did any telecoms work and the details are somewhat fuzzy. But the whole GSM system is built around databases running L4 ISUP that tie the mobile phone number into routing information.
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Jesus dude, you really need to bump your humour detector up a notch. Yes, I know that they dissected the brains afterwards to verify the cell growth. The main experiment was detecting how willing the rats were to eat in new surroundings which is, as you point out, an accepted test for a change in anxiety. The research was not strictly about increasing cell growth per say, they are investigating the mood changes it produces to see if HU210 has a role as an antidepressent. Given the large effect that cannabis has on bi-polar patients it is a bit of a no-brainer that an artificial cannabinoid will have some effect. The research that they should be doing is seeing if the artificial version still induces psychosis or if they could make an antidepressent without the nasty side-effects that pot has for people medicating with it. OK, rant finished, it just struck me as odd that their method relied on something that is an accepted side-effect of cannabinoids. The change that they induce in the body affects the blood sugar levels causing hunger. Of course, that may not be the case with their artificial version.
On the other hand if you did want to debunk the results then their methodology would be a good place to start. The cell growth is implied by the rats reduced reluctance to eat in new surroundings. They're basing this on the fact that the rats ate more. Seriously. Has anyone done a study on whether or not rats get munchies from artificial cannabinoids?
Of course sarcasm makes me look like more of a dick when I leave a typo in the wrong place.
Should have read 'outer ear'. Also, voiceprints would be more normal for a phone...
Of course that would be the holy grail for a *phone*. Because I hold up my phone to my eye all the time. The fact that the folds in the outer idea are unique for each person and could be used as an identifier should not get in the way of a *holy grail*...
So what does a patent on a gene actually grant the holder? Surely it cannot cover all possible uses of that gene, as then they are patenting the discovering of a particular preexisting sequence. A patent has to have some element of invention in it, so is it the use of a particular gene to do X? Are all of the genes in the patents unique or is there some element of crossover, eg one patent on gene X to do Y with another patent on gene X to do Z?
If the current system has no political control then why did the .xxx domain get bounced after pressure from the whitehouse?
.us top-level cc in the international system so that all of the current TLD's (.com, .gov, .net etc) get put under there where they should be, eg .com.us
... fuck'em.
Besides, if everyone else splits all they have to do is put a
If the US can't access sites outside their namespace
I think that the highly modded troll speakth shite. Many countries have strong reasons for not wanting an essential part of their economic infrastructure to be under the control of the US government. After all, this is the same government that has declared a unilateral policy of intervention, and a "you're either with us or against us" approach to foreign affairs.
As far as the forcing issue goes - if the rest of the world decides to set up their own root servers, and the network splits into the US DNS system and the DNS system that the rest of the world uses, that would force the US to switch over. The alternative is to become an internet backwater.
Are you seriously suggesting that the US could respond to these events with military force? And you wonder why the world doesn't want American control of DNS...
Not directly, but what about wikipedia? It's a good replacement for Encarta which used to be a cashcow for microsoft.
> Look at the proportion of the world's population
> living on less than a dollar a day, or the local
> equivalent thereof. It's lower now than it has been
> at any point in history. Ever.
Isn't inflation a wonderful thing?
Ok, I had a look at this because I couldn't see what you meant at first. You still need something.o inside that fairly particular tree to cause damage. But assuming that for some reason there is an evil tree in your file system you still just need to protect the input. Quick look at the manpage came up with this:
find . -name '*.o' | xargs -i{} echo \"{}\"
Obviously I just tested it with echo as I don't have a disposible filesystem but it appeared to work...
[Ww][Hh][Yy] [Ww][Oo][Uu][Ll][Dd] [Yy][Oo][Uu]\?
Life is so long...
Civ (and its various sequels) have kept me entertained for nearly 15 years now. I know of no other game(s) on the market that have retained a sense of fun for anywhere near that long. The only comparison that could be made is to a 'pure' game like chess or go. Did you have any idea of just how much fun civilisation would be when you were designing the first one? What is it about civ that makes it so fun to play?