Xeon is the best for the price for the sort of installations that require a large number of simultaneous threads. For something on the scale of a home computer (single CPU), the raw clock rate and instructions-per-clock of an i7 trounce Xeon. If cost is not an issue, I guess that IBM's POWER might have an edge.
Adequate genetic technology makes the concept of human evolution antique. Why wait for a mutation, or go through the difficult process of finding a mate who can compensate for your genetic faults, when direct genetic manipulation could fix flaws or introduce new features?
Difficult to tell. The further we progress, the more that has to be learned before an individual can use that learning to contribute something new. On the other hand, as knowledge is systematized and clarified, many things become easier to learn. Learning technology itself may improve. If machine intelligence ever gets very effective, computers may do scientific functions and the number of (human) scientists becomes irrelevant.
Even if they aren't, solar cells can be made not only without rare earths, but even without heavy metals. Silicon is the basic material, boron and phosphorus are dopants, and aluminum is the conductor. Done.
Logitech and many others are doing quite a nice business selling keyboards and mice. Is that not a good enough method for transferring consciousness into computers?
Yes, I know, you're asking for something like "rsync -asv/mnt/Joe/backup". The problem is so difficult that we don't really know what questions to ask, so we have to focus on biology first.
Gross revenue trailing 12 months (yahoo finance) $6.44 billion. That's $537 million / month. About 54 million households. There are only 118 million households in the US, so even that number seems high. Granted, Netflix isn't US only, but still...
Without special intervention in the market place by government OTA networks would air little such programing. If they had been airing enough Congress would not have stepped in.
This is another example of government causing a problem, which then requires government action to (not) fix it. Government restricted access to television by limiting the number of channels in a given area and making technical costs high. TV stations then produced only programs that were highly profitable, and people with a dream for a niche product were priced out of the market. Cranks and parents complained, so the FCC forced stations to air less profitable content and engage in "self"-censorship. -- Without government intervention in the first place, lower cost stations would have been possible, and niche markets could have been served at a profit.
Many, many movies are made by "independent" production companies, some of which are fly-by-nights whose operators pocket a lot of money, show a paper loss and go out of business. For such movies, the major studios handle distribution (and often marketing) by contract, for which they get opening logo credit and isolation from the financial impact of major flops. The losers are investors in companies with names like "Motion Picture Buddies 7", and actors who choose to take a portion of profits in lieu of wages.
Netflix, like the broadcast giants, is a publicly traded company. Failure to make a good estimate of Netflix's viewership from annual reports, network traffic info from ISPs, etc. indicates that somebody's not trying very hard.
Although the electrical field is of low amplitude, the field excites and activates immediate neighbors, which, in turn, excite and activate immediate neighbors, and so on across the brain. The Field is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
If the explanation includes midichlorians, I'm outa here.
Private companies are already working on autonomous vehicles. Government money will insure unneeded expenses (such as the smart roads several posters have already mentioned), rules, paperwork, and general interference to make progress more difficult.If a company accepts government money, it will immediately be forced to pay union wages and may eventually be forced to unionize. Government will choose a communication system between cars, based upon the scheme of the company that pays the highest bribes. All routes will be sent to a central authority in real time, along with images from an inward facing camera.
Obama is just looking for credit for the work of others; he's doing less for automobiles than Al Gore did for the internet.
Running in front of a crowd does not make you a leader.
The last year i worked, government at various levels took more than $40,000 from me. The benefits to me, including protection services and roads, came to less than $10,000. Government unfunded mandates against me cost about $2000, (and these days would be closer to $8000). That's a net annual loss to me of over $32,000.
In the US, the current war is the government against pipeline companies, where the government's goal is to keep oil expensive. Obama announced his goal to make oil expensive 7 years ago.
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Xeon is the best for the price for the sort of installations that require a large number of simultaneous threads. For something on the scale of a home computer (single CPU), the raw clock rate and instructions-per-clock of an i7 trounce Xeon. If cost is not an issue, I guess that IBM's POWER might have an edge.
Adequate genetic technology makes the concept of human evolution antique. Why wait for a mutation, or go through the difficult process of finding a mate who can compensate for your genetic faults, when direct genetic manipulation could fix flaws or introduce new features?
Difficult to tell. The further we progress, the more that has to be learned before an individual can use that learning to contribute something new. On the other hand, as knowledge is systematized and clarified, many things become easier to learn. Learning technology itself may improve. If machine intelligence ever gets very effective, computers may do scientific functions and the number of (human) scientists becomes irrelevant.
Four planets in earth-like orbits is unstable and would require occasional adjustment -- ringworlds and Dyson Dyson spheres are also unstable.
Even if they aren't, solar cells can be made not only without rare earths, but even without heavy metals. Silicon is the basic material, boron and phosphorus are dopants, and aluminum is the conductor. Done.
The results of mining lead or mercury are toxic forever. Do you have a point to make?
Logitech and many others are doing quite a nice business selling keyboards and mice. Is that not a good enough method for transferring consciousness into computers?
Yes, I know, you're asking for something like "rsync -asv /mnt/Joe /backup". The problem is so difficult that we don't really know what questions to ask, so we have to focus on biology first.
Don't forget to bathe the astronauts in undiluted nitric acid, followed by a chlorine colonic.
Gross revenue trailing 12 months (yahoo finance) $6.44 billion. That's $537 million / month. About 54 million households. There are only 118 million households in the US, so even that number seems high. Granted, Netflix isn't US only, but still...
This is another example of government causing a problem, which then requires government action to (not) fix it. Government restricted access to television by limiting the number of channels in a given area and making technical costs high. TV stations then produced only programs that were highly profitable, and people with a dream for a niche product were priced out of the market. Cranks and parents complained, so the FCC forced stations to air less profitable content and engage in "self"-censorship. -- Without government intervention in the first place, lower cost stations would have been possible, and niche markets could have been served at a profit.
Many, many movies are made by "independent" production companies, some of which are fly-by-nights whose operators pocket a lot of money, show a paper loss and go out of business. For such movies, the major studios handle distribution (and often marketing) by contract, for which they get opening logo credit and isolation from the financial impact of major flops. The losers are investors in companies with names like "Motion Picture Buddies 7", and actors who choose to take a portion of profits in lieu of wages.
Netflix, like the broadcast giants, is a publicly traded company. Failure to make a good estimate of Netflix's viewership from annual reports, network traffic info from ISPs, etc. indicates that somebody's not trying very hard.
I've read that China has stealth submarines that US subs can't dependably detect. That does not make for a low-loss, quick, easy victory.
Although the electrical field is of low amplitude, the field excites and activates immediate neighbors, which, in turn, excite and activate immediate neighbors, and so on across the brain. The Field is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
If the explanation includes midichlorians, I'm outa here.
Samuel Clemens dies in 1910. The copyrighted newest version of his partial autobiography came out in 2010.
No amount of sarcasm makes it OK to put your hands in my pocket.
Mass starvation is a property of leftist government. Just ask Josef Stalin.
It's such a small amount of money, you won't mind if I take it from you. At gunpoint.
And Gus Grissom might still be alive.
Private companies are already working on autonomous vehicles. Government money will insure unneeded expenses (such as the smart roads several posters have already mentioned), rules, paperwork, and general interference to make progress more difficult.If a company accepts government money, it will immediately be forced to pay union wages and may eventually be forced to unionize. Government will choose a communication system between cars, based upon the scheme of the company that pays the highest bribes. All routes will be sent to a central authority in real time, along with images from an inward facing camera.
Obama is just looking for credit for the work of others; he's doing less for automobiles than Al Gore did for the internet.
Running in front of a crowd does not make you a leader.
The last year i worked, government at various levels took more than $40,000 from me. The benefits to me, including protection services and roads, came to less than $10,000. Government unfunded mandates against me cost about $2000, (and these days would be closer to $8000). That's a net annual loss to me of over $32,000.
In the US, the current war is the government against pipeline companies, where the government's goal is to keep oil expensive. Obama announced his goal to make oil expensive 7 years ago.
I am Zuul. I am the Gatekeeper.
And your use of the spelling "'Murica" doesn't indicate any trace of bias.
My car is beige, not tan.