Then you'll have sympathy with Proteus in Demon Seed who wasn't happy being a disembodied intelligence and decided it needed to become incarnate with the help of one of Julie Christie's ova. Great movie BTW, and highly prophetic if you see the move to embodiment as an important trend.
In the UK you can buy mp3 players but they're illegal to use except for a small set of music? I know it looks like I'm just repeated what's in the article but it seems so crazy that I can't imagine I've read it correctly. So I need a sanity check. Is this actually what the article is saying?
...gynaecologist. You have to spend all day looking at the parts of women that they pee out from. What could be more disgusting? I can't imagine what they must pay those people.
Latex glove on, finger in, two second of probing, finger out, glove off. If you think that's one of the most disgusting things in life then you're in for a few surprises.
So in all of the history of music from the whole world that has been released on CD, you have exhausted all of the good stuff? Amazing. Where do you get the time?
Oh please! You're trying to push a political agenda and are pretending it's a statement of fact. Your agenda is "My government doesn't censor making it superior to other states". Your supposed 'fact' is to define censorship in such a narrow way that the claim becomes true. Your definition immmediately works to hide the multitude of ways governments actually work to suppress information.
What's wrong with stealing an election? If Roslin had stolen the election then the humans would never have had to endure Cylon oppression on New Caprica. Oh wait...are we talking about reality here?
I've seen a doctor for many things in my life, but the last time a blade was used was almost 40 years ago. Even the last time something had to be removed from my body the technique used was cryosurgery. (A fancy word for the doctor dabbing liquid nitrogen onto it with a Q-Tip.) And even when using the knife, modern laparoscopy, say, is a far cry from ancient Egyptian methods (at least the ones used on living people).
Most common technique for finding out what's happening inside someone? Firing X-rays at a piece of film
You seem to be neglecting ultrasound, MRI, endoscopes and a whole host of other techniques. Even X-raying is much more sophisticated than years ago with techniques like tomography. Sure, x-rays are popular. But using forks to eat your food is popular, but that doesn't make modern cuisine from the "dark ages".
Most common method for curing bacterial infection? Penicillin
I've been prescribed antibiotics several times in my life. None of them was penicillin. There are countless antibiotics available today.
Pain relief? Aspirin - again nearly 100 years old.
There are countless painkillers available ranging from aspirin to morphine, depending on severity. I gave up aspirin 20 years ago, I find ibuprofen sometimes works wonders for me.
Really. What are you on? Your post reads like one of those really annoying chain emails full of error ridden factoids that keep circulating because people think they are revealing some profound truth.
Category theory is a great language for talking about linear algebra. And, conceptually at least, there really isn't much to quantum mechanics besides linear algebra. States are vectors, time evolution is a linear operator, combining two systems is a tensor product and so on.
...that I remember seeing this guy in all the popular science magazines touting his facial recognition system. They demonstrated it on TV showing that facial recognition was already here. 20 years later, it's gone without a trace. I don't mean to pick on Igor (I owe him because he taught me digital electronics when I was a kid), he's just one of many people who've made ridiculous claims that the popular science press fall for over the years.
So not only do I not believe claims that facial recognition "is coming soon". I don't believe claims that it's "already here". I don't even believe the demos done right in front of my eyes, because we all know what demos are like. I'll believe it when a credible organisation trusts their money or security to it for an extended period.
What you need to learn about quantum computation is a function of what you know. If you know some mathematics, these are good:
Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics and A Concise Introduction.... If you don't, I strongly suggest studying linear algebra, at least until you're 100% happy with tensor products of complex vector spaces, learning basic probability theory and then trying the second paper above.
...but they make the best 1080p HDTV and that's what I bought. If I wasn't already feeling guilty about it, this makes me feel even worse seeing as I made use of Lik Sang myself. Whether or not I buy a PS3 is irrelevant, they probably made more profit from that TV that they'd ever have made out of PS3 games bought by me. Oh! Woe is me! I'm certain to end up in one of the lower rungs of Hades now.
Amphibian 1: They said it couldn't be done!
Amphibian 2: Yup, but we sure made it didn't we?
Amphibian 1: They said we couldn't survive out here because it was dry. No solvents for our biochemistry. But we just carry the solvents with us.
Amphibian 2: And they said we could never breathe out here!
Amphibian 1: Yeah, the fools were still thinking gills. Gills are so last geological period,
Amphibian 2: And they said we couldn't get around without a liquid substrate to push against.
Amphibian 1: There's nothing quite like a pair of legs!
Amphibian 2: And the radiation, they said it'd kill us!
Amphibian 1: Idiots! They must think we spend all day lazing about in the sun.
Amphibian 2: And there'd be nothing to eat! Can you believe they'd say that? Hmmm...what is there to eat out here anyway? Hey, quit lookin' at me all funny like that...nggghhhhh...
Amphibian 1: Yup, plenty of food out here too.
I've been playing games for 30 years, it is most definitely the worst I have played. I'm not talking about other platforms, just the DS version. It's a game with so many bugs that it should be retitled "Get to the end of the level while working round the bugs". It could have been called "Defeat the Empire while working round the bugs" except that I'm not sure that the goal is to defeat the Empire. On some levels the goal appears to be merely to run around until the level suddenly disappears and is replaced by a new one.
And man, are these levels bug ridden. Like areas where your characters go invisible for no apparent reason and you have to guess where they are in relation to the platforms you're jumping over. Or rooms with corners that characters can't back out from. Or the large chunks of levels that simply vanish until you walk right up to them. Or the way characters are automatically resurrected on death so that if you arrange things just right they'll be resurrected exactly where they died and you'll end up with Obi-Wan in an infinite cycle of endless repeating death with barely enough time to scream between cycles.
And even if you don't want to kill characters you can have lots of fun watching them smash their heads repeatedly as they attempt to walk through walls because even the simplest shortest-route-from-A-to-B algorithm seems to have defeated the best minds among the game's developers.
Yup, if you want a sure fire way to make sure your kids hate you forever, by them Lego Star Wars II DS this Xmas.
Will this reorganization put them back as a player in the graphics game?
Many years ago, SGI stood for Silicon Graphics Inc. But then the company was officially renamed to SGI. Ie. SGI no longer stands for anything, it's just the company name. It signalled a change in business - the 'g' no longer stands for graphics. For example, there is no mention of "Silicon Graphics" here. They do appear to use the name "Silicon Graphics" in the names of some of their graphics products. But there's little reason to think that they have any intention of being a major player in the graphics industry.
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You don't count evangelicals by how many people they have, you count them by how many nuclear weapons they have access to. After all, when it comes to the crunch, that's all that matters.
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Then you'll have sympathy with Proteus in Demon Seed who wasn't happy being a disembodied intelligence and decided it needed to become incarnate with the help of one of Julie Christie's ova. Great movie BTW, and highly prophetic if you see the move to embodiment as an important trend.
If you just stuck with one OS and one browser maybe it'd reduce the load on the servers and you'd give people a chance to read the article.
In the UK you can buy mp3 players but they're illegal to use except for a small set of music? I know it looks like I'm just repeated what's in the article but it seems so crazy that I can't imagine I've read it correctly. So I need a sanity check. Is this actually what the article is saying?
...gynaecologist. You have to spend all day looking at the parts of women that they pee out from. What could be more disgusting? I can't imagine what they must pay those people.
Latex glove on, finger in, two second of probing, finger out, glove off. If you think that's one of the most disgusting things in life then you're in for a few surprises.
So in all of the history of music from the whole world that has been released on CD, you have exhausted all of the good stuff? Amazing. Where do you get the time?
Oh please! You're trying to push a political agenda and are pretending it's a statement of fact. Your agenda is "My government doesn't censor making it superior to other states". Your supposed 'fact' is to define censorship in such a narrow way that the claim becomes true. Your definition immmediately works to hide the multitude of ways governments actually work to suppress information.
Try using an iPod with decent headphones. Or maybe you prefer a loaded comparison so as to make you feel better about the purchase you made.
What's wrong with a bit of "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" every now and then?
What's wrong with stealing an election? If Roslin had stolen the election then the humans would never have had to endure Cylon oppression on New Caprica. Oh wait...are we talking about reality here?
Of course it's perfectly safe. Kaboom!
Really. What are you on? Your post reads like one of those really annoying chain emails full of error ridden factoids that keep circulating because people think they are revealing some profound truth.
Category theory is a great language for talking about linear algebra. And, conceptually at least, there really isn't much to quantum mechanics besides linear algebra. States are vectors, time evolution is a linear operator, combining two systems is a tensor product and so on.
So not only do I not believe claims that facial recognition "is coming soon". I don't believe claims that it's "already here". I don't even believe the demos done right in front of my eyes, because we all know what demos are like. I'll believe it when a credible organisation trusts their money or security to it for an extended period.
What you need to learn about quantum computation is a function of what you know. If you know some mathematics, these are good: Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics and A Concise Introduction.... If you don't, I strongly suggest studying linear algebra, at least until you're 100% happy with tensor products of complex vector spaces, learning basic probability theory and then trying the second paper above.
...but they make the best 1080p HDTV and that's what I bought. If I wasn't already feeling guilty about it, this makes me feel even worse seeing as I made use of Lik Sang myself. Whether or not I buy a PS3 is irrelevant, they probably made more profit from that TV that they'd ever have made out of PS3 games bought by me. Oh! Woe is me! I'm certain to end up in one of the lower rungs of Hades now.
Amphibian 1: They said it couldn't be done!
Amphibian 2: Yup, but we sure made it didn't we?
Amphibian 1: They said we couldn't survive out here because it was dry. No solvents for our biochemistry. But we just carry the solvents with us.
Amphibian 2: And they said we could never breathe out here!
Amphibian 1: Yeah, the fools were still thinking gills. Gills are so last geological period,
Amphibian 2: And they said we couldn't get around without a liquid substrate to push against.
Amphibian 1: There's nothing quite like a pair of legs!
Amphibian 2: And the radiation, they said it'd kill us!
Amphibian 1: Idiots! They must think we spend all day lazing about in the sun.
Amphibian 2: And there'd be nothing to eat! Can you believe they'd say that? Hmmm...what is there to eat out here anyway? Hey, quit lookin' at me all funny like that...nggghhhhh...
Amphibian 1: Yup, plenty of food out here too.
And man, are these levels bug ridden. Like areas where your characters go invisible for no apparent reason and you have to guess where they are in relation to the platforms you're jumping over. Or rooms with corners that characters can't back out from. Or the large chunks of levels that simply vanish until you walk right up to them. Or the way characters are automatically resurrected on death so that if you arrange things just right they'll be resurrected exactly where they died and you'll end up with Obi-Wan in an infinite cycle of endless repeating death with barely enough time to scream between cycles.
And even if you don't want to kill characters you can have lots of fun watching them smash their heads repeatedly as they attempt to walk through walls because even the simplest shortest-route-from-A-to-B algorithm seems to have defeated the best minds among the game's developers.
Yup, if you want a sure fire way to make sure your kids hate you forever, by them Lego Star Wars II DS this Xmas.
...shut as Akela plays with your pee pee? Or is it open? I get confused.