IntelliJ might be better than Eclipse, but the gap between Eclipse and IntelliJ is much smaller than Eclipse and Netbeans.
What features in IntelliJ can you just not live without? Eclipse has almost all of the refactorings that IntelliJ has, a comprable code-completion system, etc. The big reason that I use Eclipse over IntelliJ, however (besides price, obviously) is that I work with a dual monitor setup. IntelliJ absolutely blows with dual monitors, you can't have more than one editor window open at a time. If IntelliJ adds multiple editor support soon (a sales guy told me they would have it in the next major release) I'd think about switching.
One area that IntelliJ will always lag behind, though, is plugin support. The version of eclipse I use (with my custom written plugins and ones I've downloaded) is much more feature rich than a base install.
It would seem to me that another use of this technology would be dramatic life extension. I envision scientists creating replacement cells and attaching them to the nanoparticles. Then the particles go through the blood stream attaching to damaged cells. The attachment to a damaged cell causes a replacement cell attached to the nanoparticle to be released. Then the nanoparticles and the damaged cells they are attached to are removed from the blood stream.
I guess it's pretty sci-fi, but it seems like all the pieces need for it to work are already here or will be soon. Will remaining young at some time be much like an oil change for your car? Would you go to the doctors office and have a certain percentage of your cells replaced?
Don't know if this is applicable but don't cell phones work on airplanes (see 9/11) at a higher speed than described? Is the problem you've described mitigated by the slower change of angle due to the larger airplane/tower altitude difference?
Meanwhile in 2003 we're still waiting for someone to even come up with a very rough architecture for building even a simplistic geenral purpose AI, let alone start the practical work of programming one.
It's my belief that this failure is largely a result of hardware and not software. Current analysis of the processing power of the human brain suggests that the raw computation power available to AI scientists have been pathetically inadequate. In the 80's researchers using PCs would have had the processing power of approximately a worm. There's only so much you can do with a small brain: tasks truly useful to humans (visual recognition, for example) are going to be impossible without similar processing abilities. There are good reasons that ants use chemical detection to identify other members of the colony instead of visualy recognizing them. This is starting to change.
It's all handwaving, the nano pundits can't put forward any kind of actual theoretical design for a universal contsructor.
Actually, several people have proposed designs for nano factories (and thus universal constructors). Incremental progress towards the components of these nanofactories is being made every day.
I guess what I'm really defending is the continual exponential growth of computational power.
I'm not sure on the accuracy but this figure seems to indicate that long before Moore came along (and the transistor, of course) computational power was increasing at a roughly exponential pace since the introduction of the electromechanical calculator. The figure is taken from a larger paper discussing the computational power of the human brain.
This is probably a dumb question so ignore my ignorance, but is there any way to make the 'O' smaller? Would cooling the chip to extremely low temperatures work?
Electronics have already gone through five paradigms:
electomechanical calculators
relay based computers
vacuum tubes
discrete transistors
integrated circuits
Moore's law will continue, but it will continue based upon a new paradigm that sweeps in and seems to "miraculously" preserve Moore's law. The obvious next step is three dimensional integrated circuits and there is already research in exactly that direction: Intel's 3d gates. AMD is also in the game. When 3d transistors lose steam some new paradigm will take its place.
When I saw the link to your favorite ban (justincasefans.com), I thought you were following a case moder across the states. Then I looked at the website and realized it's Justin Case's fans.
I thought I might have found the biggest nerd in the galaxy, but I guess I'll have to continue my tireless quest.:-)
You might want to look at Lucene. Don't know if you're a java fan, or if covers all of your needs, but in my limited experience with it I've been pretty impressed.
I've read that that up to 20% of the population does not have a fingerprint suitable for biometric identification. Most of these people are Asian women. If biometric identification ever becomes mandatory are these people simply out of luck?
A better system might require several biometric techniques together to reach an identification.(hand shape and finger prints would go together nicely)
This article mentions the Asian woman fingerprint problem about 3/4 of the way down, but doesn't mention a source for this claim.
Given how fast biotech and nanotech are advancing I'd hazard to guess that within the relatively near-term the time scales you've suggested might not be so long compared to the human life span.
A job I applied for a couple of years ago (while I was in grad school) required CCNA/CCDA. I didn't have these certifications but I wanted the job and felt like the certifications might come in handy down the line. So I bought two books studied for a week and passed both tests. Did I know anything about network design/implementation? Absolutely not, I'm just a good test taker. Did I get the job? Yep, and what I didn't know I picked up within the first few weeks on the job. If you think that those tests indicate an ability to do the job you are sadly mistaken.
Certainly it is reasonable to hire someone with some knowledge of the problem domain, but picking up someone who is not a complete idiot tends to pay off far more in the long run (at least in my experience).
I'm not sure how this would play out, the attractive nuisance doctrine only appears to effect hazards that attract children. I'm not sure if hackers are considered children under the law:-)
.. just walks up to an apartment complex with a wireless card and initiates their hack from there. Toss the wireless card (bought in cash) or spoof the mac address (entirely possible) and poof, its not going to be traced. This is a sticky problem because only the dumbest crackers (script kiddies) aren't going to take these extremely simple precautions to avoid being caught.
As long as wireless networks remain as insecure as they are right now its going to be cracker paradise. I don't see an easy solution to the problem, it almost seems like if a hack can be traced back to your computer you almost certainly didn't commit the crime (unless you're a complete asshat).
I don't think anyone knows for sure but Paul Allen is speculated to be the backer behind Rutan. The article goes on to say that Internet tycoon types with entirely too much money on their hands seem to be the primary funders of this kind of thing.
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What features in IntelliJ can you just not live without? Eclipse has almost all of the refactorings that IntelliJ has, a comprable code-completion system, etc. The big reason that I use Eclipse over IntelliJ, however (besides price, obviously) is that I work with a dual monitor setup. IntelliJ absolutely blows with dual monitors, you can't have more than one editor window open at a time. If IntelliJ adds multiple editor support soon (a sales guy told me they would have it in the next major release) I'd think about switching.
One area that IntelliJ will always lag behind, though, is plugin support. The version of eclipse I use (with my custom written plugins and ones I've downloaded) is much more feature rich than a base install.
Do yourself a favor and try out eclipse. It absolutely smokes netbeans.
I guess it's pretty sci-fi, but it seems like all the pieces need for it to work are already here or will be soon. Will remaining young at some time be much like an oil change for your car? Would you go to the doctors office and have a certain percentage of your cells replaced?
Don't know if this is applicable but don't cell phones work on airplanes (see 9/11) at a higher speed than described? Is the problem you've described mitigated by the slower change of angle due to the larger airplane/tower altitude difference?
It's my belief that this failure is largely a result of hardware and not software. Current analysis of the processing power of the human brain suggests that the raw computation power available to AI scientists have been pathetically inadequate. In the 80's researchers using PCs would have had the processing power of approximately a worm. There's only so much you can do with a small brain: tasks truly useful to humans (visual recognition, for example) are going to be impossible without similar processing abilities. There are good reasons that ants use chemical detection to identify other members of the colony instead of visualy recognizing them. This is starting to change.
It's all handwaving, the nano pundits can't put forward any kind of actual theoretical design for a universal contsructor.
Actually, several people have proposed designs for nano factories (and thus universal constructors). Incremental progress towards the components of these nanofactories is being made every day.
I'm not sure on the accuracy but this figure seems to indicate that long before Moore came along (and the transistor, of course) computational power was increasing at a roughly exponential pace since the introduction of the electromechanical calculator. The figure is taken from a larger paper discussing the computational power of the human brain.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
This is probably a dumb question so ignore my ignorance, but is there any way to make the 'O' smaller? Would cooling the chip to extremely low temperatures work?
- electomechanical calculators
- relay based computers
- vacuum tubes
- discrete transistors
- integrated circuits
Moore's law will continue, but it will continue based upon a new paradigm that sweeps in and seems to "miraculously" preserve Moore's law. The obvious next step is three dimensional integrated circuits and there is already research in exactly that direction: Intel's 3d gates. AMD is also in the game. When 3d transistors lose steam some new paradigm will take its place.I thought I might have found the biggest nerd in the galaxy, but I guess I'll have to continue my tireless quest. :-)
You might want to look at Lucene. Don't know if you're a java fan, or if covers all of your needs, but in my limited experience with it I've been pretty impressed.
I think I'd use my cybernetic "enhancements" to pleasure hot chicks.
Also known as the horizon effect.
A better system might require several biometric techniques together to reach an identification.(hand shape and finger prints would go together nicely)
This article mentions the Asian woman fingerprint problem about 3/4 of the way down, but doesn't mention a source for this claim.
Given how fast biotech and nanotech are advancing I'd hazard to guess that within the relatively near-term the time scales you've suggested might not be so long compared to the human life span.
There haven't been that many "ties" since the running of the 100 meters in the special olympics.
Requirements for employer: must not be an asshole, must have enought self-respect to proof read their job postings.
Certainly it is reasonable to hire someone with some knowledge of the problem domain, but picking up someone who is not a complete idiot tends to pay off far more in the long run (at least in my experience).
Ohh wait, you mean they haven't?
I never said you had to go to the apartment complex during the middle of the day.
I'm not sure how this would play out, the attractive nuisance doctrine only appears to effect hazards that attract children. I'm not sure if hackers are considered children under the law :-)
As long as wireless networks remain as insecure as they are right now its going to be cracker paradise. I don't see an easy solution to the problem, it almost seems like if a hack can be traced back to your computer you almost certainly didn't commit the crime (unless you're a complete asshat).
$50 this gets modded flamebait rather than funny.
I don't think anyone knows for sure but Paul Allen is speculated to be the backer behind Rutan. The article goes on to say that Internet tycoon types with entirely too much money on their hands seem to be the primary funders of this kind of thing.
They won't get AIDS either?