"created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google" "The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator"
The philosophy of simulation would seem to inherently mandate that neither argument from Christians or humanists is in the least bit relevant, as our existence is nothing more than a lie. I have to believe that Nick Bostrom is likely a very depressed human being who proferred a notion that fits with his world view but is unable to support it with any verifiable evidence.
Maybe our simulation serves a higher purpose we can't know/understand, like finding the cure for god-AIDS for example...
Steam would have to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, and release some of their own titles for Vive. I'm pretty sure a Vive version of Portal would be interesting.
The pretty mediocre state university I went to had this split. There was a CS and a CIS degree standing for Computer Info Systems. It was considered an applied science degree. It did not force a mandatory math minor like the CS degree and focused more on solving business problems. This was back in the early 2000's.
... use an OS and as many apps that you can fundamentally trust (open source) to not allow unauthorized access to your webcam. Next make sure you buy hardware from a vendor you can trust. Finally practice some good computer use habits like not clicking on every attachment.
Covering your webcam is like closing the barn door after the horses escaped. If someone can monitor your webcam, they can also access all your files and basically do anything else they want to your computer.
You and I might be able to run out of money but society can't run out of money. At this point it's just a electronic ledger controlled by the Federal Reserve. Creating more money is simple as adding some zeroes to a column in some fancy Excel sheet. This happens all the time, but currently it's put into circulation through loans to corporations. A top down approach.
Giving money out to individuals through some sort of UBI system would be a bottom up approach. That money is going to be spent on goods and services from companies anyway. Also taxed the whole way back up. The trick is obviously doing this in a way that doesn't drastically increase the rate of inflation.
Bottom line there needs to be some sort of balance in, not how we redistribute wealth, but in how we distribute the opportunity to gain wealth.
It's not that we don't understand the rules of quantum mechanics, it's likely they are truly unknowable, at least, by beings living in our universe. From our perspective, and that's the only perspective we have, the universe is non-deterministic. Once you accept our universe is non-deterministic then it's not a big leap of logic to accept free will.
Again, this is from our perspective, not some hyper dimensional god/programmer/being who can see the dice being rolled and might think our notion of free will is silly.
The Xindi arc had it's problems (time travel for example) but at it's heart was a good old Star Trek style social commentary. The whole plot was a mirror on the US's reaction to 9/11. I liked how the Enterprise crew left space dock with an idealistic view of the Universe only to have to take less than noble actions when faced with realities. It was good stuff.
I have no idea how they could have accomplished this from a SFX perspective and maybe it wouldn't have added to the story. I was disappointed with the scene where he was disassembling the MAV and the pieces were falling to the surface at a very Earth-like speed. Seemed like a easy place to add a little SFX magic to mimic Mars gravity.
I think the point is to ban autonomous weapon systems, not automatic.What's the difference? An automatic weapon system can destroy targets you choose, an autonomous weapon system can destroy targets it chooses.
If I want to take my hypothetical basic income check and spend it on crack, why do you care? At least I'm not out on the street robbing people for the money. If I spend my check on fancy clothes and can't afford my rent, why do you care? I'll learn my lesson real quick when I get evicted.
Or maybe I'll take my check and use it to start a small business and bootstrap myself into a better life.
I couldn't do that with food stamps, and housing vouchers.
In 1990 Windows 3.0 came out, which can still run in a VM today. Considering today's slower pace of change in computing technology, I think it's a safe bet any modern OS will run, in a VM, on future computers.
Just pick a popular and open VM container format so you're not tied to a vendor. OVF for example.
You might want to also consider visualizing the version control system as well. Source history may be important to future developers making changes. Use a decentralized VCS like git, so version history gets archived with the development machine automatically.
If you're expecting Mono to cover every aspect of the.NET runtime you're missing the point. I look at Mono as an excellent, open source, managed runtime environment and language that also happens to follow the ECMA standards Microsoft released for the.NET CLI and C#.
People expect Mono to be able to run any.NET app under the sun on any platform. That sometimes works, sometimes doesn't depending on the app. It's much more suited developing a new apps that you want to be cross platform.
As other posters pointed out, this is all a mute point anyway..NET is now open source under MIT license. The Mono team is working closely with Microsoft on merging the two code bases.
There is only so much space on the utility polls and under the streets. The number of companies who are allowed to run network cable has to be limited. It's the same with electric, gas, and phone line. I don't see why people don't understand this. It's government enforced monopoly because it's the only practical way to do it.
With common carrier regulation the companies that have the right to use PUBLIC lands for profit must lease their lines to other companies at a fair market value.
The real solution to all of this is the government should build the infrastructure using tax dollars and then lease it to private companies. If I was Bush/Obama in 2008 during the economic crisis I would have used the bail out money to build a nationwide Internet service. Would have hired a lot of people for quite a few years and we'd be better off as a nation for it.
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You're just mad because you can't play the game as a straw man.
You mean this that you can buy now?
On track for the PS9 in 2078.
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"created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google"
"The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator"
I don't know if I buy that personally.
The philosophy of simulation would seem to inherently mandate that neither argument from Christians or humanists is in the least bit relevant, as our existence is nothing more than a lie. I have to believe that Nick Bostrom is likely a very depressed human being who proferred a notion that fits with his world view but is unable to support it with any verifiable evidence.
Maybe our simulation serves a higher purpose we can't know/understand, like finding the cure for god-AIDS for example ...
If you are truly starting at the beginning and need to understand basic concepts like conditionals, loops, variables, etc I recommend Blockly.
By the time you can solve level 10 of this tutorial you'll have a fair grasp of some fundamentals.
The best part is it automatically converts to JavaScript and Python, two good languages to move on to after you've master the basics.
Steam would have to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, and release some of their own titles for Vive. I'm pretty sure a Vive version of Portal would be interesting.
You mean like this?
The pretty mediocre state university I went to had this split. There was a CS and a CIS degree standing for Computer Info Systems. It was considered an applied science degree. It did not force a mandatory math minor like the CS degree and focused more on solving business problems. This was back in the early 2000's.
... use an OS and as many apps that you can fundamentally trust (open source) to not allow unauthorized access to your webcam. Next make sure you buy hardware from a vendor you can trust. Finally practice some good computer use habits like not clicking on every attachment.
Covering your webcam is like closing the barn door after the horses escaped. If someone can monitor your webcam, they can also access all your files and basically do anything else they want to your computer.
You and I might be able to run out of money but society can't run out of money. At this point it's just a electronic ledger controlled by the Federal Reserve. Creating more money is simple as adding some zeroes to a column in some fancy Excel sheet. This happens all the time, but currently it's put into circulation through loans to corporations. A top down approach.
Giving money out to individuals through some sort of UBI system would be a bottom up approach. That money is going to be spent on goods and services from companies anyway. Also taxed the whole way back up. The trick is obviously doing this in a way that doesn't drastically increase the rate of inflation.
Bottom line there needs to be some sort of balance in, not how we redistribute wealth, but in how we distribute the opportunity to gain wealth.
It's not that we don't understand the rules of quantum mechanics, it's likely they are truly unknowable, at least, by beings living in our universe. From our perspective, and that's the only perspective we have, the universe is non-deterministic. Once you accept our universe is non-deterministic then it's not a big leap of logic to accept free will.
Again, this is from our perspective, not some hyper dimensional god/programmer/being who can see the dice being rolled and might think our notion of free will is silly.
The Xindi arc had it's problems (time travel for example) but at it's heart was a good old Star Trek style social commentary. The whole plot was a mirror on the US's reaction to 9/11. I liked how the Enterprise crew left space dock with an idealistic view of the Universe only to have to take less than noble actions when faced with realities. It was good stuff.
The force, not the movie.
I was hoping this would be the first sci-fi movie to get the gravity right on Mars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvnDIDqcfGI
I have no idea how they could have accomplished this from a SFX perspective and maybe it wouldn't have added to the story. I was disappointed with the scene where he was disassembling the MAV and the pieces were falling to the surface at a very Earth-like speed. Seemed like a easy place to add a little SFX magic to mimic Mars gravity.
Great movie overall though!
Yah I call BS on the Xeon claim.
If it's the Atom processor, the math adds up. It has 4 cores and supports 8GB of RAM which matches up with the 88 core / 176 GB RAM numbers.
I think the point is to ban autonomous weapon systems, not automatic.What's the difference? An automatic weapon system can destroy targets you choose, an autonomous weapon system can destroy targets it chooses.
From the article:
"By 2020, Chiang estimates that 24M will be able to produce batteries for less than $100 per kilowatt-hour of capacity"
That's a pretty bold claim considering a 1KW lithium ion battery currently cost 10x that.
If I want to take my hypothetical basic income check and spend it on crack, why do you care? At least I'm not out on the street robbing people for the money. If I spend my check on fancy clothes and can't afford my rent, why do you care? I'll learn my lesson real quick when I get evicted.
Or maybe I'll take my check and use it to start a small business and bootstrap myself into a better life.
I couldn't do that with food stamps, and housing vouchers.
Exactly.
In 1990 Windows 3.0 came out, which can still run in a VM today. Considering today's slower pace of change in computing technology, I think it's a safe bet any modern OS will run, in a VM, on future computers.
Just pick a popular and open VM container format so you're not tied to a vendor. OVF for example.
You might want to also consider visualizing the version control system as well. Source history may be important to future developers making changes. Use a decentralized VCS like git, so version history gets archived with the development machine automatically.
Luckily there is no such thing as infinite resources.
If the traditional way of doing pattern recognition was a 1 stroke lawnmower engine, this new way would be a V8.
If you're expecting Mono to cover every aspect of the .NET runtime you're missing the point. I look at Mono as an excellent, open source, managed runtime environment and language that also happens to follow the ECMA standards Microsoft released for the .NET CLI and C#.
People expect Mono to be able to run any .NET app under the sun on any platform. That sometimes works, sometimes doesn't depending on the app. It's much more suited developing a new apps that you want to be cross platform.
As other posters pointed out, this is all a mute point anyway. .NET is now open source under MIT license. The Mono team is working closely with Microsoft on merging the two code bases.
Impluse drives use plasma as a reaction mass. They are more akin to a nuclear rocket.
An EM drive doesn't need a reaction mass which is more like hover conversion.
Well I might be a little hopeful there. It's 2015 I want my flying car dammit!
Depending on what dependencies you use in your code you could have had it running on Linux years ago using Mono.
I've had good experiences running ASP.NET MVC and console apps on Linux in production environments.
Exactly, I can get the equivalent voltage of a li-ion cell by stringing together lemons. Doesn't mean it would fit in the back of my cell phone.
There is only so much space on the utility polls and under the streets. The number of companies who are allowed to run network cable has to be limited. It's the same with electric, gas, and phone line. I don't see why people don't understand this. It's government enforced monopoly because it's the only practical way to do it.
With common carrier regulation the companies that have the right to use PUBLIC lands for profit must lease their lines to other companies at a fair market value.
The real solution to all of this is the government should build the infrastructure using tax dollars and then lease it to private companies. If I was Bush/Obama in 2008 during the economic crisis I would have used the bail out money to build a nationwide Internet service. Would have hired a lot of people for quite a few years and we'd be better off as a nation for it.