Wasn't this supposed to have changed every american city by now?
Yeah. All the sidewalks are going to have to be widened so there's room for Segway riders, who will all put on about 300lbs from riding their Segways rather than walking anywhere.
They're both friends of my younger brother. Other than the fact that they're 18, you're right - they're boys whose parents have too much money. They go for the PC's like Alienware because they heard that Alienware makes the best computers for gaming, but they really don't know jack/shit about what makes a computer good for gaming.
Coincidentally, most of the kids in this same crowd also have Honda Civics and the like with just about every sort of "racing mod" (their word) imaginable except the ones that would improve a car's performance or handling very much - $400 performance clutches w/ aluminum flywheels on a car that still has the original 1.2L engine and the like.
Your computer is probably a Dell or an e-Machine or some other computer that is designed to last the 18 months it's going to take for Intel to make you realize that your old P3-700 is way too slow for the processor intensive web browsing and Quickening that you do and you need to buy a new Pentium 7 20ghz to get the latest Multimedia Experience.
The 5+ computers already in your car, on the other hand, probably have never given you a problem. Most people don't even know they're there, because they are designed to last longer. Similarly, the computers on these airplanes would (hopefully) be made to last, just like the computers that are necessary to keep most modern military jets from crashing into the ground and are reliable enough for combat use.
Well, technically you can separate the aluminum from the plastic, but no consumer is going to take the time to do that - most people are still too lazy to take the screw caps off their plastic pop bottles before throwing them in the bin - and there is no way that it will be financially feasible for recycling companies to separate the aluminum from plastic themselves.
Personally, this idea pisses me off enough to keep me from purchasing ever again from companies that bottle their beverages in these cans.
granted, I haven't RTFA, but the headline was GNU/Linux. Granted, GNU/Linux is usually used to refer to Linux alone, but I think it is fair to say that most of this stuff does count for the GNU part, which can be run on any unix.
The crew would already be on a managed diet, so it wouldn't really be any tougher on them to be vegetarian or non-vegetarian. Given the nature of some of the health-benefits/disadvantages of both omnivorous and vegetarian diets, I think the issue is up in the air as to which one would be better for astronauts on a long mission, although at present I think serving meat would be a good idea for morale reasons.
Lentils will help make you fart more, and that will cause problems with maintaining breathable air on a long space mission, but the smell thing won't be as much of a problem since lentils don't make your farts stinky. A burger is much worse for doing that.
I gotta admit, though, when I read about these I was tempted by the idea of creating a Bootable Business Card Trojan Horse and passing it out to the suits who piss me off at carreer fairs. If it could cause hardware failures, too, that would make it even better =D
Sometime in the area of 2000-2001 you should have realized that all the people who make lots of money at computers spent all their time taking courses like "fool the shit out of people 101" and didn't bother to take a single CS course. CS courses are for employees, who are coincidentally a large cross-section of the people they were fooling the shit out of.
When I first got into playing the original Diablo online, I was having a hard time at the game. People kept killing me. Then I bougt Godly Plate of the Whales on eBay for $30,000. Now I have no home and I still suck at Diablo.
Check any of the recent research on hypnosis, and you'll find that there is no way whatsoever to tell the difference between a recovered memory and an implanted memory produced while under hypnosis. While you are in a state of hypnosis, you are in a state where you have two things working against you - one, you are open to suggestion, and two, the mechanism for tagging the difference between things you remember and things you imagined stops working properly.
For a quick read-up, check this link from the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's website.
A quick read of almost any post-mortem on the whole "multiple personality disorder" craze of several years ago should also raise your skepticism. My roommate's own mother had her shrink succeed in giving her a case of dissociative identity disorder that she did not have before she started seeing this 'doctor' through a combination of hypnosis and directed questioning.
And don't think the professional hypnotists are going to give you an entirely truthful explanation of the benefits and risks of what they do - the fact of the matter is, if they admitted the truth, they would not only be jobless, but would be opening themselves to all sorts of malpractise suits. Asking a hypnotist if hypnotism works is a bit like asking a door-to-door vaccum cleaner salesman if his product really works.
I have a feeling those sites that say burn-in isn't a major problem anymore meant to say that monitors are far less susceptible to the problem nowadays, especially since most of them now go into a standby mode if you don't use your computer for a given amoutn of time.
If your monitor doesn't auto-off and you leave your computer running all day with no screensaver or a screensaver that leaves regions of pixels unchanged (such as the Seti@home client), you can still develop burn-in over time.
The best solution is to just turn your monitor off when you aren't using your computer - not only does it avoid burn-in, but monitors suck a whole lot of electricity, so you will also save money on electricty and be helping to not destroy the planet so quickly, too.
I doubt the handheld supplies power to the cradle - it will either come from a dedicated power source or through the serial/USB connection to the PC. The USB master in the cradle would be useless while this device is being carried around.
Put money into supporting artists signed with non-RIAA labels, and support non-MPAA movies. No, it won't hurt the RIAA or MPAA directly, but it financially supports these companies, and makes them a more feasible choice for artists. If more and more artists are able to work for more scrupulous record labels and film studios, we will begin to have more choices, and be able to purchase more and more stuff that isn't distributed through the **AA.
Take a look at websites like www.cdbaby.com that sell stuff by independent artists, you might be surprised at the quality of stuff they distribute.
Granted, I'm on a shared stack of T1s, but it seems to me that once you get into the broadband range the limiting factor on a connection's bandwidth is often the server on the other end, not your computer. . .
I think the story in the article really illustrates one of the most important things about giving the customers what they want quite beautifully. Don't let the customer just hand you requirements. By virtue of the fact that they are coming to your firm for help, it is fairly safe to assume that they aren't experts on the kind of product you are producing for them. Because of this, they probably don't know enough jargon or have enough knowledge to translate all their ultimate goals into a good list of requirements. When the customer says, "this product also has to do foo," make absolutely sure you ask them why they want it to do foo and what place activity foo has in the process of getting whatever productive work they want out of the software to be done.
Another classic example: professor goes to a computer lab attendant with a few sheets of paper, and asks them to be scanned. The student scans them and hands them to the professor as Photoshop images. The professor takes them back to her computer & tries to load them up, but doesn't have photoshop, so she can't load them. She calls the help desk, & the helpdesk helps her install photoshop. Then she complains that she can't edit the text in the images, and ends up going through a crash course on editing images on Photoshop. Only after all of this happens does someone get around to realizing that since the papers were all text documents, she probably wanted them run through OCR and handed to her as Word documents, not image files.
Convolutional neural nets are really quite simple and easy to implement and train. Granted, it probably isn't a problem with regular spammers, but I bet students from MIT and CMU would have the gumption to get around to doing it again.
Don't forget, though. These articles are aimed at the kinds of people who don't understand that computers are nothing more than machines that follow instructions, and are no smarter than the instructions given to them.
The semicoherent and coherent articles that talk about the capabilities of algorithms rather than the machines they run on are all in the research journals.
Really, comparing human intelligence to computer intelligence doesn't seem like a good idea unless we're going to define what kind of computer intelligence it is. Neural computing really screws the comparison up - the kinds of computing that normal computers are good for are quite different from the kinds of computing that neural nets are well suited to. Furthermore, different neural net architectures make for different capabilities - the tasks a feedforward network are best suited to are very different from the tasks a bayesian network are best suited to.
Take a look at this page for a good run-though of the different kinds of nets.
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tell me about it. My friends whine and bitch when I refuse to drive to a diner that's only 4 blocks from home.
Wasn't this supposed to have changed every american city by now?
Yeah. All the sidewalks are going to have to be widened so there's room for Segway riders, who will all put on about 300lbs from riding their Segways rather than walking anywhere.
They're both friends of my younger brother. Other than the fact that they're 18, you're right - they're boys whose parents have too much money. They go for the PC's like Alienware because they heard that Alienware makes the best computers for gaming, but they really don't know jack/shit about what makes a computer good for gaming.
Coincidentally, most of the kids in this same crowd also have Honda Civics and the like with just about every sort of "racing mod" (their word) imaginable except the ones that would improve a car's performance or handling very much - $400 performance clutches w/ aluminum flywheels on a car that still has the original 1.2L engine and the like.
Your computer is probably a Dell or an e-Machine or some other computer that is designed to last the 18 months it's going to take for Intel to make you realize that your old P3-700 is way too slow for the processor intensive web browsing and Quickening that you do and you need to buy a new Pentium 7 20ghz to get the latest Multimedia Experience.
The 5+ computers already in your car, on the other hand, probably have never given you a problem. Most people don't even know they're there, because they are designed to last longer. Similarly, the computers on these airplanes would (hopefully) be made to last, just like the computers that are necessary to keep most modern military jets from crashing into the ground and are reliable enough for combat use.
What people do not realize is that people have become multi-tasking capable.
Next you'll be trying to tell me that Windows 3.1 is multi-tasking capable.
That joke is always redundant. Always.
Well, technically you can separate the aluminum from the plastic, but no consumer is going to take the time to do that - most people are still too lazy to take the screw caps off their plastic pop bottles before throwing them in the bin - and there is no way that it will be financially feasible for recycling companies to separate the aluminum from plastic themselves.
Personally, this idea pisses me off enough to keep me from purchasing ever again from companies that bottle their beverages in these cans.
granted, I haven't RTFA, but the headline was GNU/Linux. Granted, GNU/Linux is usually used to refer to Linux alone, but I think it is fair to say that most of this stuff does count for the GNU part, which can be run on any unix.
The crew would already be on a managed diet, so it wouldn't really be any tougher on them to be vegetarian or non-vegetarian. Given the nature of some of the health-benefits/disadvantages of both omnivorous and vegetarian diets, I think the issue is up in the air as to which one would be better for astronauts on a long mission, although at present I think serving meat would be a good idea for morale reasons.
Lentils will help make you fart more, and that will cause problems with maintaining breathable air on a long space mission, but the smell thing won't be as much of a problem since lentils don't make your farts stinky. A burger is much worse for doing that.
I would like to say that this article just halved the chances that I ever eat meat again in my life.
yuck
I gotta admit, though, when I read about these I was tempted by the idea of creating a Bootable Business Card Trojan Horse and passing it out to the suits who piss me off at carreer fairs. If it could cause hardware failures, too, that would make it even better =D
Sometime in the area of 2000-2001 you should have realized that all the people who make lots of money at computers spent all their time taking courses like "fool the shit out of people 101" and didn't bother to take a single CS course. CS courses are for employees, who are coincidentally a large cross-section of the people they were fooling the shit out of.
When I first got into playing the original Diablo online, I was having a hard time at the game. People kept killing me. Then I bougt Godly Plate of the Whales on eBay for $30,000. Now I have no home and I still suck at Diablo.
True, that's the case for most everyone. Hypnosis just takes the same mechanism for implanting memories and amplifies its power.
You can read courtroom transcripts of eyewitness testimonies and regularly see this method in action.
Check any of the recent research on hypnosis, and you'll find that there is no way whatsoever to tell the difference between a recovered memory and an implanted memory produced while under hypnosis. While you are in a state of hypnosis, you are in a state where you have two things working against you - one, you are open to suggestion, and two, the mechanism for tagging the difference between things you remember and things you imagined stops working properly.
For a quick read-up, check this link from the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's website.
A quick read of almost any post-mortem on the whole "multiple personality disorder" craze of several years ago should also raise your skepticism. My roommate's own mother had her shrink succeed in giving her a case of dissociative identity disorder that she did not have before she started seeing this 'doctor' through a combination of hypnosis and directed questioning.
And don't think the professional hypnotists are going to give you an entirely truthful explanation of the benefits and risks of what they do - the fact of the matter is, if they admitted the truth, they would not only be jobless, but would be opening themselves to all sorts of malpractise suits. Asking a hypnotist if hypnotism works is a bit like asking a door-to-door vaccum cleaner salesman if his product really works.
I have a feeling those sites that say burn-in isn't a major problem anymore meant to say that monitors are far less susceptible to the problem nowadays, especially since most of them now go into a standby mode if you don't use your computer for a given amoutn of time.
If your monitor doesn't auto-off and you leave your computer running all day with no screensaver or a screensaver that leaves regions of pixels unchanged (such as the Seti@home client), you can still develop burn-in over time.
The best solution is to just turn your monitor off when you aren't using your computer - not only does it avoid burn-in, but monitors suck a whole lot of electricity, so you will also save money on electricty and be helping to not destroy the planet so quickly, too.
I doubt the handheld supplies power to the cradle - it will either come from a dedicated power source or through the serial/USB connection to the PC. The USB master in the cradle would be useless while this device is being carried around.
Put money into supporting artists signed with non-RIAA labels, and support non-MPAA movies. No, it won't hurt the RIAA or MPAA directly, but it financially supports these companies, and makes them a more feasible choice for artists. If more and more artists are able to work for more scrupulous record labels and film studios, we will begin to have more choices, and be able to purchase more and more stuff that isn't distributed through the **AA.
Take a look at websites like www.cdbaby.com that sell stuff by independent artists, you might be surprised at the quality of stuff they distribute.
Granted, I'm on a shared stack of T1s, but it seems to me that once you get into the broadband range the limiting factor on a connection's bandwidth is often the server on the other end, not your computer. . .
I think the story in the article really illustrates one of the most important things about giving the customers what they want quite beautifully.
Don't let the customer just hand you requirements. By virtue of the fact that they are coming to your firm for help, it is fairly safe to assume that they aren't experts on the kind of product you are producing for them. Because of this, they probably don't know enough jargon or have enough knowledge to translate all their ultimate goals into a good list of requirements.
When the customer says, "this product also has to do foo," make absolutely sure you ask them why they want it to do foo and what place activity foo has in the process of getting whatever productive work they want out of the software to be done.
Another classic example: professor goes to a computer lab attendant with a few sheets of paper, and asks them to be scanned. The student scans them and hands them to the professor as Photoshop images. The professor takes them back to her computer & tries to load them up, but doesn't have photoshop, so she can't load them. She calls the help desk, & the helpdesk helps her install photoshop.
Then she complains that she can't edit the text in the images, and ends up going through a crash course on editing images on Photoshop. Only after all of this happens does someone get around to realizing that since the papers were all text documents, she probably wanted them run through OCR and handed to her as Word documents, not image files.
Convolutional neural nets are really quite simple and easy to implement and train. Granted, it probably isn't a problem with regular spammers, but I bet students from MIT and CMU would have the gumption to get around to doing it again.
Don't forget, though. These articles are aimed at the kinds of people who don't understand that computers are nothing more than machines that follow instructions, and are no smarter than the instructions given to them.
The semicoherent and coherent articles that talk about the capabilities of algorithms rather than the machines they run on are all in the research journals.
Whoever said that computers can't handle superposition has never heard of convolutional neural networks.
Really, comparing human intelligence to computer intelligence doesn't seem like a good idea unless we're going to define what kind of computer intelligence it is.
Neural computing really screws the comparison up - the kinds of computing that normal computers are good for are quite different from the kinds of computing that neural nets are well suited to. Furthermore, different neural net architectures make for different capabilities - the tasks a feedforward network are best suited to are very different from the tasks a bayesian network are best suited to.
Take a look at this page for a good run-though of the different kinds of nets.
Bought by young nerds, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?