No, using one kind of processor to do something that was always done on another kind of processor is not obvious.
Anyway I have a patent that covers all this. It's for "a system that does something old that everybody's been doing for decades and that other people have invented and developed, 'cept on new stuff that someone else makes."
Well, it would be nice if the MS patent covered only truly innovative junk. It IS obvious that GPUs that are applicable to a wide range of tasks would be used for those tasks. It would be nice if anything that people developed on their own was fair game, and if MS stole^H^H^H^H^Hinvented something truly innovative that others wouldn't come up with, then the others would have to stick to their own solutions. I guess I'm saying it would be nice if the patent system were rational.
A 1 billion dollar fine is absurd. First, there's no way he can ever pay it.
It's common to be penalized more than you can pay. It sets a precedent. Such things can also be used to "send a message" to others: Do this, and it's not going to be financially beneficial. If an organization with a lot more money decided to do this, it would hurt.
It's like RIAA's scare tactics, which I think are despicable, but in this case I think it's okay to bankrupt someone who is making money off of scamming a lot of people, and I think it's okay to scare off people who would intentionally plan to harm others.
Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths...
Oh come on... it's ONLY their bone anchoring glue. I mean, do we even need that? They could have died from anything. Loose bone syndrome. Wandering pelvis. Smoking. Boneitis. All of these are natural causes.
Thank you for converting the video into a super-low bitrate text-only video format. I'd still like to see a higher-bitrate video, cuz I think a lot of the details have been lost in compression.
sold right now. they aren't? well, they won't be under any trees, then.
Well, he didn't say you'd have them under your trees by Christmas, or even that you could line up (just kidding) to buy them Christmas day. He said you'd see them.
I think he means there will be youtube videos that aren't so bad they need to be pulled, by Christmas.
Hawking famously lost a bet regarding information loss in black holes.
I'm willing to bet that he's wrong on this too. In fact, I'll bet him that we'll have an accepted ToE within 5 years. I'll stake my reputation on it. It won't be complete, but it will unify relativity and quantum mechanics.
I say this because 1. I've seen glimpses of it, and 2. as far as I know, Hawking has a flawless record of losing bets.
Its great for a beta.. just keep in mind it will crash and act up everyonce in a while.
Just every once in awhile? That's much better than their previous versions. I think their best previous version acts up at least every twice in awhile.
tl;dr but after point 2 it sounds like what you're saying is that you don't believe in the concept of predicting inexact outcomes, or that predictions are only "believable" if they are highly precise and accurate. If the next few years are hot will you switch to believing in global warming again?
If you only have beliefs about the past, then you'll (potentially) be right more than most people will, but it'll be too late for you to do anything about your present.
...except you're not speeding. If the government comes out and changes the speed limit in front of my house from 15 to 25, people going 25 are not speeding. If the government says you can go 90, it's not speeding.
Can I buy a pass to temporarily raise the legal blood alcohol limit? Can I buy a pass that changes the definition of premeditative homicide? Or oooh, what about genocide? Cuz I got some plans. It would probably be expensive, but man what a night that would be! Nevada's sitting on a goldmine here.
If it was me, I would make sure that every i was dotted and t was crossed. I would keep it damned quiet, and ask anyone I shared the data with to do the same. I would probably spend six months just running through it all again, and maybe once more after that.
I don't think so. If you can find something that big, other people can. Finding something that big and sitting on yer arse while someone else publishes, probably doesn't feel all that good. We all know this... we must have some primitive paranoia instinct that makes us sure that someone else knows. Even while you keep quiet and hide your data, you feel rushed because you don't know how long it will remain a secret. You can't even read slashdot because any headline sounding remotely related to your secret work makes your blood freeze.
This has happened to me!, but it also happens to crackpots. I've found that the main difference between crackpots and great discoverers is whether or not people listen (more so than whether or not you're right). More people are wrong (and think they're right) than right, and so people tend to assume you're wrong and not listen, and thus there are many many crackpots. Ironically, that makes it harder to find people who will listen, and so you have to shout louder and wider, which only makes you look more like a crackpot. There is probably some balance between getting the word out as quickly and widely as possible, while pretending to remain calm about your work.
I do know this though: doing earth-shaking work in high secrecy can drive you crazy, crackpot or not.
Yes, kids shouldn't be worrying themselves thinking about anything. I forbid my kids to think about the reality of life... about things like conflict or death, or foreigners. I forbid them to put themselves in other peoples shoes, or even think about what life is like for others or how others might think. I forbid them to feel fear or anger, or contemplate or problem-solve or role-play, or use their imaginations. It's tough sometimes... just last week I had to explain why Mr. Scraps was no longer around. I told them that Santa Claus needed him to be the official ruler of Chocolate Mushroom Land. Sometimes strict discipline is not enough to stop them thinking, but thank god for tv which is a real help. In a year one of them will be 18 and then he can decide for himself if he wants to think about things or not.
Same connotations? This thread is now movie and tv quotes where "fuck" and "kill" are interchanged.
God there's too much! I'll even pick just one movie... -----
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely fuck you in the morning.
I have some rope up here, but I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to fuck you. - That does put a damper on our relationship.
Fuck me quickly. - I would sooner destroy a stained glass window than an artist like yourself.
You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try to fuck each other like civilized people? - I could fuck you now.
So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape... after I fuck Count Rugen.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You fucked my father. Prepare to die.
Well see... I have this vague memory of reading that once... somewhere... maybe webster.com. But uh... someone must have edited the wiki for it, since.
Anyway I think I meant to say "figuratively" instead of "metaphorically", though I can't seem to find that either.
Or perhaps neither time nor space existed within the universe before the big bang, as the universe existed only in the form of a singularity, and the big bang was nothing but a particular way of observing this singularity, so that the universe still exists in its singularity form, on a scale so small we can't even comprehend it.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they have technology that's twice as advanced as the most advanced of their own technology.
And uh, can travel faster than the maximum possible speed too, like you said.
Was it obvious then?
No, using one kind of processor to do something that was always done on another kind of processor is not obvious.
Anyway I have a patent that covers all this. It's for "a system that does something old that everybody's been doing for decades and that other people have invented and developed, 'cept on new stuff that someone else makes."
Well, it would be nice if the MS patent covered only truly innovative junk. It IS obvious that GPUs that are applicable to a wide range of tasks would be used for those tasks. It would be nice if anything that people developed on their own was fair game, and if MS stole^H^H^H^H^Hinvented something truly innovative that others wouldn't come up with, then the others would have to stick to their own solutions. I guess I'm saying it would be nice if the patent system were rational.
Ah merde! I used google's translate thing to check what I wrote, and changed "allez" to "avez" on google but forgot to do it in slashdot.
I've exposed a Canadian National Secret: most of the country speaks, at best, high school French... and not very bien.
Sacre brun you got me. It would have been much more accurate if I said that "Albertans visiting Montreal might be heard to say..."
A 1 billion dollar fine is absurd. First, there's no way he can ever pay it.
It's common to be penalized more than you can pay. It sets a precedent. Such things can also be used to "send a message" to others: Do this, and it's not going to be financially beneficial. If an organization with a lot more money decided to do this, it would hurt.
It's like RIAA's scare tactics, which I think are despicable, but in this case I think it's okay to bankrupt someone who is making money off of scamming a lot of people, and I think it's okay to scare off people who would intentionally plan to harm others.
Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths ...
Oh come on... it's ONLY their bone anchoring glue. I mean, do we even need that? They could have died from anything. Loose bone syndrome. Wandering pelvis. Smoking. Boneitis. All of these are natural causes.
I thought you spelt it "bouillon"?
Ah oui, but jusque en Kebecke. Here en le Montreal we often say "Ehpardonez moi, allez vous un bouillon dolare? Non? Moi aussi."
Thank you for converting the video into a super-low bitrate text-only video format. I'd still like to see a higher-bitrate video, cuz I think a lot of the details have been lost in compression.
sold right now. they aren't? well, they won't be under any trees, then.
Well, he didn't say you'd have them under your trees by Christmas, or even that you could line up (just kidding) to buy them Christmas day. He said you'd see them.
I think he means there will be youtube videos that aren't so bad they need to be pulled, by Christmas.
Hawking famously lost a bet regarding information loss in black holes.
I'm willing to bet that he's wrong on this too. In fact, I'll bet him that we'll have an accepted ToE within 5 years. I'll stake my reputation on it. It won't be complete, but it will unify relativity and quantum mechanics.
I say this because 1. I've seen glimpses of it, and 2. as far as I know, Hawking has a flawless record of losing bets.
Its great for a beta.. just keep in mind it will crash and act up everyonce in a while.
Just every once in awhile? That's much better than their previous versions. I think their best previous version acts up at least every twice in awhile.
Anyway it's too late. I proclaim Microsoft dead.
I definitely like the idea of pirated hardware.
Maybe in the future you'll be able to download a Ferrari off TPB, and burn it onto a blank Hyundai.
Or randomize the encrypted data...
Either way, it sounds a bit too much like TEOTWAWKI in my mind.
tl;dr but after point 2 it sounds like what you're saying is that you don't believe in the concept of predicting inexact outcomes, or that predictions are only "believable" if they are highly precise and accurate. If the next few years are hot will you switch to believing in global warming again?
If you only have beliefs about the past, then you'll (potentially) be right more than most people will, but it'll be too late for you to do anything about your present.
Can I buy a pass to temporarily raise the legal blood alcohol limit? Can I buy a pass that changes the definition of premeditative homicide? Or oooh, what about genocide? Cuz I got some plans. It would probably be expensive, but man what a night that would be! Nevada's sitting on a goldmine here.
I wager my rear end could be made to fluoresce certain shades of red found in other parts of the galaxy given the right form of bombardment.
Mod parent up Hot!
If it was me, I would make sure that every i was dotted and t was crossed. I would keep it damned quiet, and ask anyone I shared the data with to do the same. I would probably spend six months just running through it all again, and maybe once more after that.
I don't think so. If you can find something that big, other people can. Finding something that big and sitting on yer arse while someone else publishes, probably doesn't feel all that good. We all know this... we must have some primitive paranoia instinct that makes us sure that someone else knows. Even while you keep quiet and hide your data, you feel rushed because you don't know how long it will remain a secret. You can't even read slashdot because any headline sounding remotely related to your secret work makes your blood freeze.
This has happened to me!, but it also happens to crackpots. I've found that the main difference between crackpots and great discoverers is whether or not people listen (more so than whether or not you're right). More people are wrong (and think they're right) than right, and so people tend to assume you're wrong and not listen, and thus there are many many crackpots. Ironically, that makes it harder to find people who will listen, and so you have to shout louder and wider, which only makes you look more like a crackpot. There is probably some balance between getting the word out as quickly and widely as possible, while pretending to remain calm about your work.
I do know this though: doing earth-shaking work in high secrecy can drive you crazy, crackpot or not.
Enchantments? iOS doesn't have that. Android rules.
Doesn't matter if iOS isn't enchanting because the devices themselves are magical.
One day, kids will be in awe reading fantasy novels about our golden age of computer junk.
let the adults think about it...
Yes, kids shouldn't be worrying themselves thinking about anything. I forbid my kids to think about the reality of life... about things like conflict or death, or foreigners. I forbid them to put themselves in other peoples shoes, or even think about what life is like for others or how others might think. I forbid them to feel fear or anger, or contemplate or problem-solve or role-play, or use their imaginations. It's tough sometimes... just last week I had to explain why Mr. Scraps was no longer around. I told them that Santa Claus needed him to be the official ruler of Chocolate Mushroom Land. Sometimes strict discipline is not enough to stop them thinking, but thank god for tv which is a real help. In a year one of them will be 18 and then he can decide for himself if he wants to think about things or not.
Same connotations? This thread is now movie and tv quotes where "fuck" and "kill" are interchanged.
God there's too much! I'll even pick just one movie...
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely fuck you in the morning.
I have some rope up here, but I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to fuck you.
- That does put a damper on our relationship.
Fuck me quickly.
- I would sooner destroy a stained glass window than an artist like yourself.
You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try to fuck each other like civilized people?
- I could fuck you now.
So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape... after I fuck Count Rugen.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You fucked my father. Prepare to die.
Uhm... That North Korea is a gay male, maybe?
Are they a top? Do they consider South Korea a bottom?
Thus, citation please.
Well see... I have this vague memory of reading that once... somewhere... maybe webster.com. But uh... someone must have edited the wiki for it, since.
Anyway I think I meant to say "figuratively" instead of "metaphorically", though I can't seem to find that either.
Anyway, I cite vague memory. Sorry.
Or perhaps neither time nor space existed within the universe before the big bang, as the universe existed only in the form of a singularity, and the big bang was nothing but a particular way of observing this singularity, so that the universe still exists in its singularity form, on a scale so small we can't even comprehend it.
Mod parent up 2 Interestons!