After almost 50 years of research into artificial intelligence what do we have to show for it? A vacuum that can do a random walk. How pathetic.
The average set of automobile brakes has more
brains than Roomba. For anyone who has seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, the future was supposed to be more interesting than this.
They say that all the necessary technical drawings have now been completed, and all will be ready for the construction work to begin. The power plant should be up and running by 2030.
I wonder how many celebrity rocket rides it will take to fund this venture.
The Ariane V crashed not due to the rocket itself being unreliable but due to human error
The most recent heavy lift Ariane V ECA suffered a burn through in its main engine during ascent. Not good. Other Ariane V's have failed due to software and guidance problems. Ariane V has suffered 5 failures in 14 flights, the worst record for a
rocket I know of. The Atlas V and Delta 4 both have perfect records and are being passed up.
The 10-page report released Thursday outlined three options for NASA to choose from to achieve a transition from Hubble to the almost $1 billion James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor to Hubble currently scheduled to launch in about 2011, aboard a European Ariane 5 booster.
Why would NASA (or the US for that matter) allow such an expensive and high profile mission to fly on the worlds most unreliable rocket, when better domestic alternatives are available?
I don't take much interest in applying silly M$ patches. The IT department that forces me to use Windows can do that. I am content to let the virus rage. The more Windows TCO rises the closer I am to the nirvana of Lignux at work.
I wonder if information markets could cure cancer better then doctors. I wonder if ivnestors could perform brain surgery better then doctors. I wonder it investors could come up better theories in physics and actual pysicists.
This is a very interesting comment which only bolsters my argument.
In the book The Emperor's New Mind, mathematician/physicist Roger Penrose surveys a range of physical theories judging their usefulness, durability, and influence in the world. Among those he lists as "superb" are Newtonian Mechanics, General Relativity, and Quantum Electodynamics. Others like Quantum Chromodynamics (the Standard Model) are "provisional". Still others like string theory, m-brane theory... he considers "tentative". There is no shortage of brilliant advocates for these tentative theories. If all of the tentative theories can't be right, how do we decide which one are worth pursuing? Scientific communities are like any other communities with politics, fashions, and fads which can slow the acceptance of the best ideas. I would argue that if informed physicists had the opportunity to register their advocacy for ideas via a financial market rather than through physics political structure, meritorious
ideas would rise to the forefront faster. A smart physicist should do better than dumb businessmen in such a market. The same argument can be made for new medical proceedures or, even better, new drugs.
I wonder if the Taliban will ever manage to come around and depose the Bush administration- after all, they were responsible for killing far more than 3000 Afghan citizens, far more than 3000 "innocent civillians" with nothing to do with terrorism. But they deserved it, eh?
Each side feels heartfelt and righteous indignation about the transgressions with the other. Each is willing to do violence to the other. We (US) are too the point where our dispute with the Taliban and Al-Qaida will be decided on the battlefield. I don't care much anymore to debate Al-Qaida's point of view. I just want them gone.
By definition, this isn't a flawed business model. SCO is making incredible amounts of cash. It's unethical, but since when did big businessmen care about ethics when they have a money printing press like this?
It is more than unethical, it is illegal for SCO insiders to be trading stocks after making false or misleading statements. Are you listening SEC? Oh, sorry, you're already too busy saving us from Martha Stewart.
I did mean 100,000 feet on Earth. The point remains. You have 3500 feet of altitude margin above the Martian planetary mean. Mars topography varies by at least 150,000 feet (bottom of Hellas basin to the top of Olympus Mons). Furthermore, Martian surface pressure is highly seasonal. In southern hemisphere winter, surface pressure drops a further 40% because of the condensation of CO2. Your aircraft would be occupied with collision avoidance much more than exploration.
There is no margin. Gliders work poorly in thin air. Sorry for hitting you with a clue stick so early in the morning.
Afghanistan is not a significant oil producer. It has no significant industry other than muslim fanaticism, misery, and heroin. The US deposed the Taliban because they harbored an enemy responsible for the killing of over 3000 of our citizens. The US is at war and its enemy is in Afghanistan
George Soros (top investment guy who once made a billion in a day) has said that the markets represent wishes rather than reality. This is also why that "buy terrorist stock" thing from the DoD was complete rubbish.
The terrorist stock thing is not rubbish. The idea is that it is a way to attach financial risk and reward to being able to predict future events. It is well known that the commodity markets do a better job of predicting future weather patterns than pointy head weathermen who have nothing at stake. One might contend running such a market is not the DoD's role, and that it should run in the private sector.
Perhaps no one told you. The surface pressure on Mars is equal to that at 100,000 feet on Mars. I have never seen gliders fly that high. Might be a better idea on Venus.
It is good to know that the same people that peppered Mars' south pole with spacecraft debris will be doing the same in the north! There is a place for them on the shuttle management team.
I have a suggestion. Use metric units this time.
The enemies of freedom were at it again last night. On Kudlow and Kramer on CNBC some analyst hack mentioned Linux's "IP problems" in a Microsoft story. I am afraid that the SCO suit is having its intended affect by negatively influencing public opinion and support by business and analysts. By proxy with SCO, Microsoft is accomplishing what it could not do alone in creating Linux FUD.
By the way the/. crowd has ridiculed Stallman in the past about making contributors sign legal disclosure forms for FSF programs. What do you say now, fools? Had Linus and his open source buddies been half as vigilant about the source of code contibutions, this issue would not exist.
Doesn't our own Colorado River now disappear in the sand rather than flowing into the Gulf of California as it once did, as a result of so many people tapping its water?
Yes, but it does so just over the border in Mexico, so no one cares. The Colorado delta is a wasteland rivaling the Aral Sea.
Why should he? The guy is a charlatan. Miguel bailed out of Gnome after the first pre-alpha. Now he is trying to cash out of Ximian before Mono is half done.
I have heard stuff like this before in wrttings by Einstein, Steven Hawking, Leon Lederman and others who, in their hubris, assert that humankind is on the "brink" of having a final physical theory of everything. Yet fundemental understanding seems to receed.
The discovery of dark matter in the last decade is a good example. Suddenly a high percentage of the universe is made up of matter we currently can't sense and for which there is no theoretical understanding. And now there is an unknown fifth physical (repulsive) force that seems to overwhelm gravity at cosmic distances.
Do you think there is a bottom of the barrel for physical theory?
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After almost 50 years of research into artificial intelligence what do we have to show for it? A vacuum that can do a random walk. How pathetic. The average set of automobile brakes has more brains than Roomba. For anyone who has seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, the future was supposed to be more interesting than this.
Is that related to Lisp?
I wonder how many celebrity rocket rides it will take to fund this venture.
The most recent heavy lift Ariane V ECA suffered a burn through in its main engine during ascent. Not good. Other Ariane V's have failed due to software and guidance problems. Ariane V has suffered 5 failures in 14 flights, the worst record for a rocket I know of. The Atlas V and Delta 4 both have perfect records and are being passed up.
The full story is also at:
This caught my eye:
The 10-page report released Thursday outlined three options for NASA to choose from to achieve a transition from Hubble to the almost $1 billion James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor to Hubble currently scheduled to launch in about 2011, aboard a European Ariane 5 booster.Why would NASA (or the US for that matter) allow such an expensive and high profile mission to fly on the worlds most unreliable rocket, when better domestic alternatives are available?
The German V1, which first flew in the late 1930's, used pulse detonation. At the time it was considered to be the future of aviation
Good news. This will provide an ample new area for whale hunting.
I don't take much interest in applying silly M$ patches. The IT department that forces me to use Windows can do that. I am content to let the virus rage. The more Windows TCO rises the closer I am to the nirvana of Lignux at work.
This story is not news worthy at all. I like Anandtech, but I think /. readers would be much more interested in their motherboard roundups.
This is a very interesting comment which only bolsters my argument. In the book The Emperor's New Mind, mathematician/physicist Roger Penrose surveys a range of physical theories judging their usefulness, durability, and influence in the world. Among those he lists as "superb" are Newtonian Mechanics, General Relativity, and Quantum Electodynamics. Others like Quantum Chromodynamics (the Standard Model) are "provisional". Still others like string theory, m-brane theory... he considers "tentative". There is no shortage of brilliant advocates for these tentative theories. If all of the tentative theories can't be right, how do we decide which one are worth pursuing? Scientific communities are like any other communities with politics, fashions, and fads which can slow the acceptance of the best ideas. I would argue that if informed physicists had the opportunity to register their advocacy for ideas via a financial market rather than through physics political structure, meritorious ideas would rise to the forefront faster. A smart physicist should do better than dumb businessmen in such a market. The same argument can be made for new medical proceedures or, even better, new drugs.
Each side feels heartfelt and righteous indignation about the transgressions with the other. Each is willing to do violence to the other. We (US) are too the point where our dispute with the Taliban and Al-Qaida will be decided on the battlefield. I don't care much anymore to debate Al-Qaida's point of view. I just want them gone.
It is more than unethical, it is illegal for SCO insiders to be trading stocks after making false or misleading statements. Are you listening SEC? Oh, sorry, you're already too busy saving us from Martha Stewart.
I did mean 100,000 feet on Earth. The point remains. You have 3500 feet of altitude margin above the Martian planetary mean. Mars topography varies by at least 150,000 feet (bottom of Hellas basin to the top of Olympus Mons). Furthermore, Martian surface pressure is highly seasonal. In southern hemisphere winter, surface pressure drops a further 40% because of the condensation of CO2. Your aircraft would be occupied with collision avoidance much more than exploration. There is no margin. Gliders work poorly in thin air. Sorry for hitting you with a clue stick so early in the morning.
Just another muzzy diatribe by the ecoliberals who would have us all using stone knives and bear skins.
Afghanistan is not a significant oil producer. It has no significant industry other than muslim fanaticism, misery, and heroin. The US deposed the Taliban because they harbored an enemy responsible for the killing of over 3000 of our citizens. The US is at war and its enemy is in Afghanistan
That he has admitted guilt is one indicator. His trips to Afghanistan are another. Do you think he was sight seeing?
The terrorist stock thing is not rubbish. The idea is that it is a way to attach financial risk and reward to being able to predict future events. It is well known that the commodity markets do a better job of predicting future weather patterns than pointy head weathermen who have nothing at stake. One might contend running such a market is not the DoD's role, and that it should run in the private sector.
Perhaps no one told you. The surface pressure on Mars is equal to that at 100,000 feet on Mars. I have never seen gliders fly that high. Might be a better idea on Venus.
It is good to know that the same people that peppered Mars' south pole with spacecraft debris will be doing the same in the north! There is a place for them on the shuttle management team. I have a suggestion. Use metric units this time.
The enemies of freedom were at it again last night. On Kudlow and Kramer on CNBC some analyst hack mentioned Linux's "IP problems" in a Microsoft story. I am afraid that the SCO suit is having its intended affect by negatively influencing public opinion and support by business and analysts. By proxy with SCO, Microsoft is accomplishing what it could not do alone in creating Linux FUD.
By the way the /. crowd has ridiculed Stallman in the past about making contributors sign legal disclosure forms for FSF programs. What do you say now, fools? Had Linus and his open source buddies been half as vigilant about the source of code contibutions, this issue would not exist.
Anandtech has had a similar piece online since last week.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1841Neither of these stories is /. worthy. Must be a slow day for FSF or Microsoft bashing.
Yes, but it does so just over the border in Mexico, so no one cares. The Colorado delta is a wasteland rivaling the Aral Sea.
Why should he? The guy is a charlatan. Miguel bailed out of Gnome after the first pre-alpha. Now he is trying to cash out of Ximian before Mono is half done.
I have heard stuff like this before in wrttings by Einstein, Steven Hawking, Leon Lederman and others who, in their hubris, assert that humankind is on the "brink" of having a final physical theory of everything. Yet fundemental understanding seems to receed.
The discovery of dark matter in the last decade is a good example. Suddenly a high percentage of the universe is made up of matter we currently can't sense and for which there is no theoretical understanding. And now there is an unknown fifth physical (repulsive) force that seems to overwhelm gravity at cosmic distances.
Do you think there is a bottom of the barrel for physical theory?
[ BSDHead #3] Theo is a nazi, NetBSD runs on too many machines. Lets start a fork!