If Cisco doesn't want to invest in helping to bring the transition closer, then pressure should be brought to bear to show them the error of their ways.
Yeah, that's gonna happen. Q: "What does an 800-pound gorilla do?" A: "Whatever it wants."
Cisco would probably say that, given their market dominance, their ways are not erroneous.
Not just leading, but real "softball" questions. I'm surprised they didn't ask if he likes puppies.
These are the highest-moderated Slashdot comments, aren't they? Therefore, slashdotters want to ask softball questions. We get the government we deserve.
What I really don't understand though is why Postgres doesn't own more of the database market.
It's the market leader advantage combined with the network advantage. MySQL had it, and Postgres has been playing catch-up since. The obverse case of the "long tail" they talk about.
This is talking about retrieval of air craft. In other words, can we find a better way to stop a jet fighter that's at full thrust in case it misses the series of cables the tailhook is trying to snag.
Hmm... I'm thinking giant praying-mantis arms mounted on the prow of the ship with quick-release soft-landing foam. They reach out and catch the wings while filling the air with foam. That would be sweet.
Consider that robots cost money, the country with more economic power is likely to be the winner in such a conflict.
In robot vs. robot conflict, yeah, the richer country has an advantage. But what about a robot vs. soldier conflict? Is fielding a force of robots cheaper than fielding a force of soldiers? If it is cheaper to field soldiers, can the money saved be used to equip them better than the robots? (Especially if the robot force isn't upgraded regularly because of the expense.) Even if they aren't equipped better, would the soldiers have numerical superiority, enough for tactical or strategic advantage?
They manage to change to current date on the "calendar" icon.. so why not dynamic icons for weather?
That would be cool. But while the iPhone knows the current date, it has to look up the current weather. I'd rather not have it hit the network every time I push the home button.
Sure, but why in heaven's name would you want all the overhead of a Java web server just to show HTML pages that, aside from client-side includes, the web browser can show on its own without any help at all?
Things just still surprise me. Yesterday I got an email from one of the highest ranking people in our sales/marketing department. It was all very business and sort of what I'd expect, until the second to last line which was... "kthxbye".
I've done that, but just as a little joke or bit of whimsy.
Not all web pages are served from a host. What if you have CD documentation? For those cases, frames work great, but client-side includes would work too. But there has to be something, and I'm disappointed that there is nothing in HTML 5 for this case, afaict.
Their desires and passions will be dictated by us. If we want them to be pacifistic, we can program them to that effect, using a priority system.
What he's saying is, it might not be possible to program them that way. We may only be able to do strong AI such that it works like human minds. This means we can only give a priority system to robots to the exact extent that we can give a priority system to a human.
Meaning, as soon as the robot goes to college, he'll become a human-killing commie overlord.
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Here's an action item: leverage your value added intellectual capital to architect a new scenario.
Come on, man, you need at least 30 multi-syllabic words to get a proper eye-glaze going. You only had 11. It was really jarring when I hit the end; I actually had to wait for my eye-glaze to finish forming and dissolve before continuing to the next comment!
I'd like to see a video. All the time, I read fictional accounts of materials that "glow" black, or look so black they're unreal, like a hole in space. I'm thinking this material might look pretty much like that. So, I want to see how it responds to ambient light as it's tilted around, and what happens when you shine a flashlight on it.
Still, if even one photon in a hundred escapes, it can't be too black, now can it?
This is primarily the federal government telling states that unless their IDs meet a minimum level of anti-forgery protection...and are entered into a national database...
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Yeah, that's gonna happen. Q: "What does an 800-pound gorilla do?" A: "Whatever it wants."
Cisco would probably say that, given their market dominance, their ways are not erroneous.
Not just leading, but real "softball" questions. I'm surprised they didn't ask if he likes puppies.
These are the highest-moderated Slashdot comments, aren't they? Therefore, slashdotters want to ask softball questions. We get the government we deserve.
What I really don't understand though is why Postgres doesn't own more of the database market.
It's the market leader advantage combined with the network advantage. MySQL had it, and Postgres has been playing catch-up since. The obverse case of the "long tail" they talk about.
Hmm... I'm thinking giant praying-mantis arms mounted on the prow of the ship with quick-release soft-landing foam. They reach out and catch the wings while filling the air with foam. That would be sweet.
This flashlight had better make a sound like "bwwOOOWWWWMMMmmmm" when you turn it on.
In robot vs. robot conflict, yeah, the richer country has an advantage. But what about a robot vs. soldier conflict? Is fielding a force of robots cheaper than fielding a force of soldiers? If it is cheaper to field soldiers, can the money saved be used to equip them better than the robots? (Especially if the robot force isn't upgraded regularly because of the expense.) Even if they aren't equipped better, would the soldiers have numerical superiority, enough for tactical or strategic advantage?
"Rise of the Roombas," as portrayed by Sluggy Freelance.
That would be cool. But while the iPhone knows the current date, it has to look up the current weather. I'd rather not have it hit the network every time I push the home button.
Sure, but why in heaven's name would you want all the overhead of a Java web server just to show HTML pages that, aside from client-side includes, the web browser can show on its own without any help at all?
You're talking to art historians. They care about historical context, but I don't. What about the study of art without the history?
Things just still surprise me. Yesterday I got an email from one of the highest ranking people in our sales/marketing department. It was all very business and sort of what I'd expect, until the second to last line which was... "kthxbye".
I've done that, but just as a little joke or bit of whimsy.
Not all web pages are served from a host. What if you have CD documentation? For those cases, frames work great, but client-side includes would work too. But there has to be something, and I'm disappointed that there is nothing in HTML 5 for this case, afaict.
Wouldn't it be a directed, cyclic graph? All connections only go in one direction: forward through time.
What he's saying is, it might not be possible to program them that way. We may only be able to do strong AI such that it works like human minds. This means we can only give a priority system to robots to the exact extent that we can give a priority system to a human.
Meaning, as soon as the robot goes to college, he'll become a human-killing commie overlord.
Ow! It hurtss uss my precious!
Come on, man, you need at least 30 multi-syllabic words to get a proper eye-glaze going. You only had 11. It was really jarring when I hit the end; I actually had to wait for my eye-glaze to finish forming and dissolve before continuing to the next comment!
Thanks for the detailed information, I was so clueless about this area, a little less so now !
So, you understand more and have some insight now?
I'd like to see a video. All the time, I read fictional accounts of materials that "glow" black, or look so black they're unreal, like a hole in space. I'm thinking this material might look pretty much like that. So, I want to see how it responds to ambient light as it's tilted around, and what happens when you shine a flashlight on it.
Still, if even one photon in a hundred escapes, it can't be too black, now can it?
OMG PONIES!!!
This is primarily the federal government telling states that unless their IDs meet a minimum level of anti-forgery protection ...and are entered into a national database...
People keep leaving that part out.
Fluorescent, bioluminescent, phosphorescent...
To a layman, they all mean "glowy." The differences are technical.
The summary says "a redshift of 6". Six what? Percent, meters, billion years, parsecs?
I'm the green ones.
RTFA
Apple is a benevolent dictator. Microsoft is an conniving mafioso.