No, no, he's just a standard troll, copy-pasted the text from somewhere and changed a few names;) Hardly any effort at all. Googling for some of the phrases from that text turns up more copies, along with some other... educational websites. If you're into that sort of thing.
Naw, I'm not drooling, so please don't speak for me. In fact, the resolution leaves me distinctly unimpressed, given the size of the beast. The only wow-factor is the curved form, but I'm not yet sure how much, if at all, that will improve gaming experience. Not sure it's useful for working at all, as others have pointed out. Also, if you need screen estate, it's probably cheaper to put 3 1920x1200 monitors or so next to each other.
Well, that's an odd number, what's the motivation behind it? I can see that 832 = 512 + 256 + 64 = 2^9 + 2^8 + 2^6, but I still fail to see the logic there.
That's no intro, that's text ripped directly from TFA - which is almost worse in a way. As for AGW, well, use your brain and have an educated guess. What's on everybody's mind these days? That's right, Global Warming. And what's the big debate around this? Right again, whether or not we're responsible for it, i.e. whether or not it's Anthromorphic.
and yes, comparably equipped PCs and Macs are comparably priced when you don't build it yourself
Bullshit. Man, it really gets to me every time I hear that.
Right, so let's do a quick comparison, done right this evening, just for you. In the White Corner, the top-of-the-range iMac (chosen because that one is closest to the hardware I'd be looking for if I were buying). In the other corner, a Packard Bell IPower 8620, chosen because PcWorld was the first shop to spring to my mind where Joe Average might go and shop.
Graphics:
Mac: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory Pc: 512MB 2X Nvidia Geforce 8600 GS Graphics
Monitor: Mac: 24 Inch glossy widescreen
Pc: 22 Inch LG Widescreen Monitor
Price (inc vat):
Mac: £1459 Pc: £999
So, for 400 pounds less, you get a much more powerful machine if you buy a Pc over a Mac! Granted, the monitor is smaller, but after all you have 450 Pounds left over in your budget, so why not treat yourself to something like the 24" Hyundai W240D for £351.33 (had to choose Aria because Pc World doesn't have 24 inch monitors over £300, but obviously with 400 quid you can find yourself many other shiny monitors). You now have a machine which significantly outperforms the Mac, a spare 22inch TFT monitor and 100 quid left in the wallet. Now go away and stop telling me that the Macs are similarly priced to equivalent PCs.
if I'm really missing the boat that badly I want to jump on board before it's too late!
The beauty is, it'll never be too late for you;) Once the Prophecy is fulfilled and the world is one with the Kernel, you can just grab the torrent and join the party whenever you feel you're ready.
Well, that's what the simulation would like you to believe of course;) In fact, space is very small. It contains your brain, basically. The rest is just information we feed into your sensory organs.
Your house doesn't exist, that was programmed for you by the Lifestyle Engineering Team. Those celebs you fantasise over? Pure fantasy too, thanks to our brilliant Entertainment Team (Shouts to John, Steve and Katie! If you read this, excellent work with the latest Britney Spears gossip. Everyone here at Simulation Control is having a great laugh!).
Oh, and a word of advice, never spontaneously travel to Africa or anywhere unexpected, really. It's just that we haven't really built any environments not in your vicinity in any level of detail, so unless you give us enough advance notice (like booking at least 2 weeks in advance), we'll have to call the entire Environment Engineering team in and I can guarantee you, they will not be pleased. The previous brain we designed and plugged into our simulations spontaneusly decided to go to Belgium. We had to blow its plane up over the Atlantic since there is simply no way anyone can program Bruges in 8 hours.
All computers ultimately reduce to the Turing Machine.
And you can prove this, of course. Let's rephrase this to be more realistic and correct: All currently known computers can ultimately be related to the classical Turing Machine
That being said, your general argument is of course an allusion to von Neumann's quote "Anyone attempting to produce random numbers by purely arithmetic means is, of course, in a state of sin." - saying basically that since the universe contains true randomness, it cannot be the product of a calculation. This is a fallacy, since you're making assumptions on the calculations and computations that can be performed in the world simulating our Universe ("their computational limits are the same as ours"), but you have no way of supporting that assumption. None of what holds true for our Universe might even apply out there. So no, you cannot test (better: falsify) the hypothesis this way.
It's a no to the Ideapad from me as well, though - but for a different reason: the 15 inch one has the 1280x800 resolution my 4 year old laptop has - and that is one thing I really want to upgrade with my next purchase. And no, I don't want a 17 inch laptop, thanks very much.
Here we have a vaccine which prevents you from getting high on cocaine. My first thought was "Interesting". My second was "Who would actually want it?" If I'm not a coke user, I won't need it. If I am a coke user, I won't want it. So TFA says it's for people who try to give up:
"At some point, most users will give in to temptation and relapse, but those for whom the vaccine is effective won't get high and will lose interest."
Well, fair enough, but I'm not sure it will do them any good.
From what I understand about drug addiction and attempts to kick the habit, you won't just "lose interest", you'll be going through living hell for quite a while - your body is looking for something you're not giving it, it's going to be pretty mad at you. This is why people relapse - they remember the shiny happy times, ignore that bad bits about those times and it all looks so much better than what they're in at the moment, so they go back to their drug.
If you use this vaccine, then that becomes impossible, you burn that bridge. But that doesn't remove the desire to be back on drugs, it just removes your favourite one from the list of possibilities. There's still plenty of others around and I think it's pretty safe to say that people who were going to relapse anyway will do so with or without the vaccine - the only thing that will change is the drug they'll use. So that'll be a statistic to look for: What percentage of people trying to give up Cocaine on this vaccine will end up on another drug? Compare this to a control group of people not on vaccine ending up going back to cocaine.
what happens when I display a fear microexpression when I'm asked if I have any bomb? [...] So yes, when I get a grilling from a security agent, he's going to see fear. And the fact I now know (s)he's looking for it will make it even more likely.
Yeah, I was wondering along the same lines. But I think there's more to it than just a "fear microexpression". I see it this way: It's pretty normal for anyone to be anxious when asked by an intimidating person to "please step into this office for a moment" - and if security guards are really trained in reading other people, then that would be lesson one: people are naturally afraid of you. So I guess they'll be looking for a fear that deviates from the norm - people being too cool, shitting their pants too much or whatever other subtleties there are. You will probably be fine.
any impact probably will not be observed (by human eyes, anyways) because it will impact Mars where there are no instruments.
It says no such thing in the press release you linked to. Regarding instruments, all it says is:
The zone of potential impact on the surface of Mars is approximately 800 km wide, and sweeps across the Martian equator from southwest to northeast, crossing the equator at roughly 30 deg W longitude. The MER Opportunity rover is close to the southern edge of this possible impact zone but clearly outside it.
Which I would assume addresses the concern that any of our expensive equipment over there may get vaporised rather than that of a possible observation of the impact. Regarding possible observation, it says:
When it closes in on Mars, it will approach from the day side, and would then be very difficult to observe from any of the spacecraft on or around Mars.
So any difficulties of observation are due to daylight rather than the absence of instruments. Note, however, that this merely refers to the observation of its approach, but not of the impact itself.
ill informed people will debate endlessly if vacuum tubes are better than transistors, if analog is better than digital, if lossless compression is better than lossy.
You make it sound so bad.
Vacuum v transistors is a legitimate debate since it is essentially perceived sound quality v actual sound quality.
Analog v digital is indeed ill informed. It confuses the type of information (analog v digital) and the medium (degradable (vinyl, tape) v almost non-degradable (CD) ) - you make the same mistake in your remaining argument. Find a way to stick analog information on a medium that doesn't get worn out by use and you have a winner.
I completely fail to see how anyone can even make an argument for lossy compression in lossless v lossy. Unless it's about disk space, but that's not really an issue anymore these days, is it?
one thing I'm sure of is that if a CD copy of an analog recording is better than an analog copy of the same recording you cannot say digital sound is inferior
Logical fallacy: you can make no such statement until you (1) know exactly how the copy to CD (and the copy to an analog medium) was made and (2) can guarantee that the players for the different media are of exactly the same quality. Even though the source material is the same, both copies may differ in quality, either intrinsically, or simply because your CD Player is better than your turntable.
What the design tells you about the designer...
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Q: How can you tell the cave was designed by a geek?
A: All seats are single-seaters - there is no comfy cuddling-with-significant-other possibility;)
As such, while absolute zero is just that... absolute (in that no heat is no heat under all conceivable reference points), "absolute heat" almost certainly does not uniformly exist
Yeah, agreed, but this is just semantics. It'd be more correct I think to talk of the 'highest possible' temperature as opposed to the "absolute" hot. And I see no reason why that should not exist - no infinity in this Universe;)
Gotta learn to click preview instead of submit... before someone starts flaming, that should really read "two cores capable of running 32bit applications than to one capable of running 64bit applications".
The address space you'd normally use to address memory beyond 3.5gigs (or thereabouts) is reassigned for talking to other stuff. It's a simple 32bit limitation - can't only be talking to the RAM after all. As others have pointed out throughout this thread, the problem does not exist in 64bit architectures.
5 years ago, nobody would have thought that we'd run into this problem at all. Remember those times? Everybody and their mum was just about getting ready to jump onto the 64Bit bandwagon with AMD charging in front. And then, while nobody (especially not AMD) was paying attention, we kinda veered off-course into a multi-core world instead and all of a sudden, people stopped caring about 64bit. After all, you had a larger net performance gain from upgrading to 2 32Bit cores than to one 64Bit one. And now, we're finally running out of address space.
Never mind that, just wait till you see the lights in the windscreen wipers and under the car;) Also, the soundtrack of the movie will be made entirely by 50 cent.
To be really pedantic, the lack of "the" or "a";) An article would be required to turn your collection of words into something that is a single unit within a sentence, especially since you're using the singular. As you presented it, your assumption seemed to be "a phrase is a collection of words that is not a proper sentence" and that is wrong, at least from a linguist's perspective.
Most would love to see Ian Holm as Bilbo for continuity.
Shouldn't that be "Most would love not to see Ian Holm (fantastic as he may have been) as Bilbo for continuity"? From what I remember, the Bilbo in the Hobbit is 60 years younger than the Bilbo in LOTR, so for continuity it might be better to take a much younger actor than Ian Holm. Elijah Wood maybe, with different makeup? Similar enough to Frodo so everyone can see they're related but different enough so everyone can see they're not the same?
Don't go looking too far for a non-Pythagorean proof of the law of cosines;) I told you in the first post that there is a vector proof and I cheated in the second post by starting with Al-Kashi so the proof would only take two lines if you wrote it down. But Al Kashi's theorem itself can be proven rather simply using vectors (hint: more precisely, by taking a good look at the definition of one of the operations that can be applied to vectors). I'll let you think about it:)
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No, no, he's just a standard troll, copy-pasted the text from somewhere and changed a few names ;) Hardly any effort at all. Googling for some of the phrases from that text turns up more copies, along with some other... educational websites. If you're into that sort of thing.
Naw, I'm not drooling, so please don't speak for me. In fact, the resolution leaves me distinctly unimpressed, given the size of the beast. The only wow-factor is the curved form, but I'm not yet sure how much, if at all, that will improve gaming experience. Not sure it's useful for working at all, as others have pointed out. Also, if you need screen estate, it's probably cheaper to put 3 1920x1200 monitors or so next to each other.
Well, that's an odd number, what's the motivation behind it? I can see that 832 = 512 + 256 + 64 = 2^9 + 2^8 + 2^6, but I still fail to see the logic there.
Because vi is anything but spartan - Spartans use ed ;)
That's no intro, that's text ripped directly from TFA - which is almost worse in a way. As for AGW, well, use your brain and have an educated guess. What's on everybody's mind these days? That's right, Global Warming. And what's the big debate around this? Right again, whether or not we're responsible for it, i.e. whether or not it's Anthromorphic.
How do they compare?
CPU:
Mac: 2.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Extreme
Pc: 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Quad (Q6600)
Memory:
2GB each (Tie)
Hard Disk:
500GB each (Tie)
Graphics:
Mac: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory
Pc: 512MB 2X Nvidia Geforce 8600 GS Graphics
Monitor:
Mac: 24 Inch glossy widescreen
Pc: 22 Inch LG Widescreen Monitor
Price (inc vat):
Mac: £1459
Pc: £999
So, for 400 pounds less, you get a much more powerful machine if you buy a Pc over a Mac! Granted, the monitor is smaller, but after all you have 450 Pounds left over in your budget, so why not treat yourself to something like the 24" Hyundai W240D for £351.33 (had to choose Aria because Pc World doesn't have 24 inch monitors over £300, but obviously with 400 quid you can find yourself many other shiny monitors). You now have a machine which significantly outperforms the Mac, a spare 22inch TFT monitor and 100 quid left in the wallet. Now go away and stop telling me that the Macs are similarly priced to equivalent PCs.
Your house doesn't exist, that was programmed for you by the Lifestyle Engineering Team. Those celebs you fantasise over? Pure fantasy too, thanks to our brilliant Entertainment Team (Shouts to John, Steve and Katie! If you read this, excellent work with the latest Britney Spears gossip. Everyone here at Simulation Control is having a great laugh!).
Oh, and a word of advice, never spontaneously travel to Africa or anywhere unexpected, really. It's just that we haven't really built any environments not in your vicinity in any level of detail, so unless you give us enough advance notice (like booking at least 2 weeks in advance), we'll have to call the entire Environment Engineering team in and I can guarantee you, they will not be pleased. The previous brain we designed and plugged into our simulations spontaneusly decided to go to Belgium. We had to blow its plane up over the Atlantic since there is simply no way anyone can program Bruges in 8 hours.
All currently known computers can ultimately be related to the classical Turing Machine
That being said, your general argument is of course an allusion to von Neumann's quote "Anyone attempting to produce random numbers by purely arithmetic means is, of course, in a state of sin." - saying basically that since the universe contains true randomness, it cannot be the product of a calculation. This is a fallacy, since you're making assumptions on the calculations and computations that can be performed in the world simulating our Universe ("their computational limits are the same as ours"), but you have no way of supporting that assumption. None of what holds true for our Universe might even apply out there. So no, you cannot test (better: falsify) the hypothesis this way.
It's a no to the Ideapad from me as well, though - but for a different reason: the 15 inch one has the 1280x800 resolution my 4 year old laptop has - and that is one thing I really want to upgrade with my next purchase. And no, I don't want a 17 inch laptop, thanks very much.
From what I understand about drug addiction and attempts to kick the habit, you won't just "lose interest", you'll be going through living hell for quite a while - your body is looking for something you're not giving it, it's going to be pretty mad at you. This is why people relapse - they remember the shiny happy times, ignore that bad bits about those times and it all looks so much better than what they're in at the moment, so they go back to their drug.
If you use this vaccine, then that becomes impossible, you burn that bridge. But that doesn't remove the desire to be back on drugs, it just removes your favourite one from the list of possibilities. There's still plenty of others around and I think it's pretty safe to say that people who were going to relapse anyway will do so with or without the vaccine - the only thing that will change is the drug they'll use. So that'll be a statistic to look for: What percentage of people trying to give up Cocaine on this vaccine will end up on another drug? Compare this to a control group of people not on vaccine ending up going back to cocaine.
You make it sound so bad.
- Vacuum v transistors is a legitimate debate since it is essentially perceived sound quality v actual sound quality.
- Analog v digital is indeed ill informed. It confuses the type of information (analog v digital) and the medium (degradable (vinyl, tape) v almost non-degradable (CD) ) - you make the same mistake in your remaining argument. Find a way to stick analog information on a medium that doesn't get worn out by use and you have a winner.
- I completely fail to see how anyone can even make an argument for lossy compression in lossless v lossy. Unless it's about disk space, but that's not really an issue anymore these days, is it?
Logical fallacy: you can make no such statement until you (1) know exactly how the copy to CD (and the copy to an analog medium) was made and (2) can guarantee that the players for the different media are of exactly the same quality. Even though the source material is the same, both copies may differ in quality, either intrinsically, or simply because your CD Player is better than your turntable.Q: How can you tell the cave was designed by a geek? ;)
A: All seats are single-seaters - there is no comfy cuddling-with-significant-other possibility
Yeah, that would be why I posted a second comment immediately after that one ;)
The address space you'd normally use to address memory beyond 3.5gigs (or thereabouts) is reassigned for talking to other stuff. It's a simple 32bit limitation - can't only be talking to the RAM after all. As others have pointed out throughout this thread, the problem does not exist in 64bit architectures.
5 years ago, nobody would have thought that we'd run into this problem at all. Remember those times? Everybody and their mum was just about getting ready to jump onto the 64Bit bandwagon with AMD charging in front. And then, while nobody (especially not AMD) was paying attention, we kinda veered off-course into a multi-core world instead and all of a sudden, people stopped caring about 64bit. After all, you had a larger net performance gain from upgrading to 2 32Bit cores than to one 64Bit one. And now, we're finally running out of address space.
Never mind that, just wait till you see the lights in the windscreen wipers and under the car ;) Also, the soundtrack of the movie will be made entirely by 50 cent.
Don't go looking too far for a non-Pythagorean proof of the law of cosines ;) I told you in the first post that there is a vector proof and I cheated in the second post by starting with Al-Kashi so the proof would only take two lines if you wrote it down. But Al Kashi's theorem itself can be proven rather simply using vectors (hint: more precisely, by taking a good look at the definition of one of the operations that can be applied to vectors). I'll let you think about it :)