Read your own link:
"The Cro-Magnon were the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic." (emphasis mine)
and further down:
"Anatomically modern humans first emerged in East Africa, some 100 000 to 200 000 years ago."
I still haven't seen any overwhelming evidence that global warming is real. Just a lot of hot air from talking heads and religious pseudo-science "true-believers".
Any actual proof that isn't bought-and-paid-for or biased by one side of the debate or the other?
That's exactly the problem. The climate is a huge complex system with a lot of inertia. The point where the "evidence is overwhelming" is probably way beyond the point where we'll be able to do anything about it within a reasonable time-frame. The best time to plug a leak is when it's just drip-drip-dripping, not when you're drowning.
What mistake? Handwriting recognition at the time sucked. Hell, it still sucks.
To be honest, handwriting recognition is pretty good now, at least in Windows 7. After a short "training" session, maybe 10 minutes or so, it handles my chickenscratch quite well. Just to put things in perspective, even *I* can't read my own handwriting after a few months.:P
In a nutshell, you made what you thought was some really smart (but actually just smart-ass) comment, got called on it and now refuse to accept even the simplest, understandable-to-someone-with-the-IQ-of-a-glass-of-iced-tea definition, and have to resort to name calling and insults to protect your fragile ego. Get over yourself.
People keep referring to that Carlin bit on saving the planet, mostly to support anti-AGW positions. Get a clue, people: His spiel is actually a pro-environment stance. He is criticizing the reasons (and excuses) that people give as to why we should clean up our act. He is criticizing the language we use to support pro-environmental ideas. In a nutshell: "Fuck you and your holier-than-thou 'save the planet' bullshit. The planet is fine, the people are fucked. Call it like it is, it's self-interest that drives this, and we're actually trying to save ourselves." But in all that, GC recognized the bottom line: the way things are going, the people are fucked. We're facing extinction, and we're recklessly, heedlessly contributing to it.
puts forth ideas with some merit and actually tests them
So, how do you know which ideas have merit before you test them?
just toss ideas out into the world without any regard to reasonableness, you're a crackpot or a crank
You ever hear of this crackpot named Galileo? They almost burned him at the stake for his unreasonable ideas.
you postulate that long ago some powerful being threw a bunch of people into volcanoes and that those souls or whatever now plague mankind and are responsible for every bad thing that happens to you, you are not a scientist.
You would be if you found some way to test the hypothesis.
When we turn on the proverbial hypothetical sentient artificial intelligence, it won't have an instinct for survival or even a concept of self unless we explicitly instill those things in it; it will just be a glorified thinking machine capable of experiencing thought, like the brain inside of a worm or infant.
By the time we are capable of creating a computer that acts human, we will know, exhaustively and in every detail, what it means to be human. And we will be able to pick and choose without uncertainty what we are putting into it
Have you looked at the power-to-price curve of AMD and Intel? AMD beats Intel so thoroughly on the performance/price curve that I wonder why anyone bothers with Intel. The only part where Intel wins is the performance of high-end CPUs,...
Intel wins on performance vs energy consumption. If one factors in operating costs, Intel wins on cost in the medium to long term.
...but that's only because they pack more effective cores into one unit. Performance of single-threaded programs is roughly equal,...
If Intel cores are "more effective", how can single-thread performance be "roughly equal"? On the contrary, the benchmarks I've seen indicate that Intel procs obliterate AMDs on a per-core-clock-cycle basis. For an AMD system to match an Intel system on performance, particularly one based on second gen Core i procs, it needs more cores (which may still cost less) and use more power (which will definitely cost more).
It more commonly referred to as Geodesic, as in Geodesic Domes. Apparently, the term "geodetic" is used as a synonym when referring specifically to airframes.
In fact, birthrates primarily vary with two simple factors - education and women's rights. You might want to get yourself some of the former.
Both are vigorously and often brutally suppressed by various Christian denominations, Roman Catholicism in particular, and in stricter interpretations of Islam, such as the Taliban. You might want to get yourself some of the former, neh?
Implied threat of government legal action if they don't comply. Blackmail in other words. Unless they've actually informed the person their will be no direct consequences if they don't comply. 99% of the population would have little to no idea about whether any particular government official can legally do what they do.
And therein lies the problem. People get the government they deserve. In the middle east (and many other places before), the people decided they deserved more. Some of them died for it and probably many more after. In the end, it's about what kind of abuse the people are willing to tolerate and what they're willing to risk for change.
I don't buy it. Trillions of operations later we know the Sixty-trillionth binary digit of pi squared is 1 and the hardware is flawless or 50/50 chance it got lucky
Between the number of "No Idea" entries you have, especially:
Jonathan Silvercloud Forge (Also called: The Maker, Genesis)
- No Idea.
and this:
Tony Stark (Ironman)
- A drunk with access to nice toys. That's it.
I really don't see how you can declare a "winner".
I'm a fan of the Batman, too, but this is about who the best engineer is. Bruce is a pretty good engineer but his real strengths are criminology and investigation. You know those "nice toys" Tony Stark has? He designed and built them, and in many cases invented the enabling technologies.
If your 'c' would appear a lot different now from the way it was, then you have been _learning_ 'c', even if you don't think you've been "teaching yourself". Your brain works pretty much 24/7 and everything you experience creates ripples in that massive neural net, affecting everything else.
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Read your own link: "The Cro-Magnon were the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic." (emphasis mine)
and further down:
"Anatomically modern humans first emerged in East Africa, some 100 000 to 200 000 years ago."
I still haven't seen any overwhelming evidence that global warming is real. Just a lot of hot air from talking heads and religious pseudo-science "true-believers".
Any actual proof that isn't bought-and-paid-for or biased by one side of the debate or the other?
That's exactly the problem. The climate is a huge complex system with a lot of inertia. The point where the "evidence is overwhelming" is probably way beyond the point where we'll be able to do anything about it within a reasonable time-frame. The best time to plug a leak is when it's just drip-drip-dripping, not when you're drowning.
"Second highlander"? No such thing. There can be only one.
What mistake? Handwriting recognition at the time sucked. Hell, it still sucks.
To be honest, handwriting recognition is pretty good now, at least in Windows 7. After a short "training" session, maybe 10 minutes or so, it handles my chickenscratch quite well. Just to put things in perspective, even *I* can't read my own handwriting after a few months. :P
In a nutshell, you made what you thought was some really smart (but actually just smart-ass) comment, got called on it and now refuse to accept even the simplest, understandable-to-someone-with-the-IQ-of-a-glass-of-iced-tea definition, and have to resort to name calling and insults to protect your fragile ego. Get over yourself.
People keep referring to that Carlin bit on saving the planet, mostly to support anti-AGW positions. Get a clue, people: His spiel is actually a pro-environment stance. He is criticizing the reasons (and excuses) that people give as to why we should clean up our act. He is criticizing the language we use to support pro-environmental ideas. In a nutshell: "Fuck you and your holier-than-thou 'save the planet' bullshit. The planet is fine, the people are fucked. Call it like it is, it's self-interest that drives this, and we're actually trying to save ourselves." But in all that, GC recognized the bottom line: the way things are going, the people are fucked. We're facing extinction, and we're recklessly, heedlessly contributing to it.
I don't know about genius, but at least he could spell.
I suggest you buy a new Mac; the iOS-style spellchecker really comes in handy despite occasionally mangling perfectly corpulent words.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
You might want to check out Crowdrise. I first read about it on Wired a couple of months ago.
puts forth ideas with some merit and actually tests them
So, how do you know which ideas have merit before you test them?
just toss ideas out into the world without any regard to reasonableness, you're a crackpot or a crank
You ever hear of this crackpot named Galileo? They almost burned him at the stake for his unreasonable ideas.
you postulate that long ago some powerful being threw a bunch of people into volcanoes and that those souls or whatever now plague mankind and are responsible for every bad thing that happens to you, you are not a scientist.
You would be if you found some way to test the hypothesis.
while we're splitting hairs, rooting != rootkitting. similar, but not the same.
When we turn on the proverbial hypothetical sentient artificial intelligence, it won't have an instinct for survival or even a concept of self unless we explicitly instill those things in it; it will just be a glorified thinking machine capable of experiencing thought, like the brain inside of a worm or infant.
By the time we are capable of creating a computer that acts human, we will know, exhaustively and in every detail, what it means to be human. And we will be able to pick and choose without uncertainty what we are putting into it
Here are some links for you. Check them out and see if you still believe what you posted: Emergence/Strong Emergence, Complex Systems, Chaos Theory and Unintended Consequences.
Have you looked at the power-to-price curve of AMD and Intel? AMD beats Intel so thoroughly on the performance/price curve that I wonder why anyone bothers with Intel. The only part where Intel wins is the performance of high-end CPUs,...
Intel wins on performance vs energy consumption. If one factors in operating costs, Intel wins on cost in the medium to long term.
...but that's only because they pack more effective cores into one unit. Performance of single-threaded programs is roughly equal,...
If Intel cores are "more effective", how can single-thread performance be "roughly equal"? On the contrary, the benchmarks I've seen indicate that Intel procs obliterate AMDs on a per-core-clock-cycle basis. For an AMD system to match an Intel system on performance, particularly one based on second gen Core i procs, it needs more cores (which may still cost less) and use more power (which will definitely cost more).
Or maybe there would be no slow and cheap option and everyone would have to buy the top of the line chips...
Two, a new one entered the ring recently.
It more commonly referred to as Geodesic, as in Geodesic Domes. Apparently, the term "geodetic" is used as a synonym when referring specifically to airframes.
+1
The problem of course, is that most religious doctrines don't say "go out and have piles of babies". In fact, off hand, I can't think of a single one.
Genesis 1:28
In fact, birthrates primarily vary with two simple factors - education and women's rights. You might want to get yourself some of the former.
Both are vigorously and often brutally suppressed by various Christian denominations, Roman Catholicism in particular, and in stricter interpretations of Islam, such as the Taliban. You might want to get yourself some of the former, neh?
Where's the illegality?
Implied threat of government legal action if they don't comply. Blackmail in other words. Unless they've actually informed the person their will be no direct consequences if they don't comply. 99% of the population would have little to no idea about whether any particular government official can legally do what they do.
And therein lies the problem. People get the government they deserve. In the middle east (and many other places before), the people decided they deserved more. Some of them died for it and probably many more after. In the end, it's about what kind of abuse the people are willing to tolerate and what they're willing to risk for change.
I don't buy it. Trillions of operations later we know the Sixty-trillionth binary digit of pi squared is 1 and the hardware is flawless or 50/50 chance it got lucky
Fifty-fifty, huh?
I learned that word in grade school math, before the Internet.
Maybe, simply finding something somewhere on the internet is not enough to make it remarkable.
If a word for a mathematical concept isn't "remarkable", then your nickname isn't very appropriate, is it?
Between the number of "No Idea" entries you have, especially:
Jonathan Silvercloud Forge (Also called: The Maker, Genesis)
- No Idea.
and this:
Tony Stark (Ironman)
- A drunk with access to nice toys. That's it.
I really don't see how you can declare a "winner".
I'm a fan of the Batman, too, but this is about who the best engineer is. Bruce is a pretty good engineer but his real strengths are criminology and investigation. You know those "nice toys" Tony Stark has? He designed and built them, and in many cases invented the enabling technologies.
+1? C'mon, mods, this was witty.
The gigantic creature roamed North America and east Asia
Reading comprehension failure? Also, try this.
If your 'c' would appear a lot different now from the way it was, then you have been _learning_ 'c', even if you don't think you've been "teaching yourself". Your brain works pretty much 24/7 and everything you experience creates ripples in that massive neural net, affecting everything else.