Computers primary advantage is speed, for all our pattern recognition capability are mathematical capability is pretty limited besides modern computers.
Computer's primary advantage is that it was custom-built for the task, rather than evolved into one task and adapted to another. A human brain has at least a hundredfold advantage in raw processing power, however abstract thought - including mathematics - runs over layers and layers of interpreted virtualization (think Python running a JVM running an x86 emulator running Linux running a Bash script, all without JIT). However, pattern recognition is implemented right at hardware (wetware?) level, so of course it's ridiculously effective. It also allows a (very primitive and inefficient) JIT, which is why you tend to get better with practice.
Eventually computers will catch up and surpass human brains in power, at which point I suspect we'll see mind uploading for the sake of boosting one's intelligence and getting around that inconvenient planned obsolescence of human body thing. Yup, we'll see if Orion's Arm will come to pass:).
50 Gbps is bandwidth. What's the latency? That'd be kinda important for the purposes of remoting RAM.
Not really. Cache misses are already so expensive that some more latency isn't going to mean much. And if you have a NUMA system, you can integrate a gigabyte or so of memory on the motherboard and have a huge memory bank that serves all your computers - which, since they share memory, are really a single supercomputer, which should make things far more efficient overall.
Joe Sixpack doesn't have the money to keep upgrading his equipment constantly. If it takes that to watch new movies, then Joe either downloads the movies from Pirate Bay, or doesn't watch new movies except on DVD.
The utility value of money isn't linear. For every person there's a certain point - let's call it $LOTS - after which any potential loss is seen as equivalent, because they are, as far as their effects are concerned. For Joe, the negative utility of buying a new television every year is about the same as the negative utility of being caught by the MAFIAA and given a billion dollar judgement: lifelong debt slavery.
I didn't bother putting in a Blu-Ray drive when building my computer precisely because it's a horrible mess and I didn't know if I could rip the movie to my hard drive (which is a requirement to watching it conveniently), so I have to get any HD material from the Pirate Bay, which is fast and easy. Congratulations, oh brave defenders of copyright: all you have accomplished is make sure I can't buy from you, even if I wanted to.
What about the ability to re-use a good power supply and case?
That's costing PSU- and case-makers sales. They could combat this by only allowing the PSU deliver half its rated power from the box, and require a downloadable code to get full power; unplug the PSU from the wall, and you need a new code, which of course won't be given expect to registered users.
Or made like LEGO Blocks. Need a quad core CPU? Go buy one and snap it onto your others.
Of course, if CPU doesn't need a special dedicated place, what's stopping you from simply adding two cheap dual-core processors? And later, when a new processor generation comes out, adding one of those to the party?
How hard would it be to have OS schedulers properly support non-symmetrical multiprocessing?
I would be alright if the private airline wanted to run these scans
Ladies and gentlemen, Libertarianism in a nutshell.
since it's their plane
In that case the solution is obvious: have the court rent a room from a private entity, and pay a premium for "security", which said entity will provide with strip scanners. That should be okay in your book, since it's a private entity's building, right?
It is probably unfair for the US to demand that North Korea or Iran disarm themselves. But as an American, I don't care.
And because you don't care about fairness towards others, those others have no choice but to arm themselves so they can defend themselves against you.
North Korea has threatened to attack the US, and Iran has a day of hate directed towards the US.
Being unfair towards others generally tends to lead to that.
The call the US the great satan, and have threatened to try to destroy our allies if possible.
Well, of course: you are threatening them, know that this is unfair, but don't care. Just what did you expect they'd do, kiss their asses goodbye?
I admit I am utterly selfish, and you can call me that, it's ok; but if it is between N Korea or Iran surviving and the US surviving, I am choosing the US.
More importantly, you are stupid. Your chosen tactic - make demands you know to be unfair - makes you stated goal - ensuring the survival of the USA - less likely, and is therefore irrational.
And I don't want those two countries, ruled by a dictatorship, to have weapons that will enable them to carry out their threats.
Well, it's a good thing that you haven't given those dictators any help staying in power, for example by giving them an obvious external enemy they can blame all their troubles for, not to mention justify tightening their fist, now isn't it?
Love makes fools, marriage cuckolds, and patriotism malevolent imbeciles.
"Oh ultranova...if only you knew how correct you are." -my wife
Does your wife know you're doing things with Alberto Rovetta's mom? And, seeing how Prof. Rovetta seems to have just turned 70, with his mother presumably being older, that you apparently have a thing for older women?
I guess that would explain your need for advanced lubrication principles...
maybe our ability to walk on the moon depends on our ability to understand that if we keep fucking with the earth the earth will one day say fuck us all.
If we go by the Gaia hypothesis, as you seem to be doing, then we're the closest thing the Earth has for brains, the Internet is the nervous system, and the Moon landings were the first few tentative roots growing onto a bare rock. All of which would make us fucking with the Earth masturbation, and Earth saying "fuck you all" to us incestercubation. Gaia is a sick fuck, now isn't it?
I think you're underestimating the amount of cocaine that goes into creating a new dress design. They'll probably be lucky if they break even.
Cocaine is a plant product and only expensive because of an artificial government-enforced monopoly, the exact same as the dress. Remove such monopolies and both recreational substances and fancy dresses become cheap enough for everyone to afford.
And that rises an interesting question: Given that the war on drugs only benefits the drug cartels, are they the ones lobbying for it?
Clearly, having free software available with which to do our taxes is a Socialist plot to destroy the "free market".
Well, yes. It's socialist because it's using public money to help the public. It's destroying the market on tax software because it's hard to sell one if nobody needs it, in the exact same way as pollution controls are destroying the market on bottled air.
The saddest thing is that you still seem to be using the word "socialist" as something bad. It's not. It means helping people in general, rather than just helping the few top predators to prey on others, which is what libertarians and other free market fundamentalists want. People need to stop being afraid of being called socialists if they want to have any chance of changing things for the better.
As documented in The Times, in 2009 California Republican legislators held back their votes on 20 bills in an attempt to do the corporation's bidding and force the abolition of ReadyReturn and CalFile. They didn't succeed in killing the tax programs, but they did kill funding for domestic violence shelters, police and fire departments, and prevention of swine flu outbreaks.
Why, exactly speaking, are these people still free, rather than sitting in jail? This goes beyond bribery - which, while illegal in most places, seems to be an accepted practice in the USA - and reach the level of outright sabotage. These people aren't merely corrupted, they're outright and active enemy agents, so why haven't you kicked them out of office and into the jail where they belong?
If the empires of the past had guarded their "intellectual" "property" so jealously as these money-grubbing little cunts, we'd all be shitting in open trenches today.
No we wouldn't, because with bronze-making a closely guarded secret, only the richest could afford trenches to be dug.
You would simply collect your shit to a big pile and dig in to stay warm at winter, hoping that you wouldn't be found and clubbed to death for stealing the idea from that Einstein fellow.
When you're running a newspaper and you're claiming to be objective, having a bias (which generally understates the problem) towards one side or the other is bad.
Actually no, it isn't. Being objective doesn't mean giving the same weight to every lunatic's opinion, it means acknowledging that there's an underlaying reality and trying to stick to it, even if it's politically inconvenient.
"Objective" means sticking to facts, not taking the average of every politicians opinions and pretending that's reality.
My ex-gf works in fashion down in LA and to pay the lease she needs to sell at leas a single high-end designer dress every few days. Last year she in the garment district she saw someone selling a fake Dolce Vita skirt for 20 bucks, this skirt retails for over 400.
Assuming the counterfeit dress makes any profit at all, the genuine one must be making at least 380 bucks of profit for a price of 400. That means your girlfriend and her suppliers are getting at least 95% profit margin.
In other words, cry me a river.
How can she compete with that? Should she start buying the fakes to stay in business, because that is what it comes down to.
Frankly, if your entire business model depends on selling cheap items at insane markup because they're "genuine", you deserve to go out of business. How could you possibly avoid that, in an economic system that's entirely based on using competition to lower prices?
You come back and it'd be like you've been hardcore gaming/stressing your system the entire time -- Hope you didn't go to sleep for 8-9 hours! or go to work!
If the system is properly cooled, it will keep running just fine at maximum power forever. And besides, considering how little mass a chip has, it should reach thermal equilibrium in a matter of minutes, if not seconds.
Yes, it's still not a perfect tool, but better than a polygraph test, and that's what they're going for.
Is it? A polygraph is based on the assumption that someone who lies feels guilty about it, and thus nervous; this seems to be based on the assumption that a terrorist who's killing people in the name of Allah feels guilty about it.
One little step at a time:)
Straight to Hell. Or do you really think that this will be limited to terrorists?
Money is a store of value, good money is divisible, fungible, and relatively scarce. Gold is an example, possibly the best. Paper doesn't qualify.
Money is not a store of value. Money is a tool making logistics simpler: rather than finding someone who has something you want and is willing to trade it for something you have, you only have to find someone willing to trade what you have for money and then someone who's willing to trade money for what you want. As the economy becomes more and more complex, the former becomes pretty much impossible while the latter becomes easier and easier (since there are more potential buyers/sellers).
A word on value: nothing has intrinsic value; all things are valued in relation to the needs and desires of human beings.
This directly contradicts the whole idea of storing wealth: how are you going to go about storing other people's desires? How do you guarantee that other people keep desiring whatever it is that you're storing?
In that context, paper currency has value only as a medium of trade, gold and other precious materials have additional value in their utility as ingredients in a variety of products. This utility helps (but does not guarantee) money keeping its value with respect to other objects.
Gold has very little utility besides looking pretty. It can be used to protect electronic connectors against corrosion, but that's pretty much it. In fact I'd go so far as to say that gold's historical value has hindered it from having any utility, since you can make more money simply selling gold as is than using it to make a product and selling that.
Also, gold is not money, gold is gold. Gold coins have been used as money in various places and times, and derived their value from acting as "medium of trade" - the same thing fiat currency does. Your entire argument is weird.
Once a day for five days for a year they should practice with the programming language of their choice.
Nah. You should pick a project you want done, then do it.
There is no magic bullet, you're not going to learn Java or Python in 20 days with those dunderheaded, oversized volumes.
True, and even more so if you're not a programmer to begin with. I'd suggest looking up Turing machine, and once you understand the idea proceed to Von Neuman architecture, at which point you have some idea of what programmers do and can thus have far better chances of understanding programming languages.
I've never understood why otherwise intelligent people steadfastly refuse to learn the basics of computers, instead memorizing a lot of command sequences that break if anything's different. It's a lot less work and far more gain to simply learn what's going on behind the scenes, yet people refuse to do that.
Also, if you use a programming language such as Java or Python, look up all the buzzwords associated with it, then look up their meanings and why they might be a good idea. The language is "object-oriented"? What does that mean? What problem does it try to solve? What's the catch?
Yes, I've heard the Broken Window Fallacy. It's about artificial stimuli such as deficit spending and protectionism.
No. It's about breaking things so they need to be replaced, thus generating economic activity that fails to increase the total wealth of the economy. Deficit spending, on the other hand, is basically the government taking a loan and investing it, while protectionism is about giving your domestic industries an artificial competitive advantage, since it's better for us to have them here than elsewhere.
It has nothing to do with this story.
True, this story is about a servant of parasites wanting a bigger share of the blood they suck out of the host. The host, of course, being everyone who're doing something productive.
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Computer's primary advantage is that it was custom-built for the task, rather than evolved into one task and adapted to another. A human brain has at least a hundredfold advantage in raw processing power, however abstract thought - including mathematics - runs over layers and layers of interpreted virtualization (think Python running a JVM running an x86 emulator running Linux running a Bash script, all without JIT). However, pattern recognition is implemented right at hardware (wetware?) level, so of course it's ridiculously effective. It also allows a (very primitive and inefficient) JIT, which is why you tend to get better with practice.
Eventually computers will catch up and surpass human brains in power, at which point I suspect we'll see mind uploading for the sake of boosting one's intelligence and getting around that inconvenient planned obsolescence of human body thing. Yup, we'll see if Orion's Arm will come to pass :).
Not really. Cache misses are already so expensive that some more latency isn't going to mean much. And if you have a NUMA system, you can integrate a gigabyte or so of memory on the motherboard and have a huge memory bank that serves all your computers - which, since they share memory, are really a single supercomputer, which should make things far more efficient overall.
Joe Sixpack doesn't have the money to keep upgrading his equipment constantly. If it takes that to watch new movies, then Joe either downloads the movies from Pirate Bay, or doesn't watch new movies except on DVD.
The utility value of money isn't linear. For every person there's a certain point - let's call it $LOTS - after which any potential loss is seen as equivalent, because they are, as far as their effects are concerned. For Joe, the negative utility of buying a new television every year is about the same as the negative utility of being caught by the MAFIAA and given a billion dollar judgement: lifelong debt slavery.
I didn't bother putting in a Blu-Ray drive when building my computer precisely because it's a horrible mess and I didn't know if I could rip the movie to my hard drive (which is a requirement to watching it conveniently), so I have to get any HD material from the Pirate Bay, which is fast and easy. Congratulations, oh brave defenders of copyright: all you have accomplished is make sure I can't buy from you, even if I wanted to.
That's costing PSU- and case-makers sales. They could combat this by only allowing the PSU deliver half its rated power from the box, and require a downloadable code to get full power; unplug the PSU from the wall, and you need a new code, which of course won't be given expect to registered users.
Hey, it works for game-makers, right?
Of course, if CPU doesn't need a special dedicated place, what's stopping you from simply adding two cheap dual-core processors? And later, when a new processor generation comes out, adding one of those to the party?
How hard would it be to have OS schedulers properly support non-symmetrical multiprocessing?
Multitasking and process priorities have been invented, you know.
Guns aren't scary. Idiots who think guns are penis substitutes are scary.
Ladies and gentlemen, Libertarianism in a nutshell.
In that case the solution is obvious: have the court rent a room from a private entity, and pay a premium for "security", which said entity will provide with strip scanners. That should be okay in your book, since it's a private entity's building, right?
And because you don't care about fairness towards others, those others have no choice but to arm themselves so they can defend themselves against you.
Being unfair towards others generally tends to lead to that.
Well, of course: you are threatening them, know that this is unfair, but don't care. Just what did you expect they'd do, kiss their asses goodbye?
More importantly, you are stupid. Your chosen tactic - make demands you know to be unfair - makes you stated goal - ensuring the survival of the USA - less likely, and is therefore irrational.
Well, it's a good thing that you haven't given those dictators any help staying in power, for example by giving them an obvious external enemy they can blame all their troubles for, not to mention justify tightening their fist, now isn't it?
Love makes fools, marriage cuckolds, and patriotism malevolent imbeciles.
Does your wife know you're doing things with Alberto Rovetta's mom? And, seeing how Prof. Rovetta seems to have just turned 70, with his mother presumably being older, that you apparently have a thing for older women?
I guess that would explain your need for advanced lubrication principles...
I see your ability to craft a joke is far inferior to ancient Egyptians's ability to craft chariots.
If we go by the Gaia hypothesis, as you seem to be doing, then we're the closest thing the Earth has for brains, the Internet is the nervous system, and the Moon landings were the first few tentative roots growing onto a bare rock. All of which would make us fucking with the Earth masturbation, and Earth saying "fuck you all" to us incestercubation. Gaia is a sick fuck, now isn't it?
Cocaine is a plant product and only expensive because of an artificial government-enforced monopoly, the exact same as the dress. Remove such monopolies and both recreational substances and fancy dresses become cheap enough for everyone to afford.
And that rises an interesting question: Given that the war on drugs only benefits the drug cartels, are they the ones lobbying for it?
Well, yes. It's socialist because it's using public money to help the public. It's destroying the market on tax software because it's hard to sell one if nobody needs it, in the exact same way as pollution controls are destroying the market on bottled air.
The saddest thing is that you still seem to be using the word "socialist" as something bad. It's not. It means helping people in general, rather than just helping the few top predators to prey on others, which is what libertarians and other free market fundamentalists want. People need to stop being afraid of being called socialists if they want to have any chance of changing things for the better.
From the summary:
Why, exactly speaking, are these people still free, rather than sitting in jail? This goes beyond bribery - which, while illegal in most places, seems to be an accepted practice in the USA - and reach the level of outright sabotage. These people aren't merely corrupted, they're outright and active enemy agents, so why haven't you kicked them out of office and into the jail where they belong?
No we wouldn't, because with bronze-making a closely guarded secret, only the richest could afford trenches to be dug.
You would simply collect your shit to a big pile and dig in to stay warm at winter, hoping that you wouldn't be found and clubbed to death for stealing the idea from that Einstein fellow.
Actually no, it isn't. Being objective doesn't mean giving the same weight to every lunatic's opinion, it means acknowledging that there's an underlaying reality and trying to stick to it, even if it's politically inconvenient.
"Objective" means sticking to facts, not taking the average of every politicians opinions and pretending that's reality.
Assuming the counterfeit dress makes any profit at all, the genuine one must be making at least 380 bucks of profit for a price of 400. That means your girlfriend and her suppliers are getting at least 95% profit margin.
In other words, cry me a river.
Frankly, if your entire business model depends on selling cheap items at insane markup because they're "genuine", you deserve to go out of business. How could you possibly avoid that, in an economic system that's entirely based on using competition to lower prices?
If the system is properly cooled, it will keep running just fine at maximum power forever. And besides, considering how little mass a chip has, it should reach thermal equilibrium in a matter of minutes, if not seconds.
So... uploading child porn to someone's computer and tipping the police would be the ultimate terrorist attack?
I wonder how many intelligence organizations have done this to people they wanted to get rid of?
Is it? A polygraph is based on the assumption that someone who lies feels guilty about it, and thus nervous; this seems to be based on the assumption that a terrorist who's killing people in the name of Allah feels guilty about it.
Straight to Hell. Or do you really think that this will be limited to terrorists?
Money is not a store of value. Money is a tool making logistics simpler: rather than finding someone who has something you want and is willing to trade it for something you have, you only have to find someone willing to trade what you have for money and then someone who's willing to trade money for what you want. As the economy becomes more and more complex, the former becomes pretty much impossible while the latter becomes easier and easier (since there are more potential buyers/sellers).
This directly contradicts the whole idea of storing wealth: how are you going to go about storing other people's desires? How do you guarantee that other people keep desiring whatever it is that you're storing?
Gold has very little utility besides looking pretty. It can be used to protect electronic connectors against corrosion, but that's pretty much it. In fact I'd go so far as to say that gold's historical value has hindered it from having any utility, since you can make more money simply selling gold as is than using it to make a product and selling that.
Also, gold is not money, gold is gold. Gold coins have been used as money in various places and times, and derived their value from acting as "medium of trade" - the same thing fiat currency does. Your entire argument is weird.
Nah. You should pick a project you want done, then do it.
True, and even more so if you're not a programmer to begin with. I'd suggest looking up Turing machine, and once you understand the idea proceed to Von Neuman architecture, at which point you have some idea of what programmers do and can thus have far better chances of understanding programming languages.
I've never understood why otherwise intelligent people steadfastly refuse to learn the basics of computers, instead memorizing a lot of command sequences that break if anything's different. It's a lot less work and far more gain to simply learn what's going on behind the scenes, yet people refuse to do that.
Also, if you use a programming language such as Java or Python, look up all the buzzwords associated with it, then look up their meanings and why they might be a good idea. The language is "object-oriented"? What does that mean? What problem does it try to solve? What's the catch?
A very bad example, considering how rice is made :).
No. It's about breaking things so they need to be replaced, thus generating economic activity that fails to increase the total wealth of the economy. Deficit spending, on the other hand, is basically the government taking a loan and investing it, while protectionism is about giving your domestic industries an artificial competitive advantage, since it's better for us to have them here than elsewhere.
True, this story is about a servant of parasites wanting a bigger share of the blood they suck out of the host. The host, of course, being everyone who're doing something productive.