Ohhh, I'm sorry, I did miss that you talk in present tense about future, unreleased, next year products; basing it on an article with as sensationalist headline as they get, generally aping Intel PR. I guess that's what passes as "paying attention" these days...
Or...maybe...might look at one site with typically quite decent articles; which paints somewhat different picture. Atom "for smartphones" only, no Win for you or generic Linux distro. "Southbridge" has "system controller/32 bit risc" - would be surprising if that's not some ARM (plus at least another one in radio interface; that's already probably more ARM cores than x86 ones, to keep power consumption at merely acceptable levels; Intel couldn't do it without ARM). Less efficient and more expensive multichip solution (and of course other manufacturers are expected to make this effort, for miniscule portion of the market...while Intel doesn't risk anything; but anyway, there are no announcements - while phones would need to get certs quite some time before release; Android players have no incentive to switch; Apple has none, either, considering their inhouse ARM team; Samsung goes its own way, their own SoCs; Nokia devices with MeeGo are an uberniche product - Symbian is their powerhouse)
Plus Intel doesn't even tell everything - they show those nice power usage numbers only in scenarios...when x86 core is idling; when the "supporting" hardware (with a great help of ARM cores:D ) does the real work. Power usage when x86 is doing something intensive (using its "impressive" speed) is strangely absent...
It's still probably around an order of magnitude difference. And if you don't see the progress in the past decade from, say, ARM7TDMI to latest Cortex...that's your problem. A progress constrained by battery technology BTW; Intel offering doesn't help that, quite the contrary. Their greatest strength, process shrinking, no longer works quite the way as before.
There's also an effect working in the other way than what you assume - many people in developing countries share single mobile phone (say, a family). It's so common that, for example, Nokia sees the need to include several phonebooks and prepaid cost trackers in their lowest-end mobile phones, specifically stating it as the reason for doing so.
Hm, so a 1080p home projector of reasonably good quality will essentially give the "cinema experience", as far as the screen is involved?
Now, how do they make the aural part so nicely sounding... (it must be something quite basic - one old, neglected cinema from "communist" times in my ex-Soviet block place also had this quite specific and pleasant sound; noise isolation, wall of heavy speakers and...size of the place?;/ )
An all knowing deity, which supposedly gave us free will (ad hoc knowing the consequences), urges us to commit attrocities (just read Old Testament) and gives itself (Trinity and all that) for suffering (pretty small one, all things considered) to...get us rid from...what that deity supposedly brought upon us.
Well, I can see how it made perfect sense for primitive people...
But was just an imaginary point they accepted, to explain to themselves why yet another, not the first, of their saviours was killed; like many other rebels up to this point. How one can honestly reconcile enthusiastic welcome during (what has become) Palm Sunday and supposed "crucify him!" few days later? Maybe the latter part is made up? (hint: look up how Barabbas is written in earliest manuscripts) Maybe it's inconvenient to admit after so many centuries of lies that Jews were the ones who wanted him back, to honor their old (and infrequent) tradition? (especially for one (as far as Rome was concerned) rebel who was non-violent in their eyes) Accidentally, Pilate was part of the roman fraction quite hostile towards them behind the scenes. That also meant it was convenient for early Christians to put the blame on Jews - building new religious movement (not strictly "religion", being continuation of Mithraism and few other "pagan" ones) around the blame of Rome for killing "the true god" (while ceasar was one already) wouldn't end up good (and certainly did for those who said so, so only the views of more "moderate" cowards survived)
Sure, it's needed even now ("social order", etc.). But it's frustrating how many people who probably don't need such thought police get caught in.
Adapting to keep ahead would be damn hard, actually. How good are you at combating constant direct injections, into your bloodstream, of the most deadly pathogens and toxins available?
The numbers might help some people better understand it...
At the end of 2007 the world saw 3.3 billion mobile phone users. Two years later - 4.6 billion. It should get to 5 rather quickly. Don't be surpised with 90% of the planet quite soon.
Large portion of those people without any easy means of communication previously. Many of them getting their first and so far only way of connecting to the internet in one way or another (that's why Opera Mini is already #1 mobile browser btw, despite many of its users being cautious with number of sites visited, due to expensive to them data charges) We are witnessing a monumental shift for humanity.
When the question really becomes "which parts of our brain make us?", perhaps it's not so certain anymore that messing directly with the brain is required at all? (I somehow wrote already about it in a nearby post)
More generally, an honest answer to question "what is our essence?" might prove unpopular for people who wish, one way or the other (many old ways around the world in every culture...), for individual immortality; while BTW forgetting they have become quite dissimilar to themselves from two or three decades ago.
I think waiting for any "breakthrough" is a grieve error, generally. And nothing new, humans wish for such "breakthroughs" in their individual immortality for a long, long time - we had many ressurection deities; and early Christians were absolutely convinced they will see a breakthrough very quickly, basically within a generation.
But wishes rarely work out as predictions of future events; when the latter do happen anyway, people are generally taken by surprise or at the least didn't see it coming in quite such way. Life extension won't be different; especially since...we have quite a lot of it already. Not merely in advanced medicine, also in how much we can leave behind us - with that amount ever increasing, and for bigger and bigger portion of humanity. Eventually that data will take a life of its own; or have done so already, depending where's your cutoff point. Sure, that's not a direct continuity for "really us" conciousness...but that's largely pointless. The most cherished and most resistant to preserve "data" are a pretty low-level, biological, not unique stuff anyway. When you honestly look at it, one can safely say we lead at least many thousands instances of our life at this very moment already.
I don't really see how "transhumanist" is applicable in the case of people very much clinging to their individual lives. Which is very...good ol' human-like; and quite typical generally.
On the bright (sort of...) side - later time of your birth probably wouldn't prevent you from being dismissive of new things, from certain point, anyway.
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SMS is a kind data exchange ffs; reasonably fast one, usualy. What else do you need to negotiate a connection?
Why only "large"? Where's the dividing line "them" / "us" and why can it even apply?
Ohhh, I'm sorry, I did miss that you talk in present tense about future, unreleased, next year products; basing it on an article with as sensationalist headline as they get, generally aping Intel PR. I guess that's what passes as "paying attention" these days...
Or...maybe...might look at one site with typically quite decent articles; which paints somewhat different picture.
Atom "for smartphones" only, no Win for you or generic Linux distro. "Southbridge" has "system controller/32 bit risc" - would be surprising if that's not some ARM (plus at least another one in radio interface; that's already probably more ARM cores than x86 ones, to keep power consumption at merely acceptable levels; Intel couldn't do it without ARM). Less efficient and more expensive multichip solution (and of course other manufacturers are expected to make this effort, for miniscule portion of the market...while Intel doesn't risk anything; but anyway, there are no announcements - while phones would need to get certs quite some time before release; Android players have no incentive to switch; Apple has none, either, considering their inhouse ARM team; Samsung goes its own way, their own SoCs; Nokia devices with MeeGo are an uberniche product - Symbian is their powerhouse)
Plus Intel doesn't even tell everything - they show those nice power usage numbers only in scenarios...when x86 core is idling; when the "supporting" hardware (with a great help of ARM cores :D ) does the real work. Power usage when x86 is doing something intensive (using its "impressive" speed) is strangely absent...
It's still probably around an order of magnitude difference. And if you don't see the progress in the past decade from, say, ARM7TDMI to latest Cortex...that's your problem.
A progress constrained by battery technology BTW; Intel offering doesn't help that, quite the contrary. Their greatest strength, process shrinking, no longer works quite the way as before.
BTW, how is the i960 or Itanium going?
Even more - our minds don't work well at all under conditions of sensory deprivation.
There's also an effect working in the other way than what you assume - many people in developing countries share single mobile phone (say, a family). It's so common that, for example, Nokia sees the need to include several phonebooks and prepaid cost trackers in their lowest-end mobile phones, specifically stating it as the reason for doing so.
Stats take all of those effects into account.
Hm, so a 1080p home projector of reasonably good quality will essentially give the "cinema experience", as far as the screen is involved?
Now, how do they make the aural part so nicely sounding... (it must be something quite basic - one old, neglected cinema from "communist" times in my ex-Soviet block place also had this quite specific and pleasant sound; noise isolation, wall of heavy speakers and...size of the place? ;/ )
Surface tension actually works in the "other" direction with a body of water even slightly larger than a drop & limited by confines of a container.
Ahh, an assumption accepted way too commonly without a critical second look...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain
...a point which is...pointless.
An all knowing deity, which supposedly gave us free will (ad hoc knowing the consequences), urges us to commit attrocities (just read Old Testament) and gives itself (Trinity and all that) for suffering (pretty small one, all things considered) to...get us rid from...what that deity supposedly brought upon us.
Well, I can see how it made perfect sense for primitive people...
But was just an imaginary point they accepted, to explain to themselves why yet another, not the first, of their saviours was killed; like many other rebels up to this point.
How one can honestly reconcile enthusiastic welcome during (what has become) Palm Sunday and supposed "crucify him!" few days later? Maybe the latter part is made up? (hint: look up how Barabbas is written in earliest manuscripts) Maybe it's inconvenient to admit after so many centuries of lies that Jews were the ones who wanted him back, to honor their old (and infrequent) tradition? (especially for one (as far as Rome was concerned) rebel who was non-violent in their eyes) Accidentally, Pilate was part of the roman fraction quite hostile towards them behind the scenes. That also meant it was convenient for early Christians to put the blame on Jews - building new religious movement (not strictly "religion", being continuation of Mithraism and few other "pagan" ones) around the blame of Rome for killing "the true god" (while ceasar was one already) wouldn't end up good (and certainly did for those who said so, so only the views of more "moderate" cowards survived)
Sure, it's needed even now ("social order", etc.). But it's frustrating how many people who probably don't need such thought police get caught in.
And one group is wrong and the other right (pick the order) because?...
So now we suddenly rely on MS PR?
While technically true, one can't help but wonder what the prevalent folk views were.
Hey, even now some "theories" are just arbitrarily dismissed a bit too commonly...
Trust me when I say you were born at the right time.
That's probably one of the most prevalent misconceptions in recorded history, right beside "the demise of youth will doom the civilisation soon"...
Car-powered cities is not strictly a good thing...
Adapting to keep ahead would be damn hard, actually. How good are you at combating constant direct injections, into your bloodstream, of the most deadly pathogens and toxins available?
PS. Living in a society where everyone has a car doesn't have to be necessarily a good thing...
The numbers might help some people better understand it...
At the end of 2007 the world saw 3.3 billion mobile phone users. Two years later - 4.6 billion. It should get to 5 rather quickly. Don't be surpised with 90% of the planet quite soon.
Large portion of those people without any easy means of communication previously. Many of them getting their first and so far only way of connecting to the internet in one way or another (that's why Opera Mini is already #1 mobile browser btw, despite many of its users being cautious with number of sites visited, due to expensive to them data charges)
We are witnessing a monumental shift for humanity.
When the question really becomes "which parts of our brain make us?", perhaps it's not so certain anymore that messing directly with the brain is required at all? (I somehow wrote already about it in a nearby post)
More generally, an honest answer to question "what is our essence?" might prove unpopular for people who wish, one way or the other (many old ways around the world in every culture...), for individual immortality; while BTW forgetting they have become quite dissimilar to themselves from two or three decades ago.
Nobody forces you to have those "distractions". You're just falling prey to nostalgia and "old times were best" weirdly soon.
...so it would really boil down to how useful running your brain simulation is to the rest of humanity. Guess the answer to that.
I think waiting for any "breakthrough" is a grieve error, generally. And nothing new, humans wish for such "breakthroughs" in their individual immortality for a long, long time - we had many ressurection deities; and early Christians were absolutely convinced they will see a breakthrough very quickly, basically within a generation.
But wishes rarely work out as predictions of future events; when the latter do happen anyway, people are generally taken by surprise or at the least didn't see it coming in quite such way. Life extension won't be different; especially since...we have quite a lot of it already. Not merely in advanced medicine, also in how much we can leave behind us - with that amount ever increasing, and for bigger and bigger portion of humanity. Eventually that data will take a life of its own; or have done so already, depending where's your cutoff point.
Sure, that's not a direct continuity for "really us" conciousness...but that's largely pointless. The most cherished and most resistant to preserve "data" are a pretty low-level, biological, not unique stuff anyway. When you honestly look at it, one can safely say we lead at least many thousands instances of our life at this very moment already.
I don't really see how "transhumanist" is applicable in the case of people very much clinging to their individual lives. Which is very...good ol' human-like; and quite typical generally.
Speaking of which, didn't fart apps seem to really took off only on one platform?...
Maybe not so awesome anymore... (though TBH I appreciate such discretion)
On the bright (sort of...) side - later time of your birth probably wouldn't prevent you from being dismissive of new things, from certain point, anyway.