This replacement heart would really screw with the timing of that hacker dude who became the flat-line in Neuromancer. I'm guessing he would rather die than get one of these lol
You are forgetting that margin requirements for your account change when you buy a stock that is less than $5, and less than $1. The reason is that stocks selling at these prices are often more volatile.
If I have a $100,000 account and I buy 100 shares of a stock selling at $0.10 then the margin requirements for my entire account change, even if I've got $90,000 in cash. I can get a margin call a lot sooner than I would have otherwise and be forced to liquidate or deposit more money into my account.
Besides, if you buy only stocks greater than $5 a share, you can use 2:1 margin, which can propel you to ridiculous gains that would make even the luckiest penny stock owner want to change his strategy if only he knew.
In summary, yes, the stock price does have relevance. Most institutions will not buy a stock that sells for less than $10 a share. If you don't believe me, then take a look.
The xbox will run Doom 3. Given that, Doom 3 BETTER run fine on a PC with specs similar to yours (and mine).
I won't be upgrading my PC just for one game. My PC runs all current games fine. At this point in my life, I have better things to waste my money on than one game, regardless of how good it is. I'd sooner have beer with friends any day.
A challenge for/. readers -- go buy some gasoline in graduated containers, and check for yourself [avoid 1,5, and 10 gallon sizes; many states use these for testing purposes and the computers inside the pumps 'catch up' temporarily at these intervals].
So what you are saying is that I should fill up my car in increments of 1, 5, and 10 gallons of gas.
Carry a horse tranq gun with you and you can tranquilize the popcorn munching night vision guy in the dorky theater uniform and carry on taping the film un-interrupted. If the security comes down the isle at you, it'd be like deus ex. You gotta use stealth and the audience won't notice you picking off the guards starting at the back so that the ones in the front don't know that their team is being put to sleep 1 by 1.
The last guy walks up to you "Hey what are you doing?" Turn around from the video camera and Benders voice: "This" and tranq the guy lol
LOL this cracks me up. The women service you on demand while u post comments on/. right? Should be/: instead cuz it looks more like the nerd goggles that you're probably wearing right now while pretending to get serviced and reading this!!
Its not the same. Its there but its not the same LOL
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Wow, I can't believe I'm hearing this. I read the article and thought "I wonder if this guy is exagerating", but now after hearing you say crap like
This version of events was determined to be false by the trial court, and that decision was upheld by the Supreme Court. Instead they found that he had saved seed that he knew was Monsanto-patented, (genetically modified to resist Roundup herbicide) and planted it without paying them a license fee.
it is plain to me that there really is merit to his story. HOW IN THE F*CK IS HE SUPPOSED TO REMOVE THE MONSANTO GENES YOU IDIOT??? If Monsanto wants to leverage a profit from the market-competative abilities of their modified produce, fine. But they simply cannot hold everybody else responsible for doing what they obviously couldn't do: contain their own crops. I'm so mad right now.
Ok, so range - 250 miles? What happens if they miss the target... some random object/person gets blasted 250 miles down the road? Yeah, that sounds like a great idea...
You pessimists always try to get in the way of progress. How about chaining yourselves to the side of the boat so that it can't possibly leave the shore without giving you a drink.
Are you familiar with the Church-Turing thesis? Basically, every alternative computing formulation we've been able to come up with computes exactly the same set of functions as conventional computers. Given that, could you please explain to me how any particular hardware breakthrough (modulo a hypercomputer of some kind) is going to give us human-equivalent AI?
The computers they were working with in those times may have computed the same fundamental computations, but they were made of vacuum parts. Now we've got computers as parts to the vacuums. We kick our feet up and drink margarittas while the vacuum does all the work. Sure enough, people like you said we'd never see it back then. Do you know why it happened? Because of innovations in both hardware AND software.
The ai of 50 years ago did simple math calculations. The ai of today vacuums our floors, manages internet packet routing, designs toothbrushes, and plays deathmatch with us. Its not too hard to see how innovation begets more innovation, and with some clever uses of brute force selection processes, massively parallel processing power, and vast data storage, it seems inevitable to me that we will have computers that can assist with the brain work in 50 years.
I may as well be describing the symphony to deaf ears. I'll go back to my armchair and stare at the pie in the sky some more now ok?
LOL everybody that enjoys programming thinks they are good at it. The sad thing is most of them happily copy and paste so much code together that every final product they come up with is a train wreck because they aren't interested in spending the time to learn about things like design patterns, textbook control structure and data structures.
So you can scrape together code that gets done what needs to get done, that doesn't make you a good programmer. Use the best code for the job, then ur a good programmer.
Even linear regression is a learning algorithm. You give it a bunch of training data as input (i.e. x,y pairs), iterate on that data until it converges, and is then used to predict new data. There happens to be an analytic solution to the iteration, but this does not make it any less of a learning algorithm.
I think maybe your definition of "learning" is unnecessarily strict. The simplicity of the computation is not what defines this category of algorithms.
So you learn by brute force trial and error? I don't. When I learn, it is a sophisticated process of observation and inference. Trial and error is secondary.
All this whining isn't about the right to trade files. It's about wanting to continue leeching university resources.
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This replacement heart would really screw with the timing of that hacker dude who became the flat-line in Neuromancer. I'm guessing he would rather die than get one of these lol
You are forgetting that margin requirements for your account change when you buy a stock that is less than $5, and less than $1. The reason is that stocks selling at these prices are often more volatile. If I have a $100,000 account and I buy 100 shares of a stock selling at $0.10 then the margin requirements for my entire account change, even if I've got $90,000 in cash. I can get a margin call a lot sooner than I would have otherwise and be forced to liquidate or deposit more money into my account. Besides, if you buy only stocks greater than $5 a share, you can use 2:1 margin, which can propel you to ridiculous gains that would make even the luckiest penny stock owner want to change his strategy if only he knew. In summary, yes, the stock price does have relevance. Most institutions will not buy a stock that sells for less than $10 a share. If you don't believe me, then take a look.
That was a joke, by the way =)
I thought it was intelligence until I read your post.
So what you are saying is that I should fill up my car in increments of 1, 5, and 10 gallons of gas.
1) Begin design and manufacture of the "automobile router" that can delegate and manage hundreds private VIN's per single real VIN.
2) ???
3) Profit!
The last guy walks up to you "Hey what are you doing?" Turn around from the video camera and Benders voice: "This" and tranq the guy lol
Shouldn't the t-rex icon be on this story instead of the story above it?
LOL this cracks me up. The women service you on demand while u post comments on /. right? Should be /: instead cuz it looks more like the nerd goggles that you're probably wearing right now while pretending to get serviced and reading this!!
Its not the same. Its there but its not the same LOL
it is plain to me that there really is merit to his story. HOW IN THE F*CK IS HE SUPPOSED TO REMOVE THE MONSANTO GENES YOU IDIOT??? If Monsanto wants to leverage a profit from the market-competative abilities of their modified produce, fine. But they simply cannot hold everybody else responsible for doing what they obviously couldn't do: contain their own crops. I'm so mad right now.
if they use these things to swat aircraft or is this ship-to-ship weaponry?
You pessimists always try to get in the way of progress. How about chaining yourselves to the side of the boat so that it can't possibly leave the shore without giving you a drink.
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Damn I'm still laughing about taht
Holy crap that was the funniest thing I've seen all week! People are staring at my cube right now wondering what the hell I'm doing ^^
Damn dude u sound like a nerd. Bigtime.
The computers they were working with in those times may have computed the same fundamental computations, but they were made of vacuum parts. Now we've got computers as parts to the vacuums. We kick our feet up and drink margarittas while the vacuum does all the work. Sure enough, people like you said we'd never see it back then. Do you know why it happened? Because of innovations in both hardware AND software.
The ai of 50 years ago did simple math calculations. The ai of today vacuums our floors, manages internet packet routing, designs toothbrushes, and plays deathmatch with us. Its not too hard to see how innovation begets more innovation, and with some clever uses of brute force selection processes, massively parallel processing power, and vast data storage, it seems inevitable to me that we will have computers that can assist with the brain work in 50 years.
I may as well be describing the symphony to deaf ears. I'll go back to my armchair and stare at the pie in the sky some more now ok?
So you can scrape together code that gets done what needs to get done, that doesn't make you a good programmer. Use the best code for the job, then ur a good programmer.
You sir, are an idiot.
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