I don't who'll win the warming wager. But I can guarantee that the losers will be quick to assure us that real-world circumstance has only temporarily stunted the blossoming of their still-correct theory... quicker than you can spell 'economist'...
...there are some very serious laws about adults who solicit children for criminal activity.
Indeed. From here, it's hard to distinguish between what happened and outright entrapment. The only defense to it would seem to be, "I didn't know the tape-dispenser was loaded..."
But a 2% performance improvement may make the difference between a component or system being labelled as "disappointing" and "out in front" by a lot of dumbed-down magazines and online articles.
...which is especially moronic if the 2% speed gain is accompanied by, say, a 10% reliability loss.
Unless one's in some race where second-place equals also-ran, most computer users would gladly give up a little performance to get a machine that never errs. (And that is the curve-behavior in the "overclocking" region, after all...)
...a concept whereby information is shared smoothly and intelligently...
A holodeck would be, at best, sharing experience. Sharing information (especially "intelligently") is, in some ways, a more durable puzzle... if only because each new instance requires a new solution...
To stop government form releasing weather data the companies are pushing a bill in the senate sponsored by rep Santorum...
...because the data could be misused by those who don't understand it. Likewise, a ban's proposed to stop US consumers from importing Canadian weather-data, which might be improperly manufactured or labeled...
The crime would be that he violated his contractual agreement not to use a bot. The damages would be whatever market-value he stole (real, apparently)... and pain and suffering to the victim (who could reasonably be expected to have an unreasonable emotional investment in the game)... and damages to the game-company for making its "streets" seem unsafe for its paying citizens.
(I am not a lawyer, but I assume the game-identity of one...)
We're looking at developing some of the softer skills that are needed for the 21st century, such as problem-solving, resilience, persistence and collaboration.
"Soft" skills? "21st century"? In which human-inhabited geologic era were such talents not a near-necessity?
The project may prove valuable, but its mission seems the more commonplace one of sweetening a learning curve...this time with the known seductions of a joystick...
"...our colleagues in Australia... have been able to identify and trap a targeted sperm under the laser microscope in the California laboratory."
Though this achievement doubtless strikes fear into the hearts of fugitive sperm everywhere... it's hard to see it as a breakthrough. In other words... it's unlikely that there was ever much doubt about the success of this "demonstration", since any glitch would likely have been met by a mere retry. And, in still other words... do you feel even microscopically better about the prospect of, say, your next airline flight's pilot relaxing at a cable-modem in his condo?
Will a service technician now feel like an Islamic physician who must treat his female patient but mustn't look at her? And will courtroom witnesses soon be citing 'geek-consumer privilege'?
J.K. Rowling has suggested referring to 'the-events-who-must-not-be-named'. Support for the proposal has come from Jane (formerly "Olympia") Dukakis...
"... it became a terrifying mob scene. People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little girl's stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd."
Oh, the humanity...
Is this the world's first iDisaster? Will iWitness accounts be published in a forthcoming iBook?
Moore's law is NOT a fundamental law of the Universe. It was an observation of a trend that has held up for a lot longer than anyone expected.
Indeed, Moore's law isn't as certain as sunrise... and even that will eventually run out...
But its longevity does suggest that more than a mere circumstantial trend may be at work... say, something closely related to the exponential growth of scientific knowledge. Nanotubes look like they'd fit that bill nicely.
The United States Copyright Office asks whether you would have any problem if you were required to use Microsoft Internet Explorer in order to pre-register a work via their website.
Would that be MSIE as of some freeze-date? Or does the USCO mean to hitch its wagon to Microsoft's development path, so that, e.g., playwrights and composers must also master the art of frequent software-upgrading?
The service indeed seems to remove technical and convenience obstacles to clip-publishing... leaving the prognosticator's question of whether something like this could somehow make its way into the pantheon of lasting, widespread user habits (like weekend movies, or video games, or blogs, etc...)
I watched two of its offerings: the zucchini-eating baby (which YouTube proffered), and the article's "all-time favorite", Matt Dances. The latter did have a certain something, no doubt about it... but neither induced me to eMail my friends about it, nor to expand my weekly routine for more...
City Commissioner Robert Billingsley said... that he would... fire... Martin, but he declined to explain why he thought she had not done enough to prevent the incident...
Fire first (while the local headlines are hot), and ask questions later...
Raise your kids, not mine, has always been my motto... [and other good stuff]
Moreover, a responsible parent might also consider the cost to the child of being the only kid not allowed to play Beastkill VII. ('Consider' here means 'recognize and assess'...)
...Real is very worried that... a court might not agree that the reverse-engineering [Apple's DRM-encryption] is legal."
Would this imply that, even if I lose my housekey, I'm not allowed to pick the lock? And, would it further suggest that, when I bought the lock, part of what I paid for was the vendor's assurance that they'd sue any crook who picked it? Seems like that'd be a lock in name only. Guess I could post a sign saying, "Warning: Premises protected by First Circuit Court of Appeals"...
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I don't who'll win the warming wager. But I can guarantee that the losers will be quick to assure us that real-world circumstance has only temporarily stunted the blossoming of their still-correct theory... quicker than you can spell 'economist'...
Indeed. From here, it's hard to distinguish between what happened and outright entrapment. The only defense to it would seem to be, "I didn't know the tape-dispenser was loaded..."
Unless one's in some race where second-place equals also-ran, most computer users would gladly give up a little performance to get a machine that never errs. (And that is the curve-behavior in the "overclocking" region, after all...)
A holodeck would be, at best, sharing experience. Sharing information (especially "intelligently") is, in some ways, a more durable puzzle... if only because each new instance requires a new solution...
It would be refreshing for an oversight committee's report, just once, to make affirmative use of the phrase, "acceptable risk".
"It isn't just a teen slasher movie"
Certain statements seem to scream that Truth resides in their exact opposite ...
The crime would be that he violated his contractual agreement not to use a bot. The damages would be whatever market-value he stole (real, apparently)... and pain and suffering to the victim (who could reasonably be expected to have an unreasonable emotional investment in the game)... and damages to the game-company for making its "streets" seem unsafe for its paying citizens.
(I am not a lawyer, but I assume the game-identity of one...)
Lions and Tigers eat Bears... oh my!
"Soft" skills? "21st century"? In which human-inhabited geologic era were such talents not a near-necessity?
The project may prove valuable, but its mission seems the more commonplace one of sweetening a learning curve ...this time with the known seductions of a joystick...
Though this achievement doubtless strikes fear into the hearts of fugitive sperm everywhere... it's hard to see it as a breakthrough. In other words... it's unlikely that there was ever much doubt about the success of this "demonstration", since any glitch would likely have been met by a mere retry. And, in still other words... do you feel even microscopically better about the prospect of, say, your next airline flight's pilot relaxing at a cable-modem in his condo?
Will a service technician now feel like an Islamic physician who must treat his female patient but mustn't look at her? And will courtroom witnesses soon be citing 'geek-consumer privilege'?
Cloning meat to produce an infinite supply? Hmmm, that rings a bell. But I think it was with fish... and loaves...
J.K. Rowling has suggested referring to 'the-events-who-must-not-be-named'. Support for the proposal has come from Jane (formerly "Olympia") Dukakis...
Oh, the humanity...
Is this the world's first iDisaster? Will iWitness accounts be published in a forthcoming iBook?
iWonder...
Indeed, Moore's law isn't as certain as sunrise... and even that will eventually run out...
But its longevity does suggest that more than a mere circumstantial trend may be at work... say, something closely related to the exponential growth of scientific knowledge. Nanotubes look like they'd fit that bill nicely.
Would that be MSIE as of some freeze-date? Or does the USCO mean to hitch its wagon to Microsoft's development path, so that, e.g., playwrights and composers must also master the art of frequent software-upgrading?
"Reality" has always been defined by what we agree on. Ask any anthropologist, politician, or phone-sex operator...
I watched two of its offerings: the zucchini-eating baby (which YouTube proffered), and the article's "all-time favorite", Matt Dances. The latter did have a certain something, no doubt about it... but neither induced me to eMail my friends about it, nor to expand my weekly routine for more...
This is actually good... or at worst neutral... Worry not about technology divining your consumer tastes, but rather about it creating them...
Fire first (while the local headlines are hot), and ask questions later...
Moreover, a responsible parent might also consider the cost to the child of being the only kid not allowed to play Beastkill VII. ('Consider' here means 'recognize and assess'...)
Would this imply that, even if I lose my housekey, I'm not allowed to pick the lock? And, would it further suggest that, when I bought the lock, part of what I paid for was the vendor's assurance that they'd sue any crook who picked it? Seems like that'd be a lock in name only. Guess I could post a sign saying, "Warning: Premises protected by First Circuit Court of Appeals"...