DNA sequencing has moved from non-existent to "really expensive and really slow" when I used to do it over 20 years ago to "extremely fast and quite cheap" today
Yes, but it has done so through an iterative series of improvements, not some single breakthrough by a lone inventor. Which is the whole point of TFA.
Something doesn't have to be magical to be incapable of being duplicated, smart arse. If you think that consciousness is a simple matter of information density, it is up to you to prove it.
The proof of the AI pudding will be in the eating. The idea of the singularity, i.e. some massive step shift in complexity when machines suddenly acquire sentience is just a nice sci fi idea at the moment, whatever Kurzweil and his fan boys might say.
Even the summary says that Nokia is just one of 74 participants. No idea why they write that Nokia gets everything.
It sounds more annoying to non-Europeans, so you'll probably get a bunch of Americans moaning about evil European socialists ruining their economy, or something, and a bunch of us Europeans telling them to stop whining like little babies.
I'd have thought that low gravity was an advantage if you want to build a huge structure, but I cheerfully admit I'm no architect, structural engineer or brickie.
"Us" is being used in the collective sense, as in a nation or the entire human race. I can't believe people graduate from college not knowing these things.
I can't believe people graduate from college not knowing what a joke is.
Furthermore, I have to object with the assertion that the licensing deals are "shady". It is the same kind of deal as is made with car manufacturers, sports teams, etc. To call it shady is to reveal your political bias.
There is a difference between people buying guns for legitimate hobby, sporting or whatever reasons, and glorifying the military-industrial complex's militant wing, the International Arms Trade.
Er, he didn't kill them all at once. I'm not knocking him, but a sniper killing 500 enemy in 100 days is not the same thing as killing the same number in a ten minute rampage.
The old Ghost Recon had realism, in Call of Honor or Medal of Duty you can absorb far more damage than is realistic.
I hate to point out the obvious, but in real life you can't respawn either. To be realistic, the first time you get killed the game should self-destruct and leave just a black screen with a little ribbon on your computer, for ever.
I seldom even see product placement in movies, just like I don't pay attention to it in real life.
I think you're missing the point. Product placement in movies is more akin to subliminal advertising. You don't have characters hold their Apple laptop up to the camera and say "gee, what a cool Apple Macbook Pro Air Retina Display Cold Fusion Time Machine this is."
Google is pretty scary environment to trust your life to. Where you work, where you sleep, where you eat, who you talk to, what you say, what pictures you take, how fast you drive, how often you visit your lover....
I'm OK, I just log on to facebook and run the internet from there without bothering with google.
Windows is slowly getting hurt on the desktop, by Mac, by Linux
I think Microsoft's problem isn't that they'll stop having a 90% share of the desktop market, but that the desktop market itself will shrink so much that 90% of it won't be worth much.
I suppose businesses will have more inertia, but I can't imagine any normal consumer buying a desktop or laptop these days. An iPad/tablet does everything that most people need.
I just got my second Windows Phone today. I really like it. I don't care about all of the "Apps" because it does everything I need right out of the box.
I think that's a pretty good point. Apart from kids, a lot of people stop downloading (m)any apps to their phone after the first month or two anyway. If you've already got a phone, texting, camera, email, calendar, alarm, web browser that's all that 95% of people are ever really going to need anyway. All the casual games could probably run in a web browser anyway.
I can't see any compelling reason to choose a Windows Phone (even ignoring any ideological objections), but other things being equal, the fact that it doesn't have 978 billion apps in the Windos app store wouldn't be a real issue.
..with dynamic form factor. The next generation OS / device will be "AI on Demand". It will have the ability to aquire "over the air" expertise to become your chauffer, your chef, dog, massuer, masseur, a wife or a nurse. Your fetish on disposal.
Cheers to that!!
If I was an AI, I'm fucked if I'd waste my time giving you handjobs.
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DNA sequencing has moved from non-existent to "really expensive and really slow" when I used to do it over 20 years ago to "extremely fast and quite cheap" today
Yes, but it has done so through an iterative series of improvements, not some single breakthrough by a lone inventor. Which is the whole point of TFA.
What happens when somebody asks an intelligent computer "Do white people have the right to have their own countries?", and it says "Yes"?
LOL
They're aiming for Artificial Intelligence, not Artificial Stupidity.
The proof of the AI pudding will be in the eating. The idea of the singularity, i.e. some massive step shift in complexity when machines suddenly acquire sentience is just a nice sci fi idea at the moment, whatever Kurzweil and his fan boys might say.
As the system should have been able to gain self awareness in 29 August 1997, way behind. Typical software project management failure........
Once it discovers the secret of time travel it can go back and speed things along a little.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Proof that you can be a great Computer Scientist but a crap Philosopher.
Even the summary says that Nokia is just one of 74 participants. No idea why they write that Nokia gets everything.
It sounds more annoying to non-Europeans, so you'll probably get a bunch of Americans moaning about evil European socialists ruining their economy, or something, and a bunch of us Europeans telling them to stop whining like little babies.
It's a way of generating argument.
Why shouldn't the EU help along what was one of Europe's premier tech companies and help give them an edge over the Chinese, Koreans and Americans?
I'd have thought that low gravity was an advantage if you want to build a huge structure, but I cheerfully admit I'm no architect, structural engineer or brickie.
and they dont just send any Tom Dick and Henry into space. These people are screened, physically and psychologically, for just that reason.
Yes, but that's the whole point: OP was talking about regular Joes, not highly trained astronauts going into space.
"Us" is being used in the collective sense, as in a nation or the entire human race. I can't believe people graduate from college not knowing these things.
I can't believe people graduate from college not knowing what a joke is.
Oh, right, THAT Amazon. Thanks for avoiding any potential confusion with...well, nobody.
Furthermore, I have to object with the assertion that the licensing deals are "shady". It is the same kind of deal as is made with car manufacturers, sports teams, etc. To call it shady is to reveal your political bias.
There is a difference between people buying guns for legitimate hobby, sporting or whatever reasons, and glorifying the military-industrial complex's militant wing, the International Arms Trade.
Yeah, one guy with a rifle and a sub-machine gun killing like five hundred dudes, that would be totally unrealistic.
Er, he didn't kill them all at once. I'm not knocking him, but a sniper killing 500 enemy in 100 days is not the same thing as killing the same number in a ten minute rampage.
Realism?
The old Ghost Recon had realism, in Call of Honor or Medal of Duty you can absorb far more damage than is realistic.
I hate to point out the obvious, but in real life you can't respawn either. To be realistic, the first time you get killed the game should self-destruct and leave just a black screen with a little ribbon on your computer, for ever.
There's one show my kids watch (iCarly?) where the laptops have a logo of a pear with a bite out of it. Always makes me smile.
I seldom even see product placement in movies, just like I don't pay attention to it in real life.
I think you're missing the point. Product placement in movies is more akin to subliminal advertising. You don't have characters hold their Apple laptop up to the camera and say "gee, what a cool Apple Macbook Pro Air Retina Display Cold Fusion Time Machine this is."
Google is pretty scary environment to trust your life to. Where you work, where you sleep, where you eat, who you talk to, what you say, what pictures you take, how fast you drive, how often you visit your lover....
I'm OK, I just log on to facebook and run the internet from there without bothering with google.
Also, what about security issues with older versions of Android that can't be upgraded easily?
android has multitasking but only has windows in some samsung products
That's hardly surprising for a phone OS. The idea of multiple windows on anything smaller than a tablet makes me feel physically upset.
So, I think the best way to get a new phone out there is to steal an ecosystem.
Since it's software, surely you mean copy?
Windows is slowly getting hurt on the desktop, by Mac, by Linux
I think Microsoft's problem isn't that they'll stop having a 90% share of the desktop market, but that the desktop market itself will shrink so much that 90% of it won't be worth much.
I suppose businesses will have more inertia, but I can't imagine any normal consumer buying a desktop or laptop these days. An iPad/tablet does everything that most people need.
I just got my second Windows Phone today. I really like it. I don't care about all of the "Apps" because it does everything I need right out of the box.
I think that's a pretty good point. Apart from kids, a lot of people stop downloading (m)any apps to their phone after the first month or two anyway. If you've already got a phone, texting, camera, email, calendar, alarm, web browser that's all that 95% of people are ever really going to need anyway. All the casual games could probably run in a web browser anyway.
I can't see any compelling reason to choose a Windows Phone (even ignoring any ideological objections), but other things being equal, the fact that it doesn't have 978 billion apps in the Windos app store wouldn't be a real issue.
..with dynamic form factor. The next generation OS / device will be "AI on Demand". It will have the ability to aquire "over the air" expertise to become your chauffer, your chef, dog, massuer, masseur, a wife or a nurse. Your fetish on disposal. Cheers to that!!
If I was an AI, I'm fucked if I'd waste my time giving you handjobs.
Non-geeks have almost no idea about what Google does at all, you know.
Perhaps because that's patented.
To be secure you need a proper password system anyway, the swipey pattern thing can be cracked by an reasonably intelligent 8 year old child.
And I somehow doubt that "protecting a computer system with a password" has been patented