Yes, but now they can and have identified the specific areas of the brain that are responsible for all of those functions. Maybe one area of the brain was responsible for all 3 functions, recognition, and associated data about a face, but now they know otherwise, and that is important.
Aah okay, thanks for the info. When I think "bug" I'm thinking "I meant to add 3, but I added 4 instead" kind of bugs, which you couldn't really detect algorithmically, because how's the algorithm supposed to know your purpose for the program? I suppose I might be using the wrong word for that.
Something I've always wondered about this. How do they identify a "bug"? A bug can be anything from a typographical error (easy to detect, probably won't even _compile_) to accomplishing a slightly different problem than was intended (very difficult to detect, how do you know exactly what the software was intendd to do). So how are they qualitatively identifying "bugs"?
Also, if they're so good at identifying them, is it much different to fix them?
I'm an EE, not a CS, so I'm not familiar with hardcore programming tools, but I'd love it if I had something that could point out bugs in my code before I try it.
Even a small drop onto a hard surface can generate 500 g's, it's all a matter of how it lands, and what you're landing on. If you hit a tiled or hardwood floor, it's going to be a lot more than landing on a carpet.
Excellent post. While it would be much harder to write the software for the myriad different ethernet chipsets that exist out there, this makes the most sense from a non-detection and information-gathering standpoint.
since when does a fossil fuel power plant produce radioactive waste?:)
Take a look at some of the research and data on how much naturally radioactive particles are released into the atmosphere through burning of fossil fuels, you'll probably be surprised. I believe it's a few orders of magnitude more than the amount generated in current fission plants.
And it would have been had the anti-nuclear nutters who stopped the whole thing in its tracks. Yes 3 mile island happened and then chernobyl. So what? When an airliner crashes 400 people die. Do we stop all flight? Tens of thousands of people die in car crashes every year. Do we ban cars? No.
Exactly. Everything has risk, and while we should and do try to reduce the risks, not doing something because it does pose a slight risk, where it could lead to huge benefits is beyond retarded. People just don't take the time to understand.
I did read the article. While it was bona-fide infringement by selling the console with games already on it, the charges are exactly what I have stated...
The wording of the charges would make it seem that felt-tipped pens are illegal (for being a device to circumvent copyright protection).
Unfortunately with the rise of the "PC" culture, hypersensitivity to the issues doesn't seem like it's going to go away any time soon. I completely agree with you though.
For a basic "high speed" connection, you're pretty much looking at spending $50+ dollars a month in the US (In the northeast anyway, where I'm from). That's a lot of dough.
the.com was the one that was _supposed_ to come up if you tpye in.com. It's the advertiser's fault for not specifying the.au. If you got directions to a concert in a city, but they listed the wrong subway stop, and the wrong stop brought you to the red light district, would you want the train to just skip that stop? It's all the fault of the damn advertisers for getting it wrong.
If an advertiser can't advertise correctly, maybe they suck at life and shouldn't be in the advertising business? They only had to do one thing, and they failed.
I don't see why everybody is ignoring nuclear powered climbers. Just run an electric motor off of them, and there'll be plenty of power to get where you need to go. Nuclear isn't quite as good for rockets, because it can't directly make a force like chemical rockets do (unless you're talking about exploding nuclear blasts beneath the ship, lots of pollution). Nuclear power generation is great at making a good amount of electricity over a long period of time, perfect for an electric climber-bot.
Sure can. There are plenty of tiny computers out there. If you want to DIY, you could go with a mini-itx board and put the OS on a compact flash (IDE compatable).
Then you could just load all of the media over a network or something.
You keep having to explain it, because you are wrong:
It's not a monopoly - Other options are available to the customer: Linux, QNX, FreeDOS, do-it-yourself; afterall, it's software, what are you doing buying a computer if you don't know how to write software?
Software always comes "bundled" with something else - Any OS you find on any sort of hardware is going to be "bundled" with software: I don't and can't reasonably complain that the ECU in my car comes "bundled" with proprietary Motorolla code with no publically released opcode list for me to look at and edit as I see fit. Nearly every motherboard you buy is going to be "bundled" with either an Award or AMI BIOS, but that's the choice of the motherboard seller. Just like it's the choice of the OS seller to bundle software with their OS. It's all software, and they should be allowed to do what they want with it. If you don't like it, you are perfectly free to create your own. I don't complain that the lyrics in the songs I listen to aren't different, if I don't like them, I just don't use them.
MS may have set back the computing industry by a bit, but not because they sell software, it's their bastardly marketing techniques and just sheer size to buy out any competing rivals. We made them that way, and it's their right to remain that way. If consumers were more educated, they wouldn't stick with MS. However they aren't, so they dominate (not monopolize) the market.
Any product that is sufficiently better than anything Microsoft has to offer will succeed in the marketplace (Google, to use your reference). It's not a monopoly, it's just that everybody chooses MS, and chooses to use their search engines, their browser, their bundled software. It's free will / free choice.
Whatever happened to Lego Technics (sp?)? I believe the "Mindstorm" Lego sets come with gears, axles, actuators and such, but can you buy non-Mindstorm technic sets still? I used to have the most fun with those.
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Yes, but now they can and have identified the specific areas of the brain that are responsible for all of those functions. Maybe one area of the brain was responsible for all 3 functions, recognition, and associated data about a face, but now they know otherwise, and that is important.
-Jesse
Aah okay, thanks for the info. When I think "bug" I'm thinking "I meant to add 3, but I added 4 instead" kind of bugs, which you couldn't really detect algorithmically, because how's the algorithm supposed to know your purpose for the program? I suppose I might be using the wrong word for that.
-Jesse
Something I've always wondered about this. How do they identify a "bug"? A bug can be anything from a typographical error (easy to detect, probably won't even _compile_) to accomplishing a slightly different problem than was intended (very difficult to detect, how do you know exactly what the software was intendd to do). So how are they qualitatively identifying "bugs"?
Also, if they're so good at identifying them, is it much different to fix them?
I'm an EE, not a CS, so I'm not familiar with hardcore programming tools, but I'd love it if I had something that could point out bugs in my code before I try it.
-Jesse
Even a small drop onto a hard surface can generate 500 g's, it's all a matter of how it lands, and what you're landing on. If you hit a tiled or hardwood floor, it's going to be a lot more than landing on a carpet.
-Jesse
Excellent post. While it would be much harder to write the software for the myriad different ethernet chipsets that exist out there, this makes the most sense from a non-detection and information-gathering standpoint.
-Jesse
Hahaha, you're going to be sick and tired for quite some time my friend... Yes quite some time.
-Jesse
since when does a fossil fuel power plant produce radioactive waste? :)
Take a look at some of the research and data on how much naturally radioactive particles are released into the atmosphere through burning of fossil fuels, you'll probably be surprised. I believe it's a few orders of magnitude more than the amount generated in current fission plants.
-Jesse
And it would have been had the anti-nuclear nutters who stopped the whole thing in its tracks. Yes 3 mile island happened and then chernobyl. So what? When an airliner crashes 400 people die. Do we stop all flight? Tens of thousands of people die in car crashes every year. Do we ban cars? No.
Exactly. Everything has risk, and while we should and do try to reduce the risks, not doing something because it does pose a slight risk, where it could lead to huge benefits is beyond retarded. People just don't take the time to understand.
-Jesse
Nice! I had totally made it up by myself, without knowledge of any pre-existing "standards", and now the about.com is copying me also! :D
-Jesse
I did read the article. While it was bona-fide infringement by selling the console with games already on it, the charges are exactly what I have stated...
The wording of the charges would make it seem that felt-tipped pens are illegal (for being a device to circumvent copyright protection).
-Jesse
Conspiracy to commit copyright infringement... I didn't know it'd gotten that bad yet.
-Jesse
Excellent post. You hit every point I'd been thinking about while reading the comments here.
-Jesse
Unfortunately with the rise of the "PC" culture, hypersensitivity to the issues doesn't seem like it's going to go away any time soon. I completely agree with you though.
-Jesse
My CD player never told me what song I'm listening to. That's what my ears are for.
-Jesse
Now I've got the theme song to Excite Bike stuck in my head.
Do do do dodo doo. Do do do dodo doo. doopydoopydoopy do do dodo, dodo do do dodo.
Thank you, thank you.
-Jesse
For a basic "high speed" connection, you're pretty much looking at spending $50+ dollars a month in the US (In the northeast anyway, where I'm from). That's a lot of dough.
-Jesse
the .com was the one that was _supposed_ to come up if you tpye in .com. It's the advertiser's fault for not specifying the .au. If you got directions to a concert in a city, but they listed the wrong subway stop, and the wrong stop brought you to the red light district, would you want the train to just skip that stop? It's all the fault of the damn advertisers for getting it wrong.
If an advertiser can't advertise correctly, maybe they suck at life and shouldn't be in the advertising business? They only had to do one thing, and they failed.
-Jesse
The bagel burns with the power of lemons? The horrors! The atrocity! The papercuts! Won't someone think of the hamsters?
-Jesse
I don't see why everybody is ignoring nuclear powered climbers. Just run an electric motor off of them, and there'll be plenty of power to get where you need to go. Nuclear isn't quite as good for rockets, because it can't directly make a force like chemical rockets do (unless you're talking about exploding nuclear blasts beneath the ship, lots of pollution). Nuclear power generation is great at making a good amount of electricity over a long period of time, perfect for an electric climber-bot.
-Jesse
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Way to go.
-Jesse
Sure can. There are plenty of tiny computers out there. If you want to DIY, you could go with a mini-itx board and put the OS on a compact flash (IDE compatable).
Then you could just load all of the media over a network or something.
-Jesse
Why not?
-Jesse
You keep having to explain it, because you are wrong:
Hahaha. My friends and I will bring that up on occasion.
"Cross-fi-yuuuh"
-Jesse
Whatever happened to Lego Technics (sp?)? I believe the "Mindstorm" Lego sets come with gears, axles, actuators and such, but can you buy non-Mindstorm technic sets still? I used to have the most fun with those.
-Jesse