If you lived on Mars, this might indeed be a good thing. With no natural rivers to bring to replenish nutrients, dust storms would be quite an advantage when farming. Granted, they would likely sandblast anything you had planted, so you would have to harvest before storms, but I think that, on the whole, they would be quite beneficial. I wonder what Earthly plants could survive in a cold, tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere, with thick enough bark to sustain a sandstorm?
Our brains limit us to only create something less "intelligent" if we were to do it from scratch.
I disagree. If we can determine the origin of intelligence and the mechanisms by which is works, we could improve upon those mechanisms. Also, it depends what kind of intelligence you a measuring. Math-wise, computers are far more intelligent than the average individual at computation. It's quite possible that we could create a device/organism that's better suited to other areas of intelligence.
I always liked sticking the printer in slot 6, just to mess people up.
Of course, by the time I finally got rid of that old machine, I had flopply controllers in slots 6, 5, and 4. ProDOS made handling multiple disks a breeze. Printers were on 7 and 1 (one for labels, the other for regular), mouse on 2, and a 64 KB RAM expansion:D
Very clever. It took me a bit to figure out that/dev/null is a second filename paramter to egrep, which forces it to list which file it found the matching regexp in. I'll have to remember this command!
Actually, yes. It uses the interference patterns between the light received at the two (or more) telescopes to give resolution many times that of the individual instruments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry
Wonder if they can adapt this to be an accurate test for prion related disease like BSE (mad cow disiease). If it could be used for both humans AND other animals, the food supply could become safer.
Personally, I have no plans to eat humans, whether they have BSE or not;)
save up the cash and put together a 2 terabyte SATA storage server (the mobo doesn't have to be great, nore the ram)
That all depends on how important your data is. High quality parts should be of top concern. Also, don't skimp out on the ram -- the more ram you have, the more the server will have to cache recently accessed files.
2 TB should be enough space. MAKE SURE YOUR NETWORK THAT THE SERVER IS CONNECTED TO IS 100 MBIT (preferably the client transfering files to/from as well). It might be a good idea to maybe invest in gigabit.
2 TB will fill up rather quickly, especially if the server is used to store high definition video (like HDTV). Also, 100 Mbit is a huge bottleneck -- that only gives you roughly 12 MB/s, which isn't enough to keep up with highspeed DVD burners or even play full resolution HDTV. Furthermore, if you're using ethernet, remember that usage above 60%, especially with multiple clients (say, two people pulling/pushing lots of the server at once), suffers from rather high latency and packet collision. Moving the same amount of data over a 1000 Mbit connection reduces collisions and congestion by 99% as data moves 10 times as fast down the wire. Using gigabit (at least when ethernet is concerned) is really the only option with decent performance.
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Actually, you divide by 40, nimrod.
If you lived on Mars, this might indeed be a good thing. With no natural rivers to bring to replenish nutrients, dust storms would be quite an advantage when farming. Granted, they would likely sandblast anything you had planted, so you would have to harvest before storms, but I think that, on the whole, they would be quite beneficial. I wonder what Earthly plants could survive in a cold, tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere, with thick enough bark to sustain a sandstorm?
Are you suggesting they send a giant Swiffer up with the next rover?
Our brains limit us to only create something less "intelligent" if we were to do it from scratch.
I disagree. If we can determine the origin of intelligence and the mechanisms by which is works, we could improve upon those mechanisms. Also, it depends what kind of intelligence you a measuring. Math-wise, computers are far more intelligent than the average individual at computation. It's quite possible that we could create a device/organism that's better suited to other areas of intelligence.
You'd end up with Half & Half.
Seven billion dollars?! What a universal pain in the ass!
DANGER: The GamePC link has been replaced with goatse!
Respect the Flying Bowel Monster!
Yeah, don't have a cow, man!
These puns are whey too much for me! I'm going home!
I, for one, would rather they just buzz off.
I always liked sticking the printer in slot 6, just to mess people up.
:D
Of course, by the time I finally got rid of that old machine, I had flopply controllers in slots 6, 5, and 4. ProDOS made handling multiple disks a breeze. Printers were on 7 and 1 (one for labels, the other for regular), mouse on 2, and a 64 KB RAM expansion
I am also using coreutils version 5.2.1 that comes with Ubuntu stable, and it also does not have the `-g' option.
Very clever. It took me a bit to figure out that /dev/null is a second filename paramter to egrep, which forces it to list which file it found the matching regexp in. I'll have to remember this command!
Why not use find . -name '*bar*.ext' ? It's much simpler and faster.
Well, some primates are definitely intelligent. After all, have you ever had this done to you at the zoo?
a beowulf clust... oh, sorry... Just had to do it!
Are you kidding?! Where will you get the parts? Not just any nullwit can create a 'nuller!
Actually, yes. It uses the interference patterns between the light received at the two (or more) telescopes to give resolution many times that of the individual instruments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry
No need to Telus Canadian cell users about it.
Wonder if they can adapt this to be an accurate test for prion related disease like BSE (mad cow disiease). If it could be used for both humans AND other animals, the food supply could become safer.
Personally, I have no plans to eat humans, whether they have BSE or not ;)
save up the cash and put together a 2 terabyte SATA storage server (the mobo doesn't have to be great, nore the ram)
That all depends on how important your data is. High quality parts should be of top concern. Also, don't skimp out on the ram -- the more ram you have, the more the server will have to cache recently accessed files.
2 TB should be enough space. MAKE SURE YOUR NETWORK THAT THE SERVER IS CONNECTED TO IS 100 MBIT (preferably the client transfering files to/from as well). It might be a good idea to maybe invest in gigabit.
2 TB will fill up rather quickly, especially if the server is used to store high definition video (like HDTV). Also, 100 Mbit is a huge bottleneck -- that only gives you roughly 12 MB/s, which isn't enough to keep up with highspeed DVD burners or even play full resolution HDTV. Furthermore, if you're using ethernet, remember that usage above 60%, especially with multiple clients (say, two people pulling/pushing lots of the server at once), suffers from rather high latency and packet collision. Moving the same amount of data over a 1000 Mbit connection reduces collisions and congestion by 99% as data moves 10 times as fast down the wire. Using gigabit (at least when ethernet is concerned) is really the only option with decent performance.
You mean, they were in the business of innovation?
You must be new to the Internet -- that doesn't matter.
Why, would you rather I leave the door open to get some light in the basement?
If granite is too radioactive, what do they use for smoke dectectors?