So, according to a video on Youtube, they solved the problem of recognizing tiny hand gestures and distinguishing between gestures made by a number of humans that sit bunched together on a sofa.
If "Natal" works, Microsoft should enter a car in that autonomous car competition... the software will have no trouble telling which is a boulder, which is a shadow.
No need to work hard or try to learn when daddy will buy you whatever you want
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inflation, currency devaluation, periodic (like every 8 to 10 years) recessions, the occasional ponzi scheme and dumb or corrupt accountant... no need to work ? Think again.
no, awkwardness has nothing to do with it, indeed, though college fees have... if you want all your children to go to a reasonably good school, you won't have more than two.
"we will instead find ourselves sacrificing a lot of modern conveniences in order to put more energy into food production"
Not even that: with the kw consumed by a fridge 40 years ago we power a whole kitchen now...
Overpopulation is the wet dream of [insert color here ]-supremacists : resources are limited only on very short term, and it's not likely, or even possible, that population will suddenly grow beyond that. For every 10 new humans on the planet we get 1 farmer who can feed 100 other people if allowed to.
The neo-malthusians should read Malthus, not only commentaries: 90% of that fellow's book are about people who have sex a lot and because that their children are sickly and would die when the crops they grow, crops that are poor because the people are too busy drinking, carousing, and having sex, would fail. Malthus is not about economics, but about telling the Brits that all fun loving, non-presbiterian (or wahabi... the Brits were in love with the wahabi for most of the XIXth and almost all of the XXth century), non-tea-totaling people are going to die anyway, so why bother giving them a fair deal... they should go read their idol: his problem is not with people eating more than they are producing, but with men having sex out of wedlock, men having sex more than once a month, women having sex with with more than one man in their life, men having sex before they are quite old, people generally having sex for fun... there is talk about food, but his point is that people who have a lot of sex are not going to make it through a crop failure.
BBC is trying to hard to be everything for everyone... TV, newspaper, radio, savior of the world, educator of the ignorant, and keeping within the budget in the same time.
I have google watch the net for me for a couple of topics, and read the relevant news in US, UK and the former colonies, France, Germany, plus some of the English language newspapers in China and other places... press is parochial, insular and mediocre everywhere, except they're so not because they are evil, but because it's a very difficult job... kind of like programming: almost everybody could write code, but only a few care and have the time and the resources to do it the right way. Same way you get a crowd that cares only to have Model, View, and Controller folders in their project while not bothering with separation of concerns, you get journalist that care more for their own plan to make the world a better place, or just do their 9 to 5 then go home, that they care about impartial reporting.
I am a libertarian too (though I don't vote in US), and support FOSS etc., and I think RMS is also a libertarian, but belonging to the Heinlein church, not to the Austrian church...... and now I realize this whole thread reads like the transcript from a AA meeting... "my UID is Bob and I am a libertarian, and I have not endorsed corporate welfare or big government in a month... ".
Copyright and patents existed even in the Communist block, and were enforced, too... except the state owned most of the "Int.Prop." and a private person could not make much money out of his or her copyrights or "invention brevets" unless they already had a cosy position in the hierarchy of the state, party or one one of the professional guilds.
it's not redistribution, it's about raising the entry barrier, so the smaller players won't get to play...
They should try a bit of deregulation: my parents get 100Mb/s up there in the sticks for about 10Euro, including taxes, but around here if you have a router, a spool of cable, 300Euro to register a company and a few customers to cover the cost for the upstream link you can be a provider...
Hydro has a cap: you can get only so much in a country.
If you choose solar and wind, you'll have to choose also between fossil and nuclear, for backup when the wind does not blow during the night... or you might have a tough talk with those evil corporations that hide the technology for super-capacitors:-P .
The Universe is loath to hire QA engineers: it lets the LHC break as soon as it seems to be finished, so the doe would keep flowing... a Universe with a bank account.
First pieces of Antarctica were interesting as bases for waling and reasons to claim exclusivity (much like current debate on who owns the North Pole)... Antarctica treaty came when Antarctica became interesting as resupply base for surface fleets and submarines. To claim a territory a state must have citizens living there year round, so I think the minute after the Antarctica treaty will be abolished, there will be (well paid) colonists put ashore:)
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So, according to a video on Youtube, they solved the problem of recognizing tiny hand gestures and distinguishing between gestures made by a number of humans that sit bunched together on a sofa.
If "Natal" works, Microsoft should enter a car in that autonomous car competition ... the software will have no trouble telling which is a boulder, which is a shadow.
I have a feeling that this part hype, part inept programmers who don't actually understand SQL, or database optimization.
Please, can you think a way to optimize a RDBMS to hold MARC data ?
No need to work hard or try to learn when daddy will buy you whatever you want
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inflation, currency devaluation, periodic (like every 8 to 10 years) recessions, the occasional ponzi scheme and dumb or corrupt accountant ... no need to work ? Think again.
no, awkwardness has nothing to do with it, indeed, though college fees have ... if you want all your children to go to a reasonably good school, you won't have more than two.
"we will instead find ourselves sacrificing a lot of modern conveniences in order to put more energy into food production"
Not even that: with the kw consumed by a fridge 40 years ago we power a whole kitchen now ...
Overpopulation is the wet dream of [insert color here ]-supremacists : resources are limited only on very short term, and it's not likely, or even possible, that population will suddenly grow beyond that. For every 10 new humans on the planet we get 1 farmer who can feed 100 other people if allowed to.
The neo-malthusians should read Malthus, not only commentaries: 90% of that fellow's book are about people who have sex a lot and because that their children are sickly and would die when the crops they grow, crops that are poor because the people are too busy drinking, carousing, and having sex, would fail. Malthus is not about economics, but about telling the Brits that all fun loving, non-presbiterian (or wahabi ... the Brits were in love with the wahabi for most of the XIXth and almost all of the XXth century), non-tea-totaling people are going to die anyway, so why bother giving them a fair deal ... they should go read their idol: his problem is not with people eating more than they are producing, but with men having sex out of wedlock, men having sex more than once a month, women having sex with with more than one man in their life, men having sex before they are quite old, people generally having sex for fun ... there is talk about food, but his point is that people who have a lot of sex are not going to make it through a crop failure.
+ 1 Damn' true
BBC is trying to hard to be everything for everyone ... TV, newspaper, radio, savior of the world, educator of the ignorant, and keeping within the budget in the same time.
I have google watch the net for me for a couple of topics, and read the relevant news in US, UK and the former colonies, France, Germany, plus some of the English language newspapers in China and other places ... press is parochial, insular and mediocre everywhere, except they're so not because they are evil, but because it's a very difficult job ... kind of like programming: almost everybody could write code, but only a few care and have the time and the resources to do it the right way. Same way you get a crowd that cares only to have Model, View, and Controller folders in their project while not bothering with separation of concerns, you get journalist that care more for their own plan to make the world a better place, or just do their 9 to 5 then go home, that they care about impartial reporting.
how about BBC having the Gaia fellow as a "scientific" face all over their news ?
how about BBC staging "immigrants sleeping in tents in Hyde Park" news ?
No, actually he is correct, those inversions are used when you want to emphasize ...
I am a libertarian too (though I don't vote in US), and support FOSS etc., and I think RMS is also a libertarian, but belonging to the Heinlein church, not to the Austrian church ... ... and now I realize this whole thread reads like the transcript from a AA meeting ... "my UID is Bob and I am a libertarian, and I have not endorsed corporate welfare or big government in a month ... ".
Copyright and patents existed even in the Communist block, and were enforced, too ... except the state owned most of the "Int.Prop." and a private person could not make much money out of his or her copyrights or "invention brevets" unless they already had a cosy position in the hierarchy of the state, party or one one of the professional guilds.
it's not redistribution, it's about raising the entry barrier, so the smaller players won't get to play ...
They should try a bit of deregulation: my parents get 100Mb/s up there in the sticks for about 10Euro, including taxes, but around here if you have a router, a spool of cable, 300Euro to register a company and a few customers to cover the cost for the upstream link you can be a provider ...
plenty of ways to store energy
such as ?
The choice between nuclear and fossil is much more like the choice between Churchill and FDR ...
Hydro has a cap: you can get only so much in a country.
If you choose solar and wind, you'll have to choose also between fossil and nuclear, for backup when the wind does not blow during the night ... or you might have a tough talk with those evil corporations that hide the technology for super-capacitors :-P .
Electricity produced in `nukular' power plants is the cheapest except hydro. ... competitive compared with what ?
The Universe is loath to hire QA engineers: it lets the LHC break as soon as it seems to be finished, so the doe would keep flowing ... a Universe with a bank account.
yes, horses and subsidies from the mainland, that's the secret for self-sufficiency on an island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_of_Antarctica
First pieces of Antarctica were interesting as bases for waling and reasons to claim exclusivity (much like current debate on who owns the North Pole) ... Antarctica treaty came when Antarctica became interesting as resupply base for surface fleets and submarines. To claim a territory a state must have citizens living there year round, so I think the minute after the Antarctica treaty will be abolished, there will be (well paid) colonists put ashore :)
That's why it is forbidden: because governments would love to colonize it.
"perl5 interpreter" ? since when ?
Every company I worked for (4 until now in 11 years) used Perl. Try to remove Perl from your unix clone and it won't boot very far.
would be nice to put the feed from one camera as background on the desktop ... watching trees (the same trees) all day is no fun ...