How about neurons? Hans Moravec estimates a neuron at 1/1000 MIPS (http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm) . There's no good conversion from MIPS to teraflops, but say 2 FLOPS/instruction to give 5.7 teraflops as about three billion neurons. If a human brain has 100 billion neurons, this is 0.03 human brains. Plus or minus an order of magnitude. Hardware only.
Having used Groove for the last several months, I agree. A number of Groove's features are not mature, from the non-exportable whiteboard with fonts that are too big to the scheduling software that doesn't allow people to be shared across projects. It has seemed to me that Groove is trying to recreate too much inside its domain. Better integration with the OS and other applications outside the Groove domain will improve it.
The experts rank change to neighborhoods and communities as almost least likely to change (second only to same-users-manual-for-centuries religion). How many slashdotters are going to agree with that? If you include the change in the definition of a community, that category should high on the list.
When I was a graduate student, my major professor got a cast-off PDP-11 from the department. He tasked me to get it up and running in his lab. Ancient as a mainframe, it was still fast for a stand-alone machine, faster than a 386. On it were the usernames and passwords in plain text for all the former users, including the professors in the department. At that point I knew I could have had access to virtually any professor's new account on the Sun network, as the password was probably unchanged.
You never know where any one password will wind up.
Interesting image. The craters look pretty commonplace--but what caused the ridge? It appears to enclose a low-lying area. The border seems too jagged to be a large crater.
For many applications (such as the military) it seems an exoskeleton would be better turned into a robot proxy that sends sensory data to the person controlling it and receives control feedback. The person could be anywhere, over the next hill or a on another continent. This would give the benefits of an exoskeleton but allow the person controlling it to be away from danger (including that from the exoskeleton itself).
Intellectual, nerdy, and scholarly pursuits are more diverse. I imagine there are many of those kind of searches going on, but one person is searching for "Cyrus the Great," another is searching for "A* Search," and another is searching for "Aztec," and so forth. A good question would be, what percentage of all searches are for these top 10?
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How about neurons? Hans Moravec estimates a neuron at 1/1000 MIPS (http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm) . There's no good conversion from MIPS to teraflops, but say 2 FLOPS/instruction to give 5.7 teraflops as about three billion neurons. If a human brain has 100 billion neurons, this is 0.03 human brains. Plus or minus an order of magnitude. Hardware only.
Having used Groove for the last several months, I agree. A number of Groove's features are not mature, from the non-exportable whiteboard with fonts that are too big to the scheduling software that doesn't allow people to be shared across projects. It has seemed to me that Groove is trying to recreate too much inside its domain. Better integration with the OS and other applications outside the Groove domain will improve it.
It's lUNacris.
The experts rank change to neighborhoods and communities as almost least likely to change (second only to same-users-manual-for-centuries religion). How many slashdotters are going to agree with that? If you include the change in the definition of a community, that category should high on the list.
You never know where any one password will wind up.
Interesting image. The craters look pretty commonplace--but what caused the ridge? It appears to enclose a low-lying area. The border seems too jagged to be a large crater.
For many applications (such as the military) it seems an exoskeleton would be better turned into a robot proxy that sends sensory data to the person controlling it and receives control feedback. The person could be anywhere, over the next hill or a on another continent. This would give the benefits of an exoskeleton but allow the person controlling it to be away from danger (including that from the exoskeleton itself).
Intellectual, nerdy, and scholarly pursuits are more diverse. I imagine there are many of those kind of searches going on, but one person is searching for "Cyrus the Great," another is searching for "A* Search," and another is searching for "Aztec," and so forth. A good question would be, what percentage of all searches are for these top 10?