He proposes that 'Moore's law' will apply to all technology and assumes IC development will not change.
And I realize that IC development already has changed. For example, while Moore's law has held constant in relation to chip densities, clock speeds haven't improved nearly at the rate that they were in the last few years. OTOH, I also propose that clock speeds aren't as relevant as people think they are: it's all about improving performance and higher clock speed != more performance (at least not always).
Yes, it seems intriguing, but I first read about it in OMNI* in 1983. Vinge wrote it,I believe. The technology is still 50 years away.
Maybe Kurzweil's timeline is slipping, but that doesn't invalidate his thesis entirely. Perhaps this massive change Kurzweil is talking about will take longer or will take a form he didn't predict.
AFA OMNI goes, I remember that magazine vaguely. Of course, in 1983, I was only 11.
What makes you say so? I'm not any kind of fan Kurzweil or his technology singularity concept (I've heard of it, but haven't read any of Kurzweil's writing on the subject), but the idea is absolutely intriguing. Not only that, it's entirely possible he may be right. Ray Kurzweil is a very smart man who has always been at the forefront of technological development.
5 bucks? That's the best you can do? At least make it worth my while. A free laptop, or a free iPod or a free annual paid-up subscription to Stream or free broadband for a year. Somethin'.
Apparently you haven't heard about the Federal Communications Commission, the fact that they have a process for accepting and acting upon complaints, and that there are members of the above-mentioned movements that have nothing better to do than sit there and watch TV and call in a complaint the moment they see skin or hear an F-bomb.
I think there's probably a big difference between making a rocket which can reach escape velocity and launch a satellite into orbit and being able to target a specific location thousands of miles away.
Just some overgrown boy millionaires tossing around some weird-shaped device, that, despite being decidedly un-spherical, is for some reason referred to as a 'ball'. Additionally, despite that this 'ball' can only be kicked by one guy from each of the opposing teams at specific times, the strange 'ball' has a 'foot-' prefix attached to it.
Your application is trying to be launched at startup in an fishy way. For some reason, my apps are not. HMM.
Define "fishy". If an OS has a mechanism for making things run on startup and the administrator of the box deliberately installs a program that uses that mechanism to start, it shouldn't be up to UAC to prevent it from starting.
There's no good reason for writing there, and doing so is exactly what messed up "running as an administrator" in XP and below. Ask the author of your application to make it less retarded.
Perhaps it would be best if it were up to the administrator whether or not there was a good reason for writing there and not the OS vendor. This is exactly the approach *nix takes.
Yes, I'd prefer that they would install like normal drivers (not at system startup) and that they go through the effort of getting signed. And if you're still on 32bit Windows, this is not even a problem.
The problem with signed drivers is that the process of getting something signed practically precludes open source projects and definitely precludes GPL v3 projects (not that ext2/3 is GPL 3).
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Xen does.
Smart does not equal right.
No, but it increases the odds at least.
He proposes that 'Moore's law' will apply to all technology and assumes IC development will not change.
And I realize that IC development already has changed. For example, while Moore's law has held constant in relation to chip densities, clock speeds haven't improved nearly at the rate that they were in the last few years. OTOH, I also propose that clock speeds aren't as relevant as people think they are: it's all about improving performance and higher clock speed != more performance (at least not always).
Yes, it seems intriguing, but I first read about it in OMNI* in 1983. Vinge wrote it,I believe. The technology is still 50 years away.
Maybe Kurzweil's timeline is slipping, but that doesn't invalidate his thesis entirely. Perhaps this massive change Kurzweil is talking about will take longer or will take a form he didn't predict.
AFA OMNI goes, I remember that magazine vaguely. Of course, in 1983, I was only 11.
What makes you say so? I'm not any kind of fan Kurzweil or his technology singularity concept (I've heard of it, but haven't read any of Kurzweil's writing on the subject), but the idea is absolutely intriguing. Not only that, it's entirely possible he may be right. Ray Kurzweil is a very smart man who has always been at the forefront of technological development.
Watch out. I hear the bang the follows is a doozy!
But they were essentially functioning like a patent troll and, in fact, Darl McBride's resume included stints at several known patent troll companies.
Actually, in all seriousness, it's possible for us to have this very technology on Linux: apturl.
Since .deb packages can contain scripts and configuration files and whatnot, it wouldn't be too hard to create .deb packages that fix common problems.
5 bucks? That's the best you can do? At least make it worth my while. A free laptop, or a free iPod or a free annual paid-up subscription to Stream or free broadband for a year. Somethin'.
News for nerds, rantings of crazy people?
You must be n....awww fuck it.
No. It also has two customized Linux kernels (realtime and low latency) and custom system daemons.
Because nobody needs customized, niche desktop distros like Ubuntu Studio, amiright?
Try reading the FCC's definitions of indecency, obscenity and profanity. Mostly the revolve around the vague concepts of 'community standards' and what an 'average person would find patently offensive'.
IOW, if they get enough complaints, they pretty much have to act.
And programmers with a firm grasp of arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
It was a tongue-in-cheek post, hence the ;). (Mine, not yours about the girl's viriginity. Get your mind out of the gutter)
Tennis? Is that even a sport? ;)
Apparently you haven't heard about the Federal Communications Commission, the fact that they have a process for accepting and acting upon complaints, and that there are members of the above-mentioned movements that have nothing better to do than sit there and watch TV and call in a complaint the moment they see skin or hear an F-bomb.
I think there's probably a big difference between making a rocket which can reach escape velocity and launch a satellite into orbit and being able to target a specific location thousands of miles away.
No, not really.
Oooh! Can you guys send some over here, please? I'm kinda hungry!
You must be new here.
You're right, that would be no good because a) the information might be ruled inadmissible in court and b) it would be, as seen here, too obvious.
Instead, I'd have someone I knew get a job there to steal the information for me. Harder to prove how I got the information that way. ;)
Just some overgrown boy millionaires tossing around some weird-shaped device, that, despite being decidedly un-spherical, is for some reason referred to as a 'ball'. Additionally, despite that this 'ball' can only be kicked by one guy from each of the opposing teams at specific times, the strange 'ball' has a 'foot-' prefix attached to it.
Other than that, no.
See Right, Religious. Also see Party, Republican.
The rest of us a perfectly fine with women in "perfectly decent underwear". Except the nudists.
It's about time Americans realised that the rest of the world is comprised of sovereign states not subject to their jurisdiction.
O rly?
One place I worked named them after Looney Toons characters: Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweetie, Sylvester, etc.
Personally, mine at home are named after mythological deities.
Ah! I see now. It's a conspiracy to sell more pointing devices!
Your application is trying to be launched at startup in an fishy way. For some reason, my apps are not. HMM.
Define "fishy". If an OS has a mechanism for making things run on startup and the administrator of the box deliberately installs a program that uses that mechanism to start, it shouldn't be up to UAC to prevent it from starting.
There's no good reason for writing there, and doing so is exactly what messed up "running as an administrator" in XP and below. Ask the author of your application to make it less retarded.
Perhaps it would be best if it were up to the administrator whether or not there was a good reason for writing there and not the OS vendor. This is exactly the approach *nix takes.
Yes, I'd prefer that they would install like normal drivers (not at system startup) and that they go through the effort of getting signed. And if you're still on 32bit Windows, this is not even a problem.
The problem with signed drivers is that the process of getting something signed practically precludes open source projects and definitely precludes GPL v3 projects (not that ext2/3 is GPL 3).