Chess isn't a good measure either. A COMPUTER can play chess. The rules and strategies are almost all worked out, so it takes only practice to learn them.
You're mixing up different things which have nothing to do with each other.
A computer plays chess in a very different way from a human; it mostly just calculates game state trees to see how good each play is. Humans rely very heavily on intuition, pattern recognition and strategic principles which no computer so far has mastered (and it is doubtful that they will need to master them anyway, since computers are getting so fast at calculating game trees that the era of computer dominance in chess is probably about to begin any year now).
Sometimes, humans rely on calculation of (very reduced) parts of the game tree, but to go from there to saying that a human learning chess is just learning how to follow the rules and strategies of a computer program is invalid reasoning.
In the real world, when people say a machine is turing complete, what they mean is "it would be turing complete if it had infinite memory". Which is more than enough for all practical purposes.
Don't you know how to use google? Nausea, allergy (on some people). There have been even people who died. I also heard that too much of general anesthesia isn't recommended, but I'm not sure about that one.
It's like Churchill's decision not to increase defences in or around Coventry, despite having advance knowledge of a very heavy raid being due. He acted like he knew nothing. The raid went ahead. There were heavy casualties, which could have been prevented. But the German military remained unaware that many of their most important communications were being intercepted, decoded and read by British intelligence.
So which were the advantages of having the intelligence which were bigger than being able to prevent those heavy casualties?
Is there any explosive which a person could drink without having a face like this after drinking it? And if not, is there anyway to drink something very yucky without getting that face?
News are saying that 21 people have been arrested, and 9/11 death toll was 2976 people (according to wikipedia, other sites I saw gave similar numbers). To attain this number, each of the 21 attackers would have to kill 2976/21 = 141 people per plane, which seems reasonable. That, of course, is assuming only 1 attacker per plane... Wouldn't it be more probable that there were at least 2 attackers per plane? In that case, killing 283 people per plane seems too much... Which might indicate that not all the attackers are under custody.
I just did it because there were apparently lots of other folks on the article who don't get why google is paying. Should have replied to them instead;)
According to the young earth creationists, it's just a few thousands of years old, and there are stories of people meeting dinosaurs written in non-fiction books. Makes sense to me...
And why did Einstein study relativity? After all, it's just a bunch of stupid numbers. Guess what, turns out they found applications for it after it was invented... GPS is an example.
The NSA can't possibly decrpyt properly encrypted messages. Not unless they have every atom in the universe functioning as a computer inside Fort Meade (or a similarly insane amount of computers). Unless:
1- they know serious weaknesses in widely used encryption algorithms 2- they have a quantum computer (less likely than 1 I think)
Theories don't get thrown away as you say. Relativity didn't cause classical physics to be thrown away. Classical physics are still good enough to calculate how much time a ball takes to fall to the ground, and it's a lot simpler than newer physical theories, so it's still used despite the fact that it is wrong at bigger scales such as big distances in space.
[sarcasm]Yeah, it was pure vandalism and the children deserved every second they spent inside their cells. Furthermore, it was a really good use of police resources. I truly hope the children are forever traumatized from this experience. As a comment in the newspaper site says, one policeman for every tree and then the UK will be safe!!![/sarcasm]
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You're mixing up different things which have nothing to do with each other.
A computer plays chess in a very different way from a human; it mostly just calculates game state trees to see how good each play is. Humans rely very heavily on intuition, pattern recognition and strategic principles which no computer so far has mastered (and it is doubtful that they will need to master them anyway, since computers are getting so fast at calculating game trees that the era of computer dominance in chess is probably about to begin any year now).
Sometimes, humans rely on calculation of (very reduced) parts of the game tree, but to go from there to saying that a human learning chess is just learning how to follow the rules and strategies of a computer program is invalid reasoning.
It's quite sad that to get true privacy one has to buy it... Isn't privacy supposed to be a fundamental human right?
I thought that one can still get things out of a glass case after putting them there.
What?? So if a Gnutella user has an heart attack and Gnutella doesn't perform CPR or call the doctors in, it's in violation of the license?
In the real world, when people say a machine is turing complete, what they mean is "it would be turing complete if it had infinite memory". Which is more than enough for all practical purposes.
Don't you know how to use google? Nausea, allergy (on some people). There have been even people who died. I also heard that too much of general anesthesia isn't recommended, but I'm not sure about that one.
So which were the advantages of having the intelligence which were bigger than being able to prevent those heavy casualties?
Fair enough... I've never travelled transatlantic so an average of 300 people in a plane seemed too much while typing the post...
Is there any explosive which a person could drink without having a face like this after drinking it? And if not, is there anyway to drink something very yucky without getting that face?
Forgot this one: also, not to mention the subsequent myths about flight crews raping passengers during flights.
Not to mention the bad effects of general anesthesia.
News are saying that 21 people have been arrested, and 9/11 death toll was 2976 people (according to wikipedia, other sites I saw gave similar numbers). To attain this number, each of the 21 attackers would have to kill 2976/21 = 141 people per plane, which seems reasonable. That, of course, is assuming only 1 attacker per plane... Wouldn't it be more probable that there were at least 2 attackers per plane? In that case, killing 283 people per plane seems too much... Which might indicate that not all the attackers are under custody.
I just did it because there were apparently lots of other folks on the article who don't get why google is paying. Should have replied to them instead ;)
The ????? being people clicking on the ads.
In the time you wrote that reply you could have googled and found the answer for yourself.
According to the young earth creationists, it's just a few thousands of years old, and there are stories of people meeting dinosaurs written in non-fiction books. Makes sense to me...
And why did Einstein study relativity? After all, it's just a bunch of stupid numbers. Guess what, turns out they found applications for it after it was invented... GPS is an example.
The NSA can't possibly decrpyt properly encrypted messages. Not unless they have every atom in the universe functioning as a computer inside Fort Meade (or a similarly insane amount of computers). Unless:
1- they know serious weaknesses in widely used encryption algorithms
2- they have a quantum computer (less likely than 1 I think)
Theories don't get thrown away as you say. Relativity didn't cause classical physics to be thrown away. Classical physics are still good enough to calculate how much time a ball takes to fall to the ground, and it's a lot simpler than newer physical theories, so it's still used despite the fact that it is wrong at bigger scales such as big distances in space.
Either that or you didn't read the article.
No, they specifically say that 50% of the 700 GB is spam and 48% is read mail. Which leaves 2% for unread non-spam mail (14 GB).
Here is the torrent for the show's video.
Perhaps you'd be amused to know that in Portuguese, "viola" is a form of the verb which means "to rape".
Yeah right! Hopscotch grid drawer on Monday, terrorist on Tuesday, everyone knows that's the way terrorists are born!
[sarcasm]Yeah, it was pure vandalism and the children deserved every second they spent inside their cells. Furthermore, it was a really good use of police resources. I truly hope the children are forever traumatized from this experience. As a comment in the newspaper site says, one policeman for every tree and then the UK will be safe!!![/sarcasm]