Irony aside, I still can't understand how a movie that consisted entirely of following film raters around managed to get an NC-17 rating for explicit sexual content. Where exactly did he follow these people? Apparently they must have a lot more fun on their job than I do on mine!
The tests that MacWorld did all appear to be at least partly bound by I/O speed. The RAM and disk in the Intel Mac aren't any faster than in the G5T he amount of time spent waiting for the this is the same for each processor. Therefore even if the CPU were twice as fast, you would still only expect to see about a 10% speedup in any application which reads data from disk, processes it, then writes it back to disk (if 80% of the time is spent waiting for the disk). Unfortunately, that's what any "real world" application usually does...
Assuming a complete vacuum, the apple would still fall faster. It would accelerate at a faster speed due to it's increase mass. Uh, no. The ratio of gravitational mass to inertial mass is exactly the same for the apple and the feather, so the acceleration is the same.
If the objects are in near-earth orbit, then at some point it the future their orbits should all decay into the earth's atmosphere, at which point they will incinerate themselves. Sounds like a self-correcting problem to me! The only question is: when? Anybody have any guesses on how long it will take all this junk to deorbit if we just leave it alone?
Let's see now, allowing the FBI to go to the library to see what books you've been reading is BAD, but a system that allows practically anybody to track what movies, concerts, sporting events, etc. you go to is GOOD?!? (And I have no doubt that this data will be available to anyone willing to pay for it, as much of your cell phone records already are!)
Uh, I hate to nitpick, but doesn't that make a total of 4 men, not three? And by the way, I agree with Da Vinci and Thomas Jefferson as heroes, not so sure about Caesar.
From my observation, much of the "color" or entertainment value in signed conversations comes not from the movement of the hands but the expressions on the face etc. combined with the movements. Clearly, this robot is still nowhere near being capable of the same range of expression as a human being. As a simple test, I'd like to see the robot tell a joke and get the same laughs as a proficient human signer telling the same joke...
Sure, everytime you want to get more money, just trot out a hot babe like Susan Rempe in your press release... oh, wait, maybe I need an artificial retina! Anyway, doesn't SNL really stand for "Saturday Night Live"?!?
Sure, using pigs to grow organs for humans is a great idea... if you don't mind all the possible diseases that affect pigs, whether known or unknown, crossing over into human beings!
If SCO executives give up now, then their company goes bankrupt and their stock options are worthless. On the other hand, if SCO executives keep fighting until the bitter end, then their company goes bankrupt and their stock options are worthless BUT they draw a couple more year's worth of their overpaid salaries. Given that most of them will never work in the industry again, I can see why they are choosing the "draw a couple more years of overpaid salary" option. Also, admitting at this point that they were full of it when they attempted to extort money out of Linux users would greatly increase the chances of their going to jail, and every day you can delay being sent to a federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison is a good day...
Right, then I can meet you coming out of the voting booth, demand to see your receipt, and either 1) pay you for voting for my canditate or 2) shoot you for voting for the wrong candidate. You see, even being able to prove/verify who you voted for has problems that aren't easily solved.
Take-Two CEO Paul Eibeler announced today that he was buying stock in a Florida insane asylum in order to guarantee him access to speak to Jack Thompson in the near future...
It's back to the stone age of video production for all of us, now, unless we have George Lucas' budget. Which is exactly the point. Do you think the big studios that make up the MPAA actually want competition from independents? Absolultely not. In fact, movies like The Blair Witch Project scared them silly. When just anybody can create content, the days of the big corporate content monopolies are numbered. Sure, 99.9% of the stuff the independents put out is crap, but since there are thousands of independents, inevitably some of them are going to produce better movies than the $100 million formulaic written-by-committe product placement extravaganzas put out by the MPAA. The MPAA looks back longingly at the past where only a few big studios could afford video production equipment.
So, if people make anonymous posting praising Juniper as a company, can those same people be sued for artifically inflating the stock price? And why do libel laws apply to corportions and not just human beings, enyway?
As long as your razor blades fit under a 10 nanometer pyramid, then yes, they will be sharp. In fact, they will have a perfect edge on them, plus or minus about 10 nanometers...
Wait, isn't that the crux of Sadam Hussein's legal defense? "I have not violated the laws of my country. I am the president. Whatever I say IS the law!"
Uh, didn't early versions of NT run drivers in a separate protection ring to improve stability? And didn't Microsoft abandon this scheme because it was incredibly slow, and throw everything into the same protection ring to improve performance? So now they are going back to a scheme they themselves previously abondoned because of poor performance, and calling it an "innovation"?!?
I think we'd all be much better off if Clippy could simply be taught to recognize an upturned middle finger...
Come to think of this, this would be a valuable tecnique for improving user interfaces. Just have it send feedback to the authors whenever it detects the user cursing, making obscene guestures at, hitting, or otherwise abusing the computer! Just think how quickly clippy would get pulled out if every time he popped up on Steve Ballmer's machine, it detected him throwing a chair across the office!
...software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood. Great... how is my computer going to adjust itself to my looking horny and bored?
Right... so if I hire "Luigi" to take care of "this little problem I've been having with my neighbor", and Luigi then shoots my neighbor, then unless there is proof that I knew Luigi wss actually going to use violence to solve the problem, I'm not liable?!? If I donate money to Hamas for humantarian help for the Palestinians, and they then use the money to make bombs, I'm not liable?!? I'm sorry, DirecTV hired this company specifically to call people up and nag them into subscribing and gave them strong incentives to sign up as many people as possible; they should be held completely responsible for any results of the telemarketer's actions.
the US will catch back up (say 20 years?). Or I am moving. Just like the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Ottoman Turks, British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and even the Chinese... all once superpowers just like the US is now. No, I'm sorry, the US is an empire in decline while China is an empire on the rise (economically). 50 years from now Americans will be in the same position the French are now -- pissed off that they are no longer the pinnacle of culture and technology, and venting they're frustration by being rude to anybody that doesn't speak their language perfectly. Of course by then China will be the most like world economic superpower. Sorry, but it may take thousands of years, not 20 years, before the US gets it's turn at the top again.
Of course, the rise of China COULD have been prevented by simply not buying goods made in China, but that's never going to happen. Case in point: go look at your Christmas lights. Where were they made? That's what I thought...
Yes, I'm aware that a ballistic trajectory is actually what a bullet follow, but used the word "bomb" as it makes for a better joke. But seriously, Dion's use of "ballistic trajectory" (a curve that tends downward due to gravity) when he means an exponential growth curve makes we wonder: does this guy have ANY idea what he's talking about, or is he completely full of bullshit?
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Irony aside, I still can't understand how a movie that consisted entirely of following film raters around managed to get an NC-17 rating for explicit sexual content. Where exactly did he follow these people? Apparently they must have a lot more fun on their job than I do on mine!
The tests that MacWorld did all appear to be at least partly bound by I/O speed. The RAM and disk in the Intel Mac aren't any faster than in the G5T he amount of time spent waiting for the this is the same for each processor. Therefore even if the CPU were twice as fast, you would still only expect to see about a 10% speedup in any application which reads data from disk, processes it, then writes it back to disk (if 80% of the time is spent waiting for the disk). Unfortunately, that's what any "real world" application usually does...
Assuming a complete vacuum, the apple would still fall faster. It would accelerate at a faster speed due to it's increase mass. Uh, no. The ratio of gravitational mass to inertial mass is exactly the same for the apple and the feather, so the acceleration is the same.
If the objects are in near-earth orbit, then at some point it the future their orbits should all decay into the earth's atmosphere, at which point they will incinerate themselves. Sounds like a self-correcting problem to me! The only question is: when? Anybody have any guesses on how long it will take all this junk to deorbit if we just leave it alone?
Let's see now, allowing the FBI to go to the library to see what books you've been reading is BAD, but a system that allows practically anybody to track what movies, concerts, sporting events, etc. you go to is GOOD?!? (And I have no doubt that this data will be available to anyone willing to pay for it, as much of your cell phone records already are!)
Uh, I hate to nitpick, but doesn't that make a total of 4 men, not three? And by the way, I agree with Da Vinci and Thomas Jefferson as heroes, not so sure about Caesar.
From my observation, much of the "color" or entertainment value in signed conversations comes not from the movement of the hands but the expressions on the face etc. combined with the movements. Clearly, this robot is still nowhere near being capable of the same range of expression as a human being. As a simple test, I'd like to see the robot tell a joke and get the same laughs as a proficient human signer telling the same joke...
Sure, everytime you want to get more money, just trot out a hot babe like Susan Rempe in your press release... oh, wait, maybe I need an artificial retina! Anyway, doesn't SNL really stand for "Saturday Night Live"?!?
Everything Steve Jobs says is true! Well, at least within his reality-distortion field, it is!
Anything can be made to fly, given sufficient thrust! Just strap a couple JATO units on that porker and stand back... far, far, far back.
Sure, using pigs to grow organs for humans is a great idea... if you don't mind all the possible diseases that affect pigs, whether known or unknown, crossing over into human beings!
If SCO executives give up now, then their company goes bankrupt and their stock options are worthless. On the other hand, if SCO executives keep fighting until the bitter end, then their company goes bankrupt and their stock options are worthless BUT they draw a couple more year's worth of their overpaid salaries. Given that most of them will never work in the industry again, I can see why they are choosing the "draw a couple more years of overpaid salary" option. Also, admitting at this point that they were full of it when they attempted to extort money out of Linux users would greatly increase the chances of their going to jail, and every day you can delay being sent to a federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison is a good day...
Right, then I can meet you coming out of the voting booth, demand to see your receipt, and either 1) pay you for voting for my canditate or 2) shoot you for voting for the wrong candidate. You see, even being able to prove/verify who you voted for has problems that aren't easily solved.
Take-Two CEO Paul Eibeler announced today that he was buying stock in a Florida insane asylum in order to guarantee him access to speak to Jack Thompson in the near future...
It's back to the stone age of video production for all of us, now, unless we have George Lucas' budget. Which is exactly the point. Do you think the big studios that make up the MPAA actually want competition from independents? Absolultely not. In fact, movies like The Blair Witch Project scared them silly. When just anybody can create content, the days of the big corporate content monopolies are numbered. Sure, 99.9% of the stuff the independents put out is crap, but since there are thousands of independents, inevitably some of them are going to produce better movies than the $100 million formulaic written-by-committe product placement extravaganzas put out by the MPAA. The MPAA looks back longingly at the past where only a few big studios could afford video production equipment.
So, if people make anonymous posting praising Juniper as a company, can those same people be sued for artifically inflating the stock price? And why do libel laws apply to corportions and not just human beings, enyway?
As long as your razor blades fit under a 10 nanometer pyramid, then yes, they will be sharp. In fact, they will have a perfect edge on them, plus or minus about 10 nanometers...
Wait, isn't that the crux of Sadam Hussein's legal defense? "I have not violated the laws of my country. I am the president. Whatever I say IS the law!"
Uh, didn't early versions of NT run drivers in a separate protection ring to improve stability? And didn't Microsoft abandon this scheme because it was incredibly slow, and throw everything into the same protection ring to improve performance? So now they are going back to a scheme they themselves previously abondoned because of poor performance, and calling it an "innovation"?!?
Come to think of this, this would be a valuable tecnique for improving user interfaces. Just have it send feedback to the authors whenever it detects the user cursing, making obscene guestures at, hitting, or otherwise abusing the computer! Just think how quickly clippy would get pulled out if every time he popped up on Steve Ballmer's machine, it detected him throwing a chair across the office!
...software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood. Great... how is my computer going to adjust itself to my looking horny and bored?
Everyone in my family has gotten such calls. Hmm... perhaps the people in your family should consider actually paying their bills on time?
Right... so if I hire "Luigi" to take care of "this little problem I've been having with my neighbor", and Luigi then shoots my neighbor, then unless there is proof that I knew Luigi wss actually going to use violence to solve the problem, I'm not liable?!? If I donate money to Hamas for humantarian help for the Palestinians, and they then use the money to make bombs, I'm not liable?!? I'm sorry, DirecTV hired this company specifically to call people up and nag them into subscribing and gave them strong incentives to sign up as many people as possible; they should be held completely responsible for any results of the telemarketer's actions.
Of course, the rise of China COULD have been prevented by simply not buying goods made in China, but that's never going to happen. Case in point: go look at your Christmas lights. Where were they made? That's what I thought...
Yes, I'm aware that a ballistic trajectory is actually what a bullet follow, but used the word "bomb" as it makes for a better joke. But seriously, Dion's use of "ballistic trajectory" (a curve that tends downward due to gravity) when he means an exponential growth curve makes we wonder: does this guy have ANY idea what he's talking about, or is he completely full of bullshit?