If we do this, aren't we putting evolutionary pressure on the virus to change the vulnerable protein too? I don't know too much about viral evolution, but it seems like it could be a problem, couldn' it?
I'd say it has something to do with all the professors believing that there is gold buried up their asses. I've been in CS at a major state university for 4 years now and the professors are worse than the American Idol crowd. Just the smugness. Especially the ones from MIT. God I want to smack them.
Also, CS is a really hard degree. Especially after that rush of students in 2000 right before the bubble burst. CS departments all over the country rushed to think up new "weed-out" classes to make sure the "right" people got into CS. Rather than expand their programs to provide the number of CS graduates that the US needs, they got all xenophobic and tried to turn CS back into the SooperNurdzClub like it was for the past 40 years.
I've got news for nerds. CS matters. But not in the way you want it to. No one cares if you can do reduction proofs, they want CODE. They want APPS. They want UI that is easy to use. Why not break CS into two or more branches, like physics. I reccomend a Theoretical CS specialization a sooperNurdzClub for the smug MIT grabasses. Then a couple of different practical application specializations like Application Programming, Network Computing, Bioinformatics, etc.
Take out the 5 semesters of math and trade them for 2 semesters of CS specialized math courses instead of the generalized ones from the math department where we only really need two chapters of the book we're covering for CS.
Take out the EE and logic and combine it into one circuit logic class that freshmen have to take. Add some classes that focus on using computers in other disciplines as electives. Boom. US CS has a new lease on life and a much friendlier atmosphere for those of us who don't like to smell our own farts. F*** MIT.
Does anyone take M$ press releases seriously anymore? When has M$ implemented a protection or priviledge that wasn't neutralized by crackers in a couple of weeks?
And not offering the best part of the OS experience in the consumer package... way to trade upsell revenue for customer respec... oh wait no one respects M$ we just endure them. Damn.
My guess... they'll be rushing to offer Aero as a free upgrade after everyone gets upset about it and pirates the pro version.
I don't think you guys understand the kind of massive speed differential we're talking about. I don't remember the numbers, but it's like G/s to the card and K/s back. It's just enough to tell the processor that the card is ready for the next rendering task, nothing more.
Someone mentioned doing video compression... because you could send the compressed file back. Well ok, except, A. video cards only have 256mb of ram... so your uncompressed video would only be like what 30 seconds? B. getting the data back to the hard drive would be like transfering files over a serial cable... like old PS/2 serial, not USB2 serial.
Now... a card with a SATA out would work. That's the kind of bandwidth that would help, although for most applications just an IDE out would do the trick.
But these cards don't exist. So no... nothing to be done with agp slots.
Sony may as well have declared defeat. There is no market for a $900 gaming machine no matter how cool it is. Period.
We've already got $2000 gaming computers, we don't want your Cell. I bought a PS2 for Final Fantasy games... but I'm just not going to pay $900 for any game developer.
Even if Sony had ALL the good games, which it doesn't... I would not pay $900 for an oversized atari regardless of it's media capabilities! We've all got dvd players and mp3 players!
Lame. Super super lame.
OR... they realize that by 2007 the dollar won't be worth anything compared to the Yen... so they're just being realistic.
...this is in the Hardware section and not the Science section.
Or maybe it shouldn't even be here... it should be in the Science Fiction section. So far, all this guy has is an idea... not even a proof of concept. He's just got an idea about what he wants to do, not a mechanism for acheiving the desired effect.
Twenty years ago, people writing this sort of thing would be called Sci-Fi Writers.
Internet journalism perhaps has created nothing more than the world's largest gossip factory. To really process all of what comes down the line here at/. you have to have multiple advanced degrees... including CS, EE, Chem, Physics, Law, and a host of others. Maybe we should start a/. scholarhip so our future readers won't be as dumb as we are.
Stupid stupid stupid.
This is not science, nor is what-his-name a scientist. He is a crackpot.
The scientists he claims are crack-pots are some of the most important and brilliant minds in History. I can personally dispell %75 of his claims, the other %25 percent would probably just require some reading... and I'm not even done with my undergrad yet.
No more articles from rebelscience.com in the science news section. It is not science.
I mean, I play a very competitive game of tennis against all of my friends. Only people who can *really* play ever really challenge me.
I'm also a pretty mean video game competitor. I have an incredible record on original goldeneye... I haven't been beaten best 2 out of 3 since 1998. I also pwn both Super Smash Bros. games. Given a few hours of practice, I can beat almost anyone at almost any game. Especially if I practice against hard opponents.
After a week of playing against the l33ts in Halo2, I started pwning them too. So, general hand eye coordination is a huge advantage in any type of game.
If anyone in Austin wants to rumble video games, drop me a line.
I found this at the bottom of the page in.25 pt font:
*not real AI
Damned fine print!
See what I think they mean, and they don't say much on the site, is they've created the first Turing Complete Artificial Reasoning Agent. An interesting goal, but the advertising people obviously did not get a BS in Computer Science. "True" AI is at least 40 years off just due to the computing requirements, not to mention the monumental challenge of reverese engineering our own brain.
I wonder if we're going to experience another AI wave? With companies tossing around the AI moniker without actually doing anything new.
... so you can't see the restaurant at the end of the universe.
If you'll remember from the book... Milliways was located at the TEMPORAL end of the universe. Since there is ostensibly not a SPATIAL end of the universe, this telescope will not help us find any two-headed galactic presidents or interstellar travel editors. Alas.
This is sort of funny. For years, there was Microsoft/Intel bias in nearly everything that came out of the mainstream media. Apple could not get out of the footnotes.
Now, Apple has revolutionized portable music. People have finally started paying attention, giving Apple some fair non-biased coverage. Microsoft and it's supporters are in the unfortunate position of accepting the reality that not only are they with the wrong OS now, they were wrong all along. This is not going over very well... indicated by the whining we are now hearing. "Windows doesn't get enough press!" "Stop saying such good things about our OS's mortal enemy!" "All those reporters are Mac-using hippies, tell them to get a "real" computer!"
Come on folks. Face up to reality, windows is taking it from both ends: Desktop and Server, because it is now competing against products with such high quality that they can't even lie about them effectively.
the dmca also PROTECTS consumers... by limiting our access to our data and our devices.
the clear skies initiative PROTECTS the environment... by making government inspections into private self-inspections.
the no child left behind PROTECTS our children... by creating a hole in the education budget with an unfunded mandate.
the patriot act PROTECTS our precious freedom... by ripping holes in the constitution.
operation iraqi freedom PROTECTS iraqis... by bombing them.
Why is it that whenever I hear the 'pubs talk about PROTECTING something, I start to worry about whatever it is they want to PROTECT?
Perhaps PROTECT is actually some kind of acronym equivalent to "Drop your pants and grab your ankles."
The Orwellian-ness of it all is excitingly terrifying. But, yes, by all means, let's PROTECT the internet.
Is anyone thinking that maybe the gov't will start PROTECTING us from the terrorist content on the internet, the same way China does for their citizens?
... but none with their fingers upon what I would consider the answer:
A $199 digital video camera would have a pretty* large market.
* warning: understatement
and 33.6 million == 12%
how does 3 million == 10% ?
Punchlines:
math nerds
Last time I checked percentage was a linear transformation...
stats nerds
chance this story was previewed ==.03%
cs nerds
Damn that roundoff error!
csi nerds
But was there DNA on the TV remote?
star wars nerds
George Lucas doesn't do analog anymore... neither do I.
D&D nerds
Does my scrying crystal need an HD converter?
honestly folks,
the days of nerds ruling the computer market are coming to an end...
back when it was only nerds who had a computer, it was only our nerd issues that drove the sales of comptuers and software.
Classic mac os was too closed off for the early computer user/geeks. So DOS/Windows won the race...
Now, things have changed. EVERYONE needs a computer. From the mailboy to the CEO, computers are part of almost every job.
So... what's happened? People want to buy something that works better.... (OS X).
Nerds... will always use what they like and that's linux, for now.
Apple's about to pull and end run around M$ and OSX's unix roots are good news for linux...
Until someone fixes an interface to run as smooth as OSX for linux, it won't be popular with anyone but nerds.
I mean, I have to enter all my own MIME settings in Gnome... how the hell am I going to tell my mom how to do that?
But really, OSX is already there and nerds are happy enough with linux as-is, so I doubt the gui will ever catch up. Not to mention that Apple is able to make such a smooth experience because it has unusual control over the hardware.
Just my $0.02.
computer sciences is great you can combine it with one of several science degrees.
chem, biochem, bio, physical chem,
geology, physics, math
The point is that computers are used for everything in science these days. Whatever you like, there is a use for a computer scientist.
also, law schools are recruiting CS majors... there's a lot of need for technically literate lawyers these days.
an MBA is a great addition to any degree. The science of business is the science of making money. If you've got CS talents, an MBA will teach you how to capitalize on it.
Stay out of liberal arts... fine arts... not alot of extra opportunities with a CS / Piano education.
You can also do many corporate training programs. Try to find programs that aren't just giveaways. The Oracle program is a good example, not everyone passes, thus it is more valuable.
Of course, you could just get a job without any further education. CS is a good door into almost anything these days.
tmaxwellREMEVETHEATcsTHAD0TutexasAD0Tedu
Slashdot Mirror
"Beowulf Cluster"
Dean: ROBOT HOUSE!!! Bender: Cheese It!
Hahaha!! Booyah... IP law bites corporate America in the ass! W00t! The irony is seeping out of my router as we speak.
If we do this, aren't we putting evolutionary pressure on the virus to change the vulnerable protein too? I don't know too much about viral evolution, but it seems like it could be a problem, couldn' it?
I'd say it has something to do with all the professors believing that there is gold buried up their asses. I've been in CS at a major state university for 4 years now and the professors are worse than the American Idol crowd. Just the smugness. Especially the ones from MIT. God I want to smack them.
Also, CS is a really hard degree. Especially after that rush of students in 2000 right before the bubble burst. CS departments all over the country rushed to think up new "weed-out" classes to make sure the "right" people got into CS. Rather than expand their programs to provide the number of CS graduates that the US needs, they got all xenophobic and tried to turn CS back into the SooperNurdzClub like it was for the past 40 years.
I've got news for nerds. CS matters. But not in the way you want it to. No one cares if you can do reduction proofs, they want CODE. They want APPS. They want UI that is easy to use. Why not break CS into two or more branches, like physics. I reccomend a Theoretical CS specialization a sooperNurdzClub for the smug MIT grabasses. Then a couple of different practical application specializations like Application Programming, Network Computing, Bioinformatics, etc.
Take out the 5 semesters of math and trade them for 2 semesters of CS specialized math courses instead of the generalized ones from the math department where we only really need two chapters of the book we're covering for CS.
Take out the EE and logic and combine it into one circuit logic class that freshmen have to take. Add some classes that focus on using computers in other disciplines as electives. Boom. US CS has a new lease on life and a much friendlier atmosphere for those of us who don't like to smell our own farts. F*** MIT.
Does anyone take M$ press releases seriously anymore? When has M$ implemented a protection or priviledge that wasn't neutralized by crackers in a couple of weeks? And not offering the best part of the OS experience in the consumer package... way to trade upsell revenue for customer respec... oh wait no one respects M$ we just endure them. Damn. My guess... they'll be rushing to offer Aero as a free upgrade after everyone gets upset about it and pirates the pro version.
I don't think you guys understand the kind of massive speed differential we're talking about. I don't remember the numbers, but it's like G/s to the card and K/s back. It's just enough to tell the processor that the card is ready for the next rendering task, nothing more.
Someone mentioned doing video compression... because you could send the compressed file back. Well ok, except, A. video cards only have 256mb of ram... so your uncompressed video would only be like what 30 seconds? B. getting the data back to the hard drive would be like transfering files over a serial cable... like old PS/2 serial, not USB2 serial.
Now... a card with a SATA out would work. That's the kind of bandwidth that would help, although for most applications just an IDE out would do the trick.
But these cards don't exist. So no... nothing to be done with agp slots.
Sony may as well have declared defeat. There is no market for a $900 gaming machine no matter how cool it is. Period.
We've already got $2000 gaming computers, we don't want your Cell. I bought a PS2 for Final Fantasy games... but I'm just not going to pay $900 for any game developer.
Even if Sony had ALL the good games, which it doesn't... I would not pay $900 for an oversized atari regardless of it's media capabilities! We've all got dvd players and mp3 players!
Lame. Super super lame.
OR... they realize that by 2007 the dollar won't be worth anything compared to the Yen... so they're just being realistic.
------------
Take your pick.
I want to get all my underwear made out of this stuff. That way I'll never have to wear a cup for sports.
It would also help for when I want to be impertinent to feminists.
Ummm...
toItalian(Turin) == Torino
Yeah, nice try though.
...this is in the Hardware section and not the Science section.
/. you have to have multiple advanced degrees... including CS, EE, Chem, Physics, Law, and a host of others. Maybe we should start a /. scholarhip so our future readers won't be as dumb as we are.
Or maybe it shouldn't even be here... it should be in the Science Fiction section. So far, all this guy has is an idea... not even a proof of concept. He's just got an idea about what he wants to do, not a mechanism for acheiving the desired effect.
Twenty years ago, people writing this sort of thing would be called Sci-Fi Writers.
Internet journalism perhaps has created nothing more than the world's largest gossip factory. To really process all of what comes down the line here at
Stupid stupid stupid. This is not science, nor is what-his-name a scientist. He is a crackpot. The scientists he claims are crack-pots are some of the most important and brilliant minds in History. I can personally dispell %75 of his claims, the other %25 percent would probably just require some reading... and I'm not even done with my undergrad yet. No more articles from rebelscience.com in the science news section. It is not science.
I mean, I play a very competitive game of tennis against all of my friends. Only people who can *really* play ever really challenge me. I'm also a pretty mean video game competitor. I have an incredible record on original goldeneye... I haven't been beaten best 2 out of 3 since 1998. I also pwn both Super Smash Bros. games. Given a few hours of practice, I can beat almost anyone at almost any game. Especially if I practice against hard opponents. After a week of playing against the l33ts in Halo2, I started pwning them too. So, general hand eye coordination is a huge advantage in any type of game. If anyone in Austin wants to rumble video games, drop me a line.
I found this at the bottom of the page in .25 pt font:
*not real AI
Damned fine print!
See what I think they mean, and they don't say much on the site, is they've created the first Turing Complete Artificial Reasoning Agent. An interesting goal, but the advertising people obviously did not get a BS in Computer Science. "True" AI is at least 40 years off just due to the computing requirements, not to mention the monumental challenge of reverese engineering our own brain.
I wonder if we're going to experience another AI wave? With companies tossing around the AI moniker without actually doing anything new.
... so you can't see the restaurant at the end of the universe.
If you'll remember from the book... Milliways was located at the TEMPORAL end of the universe. Since there is ostensibly not a SPATIAL end of the universe, this telescope will not help us find any two-headed galactic presidents or interstellar travel editors. Alas.
42, Don't Panic.
This is sort of funny. For years, there was Microsoft/Intel bias in nearly everything that came out of the mainstream media. Apple could not get out of the footnotes.
Now, Apple has revolutionized portable music. People have finally started paying attention, giving Apple some fair non-biased coverage. Microsoft and it's supporters are in the unfortunate position of accepting the reality that not only are they with the wrong OS now, they were wrong all along. This is not going over very well... indicated by the whining we are now hearing. "Windows doesn't get enough press!" "Stop saying such good things about our OS's mortal enemy!" "All those reporters are Mac-using hippies, tell them to get a "real" computer!"
Come on folks. Face up to reality, windows is taking it from both ends: Desktop and Server, because it is now competing against products with such high quality that they can't even lie about them effectively.
Bill, the correct way to handle this is:
catch ( ResearchBudgetTooSmallException e){
researchBudget++;
prAndLegalBudget--;
}
Where you have:
catch ( ResearchBudgetTooSmallException e){
while (true) {
FUD.deploy();
}
}
the dmca also PROTECTS consumers... by limiting our access to our data and our devices. the clear skies initiative PROTECTS the environment... by making government inspections into private self-inspections. the no child left behind PROTECTS our children... by creating a hole in the education budget with an unfunded mandate. the patriot act PROTECTS our precious freedom... by ripping holes in the constitution. operation iraqi freedom PROTECTS iraqis... by bombing them. Why is it that whenever I hear the 'pubs talk about PROTECTING something, I start to worry about whatever it is they want to PROTECT? Perhaps PROTECT is actually some kind of acronym equivalent to "Drop your pants and grab your ankles." The Orwellian-ness of it all is excitingly terrifying. But, yes, by all means, let's PROTECT the internet. Is anyone thinking that maybe the gov't will start PROTECTING us from the terrorist content on the internet, the same way China does for their citizens?
... but none with their fingers upon what I would consider the answer: A $199 digital video camera would have a pretty* large market. * warning: understatement
and 33.6 million == 12% how does 3 million == 10% ? Punchlines: math nerds Last time I checked percentage was a linear transformation... stats nerds chance this story was previewed == .03%
cs nerds
Damn that roundoff error!
csi nerds
But was there DNA on the TV remote?
star wars nerds
George Lucas doesn't do analog anymore... neither do I.
D&D nerds
Does my scrying crystal need an HD converter?
honestly folks, the days of nerds ruling the computer market are coming to an end... back when it was only nerds who had a computer, it was only our nerd issues that drove the sales of comptuers and software. Classic mac os was too closed off for the early computer user/geeks. So DOS/Windows won the race... Now, things have changed. EVERYONE needs a computer. From the mailboy to the CEO, computers are part of almost every job. So... what's happened? People want to buy something that works better.... (OS X). Nerds... will always use what they like and that's linux, for now. Apple's about to pull and end run around M$ and OSX's unix roots are good news for linux... Until someone fixes an interface to run as smooth as OSX for linux, it won't be popular with anyone but nerds. I mean, I have to enter all my own MIME settings in Gnome... how the hell am I going to tell my mom how to do that? But really, OSX is already there and nerds are happy enough with linux as-is, so I doubt the gui will ever catch up. Not to mention that Apple is able to make such a smooth experience because it has unusual control over the hardware. Just my $0.02.
... what is happening in the world of broadcast EVER. I mean this man is ENTIRELY too sober, get him a beer or two, stat. But really, great work.
computer sciences is great you can combine it with one of several science degrees. chem, biochem, bio, physical chem, geology, physics, math The point is that computers are used for everything in science these days. Whatever you like, there is a use for a computer scientist. also, law schools are recruiting CS majors... there's a lot of need for technically literate lawyers these days. an MBA is a great addition to any degree. The science of business is the science of making money. If you've got CS talents, an MBA will teach you how to capitalize on it. Stay out of liberal arts... fine arts... not alot of extra opportunities with a CS / Piano education. You can also do many corporate training programs. Try to find programs that aren't just giveaways. The Oracle program is a good example, not everyone passes, thus it is more valuable. Of course, you could just get a job without any further education. CS is a good door into almost anything these days. tmaxwellREMEVETHEATcsTHAD0TutexasAD0Tedu