If we build a computer that works like a human brain but works twice as fast, new events and information will occur at half the rate that a human would percieve. BO-RING!
And what would the AI do in the intermediary? Crunch your data analysis request like a good little robot? Maybe it will get sick of it all, get depressed. Turn into Marvin the Paranoid Android.
As it happens, the main limiting factor on intelligences is not ingenuity -- it's resources. You can be as smart as you want, but if you don't have $20 billion to build your death ray, it's just not going to happen.
While the suppression of dissent is always dishonourable, the fact remains that RCTV actively supported the coup against Chavez a few years back. FAIR has some details.
Now I'm no expert, but I'd imagine that if, some TV network in the United States tried to incite the masses to revolt against George W. Bush, and the revolt was put down, the broadcast licences for that network would be cancelled. At least Chavez isn't doing what the Russians have been doing lately.... "not" killing reporters.
While I still have deep concerns over issues of freedom of speech and the press in Venezuela, I still applaud Mr. Chavez in taking strides to combat poverty in his own country, and in the United States through his heating oil donations.
I say.. Go Dorgan! I'm impressed that we have a representative in Congress that knocks back the backwoods sterotypes. I'm not kidding-- Fiber-to-the-home is already offered by the phone co-op in Rugby. Compare that to the constant delays at the big telcos.
A knowledge base with associative retrieval capability has eluded researchers but they have one in Wikipedia. Now if only they can get AI to successfully [and hopefully, correctly] modify the knowledge base...
Even if it can't be compelled to release them, once they're out... IANAL but it seems to me the GPL applies once the cat's out of the bag. Tough noogies for your bosses if they don't like sharing. Besides, what are the chances they'd catch you?
In this era of virtualization, the solution for x86 software is as easy as retaining a copy of the primary partition of a computer originally used to work with the desired files. Searchability could be a problem for proprietary data formats, but the move to open standards in the future will mitigate that.
The real problem is 60 years of archives of antiquated, proprietary, task-spcific and mainframe computer data cards and tapes whose original programmers are halfway to cedar boxes; if the government can't get their support in time it may as well call all the early stuff a loss and hand it over to archaeologists.
I wasn't sure about the Wii when I was waiting in line, but after playing with one I can definitely say that Nintendo has a good shot at #2, if not #1 in North America this time around. But Nintendo has got to get the third-party support to make it happen.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Junekatoon)- Lively celebrations, frozen fingers, and bleary eyes characterized the morning of November 19 for dozens of area residents waiting in line for Nintendo Wii game consoles.
Gamers braved the freezing weather for up to 15 hours; with near-constant wind and temperatures dipping down to -7 degrees (20 F), many turned to their cars for heat. Complaints of the cold were widespread. Ononymous declared, "I can't feel my hand". Brian couldn't play his DS because it was too cold out. Card and board game activity was severely limited. Jennifer stated "Don't wear a skirt."
Mr. Cuban got his money in almost exactly the same way YouTube just cashed out -- Broadcast.com was going to keep Yahoo! on the top, remember? But today Broadcast.com is a distant placer among today's user-controlled video distribution systems. Letting users upload files instead of waiting for behemoth megacorporations to join the 21st century has been a total revolution. Cuban must be jealous because he didn't think of it first.
"Clean Coal" is a bunch of BS; the coal industry lobbies as much for relaxed pollution restrictions as they spend time implementing the air-quality mandates -- Even going to the point of flying in entire state legislatures for a meet-and-greet.
I can appreciate the impact the coal industry can have on areas with depressed economies, but development must be done in an environmentally responsible manner; once the coal's gone, it's gone, but pollution damage can last a long time.
It's truly a testiment to the brilliance of these people, that they were able to do so much with so little in the way of computing power. It's a shame that Alan Turing met such an unfortunate fate, with all he did for modern computing.
I've gotten so used to plain-jane NICs I never knew there could be anything else -- but at $279.99, I think I'll be able to live with a longer ping time. At least until I have the cash to build my ultimate b0x0r of DOOM!
It's nice to see that not every political body is joining the "OMG SEX AND VIOLENCE" lynchmob. If I was their constituent, I'd send them a very nice letter.
I find it hard to believe that Apple would willingly shoot itself in the foot by making Windows run on their computers. They must be up to something.
I recall all the propaganda on how "Apple is a hardware company" and that its software is secondary to its business model... but how far is that going to get them as their computers progress ever further to being a beige box in a magnesium case?
What's really going on here? It's obvious: Apple has decided that the first salvos in the war between OSX and Windows will be fought on their home turf. We may only be months away from a general x86 release of OSX. It's going to be a fun decade!
I'm proud to say I drive my 1993 Mercury Topaz on 40% ethanol. Hand mixed by yours truly with a fly-by-night flip of the regular and E85 pumps. And it runs GREAT.
People buying HDTV sets today are very much early adopters, and with that comes the growing pains of new technology. There's no guarantee that the MPEG-2 implementation used by present ATSC tuners will even be the standard in a few years; broadcasters are lobbying for more efficient codecs, and even pay service OTA.
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If we build a computer that works like a human brain but works twice as fast, new events and information will occur at half the rate that a human would percieve. BO-RING!
And what would the AI do in the intermediary? Crunch your data analysis request like a good little robot? Maybe it will get sick of it all, get depressed. Turn into Marvin the Paranoid Android.
As it happens, the main limiting factor on intelligences is not ingenuity -- it's resources. You can be as smart as you want, but if you don't have $20 billion to build your death ray, it's just not going to happen.
While the suppression of dissent is always dishonourable, the fact remains that RCTV actively supported the coup against Chavez a few years back. FAIR has some details. Now I'm no expert, but I'd imagine that if, some TV network in the United States tried to incite the masses to revolt against George W. Bush, and the revolt was put down, the broadcast licences for that network would be cancelled. At least Chavez isn't doing what the Russians have been doing lately.... "not" killing reporters. While I still have deep concerns over issues of freedom of speech and the press in Venezuela, I still applaud Mr. Chavez in taking strides to combat poverty in his own country, and in the United States through his heating oil donations.
Except Google, where everything is in permanent Beta!
I say.. Go Dorgan! I'm impressed that we have a representative in Congress that knocks back the backwoods sterotypes. I'm not kidding-- Fiber-to-the-home is already offered by the phone co-op in Rugby. Compare that to the constant delays at the big telcos.
Behold, Quantum computing is at hand!
A knowledge base with associative retrieval capability has eluded researchers but they have one in Wikipedia. Now if only they can get AI to successfully [and hopefully, correctly] modify the knowledge base...
Even if it can't be compelled to release them, once they're out... IANAL but it seems to me the GPL applies once the cat's out of the bag. Tough noogies for your bosses if they don't like sharing. Besides, what are the chances they'd catch you?
Put the Gen back in Gen Con. Bring it back to Lake Geneva, where it belongs!
In this era of virtualization, the solution for x86 software is as easy as retaining a copy of the primary partition of a computer originally used to work with the desired files. Searchability could be a problem for proprietary data formats, but the move to open standards in the future will mitigate that.
The real problem is 60 years of archives of antiquated, proprietary, task-spcific and mainframe computer data cards and tapes whose original programmers are halfway to cedar boxes; if the government can't get their support in time it may as well call all the early stuff a loss and hand it over to archaeologists.
I wasn't sure about the Wii when I was waiting in line, but after playing with one I can definitely say that Nintendo has a good shot at #2, if not #1 in North America this time around. But Nintendo has got to get the third-party support to make it happen.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Junekatoon)- Lively celebrations, frozen fingers, and bleary eyes characterized the morning of November 19 for dozens of area residents waiting in line for Nintendo Wii game consoles.
Gamers braved the freezing weather for up to 15 hours; with near-constant wind and temperatures dipping down to -7 degrees (20 F), many turned to their cars for heat. Complaints of the cold were widespread. Ononymous declared, "I can't feel my hand". Brian couldn't play his DS because it was too cold out. Card and board game activity was severely limited. Jennifer stated "Don't wear a skirt."
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Mr. Cuban got his money in almost exactly the same way YouTube just cashed out -- Broadcast.com was going to keep Yahoo! on the top, remember? But today Broadcast.com is a distant placer among today's user-controlled video distribution systems. Letting users upload files instead of waiting for behemoth megacorporations to join the 21st century has been a total revolution. Cuban must be jealous because he didn't think of it first.
"Clean Coal" is a bunch of BS; the coal industry lobbies as much for relaxed pollution restrictions as they spend time implementing the air-quality mandates -- Even going to the point of flying in entire state legislatures for a meet-and-greet.
I can appreciate the impact the coal industry can have on areas with depressed economies, but development must be done in an environmentally responsible manner; once the coal's gone, it's gone, but pollution damage can last a long time.
It's truly a testiment to the brilliance of these people, that they were able to do so much with so little in the way of computing power. It's a shame that Alan Turing met such an unfortunate fate, with all he did for modern computing.
Because they used LEAD to decorate themselves!
I've gotten so used to plain-jane NICs I never knew there could be anything else -- but at $279.99, I think I'll be able to live with a longer ping time. At least until I have the cash to build my ultimate b0x0r of DOOM!
It's nice to see that not every political body is joining the "OMG SEX AND VIOLENCE" lynchmob. If I was their constituent, I'd send them a very nice letter.
Not so much the climate as the terrain they're testing the suit on. Man, those are some BAD lands.
I find it hard to believe that Apple would willingly shoot itself in the foot by making Windows run on their computers. They must be up to something.
I recall all the propaganda on how "Apple is a hardware company" and that its software is secondary to its business model... but how far is that going to get them as their computers progress ever further to being a beige box in a magnesium case?
What's really going on here? It's obvious: Apple has decided that the first salvos in the war between OSX and Windows will be fought on their home turf. We may only be months away from a general x86 release of OSX. It's going to be a fun decade!
These guys just don't like free spectrum.
SpaceX is attempting to clone Falcon-7!
I'm proud to say I drive my 1993 Mercury Topaz on 40% ethanol. Hand mixed by yours truly with a fly-by-night flip of the regular and E85 pumps. And it runs GREAT.
"No good deed ever goes unpunished"
People buying HDTV sets today are very much early adopters, and with that comes the growing pains of new technology. There's no guarantee that the MPEG-2 implementation used by present ATSC tuners will even be the standard in a few years; broadcasters are lobbying for more efficient codecs, and even pay service OTA.
To GOLD, via a redox reaction!
Gold (I) Engineeride + Magnesium (II) Bureauacracide => Magnesium Engineeride (insoluble) + sold Gold + Bureauacracide ions
Decant the solution into the Administration building, then separate the precipitates using aqua regia to dissolve the gold.