A talking robot that projects real-time cartoons to confuse travelling salesmen who block your 3D interfaces.
More likely real-time talking spam with a 3d avatar that confuses your spam filters.
Now imagine a whole bunch of pwned 32ghz PCs running that shit...
Unfortunately, you're probably right, but my guess is the kids will see real-time talking cartoon/anime spam with a 3D cosplay avatar that confuses your spam filters and signs you up for AOL to "protect you against spam".
My question is, what happened at the presentation of the paper? Did anyone pick it apart, did noone show up for that paper because they thought it was bogus, or did anyone check the references?
That's what peer review is all about. Anyone can write a paper, especially if they have credentials, but peer review is there to challenge it, both on the raw data and summary, and on the sources quoted or research quoted.
The problem is that way too much information is being presented, and if its non-relevant, it may not be challenged because noone is interested in using it as the basis for further study.
The other way a bogus paper is spotted is when they list collaborators who deny they worked on or contributed to it. Which is what happens at the conference or afterwards, when people start asking questions.
Kind of like April Fools stories in newspapers - sure, they can print them, but they may get a ton of letters, emails, and phone calls challenging the "news item" once it's been printed. Should we blame the reader for them - or the people who enter them in the first place?
because of all the updates, which have bogged down the networks, and then it blew our Firefox when Adobe tried to self-download a patch caused by the Microsoft patches.
Cascade failure.
It always sounds easy to bug fix, but the problem is each fix can cause more fixes, and everyone assumes only their fix is occurring at any one time, while in the real world they all happen at the same time, since people being human put off things on Monday and do them Tuesday "when it's not so busy"...
The funny thing is Microsoft will get this error report of my PC locking up as if it was Firefox, when the reason the CPU overbooked was Adobe and Microsoft...
While I might concede that the AMD 2.2ghz would probably trounce the 2.8ghz Pentium D, the 10x price premium for the AMD by far outweighs any performance increases. But again, the dual core Opterons aren't intended for home consumers.
Well, at 10 times cheaper, let's grab a few and make a server farm!
If AMD is shipping in about a week, then one wonders if it's worth paying the Intel price for dual core chips when you can just wait a week and get twice as much for the same price...
I wish people would stop calling Moore's Law a law. Laws don't have the word "about" in them ("transistor counts double about every 18 months"). It should be called "Moore's Observation" or "Moore's Conjecture."
But in economics or biology, Laws are that ambiguous.
Sometimes, for people like you, we call them Rules, as in the Rule of Three (for biological proteins), but they're also called Laws (as in the Law of Small Numbers).
It depends on what your definition of the word Law is.
The price of a missing document doubles every two years, until it exceeds the cost of a new car.
Sadly, the price of a new car goes up by n factorial every year... and it's mileage decreases by the square of its tonnage (in metric tons).
All figures are in Euros, of course, since the price of a Dollar decreases to n/(n+x) where n is the number of years GWB is in office and x is the trade deficit in trillions of Euros.
And give your Enterprise donation money to Africa or Asia. They need the money much more!
True, they do need it more, but make sure it's given to someone that actually does something useful, like provides teachers and books or malaria-preventing tents for girls, not just money that will be waylaid by some warlord.
Or invent something useful to help the world with the money.
Or, more likely, you're researching sound wave patterns in popular songs, as part of a PhD dissertation on how different forms of music all share specific patterns and other such research.
Face it, you don't know what anyone's reason might be, you're just making assumptions.
They could be looking for WMD, after all, or was that WAV?
The real question is: what are a journalist's ethical obligations? If a journalist/blogger obtain trade secrets from someone he knows stole those information from Apple, should be be allowed to profit from it by publishing it? Stock brokers aren't allowed to profit from insider information, so why should a journalist profit from insider information that he knows is stolen?
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More readable than most papers that get presented, sadly.
If I'd been there, I probably would have skipped their presentation anyway, since it seemed not very relevant to anything of interest.
That has changed. 512MB of RAM and 1Ghz are a very common baseline now.
Here at work, we have flat panel 24 inch monitors, Gigabit Internet2, and I've got a SLOW computer because it only has 512MB of RAM.
We save a lot of money by using flat panal LCD monitors, so much that we can afford to have extra boxen.
A talking robot that projects real-time cartoons to confuse travelling salesmen who block your 3D interfaces.
...
More likely real-time talking spam with a 3d avatar that confuses your spam filters.
Now imagine a whole bunch of pwned 32ghz PCs running that shit
Unfortunately, you're probably right, but my guess is the kids will see real-time talking cartoon/anime spam with a 3D cosplay avatar that confuses your spam filters and signs you up for AOL to "protect you against spam".
So, it got in as a non-reviewed paper ...
My question is, what happened at the presentation of the paper? Did anyone pick it apart, did noone show up for that paper because they thought it was bogus, or did anyone check the references?
That's what peer review is all about. Anyone can write a paper, especially if they have credentials, but peer review is there to challenge it, both on the raw data and summary, and on the sources quoted or research quoted.
The problem is that way too much information is being presented, and if its non-relevant, it may not be challenged because noone is interested in using it as the basis for further study.
The other way a bogus paper is spotted is when they list collaborators who deny they worked on or contributed to it. Which is what happens at the conference or afterwards, when people start asking questions.
Kind of like April Fools stories in newspapers - sure, they can print them, but they may get a ton of letters, emails, and phone calls challenging the "news item" once it's been printed. Should we blame the reader for them - or the people who enter them in the first place?
because of all the updates, which have bogged down the networks, and then it blew our Firefox when Adobe tried to self-download a patch caused by the Microsoft patches.
...
...
Cascade failure.
It always sounds easy to bug fix, but the problem is each fix can cause more fixes, and everyone assumes only their fix is occurring at any one time, while in the real world they all happen at the same time, since people being human put off things on Monday and do them Tuesday "when it's not so busy"
The funny thing is Microsoft will get this error report of my PC locking up as if it was Firefox, when the reason the CPU overbooked was Adobe and Microsoft
While I might concede that the AMD 2.2ghz would probably trounce the 2.8ghz Pentium D, the 10x price premium for the AMD by far outweighs any performance increases. But again, the dual core Opterons aren't intended for home consumers.
Well, at 10 times cheaper, let's grab a few and make a server farm!
are we talking lap burn hot, or server coffeepot hot?
and is that with a good fan or just fin-cooled?
So, if you say that we can use it for speech recognition, robots, travelling salesman problems, 3D interfaces, and real-time cartoons, then ...
It stands to reason it will be used for:
A talking robot that projects real-time cartoons to confuse travelling salesmen who block your 3D interfaces.
Right?
Well, at $3000 for 2.6 speed, maybe they figure they can make a lot of money shipping their Intel chips first.
...
Let's wait and see if the fab is stable or we have another disaster like when the math registers didn't work for floating point ops
If AMD is shipping in about a week, then one wonders if it's worth paying the Intel price for dual core chips when you can just wait a week and get twice as much for the same price ...
Mind you, it depends on the heat specs.
I wish people would stop calling Moore's Law a law. Laws don't have the word "about" in them ("transistor counts double about every 18 months"). It should be called "Moore's Observation" or "Moore's Conjecture."
But in economics or biology, Laws are that ambiguous.
Sometimes, for people like you, we call them Rules, as in the Rule of Three (for biological proteins), but they're also called Laws (as in the Law of Small Numbers).
It depends on what your definition of the word Law is.
The price of a missing document doubles every two years, until it exceeds the cost of a new car.
... and it's mileage decreases by the square of its tonnage (in metric tons).
Sadly, the price of a new car goes up by n factorial every year
All figures are in Euros, of course, since the price of a Dollar decreases to n/(n+x) where n is the number of years GWB is in office and x is the trade deficit in trillions of Euros.
The reason I said make sure the money goes to something useful, was because of this editorial in the International Herald Tribune.
Still, I'll miss it, but am glad we have BG which is way more interesting.
And give your Enterprise donation money to Africa or Asia. They need the money much more!
True, they do need it more, but make sure it's given to someone that actually does something useful, like provides teachers and books or malaria-preventing tents for girls, not just money that will be waylaid by some warlord.
Or invent something useful to help the world with the money.
Or, more likely, you're researching sound wave patterns in popular songs, as part of a PhD dissertation on how different forms of music all share specific patterns and other such research.
Face it, you don't know what anyone's reason might be, you're just making assumptions.
They could be looking for WMD, after all, or was that WAV?
I mean, it's not like they'd LIE on their application to get on Internet2, right?
1) Map the female mind first
um, using Perl script?
Guess they're serious.
All Your Base Are Belong To Us.
if it's not open source, that's the attitude/lesson.
The real question is: what are a journalist's ethical obligations? If a journalist/blogger obtain trade secrets from someone he knows stole those information from Apple, should be be allowed to profit from it by publishing it? Stock brokers aren't allowed to profit from insider information, so why should a journalist profit from insider information that he knows is stolen?
...
So, you admit you hate DC news reporters then?
Sigh
You just halfcrunched my wordbloggage.
Dang. Sorry, I was uplinking my blogopingpang and forgot to renfrew my dangsplatter.
Later, 1337!
what is journalism?
If you have to ask what it is, you ain't one.
Maybe we should invent fake terminology and get them to print it. I cyberscape on my ripping blog using cyberdyned entrails.
Well, everyone who is 1337 knows that true bloggers always autoscrabble their bloglinklunks, and only newbloggers (newblo's) forget to do that.
and that everyone interesting has already moved on, is when the popular media backs you doing it.
Just like when grunge died.
Why did L/N need to know their subsribers SSNs?
/b/r/i/b/e/s/pensions.
To set up private accounts with Iraqi dinar for their