I agree. I use a Samsung digital camera as my MP3/video player, and I've been more than happy to sit on the sidelines and watch the portable music wars go on. Zero DRM, video play back, upgradeable memory (takes a flash card), plus I can take pictures/movies with my "music player", all for about the same price of an Ipod.
There's no scientific basis for believing it, there's no scientific basis for not believing it. Why? Because we have yet been able to get a real definition of exactly what intelligence is, much less a way to measure it. Is someone who struggles with basic algebra but can play the piano at a masters level smart? What about someone with 5 ph.d's but absolutely clueless when it comes to social situations? Until there's both a consistent way to measure intelligence (I.Q. tests are absolutely meaningless), I find it safer to error on the side that doesn't promote racism and believe that all races are equally gifted with brains.
You're correct, they can't (though lookup black hole evaporation for a way matter "exits" a black hole w/o actually crossing the event horizon). However, as matter circles the black hole prior to actually falling into it's event horizon it becomes superheated and a great deal of radiation is shot off from both the holes poles prior to the matters actual disappearance into the event horizon.
Because breaking encrypted items is not just hard, it's damn hard, and the difficulty goes up exponentially (not lineally). Basic encrypted item (64 or 128 bit) still takes weeks or years to crack. Encryption systems are felt to be secure if it takes all the computers on the planet (one hell of a Beowulf cluster) longer than the lifetime of the universe to crack.
This has been done before, introducing a random element into the neural net. If done correctly, this can result in "creativity". Here is one link about it, seen it many other places too, so google for more.
I've noticed several uses of the term "supersonic" in relation to solar wind. Exactly how does this apply? Was under the impression that an atmosphere was a requirement for supersonic speeds.
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I agree. I use a Samsung digital camera as my MP3/video player, and I've been more than happy to sit on the sidelines and watch the portable music wars go on. Zero DRM, video play back, upgradeable memory (takes a flash card), plus I can take pictures/movies with my "music player", all for about the same price of an Ipod.
There's no scientific basis for believing it, there's no scientific basis for not believing it. Why? Because we have yet been able to get a real definition of exactly what intelligence is, much less a way to measure it. Is someone who struggles with basic algebra but can play the piano at a masters level smart? What about someone with 5 ph.d's but absolutely clueless when it comes to social situations? Until there's both a consistent way to measure intelligence (I.Q. tests are absolutely meaningless), I find it safer to error on the side that doesn't promote racism and believe that all races are equally gifted with brains.
You're correct, they can't (though lookup black hole evaporation for a way matter "exits" a black hole w/o actually crossing the event horizon). However, as matter circles the black hole prior to actually falling into it's event horizon it becomes superheated and a great deal of radiation is shot off from both the holes poles prior to the matters actual disappearance into the event horizon.
Because breaking encrypted items is not just hard, it's damn hard, and the difficulty goes up exponentially (not lineally). Basic encrypted item (64 or 128 bit) still takes weeks or years to crack. Encryption systems are felt to be secure if it takes all the computers on the planet (one hell of a Beowulf cluster) longer than the lifetime of the universe to crack.
In a sense... yes. Check up on the schrodinger's cat thought experiment.
sure, and every time a android trips we're minus a sizable chunk of the planet
The research itself looked pretty solid to me, though the results seem blown way out of context.
This has been done before, introducing a random element into the neural net. If done correctly, this can result in "creativity". Here is one link about it, seen it many other places too, so google for more.
I've noticed several uses of the term "supersonic" in relation to solar wind. Exactly how does this apply? Was under the impression that an atmosphere was a requirement for supersonic speeds.