With 5 GB/s, you can only really store 333 MB around the radius of the earth. Unless you manage to convince the routers to do crazy things, you can't really do very much with that.
Could someone out there please explain how being able to compress text is equivalent to artificial intelligence?
Is this to suggest that the algorithm is able to learn, adapt and change enough to show evidence of intelligence?
The (unproven) idea is that if you want to do the best at guessing what comes next (similar to compression), you have to have a great understanding of how the language and human minds work, including spelling, grammar, associated topics (for example, if you're talking about the weather, "sunny" and "rainy" are more likely to come than "airplane"), and so on.
If you feed in the previous words in a conversation, the perfect compressor/predictor would know what words will come next. Such a machine could easily pass the Turing test by printing out the logical reply to what had just been stated. The idea is that the closer to the perfect compressor you have, the closer to artificial intelligence you are.
I'm not sure you understand. You can click on a folder icon and open a command window there, but you cannot click on the folder background itself - after you have opened a folder - and open a command window in the folder you are current looking at.
Prices are as high as they can get away with, true, but even in a monopolistic competition system, there is competition between sellers for your money. If you'll go to where it's cheapest, they'll continually have to lower prices (unless they attempt to cooperate explicitly or implicitly, but one of those is illegal and the other is unlikely among enough sellers). At some point they can lower their prices no more: when the price equals their (economic) cost.
Perhaps, but you can buy the Blackberry 7130e for $99 - ok, $200 if you don't get an $80/month plan, but that's still slightly less expensive as the iPhone.
I suspect that they were multiplying the price of each item by its legitimate retail value, not its counterfeit retail value (which is somewhat lower).
The problem is that, at least for making and storing anti-matter and accelerating a rocket to relativistic speeds, doing those in an interesting manner (other than with ever-larger particle colliders or rocket engines) is impossible under the standard model. We would know the best ways of doing some things, and they suck.
Tying inflation or deflation to the amount of a specific metal that we happen to dig out of the ground is a pretty bad way to do things. See what happened during the price revolution, where nations rapidly increased their silver production, in part causing a lot of inflation. Even worse, if the population increases faster than we mine gold, then we get bad deflation.
Question is: if someone hasn't agreed to lobby about RIAA, why would RIAA pay him even $1. Because they like USA? And thus just randomly send 50 politicians some pocket change?
Well, there's an alternate theory, where politicians already would vote that way, and the RIAA wants to give their campaigns money so that they'll stay in office and be able to continue to help them. It's not exactly great, but it's not nearly as sleazy as the bribery that otherwise would be going on.
Maybe we just have to carry plants in front of our faces whenever we walk around. If he means net carbon output, some trees at home probably should work (anyone have numbers?).
a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Now, using DeCSS or the thousands of variants of that doesn't require the "authority of the copyright owner." Maybe that same logic the judge used could apply in the US, although the interpretation would be somewhat more strained.
Consider that the price of platinum (as used in catalytic converters) is around $1350/pound ($2976/kg), and the price of palladium (used for the same purpose) is around $355/pound ($780/kg). Depending on how much gallium they really need, this really could amount to exchanging trace amounts of one expensive element for trace amounts of another expensive element.
Also, note that they say in the article that they would only need low-purity gallium, which would have a lower price (although the price would also be raised by the raised demand, granted).
Or, then again, maybe they won't find that new particles fit neatly with what has been established. Theoretical physicists have been trying to unify everything for the last 150 years - the current popular attempt is called string theory. It's not doing so well in the realm of "making useful or even testable predictions," though.
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DARPA brought the government and universities the internet. A corporate, capitalist ISP brought me the internet.
With 5 GB/s, you can only really store 333 MB around the radius of the earth. Unless you manage to convince the routers to do crazy things, you can't really do very much with that.
The (unproven) idea is that if you want to do the best at guessing what comes next (similar to compression), you have to have a great understanding of how the language and human minds work, including spelling, grammar, associated topics (for example, if you're talking about the weather, "sunny" and "rainy" are more likely to come than "airplane"), and so on.
If you feed in the previous words in a conversation, the perfect compressor/predictor would know what words will come next. Such a machine could easily pass the Turing test by printing out the logical reply to what had just been stated. The idea is that the closer to the perfect compressor you have, the closer to artificial intelligence you are.
I'm not sure you understand. You can click on a folder icon and open a command window there, but you cannot click on the folder background itself - after you have opened a folder - and open a command window in the folder you are current looking at.
Just rig up your computer to kill you instantaneously if you don't get access. Then, you'll never experience the problem of not having access.
Prices are as high as they can get away with, true, but even in a monopolistic competition system, there is competition between sellers for your money. If you'll go to where it's cheapest, they'll continually have to lower prices (unless they attempt to cooperate explicitly or implicitly, but one of those is illegal and the other is unlikely among enough sellers). At some point they can lower their prices no more: when the price equals their (economic) cost.
Perhaps, but you can buy the Blackberry 7130e for $99 - ok, $200 if you don't get an $80/month plan, but that's still slightly less expensive as the iPhone.
Have you heard of "Rise of Nations"? It's similar to an action-heavy version of civilization - it's a different game, but it's still fun.
Then have someone help the voter. In front of witnesses, so there's no chance of them being cheated.
Well, that really defeats the purpose of a secret ballot, then.
Personally, I'd rather not recreate the Big Bang. I'm pretty happy with the one we have, really.
On the other hand, recreating the conditions right after the Big Bang should be fine.
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It could be true, too.
> this wouldn't be the first time Apple has gone out of its way to punish itself for preemptive announcements about Apple's products made by vendors.
Fixed. Remember, these are just announced products, so if the customers don't like them, then they won't buy them.
I suspect that they were multiplying the price of each item by its legitimate retail value, not its counterfeit retail value (which is somewhat lower).
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
The problem is that, at least for making and storing anti-matter and accelerating a rocket to relativistic speeds, doing those in an interesting manner (other than with ever-larger particle colliders or rocket engines) is impossible under the standard model. We would know the best ways of doing some things, and they suck.
Tying inflation or deflation to the amount of a specific metal that we happen to dig out of the ground is a pretty bad way to do things. See what happened during the price revolution, where nations rapidly increased their silver production, in part causing a lot of inflation.
Even worse, if the population increases faster than we mine gold, then we get bad deflation.
Well, there's an alternate theory, where politicians already would vote that way, and the RIAA wants to give their campaigns money so that they'll stay in office and be able to continue to help them. It's not exactly great, but it's not nearly as sleazy as the bribery that otherwise would be going on.
I think that ActiveX components are signed/named, so there wouldn't be as much of a problem with them. Don't quote me on that, though.
A microwave can render a CD unusable, but it certainly doesn't actually write to the CD.
Maybe we just have to carry plants in front of our faces whenever we walk around. If he means net carbon output, some trees at home probably should work (anyone have numbers?).
Now, using DeCSS or the thousands of variants of that doesn't require the "authority of the copyright owner." Maybe that same logic the judge used could apply in the US, although the interpretation would be somewhat more strained.
Consider that the price of platinum (as used in catalytic converters) is around $1350/pound ($2976/kg), and the price of palladium (used for the same purpose) is around $355/pound ($780/kg). Depending on how much gallium they really need, this really could amount to exchanging trace amounts of one expensive element for trace amounts of another expensive element.
Also, note that they say in the article that they would only need low-purity gallium, which would have a lower price (although the price would also be raised by the raised demand, granted).
Or, then again, maybe they won't find that new particles fit neatly with what has been established. Theoretical physicists have been trying to unify everything for the last 150 years - the current popular attempt is called string theory. It's not doing so well in the realm of "making useful or even testable predictions," though.