Yes, the real question is: Why not increase the size of the drive's cache? Using the figures in this article,
for $300, one can get a 20GB hard drive with 256MB of cache.
For most of a day's work, the harddrive doesn't have to spin up and the OS doesn't even have to know about it.
There was a chicken and a horse playing together in a barn yard, suddenly the horse falls into a pit. He yells to the chicken, "Go get the farmer, save me, save me!!!". The chicken goes looking for the farmer but can't find him. So he gets the farmer's BMW and drives it over to the mud pit, lassoes the horse, ties it to the car and pulls him out. The horse says, "Thank you, Thank you, I owe you my life.
Then a couple days later they are playing there again and this time the chicken falls into the mud pit and the chicken says, "Help me!!! Help me!!! Go get the farmer!!!". So the horse says, No No No, I think I can get you." The horse stretches across the mud pit and tells the chicken, Grab onto my penis." The chicken grabs on, the horse stretches back, and the horse saves the chickens life.
So what's the moral of the story?
"If you have a penis the size of a horse you don't need a BMW to pick up chicks"
Computer Vision - the real problem.
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For many years chess was thought of as the ultimate problem to check for artificial intelegence. Recent events (such as Kasparov's loss to a machine) showed that this problem is doable.
The biggest problem now lies in the field of computer vision.
Consider this example: Even a dumb dog can know the difference between a leg and a tree. How many people can write a computer program that can distinguish between the two?
It might surprise you, if you are a programmer, but try to do it. Grab few pictures from the internet (or from you webcam) and think how would you solve this. No computer-science major/geek/whatever knows how to solve this in a reasonable way.
While chess has defined rules and possibilities, a picture can have any value - and it's not clear how we humans interpret this information.
Another example is optical character recognition (OCR). In order to understand hand-written script what did people do? Here is a hint: think palm-pilot. Yes... since it's too hard, the solution was to "train the monkey". That is, you, the user have to type one character at a time, and not regular characters but special characters.
Most of these problems have no known solution yet. It is not a problem that can be solved with huge computers.
Did you wonder why we don't have fully automated appliances like in Futurama?
For examples of some neat things that can be done, check this page.
This whole Y2K thing proves that geeks are smarter than the average person (and thus much smarter than politicians.
Any other industry would collapse if it turned out that they had a major screw-up... IT industry made extra fortune on it.
We all know that not only the Y2K thing is a stupid "bug". We all know that it is very easy to find as it clearly appears in the source code. Compare, for example, with race-conditions which are _very_ hard to find or analyze.
The good sides:
Hardcore geeks got paid extra for partying the new-year in front of a monitor (would do it anyway)
People around the world could give a name to the eternal fear-the-future, which is a basic human need.
IT industry got richer.
The bad sides:
People got screwed and more public money went to places where its not needed.
Programmers lost yet another piece of their glory.
The moral of this story is that geeks like to brag about their super-duper video card (that they bought just to play quake) but don't want anyone to know about it without that act. If ID had made a page titled "Shagadelic Video Cards" everyone would be happy.
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I doubt it can be beaten
This may automate the reviewing process
The best use for that thing is to run eMule.
If so, it will replace what my home computer is doing all day...
My laptop is powering a 60gb HD as we speak
BBC is notorious for highly biased coverage, which gave it the title 'Bagdad Broadcas Corporation'
Great Galeon has gestures for a while now
Try to search for something containing 'computer' or 'camera' and see.
How much has ASUS paid for this "news" item?
Yes, the real question is: Why not increase the size of the drive's cache? Using the figures in this article,
for $300, one can get a 20GB hard drive with 256MB of cache.
For most of a day's work, the harddrive doesn't have to spin up and the OS doesn't even have to know about it.
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There was a chicken and a horse playing together in a barn yard, suddenly the horse falls into a pit. He yells to the chicken, "Go get the farmer, save me, save me!!!". The chicken goes looking for the farmer but can't find him. So he gets the farmer's BMW and drives it over to the mud pit, lassoes the horse, ties it to the car and pulls him out. The horse says, "Thank you, Thank you, I owe you my life.
Then a couple days later they are playing there again and this time the chicken falls into the mud pit and the chicken says, "Help me!!! Help me!!! Go get the farmer!!!". So the horse says, No No No, I think I can get you." The horse stretches across the mud pit and tells the chicken, Grab onto my penis." The chicken grabs on, the horse stretches back, and the horse saves the chickens life.
So what's the moral of the story?
"If you have a penis the size of a horse you don't need a BMW to pick up chicks"
For many years chess was thought of as the ultimate problem to check for artificial intelegence. Recent events (such as Kasparov's loss to a machine) showed that this problem is doable.
The biggest problem now lies in the field of computer vision.
Consider this example: Even a dumb dog can know the difference between a leg and a tree. How many people can write a computer program that can distinguish between the two?
It might surprise you, if you are a programmer, but try to do it. Grab few pictures from the internet (or from you webcam) and think how would you solve this. No computer-science major/geek/whatever knows how to solve this in a reasonable way.
While chess has defined rules and possibilities, a picture can have any value - and it's not clear how we humans interpret this information.
Another example is optical character recognition (OCR). In order to understand hand-written script what did people do? Here is a hint: think palm-pilot. Yes... since it's too hard, the solution was to "train the monkey". That is, you, the user have to type one character at a time, and not regular characters but special characters.
Most of these problems have no known solution yet. It is not a problem that can be solved with huge computers.
Did you wonder why we don't have fully automated appliances like in Futurama?
For examples of some neat things that can be done, check this page.
This whole Y2K thing proves that geeks are smarter than the average person (and thus much smarter than politicians.
Any other industry would collapse if it turned out that they had a major screw-up... IT industry made extra fortune on it.
We all know that not only the Y2K thing is a stupid "bug". We all know that it is very easy to find as it clearly appears in the source code. Compare, for example, with race-conditions which are _very_ hard to find or analyze.
The good sides:
- Hardcore geeks got paid extra for partying the new-year in front of a monitor (would do it anyway)
- People around the world could give a name to the eternal fear-the-future, which is a basic human need.
- IT industry got richer.
The bad sides:The moral of this story is that geeks like to brag about their super-duper video card (that they bought just to play quake) but don't want anyone to know about it without that act. If ID had made a page titled "Shagadelic Video Cards" everyone would be happy.
No?
Well, geeks are known to be chauvinist pigs...
Oh this macho feeling of the true man riding in the plains of the TCP/IP stack.
:)