After examining the results, the researchers 'believe they can study in real time the entire human visual cortex.'
I'll believe it when I'll see it. With my own eyes that is.
How long until we can simulate the entire brain?
How does 'never' sound? But more seriously you'd need to have an intricate understanding of its inner workings, besides the fact that it involves creating a strong AI which feasibility even in the distant future falls within the realm of wild speculation.
He was not biographed (to coin a word) until 30 years after death, because before that one could ask any of several thousand people who had seen him alive
So basically what you're saying is that he was so popular that it's the very reason why no one wrote about him? Make sense, that might explain why when I google "Paris Hilton" I get nothing. I guess I'll just wait about 30 years after her death for when she'll be less popular.
why should I accept your authority that God exists and Jesus is real? I have nothing for the former, but as to the latter, it's pretty well established that Jesus was a real, historical figure.
Perhaps that's not what you meant in your question, but then that simply means you should have worded the question better.
I will never understand how can the historicity of Jesus can make such a consensus (reportedly) among historians when the evidence for it is so thin. I mean basically the only non-Christian sources we have all date from at least 60 years after the death of Jesus. Not to mention the inconsistencies with the Bible (like the fact that there's no record of anyone slaughtering every baby under the age of 2 around the time of Jesus' birth, am I correct?). I've looked around the web for arguments supporting both hypothesis regarding his existence and I've been appalled by how seemingly everybody agrees to say that Jesus existed and say that we know so many things for sure about him with such little evidence.
Basically there's no contemporary non-Christian mention of Jesus, only Christian writing that if I'm not mistaken all date from long after Jesus' death and a mention in official records that a guy named "Yeshu" was hung in 43 AD (so basically a guy with a name vaguely resembling our guy's name existed around that time and was executed, except hung high and not crucified).
Please someone explain to me how this makes us so sure he existed. I'll tell you what I think, I think that regarding issues that are so important to people, historians' and scientists' professionalism goes down the drain. That's the only way you can explain that the genuineity of the holy shroud of Torino is still debated and controversial when it's such a blatant medieval ages artifact.
You've giving credit to Gaia? Oh come on, that's not an explanation -- that's an invisible hand. May the invisible hand of Slashdot moderation agree with you!
Anyone else consider the Anastasia advert to be in bad taste, given the context of the story? In Soviet Slashdot, Russian bribe adverts consider you to be in bad taste.
Now, how inept are the French? Can't even hijack potato recipes properly
All your fry are belong to us! (yup, I'm French, although I must say we didn't hijack it, we don't call them "French fries" but "frites", it's you the hijackers)
Here's something I've been wondering ever since I found out my body could generate peaks of 400 Watts at the gym. Is human energy really green?
My analogy to the broken window fallacy is based on the fact that this fallacy relies on what we see (the store owner buying services from the glazier) versus what we don't see (the store owner not investing that money for better purposes). Note that the logic also holds for alternative energies such as electric cars (which electricity comes from coal power) or ethanol which has to be processed/transported in a polluting way. So how green is human power? Considered that what powers us is food, we have to look at how much energy is involved in the making (making that cow live, eat and die involves making its food, transportation, etc..), the transformation and the transportation (a lot of the food you eat has travelled thousands of miles). Also it's important to note that just because it's necessary for us to eat food anyways, it doesn't make our energy free. You'll need more food if you produce 100 Watts for 30 minutes (say, if you're jogging) than if you just lay there.
Unfortunately I'm not qualified to estimate how polluting human power actually is, but I'm sure it's far less greener and more expensive than most people would assume. I think it's just yet another of these "feel good" measures that are actually not that good at all. When will we realise that there's no problem that can't be fixed by throwing a few trillion dollars into nuclear power and r&d?
Thomas P. D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.
But how many Libraries of Congress of data can it handle?
Yep. Leisure Suit Larry made a 3 and a 5, but never made 4.
Nephilium
Argh you bastard you beat me to it! That was quite an ingenuous device plot though (to pretend LSL 4 happened but that Larry couldn't remember a thing)
Are you trying to hand us the stick to get beat or are you just a troll? You're just trying to come off as the kind of idiot most of us on Slashdot like to think of as a conveniently cliché redneck moron. Sounds just too stereotypical to be true. That is my point. I left out hunting, fishing and religion. My view point is held by most white guys that live in the South, Midwest and most of the West. The Slashdot leftest/socialist group think is not the majority view in the real world.
I was not trolling or trying to defend that video.
It was just an EXAMPLE of the stuff to come. What you say carries quite some insight until the point you say it's a taste of things to come. That's already been the way it's been ever since the race started, it won't get any worse, and if you disagree I suggest we bet real money on this (although I don't see how we should determine who was right). Well my claim really is that the republicans have nothing big up their sleeve. I however do believe they may have something for Bill Clinton.
Don't you know? In war everyone starts with the same number of units, and they all line up in a field across from each other. And they can only move in certain directions. The point, you're missing it. Realistically including every trivial aspect of war isn't the point. If you're Napoleon Bonaparte you'll find a game it which you manually have to activate a unit's countermeasures irrelevant, just like finding gold mines or building metal extractors. It's not because chess is unrealistic that it's relevant, it's relevant because it's all about war-like strategy, even if it doesn't look obvious enough for the non-initiated.
The interesting thing is that the game you picked is one of the strategy games LEAST like war. But on the other hand it's the strategy game that takes the most strategy.
There's certainly an argument to be made that resource management is a good 75% of war.
Yup, which is why chess, the mother of all war games, is all about resource management like holding the square the represents a gold mine so that you can buy upgrades for your king and fit your pawns with turrets once you have reached the Industrial Age through upgrades from the library piece, hence why all war games should extensively priviledge those aspects. Oh wait..
Translation : "WAAAH! WAAAH!". That's what your post sounds like.
your phone is somehow tied into your cell provider
Sure, if it's an iPhone. And yet. Otherwise just buy an unlocked one/unlock it yourself.
your computer is the *AA's if you don't use Linux
You know, there are other alternatives to Linux than Windows Vista, which is all you can possibly be refering to. Anyone using Vista on their home computer needs to hand their geek badge over anyways. So your point is moot.
the makers of game consoles constantly try to brick you if you use a modchip
Oh no, the makers of a product try to ruin your experience with their product if you try to ruin their business model which is sell underpriced hardware for no profit (even loss) to make money on games which the only purpose of a modchip is to play for free.
all your media you haven't pirated or downloaded off of a DRM-Free site is tied to your account
Oh noes, the only alternatives to DRM-free solutions are.. DRM-based solutions! WAAAH!!!
I'll tell you why it's a great time to be a geek, I can watch TV shows that are not broadcasted in my country on a device that fits in my pocket, for free. I can play every game I would play on Sega Genesis as a kid on the same type of device, for free as well. And I can administrate the company that employs me's infrastructure from my bed, with the same wireless device. Oh my, what an awful time to be a geek!
So basically this video's first point is : Obama has a muslim sounding name (despite being christian) -> some terrorists are muslims -> all muslims are evil-> Obama is one of them! Secondly, the flag pin. McCain doesn't wear one either. OMG, what is this country coming to! First time a president won't wear a flagpin since Thomas Jefferson! (But he had a good excuse, you should have seen what flagpins looked like back in his day)
Then I didn't watch the rest of the video but I think the whole thing could be resumed to "OMG vague connections to Islam, Communism and angry black people! Let's sandwich a picture of a beheaded American in between two footages of Obama for more shock value!". Basically everything (white) America has been fearing since the end of WWII, except gays (but on the other hand I didn't watch the whole video, did they by any chance try to connect him to these horrible homosexuals who try to destroy America by getting married?).
I am a white, southern, NASCAR watching, NRA member, heterosexual Republican.
Are you trying to hand us the stick to get beat or are you just a troll? You're just trying to come off as the kind of idiot most of us on Slashdot like to think of as a conveniently cliché redneck moron. Sounds just too stereotypical to be true.
So Obama supporters have voted with their hearts and aren't realizing how idealistic they are being. Is it really worth the risk of having republican bullshit for the next 4 years? I don't think so. Obama supporters, you have risked too much. So don't come crying to everyone when he loses. I hope he doesn't
though. Can someone put an end to the myth that Obama cannot win against McCain? But how would one accomplish that? Oh I know, maybe by showing poll results? You see how Obama is consistently more popular than John McCain?
This being said, the alternative is Hillary Clinton. Do you know how many democrat voters would rather avoid voting or just vote for John McCain if she was the nominee?
Besides, Barack Obama has taken all the heat the Clinton camp could give cause Clinton cared about nothing more than winning the nomination by all means necessary. How many ammo do you think the Republicans have left against him? And how much do you think they have against Hillary Clinton AND Bill Clinton? If they don't have a couple of sex scandals for Bill Clinton then I don't get it anymore.
Riiight, as if they didn't already fire everything they could possibly find on Obama. Why would they even have to hope for the Republicans to do anything when they can do the exact same thing? That's because they have nothing left. They have nothing left against Obama because the guy's a saint (I mean come on, the biggest scandal is not what he said or did but what some guy he knows said). And you seem to assume that nobody has anything against the Clintons. Right. I totally imagine that Bill Clinton didn't fuck around even once during the last 10 years. What could the Republicans possibly have against them really? Right, Clinton fanboy.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who wants to know about the most remote articles, or who even wants to see distribution graphs, am I? The article is a teaser, not completely satisfactory.:-(
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After examining the results, the researchers 'believe they can study in real time the entire human visual cortex.'
I'll believe it when I'll see it. With my own eyes that is.
How long until we can simulate the entire brain?
How does 'never' sound? But more seriously you'd need to have an intricate understanding of its inner workings, besides the fact that it involves creating a strong AI which feasibility even in the distant future falls within the realm of wild speculation.
He was not biographed (to coin a word) until 30 years after death, because before that one could ask any of several thousand people who had seen him alive
So basically what you're saying is that he was so popular that it's the very reason why no one wrote about him? Make sense, that might explain why when I google "Paris Hilton" I get nothing. I guess I'll just wait about 30 years after her death for when she'll be less popular.
Perhaps that's not what you meant in your question, but then that simply means you should have worded the question better.
I will never understand how can the historicity of Jesus can make such a consensus (reportedly) among historians when the evidence for it is so thin. I mean basically the only non-Christian sources we have all date from at least 60 years after the death of Jesus. Not to mention the inconsistencies with the Bible (like the fact that there's no record of anyone slaughtering every baby under the age of 2 around the time of Jesus' birth, am I correct?). I've looked around the web for arguments supporting both hypothesis regarding his existence and I've been appalled by how seemingly everybody agrees to say that Jesus existed and say that we know so many things for sure about him with such little evidence.
Basically there's no contemporary non-Christian mention of Jesus, only Christian writing that if I'm not mistaken all date from long after Jesus' death and a mention in official records that a guy named "Yeshu" was hung in 43 AD (so basically a guy with a name vaguely resembling our guy's name existed around that time and was executed, except hung high and not crucified).
Please someone explain to me how this makes us so sure he existed. I'll tell you what I think, I think that regarding issues that are so important to people, historians' and scientists' professionalism goes down the drain. That's the only way you can explain that the genuineity of the holy shroud of Torino is still debated and controversial when it's such a blatant medieval ages artifact.
I betcha he tells them the body is in Russia. In Soviet Russia, dead bodies make you disappear!
Now, how inept are the French? Can't even hijack potato recipes properly
All your fry are belong to us! (yup, I'm French, although I must say we didn't hijack it, we don't call them "French fries" but "frites", it's you the hijackers)
Here's something I've been wondering ever since I found out my body could generate peaks of 400 Watts at the gym. Is human energy really green?
My analogy to the broken window fallacy is based on the fact that this fallacy relies on what we see (the store owner buying services from the glazier) versus what we don't see (the store owner not investing that money for better purposes). Note that the logic also holds for alternative energies such as electric cars (which electricity comes from coal power) or ethanol which has to be processed/transported in a polluting way. So how green is human power? Considered that what powers us is food, we have to look at how much energy is involved in the making (making that cow live, eat and die involves making its food, transportation, etc..), the transformation and the transportation (a lot of the food you eat has travelled thousands of miles). Also it's important to note that just because it's necessary for us to eat food anyways, it doesn't make our energy free. You'll need more food if you produce 100 Watts for 30 minutes (say, if you're jogging) than if you just lay there.
Unfortunately I'm not qualified to estimate how polluting human power actually is, but I'm sure it's far less greener and more expensive than most people would assume. I think it's just yet another of these "feel good" measures that are actually not that good at all. When will we realise that there's no problem that can't be fixed by throwing a few trillion dollars into nuclear power and r&d?
Thomas P. D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.
But how many Libraries of Congress of data can it handle?
Yup, and actually, I think the iPhone will make a pretty good handheld console once control pad addons such as this come out.
Yep. Leisure Suit Larry made a 3 and a 5, but never made 4.
Nephilium
Argh you bastard you beat me to it! That was quite an ingenuous device plot though (to pretend LSL 4 happened but that Larry couldn't remember a thing)The Dutch have their own space agency? Makes you wonder how their rockets must do to get high.
The French Space Agency? That's funny, I'm French and I didn't even know we had that. Don't they mean European rather than French?
There's certainly an argument to be made that resource management is a good 75% of war.
Yup, which is why chess, the mother of all war games, is all about resource management like holding the square the represents a gold mine so that you can buy upgrades for your king and fit your pawns with turrets once you have reached the Industrial Age through upgrades from the library piece, hence why all war games should extensively priviledge those aspects. Oh wait..
Translation : "WAAAH! WAAAH!". That's what your post sounds like.
your phone is somehow tied into your cell provider
Sure, if it's an iPhone. And yet. Otherwise just buy an unlocked one/unlock it yourself.
your computer is the *AA's if you don't use Linux
You know, there are other alternatives to Linux than Windows Vista, which is all you can possibly be refering to. Anyone using Vista on their home computer needs to hand their geek badge over anyways. So your point is moot.
the makers of game consoles constantly try to brick you if you use a modchip
Oh no, the makers of a product try to ruin your experience with their product if you try to ruin their business model which is sell underpriced hardware for no profit (even loss) to make money on games which the only purpose of a modchip is to play for free.
all your media you haven't pirated or downloaded off of a DRM-Free site is tied to your account
Oh noes, the only alternatives to DRM-free solutions are.. DRM-based solutions! WAAAH!!!
I'll tell you why it's a great time to be a geek, I can watch TV shows that are not broadcasted in my country on a device that fits in my pocket, for free. I can play every game I would play on Sega Genesis as a kid on the same type of device, for free as well. And I can administrate the company that employs me's infrastructure from my bed, with the same wireless device. Oh my, what an awful time to be a geek!
So basically this video's first point is : Obama has a muslim sounding name (despite being christian) -> some terrorists are muslims -> all muslims are evil-> Obama is one of them! Secondly, the flag pin. McCain doesn't wear one either. OMG, what is this country coming to! First time a president won't wear a flagpin since Thomas Jefferson! (But he had a good excuse, you should have seen what flagpins looked like back in his day)
Then I didn't watch the rest of the video but I think the whole thing could be resumed to "OMG vague connections to Islam, Communism and angry black people! Let's sandwich a picture of a beheaded American in between two footages of Obama for more shock value!". Basically everything (white) America has been fearing since the end of WWII, except gays (but on the other hand I didn't watch the whole video, did they by any chance try to connect him to these horrible homosexuals who try to destroy America by getting married?).
I am a white, southern, NASCAR watching, NRA member, heterosexual Republican.
Are you trying to hand us the stick to get beat or are you just a troll? You're just trying to come off as the kind of idiot most of us on Slashdot like to think of as a conveniently cliché redneck moron. Sounds just too stereotypical to be true.
This being said, the alternative is Hillary Clinton. Do you know how many democrat voters would rather avoid voting or just vote for John McCain if she was the nominee?
Besides, Barack Obama has taken all the heat the Clinton camp could give cause Clinton cared about nothing more than winning the nomination by all means necessary. How many ammo do you think the Republicans have left against him? And how much do you think they have against Hillary Clinton AND Bill Clinton? If they don't have a couple of sex scandals for Bill Clinton then I don't get it anymore.
Riiight, as if they didn't already fire everything they could possibly find on Obama. Why would they even have to hope for the Republicans to do anything when they can do the exact same thing? That's because they have nothing left. They have nothing left against Obama because the guy's a saint (I mean come on, the biggest scandal is not what he said or did but what some guy he knows said). And you seem to assume that nobody has anything against the Clintons. Right. I totally imagine that Bill Clinton didn't fuck around even once during the last 10 years. What could the Republicans possibly have against them really? Right, Clinton fanboy.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who wants to know about the most remote articles, or who even wants to see distribution graphs, am I? The article is a teaser, not completely satisfactory. :-(