According to TFA, Kurzweil was saying that not only would we reverse engineer the brain, as in replicate it in code, that we could do that in only a couple million lines of code. Because obviously you can represent the base pairs in that fashion. Which is totally wrong. The genome only provides the basic tools to create a brain. Various hormones have to fire at specific times and in response to specific stimuli, we're almost certainly never going to be able to replicate that in such a small volume of code and certainly not in the next 10 years.
At this point have we even figured out what Ca is doing in the brain? I remember from my neurobiology class that the Ca at that point was sort of an and Larry element that nobody seemed to talk about. We'd talk about the Sodium Potassium pumps and that there would also be Ca there, but I don't recall ever hearing discussion as to what exactly it was doing. Perhaps that was covered in more advanced classes.
Being in the hospital the last few days it was kind of nice to have my Sandisk Sansa with FM tuner, but that being said, the modern digital tuners don't seem to do anywhere near as good a job as the older ones did. Back when you had several feet of dial and could precisely tune in the signal. As OK as I am at times with the government mandating things, I can't imagine any reason why this one should be required. Digital tuners just aren't anywhere near as useful as people think.
As opposed to businesses which are tearing down the door to get this stuff implemented? The only reason why it takes a long time is corporate lobbyists that fight any change to the status quo. A lot of the technology has been here for some time but isn't used.
Right, but we're not talking about requiring the DMV to stock driver's regulation books in braille. This is really just an extension of the thinking that says "So what if you're unable to read you should've been born in an area where they'd teach you not bothering me now for literacy programs." The irony is that as much as the right whines about elitism, they're the worst in that respect.
Perhaps in general there ought to be laws against that. In the US it's absolutely ridiculous that Fair Isaac Co., thinks that it owns my credit score. They calculate it, but they do so in a relatively fixed way on my data. They don't ask or get a waiver, they just spy on everybody and then expect to be paid. Likewise computer and phone manufacturers include software by companies that pay them to install it, but don't ask permission of the people buying the items. Given how prevalent it's become and the lack of disclosure it's really tough to avoid for a lot of people.
Actually, in the US most carriers use SIM cards. The exceptions are Sprint and Verizon which are both CDMA carriers. As far as I know, all the GSM carriers in the US use SIM cards. And if you're smart you get a SIM card and then buy a pay as you go card when you go traveling outside the US.
It doesn't do you a lot of good, since the carriers haven't standardized their spectrum. Which is fine for voice as that is standard, but 3G isn't going to work without the carrier specific support. Around here T-Mobile uses the European equipment and AT&T uses a different part of the spectrum for whatever reason. Meaning that if you want to take your phone with you to the other carrier you're giving up 3G.
Indeed, for a short while I had a Motorola backflip. I liked the hardware in general, although the battery was a bit on the weak side, but the deal breaker was all those damned AT&T apps that came installed. Not only were they installed, but you couldn't remove them without doing some serious hackery to the phone. They wasted space and resources on the device and seemed to suck up RAM permanently. I had similar issues with my Sony vaio. That was one of the worst QA fails I can remember in quite a while, as soon as that laptop booted up for the first time it was immediately running extremely slowly because PC-cillin was taking up 99% of the processing time and it was installed by default with no way to avoid doing so until after you managed to bring up the task manager.
It should be common sense, really, that not loading your device up with crap would be the way to keep customers, but businesses don't care enough and in the US the government doesn't force them to care either. Sure you'd spend more money and devices tend to in areas with more active regulators, but it's ultimately cheaper than having to replace a device that doesn't work because of crapware.
Actually, this is probably correct. It's been known for some time that sales end up going down in stores that offer too many choices. People will develop a strategy of just randomly grabbing a bottle of ketchup, picking the habitual brand or not buy any at all. More than a few choices tends to lead to paralysis and nobody ends up selling their item. I don't personally think that it's a stretch to extend that to information which only costs the time it takes to find and evaluate it.
It's worse now because we have some degree of control over it. When I was a kid and we only had a couple channels, that wasn't a problem, we could flip channels or turn it off, that was about it. These days though, we've got a ridiculous number of sources available and it's far more than the take it or leave it that we used to have. We can't really default to a whatever's on approach and end up with anything other than static.
I've seen those, I definitely remember replays, but saving the video feed is far easier than rendering it into some sort of functional graphic novel. Even for those that know how to draw, illustrating a graphic novel is difficult at times and getting a computer to make reasonable guesses is definitely not any easier.
It's not that simple. Even just choosing the right moment to do it isn't that easy, then there's the text bubbles for speech and thought. The way you put it is almost certain to fail.
The Sims did torture porn? Seriously, I might know people that are more screwed up than average, but it seems like everybody I've ever seen play the Sims did so as a way of torturing virtual people. The conclusion I came to was that the Sims was primarily a way of doing all the antisocial and generally psychopathic things one couldn't get away with in real life.
Actually, this strikes me as a legitimate patent, well it could be depending upon the specifics. It involves a process of turning a players game play into a graphic novel. As stupid as this seems to me, there is at least innovation going on and actual effort needed to make it work.
Actually, as long as all the portions are still equal it's OK. One of the most common errors people make is when they round and use the equal sign anyways. As soon as you round, you no longer get to use the equal sign, for that last bit of the problem if you need a decimal you're supposed to use a"." In this case it's not wrong there are times when one legitimately does that, usually as an aid to mental math, but it is still technically OK. Otherwise the law of sines would run into issues were you to ever double check yourself by equating all of them with constants.
It's mathematics or math or math's. It's really dumb to remove the ematic and leave that trailing s. More so when you leave out the apostrophe which one is supposed to use when one leaves out letters. Plus it's much more in keeping with general rules for pronunciation of English words. Maths is just awkward.
That's one aspect, but in this case Sky is eponymous, sort of like Windows is. So MS could trademark Microsoft Windows XP, but not Windows. Sky by itself can't be trademarked as it already has a meaning which in this case is irrelevant because only a ham fisted fascist like Murdoch would actually even consider those to be confusing.
Um, my Nexus One has perfectly fine battery life. Admittedly it isn't as good as my old Razr, but I don't have to plug it in every day unless I'm really using it a lot. Which is to be expected, really.
Like the Hubble it's probably a lot cheaper to replace it when it finally breaks than fix or upgrade it. You don't save money by sending a manned space crew to replenish it when you could just send up another one on a rocket. Which is expensive, but frequently less so than trying to fix things in space. Not to mention less risky to personnel involved.
No, if they've ordered the merchandise, that should be enough for an injunction assuming they can demonstrate that they're entitled to it, which is doubtful, Since the damages could be fixed via a cash payment, it's unlikely that they'd get an injunction. What this would likely be would be a trademark violation. And they would likely be entitled to compensation assuming the items were sold. However depending upon state law in Colorado, they might have to demonstrate damages, which could be though. They wouldn't be able to do it if they got an injunction ahead of time, and depending upon the records available it would be hard to demonstrate to any reasonable degree.
True, but you could probably get nailed for conspiracy. IANAL, and as such am not sure if conspiracy applies to this, but if you've plans to make the recordings available illegally and then record them, that wold be enough for conspiracy charges to apply. I'm not sure if felony copyright infringement would allow for conspiracy charges though, even less so if it's only civil in that instance.
That only applies to civil infractions, but yes, it's used so that you can subpoena the records necessary to hopefully identify the individual and serve them papers. In criminal proceedings you can't do that. You have to have a name as that's the only way you can get an arrest warrant. A John/Jane Doe arrest warrant would be the most corrupt thing ever. The arresting officer could pick up whomever he liked because they could be the individual for whom the arrest warrant applies.
There's a sign in my neighborhood that says "Dump no material whatever." Technically speaking that should be whatsoever, but without the comma or extra letters you're left to consider what they meant to say. In this part of the country people have manners so it's never been defaced and corrected. Although without any common sense it says something completely different than what they intended to say.
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According to TFA, Kurzweil was saying that not only would we reverse engineer the brain, as in replicate it in code, that we could do that in only a couple million lines of code. Because obviously you can represent the base pairs in that fashion. Which is totally wrong. The genome only provides the basic tools to create a brain. Various hormones have to fire at specific times and in response to specific stimuli, we're almost certainly never going to be able to replicate that in such a small volume of code and certainly not in the next 10 years.
At this point have we even figured out what Ca is doing in the brain? I remember from my neurobiology class that the Ca at that point was sort of an and Larry element that nobody seemed to talk about. We'd talk about the Sodium Potassium pumps and that there would also be Ca there, but I don't recall ever hearing discussion as to what exactly it was doing. Perhaps that was covered in more advanced classes.
Being in the hospital the last few days it was kind of nice to have my Sandisk Sansa with FM tuner, but that being said, the modern digital tuners don't seem to do anywhere near as good a job as the older ones did. Back when you had several feet of dial and could precisely tune in the signal. As OK as I am at times with the government mandating things, I can't imagine any reason why this one should be required. Digital tuners just aren't anywhere near as useful as people think.
As opposed to businesses which are tearing down the door to get this stuff implemented? The only reason why it takes a long time is corporate lobbyists that fight any change to the status quo. A lot of the technology has been here for some time but isn't used.
Right, but we're not talking about requiring the DMV to stock driver's regulation books in braille. This is really just an extension of the thinking that says "So what if you're unable to read you should've been born in an area where they'd teach you not bothering me now for literacy programs." The irony is that as much as the right whines about elitism, they're the worst in that respect.
Perhaps in general there ought to be laws against that. In the US it's absolutely ridiculous that Fair Isaac Co., thinks that it owns my credit score. They calculate it, but they do so in a relatively fixed way on my data. They don't ask or get a waiver, they just spy on everybody and then expect to be paid. Likewise computer and phone manufacturers include software by companies that pay them to install it, but don't ask permission of the people buying the items. Given how prevalent it's become and the lack of disclosure it's really tough to avoid for a lot of people.
Actually, in the US most carriers use SIM cards. The exceptions are Sprint and Verizon which are both CDMA carriers. As far as I know, all the GSM carriers in the US use SIM cards. And if you're smart you get a SIM card and then buy a pay as you go card when you go traveling outside the US.
It doesn't do you a lot of good, since the carriers haven't standardized their spectrum. Which is fine for voice as that is standard, but 3G isn't going to work without the carrier specific support. Around here T-Mobile uses the European equipment and AT&T uses a different part of the spectrum for whatever reason. Meaning that if you want to take your phone with you to the other carrier you're giving up 3G.
Indeed, for a short while I had a Motorola backflip. I liked the hardware in general, although the battery was a bit on the weak side, but the deal breaker was all those damned AT&T apps that came installed. Not only were they installed, but you couldn't remove them without doing some serious hackery to the phone. They wasted space and resources on the device and seemed to suck up RAM permanently. I had similar issues with my Sony vaio. That was one of the worst QA fails I can remember in quite a while, as soon as that laptop booted up for the first time it was immediately running extremely slowly because PC-cillin was taking up 99% of the processing time and it was installed by default with no way to avoid doing so until after you managed to bring up the task manager.
It should be common sense, really, that not loading your device up with crap would be the way to keep customers, but businesses don't care enough and in the US the government doesn't force them to care either. Sure you'd spend more money and devices tend to in areas with more active regulators, but it's ultimately cheaper than having to replace a device that doesn't work because of crapware.
Actually, this is probably correct. It's been known for some time that sales end up going down in stores that offer too many choices. People will develop a strategy of just randomly grabbing a bottle of ketchup, picking the habitual brand or not buy any at all. More than a few choices tends to lead to paralysis and nobody ends up selling their item. I don't personally think that it's a stretch to extend that to information which only costs the time it takes to find and evaluate it.
It's worse now because we have some degree of control over it. When I was a kid and we only had a couple channels, that wasn't a problem, we could flip channels or turn it off, that was about it. These days though, we've got a ridiculous number of sources available and it's far more than the take it or leave it that we used to have. We can't really default to a whatever's on approach and end up with anything other than static.
I've seen those, I definitely remember replays, but saving the video feed is far easier than rendering it into some sort of functional graphic novel. Even for those that know how to draw, illustrating a graphic novel is difficult at times and getting a computer to make reasonable guesses is definitely not any easier.
It's not that simple. Even just choosing the right moment to do it isn't that easy, then there's the text bubbles for speech and thought. The way you put it is almost certain to fail.
The Sims did torture porn? Seriously, I might know people that are more screwed up than average, but it seems like everybody I've ever seen play the Sims did so as a way of torturing virtual people. The conclusion I came to was that the Sims was primarily a way of doing all the antisocial and generally psychopathic things one couldn't get away with in real life.
Actually, this strikes me as a legitimate patent, well it could be depending upon the specifics. It involves a process of turning a players game play into a graphic novel. As stupid as this seems to me, there is at least innovation going on and actual effort needed to make it work.
That was supposed to be the symbol for approximately instead of "." But /. doesn't sanitize posts in a competent fashion so there you go.
Actually, as long as all the portions are still equal it's OK. One of the most common errors people make is when they round and use the equal sign anyways. As soon as you round, you no longer get to use the equal sign, for that last bit of the problem if you need a decimal you're supposed to use a"." In this case it's not wrong there are times when one legitimately does that, usually as an aid to mental math, but it is still technically OK. Otherwise the law of sines would run into issues were you to ever double check yourself by equating all of them with constants.
Actually it's a trick question, that be Muslim math and good Americans would never do anything that was Islamic in origin.
It's mathematics or math or math's. It's really dumb to remove the ematic and leave that trailing s. More so when you leave out the apostrophe which one is supposed to use when one leaves out letters. Plus it's much more in keeping with general rules for pronunciation of English words. Maths is just awkward.
That's one aspect, but in this case Sky is eponymous, sort of like Windows is. So MS could trademark Microsoft Windows XP, but not Windows. Sky by itself can't be trademarked as it already has a meaning which in this case is irrelevant because only a ham fisted fascist like Murdoch would actually even consider those to be confusing.
Um, my Nexus One has perfectly fine battery life. Admittedly it isn't as good as my old Razr, but I don't have to plug it in every day unless I'm really using it a lot. Which is to be expected, really.
Because we always believe what spokesman tell us.
Nope, that would be R2+D2, what you meant is subtract it, sheesh, news for nerds.
Like the Hubble it's probably a lot cheaper to replace it when it finally breaks than fix or upgrade it. You don't save money by sending a manned space crew to replenish it when you could just send up another one on a rocket. Which is expensive, but frequently less so than trying to fix things in space. Not to mention less risky to personnel involved.
No, if they've ordered the merchandise, that should be enough for an injunction assuming they can demonstrate that they're entitled to it, which is doubtful, Since the damages could be fixed via a cash payment, it's unlikely that they'd get an injunction. What this would likely be would be a trademark violation. And they would likely be entitled to compensation assuming the items were sold. However depending upon state law in Colorado, they might have to demonstrate damages, which could be though. They wouldn't be able to do it if they got an injunction ahead of time, and depending upon the records available it would be hard to demonstrate to any reasonable degree.
True, but you could probably get nailed for conspiracy. IANAL, and as such am not sure if conspiracy applies to this, but if you've plans to make the recordings available illegally and then record them, that wold be enough for conspiracy charges to apply. I'm not sure if felony copyright infringement would allow for conspiracy charges though, even less so if it's only civil in that instance.
That only applies to civil infractions, but yes, it's used so that you can subpoena the records necessary to hopefully identify the individual and serve them papers. In criminal proceedings you can't do that. You have to have a name as that's the only way you can get an arrest warrant. A John/Jane Doe arrest warrant would be the most corrupt thing ever. The arresting officer could pick up whomever he liked because they could be the individual for whom the arrest warrant applies.
There's a sign in my neighborhood that says "Dump no material whatever." Technically speaking that should be whatsoever, but without the comma or extra letters you're left to consider what they meant to say. In this part of the country people have manners so it's never been defaced and corrected. Although without any common sense it says something completely different than what they intended to say.