if apple sold a slightly larger version of the mac mini - basically the guts of an iMac without the screen and cheaper by the cost of the screen, ie. for $800, there would be no real reason for these systems to exist.
There are many of us that want something more than a mini but don't want to blow >$2500 on a MacPro. We have nice screens. We don't want another screen. I'm not going to replace my dell 24" with 5 inputs and height, tilt and rotation, and a built in card reader for an iMac
The truth is that Apple doesn't give a shit about Psystar. They know most people who want a mac will just by a mac, but because of the laws governing IP they are obliged to shut them down so that next week dell doesn't start selling macs.
Publish the bitch's name on slashdot and she will rue the day she fucked you over.
Also, if you hit the driver in front of you and then she hit you , the driver you hit would have felt 2 separate impacts. The first from you and the second from the SUV hitting your car that was still abutting the car in front of you. Call them as a witness and ask whether they experienced one or two collisions.
Countries where polygamy is common are different on many many levels from countries where monogamy is enforced.
The fact that men in those countries tend to live longer might have more do to with the fact that people in rich countries are fat. I would love to see the result of their study controlled for body-mass-index.
On the other hand, I have no problem with the 'polygamy is good for you' meme.;)
It doesn't matter if it's in the BIOS, or uses a second processor.
It does matter that it uses a 2nd processor that is very power efficient. I haven't used a windows laptop in a while, but if you just wake your computer from sleep how long does it really take?
I think the real advantage of this is battery savings from running on an ARM processor.
From the article:
If you use only the Latitude ON system, battery life lasts not hours but days, according to Dell.
Someone needs to define the GP language and fitness function.
I'm sorry to say that it's turtles all the way down on this one.
While I'm inclined to agree with you. I wonder if there isn't a fundamental difference between an AI where the computer uses a sophisticated heuristic that was defined by a human, and an GP or reinforcement learning algorithm with a simple reward function.
I put simple reward function in bold, because up until now, (including mogo, i think) there is a lot of "domain knowledge" built into the AI. So indeed, a human harnessing the power of 800-cores beat a human. But in the future, if we really allow a software agent to learn go or any other task by trial and error without specific knowledge (except for of course, the goal of the task) that seems qualitatively different than the current scenario.
And as an amateur go player I should add that a 9-stone handicap is HUGE! (Not as huge as a 25-stone one , of course)
I'm Canadian, my government is actually much weaker on terrorism than Australia. We are not even part of the coalition of the willing. although we are in Afghanistan.
I was traveling down under when they lifted the water ban. happy happy day
there are very few "patriots" in this country ready and willing to endure jail time for the principle of free speech.
The current situation in the US is especially scary since even citizens can lose their constitutional rights by being declared an enemy combatant.
I'm living in the US on a visa. So i don't even have to do anything illegal to get booted out of the country. That makes protesting especially dangerous for me.
I did protest against the war in Iraq in New York and DC. But I think protesting in an airport would not be handled as gently.
Did you notice the 3D 'mouse' she was using.
can you imagine having to hold your arm above your desk for hours a day.
I can google something (or delicious or whatever) and copy the link into an IM window WAY faster than that person was working.
The only cool thing in that video was the automatic transformation of data. That idea might come to fruition... it would be fairly easy to create an markup language for data and have a plugin that could re-render on the client side.
I was at the Utah airport when the TSA guy made me throw out a tube of toothpaste that had maybe 2 or 3 brushes worth of toothpaste left because when the tube was full it was over 3 Oz. I became visibly irritated and he said "talk to my supervisor"
i tried to but he just shook his head.
i looked at him and asked "when is this insanity going to end", he just shrugged.
I think a bit part of our problem is that life has become so convenient that very very few of us are willing to risk arrest by protesting.
One the things that upsets me most about this 'war on terror' is that car accidents kill many many many more people every year. Are totally random and tragic. If we spend a tiny fraction of the resources that is spend on 'security' on education and technology to prevent people falling asleep at the wheel and drunk driving we would save many many more lives.
There was recently an eye-opening article in the NYTimes Magazine 'The Urge to End it All' examining what drives people to suicide.
People who attempt suicide generally fall into 2 classes: people who continually attempt (and often eventually succeed) and other who attempt a single time and fail or are blocked and never attempt suicide again.
The point is that for the latter case, there is a large degree of impulsivity - you get some horrible news, you go into your closet and get your loaded gun and kill yourself. Or go for a walk and jump off a bridge. What is fascinating is that data indicate that a small obstacle in the plan... the gun isn't loaded and the ammo is in the basement, or their is a crowd of tourists on the bridge that you wanted to jump off... turns out to be enough to make people realize that they don't really want to die.
The point is that suicide can be an extremely impulsive act. This child wasn't necessarily mentally ill or whatever other adjectives have been used in this discussion. Usually teenagers use pills or try to slit their wrists and survive, in this tragic case, she died.
It is true that the author of the document is an Israeli. Yehuda Z. Blum. He is now a law prof. I have been trying to find out his political bias but i haven't found any result. However, this isn't the only source of information about quality of life in the occupied territories before and after the intifada. I agree the direct comparison with Israel is misleading. The point is that it substantially improved after 1967.
How much better would they have done without the occupation but still with the closest neighbor having so much wealth?
I think to answer that question you just have to look at the lives of the majority of the population living in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, or Lebanon.
This UN document describes how after the occupation of the west bank in 1967, the standard of living increased for the Palestinians living there.
The document describes things like increased GNP, decreased infant mortality, increased investment, and other increases in standard of living from 1967 until 1984.
In 1987 everything changed. That was the beginning of the first intifada. The wiki article on the 1st intifada tells a story of israeli brutality that does not match with the UN document on living conditions in the occupied terrotories.
What was the real root cause of the intifada? Could part of it be the corruption of the leaders of the PLO, like Arafat, who was filling swiss bank accounts with aid money that were supposed to go to the people he was supposed to represent?
I agree with above posters that the cycle of retaliation has to end. The only way it can end is with education to end the mutual hatred.
As well, there are many jews and non-jews inside and outside israel who are critical of israeli policy. Being critical certainly doesn't make one an anti-semite. But the tone of some of the posts in this discussion belie an undercurrent of prejudice.
I had an Incredible Hulk text *with pictures* adventure game on the C64
The game begins with you trapped in a room, tied to a chair.
You could hit yourself and turn into the HULK! but gas would immediately fill the room and you would wake up as bruce banner again.
If you left the room you were crushed by gravity.
apparently i wasn't the only one thwarted by this piece of crap
Is Skype secure?
Yes. When you call another Skype user your call is encrypted with strong encryption algorithms ensuring you privacy. In some cases your Skype communication may be routed via other users in the peer-to-peer network. Skype encryption protects you from potential eavesdropping from malicious users.
Why are Skype calls encrypted?
Skype is encrypted end-to-end because it uses the public internet to transport your voice calls and text messages and sometimes these calls are routed through other peers. Skype encryption ensures that no other party can eavesdrop on your call or read your instant messages.
What type of encryption is used?
Skype uses AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) also known as Rijndael which is also used by US Government organizations to protect sensitive information. Skype uses 256-bit encryption, which has a total of 1.1 x 1077 possible keys, in order to actively encrypt the data in each Skype call or instant message. Skype uses 1024 bit RSA to negotiate symmetric AES keys. User public keys are certified by the Skype server at login using 1536 or 2048-bit RSA certificates.
So if there is a backdoor, there site is lying, and i can smell a classaction.
Get a mac, get 2 750 GB discs.
Make one of them a time machine backup.
this does not protect against theft/fire/flood so it is good to maybe get a third that you take to your office and bring home once a month and do rsync.
The other option is to let someone else worry about it and put your stuff online somewhere.
A pro flickr account is $25 a year, and let's you put all your photos online and videos up to 90 sec.
Actually, no fault isn't really no fault. (At least in Ontario)
The way it works is that each persons insurance pays up and then the insurance companies work out if someone was at fault and if so then that insurance company pays the other insurance company.
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and since it is the end of the world we don't have to worry about STDs or unwanted pregnancy!!!!
There are many of us that want something more than a mini but don't want to blow >$2500 on a MacPro. We have nice screens. We don't want another screen. I'm not going to replace my dell 24" with 5 inputs and height, tilt and rotation, and a built in card reader for an iMac
The truth is that Apple doesn't give a shit about Psystar. They know most people who want a mac will just by a mac, but because of the laws governing IP they are obliged to shut them down so that next week dell doesn't start selling macs.
Also, if you hit the driver in front of you and then she hit you , the driver you hit would have felt 2 separate impacts. The first from you and the second from the SUV hitting your car that was still abutting the car in front of you. Call them as a witness and ask whether they experienced one or two collisions.
Physics is your friend.
Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight
The fact that men in those countries tend to live longer might have more do to with the fact that people in rich countries are fat. I would love to see the result of their study controlled for body-mass-index.
On the other hand, I have no problem with the 'polygamy is good for you' meme. ;)
mod parent up! funny!
It doesn't matter if it's in the BIOS, or uses a second processor.
It does matter that it uses a 2nd processor that is very power efficient. I haven't used a windows laptop in a while, but if you just wake your computer from sleep how long does it really take?
I think the real advantage of this is battery savings from running on an ARM processor.
From the article:
Someone needs to define the GP language and fitness function. I'm sorry to say that it's turtles all the way down on this one.
While I'm inclined to agree with you. I wonder if there isn't a fundamental difference between an AI where the computer uses a sophisticated heuristic that was defined by a human, and an GP or reinforcement learning algorithm with a simple reward function.
I put simple reward function in bold, because up until now, (including mogo, i think) there is a lot of "domain knowledge" built into the AI. So indeed, a human harnessing the power of 800-cores beat a human. But in the future, if we really allow a software agent to learn go or any other task by trial and error without specific knowledge (except for of course, the goal of the task) that seems qualitatively different than the current scenario.
And as an amateur go player I should add that a 9-stone handicap is HUGE! (Not as huge as a 25-stone one , of course)
I was traveling down under when they lifted the water ban. happy happy day
(shh... don't tell, Mojave is really Vista)
there are very few "patriots" in this country ready and willing to endure jail time for the principle of free speech.
The current situation in the US is especially scary since even citizens can lose their constitutional rights by being declared an enemy combatant.
I'm living in the US on a visa. So i don't even have to do anything illegal to get booted out of the country. That makes protesting especially dangerous for me.
I did protest against the war in Iraq in New York and DC. But I think protesting in an airport would not be handled as gently.
now beach-goers everywhere can claim to be active environmentalists!
In australia they let you take water on domestic flights.
Did you notice the 3D 'mouse' she was using. can you imagine having to hold your arm above your desk for hours a day.
I can google something (or delicious or whatever) and copy the link into an IM window WAY faster than that person was working.
The only cool thing in that video was the automatic transformation of data. That idea might come to fruition... it would be fairly easy to create an markup language for data and have a plugin that could re-render on the client side.
i tried to but he just shook his head.
i looked at him and asked "when is this insanity going to end", he just shrugged.
I think a bit part of our problem is that life has become so convenient that very very few of us are willing to risk arrest by protesting.
One the things that upsets me most about this 'war on terror' is that car accidents kill many many many more people every year. Are totally random and tragic. If we spend a tiny fraction of the resources that is spend on 'security' on education and technology to prevent people falling asleep at the wheel and drunk driving we would save many many more lives.
People who attempt suicide generally fall into 2 classes: people who continually attempt (and often eventually succeed) and other who attempt a single time and fail or are blocked and never attempt suicide again.
The point is that for the latter case, there is a large degree of impulsivity - you get some horrible news, you go into your closet and get your loaded gun and kill yourself. Or go for a walk and jump off a bridge. What is fascinating is that data indicate that a small obstacle in the plan... the gun isn't loaded and the ammo is in the basement, or their is a crowd of tourists on the bridge that you wanted to jump off... turns out to be enough to make people realize that they don't really want to die.
The point is that suicide can be an extremely impulsive act. This child wasn't necessarily mentally ill or whatever other adjectives have been used in this discussion. Usually teenagers use pills or try to slit their wrists and survive, in this tragic case, she died.
How much better would they have done without the occupation but still with the closest neighbor having so much wealth?
I think to answer that question you just have to look at the lives of the majority of the population living in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, or Lebanon.
The document describes things like increased GNP, decreased infant mortality, increased investment, and other increases in standard of living from 1967 until 1984.
In 1987 everything changed. That was the beginning of the first intifada. The wiki article on the 1st intifada tells a story of israeli brutality that does not match with the UN document on living conditions in the occupied terrotories.
What was the real root cause of the intifada? Could part of it be the corruption of the leaders of the PLO, like Arafat, who was filling swiss bank accounts with aid money that were supposed to go to the people he was supposed to represent?
I agree with above posters that the cycle of retaliation has to end. The only way it can end is with education to end the mutual hatred.
As well, there are many jews and non-jews inside and outside israel who are critical of israeli policy. Being critical certainly doesn't make one an anti-semite. But the tone of some of the posts in this discussion belie an undercurrent of prejudice.
The game begins with you trapped in a room, tied to a chair.
You could hit yourself and turn into the HULK! but gas would immediately fill the room and you would wake up as bruce banner again.
If you left the room you were crushed by gravity.
apparently i wasn't the only one thwarted by this piece of crap
Oh, we play games...but only for the ironic value
i think that would make you POST-modern gamers
-jc
So if there is a backdoor, there site is lying, and i can smell a classaction.
Of course a tinfoil hat will be no defence since your head will burst into flames.
mod parent up! informative!
this does not protect against theft/fire/flood so it is good to maybe get a third that you take to your office and bring home once a month and do rsync.
The other option is to let someone else worry about it and put your stuff online somewhere. A pro flickr account is $25 a year, and let's you put all your photos online and videos up to 90 sec.
It just
1) takes the burden off of the consumer
2) if the guilty party doesn't have insurance, your insurance company still has to pay.
http://www.ibc.ca/en/Car_Insurance/ON/No_Fault.asp
A friend of mine makes these very cool pieces : http://www.tristanperich.com/Art/Machine_Drawings/