It is not incompatible to think that space colonization is (a) impossible and (b) vital for the survival of the species. If you state those two, you are simply stating that the species is doomed to fail. The Hawking vs. Stross dichotomy posed in the summary is a false dilemma.
Thanks for that; good to know. Given how simple the fix appears to be, it's unfortunate that nVidia chose to cut the support. I guess that they don't want to be responsible for doing the vendor's support for them, and instead choose to make me think that it's all Dell's fault.:-)
Let's just hope that they support drivers for these new mobile cards better than they do the Go5200 series. Dell hasn't updated their drivers since 2004, and I used to be able to download the normal nVidia drivers; then sometime in mid-2005 the nVidia drivers stopped recognizing the Go5200 as supported hardware. Harrumph.
Since you mentioned CSLI at Stanford, they are in fact already working on a speech-driven (human to system and system to human) in-car radio and navigation system in collaboration with Bosch. The prototypes are very impressive, but unfortunately not many details are available on the public web.
So yes, this is cool stuff, but as you say, not _that_ cool.
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It is not incompatible to think that space colonization is (a) impossible and (b) vital for the survival of the species. If you state those two, you are simply stating that the species is doomed to fail. The Hawking vs. Stross dichotomy posed in the summary is a false dilemma.
Thanks for that; good to know. Given how simple the fix appears to be, it's unfortunate that nVidia chose to cut the support. I guess that they don't want to be responsible for doing the vendor's support for them, and instead choose to make me think that it's all Dell's fault. :-)
Let's just hope that they support drivers for these new mobile cards better than they do the Go5200 series. Dell hasn't updated their drivers since 2004, and I used to be able to download the normal nVidia drivers; then sometime in mid-2005 the nVidia drivers stopped recognizing the Go5200 as supported hardware. Harrumph.
Since you mentioned CSLI at Stanford, they are in fact already working on a speech-driven (human to system and system to human) in-car radio and navigation system in collaboration with Bosch. The prototypes are very impressive, but unfortunately not many details are available on the public web.
So yes, this is cool stuff, but as you say, not _that_ cool.