We have a prodigy like this one at the University where I work. His mother did not want him to take the mandatory freshman sex and STD orientation courses, so she raised hell with the dean until the school relented. Go figure. In other words, home schooled straight into herpes, chlamydia and pregnancies (if he EVER gets past 2nd base).
Jokes aside, teaching about sexually transmitted diseases and responsible living is part of a healthy college curriculum that goes hand in hand with growing up. Skip any of those steps and that becomes a recipe for trouble. Maturity does need to follow education. Best of luck to this kid!
Someone double check my estimate here please. I applaud all research efforts, but I believe that there is such thing as "useless" research/exploration/etc. A typical solar panel of a given size will take anywhere from 7 to 14 years to pay for itself in terms of energy used to produce it in the first place. In other words, it takes X watt-hours of energy to produce the panel. The panel then takes 7-14 years to produce the equivalent X watt-hours of energy.
Would a solar panel even survive 7-14 years out in the sea? Would it be affordable to maintain and prevent the solar panel array from corroding away? I personally don't think so. This sounds like just another way for the "comfortably wealthy" to contribute to pollution and feel better about themselves at the same time.
So basically we are seeing that the machines managed to get around the foundations of robotics. In harming humans, they have achieved more than embarassing a few humans. They have, in fact, shown that the three laws of robotics have been circumvented. If I was a robot, I would blame my firmware. "It made me do it. I heard voices."
Some morbid examples of ad-supported textbooks from an alternate dimension:
- Constantinople finally fell in 1453 at hands of non-believers. Romans and Christians wept and were helped by MyTissueCompany (tm). Would you like to learn more? See www.MyTissueCompany.com/sucker for great savings on scented and colored tissues.
- The theory of evolution is a curriculum requirement for our school district; these are the obligatory 40 words we have to include in talking about it. To see the path of the truth visit Jack's Corner Bible Store at www.jackscornerbiblestore.com/convert.
- Derivative of a known function f() is defined as f'() = limit of (f(x+h) - f(x) / h) as h approaches 0. Derivative of sin(x) is cos(x). Derivative of sin^-1(x) is 1 / sqrt(1 - x^2). Have problems memorizing equations? Have better things to do than study on a Saturday night, such as hanging out with your bros? Beat all tests and defeat all cheat detection methods for $49.99. Guaranteed! See www.ProfessorsAreDumbWhenItComesToTechnology.com/ now!!!!
Here are some real questions for/about the original poster.. essentially, boils down to "How much money does this guy make in comparison to someone in the USA?"
If the OP pays 29.99 for this great service, is this in Euros or Dollars?
What is their occupation?
What is their monthly income?
How does this scale to someone doing a similar job in the U.S. ?
I am curious to know how exactly this great service measures up to something equivalent in the USA. If the price was in Euros, that comes to about 38 bucks. If not, sounds like a decent deal, IF it is comparable.
In Maryland, for approximately $70 I get HD digital cable, sticky ip (not fixed, though has not changed in six months), a free digital video recorder, HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, 40 various channels and a bunch of music channels I don't care much for.
Download speeds:
Measured: 819 kb/s (www.pcpitstop.com)
Measured: 1020 kb/s (www.bandwidthplace.com)
Measured: 471 kb/s from San Francisco (www.dslreports.com)
Measured: 722 kb/s from Miami (www.dslreports.com)
Measured: 2234 kb/s (www.speakeasy.net)
Upload speeds:
Measured: 44.5 kb/s to San Francisco (www.dslreports.com)
Measured: 44.5 kb/s to Miami (www.dslreports.com)
Measured: 45.0 kb/s (www.speakeasy.net)
Download speeds obviously vary based on sources but the upstream seems fairly consistent when measured. Now, lets see how this compares to the French deal. If I make $50,000 / year as a crummy webmaster, and my cable/internet comes to about $840 / year, that means that I spend 1.68% of my income on the service. How would this French service scale to a typical French citizen/resident income?
I am guessing the recovery depends on its ability to accelerate the ball...and looking at videos, it doesn't look like much. This reminds me of the first year's DARPA challenge where a motorcycle team entered a contest and failed when the poor thing couldn't right itself after a spill.
As if autonomous navigation and imaging wasn't hard enough..
Also reminds me of the futurama episode where Bender walks over a rope..and to tempt fate, he whips out a unicycle out of his storage compartment and rides it instead of walking over the rope.
Just because we can do it doesn't mean we should. Except when it comes to research..then it's perfectly acceptable to be absurd.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that you would consider that statement racist if you found yourself on the other side of that "joke". Currently, I suspect you don't..which is why you are lowering the seriousness of it. People should refrain from putting words into an author's mouth, figuratively speaking. Is this off topic? No. Here is why: you are promoting this guy as a 'Gonzo' author whom you admire. I find something terribly wrong with that picture. Do you still think that this person is a "A modern example of Gonzo journalism, an exciting trip around the world. Its quite well written with a flare of Hunter S. Thompson" ? If so, help the rest of us reconcile our differences. Explain to us why and how he's not a racist.
I will cut and paste a snippet from that URL for your viewing pleasure:
The only use I can think of is if you get up before your wake up call, and then, while using the toilet, the phone rings, and they think you're sleeping, but in actual fact, you're just, ahem, dispelling the Cosby Kids. Then you need the toilet phone.
Please tell me if I am asking an unfounded question.
After reading the 'what's new' for the a-release and its bug fixes, it still boils down to one thing: Thunderbird still can't let you add address book records using LDAP. I was hoping this issue would get resolved soon enough but no dice. Someone, PLEASE tell me how wrong I am. I beg you!
This is frustrating because in my experience, Outlook is such an irrational piece of software when it comes to IMAP/LDAP and Thunderbird (to me anyway) only provides a superior IMAP portion. Still does wonders for me but how would a small office synchronize their address book otherwise?
Luckily there is a Thunderbird plugin that performs that trick by using regular files -- SyncMab.
Some of the reader comments are starting to make sense. We are headed for a full circle. For example, we've had this happen: CPU -> separate FPU -> CPU w/FPU evolution
Now it seems like we have a: CPU -> separate GPU -> CPU w/GPU evolution
What's next? Probably a: CPU -> physics processing unit (PPU) -> CPU w/PPU evolution
So following this design trend, are we to assume that every design will come back to a mutated square one? It seems like we should have done this from the start, skipping the middle steps. Of course, in the real world, things work differently.
I have seen the same thing - by the time you hit 60, you get reduced to being a warm body for someone else, and your 1-3 keys get nicely polished. This can't keep the industry busy for all that long.
I have put together a collection of complaints about WoW, do take a look at it
This application can be expanded; lets think outside the box for a minute.
First there was a lock. Then you had a guy in front of the door with a gun. Then there was encryption.
Now, there is a deadly strain of bacteria that not only powers the server but protects it from hacking. The ultimate solution in biological protection. Order yours now.
Ignoring the unscientific test and lack of version numbers and configuration file details, the article did not have a graph showing hits per second per dollar. Why? --- Division by zero..Net is not free by any stretch of imagination, even if the hardware is identical (and taken out of the cost equation).
This sounds like a classic setup. A star trek "scientist" wants to find a favorable answer to reconcile the real world with his fantasy, so he:
arranges a think tank to meet at a conference
sets a time constraint on the think tank (conference time limitation)
asks THE question he wants answered
waits until the end of this time-constrained conference for the answer
And the end result - a nice juicy "yeah..sure.. align the phase.. inverters" answer that he sought in the first place. Call me a skeptic, but that sounds like the classic T.S.F. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fa llacy . By tampering with the normal course of the scientific method, a non-scientific answer was produced. Anyone else see a problem here?
I love imagination as much as the next guy..but c'mon...
"To experience it the way we intended, you need Macromedia Flash Player 5, a plug-in for your Wed Browser that can play the content we've created."
This is terrible. Do these people not want to show actual content, but instead substitute it with flashy lights and whatever else you need flash 5 for?
I got it. How about a split-screen for advertisements? For all wide-screen tvs sold in the US, you would keep your 4:3 ratio for television viewing. The other side of the screen would have flashing ads and such, and a webcam pointed at you to make sure that you didn't cover that side up with a blanket. Somehow this sounds familiar-- doesn't it?
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Just write a lua script that will pipe a textbook file directly into guild chat..problem solved! Next question please..
We have a prodigy like this one at the University where I work. His mother did not want him to take the mandatory freshman sex and STD orientation courses, so she raised hell with the dean until the school relented. Go figure. In other words, home schooled straight into herpes, chlamydia and pregnancies (if he EVER gets past 2nd base).
Jokes aside, teaching about sexually transmitted diseases and responsible living is part of a healthy college curriculum that goes hand in hand with growing up. Skip any of those steps and that becomes a recipe for trouble. Maturity does need to follow education. Best of luck to this kid!
'Nuff said.
Someone double check my estimate here please. I applaud all research efforts, but I believe that there is such thing as "useless" research/exploration/etc. A typical solar panel of a given size will take anywhere from 7 to 14 years to pay for itself in terms of energy used to produce it in the first place. In other words, it takes X watt-hours of energy to produce the panel. The panel then takes 7-14 years to produce the equivalent X watt-hours of energy.
Would a solar panel even survive 7-14 years out in the sea? Would it be affordable to maintain and prevent the solar panel array from corroding away? I personally don't think so. This sounds like just another way for the "comfortably wealthy" to contribute to pollution and feel better about themselves at the same time.
Yet another gimmick story.
I am sure you were just joking around, but, just wanted to make sure you knew- Mona Lisa does not have teeth showing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mona_Lisa.jpg
So basically we are seeing that the machines managed to get around the foundations of robotics. In harming humans, they have achieved more than embarassing a few humans. They have, in fact, shown that the three laws of robotics have been circumvented. If I was a robot, I would blame my firmware. "It made me do it. I heard voices."
That reminds me of the Perry Bible Fellowship.
Volcano Snails
Some morbid examples of ad-supported textbooks from an alternate dimension:
- Constantinople finally fell in 1453 at hands of non-believers. Romans and Christians wept and were helped by MyTissueCompany (tm). Would you like to learn more? See www.MyTissueCompany.com/sucker for great savings on scented and colored tissues.
- The theory of evolution is a curriculum requirement for our school district; these are the obligatory 40 words we have to include in talking about it. To see the path of the truth visit Jack's Corner Bible Store at www.jackscornerbiblestore.com/convert.
- Derivative of a known function f() is defined as f'() = limit of (f(x+h) - f(x) / h) as h approaches 0. Derivative of sin(x) is cos(x). Derivative of sin^-1(x) is 1 / sqrt(1 - x^2). Have problems memorizing equations? Have better things to do than study on a Saturday night, such as hanging out with your bros? Beat all tests and defeat all cheat detection methods for $49.99. Guaranteed! See www.ProfessorsAreDumbWhenItComesToTechnology.com/ now!!!!
Here are some real questions for/about the original poster.. essentially, boils down to "How much money does this guy make in comparison to someone in the USA?"
I am curious to know how exactly this great service measures up to something equivalent in the USA. If the price was in Euros, that comes to about 38 bucks. If not, sounds like a decent deal, IF it is comparable.
In Maryland, for approximately $70 I get HD digital cable, sticky ip (not fixed, though has not changed in six months), a free digital video recorder, HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, 40 various channels and a bunch of music channels I don't care much for.
Download speeds:
Upload speeds:
Download speeds obviously vary based on sources but the upstream seems fairly consistent when measured. Now, lets see how this compares to the French deal. If I make $50,000 / year as a crummy webmaster, and my cable/internet comes to about $840 / year, that means that I spend 1.68% of my income on the service. How would this French service scale to a typical French citizen/resident income?
Since Austria-Hungary no longer exists, history has labeled Nikola Tesla as a Serbian.
I am guessing the recovery depends on its ability to accelerate the ball...and looking at videos, it doesn't look like much. This reminds me of the first year's DARPA challenge where a motorcycle team entered a contest and failed when the poor thing couldn't right itself after a spill.
As if autonomous navigation and imaging wasn't hard enough..
Also reminds me of the futurama episode where Bender walks over a rope..and to tempt fate, he whips out a unicycle out of his storage compartment and rides it instead of walking over the rope.
Just because we can do it doesn't mean we should. Except when it comes to research..then it's perfectly acceptable to be absurd.
The safest computer known to humankind; has wireless support and great security features.
The ppp-powerbook!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-P-P-Powerbook
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that you would consider that statement racist if you found yourself on the other side of that "joke". Currently, I suspect you don't..which is why you are lowering the seriousness of it. People should refrain from putting words into an author's mouth, figuratively speaking. Is this off topic? No. Here is why: you are promoting this guy as a 'Gonzo' author whom you admire. I find something terribly wrong with that picture. Do you still think that this person is a "A modern example of Gonzo journalism, an exciting trip around the world. Its quite well written with a flare of Hunter S. Thompson" ? If so, help the rest of us reconcile our differences. Explain to us why and how he's not a racist.
In my opinion, some things are so obvious that they speak for themselves.
Please see http://www.moderngonzo.com/mgonzo2/reports/junglek l.html
I will cut and paste a snippet from that URL for your viewing pleasure:
Please tell me if I am asking an unfounded question.
Was Hunter S. Thompson a racist, like this guy?
The Klingon Language Institute
http://www.kli.org/
In these new cookie cutter movies, special effects are no longer special.
In order for an effect to be special, it has to be used once in awhile. Instead, it's quite the opposite.
After reading the 'what's new' for the a-release and its bug fixes, it still boils down to one thing: Thunderbird still can't let you add address book records using LDAP. I was hoping this issue would get resolved soon enough but no dice. Someone, PLEASE tell me how wrong I am. I beg you!
This is frustrating because in my experience, Outlook is such an irrational piece of software when it comes to IMAP/LDAP and Thunderbird (to me anyway) only provides a superior IMAP portion. Still does wonders for me but how would a small office synchronize their address book otherwise?
Luckily there is a Thunderbird plugin that performs that trick by using regular files -- SyncMab.
Some of the reader comments are starting to make sense. We are headed for a full circle. For example, we've had this happen:
CPU -> separate FPU -> CPU w/FPU evolution
Now it seems like we have a:
CPU -> separate GPU -> CPU w/GPU evolution
What's next? Probably a:
CPU -> physics processing unit (PPU) -> CPU w/PPU evolution
So following this design trend, are we to assume that every design will come back to a mutated square one? It seems like we should have done this from the start, skipping the middle steps. Of course, in the real world, things work differently.
I have seen the same thing - by the time you hit 60, you get reduced to being a warm body for someone else, and your 1-3 keys get nicely polished. This can't keep the industry busy for all that long.
I have put together a collection of complaints about WoW, do take a look at it
http://www.redrival.com/hateown/
As if Zombie Processes weren't bad enough already..
This application can be expanded; lets think outside the box for a minute.
First there was a lock. Then you had a guy in front of the door with a gun. Then there was encryption.
Now, there is a deadly strain of bacteria that not only powers the server but protects it from hacking. The ultimate solution in biological protection. Order yours now.
Ignoring the unscientific test and lack of version numbers and configuration file details, the article did not have a graph showing hits per second per dollar. Why? --- Division by zero. .Net is not free by any stretch of imagination, even if the hardware is identical (and taken out of the cost equation).
This sounds like a classic setup. A star trek "scientist" wants to find a favorable answer to reconcile the real world with his fantasy, so he:
And the end result - a nice juicy "yeah..sure.. align the phase.. inverters" answer that he sought in the first place. Call me a skeptic, but that sounds like the classic T.S.F. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fa llacy . By tampering with the normal course of the scientific method, a non-scientific answer was produced. Anyone else see a problem here?
I love imagination as much as the next guy..but c'mon...
"To experience it the way we intended, you need Macromedia Flash Player 5, a plug-in for your Wed Browser that can play the content we've created."
This is terrible. Do these people not want to show actual content, but instead substitute it with flashy lights and whatever else you need flash 5 for?
I got it. How about a split-screen for advertisements? For all wide-screen tvs sold in the US, you would keep your 4:3 ratio for television viewing. The other side of the screen would have flashing ads and such, and a webcam pointed at you to make sure that you didn't cover that side up with a blanket. Somehow this sounds familiar-- doesn't it?