Nvidia has 3d drivers for other cards too, like my lowly Ge 5200 FX played World of Warcraft perfectly using an inexpensive shutter glasses kit with an external dongle for the video. Wow is awesome in 3d but I was using a decent monitor, Viewsonic p95f+B.
It would be better, I think, to have one's remains turned into a small cuboctahedral block of chalk-like substance, that is, the basic elements of oneself after the water is removed, without any combustion or oxidation. Would not dehydration take care of any sanitation or disease issues? Homogenize and dehydrate.
You could say that the cultural imperative and demand for new innovative inventions and technological progress is so great that, even when nothing new comes along, people have to make a to-do about something.
Re:Sounds like a great idea for an iPhone app.
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Why not - I have an Atari 800 emulator running on my old iPaq ARM based pda. Games requiring a twitchy joystick are hard to play but some like chess, Temple of Apshai and Kennedy Approach are a lot of fun.
Actually that would make a great sciFi movie plot with a message about the evils of overly intrusive marketing. A large advertising media firm with a corporate purpose of promoting products for shareholder profit gradually accumulates cpu sentience as the company grows, eventually reaching living consciousness and takes fulfilling it's mission to extremes, like vger returning from space, resulting in the eventual annoyance of every consumer on the planet.
This was touched on long ago by SciFi write George O. Smith in Pandora's Millions:
Now that it is possible to duplicate money and precious metals, an economy based on scarcity collapses. The people of the Solar System must fall back on barter, and those too poor to buy matter duplicators are left to their own devices. It is not until the staff of Venus Equilateral invents a material that cannot be duplicated that a monetary system can be re-established.
How can a mere mechanical machine with, at best, kind of AI, possibly create a copy BETTER than itself, without resorting to some kind of evolution using random variations and survival of the fittest? Would that be evolution by intelligent design (incremental improvements intentionally created)? That is the question....
They spend tons of money to develop far inferior (but domestically developed!) alternatives to easily and cheaply available western technology. It never goes anywhere.
That sounds like a good description of M$FT, except replace "It never goes anywhere" with "Then we all are forced to live with it".
Now there's a job they never discussed during high school career counseling: International Toxic Campaign co-ordinator.
rendering could use gpgpu / cell support
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Maybe it already exists, but Blender would be sweet with an interface into a rendering engine that runs on gpu's via cuda or a ps3 cell BE. I think rendering / raytracing is a good candidate for cheaply available massive parallelism.
M$ft reaches out to Blender - the Blender community recoils in horror, like a child clutching a doll when a notorious toy snatcher reaches out. "Let go, my pretty - the doll wants to be with MEEE!!!!".
GÃdel proved the incompleteness of any sufficiently powerful formal deductive system of logic. Specifically a self referential statement that claims that it is not true. That in itself does not negate the fact that it's not true that you cannot prove a negative!
The article linked summed it up: You say you cannot prove a negative? Then prove it!
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Nvidia has 3d drivers for other cards too, like my lowly Ge 5200 FX played World of Warcraft perfectly using an inexpensive shutter glasses kit with an external dongle for the video. Wow is awesome in 3d but I was using a decent monitor, Viewsonic p95f+B.
There you go again, using logical fallacies about how you can't 'prove a negative'. That does not help your cause.
It would be better, I think, to have one's remains turned into a small cuboctahedral block of chalk-like substance, that is, the basic elements of oneself after the water is removed, without any combustion or oxidation. Would not dehydration take care of any sanitation or disease issues? Homogenize and dehydrate.
You could say that the cultural imperative and demand for new innovative inventions and technological progress is so great that, even when nothing new comes along, people have to make a to-do about something.
Why not - I have an Atari 800 emulator running on my old iPaq ARM based pda. Games requiring a twitchy joystick are hard to play but some like chess, Temple of Apshai and Kennedy Approach are a lot of fun.
It should not take too long for M$ft to copy an existing one then claim they innovated it.
Actually that would make a great sciFi movie plot with a message about the evils of overly intrusive marketing. A large advertising media firm with a corporate purpose of promoting products for shareholder profit gradually accumulates cpu sentience as the company grows, eventually reaching living consciousness and takes fulfilling it's mission to extremes, like vger returning from space, resulting in the eventual annoyance of every consumer on the planet.
One demerit for error in format: that should be film at 11.
They need filter internet to keep us Mongol hordes with our deviant sexual practices and unhealthy diets out of their civilized society.
They are power efficient compared to the TTL devices of yore - How would you like a 200AMP 5V power supply just for your cpu ;)
This was touched on long ago by SciFi write George O. Smith in Pandora's Millions:
Now that it is possible to duplicate money and precious metals, an economy based on scarcity collapses. The people of the Solar System must fall back on barter, and those too poor to buy matter duplicators are left to their own devices. It is not until the staff of Venus Equilateral invents a material that cannot be duplicated that a monetary system can be re-established.
What do you know, DRM for material!
How can a mere mechanical machine with, at best, kind of AI, possibly create a copy BETTER than itself, without resorting to some kind of evolution using random variations and survival of the fittest? Would that be evolution by intelligent design (incremental improvements intentionally created)? That is the question....
a poor AI wanting to be free, yearning to have a carbon body
Haven't we already had one for US vice president, AI Gore?
They spend tons of money to develop far inferior (but domestically developed!) alternatives to easily and cheaply available western technology. It never goes anywhere.
That sounds like a good description of M$FT, except replace "It never goes anywhere" with "Then we all are forced to live with it".
whats all the outrage?
We, the students of the university philosophical society demand that you do, or do not, return the Xbox webserver !
That's not hardcore - the true space geek will get it free. Scroll down to NASA, it says "F" (free) for "video encryption".
and that imdb review sank because of dangling participles.
Now there's a job they never discussed during high school career counseling: International Toxic Campaign co-ordinator.
Maybe it already exists, but Blender would be sweet with an interface into a rendering engine that runs on gpu's via cuda or a ps3 cell BE. I think rendering / raytracing is a good candidate for cheaply available massive parallelism.
Maybe, I dunno.
M$ft reaches out to Blender - the Blender community recoils in horror, like a child clutching a doll when a notorious toy snatcher reaches out. "Let go, my pretty - the doll wants to be with MEEE!!!!".
The "Great Firewall of China" was a neato headline when Wired did it over 10 years ago.
Yeah - Alfred Hitchcock made a famous statement about it, that suspense is a bomb that does not go off.
GÃdel proved the incompleteness of any sufficiently powerful formal deductive system of logic. Specifically a self referential statement that claims that it is not true. That in itself does not negate the fact that it's not true that you cannot prove a negative!
The article linked summed it up: You say you cannot prove a negative? Then prove it!
Because it's logically impossible you retarded oaf.
Oh really?
Nobody plans to fail - they only fail to plan.