It could be construed in another way. Being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, now Obama will have to think twice before going to any war from now on. Basically by increasing the load of expectations on him, I think the committee is trying to direct his hand to a carrot when both carrot and stick are viable alternatives.
Just wondering. Whatever you mentioned looks like reaching a local minima. In this case, wont simulated annealing work? That should take care of the problems you mentioned, right?
Your views might not align with that of others. That does not mean that we should consider with different views to us as weak-minded. I consider athletic achievement on par with intellectual achievements, along with military, monetary and political achievements. Why? Because they are all attained by people who dedicates their life to a single goal. In my view, that is the most important thing. Now, coming to your view, you have considered only scientists and artists. The point, I guess, being that the world is the way it is now only due to scientific achievements. I disagree on that. Politics and military has played a far far bigger role in shaping the world as we see it now. Again, much of athletic achievements and military achievements go hand in hand. Also, when survival was at stake - which was the case for majority of human existence, athletic capabilities played as big a role as intellectual capabilities. Similar is the case with monetary and artistic achievements too. I am also more inspired by intellectual achievements than others, but let us not denigrate others based solely on that. Judging others by our morals is not always correct.
But if a cell already contains some data--no matter how little, even if it fills only a single page in the block--the entire block must be re-written
Is this correct? From whatever I read in AnandTech, it looked like we need not rewrite the entire block unless the available data is less than total - (obsolete + valid) data.
Also, the article is light in details. How are they doing the GC? Do they wait till the overall performance of the disk is less than a threshold and rewrite everything in a single stretch or do they rewrite based on local optima? If the former, what sort of algorithms are used (and are the best for it) ?
You guys are geniuses. I first read the article - and thought - This is an amazing idea. A stroke of genius. And within an hour, mangu comes up with an idea which can mess this whole thing up. - It is difficult - but certainly doable - with a greenhouse. And it is also so simple and innovative, it is again a stroke of genius. Amazing, the wealth of knowledge and innovation world has.
That works too... I had many many queries which I was redirected to EE, and then I found that answers were not available - and skipped the page. Actually, I found answers to most queries from other sites, otherwise I would have paid them to get the answers. Only now, after you had mentioned that it is there below, did I notice that the answers are infact available. So, I guess it is a real working idea.
I believe exactly the opposite. Human beings - most of them - are extremely unselfish and co-operative. Only that - human beings in an unfriendly environment is cynical and selfish. Unfriendly environment can mean cities or towns - where people do not know each other personally.
If humans were selfish and uncooperative, we would be still be plucking fruits from trees, I guess. Hunting - without the speed or agility or patience or major carnivores - would have been well nigh impossible. I would think that the successful tribes were all extremely friendly and peaceful in nature.
Only when we became too successful for our own good - did we start showing signs of selfishness etc.
Anyways, these are my views - without any experimental proof in my part. If you have experimental proof for yours, then I am willing to change my views.
Not quite. If you see the second linked article, page 2 - it seems that government has indeed asked the currency traders to stop buying foreign currency. So, the facts also bear it out.
p.s -> The first linked article is rather light on facts - and more on sensationalism. Reading that, the view that we get is just the opposite of what they want to convey.
This is amongst the greatest things that I have seen till now. Unbelievable - woo no 25 and the water carrying robots - are really unbelievable. I am really sad for his wasted talent - an amazing talent born at the wrong place and time. Is it possible for us to help him out someway?
Very nice point. No wonder philosophers have been theorizing on what is right and what is wrong for the last 5 millennium and haven't reached anywhere. My views was that of OP till now. Now I dont know what to believe.
Moderately offtopic - But which are the best tech magazines which one can subscribe to? I checked out Make after you mentioned it and it seems to be a very good one. One I can think of myself is IEEE Spectrum . Are there others?
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This looks rather dangerous. Since IANAL, can somebody explain whether this would mean that Google would be able to implement the idea themselves?
There are two things to note here: 1. India as a country is a very diverse one. 4 major religions (hindu, christian, muslim and sikh) and a lot of minority religions, 10+ major languages and cultures so different across states that it is as good as going to different country itself. A generalization of any sort is extremely difficult in such a diverse country. Taking your example itself - the southern and north-eastern states are not misogynistic at all while the western and north-western areas can be construed as such.
2. The law does take into consideration that women are liable to be mistreated (esp in the places mentioned above) and so they have a special status in the eyes of law wherein their word alone is enough to prosecute a person in harassment cases.
Your point - that the country and the law is against women - might be a little on the erring side.
Since we cannot anyways see the satellite in the morning, I wonder whether we can find an object if it absorbs the EM - since it will look like the background in the night?
Another important aspect is the editorials. Even though quite possible in web, I havent seen any editorials in web which matches the quality of the ones printed in the national newspapers.
Rather than Cost+Reasonable profit, the major factor is that a bigger company would just build it, once the idea is out. For small time inventors and startups, patent is a godsend. Patents are what keeps the small time entrepreneurs rolling. Please do not forget that.
Now just last week my uncle sent me an e-mail that was along his thinking of people should have to have a license to have children. Whatever the case, the right to have children is/should be a fundamental right.
Even if they did not take care of their earlier children, even if they are criminals or whatever, similar to their requirement for food and shelter is the requirement to have children. In fact, I consider that this right jumps over everything everything else and should occupy the top spot, even above a persons right to live.
The reasoning is that the basic reason for any living being to exist is to prolong its/its species/lifes (in ascending order of priority) span in this world. Whether or not a person chooses to is another matter. What matters is the right to do it.
As an aside, this is one big gripe that I have about prisons everywhere. It doesnt allow for creating new life.
There is no way I can get you to believe this. At least to make my part clear - 1. I went to this guy once when I had a mild case of jaundice. 2. My father had a severe case of jaundice. He went there and was cured within the week - with one dose of medicine 3. The story about the extreme case of jaundice occured (see original post) to one relative of mine. He took allopathic treatment, had no effect, and was considered to be in extreme danger. Based on my fathers suggestion and he came to this doctor, who completely cleared his jaundice within 3 weeks with two doses of medicine.
I hope this would make it a little clearer. And see another post - (#23038362) - which mentions that this does happen regularly. So, please do consider this and do not disbelieve it straightaway. Also, do consider that in societies with lower standard of living, higher ideals doesn't usually stay for long - especially when survival is at stake.
I understand and agree to your point. The feeling to be unique can be a much bigger motivation than money. But my point in the previous post was just to validate the existance of the patent process. The GGP mentioned and I quote
patents reduce the sharing and reuse of knowledge, they do not promote it. Overall, patents are very harmful for technological progress. I was just trying to mention that patents play a very useful role in improving the technological growth of the society. I even consider that one possible reason west could grow bigger than much older civilizations like that of mesoppotomian and ancient Indian and Chineese is due to the sharing of knowledge. And patent is one way of doing that.
Better than losing that information forever, right? Think about it - he or his son or his grandchild dies before that information is transferred. This would mean that this information is lost forever. This is far far better than that. My point is that there would be many such village doctors who can thus cure some disease (and only that - mind you). How much information we would have lost in this way?
Not quite. In India, near where I live , there is a village doctor who can completely cure jaundice (at least the ones caused by Viral hepatitis) with a medicine his grandfather invented long long back. It is an amazing medicine - he has cured people with bilurubin count as high as 12 - that too with just two portions of this medicine. He keeps it a secret - just as his grandfather and his father has done. Since he is not known outside, only a few people get the benefit of the medicine. Also, if he dies before he can tell his children about the medicine, this information is lost forever.
That is where patents can help. If he can just patent it, and sell the patent to medicine companies, he would become richer than he can now even dream of. The companies can then sell the medicine all over the world and people all over gets the benefit.
This is the reason patents are there. And it makes a whole lot of sense too.
p.s -> he does not believe any one, so he doesnt believe in patents also. but that is a completely different matter.
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It could be construed in another way. Being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, now Obama will have to think twice before going to any war from now on. Basically by increasing the load of expectations on him, I think the committee is trying to direct his hand to a carrot when both carrot and stick are viable alternatives.
Just wondering. Whatever you mentioned looks like reaching a local minima. In this case, wont simulated annealing work? That should take care of the problems you mentioned, right?
3G Yes -what you say is true.
3G+ [HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+ etc] , 4G[LTE] etc - no.
Since the future is above 3G, that shouldnt be a problem.
Your views might not align with that of others. That does not mean that we should consider with different views to us as weak-minded.
I consider athletic achievement on par with intellectual achievements, along with military, monetary and political achievements. Why? Because they are all attained by people who dedicates their life to a single goal. In my view, that is the most important thing.
Now, coming to your view, you have considered only scientists and artists. The point, I guess, being that the world is the way it is now only due to scientific achievements. I disagree on that. Politics and military has played a far far bigger role in shaping the world as we see it now. Again, much of athletic achievements and military achievements go hand in hand. Also, when survival was at stake - which was the case for majority of human existence, athletic capabilities played as big a role as intellectual capabilities. Similar is the case with monetary and artistic achievements too.
I am also more inspired by intellectual achievements than others, but let us not denigrate others based solely on that. Judging others by our morals is not always correct.
In the article it says
But if a cell already contains some data--no matter how little, even if it fills only a single page in the block--the entire block must be re-written
Is this correct?
From whatever I read in AnandTech, it looked like we need not rewrite the entire block unless the available data is less than total - (obsolete + valid) data.
Also, the article is light in details. How are they doing the GC? Do they wait till the overall performance of the disk is less than a threshold and rewrite everything in a single stretch or do they rewrite based on local optima? If the former, what sort of algorithms are used (and are the best for it) ?
You guys are geniuses.
I first read the article - and thought - This is an amazing idea. A stroke of genius.
And within an hour, mangu comes up with an idea which can mess this whole thing up. - It is difficult - but certainly doable - with a greenhouse. And it is also so simple and innovative, it is again a stroke of genius.
Amazing, the wealth of knowledge and innovation world has.
That works too...
I had many many queries which I was redirected to EE, and then I found that answers were not available - and skipped the page.
Actually, I found answers to most queries from other sites, otherwise I would have paid them to get the answers.
Only now, after you had mentioned that it is there below, did I notice that the answers are infact available.
So, I guess it is a real working idea.
I believe exactly the opposite. Human beings - most of them - are extremely unselfish and co-operative. Only that - human beings in an unfriendly environment is cynical and selfish. Unfriendly environment can mean cities or towns - where people do not know each other personally.
If humans were selfish and uncooperative, we would be still be plucking fruits from trees, I guess. Hunting - without the speed or agility or patience or major carnivores - would have been well nigh impossible. I would think that the successful tribes were all extremely friendly and peaceful in nature.
Only when we became too successful for our own good - did we start showing signs of selfishness etc.
Anyways, these are my views - without any experimental proof in my part. If you have experimental proof for yours, then I am willing to change my views.
Not quite. If you see the second linked article, page 2 - it seems that government has indeed asked the currency traders to stop buying foreign currency. So, the facts also bear it out.
p.s -> The first linked article is rather light on facts - and more on sensationalism. Reading that, the view that we get is just the opposite of what they want to convey.
This is amongst the greatest things that I have seen till now.
Unbelievable - woo no 25 and the water carrying robots - are really unbelievable.
I am really sad for his wasted talent - an amazing talent born at the wrong place and time.
Is it possible for us to help him out someway?
P.S : This shouldnt be posted in idle.
Not quite.
Money drives the invisible hand, and that invisible hand does a better job of improving society than any philanthropy.
Very nice point.
No wonder philosophers have been theorizing on what is right and what is wrong for the last 5 millennium and haven't reached anywhere.
My views was that of OP till now. Now I dont know what to believe.
Moderately offtopic - But which are the best tech magazines which one can subscribe to?
I checked out Make after you mentioned it and it seems to be a very good one. One I can think of myself is IEEE Spectrum . Are there others?
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This looks rather dangerous. Since IANAL, can somebody explain whether this would mean that Google would be able to implement the idea themselves?
Can it just be that due to the gravitational pull of some other system (say another star which went past close enough) pulled the planet out?
Provided we can believe the article.
Maybe it has caused the views to be coloured?
There are two things to note here:
1. India as a country is a very diverse one. 4 major religions (hindu, christian, muslim and sikh) and a lot of minority religions, 10+ major languages and cultures so different across states that it is as good as going to different country itself. A generalization of any sort is extremely difficult in such a diverse country. Taking your example itself - the southern and north-eastern states are not misogynistic at all while the western and north-western areas can be construed as such.
2. The law does take into consideration that women are liable to be mistreated (esp in the places mentioned above) and so they have a special status in the eyes of law wherein their word alone is enough to prosecute a person in harassment cases.
Your point - that the country and the law is against women - might be a little on the erring side.
Since we cannot anyways see the satellite in the morning, I wonder whether we can find an object if it absorbs the EM - since it will look like the background in the night?
Another important aspect is the editorials.
Even though quite possible in web, I havent seen any editorials in web which matches the quality of the ones printed in the national newspapers.
Rather than Cost+Reasonable profit, the major factor is that a bigger company would just build it, once the idea is out.
For small time inventors and startups, patent is a godsend.
Patents are what keeps the small time entrepreneurs rolling. Please do not forget that.
Even if they did not take care of their earlier children, even if they are criminals or whatever, similar to their requirement for food and shelter is the requirement to have children. In fact, I consider that this right jumps over everything everything else and should occupy the top spot, even above a persons right to live.
The reasoning is that the basic reason for any living being to exist is to prolong its/its species/lifes (in ascending order of priority) span in this world. Whether or not a person chooses to is another matter. What matters is the right to do it.
As an aside, this is one big gripe that I have about prisons everywhere. It doesnt allow for creating new life.
There is no way I can get you to believe this.
At least to make my part clear -
1. I went to this guy once when I had a mild case of jaundice.
2. My father had a severe case of jaundice. He went there and was cured within the week - with one dose of medicine
3. The story about the extreme case of jaundice occured (see original post) to one relative of mine. He took allopathic treatment, had no effect, and was considered to be in extreme danger. Based on my fathers suggestion and he came to this doctor, who completely cleared his jaundice within 3 weeks with two doses of medicine.
I hope this would make it a little clearer. And see another post - (#23038362) - which mentions that this does happen regularly. So, please do consider this and do not disbelieve it straightaway. Also, do consider that in societies with lower standard of living, higher ideals doesn't usually stay for long - especially when survival is at stake.
But my point in the previous post was just to validate the existance of the patent process. The GGP mentioned and I quote patents reduce the sharing and reuse of knowledge, they do not promote it. Overall, patents are very harmful for technological progress. I was just trying to mention that patents play a very useful role in improving the technological growth of the society. I even consider that one possible reason west could grow bigger than much older civilizations like that of mesoppotomian and ancient Indian and Chineese is due to the sharing of knowledge.
And patent is one way of doing that.
Better than losing that information forever, right?
Think about it - he or his son or his grandchild dies before that information is transferred. This would mean that this information is lost forever. This is far far better than that.
My point is that there would be many such village doctors who can thus cure some disease (and only that - mind you). How much information we would have lost in this way?
Not quite.
In India, near where I live , there is a village doctor who can completely cure jaundice (at least the ones caused by Viral hepatitis) with a medicine his grandfather invented long long back.
It is an amazing medicine - he has cured people with bilurubin count as high as 12 - that too with just two portions of this medicine.
He keeps it a secret - just as his grandfather and his father has done.
Since he is not known outside, only a few people get the benefit of the medicine.
Also, if he dies before he can tell his children about the medicine, this information is lost forever.
That is where patents can help. If he can just patent it, and sell the patent to medicine companies, he would become richer than he can now even dream of. The companies can then sell the medicine all over the world and people all over gets the benefit.
This is the reason patents are there. And it makes a whole lot of sense too.
p.s -> he does not believe any one, so he doesnt believe in patents also. but that is a completely different matter.