...I always knew those French saw things differently!! By different I mean wrong!!
French Soldier: Un cadeau. Other French soldiers: A what? French Soldier: A present. Other French soldiers: Oh. Un cadeau. Other French soldiers: Oui oui. French Soldier: Allons y! Other French soldiers: What? French Soldier: Let's go! Other French soldiers: Oh.
Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! Sir Galahad: What a strange person. King Arthur: Now, look here, my good man-- Frenchman: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Frenchman:No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a! Frenchman:: (Fetchez la vache.) wha? Frenchman:: (Fetchez la vache!) [moo] King Arthur: If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall--
[twong]
[mooooooo]
Jesus Christ!
Right! Charge!
They could just convert the coal plant to Solar. Keeping what infrastructure is already at the site(s) then adding existing solar technology they come up with.
Would that count as "enhancing Coal and Gas plants"?
>>Call me Tinfoil Tom, but doesn't this make any of you just a wee bit nervous?
Maybe a little, but how about this for an idea guys.
I picture a book sized device...
...doesn't have touch screen ...doesn't have dual screens ...doesn't have a camera ...doesn't have a microphone ...doesn't connect to the internet and make skype calls ...doesn't have speakers
but it does let you read books!!
If they can make this thing for $200, just think how cheap the simple device I described would be!
We could call it an "Electronic Book". We're gonna be rich!!
A hosting service I use to use offered unlimited everything, but their terms of service were such that you can't just use it to host your files. You can't backup your HD to their HDs etc etc
*****.com does NOT provide unlimited space for online storage, backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, etc., and any such prohibited use of the Services will result in the termination of Subscriber's account, with or without notice.
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All file placed online must have a web purpose.
Needless to say I mostly used it for file storage. Though I'm sure there are better places to get unlimited file storage from then from a web hosting service.
Download music to my PC, then stream to my phone. They've even had an iPhone app for a while, but you'd never catch me with an iPhone.
Orb is Windows only, but I'm sure there are other similar open source programs for Linux/OSX that work pretty much the same as Orb.
Advantage of something like Orb is I can stream pretty much anything, my music collection, live TV, YouTube, Internet radio, all the movies on my PC, etc...
A 2X CD-Rom runs at 200% the speed of an original 1x drive, no?
A 3X CD-Rom runs at 300% the speed of an original 1x drive, no?
So 5.7X CD-Rom drive runs at 570% the speed of the original drive.
So, again my point is the dumb CEO sees 570% the speed of the current chips and says, WoW! 570 "times" faster. Wrong it will run at 570% the originalor 5.7 times faster.
Current Nvidia GPUs have 500 gigaflops of performance in single precision. 20 teraflops would be 40 times faster. 570 times faster in 2016 would be 285 teraflops.
I like how they say downloading is totally illegal and not to do it, BUT....
they then give a nice big list of places/ways to download music!
I'll have to try some of those sites. Finally the government has done something for ME!!!!
Around the 4th of July here we get firework safety commercials that go something like... "Now kids, don't take a Piccolo Pete, remove the red stand off the bottom, and smash the bottom 1/2" with a hammer. Because if you do, when it gets halfway through whistling it will make a big explosion! And, well, that's dangerous! "
I mean it's not like the label the steps 1) 2) 3) for at least.
It was they same thing when they were cracking down on Meth here. They had these commercials for "things to be on the lookout for" that people might be buying.
"If you see anybody buying over the counter cold medicine like Psudophed, some coffee filters, rubbing alcohol, table salt, tape, a strainer and a gas can, well, you call the police right away!"
Great, now EVERYBODY in my town knows how to make meth! Way to go government!!
How effective would a solar cell be on an ebook reader like this? A little larger version of the kind found on cheap/free calculators since 1985. I know calc batteries last for like a year vs an eBook reader being 2 weeks, so the power is higher. I'd think, however, in the last 25 years solar has become a little more efficient. Just a thought.
So, I have all these 10000x10000 TIFFs I just took of a real brain. Now what?
Guess what I mean is, the brain is not the same from a minute to the next. It modifies itself constantly.
Well, this is imaginary tech were talking about in the main article.. i.e. an Artificial Brain is Ten years away. Yeah, wake me up in 50 years to read the same story.
However, assuming in the same time period MRI tech comes to the point were we can scan high enough to see to molecular level, then we are left with all this perfect digital data.
You are right the brain changes from second to second. So lets say they scan my brain. That 'image' would have all my memories and life experiences. Now let's say I go to Starbucks after they scan my brain and order a drink. They load the MRI scan into this "Artificial Brain". Now you can ask the brain anything you want it will know everything I know up to the point I was scanned. If you asked it what drink I ordered at Starbucks a few minutes ago, then that data isn't there as "my" brain has changed. If you asked it what I did yesterday, or last week, etc, it will know everything. So in essence I have just cloned my self, but at the point in time where I was originally scanned we start to live separate lives.
Maybe we can build the *equivalent* of a human brain (number of neural connections in software, silicon or combination), but we don't even know how the thing functionally works as it is. How are we going to model it?
Hi-Resolution MRI. Just scan someones real brain and then load it onto the computer. We don't even need to know how a 'real' brain works.
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...I always knew those French saw things differently!! By different I mean wrong!!
French Soldier: Un cadeau.
Other French soldiers: A what?
French Soldier: A present.
Other French soldiers: Oh. Un cadeau.
Other French soldiers: Oui oui.
French Soldier: Allons y!
Other French soldiers: What?
French Soldier: Let's go!
Other French soldiers: Oh.
Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits!
Sir Galahad: What a strange person.
King Arthur: Now, look here, my good man--
Frenchman: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Frenchman:No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
Frenchman:: (Fetchez la vache.) wha?
Frenchman:: (Fetchez la vache!) [moo]
King Arthur: If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall--
[twong]
[mooooooo]
Jesus Christ!
Right! Charge!
>>Why didn't he just email them and ask them either not to use his pictures, or to pay him for them?
The guy (who's texture was "stolen") sells a product that lets you scan a UPC of a CD, DVD, etc and then "downloads" a digital image of the cover.
So did this guy contact EVERY company and artist about offering to sell the cover images online? (His product is $40)
So you're saying I should remove "Frontpage" as a programming language from my resume?
They could just convert the coal plant to Solar. Keeping what infrastructure is already at the site(s) then adding existing solar technology they come up with.
Would that count as "enhancing Coal and Gas plants"?
Exactly.
The Vatican hiding centuries of mankind's history in it's archives is evil.
Google scanning all our knowledge to be accessed and stored by anyone and everyone seems a lot less evil.
>>This is really ridiculous.
No, you're not thinking 4th dimensionally.
You guys, it's magic hair.
These guys use the magic hair too... http://www.steorn.com/
>>Call me Tinfoil Tom, but doesn't this make any of you just a wee bit nervous?
...doesn't have touch screen
...doesn't have dual screens
...doesn't have a camera
...doesn't have a microphone
...doesn't connect to the internet and make skype calls
...doesn't have speakers
Maybe a little, but how about this for an idea guys.
I picture a book sized device...
but it does let you read books!!
If they can make this thing for $200, just think how cheap the simple device I described would be!
We could call it an "Electronic Book". We're gonna be rich!!
When I was teenager my parents would constantly tell us not to talk on the phone so long.
They always suggest we try "writing" to each other. Written communication is a "lost art" they would tell us.
Now everyone is writing instead of talking... I guess my parents should be happy!
Needless to say I mostly used it for file storage. Though I'm sure there are better places to get unlimited file storage from then from a web hosting service.
Download music to my PC, then stream to my phone. They've even had an iPhone app for a while, but you'd never catch me with an iPhone.
Orb is Windows only, but I'm sure there are other similar open source programs for Linux/OSX that work pretty much the same as Orb.
Advantage of something like Orb is I can stream pretty much anything, my music collection, live TV, YouTube, Internet radio, all the movies on my PC, etc...
...does it run Linux?
Well, it runs at 5.7X the original speed right?
So a 1X CD-ROM runs at 100% speed.
A 2X CD-Rom runs at 200% the speed of an original 1x drive, no?
A 3X CD-Rom runs at 300% the speed of an original 1x drive, no?
So 5.7X CD-Rom drive runs at 570% the speed of the original drive.
So, again my point is the dumb CEO sees 570% the speed of the current chips and says, WoW! 570 "times" faster. Wrong it will run at 570% the originalor 5.7 times faster.
Where is my math wrong?
Current Nvidia GPUs have 500 gigaflops of performance in single precision. 20 teraflops would be 40 times faster. 570 times faster in 2016 would be 285 teraflops.
I'm sure this is just another case of some moron seeing 570% increase and going, WoW! my next GPU will be 570 TIMES faster!!
For the rest of us of course 570% increase is 5.7X faster.
So, CPUs increasing 3X in the next 6 years and GPUs increasing 5.7X I can maybe believe.
I don't know why people insist on using WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc..
I just made my SSID "Logon for only $3.99 per minute"
Haven't ever seen my neighbors log on even once.
_
I like how they say downloading is totally illegal and not to do it, BUT....
they then give a nice big list of places/ways to download music!
I'll have to try some of those sites. Finally the government has done something for ME!!!!
Around the 4th of July here we get firework safety commercials that go something like... "Now kids, don't take a Piccolo Pete, remove the red stand off the bottom, and smash the bottom 1/2" with a hammer. Because if you do, when it gets halfway through whistling it will make a big explosion! And, well, that's dangerous! "
I mean it's not like the label the steps 1) 2) 3) for at least.
It was they same thing when they were cracking down on Meth here. They had these commercials for "things to be on the lookout for" that people might be buying.
"If you see anybody buying over the counter cold medicine like Psudophed, some coffee filters, rubbing alcohol, table salt, tape, a strainer and a gas can, well, you call the police right away!"
Great, now EVERYBODY in my town knows how to make meth! Way to go government!!
Maybe they need an extra set of wings?
Hand over the Blue-Ray keys.
Perfect System ;-)
No, I think he meant there's a million lines of Bugs in the code. :-)
How effective would a solar cell be on an ebook reader like this? A little larger version of the kind found on cheap/free calculators since 1985. I know calc batteries last for like a year vs an eBook reader being 2 weeks, so the power is higher. I'd think, however, in the last 25 years solar has become a little more efficient. Just a thought.
Well, this is imaginary tech were talking about in the main article.. i.e. an Artificial Brain is Ten years away. Yeah, wake me up in 50 years to read the same story.
However, assuming in the same time period MRI tech comes to the point were we can scan high enough to see to molecular level, then we are left with all this perfect digital data.
You are right the brain changes from second to second. So lets say they scan my brain. That 'image' would have all my memories and life experiences. Now let's say I go to Starbucks after they scan my brain and order a drink. They load the MRI scan into this "Artificial Brain". Now you can ask the brain anything you want it will know everything I know up to the point I was scanned. If you asked it what drink I ordered at Starbucks a few minutes ago, then that data isn't there as "my" brain has changed. If you asked it what I did yesterday, or last week, etc, it will know everything. So in essence I have just cloned my self, but at the point in time where I was originally scanned we start to live separate lives.
Hi-Resolution MRI. Just scan someones real brain and then load it onto the computer. We don't even need to know how a 'real' brain works.
I'd go trade mark that name quick if I were you... "SharkPlugs"
Is it one shark per cylinder?
Yeah, they're gonna be pissed.