Comment Re:Cool! All we have to do is create code to math. (Score 5, Insightful) 215
Sure it is, but judges still need to be convinced
Comment Re:crowdsourcing != AI (Score 1) 49
If you follow the link on the summary you find an article with title "Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans"
Comment crowdsourcing != AI (Score 3, Insightful) 49
Good try, but even if this passes the Turing test, it is not AI in any way. Responses are by humans and there is no intelligence in it. So it will be the collective human engine behind it that will pass the test. Not really any big achievement.
Comment memories of Hubble (Score 1) 115
hopefully they polished this one well enough...
Comment Re:Besides MS and Intel... (Score 5, Informative) 181
No, in other words buy an AMD rather than an Intel
Comment Re:64 bit? (Score 1) 196
Are you sure?
I've downloaded both the static and dynamic versions and they are only 32-bit... where did you find information about a 64-bit version?
Comment Re:64 bit? (Score 2) 196
Great!
Weird times, though: this puts me in a position of wanting to thank Microsoft...
Comment 64 bit? (Score 4, Insightful) 196
The most important question is whether they made a native 64 bit version? [for those of us who don't want to pollute our machines with 32-bit compatibility libraries]
Submission + - Enzi latest PIPA co-sponsor to withdraw support (trib.com)
An anonymous reader writes: U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., announced Tuesday that he's withdrawing his co-sponsorship of the Protect IP Act after hundreds of constituents contacted him to protest the legislation.
Submission + - Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don't Get SPYW, Wor (pandodaily.com)
davidzimm writes: ...a source tells us that CEO Larry Page, who seems to be hell-bent on competing with Mark Zuckerberg whether it’s the right thing for Google or not, had this to say to employees at a Friday staff event after the Search Plus Your World launch: “This is the path we’re headed down – a single unified, ‘beautiful’ product across everything. If you don’t get that, then you should probably work somewhere else.”
Submission + - Obama to Create Special Global Anti-Piracy Unit (activepolitic.com)
bs0d3 writes: Obama has announced the creation of a global "trade enforcement unit". One of the units tasks will be to prevent "counterfeit or unsafe goods from crossing our borders". Obama says "it's not right when another country lets our movies, music and software be pirated". Apparently Obama is unaware of ICE and the FBI.
Comment serves them well (Score 1) 592
anyone trusting the cloud to keep their property safe deserves losing it...
Comment 500 Mb only? (Score -1, Redundant) 167
My entire mail store is over 16 Gb. I have single mbox files that are larger than 2 Gb.
Comment Don't you love OSS? (Score 1) 161
This is one of the best things about OSS. Anyone can fork and when there is a strong need, the fork will happen.
I'm spoilt for choice
I pitty the slaves of a their Master's view of computing (yes, fanboys, I mean you)
Comment Lots of fun (Score 1) 708
I couldn't care less about "just works". Half of the fun of running Linux laptops is the challenge to set them up to do all those things you want.
The other half is to see the Apple funboys fiddling with their Macbooks to make projectors display their stuff (that is when they find someone who actually has the right widget to plug it in).
ROFL
