aww, is the academic baby-waby gonna cwaay?

By the tone of your pompous blathering, it's clear you're trying to make up for a small and malformed penis (do you even know what a vagina looks like, let alone what to do with it?)

Go shave and get a real job, fucknut. Then again, the real world with real challenges might prove too much for your sensitive cowering little academic soul. I've interviewed many silly boys like you - big on talk, but no substantive achievements and quick to release a little squirt from their bulbous bladders when posed a question about life beyond their ken.

Out of curiosity I had a look at your 'Foe' list -- ;)) quite substantial. You seem to enjoy insulting others and then flag them as 'Foe' when they respond to your spittle. :)))) what a plank!

You seem to be incapable of communicating without being insulting or condescending; quite tiring. Amazing how brave some people can be when not within arms reach.

Exactly, fucknut.

*yawn*, whatever you say professor.

Some interesting and valid points, but it doesn't change the fact that plodding long haired AI academics have been at it for a very long time and achieved... what?

Academically interesting formulas and algorithms with limited application and no ROI?

Whazzat? I'm not following you here bud.

If you're asking whether they mean they can simulate 86400 seconds worth of 'thinking'/processing in 1 second, then yes, I'm not sure that's what they're mean either.

Seems like it though.

Academics have been poking away on software AI for decades (also ANN) - I can't help feeling that this is a dead-end in the same way that cold fusion is, even though it's intellectually (hacking) fascinating.

What's far more fascinating and promising is the development of hardware neural nets. To put it into perspective:

10 million times faster than software? That's like jumping from an abacus to a Pentium.

I just hope these folks continue to receive the funding they need.

Pah. You're all traffic n00bs. Come to South Africa and experience our taxis (for those attending the soccer world cup next year, good luck to ya).

Our taxis not only crash with you in it, they drive over you, shoot at you, shoot at each other, ignore road laws at every turn, indicate after turning - if at all, pack 60 salty-water-sacks per taxi designed for ~12, are ignored by law enforcement or bribe 'em, stage mass action fucking up everyone's schedule, belong to violent gang-like groups who regularly take each other out, kill bus drivers for stealing their business, etc...

There, fixed that for you.

Slony is also incredibly complicated. That complication presents a real problem for busy administrators when Slony fails (which it does, often).

Hopefully the Pg devs will also use a straightforward (and reliable) replication model.

In the meantime, we use SkyTools - simple to get going, it fails less often, and when it does, it's a snap to get going again.

The device will also sport a new "chiclet" keyboard design...

Hopefully this is not the same chiclet keyboards you get on cheap-shit calculators.

Contrary to popular belief, a decent (scissor-tech) keyboard is fucking vital.

Sounds like you've been watching too much Barney.