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Comment Re:Power vs algorithm (Score 2) 143

Interesting, indeed. The brain power comes mainly from a huge "3D true parallel network" which emulation with current technologies, simultaneous memory accesses etc... makes the current computers power somewhat relative...

As for "bruteforcing" the brain behavior, that's probably not that simple. For instance, the Travelling Salesman problem, while very hard to solve algorithmically, has at least a bruteforce solution easy to implement (while it'd take a long time - M years - to complete with even a rather small number of cities...). The brain? Do we even know how to model the "problem"? Then, bruteforce... That makes the TSP rather easy, in comparison...

Comment Power vs algorithm (Score 2) 143

Is the current "lack" of power of current computers an excuse for not being able to make a "clever" computer? In other words, is main the problem computer power or is it the design of algorithms that run on the computer (Power vs method)? Hard to say until someone realizes that clever computer, but the recent "history" of electronic devices would let me think the problem is the method (algorithm).

Comment Re:He should be blaming Microsoft (Score 2) 358

Just hex print the MS 97 file and you have a human readable format:

00007b0 5f00 675f 6f6d 5f6e 7473 7261 5f74 005f
00007c0 696c 6362 732e 2e6f 0036 5f5f 7270 6e69
00007d0 6674 635f 6b68 6500 6978 0074 6573 6c74
00007e0 636f 6c61 0065 626d 7472 776f 0063 706f
00007f0 6974 646e 7300 7274 636e 7970 7000 7475
0000800 0073 6177 6e72 0078 5f5f 7473 6361 5f6b
0000810 6863 5f6b 6166 6c69 6900 7773 7270 6e69

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