Where does the fresh water come from? Your assumption is that sex cells are magically exempt from the accumulation of errors.
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That question doesn't make a lot of sense. This is not a Web 2.0 startup. It's a lot more fundamental than that, and a lot of the required tools and technologies have not been invented yet - that's what they are trying to do.
Boredom is infinitely better than nothingness.
How come that chain hasn't failed?
Basically, you're just rephrasing the "aging through accumulation of errors" hypothesis. The problem is, errors should accumulate along the chain mentioned above, too. Yet they don't.
Exactly. Any justification along those lines falls flat on its face when you realize it should also apply to the sperm and egg. Yet it doesn't apply in that case.
The debate is - whether this can be done soon, as opposed to 10000 years from now.
I certainly wish that AdG was right. But is he? I'm not sure. Maybe he is (yay!), maybe not.
Still a great feat, but not quite 100% "artificial life" yet.
I know people who might serve you either #1 or #2 or #3 depending on the situation, their momentary mood or the course of discussion. Sometimes they even provide you a potpourri of all of the above at the same time.
It's like arguing with flat earthers.
I made the financial effort to refurbish the "fat" PS3 when it died, even though I'd already bought a Slim, just to keep that system around to learn Cell programming. It's still running the old firmware and, in fact, boots directly into Yellow Dog Linux by default.
Yet, I agree, it feels kind of pointless nowadays, with the GPUs becoming so much better all the time. Just recently the GTX 260 broke the $200 floor at newegg.com and I'll probably buy one pretty soon (maybe when they are around $150) - and those things are pretty powerful. The real motivator is actually to play Tomb Raider Underworld :-) but I'm pretty sure I'll at least try and do some CUDA with it.
So, doing an open source project on the Cell doesn't seem so attractive nowadays. Maybe just for bragging?
I've also heard rumors that there's a successor to the Cell in the works. I'm not sure how it will compare with the GPUs though.
Welcome to the world of positive feedback loops, enjoy your stay.
Right now? Layoffs.
The changes in the brain's functioning during meditation are pretty amazing. This has been researched pretty well with buddhist monks, etc.
Same here.
6. Retarded Having really good qualities about yourself; havin a banging body; somethin that is just that thang! "He so retarded wit it!" "Them shoes is retarded!"
But what do I know, my laptop is running Ubuntu, my primary desktop has always been Linux since 1997.