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Many thanks, this is brilliant.

I wasn't making fun, Cypher is one of the coolest characters in The Matrix because of Joe Pantoliano's fine acting.

I second taks' nomination for an AI API!

Maybe they would have been more sympathetic to your views if you had some gang tattoos. An excellent cultural exchange process, too. "

Cf.: murder (as the pro-lifer lobby are want to do): if some person ends the life of another, it is murder (unlawful killing / manslaughter / whatever terminology); that is what the extremists are analogizing. In the case of a capital crime, people are quite prepared to limit the freedoms of other people. NB I have stated no support for either side in this statement; it is merely to assist in clarifiying the two sides.

How happy that must make you.

That's true, otherwise we'd be approving and supporting your posts.

I see this topic has outlived its minute lifespan. Please remember that you should discuss the topic and not attack the people who happen to subscribe to them. And so this topic is retired. Do not make me issue punitive measures. You have been warned.

That's my five votes.

Unless they change the way the GPU works, as in feedback into the data to allow transformations on the data to ripple through it (i.e. gravity of objects affecting objects, not just a bajillion shadow calculations), then GPU calculations aren't going to help. I am REALLY slow (I know) but I think the quarter just dropped. They meant to say UE3 right? (As in Unreal Engine 3, which UT2K7 will use first) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That'd be it, yep.

Yeah, that's what I meant: technically the two daughter cards are a single item, even if they are two single cards sandwiched together.

Yeah, but your home is easy to break into.

I weep for the standards of education. Then again, what good is education for everyone: we only need a very rudimentary level for the cogs of the machinery. "

Just performing a public service so that others don't react to your obvious hate-peddling and trolling.

That's a fallacy: the dead flesh doesn't react to the sensor correctly.

That you should not handle tools that you are incapable of using, like logic.

Ad hominem inductive fallacy argumentum ad metum / argumentum in terrorem argumentum ad ignorantiam argumentum ad baculum probably a bit of: suppressed correlative False Dichotomy dicto simpliciter (both types) Ignoratio elenchi.

Well, I won't know the answer to that until I start his State of Fear (as I haven't read any of his stuff previously). I will say one thing for him, though, from the time he wrote The Andromeda Strain he has had a knack for topical prose.

I never know what to think when it turns out the future's actually already here. The stuff Jim's talking about sounds pretty safe, though. Couldn't that be taken a step further, like having a "password" of sorts where you'd scan a very specified part of your hand as well to make it even more difficult to crack? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. That is called multifactor authentication. A bank debit card is an example of two factor authentication.

But can he catch a bullet fired from a pistol in his mouth? Eh?

IBM have had biometric-restricted (read: fingerprint scanners) access to their laptops for a few years now.

No, that is just a case of a stupid non-scientific artist trying to write science.