Comment Re:Benchmarks (Score 1) 487
As for stability, I can't find any definite stats on this. Personally, haven't seen a Linux crash since 1997, and that's a pretty damn long time.
You're doin it wrong.
Comment Re:Why not... (Score 1) 526
From what I understand (I haven't looked at the source yet) is that the main difference between ALAC and FLAC is the byte order, which makes it cheaper to hardware decode ALAC. This probably made more of a difference 10 years ago when the processing power on iPods was lower.
Marvin Minsky On AI 231
An anonymous reader writes "In a three-part Dr. Dobbs podcast, AI pioneer and MIT professor Marvin Minsky examines the failures of AI research and lays out directions for future developments in the field. In part 1, 'It's 2001. Where's HAL?' he looks at the unfulfilled promises of artificial intelligence. In part 2 and in part 3 he offers hope that real progress is in the offing. With this talk from Minsky, Congressional testimony on the digital future from Tim Berners-Lee, life-extension evangelization from Ray Kurzweil, and Stephen Hawking planning to go into space, it seems like we may be on the verge of another AI or future-science bubble."
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