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I guess you meant to say: There were is mill there is a road.

like this? screeny Not mine btw, just the first one I found.

Ents don't refuse to attack Isengard

Elves do not come to Helm's Deep

Gimli is no longer a dwarf clown

Faramir does not decide to take the Ring to Gondor as a "mighty gift"

Frodo does not attempt to give the Ring to Nazgul

Arwen stays in Middle-Earth

Aragorn doesn't fall from a cliff

Here's the ed2k link:
ed2k://|file|Lord_of_the_Rings-The_Two_Towe rs-The_ Purist_Edit.avi|729462784|ec0671172619e490d7b0ea6b 5278468c|/

Here is the trailer:
ed2k://|file|The_Two_Towers-The_Purist_E dit-Traile r.avi|14997504|965c013e991ee246d63d45ea71954c4d|/

Alternatively, get the trailer from here.

More information in the ShareReactor forum.

Thanks to the CyberExtruder technology, you can witness the future of gaming now.

The Cyber Goatse!

You forgot strategy games. Operation Silent Storm (screens) includes a licenced LifeMode engine to dynamically model faces based on a number of tweakable parameters. See a few examples. The best thing about this is that the faces fit the game and do not look like ugly photos plastered over in-game models. The bad thing is that Nival somewhat limited the customisation in order to simplify the interface.

CyberExtruder has another interesting technology - generating a model based on a quality face photo.

They are not "leeches", they are "users", damn it! In the same way I can say that WWW is the cancer of the Internet, because it wastes so much resources. And I can call you a virus, because you are wasting perfectly good oxygen... Do you see the flaws in my reasoning? If you do, I hope you also understand that opposing P2P on the grounds of resource use is simply insane. If you had a 2400 modem access shared between 100 users, would that mean that images on web-pages are a plague? No, that would simply mean that your technical capabilities are inadequate for the needs of the users.

I absolutely hate it when network admins play this holier-than-thou game and pretend to know better what everyone should be doing. Surprise! Surprise! It's not for you to decide. If you work in the university, then students are the clients and they should have the final say in what is and what is not allowed on the network.

And if there is not enough bandwidth, well, then get more bandwidth. Charge students extra for the network connection if you have to. When I studied in LUT I paid 17 euros to Sonera for the 1024/256Kbit connection in my apartment without any limits whatsoever. You can also set up trafic shapers, give higher priority to non-P2P traffic, do anything else, but please don't bitch about P2P. If you are a taxi driver, it's not your fucking business where I want to go to. Shut up and get me there.

As for Bostrom's argument.. it's a largely irrelevant piece of metaphysics, IMHO.

You might be interested in the rebuttal: Are We Living In Nick Bostrom's Speculation?.

I tried it and got the same score (~78%) for fragments of essay for which I was invited to the ISC Symposium and for the fragment of this Slashdot discussion. :)

I don't have WinXP, I use Windows 2000. It currently takes about 1Gb. Here is a picture of the contents made using Sequoia.

http://www.lut.fi/~medvedev/misc/winnt.jpg

As you can see, most of it is code in system DLLs. Of course, it has been shown in the past that MS code is bloat. We can safely assume that 90-95% of the typical DLL is never used. Some useless resources, uncompressed bitmaps and crap like that. A lot of space is occupied by dll cache, a completely stupid feature made to solve a completely stupid problem. The rest of the WINNT directory is bloat as well, the problem is that it's distributed bloat and you can't easily pinpoint it and say "remove this file" (although that was done for Win95 recently very successfully). All files are bloated and all look like they serve some function. But they are bloated, oh yes, they are.

The common mistake that many people make is change just one variable in the equation. In this case, Marshall Brain simply replaces minimal-wage workers with robots, while leaving everything else as it was. If we apply the same logic from the standpoint of early 20th century, we would foresee robotic secretares that would call the switchboard for you and arrange the phone call with your aunt. We would completely fail to predict the arrival of mobile phones.

Same here. I give you my own prediction. There will never ever be humanoid robots that would clean your bathroom for you. Same for almost every other function that Brain lists. When you build a lawn-mower, most of the weight is occupied by the frame, the engine and the blades. It is extremely easy to add a microprocessor there and it doesn't significanly increase the cost. To add a humanoid robot, on the other hand (even if it is just for the time of mowing the lawn) is a terrible waste of resources, therefore it will not be done.

Yes, there is certainly a place for humanoid robots in the future, but they are extremely unlikely to dominate. A significant fraction of the work will be done by non-humanoid specialised robots, another large fraction will be done by versatile non-humanoid robots, a huge fraction will be done by micro- and nanorobots (cleaning the bathroom is exactly the kind of work they would be best at), another fraction will be done by semi-intelligent tools in human hands (such as mobile phone) and finally a very limited part of all work will be done by humanoid robots.

Regarding the timeframe, the most important thing to realise is that developments in biotech, nanotech, AI, neuroscience, computing, advanced materials, robotics, energy, etc., etc. will proceed in parallel and they will undoubtly contribute a lot to each other. That is why to make reasonable forecasts we must analise the whole picture paying attention to cross-discipline relations and all kinds of synergetic effects.

A few ideas on how it should be done (as opposed to separate articles inspired by a visit to McDonalds) are in my essay titled Planning for the Future.

My university apparently decided to go legit and installed some FreeZip crap on the computers in the library. Just great. The only problem was that I was unable to unpack the files using WinZip, pkunzip or WinRAR (it has zip support). The archive wasn't corrupted, it was just not compatible.

When I also found out that WinRAR 2 is not compatible with WinRAR 3 archives I decided that I am tired of this shit. I will only use 5+ year old versions, preferably making SFX-archives and avoid using archives at all if possible.

I've seen two slightly different solutions here in Finland.

The first one is in Tampere and it is built into an old articulated city bus. The front part has the computers and the rear section contains the classroom. It has a homepage which contains an English summary and pictures (click "kuvia"). Connectivity for this bus is handled by WLAN at ten fixed stops or by GSM datalinks anywhere else.

The second bus was built at the Lappeenranta University of Technology. It is based on an old library bus. The page is only available in Finnish, but if you click on the picture with the text "varustelu", you should be able to make out most of the technical specifications. Connectivity is handled by WLAN to a base station Linux computer that has a combo NIC, an ISDN adapter and a modem. The solution allows connections nearly anywhere without having to run cables to the bus.

The curious thing is that despite GAs being widely researched for over 20 years, they seem to have found few practical applications that I am aware of.

Actually, there are quite a few applications of evolutionary computing. A good reference of research results can be found at Bbase. A researcher at the Lappeenranta University of Technology maintains a comprehensible link list about evolutionary algorithms, which also features link to Evoweb, which has quite nice list of applications in several different areas ranging from music generation to financial forecasting.

The second major fscking fault a lot of people are making is beleieving that the Pentagram, a star with five (penta-five) points, is the Star of David. The Star of David has SIX points and is most easily drawn using two triangles... Please spread the word!..

Thank you.
//Frisco
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"At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was Arcadia..." -Goethe