...how about a game I can control not with hands but brain waves? Or with speech but in a truly, truly seamless unambiguous manner? Something like VR but which actually exists outside of a dedicated muli-million dollar facility? Maybe it's asking too much, but still, anything that I need to play using the keyboard and/or mouse has limits to how much it can 'flow', at least for myself.
Then again, good game design is always a huge thing. Brings to mind the snake game in Nokia cellphones...almost perfect flow, with nothing to learn.
So gamers are disconnected from reality because their attention is constantly diverted by a machine? How about all those people who wear wrist-watches or use wall clocks?
It may take more overhead though... but why not make it possible to have two or more different, seperate versions of Office being able to install and run properly in one computer? May it already is, I don't know. Perhaps with some implementation via sandboxing or virtual machines or whatever...the point is that those who don't wish to have to adopt the new version as the previous one is perfect for their needs and also dont wish to antagonise clients who continue correspond with their new version files, can have their cake and eat it, too.
...Might is Right! Faced with such a 'free' environment, I'd make sure to soup up my vehicle as a monster truck so as to intimidate fellow drivers into letting me pass...maybe the suggestion of firepower onboard would help too. No one will want to mess with THIS bad guy. I won't be breaking any rules anyway, as no rules even exist.
I think this is basically what happens to all unregulated systems eventually. They said, what, 'courtesy' will develop?!? Maybe for a few seconds. It will just take ONE opportunist to wreck the whole thing.
...and the GUI, developed at Xerox's PARC, I believe. I read somewhere that Jobs was 'inspired' by seeing these there at a visit he paid once, used it in his products and the rest is history. Was the researcher who developed them paid and credited for this? I can imagine it must have taken a lot of work (creative and otherwise) to have come up with such out-of-the-box concepts at the time...what a way to go.
In my University, we have an IT degree course where one of the units is on Computer Operating Systems (naturally) and while we have a superb internet connection, excellent PCs...a generally good setup, all the PCs are purely Windows machines so the majority of us haven't even SEEN a linux/OS X/unix interface let alone used one. Apparently these guys have some kind of contract with an IT firm locally or something, or maybe they fear the anticipated maintenance costs of hundreds of PCs...I don't know. I don't know how other unis fare at this but I highly doubt this to be the case in many other places. I just wish we had some open machines here that we could work on.
For that matter, are there any linux, unix or OS X simulators we can download? Maybe that'd get some of us up to speed! After all, they're pretty thorough enough with the theory...:/
...as mathematicians we understand the concept of Infinity and the impossibility in determining it's exact value and perfect happiness is infinite in nature by Nicomachean Ethics therefore we are ever tending towards happiness, never quite reaching there.
Why is that every other game that comes up seems to be based on super-computerish resources? Graphics and special effects seem to be the order of the day and where the main focus of the games industry is...yes, they're nice,may earn more $$$ but I think this kind of competition it's on the whole degrading the games industry. Whatever happened to nice, simple, clean, crazy 2D fun?? The Games Industry is beginning to resemble Hollywood more and more, in terms of products that require teams of people, millions of bucks, a dose of creativity and an injection of ethics & morality.
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If it's not about the money, well, it IS about the money.
But how about the studies of yesteryear saying that *TV* games were causing seizures to epileptic patients? Seemed to be grounded on solid evidence. And perhaps we can safely assume that those patients were mostly, if not all, children? Maybe there is something to this after all.
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If you miss the trees for the forest, blame it on civilization.
I may be mistaken but some years ago I thought I found that PI was a recurring decimal- a kind of pattern appeared after a number of decimals or so...If this IS the case, then I guess there would be nothing that amazing about having memorized n number of digits.
We have only two Mobile telecom companies here and they suffer from such pathetic problems too...one of them mints tons of money by hooking up customers at an exponential rate while not upgrading their facilities to match, obviously. With one of them, there was a serious problem of text messages not getting delivered, especially on Fridays, and of course you've been charged from them promptly. Even worse, you'd call them and they'd be like "Well, yeah you DID send the SMS and it's possible the SMS wasn't sent successfully but sorry we can't refund you your money because we charge automatically the moment WE receive your SMS- we take no liability as to what happens beyond that"...!
I once lost quite a sum of money on an urgent message that I had to send to another country, at double rates of course. And of course, the message still didn't go through! It's a good thing I now have another account with the competing network, which is more reliable.
...reminds me of an article I read a while ago of some researchers somewhere who had been able to connect a small chip to a cockroach! They were even able to manipulate the cockroach to an extent- move it's legs..etc passing some commands to the chip-effectively rendering the cockroach to become a robot...that was just amazing. Does anyone know of this? I'd love to know more details on this and how it turned out eventually.....anyone with links to this?
That's just a landmark that's just shaped like a bug. To be precise, it's a depression resulting from a martian meteorite that landed just last week! I can't believe nobody figured this out already...
I strongly believe that AI will never match HI (Human Intelligence). I think that man is far from actually understanding what human intelligence is all about, let alone creating AI that can match it. Sure, we have progressed and succeeded in creating systems or technologies that imitate some aspect(s) of HI to some extent but never HI per se. I think it's a challenge akin to creating 'life' itself. I suppose that's because human intelligence, as it were, is intimately connected with not only biology but the 'soul' or, well, the life-force within us. It's not just about neurons, synapses, circuits and logic gates...it's much much more than that. Well, there may not be much scientific basis for this, but then again, not everything that's real follows 'Science' as we know it.
...of course the two people do REMEMBER what they communicated about!!
So all you need is to capture both or one of them, get some truth serum, a hypnotist and you're fine.
Of course, VapourStream could always bundle the product with truth-serum antidote, a manual on resisting hypnosis and a team of bodyguards...
Is the use of external PDFs and TXT files in the device completely unrestricted? While they mention the availabilty of e-books from Sony's website, would Sony freely allow content from any other place to be freely used in their device? I don't know, but Sony being Sony...I'd expect some very proprietory kind of thing which lets you use nothing but 'Sony stuff' on the device. Maybe this is different, but I have my doubts...otherwise, why would anyone pay for any content from them at all if e-books are available a dime a dozen on the net, cheaper or even free. I also read somewhere of documents being stored have a limited life- they tend to 'self-destruct' after a while?!? Could be just a rumour...
I otherwise think this is quite an exciting technology. Reading e-books on regular PCs is quite a strain on the eyes, and a medium that can somewhat replicate paper is fantastic.
...and they KEEP repeating it, time and again, is that one where a technician selects a small segment of a picture (usually in an FBI/CIA kind of setting and the picture involves some criminal or the like) and zooms it up to amazing detail, and in high resolution too! It's like the program automatically creates the detail all by itself!
Or maybe that kind of software DOES exist? Sometimes I wonder, if that technician kept 'zooming' in to that segments, where would it end up? individual atoms that make up the criminals skin???
...really, this promises TOO much. For two people interacting, there is so much more than just the immediate real-time conditions that dictate facial expressions and gestures. George would need to have prejudices, feelings, probably a brain-like capacity to remember stuff about the person infront of him, to have other distractions in his head...etc.
If all that George 'reacts' on is immediate stimuli, then George will seem pretty shallow indeed- hardly an advancement in AI, I guess.
I'm aware of the pros and cons of patents in general- but in the case of software I don't see how it can do anything but damage... the way I see it, software is basically about algorithms and algorithms are basically step-by-step procedures for solving a given problem. Okay, there can exist possibly infinite algorithms for a given problem but the optimal one will be....maybe one, and obviously that's the one that will be implemented. So if you patent an algorithm, I have to look for a less optimal way to solving that problem otherwise I pay you? What if there exists no other logical solution?
If implementations of an algorithm were being patented, then that's more bearable, I suppose but do they mean the algorithms themselves? This is almost like patenting science, itself.
Granted...many creative people out there are extremely talented and would readily share their work with the world, and are innovative and creative on their own right. But there exists a substantial cash prize in this case so I can bet we'd be seeing a lot of people from both sides of the fence.
Perhaps many people would less likely toil at creating some artwork that may/may not win the prize while there exists a higher likelihood of winning, by submitting a superior graphic especially since time is also a factor. Of course, the artwork may be copyrighted but not well known, so people can be easily fooled into thinking of it as original...
...but what about the countless other sources of graphics and pictures which may be proprietory/copyrighted? What's preventing anyone from taking one and submitting it. I'd imagine the potential nightmare of lawsuits and litigation to follow if even one picture is caught. And who takes THAT liability?
You can get all the textbooks, e-books and magazines you want, or which you think you want, to further you into this field but I suppose nothing replaces grabbing hold of wires, cells, toolkit and other what-not and getting down to it.
Most successful people in robotics probably got in this way, at least that's been my experience in programming. We're having a java class this semester and there seem to be two distinct classes of students- there are those who lugg around heavy java manuals, downloading PPTs and PDFs by the MB so as to 'learn' programming and there are those who simply...code. It's a no-brainer as to which group out-performs the other.
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...how about a game I can control not with hands but brain waves? Or with speech but in a truly, truly seamless unambiguous manner? Something like VR but which actually exists outside of a dedicated muli-million dollar facility? Maybe it's asking too much, but still, anything that I need to play using the keyboard and/or mouse has limits to how much it can 'flow', at least for myself.
Then again, good game design is always a huge thing. Brings to mind the snake game in Nokia cellphones...almost perfect flow, with nothing to learn.
So gamers are disconnected from reality because their attention is constantly diverted by a machine? How about all those people who wear wrist-watches or use wall clocks?
It may take more overhead though... but why not make it possible to have two or more different, seperate versions of Office being able to install and run properly in one computer? May it already is, I don't know. Perhaps with some implementation via sandboxing or virtual machines or whatever...the point is that those who don't wish to have to adopt the new version as the previous one is perfect for their needs and also dont wish to antagonise clients who continue correspond with their new version files, can have their cake and eat it, too.
DEFINITION OF PLANET:
Star - starlet
Plane - planet
so...
A planet is a term for a small plane.
...Might is Right! Faced with such a 'free' environment, I'd make sure to soup up my vehicle as a monster truck so as to intimidate fellow drivers into letting me pass...maybe the suggestion of firepower onboard would help too. No one will want to mess with THIS bad guy. I won't be breaking any rules anyway, as no rules even exist.
I think this is basically what happens to all unregulated systems eventually. They said, what, 'courtesy' will develop?!? Maybe for a few seconds. It will just take ONE opportunist to wreck the whole thing.
...and the GUI, developed at Xerox's PARC, I believe. I read somewhere that Jobs was 'inspired' by seeing these there at a visit he paid once, used it in his products and the rest is history. Was the researcher who developed them paid and credited for this? I can imagine it must have taken a lot of work (creative and otherwise) to have come up with such out-of-the-box concepts at the time...what a way to go.
In my University, we have an IT degree course where one of the units is on Computer Operating Systems (naturally) and while we have a superb internet connection, excellent PCs...a generally good setup, all the PCs are purely Windows machines so the majority of us haven't even SEEN a linux/OS X/unix interface let alone used one. Apparently these guys have some kind of contract with an IT firm locally or something, or maybe they fear the anticipated maintenance costs of hundreds of PCs...I don't know. I don't know how other unis fare at this but I highly doubt this to be the case in many other places. I just wish we had some open machines here that we could work on.
:/
For that matter, are there any linux, unix or OS X simulators we can download? Maybe that'd get some of us up to speed! After all, they're pretty thorough enough with the theory...
...as mathematicians we understand the concept of Infinity and the impossibility in determining it's exact value and perfect happiness is infinite in nature by Nicomachean Ethics therefore we are ever tending towards happiness, never quite reaching there.
Maybe the news about the law itself is a rumour. So the Beijing Govt can go fine itself.
Why is that every other game that comes up seems to be based on super-computerish resources? Graphics and special effects seem to be the order of the day and where the main focus of the games industry is...yes, they're nice,may earn more $$$ but I think this kind of competition it's on the whole degrading the games industry. Whatever happened to nice, simple, clean, crazy 2D fun?? The Games Industry is beginning to resemble Hollywood more and more, in terms of products that require teams of people, millions of bucks, a dose of creativity and an injection of ethics & morality.
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If it's not about the money, well, it IS about the money.
Oh...Solar PANELs....I thought they'd just BOUGHT the Sun. Then call it Google Sun. Then release a beta version of it.
But how about the studies of yesteryear saying that *TV* games were causing seizures to epileptic patients? Seemed to be grounded on solid evidence. And perhaps we can safely assume that those patients were mostly, if not all, children? Maybe there is something to this after all.
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If you miss the trees for the forest, blame it on civilization.
I may be mistaken but some years ago I thought I found that PI was a recurring decimal- a kind of pattern appeared after a number of decimals or so...If this IS the case, then I guess there would be nothing that amazing about having memorized n number of digits.
We have only two Mobile telecom companies here and they suffer from such pathetic problems too...one of them mints tons of money by hooking up customers at an exponential rate while not upgrading their facilities to match, obviously. With one of them, there was a serious problem of text messages not getting delivered, especially on Fridays, and of course you've been charged from them promptly. Even worse, you'd call them and they'd be like "Well, yeah you DID send the SMS and it's possible the SMS wasn't sent successfully but sorry we can't refund you your money because we charge automatically the moment WE receive your SMS- we take no liability as to what happens beyond that"...! I once lost quite a sum of money on an urgent message that I had to send to another country, at double rates of course. And of course, the message still didn't go through! It's a good thing I now have another account with the competing network, which is more reliable.
...reminds me of an article I read a while ago of some researchers somewhere who had been able to connect a small chip to a cockroach! They were even able to manipulate the cockroach to an extent- move it's legs..etc passing some commands to the chip-effectively rendering the cockroach to become a robot...that was just amazing. Does anyone know of this? I'd love to know more details on this and how it turned out eventually... ..anyone with links to this?
That's just a landmark that's just shaped like a bug. To be precise, it's a depression resulting from a martian meteorite that landed just last week! I can't believe nobody figured this out already...
I strongly believe that AI will never match HI (Human Intelligence). I think that man is far from actually understanding what human intelligence is all about, let alone creating AI that can match it. Sure, we have progressed and succeeded in creating systems or technologies that imitate some aspect(s) of HI to some extent but never HI per se. I think it's a challenge akin to creating 'life' itself. I suppose that's because human intelligence, as it were, is intimately connected with not only biology but the 'soul' or, well, the life-force within us. It's not just about neurons, synapses, circuits and logic gates...it's much much more than that. Well, there may not be much scientific basis for this, but then again, not everything that's real follows 'Science' as we know it.
...of course the two people do REMEMBER what they communicated about!! So all you need is to capture both or one of them, get some truth serum, a hypnotist and you're fine. Of course, VapourStream could always bundle the product with truth-serum antidote, a manual on resisting hypnosis and a team of bodyguards...
Is the use of external PDFs and TXT files in the device completely unrestricted? While they mention the availabilty of e-books from Sony's website, would Sony freely allow content from any other place to be freely used in their device? I don't know, but Sony being Sony...I'd expect some very proprietory kind of thing which lets you use nothing but 'Sony stuff' on the device. Maybe this is different, but I have my doubts...otherwise, why would anyone pay for any content from them at all if e-books are available a dime a dozen on the net, cheaper or even free. I also read somewhere of documents being stored have a limited life- they tend to 'self-destruct' after a while?!? Could be just a rumour...
I otherwise think this is quite an exciting technology. Reading e-books on regular PCs is quite a strain on the eyes, and a medium that can somewhat replicate paper is fantastic.
...and they KEEP repeating it, time and again, is that one where a technician selects a small segment of a picture (usually in an FBI/CIA kind of setting and the picture involves some criminal or the like) and zooms it up to amazing detail, and in high resolution too! It's like the program automatically creates the detail all by itself! Or maybe that kind of software DOES exist? Sometimes I wonder, if that technician kept 'zooming' in to that segments, where would it end up? individual atoms that make up the criminals skin???
...really, this promises TOO much. For two people interacting, there is so much more than just the immediate real-time conditions that dictate facial expressions and gestures. George would need to have prejudices, feelings, probably a brain-like capacity to remember stuff about the person infront of him, to have other distractions in his head...etc.
If all that George 'reacts' on is immediate stimuli, then George will seem pretty shallow indeed- hardly an advancement in AI, I guess.
I'm aware of the pros and cons of patents in general- but in the case of software I don't see how it can do anything but damage... the way I see it, software is basically about algorithms and algorithms are basically step-by-step procedures for solving a given problem. Okay, there can exist possibly infinite algorithms for a given problem but the optimal one will be....maybe one, and obviously that's the one that will be implemented. So if you patent an algorithm, I have to look for a less optimal way to solving that problem otherwise I pay you? What if there exists no other logical solution?
If implementations of an algorithm were being patented, then that's more bearable, I suppose but do they mean the algorithms themselves? This is almost like patenting science, itself.
Granted...many creative people out there are extremely talented and would readily share their work with the world, and are innovative and creative on their own right. But there exists a substantial cash prize in this case so I can bet we'd be seeing a lot of people from both sides of the fence.
Perhaps many people would less likely toil at creating some artwork that may/may not win the prize while there exists a higher likelihood of winning, by submitting a superior graphic especially since time is also a factor. Of course, the artwork may be copyrighted but not well known, so people can be easily fooled into thinking of it as original...
...but what about the countless other sources of graphics and pictures which may be proprietory/copyrighted? What's preventing anyone from taking one and submitting it. I'd imagine the potential nightmare of lawsuits and litigation to follow if even one picture is caught. And who takes THAT liability?
You can get all the textbooks, e-books and magazines you want, or which you think you want, to further you into this field but I suppose nothing replaces grabbing hold of wires, cells, toolkit and other what-not and getting down to it. Most successful people in robotics probably got in this way, at least that's been my experience in programming. We're having a java class this semester and there seem to be two distinct classes of students- there are those who lugg around heavy java manuals, downloading PPTs and PDFs by the MB so as to 'learn' programming and there are those who simply...code. It's a no-brainer as to which group out-performs the other.