A boy comes home from school, and tells his dad: "Today we learned the difference between 'theoretically' and 'practically', but I'm not sure I got it. Could you explain it to me?" The father thinks for a minute and then replies "Son, your mom is in the other room, go and ask her if she would be willing to have sex with a stranger for a million dollars." The boy returns after a short minute and says: "She said she would." "OK," says the father, "now go upstairs and ask your older sister the same question." Again the boy returns after a short while, and again he says "She said she would." "So, you see son," the father says, "theoretically we have two million dollars in our house, but practically we have two whores."
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> Is right to left, or left to right the best way to go.
The difference between right-to-left and left-to-right is not in the reading but in the writing. Right-to-left languages, including semitic languages that stemmed from Aramaic, were created in a time before paper. These languages were usually chiseled into hard materials like marble. Since most people are right handed, they tend to hold the chisel with that hand, to give themselves more control. That makes writing from right-to-left easier to read _as you write_. Try it out.
Left-to-right languages were invented much later, when technology improved, and the use of paper was common. In those cases writing from left-to-right made more sense. Since, again, you can read as you right. I'm not sure what the rational for top-down languages is, but I'll bet it's something similar to this logic. In most cases in history, the people who dictate (pun indented) the rules are usually the creators, and not the users.
Well, you have to remeber that Sony is also a record label. So they can't really support sueing people on one hand, and then go and sell an MP3 player with no DRM.
I think their best strategy, is to release the player with only ATRAC support, but make it really really easy to hack. Then they can eat the cake and keep it too.
In response to Microsoft's announcement earlier today, GNU released a statement announcing Emacs Express. Weighting at around 20M Emacs Express comes in Ada, Antlr, Awk, C++, C, Delphi, Fortran, HTML, Java, LaTeX, Lisp, Metafont, Metapost, Modula 2, Octave, Pascal, Perl, Pike, Prolog, Python, Ruby, Scheme, SGML, Simula, SQL, TCL, TeX, and XML flavors.
Maybe we got Big Blue all wrong. Maybe it's a defensive patent, much like the FSF do to prevent someone else from patenting something, and thus preventing anyone else from using it. Or maybe, IBM is going to start paying each and every open source developer in the world by themselves...
I little off topic, but I've always wanted to ask this question. There are a lot of MS apps ported to Mac OSX, which we all know is a version of FreeBSD. Wouldn't it be easier to write an OSX emulator, rather than a Windows emulator?
This way you'd get the bulk of MS apps--MS Office, EI, Photoshop, and so on.
I've been using MLDonkey
for a while now, mainly because Kazaa doesn't have a GNU/Linux
version, and it is nothing short of amazing. You can download files
from any of about eight different networks, including FastTrack
(Kazaa), eDonkey, Gnutella 2, and others. The important thing is that
FastTrack--the underlying network behind Kazaa and Morpheus--is not
controlled by Sharman Networks.
So now, they can back any old plan they want. If they get too greedy,
their users don't even have to switch networks. All they have do to
is just use a different client. I mean KazaaLite is already a really
popular, and vastly superior alternative that they have _no_ control
over.
So I say screw 'em. Let them ask for money until they turn blue. It
doesn't matter.
Instead of a futures model, have a MMORPG model. Create an online game, and force everyone in the Middle East to join. The rules state that the players have to do what they were planning to do in real life tomorrow, in the game today. This would mean that the game will exactly predict the future for the next twenty-four hours.
Of course, you couldn't force people to play forever, so the game would have to be a pretty awesome. So people will spend more and more time playing, and therefore, neglect actually doing what their avatars do today, tomorrow. So the game is doomed to fail. Damn it!
Well at least they'll spend less time blowing each other up.
Sending users artwork is a step in the right direction. I've been thinking about an MP3 centric music label model for a little while now, and I think a good idea might be to charge users per MP3, and then send them extra value when buying more then a certain percentage of the album. So for example, if users buy more then 80% of the songs on an album they'll get the artwork, %100 they'll get a T-shirt (or add $XX.99 and get it), and so on. You could also have ticket presale available only to people who bought at least one track off of the new album. The possibilities are endless. It's a more creative and dynamic model compared to old just-charge-through-the-roof-for-a-little-piece-of -plastic model the industry is used to, but there's still a lot of room for making money. Different users are willing to spend different amounts of money depending on the specific artist, you need to cater to each user's specific needs. I may only like a few songs off of the new Pearl Jam album, but I still want the whole thing, because I consider myself a Pearl Jam fan. I'd also like to get an opportunity to buy tickets for their sold out show, and so on. Someone else probably doesn't.
The important thing to remember is that this is a brave new world. One in which the users are realizing that the record labels are mostly fat that needs to be leaned down, or cut completely out of the process of making and selling music. When you think about it, all they are is high-high-high-high interest loan sharks. I mean they get what? %70-%80 of the profits in exchange for loaning the band some money when they start out, and doing some marketing for them. Can you imagine this happening in any other industry? Like in other industries, these activities need to be outsourced to the proper place. Banks who'll give out loan _at reasonable rates_ to artists, and marketing agencies who'll do marking for _a fair fix prices_.
How does one define concepts like intelligence, consciousness, and self-awareness? The main problem that the AI field faces is that it doesn't know its own goals. The closest we have is the Turing Test -- which is 50 years old now -- and to be honest, is not much of a definitive answer.
So first of all, let's try and figure out what it is exactly we'd like to achieve, and then, maybe, we can actually start on our journey towards it.
Slashdot Mirror
It it's so Geeky, why is there no Linux version?
I highly doubt a Comunist Chinese AI program will have a flow-chart from "Bob."
Is this a serious site, or some sort of joke?
They claim "Mark David Chapman" killed Lincoln (he killed Lennon).
What is this?
And here's another:
A boy comes home from school, and tells his dad: "Today we learned the
difference between 'theoretically' and 'practically', but I'm not sure
I got it. Could you explain it to me?" The father thinks for a
minute and then replies "Son, your mom is in the other room, go and
ask her if she would be willing to have sex with a stranger for a
million dollars." The boy returns after a short minute and says: "She
said she would." "OK," says the father, "now go upstairs and ask your
older sister the same question." Again the boy returns after a short
while, and again he says "She said she would." "So, you see son," the
father says, "theoretically we have two million dollars in our house,
but practically we have two whores."
I've been using www.buydomains.com for some time now, and they are really good, and also really cheap ($16 a year). You can forward request to the domain name (including email) using their DNS, and in combination with www.no-ip.com it makes it possible for me to run a proffesionally looking web server from my home machine. They also have locking, I descovered after reading the article. And all of those features are included for in the basic package for free.
I'm still amazed that the voting systems now used all over the US cannot do what banks have been doing successfuly for years.
Millions of people go to the ATM every day perform operations, get a printed confirmation, and the back
get's it right 99.99999% of the time.
Why is this so hard for a voting machine?
Did you know that 26% of all statistics are
made up on the fly?
> Is right to left, or left to right the best way to go.
The difference between right-to-left and left-to-right is not in the
reading but in the writing. Right-to-left languages, including
semitic languages that stemmed from Aramaic, were created in a time
before paper. These languages were usually chiseled into hard
materials like marble. Since most people are right handed, they tend
to hold the chisel with that hand, to give themselves more control.
That makes writing from right-to-left easier to read _as you write_.
Try it out.
Left-to-right languages were invented much later, when technology
improved, and the use of paper was common. In those cases writing
from left-to-right made more sense. Since, again, you can read as you
right. I'm not sure what the rational for top-down languages is, but
I'll bet it's something similar to this logic. In most cases in
history, the people who dictate (pun indented) the rules are usually
the creators, and not the users.
I think their best strategy, is to release the player with only ATRAC support, but make it really really easy to hack. Then they can eat the cake and keep it too.
In response to Microsoft's announcement earlier today, GNU released a
statement announcing Emacs Express. Weighting at around 20M Emacs
Express comes in Ada, Antlr, Awk, C++, C, Delphi, Fortran, HTML, Java,
LaTeX, Lisp, Metafont, Metapost, Modula 2, Octave, Pascal, Perl, Pike,
Prolog, Python, Ruby, Scheme, SGML, Simula, SQL, TCL, TeX, and XML
flavors.
I think the ratio is 2:1. So that would mean 24 times less secure.
Wait, is cannibalism without murder illegal?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Oh... wait... there is.
Maybe we got Big Blue all wrong. Maybe it's a defensive patent, much like the FSF do to prevent someone else from patenting something, and thus preventing anyone else from using it. Or maybe, IBM is going to start paying each and every open source developer in the world by themselves...
Or maybe not.
I little off topic, but I've always wanted to ask this question. There are a lot of MS apps ported to Mac OSX, which we all know is a version of FreeBSD. Wouldn't it be easier to write an OSX emulator, rather than a Windows emulator?
This way you'd get the bulk of MS apps--MS Office, EI, Photoshop, and so on.
What do you think, am I off base here?
They can make a laser printer that cuts through anything, but they can't make a website that doesn't get slashdotted.
I've been using MLDonkey for a while now, mainly because Kazaa doesn't have a GNU/Linux version, and it is nothing short of amazing. You can download files from any of about eight different networks, including FastTrack (Kazaa), eDonkey, Gnutella 2, and others. The important thing is that FastTrack--the underlying network behind Kazaa and Morpheus--is not controlled by Sharman Networks.
So now, they can back any old plan they want. If they get too greedy, their users don't even have to switch networks. All they have do to is just use a different client. I mean KazaaLite is already a really popular, and vastly superior alternative that they have _no_ control over.
So I say screw 'em. Let them ask for money until they turn blue. It doesn't matter.
I use 64 in my KDE. So I'm _really_ productive.
Although I sometimes lose applications for days on end.
Instead of a futures model, have a MMORPG model. Create an online game, and force everyone in the Middle East to join. The rules state that the players have to do what they were planning to do in real life tomorrow, in the game today. This would mean that the game will exactly predict the future for the next twenty-four hours.
Of course, you couldn't force people to play forever, so the game would have to be a pretty awesome. So people will spend more and more time playing, and therefore, neglect actually doing what their avatars do today, tomorrow. So the game is doomed to fail. Damn it!
Well at least they'll spend less time blowing each other up.
...in the army we used to burn our top secret documents. Try putting ashes back together with your stupid "super technology."
Sending users artwork is a step in the right direction. I've been thinking about an MP3 centric music label model for a little while now, and I think a good idea might be to charge users per MP3, and then send them extra value when buying more then a certain percentage of the album. So for example, if users buy more then 80% of the songs on an album they'll get the artwork, %100 they'll get a T-shirt (or add $XX.99 and get it), and so on. You could also have ticket presale available only to people who bought at least one track off of the new album. The possibilities are endless. It's a more creative and dynamic model compared to old just-charge-through-the-roof-for-a-little-piece-of -plastic model the industry is used to, but there's still a lot of room for making money. Different users are willing to spend different amounts of money depending on the specific artist, you need to cater to each user's specific needs. I may only like a few songs off of the new Pearl Jam album, but I still want the whole thing, because I consider myself a Pearl Jam fan. I'd also like to get an opportunity to buy tickets for their sold out show, and so on. Someone else probably doesn't.
The important thing to remember is that this is a brave new world. One in which the users are realizing that the record labels are mostly fat that needs to be leaned down, or cut completely out of the process of making and selling music. When you think about it, all they are is high-high-high-high interest loan sharks. I mean they get what? %70-%80 of the profits in exchange for loaning the band some money when they start out, and doing some marketing for them. Can you imagine this happening in any other industry? Like in other industries, these activities need to be outsourced to the proper place. Banks who'll give out loan _at reasonable rates_ to artists, and marketing agencies who'll do marking for _a fair fix prices_.
Why did you move to Hungary in the first place?
This whole article sounds like terrorist talk to me.
Now that we're done with Afghanistan and Iraq, I think we found our next target: Hungary.
Just go and stand next to your local post office, a "special package" from the U.S. Air Force is on its way.
How does it handle disconnects?
Are the files available off-line?
How does one define concepts like intelligence, consciousness, and self-awareness? The main problem that the AI field faces is that it doesn't know its own goals. The closest we have is the Turing Test -- which is 50 years old now -- and to be honest, is not much of a definitive answer.
So first of all, let's try and figure out what it is exactly we'd like to achieve, and then, maybe, we can actually start on our journey towards it.
I think no one said it better then Microsoft's own /. article.
Hotmail team in this
If you use Mozilla, you can set your preferences to expire all cookies at the end of the session.
That'll probably give you the privacy you long for if you're affraid of Google.