Oh come on people. Yes, Yeager, the Wright Bros, Snoopy, The Red Baron, Tom Cruise in Top Gun (but not when he was freaking out) and, indeed, Earhart were all admirable pilots, but none compare with Biggles.
The problem is that we've now got to send out an errata slip explaining that Pluto is no longer a planet, so the diagram of the solar system we sent isn't accurate any more.
Depends entirely on how they did it, it's perfectly possible to write a regex which is identical to a substring replace, and I'm sure there's plenty of software that does exactly that despite the technical extra overhead of calling a regex engine.
Generally though, yes I agree, regex is being used synonymously with replace just because this is Slashdot and we need to wave our special words around.
People are going to read that as "800 calories, about 1/3 recommended daily intake, and 224 grams of carbs, about 3/4 recommended daily intake of soda". So they can drink another two before they hit the limit. A better solution would be to tax sugar to pay for the diabetes treatment.
So you no longer need a computer to "access the cloud"? And here I was labouring under the impression that the majority of support jobs were related to hardware faults, OS problems, malware and user error, how "the cloud" will stop this happening is a mystery.
Yup. Both nations have also intentionally withheld information from the other to disguise their own capabilities too. There's still a lot of espionage on the go even between "bestest buddy" countries.
Not at all, we just had a politician who committed what might, to the untrained eye, look like fraud, but she's been held to account and it turns out it wasn't fraud at all, it was an "oversight". Not above the law at all, just remarkably bouyant is all.
Indeed, so the solution is to post something defamatory about the king using a picture and the name of one of the politicians or lawlords who passed this bill, then they'll be able to see the obvious flaw in their plan.
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My mum and dad made an AI with its own biotech robot, and that's just with a metallurgy PhD and a Home Economics degree. It's not bad, it's been running for about 35 years non-stop, and bar a minor glitch with the tonsils and a slightly buggy human interaction module nothing has gone too badly wrong. It's virtually indistinguishable from a "real" human and some have even accused it of being sarcastic. I challenge anyone to prove it doesn't actually think (although it's not sure about that myself).
When I was in high school, one of the first honours I got was to be a member of the Arista, which is a group of kids who got good grades - eh? - and everybody wanted to be a member of the Arista, and when I got into the Arista I discovered that what they did in their meetings was to sit around to discuss who else was worthy to join this wonderful group that we are - okay? So we that around trying to decide who it was who would get to be allowed into this Arista. This kind of thing bothers me psychologically for one or another reason I don't understand myself - honours - and from that day to this always bothered me.
When I became a member of the National Academy of Sciences, I had ultimately to resign because that was another organisation most of whose time was spent in choosing who was illustrious enough to join, to be allowed to join us in our organisation, including such questions as we physicists stick together because they've a very good chemist that they're trying to get in and we haven't got enough room for so-and-so. What's the matter with chemists? The whole thing was rotten because its purpose was mostly to decide who could have this honour - okay? I don't like honours.
I'd add Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Once you get past the "vehicle for pretty actors" element it's a very insightful, well thought out and reasonably comprehensive look at what can happen if we're able to store and reprogram brains, from leisure applications to espionage, medical and military uses.
Very high, I'd imagine it will become an integral part of the game and we'll also see virus detection programs, trusted suppliers, walled garden OS's and the rest of the computing ecosystem recreated in miniature. We're basically looking at re-running the internet from the mid-1980s but with more users from the outset, I think it'll be fascinating.
See this video of Conway's Game of Life, in Minecraft, using only native bricks in a very old version of the game. Everything from abacuses to basic calculators and full processor simulations have been done, so this may well just be all of that "landscape" wrapped into a more manageable few bricks and a GUI stuck on it.
I think a large part of it is the "because I can" factor. People often have some weird sideline projects on the go - I've hunted for the first three books in pi (by ISBN) and written a directed evolution program which is building a picture of Charles Darwin from random ellipses. Other people built computers in a game running on a computer just for the hell of it. No, it's never going to be the best 6502 emulator, the point is it's the best emulator written in Minecraft. Which is cool, obviously.
I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with 0x10^c, Notch's new game, which has an inbuilt and fully emulated 16 bit for each player. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a new ultra-low-power OS come out of it.
There's an interesting school of thought which says that advanced forms of life will eventually create countless virtual worlds for fun or research, and asks the question "what are the odds that we're in an 'original' reality?". (See Nick Bostrom, Oxford University, he's a philosopher rather than a computational scientist or theoretical cosmologist, but they all seem to be nudging each other these days.
With that in mind, I found the following quote from the creator of this processor amusing:
Infinite loops are fine. RP Control is carefully designed so that you won't screw up your world even if you crash the virtual computer. It's actually not especially hard to crash the virtual computer, since the whole OS is loaded into its RAM and you can easily write to that RAM. Still, since the computer is fully virtualized, it won't hurt your world or even cause a slowdown.
The British NHS has been a state-funded venture from the start (although there is currently legislation in place to change this) so the doctors do not gain/lose anything through profit motive, their general motivation to do their job is the Hypocratic oath and general ethical outlook. Suggesting all doctors are driven by profit seems to be a bit insulting to the profession. Hell, even lawyers do pro bono work, and they're the ones I'd classify as "profit driven" if anyone.
Indeed. In addition, and making allowances for the fact that the website copy was probably written in a second language, I have little faith in an organisation which has trouble with degress (degrees), parachtues (parachutes) and minuttes (minutes). (Yes, I'm sure I've made my own mistakes in this very post, but I'm not offering to put humans into space).
It's a good introduction to research funding quite frankly. A lot of day to day work for research scientists is simply networking, calling in and loaning out favours and trying to secure the best funding and equipment. These kids are lucky to have access to advanced stuff, yes, but you can't blame them for taking advantage of it.
Perhaps categorising the award by "estimated cost to replicate" would be a way forward?
Slashdot Mirror
Oh come on people. Yes, Yeager, the Wright Bros, Snoopy, The Red Baron, Tom Cruise in Top Gun (but not when he was freaking out) and, indeed, Earhart were all admirable pilots, but none compare with Biggles.
Or possibly Pilot from Farscape.
Pythons aren't venomous.
The problem is that we've now got to send out an errata slip explaining that Pluto is no longer a planet, so the diagram of the solar system we sent isn't accurate any more.
In this case it's the alternative "lots of love" acronym, it's essentially a mirror of .xxx
Depends entirely on how they did it, it's perfectly possible to write a regex which is identical to a substring replace, and I'm sure there's plenty of software that does exactly that despite the technical extra overhead of calling a regex engine.
Generally though, yes I agree, regex is being used synonymously with replace just because this is Slashdot and we need to wave our special words around.
People are going to read that as "800 calories, about 1/3 recommended daily intake, and 224 grams of carbs, about 3/4 recommended daily intake of soda". So they can drink another two before they hit the limit. A better solution would be to tax sugar to pay for the diabetes treatment.
If you're that thirsty you should probably get checked out for diabetes (a strong possibility if you're getting through that much sugar).
So you no longer need a computer to "access the cloud"? And here I was labouring under the impression that the majority of support jobs were related to hardware faults, OS problems, malware and user error, how "the cloud" will stop this happening is a mystery.
Yup. Both nations have also intentionally withheld information from the other to disguise their own capabilities too. There's still a lot of espionage on the go even between "bestest buddy" countries.
We're on BST at the moment, it's 16:30 here.
Not at all, we just had a politician who committed what might, to the untrained eye, look like fraud, but she's been held to account and it turns out it wasn't fraud at all, it was an "oversight". Not above the law at all, just remarkably bouyant is all.
Indeed, so the solution is to post something defamatory about the king using a picture and the name of one of the politicians or lawlords who passed this bill, then they'll be able to see the obvious flaw in their plan.
My mum and dad made an AI with its own biotech robot, and that's just with a metallurgy PhD and a Home Economics degree. It's not bad, it's been running for about 35 years non-stop, and bar a minor glitch with the tonsils and a slightly buggy human interaction module nothing has gone too badly wrong. It's virtually indistinguishable from a "real" human and some have even accused it of being sarcastic. I challenge anyone to prove it doesn't actually think (although it's not sure about that myself).
~Richard Feynman
They tried that with physicists, but they could only get it to work for spherical physicists in a vacuum.
I'd add Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Once you get past the "vehicle for pretty actors" element it's a very insightful, well thought out and reasonably comprehensive look at what can happen if we're able to store and reprogram brains, from leisure applications to espionage, medical and military uses.
Very high, I'd imagine it will become an integral part of the game and we'll also see virus detection programs, trusted suppliers, walled garden OS's and the rest of the computing ecosystem recreated in miniature. We're basically looking at re-running the internet from the mid-1980s but with more users from the outset, I think it'll be fascinating.
See this video of Conway's Game of Life, in Minecraft, using only native bricks in a very old version of the game. Everything from abacuses to basic calculators and full processor simulations have been done, so this may well just be all of that "landscape" wrapped into a more manageable few bricks and a GUI stuck on it.
I think a large part of it is the "because I can" factor. People often have some weird sideline projects on the go - I've hunted for the first three books in pi (by ISBN) and written a directed evolution program which is building a picture of Charles Darwin from random ellipses. Other people built computers in a game running on a computer just for the hell of it. No, it's never going to be the best 6502 emulator, the point is it's the best emulator written in Minecraft. Which is cool, obviously.
I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with 0x10^c, Notch's new game, which has an inbuilt and fully emulated 16 bit for each player. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a new ultra-low-power OS come out of it.
With that in mind, I found the following quote from the creator of this processor amusing:
The British NHS has been a state-funded venture from the start (although there is currently legislation in place to change this) so the doctors do not gain/lose anything through profit motive, their general motivation to do their job is the Hypocratic oath and general ethical outlook. Suggesting all doctors are driven by profit seems to be a bit insulting to the profession. Hell, even lawyers do pro bono work, and they're the ones I'd classify as "profit driven" if anyone.
Even speaking as an atheist, I wish the educated and intelligent Muslim voices were a bit louder. Ditto Christians frankly. Keep it up.
Indeed. In addition, and making allowances for the fact that the website copy was probably written in a second language, I have little faith in an organisation which has trouble with degress (degrees), parachtues (parachutes) and minuttes (minutes). (Yes, I'm sure I've made my own mistakes in this very post, but I'm not offering to put humans into space).
It's a good introduction to research funding quite frankly. A lot of day to day work for research scientists is simply networking, calling in and loaning out favours and trying to secure the best funding and equipment. These kids are lucky to have access to advanced stuff, yes, but you can't blame them for taking advantage of it.
Perhaps categorising the award by "estimated cost to replicate" would be a way forward?
+1 Insightful
Just try being called MacDonald and opening a cafe...turns out you can't even use your own name in the west any more...