Interesting, I'll have to try and find said article.
This new stuff, though, is also showing that they're willing to give food NOW if they know they'll get sex LATER. Combine the two and you get the head chimp paying a salary to his "secretary" chimps so he can bone them when they go on heat.
It's like that story a while back about monkeys getting more play when they steal pumpkins from a farm than when they get the exact same pumpkins from wild plants. It's the display of prowess that pulls the chicks, not just the food.
*throws you a taco* I mean cmon I don't even play eve other than "it's a spaceship game but you can't even directly fly the spaceships like in elite I mean wtf at least my orc warrior gets a magic sword amirite". Even I can see that it's a poor under-bridge-dweller in SERIOUS need of tacos.
I had the same problems really - many pvp based corps want at least 6 million skillpoints just to join, and some as many at 20 million.
To be fair, many player run guilds in other MMOs have stupid standards. WoW guilds tend to be "must be available to raid 12 nights a week for 8 hours a night, and suck GM's cock on demand". Yeah.
You must love WoW's achievements then. Personally I prefer to kill shit and take its stuff, but a lot of people I know absolutely love trying to get every last achievement.
To my mind, achievements are to MMO give-players-stuff-to-do as assembly lines are to Henry Ford's domination of the automotive industry. (Whoa, see what I did there? So far I've had a F1-to-CPUs analogy, a netbooks to cars analogy, and now this. Trifecta ftw!:D )
I've watched a friend of mine (incidentally the one who got me into WoW) playing EvE and it looks horribly batshit boring. Like WoW but with the actual combat replaced by ProgressQuest.:(
Graphics cards don't have to be able to run on instant noodles and kebabs. If I could put a human-class AI on my desk I wouldn't care if it used a kilowatt, it'd still be cheaper than paying a human to do whatever job it is that I set it to.
In terms of pure bit rate of calculations, we should have commodity desktop computers capable of outperforming our own brains within a decade. This paper (from 1997, but I doubt human brains have changed much since then) estimates our brainpower at 100 million MIPS, or 10^14 calculations per second. By comparison a Radeon HD4870 x2 graphics card is 2.4 TFlops (2.4 million MIPS at 1 flop/instruction), or roughly 1/5th of a human brain.
No it wouldn't. He's not talking about re-running the simulation and it outputting the exact same thought patterns etc. as the original brain, he's jus talking about running a simulation of a brain from a stored model that would behave similarly to the original brain (as I read it anyway).
What do you mean by it not "remaining accurate long" and "not handling changes in input"? If it's a brain (simulated or real) then it changes its internal state in some structured way while it handles input, that's what a brain _does_.
Hell, Ubuntu started beating XP (let alone Vista) in terms of ease of use, reliability and practicality a year or two ago. Both are free (in the unattended-carton-of-beer sense) and I still choose Linux. I'd modestly say I'm many times better at using/configuring/maintaining XP (having worked as a sysadmin for an XP-based company) and I still find Linux easier to use.
Acer netbooks are sold as small notebooks, while the Eee aren't really sold as notebook replacements, but rather as their own, separate type of computer.
Exactly. Netbook != 'small notebook'.
We've had subnotebooks for decades; the Toshiba Libretto springs to mind and was very similar in form factor to the Eee 700. They've always been pricey, often more so than a full-sized laptop, and focussed on ultra-portability rather than cost. Notebooks tend, like most of the computing industry, to try for the best performance available at the target price point.
Netbooks (in the sense of the Eee PC) are different; they started out aiming for the lowest price for a fixed level of performance, and fill the "I just need to check my email / stocks / the weather" niche. The newer ones that I've seen coming out (at least near where I live) have suffered bad feature and price creep. By the time I'm paying $800 for a 'small notebook' I might as well get myself a 15" one for the same price.
The problem for manufacturers, of course, is that the lower the price point the smaller their margins (in dollar terms) and the more units they need to shift for a given profit. The classic example (I haven't seen a car analogy all morning, so here's one) is that if car manufacturers discovered a way to make cars exactly the same as the ones they sell today, for $1000, they'd try to cover it up rather than exploit it. That's because there's only a market for X cars a year, and that market is only moderately elastic. 100 cars a year for $1000 each plus a 30% markup is $3000 profit. 50 cars a year for $30,000 each plus a 30% markup is $450,000 profit. Same applies to netbooks, so there's an economic incentive for the companies in question to inflate features (and prices).
Then Moore's law ticked over and Microsoft was able to enter that market - same price for the machine but with the specs that XP needs.
Ah, but it isn't the same price. The original Eee PC was at a $200-$300 price point. These new "netbooks" are sometimes up to $1000 for a small-form-factor notebook, but they're completely different from the real "netbook", ie. a cheap-as-possible subnotebook that exists purely for internet browsing and possibly media playback. If it's got more grunt than is required to render a webpage or play back a DivX movie, then it's too expensive to be a netbook.
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Like being able to clothe, feed and house your kids? Yep, being able to choose a job that personally excites and motivates you while giving you continued opportunity for personal growth is more of a luxury than most (young, single, probably still supported by their parents) people seem to realise.
When I was 15 I got dragged along on a family trip to India, and having to spend a month in that hole taught me a lot about not taking life for granted. There are people there whose entire job, sunrise to sunset, is to sit on the side of the road near a quarry and bang rocks with other rocks to make gravel. They can sell 14 hours' worth of gravel for enough to buy a simple meal of rice. That's what I think about any time I'm feeling that my current job is "unrewarding" or "not challenging".
Well, there was that one time when I had to maintain a ColdFusion web page for nearly a year, and only stayed because the hand-cracked-gravel market where I live isn't profitable enough to afford instant noodles on... but that's another story.
"It's an entry-level job with not a lot of thought involved. Creative thinking? Forget about it. Your job is to follow a script, written down in a manual, for anything that might happen. That's why we call them 'zombies' -- no brains are required."
If it involves following a script, then it's probably most appropriately done by a scripting engine, not a human being.
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Interesting, I'll have to try and find said article.
This new stuff, though, is also showing that they're willing to give food NOW if they know they'll get sex LATER. Combine the two and you get the head chimp paying a salary to his "secretary" chimps so he can bone them when they go on heat.
It's like that story a while back about monkeys getting more play when they steal pumpkins from a farm than when they get the exact same pumpkins from wild plants. It's the display of prowess that pulls the chicks, not just the food.
First you get da powah, DEN you get da money.
For the last time, kid, that was a charity worker not a hooker in a nurse outfit!
What does 2.18 have to do with anything?
If you mean e as in MDMA then no, it has the opposite effect, makes you huggy and friendly and not at all randy.
Always hard to confirm parentage if you don't have access to at least a basic lab.
Not if you trace maternal bloodlines.
In that case you'll probably come as close as anyone can to "winning" any MMO you play. :)
*throws you a taco* I mean cmon I don't even play eve other than "it's a spaceship game but you can't even directly fly the spaceships like in elite I mean wtf at least my orc warrior gets a magic sword amirite". Even I can see that it's a poor under-bridge-dweller in SERIOUS need of tacos.
I had the same problems really - many pvp based corps want at least 6 million skillpoints just to join, and some as many at 20 million.
To be fair, many player run guilds in other MMOs have stupid standards. WoW guilds tend to be "must be available to raid 12 nights a week for 8 hours a night, and suck GM's cock on demand". Yeah.
You must love WoW's achievements then. Personally I prefer to kill shit and take its stuff, but a lot of people I know absolutely love trying to get every last achievement.
:D )
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To my mind, achievements are to MMO give-players-stuff-to-do as assembly lines are to Henry Ford's domination of the automotive industry. (Whoa, see what I did there? So far I've had a F1-to-CPUs analogy, a netbooks to cars analogy, and now this. Trifecta ftw!
I've watched a friend of mine (incidentally the one who got me into WoW) playing EvE and it looks horribly batshit boring. Like WoW but with the actual combat replaced by ProgressQuest.
Graphics cards don't have to be able to run on instant noodles and kebabs. If I could put a human-class AI on my desk I wouldn't care if it used a kilowatt, it'd still be cheaper than paying a human to do whatever job it is that I set it to.
The police can raid your 127.0.0.1 without warning under German laws anyway, maybe the Swedish police will just download a copy of the German law?.
That's not tobacco you're smoking. O.o
In terms of pure bit rate of calculations, we should have commodity desktop computers capable of outperforming our own brains within a decade. This paper (from 1997, but I doubt human brains have changed much since then) estimates our brainpower at 100 million MIPS, or 10^14 calculations per second. By comparison a Radeon HD4870 x2 graphics card is 2.4 TFlops (2.4 million MIPS at 1 flop/instruction), or roughly 1/5th of a human brain.
No it wouldn't. He's not talking about re-running the simulation and it outputting the exact same thought patterns etc. as the original brain, he's jus talking about running a simulation of a brain from a stored model that would behave similarly to the original brain (as I read it anyway).
What do you mean by it not "remaining accurate long" and "not handling changes in input"? If it's a brain (simulated or real) then it changes its internal state in some structured way while it handles input, that's what a brain _does_.
Is he a thinker and a fisherman?
Hell, Ubuntu started beating XP (let alone Vista) in terms of ease of use, reliability and practicality a year or two ago. Both are free (in the unattended-carton-of-beer sense) and I still choose Linux. I'd modestly say I'm many times better at using/configuring/maintaining XP (having worked as a sysadmin for an XP-based company) and I still find Linux easier to use.
+1, Strongly Agree. There's nothing in the GPP that can't be done with a low-spec netbook.
Acer netbooks are sold as small notebooks, while the Eee aren't really sold as notebook replacements, but rather as their own, separate type of computer.
Exactly. Netbook != 'small notebook'.
We've had subnotebooks for decades; the Toshiba Libretto springs to mind and was very similar in form factor to the Eee 700. They've always been pricey, often more so than a full-sized laptop, and focussed on ultra-portability rather than cost. Notebooks tend, like most of the computing industry, to try for the best performance available at the target price point.
Netbooks (in the sense of the Eee PC) are different; they started out aiming for the lowest price for a fixed level of performance, and fill the "I just need to check my email / stocks / the weather" niche. The newer ones that I've seen coming out (at least near where I live) have suffered bad feature and price creep. By the time I'm paying $800 for a 'small notebook' I might as well get myself a 15" one for the same price.
The problem for manufacturers, of course, is that the lower the price point the smaller their margins (in dollar terms) and the more units they need to shift for a given profit. The classic example (I haven't seen a car analogy all morning, so here's one) is that if car manufacturers discovered a way to make cars exactly the same as the ones they sell today, for $1000, they'd try to cover it up rather than exploit it. That's because there's only a market for X cars a year, and that market is only moderately elastic. 100 cars a year for $1000 each plus a 30% markup is $3000 profit. 50 cars a year for $30,000 each plus a 30% markup is $450,000 profit. Same applies to netbooks, so there's an economic incentive for the companies in question to inflate features (and prices).
Says me. Your friend wants a subnotebook, not a netbook. The two are different.
Actually replace 'Torvalds' with 'Java' and replace 'MSFT' with 'my will to live' and you're closer still.
Then Moore's law ticked over and Microsoft was able to enter that market - same price for the machine but with the specs that XP needs.
Ah, but it isn't the same price. The original Eee PC was at a $200-$300 price point. These new "netbooks" are sometimes up to $1000 for a small-form-factor notebook, but they're completely different from the real "netbook", ie. a cheap-as-possible subnotebook that exists purely for internet browsing and possibly media playback. If it's got more grunt than is required to render a webpage or play back a DivX movie, then it's too expensive to be a netbook.
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"Neeearly... it's at 96%"
Like being able to clothe, feed and house your kids? Yep, being able to choose a job that personally excites and motivates you while giving you continued opportunity for personal growth is more of a luxury than most (young, single, probably still supported by their parents) people seem to realise.
When I was 15 I got dragged along on a family trip to India, and having to spend a month in that hole taught me a lot about not taking life for granted. There are people there whose entire job, sunrise to sunset, is to sit on the side of the road near a quarry and bang rocks with other rocks to make gravel. They can sell 14 hours' worth of gravel for enough to buy a simple meal of rice. That's what I think about any time I'm feeling that my current job is "unrewarding" or "not challenging".
Well, there was that one time when I had to maintain a ColdFusion web page for nearly a year, and only stayed because the hand-cracked-gravel market where I live isn't profitable enough to afford instant noodles on... but that's another story.
"It's an entry-level job with not a lot of thought involved. Creative thinking? Forget about it. Your job is to follow a script, written down in a manual, for anything that might happen. That's why we call them 'zombies' -- no brains are required."
If it involves following a script, then it's probably most appropriately done by a scripting engine, not a human being.
Your link is for the older article, and seems to redirect back to the horrible paginated version. This link is hopefully more helpful.