Give the robots big guns and take away the audience. Shooting at a moving target while your moving will be a lot easier with some level of autonomy. The key is to make the weapons so devastating that the first one to make contact will usually win. This type of competition will favor machines that make some of their own decisions without direct human control. Autonomy will be necessary but not mandated.
Apple got this same fake story to the front page of reddit and digg also. Steve Jobs should rejoice at his marketing teams success. I wonder if they used companies like Subvert and Profit to get this promoted to front page news?
Are you calculating by the gigabyte including a cap?
Comcast puts a 90GB per month cap on upload AND download combined in my area (even though they don't state it explicitly).
At 8mbit you can download over 2TB a month. At 6mbit (which AT&T offers) you can download over 1.95TB a month.
When comparing the two, you have to look at 90GB/month upload/download with Comcast vs 1.95TB/month download with AT&T. For me AT&T has about 10% faster latency (I tested myself) and consistent latency (which really matters in online games and even typing in a remote terminal).
Yes AT&T has issues with data privacy but I haven't had any problems with caps or p2p blocking (both of which I had with Comcast before I switched).
"We don't currently have an operational artificial intelligence of any kind, and we may never get one to work"
There are numerous systems that learn from experience, make plans, and adapt. Even the UAVs of today operate the flight controls autonomously and are merely directed where to go. I count that as operational AI.
People keep raising the bar on what qualifies as intelligence in an effort to maintain some sense of human superiority; the same bias you already pointed out. We tend to see intelligence as doing the things we can do like talking and image recognition/segmentation but thats a very limited definition. A machine that makes decisions better than we do in one area is still intelligent.
In a twist stranger than any fiction the experiment was actually stopped early for the sake of those NOT genitally mutilated. This would give them an opportunity to get mutilated to protect themselves from HIV.
Cutting off the entire cock reduces the chances of transmitting HIV by almost 100%. Clearly chopping off everyones penis at birth is the only ETHICAL thing to do.
Honestly I can't see how any reasonable person can see the destruction of microscopic cells as an ethical issue, when they are otherwise thrown away in the trash. Yes, they can become humans but so can sperm.
It makes me wonder why there is so much pressure to use embryonic stem cells, when the research with the adult type is so promising and is far from being exhausted.
Research on both adult and embryonic stem cells is promising. There is no need to wait till one area of research is exhausted to work simultaneously on others. The real question should be why there is any resistance to federally funding embryonic stem cell research in the US. These restrictions have a chilling effect on research at our public universities, and ultimately slow down progress on new treatments.
RARE made one of the best and most influential console FPS of all time: Goldeneye. It wasn't innovative compared to the PC games out at the time, but it was really fun to play alone or with 4 people.
EA got the rights to make future Bond games and they have all been much less fun. They play more like movies and less like interesting games. Fortunately RARE came out with Perfect Dark, which was the sequel to Goldeneye without the 007 branding.
That's why most students can code for 20 hours and can't do theory (math) for even an hour. Writing code gives fairly immediate reinforcement since you can generally compile what you have and see how it works. If it doesn't you can tweak it and recompile.
Having anti-virus software embed itself deeply inside my system isn't the solution I'm looking for, despite added security of doing so. I suspect others feel the same. That leaves us with no intermediate solution that I know of, except for web-based virus scanners where you submit a file.
I sincerely hope someone can point me to virus scanner that works on demand only and doesn't modify my system.
Every antivirus software I've ever installed acts exactly like a virus. It runs processes I can't kill which spawn new processes, it can't be fully uninstalled, it takes lots of resources, it trys to phone home all the time, and annoys me with popups.
Is there any good anti-virus scanner for windows that doesn't change the registry and can be run on individual files or directories when you direct it to? All of the ones I've tried want to take over your system.
Oops I didn't see you posted this when I reposted it below.
I love the animation. It's interesting that my brain won't let me see them as the same color until the moment the line connects them, despite knowing they are.
For me the change to PC was like night and day. You can increase the texture memory to 2048 by 2048 which makes the details on the armor/environment really stand out in my opinion. You can also increase the MIP mapping to make distant textures look better.
I've never heard about anyone getting banned for windower or longer macros and there are many ways you can play PC games on your TV. But it sounds like your happy with your setup. =)
You really should play FFXI on a PC. You'll get much higher resolution and texture resolution. It is an older game so you can get away with a minimal setup (less than PS3). That will open up macro possibilities and add-ons also. If you care about FFXI don't waste time playing it on PS2 (or even 360).
Comcast representatives came to my apartment complex yesterday and I asked them if there is any limit on the amount you can download/upload per month. The resoundingly said NO NO NO. Same thing when I called Comcast.
9 out of 10 people you talk to there will have absolutely no idea about the cap. The only person at Comcast that ever admitted to me there was a cap was the "Policy observance" department that cut off my service of "overusage".
Try it yourself. Call comcast right now and ask if you can upload/download at the maximum speed 24/7 all month long. I bet you get a YES. They hide behind the fact that these people are just uninformed, but if your salespeople give false information consistently that is a big problem.
Imagine the cops pull you over and tell you your using the road too much. When you ask "How much can I use the road?" they give no answer or some cryptic answer like "25 trips to Grandma's house per month", and tell you that if your caught abusing the road again you'll lose your license. That's exactly what Comcast is doing.
At 8 megabits per second you could download over 2.5 terabytes per month. 100Gb is only 4% of the bandwidth your actually paying for with Comcast.
When they cut me off they also claimed it was a summation of upload and download, so in reality you get even less of what your paying for. AT&T never gave me problems so I switched back. DSL has about 10% lower latency in my area also.
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Don't forget this is upload and download. This limits your ability to run as a server and will lead to a more centralized internet.
Since August 2007 the government has explicitly had permission to wiretap any phonecall or email coming into or out of the US http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/01/nsa.spying/index.html/.
Give the robots big guns and take away the audience. Shooting at a moving target while your moving will be a lot easier with some level of autonomy. The key is to make the weapons so devastating that the first one to make contact will usually win. This type of competition will favor machines that make some of their own decisions without direct human control. Autonomy will be necessary but not mandated.
Apple got this same fake story to the front page of reddit and digg also. Steve Jobs should rejoice at his marketing teams success. I wonder if they used companies like Subvert and Profit to get this promoted to front page news?
Unfortunately every time it's partially effective.
Comcast puts a 90GB per month cap on upload AND download combined in my area (even though they don't state it explicitly). At 8mbit you can download over 2TB a month. At 6mbit (which AT&T offers) you can download over 1.95TB a month.
When comparing the two, you have to look at 90GB/month upload/download with Comcast vs 1.95TB/month download with AT&T. For me AT&T has about 10% faster latency (I tested myself) and consistent latency (which really matters in online games and even typing in a remote terminal).
Yes AT&T has issues with data privacy but I haven't had any problems with caps or p2p blocking (both of which I had with Comcast before I switched).
Corrected.
An AI bot playing online is the only fair test. Otherwise most of the systems resources can't be devoted to the AI.
There are numerous systems that learn from experience, make plans, and adapt. Even the UAVs of today operate the flight controls autonomously and are merely directed where to go. I count that as operational AI.
People keep raising the bar on what qualifies as intelligence in an effort to maintain some sense of human superiority; the same bias you already pointed out. We tend to see intelligence as doing the things we can do like talking and image recognition/segmentation but thats a very limited definition. A machine that makes decisions better than we do in one area is still intelligent.
Cutting off the entire cock reduces the chances of transmitting HIV by almost 100%. Clearly chopping off everyones penis at birth is the only ETHICAL thing to do.
Honestly I can't see how any reasonable person can see the destruction of microscopic cells as an ethical issue, when they are otherwise thrown away in the trash. Yes, they can become humans but so can sperm.
Research on both adult and embryonic stem cells is promising. There is no need to wait till one area of research is exhausted to work simultaneously on others. The real question should be why there is any resistance to federally funding embryonic stem cell research in the US. These restrictions have a chilling effect on research at our public universities, and ultimately slow down progress on new treatments.
RARE made one of the best and most influential console FPS of all time: Goldeneye. It wasn't innovative compared to the PC games out at the time, but it was really fun to play alone or with 4 people. EA got the rights to make future Bond games and they have all been much less fun. They play more like movies and less like interesting games. Fortunately RARE came out with Perfect Dark, which was the sequel to Goldeneye without the 007 branding.
That's why most students can code for 20 hours and can't do theory (math) for even an hour. Writing code gives fairly immediate reinforcement since you can generally compile what you have and see how it works. If it doesn't you can tweak it and recompile.
I sincerely hope someone can point me to virus scanner that works on demand only and doesn't modify my system.
Every antivirus software I've ever installed acts exactly like a virus. It runs processes I can't kill which spawn new processes, it can't be fully uninstalled, it takes lots of resources, it trys to phone home all the time, and annoys me with popups. Is there any good anti-virus scanner for windows that doesn't change the registry and can be run on individual files or directories when you direct it to? All of the ones I've tried want to take over your system.
I love the animation. It's interesting that my brain won't let me see them as the same color until the moment the line connects them, despite knowing they are.
Here is another example that I think is better http://img107.imageshack.us/my.php?image=167ta7.jpg
For me the change to PC was like night and day. You can increase the texture memory to 2048 by 2048 which makes the details on the armor/environment really stand out in my opinion. You can also increase the MIP mapping to make distant textures look better. I've never heard about anyone getting banned for windower or longer macros and there are many ways you can play PC games on your TV. But it sounds like your happy with your setup. =)
You really should play FFXI on a PC. You'll get much higher resolution and texture resolution. It is an older game so you can get away with a minimal setup (less than PS3). That will open up macro possibilities and add-ons also. If you care about FFXI don't waste time playing it on PS2 (or even 360).
If the program doesn't terminate just reset the printer after you get bored. Simple.
9 out of 10 people you talk to there will have absolutely no idea about the cap. The only person at Comcast that ever admitted to me there was a cap was the "Policy observance" department that cut off my service of "overusage".
Try it yourself. Call comcast right now and ask if you can upload/download at the maximum speed 24/7 all month long. I bet you get a YES. They hide behind the fact that these people are just uninformed, but if your salespeople give false information consistently that is a big problem.
Imagine the cops pull you over and tell you your using the road too much. When you ask "How much can I use the road?" they give no answer or some cryptic answer like "25 trips to Grandma's house per month", and tell you that if your caught abusing the road again you'll lose your license. That's exactly what Comcast is doing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have the right to drive on the roads 24/7 at the speed limit?
When they cut me off they also claimed it was a summation of upload and download, so in reality you get even less of what your paying for. AT&T never gave me problems so I switched back. DSL has about 10% lower latency in my area also.