I'm sure you will not be the target audience then! I'm pretty sure over 90% of the internet users have no idea how to disable javascript in their browser, so I guess you will not be missed as long as it's not a tech website.
Me too, it's not as bad as it might sound in most slashdot posts anyway... Funny thing is, I think I might be the most weird slashdot member, cos I don't bash on Vista AND I like my PS3... and from what I've seen so far, you have to hate MS and Vista BUT be an Xbox360 lover as well to be on the "in-crowd"...
Ah well, I never was much for the in-crowd anyway... I'm way more hip than that!;P
Thank you for your response, good to hear some balancing forces are here on slashdot as well......and just a warning: don't start with the prozac man... it's bad for you, trust me!;P
interesting, and I'm very inclined to believe you. I think it's great to hear from someone in MS that has relevant knowledge on these kind of subjects. (ie: I think most of MS related articles on Slashdot have some rather obvious "anti" written all over them.)
So my question is, why do you "hang out with the slashdot crowd" so to speak? I know if I were working for MS I would've gone away long ago before I need a daily dose of Prozac.
Seriously, I want to know.
I'm sorry, but ignorance is never an excuse. What you are implying is that we shouldn't do comedy because it might be interperted the wrong way. That means we should probably get the Colbert Report off the air right now.
I think it can be a great way to let people see how rediculous some things are and how that relates to things we don't immediately perceive as rediculous.
Well, if one of the avatars is standing still and the other is moving (for instance) towards the other while talking, relativity would dictate the distance between the avatars would be different from each point of view...
Actually, I had a small misinterpretation, you made an even bigger one.
He meant in general, becouse "at the facility" doesn't make any sense, since they specifically got the PS3's for building the "supercomputer". Misinterpretation 4TL indeed.
And I have to ask, is Mr AC a little touchy about his/her identity? Afraid to loose your precious karma? Or did you realize you were a troll before pressing send?
Except for dust moves & psyche bursts (I have no idea what those 2 are) they can in fact all be found in Soul Caliber. Then again, SC and most good 3D fighting games aren't really 3D in controls... just that you have another way to evade. Of course the representation is definately 3D.
Lol, I read penny arcade regularly. There's a big difference between having a funny webcomic about a stupid statement of a Sony exec and the old incorrect idea there are no good games to play on the PS3.
For a supercomputer that's pretty cheap. Also I find the statement in the summary that there are no games to be played on the PS3 a bit childish. The PS3 has not been out for a year yet and there are multiple great games to get for it right now and even more coming very soon. I expected more from the Taco.
Actually, unless you use the new robocopy under vista, this will not negate the problem listed in the article (I know, cos I've known of this problem for quite some time in Vista). I think your error has to do with something else.
True, but unless it's warmer then 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celcius you'll probably benifit from it... wonder if you live in extreme cold climates it might do the job too well though...
Brainpopsicle anyone?... *gets grossed out by own joke*
Oh, and I also meant to say: I think it's rather naive that a "rolemodel" would be a solution. If you want people to stop commiting crimes, give them a reason not to... This almost always comes down to work.
BTW: Not saying there isn't a cultural problem, but I think it's a result of the income problem, not the other way around. So "solving" the cultural problem, won't do any good, equal working opportunities on the other hand would.
Wow, you really think it's that simple?
Cos when I see actual convicted fellons numbers, they don't correlate to the numbers above, so there must be a discreprincy somewhere. Also Googling for teen murders hardly counts as a solid base for a unbiased opinion.
I'm gonna do something crazy and give you some other facts. When looking at level of income white people and black people are actually just as likely to commit crimes, so are blacks just more lazy? Maybe, but there have been some studies to that extent as well. Did you know that if you are black you have about 30% less chance to get a job if you have the same credentials as a white person? Did you know that if your name is arabic, you have a about half a chance to be even invited for a job interview (with the same credentials)? (I could look up the dutch article in which they tested this, but I'm gonna presume you don't speak dutch, though I'm sure there are international surveys with similar results.)
The reason why things are the way they are, is never as easy as googling "teen murders 2007" and putting a conclusion next to it.
Thank you for your response. I "speed-read" through your document and it's nice to be given a better understanding how, why and in what way AI's working together is beneficial. It's also a necessary step before a more advanced AI can create "communities" I gather.
Back on the self-motivation of AI, I guess it's not a field that has the most physical research (as physical as your research I mean) at this time, and I don't know exactly what has been done in the field of that recently. But I guess an AI "psyche" could be based on the notion that animal (human) motivation is born out of positive drive such as: eating (charging battery), sex (hard/near impossible to physically implement self/duo replication) and negative drive such as: pain (damage detection, though function is less useful if there is no healing), hunger (battery almost depleted / less battery = more hunger). Though saying this, I'm sure someone else with much greater knowledge on the subject has already done more work on this than my ramblings here.
Do you know if this has been (virtually) done in any scope yet? With any success as far as you know?
Nice work, any plans to take it a step further? ( mapping area it's in / allowing it to learn on non flat surfaces / arbitrary number of "legs" / ?? )
The most interesting robotic work as far as I'm concerned is exactly what this bot does, namely work from scratch ("not knowing anything of the inputs/outputs) and learning to understand itself and the world around it. Would be even cooler if it could decide it's own goals as well, but it would be difficult. (Where do you start? I think basic drives must be there in the first place.)
Much of luck fitting that 500GB 3.5" drive in your 2.5" bay... let me know how that works out for you.
Seriously though, even if you count 50 bucks for the extra 20 gig, 50 bucks is still much for 20GB more, even if it's 2.5".
Still, emulation support is good and I'm almost certain (they'll pretty much have to) they'll drop the price of the 80 gig model to 499 once the 60 gig model is out of stock.
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I'm pretty sure those deaths don't count as accidents...
I'm sure you will not be the target audience then! I'm pretty sure over 90% of the internet users have no idea how to disable javascript in their browser, so I guess you will not be missed as long as it's not a tech website.
Me too, it's not as bad as it might sound in most slashdot posts anyway... Funny thing is, I think I might be the most weird slashdot member, cos I don't bash on Vista AND I like my PS3... and from what I've seen so far, you have to hate MS and Vista BUT be an Xbox360 lover as well to be on the "in-crowd"... Ah well, I never was much for the in-crowd anyway... I'm way more hip than that! ;P
Thank you for your response, good to hear some balancing forces are here on slashdot as well... ...and just a warning: don't start with the prozac man... it's bad for you, trust me! ;P
interesting, and I'm very inclined to believe you. I think it's great to hear from someone in MS that has relevant knowledge on these kind of subjects. (ie: I think most of MS related articles on Slashdot have some rather obvious "anti" written all over them.) So my question is, why do you "hang out with the slashdot crowd" so to speak? I know if I were working for MS I would've gone away long ago before I need a daily dose of Prozac. Seriously, I want to know.
I'm sorry, but ignorance is never an excuse. What you are implying is that we shouldn't do comedy because it might be interperted the wrong way. That means we should probably get the Colbert Report off the air right now.
I think it can be a great way to let people see how rediculous some things are and how that relates to things we don't immediately perceive as rediculous.
Well, if one of the avatars is standing still and the other is moving (for instance) towards the other while talking, relativity would dictate the distance between the avatars would be different from each point of view...
Actually, I had a small misinterpretation, you made an even bigger one.
He meant in general, becouse "at the facility" doesn't make any sense, since they specifically got the PS3's for building the "supercomputer". Misinterpretation 4TL indeed.
And I have to ask, is Mr AC a little touchy about his/her identity? Afraid to loose your precious karma? Or did you realize you were a troll before pressing send?
-The13thSin.
Except for dust moves & psyche bursts (I have no idea what those 2 are) they can in fact all be found in Soul Caliber. Then again, SC and most good 3D fighting games aren't really 3D in controls... just that you have another way to evade. Of course the representation is definately 3D.
Lol, I read penny arcade regularly. There's a big difference between having a funny webcomic about a stupid statement of a Sony exec and the old incorrect idea there are no good games to play on the PS3.
For a supercomputer that's pretty cheap. Also I find the statement in the summary that there are no games to be played on the PS3 a bit childish. The PS3 has not been out for a year yet and there are multiple great games to get for it right now and even more coming very soon. I expected more from the Taco.
Yeah, I'm thinking of recording that statement on my voicemail when someone calls me again with their computer problems.
Actually, unless you use the new robocopy under vista, this will not negate the problem listed in the article (I know, cos I've known of this problem for quite some time in Vista). I think your error has to do with something else.
Exactly... though I can understand that the slashdot crowd is a bit disappointed... I am.
True, but unless it's warmer then 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celcius you'll probably benifit from it... wonder if you live in extreme cold climates it might do the job too well though...
... *gets grossed out by own joke*
Brainpopsicle anyone?
...Unlike your fingers, the body does not shut down blood flow to the brain as it gets coolI'm gonna go out on a still attatched limb here and say that's probably a good thing.
Keeps me from trying to explain it myself (possibly less eloquently)... so thanx. Great post.
Oh, and I also meant to say: I think it's rather naive that a "rolemodel" would be a solution. If you want people to stop commiting crimes, give them a reason not to... This almost always comes down to work. BTW: Not saying there isn't a cultural problem, but I think it's a result of the income problem, not the other way around. So "solving" the cultural problem, won't do any good, equal working opportunities on the other hand would.
Wow, you really think it's that simple?
Cos when I see actual convicted fellons numbers, they don't correlate to the numbers above, so there must be a discreprincy somewhere. Also Googling for teen murders hardly counts as a solid base for a unbiased opinion.
I'm gonna do something crazy and give you some other facts. When looking at level of income white people and black people are actually just as likely to commit crimes, so are blacks just more lazy? Maybe, but there have been some studies to that extent as well. Did you know that if you are black you have about 30% less chance to get a job if you have the same credentials as a white person? Did you know that if your name is arabic, you have a about half a chance to be even invited for a job interview (with the same credentials)? (I could look up the dutch article in which they tested this, but I'm gonna presume you don't speak dutch, though I'm sure there are international surveys with similar results.)
The reason why things are the way they are, is never as easy as googling "teen murders 2007" and putting a conclusion next to it.
Thank you for your response. I "speed-read" through your document and it's nice to be given a better understanding how, why and in what way AI's working together is beneficial. It's also a necessary step before a more advanced AI can create "communities" I gather.
Back on the self-motivation of AI, I guess it's not a field that has the most physical research (as physical as your research I mean) at this time, and I don't know exactly what has been done in the field of that recently. But I guess an AI "psyche" could be based on the notion that animal (human) motivation is born out of positive drive such as: eating (charging battery), sex (hard/near impossible to physically implement self/duo replication) and negative drive such as: pain (damage detection, though function is less useful if there is no healing), hunger (battery almost depleted / less battery = more hunger). Though saying this, I'm sure someone else with much greater knowledge on the subject has already done more work on this than my ramblings here.
Do you know if this has been (virtually) done in any scope yet? With any success as far as you know?
Nice work, any plans to take it a step further? ( mapping area it's in / allowing it to learn on non flat surfaces / arbitrary number of "legs" / ?? ) The most interesting robotic work as far as I'm concerned is exactly what this bot does, namely work from scratch ("not knowing anything of the inputs/outputs) and learning to understand itself and the world around it. Would be even cooler if it could decide it's own goals as well, but it would be difficult. (Where do you start? I think basic drives must be there in the first place.)
That, or use one of the (crappy) free proxies around... or go to a torrent site that's not based in the US... or... dare I say: Usenet?
I worry about me sometimes as well...
And yet, all I can think about... how cool this could look when big dance events start using it for visuals... Maybe Sensation 2009?
Much of luck fitting that 500GB 3.5" drive in your 2.5" bay... let me know how that works out for you.
Seriously though, even if you count 50 bucks for the extra 20 gig, 50 bucks is still much for 20GB more, even if it's 2.5".
Still, emulation support is good and I'm almost certain (they'll pretty much have to) they'll drop the price of the 80 gig model to 499 once the 60 gig model is out of stock.