Re:That's still retarded.
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I'm wondering if you've ever tried to build a self-motivated robot.
While I completely agree that AI would be a nicer way to have bots fight, its damn near impossible with the current state of sensor-ware. It's far too imperfect and slow.
Oh actually unless you're talking about the kind of sensor-ware that ends up in high-grade military weapons. Then it probably wouldn't be battlebots anymore. It would be an entirely different monster.
I do however think you could have AI augmented bots, that do things like attempt to auto-aim the on board weaponry after the human controller has gotten them close. Or some kind of in-bred overriding defense response.
enough to address every particle in the solar system
Geez, man, stop giving people ideas. Lightbulbs, hell why not address the bleedin' photons themselves.
Is it just me, or are these MS comments meant to entice and erk... I have it! They're trying to crash places like slashdot with floods of impotent ravings from finger happy geeks. Too bad they're all running on linux... it might have worked.
Anyway, I'm moderating all the MS execs as -1 flamebait. Or -2 "Just Silly"
DeCSS is just providing me that key to unlock what is rightfully mine. One of those "licensed
DVD playback manufacturers" screwed up and let the cat out of the bag. What is so illegal about unlocking what is rightfully mine? This "fair use" is like going to the grocery store to buy a box of
cereal and getting it home to find the box locked. Now I need to go back to the grocery store and
buy a key to eat my cereal???
One clarification, you do generally need a bowl and a spoon to eat cereal (although punching your fist through the box and grabbing a handful is acceptable), requiring the certified DVD player is like saying "You can only eat this cereal out of this frootloops certified bowl. And if you live in China you must use the Chinese frootloops bowl."
I have a question. If I want to make a movie on a DVD and release it in MP4 withOUT encrypting it. Will anyone be able to watch it? (other than people who know how to use their computer?)
Let me recommend something to you.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle... much smaller and cleaner written. In fact I'd give it a score for tight writting and no bloat.
There actually was a game like this a few years ago... the premise was basically the cold-war and the point wasn't to "wipe out" the russians, but to make sure the earth didn't get destroyed by bombs... called "Balance of Power". Don't remember a maker or anything (computer game)
Actually, its been experimentally verified that the best result for prisoner's dilema is actually tit-for-tat... now the stipulation is that you are playing with several prisoners and going for the highest score possible where the matrix looks like
C D
1 2 C
2 3 D
Where C is cooperate and D is defect.
Tit-for-Tat works by first defecting, then chasing tail on the other play. So whatever the 'opponent' did last turn do. If he Busted (C) you, bust him next round. If he worked with you last round, work with him. Apparently in the PD competitions, this is the winner.
Now true the goal of the game can be to try to set things up so the guy next to you causes the thing to fall, which means you want to try to set your peices so that it topples his. The problem is that over time, it can actually be to your detrement because his peice won't necessarily fall. Of course the worst case is that things go utterly wrong and your bad peice becomes your own faulty cornerstone. So this is a case where you're not in 'direct' competition with the other players (unless there are only two, but that's a degenerate) and it's actually to everyones advantage to cooperate. Which is why in the end, people are upset when their cooperative high tower falls because someone got too shakey. I know there's a theorem for emergent cooperation involving the fixed point theorem, but I don't remember it now... sorry.
From the FAQ: Can I get a new monkey that says
Ximian.com?
I'm fairly certain this question did NOT enter MY mind when I thought "Oh Helix Code is changing their name?"
In fact, I'd like to know who DOES think this sort of thing? And why they're asking it frequently. And more importantantly what the heck are they doing with the OLD monkey?
Oh see, now for me that hurts my feelings, especially since I've watched the movie now around 7 or 8 times to see if I could figure it out. I think I finally did around 5, but I discovered some depth near 7 or 8. It really is a well written story from the technical aspect. And the cooky metaphysical stuff that goes through the ending is explained rather well by Kai (or the little blue chick) around the middle.
In an effort to defend Otomo, here's my synopsis
(Please don't read this if you haven't seen it)
Akira and the blue children were early military test subjects in the area of psychic abilities (apparently everyone's military was getting in the groove on that in the 50's, since ours did studies too) They screwed up and Akira blew up Tokio (making it resemble very seriously a nuke. Political Commentary #1)
Testuo came to a school in his youth and got beat up, but Keneda came to his rescue and they became really good friends. (Tetsuo's always been small and physical less strong, a throwback to the fact that he was a test subject, too. I think he was thrown out early I don't remember.)
the modern gang is a bunch of kids in reform school who fight another gang called the clowns. During one particular bash (the opening of the movie) Tetsuo runs into the blue boy, and his real abilities awaken.
Kai, Ryu and the blueboy's protector run a resistance group who are trying to stop the military and stop the new experiments to reawaken Akira. This oppressive atmosphere seems more reminiscent of Tienemen Square, but who's to know (political commentary #2)
The military discovers Tetsuos power and runs their tests on him. Keneda tries to find Tetsuo and rescue him.
Tetsuo grows super powerful and starts to wreak havoc on the city.
Kai and Keneda (now friends) try to stop Tetsuo. Kai is given help by the blue children, she becomes an avatar for them, of sorts. Keneda is just trying to help a buddy, what's wrong with trying to help a buddy?
Tetsuo finds akira and reawakens him, (about the same time his powers are ready to overwhelm him) Keneda is saved by the blue boy. They lose Tetsuo.
Cooky Metaphysical: Tetsuo and the bluechildren are super evolved, but because Tetsuo isn't blue and tiny he couldn't handle the power appropriately (although he did have more of it than all three) he was still beaten by Akira though. Keneda gets a little droplet of light in his hand that is probably symbolic of Tetsuo's spirit or something and he's sad because his friend is dead. But he and Kai are still alive to deal with neo-tokia.
Movie ends with the phrase "I am Tetsuo" just to let you know that he's evolved into the super being in some alternate dimension hanging with Akira and the blue children until they can return... or something like that:)
okay... so hopefully that didn't spoil it for you.
Your second proposition isn't necessarily true. In principle all sub-atomic particle physical entities are subject to the laws of Quantum Mechanics but not ALL physical entities (that modulo relativity is very important). Once you acheive atoms the outcomes are more along the lines of deterministic. However, there is that immeasurable value of small variations over time in the quantum side that would have some sort of impact on the "real-life"* side.
The reason one can't measure the effects of those unpredictabilities, and therefore can't determine whether or not it has a direct impact on "real-life" is the same law that governs the unpredictability, the Heisenberg Uncertainty.
So whether or not your second proposition is true is governed still only by phylosophy and not science.
*"real-life" would be the area where Classic Mechanics looks correct.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good,
every sperm is useful, in your neighborhood.
Let the heathens spill theirs on the dusty ground,
God will strike them down for each sperm that can't be found.
Monty Python, "The Meaning of Life"
Weekly World News has been horked!
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I saw this same plot in a story in the weekly world news the other day. Apparently "hackers" have managed to make a BOMB!!! out of your computer using email. Although for some reason knowing what I do about VB makes this completely believable, I'm still a little suspicious.
Okay, I have to be semi-honest I haven't actually seen BattleField Earth, being of the limited budget college student variety (and I'd prefer to spend money on Virgin Suicides anyway). Has anyone seen Both Battlefield Earth and The Omega Code. (If there is such a person, I'm very, very sorry...) I'd be interested to see if it really is worse than that.
Furthermore, a question: Why does the woman of your dreams HAVE to be a computer geek?
It's the ideal that counts. Have you ever seen Ally McBeal? There was an episode where this woman dreamed of a guy so real that she felt like she was cheating on her husband and divorced him (because he wasn't the ideal.) Most of the fascination lies in the dream, the reality always leaves much to be desired. It's the dreams that drive us. And given that that's a cheezy line, I'll back it up with the pragmatic, you have to have someone to put at the top of your scale so that you have some relative absolute to work from.
It's all about being able to have a relatively decent conversation with a female over coffee, and she being a geek femme able to converse on the merits of mmapped i/o would make that conversation more than decent.
Anyway, I'm sure that if such a woman as exhibited the ideal (so poetically described as a Linus-Natalie Portman half-breed) existed, most computer nerds (myself included) wouldn't stand a whit of chance anyway.
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I'm wondering if you've ever tried to build a self-motivated robot.
While I completely agree that AI would be a nicer way to have bots fight, its damn near impossible with the current state of sensor-ware. It's far too imperfect and slow.
Oh actually unless you're talking about the kind of sensor-ware that ends up in high-grade military weapons. Then it probably wouldn't be battlebots anymore. It would be an entirely different monster.
I do however think you could have AI augmented bots, that do things like attempt to auto-aim the on board weaponry after the human controller has gotten them close. Or some kind of in-bred overriding defense response.
You think you're kidding? I live here I don't. That's the policy maker's way.
proper recursive ac...
Kinai is not adobe illustrator... of course one would only ever want to refer to it as Kinai in adobe's presence.
It has the added benifit of sounding like Kenny forest gump style.
I guess I'll have to take back my comments that the entire justice system is wacked off. This ruling made sense.
enough to address every particle in the solar system
Geez, man, stop giving people ideas. Lightbulbs, hell why not address the bleedin' photons themselves.
Is it just me, or are these MS comments meant to entice and erk... I have it! They're trying to crash places like slashdot with floods of impotent ravings from finger happy geeks. Too bad they're all running on linux... it might have worked.
Anyway, I'm moderating all the MS execs as -1 flamebait. Or -2 "Just Silly"
If a slashdot editor posts an article like this ... are they trolling for comments?
Does it make a sound?
One clarification, you do generally need a bowl and a spoon to eat cereal (although punching your fist through the box and grabbing a handful is acceptable), requiring the certified DVD player is like saying "You can only eat this cereal out of this frootloops certified bowl. And if you live in China you must use the Chinese frootloops bowl."
I have a question. If I want to make a movie on a DVD and release it in MP4 withOUT encrypting it. Will anyone be able to watch it? (other than people who know how to use their computer?)
Nathan.
Zero's of failures? Dear God the travesty! Cheap I know, sorry.
Let me recommend something to you.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle... much smaller and cleaner written. In fact I'd give it a score for tight writting and no bloat.
There actually was a game like this a few years ago ... the premise was basically the cold-war and the point wasn't to "wipe out" the russians, but to make sure the earth didn't get destroyed by bombs... called "Balance of Power". Don't remember a maker or anything (computer game)
Nathan.
Actually, its been experimentally verified that the best result for prisoner's dilema is actually tit-for-tat ... now the stipulation is that you are playing with several prisoners and going for the highest score possible where the matrix looks like
C D
1 2 C
2 3 D
Where C is cooperate and D is defect.
Tit-for-Tat works by first defecting, then chasing tail on the other play. So whatever the 'opponent' did last turn do. If he Busted (C) you, bust him next round. If he worked with you last round, work with him. Apparently in the PD competitions, this is the winner.
Nathan.
Now true the goal of the game can be to try to set things up so the guy next to you causes the thing to fall, which means you want to try to set your peices so that it topples his. The problem is that over time, it can actually be to your detrement because his peice won't necessarily fall. Of course the worst case is that things go utterly wrong and your bad peice becomes your own faulty cornerstone. So this is a case where you're not in 'direct' competition with the other players (unless there are only two, but that's a degenerate) and it's actually to everyones advantage to cooperate. Which is why in the end, people are upset when their cooperative high tower falls because someone got too shakey. I know there's a theorem for emergent cooperation involving the fixed point theorem, but I don't remember it now... sorry.
Nathan.
From the FAQ: Can I get a new monkey that says Ximian.com?
I'm fairly certain this question did NOT enter MY mind when I thought "Oh Helix Code is changing their name?"
In fact, I'd like to know who DOES think this sort of thing? And why they're asking it frequently. And more importantantly what the heck are they doing with the OLD monkey?
Idiot Savant I'd say.
Actually, I'd love the idea. Perhaps I shall go be a hermit so I can live it.
In an effort to defend Otomo, here's my synopsis
(Please don't read this if you haven't seen it)
Your second proposition isn't necessarily true. In principle all sub-atomic particle physical entities are subject to the laws of Quantum Mechanics but not ALL physical entities (that modulo relativity is very important). Once you acheive atoms the outcomes are more along the lines of deterministic. However, there is that immeasurable value of small variations over time in the quantum side that would have some sort of impact on the "real-life"* side.
The reason one can't measure the effects of those unpredictabilities, and therefore can't determine whether or not it has a direct impact on "real-life" is the same law that governs the unpredictability, the Heisenberg Uncertainty.
So whether or not your second proposition is true is governed still only by phylosophy and not science.
*"real-life" would be the area where Classic Mechanics looks correct.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good,
every sperm is useful, in your neighborhood.
Let the heathens spill theirs on the dusty ground,
God will strike them down for each sperm that can't be found.
Monty Python, "The Meaning of Life"
I saw this same plot in a story in the weekly world news the other day. Apparently "hackers" have managed to make a BOMB!!! out of your computer using email. Although for some reason knowing what I do about VB makes this completely believable, I'm still a little suspicious.
Okay, I have to be semi-honest I haven't actually seen BattleField Earth, being of the limited budget college student variety (and I'd prefer to spend money on Virgin Suicides anyway). Has anyone seen Both Battlefield Earth and The Omega Code. (If there is such a person, I'm very, very sorry...) I'd be interested to see if it really is worse than that.
Nathan.
I can just imagine a bunch of heroin addict looking models singing Richard Stallman's Free the Software song.
To think I was disturbed with the commercials in their current state.
Nathan.
Furthermore, a question: Why does the woman of your dreams HAVE to be a computer geek?
It's the ideal that counts. Have you ever seen Ally McBeal? There was an episode where this woman dreamed of a guy so real that she felt like she was cheating on her husband and divorced him (because he wasn't the ideal.) Most of the fascination lies in the dream, the reality always leaves much to be desired. It's the dreams that drive us. And given that that's a cheezy line, I'll back it up with the pragmatic, you have to have someone to put at the top of your scale so that you have some relative absolute to work from.
It's all about being able to have a relatively decent conversation with a female over coffee, and she being a geek femme able to converse on the merits of mmapped i/o would make that conversation more than decent.
Anyway, I'm sure that if such a woman as exhibited the ideal (so poetically described as a Linus-Natalie Portman half-breed) existed, most computer nerds (myself included) wouldn't stand a whit of chance anyway.
Nathan.