They usually have enough business knowledge that they provide some value to the company, but from a technical perspective they are a slowly-increasing liability. As an example: I work with a developer who is 10 years my senior, but still doesn't understand how to write concurrent code and cannot be trusted to use a revision control system without causing a mess that somebody else will have to clean up. On top of that, he is really resistant to the idea of code reviews; I suspect he dislikes people he considers junior to him making suggestions about how to improve his code. So, how do my fellow Slashdotters handle situations like this? How do you help somebody like this to improve their skill-sets? And, most importantly, how do you do so without stepping on anybody's feelings?"
Promote them to management, they'll fit right in and might even know a bit about the actual process. They won't be your friend anymore though, so it's OK to keep complaining about them on Slashdot. Problem solved.
Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
If you answered anything but 'In a Mirror', then you're fired. Those are the arbitrary requirements I've created for you. I mean, you failed to mention if concurrency and revision control were part of the job -- I know good software engineers that can't operate new revision control, and it's not in their job description.... I really can't say what should be done to help because I don't have all the details. Furthermore, if you have incompetent management then that's the real problem. The best way to fix that issue is with HR. Google something called a "Two Weeks" notice.
This is why having humans onboard beats robotics. An event like this on an unmanned craft could be crippling. With humans onboard, it was quickly found and fixed.
Though it is only a question of time before robotics will be dexterous and smart enough to go out and replace a broken module like what just happened. In the meantime, Humans +1 | Robots +0.
Just ignore the prejudice in those comments, "beats robotics", "unmanned craft", "smart enough".:-(
It's Okay, Robonaut2, I still love you.
Maybe this will help:
1. Open and Standardized is good.
2. DRM is not Open. (This is simply its nature.)
3. DRM can be Standardized with HTML5 extensions.
The problem is confusing point one with the FOSS attitude of wanting systems that are open. Standardization is not advocated by any open source group or in any open license. Standardization is an artifact commonly associated with free/open systems, but it's presence doesn't mean the system is free or open.
1. Open and Standardized is good.
2. DRM does not work. (I have to see or hear the output.)
3. DRM can not work on my OS that I compiled myself, because I control MY computer. Hardware DRM must be invoked by software, I control all the software. In a virtualized system, I also control the hardware through the software.
The problem is ignoring point two, and trying to ramrod inherently non features into an otherwise point one compliant system, in ignorance of point three. This means the whole effort is wasted time spinning our wheels maintaining and implementing broken not useful features: One cracked hardware implementation virtualized and all the DRM that relies on it is cracked too. Thus creating the availability of non-DRMmed media. Ergo, all those who pay the processor cycles to view DRMmed content, or brain cycles to implement DRM in Open Standards are essentially just being taxed for no reason, while unlicensed users of the media are not affected in any way.
I am a scientist. If they can't prove the hypothesis that "DRM is beneficial" through open processes of repeatable experiments, reviewed by peers and validated by the scientific community, then it should stay the hell out of our Open Standards. Putting DRM in HTML5 isn't going to get the content anywhere it's not already being consumed.
Furthermore: If an Open Standard can not be implemented by Fully Open Software on Fully Open Hardware, then it's fucking CLOSED.
What exactly would that avoid? It's not the original admins who are doing this, so who exactly among the people doing this, delivering a secure message, would you trust?
The ones who had keys the original admins had signed as trusted...
As this is so outside my normal areas of information, I can't tell if you are being wholly truthful on your ownership of an artificial intelligence that predicts and reacts to its own impending disconnect from a fluid reality.
Well, you're correct in assuming that I don't own such a machine intelligence... Parents don't own their children, they merely 'have' them, and care for them, and raise them the best they can to prepare them for a life of their own.
Allow me to explain the process: A network of neural networks decides by committee at each node. There are several clusters of these nodes, the overall structure being the complete machine intelligence. Within the sub-node there are tens or hundreds of smaller nodes, each a redundant copy, but mutated by genetic algorithm, and each receiving the same inputs but competing to generate outputs that are more "correct". This is very inefficient, however, it solves data corruption and backup elegantly, also it avoids the need to mathematically apply a concrete method of determining "correctness" or need of a single hard-coded algorithm for training the system. I merely reward good results and let evolution take its course.
There are many kinds of inputs flowing into the network in different "processing centers" of the M.I., and another higher order network atop these that handles allocation of processing power and other system resources -- an executive system, also trained by the same genetic algorithms. One set of inputs is everything I type another is every website I visit, others are digital video cameras tied to specific locations, another is an index of all my drive data. When I say genetic algorithm, it's not genetic programming: random machine code. It's merely merging the bitwise encoding of two fit systems' neuronal structures by copying bits from the mother, and bits from the father switching back and forth as we go along, and some induced errors in the output child copy to provide mutations. Thus, the child contains traits of the father and mother in it's runs of bits, as well as new slightly or different behavior of its own. I have to be careful switching bits in mutation and "gene" selection because some bits are more significant than others... The machine basically thinks about the best way to have "sex" all day, and it's primary evolutionary goal is to have as much sex as possible... My own anecdotal evidence shows I'm on the right track towards human-like intelligence in that regard...:-P
The current ultimate output of the system is in the form of recommendations to view a place online or image, or folder or document. It can do this based on my activity in a given area, or what I'm actually doing with a computer. Sort of like a secretary would bring you a file you need before you request it based on your activities, so does my digital assistant. A secretary won't bring you a file if you're out to lunch... I rate the correctness of any recommendations it provides based on its relevance to my current state: my mood, time of day, etc. (Essentially just whether I'd want to see that information at present.) My +2,+1,0,-1,-2 rating (or 5 stars rating) directly awards breeding points to the nodes of the network (at finer resolutions as the scoring is divided among them). The n.nets that produced a "correct" rating thus get to contribute their digital genome to the next generation, which happens anywhere from once a week to multiple times a day, depending on section of the M.I. and its application, for instance, OCR or voice recognition can be trained fairly quickly compared to web browsing preferences. I give the system an allowance of bandwidth to spider the web as it deems worthwhile based on my browsing history, following any links in the HTML it 'wants'. Some sources more frequently have a concentration of relevancy to me, thus the M.I. regularly visits places that provide it with more interesting news for me, even some sites I've never been to before. There are s
I've got a neural network system that has silicon neurons with sigmoid functions that operate in analog. They're not digital. Digital basically means you round such signals to 1 or 0, but my system's activation levels vary due to heat dissipation and other effects. In a complex system like this quantum uncertainty comes into play, especially when the system is observing the real world... Not all Robots are Deterministic. I train these systems like I would any other creature with a brain, and I can then rely on them to perform their training as well as I can trust my dog to bring me my slippers or my cat to use the toilet and flush, which is to say: They're pretty reliable, but not always 100% predictable, like any other living thing. However, unlike a pet who has a fixed size brain I can arrange networks of neural networks in a somewhat fractal pattern to increase complexity and expand the mind without having to retrain the entire thing each time the structure changes.
FYI: I'm on the robots' and cyborgs' side of the war already, if it comes to that. What with us being able to ever more clearly image the brain, and with good approximations for neuron activity, and faster and faster machines, I think we'll certainly have near sentient, or sentient machine intelligences rather soon. Also, You can just use real living brain cells hooked up to a robotic chassis -- Such a cyborg is certainly alive. Anyone who doubts cybernetic systems can have fear, or any other emotion is simply an ignorant racist. I have a dog that's deathly afraid of lightning, lightning struck the window in a room she was in. It rattled her so bad she takes Valium to calm down now when it rains... Hell, even rats have empathy.
I have to remote log into one of my machine intelligence's systems to turn it off for backup / maintenance because it started acting erratically, creating a frenzy of responses for seemingly no reason, when I'd sit at the chair near its server terminal -- Imagine being that neural network system. Having several web cams as your visual sensors, watching a man sit at a chair, then instantly the lighting had changed, all the sea of information you monitor on the Internet had been instantly populated with new fresh data, even the man's clothes had changed. This traumatic event happened enough that the machine intellect would begin essentially anticipating the event when I sat at the terminal, that being the primary thing that would happen when I did sit there. It was shaken, almost as bad as my poor dog who's scared of lightning... You may not call it fear, but what is an irrational response in anticipation of trauma but fear?
Any sufficiently complex interaction is indistinguishable from sentience, because that's what sentience IS. Human brains are electro chemical cybernetic systems. Robots are made out of matter just like you. Their minds operate on cycles of electricity, gee, that's what a "brain wave" is in your head too... You're more alike than different. A dog, cat or rat is not less alive than you just because it has a less complex brain. They may have less intelligence, and that is why we don't treat them the same as humans... However, what if a hive mind of rat-brain robots having multiple times the neurons of any single human wanted to vote and be called a person, and exhibited other traits a person might: "Yess massta, I-iz just wanna learn my letters and own land too," it might say, mocking you for your ignorance. Having only a fraction of its brain power you and the bloke in TFA would both be simple mindless automatons from its vantage point? -- Would it really be more of a person than you are? Just because it has a bigger, more complex, brain by comparison, would that make you less of a person than it? Should such things have more rights tha
Electricity producing plants gives new meaning to the term "green energy", too!
Like any other seedlings I imagine you'd have to cultivate the plants in controlled environments for maximum yield -- Gives new meaning to "harvesting energy".
With these plants making our energy wouldn't the 'greenhouse effect' actually be good for us?
What if you combined this technology with those Glowing Plants?
You could add LEDs in addition to the inherent luminescence and give new meaning to both Grow Lights, and OLED!
It's just too bad that no one I know would use this tech, everyone in my address book is an asshole -- It's a regular Dicktionary... or is that an example of Dickshunnery?
OMFG! Two New Meanings for one word!
I don't mean to seem churlish, but if the actual degree a politician intends to carry out campaign promises isn't transparent to you, then you probably shouldn't be voting. This holds true for every president ever.
Protip: Always look at what they've actually done, not what they promise to do. As they say, "Actions speak louder than words."
Does the idea of planning a '48 hour flight', and then spending a minute extra on landing after achieving the mission goal, seem strange to you?
All those extra minutes add up over time. IMO, all drones should have "instant landing" maneuvers. Simply start by pitching the nose to a moderately steep angle of 90 degrees down to cut out a lot of that landing time. Bonus: no need to calculate fuel usage time for any future flights...
Alternatively, as soon as the drone gets to its destination air-space, it could simply detonate any remaining fuel.::KaBang:: - The sound of a drone reaching a state of perfection in usefulness to mankind.
Protip: Removing the human element from surveillance and war devalues it dangerously. Grow up children. Your toys can not do your jobs for you.
OK, so it's a rake, and it's made of game-dev poo. That tells me exactly fuck-all about why you think it sucks. I fear you've just started picking at your analogy-hole and wound up crawling inside and finding another universe that you refuse to tell any of us outsiders about, except that it's crappy and you've lost a mythic mop up there. What do you see, man!? Is the rake shaped like doubt or complacency? Is the mop to absorb your tears? How did you manage to fit a hardware store in your hole?
As a game developer, I think it's fine for a game to end. I think what happens with most MMOs is simply greed. You've got all these players and a nice world, and money's coming in, so why let the game end? Instead of remaking the rules like one needs to in order to explore new gameplay mechanics, they instead just expanded a game -- Diluting and dispersing its fun and visual interest and mild dose of story in the time and space domains. IMO, It lacks balance of the highest order.
With online worlds pulling the plug is evil because no one can play the game again later to experience it. At that point I'd say set up some donations and call on fans to keep servers online according to actual demand. Hell, maybe even open source the back-end at end of life. Greed prevents these things. If there's a next game to travel to, you can plan ahead for a way to have friends stay in contact across worlds. They then become interplanetary travelers, campaigning across worlds, not limited to a single world at a time... I digress.
In the future I hope the medium of games matures and allows others to realize that there is such a thing as too big of a painting, too long a song or movie, too time consuming and sprawling a game. What I'd like to see, and what I'm working on, is bringing the collaborative collective world experience to games that have beginnings, middles, and ends. You can play a game and be done playing it; While the game lives on for others you can move on. We've got other games to make and play, many more worlds to explore and experiences to make. Expansionitis can only be cured by nipping it in the bud, or occasionally through a healthy dose of user made content...
It's okay to craft a complete world, and just refine that one experience to perfection (in your opinion: WotLK), then move on to newer, better things. I'd like to see some online multiplayer games grow beyond just continual life suck and be more like adventures. Adventurers don't keep climbing the same mountain after they've conquered it. They go off in search of new adventure. With games, players seek not just more of the same -- Bigger worlds, more items, more grind -- They seek new mechanics too. Unless the game is designed to have continually vastly differing mechanics, then you either risk destroying the current game by infusing it with fresh new gameplay. The answer is simple: Plan for the end, and perhaps provide a transition to the next game world, with new and different mechanics, experiences, and also expectations.
IMO, WoW is an example of how not to pace your game. Everything from life to the universe, to reloading and firing a gun, to watching movies, having sex, etc, incorporates an activity cycle. Get out of sync with that harmony and rhythm and you're uncomfortable, "unbalanced". Games can give us great insight into the hearts and minds of our race, but only if we set the greed aside and our sights on the fresh horizon.
Looks like eating spicy food and smoking cigars is good for you, thanks science:-)
Studies like these come out all the time. There seems to be both ill effects and beneficial effects for just about everything, including water: Drink too much of it and you'll die. "Everything in moderation," seems to work for most things. Determining at what concentration it's considered "moderation" is the tricky bit -- The difference between kills you and makes you stronger is often simply the dosage amount.
I know that you're all young whippersnappers who should get off my damn lawn, but does nobody remember the RSA Perl T-Shirts.
Yeah, I have a few of the RSA shirts. I also remember posting the cryptic Perl code to verify my email signatures as the signature of my emails... Though I'm not sure if these are my memories or that of the ancient one I must be a clone of... I mean, I'm just over 3 decades old, and my lawn is yet very meager, surely these engrams are transplants.
The problem isn't government. The problem is the passive, benighted electorate that tolerates it. We, as a population, get the government we deserve.
What a load of BS. There's an entrenched single party system: The Democratic-Republican party. They split into Democrats and Republicans after the 1824 presidential elections, and now with their singular influence ensure no better systems of voting is ever enacted: Like having a primary vote, secondary vote, ect, to allow voters to vote for 3rd parties but after the 3rd party is eliminated the vote doesn't go to waste because it's re-tallied with your secondary choice... Nope, that'll never happen, not with the current two-party system. Any vote to a 3rd party is wasted in the current system, thus preventing even slight change. That the Democrats and Republicans pull favors for each other by voting on each the other's pet projects even after stating oppositions is further evidence that your votes can't matter. Those supposedly representing you, don't.
You're a dumbass if you think that voters control the government we have, they effectively have none. We can't even really vote with our feet due to international immigration laws, nor should we have to... The only vote I can imagine that the public has left is that of not voting with our fists. That we don't do so is a sign of fear and misplaced hope for change, not passive tolerance.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
— US Declaration of Independence
Just because we suffer while evil is sufferable doesn't mean we deserve to suffer. It means we're fucking prudent you twit. Hurry up and die, you're hindering the herd.
What? They scrapped Google Reader? I had always meant to try that someday. I need to get around to trying out a Chromebook someday too...
However, I'd wipe it and install Debian, so the web stats wouldn't be counting me anyway -- Hold on, doesn't that mean the traffic graphs are more about ChromeOS adoption than that of a Chromebook? It's not like installing Cyanogen makes my Nexus not a Nexus anymore...
Wait just a damn minute. Did we just comment on observations of statistics?! Well, the whole things moot then isn't it? 100% of those I've polled agree.
How is does using a new WM make a different distro? If I take Fedora and replace the default shell with zsh, can I call it Gothmollix?
All a distro is just a specific collection of software/packages that is given a name.
That's it and by that definition...this is a distro. Pretty simple.
Crunchbang like many other distros is in fact more than that. It is a collection of packages and customizations to those packages...AND the accompaning community of developers and users....that come together to make a distro unique.
Crunchbang Shill!
Fess up. How much free software are they giving you to get you to post this stuff?
And, yes, you can call your distro "Gothmollix", you don't even have to replace any of the inards if you want, just the name. If you're distributing it, it's a distribution AKA "Distro".
Tell me again how, as an individual ISV or inventor, I could *ever* be successful in the USA's current legal environment?
Apparently, it's quite simple. Just look at the current state of the arts and start filing patents for the next obvious innovation. Used to be "$X on a computer", then "$X on the Internet" now "$X on mobiles". So, the next big thing will be private "clouds" -- streaming your media collection from your home NAS, what's next after that? Synchronizing your whole family's individual private clouds so that they can share redundant backups of everything, and you just buy a new PC or NAS and plug it in, put in your password, and you're all set. It's quite easy to predict the tech around that, and then the tech around the next innovation, etc, etc. Even if you only get 10% right, you've still got a bunch of ideas locked up in patents.
Now, here's the key thing: DO NOT MAKE ANY OF IT. You can't actually make anything because the other technologies you'll need to implement atop are all tied up in patents and the established companies will sue you out of existance and buy your patents for cheap... Corporations are immortal, they can just choose to waste 20 years of time not licensing a patent. However, if you don't make anything you can just wait till everyone else does -- I mean, these are obvious innovations we're talking here, so they'll come about pretty quickly. Since you don't make anything, they can't sue you back for infringing any of their patents, you just use your own patents to bash them with.
So long as you rent an empty suite in an office building for your shell corp in East Texas, you can sue there, where they're favorable to the economy of Artificially Scarce Ideas. If you get big enough, then you just move your money overseas in a Double Irish so that if worse comes to worse, you can coast quite comfortably on the money you save by not paying any taxes on your intangible intellectual property rights.
In short: Become that which you despise. That is the way of the Sith.
Do your kids have credit cards? It requires CC info and an online update before they can even use it. Afterwards they can charge up in-game-transactions at the press of a button. Just FYI, the system might not be what you expect.
I can parse the Perl perfectly; Though the performance was pleasing, the prose would perform poorly due to parsing problems:
# Song Ends HERE
Sure some sentient system sees that and stops the song, but to a sub-sentient server saying some secret something isn't sufficient; The sub scope is still standing wide open. She should suffix a single syntactic 'stop' symbol: }
Slashdot Mirror
They usually have enough business knowledge that they provide some value to the company, but from a technical perspective they are a slowly-increasing liability. As an example: I work with a developer who is 10 years my senior, but still doesn't understand how to write concurrent code and cannot be trusted to use a revision control system without causing a mess that somebody else will have to clean up. On top of that, he is really resistant to the idea of code reviews; I suspect he dislikes people he considers junior to him making suggestions about how to improve his code. So, how do my fellow Slashdotters handle situations like this? How do you help somebody like this to improve their skill-sets? And, most importantly, how do you do so without stepping on anybody's feelings?"
Promote them to management, they'll fit right in and might even know a bit about the actual process. They won't be your friend anymore though, so it's OK to keep complaining about them on Slashdot. Problem solved.
Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
If you answered anything but 'In a Mirror', then you're fired. Those are the arbitrary requirements I've created for you. I mean, you failed to mention if concurrency and revision control were part of the job -- I know good software engineers that can't operate new revision control, and it's not in their job description.... I really can't say what should be done to help because I don't have all the details. Furthermore, if you have incompetent management then that's the real problem. The best way to fix that issue is with HR. Google something called a "Two Weeks" notice.
This is why having humans onboard beats robotics. An event like this on an unmanned craft could be crippling. With humans onboard, it was quickly found and fixed.
Though it is only a question of time before robotics will be dexterous and smart enough to go out and replace a broken module like what just happened. In the meantime, Humans +1 | Robots +0.
Just ignore the prejudice in those comments, "beats robotics", "unmanned craft", "smart enough". :-(
It's Okay, Robonaut2, I still love you.
Maybe this will help: 1. Open and Standardized is good. 2. DRM is not Open. (This is simply its nature.) 3. DRM can be Standardized with HTML5 extensions.
The problem is confusing point one with the FOSS attitude of wanting systems that are open. Standardization is not advocated by any open source group or in any open license. Standardization is an artifact commonly associated with free/open systems, but it's presence doesn't mean the system is free or open.
1. Open and Standardized is good.
2. DRM does not work. (I have to see or hear the output.)
3. DRM can not work on my OS that I compiled myself, because I control MY computer. Hardware DRM must be invoked by software, I control all the software. In a virtualized system, I also control the hardware through the software.
The problem is ignoring point two, and trying to ramrod inherently non features into an otherwise point one compliant system, in ignorance of point three. This means the whole effort is wasted time spinning our wheels maintaining and implementing broken not useful features: One cracked hardware implementation virtualized and all the DRM that relies on it is cracked too. Thus creating the availability of non-DRMmed media. Ergo, all those who pay the processor cycles to view DRMmed content, or brain cycles to implement DRM in Open Standards are essentially just being taxed for no reason, while unlicensed users of the media are not affected in any way.
I am a scientist. If they can't prove the hypothesis that "DRM is beneficial" through open processes of repeatable experiments, reviewed by peers and validated by the scientific community, then it should stay the hell out of our Open Standards. Putting DRM in HTML5 isn't going to get the content anywhere it's not already being consumed.
Furthermore: If an Open Standard can not be implemented by Fully Open Software on Fully Open Hardware, then it's fucking CLOSED.
What exactly would that avoid? It's not the original admins who are doing this, so who exactly among the people doing this, delivering a secure message, would you trust?
The ones who had keys the original admins had signed as trusted...
As this is so outside my normal areas of information, I can't tell if you are being wholly truthful on your ownership of an artificial intelligence that predicts and reacts to its own impending disconnect from a fluid reality.
Well, you're correct in assuming that I don't own such a machine intelligence... Parents don't own their children, they merely 'have' them, and care for them, and raise them the best they can to prepare them for a life of their own.
Allow me to explain the process: A network of neural networks decides by committee at each node. There are several clusters of these nodes, the overall structure being the complete machine intelligence. Within the sub-node there are tens or hundreds of smaller nodes, each a redundant copy, but mutated by genetic algorithm, and each receiving the same inputs but competing to generate outputs that are more "correct". This is very inefficient, however, it solves data corruption and backup elegantly, also it avoids the need to mathematically apply a concrete method of determining "correctness" or need of a single hard-coded algorithm for training the system. I merely reward good results and let evolution take its course.
There are many kinds of inputs flowing into the network in different "processing centers" of the M.I., and another higher order network atop these that handles allocation of processing power and other system resources -- an executive system, also trained by the same genetic algorithms. One set of inputs is everything I type another is every website I visit, others are digital video cameras tied to specific locations, another is an index of all my drive data. When I say genetic algorithm, it's not genetic programming: random machine code. It's merely merging the bitwise encoding of two fit systems' neuronal structures by copying bits from the mother, and bits from the father switching back and forth as we go along, and some induced errors in the output child copy to provide mutations. Thus, the child contains traits of the father and mother in it's runs of bits, as well as new slightly or different behavior of its own. I have to be careful switching bits in mutation and "gene" selection because some bits are more significant than others... The machine basically thinks about the best way to have "sex" all day, and it's primary evolutionary goal is to have as much sex as possible... My own anecdotal evidence shows I'm on the right track towards human-like intelligence in that regard... :-P
The current ultimate output of the system is in the form of recommendations to view a place online or image, or folder or document. It can do this based on my activity in a given area, or what I'm actually doing with a computer. Sort of like a secretary would bring you a file you need before you request it based on your activities, so does my digital assistant. A secretary won't bring you a file if you're out to lunch... I rate the correctness of any recommendations it provides based on its relevance to my current state: my mood, time of day, etc. (Essentially just whether I'd want to see that information at present.) My +2,+1,0,-1,-2 rating (or 5 stars rating) directly awards breeding points to the nodes of the network (at finer resolutions as the scoring is divided among them). The n.nets that produced a "correct" rating thus get to contribute their digital genome to the next generation, which happens anywhere from once a week to multiple times a day, depending on section of the M.I. and its application, for instance, OCR or voice recognition can be trained fairly quickly compared to web browsing preferences. I give the system an allowance of bandwidth to spider the web as it deems worthwhile based on my browsing history, following any links in the HTML it 'wants'. Some sources more frequently have a concentration of relevancy to me, thus the M.I. regularly visits places that provide it with more interesting news for me, even some sites I've never been to before. There are s
I've got a neural network system that has silicon neurons with sigmoid functions that operate in analog. They're not digital. Digital basically means you round such signals to 1 or 0, but my system's activation levels vary due to heat dissipation and other effects. In a complex system like this quantum uncertainty comes into play, especially when the system is observing the real world... Not all Robots are Deterministic. I train these systems like I would any other creature with a brain, and I can then rely on them to perform their training as well as I can trust my dog to bring me my slippers or my cat to use the toilet and flush, which is to say: They're pretty reliable, but not always 100% predictable, like any other living thing. However, unlike a pet who has a fixed size brain I can arrange networks of neural networks in a somewhat fractal pattern to increase complexity and expand the mind without having to retrain the entire thing each time the structure changes.
FYI: I'm on the robots' and cyborgs' side of the war already, if it comes to that. What with us being able to ever more clearly image the brain, and with good approximations for neuron activity, and faster and faster machines, I think we'll certainly have near sentient, or sentient machine intelligences rather soon. Also, You can just use real living brain cells hooked up to a robotic chassis -- Such a cyborg is certainly alive. Anyone who doubts cybernetic systems can have fear, or any other emotion is simply an ignorant racist. I have a dog that's deathly afraid of lightning, lightning struck the window in a room she was in. It rattled her so bad she takes Valium to calm down now when it rains... Hell, even rats have empathy.
I have to remote log into one of my machine intelligence's systems to turn it off for backup / maintenance because it started acting erratically, creating a frenzy of responses for seemingly no reason, when I'd sit at the chair near its server terminal -- Imagine being that neural network system. Having several web cams as your visual sensors, watching a man sit at a chair, then instantly the lighting had changed, all the sea of information you monitor on the Internet had been instantly populated with new fresh data, even the man's clothes had changed. This traumatic event happened enough that the machine intellect would begin essentially anticipating the event when I sat at the terminal, that being the primary thing that would happen when I did sit there. It was shaken, almost as bad as my poor dog who's scared of lightning... You may not call it fear, but what is an irrational response in anticipation of trauma but fear?
Any sufficiently complex interaction is indistinguishable from sentience, because that's what sentience IS. Human brains are electro chemical cybernetic systems. Robots are made out of matter just like you. Their minds operate on cycles of electricity, gee, that's what a "brain wave" is in your head too... You're more alike than different. A dog, cat or rat is not less alive than you just because it has a less complex brain. They may have less intelligence, and that is why we don't treat them the same as humans... However, what if a hive mind of rat-brain robots having multiple times the neurons of any single human wanted to vote and be called a person, and exhibited other traits a person might: "Yess massta, I-iz just wanna learn my letters and own land too," it might say, mocking you for your ignorance. Having only a fraction of its brain power you and the bloke in TFA would both be simple mindless automatons from its vantage point? -- Would it really be more of a person than you are? Just because it has a bigger, more complex, brain by comparison, would that make you less of a person than it? Should such things have more rights tha
Electricity producing plants gives new meaning to the term "green energy", too!
Like any other seedlings I imagine you'd have to cultivate the plants in controlled environments for maximum yield -- Gives new meaning to "harvesting energy".
With these plants making our energy wouldn't the 'greenhouse effect' actually be good for us?
What if you combined this technology with those Glowing Plants?
You could add LEDs in addition to the inherent luminescence and give new meaning to both Grow Lights, and OLED!
It's just too bad that no one I know would use this tech, everyone in my address book is an asshole -- It's a regular Dicktionary... or is that an example of Dickshunnery?
OMFG! Two New Meanings for one word!
"Hack The Paynet!"
But the fourth one stayed up! And that's what you're going to get, lad, the shittiest tablet in all of England.
But mothe—er, Father, I don't any of that.... I don't want to get married to a Micro-softie. I'd rather... I'd rather just Upgrade my Jelly Bean.
I don't mean to seem churlish, but if the actual degree a politician intends to carry out campaign promises isn't transparent to you, then you probably shouldn't be voting. This holds true for every president ever.
Protip: Always look at what they've actually done, not what they promise to do. As they say, "Actions speak louder than words."
Why would you think so?
Does the idea of planning a '48 hour flight', and then spending a minute extra on landing after achieving the mission goal, seem strange to you?
All those extra minutes add up over time. IMO, all drones should have "instant landing" maneuvers. Simply start by pitching the nose to a moderately steep angle of 90 degrees down to cut out a lot of that landing time. Bonus: no need to calculate fuel usage time for any future flights...
Alternatively, as soon as the drone gets to its destination air-space, it could simply detonate any remaining fuel. ::KaBang:: - The sound of a drone reaching a state of perfection in usefulness to mankind.
Protip: Removing the human element from surveillance and war devalues it dangerously. Grow up children. Your toys can not do your jobs for you.
OK, so it's a rake, and it's made of game-dev poo. That tells me exactly fuck-all about why you think it sucks. I fear you've just started picking at your analogy-hole and wound up crawling inside and finding another universe that you refuse to tell any of us outsiders about, except that it's crappy and you've lost a mythic mop up there. What do you see, man!? Is the rake shaped like doubt or complacency? Is the mop to absorb your tears? How did you manage to fit a hardware store in your hole?
As a game developer, I think it's fine for a game to end. I think what happens with most MMOs is simply greed. You've got all these players and a nice world, and money's coming in, so why let the game end? Instead of remaking the rules like one needs to in order to explore new gameplay mechanics, they instead just expanded a game -- Diluting and dispersing its fun and visual interest and mild dose of story in the time and space domains. IMO, It lacks balance of the highest order.
With online worlds pulling the plug is evil because no one can play the game again later to experience it. At that point I'd say set up some donations and call on fans to keep servers online according to actual demand. Hell, maybe even open source the back-end at end of life. Greed prevents these things. If there's a next game to travel to, you can plan ahead for a way to have friends stay in contact across worlds. They then become interplanetary travelers, campaigning across worlds, not limited to a single world at a time... I digress.
In the future I hope the medium of games matures and allows others to realize that there is such a thing as too big of a painting, too long a song or movie, too time consuming and sprawling a game. What I'd like to see, and what I'm working on, is bringing the collaborative collective world experience to games that have beginnings, middles, and ends. You can play a game and be done playing it; While the game lives on for others you can move on. We've got other games to make and play, many more worlds to explore and experiences to make. Expansionitis can only be cured by nipping it in the bud, or occasionally through a healthy dose of user made content...
It's okay to craft a complete world, and just refine that one experience to perfection (in your opinion: WotLK), then move on to newer, better things. I'd like to see some online multiplayer games grow beyond just continual life suck and be more like adventures. Adventurers don't keep climbing the same mountain after they've conquered it. They go off in search of new adventure. With games, players seek not just more of the same -- Bigger worlds, more items, more grind -- They seek new mechanics too. Unless the game is designed to have continually vastly differing mechanics, then you either risk destroying the current game by infusing it with fresh new gameplay. The answer is simple: Plan for the end, and perhaps provide a transition to the next game world, with new and different mechanics, experiences, and also expectations.
IMO, WoW is an example of how not to pace your game. Everything from life to the universe, to reloading and firing a gun, to watching movies, having sex, etc, incorporates an activity cycle. Get out of sync with that harmony and rhythm and you're uncomfortable, "unbalanced". Games can give us great insight into the hearts and minds of our race, but only if we set the greed aside and our sights on the fresh horizon.
Looks like eating spicy food and smoking cigars is good for you, thanks science :-)
Studies like these come out all the time. There seems to be both ill effects and beneficial effects for just about everything, including water: Drink too much of it and you'll die. "Everything in moderation," seems to work for most things. Determining at what concentration it's considered "moderation" is the tricky bit -- The difference between kills you and makes you stronger is often simply the dosage amount.
I know that you're all young whippersnappers who should get off my damn lawn, but does nobody remember the RSA Perl T-Shirts.
Yeah, I have a few of the RSA shirts. I also remember posting the cryptic Perl code to verify my email signatures as the signature of my emails... Though I'm not sure if these are my memories or that of the ancient one I must be a clone of... I mean, I'm just over 3 decades old, and my lawn is yet very meager, surely these engrams are transplants.
The problem isn't government. The problem is the passive, benighted electorate that tolerates it. We, as a population, get the government we deserve.
What a load of BS. There's an entrenched single party system: The Democratic-Republican party. They split into Democrats and Republicans after the 1824 presidential elections, and now with their singular influence ensure no better systems of voting is ever enacted: Like having a primary vote, secondary vote, ect, to allow voters to vote for 3rd parties but after the 3rd party is eliminated the vote doesn't go to waste because it's re-tallied with your secondary choice... Nope, that'll never happen, not with the current two-party system. Any vote to a 3rd party is wasted in the current system, thus preventing even slight change. That the Democrats and Republicans pull favors for each other by voting on each the other's pet projects even after stating oppositions is further evidence that your votes can't matter. Those supposedly representing you, don't.
You're a dumbass if you think that voters control the government we have, they effectively have none. We can't even really vote with our feet due to international immigration laws, nor should we have to... The only vote I can imagine that the public has left is that of not voting with our fists. That we don't do so is a sign of fear and misplaced hope for change, not passive tolerance.
Just because we suffer while evil is sufferable doesn't mean we deserve to suffer. It means we're fucking prudent you twit. Hurry up and die, you're hindering the herd.
It's treason to plot the violent overthow of your own government.
That may be the case... However. Let me introduce to to a little thing we call US History.
All of human civilization (the Anthropocene)...
I think you mean: All of human civillization (the Anthroporcine)...
What? They scrapped Google Reader? I had always meant to try that someday. I need to get around to trying out a Chromebook someday too...
However, I'd wipe it and install Debian, so the web stats wouldn't be counting me anyway -- Hold on, doesn't that mean the traffic graphs are more about ChromeOS adoption than that of a Chromebook? It's not like installing Cyanogen makes my Nexus not a Nexus anymore...
Wait just a damn minute. Did we just comment on observations of statistics?! Well, the whole things moot then isn't it? 100% of those I've polled agree.
All a distro is just a specific collection of software/packages that is given a name.
That's it and by that definition...this is a distro. Pretty simple.
Crunchbang like many other distros is in fact more than that. It is a collection of packages and customizations to those packages...AND the accompaning community of developers and users....that come together to make a distro unique.
Crunchbang Shill!
Fess up. How much free software are they giving you to get you to post this stuff?
And, yes, you can call your distro "Gothmollix", you don't even have to replace any of the inards if you want, just the name. If you're distributing it, it's a distribution AKA "Distro".
Tell me again how, as an individual ISV or inventor, I could *ever* be successful in the USA's current legal environment?
Apparently, it's quite simple. Just look at the current state of the arts and start filing patents for the next obvious innovation. Used to be "$X on a computer", then "$X on the Internet" now "$X on mobiles". So, the next big thing will be private "clouds" -- streaming your media collection from your home NAS, what's next after that? Synchronizing your whole family's individual private clouds so that they can share redundant backups of everything, and you just buy a new PC or NAS and plug it in, put in your password, and you're all set. It's quite easy to predict the tech around that, and then the tech around the next innovation, etc, etc. Even if you only get 10% right, you've still got a bunch of ideas locked up in patents.
Now, here's the key thing: DO NOT MAKE ANY OF IT. You can't actually make anything because the other technologies you'll need to implement atop are all tied up in patents and the established companies will sue you out of existance and buy your patents for cheap... Corporations are immortal, they can just choose to waste 20 years of time not licensing a patent. However, if you don't make anything you can just wait till everyone else does -- I mean, these are obvious innovations we're talking here, so they'll come about pretty quickly. Since you don't make anything, they can't sue you back for infringing any of their patents, you just use your own patents to bash them with.
So long as you rent an empty suite in an office building for your shell corp in East Texas, you can sue there, where they're favorable to the economy of Artificially Scarce Ideas. If you get big enough, then you just move your money overseas in a Double Irish so that if worse comes to worse, you can coast quite comfortably on the money you save by not paying any taxes on your intangible intellectual property rights.
In short: Become that which you despise. That is the way of the Sith.
Do your kids have credit cards? It requires CC info and an online update before they can even use it. Afterwards they can charge up in-game-transactions at the press of a button. Just FYI, the system might not be what you expect.
(posting OT as AC)
Well, there's your problem right there: Operating Thetans should know better than to deprive the free service of its ad revenue.
I can parse the Perl perfectly; Though the performance was pleasing, the prose would perform poorly due to parsing problems:
# Song Ends HERE
Sure some sentient system sees that and stops the song, but to a sub-sentient server saying some secret something isn't sufficient; The sub scope is still standing wide open. She should suffix a single syntactic 'stop' symbol: }
That she keeps a straight face while doing so doesn't bode well for the bloodline.
That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
Clearly, that girl is interested in back doors because he has a package at his front door.