Hehe... that.sig has produced more replies to my posts than their content...
That sentence is a quote by Clarence Darrow and is often used sarcastically. Run fortune a couple thousand times and you may read it there (that's where I got it from...)
I have had the belief for some time now that a genre that may surface in the future will be a mixture of 3D shooter and graphic adventure (ala Monkey Island and Grim Fandango, two of the greatests games ever).
As we all know, the market will go wherever it get pushed to; but who are the ones pushing the market? I am a gamer, and if a great game surfaces I will certainly buy it, but that means nothing when you have 30 or 40 15-years-old playing Counter Strike in a 'net café.
The market is being pushed in the more-FPS/more-gore/more-bullets direction and there's where the market will go (at least for now)
The problem is that the industry has reached such a highly commercial and competitive level that it's almost imposible (and getting worse all the time) for small companies to enter the business.
The consecuence is that the games are coming from the same sources, the same creators and the same distributors, and they are not going to take the risk of losing the easy money they're making by releasing a new and original game. So we always get a new version of a product that has a proven market.
There's something nobody has addressed here... neo is given a spoon in the "real" world by the person that was overtaken by agent Smith... but that spoon is the one that was bent inside the matrix by the child on the oracle's house on the first movie
I'm pretty sure that this will set a milestone in the Linux development history.
We have multiple distributions (SUSE, RH, MDK), multiple WM (Gnome, KDE, E), multiple Office Suites (KOffice, OpenOffice, AbiWord), imaging software, network tools... even multiple kernels where to choose from, but we are stuck with only one graphical environment.
I know there has been a lot of advancemente in the FB handling, but officially, if you want to have some windows you need X.
Personally, I love X, but I for one can see (and have seen a lot of) people complaining about X; and from efforts like this one only good things can happen.
This is kind of of-topic, but what does the Matrix topic icon represents?
I have looked at it several times and still don't get it.
Re:Maybe the problem is Minsky himself?
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It's not a dead end. He is complaining that there seems to be no interest in studying the big picture. We are focusing in solving specific problems and creating "smart" systems that operate on a set of rules, maybe "learning" on the way to enhance the predefined rules originally installed by the creators.
But the real AI comes when you create a 'stupid' system that is able to become smart through learning and training. He feels dissapointed because nobody (or almost nobody) is focusing in this direction.
You have smart toys ala Aibo, and smart systems ala Eliza, and a lot of people is working towards creating smarter toys and smarter systems, but the real breaktrough will come when somebody manages to create the dumbest system possible.
I am quite sure if you actually read the complaints against these students that you would discover that they were NOT being sued for creating the tool
The student interviewed in CNN (linked in the article) was punished for creating a search tool that was used by other students to search for data, including... MP3s...
Is his responsability what others do with the tool he created? Well, I sure hope not.
Most jurisdictions have laws against aiding criminals
I believe everybody that does so should be prosecuted for aiding criminals. What we have here is somebody being prosecuted (or intimidated to be prosecuted) for creating a generic tool that, in some cases, can be used to commit copyrights infringements.
You can kill people with a gun, but I haven't seen any lawsuit against S&W for creating a tool that can be used to commit a crime.
You can make a photocopy of a book, and while it's true that Xerox and other companies have been threatened I haven't heard yet of any paper company being sued for creating a medium that can be used to infringe copyrights.
Is Ford liable for you running your car against a 80 years old man crossing the street?
I know that these students don't have the resources to fight this through courts, but boy, how was I hoping for some one of them to figh this.
The best way to overcome the chicken-and egg problem in CS and IT (any company requires you to have experience, so how do you get work experience?) is Open Source. I created several Open Source projects that were fairly well known, and I used it as the experience background for my first job.
SCO released a linux distribution. At least the kernel was released under the GPL.
Do you realize that if their claims are correct, and indeed somebody inserted SCO copyrighted code in the Linux kernel, they distributed that code under the GPL in their Caldera Linux distribution?
IANAL, but it seems to me that either way they're screwed. If they manage to win this (and that's a long shot by itself) someone could argue that SCO distributed that code under the GPL.
Quanta has gone a long way since its first release, but it lacks a (kind of useless anyways in professional development) WYSIYG functionality.
You can argue (and I will agree with you) that most designers create the skeleton in DreamWeaver and polish the HTML by hand, but there is a lot of people that will panic if you tell them that the new platform you want to migrate to does not have a DreamWeaver-like solution available.
But that was not my point, I think the main issue here is that almost all the needed applications are included in a standard Linux installation, but something is still lacking, and that is the general feel of the OS.
I love linux as it is, but if you try to look at it objectively, from the Joe User point of view you will see what I mean.
Linux (as an OS and a collection of software) is ready for the desktop, and it has been this way for a long time, but I still have to see a distribution that is ready for the desktop user. Almost all the software has been written already, and there are commercial alternatives anyways, so the people who has the responsability now are the distro makers.
You are so damn right. That's exactly what Linux distros are lacking. Linux already has all the applications needed to make the change (all but a DreamWeaver-like HTML editor), the problem is in the presentation, distribution, general feel of the environment.
I know a lot of distros are going this way (RH 8.0 and the unified desktop was a step in the right direction and they ditched a lot of apps from the menus, just leaving one of each; MDK 9.0 and 9.1 have the right installer for any newbie to use, perhaps Lycoris is also going this way, but I have never used it) but there must be a substantial change.
Take the configuration utilities that come with MDK 9.1 and the hardware detection tools available (kudzu). All the applications and utilities are there... OpenOffice, Gimp, Eclipse, KDevelop, JBuilder, Yahoo Messenger, Mozilla, lICQ, GAIM, all the applications used in everyday computing are already available, so the problem _must_ be something else, and I agree with the parent post that is a matter of form (or presetation) more than anything else.
What would I do if I had a distribution? I would highly integrate all the available applications in a simple and _intuitive_ environment (did I just described MacOSX?)
Re:Be that as it may, but...
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...at least *nix is God's OS-of-choice. And the manuscript you mentioned was surely edited in Emacs.
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You mean that you finally tried out that Slackware 3.0 CD you had since 6 years ago?
It's silly that people think that Linux is difficult for the avera user. Windows _is_ difficult for the average user, that's why the averag user only uses IE, MSWord and AIM or Y! Messenger. No average user can install cleanly windows.
Having said that I invite you to try out Mandrake 8.2. The installation process is _easiest_ than with Windows. It even takes less time. It has all the driver built in. It detects all your hardware. It does everything everybody says Windows does best than Linux, and does it best than Windows because it plainly _works_.
All my family uses Linux, and they _love_ it, they even make jokes about not having BSODs. And they are average "Joe" users.
I hadnt tought of it, its the perfect argument to throw at the non-believers.
You would be AMAZED at the ammount of people I have known that still denies the apollos... I even had a teacher (in the university !!!!) who stated that they were fake....
The probelm behind online marketing is that its cheap enough for everyone to do it. So you loose the "unique" feel of conventional advertisement.
The truth is the reason behiond the success of traditional advertisement is that its very expensive. That guarantees that the customer will remember the few brands that manage to get a goot marketing campaign.
Having said that i would recommend you to leave traditional online advertisement (websites, p2p, slashdot, etc) as secondary, and focus on untraditional and innovative advertisement. Im not telling you to hack google to show your band as the result of every query, but to be smart and careful.
For instance, you could start a "music for geeks" campaign, giving away linux CDs in your shows and showing source code behind the stage, that would get you on the news, and from there (if you are good) you are done.
The key: innovation, do something nobody has ever done.
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Hehe ... that .sig has produced more replies to my posts than their content ...
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That sentence is a quote by Clarence Darrow and is often used sarcastically. Run fortune a couple thousand times and you may read it there (that's where I got it from
I have had the belief for some time now that a genre that may surface in the future will be a mixture of 3D shooter and graphic adventure (ala Monkey Island and Grim Fandango, two of the greatests games ever).
As we all know, the market will go wherever it get pushed to; but who are the ones pushing the market? I am a gamer, and if a great game surfaces I will certainly buy it, but that means nothing when you have 30 or 40 15-years-old playing Counter Strike in a 'net café.
The market is being pushed in the more-FPS/more-gore/more-bullets direction and there's where the market will go (at least for now)
The problem is that the industry has reached such a highly commercial and competitive level that it's almost imposible (and getting worse all the time) for small companies to enter the business.
The consecuence is that the games are coming from the same sources, the same creators and the same distributors, and they are not going to take the risk of losing the easy money they're making by releasing a new and original game. So we always get a new version of a product that has a proven market.
There's something nobody has addressed here ... neo is given a spoon in the "real" world by the person that was overtaken by agent Smith ... but that spoon is the one that was bent inside the matrix by the child on the oracle's house on the first movie
We have licensed the PPRK to Acroname, Inc
If you look at the bottom of the page you will see this:
We have licensed the PPRK to Acroname, Inc
I'm pretty sure that this will set a milestone in the Linux development history.
... even multiple kernels where to choose from, but we are stuck with only one graphical environment.
We have multiple distributions (SUSE, RH, MDK), multiple WM (Gnome, KDE, E), multiple Office Suites (KOffice, OpenOffice, AbiWord), imaging software, network tools
I know there has been a lot of advancemente in the FB handling, but officially, if you want to have some windows you need X.
Personally, I love X, but I for one can see (and have seen a lot of) people complaining about X; and from efforts like this one only good things can happen.
Well, the editors don't read the site, the posters don't RTFA, do you expect the reviewers to RTFB?
Thanks,
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BTW, somehow to my eyes they look like a couple of donuts more than anything else
This is kind of of-topic, but what does the Matrix topic icon represents?
I have looked at it several times and still don't get it.
It's not a dead end. He is complaining that there seems to be no interest in studying the big picture. We are focusing in solving specific problems and creating "smart" systems that operate on a set of rules, maybe "learning" on the way to enhance the predefined rules originally installed by the creators.
But the real AI comes when you create a 'stupid' system that is able to become smart through learning and training. He feels dissapointed because nobody (or almost nobody) is focusing in this direction.
You have smart toys ala Aibo, and smart systems ala Eliza, and a lot of people is working towards creating smarter toys and smarter systems, but the real breaktrough will come when somebody manages to create the dumbest system possible.
I am quite sure if you actually read the complaints against these students that you would discover that they were NOT being sued for creating the tool
... MP3s ...
The student interviewed in CNN (linked in the article) was punished for creating a search tool that was used by other students to search for data, including
Is his responsability what others do with the tool he created? Well, I sure hope not.
It's funny how the sig I'm using has produced more replies that the comments itself.
That sig is taken from a quote from Clarence Darrow, and is meant sarcastically
Most jurisdictions have laws against aiding criminals
I believe everybody that does so should be prosecuted for aiding criminals. What we have here is somebody being prosecuted (or intimidated to be prosecuted) for creating a generic tool that, in some cases, can be used to commit copyrights infringements.
You can kill people with a gun, but I haven't seen any lawsuit against S&W for creating a tool that can be used to commit a crime.
You can make a photocopy of a book, and while it's true that Xerox and other companies have been threatened I haven't heard yet of any paper company being sued for creating a medium that can be used to infringe copyrights.
Is Ford liable for you running your car against a 80 years old man crossing the street?
I know that these students don't have the resources to fight this through courts, but boy, how was I hoping for some one of them to figh this.
The best way to overcome the chicken-and egg problem in CS and IT (any company requires you to have experience, so how do you get work experience?) is Open Source. I created several Open Source projects that were fairly well known, and I used it as the experience background for my first job.
SCO released a linux distribution.
At least the kernel was released under the GPL.
Do you realize that if their claims are correct, and indeed somebody inserted SCO copyrighted code in the Linux kernel, they distributed that code under the GPL in their Caldera Linux distribution?
IANAL, but it seems to me that either way they're screwed. If they manage to win this (and that's a long shot by itself) someone could argue that SCO distributed that code under the GPL.
Quanta has gone a long way since its first release, but it lacks a (kind of useless anyways in professional development) WYSIYG functionality.
You can argue (and I will agree with you) that most designers create the skeleton in DreamWeaver and polish the HTML by hand, but there is a lot of people that will panic if you tell them that the new platform you want to migrate to does not have a DreamWeaver-like solution available.
But that was not my point, I think the main issue here is that almost all the needed applications are included in a standard Linux installation, but something is still lacking, and that is the general feel of the OS.
I love linux as it is, but if you try to look at it objectively, from the Joe User point of view you will see what I mean.
Linux (as an OS and a collection of software) is ready for the desktop, and it has been this way for a long time, but I still have to see a distribution that is ready for the desktop user. Almost all the software has been written already, and there are commercial alternatives anyways, so the people who has the responsability now are the distro makers.
You are so damn right. That's exactly what Linux distros are lacking. Linux already has all the applications needed to make the change (all but a DreamWeaver-like HTML editor), the problem is in the presentation, distribution, general feel of the environment.
... OpenOffice, Gimp, Eclipse, KDevelop, JBuilder, Yahoo Messenger, Mozilla, lICQ, GAIM, all the applications used in everyday computing are already available, so the problem _must_ be something else, and I agree with the parent post that is a matter of form (or presetation) more than anything else.
I know a lot of distros are going this way (RH 8.0 and the unified desktop was a step in the right direction and they ditched a lot of apps from the menus, just leaving one of each; MDK 9.0 and 9.1 have the right installer for any newbie to use, perhaps Lycoris is also going this way, but I have never used it) but there must be a substantial change.
Take the configuration utilities that come with MDK 9.1 and the hardware detection tools available (kudzu). All the applications and utilities are there
What would I do if I had a distribution? I would highly integrate all the available applications in a simple and _intuitive_ environment (did I just described MacOSX?)
And the manuscript you mentioned was surely edited in Emacs.
Just after he ran
ln -sF
You mean like ... Dave Nelson?
I believe this is just the right time for Danforth to tell what he saw ....
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May I ask
You mean that you finally tried out that Slackware 3.0 CD you had since 6 years ago?
It's silly that people think that Linux is difficult for the avera user. Windows _is_ difficult for the average user, that's why the averag user only uses IE, MSWord and AIM or Y! Messenger. No average user can install cleanly windows.
Having said that I invite you to try out Mandrake 8.2. The installation process is _easiest_ than with Windows. It even takes less time. It has all the driver built in. It detects all your hardware. It does everything everybody says Windows does best than Linux, and does it best than Windows because it plainly _works_.
All my family uses Linux, and they _love_ it, they even make jokes about not having BSODs. And they are average "Joe" users.
# rm -rf / ;-)
Why would you want do delete the winky tree??
I hadnt tought of it, its the perfect argument to throw at the non-believers.
... I even had a teacher (in the university !!!!) who stated that they were fake ....
You would be AMAZED at the ammount of people I have known that still denies the apollos
The probelm behind online marketing is that its cheap enough for everyone to do it. So you loose the "unique" feel of conventional advertisement.
The truth is the reason behiond the success of traditional advertisement is that its very expensive. That guarantees that the customer will remember the few brands that manage to get a goot marketing campaign.
Having said that i would recommend you to leave traditional online advertisement (websites, p2p, slashdot, etc) as secondary, and focus on untraditional and innovative advertisement. Im not telling you to hack google to show your band as the result of every query, but to be smart and careful.
For instance, you could start a "music for geeks" campaign, giving away linux CDs in your shows and showing source code behind the stage, that would get you on the news, and from there (if you are good) you are done.
The key: innovation, do something nobody has ever done.