First. There's a difference between spoken language and written language. Learning to speak a new language is much more complicated.
Second. These languages are based on English, and certainly bear more resemblance to human language than machine language. They are a sort of compromise, so you get that point.
Third. Most importantly, how many people know these languages? It's doubtful that even 1% of the world's population knows even one of those languages. They're not adaptations by humanity, they're a collection of knowledge that helps us manipulate the world.
Humans adapt the world around them. We have to have certain abilities in order to do that, so a portion of humans will adapt their minds to a situation - evolution is particularly fond of adaptation. We call these people "specialists," generally speaking. But the result of that adaptation is that the rest of the world adapts to humans, because the "specialists" make sure of it (and get paid, sometimes even appropriately.)
In sum, perhaps it's true that programmers will learn to whistle to their computers, but there's no way that all computer users are going to do it. It's not even an efficient method of communication, or it wouldn't be a dead language.
"Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?"
Humans don't adapt to their environment. They adapt the environment to them. That said, the answer to your question is simply 'no' and slightly more verbosely 'Humans are not going to change the language they speak just so a computer can understand. We'll just fix the computers.'
Predictive algorithms to excise programs that do damage to your computer can have a list of exceptions - programs that will not be excised, essentially, the same way that antibodies will not attack your body.
I'm not a medical expert, but:
Aren't allergies the reaction of antibodies to neutral substances in your body? So what really happens isn't that the antibodies are defending "legitimate code," they're just using up extra clock cycles. (insert disclaimer of idiocy here)
"Remarkably, science has documented solar events a hundred times more intense... But none of them interacted with the Earth in such a violent manner."
"What transpired... was this:... From August 28 to September 2 several solar flares were observed. Then, on September 1, the Sun released a mammoth solar flare. For almost an entire minute the amount of sunlight the Sun produced at the region of the flare actually doubled."
"The question I get asked most often is, 'Could a perfect space storm happen again, and when?'" added Tsurutani. "I tell people it could, and it could very well be even more intense than what transpired in 1859. As for when, we simply do not know."
Perhaps we're looking at something similar now. Interestingly, the article I grabbed these quotes from was published 10.24.03... just a couple days ago.
Does this mean we can finally slashdot google? The idea is that it costs more to send the webpage than it does for slashdot to host a story... and if it costs 1500 euros, that's a significant cost. Go/.? Yay, let's slashdot google?
No, the only requirement is that students have an up-to-date virus protection software, so that our network actually works and isn't bogged down by things like Blaster. We require up-to-date MS patches too, for MS users. Linux computers aren't touched, neither are Macs, because neither of those are targets, generally speaking.
... recently needed to take in all the computers of students in the dorms.
This was a brute force governmental-style tactic. We didn't bother with network scanners or anything like that. But the purpose was expressly not to check for kazaa or morpheus or any kind of file sharing software. This wasn't a RIAA-sponsored move, or anything like that. WOU is far too small a university for the RIAA to really pay us that kind of attention.
No, we were just replacing the virus software with Norton corporate, making sure everyone had up to date versions so their computers couldn't be easily compromised. And upgrading windows. This was so the network wouldn't die. I like to think it kind of sent a message to the students. Sure, we used brute force, but we did it to help them, not to hinder them or enforce the regulations of some stupid private company.
I think that's the way government should work, it's just unfortunate that far too often, everything gets fubar, and people get out of control. Like the U of F. Too much power, they should learn how to control it properly within themselves.
"Cheerio." It's not palced as wlel in cnoextt as the oehtr wrdos, wihch mkaes it hrdaer.
It's also considerably more difficult to write in that method, and words like 'wihch' would be harder to understand if written as, say 'wcihh'. 'ch' is a solid letter, at least in my mind, separate from c or h.
My best friend was harrassed by geeks looking for a date for months because she worked at Electronics Boutique. She hated them. Looking for love at the videogame store isn't going to get you anywhere, unless you're looking for the latest Tomb Raider expansion.
You are obviously completely ignorant of Chinese culture.
I don't really, either, but I know they don't have the same capitalistic mindset that you're displaying. Remember, there's a *reason* China wants to protect against Americans, and as a communist government, they get what they want.
By the way, have anyone but the Mongols and Japanese attacked China? Has China ever attacked anyone but its own people? They're Big Bad Red, but I've just never seen it.
This is data aggregation in order to help the students. It's not data aggregation to sell you a special kind of potatoes. And even if it was, OH MY GOD, it's the END OF THE WORLD.
Get over it. Data aggregation is profitable. Intelligent computer systems are profitable. "Profit" means, in this case, that the students MIGHT be given a special incentive to help them finish school. They might be given an extra chance.
When one of my teachers noticed that I was about to drop out, he invited me to the Tech Cadre. I became the CEO of this in-school business. Yay! What would've happened if he hadn't noticed or said anything? I don't know. But what's the difference between the caring eye of a teacher or administrator and the caring eye of a computer?
That's only 100 times as costly. If you have, say, ten million shareholders in your company, you could buy, say, 100,000 CDs for only $1.90 per person, assuming the RIAA didn't find a loophole and make your company very quickly go bankrupt.
I think Cringely just wants this idea because he knows he could buy in and then sell out two days later.
I was the CEO of a NW Oregon company called 'Tech Cadre' for less than a year. Tech Cadre has some interesting properties that a lot of companies don't possess. For one thing, no employee can possibly last more than four years, and none have yet lasted more than three. The company does its firing, then waits several months before hiring anyone new - although at times it loses half its workforce in one of these three-month changeovers.
Tech Cadre is an in-school business, and all of the employees are students. They do webdesign, and some very good web design, along with other support for clients. I'm no longer an employee nor an employer, but I still recognize them as what they are: the best of their kind. The business is completely run and funded by students and the work they do, is completely volunteer-based, and is currently in the process of moving partially from Windows to Linux. The Tech Cadre also supports Milwaukie High School in its computing efforts, and has plans to put Linux in the classroom as well - in some places, these plans are already in effect.
You see, we the students already know what K12 needs. It doesn't need Linux or Windows, it needs both. Even in the Tech Cadre, a group of nerds who hates Macintoshes, we run a few Macs in order to keep part of our customer base satisfied. We run Windows for the same reason and for real world experience, and Linux to keep our servers running. A monopoly on either side of the wire is pointless - a company should never buy into just one OS, despite the technical knowledge needed to run two or three. Each operating system has its place and a tremendous value, and the Tech Cadre recognizes that. Can you professionals recognize the same thing that a group of amateurs does?
Downloading songs is not illegal, so this isn't entrapment. You're sharing the files legally on your computer. If you want, you can make it illegal to download files from your computer by including a EULA with them - MS seems to have a way to do this to mp3s, so that you have to have a certain license to use them. (Anyone else tried to play an mp3 and had a microsoft website pop up?)
Unfortunately for the RIAA it is using scripts to collect information about your personal identity, which I'm fairly sure is illegal. But oh wait, someone let the DMCA into congress. Never mind - it's fine to invade privacy.
That's the real issue to me, here, not the legality of copyright infringement (uhm, it's very illegal.)
It's more of a fear tactic. The police do much the same thing - it doesn't particularly matter if they're hated or not, as long as they stay within their legal boundaries, and as long as people are too afraid to do anything about it.
We like to spend money on things like GPS systems for every car (how many millions would this cost) instead of giving the money to schools, in order to educate children who can come up with better systems. I'd come up with a better system and offer my opinion on it, but ALAS, I have had an OREGON education.
Technology doesn't work that way. For NVidia to optimize their card for backwater, inefficient programming techniques, they would have to sacrifice the parts of their engine that curry to extremely well-written code.
Optimization is rather specific like that. Using your analogy, if you have a back designed perfectly for carrying a full load of cinderblocks, your back is curved and perhaps has a nice little cushion. When you drop the load, you're going to realize that you still can't walk any faster than you could when carrying the cinderblocks. You'll still be able to carry a load of say, lumber (although not as efficiently), but you aren't going to live as long. More importantly, you're going to have a humpback! I mean, come on, what graphics card wants that?...
"transmits information on the physical location where the signal originates."
Er.. well, how? Built-in GPS on the BIOS? I mean, I might like to have some sort of GPS on my laptop, so that I could get immediate weather reports, disaster warnings, and all sorts of maps wherever I go. Don't you think that might be a better use of such technology than an anti-theft safeguard? How often are corporate machines stolen? Why not just use a key?
Rather say that Slashdot is tired of posting MS news and having hundreds of worthless flame posts about them; thus, rather than posting an additional 4 posts about Microsoft, Slashdot has condensed them to save space. Thank you, Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
First. There's a difference between spoken language and written language. Learning to speak a new language is much more complicated.
Second. These languages are based on English, and certainly bear more resemblance to human language than machine language. They are a sort of compromise, so you get that point.
Third. Most importantly, how many people know these languages? It's doubtful that even 1% of the world's population knows even one of those languages. They're not adaptations by humanity, they're a collection of knowledge that helps us manipulate the world.
Humans adapt the world around them. We have to have certain abilities in order to do that, so a portion of humans will adapt their minds to a situation - evolution is particularly fond of adaptation. We call these people "specialists," generally speaking. But the result of that adaptation is that the rest of the world adapts to humans, because the "specialists" make sure of it (and get paid, sometimes even appropriately.)
In sum, perhaps it's true that programmers will learn to whistle to their computers, but there's no way that all computer users are going to do it. It's not even an efficient method of communication, or it wouldn't be a dead language.
"Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?"
Humans don't adapt to their environment. They adapt the environment to them. That said, the answer to your question is simply 'no' and slightly more verbosely 'Humans are not going to change the language they speak just so a computer can understand. We'll just fix the computers.'
Predictive algorithms to excise programs that do damage to your computer can have a list of exceptions - programs that will not be excised, essentially, the same way that antibodies will not attack your body.
I'm not a medical expert, but:
Aren't allergies the reaction of antibodies to neutral substances in your body? So what really happens isn't that the antibodies are defending "legitimate code," they're just using up extra clock cycles. (insert disclaimer of idiocy here)
Finally, my poor ego has been assuaged after sitting in a crowded theatre of six-year-old girls, wondering if this was perhaps the lobby of hell...
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/pe rfect_space_storm.html
... was this: ... From August 28 to September 2 several solar flares were observed. Then, on September 1, the Sun released a mammoth solar flare. For almost an entire minute the amount of sunlight the Sun produced at the region of the flare actually doubled."
... just a couple days ago.
"Remarkably, science has documented solar events a hundred times more intense... But none of them interacted with the Earth in such a violent manner."
"What transpired
"The question I get asked most often is, 'Could a perfect space storm happen again, and when?'" added Tsurutani. "I tell people it could, and it could very well be even more intense than what transpired in 1859. As for when, we simply do not know."
Perhaps we're looking at something similar now. Interestingly, the article I grabbed these quotes from was published 10.24.03
"Please note that the Forbes article has a very different focus from the one mentioned in a previous Slashdot reference."
What about this article, or perhaps this one?
Does this mean we can finally slashdot google? The idea is that it costs more to send the webpage than it does for slashdot to host a story... and if it costs 1500 euros, that's a significant cost. Go /.? Yay, let's slashdot google?
No, the only requirement is that students have an up-to-date virus protection software, so that our network actually works and isn't bogged down by things like Blaster. We require up-to-date MS patches too, for MS users. Linux computers aren't touched, neither are Macs, because neither of those are targets, generally speaking.
... recently needed to take in all the computers of students in the dorms.
This was a brute force governmental-style tactic. We didn't bother with network scanners or anything like that. But the purpose was expressly not to check for kazaa or morpheus or any kind of file sharing software. This wasn't a RIAA-sponsored move, or anything like that. WOU is far too small a university for the RIAA to really pay us that kind of attention.
No, we were just replacing the virus software with Norton corporate, making sure everyone had up to date versions so their computers couldn't be easily compromised. And upgrading windows. This was so the network wouldn't die. I like to think it kind of sent a message to the students. Sure, we used brute force, but we did it to help them, not to hinder them or enforce the regulations of some stupid private company.
I think that's the way government should work, it's just unfortunate that far too often, everything gets fubar, and people get out of control. Like the U of F. Too much power, they should learn how to control it properly within themselves.
"Cheerio."
It's not palced as wlel in cnoextt as the oehtr wrdos, wihch mkaes it hrdaer.
It's also considerably more difficult to write in that method, and words like 'wihch' would be harder to understand if written as, say 'wcihh'. 'ch' is a solid letter, at least in my mind, separate from c or h.
...
My best friend was harrassed by geeks looking for a date for months because she worked at Electronics Boutique. She hated them. Looking for love at the videogame store isn't going to get you anywhere, unless you're looking for the latest Tomb Raider expansion.
Be nice. They're just trying to do their job.
You are obviously completely ignorant of Chinese culture.
I don't really, either, but I know they don't have the same capitalistic mindset that you're displaying. Remember, there's a *reason* China wants to protect against Americans, and as a communist government, they get what they want.
By the way, have anyone but the Mongols and Japanese attacked China? Has China ever attacked anyone but its own people? They're Big Bad Red, but I've just never seen it.
If we had two Microsofts, actually, nobody would get riled up about it at all. That's kind of the problem - there's only one of them.
Erm.
This is data aggregation in order to help the students. It's not data aggregation to sell you a special kind of potatoes. And even if it was, OH MY GOD, it's the END OF THE WORLD.
Get over it. Data aggregation is profitable. Intelligent computer systems are profitable. "Profit" means, in this case, that the students MIGHT be given a special incentive to help them finish school. They might be given an extra chance.
When one of my teachers noticed that I was about to drop out, he invited me to the Tech Cadre. I became the CEO of this in-school business. Yay! What would've happened if he hadn't noticed or said anything? I don't know. But what's the difference between the caring eye of a teacher or administrator and the caring eye of a computer?
This isn't orwellian. It's just a good idea.
Your database is going to have a 98% prediction rate for "high risk" administrators.
That's only 100 times as costly. If you have, say, ten million shareholders in your company, you could buy, say, 100,000 CDs for only $1.90 per person, assuming the RIAA didn't find a loophole and make your company very quickly go bankrupt.
I think Cringely just wants this idea because he knows he could buy in and then sell out two days later.
I was the CEO of a NW Oregon company called 'Tech Cadre' for less than a year. Tech Cadre has some interesting properties that a lot of companies don't possess. For one thing, no employee can possibly last more than four years, and none have yet lasted more than three. The company does its firing, then waits several months before hiring anyone new - although at times it loses half its workforce in one of these three-month changeovers.
Tech Cadre is an in-school business, and all of the employees are students. They do webdesign, and some very good web design, along with other support for clients. I'm no longer an employee nor an employer, but I still recognize them as what they are: the best of their kind. The business is completely run and funded by students and the work they do, is completely volunteer-based, and is currently in the process of moving partially from Windows to Linux. The Tech Cadre also supports Milwaukie High School in its computing efforts, and has plans to put Linux in the classroom as well - in some places, these plans are already in effect.
You see, we the students already know what K12 needs. It doesn't need Linux or Windows, it needs both. Even in the Tech Cadre, a group of nerds who hates Macintoshes, we run a few Macs in order to keep part of our customer base satisfied. We run Windows for the same reason and for real world experience, and Linux to keep our servers running. A monopoly on either side of the wire is pointless - a company should never buy into just one OS, despite the technical knowledge needed to run two or three. Each operating system has its place and a tremendous value, and the Tech Cadre recognizes that. Can you professionals recognize the same thing that a group of amateurs does?
Tech Cadre
Downloading songs is not illegal, so this isn't entrapment. You're sharing the files legally on your computer. If you want, you can make it illegal to download files from your computer by including a EULA with them - MS seems to have a way to do this to mp3s, so that you have to have a certain license to use them. (Anyone else tried to play an mp3 and had a microsoft website pop up?)
Unfortunately for the RIAA it is using scripts to collect information about your personal identity, which I'm fairly sure is illegal. But oh wait, someone let the DMCA into congress. Never mind - it's fine to invade privacy.
That's the real issue to me, here, not the legality of copyright infringement (uhm, it's very illegal.)
It's more of a fear tactic. The police do much the same thing - it doesn't particularly matter if they're hated or not, as long as they stay within their legal boundaries, and as long as people are too afraid to do anything about it.
We like to spend money on things like GPS systems for every car (how many millions would this cost) instead of giving the money to schools, in order to educate children who can come up with better systems. I'd come up with a better system and offer my opinion on it, but ALAS, I have had an OREGON education.
Amen, brother. ;)
Technology doesn't work that way. For NVidia to optimize their card for backwater, inefficient programming techniques, they would have to sacrifice the parts of their engine that curry to extremely well-written code.
...
Optimization is rather specific like that. Using your analogy, if you have a back designed perfectly for carrying a full load of cinderblocks, your back is curved and perhaps has a nice little cushion. When you drop the load, you're going to realize that you still can't walk any faster than you could when carrying the cinderblocks. You'll still be able to carry a load of say, lumber (although not as efficiently), but you aren't going to live as long. More importantly, you're going to have a humpback! I mean, come on, what graphics card wants that?
"transmits information on the physical location where the signal originates."
Er.. well, how? Built-in GPS on the BIOS? I mean, I might like to have some sort of GPS on my laptop, so that I could get immediate weather reports, disaster warnings, and all sorts of maps wherever I go. Don't you think that might be a better use of such technology than an anti-theft safeguard? How often are corporate machines stolen? Why not just use a key?
I'm obviously missing something here.
Rather say that Slashdot is tired of posting MS news and having hundreds of worthless flame posts about them; thus, rather than posting an additional 4 posts about Microsoft, Slashdot has condensed them to save space. Thank you, Slashdot.
Here's a nice salon.com (fictional) story about this topic, fast forwarded and given a bigger picture.