There are still things computers can't compute on their own, only by giving them many test cases.
Example: ask a random question like "Five of Ann's friends are Tom's too and Ann has fifteen friends. How many friends does the girl have that the boy doesn't know?".
That question is easy for a human but hard to parse by a computer: you can alternate between calling them boy/girl or by name, between using words or digits for numbers, you can use different scenarios.
The question is easy to generate randomly and pretty easy for a human to answer.
You could ask things that require human thought, not just parsing. Something like object A is larger than B and C is smaller than A, then put some options like C is the smallest, B is the largest, etc. Then bots would need a new level of thinking and we'll be safe for a few more (tens of?) years.
Then things need to change completely. The current government needs a complete makeover. I know it's not an easy thing to do but the it's postponed the worse it will be when it happens.
It seems you replied before the moderators made the GP +funny. Can anyone here realize that a post is supposed to be funny without looking at the rating?
It won't be released. That is proven by the fact that no future people came back in time to tell us it's actually released. Maybe in a Universe or two later it will be here.
"When I was tiny and we had our first x86 machine, I recall receiving a free 7-up game from the local supermarket that was a 3.5 diskette. You played spot, the 7-up mascot in an Othello rip off against another person next to you or the computer. Is this any different?"
Hey, I had that game when I was a kid. I never got it to work because of driver problems but I kept wondering what the hell it was about. The config screen seemed cool at that age.
It's not about switching development environments. That's something you have to deal with in every IT business. It's about the attractiveness of the market and how easy it is for developers to make money.
I tried reading it from the beginning waiting for something worthwhile to happen but I just got bored. You probably get a laugh after a hundred posts because you already know the characters or whatever. Still, it's not worth it to read them all IMO. XKCD, questionablecontent, ctrl-alt-del, LFGcomic and others are good (funny or with interesting stories) from the start.
That idea has to be enforced by the masses. The government, corporations and all the institutions have power because we give it to them. Until the average man/woman starts caring about more than "bread and circus" and tries to enforce his/her rights, we will never have a good world to live in.
If that's the case, then all you have to do is look at the address bar and see if you really are on the site you are seeing. If you click on a link and find yourself looking at your page on a social network while the address says "spam.dyndns.com" you should realize something is wrong.
Well this discovery is probably part of that idea. If there are huge structures beyond our observable Universe (the guy said something like hundreds of billions of light years) then our observable Universe is probably not actually in the center of it. I guess this is exactly like the geo-centrism but on a larger scale.
Yes, they argued that those structures may come from the big bang itself but that means they traveled many times faster than light which is maybe more improbable.
Disclaimer: I'm not much of an expert on astrophysics either.
Is there a financial (too many pages to host) reason for deleting entries? If not, I see no other reason to delete pages except when there are abusions like advertising or spamming. I think that Wikipedia is more than just an enciclopedia right now, considering how many articles talk about trivial subjects. It's more like a conglomeration of human knowledge and I think that if someone took out the time to write a 1000word page on something there are many people that will want to see it, no matter the subject.
I will probably sound like a troll but duuh! That's what everyone with a real brain between their ears knew from the beginning but were to afraid to tell that to the US government (remember "you are with us or against us"? how democratic is that?) or was thought as a conspiracy nut. There may truth in there, after all there is no smoke without fire but come on... Everybody knows the US gov (or the oligarchy behind it) is after the oil in the middle east.
Yeah, those are my thoughts exactly. These talks about evil companies trying to rob you of privacy are similar to government conspiracy theories. Of course, they are no saints, that's for sure, look what they did to poor Yahoo:D. But like you said, if there are enough people watching their moves (and reacting fast enough) it'll probably be OK.
Finding the criminals might not be much easier but I think the system is a really good thing because you then have real time proof given of what happened. Suppose someone killed someone else while you were there. First, you can send a picture/movie of the criminal (they know who it is which is probably the hardest part of a crime investigation) and second you can make sure you are not accused of anything, you wouldn't have to be afraid of getting charged yourself, I reckon people avoid calling the police because of that. Also, this might actually stop the criminal from doing anything, just point the phone at him, dial 911 and tell him the police are seeing him.
Your analogy is wrong: once you put the diesel in the car working on gasoline you can consider it used (you can't put it back easily and it's probably mixed with other fuel in the tank). If you buy a piece of clothing and you find it doesn't fit, you should be able to return it in a small amount of time as long as it's obvious you didn't wear it more than to try it on. The same should go for games, if you return the game in a few days you should get a refund since you probably didn't get to finish it or try all the content.
Oh come on... That's just semantics. In this discussion DRM is used to refer to those evil things like SecuRom and others that really phone home and disrupt the buyer more than they should.
You can't make a game without a minimum protection and requesting for a key seems pretty OK to me. Of course you could argue that it's pointless because people who want to pirate the game will pirate it anyway but you shouldn't make it too easy for them though. The average user might think that since it doesn't ask for a password it's free for everyone.
Well I was kinda joking. I was just a little disappointed because I always liked Seinfeld and I still do but now I'll associate him with Microsoft. Also, I'm not a huge anti MS troll, just a lesser one. That is, I hate them and Windows, I love Linux (Ubuntu and Debian especially) but I use XP at home because of certain requirements (WoW:D).
Who says it's an ad for a product. It's a video that tries to create an image for the company. Why do Coca-Cola and Pepsi put their stuff in all the shops and restaurants? Do they actually need more advertising, telling people they sell drinks? They just want to impose their image on us. Most people I know, when buying a drink they think of Coke first and revert to Pepsi if they can't get Coke.
And the biggest problem I see with this is that after the collapse of the Roman Empire there were 1000 years of Dark Ages... Maybe the hole in leadership won't be that big this time but it would still fsck up everything. Think Asimov's Foundation.
Yeah and the commentary also said that the calculations involved were too complex to make it work fast enough so they had to lower the resolution of calculations in the portals.
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There are still things computers can't compute on their own, only by giving them many test cases.
Example: ask a random question like "Five of Ann's friends are Tom's too and Ann has fifteen friends. How many friends does the girl have that the boy doesn't know?".
That question is easy for a human but hard to parse by a computer: you can alternate between calling them boy/girl or by name, between using words or digits for numbers, you can use different scenarios.
The question is easy to generate randomly and pretty easy for a human to answer.
You could ask things that require human thought, not just parsing. Something like object A is larger than B and C is smaller than A, then put some options like C is the smallest, B is the largest, etc. Then bots would need a new level of thinking and we'll be safe for a few more (tens of?) years.
Then things need to change completely. The current government needs a complete makeover. I know it's not an easy thing to do but the it's postponed the worse it will be when it happens.
It seems you replied before the moderators made the GP +funny. Can anyone here realize that a post is supposed to be funny without looking at the rating?
PS: I'm too new here to use the 'whoosh' response
It won't be released. That is proven by the fact that no future people came back in time to tell us it's actually released. Maybe in a Universe or two later it will be here.
"When I was tiny and we had our first x86 machine, I recall receiving a free 7-up game from the local supermarket that was a 3.5 diskette. You played spot, the 7-up mascot in an Othello rip off against another person next to you or the computer. Is this any different?"
Hey, I had that game when I was a kid. I never got it to work because of driver problems but I kept wondering what the hell it was about. The config screen seemed cool at that age.
It's not about switching development environments. That's something you have to deal with in every IT business. It's about the attractiveness of the market and how easy it is for developers to make money.
I tried reading it from the beginning waiting for something worthwhile to happen but I just got bored. You probably get a laugh after a hundred posts because you already know the characters or whatever. Still, it's not worth it to read them all IMO. XKCD, questionablecontent, ctrl-alt-del, LFGcomic and others are good (funny or with interesting stories) from the start.
That idea has to be enforced by the masses. The government, corporations and all the institutions have power because we give it to them. Until the average man/woman starts caring about more than "bread and circus" and tries to enforce his/her rights, we will never have a good world to live in.
If that's the case, then all you have to do is look at the address bar and see if you really are on the site you are seeing. If you click on a link and find yourself looking at your page on a social network while the address says "spam.dyndns.com" you should realize something is wrong.
Well this discovery is probably part of that idea. If there are huge structures beyond our observable Universe (the guy said something like hundreds of billions of light years) then our observable Universe is probably not actually in the center of it. I guess this is exactly like the geo-centrism but on a larger scale.
Yes, they argued that those structures may come from the big bang itself but that means they traveled many times faster than light which is maybe more improbable.
Disclaimer: I'm not much of an expert on astrophysics either.
Is there a financial (too many pages to host) reason for deleting entries? If not, I see no other reason to delete pages except when there are abusions like advertising or spamming. I think that Wikipedia is more than just an enciclopedia right now, considering how many articles talk about trivial subjects. It's more like a conglomeration of human knowledge and I think that if someone took out the time to write a 1000word page on something there are many people that will want to see it, no matter the subject.
How does rotation stretch it to a cigar shape? Shouldn't it make more like a thick pancake?
I will probably sound like a troll but duuh! That's what everyone with a real brain between their ears knew from the beginning but were to afraid to tell that to the US government (remember "you are with us or against us"? how democratic is that?) or was thought as a conspiracy nut. There may truth in there, after all there is no smoke without fire but come on... Everybody knows the US gov (or the oligarchy behind it) is after the oil in the middle east.
Yeah, those are my thoughts exactly. These talks about evil companies trying to rob you of privacy are similar to government conspiracy theories. Of course, they are no saints, that's for sure, look what they did to poor Yahoo :D. But like you said, if there are enough people watching their moves (and reacting fast enough) it'll probably be OK.
Finding the criminals might not be much easier but I think the system is a really good thing because you then have real time proof given of what happened. Suppose someone killed someone else while you were there. First, you can send a picture/movie of the criminal (they know who it is which is probably the hardest part of a crime investigation) and second you can make sure you are not accused of anything, you wouldn't have to be afraid of getting charged yourself, I reckon people avoid calling the police because of that. Also, this might actually stop the criminal from doing anything, just point the phone at him, dial 911 and tell him the police are seeing him.
Your analogy is wrong: once you put the diesel in the car working on gasoline you can consider it used (you can't put it back easily and it's probably mixed with other fuel in the tank). If you buy a piece of clothing and you find it doesn't fit, you should be able to return it in a small amount of time as long as it's obvious you didn't wear it more than to try it on. The same should go for games, if you return the game in a few days you should get a refund since you probably didn't get to finish it or try all the content.
Also, see the other poster about updates.
Oh come on... That's just semantics. In this discussion DRM is used to refer to those evil things like SecuRom and others that really phone home and disrupt the buyer more than they should.
You can't make a game without a minimum protection and requesting for a key seems pretty OK to me. Of course you could argue that it's pointless because people who want to pirate the game will pirate it anyway but you shouldn't make it too easy for them though. The average user might think that since it doesn't ask for a password it's free for everyone.
Well I was kinda joking. I was just a little disappointed because I always liked Seinfeld and I still do but now I'll associate him with Microsoft. Also, I'm not a huge anti MS troll, just a lesser one. That is, I hate them and Windows, I love Linux (Ubuntu and Debian especially) but I use XP at home because of certain requirements (WoW :D).
Who says it's an ad for a product. It's a video that tries to create an image for the company. Why do Coca-Cola and Pepsi put their stuff in all the shops and restaurants? Do they actually need more advertising, telling people they sell drinks? They just want to impose their image on us. Most people I know, when buying a drink they think of Coke first and revert to Pepsi if they can't get Coke.
I myself was torn between laughter and hate at Seinfeld. How could he do such a thing? What did they give him?
And the biggest problem I see with this is that after the collapse of the Roman Empire there were 1000 years of Dark Ages... Maybe the hole in leadership won't be that big this time but it would still fsck up everything. Think Asimov's Foundation.
Yeah and the commentary also said that the calculations involved were too complex to make it work fast enough so they had to lower the resolution of calculations in the portals.
Forest then?
Get with the times, it's cybermen now.