That's more or less the thinking behind KDE 4.0 too. While I like the new kde a lot I still think it was a mistake to release so early and sometimes I long for the snappiness and low resource usage of KDE 3.5.x. And it still has some quirks although most of the applications are great.
I agree with him. Why not make a encyclopaedia that holds all the information of mankind? I'd like to see every piece humanity in there from science, culture, geography, history to notable contemporary people to every little shop and market in every little city and village and why not, even porn and other questionable material. It's part of us, it should be there in the "hivemind".
I'd also love it if there could be a timeline on the articles such that I can see a snapshot of the world as taken in the year 2011 compared to say 50 years in the future, 2061. I want to be able to go to Wikipedia in 50 years and see the world exactly as it was now. My city, my country, my people, the state of technology and culture, etc.
Exactly... sometimes "good enough" is better than "it should work in theory but we don't have the required hardware/algorithmical/whatever capabilities yet". It probably won't work perfectly in some cases but for most applications it's great.
I really think AI will be created in the same way.
Once in a while a need appears for a AI related task and someone finds a "good enough solution". In time, someone will need a robot to have a serious conversation with and there will be enough knowledge lying around that it will be easy to create that "good enough" solution.
It will be like with the kinect and wii, no-one will expect what will come out of it but everyone will think "hm, they should have done that years ago".
So don't use Office, there are plenty of editors (WYSIWYG or not) out there that allow you to never take your hands off the keyboard, and they're especially good (TeX) if you're interested in writing papers (like for students).
Am I missing something here? What's so special about a device that takes EM radiation and transforms it into heat? A black block of steel does the same thing.
Now, if the device could transform it into electricity directly, it would be extremely useful for wireless energy transmissions.
1. It doesn't matter how exploitable software, since the number of viruses that enter a system through security holes is insignificant relative to the number of malware that runs manually by the user. Social engineering >> security holes.
2. The top dog does improve and it's also helped a lot by antivirus companies but it won't stop stupid people from running malware.
I know all this because I work for a security company and we've had customers infected with Fake Antiviruses which is mindboggling: why would you trust a site that tells you to deactivate your antivirus and then run a file it gives you?... Actually there are other "respected" sites that do that (I'm looking at you Adobe)
Well, using antibiotics will make the diseases stronger and more difficult to cure, while vaccines will enable you to be healthy with a weaker immune system, lowering your defenses against unvaccined diseases. So, the reasons for not using antibiotics and the ones for not using vaccines are kind of the same: improving the chance of fighting a generic disease that you didn't expect.
You're kidding, but I actually can't believe these people actually think like that. How can you be so goddamn narrow-minded? It's so infuriating I might actually leave a hateful comment somewhere on the Internet.
Before anyone goes all political corectness on my ass, I'm referring of course to the fact that arabs write from right to left and Japanese from top to bottom as opposed to westerners that write left to right.
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That's more or less the thinking behind KDE 4.0 too. While I like the new kde a lot I still think it was a mistake to release so early and sometimes I long for the snappiness and low resource usage of KDE 3.5.x. And it still has some quirks although most of the applications are great.
I agree with him. Why not make a encyclopaedia that holds all the information of mankind? I'd like to see every piece humanity in there from science, culture, geography, history to notable contemporary people to every little shop and market in every little city and village and why not, even porn and other questionable material. It's part of us, it should be there in the "hivemind".
I'd also love it if there could be a timeline on the articles such that I can see a snapshot of the world as taken in the year 2011 compared to say 50 years in the future, 2061. I want to be able to go to Wikipedia in 50 years and see the world exactly as it was now. My city, my country, my people, the state of technology and culture, etc.
Is it ironic that I searched Wikipedia for Kublai Khan?
Not if the company you work for has a strict policy of "we don't fix bugs because we don't have them (or at least that's what we tell the users)".
non-manogamous? Women that don't date men or what? I guess that's a good birth control.
Exactly... sometimes "good enough" is better than "it should work in theory but we don't have the required hardware/algorithmical/whatever capabilities yet". It probably won't work perfectly in some cases but for most applications it's great.
I really think AI will be created in the same way. Once in a while a need appears for a AI related task and someone finds a "good enough solution". In time, someone will need a robot to have a serious conversation with and there will be enough knowledge lying around that it will be easy to create that "good enough" solution.
It will be like with the kinect and wii, no-one will expect what will come out of it but everyone will think "hm, they should have done that years ago".
Nah, some parts of the world really do know how to plan and make things future-proof. Not my country but some parts...
Too soon man... or too late?
That seems stupid. All (or most of) their traffic comes from google, why would they give the results for free to those coming from google?
No, Crystal Tokyo.
So don't use Office, there are plenty of editors (WYSIWYG or not) out there that allow you to never take your hands off the keyboard, and they're especially good (TeX) if you're interested in writing papers (like for students).
Am I missing something here? What's so special about a device that takes EM radiation and transforms it into heat? A black block of steel does the same thing.
Now, if the device could transform it into electricity directly, it would be extremely useful for wireless energy transmissions.
1. It doesn't matter how exploitable software, since the number of viruses that enter a system through security holes is insignificant relative to the number of malware that runs manually by the user. Social engineering >> security holes.
2. The top dog does improve and it's also helped a lot by antivirus companies but it won't stop stupid people from running malware.
I know all this because I work for a security company and we've had customers infected with Fake Antiviruses which is mindboggling: why would you trust a site that tells you to deactivate your antivirus and then run a file it gives you?... Actually there are other "respected" sites that do that (I'm looking at you Adobe)
A False Positive? Yeah, many autorun applications get that...
Aaaand... parts of the tower will be pulled up more which should make the tower relatively easier to keep up.
Well, using antibiotics will make the diseases stronger and more difficult to cure, while vaccines will enable you to be healthy with a weaker immune system, lowering your defenses against unvaccined diseases. So, the reasons for not using antibiotics and the ones for not using vaccines are kind of the same: improving the chance of fighting a generic disease that you didn't expect.
Some people's egos are so fragile they have to shit on everyone they meet to feel good about themselves.
You're kidding, but I actually can't believe these people actually think like that. How can you be so goddamn narrow-minded? It's so infuriating I might actually leave a hateful comment somewhere on the Internet.
So... you have that and a half in a rack? Why the extra operation? Btw, how many racks? Why the extra division into racks?
Looks like some kind of script that tries the same shit over and over and expects perl and other stuff to be there.
Or it just sends the emoticon characters individual characters with a small delay.
They always were
*looks away uncomfortably*
Uhm, the people in my country are using almost exclusively yahoo IM (and more recently facebook alongside)
"Cassandra is schemaless": I read that as "Cassandra is shemaleless"...
I think I need to look at some sites with cute cats or something like that.
Before anyone goes all political corectness on my ass, I'm referring of course to the fact that arabs write from right to left and Japanese from top to bottom as opposed to westerners that write left to right.