I'm sorry, but I'm an information junkie. I want all the novel stimuli to just keep coming at me faster and faster. I can't get enough of them. It's hard to even unplug for a weekend and not check my email.
Information Obesity? My ass... This is just a cop out for those who can't handle it.
Make sure they actually give you permission to re-mix the tunes. Otherwise they could slap the winner... or perhaps just the losers >;-)... in jail for copyright violation!
In the US, yes, but if you're in Japan it's completely legal!
Trinity and Neo weren't "tastefully having sex" they were "f*cking" and it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. My friends and I had enough time to look around the theatre and see all the sexually deprived souls in audience drooling, debate about whether or not it was even worth it to see the rest of the film and walk out while there were still naked bodies all over the movie screen.
Pardon me for holding the Wachowski Brothers to a higher standard but they established that for themselves in the first Matrix. My girlfriend's 16 year old sister and 14 year old cousin went to see this movie, did they need to see this orgy? It added nothing to the plot (oh wait, there was no plot) and limited their target audience.
They could have cut from the rave to the sex and been done with it, but instead they insisted on cramming it all down your throat in graphic detail for the entire first half of the film. It was not what I expected from "enlightened" film makers.
So after purchasing tickets weeks in advance, waiting 3 hours in line, myself and two other friends just walked out of the advanced screening of Matrix 2, in utter disgust. After a flashy introduction of what we had come to see (stunning gunfights in bullet time and brilliant martial arts) the film turns into a huge primal orgy in Zion. Granted we were expecting the film to expand on Neo and Trinity's romantic affairs, but did we really need to be exposed to Keano Reeves and Carrie Moss having sex? I feel that in this sequel the Watchowski Brothers abandoned all of the philosophical values that Neo personified in the original Matrix. I therefore ask slashdot: are we alone on this opinion?
You're absolutely right, that post isn't getting me laid. Which is exactly my point. What's "getting me laid" is the content of my character, something you can't judge from my interactions through social software like Slashdot.
In my opinion, "Social software" has already met its peak. I can stream any sort of dataset i have (video, audio, text, software, etc.) to anyone with a computer. P2P technology even opened up the door to communicate this information with people I don't know, and generate lists of contacts who require or provide similar information. At least technologically speaking, we have all the social software we're ever going to need.
I think the issue at hand is more psychological than technical. Social psychology revolves around a single issue: reproduction. The fact of the matter is, if we don't meet people we can't reproduce to pass our genes onto a new generation. This functional property of social interaction can't be replaced by software. No system of statistical compatibility will ever be able to tell you when you're in "love," nor will the Sims Online ever teach how to cope with living with other individuals. The only way to learn these kinds of behaviors is to interact with other human beings.
However, I do admit that social simulation can prodive a useful tool for computing. In particular, some areas of artificial intelligence deal with search spaces of unthinkable complexity and distributed computing (i.e. seti@home) allows many computers to work on the same problem at the same time. Which is exactly what humanity has been doing for ages.
I predict that social software, and even social psychology, will under go a massive revolution once the Turing test can no longer distinguish man from machine. ALICE has successfully fooled some old friends, but only because they thought it was just me "messing" with them, which I tend to do on occasion.
FYI, I'm finishing up my last year in college, with a BS in Math and a BA in Psychology.
I mail the above message to a bunch of people who are on my penis-enlarger opt-in list. Yes, they actually requested information about penis-enlargers, although they never said anything suggesting that they consent to me running scripts on their machines. I'm not spamming, but my inclusion of the script is slimey, and what the script does surely counts as "access."
However, the only plausable explaination for there being penis-enlarger mail in my box is that someone else opt'ed me on to the list.
I must commend Mozilla's "Junk" filters for doing an excellent job of keeping my inbox clean from this kind of stuff.
What OSS needs from wall street....
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is an AI that analyzes the market, predicts the best/safest investments, and buys the shares. Then Sells when it thinks their at their peak, and donates the money it makes to the FSF to fund it's own development.
Theoretically, it could even be reprogrammed to ruin MS share prices... hmmm
I recall an earlier article about the universe being topologically equivolent to a torus. Could this topology account for some of the inconsistancies in these "mass of the universe" calculations?
Consider any two stars of mass m and M. With distance r between them: The Gravitational force of attraction is G*M*m/r^2.
But you'd also have a gravitional force wrapped once around the torus of G*M*m/(r+L)^2.
Then you could wrap around again and again and again....
Of course, generally the distance would be too huge to make difference, but when you consider how many stars there are and the infinite number of loops around the torus you could make, it would add up eventually.
This is an excellent step towards keeping digil media playable, but I would have rather seen a similar bill dealing with hardware. In particular functions it should perform...
examples:
My Sony DVD player will play VCDs on CD-Rs but not Music CD-Rs.
My Sony PS2 will play Music CD-Rs but not VCDs on CD-Rs. Furthermore, although the hardware is cabable, it will not play import games or copies of games.
If it says "Compact Disc" on the hardware then it damn well better play "Compact Discs"
I'm refering to John R. Koza's "Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection" (1992 MIT Press)
What he did was randomly create populations of tree structures, with functions for interior nodes and constants for the terminal nodes. Then he would sort the populations by a fitness function, and select to individuals by a fitness proportionate roulette wheel and swap random subtrees or change slight (read: crossover and mutation).
Excellent read might I add.
But anyways, my point was: that the more fit an Orc program is, the longer it will survive in battle. Which is a really cool side effect of MASSIVE that probably wasn't even intended.
And I didn't really see many kick ass orcs... most of the killler bad guys were Urukai (pardon the spelling)
They can react, fight and make logical decisions based on inputted given data. The program is so details that agents can get dirtier as the battle progresses.
Not a very detailed or well written article. There's a slightly better one on Popular Science.
From Pop Sci: Massive characters, or "agents," function as complex beings subject to physical forces, with specific body attributes that range from the biological (short, good eyesight, dark skin) to the behavioral (aggressive). These features govern a Massive character's ability to generate credible motion. Each character is assigned a host of potential actions, as many as 350, each about a second long (sword up, sword down, step forward, step back). How these actions play out is determined by the character's brain, a tangled web of anywhere from 100 to 8,000 behavioral logic nodes, which provide the rules that allow each character to perceive, interpret and respond to what's happening around it: to make decisions and act. These nodes group into rule collections which control aggression, fighting style, movement across varied terrain, and a dozen other factors. Regelous originally tried to use pen and paper to sketch the relationships between nodes in a character. "It got chaotic very fast," he says, and Massive designers now use a special graphical user interface to connect nodes and create an agent's brain. A fully formed character--a map of its tendencies, its personality, if you will--looks like a huge, multidimensional spider web on the screen.
It sounds to be like a they used fuzzy logic neural networks. Interestingly enough, the battles would resemble Koza's Genetic Programming paradigm. Randomly generated orc programs, represented by tree structures, selected for fitness by success in battle. This would also explain how agents can get dirtier as the battle progresses.
where did the syndicate storyline comefrom? someone pulled that right out of thier ass. cowboy bebop is just trying to be too cool for my tastes. the kung fu master who doesent talk much and smirks (total lupin ripoff), the preety lady who steals (fujiko ripoff), the young kid who knows everything about computers, and the seasoned vet. plus a pet! wow! interesting charecters? hah
Caution: Possible Spoilers
Spike used to work for the syndicate before he became a bounty hunter. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is tied into the 26 episode series that you would need to watch before dissing such an awesome movie. The characters all have mysterious pasts; Spike is an ex-syndicconstantly refers life as "Watching a dream," ate member, Jet worked for the ISSP (a secret police), Faye lost her memory during carbon freeze and owes a huge debt to the doctors, and Ed is, well.. Ed (by the way, Ed is a she). and then there's Ein, their pet data dog.
A lot of imagery from the series in repeated in the movie too: Spike has 'died' (or close to it) at leaste twice before in the series (i'm not sure where exactly the movie fits in the time line). Spike's philosophy on life, is that he's watching a dream and feels a need to test himself -- to see if he's really alive. He also displays a brilliant array of martial arts , including Aikido.
The only problem I have, is that I'm so used to hearing the Japanese voices that the English ones don't quite fit. And the line in the trailer "I'm just your average bounty hunter"... it's supposed to be "Cowboy". Hence the name; "Cowboy Bebop" ('Bebop', by the way is the name of their ship)
Personally, I can't wait to see it on the big screen, and I'd recommend that you check it out too: you might be surprised.
There are major several advantages. Lisp
* comes with an console interpreter. Very handy for quick calculations.
* can define functions on the fly.
* can manipulate symbols.
And for a quick rundown:
CLICC produces compilable C code. CLISP also compiles to byte code, but still needs an interpreter. Lush allows inline C code!
You can find lisp bindings to do just about anything... especially in Lush
I'd boast more about how awesome LISP is but I've got a midterm in Real Analysis to study for, so just google it.
According to Linuxworld.com, a Linux operator would earn an annual salary of about $65,000, while a Windows operator might make $45,000 -- costs a school district would bear.
I would have gladly managed a Linux network at my high school just to get out of class every now and then, and I even had the skills to do so.
Then again, I wouldn't have gotten out of as many classes as I did fixing the computers running windows...
I too am rather confused by the distinction. You could probably even write a macro to translate most perl scripts into C. Any takers?
The thought process is the same whether you are using cshell, java, assembler or any other programming tool.
The end result is the same, but the thought process is entirely dependent on the tools you choose to use (or someone else chooses for you). How do you compare the design processes between functional and object orientented programming? Any problem can be solved either way, but the planning processes are radically different.
This is like saying that speaking another language will make a difference in mathematics.
However, programming languages are not all necessarily mathematically equivolent. The power to generate functions on the fly is limited to only a few languages (LISP for one) can handle, and is an essential component to higher level mathematics.
Besides, your conception of mathematics is highly dependent on your primary language. In Russian, they have words that are better suited for set theory than their English translations.
>>Just for the hell of it, the other day I typed >>'Windows' into Google. I got (about) 57,600,000 >>results. >> >>Then I typed 'Linux'. I got (about) 53,700,000 >>results.
Ahem...
If you search for "Microsoft" you'll only get 37,600,000 hits. Searching for "windows" won't distinguish the operating system from the glass.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry, but I'm an information junkie. I want all the novel stimuli to just keep coming at me faster and faster. I can't get enough of them. It's hard to even unplug for a weekend and not check my email.
Information Obesity? My ass... This is just a cop out for those who can't handle it.
Data has 0 calories.
Make sure they actually give you permission to re-mix the tunes. Otherwise they could slap the winner... or perhaps just the losers >;-) ... in jail for copyright violation!
In the US, yes, but if you're in Japan it's completely legal!
Trinity and Neo weren't "tastefully having sex" they were "f*cking" and it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. My friends and I had enough time to look around the theatre and see all the sexually deprived souls in audience drooling, debate about whether or not it was even worth it to see the rest of the film and walk out while there were still naked bodies all over the movie screen.
Pardon me for holding the Wachowski Brothers to a higher standard but they established that for themselves in the first Matrix. My girlfriend's 16 year old sister and 14 year old cousin went to see this movie, did they need to see this orgy? It added nothing to the plot (oh wait, there was no plot) and limited their target audience.
They could have cut from the rave to the sex and been done with it, but instead they insisted on cramming it all down your throat in graphic detail for the entire first half of the film. It was not what I expected from "enlightened" film makers.
So after purchasing tickets weeks in advance, waiting 3 hours in line, myself and two other friends just walked out of the advanced screening of Matrix 2, in utter disgust. After a flashy introduction of what we had come to see (stunning gunfights in bullet time and brilliant martial arts) the film turns into a huge primal orgy in Zion. Granted we were expecting the film to expand on Neo and Trinity's romantic affairs, but did we really need to be exposed to Keano Reeves and Carrie Moss having sex? I feel that in this sequel the Watchowski Brothers abandoned all of the philosophical values that Neo personified in the original Matrix. I therefore ask slashdot: are we alone on this opinion?
Nah man, Dante said we could have gatorade after the hockey game...
You're absolutely right, that post isn't getting me laid. Which is exactly my point. What's "getting me laid" is the content of my character, something you can't judge from my interactions through social software like Slashdot.
End of line.
In my opinion, "Social software" has already met its peak. I can stream any sort of dataset i have (video, audio, text, software, etc.) to anyone with a computer. P2P technology even opened up the door to communicate this information with people I don't know, and generate lists of contacts who require or provide similar information. At least technologically speaking, we have all the social software we're ever going to need.
I think the issue at hand is more psychological than technical. Social psychology revolves around a single issue: reproduction. The fact of the matter is, if we don't meet people we can't reproduce to pass our genes onto a new generation. This functional property of social interaction can't be replaced by software. No system of statistical compatibility will ever be able to tell you when you're in "love," nor will the Sims Online ever teach how to cope with living with other individuals. The only way to learn these kinds of behaviors is to interact with other human beings.
However, I do admit that social simulation can prodive a useful tool for computing. In particular, some areas of artificial intelligence deal with search spaces of unthinkable complexity and distributed computing (i.e. seti@home) allows many computers to work on the same problem at the same time. Which is exactly what humanity has been doing for ages.
I predict that social software, and even social psychology, will under go a massive revolution once the Turing test can no longer distinguish man from machine. ALICE has successfully fooled some old friends, but only because they thought it was just me "messing" with them, which I tend to do on occasion.
FYI, I'm finishing up my last year in college, with a BS in Math and a BA in Psychology.
I mail the above message to a bunch of people who are on my penis-enlarger opt-in list. Yes, they actually requested information about penis-enlargers, although they never said anything suggesting that they consent to me running scripts on their machines. I'm not spamming, but my inclusion of the script is slimey, and what the script does surely counts as "access."
However, the only plausable explaination for there being penis-enlarger mail in my box is that someone else opt'ed me on to the list.
I must commend Mozilla's "Junk" filters for doing an excellent job of keeping my inbox clean from this kind of stuff.
is an AI that analyzes the market, predicts the best /safest investments, and buys the shares. Then Sells when it thinks their at their peak, and donates the money it makes to the FSF to fund it's own development.
Theoretically, it could even be reprogrammed to ruin MS share prices... hmmm
I recall an earlier article about the universe being topologically equivolent to a torus. Could this topology account for some of the inconsistancies in these "mass of the universe" calculations?
Consider any two stars of mass m and M. With distance r between them:
The Gravitational force of attraction is G*M*m/r^2.
But you'd also have a gravitional force wrapped once around the torus of G*M*m/(r+L)^2.
Then you could wrap around again and again and again....
Of course, generally the distance would be too huge to make difference, but when you consider how many stars there are and the infinite number of loops around the torus you could make, it would add up eventually.
Any thoughts on this?
SNK VS Capcom Chaos is currently under development. I can't wait till this hits US arcades!
Right on
This reminded me of the Anime Laws of Physics.
This is an excellent step towards keeping digil media playable, but I would have rather seen a similar bill dealing with hardware. In particular functions it should perform...
examples:
My Sony DVD player will play VCDs on CD-Rs but not Music CD-Rs.
My Sony PS2 will play Music CD-Rs but not VCDs on CD-Rs.
Furthermore, although the hardware is cabable, it will not play import games or copies of games.
If it says "Compact Disc" on the hardware then it damn well better play "Compact Discs"
I'm refering to John R. Koza's "Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection" (1992 MIT Press)
What he did was randomly create populations of tree structures, with functions for interior nodes and constants for the terminal nodes. Then he would sort the populations by a fitness function, and select to individuals by a fitness proportionate roulette wheel and swap random subtrees or change slight (read: crossover and mutation).
Excellent read might I add.
But anyways, my point was: that the more fit an Orc program is, the longer it will survive in battle. Which is a really cool side effect of MASSIVE that probably wasn't even intended.
And I didn't really see many kick ass orcs... most of the killler bad guys were Urukai (pardon the spelling)
Peace--
in case you're interested, there's a recreation of helms deep in a doom level... I think you can find the story on /.
They can react, fight and make logical decisions based on inputted given data. The program is so details that agents can get dirtier as the battle progresses.
Not a very detailed or well written article. There's a slightly better one on Popular Science.
From Pop Sci:
Massive characters, or "agents," function as complex beings subject to physical forces, with specific body attributes that range from the biological (short, good eyesight, dark skin) to the behavioral (aggressive). These features govern a Massive character's ability to generate credible motion. Each character is assigned a host of potential actions, as many as 350, each about a second long (sword up, sword down, step forward, step back). How these actions play out is determined by the character's brain, a tangled web of anywhere from 100 to 8,000 behavioral logic nodes, which provide the rules that allow each character to perceive, interpret and respond to what's happening around it: to make decisions and act. These nodes group into rule collections which control aggression, fighting style, movement across varied terrain, and a dozen other factors. Regelous originally tried to use pen and paper to sketch the relationships between nodes in a character. "It got chaotic very fast," he says, and Massive designers now use a special graphical user interface to connect nodes and create an agent's brain. A fully formed character--a map of its tendencies, its personality, if you will--looks like a huge, multidimensional spider web on the screen.
It sounds to be like a they used fuzzy logic neural networks. Interestingly enough, the battles would resemble Koza's Genetic Programming paradigm. Randomly generated orc programs, represented by tree structures, selected for fitness by success in battle. This would also explain how agents can get dirtier as the battle progresses.
As much as I adore GM's new hywire, what I really want is a Hempcycle
Newsflash: Over 3 Million humans converted to the Church of Luke Skywalker of Latter Day Saints...
can I use the force too?
where did the syndicate storyline comefrom? someone pulled that right out of thier ass. cowboy bebop is just trying to be too cool for my tastes. the kung fu master who doesent talk much and smirks (total lupin ripoff), the preety lady who steals (fujiko ripoff), the young kid who knows everything about computers, and the seasoned vet. plus a pet! wow! interesting charecters? hah
Caution: Possible Spoilers
Spike used to work for the syndicate before he became a bounty hunter. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is tied into the 26 episode series that you would need to watch before dissing such an awesome movie. The characters all have mysterious pasts; Spike is an ex-syndicconstantly refers life as "Watching a dream," ate member, Jet worked for the ISSP (a secret police), Faye lost her memory during carbon freeze and owes a huge debt to the doctors, and Ed is, well.. Ed (by the way, Ed is a she). and then there's Ein, their pet data dog.
A lot of imagery from the series in repeated in the movie too: Spike has 'died' (or close to it) at leaste twice before in the series (i'm not sure where exactly the movie fits in the time line). Spike's philosophy on life, is that he's watching a dream and feels a need to test himself -- to see if he's really alive. He also displays a brilliant array of martial arts , including Aikido.
The only problem I have, is that I'm so used to hearing the Japanese voices that the English ones don't quite fit. And the line in the trailer "I'm just your average bounty hunter"... it's supposed to be "Cowboy". Hence the name; "Cowboy Bebop" ('Bebop', by the way is the name of their ship)
Personally, I can't wait to see it on the big screen, and I'd recommend that you check it out too: you might be surprised.
I would have to say LISP would be your best bet.
There are major several advantages.
Lisp
* comes with an console interpreter. Very handy for quick calculations.
* can define functions on the fly.
* can manipulate symbols.
And for a quick rundown:
CLICC produces compilable C code.
CLISP also compiles to byte code, but still needs an interpreter.
Lush allows inline C code!
You can find lisp bindings to do just about anything... especially in Lush
I'd boast more about how awesome LISP is but I've got a midterm in Real Analysis to study for, so just google it.
According to Linuxworld.com, a Linux operator would earn an annual salary of about $65,000, while a Windows operator might make $45,000 -- costs a school district would bear.
I would have gladly managed a Linux network at my high school just to get out of class every now and then, and I even had the skills to do so.
Then again, I wouldn't have gotten out of as many classes as I did fixing the computers running windows...
Scripter, programmer what's the difference?
I too am rather confused by the distinction.
You could probably even write a macro to translate most perl scripts into C. Any takers?
The thought process is the same whether you are using cshell, java, assembler or any other programming tool.
The end result is the same, but the thought process is entirely dependent on the tools you choose to use (or someone else chooses for you). How do you compare the design processes between functional and object orientented programming? Any problem can be solved either way, but the planning processes are radically different.
This is like saying that speaking another language will make a difference in mathematics.
However, programming languages are not all necessarily mathematically equivolent. The power to generate functions on the fly is limited to only a few languages (LISP for one) can handle, and is an essential component to higher level mathematics.
Besides, your conception of mathematics is highly dependent on your primary language. In Russian, they have words that are better suited for set theory than their English translations.
>>Just for the hell of it, the other day I typed
>>'Windows' into Google. I got (about) 57,600,000
>>results.
>>
>>Then I typed 'Linux'. I got (about) 53,700,000
>>results.
Ahem...
If you search for "Microsoft" you'll only get 37,600,000 hits. Searching for "windows" won't distinguish the operating system from the glass.
Personally, I consider Sam Raimi to be an excellent director who at the very least deserves to have his name spelt correctly.