In fact, there should be a "web client". The idea is to remain in a browser at all times (except for skype). But what techcrunch screwed up royally here is that they did not use android. That would have given them the latest codebase from a megacorp to have what? A nice screen keyboard (I know it's an oxymoron, jokers), 3g, and other important stuff... such as the browser. Job would have been much easier with Android. It might also have much more perceived safety in the long run.
What they should do is go all way down this route. SELECT operating system when you get a new computer. Every store could have a bundle of OSs, and let users decide between $150 Windows or $1 per cd Ubuntu.
The directional controls on mobile phones are crap compared to a Gameboy.
Yes but the AC has a point. Imagine an android phone with the directional controls done right. Or maybe an ipod touch/iphone if the holy saints from apple design were to allow such sins to happen. Sony seems to be in a tough spot here. The lack of a 2nd analog stick is making the rounds in the early comments over the blogs that leaked it. The memory chip might be a proprietary sony lock-in attempt, yet once again. You may need to rebuy your previously bought games to play here. And of course it must have all functionality of the previous PSPs, including SKYPE.
Memo to these failing phone hardware makers: go for android, include skype, perhaps settle on a "gaming standard" of buttons and controls, and let "hackers" (i.e., someone else to take the blame) provide "nintendo/ps1/ps2/psp/amiga etcetc emulators".
Of course, there may be probably some surprise in store, and I hope Sony has something interesting, even if I'm not planning to get it
same here. and the first thought I have upon awakening is, how is the thing running (mostly, I code looong simulations or np-hard heuristics, so I leave them running while my brain is in sleep mode)
and seriously, are you talking gpgpu performance or the magical wonders of seti@home, h264, science funding, and so on? So many pages wasted... and of course, much worse: my time wasted on the poetry.
If you absolutely need this type of wandering off to have more pages and more clicks to survive on the web, then I'm concerned your site may not last for very long. I personally love the site, but these 15-page wonderings off the subject drive me fucking nuts.
You have a great question there. In my point of view, analogy refers to "experience recognition", not "pattern recognition". It's hard to put that down in a few words, but the idea is that the patterns (outside of any human understanding) do not really matter as much as we tend to think. They only serve as cues, and the recognition that arises in the brain is a function of both (outside) pattern and (internal, previous) experience. We propose that "experience recognition" ENCODES mostly experiences, instead of patterns (outside of any understanding). One of the problem with computer science and Object-oriented programming, in my opinion, is that it is hard to transfer properties and methods between objects and between classes.
When we say "DNA is like a staircase", or "DNA is like a zipper", or "DNA is like a computer program", or "DNA is like a fingerprint in a crime scene", we "explain", and "understand" what DNA is (or what role it plays), based on analogy to things we've had previous experience with, not based on the real thing, in this case, complex molecules of Deoxyribonucleic acid.
As a chess researcher (in human cognition), I once had dinner with Doug Hofstadter and he mentioned his ideas concerning how a chess program should play, like humans do. It has been my goal for over 5 years now, and it's really hard. I could show Doug's idea that "analogy lies at the core of perception (of any scenario, including chess) by making psychological experiments in all levels, from novices to grandmasters. That work came out in journals like Cognitive Science, Minds & Machines, and New Ideas in Psychology (accepted). So I think we're on the right track. But my paper on the computational model has been rejected three times, the last of which, fortunately, has good reports from referees who only want the piece to be rewritten.
I long for the day in which Hofstadter's ideas would become more mainstream in AI and cognitive science.
They're using Netcraft to prove their server count - which reports on IP addresses. Just because there are 50,000 IP addresses responding to port 80, doesn't mean they have 50,000 boxes. The shared hosting arrangements can easily have dozens and dozens of "servers" operating on the same physical box.
Netcraft has developed a technique for identifying the number of computers (rather than IP addresses) acting as web servers on the internet, and attributes these computers to hosting locations through reverse DNS lookups.
I suspect there's a power law in here, and that the estimates of google and amazon and others should be way beyond this, perhaps surpassing 500.000. That would be an interesting milestone.
FTFA:
There's a widely circulated estimate of 450,000 servers, but that number is at least three years old. If it was ever accurate, it certainly isn't anymore, given Google's data center building spree. Google's recently revealed container data center holds more than 45,000 servers, and that's a single facility built in 2005.
My friend, in our little meaningless flamewar here, we seem to be in the same camp. This little discussion has long died and nobody's looking anymore.
I also worked as an intern for IBM. One of my best friends is a VP of IBM. But IBM is sometimes, a bully. As you say, they have bogus patents--that's what I think is absurd (and I think you also do).
Thanks for amending wikipedia. That's EXACTLY what I was proposing. Let the truth travel to wikipedia, even if that travel has its ups and downs.
I published misinformation there? Maybe. But the fact is that IT IS ALSO MISINFORMATION, of an order of magnitude larger, that IBM is a OMG! !! record holder of patents, while so many of them are just downright silly and actually being WIDELY mocked. As I said above, and I'm sure you read it clearly: "I have nothing against IBM or other patent trolls, I just want them to look in the wikipedia mirror to see if they are happy with who they are."
If a company is a record holder on the number of patents, that should show up on wikipedia. BUT it also should be relevant and of interest if that company is printing out garbage-in garbage-out.
I'm in favor of patents when they have innovation. I think about patenting some stuff myself, instead of just writing for scientific journals.
In any case, open up your champagne, you got all the mod points you wanted, and you trolled me out of here with a beautiful "informative my ass", followed by an ignoratio elenchi rant. I was just here, feeling like shit, thinking about this; how you really knew how to manipulate mods.
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must conform to society...
don't say these things
you are a unique snowflake
IS WHAT I DO!
weill go on and BING for "Microsoft word torrent" and see for yourself who's the winner
its comments like these that keep me coming to slashdot. where are my mod points now?
For all those laptop hunter commercials. They may actually be working.
Apple wasn't ready to deal with increasing the price.
Quick somebody mod this funny
In fact, there should be a "web client". The idea is to remain in a browser at all times (except for skype). But what techcrunch screwed up royally here is that they did not use android. That would have given them the latest codebase from a megacorp to have what? A nice screen keyboard (I know it's an oxymoron, jokers), 3g, and other important stuff... such as the browser. Job would have been much easier with Android. It might also have much more perceived safety in the long run.
4chan is proud of you!
That would scary the hell out of mycrimesoft.
1. google for this: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124362706194767281.html 2. click on 1st link 3. no paywall if you come from google
The directional controls on mobile phones are crap compared to a Gameboy.
Yes but the AC has a point. Imagine an android phone with the directional controls done right. Or maybe an ipod touch/iphone if the holy saints from apple design were to allow such sins to happen. Sony seems to be in a tough spot here. The lack of a 2nd analog stick is making the rounds in the early comments over the blogs that leaked it. The memory chip might be a proprietary sony lock-in attempt, yet once again. You may need to rebuy your previously bought games to play here. And of course it must have all functionality of the previous PSPs, including SKYPE.
Memo to these failing phone hardware makers: go for android, include skype, perhaps settle on a "gaming standard" of buttons and controls, and let "hackers" (i.e., someone else to take the blame) provide "nintendo/ps1/ps2/psp/amiga etcetc emulators".
Of course, there may be probably some surprise in store, and I hope Sony has something interesting, even if I'm not planning to get it
You, sir, are a fucking imbecil. Interesting my ass...
thanks. I am not alone
stack overflow motherfucker! :^)
AC, you usually post crap in here, but, this time, I wish I had mod points
same here. and the first thought I have upon awakening is, how is the thing running (mostly, I code looong simulations or np-hard heuristics, so I leave them running while my brain is in sleep mode)
If you absolutely need this type of wandering off to have more pages and more clicks to survive on the web, then I'm concerned your site may not last for very long. I personally love the site, but these 15-page wonderings off the subject drive me fucking nuts.
I think we're in the same boat in this one. I don't intend to beat grandmasters. I only want to understand better how humans play.
When we say "DNA is like a staircase", or "DNA is like a zipper", or "DNA is like a computer program", or "DNA is like a fingerprint in a crime scene", we "explain", and "understand" what DNA is (or what role it plays), based on analogy to things we've had previous experience with, not based on the real thing, in this case, complex molecules of Deoxyribonucleic acid.
We use analogy, rather than pattern recognition.
As a chess researcher (in human cognition), I once had dinner with Doug Hofstadter and he mentioned his ideas concerning how a chess program should play, like humans do. It has been my goal for over 5 years now, and it's really hard. I could show Doug's idea that "analogy lies at the core of perception (of any scenario, including chess) by making psychological experiments in all levels, from novices to grandmasters. That work came out in journals like Cognitive Science, Minds & Machines, and New Ideas in Psychology (accepted). So I think we're on the right track. But my paper on the computational model has been rejected three times, the last of which, fortunately, has good reports from referees who only want the piece to be rewritten.
I long for the day in which Hofstadter's ideas would become more mainstream in AI and cognitive science.
he's got an 8-screen setup
They're using Netcraft to prove their server count - which reports on IP addresses. Just because there are 50,000 IP addresses responding to port 80, doesn't mean they have 50,000 boxes. The shared hosting arrangements can easily have dozens and dozens of "servers" operating on the same physical box.
Not exactly what netcraft is saying right now from TFAL:
Netcraft has developed a technique for identifying the number of computers (rather than IP addresses) acting as web servers on the internet, and attributes these computers to hosting locations through reverse DNS lookups.
I suspect there's a power law in here, and that the estimates of google and amazon and others should be way beyond this, perhaps surpassing 500.000. That would be an interesting milestone.
FTFA:
There's a widely circulated estimate of 450,000 servers, but that number is at least three years old. If it was ever accurate, it certainly isn't anymore, given Google's data center building spree. Google's recently revealed container data center holds more than 45,000 servers, and that's a single facility built in 2005.
1. Find insightful post in story
2.Find a little flaw in it that might be contestable
3. BLUE SCREEN OF MOD INTELLIGENCE DEATH! Write up a huge violent rant against the tiny flaw, and ignore the bigger issues
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4. Watch the mods respond like rats on a maze to the manipulation.
If there are whole FAKE medical journals from billion dollar publishers like Elsevier, it is very very plausible that there are whole fake diseases.
May the leg thing is for real, in fact, probably it is. But don't be let down by the mods trolling you out. You had a point there.
I also worked as an intern for IBM. One of my best friends is a VP of IBM. But IBM is sometimes, a bully. As you say, they have bogus patents--that's what I think is absurd (and I think you also do).
Thanks for amending wikipedia. That's EXACTLY what I was proposing. Let the truth travel to wikipedia, even if that travel has its ups and downs.
I published misinformation there? Maybe. But the fact is that IT IS ALSO MISINFORMATION, of an order of magnitude larger, that IBM is a OMG! !! record holder of patents, while so many of them are just downright silly and actually being WIDELY mocked. As I said above, and I'm sure you read it clearly: "I have nothing against IBM or other patent trolls, I just want them to look in the wikipedia mirror to see if they are happy with who they are."
If a company is a record holder on the number of patents, that should show up on wikipedia. BUT it also should be relevant and of interest if that company is printing out garbage-in garbage-out.
I'm in favor of patents when they have innovation. I think about patenting some stuff myself, instead of just writing for scientific journals.
In any case, open up your champagne, you got all the mod points you wanted, and you trolled me out of here with a beautiful "informative my ass", followed by an ignoratio elenchi rant. I was just here, feeling like shit, thinking about this; how you really knew how to manipulate mods.