hate to nit pick, but your whole theory falls apart when one watches ciphers betrail dealings in the matrix 1. It is rather clearly implied that "our robot masters" have the ability to wipe memories. There are some other problems with your "problem" with the matrix, but I think Ill just stick with K.I.S.S. for this retort.
Vellum is right, its also worth pointing out that books were not always in the familar codex form. when the bible was writen virtualy all books were on scrolls rather than bound.
How about calculating the rate of ring growth in trees as well? How about the speed that paint will dry at various temperatures?;-)
This is slashdot, not CNN. Its news for nerds, most of us here find math interesting, just because of its meticulous nature. For that matter, I would be very interested if someone came up with non-obvious insights into how fast trees grow, or the nature of paint drying.
Imagine going to an art museum and instead of borrowing a tape-recorder that tells you what you are looking at, you borrow a pair of goggles and information pops up next to the item.
yeah, or you could put some sort of high tech gizmo next to the item that broadcast the information in a text format into the eyes of anyone who looked at it. If you were really clever you could use the ambiant light as a power supply for it and base it on areas of contrast.
few libertarians would claim that there was no need for a military, as a matter of fact military is one of the few things that its almost universaly agreed the goverment should handle. The internet came from a military project, which we can assume would have happend in a much more libertarian state.
I think its about as likely that libertarians would be willing to share resoures that had already been put in place, so its just as likely that the large military network would have exspanded out to become the internet.
I'll add, of course, that 128MB uses less power than 256MB, which is important for laptops.
sorry, not in a modern memory management system. Rather than "run out" of memory (like the mac's would in os 9) the os will simply start useing a swap file (that is useing some of the hard disk as memory)
doing anything with a hard disk consumes much more power than ram could ever dream of useing so even though the extra memory would draw a little current not haveing to go to swap will save a lot of energy.
These days, there is just so much of the web available that you need to use a portal/weblog/etc just to get there.
but that's the point. something will spring up to fill in the promotion gap. Something like a music blog (actualy I bet there are already some around like say listenup)
As to promotion, well they can't promote everything thats why we only see a small handfull of cookie cutter bands. They promote what they think will make them money, which as it turns out is a pretty crapy criteria for musical quality.
umm, I don't get it... Sorry I don't mean to troll or anything, but I get the feeling that there is some part of this joke that I don't understand. why is this funny?
I don't know, it seems to me that haveing a show named "freinds" is a much bigger tell. After all why would you want to spend time with/watching "family" when you could be hanging out with/watching "freinds" (I think at one point they even had an add for the show that went something like "spend some time with 'freinds' tonight")
Interesting thing... my mother works in a Home, and they try to have pets for the old people to play with. They end up haveing a lot of cats, but not very many dogs. It appears that either the elderly like to feed there medication to the dogs, or the dogs just like to eat it. Either way the Dogs have a higher mortality rate than a frog in a blender.
on a slight tangent why don't the people in homes keep eachother company more often? sometimes you see them playing cards with eachother, but mostly they all just watch TV (oh wait, thats everyone in the western world) why be lonely in a room full of lonely people? So many things about the elderly confuse the hell out of me.
Where there is no "right" to profit, and if you're doing something in the privacy of your own home, no one else is involved, so theres clearly no infringing of anyone elses rights going on.
I don't want anarchy. You shouldn't be allowed to shoot me, but you should be allowed to buy a gun. I shouldn't be allowed to steal a TV (or a copy of Windows), but i should certainly be able to build my own TV or my own windows.
I can steal a copy of windows in the privacy of my own home. The reality is that IP law does'nt work under what you just outlined. Don't get me wrong, Im a libertarian to, but there are no simple solutions.
If you were to replace "Playstation 2" with "Windows", and replace "XBox" with "Linux", this thread would have 1200 comments all stating how just because Windows sells more doesn't mean it's better. But, when MS is the underdog,/. tastes blood in the water and moves in for the kill. Let's be objective
last I checked linux was free (as in beer) so the sales comparison is a little bit off. Most specificly giveing away your product has an impressive way of keeping it alive (though if your in bussness its generaly not finacialy fesable) On the other hand Xboxen are *not* free (trust me if they were there sales would be much better) so the likelyhood of there demise is much greater. never underestimate greed.
The frige is right next to my bed and since I don't have any money for food, I sometimes leave the door propped open just so the compressor runs and lulls me to sleep.
you should think about a sterio. I hear they use less power
all right, Im just pretty much going to dump my brain out about what I know as far as WCII goes. A friend of mine has a beta, and hell to be perfectly honest
we did copy it and all play it together without using battle net. Im afraid that our dear reviewer didn?t get in much game time, or perhaps was just trying to be brief because his review just sucked.
as he pointed out there are four races orcs, humans, undead and night elves. The orcs and humans are very similar (ok, pretty similar) particularly in the st yle which they harvest, build ect. They are also the same as orcs and humans from WC II on these points. They build peons/peasants etc. The undead borrows a lot of pages out of the protos book. They start buildings with there peons (alcolot) rather than building them (the building then builds itself). they have c reep like zerg did, They have strong tower units that remind me of protos turrets but they also serve as the farm for the food production. on another interes ting note to harvest lumber they use a basic combat unit rather than using the acoloit. Gold is harvested by the acoloits by letting them sort of worship at a gold mine. Then you have the night elf army. They seem to have the theme of weak troops with ballistics (not that they are a weak army, they seem to smash anyone but the humans and only not the humans because of a little thing that will probably be removed for balance) They create buildings (which are all trees , and which can all uproot and fight/move) by sacrificing little willow wisps much the same way the zerg did. When they harvest lumber they don?t end up tear ing down any trees (why are elves portrayed as nature lovers? didn?t they have a lumber mill in WCII) and don?t harvest from a mine, there town hall tree jus t sort of pumps it for gold. (though I understand this has been or will be changed)
The maps are a bit small, and terrain is more open than a lot of starcraft maps. A choke point would be a bit of a mess on a lot of the maps (though a few of
them have good choke points for expansion bases) A new and interesting twist is that the map is littered with NPC opponents. They are sort of like the critt ers from SC but they shoot back. generally there will be a small band at any gateway sort of area, and a large or strong band guarding any resource (such as a gold mine or a shop) they leave behind treasure (for the heros) and they also stop an un escorted peon from setting up a new base. The bigger ones take a s ignificant force to kill but generate no losses. In addition to gold mines there are a few types of shops avalible on the levels. Some that hire out mercs, s ome that sell magic items (for heros) and some that sell support mercs (like flying transports)
Heros -- they are not optional. each race has three, and they can be pretty damed cool but I don?t think that there quite the ?gaming revolution? that everyo ne is making them out to be. The first thing you want to do after you get your base up and running and your production started is take your hero?s out. They need some babysitting, you have to take them and kill those NPC?s I was telling you about with them so they level up. They get baddass pretty fast. and you w ant one leading any war party you have. On the other hand I have no idea why they would imprint into anyones brain as anything more than a strong unit that y ou have only one of (at a time) and that gets progressively stronger as it sees battle. The leveling thing is just sort of fluff. The same ones are always av alible, and they always follow the same relatively short advancement tree. They don?t seem that odd.
The game is attack oriented. It wants you out there killing things with your troops, not hiding in your base. one thing they do the make sure this happens is
give all the heros a scroll of town port hole. this will bring him and his war posse back to base instantly should you come under attack. No need to leave a
home contingent anymore!! (Im not sure I like that so much) Also should they die in battle they can be resurrected by a fairly low tech building. It costs m ore based on what level they are but otherwise isn?t such a big deal. they come back with all gear, levels and skills. Having your hero get killed is just so rt of a minor pain in the ass. not a big huge thing.
The hero?s are MIGHTY. They can?t win the battles all by themselves, but when you attack it is with them and support, not with a group of attackers and them supporting. Some of the spells are a little too strong (particularly one night elf one that lets the hero turn trees into troops) but Im sure that most of th e balance issues will be worked out in the beta, thats what its for so I will refrain from biching about it.
One thing that is clear is that a battle is intended to take a while. Troops don?t do that much damage compared to how much life they have. I believe that th is is to try to get people to control the specific aspects of the battles (by making it more doable)
The game has some great eye candy. its play is smooth and its interface well thought out. The units seem to be a little bit smarter than I remember them, but
nothing incredible, other than the wonder full new ?auto cast? ability which makes a mage unit cast a spell when it finds a good situation (like say a necro mancer when it finds a corpse). Diablo II pissed me off really bad because it had high hardware requirements, for what ended up looking just like a sprite ba sed game to me (people have pointed out the 3d elements in DII and I say, you seriously thing that was worth it?) Not the case with WCIII its quite 3D (has t his sort of candy bright, more perspective than reality look to it which is pretty cool)
all and all a good fun game, but no revolution. The races are more similar than they were in starcraft (at least thats how I feel, some argue with me) nothin g all that new here. It will be fun, but its not revolutionary. strikes me as being much less tactical than starcraft was, but that might be because its stil l in beta (SC went thru a pretty silly phase with the overpowered hydras, might be the same here)
if anyone has any specific questions Ill see what I can do about answering them.
Well as I seem to recall the point to a social security number was never identification. As a matter of fact Im pretty sure that the social security number was originaly instantiated with a thousand and one promesses that it would not be used for identification. Well we all know what to exspect from the promise of a politician.
What really disturbs me about this, more than my loss of privacy, is that the government seems to know that what its doing will raise the ire of at least some of the population, so it is trying to do it on the sly. This is a very disturbing thought, it means that they either don't think that it is for the good of the people, or they don't think that the people will recognise it as such.
I am deeply bothered by the way the country seems to belive that a few steps twoards totalitarianism will help prevent terrorist acts. As if cataloging a person is going to stop them from blowing something up. The Feds are overjoyed that the people seem to be willing to hand over there rights, violations of privacy that they never could have dreamed of getting past the public are now accepted with open arms. And this is possibly the worst time for something like this to happen as well.
In the past what protected us from an orwellian future and a government that watched every move of everyone was the simple and pragmatic problem of manpower. I think orwell himself said something to the effect of "the society in my book could never come to be, for who would watch the watchers?" but now we are just about to enter the time when manpower is no longer a problem, when computers can do most of the watching. With the advances in face and voice recognition technology that are comeing, and comeing soon, it will easily be possible to put cammeras everywhere, and to eavesdrop constantly and ubiquitously. The problem of manpower, of haveing enugh watchers is about to be solved.
So we are left with only one defence against the senario layed out in 1984, and that is our own objection to it. We still have enugh power over the government that we could stop it from happening, but it seems that the population is so willing to consent, simply because they are scared, to haveing there lives tracked and cataloged. Right now, when precedents for the new technology are set is the worst time for us to be willing to be spyed upon, and yet the whole population happily holds themselves up for inspection. its a sad sad thing.
so what do you think will happen in these milkweed clothes when mr. i-make-phermones bacteria functioning at 70% metabolic maximum due to it's genetically-engineered burden is forced to compete for food with mr. wild-as-i-wanna-be bacteria functioning at 100% metabolic maximum? hmmph
I think that since the freindly human is looking after the engineered bacteria and dumping *huge* populations of it into compitition that it will win. And if it starts to loose you just spray some more of it on so that the ratio is very tilted again.
I personaly think that this would make a great deoderint. I belive I read a passing refrence to something like this in one of the "years best sci-fi" books and its something I have wanted to see since.
I don't know much (read *anything*) about skydiving but it said in the article that the big danger was that she would go into an uncontrolled spin because there was no air for her to use to control her fall. I was Wondering if It might be plausible for her to carry down a gyroscope for the first while in order to stabilize herself, and then ditch it (let go of it and have it open up a drag shoot) when she gets down where there is some air for her to control herself with?
just an Idea
that's interesting, at my school the dare program told it like it was. They gave us acurate depeictions of what the drugs did. Ironicly this ran them into a second roadblock, when you are telling it like it is, there is'nt much that's bad to say about pot.
The war on drugs is a war against ourselves...
vote Harry Brown
there used to be this great parody sight called fufme with a network sex interface. I remember it being at www.fufme.com, but its not there anymore. anyone know what happend to it?
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hate to nit pick, but your whole theory falls apart when one watches ciphers betrail dealings in the matrix 1. It is rather clearly implied that "our robot masters" have the ability to wipe memories. There are some other problems with your "problem" with the matrix, but I think Ill just stick with K.I.S.S. for this retort.
Vellum is right, its also worth pointing out that books were not always in the familar codex form. when the bible was writen virtualy all books were on scrolls rather than bound.
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How about calculating the rate of ring growth in trees as well? How about the speed that paint will dry at various temperatures?
This is slashdot, not CNN. Its news for nerds, most of us here find math interesting, just because of its meticulous nature. For that matter, I would be very interested if someone came up with non-obvious insights into how fast trees grow, or the nature of paint drying.
Imagine going to an art museum and instead of borrowing a tape-recorder that tells you what you are looking at, you borrow a pair of goggles and information pops up next to the item.
yeah, or you could put some sort of high tech gizmo next to the item that broadcast the information in a text format into the eyes of anyone who looked at it. If you were really clever you could use the ambiant light as a power supply for it and base it on areas of contrast.
In responce to your sig.
few libertarians would claim that there was no need for a military, as a matter of fact military is one of the few things that its almost universaly agreed the goverment should handle. The internet came from a military project, which we can assume would have happend in a much more libertarian state.
I think its about as likely that libertarians would be willing to share resoures that had already been put in place, so its just as likely that the large military network would have exspanded out to become the internet.
There! may I use the internet now?
*pssst* its ok the decoder ring is just rot13
I'll add, of course, that 128MB uses less power than 256MB, which is important for laptops.
sorry, not in a modern memory management system. Rather than "run out" of memory (like the mac's would in os 9) the os will simply start useing a swap file (that is useing some of the hard disk as memory)
doing anything with a hard disk consumes much more power than ram could ever dream of useing so even though the extra memory would draw a little current not haveing to go to swap will save a lot of energy.
"strong AI"
you keep useing that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
These days, there is just so much of the web available that you need to use a portal/weblog/etc just to get there.
but that's the point. something will spring up to fill in the promotion gap. Something like a music blog (actualy I bet there are already some around like say listenup)
As to promotion, well they can't promote everything thats why we only see a small handfull of cookie cutter bands. They promote what they think will make them money, which as it turns out is a pretty crapy criteria for musical quality.
speaking of huristics I was wondering if you know of any good huristics for Go.
As you pointed out the huristic makes the AI, A high depth search is worthless if you don't know how to evaluate the bord states that you have found.
umm, I don't get it...
Sorry I don't mean to troll or anything, but I get the feeling that there is some part of this joke that I don't understand. why is this funny?
I don't know, it seems to me that haveing a show named "freinds" is a much bigger tell. After all why would you want to spend time with/watching "family" when you could be hanging out with/watching "freinds"
(I think at one point they even had an add for the show that went something like "spend some time with 'freinds' tonight")
Interesting thing...
my mother works in a Home, and they try to have pets for the old people to play with. They end up haveing a lot of cats, but not very many dogs. It appears that either the elderly like to feed there medication to the dogs, or the dogs just like to eat it. Either way the Dogs have a higher mortality rate than a frog in a blender.
on a slight tangent why don't the people in homes keep eachother company more often? sometimes you see them playing cards with eachother, but mostly they all just watch TV (oh wait, thats everyone in the western world) why be lonely in a room full of lonely people? So many things about the elderly confuse the hell out of me.
Where there is no "right" to profit, and if you're doing something in the privacy of your own home, no one else is involved, so theres clearly no infringing of anyone elses rights going on.
I don't want anarchy. You shouldn't be allowed to shoot me, but you should be allowed to buy a gun.
I shouldn't be allowed to steal a TV (or a copy of Windows), but i should certainly be able to build my own TV or my own windows.
I can steal a copy of windows in the privacy of my own home. The reality is that IP law does'nt work under what you just outlined. Don't get me wrong, Im a libertarian to, but there are no simple solutions.
If you were to replace "Playstation 2" with "Windows", and replace "XBox" with "Linux", this thread would have 1200 comments all stating how just because Windows sells more doesn't mean it's better. But, when MS is the underdog, /. tastes blood in the water and moves in for the kill. Let's be objective
last I checked linux was free (as in beer) so the sales comparison is a little bit off. Most specificly giveing away your product has an impressive way of keeping it alive (though if your in bussness its generaly not finacialy fesable) On the other hand Xboxen are *not* free (trust me if they were there sales would be much better) so the likelyhood of there demise is much greater. never underestimate greed.
"I have been rich and I have been poor, and trust me... rich is better" -my father
The frige is right next to my bed and since I don't have any money for food, I sometimes leave the door propped open just so the compressor runs and lulls me to sleep.
you should think about a sterio. I hear they use less power
here is googles cached version
all right, Im just pretty much going to dump my brain out about what I know as far as WCII goes. A friend of mine has a beta, and hell to be perfectly honest
we did copy it and all play it together without using battle net. Im afraid that our dear reviewer didn?t get in much game time, or perhaps was just trying
to be brief because his review just sucked.
as he pointed out there are four races orcs, humans, undead and night elves. The orcs and humans are very similar (ok, pretty similar) particularly in the st
yle which they harvest, build ect. They are also the same as orcs and humans from WC II on these points. They build peons/peasants etc. The undead borrows a
lot of pages out of the protos book. They start buildings with there peons (alcolot) rather than building them (the building then builds itself). they have c
reep like zerg did, They have strong tower units that remind me of protos turrets but they also serve as the farm for the food production. on another interes
ting note to harvest lumber they use a basic combat unit rather than using the acoloit. Gold is harvested by the acoloits by letting them sort of worship at
a gold mine. Then you have the night elf army. They seem to have the theme of weak troops with ballistics (not that they are a weak army, they seem to smash
anyone but the humans and only not the humans because of a little thing that will probably be removed for balance) They create buildings (which are all trees
, and which can all uproot and fight/move) by sacrificing little willow wisps much the same way the zerg did. When they harvest lumber they don?t end up tear
ing down any trees (why are elves portrayed as nature lovers? didn?t they have a lumber mill in WCII) and don?t harvest from a mine, there town hall tree jus
t sort of pumps it for gold. (though I understand this has been or will be changed)
The maps are a bit small, and terrain is more open than a lot of starcraft maps. A choke point would be a bit of a mess on a lot of the maps (though a few of
them have good choke points for expansion bases) A new and interesting twist is that the map is littered with NPC opponents. They are sort of like the critt
ers from SC but they shoot back. generally there will be a small band at any gateway sort of area, and a large or strong band guarding any resource (such as
a gold mine or a shop) they leave behind treasure (for the heros) and they also stop an un escorted peon from setting up a new base. The bigger ones take a s
ignificant force to kill but generate no losses. In addition to gold mines there are a few types of shops avalible on the levels. Some that hire out mercs, s
ome that sell magic items (for heros) and some that sell support mercs (like flying transports)
Heros -- they are not optional. each race has three, and they can be pretty damed cool but I don?t think that there quite the ?gaming revolution? that everyo
ne is making them out to be. The first thing you want to do after you get your base up and running and your production started is take your hero?s out. They
need some babysitting, you have to take them and kill those NPC?s I was telling you about with them so they level up. They get baddass pretty fast. and you w
ant one leading any war party you have. On the other hand I have no idea why they would imprint into anyones brain as anything more than a strong unit that y
ou have only one of (at a time) and that gets progressively stronger as it sees battle. The leveling thing is just sort of fluff. The same ones are always av
alible, and they always follow the same relatively short advancement tree. They don?t seem that odd.
The game is attack oriented. It wants you out there killing things with your troops, not hiding in your base. one thing they do the make sure this happens is
give all the heros a scroll of town port hole. this will bring him and his war posse back to base instantly should you come under attack. No need to leave a
home contingent anymore!! (Im not sure I like that so much) Also should they die in battle they can be resurrected by a fairly low tech building. It costs m
ore based on what level they are but otherwise isn?t such a big deal. they come back with all gear, levels and skills. Having your hero get killed is just so
rt of a minor pain in the ass. not a big huge thing.
The hero?s are MIGHTY. They can?t win the battles all by themselves, but when you attack it is with them and support, not with a group of attackers and them
supporting. Some of the spells are a little too strong (particularly one night elf one that lets the hero turn trees into troops) but Im sure that most of th
e balance issues will be worked out in the beta, thats what its for so I will refrain from biching about it.
One thing that is clear is that a battle is intended to take a while. Troops don?t do that much damage compared to how much life they have. I believe that th
is is to try to get people to control the specific aspects of the battles (by making it more doable)
The game has some great eye candy. its play is smooth and its interface well thought out. The units seem to be a little bit smarter than I remember them, but
nothing incredible, other than the wonder full new ?auto cast? ability which makes a mage unit cast a spell when it finds a good situation (like say a necro
mancer when it finds a corpse). Diablo II pissed me off really bad because it had high hardware requirements, for what ended up looking just like a sprite ba
sed game to me (people have pointed out the 3d elements in DII and I say, you seriously thing that was worth it?) Not the case with WCIII its quite 3D (has t
his sort of candy bright, more perspective than reality look to it which is pretty cool)
all and all a good fun game, but no revolution. The races are more similar than they were in starcraft (at least thats how I feel, some argue with me) nothin
g all that new here. It will be fun, but its not revolutionary. strikes me as being much less tactical than starcraft was, but that might be because its stil
l in beta (SC went thru a pretty silly phase with the overpowered hydras, might be the same here)
if anyone has any specific questions Ill see what I can do about answering them.
Well as I seem to recall the point to a social security number was never identification. As a matter of fact Im pretty sure that the social security number was originaly instantiated with a thousand and one promesses that it would not be used for identification. Well we all know what to exspect from the promise of a politician.
What really disturbs me about this, more than my loss of privacy, is that the government seems to know that what its doing will raise the ire of at least some of the population, so it is trying to do it on the sly. This is a very disturbing thought, it means that they either don't think that it is for the good of the people, or they don't think that the people will recognise it as such.
I am deeply bothered by the way the country seems to belive that a few steps twoards totalitarianism will help prevent terrorist acts. As if cataloging a person is going to stop them from blowing something up. The Feds are overjoyed that the people seem to be willing to hand over there rights, violations of privacy that they never could have dreamed of getting past the public are now accepted with open arms. And this is possibly the worst time for something like this to happen as well.
In the past what protected us from an orwellian future and a government that watched every move of everyone was the simple and pragmatic problem of manpower. I think orwell himself said something to the effect of "the society in my book could never come to be, for who would watch the watchers?" but now we are just about to enter the time when manpower is no longer a problem, when computers can do most of the watching. With the advances in face and voice recognition technology that are comeing, and comeing soon, it will easily be possible to put cammeras everywhere, and to eavesdrop constantly and ubiquitously. The problem of manpower, of haveing enugh watchers is about to be solved.
So we are left with only one defence against the senario layed out in 1984, and that is our own objection to it. We still have enugh power over the government that we could stop it from happening, but it seems that the population is so willing to consent, simply because they are scared, to haveing there lives tracked and cataloged. Right now, when precedents for the new technology are set is the worst time for us to be willing to be spyed upon, and yet the whole population happily holds themselves up for inspection. its a sad sad thing.
please exscuse my rant, and my spelling.
so what do you think will happen in these milkweed clothes when mr. i-make-phermones bacteria functioning at 70% metabolic maximum due to it's genetically-engineered burden is forced to compete for food with mr. wild-as-i-wanna-be bacteria functioning at 100% metabolic maximum? hmmph
I think that since the freindly human is looking after the engineered bacteria and dumping *huge* populations of it into compitition that it will win. And if it starts to loose you just spray some more of it on so that the ratio is very tilted again. I personaly think that this would make a great deoderint. I belive I read a passing refrence to something like this in one of the "years best sci-fi" books and its something I have wanted to see since.
I don't know much (read *anything*) about skydiving but it said in the article that the big danger was that she would go into an uncontrolled spin because there was no air for her to use to control her fall. I was Wondering if It might be plausible for her to carry down a gyroscope for the first while in order to stabilize herself, and then ditch it (let go of it and have it open up a drag shoot) when she gets down where there is some air for her to control herself with? just an Idea
that's interesting, at my school the dare program told it like it was. They gave us acurate depeictions of what the drugs did. Ironicly this ran them into a second roadblock, when you are telling it like it is, there is'nt much that's bad to say about pot. The war on drugs is a war against ourselves... vote Harry Brown
there used to be this great parody sight called fufme with a network sex interface. I remember it being at www.fufme.com, but its not there anymore. anyone know what happend to it?
Saying "this is not a troll" repeatedly does not mean that it is not a troll. I can say Im a duck all I like, and I won't be one.