True there are much quicker ways when there are obvious keywords but if you had, say the mona lisa what words could you use? but tin eye got it from this http://www.monalisarevealed.com/assets/images/Mona_Lisa_3_copy.jpg after one page (all of which were the same image)
at the moment its not too good but it looks like it one day will be quite powerful.
it did find the actual great wave, to be true after a ton of images that had replaced the poster with other posters from the same site but it did find them which was pretty good and would be useful for research
eg if you had a section of a photo and you wanted to find the rest etc.
If a system capable of being understood could not act intelligently
I think the word understanding is being used to mean that you could accurately predict the outcome of running the system.
A simple example is the deep thought computer: to create a computer that can *fully* model the universe it must be able to map every single event within the universe and so must in fact be at least as complex as the entire universe to do this (compression of the problem would introduce errors and so invalidate the calculation)
What we can do is make ever more accurate models of the human brain (or any system) that eventually will mimic the system so well that it will be indiscernable from the system it is modeling.
As a responce it all ways worried me when politicians don't vote you have to wonder if they just do it to dodge making a decision which is exactly what they are paid to do.
that being said i suppose its better than voting yes on this particular issue.
I know I should have proably left it but it seems a little odd.
As for the throttling of the bandwidth i guess the counter arguement is that you are breaking the terms of a contract.
Seems pretty poor though when it can be just as likely legitimate content as illegal. I doubt they'll be able to do it for too long. if nothing else ever time blizzard released a patch ISPs would be spammed to death by annoyed gamers wanting their patch (blizzard releases over a P2P system that uses the same set of ports as bit torrent)
The fact they want to try cutting your connection after 3 warnings is a bit nuts i mean you would hope that there is a decent appeal system because otherwise its just open to abuse
I suppose so but thats going to be a LOT of fuel to keep it controlled all the way in even just for deceleration its going to be a significant amount of the fuel (in fact I would imagine it would be the majority of the mass of the pod)
That being said it is a lot more sensible than just letting it drop. It'll certainly be interesting to see if it can get to the moon.
Part of the problem with this is you will have different examples that work dependent on where in the world you are. I could have said "crisps" -> "walkers" but thats UK only.
As for google its wel known because its good not due to advertising. My point was more its that sort of instant mental association that a lot of advertising aims to achieve.
so yes the examples suck but they were what came to mind and its more the point rather than the specifics that matter:p
I'm not sure I'd be too happy if I was being put in that, the booster landing thing sounds like its asking for trouble if you get low on fuel, or they get knocked out of alignment or a floating point error messes up their servo controllers....
At least with a parachute or wings you know that so long as they are they they will work. Also I imagine that it will require a huge amount of fuel to turn it around and then slow it.
Or have I got the wrong idea and they're going to parachute in and then just use these at the end at which point again you have to ask - why bother?
Your assuming at advertising exists purely to get people to buy things the moment they see it (or click on the link)
Most advertising is beneficial by raising the profile of a product and/or the person selling it. if you want a new book (for eg) you go on google type its title and most likely will buy from someone in the top 3. If one of those is the same website that you saw, say on your favourite blog there is an association there that is likely to make you see that provider more favourably, thus increasing the chance of a purchase.
Ads on the net are highly useful - if no one knows you are there how will they find you? About the only ads i click on are for the occasional webcomic - i don't then buy something from the new comic (some of which i've found this way are very good) BUT i then increase the traffic to that webcomic and so increase the value of their ad space.
In summary: Advertising is MUCH more subtle than you expect (well some of it) and is more about reputation and profile than making you run out and buy something (although again some of it is).
One final example: think of a chocolate bar, now think of cola, and finally think of a search engine.
depending on where you are you probably just thought "cadbury's" "coke - cola" and "google". If you wanted one of these products there is a good chance that given a choise you will buy the cadbury's and coke-cola and search about it on google. Thats why it works - not by making you go and buy any of them but making them what you think about when someone says "chocolate" or "fizzy drink"
as opposed to allowing people to bid on every unclaimed typo and spam the system to hell....
equally the minimum bid system is common to all forms of auction.
yes Google are being a bit dodgy in how they manipulate the system but equally they (as the article says) don't want people to know exactly otherwise it makes it too easy for the system to be gamed at which point it looses all possible value. Google ads do well because they are generally clickable - in that you have a good chance of clicking on something relavent to what you searched for - that reputation is something that google understandably wants to protect.
I wonder if a lot of the gmail specific blocking is because of gmail chat? being fully integrated into gmail makes it a little easy to chat using the excuse "im checking my email"... which incidently is exactly what i do, not that it matters atm... yay for compiling
It depends on how much SE want to show off really. They tend to be good at pushing the limits of a system and in that manner the PS3 and 360 handle differently.
I suppose it mainly depends on how good the engine is.
But I do agree that for an extra 5% development to increase your customer base by maybe 50% is good - it just depends on whether that really is just 5% or more than that.
Honestly, any developer that isn't making their content-heavy software to run multi-platform is stupid. That's true for computer software as well as console games. It's easy enough to do that it takes very few sales to justify the effort.
Actually it isn't easy at all. The current generation are very different. Its easy enough to port something between them but at least one if not all of them will loose out by being limited by the others hardware.
Then again I have only a PS3 and I'm more than happy with it. The games that exist for it are nicely made and very playable and the download games are excellent for what they cost.
As for linux its a dream if you want any sort of super computer (ie universities).
You want proof that societies don't evolve? Just look at the fact that the role priests used to play has been taken over by lawyers. Where people used to take every question to the priest for divination, now it's taken to lawyers.
Ah but you've forgotten our evolution is accelerating. All questions are directed to google.
I'm pretty sure slashdoter and unbiased can't be said in the same sentence with a stright face either. In fact you have to work pretty hard to find anyone who is unbiased.
Its not science loosing the fight thats the problem.
science is the method with which you fight its how you (should) reach conclusions based on evidence.
The problem is ID doesn't rely on science - the entire premise whether it's aliens god or David lister on red dwarf is that at some point someone intervened.
There is no way to prove this so it isn't scientific.
There is nothing in science to say that the entire world didn't pop into existence 5 seconds ago as a quantum fluctuation and that the anti earth that also would have popped into existence wasn't just eaten by the sun (see hawking radiation), so long as over all energy/mass are conserved you can do pretty much what you want. I'm not suggesting that this is the case but as with ID it doesn't matter even if it was - we couldn't tell anyway.
Unless ID can create a solid proof as well as solid testable predictions it isn't science, its philosophy.
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True there are much quicker ways when there are obvious keywords but if you had, say the mona lisa what words could you use? but tin eye got it from this http://www.monalisarevealed.com/assets/images/Mona_Lisa_3_copy.jpg after one page (all of which were the same image)
at the moment its not too good but it looks like it one day will be quite powerful.
it does work pretty well for example i searched for this:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/BRGPOD-WM/BRGWM-158277_72_48~The-Great-Wave-of-Kanagawa-from-the-Series-36-Views-of-Mt-Fuji-Fugaku-Sanjuokkei-Posters.jpg
it did find the actual great wave, to be true after a ton of images that had replaced the poster with other posters from the same site but it did find them which was pretty good and would be useful for research
eg if you had a section of a photo and you wanted to find the rest etc.
If a system capable of being understood could not act intelligently
I think the word understanding is being used to mean that you could accurately predict the outcome of running the system.
A simple example is the deep thought computer: to create a computer that can *fully* model the universe it must be able to map every single event within the universe and so must in fact be at least as complex as the entire universe to do this (compression of the problem would introduce errors and so invalidate the calculation)
What we can do is make ever more accurate models of the human brain (or any system) that eventually will mimic the system so well that it will be indiscernable from the system it is modeling.
ah fair enough. being uk based I don't know the full ins and outs. thanks for the clarification
how is abstaining good?
As a responce it all ways worried me when politicians don't vote you have to wonder if they just do it to dodge making a decision which is exactly what they are paid to do.
that being said i suppose its better than voting yes on this particular issue.
*wonders if he gets a cape as saviour as karma*
I know I should have proably left it but it seems a little odd.
As for the throttling of the bandwidth i guess the counter arguement is that you are breaking the terms of a contract.
Seems pretty poor though when it can be just as likely legitimate content as illegal. I doubt they'll be able to do it for too long. if nothing else ever time blizzard released a patch ISPs would be spammed to death by annoyed gamers wanting their patch (blizzard releases over a P2P system that uses the same set of ports as bit torrent)
Little incenduary but not flamebait.
The fact they want to try cutting your connection after 3 warnings is a bit nuts i mean you would hope that there is a decent appeal system because otherwise its just open to abuse
and why is this modded troll too?
why is the above modded troll?
its not an amazing post but its not troll
mmmm meta-waffle
do they come with irony icing and sarcasm syrup?
I suppose so but thats going to be a LOT of fuel to keep it controlled all the way in even just for deceleration its going to be a significant amount of the fuel (in fact I would imagine it would be the majority of the mass of the pod)
That being said it is a lot more sensible than just letting it drop. It'll certainly be interesting to see if it can get to the moon.
Part of the problem with this is you will have different examples that work dependent on where in the world you are. I could have said "crisps" -> "walkers" but thats UK only.
As for google its wel known because its good not due to advertising. My point was more its that sort of instant mental association that a lot of advertising aims to achieve.
so yes the examples suck but they were what came to mind and its more the point rather than the specifics that matter :p
I'm not sure I'd be too happy if I was being put in that, the booster landing thing sounds like its asking for trouble if you get low on fuel, or they get knocked out of alignment or a floating point error messes up their servo controllers....
At least with a parachute or wings you know that so long as they are they they will work. Also I imagine that it will require a huge amount of fuel to turn it around and then slow it.
Or have I got the wrong idea and they're going to parachute in and then just use these at the end at which point again you have to ask - why bother?
Your assuming at advertising exists purely to get people to buy things the moment they see it (or click on the link)
Most advertising is beneficial by raising the profile of a product and/or the person selling it. if you want a new book (for eg) you go on google type its title and most likely will buy from someone in the top 3. If one of those is the same website that you saw, say on your favourite blog there is an association there that is likely to make you see that provider more favourably, thus increasing the chance of a purchase.
Ads on the net are highly useful - if no one knows you are there how will they find you? About the only ads i click on are for the occasional webcomic - i don't then buy something from the new comic (some of which i've found this way are very good) BUT i then increase the traffic to that webcomic and so increase the value of their ad space.
In summary: Advertising is MUCH more subtle than you expect (well some of it) and is more about reputation and profile than making you run out and buy something (although again some of it is).
One final example: think of a chocolate bar, now think of cola, and finally think of a search engine.
depending on where you are you probably just thought "cadbury's" "coke - cola" and "google". If you wanted one of these products there is a good chance that given a choise you will buy the cadbury's and coke-cola and search about it on google. Thats why it works - not by making you go and buy any of them but making them what you think about when someone says "chocolate" or "fizzy drink"
*picks up sandwich board and placard*
"the version release is nigh! repent, ye users of keyword searchs for the saviour: syntactic web 3.0 will cleanse you of spam"
as opposed to allowing people to bid on every unclaimed typo and spam the system to hell....
equally the minimum bid system is common to all forms of auction.
yes Google are being a bit dodgy in how they manipulate the system but equally they (as the article says) don't want people to know exactly otherwise it makes it too easy for the system to be gamed at which point it looses all possible value. Google ads do well because they are generally clickable - in that you have a good chance of clicking on something relavent to what you searched for - that reputation is something that google understandably wants to protect.
I wonder if a lot of the gmail specific blocking is because of gmail chat? being fully integrated into gmail makes it a little easy to chat using the excuse "im checking my email" ... which incidently is exactly what i do, not that it matters atm... yay for compiling
It depends on how much SE want to show off really. They tend to be good at pushing the limits of a system and in that manner the PS3 and 360 handle differently.
I suppose it mainly depends on how good the engine is.
But I do agree that for an extra 5% development to increase your customer base by maybe 50% is good - it just depends on whether that really is just 5% or more than that.
Honestly, any developer that isn't making their content-heavy software to run multi-platform is stupid. That's true for computer software as well as console games. It's easy enough to do that it takes very few sales to justify the effort.
Actually it isn't easy at all. The current generation are very different. Its easy enough to port something between them but at least one if not all of them will loose out by being limited by the others hardware.
Then again I have only a PS3 and I'm more than happy with it. The games that exist for it are nicely made and very playable and the download games are excellent for what they cost.
As for linux its a dream if you want any sort of super computer (ie universities).
You want proof that societies don't evolve? Just look at the fact that the role priests used to play has been taken over by lawyers. Where people used to take every question to the priest for divination, now it's taken to lawyers.
Ah but you've forgotten our evolution is accelerating. All questions are directed to google.
I'm pretty sure slashdoter and unbiased can't be said in the same sentence with a stright face either. In fact you have to work pretty hard to find anyone who is unbiased.
....apart from me I'm very un biased....
perhaps its a cunning DDoS attack?... well not that cunning...
Its not science loosing the fight thats the problem.
science is the method with which you fight its how you (should) reach conclusions based on evidence.
The problem is ID doesn't rely on science - the entire premise whether it's aliens god or David lister on red dwarf is that at some point someone intervened.
There is no way to prove this so it isn't scientific.
There is nothing in science to say that the entire world didn't pop into existence 5 seconds ago as a quantum fluctuation and that the anti earth that also would have popped into existence wasn't just eaten by the sun (see hawking radiation), so long as over all energy/mass are conserved you can do pretty much what you want. I'm not suggesting that this is the case but as with ID it doesn't matter even if it was - we couldn't tell anyway.
Unless ID can create a solid proof as well as solid testable predictions it isn't science, its philosophy.
are you sure this isn't already a film?
make it fun - give people weapons going on and sell the whole thing on pay per view....
your correct
given enough time the v_e- will interact to give off an e- that causes the cherenkov radiation