This raises an interesting question about creativity. Chess masters also study thousands of games, does that mean they're "just" the sum of their predecessors? Are computers capable of being truly original? Are humans?
VAC is great as far as deterrence goes, but it's a real bummer when your account gets hijacked and used for cheating. Valve never repeals VAC bans, even if they gave you your account back personally, so you have to buy all your online games again if you want to play.
It seems to me that the most precocious people are frequently the least developed socially. What they need isn't to be alienated even further in an environment consisting of older people, but a way high school can continue to challenge them academically while providing a healthy environment for social development.
I seem to remember the Zeroth law is referred to as well: the big bad AI thinks humanity is more valuable than individual humans. I think it was a pretty good movie overall, just not exactly Asimov.
But if you simulate a human brain, all you're getting is a really expensive, average human brain. AI has to be superior in either understandability, intellectual prowess or something to be worthwhile.
What has Microsoft actually done wrong in the last few years apart from the OOXML debacle? Now I agree that HTML5 would be better than any plugin but it's not even finished yet and Silverlight is the most powerful alternative available. If you like Java, take a look at C#. It's pretty much universally considered a better language right now, and its specification is as open as Java's, if not more. Incidentally, you can code for Silverlight in pretty much any language you want (Java, Python, Ruby, C++, anything), not just JavaScript.
Kids get bullied because they have below-average social skills, which isn't their fault of course, but you can't ignore that. Like it or not, learning to deal with bullies is a useful life experience. If you really want to help these kids, find a way for them to learn social skills without getting beaten up.
Mono isn't actually behind. The compiler supports all the latest features of C# (and even some of their own extensions), and the Mono runtime supports 99% of what people actually use. The rest is either obscure or uneconomical to implement (like WPF). They even have their own libraries for doing SIMD (which you can't do on official.NET) and other things.
I don't find these "make music from supernovae/network traffic/monkey population" projects to be too impressive. You could fit just about any input to the appropriate scale and it would come out listenable, if boring.
What features does it have exactly that OpenGL doesn't? It seems to me that OpenGL is generally a few years ahead in everything (tesselation, geometry shaders, etc).
I think epicycles actually explained the data pretty well, they were just far more complicated than just looking at planets from a heliocentric perspective and failed Occam's razor.
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I think the harder DRM is designed to crack the harder crackers will work to beat the challenge.
This raises an interesting question about creativity. Chess masters also study thousands of games, does that mean they're "just" the sum of their predecessors? Are computers capable of being truly original? Are humans?
Teller, Wigner and Szilárd were actually from Hungary, not Germany.
VAC is great as far as deterrence goes, but it's a real bummer when your account gets hijacked and used for cheating. Valve never repeals VAC bans, even if they gave you your account back personally, so you have to buy all your online games again if you want to play.
It seems to me that the most precocious people are frequently the least developed socially. What they need isn't to be alienated even further in an environment consisting of older people, but a way high school can continue to challenge them academically while providing a healthy environment for social development.
It IS a configuration option. The question is whether it should be on by default.
You wouldn't doubt it for a second if it was Microsoft, right?
I seem to remember the Zeroth law is referred to as well: the big bad AI thinks humanity is more valuable than individual humans. I think it was a pretty good movie overall, just not exactly Asimov.
But if you simulate a human brain, all you're getting is a really expensive, average human brain. AI has to be superior in either understandability, intellectual prowess or something to be worthwhile.
Then they would start enforcing all the laws you mentioned just so they could continue to exist.
What has Microsoft actually done wrong in the last few years apart from the OOXML debacle? Now I agree that HTML5 would be better than any plugin but it's not even finished yet and Silverlight is the most powerful alternative available. If you like Java, take a look at C#. It's pretty much universally considered a better language right now, and its specification is as open as Java's, if not more. Incidentally, you can code for Silverlight in pretty much any language you want (Java, Python, Ruby, C++, anything), not just JavaScript.
You can write codecs for Silverlight 3.
Flash supports DRM out of the box, and Silverlight has several features that make it better than Flash. Even its open-source implementation is better.
Kids get bullied because they have below-average social skills, which isn't their fault of course, but you can't ignore that. Like it or not, learning to deal with bullies is a useful life experience. If you really want to help these kids, find a way for them to learn social skills without getting beaten up.
Mono isn't actually behind. The compiler supports all the latest features of C# (and even some of their own extensions), and the Mono runtime supports 99% of what people actually use. The rest is either obscure or uneconomical to implement (like WPF). They even have their own libraries for doing SIMD (which you can't do on official .NET) and other things.
I don't find these "make music from supernovae/network traffic/monkey population" projects to be too impressive. You could fit just about any input to the appropriate scale and it would come out listenable, if boring.
Better yet, show them Garry's Mod. It's fun to play around in normally but you can script objects, weapons and even game modes using only Lua.
On the other hand, shy kids and kids who daydreamed (as all kids should) weren't medicated, and they grew up fine without it.
No, but it's better if it's in a landfill than a beach..
Even if you manage to reproduce the human brain, won't it be just as vague, chaotic and mysterious as the original? Is there any point to that?
What features does it have exactly that OpenGL doesn't? It seems to me that OpenGL is generally a few years ahead in everything (tesselation, geometry shaders, etc).
You have no idea what you're talking about. XAML is an XML-based UI markup language like XUL.
I think epicycles actually explained the data pretty well, they were just far more complicated than just looking at planets from a heliocentric perspective and failed Occam's razor.
You can find the MOLA MEGDR DEM on FTP here, or browse the datasets here.
Even better: DEM data of any given area, cropped especially for you, in the forrmat of your choice.