One of the ways to decrease the price is to integrate this device with a Real Doll (http://www.realdoll.com). You just have to put some extra logic inside. A customer provides the joystick.
We are fed with pop-culture, just like we are fed with a junk/fast food. Matrix and Star Wars just two manifest of this surrogate culture, or philosophy, or whatever. We are no longer capable of absorb an authentic philosophy, we need something in a form of action movie. This is fairly trivial. What's new is NYTimes sucking up to pop culture.
This is correct. On backbone (tier1 provider) conflicting interests prevail over the common goals. Note that multicasting is still not available between ASs (except in a form of MBone), there is no agreement on how to do QoS, how to handle multimedia. All those wonderfull things we were waiting for -- they will never ever appear because every AS is now for itself, and its goal is to make money, often at the expense of other ASs. "To hell with standards and co-operation. We'll introduce something sooo unique that everyone else will be blown off the water". So - what we have at this point is some minimum of interoperability, and that's about it. It won't get any better. Internet is stagnating, in terms of services it COULD but DOES NOT offer. It's all very said, when you thing of all missed opportunities.
It is correct that normally you run nfs over LAN, but nfs *can* run over WAN, albeit you would want to run NFS over TCP rather than over UDP. Just to deal with delay and potential losses over WAN.
I'm a bit surprised Minsky shows no interest in neural networks. I believe there is a Neural Networks Lab in Boston University, and Minsky has a position in this lab. But this is just a small detail.
I like the idea that intelligence arised as a process of exploiting 'undocumented features' in our brains. Something unexpected, not planned for. We humans are 'evolutionary freaks', so to speak.
Of course, someone might argue, that if we continue building robots, trying to mimic evolution and intelligence, the result may be intelligence, yes, but completely foreign, and at worst, hostile to our human intelligence. At best, we want be able to communicate with it. At worst, there may be some conflict.
Yet I believe this is the only way to proceed if we want to achieve some tangible results. The wrong way to proceed is to feed the contents of Encyclopaedia Britannica to a computer. Yet another wrong way to proceed is to attempting to summarize the whole knowledge (in the same encyclopaedia) as a set of abstract rules and values and feed to the same computer. We need a creature capable of establishing its own set of values, and then building upon it.
RIAA has sent a threatening letter to Edgar Allan Poe, after it came across on his 'The fall of the house of Ushers'. "it was not mp3 format' Hillary Rosen said, 'but nonetheless RIAA remains vigilant'. Edgar Allan Poe wasn't available for comments.
Marvin Minsky has no clue
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Marvin Minsky considers intelligence is something like the set of absolute rules, which can be separated from both the subject posessing this feature ('intelligence') and the real world. The reality however is that intelligence is simply a tool for survival in a hostile environment, just another stage in evolutionary process. It has been evolved in specific circumstances, and will continue evolving. It *may* appear as the absolute set of rules (different religious believes is a good example), but this is appearance only. The bottom line is that you have to build the creature (robot or whatever) which interacts with other like creatures and the environment and try to adapt to both. Intelligence may appear as a by-product of this adaptation process. So -- building the robot with intelligence of worm is more productive than trying to simulate Einstein in some computer program. The AI as defined by Minsky and Co. is an emperor's new cloths. This is entirely *his* fault AI didn't go anywhere. The whole concept of separating the intelligence from the background it has evolved is wrong. Only someone who believes that 'mind', 'intelligence', etc is something which was given us by God ('mind' vs 'body') can continue insisting on this approach, but it is no longer a science if you wish, but religion or methaphysics.
pcmag has another review, this includes Dell and Acer. Dell D600 is recommended choice (performance/price balance). An interesting detail is that Dell did not use MS 802.11 component but something else, and they have achieved the best results in 'wireless' part of the test. Seems like the wireless part of Centrino is mediocre or worse.
this is actually 'PRACTICAL Extractor and Reporting Language'. PRACTICAL. My ass. They should consider redefining the whole acronym. Pompous Esoteric Redundant Language would be more appropriate. Well, if you fill you're poisoned enough by Perl fumes, take some AWK or Tcl as antidote.
There are some experiments being done and some listening data available, mostly on hydrogenaudio.org site. Seems like the general consensus at this point is that OGG is somewhat better than MP3 at the average rate about 128Kbps, but at the rates 200Kbps+ MP3 is better (meaning 'less artifacts'). At the rates lower than 128Kbps (where MP3 simply doesn't cut), OGG does a good job and apparently is better than WMA. So seems like OGG at this time competes with alternative lossy compressors at the rates 128Kbps and lower. If you tend to record at 200Kbps average, like the latest LAME default settings, you may as well stick with MP3 unless of course you are against MP3 'in principle'.
is part of the whole game, isn't it? And this is where machine has a good potential. A human can improvise but also make the mistakes. Machine follows the program and can't improvise, but it also can't make a 'blunder'. So the bottom line is that the fact that both games were lost 'in a blunder' is no excuse. A draw is a draw is a draw.
I've used Solaris 5 and 6 on Intel, if I remember correctly. It was fairly good experience, and system was performing well. I did have to use Xfree86, since whatever came from Sun had fairly limited support of the graphic adapters, but moving Xfree86 into Solaris was fairly easy operation, no brainer. I probably will take a look at Solaris 9. In general Solaris is very solid and stable system (starting around 5 or 6). It sucked big time before that.
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when I've worked at BBN Planet (currently Genuity, in Chapter 11 status, being acquired by Level3), I had to write some code to monitor the end to end Tier1 performance. An asshole who controlled the project (has PhD in math but had no idea that a source code should probably be indented, to say the least) did not want me to spend any time to properly documenting the code, make it modular, easy to maintain, etc. I hope the code I left to them was partially responsible for the current state of affairs at Genuity.
when they've killed newborn kids who didn't look like physically perfect, or Nazi Germany, or Soviet Union. Apparently, your notion of 'perfect society' is totalitarian society. Enough said.
I remember recent discussion regarding the role of producers and publisher and the article stating that the function of producers is 'filtering of all the crap they are getting and presenting the consumer with the best staff'. I wish it were true. In reality, producers invent the product they believe consumers would like, and since the product is rather vacuous, that is, has no contents, they put the excessive amount of efforts on packaging and advertising (junk food, anyone?) The sooner the present system goes the better. Doesn't look like anyone (except producers) will loose anything.
so effectively it doesn't mean anything. No surprises Microsoft is backing out. THings would have been different if they're called this thingy.DA (YES)
at MicroCenter, for about a month already. Other than that - yes, it is an important milestone. I'm still waiting for another one: Solid State Memory, Compact Flash format (as the least expensive) - 1GB for $100. Any takes when it happens? So far the best price I've been seeing (also at MicroCenter) is 512MB CF card for about $160 (after rebates).
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One of the ways to decrease the price is to integrate this device with a Real Doll (http://www.realdoll.com). You just have to put some extra logic inside. A customer provides the joystick.
a joystick in between ...
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We are fed with pop-culture, just like we are fed with a junk/fast food. Matrix and Star Wars just two manifest of this surrogate culture, or philosophy, or whatever. We are no longer capable of absorb an authentic philosophy, we need something in a form of action movie. This is fairly trivial. What's new is NYTimes sucking up to pop culture.
1. On Internet noone knows you are a dog.
2. Koreans like dog meat.
Make your own conclusion.
This is correct. On backbone (tier1 provider) conflicting interests prevail over the common goals. Note that multicasting is still not available between ASs (except in a form of MBone), there is no agreement on how to do QoS, how to handle multimedia. All those wonderfull things we were waiting for -- they will never ever appear because every AS is now for itself, and its goal is to make money, often at the expense of other ASs. "To hell with standards and co-operation. We'll introduce something sooo unique that everyone else will be blown off the water". So - what we have at this point is some minimum of interoperability, and that's about it. It won't get any better. Internet is stagnating, in terms of services it COULD but DOES NOT offer. It's all very said, when you thing of all missed opportunities.
It is correct that normally you run nfs over LAN, but nfs *can* run over WAN, albeit you would want to run NFS over TCP rather than over UDP. Just to deal with delay and potential losses over WAN.
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I'm a bit surprised Minsky shows no interest in neural networks. I believe there is a Neural Networks Lab in Boston University, and Minsky has a position in this lab. But this is just a small detail.
I like the idea that intelligence arised as a process of exploiting 'undocumented features' in our brains. Something unexpected, not planned for. We humans are 'evolutionary freaks', so to speak.
Of course, someone might argue, that if we continue building robots, trying to mimic evolution and intelligence, the result may be intelligence, yes, but completely foreign, and at worst, hostile to our human intelligence. At best, we want be able to communicate with it. At worst, there may be some conflict.
Yet I believe this is the only way to proceed if we want to achieve some tangible results. The wrong way to proceed is to feed the contents of Encyclopaedia Britannica to a computer. Yet another wrong way to proceed is to attempting to summarize the whole knowledge (in the same encyclopaedia) as a set of abstract rules and values and feed to the same computer. We need a creature capable of establishing its own set of values, and then building upon it.
RIAA has sent a threatening letter to Edgar Allan Poe, after it came across on his 'The fall of the house of Ushers'. "it was not mp3 format' Hillary Rosen said, 'but nonetheless RIAA remains vigilant'. Edgar Allan Poe wasn't available for comments.
Marvin Minsky considers intelligence is something like the set of absolute rules, which can be separated from both the subject posessing this feature ('intelligence') and the real world. The reality however is that intelligence is simply a tool for survival in a hostile environment, just another stage in evolutionary process. It has been evolved in specific circumstances, and will continue evolving. It *may* appear as the absolute set of rules (different religious believes is a good example), but this is appearance only. The bottom line is that you have to build the creature (robot or whatever) which interacts with other like creatures and the environment and try to adapt to both. Intelligence may appear as a by-product of this adaptation process. So -- building the robot with intelligence of worm is more productive than trying to simulate Einstein in some computer program. The AI as defined by Minsky and Co. is an emperor's new cloths. This is entirely *his* fault AI didn't go anywhere. The whole concept of separating the intelligence from the background it has evolved is wrong. Only someone who believes that 'mind', 'intelligence', etc is something which was given us by God ('mind' vs 'body') can continue insisting on this approach, but it is no longer a science if you wish, but religion or methaphysics.
don't answer (Ogden Nash)
pcmag has another review, this includes Dell and Acer. Dell D600 is recommended choice (performance/price balance). An interesting detail is that Dell did not use MS 802.11 component but something else, and they have achieved the best results in 'wireless' part of the test. Seems like the wireless part of Centrino is mediocre or worse.
this is actually 'PRACTICAL Extractor and Reporting Language'. PRACTICAL. My ass. They should consider redefining the whole acronym. Pompous Esoteric Redundant Language would be more appropriate. Well, if you fill you're poisoned enough by Perl fumes, take some AWK or Tcl as antidote.
There are some experiments being done and some listening data available, mostly on hydrogenaudio.org site. Seems like the general consensus at this point is that OGG is somewhat better than MP3 at the average rate about 128Kbps, but at the rates 200Kbps+ MP3 is better (meaning 'less artifacts'). At the rates lower than 128Kbps (where MP3 simply doesn't cut), OGG does a good job and apparently is better than WMA. So seems like OGG at this time competes with alternative lossy compressors at the rates 128Kbps and lower. If you tend to record at 200Kbps average, like the latest LAME default settings, you may as well stick with MP3 unless of course you are against MP3 'in principle'.
I am looking forward having MY (as a customer) personal tracking number assigned to me and embedded in my body as a microchip - courtesy of RIAA.
is part of the whole game, isn't it? And this is where machine has a good potential. A human can improvise but also make the mistakes. Machine follows the program and can't improvise, but it also can't make a 'blunder'. So the bottom line is that the fact that both games were lost 'in a blunder' is no excuse. A draw is a draw is a draw.
I've used Solaris 5 and 6 on Intel, if I remember correctly. It was fairly good experience, and system was performing well. I did have to use Xfree86, since whatever came from Sun had fairly limited support of the graphic adapters, but moving Xfree86 into Solaris was fairly easy operation, no brainer. I probably will take a look at Solaris 9. In general Solaris is very solid and stable system (starting around 5 or 6).
It sucked big time before that.
when I've worked at BBN Planet (currently Genuity, in Chapter 11 status, being acquired by Level3), I had to write some code to monitor the end to end Tier1 performance. An asshole who controlled the project (has PhD in math but had no idea that a source code should probably be indented, to say the least) did not want me to spend any time to properly documenting the code, make it modular, easy to maintain, etc. I hope the code I left to them was partially responsible for the current state of affairs at Genuity.
when they've killed newborn kids who didn't look like physically perfect, or Nazi Germany, or Soviet Union. Apparently, your notion of 'perfect society' is totalitarian society. Enough said.
Does it automatically make me a 'bad american'?
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I remember recent discussion regarding the role of producers and publisher and the article stating that the function of producers is 'filtering of all the crap they are getting and presenting the consumer with the best staff'. I wish it were true. In reality, producers invent the product they believe consumers would like, and since the product is rather vacuous, that is, has no contents, they put the excessive amount of efforts on packaging and advertising (junk food, anyone?) The sooner the present system goes the better. Doesn't look like anyone (except producers) will loose anything.
http://www.dynamism.com/zaurus/index.shtml
and last but not least - GNUUUUUUUU
so effectively it doesn't mean anything. No surprises Microsoft is backing out. THings would have been different if they're called this thingy .DA (YES)
at MicroCenter, for about a month already. Other than that - yes, it is an important milestone. I'm still waiting for another one: Solid State Memory, Compact Flash format (as the least expensive) - 1GB for $100. Any takes when it happens? So far the best price I've been seeing (also at MicroCenter) is 512MB CF card for about $160 (after rebates).