Actually, that's a cool idea.. All the "themes" of clippy (the dog, einstien, etc) are all annoyingly stupid. Quake monsters or stripping girls would be much better!! I might even leave it turned on instead of disabling it!
Everything seems to be taking longer than usual now.. A friend of mine (Canadian) is a tech who repairs medical equipement. When he travels, he brings all kinds of tools, scopes, specialized electronic diagnostic equipement, etc. Getting this stuff through customs is a nightmare (from Canada to the US, or even just within Canada)... This started after 911, though.
Is this article acurate?
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The article makes it sound like.NET is basically like Java. Java targets the Virtual Machine instead of a type of CPU or architecture, the article says that your compiler will make programs for the.NET runtime engine (virtual machine).. I though.NET was was kinda like Gnome or KDE without the Window managers, just a framework and some libraries for writing programs. Isn't it supposed to be an API accessable from several programming languages? Maybe I'm the one that's confused!!
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Windows still ships with edit.exe...
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Speaking of annoyances in Windows, how the heck do you set it so Internet Explorer always opens new windows maximized? The various browsers on Linux don't have any problems with this, but it's driving me crazy in every version of Windows I use.
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come in at noon and play foosball in their slippers
Maybe I should take that requirement off my resume..
I dunno, I support about 200 windows desktops. How much bandwidth will this use? What if one day an update screws all 200 PC's? The business will screech to a halt.
It seems that these types of experiments would be much better suited to software than hardware. Building the robots, configuring them, etc, is time consuming and expensive. You can do simulations with software that can be exponentially larger (more robots) and much cheaper and faster to build and make changes later.
Object oriented design is perfect for this sort of thing. I did a simple experiment in Java, where predators, prey and food pellets were objects. Each object could have many different characteristics which chould be set when each object was spawned, which kind of mimics evolution. Also, if the logic in an object needs an upgrade (ie: The preditors are not too bright) it is easier to make modifications to the program instead of rebuilding a real robot.
I guess anything with real robots has a certain coolness to it, but any serious research in AI is better done in software simulations (not that I did any serious research, I was just learning Java and OO design).
Yes, I agree with this, we should test any new technology on children. Heck, why stop at technology? New drugs, cosmetics, bullet-proof vests, etc, should all be tested on children before they are considered safe for general use.
Spare the lab monkeys, bunnies and rats! Use children!
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Yeah, it's like a train wreck, you can't stand to look but you can't turn away!;-)
Linux seems to be getting all the hype lately, which might have something to do with it. Also, Linux seems to have more momentum, more developers, more drivers, bigger user base, etc.
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Correct, there is only Cobol.
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I wish I could mod down JonKatz: Offtopic, Redundant and Stupid
Well, you can't do that, but you can go into your Slashdot preferences and set it to not display stories posted by Mr. Katz.
I am Slashdotted
Sorry... this web site is Slashdotted at the moment.
Here is the Google cache version of my main page.
Until my new shipment of bandwidth arrives, you may want to visit the Save Unicom.Com web site to read about the lawsuit.
I am on Rogers high speed in Toronto (Whitby to be more precise), and I never get speeds over 200 k/ps when downloading. Usually it's closer to 40 k/ps. There's also problems with frequent down time, mail servers slow or down (before and after the excite@home mess), and slow DNS lookups (thank god for for bind!). My cable bill is already over $110 per month (internet and digital tv), so convincing the wife to up that by $40 per month to keep the current crappy service is not going to happen.
How about a reverse-filter? What I mean is, set up filters for people you WANT to receive mail from, and put those messages in a special folder. All the rest of the crap in your inbox can then be safely deleted without looking at it.
Can someone explain this to me, without working themselves into a lather??
My @home account (now @rogers.com) gets about 40 to 60 spam messages a day. If I don't check my email for 3 days, that's 150 messages to wade through to find actual email I want to read. Not to mention most are HTML formatted, have no valid return address, and are selling scams, viagara, porn sites, penis enlargement, etc, and take a long time to downloaded (even on a cable modem). It's like being under a constant DDOS attack. And setting up filters for each of these is really becomming a major pain in the ass. Should I have to waste 30 mins a day, 7 days a week, dealing with this crap? Yeah, I guess it's not a big deal.
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Wow, kinda sucks if your OS has a per CPU license, like NT and Win2K server!
Actually, that's a cool idea .. All the "themes" of clippy (the dog, einstien, etc) are all annoyingly stupid. Quake monsters or stripping girls would be much better!! I might even leave it turned on instead of disabling it!
That sucks ... Can you send it electronically?
Everything seems to be taking longer than usual now .. A friend of mine (Canadian) is a tech who repairs medical equipement. When he travels, he brings all kinds of tools, scopes, specialized electronic diagnostic equipement, etc. Getting this stuff through customs is a nightmare (from Canada to the US, or even just within Canada)... This started after 911, though.
How do you connect your SCSI drives to the computer? Throuch a PCI card?
Kathleen Taco?
The article makes it sound like .NET is basically like Java. Java targets the Virtual Machine instead of a type of CPU or architecture, the article says that your compiler will make programs for the .NET runtime engine (virtual machine) .. I though .NET was was kinda like Gnome or KDE without the Window managers, just a framework and some libraries for writing programs. Isn't it supposed to be an API accessable from several programming languages? Maybe I'm the one that's confused!!
Windows still ships with edit.exe...
Speaking of annoyances in Windows, how the heck do you set it so Internet Explorer always opens new windows maximized? The various browsers on Linux don't have any problems with this, but it's driving me crazy in every version of Windows I use.
Maybe I should take that requirement off my resume..
I dunno, I support about 200 windows desktops. How much bandwidth will this use? What if one day an update screws all 200 PC's? The business will screech to a halt.
I've never heard the term "nerding" before, I think you just coined a phrase! I'm going to sign off now and do some nerding.
Object oriented design is perfect for this sort of thing. I did a simple experiment in Java, where predators, prey and food pellets were objects. Each object could have many different characteristics which chould be set when each object was spawned, which kind of mimics evolution. Also, if the logic in an object needs an upgrade (ie: The preditors are not too bright) it is easier to make modifications to the program instead of rebuilding a real robot.
I guess anything with real robots has a certain coolness to it, but any serious research in AI is better done in software simulations (not that I did any serious research, I was just learning Java and OO design).
Spare the lab monkeys, bunnies and rats! Use children!
The poor guy must read all these comments, too.
Linux seems to be getting all the hype lately, which might have something to do with it. Also, Linux seems to have more momentum, more developers, more drivers, bigger user base, etc.
Correct, there is only Cobol.
Well, you can't do that, but you can go into your Slashdot preferences and set it to not display stories posted by Mr. Katz.
I am Slashdotted Sorry ... this web site is Slashdotted at the moment.
Here is the Google cache version of my main page.
Until my new shipment of bandwidth arrives, you may want to visit the Save Unicom.Com web site to read about the lawsuit.
Now how's *that* for Karma Whorin! ;-)
I am on Rogers high speed in Toronto (Whitby to be more precise), and I never get speeds over 200 k/ps when downloading. Usually it's closer to 40 k/ps. There's also problems with frequent down time, mail servers slow or down (before and after the excite@home mess), and slow DNS lookups (thank god for for bind!). My cable bill is already over $110 per month (internet and digital tv), so convincing the wife to up that by $40 per month to keep the current crappy service is not going to happen.
Yeah, I know, although my previous comment took a beating!! Welcome back to 48 Karma! That will teach me to use the +1 bonus.
Me too, but I don't brag about it.
Yeah, and how many frags did the monkey get?
How about a reverse-filter? What I mean is, set up filters for people you WANT to receive mail from, and put those messages in a special folder. All the rest of the crap in your inbox can then be safely deleted without looking at it.
My @home account (now @rogers.com) gets about 40 to 60 spam messages a day. If I don't check my email for 3 days, that's 150 messages to wade through to find actual email I want to read. Not to mention most are HTML formatted, have no valid return address, and are selling scams, viagara, porn sites, penis enlargement, etc, and take a long time to downloaded (even on a cable modem). It's like being under a constant DDOS attack. And setting up filters for each of these is really becomming a major pain in the ass. Should I have to waste 30 mins a day, 7 days a week, dealing with this crap? Yeah, I guess it's not a big deal.