The official page is at http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/index.html. They've got the first bit of the script up, as well as mention that Jake Lloyd is interested in playing Ender. They're also planning to film Ender's Shadow at the same time.
As has been said, that's just due to the passthrough cable. You can go as high as you want, but you'll lose quality. However, the passthrough cable is not required if you want to play using the TV out.
The problem with the H+ lies in the fact that it loads its keys from software. If SD were to open the source to the drivers, they would essentially be giving away the encryption keys (and DVDCCS (or whatever) would shit a brick and sue the hell out of SD). Given that DeCSS has been released, SD won't even release a MPEG only driver because that could allow someone to play a decrypted DVD (also potentially bad for SD). Really, SD's only choice in this matter was to not do anything for Linux for the H+.
Several AI related techniques have become more main stream, making their way in to everyday products (such as neural nets in speech/character recognition, bayesian networks in help systems, even a bit of using GAs for design). Do you see any other current AI techniques making this move? In what sorts of applications?
I'm a bit vague here, but couldn't this really screw with the astronauts in the space shuttle? Or are they close enough to Earth to be protected by the Earth's magnetic field (which protects, more or less, those of us on the surface)?
Actually, a previous poster who talked about "solar flare seasons" is a bit more accurate. There is a periodic, 11 year cycle of the frequency of solar flares, and we are getting towards the peak right now. However, being in the "low point" doesn't mean solar flares can't occur -- it's just they're a lot less likely.
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With the current state of AI, no. Setting up an autonomous robot on Mars, a system we have very little experience with, would be a nearly impossible task. A purely reactive robot wouldn't be much help, as it would not make intelligent decisions as to where to investigate. On the other hand, a robot with some planning capability would be mostly incapacitated. With such an uncertain and variable environment, the robot would spend forever planning out its move, attempt it, fail since something minor changed, and start planning again.
The only really viable way for unmanned robots to do any sort of intelligent exploring is what we did with Sojourner on Mars -- remote control. This sort of approach will work for Mars, the Moon, and perhaps Venus and Mercury. Beyond that, lag just increases amazingly. There are also more problems with loss of communication -- besides Pluto, outer-Solar-system probes will be landing on moons that have planets to obscure communication for days at a time.
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The official page is at http://www.frescopictures.com /movies/ender/index.html. They've got the first bit of the script up, as well as mention that Jake Lloyd is interested in playing Ender. They're also planning to film Ender's Shadow at the same time.
Go on freshmeat and look for ACS/pg. Some people have ported the ACS to PostgreSQL.
As has been said, that's just due to the passthrough cable. You can go as high as you want, but you'll lose quality. However, the passthrough cable is not required if you want to play using the TV out.
The problem with the H+ lies in the fact that it loads its keys from software. If SD were to open the source to the drivers, they would essentially be giving away the encryption keys (and DVDCCS (or whatever) would shit a brick and sue the hell out of SD). Given that DeCSS has been released, SD won't even release a MPEG only driver because that could allow someone to play a decrypted DVD (also potentially bad for SD). Really, SD's only choice in this matter was to not do anything for Linux for the H+.
Several AI related techniques have become more main stream, making their way in to everyday products (such as neural nets in speech/character recognition, bayesian networks in help systems, even a bit of using GAs for design). Do you see any other current AI techniques making this move? In what sorts of applications?
I'm a bit vague here, but couldn't this really screw with the astronauts in the space shuttle? Or are they close enough to Earth to be protected by the Earth's magnetic field (which protects, more or less, those of us on the surface)?
Actually, a previous poster who talked about "solar flare seasons" is a bit more accurate. There is a periodic, 11 year cycle of the frequency of solar flares, and we are getting towards the peak right now. However, being in the "low point" doesn't mean solar flares can't occur -- it's just they're a lot less likely.
With the current state of AI, no. Setting up an autonomous robot on Mars, a system we have very little experience with, would be a nearly impossible task. A purely reactive robot wouldn't be much help, as it would not make intelligent decisions as to where to investigate. On the other hand, a robot with some planning capability would be mostly incapacitated. With such an uncertain and variable environment, the robot would spend forever planning out its move, attempt it, fail since something minor changed, and start planning again.
The only really viable way for unmanned robots to do any sort of intelligent exploring is what we did with Sojourner on Mars -- remote control. This sort of approach will work for Mars, the Moon, and perhaps Venus and Mercury. Beyond that, lag just increases amazingly. There are also more problems with loss of communication -- besides Pluto, outer-Solar-system probes will be landing on moons that have planets to obscure communication for days at a time.