Doubly so since the clues and questions in a Jeopardy! game are usually at least somewhat obfuscated, contain puns, double entendres, etc...
This is exactly why this sounds so implausible to me. You often have to take the category name and weave it in with the question (or rather, answer). A lot depends not on the knowledge, but on the phrasing of the "queries". Give me one example of translation software which can translate entire paragraphs well.
It makes me wonder how much "stress testing" they've done, by taking old Jeopardy questions and seeing if the output would be considered "correct" by a human arbiter.
Is this true even outside of the earth's atmosphere, before scattering?
(now you have me googling around for graphs and charts of energy in relation to different parts of the visible spectrum, and the question becomes "visible to whom?"...)
When you say "there is nothing to stop a +5 offtopic", do you mean there's nothing to stop it happening, or that you would need a really powerful +5 magical weapon to stop it?...
So I'll start with "what you said", and add: The really big push for games, networking, and general-purpose computing isn't going to be a dedicated gaming machine. Why do they think that the console markets are practically non-existent in these markets? It's mainly because you can get a general-purpose computer that *also* plays games for usually no more than ~30% the cost of a console.
And you don't have to pirate games in order "to game" -- there are plenty of great games that are web-based, ad-supported, and/or open-source. Plus a computer will always offer a better, broader "social element" than any console.
IMHO, it's almost like they didn't think this through.
I was referring to the "the problem that Japanese game publishers had no production capacity or supply infrastructure themselves" part. The PS made this possible, and I quote: "The net effect was that there were hundreds and hundreds of thirdparty publishers in Japan. Tonnes and tonnes of product being developed for PlayStation".
The import market really picked up when western players noticed that there was some really awesome stuff being developed for the Japanese market, and in many cases you only needed a couple of reference pages in order to play (action games and the like). This motivated direct-translation titles, when prior to that the marketing people in western countries thought that for a game to succeed it needed to remove all of the cultural references that would be oh-so-confusing for the slow, dumb people that play these games.
Yes, the PS3 probably *is* the best BR player, even up to this point. But even if tying up the BR format with the PS3 *did* win the format war for them, what have they really gained?
Look at the sales figures on blu-ray discs. Then compare those, either by revenue, or by amount of content consumed, to DVD or digital distribution. It's fractional. Don't get me wrong, I love HD, and blu-ray, in my opinion, is a pretty good format (if only they could reduce the price of the players), but look at it from the perspective of the company.
If they launched the PS3 with a normal DVD drive they could be selling it for less than the price of the XBox360 Pro right now (this is speculative, of course, but that's a common estimate).
If you look at the manufacturing costs, the real problem was the Blu-Ray drives. They were so desperate to win that format war (and that was truly a phyrric victory), that they upped the PS3's manufacturing costs through the stratosphere. DVD would have been more than enough, and the Cell's price has gone down, as all architectures eventually do. The reason the price is still this high is that the combination of the Cell *and* BR drives is simply too much.
Imagine having access to PSN with a sub-$200 console. They would dominate by this point, if they just had their priorities straight.
"One of the crucial points in the campaign to win hearts and minds came when Sony offered a solution to the problem that Japanese game publishers had no production capacity or supply infrastructure themselves. After all, under the Nintendo model, Nintendo would make and distribute their software for them... One of the crucial points in the campaign to win hearts and minds came when Sony offered a solution to the problem that Japanese game publishers had no production capacity or supply infrastructure themselves. After all, under the Nintendo model, Nintendo would make and distribute their software for them"
This was the real force behind the success. It brought a massive amount of Japanese-culture into game design. Game developers didn't have to make everything "culture agnostic" if they didn't want to, and this was a big turning point.
Re:How is this news?
on
Bringing Up Bill
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Personally, I'd replace the word "respect" with "acknowledgment". The MS/WinTel strategies (if you can call them that) were effectively an implementation of organized crime behavior. It's been a while since it's been in the news, so people forget just how severe, and numerous, the allegations were.
I wouldn't place the word "respect" in the same paragraph as him. This scale of abuse of power doesn't occur by accident.
Re:"at war with my parents over who is in control"
on
Bringing Up Bill
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
Was missing out on the Internet strategic? (and I cringe as I write this... Imagine an internet/web based on MS software...)
Re:"at war with my parents over who is in control"
on
Bringing Up Bill
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
WinME happened on his watch. So did MS Bob, Clippy, and every internet search initiative you can think of.
Re:How is this news?
on
Bringing Up Bill
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I agree with your take on why this is interesting, but I especially think the "our enemy" remark hits the nail on the head. If this was about Larry Ellison, it probably wouldn't have made it in. If the article were about Steve Jobs, it would have made it in for completely different reasons.
Yes, he's very influential, but it's his *controversial* nature that makes this especially interesting.
Re:"at war with my parents over who is in control"
on
Bringing Up Bill
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
This is kind of tabloid territory here, but I am reminded of numerous accounts of "Bill Rage" in MS meetings. If you wanted to pitch an idea, you'd better be able to take on serious verbal abuse, sometimes simply because he didn't like the "name of one of the features" or because he didn't like some other minute aspect.
There have been so many reports of this over the years that you could really see a pattern forming around his behavior, and people around him had to "adapt" to his eccentricities.
For the most part, however, these outbursts didn't occur outside of closed doors. You don't see any videos on youtube with gates losing it in front of a camera. (not even in the pie incident, really)
I did read carefully. I was wondering if there was any reference in one of the articles mentioned that I missed, which literally stated "probably very weak in heavier elements", thereby making that a reference to something in the article, as opposed to your assumption. Posing a question to an assumption isn't considered rude, or "un-pedestrian", to my knowledge.
Moreover, pedestrian or not, I still challenge your conclusion:
Yes, the outer "shell" of the expanding universe is made up of lighter elements. However, this star did *explode*, and there aren't many things that would lead to a star exploding, if you take away the possibility of collision. Fusing into heavier elements and eventually breaking the equilibrium when iron-nickle is produced (Type II supernova) seems more likely to me.
Slashdot Mirror
You could have typed that up to a minute apart. We'll need to see the logs that include seconds in order to see if a coke is warranted.
Doubly so since the clues and questions in a Jeopardy! game are usually at least somewhat obfuscated, contain puns, double entendres, etc...
This is exactly why this sounds so implausible to me. You often have to take the category name and weave it in with the question (or rather, answer). A lot depends not on the knowledge, but on the phrasing of the "queries". Give me one example of translation software which can translate entire paragraphs well.
It makes me wonder how much "stress testing" they've done, by taking old Jeopardy questions and seeing if the output would be considered "correct" by a human arbiter.
He then proceeds to slap the women contestants...
Is this fundamentally different from Wolfram Alpha in its approach?
And does this really fall under "supercomputing"? Couldn't this be done in a distributed fashion?
There's a joke here relating to this video, but I can't put my finger on it.
Is this true even outside of the earth's atmosphere, before scattering?
(now you have me googling around for graphs and charts of energy in relation to different parts of the visible spectrum, and the question becomes "visible to whom?"...)
When you say "there is nothing to stop a +5 offtopic", do you mean there's nothing to stop it happening, or that you would need a really powerful +5 magical weapon to stop it?...
I think that if you go by power output, technically it's purple(ultra-violet).
(And no, you can't post a comment saying that by power output it's "X-ray" -- that's not a color)
Nice, you made a "score:2 Offtopic". I'm trying to generate a "score:3 Troll" myself.
I think you need a +1 weapon to damage a +3 Troll. And needless to say, you're going to need either fire or acid to kill it.
They're not much bigger, but the larger resistors require a heatsink, and probably a few 12" fans. Preferably Zalman. With blue LEDs.
And this is the *nice* way to do it.
He could have said: "and I won't give you those resistors unless you give me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"
The sun will see this coming from a MILE away. More than enough time to launch a counter-flare.
And then, the sun will get angry. You wouldn't like it when it's angry.
You beat me to the netbook comment...
So I'll start with "what you said", and add:
The really big push for games, networking, and general-purpose computing isn't going to be a dedicated gaming machine. Why do they think that the console markets are practically non-existent in these markets? It's mainly because you can get a general-purpose computer that *also* plays games for usually no more than ~30% the cost of a console.
And you don't have to pirate games in order "to game" -- there are plenty of great games that are web-based, ad-supported, and/or open-source. Plus a computer will always offer a better, broader "social element" than any console.
IMHO, it's almost like they didn't think this through.
I need to work on my Ctrl+C Ctrl+V skillz...
I was referring to the "the problem that Japanese game publishers had no production capacity or supply infrastructure themselves" part. The PS made this possible, and I quote: "The net effect was that there were hundreds and hundreds of thirdparty publishers in Japan. Tonnes and tonnes of product being developed for PlayStation".
The import market really picked up when western players noticed that there was some really awesome stuff being developed for the Japanese market, and in many cases you only needed a couple of reference pages in order to play (action games and the like). This motivated direct-translation titles, when prior to that the marketing people in western countries thought that for a game to succeed it needed to remove all of the cultural references that would be oh-so-confusing for the slow, dumb people that play these games.
Yes, the PS3 probably *is* the best BR player, even up to this point. But even if tying up the BR format with the PS3 *did* win the format war for them, what have they really gained?
Look at the sales figures on blu-ray discs. Then compare those, either by revenue, or by amount of content consumed, to DVD or digital distribution. It's fractional. Don't get me wrong, I love HD, and blu-ray, in my opinion, is a pretty good format (if only they could reduce the price of the players), but look at it from the perspective of the company.
If they launched the PS3 with a normal DVD drive they could be selling it for less than the price of the XBox360 Pro right now (this is speculative, of course, but that's a common estimate).
And as a bonus, the PS3 won't RROD on you.
If you look at the manufacturing costs, the real problem was the Blu-Ray drives. They were so desperate to win that format war (and that was truly a phyrric victory), that they upped the PS3's manufacturing costs through the stratosphere. DVD would have been more than enough, and the Cell's price has gone down, as all architectures eventually do. The reason the price is still this high is that the combination of the Cell *and* BR drives is simply too much.
Imagine having access to PSN with a sub-$200 console. They would dominate by this point, if they just had their priorities straight.
"One of the crucial points in the campaign to win hearts and minds came when Sony offered a solution to the problem that Japanese game publishers had no production capacity or supply infrastructure themselves. After all, under the Nintendo model, Nintendo would make and distribute their software for them ... One of the crucial points in the campaign to win hearts and minds came when Sony offered a solution to the problem that Japanese game publishers had no production capacity or supply infrastructure themselves. After all, under the Nintendo model, Nintendo would make and distribute their software for them"
This was the real force behind the success. It brought a massive amount of Japanese-culture into game design. Game developers didn't have to make everything "culture agnostic" if they didn't want to, and this was a big turning point.
Personally, I'd replace the word "respect" with "acknowledgment". The MS/WinTel strategies (if you can call them that) were effectively an implementation of organized crime behavior. It's been a while since it's been in the news, so people forget just how severe, and numerous, the allegations were.
Here's a brief reminder.
I wouldn't place the word "respect" in the same paragraph as him. This scale of abuse of power doesn't occur by accident.
Was missing out on the Internet strategic?
(and I cringe as I write this... Imagine an internet/web based on MS software...)
WinME happened on his watch. So did MS Bob, Clippy, and every internet search initiative you can think of.
I agree with your take on why this is interesting, but I especially think the "our enemy" remark hits the nail on the head. If this was about Larry Ellison, it probably wouldn't have made it in. If the article were about Steve Jobs, it would have made it in for completely different reasons.
Yes, he's very influential, but it's his *controversial* nature that makes this especially interesting.
This is kind of tabloid territory here, but I am reminded of numerous accounts of "Bill Rage" in MS meetings. If you wanted to pitch an idea, you'd better be able to take on serious verbal abuse, sometimes simply because he didn't like the "name of one of the features" or because he didn't like some other minute aspect.
There have been so many reports of this over the years that you could really see a pattern forming around his behavior, and people around him had to "adapt" to his eccentricities.
For the most part, however, these outbursts didn't occur outside of closed doors. You don't see any videos on youtube with gates losing it in front of a camera.
(not even in the pie incident, really)
It's just....well...I'm not sure what it is.
It's Sunday
I did read carefully. I was wondering if there was any reference in one of the articles mentioned that I missed, which literally stated "probably very weak in heavier elements", thereby making that a reference to something in the article, as opposed to your assumption. Posing a question to an assumption isn't considered rude, or "un-pedestrian", to my knowledge.
Moreover, pedestrian or not, I still challenge your conclusion:
Yes, the outer "shell" of the expanding universe is made up of lighter elements. However, this star did *explode*, and there aren't many things that would lead to a star exploding, if you take away the possibility of collision. Fusing into heavier elements and eventually breaking the equilibrium when iron-nickle is produced (Type II supernova) seems more likely to me.
Considering the amount of Anonymous Cowards posting in this thread, you'd think it's a 4chan invasion.
Now cue the 4chan jokes...