the RIAA actually sued some dead people and some minors (some as young as 6), I'm pretty sure the judge would not find them guilty if they failed to appear:)
For everybody else missing the first session would be pretty stupid, a sure way to get a default judgement against you.
I was following you until the 'serially down a single optic nerve like ours', our 'optic nerve' is actually a bundle that contains about 1 to 1.5 million individual nerve fibers, still much less than the actual number of sensors but the data is not 'serialized', its steady state summed from about 100 sensor cells, the 'encoding' if you wish is activation level transformed in a more frequent excitation of the nerves.
What happens if the meat people resent the ultra people and use the power to run their women's electric leg shavers instead? Well, I would conjecture that this is already the case...
A massive ban on electric leg shavers clearly is the only way to bring about the singularity!
I'm a fair chess player but I'm not sure I could adapt easily (if at all) to playing in the sand with rocks & sea shells and still play a half decent game. In fact I'd expect a computer program to do much better in such a situation than a human player simply because it can make a mapping and keep track of what's what.
I know for a fact that I already run into trouble with some of the more fancy sets that a friend of mine has.
those are all fairly simple transformations, in the 80's I wrote a piece of software that did just that, undo the transformations that you could apply to an adhesive with a circle pattern on it that contained a number of bits.
You had to undo three axis of rotation and translation in order to position the code so that it could be read, and scale it as well.
The pattern was - you've guessed it;) - a checkerboard. White bits were a '1', black bits a '0'. The application was meant for vehicle identification, a sticker placed on the roof of the vehicle in any orientation.
We did this on a targa vision board and an AT clone at 20 Mhz in realtime, I'm pretty sure that todays computers could do a lot better than that.
(well, not better than realtime, but better in terms of algorithm complexity).
man what a pity you wrote that as an AC, I really wholeheartedly agree with you and I think the fascination with technology gets in the way of seeing the bigger picture.
There are several serious problems with planet earth right now and if we don't get off our collective asses then within 50 years all this great tech we are developing will look like nice paint on the stern of the Titanic.
The kind of problems we should be dealing with are fairly low tech, large screen plasma TV's attract lots of $, clean water, food and medicine are unfortunately not a priority, except with a small number of idealists who unfortunately do not have the funds to make much impact.
I saw a speech by Jane Goodall not that long ago and was very much moved by the amount of energy that she still puts in trying to save this blue-green globe but it will need a lot more than a couple of speeches.
nonsense. Sorry, but really. If you took one look at a chessboard you'd see why. From the opening position you could make a model and simply keep track of what goes where. The chessboard is easy enough, the difference in shade between the pieces does the rest during the opening.
To come upon an arbitrary chess board would be harder, but not much more so, even there you'd have the hints of the shades, the height of the pieces, their numbers and the fact that competition chess is played with a standard set (Staunton).
If you drop the standardized chess board requirement it gets harder again, now we're in territory where even human players have a harder time playing the game (hence the reason for Staunton), but most of the previous rules still apply.
no need to do much analyzing, just use the slider in the firehose, it will give you an excellent idea of the number of quality postings vs the number of lousy ones.
Let me spell it out for you, I'll ignore your strawman about me not liking him 'because he's french', I don't know what prompted you to say that, it lowers the discussion level:
Roland has an extremely high ratio of postings and a *much* higher ratio of accepted postings. So much higher that for the longest time I figured he was a sockpuppet for one of the./ editors. Once you start noticing and analyze the quantities of stories getting rejected from other members, the quality of those stories and how many of Rolands stories get accepted and the quality of *those* stories then you really can't help but wonder what the game is here.
The discrepancy is too large to be ignored or brushed under the carpet.
After all, the./ firehose gives you a pretty good idea of which stories make the grade and which don't (besides of course a guaranteed placement of dupes;) ), and it allows you to get a good idea of the average submission quality of stories that eventually don't make it.
The standards that most postings are held to would mean that *none* of Rolands postings would have been accepted, they are the very definition of blog spam.
Something is smelly here, even if I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it's time to do some scripting to get some real hard stats on this whole thing.
what's the cause of that huge price increase? I can't seem to figure it out, the premium over my guess of what such a system would cost (about $100 K was my expectation) is enormous.
destroyed of all things ! I personally think they should explode and kill all the occupants of the premises where said hardware is located. Or maybe geotargetting coupled with a tactical nuke or so, sure the collateral damage would be large, but nothing is too much in protecting that precious IP.
I've often wondered if an intelligence test before a vote would be a good thing and I've decided against that, but such a test administered before being able to take public office would be a very good thing.
my copy is with my son about 30 miles from here so I'll give you the right of way on that one:)
Best book I"ve ever bought, in fact bought about 3 times by now, I keep finding people that have never heard of it, then give away my copy and get another one...
thhgttg = "the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy", no attempt at theft was made, I figured if you'd understand the reference you'd get the credit too...
I have a child too and my experience runs quite contrary to yours. My child comes to me to ask me about the weird behaviour of their friends and if it is ok not to be a 'part of the group'.
This is europe, I'm not sure where you are though, and I can imagine that depending on the cultural background individuality is harder to maintain.
Rock music in the fifies, rap music today, it makes really no difference. Anybody that 'emulates' some figure be it a pop musician, a movie star or a religious figure should learn to think for themselves.
All these people getting their panties in a twist about some kids being influenced should spend more time educating individuals, not attacking the availability of role models, no matter where you go you'll find good ones and bad ones.
If parents can't educate their kids to the point where the kids are so easily influenced then the solution is not to attack the people that are being followed.
It's not like these rappers have mind control or anything like that.
it makes you wonder what kind of magic HP and SUN use in their 'big iron', 64 or more cpus in a machine is one thing, to have them all working in a meaningful way on a problem without starvation issues is no mean feat.
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the RIAA actually sued some dead people and some minors (some as young as 6), I'm pretty sure the judge would not find them guilty if they failed to appear :)
For everybody else missing the first session would be pretty stupid, a sure way to get a default judgement against you.
*whoosh*...
I was following you until the 'serially down a single optic nerve like ours', our 'optic nerve' is actually a bundle that contains about 1 to 1.5 million individual nerve fibers, still much less than the actual number of sensors but the data is not 'serialized', its steady state summed from about 100 sensor cells, the 'encoding' if you wish is activation level transformed in a more frequent excitation of the nerves.
This is actually a feature in 'word'...
A massive ban on electric leg shavers clearly is the only way to bring about the singularity!
I'm a fair chess player but I'm not sure I could adapt easily (if at all) to playing in the sand with rocks & sea shells and still play a half decent game. In fact I'd expect a computer program to do much better in such a situation than a human player simply because it can make a mapping and keep track of what's what.
I know for a fact that I already run into trouble with some of the more fancy sets that a friend of mine has.
those are all fairly simple transformations, in the 80's I wrote a piece of software that did just that, undo the transformations that you could apply to an adhesive with a circle pattern on it that contained a number of bits.
;) - a checkerboard. White bits were a '1', black bits a '0'. The application was meant for vehicle identification, a sticker placed on the roof of the vehicle in any orientation.
You had to undo three axis of rotation and translation in order to position the code so that it could be read, and scale it as well.
The pattern was - you've guessed it
We did this on a targa vision board and an AT clone at 20 Mhz in realtime, I'm pretty sure that todays computers could do a lot better than that.
(well, not better than realtime, but better in terms of algorithm complexity).
man what a pity you wrote that as an AC, I really wholeheartedly agree with you and I think the fascination with technology gets in the way of seeing the bigger picture.
There are several serious problems with planet earth right now and if we don't get off our collective asses then within 50 years all this great tech we are developing will look like nice paint on the stern of the Titanic.
The kind of problems we should be dealing with are fairly low tech, large screen plasma TV's attract lots of $, clean water, food and medicine are unfortunately not a priority, except with a small number of idealists who unfortunately do not have the funds to make much impact.
I saw a speech by Jane Goodall not that long ago and was very much moved by the amount of energy that she still puts in trying to save this blue-green globe but it will need a lot more than a couple of speeches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chyR1ZxoiA4
nonsense. Sorry, but really. If you took one look at a chessboard you'd see why. From the opening position you could make a model and simply keep track of what goes where. The chessboard is easy enough, the difference in shade between the pieces does the rest during the opening.
To come upon an arbitrary chess board would be harder, but not much more so, even there you'd have the hints of the shades, the height of the pieces, their numbers and the fact that competition chess is played with a standard set (Staunton).
If you drop the standardized chess board requirement it gets harder again, now we're in territory where even human players have a harder time playing the game (hence the reason for Staunton), but most of the previous rules still apply.
I don't know *what* the deal is, but that there is some kind of deal would seem to be the more likely conclusion.
./ into 'rolandp plagiarism inc' ?
Maybe they should change
Is there anybody out there that can make a stab at how much he makes from this ?
adding insult to injury the /. editors have decided to increase the frequency of Rolands postings...
no need to do much analyzing, just use the slider in the firehose, it will give you an excellent idea of the number of quality postings vs the number of lousy ones.
Let me spell it out for you, I'll ignore your strawman about me not liking him 'because he's french', I don't know what prompted you to say that, it lowers the discussion level:
./ editors. Once you start noticing and analyze the quantities of stories getting rejected from other members, the quality of those stories and how many of Rolands stories get accepted and the quality of *those* stories then you really can't help but wonder what the game is here.
./ firehose gives you a pretty good idea of which stories make the grade and which don't (besides of course a guaranteed placement of dupes ;) ), and it allows you to get a good idea of the average submission quality of stories that eventually don't make it.
Roland has an extremely high ratio of postings and a *much* higher ratio of accepted postings. So much higher that for the longest time I figured he was a sockpuppet for one of the
The discrepancy is too large to be ignored or brushed under the carpet.
After all, the
The standards that most postings are held to would mean that *none* of Rolands postings would have been accepted, they are the very definition of blog spam.
Something is smelly here, even if I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it's time to do some scripting to get some real hard stats on this whole thing.
I don't know what you are smoking, but if I ever decide to go and do drugs I want some :)
what's the cause of that huge price increase? I can't seem to figure it out, the premium over my guess of what such a system would cost (about $100 K was my expectation) is enormous.
destroyed of all things ! I personally think they should explode and kill all the occupants of the premises where said hardware is located. Or maybe geotargetting coupled with a tactical nuke or so, sure the collateral damage would be large, but nothing is too much in protecting that precious IP.
I've often wondered if an intelligence test before a vote would be a good thing and I've decided against that, but such a test administered before being able to take public office would be a very good thing.
why is his stuff getting this insane posting ratio on ./ ? Since march 21st of this year 20+ accepted submissions ??
my copy is with my son about 30 miles from here so I'll give you the right of way on that one :)
Best book I"ve ever bought, in fact bought about 3 times by now, I keep finding people that have never heard of it, then give away my copy and get another one...
thhgttg = "the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy", no attempt at theft was made, I figured if you'd understand the reference you'd get the credit too...
that once we fully understand the universe it will be replaced with something even more complicated.
Others argue that this has already happened...
thhgttg
I have a child too and my experience runs quite contrary to yours. My child comes to me to ask me about the weird behaviour of their friends and if it is ok not to be a 'part of the group'.
This is europe, I'm not sure where you are though, and I can imagine that depending on the cultural background individuality is harder to maintain.
Rock music in the fifies, rap music today, it makes really no difference. Anybody that 'emulates' some figure be it a pop musician, a movie star or a religious figure should learn to think for themselves.
All these people getting their panties in a twist about some kids being influenced should spend more time educating individuals, not attacking the availability of role models, no matter where you go you'll find good ones and bad ones.
If parents can't educate their kids to the point where the kids are so easily influenced then the solution is not to attack the people that are being followed.
It's not like these rappers have mind control or anything like that.
I realize that they can't do vector ops (or at least not with any speed that would qualify as 'impressive').
Just for kicks I just priced out a HP machine with only 16 dual core cpus and 64 G of ram and it topped 1 million bucks!
it makes you wonder what kind of magic HP and SUN use in their 'big iron', 64 or more cpus in a machine is one thing, to have them all working in a meaningful way on a problem without starvation issues is no mean feat.