The Velocity measurement was to help narrow down the mass to fill in the blanks on the flavor switching.
Oprea was intended to look at neutrino oscillation which was supposed to be impossible because we assumed it has no Mass. The mass is the important part of the entire project.
The entire reason for measuring the speed was so that we would have the mass value. What's the estimated mass now that we have a somewhat accurate and confirmed speed?
No one in their right mind should support "forever", and any client who is foolish enough to demand it can go elsewhere. Anyone who says "yes" to those terms will be bankrupt by the idiot clients who demand that service. The fools who want that service will find that they have software that the vendor no longer exists to torment.
I can agree. I think the Pro controller is to address your concern with being forced to use the wavy sticks. I also think the duel screen pad will help reduce the need to reconfigure my living room to use the Wii Fit or Balance Board. I'm not sure if Kinect can take the same advantage of Smart Glass.
Novelty?
Most don't get out of the prototype phase. Sega's VR Headset caused too many problem in testing that they just abandoned the project siting only "negative reactions to consumer" as the reason.
Ohh I'm not irked at all. I find your analysis to be funny, and the fact that you couldn't spot the clear error in my number proves you know nothing of the industry what so ever, or are one of those people who creates pie charts that add up to over 100%. At least try looking up the number. Ok here you go try this. If you actually can read the analysis you'll see that every last system is down in their 2012 to 2011 unit sales. The XBox is only "up" when you compare it to 2010 sales which just means that 2010 for the xbox was a very bad year since they are still down from last year. As for the error that I put in it was that I put in the full YTD values for each year and not the Jan-May values for each year. What I said still stands. Try actually reading the analysis. As for Sony's profitability you should just look it up yourself, but if you must have a quote or something to fill your mind with then how about Soney CFO Masaru Kato
“We consider fiscal year 2012 to be the very important year to rehabilitate the electronics division.”
Or even a slashdot article about it. Sony needs to desperately stop hemorrhaging cash.
How you got modded to 5 is beyond me. I know, it's because you're repeating the same incorrect meme's that are posted in droves to slashdot.
Wow, karma envy.
Now, on to the show. You're so full of BS it isn't funny. Let's now debunk your again tired repeated meme armchair financial analysis.
Yes, but yours very much funny, and yes I will hit you with the hard numbers to show that stiff confidence of yours its place.
Did you miss the part where the xbox and ps3 are still selling strong and are maybe what like 10 million behind.
10 Million? Where do you get your numbers? That's crazy talk. Here is the actual number as of May.
Wii 95.8 Million
360 66.9 Million
ps3 64.7 Million
I could be wrong but isn't 95.8 Million - 66.9 Million = 28.9 Million. And that's the 360 ignoring the RROD out of warranty replacements. I'd bet once those are accounted for the PS3 is even ahead of the XBox. As for the Profitability of the PS3 Sony has had a 8 or 10 years in a row at an operational loss for its gaming division. For the end of the 2012 physical year it looks like that has a 2 or 3 billion loss. That's where the "It's questionable if MS and Sony have really come out ahead of this or not given the systems cost".
As for XBox and PS3 sales being up that's just plain crazy talk. You've been drinking the MS koolaid. I believe it's laced with something nasty.
Year to date Comparisons January - May.
PS3
2009 -13.0M
2010 -13.9M
2011 - 14.1M
2012 - 4.0M
360
2009 -10.0M
2010 -13.2M
2011 - 13.8M
2012 - 3.1M
Wii
2009 -21.1M
2010 -17.3M
2011 - 11.5M
2012 - 2.1M
When you look at the actual number it looks like each and every system took a nose dive some time after April 25, 2011. I wonder what that was. Oh, I know, that was the Wii U announcement date. What moron is going to buy a Wii knowing that the Wii U will be out soon and cause the Wii to have another price drop. Ether you're saving for the Wii U launch or your waiting for a price drop.
Can't blame that on Japan. Sales were down like 73%. You don't think that has ANY part in the fact that they lost $950 MILLION
Yes I can. Try reading something relevant. I mean really, how is a supply chain disruption not supposed to kill your margin. Honestly, if the tsunami never happened Nintendo's little misstep with the 3DS price point would have been completely erased by the end of the year. They made a little mistake at launch and they corrected it properly. That'll teach them not to listen to the E3 reporters and raise their price point 100 bucks. The tsunami also stopped game development for just about every Japanese developer. That little side effect is only now trickling down since game development take over year so the 20% drop in released games can be tied to it and the Wii U announcement. Since who's going to develop for the Wii when they know the Wii U is just around the corner.
The Wii U will be as relevant as the Wii, which was as Relevant as the Game Cube, and the N64 before it. It won't be as relevant as the SNES and NES. Nintendo has been playing this game for a while now and every time people like you come out and claim they are dead and no longer relevant. The 360 and PS3 haven't sold as many units and Nintendo was able to make actual profit off of their system right at launch.
It's questionable if MS and Sony have really come out ahead of this or not given the systems cost. The only real reason why MS and Sony aren't releasing a new system this year is that they still haven't made up for all the losses they incurred from the last round.
If Nintendo ever fixes its issue with 3rd party developers then Sony and MS will have to worry since that is the only thing making their system relevant enough to stay in the market. Their 1st party development is lack luster and Nintendo can practically print money without the aid of 3rd parties.
They have only had ONE year with an operational loss. Look at what's happened in Japan in the last year tsunami/nuclear disaster, Every major industry in Japan has been in the red.
To add to your flaimbait. You have to be retarded and ignorant of the history to make the claim that Nintendo will be irrelevant. They've ether been irrelevant for the last 20 year or they haven't been and probably won't be.
Pathetic. At least get your numbers write if you're going to say someone is wrong
Bundled territory is 20 Million + in the Nintendo Console arena. Just do a little lookup on something like VGCharz
Again Cry Me A River
The Part about assaulting their User Base was actually directed at KoA, but I can see how you thought I was attacking Blizzard. Writing nice clear html on slashdot is for crazies. Yes the video game Industry was considered Recession Proof up until 2008. Just like the Alcohol Industry. Do some research and you'll see that they never actually were hit by any of the recessions up until then. A Slump is actually different then a recession. In the 80's the "slump" was Atari imploding. Again do some research and you'll see. That ET video game nearly killed them.
It is pretty sophisticated stuff. Clearly has gone over your head for most if not all of your life.
You've made the mistake that every publish and dev that's railed against Rentals and Used Sales. You're assumption is that those buyers would buy your game at the regular retail prices. The honest truth is that they won't and never will. Back when you could expect a regular price drop in a Video Game these people just waited a couple of months for the first wave of price drops. EA and others have gotten so good at making sure they don't flood the market so that regular price drops are rare. When a game has been out for a year and is still being sold at 60$ their is a problem. This behavior took sales away, and made rentals and used games more valued. Between the Price Hike and Supply Control the Publishers have squeezed the maximum amount of profit out of the system. Any attempt to squeeze more just pushes more people to Used and Rentals. If you actually want to learn something go lookup the economics of the Car Industry and see how it uses the Lease and Used markets.
Yea, no used game sales for PC titles and have you noticed how PC game sales have been in the toilet for nearly 20 years? Diablo may have broken some PC records, but Its a drop in the bucket to what Consoles expect to make regularly. Million unit sellers on the PC are very rare.
That little trick they did could also be what cost them sales, but you can't actually measure sales lost because the user-base decided that they weren't going to take it. It breads negative sentiment for the brand.
Lets see if you understand even a little bit of economics. Game Stop puts about 1 billion a year into the hands of Gamers. This is based off of their Reported Profits from Used Game Sales. That 1 Billion then goes to ether New games or other Used games. You might think that the Used game sale costs the Developer something, but in Reality it freed up some cash so that the Gamer who traded in the New Game first can buy another New Game. If he didn't that would reduce the Speed of how many games in total that they would be able to buy in a Year. The same logic applies to the Used Car Market. Stopping Used game sales could end up causing the New game sales to contract by 1 to 2 billion dollars since it doesn't just stop the 1 billion from getting into the gamers hands but also puts a stop to the over all flow of games. The overall market would have a contraction of over 5 billion since it would kill the 3 Billion in GameStop Used games and contract the New game market as well. If you're goal is to kill the industry this is exactly how you should do it.
I've heard these excuses before. I'm old enough to remember Nintendo complain about Block Buster Rentals. Up until recently they've had a Recession Proof Industry, and the lost Sales the last few years is clearly due to the Recession, and has nothing to do with Used Games. The Profits from used games can also be tied to their price hike. Nintendo Warned them that it was a bad idea to increase the cost of development too much, and look at what it got them. A price hike that has caused Used Games to become preferable and made it so they no longer have a Recession Proof Industry. And this year we're in a flip where People arn't buying much because New Consoles are around the corner and new AAA games are being put onto systems that aren't out yet so supply is contracting. It happens every Console Cycle.
You don't get it. This isn't an online pass so you can play online or play the game. It's an online pass so you can play some single player content. It matters to each and every player in the XBox and PS3 market that ether wanted to trade it in or buy it used because it devalued the game. That one little trick caused the price of it used to drop faster which also means less trade in value (47.99 instead of 54.99). Developers and Publishers want to think that these hurt their sales. In truth they are what are driving their sales. Without the economic flow from the used game sales the new game sales would be a smaller pie. And personally I don't buy or play Ubisoft titles like ANNO 2070 because of their always on DRM for single player.
So where does that leave me. I'm a happily married father, and my father lives in my basement.
The Problem is the Definition of AI
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Where's HAL 9000?
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Artificial Intelligence is just that Artificial. Big Blue has zero actual Intelligence, but has plenty of ways of accomplishing a task (chess) that usually requires actual Intelligence. The article has confused Machine Intelligence and Machine Learning with Artificial Intelligence. The problem is that in those areas no one is "best suited". If we knew what we needed to do for Machine Intelligence to work then we'd have a Hal 9000 by now. Instead we have Watson, though impressive, is a long way away from Hal.
I bet the how to hack go daddy left out the important steps. Don't use a computer you normally use. Don't use your Home IP or any IP that can be traced to you. Go out the the middle of nowhere suburbia find an Open WiFi, and never go back there after you're done. And use as many proxies between you and them as you can. That's what makes hacking an art. Any script kiddy can run a Wipe Out a Go Daddy web site script, but can they do that and not get caught.
The USPTO is the victim here. If it doesn't approve a patent it goes into appeal until it does. So they are left with approve a patent, and clog up the legal system and themselves, or reject a patent and clog up the legal system and themselves. The system needs an overhaul.
What is country level weighting, and why do you do it?
The Net Market Share data is weighted by country. We compare our traffic to the CIA Internet Traffic by Country table, and weight our data accordingly. For example, if our global data shows that Brazil represents 2% of our traffic, and the CIA table shows Brazil to represent 4% of global Internet traffic, we will count each unique visitor from Brazil twice. This is done to balance out our global data. All regions have differing markets, and if our traffic were concentrated in one or more regions, our global data would be inappropriately affected by those regions. Country level weighting removes any bias by region.
Further to a significant number of user requests, we are now adjusting our browser stats to remove the effect of prerendering in Google Chrome. From 1 May 2012, prerendered pages (which are not actually viewed) are not included in our stats.
Eight Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
It is clearly not "narrowly" defined. Excessive is an abstract concept which is intended for the Supreme Court to define since $100 would be excessive when the amendment was written but a $100 now would be reasonable.
Tenenbaum being aware that a large fine maybe imposed is irrelevant.
The suffering of others is irrelevant.
The Supreme Court's job is in fact to protect you from the democratic republic that we have. It is un-American to think otherwise. The entire system is intended as a System of Checks and Balances to protect the People, or did you fail your High School Government and Civics classes. The Hypocrisy of a Nat like you lecturing other about how the US Government works is Sickening, and that you would be willing to exerciser their right to vote and yet be so ignorant of how the system is supposed to work.
The only reason that the Supreme Court shouldn't have listened to it has to do with why they've never come out with a clear ruling dealing with the patent mess, and that is that they've clearly stated that they want the Legislature to fix the mess.
It's actually a loan from bonds that have been sold, and those bonds have set interest rates on them. The bonds where just issued and insured by the state. The state would be on the hook for paying back the money on any bonds that were sold along with the interest. The State may have money that wasn't dispersed yet but they owe the interest on any bonds that were sold. Worst case they owe 100 million.
It's a Super Volcano. If and when it erupts there won't be anyone around to care enough about who gets sued. Any survivors will be scrambling for survival.
From what I understand this is supposed to help further knowledge about how dangerous that particular super volcano is. Is there a possibility that they are too confident and think that there is no way they could inadvertently trigger an eruption?
Slashdot Mirror
So that's what it leads to?
The Velocity measurement was to help narrow down the mass to fill in the blanks on the flavor switching. Oprea was intended to look at neutrino oscillation which was supposed to be impossible because we assumed it has no Mass. The mass is the important part of the entire project.
The entire reason for measuring the speed was so that we would have the mass value. What's the estimated mass now that we have a somewhat accurate and confirmed speed?
No one in their right mind should support "forever", and any client who is foolish enough to demand it can go elsewhere. Anyone who says "yes" to those terms will be bankrupt by the idiot clients who demand that service. The fools who want that service will find that they have software that the vendor no longer exists to torment.
I can agree. I think the Pro controller is to address your concern with being forced to use the wavy sticks. I also think the duel screen pad will help reduce the need to reconfigure my living room to use the Wii Fit or Balance Board. I'm not sure if Kinect can take the same advantage of Smart Glass.
Novelty? Most don't get out of the prototype phase. Sega's VR Headset caused too many problem in testing that they just abandoned the project siting only "negative reactions to consumer" as the reason.
If he hadn't said "Watch how mockers mock this post." you'd be right. If he had just left that out then it would have been perfect.
“We consider fiscal year 2012 to be the very important year to rehabilitate the electronics division.”
Or even a slashdot article about it. Sony needs to desperately stop hemorrhaging cash.
How you got modded to 5 is beyond me. I know, it's because you're repeating the same incorrect meme's that are posted in droves to slashdot.
Wow, karma envy.
Now, on to the show. You're so full of BS it isn't funny. Let's now debunk your again tired repeated meme armchair financial analysis.
Yes, but yours very much funny, and yes I will hit you with the hard numbers to show that stiff confidence of yours its place.
Did you miss the part where the xbox and ps3 are still selling strong and are maybe what like 10 million behind.
10 Million? Where do you get your numbers? That's crazy talk. Here is the actual number as of May.
Wii 95.8 Million
360 66.9 Million
ps3 64.7 Million
I could be wrong but isn't 95.8 Million - 66.9 Million = 28.9 Million. And that's the 360 ignoring the RROD out of warranty replacements. I'd bet once those are accounted for the PS3 is even ahead of the XBox. As for the Profitability of the PS3 Sony has had a 8 or 10 years in a row at an operational loss for its gaming division. For the end of the 2012 physical year it looks like that has a 2 or 3 billion loss. That's where the "It's questionable if MS and Sony have really come out ahead of this or not given the systems cost".
As for XBox and PS3 sales being up that's just plain crazy talk. You've been drinking the MS koolaid. I believe it's laced with something nasty.
Year to date Comparisons January - May.
PS3
2009 -13.0M
2010 -13.9M
2011 - 14.1M
2012 - 4.0M
360
2009 -10.0M
2010 -13.2M
2011 - 13.8M
2012 - 3.1M
Wii
2009 -21.1M
2010 -17.3M
2011 - 11.5M
2012 - 2.1M
When you look at the actual number it looks like each and every system took a nose dive some time after April 25, 2011. I wonder what that was. Oh, I know, that was the Wii U announcement date. What moron is going to buy a Wii knowing that the Wii U will be out soon and cause the Wii to have another price drop. Ether you're saving for the Wii U launch or your waiting for a price drop.
Can't blame that on Japan. Sales were down like 73%. You don't think that has ANY part in the fact that they lost $950 MILLION
Yes I can. Try reading something relevant. I mean really, how is a supply chain disruption not supposed to kill your margin. Honestly, if the tsunami never happened Nintendo's little misstep with the 3DS price point would have been completely erased by the end of the year. They made a little mistake at launch and they corrected it properly. That'll teach them not to listen to the E3 reporters and raise their price point 100 bucks. The tsunami also stopped game development for just about every Japanese developer. That little side effect is only now trickling down since game development take over year so the 20% drop in released games can be tied to it and the Wii U announcement. Since who's going to develop for the Wii when they know the Wii U is just around the corner.
It's questionable if MS and Sony have really come out ahead of this or not given the systems cost. The only real reason why MS and Sony aren't releasing a new system this year is that they still haven't made up for all the losses they incurred from the last round.
If Nintendo ever fixes its issue with 3rd party developers then Sony and MS will have to worry since that is the only thing making their system relevant enough to stay in the market. Their 1st party development is lack luster and Nintendo can practically print money without the aid of 3rd parties.
They have only had ONE year with an operational loss. Look at what's happened in Japan in the last year tsunami/nuclear disaster, Every major industry in Japan has been in the red.
To add to your flaimbait. You have to be retarded and ignorant of the history to make the claim that Nintendo will be irrelevant. They've ether been irrelevant for the last 20 year or they haven't been and probably won't be.
It will actually put Zero additional dollars into the hands of the developers. And it will shrink the Gaming Industry by 25%.
Bundled territory is 20 Million + in the Nintendo Console arena. Just do a little lookup on something like VGCharz
Again
Cry Me A River
The Part about assaulting their User Base was actually directed at KoA, but I can see how you thought I was attacking Blizzard. Writing nice clear html on slashdot is for crazies. Yes the video game Industry was considered Recession Proof up until 2008. Just like the Alcohol Industry. Do some research and you'll see that they never actually were hit by any of the recessions up until then. A Slump is actually different then a recession. In the 80's the "slump" was Atari imploding. Again do some research and you'll see. That ET video game nearly killed them.
It is pretty sophisticated stuff. Clearly has gone over your head for most if not all of your life.
You've made the mistake that every publish and dev that's railed against Rentals and Used Sales. You're assumption is that those buyers would buy your game at the regular retail prices. The honest truth is that they won't and never will. Back when you could expect a regular price drop in a Video Game these people just waited a couple of months for the first wave of price drops. EA and others have gotten so good at making sure they don't flood the market so that regular price drops are rare. When a game has been out for a year and is still being sold at 60$ their is a problem. This behavior took sales away, and made rentals and used games more valued. Between the Price Hike and Supply Control the Publishers have squeezed the maximum amount of profit out of the system. Any attempt to squeeze more just pushes more people to Used and Rentals. If you actually want to learn something go lookup the economics of the Car Industry and see how it uses the Lease and Used markets.
That little trick they did could also be what cost them sales, but you can't actually measure sales lost because the user-base decided that they weren't going to take it. It breads negative sentiment for the brand.
Lets see if you understand even a little bit of economics. Game Stop puts about 1 billion a year into the hands of Gamers. This is based off of their Reported Profits from Used Game Sales. That 1 Billion then goes to ether New games or other Used games. You might think that the Used game sale costs the Developer something, but in Reality it freed up some cash so that the Gamer who traded in the New Game first can buy another New Game. If he didn't that would reduce the Speed of how many games in total that they would be able to buy in a Year. The same logic applies to the Used Car Market. Stopping Used game sales could end up causing the New game sales to contract by 1 to 2 billion dollars since it doesn't just stop the 1 billion from getting into the gamers hands but also puts a stop to the over all flow of games. The overall market would have a contraction of over 5 billion since it would kill the 3 Billion in GameStop Used games and contract the New game market as well. If you're goal is to kill the industry this is exactly how you should do it. I've heard these excuses before. I'm old enough to remember Nintendo complain about Block Buster Rentals. Up until recently they've had a Recession Proof Industry, and the lost Sales the last few years is clearly due to the Recession, and has nothing to do with Used Games. The Profits from used games can also be tied to their price hike. Nintendo Warned them that it was a bad idea to increase the cost of development too much, and look at what it got them. A price hike that has caused Used Games to become preferable and made it so they no longer have a Recession Proof Industry. And this year we're in a flip where People arn't buying much because New Consoles are around the corner and new AAA games are being put onto systems that aren't out yet so supply is contracting. It happens every Console Cycle.
Cry Me A River
You don't get it. This isn't an online pass so you can play online or play the game. It's an online pass so you can play some single player content. It matters to each and every player in the XBox and PS3 market that ether wanted to trade it in or buy it used because it devalued the game. That one little trick caused the price of it used to drop faster which also means less trade in value (47.99 instead of 54.99). Developers and Publishers want to think that these hurt their sales. In truth they are what are driving their sales. Without the economic flow from the used game sales the new game sales would be a smaller pie. And personally I don't buy or play Ubisoft titles like ANNO 2070 because of their always on DRM for single player.
It also didn't help to have single player quests behind a online pass. Fighting with the user-base when you're just beginning is never good.
You're thinking Dating Sim. Brave Soul ,for one, is not a Dating Sim, but rather JRPG with Hentai.
So where does that leave me. I'm a happily married father, and my father lives in my basement.
Artificial Intelligence is just that Artificial. Big Blue has zero actual Intelligence, but has plenty of ways of accomplishing a task (chess) that usually requires actual Intelligence. The article has confused Machine Intelligence and Machine Learning with Artificial Intelligence. The problem is that in those areas no one is "best suited". If we knew what we needed to do for Machine Intelligence to work then we'd have a Hal 9000 by now. Instead we have Watson, though impressive, is a long way away from Hal.
I bet the how to hack go daddy left out the important steps. Don't use a computer you normally use. Don't use your Home IP or any IP that can be traced to you. Go out the the middle of nowhere suburbia find an Open WiFi, and never go back there after you're done. And use as many proxies between you and them as you can. That's what makes hacking an art. Any script kiddy can run a Wipe Out a Go Daddy web site script, but can they do that and not get caught.
The USPTO is the victim here. If it doesn't approve a patent it goes into appeal until it does. So they are left with approve a patent, and clog up the legal system and themselves, or reject a patent and clog up the legal system and themselves. The system needs an overhaul.
What is country level weighting, and why do you do it?
The Net Market Share data is weighted by country. We compare our traffic to the CIA Internet Traffic by Country table, and weight our data accordingly. For example, if our global data shows that Brazil represents 2% of our traffic, and the CIA table shows Brazil to represent 4% of global Internet traffic, we will count each unique visitor from Brazil twice. This is done to balance out our global data. All regions have differing markets, and if our traffic were concentrated in one or more regions, our global data would be inappropriately affected by those regions. Country level weighting removes any bias by region.
So I'm to trust numbers that I know have a flawed methodology?
Why not these then
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Oh, but weight, stat counter started removing chrome over counts.
Further to a significant number of user requests, we are now adjusting our browser stats to remove the effect of prerendering in Google Chrome. From 1 May 2012, prerendered pages (which are not actually viewed) are not included in our stats.
Eight Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
It is clearly not "narrowly" defined. Excessive is an abstract concept which is intended for the Supreme Court to define since $100 would be excessive when the amendment was written but a $100 now would be reasonable.
Tenenbaum being aware that a large fine maybe imposed is irrelevant.
The suffering of others is irrelevant.
The Supreme Court's job is in fact to protect you from the democratic republic that we have. It is un-American to think otherwise. The entire system is intended as a System of Checks and Balances to protect the People, or did you fail your High School Government and Civics classes. The Hypocrisy of a Nat like you lecturing other about how the US Government works is Sickening, and that you would be willing to exerciser their right to vote and yet be so ignorant of how the system is supposed to work.
The only reason that the Supreme Court shouldn't have listened to it has to do with why they've never come out with a clear ruling dealing with the patent mess, and that is that they've clearly stated that they want the Legislature to fix the mess.
It's actually a loan from bonds that have been sold, and those bonds have set interest rates on them. The bonds where just issued and insured by the state. The state would be on the hook for paying back the money on any bonds that were sold along with the interest. The State may have money that wasn't dispersed yet but they owe the interest on any bonds that were sold. Worst case they owe 100 million.
It's a Super Volcano. If and when it erupts there won't be anyone around to care enough about who gets sued. Any survivors will be scrambling for survival.
From what I understand this is supposed to help further knowledge about how dangerous that particular super volcano is. Is there a possibility that they are too confident and think that there is no way they could inadvertently trigger an eruption?