1. No indication how many of the 200 were active accounts or how they were chosen (there's a screenshot which to me suggests a clustering? 6 friends in london? What are the chances given the huge population of facebook users?)
2. They used a cartoon picture as a display image. If there was an uncertainty of whether you know this person, then the generic image wouldn't help either. If it was someone's real face you might get less people agreeing to friendship, probably.
"Willing to Divulge to" makes it sound like some complete stranger went on facebook and asked "Hey, give me your email address, blood type and shoe size" and got an answer.
What it really is, is that people add friends pretty randomly and openly, and many don't secure their personal information very well. In the ideal case you would have various 'grades' of friends which determine permissions but
a) Nobody would bother using it b) Facebook doesn't particularly care about privacy.
Anyhoo, we knew all of this earlier - so non-story.
My local library is composed of a number of ancient books held together by cellotape, the only computer is used to search for books, and you can't find anything in there which isn't a book.
So yeah I guess your mileage may vary, but except for the University Library (which works rather differently), all the libraries over here are like that. Used to love going when I was younger and there was no internet.
I don't think Libraries will survive for much longer. If you want a book now you can get it in a digital version, and the publishers are rather adamant about allowing their ebooks to be borrowed from the library, and pretty much anything else can be digitised and accessed online.
So while its a nice idea to convert libraries to this sort of thing, they're not going to survive much longer in my opinion.
Because you asked it to. Isn't it obvious? Or because whoever programmed that function made it do that.
I would rather my computer always does the same thing regardless of whether I'm smiling at the screen or growling angrily. If you can't tell a computer what you want done, then that's your problem.
So you're telling me that if you write a song, and I copy it to a wav file, a mp3,mp4 file, a wmv file, a [whatever format they use for writing notes], a flash file with the music in it, a graphical representation of the music (either as a waveform or its notes), a video of how the song can be played on a particular instrument...
Software is a string of binary - number Music can be digitised - string of binary - number Images can be digitised - string of binary - number Top Secret Military files - string of binary - number
You're taking things too broadly. Its a case of encoding.
Its very possible for me to grab something which has a copyright, convert it to binary and then convert it into:
1. Colours 2. Strings 3. Numbers 4. Music
So while "Owning Arrangements of Colour" sounds stupid in principle, what you could do if this was not the case would completely destroy copyright on many things. Now you could say that's a good thing, but meh.
Society is too 'particular' about sex. The GTA hot coffee mod is a perfect example. How dare they put sex into that game! I want to shoot prostitutes, hijack cars, murder policeman and whack civilians with a baseball bat. For some reason even the largest amount of violence is less likely to cause controversy than a sex scene.
Now, a game usually has something which makes it fun, the main part of the game. That part is treated with the most 'respect' in a way. If its a FPS its about saving the world through shooting people or whatever. If its a city simulator then its about economics or whatever. I mean you don't hear complaints about how Mass Effect doesn't simulate a space economy well enough - because that's not the main point of the game, its a sub thing.
If you wanted a game that was all about sex, I'm sure they exist, but they'd be 'adult' games, or so heavily rated 18+ that nobody can really get to them easily (see Paragraph 1). And even then, do you think there is enough of an audience who wants to play a game who's main gameplay involves having a realistic relationship with someone? Nope.
So HTML 5 is as powerful as Flash? I always imagined Silverlight dying with HTML 5 - but I always thought Flash had something extra above HTML 5. Talking about actionscript mostly and not about the animation.
Also simulate some 'special moments' that the news can show on highlights, grab a player at random and give him unwarranted self-importance, then simulate him having a controversial life so people would have stuff to gossip on.
Actually if you break the environment into a large amount of variables, then its a textbook example of how AI would work.
That said, the bonus of a computer is how its able to process many things quickly, and not that it will learn faster than humans (by examples). So I'd say that if you get a coach to act in 50 games or so, he will be able to give better results than a computer who acts in 50 games. You'd need a large amount of games in order to get a difference. Now a computer could easily process thousands of games in a few minutes, so meh.
Meh, isn't it obvious? MS wants XP to disappear and everyone to move onwards with 7.
It doesn't gain anything if it ports IE9 to Linux, Mac or whatever, the way I understand it is "You're using IE8, would you like to get better features? They only work on 7 though, switch today!"
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Reading TFA I also conclude that
1. No indication how many of the 200 were active accounts or how they were chosen (there's a screenshot which to me suggests a clustering? 6 friends in london? What are the chances given the huge population of facebook users?)
2. They used a cartoon picture as a display image. If there was an uncertainty of whether you know this person, then the generic image wouldn't help either. If it was someone's real face you might get less people agreeing to friendship, probably.
"Willing to Divulge to" makes it sound like some complete stranger went on facebook and asked "Hey, give me your email address, blood type and shoe size" and got an answer.
What it really is, is that people add friends pretty randomly and openly, and many don't secure their personal information very well. In the ideal case you would have various 'grades' of friends which determine permissions but
a) Nobody would bother using it
b) Facebook doesn't particularly care about privacy.
Anyhoo, we knew all of this earlier - so non-story.
Because sharing stuff for free means that everyone can get access to it.
And that's COMMUNISM!
But is it lawyer proof?
My local library is composed of a number of ancient books held together by cellotape, the only computer is used to search for books, and you can't find anything in there which isn't a book.
So yeah I guess your mileage may vary, but except for the University Library (which works rather differently), all the libraries over here are like that. Used to love going when I was younger and there was no internet.
I don't think Libraries will survive for much longer. If you want a book now you can get it in a digital version, and the publishers are rather adamant about allowing their ebooks to be borrowed from the library, and pretty much anything else can be digitised and accessed online.
So while its a nice idea to convert libraries to this sort of thing, they're not going to survive much longer in my opinion.
"'Why did you go and do that?"
Because you asked it to. Isn't it obvious? Or because whoever programmed that function made it do that.
I would rather my computer always does the same thing regardless of whether I'm smiling at the screen or growling angrily. If you can't tell a computer what you want done, then that's your problem.
Uh What?
Are you serious about this? How can me whacking a video game character with a baseball bat be considered SPEECH by any metric?
And by extension, why doesn't this cover sex?
So you're telling me that if you write a song, and I copy it to a wav file, a mp3,mp4 file, a wmv file, a [whatever format they use for writing notes], a flash file with the music in it, a graphical representation of the music (either as a waveform or its notes), a video of how the song can be played on a particular instrument...
You only own one of these expressions?
Software is a string of binary - number
Music can be digitised - string of binary - number
Images can be digitised - string of binary - number
Top Secret Military files - string of binary - number
Its a question of encoding.
You're taking things too broadly. Its a case of encoding.
Its very possible for me to grab something which has a copyright, convert it to binary and then convert it into:
1. Colours
2. Strings
3. Numbers
4. Music
So while "Owning Arrangements of Colour" sounds stupid in principle, what you could do if this was not the case would completely destroy copyright on many things. Now you could say that's a good thing, but meh.
Society is too 'particular' about sex. The GTA hot coffee mod is a perfect example. How dare they put sex into that game! I want to shoot prostitutes, hijack cars, murder policeman and whack civilians with a baseball bat. For some reason even the largest amount of violence is less likely to cause controversy than a sex scene.
Now, a game usually has something which makes it fun, the main part of the game. That part is treated with the most 'respect' in a way. If its a FPS its about saving the world through shooting people or whatever. If its a city simulator then its about economics or whatever. I mean you don't hear complaints about how Mass Effect doesn't simulate a space economy well enough - because that's not the main point of the game, its a sub thing.
If you wanted a game that was all about sex, I'm sure they exist, but they'd be 'adult' games, or so heavily rated 18+ that nobody can really get to them easily (see Paragraph 1). And even then, do you think there is enough of an audience who wants to play a game who's main gameplay involves having a realistic relationship with someone? Nope.
I must have missed that article.
So HTML 5 is as powerful as Flash? I always imagined Silverlight dying with HTML 5 - but I always thought Flash had something extra above HTML 5. Talking about actionscript mostly and not about the animation.
I just hate it when companies end up wasting time and effort to prove Jobs right.
Adobe should have just stood their ground, and used THEIR bulk to break Apple, not the other way around.
Now lets toss the guy in a prison cell because he 'raped' someone.
Also simulate some 'special moments' that the news can show on highlights, grab a player at random and give him unwarranted self-importance, then simulate him having a controversial life so people would have stuff to gossip on.
I'm sure most people won't notice the difference.
Actually if you break the environment into a large amount of variables, then its a textbook example of how AI would work.
That said, the bonus of a computer is how its able to process many things quickly, and not that it will learn faster than humans (by examples). So I'd say that if you get a coach to act in 50 games or so, he will be able to give better results than a computer who acts in 50 games. You'd need a large amount of games in order to get a difference. Now a computer could easily process thousands of games in a few minutes, so meh.
Why should we even let humans obey the orders? Machines can do it more efficienty.
And then why do we need to do it in the physical world? It might be more interesting if there's no gravity, or higher gravity or something.
So the entertainment of the future will involve us seeing computers play video games in front of us.
Meh, isn't it obvious? MS wants XP to disappear and everyone to move onwards with 7.
It doesn't gain anything if it ports IE9 to Linux, Mac or whatever, the way I understand it is "You're using IE8, would you like to get better features? They only work on 7 though, switch today!"
I'll wait for the iOS port thank you very much.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/03/06/2142233/Disarm-Internet-Trolls-Gently
Why did you think that this article was a load of crap? Perhaps there's some good in both stories.
Meh, this system sucks.
You must be new here.
Weird page, wonder what its for. Its excluded from being indexed by crawlers...
There's another trap named in the robots.txt file, but the link doesn't seem to work so I can't view it. Ah well.
What is it about Roberts?
And someone needs to teach the guy who wrote the website how to attach a .css
but the Android OS is free is meaningless. iOS is free on iPhones too.
Free as in beer, but not free as in Speech