What about programming it using gestures, like the miracles in Black & White, and other programs mentioned on/. a couple weeks ago. Its not GUI, doesn't need a desktop, but it does require use of a mouse...
If you could devise a standard, and if it could be taught quickly to the employees, it would make for a very very fast system (just how fast are you with your palm pilot writing? Same thing applies here). Plus, I'd like to see some code that uses this type of system...
To add to this great comment:
I agree that GUI's make the younger generation happy (they never grew up in DOS), and if its speed of input you are worried about (what are the other disadvantages of GUI's?), then ensure that there is a way to run the GUI app without the need of a mouse (tabbing through the textboxes, stuff like that).
GUI's were created to make life easy for the computer illiterate, which is most of the business users this day and age. Eyecandy is what's in...
I've found that everything someone does is a learning experience, whether its dumb or not. Like creating a new OS. Maybe linux developers can learn from some of his ideas and coding techniques? Or maybe your post. Perhaps moderators will start to learn what a troll looks like, and how having the word "spork" in your name is a dead give-a-way.
To finish this reply, I'll ask you a retorical question: why did you feel the need to post your message?
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Two answers to your question:
1.) No way! Two creates competition, which is good in the open source world. Competition is how linux became better than windows! It'll make two dominate, yet stable desktops!
2.) We *need* to join them! That M$ rep (forgot his name) mentioned that one of the big reasons software companies don't make *nix software is because there isn't a standard desktop.
The choice you take is up to you, but the only fact is that there is an equal amount of people that like each choice.
But a good chess player will say stuff like "Mate in 5 moves." Giving the opponent an opportunity to see the strategy.
A true chess master wants the opponent to know his strategy, and how he plans on beating the opponent. Because if you can win and your opponent is helpless to stop you even though he knows how you are going to win, you, truely, dominate the game.
I think they are halfway to the point of making a great AI. Put the four AI's up against each other, then insert genetic algorithm code to modify the strategy for the losers over a few months, until one evolution dominates. THEN you put it up against a human.
Am I oversimplifying the situation?
Has anyone tried using a neural network for a chess AI?
Why are we going faster? Especially Intel? They need to concentrate on making a better quality chip, not a faster one.
Remember that company that made inexpensive chips? They thought about making a new chip with a better FPU (among other features). It didn't need to be faster than the competition, just a better quality chip. They called it the Athlon.
What's funny is that Intel thought they could compete with this better quality chip by making a faster chip, which they released to early, and had to recall.
It's like half our society today, folks use lights but never understand them, it gotten much hard to fiddle
around with your car, etc...
You think that happened by "accident"? What about how in 1900 90% of the world was self employed with hardly any taxes at all, but in 2000 less than 4% of the population was self employed, and taxes are huge and confusing...
Wow... you said a mouthful... all true, too.
I think the definition of a good game by a "serious gamer" would be the fun factor.
I've been playing games for over a decade now. Graphics don't impress me (sorry, but Q3 is the boring same-old). What impresses me is the "Fun" factor. My old college roommates (we were all 23-24 years old) played mariocart into the ground. Super Smash brothers was also popular. Not because mario was in it, but because it was fun. I found the first Zelda to be extremely fun. If there is one name that comes up with games that are fun, I'd have to say Miyamoto. He knows what he's doing (hell, he's been doing it for years).
Granted, the PSX has games that are also fun (RE series, MGS, Gran Turismo), but they use "teenage tactics" to lure in their audience. Lets face it, put a fun game out in front of a teenager raging with horomones, and put in a game with breasts or violence. What's he gonna pick??
For me, I'm keeping my DC, playin my PC (waiting for the next Sid Meier or Warren Spector game), and will wait to see what games come out for the 2 new contenders before I buy anything...
I NEED MY METROID!! I've waiting YEARS for my Metroid!!
Seriously, though, PSX and M$ are focusing on the adult/teenagers for their target audience. Nintendo has always appealed to the kiddies. Nintendo will always have a place in the console market until one of the consoles seriously attack the kid market. Even then, Nintendo's cornered the portable game market. I don't think we have anything to worry about.
its sad that dead dot-coms are trying to use lawsuits to turn a profit. The days of playing foosball instead of working, because your site made money on its own, is over. Quit trying to make the quick buck, realize the dot-com era is over, and get a job in corporate america and conform like the rest of us.
Conformity : When people are free to do what they want, they normally mimic one another (from despair.com)
Lets face it. Cutting edge graphics, and killer AI always show up in the gaming industry before anywhere else.
They continue to impress us. Unfortunately, people think this is more important than gameplay, but I digress. Graphics were the fad the past few years, but perhaps AI will be the new fad for the coming years...
I have a small background in AI, and I must say, I have played Tribes2 only once (had it since it was released), because I'm so extremely impressed with the AI for Black&White (if you haven't played it yet, go grab yourself a copy!!). Its a new type of addiction for me, because I'm not playing to see how far I get, or see how big my avatar will get, its to see what he does next when he's off my leash. Was he watching when I was throwing the rocks, and start throwing villagers? Was he watching me pickup and move villagers to do the same? Its one of the first games I enjoy playing without touching the keyboard... I just watch what he'll do next...
I'm seeing more and more that geeks are starting to get accepted in highschools lately. However, it appears that his school still has some jealous bullies.
My dad told me one time when I was young, that sometimes you need to stand up for yourself and fight back. If the guys hit you, you nail them hard and fast. It should only take one fight. Even if you loose, its easier to bully someone that won't fight back. Teaching the kid martial arts would also help. I only got into one fight when I was in early high school. I did win, and was never curtailed (to my face, at least).
I'm not saying violence is always the answer, but sometimes you have to get into one fight in your life to stand up for yourself. Now-a-days, physical fights rank under "saying" sometime that is controversial (like anything about guns, presently).
The father was probably right in home schooling him, because it sounds like he has an intelligence that surpases any "special" school (probably surpases most classes in his normal high school). But the kid needs to learn how to react in social environments, which home schooled kids tend to lack. Just keep this in mind.
Wow... lots of rants in that one...
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Seeing that the illuminati controls the world, especially the government, its using NASA to work on some secret project, probably having to do with aliens. Once this is complete, they will discover ways to conceal it, they will figure out ways to control the corporations as they start building in space. Taxes and laws that are difficult to understand is the usual tactic.
You must wait for the illuminati to be ready before any of that will be ready.
I hate to crapflood and troll, but this has to be the dumbest article on/.
How are we supposed to discuss this?
Its like when the "annoying" guy comes into your cube and says some dumb fact, like "hey, the timestamp will be 987654321 soon!", and you try to ignore him so he'll go away...
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What about programming it using gestures, like the miracles in Black & White, and other programs mentioned on /. a couple weeks ago. Its not GUI, doesn't need a desktop, but it does require use of a mouse...
If you could devise a standard, and if it could be taught quickly to the employees, it would make for a very very fast system (just how fast are you with your palm pilot writing? Same thing applies here). Plus, I'd like to see some code that uses this type of system...
To add to this great comment:
I agree that GUI's make the younger generation happy (they never grew up in DOS), and if its speed of input you are worried about (what are the other disadvantages of GUI's?), then ensure that there is a way to run the GUI app without the need of a mouse (tabbing through the textboxes, stuff like that).
GUI's were created to make life easy for the computer illiterate, which is most of the business users this day and age. Eyecandy is what's in...
I've found that everything someone does is a learning experience, whether its dumb or not. Like creating a new OS. Maybe linux developers can learn from some of his ideas and coding techniques? Or maybe your post. Perhaps moderators will start to learn what a troll looks like, and how having the word "spork" in your name is a dead give-a-way.
To finish this reply, I'll ask you a retorical question: why did you feel the need to post your message?
payed for AIDS drugs in Africa
Someone just finished watching "Boston Public"...
We here at the Society for the Conservation and Reinstitution of the Wholesome Snack Cracker-Jack (c) (SCRWSCJ) are appalled that you have used the Cracker-Jack (c) name without its wholesome carmel, nut and corn goodness.
SCRWSCJ insists that all future references to the wholesome Cracker-Jacks (c) are used with utmost respect, referred to with its greatest goodness.
We at SCRWSCJ anticipate that all future references to Cracker-Jack (c) will be used correctly, and to our standards. May the long life of Cracker-Jack (c) and the SCRWSCJ live on long into our children's lives. Remember kids, its carmel-popcorn-nut-crunchy-wholesome-goodness!
Thank you.
Two answers to your question:
1.) No way! Two creates competition, which is good in the open source world. Competition is how linux became better than windows! It'll make two dominate, yet stable desktops!
2.) We *need* to join them! That M$ rep (forgot his name) mentioned that one of the big reasons software companies don't make *nix software is because there isn't a standard desktop.
The choice you take is up to you, but the only fact is that there is an equal amount of people that like each choice.
People selling free stuff for money???
Take a look at that bottled water on your desk.
"The world is 80% water, but you just paid a buck for that little bottle!"
--Dennis Miller
...I want one on addition, and not just the mathematical sense. If you reproduce you need to pay me royalties!
But in all honesty, does the computer know the chessmasters technique and strategy? No? Then why should the chessmaster know the computer's strategy?
Fairness is a double-edged sword...
But a good chess player will say stuff like "Mate in 5 moves." Giving the opponent an opportunity to see the strategy.
A true chess master wants the opponent to know his strategy, and how he plans on beating the opponent. Because if you can win and your opponent is helpless to stop you even though he knows how you are going to win, you, truely, dominate the game.
I think they are halfway to the point of making a great AI. Put the four AI's up against each other, then insert genetic algorithm code to modify the strategy for the losers over a few months, until one evolution dominates. THEN you put it up against a human.
Am I oversimplifying the situation?
Has anyone tried using a neural network for a chess AI?
Why are we going faster? Especially Intel? They need to concentrate on making a better quality chip, not a faster one.
Remember that company that made inexpensive chips? They thought about making a new chip with a better FPU (among other features). It didn't need to be faster than the competition, just a better quality chip. They called it the Athlon.
What's funny is that Intel thought they could compete with this better quality chip by making a faster chip, which they released to early, and had to recall.
Guess some people don't learn their lesson...
New /. poll:
How long until the new 1.7GHz gets recalled
- 1 month
- 1 week
- 3 days
- When cowboy neal gets one
- its already recalled.
I still find it humorous that they compare the 1.7 Intel to the 1.33 AMD...
It's like half our society today, folks use lights but never understand them, it gotten much hard to fiddle around with your car, etc...
You think that happened by "accident"? What about how in 1900 90% of the world was self employed with hardly any taxes at all, but in 2000 less than 4% of the population was self employed, and taxes are huge and confusing...
It is the Illuminati, my friend.
FNORD!!!
Wow... you said a mouthful... all true, too.
I think the definition of a good game by a "serious gamer" would be the fun factor.
I've been playing games for over a decade now. Graphics don't impress me (sorry, but Q3 is the boring same-old). What impresses me is the "Fun" factor. My old college roommates (we were all 23-24 years old) played mariocart into the ground. Super Smash brothers was also popular. Not because mario was in it, but because it was fun. I found the first Zelda to be extremely fun. If there is one name that comes up with games that are fun, I'd have to say Miyamoto. He knows what he's doing (hell, he's been doing it for years).
Granted, the PSX has games that are also fun (RE series, MGS, Gran Turismo), but they use "teenage tactics" to lure in their audience. Lets face it, put a fun game out in front of a teenager raging with horomones, and put in a game with breasts or violence. What's he gonna pick??
For me, I'm keeping my DC, playin my PC (waiting for the next Sid Meier or Warren Spector game), and will wait to see what games come out for the 2 new contenders before I buy anything...
I NEED MY METROID!! I've waiting YEARS for my Metroid!!
Seriously, though, PSX and M$ are focusing on the adult/teenagers for their target audience. Nintendo has always appealed to the kiddies. Nintendo will always have a place in the console market until one of the consoles seriously attack the kid market. Even then, Nintendo's cornered the portable game market. I don't think we have anything to worry about.
Someone's been playing too much Deus Ex....
its sad that dead dot-coms are trying to use lawsuits to turn a profit. The days of playing foosball instead of working, because your site made money on its own, is over. Quit trying to make the quick buck, realize the dot-com era is over, and get a job in corporate america and conform like the rest of us.
Conformity : When people are free to do what they want, they normally mimic one another (from despair.com)
Lets face it. Cutting edge graphics, and killer AI always show up in the gaming industry before anywhere else.
They continue to impress us. Unfortunately, people think this is more important than gameplay, but I digress. Graphics were the fad the past few years, but perhaps AI will be the new fad for the coming years...
I have a small background in AI, and I must say, I have played Tribes2 only once (had it since it was released), because I'm so extremely impressed with the AI for Black&White (if you haven't played it yet, go grab yourself a copy!!). Its a new type of addiction for me, because I'm not playing to see how far I get, or see how big my avatar will get, its to see what he does next when he's off my leash. Was he watching when I was throwing the rocks, and start throwing villagers? Was he watching me pickup and move villagers to do the same? Its one of the first games I enjoy playing without touching the keyboard... I just watch what he'll do next...
I'm seeing more and more that geeks are starting to get accepted in highschools lately. However, it appears that his school still has some jealous bullies.
My dad told me one time when I was young, that sometimes you need to stand up for yourself and fight back. If the guys hit you, you nail them hard and fast. It should only take one fight. Even if you loose, its easier to bully someone that won't fight back. Teaching the kid martial arts would also help. I only got into one fight when I was in early high school. I did win, and was never curtailed (to my face, at least).
I'm not saying violence is always the answer, but sometimes you have to get into one fight in your life to stand up for yourself. Now-a-days, physical fights rank under "saying" sometime that is controversial (like anything about guns, presently).
The father was probably right in home schooling him, because it sounds like he has an intelligence that surpases any "special" school (probably surpases most classes in his normal high school). But the kid needs to learn how to react in social environments, which home schooled kids tend to lack. Just keep this in mind.
Wow... lots of rants in that one...
Seeing that the illuminati controls the world, especially the government, its using NASA to work on some secret project, probably having to do with aliens. Once this is complete, they will discover ways to conceal it, they will figure out ways to control the corporations as they start building in space. Taxes and laws that are difficult to understand is the usual tactic.
You must wait for the illuminati to be ready before any of that will be ready.
FNORD!!!
Dude... last time civilians got behind the wheel of a submarine, there were Chinese civilian casualties.
Can I win one of these with a couple million Pepsi points??
:-P
(Nobody give me the snopes addy, I know its fake)
I hate to crapflood and troll, but this has to be the dumbest article on /.
How are we supposed to discuss this?
Its like when the "annoying" guy comes into your cube and says some dumb fact, like "hey, the timestamp will be 987654321 soon!", and you try to ignore him so he'll go away...
Only one for me...
Jessica Alba (Dark Angel)
Excuse me while I drool...