AI will probably never be used extensively by robots. At least not until well after we've got it running networks of computers (replace your sysadmin with an AI? Sure!) If an AI is truly intelligent, it should be able to learn new tasks no problem. Throwing this learning software onto robotic hardware really does nothing, the AI doesn't see the "optic sensors" as "eyes" but rather another data set to analyze and make decisions on. These data sets are totally irrelevant, they could be visual, auditory, or TCP/IP. It's all the same to a machine.
Have you ever seen the Michael Jordan commercials (forget what company they were for)? The one with Bulls MJ playing against 40-year-old MJ. That's exactly what they did there. They found a body double who was basically the same height and skin color and who could play basketball, pasted MJ's head onto his and hence we have Jordan vs. Jordan. Very convincing too. And yes, it still looks realistic when speaking.
You could post a lot of MP3s to a website and say they're popular artists.. But have them be filled with something public domain. When they sue you, just claim "Oh, well it wasn't really this file.. download it first, jackass." It'll raise their legal costs (they actually have to CHECK their facts) and maybe they'll stop bothering because it gets so expensive. Or not.
A lot of companies are already collecting internet sales tax across the US, mainly because they want to cover their asses if congress says "Ok, you owe us 5 years in back sales taxes." Supposedly companies are on the "honor system" to pay state sales taxes for internet orders, but a lot don't and there's nobody FORCING them to pay the taxes (unlike in-state taxes.) The smaller stores don't charge sales tax, but the bigger companies (Apple, Dell, Radio Shack, etc) already do. Others will probably follow suit. I knew it was too good to last for long.:)
I mean, it sounds geeky, until you realize the only thing special about this is the fact that he's running Linux on the xbox. The in-dash screen is DESIGNED to be hooked up to an Xbox (or PS2, or Gamecube, or whatever else you have.) In other words, it's not even a clever hack, the guy just bought some rather expensive car stereo equipment and linked it together in the way the manufacturer recommends. And I can run Linux in my car on a Zaurus anyway. Not too special.
Heh.. Always heard the rumors of the Marine wanting to test his own "internal resistance" by sticking a 9V battery to some needles and pricking both his thumbs with them.. He died of a heart attack supposedly, as the 9V carried enough current through his blood to stop his heart.
Dude, if this thing is for geeks, what's to stop you from OCRing it? or even just converting the file to a graphic format and writing a ghetto OCR program. It can be done, I have faith. They just wanted to make it a challenge.;)
E.g., wife/girlfriend/SO walks in the room, you scramble to hide a "secure" window... "what are you doing?"... "errr, nothing, just reading/."... You won't win, either she sees the porn or she believes your hiding emails from an online romance. No matter what, yer screwed.
Microsoft isn't dumb. Hell, before it was released that's what people saw it as, but now the hardware in the Xbox is nothing to write home about (you can getmuch better for about the same price on walmart.com.) Besides, every console since the SNES has been sold at a loss, they make the difference up on the licensing and SDKs. At $99, Sony lost about $17 on each PSX they sold. Ditto for Sega (Saturn and Dreamcast) and Nintendo (GC and N64.) But you buy a few games and they've already made it back. So this really isn't as big a deal as you make it sound.
Yes, this means that only companies with mega-bucks can make consoles. Why do you think Sony and Microsoft (two of the largest companies on earth) are still around when Sega (a poorer company that had much more experience in the market) is gone. Nintendo is only around because they're still riding the momentum from the SNES (and the massive wave of cash that is the Gameboy.) Consoles are expensive, if you want to enter the fray you better have near a billion dollars to sink into it before you start reaping the rewards.
Yes, but for every high profile victory like this, other people get scared off and don't send spam. They don't need to collect the money, less spam will lower their bandwidth costs and make their customers happier. EarthLink had an ad campaign a while back explicitly hawking their spam-blockers and popup-blockers. They're obviously trying to make the internet a less harrowing experience, and if it helps them keep customers, kudos to them.
Most spammers are the kind of people who are looking for get rich quick schemes.. Regardless of if they're totally legal. Ten years ago they would have had some confidence scheme, now it's spam cos it's quasi-legal and easy.
The thing about spam is that legal solutions CAN prevail because there is an enormous volume of spam but it comes from a very small number of people. A single spammer can easily sent 10 million e-mails a day. That means every court ruling has an effect on these guys. Companies don't often go looking to spam people, but when someone spams them "REACH 100 MILLION PEOPLE FOR $100" they're probably gonna bite. They see the potential for reward as being great and there really is no risk involved. Sue the spammers, maybe then they'll move on to real work.
I'll agree with you that the vast majority of rappers aren't very good. But there are a few out there (including Dr. Dre) who are actually making music. The thing about rap is it's more about the lyrics than rock music (though with tools like Ludacris and Nelly it's becoming more about bubblegum catchy beats) so the music doesn't matter quite as much. Besides, go check out the Roots sometime.. They're a rap group who plays their own instruments on stage.:)
This has been a hot topic in the music industry for almost ten years, it's nice to see it getting discussed here. But IMO it depends on the extent of the sample. If you sample some instruments or maybe even a couple spoken words, that falls under fair use. But then there are songs out there that will sample an entire chorus, or a chord progression. Those artists SHOULD have to pay royalties. Getting greedy doesn't help anyone.
I used to be a huge fan of Final Fantasy, but recently Square has just run out of ideas. FFX was the first decent FF game in a while and even it wasn't all that great. FFXI is just another EverQuest clone, and supposedly not a very good one at that (which is why Square was in no rush to bring it out over here.) I'm looking forward to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the first Tactics was one of if not the best Final Fantasy game ever. Oh well, I guess video games will never be as cool as I remember. Least I still have the old ones.:)
Unreal 2 has been out for a while and was summarily tanked by pretty much every critic out there. Simply put, the game is no fun to play, it's basically just a rehash of every FPS to come before it and offers absolutely no innovation. Nevermind the action is far from "fast and furious" and the weapons really aren't that inventive. The only somewhat cool weapon in the game is found on the very last stage and you only get to use it like twice. The "story" is AWFUL. The characters are total cliches. The levels are pretty much the same except for the textures.
The demo will be decieving, because the game actually is pretty fun for the first 2 or 3 levels. You expect the game to go somewhere but it really just stagnates and becomes progressively less and less fun as you go on. The only reason I finished it was because I was stoned. Let me warn you against the same mistake I made. Don't bother with this one.
Hrm I thought CCW laws usually made you choose a gun to carry. Most people who carry a gun have a "carry pistol," i.e. a smaller gun like a glock 26 or a snub-nose.38 special. I've even seen a couple 5 shot.45 ACP carry guns. The snub-nose.38 is probably the most popular, mostly because revolvers are much more simple to use and it's a very small gun with a pretty big bang. I'm also rather sure that you can only carry one gun at a time, because there's no real reason to have more than one (unless you're a police officer.)
Haha this is just a troll I'm sure (or someone with absolutely no balls. AC? c'mon) but I was making fun of all those morons who play counter-strike and call everyone "jew" as if it's an insult.. And then they run away;)
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AI will probably never be used extensively by robots. At least not until well after we've got it running networks of computers (replace your sysadmin with an AI? Sure!) If an AI is truly intelligent, it should be able to learn new tasks no problem. Throwing this learning software onto robotic hardware really does nothing, the AI doesn't see the "optic sensors" as "eyes" but rather another data set to analyze and make decisions on. These data sets are totally irrelevant, they could be visual, auditory, or TCP/IP. It's all the same to a machine.
Have you ever seen the Michael Jordan commercials (forget what company they were for)? The one with Bulls MJ playing against 40-year-old MJ. That's exactly what they did there. They found a body double who was basically the same height and skin color and who could play basketball, pasted MJ's head onto his and hence we have Jordan vs. Jordan. Very convincing too. And yes, it still looks realistic when speaking.
You could post a lot of MP3s to a website and say they're popular artists.. But have them be filled with something public domain. When they sue you, just claim "Oh, well it wasn't really this file.. download it first, jackass." It'll raise their legal costs (they actually have to CHECK their facts) and maybe they'll stop bothering because it gets so expensive. Or not.
A lot of companies are already collecting internet sales tax across the US, mainly because they want to cover their asses if congress says "Ok, you owe us 5 years in back sales taxes." Supposedly companies are on the "honor system" to pay state sales taxes for internet orders, but a lot don't and there's nobody FORCING them to pay the taxes (unlike in-state taxes.) The smaller stores don't charge sales tax, but the bigger companies (Apple, Dell, Radio Shack, etc) already do. Others will probably follow suit. I knew it was too good to last for long. :)
Maybe his cousin was gay. Most Vin Diesel movies he ends up in some state of undress for most of the movie anyway so it may well be pr0n.
I mean, it sounds geeky, until you realize the only thing special about this is the fact that he's running Linux on the xbox. The in-dash screen is DESIGNED to be hooked up to an Xbox (or PS2, or Gamecube, or whatever else you have.) In other words, it's not even a clever hack, the guy just bought some rather expensive car stereo equipment and linked it together in the way the manufacturer recommends. And I can run Linux in my car on a Zaurus anyway. Not too special.
Heh.. Always heard the rumors of the Marine wanting to test his own "internal resistance" by sticking a 9V battery to some needles and pricking both his thumbs with them.. He died of a heart attack supposedly, as the 9V carried enough current through his blood to stop his heart.
Dude, if this thing is for geeks, what's to stop you from OCRing it? or even just converting the file to a graphic format and writing a ghetto OCR program. It can be done, I have faith. They just wanted to make it a challenge. ;)
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Like anyone on slashdot will have that problem.
Microsoft isn't dumb. Hell, before it was released that's what people saw it as, but now the hardware in the Xbox is nothing to write home about (you can getmuch better for about the same price on walmart.com.) Besides, every console since the SNES has been sold at a loss, they make the difference up on the licensing and SDKs. At $99, Sony lost about $17 on each PSX they sold. Ditto for Sega (Saturn and Dreamcast) and Nintendo (GC and N64.) But you buy a few games and they've already made it back. So this really isn't as big a deal as you make it sound.
Yes, this means that only companies with mega-bucks can make consoles. Why do you think Sony and Microsoft (two of the largest companies on earth) are still around when Sega (a poorer company that had much more experience in the market) is gone. Nintendo is only around because they're still riding the momentum from the SNES (and the massive wave of cash that is the Gameboy.) Consoles are expensive, if you want to enter the fray you better have near a billion dollars to sink into it before you start reaping the rewards.
Gimme my royalties, bitch. ;-)
You're right, they're not a rap group, they're a funk band making rap music.
Yes, but for every high profile victory like this, other people get scared off and don't send spam. They don't need to collect the money, less spam will lower their bandwidth costs and make their customers happier. EarthLink had an ad campaign a while back explicitly hawking their spam-blockers and popup-blockers. They're obviously trying to make the internet a less harrowing experience, and if it helps them keep customers, kudos to them.
Most spammers are the kind of people who are looking for get rich quick schemes.. Regardless of if they're totally legal. Ten years ago they would have had some confidence scheme, now it's spam cos it's quasi-legal and easy.
The thing about spam is that legal solutions CAN prevail because there is an enormous volume of spam but it comes from a very small number of people. A single spammer can easily sent 10 million e-mails a day. That means every court ruling has an effect on these guys. Companies don't often go looking to spam people, but when someone spams them "REACH 100 MILLION PEOPLE FOR $100" they're probably gonna bite. They see the potential for reward as being great and there really is no risk involved. Sue the spammers, maybe then they'll move on to real work.
I'll agree with you that the vast majority of rappers aren't very good. But there are a few out there (including Dr. Dre) who are actually making music. The thing about rap is it's more about the lyrics than rock music (though with tools like Ludacris and Nelly it's becoming more about bubblegum catchy beats) so the music doesn't matter quite as much. Besides, go check out the Roots sometime.. They're a rap group who plays their own instruments on stage. :)
This has been a hot topic in the music industry for almost ten years, it's nice to see it getting discussed here. But IMO it depends on the extent of the sample. If you sample some instruments or maybe even a couple spoken words, that falls under fair use. But then there are songs out there that will sample an entire chorus, or a chord progression. Those artists SHOULD have to pay royalties. Getting greedy doesn't help anyone.
I used to be a huge fan of Final Fantasy, but recently Square has just run out of ideas. FFX was the first decent FF game in a while and even it wasn't all that great. FFXI is just another EverQuest clone, and supposedly not a very good one at that (which is why Square was in no rush to bring it out over here.) I'm looking forward to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the first Tactics was one of if not the best Final Fantasy game ever. Oh well, I guess video games will never be as cool as I remember. Least I still have the old ones. :)
Hey now.. A lot of slashdotters have girlfriends.. They just don't look like girls.
Unreal 2 has been out for a while and was summarily tanked by pretty much every critic out there. Simply put, the game is no fun to play, it's basically just a rehash of every FPS to come before it and offers absolutely no innovation. Nevermind the action is far from "fast and furious" and the weapons really aren't that inventive. The only somewhat cool weapon in the game is found on the very last stage and you only get to use it like twice. The "story" is AWFUL. The characters are total cliches. The levels are pretty much the same except for the textures.
The demo will be decieving, because the game actually is pretty fun for the first 2 or 3 levels. You expect the game to go somewhere but it really just stagnates and becomes progressively less and less fun as you go on. The only reason I finished it was because I was stoned. Let me warn you against the same mistake I made. Don't bother with this one.
Hey, maybe it's an improvement.. After all, he can't easily choke on dirt.
Hrm I thought CCW laws usually made you choose a gun to carry. Most people who carry a gun have a "carry pistol," i.e. a smaller gun like a glock 26 or a snub-nose .38 special. I've even seen a couple 5 shot .45 ACP carry guns. The snub-nose .38 is probably the most popular, mostly because revolvers are much more simple to use and it's a very small gun with a pretty big bang. I'm also rather sure that you can only carry one gun at a time, because there's no real reason to have more than one (unless you're a police officer.)
Haha this is just a troll I'm sure (or someone with absolutely no balls. AC? c'mon) but I was making fun of all those morons who play counter-strike and call everyone "jew" as if it's an insult.. And then they run away ;)
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