What is the purpose of AI?
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AI Going Nowhere?
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We do not understand how to control (or if it is even ethical to control) the billions of automonous intelligent agents roaming this planet... so why should creating a whole new class of intelligent automata be a priority.
AI today has nothing to do with intelligence. Its all basically rule-based procedural programming. While this allows us to make some really neat applications like automatic vacuum cleaners and pool scrubbers, it has nothing to do with "intelligence".
The human mind is not rule-based -- we impose a framework of rules to allow everyone to live together in relative harmony. The core of our being -- how our mind actually works -- remains an absolute mystery.
All US Court Systems, the army, most all banks, etc.
You should tighten your tinfoil hat, the mind control beams are getting in!
Re:1 accident in 62.5 flights IS acceptable
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Shuttle Politics
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You're a real ass.
Was it acceptable for General Motors to continue selling pickup trucks that burst into flames in minor collisions to save money rather than redesign the fuel tanks?
There have been previous incidents where heat-shielding tiles were damaged by ice or other debris at takeoff... yet no procedures were in place to inspect critical heat tiles for damage.
The shuttle was originally intended to replace expensive booster rockets and save money. The only problem is, the shuttle has been frozen in time since the late 70's and the cost of sending conventional rockets into space has dropped dramatically.
If you want to compare this congressmen to a wild-west frontiersman, you should put history in perspective. In the 1870's, the US Army was still using civil war era breechloading rifles, while the cowboys and indians were using repeating rifles that kicked the shit out of soldiers on a regular basis.
The shuttle is that obsolute breechloader -- get rid of it.
Re:Soldiers aren't worth as much.
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$935/month? Big whoop. Plus every soldier does not qualify for that.
The families of multi-millionaire bond traders who died in the WTC got several million in government funds and charity.
NT 4 is actually fairly secure against outside attacks in the later releases. Since its missing new "features" like IIS, ActiveX, and so on it's actually a pretty stable and secure platform to run windows apps.
NT 4 is going to be around until the harware runs out of spare parts.
Don't count on a slick presentation. I attended an IGS meeting with a half-dozen presentations and nearly feel asleep during two of them.
Also, if you are going something out of the box with any big consulting company, you are likely going to be paying expensive consultants to learn very simple tasks... like ftp'ing files or "installing webpages in your htmls".
I doubt the SQLServer as a Fileserver scheme will actually work out. That feature was supposed to be in Windows 2000 according to MS PR-flaks in 1998.
Look at times in the past where vendors have decided to break compatability with "better" tecnology. Companies like Commodore, Atari, Coleco, etc who did that no longer exist.
Replace 60,000+ API calls with a multi-gigabyte unintelligible MS-XML compatability transformation layer, force everyone to either code the Dot-Net way or suffer awful performance.
Sounds more like a move dictated by MS lawyers to undo the leftover damage from the antitrust lawsuits than a decision with technical motivations.
I'm not suggesting splitting one access point amoungst hundreds of people here.
Get some high quality multimode 802.11a/b/g gear and put a bunch of access points (depending on the density of the users) connected with a wired backbone.
We just rolled out the new 54mbps wireless network in a 16 story building and everything is extremely smooth. The money we are saving just in paying electricians to run cable paid for the infrastructure.
If you followed your sigs advice and applied change management and controls to your servers, a script would have kicked off the patch and rebooted w/o a hitch.
What is the meaning of life? If I play video games all day instead of working, how will it take to get fired? Why is linux so cool? Why do people ask stupid questions? Why isn't bandwidth free?
Ghetto areas have the most fires. Today few houses in good neighborhoods go up in flames because of new saftey features.
Poor areas, areas with lots of abandoned building in particular, are vulnerable to kids and lunatics who get a thrill out of setting things on fire. When abandoned buildings go up, they have a tendency to spread quickly and create problems.
In middle class areas, 70% of firemen's duties are acting as first responders and paramedics for anything from car accidents to gas leaks and medical emergencies. the other 30% is divided between code inspections and fires.
I'd be hesitant to close firehouses in a city the size of new york, particularly when you consider the size and waste of other city agencies...
What are the implications of putting Lucasarts intellectual property on a public cathedral?
If we allow the Star Wars saga to be written in stone, how will George Lucas collect royalties from people 10,000 years in the future who gaze at the carvings?
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We do not understand how to control (or if it is even ethical to control) the billions of automonous intelligent agents roaming this planet... so why should creating a whole new class of intelligent automata be a priority.
AI today has nothing to do with intelligence. Its all basically rule-based procedural programming. While this allows us to make some really neat applications like automatic vacuum cleaners and pool scrubbers, it has nothing to do with "intelligence".
The human mind is not rule-based -- we impose a framework of rules to allow everyone to live together in relative harmony. The core of our being -- how our mind actually works -- remains an absolute mystery.
all i'm saying is that the availability of higher-end hardware in eastern europe is probaly different than in the US.
Also, playing half-life on a modem link is really painful on public servers, due to the number of people with broadband.
"Radios that disrupt Air Traffic Control and ILS signals don't kill people, people kill people."
Because if you look up some facts about Poland:b ook/geos/ pl.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fact
You'll notice the the per capita GDP is $9,500. Nobody has the money to purchase expensive gaming systems
You're a real ass. The postal workers union is about as useless as tits on a bull, and the government exempts itself from all sorts of labor laws.
Postal workers, particularly those in the sorting centers work very hard -- they don't have a choice or a teamsters union to lighten the load.
All US Court Systems, the army, most all banks, etc.
You should tighten your tinfoil hat, the mind control beams are getting in!
You're a real ass.
Was it acceptable for General Motors to continue selling pickup trucks that burst into flames in minor collisions to save money rather than redesign the fuel tanks?
There have been previous incidents where heat-shielding tiles were damaged by ice or other debris at takeoff... yet no procedures were in place to inspect critical heat tiles for damage.
The shuttle was originally intended to replace expensive booster rockets and save money. The only problem is, the shuttle has been frozen in time since the late 70's and the cost of sending conventional rockets into space has dropped dramatically.
If you want to compare this congressmen to a wild-west frontiersman, you should put history in perspective. In the 1870's, the US Army was still using civil war era breechloading rifles, while the cowboys and indians were using repeating rifles that kicked the shit out of soldiers on a regular basis.
The shuttle is that obsolute breechloader -- get rid of it.
$935/month? Big whoop. Plus every soldier does not qualify for that.
The families of multi-millionaire bond traders who died in the WTC got several million in government funds and charity.
NT 4 is actually fairly secure against outside attacks in the later releases. Since its missing new "features" like IIS, ActiveX, and so on it's actually a pretty stable and secure platform to run windows apps.
NT 4 is going to be around until the harware runs out of spare parts.
Don't count on a slick presentation. I attended an IGS meeting with a half-dozen presentations and nearly feel asleep during two of them.
Also, if you are going something out of the box with any big consulting company, you are likely going to be paying expensive consultants to learn very simple tasks... like ftp'ing files or "installing webpages in your htmls".
I doubt the SQLServer as a Fileserver scheme will actually work out. That feature was supposed to be in Windows 2000 according to MS PR-flaks in 1998.
Look at times in the past where vendors have decided to break compatability with "better" tecnology. Companies like Commodore, Atari, Coleco, etc who did that no longer exist.
Replace 60,000+ API calls with a multi-gigabyte unintelligible MS-XML compatability transformation layer, force everyone to either code the Dot-Net way or suffer awful performance.
Sounds more like a move dictated by MS lawyers to undo the leftover damage from the antitrust lawsuits than a decision with technical motivations.
You can build the apps you want to build with the curses libraries in a number of different languages.
I'm not suggesting splitting one access point amoungst hundreds of people here.
Get some high quality multimode 802.11a/b/g gear and put a bunch of access points (depending on the density of the users) connected with a wired backbone.
We just rolled out the new 54mbps wireless network in a 16 story building and everything is extremely smooth. The money we are saving just in paying electricians to run cable paid for the infrastructure.
If you followed your sigs advice and applied change management and controls to your servers, a script would have kicked off the patch and rebooted w/o a hitch.
Work smarter.
Why not implement a wireless network?
Use IPsec or something similar to provide security and run a few drops to link the access points to wherever the telecom comes in the building.
Wireless seems to be the next big thing, and as standards change, it's far cheaper to replace a few transmitters can run new cable through a building.
What is the meaning of life? If I play video games all day instead of working, how will it take to get fired? Why is linux so cool? Why do people ask stupid questions? Why isn't bandwidth free?
Ghetto areas have the most fires. Today few houses in good neighborhoods go up in flames because of new saftey features.
Poor areas, areas with lots of abandoned building in particular, are vulnerable to kids and lunatics who get a thrill out of setting things on fire. When abandoned buildings go up, they have a tendency to spread quickly and create problems.
In middle class areas, 70% of firemen's duties are acting as first responders and paramedics for anything from car accidents to gas leaks and medical emergencies. the other 30% is divided between code inspections and fires.
I'd be hesitant to close firehouses in a city the size of new york, particularly when you consider the size and waste of other city agencies...
then get a surveyor's rolling measuring wheel...
large ones can be had here:
http://www.surveyorsupply.com/
coming up with complex and expensive technical solutions to trivial problems is retarded. people have been mapping & surveying for thousands of years.
take a reading every time you change direction.
gps has made people very, very lazy. navigation isn't rocket science.
It's generally a temperature/humidity sensor with pens that record data to a card.
They're cheap, effective and don't break.
What are the implications of putting Lucasarts intellectual property on a public cathedral?
If we allow the Star Wars saga to be written in stone, how will George Lucas collect royalties from people 10,000 years in the future who gaze at the carvings?
I've never seen windows update automagically add protocols to your TCP/IP configuration.
Or, you could just get rid of NetBIOS and you'd ahve no problem at all.
Stallman applies his morals selectively.
It's ok to provide those who violate human rights with free software, but immoral for the creator of software to restrict it's disribution?