What prevents a successful AI from becoming a tool of oppression? Oppression, in this case, could mean Big Brother, or an automated and heartless business/labor management system, or simply replacing the vast majority of jobs, and thus available income in the world.
No tool comes with any guarantee of benefit. It all depends on who controls it.
A home user can't install new software without providing a root (or sudo) password everytime they want to try a software package
You mean just like OS X's default configuration.
they can't update the system configuration from the GUI, they can't start and stop their personal webserver
Well, Apple does allow this for ~95% of the desired configurations, but expect that silly password prompt comes up in the GUIs, just lke the terminal configurations. The quality of the GUI software has nothing to do with the ability of the system to be secured. It definitely takes a larger investment by the OS developers, and Apple has shown a willingness to begin down that path (given teh nature of the article, its obvious there is more to do).
Regarding web server configuration, a user could probably get a PHP based webserver up and running without opening terminal. And yes, that includes starting and stopping it via a GUI, with a prompt for the admin's password.
they can't look at the drive space remaining without having to decode a complex partitioning scheme
I'm not sure about whether Apple's current offering supports this, but there is nothing technically limiting about this issue. Any good app can find the relations between physical and logic drives. It is just a sign of bad software not written with the user in mind. Apple has a tendency to do this from the start.
they can't do a lot of things that Mac OS X lets them do without interfereing. If Mac OS X *did* restrict these activities, users would balk at the user-unfriendliness and go back to Windows.
I get the distinct impression you've never worked on Mac OS X system. As someone who obviously works with Unix regularly, I would highly recommend it. You'd be surprised how much good software can get out of your way. Find a old Mac mini on ebay or something and make a habbit of using it for a week or two. Just because Sun has failed doesn't make the prospect of good user oriented Unix software impossible.
But you're forgetting the anti-gravity beam would be pushing away all the particles that would otherwise be hit. They may not be pushed away fast enough to avoid being hit, but the energy of the impact should greatly be reduced.
It probably is an oddity in your system and their just pulling the buffer off your video card and compressing it that way. Or, you character is actually green (green aura?).
That's like saying the history of the web is summarized in the W3C spec for HTML. It hints at the history, and each revision signifies an era in its history, but by no means is it really informative on the influences, predecessors, politiics, and competing ideas.
To really get to that you need to talk to the people who were there (or find the artifacts of them talking to each other: letters, papers, etc.). Luckily, the 70's are recent enough that many are probably still alive, and there comes a point where usenet was an active archive. I'm sure many of those people maintain active email addresses today.
I'm not sure what depth of research the submitter was intending, but RFCs and Usenet do provide very good jumping points on the topic.
3. The batteries that don't yet exist are being designed for artificial eyes that don't yet exist.
RTFA: "starting with an artificial retina that has already been developed at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California".
And with a little research, you can find reports (here and here, and even on/.) from last May's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting about six previously completely blind patients have successfully used the referenced retinas to detect light.
Sony shipped/"sold" that many to the retailers. With room for someone rounding somewhere, its confusing but not inconsistent. But considering how quickly the retailer sold out, that really is that misleading.
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Unreal's engine being ported to Java?
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From the nomination form, the game must be original (not a remake of another story/game, or a port from a different platform) and it must have been released in 2005. I can't think of a single game that meets those criteria and deserves the right to be the first Hugo winner for video games.
That said, I also second the above opinion that sequential art deserves its own category first.
For a second there, I thought the article summary was refering to one of the projects here at USC, the Superbot, part of our Polymorphic robotics Laboratory. Superbot is really about chains of tiny robots that can connect together to adapt to the particular task at hand. I know know low-G environments is one of our targets (NASA funded) and we have 2D air hockey table prototypes, and even toyed with underwater robots. But the videos show we have a long ways to go.
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Patently false.
Dynamic client-side content is actually enabling some web apps, like TiddlyWiki. It is a single file Wiki which keeps its data stored in <div> blocks and javascript variables, and knows how to save itself. to a file.
As a TiddlyWiki user who has mucked with the plugins, I'm curious what other will do with the likes of canvas.
However, as a long time UI programmer, I'm afraid we're relying on single threaded scripting environments way to heavily. For me, FireFox hits some nasty processing loops on a regular basis, after uninstalling all plugins and defaulting my prefs. FireFox has been better, but it still doesn't have a decent design for background processing and animation without locking up the UI.
I also hate the limitations of HTML/CSS layout. There is no reason to require javascript to fill the remainder of a container's width or height.
While OS X is not perfect, it largely prevents the problem when working in separate apps. Insteading of popping to the front, OS X dialogs only cause unfocused apps to bounce their app icons in the dock.
This does not prevent interruptions of task flow with the app (a network connection drops while typing in a chat application). It would be nice if such alert dialogs did not take input for at least third of a second after being displayed.
Since Yahoo's bragging is apparently about OddPost, I decided to see what all the fuss is about. But from Mac/Firefox, the site is completely broken. No link to create a new account, and even when I try typing in the login text fields, nothing shows up. Despite all the AJAX and CSS tricks I've been digging up on the net recently, I've never encountered these problems. And trying to follow up in their about pages, etc., they all lack a scroll bar on otherwise very simple two column layout. This is anything to brag about?
But looking at the screenshots, it looks like it presents the standard three pane mail app interface. And no ads, yet. Of course there is no profit in that model so I doubt it will last even a year under yahoo's command.
Dark matter vs. Oort cloud matter is a really bad comparison. In the case of the Oort cloud, yes it is there but it is so little of it doesn't significantly influence our calculations of Neptune and Uranus. Even the recent findings of objects as larger or larger than pluto weren't predicted, they were just noticed as changes in photos of certain sky regions.
But the (former) argument for dark matter was specifically about the influence it it had on the visble/known objects on the outskirts of every spiral galaxy. The scale of the difference in mass between what we saw and what we predicted was enormous.
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Thirded... I'd love to return to my old Industial powerhouse character, but I gave up on maintaining a Windows box just for games.
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What prevents a successful AI from becoming a tool of oppression? Oppression, in this case, could mean Big Brother, or an automated and heartless business/labor management system, or simply replacing the vast majority of jobs, and thus available income in the world.
No tool comes with any guarantee of benefit. It all depends on who controls it.
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From GP post: "One of the biggest pains in the ass with perl..."
From Parent Post: "...a 20 page ream me"
Ouch... thats not a pretty picture...
A home user can't install new software without providing a root (or sudo) password everytime they want to try a software package
You mean just like OS X's default configuration.
they can't update the system configuration from the GUI, they can't start and stop their personal webserver
Well, Apple does allow this for ~95% of the desired configurations, but expect that silly password prompt comes up in the GUIs, just lke the terminal configurations. The quality of the GUI software has nothing to do with the ability of the system to be secured. It definitely takes a larger investment by the OS developers, and Apple has shown a willingness to begin down that path (given teh nature of the article, its obvious there is more to do).
Regarding web server configuration, a user could probably get a PHP based webserver up and running without opening terminal. And yes, that includes starting and stopping it via a GUI, with a prompt for the admin's password.
they can't look at the drive space remaining without having to decode a complex partitioning scheme
I'm not sure about whether Apple's current offering supports this, but there is nothing technically limiting about this issue. Any good app can find the relations between physical and logic drives. It is just a sign of bad software not written with the user in mind. Apple has a tendency to do this from the start.
they can't do a lot of things that Mac OS X lets them do without interfereing. If Mac OS X *did* restrict these activities, users would balk at the user-unfriendliness and go back to Windows.
I get the distinct impression you've never worked on Mac OS X system. As someone who obviously works with Unix regularly, I would highly recommend it. You'd be surprised how much good software can get out of your way. Find a old Mac mini on ebay or something and make a habbit of using it for a week or two. Just because Sun has failed doesn't make the prospect of good user oriented Unix software impossible.
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But you're forgetting the anti-gravity beam would be pushing away all the particles that would otherwise be hit. They may not be pushed away fast enough to avoid being hit, but the energy of the impact should greatly be reduced.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.ht m
I know Safari's HTML enginge was derived from KHTML. Does it also use the same Javascript engine?
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No problem here (BFG 7800 GTX on WinXP).
It probably is an oddity in your system and their just pulling the buffer off your video card and compressing it that way. Or, you character is actually green (green aura?).
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Cthulhu Karts racing game? Sweet.
The I suggest you look at Cthulhu 500. Fun card based racing game, with all the evil you'd expect out of Cthulhu.
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That's like saying the history of the web is summarized in the W3C spec for HTML. It hints at the history, and each revision signifies an era in its history, but by no means is it really informative on the influences, predecessors, politiics, and competing ideas.
To really get to that you need to talk to the people who were there (or find the artifacts of them talking to each other: letters, papers, etc.). Luckily, the 70's are recent enough that many are probably still alive, and there comes a point where usenet was an active archive. I'm sure many of those people maintain active email addresses today.
I'm not sure what depth of research the submitter was intending, but RFCs and Usenet do provide very good jumping points on the topic.
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If MacBook is the laptop, and iMac is the consumer desktop, then I'm betting on something like MacStation (a la workstation) to replace the PowerMacs.
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3. The batteries that don't yet exist are being designed for artificial eyes that don't yet exist.
/.) from last May's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting about six previously completely blind patients have successfully used the referenced retinas to detect light.
RTFA: "starting with an artificial retina that has already been developed at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California".
And with a little research, you can find reports (here and here, and even on
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Apparently, he's getting better with experience:
House of the Dead (2003) #18
Alone in the Dark (2005) #36
BloodRayne (2005) #37
Who in their right mind is funding this guy?
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Sony shipped/"sold" that many to the retailers. With room for someone rounding somewhere, its confusing but not inconsistent. But considering how quickly the retailer sold out, that really is that misleading.
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I've seen Jake2, the Java Port of Quake 2 to Java, but I've never heard of anything related to Unreal, or any port, related to Java. Can you provide a link to where you read that?
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A quote from TFA fits quite well here:
"School officials and Canton City Prosecutor Frank Forchione didn't think it was funny."
Well obviously there need to earn more moderator points. Sheesh.
From the nomination form, the game must be original (not a remake of another story/game, or a port from a different platform) and it must have been released in 2005. I can't think of a single game that meets those criteria and deserves the right to be the first Hugo winner for video games.
That said, I also second the above opinion that sequential art deserves its own category first.
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For a second there, I thought the article summary was refering to one of the projects here at USC, the Superbot, part of our Polymorphic robotics Laboratory. Superbot is really about chains of tiny robots that can connect together to adapt to the particular task at hand. I know know low-G environments is one of our targets (NASA funded) and we have 2D air hockey table prototypes, and even toyed with underwater robots. But the videos show we have a long ways to go.
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Patently false.
Dynamic client-side content is actually enabling some web apps, like TiddlyWiki. It is a single file Wiki which keeps its data stored in <div> blocks and javascript variables, and knows how to save itself. to a file.
As a TiddlyWiki user who has mucked with the plugins, I'm curious what other will do with the likes of canvas.
However, as a long time UI programmer, I'm afraid we're relying on single threaded scripting environments way to heavily. For me, FireFox hits some nasty processing loops on a regular basis, after uninstalling all plugins and defaulting my prefs. FireFox has been better, but it still doesn't have a decent design for background processing and animation without locking up the UI.
I also hate the limitations of HTML/CSS layout. There is no reason to require javascript to fill the remainder of a container's width or height.
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100% speedup takes 50% of the time:
speed = progress / time
So since a 100% improvement is 2x the original:
2*speed = 2*progress / time
or
2*speed = progress / ( time/2 )
Turkey.
While OS X is not perfect, it largely prevents the problem when working in separate apps. Insteading of popping to the front, OS X dialogs only cause unfocused apps to bounce their app icons in the dock.
This does not prevent interruptions of task flow with the app (a network connection drops while typing in a chat application). It would be nice if such alert dialogs did not take input for at least third of a second after being displayed.
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Since Yahoo's bragging is apparently about OddPost, I decided to see what all the fuss is about. But from Mac/Firefox, the site is completely broken. No link to create a new account, and even when I try typing in the login text fields, nothing shows up. Despite all the AJAX and CSS tricks I've been digging up on the net recently, I've never encountered these problems. And trying to follow up in their about pages, etc., they all lack a scroll bar on otherwise very simple two column layout. This is anything to brag about?
But looking at the screenshots, it looks like it presents the standard three pane mail app interface. And no ads, yet. Of course there is no profit in that model so I doubt it will last even a year under yahoo's command.
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Correction. It was just Rob's personal blog. Now it is a commercial enterprise.
You're only a guest if you don't subscribe. Otherwise you're a client.
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Dark matter vs. Oort cloud matter is a really bad comparison. In the case of the Oort cloud, yes it is there but it is so little of it doesn't significantly influence our calculations of Neptune and Uranus. Even the recent findings of objects as larger or larger than pluto weren't predicted, they were just noticed as changes in photos of certain sky regions.
But the (former) argument for dark matter was specifically about the influence it it had on the visble/known objects on the outskirts of every spiral galaxy. The scale of the difference in mass between what we saw and what we predicted was enormous.