You did link it. I don't tend to link to things that I disagree with. At least, not in my sig line. Thanks for the hint about my intelligence. I'll figure the world out someday.
I didn't mean to be offensive, at least, not any more offensive than you are.
Nice sig. I'm from the South. I'm not racist. I've lived in the North for 4 of the past 7 years of my life. I recall having several friends of various races in high school, and never really having the race card come up.
Interestingly, the first time that I ever heard someone make a truly racist statement was my freshman year of college. Don't get me wrong, I had heard off-color jokes. I'm talking about the first time that I ever heard "don't trust that man, he's black." This was, of course, in a Northern state.
For the record, one of my grandfathers spoke on the behalf of black rights. When he died, many black people came to the viewing out of respect for who he was. I should mention that this was in a major Northern city, not some small town in Alabama. I'm not some closet klansman speaking racist rhetoric under the guise of equality.
Of course, it's easy to put down the South. You can hide behind a guise, saying that you are promoting tolerance. Really, you're promoting a bigotted idea that people from one region are better than people from another. It's ideas like this that we need to put aside, in order to tear down the barriers that separate us.
Of course, you could just go about screaming whatever statement you want if it makes you feel nice. That doesn't mean that it helps anything.
it does seem like a setback towards replacing failing organs with fully artificial ones
I wouldn't look at it as a setback. A bigger setback would be hundreds of people dying from heart implants that weren't quite ready for the market, and a public afraid to use future implants as a result.
You said exactly what I wanted to say. I was, however, afraid that my explanation would be over the heads of other readers, and I'd end up in a long thread explaining the commentary.
It would be prudent to point out an interesting strategy regarding the way humans play chess against computers. Most chess engines do do a form of search, and use techniques to optimize that search. A technique that can help a player to beat these engines is to play with a strategy that keeps the most pieces on the board, reducing the depth to which that search will reach.
A For Profit organization is allowed to take the money and dump it into the pockets of a few wealthy people.
A Not For Profit has to spend its money that way, but IBM isn't one, neither is Microsoft.
They have the option to reinvest the money in R&D, and indeed, MS and IBM both have wonderful R&D departments, funded off of this money. They are, however, not legally obligated to spend the money this way.
However, most of/. is no longer the way it used to be. It was mostly Libertarian before. Now it's very left wing.
However, it is interesting to notice their hypocracy in this case. The mob will always come by to astroturf around my posts, it makes no sense that the same mob would mod this up.
This is addition and subtraction. If there are a greater number who feel that way, then this post should have gone down. It did not, but there are.
Actually, he probably was a researcher with an idea that he pursued to its realization.
He probably thought "hmm, I could do this," with little thought regarding its impact.
I'm not sure how much research is done with some specific goal other than learning a bit more. I'm not sure that physicists find subatomic particles thinking "the top quark will change the world!"
It was never intended to be a general purpose political forum. It was supposed to be about technology and nerdy stuff.
I guess that you didn't see the "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." graphic on the left.
Actually, the way I figure it, the staff saw that it was way more profitable to cater to left wing nuts, politically, than to publish articles about technology, after 9/11 and all.
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My apology, I was browsing with my threshold too high and missed the parent poster.
I'm sorry, you didn't read what I said correctly.
Same amount of time, keep the same number of pieces on the board.
A search algorithm will make less progress in the same space.
I'm correct on this one.
You did link it. I don't tend to link to things that I disagree with. At least, not in my sig line. Thanks for the hint about my intelligence. I'll figure the world out someday.
I didn't mean to be offensive, at least, not any more offensive than you are.
Nice sig. I'm from the South. I'm not racist. I've lived in the North for 4 of the past 7 years of my life. I recall having several friends of various races in high school, and never really having the race card come up.
Interestingly, the first time that I ever heard someone make a truly racist statement was my freshman year of college. Don't get me wrong, I had heard off-color jokes. I'm talking about the first time that I ever heard "don't trust that man, he's black." This was, of course, in a Northern state.
For the record, one of my grandfathers spoke on the behalf of black rights. When he died, many black people came to the viewing out of respect for who he was. I should mention that this was in a major Northern city, not some small town in Alabama. I'm not some closet klansman speaking racist rhetoric under the guise of equality.
Of course, it's easy to put down the South. You can hide behind a guise, saying that you are promoting tolerance. Really, you're promoting a bigotted idea that people from one region are better than people from another. It's ideas like this that we need to put aside, in order to tear down the barriers that separate us.
Of course, you could just go about screaming whatever statement you want if it makes you feel nice. That doesn't mean that it helps anything.
Oh, nonsense.
Here's a collection of proofs that P=NP.
http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm
Ooops, it seems that there are proofs that P!=NP in that collection as well. Maybe you're on to something.
it does seem like a setback towards replacing failing organs with fully artificial ones
I wouldn't look at it as a setback. A bigger setback would be hundreds of people dying from heart implants that weren't quite ready for the market, and a public afraid to use future implants as a result.
You said exactly what I wanted to say. I was, however, afraid that my explanation would be over the heads of other readers, and I'd end up in a long thread explaining the commentary.
It would be prudent to point out an interesting strategy regarding the way humans play chess against computers. Most chess engines do do a form of search, and use techniques to optimize that search. A technique that can help a player to beat these engines is to play with a strategy that keeps the most pieces on the board, reducing the depth to which that search will reach.
Yes, there are programs called automated theorem provers that work with, ironically enough, mathematical theorems.
It can be mathematically explained just as much as chess can be.
Try theorem proving.
Computers can't beat humans at that, or even hope to do so at the moment.
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These aren't exactly cherub faced youth! They're felons. Throw them in the slammer!
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I'm sorry, but you're wrong on that front.
A For Profit organization is allowed to take the money and dump it into the pockets of a few wealthy people.
A Not For Profit has to spend its money that way, but IBM isn't one, neither is Microsoft.
They have the option to reinvest the money in R&D, and indeed, MS and IBM both have wonderful R&D departments, funded off of this money. They are, however, not legally obligated to spend the money this way.
No, you missed the point.
The community took away from the people and sold to developers.
That's the left.
A conservative viewpoint views property as a right.
Hey, this sort of thing is right up the alley of communist left wing wackos.
Aren't you guys supposed to be posting stuff in support of this, and how this is a good thing?
I understand that.
50 Right wingers who love blood and gore upmod it.
100 Left wingers who hate blood and gore downmod it.
Get it?
Oh, I realize that.
/. is no longer the way it used to be. It was mostly Libertarian before. Now it's very left wing.
However, most of
However, it is interesting to notice their hypocracy in this case. The mob will always come by to astroturf around my posts, it makes no sense that the same mob would mod this up.
This is addition and subtraction. If there are a greater number who feel that way, then this post should have gone down. It did not, but there are.
You only prove my point with your moderation. Keep going.
This is a sad commentary on the readership of this site.
On one hand, they feel that this comment is funny. It makes light of the killing in Iraq.
On the other hand, they flame and insult American citizens, partly as a product of this war.
Which is it?
I agree. This is a a neat idea. It could be a fun game. I wish that it were.
It's not BAD. I wouldn't run home in tears if I were the developer of this game or anything.
I don't think that I'll play it again though.
There are a surprising number of responses commenting on Sony dissaproving of Aibo hacking and whatnot.
Haven't you heard of Robocup?
http://www.robocup.org/
Actually, he probably was a researcher with an idea that he pursued to its realization.
He probably thought "hmm, I could do this," with little thought regarding its impact.
I'm not sure how much research is done with some specific goal other than learning a bit more. I'm not sure that physicists find subatomic particles thinking "the top quark will change the world!"
Why do you bother with that jBrowse product then, rather than using some web browser made in a different country.
For that matter, why are you using IE if you hate MS so much?
You're right.
I'm sorry, but this is Slashdot.
It was never intended to be a general purpose political forum. It was supposed to be about technology and nerdy stuff.
I guess that you didn't see the "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." graphic on the left.
Actually, the way I figure it, the staff saw that it was way more profitable to cater to left wing nuts, politically, than to publish articles about technology, after 9/11 and all.