I was just contemplating whether it's better for me to go through the expense and time to build a decent PVR myself, or just go the easy route and buy a TiVo. The TiVo would be cheaper, and would "just work", but without the freedom and control it's not worth the savings. MythTV, here I come...
Further proof that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is capable of intelligently designing not just biological organisms, but computer technology as well. Well done, FSM, I'd like to shake your noodley appendage.
A hurricane's total energy is equal to that of many atomic bombs. That's a lot of energy to have to dissipate safely. It's already disbursed over a wide area.
If you really want to control the severity of hurricanes, the best way is to overengineer your buildings, and refrain from putting buildings in areas that are prone to flooding and are over-exposed to the shore without natural barriers to lessen the storm surge. This will lessen the severity of the storm damage, but won't affect the strength of the storm.
If you really want to try to control the intensity of the storm itself, reverse global warming. Cooler ocean waters will result in smaller storms. Of course, cooling the oceans will have broader environmental effects which may well be worse than preventing monster hurricanes.
If you doubt how well this business model works, look at the film and music industry, which is making money this way, and has been for decades. Mass-producing formulaic, worthless crap works. So does creating high art. But formulaic crap is easier and more certain and more lucrative.
Gaming's not dead. It's not dying, either. It just seems that way to people who've been through a few decades of iterative improvments yielding diminishing returns. People get old, they grow up, and they realize that the games they're buying today don't offer anything new. Well, so what?
There are new suckers being born every minute, and Doom 3 is NEW to them. The industry can just keep selling the same old crap to young new gamers who don't know any better, and a few years later they'll come out the other end of the process, just like the author of this article has now, jaded and thinking that everything's the same old recycled ideas and crappy invocations that have lost sight of the fact that games were supposed to be fun. They're right, of course, but as long as there's enough fools being born every minute, the industry can sustain a business model of cranking out unimaginative crap updated with the latest graphics engine.
That might not mean that the industry has much to offer YOU, the veteran gamer, but you can still enjoy a game of PacMan, of Pitfall!, of Super Mario Bros., of any game that you've ever enjoyed. New games may suck to you, but you're on to the old tricks. If the games were truly better then, why ever leave that era?
Why must you always buy something new in order to have fun? Rejoice in the fact that you'll never have to buy another video game and revel in the library of great console and PC games you've enjoyed for years. Free up that entertainment budget and put it towards your retirement.
So what happens if you feed this learning algorithm "bad" grammar? Considering the following scenarios:
You feed it a bunch of grammatically correct "Standard" English, and then make a mistake or two on a few sentences somewhere in the mix. Can the algorithm discern what is incorrect and what is an uncommon, but valid, construction?
You feed it a bunch of grammatically correct Olde or Middle English.
You feed it English from a nonstandard dialect such as Welsh or Black American English.
You feed it English that's been filtered through the shizzolator.
If the learning algorithm can handle all of these scenarios, I'll be impressed.
Both ways? Microsoft is the one who promised all of these innovations, and a deadline that keeps receding into history, and still hasn't delivered, and now they've removed almost everything they said was going to make Vista so great. Who exactly is trying to have it both ways?
They want to be able to point to a standards body when a hiring decision turns out to be a bad one. If you come in and tell them you're a whiz at Foo, and it turns out you're lying, then HR can say "Well, he fooled the Certification Board as well, so it wasn't just us."
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So when Opera goes out of business next month, will they be opening the source? That's what I'm really holding out for...
GatesBallmer rules Bartertown.
Seconded, especially if the asteroid was hurtling at Texas.
There must have been some reason why no company ported Unix to run on an original 8086 IBM PC-spec system.
And if they do win, I hope that they force the governor to pay in quarters.
I was just contemplating whether it's better for me to go through the expense and time to build a decent PVR myself, or just go the easy route and buy a TiVo. The TiVo would be cheaper, and would "just work", but without the freedom and control it's not worth the savings. MythTV, here I come...
Please, please, pirate is such a harsh word... I prefer to think of it as... "paraphrasing".
Further proof that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is capable of intelligently designing not just biological organisms, but computer technology as well. Well done, FSM, I'd like to shake your noodley appendage.
A hurricane's total energy is equal to that of many atomic bombs. That's a lot of energy to have to dissipate safely. It's already disbursed over a wide area.
If you really want to control the severity of hurricanes, the best way is to overengineer your buildings, and refrain from putting buildings in areas that are prone to flooding and are over-exposed to the shore without natural barriers to lessen the storm surge. This will lessen the severity of the storm damage, but won't affect the strength of the storm.
If you really want to try to control the intensity of the storm itself, reverse global warming. Cooler ocean waters will result in smaller storms. Of course, cooling the oceans will have broader environmental effects which may well be worse than preventing monster hurricanes.
Or are you just happy to see me?
Last year, Linux on the Desktop was supposed to be a year away. Now it's five years away? How far away will it be 4 years from now? 15?
And it runs Longhorn!
Half-life...
1) Was 7 years ago.
2) Was innovative, and good.
3) Is a single datapoint counterexample and not a trend.
If you doubt how well this business model works, look at the film and music industry, which is making money this way, and has been for decades. Mass-producing formulaic, worthless crap works. So does creating high art. But formulaic crap is easier and more certain and more lucrative.
There's a fool born every minute.
Gaming's not dead. It's not dying, either. It just seems that way to people who've been through a few decades of iterative improvments yielding diminishing returns. People get old, they grow up, and they realize that the games they're buying today don't offer anything new. Well, so what?
There are new suckers being born every minute, and Doom 3 is NEW to them. The industry can just keep selling the same old crap to young new gamers who don't know any better, and a few years later they'll come out the other end of the process, just like the author of this article has now, jaded and thinking that everything's the same old recycled ideas and crappy invocations that have lost sight of the fact that games were supposed to be fun. They're right, of course, but as long as there's enough fools being born every minute, the industry can sustain a business model of cranking out unimaginative crap updated with the latest graphics engine.
That might not mean that the industry has much to offer YOU, the veteran gamer, but you can still enjoy a game of PacMan, of Pitfall!, of Super Mario Bros., of any game that you've ever enjoyed. New games may suck to you, but you're on to the old tricks. If the games were truly better then, why ever leave that era?
Why must you always buy something new in order to have fun? Rejoice in the fact that you'll never have to buy another video game and revel in the library of great console and PC games you've enjoyed for years. Free up that entertainment budget and put it towards your retirement.
If the learning algorithm can handle all of these scenarios, I'll be impressed.
I just hope that the engineers were forward-thinking enough to have trademarked the penguin.
No need to do the study anymore, they KNOW the results of a Category 5 hurricane now.
Probably don't need to pay Engineers to work on New Orleans anymore, either, considering that the city is gone.
Forget about the past. Don't rebuild. Relocate.
My scientifically accurate bullshit detecting quarter says you're right.
No, wait... best two out of three. Damn!
What is it with women and hard things? What's the fixation, exactly?
Oh, heh, heh... yeah, OK.
Both ways? Microsoft is the one who promised all of these innovations, and a deadline that keeps receding into history, and still hasn't delivered, and now they've removed almost everything they said was going to make Vista so great. Who exactly is trying to have it both ways?
Sir, you are obviously not a centaur.
They want to be able to point to a standards body when a hiring decision turns out to be a bad one. If you come in and tell them you're a whiz at Foo, and it turns out you're lying, then HR can say "Well, he fooled the Certification Board as well, so it wasn't just us."
I am, in fact, 8 feet tall.
I also happen to do most of my walking on the moon, where the lesser gravity effectively lengthens my stride.
I can lift several tons over my head with moderate difficulty.
You don't want to mess with me.
6.81818... miles per hour. That's a brisk walk.