Anyone see it? I think the name was "Searching for Bobby Fischer" You would never think they could make an interesting movie about playing chess but it was actually really cool.
I believe the Pengiuns won the right to a court hearing, but it was settled out of court before it even could go. I'm not sure how much the British Government had to pay but I do know it was a healthy sum as all the penguins wear nothing but tuxedos now, own several hockey teams, and are sole investors in some sort of computer operating system.
31 miles above the Earth? THAT's a long way down! She should take her Palm pilot with her in case she gets bored. You know, a quick hand of Mahjongg around 20,000 feet.
She's going to find life kinda boring after doing something like that, I would think. I mean, what would you do to top that??
I'm kinda wondering why they couldn't transmit the data via laser or a simililar mode of transmission. At 120 bps, there's quite the antiquity of technology! The value of data alone that the probe is obtaining is well worth the value of increasing the transmission ability.
I could give anyone considering an upgrade based upon money capabilities would be RAM. I've upgraded systems and the largest increase in performance would be at very least doubling your amount of RAM.
It really doesn't make much sense to try and run a "high-end" video card on a slower system, even to run quake because, sure you might have beautiful graphics, but it's gonna be about 10 to 15 FPM. That's like fixing the body of your car before you even touch the engine or drivetrain that really needs the attention!
You'd look REAL good cruising down the street in a shiny car....with a trail of black smoke or loose parts behind you.
I can't think of why it would be of any use aside from destroying a path through the mountains. Consequentally, if they do it right, they could have a nice countryside very similar to
thisBR>
If you annihilate it, they will come....
I'm liking everything about the article, but what I really enjoyed was that very cool was that artists rendition of the atmosphere. The one where you can see the clouds overhead and in the distance is Saturn peeking over the horizon. I woud pay for that to be framed and hung on my wall! --
The scene is a dark smoky room with nothing but a table and few dark figures hunched around it, tossing the occasional playing card into a pile and an occasional shot glass to their mouths.
Let's listen in for a moment, shall we?
Bill:Man, I'm beat! WAY too many questions today! Eliza:You look pretty tired but you just got started, pal! Wait until you've been doing this for a while like us! I fold! Bill:I was doing ok and fending fairly well until about 10pm or so. I just suddenly got pummeled! I'll see your bet and raise you! Eliza:That'd be those Slashdot people! Bill:Who? Dr. Saibatso:You'll get to know 'em REALLY well, in due time! Just keep making the news every so often! I've got three Jacks! Bill:Eliza, does that beat my flush? Eliza:Sure does, Bill, we're not AI for nothing you know! Bill:DAMN!
Fade away as The Dr. and Eliza wink at each other...
I saw that also, and I think the moderator was looking at the fact that Josh was mentioning using a big dog as a test subject. The moderator must've been an animal rights activist or somethin' eh?
I can think of quite a few people that could take as many injections as they can give 'em and it would STILL never help their brain to function any differently...
but after reading the article and especially observing the image alongside it, I have to say that I'm impressed that the scientists have finally discovered a Lite-Brite toy! What is it that they're hoping to accomplish with it, besides drawing pretty and colorful pictures?
Never mind... --
Given the wide variety of "Free" OS's available now (I just bought a bundled package of FreeBSD last night) I don't really see QNX's chance at really doing anything spectacular. Especially when it's used for singular tasks such as Internet appliances and coin changers, etc.
There just isn't that much left to dazzle us with. --
How about Natalie Portman actually shows up at your door with nothing but a trenchcoat and a smile on her face, carrying the keys to a new Lamborghini with a 32 processor Alpha machine in the backseat.
After looking over the draft, the only thing I can summarize on is that it looks like some group trying to put rules and regulations on something that really doesn't need it or want it for that matter.
I try not to be pessimistic, but I can't understand why this would be necessary in order to have mobile Internet devices available.
So, this might be a bit on the expensive side, but if a person or people are worth it; why not replace the cubicle walls with LCD panels? That way, while you are working, you can select from many different scenes. A cool part is that since the cubicle normally surrounds you, the scene would also, providing you with a type of surround-scene (sic)!
Imagine rewriting a kernel for the twelfth time, but this time with a view from atop on of the plateaus in the Grand Canyon, or possibly on the beach in Cabo San Lucas?
Possibly to save a bit of money, the company can just wire in a row or group of cubicles and have them all the same views and automatically change scenes every so often!
It'd be cool!
Wow! This is a great idea! I can imagine some of the more popular items available:
Modems (2400 to 56K)
486 motherboards
Toasted 486 cpu's (from overclocking just a bit too much!)
Monochrome monitors with patterns long burnt into 'em
even 14 or 15" color monitors
Buttloads of old network cards
network cable with just a few too many kinks...
keyboards with sticky keys (but no one knows why...)
Mice with encoders that skip every other count
old copies of DOS or Windoze 3.1/95/95SE.
and the list goes on.
Feels like a walk through a computer museum! But it's really cool, 'cause somewhere out there is someone who really wants or needs this stuff!
So I'm thinking, Why would an underwater computer be necessary? While under the sea, you happen to come across a great find or area that must absolutely be logged into your computer? Is it so important that it couldn't wait the several minutes for you to get back up into your boat and log it in then?
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not anti-technology, but I think proliferation is better used elswhere. When I'm underwater, there's a lot of other things that I've got my mind on rather than downloading my e-mail, overclocking my Celeron, or anything pertaining to my computer for that matter.
Even for serious government-funded research. the computers should stay onboard the boats and leave the divers to explore in a hands-free environment.
This is a fine looking mobile computer, however, I look forward to the day when I can have a robot with true AI. A robot that would think for itself. There isn't a whole lot of enjoyment to be found in programming movements because you already know what it's going to do. The thrill comes from the suprise of its responsiveness.
For example, say I want it to get the morning paper for me that's out on the front porch.
A programmable robot such as this one, would require the code to enable it to follow a certain path to the front door, utilize its sensors to avoid any obstacles, manipulate the doorknob, locate the paper, grasp the paper firmly and negotiate itself back to me. All in code that I have to write.
A robot with it's own AI, given the same task, would be exciting to watch because the complete task would be created and executed primarily from the robot's brain. To observe the AI decision-making, calculating, and obstacle-computing is a type of creationism in itself.
"Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet."
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Actually, I'm running Windoze, BeOS, and Linux and I have to say that there's no real comparison between Windoze and Unix/Linux/everythingelse.
You can kinda think of Windoze as an OS for the general public with little or no experience on computers or someone who just plain doesn't want to know and expects everything to be cut and dry.
Linux, on the other hand, is not as "layman- freindly" and is more for those who enjoy having control over their computer and software; creating and manipulating data.
Guess it just kinda depends on what mood you happen to be in, eh? --
Yeah! It's one of those football games where you set up all your players "defensively", then, when everything is ready for the play, you switch on the game and all the little players vibrate around in a chaotic manner that looks vaguely like a real football maneuver!
Sorry, this is nothing new, just a different type of application. --
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S'funny, after seeing they way some people play online, I'd swear they already were.... --
Look at this situation in a different light;
the couple probably already wanted more than one child,
the umbilical cord and the blood from within it would have probably been disposed of anyway,
the couple was in danger of losing their daughter, who at that time was their only living offspring.
So why not make use of a good thing and "recycle" something that was going to be discarded and use it to help another human being? I'm sure the parents, if they're worth their salt and they sound like they are, will love both children the same, regardless of what the situation was of their births?
S'aright? S'aright! --
Your day will consist of nothing more than:
9:45am - wake up and roll over.
9:50am - devour tube of scrambled eggs w/ french toast.
10:00am - Reach over and switch on "Airboard".
10:05am - Begin day of telecommuting, teleconferencing and all kinds of telecrap!
6:45pm - you feel sleepy, use "Airboard" to switch on TV across the room.
7:20pm - Nothing on TV, you switch everything off and roll your lard ass over and go back to sleep.
You've had a busy day you little buckaroo! Get some rest, you deserve it.
No thanks, I like actually doing physical work and exercising.
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Anyone see it? I think the name was "Searching for Bobby Fischer" You would never think they could make an interesting movie about playing chess but it was actually really cool.
I believe the Pengiuns won the right to a court hearing, but it was settled out of court before it even could go. I'm not sure how much the British Government had to pay but I do know it was a healthy sum as all the penguins wear nothing but tuxedos now, own several hockey teams, and are sole investors in some sort of computer operating system.
31 miles above the Earth? THAT's a long way down! She should take her Palm pilot with her in case she gets bored. You know, a quick hand of Mahjongg around 20,000 feet.
She's going to find life kinda boring after doing something like that, I would think. I mean, what would you do to top that??
I'm kinda wondering why they couldn't transmit the data via laser or a simililar mode of transmission. At 120 bps, there's quite the antiquity of technology! The value of data alone that the probe is obtaining is well worth the value of increasing the transmission ability.
It really doesn't make much sense to try and run a "high-end" video card on a slower system, even to run quake because, sure you might have beautiful graphics, but it's gonna be about 10 to 15 FPM. That's like fixing the body of your car before you even touch the engine or drivetrain that really needs the attention!
You'd look REAL good cruising down the street in a shiny car....with a trail of black smoke or loose parts behind you.
I can't think of why it would be of any use aside from destroying a path through the mountains. Consequentally, if they do it right, they could have a nice countryside very similar to thisBR> If you annihilate it, they will come....
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Vote Homer Simpson for President!
Let's listen in for a moment, shall we?
Bill:Man, I'm beat! WAY too many questions today!
Eliza:You look pretty tired but you just got started, pal! Wait until you've been doing this for a while like us! I fold!
Bill:I was doing ok and fending fairly well until about 10pm or so. I just suddenly got pummeled! I'll see your bet and raise you!
Eliza:That'd be those Slashdot people!
Bill:Who?
Dr. Saibatso:You'll get to know 'em REALLY well, in due time! Just keep making the news every so often! I've got three Jacks!
Bill:Eliza, does that beat my flush?
Eliza:Sure does, Bill, we're not AI for nothing you know!
Bill:DAMN!
Fade away as The Dr. and Eliza wink at each other...
I saw that also, and I think the moderator was looking at the fact that Josh was mentioning using a big dog as a test subject. The moderator must've been an animal rights activist or somethin' eh?
DUDE! What an EXCELLENT game! I'm glad to hear someone else knows of it! Have you also played the first one? Both of 'em are my favourites!
I can think of quite a few people that could take as many injections as they can give 'em and it would STILL never help their brain to function any differently...
Never mind...
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There just isn't that much left to dazzle us with.
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Aim for the moon, dammit! :-)
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I try not to be pessimistic, but I can't understand why this would be necessary in order to have mobile Internet devices available.
My 2c
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Imagine rewriting a kernel for the twelfth time, but this time with a view from atop on of the plateaus in the Grand Canyon, or possibly on the beach in Cabo San Lucas?
Possibly to save a bit of money, the company can just wire in a row or group of cubicles and have them all the same views and automatically change scenes every so often!
It'd be cool!
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Vote Homer Simpson for President!
Modems (2400 to 56K)
486 motherboards
Toasted 486 cpu's (from overclocking just a bit too much!)
Monochrome monitors with patterns long burnt into 'em
even 14 or 15" color monitors
Buttloads of old network cards
network cable with just a few too many kinks...
keyboards with sticky keys (but no one knows why...)
Mice with encoders that skip every other count
old copies of DOS or Windoze 3.1/95/95SE.
and the list goes on.
Feels like a walk through a computer museum! But it's really cool, 'cause somewhere out there is someone who really wants or needs this stuff!
--
Vote Homer Simpson for President!
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not anti-technology, but I think proliferation is better used elswhere. When I'm underwater, there's a lot of other things that I've got my mind on rather than downloading my e-mail, overclocking my Celeron, or anything pertaining to my computer for that matter.
Even for serious government-funded research. the computers should stay onboard the boats and leave the divers to explore in a hands-free environment.
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For example, say I want it to get the morning paper for me that's out on the front porch.
A programmable robot such as this one, would require the code to enable it to follow a certain path to the front door, utilize its sensors to avoid any obstacles, manipulate the doorknob, locate the paper, grasp the paper firmly and negotiate itself back to me. All in code that I have to write.
A robot with it's own AI, given the same task, would be exciting to watch because the complete task would be created and executed primarily from the robot's brain. To observe the AI decision-making, calculating, and obstacle-computing is a type of creationism in itself.
"Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet."
--
Vote Homer Simpson for President!
You can kinda think of Windoze as an OS for the general public with little or no experience on computers or someone who just plain doesn't want to know and expects everything to be cut and dry.
Linux, on the other hand, is not as "layman- freindly" and is more for those who enjoy having control over their computer and software; creating and manipulating data.
Guess it just kinda depends on what mood you happen to be in, eh?
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Vote Homer Simpson for President!
Sorry, this is nothing new, just a different type of application.
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the couple probably already wanted more than one child,
the umbilical cord and the blood from within it would have probably been disposed of anyway,
the couple was in danger of losing their daughter, who at that time was their only living offspring.
So why not make use of a good thing and "recycle" something that was going to be discarded and use it to help another human being? I'm sure the parents, if they're worth their salt and they sound like they are, will love both children the same, regardless of what the situation was of their births?
S'aright? S'aright!
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9:45am - wake up and roll over.
9:50am - devour tube of scrambled eggs w/ french toast.
10:00am - Reach over and switch on "Airboard".
10:05am - Begin day of telecommuting, teleconferencing and all kinds of telecrap!
6:45pm - you feel sleepy, use "Airboard" to switch on TV across the room.
7:20pm - Nothing on TV, you switch everything off and roll your lard ass over and go back to sleep. You've had a busy day you little buckaroo! Get some rest, you deserve it.
No thanks, I like actually doing physical work and exercising.
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Tough group!
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