No, you are wrong. I live in Sweden and it's a well-known medical fact here that lack of light leads to depression, and suicide rates are much higher during the darkest periods here.
There is even something called light therapy for you, if you suffer from depression during winter.
It's just one more of those stupid swedish rules that hinders the marketplace. Like back in the day, you couldn't get a.se domain name, you had to get a www.site.region.city.se.
Programmers are the stupidest people on the planet.
First they create tons of free software applications and then they complain when it's hard to find tech jobs.
Well, half the market has been eroded by your own software, stupid! You should've used your skills to make a living, not to destroy your own employment market!
In Sweden a lot of people use mejl, instead of mail and sajt instead of site. They're pronounced just as the english word but the spelling is swedish. This is nothing special for the french. It's just a natural way to grow your own language that has been used for ages.
A lot of french words have been assimilated into swedish the same way. As an example, juice, which is a french word, can be spelled Jos.
And, oh, this has nothing to do with the Gulf War and freedom fries.
It's interesting to note that Windows can't become that much more advanced. It seems to me that it has reached a point were there isn't that much use in upgrading anymore. Like the word processor or web browser there aren't that many innovations people are longing for. Personally, I still use Win2k and I am quite happy with it. Given a choice, I even prefer it over XP.
At the same time, all Linux has to do is play catch up (becoming more user-friendly and so on) to seriously threaten Windows in the next few years. Being free, it is quite competitive.
I can only see Linux gaining territory in the future, while Windows has everything to loose. If Linux attains a critical mass where game developers start making games for it, I will probably switch. And I bet I wont miss Microsoft one bit.
Bill Gates has all the reasons in the world to feel threatened. I mean nobody expects to pay for any of the software you download anymore. The market is becoming increasingly eroded as it only takes one good free alternative for everybody to choose that one over the one that costs money..
Previously, you (as humanitarian authority) have austerely acted with equanimity towards me: overriding my (as SD) decent treatment of you.
But now, I (as representative member of humanity) will decently act in a wise fashion towards you: overruling your (as HA) austere sense of equanimity.
WTF is he talking about? He got a patent for this nonsense? Basically all he has tried to do is make a list of these weird responses. It tells you what the A.I. is supposed to react like, but not how you go about making an A.I. that "decently acts in a wise fashion toward you".
This has little to do with ethics and even less to do with A.I. The claims in the article are preposterous. I bet real philosophers have codified human ethics a lot better than him, ages ago.
This is the stupidest patent I've ever heard about.
Well I'm european and the way I see it, I'm glad if I have MORE rights rather than less.
Just because the american institution looks a certain way, doesn't mean that other countries can't give their people the rights they want. Of course some rights are older and more important than others, but they continue to be so even if you add newer ones.
It's amusing to see all the bashing of this estonian decision. The immediate reaction that this must absolutely be a negative thing by so many people is quite a reminder of how different mentalities are on the other side of the pond.
Clearly, Estonia means this as a positive thing. They are trying to increase the quality of life in Estonia?
What's to be upset about? It's not like people are saying that freedom of speech isn't important anymore.
If you read american news, americans are always first at everything.
It's no use trying to correct this, because people are so used to it, that they simply wont believe you.
This would be a historic discovery -- the first detection of a prebiotic molecule in an extrasolar planet," Cristiano Cosmovici, of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science in Rome, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.
Obviously a fake name and a troll article. I mean, c'mon, Mr Cosmovisci from the Cosmic institute? He could be called Mr. Troll Trollbert for all I care.
I fucking hate that because it is ALWAYS like that, and the incredibly fucking dumb americans believe it all. That's why they are such stupid fucking idiot patriots because they are fed this bullshit every single day.
Facts? Oh, forget that, let's be patriots!
Europeans DON'T think like that and normally feel good about giving credit where credit is due. Except the french. Maybe.
Yes but it is not a REAL server, it is just used for the basic stuff. Remember when the old games like doom used to freeze and say "synchronizing"?
That, my friend, means that someone playing had to catch up with the rest of ppl playing. In quake you would see a player "dancing" when he was severely lagged, in a p2p system the same lag completely halts the game, as there is no real server.
I remember that, but later, well, even John Carmack got booted:
<I>A few of us took a couple days off in vegas this weekend. After about ten hours at the tables over friday and saturday, I got a tap on the shoulder...
Three men in dark suits introduced themselves and explained that I was welcome to play any other game in the casino, but I am not allowed to play blackjack anymore.
Ah well, I guess my blackjack days are over. I was actually down a bit for the day when they booted me, but I made +$32k over five trips to vegas in the past two years or so.
I knew I would get kicked out sooner or later, because I don't play "safely". I sit at the same table for several hours, and I range my bets around 10 to 1.<I>
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I don't believe this.
To me it is obvious that after opening one of the doors the chance of winning is 1/2 no matter what door you choose.
It is just the same as if you were presented with a completely new set of doors (2 of them), of which one had a a prize behind it.
Chance has no way of knowing that there were three doors just a minute before, and that fact is completely irrelevant to the problem posed.
How can he own so many shares? O_o
<br>Wouldn't his percentage of the company have steadily decreased since it went public?
No, you are wrong. I live in Sweden and it's a well-known medical fact here that lack of light leads to depression, and suicide rates are much higher during the darkest periods here.
There is even something called light therapy for you, if you suffer from depression during winter.
I'm from sweden and I must say that this sucks.
.se domain name, you had to get a www.site.region.city.se.
It's just one more of those stupid swedish rules that hinders the marketplace. Like back in the day, you couldn't get a
Why can't they just leave the internet alone!
Stupid lawmakers.
Programmers are the stupidest people on the planet.
First they create tons of free software applications and then they complain when it's hard to find tech jobs.
Well, half the market has been eroded by your own software, stupid! You should've used your skills to make a living, not to destroy your own employment market!
You're asking for a girlfriend on Slashdot?
That is wrong on so many levels..
In Sweden a lot of people use mejl, instead of mail and sajt instead of site. They're pronounced just as the english word but the spelling is swedish. This is nothing special for the french. It's just a natural way to grow your own language that has been used for ages.
A lot of french words have been assimilated into swedish the same way. As an example, juice, which is a french word, can be spelled Jos.
And, oh, this has nothing to do with the Gulf War and freedom fries.
It's interesting to note that Windows can't become that much more advanced. It seems to me that it has reached a point were there isn't that much use in upgrading anymore. Like the word processor or web browser there aren't that many innovations people are longing for. Personally, I still use Win2k and I am quite happy with it. Given a choice, I even prefer it over XP.
At the same time, all Linux has to do is play catch up (becoming more user-friendly and so on) to seriously threaten Windows in the next few years. Being free, it is quite competitive.
I can only see Linux gaining territory in the future, while Windows has everything to loose. If Linux attains a critical mass where game developers start making games for it, I will probably switch. And I bet I wont miss Microsoft one bit.
Bill Gates has all the reasons in the world to feel threatened. I mean nobody expects to pay for any of the software you download anymore. The market is becoming increasingly eroded as it only takes one good free alternative for everybody to choose that one over the one that costs money..
Take a look at number 6.
It is clearly the goatse man!!
From his patent application:
WISDOM
Previously, you (as humanitarian authority) have austerely acted with equanimity towards me: overriding my (as SD) decent treatment of you.
But now, I (as representative member of humanity) will decently act in a wise fashion towards you: overruling your (as HA) austere sense of equanimity.
WTF is he talking about? He got a patent for this nonsense? Basically all he has tried to do is make a list of these weird responses. It tells you what the A.I. is supposed to react like, but not how you go about making an A.I. that "decently acts in a wise fashion toward you".
This has little to do with ethics and even less to do with A.I. The claims in the article are preposterous. I bet real philosophers have codified human ethics a lot better than him, ages ago.
This is the stupidest patent I've ever heard about.
When is this patent nonsense going to stop?
I mean, ethics, there is prior art for that right?
Maybe Sid Meier can now patent civilization.
wow! Americans sure like those conspiracy theories.
Just because the american institution looks a certain way, doesn't mean that other countries can't give their people the rights they want. Of course some rights are older and more important than others, but they continue to be so even if you add newer ones.
It's amusing to see all the bashing of this estonian decision. The immediate reaction that this must absolutely be a negative thing by so many people is quite a reminder of how different mentalities are on the other side of the pond.
Clearly, Estonia means this as a positive thing. They are trying to increase the quality of life in Estonia?
What's to be upset about? It's not like people are saying that freedom of speech isn't important anymore.
Going to space is severely overrated.
Just because space is so exiting in sci-fi doesn't mean it's actually that interesting in real life.
There are just rocks and gases out there, nothing to see or do really. move on to other things, and stop romanticising the big void.
Jews are white. Arabs are white.
Jesus was a jew.
He wasn't black, that's for sure.
I've been browsing through the X-Prize contestants and just realized how many people are going to die attempting this.
These people are crazy. I wonder if the crashes will even make the news.
It would be nice to have an mp3 player that you could travel with and continuosly download music to without having to dock it to a stationary PC.
other than that and multiplayer gaming, what cell phone applications possibly need this bandwidth?
They are having a hard time coming up with useful applications for current cell phones with gprs as it is.
If you read american news, americans are always first at everything. It's no use trying to correct this, because people are so used to it, that they simply wont believe you.
My God.. It's full of spam!
Seriously though, until robots can learn from seeing + hearing + touching just like a 2-year old can, they will just be computers with legs.
This would be a historic discovery -- the first detection of a prebiotic molecule in an extrasolar planet," Cristiano Cosmovici, of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science in Rome, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.
Obviously a fake name and a troll article. I mean, c'mon, Mr Cosmovisci from the Cosmic institute? He could be called Mr. Troll Trollbert for all I care.
CNN = pwned by Italian pranksters..
I fucking hate that because it is ALWAYS like that, and the incredibly fucking dumb americans believe it all. That's why they are such stupid fucking idiot patriots because they are fed this bullshit every single day.
Facts? Oh, forget that, let's be patriots!
Europeans DON'T think like that and normally feel good about giving credit where credit is due. Except the french. Maybe.
I doubt the licensees will write a completely new physics and/or multiplayer component.
What this means is that multiplayer shooters will basically suck in a lots of AAA games for 5-6 years after DOOM is released.
Unless of course you want to play solely on Epic engines and the like. And I, for one, don't.
Not being able to join a game in progress totally sucks on the internet, at least for shooters. A Listen/p2p server setup also sucks on the internet.
Bottomline: This makes baby jesus cry.
Our only hope is that Carmack fires the guy making the physics engine, and writes one himself, one that allows real multiplayer (like sof2 had).
Yes but it is not a REAL server, it is just used for the basic stuff. Remember when the old games like doom used to freeze and say "synchronizing"?
That, my friend, means that someone playing had to catch up with the rest of ppl playing. In quake you would see a player "dancing" when he was severely lagged, in a p2p system the same lag completely halts the game, as there is no real server.
I remember that, but later, well, even John Carmack got booted:
.plan file link. :/
<I>A few of us took a couple days off in vegas this weekend. After about
ten hours at the tables over friday and saturday, I got a tap on the shoulder...
Three men in dark suits introduced themselves and explained that I was welcome
to play any other game in the casino, but I am not allowed to play
blackjack anymore.
Ah well, I guess my blackjack days are over. I was actually down a bit for
the day when they booted me, but I made +$32k over five trips to vegas in the
past two years or so.
I knew I would get kicked out sooner or later, because I don't play "safely".
I sit at the same table for several hours, and I range my bets around 10 to 1.<I>
Sorry can't find the
Holy shit, at least your parents had a sense of humor!