I agree with Verteiron. This is NOT news. MIT has been doing work in this field since I was in high school in the mid to late 80's.
When I graduated in 89, MIT Robotics Group had already created a six legged robot that could learn to walk through a distributed reward based algorithm. I believe the robot was called attila.
Then in the early 90's they produced a couple new "generations" of these robots that could follow objects, seek shelter under chairs based on the shade (shadow) provided by the chair or table.
I don't see what the big deal is with this.
Typical Fox Noise and their pathetic journalists. At least they are reporting something cool, albeit late.
I understand the expense. I don't want all sorts of 'hub bub" about that.
Wouldn't it be handy to be able to use some of these naturally occurring spots within our solar system for experiments? Granted getting to these locations is tough and expensive, but that could be overcome with focus.
Then again societal focus has been missing from this country for about 30+ years.
I loved the photo of the mac laptop sitting on the Microsoft podium.
I'm sure this has NOTHING to do with the Economy.
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Lame, there goes a free mechanism to sell junk in my basement.
Taking it out on craigslist because they (eBay) upped their prices and fees due to the fact fewer people use them... Nice. It has nothing to do with all the discussions in the news about the US economy sucking wind is really squeezing families making less than $100K a year.
Please... We have been pumping out broadcasts for OVER 70 years at this point... I don't think what we are sending from SETI is NEARLY as damaging as "Desperate House Ho's", any old science fiction movie or just about anything from the television.
I can't believe people actually worry about this stuff.
Yeah, I expected this response, but that was more of a joke. In my area, the neighboring area code refers to mine as back woods red-necks so I expect people to understand that line as humor.
I am tired of "PC-ism". Call it like it is. So, you are correct was I making a negative generalization? Yes. Do I think negative generalizations are a bad idea? Yes. Do I think we should be able to make use of them in humor? Yes.
I think the important part is the simple fact that this idiot (Oliver) killed a man because he was afraid. In fact, I bet this ass actually knew Dodele and may have been friendly with him till he "discovered" him on the sex offender registry. Being the moron that he is didn't bother to research any farther and just assumed "he's a pedophile, he must be, he's on the sex offender site. I got ta get me a gun."
So, pick your poison. Pick on someone because they are using a negative generalization for humor or actually not comment on that, see it as the humor part of my comment and make a comment of REAL substance about the person (Oliver) and his actions.
"A neighbor of Oliver's said that two days before the killing, he "told every house" in the trailer park that he found Dodele's name listed on the Web site of convicted sexual offenders, and was uncomfortable living near him."
That should explain it. ("in the trailer park")
He obviously didn't read WHY Dodele was in the registry, just saw his (Dodele's) name and thought "I gotta get my Gun.".
Here's another quote out of the article, this one from Oliver... "Society may see the action I took as unacceptable in the eyes of 'normal' people," Oliver said. "I felt that by not taking evasive action as a father in the right direction, I might as well have taken my child to some swamp filled with alligators and had them tear him to pieces. It's no different."
Uhm, YES it is DIFFERENT!!! If Oliver the Ass would have read the site more closely he would have realized that in FACT, Dodele was NOT a child molester but convicted of assaulting adult women. Which is heinous but meant that he had to pay closer attention to his wife (if she lived with him) than his son.
A more accurate statement for him to have said would be... It's like living next to Glenn Quagmire from the cartoon TV show Family Guy.
If we can get to the point of real-time ray-tracing then the movie industry will have to really push even farther beyond that. What would be next? I mean Pixar, Dreamworks, etc. already do an incredible job with the realism. In fact for a couple years (at least) they have had to scale back to give it a more "cartoon" feel otherwise they could push it to a very good level of realism that sharp eyes could catch but most wouldn't.
I guess my real question is what's next for the movie industry? What would they have to do to exceed the game industry?
I agree and am concerned for the pigeons that are being opened up like this. I am also concerned about the diabolical possibilities for this.
BUT
There is an up side. If the pigeons were controlled in a city, they could be "potty trained". Meaning, a city wide computer system could track them and force them to put their droppings in one location. That excrement could then used by chemical companies. Of course if this system were hacked they then could be forced to put their droppings on a person, place or thing... Oh well, there's always something bad that can be done with a good.
Additionally, I say do this to cats... They never listen anyway...:-D Yes, I am a cat owner, I just wish i could get the two of them to go to the bathroom in the toilet... Oh well..
First off, this is an article that is almost a year old.
Secondly, while the logic "sounds" good it doesn't prove or show anything. It simply shows the architectures are very different. Big Deal!
So, Ford Escort and a Toyota Corolla are architecturally different, does that mean that we can say one is safer or faster than the other? No. It means they are different. So, they have to be evaluated as a whole.
Which ever is easier to hack. Which ever is faster at posting a web page... That's pretty much all that matters for this comparison.
Just because Windows has a very abstracted design doesn't make it any more or less secure than Linux.
Oh and I use linux! Why because I KNOW how to secure it. To be honest, I am not nearly as confident at securing a windows 2k3 server than a linux box. That is the real point, a few people who posted to that article indicated the same things.
These comparisons are so stupid. Oh look, I made cute little pictures, these prove one is better than the other. Well, my daughter make cute pictures too.
Oh here we go, I'll have my daughter draw a picture of Linux, Windows and hell, I'll have her draw a mac on a third and depending on which picture looks best indicates which OS is better.
you know... Silly string doesn't just disappear after you have sprayed it out of a can. It wouldn't be hard for insurgents to see the left over silly string and figure it out. I am not saying that these posts can't tip off insurgents but seriously... That's as bad as Newt saying we need to "curb" Freedom of Speech on the internet and media to protect our troops. There are more leaks in our government then there should be.
I think it's brilliant and clever, more power to our troops and their creative ways to protect themselves. Lord knows our government isn't as focused on their protection as they should be.
I thought the ad campaign was brilliant. The depiction of the mac and the pc were perfect. I don't think that Justin Log (Mac) was ever "sleazy", I thought it fit perfectly with EVERY mac user I know. The mac users I know (over two dozen) are all the "hip" style types. They have the perfect trendy outfit and have their own style or twist to what ever they do. They are the "artsy" types.
The same can be said (IMO) for the depiction of the PC. As a PC user and an occassional mac user I couldn't agree more with the ads. THAT is what is SO funny about them. It's TRUE. Most of my work and play is on a PC. It has more problems more often then the mac AND I still continue to use it. Why? because there are more out there. That IS where most of the economy of software development is. I don't mean for Mac users to get bent about that comment but it's a simple fact. FAR more windows based PCs are in use for "work related" things then macs. It's that simple. ALL of my mac user friends are Graphic Designers, PR people, or in some Printing Publishing industry. Yes, All of them.
I think the campaign was brilliant, I will be sorry to see Justin leave as the Mac but my hope is that they will continue and find someone equally appropriate to depict the mac. They (PC and Mac) are very funny.
As for YouTube satirizations? How is that ever a bad thing?
Personally, I was driving around about 3-4 years ago up here in Rochester, NY when we had that huge blackout. Exactly what I expected would happen did happen...
without power ALL of the massively inefficient electric devices STOPPED. In doing so, they stopped producing massive amounts of heat. All of those building AC units, all the electric motors, and a plethora of other devices.
I was trapped in bumper to bumper traffic because people in this country get all freaked out and impatient. So, they don't handle the the whole "when the traffic light is out treat it as an all way stop" thing.
In any event, I watched the temperature on a bank display. In the course of about 30 minutes it drop about 5-7 degrees and the wind picked up. Additionally, it was much quiter. It was wonderful. I am not saying we should just drop all technology. I am simply saying that most of our devices are incredibly inefficient and it seems obvious what would happen on this planet if all humans just vanished from the face of the Earth is very straight forward.
The temperature would start to drop, dramatically. The wind would pick up and in a matter of a few years the Earth would start to reclaim the spaces we used to inhabit.
I disagree with the article in one area. I don't think it would take tens of thousands of years. I think it would happen MUCH faster then that.
I read the article, looked like nothing more then a bunch of people seeking self importance and ego's arguing.
The quotes you included are part of what irritated me. It's almost like Brown gloating... "I won, I'm the smartest. UB313, the dwarf planet *I* found is the *biggest*, ha ha..."
Very stupid.
To most of us, it really doesn't mean a damn thing. I do, however, understand wanting to have a classification system that is consistent but Pluto has satellites of it's own. That makes it a planet in my book. That, however is my "uninformed" opinion.
Ok, lets turn this around on you, because you can't seem to grasp the concept of freedom and not interfering with the choices of others. Isn't that God's thing anyway? Freedom of CHOICE?
So, if you think it (abortion) should be banned (thats what you sound like), then here.
If some southern "red-state" (or other state) father rapes his daughter and gets her pregnant. First that's incest and very wrong but don't you think she deserves the right to an abortion... OR If someone rapes a woman and she becomes pregnant by that violent and viscious act... Don't you think she deserves the RIGHT to an abortion?
And if you're *so* against MURDER.... Then what are your thoughts about all the civilians we murdered attacking Iraq, the civilians murdered in Israel and Lebanon? Or is THAT "somehow" different?
Freaking anti-abortion people are SO hypocritical. You narrow and needle down on ONE TINY thing and don't take the bigger picture in.
Supporters of the "war on terror" are supporters of MURDER. Calateral damange that causes death is STILL MURDER. SO, if you want to be anti-abortion you'd better be anti-war TOO.
Oh and why do YOU "pretend" to care? You're more interested in somehow being "right" then being honest.
See that is PART of the problem... Instead of seeing it as, that is his right to think that abortion is wrong and that if he gets a woman pregnant whether by planning or accident, abortion is NOT an option for HIM. Does NOT mean that he thinks others shouldn't have the right to make their own decisions.
Why do YOU want to control what OTHERS do? Why do YOU feel you have that "right"? You DON't! God gave us FREE WILL!!! Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone!
and in FACT he was apart of a revolution in games. What's so revolutionary about most games these days. They depend on hardware to do much of the same thing as older games.
We still have... first person shooters (been there done that now a days we just have "juicier" games BFD) RTS games (same old same old, just "prettier") and this goes for MOST if not ALL of the games.
Nothing really exciting except that fact that we have better graphics, actors doing voices, and movies turned into games.
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I agree with Verteiron. This is NOT news. MIT has been doing work in this field since I was in high school in the mid to late 80's.
When I graduated in 89, MIT Robotics Group had already created a six legged robot that could learn to walk through a distributed reward based algorithm. I believe the robot was called attila.
Then in the early 90's they produced a couple new "generations" of these robots that could follow objects, seek shelter under chairs based on the shade (shadow) provided by the chair or table.
I don't see what the big deal is with this.
Typical Fox Noise and their pathetic journalists. At least they are reporting something cool, albeit late.
I understand the expense. I don't want all sorts of 'hub bub" about that.
Wouldn't it be handy to be able to use some of these naturally occurring spots within our solar system for experiments? Granted getting to these locations is tough and expensive, but that could be overcome with focus.
Then again societal focus has been missing from this country for about 30+ years.
It looks like a giant tick to me.
"SPOON!!!"
I loved the photo of the mac laptop sitting on the Microsoft podium.
Lame, there goes a free mechanism to sell junk in my basement.
Taking it out on craigslist because they (eBay) upped their prices and fees due to the fact fewer people use them... Nice. It has nothing to do with all the discussions in the news about the US economy sucking wind is really squeezing families making less than $100K a year.
Please...
They don't NEED more taxes NOR do they deserve them.
"They" referencing the Government.
At this point they have proved themselves to be so incapable of managing money that they should take a page from business.
Lay off government employees, cut salaries, and most importantly cut the damn salaries of State and Federal Officials.
Legislators in our wonderful state of NY (sarcasm intended) make a starting Salary of about $80K...
I bet if more middle class and lower class Americans knew that... There would be a huge stink...
They don't deserve more taxes. I don't mind paying taxes but this is ridiculous.
~GO
Please... We have been pumping out broadcasts for OVER 70 years at this point... I don't think what we are sending from SETI is NEARLY as damaging as "Desperate House Ho's", any old science fiction movie or just about anything from the television.
I can't believe people actually worry about this stuff.
~GO
Will they provide me with a powerful enough computer to run Vista Ultimate?
~GO
Yeah, I expected this response, but that was more of a joke. In my area, the neighboring area code refers to mine as back woods red-necks so I expect people to understand that line as humor.
I am tired of "PC-ism". Call it like it is. So, you are correct was I making a negative generalization? Yes. Do I think negative generalizations are a bad idea? Yes. Do I think we should be able to make use of them in humor? Yes.
I think the important part is the simple fact that this idiot (Oliver) killed a man because he was afraid. In fact, I bet this ass actually knew Dodele and may have been friendly with him till he "discovered" him on the sex offender registry. Being the moron that he is didn't bother to research any farther and just assumed "he's a pedophile, he must be, he's on the sex offender site. I got ta get me a gun."
So, pick your poison. Pick on someone because they are using a negative generalization for humor or actually not comment on that, see it as the humor part of my comment and make a comment of REAL substance about the person (Oliver) and his actions.
But.
"A neighbor of Oliver's said that two days before the killing, he "told every house" in the trailer park that he found Dodele's name listed on the Web site of convicted sexual offenders, and was uncomfortable living near him."
That should explain it. ("in the trailer park")
He obviously didn't read WHY Dodele was in the registry, just saw his (Dodele's) name and thought "I gotta get my Gun.".
Here's another quote out of the article, this one from Oliver...
"Society may see the action I took as unacceptable in the eyes of 'normal' people," Oliver said. "I felt that by not taking evasive action as a father in the right direction, I might as well have taken my child to some swamp filled with alligators and had them tear him to pieces. It's no different."
Uhm, YES it is DIFFERENT!!! If Oliver the Ass would have read the site more closely he would have realized that in FACT, Dodele was NOT a child molester but convicted of assaulting adult women. Which is heinous but meant that he had to pay closer attention to his wife (if she lived with him) than his son.
A more accurate statement for him to have said would be... It's like living next to Glenn Quagmire from the cartoon TV show Family Guy.
What the impact on the movie industry would be...
If we can get to the point of real-time ray-tracing then the movie industry will have to really push even farther beyond that. What would be next? I mean Pixar, Dreamworks, etc. already do an incredible job with the realism. In fact for a couple years (at least) they have had to scale back to give it a more "cartoon" feel otherwise they could push it to a very good level of realism that sharp eyes could catch but most wouldn't.
I guess my real question is what's next for the movie industry? What would they have to do to exceed the game industry?
'P.S. Watch the "abstinence only" crowd use this as ammunition: "See! Smart teenagers choose abstinence!"'
Yeah, but wouldn't the implication be that group is on the other end of the spectrum? They didn't chose to abstain, they followed like sheep...
~GO
Personally, if there is anyone that has the right to bitch and gripe about Micro$ofts claims it would be him (Linus Torvalds).
~GO
I agree and am concerned for the pigeons that are being opened up like this. I am also concerned about the diabolical possibilities for this.
:-D Yes, I am a cat owner, I just wish i could get the two of them to go to the bathroom in the toilet... Oh well..
BUT
There is an up side. If the pigeons were controlled in a city, they could be "potty trained". Meaning, a city wide computer system could track them and force them to put their droppings in one location. That excrement could then used by chemical companies. Of course if this system were hacked they then could be forced to put their droppings on a person, place or thing... Oh well, there's always something bad that can be done with a good.
Additionally, I say do this to cats... They never listen anyway...
~GO
This is just like the guy busted in CT for photographing the police. It's a classic abuse of power.
And the idiots of this country still think Bush is doing a good job and the Patriot Act is a good thing as well.
Go figure.
~GO
First off, this is an article that is almost a year old.
Secondly, while the logic "sounds" good it doesn't prove or show anything. It simply shows the architectures are very different. Big Deal!
So, Ford Escort and a Toyota Corolla are architecturally different, does that mean that we can say one is safer or faster than the other? No. It means they are different. So, they have to be evaluated as a whole.
Which ever is easier to hack. Which ever is faster at posting a web page... That's pretty much all that matters for this comparison.
Just because Windows has a very abstracted design doesn't make it any more or less secure than Linux.
Oh and I use linux! Why because I KNOW how to secure it. To be honest, I am not nearly as confident at securing a windows 2k3 server than a linux box. That is the real point, a few people who posted to that article indicated the same things.
These comparisons are so stupid. Oh look, I made cute little pictures, these prove one is better than the other. Well, my daughter make cute pictures too.
Oh here we go, I'll have my daughter draw a picture of Linux, Windows and hell, I'll have her draw a mac on a third and depending on which picture looks best indicates which OS is better.
!GO
you know... Silly string doesn't just disappear after you have sprayed it out of a can. It wouldn't be hard for insurgents to see the left over silly string and figure it out. I am not saying that these posts can't tip off insurgents but seriously... That's as bad as Newt saying we need to "curb" Freedom of Speech on the internet and media to protect our troops. There are more leaks in our government then there should be.
I think it's brilliant and clever, more power to our troops and their creative ways to protect themselves. Lord knows our government isn't as focused on their protection as they should be.
I thought the ad campaign was brilliant. The depiction of the mac and the pc were perfect. I don't think that Justin Log (Mac) was ever "sleazy", I thought it fit perfectly with EVERY mac user I know. The mac users I know (over two dozen) are all the "hip" style types. They have the perfect trendy outfit and have their own style or twist to what ever they do. They are the "artsy" types.
The same can be said (IMO) for the depiction of the PC. As a PC user and an occassional mac user I couldn't agree more with the ads. THAT is what is SO funny about them. It's TRUE. Most of my work and play is on a PC. It has more problems more often then the mac AND I still continue to use it. Why? because there are more out there. That IS where most of the economy of software development is. I don't mean for Mac users to get bent about that comment but it's a simple fact. FAR more windows based PCs are in use for "work related" things then macs. It's that simple. ALL of my mac user friends are Graphic Designers, PR people, or in some Printing Publishing industry. Yes, All of them.
I think the campaign was brilliant, I will be sorry to see Justin leave as the Mac but my hope is that they will continue and find someone equally appropriate to depict the mac. They (PC and Mac) are very funny.
As for YouTube satirizations? How is that ever a bad thing?
Even Negative publicity is good PR...
Personally, I was driving around about 3-4 years ago up here in Rochester, NY when we had that huge blackout. Exactly what I expected would happen did happen...
without power ALL of the massively inefficient electric devices STOPPED. In doing so, they stopped producing massive amounts of heat. All of those building AC units, all the electric motors, and a plethora of other devices.
I was trapped in bumper to bumper traffic because people in this country get all freaked out and impatient. So, they don't handle the the whole "when the traffic light is out treat it as an all way stop" thing.
In any event, I watched the temperature on a bank display. In the course of about 30 minutes it drop about 5-7 degrees and the wind picked up. Additionally, it was much quiter. It was wonderful. I am not saying we should just drop all technology. I am simply saying that most of our devices are incredibly inefficient and it seems obvious what would happen on this planet if all humans just vanished from the face of the Earth is very straight forward.
The temperature would start to drop, dramatically. The wind would pick up and in a matter of a few years the Earth would start to reclaim the spaces we used to inhabit.
I disagree with the article in one area. I don't think it would take tens of thousands of years. I think it would happen MUCH faster then that.
That's my two or three cents.
I read the article, looked like nothing more then a bunch of people seeking self importance and ego's arguing.
The quotes you included are part of what irritated me. It's almost like Brown gloating... "I won, I'm the smartest. UB313, the dwarf planet *I* found is the *biggest*, ha ha..."
Very stupid.
To most of us, it really doesn't mean a damn thing. I do, however, understand wanting to have a classification system that is consistent but Pluto has satellites of it's own. That makes it a planet in my book. That, however is my "uninformed" opinion.
Thank you again... Very clearly put...
Excellently put! :)
Ok, lets turn this around on you, because you can't seem to grasp the concept of freedom and not interfering with the choices of others. Isn't that God's thing anyway? Freedom of CHOICE?
So, if you think it (abortion) should be banned (thats what you sound like), then here.
If some southern "red-state" (or other state) father rapes his daughter and gets her pregnant. First that's incest and very wrong but don't you think she deserves the right to an abortion...
OR
If someone rapes a woman and she becomes pregnant by that violent and viscious act... Don't you think she deserves the RIGHT to an abortion?
And if you're *so* against MURDER.... Then what are your thoughts about all the civilians we murdered attacking Iraq, the civilians murdered in Israel and Lebanon? Or is THAT "somehow" different?
Freaking anti-abortion people are SO hypocritical. You narrow and needle down on ONE TINY thing and don't take the bigger picture in.
Supporters of the "war on terror" are supporters of MURDER. Calateral damange that causes death is STILL MURDER. SO, if you want to be anti-abortion you'd better be anti-war TOO.
Oh and why do YOU "pretend" to care? You're more interested in somehow being "right" then being honest.
See that is PART of the problem... Instead of seeing it as, that is his right to think that abortion is wrong and that if he gets a woman pregnant whether by planning or accident, abortion is NOT an option for HIM. Does NOT mean that he thinks others shouldn't have the right to make their own decisions.
Why do YOU want to control what OTHERS do? Why do YOU feel you have that "right"? You DON't! God gave us FREE WILL!!! Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone!
Most Christians seem to forget that one!
in practice, the human element screws it up.
and in FACT he was apart of a revolution in games. What's so revolutionary about most games these days. They depend on hardware to do much of the same thing as older games.
...
We still have
first person shooters (been there done that now a days we just have "juicier" games BFD)
RTS games (same old same old, just "prettier")
and this goes for MOST if not ALL of the games.
Nothing really exciting except that fact that we have better graphics, actors doing voices, and movies turned into games.