Me too! I had one, except no external drive. I remember much fast forwarding and rewinding all over the tape to get to specific bits of my terrible handmade drawing program to load...
FYI, the guy who made harrier attack just released a 3D version a few months ago. It seems a bit of a mad idea, but I wish him well. Durrell Software, remember that?: http://www.durellgames.com/
I have my HTC Tytn next to me and it's the most irritating phone I've ever had. I'd very much doubt that WM6 somehow fixes in one generation what they couldn't fix in the other 5.
Because Google is providing great value for readers. I always start my newsreading from Google News - it's the best place to see what's happening around the world. I had a few online papers on my list before it came along - now I'm reading news from China, Russia, Belgium, wherever.
So do right by the readers, get rewarded for it. The papers sound a bit like the music industry to me - trying to push water uphill.
Two weeks after I got my HTC Tytn I heard about the iPhone, and much sadness covered the earth. After 5 generations, Windows on a phone is still unbelievably crap. There is NO way the iPhone would be let out the door unless it was significantly better than this thing.
So the I think the function part will be better too!
I use Programmer Dvorak. It's definitely more comfortable (for me) but there are some disadvantages. You have to install it on any computer you want to use, OR remember QWERTY. Also, last time I checked he had no Apple support, so if I ever move to an Apple I have to make the layout myself. I can use vanilla Dvorak too, so that's at least a good stopgap.
Once, I moved to a new computer and he'd taken down his PD page for a bit. I nearly had a freakout! I now have the Windows and Linux installs buried deep in various places, just in case.
Just a matter of time before The Wrong Person gets hold of one of these! Then we have to make Machine Gun Sentry Robot Eater Robots, and then Machine Gun Sentry Robot Eater Robots Eater Robots, and then...
I dunno. As a programmer, I didn't feel comfortable with IE7 and if I'm not getting it my grandma is going to have to up her meds to use it. I'm surprised, and maybe I'll figure it out soon, but it took me a lot of work to uninstall and I'm not biting again until I hear some joy from friends.
The first problem is what we're expecting from "AI". Don't expect Cyc to do everything and be the one true answer. Also, don't expect that the people who made it think it's for that either. It's a building block, a tool, and if we're ever to make computers behave more intelligently we'll need more than one of these tools.
Cyc's value is proportional to the amount of uses it has, and the effectiveness of those uses. Now we have a line in the sand - we have a database of painstakingly constructed logical inferences - and opening up a subset is a great way to enable uses to emerge. Applications the original designers couldn't have thought of, can now be created.
When I first heard about Cyc, about 10ish years ago, I thought it was destined to be limited. But so will all individual techniques or tools in computer reasoning, and that does not mean that each has no value.
"As I've said before, most people don't actually buy Windows. They buy Dell, Gateway, HP, Lenovo, or whatever. Windows is just something that comes along with it."
Really? If you had to replace most peoples' Windows with something else, I'm pretty sure they'd be foaming at the mouth within minutes, far more than if you changed their hardware.
All they have to do is hang on as more people join the net and use search, and they'll grow just fine, up to...oh, 6ish billion people. As long as people stick with them in search they're okay, because it's a key to so many other things.
I guess it doesn't work for you, but it sure works for me. I've used it to subscribe to all sorts of public calendars (holidays in my country, open source meetings in my area, mountain biking, etc), view them with my own, and share a useful one with friends. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to stop me using Yahoo's calendar.
I think every journalist spouting an opinion should put some significant money on it. That'll add an edge to the discussion, and likely produce opinions we can trust more.
I think the fact that I have to understand all those things to understand the idea indicates something is amiss. You had me at 11 dimensions - I think Occam is still sharpening his Razor.
...which is $500ish now. Nobody seems to be whining about that starting price (because it's lower than the $1k BluRay), but for the same price you can get the cheaper PS3. So you don't have HDMI - most people who can afford a TV that's big enough to warrant the HDMI cable would be able to afford the extra $100 for the bigger PS3.
You want a problem to whine about? Well...how about that MS now has to sell games on DVD to support the base platform, and HD-DVD to make the addon drive useful and for anything with more than a DVD's content. You want to swap DVD's each time you change levels? For the game developers, they now have a media problem - choose between DVD or HD-DVD, or both? How much content to put on? One huge benefit of consoles - they just work, and developers know what to develop for. Sony has that. MS...less so. +1 for the hard drive issue. And for the people whining about the 20Gig, isn't that the same size as the BIGGER 360? It's for saving games and some content, and at least the developers know they have a drive in there.
Um...Sony can. They're propping up a console system, AND the next generation of DVD, the benefits of which they'll get until the media generation after that. They're taking some strain now but nowhere near dangerous levels, and the potential (and becoming more likely) benefits are huge.
It's not "the price"...it's "the starting price". Some people have said that MS came in too cheap in the beginning and that amplified their supply/demand issues. They got first-mover, but gave the other guys the opportunity to peg prices above or below them. For Sony, the initial price is just a starting point that they KNOW they can charge. After spending that much cash developing the thing, you can bet they've done a bit more research than asking/. what the price should be.
The controller? The Wii is going to have the best controller experience and pull a lot of non-gamers into the market with very innovative games, so they'll make their money. However, the PS3 controller move does this: 1) Blunt the Wii attack just enough; to many people in a store, they can say "we have that too", even if it's not as good. Hardcore gamers want their proven controller, with improvements, not a TV controller that plays tennis. 2) Make the 360 the only kid on the block using an old-style controller.
I've never bought a console, but I want a PS3. It's too cool and it has a blue ray player built in. I expect some serious stuff once developers start getting to grips with the 720 (360 performance x 2:p ) and get tweaking ideas from each others' games. let's see how the next few years pan out.
So: Nintendo: some gamers and many families. 360: Upper-mid range gamers, Halo lovers, and people who want to extend their MediaPC's on the cheap. Sony: initially the guys who buy Alienware and want a blue ray player, and as the price goes down anyone who wants the best - what XBox was in the last generation, but much more so.
One other thing - XBox came out AFTER the PS2, but the 360 came out BEFORE the PS3. I think MS will be planning something sneaky 2/3 of the way down this generation.
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Seriously. I can suck up as many plain-text pages as my heart desires. South Africa FTW.
Me too! I had one, except no external drive. I remember much fast forwarding and rewinding all over the tape to get to specific bits of my terrible handmade drawing program to load...
FYI, the guy who made harrier attack just released a 3D version a few months ago. It seems a bit of a mad idea, but I wish him well. Durrell Software, remember that?:
http://www.durellgames.com/
I have my HTC Tytn next to me and it's the most irritating phone I've ever had. I'd very much doubt that WM6 somehow fixes in one generation what they couldn't fix in the other 5.
Because Google is providing great value for readers. I always start my newsreading from Google News - it's the best place to see what's happening around the world. I had a few online papers on my list before it came along - now I'm reading news from China, Russia, Belgium, wherever.
So do right by the readers, get rewarded for it. The papers sound a bit like the music industry to me - trying to push water uphill.
Two weeks after I got my HTC Tytn I heard about the iPhone, and much sadness covered the earth. After 5 generations, Windows on a phone is still unbelievably crap. There is NO way the iPhone would be let out the door unless it was significantly better than this thing.
So the I think the function part will be better too!
I use Programmer Dvorak. It's definitely more comfortable (for me) but there are some disadvantages. You have to install it on any computer you want to use, OR remember QWERTY. Also, last time I checked he had no Apple support, so if I ever move to an Apple I have to make the layout myself. I can use vanilla Dvorak too, so that's at least a good stopgap.
Once, I moved to a new computer and he'd taken down his PD page for a bit. I nearly had a freakout! I now have the Windows and Linux installs buried deep in various places, just in case.
Just a matter of time before The Wrong Person gets hold of one of these! Then we have to make Machine Gun Sentry Robot Eater Robots, and then Machine Gun Sentry Robot Eater Robots Eater Robots, and then...
I dunno. As a programmer, I didn't feel comfortable with IE7 and if I'm not getting it my grandma is going to have to up her meds to use it. I'm surprised, and maybe I'll figure it out soon, but it took me a lot of work to uninstall and I'm not biting again until I hear some joy from friends.
"AJAX is fundamentally a bad idea. It's an attempt to use a web browser and http for something they were never designed to do"
Electrons were never designed to do half the stuff we're using them for.
The first problem is what we're expecting from "AI". Don't expect Cyc to do everything and be the one true answer. Also, don't expect that the people who made it think it's for that either. It's a building block, a tool, and if we're ever to make computers behave more intelligently we'll need more than one of these tools.
Cyc's value is proportional to the amount of uses it has, and the effectiveness of those uses. Now we have a line in the sand - we have a database of painstakingly constructed logical inferences - and opening up a subset is a great way to enable uses to emerge. Applications the original designers couldn't have thought of, can now be created.
When I first heard about Cyc, about 10ish years ago, I thought it was destined to be limited. But so will all individual techniques or tools in computer reasoning, and that does not mean that each has no value.
"As I've said before, most people don't actually buy Windows. They buy Dell, Gateway, HP, Lenovo, or whatever. Windows is just something that comes along with it."
Really? If you had to replace most peoples' Windows with something else, I'm pretty sure they'd be foaming at the mouth within minutes, far more than if you changed their hardware.
Is anything stopping people from putting their PS3 games on DVD if they don't need the space of the Blu Ray disk?
All they have to do is hang on as more people join the net and use search, and they'll grow just fine, up to...oh, 6ish billion people. As long as people stick with them in search they're okay, because it's a key to so many other things.
I guess it doesn't work for you, but it sure works for me. I've used it to subscribe to all sorts of public calendars (holidays in my country, open source meetings in my area, mountain biking, etc), view them with my own, and share a useful one with friends. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to stop me using Yahoo's calendar.
I think every journalist spouting an opinion should put some significant money on it. That'll add an edge to the discussion, and likely produce opinions we can trust more.
I think the fact that I have to understand all those things to understand the idea indicates something is amiss. You had me at 11 dimensions - I think Occam is still sharpening his Razor.
So stop reading those threads - go read something else, it's your choice.
You date girls that want to go to bed with you because of your car? :)
...which is $500ish now. Nobody seems to be whining about that starting price (because it's lower than the $1k BluRay), but for the same price you can get the cheaper PS3. So you don't have HDMI - most people who can afford a TV that's big enough to warrant the HDMI cable would be able to afford the extra $100 for the bigger PS3.
You want a problem to whine about? Well...how about that MS now has to sell games on DVD to support the base platform, and HD-DVD to make the addon drive useful and for anything with more than a DVD's content. You want to swap DVD's each time you change levels? For the game developers, they now have a media problem - choose between DVD or HD-DVD, or both? How much content to put on? One huge benefit of consoles - they just work, and developers know what to develop for. Sony has that. MS...less so. +1 for the hard drive issue. And for the people whining about the 20Gig, isn't that the same size as the BIGGER 360? It's for saving games and some content, and at least the developers know they have a drive in there.
Um...Sony can. They're propping up a console system, AND the next generation of DVD, the benefits of which they'll get until the media generation after that. They're taking some strain now but nowhere near dangerous levels, and the potential (and becoming more likely) benefits are huge.
It's not "the price"...it's "the starting price". Some people have said that MS came in too cheap in the beginning and that amplified their supply/demand issues. They got first-mover, but gave the other guys the opportunity to peg prices above or below them. For Sony, the initial price is just a starting point that they KNOW they can charge. After spending that much cash developing the thing, you can bet they've done a bit more research than asking /. what the price should be.
:p ) and get tweaking ideas from each others' games. let's see how the next few years pan out.
The controller? The Wii is going to have the best controller experience and pull a lot of non-gamers into the market with very innovative games, so they'll make their money. However, the PS3 controller move does this:
1) Blunt the Wii attack just enough; to many people in a store, they can say "we have that too", even if it's not as good. Hardcore gamers want their proven controller, with improvements, not a TV controller that plays tennis.
2) Make the 360 the only kid on the block using an old-style controller.
I've never bought a console, but I want a PS3. It's too cool and it has a blue ray player built in. I expect some serious stuff once developers start getting to grips with the 720 (360 performance x 2
So:
Nintendo: some gamers and many families.
360: Upper-mid range gamers, Halo lovers, and people who want to extend their MediaPC's on the cheap.
Sony: initially the guys who buy Alienware and want a blue ray player, and as the price goes down anyone who wants the best - what XBox was in the last generation, but much more so.
One other thing - XBox came out AFTER the PS2, but the 360 came out BEFORE the PS3. I think MS will be planning something sneaky 2/3 of the way down this generation.