Your kernel analogy is a good one, but not perfect: the brain is learning which neurons to fire by observing what happens when it does. This kernel, then, would learn to (say) print to a new printer by having the operator type in which character was just printed. Or OCR via a scanner, or use multipls inputs to vote for the true outcome, when there are conflicting inputs.
Your points apply equally well for development solely within a company. Detailed specs and managed expectations are critical to the success of any project involving more than one person.
You'd forgotten your password; I think she was right to suggest you not tax yourself.
Given that you were going to change it right away, why not give the lady a break and have her set it to "password", rather than giving her a lecture she wouldn't have given a rat's arse about?
You're a dick. The question was about ways to conserve bandwidth by not sending a seperate stream to each user. How you got to soap-boxing about renting music is anyone's guess.
Anyway, back to the subject: for live feeds it's easy to multicast, because there's no time shifting. For on-demand streams (say of news updates or whatever) I can't see a way to mulitcast because everyone's listening to a different point in time. Perhaps a Akaimi type solution is the best idea with current tech.
Well, that was their plan, but the guy's term ended before he could vote (for the GST).
Dang, his name is on the tip of my fingers. Quite a forgetable little shit from Tasmania. Drove a fucked up car, and had some really warped morals. Damn independants stuffing up our lovable two part system.
.com.au is in a far better status than.com- only registered businesses can apply for a.com.au, and only one domain per business name. That's the way it should be, IMHO.
And what's ~ $70 AU / year to a legitimate business for a domain name? If one's internet budget can't cover that, then don't bother trying to put your business on the net, you'll only degrade your name.
Not a business? So why do you want a commercial domain? Personal.au domains are free, you know.
One of the better uses I've seen in the vein of the yellow down line used in American Football to show the down, is in swimming. They add a line that moves at the speed of the current world record- so if a swimmer stays in front of that line, they've broken the record.
It adds a lot of excitement, instead of watching the clock, you see the swimmers fingers just behind, or in front of the record. No confirmation, but I think they'll by using it in Sydney at the Olympics.
Obviously this tech could be be ported to a lot of other sports. A line in the sand for long / triple jump, a moving line for running track races, ghost cars in motor sport, etc. Adding ads is boring; adding value by showing records I think is very interesting- it effectively combines many events / races into one, if we can see the best result everyone's trying to beat.
From what I understand of beanbag rounds, they're classed "non-lethal"- in that they are still quite likely to injure someone, just not kill them. Obviously using a normal round but targeted in a non critical area (say a kneecap shot) is also going to cause a serious injury. And with jareds example criminal conversation, it seems that any armed robot can't exist in Asimov's rules.
At this stage in the game, I'd much rather robots carried no duties that are likely to be dangerous to humans. However, when we reach a time when it would be possible, perhaps it would be better to replace Asimov's laws with the real laws of the state, and class the robot as an individual under those laws.
This way, the robot could protect the bank vault- and if the robber threatened injury, then it could pop it a few. If the robot gets cracked and the intruder instructs it on a wanton rampage, the robot would freeze as soon as it is about to comit a crime- just as it would under Asimov's.
If the robot is smart enough to know when someone's attacking it, it's smart enough to check a law database to see if its response would be criminal.
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I'm interested in your plan for auto-updating URLs -- how do you intend to implement that? Won't you lose application state etc on the new page load?
That'd be "figuratively", bub.
The cache link is pointing to the cache of his website, not of Google's.
Your kernel analogy is a good one, but not perfect: the brain is learning which neurons to fire by observing what happens when it does. This kernel, then, would learn to (say) print to a new printer by having the operator type in which character was just printed. Or OCR via a scanner, or use multipls inputs to vote for the true outcome, when there are conflicting inputs.
Your points apply equally well for development solely within a company. Detailed specs and managed expectations are critical to the success of any project involving more than one person.
So all those people at Pompeii were killed by isotopic radiation!
What a steaming load of molten rock.
Man, that is so summer 2001...
Given that you were going to change it right away, why not give the lady a break and have her set it to "password", rather than giving her a lecture she wouldn't have given a rat's arse about?
You're thinking of trademark law, not copyright.
Simply allowing you access to the store does not amount to consideration for a contract, especially one you haven't signed.
Anyway, back to the subject: for live feeds it's easy to multicast, because there's no time shifting. For on-demand streams (say of news updates or whatever) I can't see a way to mulitcast because everyone's listening to a different point in time. Perhaps a Akaimi type solution is the best idea with current tech.
Perhaps there's a different atmos in the hab and suit, so it's to clear out the nitrogen bubbles?
Now there's an incoherent ramble if ever I've read one.
Lay off the wacky backy, Nik.
Wow, that's one of the most incoherent rambles I've read all day. Good work!
Serif for print, sans-serif for pixels.
Dang, his name is on the tip of my fingers. Quite a forgetable little shit from Tasmania. Drove a fucked up car, and had some really warped morals. Damn independants stuffing up our lovable two part system.
Presumably because 'com' == commercial, whilst 'co' == company, and the UK govt doesn't recognise commercial entities, it recognises companies.
And what's ~ $70 AU / year to a legitimate business for a domain name? If one's internet budget can't cover that, then don't bother trying to put your business on the net, you'll only degrade your name.
Not a business? So why do you want a commercial domain? Personal .au domains are free, you know.
(Scoop from a friend in the closing ceremony: Roy Slaven and HG Nelson will be MCing it!)
It adds a lot of excitement, instead of watching the clock, you see the swimmers fingers just behind, or in front of the record. No confirmation, but I think they'll by using it in Sydney at the Olympics.
Obviously this tech could be be ported to a lot of other sports. A line in the sand for long / triple jump, a moving line for running track races, ghost cars in motor sport, etc. Adding ads is boring; adding value by showing records I think is very interesting- it effectively combines many events / races into one, if we can see the best result everyone's trying to beat.
At this stage in the game, I'd much rather robots carried no duties that are likely to be dangerous to humans. However, when we reach a time when it would be possible, perhaps it would be better to replace Asimov's laws with the real laws of the state, and class the robot as an individual under those laws.
This way, the robot could protect the bank vault- and if the robber threatened injury, then it could pop it a few. If the robot gets cracked and the intruder instructs it on a wanton rampage, the robot would freeze as soon as it is about to comit a crime- just as it would under Asimov's.
If the robot is smart enough to know when someone's attacking it, it's smart enough to check a law database to see if its response would be criminal.
Unless, of course, the bank is to be robbed by a gang of rogue robots, in which case the pistol might come in mighty handy.
God, what I wouldn't pay to see that, especially if they were a gang of those daft looking lady-bug robots as pictured in the article.