In fairness when I have an application like firefox on top I (generally) would like to use as much memory as it wants then reduce to next to nothing when minimized. There is actually a setting to make firefox reduce its memory on minimize, and it works well. What there is not a setting for is "don't use much resoures right now, cause I'm working on other stuff as well".
Good point, the user pages though look fairly nice. They still arne't intuitive. Really nothing is intuitive on youtube. But maybe that can be fixed.. Its a good idea otherwise.
Finally Proof of intelligence. On another planet. (Robot is proof of intelligence, and its on another planet, the sentences don't necessarily have to be linked.)
Yea, YouTube is also a social network. You create accounts that you can post videos to other people, reply to videos posted, add friends and whatnot. Its like MySpace without the crappy badly done webpages.
Well the meter is on the side of your house in case you missed it. Walk out there, and record the numbers. Cheap, and easy.
Oh and WTC 7 thats been explained. It was a fairly tall building compared to the rest and it was riddled with holes from debris (as was the rest) You figure it out.
No of course I understand that as the primary investor they are going to have input. But also as the executive producers usually have their fingers in many pots they don't spend much time worrying about the day to day operations or actually directing the film. I'm sure they get the chance to yell at the director from time to time. But sometimes when the final product is just this bad, I assume they have to say f it, there is no fixing this, just put it out and hope to make some money back.
Even though you are bitter, you do have a point. The claim is that drinkers make more money. Perhaps its the other way around, people who make more money can afford to drink and socialize more. Of course this socialization can ultimately make them part of the "good old boy" network and get them more money. But I think it all starts with being of the upper class in the first place.
Actually if you RTFA he doesn't say no to online distribution. He just admits he doesn't understand it, "We're trying to find out exactly where the monetization is coming from. We're not interested in jumping down a rat hole until such time as it finally figures itself out."
More like until he figures it out. Either way, he apparently realizes the distributors (iTunes and whatnot) are making all the money, and not the producers. I'd have to agree with him that at this time online sales of movies aren't making anyone rich (besides iTunes).
Wow, I had no idea Lucas was involved in that travesty. Apparently he was just the executive producer. Which means he threw some money into the project but had absolutely nothing to do with it otherwise.
Umm thats only if you want to play HD DRMd movies that you will need a new monitor. Vista doesn't REQUIRE a new monitor otherwise. Most corporate computers will not need this. THOUGH systems bought from DELL or otherwise might not be able to be sold as VISTA ready without it..
11 km/s is approximatly Mach 50. This thing promises Mach 23. I wonder if it would be enough to atleast get caught up in the gravity well of the moon. (Any rocket scientist out there?) Shooting nuclear waste at the moon has been considered many times because of the lack of atmosphere radioactive waste is MUCH less dangerous, and it would stay stored there for potential recycling sometime in the distant future instead of wasted, which is what future nuclear scientist will think if we fling it into the sun.
But wasn't it all recorded on a NASA Sound Stage? I mean seriously how are we to believe that such prestine equipment setup for the moon landing would drop the 'a'.//HEHEHE Sorry..
Umm I may stand corrected, but while Google has agreed to block some content for China. I am quite sure they have maintained and stuck by their policy of not providing any Data to China, something Yahoo and other companies have done.
From what I've seen in these "poor" areas, the local poor people are working there, while the gamblers are generally tourist. Of course local poor also attempt to gamble some, but people who are compulive gamblers are going to find ways to throw away to gamble away their money, casino or no. But large casinos simply couldn't maintain profitability very long on the backs of a small poor community.
Just pointing out that YouTube is not nessesarily as english centric as it seems to be. It would be nice to hear from someone on the other side of the planet, but does YouTube automatically localize based on your location???
Whats funny is YouTube already localizes. If you check google trends you will see that youtube gets most of its hits from asia, and not the US. And if you start to look you will see plenty of non english content on YouTube. I would even bet that YouTube may set its default top videos based upon your location. There is nothing on YouTube to stop you from seeing videos on other sites, but the fact that it can store so MANY videos means that as long as its recommendations and searches are localized, there is no need to localize that actual content.
Personally I think genetic style programming will show the most promise in AI. Whats funny about it is there is a good chance that once we achieve self-aware AI, we probably will understand its programming about as much as we understand the human mind.. We will be able to see.. AKA not so much. Sure we might be able to trace its paths and figure out its logic, but we might still not have any clue as to what really makes it self-aware and conscious.
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In fairness when I have an application like firefox on top I (generally) would like to use as much memory as it wants then reduce to next to nothing when minimized. There is actually a setting to make firefox reduce its memory on minimize, and it works well. What there is not a setting for is "don't use much resoures right now, cause I'm working on other stuff as well".
Good point, the user pages though look fairly nice. They still arne't intuitive. Really nothing is intuitive on youtube. But maybe that can be fixed.. Its a good idea otherwise.
Finally Proof of intelligence. On another planet.
(Robot is proof of intelligence, and its on another planet, the sentences don't necessarily have to be linked.)
Yea, YouTube is also a social network. You create accounts that you can post videos to other people, reply to videos posted, add friends and whatnot. Its like MySpace without the crappy badly done webpages.
Well the meter is on the side of your house in case you missed it. Walk out there, and record the numbers. Cheap, and easy.
Oh and WTC 7 thats been explained. It was a fairly tall building compared to the rest and it was riddled with holes from debris (as was the rest) You figure it out.
No of course I understand that as the primary investor they are going to have input. But also as the executive producers usually have their fingers in many pots they don't spend much time worrying about the day to day operations or actually directing the film. I'm sure they get the chance to yell at the director from time to time. But sometimes when the final product is just this bad, I assume they have to say f it, there is no fixing this, just put it out and hope to make some money back.
Even though you are bitter, you do have a point. The claim is that drinkers make more money. Perhaps its the other way around, people who make more money can afford to drink and socialize more. Of course this socialization can ultimately make them part of the "good old boy" network and get them more money. But I think it all starts with being of the upper class in the first place.
HAHA I got insightful and informative and I was WRONG. Man you mods suck! :)
Actually if you RTFA he doesn't say no to online distribution. He just admits he doesn't understand it, "We're trying to find out exactly where the monetization is coming from. We're not interested in jumping down a rat hole until such time as it finally figures itself out."
More like until he figures it out. Either way, he apparently realizes the distributors (iTunes and whatnot) are making all the money, and not the producers. I'd have to agree with him that at this time online sales of movies aren't making anyone rich (besides iTunes).
Wow, I had no idea Lucas was involved in that travesty. Apparently he was just the executive producer. Which means he threw some money into the project but had absolutely nothing to do with it otherwise.
Umm thats only if you want to play HD DRMd movies that you will need a new monitor. Vista doesn't REQUIRE a new monitor otherwise. Most corporate computers will not need this. THOUGH systems bought from DELL or otherwise might not be able to be sold as VISTA ready without it..
Yea, but then you'd get complaints from ACLU or NAACP that stupid people were being denied the right to vote.
Not a bad idea, in fact something like this could be used to pummel the ground enough to dig a hole pretty deep.
11 km/s is approximatly Mach 50. This thing promises Mach 23. I wonder if it would be enough to atleast get caught up in the gravity well of the moon. (Any rocket scientist out there?) Shooting nuclear waste at the moon has been considered many times because of the lack of atmosphere radioactive waste is MUCH less dangerous, and it would stay stored there for potential recycling sometime in the distant future instead of wasted, which is what future nuclear scientist will think if we fling it into the sun.
Nuclear waste?
Last time I visited Vegas, I actually found a slot machine with a built in ATM. No shitting you.
If you had bother reading. They train with real guns, but are using video games to train tactics.
Which can make sense.
+1 Interesting -1 OverRated?
Seriously, its +1 Funny -1 Troll.. Learn how to moderate people.
But wasn't it all recorded on a NASA Sound Stage? I mean seriously how are we to believe that such prestine equipment setup for the moon landing would drop the 'a'. //HEHEHE Sorry..
Umm I may stand corrected, but while Google has agreed to block some content for China. I am quite sure they have maintained and stuck by their policy of not providing any Data to China, something Yahoo and other companies have done.
From what I've seen in these "poor" areas, the local poor people are working there, while the gamblers are generally tourist. Of course local poor also attempt to gamble some, but people who are compulive gamblers are going to find ways to throw away to gamble away their money, casino or no. But large casinos simply couldn't maintain profitability very long on the backs of a small poor community.
Just pointing out that YouTube is not nessesarily as english centric as it seems to be. It would be nice to hear from someone on the other side of the planet, but does YouTube automatically localize based on your location???
Whats funny is YouTube already localizes. If you check google trends you will see that youtube gets most of its hits from asia, and not the US. And if you start to look you will see plenty of non english content on YouTube. I would even bet that YouTube may set its default top videos based upon your location. There is nothing on YouTube to stop you from seeing videos on other sites, but the fact that it can store so MANY videos means that as long as its recommendations and searches are localized, there is no need to localize that actual content.
I'm not saying overnight. But given the human mind developed in such the same manor, its likly the only chance.
Personally I think genetic style programming will show the most promise in AI. Whats funny about it is there is a good chance that once we achieve self-aware AI, we probably will understand its programming about as much as we understand the human mind.. We will be able to see.. AKA not so much. Sure we might be able to trace its paths and figure out its logic, but we might still not have any clue as to what really makes it self-aware and conscious.