"Not to mention that there was a lot of creativity in linking in places. There was a Monopoly board in one area of the place; several of the "houses" on the board were real houses, and you could actually shrink yourself and go in."
Heh, real/virtual/ houses;) Never got into MUDs/MOOs/MUSHs myself...perhaps if there were a cross-platform 3D Multiuser Domain? (Java3d?)
Why must an AI pass any Turing test to be considered intelligent? Given that there are an infinite number of states in the universe (or at least enough that we could not comprehend understanding all of them entirely), why would we ever expect a machine to be able to interpret and respond to every one before we can call it intelligent? Humans do not do this. We are not pure algorithmic processors. Humans, and other biological intelligence use highly complex fuzzy logic...we use neural networks...we adapt to our reality as necessary...we are not required to understand it in entirety before we can live in it. This is where intelligence "emerges"...we are intelligent because our fuzzy logic leads us to conclusions that we would not otherwise be able to come to via purely algorithmic processing (we simply don't have the hardware!)
Didn't some AI just a few years ago prove some theorem that no human was able to? Sure, that's more along the lines of rule-based and information-processing "thinking", but I think that is still somewhat significant...that a computer verified a concept with a minimal set of rules...and let's face it, we're born with rules too, they're called instincts, etc...if every human had to figure out by itself what it was supposed to do in life I think humans would have died out a long time ago...
("darn, I have a gnawing ache in my belly...hmm...what should I do about it...?")
I should not be amazed at the ignorance and stupidity of media...but I am. Why is it that THOUSANDS, if not MILLIONS of adults and children under 18 play all SORTS of games and don't go in to murdering rampages?? Why is it that when certain people DO, it is automatically the inanimate game's fault INSTEAD of the parent's fault for not teaching wrong/right, reality from fantasy? Games don't kill people. The internet doesn't kill people. Black clohes do not kill people. Marylin Manson lyrics DO NOT kill people. Guns don't even kill people. PEOPLE kill people. You cannot cure the disease merely by censuring the symptoms!
The very articles which describes Internet/Games players as "outcasts" then proceeds to fulfill the prophecy by placing the stigma on them via mass media, through their own ignorant sensationalism.
Linux is at the point at which it is visible, functional, and fashionable enough for many high level companies to run in their own directions with. What it cannot endure at this point, is a fractioning of the very community that fostered its development. That would be a sure way to kill it. Just look at what happened to Unix and its myriad flavors. I, for one (as I sit on my lazy butt), would like to see more effort going into incorporating those very features that VARs are adding on, in their own proprietary way, into Linux itself (non-proprietarily (?)). *Some* sort of package management would be nice...even the fundementals for things like this, so that people can't run off on tangents stranding the other distributions.
Oh sure, MP3 is ruining the music industry just like pirating is costing the software so many billions upon billions. Get real: pirating/MP3s can only COST a corporation, if, in fact, the person pirating would have *actually bought* the product in the first place! Since this is almost ubiquitously untrue, these dollar claims are correspondingly exaggerated. If *anything* the MP3 format is *helping* sell music, and evening the playing field allowing small bands to direct market to their fans instead of having to "sell out". That is without to mention the narrow-minded ludditity of denouncing a FORMAT. Heck, let's denounce paper because people plagiarize! I have no sympathy for big fat record companies...if they can't play in today's playing field that's just tough...
eMachines being, IMHO, an answer to the iMac, I don't think some of its criticisms are valid. Yes, it's not top of the line, yes it may have a winmodem and subpar audio card. But as the previous poster said, their not for the "gearhead". If they work fine with Win98, great. A lot of the problems cited are Linux or alternative OS - specific, and you can't really blame eMachines for that as they never make any claims to the contrary. It was my impression that they worked fine for and where a steal for their target audience. Anyway, what we think is crap today would have blown us away a few years ago...the point is that the price is falling disproportionately fast, and that is sort of a breakthrough.
The problem is occurring because both your sound card and video card are using the same PCI bus. Your MP3 player is trying to put through as much data as possible, and when you scroll in netscape, the video card attempts to use the bus and the two conflict with each other causing audio/video stutters. I've heard of some sort of new PCI bus that allows parallel transmission...maybe it's a driver/bus master or something...not sure.
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"Not to mention that there was a lot of creativity in linking in places. There was a Monopoly board in one area of the place; several of the "houses" on the board were real houses, and you could actually shrink yourself and go in."
/virtual/ houses ;)
Heh, real
Never got into MUDs/MOOs/MUSHs myself...perhaps if there were a cross-platform 3D Multiuser Domain? (Java3d?)
Why must an AI pass any Turing test to be considered intelligent? Given that there are an infinite number of states in the universe (or at least enough that we could not comprehend understanding all of them entirely), why would we ever expect a machine to be able to interpret and respond to every one before we can call it intelligent? Humans do not do this. We are not pure algorithmic processors. Humans, and other biological intelligence use highly complex fuzzy logic...we use neural networks...we adapt to our reality as necessary...we are not required to understand it in entirety before we can live in it. This is where intelligence "emerges"...we are intelligent because our fuzzy logic leads us to conclusions that we would not otherwise be able to come to via purely algorithmic processing (we simply don't have the hardware!)
Didn't some AI just a few years ago prove some theorem that no human was able to? Sure, that's more along the lines of rule-based and information-processing "thinking", but I think that is still somewhat significant...that a computer verified a concept with a minimal set of rules...and let's face it, we're born with rules too, they're called instincts, etc...if every human had to figure out by itself what it was supposed to do in life I think humans would have died out a long time ago...
("darn, I have a gnawing ache in my belly...hmm...what should I do about it...?")
I should not be amazed at the ignorance and stupidity of media...but I am. Why is it that THOUSANDS, if not MILLIONS of adults and children under 18 play all SORTS of games and don't go in to murdering rampages?? Why is it that when certain people DO, it is automatically the inanimate game's fault INSTEAD of the parent's fault for not teaching wrong/right, reality from fantasy? Games don't kill people. The internet doesn't kill people. Black clohes do not kill people. Marylin Manson lyrics DO NOT kill people. Guns don't even kill people. PEOPLE kill people. You cannot cure the disease merely by censuring the symptoms!
The very articles which describes Internet/Games players as "outcasts" then proceeds to fulfill the prophecy by placing the stigma on them via mass media, through their own ignorant sensationalism.
Fractioning...
Linux is at the point at which it is visible, functional, and fashionable enough for many high level companies to run in their own directions with. What it cannot endure at this point, is a fractioning of the very community that fostered its development. That would be a sure way to kill it. Just look at what happened to Unix and its myriad flavors. I, for one (as I sit on my lazy butt), would like to see more effort going into incorporating those very features that VARs are adding on, in their own proprietary way, into Linux itself (non-proprietarily (?)). *Some* sort of package management would be nice...even the fundementals for things like this, so that people can't run off on tangents stranding the other distributions.
Oh sure, MP3 is ruining the music industry just like pirating is costing the software so many billions upon billions. Get real: pirating/MP3s can only COST a corporation, if, in fact, the person pirating would have *actually bought* the product in the first place! Since this is almost ubiquitously untrue, these dollar claims are correspondingly exaggerated. If *anything* the MP3 format is *helping* sell music, and evening the playing field allowing small bands to direct market to their fans instead of having to "sell out". That is without to mention the narrow-minded ludditity of denouncing a FORMAT. Heck, let's denounce paper because people plagiarize! I have no sympathy for big fat record companies...if they can't play in today's playing field that's just tough...
wow, somebody actually read a post of mine
eMachines being, IMHO, an answer to the iMac, I don't think some of its criticisms are valid. Yes, it's not top of the line, yes it may have a winmodem and subpar audio card. But as the previous poster said, their not for the "gearhead". If they work fine with Win98, great. A lot of the problems cited are Linux or alternative OS - specific, and you can't really blame eMachines for that as they never make any claims to the contrary. It was my impression that they worked fine for and where a steal for their target audience. Anyway, what we think is crap today would have blown us away a few years ago...the point is that the price is falling disproportionately fast, and that is sort of a breakthrough.
Just make sure you don't remove any of the books from the original bulk package - Otherwise they will all break.
Laff.
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Check out eMachines at www.e4me.com
They run $399-$499 w/o monitor
Monitors go for @$100+
They got rave reviews from users on ZDNET postback
The problem is occurring because both your sound card and video card are using the same PCI bus. Your MP3 player is trying to put through as much data as possible, and when you scroll in netscape, the video card attempts to use the bus and the two conflict with each other causing audio/video stutters. I've heard of some sort of new PCI bus that allows parallel transmission...maybe it's a driver/bus master or something...not sure.