Same holds for Awari, an ancient African game. The first computer program being able to play it at all is less than a year old. Try playing it yourself here.
I think this still does not qualify as AI, though.
It's hilarious! And I think this is where they got the idea of the UT2003 "Bombing Run".
MUDS is the perfect game to releave a little stress. I used to play this game a lot in the period when I had exams in college. I think it's abandonware these days, so with a little luck you can still download it somewhere.
Hmmm, I happen to have a machine that runs an OS without a GUI. Among other stuff, it runs sshd, apache, squid and mysql. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even have a monitor attached.
No, you don't get it. This is just the new way of NASA to acquire budget from the Bush administration for their next mission to the moon. They even might have a chance to succeed, if you ask me.
Also note that after that disaster near Paris a couple of years ago, they had to make same very costly adjustments to the planes. As mentioned in other posts the design dates from the 60's. While it was far ahead of its time back then, it probably doesn't meet 21st century requirements any longer.
BTW I don't think 9/11 still is a factor to the general public. Especially not in Europe. Iraq will fade away soon too now, but of course there still is SARS.
Europeans don't liek to change there ways either. For instance the Dutch government invested loads of money in special lanes on highways for car pooling to decrease traffic jams and pollution at the same time. The lanes were monitored with cameras and it was separated from the normal lanes by walls.
As it turned out, hardly anyone actually wanted to share his/her car. The car pool lanes remained almost empty and the traffic jams on the normal lanes were worse than ever. Another amount of money had to be spent to convert the car pool lanes into normal lanes.
On the other hand, I think in Europe there are more restrictions on how much pollutive gases a car may produce. Same with diesel oil, home heating installations, toilets, etc. Of course, in the end, as a consumer, you are paying for all these improvements. But even that does not change your behavior towards the environment.
You can't compare the battle IIS vs Apache to IE vs Netscape. Those are two compelete different battle fields: one is on server side, the other on client side.
You can get away with code like this on client side:
If you know only a small bit about systems design, you know that in case of any mechanical/electrical/other failure the system must fall back into a safe state. In this case the machine will retract so that the patient will not be harmed.
This is nothing knew. It has been done even in mechanical systems like train signals in the 19th century. If the cable breaks, the signal will fall and the train must stop.
The fact that this problem has been known for years is probably exactly why nothing much has been done about it. As a matter of fact, routers emitting IGMP broadcasts and every WinXP machine replying have been causing me a lot more trouble than BGP. On the other hand, every possible security hole should be fixed ASAP.
BTW I assume that virusses on P2P networks use a similar method to spread as fast as possible.
>And is there any problem with regular contact lenses ?
Interesting question. I suppose that the lens changes the way your iris looks. So each time your prescription changes, you can no longer get any cash? And what if you sometimes wear glasses in stead?
Having traveled in Asia a couple of times, I know from experience that this does indeed happen. Street vendors in cities like Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur are selling lots of pirated CD's and DVD's. It's quite funny to see them running when the police show up. Many guesthouses and restaurants show movies too. I have seen movies in Asia that hadn't started showing in the theaters in Europe when I came back home.
Being conservative many banks never even considered switching to Windows in the first place. Most of them still run Unix or VMS for server systems. Most code is still written in Cobol. Almost any interface for financial applications is ASCII. They only use Windows on desktops in the front-office anyway. IMO the costs of migrating to Linux is especially low within banks and other financial businesses.
The real question is of course: what are their interest rates?
Still the analogy holds only partly. And understanding how the code works is irrelevant. Let me explain.
Even if I did pop the hood of the car and figured out how it works (note that even most car hobbyists only dare to tamper with old-timers, because contemporay cars are too complicated, but that's besides the point), I would not have the resources or equipment to build my own car. On the other hand, if I can get my hands on a piece of code, I'd probably be able to build the resulting binary without much trouble or costs. And I even don't have to read much of the code, let alone understand it.
So, this is not about understanding (and possibly change) how things work, but about being able to build a usable and thereby profitable end-product. Maybe now you'll understand the idea behind Microsoft's Shared Source initiative a little better too (not that I think much of that either).
In a country where people sue restaurants for serving too hot coffee, stores for letting them trip over their own child and car manufacturers for not sitting behind the wheel while driving, I suggest you take this kind of thing very seriously.
Seriously, isn't this exactly why Linux should NOT conquer the desktop? At least this way we know where most worms are heading for (and we know we're relatively safe).
Nowadays, diesel engines are really not more pollutive than the average petrol engines. Especially since for instance the VW Golf TDI can run for more than 20 km on 1 litre of diesel oil (a smaller VW car exists, that can run more than 30 km on a single litre of diesel). The only fuel that is less pollutive, is LPG (Liquid Petrol Gas), a byproduct during refining which is only common in the Netherlands.
BTW this year, again, the American gas companies have bought a lot of petrol in Europe to prevent shortage in North America, causing prizes in Europe to skyrocket. Europeans are simply forced to look for alternatives.
In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII? Americans enjoyed a higher standard of living, higher per capita income, and more freedom than most Europeans did, with the added bonus that we weren't ravaged by war every decade or so.
That only holds for white people. So the average European was probably better of. Besides, Americans have fought (and died) in almost all wars in the past century, rather they have a higher standard of dying.
The system is (almost) perfect. Vote for who you want.
Wrong. You can only vote for those who have enough money so they can get voted on. Because they get the money from the big companies, in effect you vote just for those companies.
Not that the average American cares, he tends to vote for the one that promises tax decrease.
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Same holds for Awari, an ancient African game. The first computer program being able to play it at all is less than a year old. Try playing it yourself here.
I think this still does not qualify as AI, though.
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It's hilarious! And I think this is where they got the idea of the UT2003 "Bombing Run".
MUDS is the perfect game to releave a little stress. I used to play this game a lot in the period when I had exams in college. I think it's abandonware these days, so with a little luck you can still download it somewhere.
Hmmm, I happen to have a machine that runs an OS without a GUI. Among other stuff, it runs sshd, apache, squid and mysql. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even have a monitor attached.
No, you don't get it. This is just the new way of NASA to acquire budget from the Bush administration for their next mission to the moon. They even might have a chance to succeed, if you ask me.
Also note that after that disaster near Paris a couple of years ago, they had to make same very costly adjustments to the planes. As mentioned in other posts the design dates from the 60's. While it was far ahead of its time back then, it probably doesn't meet 21st century requirements any longer.
BTW I don't think 9/11 still is a factor to the general public. Especially not in Europe. Iraq will fade away soon too now, but of course there still is SARS.
Europeans don't liek to change there ways either. For instance the Dutch government invested loads of money in special lanes on highways for car pooling to decrease traffic jams and pollution at the same time. The lanes were monitored with cameras and it was separated from the normal lanes by walls.
As it turned out, hardly anyone actually wanted to share his/her car. The car pool lanes remained almost empty and the traffic jams on the normal lanes were worse than ever. Another amount of money had to be spent to convert the car pool lanes into normal lanes.
On the other hand, I think in Europe there are more restrictions on how much pollutive gases a car may produce. Same with diesel oil, home heating installations, toilets, etc. Of course, in the end, as a consumer, you are paying for all these improvements. But even that does not change your behavior towards the environment.
You can get away with code like this on client side:Even MS can not pull an Apache version of that off on a server.
Why is this modded "insightful"? Grow up!
If you know only a small bit about systems design, you know that in case of any mechanical/electrical/other failure the system must fall back into a safe state. In this case the machine will retract so that the patient will not be harmed.
This is nothing knew. It has been done even in mechanical systems like train signals in the 19th century. If the cable breaks, the signal will fall and the train must stop.
> Why didn't they mount it at head height so you can see it while standing upright?
To give other flies a change for revenge?
The fact that this problem has been known for years is probably exactly why nothing much has been done about it. As a matter of fact, routers emitting IGMP broadcasts and every WinXP machine replying have been causing me a lot more trouble than BGP. On the other hand, every possible security hole should be fixed ASAP.
BTW I assume that virusses on P2P networks use a similar method to spread as fast as possible.
>And is there any problem with regular contact lenses ?
Interesting question. I suppose that the lens changes the way your iris looks. So each time your prescription changes, you can no longer get any cash? And what if you sometimes wear glasses in stead?
Just don't forget that *NIX even includes Xenix.
Having traveled in Asia a couple of times, I know from experience that this does indeed happen. Street vendors in cities like Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur are selling lots of pirated CD's and DVD's. It's quite funny to see them running when the police show up. Many guesthouses and restaurants show movies too. I have seen movies in Asia that hadn't started showing in the theaters in Europe when I came back home.
Being conservative many banks never even considered switching to Windows in the first place. Most of them still run Unix or VMS for server systems. Most code is still written in Cobol. Almost any interface for financial applications is ASCII. They only use Windows on desktops in the front-office anyway. IMO the costs of migrating to Linux is especially low within banks and other financial businesses.
The real question is of course: what are their interest rates?
Still the analogy holds only partly. And understanding how the code works is irrelevant. Let me explain.
Even if I did pop the hood of the car and figured out how it works (note that even most car hobbyists only dare to tamper with old-timers, because contemporay cars are too complicated, but that's besides the point), I would not have the resources or equipment to build my own car. On the other hand, if I can get my hands on a piece of code, I'd probably be able to build the resulting binary without much trouble or costs. And I even don't have to read much of the code, let alone understand it.
So, this is not about understanding (and possibly change) how things work, but about being able to build a usable and thereby profitable end-product. Maybe now you'll understand the idea behind Microsoft's Shared Source initiative a little better too (not that I think much of that either).
In a country where people sue restaurants for serving too hot coffee, stores for letting them trip over their own child and car manufacturers for not sitting behind the wheel while driving, I suggest you take this kind of thing very seriously.
Seriously, isn't this exactly why Linux should NOT conquer the desktop? At least this way we know where most worms are heading for (and we know we're relatively safe).
Nowadays, diesel engines are really not more pollutive than the average petrol engines. Especially since for instance the VW Golf TDI can run for more than 20 km on 1 litre of diesel oil (a smaller VW car exists, that can run more than 30 km on a single litre of diesel). The only fuel that is less pollutive, is LPG (Liquid Petrol Gas), a byproduct during refining which is only common in the Netherlands. BTW this year, again, the American gas companies have bought a lot of petrol in Europe to prevent shortage in North America, causing prizes in Europe to skyrocket. Europeans are simply forced to look for alternatives.
In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII? Americans enjoyed a higher standard of living, higher per capita income, and more freedom than most Europeans did, with the added bonus that we weren't ravaged by war every decade or so.
That only holds for white people. So the average European was probably better of. Besides, Americans have fought (and died) in almost all wars in the past century, rather they have a higher standard of dying.
The system is (almost) perfect. Vote for who you want.
Wrong. You can only vote for those who have enough money so they can get voted on. Because they get the money from the big companies, in effect you vote just for those companies.
Not that the average American cares, he tends to vote for the one that promises tax decrease.