A lot of search engines truncate/prune low-scoring terms. For instance, do you really need to hold the scores of the word "the" for all the 2.5 billion documents that have it? Would it really make a big difference if you only held it for the top-scoring, say, 100 million documents?
That's partially correct. The digital LOGIC people will be safe. The digital content people are the ones that will be affected.
The digital logic people, aka programmers, on the contrary, do not have to distribute their executables. The executables could reside on local servers and customers would then connect to use the software. So the software itself is never actually available to any client. Only the output of the software is available. That way software piracy will be a problem of the past.
Essentially the internet will become millions of graphic monitor cables. My servers will tell your desktop what to display, just like X windows, but the protocol will be faster and more efficient.
You won't need a computer really, just a monitor and input devices. You could copy all the pretty pictures you see and sounds you hear, but you can't get to the logic, it's secured behind some remote machines.
This is probably the model Microsoft is moving towards for obvious reasons. Renting software on a per use or subscription basis and eliminating piracy are perhaps their highest priorities.
but 3 pixel by 3 pixel video isn't very entertaining. However, I suppose it could be useful for broadcasting those fun-packed documentary videos of tournament level
tic-tac-toe matches.
"I too have developed technology for getting video over my 28.8. I just place my television over my modem and wallah! video over 28.8." -m
A neural net is just a layman's term for an n-degree polynomial in m-space whose coefficients change by user feedback in hopes of better approximating the "ideal function". There is nothing magical or mysterious about these things. If someone is hyping them I immediately know: "hey, there's a guy/gal who doesn't get it".
In fact, when it comes to solving some specific problem I can always write an algorithm that blows away any "neural net". That's exactly why these things are supreme failures. And it aggravates me further every time I see someone promoting these fallacies. Please, let the neural nets thing rest in peace.
if copyright laws become largely ignored i think it will mostly just affect the record companies. The artists will still be ok. They make a lot of money from their concerts and promoting things. It would actually benefit them if their music was distributed freely. People would say "have you heard of this new band 'the bush pilots' on napster? i'm gonna check out their concert, buy their coffee mug and listen to their commercials..." Where as the record company executives will finally be recognized as the leeches they are and they'll be forced to do real work for a change.
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A lot of search engines truncate/prune low-scoring terms. For instance, do you really need to hold the scores of the word "the" for all the 2.5 billion documents that have it? Would it really make a big difference if you only held it for the top-scoring, say, 100 million documents?
That's partially correct. The digital LOGIC people will be safe. The digital content people are the ones that will be affected.
The digital logic people, aka programmers, on the contrary, do not have to distribute their executables. The executables could reside on local servers and customers would then connect to use the software. So the software itself is never actually available to any client. Only the output of the software is available. That way software piracy will be a problem of the past.
Essentially the internet will become millions of graphic monitor cables. My servers will tell your desktop what to display, just like X windows, but the protocol will be faster and more efficient.
You won't need a computer really, just a monitor and input devices. You could copy all the pretty pictures you see and sounds you hear, but you can't get to the logic, it's secured behind some remote machines.
This is probably the model Microsoft is moving towards for obvious reasons. Renting software on a per use or subscription basis and eliminating piracy are perhaps their highest priorities.
but 3 pixel by 3 pixel video isn't very entertaining. However, I suppose it could be useful for broadcasting those fun-packed documentary videos of tournament level
tic-tac-toe matches.
"I too have developed technology for getting video over my 28.8. I just place my television over my modem and wallah! video over 28.8." -m
A neural net is just a layman's term for an n-degree polynomial in m-space whose coefficients change by user feedback in hopes of better approximating the "ideal function". There is nothing magical or mysterious about these things. If someone is hyping them I immediately know: "hey, there's a guy/gal who doesn't get it". In fact, when it comes to solving some specific problem I can always write an algorithm that blows away any "neural net". That's exactly why these things are supreme failures. And it aggravates me further every time I see someone promoting these fallacies. Please, let the neural nets thing rest in peace.
if copyright laws become largely ignored i think it will mostly just affect the record companies. The artists will still be ok. They make a lot of money from their concerts and promoting things. It would actually benefit them if their music was distributed freely. People would say "have you heard of this new band 'the bush pilots' on napster? i'm gonna check out their concert, buy their coffee mug and listen to their commercials..." Where as the record company executives will finally be recognized as the leeches they are and they'll be forced to do real work for a change.