Reminds me of a similar question a few months back. It was regarding the metal of engagement/wedding rings.
One poster know a person who had a ring of titanium. Looks like white gold, but you get bragging rings, or somthing. Unfortunately her ring caught in a piece of machinery, ripped the flesh right off of her finger (so she was left with only the bone). This because a ring out of a hard metal can't be severed easily in case of an emergency.
So while wedding rings are not something I'm currently looking for I'd say go with something that breaks. Is there really a point to wearing jewelry made out of the same material as prothetic limb attachments or heavy-duty mining equipment?
For obvious reasons, it should be run by private corporations, all adhereing to a single standard. I don't want my government managing my money, since they will make mistakes.
Yeah, and private corporations won't? Like PayPal for instance?
And since when has two corporations ever been able to use the same standard if they weren't forced to do it?
I'd prefer it if my normal bank offered these services. And had a government or cooperative effort between many banks to design the system. OTOH they did that here in Sweden many years ago with the Cash system. Still hasn't gotten off the ground. (Because of various issues.)
First off I'll comment on something you said in another followup, because it pretty much sums it up:
Artificial intelligence does not mean "simulating intelligence artificially."
Because this is pretty much what AI actually is.
I recall a comment one of the teachers of a Applied AI course I took said: "The more we learn about AI, the more things we discover that are not AI."
Now there are projects where robots have learned to walk using AI. It looks like shit however, and is only "cool" if you actually understand how hard that is to make. If you showed it to the general public they'd say "Hell, my 2-year-old can walk better than that!"
Now I'll quote you on one other part:
In my opinion the cool thing here is the remarkably ability of complex systems to generate interesting global phenomena from locally interacting agents.
Because this is what MASSIVE is. It's not reall AI but AL, Artificial Life. Athough AL is generally considered a subpart of AI, which is probably why they used that term (AI) to market it.
I've cosidered doing one for a project in school. (Computer Vision) Although it does depend on how feasable the project is though. I do recall that the particular scanners used by Weta was custom hacks. I bet theirs required a bit of "hands on" adjustments afterwards to get the stripes of the mesh aligned. Part of my point here is that doing one yourself isn't impossible.
The reason why the tech used by hospitals is so expensive is because it's used by hospitals. You wouldn't believe the amount of testing a product has to go through in order to put it in a hospital. (If you use products from a reputable firm, that is.) And rightly so!
I bet that in that $100,000 pricetag is $50,000 set aside for future legal problems.
The Ent scenes (riding on Treebeard through the forest) were pretty horrible.
The interesting thing though is that there are a huge amount of bluescreen scenes in FOTR and TTT. Just watch the ducumentaries on the FOTR to see that. And those scenes were not bad.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's something else involved in the Ent riding scenes. (According to the old idiom, if it looks computer manipulated it's probably not.)
Yes, but as I interpreted the first post in the thread when he talked about "corpocracy" I was assuming that he was aiming for something a bit worse than what we have today.
And no, under socialism you are not forced to buy (or aquire products if they are already payed for). At least not in real socialism. But then again the real world versions of socialism never turn out very well.
That was a pretty crappy argument. As I see it the main flaw is this:
(The people below the line presumably find other work.... increases the number of people barely getting by, and therefore the total "pain" in the workforce
I though the point of the entire system was to it so that people would have a fair chance doing what they want. Presumably those people would prefer doing what they love and be able to survive on it (although struggling) than working at McDonalds for minimum wage (and still struggling to survive).
Furthermore there is no guarantee that they even will find a different job. They may just end up as bums. (The fallacy here is that in the original model it was assumed that those that can't make it at their chosen profession will automatically make it in some other profession. There is no reason for why that should be the case.
And finally I'd like there to be a good argument to why you would use a pyramid shaped structure in the first place. Just because they are all over textbooks for government classes in high-school doesn't have to mean that it's a correct assumtion in this case. I could just as well pick an inverted pyramid and use that as "proof" that it will actually decrease the amount of suffering.
Problem is that while you can do quite a lot with the tools available (the mod scene is a good example of this) if you want to publish anything then it will cost you a lot to license those engines.
So you either have to buy a license (expensive) or build your own engines (expensive and hard to get right).
You state that you have a detailed post-mortem document, but this must be a confidential, internal-use only reference document, because I cannot find it on your (flash-based) website or message boards.
It is available on Gamasutra, as a a lot of other postmortems. I haven't read the one on B&W but since I just found it I recon I will quite soon. You will need an account on Gamasutra though(free reg yadda yadda).
On a lot of the technical problems I know that I myself couldn't play the game on my G400Max under WinXP, but it did work under Win98. I have since upgraded my card but I haven't tried the game again. I really did like it though, but mainly for the potential to "goof off" and no really follow the plot.
I was under the impression that a microwave oven can only really warm up water. At least that's what it was designed to do. So I don't think you can make anything catch on fire actually. But I guess it wouldn't be very good for the oven though.
I have seen people warm eg plates in a microwave though, so I guess it doesn't operate only with water molecules.
Ext3 has an added bonus that it can also journal actual data. (Most journaling FS only journal meta data.) That can be quite handy so you don't risk corrupting your/etc files. (But for most other purposes it's a waste.)
You only think that because you haven't played the old games lately.
Try turning on your old Amiga and going through all those old games today. Sure they're nice for a trip down memory lane but I sure as hell wouldn't spend a lot of time playing them.
I think it was in that article you're referencing to that it was pointed out by a developer that today we [developers] don't have to think so much about what is possible to do, but what we want to do. Unfortunately it is a lot more expensive to develop games today, so it's hard to find the money for your own little pet project.
And it's not like in the "glory days" when one man in a closet was a "game producer".
That is why digital storage use Reed-Salomon codes, as noted in the write up. These are used in both CD and DVD technologies. In fact, both CD and DVD use double RS coding.
From what litte experience I have with robotics I think it's safe to say that "proof of concept" in software means nothing in hardware.
Well, it means that you idea is sound enough that it might work. But there's no guarantee that it will actually work in hardware.
Kind of like hardware development in simulation and actual hardware. You can get anything working in the simulation.;-)
And the stuff that generally trip you up with real hardware is stuff like the light sensors don't work 100% all the time, the engines don't work acurately, you internal maps get corrupted etc.
Or like Minsky pointed out: Robot AI people treasure their videos... because often they can't repeat the results.
You most certainly can lose an entire array with LVM. If the first drive on the array is lost then the entire array is down the drain. Otherwise I recon it depends on how well your FS can handle catastrophic failiure. (Ie if it panics and fails if it's incomplete.)
And I'm talking from personal experience BTW.
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From what I've seen it's typically used on clusters. Hence security isn't that big an issue. (If you have access to one machine you have access to all of them.)
And regarding pointers I once met a man who had done such debugging. His last words were "The horror, The horror".;-)
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It's called solid state drives. There's even one a href="http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.c fm">linked in the comments above.
Ohh yeah, and they're bloody expensive and don't really give a big boost. (Because you satuate the PCI bus.)
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Reminds me of a similar question a few months back. It was regarding the metal of engagement/wedding rings.
One poster know a person who had a ring of titanium. Looks like white gold, but you get bragging rings, or somthing. Unfortunately her ring caught in a piece of machinery, ripped the flesh right off of her finger (so she was left with only the bone). This because a ring out of a hard metal can't be severed easily in case of an emergency.
So while wedding rings are not something I'm currently looking for I'd say go with something that breaks. Is there really a point to wearing jewelry made out of the same material as prothetic limb attachments or heavy-duty mining equipment?
Yeah, and private corporations won't? Like PayPal for instance?
And since when has two corporations ever been able to use the same standard if they weren't forced to do it?
I'd prefer it if my normal bank offered these services. And had a government or cooperative effort between many banks to design the system. OTOH they did that here in Sweden many years ago with the Cash system. Still hasn't gotten off the ground. (Because of various issues.)
Because this is pretty much what AI actually is.
I recall a comment one of the teachers of a Applied AI course I took said: "The more we learn about AI, the more things we discover that are not AI."
Now there are projects where robots have learned to walk using AI. It looks like shit however, and is only "cool" if you actually understand how hard that is to make. If you showed it to the general public they'd say "Hell, my 2-year-old can walk better than that!"
Now I'll quote you on one other part:
Because this is what MASSIVE is. It's not reall AI but AL, Artificial Life. Athough AL is generally considered a subpart of AI, which is probably why they used that term (AI) to market it.
I've cosidered doing one for a project in school. (Computer Vision) Although it does depend on how feasable the project is though. I do recall that the particular scanners used by Weta was custom hacks. I bet theirs required a bit of "hands on" adjustments afterwards to get the stripes of the mesh aligned. Part of my point here is that doing one yourself isn't impossible.
The reason why the tech used by hospitals is so expensive is because it's used by hospitals. You wouldn't believe the amount of testing a product has to go through in order to put it in a hospital. (If you use products from a reputable firm, that is.) And rightly so!
I bet that in that $100,000 pricetag is $50,000 set aside for future legal problems.
The Ent scenes (riding on Treebeard through the forest) were pretty horrible.
The interesting thing though is that there are a huge amount of bluescreen scenes in FOTR and TTT. Just watch the ducumentaries on the FOTR to see that. And those scenes were not bad.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's something else involved in the Ent riding scenes. (According to the old idiom, if it looks computer manipulated it's probably not.)
Bluetooth is encrypted. Although it may not be the worlds best encryption system it's a few steps over the others in the business.
No, because all buttons and zippers will be electronically operated. So unfortunately if the battery runs out you can open it any longer.
Yes, but as I interpreted the first post in the thread when he talked about "corpocracy" I was assuming that he was aiming for something a bit worse than what we have today.
And no, under socialism you are not forced to buy (or aquire products if they are already payed for). At least not in real socialism. But then again the real world versions of socialism never turn out very well.
No, but I prefer the government to decide than the companies who are selling you the products.
I guess it would make the job for telephone salesmen a bit easier though.
Hello, Mr Johnson? We have just decided that you want to buy 1000 cases of laser printer toner. Where would you like them to be delivered?
And no, I'm not so naive as to believe that socialism works. OTOH I'm not so naive as to believe that "the free market" will do anything to serve me.
I though the point of the entire system was to it so that people would have a fair chance doing what they want. Presumably those people would prefer doing what they love and be able to survive on it (although struggling) than working at McDonalds for minimum wage (and still struggling to survive).
Furthermore there is no guarantee that they even will find a different job. They may just end up as bums. (The fallacy here is that in the original model it was assumed that those that can't make it at their chosen profession will automatically make it in some other profession. There is no reason for why that should be the case.
And finally I'd like there to be a good argument to why you would use a pyramid shaped structure in the first place. Just because they are all over textbooks for government classes in high-school doesn't have to mean that it's a correct assumtion in this case. I could just as well pick an inverted pyramid and use that as "proof" that it will actually decrease the amount of suffering.
Show your work Mr Brin!
Problem is that while you can do quite a lot with the tools available (the mod scene is a good example of this) if you want to publish anything then it will cost you a lot to license those engines.
So you either have to buy a license (expensive) or build your own engines (expensive and hard to get right).
It is available on Gamasutra, as a a lot of other postmortems. I haven't read the one on B&W but since I just found it I recon I will quite soon. You will need an account on Gamasutra though(free reg yadda yadda).
On a lot of the technical problems I know that I myself couldn't play the game on my G400Max under WinXP, but it did work under Win98. I have since upgraded my card but I haven't tried the game again. I really did like it though, but mainly for the potential to "goof off" and no really follow the plot.
I was under the impression that a microwave oven can only really warm up water. At least that's what it was designed to do. So I don't think you can make anything catch on fire actually. But I guess it wouldn't be very good for the oven though.
I have seen people warm eg plates in a microwave though, so I guess it doesn't operate only with water molecules.
That's a rethorical question, right?
Ext3 has an added bonus that it can also journal actual data. (Most journaling FS only journal meta data.) That can be quite handy so you don't risk corrupting your /etc files. (But for most other purposes it's a waste.)
You only think that because you haven't played the old games lately.
Try turning on your old Amiga and going through all those old games today. Sure they're nice for a trip down memory lane but I sure as hell wouldn't spend a lot of time playing them.
I think it was in that article you're referencing to that it was pointed out by a developer that today we [developers] don't have to think so much about what is possible to do, but what we want to do. Unfortunately it is a lot more expensive to develop games today, so it's hard to find the money for your own little pet project.
And it's not like in the "glory days" when one man in a closet was a "game producer".
HDD are for redundancy. Tape/optic media is for backup. There is a difference.
Regarding DVD vs Tape see previous suggestions about big data volumes and how it's impossible to back it up on DVD/CD.
That is why digital storage use Reed-Salomon codes, as noted in the write up. These are used in both CD and DVD technologies. In fact, both CD and DVD use double RS coding.
From what litte experience I have with robotics I think it's safe to say that "proof of concept" in software means nothing in hardware.
;-)
... because often they can't repeat the results.
Well, it means that you idea is sound enough that it might work. But there's no guarantee that it will actually work in hardware.
Kind of like hardware development in simulation and actual hardware. You can get anything working in the simulation.
And the stuff that generally trip you up with real hardware is stuff like the light sensors don't work 100% all the time, the engines don't work acurately, you internal maps get corrupted etc.
Or like Minsky pointed out: Robot AI people treasure their videos
Damn, Freelancer. And damn those game producers and similar sounding names! ;-)
Probably Freespace, it has a mouse only interface.
You most certainly can lose an entire array with LVM. If the first drive on the array is lost then the entire array is down the drain. Otherwise I recon it depends on how well your FS can handle catastrophic failiure. (Ie if it panics and fails if it's incomplete.)
And I'm talking from personal experience BTW.
From what I've seen it's typically used on clusters. Hence security isn't that big an issue. (If you have access to one machine you have access to all of them.)
;-)
And regarding pointers I once met a man who had done such debugging. His last words were "The horror, The horror".
It's called solid state drives. There's even one a href="http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.c fm">linked in the comments above.
Ohh yeah, and they're bloody expensive and don't really give a big boost. (Because you satuate the PCI bus.)
Yeah, last I heard they were building concentration camps for OSS programmers.
Or not. And according to old Usenet laws anyone who makes an analogy to Nazis regarding whatever they are opposing automatically lose the argument.