the zone is something internal and comes spontaneously, like a good hair day. the immediate surroundings are of no consequence in my opinion. if only there was a way to steer that "good wave" , make it last longer...
.. i still find 2-d games like chess and pac-man more entertaining than the latest 3-d extravaganza of the day. these 3-d games have not really evolved much in terms of originality. they all fall into the same old categories: shoot-em up, role-playing, fighter, strategy, etc. why can't somebody come up with an entirely new concept.
i remember back in the early 1990's there was this cool VR game called alphaworld or something like that, it was a totally abstract game where you flew this abstract ship around in the universe of rooms connected by little doorways, sorta reminds me of the movie "the cube" if anyone's seen it.
or that other game, the "incredible machine", how fun was that?
we need more games like that. , instead we get quake 7. where's the innovation in the gaming world? sure they are making the games look better, more realistic, shinier, but i these games are just clones of games we've already played... give me something original to play, or give me death, damnit
it is interesting to see that ibm is embracing this project, given that they like to amass server and storage power on large mainframes, single points of failure.
the whole concept of distributed storage, i find, is a more "enlightened" one but it is also one that is harder to implement. i believe that it is theoretically impossible to ensure consistency of data in a distributed storage system.
in such a system, the following criteria have to be satisfied for successful operation:
migration - data must be moved from one server to another safely, in a transaction-like fashion, with rollback in case a transaction fails.
replication - data must be copied many times and stored in different places to insure that if a there is a server crash in one place, there is a copy somewhere else
consistency - a modification of data in one place must be propagated to all the other places.
these conditions are difficult to satisfy, to say the least. also as the system grows in size, these conditions become more difficult to satisfy. so i am interested to see how these problems are addressed in this project..
the concept of semi-intelligent agents, acting together to perform what appear to be intelligent tasks is the main theme running through minsky's book society of mind, a great read, highly recommended.
to minsky, our intelligence is the product of millions of agents that autonomously perform various tasks and send messages to one another.
what i found interesting about this article was that the ideas of the classical AI (minsky, et al.) are morphing with the "modern" AI. this is cool because when i studied artificial intelligence in college, i got the impression that there was a holy war between the two AI camps. it's nice to see the convergence..
my father was in chernobyl shortly after it blew up to treat people with medical problems in the vicinity.
it's been 15 years and we live in the united states now. what i am wondering is if anyone knows of any facilities in the united states that can test you for radioactive exposure?
any information would be greatly appreciated. sorry if this is slightly off-topic.
(mlm11@po.cwru.edu)
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the zone is something internal and comes spontaneously, like a good hair day. the immediate surroundings are of no consequence in my opinion. if only there was a way to steer that "good wave" , make it last longer...
.. i still find 2-d games like chess and pac-man more entertaining than the latest 3-d extravaganza of the day. these 3-d games have not really evolved much in terms of originality. they all fall into the same old categories: shoot-em up, role-playing, fighter, strategy, etc. why can't somebody come up with an entirely new concept.
i remember back in the early 1990's there was this cool VR game called alphaworld or something like that, it was a totally abstract game where you flew this abstract ship around in the universe of rooms connected by little doorways, sorta reminds me of the movie "the cube" if anyone's seen it.
or that other game, the "incredible machine", how fun was that?
we need more games like that. , instead we get quake 7. where's the innovation in the gaming world? sure they are making the games look better, more realistic, shinier, but i these games are just clones of games we've already played... give me something original to play, or give me death, damnit
just my 2 cents.
a troll aboard a crashing airplane: fp!
it is interesting to see that ibm is embracing this project, given that they like to amass server and storage power on large mainframes, single points of failure.
the whole concept of distributed storage, i find, is a more "enlightened" one but it is also one that is harder to implement. i believe that it is theoretically impossible to ensure consistency of data in a distributed storage system.
in such a system, the following criteria have to be satisfied for successful operation:
these conditions are difficult to satisfy, to say the least. also as the system grows in size, these conditions become more difficult to satisfy. so i am interested to see how these problems are addressed in this project..
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the concept of semi-intelligent agents, acting together to perform what appear to be intelligent tasks is the main theme running through minsky's book society of mind, a great read, highly recommended.
to minsky, our intelligence is the product of millions of agents that autonomously perform various tasks and send messages to one another. what i found interesting about this article was that the ideas of the classical AI (minsky, et al.) are morphing with the "modern" AI. this is cool because when i studied artificial intelligence in college, i got the impression that there was a holy war between the two AI camps. it's nice to see the convergence..
-mikei thought that some bacteria was a good thing?
my father was in chernobyl shortly after it blew up to treat people with medical problems in the vicinity. it's been 15 years and we live in the united states now. what i am wondering is if anyone knows of any facilities in the united states that can test you for radioactive exposure? any information would be greatly appreciated. sorry if this is slightly off-topic. (mlm11@po.cwru.edu)