I'm waiting for the YouTube mail in my gmail account saying "other people also watched this shizzle" based upon the videos I watched because I forgot to logoff from gmail when watching a YT video.
Here are at least some day care centers where the parents are finger printed so they can enter the day care center. And somehow it doesn't sound too stupid.
Probably they will find that the neutrino doesn't travel faster than light, but instead the reference light bean somehow travels 20 nano seconds slower than expected. Nothing to see here.
OR there is "dark matter" involved that slows down the light beam.
Ok. I was thinking about "looks like nothing" vs "looks natural", but you're right, there is also "looks artificial".
Even though a corkscrew is not likely to evolve from in EndlessForms, I've seen bottles and lamps and you even suggest Tie Fighters.
But taking the concept of genes one step further, if you look at a genome as something that encodes something, in the computer world, you inevitably end up with bytes. It looks like EndlessForms is working with "genes" that operate as geometrical boolean operators. If you have enough of them, with enough mutations you could even end up with a cork screw. You can model a cork screw in Maya and you could call en geometrical parts of the cork screw "genes" and you could also come up with a mutation algorithm to mutate that geometry. But in the end it's the human selection and not the underlying "genome model" that results in the the selection of objects that look like "something" and not like "nothing".
ok. interesting. Let me try to break this down. There is the genome part and the selection / evolution part.
The selection / evolution part. Let's assume Darwin is right and natural selection follows the rules of survival of the fittest. In EndlessForms it's human selection and the definition of "fittest" will probably boil down to something like "shapes we like to use for the next generation" or probably even to "shapes that resemble something we recognize as something we know". The genome part doesn't really play a role here. It could just as well have been any random process, but genomes are fancy;)
Suppose the underlying mutation mechanism was random and not genome based, in my opinion the end result will be more or less the same. Natural looking objects. Because we're biased toward selecting things that look like "something" and because we make the selection.
What the article pointed out was "we use genomes, so the objects look natural". If you played with it, you'll see there are "strange" objects, but in the end we submit only the ones that "resemble something". And on top of that, we have to name the objects "bee, horse", And on top of THAT, we tend to see things that are not there (Rorschach blots, "Jezus toast").
So to call things "natural because we use genomes"...
I think this is crap. Objects look natural only because WE select objects that look interesting of resemble something we know, so by human selection, not natural selection, "strange" objects don't get evolved any further. That's all there is to the natural look of some of the objects.
The following thing will happen: A new privatised organisation will have it's start-up. It will hire all the people with big incomes from the TSA. Service will be as crappy as always, but it will cost a lot more than it does now. That's all there is to it.
The chances of anything coming from Earth are a million to one, he said. The chances of anything coming from Earth are a million to one - but still they come!
Well. We all remember what "a flood" will look like. For low-laying countries this could very well look the same, so even IF the house will float you'll have to look for it between tons of rubble, driftwood and cars...
2 files more visible; that will help with large directories. Less info about the file. hmm. I think I can do without. a LOT more ***, oh wait that IS the ribbon.
I don't know anything about EVE, but it sounds like life and Wall street. Everybody gets fucked and and robbed by a few bad guys and after 2 weeks we continue playing...
It took 0 seconds to realize ip-numbers were out of the question and another 2 seconds to realize it could be coordinates and 5 more to see they map to urban areas.
But ask geocachers to take a look at it. They're quite good with coordinates and obfuscating them. Since some of the locations are in the middle of the street, it would make sense that the coordinate also needs to be translated. The Cyrillic for instance could contain information for this translation. Try adding the 0x402-0x428 to the coordinates. See if you end up with more "logical" locations.
What do these footnotes belong to? Quotes? Could they refer to people? Would be rather stupid, but then again, killing 77 people is also insane, so who knows.
Slashdot Mirror
Sir David Frederick Attenborough.
I'm waiting for the YouTube mail in my gmail account saying "other people also watched this shizzle" based upon the videos I watched because I forgot to logoff from gmail when watching a YT video.
I'm quite done with user tracking.
If you have to keep an administration of the IOUs there will still be a paper trail..
Here are at least some day care centers where the parents are finger printed so they can enter the day care center.
And somehow it doesn't sound too stupid.
/. has stayed good, clear and simple all these years. Unlike Facebook or Firefox, that change every 5 minutes.
I don't block the ads on /. because they are not intrusive. and finally /. knows it's public.
Well. If you have no budget for a 15 minute home video, you're on a REALLY tight budget...
But I tried. Now it's your turn to come up with a creative idea to explain the 60ns :)
And please call me Einstein, will you!
60ns, that is.
Probably they will find that the neutrino doesn't travel faster than light, but instead the reference light bean somehow travels 20 nano seconds slower than expected.
Nothing to see here.
OR there is "dark matter" involved that slows down the light beam.
Ok. I was thinking about "looks like nothing" vs "looks natural", but you're right, there is also "looks artificial".
Even though a corkscrew is not likely to evolve from in EndlessForms, I've seen bottles and lamps and you even suggest Tie Fighters.
But taking the concept of genes one step further, if you look at a genome as something that encodes something, in the computer world, you inevitably end up with bytes.
It looks like EndlessForms is working with "genes" that operate as geometrical boolean operators. If you have enough of them, with enough mutations you could even end up with a cork screw. You can model a cork screw in Maya and you could call en geometrical parts of the cork screw "genes" and you could also come up with a mutation algorithm to mutate that geometry. But in the end it's the human selection and not the underlying "genome model" that results in the the selection of objects that look like "something" and not like "nothing".
ok. interesting.
Let me try to break this down. There is the genome part and the selection / evolution part.
The selection / evolution part. Let's assume Darwin is right and natural selection follows the rules of survival of the fittest. In EndlessForms it's human selection and the definition of "fittest" will probably boil down to something like "shapes we like to use for the next generation" or probably even to "shapes that resemble something we recognize as something we know". ;)
The genome part doesn't really play a role here. It could just as well have been any random process, but genomes are fancy
Suppose the underlying mutation mechanism was random and not genome based, in my opinion the end result will be more or less the same. Natural looking objects. Because we're biased toward selecting things that look like "something" and because we make the selection.
Hmm. You have a point.
What the article pointed out was "we use genomes, so the objects look natural".
If you played with it, you'll see there are "strange" objects, but in the end we submit only the ones that "resemble something".
And on top of that, we have to name the objects "bee, horse",
And on top of THAT, we tend to see things that are not there (Rorschach blots, "Jezus toast").
So to call things "natural because we use genomes"...
I think this is crap. Objects look natural only because WE select objects that look interesting of resemble something we know, so by human selection, not natural selection, "strange" objects don't get evolved any further. That's all there is to the natural look of some of the objects.
The following thing will happen: A new privatised organisation will have it's start-up. It will hire all the people with big incomes from the TSA. Service will be as crappy as always, but it will cost a lot more than it does now. That's all there is to it.
S is for Space which is vast and dark...
The chances of anything coming from Earth are a million to one, he said.
The chances of anything coming from Earth are a million to one - but still they come!
Well. We all remember what "a flood" will look like. For low-laying countries this could very well look the same, so even IF the house will float you'll have to look for it between tons of rubble, driftwood and cars...
So they found the SSH Frontdoors, but did the admins find the rest?
Get out and start working. World economy needs you!
http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-29-43-metablogapi/8422.Figure-21-_2D00_-Real-Estate-comparison_5F00_2.png
2 files more visible; that will help with large directories.
Less info about the file. hmm. I think I can do without.
a LOT more ***, oh wait that IS the ribbon.
How long did it take them to come up with this theory...
Anyway. Just one more reason to find a not too bright 24 years old with long blonde hair and big boobs...
Ctrl-C in source application; Ctrl-V in TextPad; Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, in TextPad; Ctrl-V in target application...
I don't know anything about EVE, but it sounds like life and Wall street.
Everybody gets fucked and and robbed by a few bad guys and after 2 weeks we continue playing...
Well. One thing 5000 cameras DIDN'T do is stop people from looting.
It took 0 seconds to realize ip-numbers were out of the question and another 2 seconds to realize it could be coordinates and 5 more to see they map to urban areas.
But ask geocachers to take a look at it. They're quite good with coordinates and obfuscating them.
Since some of the locations are in the middle of the street, it would make sense that the coordinate also needs to be translated.
The Cyrillic for instance could contain information for this translation. Try adding the 0x402-0x428 to the coordinates. See if you end up with more "logical" locations.
What do these footnotes belong to? Quotes? Could they refer to people? Would be rather stupid, but then again, killing 77 people is also insane, so who knows.