Also for reference, IE6 renders the page so badly it doesn't show the score correctly (at least I cant see it under all the other mess).. I'm going to assume this makes it a zero (but we all knew it would do that badly didn't we)
Except that MS wants XP dead.. Dead dead dead dead.. And this cant happen if they are forced to swap Vista licenses for XP ones..
I can see why they want XP dead as well, supporting and fixing 2 versions of windows with different codebases must be a nightmare, one they thought they had finally gotten away from..
The Slashdor ID was probably inherited from a "wierd uncle" which died in a strange accident in his basement when a pile of old Sun workstations fell on top of him.
I have to admit, "crushed by workstations" does sound better than "autoerotic asphyxiation." I'd stick with that story.
"They told me I had to do it like this" isn't very compelling, but "We only have an agreement with the copyright holder to sell this song in x country" and "we have to pay different distributes different prices in different countries, so we are just passing this on" sound much more legal. Personally I think it sucks, but apple haven't caused this problem.
You allude to having a little more incite than most on this subject, but let me just say... DUH!. I'm fairly sure that after 4 cores (which Intel can do now) 8 cores will be next, and once they have that under their belt, 16 cores here we come!
The point releases (or.y releases as they are sometimes called), are a new feature of the 2.6.x release cycle that's intended to get fixes in the hands of users faster. These are always small changes, usually only a handful of line changes in the diff.
The 2.6.16 kernel is a special case. One of the core kernel devs decided to try an experiment
Woah.. wait.. hold it right there.. Experiment.. Wasn't this the point of a stable and dev branch? So all the experimenting could go on in the dev branch and those of us that just want a kernel that, i don't know, doesn't corrupt our file system at random, can stay in stable?
You pretty much have an unsupported OS as it is. Call MS for any support questions and your not running SP2 and I can almost guarantee their first answer will be "Update to SP2 and add all the service patches since then". I hate MS as much as the next guy, but if you have a problem with software and the developer has a newer version out (especial if its a free update), guess what they are going to ask you to do.
The problem with this is that developers will now use this as an excuse to NOT port ShinyNewApp1 to MacOS.. Instead of opening up your new mac to all the software you can get under windows, your killing off mac development..
And I dont know what M$ is worried about. Office is actualy pretty good. Well, 2000 was pretty good. It became the defacto standard becaise it was better than anything else. People (businesses) will keep using it even if 1001 other apps could use the same file format, because it does what they want and has the support of a huge megacorp behind it.
The Laser also had no practical applications when invented. The world doesn't stand still at today's technology, and what might be useless today may be a revolution in years to come. Good luck to them.
Yes the shopping cart COULD have prevented you from purchasing Motion without purchasing a Mac that could run it, but how freeking annoying would that be!
The Apple online store (and I mean the bit where you hit add to my cart, not the product description) however clearly states under system requirements: '867MHz PowerPC G4 based Power Mac or faster. (Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 or faster recommended for real-time interactivity)' and 'One of the following graphics card...' at which point most consumers would say to them selves, 'I have no idea what I have in this thing, maybe I should ask someone before spending AU$450'.
Yes, it should have been an undoable act, but you should also have checked.
I dont know, one of the Asus ones looked ok. Fine, it was the only white one and looked a lot like an iBook with a built in camera...... mmmmmm.. iBook..
I've watched beginners, even some intermediate computer users.. Most of them don't even realise their computer can run more than 1 program at a time, let alone 3. Yes this will be a pain for experienced users, but so would having to watch a video on how to use a mouse.. So bag M$ all you want for introducing a crippled OS rather than fixing a broken one, but I don't think the average home user is going to notice much.
'Use OAKLEY THUMP to store and transport computer files'
Yes, its obvious, but I just find the idea of transporting files around on my face funny.. And yes, before the masses ask about face mounting a Linux distro, I have no doubt it can be done with this...
So the only other alternative I can see is they try to prove that the defendant isn't the original copyright holder. Now where have I seen that argument before...
To all the retail web sites that rely on being on the first page for business, that could be loosing 'millions' because of it....
PAY FOR A DAMN AD!!!!
I mean its not to hard. If a web site is making tht much mony for you, then surly its worth paying someone to keep it in a promenant position. You can never rely on such nebuls thinghs like search rankings to make sure you are on the opening page, but you CAN rely on paying some money to make sure it is. Google has a nice feature that puts ads at the top and side of the page. BE ONE OF THEM if you want business. I know I just about OLNY click on the sponsored links when im looking to buy something. If a companies too cheap to advertise and relys on tricks to get to the top, I dont want them tol have my business. [/rant off]
They did claim theyve learned alot from Linux's loyal developer community, they obviously lied.
No, no, no... You have it all wrong. They have learnt that once people migrate to Linux they never come back, so to stop that they get their existing developers to switch to a new language that you cant use in Linux.
So once everyone is using F#%$! or whatever, and has forgotten how to program in good old C++, they wont have any more defectors and therefore no more problem..
This would seem like a simple solution to debunk the Turing test until you start to think about it. The idea of the Turing test is not to just seem intelligent. For the machine, the idea is to make the questioner believe that the other person is the computer.
There are several ways to trick a machine in to giving its game away that the 'blockhead' machine would be vulnerable to. The easiest way would be to ask the same question twice. A machine will more than likely give exactly the same answer both times, where as a human wouldn't. To make this a bit harder to detect, the questions shouldn't be asked directly after one another, but they should be asked out of context a few minutes apart.
The only way a 'blockhead' device would be able to pick this would be to store all the questions it had been asked so that they would effect what answers it would give the next time it was asked a question. This would add a hell of a lot of overhead to the 'simple database' and at some point you go from just being a database to being something that is effected by previous experience.
There are several more examples of this (eg, asking it to remember a number and then get it to tell you what that number was later on) that a simple 'look up the answer' device wouldn't be able to respond correctly to.
The problem with this type of test is (as stated in one of the comments below) you are only able to actually pass it if you are a native speaker. This becomes very obvious if you have ever tried tutoring non-English speakers in English. A Japanese student, who's spelling was amazingly good, much better than mine, was completely unable to read a sentence if only a single word in that sentence was misspelt. It also worked the other way around. I have a (very) basic grasp of Japanese (thanks to said student) but if 1 letter was wrong there was no way I would be able to understand any of what was written.
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Also for reference, IE6 renders the page so badly it doesn't show the score correctly (at least I cant see it under all the other mess).. I'm going to assume this makes it a zero (but we all knew it would do that badly didn't we)
How could it miss? Its laser targeted!
I'd have thought this would have also been good.
Not really much to the interview.. It can be summed up with 1 Q&A
Interviewer: Where is Linux going.
Linus: Its going where it wants to.
Except that MS wants XP dead.. Dead dead dead dead.. And this cant happen if they are forced to swap Vista licenses for XP ones..
I can see why they want XP dead as well, supporting and fixing 2 versions of windows with different codebases must be a nightmare, one they thought they had finally gotten away from..
See, thats the problem, it was supposed to be Funk Islam but someone typoed it and now were in the mess were in...
Wouldn't "crushed by sun" sound even better?
"They told me I had to do it like this" isn't very compelling, but "We only have an agreement with the copyright holder to sell this song in x country" and "we have to pay different distributes different prices in different countries, so we are just passing this on" sound much more legal. Personally I think it sucks, but apple haven't caused this problem.
You allude to having a little more incite than most on this subject, but let me just say... DUH!. I'm fairly sure that after 4 cores (which Intel can do now) 8 cores will be next, and once they have that under their belt, 16 cores here we come!
The point releases (or .y releases as they are sometimes called), are a new feature of the 2.6.x release cycle that's intended to get fixes in the hands of users faster. These are always small changes, usually only a handful of line changes in the diff.
The 2.6.16 kernel is a special case. One of the core kernel devs decided to try an experiment
Woah.. wait.. hold it right there.. Experiment.. Wasn't this the point of a stable and dev branch? So all the experimenting could go on in the dev branch and those of us that just want a kernel that, i don't know, doesn't corrupt our file system at random, can stay in stable?
You pretty much have an unsupported OS as it is. Call MS for any support questions and your not running SP2 and I can almost guarantee their first answer will be "Update to SP2 and add all the service patches since then". I hate MS as much as the next guy, but if you have a problem with software and the developer has a newer version out (especial if its a free update), guess what they are going to ask you to do.
They put a 40Meg file on there, what else did you want?
The problem with this is that developers will now use this as an excuse to NOT port ShinyNewApp1 to MacOS.. Instead of opening up your new mac to all the software you can get under windows, your killing off mac development..
And I dont know what M$ is worried about. Office is actualy pretty good. Well, 2000 was pretty good. It became the defacto standard becaise it was better than anything else. People (businesses) will keep using it even if 1001 other apps could use the same file format, because it does what they want and has the support of a huge megacorp behind it.
The Laser also had no practical applications when invented. The world doesn't stand still at today's technology, and what might be useless today may be a revolution in years to come. Good luck to them.
Yes the shopping cart COULD have prevented you from purchasing Motion without purchasing a Mac that could run it, but how freeking annoying would that be!
The Apple online store (and I mean the bit where you hit add to my cart, not the product description) however clearly states under system requirements: '867MHz PowerPC G4 based Power Mac or faster. (Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 or faster recommended for real-time interactivity)' and 'One of the following graphics card...' at which point most consumers would say to them selves, 'I have no idea what I have in this thing, maybe I should ask someone before spending AU$450'.
Yes, it should have been an undoable act, but you should also have checked.
I dont know, one of the Asus ones looked ok. Fine, it was the only white one and looked a lot like an iBook with a built in camera...... mmmmmm.. iBook..
I've watched beginners, even some intermediate computer users.. Most of them don't even realise their computer can run more than 1 program at a time, let alone 3. Yes this will be a pain for experienced users, but so would having to watch a video on how to use a mouse.. So bag M$ all you want for introducing a crippled OS rather than fixing a broken one, but I don't think the average home user is going to notice much.
'Use OAKLEY THUMP to store and transport computer files'
Yes, its obvious, but I just find the idea of transporting files around on my face funny.. And yes, before the masses ask about face mounting a Linux distro, I have no doubt it can be done with this...
'Access to this website is currently not possible as your hostname/IP appears suspicous.'
OMG! I mist be in on it! Quick, tie me up before I get away!
So the only other alternative I can see is they try to prove that the defendant isn't the original copyright holder. Now where have I seen that argument before...
To all the retail web sites that rely on being on the first page for business, that could be loosing 'millions' because of it....
PAY FOR A DAMN AD!!!!
I mean its not to hard. If a web site is making tht much mony for you, then surly its worth paying someone to keep it in a promenant position. You can never rely on such nebuls thinghs like search rankings to make sure you are on the opening page, but you CAN rely on paying some money to make sure it is. Google has a nice feature that puts ads at the top and side of the page. BE ONE OF THEM if you want business. I know I just about OLNY click on the sponsored links when im looking to buy something. If a companies too cheap to advertise and relys on tricks to get to the top, I dont want them tol have my business. [/rant off]
They did claim theyve learned alot from Linux's loyal developer community, they obviously lied.
No, no, no... You have it all wrong. They have learnt that once people migrate to Linux they never come back, so to stop that they get their existing developers to switch to a new language that you cant use in Linux.
So once everyone is using F#%$! or whatever, and has forgotten how to program in good old C++, they wont have any more defectors and therefore no more problem..
This would seem like a simple solution to debunk the Turing test until you start to think about it. The idea of the Turing test is not to just seem intelligent. For the machine, the idea is to make the questioner believe that the other person is the computer.
There are several ways to trick a machine in to giving its game away that the 'blockhead' machine would be vulnerable to. The easiest way would be to ask the same question twice. A machine will more than likely give exactly the same answer both times, where as a human wouldn't. To make this a bit harder to detect, the questions shouldn't be asked directly after one another, but they should be asked out of context a few minutes apart.
The only way a 'blockhead' device would be able to pick this would be to store all the questions it had been asked so that they would effect what answers it would give the next time it was asked a question. This would add a hell of a lot of overhead to the 'simple database' and at some point you go from just being a database to being something that is effected by previous experience.
There are several more examples of this (eg, asking it to remember a number and then get it to tell you what that number was later on) that a simple 'look up the answer' device wouldn't be able to respond correctly to.
The problem with this type of test is (as stated in one of the comments below) you are only able to actually pass it if you are a native speaker. This becomes very obvious if you have ever tried tutoring non-English speakers in English. A Japanese student, who's spelling was amazingly good, much better than mine, was completely unable to read a sentence if only a single word in that sentence was misspelt. It also worked the other way around. I have a (very) basic grasp of Japanese (thanks to said student) but if 1 letter was wrong there was no way I would be able to understand any of what was written.