"Though the tape and hard drives were stored onsite at the Jackson location, Hart and Warren figured onsite backup was better than none."
They had to recover the drives from the rubble and after numerous failed attempts, finally found a data extraction company that could retrieve the data.
While their recovery, and foresight is impressive, I don't think we should raise them up as the example, when they ommited something as simple as carrying a backup home every once and a while. They got lucky, with regards to company data, plain and simple.
The number of shaky premises, false inferences, and unjustified conclusions in your post, is right up there with mainstream journalism.
Rather than show all these problems in formal logic, let me just point out one problem: A humans ability to do facial recognition has nothing to do with a computer's inability to do it.
Also let me throw in the technical point that any parallel solution to the problem, can be emulated serially; it just will take more time and probably more hardware to do it.
Apparently your professors posted much better notes than mine... and the MIT OCW professors as well for that matter.
There is always information missing from the notes.
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"Of course, there will probably be debates to see if these courses will be admissible for diploma..."
Probably only between people such as yourself that have not read any of the FAQs:
"MIT OCW is not meant to replace degree-granting higher education or for-credit courses. Rather, the goal is to provide the content that supports an education."
About 1/3 of the FAQs there plainly state that this is just the publishable material of the course; not at all a replacement for taking the course, and in no way is admissible for a diploma.
If you've ever attended college and skipped a class, you should know there is absolutely no comparison between being in class and reading the notes on the web later. That being said, I think this is a great idea, and hopefully people will use it for its intended purpose.
Im protected because if I buy a counterfeit product, take it home and install it, it won't work. Seems like quite the consumer protection scheme to me. Are consumers expected to rinse and repeat until they stumble upon the real deal?
In most cases you'll find what someone thinks they need to do X is nowhere near their actual requirements... its just "top of the line". Buying the latest and greatest in computer equipment is the stupidest thing you will ever do. I always buy one or two steps below top of the line (a.k.a top of the line 3months ago). Its usually about half the price and down right indistinguishable for 95% of what I do with it.
HALTING PROBLEM / ORACLE The naming relationship of CS Oracle and the Matrix Oracle only exists because they both draw from the same, more general use of the term: one who knows all. Self-reference is a necessary component of the Turing paradox, but it is hardly sufficient. I can see where you are coming from here, but I think I can safely say this is not the motivating backbone of the scene, and is an interesting footnote at best.
DIAGONAL ARGUMENT / ARCHITECT SCENE The diagonal argument is much more than a simple enumeration. Movies, let along the world, is filled with enumerations of things, do you point at all of them and proclaim: "Behold! The diagonal argument manifest!"
If the scene is indeed "The diagonal argument, clear as day." what is the analogous conclusion we are to draw? Cantor's proof was that there are different degrees of infinity. What are the video screens proving?
Also, if you think the matrix could be implemented as a purely axiomatic system, you are sorely mistaken. The flaw in the matrix is not its basis in axioms, but its inherent need to include choice/free will in order to keep the human mind from rejecting it. To quote the architect in said speech: "As you adequately put, the problem is choice".
The diagonal argument?... um...no. Showing a bunch of alternate Neo-reactions to the Architect's speach I'm quite sure is not what Cantor had in mind when he formulated his clever proof.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the Matrix is not about Godel's Theorem.
I'll entertain your defense of the Oracle meeting being a summary of the halting problem before I dismiss that outright.
p.s. I did "think about it" and I still want to know the the f you are talking about.
hindering total emersion. I would be as happy as Mario in a Coin Room, if I only felt the illusion fade when I had to save.
How about tackling a real problem, like, when faced with some game problem I have to stop and think "Ok, what physical properties of which objects did the game designers choose to model?" Or something like "how did the game designers intend for me to solve this problem?"
The good games of today attempt to overcome these problems by being consistent; but we are always stuck with a weak metaphor of reality.
I realize its the Holy Grail, but I want to hear no more whining about the rhetoric of game saving until some serious headway is made in hard physics.
While I whole-heartedly agree with your statement (I run several open source projects myself), being a corporate employee I can also sympathize with the previous statement.
I think you'll find in about 90% of the cases the modification people want to make to the source are not "improvements" per se, but just modifications. When writing a driver, or any library for that matter, you have to make certain assumptions about usage patterns. In some cases the assumption don't match up with how someone wants to use the code. The code may provide 99.9% of the functionality they want, but its missing a critical extension point, or does something slightly different than you want it to.
Under GPL, you basically have your hands tied. You can't legally modify and use the code withouth submitting them back, and you can't really submit back the changes because they are usually hacks to get it to work how you want (not "improvements" on the code).
Its a tough position to be in. And as the previous post says, if you want to be safe you have to just not use the code.
So how is that better than Ctrl+C (or X), and Ctrl+V?
I guess it's a fair criticism, although I think it's a major advocacy for Eclipse if something as simple as that made it to your "Top 2" list of complaints about Eclipse.
Expand a java element in the Package Explorer View. Drag and drop it to where you want (eg another class). Eclipse does all the needed refactoring for you.
2) No visual GUI editor. This is available for a price, though. I just wish it were free.:(
I'll agree this is lacking, but take a look at some of the plugins: Eclipse GUI plugins And specifically: Assisi
Yea, I thought the same thing when I only read the Title. Atleast read the summary and you will see that "Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book".
That means, the search will tell you the words are there, but you can only see the actual text if it falls within the "viewable portions".
"...that would make it a felony to upload a file to a P2P network."
Um, I think you mean "copyrighted" file!
These kinds of headlines are to blame for the negitive view the general public has of P2P. P2P is a legitimate technology, and always will be. Just because a technology can be used to commit a crime, doesn't make it inherently bad.
It takes an english sentance, translates it, back and forth a random number of times, between other random languages.
If you have AOL instant messenger. AIM "JavaAIMBot" this message:
babel Hi, Ivan, that vaccuum cleaner you left is on the fritz again, it doesn't suck
Some Sample Runs: hello, it is not Ivan, this agent of pulizia of the vaccuum, than it still leaves it, in the Fritz, the inala hello, not Ivan, that it has sucked means of this vaccuum of pulizia, like it is it you, in the Fritz other an hour, it on the left hello, Ivan, this pulitore that the vaccuum you, to that it has left is not always in Fritz, he aspires
While you're there... type help to see what else it can do.
Any operating system can be made stable if you know what you're doing.
Yea... I know how to do it too... never install any software that didn't ship with the OS. Unfortunately that is not why we have Operating Systems. Until MS learns that Windows is an OS and not a cludge factory for all its apps, it will never be stable.
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"Though the tape and hard drives were stored onsite at the Jackson location, Hart and Warren figured onsite backup was better than none."
They had to recover the drives from the rubble and after numerous failed attempts, finally found a data extraction company that could retrieve the data.
While their recovery, and foresight is impressive, I don't think we should raise them up as the example, when they ommited something as simple as carrying a backup home every once and a while. They got lucky, with regards to company data, plain and simple.
Its lightning fast! I always have 0 msec pings!
I highly recommend you try it.
The number of shaky premises, false inferences, and unjustified conclusions in your post, is right up there with mainstream journalism.
Rather than show all these problems in formal logic, let me just point out one problem:
A humans ability to do facial recognition has nothing to do with a computer's inability to do it.
Also let me throw in the technical point that any parallel solution to the problem, can be emulated serially; it just will take more time and probably more hardware to do it.
" If the software is smart, it will look for perfect reproductions which no human would be capable of and give an error if it detects one."
Why do you not assume that the macro software could be "smart" and simply add some white noise to the playback?
Apparently your professors posted much better notes than mine... and the MIT OCW professors as well for that matter.
There is always information missing from the notes.
"Of course, there will probably be debates to see if these courses will be admissible for diploma..."
Probably only between people such as yourself that have not read any of the FAQs:
"MIT OCW is not meant to replace degree-granting higher education or for-credit courses. Rather, the goal is to provide the content that supports an education."
About 1/3 of the FAQs there plainly state that this is just the publishable material of the course; not at all a replacement for taking the course, and in no way is admissible for a diploma.
If you've ever attended college and skipped a class, you should know there is absolutely no comparison between being in class and reading the notes on the web later. That being said, I think this is a great idea, and hopefully people will use it for its intended purpose.
Scott
Im protected because if I buy a counterfeit product, take it home and install it, it won't work. Seems like quite the consumer protection scheme to me. Are consumers expected to rinse and repeat until they stumble upon the real deal?
In most cases you'll find what someone thinks they need to do X is nowhere near their actual requirements... its just "top of the line". Buying the latest and greatest in computer equipment is the stupidest thing you will ever do. I always buy one or two steps below top of the line (a.k.a top of the line 3months ago). Its usually about half the price and down right indistinguishable for 95% of what I do with it.
Scott
HALTING PROBLEM / ORACLE
The naming relationship of CS Oracle and the Matrix Oracle only exists because they both draw from the same, more general use of the term: one who knows all. Self-reference is a necessary component of the Turing paradox, but it is hardly sufficient. I can see where you are coming from here, but I think I can safely say this is not the motivating backbone of the scene, and is an interesting footnote at best.
DIAGONAL ARGUMENT / ARCHITECT SCENE
The diagonal argument is much more than a simple enumeration. Movies, let along the world, is filled with enumerations of things, do you point at all of them and proclaim: "Behold! The diagonal argument manifest!"
If the scene is indeed "The diagonal argument, clear as day." what is the analogous conclusion we are to draw? Cantor's proof was that there are different degrees of infinity. What are the video screens proving?
Also, if you think the matrix could be implemented as a purely axiomatic system, you are sorely mistaken. The flaw in the matrix is not its basis in axioms, but its inherent need to include choice/free will in order to keep the human mind from rejecting it. To quote the architect in said speech: "As you adequately put, the problem is choice".
The diagonal argument?... um...no.
Showing a bunch of alternate Neo-reactions to the Architect's speach I'm quite sure is not what Cantor had in mind when he formulated his clever proof.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the Matrix is not about Godel's Theorem.
I'll entertain your defense of the Oracle meeting being a summary of the halting problem before I dismiss that outright.
p.s. I did "think about it" and I still want to know the the f you are talking about.
To Quote:
"If all the humans were blind they could not possibly be liberated."
Wow. Being blind means there is no possible hope; thats a serious kick in the teeth.
uh yea... just about as ironic as rain on your wedding day, alanis.
hindering total emersion. I would be as happy as Mario in a Coin Room, if I only felt the illusion fade when I had to save.
How about tackling a real problem, like, when faced with some game problem I have to stop and think "Ok, what physical properties of which objects did the game designers choose to model?" Or something like "how did the game designers intend for me to solve this problem?"
The good games of today attempt to overcome these problems by being consistent; but we are always stuck with a weak metaphor of reality.
I realize its the Holy Grail, but I want to hear no more whining about the rhetoric of game saving until some serious headway is made in hard physics.
While I whole-heartedly agree with your statement (I run several open source projects myself), being a corporate employee I can also sympathize with the previous statement.
I think you'll find in about 90% of the cases the modification people want to make to the source are not "improvements" per se, but just modifications. When writing a driver, or any library for that matter, you have to make certain assumptions about usage patterns. In some cases the assumption don't match up with how someone wants to use the code. The code may provide 99.9% of the functionality they want, but its missing a critical extension point, or does something slightly different than you want it to.
Under GPL, you basically have your hands tied. You can't legally modify and use the code withouth submitting them back, and you can't really submit back the changes because they are usually hacks to get it to work how you want (not "improvements" on the code).
Its a tough position to be in. And as the previous post says, if you want to be safe you have to just not use the code.
its being played inside of a tin can?
So how is that better than Ctrl+C (or X), and Ctrl+V?
I guess it's a fair criticism, although I think it's a major advocacy for Eclipse if something as simple as that made it to your "Top 2" list of complaints about Eclipse.
Scott
1) Yes there is (if i understand what you mean).
:(
Expand a java element in the Package Explorer View. Drag and drop it to where you want (eg another class). Eclipse does all the needed refactoring for you.
2) No visual GUI editor. This is available for a price, though. I just wish it were free.
I'll agree this is lacking, but take a look at some of the plugins:
Eclipse GUI plugins
And specifically: Assisi
Scott
Yea, I thought the same thing when I only read the Title. Atleast read the summary and you will see that "Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book".
That means, the search will tell you the words are there, but you can only see the actual text if it falls within the "viewable portions".
its the compression that sucks. Most movies look pretty damn good on a 700MB Divx.
Let me give an example most slashdot users can understand.
Sharing a linux distribution on a P2P network is not, and can not, be made illegal (as its licensed to allow redistribution).
Replace "linux distribution" with any public domain, or redistributable work and you see my point.
Scott
"...that would make it a felony to upload a file to a P2P network."
Um, I think you mean "copyrighted" file!
These kinds of headlines are to blame for the negitive view the general public has of P2P. P2P is a legitimate technology, and always will be. Just because a technology can be used to commit a crime, doesn't make it inherently bad.
Scott
While I too noticed that fragment in the post.
I'm confused by 10 dollar words.
flummox
tr.v. Informal flummoxed, flummoxing, flummoxes
-To confuse; perplex.
It takes an english sentance, translates it, back and forth a random number of times, between other random languages.
If you have AOL instant messenger. AIM "JavaAIMBot" this message:
babel Hi, Ivan, that vaccuum cleaner you left is on the fritz again, it doesn't suck
Some Sample Runs:
hello, it is not Ivan, this agent of pulizia of the vaccuum, than it still leaves it, in the Fritz, the inala
hello, not Ivan, that it has sucked means of this vaccuum of pulizia, like it is it you, in the Fritz other an hour, it on the left
hello, Ivan, this pulitore that the vaccuum you, to that it has left is not always in Fritz, he aspires
While you're there... type help to see what else it can do.
If you're interested: Its an open source project:
SF Page
Home Page
Source to this babel fish module
Scott
Any operating system can be made stable if you know what you're doing.
Yea... I know how to do it too... never install any software that didn't ship with the OS.
Unfortunately that is not why we have Operating Systems. Until MS learns that Windows is an OS and not a cludge factory for all its apps, it will never be stable.
Scott