Are we talking about the brain as we use it, or the brain, at it's full potential?
I don't think IBM know... Seems like some silly marketing ploy like Intel's "The Pentium III makes Internet faster".
I mean... Does even anyone know how quick the brain is at it's "full potential"? Do we even have a unit in which we measure brain "quickness"? I don't think brains go well with FLOP's. As someone in another thread said: "with easy numbers I can do 1 - 2 FLOP's". Still, we can do stuff we haven't even come close to with today's technology.
I wonder if there's a science that research the possibilities to adapt human behavior and thinking to computers? That's usually the major flaw with today's robots, etc. We have pretty much unimaginable power in the super computers of today, but the computer "minds" we've produced so far are still at a laughable stone age level. Why? Do we *still* need more power to make a computer be able to follow a natural conversation (without pre-made replies)? Or do we simply not have the theory to approach the problem and we're essentially just standing there saying "duh?" at the problem of having a computer to truly *know* grammatics and form sentences on its own?
Sure, we have neural networks, and that might be a nice *foundation* for simulating human minds, but how to do it in practice? How to write the actual code? Again, are there even a science for this?
Re:Sounds like a case for the Advertising Lullaby.
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Hmm.. I don't get it. I only see a song about CowboyNeal.
( ok, that was perhaps hitting below the belt:-P )
What he said! Holy crap! This is the main thing I don't like about slashdot, I can hardly ever tell what the main point of the post is if I have to figure out what link to click first.
Just act like the average Slashdot member. Never click any links to read the articles and just post your thoughts regarding the subject.:-)
Before you see decide to mod this as flamebait, it isn't *my* opinions, but the opinions of many Windows users:
WC3: Runs fine on linux, see www.transgaming.com The Sims: Linux port available, see www.transgaming.com
But... you need WineX... and does WineX come preinstalled with, say, Mandrake? If not, how do you install it? Type "install" or "setup"? Double click on an icon? It's harder than that? Do you need to configure it too?? Do you need more stuff as well? Do my video card driver work right with that... WineX? Hmm... I think I'll just dual boot with Windows. Yeah. I mean... It will work then and... Why bother? I want to play that game I bought this evening. I'll see about Linux some day I have more time. Yeah.
Neverwinter Nights: Port is on the way
But... I can play it months ahead if I dual boot with Windows... and who knows when it's out? It's on the way? Will it have bugs? Will it be less supported than Windows? Will its patches come later than the Windows patches? Do I need this... WineX thing for that too? Naahh... That sounds tricky, I think I'll stick with Windows.
Unreal 2k3: Runs perfectly on linux, the linux native version is in the box you bought at the store
Wow, that's nice if... Well, I like first person shooters.
Nice to see Microsoft taking reponsibility for their mistakes, but they really should have done so when they designed Windows
Well, their focus on security wasn't the same when there wasn't even a WWW, so now they're doing their best to fix their mistakes.
There's a lot you "should" do if you could predict the future. Windows worked fine and had few attacks in the 80's. Why should they spend time and effort on something that would become a problem in a decade later?
I'm sure there's a lot many operating systems should do today that might become a problem in another 10 years.
What the fuck does google have? Googlefights?? How much does any of that mean when Google's ranking system is corrupt, ie they allow people to pay for their ranking. Besides that, google now censors its content. Google is looking really weak at the moment.
Google has a ranking system, Altavista hasn't. At least I wish to find the most linked to sites when I search for something. Some people I've heard wish to let everyone have an equal chance, but I think that's a very bad idea, which the results of Altavista proves.
You say the ranking system is "corrupt". Sure it's exploitable, but not to the level that the results it gives are upside down. There are few sites that I've noticed exploit the ranking system. And as long as I think Google give more relevant search results than Altavista, who cares about the minor group of exploiters?
And I couldn't care less about Google's censoring system... The less nazi rubbish I stumble upon the better. They could start censoring kiddie porn as well. There are soo many ways to find this shit anyway if you really feel an urge to see it. Use Altavista for example.
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But after google, the only redeeming feature it had was babelfish -- and now google translates webpages better, too.
Still, MSI color their mother boards, including ports, etc in a purple hue. I'm pretty sure they'd get the material in that boring green color easier, but it's all about standing out of the crowd. Same reason to why you'd make your LED blue.
A blue LED doesn't help me get any work done. Sure, it may look cool and impress chicks, but even cooler would be an ALL KNOWING, ALL SEEING MOUSE, that wouldn't rely on me to push it around the mouse pad to get work done. It would do all the work for me because it would be that smart.
This seem to be related to a post I did on this topic.:)
C:\Windows is the same in all language versions, as is C:\Program Files.
What can I say? That's incorrect.:-)
My "C:\Program Files" is named C:\Program by default. Although Microsoft let some rather big bugs slip at times, I wouldn't think a bug of that magnitude would go unnoticed.:-)
On NT, minimized Windows apps use negligible system resources except swap space and toolbar space
Ok, thanks for the info. Yeah, when I talk Windows these days I always mean NT-based Windows. What you're saying about Win9x was funny and actually not that surprising at all. Backward compatibility with Win 2.x?! A truly impressive achievement by MS there.:-)
Ok, yeah, I guess Windows also have that feature. When I think about it, I recall Windows keeps track of what windows are minimized and not, to predict when it should page to disk. I've also seen CPU time change, sometimes dramatically, when an application is minimized.
So perhaps I'm just kinda stuck in the old thinking when never closing apps seem scary.:-P
And the dock/taskbar problem is actually a quite serious problem. MS tried to fix it in XP with windows grouped by the process that owns them, but it force the user to perform an extra step (bring up the pop up menu) to switch application. I'm not really sure how to fix that in the best way. The alternative is to Alt-Tab 10 times or so until you get the right window.:-P
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Hey how about a link in English for those who are unfortunately unilingual?!?
There are some news at The Register.
Are we talking about the brain as we use it, or the brain, at it's full potential?
I don't think IBM know... Seems like some silly marketing ploy like Intel's "The Pentium III makes Internet faster".
I mean... Does even anyone know how quick the brain is at it's "full potential"? Do we even have a unit in which we measure brain "quickness"? I don't think brains go well with FLOP's. As someone in another thread said: "with easy numbers I can do 1 - 2 FLOP's". Still, we can do stuff we haven't even come close to with today's technology.
I wonder if there's a science that research the possibilities to adapt human behavior and thinking to computers? That's usually the major flaw with today's robots, etc. We have pretty much unimaginable power in the super computers of today, but the computer "minds" we've produced so far are still at a laughable stone age level. Why? Do we *still* need more power to make a computer be able to follow a natural conversation (without pre-made replies)? Or do we simply not have the theory to approach the problem and we're essentially just standing there saying "duh?" at the problem of having a computer to truly *know* grammatics and form sentences on its own?
Sure, we have neural networks, and that might be a nice *foundation* for simulating human minds, but how to do it in practice? How to write the actual code? Again, are there even a science for this?
Hmm.. I don't get it. I only see a song about CowboyNeal.
:-P )
( ok, that was perhaps hitting below the belt
"When departing bali you have to pay 100,000 rupees in cash"
That is, if you're able to depart Bali still alive.
What he said! Holy crap! This is the main thing I don't like about slashdot, I can hardly ever tell what the main point of the post is if I have to figure out what link to click first.
:-)
Just act like the average Slashdot member. Never click any links to read the articles and just post your thoughts regarding the subject.
Everything get so much easier that way!
Before you see decide to mod this as flamebait, it isn't *my* opinions, but the opinions of many Windows users:
WC3: Runs fine on linux, see www.transgaming.com
The Sims: Linux port available, see www.transgaming.com
But... you need WineX... and does WineX come preinstalled with, say, Mandrake? If not, how do you install it? Type "install" or "setup"? Double click on an icon? It's harder than that? Do you need to configure it too?? Do you need more stuff as well? Do my video card driver work right with that... WineX? Hmm... I think I'll just dual boot with Windows. Yeah. I mean... It will work then and... Why bother? I want to play that game I bought this evening. I'll see about Linux some day I have more time. Yeah.
Neverwinter Nights: Port is on the way
But... I can play it months ahead if I dual boot with Windows... and who knows when it's out? It's on the way? Will it have bugs? Will it be less supported than Windows? Will its patches come later than the Windows patches? Do I need this... WineX thing for that too? Naahh... That sounds tricky, I think I'll stick with Windows.
Unreal 2k3: Runs perfectly on linux, the linux native version is in the box you bought at the store
Wow, that's nice if... Well, I like first person shooters.
Not me at least, since I don't hear any difference between high bitrate Ogg and FLAC, while Ogg is still far smaller.
:-)
And it sounds more cool than "flac".
Nice to see Microsoft taking reponsibility for their mistakes, but they really should have done so when they designed Windows
Well, their focus on security wasn't the same when there wasn't even a WWW, so now they're doing their best to fix their mistakes.
There's a lot you "should" do if you could predict the future. Windows worked fine and had few attacks in the 80's. Why should they spend time and effort on something that would become a problem in a decade later?
I'm sure there's a lot many operating systems should do today that might become a problem in another 10 years.
Darn cool, or should I say hot, pictures!
:-)
The web server seem to be running "hot" as well.
lol - Blackhorn... :-) ;-)
Sorry, too long days at work I guess.
Longhorn is the successor to .NET Server [microsoft.com]. .NET Server is currently at release candidate 1
.NET Server.
Longhorn is the successor to Windows XP.
Blackhorn is the successor to Windows
From the style of that quote, it looked like it came from someone having got waaay too much coffee...
7-zip is open source, free and usually compress at least as good as WinRAR.
What's honeybeer anyway?
... but don't brew it at home!
The original Oregon honey beer
Honey beer recipe
I personally find this web design to be:
:-)
;-)
- Easy to browse.
- Compatible with multiple browsers.
- International, by allowing non-americans to connect.
- Searchable.
They also use innovative comments called "nukes" to tell us if the quality isn't what a user would expect.
So, I think MovieLink should learn from that one and come back.
What the fuck does google have? Googlefights?? How much does any of that mean when Google's ranking system is corrupt, ie they allow people to pay for their ranking. Besides that, google now censors its content. Google is looking really weak at the moment.
Google has a ranking system, Altavista hasn't. At least I wish to find the most linked to sites when I search for something. Some people I've heard wish to let everyone have an equal chance, but I think that's a very bad idea, which the results of Altavista proves.
You say the ranking system is "corrupt". Sure it's exploitable, but not to the level that the results it gives are upside down. There are few sites that I've noticed exploit the ranking system. And as long as I think Google give more relevant search results than Altavista, who cares about the minor group of exploiters?
And I couldn't care less about Google's censoring system... The less nazi rubbish I stumble upon the better. They could start censoring kiddie porn as well. There are soo many ways to find this shit anyway if you really feel an urge to see it. Use Altavista for example.
But after google, the only redeeming feature it had was babelfish -- and now google translates webpages better, too.
:)
Wow, thanks for the heads up!
Still, MSI color their mother boards, including ports, etc in a purple hue. I'm pretty sure they'd get the material in that boring green color easier, but it's all about standing out of the crowd. Same reason to why you'd make your LED blue.
A blue LED doesn't help me get any work done. Sure, it may look cool and impress chicks, but even cooler would be an ALL KNOWING, ALL SEEING MOUSE, that wouldn't rely on me to push it around the mouse pad to get work done. It would do all the work for me because it would be that smart.
:)
This seem to be related to a post I did on this topic.
Sith (evil programmers) use the red ones. Blue, green and now purple are used by the good guys :)
:)
That would at least explain the reason for the LED's used by Microsoft mice.
If they're going through all the trouble of changing the LED's to blue, why not change them into a superintelligent shade of blue!
There's no documented way of calling SHGetFolderLocation from C# without having a System.ExecutionEngineException being thrown.
.NET Framework then?
:-)
lol!
Hmm...
You might be better of using the Environment.SpecialFolder enumeration in the
Damn, it can't be good for your soul to provide more than one link per day to MSDN.
C:\Windows is the same in all language versions, as is C:\Program Files.
:-)
:-)
What can I say? That's incorrect.
My "C:\Program Files" is named C:\Program by default. Although Microsoft let some rather big bugs slip at times, I wouldn't think a bug of that magnitude would go unnoticed.
On NT, minimized Windows apps use negligible system resources except swap space and toolbar space
:-)
Ok, thanks for the info. Yeah, when I talk Windows these days I always mean NT-based Windows. What you're saying about Win9x was funny and actually not that surprising at all. Backward compatibility with Win 2.x?! A truly impressive achievement by MS there.
Ok, yeah, I guess Windows also have that feature. When I think about it, I recall Windows keeps track of what windows are minimized and not, to predict when it should page to disk. I've also seen CPU time change, sometimes dramatically, when an application is minimized.
:-P
:-P
So perhaps I'm just kinda stuck in the old thinking when never closing apps seem scary.
And the dock/taskbar problem is actually a quite serious problem. MS tried to fix it in XP with windows grouped by the process that owns them, but it force the user to perform an extra step (bring up the pop up menu) to switch application. I'm not really sure how to fix that in the best way. The alternative is to Alt-Tab 10 times or so until you get the right window.