Sour grapes? About what? I'd sooner have done what Bill Gates or Larry Elison have done (ie make huge amounts of money!) than Berners-Lee so why arn't I dissing them?
Anyway I never said WE were all using hypertext in 1990, I'm simply saying that it already existed and had done so for a number of years.
Also gopher might not have hit the spot but then it didn't really get a chance to mature. Not easy to use? How much easier did you want? It was just menus! Any muppet could use it.
As for whether the web is actually needed, well thats another topic entirely.
Rational programming/fuzzy logic/quantum software blah blah.
Its all still rule based programming created in advance of its use by programmers. IMO the only real way forward for machine intelligence is neural networks which can adapt their "programming" to current conditions/experiences. Yes large scale networks are DAMN hard to set up properly and there are numerous huge obstacles to overcome (such as how do the neurons in the brain "know" what they should learn when presented with a particular stimulus) but ultimately they are the only way to imbue machines with real intelligence rather than just a very fast version of Chris Searles Chinese Room.
Great idea until one of the little nanobots goes wrong (software bug, cosmic ray zaps it, badly created by another nanobot etc etc) , starts creating large numbers of itself and ends up wrecking/destroying the planet. And these nanobots WILL go wrong at some point. Even nature can't make self reproducing systems that are 100% perfect (cancer anyone?) so theres zero chance we'll manage it. All this self reproducing nanotechnology seems like something only someone completely unhinged would ever use in the real world.
Not to mention the fact that if you take the
chips layout and impose it on other chips (for
mass production or similar) you'll probably
find it won't work given that the chips have to
be identical when working digitally but may
vary enormously in their analog operation which is
basically the way this evolved chip is working in part.
I have to disagree. I think Otherland is his best
work to date and is (so far) one of the best
novels I've ever read. But then its all a matter
of taste I guess.
He's much better. For a start he knows how to
write an exciting story that grips you most of the
time (though there are exceptions, all that dream story telling bullshit that the bushmen does in
Otherland gets on my nerves but great series otherwise) unlike Jordan who seems to delight in
writing 600 page books where frankly sweet FA
happens. What is the Wheel of Time up to now? 8 or 9 volumes? Gimme a break. I gave up after volume 5, I just didn't care enough about the characters or the story. Seems to me Jordan has smelt money and figures the more volumes in this tedious series he can bang out the more cash he'll make. Well true, but he'll alienate a helluvalot of readers in the process.
"Finally, gamers are smart. Again like chess players -- except that many video games are more complex -- gamers are often mentally over-stimulated."
Oh please! So let me guess, you reckon if you take some pizza munching lardarse kid who plays quake 3 for hours every day and teach him chess he'll take Gary Kasparov to checkmate? Bullshit.
DO you make this stuff up yourself or do you get some technohippy on E to think it up for you?
What does it matter? Since when has assembly
code been object oriented? OO is was invented to make life easy for people who couldn't really get to grips with procedural programming. IMO anyway.
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Sour grapes? About what? I'd sooner have done what Bill Gates or Larry Elison have done (ie make huge amounts of money!) than Berners-Lee so why arn't I dissing them? Anyway I never said WE were all using hypertext in 1990, I'm simply saying that it already existed and had done so for a number of years. Also gopher might not have hit the spot but then it didn't really get a chance to mature. Not easy to use? How much easier did you want? It was just menus! Any muppet could use it. As for whether the web is actually needed, well thats another topic entirely.
Rational programming/fuzzy logic/quantum software blah blah. Its all still rule based programming created in advance of its use by programmers. IMO the only real way forward for machine intelligence is neural networks which can adapt their "programming" to current conditions/experiences. Yes large scale networks are DAMN hard to set up properly and there are numerous huge obstacles to overcome (such as how do the neurons in the brain "know" what they should learn when presented with a particular stimulus) but ultimately they are the only way to imbue machines with real intelligence rather than just a very fast version of Chris Searles Chinese Room.
Great idea until one of the little nanobots goes wrong (software bug, cosmic ray zaps it, badly created by another nanobot etc etc) , starts creating large numbers of itself and ends up wrecking/destroying the planet. And these nanobots WILL go wrong at some point. Even nature can't make self reproducing systems that are 100% perfect (cancer anyone?) so theres zero chance we'll manage it. All this self reproducing nanotechnology seems like something only someone completely unhinged would ever use in the real world.
Not to mention the fact that if you take the chips layout and impose it on other chips (for mass production or similar) you'll probably find it won't work given that the chips have to be identical when working digitally but may vary enormously in their analog operation which is basically the way this evolved chip is working in part.
I have to disagree. I think Otherland is his best work to date and is (so far) one of the best novels I've ever read. But then its all a matter of taste I guess.
He's much better. For a start he knows how to write an exciting story that grips you most of the time (though there are exceptions, all that dream story telling bullshit that the bushmen does in Otherland gets on my nerves but great series otherwise) unlike Jordan who seems to delight in writing 600 page books where frankly sweet FA happens. What is the Wheel of Time up to now? 8 or 9 volumes? Gimme a break. I gave up after volume 5, I just didn't care enough about the characters or the story. Seems to me Jordan has smelt money and figures the more volumes in this tedious series he can bang out the more cash he'll make. Well true, but he'll alienate a helluvalot of readers in the process.
"Finally, gamers are smart. Again like chess players -- except that many video games are more complex -- gamers are often mentally over-stimulated." Oh please! So let me guess, you reckon if you take some pizza munching lardarse kid who plays quake 3 for hours every day and teach him chess he'll take Gary Kasparov to checkmate? Bullshit. DO you make this stuff up yourself or do you get some technohippy on E to think it up for you?
Is that French? Or did you mean boycot?
Thats a really lame putdown. Try a bit harder next time.
What does it matter? Since when has assembly code been object oriented? OO is was invented to make life easy for people who couldn't really get to grips with procedural programming. IMO anyway.
As far as I'm aware kernel compression is required because the BIOS can only boot files up to a certain size. Someone correct me on this if I'm wrong.
Can't the moderators remove this juvenile crap? Its neither funny nor even very offensive , just pretty damn pathetic.