The UN is a morally corrupt institution whose need for reform is long over do. With countries like Syria on the Security Committee its no wonder their resolutions have no value.
Besides the fact that Sharon accepted the road map, try looking back to the July 2000 Camp David summit between Clinton, Barak, and Arafat. When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat 96% of what Palestinias claim they want, including a Palestinian capital in parts of Jerusalem, rather than accept or even come up with a counter-offer, Arafat refused the offer and left the peace talks.
Oh and by the way, the Palestinian Liberation Orgranization PLO, was founded pre-1967 and their charter calls for the destruction of Israel so don't go thinking this is about borders.
Ever looked inside a Palestinian elementary school textbook? Think there is one mention of a state of Israel in there? How bout the Palestinian kids' shows in arabic that look like the typical Sessame St. type show until you see 8 year olds dressing up as suicide bombers and you translate the songs they are singing and realize they are gloryfying martyrdom.
I would read a little more history before you jump to the conclusing that Arafat, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Tanzim, or any other terrorist is interested in a two state solution. Just look at the success Arafat and the Palestinians made out of Oslo- when Israel fulfilled every one of its obligations and the Palestinians fulfilled NONE.
I thought what was discussed regarding distributed AI is an interesting idea however my thoughts are that instead of using our processors, the project should use our intelligence!
What I mean is that each and every one of us could participate in "teaching" it
He said AI needs 10 billion lines of code, what better way to do it than have 10 million people each writing 1 thousand? (Ok, so when you work it out its still pretty unlikely but distributing this project over a larger group of people will make the goal of having AI that much more attainable).
I'm not sure exactly how the distributed method would work as I am just a fan of AI and dont understand most of the technical issues however im sure some method of "teaching" could be developed whether it uses natural language or a set of commands that users would have to learn. Who knows, maybe eventually speech recognition will be good enough for us to spend an hour a night teaching our little AI bot (yes, kind of like the way your mother used to read to you at bedtime except this "kid" would have 10,000 mothers).
Heck, this fits right in with the open source theme. We can have an opensource AI "program" where all its knowledge is open source. I personally don't have the programming or AI experience to get up right now and say i'll start work on an open source client/server for this right now, but i sure as hell would if i did!
I know this is half scifi and am not sure how feasible this is in actuallity but AI _IS_ scifi and its pretty damn kool so what do you all think?
First of all, i didn't even see that "Please reboot" part, and second of all, i'd just like to say that's the easiest it's ever been for me to get a piece of hardware to work with linux. I think it was very thoughtful of them to provide an install script... And, if you would look at the code (below) you would see that their were two possible types of install, one which needed a reboot and one that did not. Why don't you thank them for makeing it so easy for you to install it? (yes.. im beggining to forget the months and months i've waited for them to release this BINARY-BETA driver..)
Heres the install code: if [ "$OLDSND" -o "$OLDMID" ] then echo "Soundblaster Live! driver installed. Please reboot." else if modprobe sblive then echo "Soundblaster Live! driver installed." fi fi
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The UN is a morally corrupt institution whose need for reform is long over do. With countries like Syria on the Security Committee its no wonder their resolutions have no value.
Besides the fact that Sharon accepted the road map, try looking back to the July 2000 Camp David summit between Clinton, Barak, and Arafat. When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat 96% of what Palestinias claim they want, including a Palestinian capital in parts of Jerusalem, rather than accept or even come up with a counter-offer, Arafat refused the offer and left the peace talks.
Oh and by the way, the Palestinian Liberation Orgranization PLO, was founded pre-1967 and their charter calls for the destruction of Israel so don't go thinking this is about borders.
Ever looked inside a Palestinian elementary school textbook? Think there is one mention of a state of Israel in there? How bout the Palestinian kids' shows in arabic that look like the typical Sessame St. type show until you see 8 year olds dressing up as suicide bombers and you translate the songs they are singing and realize they are gloryfying martyrdom.
I would read a little more history before you jump to the conclusing that Arafat, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Tanzim, or any other terrorist is interested in a two state solution. Just look at the success Arafat and the Palestinians made out of Oslo- when Israel fulfilled every one of its obligations and the Palestinians fulfilled NONE.
What's to stop someone from "bumping" in to you with a reader and grabbing all your stored information ex: credit card #, expiration date, ...
...
Now the thieves won't even have to get dirty going dumpster diving anymore
I thought what was discussed regarding distributed
AI is an interesting idea however my thoughts are
that instead of using our processors, the project
should use our intelligence!
What I mean is that each and every one of us could
participate in "teaching" it
He said AI needs 10 billion lines of code, what
better way to do it than have 10 million people
each writing 1 thousand? (Ok, so when you
work it out its still pretty unlikely but
distributing this project over a larger group of
people will make the goal of having AI that much
more attainable).
I'm not sure exactly how the distributed method
would work as I am just a fan of AI and dont
understand most of the technical issues however im
sure some method of "teaching" could be developed
whether it uses natural language or a set of
commands that users would have to learn. Who
knows, maybe eventually speech recognition will be
good enough for us to spend an hour a night
teaching our little AI bot (yes, kind of like the
way your mother used to read to you at bedtime
except this "kid" would have 10,000 mothers).
Heck, this fits right in with the open source
theme. We can have an opensource AI
"program" where all its knowledge is open
source. I personally don't have the programming
or AI experience to get up right now and say i'll
start work on an open source client/server for
this right now, but i sure as hell would if i did!
I know this is half scifi and am not sure how
feasible this is in actuallity but AI _IS_ scifi
and its pretty damn kool so what do you all think?
-Ezra
This is definatly the result of our slashdotting
their phone system a couple weeks back. We showed
them we want it.
That's what we gotta do to get what we want, if a
company sees enough of a customer need they will
do _whatever_ we want.
Go Us!!
echo "Soundblaster Live! driver installed. Please reboot."
First of all, i didn't even see that "Please reboot" part, and second of all, i'd just like to say that's the easiest it's ever been for me to get a piece of hardware to work with linux. I think it was very thoughtful of them to provide an install script...
And, if you would look at the code (below) you would see that their were two possible types of install, one which needed a reboot and one that did not. Why don't you thank them for makeing it so easy for you to install it? (yes.. im beggining to forget the months and months i've waited for them to release this BINARY-BETA driver..)
Heres the install code:
if [ "$OLDSND" -o "$OLDMID" ]
then
echo "Soundblaster Live! driver installed. Please reboot."
else
if modprobe sblive
then
echo "Soundblaster Live! driver installed."
fi
fi
Geez, theres gotta be a better way to do this sort ;)
/. everything!
of thing
We
Anyone have a mirror or care to post one?
Thanks
Where did you hear that?