While GTA does have sort of a storyline, it's basically a tangent to your laying waste to the civilians of San Andreas. I mean, even your girlfriend's idea of a good time is a drive by!
Funny that people actually responded to that post...
Of course predicting the next configuration would require, well, another universe really. But to see trends, perhaps, isn't as difficult.
As for the supercomputer changing things as it tries to calculate the next configuration (which changes nearly infinitely quickly) - well, it doesn't "change" anything. In fact, if you knew the initial conditions of the universe (and say the next few iterations), you could predict when the computer would blue screen from lack of virtual memory....
Each motion of the universe, from the rotation of a planet to your eyes focusing on this post, is simply a derivative of what came before. The universe was in Configuration Q and now moves to Configuration R because it naturally follows. So if you knew the initial conditions of the universe, or perhaps could work out the universe's current alignments and paths and deduce what was coming next (as astrology tries), you could predict what's next.
Well, our current court system is based on the unwashed masses deciding the fates of a singularly unwashed person. I'll go out on a limb and say the problem with our legal system is not the jury. Have a Supreme Jury that gets prepped for a week on the Constitution, then takes the case (case to be decided by someone else). You can't do much worse.
This calamity is based on a short story by the author of Blade Runner, Phillip Dick. Predicted hundreds of years ago, current scientists watch for this "new star". The day of reckoning comes and at first they think the new sun in the sky is their predicted source, but it turns out that is only the moon, reflecting brightly the oncoming holocaust.
Happily, the Slashdot story is less drastic than the Dick story, with the world being superheated by the light of the star that finally reaches earth.
Ahem...cough...cough...ahem. Now...
"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"
My father used to tell me that we shouldn't be so worried about the things we hear int he news our government does - what should concern us is what we don't hear.
Why is nothing being done? Why no impeachment? I'm thinking it's because we've got a war on and troops depending on a semi-stable government and country to support them.
I suppose by "scientific" he meant a non-referential way of finding out the date of the code. Knowing the history of the world, we can say this code was written when. But you can't find the date of it by, say, measuring the speed of the electrons with which it was compiled (now there's a horrible analogy to Carbon Dating if I ever heard one...it makes no sense at all, but you might get my drift).
If the world was obliterated and huge chunks of Earth landed in a solar system a few thousand light years away...would the inhabitants be able to tell how old the code was?
Seems that the reason Windows is so simple and easy to use is that ease of use sells. If people can use their scanner and check their email with a few clicks, their sold, regardless of what's happening in the background. Servers are tending towards OS software more and more, as saavier people come to terms with the fact that Windows might be "too easy" to use.
A rebuttal to the commentary ummarized by a friend of mine at the Union of Concerned Scientists:
1. The journal Energy & Environment is not a science journal and does not follow standard practices of scientific peer review. . The journal has the explicitly political agenda to be "a forum for skeptical analyses of 'global warming'".
2. The author of the paper, Steven McIntyre, has no prior track record of research on climate issues or any record of training in this field.
3. The paper is said to be a direct criticism of Michael Mann, et al's paper "Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations" published in the mainstream climate research journal, Geophysical Research Letters in1999. In stark contrast to standard peer review practices, neither the authors of this study nor any leading paleoclimate scientists were asked to review Mr. McIntyre's paper.
4. Contrary to this non-peer reviewed paper in a non-scientific journal, a number of studies have been published over the last several years by independent scientists using different data sources and methodologies replicating the basic finding that the late 20th century Northern Hemisphere average temperatures are anomalous in the context of the past 1000 years. Bradley and coworkers in the prestigious journal "Science" published the most recent study coming to this conclusion only a couple weeks ago. The list of recent studies supporting this conclusion includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Bauer, E., M. Claussen, and V. Brovkin, Assessing climate forcings of the earth system for the past millennium, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (6), doi: 10.1029/2002GL016639, 2003.
Bradley, R.S., M.K Hughes and H.F. Diaz., Climate in Medieval Time. Science, 302, 404-405, 2003.
Briffa, K.R., T.J. Osborn, F.H. Schweingruber, I.C. Harris, P.D. Jones, S.G. Shiyatov, S.G. and E.A. Vaganov, Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree-ring density network. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 2929-2941, 2001.
Crowley, T.J., Causes of Climate Change over the Past 1000 Years, Science, 289, 270-277, 2000.
Crowley, T.J., and T. Lowery, How Warm Was the Medieval Warm Period?, Ambio, 29, 51-54, 2000.
Folland, C.K., T.R. Karl, J.R. Christy, R.A. Clarke, G.V. Gruza, J. Jouzel, M.E. Mann, J. Oerlemans, M.J. Salinger, S.-W. Wang, Observed Climate Variability and Change, in Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, edited by J.T. Houghton et al.., pp. 99-181, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 2001.
Gerber, S., F. Joos, P. Brugger, T. F. Stocker, M. E. Mann, S. Sitch, and M. Scholze, Constraining temperature variations over the last millennium by comparing simulated and observed atmospheric CO2, Climate Dynamics, 20, 281-299, 2003.
Hegerl, G.C., T.J. Crowley, S.K. Baum, K-Y. Kim, and W. T. Hyde, Detection of volcanic, solar and greenhouse gas signals in paleo-reconstructions of Northern Hemispheric temperature. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (5), doi: 10.1029/2002GL016635, 2003.
Jones, P.D., K.R. Briffa, T.P. Barnett and S.F.B. Tett, High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: Integration, interpretation and comparison with General Circulation Model control run temperatures, Holocene, 8, 455-471, 1998.
Jones, P.D., M. New, D.E. Parker, S. Martin, and I.G. Rigor, Surface air temperature and its changes over the past 150 years, Reviews of Geophysics, 37, 173-199, 1999.
Jones, P.D., T.J. Osborn, and K.R. Briffa, The Evolution of Climate Over the Last Millennium, Science, 292, 662-667, 2001.
Mann, M.E., Jones, P.D., Global surface temperature over the past two millennia, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (15), 1820, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017814, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Oppenheimer, M., Osborn, T.J., Overpeck, J.T., Rutherford, S., Trenberth, K.E., Wigley, T.M.L., On Past Temperatures and Anomalous Late 20th Century Warmth, Eos, 84, 256-258, 2003.
The point of this research is that people can HAVE them, basically the exact same car, exact same functionality...but it'll be safer and more fuel efficient, cost a hair more, and can be done RIGHT NOW with today's technologies.
Why isn't it being done? Million dollar question right there.
A system like this would need some immediate feedback, not just a bill in the mail. "You've exceeded the speed limit by 20 kph. You will be fined an amount accordant with local law for this district." Even better, "You are exceeding the speed limit by 15 kph. If you continue to accelerate, you will breach the local speed limit laws enough to guarantee you a fine." Without this, you could never defend yourself in court, because you might not remember when you did it by the time your ticket arrives via snail mail.
- VPN through a firewall with a personal virused computer - Plug in same said laptop inside network - have 400 computers in 5 buildings vs one sys admin with a $10,000 annual budget - have a non-homogenous network where people need full rights to their own machines (not that the worms care who's using the computer)
We don't all work in neat little firms with level 1 tech support running around while "competent" administrators run nmap and point their lackeys in the right direction.
In California, if you are caught doing 100+ MPH you can have your license suspended. It is considered to be more serious than merely driving over the speed limit.
1) MMORPGs are constantly being "tweaked" and "balanced" depending on the play style of the community. So while some of the "patches" are game fixes, some of them are also "enhancements" or "balances". It's the nature of the MMORPG...it's always changing.
2) That being said, because MMORPGs are patched regularly and people know that, they can be released less stable than a boxed game. As long as they work, players assume they'll get better. Dark Age of Camelot had a near perfect launch, but only 20% of the content in the game was in. Try playing Jedi Knight 2 where there are beautiful settings, but only 10 stormtroopers per level. But because people accept that MMORPGs grow...this isn't a showstopping problem as long as the game works.
3) Buggy software in general is shipped because the market is moving so fast. Developers have just enough money to make the bare bones of what they need, hope they find a publisher, then ship what they have, relying on patches later. You say it's the developer's fault that it's "rushed" to market...I'm saying it's the market's fault that the developer needs to rush or they'll be left behind.
Slashdot Mirror
Since the article mentions grammar...
Your sig: its' should be its
While GTA does have sort of a storyline, it's basically a tangent to your laying waste to the civilians of San Andreas. I mean, even your girlfriend's idea of a good time is a drive by!
Funny that people actually responded to that post...
Of course predicting the next configuration would require, well, another universe really. But to see trends, perhaps, isn't as difficult.
As for the supercomputer changing things as it tries to calculate the next configuration (which changes nearly infinitely quickly) - well, it doesn't "change" anything. In fact, if you knew the initial conditions of the universe (and say the next few iterations), you could predict when the computer would blue screen from lack of virtual memory....
Here's a theory:
Each motion of the universe, from the rotation of a planet to your eyes focusing on this post, is simply a derivative of what came before. The universe was in Configuration Q and now moves to Configuration R because it naturally follows. So if you knew the initial conditions of the universe, or perhaps could work out the universe's current alignments and paths and deduce what was coming next (as astrology tries), you could predict what's next.
Okay...I hope Frodo wins...
Drill's too short.
Well, our current court system is based on the unwashed masses deciding the fates of a singularly unwashed person. I'll go out on a limb and say the problem with our legal system is not the jury. Have a Supreme Jury that gets prepped for a week on the Constitution, then takes the case (case to be decided by someone else). You can't do much worse.
This calamity is based on a short story by the author of Blade Runner, Phillip Dick. Predicted hundreds of years ago, current scientists watch for this "new star". The day of reckoning comes and at first they think the new sun in the sky is their predicted source, but it turns out that is only the moon, reflecting brightly the oncoming holocaust.
Happily, the Slashdot story is less drastic than the Dick story, with the world being superheated by the light of the star that finally reaches earth.
My father used to tell me that we shouldn't be so worried about the things we hear int he news our government does - what should concern us is what we don't hear.
Oh, pssht. At least try a unique idea. That was ripped right from the annals (anus) of Guantanamo Bay.
Why is nothing being done? Why no impeachment? I'm thinking it's because we've got a war on and troops depending on a semi-stable government and country to support them.
I suppose by "scientific" he meant a non-referential way of finding out the date of the code. Knowing the history of the world, we can say this code was written when. But you can't find the date of it by, say, measuring the speed of the electrons with which it was compiled (now there's a horrible analogy to Carbon Dating if I ever heard one...it makes no sense at all, but you might get my drift).
If the world was obliterated and huge chunks of Earth landed in a solar system a few thousand light years away...would the inhabitants be able to tell how old the code was?
"do more interactive stuff...like play music, write code, read SlashDot"
So no human interaction though? Pssht, it's overrated anyway...
His old testicles were bigger than his new testicles.
Seems that the reason Windows is so simple and easy to use is that ease of use sells. If people can use their scanner and check their email with a few clicks, their sold, regardless of what's happening in the background. Servers are tending towards OS software more and more, as saavier people come to terms with the fact that Windows might be "too easy" to use.
Okay....gonna get my terabyte of storage for the grad students for $1200...the Chair will be pleased.
But not when I tell him the $10,000 price tag for the autoloader to back it up.
A rebuttal to the commentary ummarized by a friend of mine at the Union of Concerned Scientists:
1. The journal Energy & Environment is not a science journal and does not follow standard practices of scientific peer review. . The journal has the explicitly political agenda to be "a forum for skeptical analyses of 'global warming'".
2. The author of the paper, Steven McIntyre, has no prior track record of research on climate issues or any record of training in this field.
3. The paper is said to be a direct criticism of Michael Mann, et al's paper "Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations" published in the mainstream climate research journal, Geophysical Research Letters in1999. In stark contrast to standard peer review practices, neither the authors of this study nor any leading paleoclimate scientists were asked to review Mr. McIntyre's paper.
4. Contrary to this non-peer reviewed paper in a non-scientific journal, a number of studies have been published over the last several years by independent scientists using different data sources and methodologies replicating the basic finding that the late 20th century Northern Hemisphere average temperatures are anomalous in the context of the past 1000 years.
Bradley and coworkers in the prestigious journal "Science" published the most recent study coming to this conclusion only a couple weeks ago. The list of recent studies supporting this conclusion includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Bauer, E., M. Claussen, and V. Brovkin, Assessing climate forcings of the earth system for the past
millennium, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (6), doi: 10.1029/2002GL016639, 2003.
Bradley, R.S., M.K Hughes and H.F. Diaz., Climate in Medieval Time. Science, 302, 404-405, 2003.
Briffa, K.R., T.J. Osborn, F.H. Schweingruber, I.C. Harris, P.D. Jones, S.G. Shiyatov, S.G. and E.A.
Vaganov, Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree-ring density network. J.
Geophys. Res., 106, 2929-2941, 2001.
Crowley, T.J., Causes of Climate Change over the Past 1000 Years, Science, 289, 270-277, 2000.
Crowley, T.J., and T. Lowery, How Warm Was the Medieval Warm Period?, Ambio, 29, 51-54, 2000.
Folland, C.K., T.R. Karl, J.R. Christy, R.A. Clarke, G.V. Gruza, J. Jouzel, M.E. Mann, J. Oerlemans, M.J.
Salinger, S.-W. Wang, Observed Climate Variability and Change, in Climate Change 2001: The
Scientific Basis, edited by J.T. Houghton et al.., pp. 99-181, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York,
2001.
Gerber, S., F. Joos, P. Brugger, T. F. Stocker, M. E. Mann, S. Sitch, and M. Scholze, Constraining
temperature variations over the last millennium by comparing simulated and observed atmospheric
CO2, Climate Dynamics, 20, 281-299, 2003.
Hegerl, G.C., T.J. Crowley, S.K. Baum, K-Y. Kim, and W. T. Hyde, Detection of volcanic, solar and
greenhouse gas signals in paleo-reconstructions of Northern Hemispheric temperature. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 30 (5), doi: 10.1029/2002GL016635, 2003.
Jones, P.D., K.R. Briffa, T.P. Barnett and S.F.B. Tett, High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last
millennium: Integration, interpretation and comparison with General Circulation Model control run
temperatures, Holocene, 8, 455-471, 1998.
Jones, P.D., M. New, D.E. Parker, S. Martin, and I.G. Rigor, Surface air temperature and its changes over
the past 150 years, Reviews of Geophysics, 37, 173-199, 1999.
Jones, P.D., T.J. Osborn, and K.R. Briffa, The Evolution of Climate Over the Last Millennium, Science,
292, 662-667, 2001.
Mann, M.E., Jones, P.D., Global surface temperature over the past two millennia, Geophysical Research Letters,
30 (15), 1820, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017814, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Oppenheimer, M., Osborn, T.J., Overpeck, J.T., Rutherford, S., Trenberth, K.E., Wigley, T.M.L.,
On Past Temperatures and Anomalous Late 20th Century Warmth, Eos, 84, 256-258, 2003.
"People want them."
The point of this research is that people can HAVE them, basically the exact same car, exact same functionality...but it'll be safer and more fuel efficient, cost a hair more, and can be done RIGHT NOW with today's technologies.
Why isn't it being done? Million dollar question right there.
An important feature is the VB scripting in Excel, at least for me, and being able to issue commands to other applications from within these scripts.
;-)
You and all the other hackers, bub.
A system like this would need some immediate feedback, not just a bill in the mail. "You've exceeded the speed limit by 20 kph. You will be fined an amount accordant with local law for this district." Even better, "You are exceeding the speed limit by 15 kph. If you continue to accelerate, you will breach the local speed limit laws enough to guarantee you a fine." Without this, you could never defend yourself in court, because you might not remember when you did it by the time your ticket arrives via snail mail.
Reality check.
- VPN through a firewall with a personal virused computer
- Plug in same said laptop inside network
- have 400 computers in 5 buildings vs one sys admin with a $10,000 annual budget
- have a non-homogenous network where people need full rights to their own machines (not that the worms care who's using the computer)
We don't all work in neat little firms with level 1 tech support running around while "competent" administrators run nmap and point their lackeys in the right direction.
Been there. Done that.
I opened an email with Mozilla on Windows 2000 that contained a virus. But I didn't click on the attachment because I knew better.
Security through education.
In California, if you are caught doing 100+ MPH you can have your license suspended. It is considered to be more serious than merely driving over the speed limit.
Three things. :-)
1) MMORPGs are constantly being "tweaked" and "balanced" depending on the play style of the community. So while some of the "patches" are game fixes, some of them are also "enhancements" or "balances". It's the nature of the MMORPG...it's always changing.
2) That being said, because MMORPGs are patched regularly and people know that, they can be released less stable than a boxed game. As long as they work, players assume they'll get better. Dark Age of Camelot had a near perfect launch, but only 20% of the content in the game was in. Try playing Jedi Knight 2 where there are beautiful settings, but only 10 stormtroopers per level. But because people accept that MMORPGs grow...this isn't a showstopping problem as long as the game works.
3) Buggy software in general is shipped because the market is moving so fast. Developers have just enough money to make the bare bones of what they need, hope they find a publisher, then ship what they have, relying on patches later. You say it's the developer's fault that it's "rushed" to market...I'm saying it's the market's fault that the developer needs to rush or they'll be left behind.
Go capitalism.
It seems, Mr. Morse, that you've been living two lives...