Well, that'd be the [i]normal[/i] thylacine way, but then there's also... when a cloning scientist takes cells from daddy's butt-hair and injects them into a kangaroo egg...
Well predator-prey relationships are natural, so from that perspective I can't see what's wrong with us waging war on viruses (virii?) that attack us!
However if general I agree - we know so little about the true balance of nature that I think there's pretty much a 100% track record of disaster everytime we've tried to introduce non-native species as a "natural" was to deal with a problem.
For every "insignificant" or non-cuddly species cause to go extinct, there are obviously going to be ramifications, and with the chaotic dynamics of species populations, who's to say that one day we may unwittingly cause (say) a population explosion in a virus that will wipe us out. It would be a fitting way to go.
You don't understand either the scientific knowledge to be gained from studying it, or the human interest in seeing a glimpse into life on earth 150M yrs ago?
It also happens to produce Taxol, so has huge commercial possibilities medicinally as well as horticulturally.
Agreed - the mention of licencing does seem rather odd, although if it results in the existence of cheap hardware with Linux driver support than that'd be a good thing (presumably GPL's software would soon follow - no need to use the software licensed by this consortium).
I'd also note that Linux already has the V4L/V4L2 video/TV API's, and that other stuff such simultaneous record/play via buffering was just patented by Tivo (hopefully it'll be overturned, but who knows), and the most obvious channel x timeslot TV guide format is patented by TVGuide / Gemstar... I've got to wonder what exactly they're looking to licence...
I think the MP3 patents are widely understood to be so broad that it'd be impossible to implement the standard in ANY way that didn't infringe.
I can't remember the specifcs, but I remember reading on the xiph.com site that Ogg is already suported in a number of commercial products - they seem to be doing a good job of gathering support, and Thompson starting to enforce as predicted can only help their cause.
Yes, I read it, and agree it was intersting. It was also sick, irrelevant to/., and most accurately described as pornography. More to the point, it was yet another indication that Michael's posts are to me something that I'm going to enjoy slashdot better without.
In fact, slashdot as a whole seems to have entered a death spiral down the toilet over the last few months. As you can tell from my slashdot ID #, I've been here quite a while, but I'm seriously considering abandoning it altogether as it's not the site it used to be.
Minksy's put down of perceptrons was incredibly short-sighted, and not simply reflective of the state of knowledge at that time.
Minsky was just arguing that a perceptron could not compute an XOR function, and the reason he was wrong is simply because he didn't consider that you might connnect one perceptron to the output of another.
For Minsky to not even consider connected perceptrons was a humungous brain fart for which he should rightly be ridiculed, particularly given the influential position the way he was in at the time, and the effect it had stifling all ANN funding and research for a long time.
P.S. Sure the backpropagation learning algorithm had yet to be invented (although nowadays it seems trivially obvious as a dynamic programming heuristic approach), but that is an entirely separate from not even considering connecting two together!!!
Yeah, but the symbolic part of it itself isn't a hard problem - Allen Newell's SOAR already does pretty much everything you could hope. Who (other than a neurologist) cares if the implementation is itself symbolic rather than based on connectionist building blocks.
The hard part of creating a real artifial intelligence is the perception/representation/cognition bootstrapping part of it, and requires an embedded approach that Minsky ignores.
I disagree with you about Strong AI requiring a low level neuron simulation - IMO consciousness is a result of high level architecture, not Penrosian low level specifics! I believe it's just an "inward looking sense" - a feedback path.
Uh, that'd be Rodney Brooks. Nowadays he's working on a humanoid robot called Cog - which still uses his bottom up subsumption architecture, and IMO seems to be a bit of "anthromorphic robotic grant troll"! I think he may have some plans for adding representation and cognition, or maybe I'm just thinking that he *should*!
Mr. Mundie, given that Microsoft is so fearful of the GPL yet has the option of maintaining it's own "shared source" business model, does this mean that:
a) Microsoft is considering GPLing Windows, but is worried about the outcome
OR
b) Microsoft realizes it is being out-competed by GPL'd software
P.S. Which swear word does Bill Gates most commonly use when referring to Linux?
I was hoping slashdot would interview the guy in the goatse picture, so we could at least figure out how the hell he got into ramming traffic cones up his ass. But really, you're right - any random person would be better. A stiff in the morgue would at least respond with a profound silence rather than this babbling gibberish!
I find it hard to believe that some babbling head case with a pyramid marketing scheme was even in the top 1 million people that people on slashdot would have an interest in seeing interviewed.
How about filing this stuff under "pure shit" so that I can filter it out like I have Katz?
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The serial cable is only an option for hackers. From reading the AVS forum I thought the problem was that people were just doing a call (or is a "test call" different?) to get the date, but then - without being a subscriber - they were getting the 2.0 software automatically and then losing functionality (although I guess they allowed it to continue downloading because they thought they were getting something for free).
What value added? People don't have to pay $10/month for their VCRs to work because the embedded firmware "adds value" to the otherwise useless hardware - the software is part of the product itself.
As you pointed out, people DO already pay for the internet, where the TV guide information they want is freely available... so why should they ALSO have to pay Tivo?
I predict Tivo willl fall by the wayside unless it changes, and the winner will be a PVR that simply connects to your ISP (dial-up or broadband via ethernet port) and gets the information for free, or maybe one that doesn't even need it to provide most of what people want - TV pause/resume/skip and manual programming (just tell it the show channel/time, and it'll record it forever until you tell it to stop).
Yeah it would be funny, but joking aside there are MANY alternatives other than "shared" (i.e. read only) source or the GPL. Things like the LGPL or BSD licence are much more business friendly. GPL is best suited to free software, but not necessarily to open software as a whole.
divx is useless - it's close to mpeg-4 but isn't, so there's no standard to be able to implement it - only the x86 hacked binary.
however, mpeg-4 itself will hopefully become more widespread. there are a few mpeg-4 streamers/players starting to appear, so maybe in a year or so it may become a reasonable choice
mpeg-1, mpeg-2 and real video are the only cross platform formats - any of these are fine.
h.263 or h.263+ would also be fine for interview type low res-stuff, but all the clients seem orientated towards video conferencing rather than simple playing or streaming.
OK, but that sure wasn't a 28.8 connection - it'd have taken about 3 days! I'm almost tempted to try downloading an iso image just out of perversity, but I'm not sure if I could handle 3 days of abstinance!
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Well, that'd be the [i]normal[/i] thylacine way, but then there's also... when a cloning scientist takes cells from daddy's butt-hair and injects them into a kangaroo egg...
Well predator-prey relationships are natural, so from that perspective I can't see what's wrong with us waging war on viruses (virii?) that attack us!
However if general I agree - we know so little about the true balance of nature that I think there's pretty much a 100% track record of disaster everytime we've tried to introduce non-native species as a "natural" was to deal with a problem.
For every "insignificant" or non-cuddly species cause to go extinct, there are obviously going to be ramifications, and with the chaotic dynamics of species populations, who's to say that one day we may unwittingly cause (say) a population explosion in a virus that will wipe us out. It would be a fitting way to go.
You don't understand either the scientific knowledge to be gained from studying it, or the human interest in seeing a glimpse into life on earth 150M yrs ago?
It also happens to produce Taxol, so has huge commercial possibilities medicinally as well as horticulturally.
What does this have to do with the kernel?
The increase in size is about what (usually preexisting) packages have been added, not about kernel size or programmer productivity.
Damn, so C99 is OK, but I'm going insane...
gotta learn to read... gotta learn to read...
Hmm.. then I wonder why they decided to define:
...) S
...) S
...) S}
:-(
for (int i = 0;
as:
int i; for (i = 0;
rather than:
{int i; for (i = 0;
Oh, well!
Yuk! Does C99 allow nested scopes at all...
{
int i;
{
int i;
Is this legal, or a redefinition?
Agreed - the mention of licencing does seem rather odd, although if it results in the existence of cheap hardware with Linux driver support than that'd be a good thing (presumably GPL's software would soon follow - no need to use the software licensed by this consortium).
I'd also note that Linux already has the V4L/V4L2 video/TV API's, and that other stuff such simultaneous record/play via buffering was just patented by Tivo (hopefully it'll be overturned, but who knows), and the most obvious channel x timeslot TV guide format is patented by TVGuide / Gemstar... I've got to wonder what exactly they're looking to licence...
I think the MP3 patents are widely understood to be so broad that it'd be impossible to implement the standard in ANY way that didn't infringe.
I can't remember the specifcs, but I remember reading on the xiph.com site that Ogg is already suported in a number of commercial products - they seem to be doing a good job of gathering support, and Thompson starting to enforce as predicted can only help their cause.
Not bad :) You should try selling it on e-bay!
Yes, I read it, and agree it was intersting. It was also sick, irrelevant to /., and most accurately described as pornography. More to the point, it was yet another indication that Michael's posts are to me something that I'm going to enjoy slashdot better without.
In fact, slashdot as a whole seems to have entered a death spiral down the toilet over the last few months. As you can tell from my slashdot ID #, I've been here quite a while, but I'm seriously considering abandoning it altogether as it's not the site it used to be.
Minksy's put down of perceptrons was incredibly short-sighted, and not simply reflective of the state of knowledge at that time.
Minsky was just arguing that a perceptron could not compute an XOR function, and the reason he was wrong is simply because he didn't consider that you might connnect one perceptron to the output of another.
For Minsky to not even consider connected perceptrons was a humungous brain fart for which he should rightly be ridiculed, particularly given the influential position the way he was in at the time, and the effect it had stifling all ANN funding and research for a long time.
P.S. Sure the backpropagation learning algorithm had yet to be invented (although nowadays it seems trivially obvious as a dynamic programming heuristic approach), but that is an entirely separate from not even considering connecting two together!!!
Yeah, but the symbolic part of it itself isn't a hard problem - Allen Newell's SOAR already does pretty much everything you could hope. Who (other than a neurologist) cares if the implementation is itself symbolic rather than based on connectionist building blocks.
The hard part of creating a real artifial intelligence is the perception/representation/cognition bootstrapping part of it, and requires an embedded approach that Minsky ignores.
I disagree with you about Strong AI requiring a low level neuron simulation - IMO consciousness is a result of high level architecture, not Penrosian low level specifics! I believe it's just an "inward looking sense" - a feedback path.
Uh, that'd be Rodney Brooks. Nowadays he's working on a humanoid robot called Cog - which still uses his bottom up subsumption architecture, and IMO seems to be a bit of "anthromorphic robotic grant troll"! I think he may have some plans for adding representation and cognition, or maybe I'm just thinking that he *should*!
.. and it wasn't even that interesting the first time around.
/. editors can recommend a better tech news site, since they're obviously not reading their own!
Maybe the
Yeah - really!
Slashdot provides a forum for some perpetual life nut-job, then questions the credibility of IBM.
I'm beginning to question what on earth these goons are smoking. I'd be scared to try it myself.
Mr. Mundie, given that Microsoft is so fearful of the GPL yet has the option of maintaining it's own "shared source" business model, does this mean that:
a) Microsoft is considering GPLing Windows, but is worried about the outcome
OR
b) Microsoft realizes it is being out-competed by GPL'd software
P.S. Which swear word does Bill Gates most commonly use when referring to Linux?
I was hoping slashdot would interview the guy in the goatse picture, so we could at least figure out how the hell he got into ramming traffic cones up his ass. But really, you're right - any random person would be better. A stiff in the morgue would at least respond with a profound silence rather than this babbling gibberish!
I find it hard to believe that some babbling head case with a pyramid marketing scheme was even in the top 1 million people that people on slashdot would have an interest in seeing interviewed.
How about filing this stuff under "pure shit" so that I can filter it out like I have Katz?
The serial cable is only an option for hackers. From reading the AVS forum I thought the problem was that people were just doing a call (or is a "test call" different?) to get the date, but then - without being a subscriber - they were getting the 2.0 software automatically and then losing functionality (although I guess they allowed it to continue downloading because they thought they were getting something for free).
What value added? People don't have to pay $10/month for their VCRs to work because the embedded firmware "adds value" to the otherwise useless hardware - the software is part of the product itself.
As you pointed out, people DO already pay for the internet, where the TV guide information they want is freely available... so why should they ALSO have to pay Tivo?
I predict Tivo willl fall by the wayside unless it changes, and the winner will be a PVR that simply connects to your ISP (dial-up or broadband via ethernet port) and gets the information for free, or maybe one that doesn't even need it to provide most of what people want - TV pause/resume/skip and manual programming (just tell it the show channel/time, and it'll record it forever until you tell it to stop).
Yeah it would be funny, but joking aside there are MANY alternatives other than "shared" (i.e. read only) source or the GPL. Things like the LGPL or BSD licence are much more business friendly. GPL is best suited to free software, but not necessarily to open software as a whole.
divx is useless - it's close to mpeg-4 but isn't, so there's no standard to be able to implement it - only the x86 hacked binary.
however, mpeg-4 itself will hopefully become more widespread. there are a few mpeg-4 streamers/players starting to appear, so maybe in a year or so it may become a reasonable choice
mpeg-1, mpeg-2 and real video are the only cross platform formats - any of these are fine.
h.263 or h.263+ would also be fine for interview type low res-stuff, but all the clients seem orientated towards video conferencing rather than simple playing or streaming.
OK, but that sure wasn't a 28.8 connection - it'd have taken about 3 days! I'm almost tempted to try downloading an iso image just out of perversity, but I'm not sure if I could handle 3 days of abstinance!