Writer made a smaller file than the original text document, so it must have compressed it.
OpenOffice saves all documents in zipped xml. You can unzip the files and read the xml content if you want to.
OK, so there is a complex body plan that can be turned on by switching a gene.
Now, if ths body plan has been turned of for a long time. How did this plan evolve?
Think about it, when this plan is inactive there is no selective pressure on this plan at all! How come it still turns out to produce a fully functional body?
We all knew there's no intelligent life on earth, what I want to know is there any in outer space!
I don't think you got it. The search for terrestrial intelligence was aimed at us/.'ers to see if we could decode the message.
In fact, noone seems to have done this fully, the black and white pictures presented are okay, but there is more!
In addition to the clear pictures, the pythagoras, the chemistry, the planets etc. there seems to be some random patterns in the form of blocks. They're not random. If you tilt your head 45 degrees to the left an try to focus into the patterns, you will actually see som real cool 3D images!
I won't tell you what the pictures are, go see for youself instead. (I saw a link to a gif somewhere else here in the discussion.)
...how humans are low on the totem poll of evolution.
Being out of context here, but humans are not low on the evolution scale in Tolkiens world. Althoug a single human is not much compared to the immortal elves etc., the humans as a race has a strength in numbers and ability to adapt to changing times. Compare this to the immortal elves who pull back into smaller communitites losing touch with the outside world.
Seeing evolution as a benefit of the single being is wrong. The beings are only mere carriers of the patteren (the gene). From this point of view, the humans are quite high up on the 'totem poll'.
The idea is cool, but I don't think it will work very well. Other more ad-hoc methods would probably be better.
Evlutionary Algorithms in general need a lot of iterations with large populations to work. I will believe that the feedback in the situation described will have some time delay of several seconds at least. And the pattern of music presented will have to last for much longer if it is intended to build up the mood of people, since this is something that depends on more than just the music of the last seconds.
But maybe the laws of statistic will help in the way that the amont of people visiting a club will be large enough to make the group of peoples reaction to music similar from one night till the next. Then this project could be ran for many nights and over time create good patterns.
I do not believe Evolutionary Algorithms is a good way of DJ'ing though.
If at first the idea is not absourd, then there is no hope for it.
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Is this my imagination, or does slashdot take its anti-microsoft bias into everything they do?
I absolutely do. Microsoft has never played nice, so why should I be nice towards MS?
MS takes money from me wether I want to or not since they push preinstalled stuff everywhere. I try to avoid MS products whenever I can, and I try my best to show the people around me the alternatives.
Yes, competition is good. MS has shown itself to be, in essence, anti-competition. In short-term the X-box is a good thing, but because MS is behind I believe that the long-term effect will be good only if MS looses market and/or money on this project. I would welcome the X-box from almost any other company, but not from MS.
Yes, I am anti-Micorsoft. Because I think it is important.
Another problem is susceptibility to damage -- scratches in particular. I wouldn't want to be locked out of my files due to clumsiness. Also, damage to the recognition system through any form of clumsiness will keep you out of your encrypted files. Using an ordinary encryption method, you'd just hook the HD up to a different machine and be back in business.
The moral is an old one, keep backups of important data. Nothing new here.
This sort of biometric authentication is not really all that vital for most of us, and the effort required to keep it functional, in this case at least, outweighs any advantage gained.
Also I am sure you can choose to use ordinary encryption, if you want to.
This is a facility you can use if you want to. Using it takes a little bit of effort from the user. Nothing new here.
If I was the one writing a virus sending files from the infected computer to other people, I would include a small flesh tone detector for finding the right files to resend.
>>>>The whole point of stenography is that people CAN'T spot the fact that you're using it!
Yes, to the naked ear/eye. But by analysing the bits (low significant ones) it can be detected wether the bits are randomly distributed (no information) or has some sort of order (stenography detected).
Of course encryption followed by stenography would be difficult to detect since the encrypted data, I've been told, is more random in distribution.
For example the xor'ing of a random data string with any other string, will result in a new random data string. The original string can be recovered by a xor'ing again.
>>>>there are other niceties, like fast user switching (logout or switch to another user, but let your current user's applications continue to run),
This is not a nicety(?), this is required and long overdue. Having to close all program and log off just to make small changes requiring Admin access has pissed me off more than once.
>>>>better app compatibility (nice to have for those games that expect a user to be running win9x)
Now maybe it will be possible to play games on a dual prosessor system?
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I have a simple teory. All the problems with Windows (unstability, lack of niceties as mnetioned above etc.) are deliberate, forcing users to always want an upgrade.
M$ is not widely known for playing nice, so why not?
>>>>The main problem is that if a game is goal free, what's the point of being there?
Because:
- people are capable of making their own goals
- an artificial world can have possibilities you don't have in the real world
- can offer different kinds of experiences
- it's better than TV
- etc.
>>>>Real life is already goal-free. Part of the allure of games is that they have goals. A goal-free virtual universe would at best be a novelty and a fad for a few moments.
So Windows has better office-programs and a more consistent UI. It still does not have several desktops and a good CLI for those tasks that are not easily done with a point-and-click interface.
I code. I have tried VC++ version 6.0. It is horrible with this small workplace and the floating windows always covering up the windows showing my source code. I cannot consentrate on my work when I constantly have to search for that other window.
Windows has a 'do-one-thing-at-a-time' philosophy that just does not work for me. As long as Windows is not more flexible, I need me Linux.
There are good things and bad things. Linux will suit some (like me) and Windows will suit others.
I don't know if this solution will work in hot California, but here is a weird idea:
All the energy going into the CPU's are emitted as heat. This mean that having 300W of CPU's crunching data is equivalent to having a 300W electric heater oven turned on. Now, the obvious is, turn the oven off and start your computers.
Lets extend this to replacing peoples ovens with arrays of CPU connected to a common network. The result should be something like distributed.net or SETI@home network.
With this model all the energy 'wasted' in order to heat peoples homes could be put into good use cracking huge complex computational problems, or it could be distributed to home users.
But one day someone found that a genetic mutation at a specific allele can cause changes in a mouse that effects perception of a specific bitter taste.
The rest of your comment seems sound enough, but there is no way scientists can know what a mouse's
perception is. They can observe behavoiur, measure neuron activity or in some other ways discover things indicating the mouse's perception has changed. But there is no way anyone can tell how (ot iven if) anyone or anything else perceives anything!
Maybe I was a bit quick in my comment, but the way he wrote the first part led me into thinking his way of tracking performance was checking the utilization. Rereading the part, I see that I was most probably wrong.
We have been running an over-volted overclocked Pentium4 with the factory heatsink installed now for some time. It has been running here beside my desk folding proteins for Stanford University now for a solid month and has stayed at 100% CPU utilization. I track its performance and I can assure you that it has not ever slipped into the throttling that Bert speaks about above.
Of course it will be 100% CPU utilization. No matter what MHz it is running on, as long as there is work for the CPU, it will run at 100% utilization. It's not like when the clock speed drops, suddenly the work load will drop too.
How come these trolls get moderated up? I'll bite again, cause I think it's fun:-)
First, the site is not shallow. It does not claim to judge the person, only the persons look. It's like saying school tests are shallow cause it only judges one part of a persons knowledge.
If you put a lot of seriousness into one school test, or one picture on the net, then I think you might be considered not very deep!
This site must be taken for what it is, pure fun.
Of course, it can be misused and some will take it too seriously, but so can almost everything else in the world.
As for power, you claim:
Let's face it; one can only sit in front of the Internet for so long. After that, it becomes necessary to "up the ante."
This is just your claiming it will become 'necessary'. Do you have anything at all to back this up? You also claim it gives a power-feeling, and that power is a drug. Can you bak this one up? Even if both claims are correct, the first still do not follow from the second.
You use a standard technique for putting through unsupported points. You make some wrong assumptions, presenting them as the truth. Then you derive your conclusions from these false truths.
If someone should follow the pattern you're describing, that person will most likely already have a lot of serious problems long before becoming addicted to HotOrNot.
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Haiku-os is another Be derivative. "The goal of Haiku R1 is to be source- and binary-compatible with BeOS R5."
Now, will Haiku and Zeta be compatible in any way?
http://haiku-os.org/learn.phpWriter made a smaller file than the original text document, so it must have compressed it. OpenOffice saves all documents in zipped xml. You can unzip the files and read the xml content if you want to.
OK, so there is a complex body plan that can be turned on by switching a gene.
Now, if ths body plan has been turned of for a long time. How did this plan evolve?
Think about it, when this plan is inactive there is no selective pressure on this plan at all! How come it still turns out to produce a fully functional body?
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I'm more confused than ever
They do, but since the server is up in smoke....
I vote for open source! Genetic code should be GPL'ed!
If not M$ will soon have an effective monopoly here too.
Of course I'm joking :-)
I don't think you got it. The search for terrestrial intelligence was aimed at us /.'ers to see if we could decode the message.
In fact, noone seems to have done this fully, the black and white pictures presented are okay, but there is more!
In addition to the clear pictures, the pythagoras, the chemistry, the planets etc. there seems to be some random patterns in the form of blocks. They're not random. If you tilt your head 45 degrees to the left an try to focus into the patterns, you will actually see som real cool 3D images!
I won't tell you what the pictures are, go see for youself instead. (I saw a link to a gif somewhere else here in the discussion.)
Being out of context here, but humans are not low on the evolution scale in Tolkiens world. Althoug a single human is not much compared to the immortal elves etc., the humans as a race has a strength in numbers and ability to adapt to changing times. Compare this to the immortal elves who pull back into smaller communitites losing touch with the outside world.
Seeing evolution as a benefit of the single being is wrong. The beings are only mere carriers of the patteren (the gene). From this point of view, the humans are quite high up on the 'totem poll'.
The idea is cool, but I don't think it will work very well. Other more ad-hoc methods would probably be better.
Evlutionary Algorithms in general need a lot of iterations with large populations to work. I will believe that the feedback in the situation described will have some time delay of several seconds at least. And the pattern of music presented will have to last for much longer if it is intended to build up the mood of people, since this is something that depends on more than just the music of the last seconds.
But maybe the laws of statistic will help in the way that the amont of people visiting a club will be large enough to make the group of peoples reaction to music similar from one night till the next. Then this project could be ran for many nights and over time create good patterns.
I do not believe Evolutionary Algorithms is a good way of DJ'ing though.
If at first the idea is not absourd, then there is no hope for it.I absolutely do. Microsoft has never played nice, so why should I be nice towards MS?
MS takes money from me wether I want to or not since they push preinstalled stuff everywhere. I try to avoid MS products whenever I can, and I try my best to show the people around me the alternatives.
Yes, competition is good. MS has shown itself to be, in essence, anti-competition. In short-term the X-box is a good thing, but because MS is behind I believe that the long-term effect will be good only if MS looses market and/or money on this project. I would welcome the X-box from almost any other company, but not from MS.
Yes, I am anti-Micorsoft. Because I think it is important.
The moral is an old one, keep backups of important data. Nothing new here.
Also I am sure you can choose to use ordinary encryption, if you want to. This is a facility you can use if you want to. Using it takes a little bit of effort from the user. Nothing new here.If I was the one writing a virus sending files from the infected computer to other people, I would include a small flesh tone detector for finding the right files to resend.
>>>>The whole point of stenography is that people CAN'T spot the fact that you're using it!
Yes, to the naked ear/eye. But by analysing the bits (low significant ones) it can be detected wether the bits are randomly distributed (no information) or has some sort of order (stenography detected).
Of course encryption followed by stenography would be difficult to detect since the encrypted data, I've been told, is more random in distribution.
For example the xor'ing of a random data string with any other string, will result in a new random data string. The original string can be recovered by a xor'ing again.
>>>>there are other niceties, like fast user switching (logout or switch to another user, but let your current user's applications continue to run),
This is not a nicety(?), this is required and long overdue. Having to close all program and log off just to make small changes requiring Admin access has pissed me off more than once.
>>>>better app compatibility (nice to have for those games that expect a user to be running win9x)
Now maybe it will be possible to play games on a dual prosessor system?
-----
I have a simple teory. All the problems with Windows (unstability, lack of niceties as mnetioned above etc.) are deliberate, forcing users to always want an upgrade.
M$ is not widely known for playing nice, so why not?
>>>>The main problem is that if a game is goal free, what's the point of being there?
Because:
- people are capable of making their own goals
- an artificial world can have possibilities you don't have in the real world
- can offer different kinds of experiences
- it's better than TV
- etc.
>>>>Real life is already goal-free. Part of the allure of games is that they have goals. A goal-free virtual universe would at best be a novelty and a fad for a few moments.
:-)
I'm glad to see this was moderated as FUNNY!
So Windows has better office-programs and a more consistent UI. It still does not have several desktops and a good CLI for those tasks that are not easily done with a point-and-click interface.
I code. I have tried VC++ version 6.0. It is horrible with this small workplace and the floating windows always covering up the windows showing my source code. I cannot consentrate on my work when I constantly have to search for that other window.
Windows has a 'do-one-thing-at-a-time' philosophy that just does not work for me. As long as Windows is not more flexible, I need me Linux.
There are good things and bad things. Linux will suit some (like me) and Windows will suit others.
There will be a place for both.
I don't know if this solution will work in hot California, but here is a weird idea:
All the energy going into the CPU's are emitted as heat. This mean that having 300W of CPU's crunching data is equivalent to having a 300W electric heater oven turned on. Now, the obvious is, turn the oven off and start your computers.
Lets extend this to replacing peoples ovens with arrays of CPU connected to a common network. The result should be something like distributed.net or SETI@home network.
With this model all the energy 'wasted' in order to heat peoples homes could be put into good use cracking huge complex computational problems, or it could be distributed to home users.
Open for flame.
Sooner or later they need to be able to handle all the bad shit out there anyway, why not help them while you have the most influence?
All in moderation of course.
The rest of your comment seems sound enough, but there is no way scientists can know what a mouse's perception is. They can observe behavoiur, measure neuron activity or in some other ways discover things indicating the mouse's perception has changed. But there is no way anyone can tell how (ot iven if) anyone or anything else perceives anything!
Maybe I was a bit quick in my comment, but the way he wrote the first part led me into thinking his way of tracking performance was checking the utilization. Rereading the part, I see that I was most probably wrong.
Just be patient... in a few years (somewhere between 1 and 100) AI and artificial neural networks will take off, needing dedicated HW.
I want to experience the power of checking mens rating without actually voting.
Of course I could vote, but I fear I would mess up the scoring since I am not qualified to rate men.
How come these trolls get moderated up? I'll bite again, cause I think it's fun :-)
First, the site is not shallow. It does not claim to judge the person, only the persons look. It's like saying school tests are shallow cause it only judges one part of a persons knowledge.
If you put a lot of seriousness into one school test, or one picture on the net, then I think you might be considered not very deep!
This site must be taken for what it is, pure fun.
Of course, it can be misused and some will take it too seriously, but so can almost everything else in the world.
As for power, you claim:
Let's face it; one can only sit in front of the Internet for so long. After that, it becomes necessary to "up the ante." This is just your claiming it will become 'necessary'. Do you have anything at all to back this up?
You also claim it gives a power-feeling, and that power is a drug. Can you bak this one up?
Even if both claims are correct, the first still do not follow from the second.
You use a standard technique for putting through unsupported points. You make some wrong assumptions, presenting them as the truth. Then you derive your conclusions from these false truths.
If someone should follow the pattern you're describing, that person will most likely already have a lot of serious problems long before becoming addicted to HotOrNot.