And the 102nd dumbest moment goes to Business 2.0 for trying to capitalize on the Craig Mundie anti-GPL comment controversy by writing a hatchet article which compares the situation to what is going on in the Lego Mindstorms (tm) community.
For a more in depth and technical discussion of this, check out an article in this month's IEEE Spectrum magazine at: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/publicfeature/grdo.ht ml
Heard on the radio yesterday that JFK Jr. had said that he didn't know if he actually remembered his time in the white house as a small child or only thought he remembered because he had seen and heard so much about it.
I think we should be safe as long as nobody discovers a switch on the accelerator labeled "magic" & "more magic", decides it's a silly joke, and flips the switch...:-)
was Deep Blue beating Kasparov. Kasparov psyched himself out and played poorly. IBM seemed to know this as well as they immediately retired Deep Blue after the match in order to do stuff like weather computations (you have to give them credit for quitting while they're ahead). I wouldn't call this a significant event for AI but rather a REALLY bad day for Kasparov.
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And the 102nd dumbest moment goes to Business 2.0 for trying to capitalize on the Craig Mundie anti-GPL comment controversy by writing a hatchet article which compares the situation to what is going on in the Lego Mindstorms (tm) community.
Mr. Ballmer has four words for you... We've... screwed... this... industry... yeah!!!!!!
I'm waiting for the day when there's a post from somebody talking about Linux on the desktop and Deja sticks in a link to furniture at Office Depot.
With this latest Justice Department move, I'm guessing that we'll soon hear rumors that Sprint is receiving offers to move to British Columbia :-)
For a more in depth and technical discussion of this, check out an article in this month's IEEE Spectrum magazine at: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/publicfeature/grdo.ht ml
Heard on the radio yesterday that
JFK Jr. had said that he didn't know if he actually remembered his time in the white house as a small child or only thought he remembered because he had seen and heard so much about it.
I think we should be safe as long as nobody discovers a switch on the accelerator labeled "magic" & "more magic", decides it's a silly joke, and flips the switch... :-)
was Deep Blue beating Kasparov. Kasparov psyched himself out and played poorly. IBM seemed to know this as well as they immediately retired Deep Blue after the match in order to do stuff like weather computations (you have to give them credit for quitting while they're ahead). I wouldn't call this a significant event for AI but rather a REALLY bad day for Kasparov.