Given the technology invovled my guess it would be functionally about the same as a cop on every street corner 24x7. Now thats what I call a police state.
Police state doesn't mean "lots of cops", it means "unaccountable cops."
I just tried the web version at TellTaleGames. It has the same problem as every other chatbot I've seen - When it cannot parse your sentence or you do not give any keyword that it knows about, it tries to conceal the fact by giving a non-sequitur or changing the subject. The trouble with that is that humans are trained to spot that and react with suspicion (because other humans use it to dodge difficult questions.) Chatbot developers might have more luck if they start programming their bots to admit when they don't understand something. That didn't work in the 80s because the bot would say "I don't understand" every 3rd sentence or so. But they can fit in much larger databases now so that should be less of a problem.
Being able to move around your cursor and delete and edit things without leaving your home position can easily *double* your editing speed. That's the reason why people still love vi and Emacs. And this is not a joke.
Well almost. You still have to reach for the ESC key to switch between typing and moving the cursor. I find that slightly harder than reaching for the enter or backspace keys. You can train yourself to reach for it in a certain location, then find that when you switch to a laptop you keep hitting backquote or F1 instead.
The first algorithm I actually understood and was able to re-implement (in Sinclair Spectrum BASIC) was a bubble sort, so I would recommend that. I had been experimenting with the graphics functions for a couple of months before but I did not learn much from that. I think the important thing is to avoid pointers and also avoid dependence on any OO concepts (it's easy to forget how hard they were to learn.)
Not everyone is sold on the concept of Peer-to-Patent. Stephen Key, an inventor in California who has patented everything from toys to container labels, worries that the program requires applicants to put their ideas out there on the Web for anyone to see -- and potentially steal.
Is he not aware that one already has to publish an idea in order to patent it? Or is he relying on the fact that fewer people read patent applications than web articles?
Ghostbusters gets re-released on USB stick. As this movie happens to be the first such release, it gets mentioned in the news.
1,000,000 People who haven't watched the movie for years are reminded of it and decide they'd like to see it again
250,000 of those people realise that while they do still have a copy, it's on VHS and they haven't replaced that VHS player that broke down 3 years ago. And it was quite faded anyway. A DVD would be better so...
100,000 of those spot a DVD in a bargain bin the following week
10,000 of them actually watch it, instead just leaving it on the shelf with their other 200 unwrapped bargain bin DVDs
50 rip the DVD using handbrake, out of habit, or just to avoid the 2 minutes of FBI warnings & pointless animations
1 shares the ripped version on PirateBay/BearShare/whatever
a week later in a meeting somewhere...
Engineer #1: This DRM scheme has obviously failed. There's a version of Ghostbusters on PirateBay now. Engineer #2: But of course there is, there has been for years. It's probably from the original DVD release. Engineer #1: No, this one is new. And it's in the top 100 downloads list. It must have happened recently, and the only recent release is this USB dongle here CEO: Well scrap this scheme then, it's causing piracy already
Sorry, I meant to mod you "Informative" not "Troll" & was careless with my trackpad, and with D2 it doesn't wait for confirmation. This comment should cancel it though.
I'm really disliking this trend of posting interviews in a video format. Just because you can doesn't mean you should... come on folks.
Anyways, anyone know if this thing has a text version or transcript of some sort with it?:-\ There's an interview with Joel Spolsky in "Founders At Work" by Jessica Livingston with some quite similar content.
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Is it possible to make authorization systems more purpose-aware? Would that even be desirable, or would it just cause problems with unexpected situations? What you are describing sounds like DRM, so we know the answer already: no, it won't work, but people will try to and will waste a lot of money in the process.
Really? That means either you (like me) have a +2 troll modifier or someone modded the post "Underrated" and then cancelled it by posting in this thread (since you posted.)
It's more common than you might think. Java has & (not short-circuited, behaves as logical-and when applied to booleans) vs. &&, Eiffel has and vs. and then, Scheme has and? vs. and. The mistake is to make the non-short-circuited version effectively the default (by making it easier to type) since it is very rare that there is an advantage to using the non-short-circuited version. It's not as bad in java since many (i.e. former C programmers) are already accustomed to using && for logical-and.
Windows - Almost useless, squeezed between useful keys. Fortunately my Linux systems ignore this key. Until you plug a USB PC keyboard into a Mac (e.g. at a docking station built for a Windows laptop) - where the Windows key becomes the Option key.
The speakers on the 15" MacBook Pro are awful, and those are what you'd be stuck with if you made the keyboard larger (I'm assuming the 17" models have better speakers - haven't actually used one...)
Take trusted_program and/bin/false, use this technique to generate trusted_program2 and false2.
Post both trusted_program2 and false2 on your web page along with their shared md5sum and invite the user to download them (presumably the user trusts you and your web server or he wouldn't download them in the first place.)
The user is now confident that you cannot replace trusted_program2 with malicious_program without changing the md5sum, because this technique only works with two prefixes, not three.
Depends whether anyone saved a copy of the EULA they signed when they downloaded the videos. If it favours MLB they'll find a copy. But if it doesn't, it would be quite easy for them to say "We've lost all copies of that EULA but our policy back then was to put in a 1-year time limit" and given the small numbers involved, probably no-one will be able to prove otherwise. I think I'll get in the habit of saving a copy before clicking on "I Agree" from now on.
I'm not quite sure what they mean but I doubt the nanotube fibre is supposed to contain a bomb blast. Perhaps it's a new casing material for a product like this one.
from here:
Unlike normal litter bins that shatter into thousands of pieces of shrapnel during an explosion the outside cover of this bin will break away into three or four large pieces while the bin itself remains intact. It means that if hit by one of the pieces at the most any passer by would only suffer from is mild bruising. The "mild bruising" bit sounds a bit far fetched ("mild incineration" more likely?) but maybe a nanotube casing would stay in one piece which would be an improvement.
I know parent is a joke but of course lots of money has been spent researching how to make such AI programs less annoying.Here's one example and another one. If they take advantage of some of this stuff it could work quite well.
combining -1 Flamebait with -1 Troll Please don't do that. It will spoil my +2 troll modifier. I find the posts marked "Troll" are the most interesting/entertaining ones. Anyone else do that?
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Just replace "frog" with "lobster" - that way it is accurate and everyone's happy.
Given the technology invovled my guess it would be functionally about the same as a cop on every street corner 24x7. Now thats what I call a police state.
Police state doesn't mean "lots of cops", it means "unaccountable cops."
If this estimate is correct, its 0.4% worldwide.
FTFY
Yes it was Perl 4, which is one of the flaws in this study.
Interesting question actually.
In the UK at least:
If the laws were there just because of the distraction, using a hands-free phone would also be banned, but it is not.
I just tried the web version at TellTaleGames. It has the same problem as every other chatbot I've seen - When it cannot parse your sentence or you do not give any keyword that it knows about, it tries to conceal the fact by giving a non-sequitur or changing the subject.
The trouble with that is that humans are trained to spot that and react with suspicion (because other humans use it to dodge difficult questions.)
Chatbot developers might have more luck if they start programming their bots to admit when they don't understand something. That didn't work in the 80s because the bot would say "I don't understand" every 3rd sentence or so. But they can fit in much larger databases now so that should be less of a problem.
...and the judges couldn't shut it down, and so had to create a temporal bubble around the lab to contain it. They're still trapped inside.
Being able to move around your cursor and delete and edit things without leaving your home position can easily *double* your editing speed. That's the reason why people still love vi and Emacs. And this is not a joke.
Well almost. You still have to reach for the ESC key to switch between typing and moving the cursor. I find that slightly harder than reaching for the enter or backspace keys. You can train yourself to reach for it in a certain location, then find that when you switch to a laptop you keep hitting backquote or F1 instead.
The first algorithm I actually understood and was able to re-implement (in Sinclair Spectrum BASIC) was a bubble sort, so I would recommend that. I had been experimenting with the graphics functions for a couple of months before but I did not learn much from that. I think the important thing is to avoid pointers and also avoid dependence on any OO concepts (it's easy to forget how hard they were to learn.)
Not everyone is sold on the concept of Peer-to-Patent. Stephen Key, an inventor in California who has patented everything from toys to container labels, worries that the program requires applicants to put their ideas out there on the Web for anyone to see -- and potentially steal.
Is he not aware that one already has to publish an idea in order to patent it? Or is he relying on the fact that fewer people read patent applications than web articles?
a week later in a meeting somewhere...
Engineer #1: This DRM scheme has obviously failed. There's a version of Ghostbusters on PirateBay now.
Engineer #2: But of course there is, there has been for years. It's probably from the original DVD release.
Engineer #1: No, this one is new. And it's in the top 100 downloads list. It must have happened recently, and the only recent release is this USB dongle here
CEO: Well scrap this scheme then, it's causing piracy already
Sorry, I meant to mod you "Informative" not "Troll" & was careless with my trackpad, and with D2 it doesn't wait for confirmation. This comment should cancel it though.
Anyways, anyone know if this thing has a text version or transcript of some sort with it?
... camera's were not allowed(My karma should be safe as all moderators will have given up on this thread long ago.)
Really? That means either you (like me) have a +2 troll modifier or someone modded the post "Underrated" and then cancelled it by posting in this thread (since you posted.)
It's more common than you might think. Java has & (not short-circuited, behaves as logical-and when applied to booleans) vs. &&, Eiffel has and vs. and then, Scheme has and? vs. and. The mistake is to make the non-short-circuited version effectively the default (by making it easier to type) since it is very rare that there is an advantage to using the non-short-circuited version. It's not as bad in java since many (i.e. former C programmers) are already accustomed to using && for logical-and.
The speakers on the 15" MacBook Pro are awful, and those are what you'd be stuck with if you made the keyboard larger (I'm assuming the 17" models have better speakers - haven't actually used one...)
Create trusted_program.
/bin/false, use this technique to generate trusted_program2 and false2.
Take trusted_program and
Post both trusted_program2 and false2 on your web page along with their shared md5sum and invite the user to download them (presumably the user trusts you and your web server or he wouldn't download them in the first place.)
The user is now confident that you cannot replace trusted_program2 with malicious_program without changing the md5sum, because this technique only works with two prefixes, not three.
Depends whether anyone saved a copy of the EULA they signed when they downloaded the videos.
If it favours MLB they'll find a copy. But if it doesn't, it would be quite easy for them to say "We've lost all copies of that EULA but our policy back then was to put in a 1-year time limit" and given the small numbers involved, probably no-one will be able to prove otherwise. I think I'll get in the habit of saving a copy before clicking on "I Agree" from now on.
from here: Unlike normal litter bins that shatter into thousands of pieces of shrapnel during an explosion the outside cover of this bin will break away into three or four large pieces while the bin itself remains intact. It means that if hit by one of the pieces at the most any passer by would only suffer from is mild bruising. The "mild bruising" bit sounds a bit far fetched ("mild incineration" more likely?) but maybe a nanotube casing would stay in one piece which would be an improvement.
I know parent is a joke but of course lots of money has been spent researching how to make such AI programs less annoying.Here's one example and another one. If they take advantage of some of this stuff it could work quite well.
I find the posts marked "Troll" are the most interesting/entertaining ones. Anyone else do that?