What the hell have they done to the 203? When I carried it, back in the 80's, it weighed around 2 or 3 pounds. Heck, the M16A1 (which I carried)+M203 weighed less than 10 pounds.
What, some pre-historic LED was found that was contemporary with the non-thinking proto-humans? Oh, and how do they know when thought began? Much less that the LED was created (by what? The FSM?) 40 years earlier?
You want the AI to be stupid. Smart AIs lead to M5 and such.
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Heh. A cousin of mine had 'retired' from programming to stay at home and be a full time mother in 96. In 98 she was offered $100+/hr to go back to work fixing y2k bugs. Two years later, with the kids college funds fully funded, she pulled the kids out of day care and re-retired.
It seems, from reading through the forum postings, that some titles work, but the same title fails in a different drive, even if the drive is badged the same. Presumably the Xbox drives are made by different manufacturers and this is the source of the problem. Or possible the disks are pressed in different plants. Either way, that kind of inconsistency seems to be a good reason to avoid the whole thing.
Well,to some extent. My Dad lives in an area that hasn't got, and will probably never have, real broadband. He's rich by local standards. But he moved there when he retired. In,say, Montgomery County Maryland, he'd be considered lower middle class.
A round-about way of saying that some people value some things above broadband.
Yes, well, those are the ones with enough money to pay for the hardware to support new services. Rolling out, say, a fiber optic line costs money. If enough people in the neighborhood to pay for the fiber aren't going to sign up for it, then there's no sense in running it.
Unless you want to charge for access based on how many people sign up for it.
dragging and dropping features from one application to another How? Are you going to enforce some sort of data handling and data typing consistency between apps? Will word processors, spreadsheets, and graphics apps all be required to treat, say, text, the same way? (Is "5" text, or numeric? What about "C"?) Or will there be a nice interface for inter-program communication? (Called it, what, DCOM?)
should be sorting images by looking at similarities between pictures, date taken and other automatically generated information Define "similarities between pictures". Define it closely enough that a programmer can look at two bitstreams (which is what the program sees) and determine the "degree of similarity". Note that you have to be able to use boolean algebra. "Sort of like this" doesn't work.
How can these songs be automatically categorized by mood, tempo, etc without manually entering in meta-data? Define "mood". See above for the constraints.
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What the hell have they done to the 203? When I carried it, back in the 80's, it weighed around 2 or 3 pounds. Heck, the M16A1 (which I carried)+M203 weighed less than 10 pounds.
That's never stopped the [MP|RI]AA!
We can sue the company that runs the DNS for allowing copyright infringement! Maybe we can make them shut down!
What, some pre-historic LED was found that was contemporary with the non-thinking proto-humans? Oh, and how do they know when thought began? Much less that the LED was created (by what? The FSM?) 40 years earlier?
The AppleTV has them worried.
After the Dylan song finishes playing.
They are pretty much required by law to do that already.
You want the AI to be stupid. Smart AIs lead to M5 and such.
Heh. A cousin of mine had 'retired' from programming to stay at home and be a full time mother in 96. In 98 she was offered $100+/hr to go back to work fixing y2k bugs. Two years later, with the kids college funds fully funded, she pulled the kids out of day care and re-retired.
Prepare To Have Your Ass Laminated!
Someone who's IM'ing 13.5 GB/Month won't be in college long...
Installed Base...
How come a sovereign country, like the UK, is extraditing one of its own citizen -- regardless of his crimes -- to another country to be tried there?
Because there's a treaty?
It seems, from reading through the forum postings, that some titles work, but the same title fails in a different drive, even if the drive is badged the same. Presumably the Xbox drives are made by different manufacturers and this is the source of the problem. Or possible the disks are pressed in different plants. Either way, that kind of inconsistency seems to be a good reason to avoid the whole thing.
You bit, too. He's comparing the students to the MPAA/RIAA...
Boycott Circuit City!
A round-about way of saying that some people value some things above broadband.
CDs are the only way to get some of the music, legally, DRM free. Not that much of it is worth buying these days.
Unless you want to charge for access based on how many people sign up for it.
Microsoft Open Source License: You can look, but you can't touch.
Of the tortilla crisis in Mexico.
is Deb and Ian. That's what an IBM guy told me at FOSE a few years back.
I wouldn't get one, but then I'm one of those weirdos who just wants a phone to make phone calls.
should be sorting images by looking at similarities between pictures, date taken and other automatically generated information Define "similarities between pictures". Define it closely enough that a programmer can look at two bitstreams (which is what the program sees) and determine the "degree of similarity". Note that you have to be able to use boolean algebra. "Sort of like this" doesn't work.
How can these songs be automatically categorized by mood, tempo, etc without manually entering in meta-data? Define "mood". See above for the constraints.
But "which are most likely" seems a bit stilted. For a /. write-up, that approaches the "and then there's Albania" style of writing.