if great minds have grappled with a given subject matter and the answer has remained inconclusive to them, then it is certain that a definitive absolute final answer to the mystery will be found in the comments section of slashdot
text-to-speech or speech-to-text is also useless (unless your blind/ deaf/ driving a car)
the idea of interacting with a computer like a human is an artificial hangover from being introduced to the computer the first time. after using it for awhile, you realize that ineracting with a computer, in small limited ways, like searching information, is easier NOT using natural language
for the very simple reason that it takes more thought, and more typing to interact naturally. it is easier to train a human to interact with a computer than it is to train a computer to interact with a human. and for the human, it is more rewarding, because the human realizes he doesn't need to exert so much effort
"what is the capital of france?"
versus
"france capital"
if you were to shout "france capital" at someone, it would be rude and confusing. but for a computer, it's actually superior
it is the conservation of communication effort at work here that wins out over natural language in computer interaction
"all i'm saying is that 30,000 busybodies with a broadband connection around the country can do a better job than 300 trained CIA analysts at langley"
i could have said it better. rather than replace the 300 CIA analysts with 30,000 America's Most Wanted aficionados with broadband, why can't the 30,000 web vigilante's serve tips to the 300 CIA analysts? A lot of security is drudgework. Offsite some of the drudgework to random passionate yahoos, and the analysts can use their well-trained minds to do more well-trained things
It's win-win. How many people out there would stare at a boring camera feed all day "in the war on crime, in the service of the CIA"? Lots of people. And if a random joe shmoe catches a really good tip, fly the guy to langley and put their photo on the wall, like an employee of the month, and send out a press release. 30,000 more free eyeballs will join the program
more eyeballs, motivated by nothing but justice, zero $ expenditure, replacing drudgework to free trained analysts to do more important things: i can't see how this idea is anything but win-win, for America's Most Wanted Fans, for the CIA/ FBI, for everyone. except actual criminals
so it's also our spy cameras. the idea should be greater transparency. most of the spy cameras out there pointed at public places are there for our safety, and, all paranoid schizophrenia aside, are used for our safety to catch crooks
so let us look at the damn cameras too
in fact, it might even be useful for strapped law departments: scenario: "person XYZ (show mugshot) on trial for armed robbery skipped out on court today: oh great america's most wanted watching public: monitor the security camera feeds for daytona and orlando. here's 3,000 of them. find our guy"
distributed computing. distributed security. people are motivated by the search for justice. so empower them. let average citizens sift the data and report on interesting findings... like: "these 19 guys at this security gate at logan airport were taking flight school lessons just last week in florida"
all i'm saying is that 30,000 busybodies with a broadband connection around the country can do a better job than 300 trained CIA analysts at langley
to which we all laugh and guffaw at here on slashdot
and here you are, committing the same sin of poor foresight
personal processing power use will increase, and be filled by joe blow computer user, in myriad vital ways. i am not arrogant enough to prognosticate what those uses might be. but i don't think bill gates thought about a mp3 player running while a flash webpage ran while you watched the preview for the upcoming batman film (which, strangely enough, is true of 1987 and 2007: here comes a new batman movie. heh)
the point is, predicting that we've maxed out on memory usage/ processing power usage/ hard drive capacity usage has been a loser's game for decades now. so don't play that game
"Joe Sixpack users never need Super Computer power to surf the net"
oh, like you know what kind of apps over what kind of protocol will be delivered over fibre-to-premises in the year 2030. he will need a super computer. just like he uses a super computer today, in 1987 terminology, to look at football scores, and it seems like a slow computer (whatever the OS)
we all make fun of bill gates for that, but you are essentially saying the same thing
there are plenty of reasons that joe blow will need 32 cores in 2030. why? i'm not so arrogant as you as to pretend to know what he may be doing. but at the same time, i don't think you can listen to an mp3 and load webpages with flash and preview your 10,000 personal jpegs with 640K. so i do know that more power will be used, somehow
in other words, don't be a fool and think that we have reached anywhere near the limits of personal processing power usage. whatever the limit is, people will find constructive ways to fill that power. what those constructive ways are, i don't know, but whatever they are, people will think of them as vital and essential, like they do with their mp3 collection today, and with which they wouldn't have the faintest clue about in 1986
we all know that the any given webpage looks gray and moribund and depressing in ie, but in firefox the same webpage looks golden and sparkly and cheerful
"the displays of firefox and ie are fairly similar, and if you aren't looking at the very top or very bottom of the window, a layperson might not notice the difference at all"
ever hear of hillbilly heroin? it's oxycodone. prescription oxycodone. no mafia, no illegality
and yet there is still addiction, lives being ruined, crime in the seconday market, etc.
why?
because of addiction. you need to learn to appreciate what that concept does to your point of view on the opiates
all of the lessons of prohibition are eclipsed in negative value by the sheer extreme addictiveness of the opiates, and outweighs the lessons of prohibition in relation to the opiates
and you have the audacity to talk about free men, when confronted with what opiate addiction does to free men. as in: slavery, zombiehood. talk about blindness
much longer development cycles between os releases, like 6,8,10 years
and have MAJOR improvements in the mix
for example, i think vista was supposed to have a database like file system when i heard whispers of it way back in 2003/4/5
then i heard that idea got shelved
hey microsoft: if you shelve major improvements, why would anyone upgrade?
if they had that db-like filesystem, then in 2-3 years from now, when that os would have been released, everyone would be talking about what a revolutionary leap forward microsoft had on its hands (yes, i know it's really not a groundbreaking idea, but you know how pr and popular opinion works). now, instead, apple is stealing the thunder for having vista like features before microsoft, when it's just faster graphics card eye candy
windows 95 was such a dramatic step forward from previous iterations
same with xp (patching up windows nt to release to the public instead of business, as windows xp, to increase stability, was certainly an improvement over win me! again, we're talking pr and popular opinion here)
it seems like a lot of the comments here are being made by people living in red lodge montana
folks: the place is one giant cacophony of noise and colors
frankly, i'd appreciate it if could all be squelched out and some sexy female voice was isolated in my head. i would even talk back to her, as if that behavior would stand out, what with all of the schizophrenics and suits with blue tooth headsets walking around
she wants to sell me life insurance? ok. like i said, i live in times square, and used to work at the world trade center until 9/11/01. i probably need it
except for the hardcore highly addicting and highly inebriating (so that excludes nicotine) drugs like heorin and the opiates, methamphetamine, and cocaine
marijuana should be legal, it's not worse than alcohol. lsd and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) should be legal: not addicting. of course you can't take that and drive
but the highly addicting and highly addicting trinity of meth, crack, and the opiates, especially, must forever be fought in drug war
simply because although all of the lessons about prohibition applied to these drugs as well, the effects of legalization of virally addictive substances is simply worse than prohibition
the effects of easy viral addiction and the permanent waste that lays to lives (and freedoms: a drug addict is not free) means these substances must be permanently verboten, forever. in the name of freedom: freedom from the slavery of addiction
you can dig in your heels and fight it tooth and nail, until reality passes you by
or you can adapt gracefully, and keep right on swimming
adapt, or die
i mean these are some pretty fantastic death throes we are witnessing now
riaa, mpaa: in 5 years i want to see shocktroopers on the street with congressionally mandated shoot to kill on sight orders for anyone caught singing christmas carols without prior authorization
witness modern city dwellers who do not breed, but devote massive resources to the pampering of small yapping ratdogs
gene failure right there... for the humans, not the ratdogs
for the ratdogs, it's the genetic jackpot: what started with a virile wolf who decided to follow the humans around for scraps rather than hunt on its own, many moons ago, has now warped into a small retarded spastic defenseless ratdog. and yet it has a survival advantage like no wolf in the history of wolves ever did
but, like any parasite, it mustn't destroy it's host ability to reproduce
conclusion: small yapping ratdogs need to somehow evolve the ability to somehow convince their empathy immobilized hosts to reproduce, and make more empathetically addled humans who dote on small yapping ratdogs
but anyone who champions the supremacy of a brutal racist rationale like eugenics, something that went out of vogue sometime around the first world war, yes, such a person is 100% a troll according to the majority of definitions of what a troll is. a "classic" troll, in fact, like i said, because the troll champions an old dead way of thinking
what "fit" means is constantly changing. fat people are now seen as unfit. well, we live in an age where the food supply is rock solid dependable. there's no need for a biological reserve, and all of the cardiovascular and other health related deficicts associated with a a lot of adipose tissue
but in previous ages of man, ages of sporadic starvation, the fat were most fit. and that was what, a century or two ago all around the world? still real today in some parts of africa?
then i would respect your opinion. if you don't, i don't care if you have 50 grandkids. the one who has the vagina has the only valid opinion on getting to the hospital in a hurry or not. and from my experience, they say you need to get in a hurry. case closed
Slashdot Mirror
if great minds have grappled with a given subject matter and the answer has remained inconclusive to them, then it is certain that a definitive absolute final answer to the mystery will be found in the comments section of slashdot
then i won't be impressed until i can type "earl grey, hot" into google and find a nice cup of tea on my cd tray
they are tentatively reimagining smaug:
1. eyes are going to be on stalks
2. big floppy ears
3. speaks in pidgin
sounds like a great improvement for the prequel to the smash trilogy we all know and love!
text-to-speech or speech-to-text is also useless (unless your blind/ deaf/ driving a car)
the idea of interacting with a computer like a human is an artificial hangover from being introduced to the computer the first time. after using it for awhile, you realize that ineracting with a computer, in small limited ways, like searching information, is easier NOT using natural language
for the very simple reason that it takes more thought, and more typing to interact naturally. it is easier to train a human to interact with a computer than it is to train a computer to interact with a human. and for the human, it is more rewarding, because the human realizes he doesn't need to exert so much effort
"what is the capital of france?"
versus
"france capital"
if you were to shout "france capital" at someone, it would be rude and confusing. but for a computer, it's actually superior
it is the conservation of communication effort at work here that wins out over natural language in computer interaction
so enjoy your impoverished life... not necessarily financially
that they could not nail down the exact nature of the exotic object giving off the deadly beam, but they did offer that "that's no moon"
i seeded the dual_EC-DRBG with the following ASCII strings the and got the following output in ASCII:
missionaccomplished -> LOL
waterboard -> buckshottotheface
osamabinladen -> loofahnotfalafel
iraq -> vietnam
"all i'm saying is that 30,000 busybodies with a broadband connection around the country can do a better job than 300 trained CIA analysts at langley"
i could have said it better. rather than replace the 300 CIA analysts with 30,000 America's Most Wanted aficionados with broadband, why can't the 30,000 web vigilante's serve tips to the 300 CIA analysts? A lot of security is drudgework. Offsite some of the drudgework to random passionate yahoos, and the analysts can use their well-trained minds to do more well-trained things
It's win-win. How many people out there would stare at a boring camera feed all day "in the war on crime, in the service of the CIA"? Lots of people. And if a random joe shmoe catches a really good tip, fly the guy to langley and put their photo on the wall, like an employee of the month, and send out a press release. 30,000 more free eyeballs will join the program
more eyeballs, motivated by nothing but justice, zero $ expenditure, replacing drudgework to free trained analysts to do more important things: i can't see how this idea is anything but win-win, for America's Most Wanted Fans, for the CIA/ FBI, for everyone. except actual criminals
to generate advertising buzz for your website.
so it's also our spy cameras. the idea should be greater transparency. most of the spy cameras out there pointed at public places are there for our safety, and, all paranoid schizophrenia aside, are used for our safety to catch crooks
so let us look at the damn cameras too
in fact, it might even be useful for strapped law departments: scenario: "person XYZ (show mugshot) on trial for armed robbery skipped out on court today: oh great america's most wanted watching public: monitor the security camera feeds for daytona and orlando. here's 3,000 of them. find our guy"
distributed computing. distributed security. people are motivated by the search for justice. so empower them. let average citizens sift the data and report on interesting findings... like: "these 19 guys at this security gate at logan airport were taking flight school lessons just last week in florida"
all i'm saying is that 30,000 busybodies with a broadband connection around the country can do a better job than 300 trained CIA analysts at langley
-bill gates
to which we all laugh and guffaw at here on slashdot
and here you are, committing the same sin of poor foresight
personal processing power use will increase, and be filled by joe blow computer user, in myriad vital ways. i am not arrogant enough to prognosticate what those uses might be. but i don't think bill gates thought about a mp3 player running while a flash webpage ran while you watched the preview for the upcoming batman film (which, strangely enough, is true of 1987 and 2007: here comes a new batman movie. heh)
the point is, predicting that we've maxed out on memory usage/ processing power usage/ hard drive capacity usage has been a loser's game for decades now. so don't play that game
"Joe Sixpack users never need Super Computer power to surf the net"
oh, like you know what kind of apps over what kind of protocol will be delivered over fibre-to-premises in the year 2030. he will need a super computer. just like he uses a super computer today, in 1987 terminology, to look at football scores, and it seems like a slow computer (whatever the OS)
"640K ought to be good enough for anyone"
we all make fun of bill gates for that, but you are essentially saying the same thing
there are plenty of reasons that joe blow will need 32 cores in 2030. why? i'm not so arrogant as you as to pretend to know what he may be doing. but at the same time, i don't think you can listen to an mp3 and load webpages with flash and preview your 10,000 personal jpegs with 640K. so i do know that more power will be used, somehow
in other words, don't be a fool and think that we have reached anywhere near the limits of personal processing power usage. whatever the limit is, people will find constructive ways to fill that power. what those constructive ways are, i don't know, but whatever they are, people will think of them as vital and essential, like they do with their mp3 collection today, and with which they wouldn't have the faintest clue about in 1986
we all know that the any given webpage looks gray and moribund and depressing in ie, but in firefox the same webpage looks golden and sparkly and cheerful
"the displays of firefox and ie are fairly similar, and if you aren't looking at the very top or very bottom of the window, a layperson might not notice the difference at all"
sacrilege! how dare you!
i can imagine the improvements/ negatives as well as you can, but i['m no expert
ever hear of hillbilly heroin? it's oxycodone. prescription oxycodone. no mafia, no illegality
and yet there is still addiction, lives being ruined, crime in the seconday market, etc.
why?
because of addiction. you need to learn to appreciate what that concept does to your point of view on the opiates
all of the lessons of prohibition are eclipsed in negative value by the sheer extreme addictiveness of the opiates, and outweighs the lessons of prohibition in relation to the opiates
and you have the audacity to talk about free men, when confronted with what opiate addiction does to free men. as in: slavery, zombiehood. talk about blindness
much longer development cycles between os releases, like 6,8,10 years
and have MAJOR improvements in the mix
for example, i think vista was supposed to have a database like file system when i heard whispers of it way back in 2003/4/5
then i heard that idea got shelved
hey microsoft: if you shelve major improvements, why would anyone upgrade?
if they had that db-like filesystem, then in 2-3 years from now, when that os would have been released, everyone would be talking about what a revolutionary leap forward microsoft had on its hands (yes, i know it's really not a groundbreaking idea, but you know how pr and popular opinion works). now, instead, apple is stealing the thunder for having vista like features before microsoft, when it's just faster graphics card eye candy
windows 95 was such a dramatic step forward from previous iterations
same with xp (patching up windows nt to release to the public instead of business, as windows xp, to increase stability, was certainly an improvement over win me! again, we're talking pr and popular opinion here)
you may need to have it serviced or replaced. it seems to have gone off line
it seems like a lot of the comments here are being made by people living in red lodge montana
folks: the place is one giant cacophony of noise and colors
frankly, i'd appreciate it if could all be squelched out and some sexy female voice was isolated in my head. i would even talk back to her, as if that behavior would stand out, what with all of the schizophrenics and suits with blue tooth headsets walking around
she wants to sell me life insurance? ok. like i said, i live in times square, and used to work at the world trade center until 9/11/01. i probably need it
except for the hardcore highly addicting and highly inebriating (so that excludes nicotine) drugs like heorin and the opiates, methamphetamine, and cocaine
marijuana should be legal, it's not worse than alcohol. lsd and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) should be legal: not addicting. of course you can't take that and drive
but the highly addicting and highly addicting trinity of meth, crack, and the opiates, especially, must forever be fought in drug war
simply because although all of the lessons about prohibition applied to these drugs as well, the effects of legalization of virally addictive substances is simply worse than prohibition
see the diagram: illegality for the red, legality for everything else. the substances in the red have effects which are worse than all of the prohibition effects you can list
the effects of easy viral addiction and the permanent waste that lays to lives (and freedoms: a drug addict is not free) means these substances must be permanently verboten, forever. in the name of freedom: freedom from the slavery of addiction
you can dig in your heels and fight it tooth and nail, until reality passes you by
or you can adapt gracefully, and keep right on swimming
adapt, or die
i mean these are some pretty fantastic death throes we are witnessing now
riaa, mpaa: in 5 years i want to see shocktroopers on the street with congressionally mandated shoot to kill on sight orders for anyone caught singing christmas carols without prior authorization
that's the logical progression of your denial
too much empathy is a bad thing
witness modern city dwellers who do not breed, but devote massive resources to the pampering of small yapping ratdogs
gene failure right there... for the humans, not the ratdogs
for the ratdogs, it's the genetic jackpot: what started with a virile wolf who decided to follow the humans around for scraps rather than hunt on its own, many moons ago, has now warped into a small retarded spastic defenseless ratdog. and yet it has a survival advantage like no wolf in the history of wolves ever did
but, like any parasite, it mustn't destroy it's host ability to reproduce
conclusion: small yapping ratdogs need to somehow evolve the ability to somehow convince their empathy immobilized hosts to reproduce, and make more empathetically addled humans who dote on small yapping ratdogs
maybe some sort of pheromone, hmmm
for the intertubes, and move the information superhighway faster down the series of tubes, perhaps an advanced vacuum tube technology?
senators from alaska want to know
but anyone who champions the supremacy of a brutal racist rationale like eugenics, something that went out of vogue sometime around the first world war, yes, such a person is 100% a troll according to the majority of definitions of what a troll is. a "classic" troll, in fact, like i said, because the troll champions an old dead way of thinking
what "fit" means is constantly changing. fat people are now seen as unfit. well, we live in an age where the food supply is rock solid dependable. there's no need for a biological reserve, and all of the cardiovascular and other health related deficicts associated with a a lot of adipose tissue
but in previous ages of man, ages of sporadic starvation, the fat were most fit. and that was what, a century or two ago all around the world? still real today in some parts of africa?
then i would respect your opinion. if you don't, i don't care if you have 50 grandkids. the one who has the vagina has the only valid opinion on getting to the hospital in a hurry or not. and from my experience, they say you need to get in a hurry. case closed