Evolution isn't chaos except that mutations happen somewhat randomly.
where did those rules come from? where did anything come from? what except randomness governed the first combination of proteins? what except randomness brought proteins about? The whole point of evolution is that given sufficient time and sufficient randomness, everything has to happen at some point or another. (I know the Infinite Improbability Drive was a joke, but let's be honest, it strikes a chord with evolutionary thinking doesn't it?)
-- Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar or the the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross, that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
it has always interested me how someone who believes in pure evolution (i.e. order from absolute randomness - disregarding whether there is such a thing or not) believes that we have a chance in hell of actually designing an AI.
If evolution is true, then the things that we call "order" and "intelligence" are just a higher function of chaos (the inevitable byproduct of randomness). On an even higher level, there is no reason to believe that we are actually designing anything, we are merely exciting our neurons (if they exist) into believing we have perceived that we are performing an action (which in this case is mental, which brings us back to the alleged neurons) that we call designing. If evolution is true, then intelligence will happen regardless of what we do, and we have no reason to believe that we have anything to do with it whatsoever, or could influence it in any way at all if we did.
As for me, I'll take an Almighty God (as long as he lets me)
-- Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross, that told me this was a world condemned but loved and bought with hlood
That's a fine sentiment, but there is one thing it ignores Not at all. My point is that the buck rests with parents. Parent's must choose where to send their children to school, they must know the teachers, the curriculum, the principal, the school board, etc. It all rests on the parents. The school has no authority and the kids know it. The teacher can do nothing to the children, and the kids know it. If I was Steve Ballmer, I'd be dancing around the room chanting and clapping, PARENTS, PARENTS, PARENTS...
I'll even go one step further and say this. I think the real issue rests with fathers and (many/most/some) men's lack of desire to demonstrate any significant leadership in the life of their children. I know that personally, I would frequently prefer to let decisions be made for me and pretend that I have no power/responsibility in my family's life. This sort of thing has to change.
Later on, he gave IBM a stern talking to, and then towards the end of the article, he gave Microsoft a vigorous tongue lashing. Also, mosquitos, as a species, were maligned.
Seriously guys, the trash talk is getting embarrassing...
Parents are responsible for their child's education, not the government, not their church, not anyone else in the world, them. We've been screwing things up for years by letting the government run education, and at some point, it's going to have to stop.
I wouldn't bet on it. Before everything is said and done, they will find that reimplementing their Flash demo in an actual programming language is next to impossible. This will force them to commit a terrible and irreversible act of desperation, namely merging Flash and Python into a powerful but evil synthesis of the two languages called Flash-a-thon. Shortly thereafter, we all die... or something... I missed the last bit of the prophecy 'cause I was watching Sealab...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
You reallise what incredably bad news that would be if true, don't you? Personally, I'm praying for proof of a link with human activity.
This is actually a large part of the problem. Most people want to believe that we possess ultimate power over our destinies while at the same time believing that the universe and all it contains came about by complete and utter chance. These views are basically irreconcilable, nevertheless, they persist. Added to this is the problem that fear and hope are powerful tools of manipulation. There are people in power all over who would love nothing more than to use an individual's desire for control over his destiny for political gain.
Having an offical license for a sports game is a value add, and, as you mention, potentially a very large one. Which means that companies that want to continue to make sports games without having an official sports license are going to have to come up with something to set them apart and above from the licensed franchises.
I don't really care how they or do it, or whether they succeed or not, but that's what they are going to have to do...
As always, when someone corners a market, this is the time for other companies to look at what makes sports games fun and come at this from a brand new angle. Sports games that abstract away some of the rules of the game to increase action or speed, new sports, new types of players (but more thought out than "what about Orcs with football helmets?" or "hey what if the players were robots?" type of ideas) though a Warcraft style sport game where teams can be made up of different races and players can mix and match to their hearts content would be interesting...
Anyway, whether these are stupid ideas or not, now is the time for game designers to innovate instead of whine about EA. If they get truly desperate, they can always go and find some Finnish computer science student who's been thinking about designing a game engine. I hear they have great ideas...
An observant reader writes in suggesting that perhaps Marvel is correct about not paying Stan Lee his 10% citing Issue 299 of the Fantastic Four where Dr. Doom destroyed the time continuum of the year during which Stan Lee retired, thereby nullifying his contract. While he get a No-Prize for his efforts another valiant reader mentions that perhaps Stan Lee will be triumphant because he is in fact Captain Marvel, to which we reply: Captain Marvel is dead.
Well maybe if you would talk a little slower and stop using such big fancy words like "stock" and "2003" we wouldn't be so confused, Mr. Smarty Smarty McGenius...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I would like to know how the Cobb County Board of Education is Congress. Barring that, there is no way that those stickers are constitutional.
This should terrify the religious as well as the atheists.
I'd be glad to discuss this with anyone. Here or offline. Email me at churchill@datatek-net.com
I just know at some point I am going to have to see some physicist/actor doing a rap about how government grants put the schnizzle in his projectizzle - or something even scarier, middle-aged, balding, white backup dancers...
<shudder>
No big deal...
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So BitTorrent is just about spreading the distribution load across multiple peers and can't speed up my physical connection to the internet.
That's why I click on every banner I see that says "click here to increase your download speed". I think of them as the little speed boost arrows you could drive over in Excitebike.
I already read about this in a newsletter that I received in the "Reply To" field of an email.
-- Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
vulnerabilities in the handling of Icon and Cursor files
Wow! As tough to beat as that is, I think Apple still wins the day.
Tough call.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Daily appointments 9:00 William Meyers, 39, has been trying to "pull off" combos at work. 10:00 Nathan Greer, 31, intimacy problems. Constantly chooses options from a "radial menu" during social interactions. Refers to sex as "WooHoo" and believes it involves flailing about under the covers while fully clothed. Tries to tickle me at the start of every session. 11:00 Rebekah Lane, frequently drives between oncoming traffic to achieve "Boost" 12:00 Quake IV Lan Party with colleagues 1:00 Resist urge to kill all humans around me...
-- Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
after reading some of the examples and realizing that I live in an area with three major colleges (housing who knows how many gamers) within 10 miles or so of each other... uhm, I'm not leaving the house anymore, and am instructing my wife to do the same.
-- There is no giant ball of tape - you have been lied to.
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Evolution isn't chaos except that mutations happen somewhat randomly.
where did those rules come from? where did anything come from? what except randomness governed the first combination of proteins? what except randomness brought proteins about? The whole point of evolution is that given sufficient time and sufficient randomness, everything has to happen at some point or another. (I know the Infinite Improbability Drive was a joke, but let's be honest, it strikes a chord with evolutionary thinking doesn't it?)
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar or the the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross, that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
it has always interested me how someone who believes in pure evolution (i.e. order from absolute randomness - disregarding whether there is such a thing or not) believes that we have a chance in hell of actually designing an AI.
If evolution is true, then the things that we call "order" and "intelligence" are just a higher function of chaos (the inevitable byproduct of randomness). On an even higher level, there is no reason to believe that we are actually designing anything, we are merely exciting our neurons (if they exist) into believing we have perceived that we are performing an action (which in this case is mental, which brings us back to the alleged neurons) that we call designing. If evolution is true, then intelligence will happen regardless of what we do, and we have no reason to believe that we have anything to do with it whatsoever, or could influence it in any way at all if we did.
As for me, I'll take an Almighty God (as long as he lets me)
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross, that told me this was a world condemned but loved and bought with hlood
I think you and I have a significant disconnect when it comes to the meaning of the word responsibility.
That's a fine sentiment, but there is one thing it ignores
Not at all. My point is that the buck rests with parents. Parent's must choose where to send their children to school, they must know the teachers, the curriculum, the principal, the school board, etc. It all rests on the parents. The school has no authority and the kids know it. The teacher can do nothing to the children, and the kids know it. If I was Steve Ballmer, I'd be dancing around the room chanting and clapping, PARENTS, PARENTS, PARENTS...
I'll even go one step further and say this. I think the real issue rests with fathers and (many/most/some) men's lack of desire to demonstrate any significant leadership in the life of their children. I know that personally, I would frequently prefer to let decisions be made for me and pretend that I have no power/responsibility in my family's life. This sort of thing has to change.
RMS takes Sun to task...
Later on, he gave IBM a stern talking to, and then towards the end of the article, he gave Microsoft a vigorous tongue lashing. Also, mosquitos, as a species, were maligned.
Seriously guys, the trash talk is getting embarrassing...
You want to know the real bottom line?
Parents are responsible for their child's education, not the government, not their church, not anyone else in the world, them. We've been screwing things up for years by letting the government run education, and at some point, it's going to have to stop.
I wouldn't bet on it. Before everything is said and done, they will find that reimplementing their Flash demo in an actual programming language is next to impossible. This will force them to commit a terrible and irreversible act of desperation, namely merging Flash and Python into a powerful but evil synthesis of the two languages called Flash-a-thon. Shortly thereafter, we all die... or something... I missed the last bit of the prophecy 'cause I was watching Sealab...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
You reallise what incredably bad news that would be if true, don't you?
Personally, I'm praying for proof of a link with human activity.
This is actually a large part of the problem. Most people want to believe that we possess ultimate power over our destinies while at the same time believing that the universe and all it contains came about by complete and utter chance. These views are basically irreconcilable, nevertheless, they persist. Added to this is the problem that fear and hope are powerful tools of manipulation. There are people in power all over who would love nothing more than to use an individual's desire for control over his destiny for political gain.
It's kind of scary no matter what you believe.
Having an offical license for a sports game is a value add, and, as you mention, potentially a very large one. Which means that companies that want to continue to make sports games without having an official sports license are going to have to come up with something to set them apart and above from the licensed franchises.
I don't really care how they or do it, or whether they succeed or not, but that's what they are going to have to do...
As always, when someone corners a market, this is the time for other companies to look at what makes sports games fun and come at this from a brand new angle. Sports games that abstract away some of the rules of the game to increase action or speed, new sports, new types of players (but more thought out than "what about Orcs with football helmets?" or "hey what if the players were robots?" type of ideas) though a Warcraft style sport game where teams can be made up of different races and players can mix and match to their hearts content would be interesting...
Anyway, whether these are stupid ideas or not, now is the time for game designers to innovate instead of whine about EA. If they get truly desperate, they can always go and find some Finnish computer science student who's been thinking about designing a game engine. I hear they have great ideas...
I keep forgetting that this is slashdot. I shouls bave put in my disclamer:
Please, do not be alarmed or reply with an explanation. This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.
Sigh...
Apparently someone "accidentally" pushed the emergency power off (which should keep all power off, even UPS)
This also raised the all-important "Why do we even have that button?" question.
An observant reader writes in suggesting that perhaps Marvel is correct about not paying Stan Lee his 10% citing Issue 299 of the Fantastic Four where Dr. Doom destroyed the time continuum of the year during which Stan Lee retired, thereby nullifying his contract. While he get a No-Prize for his efforts another valiant reader mentions that perhaps Stan Lee will be triumphant because he is in fact Captain Marvel, to which we reply: Captain Marvel is dead.
Nuff said.
an article titled Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL written by Michael Day and Håkon Wium Lie. The article was written in response to Norm Walsh's claim that CSS will never fix [printing]. Did you hear me? CSS will never fix it!".
Let the hair pulling and the name calling begin.
Which word is "dark" modifying, "plans" or "fibre"?
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so dark, you'll forget the fibre
What the world needs now, it binary XML?
Nope, sorry, those lyrics suck. We're gonna stick with Mr. Bacharach's version.
Well maybe if you would talk a little slower and stop using such big fancy words like "stock" and "2003" we wouldn't be so confused, Mr. Smarty Smarty McGenius...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I would like to know how the Cobb County Board of Education is Congress. Barring that, there is no way that those stickers are constitutional.
This should terrify the religious as well as the atheists.
I'd be glad to discuss this with anyone. Here or offline. Email me at churchill@datatek-net.com
I just know at some point I am going to have to see some physicist/actor doing a rap about how government grants put the schnizzle in his projectizzle - or something even scarier, middle-aged, balding, white backup dancers...
<shudder>
So BitTorrent is just about spreading the distribution load across multiple peers and can't speed up my physical connection to the internet.
That's why I click on every banner I see that says "click here to increase your download speed". I think of them as the little speed boost arrows you could drive over in Excitebike.
--
This is a joke. You have been joked with.
I already read about this in a newsletter that I received in the "Reply To" field of an email.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
except for us robots...
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You have been warned. Do not touch my danish again.
vulnerabilities in the handling of Icon and Cursor files
Wow! As tough to beat as that is, I think Apple still wins the day.
Tough call.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Daily appointments
9:00 William Meyers, 39, has been trying to "pull off" combos at work.
10:00 Nathan Greer, 31, intimacy problems. Constantly chooses options from a "radial menu" during social interactions. Refers to sex as "WooHoo" and believes it involves flailing about under the covers while fully clothed. Tries to tickle me at the start of every session.
11:00 Rebekah Lane, frequently drives between oncoming traffic to achieve "Boost"
12:00 Quake IV Lan Party with colleagues
1:00 Resist urge to kill all humans around me...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
after reading some of the examples and realizing that I live in an area with three major colleges (housing who knows how many gamers) within 10 miles or so of each other... uhm, I'm not leaving the house anymore, and am instructing my wife to do the same.
--
There is no giant ball of tape - you have been lied to.