I guess that the people who design these chat bots would probably say that the bots are likely to make those "intuitive" leaps when they have gobs of information to draw from when forming conversations. I think that precious-few people in technology and science actually have the capability of forming entirely new ideas - most of the good ideas are simply based on old ones, as you mentioned. If these connections could be made by a computer, would it matter if the computer was intelligent or if it was just a gigantic relational database?
You're right - it still puts incoming and outgoing mail in two different places. I don't think it just uses the subject to group the messages in the conversation, because if you change the subject in a reply e-mail the message will still be put in the same thread as the others. Outlook must use another e-mail header to arrange things.
I think they've gotten close to a threaded conversation with this view, but it could definately be improved.
I've set up my Outlook 2000 to do this. All you need to do is go to the Tools menu, mouse over Current View, and change the option to "By Conversation Topic". You can also add buttons to automatically "Expand all" or "Collapse all" conversations. Its very handy - as soon as a new e-mail comes in, the entire conversation moves to the top of your inbox and you can re-read the history.
Similar story: I got stuck in "Pirates of the Caribbean" in Disneyworld for almost an hour. I will die a happy man if I never have to hear "Yo ho ho its a pirate's life for me!" another time.
See - that is the thing... Why would part 2 need to be hidden on another machine? Why not have a client that connects to freenet or something like that? I'm thinking that the big one will do more damage to free speech and information sharing than it will to networks in general. If they made one that linked to freenet, would there be any way of stopping it other than to somehow shut down freenet?
I don't know how many times I have referred my friends to snopes.com after hearing them recite to me an urban legend. Their response to me is "you believe this crap? You can't believe everything you read on the internet!"
It is a Free Market here - if cable boxes gain market share over TiVo and eventually end commercial skipping alltogether, market demand will create the need for another company to come along and put their own commercial-skipping product together.
It will probably be more expensive than the no-skipping PVRs, but it seems that people would be willing to pay for this value-added feature.
The moderators gave you a +5 Interesting for this? MAYBE you should get a +5 Funny. You're telling me that scientests you know are foregoing journal publishing for Kazza publishing? I call shennanigans.
I went to the Expenience Music Project in Seattle about 3 years ago, and they had a similar system.
They rigged you up with a little PocketPC-type computer and a set of headphones. As you walked through the music exhibits (there was some pretty cool stuff), you could point the PocketPC thing at "icons" that were next to the exhibits. A short write-up would come on the screen you were carrying, and you could listen to audio commentary or music that was based on the exhibit. It was some pretty cool stuff for 2000.
Of course, it wasn't networked at the time. They had you carry around a little case that the PocketPC was attached to. I think the case had a PC with a DVD drive in it or something like that, but it was still a cool demonstration of this type of tech.
Disclaimer: the EMP is very Microsoft-oriented, since it was founded by one of the MS guys (can't remember who it was). It was still a pretty cool place to visit in Seattle.
By un-wired... do you mean it has a lot of wireless access? I'm so confused!
Many coffee shops here in Portland, Oregon do have internet access, and you pretty much can't throw a rock without hitting either a coffee shop or a microbrew pub here.
You are seriously the best troll ever. You get the moderators every time! Everyone should take a look at his posting history for a good social engineering lesson!
It seems to me that they already have started replacing them. I bought the widescreen trilogy from amazon about a week ago and my copy just came today - it is the unfixed version, but I checked around the web looking for news of the fixed one.
In this story on a fan site Bob Gale talks about getting a copy of the new trilogy from Universal, just to make sure that he's happy with it before it gets released to the public. It seems like Universal has done a pretty good job dealing with the customers on this one - I'm waiting patiently for my free UPS envelope I will use to send the two affected DVDs back to Universal.
Anyways, I have a feeling that Amazon is selling the old versions because there is no way to check when purchasing them online. If you buy a copy and want to tell if it is a new version, check for a "V2" printed near the barcode on the back of the box, or look for a "V2" on either of the second two DVDs on the set. If you don't have "V2", call 1-888-703-0100 to get a new copy.
There is one company that sells cheap X10 technology that does the infamous pop under ads. Unfortunately, I think that the company is x10.com or something like that.
X10 itself is just a technology and there are several other companies that make X10 stuff besides the annoying pop-under folks. Check out smarthome for some products that aren't advertised by annoying popunders.
Seriously. Go to any NPR station and have a listen for some intelligent input. I know that they are public-funded but for some reason they are always the most objective news source I can find. Avoid the flashy TV crap and have a listen.
Why are they more wasteful than the 15 spam e-mails that I recieve every day? I have used IM to both collaborate on projects and talk with friends across the country (and in other countries). Sometimes writing a letter is not the best way to communicate - and talking on the phone is too expensive.
I don't really understand your "pollute the internet less" quote. What technologies are you talking about?
I used it in school - a lot. It is great for sending little snippets of code to friends as a sanity check. It's also a great way to stay in touch with friends and family on the other side of the country - you can always tell that someone is there and available to talk, and the conversation is instantaneous.
I think this would be a great tool for large (think multi-national) companies - it would allow them to bring all of their resources together and I believe it would allow teamwork on a higher level. Of course, this could probably be accomplished with e-mail as well, but IM - as the article said - has that "presence" and spontanaety that really works for good collaboration.
One last note - I haven't used Netmeeting or similar things yet, but I think it would be a good bet that the way for this type of collaboration software to really get its foot in the door or corporate America is through IM.
Now all that is left is to get a large acceptance of a nice, open protocol for IM - that is at least the one way it should be more like e-mail!
Let's say that you have an array, x[20]. It is 20 bytes long. This array starts at memory location 149300. This means that the bytes 149300 - 149319 are reserved as being part of the variable called x. Now, lets say that in this array, you decide to store a string of letters (an ID3 tag, for example). If you allow the user to input the letters into x, without checking the maximum length, then the user can start writing data past x[19]. For example, if the user inputs a string that is 30 characters long, data will be written from bytes 149300 - 149329 in memory, even though you only allocated the memory through location 149319. This means that the user has the ability to write to other data in the computer.
Now, here comes the fun part. If the user (a cracker, at this point), knows where the operating system code lives in memory, he can just input a string that is long enough and eventually overwrite the operating system code. He can carefully craft the string as his own little bits of code which can do nasty things. This is how a buffer overflow works.
I have always thought that this was more of a problem with C than a problem with Windows, since C should really check for stuff like this (or handle strings better). However, it might be kind of hard for the compiler to be able to check for this. The only way to really prevent these is good programming habits - but people make mistakes all the time.
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What is this, Fark?
Hope you brought some protection on your date... maybe a virus scanner or something. That bot's been around, if you know what I mean...
I guess that the people who design these chat bots would probably say that the bots are likely to make those "intuitive" leaps when they have gobs of information to draw from when forming conversations. I think that precious-few people in technology and science actually have the capability of forming entirely new ideas - most of the good ideas are simply based on old ones, as you mentioned. If these connections could be made by a computer, would it matter if the computer was intelligent or if it was just a gigantic relational database?
Your name doesn't happen to be Junis from Afganistan, does it? I heard that he dug up a C64 form somewhere...
-Montag
You're right - it still puts incoming and outgoing mail in two different places. I don't think it just uses the subject to group the messages in the conversation, because if you change the subject in a reply e-mail the message will still be put in the same thread as the others. Outlook must use another e-mail header to arrange things.
I think they've gotten close to a threaded conversation with this view, but it could definately be improved.
I've set up my Outlook 2000 to do this. All you need to do is go to the Tools menu, mouse over Current View, and change the option to "By Conversation Topic". You can also add buttons to automatically "Expand all" or "Collapse all" conversations. Its very handy - as soon as a new e-mail comes in, the entire conversation moves to the top of your inbox and you can re-read the history.
Montag
Similar story: I got stuck in "Pirates of the Caribbean" in Disneyworld for almost an hour. I will die a happy man if I never have to hear "Yo ho ho its a pirate's life for me!" another time.
No, the characters from the movie are dressed up as them!
Yeah... I've gotten around to calling every new "alternative" band Nickelbus-20...
They just all sound the same!
-Montag
See - that is the thing... Why would part 2 need to be hidden on another machine? Why not have a client that connects to freenet or something like that? I'm thinking that the big one will do more damage to free speech and information sharing than it will to networks in general. If they made one that linked to freenet, would there be any way of stopping it other than to somehow shut down freenet?
I don't know how many times I have referred my friends to snopes.com after hearing them recite to me an urban legend. Their response to me is "you believe this crap? You can't believe everything you read on the internet!"
Typical Portland attitude... keep the outsiders out of our amazing city by telling lies, all lies!
Okay, the rain thing is true. But its still a great city!
It is a Free Market here - if cable boxes gain market share over TiVo and eventually end commercial skipping alltogether, market demand will create the need for another company to come along and put their own commercial-skipping product together.
It will probably be more expensive than the no-skipping PVRs, but it seems that people would be willing to pay for this value-added feature.
Montag
The moderators gave you a +5 Interesting for this? MAYBE you should get a +5 Funny. You're telling me that scientests you know are foregoing journal publishing for Kazza publishing? I call shennanigans.
I went to the Expenience Music Project in Seattle about 3 years ago, and they had a similar system.
They rigged you up with a little PocketPC-type computer and a set of headphones. As you walked through the music exhibits (there was some pretty cool stuff), you could point the PocketPC thing at "icons" that were next to the exhibits. A short write-up would come on the screen you were carrying, and you could listen to audio commentary or music that was based on the exhibit. It was some pretty cool stuff for 2000.
Of course, it wasn't networked at the time. They had you carry around a little case that the PocketPC was attached to. I think the case had a PC with a DVD drive in it or something like that, but it was still a cool demonstration of this type of tech.
Disclaimer: the EMP is very Microsoft-oriented, since it was founded by one of the MS guys (can't remember who it was). It was still a pretty cool place to visit in Seattle.
By un-wired... do you mean it has a lot of wireless access? I'm so confused!
Many coffee shops here in Portland, Oregon do have internet access, and you pretty much can't throw a rock without hitting either a coffee shop or a microbrew pub here.
You are seriously the best troll ever. You get the moderators every time! Everyone should take a look at his posting history for a good social engineering lesson!
I haven't heard of this "Evil Bit" yet... could you tell me a little about it? Maybe it is worth a slashdot story?
It seems to me that they already have started replacing them. I bought the widescreen trilogy from amazon about a week ago and my copy just came today - it is the unfixed version, but I checked around the web looking for news of the fixed one.
In this story on a fan site Bob Gale talks about getting a copy of the new trilogy from Universal, just to make sure that he's happy with it before it gets released to the public. It seems like Universal has done a pretty good job dealing with the customers on this one - I'm waiting patiently for my free UPS envelope I will use to send the two affected DVDs back to Universal.
Anyways, I have a feeling that Amazon is selling the old versions because there is no way to check when purchasing them online. If you buy a copy and want to tell if it is a new version, check for a "V2" printed near the barcode on the back of the box, or look for a "V2" on either of the second two DVDs on the set. If you don't have "V2", call 1-888-703-0100 to get a new copy.
--Montag
There is one company that sells cheap X10 technology that does the infamous pop under ads. Unfortunately, I think that the company is x10.com or something like that.
X10 itself is just a technology and there are several other companies that make X10 stuff besides the annoying pop-under folks. Check out smarthome for some products that aren't advertised by annoying popunders.
Montag
Seriously. Go to any NPR station and have a listen for some intelligent input. I know that they are public-funded but for some reason they are always the most objective news source I can find. Avoid the flashy TV crap and have a listen.
Why are they more wasteful than the 15 spam e-mails that I recieve every day? I have used IM to both collaborate on projects and talk with friends across the country (and in other countries). Sometimes writing a letter is not the best way to communicate - and talking on the phone is too expensive.
I don't really understand your "pollute the internet less" quote. What technologies are you talking about?
Montag
I used it in school - a lot. It is great for sending little snippets of code to friends as a sanity check. It's also a great way to stay in touch with friends and family on the other side of the country - you can always tell that someone is there and available to talk, and the conversation is instantaneous.
I think this would be a great tool for large (think multi-national) companies - it would allow them to bring all of their resources together and I believe it would allow teamwork on a higher level. Of course, this could probably be accomplished with e-mail as well, but IM - as the article said - has that "presence" and spontanaety that really works for good collaboration.
One last note - I haven't used Netmeeting or similar things yet, but I think it would be a good bet that the way for this type of collaboration software to really get its foot in the door or corporate America is through IM.
Now all that is left is to get a large acceptance of a nice, open protocol for IM - that is at least the one way it should be more like e-mail!
-Montag
Okay, I'll try to make this as short as possible.
Let's say that you have an array, x[20]. It is 20 bytes long. This array starts at memory location 149300. This means that the bytes 149300 - 149319 are reserved as being part of the variable called x. Now, lets say that in this array, you decide to store a string of letters (an ID3 tag, for example). If you allow the user to input the letters into x, without checking the maximum length, then the user can start writing data past x[19]. For example, if the user inputs a string that is 30 characters long, data will be written from bytes 149300 - 149329 in memory, even though you only allocated the memory through location 149319. This means that the user has the ability to write to other data in the computer.
Now, here comes the fun part. If the user (a cracker, at this point), knows where the operating system code lives in memory, he can just input a string that is long enough and eventually overwrite the operating system code. He can carefully craft the string as his own little bits of code which can do nasty things. This is how a buffer overflow works.
I have always thought that this was more of a problem with C than a problem with Windows, since C should really check for stuff like this (or handle strings better). However, it might be kind of hard for the compiler to be able to check for this. The only way to really prevent these is good programming habits - but people make mistakes all the time.
Hope that helps!
Regards, Montag