This formulation was created as a way to formalize the common sense phrasing. Just because they turned it into a bunch of symbols doesn't mean that it adds any validity or explains anything new.
How is something both literal and methaphorical? Is that like spiderman being both a literal spider and a metaphor for, uhh, the decline of western civilization?
Uhh, that's not true. if you right-click on the mounted iRiver drive you can select "Update DB" or something similar and it scans all the files and reads the tag info into the database. Mind you, there will be plenty of files that it fails on because of missing tags, but for the ones that do you can browse by artist, genre, title, etc etc etc.
I'm just wondering what thoughts you have on the future of this career path. Right now it might seem ludicrous to most people to have a robot psychiatrist, given the state of modern AI. But do you think that at some point in the future this will be a bona fide subdiscipline of psychology? I think many of us/. geeks have fantasized about playing the role of Dr. Chandra in real life at some point (maybe not 2001).
Sounds like a job for the army...
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Give him a Playboy. If he's as smart as you say, he will figure out the various optimizations and behavioural changes necessary to get laid. Otherwise he is just a savant. There is more than one dimension of intelligence and this guy sure sounds like he's lacking in one of 'em.:)
I agree, the rights of the corpse to stay buried supercede everything else. I mean, what if I die and years later my friends want to settle a bet about whether I really did have that superfluous third nipple? Can they exhume my corpse and do some kind of test? I say, leave the dead in the ground where they belong.
Social psychology teaches us that behaviors and attitudes influence each other, in both directions. The way they "treat" shy or introverted people is get them to do something simple, like go to a bus stop and ask someone the time, but do it like they think an extroverted person would. Sure enough, with time, these behaviors influence the person's attitude and they feel extroverted.
This thing looks like a mini-podium. Would anyone really use it to channel surf? It's kind of bulky for something who's function is more or less fulfilled by a universal remote. Oh wait, you can't read email on those... So maybe you'll have to get off your ass and walk 10 feet to the computer.
Pressure sensitive mats are okay, but the only way to get the kind of interactivity we want is through solving the problem of computational vision. If we ever reach the point where our software has the ability to extract 3d positional data from, say, two cameras as inputs, then we would have a good model of the player's movement. This is the route people should be going in the quest for "ultimate input"
Those spots are reserved for frantic stories about pedophiles, pornographers and online identity thieves.
This story was posted on/. immediately following a story on identity thieves.
"Their minds and bodies work together much better than those of most other people."
Really? I only notice my ass getting bigger after too much gaming, but maybe I'm not targeting the right muscles when I drag the mouse around. Oh wait a sec, maybe it's because mine is optical and there is less friction due to the lack of a ball. That makes sense.
The whole focus of this study and article seems silly to me. Maybe since I live in the real world, instead of the sensationalist wired columnist's, where somehow nerds are fighting an apocalyptic battle royale with parents and jocks.
Does anyone else notice that they are an avid gamer and still manage to be a completely normal, emotionally well adjusted person? Most are, and we don't need a scientific study to show it. And the odd exceptions either go on a rampage or write pseudointellectual articles filled with cliche's in an effort to drive others to the same level of madness.
On a side note, Max Payne rules!
Hey, to automatically imply that putting strippers in a FPS is bad is implying your subjective opinion.
I like my strippers at 18,000 polys or less thank you very much.
So THAT'S why the graphics in SNOOD appear so outdated. I guess the creator had worked on it for 10 years getting it just right.
Can't wait for Snood 2, coming July, 2011.
Not knowing anything about the film's purpose or direction, Katz has got everything mixed up. First of all, the movie was never intended to be Real. The filmmakers have stated all along that they were aiming for something on the border between realism, and fantasy. There is a constructive purpose to not using live actors in a film, but using animation instead.
He complains about CG characters looking too "plastic" but have you looked at angelina jolie's rack?
Final Fantasy is meant to be more like an anime film than western action'ers. I can see why Katz is confused, being the retard that he is.
What's this about code? CG is not code.
It's nature described using math. There are no for loops or if statements in defining that virtual booty.
I could probably rant some more, but nobody is going to read this since most of us have already opted to not be subjected to Katz's BS.
Gil.
Right now, the most common way to pay for something online is via credit card numbers. And regardless of what people say, there is a risk involved in giving out credit card numbers. Many e-stores go out of business, or are not so honourable. Would I take that (admittedly small) risk just so I can pay seven cents for a new ring tone, or even a few dollars for a poster? Probably not.
Assigning value to something isn't a problem. It's paying for it that's the issue. And things along the lines of e-cash were supposed to solve this problem, but never materialized. The closest thing today is paypal, which sucks something like 20% of the profit out of each transaction. Ouch. Not much value there.
Linus is saying that MS was right in hiding bootup information from the user and masking it with a pretty picture?
Why! Windows obviously does this and often times fails to load drivers, or loads useless ones, etc, and the user has no clue why their machine takes 10 minutes to load.
Isn't the point of linux to feel like a real geek who doesn't need technical details hidden from them? Maybe not, but I like my verbose kernel boot messages.
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Chewy made the same noise when swinging onto an AT-ST in Return of the Jedi. Lucas is clearly paying homage to his favourite person ever, himself.
"as they are not smart enough to be suspicious of box-shaped circuit boards with an antennae sticking out."
Neither are we.
Sounds related to the other story posted today, the headline of which was:
"AOL Subscribers Finding Greener Pastures"
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you implying that people use directory assistance to find mistresses and drug dealers?
This formulation was created as a way to formalize the common sense phrasing. Just because they turned it into a bunch of symbols doesn't mean that it adds any validity or explains anything new.
The Iraqi Information Minister will be handling all of SCO's public relations from now on.
How is something both literal and methaphorical? Is that like spiderman being both a literal spider and a metaphor for, uhh, the decline of western civilization?
Uhh, that's not true. if you right-click on the mounted iRiver drive you can select "Update DB" or something similar and it scans all the files and reads the tag info into the database. Mind you, there will be plenty of files that it fails on because of missing tags, but for the ones that do you can browse by artist, genre, title, etc etc etc.
I'm just wondering what thoughts you have on the future of this career path. Right now it might seem ludicrous to most people to have a robot psychiatrist, given the state of modern AI. But do you think that at some point in the future this will be a bona fide subdiscipline of psychology? I think many of us /. geeks have fantasized about playing the role of Dr. Chandra in real life at some point (maybe not 2001).
Meet new and interesting forms of life... and kill them.
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
"Why Nerds are Unpopular", it's really insightful and will at least give him some perspective about his suffering.
Give him a Playboy. If he's as smart as you say, he will figure out the various optimizations and behavioural changes necessary to get laid. Otherwise he is just a savant. There is more than one dimension of intelligence and this guy sure sounds like he's lacking in one of 'em. :)
It's the type of threat that is going to be there forever ... for a long time.
For some reason I pictured one of the daddies of video gaming to be a little more, uhh, yoda-like.
I agree, the rights of the corpse to stay buried supercede everything else. I mean, what if I die and years later my friends want to settle a bet about whether I really did have that superfluous third nipple? Can they exhume my corpse and do some kind of test? I say, leave the dead in the ground where they belong.
Social psychology teaches us that behaviors and attitudes influence each other, in both directions. The way they "treat" shy or introverted people is get them to do something simple, like go to a bus stop and ask someone the time, but do it like they think an extroverted person would. Sure enough, with time, these behaviors influence the person's attitude and they feel extroverted.
A way to disseminate knowledge with extreme prejudice! Now to find an appropriate clock tower/speaker combination.
This thing looks like a mini-podium. Would anyone really use it to channel surf? It's kind of bulky for something who's function is more or less fulfilled by a universal remote. Oh wait, you can't read email on those... So maybe you'll have to get off your ass and walk 10 feet to the computer.
Pressure sensitive mats are okay, but the only way to get the kind of interactivity we want is through solving the problem of computational vision. If we ever reach the point where our software has the ability to extract 3d positional data from, say, two cameras as inputs, then we would have a good model of the player's movement. This is the route people should be going in the quest for "ultimate input"
"Their minds and bodies work together much better than those of most other people."
Really? I only notice my ass getting bigger after too much gaming, but maybe I'm not targeting the right muscles when I drag the mouse around. Oh wait a sec, maybe it's because mine is optical and there is less friction due to the lack of a ball. That makes sense. The whole focus of this study and article seems silly to me. Maybe since I live in the real world, instead of the sensationalist wired columnist's, where somehow nerds are fighting an apocalyptic battle royale with parents and jocks.Does anyone else notice that they are an avid gamer and still manage to be a completely normal, emotionally well adjusted person? Most are, and we don't need a scientific study to show it. And the odd exceptions either go on a rampage or write pseudointellectual articles filled with cliche's in an effort to drive others to the same level of madness. On a side note, Max Payne rules!
Hey, to automatically imply that putting strippers in a FPS is bad is implying your subjective opinion. I like my strippers at 18,000 polys or less thank you very much.
So THAT'S why the graphics in SNOOD appear so outdated. I guess the creator had worked on it for 10 years getting it just right. Can't wait for Snood 2, coming July, 2011.
Not knowing anything about the film's purpose or direction, Katz has got everything mixed up. First of all, the movie was never intended to be Real. The filmmakers have stated all along that they were aiming for something on the border between realism, and fantasy. There is a constructive purpose to not using live actors in a film, but using animation instead. He complains about CG characters looking too "plastic" but have you looked at angelina jolie's rack? Final Fantasy is meant to be more like an anime film than western action'ers. I can see why Katz is confused, being the retard that he is. What's this about code? CG is not code. It's nature described using math. There are no for loops or if statements in defining that virtual booty. I could probably rant some more, but nobody is going to read this since most of us have already opted to not be subjected to Katz's BS. Gil.
Right now, the most common way to pay for something online is via credit card numbers. And regardless of what people say, there is a risk involved in giving out credit card numbers. Many e-stores go out of business, or are not so honourable. Would I take that (admittedly small) risk just so I can pay seven cents for a new ring tone, or even a few dollars for a poster? Probably not. Assigning value to something isn't a problem. It's paying for it that's the issue. And things along the lines of e-cash were supposed to solve this problem, but never materialized. The closest thing today is paypal, which sucks something like 20% of the profit out of each transaction. Ouch. Not much value there.
Linus is saying that MS was right in hiding bootup information from the user and masking it with a pretty picture? Why! Windows obviously does this and often times fails to load drivers, or loads useless ones, etc, and the user has no clue why their machine takes 10 minutes to load. Isn't the point of linux to feel like a real geek who doesn't need technical details hidden from them? Maybe not, but I like my verbose kernel boot messages.
Scientists have recently discovered that the Mana Tree and the Lifa Tree are, in fact, the same tree.