I decided to hunt on the doe days after Thanksgiving. It had been raining cats and dogs for most of the week, but the vigilant weekend warrior that I am was not going to be deterred. I put on my new rubber boots and other hunting wear and headed for the woods. I waded several hundred yards thru my normal hunting ground, only it was all under a bout 1 foot of water. I noticed quickly that everything looked pretty much the same when underwater. I found my landmark and get a good sense of "the way out" by looking at some taller landmarks. My main landmark was this dead tree. It didn't take me long to lose hope in the hunt. Even if I shot a deer, it would be hell to drag it back in that muck, so I decided to head on in. I knew exactly in my head which way was out... I found my dead tree landmark to confirm it, only then I noticed there were two identical dead trees about 45 degrees apart. I felt this horrible feeling as my internal sense of direction would swing from dead tree to dead tree. After a few moments of terror that I would never make it out of the woods, I calmed myself and proceeded towards one of the dead trees and eventually exited the woods about 50 yards further up than I had originally came in. I learned a valuable lesson from this experience. My sense of direction is horrible, and not to be trusted.
Well that concludes this story... maybe next time I will tell how I was almost killed by a rampaging doe the previous year.
You said we need to, "promote an atmosphere where people do not want to attack us"
Go ahead and kill yourself. These people want you dead. When you and everyone else they hate are dead, they will stop attacking and no longer be terrorist.
People who will blow themselves up to kill a handful of other people are not going to be persuaded by a few kind words and a gesture of peace. It is easy to think that they are just like you and can be reasoned with. These are not pacifist. Zealotry on this level is like a disease. Do you talk nice to a rabid dog, or do you put it out of its misery?
We do need a better understanding of the people we are dealing with. But you can not make everyone happy all of the time. I like the idea of separation, but in this modern world where average ( by US standards ) people can travel around the world on a whim, this is not a solution either. There is not an easy solution to this type of problem.
You are forgetting commitee membership/chairmanship for "senior" members of Congress. If your congressman is getting you a share of all that pork, you may not want to vote someone else in who cannot.
Remember that this is a zero-sum game. Someone will get the money if your congressman does not.
Will small towns that have high speed fiber running thru their town be able to "sift the stream" on the Information Super Highway and make IP violation citations?
We have an entire parish ( what we call counties in Louisiana ) that is supported entirely on speeding tickets on a State Highway. Each of about a dozen tiny towns each have a half dozen or so full time cops, chief of police, mayor and city councils members who are all paid entirely from traffic violations. Good thing is that the mayor is the traffic judge, so if you challenge, you lose and pay court cost.
The $1 per capita is the amount of money being spent on a small percentage of "Elite" people who actually benefit from this spending. If the percentage is as small as say 10% ( made up percentage for example ) then that would mean they are spending $10 for each of the "Elite" class. Large population numbers dilute these measurements to a meaningless point.
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows 95 (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows 98 (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows 2000 (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows ME (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows XP (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Sorry to be redundant, have you heard this joke before already?
Anti-depressants mess with your cause and effect reasoning.
People have stress triggers that are the cause of worry or concern, if you short circuit those triggers, people will be less worried. They also may not connect dangerous cause and effect and do what would be considered quite stupid and dangerous things because they never considered the consequences of their actions.
Anti-depressants may be appropriate for some people, but the reality is that some people's lives really are bad. Taking some pills does not correct the bad things in their life, or help them make better decisions that could improve it.
Some good counseling and quality of life improvements are still needed and in many cases would be a suitable alternative to prescribing drugs in the first place.
You are entitled to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". Emphasis on pursuit, nobody ever said you are entitled to happiness, just an opportunity to get it if you work for it. Can true happiness be found in a bottle?
I used a Windows 3.1 machine not so long ago. Machine itself was slow, but it was interesting to note that it was damn responsive to user inputs. Did we forget something that we once knew?
"The ideas that "little people" never had the resources to implement are a resource that can be valuable and is easily tapped."
Unless they protect them with patents prior to entering them in the contest. Does the winner get a royalty? Ever wonder if the "recording contract" an American Idol wins is better than a regular "slave contract" other artist sign?
Hopefully just submitting the idea is considering publishing it. Software patents are bad enough without someone else patenting your idea.
Do you suppose the first caveman who sharpened a stick hired another caveman to club the second guy to sharpen a stick? Lawyer, world's second oldest profession.
I know what I was talking about. I may have failed to convey that to you. It most definately wasn't about Makarov(sp) chains. It was about computer/human interaction. Lets leave my uncle out of this, bad spades player that he is. The Berkley webcasts Introduction to Computers had a presenter talking about trains of thought for computers and if they can ever be "intelligent" or if they will always be tools for intelligent users.
I feel that computers are tools. You can only go so far in making a computer "intelligent". Making them easy or intuative to use is nice. But you can only go so far in making them better than their users.
If you want to discuss something else, find or start an appropriate thread. We do not have to agree to have a discussion. You may have a better background in AI than myself. Share the knowledge, but do not attempt to club people with it.
I prefer opinions to facts. Facts have a way of changing over time to support people's opinions.
And Markov Chains are old and no longer considered interesting.
I guess than since I am only 29, this would explain why they didn't teach this in my undergrad AI course. At least I took my courses in C++ and not Java, or you would have something else to hold against me eh?
Rock,Paper, Scissors will not drive my legally blind wife to the mall. Let me know when AI has improved enough to do that.
I can even wait another 40 years if need be. I'm patient.
Oh... my rock crushes your scissors that were trying to cut apart my paper knowledge.
... God forbid it ever get used in the real world, with real people.
My uncle is fairly intelligent, can't play spades worth a damn, but doing okay designing airplanes.
Point is that AI has to interact with people to be useful, and people can screw up most anything! People find it difficult to interact with other people some of the time.
Forgive my analogies, but have you ever seen the guy in the arcade who random smashes buttons and occasionally beats a better player? All the practice in the world against other "good" players did not prepare you for random/stupid behavior. AI trained with the gameplay of the best players in the world would suck against beginners and vice versa.
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... from the world's worst hunter.
I decided to hunt on the doe days after Thanksgiving. It had been raining cats and dogs for most of the week, but the vigilant weekend warrior that I am was not going to be deterred. I put on my new rubber boots and other hunting wear and headed for the woods. I waded several hundred yards thru my normal hunting ground, only it was all under a bout 1 foot of water. I noticed quickly that everything looked pretty much the same when underwater. I found my landmark and get a good sense of "the way out" by looking at some taller landmarks. My main landmark was this dead tree. It didn't take me long to lose hope in the hunt. Even if I shot a deer, it would be hell to drag it back in that muck, so I decided to head on in. I knew exactly in my head which way was out... I found my dead tree landmark to confirm it, only then I noticed there were two identical dead trees about 45 degrees apart. I felt this horrible feeling as my internal sense of direction would swing from dead tree to dead tree. After a few moments of terror that I would never make it out of the woods, I calmed myself and proceeded towards one of the dead trees and eventually exited the woods about 50 yards further up than I had originally came in. I learned a valuable lesson from this experience. My sense of direction is horrible, and not to be trusted.
Well that concludes this story... maybe next time I will tell how I was almost killed by a rampaging doe the previous year.
Seemed to be bit of trouble logging in to Slashdot this morning...?
Taco, please tell us you are not testing Vista RC1 for Microsoft!
Don't you know who I am?
I am Hawking's bitch grad student assistant, BITCH!
If I had a good comment IDE, I wouldn't have missed that closing )
Stupid Slashdot!
It will take a long time before Ford/GM (if it still exists/Toyota etc to put out super huge Mars rovers to screw over that planet too!
You said we need to, "promote an atmosphere where people do not want to attack us"
Go ahead and kill yourself. These people want you dead. When you and everyone else they hate are dead, they will stop attacking and no longer be terrorist.
People who will blow themselves up to kill a handful of other people are not going to be persuaded by a few kind words and a gesture of peace. It is easy to think that they are just like you and can be reasoned with. These are not pacifist. Zealotry on this level is like a disease. Do you talk nice to a rabid dog, or do you put it out of its misery?
We do need a better understanding of the people we are dealing with. But you can not make everyone happy all of the time. I like the idea of separation, but in this modern world where average ( by US standards ) people can travel around the world on a whim, this is not a solution either. There is not an easy solution to this type of problem.
Do you go for the guy with the biggest gut and the strongest breath/BO?
Yeah, that should keep most everyone away from you!
... you will clog your tubes!
You are forgetting commitee membership/chairmanship for "senior" members of Congress.
If your congressman is getting you a share of all that pork, you may not want to vote someone else in who cannot.
Remember that this is a zero-sum game. Someone will get the money if your congressman does not.
Cause everytime he flaps his ears, it causes massive world wide hurricanes!
Oh wait, that was butterflies, nevermind.
Will small towns that have high speed fiber running thru their town be able to "sift the stream" on the Information Super Highway and make IP violation citations?
We have an entire parish ( what we call counties in Louisiana ) that is supported entirely on speeding tickets on a State Highway. Each of about a dozen tiny towns each have a half dozen or so full time cops, chief of police, mayor and city councils members who are all paid entirely from traffic violations. Good thing is that the mayor is the traffic judge, so if you challenge, you lose and pay court cost.
I want to be a maxed out level Probe, nobody cuts the crystal or hauls the gas like I do!
Worst GSC ( Galaxy of Star Craft ) would be an infested Terran. Might be good for quick guest accounts, and you get to go out with a bang!
The $1 per capita is the amount of money being spent on a small percentage of "Elite" people who actually benefit from this spending. If the percentage is as small as say 10% ( made up percentage for example ) then that would mean they are spending $10 for each of the "Elite" class. Large population numbers dilute these measurements to a meaningless point.
Destroyed many a good Logitech mouse playing Tie Fighter. But I am qualified to fly any craft in the Imperial Fleet!
Anyone ever play it with a joystick?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows 95 (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows 98 (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows 2000 (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows ME (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Some of the criticisms in the article are perfectly valid, but many of them are (supposedly) going to be fixed in Windows XP (whenever that gets out..) Is that out yet?
Sorry to be redundant, have you heard this joke before already?
Anti-depressants mess with your cause and effect reasoning.
People have stress triggers that are the cause of worry or concern, if you short circuit those triggers, people will be less worried. They also may not connect dangerous cause and effect and do what would be considered quite stupid and dangerous things because they never considered the consequences of their actions.
Anti-depressants may be appropriate for some people, but the reality is that some people's lives really are bad. Taking some pills does not correct the bad things in their life, or help them make better decisions that could improve it.
Some good counseling and quality of life improvements are still needed and in many cases would be a suitable alternative to prescribing drugs in the first place.
You are entitled to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". Emphasis on pursuit, nobody ever said you are entitled to happiness, just an opportunity to get it if you work for it. Can true happiness be found in a bottle?
I used a Windows 3.1 machine not so long ago. Machine itself was slow, but it was interesting to note that it was damn responsive to user inputs. Did we forget something that we once knew?
You solved the education crisis in America! All we have to do is work for a college or university and we will all get free education! Amazing!
Next we need to work on health insurance for everyone by having everyone elected to Congress. I hear they have really great benefits!
"The ideas that "little people" never had the resources to implement are a resource that can be valuable and is easily tapped."
Unless they protect them with patents prior to entering them in the contest. Does the winner get a royalty? Ever wonder if the "recording contract" an American Idol wins is better than a regular "slave contract" other artist sign?
Hopefully just submitting the idea is considering publishing it. Software patents are bad enough without someone else patenting your idea.
Do you suppose the first caveman who sharpened a stick hired another caveman to club the second guy to sharpen a stick? Lawyer, world's second oldest profession.
Touche'
Nice point. Has Deep Blue ever played a beginner?
I do believe Deep Blue would indeed destroy a noob.
It would be easier to bluff in Chess if your first row of moves was hidden from your opponent.
Because we all know their population has increased so much that they have started to colonize outward planets!
I know what I was talking about. I may have failed to convey that to you. It most definately wasn't about Makarov(sp) chains. It was about computer/human interaction. Lets leave my uncle out of this, bad spades player that he is. The Berkley webcasts Introduction to Computers had a presenter talking about trains of thought for computers and if they can ever be "intelligent" or if they will always be tools for intelligent users.
I feel that computers are tools. You can only go so far in making a computer "intelligent". Making them easy or intuative to use is nice. But you can only go so far in making them better than their users.
If you want to discuss something else, find or start an appropriate thread. We do not have to agree to have a discussion. You may have a better background in AI than myself. Share the knowledge, but do not attempt to club people with it.
I prefer opinions to facts. Facts have a way of changing over time to support people's opinions.
And Markov Chains are old and no longer considered interesting.
I guess than since I am only 29, this would explain why they didn't teach this in my undergrad AI course. At least I took my courses in C++ and not Java, or you would have something else to hold against me eh?
Rock,Paper, Scissors will not drive my legally blind wife to the mall. Let me know when AI has improved enough to do that.
I can even wait another 40 years if need be. I'm patient.
Oh... my rock crushes your scissors that were trying to cut apart my paper knowledge.
Damn Zerg could have let the guy finish his beer before killing him!
Sorry for the spoiler, but the Protoss would never have been so rude!
... God forbid it ever get used in the real world, with real people.
My uncle is fairly intelligent, can't play spades worth a damn, but doing okay designing airplanes.
Point is that AI has to interact with people to be useful, and people can screw up most anything!
People find it difficult to interact with other people some of the time.
Forgive my analogies, but have you ever seen the guy in the arcade who random smashes buttons and occasionally beats a better player? All the practice in the world against other "good" players did not prepare you for random/stupid behavior. AI trained with the gameplay of the best players in the world would suck against beginners and vice versa.