Indeed. Just for humour value - try using google news for Googlewash and Second Superpower (the original subject of the article). The first returns only two articles - one a register followup to its story. The second has the original story coming in third. How could this happen without google tweaking the results for 'googlewash' rather severely.
Definite storm in a teacup material. Google is an Internet search engine - not a Life, the Universe and Everything search engine. If the second meaning is how it's being used on the internet then whoop de doo - Google is doing it's job and all is right with the world.
Try searching google news for the term, though, and you get three articles on the 'googlewash' and the rest seem to be using it in the first sense. Can'. Quite. See. The... Problem.
Hmmm - seeing as they could watch his memories on the table (or am I misremembering?), I have no doubt they could feed 'stimuli' into his sensory inputs either, creating a VR home and mother to interact with, with another AI playing the role of mother (less wasteful of physical resources). Not that it really matters, I suppose, the fakeness being the ironic factor.
I liked the movie, ending and all, though it may have been because it was my first time in NY and it was raining hard (those who've seen the film will understand)
Flash's internal language, actionscript is EMCA-like - think javascript but with a few stylistic tweaks to gear it towards the way flash movies are built. It's as OO as javascript is, i.e. more in thought than in deed.
Flash can also communicate with scripts on the page it's on - be it perl or.net of vbscript or javascript, so it can communicate with databases in much the same way that a HTML page can, only without the necessity for reloading the page to display request results.
As far as dealing with large datasets goes - it's perfectly possible - though you'd probably want to combine flash with ColdFusion to get things really working together harmoniously - eg if a thousand rows were returned, flash would wait until they were all received before acting, whereas with CF you could load them incrementally and do work at the same time. I guess on the client end, the only factor is the available memory - though that is one thing I've noticed with a lot of flash apps, even movies - the processor speed greatly affects performance.
Flash also has the ability to send and receive XML streams, which allows it to communicate to remote objects - if that's the sense you mean. Thus multi-user server-driven applications are a possibility.
Encryption isn't a large part of it - I think any encryption involved in an application would have to be created by the author or done via the clent and server rather than the flash app - though I admit I don't know much about the subject or server side flash-products.
I agree. I can't help but think the collaborative/scriptable aspect being its strongest selling point when it's ready for primeime. I see it as an extension of the ol' MOOs. Sure you can potter about with text files and email, but you could also script funky objects on the fly and invite people over to check them out, modify clones of other people's objects from public repositories a la MOOs, and just generally invent and populate whatever weird-ass environment you happen to like.
It's not going to be spreadsheet users that take to this - it's going to be people that want to carry a portable black hole in their pocket that expands on request and creates a door to their own private universe - EverCrack for scripters. A bit like what VRML promised but never quite delivered. Ok - maybe that's a bad example - but this, or something much like it, will play a pretty big role in the very near future.
Just out of interest - have you tried playing EQOA on dial-up. Are you allowed to tell us anything about it - as I'm interested in the comparison between x-box's broadband only and PS2's 56k option.
As Disney is nothing if not a capitalist organisation, and a certain honey lovin' bear makes them the most money - my prediction says they'll name it "The United State of Pooh".
Well, I'm not particularly offended. To each their own. I bl*g purely for the purposes of trying to be funny. If it makes me laugh when I'm writing it, in it goes. Thus it's not really a journal, or even coherent most of the time, though occasionally it may reference RL. After a few months, I figure I can cull it and turn it into a stand up comedy routine. You can tell which bits work as they're the ones that people comment on.
D'oh. Many thanks to all who replied, but I made the switch with 1.0 and was in fact referring to IE's lack of similar functionality. I kinda hoped that the fact the IE can't do it (AFAIK) would have been a pointer, but next time I'll explicate:-)
I've found the single-click grouped bookmark opening has been one of the more successful aspects of Moz for the purposes of converting the heathen.
1.1 seems to go like a rocket, too (well, it's a significant improvement). The final test will be my feeble old box at home, but that's only on dial up, so I need some free phone time.
There's quite a good debate between Searle and Kurzweil in "Are We Spiritual Machines?". Kurzweil, along with Hofstadter, has done quite well in the popular arena with their ideas about AI arising from (inter alia) pattern matching as a basic behaviour, with intelligence emergent from sufficiently capable systems - the idea being first building the wheels, then the car, then learning how to drive. Clearly this differs from your approach, where getting from a to b, the equivalent of driving, is sufficient for most purposes (forgive me if I mischaracterise you, this seems to be the general idea behind chat type AI in general). Do you thing the emergent folks are wrong, or is there something to be gained from convergence between the 'chassis first' and the 'driver emulator' development approaches?
I love it: for the best mission I'm torn between picking up hookers and and delivering them to the needle exchange, and the thing with the baseball bat and the little league. Mind you, for all out racing chaos, you can't beat the pro-choice rally.
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Indeed. Just for humour value - try using google news for Googlewash and Second Superpower (the original subject of the article). The first returns only two articles - one a register followup to its story. The second has the original story coming in third. How could this happen without google tweaking the results for 'googlewash' rather severely.
;-)
Of course, news.google is only in beta...
Definite storm in a teacup material. Google is an Internet search engine - not a Life, the Universe and Everything search engine. If the second meaning is how it's being used on the internet then whoop de doo - Google is doing it's job and all is right with the world. Try searching google news for the term, though, and you get three articles on the 'googlewash' and the rest seem to be using it in the first sense. Can'. Quite. See. The... Problem.
Hmmm - seeing as they could watch his memories on the table (or am I misremembering?), I have no doubt they could feed 'stimuli' into his sensory inputs either, creating a VR home and mother to interact with, with another AI playing the role of mother (less wasteful of physical resources). Not that it really matters, I suppose, the fakeness being the ironic factor.
I liked the movie, ending and all, though it may have been because it was my first time in NY and it was raining hard (those who've seen the film will understand)
Flash's internal language, actionscript is EMCA-like - think javascript but with a few stylistic tweaks to gear it towards the way flash movies are built. It's as OO as javascript is, i.e. more in thought than in deed.
.net of vbscript or javascript, so it can communicate with databases in much the same way that a HTML page can, only without the necessity for reloading the page to display request results.
Flash can also communicate with scripts on the page it's on - be it perl or
As far as dealing with large datasets goes - it's perfectly possible - though you'd probably want to combine flash with ColdFusion to get things really working together harmoniously - eg if a thousand rows were returned, flash would wait until they were all received before acting, whereas with CF you could load them incrementally and do work at the same time. I guess on the client end, the only factor is the available memory - though that is one thing I've noticed with a lot of flash apps, even movies - the processor speed greatly affects performance.
Flash also has the ability to send and receive XML streams, which allows it to communicate to remote objects - if that's the sense you mean. Thus multi-user server-driven applications are a possibility.
Encryption isn't a large part of it - I think any encryption involved in an application would have to be created by the author or done via the clent and server rather than the flash app - though I admit I don't know much about the subject or server side flash-products.
Hope this helps.
I agree. I can't help but think the collaborative/scriptable aspect being its strongest selling point when it's ready for primeime. I see it as an extension of the ol' MOOs. Sure you can potter about with text files and email, but you could also script funky objects on the fly and invite people over to check them out, modify clones of other people's objects from public repositories a la MOOs, and just generally invent and populate whatever weird-ass environment you happen to like.
It's not going to be spreadsheet users that take to this - it's going to be people that want to carry a portable black hole in their pocket that expands on request and creates a door to their own private universe - EverCrack for scripters. A bit like what VRML promised but never quite delivered. Ok - maybe that's a bad example - but this, or something much like it, will play a pretty big role in the very near future.
Something Awful's take on Action52
Hence the need for improved accessibility.
I think you should abstract your pedantry so that it's not in-line anymore.
Gremlins was directed by Joe Dante (and written by Chris Columbus - go figure). Speilberg was just one of the Exec Producers.
Hah! What a loser!
(looks around nervously to see if this is the correct response)
Just out of interest - have you tried playing EQOA on dial-up. Are you allowed to tell us anything about it - as I'm interested in the comparison between x-box's broadband only and PS2's 56k option.
Now with chewy well-formed url goodness (d'oh)
One of my favourite blogs today discusses the use of the word xtreme. Misses progging, so it's somewhat OT.
One of my favourite blogstoday discusses the use of the word xtreme. Misses progging, so it's somewhat OT.
As Disney is nothing if not a capitalist organisation, and a certain honey lovin' bear makes them the most money - my prediction says they'll name it "The United State of Pooh".
Well, I'm not particularly offended. To each their own. I bl*g purely for the purposes of trying to be funny. If it makes me laugh when I'm writing it, in it goes. Thus it's not really a journal, or even coherent most of the time, though occasionally it may reference RL. After a few months, I figure I can cull it and turn it into a stand up comedy routine. You can tell which bits work as they're the ones that people comment on.
D'oh. Many thanks to all who replied, but I made the switch with 1.0 and was in fact referring to IE's lack of similar functionality. I kinda hoped that the fact the IE can't do it (AFAIK) would have been a pointer, but next time I'll explicate :-)
I've found the single-click grouped bookmark opening has been one of the more successful aspects of Moz for the purposes of converting the heathen.
1.1 seems to go like a rocket, too (well, it's a significant improvement). The final test will be my feeble old box at home, but that's only on dial up, so I need some free phone time.
The day I can open all my news sites with one click, I might look back. Might.
Close, but no cigar. Matthias wasn't chosen until after the final ascension. So there was no twelve when Jesus made his surprise encore.
Christians - give them a stick of bread and they give you a pretzel.
Easy.
Judas was dead. There was no Twelve.
Can I get a doctorate via mail order too?
There's quite a good debate between Searle and Kurzweil in "Are We Spiritual Machines?". Kurzweil, along with Hofstadter, has done quite well in the popular arena with their ideas about AI arising from (inter alia) pattern matching as a basic behaviour, with intelligence emergent from sufficiently capable systems - the idea being first building the wheels, then the car, then learning how to drive. Clearly this differs from your approach, where getting from a to b, the equivalent of driving, is sufficient for most purposes (forgive me if I mischaracterise you, this seems to be the general idea behind chat type AI in general). Do you thing the emergent folks are wrong, or is there something to be gained from convergence between the 'chassis first' and the 'driver emulator' development approaches?
I love it: for the best mission I'm torn between picking up hookers and and delivering them to the needle exchange, and the thing with the baseball bat and the little league. Mind you, for all out racing chaos, you can't beat the pro-choice rally.
It's true. Check out the spelling of his last name - that ain't Maori.
That's nitpickers to you, buddy. Leave my woollen garments alone and address your protein deficiency in the time honoured fashion.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Nothing has changed in my life - but something has changed in then
Well, two things have changed - you got older and you've read more Cathy and Dilbert.
When was the last time a search engine worth its salt indexed comments?
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