I think this is where things are headed. A Twitch streamer interacting with the chat room is like a step beyond Youtube with static comments, web/email forums, IRC/instant messaging. Twitch or something like it will probably expand beyond games, maybe not to general streams like Justin.tv, but to entertainment generally. Like the other day a gamer was pointing out how it could be cool if someone could stream a movie and the chat is doing their trolling thing through the movie.
I try to imagine what's beyond that. Rather than a mostly-one-person broadcast with interaction with the anonymous text that is the chat, maybe more like you see sometimes with role-playing streams where there are 5 people on screen, except now the entire chat can somehow feature on the stream (obviously there are difficulties with that). A kind of virtual pub, I guess. Maybe that's not much different than MMOs, though.
"Getting a small group of human beings to Mars and back is no easy task, we learned at the recent GPU Technology Conference in San Jose hosted graphics chip and accelerator maker Nvidia.
I'm in the Netherlands and UPC (internet provider) once again appears to be taking a big dump, so while peristalsis plays out I can't play anything. What do I care about video cards?
Of course I didn't read the article, but I was under the impression that Twitch.tv only allows game-related content (you can laugh here a bit). Twitch.tv spun off of Justin.tv , which is for general broadcasting channels. If they are doing game programming, then it's probably okay, though (I know that quill18 has done that, at least).
I think you read the quote too fast. It's not claiming anything about physics. It's saying that computer vision is at a very early stage, which you said as well.
I had different quibbles with that quote. 1) Technology advances much faster today than it did in 1700, so it's not as if it will take centuries for computer vision to reach the same stage as physics. 2) The quote assumes a similarity of the technological paths (if there is something like that) of physics and computer vision, which doesn't seem obvious.
Take a deep breath....
You're talking about bad English grammar in a Scottish independence thread, right?
'Christ did no one go to school." You speak good English? Christ was reputedly a virgin, but people don't generally refer to him as "Christ did no one". Right?
"What industry?" -- Was that meant to be a sentence? "Mod'd"? What say you? Etc., etc.... We can get stupidly pedantic, but....why?
"I only retained about 50% of what I was taught in English[,] and it's driving me insane what I see and hear nowadays, I can't begin to imagine" - runon sentence, hello?
What's this "state of things" you're talking about?? We're imperfect humans trying to communicate.... right?
Moose should be a swear word. Every time I've encountered Moose, it just made maintenance harder. The argument about eliminating boilerplate code is laughable, when you look at any Moose class with pages of crap at the top. (should be indented, but slashdot ecode sucks)
has 'blah' => { is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', };
Thanks, I could've put that in a hash, and I didn't really care if it was a string or modifiable. Now I get useless Java-like stacktraces to boot.
Not to mention the implicit things like "_build", "clear", and reimplementations of things that were already native perl (traits; oh, wow, I can....count the number of items in an array now? and return those items? and tell if it was empty? Thanks for the unnecessary crap, oh yes this is much more readable....).
I have a gluten intolerance, so your "Bud uses rice" parenthetical comment interested me; soooo.... googling/wikipedia-ing, I was somewhat-pleasantly surprised to find that Bud and Corona do have less than 20 ppm gluten, so maybe.....I (or my immune system) could tolerate those (the "research" seems a bit controversial). I do (did) for some reason like Corona, though it's probably safer to stick with wine. Anyway, IMHO wine has a perfect level of alcohol for getting a little buzz going without getting too drunk while at the same time avoiding excess bloating/pissing.
Ignoring your sarcasm: 200k user id, when did you sign up for slashdot....?:) Very web-lazily, http://anti-slash.org/essays/uid_analysis/ , 700k in 2003, so you signed up (errm, when did I sign up?) around 2000? So as a 9ish-year old you were a slashdot prodigy? ^.^ (or using your daddy's account, heh)
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Nice jihad, asshole
I think this is where things are headed. A Twitch streamer interacting with the chat room is like a step beyond Youtube with static comments, web/email forums, IRC/instant messaging. Twitch or something like it will probably expand beyond games, maybe not to general streams like Justin.tv, but to entertainment generally. Like the other day a gamer was pointing out how it could be cool if someone could stream a movie and the chat is doing their trolling thing through the movie.
I try to imagine what's beyond that. Rather than a mostly-one-person broadcast with interaction with the anonymous text that is the chat, maybe more like you see sometimes with role-playing streams where there are 5 people on screen, except now the entire chat can somehow feature on the stream (obviously there are difficulties with that). A kind of virtual pub, I guess. Maybe that's not much different than MMOs, though.
Pfff, your hiking and fishing were so fascinating that you still post to slashdot. Exalted with Nat Pagle yet?
Let's beat drums with our obliterated lobster limbs. Is this a Verhoeven parody of "news" or what?
"Getting a small group of human beings to Mars and back is no easy task, we learned at the recent GPU Technology Conference in San Jose hosted graphics chip and accelerator maker Nvidia.
It hardly gets spammier than that, congrats.
And I can't wait for feathered hair to make a come-back. Any other ridiculous non-sequiturs you're waiting for while we're at it?
I'm in the Netherlands and UPC (internet provider) once again appears to be taking a big dump, so while peristalsis plays out I can't play anything. What do I care about video cards?
"mains power" is very British. Right to bear arms, where's that come from?
Of course I didn't read the article, but I was under the impression that Twitch.tv only allows game-related content (you can laugh here a bit). Twitch.tv spun off of Justin.tv , which is for general broadcasting channels. If they are doing game programming, then it's probably okay, though (I know that quill18 has done that, at least).
I think you read the quote too fast. It's not claiming anything about physics. It's saying that computer vision is at a very early stage, which you said as well.
I had different quibbles with that quote. 1) Technology advances much faster today than it did in 1700, so it's not as if it will take centuries for computer vision to reach the same stage as physics. 2) The quote assumes a similarity of the technological paths (if there is something like that) of physics and computer vision, which doesn't seem obvious.
Take a deep breath.... You're talking about bad English grammar in a Scottish independence thread, right? 'Christ did no one go to school." You speak good English? Christ was reputedly a virgin, but people don't generally refer to him as "Christ did no one". Right? "What industry?" -- Was that meant to be a sentence? "Mod'd"? What say you? Etc., etc.... We can get stupidly pedantic, but....why? "I only retained about 50% of what I was taught in English[,] and it's driving me insane what I see and hear nowadays, I can't begin to imagine" - runon sentence, hello? What's this "state of things" you're talking about?? We're imperfect humans trying to communicate.... right?
Maybe it is a steganography key, color #244216
the NSA is certainly not the first, and arguably far from the worst
What's this argument? First of all, prove that you're not from the NSA.
Tattoo a swastika on your forehead, and I'll stop raping your daughter. You can send me money you would have spent on psychiatrists.
(Ignoring your obviously good points)
That you can still say the word "pizza," which has been banned in that country for being too western?
"Freedom fries" or "Peace pies", is it so different?
I recommend playing Z-Type all the time... :P But maybe I'm not a good one to take advice from:
(Of course, you can't really judge your WPM from that (spend time waiting for new "targets"), but it's an interesting concept.)
Moose should be a swear word. Every time I've encountered Moose, it just made maintenance harder. The argument about eliminating boilerplate code is laughable, when you look at any Moose class with pages of crap at the top. (should be indented, but slashdot ecode sucks)
Thanks, I could've put that in a hash, and I didn't really care if it was a string or modifiable. Now I get useless Java-like stacktraces to boot. Not to mention the implicit things like "_build", "clear", and reimplementations of things that were already native perl (traits; oh, wow, I can....count the number of items in an array now? and return those items? and tell if it was empty? Thanks for the unnecessary crap, oh yes this is much more readable....).
Well, that settles it, as I'm sure a "genius investor" has no self-interest in saying what he says.
Double-edged sword: I've never played Crysis because of the impression that it wouldn't run well. Good luck selling to all those performance testers!
I guess this makes Bruce Schneier a courtier?
So "outed on Twitter" is now the standard for "tech news".... Sighdot
Did anyone here a call of engine cut-off in the NASA TV feed? ....
Also, when I fly I like my pilots to be well dressed and professional.
I understand where your coming from. As a former USAF airman I like sharp uniforms and haircuts
These fashion-obsessed, grammatically-challenged posts could bee seen as arguments four SpaceX....
I have a gluten intolerance, so your "Bud uses rice" parenthetical comment interested me; soooo.... googling/wikipedia-ing, I was somewhat-pleasantly surprised to find that Bud and Corona do have less than 20 ppm gluten, so maybe.....I (or my immune system) could tolerate those (the "research" seems a bit controversial). I do (did) for some reason like Corona, though it's probably safer to stick with wine. Anyway, IMHO wine has a perfect level of alcohol for getting a little buzz going without getting too drunk while at the same time avoiding excess bloating/pissing.
Ignoring your sarcasm: 200k user id, when did you sign up for slashdot....? :) Very web-lazily, http://anti-slash.org/essays/uid_analysis/ , 700k in 2003, so you signed up (errm, when did I sign up?) around 2000? So as a 9ish-year old you were a slashdot prodigy? ^.^ (or using your daddy's account, heh)
You said online but also said willing to pay, so for what it's worth....
Linus Pauling's "General Chemistry" is brilliant and a Dover Publication so it's cheap and a classic.
For a popular introduction to science (esp. great explanations of the chemical bonds, but also amazing word play...): The Canon, by Natalie Angier.