this was on linux games about 2 days ago. and the big fuss here is that bioware is dedicating time to the linux client AT ALL, and esp. not months after.
except no mind reading involved here. there actually was a patent to the effect of remotely reading eeg. it consisted of 2 parts: part1 sent out 2 signals at different (high) frequencies, the signals were *modulated* by ur brain as they passed, then picked up on the otherside. by interpreting the interference patterns, they were able to read your brain waves.
on the other side...they could figure out exactly what signals to send in order for the modulate signals to be what THEY wanted, so it would not only monitor, but given sufficient amplitude, CONTROL!!
they were only able to read alpha waves and a few beta, but it would be interesting to get some gamma readings (and control them). gamma are the readings which are supposedly indicitive of your senses. so, see something or hear something, and it would show up on gamma frequency (30-40 hz) waves. makes sense why we can only distinguish 30-40hz in video.
the whole hp powerhouse exists for the sole purpose of ripping people off, including the government and businesses. i just bought a $15,000 hp server....for $200.
how, you ask, does that work? that $15000 was 3 years ago. now, the machines are deemed worthless (64-bit, 200 mhz, 512 mb RAM, 18gb scsi HD). as soon as they are "old", the new machines go for $15,000 while the old ones are sold off for neglible prices.
not true at all. my sibling especially do not speak NEARLY as well as my parents do. that is actually one of the biggest problems with assimilation: you lose the language.
wait a moment there.this is one gorilla we are talking about. for example, i was born in russia. if i was the only russian speaking person in the US, then i could teach some people some russian, but obviously not as good as myself. does this prove that russian is not retained through generations???
is it just me, or does it seem absolutely ridiculous that Dell has to find a loophole in the first place? sure, this sounds like a repeat post, but in the end...this is ABSOLUTELY ABSURD...
the only thing m$ can do is say "we won't license to you if you don't do BLAH BLAH BLAH"....wait, that is what they are doing. but in that case, what right do they have to do that? you can't dictate what the licensee does with the licenses that they DON'T buy. it seems like a sure win in court to me.
sure, i know that...i never said bill didn't recommend it. i just simply said that it was a hack. instead of fixing things so that video drivers don't require video, they make u reboot the system into another "mode" to go back to where u started. even more importantly, if drivers don't work, i can't exactly FIX them in safe mode, i can just remove them;-)
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since the representative said that he thinks all users want is ease of use "out of the box" and not flexibility, then porting, say, microsoft office to linux would make some people happy, and at the same time not harm microsoft, because linux is supposedly NOT easy to use out of the box.
obviously, i disagree. i have had enough fun with windows video drivers that don't work causing the screen to be black, but since EVERYTHING is gui, i can't do anything about it, which means i need to reinstall. can i switch back to vga? NO. but that is besides the point. frankly, linux comes with far more out of the box than windows ever will. but that is besides the point.
if microsoft is bold enough to say that their operating system is easier to use, and then appear at linuxworld, i think they should at least be bold enough to port some software (as a software vendor not, operating system creator) to prove their point. it seems they are kissing up to linux geeks to pull some PR move or some other unpredictable stunt.
...a good software engineer is STILL hard to find. now, many idiots have gotten BS comp sci. degrees, went to work doing DB or business app work, then got layed off after the.bomb, and now complain. real software engineers who not only know what they are doing but are able to do something competent and long standing exist in very small numbers.
why, you ask? because good surgeons are hard to find compared to nurses. for some reasons, the corporate bastards at the top of the stairs, tightening their already painful money belts, sit in their corporate chairs, smoking their coporate cigars, screwing their corporate secretaries confuse fresh i-want-lots-of-money IT graduates as real engineers. they put them behind large projects or developing some useless web app they themselves recommended, and then eventually the CTO complains.
a lot of software cost is due to this. another reason for large software costs is that it IS actually worth it sometimes. not for office apps, but for serious products esp development tools, if you examine the amount of money it costs to develop something with it as opposed to without it, you will see that it IS worth the money. many CEOs think that ms office is one of these products. that is where they are wrong. they make decisions (both in employment and software) that simply is unnecessary and largely due to propaganda.
after some time, the myths about IT will fade and we will have left are the hardcore techies doing their job, not asking for enormous paychecks and lots of stock options and bonuses. for now, however, let's lay off all the managers...we don't people to tell us how to spend our money, esp. since it is NOT theirs.
i realize that, but the article seemed to highlight the fact that it is able to use speech recognition + voice synthesis. most importantly, i don't see why u need a "revolutionary computer science" department to do this. is there some innovation here?
sphinx and festival? dear lord, these have been around for a while, i use both daily. festival used with the mbrola phoneme databases are actually pretty decent, even in multiple languages. sphinx is speech recognition, which is obviously more complicated, so naturally it doesn't work quite as well. it is actually tailored very well for this sort of thing, because it is built around recognizing phrases, which is exactly what they need since they have a huge lookup table. so, if anything in the table is recognized, it makes things that much easier. i don't really see why carnegie mellong deserves so much credit for this? i could have done the EXACT same thing. in fact, i even have MORE. i have a natural language processor, known by some as CHAT BOTS, although i beg to differ, because mine is not meant to fool anyone, instead i am actually trying to teach it to say something intelligible (not from a database of phrases)..with mixed results.
a lookup table for a translator + sphinx + festival is not exactly worthy of an overblown article. sorry, that's just it. no aim to flaim.
my lord people, is it not enough that the first 60 people making comments give the link to the previous story. compared to duplicate comments, duplicate STORIES on/. are completely and utterly neglible. even if everyone here posted the dup notice for the sole sake of kharma whoring, SOMEONE has to mode these people up!
if they were to log the times of cars leaving and arriving at the next toll both, and calculate the avg speed (easy enough) you could issue speeding tickets very easily. if the speed limit is 65 and my avg. speed from toll to toll is 76 then they know i MUST have gone over the speed limit (10 mph over) at some point. (yay for calculus --the proof at least)
it seems to me that this is just a product of the language itself and the way it was created, but do i really need to create another object just to return an extra value from a method?
there is a big difference between orthogonal and lineraly independent. and it DOESN'T have to be orthogonal. there is no reason a new dimension should be entirely perpendicular. it just needs to be off the previous hyperplane, aka linearly independent. sure, u can *make* it orthogonal, but there is no need.
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the /. link seems to be broken, but the url is correct.
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sorry, yesterday...
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this was on linux games about 2 days ago. and the big fuss here is that bioware is dedicating time to the linux client AT ALL, and esp. not months after.
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except no mind reading involved here. there actually was a patent to the effect of remotely reading eeg. it consisted of 2 parts: part1 sent out 2 signals at different (high) frequencies, the signals were *modulated* by ur brain as they passed, then picked up on the otherside. by interpreting the interference patterns, they were able to read your brain waves.
on the other side...they could figure out exactly what signals to send in order for the modulate signals to be what THEY wanted, so it would not only monitor, but given sufficient amplitude, CONTROL!!
they were only able to read alpha waves and a few beta, but it would be interesting to get some gamma readings (and control them). gamma are the readings which are supposedly indicitive of your senses. so, see something or hear something, and it would show up on gamma frequency (30-40 hz) waves. makes sense why we can only distinguish 30-40hz in video.
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the whole hp powerhouse exists for the sole purpose of ripping people off, including the government and businesses. i just bought a $15,000 hp server ....for $200.
how, you ask, does that work? that $15000 was 3 years ago. now, the machines are deemed worthless (64-bit, 200 mhz, 512 mb RAM, 18gb scsi HD). as soon as they are "old", the new machines go for $15,000 while the old ones are sold off for neglible prices.
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200 usd, eh? i just bought a 64-bit hp-server that cost 15k 3 years ago (200 mhz, with 512 mb of ram) for 200 usd..and DAMN is it cool :-)
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not true at all. my sibling especially do not speak NEARLY as well as my parents do. that is actually one of the biggest problems with assimilation: you lose the language.
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wait a moment there.this is one gorilla we are talking about. for example, i was born in russia. if i was the only russian speaking person in the US, then i could teach some people some russian, but obviously not as good as myself. does this prove that russian is not retained through generations???
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if everyone in the world had flowers instead of guns..there would be no more wars!! it would all just be a big 'smellin'
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is it just me, or does it seem absolutely ridiculous that Dell has to find a loophole in the first place? sure, this sounds like a repeat post, but in the end...this is ABSOLUTELY ABSURD...
....wait, that is what they are doing. but in that case, what right do they have to do that? you can't dictate what the licensee does with the licenses that they DON'T buy. it seems like a sure win in court to me.
the only thing m$ can do is say "we won't license to you if you don't do BLAH BLAH BLAH"
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my friend made up an entity called popezilla. it would run around and eat synagogues.... boy was that funny!
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sure, i know that...i never said bill didn't recommend it. i just simply said that it was a hack. instead of fixing things so that video drivers don't require video, they make u reboot the system into another "mode" to go back to where u started. even more importantly, if drivers don't work, i can't exactly FIX them in safe mode, i can just remove them ;-)
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ofcourse. that however, is a clever hack. not a fix.
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we know who did THAT!!
since the representative said that he thinks all users want is ease of use "out of the box" and not flexibility, then porting, say, microsoft office to linux would make some people happy, and at the same time not harm microsoft, because linux is supposedly NOT easy to use out of the box.
obviously, i disagree. i have had enough fun with windows video drivers that don't work causing the screen to be black, but since EVERYTHING is gui, i can't do anything about it, which means i need to reinstall. can i switch back to vga? NO. but that is besides the point. frankly, linux comes with far more out of the box than windows ever will. but that is besides the point.
if microsoft is bold enough to say that their operating system is easier to use, and then appear at linuxworld, i think they should at least be bold enough to port some software (as a software vendor not, operating system creator) to prove their point. it seems they are kissing up to linux geeks to pull some PR move or some other unpredictable stunt.
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interesting how ur's gets modded but not mine
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...a good software engineer is STILL hard to find. now, many idiots have gotten BS comp sci. degrees, went to work doing DB or business app work, then got layed off after the .bomb, and now complain. real software engineers who not only know what they are doing but are able to do something competent and long standing exist in very small numbers.
why, you ask? because good surgeons are hard to find compared to nurses. for some reasons, the corporate bastards at the top of the stairs, tightening their already painful money belts, sit in their corporate chairs, smoking their coporate cigars, screwing their corporate secretaries confuse fresh i-want-lots-of-money IT graduates as real engineers. they put them behind large projects or developing some useless web app they themselves recommended, and then eventually the CTO complains.
a lot of software cost is due to this. another reason for large software costs is that it IS actually worth it sometimes. not for office apps, but for serious products esp development tools, if you examine the amount of money it costs to develop something with it as opposed to without it, you will see that it IS worth the money. many CEOs think that ms office is one of these products. that is where they are wrong. they make decisions (both in employment and software) that simply is unnecessary and largely due to propaganda.
after some time, the myths about IT will fade and we will have left are the hardcore techies doing their job, not asking for enormous paychecks and lots of stock options and bonuses. for now, however, let's lay off all the managers...we don't people to tell us how to spend our money, esp. since it is NOT theirs.
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i realize that, but the article seemed to highlight the fact that it is able to use speech recognition + voice synthesis. most importantly, i don't see why u need a "revolutionary computer science" department to do this. is there some innovation here?
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sphinx and festival? dear lord, these have been around for a while, i use both daily. festival used with the mbrola phoneme databases are actually pretty decent, even in multiple languages. sphinx is speech recognition, which is obviously more complicated, so naturally it doesn't work quite as well. it is actually tailored very well for this sort of thing, because it is built around recognizing phrases, which is exactly what they need since they have a huge lookup table. so, if anything in the table is recognized, it makes things that much easier. i don't really see why carnegie mellong deserves so much credit for this? i could have done the EXACT same thing. in fact, i even have MORE. i have a natural language processor, known by some as CHAT BOTS, although i beg to differ, because mine is not meant to fool anyone, instead i am actually trying to teach it to say something intelligible (not from a database of phrases)..with mixed results.
a lookup table for a translator + sphinx + festival is not exactly worthy of an overblown article. sorry, that's just it. no aim to flaim.
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/. are completely and utterly neglible. even if everyone here posted the dup notice for the sole sake of kharma whoring, SOMEONE has to mode these people up!
my lord people, is it not enough that the first 60 people making comments give the link to the previous story. compared to duplicate comments, duplicate STORIES on
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a joke perhaps?
if they were to log the times of cars leaving and arriving at the next toll both, and calculate the avg speed (easy enough) you could issue speeding tickets very easily. if the speed limit is 65 and my avg. speed from toll to toll is 76 then they know i MUST have gone over the speed limit (10 mph over) at some point. (yay for calculus --the proof at least)
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it seems to me that this is just a product of the language itself and the way it was created, but do i really need to create another object just to return an extra value from a method?
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i guess conventions are too dangerous and judges are too fragile :-(
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there is a big difference between orthogonal and lineraly independent. and it DOESN'T have to be orthogonal. there is no reason a new dimension should be entirely perpendicular. it just needs to be off the previous hyperplane, aka linearly independent. sure, u can *make* it orthogonal, but there is no need.
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