as reasonable as that sounds, that is not really fair. humans can remember many positions and how they were played by grandmasters. don't think that human players dont do ply brute forcing too....
the BIGGEST difference between human and computer is how they prune branches. humans are able to quickly reduce the number of possible moves so that they are able to think through many of the possibilites, unlike many computer programs.
a technique called "multi prob-cut" was developed to help with many of the pruning problems computers experience. it uses probabalities, or essentially guessing leaf node values, and pruning them accordingly. people do essentially the same thing.
i do not think you can totally eliminate many of the methods currently used b/c ppl use many of them as well!!
an article appeared in Dr. Dobbs about HP printers and their automatic detection of past-expiration date cartridges, etc, and how the system really does not work. HP's whole idea was to make it impossible foir people to by ink refillers, so they would need to throw out $40 on brand new cartridges, and many such tosses while debugging it. eventually, they stopped doing this.
microsoft might try to do the same thing, but remember, if it is transparent, it WILL be hacked, and if it just blocks your system, people will get very annoyed/pissed/angered/dissatisfied, etc. you get the point. it is not naturally possible for m$ to create a technology that is not crackable and yet keeps most people happy.
don't give the credit to the creators for design here! the whole point was to show that the segway really isn't that complicated and a simplified version can be built by amateurs.
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obviously, both the lego and the original versions do pretty much the same thing. however, legway cannot guarantee that you do not fall. the segway, OTOH, pretty much does. it has to work with much higher precision sensors and much shorter update intervals. balancing on two wheels was never really difficult, it is basic robotics. making it practical and safe, however, is quite another story
no one is asking you to use the Xt widgets. you can make them as pretty or as ugly as you want. but embedding other Xt stuff is much easier. there is no reason why gtk widgets can't be built on top of Xt, besides the fact that they use gdk.
that is the point: it IS the mother of all toolkits. no one said we didnt need a toolkit, just a standard/default one. Xt fits the bill. it was there and worked, so no need to change
everyone forgot about Xt which works beautifully, and decided to make their own widget sets. this is really annoying when trying to embed Xt stuff into applications that use gtk or qt.
in QUITE different modes of thinking. the bush administration only has in mind, well, if anything, is its short term goals. the whole patriot act is very similar to drm and palladium, as well as the eulas. basically:
"we take people's rights away and pretend we give them more"
how is this any different?? it is very nice to hear that the aclu is taking note of it and launching a campaign, but it would also be nice if they did the same on the digital front, where weight of such names (esp. in large campaigns) is very helpful.
what about hardware players? do they already have them? unlike compressed and lossy formats like mp3 and ogg, these are formats people are more likely to carry around and play on hardware players, as opposed to digital copying. so...why switch when the players are expensive and the gain is minimal?
for m$ is to say that linux is just like terrorist organizations: they do not have a central base and can operate indepently of central management or leadership. they undermine the establishment, etc, etc, etc.
that would be quite interesting to see him try, just to get americans to side with him based on that FUD
there is a big difference between the kernel and the desktop application of the kernel underneath it. i think that change in the kernel should come slowly, after every element has been thought and rethought of. if the kernel breaks, so will the systems built on it. if there is any doubt, PLEASE don't change the underlying structure. it is the same with murder cases.
i do agree that sometimes, the resistance to change in the kernel transfers over to the other elements of the system, but you should bring up that point NOT to kernel developers but the others. the average user should not be compiling kernels every day. those who do it should know what is going on. abstraction is good, but autodetection on the kernel level is NOT good, for example, because this should happen when u install the distribution, NOT the underlying system.
what about a thermal invisibility cloak? now that would indeed be a feat of engineering. our eyes are much more sensitive than any infrared detectors, so the resolution would not need to be as high. at the moment, i really don't think there is anything in the form of thermal camo.
sure, u might get some natural shots. but then again, any good wedding photographer is going to get some natural shots too. on top of that, the talent with which a human can execute a good photograph, i would expect far exceeds that which lewis can do. sure, there are always the standard photos of ppl standing together looking at the camera, but if u look at ALL the pictures, there are often some brilliant compositional and well-lit photographs that i cannot imagine that a computer could do
how about affecting ur relationship w/ ur SO? no one seems to be taking that into account. this can really make it or break it, folks. i know a (at least one) company that does this. this seriously damages life at home. i see the person come home, by wiped out, go to bed, wake up and go to work again. that is SERIOUSLY not healthy. the boss himself must have a poor relationship, unless he is not willing to stay that late and supervise himself.
truth is, for ur avg consumer, u are correct. all the things u use, namely word and quake, don't need much more. that said, both were designed to run well on SLOWER processors. also,they are meant to be realtime.
anything that is not designed to be realtime will be faster. any simulation, any encoding, and also any COMPILATION. sure, u don't need to to recompile whole projects very often, but still. u said it urself: kernel compiles in a flash. but for ppl who spend a lot of time doing this, it is definitely visible.
another thing, any kind of video manipulation. editing or encoding. encoding a dvd takes about 2.5-5 hours for a 1.5 hour dvd. here the relation is purely linear. at least for popular movies, i can go download them faster.
does this mean that it needs to be VERY hot in order to operate, and the outside will be cooled, or are the harddrives going to be external...or even better: am i completely missing the point?
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as reasonable as that sounds, that is not really fair. humans can remember many positions and how they were played by grandmasters. don't think that human players dont do ply brute forcing too....
the BIGGEST difference between human and computer is how they prune branches. humans are able to quickly reduce the number of possible moves so that they are able to think through many of the possibilites, unlike many computer programs.
a technique called "multi prob-cut" was developed to help with many of the pruning problems computers experience. it uses probabalities, or essentially guessing leaf node values, and pruning them accordingly. people do essentially the same thing.
i do not think you can totally eliminate many of the methods currently used b/c ppl use many of them as well!!
an article appeared in Dr. Dobbs about HP printers and their automatic detection of past-expiration date cartridges, etc, and how the system really does not work. HP's whole idea was to make it impossible foir people to by ink refillers, so they would need to throw out $40 on brand new cartridges, and many such tosses while debugging it. eventually, they stopped doing this.
microsoft might try to do the same thing, but remember, if it is transparent, it WILL be hacked, and if it just blocks your system, people will get very annoyed/pissed/angered/dissatisfied, etc. you get the point. it is not naturally possible for m$ to create a technology that is not crackable and yet keeps most people happy.
don't give the credit to the creators for design here! the whole point was to show that the segway really isn't that complicated and a simplified version can be built by amateurs.
obviously, both the lego and the original versions do pretty much the same thing. however, legway cannot guarantee that you do not fall. the segway, OTOH, pretty much does. it has to work with much higher precision sensors and much shorter update intervals. balancing on two wheels was never really difficult, it is basic robotics. making it practical and safe, however, is quite another story
yeah, but he was a smart geocities linker :-)
no one is asking you to use the Xt widgets. you can make them as pretty or as ugly as you want. but embedding other Xt stuff is much easier. there is no reason why gtk widgets can't be built on top of Xt, besides the fact that they use gdk.
that is the point: it IS the mother of all toolkits. no one said we didnt need a toolkit, just a standard/default one. Xt fits the bill. it was there and worked, so no need to change
XT??? HELLO???
everyone forgot about Xt which works beautifully, and decided to make their own widget sets. this is really annoying when trying to embed Xt stuff into applications that use gtk or qt.
in QUITE different modes of thinking. the bush administration only has in mind, well, if anything, is its short term goals. the whole patriot act is very similar to drm and palladium, as well as the eulas. basically:
"we take people's rights away and pretend we give them more"
how is this any different?? it is very nice to hear that the aclu is taking note of it and launching a campaign, but it would also be nice if they did the same on the digital front, where weight of such names (esp. in large campaigns) is very helpful.
yes, but aer you going to want to buy a more expensive dvd player over a CD player, esp in the portables dept. (are there ANY portable dvd players?)
what about hardware players? do they already have them? unlike compressed and lossy formats like mp3 and ogg, these are formats people are more likely to carry around and play on hardware players, as opposed to digital copying. so...why switch when the players are expensive and the gain is minimal?
sadly enough, that was actually relevant...it was a lame joke to start with, and i followed up with a joke from the same series...just as lame.
im gonna kick you straight in the nuts!!
dvd rip pretty much already does that
for m$ is to say that linux is just like terrorist organizations: they do not have a central base and can operate indepently of central management or leadership. they undermine the establishment, etc, etc, etc.
that would be quite interesting to see him try, just to get americans to side with him based on that FUD
...he didn't have an install base
but since they are modular, we could also use them for traditional pgp style encryption, no? instead of symmetric keys, you could use a public key.
there is a big difference between the kernel and the desktop application of the kernel underneath it. i think that change in the kernel should come slowly, after every element has been thought and rethought of. if the kernel breaks, so will the systems built on it. if there is any doubt, PLEASE don't change the underlying structure. it is the same with murder cases.
i do agree that sometimes, the resistance to change in the kernel transfers over to the other elements of the system, but you should bring up that point NOT to kernel developers but the others. the average user should not be compiling kernels every day. those who do it should know what is going on. abstraction is good, but autodetection on the kernel level is NOT good, for example, because this should happen when u install the distribution, NOT the underlying system.
one problem: that would also cause YOU to be really hot. the idea here is to stay cool but still be thermally transparent.
what about a thermal invisibility cloak? now that would indeed be a feat of engineering. our eyes are much more sensitive than any infrared detectors, so the resolution would not need to be as high. at the moment, i really don't think there is anything in the form of thermal camo.
sure, u might get some natural shots. but then again, any good wedding photographer is going to get some natural shots too. on top of that, the talent with which a human can execute a good photograph, i would expect far exceeds that which lewis can do. sure, there are always the standard photos of ppl standing together looking at the camera, but if u look at ALL the pictures, there are often some brilliant compositional and well-lit photographs that i cannot imagine that a computer could do
didn't they film all three films at once? this would mean that they are NOT in post production but just waiting to be realease.
how about affecting ur relationship w/ ur SO? no one seems to be taking that into account. this can really make it or break it, folks. i know a (at least one) company that does this. this seriously damages life at home. i see the person come home, by wiped out, go to bed, wake up and go to work again. that is SERIOUSLY not healthy. the boss himself must have a poor relationship, unless he is not willing to stay that late and supervise himself.
calls steve baldwin...
truth is, for ur avg consumer, u are correct. all the things u use, namely word and quake, don't need much more. that said, both were designed to run well on SLOWER processors. also,they are meant to be realtime.
anything that is not designed to be realtime will be faster. any simulation, any encoding, and also any COMPILATION. sure, u don't need to to recompile whole projects very often, but still. u said it urself: kernel compiles in a flash. but for ppl who spend a lot of time doing this, it is definitely visible.
another thing, any kind of video manipulation. editing or encoding. encoding a dvd takes about 2.5-5 hours for a 1.5 hour dvd. here the relation is purely linear. at least for popular movies, i can go download them faster.
does this mean that it needs to be VERY hot in order to operate, and the outside will be cooled, or are the harddrives going to be external...or even better: am i completely missing the point?