Despite what some major 3D game engine creators have to say if real-time ray tracing comes sooner than later, at about the time an eight core CPU is common, I think we might be able to do away with the graphics card especially considering the improved floating point units going in next gen. cores. Consider Intel's QuakeIV Raytraced running at 99fps at 720P on a dual quad-core Intel rig at IDF 2007. This set-up did not use any graphic card processing power and scales up and down. So, if you think 1280x720 is a decent resolution AND 50fps is fine you can play this now with a single quad-core processor. Now imagine it with dual octo-cores which should be available when? Next year? I hazard 120fps at 1080P on your (granted) above average rig doing real time ray tracing some time next year IF developers went that route AND still playable resolutions and decent fps with "old" (by that time) quad-cores.
Oddly Wikipedia directory/article URL listings seem case sensitive and the given one pointing at 'Road_Coloring_Conjecture' does not work, but 'Road_coloring_conjecture' does. The correct Wikipedia link to the Road Coloring Conjecture page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_coloring_conjecture.
If you'd RTFA and not just RTFS, you'd see the summary was bollocksed and the editors are either still half asleep or in the same boat as you.
From the article linked in the summary with my comments in parentheses:
The StarBoard system is really two technologies in one. Firstly, it features Hitachi's short-throw LCD projector. This is important, because the projector sits mere inches from the interactive surface (on top of the table/surface, which is clearly seen in the video). This means you get a huge -- 50-inch, in fact -- bright screen, which doesn't get blocked out by your head as you lean over the table (but it is blocked by your hands touching/near the surface as the parent talks about and again as seen in the video).
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The surface itself is simply a rigid board (it's difficult to project an image through a board from my understanding of physics). At the top there are two cameras that track the movement of your hands.
Adding a microphone/camera and transmitter to the "Moth" sized microflyer (video available) noted in the article might be possible, but your flight time is going to suffer and be in the tens of minutes... not very useful right now or at least until battery efficiencies improve.
Some of the micro-flyer tech. from the noted Flying Insects and Robots Symposium is pretty slick as well. I especially like the Flapping-Wing MAV with a single fixed wing and dual flappers than creates a pseudo-ground effect to fly more efficiently/stably.
Lastly, considering the Blackbird (high altitude/high speed) and stealth technology that the government started developing all the way back in the 1970's for goodness sake, you really need to push the imagination to honestly even guess at what they might be working on currently.
Except HTTP_REFERRER can be spoofed just as easily as the example code is spoofing the User Agent so that the Yahoo script thinks the request is from a browser and not another script. If I was testing this vulnerability, I'd certainly test if it was indeed looking at the Referrer by spoofing it as well, IF my initial code didn't work, but since it's so trivial to beat it appears Yahoo doesn't even bother.
Boy, if all of the nefarious Slashdotters got together couldn't we beat that by at least an order of magnitude? After all, didn't Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta get away with a few billion?
You'd think with almost $100 million/month they'd have a lot less player complaints. I'm willing to bet most of that money goes into the publishers pocket without regard to the state of the game.
The first and I suppose best answer by Google is indeed what you stated, whether by luck or good algorithm, not necessarily parsing and understanding. The answer you quote comes from not Google itself mind you, but interestingly the Wordnet website which does a similar thing as Cyc in that it has a database of assertions and questions and answers. From the site:
WordNet® is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
Even if it could interpret your question correctly, it would most likely not have a local data store with enough ambiguous information to answer any arbitrary question. It could perhaps answer the question "Is a dog a mammal?" as "True", but not anything more complex. However, connected to the 'net and things like Wikipedia (if you trust that information), other encyclopedia's, dictionaries, Google (to come up with lesser known facts/infobits) you might possibly get it to some sort of rudimentary pseudo-AI which could possibly do as you mentioned in more general way.
Unfortunately, however this is still a long way from sentient AI. Something you could literally talk to and it would be correct in factual based questions 99% of the time and be able to think abstractly.
Interestingly, this uber interface guru's own website both looks horrible and is utterly unreadballe in anything less than 1024x768 resolution and it fails even the most basic W3 HTML quality assurance evaluation with 17 errors.
I'm not generally one to be dick about these kinds of things or so nit-picky, but if you're hailed as a major 'UI guru' and have Microsoft hire you and get a fucking mention on the old/. then please have a clue. Incidentally, I was always under the assumption is was important to practice what you preach or at very least let your outward work do your talking, not your PR skills.
Pardon, any oddities in my spelling/grammar as it's late and I've had a couple Guinesses already.
Honestly, with everyone and their mom jumping on the blogging bandwagon and the general quality of said blogs approaching robot created jibberish, I honestly think the blog hosting companies are in for quite a struggle determining spam from cruft. Although, if their automated measures also wipe out some of these inane blogs as well perhaps the authors will get a hint and the blogsphere will be a better place AFTER the spammers arrived--imagine that.
Oddly enough, I just read a short story by Cory Doctrow, an incredible sci-fi writer and EFF advocate, that featured RL sweatshop labor in game. Anda's Game (as well as some other Doctrow work) can be had at Salon after viewing an Audi or other inane ad.
I wish I knew his ID on/. I'd add him to my friends... he is quite an extraordinary fellow.
Umm, okay that's interesting and all, but are there any practical uses besides using this thing to simulate nuclear weapons material tests? Or is this just another huge money sink for the good ol' US Gov't?
Do we really need to keep reasearching nuclear weapons anyway, with the Cold War long over and the ban on them and all?
It appears that MS is using different Satellite imagery than Google. At looking at where I live in Connecticut, MSN resolves perhaps two more levels of detail than Google, but I'm sure this isn't the case everywhere.
Does anyone else notice any differences in their areas?
In any case, I suppose it's a win for everyone to have more map data at their disposal now.
These Boots Are Made for Walkin'... -
Jessica Simpson
Don't Cha (featuring Busta Rhymes)... -
The Pussycat Dolls & Busta Rhymes
Best of You -
Foo Fighters
Don't Phunk With My Heart -
Black Eyed Peas
Sugar, We're Goin Down -
Fall Out Boy
Behind These Hazel Eyes -
Kelly Clarkson
Beverly Hills -
Weezer
Lose Control (Featuring Ciara & Fa... -
Missy Elliott
Now how is this going to reduce piracy?
It just sounds like they are throwing a bone to the RIAA in that they are AT LEAST making an attempt at offering an alternative to P2P perhaps trying to shield themselves from direct litigation on the REALLY, REALLY cheap.
Google's was more user friendly... too much "Saving Position" on Maps24 and clicking the toolbar often moves the map to the spot under where you clicked instead of clicking the button you wanted. Also, the overhead of the Java is unneeded.
Lastly, my road in CT isn't even on the Map24 map!
It's a newer road, but it's been here for 4+ years.
Are those soccer (err, football) games REALLY that controversial, to warrant a ban. Some of the others I can sort of see some rational, no matter how warped.
I wonder if they published a localized version where the Chinese team can't be beaten if they'd allow it?
I mean what else could they NOT like about the "world's" favorite sport?
It's not like this thing is scanning the videos with some type of image filtering algorithm or AI. It's just looking for your keyword in the title of the video, the link or the body of a page it finds *.mpg or *.avi's on and snapping a pic of the first frame.
Nothing new here... although I suppose it could be useful. However, my quick research on 'tits' yielded very unsatisfactory results. So, I guess YMMV.
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Despite what some major 3D game engine creators have to say if real-time ray tracing comes sooner than later, at about the time an eight core CPU is common, I think we might be able to do away with the graphics card especially considering the improved floating point units going in next gen. cores. Consider Intel's QuakeIV Raytraced running at 99fps at 720P on a dual quad-core Intel rig at IDF 2007. This set-up did not use any graphic card processing power and scales up and down. So, if you think 1280x720 is a decent resolution AND 50fps is fine you can play this now with a single quad-core processor. Now imagine it with dual octo-cores which should be available when? Next year? I hazard 120fps at 1080P on your (granted) above average rig doing real time ray tracing some time next year IF developers went that route AND still playable resolutions and decent fps with "old" (by that time) quad-cores.
Oddly Wikipedia directory/article URL listings seem case sensitive and the given one pointing at 'Road_Coloring_Conjecture' does not work, but 'Road_coloring_conjecture' does. The correct Wikipedia link to the Road Coloring Conjecture page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_coloring_conjecture.
From the article linked in the summary with my comments in parentheses:
The GMail Team has finally officially commented on the addition of IMAP to GMail on the public About GMail "What's New" page.
Also, the Official Gmail Blog has more information on the Gmail IMAP implementation and how it works across devices.
Adding a microphone/camera and transmitter to the "Moth" sized microflyer (video available) noted in the article might be possible, but your flight time is going to suffer and be in the tens of minutes... not very useful right now or at least until battery efficiencies improve.
Some of the micro-flyer tech. from the noted Flying Insects and Robots Symposium is pretty slick as well. I especially like the Flapping-Wing MAV with a single fixed wing and dual flappers than creates a pseudo-ground effect to fly more efficiently/stably.
Lastly, considering the Blackbird (high altitude/high speed) and stealth technology that the government started developing all the way back in the 1970's for goodness sake, you really need to push the imagination to honestly even guess at what they might be working on currently.
Except HTTP_REFERRER can be spoofed just as easily as the example code is spoofing the User Agent so that the Yahoo script thinks the request is from a browser and not another script. If I was testing this vulnerability, I'd certainly test if it was indeed looking at the Referrer by spoofing it as well, IF my initial code didn't work, but since it's so trivial to beat it appears Yahoo doesn't even bother.
Doesn't BES still have to interface with the RIM network to get the cellular data to the 'net?
What bizarre form of nerd reads Vanity Fair AND /.?
Boy, if all of the nefarious Slashdotters got together couldn't we beat that by at least an order of magnitude? After all, didn't Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta get away with a few billion?
Those are sick numbers.
You'd think with almost $100 million/month they'd have a lot less player complaints. I'm willing to bet most of that money goes into the publishers pocket without regard to the state of the game.
Here is the actual patch page for every version of Windows and further information.
Even if it could interpret your question correctly, it would most likely not have a local data store with enough ambiguous information to answer any arbitrary question. It could perhaps answer the question "Is a dog a mammal?" as "True", but not anything more complex. However, connected to the 'net and things like Wikipedia (if you trust that information), other encyclopedia's, dictionaries, Google (to come up with lesser known facts/infobits) you might possibly get it to some sort of rudimentary pseudo-AI which could possibly do as you mentioned in more general way.
Unfortunately, however this is still a long way from sentient AI. Something you could literally talk to and it would be correct in factual based questions 99% of the time and be able to think abstractly.
Whoever modded this informative needs to reread the post. Nice job sir, your informative technobabble had me crying.
I'm not generally one to be dick about these kinds of things or so nit-picky, but if you're hailed as a major 'UI guru' and have Microsoft hire you and get a fucking mention on the old /. then please have a clue. Incidentally, I was always under the assumption is was important to practice what you preach or at very least let your outward work do your talking, not your PR skills.
Pardon, any oddities in my spelling/grammar as it's late and I've had a couple Guinesses already.
Honestly, with everyone and their mom jumping on the blogging bandwagon and the general quality of said blogs approaching robot created jibberish, I honestly think the blog hosting companies are in for quite a struggle determining spam from cruft. Although, if their automated measures also wipe out some of these inane blogs as well perhaps the authors will get a hint and the blogsphere will be a better place AFTER the spammers arrived--imagine that.
I know of boingboing... it would just be interesting to see his insights in the comments.
I wish I knew his ID on /. I'd add him to my friends... he is quite an extraordinary fellow.
Umm, okay that's interesting and all, but are there any practical uses besides using this thing to simulate nuclear weapons material tests? Or is this just another huge money sink for the good ol' US Gov't?
Do we really need to keep reasearching nuclear weapons anyway, with the Cold War long over and the ban on them and all?
It appears that MS is using different Satellite imagery than Google. At looking at where I live in Connecticut, MSN resolves perhaps two more levels of detail than Google, but I'm sure this isn't the case everywhere.
Does anyone else notice any differences in their areas?
In any case, I suppose it's a win for everyone to have more map data at their disposal now.
- All The Water of This World - Aaron English
- The Sense -
John Luttrell
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Waterfall Carnival -
Frogg Cafe
-
Journey to Farpoint -
John Luttrell
-
Consider the Lilies -
JoAnn Gordon
-
Quest for the Heartland -
Ricocher
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All This Time -
Frogg Cafe
-
You're Not Alone -
JoAnn Gordon
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Windy Day -
John Luttrell
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Full Moon -
Chrome Shift
Compare this to ITunes:- Pon de Replay (Radio Edit) -
Rihanna
- Feel Good Inc. (Album Crossfade) -
Gorillaz
- These Boots Are Made for Walkin'... -
Jessica Simpson
- Don't Cha (featuring Busta Rhymes)... -
The Pussycat Dolls & Busta Rhymes
- Best of You -
Foo Fighters
- Don't Phunk With My Heart -
Black Eyed Peas
- Sugar, We're Goin Down -
Fall Out Boy
- Behind These Hazel Eyes -
Kelly Clarkson
- Beverly Hills -
Weezer
- Lose Control (Featuring Ciara & Fa... -
Missy Elliott
Now how is this going to reduce piracy?It just sounds like they are throwing a bone to the RIAA in that they are AT LEAST making an attempt at offering an alternative to P2P perhaps trying to shield themselves from direct litigation on the REALLY, REALLY cheap.
Color E-Paper has been done my friend (including pictures). I would post this as a story at /., but it's a couple days old and already been on The Register.
I just tried both...
Google's was more user friendly... too much "Saving Position" on Maps24 and clicking the toolbar often moves the map to the spot under where you clicked instead of clicking the button you wanted. Also, the overhead of the Java is unneeded.
Lastly, my road in CT isn't even on the Map24 map!
It's a newer road, but it's been here for 4+ years.
Are those soccer (err, football) games REALLY that controversial, to warrant a ban. Some of the others I can sort of see some rational, no matter how warped.
I wonder if they published a localized version where the Chinese team can't be beaten if they'd allow it?
I mean what else could they NOT like about the "world's" favorite sport?
It's not like this thing is scanning the videos with some type of image filtering algorithm or AI. It's just looking for your keyword in the title of the video, the link or the body of a page it finds *.mpg or *.avi's on and snapping a pic of the first frame.
Nothing new here... although I suppose it could be useful. However, my quick research on 'tits' yielded very unsatisfactory results. So, I guess YMMV.