I think real PC gaming is done. My friends still play Starcraft, all own PS2s, don't want to learn the difference between NVidia and ATI, AMD FX and Intel EE, or spend hours setting up LANs, toting computers around, troubleshooting technical problems. Once the A-list titles disappear, the investment goes elsewhere, and this is already happening.
Last time me and my friends had a "lan party" it was the three of us running laptops with wifi.
Then again, we were playing a version of online tetris that we had in highschool
Reading this news made me physically ill. The last time I was this nauseated after reading an article was when Microsoft bought Bungie, my favourite videogame company.
Do you realize how pathetic you are? So wrapped up in fandom the thought of a CISC chip running your code makes you ill? What the fuck?
if you let your machine be used to serve something from someone elses hard drive you are not anonymous. So the riaa will sue you, rather then the actual user.
Sounds smart (not).
Actualy, true anonymity can be acheved by forging UDP packets (invalid from address).
From the sounds of things, Google learns with a neural network. It has the ability to learn new mappings based on pattern matching. Babblefish sounds like a distinct mapping of phrases that have been hand coded.
Do you know anything about machine learning? It doesn't sound like a neural network at all. NNs are good a simple function guessing from a fixed number of inputs, but wouldn't work with arbitrary input spaces like text.
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't.
The King James translation of the Bible uses current standard phrases and sentence structures - for Elizabethan England.
Actualy the King James version of the bible used english that was outdated at the time, in order to make it sound older then it was.
Don't forget that many works of fiction are translated into several languages. The only problem with that is persuading the copyright holders to permit their use in training computer translation systems.
Why would this legaly be a problem at all?
Pov-ray is hardly the most-high tech software available today. Check out some of the links posted earlier like this site and in particular this artist.
Its possible, but not with pov-ray (apperantly)
I never said that my posts couldn't be nitpicked. I said I had misused a word, That meant using a word in a way that shows I don't know what that means, not using a word in a way that some random idiot on the internet asserts is grammatically incorrect, and certainly not relating to hyphens, commas, etc. You do understand the difference between "words" and "punctuation" right. Or do you just not know how to read?
As far as my grammar is concerned, simply stating that it's incorrect isn't sufficent to show that it's incorrect. I did use the word "statically" correctly by the way. And I misspelled "than". A misspelling isn't a misuse.
Apple Zealots probably helped keep apple afloat during the difficult times before Steve Jobs came back, but they really rub people the wrong way.
I remember one fat Mac zealot in a Computer Engineering class smugly telling me that Intel made it impossible for their chips to do multimedia and floating point mat "at the same time". Technically, you couldn't run MMX instructions and Floating instructions at the same time, because they used the same registers, and it took (I believe) 150 clock cycles to switch modes. Definitely not something a user would notice. This kid seemed to think it was now impossible to play a video and do any kind of mathematics.
These shrill, obnoxious people, I think, turned a lot of people against the Mac, because, as a PC user the basic idea is that PC users are idiots, and buying a Mac is like validating all that BS.
And the whole "lets worship a corporation as a god, who can do no wrong" is pretty obnoxious these days as well.
I don't have sympathy for the parent poster, I have pity. I cannot imagine relying on a computer spellchecker for posting comments on a website. If you don't know how to spell a word, you probably don't know what it really means. A computer spellchecker is no substitute for learning to type and obtaining a vocabulary. The main use is to flag potential issues after typing a long document. Even then, it won't catch every typo.
Chances are (statically speaking), I'm far more intelligent, well spoken then you will ever be. Chances are that I have a larger vocabulary then you do. I'm far more likely to know what a specific word means then you.
I was a horrible speller throughout grade school, and although it improved greatly during collage when I started posting on the internet constantly. That said, there are still a lot of words out there I don't type frequently, and therefore can't spell. I notice when I use one of these words, and spell-check it. Most of the time, I don't.
(Interestingly, I really only know how to type words, if you ask me how to spell a word, I'd often need to 'type' it with my fingers to know what letters make it up).
If you can find a single mis-used word in any comment I've ever posted to Slashdot (several thousand) I'll paypal you $100.
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Intel chips can run in either big or little endian mode.
I think real PC gaming is done. My friends still play Starcraft, all own PS2s, don't want to learn the difference between NVidia and ATI, AMD FX and Intel EE, or spend hours setting up LANs, toting computers around, troubleshooting technical problems. Once the A-list titles disappear, the investment goes elsewhere, and this is already happening. Last time me and my friends had a "lan party" it was the three of us running laptops with wifi. Then again, we were playing a version of online tetris that we had in highschool
Reading this news made me physically ill. The last time I was this nauseated after reading an article was when Microsoft bought Bungie, my favourite videogame company. Do you realize how pathetic you are? So wrapped up in fandom the thought of a CISC chip running your code makes you ill? What the fuck?
You certanly didn't give a very technical explanation other then to assert (yes I'm right). how exactly would one teach a Neural Network language?
In this DRM age, we wouldn't want consumers to belive they own anything. now CONSUME!
if you let your machine be used to serve something from someone elses hard drive you are not anonymous. So the riaa will sue you, rather then the actual user.
Sounds smart (not).
Actualy, true anonymity can be acheved by forging UDP packets (invalid from address).
I think I'll wait a bit before I belive this...
Computers don't generalize or extrapolate the known into the unknown worth a damn. They can, if you know how to program.
From the sounds of things, Google learns with a neural network. It has the ability to learn new mappings based on pattern matching. Babblefish sounds like a distinct mapping of phrases that have been hand coded.
Do you know anything about machine learning? It doesn't sound like a neural network at all. NNs are good a simple function guessing from a fixed number of inputs, but wouldn't work with arbitrary input spaces like text.
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't.
The King James translation of the Bible uses current standard phrases and sentence structures - for Elizabethan England. Actualy the King James version of the bible used english that was outdated at the time, in order to make it sound older then it was.
Don't forget that many works of fiction are translated into several languages. The only problem with that is persuading the copyright holders to permit their use in training computer translation systems. Why would this legaly be a problem at all?
If there's a bug in the main source code base that only manifests on a particular platform, it's still a bug.
I'd be willing to be that if people agreed on a simple subset of their languages, macine language would work a lot better.
too clean for you?
check this out.
Pov-ray is hardly the most-high tech software available today. Check out some of the links posted earlier like this site and in particular this artist. Its possible, but not with pov-ray (apperantly)
Does that look 'too clean' for you?
This stuff is all done with POV-Ray. Most graphic artists use other tools. And certanly some of them use fractal textures and whatnot.
Actualy, I meant statisticaly. You're still an idiot though. A bone-dry idiot. And your mother washes her hair in pig urine.
er, I meant "statistically"
I never said that my posts couldn't be nitpicked. I said I had misused a word, That meant using a word in a way that shows I don't know what that means, not using a word in a way that some random idiot on the internet asserts is grammatically incorrect, and certainly not relating to hyphens, commas, etc. You do understand the difference between "words" and "punctuation" right. Or do you just not know how to read? As far as my grammar is concerned, simply stating that it's incorrect isn't sufficent to show that it's incorrect. I did use the word "statically" correctly by the way. And I misspelled "than". A misspelling isn't a misuse.
Common sense isn't always right. It's good to have scientific research to backup what seems "Obvious". Some times, what's "obvious" isn't always true.
What permits are they missing? The 2.4 GHz band is unregulated spectrum, and only the FCC has the authority to regulate radio spectrum.
Apple Zealots probably helped keep apple afloat during the difficult times before Steve Jobs came back, but they really rub people the wrong way.
I remember one fat Mac zealot in a Computer Engineering class smugly telling me that Intel made it impossible for their chips to do multimedia and floating point mat "at the same time". Technically, you couldn't run MMX instructions and Floating instructions at the same time, because they used the same registers, and it took (I believe) 150 clock cycles to switch modes. Definitely not something a user would notice. This kid seemed to think it was now impossible to play a video and do any kind of mathematics.
These shrill, obnoxious people, I think, turned a lot of people against the Mac, because, as a PC user the basic idea is that PC users are idiots, and buying a Mac is like validating all that BS.
And the whole "lets worship a corporation as a god, who can do no wrong" is pretty obnoxious these days as well.
I don't have sympathy for the parent poster, I have pity. I cannot imagine relying on a computer spellchecker for posting comments on a website. If you don't know how to spell a word, you probably don't know what it really means. A computer spellchecker is no substitute for learning to type and obtaining a vocabulary. The main use is to flag potential issues after typing a long document. Even then, it won't catch every typo.
Chances are (statically speaking), I'm far more intelligent, well spoken then you will ever be. Chances are that I have a larger vocabulary then you do. I'm far more likely to know what a specific word means then you.
I was a horrible speller throughout grade school, and although it improved greatly during collage when I started posting on the internet constantly. That said, there are still a lot of words out there I don't type frequently, and therefore can't spell. I notice when I use one of these words, and spell-check it. Most of the time, I don't.
(Interestingly, I really only know how to type words, if you ask me how to spell a word, I'd often need to 'type' it with my fingers to know what letters make it up).
If you can find a single mis-used word in any comment I've ever posted to Slashdot (several thousand) I'll paypal you $100.
In conclusion, you're an idiot.