Will this film be aimed at very young kids, or all ages?
I'd really much prefer a cartoon (or live action) Calvin and Hobbes film. Also an animated series/film of Sergio Aragones' Groo The Wanderer would be the ultimate in entertainment for me...
UNIX access systems provide a BBS much of the time. These machines are run by really cool people (albeit they think it's still 1991) that let everyone log in to their UNIX machines. Check out Grex and The Super Dimensional Fortress.
Pretty 31337 huh? Sure beats 15 year old MS-DOS "admins" flanking warezed copies of the latest Infocom game....
Fuzzy logic sounds very cool, but is it just a buzz word? In the article there is mention that the models don't think in the traditional way: If (condition) Then (command).
However, it seems that fuzzy logic can have slightly different meanings in different contexts. Seatle Robotics: A Fuzzy Introduction explains that fuzzy logic lets a machine arrive at a definite conclusion "based upon vague, ambiguous, imprecise, noisy, or missing input information".
The introduction then goes on to explain that:
"FL incorporates a simple, rule-based IF X AND Y THEN Z approach to a solving control problem..."
This completely condtradicts the Popular Science article, so either one is incorrect or the meaning of FL is kind of.... fuzzy....
Fuzzy logic sounds very cool, but is it just a buzz word? In the article there is mention that the models don't think in the traditional way: If (condition) Then (command).
However, it seems that fuzzy logic can have slightly different meanings in different contexts.
"The images from the telescope are actually made with subliminal images of the Coca Cola logo. If you turn the image upsides down, draw a square around the ship and read the horizon as a waveform you get the sound of John Lennon saying "JFK is not dead" backwards 3 times.
The "telescope" was actually a UFO that crashed on the moon and was hidden by the FBI and CIA for all these years. We have leaked documents to prove it!"
There is NO point trying to disprove conspiracy theories, that merely validates them, and gives the impression that these theories were taken seriously. Anyone can come up with a conspiracy theory about anything.
All of the top 10 fastest computers in the world are multi-multi-million dollar machines. This is a breakthrough because it represents another milestone in bringing supercomputing accessible.
$264k one day, $100k the next. I sincerely hope that soon small-to-medium enterprises can own supercomputers. With all the low budget physics stuff going on at Universities around the world, cheap supercomputing can only be a good thing.
The first signs that alerted KOB-TV to this phenomenon was when reporters were strolling through then canyon, the trees were giving them strange looks...
Haha! Yeah, I fondly remember some of the little things I wrote in Pascal at 4:20AM after a nice bowl through a chilled bong. Anyone else coded while high?
Sure it is! xpdf is no picnic, but quite useable! If you have a recent install eg. Red Hat 7+, Mandrake 8 you should have it on the installation media. I got it with a minimum KDE3 install.
Magazines are a tired medium, ans to try to emulate hard copy in a PDF is not necessary.
Publishing in a totally electronic, unique format would be nice. The way cover CD's on PC magazines do. Use mark-up language, but add nice things like java, PHP and stuff...
Say what you want about M$ DOS, but various Disk Operating Systems were a good way to control a computer. At that stage, in the old days where you expected a command prompt, and a GUI was an exeption (Apple) not a rule, DOS was a way a regular guy could control a real computer.
That doesn't sound spectacular today but back then having a 286 with some software and a BASIC comiler was pretty serious stuff... or so I'm told.
Now you can get a 286 running with FreeDOS and do the same. A real single-user machine for nothing (at the current prices of 286's, I think I'm on solid ground when I say nothing).
The Disk Operating System will stay alive in libraries and garages for years... despite MS-DOS's demise. (MS was only one DOS brand).
In rural areas, I know alot of people that get truckloads of 486's and such, and then network them together running open source Unices.
With 3 486's and some RAM, it is easier than you think to put together a lightning fast X server and workstation. These machines can do real work...
Perhaps the emphasis should be on re-use before shifting to recycle. There are upstart geeks all over the place that have no money... and in other news Mr Smith just threw out a Pentuim I PC, or a Mac Quadra....
Don't feel guilty not viewing popups.
I don't take popup content seriously and never click the banners anyway... These are spam. Just a means of paying for a service that would be dirt cheap, if it wasn't run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons.....
This could mean we have to re-think the way software develops.
See a software company doesn't just make a single product and sell it like chairs or tables or stuff like that. They plan on development and a growing product.
With this semi-open strategy, development rates will change, provided you allow open source developers to submit code for approval in the product the way it is now. Development speed is what dictates costs and approaches within a bussiness.
Things will have to become more dynamic and less concrete before this will work to full potential.
With AMD moving away from x86 and compatible, we should work further on a less architecture specific approach to computing. Any software written at high level should be easily portable and we should let open sourse OSs like Linux embrace all architecture. I personally don't see why RISC isn't the favoured platform nowadays.
This is a good thing, it may spawn further arch-shifting and we may actually get competition from other manufacturers like Transmeta.
This is proprietry software used for music, not one of the largest worldwide standards taking a new turn! It is stupid and may have a small user base for a while, the way some audio software does, but CD Audio will remain the longest serving most popular digital media format on earth for some time.
Can you burn one of these proprietry CDs on CD-R and distribute them? No. Would you want to? No.
The new wave is user-createable media, we will never go back to the old way of leaving the best technology with The Men Upstairs.
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I'd really much prefer a cartoon (or live action) Calvin and Hobbes film. Also an animated series/film of Sergio Aragones' Groo The Wanderer would be the ultimate in entertainment for me...
...I really should grow up a bit...
Maybe...
Ben Afleck for Tintin?
Oh, and that boat guy has to be Sean Connery.
sorry
UNIX access systems provide a BBS much of the time. These machines are run by really cool people (albeit they think it's still 1991) that let everyone log in to their UNIX machines. Check out Grex and The Super Dimensional Fortress.
Pretty 31337 huh? Sure beats 15 year old MS-DOS "admins" flanking warezed copies of the latest Infocom game....
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mod this comment down please, i accidentally hit Submit halfway through my comment, the complete one is further down
However, it seems that fuzzy logic can have slightly different meanings in different contexts. Seatle Robotics: A Fuzzy Introduction explains that fuzzy logic lets a machine arrive at a definite conclusion "based upon vague, ambiguous, imprecise, noisy, or missing input information".
The introduction then goes on to explain that:
"FL incorporates a simple, rule-based IF X AND Y THEN Z approach to a solving control problem..."
This completely condtradicts the Popular Science article, so either one is incorrect or the meaning of FL is kind of.... fuzzy....
Stop me if I'm wrong, stop me if I'm wrong
However, it seems that fuzzy logic can have slightly different meanings in different contexts.
"The images from the telescope are actually made with subliminal images of the Coca Cola logo. If you turn the image upsides down, draw a square around the ship and read the horizon as a waveform you get the sound of John Lennon saying "JFK is not dead" backwards 3 times.
The "telescope" was actually a UFO that crashed on the moon and was hidden by the FBI and CIA for all these years. We have leaked documents to prove it!"
There is NO point trying to disprove conspiracy theories, that merely validates them, and gives the impression that these theories were taken seriously. Anyone can come up with a conspiracy theory about anything.
For $294,000US, this has to impress you.
All of the top 10 fastest computers in the world are multi-multi-million dollar machines. This is a breakthrough because it represents another milestone in bringing supercomputing accessible.
$264k one day, $100k the next. I sincerely hope that soon small-to-medium enterprises can own supercomputers. With all the low budget physics stuff going on at Universities around the world, cheap supercomputing can only be a good thing.
I'm sure using this cluster, we will finally be able to get decent fps on the leaked Doom 3!
....Strange days indeed....
The first signs that alerted KOB-TV to this phenomenon was when reporters were strolling through then canyon, the trees were giving them strange looks...
Haha! Yeah, I fondly remember some of the little things I wrote in Pascal at 4:20AM after a nice bowl through a chilled bong. Anyone else coded while high?
Sure it is! xpdf is no picnic, but quite useable! If you have a recent install eg. Red Hat 7+, Mandrake 8 you should have it on the installation media. I got it with a minimum KDE3 install.
Magazines are a tired medium, ans to try to emulate hard copy in a PDF is not necessary.
Publishing in a totally electronic, unique format would be nice. The way cover CD's on PC magazines do. Use mark-up language, but add nice things like java, PHP and stuff...
This looks like XP with some changes here and there. Some structural changes but largely aesthetics. This may be like what Windows 98 was to 95.
"Hi! It looks like you're using your PDA, would you like some help?"
"Hi! It looks like you're trying to listen to the radio, would you like
a. A step-by-step guide on listening to your radio.
b. A radio tutorial.
c. Continue using the radio.
And voila, radio dropouts every few minutes on all highways!
Mmmm... handheld, modern, every Infocom game made, cooool.......
Yep, the Zaurus could be a nice (cheap) toy in a year or two.
(firing up Frotz) I'm of now for a good game of Utopia....
ZMachine is my gaming platform.
Back in the late nineties when we were so easily impressed. P2P was new, and I was very impressed...
"Wow! Look at that 4kb/s transfer rate you got! Lemme guess, you got a new 56k Modem?"
Then firing up the 2X CD burner... heaven on Earth...
That doesn't sound spectacular today but back then having a 286 with some software and a BASIC comiler was pretty serious stuff... or so I'm told.
Now you can get a 286 running with FreeDOS and do the same. A real single-user machine for nothing (at the current prices of 286's, I think I'm on solid ground when I say nothing).
The Disk Operating System will stay alive in libraries and garages for years... despite MS-DOS's demise. (MS was only one DOS brand).
With 3 486's and some RAM, it is easier than you think to put together a lightning fast X server and workstation. These machines can do real work...
Perhaps the emphasis should be on re-use before shifting to recycle. There are upstart geeks all over the place that have no money... and in other news Mr Smith just threw out a Pentuim I PC, or a Mac Quadra....
Don't feel guilty not viewing popups. I don't take popup content seriously and never click the banners anyway... These are spam. Just a means of paying for a service that would be dirt cheap, if it wasn't run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons.....
This could mean we have to re-think the way software develops.
See a software company doesn't just make a single product and sell it like chairs or tables or stuff like that. They plan on development and a growing product.
With this semi-open strategy, development rates will change, provided you allow open source developers to submit code for approval in the product the way it is now. Development speed is what dictates costs and approaches within a bussiness.
Things will have to become more dynamic and less concrete before this will work to full potential.
With AMD moving away from x86 and compatible, we should work further on a less architecture specific approach to computing. Any software written at high level should be easily portable and we should let open sourse OSs like Linux embrace all architecture. I personally don't see why RISC isn't the favoured platform nowadays.
This is a good thing, it may spawn further arch-shifting and we may actually get competition from other manufacturers like Transmeta.
This is proprietry software used for music, not one of the largest worldwide standards taking a new turn! It is stupid and may have a small user base for a while, the way some audio software does, but CD Audio will remain the longest serving most popular digital media format on earth for some time.
Can you burn one of these proprietry CDs on CD-R and distribute them? No. Would you want to? No.
The new wave is user-createable media, we will never go back to the old way of leaving the best technology with The Men Upstairs.