With the people arguing about whatnot saying that it's just a list of often repeated phrases I would have to say that to an extent that's exactly how humans probably do go about learning a langauge. For example.. a cliche is perfect.. when you first heard "when pigs fly" you have no idea what it means however after people say it enough you should start saving the context in which people say it and then you can repeat the phrase. I know there are definitely a few cliche's out there I have no idea what they mean... like Devil may cry.. but I know the context which you say it.. so I'm saying that a robot with a big enough hard drive can technically be able to save every possible conversation and give an accurate response. Thereby making it look like AI.
Here's another example. Remember studying for those SATs? There were plenty of "weird" words that a person would probably never use again. So you forget it. If you forget it you wouldn't be able to form a sentence with that word. So same with a computer. If it never encountered something how can it know what response to spit out? I can almost gaurantee that if a hard drive was large enough to store every single phrase imagineable and it's appropriate respoinse a computer can easily emulate a human. Just like deep blue beat kasparov in chess. The problem is of course... how big of a hard drive do you think the human brain is? 100 Gigs? 100 Terabytes?
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MS for the longest time was running a version of Unix which they lovingly called Xenix. MS Dos was acutally written on the OS along with various other programs that followed including Windows 3.11 I believe.
Besides what's wrong with having a MS Linux? There's like a billion flavors of linux running I don't see the harm in having a billion and one.
Personally I think MS will be pushing their new languages like C# and their.nets
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"516??? NO!!! 5i6... 5*I*6 !!!"
What this discussion has come down to is mostly the linux users saying how MS monopoly sucks so forth.
Personally I love the office 2k products. They're easy to use and they do what I want them to do. Star office I'm sorry to say is a product that doesn't come anywhere near office. It's incredibly slow to load up(I love how my mouse crawls as i load up any component within star).
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Lindoze in my opinion is a waste of code.. for heaven sakes 10 million lines of code. I might as well partition a drive and run windows 2k on it... I recall lilo being able to dual boot:) But seriously instead of wasting 10 million lines of code to do somethign that windows can do better why not invest that 10 million lines into cooler software for linux.
Get the best of both worlds... I'd say yer lying if you were to tell me that Windows isn't one of the easiest operating systems to use. Along with the fact that it has one of the most complete libraries of software. Linux is a good OS.. but it still mainly for enthusiasts. Unless you really know what yer doing a linux box isn't too fun to set up..
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With the people arguing about whatnot saying that it's just a list of often repeated phrases I would have to say that to an extent that's exactly how humans probably do go about learning a langauge. For example.. a cliche is perfect.. when you first heard "when pigs fly" you have no idea what it means however after people say it enough you should start saving the context in which people say it and then you can repeat the phrase. I know there are definitely a few cliche's out there I have no idea what they mean... like Devil may cry.. but I know the context which you say it.. so I'm saying that a robot with a big enough hard drive can technically be able to save every possible conversation and give an accurate response. Thereby making it look like AI. Here's another example. Remember studying for those SATs? There were plenty of "weird" words that a person would probably never use again. So you forget it. If you forget it you wouldn't be able to form a sentence with that word. So same with a computer. If it never encountered something how can it know what response to spit out? I can almost gaurantee that if a hard drive was large enough to store every single phrase imagineable and it's appropriate respoinse a computer can easily emulate a human. Just like deep blue beat kasparov in chess. The problem is of course... how big of a hard drive do you think the human brain is? 100 Gigs? 100 Terabytes? -cp
MS for the longest time was running a version of Unix which they lovingly called Xenix. MS Dos was acutally written on the OS along with various other programs that followed including Windows 3.11 I believe. Besides what's wrong with having a MS Linux? There's like a billion flavors of linux running I don't see the harm in having a billion and one. Personally I think MS will be pushing their new languages like C# and their .nets
-cp
"516??? NO!!! 5i6 ... 5*I*6 !!!"
What this discussion has come down to is mostly the linux users saying how MS monopoly sucks so forth. Personally I love the office 2k products. They're easy to use and they do what I want them to do. Star office I'm sorry to say is a product that doesn't come anywhere near office. It's incredibly slow to load up(I love how my mouse crawls as i load up any component within star). On to topic: Lindoze in my opinion is a waste of code.. for heaven sakes 10 million lines of code. I might as well partition a drive and run windows 2k on it... I recall lilo being able to dual boot :) But seriously instead of wasting 10 million lines of code to do somethign that windows can do better why not invest that 10 million lines into cooler software for linux.
Get the best of both worlds... I'd say yer lying if you were to tell me that Windows isn't one of the easiest operating systems to use. Along with the fact that it has one of the most complete libraries of software. Linux is a good OS.. but it still mainly for enthusiasts. Unless you really know what yer doing a linux box isn't too fun to set up..