There are several Linux magazines on the shelf about "pumping up your system" and "making your workstation cool." While most of us aren't the l33t scr33nsh0t d00d type, we still all occasionally come across a website or manpage or something that sparks an idea we'd never thought of that would make our desktop computer do something it didn't before.
I'd like to see a dead tree compilation of nifty ideas (complete with scripts and maybe even a CD of sources for some of it) like these for a desktop user. Along the lines of "Tips & Tricks." Personally I'd want the FreeBSD edition but there is potential for a whole series of these books. Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows *, even separate books for Gnome & KDE or something (I don't use them so I don't know).
If NASA agreed to put up more funds than everyone else, then they should live up to their agreement. Of course you're right, other countries have fallen behind as well, but the issue here is the United States funding of NASA, and my point was not to complain about the lack of support but rather the way in which the U.S. is funding NASA's different programs - i.e. more of the available funding should be directed where it has already been promised.
According to an @discovery.ca segment a month or two ago, NASA is already falling seriously behind in its responsibilities in the International Space Station. Not to place blame anywhere, but I think the United States needs to realize that this is an international project and that they have to keep up with the other countries involved. Cutting funding for international projects like the ISS isn't really their call... although I'd be interested to see what action the other countries would take if NASA's non-compliance became a serious problem.
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...taking action before it happens to make use of or prevent a result...
That could really be an extension of the definition of a neural net. Oh, and I tend to agree with the property of intelligence being either 'intelligent' or 'not intelligent.' But by the same token I tend to think of orang-utans, dogs, dolphins and other mammals as 'intelligent' as well, but often overlook 'lesser' creatures such as crabs (most likely only because they don't exhibit familiar mammalian signs of intelligence)... just something to ponder.
Cause they spent billions researching it? I sure hope it's well thought out...
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I only have a few basic requirements to call something AI (which are of course subjective to my definition of intelligence):
The unit can perform logical analysis given some form of sensory data and make logical assumptions in order to reach a conclusion.
The unit, having once made a complex logical decision, would store the method and results and learn to perform similar decisions more efficiently (a neural net).
The unit can interface with other intelligences and exchange data if possible.
I'd also like it to be able to cook me breakfast every morning...
I think the problem Square faced was making people really care about the charaters before the 2 hours leading up to the climax was up. In FF7, for example, when they do the whole search for Cloud thing, it's all about the "life returns to the planet as energy" theme. This parallels the final scene in FF:SW. The difference? I actually cared what happened to Cloud at that point. The point is, Square usually has hours upon hours to build up your liking of a particular character, but with a film that time was cut fatally short. They really needed to pay attention to movies like Star Wars which make you feel like you've known Luke, Leia and Han for your entire life within minutes - then the whole plot (which also could have been improved) would seem a little more worthwhile.
Who ever said XP was the enemy? I don't like using it. I also don't like using the philips screwdriver on my Swiss Army knife. But if someone called my favorite OS a philips I don't think I'd have a cow.
Offshore Fishing! Except that in French schools in Ontario it was called Pêche En Haute Mer. IIRC, the whole system was translated into French, but I had gotten in trouble so many times fooling around with their DOS computers that they watched me like a hawk and I never got to see the QNX CLI.
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There are several Linux magazines on the shelf about "pumping up your system" and "making your workstation cool." While most of us aren't the l33t scr33nsh0t d00d type, we still all occasionally come across a website or manpage or something that sparks an idea we'd never thought of that would make our desktop computer do something it didn't before.
I'd like to see a dead tree compilation of nifty ideas (complete with scripts and maybe even a CD of sources for some of it) like these for a desktop user. Along the lines of "Tips & Tricks." Personally I'd want the FreeBSD edition but there is potential for a whole series of these books. Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows *, even separate books for Gnome & KDE or something (I don't use them so I don't know).
It wasn't on Slashdot when the submission was written. :-P
If NASA agreed to put up more funds than everyone else, then they should live up to their agreement. Of course you're right, other countries have fallen behind as well, but the issue here is the United States funding of NASA, and my point was not to complain about the lack of support but rather the way in which the U.S. is funding NASA's different programs - i.e. more of the available funding should be directed where it has already been promised.
According to an @discovery.ca segment a month or two ago, NASA is already falling seriously behind in its responsibilities in the International Space Station. Not to place blame anywhere, but I think the United States needs to realize that this is an international project and that they have to keep up with the other countries involved. Cutting funding for international projects like the ISS isn't really their call... although I'd be interested to see what action the other countries would take if NASA's non-compliance became a serious problem.
...taking action before it happens to make use of or prevent a result...
That could really be an extension of the definition of a neural net. Oh, and I tend to agree with the property of intelligence being either 'intelligent' or 'not intelligent.' But by the same token I tend to think of orang-utans, dogs, dolphins and other mammals as 'intelligent' as well, but often overlook 'lesser' creatures such as crabs (most likely only because they don't exhibit familiar mammalian signs of intelligence)... just something to ponder.Cause they spent billions researching it? I sure hope it's well thought out...
I only have a few basic requirements to call something AI (which are of course subjective to my definition of intelligence):
I'd also like it to be able to cook me breakfast every morning...
I think the problem Square faced was making people really care about the charaters before the 2 hours leading up to the climax was up. In FF7, for example, when they do the whole search for Cloud thing, it's all about the "life returns to the planet as energy" theme. This parallels the final scene in FF:SW. The difference? I actually cared what happened to Cloud at that point. The point is, Square usually has hours upon hours to build up your liking of a particular character, but with a film that time was cut fatally short. They really needed to pay attention to movies like Star Wars which make you feel like you've known Luke, Leia and Han for your entire life within minutes - then the whole plot (which also could have been improved) would seem a little more worthwhile.
Who ever said XP was the enemy? I don't like using it. I also don't like using the philips screwdriver on my Swiss Army knife. But if someone called my favorite OS a philips I don't think I'd have a cow.
Offshore Fishing! Except that in French schools in Ontario it was called Pêche En Haute Mer. IIRC, the whole system was translated into French, but I had gotten in trouble so many times fooling around with their DOS computers that they watched me like a hawk and I never got to see the QNX CLI.