Re:The enCYClopedia of AI 'common knowledge '
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"At this stage, Cyc can answer only specific kinds of questions, although it answers them quickly and accurately---sometimes with surprising intuition. Given a database of sample phrases and a vague query like "Show me happy people," Cyc selected the phrase, "A man watching his daughter learn to walk."
That's the kind of thing I think we are going to see more of sooner rather than later. I think AI developement is going to have an intermediate level where the systems aren't quite intelligent but are very good at figuring out what you want. Sort of a super-google. OTOH, I am probably completely wrong because I am talking of things I know very little about.
For some reason I doubt you've actually read the Cathedral and the Bazaar. You talk about all Bazaar but no Cathedral and yet refer to the two in the same breath. Maybe I'm wrong. But I really don't see how this:
Maybe the wifi technology is evolving in a cathadral and bazaar manner, but the services can't follow same pattern.
makes any sense. Is it evoling in a Catherdral manner? Or a Bazaar manner? Or both, which I suppose is possible (as is the case with software) but I don't really think that was the idea you meant to convey.
Really? I find that if I stop before closing those braces I am at a total loss the next day. Ofc, I am hardly a professional programmer, just a CS major, so maybe when I get "better" it'll be different, but I doubt it. I don't think I could stand to have something not finished and not be working on it. Ah well.
I would like, however, to see one day an x86 hardware/software combination which leads to a situation like with SGIs and Macs where pressing the power button gives you a graceful shutdown.
Maybe I should've mentioned that I was replying specefically to this statement. The laptop is a IBM Thinkpad T30. And I also run Debian on it, if that matters.
I didn't mean to be all antagonistic about it, was just mentioning a case where it works. I will also mention that attempting to suspend or hibernate the laptop in Linux wreaks all sorts of havoc. That has been a big PITA actually, as I am in Linux more than windows. (They make us use VS.NET in class, they also make us "rent" these laptops from them.) I tried 2.5.64 for a period, suspension still didn't work properly, even with ACPI support compiled in the kernel. Ah well. Hope this helps.
I like my window manager seperate thank you very much. The fact that I can select which wm to use at any given moment is very appealing. I'd have a seizure if I had to install multiple versions of X to be able to switch between WMs or if X had to have every WM rolled into it. Plus there are many occasions where i don't run a WM at all, playing movies, games, etc. Who needs a WM for a fragfest or a fullscreen DVD?
Well, on my laptop, in XP (yes, there I said it! XP! XP! XP! Ya gotta a problem with that?) pressing the power button will give you a graceful shutdown. Which I assume means its possible for PCs too. I guess the code just needs to be written for Linux.
well I did it on a ramdisk, but I was too lazy to change the default ramdisk size, so the file is just one meg... It's on an athlon Tbird 1Ghz time gzip -9 1m real 0m2.403s user 0m0.180s sys 0m0.020s time gzip -1 1m real 0m1.813s user 0m0.180s sys 0m0.010s
yeah, I know pretty useless.
Now pretending like I can multiple this by thirty-two to get the rate for 32MB... 76.896s for gzip -9... hmm that can't be right. ah whatever. Someone with more ram than i have can figure it out.
Well, if you would read their FAQ, you might've noticed this:
Added an option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog : "defaults write com.apple.x11 no_quit_alert true". See man page for Xquartz for more details.
No, I was kinda exaggerating. Frankly I thought it was kind of cool, in my adolecscent way. Kind of like "Dude! The guy who wrote Eterm, was all like 'your wrong!' on slashdot to me!". Heh. Don't mind me, I might just be nuts.
oops. It figures, I post something derogatory about Eterm (which i love btw, thanks) and end up getting chewed out by the author. I wonder if this will get me bragging rights somewhere?:)
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That's the kind of thing I think we are going to see more of sooner rather than later. I think AI developement is going to have an intermediate level where the systems aren't quite intelligent but are very good at figuring out what you want. Sort of a super-google. OTOH, I am probably completely wrong because I am talking of things I know very little about.
What did the 3rd AI want? You've piqued my interest.
Trogdor was a man, he was a dragon-man, err he was just a dragon, but he was still TROGDOR!
Yeah but NetBSD is dying. And it STILL has 3525 packages! (joking)
For some reason I doubt you've actually read the Cathedral and the Bazaar. You talk about all Bazaar but no Cathedral and yet refer to the two in the same breath. Maybe I'm wrong. But I really don't see how this:
makes any sense. Is it evoling in a Catherdral manner? Or a Bazaar manner? Or both, which I suppose is possible (as is the case with software) but I don't really think that was the idea you meant to convey.
This one has a much better, clever title, that references a previous story!
Urge to turn to dark side....rising....must...resist
Really? I find that if I stop before closing those braces I am at a total loss the next day. Ofc, I am hardly a professional programmer, just a CS major, so maybe when I get "better" it'll be different, but I doubt it. I don't think I could stand to have something not finished and not be working on it. Ah well.
Oh my god! Its already happened! And I'm a robot! Noooooooo!!!!
Ah yes, mention something that was mentioned in the article AND discounted in the article. Good job.
Do we? DO WE?
Maybe I should've mentioned that I was replying specefically to this statement. The laptop is a IBM Thinkpad T30. And I also run Debian on it, if that matters.
I didn't mean to be all antagonistic about it, was just mentioning a case where it works. I will also mention that attempting to suspend or hibernate the laptop in Linux wreaks all sorts of havoc. That has been a big PITA actually, as I am in Linux more than windows. (They make us use VS.NET in class, they also make us "rent" these laptops from them.) I tried 2.5.64 for a period, suspension still didn't work properly, even with ACPI support compiled in the kernel. Ah well. Hope this helps.
I like my window manager seperate thank you very much. The fact that I can select which wm to use at any given moment is very appealing. I'd have a seizure if I had to install multiple versions of X to be able to switch between WMs or if X had to have every WM rolled into it. Plus there are many occasions where i don't run a WM at all, playing movies, games, etc. Who needs a WM for a fragfest or a fullscreen DVD?
Well, on my laptop, in XP (yes, there I said it! XP! XP! XP! Ya gotta a problem with that?) pressing the power button will give you a graceful shutdown. Which I assume means its possible for PCs too. I guess the code just needs to be written for Linux.
well I did it on a ramdisk, but I was too lazy to change the default ramdisk size, so the file is just one meg...
It's on an athlon Tbird 1Ghz
time gzip -9 1m
real 0m2.403s
user 0m0.180s
sys 0m0.020s
time gzip -1 1m
real 0m1.813s
user 0m0.180s
sys 0m0.010s
yeah, I know pretty useless.
Now pretending like I can multiple this by thirty-two to get the rate for 32MB... 76.896s for gzip -9... hmm that can't be right. ah whatever. Someone with more ram than i have can figure it out.
Allright, now I *know* not to upgrade. (kidding)
To expand on this question, is being a "local" user logged in thru ssh "local" enough to exploit this?
Well, if you would read their FAQ, you might've noticed this:
Added an option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog : "defaults write com.apple.x11 no_quit_alert true". See man page for Xquartz for more details.
My god, that is pure genius. "Mom, just put the cd in." Thank you, thank you.
He just told you that it was using 1 Meg of system ram.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't FireWire kind of slow compared to PCI?
Grandparent wasn't talking about MS, it was talking about SGI.
Zipslack? http://slackware.com/zipslack/
No, I was kinda exaggerating. Frankly I thought it was kind of cool, in my adolecscent way. Kind of like "Dude! The guy who wrote Eterm, was all like 'your wrong!' on slashdot to me!". Heh. Don't mind me, I might just be nuts.
oops. It figures, I post something derogatory about Eterm (which i love btw, thanks) and end up getting chewed out by the author. I wonder if this will get me bragging rights somewhere? :)