Ehm, what species of jellyfish are they hunting over there? Unless I remember incorrectly that is where some jellyfish you do not want to kill by hacking them up live (ie, it will increase the numbers of some species)
I'm in favour of actually teaching them two distros for different tasks:
First category is either Slackware or LinuxFromScratch to teach people about how the system works and what solutions you can be expected to start at when trying to figure out problems down the road (setting up network, actually taking a look at how automounting works and so on)
Second category is whatever distribution suits the needs for other tasks the most and use it to get stuff done (for instance installing an officesuite or gimp, or setting up apache)
As a third category I really would recommend a BSD-flavour so that people will get to know proper tools (don't get me wrong, I cut my teeth on a slackware/debian combination but BSDs tools really impresses me, especially for networking)
Get him to read anything written of/about Deming about what is wrong with current management I'd say.
The book "Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese about Quality" by Rafael Aguayo is probably the easiest to grasp for most people (and is a book I would recommend to pick up and read in general anyways).
...here I have been looking at a fanless graphicscard with no (or a very low) heatsink, and now they come with a card that requires an extra slot for the fan?
oh great, I guess graphics isn't really for those of us that sit more than 2meters away from the monitor and run it in 800x600.. and the only change from that mode is to mode 3..
There is no good reason why a web user should ever need to see a URL (except perhaps momentum), any more than they need to see the HTML which makes up a document.
Oh nice idea, no really, all of the sudden the entire world can get to one's personal image-directory since we no longer are able to type, for example, http://www.example.com/<CODE>/images that we have one have for that closed company of people that actually are on the pictures...
DNS isn't perfect but until everyone has a static IP (and people learns how to use their memory) that will do unless something better actually comes around.
And yes, I know you wrote momentum, but still, when it gets past the 20times a day when you receive only a URI from friends the address is really nice to see, especially since I seldom browse pages from the same machine as I IRC or email from.
Can AI ever simulate bluffing? Or analyze the expressions on the other player's faces to determine if perhaps that they are bluffing, and call the bluff? Human intelligence can do thiss, but I'm not sure if something this complex exists now, or ever will.
Can all humans simulate bluffing? or analyze the expressions on the other player's faces, or determine if they are bluffing, and call the bluff? The answer to that is simple, it's a plain no. A majority of the humans can do that as long as they have grown up in a somewhat similar enviornment as their opponents, but not all.
The part with the enviornment is explained in this thread so I skip that part. But for thoose who can't read a facial expression or even pick up the tone of a voice without considerable training (and some of them not even then). There are autistic syndromes (I guess asperger and ADHD is the two most well-know) which severly limits the ability to interact with people unless one puts some effort into it. To take a classical example that is used in many books to describe Asperger Syndrome: The question "Can you pass me the butter?" is interpreted as "Do you have the ability to pass me the butter?" and followed by the answer "Yes" followed by that the individual goes back to whatever it was doing before that remarkable dumb question. This is up until someone specifically tells the person that "Can you" should be interpreted as a command to do so.
In facial expressions this becomes much more complex for the very same individuals. If we take some examples I see quite often, one is smiling a lot and always has a joke or five at hand but is constantly considering suicide and calculating the chance of dying in every possible situation that occurs. Another one didn't care at all if someone was smiling, crying, begging, sobbing or screaming up until someone explained to that person what the different expressions meant. And then those that have grown up with dogs usually interpret a smile as a threat. How should one analyze the expression on their faces and behavoir, and how should they be able to analyze the expressions on faces?
But poker they are usually quite good in after reading a lot of statistics and rules in it thanks to the fact that poker comes down to pure math after a while and this are the kind of persons that can "bulk upload" information into their minds quite easy.
So let us take this down to analyze the bluffing. A human can only spot a bluff if a) it happens not to be that one in twenty without the ability to and b) has spent enough time in a similar enviornment as it opponents. Well, maybe if we put the computer up against someone who was borned and raised in a computer lab we could simulate that b, for the a we can only wait until we crack the secrets of emotions.
I guess I drifted into psychology, but then again, when one tries to simulate an human isn't the most important thing then to know which personality traits and from which enviornment the simulated person should be made of.
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Ehm, what species of jellyfish are they hunting over there? Unless I remember incorrectly that is where some jellyfish you do not want to kill by hacking them up live (ie, it will increase the numbers of some species)
I smell the mother of all kickstarters launching in 5, 4, 3, 2 ...
So, we are building C.P.P. Kickstart?
I'm in favour of actually teaching them two distros for different tasks:
First category is either Slackware or LinuxFromScratch to teach people about how the system works and what solutions you can be expected to start at when trying to figure out problems down the road (setting up network, actually taking a look at how automounting works and so on)
Second category is whatever distribution suits the needs for other tasks the most and use it to get stuff done (for instance installing an officesuite or gimp, or setting up apache)
As a third category I really would recommend a BSD-flavour so that people will get to know proper tools (don't get me wrong, I cut my teeth on a slackware/debian combination but BSDs tools really impresses me, especially for networking)
Just my $Currency*0.02
Get him to read anything written of/about Deming about what is wrong with current management I'd say.
The book "Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese about Quality" by Rafael Aguayo is probably the easiest to grasp for most people (and is a book I would recommend to pick up and read in general anyways).
now if they only could change the mice to rats we would get Skavens and no, I havn't read the article :)
oh great, I guess graphics isn't really for those of us that sit more than 2meters away from the monitor and run it in 800x600.. and the only change from that mode is to mode 3..
Now we can have jpeg-mutilation on vinyls as well :)
Oh nice idea, no really, all of the sudden the entire world can get to one's personal image-directory since we no longer are able to type, for example, http://www.example.com/<CODE>/images that we have one have for that closed company of people that actually are on the pictures...
DNS isn't perfect but until everyone has a static IP (and people learns how to use their memory) that will do unless something better actually comes around.
And yes, I know you wrote momentum, but still, when it gets past the 20times a day when you receive only a URI from friends the address is really nice to see, especially since I seldom browse pages from the same machine as I IRC or email from.
Just my thoughts...
Can all humans simulate bluffing? or analyze the expressions on the other player's faces, or determine if they are bluffing, and call the bluff? The answer to that is simple, it's a plain no. A majority of the humans can do that as long as they have grown up in a somewhat similar enviornment as their opponents, but not all.
The part with the enviornment is explained in this thread so I skip that part. But for thoose who can't read a facial expression or even pick up the tone of a voice without considerable training (and some of them not even then). There are autistic syndromes (I guess asperger and ADHD is the two most well-know) which severly limits the ability to interact with people unless one puts some effort into it. To take a classical example that is used in many books to describe Asperger Syndrome: The question "Can you pass me the butter?" is interpreted as "Do you have the ability to pass me the butter?" and followed by the answer "Yes" followed by that the individual goes back to whatever it was doing before that remarkable dumb question. This is up until someone specifically tells the person that "Can you" should be interpreted as a command to do so.
In facial expressions this becomes much more complex for the very same individuals. If we take some examples I see quite often, one is smiling a lot and always has a joke or five at hand but is constantly considering suicide and calculating the chance of dying in every possible situation that occurs. Another one didn't care at all if someone was smiling, crying, begging, sobbing or screaming up until someone explained to that person what the different expressions meant. And then those that have grown up with dogs usually interpret a smile as a threat. How should one analyze the expression on their faces and behavoir, and how should they be able to analyze the expressions on faces?
But poker they are usually quite good in after reading a lot of statistics and rules in it thanks to the fact that poker comes down to pure math after a while and this are the kind of persons that can "bulk upload" information into their minds quite easy.
So let us take this down to analyze the bluffing. A human can only spot a bluff if a) it happens not to be that one in twenty without the ability to and b) has spent enough time in a similar enviornment as it opponents. Well, maybe if we put the computer up against someone who was borned and raised in a computer lab we could simulate that b, for the a we can only wait until we crack the secrets of emotions.
I guess I drifted into psychology, but then again, when one tries to simulate an human isn't the most important thing then to know which personality traits and from which enviornment the simulated person should be made of.