Maybe Lucas is frightened that, if he allows competition, we will begin to see that he is not in fact a very good storyteller.
The smart thing would be to allow competition, and bind every competitor to a written license that the characters are his. He would still have complete control.
If, as a result, he finds someone who can tell the story better than he, he could hire that person.
This seems to be the old story about a man in the U.S. culture having to compete, and not being able to cooperate creatively.
First, ask the Wizard. He knows all and sees all. (Tell him hello for me, Michael Jennings of Portland, Oregon, USA.)
Second, remember that backpacking travelers are very good customers for e-mail access. Advertise at all the youth hostels and low-cost traveler hotels. It's free to put up a sign there. Be sure you provide brochures with a complete map and complete instructions for getting to the cafe by bus. I think you may have three long-staying customers, at least, within four hours of advertising to backpackers.
Third, advertise at regular hotels and motels that don't provide access.
Fourth, recommend to everyone that the United States be returned to the British Empire. That Revolutionary War was illegal.... Wait, that's off topic...
"women are responsible for slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence" should have been "women are responsible for initiating slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence". Somewhere I have a list of 15 research studies that show this is so.
You said, "In actuality she's trapped by her superiority because the only way she can excel is by serving inferior men."
I agree with this exactly.
One of the core problems for intelligent women in the U.S. culture is that it is likely they will not recognize that they are more intelligent than other people. A highly intelligent woman will often pick a man of average intelligence, and cause herself an enormous amount of grief.
The post is definitely on topic. The original poster, Angela, suggests that
there are other ways to test robots than to arrange an adversarial test.
She is questioning the entire philosophy of robot development through
adversarial games. She is saying that men (in the U.S. culture) are led to
that kind of test of technology because of their psychological limitations,
not because that is the best way to test.
I am a man, and I agree with her that men in the U.S. culture often have these
psychological limitations. (Men from other cultures may have other
limitations. Women also are often extremely limited by their cultures.) It is
relevant to talk about what these psychological limitations are, since if you
don't understand them, you cannot understand how much men in the U.S. culture
are into a rut, and therefore might make a mistake in designing ways to
develop and test technology.
This may be a subject too painful or difficult for many people to consider.
Also, obviously, someone who is completely culture-bound does not realize he
or she is culture-bound, so then that person would not be able to evaluate the
relevance of this discussion.
Anonymous Coward's post is an example of the problem of inappropriately
adversarial behavior, as are a lot of posts on Slashdot. People who comment on
Slashdot often attack each other, and accentuate the negative, rather than
cooperate, and accentuate the positive.
Often culture-bound men in the U.S. are completely unaware that the way they
live life is not the only way. This is true of culture-bound people in
general. Also, there is considerable support for the idea that women in the U.S.
culture are more culture-bound than the men.
Yes Angela, many men are adversarially minded. Yes, it is a kind of mental
illness.
The next step of a true scientist is to ask why. True scientists gather facts
and try to make theories that fit those facts.
One interesting fact: In the U.S. and Britain, women are responsible for
slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence. So, it is not as
though only men have the problem of anger.
Another fact: Women in the U.S. culture are far more likely to hide their
adversarial behavior. They are far more likely to adopt some rationalization
to excuse their adversarial behavior.
Women in the U.S. are likely to feel superior to men. They use this idea to
justify a lot of their own adversarial behavior.
I've written a book about a particular kind of adversarial behavior. My book
is about how secret government agencies corrupt governments: What should be the Response to Violence?
Research on USB digital recorders
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USB Audio Recorders?
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· Score: 2, Informative
I did days of research on USB digital recorders. I came to the conclusion that the Sony ICD-BP100 (now ICD-BP150) was the best. It is very expensive, $150.00. It does not have Windows XP certified drivers, which means that it crashes Windows XP when trying to hibernate if the unit is plugged in.
However, the sound quality is excellent. There is provision to save to.WAV files, as well as other formats. Recording is independent of the computer, as it playing back.
Recording directly to a computer doesn't work well, because of the intense radio frequency interference associated with the fast components inside the computer. USB microphones may help with this, but they are half the price of a digital recorder.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway,
where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a
negative side." -- Hunter S Thompson
I like this quote, but I think that Thompson was a little too positive. Maybe he was having an excessively good day.
To better explain my comment above: The molecular model is too simple. There are many more different kinds and qualities of connections between people than kinds of molecular bonds. So, software to display connections between people would need a far more complex display.
My guess is that no such software exists. This is, apparently, a huge new programming problem. It is also one that would be very valuable to solve.
I did a sociogram of myself once, and discovered that I knew about 200 people (some of them secretaries with whom I worked, and so on). Even just drawing simple lines between people was interesting.
The interesting challenge would be, not to show relationships in a static way, such as "romance", but to show dynamic interaction, such as "B influences A in ideas about psychology".
Thanks for reminding me. But, I couldn't get that to work either. So, maybe I need to reboot. Maybe the OS is confused (Windows XP). Windows XP is better than other versions of Windows, but still flaky.
From What's New In This Release
The preferences dialog now allows you to set a minimum font size for web content.
I suppose this feature prevents web sites from forcing my browser to display tiny, tiny font sizes on my 1600 x 1200 resolution monitor. If this is the meaning, however, I could not get the feature to work. (See Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts/Minimum Font Size.)
If that is the meaning of that feature, then it will solve the most vexing problem I have with browsing. Most web sites over-ride my font size selection, and display fonts in sizes that cannot comfortably be read.
But, the feature doesn't work now, so maybe I will have to wait until May for Christmas. *grin*
It seems to me that the article is nonsense. There are a lot of links to Amazon because Amazon is running a very active business in selling books.
CmdrTaco said recently that efficient search engines like Google make the web flatter and more democratic. It has been my experience that this is true.
He's right. Why do open source authors pick self-defeating names?
Probably because it takes a lot of effort to think of a really good name.
My recent favorite poorly chosen name is Killustrator. The name created an international incident, and the author was forced to change it.
So, what would be a good name? You could call it Open GINA, but GINA sounds like a woman's name. Gnu GINA? WhoAreYou? OurGINA? FreeGINA? No, people would joke that it was prostitution. Tacoma ID? OpenID?
A good name would make prospective users think of the purpose, rather than of an obscure acronym. So maybe OpenID is good.
We have different usage patterns. I'm generally working at the limit of memory, maybe 20 or 30 instances of IE sometimes. The failures seem to occur when memory is full and beginning to spill over to disk. The failures do not seem to be program-dependent. Mozilla and Opera work as well.
The best Matrox drivers are still buggy, apparently, giving blue-screen crashes. Logitech does not have a working driver for Win XP. I've documented 12 different bugs in the command line interface (DOS).
Sometimes Win XP doesn't crash, but gets squirrelly. The only fix is to re-boot.
I'm testing with Intel motherboards, Intel processors, Crucial memory, Plextor CD burners, Western Digital hard drives, the best name-brand hardware.
Yes, but the government would have to hire thousands of people to do the monitoring. What a terrible job. And, the government would have no way of monitoring the employees to discover if they were doing well.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe Lucas is frightened that, if he allows competition, we will begin to see that he is not in fact a very good storyteller.
The smart thing would be to allow competition, and bind every competitor to a written license that the characters are his. He would still have complete control.
If, as a result, he finds someone who can tell the story better than he, he could hire that person.
This seems to be the old story about a man in the U.S. culture having to compete, and not being able to cooperate creatively.
No, it does not disable. Windows XP malfunctions.
The Sony doesn't use a legacy driver. It uses a driver that has not been approved by Microsoft.
One of the things that needs to be understood about women is how confused they are.
For all you completely linear thinkers out there: Yes, this is off topic. So, mod it down to -5.
Look at the bright side. If they don't do good security, you can have them walk your dog.
He's right. If you don't understand security, it is likely you won't have it, no matter how much advice you have.
Other things in life are like this. If you don't understand women, it is likely you won't have one, no matter how much advice you have.
First, ask the Wizard. He knows all and sees all. (Tell him hello for me, Michael Jennings of Portland, Oregon, USA.)
Second, remember that backpacking travelers are very good customers for e-mail access. Advertise at all the youth hostels and low-cost traveler hotels. It's free to put up a sign there. Be sure you provide brochures with a complete map and complete instructions for getting to the cafe by bus. I think you may have three long-staying customers, at least, within four hours of advertising to backpackers.
Third, advertise at regular hotels and motels that don't provide access.
Fourth, recommend to everyone that the United States be returned to the British Empire. That Revolutionary War was illegal.
"women are responsible for slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence" should have been "women are responsible for initiating slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence". Somewhere I have a list of 15 research studies that show this is so.
You said, "In actuality she's trapped by her superiority because the only way she can excel is by serving inferior men."
I agree with this exactly.
One of the core problems for intelligent women in the U.S. culture is that it is likely they will not recognize that they are more intelligent than other people. A highly intelligent woman will often pick a man of average intelligence, and cause herself an enormous amount of grief.
The post is definitely on topic. The original poster, Angela, suggests that there are other ways to test robots than to arrange an adversarial test.
She is questioning the entire philosophy of robot development through adversarial games. She is saying that men (in the U.S. culture) are led to that kind of test of technology because of their psychological limitations, not because that is the best way to test.
I am a man, and I agree with her that men in the U.S. culture often have these psychological limitations. (Men from other cultures may have other limitations. Women also are often extremely limited by their cultures.) It is relevant to talk about what these psychological limitations are, since if you don't understand them, you cannot understand how much men in the U.S. culture are into a rut, and therefore might make a mistake in designing ways to develop and test technology.
This may be a subject too painful or difficult for many people to consider. Also, obviously, someone who is completely culture-bound does not realize he or she is culture-bound, so then that person would not be able to evaluate the relevance of this discussion.
Anonymous Coward's post is an example of the problem of inappropriately adversarial behavior, as are a lot of posts on Slashdot. People who comment on Slashdot often attack each other, and accentuate the negative, rather than cooperate, and accentuate the positive.
Often culture-bound men in the U.S. are completely unaware that the way they live life is not the only way. This is true of culture-bound people in general. Also, there is considerable support for the idea that women in the U.S. culture are more culture-bound than the men.
Big mistake.
The book is free. It is entirely available on the Internet, and no other place.
The book merely shows that I think deeply about the subject of adversarial behavior. That's the reason I mentioned it.
Yes Angela, many men are adversarially minded. Yes, it is a kind of mental illness.
The next step of a true scientist is to ask why. True scientists gather facts and try to make theories that fit those facts.
One interesting fact: In the U.S. and Britain, women are responsible for slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence. So, it is not as though only men have the problem of anger.
Another fact: Women in the U.S. culture are far more likely to hide their adversarial behavior. They are far more likely to adopt some rationalization to excuse their adversarial behavior.
Women in the U.S. are likely to feel superior to men. They use this idea to justify a lot of their own adversarial behavior.
I've written a book about a particular kind of adversarial behavior. My book is about how secret government agencies corrupt governments: What should be the Response to Violence?
I did days of research on USB digital recorders. I came to the conclusion that the Sony ICD-BP100 (now ICD-BP150) was the best. It is very expensive, $150.00. It does not have Windows XP certified drivers, which means that it crashes Windows XP when trying to hibernate if the unit is plugged in.
However, the sound quality is excellent. There is provision to save to
Recording directly to a computer doesn't work well, because of the intense radio frequency interference associated with the fast components inside the computer. USB microphones may help with this, but they are half the price of a digital recorder.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway, where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S Thompson
I like this quote, but I think that Thompson was a little too positive. Maybe he was having an excessively good day.
To better explain my comment above: The molecular model is too simple. There are many more different kinds and qualities of connections between people than kinds of molecular bonds. So, software to display connections between people would need a far more complex display.
My guess is that no such software exists. This is, apparently, a huge new programming problem. It is also one that would be very valuable to solve.
I did a sociogram of myself once, and discovered that I knew about 200 people (some of them secretaries with whom I worked, and so on). Even just drawing simple lines between people was interesting.
The interesting challenge would be, not to show relationships in a static way, such as "romance", but to show dynamic interaction, such as "B influences A in ideas about psychology".
This request seems short-sighted. The software should also be able to show the kinds of bond between people.
Who would have guessed that proprietary software would make itself undesirable because of the extreme aggressiveness of the companies that sell it?
Here's a book about what the U.S. government is doing. It's worse than you think: What should be the Response to Violence?
The Business 2.0 article is the best I have seen about this subject.
Business people are the greatest friends of business. However, they are also often the greatest enemies of business.
Thanks for reminding me. But, I couldn't get that to work either. So, maybe I need to reboot. Maybe the OS is confused (Windows XP). Windows XP is better than other versions of Windows, but still flaky.
I thought it was Christmas in April:
From What's New In This Release
The preferences dialog now allows you to set a minimum font size for web content.
I suppose this feature prevents web sites from forcing my browser to display tiny, tiny font sizes on my 1600 x 1200 resolution monitor. If this is the meaning, however, I could not get the feature to work. (See Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts/Minimum Font Size.)
If that is the meaning of that feature, then it will solve the most vexing problem I have with browsing. Most web sites over-ride my font size selection, and display fonts in sizes that cannot comfortably be read.
But, the feature doesn't work now, so maybe I will have to wait until May for Christmas. *grin*
I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9, and even that earlier version is excellent.
Good work, Mozilla team.
I know that some people will have trouble with a warm statement such as this, but here it is anyway:
Mozilla is an act of love. There are many ways to be loving, and supplying a much-needed tool to the whole world is one of them.
It seems to me that the article is nonsense. There are a lot of links to Amazon because Amazon is running a very active business in selling books.
CmdrTaco said recently that efficient search engines like Google make the web flatter and more democratic. It has been my experience that this is true.
In search results, my book, What should be the Response to Violence? is often ranked just below stories from large news companies.
If you search for "books", you will find Amazon. If you search for something more specific, you may find a small, specialized bookstore.
The rich still get richer, but those who are not rich can now be heard.
He's right. Why do open source authors pick self-defeating names?
Probably because it takes a lot of effort to think of a really good name.
My recent favorite poorly chosen name is Killustrator. The name created an international incident, and the author was forced to change it.
So, what would be a good name? You could call it Open GINA, but GINA sounds like a woman's name. Gnu GINA? WhoAreYou? OurGINA? FreeGINA? No, people would joke that it was prostitution. Tacoma ID? OpenID?
A good name would make prospective users think of the purpose, rather than of an obscure acronym. So maybe OpenID is good.
We have different usage patterns. I'm generally working at the limit of memory, maybe 20 or 30 instances of IE sometimes. The failures seem to occur when memory is full and beginning to spill over to disk. The failures do not seem to be program-dependent. Mozilla and Opera work as well.
The best Matrox drivers are still buggy, apparently, giving blue-screen crashes. Logitech does not have a working driver for Win XP. I've documented 12 different bugs in the command line interface (DOS).
Sometimes Win XP doesn't crash, but gets squirrelly. The only fix is to re-boot.
I'm testing with Intel motherboards, Intel processors, Crucial memory, Plextor CD burners, Western Digital hard drives, the best name-brand hardware.
He means time "Up on a shelf, unplugged".
Yes, Windows XP crashes less than Windows 98 SE, but it still crashes, long before 100 hours.
Why quibble about the look and feel of Lycoris? Linux is stable.
Yes, but the government would have to hire thousands of people to do the monitoring. What a terrible job. And, the government would have no way of monitoring the employees to discover if they were doing well.