Luckily for eveyone they didn't mention the poor mathematician who tried to reproduce the Banach-Tarski paradox on stage and disintegrated, while "Just the two of us" was playing in the background.
I have actually played - and beaten - Discworld 2. I'd like more of games like that actually.
Sure the dialogues don't have to be that long, but they can - and HAVE been - of literary quality in some games. In other words, it's possible, feasbile and has been done.
When it's done well, it can be cool. But I think sometimes jazz-players are over-intellectualizing the concept of "free" jazz. At least one guy that made it sound good was Eric Dolphy. But that might actually have had more to do with how ridiculously good player he was.
In the very least, if done correctly, free jazz would be one of the hardest music for a computer to do, because it requires the complete attention of the whole band. When you throw the rules away, you REALLY have to listen to the music and try to make it sound good. It requires perfect emotional respone from the players, and they can't rely on the conventional rules to fall back on. Making a computer do THAT would probably amount to making it sentient, and emotional.
That being said, I still think a lot of free-jazz is over-intellectualized bullshit.
In other words: "No conclusion"? It HASN'T been ruled out? The way I understand it is that a large part of evolutionary theory ASSUMES that memory can't be inherited.
Believe it or not, America has a TREMENDOUS influence on the world. Your pesident is a valid issue for us (Icelandic here). We want what's in America's best interest, simply because stability over there meams stability over here.
You have no idea how badly we were hit by the economic crisis. Part of it, I think, was beacause we went along with American market policies.
We have a right of having an opinion about YOUR president, because America has an incredible effect on US.
Yeah, well, but people need to vent. It might not be "steam boiler", but we have that need anyway.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that there might be people agreeing with you. If you're pissed off about something and speak about it openly, you might get feedback from other people with similar feeling and while that MIGHT also leed to you getting more aggressive with the positive feedback, it might also show you that you're not ALONE in being pissed off, which is a very positive and anger-releasing feeling.
On the other hand, however, "positive feedback" does not describe the internet by any stretch of the imagination.
The 12 words you can't say on TV:
Shit, piss, tits, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, cunt, Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa, Limewire and (*inhale*) bittorrent.
I can't wait for the "clean" version of the Matrix now.
It kind of raises the question: Has there, at any time, anywhere been ANYONE that understands how the economy works?
The people I have met who study economics always just seem to be talking out of their asses. I just coudn't call them on their bullshit, since I am as baffled by the phenomenon as everybody else.
Could it be that "people are living longer" actually means that the average age is up? And could that mean that people aren't actually getting "older", just that less older people are starving?
A point of fact: The average age increase is in large part due to lower infant mortality. Just wanted to point that out.
"Both feel like an eternity if there isn't a pen and paper around."
The problem seems kind of artifical if you're fine working with paper anyway. Otherwise, I'd resort to just leave the machine on, which I usually do anyway.
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Luckily for eveyone they didn't mention the poor mathematician who tried to reproduce the Banach-Tarski paradox on stage and disintegrated, while "Just the two of us" was playing in the background.
You know you don't automatically lose those qualities by becoming a PHD?
Yes it IS insightful. It's a counterpoint to all the stupid comments above. I wish him good luck too. He deserves it for being a great phycisist.
I have actually played - and beaten - Discworld 2. I'd like more of games like that actually.
Sure the dialogues don't have to be that long, but they can - and HAVE been - of literary quality in some games. In other words, it's possible, feasbile and has been done.
Seven people. SEVEN people answered "Ask a glass of water" - and not even simultaneously.
Seriously guys.
I think he means: Everybody here knows that.
It's true nevertheless, and the cocaine was probably the real reason people originally started drinking so much of it.
There IS however Sam'n'max. Not Dickens but a long way toward being Pratchett.
And I still think Planescape Torment actually had some literary quality. Feel free to disagree.
When it's done well, it can be cool. But I think sometimes jazz-players are over-intellectualizing the concept of "free" jazz. At least one guy that made it sound good was Eric Dolphy. But that might actually have had more to do with how ridiculously good player he was.
In the very least, if done correctly, free jazz would be one of the hardest music for a computer to do, because it requires the complete attention of the whole band. When you throw the rules away, you REALLY have to listen to the music and try to make it sound good. It requires perfect emotional respone from the players, and they can't rely on the conventional rules to fall back on. Making a computer do THAT would probably amount to making it sentient, and emotional.
That being said, I still think a lot of free-jazz is over-intellectualized bullshit.
So, basically, make it more like real life?
Indeed, it was a shipment of such bath tub toys washed overboard in the Pacific during a 1992 storm that accidentally launched this unusual field.
They're only releasing about 90 of them each time, so I don't think any environmentalist would be bothered.
Dr. Behar happily illustrated the idea in his baththub, using a bar of soap along with one of the ducks in question.
In other words: "No conclusion"? It HASN'T been ruled out? The way I understand it is that a large part of evolutionary theory ASSUMES that memory can't be inherited.
Believe it or not, America has a TREMENDOUS influence on the world. Your pesident is a valid issue for us (Icelandic here). We want what's in America's best interest, simply because stability over there meams stability over here.
You have no idea how badly we were hit by the economic crisis. Part of it, I think, was beacause we went along with American market policies.
We have a right of having an opinion about YOUR president, because America has an incredible effect on US.
Fox news is the least serious of any of the major national news outlets or publications.
You're forgetting The Onion.
Yeah, well, but people need to vent. It might not be "steam boiler", but we have that need anyway.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that there might be people agreeing with you. If you're pissed off about something and speak about it openly, you might get feedback from other people with similar feeling and while that MIGHT also leed to you getting more aggressive with the positive feedback, it might also show you that you're not ALONE in being pissed off, which is a very positive and anger-releasing feeling.
On the other hand, however, "positive feedback" does not describe the internet by any stretch of the imagination.
Reading the summary, the only thing I kept thinking the whole time was "man, this game is AWESOME!"
All this controversy is just going to make the game more exciting, but people seemingly fail to realize that, time after time.
I just hope my computer can handle it.
The 12 words you can't say on TV:
Shit, piss, tits, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, cunt, Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa, Limewire and (*inhale*) bittorrent.
I can't wait for the "clean" version of the Matrix now.
Jesus did not create halloween, and you must not anger the halloween spirits, or this will happen: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_has_halloween_become
I wonder if they'll include "Revolution 9". :)
YOU BETCHA!
It kind of raises the question: Has there, at any time, anywhere been ANYONE that understands how the economy works?
The people I have met who study economics always just seem to be talking out of their asses. I just coudn't call them on their bullshit, since I am as baffled by the phenomenon as everybody else.
Could it be that "people are living longer" actually means that the average age is up? And could that mean that people aren't actually getting "older", just that less older people are starving?
A point of fact: The average age increase is in large part due to lower infant mortality. Just wanted to point that out.
Hawking is a big name and he knows it. He probably made a point of being there to help Taylor out - a little bit of positive publicity.
And if Hawking thinks this is cool enough to promote it, then it's probably wothwhile checking it out.
"Both feel like an eternity if there isn't a pen and paper around."
The problem seems kind of artifical if you're fine working with paper anyway. Otherwise, I'd resort to just leave the machine on, which I usually do anyway.