Someone mentioned the creation of a GCL or Gnu Content License not too long ago.
Does anyone think this would be a bad idea for recording artists to implement? Would consumers still pay for full albums on CD with all the extras or would they just swap freely without honoring the artists financially at all?
"reasonable conclusion" may be a strong wording for someone with assumptions about the facts but without the facts themselves available it seems perfectly fine to me.
now this:
'the robot ended up where it did just by following it's programmed "instincts"'
is much more interesting. How many animals with 'intincts' have you observed? How many would you consider to have marginal intelligence? Dogs? Cats? Rats? other wild animals with 'intincts' which enable them to overpower and kill humans given the right circumstances or be loving companions given the same?
When does 'programmed' and 'instinct' begin to become a blurred composite of one response to stimuli?
You my friend are a particularly DULL individual. Ever here of 'ramification' or 'extrapolation'. Media never tells you all.. whether from ignorance or deliberate censorship. We the public must need to 'interpret' the info available into reasonable conclusions or else give up in dispair of full disclosure.
The article states that the robot broke out of it's cage (without explicit instruction), proceeded to navigate through hallways to an exit (without instruction) and then entered an unfamiliar open space (without instruction) at which time it (apparently) became confused and halted it's activities putting it in the path of a car (or, more probably, continued it's activity, moving through the lot, until it encountered an obstacle - a car).
Janus is there ANY way to filter you out.. can you please wander into a parking lot and get *hit* by a car? These 'priceless' posts are getting really annoying and lame and redundant as all of hell. Please pick some new innocuous format for your pointless ramblings. Thank you in advance.
I have to agree with this post because I have a 9 month old puppy (big puppy) who will do this when we leave and don't secure our 'cage' ie the back yard effectively.
He (spanky) will jump up against the gate and dislodge it's latch so it comes open and run in to the drive in front of our house. It isn't a busy drive, certainly not a street so cars hitting him aren't a problem but it' intersting to see that he doesn't go farther than investigating his immediate surroundings and then looking around for us, familiar members of his pack.
We have since the last incident completely secured the latch to avoid this particular surprise while driving away but the behavior is interesting in this context.
He broke out of a familiar environment, navigated a semi-familiar environment and then stopped to investigate an unfamiliar environment. The robot did the same... given more time it is plausible that each would have become more familiar and have explored further into the unfamiliar.
Unfortunately we will only have the technology to enforce these laws many years after they have the potential to be broken.
All three laws are subjective and would require immense logic databases and analysis algorithims of constant environmental feedback imput. amazing how much the brain really does... not to mention the 'gut' whatever that is...
Yeah market share is sooo important when you're pulling in 1.4 - 1.6 BILLION dollars in revenue this quarter... compare that to AMD for instance who only is bringing in like 700 - 900 million a quarter and even Intel is only looking at 900 - 1 billion. What's a few hundred million, when you've got market share? Seems to me that the 'PC' market is well divided into many many companies that have the equivalent of Apple's market share, making Apple more than competitive as a company.
Microsoft is the only company that's a monopoly on market share out there. Apple is just competitive enough to do well (meaning they get and retain between 3-6 percent during any given period).
Cool part is that by the time we Macsters get it we'll have Jaguar and it's lovely full on hardware accelerated OpenGL implementation via honest to goodness Apple detailed/anal-retentive/attention to details and the love of a really well respected port company (who have BTW ported several games into more efficient and better coded versions than the originals).
That is not to mention that there will be all those wonderful new mods out there to play with and all the stupid last minute bugs will have been fixed.
Luckily this is also a game which will become timeless, unlike the MMOGs out there that seemed to get rooted and hax0r3d by the time we get on the scene, mostly 'cause it is independent of a 'super-server' world system.
How about if someone made an open source tool for creating modules, by reverse engineering the module tool included, which simply followed the API correctly? Also said app would include unique monsters like Zorcs instead of orcs with similar attributes but different enough.. say they were good guys, to not be just copies, while the Zelves were evil monsters, beautiful and evil monsters.
This whole thing seems much more like 'skinning' or 'themeing' the app than doing any sort of 'mod' anyways, even though the term 'module' applies.
Anyone can 'theme' or 'skin' their prorietary software without a fuss as long as they have API's to work with... M$ only complains when you attempt to copy their particular 'theme' and use it on Gnome or KDE for instance.
"Source Code" for images is simply the original image at 100% size, unencoded into a binary. Java for instance provides this. They just use images in a directory and have a path to it specified by the code. A GIMP or Photoshop file or whatever would not correlate to the source. What would you do with a photo? Provide the negative in the packaging?
Yeah quartz rendering is basically one line of code in OS X 10.1.5 which is why the makers of Silk could do it globally for all carbon apps via a preference pane with more options than any app I've seen so far. Obviously not a huge 'feature' in an app if a freeware version which is better is available before any of the apps which take advantage of it are even out. Just a new Apple API.
IE 5.2 still lags way behind Mozilla on rendering/. pages with a significant number of posts. May have something to do with a lack of pipelining for http 1.1.
No tabs. I hate opeing a new freakin' window for every link that catches my eye and Mozilla also renders tabs in the background instead of throwing up a half-complete page in a new window I may be only marginally interested in to begin with. Plus pop-up/under control... sooo nice.
Mozilla still doesn't work with bad javascript, more of a feature than a bug though... whereas IE will render about any version of half-assed code you want to throw at it as long as you intended it to be a drop down menu. Mozilla also doesn't support M$ inline frames or iframes or any of the other M$ created tags or CSS stuff they created because they didn't want to take the time to make ASP compliant.
I'd imagine that quantum entanglements is certainly related to the inter-relationship of the photons involved in this experiment.
This means that eventually the inter-relationships of quantum states of electrons in 'atoms' and how they interact with each other will also be available. This means that eventually the inter-relationships of quantum states of electrons in 'molecules' and how they interact with each other will also be available.
We're missing protons and neuterons. Who knows the future of this part. However it is the inter-relationships of each component and not necessarily the 'location' which looks to be the answer.
If you think about it one way, a certain pattern of inter-relationships between electrons/neutrons/protons really defines the atom and thereby defines the molecule, etc. and one pattern defines the connected pattern as a result of the physics and chemistry involved... think about how molecules form themselves based on valence levels of electrons and available 'links' between atoms of elements. This goes on and on until you have a composite of elements/molecules otherwise known as matter.
It is the inter-relationships which can be charted and gauranteed to be accurate because they can not,according to the laws of physics, form any other pattern with those same relationships.
Location is relative.
The inter-relationships of millions of atoms of elements is not. The pattern can only exist in one configuration and that is related to it's quantum state at the time, a result of the inter-relationships between all of the atoms.
It isn't the 'spooky interactions' that are at the speed of light, it's the info describing the photons. The entanglement just makes sure that the quatum state info is accurate (AFAIK).
Is this an excerpt from that age-old game of Paranoia (West End Games)?
I hope sooo, I haven't thought about that game in at least 10 years.... wow! thanks (even if it isn't a reference). When will someone make an online game of that one...
"The Washington Post's Tech site is running an interesting piece on geolocation technology and its increased use on the net. The article explains the technology as being able to locate an Internet user in the world, at least to their mother country, and then grant access based on their location. They note how television broadcasters are interested in this kind of technology to prohibit the loss of distribution rights to things like the Olympics."
Seems to me that we will soon be seeing this used for ip address block 'blocking' in countries who want to enforce their virtual 'borders'.
It's not 'waaaay' over your head, just a different context than you're used to. Most of the article is just talking about statistics and their implications... no hard facts or revelations, just kinda like rumors that haven't been verified but might be interesting in the future.
It's much like talking about cloning, we all know what it means but what are the ramifications to our gene pool? Without recombinate dna how will we evolve? Clones begetting clones begetting clones, where is the fun in that? not to mention the lack of orgasms...
BTW this isn't 'new tech' it is just old tech on speed... and similar in it's results, ie: premature ejaculation of info that may or may not be relevant.
My Mac connects to plenty of 'alien' tech on an instant's notice, (though I don't think instants can be possesive)... namely Windows, on a regular basis.
I just thank the gods that it's impervious to alien viruses!
Well technically I'd think that you're vehical in space might constitute as a 'medium' for sound waves to travel through... and unless I'm mistaken we do use 'radio' astronomy to 'listen' to distant explosions in space (stars going supernova, etc.).
Has anyone done a scientific test of listening to massive explosions in space, a supposed vacuum (not completely.. lots of dust) from an oxygen filled metal vehicle which might just possibly conduct sound waves to the human ear?
Was he out running the Earth's shadow (sunrise) or running toward some object with a shadow... why would you run away from an object with a shadow if you're worried about the sun? and wouldn't he be vulnerable regardless of shadows? which the sun still penetrates with reflected light? thus he must have been running ~1041 mph.
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Someone mentioned the creation of a GCL or Gnu Content License not too long ago.
Does anyone think this would be a bad idea for recording artists to implement? Would consumers still pay for full albums on CD with all the extras or would they just swap freely without honoring the artists financially at all?
Any thoughts.
"reasonable conclusion" may be a strong wording for someone with assumptions about the facts but without the facts themselves available it seems perfectly fine to me.
now this:
'the robot ended up where it did just by following it's programmed "instincts"'
is much more interesting. How many animals with 'intincts' have you observed? How many would you consider to have marginal intelligence? Dogs? Cats? Rats? other wild animals with 'intincts' which enable them to overpower and kill humans given the right circumstances or be loving companions given the same?
When does 'programmed' and 'instinct' begin to become a blurred composite of one response to stimuli?
You my friend are a particularly DULL individual. Ever here of 'ramification' or 'extrapolation'. Media never tells you all.. whether from ignorance or deliberate censorship. We the public must need to 'interpret' the info available into reasonable conclusions or else give up in dispair of full disclosure.
The article states that the robot broke out of it's cage (without explicit instruction), proceeded to navigate through hallways to an exit (without instruction) and then entered an unfamiliar open space (without instruction) at which time it (apparently) became confused and halted it's activities putting it in the path of a car (or, more probably, continued it's activity, moving through the lot, until it encountered an obstacle - a car).
Janus is there ANY way to filter you out.. can you please wander into a parking lot and get *hit* by a car? These 'priceless' posts are getting really annoying and lame and redundant as all of hell. Please pick some new innocuous format for your pointless ramblings. Thank you in advance.
I have to agree with this post because I have a 9 month old puppy (big puppy) who will do this when we leave and don't secure our 'cage' ie the back yard effectively.
He (spanky) will jump up against the gate and dislodge it's latch so it comes open and run in to the drive in front of our house. It isn't a busy drive, certainly not a street so cars hitting him aren't a problem but it' intersting to see that he doesn't go farther than investigating his immediate surroundings and then looking around for us, familiar members of his pack.
We have since the last incident completely secured the latch to avoid this particular surprise while driving away but the behavior is interesting in this context.
He broke out of a familiar environment, navigated a semi-familiar environment and then stopped to investigate an unfamiliar environment. The robot did the same... given more time it is plausible that each would have become more familiar and have explored further into the unfamiliar.
Animal Intelligence indeed.
Unfortunately we will only have the technology to enforce these laws many years after they have the potential to be broken.
All three laws are subjective and would require immense logic databases and analysis algorithims of constant environmental feedback imput. amazing how much the brain really does... not to mention the 'gut' whatever that is...
that was an awful(ly) inspiring movie to watch as an 8 yr old. Did I make you feel old just then, hope not.
The part where he's working with the hand is most memorable. The 'expression' via 'eyelashes' was a nice touch IMHO.
Yeah market share is sooo important when you're pulling in 1.4 - 1.6 BILLION dollars in revenue this quarter... compare that to AMD for instance who only is bringing in like 700 - 900 million a quarter and even Intel is only looking at 900 - 1 billion. What's a few hundred million, when you've got market share? Seems to me that the 'PC' market is well divided into many many companies that have the equivalent of Apple's market share, making Apple more than competitive as a company.
Microsoft is the only company that's a monopoly on market share out there. Apple is just competitive enough to do well (meaning they get and retain between 3-6 percent during any given period).
"Mac, on the otherhand, I am thinking is a seperate purchase."
yep, it's the difference between X86 and PPC, unfortunately that is the hardware tax my fellow PPC'ers pay, though unreasonably so since as well.. maybe they will include Linux d/ls for free with the Mac purchase, making you Linux freaks the common bond.
Cool part is that by the time we Macsters get it we'll have Jaguar and it's lovely full on hardware accelerated OpenGL implementation via honest to goodness Apple detailed/anal-retentive/attention to details and the love of a really well respected port company (who have BTW ported several games into more efficient and better coded versions than the originals).
That is not to mention that there will be all those wonderful new mods out there to play with and all the stupid last minute bugs will have been fixed.
Luckily this is also a game which will become timeless, unlike the MMOGs out there that seemed to get rooted and hax0r3d by the time we get on the scene, mostly 'cause it is independent of a 'super-server' world system.
Maybe X-mas vacation is more your style anyways.
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"NWN property of Microsoft" as if it won't be released for any other OS... (Linux, Mac OS X)
How about if someone made an open source tool for creating modules, by reverse engineering the module tool included, which simply followed the API correctly? Also said app would include unique monsters like Zorcs instead of orcs with similar attributes but different enough.. say they were good guys, to not be just copies, while the Zelves were evil monsters, beautiful and evil monsters.
This whole thing seems much more like 'skinning' or 'themeing' the app than doing any sort of 'mod' anyways, even though the term 'module' applies.
Anyone can 'theme' or 'skin' their prorietary software without a fuss as long as they have API's to work with... M$ only complains when you attempt to copy their particular 'theme' and use it on Gnome or KDE for instance.
GCL is a very nice concept. Many artists; visual, literary as well as audio would love to implement something like this.
Very interesting indeed.
"Source Code" for images is simply the original image at 100% size, unencoded into a binary. Java for instance provides this. They just use images in a directory and have a path to it specified by the code. A GIMP or Photoshop file or whatever would not correlate to the source. What would you do with a photo? Provide the negative in the packaging?
Yeah quartz rendering is basically one line of code in OS X 10.1.5 which is why the makers of Silk could do it globally for all carbon apps via a preference pane with more options than any app I've seen so far. Obviously not a huge 'feature' in an app if a freeware version which is better is available before any of the apps which take advantage of it are even out. Just a new Apple API.
/. pages with a significant number of posts. May have something to do with a lack of pipelining for http 1.1 .
IE 5.2 still lags way behind Mozilla on rendering
No tabs. I hate opeing a new freakin' window for every link that catches my eye and Mozilla also renders tabs in the background instead of throwing up a half-complete page in a new window I may be only marginally interested in to begin with. Plus pop-up/under control... sooo nice.
Mozilla still doesn't work with bad javascript, more of a feature than a bug though... whereas IE will render about any version of half-assed code you want to throw at it as long as you intended it to be a drop down menu. Mozilla also doesn't support M$ inline frames or iframes or any of the other M$ created tags or CSS stuff they created because they didn't want to take the time to make ASP compliant.
well that's the rant I suppose.
I'd imagine that quantum entanglements is certainly related to the inter-relationship of the photons involved in this experiment.
,according to the laws of physics, form any other pattern with those same relationships.
This means that eventually the inter-relationships of quantum states of electrons in 'atoms' and how they interact with each other will also be available. This means that eventually the inter-relationships of quantum states of electrons in 'molecules' and how they interact with each other will also be available.
We're missing protons and neuterons. Who knows the future of this part. However it is the inter-relationships of each component and not necessarily the 'location' which looks to be the answer.
If you think about it one way, a certain pattern of inter-relationships between electrons/neutrons/protons really defines the atom and thereby defines the molecule, etc. and one pattern defines the connected pattern as a result of the physics and chemistry involved... think about how molecules form themselves based on valence levels of electrons and available 'links' between atoms of elements. This goes on and on until you have a composite of elements/molecules otherwise known as matter.
It is the inter-relationships which can be charted and gauranteed to be accurate because they can not
Location is relative.
The inter-relationships of millions of atoms of elements is not. The pattern can only exist in one configuration and that is related to it's quantum state at the time, a result of the inter-relationships between all of the atoms.
Just confirming the 3 nanosecond thing.
y /S peedOfLight/fast_light.html
"For example, if the second is kept as the basic unit of time, then the unit of length must be equal to exactly 299792458 metres."
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativit
It isn't the 'spooky interactions' that are at the speed of light, it's the info describing the photons. The entanglement just makes sure that the quatum state info is accurate (AFAIK).
Is this an excerpt from that age-old game of Paranoia (West End Games)?
I hope sooo, I haven't thought about that game in at least 10 years.... wow! thanks (even if it isn't a reference). When will someone make an online game of that one...
Of course I'll just post this /. article + discussion for those interested.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/04/125
"The Washington Post's Tech site is running an interesting piece on geolocation technology and its increased use on the net. The article explains the technology as being able to locate an Internet user in the world, at least to their mother country, and then grant access based on their location. They note how television broadcasters are interested in this kind of technology to prohibit the loss of distribution rights to things like the Olympics."
Seems to me that we will soon be seeing this used for ip address block 'blocking' in countries who want to enforce their virtual 'borders'.
It's not 'waaaay' over your head, just a different context than you're used to. Most of the article is just talking about statistics and their implications... no hard facts or revelations, just kinda like rumors that haven't been verified but might be interesting in the future.
It's much like talking about cloning, we all know what it means but what are the ramifications to our gene pool? Without recombinate dna how will we evolve? Clones begetting clones begetting clones, where is the fun in that? not to mention the lack of orgasms...
BTW this isn't 'new tech' it is just old tech on speed... and similar in it's results, ie: premature ejaculation of info that may or may not be relevant.
My Mac connects to plenty of 'alien' tech on an instant's notice, (though I don't think instants can be possesive)... namely Windows, on a regular basis.
I just thank the gods that it's impervious to alien viruses!
Well technically I'd think that you're vehical in space might constitute as a 'medium' for sound waves to travel through... and unless I'm mistaken we do use 'radio' astronomy to 'listen' to distant explosions in space (stars going supernova, etc.).
Has anyone done a scientific test of listening to massive explosions in space, a supposed vacuum (not completely.. lots of dust) from an oxygen filled metal vehicle which might just possibly conduct sound waves to the human ear?
That would be interesting.
Yeah, and everyone says the Earth is ROUND, freakin' new wavers!
:-p
Tell me another one!
hehehe
Was he out running the Earth's shadow (sunrise) or running toward some object with a shadow... why would you run away from an object with a shadow if you're worried about the sun? and wouldn't he be vulnerable regardless of shadows? which the sun still penetrates with reflected light? thus he must have been running ~1041 mph.
nice equations but you missed the point i think.