Sorry, but Bryce is a wrong example; it's a plything with as much use to a production environment as a "my first sony" is to an audiophile. Sure, it makes pretty pictures, but is it parametric? Is it, at all, any good? No.
And that's why Bryce (to you) has a good UI; it's a toy's UI.
Now I'm not defending Blender's UI, but have a look at 3dsmax, maya and softimage; they're all difficult to learn. Blender however seems to go out of it's way to be hard to learn.
Sorry, but you where about to drop out, and a professor gives you extra-curricular activity which takes quite a bit of extra work?
I must say I'm rather sceptical; my experience has tought me that the student-business run in universities is something you should only attempt if you are making your grades with ease, not when you're sliding, because then you'll only have time for one of the two. And this is observational experience from quite a few years (7 so far...started another study).
Anyway, you might have bucked the trend, but it's rather rare in my experience; usually drop-out material sinks under the extra workload.
RTA and RMyPost: what exactly are you betting on? On non-existent plots. Not on terrorist attacks being planned (if that where the case, the CIA would be out of a yob because they'd know when, where and how something would happen) but on pure speculation, on conjecture as in 'we think this can happen' and 'this would probably not happen, but we'll chuck it in there as a long shot'.
The system just makes no sense...and I'm not even talking about joe public making bets on here (because we all know joe public is never wrong, especially on subjects where some specific/insider knowledge is neccessary).
This isn't some prediction or slightly uncomfortable future, this is going to happen next year...and there's nothing anyone can do.
So what happens once this has been running for a few years? Right; students (the people most likely to become 'leaders') get used to it, and find this kind of 'oversight' normal. And once that happens, goodbye privacy due to the "if it's good enough for us/didn't harm us, it's good enough for everyone".
But that's exactly where this hare brained scheme fails...someone puts up "japan subway bombing", but do they do that on the basis of knowing such a plot exists? No! It's sucked right out of their ass! It's pure conjecture....and the DoD is hoping pure conjecture will somehow magically change into fact!
And their mechanism for that is a bunch of idiots betting on randomly selected plots. Not actual intelligence, ears on the ground, but pure fiction mixed in with some intel and voted on by people who think they can make some money!
I mean, how dumb can you get? The poor programmers working on this must either be laughing or crying...and I'd hope the latter.
This is wrong on so many levels I'm struck into incoherence just trying to organise all the points which are wrong/dumb...so many are forming in my mind that I can hardly put them into order.
And this was voted through! Shit, just run a plane into the whole DoD/Darpa/Pentagon and the House (of Representatives?) and restart the whole system from scratch...a system which brings forth something like this/and actually thinks it will work!/ doesn't deserve your confidence.
And as an aside, I wonder how long it will take until the first 'bet realisation contracts' [=pay us and we'll make it happen] are up on ebay...
This must be an American myth about the EU...
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I have never heard this particular urban myth before. That might be my own ignorance, but I like to think I'm kinda plugged in...which leads me to believe this rumour isn't circulating as widely in Europe as the article would lead us to believe.
It's amazing how we're finally realising what the ancient greek and romans knew all to well; you need both a healthy mind/and/ body!
It's always amazing when you read all the psych research done on subjects like this,/and it never gets implemented!/
Things like flexible working hours, workplace naps, stress relief in any form(be it yoga, Quake or whatever)... all of these are documented as being a)healthy due to stress relief which b)leads to less money being wasted on sickleave which then leads to c)more profit and increased throughput and innovation due to a relaxed, healthy and motivated workforce.
Anyway, where have I heard this before? Oh, yeah, I remember: when computers where introduced for the first time!
And what happened? Job displacement, not replacement. Instead of the dumb adding of numbers or performing repetitive tasks, we humans migrate to jobs which involve thinking.
Someone mentioned ATM's in this thread; well, it's taken a lot longer than people thought, but now in europe you're seeing a large shift. Money is withdrawn and deposited at machines, but services are still done (and will be done) by people (try complaining to a machine that the bank made an error:))...but the menial job of counting out money (or welding the exact same weld on a large production run, or calculating starcharts) is done by computer and robot.
But on the other hand we get more people working in services, or in artistic professions and the like...there's just a shift where people who can't (and I'm convinced that that should be read: 'won't') adapt are stuck.
Then again, we've seen shifts like this in the past: agriculture to industy, industry to 'office work' (clerk, human number cruncher etc) and now office work to services/arts. Me, I'd say that that's a good thing; sometime in the future we will all be free to do as we like, with everything provided by robot work...it's truly inevitable. The interesting part is going to be the transition period, where we need fewer and fewer people to actually do something (near the end we'll just need a couple of good thinkers)...will status and necesity be enough motivation for them? Or is that the part where such an automated system can and will break down?
"Think of the battle scenes in LOTR for example, 10,000 orcs is not something that you want to be keyframing by hand"
Which is why they didn't:) Massive (the program they used to create and simulate all those battle sequences) is basically a huge neural net programm, with each orc/character having a seperate decision module which chooses a stance, an attitude etc. depending on where it is and where the other actors are (many elves close by and my squad got cut up-->run away!!). They then ran the sim and tweaked it until they came up with a battle which looked cool and fit the story. BTW, look for the orc answering his cell phone in the battle for the keep:)
Actually, GA's can very easily give you that...all you have to do is tweak some of those 700 parameters (make that muscle a bit tighter, that bone a bit heavier), run the sim and hey presto, a gait which matches the physiology of the character.
Not only that, but you can tweak your fitness algorithm (the selector) by saying that a walk where the shoulders move sideways more is a better walk.
Lemme get this straight: you're saying that GA's basically just order the phase space of all possible, correct, postures and put them in the right sequence?
If you are, then you're wrong. GA's specifically don't go through the whole phase space. The whole thing about GA's is that they are a short cut through the phase space, with the selection process cutting off the [algorithms leading towards] dead ends. What GA's do is to cut down on the paths which lead into the phase space of possible answers which aren't helpfull to the goal.
Your kidding me, right? Gileas had a Sega Megadrive?
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Game dev's don't want that, or at least not that level of 'smartness'; the strategies the cpu will come up with will be too smart for the player, thus making the game 'not fun'.
I do agree with you; genetic algorithms have many uses in games (and design/engineering/programming etc), but ghame dev's already have to tune down their ingame AI because it's too good.
What always amuses me about these fearmongering projects is that they're useless, and demonstrably so to the point of having been demonstrated.
One: these projects won't save lives; if the poison's been deployed, the 'early warning' isn't going to save those in the line of fir^H^H^H the mist. And as soon as those people drop, the authorities will have a clue something's up.
Two: bacteriological and chemical attacks are notoriously ineffective. The gas attacks in WWI show this, as do the acts of that cult in Japan (who tried on numerous occasions to use B/C's , but always failed miserably...except in one case, the subway, but that was an enclosed space) and even what 'Chemical Ali' supposedly did. Fact is that to do damage you need to drench the area and hope the weather helps you a lot. And even then fatalities is severly limited.
So what such a sensor net really is, is an attempt to gain some money from post 9/11 fears. FDR saw it coming when he warned of the military-industrial complex.
OTOH, I'm not even interested in the Treo 600; I want a PDA with a GSM in there, not a phone with PDA functionality on it (they already exist, and suck).
I want the screen realestate and (even just limited) data entry, not a small toy I can't read a book on or plot my programmable calculator of choice on.
Here's a tip: quit whining! It pisses people off. Expecially because they have their own shit to deal with every so often...but because they can deal with it themselves (or their good friends, not some anonymous wierdo's the world over), they find that if they don't bother people with trivial, whiny stuff all day long...*gasp*/other people will start to enjoy being in your company!/, and life will sudde4nly be a whole lot better.
Just get off your ass, and start trying (to make your life better, earn more money, achieve enlightenment, whatever). Because if you just sit and whine, nothing will change.
This is yet another case of groups wanting to keep the public dumb, supposedly for security. But what they seem to forget is that that way lies...no, that just IS a fascist cencorship.
Not only is it useless (as the blurb states, what has been done once can be done again), but the map itself can be very usefull for purposes of statistical analysis, extrapolation, troubleshooting, and it also just makes a cool map:)
An analogy would be classifying a map of all the universities in a country. Trust me, blow them up (and the students/prof's in them, of course), and that country will be in deep shit in a year's time, even more so than blowing up the government/some financial centre/some computers.
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One problem; only one definition fits the context. It is not something you can confuse, even if one doesn't know the alternate meaning. If you are too dumb to see the difference, that's not my fault.
Also, 'to bombard' is a most definitely classified as a phrase; 'bombard' however is a verb. As soon as you tack another word onto that verb, you get a phrase.
Anyway, it's always fun to correct someone's false correction...next time please study some english lit. Je t'excuse, c'etait pas de problemme.
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Sorry, but Bryce is a wrong example; it's a plything with as much use to a production environment as a "my first sony" is to an audiophile. Sure, it makes pretty pictures, but is it parametric? Is it, at all, any good? No.
And that's why Bryce (to you) has a good UI; it's a toy's UI.
Now I'm not defending Blender's UI, but have a look at 3dsmax, maya and softimage; they're all difficult to learn. Blender however seems to go out of it's way to be hard to learn.
Sorry, but you where about to drop out, and a professor gives you extra-curricular activity which takes quite a bit of extra work?
I must say I'm rather sceptical; my experience has tought me that the student-business run in universities is something you should only attempt if you are making your grades with ease, not when you're sliding, because then you'll only have time for one of the two. And this is observational experience from quite a few years (7 so far...started another study).
Anyway, you might have bucked the trend, but it's rather rare in my experience; usually drop-out material sinks under the extra workload.
RTA and RMyPost: what exactly are you betting on? On non-existent plots. Not on terrorist attacks being planned (if that where the case, the CIA would be out of a yob because they'd know when, where and how something would happen) but on pure speculation, on conjecture as in 'we think this can happen' and 'this would probably not happen, but we'll chuck it in there as a long shot'.
The system just makes no sense...and I'm not even talking about joe public making bets on here (because we all know joe public is never wrong, especially on subjects where some specific/insider knowledge is neccessary).
All I want is one of those computers form Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'; the ones with the tiny screen with a magnifying glass in front.
:)] let me know!
If someone could part with one for not much money [hey, I'm a poor student
And this is how it starts.
This isn't some prediction or slightly uncomfortable future, this is going to happen next year...and there's nothing anyone can do.
So what happens once this has been running for a few years? Right; students (the people most likely to become 'leaders') get used to it, and find this kind of 'oversight' normal. And once that happens, goodbye privacy due to the "if it's good enough for us/didn't harm us, it's good enough for everyone".
Be slightly uncomfortable.
But that's exactly where this hare brained scheme fails...someone puts up "japan subway bombing", but do they do that on the basis of knowing such a plot exists? No! It's sucked right out of their ass! It's pure conjecture....and the DoD is hoping pure conjecture will somehow magically change into fact!
/and actually thinks it will work!/ doesn't deserve your confidence.
And their mechanism for that is a bunch of idiots betting on randomly selected plots. Not actual intelligence, ears on the ground, but pure fiction mixed in with some intel and voted on by people who think they can make some money!
I mean, how dumb can you get? The poor programmers working on this must either be laughing or crying...and I'd hope the latter.
This is wrong on so many levels I'm struck into incoherence just trying to organise all the points which are wrong/dumb...so many are forming in my mind that I can hardly put them into order.
And this was voted through! Shit, just run a plane into the whole DoD/Darpa/Pentagon and the House (of Representatives?) and restart the whole system from scratch...a system which brings forth something like this
And as an aside, I wonder how long it will take until the first 'bet realisation contracts' [=pay us and we'll make it happen] are up on ebay...
I have never heard this particular urban myth before. That might be my own ignorance, but I like to think I'm kinda plugged in...which leads me to believe this rumour isn't circulating as widely in Europe as the article would lead us to believe.
It's amazing how we're finally realising what the ancient greek and romans knew all to well; you need both a healthy mind /and/ body!
/and it never gets implemented!/
It's always amazing when you read all the psych research done on subjects like this,
Things like flexible working hours, workplace naps, stress relief in any form(be it yoga, Quake or whatever)... all of these are documented as being a)healthy due to stress relief which b)leads to less money being wasted on sickleave which then leads to c)more profit and increased throughput and innovation due to a relaxed, healthy and motivated workforce.
Anyway, where have I heard this before? Oh, yeah, I remember: when computers where introduced for the first time!
:))...but the menial job of counting out money (or welding the exact same weld on a large production run, or calculating starcharts) is done by computer and robot.
And what happened? Job displacement, not replacement. Instead of the dumb adding of numbers or performing repetitive tasks, we humans migrate to jobs which involve thinking.
Someone mentioned ATM's in this thread; well, it's taken a lot longer than people thought, but now in europe you're seeing a large shift. Money is withdrawn and deposited at machines, but services are still done (and will be done) by people (try complaining to a machine that the bank made an error
But on the other hand we get more people working in services, or in artistic professions and the like...there's just a shift where people who can't (and I'm convinced that that should be read: 'won't') adapt are stuck.
Then again, we've seen shifts like this in the past: agriculture to industy, industry to 'office work' (clerk, human number cruncher etc) and now office work to services/arts. Me, I'd say that that's a good thing; sometime in the future we will all be free to do as we like, with everything provided by robot work...it's truly inevitable.
The interesting part is going to be the transition period, where we need fewer and fewer people to actually do something (near the end we'll just need a couple of good thinkers)...will status and necesity be enough motivation for them? Or is that the part where such an automated system can and will break down?
"On the other hand, there are a lot of things that you can use GAs for. PORNO FOR THE PEOPLE! [autopr0n.com]" Heh....that's a classic example :)
"Think of the battle scenes in LOTR for example, 10,000 orcs is not something that you want to be keyframing by hand"
:) Massive (the program they used to create and simulate all those battle sequences) is basically a huge neural net programm, with each orc/character having a seperate decision module which chooses a stance, an attitude etc. depending on where it is and where the other actors are (many elves close by and my squad got cut up-->run away!!). They then ran the sim and tweaked it until they came up with a battle which looked cool and fit the story. BTW, look for the orc answering his cell phone in the battle for the keep :)
Which is why they didn't
Actually, GA's can very easily give you that...all you have to do is tweak some of those 700 parameters (make that muscle a bit tighter, that bone a bit heavier), run the sim and hey presto, a gait which matches the physiology of the character.
Not only that, but you can tweak your fitness algorithm (the selector) by saying that a walk where the shoulders move sideways more is a better walk.
Lemme get this straight: you're saying that GA's basically just order the phase space of all possible, correct, postures and put them in the right sequence?
If you are, then you're wrong. GA's specifically don't go through the whole phase space. The whole thing about GA's is that they are a short cut through the phase space, with the selection process cutting off the [algorithms leading towards] dead ends.
What GA's do is to cut down on the paths which lead into the phase space of possible answers which aren't helpfull to the goal.
Your kidding me, right? Gileas had a Sega Megadrive?
Game dev's don't want that, or at least not that level of 'smartness'; the strategies the cpu will come up with will be too smart for the player, thus making the game 'not fun'.
I do agree with you; genetic algorithms have many uses in games (and design/engineering/programming etc), but ghame dev's already have to tune down their ingame AI because it's too good.
Well, if you overgeneralise a little, you'd conclude I was european (which I am), 'cause I want GSM, not CDMA :)
What always amuses me about these fearmongering projects is that they're useless, and demonstrably so to the point of having been demonstrated.
One: these projects won't save lives; if the poison's been deployed, the 'early warning' isn't going to save those in the line of fir^H^H^H the mist. And as soon as those people drop, the authorities will have a clue something's up.
Two: bacteriological and chemical attacks are notoriously ineffective. The gas attacks in WWI show this, as do the acts of that cult in Japan (who tried on numerous occasions to use B/C's , but always failed miserably...except in one case, the subway, but that was an enclosed space) and even what 'Chemical Ali' supposedly did. Fact is that to do damage you need to drench the area and hope the weather helps you a lot. And even then fatalities is severly limited.
So what such a sensor net really is, is an attempt to gain some money from post 9/11 fears. FDR saw it coming when he warned of the military-industrial complex.
Put in GSM, and I'm buying.
OTOH, I'm not even interested in the Treo 600; I want a PDA with a GSM in there, not a phone with PDA functionality on it (they already exist, and suck).
I want the screen realestate and (even just limited) data entry, not a small toy I can't read a book on or plot my programmable calculator of choice on.
Yeah man; I'd love to buy Natalie Portman :)
Here's a tip: quit whining! It pisses people off. /other people will start to enjoy being in your company!/, and life will sudde4nly be a whole lot better.
Expecially because they have their own shit to deal with every so often...but because they can deal with it themselves (or their good friends, not some anonymous wierdo's the world over), they find that if they don't bother people with trivial, whiny stuff all day long...*gasp*
Just get off your ass, and start trying (to make your life better, earn more money, achieve enlightenment, whatever). Because if you just sit and whine, nothing will change.
Hehe...ok, I was talking about /valid/ combinations, not giberish :)
;)
Anyway, what's wrong with my french? Except for the second part (purposely) being in the past tense?
Et merci pour votre bonté...c'etait ma plaisir
Does not work.
:)
This is yet another case of groups wanting to keep the public dumb, supposedly for security. But what they seem to forget is that that way lies...no, that just IS a fascist cencorship.
Not only is it useless (as the blurb states, what has been done once can be done again), but the map itself can be very usefull for purposes of statistical analysis, extrapolation, troubleshooting, and it also just makes a cool map
An analogy would be classifying a map of all the universities in a country. Trust me, blow them up (and the students/prof's in them, of course), and that country will be in deep shit in a year's time, even more so than blowing up the government/some financial centre/some computers.
Heh...now /that/ sounds like a pseudonym :)
One problem; only one definition fits the context. It is not something you can confuse, even if one doesn't know the alternate meaning. If you are too dumb to see the difference, that's not my fault.
Also, 'to bombard' is a most definitely classified as a phrase; 'bombard' however is a verb. As soon as you tack another word onto that verb, you get a phrase.
Anyway, it's always fun to correct someone's false correction...next time please study some english lit. Je t'excuse, c'etait pas de problemme.
Show's you how much an education is worth, doesn't it :)