Take a look at the difference between ELIZA and ALICE, for example. ALICE is still just a pattern-matching language parser, just as ELIZA was from decades ago. Both qualify as being able to partake in simple conversations. ALICE simply has more comupting power available to it - power that it wastes on XML, I might add. Is there absolutely no chance that, in 5 years, there will be a quantum leap in AI that allows us to go from ALICE to something that can carry on a meaningful conversation? I won't say that, but it won't be more meaningful than give commands.
Hardly qualifies as "friends, not appliances". In plus, if a robot ever figured out that it was smarter, stronger, and better looking than me, it would turn around and kick my ass.
Uh, not really. This isn't a patch. It's improved game content, as clearly stated in the article. If we take the article at it's word, there's nothing wrong with the game. So the additional benefit of being an XBox Live subscriber is downloadable content, *not* a bugfix. That's not to say that bugfixes couldn't be distributed this way, but this article shows no precedent for bugfixing.
In plus, if they wanted to distribute bugfixes, this way, it'd be easy to leat nonsubscribers download those, but not "premium" content.
Football involved helmets and tackling. All of my teeth are intact and healthy. Tea is best cold and sweet. Cars belong on the right side of the road. Skin should not be as pasty white as the under side of aquatic mammals.
I guess I'm out! Unless thinking George W. is royal-freaking-idiot would help my cause.
Given that it's only been a couple years, MS hasn't yet made a profit on it's XBOX venture. But it's got about $60B to wait around for that to happen. As soon as XBOX came out, then Sony knew what PS3 was going to have to look like. PS2 didn't have the integrated hard drive or networking or graphic/computing capabilities. It was made to compete with Dreamcast and N64. So, all those PS2 fans took solace in the game library, which is formidable, but on every other front, XBOX makes PS2 look like a hairy ass-pimple.
I personally would rely on PS3 being a reaction to XBOX1, then crush them into the ground with XBOX2, but then again, maybe that's why I don't run a multibillion $$$ corporation.
I worked for a guy who wasn't very technical. He was old school Navy, but he knew all the contacts in the government so he could keep them at bay while we were trying to write software. He used to say...
Three men and a woman can't make a baby in 3 months.
When I bought my first handheld, I looked for every reason in the book to pick a Palm over a PocketPC. But I looked deep down inside myself and found that the most important task that I would do with the thing was sync with Outlook so that I could keep track of contacts, to-do lists, and compose email. PalmPilots didn't even come close. Everyone I knew that had PalmPilots bemoaned "synchronization" issues. So, PocketPC it was. And I've been happy since.
I need to buy a new cell phone to switch providers.
Even though basic cable boxes are similar around the country, I can't buy one are the Best Buy down the road.
I have 4 remotes sitting on my table at home. All of them "universal" that came with separate components. Unfortunately, the only universal part is turning off/switching the station. I can't run my DVD with my TV remote. Oh, and I bought a third party universal remote. Didn't work.
Does that mean in ten years, we will bemoan the fact the Pfizer owns a prohibitive majority of the market share, and that argue that the free stuff put together in some Danish guy's basement is as good as the stuff they charge for?
Is the point of the cameras to protect or to deter? I tend to think that latter with the deterrent being that it might be easier to catch you with your mug caught on tape.
Of course, the Secret Service is supposed to protect *and* deter, but wackjobs still occasionally try to do stupid shit like land on the white house lawn or shoot the President.
I've spent a lot of time in the Baltimore area, and I can tell you that it is suzzy as hell with some of the worst crime rates in the country. See?
Unfortunately, plenty of jurisdictions in this country have taken to claiming Homeland Security funds to put in things that they couldn't afford before but can only get federal funds for by putting a terrorism face on it.
So, when you ask what kind of activity can these cameras detect? Rape, murder, robbery, assault/battery, and jaywalking. In this day and age, if you need funding for crime prevention, you can't get it, but if you call it terrorism prevention, you get some dough.
Did anyone here really care when textile then manufacturing jobs got pushed overseas? I'd say the majority didn't, with those who did having an anecdotal worry... as in, my father worked a manufacturing job. But now that a few jobs in IT are being outsourced, it's a big deal.
Did you ever think that perhaps those jobs are being outsourced because it can be done better *and* cheaper? That means that even if it weren't cheaper, it could still be done better.
Don't like the job market is going? Get better or change skillsets. When I vote with my dollars, I want value, not the warm fuzzy feeling that comes behind paying more money for something just because it was "Made in the USA".
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Wake me up when they offer Ethical Racketeering, Ethical Pimping, and Ethical Congressional Campaigning.
More methods to make lawyers rich? I'm torn.
When will we see "ACM Queue has an article that blames security flaws on HR departments and middle management?"
I resemble that remark!
Take a look at the difference between ELIZA and ALICE, for example. ALICE is still just a pattern-matching language parser, just as ELIZA was from decades ago. Both qualify as being able to partake in simple conversations. ALICE simply has more comupting power available to it - power that it wastes on XML, I might add. Is there absolutely no chance that, in 5 years, there will be a quantum leap in AI that allows us to go from ALICE to something that can carry on a meaningful conversation? I won't say that, but it won't be more meaningful than give commands.
Hardly qualifies as "friends, not appliances". In plus, if a robot ever figured out that it was smarter, stronger, and better looking than me, it would turn around and kick my ass.
Uh, not really. This isn't a patch. It's improved game content, as clearly stated in the article. If we take the article at it's word, there's nothing wrong with the game. So the additional benefit of being an XBox Live subscriber is downloadable content, *not* a bugfix. That's not to say that bugfixes couldn't be distributed this way, but this article shows no precedent for bugfixing.
In plus, if they wanted to distribute bugfixes, this way, it'd be easy to leat nonsubscribers download those, but not "premium" content.
Football involved helmets and tackling. All of my teeth are intact and healthy. Tea is best cold and sweet. Cars belong on the right side of the road. Skin should not be as pasty white as the under side of aquatic mammals.
I guess I'm out! Unless thinking George W. is royal-freaking-idiot would help my cause.
I personally would rely on PS3 being a reaction to XBOX1, then crush them into the ground with XBOX2, but then again, maybe that's why I don't run a multibillion $$$ corporation.
Irritable bowels? Bloated? Water retention? Fat ankles (otherwise known as cankles or chunkles)?
Could be anything.
Oh, read this quick, it's sure to be modded down.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!!!!!!
I worked for a guy who wasn't very technical. He was old school Navy, but he knew all the contacts in the government so he could keep them at bay while we were trying to write software. He used to say ...
Three men and a woman can't make a baby in 3 months.
You didn't RTFA much less RTFS (read the fucking summary).
There were two Computer Science girls that graduated when I did.
Didn't know them, but I think I spotted at least one of them in a movie storming Gondor.
Absolutely not. Unless they're making "Revenge of the Nerds VII: Cowabunga".
When I bought my first handheld, I looked for every reason in the book to pick a Palm over a PocketPC. But I looked deep down inside myself and found that the most important task that I would do with the thing was sync with Outlook so that I could keep track of contacts, to-do lists, and compose email. PalmPilots didn't even come close. Everyone I knew that had PalmPilots bemoaned "synchronization" issues. So, PocketPC it was. And I've been happy since.
Where do I turn in my Open textbook for some much needed beach week money?
I need to buy a new cell phone to switch providers.
Even though basic cable boxes are similar around the country, I can't buy one are the Best Buy down the road.
I have 4 remotes sitting on my table at home. All of them "universal" that came with separate components. Unfortunately, the only universal part is turning off/switching the station. I can't run my DVD with my TV remote. Oh, and I bought a third party universal remote. Didn't work.
Start with those 3 simple things.
It's only a sinlge point of failure if you can't get to *ALL* of yout websites, instead of some.
Who cares if it runs Linux ... as long as I can mod the case!
Does that mean in ten years, we will bemoan the fact the Pfizer owns a prohibitive majority of the market share, and that argue that the free stuff put together in some Danish guy's basement is as good as the stuff they charge for?
Another novelty? I had a PalmPilot and then a PocketPC, and the number of times I "beamed" my contact information could be counted on one hand.
Don't forget, they had a syphilis outbreak in the late 90's. Wear your raincoat
Of course, the Secret Service is supposed to protect *and* deter, but wackjobs still occasionally try to do stupid shit like land on the white house lawn or shoot the President.
Unfortunately, plenty of jurisdictions in this country have taken to claiming Homeland Security funds to put in things that they couldn't afford before but can only get federal funds for by putting a terrorism face on it.
So, when you ask what kind of activity can these cameras detect? Rape, murder, robbery, assault/battery, and jaywalking. In this day and age, if you need funding for crime prevention, you can't get it, but if you call it terrorism prevention, you get some dough.
Did you ever think that perhaps those jobs are being outsourced because it can be done better *and* cheaper? That means that even if it weren't cheaper, it could still be done better.
Don't like the job market is going? Get better or change skillsets. When I vote with my dollars, I want value, not the warm fuzzy feeling that comes behind paying more money for something just because it was "Made in the USA".