In Chess, anything but a big human victory is a big human defeat.
I remember being at Humber College in 75, one of the programmers there was a rated Expert named Barry Sax who assured me he could defeat any program and he could, in 75.
Then IM David Levy won his bet in a match against chess 4.5 at the CNE which I could have gone to but didn't to my regret, but that was it for humanity.
Walter Browne become the first GM to lose to a computer when someone brought a portable chess machine to a simultaneous exhibition of his and beat him with it (He WAS playing 100 other people at the same time...)
The Ken Thompson's HiTech came to fruition with Deep Blue (Is there ANYTHING this guy didn't touch for the better? Only Claude Shannon was more awesome.) and Kasparov was beaten - and folded like a bully who finally lost a fist fight.
And NOW you can buy a multi CPU box that plays at 2800 strength. That would have crushed Barry Sax.
In ten (Maybe five) years computer will be rated 3000+ and the championship will be between them exclusively.
Sooner or later the live-online thing had to max out. Remember, the people who do this can only do one at a time. No one spends 60 hrs a week on UO and ANOTHER 60 hpw on EQ...
Fact is - most of the people who do this are already doing it. The land rush is over. (Excepting Internet growth which is still pretty good, but the land rush is over.)
The US consumer (And while I am Canadian the Canadian consumer is no different) demands to be bottle-fed it's conveniences and the whole art science and culture of marketing exists just to do that.
This is how Bill made his fortune, and many other before him, and many others since.
When was the last time you adjusted the fuel-air ratio and spark gap on your car?
The get-your-hands dirty crowd will ALWAYS be a niche elite. The niche elite from whom all wealth springs, but a niche elite.
OK - so the new X-Box will have more/better security, perhaps with the key in SEVERAL tamper resistant chips, so no one grad student could possibly afford to crack them.
Think the funding for this will not be found? No, because Bill Gates has pissed off a lot of very rich people.
Larry Ellison of Oracle, for one, HATES him and Larry Ellison is a billionaire. There's many more.
Think the new X-Box will go uncracked? No way. Unless chips are coated with Unbelieveium, the toughest material in comics, a quiet team of well funded electrical engineers with electron microscopes etc WILL open the new x-box and print it's guts all over the internet.
Well, for $100 USD you can get a carousel 100 CD player that has most of the parts needed to do this and every bar has a CD juke box - they can't be THAT hard to make.
Seems like something some electrical engineer grad student would convert as a hobby, maybe announce it on Slashdot.
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I put 50 cents in and played for 15 seconds before I got killed.
I remember thinking I had been totally screwed and never played it again.
They should have set it up so it gave you at least a minute of play.
Aren't the Yakuza deeply mixed up in the Pachinko business?
people who like to post 'F1r5t p0t7 d00d! 1'm 1337!'
Then they'd have come to the right place.
Now they'll release all their models and textures to the public domain, right?
It is one of the bedrocks of democracy and Western civilization that anyone can speak without obstruction or intimidation.
THEN you can rebut them vigorously, but it's imperative to listen.
When I was in London some years ago, I actually got a headache from the traffic fumes and that's never happened before or since.
It's only a matter of time until the GNU community catches up with admin tools too.
Also - When I said Linux I meant OpenBSD. Dunno what came over me.
They're screwed anyway.
Unless they can come up with some HUGE reason to not go Intel/Linux the server market is lost to them.
Online games seem to indicate that people like a world where there is scarcity, but opportunity.
Exactly correct. Good post.
In Chess, anything but a big human victory is a big human defeat.
I remember being at Humber College in 75, one of the programmers there was a rated Expert named Barry Sax who assured me he could defeat any program and he could, in 75.
Then IM David Levy won his bet in a match against chess 4.5 at the CNE which I could have gone to but didn't to my regret, but that was it for humanity.
Walter Browne become the first GM to lose to a computer when someone brought a portable chess machine to a simultaneous exhibition of his and beat him with it (He WAS playing 100 other people at the same time...)
The Ken Thompson's HiTech came to fruition with Deep Blue (Is there ANYTHING this guy didn't touch for the better? Only Claude Shannon was more awesome.) and Kasparov was beaten - and folded like a bully who finally lost a fist fight.
And NOW you can buy a multi CPU box that plays at 2800 strength. That would have crushed Barry Sax.
In ten (Maybe five) years computer will be rated 3000+ and the championship will be between them exclusively.
Well, there's always Go and Taasen.
but the luckiest of all are those kids studying under the Woz....
This is what happens when you sign the chit 'Abdul Al Carmack'...
Opps.. by the way, when are you getting rid of your week 13 NFl picks?
I remember when they ADDED the new-fangled 3 1/4 inch floppy drive to machines.
Back before there was dirt, and a computer weighed 6,000 tons!
And we programmed with ones and with zeros - and sometimes we ran out of ones!
I needed an odd, non-small integer and eleven got the gig.
Sooner or later the live-online thing had to max out. Remember, the people who do this can only do one at a time. No one spends 60 hrs a week on UO and ANOTHER 60 hpw on EQ...
Fact is - most of the people who do this are already doing it. The land rush is over. (Excepting Internet growth which is still pretty good, but the land rush is over.)
Fhugetaboutit.
The US consumer (And while I am Canadian the Canadian consumer is no different) demands to be bottle-fed it's conveniences and the whole art science and culture of marketing exists just to do that.
This is how Bill made his fortune, and many other before him, and many others since.
When was the last time you adjusted the fuel-air ratio and spark gap on your car?
The get-your-hands dirty crowd will ALWAYS be a niche elite. The niche elite from whom all wealth springs, but a niche elite.
Is this not the ultimate cracker tool you ever saw?
What were they thinking?
OK - so the new X-Box will have more/better security, perhaps with the key in SEVERAL tamper resistant chips, so no one grad student could possibly afford to crack them.
Think the funding for this will not be found? No, because Bill Gates has pissed off a lot of very rich people.
Larry Ellison of Oracle, for one, HATES him and Larry Ellison is a billionaire. There's many more.
Think the new X-Box will go uncracked? No way. Unless chips are coated with Unbelieveium, the toughest material in comics, a quiet team of well funded electrical engineers with electron microscopes etc WILL open the new x-box and print it's guts all over the internet.
Bill's Karma will catch up with him.
The they figure out - Geez, you use a handfull of nickle and you can make enough nanosensors to supply the geek industry for a year...
How many Operating Systems do we actually need?
Until people hold MS culpable for these outages?
Including Sam Barros' web site when it gets Slashdotted, right?
Well, for $100 USD you can get a carousel 100 CD player that has most of the parts needed to do this and every bar has a CD juke box - they can't be THAT hard to make.
Seems like something some electrical engineer grad student would convert as a hobby, maybe announce it on Slashdot.