If a politician is in a bath, and we shake the tub, after the politican gets out is the "essence of politician" in the tubwater sufficient to serve in the role of politician? We could experiment.. put the tub of "minister water" in to the committee roles the politician serves on, see if it does as good or better of a job...
If he was just ripping off two other engines, why did his win?
Even if you use two pieces of identical software on identical hardware in a tournament, it's irrational to expect the results will be the same. The results will depend on who you face, what colour you have, and what opening the opponent selects, at the very least. Expecting exact parity means expecting exactly the same set of game circumstances, which never happens.
The title is "Why Sustainable Power is Unsustainable" but then the article says current *approaches* are unsustainable, rare materials and all that, before admitting that there are promising alternatives. They'll just take a while longer to develop.
I'm one of the devs for this project and if the topic starter is willing to join a project instead of starting a project from scratch, we're definitely looking for more devs:)
The main point of this expansion is for the player to destroy the dark, brooding fortress of BNetD in order to protect the business model of this fair land.
The impression I got from the article is that it would be 10 hours for something possibly smaller and less power hungry than a laptop, since it was in the context of devices getting smaller.. I could be wrong though.
There's been tremendously rapid progress in the last year. I was hugely impressed at how things have developed
Even better for people, like me, who aren't quantum physicists but who have an interest in progress in the field would be : how much did this progress exceed expectations? As in, does he mean "I thought an advance like this would have taken at least 6 years" or does he mean "wow, this is twice as fast as I would have expected"..
Wouldn't building, using only radio waves and debris, require an absolutely monstrous amount of energy? How is this helpful compared to some other approach?
The acquisition by Philips Electronics and Sony of the leading U.S.-based holder of intellectual property in the field of 'digital rights management' technology is widely seen as a way to prevent Microsoft, which has been embroiled in a legal battle with InterTrust, from grabbing control of the potentially lucrative business.
Microsoft responds by buying Philips and Sony for 453 billion, grabbing control of a different potentially lucrative business.
A bit of a stupid question I guess, but does anyone know what the IP ramifications of this project are? I don't really want the spare cycles of my machine to help someone get a patent to lock the general public out of benefitting from this biz. I checked the page but I find no mention of IP, which hopefully means it's public material, but I'm not sure.
"In our tests, the Presenter was able to send a consistent signal through two floors until substantial metalwork began to interfere with the signal."
So, what.. one guy is in an empty room, moving the cordless mouse around, and two floors up, another guy is talking to him on the phone saying "yes, it's moving up.. try left now! Woo! That works too!"
My sole complaint here is this: the more we try to package learning as entertainment, the less we seem to emphasize that learning for its own sake is fun and interesting. And we also seem to be reinforcing the concept that it has to be FUN in order to be worth doing. Sadly, the world doesn't opperate this way, and I think we're doing a great disservice to kids if we get them thinking that learning has to be somehow immediately entertaining.
I don't really agree that it's a disservice to kids to connect learning to immediate entertainment. On the contrary, I think this is a useful thing to reinforce, as it makes learning a pleasurable activity.
I don't think that kids should expect that Lightspan will necessarily do a game for everything they should learn. However, via concepts such as Mind Maps, immediate entertainment (and the association of it with "all learning") becomes a Good Thing.
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If a politician is in a bath, and we shake the tub, after the politican gets out is the "essence of politician" in the tubwater sufficient to serve in the role of politician? We could experiment.. put the tub of "minister water" in to the committee roles the politician serves on, see if it does as good or better of a job...
If he was just ripping off two other engines, why did his win?
Even if you use two pieces of identical software on identical hardware in a tournament, it's irrational to expect the results will be the same. The results will depend on who you face, what colour you have, and what opening the opponent selects, at the very least. Expecting exact parity means expecting exactly the same set of game circumstances, which never happens.
The title is "Why Sustainable Power is Unsustainable" but then the article says current *approaches* are unsustainable, rare materials and all that, before admitting that there are promising alternatives. They'll just take a while longer to develop.
I'm one of the devs for this project and if the topic starter is willing to join a project instead of starting a project from scratch, we're definitely looking for more devs :)
Lots still needs to be done..
"Half the weight of an ipod, and it has no i/o" cool! Does it run on Write Only Memory too? :)
Does this mean that as part of their coursework they listen to Marilyn Manson in infinite-repeat mode?
The main point of this expansion is for the player to destroy the dark, brooding fortress of BNetD in order to protect the business model of this fair land.
The impression I got from the article is that it would be 10 hours for something possibly smaller and less power hungry than a laptop, since it was in the context of devices getting smaller.. I could be wrong though.
There's been tremendously rapid progress in the last year. I was hugely impressed at how things have developed
Even better for people, like me, who aren't quantum physicists but who have an interest in progress in the field would be : how much did this progress exceed expectations? As in, does he mean "I thought an advance like this would have taken at least 6 years" or does he mean "wow, this is twice as fast as I would have expected" ..
I want to know how excited I should be by this :P
damn, damn, damn.. someone used the name Squenix already ... mod me down, I deserve it for unintentionally aping a karma-fiver :(
an RPG powerhouse to be re-named Enix Square Co. : I prefer the name Squeenix :)
Wouldn't building, using only radio waves and debris, require an absolutely monstrous amount of energy? How is this helpful compared to some other approach?
Microsoft responds by buying Philips and Sony for 453 billion, grabbing control of a different potentially lucrative business.
A bit of a stupid question I guess, but does anyone know what the IP ramifications of this project are? I don't really want the spare cycles of my machine to help someone get a patent to lock the general public out of benefitting from this biz. I checked the page but I find no mention of IP, which hopefully means it's public material, but I'm not sure.
"In our tests, the Presenter was able to send a consistent signal through two floors until substantial metalwork began to interfere with the signal." So, what.. one guy is in an empty room, moving the cordless mouse around, and two floors up, another guy is talking to him on the phone saying "yes, it's moving up.. try left now! Woo! That works too!"
My sole complaint here is this: the more we try to package learning as entertainment, the less we seem to emphasize that learning for its own sake is fun and interesting. And we also seem to be reinforcing the concept that it has to be FUN in order to be worth doing. Sadly, the world doesn't opperate this way, and I think we're doing a great disservice to kids if we get them thinking that learning has to be somehow immediately entertaining.
I don't really agree that it's a disservice to kids to connect learning to immediate entertainment. On the contrary, I think this is a useful thing to reinforce, as it makes learning a pleasurable activity.
I don't think that kids should expect that Lightspan will necessarily do a game for everything they should learn. However, via concepts such as Mind Maps, immediate entertainment (and the association of it with "all learning") becomes a Good Thing.
since the Blizzard/Bnetd thing is resolved happily.. no wait.. it isn't