Do you think that the culture needs to push education and intellectualism more? This is a problem in white American culture. A caucasian in public highschool would attest that learning is often ridiculed. The view from the outside is that an African American who focuses on studying will have it just as bad or worse.
From my experience in highschool this lack of cultural respect for intelligence is a hopeless problem. It's a vicious cycle because the same people tormenting the bookworms are also inseminating all of the cheerleaders.
The person claims "I decided to hit the left button at 12:00:01 pm", but then we show evidence that you would hit the left button at 11:59:54 am. We can demonstrate this to you with near 100% accuracy. Now you looked at the clock at 12:00:00 and had no idea what you would press. Then at 12:00:01 you (think you) decided which one to hit.
In the face of this evidence even I would admit that I had no free will in that decision; it was an illusion. They knew which button I would hit before "I" knew which one I would hit. Maybe at 12:00:00 I even said to myself in my head "It's 12:00:00 and I have yet to decide which button I will press".
I don't see anything ambiguous about this. One person pointed at that they choice involved is meaningless. Maybe I flipped a coin at 12:00:00 because I had no more intelligent way to make the choice. It so happened that the random number generator was seed 6 seconds ago and they peeked at that. If the choice was something I cared about, I might have based it on some reasoning and they wouldn't be able to predict as far in advance.
I'm thinking that he wanted something you could click your mouse on, but still customize. You should be able to do a lot of things with the database using your mouse alone. A first step would be graphical tools for extracting and displaying the data; maybe then you can move on to modifying it.
I don't see why all the same hacks wouldn't work with raytracing. Fire off some more rays at object boundaries after the scene is finished and you can clean up those jagged edges. Conversely you could fire many fewer rays as well if you can get away with it. Suppose the action in the game is heating up so you reduce the resolution in the periphery to keep the fps high.
If you think that reflections and shadows look worse when raytraced then just revert to the same tricks you've been using like shadowmaps and cubemaps. The secondary rays would only have to check against dynamic elements in the scene and use the shadowmap for everything else.
I don't care if the scene looks better. I'll be convinced that raytracing is the future when a good demo comes out. Did the Intel Quake IV demo actually let you play the game, or do you only get to walk through the static level? The former would be much more convincing.
The pay-to-view situation pisses me off on principle; I currently have journal access through the uni. Someone needs to post an image of JSTOR on bittorrent!
If object B looked back at object A, B would see A moving away from it slower than the speed of light due to time dilation. Time isn't actually any different for A than for B or for you in the center because you're not supposed to say that any one of them is actually the one that's moving. So if you're sitting in the center waving your hand at second intervals, B and A would see you waving very quickly. Likewise if I'm at B waving my hand at 1 second intervals you in the center would see my waving as quicker than your own! (I might have mixed up who sees who as waving slower).
It makes no sense, but it's OK because the theory never allows us to loop past each other like on a donut and simultaneously notice that the other person is a lot older than we are.
Most of what bothers me about my sound system is cell phone interference. Will fancy cables, better speakers, or a new sound card fix that? I know some speakers are worse than others, but after switching from onboard sound to a card I saw no improvement in this regard.
To me this is one of the most exciting things Google has done. I hope they make it fast! My 1.7Ghz laptop can barely run the spreadsheet app, but the ease of collaboration brings me back to it.
If MS had one thing to offer here it would be the development environment. If the applications (user side code) were scripted in something as fast as C# this could replace a lot of apps that we currently sell on CD's. I can't imagine Google spending much time on a C# SDK though...
I only say C# rather than Java because there are snappy applications in that language (Paint.NET) whereas I can't find a similar example in Java.
I'll admit that I haven't completely read the book for a reason I'll give below.
A couple points a) Dawkin's seems to think the multiverse theory is more satisfying than the existence of God b) He only briefly mentions subjective experience in the book (last chapter) although he admits this is an issue in an interview (google "Dawkins subjective experience" or follow this link www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dawkins_pinker/debate_p12.html)
He justifies (a) by saying that God must be very complex and the multiverse theory is fairly simple in comparison. Without pulling multiverse theory out of our ass without evidence what would be the alternative? That there is one universe and that if it wasn't set perfectly we wouldn't be contemplating this. He gives an example of a firing squad, but the probabilities are so far off scale that the comparison is absurd. I hope this wasn't a purposeful trick. If I win the PowerBall five times in a row I will look very hard for explanations! This argument is not satisfying. In the meantime I'll view multiverse theory as a line of defense against a church state in case the religious elders watch those Nova specials and conclude that they have all the evidence for God that they ever need.
Ok, forget that gibberish above. I stopped reading when I determined that he wouldn't address (b) in the book. He takes it for granted as some sort of side effect of the brain's functioning. Surely my computer sees colors when it processes an.mpeg file.
If subjective experience doesn't baffle you, does that mean you've thought about it a lot or not enough? If someone has a glib answer to an open problem, I think it's the latter.
You may as well not believe in plate techtonics because we can't yet move a mountain. We will accomplish that goal of artificial life in a lot less than a billion years if we don't go extinct before then.
Even hard proof that we were derived from random evolution should not shake anyone's faith in God.
A person may claim to see colors and hear sounds and have other subjective experiences. The more we learn about the brain the less need there is for any of these subjective things to exist. Science is explaining away all of your behaviors and someday may explain everything you do based on predictable simulations of the neurons in your brain. It may even predict that you will claim to experience the world and "see" colors and other things that don't exist. This doesn't shake my faith that you still experience the world though!
If you type in a password very often for years you might forget what it is. Especially if it's some gibberish "strong" password. Something like this happened to me with an AIM account. One day I just lost it and if I thought about what the password was I must have consistenly gotten the capitalization wrong--I couldn't log in anymore.
I used to type my PIN in very fast at the grocery store. I would click the keys based on their position on the digit pad rather than conciously looking at the numbers. After I got stuck one day I realized that I had nearly forgotten the numbers themselves.
I thought they hated it because it's slow and the interface is ugly (thought the same thing of XP when it first came out though). They can still provide a virtual machine for XP. You could even get better compatibility since they can add in VM's for Win95 and older versions of DOS as well.
I don't have them. I'll rephrase : geeks can be extremely mean. Ridicule is typical. People must know that visiting a board like this, but two or three posts up the thread someone was caught off guard.
Geeks love to say that those jocks in higschool were such a**holes, but what we fail to admit is that nerds are the worst of all. You can't even contemplate how awful it would be if nerds grew muscles for a day.
Google docs is very nice, but my computer is just a dog when I try to use it. A 1.5 Ghz should be able to edit a simple spreadsheet at reasonable speed. There is probably little Google can do about this except offer a java client. It would be useful if you're going to have the doc open for a while and your computer sucks.
I've seen some funny animated videos using flash. Small file size and very sharp picture. Half of the annoying pop up "close here [x]" ads I see are javascript now. If the web were in flash we would have pixel level precision in how pages appear. I think any designer would love Flash over html. No work-arounds for different browsers.
You are allowed to complain if windows-live does it. If both windows-live and google do it, then you can complain about Google by proxy unless someone figures out what you are doing.
Who cares about a covariance estimate? Maybe all of the variance is in those 5 samples. Cross validate and see how well you can predict academic performance with and without beer drinking as a predictor.
If you can get enough people so pissed off that they'll literally cut throats... enough people looking for an excuse rather than reason... you could shut down the "700 Club" with that type of backing.
I wish it had been written that the ultimate sign of faith was self-inflicted castration and fling the bloody grapes in the face of the infidel. You'll get your nutsack plus the virgins after you take your dying crap in the nursing home. Now the show of faith would be in waiting 60 years with no nuts to get your reward.
Maybe London has a subway, but do the smaller cities? Bus systems work, but that's not exactly the cutting edge of public transport. Public transport between cities in England appears to be very expensive as well. Even after $8/gallon it seems to be much cheaper to drive a car--especially if you can share the ride and split the cost.
There is a record of who made these mods. They should have their moderation powers permanently removed.
The whole moderation system is crazy. It's tempting to read just +4 and +5 (filtering the repetetive 'funny'ies), but you're just feeding this monster if you do that. A +5 and +3 are often comparable in information, and so it's silly to have that many levels.
We should keep spam and other really bad posts off (racist posts, graphically sexual, etc), but nothing reasonable should be moderated out of view. If this happens it should be easy to assess and remove moderation powers. Forward a link to the downmodded post to someone at a higher level and have them remove moderation powers. This may result in a deluge of e-mails at first, but it will die down once people see the consequences of bad moderation. It's much more damaging to have a**hole mods than a few bad posts.
If the abuse comes from the very top then it's time to find a new site.
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Do you think that the culture needs to push education and intellectualism more? This is a problem in white American culture. A caucasian in public highschool would attest that learning is often ridiculed. The view from the outside is that an African American who focuses on studying will have it just as bad or worse.
From my experience in highschool this lack of cultural respect for intelligence is a hopeless problem. It's a vicious cycle because the same people tormenting the bookworms are also inseminating all of the cheerleaders.
The person claims "I decided to hit the left button at 12:00:01 pm", but then we show evidence that you would hit the left button at 11:59:54 am. We can demonstrate this to you with near 100% accuracy. Now you looked at the clock at 12:00:00 and had no idea what you would press. Then at 12:00:01 you (think you) decided which one to hit.
In the face of this evidence even I would admit that I had no free will in that decision; it was an illusion. They knew which button I would hit before "I" knew which one I would hit. Maybe at 12:00:00 I even said to myself in my head "It's 12:00:00 and I have yet to decide which button I will press".
I don't see anything ambiguous about this. One person pointed at that they choice involved is meaningless. Maybe I flipped a coin at 12:00:00 because I had no more intelligent way to make the choice. It so happened that the random number generator was seed 6 seconds ago and they peeked at that. If the choice was something I cared about, I might have based it on some reasoning and they wouldn't be able to predict as far in advance.
I'm thinking that he wanted something you could click your mouse on, but still customize. You should be able to do a lot of things with the database using your mouse alone. A first step would be graphical tools for extracting and displaying the data; maybe then you can move on to modifying it.
I don't see why all the same hacks wouldn't work with raytracing. Fire off some more rays at object boundaries after the scene is finished and you can clean up those jagged edges. Conversely you could fire many fewer rays as well if you can get away with it. Suppose the action in the game is heating up so you reduce the resolution in the periphery to keep the fps high.
If you think that reflections and shadows look worse when raytraced then just revert to the same tricks you've been using like shadowmaps and cubemaps. The secondary rays would only have to check against dynamic elements in the scene and use the shadowmap for everything else.
I don't care if the scene looks better. I'll be convinced that raytracing is the future when a good demo comes out. Did the Intel Quake IV demo actually let you play the game, or do you only get to walk through the static level? The former would be much more convincing.
The pay-to-view situation pisses me off on principle; I currently have journal access through the uni. Someone needs to post an image of JSTOR on bittorrent!
If object B looked back at object A, B would see A moving away from it slower than the speed of light due to time dilation. Time isn't actually any different for A than for B or for you in the center because you're not supposed to say that any one of them is actually the one that's moving. So if you're sitting in the center waving your hand at second intervals, B and A would see you waving very quickly. Likewise if I'm at B waving my hand at 1 second intervals you in the center would see my waving as quicker than your own! (I might have mixed up who sees who as waving slower).
It makes no sense, but it's OK because the theory never allows us to loop past each other like on a donut and simultaneously notice that the other person is a lot older than we are.
Woah, I don't think it was meant that way. He was talking about drinking your milkshake not invading your iceberg.
Most of what bothers me about my sound system is cell phone interference. Will fancy cables, better speakers, or a new sound card fix that? I know some speakers are worse than others, but after switching from onboard sound to a card I saw no improvement in this regard.
To me this is one of the most exciting things Google has done. I hope they make it fast! My 1.7Ghz laptop can barely run the spreadsheet app, but the ease of collaboration brings me back to it.
If MS had one thing to offer here it would be the development environment. If the applications (user side code) were scripted in something as fast as C# this could replace a lot of apps that we currently sell on CD's. I can't imagine Google spending much time on a C# SDK though...
I only say C# rather than Java because there are snappy applications in that language (Paint.NET) whereas I can't find a similar example in Java.
I'll admit that I haven't completely read the book for a reason I'll give below.
.mpeg file.
A couple points
a) Dawkin's seems to think the multiverse theory is more satisfying than the existence of God
b) He only briefly mentions subjective experience in the book (last chapter) although he admits this is an issue in an interview (google "Dawkins subjective experience" or follow this link www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dawkins_pinker/debate_p12.html)
He justifies (a) by saying that God must be very complex and the multiverse theory is fairly simple in comparison. Without pulling multiverse theory out of our ass without evidence what would be the alternative? That there is one universe and that if it wasn't set perfectly we wouldn't be contemplating this. He gives an example of a firing squad, but the probabilities are so far off scale that the comparison is absurd. I hope this wasn't a purposeful trick. If I win the PowerBall five times in a row I will look very hard for explanations! This argument is not satisfying. In the meantime I'll view multiverse theory as a line of defense against a church state in case the religious elders watch those Nova specials and conclude that they have all the evidence for God that they ever need.
Ok, forget that gibberish above. I stopped reading when I determined that he wouldn't address (b) in the book. He takes it for granted as some sort of side effect of the brain's functioning. Surely my computer sees colors when it processes an
If subjective experience doesn't baffle you, does that mean you've thought about it a lot or not enough? If someone has a glib answer to an open problem, I think it's the latter.
You may as well not believe in plate techtonics because we can't yet move a mountain. We will accomplish that goal of artificial life in a lot less than a billion years if we don't go extinct before then.
Even hard proof that we were derived from random evolution should not shake anyone's faith in God.
A person may claim to see colors and hear sounds and have other subjective experiences. The more we learn about the brain the less need there is for any of these subjective things to exist. Science is explaining away all of your behaviors and someday may explain everything you do based on predictable simulations of the neurons in your brain. It may even predict that you will claim to experience the world and "see" colors and other things that don't exist. This doesn't shake my faith that you still experience the world though!
If you type in a password very often for years you might forget what it is. Especially if it's some gibberish "strong" password. Something like this happened to me with an AIM account. One day I just lost it and if I thought about what the password was I must have consistenly gotten the capitalization wrong--I couldn't log in anymore.
I used to type my PIN in very fast at the grocery store. I would click the keys based on their position on the digit pad rather than conciously looking at the numbers. After I got stuck one day I realized that I had nearly forgotten the numbers themselves.
I thought they hated it because it's slow and the interface is ugly (thought the same thing of XP when it first came out though). They can still provide a virtual machine for XP. You could even get better compatibility since they can add in VM's for Win95 and older versions of DOS as well.
I don't have them. I'll rephrase : geeks can be extremely mean. Ridicule is typical. People must know that visiting a board like this, but two or three posts up the thread someone was caught off guard.
Geeks love to say that those jocks in higschool were such a**holes, but what we fail to admit is that nerds are the worst of all. You can't even contemplate how awful it would be if nerds grew muscles for a day.
Google docs is very nice, but my computer is just a dog when I try to use it. A 1.5 Ghz should be able to edit a simple spreadsheet at reasonable speed. There is probably little Google can do about this except offer a java client. It would be useful if you're going to have the doc open for a while and your computer sucks.
Yikes. Using a 'for' loop you could have actually made the entire thing shorter (I think).
Is it incompetence or malice? Should we be laughing or waiting for a competitor to flush these turds into the Puget sound?
I've seen some funny animated videos using flash. Small file size and very sharp picture. Half of the annoying pop up "close here [x]" ads I see are javascript now. If the web were in flash we would have pixel level precision in how pages appear. I think any designer would love Flash over html. No work-arounds for different browsers.
Does the patent application already include a couple paragraphs stating why it is non-obvious? I don't recall the lawyers asking for it.
"It's not obvious to store a customer's credit card number on the webserver because..."
You are allowed to complain if windows-live does it. If both windows-live and google do it, then you can complain about Google by proxy unless someone figures out what you are doing.
Who cares about a covariance estimate? Maybe all of the variance is in those 5 samples. Cross validate and see how well you can predict academic performance with and without beer drinking as a predictor.
If you can get enough people so pissed off that they'll literally cut throats... enough people looking for an excuse rather than reason... you could shut down the "700 Club" with that type of backing.
I wish it had been written that the ultimate sign of faith was self-inflicted castration and fling the bloody grapes in the face of the infidel. You'll get your nutsack plus the virgins after you take your dying crap in the nursing home. Now the show of faith would be in waiting 60 years with no nuts to get your reward.
Maybe London has a subway, but do the smaller cities? Bus systems work, but that's not exactly the cutting edge of public transport. Public transport between cities in England appears to be very expensive as well. Even after $8/gallon it seems to be much cheaper to drive a car--especially if you can share the ride and split the cost.
There is a record of who made these mods. They should have their moderation powers permanently removed.
The whole moderation system is crazy. It's tempting to read just +4 and +5 (filtering the repetetive 'funny'ies), but you're just feeding this monster if you do that. A +5 and +3 are often comparable in information, and so it's silly to have that many levels.
We should keep spam and other really bad posts off (racist posts, graphically sexual, etc), but nothing reasonable should be moderated out of view. If this happens it should be easy to assess and remove moderation powers. Forward a link to the downmodded post to someone at a higher level and have them remove moderation powers. This may result in a deluge of e-mails at first, but it will die down once people see the consequences of bad moderation. It's much more damaging to have a**hole mods than a few bad posts.
If the abuse comes from the very top then it's time to find a new site.