I fail to see the analogy between stealing someone's property and using the broadcast signal. Was the [alleged] victim telling everyone who passed by, or yelling out loud (broadcasting) that anyone could have her purse if they wanted to? Then it would not be stealing if someone took her up on her offer.
You are more or less touching on my point.
Many of the anolgies being used are all flawed in the sense that they require you to do something (Plug into an extension cord, steal a purse, live in someone else's house).
None of these analogies hold up with a wifi network because with said network, all one has to do to gain access to an unsecured one is just to be there. There isn't any access, you don't have to do anything.
Thus if someone doesn't want people on their network, they should damn well secure it, otherwise it's fair game. Additionally, it's unfair to assume that people will even know how to disable their network connection, even if they realized, "hey, I have a connection right now and I know it's not mine."
This is not a case of someone leaving their front door unlocked, so "that means I can move in", or whatnot. This is a case of someone making a wireless network that has some radius of connectivity. They know that everyone within that radius will have a connection regardless, unless they secure it. If they choose not to secure it, then they are choosing to allow people access to it.
We all know Microsoft is pretty cold and calculated when it comes to competitors. If Linux is next in the firing line, the open source community needs to be ready for this battle and the wars that will follow...
That sounds like something a nerdy Braveheart character inspiring his army would say just before the big fight for freedom in some movie that should be made.
"Speed limits are there for a revenue source for the local government."
Exactly! The 55MPH speed limits was introduced everywhere because of the energy crisis of the 70s. This was because the most gas-efficient speed was 55mph. Well, after that, the local governments noticed quite a hike in revenue, and so they decided to keep that.
And of course, since then, they have been known to make the limits artificially slow just for income.
Why is Carmack working towards vertical development, better graphics, instead of horizontal development (non-graphical development). I understand there are certain advancements in Doom III in terms of physics, but the main thrust is graphics. Why? Oh, because that's where the money is (-cough- ATI/NVIDIA -cough-). I forgot.
Carmack has never claimed to be a content designer. He's a graphics programmer, arguably the best in the world. Why on Earth would you take the best graphics programmer in the world and ask him to work on design and concept or AI. He doesn't care about design, he doesn't care about AI, he cares about graphics.
Additionally, Carmack doesn't do it for the money, he's not Bill Gates.... He doesn't want a massive corporation that runs the gaming industry, he just wants to make his engines(both in the virtual and real worlds) and be left alone.
And since he's the boss, he can prety much do whatever he wants. I'm sure if he wanted to do AI, he's jump full steam into that (and he could probably be one of the best AI guys around), but he likes advancing graphics. Imagine where the industry would be graphics-wise without him.
I'm not suggesting that Doom 3 is gonna be packed with mind-blowing content. I wouldn't expect that from id, and niehter would anyone else. But having played the leaked Alpha, I can attest that it was the first game by which I was ever startled enough to actually physically scream. So they are doing something right.
If the letter 'c' has been dropped from the langauge, how shall we spell 'change'?
For the longest time, I've thought about stuff like this. English obviously has WAY to many variations on spelling of the same sounds.
Ideally, the letter C could quite easily represent the sound for CH, once C is no longer representing S and K. As for SH, I'd hope for new letter to represent that sound. Prehaps with the elimination of the letter Q (since it's a completely useless letter, easily replaced with K) we could use the Q to represent the SH. It would take a little getting used to, but we wouldn't hafta redesign english keyboards. At least that' the way I'd do it.
Finally, to deal with different versions of vowels (long and short), I'd designate the duplicate vowels represent the long version, and singular represent short sounds.
So for the word "Change", I'd like it to be spelled: caanj. And words like "Shout" : Qowt (remember the Q represents SH).
He was a bodybuilder who put himself through business school, developing a fitness business after repeatedly winning top competitions. He began investing successfully in real estate, and was a millionaire long before he became a movie star.
I totally agree with that. I throw in DVDs of movies with great quotes, like Ghostbusters, Office Space, or Snatch. And just listen to them as I would music. I can't STAND normal TV, though. Those commercials drive me insane!
Oh...hehe....Well I did read it a long time ago, so I blame it old age. Maybe that's just what I wanted to think I read. Oh well... thanx for correcting me.
"EMI is significantly more powerful than Sara. At it's core is a rules-based composition engine, which can generate proper - and perhaps a bit bland - compositions in many styles following music compositional rules. For example, it can even generate a 'proper' four part fugue."
Now I'm getting way off topic, but I seem to remember an interesting fact: Because of it's general ability to generate, as you said it, "proper - and a bit bland" pieces, It was unable to generate music in the style of Beethoven (and I would imagine pretty much any romantic era composers). This, of course, is because Beethoven' style broke most of the "rules" at the time, and he wrote very "improper" works...Not something that be easily reproduced by AI.
Prehaps Cope's improved his program now, such that it can compose in the style of some of the romantic composers (I'd love to hear a program try to do Shostakovich or Stravinski. I think that'd be pretty tough)
Thanx for finding that link, btw. I'd like to play around with that stuff a bit.
Maybe it's not "inspired" poetry, but it is an interesting experiment, nonetheless. If people moderating "generations" of peoms, can produce something that people would be interested in... well then it's good poetry, regardless of it's origins.
I remember reading a few years ago about a pogram that was written to randomly write music in the style of certain composers (in this case, Bach and Mozart). Then as an experiment, they held a concert for music scholars. This concert had three pieces played: a very obscure piece by Bach (which is easy to find, since his repetiore has well over 1000), a piece written by someone in the style of Bach, and a piece generated by this program in the style of Bach. Then they were asked to guess which piece was the one composed by Bach....and as I'm sure you guessed, the computer generated one was the winner.
If I can find a link, I will post it, but this was a few years ago.
It's a noble experiment, I think, and not something that should be immediatly shunned just because it wasn't written by humans.
Those Crazy scientists have a tendancy to express things to the general public in terms of millions.
One thing I noticed while reading a "Brief History of Time" is that Steven Hawking never expressed anything as a "billion" or "trillion", it was always a "thousand million" or a "million million", respectivly. Like this quote from the book : "According to Guth, the radius of the universe increased by a million million million million million (1 with thirty zeros after it) times in only a tiny fraction of a second."
Kinda makes me wonder if he even DID try to use Linux. Maybe, he was late on his weekly column, and quick did a google search for stuff like "Linux Programs" and just threw a buncha stuff together that he thought he might have maybe heard somewhere with a few "factual" references from his Googling.
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It's funny cuz it's true
I fail to see the analogy between stealing someone's property and using the broadcast signal. Was the [alleged] victim telling everyone who passed by, or yelling out loud (broadcasting) that anyone could have her purse if they wanted to? Then it would not be stealing if someone took her up on her offer.
You are more or less touching on my point.
Many of the anolgies being used are all flawed in the sense that they require you to do something (Plug into an extension cord, steal a purse, live in someone else's house).
None of these analogies hold up with a wifi network because with said network, all one has to do to gain access to an unsecured one is just to be there. There isn't any access, you don't have to do anything.
Thus if someone doesn't want people on their network, they should damn well secure it, otherwise it's fair game. Additionally, it's unfair to assume that people will even know how to disable their network connection, even if they realized, "hey, I have a connection right now and I know it's not mine."
This is not a case of someone leaving their front door unlocked, so "that means I can move in", or whatnot. This is a case of someone making a wireless network that has some radius of connectivity. They know that everyone within that radius will have a connection regardless, unless they secure it. If they choose not to secure it, then they are choosing to allow people access to it.
ALT + [ F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 ]
Doesn't get much faster than that.
"CNN is liberal? I wouldn't know from all the American flags..."
Since when is the American Flag the symbol of conservatism?
I guess I always thought the Flag stood for America.
Well in Bush's State of the Union address, he spoke of giving every child 3 nuclear missles.
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We all know Microsoft is pretty cold and calculated when it comes to competitors. If Linux is next in the firing line, the open source community needs to be ready for this battle and the wars that will follow...
That sounds like something a nerdy Braveheart character inspiring his army would say just before the big fight for freedom in some movie that should be made.
Or Soemthing like that.
hehe. I know I haven't read the article yet.
Well despite the fact that they are quite malicious, some of those viruses are pretty clever.
I wish I had mod points for you. Great Post.
"Speed limits are there for a revenue source for the local government."
Exactly! The 55MPH speed limits was introduced everywhere because of the energy crisis of the 70s. This was because the most gas-efficient speed was 55mph. Well, after that, the local governments noticed quite a hike in revenue, and so they decided to keep that.
And of course, since then, they have been known to make the limits artificially slow just for income.
"My house is pretty secure until you break a window."
Windows breaks on it's own.
Ba dump, ching!
Why is Carmack working towards vertical development, better graphics, instead of horizontal development (non-graphical development). I understand there are certain advancements in Doom III in terms of physics, but the main thrust is graphics. Why? Oh, because that's where the money is (-cough- ATI/NVIDIA -cough-). I forgot.
Carmack has never claimed to be a content designer. He's a graphics programmer, arguably the best in the world. Why on Earth would you take the best graphics programmer in the world and ask him to work on design and concept or AI. He doesn't care about design, he doesn't care about AI, he cares about graphics.
Additionally, Carmack doesn't do it for the money, he's not Bill Gates.... He doesn't want a massive corporation that runs the gaming industry, he just wants to make his engines(both in the virtual and real worlds) and be left alone.
And since he's the boss, he can prety much do whatever he wants. I'm sure if he wanted to do AI, he's jump full steam into that (and he could probably be one of the best AI guys around), but he likes advancing graphics. Imagine where the industry would be graphics-wise without him.
I'm not suggesting that Doom 3 is gonna be packed with mind-blowing content. I wouldn't expect that from id, and niehter would anyone else. But having played the leaked Alpha, I can attest that it was the first game by which I was ever startled enough to actually physically scream. So they are doing something right.
For the longest time, I've thought about stuff like this. English obviously has WAY to many variations on spelling of the same sounds.
Ideally, the letter C could quite easily represent the sound for CH, once C is no longer representing S and K. As for SH, I'd hope for new letter to represent that sound. Prehaps with the elimination of the letter Q (since it's a completely useless letter, easily replaced with K) we could use the Q to represent the SH. It would take a little getting used to, but we wouldn't hafta redesign english keyboards. At least that' the way I'd do it.
Finally, to deal with different versions of vowels (long and short), I'd designate the duplicate vowels represent the long version, and singular represent short sounds.
So for the word "Change", I'd like it to be spelled: caanj. And words like "Shout" : Qowt (remember the Q represents SH).
The worm contains the following text, which is never displayed:
So it seems the creator did have a point to prove.
Actually, Arnold is incredibly intelligent.
He was a bodybuilder who put himself through business school, developing a fitness business after repeatedly winning top competitions. He began investing successfully in real estate, and was a millionaire long before he became a movie star.
He was eventually given an honorary doctorate from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Superior.
Good Post, Sloppy.
Yeah, but /. is way cheaper...maybe not as effective, but cheaper nonetheless.
Use one of the tricks used to quit smoking...
Put a rubberband on your wrist and kjeep it there for a few weeks. Then every time you feel like straying from working, snap your wrist.
After a few weeks, you won't want to not work because your body has trained itself that NOT working causes pain.
I totally agree with that. I throw in DVDs of movies with great quotes, like Ghostbusters, Office Space, or Snatch. And just listen to them as I would music. I can't STAND normal TV, though. Those commercials drive me insane!
Oh...hehe....Well I did read it a long time ago, so I blame it old age. Maybe that's just what I wanted to think I read. Oh well... thanx for correcting me.
"EMI is significantly more powerful than Sara. At it's core is a rules-based composition engine, which can generate proper - and perhaps a bit bland - compositions in many styles following music compositional rules. For example, it can even generate a 'proper' four part fugue."
Now I'm getting way off topic, but I seem to remember an interesting fact: Because of it's general ability to generate, as you said it, "proper - and a bit bland" pieces, It was unable to generate music in the style of Beethoven (and I would imagine pretty much any romantic era composers). This, of course, is because Beethoven' style broke most of the "rules" at the time, and he wrote very "improper" works...Not something that be easily reproduced by AI.
Prehaps Cope's improved his program now, such that it can compose in the style of some of the romantic composers (I'd love to hear a program try to do Shostakovich or Stravinski. I think that'd be pretty tough)
Thanx for finding that link, btw. I'd like to play around with that stuff a bit.
Maybe it's not "inspired" poetry, but it is an interesting experiment, nonetheless. If people moderating "generations" of peoms, can produce something that people would be interested in... well then it's good poetry, regardless of it's origins.
I remember reading a few years ago about a pogram that was written to randomly write music in the style of certain composers (in this case, Bach and Mozart). Then as an experiment, they held a concert for music scholars. This concert had three pieces played: a very obscure piece by Bach (which is easy to find, since his repetiore has well over 1000), a piece written by someone in the style of Bach, and a piece generated by this program in the style of Bach. Then they were asked to guess which piece was the one composed by Bach....and as I'm sure you guessed, the computer generated one was the winner.
If I can find a link, I will post it, but this was a few years ago.
It's a noble experiment, I think, and not something that should be immediatly shunned just because it wasn't written by humans.
Those Crazy scientists have a tendancy to express things to the general public in terms of millions.
One thing I noticed while reading a "Brief History of Time" is that Steven Hawking never expressed anything as a "billion" or "trillion", it was always a "thousand million" or a "million million", respectivly. Like this quote from the book : "According to Guth, the radius of the universe increased by a million million million million million (1 with thirty zeros after it) times in only a tiny fraction of a second."
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Kinda makes me wonder if he even DID try to use Linux. Maybe, he was late on his weekly column, and quick did a google search for stuff like "Linux Programs" and just threw a buncha stuff together that he thought he might have maybe heard somewhere with a few "factual" references from his Googling.