In the UK law cannot be applied retroactively, i.e. if it has been done before (copied and removed by libraries) they cannot apply the something like the DMCA now? Does US law not have something similar?
Now I've dabbled in compression (enough to write a basic compressor) and what Matt suggests I believe relies on an unproven axiom.
He suggests AI would need to think like a human as we have understand the function P(s) where this hasn't yet been modelled in machines. However our understanding of the function P(s) relies on a lossy format, that is (e.g.) we can roughly remember what an image is and is show it again confirm that, but we cannot replicate it from one instance of viewing, even if we could, it wouldn't be a perfect copy (e.g. of an image of the Mona Lisa down to the millimetre). Lossy thinking would mean that some detail is left out, meaning if replicated in AI it would fail the test, so what Matt actually proposes is an improvement on human thinking (our thought process with perfect decompression), which as we don't understand the latter yet properly I believe is not yet possible. It might be our thought processes *rely* on the fact that we store memories lossy and which degrade over time, in which case it may not be possible to pass the benchmark at all (as it is for lossless compression).
This is why we shouldn't have a monopoly on operating systems, yet why it is "almost" state sponsored (local UK government is in bed with MS).
All I want is Vista's External Memory Device (EMD) technology or similar in Linux and better game support (don't we all?)
Incidentally the UK gov has declared its biometric ID card project will go ahead, albeit optional, unless you need a passport or renew. When take up is large enough it'll made compulsory, then I can see 20 years from now ID cards are implanted for convenience, when takeup is large enough it'll be compulsory.
I won't be chipped like a pet dog.
That on top of our country having a huge number of CCTV cameras recently installed and plans to track every car in the country.... Democracies and dictatorships are becoming very similar.
Personally I believe in the ability of self rectifying, the startup's board members and countless investors would not have been happy at losing (if priced properly ~50% profits) enough money to make them hurt without going under. This would very likely have prompted a change in management and a change in policy.
I'll disagree all the same with your comments since I've been through three redundancies in the dot com bust years (due to administration - not due to the above) shortly after getting a degree. The fields I was in were highly technical (AI and GIS respectively), and I needed the experience in these rare companies. I didn't give a damn as long as I was paid well, on time etc etc, I could then move to a better job down the line.
This is were I am coming from, and I can imagine some people wanted those jobs more than I wanted mine.
At no point did I suggest it was best to shut up and take it. The poster's response to the situation was entirely selfish and thoughtless much like your post. He could have quit his job and sued for minor damages without putting the company under. Its selfish behaviour like this that causes most of society's problems, he obviously didn't give a damn about people he worked with, they may not have appreciated the situation either but then they might have had 10 kids to bring up, been in heavy debt etc etc.
I thought they were accusing IBM of putting copyrighted material in an early version of source, wtf is this request for - it seemingly is unrelated....?
Mod parent up - this isn't really a sensation/issue since its only affecting illegal files. As long as its confined to just those files there isn't a problem, although we should find a way around it incase of future misuse by governments, competitors etc, but then its likely certain factions would use it to again help spread pirate warez/movies.....
Anybody feel that with its slowly diminishing market share that this is the start of its grab at a retirement fund because it can see the inevitable, i.e. for when its demand for products is so low it can't keep its behemoth self afloat and sues smaller companies to bring the money in?
My belief is that his abilities are derived from the throwing out all of his conventional knowledge acquired when he was young (via the epilectic fit). To compensate for this loss the remaining part of his brain needed to gain these skills again and consequenetly learnt to see numbers in colours and shapes and so forth. I believe that we can all be capable of the same sort of feat - its removing the behavioural patterns we've learnt that have served us well in the past (i.e. adding numbers together). As its easier to use these abilities ("algorithms") by default rather than learn new ones we stick with them. We already have this autistic ability to an extent E.g. Imagine a simple equation using only the number 1 Imagine its answer. Now imagine I said the answer was 2 - was this what you were thinking? My first thought if somebody asked this was 1+1, I believe this is how his brain works - the answer is available whilst the question is being formulated. Whilst his ability is on a much more grand scale, you intrinically know the answer to some questions without having to calculate them, e.g. 16+15, whats the answer? Did you count any of these or did you think in a pattern you were accustomed to? (e.g. two lots of 16bits = 32bit like a computer, but now minus 1, thats 31) I just wish I could throw out the conventional knowledge that makes me bad at mental arithmetic and replace it with his.
Nice chap, had his own server room and residences in an exclusive enclave in the uni accomodation. I wonder what this means for him and his future at the uni? I'll be damned if I can remember his Lubbs nick tho... (or if he even remembers who I am, a friend of Miss Sea Wild)
Think of users as primary school kids. Remember your progression from moving from picture books to black and white illustration with text to text only books? Its exactly the same with end users, except they don't want to make the transition from GUI to sleek simplistic GUI (read dev geek style window manager) to command line. They just can't hack it (pun intended) and thats the reason we have jobs, to make it easy for them, otherwise they'd be writing their own code...
Proof in the pudding that Sun is company that only changes when its dragged along kicking and screaming, instead of being at the forefront of new ideas (e.g. IBM). This will eventually be the companies downfall. Did you know Sun don't have a free JRE for Pocket PC? Did you also know that they have a finished version for the OS "Captain America" and won't release it? (Allowing Microsoft to get another foothold in another OS/dev market). Open source would have helped this, and there's been petitions for this JRE to be released but they still refuse. See this for more details Open letter to Sun for a Pocket PC JRE
You seem to be a very much "old school" programmer whereby you don't adapt to new tech. This isn't a bad thing, especially if what you know works well but how long do you think you can afford to not learn new skills like Java? The OO programming paradigm is an evolution of programming languages designed to make it easier to replace parts of code that need changing (new GUI, database code etc) and aid ease of reading and understanding. OO should be used everywhere imho as its good programming practice. On a final note, you don't want ONE developer knowing a huge project. What happens if that developer dies? It will take a new dev ages to learn all of that code, not only that but what if that one developer is actually somebody who writes poor code? I'd rather fix a few objects than rewrite an entire system. P.S. Java is no longer slow, its evolved a lot since 1.1 days. After a few minutes on a server it can actually run faster than native code due to the VM containing a runtime optimizing compiler.
I find it amusing that a threat to everyone thats a far bigger catastrophe than terrorism has no defence (I'm British, this is our spelling 8P ). In all likelyhood (imho) its the biggest continents that will suffer the most. The UK will either just be wiped out or get missed entirely (we've always had bad weather)...
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In the UK law cannot be applied retroactively, i.e. if it has been done before (copied and removed by libraries) they cannot apply the something like the DMCA now? Does US law not have something similar?
Now I've dabbled in compression (enough to write a basic compressor) and what Matt suggests I believe relies on an unproven axiom. He suggests AI would need to think like a human as we have understand the function P(s) where this hasn't yet been modelled in machines. However our understanding of the function P(s) relies on a lossy format, that is (e.g.) we can roughly remember what an image is and is show it again confirm that, but we cannot replicate it from one instance of viewing, even if we could, it wouldn't be a perfect copy (e.g. of an image of the Mona Lisa down to the millimetre). Lossy thinking would mean that some detail is left out, meaning if replicated in AI it would fail the test, so what Matt actually proposes is an improvement on human thinking (our thought process with perfect decompression), which as we don't understand the latter yet properly I believe is not yet possible. It might be our thought processes *rely* on the fact that we store memories lossy and which degrade over time, in which case it may not be possible to pass the benchmark at all (as it is for lossless compression).
Damn I wish I had mod points now - mod parent up!
This is why we shouldn't have a monopoly on operating systems, yet why it is "almost" state sponsored (local UK government is in bed with MS). All I want is Vista's External Memory Device (EMD) technology or similar in Linux and better game support (don't we all?) Incidentally the UK gov has declared its biometric ID card project will go ahead, albeit optional, unless you need a passport or renew. When take up is large enough it'll made compulsory, then I can see 20 years from now ID cards are implanted for convenience, when takeup is large enough it'll be compulsory. I won't be chipped like a pet dog. That on top of our country having a huge number of CCTV cameras recently installed and plans to track every car in the country.... Democracies and dictatorships are becoming very similar.
Personally I believe in the ability of self rectifying, the startup's board members and countless investors would not have been happy at losing (if priced properly ~50% profits) enough money to make them hurt without going under. This would very likely have prompted a change in management and a change in policy. I'll disagree all the same with your comments since I've been through three redundancies in the dot com bust years (due to administration - not due to the above) shortly after getting a degree. The fields I was in were highly technical (AI and GIS respectively), and I needed the experience in these rare companies. I didn't give a damn as long as I was paid well, on time etc etc, I could then move to a better job down the line. This is were I am coming from, and I can imagine some people wanted those jobs more than I wanted mine.
At no point did I suggest it was best to shut up and take it. The poster's response to the situation was entirely selfish and thoughtless much like your post. He could have quit his job and sued for minor damages without putting the company under. Its selfish behaviour like this that causes most of society's problems, he obviously didn't give a damn about people he worked with, they may not have appreciated the situation either but then they might have had 10 kids to bring up, been in heavy debt etc etc.
At no point did I
I thought they were accusing IBM of putting copyrighted material in an early version of source, wtf is this request for - it seemingly is unrelated....?
Mod parent up - this isn't really a sensation/issue since its only affecting illegal files. As long as its confined to just those files there isn't a problem, although we should find a way around it incase of future misuse by governments, competitors etc, but then its likely certain factions would use it to again help spread pirate warez/movies.....
If you're in the UK... http://www.jobstats.co.uk
You need to speak to my last boss... he was a Microsoft ISV. The passion came from seeing the money roll in.
My passion is helpdesk support and helping people with their Windows woes. I get first dibs.... think they'll let me play....?
Its not a company either Its Britsih Broadcasting Corporation
Anybody feel that with its slowly diminishing market share that this is the start of its grab at a retirement fund because it can see the inevitable, i.e. for when its demand for products is so low it can't keep its behemoth self afloat and sues smaller companies to bring the money in?
We did - its called Linux.... ;)
My belief is that his abilities are derived from the throwing out all of his conventional knowledge acquired when he was young (via the epilectic fit). To compensate for this loss the remaining part of his brain needed to gain these skills again and consequenetly learnt to see numbers in colours and shapes and so forth. I believe that we can all be capable of the same sort of feat - its removing the behavioural patterns we've learnt that have served us well in the past (i.e. adding numbers together). As its easier to use these abilities ("algorithms") by default rather than learn new ones we stick with them. We already have this autistic ability to an extent E.g.
Imagine a simple equation using only the number 1
Imagine its answer.
Now imagine I said the answer was 2 - was this what you were thinking?
My first thought if somebody asked this was 1+1, I believe this is how his brain works - the answer is available whilst the question is being formulated. Whilst his ability is on a much more grand scale, you intrinically know the answer to some questions without having to calculate them, e.g. 16+15, whats the answer? Did you count any of these or did you think in a pattern you were accustomed to? (e.g. two lots of 16bits = 32bit like a computer, but now minus 1, thats 31)
I just wish I could throw out the conventional knowledge that makes me bad at mental arithmetic and replace it with his.
Groovy baby!
But is it Windows 98 compatible?
Nice chap, had his own server room and residences in an exclusive enclave in the uni accomodation. I wonder what this means for him and his future at the uni? I'll be damned if I can remember his Lubbs nick tho... (or if he even remembers who I am, a friend of Miss Sea Wild)
Think of users as primary school kids. Remember your progression from moving from picture books to black and white illustration with text to text only books? Its exactly the same with end users, except they don't want to make the transition from GUI to sleek simplistic GUI (read dev geek style window manager) to command line. They just can't hack it (pun intended) and thats the reason we have jobs, to make it easy for them, otherwise they'd be writing their own code...
Thats cos Manchester And Lancaster Unis have their own backbone onto Super Janet iirc.
It already has on Pocket PC - Sun refuse to give away a free JRE for Pocket PC, despite the fact its already written - Project Captain America.
Proof in the pudding that Sun is company that only changes when its dragged along kicking and screaming, instead of being at the forefront of new ideas (e.g. IBM). This will eventually be the companies downfall. Did you know Sun don't have a free JRE for Pocket PC? Did you also know that they have a finished version for the OS "Captain America" and won't release it? (Allowing Microsoft to get another foothold in another OS/dev market). Open source would have helped this, and there's been petitions for this JRE to be released but they still refuse. See this for more details Open letter to Sun for a Pocket PC JRE
You seem to be a very much "old school" programmer whereby you don't adapt to new tech. This isn't a bad thing, especially if what you know works well but how long do you think you can afford to not learn new skills like Java? The OO programming paradigm is an evolution of programming languages designed to make it easier to replace parts of code that need changing (new GUI, database code etc) and aid ease of reading and understanding. OO should be used everywhere imho as its good programming practice. On a final note, you don't want ONE developer knowing a huge project. What happens if that developer dies? It will take a new dev ages to learn all of that code, not only that but what if that one developer is actually somebody who writes poor code? I'd rather fix a few objects than rewrite an entire system. P.S. Java is no longer slow, its evolved a lot since 1.1 days. After a few minutes on a server it can actually run faster than native code due to the VM containing a runtime optimizing compiler.
I find it amusing that a threat to everyone thats a far bigger catastrophe than terrorism has no defence (I'm British, this is our spelling 8P ). In all likelyhood (imho) its the biggest continents that will suffer the most. The UK will either just be wiped out or get missed entirely (we've always had bad weather)...