I think that TiVo makes watching TV even more of a passive activity. You do not have to remember when a show comes on, you don't have preview as many new shows to see if you're interested in them, etc... Perhaps there is also an exhibitionist aspect to TiVo viewers... they enjoy someone else seeing what shows they watch.
1. You cannot (?) afford commercial software. 2. It is impractical for you to continue writing your own software. 3. You cannot find open source software. ------- Conclusion: Steal commercial software! -)
let me just say that there's NO WAY that NASA could get to Mars by 2014,
Isn't that what they said in 1961?
From Kennedy's speach: First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.
At the risk of trolling, how does this new methodology adversely impact the consumer or the third party vendor. The consumer gets a better, more customized, _possibly_ more stable product. Additionally, the consumer has a wider choice in products. No one is forcing developers to customize CE. In fact, third party vendors are given a new opportunity to produce a better product. Finally, developers will invariably find bugs deep inside the 500,000 lines of code. If developers write patches for these bugs, CE could become the next BSD.
Step 1: Purchase private island
Step 2: Make private island autonomous country
Step 3: Cover island with free Wifi
Step 4: Implement secret anti-spam laws with Singapore-style penalties
Step 5: Wait for spammers to come
If scientists want to find 100 moons orbiting Jupiter, there are going to be many Slashdot articles on new Jovian moons. Thus, I propose we create a new icon for all of these articles.
A cognitive approach to machine neuroses would create self-monitoring systems that scan for inconsistent or dangerous orders and would set corrective actions in motion. Suppose we design and install a "smart" system in the car that continuously monitors for such conflicting instructions that might damage its brake and engine systems. When it detects such a condition, it may first try flashing a warning signal to the driver.
This sounds to me like the author is referring to deadlock, a condition where a set of processes or threads request resources that are held by other processes or threads in that set forming a cycle of resource holds and requests, the resources are not peremptable, etc... see for more details. We already have methods of detecting deadlock but because it happens so rarely in properly programmed systems (e.g. proper use of semaphores) that it is reserved for mission critical systems. See the Mars Path Finder incident for more details on critical systems deadlocking. My point is that deadlock is typically the result of random events and has nothing to do with systems becoming more "intelligent."
Perhaps a pseudo practical application would be doing the same thing except with CDRs. Considering the low price of media and burners and the unreliability of the media, doing a raid-5 with five separate CDR would allow for extremely fast, reliable and cheep storage.
I think the big point is that programming is an art
Art is nessecarliy useless. That's what separates art from craft. Basketry is not an art because bakests are functional things-- basketry is a craft, creating aesthetically significant functional, useful things (i.e. you can put things in a basket). Likewise architecture is not an art-- Corbusier said "a house is a machine for living in." While the crafts of architecture and basketry have non-functional elements (e.g. pilasters on a building or decorative weaving on a basket) they serve to express their object's function visually. On the other hand, a painting is useless-- it purpose is purely aesthetic and it has no potential functional use. Programming is functional. Programming is the process of coding an algorithm that completes a desired task. Thus, programming is not an art.
from Anthony Lane of The New Yorker Gollum, who guides Frodo on his quest, is white-skinned and blue-veined, like a moldering cheese, and his shrunken frame is topped by a triangular head with protruding eyes. Think of Ross Perot after ten years on the Atkins diet, and you're almost there.
http://orlijah.net/archive/article108.html
Hello Sir/Madam, while on your way to vote for Diamond Joe Quimby and donate to Guns for Tots, pick up some of our effective, 100% legal herbal Viagra substitute.
It sounds like a great way to sabotage someone's marriage/career/political appointment... open up trailerparkswappers.com on their computer a few times. This looks service looks like a bad idea on many different levels..
summary, computers will always be far superior in the opening and end-game, because they can play those parts of the game perfectly.
While computers memorize hundreds of openings, they are not programmed to improvise upon opening moves. There are simply too many permutations of possible moves for a computer to improvise effectively. Humans, however, can intuitively modify classical openings, giving them an advantage over computers. On the other hand, only a savant could memorize as many openings as a computer. Therefore, computers cannot play the opening game "perfectly."
A review that does not focus on the lack of English documentation (the most irrelevant thing when discussing a product that as of now, is only released in Japan) sums it up:
The Zaurus SL-C700 is an impressive PDA that departs from more traditional designs. The stellar display, mated with a comprehensive software suite, definitely impressed us and we look forward to production-level units of the C700. Pricing is estimated between $600 and $700, though that may change at the time of release.
Examining the site, I noticed no disclaimer. If this memo turns out to be a hoax and creators of the website did not properly shift the liability to the poster, the "RCK Group Inc." could face a mega-lawsuit from Sun.
Have anyone considered having an entire domain name as an atom in the do not email list as opposed to only individual email address? For instance, the administrator of goatfactory.com could simply request that *@goatfactory.com be added to the list. It would of having to submit joe@goatfactory.com, buyagoat@goatfactory.com, etc... as well as subsequently having to add each new email address that he assigns.
Sony announces WiFi Fileserver in the milling one format
05.02.2003 at 11:00 o'clock
MUNICH (COMPUTER WEEK) - Japanese electronics company Sony has a portable file server presented which, which kommunziert over Wireless LAN with PCS and PDAs. The "Fsv-pg1" works with a Linux based operating system and contains a 20-GB-Festplatte in the 2,5-Zoll-Format, 17 GB of it is available for user data. The equipment fits with masses of 83 x 155 x of 31 millimeters loosely into a hand and weighs 390 gram. For the enterprise all thing a power pack is necessary, the internal Akku serves only for baking UP purposes.
The inserted ACCESS POINT (IEEE 802.11b) can serve according to manufacturer up to 250 users at the same time. Access to the stored files is possible over ftp, CIFS (Common InterNet file system) or NFS. By a Ethernet Cradle available as accessories the equipment can connect accessing Clients by WLAN in addition with the InterNet. As safety functions the Fsv-pg1 incoming inspection coding with alternatively 64 or 128 bits offers, stored files can by password be protected.
On the Net & Com 2003 in Tokyo the equipment is presented today to the public for the first time. It is to come at the end of March for converted 585 dollar on the Japanese market, the Cradle costs again scarcely 60 dollar. Whether and when the equipment appears also in this country, is not well-known. (tc)
Slashdot Mirror
I think that TiVo makes watching TV even more of a passive activity. You do not have to remember when a show comes on, you don't have preview as many new shows to see if you're interested in them, etc... Perhaps there is also an exhibitionist aspect to TiVo viewers... they enjoy someone else seeing what shows they watch.
1. You cannot (?) afford commercial software.
2. It is impractical for you to continue writing your own software.
3. You cannot find open source software.
-------
Conclusion: Steal commercial software! -)
Its not the Washington Times its the Washington Post.
The computer that said no to drugs but yes to overclocking.
From Kennedy's speach:
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.
You could swap a few Secure Digital cards in between songs... On the Axim and iPaq you are able to read from a CF card and an SD card simultaneously.
At the risk of trolling, how does this new methodology adversely impact the consumer or the third party vendor. The consumer gets a better, more customized, _possibly_ more stable product. Additionally, the consumer has a wider choice in products. No one is forcing developers to customize CE. In fact, third party vendors are given a new opportunity to produce a better product. Finally, developers will invariably find bugs deep inside the 500,000 lines of code. If developers write patches for these bugs, CE could become the next BSD.
Step 1: Purchase private island Step 2: Make private island autonomous country Step 3: Cover island with free Wifi Step 4: Implement secret anti-spam laws with Singapore-style penalties Step 5: Wait for spammers to come
http://dol.uni-leipzig.de/pub/showDoc.Fulltext?lan g=en&doc=1996-24&format=text&compressi on=
Sample Code
AGENT a % elevator "a"
EXTENSIONAL PREDICATES
CREATE TABLE at( Floor INTEGER UNIQUE);
CREATE TABLE up( Floor INTEGER UNIQUE);
CREATE TABLE down( Floor INTEGER UNIQUE);
CREATE TABLE req( Floor INTEGER UNIQUE);
INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS
exists X: at(X) | up(X) | down(X);
DEFINE PERCEPTION EVENT reqTo( Floor INTEGER);
DEFINE PERCEPTION EVENT arrAt( Floor INTEGER);
DEFINE ACTION mvup() REALIZED BY 'call( go_up)';
DEFINE ACTION mvdown() REALIZED BY 'call( go_down)';
DEFINE ACTION halt() REALIZED BY 'call( halt)';
REACTION RULES
a1: DO( mvup), req(X) AND up(Y)
Y AND X0.
a3: up(X) 0. a5: DO( halt), at(X) AND not
req(X)
- RECV( arrAt(X)), req(X).
INITIAL BELIEFS at(3).
Moderation: +5 Karma Whore
Now that's the reason why and were included in the ColdFusion language.
If scientists want to find 100 moons orbiting Jupiter, there are going to be many Slashdot articles on new Jovian moons. Thus, I propose we create a new icon for all of these articles.
Step 2 is to let someone else pay you $20 Million pilot the craft. Mod parent up!
A cognitive approach to machine neuroses would create self-monitoring systems that scan for inconsistent or dangerous orders and would set corrective actions in motion. Suppose we design and install a "smart" system in the car that continuously monitors for such conflicting instructions that might damage its brake and engine systems. When it detects such a condition, it may first try flashing a warning signal to the driver.
This sounds to me like the author is referring to deadlock, a condition where a set of processes or threads request resources that are held by other processes or threads in that set forming a cycle of resource holds and requests, the resources are not peremptable, etc... see for more details. We already have methods of detecting deadlock but because it happens so rarely in properly programmed systems (e.g. proper use of semaphores) that it is reserved for mission critical systems. See the Mars Path Finder incident for more details on critical systems deadlocking. My point is that deadlock is typically the result of random events and has nothing to do with systems becoming more "intelligent."
Perhaps a pseudo practical application would be doing the same thing except with CDRs. Considering the low price of media and burners and the unreliability of the media, doing a raid-5 with five separate CDR would allow for extremely fast, reliable and cheep storage.
I think the big point is that programming is an art
Art is nessecarliy useless. That's what separates art from craft. Basketry is not an art because bakests are functional things-- basketry is a craft, creating aesthetically significant functional, useful things (i.e. you can put things in a basket). Likewise architecture is not an art-- Corbusier said "a house is a machine for living in." While the crafts of architecture and basketry have non-functional elements (e.g. pilasters on a building or decorative weaving on a basket) they serve to express their object's function visually. On the other hand, a painting is useless-- it purpose is purely aesthetic and it has no potential functional use. Programming is functional. Programming is the process of coding an algorithm that completes a desired task. Thus, programming is not an art.
You get serviced (like a horse)
from Anthony Lane of The New Yorker
Gollum, who guides Frodo on his quest, is white-skinned and blue-veined, like a moldering cheese, and his shrunken frame is topped by a triangular head with protruding eyes. Think of Ross Perot after ten years on the Atkins diet, and you're almost there.
http://orlijah.net/archive/article108.html
Hello Sir/Madam, while on your way to vote for Diamond Joe Quimby and donate to Guns for Tots, pick up some of our effective, 100% legal herbal Viagra substitute.
It sounds like a great way to sabotage someone's marriage/career/political appointment... open up trailerparkswappers.com on their computer a few times. This looks service looks like a bad idea on many different levels..
The phrase "For free" is not good English. One can receive something for _nothing_ or just _free_.
A review that does not focus on the lack of English documentation (the most irrelevant thing when discussing a product that as of now, is only released in Japan) sums it up:
The Zaurus SL-C700 is an impressive PDA that departs from more traditional designs. The stellar display, mated with a comprehensive software suite, definitely impressed us and we look forward to production-level units of the C700. Pricing is estimated between $600 and $700, though that may change at the time of release.
Examining the site, I noticed no disclaimer. If this memo turns out to be a hoax and creators of the website did not properly shift the liability to the poster, the "RCK Group Inc." could face a mega-lawsuit from Sun.
Have anyone considered having an entire domain name as an atom in the do not email list as opposed to only individual email address? For instance, the administrator of goatfactory.com could simply request that *@goatfactory.com be added to the list. It would of having to submit joe@goatfactory.com, buyagoat@goatfactory.com, etc... as well as subsequently having to add each new email address that he assigns.
Here's the babelfish translation
Sony announces WiFi Fileserver in the milling one format 05.02.2003 at 11:00 o'clock MUNICH (COMPUTER WEEK) - Japanese electronics company Sony has a portable file server presented which, which kommunziert over Wireless LAN with PCS and PDAs. The "Fsv-pg1" works with a Linux based operating system and contains a 20-GB-Festplatte in the 2,5-Zoll-Format, 17 GB of it is available for user data. The equipment fits with masses of 83 x 155 x of 31 millimeters loosely into a hand and weighs 390 gram. For the enterprise all thing a power pack is necessary, the internal Akku serves only for baking UP purposes. The inserted ACCESS POINT (IEEE 802.11b) can serve according to manufacturer up to 250 users at the same time. Access to the stored files is possible over ftp, CIFS (Common InterNet file system) or NFS. By a Ethernet Cradle available as accessories the equipment can connect accessing Clients by WLAN in addition with the InterNet. As safety functions the Fsv-pg1 incoming inspection coding with alternatively 64 or 128 bits offers, stored files can by password be protected. On the Net & Com 2003 in Tokyo the equipment is presented today to the public for the first time. It is to come at the end of March for converted 585 dollar on the Japanese market, the Cradle costs again scarcely 60 dollar. Whether and when the equipment appears also in this country, is not well-known. (tc)