OGRE3D a very high quality 3d engine is reaching 1.0 this week. Open source middleware shaves years off of development time and is generally overlooked.
Emotions are simply logical shortcuts that evolved because they're right more than half of the time. Sabre-Tooth tiger in a bush? Fear dictates that you run and maybe live. Logic does the same but takes a little longer, hence fear/adrenaline.
Why would we want to push our shortcomings on creatures that have the potential to be a lot smarter than we are. If evil is illogical maybe heartless robots are a good idea.
If you want people to accept science you don't say, "you're stupid, now listen." You let the microwaves, artificial hearts and flying cars do the talking.
You completely missed my point. I said that by dividing people you create an environment where people try to ban the teaching of evolution just out of spite.
Also, if you're going to call someone "an idiot" it helps to use good grammar.
It hurts public perception of the scientific method which leads to things like school boards preventing the teaching of evolution. That scares me. I think that advances in medicine due to science that save lives are more likely to create respect for science than something like this that just pisses people off by questioning their most deeply held beliefs.
Faith and science are two totally different and incompatible methods of acquiring knowledge. Disproving faith with science isn't going to change minds it's just going to make a whole bunch of people even less likely to have faith in the scientific method.
If this thing had a laptop sized HDD inside it'd be only marginally bigger but would make a huge difference in terms of capabilities.
They need to either take out the crippled video recording feature and make the whole device smaller and cheaper or they need to add a HDD and make it competitive with "real" camcorders.
A lot of people complain that this is playing god but household dust is mainly just dead skin cells. Does that make the grooves between the keys on my laptop the killing fields? Nope. People say our brains are wet machines. I think we should change perspective.
Machines have been "wet" for billions of years and we come along and make some robots and religions and add an adjective to label the norm. But then how would we label a non biological sentient robot with a drinking problem? Extra dry?
Crawl out from under that 18th century printing press. Dan Rather/CBS are part of the "the media" so you automatically put stock in their "journalism"? Do you think Rathergate is a new media conspiracy? Or have you not been reading the news for the last 7 months?
Kewl!! How much would it cost to buy a render of the southern California coastline with a 70m rise? I'd like to put in in my blog, with a link to your site of course.
Want to make some money? Calculate how much the oceans will rise when all of the ice on Antarctica and in the north pole melts and due to the expansion of water from the temp. increase.
Then buy land 1,000 (or whatever) feet above sea-level and you'll have beachfront property in a few years.
Of course you're going to need a big sea-wall for the 80ft waves cause by the gigantic hurricanes...
The movie Outbreak has a happy ending. But what if it happened in real life and someone that hadn't been blown up by the daisy cutter escaped resulting in the end of humanity. Robots would take a long term view and decide what was best for everybody and drop the bomb. We as humans are on our high horses and we're riding towards a lowhanging branch. The robots will be in the trees with chainsaws yet we'll criticize them for being noisy.
There is a ton of good legal content that will be created once the bandwidth issue is solved. It's sad that the default comment is "well this sucks because the **AA will still be able to track me down when I use it to break the law." Most of use see the cultural usefullness of these things but the handfull of anarchists among us are hurting the movement.
The fact that this can get through firewalls and that it won't fail under heavy load (as happens with bittorrent trackers) are the important things.
...BitTorrent is also used for legal purposes. As people figure out how to make money with it I predict that the majority of BT traffic will be legal. I used it recently to distribute Tsunami videos on my blog. 30,000 visitors a day over the last week and I agree that its centralized nature is its downfall, but not for legal reasons. BitTorrent trackers apparently use a ton of bandwidth and they're not Apache friendly if you're using BlogTorrent. We need decentralized or distributed tracking before BT really takes over.
"They're even running interference on municipalities who are trying to build their own fiber networks!"
Call me crazy but didn't state run business(communism) fail due to inefficiency? Obviously capitalism isn't perfect but take a hard look at the double digitunemployment in Europe right now for example. Why not have the government get into the car manufacturing business too?
Free markets create innovation better than centralized planning. That's good for you as a consumer even if it takes a little while longer to materialize without the govt.
The slashdot FAQ says "For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off... It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented. "
They're linking to a.pdf directly, that's the problem. Also, that was last modified in June of 2000, almost a half decade ago. Surely that's enough time to thing something through, even in great detail.
Why on earth doesn't Slashdot set up a mirror first then link to that instead of bringing down people's websites? Bit/BlogTorrent are free last I checked. Linking to a 2.5MB file?! It's almost like they want the site to go offline.
There was a guy with Tsunami Videos on his blog which ended up costing him $1,000 before he knew what hit him. Does Slashdot compensate those with huge bandwidth bills? or give any warning prior to linking to something like a pdf?
I'm the guy with the torrent blog. The tracker is not down. We have over 2,000 downloading right now and the number just increased. Just be patient when you first open the torrent.
Thanks
Hmm, according to the tracker http://www.downhillbattle.org/labs/battletorrent/d emo/
there are over 2,000 people downloading right now and I'm seeding with no problems.
You know, BitTorrent isn't all that bad when used with extensions like BlogTorrent. For instance, a couple of days ago I used BlogTorrent to host a compilation of Tsunami footage and media on my blog. All of the usual mirrors wilted under the load but my torrent just kept humming along.
I put a big fat link up that says "Don't have BitTorrent? Click HERE" That's about as simple as it gets. In two days my humble blog has distributed upwards of 3 Terabytes of data. Most of it from first time BitTorrent users. Having a distributed tracker is really only important if you're trading illegal files unless of course you have a flakey tracker. Maybe we just need legitimate sources of content before BitTorrent rears its head.
Wow, just tested it and I was getting over 400KBytes/second down. That's the first time I've seen a download that fast, thanks for seeding everybody. I'm compiling some more footage that I'm going to put in TsunamiTorrentV2. If anybody has suggestions for content that's not already included please post a comment on my blog.
The guys over at India's department of Space, National Remote Sensing Agency posted a link to an 8MB powerpoint slide of satellite images of the affected areas which effectively crippled their server due to the demand.
Some of us readers over at Tsunamihelp.blogspot.com mananged to get some mirrors up here and here.
I also created a.torrent which includes the images(in a PowerPoint presentation) as well as a bunch of footage of the tsunami that has been going around bringing down servers. Grab the.Torrent. Please grab the.torrent unless you're really lazy, the other mirrors will probably be tried first by those who really need the data. More seeders needed for that.torrent, leave your BT clients running please.
The most searched name in 2004 was Britney Spears. The following quote is ridiculous regardless of the sitting president.
Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.
Slashdot Mirror
For god's sake did anybody running this site really think that a direct link to a 38 meg ppt wouldn't bring down that server?
Can someone please reply with sites that are like slashdot but not run by monkeys?
OGRE3D a very high quality 3d engine is reaching 1.0 this week. Open source middleware shaves years off of development time and is generally overlooked.
Emotions are simply logical shortcuts that evolved because they're right more than half of the time. Sabre-Tooth tiger in a bush? Fear dictates that you run and maybe live. Logic does the same but takes a little longer, hence fear/adrenaline. Why would we want to push our shortcomings on creatures that have the potential to be a lot smarter than we are. If evil is illogical maybe heartless robots are a good idea.
Shiiizen, just bought the thing for $30 and read your comment :)
If you want people to accept science you don't say, "you're stupid, now listen." You let the microwaves, artificial hearts and flying cars do the talking. You completely missed my point. I said that by dividing people you create an environment where people try to ban the teaching of evolution just out of spite. Also, if you're going to call someone "an idiot" it helps to use good grammar.
It hurts public perception of the scientific method which leads to things like school boards preventing the teaching of evolution. That scares me. I think that advances in medicine due to science that save lives are more likely to create respect for science than something like this that just pisses people off by questioning their most deeply held beliefs.
Faith and science are two totally different and incompatible methods of acquiring knowledge. Disproving faith with science isn't going to change minds it's just going to make a whole bunch of people even less likely to have faith in the scientific method.
If this thing had a laptop sized HDD inside it'd be only marginally bigger but would make a huge difference in terms of capabilities.
They need to either take out the crippled video recording feature and make the whole device smaller and cheaper or they need to add a HDD and make it competitive with "real" camcorders.
A lot of people complain that this is playing god but household dust is mainly just dead skin cells. Does that make the grooves between the keys on my laptop the killing fields? Nope. People say our brains are wet machines. I think we should change perspective. Machines have been "wet" for billions of years and we come along and make some robots and religions and add an adjective to label the norm. But then how would we label a non biological sentient robot with a drinking problem? Extra dry?
Crawl out from under that 18th century printing press. Dan Rather/CBS are part of the "the media" so you automatically put stock in their "journalism"? Do you think Rathergate is a new media conspiracy? Or have you not been reading the news for the last 7 months?
Kewl!! How much would it cost to buy a render of the southern California coastline with a 70m rise? I'd like to put in in my blog, with a link to your site of course.
Want to make some money? Calculate how much the oceans will rise when all of the ice on Antarctica and in the north pole melts and due to the expansion of water from the temp. increase.
Then buy land 1,000 (or whatever) feet above sea-level and you'll have beachfront property in a few years.
Of course you're going to need a big sea-wall for the 80ft waves cause by the gigantic hurricanes...
The movie Outbreak has a happy ending. But what if it happened in real life and someone that hadn't been blown up by the daisy cutter escaped resulting in the end of humanity. Robots would take a long term view and decide what was best for everybody and drop the bomb. We as humans are on our high horses and we're riding towards a lowhanging branch. The robots will be in the trees with chainsaws yet we'll criticize them for being noisy.
There is a ton of good legal content that will be created once the bandwidth issue is solved. It's sad that the default comment is "well this sucks because the **AA will still be able to track me down when I use it to break the law." Most of use see the cultural usefullness of these things but the handfull of anarchists among us are hurting the movement.
The fact that this can get through firewalls and that it won't fail under heavy load (as happens with bittorrent trackers) are the important things.
...BitTorrent is also used for legal purposes. As people figure out how to make money with it I predict that the majority of BT traffic will be legal. I used it recently to distribute Tsunami videos on my blog. 30,000 visitors a day over the last week and I agree that its centralized nature is its downfall, but not for legal reasons. BitTorrent trackers apparently use a ton of bandwidth and they're not Apache friendly if you're using BlogTorrent. We need decentralized or distributed tracking before BT really takes over.
"They're even running interference on municipalities who are trying to build their own fiber networks!"
Call me crazy but didn't state run business(communism) fail due to inefficiency? Obviously capitalism isn't perfect but take a hard look at the double digit unemployment in Europe right now for example. Why not have the government get into the car manufacturing business too?
Free markets create innovation better than centralized planning. That's good for you as a consumer even if it takes a little while longer to materialize without the govt.
The slashdot FAQ says "For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off... It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented. "
.pdf directly, that's the problem. Also, that was last modified in June of 2000, almost a half decade ago. Surely that's enough time to thing something through, even in great detail.
They're linking to a
Why on earth doesn't Slashdot set up a mirror first then link to that instead of bringing down people's websites? Bit/BlogTorrent are free last I checked. Linking to a 2.5MB file?! It's almost like they want the site to go offline.
There was a guy with Tsunami Videos on his blog which ended up costing him $1,000 before he knew what hit him. Does Slashdot compensate those with huge bandwidth bills? or give any warning prior to linking to something like a pdf?
I'm the guy with the torrent blog. The tracker is not down. We have over 2,000 downloading right now and the number just increased. Just be patient when you first open the torrent. Thanks
Hmm, according to the tracker http://www.downhillbattle.org/labs/battletorrent/d emo/
there are over 2,000 people downloading right now and I'm seeding with no problems.
You know, BitTorrent isn't all that bad when used with extensions like BlogTorrent. For instance, a couple of days ago I used BlogTorrent to host a compilation of Tsunami footage and media on my blog. All of the usual mirrors wilted under the load but my torrent just kept humming along.
I put a big fat link up that says "Don't have BitTorrent? Click HERE" That's about as simple as it gets. In two days my humble blog has distributed upwards of 3 Terabytes of data. Most of it from first time BitTorrent users. Having a distributed tracker is really only important if you're trading illegal files unless of course you have a flakey tracker. Maybe we just need legitimate sources of content before BitTorrent rears its head.
Here it is converted to a .pdf
Wow, just tested it and I was getting over 400KBytes/second down. That's the first time I've seen a download that fast, thanks for seeding everybody. I'm compiling some more footage that I'm going to put in TsunamiTorrentV2. If anybody has suggestions for content that's not already included please post a comment on my blog .
The guys over at India's department of Space, National Remote Sensing Agency posted a link to an 8MB powerpoint slide of satellite images of the affected areas which effectively crippled their server due to the demand. Some of us readers over at Tsunamihelp.blogspot.com mananged to get some mirrors up here and here. I also created a .torrent which includes the images(in a PowerPoint presentation) as well as a bunch of footage of the tsunami that has been going around bringing down servers. Grab the .Torrent. Please grab the .torrent unless you're really lazy, the other mirrors will probably be tried first by those who really need the data. More seeders needed for that .torrent, leave your BT clients running please.
The most searched name in 2004 was Britney Spears. The following quote is ridiculous regardless of the sitting president.
Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.