One thing I note, however, is that the games section is not in the slashboxes yet. Hopefully this will be remedied soon.
Also, why is it that the Collapse Stories preference works exactly the opposite of the way it is indicated? Collapse Stories implies that I only get main stories. Unchecking that should get me all stories from all sections.
I had to check it to get all stories from all sections. That's kida opposite, isn't it? All stories from all sections should be the *default* preference, too.
Just a guess, but is it complaining because of a lack of guaranteed initialization?
Even though Java is *supposed* to initialize to null, there is no real guarantee that this will actually happen. Without explicit initialization to null, some JVM could just give you whatver data was in some register, which is more than likely *not* null. It's good that it's complaining, if that's the complaint.
American Greetings currently (I think) holds the copyright for Strawberry Shortcake. If you click on one of the mirrors, you'll see Penny Arcade's take on American McGee's *next* game, in which Ms. Shortcake is quite the little sadist.
So American Greetings is essently protecting their copyrights to Strawberry Shortcake. Groundlessly, because as the article stated, it's a work of parody. The funny thing is, it's *supposed* to be a poking fun at American McGee. I'm sure PA was prepared for any backlash from them. Getting hammered by a greeting card company probably surprised PA quite a bit.
And, to top it off, PA is now getting hit with a slashdotting, as if PA didn't already have bandwidth problems!
Think about it? This eliminates the overhead involved in *publishing* the software. You know.. burning onto CD, packaging, manuals (everyone loves manuals), shipping. Add to that the fact that in order to sell packaged software you have to make sure it gets *everywhere* which means that you loose publishing costs on software that doesn't get bought. I think in the end, it'll wash out to less expense for everyone involved. Publishing costs are minimized, and indeed eaten by the distributor, who gets to save on internal shipping costs and shelfspace, and there is no loss for unsold product because you make the product to order.
It's a damn good system, and I'm just sorry I didn't think it up and patent it before Apple/CompUSA did.:)
... we can get on with the discussion. I missed the first article, so I get to comment on this one, and my comment is this:
Potentially a great way for small-time developers to get their software to the masses. It reduces or even totally eliminates the need for a publisher. There are no upfront costs, you just pay a portion of your sale to Apple / CompUSA.
Er... I wasn't trying to discount gyroscopic motion, but the problem is that the 2nd flywheel (at least in the animations) is clearly being "hit" by the main flywheel to transfer energy; it looked almost like a two-tooth gear. That looks to me like it would substantially reduce the energy in the main flywheel from the impact, even despite the little ramp built in.
And, as I said, this was also despite friction, which would also be a necessary thing to worry about given that the flywheel is mounted somewhere.
How does the main flywheel maintain its rotation? If it's transferring energy to another wheel, it will slow down, friction notwithstanding. One would think that pistons would still be needed to keep the big wheel turning.
Technically, they're they same thing. Bash lets you run programs via a Command Line Interface. A KDE lets you do it from a Graphical Interface. The only difference is cosmetic. Both access the kernel directly to run their programs, both offer access to unique, shell-only functions, both have programs that can only run in their own environment.
No, MS's OSes don't work without Explorer, because there is no alternative. On Linux, the OS works just fine because there are plenty of alternatives to BASH or KDE. KDE can be interpreted as a shell just like BASH, but with Windows, the *only* shell is Explorer. Without KDE, Linux users still have X or Gnome for graphical shells, or BASH TC, Z, Korn, etc. for CLI shells.
It depends on how those electrical impulses are routed. The way PCs are designed these days, those impulses are routed in such a way that what we term sentience will never actually occur on a PC. Artificial Sentience is a much more of a hardware problem than a software problem.
Our brains, ARIANABSIAWFBBH*, are highly parallel. Time-division multiplexing may simulate this, but no matter how fast CPUs become, an upperlimit on "parallelity" will be reached which is far less than what is attainable by even, say, dogs. The closest we'll ever come to AS is Neural Networks, which simulate the parallel nature fairly well, but getting the "parallelity" of those to human levels is cost prohibitive, and still doesn't solve the problem of simulating the senses, which are an integral part of true sentient intelligence.
* And Remember, I Am Not A Brain Surgeon; I Am Working From Basic Biology Here.
True AS will require an artificial brain (maybe it could be EPROMmed;-)) with "ports" for the senses.
Internet Exlporer is tightly integrated with Explorer, which is an application that the OS uses. It's essentially a shell for interacting with the kernel. You might as well say the BASH Shell is an integral part of the Linux OS.
Now, I'll grant you, Explorer is the only file/window manager (read: shell) you get with a Windows PC, so removing it will essentially break your computer, but it *could* be replaced by a program that did the same work. Er, if you could know all the calls Explorer makes to other applications / the kernal and all the calls other applications make to Explorer that is, which is unlikely given the way MS lords over its code, but theoretically it *could* happen.
I've always hated the Turing test. It's too subjective, and has forced people into believing that sentience (what the lay-person thinks AI is) can be simulated. It forced AI junkies to think the road to AI was paved by the perfect grammar for English; a pipe dream to be sure.
AI is not being able to have a conversation with your computer, AI is just algorithms -- computing the right answer to complex problems as quickly as possible.
What most people think of as AI is really Artificial Sentience, and the more I learn about computer hardware the more I realize that it will not happen on my PC.
To be fair though, these updates are nearly always for applications, not for the operating system.
Do you mean Redhat's updates, or Microsoft's? Because, to be really fair, you have to note that most of the MS security updates aren't part of the OS either.
Slashdot Mirror
And it's only a few steps until Kevin Bacon is locked up.
I like the colors. I say keep 'em.
One thing I note, however, is that the games section is not in the slashboxes yet. Hopefully this will be remedied soon.
Also, why is it that the Collapse Stories preference works exactly the opposite of the way it is indicated? Collapse Stories implies that I only get main stories. Unchecking that should get me all stories from all sections.
I had to check it to get all stories from all sections. That's kida opposite, isn't it? All stories from all sections should be the *default* preference, too.
No, I like it! More purple!
:D
Change the header highlight to a really fine, light purple. Say... #EACBEF That'd be cool.
Just a guess, but is it complaining because of a lack of guaranteed initialization?
Even though Java is *supposed* to initialize to null, there is no real guarantee that this will actually happen. Without explicit initialization to null, some JVM could just give you whatver data was in some register, which is more than likely *not* null. It's good that it's complaining, if that's the complaint.
American Greetings currently (I think) holds the copyright for Strawberry Shortcake. If you click on one of the mirrors, you'll see Penny Arcade's take on American McGee's *next* game, in which Ms. Shortcake is quite the little sadist.
So American Greetings is essently protecting their copyrights to Strawberry Shortcake. Groundlessly, because as the article stated, it's a work of parody. The funny thing is, it's *supposed* to be a poking fun at American McGee. I'm sure PA was prepared for any backlash from them. Getting hammered by a greeting card company probably surprised PA quite a bit.
And, to top it off, PA is now getting hit with a slashdotting, as if PA didn't already have bandwidth problems!
Please, can somebody tell me why the topic is listed as "Biotech" and not "It's funny. Laugh."?
Seriously, does anyone *actually* believe that Cloneaid is anything other than the Psychic Friends Network with a new package?
How dare they stop supporting an old version like that? What's their problem? Who do they think they are, MICROSOFT?!?!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!
Ebay already has it. ;)
Ironically, it looks alot like Voyager, which was tooled up by the CEO of the company that built this craft...
... most especially since it's *gigawatt*....
Excellent point. Perhaps they have a kinkos on-site to do those up too. ;)
It's the state of fantasy.
Think about it? This eliminates the overhead involved in *publishing* the software. You know.. burning onto CD, packaging, manuals (everyone loves manuals), shipping. Add to that the fact that in order to sell packaged software you have to make sure it gets *everywhere* which means that you loose publishing costs on software that doesn't get bought. I think in the end, it'll wash out to less expense for everyone involved. Publishing costs are minimized, and indeed eaten by the distributor, who gets to save on internal shipping costs and shelfspace, and there is no loss for unsold product because you make the product to order.
:)
It's a damn good system, and I'm just sorry I didn't think it up and patent it before Apple/CompUSA did.
... we can get on with the discussion. I missed the first article, so I get to comment on this one, and my comment is this:
:)
Potentially a great way for small-time developers to get their software to the masses. It reduces or even totally eliminates the need for a publisher. There are no upfront costs, you just pay a portion of your sale to Apple / CompUSA.
Daddy like.
Er... I wasn't trying to discount gyroscopic motion, but the problem is that the 2nd flywheel (at least in the animations) is clearly being "hit" by the main flywheel to transfer energy; it looked almost like a two-tooth gear. That looks to me like it would substantially reduce the energy in the main flywheel from the impact, even despite the little ramp built in.
And, as I said, this was also despite friction, which would also be a necessary thing to worry about given that the flywheel is mounted somewhere.
How does the main flywheel maintain its rotation? If it's transferring energy to another wheel, it will slow down, friction notwithstanding. One would think that pistons would still be needed to keep the big wheel turning.
Thank god they can't smell it either. ;)
It would then cease to be a natural language and become, essentially, a programming language.
I just wanted to see the restaraunt wars...
Technically, they're they same thing. Bash lets you run programs via a Command Line Interface. A KDE lets you do it from a Graphical Interface. The only difference is cosmetic. Both access the kernel directly to run their programs, both offer access to unique, shell-only functions, both have programs that can only run in their own environment.
No, MS's OSes don't work without Explorer, because there is no alternative. On Linux, the OS works just fine because there are plenty of alternatives to BASH or KDE. KDE can be interpreted as a shell just like BASH, but with Windows, the *only* shell is Explorer. Without KDE, Linux users still have X or Gnome for graphical shells, or BASH TC, Z, Korn, etc. for CLI shells.
It depends on how those electrical impulses are routed. The way PCs are designed these days, those impulses are routed in such a way that what we term sentience will never actually occur on a PC. Artificial Sentience is a much more of a hardware problem than a software problem.
;-)) with "ports" for the senses.
Our brains, ARIANABSIAWFBBH*, are highly parallel. Time-division multiplexing may simulate this, but no matter how fast CPUs become, an upperlimit on "parallelity" will be reached which is far less than what is attainable by even, say, dogs. The closest we'll ever come to AS is Neural Networks, which simulate the parallel nature fairly well, but getting the "parallelity" of those to human levels is cost prohibitive, and still doesn't solve the problem of simulating the senses, which are an integral part of true sentient intelligence.
* And Remember, I Am Not A Brain Surgeon; I Am Working From Basic Biology Here.
True AS will require an artificial brain (maybe it could be EPROMmed
Internet Exlporer is tightly integrated with Explorer, which is an application that the OS uses. It's essentially a shell for interacting with the kernel. You might as well say the BASH Shell is an integral part of the Linux OS.
Now, I'll grant you, Explorer is the only file/window manager (read: shell) you get with a Windows PC, so removing it will essentially break your computer, but it *could* be replaced by a program that did the same work. Er, if you could know all the calls Explorer makes to other applications / the kernal and all the calls other applications make to Explorer that is, which is unlikely given the way MS lords over its code, but theoretically it *could* happen.
I've always hated the Turing test. It's too subjective, and has forced people into believing that sentience (what the lay-person thinks AI is) can be simulated. It forced AI junkies to think the road to AI was paved by the perfect grammar for English; a pipe dream to be sure.
AI is not being able to have a conversation with your computer, AI is just algorithms -- computing the right answer to complex problems as quickly as possible.
What most people think of as AI is really Artificial Sentience, and the more I learn about computer hardware the more I realize that it will not happen on my PC.