Too many predictions focused on AI that is far off
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He's making a couple of jumps with some predictions:
By 2025, there will be more robots than people in developed countries. By 2030, robots will become mentally and physically superior to people -- and perhaps unwilling to tolerate the existence of their human creators.
So he's saying that we'll have self-aware robots in 23 years. This seems pretty unrealistic to me, being that we have yet to design a computer that has demonstrated anything close to human conciousness.
He predicts that humanoid robots will fill factory jobs by 2007. By 2015, robots will be able to take on almost any job in hospitals or homes.
2007 isn't that far off. If humanoid robots are going to fill factory jobs, wouldn't we be seeing some humanoid today?
And why humanoid? Seems like the current factory robots (massive robots at the auto factories, for example) are doing pretty well without a humanoid design.
They now claim that there will be no issues playing it but you will lose quality if you try to copy. I'm just wondering how it is that you can play it on a system at perfect quality, but when you copy it things don't sound right. Do they not know about optical output?
It's not about optical output, silly. When they find out that you made a copy, Roger-- The RIAA Enforcer, comes to your house and rubs a key across your copied disk. Therefore, you will lose quality.
As if the pain of losing a CDR isn't enough, the noise made during this scrating is supposed to be untollerable.
Losing 1 CDR, the CD Scratch Noise, and Roger's body oder will prevent you h4x0rz from copying CD's in the future...
Crap man! You should have warned people about that, you're such a troll. **WORSE** then the goat sex people!
I did EXACTLY as the previous poster stated, stuck a big magnet to the slot machine, and then my monitor started changing colors. I took the magnet away (and stuck it back onto my fridge) and now I have a GIANT PURPLE SPOT on my screen. I reboot the computer, and nothing happens.
I hope he comes to his senses and refrains from this kind of petty vendettas.
You are right, he is immature. With this./ story, he is now famous (for at least 15 minutes, anyways).I bet you 1 beer that he will use this to boost his petty vendetta.
Yay. Immaturity and fame, what a great combination!
The car you are looking at is called the 'Sparrow'. . It is manufactured by Corbin Motors of San Francisco (actually, their main factory/headquarters is in Hollister, CA, 30 miles south of San Jose; but few people know where Hollister is). It's a one person vehicle. It has a 60 mile range and can go up to 60 mph. Cost is $14-16,000 It's available in North America, Europe & Asia.
I've sat in a Sparrow, but I've never driven one. It's a comfortable, but spartan interior.
Corbin Motors deal mostly with motorcycles, but has this small electric vehicle business on the side (and good luck to them!).
Their main showroom is located 1.5 blocks from the 'South Park' area in South of Market in San Francisco. They are surrounded by a bunch of former dotcom buildings (and a few surviving dotcoms, like mine:) .
I used it on my Sparc 5 / Solaris 8 workstation at work, but it's dog slow, and many of the more advanced apps don't work (Like the silly panel apps like the Gdict lookup box, the CPU & monitor graphs; but also more advanced apps like Gnome-Pilot ) .
Also, many of the Sun packages have not changed in months, even though some of the apps and packages have seen heavy development since Sun's Gnome release.
My guess is that the Sun Gnome developers are working on Gnome2.0 instead. Really, I don't know what they are doing... there are no Solaris specific mailing lists to monitor, and there are few mentions of Solaris Gnome on the Gnome mailinglists.
I use Ximian Gnome on Solaris. It's faster & more stable then Sun's Gnome, and more packages work (But not Gnome-pilot, which is what I need for my work). But, you are subject to the whims & slow connections of red-carpet.
So, to prevent AOL from making a soundbyte out of Linux, we need more different linux pronunciations, like like we have more different linux distrobutions. Please keep up the good work!
it's not like there's any advantage of making everything out of plastercine!
Apparently there is some advantage, otherwise Nick Park wouldn't spend so much time working in plastercine.
I've seen "Wrong Trousers", I've seen "Final Fantasy". Both were created from a different medium (stop animation vs computer graphics). Both movies are great examples of what can be done with the medium.
But Wrong Trousers had a depth to the animation-- There were things going on in the background... the expression on the characters faces... the Pengiun was evil, and you knew it. My 2 year old Nephew knew it.
Final Fantasy was a fun and groundbreaking movie, but it lacked detail. Yes, their hair moved realistically, but the characters were cold, their expressions were hard to read, the background scenes were cluttered and hard to make out. The only reason I could tell that there was any attraction between the lead women & lead man was because of the dialogue. If the mute was on, I couldn't tell you *what* was going on. Not so with the Wallace & Gromit movies...
Comparing those two movies, I would say that there isn't much advantage to using computer animation over plastercine ! (not yet, anyways).
I want to find a place that sells sexy electronic components, neon-colored jumpers, clear-plastic power cables. Think Ikea, think iMac... I want it for some costumes and to decorate my Bicycle for critical mass (I have blinky lights, I have EL wire, I just need some damn sexy wires!)
What will the radiation levels be in 1000-25,000 years, after some canisters get damaged by an earthquake or flood, long after the politicians who set up Yucca mountain are dead?
"Donald E. Knuth has released "Pre-Fascicle 2b: Generating all permutations" from TAOCP Volume 4. It will be section 7.2.1.2 of the final work. Oh, and Volume 4 may now fill *four* subvolumes. Send in bugs, get checks for $2.56, tell the grandkids."
Michael, if I said this to my grandkids they would throw me in the insane asylum for spewing gibberish.
That sentance makes *zero* sense to neophytes, and I doubt it makes sense to experienced *phytes in the industry you are talking about (What industry are you talking about? Programming? Cryptology? DNA sequencing?).
Who is Donald Knuth anyways? Wasn't he the head Animator behind the "Secrets of Nimh" cartoon & the "Dragon's Lair" & "Space Quest" video games?
Your mouse hand hurts becuase you use your right hand for the mouse, and you used your right hand to hit the...period...button...a...bunch...of...extra...time s.
Try using your *left* hand to hit the period button, or try using a left handed mouse, or try using another character available to your right hand. !!!exlamation!!!marks!!!work!!!fine!!!don't!!!you! !!think!!!?
Of course, if you're left handed, this won't work and you're screwed. Just give up your computer work and go pick apples for a living, you sinister left-handed person.
Better yet, you can use the emacs sequence M-x C-r 3.. in place of three dots. Emacs works wonders, don't you think?
The individual packages are just that, individual pieces of a platform. For users who have slow modem connections this is a godsend. Also many people do not want to get the whole platform.
There is another group of people who want a version of Gnome which is easy to install that is not Ximian Gnome.
KDE is easy to install: You download several RPMs or several tar.gz files & unpackage them. Same thing with Xwindows.
Gnome, OTOH, can a real pain to download & install.
Granted, I haven't tried this since the 1.2.0 days, but I remember that it took me hours to find a working ftp mirror which had all of the right packages, and I was never able to statisfy all RPM dependancies from a single FTP site.
That's why so many people rely on Ximian to provide the Gnome: They have great packaging, and Ximian is simple to install.
I keep hearing this rumor of GTK running on Win32, but all I can find is Gimp on Win32 and these, which look more like geek-hobby-project then a stable product that a company can rely on (Note, I'm *not* trying to insult Tor at all, but in his words "I work on this project in my spare time...don't hold your breath")
Can someone please provide some real links for *real* 'cross platform' GTK projects ?
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He's making a couple of jumps with some predictions:
By 2025, there will be more robots than people in developed countries. By 2030, robots will become mentally and physically superior to people -- and perhaps unwilling to tolerate the existence of their human creators.
So he's saying that we'll have self-aware robots in 23 years. This seems pretty unrealistic to me, being that we have yet to design a computer that has demonstrated anything close to human conciousness.
He predicts that humanoid robots will fill factory jobs by 2007. By 2015, robots will be able to take on almost any job in hospitals or homes.
2007 isn't that far off. If humanoid robots are going to fill factory jobs, wouldn't we be seeing some humanoid today?
And why humanoid? Seems like the current factory robots (massive robots at the auto factories, for example) are doing pretty well without a humanoid design.
They now claim that there will be no issues playing it but you will lose quality if you try to copy. I'm just wondering how it is that you can play it on a system at perfect quality, but when you copy it things don't sound right. Do they not know about optical output?
It's not about optical output, silly. When they find out that you made a copy, Roger-- The RIAA Enforcer, comes to your house and rubs a key across your copied disk. Therefore, you will lose quality.
As if the pain of losing a CDR isn't enough, the noise made during this scrating is supposed to be untollerable.
Losing 1 CDR, the CD Scratch Noise, and Roger's body oder will prevent you h4x0rz from copying CD's in the future...
Crap man! You should have warned people about that, you're such a troll. **WORSE** then the goat sex people!
I did EXACTLY as the previous poster stated, stuck a big magnet to the slot machine, and then my monitor started changing colors. I took the magnet away (and stuck it back onto my fridge) and now I have a GIANT PURPLE SPOT on my screen. I reboot the computer, and nothing happens.
/humor
The creatures may provide answers to how animals can survive in a cold, dark, gaseous environment.
:P
Or even more amazingly, a liquid environment....
How can you tell which posts are 'mod points' and which are 'scripted editor mods'?
./ . There *is* no place on ./ to discuss ./ itself, or the inner workings, or the moderation system.
This is something that has always bugged me about
Karma to burn. Let's see how long it takes for this +2 post to become -1, offtopic.
I hope he comes to his senses and refrains from this kind of petty vendettas.
./ story, he is now famous (for at least 15 minutes, anyways).I bet you 1 beer that he will use this to boost his petty vendetta.
You are right, he is immature. With this
Yay. Immaturity and fame, what a great combination!
Moophus,
:)
:) .
I've had my eye on those vehicles for 2 years
The car you are looking at is called the 'Sparrow'. . It is manufactured by Corbin Motors of San Francisco (actually, their main factory/headquarters is in Hollister, CA, 30 miles south of San Jose; but few people know where Hollister is). It's a one person vehicle. It has a 60 mile range and can go up to 60 mph. Cost is $14-16,000 It's available in North America, Europe & Asia.
I've sat in a Sparrow, but I've never driven one. It's a comfortable, but spartan interior.
Corbin Motors deal mostly with motorcycles, but has this small electric vehicle business on the side (and good luck to them!).
Their main showroom is located 1.5 blocks from the 'South Park' area in South of Market in San Francisco. They are surrounded by a bunch of former dotcom buildings (and a few surviving dotcoms, like mine
Crap... thought I used a closing /a tag...
./ before your coffee... always use the preview button....
This is what happens when you read
It's been available since May 22.
I used it on my Sparc 5 / Solaris 8 workstation at work, but it's dog slow, and many of the more advanced apps don't work (Like the silly panel apps like the Gdict lookup box, the CPU & monitor graphs; but also more advanced apps like Gnome-Pilot ) .
Also, many of the Sun packages have not changed in months, even though some of the apps and packages have seen heavy development since Sun's Gnome release.
My guess is that the Sun Gnome developers are working on Gnome2.0 instead. Really, I don't know what they are doing... there are no Solaris specific mailing lists to monitor, and there are few mentions of Solaris Gnome on the Gnome mailinglists.
I use Ximian Gnome on Solaris. It's faster & more stable then Sun's Gnome, and more packages work (But not Gnome-pilot, which is what I need for my work). But, you are subject to the whims & slow connections of red-carpet.
Does anyone else have any comparisons?
That will not happen. "You've got mail" is a tight little meme that is recognized by people the world over.
You can't have a soundbyte if you don't agree on the *proper* *pronunciation* of Linux.
You've got line-ex!
You've got Liiiinix!
You've got Leenuuux!
Or maybe it's plural:
You've got Linuces!
So, to prevent AOL from making a soundbyte out of Linux, we need more different linux pronunciations, like like we have more different linux distrobutions. Please keep up the good work!
Turn head. Stare at Grommit. *blink* *blink*
***shudder*** evillllll......
it's not like there's any advantage of making everything out of plastercine!
Apparently there is some advantage, otherwise Nick Park wouldn't spend so much time working in plastercine.
I've seen "Wrong Trousers", I've seen "Final Fantasy". Both were created from a different medium (stop animation vs computer graphics). Both movies are great examples of what can be done with the medium.
But Wrong Trousers had a depth to the animation-- There were things going on in the background... the expression on the characters faces... the Pengiun was evil, and you knew it. My 2 year old Nephew knew it.
Final Fantasy was a fun and groundbreaking movie, but it lacked detail. Yes, their hair moved realistically, but the characters were cold, their expressions were hard to read, the background scenes were cluttered and hard to make out. The only reason I could tell that there was any attraction between the lead women & lead man was because of the dialogue. If the mute was on, I couldn't tell you *what* was going on. Not so with the Wallace & Gromit movies...
Comparing those two movies, I would say that there isn't much advantage to using computer animation over plastercine ! (not yet, anyways).
I want to find a place that sells sexy electronic components, neon-colored jumpers, clear-plastic power cables. Think Ikea, think iMac... I want it for some costumes and to decorate my Bicycle for critical mass (I have blinky lights, I have EL wire, I just need some damn sexy wires!)
Where oh where?
That think is about the size of the 'dot' in 'slashdotted'.
What will the radiation levels be in 1000-25,000 years, after some canisters get damaged by an earthquake or flood, long after the politicians who set up Yucca mountain are dead?
or is there something more "sinister" going on that I missed?
Yes, there is! Yahoo is requiring you to click on all of the links with your Left Hand!
"Donald E. Knuth has released "Pre-Fascicle 2b: Generating all permutations" from TAOCP Volume 4. It will be section 7.2.1.2 of the final work. Oh, and Volume 4 may now fill *four* subvolumes. Send in bugs, get checks for $2.56, tell the grandkids."
Michael, if I said this to my grandkids they would throw me in the insane asylum for spewing gibberish.
That sentance makes *zero* sense to neophytes, and I doubt it makes sense to experienced *phytes in the industry you are talking about (What industry are you talking about? Programming? Cryptology? DNA sequencing?).
Who is Donald Knuth anyways? Wasn't he the head Animator behind the "Secrets of Nimh" cartoon & the "Dragon's Lair" & "Space Quest" video games?
You silly monkey...
...period...button...a...bunch...of...extra...time s.
! !!think!!!?
.. in place of three dots. Emacs works wonders, don't you think?
Your mouse hand hurts becuase you use your right hand for the mouse, and you used your right hand to hit the
Try using your *left* hand to hit the period button, or try using a left handed mouse, or try using another character available to your right hand. !!!exlamation!!!marks!!!work!!!fine!!!don't!!!you
Of course, if you're left handed, this won't work and you're screwed. Just give up your computer work and go pick apples for a living, you sinister left-handed person.
Better yet, you can use the emacs sequence M-x C-r 3
http://www.solstation.com/stars/gl229.htm
If the information they collect was useless, then they would not collect the information.
wonder how many sites get /.'d simply because folks are trying to find out "what the hell" the acronym means.
Same with random other sites that have are not related to the project, but share a similar acronymn.
I'm sure the owner's of www.lsb.org are right now thinking... "Where the hell is all this traffic coming from?"
No no, it's ok, really...
Other Unices can just use the L-SBE (The Lesser
Linux Standard Base).
:)
Gosh, and here I was waiting for LotR to be released with all new bloopers & outakes...
The individual packages are just that, individual pieces of a platform. For users who have slow modem connections this is a godsend. Also many people do not want to get the whole platform.
There is another group of people who want a version of Gnome which is easy to install that is not Ximian Gnome.
KDE is easy to install: You download several RPMs or several tar.gz files & unpackage them. Same thing with Xwindows.
Gnome, OTOH, can a real pain to download & install.
Granted, I haven't tried this since the 1.2.0 days, but I remember that it took me hours to find a working ftp mirror which had all of the right packages, and I was never able to statisfy all RPM dependancies from a single FTP site.
That's why so many people rely on Ximian to provide the Gnome: They have great packaging, and Ximian is simple to install.
>#2 It's cross platform (Unix, Max and Win32)
...don't hold your breath")
Is it really cross platform?
I keep hearing this rumor of GTK running on Win32, but all I can find is Gimp on Win32 and these, which look more like geek-hobby-project then a stable product that a company can rely on (Note, I'm *not* trying to insult Tor at all, but in his words "I work on this project in my spare time
Can someone please provide some real links for *real* 'cross platform' GTK projects ?