most consumers were only storing about 1000 songs on their portable MP3 players
Hey, there's a limit to how much I can get through this P2P pipe. The university keeps shutting down my Internet connection for filesharing. Give me time!
Do you think it will be really possible to "hardwire" the 3 laws, (especially the first one) into robots?
You fail to understand the reason for Asimov's laws. It wasn't to build better robots. It was to build better stories.
The 3 Laws exist to create a locked room murder mystery style story. (You know the sort. The body is found dead, locked in a room, that could only be locked from the inside. So how was he killed?)
Asimov set up the locked room (i.e. robots can't hurt us under these rules), and then found every way he could to break them in the process of creating interesting stories that no one else was writing. He came to own that field, and his name will forever be associated with it. A nice form of immortality.
But it's easy to see how unworkable in real life such rules would be. Take, for example, the Second Law. You've got a robot you bought for about the price of a new BMW 7-series, and the first person who comes along and orders it to follow them home takes it away from you. Yeah, right!
I'd quit considering Asimov's Laws to the the Gold Standard of how to build a robot. After all, who wants as many problems with their own robots as his had with his through all his stories?
Many mainstream SF writers (e.g. Isaac Asimov) and movies (e.g. "Artificial Intelligence: AI") seem to downplay the sexual aspects and roles that human-appearing robots might play in society. Such roles get passing mention at best, before quickly moving on to other, more comfortable, topics. As such, real human-robot relationships, where the robot is more than just the solution to a larger problem that the author has set the protagonist, are rare in published media.
I have to turn to web-authors like Elf Sternberg (especially JournaL Entries stories: "Turing Attraction ", "Dormant Ghosts", "Honest Desires", "Separate Electricities", "Separate Responsibilities", "Separate, Together", "Cheyenne", "Dual Life", "Existence", "Vengeance Angel", "Rebellious Angel", "Local Effects") and DB Story among others to find writers consistently speculating on the more sexual, relationship, and self-willed aspects of robots we might possibly build. These authors, I should note, have decidedly different approaches to this subject -- which is why I like them both.
Do you include this type of fiction in your study of a future with robots in society, and what do you feel will make robots successful in a mass production, affordable sense for the average person?
(I'm reminded of the early days of home computers when one was told they should spend hundreds of $$$s for a machine to keep track of their recipies, when a small metal box holding 3x5 cards continues to be a better solution for most people to this day.)
You can report 'false' results with the Dissatisfied? link at the bottom of the Google result page.
While I've never used the link you mention, they could certainly make this much easier with my suggestion. Even if they put a 'dissatisfied' link next to each entry and pre-filled in the reply form with the site information, leaving you to either check one of several fixed reasons, or leave a comment. This would automate much of their processing.
I truly doubt that servicing user complaints about mislabeled sites would add much to their overall spydering load.
These days too many companies benefiting from access to our Internet are like guests who, having brought passable wine, wish to claim credit for the success of the feast.
That's a poetic way to put it.
My way of looking at it is that for the first time, everyman has a microphone and a soapbox from which to speak to anyone in the entire world who wishes to listen. While I realize that absolutely has to upset many people entrenched in power, I feel it is the finest example of free, equal, and unfettered speech that has ever existed -- and is very much worth defending greatly.
What I'd like to see in a search engine is a page kill or broken link feature to keep it current. If I click a link that is broken or vastly changed (e.g. the link to ancient Chinese pottery is now a porn site), that I could backup to the search results page and click a link to have them immediately re-crawl that page. I think it would make for better results, and am surprised that it's not already common.
You my license my patent on this idea for reasonable terms in exchange for shares of your company's stock.
goes as far as to link to OTHER search engines to help out your search
How long before other search engines start considering this stealing? I mean, I could have a search engine running tomorrow, if all it did was link to Google and return hits to my own bannered page.
Microsoft is also coming to the party, and everyone's a little bit nervous to see what it's bringing.
Everybody knows what Microsoft is bringing. Well almost everybody. Okay, I'll spell it out:
1: Bring lots of money.
2: Buy out a competitor.
3: Rename it Microsoft Search.
4: Attempt to trademark the word "Search".
5: Bind it tightly into Windows as an essential service.
6: Don't get it right until version 3.0.
7: Profit!
he was no better than a 'bag man for the mob'; coercing people into paying money for stealing services when he had no proof whether they had really done so.
I understand that SCO has just made him a job offer.
Your unauthorized use of AMERICAN EXPRESSWAY... is likely to cause consumers to be confused, mistaken, or deceived as to the source of origin of your services.
1: Does AmEx really want consumers that dumb to start with? They might get confused and send all their payments to MasterCard instead.
2: Does AmEx want lawyers this stupid? The bad publicity over this is truly priceless.
3: To steal another trademarked phrase: AmEx to their lawyers: YOU'RE FIRED!
(Ring, ring. "Hello, please hold for The Donald, who wishes to have a word with you...")
IMO, most lawyers are just looking for an easy settlement anyways. Use a 'bot to dig the internet for 'infringements', send out 10K letters, get 5 settlements for 25K each?
Finally I can build my original Star Trek communicator as detailed in The Starfleet Technical Manual. The previous lack of blue leds has frustrated me for decades in this endeavor.
Of course, the fact that a modern cell phone does much more in a much smaller space does leave something to be desired.
So does anyone know how to get my cell phone to chirp like a Communicator when I flip it open?
Take the one on my monitor, for example. It's a big sucker about the size of a postage stamp, and of course it's centred just below the screen where it's impossible to ignore. Note to the LCD manufacturer: If the power went out unexpectedly, I'd probably realize it since the screen would go black -- the "on" LED isn't telling me a whole lot I don't already know.
Note to article author: A small piece of black electrical tape.
While exactly copying a processor's microarchitecture would be illegal, creating a compatible product through the use of an original "clean room" design is legally protected.
Gee, can I do this with music, and then the RIAA can't touch me?
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, there's a limit to how much I can get through this P2P pipe. The university keeps shutting down my Internet connection for filesharing. Give me time!
If they're wrong then, then they're wrong now as well. There are other ways to achieve one's aim.
It will be, like, wondering why they will want to hang with you?
How about all the neurosis of the screenwriter?
You fail to understand the reason for Asimov's laws. It wasn't to build better robots. It was to build better stories.
The 3 Laws exist to create a locked room murder mystery style story. (You know the sort. The body is found dead, locked in a room, that could only be locked from the inside. So how was he killed?)
Asimov set up the locked room (i.e. robots can't hurt us under these rules), and then found every way he could to break them in the process of creating interesting stories that no one else was writing. He came to own that field, and his name will forever be associated with it. A nice form of immortality.
But it's easy to see how unworkable in real life such rules would be. Take, for example, the Second Law. You've got a robot you bought for about the price of a new BMW 7-series, and the first person who comes along and orders it to follow them home takes it away from you. Yeah, right!
I'd quit considering Asimov's Laws to the the Gold Standard of how to build a robot. After all, who wants as many problems with their own robots as his had with his through all his stories?
1: Software suffers buffer overflows more easily.
2: It's harder to download service packs for minds.
3: Both catch viruses, so that doesn't count.
And you'd want to do this because...?
I have to turn to web-authors like Elf Sternberg (especially JournaL Entries stories: "Turing Attraction ", "Dormant Ghosts", "Honest Desires", "Separate Electricities", "Separate Responsibilities", "Separate, Together", "Cheyenne", "Dual Life", "Existence", "Vengeance Angel", "Rebellious Angel", "Local Effects") and DB Story among others to find writers consistently speculating on the more sexual, relationship, and self-willed aspects of robots we might possibly build. These authors, I should note, have decidedly different approaches to this subject -- which is why I like them both.
Do you include this type of fiction in your study of a future with robots in society, and what do you feel will make robots successful in a mass production, affordable sense for the average person?
(I'm reminded of the early days of home computers when one was told they should spend hundreds of $$$s for a machine to keep track of their recipies, when a small metal box holding 3x5 cards continues to be a better solution for most people to this day.)
While I've never used the link you mention, they could certainly make this much easier with my suggestion. Even if they put a 'dissatisfied' link next to each entry and pre-filled in the reply form with the site information, leaving you to either check one of several fixed reasons, or leave a comment. This would automate much of their processing.
I truly doubt that servicing user complaints about mislabeled sites would add much to their overall spydering load.
That's a poetic way to put it.
My way of looking at it is that for the first time, everyman has a microphone and a soapbox from which to speak to anyone in the entire world who wishes to listen. While I realize that absolutely has to upset many people entrenched in power, I feel it is the finest example of free, equal, and unfettered speech that has ever existed -- and is very much worth defending greatly.
You my license my patent on this idea for reasonable terms in exchange for shares of your company's stock.
How long before other search engines start considering this stealing? I mean, I could have a search engine running tomorrow, if all it did was link to Google and return hits to my own bannered page.
Everybody knows what Microsoft is bringing. Well almost everybody. Okay, I'll spell it out:
1: Bring lots of money.
2: Buy out a competitor.
3: Rename it Microsoft Search.
4: Attempt to trademark the word "Search".
5: Bind it tightly into Windows as an essential service.
6: Don't get it right until version 3.0.
7: Profit!
I understand that SCO has just made him a job offer.
Not necessarly true. Remember, Microsoft wants all Unix vendors dead. Order may not be important.
So now SCO is suing its VC partners. Does it get better than this?
1: Does AmEx really want consumers that dumb to start with? They might get confused and send all their payments to MasterCard instead.
2: Does AmEx want lawyers this stupid? The bad publicity over this is truly priceless.
3: To steal another trademarked phrase: AmEx to their lawyers: YOU'RE FIRED!
(Ring, ring. "Hello, please hold for The Donald, who wishes to have a word with you...")
He'll get airline miles for it.
What, can people not say balls now? If not, could someone please say why?
The real hacker would say: b@llz.
Sounds like harvesting and spamming to me.
Oops, I forgot. The first spammers were lawyers!
So this is a 13-year-old joke. Makes me wish AmEx would wait 13 years to bill me for my purchases.
Of course, the fact that a modern cell phone does much more in a much smaller space does leave something to be desired.
So does anyone know how to get my cell phone to chirp like a Communicator when I flip it open?
Note to article author: A small piece of black electrical tape.
Gee, can I do this with music, and then the RIAA can't touch me?