But the man also created the lovely Spectrum. A fine system even if the keys were rubbery and the tape loader took for ages. There is no reason to put him "under fire", it is all in the past.
I would love to buy second hand arcade machines, old consoles and old games, however I don't have much space and they would just clutter up my house and make moving a pain.
Now if publishers allowed me to download the games for cheap and only have them taking up space in my hard drive, I would seriously consider it.
How smooth were the graphics? I have found that jerky games are very bad for that (I played Quake on a DX4 100 and that gave me motion sickness, but Quake III on a P3 500 was fine).
My point was really that you may not feel the need for software that you actually need. Because it doesn't exist yet, or you don't know it is possible.
Admittedly that probably means you hire a programmer to make custom changes to software for you, so programmers will continue to go hungry.
I am assuming that a few human level AI's would be useful in your business, perhaps you would be good enough to point out the sourceforge projects that can do this.
One plus for fusion over fission is that, as it currently stands you cannot create a pure fusion bomb, so heavy water is not as dangerous as letting the world play around with Uranium and isotopes that can be generated from it.
I am looking for something that will be able to replace depleting Oil and Gas reserves for power generation, in the developing as well as the developed world. And while pebble bed reactors look good from the non-proliferation and safety side of things, they are not so good on the re-processing side of things.
So any positive fusion news is good news, well it means all we would have to worry about is the hypsithermal limit. Good luck with the reactor. I wonder how plausible it would be to build a sonoluminescent fusion device at home, something to look into....
Are we allowed to get excited at the possibility of a new form of energy, or do we still have maintain an air of scepticism at this unorthodox fusion method?
Also does anyone know why they used D + D fusion reaction rather than the more common D + T reaction? One of the quotes suggests that it is possible, and being more energetically favourable (from what I remember), I wonder why it wasn't used.
If this becomes common and there are lots of people trying to knock, you could send messages by knocking.
E.g. knocking at ports 99, 97, 116 could be the word cat.
Properly encrypted it would be hard to tell if you were knocking or communicating. Probably only useful for short messages though. Unless knocking was continuous to obfuscate when true knocking activity.
Although in this case I suspect they count BEC as the fifth as they are particle physcists and it is the chemists and chemical physicists who get exicted by Liquid Crystals.
isos of Linux distros are commonly downloaded off bittorrent. I am sure we will get more user generated content such as machinima on bittorrent and the like. Also p2p might make an efficient distribution scheme for large files that people want to give away such as game demos and movie trailers.
I wouldn't say 90% of stuff in sci-tech was crap but going by the field I know the most (Machine Learning), I would say there is a large proportion of uninspiring research, e.g. a slight variant of a genetic algorithm scheme or an analysis of neural nets applied to robots.
Which while interesting is not breaking vast new ground, just retreading subjects that have been around since the 60's. Which is part of what the root of this thread was complaining about.
Most of the power from the royal prerogative is handed to the ministers, so I would doubt the general public would notice if they used half of them. Another of the things that I think is wrong about british politics.
Hmm, I'm not and arch-Monarchist but it is part of Britains character (and a tourist draw). But I don't really like or am interested in anything to do with monarchy including diana. I don't mind keeping them, but perhaps we should have a referendum on them to keep them on their toes.
I can see robots having legs, mainly because they will be used in buildings that are designed with humans in mind.
Can you imagine a robotic fire fighter that rescues people being designed without legs. Or urban assault robots. They could have four legs I suppose.
And a similar argument for arms, robots will need arms so that they can interact with all the legacy interfaces (such as door handles) that we use at the moment.
But otherwise I agree that robots won't have basic human rights.
I take your point that it is hard to teach entities verbally. But consider a fusion of AI and open source, where the code to perform a complex task is shareable between different AI's.
And since anybody can teach another enitity verbally there would be a whole lot of other AIs that might already know how to perform the task you want. Which your AI could ask.
So you are denying that we can ever create something like AI on a computer? Because a turing level interface to a coputer would be simpler than a discman
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The falklands is important it was the only place in the Empire where Penguins lived!
An encrypted link between keyboard and box. Such as this.
A mercury switch and an emp device Or perhaps an encrypted file system. Just be sure to remember the 1024 bit number.
I wish there was an "Old already" mod.
But the man also created the lovely Spectrum. A fine system even if the keys were rubbery and the tape loader took for ages. There is no reason to put him "under fire", it is all in the past.
I would love to buy second hand arcade machines, old consoles and old games, however I don't have much space and they would just clutter up my house and make moving a pain. Now if publishers allowed me to download the games for cheap and only have them taking up space in my hard drive, I would seriously consider it.
How smooth were the graphics? I have found that jerky games are very bad for that (I played Quake on a DX4 100 and that gave me motion sickness, but Quake III on a P3 500 was fine).
Bah missed a won't out of the second sentance.
My point was really that you may not feel the need for software that you actually need. Because it doesn't exist yet, or you don't know it is possible.
Admittedly that probably means you hire a programmer to make custom changes to software for you, so programmers will continue to go hungry.
I am assuming that a few human level AI's would be useful in your business, perhaps you would be good enough to point out the sourceforge projects that can do this.
What is an unexpected situation? One unexpected by the designer or by the entity concerned.
Also please define cognitive and any non-obvious words that are used in that definition.
Even if Oil and Gas are abiogenic, then I don't think they will replenish themselves as quickly as we are using them.
One plus for fusion over fission is that, as it currently stands you cannot create a pure fusion bomb, so heavy water is not as dangerous as letting the world play around with Uranium and isotopes that can be generated from it.
I am looking for something that will be able to replace depleting Oil and Gas reserves for power generation, in the developing as well as the developed world. And while pebble bed reactors look good from the non-proliferation and safety side of things, they are not so good on the re-processing side of things.
So any positive fusion news is good news, well it means all we would have to worry about is the hypsithermal limit. Good luck with the reactor. I wonder how plausible it would be to build a sonoluminescent fusion device at home, something to look into....
I missed that crappy movie.
Are we allowed to get excited at the possibility of a new form of energy, or do we still have maintain an air of scepticism at this unorthodox fusion method? Also does anyone know why they used D + D fusion reaction rather than the more common D + T reaction? One of the quotes suggests that it is possible, and being more energetically favourable (from what I remember), I wonder why it wasn't used.
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If this becomes common and there are lots of people trying to knock, you could send messages by knocking.
E.g. knocking at ports 99, 97, 116 could be the word cat.
Properly encrypted it would be hard to tell if you were knocking or communicating. Probably only useful for short messages though. Unless knocking was continuous to obfuscate when true knocking activity.
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Although in this case I suspect they count BEC as the fifth as they are particle physcists and it is the chemists and chemical physicists who get exicted by Liquid Crystals.
isos of Linux distros are commonly downloaded off bittorrent. I am sure we will get more user generated content such as machinima on bittorrent and the like. Also p2p might make an efficient distribution scheme for large files that people want to give away such as game demos and movie trailers.
I wouldn't say 90% of stuff in sci-tech was crap but going by the field I know the most (Machine Learning), I would say there is a large proportion of uninspiring research, e.g. a slight variant of a genetic algorithm scheme or an analysis of neural nets applied to robots. Which while interesting is not breaking vast new ground, just retreading subjects that have been around since the 60's. Which is part of what the root of this thread was complaining about.
Most of the power from the royal prerogative is handed to the ministers, so I would doubt the general public would notice if they used half of them. Another of the things that I think is wrong about british politics.
Hmm, I'm not and arch-Monarchist but it is part of Britains character (and a tourist draw). But I don't really like or am interested in anything to do with monarchy including diana. I don't mind keeping them, but perhaps we should have a referendum on them to keep them on their toes.
I can see robots having legs, mainly because they will be used in buildings that are designed with humans in mind. Can you imagine a robotic fire fighter that rescues people being designed without legs. Or urban assault robots. They could have four legs I suppose. And a similar argument for arms, robots will need arms so that they can interact with all the legacy interfaces (such as door handles) that we use at the moment. But otherwise I agree that robots won't have basic human rights.
I take your point that it is hard to teach entities verbally. But consider a fusion of AI and open source, where the code to perform a complex task is shareable between different AI's.
And since anybody can teach another enitity verbally there would be a whole lot of other AIs that might already know how to perform the task you want. Which your AI could ask.
So you are denying that we can ever create something like AI on a computer? Because a turing level interface to a coputer would be simpler than a discman
I just prefer music without the helicopter taking off sound of my laptops dvd-rom drive.