since a craftsmanly Russian program defeated a sophisticated genetic algorithm from NASA.
It should not read like that it should be.
since a craftsmanly Russian program defeated a sophisticated program created by a genetic algorithm from NASA.
See (from NS):
"The final battle saw Wenig's program - created using genetic algorithms - take on a program designed by a computing student from Moscow State University."
A subtle, but important difference. Now if the prgrams were actually evolving in the Gridwars game that would be interesting, as it would be similar(ish) to my project.
*Dreams of a day they put an edit queue on slashdot*
Cough** superior **cough. Well according to SOED anyway. I'd be interested to see a dictionary quote, to back up the spelling, my brief foray onto google prooving fruitless.
I'm not normally a spelling Nazi, but your sig is asking for it.
It all depends on the type of computer system you use. For example what I am interested in (see my link for more information), which is to do with self-replicating prorgams, is more like ecology, or economics, figuring out how to adjust the environment and what to encourage to get the final system you want.
Personally I think computing needs to go away from computer systems that need to be engineered and explore systems that are shaped and guided. To try and get more flexible and fault tolerant systems.
So you're saying in some way slashdoters need Microsoft in order to relieve stress?
So what would we geeks do without Microsoft, could we cope not having anyone to rail against, bitch and flame.
Oh wait there would still be bush right?
A sample quote
"Aware at the same time that it may not be necessary to extend the right of reply to non-professional on-line media whose influence on public opinion is limited;"
So I am not worried that my speech will be infringed because no one listens to me anyway...
Maybe because this has never happened with the current laws and only the big guys get nailed with it? I don't know my country doesn't currently implement the laws, I think.
Anyway I remember the article distinctly said professional websites, so if your an amateur they can't do anything so the majority of people won't be affected and those that are have lots of money anyway.
Japan=Asia
You should have qualified the original troll.
Re:If MS were to use such strategies, would anyone
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Indeed you should also be modded up as well.
There are ways to escape monopolies in evolution and in business and those are paradigm shifts, where something very new and different comes along and breaks your business or evolutionary niche. Not competing for your niche, but making the niche obsolete.
For Microsoft one of those things could be true artificial intelligence, which IMHO requires a different way of thinking about computers, considering an intelligent machine will have
ways of understanding and changing its own source code to the users desires, what need for Windows Upgrades then?
With regards to human life I think that there are a few disruptive technologies coming along such as germ line genetic engineering, that will be desored to make our kids happier or prettier, that may be eventually used for other purposes that disrupt our stagnant humanity.
So my answer fund more blue sky projects by the government and try to break the business niches!
Okay so maybe I should have RTFA a bit better. But my basic point is still the same, would you be better off as a software developer developing for an open standard (such as UNIX) where you could easily move to a different *nix compatible environment if what your customers were buying changed? Or you wanted your product to go from embedded stuff to high end servers.
I agree that in the short term the developers made an economic decision that played in their favour, but in the long term do you want all your eggs in one basket, especially if your a anti-virus developer? Your just helping out a monolith that might one day move into your territory and eat you alive. Like a dictator helping a country that has more power than it, that might decide to take over its dictatorship.
A better analogy would be a chain reaction, such as nuclear fission where a single neutron can cause fission which creates two neutrons etc.
So find the right person/website (Uranium 235 vs 238) and fire a neutron at it (marketing, free stuff) and watch it do you job for you.
However talking about nuclear reactions may put off some of the readers.
Well I suppose this was written by an ex-Microsoft employee so is understandable, but it ignores the negative aspects for the consumer of what you must do to win the competing platform wars.
For example compare these two quotes:
"Why Evangelise Technologies?
To make money â" lots of money. Establishing its proprietary technologies as industry standards has been the basis of Microsoftâ(TM)s success from its first day. How the control of industry standards can result in phenomenal wealth, will be addressed later in this book."
"We Win if They Win
No one likes being thought of as a pawn in someone elseâ(TM)s struggle â" and theyâ(TM)re right. The may be pawns, but they are really important pawns, and our future rests on their decisions. We win their allegiance by really, truly, seriously doing our very best to help them succeed.
Does anybody else see the mutual inconsistancy of these two postitions? That the software that would "help them suceed" should be based on open standards (so that many people could develop backward compatible solutions and the best be chosen with no lock in) would not be the ones that "made money, lots of money".
The UK needs to do more offshore work on wind/wave and tides as this is the most likely schemes to work (solar, this is Britain we are talking about:), no thermal and little onshore Hydro to speak of).
We have lots of NIMBYs (not in my back yard) because of the eye sore etc. So underwater turbines should be good.
Tidal power is also good because it is predictable, if you are going to have a significant proportion of alternative energy (as one would hope to relieve independace form overseas if nothing else) then when the power outputs drops (the clouds come over etc). You need to replace this power with something like gas which needs to be quick to start up and always ready. The predictability of the tide allows the load balancing to be better managed so less gas needs to be used.
I recently bought one and I think you need special software to format it, my software was downloadable from the manufacturer which I don't have a link to. Or you could try fdisking it on linux they appear as scsi hardrives.
How fast can we transmit information on the long distance radio bands?
Yeah in the future we may not have to pay for short range stuff, say communications within the city. But until we think of a high bandwidth long distance wireless technology we will still have to pay to access \.^H^HHcomputer science research material from the other side of the planet.
I was taught joined up writing in the UK and it seems slightly different (mainly in) letters such as q and f from this although that may just be my poor grasp of joined up writing.
Maybe america has a slightly distinct cursive script copied from the founding fathers rebellious style.
In fact, the situation you sketch with public data that is only accessible through the software made by a single company should be made illegal.
A continuation of this principle should be that programs for public are written in a language that can only be compiled/executed by software written by a single company should also be illegal.
Slashdot Mirror
It should not read like that it should be.
since a craftsmanly Russian program defeated a sophisticated program created by a genetic algorithm from NASA.See (from NS):
"The final battle saw Wenig's program - created using genetic algorithms - take on a program designed by a computing student from Moscow State University."
A subtle, but important difference. Now if the prgrams were actually evolving in the Gridwars game that would be interesting, as it would be similar(ish) to my project.
*Dreams of a day they put an edit queue on slashdot*
There must be a whole lot of people like you... and er me
Maybe we should form a club. So we can swap tips on how not to get people interested.
Cough** superior **cough. Well according to SOED anyway. I'd be interested to see a dictionary quote, to back up the spelling, my brief foray onto google prooving fruitless.
I'm not normally a spelling Nazi, but your sig is asking for it.
It all depends on the type of computer system you use. For example what I am interested in (see my link for more information), which is to do with self-replicating prorgams, is more like ecology, or economics, figuring out how to adjust the environment and what to encourage to get the final system you want.
Personally I think computing needs to go away from computer systems that need to be engineered and explore systems that are shaped and guided. To try and get more flexible and fault tolerant systems.
Post an article ot slashdot when you feel finished. And a tar.gz of the HTML files would be nice.
We only do it to ourselves.
I suggest ferric as a replacement word, if this happens.
So you're saying in some way slashdoters need Microsoft in order to relieve stress? So what would we geeks do without Microsoft, could we cope not having anyone to rail against, bitch and flame. Oh wait there would still be bush right?
Make a directory called ~ for even more fun and frolics.
The Matrix rewrote itself because people were starting to hack its Guardians...
A sample quote "Aware at the same time that it may not be necessary to extend the right of reply to non-professional on-line media whose influence on public opinion is limited;"
So I am not worried that my speech will be infringed because no one listens to me anyway...
Maybe because this has never happened with the current laws and only the big guys get nailed with it? I don't know my country doesn't currently implement the laws, I think. Anyway I remember the article distinctly said professional websites, so if your an amateur they can't do anything so the majority of people won't be affected and those that are have lots of money anyway.
Japan=Asia You should have qualified the original troll.
Indeed you should also be modded up as well.
There are ways to escape monopolies in evolution and in business and those are paradigm shifts, where something very new and different comes along and breaks your business or evolutionary niche. Not competing for your niche, but making the niche obsolete.
For Microsoft one of those things could be true artificial intelligence, which IMHO requires a different way of thinking about computers, considering an intelligent machine will have ways of understanding and changing its own source code to the users desires, what need for Windows Upgrades then?
With regards to human life I think that there are a few disruptive technologies coming along such as germ line genetic engineering, that will be desored to make our kids happier or prettier, that may be eventually used for other purposes that disrupt our stagnant humanity.
So my answer fund more blue sky projects by the government and try to break the business niches!
Okay so maybe I should have RTFA a bit better. But my basic point is still the same, would you be better off as a software developer developing for an open standard (such as UNIX) where you could easily move to a different *nix compatible environment if what your customers were buying changed? Or you wanted your product to go from embedded stuff to high end servers.
I agree that in the short term the developers made an economic decision that played in their favour, but in the long term do you want all your eggs in one basket, especially if your a anti-virus developer? Your just helping out a monolith that might one day move into your territory and eat you alive. Like a dictator helping a country that has more power than it, that might decide to take over its dictatorship.
A better analogy would be a chain reaction, such as nuclear fission where a single neutron can cause fission which creates two neutrons etc. So find the right person/website (Uranium 235 vs 238) and fire a neutron at it (marketing, free stuff) and watch it do you job for you. However talking about nuclear reactions may put off some of the readers.
Well I suppose this was written by an ex-Microsoft employee so is understandable, but it ignores the negative aspects for the consumer of what you must do to win the competing platform wars.
For example compare these two quotes:
"Why Evangelise Technologies?
To make money â" lots of money. Establishing its proprietary technologies as industry standards has been the basis of Microsoftâ(TM)s success from its first day. How the control of industry standards can result in phenomenal wealth, will be addressed later in this book."
"We Win if They Win
No one likes being thought of as a pawn in someone elseâ(TM)s struggle â" and theyâ(TM)re right. The may be pawns, but they are really important pawns, and our future rests on their decisions. We win their allegiance by really, truly, seriously doing our very best to help them succeed.
Does anybody else see the mutual inconsistancy of these two postitions? That the software that would "help them suceed" should be based on open standards (so that many people could develop backward compatible solutions and the best be chosen with no lock in) would not be the ones that "made money, lots of money".
Can anyone say doublethink?
The UK needs to do more offshore work on wind/wave and tides as this is the most likely schemes to work (solar, this is Britain we are talking about :), no thermal and little onshore Hydro to speak of).
We have lots of NIMBYs (not in my back yard) because of the eye sore etc. So underwater turbines should be good.
Tidal power is also good because it is predictable, if you are going to have a significant proportion of alternative energy (as one would hope to relieve independace form overseas if nothing else) then when the power outputs drops (the clouds come over etc). You need to replace this power with something like gas which needs to be quick to start up and always ready. The predictability of the tide allows the load balancing to be better managed so less gas needs to be used.
I recently bought one and I think you need special software to format it, my software was downloadable from the manufacturer which I don't have a link to. Or you could try fdisking it on linux they appear as scsi hardrives.
They gave us ruby. And japanese universities have some interesting research on stuff.
I'm thing transatlantic here or interstate.
How fast can we transmit information on the long distance radio bands?
Yeah in the future we may not have to pay for short range stuff, say communications within the city. But until we think of a high bandwidth long distance wireless technology we will still have to pay to access \.^H^HHcomputer science research material from the other side of the planet.
I was taught joined up writing in the UK and it seems slightly different (mainly in) letters such as q and f from this although that may just be my poor grasp of joined up writing. Maybe america has a slightly distinct cursive script copied from the founding fathers rebellious style.
In fact, the situation you sketch with public data that is only accessible through the software made by a single company should be made illegal.
A continuation of this principle should be that programs for public are written in a language that can only be compiled/executed by software written by a single company should also be illegal.
Try compiling this
#include
struct IntellectualMaterial
{
bool canBeCopied;
double copyrightRunOut;
};
class DecentDemocracy
{
virtual void SensibleCopyRight(IntellectualMaterial IP)= 0;
};
class USDemocracy : public DecentDemocracy
{
void DMCA(IntellectualMaterial IP)
{
IP.canBeCopied =false;
}
void UnendingCopyRight(IntellectualMaterial IP)
{
IP.copyrightRunOut = atof("+INF");
}
};
USDemocracy USD;
And bugs in the game will be the 'glitches' when the agents alter reality.
And someone will try and crash the game to free the people from the matrix, claiming to be The One.