Oh, god, I can just see it now. Bad grammar, no fact checking, and of course the announcer constantly breaking in with "THIS JUST IN!" 10 times a day for the same duplicate story.
And with all media, we, the general public, are caught in it; hook, line and sinker.
I want to see Gerhaldo host a show with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds. Linus is youngest so he may be able to move quicker...Jobs has a bit more mass than the others and Bill has...well, he's kind of like the Mario from Super Mario Bros. 2...well rounded?
It seems to me TechTV served a few very useful purposes, not the least of which was providing free, quality phone support to callers.
Do you really think those were "real" callers? Didn't you know everything on TV is scripted and made up? Why introduce unknown variables to your formula when you can script more interesting in concept and solution?
Thankfully most of the RIAA sanctioned crap blasted over the radio and Empty-V will not be playable in a few years. Then again, with most of this crap it was not intended for it to be listened to for more than 6 months anyways. The quicker we can cleanse ourselves of this, the better off we will be. But then again, this won't allow future generations learn from our past mistakes in,cough "art" cough, and thus be doomed to repeat it. Then again, we save ourselves the embarrasement of being associated with this junk.
Yeah, tis is pretty old news. For years I have noticed the silver part of the CD's, if held up to light, you could see through parts as if the part with the data on it just vanished. I guess that whole "Liftime" thing meant the lifetime of the CD. Sneaky. Oh well, at least my MP3's are a bit more persistant.
Word up on the Dramcast. It had so many games well ahead of its time and the graphics were as good as plenty of games out on the X-Box, PS2 and Game Cube. The controller was fabulous and lets not forget Soul Calibur. Then again, it's easy to forget Soul Calibur since we have Soul Calibur 2 now days, but I digress.
Too bad many of the Dreamcasts games were way over the head of most moro...I mean "gamers" today.
...this is all terribly obvious. Why wouldn't graphics get better, rendering techniques refined and improved and advances in computing not result in more immersive, real and cinematic environments? Did you expect it to return to Mode-7 scaling or something?
You could always try Mandrake Linux out. It's fairly painless and allows you to get a real Linux environment setup painlessly. Dual boot it with Windows and maybe use it as a sort of Methadone so you eventually become comfortable with the idea of Linux and maybe start doing some things your own way, etc.
Buy a Linux book from O'Reilly or something also. Just read it when you have time to become more familiar with Linux terms, etc. You will probably find that once you put in the initial time investment, and you can do this slowly over a large period of time (think conservation of energy:P), the Linux "community" will embrace you and be happy to help work through things. But, if you are willing to put in the time to learn a bit of Linux, then you are not part of the 90%; not anymore anyways.
Then again, over this same time period you could maybe save enough money to get a Mac!;)
That's actually a pretty good post and I hope it doesn't get modded like flamebait. It's a serious problem many people have. They don't want to use Windows, but they see it as the only true avenue to use their computer like 90% of people want to. Right now, Linux is not for everyone. It's way too avant guard so to speak and requires too much from the user to truly get the greatness of it, which is very great. Apple systems are expensive making it a natural turn off for many people for simply financial reasons, although it too should be considered state of the art in it's own right and very high end in terms of early adoption of some modern technological ideas. Windows is LCD, is made to be the system that is not really good at anything but often cheaply and unwittingly synthesizes original ideas and trusted concepts.
Talk about not being able to have your cake and eating it!
Yeah, Python is a personal favorite of mine as well. It's very expressive in that I tell a computer what to do, not how. I don't really have anything else smart to say, but I would agree with you Python is such a language that allows you to get on with it and still look under the hood if necessary. It's the language I use more often now days and I'm still blown away from time to time at how easy and natural it is to do most anything where as in my C++ life I had to spend so much time writing so many basic algorithms (and yes, I know the STL very well) or search for some kind of library that works nothing like my other libs and will take time to conform to the authors great ideas of programming. In Python, you get it all and it's all predictable (this is a good thing) and I only hope I am as lucky as you to find work using it withen the domain of other smart language systems.
I had an operating systems class and in it we had a discussion section where we learned various types of system calls, such as forking, mutexes, pipes etc. Our TA for the discussion was an asian grad student and when we learned about fork() he pronounced it "fuck()". It was great learning what happens when you instruct your program to "fuck()". Needless to say, all you would hear was held back laughter from the entire class. For some reason, it never got old, he always found new ways to make "fuck()" really, really funny
I feel like I just read a small section in the memory management section of an operating systems or programming languages text book. I'm not sure what to discuss here, no knew ideas were expressed or presented here. Perhaps the author could have postulated new ideas for memory management or suggested how current ideas could be improved. Interesting read if you're a programmer who never really got into the mechanics of a programming language and what certain runtime systems do to make your program work. Then again, I would probably call you a strict-scripter and when scripting you're generally more concerned with expressions rather than mechanics.
Although, the point the author made about CPU's being cheaper and faster and how this is allowing the programmer to care less and less about mechanics so the can make use of this extra power to make programming a more expressive rather than mechanical practice is interesting.
Personally, I see no problem with one day having high level application programmers who know nothing of hex, memory management or physical hardware but rather algorithms, computability and productions, etc. Of course, there will always be a place for the "computer programmer", but also a place for the "analytical abstractionist engineer".
I don't know much about fighter planes but didn't the F-14 Tomcat (or something like that) have this ability to change its wingspan from being outward during regular flight and coming inwards during dog-fighting for more maneuverability?
"AI research is, at least, churning out real results."
But do you really think these results are really AI? Albeit I am all in all very uneducated in the grand scheme of the field but with my limited understanding and intuition I see more or less better ways to resolve patterns in things rather than emotional thought and decision. It's just something we have that is a part of intelligence that I think a computer or machine, perhaps even biological, cannot have if human developed unless we can eventually quantify our chemical reactions and why they exist.
I'm definitely down with blaming the psych folk though!:)
I would agree with most folk in this thread that it is an area of research I would love to succeed eventually. Too ambitious? Too ideal?
I would bet that the thought of a baby would be on the order of 1,000,000 times of that of this robot. And probably 100,000 times that of a real Orangoutang. Obviously I have absolutely no backing for those figures. As for AI, the studying I have done has made me conclude it's a failed, crack science at this point for people who really have no concept that a brain doesn't act like a computer, or a computer programmed to act like a brain. In order for this to work we have to be able to quantify a brains element, chemicals etc and we haven't much idea of most of these anyways, and if we do we don't have a clue as to how they function together.
I'm just sick of recursive "best yet" algorithms that claim to be AI when in fact it's nothing more than deduced logic and we are, thankfully, a but deeper than that.
So, go ahead and study AI as perhaps one day something may come of it but be realistic in that you're becoming skilled in a clever art of trickery and deterministic patterns. Good luck!
Just let him be to his books and thoughts. He may have more important things to accomplish and being social isn't one of them. Newton never got laid for instance. Just make sure he takes baths.
I haven't read this book on Apple Scripting but I have read his book on programming in REAL Basic, which for those that are not familiar with many things Mac is a decent Basic programming language and tool kit similar to MS Visual studio but offers cross compilation to OS X, Classic Mac OS and Windows. I don't use the language much anymore but I would agree it's pretty sharp for what it does and I have seen some great programs written in it.
Anyways, his book on REAL Basic was definitely good. He takes a philosophical approach to things (As he has an advanced degree in philosophy) and has a conversation like approach. For a more experienced programmer it may seem like more reading than necessary but for a novice or someone willing to take the time to read about the insights of the language they are attempting to learn, he makes it worth the effort.
His book provided many examples as well which I think most experienced and novice programmers generally appreciate.
Another good thing about Matt is he posts often to Newsgroups so if you have a particular question regarding his book(s) you will almost always get an answer from him. It's nice when an author is accessible as it gives the feel of a teacher.
Haven't played much with Apple Script myself though. I have done enough though where I think Matt Neubergs writing style would fit the audience that would want a book for this.
Cool article on Blue. I will have to read the rest of your Website as it seems rather interesting. It's cool to see sites and research by regular folk like this.
Then get a life. You are pathetic, short and simple. You don't have to be but perhaps you should get your troubles looked at. You're wasting your life, and although it's your to waste, you might as well just shoot yourself as the rest of hate looking, smelling and being around people like you.
Stop being so selfish with your fantasy desires and make something happen in reality, where it counts. To make it worse, people like you just invade good games so people with lives who like to play as recreation (i.e. when nothing too social is going on or we just feel like playing for a bit) have to suffer through people like you. Go away, you are a pathetic, spoiled, uncultured freak who has nothing what so ever to offer.
Lots of software is still in use every day. The algorithms anyways. Quicksort was from the 60's, the numerous algorithms Dijkstra gave us. Many, many more as well.
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Oh, god, I can just see it now. Bad grammar, no fact checking, and of course the announcer constantly breaking in with "THIS JUST IN!" 10 times a day for the same duplicate story.
And with all media, we, the general public, are caught in it; hook, line and sinker.
I want to see Gerhaldo host a show with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds. Linus is youngest so he may be able to move quicker...Jobs has a bit more mass than the others and Bill has...well, he's kind of like the Mario from Super Mario Bros. 2...well rounded?
I got my money on Linus...he's crafty.
It seems to me TechTV served a few very useful purposes, not the least of which was providing free, quality phone support to callers.
Do you really think those were "real" callers? Didn't you know everything on TV is scripted and made up? Why introduce unknown variables to your formula when you can script more interesting in concept and solution?
It's important to always realize when something advertizes itself in its name such as "smart tags", they're probably tags, but definitly not smart.
Thankfully most of the RIAA sanctioned crap blasted over the radio and Empty-V will not be playable in a few years. Then again, with most of this crap it was not intended for it to be listened to for more than 6 months anyways. The quicker we can cleanse ourselves of this, the better off we will be. But then again, this won't allow future generations learn from our past mistakes in ,cough "art" cough, and thus be doomed to repeat it. Then again, we save ourselves the embarrasement of being associated with this junk.
Yeah, tis is pretty old news. For years I have noticed the silver part of the CD's, if held up to light, you could see through parts as if the part with the data on it just vanished. I guess that whole "Liftime" thing meant the lifetime of the CD. Sneaky. Oh well, at least my MP3's are a bit more persistant.
Word up on the Dramcast. It had so many games well ahead of its time and the graphics were as good as plenty of games out on the X-Box, PS2 and Game Cube. The controller was fabulous and lets not forget Soul Calibur. Then again, it's easy to forget Soul Calibur since we have Soul Calibur 2 now days, but I digress.
Too bad many of the Dreamcasts games were way over the head of most moro...I mean "gamers" today.
...this is all terribly obvious. Why wouldn't graphics get better, rendering techniques refined and improved and advances in computing not result in more immersive, real and cinematic environments? Did you expect it to return to Mode-7 scaling or something?
You could always try Mandrake Linux out. It's fairly painless and allows you to get a real Linux environment setup painlessly. Dual boot it with Windows and maybe use it as a sort of Methadone so you eventually become comfortable with the idea of Linux and maybe start doing some things your own way, etc.
;)
Buy a Linux book from O'Reilly or something also. Just read it when you have time to become more familiar with Linux terms, etc. You will probably find that once you put in the initial time investment, and you can do this slowly over a large period of time (think conservation of energy:P), the Linux "community" will embrace you and be happy to help work through things. But, if you are willing to put in the time to learn a bit of Linux, then you are not part of the 90%; not anymore anyways.
Then again, over this same time period you could maybe save enough money to get a Mac!
That's actually a pretty good post and I hope it doesn't get modded like flamebait. It's a serious problem many people have. They don't want to use Windows, but they see it as the only true avenue to use their computer like 90% of people want to. Right now, Linux is not for everyone. It's way too avant guard so to speak and requires too much from the user to truly get the greatness of it, which is very great. Apple systems are expensive making it a natural turn off for many people for simply financial reasons, although it too should be considered state of the art in it's own right and very high end in terms of early adoption of some modern technological ideas. Windows is LCD, is made to be the system that is not really good at anything but often cheaply and unwittingly synthesizes original ideas and trusted concepts.
Talk about not being able to have your cake and eating it!
Yeah, Python is a personal favorite of mine as well. It's very expressive in that I tell a computer what to do, not how. I don't really have anything else smart to say, but I would agree with you Python is such a language that allows you to get on with it and still look under the hood if necessary. It's the language I use more often now days and I'm still blown away from time to time at how easy and natural it is to do most anything where as in my C++ life I had to spend so much time writing so many basic algorithms (and yes, I know the STL very well) or search for some kind of library that works nothing like my other libs and will take time to conform to the authors great ideas of programming. In Python, you get it all and it's all predictable (this is a good thing) and I only hope I am as lucky as you to find work using it withen the domain of other smart language systems.
I had an operating systems class and in it we had a discussion section where we learned various types of system calls, such as forking, mutexes, pipes etc. Our TA for the discussion was an asian grad student and when we learned about fork() he pronounced it "fuck()". It was great learning what happens when you instruct your program to "fuck()". Needless to say, all you would hear was held back laughter from the entire class. For some reason, it never got old, he always found new ways to make "fuck()" really, really funny
I feel like I just read a small section in the memory management section of an operating systems or programming languages text book. I'm not sure what to discuss here, no knew ideas were expressed or presented here. Perhaps the author could have postulated new ideas for memory management or suggested how current ideas could be improved. Interesting read if you're a programmer who never really got into the mechanics of a programming language and what certain runtime systems do to make your program work. Then again, I would probably call you a strict-scripter and when scripting you're generally more concerned with expressions rather than mechanics.
Although, the point the author made about CPU's being cheaper and faster and how this is allowing the programmer to care less and less about mechanics so the can make use of this extra power to make programming a more expressive rather than mechanical practice is interesting.
Personally, I see no problem with one day having high level application programmers who know nothing of hex, memory management or physical hardware but rather algorithms, computability and productions, etc. Of course, there will always be a place for the "computer programmer", but also a place for the "analytical abstractionist engineer".
I don't know much about fighter planes but didn't the F-14 Tomcat (or something like that) have this ability to change its wingspan from being outward during regular flight and coming inwards during dog-fighting for more maneuverability?
Don't bother if your goal is to sell crap at Wal-Mart. You'll just become more irrelevant if you do, Sun.
"AI research is, at least, churning out real results."
:)
But do you really think these results are really AI? Albeit I am all in all very uneducated in the grand scheme of the field but with my limited understanding and intuition I see more or less better ways to resolve patterns in things rather than emotional thought and decision. It's just something we have that is a part of intelligence that I think a computer or machine, perhaps even biological, cannot have if human developed unless we can eventually quantify our chemical reactions and why they exist.
I'm definitely down with blaming the psych folk though!
I would agree with most folk in this thread that it is an area of research I would love to succeed eventually. Too ambitious? Too ideal?
I would bet that the thought of a baby would be on the order of 1,000,000 times of that of this robot. And probably 100,000 times that of a real Orangoutang. Obviously I have absolutely no backing for those figures. As for AI, the studying I have done has made me conclude it's a failed, crack science at this point for people who really have no concept that a brain doesn't act like a computer, or a computer programmed to act like a brain. In order for this to work we have to be able to quantify a brains element, chemicals etc and we haven't much idea of most of these anyways, and if we do we don't have a clue as to how they function together.
I'm just sick of recursive "best yet" algorithms that claim to be AI when in fact it's nothing more than deduced logic and we are, thankfully, a but deeper than that.
So, go ahead and study AI as perhaps one day something may come of it but be realistic in that you're becoming skilled in a clever art of trickery and deterministic patterns. Good luck!
Just let him be to his books and thoughts. He may have more important things to accomplish and being social isn't one of them. Newton never got laid for instance. Just make sure he takes baths.
It was published on the Internet. No, seriously.
I haven't read this book on Apple Scripting but I have read his book on programming in REAL Basic, which for those that are not familiar with many things Mac is a decent Basic programming language and tool kit similar to MS Visual studio but offers cross compilation to OS X, Classic Mac OS and Windows. I don't use the language much anymore but I would agree it's pretty sharp for what it does and I have seen some great programs written in it.
Anyways, his book on REAL Basic was definitely good. He takes a philosophical approach to things (As he has an advanced degree in philosophy) and has a conversation like approach. For a more experienced programmer it may seem like more reading than necessary but for a novice or someone willing to take the time to read about the insights of the language they are attempting to learn, he makes it worth the effort.
His book provided many examples as well which I think most experienced and novice programmers generally appreciate.
Another good thing about Matt is he posts often to Newsgroups so if you have a particular question regarding his book(s) you will almost always get an answer from him. It's nice when an author is accessible as it gives the feel of a teacher.
Haven't played much with Apple Script myself though. I have done enough though where I think Matt Neubergs writing style would fit the audience that would want a book for this.
Here is the link to this original post that this perosn posted anaonymously.
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Scroll down a bit and you will find it. I'm flattered you liked my post enough to use it but you could have credited me with it. Thanx!
Cool article on Blue. I will have to read the rest of your Website as it seems rather interesting. It's cool to see sites and research by regular folk like this.
true dat. I was mr. trollie big time there, i guess all i was trying to say was make something happen.
Then get a life. You are pathetic, short and simple. You don't have to be but perhaps you should get your troubles looked at. You're wasting your life, and although it's your to waste, you might as well just shoot yourself as the rest of hate looking, smelling and being around people like you.
Stop being so selfish with your fantasy desires and make something happen in reality, where it counts. To make it worse, people like you just invade good games so people with lives who like to play as recreation (i.e. when nothing too social is going on or we just feel like playing for a bit) have to suffer through people like you. Go away, you are a pathetic, spoiled, uncultured freak who has nothing what so ever to offer.
Lots of software is still in use every day. The algorithms anyways. Quicksort was from the 60's, the numerous algorithms Dijkstra gave us. Many, many more as well.