I played through the game due to sheer morbid curiousity. Some of the dialogue between the anti-heros is interesting but the game is poorly made and not fun at all.
Lenovo is partly owned by the government. Lenovo was founded as a branch of from a government think tank and as a result, the Chinese government owns about 10% of Lenovo through the Chinese National Academy of the Sciences.
I've played it in emulation on my Xbox. You're right, the controls are extremely wacky, and I tried modifying the controls so that it would play Halo-style and the response just isn't right.
However, the Goldeneye level design is damn good and definitely holds up. I still say that "The Dam" is the best level in all of first-person-shooterdom.
EA owns the current Goldeneye/Bond license, not Microsoft or Rare. So, to publish Goldeneye on Xbox Live, Microsoft would have to deal with EA which they clearly do not want to do. It's too bad; I'm sure Goldeneye on Xbox live would be a monster seller. I don't think space limitations are the issue, the biggest N64 games were 65 megabytes.
Have you watched Toy Story 1 recently? The graphics are not wonderful. Games have been able to look better than that movie for a while now; the real effect is dependent on the skills of artists. It was a big milestone but no one noticed when we passed it.
I'm 19 years old and have a brilliant idea for a company. I recognize that something like ycombinator is a rip-off for someone like me. They're not really offering anything and moving to Boston or San Jose is a bitch.
So, is there a better way to get investment besides personal networking?
It's a lot easier to prove things with my ego than facts. I'm also so convinced I'm right about everything that it's unnecessary to justify myself to mere peons. I certainly don't need to resort to petty insults to prove my point.
I wrote this post a while ago and posted it on my blog and I didn't change it before posting. The error I inserted has since been fixed and the article has been expanded.
So Google's big project is scanning every single book and indexing them online. It's a great idea. Why just search the internet when you can also be searching every work of literature? It's an obvious advance for Google, improving the search engine in a small but obvious way that makes a big difference as far as real usability.
Here's the thing: indexing books online is an incidental benefit. Google's real goal is to create a working, statistical AI. They've been hiring top-of-their-field AI researchers for a while. Last summer, Google won a competition for machine translation. They translated from Arabic to English and vice-versa better than all of their competitors. They did this using a statistical approach -- just feed the computer thousands and thousands of already translated documents, and eventually the machine can start making inferences based on probability. Given enough data, it works.
The same idea can be applied in the generic case. Wouldn't being able to ask an AI any question and receive a correct answer revolutionize society? And, the sum total of world literature is probably enough data to do so. They could call it AskG. He would know everything. And, the way they could roll it out, is by launching, and simultaneously updating wikipedia. It's well known that Wikipedia is riddled with small errors. Hell, the other day I inserted a gibberish statistic in an article about a city, and it's still there. Imagine if Google AI launches, and then announces that it has fixed Wikipedia. If Google AI made 50,000 edits it would overwhelm Wikipedia's normal editors, but whichever edits were checked by humans would certainly be confirmed as correct.
And, a new age of humanity would be ushered in. It would we a new Library of Alexandria. We would end the Age of Information and enter the Age of Knowledge. The singularity has already begun, but no one has realized it -- the singularity began the day Google went live.
Would AskG immediately fix quantum theory? Given all the data about science published by researchers, could G form new conclusions that humanity's best and brightest haven't? Could G solve the logistical challenge of solving world poverty?
There'd be one question left unanswered, of course, the classic "Can entropy be reversed?." What would be really scary would be if G had an immediate answer.
See the best sci-fi short story ever written, Asimov's The Last Question, or a simple find and replace hack of that story, The Last Query.
MySpace is great for getting kids on the internet, but that's not as important in the scheme of things as the very existence of MySpace.
People are meeting each other based on online experiences. And it's not creepy. It's accepted. Strangers are hooking up and having sex and there are no monthly fees and none of the stigma attached to dating websites. Sex. with strangers. for free.
If that's not a killer app of the internet, I don't know what is.
It's not just sex with strangers. It's socialization in general that is the internet's killer app. Once we get over the barrier of the internet being creepy, computerized socialization will make all of our lives better and more fulfilling. It'll be great whenever I get off for lunch and work and get a message on my PDA saying to meet these three guys (or one girl) for lunch at this place two miles away so we can talk about our common interests of blah, blah and blah.
I know that stem cells have a potential to do a lot. You know that. Pretty much everyone that's not a complete moron knows that and knows that the ethical issues aren't black and white.
It would be great to start doing human trials to move progress forward. However, no matter how much social conservatives try and hold back the progress of science, it will always move forward. 200 years from now, no matter what happens with stem cell research today, we're going to have cured most disease and be on the way to creating a master race of genetic superbabies.
It marks the end of the free encyclopedia that can be edited by any idiot. Now, it can only be edited by 99% of idiots and most importantly, those specific people that spend the time actually editing the articles.
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She could get a business degree. There is always room for creativity as a business person. It also pays better than science.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4479612.stm
Here's the press release with a link to the paper.
http://www.thinkgene.com/um-physicists-show-electrons-can-travel-over-100-times-faster-in-graphene-than-in-silicon/
>the price of sequencing a human genome has dropped from hundreds of millions of dollars to about $10,000
Wow, sign me up. Last time I check (today) it costs about $1,000,00 to sequence a human genome.
I feel so sorry that they can't run the latest games at 2560x1600.
I've got some brilliant ideas, billion dollar ideas, in software. Right now I'm bootstrapping a biotech startup.
Want to hook me up with some of your billionaire friends? Send me an email and I'll share my ideas.
kfischer at g mail dot com
Sure. Built it and sell it. I'd buy one. Or thirty-five.
Nothing is said about he is planning on monetizing this. Any ideas?
In the middle.
I assume you need a registered business or corporation.
Are you familiar with the terms of the contracts? Do you have to commit to a certain number of units over a period of tim?
What is the process for getting Wii's and PS3's wholesale?
I played through the game due to sheer morbid curiousity. Some of the dialogue between the anti-heros is interesting but the game is poorly made and not fun at all.
Don't bother.
Lenovo is partly owned by the government. Lenovo was founded as a branch of from a government think tank and as a result, the Chinese government owns about 10% of Lenovo through the Chinese National Academy of the Sciences.
I've played it in emulation on my Xbox. You're right, the controls are extremely wacky, and I tried modifying the controls so that it would play Halo-style and the response just isn't right.
However, the Goldeneye level design is damn good and definitely holds up. I still say that "The Dam" is the best level in all of first-person-shooterdom.
EA owns the current Goldeneye/Bond license, not Microsoft or Rare. So, to publish Goldeneye on Xbox Live, Microsoft would have to deal with EA which they clearly do not want to do. It's too bad; I'm sure Goldeneye on Xbox live would be a monster seller. I don't think space limitations are the issue, the biggest N64 games were 65 megabytes.
Have you watched Toy Story 1 recently? The graphics are not wonderful. Games have been able to look better than that movie for a while now; the real effect is dependent on the skills of artists. It was a big milestone but no one noticed when we passed it.
I'm 19 years old and have a brilliant idea for a company. I recognize that something like ycombinator is a rip-off for someone like me. They're not really offering anything and moving to Boston or San Jose is a bitch.
So, is there a better way to get investment besides personal networking?
Thanks.
It's a lot easier to prove things with my ego than facts. I'm also so convinced I'm right about everything that it's unnecessary to justify myself to mere peons. I certainly don't need to resort to petty insults to prove my point.
Ass.
Testing the system?
I wrote this post a while ago and posted it on my blog and I didn't change it before posting. The error I inserted has since been fixed and the article has been expanded.
So Google's big project is scanning every single book and indexing them online. It's a great idea. Why just search the internet when you can also be searching every work of literature? It's an obvious advance for Google, improving the search engine in a small but obvious way that makes a big difference as far as real usability.
Here's the thing: indexing books online is an incidental benefit. Google's real goal is to create a working, statistical AI. They've been hiring top-of-their-field AI researchers for a while. Last summer, Google won a competition for machine translation. They translated from Arabic to English and vice-versa better than all of their competitors. They did this using a statistical approach -- just feed the computer thousands and thousands of already translated documents, and eventually the machine can start making inferences based on probability. Given enough data, it works.
The same idea can be applied in the generic case. Wouldn't being able to ask an AI any question and receive a correct answer revolutionize society? And, the sum total of world literature is probably enough data to do so. They could call it AskG. He would know everything. And, the way they could roll it out, is by launching, and simultaneously updating wikipedia. It's well known that Wikipedia is riddled with small errors. Hell, the other day I inserted a gibberish statistic in an article about a city, and it's still there. Imagine if Google AI launches, and then announces that it has fixed Wikipedia. If Google AI made 50,000 edits it would overwhelm Wikipedia's normal editors, but whichever edits were checked by humans would certainly be confirmed as correct.
And, a new age of humanity would be ushered in. It would we a new Library of Alexandria. We would end the Age of Information and enter the Age of Knowledge. The singularity has already begun, but no one has realized it -- the singularity began the day Google went live.
Would AskG immediately fix quantum theory? Given all the data about science published by researchers, could G form new conclusions that humanity's best and brightest haven't? Could G solve the logistical challenge of solving world poverty?
There'd be one question left unanswered, of course, the classic "Can entropy be reversed?." What would be really scary would be if G had an immediate answer.
See the best sci-fi short story ever written, Asimov's The Last Question, or a simple find and replace hack of that story, The Last Query.
MySpace is great for getting kids on the internet, but that's not as important in the scheme of things as the very existence of MySpace.
People are meeting each other based on online experiences. And it's not creepy. It's accepted. Strangers are hooking up and having sex and there are no monthly fees and none of the stigma attached to dating websites. Sex. with strangers. for free.
If that's not a killer app of the internet, I don't know what is.
It's not just sex with strangers. It's socialization in general that is the internet's killer app. Once we get over the barrier of the internet being creepy, computerized socialization will make all of our lives better and more fulfilling. It'll be great whenever I get off for lunch and work and get a message on my PDA saying to meet these three guys (or one girl) for lunch at this place two miles away so we can talk about our common interests of blah, blah and blah.
Thanks.
I know that stem cells have a potential to do a lot. You know that. Pretty much everyone that's not a complete moron knows that and knows that the ethical issues aren't black and white.
It would be great to start doing human trials to move progress forward. However, no matter how much social conservatives try and hold back the progress of science, it will always move forward. 200 years from now, no matter what happens with stem cell research today, we're going to have cured most disease and be on the way to creating a master race of genetic superbabies.
Welcome to the future.
No.
It marks the end of the free encyclopedia that can be edited by any idiot. Now, it can only be edited by 99% of idiots and most importantly, those specific people that spend the time actually editing the articles.