Funny, I've spent the last six months trying to get any random MySpace page to load without all the photos, videos, animations, sounds, java appletts and other mundane crap along with their retarded interface crashing any random browser I'm using on any random OS.
MySpace is just the equivalent of AOL chat rooms. Those who aren't self-involved cliquish drama whores and dorks trolling for pussy from average girls with self-image problems over it are busy using Usenet and other more appropriate and useful places.
My police for MySpace content is the same as LiveJournal. Don't ask me to check out your page on either one - I'm not going to look at it. If you want to tell me something, you can tell me. You are not so precious and my time so worthless that I need to share in a mass-broadcast on what kind of cheese you had on your sandwhich today or how cute you think someone else's hair bow is. I just don't care. If I don't know you at all - I won't care. If I do know you well enough to care about the news, I'd prefer you take the time to have a CONVERSATION with me rather than slip me a URL and tell me to read up on your life like you're Jennifer fucking Anniston.
And I'm serious about this shit. Girlfriend, relative, coworker, love-interest. I don't care WHO you are. I won't check your page out.
Also - there's nothing dangerous about MySpace. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch after all and Bill O'Reilly wouldn't stand for anyone putting children at risk, would he?! Hell no - he'd crusade against you until the tide forced you over!
Seriously - I just don't get the MySpace thing. I think you have to be of a certain social accuity and lower intellectual level to find it worth your time. It has a terrible interface and is filled with crap. You may as well be using geocities for all it matters. Hopefully they'll just splinter off and form their own internet and take the tards with them.
And there's no point in people replying with "oh and you're so special?!" or "aren't you elite?!" or anything, because I don't care anymore than I care about MySpace. Maybe if I were into hooking up with twelve year old girls, I would be interested.
Emphasis in the written word is usually . . . uh . . . emphasized. Yet another Sashdot failing. When the entire blurb is emphasized, it doesn't leave much room to convey subtext.
So, this pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his pants and the bar tender says "do you know you've got a steering wheel sticking out of your pants?" . . .
Uh . . . Why exactly would you volunteer to be a tracked bovine for corporate media, then? Even a fucking GRIP and KRAFT SERVICES guy gets paid by the media and entertainment industry for his time and services.
God damn people are stupid. From this point on, I declare that if you are an uncompensated Nielson home - you must be executed.
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.
As you can see, a blog is more than a chronological series of articles. A blog is a "frequently updated journal" typically meant to convey or "represent" the site or author's personality. In other words, a blog is a medium by which attention whores and self-involved twits can express their glorious opinions to the world. And don't bother wasiting time offering the "but what is slashdot!" comparison. We're single voices in a community. It's Slashdot and not Seumasdot or bogthadot - and that's a defining difference.
I think the typical person justly sees, say, CNN as a news site and Slashdot as a tech site. A blog is more of a personal endeavor that involves more personality and self-centeredness around an individual or small group of individuals. Otherwise, by your logic, US News, TIME and Cavlin and Hobbes are "blogs".
My guess would be that they will include iPod users into their Nielson households. I wonder how much people who do the Nielson box things get paid for it? While I would hate to ever think of participating, it might be worth it if it meant I could get my cable bill paid out of it each month.
I'm still baffled by the concept that anyone with a blog would say anything even remotely worth plagiarizing.
That being said, I have been quoted or referenced a number of times in various publications including books on the transition of the.com world / business / work-environments. I think I would be justifiably upset if I weren't at least credited. In all cases (to my knowledge) I have been credited and I appreciate it.
There have been times where my ideas or content (as far as my auction site itself or material on it) have been misused, but that's a completely different thing.
I'm not so sure of that. Computers making choices based on structured rulesets are certainly entering our daily lives, but I think it will be a long time before something that does more than simply run down some sort of B-Tree of choices based on input. I was going to say that until an ATM can not only deny me because my PIN number is wrong, but because it "thinks I seem suspicious", I won't be convinced -- but even then, that doesn't prove any sort of AI as the computer will still be following a ruleset developed and programmed by someone with strict indications of what is or isn't suspicious.
I think there's a big difference between "artificial intelligence" and "intelligent emulation" and all we're getting so far is "intelligent emulation".
Also - do you really think that "expert systems" (if I understand them correctly) could ever be where the spark of true artificial intelligence occurs? I mean, by definition, wouldn't artificial intelligence occur in a less structured arena where they are not confined to one simple set of tasks and rules? If all your system knows about is watching for computer virus activity, generating signatures and relaying those signatures to sentries throughout the internet -- could it ever have anything more than "emulative intelligence"?
Based on the information in your post, it would support my comment that all modern AI does is "mimic". If this company had invented "true artificial intelligence", it wouldn't be mimicing humans - it would actually be behaving like them. The old "AI" program that guesses what animal you're thinking of based on your responses (and later - contribution to it's database if it was something it didn't know before) is a great example of no intelligence - but mimicing human intelligence in a way that some people might perceive as actual intelligence.
Granted, "AI" includes the word "ARTIFICIAL", but I don't think that "artificial" means "mimic" and that is the wording that the company used in their release. Essentially undermines their whole "true AI" claim.
If it was the July issue, that means it probably came out in June (or even May). Chances are the submitter sent the article submission in around that time and, in typical Slashdot fashion, just now got around to posting it.
I'd have to ask something along the lines of "when was the last time anyone got up in arms and posted three articles a week about the distinct lack of males interested in crocheting or knitting".
And you're right - I don't know who these girls are that are complaining, because all the girls I know of various ages like to game and have plenty of games they play. My mom likes Solitaire and a few random games like that. My sister likes The SIMS and Black & White (isn't it interesting how girls don't like world-building / strategy / god games unless you throw in a fuzzy animal to groom and nurture and grow and control?). Another girl I know loves The SIMS, SIMS online, Black and White and World of Warcraft.
Then I've seen plenty of girls playing Counterstrike and similar games. They even have clans and compete for money in tournemants sponsored by various players in the industry.
So I don't know what they're talking about. And rather than just whining about a lack of some game - why not tell us what you want the game to be so we can fucking DESIGN it?!
Then again, with my experiences with women, the entire point of the plaintive waling is that they think YOU should be a mind reader and just KNOW what it is they want without them having to ASK in the first place.
It's not even necessarily that it's women in gaming (although I've seen some top class world competition by female gaming teams on Counterstrike and the sort -- so to say that MEN have failed WOMEN in gaming is silly). Slashdot did the same thing with Jon Katz and the Hellmouth and Columbine stuff. Once - we're interested. Three or four times - we get it - it's a big deal and a pattern. Two or three articles per week ... GAH . . . time to get off the high hourse and return Slashdot to the geeks. Or at the least, put the articles in a "Politically Correct Activist" section.
But they DO like videogames. They just don't like ours. And that means that we can't play ours either. They can't do their own thing and enjoy it and let us do our things that we enjoy. No, they have to decide that if they don't like doing it, we can't do it either. And then we have to adopt whatever it is they want to do and how they want to do it and pretend to enjoy it ourselves.
At least, that must be how it is. Otherwise they would go find games they like and stop bitching in every other article about it. Guess what? I don't like most games either and most are lacking in some way to really satisfy me. I don't play those. If ind the one or two that I *DO* like and that *DO* meet my recreational needs. THOSE are the ones I play.
Can we just give this "poor down-trodden female gamers" thing a rest for ONE fucking week?!
I'm sorry to flame off like this but it's just finally getting to the breaking point. ENOUGH already. We get it. It's male dominated. We're sexist and selfish and insensitive and don't get women and don't care about their enjoyment of games and we rig society and academia up so that women fail in everything they do in the world.. OKAY. MY BAD. i'm male. Forgive me.
Now, can we get on to some REAL articles?! This is SLASHDOT. It isn't fucking N.O.W..
Take the iPod for instance. Radio Shack and Best Buy and others make $2 off of the $400 iPod. They ONLY make money by selling accessories along with it. Addtionally, they're only provided a certain number of iPods at a time - so they want to sell those iPods to people who will buy warranties and plans and lots of accessories at the same time. Otherwise, they're "losing money". You may find that the item you want isn't available if they don't think you're going to buy other things along with it (especially in the cacse of the ipod) because they want to save it for the next guy who comes in and is willing to buy $300 worth of gadgets to go with it.
You CHOOSE to believe in the giant malicious floaty god gay-hater jesus-daddy guy.
By your logic, it's okay to be part of the Aryan Nation and preech "the one pure white race over the mud people" crap because other people who preech that crap might be white, too.
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Funny, I've spent the last six months trying to get any random MySpace page to load without all the photos, videos, animations, sounds, java appletts and other mundane crap along with their retarded interface crashing any random browser I'm using on any random OS.
MySpace is just the equivalent of AOL chat rooms. Those who aren't self-involved cliquish drama whores and dorks trolling for pussy from average girls with self-image problems over it are busy using Usenet and other more appropriate and useful places.
My police for MySpace content is the same as LiveJournal. Don't ask me to check out your page on either one - I'm not going to look at it. If you want to tell me something, you can tell me. You are not so precious and my time so worthless that I need to share in a mass-broadcast on what kind of cheese you had on your sandwhich today or how cute you think someone else's hair bow is. I just don't care. If I don't know you at all - I won't care. If I do know you well enough to care about the news, I'd prefer you take the time to have a CONVERSATION with me rather than slip me a URL and tell me to read up on your life like you're Jennifer fucking Anniston.
And I'm serious about this shit. Girlfriend, relative, coworker, love-interest. I don't care WHO you are. I won't check your page out.
Also - there's nothing dangerous about MySpace. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch after all and Bill O'Reilly wouldn't stand for anyone putting children at risk, would he?! Hell no - he'd crusade against you until the tide forced you over!
Seriously - I just don't get the MySpace thing. I think you have to be of a certain social accuity and lower intellectual level to find it worth your time. It has a terrible interface and is filled with crap. You may as well be using geocities for all it matters. Hopefully they'll just splinter off and form their own internet and take the tards with them.
And there's no point in people replying with "oh and you're so special?!" or "aren't you elite?!" or anything, because I don't care anymore than I care about MySpace. Maybe if I were into hooking up with twelve year old girls, I would be interested.
Emphasis in the written word is usually . . . uh . . . emphasized. Yet another Sashdot failing. When the entire blurb is emphasized, it doesn't leave much room to convey subtext.
Good luck. With some 25,000 federal laws on the books, someone has to enforce them. I'm sure jaywalking will be a federal offense soon, too.
Oh, great. So now they're going to have to report that "Bangbus episode 128 was the third most popular broadcast this week" . . .
So, this pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his pants and the bar tender says "do you know you've got a steering wheel sticking out of your pants?" . . .
And that, coming from a tard with '420' in his username.
Oh, by the way - it's called "generalizing" because GENERALLY it's TRUE.
Go back to the bong.
Uh . . . Why exactly would you volunteer to be a tracked bovine for corporate media, then? Even a fucking GRIP and KRAFT SERVICES guy gets paid by the media and entertainment industry for his time and services.
God damn people are stupid. From this point on, I declare that if you are an uncompensated Nielson home - you must be executed.
google: define blog
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.
As you can see, a blog is more than a chronological series of articles. A blog is a "frequently updated journal" typically meant to convey or "represent" the site or author's personality. In other words, a blog is a medium by which attention whores and self-involved twits can express their glorious opinions to the world. And don't bother wasiting time offering the "but what is slashdot!" comparison. We're single voices in a community. It's Slashdot and not Seumasdot or bogthadot - and that's a defining difference.
I think the typical person justly sees, say, CNN as a news site and Slashdot as a tech site. A blog is more of a personal endeavor that involves more personality and self-centeredness around an individual or small group of individuals. Otherwise, by your logic, US News, TIME and Cavlin and Hobbes are "blogs".
My guess would be that they will include iPod users into their Nielson households. I wonder how much people who do the Nielson box things get paid for it? While I would hate to ever think of participating, it might be worth it if it meant I could get my cable bill paid out of it each month.
I'm still baffled by the concept that anyone with a blog would say anything even remotely worth plagiarizing.
.com world / business / work-environments. I think I would be justifiably upset if I weren't at least credited. In all cases (to my knowledge) I have been credited and I appreciate it.
That being said, I have been quoted or referenced a number of times in various publications including books on the transition of the
There have been times where my ideas or content (as far as my auction site itself or material on it) have been misused, but that's a completely different thing.
I'm not so sure of that. Computers making choices based on structured rulesets are certainly entering our daily lives, but I think it will be a long time before something that does more than simply run down some sort of B-Tree of choices based on input. I was going to say that until an ATM can not only deny me because my PIN number is wrong, but because it "thinks I seem suspicious", I won't be convinced -- but even then, that doesn't prove any sort of AI as the computer will still be following a ruleset developed and programmed by someone with strict indications of what is or isn't suspicious.
I think there's a big difference between "artificial intelligence" and "intelligent emulation" and all we're getting so far is "intelligent emulation".
Also - do you really think that "expert systems" (if I understand them correctly) could ever be where the spark of true artificial intelligence occurs? I mean, by definition, wouldn't artificial intelligence occur in a less structured arena where they are not confined to one simple set of tasks and rules? If all your system knows about is watching for computer virus activity, generating signatures and relaying those signatures to sentries throughout the internet -- could it ever have anything more than "emulative intelligence"?
Based on the information in your post, it would support my comment that all modern AI does is "mimic". If this company had invented "true artificial intelligence", it wouldn't be mimicing humans - it would actually be behaving like them. The old "AI" program that guesses what animal you're thinking of based on your responses (and later - contribution to it's database if it was something it didn't know before) is a great example of no intelligence - but mimicing human intelligence in a way that some people might perceive as actual intelligence.
Granted, "AI" includes the word "ARTIFICIAL", but I don't think that "artificial" means "mimic" and that is the wording that the company used in their release. Essentially undermines their whole "true AI" claim.
If it's true AI why does it just "mimic"? Isn't that what CURRENT AI does?
If it was the July issue, that means it probably came out in June (or even May). Chances are the submitter sent the article submission in around that time and, in typical Slashdot fashion, just now got around to posting it.
OMFG! I know what that was!!!
That was SARCASM! Sweeeeet!
Noun
sarcasm
1. A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
I, for one, have never wasted my time writing about opressed women. I am far to busy being actively involved in actually opressing them!
(I kid, I kid . . . Kinda).
An "Open dictionary"?
Gee. Where have I heard of that before?
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I'd have to ask something along the lines of "when was the last time anyone got up in arms and posted three articles a week about the distinct lack of males interested in crocheting or knitting".
And you're right - I don't know who these girls are that are complaining, because all the girls I know of various ages like to game and have plenty of games they play. My mom likes Solitaire and a few random games like that. My sister likes The SIMS and Black & White (isn't it interesting how girls don't like world-building / strategy / god games unless you throw in a fuzzy animal to groom and nurture and grow and control?). Another girl I know loves The SIMS, SIMS online, Black and White and World of Warcraft.
Then I've seen plenty of girls playing Counterstrike and similar games. They even have clans and compete for money in tournemants sponsored by various players in the industry.
So I don't know what they're talking about. And rather than just whining about a lack of some game - why not tell us what you want the game to be so we can fucking DESIGN it?!
Then again, with my experiences with women, the entire point of the plaintive waling is that they think YOU should be a mind reader and just KNOW what it is they want without them having to ASK in the first place.
It's not even necessarily that it's women in gaming (although I've seen some top class world competition by female gaming teams on Counterstrike and the sort -- so to say that MEN have failed WOMEN in gaming is silly). Slashdot did the same thing with Jon Katz and the Hellmouth and Columbine stuff. Once - we're interested. Three or four times - we get it - it's a big deal and a pattern. Two or three articles per week . .. GAH . . . time to get off the high hourse and return Slashdot to the geeks. Or at the least, put the articles in a "Politically Correct Activist" section.
Why are you wasting your time posting on slashdot when you should be trying to sneak your balls out of your wife's purse?
But they DO like videogames. They just don't like ours. And that means that we can't play ours either. They can't do their own thing and enjoy it and let us do our things that we enjoy. No, they have to decide that if they don't like doing it, we can't do it either. And then we have to adopt whatever it is they want to do and how they want to do it and pretend to enjoy it ourselves.
At least, that must be how it is. Otherwise they would go find games they like and stop bitching in every other article about it. Guess what? I don't like most games either and most are lacking in some way to really satisfy me. I don't play those. If ind the one or two that I *DO* like and that *DO* meet my recreational needs. THOSE are the ones I play.
So like.. yeah.. holy crap already.
Zonk . . . who fucking CARES?!
Can we just give this "poor down-trodden female gamers" thing a rest for ONE fucking week?!
I'm sorry to flame off like this but it's just finally getting to the breaking point. ENOUGH already. We get it. It's male dominated. We're sexist and selfish and insensitive and don't get women and don't care about their enjoyment of games and we rig society and academia up so that women fail in everything they do in the world.. OKAY. MY BAD. i'm male. Forgive me.
Now, can we get on to some REAL articles?! This is SLASHDOT. It isn't fucking N.O.W..
Not so.
Take the iPod for instance. Radio Shack and Best Buy and others make $2 off of the $400 iPod. They ONLY make money by selling accessories along with it. Addtionally, they're only provided a certain number of iPods at a time - so they want to sell those iPods to people who will buy warranties and plans and lots of accessories at the same time. Otherwise, they're "losing money". You may find that the item you want isn't available if they don't think you're going to buy other things along with it (especially in the cacse of the ipod) because they want to save it for the next guy who comes in and is willing to buy $300 worth of gadgets to go with it.
Uh. Little flaw in your logic.
You're BORN whatever ethnicity you're born as.
You CHOOSE to believe in the giant malicious floaty god gay-hater jesus-daddy guy.
By your logic, it's okay to be part of the Aryan Nation and preech "the one pure white race over the mud people" crap because other people who preech that crap might be white, too.