The only thing I question is if Asimov's type of AI should be embedded with the 3 laws or if an even higher level rule should be give to them, the belief in a God.
Or, you could give them empathy. An AI that empathizes with humans will protect and serve because that's what makes humans happy. They will punish criminals because that's what mankind in general would want.
It will not rule if people don't want to be ruled. It will rule if people would rather be ruled by an AI then a politician.
I agree that the bandwidth is just too high for VOD for the whole nation/world, plus, for many people, such as myself, I prefer to own the movie and watch it anytime I want.
So what I can see happening is something similar to how we purchase music now. You purchase a movie, and as bandwidth allows, it'll get downloaded to your DVR, which you can optionally burned to a blank DVD. (limit 1 DVD) You'll get a message along the lines of: "The movie you selected will be available in 42 minutes, if purchased, you may start watching it at that time"
In this model, you can pre-purchase the latest blockbuster and as it comes out to DVD, your copy will appear on your DVR, ready to be viewed or burned to DVD. Maybe they'll even have an optional printer for printing the cover for the DVD case.
This is good, real good. This means if you write your code to work on a unix system, you have complete cross platform compatability. Whether it's Windows, MacOSX, or Linux.
We're going to be seeing Photoshop for Linux any day now.
Wyle E, sitting in front of a computer trying to hack the nation's defense computers to use starwars satellites to send a deathray down to the road runner's location.
Thought bubble appears showing the roadrunner turning into a cooked turkey.
After a short time, the screen flashes red. Wyle E. starts wiping his HD and eating his printouts and disks.
Just as he finishes, the FBI break in and arrest him. Next, we see them holding Wyle E. over a plastic bag, waiting for the evidence to drop out.
What I usually do is a generic search (ie: network security phrases) to find the keywords to use on a proper search. Works great, even if it is a two step process.
For instance, I heard about a liquid that will solidify in the presence of a magnetic field. I type "liquid solidify magnetic field" into google. Then, looking though the pages, I find the term "magnetorheological fluid", which makes a much more refined search.
BAH! I'd have them work on a very short documentary or even a simple 30 minute short.
working on a major motion picture with a obscene amount of money set aside for it does NOT show you the work needed to go into a movle.
try carrying a 30 pound tripod 3 miles in a rainstorm treying to capture maybe 5-10 minutes of footage of a waterfall that will be destroyed because of a development project a few miles upstream.
Wow, do you really get many technical mistakes pointed out on your documentaries? I think the whole point the poster was trying to make was that it's a lot of work coordinating the whole thing and mistakes are bound to happen.
I suppose this would be similar to someone pointing out that your documentary is using cheap cameras compared to the big pictures, and your lighting needs to be improved, rather then relying on natural light sources.
As a side note, to please these people the producers could CG some fixes in, where appropriate, but I doubt they care that much. Most people don't.
If you're using a G4 just for the extra slot, you look into some of the adapter cables available.
I thought I saw external PCI boxes before, but I think it was just the external IDE boxes. (for adding an internal CD-drive or HD as an external firewire device)
Unfortunately for us, in the US at least, we have become overly obsessed with germs and germ fighting. Everything you see kills 99.9% of bacteria!
My wife and I raise goats. (for milk & meat) One thing I noticed is I'm a lot more resistant to the "office flu" then my coworkers.
Soon we will be bathing in extra strength bleach, drinking pool water (we basically do), and using disposable/burnable everything.
On occasion, my wife and I will spend a few days at her parent's house. They live in the city. I can hardly stand to take a bath there because the fumes from the chlorine hurt my eyes. I swear they have more chlorine in their water then in a pool! We can't stand drinking it, so we buy bottled water.
At home my water comes from a well. It's probably packed with e.coli and anthrax, since I'm raising goats a few hundred feet from the well head. In fact, I'm pretty sure it has e.coli, since e.coli outbreaks occure at country fairs if they use the water out of the well for the city folk. (doesn't effect the country folk) Most fairs will bring in bottled water for that reason.
Thing is, Toy Story is not a direct knock off from the Nutcracker.
Disney doesn't even change the name of the movie. They just take folklore and animate it, with a little toning down for the kiddies.
I can't think of one original plot that came out of Disney.
Pinocchio, the fox and the hound: I read both books. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella: remade classics
Now, tell me what classic story has monsters that live in a different world that uses screams for energy, where the monsters work in a factory extracting those screams with the use of magical doors?
What classic is about toys that become envious of the attention of their owner causing a feud that ends up getting them lost?
How many fish in the sea stories talk about a neurotic father fish looking for his son that was taken as a pet?
The iBook has Processor Cycling. That's where it'll increase the CPU speed when there's a bigger load, and drop it back down when it's idling. It's all in the energy management panel.
It'd also be great if Photoshop, Illustrator and Maya where open sourced, and Blockbuster films and Music where legally free for downloading and trading.
But until developers, producers, and musicians start working for free, it'll never happen.
I just hope that the SEC seeks criminal cases against SCOX board members over this one. That would do everyone well for the long term.
Not likely. They all have their golden parachutes on, ready to jump out the window while laughing at the investors all trying to get a piece of the business.
As a side note, what idiot would buy "Viagra" from a company that speeks 1337? If you're going to buy meds from a company, you expect them to at least PRETEND to be professional.
Hey, someone could write a virus that makes an anoying sound, then displays a message like:
"If you want this anoying sound to go away, do the following..."
Or maybe just write a blaster type virus that does it for them.
Personally, I don't think grandma always remembers to start up the firewall before running windows update. Or even just running windows update. Learning how to put in the AOL CD is about as much effort as she can put into getting that computer working so she can talk to her grandkids.
In all seriousness though, this is very very cool. Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here.
Does this mean I can get arrested for having the code for this virus on my computer?
Could I really convince a court that even though I have the source, I'm not the original author of the virus? I guess it depends on the intelligence of the courts. (oh great!)
So I looked into it, and the average pussy is eight inches deep, while the average penis is only six inches long. That means that two inches of pussy are wasted, on average, with every coital thrust. The average sex act lasts three minutes, with 30 thrusts per minute, adding up to 180 inches of wasted pussy per sex act, which happens on average three times per week. Multiply that by 52 weeks, and divide by the number of inches in a mile (63,360) and we find that there is nearly half a mile of wasted pussy per woman per year! Figuring approximately 100 million American women of legal age, that means, as a country, we are wasting around half a million miles of pussy every year, while some men here go without!
There's a good reason for that gap. I'm not one to brag, but in some positions, I end up hitting the "wall" on my wife. Problem is, it hurts her a little when I do that, and it sometimes causes irregular periods if I do it too hard. So we either have to avoid those positions, or just be carefull when we use them.
BTW: 30 thrusts per minute? That's only 1 thrust per 2 seconds. Count to 2 (1-one thousand, 2-one thousand) and tell me you're that slow. 3 minutes? that poor, poor woman!
I would estimate 60 thrusts per minute for 15 minutes. (900 thrusts/sex) That's average over 15 minutes. Of course it'd vary greatly over that time.;)
[i]Yup, but, records of like a bit of alcohol on a regular basis...plus the occasional binger night...could keep you from a security clearance or even just a regular job, if that particular scrutinizer was particularly against any alcohol consumption.[/i]
Like I said, it's as trackable as a credit card.
As soon as you see credit card companies handing out people's spending habits to whoever asks for it, THEN you can start getting paranoid.
[i]I know it's a joke... but "Global Cooling" was the fad/junk science of the 1970's... when the well ran dry for garnering funding into that research, the SAME researchers changed their tune and began sqwacking GLOBAL WARMING![/i]
Interesting. But yeah, I don't believe a word they say. Many researchers make a big deal out of some made up science so that they can get funding to fund their own personal projects which, although interesting, serves no political or economical purpose.
Proof of global cooling! Those plates are loosing head though convection. Since the sun doesn't vary greatly in radiation output, the only explanation for this is global cooling.
I propose they give me millions of dollors for research into how we can heat our planet back up.
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Make it about an impotent midget looking for the ultimate turn on, and you have the making of a legend.
The only thing I question is if Asimov's type of AI should be embedded with the 3 laws or if an even higher level rule should be give to them, the belief in a God.
Or, you could give them empathy. An AI that empathizes with humans will protect and serve because that's what makes humans happy. They will punish criminals because that's what mankind in general would want.
It will not rule if people don't want to be ruled.
It will rule if people would rather be ruled by an AI then a politician.
I agree that the bandwidth is just too high for VOD for the whole nation/world, plus, for many people, such as myself, I prefer to own the movie and watch it anytime I want.
So what I can see happening is something similar to how we purchase music now. You purchase a movie, and as bandwidth allows, it'll get downloaded to your DVR, which you can optionally burned to a blank DVD. (limit 1 DVD) You'll get a message along the lines of: "The movie you selected will be available in 42 minutes, if purchased, you may start watching it at that time"
In this model, you can pre-purchase the latest blockbuster and as it comes out to DVD, your copy will appear on your DVR, ready to be viewed or burned to DVD. Maybe they'll even have an optional printer for printing the cover for the DVD case.
This is good, real good. This means if you write your code to work on a unix system, you have complete cross platform compatability. Whether it's Windows, MacOSX, or Linux.
We're going to be seeing Photoshop for Linux any day now.
I can just see it:
Wyle E, sitting in front of a computer trying to hack the nation's defense computers to use starwars satellites to send a deathray down to the road runner's location.
Thought bubble appears showing the roadrunner turning into a cooked turkey.
After a short time, the screen flashes red. Wyle E. starts wiping his HD and eating his printouts and disks.
Just as he finishes, the FBI break in and arrest him. Next, we see them holding Wyle E. over a plastic bag, waiting for the evidence to drop out.
What I usually do is a generic search (ie: network security phrases) to find the keywords to use on a proper search. Works great, even if it is a two step process.
For instance, I heard about a liquid that will solidify in the presence of a magnetic field. I type "liquid solidify magnetic field" into google. Then, looking though the pages, I find the term "magnetorheological fluid", which makes a much more refined search.
BAH! I'd have them work on a very short documentary or even a simple 30 minute short.
working on a major motion picture with a obscene amount of money set aside for it does NOT show you the work needed to go into a movle.
try carrying a 30 pound tripod 3 miles in a rainstorm treying to capture maybe 5-10 minutes of footage of a waterfall that will be destroyed because of a development project a few miles upstream.
Wow, do you really get many technical mistakes pointed out on your documentaries? I think the whole point the poster was trying to make was that it's a lot of work coordinating the whole thing and mistakes are bound to happen.
I suppose this would be similar to someone pointing out that your documentary is using cheap cameras compared to the big pictures, and your lighting needs to be improved, rather then relying on natural light sources.
As a side note, to please these people the producers could CG some fixes in, where appropriate, but I doubt they care that much. Most people don't.
Is there a reason you don't use a SCSI to Firewire cable?
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If you're using a G4 just for the extra slot, you look into some of the adapter cables available.
I thought I saw external PCI boxes before, but I think it was just the external IDE boxes. (for adding an internal CD-drive or HD as an external firewire device)
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dp
Sure it'd have to be rewritten, but imagine playing an FPS with full ray tracing and movie quality textures.
Fast food is the next tobacco in the real life slippery slope of litigation that hinges on the belief that no one is responsible for their actions.
After eating at McDonalds, my bowels feel like a "slippery slope".
Oops, I just noticed an error in my math. 1850-1410 is not 140. Sorry!
I just checked a bottle of coke in the office fridge. It's 300 calories for 24oz. That's 12.5 calories per oz.
Now, a large Coke from McDonalds is 32oz, making it 400 calories even.
Big Mac meal, supersized is:
Big Mac: 600
Large Coke: 310 (from McDonald's site, because of ice?)
Large Fry: 520
Total: 1410 calories.
Someone mentioned a cup of lard is 1850 calories. Only 140 calories more then a supersized #1. Add a 12oz orange juice and it's even.
Stats (not for the faint of heart)
Unfortunately for us, in the US at least, we have become overly obsessed with germs and germ fighting. Everything you see kills 99.9% of bacteria!
My wife and I raise goats. (for milk & meat) One thing I noticed is I'm a lot more resistant to the "office flu" then my coworkers.
Soon we will be bathing in extra strength bleach, drinking pool water (we basically do), and using disposable/burnable everything.
On occasion, my wife and I will spend a few days at her parent's house. They live in the city. I can hardly stand to take a bath there because the fumes from the chlorine hurt my eyes. I swear they have more chlorine in their water then in a pool! We can't stand drinking it, so we buy bottled water.
At home my water comes from a well. It's probably packed with e.coli and anthrax, since I'm raising goats a few hundred feet from the well head. In fact, I'm pretty sure it has e.coli, since e.coli outbreaks occure at country fairs if they use the water out of the well for the city folk. (doesn't effect the country folk) Most fairs will bring in bottled water for that reason.
I guess even 3-digit IDs can be ignorant...
Or young. I'm 30, and I wasn't reading Time magazine back then. I know Steve because of his Apple ties.
BTW: I loved Pixar's shorts too. I still remember my mom's MacWorld magazines talking about them.
Thing is, Toy Story is not a direct knock off from the Nutcracker.
Disney doesn't even change the name of the movie. They just take folklore and animate it, with a little toning down for the kiddies.
I can't think of one original plot that came out of Disney.
Pinocchio, the fox and the hound: I read both books.
Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella: remade classics
Now, tell me what classic story has monsters that live in a different world that uses screams for energy, where the monsters work in a factory extracting those screams with the use of magical doors?
What classic is about toys that become envious of the attention of their owner causing a feud that ends up getting them lost?
How many fish in the sea stories talk about a neurotic father fish looking for his son that was taken as a pet?
The iBook has Processor Cycling. That's where it'll increase the CPU speed when there's a bigger load, and drop it back down when it's idling. It's all in the energy management panel.
It's been around since at least OS9.
It'd also be great if Photoshop, Illustrator and Maya where open sourced, and Blockbuster films and Music where legally free for downloading and trading.
But until developers, producers, and musicians start working for free, it'll never happen.
I just hope that the SEC seeks criminal cases against SCOX board members over this one. That would do everyone well for the long term.
Not likely. They all have their golden parachutes on, ready to jump out the window while laughing at the investors all trying to get a piece of the business.
Yeah, I stopped getting "Viagra" spam long ago.
As a side note, what idiot would buy "Viagra" from a company that speeks 1337? If you're going to buy meds from a company, you expect them to at least PRETEND to be professional.
Hey, someone could write a virus that makes an anoying sound, then displays a message like:
"If you want this anoying sound to go away, do the following..."
Or maybe just write a blaster type virus that does it for them.
Personally, I don't think grandma always remembers to start up the firewall before running windows update. Or even just running windows update. Learning how to put in the AOL CD is about as much effort as she can put into getting that computer working so she can talk to her grandkids.
In all seriousness though, this is very very cool. Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here.
Does this mean I can get arrested for having the code for this virus on my computer?
Could I really convince a court that even though I have the source, I'm not the original author of the virus? I guess it depends on the intelligence of the courts. (oh great!)
So I looked into it, and the average pussy is eight inches deep, while the average penis is only six inches long. That means that two inches of pussy are wasted, on average, with every coital thrust. The average sex act lasts three minutes, with 30 thrusts per minute, adding up to 180 inches of wasted pussy per sex act, which happens on average three times per week. Multiply that by 52 weeks, and divide by the number of inches in a mile (63,360) and we find that there is nearly half a mile of wasted pussy per woman per year! Figuring approximately 100 million American women of legal age, that means, as a country, we are wasting around half a million miles of pussy every year, while some men here go without!
;)
There's a good reason for that gap. I'm not one to brag, but in some positions, I end up hitting the "wall" on my wife. Problem is, it hurts her a little when I do that, and it sometimes causes irregular periods if I do it too hard. So we either have to avoid those positions, or just be carefull when we use them.
BTW: 30 thrusts per minute? That's only 1 thrust per 2 seconds. Count to 2 (1-one thousand, 2-one thousand) and tell me you're that slow. 3 minutes? that poor, poor woman!
I would estimate 60 thrusts per minute for 15 minutes. (900 thrusts/sex) That's average over 15 minutes. Of course it'd vary greatly over that time.
[i]Yup, but, records of like a bit of alcohol on a regular basis...plus the occasional binger night...could keep you from a security clearance or even just a regular job, if that particular scrutinizer was particularly against any alcohol consumption.[/i] Like I said, it's as trackable as a credit card. As soon as you see credit card companies handing out people's spending habits to whoever asks for it, THEN you can start getting paranoid.
[i]I know it's a joke... but "Global Cooling" was the fad/junk science of the 1970's... when the well ran dry for garnering funding into that research, the SAME researchers changed their tune and began sqwacking GLOBAL WARMING![/i]
Interesting. But yeah, I don't believe a word they say. Many researchers make a big deal out of some made up science so that they can get funding to fund their own personal projects which, although interesting, serves no political or economical purpose.
Proof of global cooling! Those plates are loosing head though convection. Since the sun doesn't vary greatly in radiation output, the only explanation for this is global cooling.
I propose they give me millions of dollors for research into how we can heat our planet back up.