something happens in reality only the very moment you know it.
to say the electron has many velocities (wavefunction) before measurement but as soon as it is measured, it collapses (wavefunction collapse) into a single value.
I thought that this was exactly what was happening, because the result is perceived by the observer. Everything "is" (or is'nt, or carrot, what with quantum weirdness and all) but you can only see what is from the point of the observer, change perspective, and the perceived result changes. Light particle wave duality -- its a particle when you look at it, wave when not (theoretically). If the tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Bad example, but similar philosophy.
maybe I am on crack, but perception is 9/10ths of reality
Any links? Evidence? No joke or jab, I really want to know more! I have always wondered how he works as POTUS; I am no fan, but I would like to believe that one can not be a complete moppet and become Commander in Chief. Show me "Fox in office for 6 billion lives, Alex".
well, if you are ALLOWED to provide it for download, many commercial fonts have to be purchased) on your site,
where are the OSS fonts? I remember a time where I could download plenty of usable fonts, and all was well, free of charge. Does anyone know where to get usable free use fonts?
He is a geek, and has been for years, degree in CS, programmer, hardware, networking, blah blah. He knows his way around computers, and generally knows more than me.
HE BREAKS ALL KINDS OF SHIT.
Its not his fault, he knows what he is doing, but all kinds of devices decide to crash, die, fault, whatever, whenever he touches them. Routine stuff (like deleting a cache, increasing virtual memory size, hitting enter) will conjure the most horrible data losing crash possible.
This is why I believe in magic. All of the technical expertise and "This is how it works." type stuff is moot when the computer gods decide to cancel your luck subscription. As mentioned by the parent, the luck will instantly return when a mojo geek enters the equasion and candels the anti-mojo geek.
Geeks...mojo...does...not...compute...*boom*
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Business week just needs to STFU about technology in industry, because people who have limited contact with it (either by not interacting with the technology or not interacting with industry) will often take their ill-informed articles as Truth.
And this is why they will never STFU. This is yet another example of how the sheep take orders from the machine.
I agree that some of the cg effects should not have been included for the amount of money spent, a few looked like they where not completely polished.
However, I was impressed with the amount of effects that had a white/light background. It is really hard to do cg with light backgrounds, especially in mass scale, because it makes it hard to hide things. Like the hoth scenes in SW, very impressive (technically), because it is hard to light light environments.
Dark scenes (in cg) always finish better, because they can "under" light and desaturate, and your mind fills in the rest.
A game with porn in it should be rated AO because that's what it is.
I agree, but I have not seen a game with porn in it (not since nudie tetris). It seems like the standards that they want applied to games would have half of Fox labeled as adult only. They do have quite the titillating nightly lineup! For free nationwide! How many "young" kids are hooked on the lastest TV slutfest?
I've been massively underwhelmed at Babelfish's ability to understand foreign-language text and by ViaVoice's ability to understand speech.
Do not forget this is DARPA, they have nearly unlimited resources in both money and brains (dont tell the zombies)
the U.S. does nothing for a couple of years and then tries to throw a cheap technical fix at the problem.
This translator has most likely been in development since the idea of voice recognition, and is now good enough that they feel they can deploy it with better than dead success. (with Arabic!, a true feat, check other posts on the differences between the languages, and then try to apply that to an already complex program. I bet this thing could rip through any latin based language with the appropriate DARPAtalk(tm) package.)
Instead of doing the obvious thing--give soldiers training in Arabic and offer big bonuses for Arabic-speaking recruits--the U.S. does nothing for a couple of years and then tries to throw a cheap technical fix at the problem.
Few people want to be soldiers now. There is a hot war. I agree that having human translators like the old (original) human artillary computers would work quite well, and they could probably get recruits if the language recruits were guaranteed service in the US or EU or some place with less deadlyness. Training humans also takes a lot of time and money, probably not as much as building the machine, but you only need to build "one" machine and keep improving on it, vs retraining a human over and over [obviously].
For some half ass numbers for context, take the 22,000 translators necessary, say they know no Arabic, train them for 4 years at a good language school for ~160,000 tuition, multiply by 10 for the government pricing rule (1 person getting the goods takes 10 support people to get the goods to that person, this figure may be (and probably is) higher). 22,000 * 160,000 * 10 == 35 200 000 000. Yes, these are semi-arbitrary numbers, and not all translators would need the full training, etc, but it is still a large investment into something that will eventually retire, quit, turn, or die.
The real score is that this tool will be great for sucking up communications anywhere, anytime to check against patterns that are interesting to the government. This will be good and bad, but hopefully in time will end up in some robot that will help you do the dishes. Or it will ask you for your papers. Probably both.
xbox 360 built with multiple big-bad-multi-cell(tm) processors with lots of memory bus
Microsoft launches xbox 360 with xbox live for free
Microsoft announces that it is getting into supercomputing
[lots of xboxes] + [freenetwork that everyone with broadband is likely to use] + [redmond supercomputing r&d] = skynet
Sure, there would be lots of latency, but with the projected install base...makes for one bbmf(tm) of a distributed net. Each of the boxes will be nearly identical and will includeh an OS that could be tweaked remotely and across all nodes without much hassle, sounds good for engineering a distributed net, yea?
How will one know that when updateing a live account, or downloading new content you are not sending the next piece of the puzzle? What if the games include pieces of the program distributed, compiled and redistributed by the live master control like the Joker's happy fun chemicals in the first Burton/Batman movie? They control the sdk, the compiler, the box, the final review of the code, the networking, why not use all the gear to compute big stuff(tm)? Let consumers buy and build your Xmillion node grid? Sic!
Yes, that last bit (or the whole bit) makes some serious and likely fubar assumptions about how/if/what the whole idea works. Yes, this is another cracked out late night post of consipiracys and ill-informed crap. However, I am sure that more level headed chaps could trip out on the idea and see if it is technically possible. And if something is technically possible...
[mumble]...ill trip on that trying to sleep tonight...mislead about foil hats...skynet in my living room...robot reservation...[yawn]
I love garagegames, I love torque, I love Tribes 2 (VGTGVGS I am shazbot!), I still play it more than any other game. I am excited that GG has a good deal with Microsoft, cheers - a huge win for sure.
Make money any way you can so your company can continue to publish independent games, but try not to become too platform dependent while counting the money $-)
I hold garagegames in higher regard than most houses not only for the quality titles (lots of houses make fun games) but more for their (and their community) multiplatform support.
If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word tiger...
That string of words is fubar. I understand the words, but they are absurd.
Sure it is great that Apple is getting bailed out by a Linux comrade (or is it? Apple is not exactly an impoverished "runt" company) but keep in mind that the whole concept of owning a word is absurd
Fire away, but once again I am slapped with concepts that confound my understanding of their inception. That sounds lame...why does anyone put up with crap ideas like this?
The Heart Of Gold is "supposed" to resemble a running shoe, an elegant one at that. Why is it a sphere?
Do you think fans of the radio, book, and BBC tele series feel that this movie retains the wit of its prior incarnations?
If Adams wrote a portion of the script, did he not write enough of it for the entire production to be bastardized by exec editors to appeal to the largest audience?
Will this be the only instance of HHGG to not have a cult following?
The great thing about this is that it is a killer interface to an analog sequencer (triggering digital events). Sure there are other methods for sequencing beats, but this combines the best of a sequencer and a turntable.
Many DJs use sequencers/drum machines, this allows them to add the versatility of the table to the sequence, scratch, tweak the speed with the tables pitch control, doubletime instantly -- all things that can be done with computer sequencers, but now with the analog variations that come with a mechanical device. The slight variations add a more "lively" "feel" to a sound that would otherwise be precicely repetative.
All of this is really fluff compared to having an intuitive interface to sequence beats. This would allow (for me at least) to understand the pattern much more quickly, and change accordingly. Throw in some mad wheels of steel skill, and you now have the greatest sequencer input interface ever.
I support my local economy every chance I get, fortunately I live in a city that has great local support for local businesses. This is slowly being eroded by megacorps (Walmart, BestBuy, Homedepot, Gap, etc), and as such I avoid these companies. I also support American companies where it makes sense (music goods and equipment, designed and made in America).
American automobile manufacturers, however, do not have my support. It will take great improvements in American automobile engineering before I will buy a non-classic American car. To me, they are horribly inefficient, poorly designed and engineered, and stifle technological advancement in personal transportation. From simple things like cupholder, instrument, and console placement and design to more involved engineering like oil, air, gas filter placement and general maintenance engineering that I have enjoyed in foreign (Japanese) cars for 10 years. To me, it seems like the engineering of American cars is not entirely thought through. The industry seems to not care, as people will voraciously consume anything they are fed on television.
Why have American SUV manufacturers manufacured automobiles that will hit almost all other vehicles above their "safe" collision height? Even large freight vehicles have been engineered not to do this! (see the "extra" low bumper on "tractor trailers" in the front and rear, its so that the two vehicles will collide in a "safer" manner, with the frame and its engineered "crumple" zones able to meet in line with the trucks frame, instead of sliding under the truck frame)
There have been many improvements in American cars, but for me it is "too little, too late" followed by "OK, now what have you done to make things better".
Death is not an evolutionary failure, but a function of life and reproduction. If the reproductive rate is too high, and lifespan too long, the species will outrun its environmental resources. If the reproductive rate is low, the lifespan must increase to sustain the species.
Death is great, as it promotes a sustainable environment for life to continue and for maladaptations to make way for better adaptations (yah, tell that to the maladapted).
Life needs death, or an ever expanding set of resources, else life does not perpetuate.
Enter the machines and their source of endlessly multiplying batteries, or gigantic space wasps combing the universe for more resources. Humans need to 1) control reproduction 2) be smarter about resources 3)have fewer humans 4) get off this flying umbrella
So far, we have only mastered #3, and we still are not very good at that. grumblegrumblepinkgoogrumblegrumble
Why is this modded funny? It's not, it's scary. Because it's true.
Don't be a troll. Moderators why is this insightful ?
Its insightful because people still do not understand how much the war costs. They are throwing around HUGE numbers, and people still can not "grasp" them. Sure its all relative, and there are orders of magnitude (pretty popular around here) between the 160 billion USD spent in two years and the number of [scientific things] in a [scientific thing], but the problem is that all of the numbers are large enough for one (if not all) to lose perspecive.
In the spirit of hogsheds and old Koreans, the spending of the war could fund well over 32,000 (thirty-two thousand) additional years of Vyger mainenance and research. [~160,000,000,000 / ~ 5,000,000 ] This is unnecessary, as only ~15 years of funding would be needed, so in useful war perspective, funding Vyger to the end of its scientific life would take ~0.00046875 wars in Iraq (if the war ended today).
And these calculations are generous! (hopefully the math is correct and the point is not lost)
You are correct that it is better to write the politicians and have them adjust how they spend tax dollars but until people have enough perspective to care, they never will.
For more \fun\ numbers, visit thecostofwar and see American tax dollars at work!
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something happens in reality only the very moment you know it.
to say the electron has many velocities (wavefunction) before measurement but as soon as it is measured, it collapses (wavefunction collapse) into a single value.
I thought that this was exactly what was happening, because the result is perceived by the observer. Everything "is" (or is'nt, or carrot, what with quantum weirdness and all) but you can only see what is from the point of the observer, change perspective, and the perceived result changes. Light particle wave duality -- its a particle when you look at it, wave when not (theoretically). If the tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Bad example, but similar philosophy.
maybe I am on crack, but perception is 9/10ths of reality
we are swimming in an ocean of evidence
Any links? Evidence? No joke or jab, I really want to know more! I have always wondered how he works as POTUS; I am no fan, but I would like to believe that one can not be a complete moppet and become Commander in Chief. Show me "Fox in office for 6 billion lives, Alex".
well, if you are ALLOWED to provide it for download, many commercial fonts have to be purchased) on your site,
where are the OSS fonts? I remember a time where I could download plenty of usable fonts, and all was well, free of charge. Does anyone know where to get usable free use fonts?
I have a friend with the opposite aura.
He is a geek, and has been for years, degree in CS, programmer, hardware, networking, blah blah. He knows his way around computers, and generally knows more than me.
HE BREAKS ALL KINDS OF SHIT.
Its not his fault, he knows what he is doing, but all kinds of devices decide to crash, die, fault, whatever, whenever he touches them. Routine stuff (like deleting a cache, increasing virtual memory size, hitting enter) will conjure the most horrible data losing crash possible.
This is why I believe in magic. All of the technical expertise and "This is how it works." type stuff is moot when the computer gods decide to cancel your luck subscription. As mentioned by the parent, the luck will instantly return when a mojo geek enters the equasion and candels the anti-mojo geek.
Geeks...mojo...does...not...compute...*boom*
Business week just needs to STFU about technology in industry, because people who have limited contact with it (either by not interacting with the technology or not interacting with industry) will often take their ill-informed articles as Truth.
And this is why they will never STFU. This is yet another example of how the sheep take orders from the machine.
I agree that some of the cg effects should not have been included for the amount of money spent, a few looked like they where not completely polished.
However, I was impressed with the amount of effects that had a white/light background. It is really hard to do cg with light backgrounds, especially in mass scale, because it makes it hard to hide things. Like the hoth scenes in SW, very impressive (technically), because it is hard to light light environments.
Dark scenes (in cg) always finish better, because they can "under" light and desaturate, and your mind fills in the rest.
see, the thing you are missing is that they mostly come out at night...mostly.
A game with porn in it should be rated AO because that's what it is.
I agree, but I have not seen a game with porn in it (not since nudie tetris). It seems like the standards that they want applied to games would have half of Fox labeled as adult only. They do have quite the titillating nightly lineup! For free nationwide! How many "young" kids are hooked on the lastest TV slutfest?
Ice makes terraforming quite easy.
Cohagen, give those people air!
I've been massively underwhelmed at Babelfish's ability to understand foreign-language text and by ViaVoice's ability to understand speech.
Do not forget this is DARPA, they have nearly unlimited resources in both money and brains (dont tell the zombies)
the U.S. does nothing for a couple of years and then tries to throw a cheap technical fix at the problem.
This translator has most likely been in development since the idea of voice recognition, and is now good enough that they feel they can deploy it with better than dead success. (with Arabic!, a true feat, check other posts on the differences between the languages, and then try to apply that to an already complex program. I bet this thing could rip through any latin based language with the appropriate DARPAtalk(tm) package.)
Instead of doing the obvious thing--give soldiers training in Arabic and offer big bonuses for Arabic-speaking recruits--the U.S. does nothing for a couple of years and then tries to throw a cheap technical fix at the problem.
Few people want to be soldiers now. There is a hot war. I agree that having human translators like the old (original) human artillary computers would work quite well, and they could probably get recruits if the language recruits were guaranteed service in the US or EU or some place with less deadlyness. Training humans also takes a lot of time and money, probably not as much as building the machine, but you only need to build "one" machine and keep improving on it, vs retraining a human over and over [obviously].
For some half ass numbers for context, take the 22,000 translators necessary, say they know no Arabic, train them for 4 years at a good language school for ~160,000 tuition, multiply by 10 for the government pricing rule (1 person getting the goods takes 10 support people to get the goods to that person, this figure may be (and probably is) higher). 22,000 * 160,000 * 10 == 35 200 000 000. Yes, these are semi-arbitrary numbers, and not all translators would need the full training, etc, but it is still a large investment into something that will eventually retire, quit, turn, or die.
The real score is that this tool will be great for sucking up communications anywhere, anytime to check against patterns that are interesting to the government. This will be good and bad, but hopefully in time will end up in some robot that will help you do the dishes. Or it will ask you for your papers. Probably both.
[lots of xboxes] + [freenetwork that everyone with broadband is likely to use] + [redmond supercomputing r&d] = skynet
Sure, there would be lots of latency, but with the projected install base...makes for one bbmf(tm) of a distributed net. Each of the boxes will be nearly identical and will includeh an OS that could be tweaked remotely and across all nodes without much hassle, sounds good for engineering a distributed net, yea?
How will one know that when updateing a live account, or downloading new content you are not sending the next piece of the puzzle? What if the games include pieces of the program distributed, compiled and redistributed by the live master control like the Joker's happy fun chemicals in the first Burton/Batman movie? They control the sdk, the compiler, the box, the final review of the code, the networking, why not use all the gear to compute big stuff(tm)? Let consumers buy and build your Xmillion node grid? Sic!
Yes, that last bit (or the whole bit) makes some serious and likely fubar assumptions about how/if/what the whole idea works. Yes, this is another cracked out late night post of consipiracys and ill-informed crap. However, I am sure that more level headed chaps could trip out on the idea and see if it is technically possible. And if something is technically possible...
[mumble]...ill trip on that trying to sleep tonight...mislead about foil hats...skynet in my living room...robot reservation...[yawn]www.garagegames.com Independent Games
I love garagegames, I love torque, I love Tribes 2 (VGTGVGS I am shazbot!), I still play it more than any other game. I am excited that GG has a good deal with Microsoft, cheers - a huge win for sure.
Make money any way you can so your company can continue to publish independent games, but try not to become too platform dependent while counting the money $-)
I hold garagegames in higher regard than most houses not only for the quality titles (lots of houses make fun games) but more for their (and their community) multiplatform support.
better yet:
like 'mogul' (A very rich or powerful person; a magnate; series of bumps you ski over)
or
'vogue' (prevailing fashion, practice, or style)
bar
If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word tiger...
That string of words is fubar. I understand the words, but they are absurd.
Sure it is great that Apple is getting bailed out by a Linux comrade (or is it? Apple is not exactly an impoverished "runt" company) but keep in mind that the whole concept of owning a word is absurd
Fire away, but once again I am slapped with concepts that confound my understanding of their inception. That sounds lame...why does anyone put up with crap ideas like this?
+1
The Heart Of Gold is "supposed" to resemble a running shoe, an elegant one at that.
Why is it a sphere?
Do you think fans of the radio, book, and BBC tele series feel that this movie retains the wit of its prior incarnations?
If Adams wrote a portion of the script, did he not write enough of it for the entire production to be bastardized by exec editors to appeal to the largest audience?
Will this be the only instance of HHGG to not have a cult following?
The great thing about this is that it is a killer interface to an analog sequencer (triggering digital events). Sure there are other methods for sequencing beats, but this combines the best of a sequencer and a turntable.
Many DJs use sequencers/drum machines, this allows them to add the versatility of the table to the sequence, scratch, tweak the speed with the tables pitch control, doubletime instantly -- all things that can be done with computer sequencers, but now with the analog variations that come with a mechanical device. The slight variations add a more "lively" "feel" to a sound that would otherwise be precicely repetative.
All of this is really fluff compared to having an intuitive interface to sequence beats. This would allow (for me at least) to understand the pattern much more quickly, and change accordingly. Throw in some mad wheels of steel skill, and you now have the greatest sequencer input interface ever.
Plants would still grow in UV filtered green houses.
As would the remainder of the human race!
I support my local economy every chance I get, fortunately I live in a city that has great local support for local businesses. This is slowly being eroded by megacorps (Walmart, BestBuy, Homedepot, Gap, etc), and as such I avoid these companies. I also support American companies where it makes sense (music goods and equipment, designed and made in America).
American automobile manufacturers, however, do not have my support. It will take great improvements in American automobile engineering before I will buy a non-classic American car. To me, they are horribly inefficient, poorly designed and engineered, and stifle technological advancement in personal transportation. From simple things like cupholder, instrument, and console placement and design to more involved engineering like oil, air, gas filter placement and general maintenance engineering that I have enjoyed in foreign (Japanese) cars for 10 years. To me, it seems like the engineering of American cars is not entirely thought through. The industry seems to not care, as people will voraciously consume anything they are fed on television.
Why have American SUV manufacturers manufacured automobiles that will hit almost all other vehicles above their "safe" collision height? Even large freight vehicles have been engineered not to do this! (see the "extra" low bumper on "tractor trailers" in the front and rear, its so that the two vehicles will collide in a "safer" manner, with the frame and its engineered "crumple" zones able to meet in line with the trucks frame, instead of sliding under the truck frame)
There have been many improvements in American cars, but for me it is "too little, too late" followed by "OK, now what have you done to make things better".
sheesh, tough crowd
predictable, to some; I wouldnt stake as troll
Ahh, immortality.
Death is not an evolutionary failure, but a function of life and reproduction. If the reproductive rate is too high, and lifespan too long, the species will outrun its environmental resources. If the reproductive rate is low, the lifespan must increase to sustain the species.
Death is great, as it promotes a sustainable environment for life to continue and for maladaptations to make way for better adaptations (yah, tell that to the maladapted).
Life needs death, or an ever expanding set of resources, else life does not perpetuate.
Enter the machines and their source of endlessly multiplying batteries, or gigantic space wasps combing the universe for more resources. Humans need to 1) control reproduction 2) be smarter about resources 3)have fewer humans 4) get off this flying umbrella
So far, we have only mastered #3, and we still are not very good at that. grumblegrumblepinkgoogrumblegrumble
Why is this modded funny? It's not, it's scary. Because it's true.
Don't be a troll. Moderators why is this insightful ?
Its insightful because people still do not understand how much the war costs. They are throwing around HUGE numbers, and people still can not "grasp" them. Sure its all relative, and there are orders of magnitude (pretty popular around here) between the 160 billion USD spent in two years and the number of [scientific things] in a [scientific thing], but the problem is that all of the numbers are large enough for one (if not all) to lose perspecive.
In the spirit of hogsheds and old Koreans, the spending of the war could fund well over 32,000 (thirty-two thousand) additional years of Vyger mainenance and research. [~160,000,000,000 / ~ 5,000,000 ] This is unnecessary, as only ~15 years of funding would be needed, so in useful war perspective, funding Vyger to the end of its scientific life would take ~0.00046875 wars in Iraq (if the war ended today).
And these calculations are generous! (hopefully the math is correct and the point is not lost)
You are correct that it is better to write the politicians and have them adjust how they spend tax dollars but until people have enough perspective to care, they never will.
For more \fun\ numbers, visit thecostofwar and see American tax dollars at work!
q: Has the military really given up on this concept, or has their research moved to other, more classified levels?
a: yes.
Admins, you rock!
th'umor snot loss tommy!
No, he misspelled "slu^H^H It is not polite to refer to Miss Hilton as an "activity" so much as a charitable and generous liberated woman.