but machines can't do this... not without making the same leaps of faith that we human beings take for granted so often. and while everyone knows this, they still try and make the machines dumber.
yes, i do mean dumber. machines (as now) are extremely smart; they don't make mistakes. so this means that while you are reading anything, including this post, you are making many mistakes. it is only by making these mistakes that you're able to read this.
How can you say dumber? English isn't like a programming language, it's a living language; it changes all of the time. What you consider "incorrect english" is slowing becoming the de-facto standard. Training computers to understand what a strange set of changing rules the English language is can not be construded as making it "dumber"; I say completely the other way. That's what makes Humans so cool, they can recognize patterns and gleen understanding from it despite how many "mistakes" are in it.
Nah, that's a quote from the Simpsons.
It's the episode where the tell the story of Lisa being born. Homer builds a bed for Bart to replace his crib because Lisa is going to take it. He make the new bed in the form of a phychotic looking clown...hence the quote.
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Cause I don't run BeOS?:)
I have a SuSE Linux partition but I haven't found much in the way of visualizations (not that I've really put much work into finding one...I'm having enough fun just trying to set up WindowMaker + Gnome:] )
Besides, I've worked with Ryan Geiss at my old job. Really smart guy. A true hacker.
My roommate works at Panasonic and brought home one of their Plasma Displays. There's nothing quite as cool as playing Quake 3 Arena on a 42" 16x9 aspect screen.:)
For our Y2K party we set it up to use Ryan Geiss' Winamp Plugin as a nice conversion piece.
Of course the FBI is going to want people who worked on government contracts before. They have experience working with these people, they'd naturally be the people they'd ask first.
The thing that does suck is that they didn't disclose their names in the first place. This has been under close scrutiny by the public eye so much lately, anything they do seems sinister.
Don't get me wrong, I am completely against any sort of ubitiqous governmental snooping. Time to learn how to use GPG....:)
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Or you can have the other situation, when lines of communication haven't been defined well enough.
One of my biggest gripes is people from marketing or product coming up to me and asking me to do something. Not just small favors, but large changes in functionality in my code. Me, as a software engineer, would like to hear these types of things from my managers, not some random marketiods. And my managers are hands-off type guys, which is generally a good thing, but when I don't hear *anything* from that direction it's somewhat disconcerting. This is an endless source of frustation for me.
The only thing I'm extrememly happy about is that my managers don't micro-manage me like my last job. What's the point of me sitting there while a manager looks through my code for 2 hours..? Just leave me alone to code in peace!:)
Sheesh.
Sorry but IMHO this series should have been dead and buried after Tim Burton left.
Maybe this new director can breath life back into this rotting corpse of a series (I've never seen PI) but I'm not holding my breath.
After all, Jean-Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen and City of Lost Children fame (two of my most favorite movies) was flown in to breath new life back into the Alien series with Alien: Resurrection and that was the worse piece I've seen in a while. Kind of makes you depressed, don't it?
I would imagine many movie execs would like to have a say in how the movie should be made.
Don't give in to the dark side and go see Way of the Gun instead.
My computer simulates a black hole well enough by sucking all my money in to it, thank you very much.
That or my girlfriend. Do you know how expensive movies are nowadays?
Wow. That was a great speech. I have gained A LOT of respect for Courtney Love from reading that. She's very articulate despite all the profanity...:)
I loved the reference to Neal Stephenson
I remember Silverhawks.
I couldn't remember the name of the show but I have always described this show to other people to see if they remember it as well...
Try telling people about space taxis and bad guys with interchangable heads and they look at you like something horrible and green has just spouted out of your forehead. Philistines.
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I haven't downloaded the second part of Tron yet!!!! I'm going to cry now.
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How can I use encryption then if I can't shift my home-row fingers over one key?
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How can you say dumber? English isn't like a programming language, it's a living language; it changes all of the time. What you consider "incorrect english" is slowing becoming the de-facto standard. Training computers to understand what a strange set of changing rules the English language is can not be construded as making it "dumber"; I say completely the other way. That's what makes Humans so cool, they can recognize patterns and gleen understanding from it despite how many "mistakes" are in it.
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Talk to your kids for the love of Pete!
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Actually, now that I think about it, it was "Three Musketeers", not "Three Stoogies". Ah well, it works just the same.... ;)
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Are they a Mathematician, a different kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician?
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Come on you Simpsons fans, I know you're out there!
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Nah, that's a quote from the Simpsons.
It's the episode where the tell the story of Lisa being born. Homer builds a bed for Bart to replace his crib because Lisa is going to take it. He make the new bed in the form of a phychotic looking clown...hence the quote.
:)
Was it used in the Sims Livin' Large?
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An anonymous reader documented filling a cubicle with packing peanuts in case your boss is out of time and you need some help...
That's nothing! I once filled our entire server room with Halon gas!
of course it wasn't exactly planned...
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Cause I don't run BeOS? :)
:] )
I have a SuSE Linux partition but I haven't found much in the way of visualizations (not that I've really put much work into finding one...I'm having enough fun just trying to set up WindowMaker + Gnome
Besides, I've worked with Ryan Geiss at my old job. Really smart guy. A true hacker.
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My roommate works at Panasonic and brought home one of their Plasma Displays. There's nothing quite as cool as playing Quake 3 Arena on a 42" 16x9 aspect screen. :)
:)
For our Y2K party we set it up to use Ryan Geiss' Winamp Plugin as a nice conversion piece.
Of course it costs around $13999.95...
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Of course the FBI is going to want people who worked on government contracts before. They have experience working with these people, they'd naturally be the people they'd ask first. :)
The thing that does suck is that they didn't disclose their names in the first place. This has been under close scrutiny by the public eye so much lately, anything they do seems sinister.
Don't get me wrong, I am completely against any sort of ubitiqous governmental snooping. Time to learn how to use GPG....
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...is make sure that VBScript is disabled.
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Or you can have the other situation, when lines of communication haven't been defined well enough. :)
One of my biggest gripes is people from marketing or product coming up to me and asking me to do something. Not just small favors, but large changes in functionality in my code. Me, as a software engineer, would like to hear these types of things from my managers, not some random marketiods. And my managers are hands-off type guys, which is generally a good thing, but when I don't hear *anything* from that direction it's somewhat disconcerting. This is an endless source of frustation for me.
The only thing I'm extrememly happy about is that my managers don't micro-manage me like my last job. What's the point of me sitting there while a manager looks through my code for 2 hours..? Just leave me alone to code in peace!
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Sheesh.
Sorry but IMHO this series should have been dead and buried after Tim Burton left.
Maybe this new director can breath life back into this rotting corpse of a series (I've never seen PI) but I'm not holding my breath.
After all, Jean-Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen and City of Lost Children fame (two of my most favorite movies) was flown in to breath new life back into the Alien series with Alien: Resurrection and that was the worse piece I've seen in a while. Kind of makes you depressed, don't it?
I would imagine many movie execs would like to have a say in how the movie should be made.
Don't give in to the dark side and go see Way of the Gun instead.
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So what does it do when you flip it off?
Change the song to "Warm Leatherette" and call the bouncer?
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My computer simulates a black hole well enough by sucking all my money in to it, thank you very much.
That or my girlfriend. Do you know how expensive movies are nowadays?
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How about MP3.com?
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Wow. That was a great speech. I have gained A LOT of respect for Courtney Love from reading that. She's very articulate despite all the profanity... :)
I loved the reference to Neal Stephenson
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I wonder how the LAN would be set up...
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It would be very cool if a Quake 3 CTF match could be played between First Class and Coach passengers...
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For the Keyboard Krunch (tm) cereal, we should have our own survivor contest with slashdotters, the winner gets to be on the cereal box!
Winner being the only person able to actually finish a bowl....
*shudder*
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Various particles resembling cereal grains, biscuit crumbs, bread crumbs, pastry flakes and chocolate crumbs (56%)
We don't want all of that to go to waste! Lets market it as a new cereal, Keyboard Krunch(tm)!
Part of this balanced breakfast.
eeeeewwwwwww.....
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Excuse ME?/??
Offtopic???
Are you SMOKING CRACK?????
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CAVEs have been connected over Internet 1 for a long time now using the CAVERNSoft library. This is how CAVE Quake II runs its deathmatch.
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/. article about holodecks a while back... :)
It's some pretty impressive stuff and quite fun although I find the old mouse + keyboard controls much more responsive.
To find out more about the VR "Cave" they're talking about, check out NCSA's CAVERNUS (CAVE Research Network Users Society) site.
I believe this showed up in a
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I remember Silverhawks.
I couldn't remember the name of the show but I have always described this show to other people to see if they remember it as well...
Try telling people about space taxis and bad guys with interchangable heads and they look at you like something horrible and green has just spouted out of your forehead. Philistines.
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