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Failing Our Geniuses
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What's the definition of genius today, anyway? I remember something like it used to be based on an IQ 160 or higher, but does it have anything to do with actual achievement, or just potential?
Strawman alert!
This argument is forgetting about the fact that what the arguer is pretending is on the slippery slope is expressly sanctioned in the constitution as a means of enforcing just laws, whereas privacy issues have always been in the grey area where the founding fathers thought the government should leave people alone, but power-mongers have argued that permanent incursions are necessary to protect people from ephemeral threats. The former is supposed to be a base-line, whereas the latter is the constantly shifting line referred to as the 'slippery slope.'
That's not all you forgot. The public key that is transmitted with the certificate decrypts the certificate that was originally encrypted using the private key of the host. This means that you can't just spoof a certificate, because the host's public key won't decrypt it unless it was encrypted with the hosts private key.
Well, look how much progress has been achieved since the Great Library was burned down.
No one was landing on the moon back then, and there was no Interweb.
Since burning the Great Library resulted in all this progress, we should immediately implement perpetual copyrights. Q.E.D.
I for one don't think that anyone should be stopped from having an SUV. I just think they shouldn't be given tax breaks. If you have a big family, many countries will give you 'Baby Bonuses' or similar. Why on earth would you give a big family a tax break based on the car they purchase?
If you really need an SUV, then you should be free to buy one, or if you are rich enough and can afford the vehicle with the same rate of tax that would be applied to a normal vehicle. Giving tax breaks on SUVs promotes the use of them independent of the reason for getting one, and a good reason to not encourage that is that the resources that the SUV munches through are constrained. One day the oil will run out and the unnecessary use of SUVs is just making that day arrive sooner.
With the already ridiculously high cost of development to bring graphics up to modern day standards for "bleeding edge" it's not like they have much time to develop a good system for something they can't show you a screenshot of. Spending the time to develop a real AI as you described doesn't really add much value to the game in terms of marketing.
You seem to think that the kind of AI that is needed would have every enemy in a FPS wondering as much about what they are going to have for dinner as how to best kill you.
The kind of AI that is needed for games is going to very specialised and tailored to the game. It doesn't need to pass the Turing test to be better than the dumb systems out there.
I think one of the main reasons that AI isn't that heavily worked on is that is might change how a game needs to be played. A 'smart' enemy in a FPS, on locating you, would run off and find a whole lot of enemies to hold you down while all the other enemies in the level are gathered to come at you at once. Smart perhaps, but no longer fun.
I was excited about buying a PSP, but I haven't used it for about 3 or months.
The multimedia stuff is impractical, and I don't really have very much time to play games. I have a job and a wife. And the system is too expensive for kids, so the market can't be too big, except for well-off, single twenty-somethings.
The population of the UK is about 1/5 the population of the U.S.
Proportionally, the tube bombings were about half the size of the 9/11 stuff.
That's not too shabby.
I don't see what the problem is... You only finished your degree less than a year ago. Nobody expects you to even have had a relevant job before you finish your degree, though it counts as a bonus if you did. You can easily just tell people that you finished your degree and took some time off to travel around so that you would feel comfortable about settling down to work for a few years for one company.
If you are more worried that you took too long to complete your degree and your marks aren't all that great, well then when you actually get an interview, just tell them that you had some family problems, don't elaborate and impress them with what you actually know and what you are capable of now, rather than what it was shown you didn't know a few years ago while you were studying.
Can you quote a source where a US Government official has said "we don't give a shit about international treaties"? I'd like to see it, because it doesn't exist. See, some treaties would deny the US its sovereign powers, and give more power to the fine leaders of Iran, like President Ahmadinejad who says Israel should be wiped off the map. Can you offer a link to a quote where Bush, Cheney or any government official ever said "we don't give a shit...?" If the US refuses to be part of any treaty preventing the "militarization" of space, it's in our best interest because it must mean Iran or other non-democratic states will have more power.
Why is this such a big deal?
Why can't Iran do all the things that the U.S. do all the time?
What is the problem with Iran investing in nuclear research and space technologies?
The U.S. has said that they basically don't give a shit about international treaties about the militarisation of space, and all Iran has done is launch a satellite and this is some big event?
The U.S. is still the only country to use a nuclear weapon on another country, so I'd highly recommend they stop their own "posturing" until they get some credibility.
Apple like to do a few things really well that all fit in with one another. Adding radio could be done, but it is far from core, and could work against people paying for music. What is wrong with them letting 3rd party manufacturers from making their own plug-ins like the iTrip? Sure, being able to dump a whole lot of files on the iPod with them being playable would be good, but it introduces more complexity that doesn't fit in with their strategy. Apple wants a particular structure for the music on iPods because it is easy for them to maintain. What is the problem with that? They could introduce heaps of new features, but unless it really makes sense from a design point of view, then they won't do it. I bought a cheap shuffle sized player with a small lcd and very few buttons that allows more flexibility for where you put your music. It even has a radio. The interface is crap, however. I knew it would be crap when I bought it, but I wanted something cheap. When you start bundling in all the features that small segments of your market want, you end up with MS Office 2003. That's why MS got rid of 90% of the stuff for 2007. They want to make it easy to maintain and easy to use, with just enough functionality to satisfy most people.
It's different in different states. In some, at least when I last checked, you could do it from the age of 10 as long as the person you're doing it with is within 2 years of age. Then there's some age at which you can have sex with anyone that is not in a position of authority over you. I think that is 16.
What ever happened to prisons being about rehabilitation?
Once you serve your term, assuming the prison system works, aren't you meant to be a free person like any other?
Why is there a class of criminal who is sent to prison as a punishment, that is then released to be further punished?
What is wrong with putting the blame at least partially on the prison system that turns out people likely to re-offend?
Also, I wonder what categorises someone as a sex offender. It would obviously include the falsely accused. Also I'm guessing it would include cases of statutory rape, such as a case where sex is had between an 18 year old guy and his 17 year old girlfriend. In many countries, sex can be had (with some conditions applied) from as early as 10. What disgustingly backward country would have laws like that, you ask? Well, Australia for one. Sex is mostly unrestricted by the age of 16, anyway.
I can't believe that someone could do something legal in Australia that would not just get them sent to jail in the U.S., but have then tagged as some sort of scum for life. Sure, real rapists, sexual molesters etc. are bad people, but people seem to love throwing around terms like "sexual offenders" that include some pretty petty offences.
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What's the definition of genius today, anyway?
I remember something like it used to be based on an IQ 160 or higher, but does it have anything to do with actual achievement, or just potential?
Has anyone else noticed how they use these 3 terms completely interchangably?
It's really annoying.
Strawman alert!
This argument is forgetting about the fact that what the arguer is pretending is on the slippery slope is expressly sanctioned in the constitution as a means of enforcing just laws, whereas privacy issues have always been in the grey area where the founding fathers thought the government should leave people alone, but power-mongers have argued that permanent incursions are necessary to protect people from ephemeral threats.
The former is supposed to be a base-line, whereas the latter is the constantly shifting line referred to as the 'slippery slope.'
In how many countries is it already illegal to possess one?
but will there be enough units to give HD-DVD a good enough foot hold to claw back marketshare from bluray?
That's not all you forgot.
The public key that is transmitted with the certificate decrypts the certificate that was originally encrypted using the private key of the host.
This means that you can't just spoof a certificate, because the host's public key won't decrypt it unless it was encrypted with the hosts private key.
Well, look how much progress has been achieved since the Great Library was burned down.
No one was landing on the moon back then, and there was no Interweb.
Since burning the Great Library resulted in all this progress, we should immediately implement perpetual copyrights. Q.E.D.
So when will slashdot enable https://slashdot.org?
I for one don't think that anyone should be stopped from having an SUV. I just think they shouldn't be given tax breaks. If you have a big family, many countries will give you 'Baby Bonuses' or similar. Why on earth would you give a big family a tax break based on the car they purchase?
If you really need an SUV, then you should be free to buy one, or if you are rich enough and can afford the vehicle with the same rate of tax that would be applied to a normal vehicle. Giving tax breaks on SUVs promotes the use of them independent of the reason for getting one, and a good reason to not encourage that is that the resources that the SUV munches through are constrained. One day the oil will run out and the unnecessary use of SUVs is just making that day arrive sooner.
You seem to think that the kind of AI that is needed would have every enemy in a FPS wondering as much about what they are going to have for dinner as how to best kill you.
The kind of AI that is needed for games is going to very specialised and tailored to the game. It doesn't need to pass the Turing test to be better than the dumb systems out there.
I think one of the main reasons that AI isn't that heavily worked on is that is might change how a game needs to be played. A 'smart' enemy in a FPS, on locating you, would run off and find a whole lot of enemies to hold you down while all the other enemies in the level are gathered to come at you at once. Smart perhaps, but no longer fun.
I was excited about buying a PSP, but I haven't used it for about 3 or months.
The multimedia stuff is impractical, and I don't really have very much time to play games. I have a job and a wife. And the system is too expensive for kids, so the market can't be too big, except for well-off, single twenty-somethings.
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I thought that was impossible.
Otherwise Hawking wants his book back.
I thought that was impossible...
The population of the UK is about 1/5 the population of the U.S.
Proportionally, the tube bombings were about half the size of the 9/11 stuff.
That's not too shabby.
You could have at least made reference to a user group based in Virginia: the VAGinA User Group
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Hang on a second.
The resistance does emerge or arise.
It is the microbe population that evolves.
I don't see what the problem is...
You only finished your degree less than a year ago. Nobody expects you to even have had a relevant job before you finish your degree, though it counts as a bonus if you did.
You can easily just tell people that you finished your degree and took some time off to travel around so that you would feel comfortable about settling down to work for a few years for one company.
If you are more worried that you took too long to complete your degree and your marks aren't all that great, well then when you actually get an interview, just tell them that you had some family problems, don't elaborate and impress them with what you actually know and what you are capable of now, rather than what it was shown you didn't know a few years ago while you were studying.
Can you quote a source where a US Government official has said "we don't give a shit about international treaties"? I'd like to see it, because it doesn't exist. See, some treaties would deny the US its sovereign powers, and give more power to the fine leaders of Iran, like President Ahmadinejad who says Israel should be wiped off the map. Can you offer a link to a quote where Bush, Cheney or any government official ever said "we don't give a shit...?" If the US refuses to be part of any treaty preventing the "militarization" of space, it's in our best interest because it must mean Iran or other non-democratic states will have more power.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/storThat was the first article I found. Find the rest yourself.
Why is this such a big deal?
Why can't Iran do all the things that the U.S. do all the time?
What is the problem with Iran investing in nuclear research and space technologies?
The U.S. has said that they basically don't give a shit about international treaties about the militarisation of space, and all Iran has done is launch a satellite and this is some big event?
The U.S. is still the only country to use a nuclear weapon on another country, so I'd highly recommend they stop their own "posturing" until they get some credibility.
Apple like to do a few things really well that all fit in with one another.
Adding radio could be done, but it is far from core, and could work against people paying for music.
What is wrong with them letting 3rd party manufacturers from making their own plug-ins like the iTrip?
Sure, being able to dump a whole lot of files on the iPod with them being playable would be good, but it introduces more complexity that doesn't fit in with their strategy.
Apple wants a particular structure for the music on iPods because it is easy for them to maintain. What is the problem with that?
They could introduce heaps of new features, but unless it really makes sense from a design point of view, then they won't do it.
I bought a cheap shuffle sized player with a small lcd and very few buttons that allows more flexibility for where you put your music. It even has a radio. The interface is crap, however. I knew it would be crap when I bought it, but I wanted something cheap. When you start bundling in all the features that small segments of your market want, you end up with MS Office 2003. That's why MS got rid of 90% of the stuff for 2007. They want to make it easy to maintain and easy to use, with just enough functionality to satisfy most people.
RTFA
It's different in different states.
In some, at least when I last checked, you could do it from the age of 10 as long as the person you're doing it with is within 2 years of age. Then there's some age at which you can have sex with anyone that is not in a position of authority over you. I think that is 16.
What ever happened to prisons being about rehabilitation?
Once you serve your term, assuming the prison system works, aren't you meant to be a free person like any other?
Why is there a class of criminal who is sent to prison as a punishment, that is then released to be further punished?
What is wrong with putting the blame at least partially on the prison system that turns out people likely to re-offend?
Also, I wonder what categorises someone as a sex offender. It would obviously include the falsely accused. Also I'm guessing it would include cases of statutory rape, such as a case where sex is had between an 18 year old guy and his 17 year old girlfriend.
In many countries, sex can be had (with some conditions applied) from as early as 10.
What disgustingly backward country would have laws like that, you ask? Well, Australia for one. Sex is mostly unrestricted by the age of 16, anyway.
I can't believe that someone could do something legal in Australia that would not just get them sent to jail in the U.S., but have then tagged as some sort of scum for life.
Sure, real rapists, sexual molesters etc. are bad people, but people seem to love throwing around terms like "sexual offenders" that include some pretty petty offences.